The South western news., 1888-03-21
Our Worn Out Young Men.
Atlanta Constitutions !

The other day one of the worlds
greatest rulers died ut the age of
ninety-one. His life had been a
stormy one. He was rocktd in the
cradle of war;. His boyhood was
passed in camps and on battlefelds.
He was at Waterloo, and also at
sedam, witnessing With the serene
consciousness of power the crush>
ing defeat of the First Napoleon,
and the complete annihilation OF
his successor. Yet, with all the
cares of empire resting upon his
shoulders, this man survived three
generations of bis contempora-
ries.
On the day of Williams death
the general manager OF the Union
Pacific railway died at the age of
forty eight. He was not the vic>
tim OF any disease. He was killed
by overwork. Before he was twen.
ty-One he was rising railroad
man. His friends say that he never
took rest. He was untiring, and
delighted IN hard work. Aud this
is the END OF it all. At an age
when he should have been fitted
Tor his best work, he was 50 utter
ly worn out that the thread of life
suddenly snapped asunder, aud he
tell by the wayside.
These TWO cases are not excep>
tional. In Europe men Of tour
score and over hold their own with
younger men. In tkis country it
is common thing to find men
yielding to the strain of overwork
at the age of fifty. We do not
find such examples in other coun-
tries. Brougham wa an active
man at ninety, and Wellington WAS
Z power when he WIS eighty-three.
Gladstone, at the age Of seventy
nine, is the head and front of II
great reform movement. KosSuth,
at eighty-six, is in vigorous health,
and Chevreul, who is now on
hundred and one, is still r5aking
chemical experiments. Bat tbs
country is the land Of old>young
men. Dyspepsia, paralysis, and
BIight's disease stalk behind our
youngsters, our boys who are gray
haired at thirty and ready to die or
lose their grip at fifty.
1t is very strange. We are
wonderfully learned in all that per-
taihs to diet. Nowhere IN the
world do people make such an ont
cry against liquor, tobacco. and
everything that is said tc be iniu
lious to health, Even in our
schools little boys and girls are
taught the principles Of hygiene.
What is the re$uIt,f Our newspa.
pers are filled with advertisements
of nerve tonic, brain foods and all
sorts of lnvigorators for our nation
OF physical and mental wrecks.
Is it our climate. our diet, or
our overwork ? Perhaps it is all
due to hurry, furry and worry
We despise small things, and ewes
r.ybody is trying to make fortune
at one lick. Our young men try to
leap to the, topmost round of the
ladder, instead of climbing. Every
man wants to dictate, lead and
boss the job. The man who starts
With nothing and makes a million
dollars, throws up the sponge and
retires from the business arena bit
terly disappointed because he failed
to make ten millions.
Now our European cousins have
a. way 0: making haste slowly.
They do not exhaust all their men.
tai aud physical capital in a sue
cession of mad leaps. They believe
in plodding, but they like to take
"a day off" occasionally, and they
are all the iresher and stronger for
it. They don't know as much as
we do about the laws of health, but
they manage to enjoy life.' 1t viii
not do to sheer OF the men and the
ways OF the old world. 1t would
be wiser to initiate them in some
respects.
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