Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-05

then get up again. Finally his nerves
gave way. There is little question but
that when he killed himself he was in
sane-made so by sheer nervousness.
Many man is today travelling the
same road. He is not quite well. His
nerves are very far from right. He
carries his business home with him and
sleeps with it--or rather tries to sleep
with It, In the small hours of the
night, business molehills become
mountains of disaster. He can hardly
walt till morning comes to get back to
his business. Sleep Is impossible. He
makes up his mind to that at some time
during the night. He gets up--makes
light, and reads and smokes the bal
anoe of the night. Hardly a day pass
es but You hear man tell OF passing
such night. Tell him that he had bet
ter look out: that he had better see a
physician, and he will tell you that It
amounts to nothing; that he will be all
right pretty soon. that he will take n
rest and go to Europe, or Florida, or
10 California as soon as he gets his
business Strengthened out little bit.
When a man starts to work all day
and smoke all night without sleep 1t
isn't very long until he starts for the
graveyard. A human body is won
derful organism. 1t Is marvellous ma
chine. It will stand much wear and
much abuse-but II win wear out
There are some things that 1t cannot
stand. You can waste bodily tissue all
day long, II you like; but there must
be some time for repairs, Even loco
motive has TO go to the round house
occasionally. man isn't any strong
er than n locomotive. even II he does
think he is. A good engineer won't run
a machine that squeaks or knocks"
II he hears an unusual noise about n
machine he stops II until he finds what
the noise Is. and then he stops that.
That same engineer win hear noises
and knocks in his own body, and go
right along without paying any atten-
ton to them. He will be more careful
of his engine than he Is OF himself.
Many business man Is even worse.
II he Is nervous and 'headachy," he
takes a cocktail and smokes a cigar.
BY the time night comes on, he Is in n
worse condition than he was the night
before. He is driving himself to death.
He is living on his capital. He is
making greater drafts on his health
than his deposits amount to. He Is
not putting enough food into his blood.
He is not passing enough nutrient
TO his bodys credit He Is continually
drawing out more vitality than he Is
putting In. Every man knows what
will happen II he does that sort of
thing to his bank account. Pretty soon
he won't have any. The man who
makes overdrafts on his health viii
dishonored. They will go to protest
and the protest viii be so strong that
It will lay the man fiat on his back.
He may get up again--and he may not.
1t Is a good deal harder to make SOL
vent bankrupt body than II is To re-
habilitate bankrupt business.
Hard work never killed man who !
took care of himself. a man may work
just ms hard MS he plesses. II he takes
care OF his health. II he thinks right,
rests right, and sleeps right, hard work |
won't hurt him. II he keeps his tiges-
tlon in good order; II his food is nutrI-
tious and Is well assimilated, he will I
be pretty sure to sleep we'll. Hard
work win only make him sleep better
IL he gets his digestion out of order
his nerves Will soon find II out. and |
they win help to make the digestion |
worse Pretty soon the man will find |
II hard to tell which 1t IL that is keep
ing him awake. indigestion or his
nerves. Whichever It Is, the result is /
pretty sure. One OF the results Is that
his business win suffer.
a tagged brain, unrefreshed by rest
full sleep. Is not OF much use in tho
turbulent tide OF business Seepless-
ness Is a danger signal that no man
should ignore. He ought to find out
what II was that made him sieepless,
and when he inquiries he will-nIne
times in ten-find that the trouble
started In his stomach or other dlges-
tive organs
When n mans digestion Is In good
order, things don't worry him unneces-
sarlly. He throws on little troubles
with no EFFORT 90 all. and every man
knows that II is the little. narging
insigniicant details that make him
miserable. Little worries and little ir-
ritauons are worse than big onee. be-
cause there are so many more Of them
a man In good health Is, practically
a man IN good huinor He sees the
bright side OF things without looking
for them. He ~ generally conteatcd
He In glad he IL nlive. There Is no
danger Mt all that he VIII place hiinseIf
Of the wrong end Of pistol. lust
the minute that he finds little thInrs
Worrying him-just the day TINT no
iinda himself nervous nnd slenuiasS
and tired without apparent cause. that
minute, and that day he OUGHT 10 take
a medicine that will soothe his nerves.
heip his digestion, enrich his blood
y he does Il promptly he wont hayE
70 take very NUN medicine Nature
y hard worker and needs only n
ilitle help. II given promptly.
The man who " losing flesh IL losiny
tnc cushions that protect his nerves
from the hard knocks There are very
'eW ncrNotD fat mem x 81 doubtful II