Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

away day and night
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 rejoiced in his mag
nifcent physique toughened by hardship
| and struggle. He had the idea that bodily
strength meant perfect health, and when q
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.
He Laughed at His Doctors.
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. It is the
same old story, the story of Manning, Of
Folger, of Matt Carpenter and score OF
others, the story of that disregard of in
tellectual health which always ends in a
tragedy and funeral.
When Dan Manning came to Washington
from Albany his eye was bright, his step was
steady and his massive frame worked like
that of a wiry Satyr. His blood was full
of iron and the Joints of his ponderous
physique were we'll oiled He was in per-
feet physical condition and he had kept
himself so by exercise. His mind was as
clear and healthy as his body and when he
took hold of the Treasury Department he
threw his whole soul into it. He dropped
his exessise to devote more time to it, and
he studied on day and night until the
demon of overwork grabbed him and he fell
down in his Office in an apoplectic fit. He
was taken to his home and for some time r.
lived on a diet of beef tea, but he died
within a few months after leaving the de-
partment.
How Secretary Folger Went.
The demon of overwork killed Secretary
Folger He jumped at our financial system
and was bound to know it not only in its
great problems. but in its petty details.
Seated behind the great desk in his Office
he boiled his brain day by day working
away hours after his employees had left the
building, and taking no exercise whatever.
The result was that congestion of the brain,
the friend of the demon, dropped up on him
and Bright's disease, its chief officer, came
in and killed him.
|. The death of Zach Chandler was not un-
like that of Senator Plumb. He had a
physique almost as good as that of the late
Kansas Senator, and his muscles had tough
ened and his frame hardened with his fight
with the world He had grown wealthy
as Plumb had, and he had made great rep
utation as a statesman and as Senator.
Plumb's death was largely due to the brain
exhaustion, caused by the last campaign, ir
which he made the Republican fight for
Kansas almost alone. Zach Chandler's
death resulted from overwork during the
Garfield campaign. He had stumped a
number of the States of the Union. 1 trav-
eled with him in Ohio, and was surprised
at his wonderful endurance and his remark
able vitality.
Death After q Great Speech.
Leaving Ohio he had spoken in Indiana,
and had then made number of sSsscbes- IN
Wisconsin, and now at the close of the
campaign he was TO speak in Chicago. Is
was on October 90 that he stood up before
large audience in Mccormick Hall, and
made what was said to be the master effort
of his life. He 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 to
make.
Upon his return to his hotel he got a tel
egram asking him to make a speech at De-
troit, and he arranged to be called at z
o'clock the next morning in order that he
might leave for Detroit at g. When the
boy went to call him at Z, he could not make
him hear, and upon the door being opened,
Chandler was found dead in his bed, lying
with his head propped upon two pillows and
his coat thrown about his shoulders. The
doctor said it was heart disease or apoplexy
caused from overwork
Kept Up on stimulansS
The demon of overwork was defed for
years by Senator Matt Carpenter, but il
killed him at last. His death was a curious
one. 1t was caused by mental labor and
disregard of the laws of health, though it
did not come in the form of apoplexy. He
had an iron constitution, but he ruined it
by indiscretions. For years he did all his
studying at night. He would begin at IL
O'Clock with strong cigar and a bottle of
champagne to stimulate his work, and from
1 o'clock to he kept himself awake by
slipping brandy At he would go to bed
and sleep until 9, and these five hours Of
rest seemed to make him as fresh as .
daisy.
He went on in this way for 20 years and
tnen he went topieces like the old Deacon's
chaise He found he could do nothing. He
had terrible headaches and upon his consult-
ing his physician, he was told that he must
die within a year. Senator Carpenter took
this decree as fate and he accepted it like
a hero. He told no one but his partner
about it. He never complained and he went
about his business as usual He looked
into his own case and studied it as carefully
and as coolly as though it were that Of
stranger.
He Knew the Hour of His Death
He had register which told the story O
the condition of his blood and as he looked
at this from day to day he would say to hii
partner, II see that have only so many
more days to live" Three days before hi
death he said to him, 81 find that 1 canno