The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-27
ovERWoRK AND sTIMULANTs.
Physiological Ruin Brought About by AL
coholic liquors.


Physiological Ruin Brought About by AL
cohOlic Liquors.
At the pace at which Americans gem
orally travel, overwork seems a neces-
sity. A feverish and tumultuous ener-
| gy inspires all labor, whether by hand
or brain.
What will be the outcome no man
can foresee. Ambition, new fields to
explore and to conquer, competition,
the desire for wealth and luxury, and,
above all, that nervous, eXcitable con-
stituton known as the american
temperament, all are factors in the
| tendency to overwork. The conse-
qucnce is what may be termed ''physio
logical bankruptcy" The term cX-
| plains itself
Mental and physical conditions cor
relate and imply each other. If John
Smith uses up more than his fixed in
come, month by month, he encroachcs
upon his principal. If John uses less
than his income reserved fund accu-
mulates from which he draws in mo-
ments OF emergency. But his principal
remains unimpaired.
In regard to Johns vital force the
same law holds good When he lives
as he ought Il reserved force is stored
up which shall be his safeguard against
| physical ills and strains. In fact, John
is, in Il large measure, guarded against
| physical Ills. He is the one who defieS
| epidemics and rcsiSts colds He stands
like a bulwarll in opposition to all out
ward shocks. If John yields it will be
to mental worries or to that haste to
acquire material benefit which leads to
overWork.
| According to the amount of Johns
reserved income fund and the demand
made upon it will depend his ability
to meet drafts drawn during emergen-
cies. Just so according to the amount of
| vital force and the excessive subtraction
from it during periods of over labor will
be his physical insolvency or unhealth.
Slight disturbing causes may be read
lily met If long continued or excess
sive, John is inclined to take slim
ulant. This goads up the failing pow
ers; John feels better. He is equal to
anything And so John acquires the
habit OF tipping.
buJ lie Hills 10 COnSl(lcF one lUl-
portant factor in the case. In squirting
up his tagging forces beyond their
normal pace of expenditure, he is just
as certainly wreclling his reserve
strength as is the individual who in
business draws upon his capital with
no hope of return. In time both be-
come bankrupt.
In material affairs the suppositious
John may retrieve his fortunes. Yet,
as he is fully aware, this cannot be
done unless he changes his mode of do
ing business; allows his income to ac-
cumulate, and so provides Il capital
from which again to secure an income.
Now. does John apply this same rule
of nature upon the loss of vital force?
After overwork does he go slow and
allow vitality to accumulate till the
reservoir is filled? Ten to one by using
a stimulant John is able TO call upon
all the stored energy in his frame. His
powers fail y catastrophe follows.
Neuralgia, rheumatism, dyspepsia and
nervous exhaustion lose portion of
their horrors through the anesthesia
of the dram. Soon heart failure closes
up the business of this life.
TOO bad!'" say his neighbors and
friends. "Who would have believed
it? John had such a fine career before
him, and he was so stalwart and
hearty! Yet he succumbed to heart
failure. How prevalent has become
that dreadful diseased"
If John must live at the pace which
has become common it is better that he
should pass suddenly away through
the failure of an overworked organ to
go beyond its normal action, than to
become adrunkard.
For there are many Johns who do
not SO exhaust the vital exchequcr as
| to fail at once. Through btimulants
| and rich food they borrow from their
capitals and go on again. Once this
habit IS begun there is no choice be-
tween a change of the whole basis of
| life, and continual borrowing from
themselves until they are ruined. Like
the financial income, the physiological
| income is governed by certain definite
and immutable laws. In both cases
| the true method of recuperatiou is to
reduce eXpe nditure.
1t has been said by a great medical
authority that: st is through stimu-
lants chiefly that a man is able to ac-
complish his physiological ruin. 1t re-
quires strenuous, unaldcd efforts for
man to reach his reserve capital with
out the aid of stimulants, though it is
| posSib BILE TO do so. But alcohol will en-
able him to do it more quickly and eff
fectually, and tea will, if taken to ex-
cess, produce grievous evidences of ex-
haustion. Neuralgia. sleeplessness, pal