National Republican., 1888-02-18
OVERWORKED PEOPLE.
INV. pR. TALMAGE's REGULAR FRIDAY
NIGHT TALK.
The Mistake which Most men Make Is
That They Work Themselves Accord
ing to Their Opportunities Regardless
Of Their Capacities.

lowing is report OF wnat ne sald;
All those of us who travel much on rail cars |
must have noticed great change for the bet. |
ier in the fact that there are fewer halls and |
detentions and exaspetations from what was |
called the hot axle; business men ana people |
in haste have failed in more engagements |
rom that cause than from almost any, other.
do not know what railroad men have done 70
SHsi routes this unspeakable annoyance OF the hot
axle has completely ceased, what cause FOR
copgratulatlon for all travelers 80. -.
hour. 10 Sight Of an iFlsh village % arrest
ah PSse we ooRed out Of the Window
saw the brakeman and crowd OF passengers
gathering around the locomotive and dense
smoke arising. What was the matter? A hot
We were on the lightning train for Cleve
land. We had no time to spare III we
stopped for a half hour we should be greeted
by the anathemn of committee. We felt
sort of presentment that we should be TOO
the brakes fell, and the cry all along the train
was, What is the matter Answer @ An not
revolutions in a minute. The car was oa
water, sand, and swabs were tried, and caused
long detention and smoke that threatened
isme down to the end of the journey.
We thought then, and think think now now, this %hsrn is
% tSis sW sWf esp @'n American eG e we 60
100 fast for our endurance. we think our.
selves getting on splendidly. when u the
trains give. OUT We have made too many
'eyouions IN an hour a not 6rsine GYs according
TO their opportunities and not according TO
their capacity of endurance. Can run this
train from Springfield to Boston at the rate of
ii.tv miles an hour!' says an engineer. Ies:
Then will run 1t reckless OF consequence
Can be q merchant, and the president oL,e
bank, and director in a life insurance COM
pany, and a school commissioner, and help
edit paper, and supervise the politics q our our
man says TO himself The store drives him
the school drives him, politics drive him. He
takes all the seedlings aud frets and exaspera-
height of the business season he does not come
10 the Sre from the most @ mee, Sc
eScitements Of the political canvass lie fails
TO be at the place. appointed. What is the
matter HIS health has broken down. The
train halts long before 1t gets to the station.
Literary men have great opportunities open.
bs ,sev az are ths aesd pny mep or weseying men Who
ought to be dead. The pen runs SO easy when
you have good ink and smooth paper and an
thousand readers. There are the religious
i6rongh Which ySIh SFSeSSm So maS anS
sing, and the agricultural periodicals through
which you can plow, and family newspapers
he hold H around i'd the the evening. stand There are
critiques to be written and reviews to be In;
dnged in and poems to hsn be ot Ghimea; M sns ane
Pen he can shake recreation and friendship
and usefulness and bread, he is apt 10 keep II
aSi saiy work Il that f the p professional men Of the
day are overcome. They sit faint and tagged
out on the verge OF newspapers ana BOOKS
Each one does the work of three, and thest
men sit up late nights, and choke down chunk
OF meat without mastieation, and scold thei
authors, and run the physical machinery with
liver mserably given out. The drivlni
=. ssait has gone fflS times second. They stol
swollen. The brain and the digestion begin u
smoke smoke. -, STOP, so ye flying quili'? "Down
some of the worst tempered people of the
they have no rest. Added to the, necessar
day day schools listen to two sermons, and ever,
night have meetings of charitable aud Chris
tinn institutions. They look after the beggar'
hold conventions, SPEAK at meetings, walt o.
ministers. serve as Committeeman, take all tn
bypercriticisms that inevitably come TO earns.
veop er f hearts " at s the expense Of all tb
other functions They are the beSt men h ,,o g
earth, end satan knows It, ana Is trSing 20 ,bn ki
as TO go to the sacrament 1t is as much 81
10 commit suicide with the sword Of truth
Our /" earthly life is treasure to be guarde.t
IL Is an outrageous thing to die when we ougt
sIder to such a speed that the boiler nurs
mid-Atlantic, when at n more moderate raj
tmight have reached the docks OF Liverpool
Its sin to try TO DO the WORK OF tnltl! yea
RocSy Mountain locomotive engineer tol
i've and a. lei eet the machine rest as ocomo,,
always kept in iull heat soon got out OF orde
Our advice to all over.worked good people
10 Se ,Se Crossings aS All Your faculties for wo
at this rate VIII be consumed. You are on d
now-see the premonitory smoke. not az
nj ntlF ppDDle
are craze Of learned blacksmiths who, az {
forge. cor Iuered thirty languages, aud OF shC
philosobhers, and Of milliners who, while IN!
custorSrswereatt the glass trying on theirspIi
aS Soams o, orh Ist 70 be
more than FIVE languages and instead OF sh5
makers becoming philosophers, we would u
greater than the demand that we wish mill
dipary examples Of work and endurance m
DO as much harm as good. Because Napole
slept only three hours night, hnndfeds f'5,i
stead of Austerlitz and jena, there came OF
only a sick headache and a botch OF recit
on ,oa we II are & 9T i've 81 snare neM minutes bre
fast, and the ten minutes at noon, but w
some one could tell us how much rest a II \
much health In an hours horseback ride,
how much fun in Saturday ~ at,efnoon ds ;bn Sd
cricket. He who has such an iaea @ OF i aie ,Ha vm
Most Americans do not take time for su
SiGnaS oert sseP PSeaS Ms By he S a o that
fanatics on the subject OF sleep. we an
from our friend Napoleon Bonaparte IN
take it-eight hours at night and one hour
the day. 1--we miss our allowance one we
as we often do, we make 1t up the next Y
or the next month. We have sometimes b
twenty-one hours in arrearages. We iorms
kept memorandum Of the hours for 81
lost. We pursued those hours till we eau
emi e0n w WsTa az 59e Tegih hours % Sehad In su
we 30 down to the seashore or among
mountains and sleep month. II the W.
lIa sicepi and When ,wewake up all the w
is smiling on us. II we come TO kn
point in our discourses, we take sleep;
come TRANSPARENT. We split every day in
by nap IN the afternoon. Going TO
that somniferous interstiee we say TO- 70
the house takes fire, first get the GhlluTen
and my private papers, ana when me
begins to fall in call me- Ihrongh
fanaticism we have thus far escaped the
Somebody ought to be congratulated,
not know who, ana SO WIN shsse ha,Ig "
Lewis, with his gymnastic clubs, ponnde
death american sickness, EnS, or ,Ni whether niie
magnificent pedestrian habits, or whethe
medicines in the apothecary shops, thre
much adnlteration, nave nave iost their h th,nI lore
induced to cleanliness people who were y
%. washed cannot say; but sure am Y
never saw so many bright, healIhy-faced
our maidens have lost the languor
once cultivated, and walk the street
force that sends the ball through two ar
cracking tho opposing ball with g'eat
phasis Our daughter are not ashame