The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-03

on public questions and private matters
with neither rest nor leisure. OF late
years he worked harder than ever. With
the accumulated mental savings and
training of his lifetime he
felt himself just ready for work
and he reioiced in his magnificent phys
ique, toughened by hardship and struggle
He had the idea that bodily strength
meant perfect health, and when few
days ago he doubled up his great arm in
the presence of one of his boy friends and
looked proudly at the iron muscles of his
biceps he had no idea that the demon of
overwork had dug its claws into the gray
matter of his Uranium and that his brain
was doomed. A year ago he began to
have headaches, and his doctors warned
him, but he laughed at them and went on
without cessation of work or change of
life. The result was apoplexy, paralysis
and death. 1t is the same old story, the
story of Manning, of Folger. of Matt
Carpenter and score of others-the story
of that disregard of intellectual health
which always ends in tragedy and
funeral.
When Dan Manning came to Washing
ton City from Albany his eye was bright,
his step was steady and his massive frame
worked like that of wiry Satyr. His
blood was full of iron and the Joints Of his
ponderous physique were well oiled. He
was in perfect physical condition, and ne
had kept himself 50 by exercise. His
mind was as healthy as his body, and
when he took hold of the treasury depart
ment he threw his whole soul into it. He
dropped his exercise to devote more time
to it, and he studied on day and night I'M
til the demon of overwork grabbed him
and he fell down in his Office IN an apop-
leptic tit. He was taken 10 his home, and
for some time he lived on a diet of beef
tea. He was fed beef juice half pint of
which required ten pounds of beef to
make, and his head was bathed with cold
water to cool the hot blood which ever
surged up into it. lie grew a little better
and tried 10 resume his work, but in vain.
He died within few months after leaving
the department.
The demon of oyerwork killed Secre-
tary Foiger He jumped at our financial
system and was bound TO know it, not only
III its great problems, but in its petty de-
tails. Seated behind the great desk in his
Office he boiled his brain day by day work
ing away hours after his EN- ployes had left
the building and taking no exercise what
ever. The result was that congestion of
the brain, the friend of the demon, dropped
upon him and Dright's disease, its chief
officer, came in and killed him.
The death OF Zach Chandler was not un-
Ike that of Senator Plumb. He had
physique almost as coed rs that of the late
Kansas senator, and his muscles had
toughened and his frame hardened with
his hight with the world. lie had grown
wealthy, rs Plumb had, and he had made
a great reputation as a statesman and IS
a senator. Piumb's death was largely due
to the brain exhaustion caused by the last
campaign, in which he made the Bepubli-
can fight for Kansas almost alone. Zach
Chambers death resulted from overwork
during the Garfield campaign. lie
had stumped number OF the
states Of the Union. [ travelled
with him in Ohio and was surprised at his
wonderful endurance and remarkable
vitality. Leaving Ohio he had spoken IN
Indiana and had then made number Of
speeches in Wisconsin and now at the
close of the campaign he was 70 speak in
Chicago. 1t was on the 9th OF October
that he stood up before large audience in
Mccormick hall and made what was said
- be tbe master effort Of his life. lie had
felt tired during the last few speeches Of
the campaign and that night had said that
he was glad that this was the last speech
he would have 20 make Upon his return
T. his hotel be got a telegram asking him
TO make a speech at Detroit, and he had
arranged u be called at : ocIock the next
morning in order that he might leave for
Detroit at = When the boy went 70 call
him at he could not make him hear and
upon the door being opened Chandler was
found dead n his bed. lying with his head
propped upon two pillows and his coat
thrown about lis shoulders The doctors
said 1t was heart disease or aTopieXy
caused from overwOrk.
The demon Of overwork was dehed for
years by Senator Matt Carpenter, but it
killed him n last. His death was a curl
Gus one. II was caused by mental labor
and disregard OF the laws Of health,
though il did not come IN the form Of
apoplexy. He had an iron constitution,
but he ruined it ty iad.-e.e;jous. For
years be did al his studying at night lie
would begin at : o'clock with a strong
CHAR and bottle Of champagne T. sUma-
late his work and from ! O'Clock 10 ne
Kept himself awake by slipping brandy. At
/ be would 90 70 bed and sleep until g, and
these uye hours rest seemed 10 make hIm
as fresh as a daisy. He went On in this
way for twenty years and then lie went 10
pieces ike the old deacon chaise. He
found he could do nothing. lie had ter