Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-25

| Wakefulness may be an opportunity for
| prayer, opportunity for profitable reaec-
tion, opportunity for kindling bright ex-
pectations OF the world. where there is no
! night and where slumber will have no
uses. God thinks Just as much OF you
| when you get bat three or four hours OF
sleep as when ut night yon get eight or
nine hours.
Remark tue nth: Let NIL insomnsts
know for their consolation that some
| people sleep more rapidly than others, as
| much In one hour as others do in two, and
hence do not require us long II time in un-
consciousness. In book on the subject of
| health years ago saw this fact stated by u
celebrated medical scientist: Some people
do everything quick-they eat quick, they
walk quick, they think quick, and Of
course they sleep quick. An express train
can go as far in thirty minutes us n way
train In sixty minutes. People OF rapid
temperaments ought not to expect whole
night to do the work OF recuperation which
slow temperaments require. Instead OF
| making 1t n matter OF irritation and alarm
be II Christian philosopher and set down
this abbrcviation OF somnolence as Il matter
| of temperament.
Remark the sixth: The aged tnsomnists
should understand that il their eyes are
held waking they do not require rs much
| sleep as once they did. Solomon. VINO in
| knowledge was thousands of years ahead
OF his time in his wondrous description OF
| old age, recognizes this fact. He not only
speaks Of the difficulty of mastication on
| the part OF the aged when he says 'rhe
| grinders cease becau SO they are few" and
OF the octogenarian's caution in getting up
II ladder or standing on scaffolding, say
ing, "They shall be afraid OF that which is
high" and speaks of the whteness of the
hair by comparing it to Il tree that has
white blossoms, saying, "The aim ond tree
shall flourish and speaks of the spinal
cord which is the color OF silver, and which
relaxes In old age, giving the tremor to
the head, saying, The silver cord
be loosed." But he says of the
| aged, "He shall rise up Mt the voice OF
the Bird" that is about half past
in the summer time, an appropriate hour
| for the bird to rise, for he goes to his
nest or bough at half past In the evening.
| But the human mechanism has been so
! arranged that after 1t has been running u
| good while a change takes place, and in
| stead OF the almost perpetual sleep of the
| babe and the nine hours requisite in mid
life six hours will do for the aged, and che
shall rise up at the voice OF the bird" Let
| all uged men and women remember that
| they have been permitted to do a great
| deal OF sleeping in their time and that IL
| they do not sleep well now as they used
| to 1t is because they do not require 50 much
| sleep.
| Remark the seventh: Insomnia is prob
| ably warning that you had better mod
| crate your work. Most OF those engaged
| IN employments that pull on nerve and
| brain are tempted to omit necessary rest
and sleeplessness calls Il halt. Even their
| pleasuring turns to work. As Sir Joshua
| Reynolds. the grent painter, taking Il walk
| with friend, met a sun Drowned peasant
! boy and said, II must go home and deepen
| the coloring of my infant Hercules" The
sun Drowned boy suggested an i'm
| provement in a great picture. BY
midlife, il they have behaved
well more doors of opportunity open be-
fore them than they ought to enter.
Power to decline, power to say NO.
| they should now cultivate. When q man
is determined to be useful and satan can
not dissuade him from that course, the
| great deceiver induces him to overwork
| and in that way get rid of him. We have
| thermometers to tell the heat, and barom-
| eters to tell the air, and ometers hung in
engine rooms to tell the pressure of steam.
| and ometers to gauge and measure almost
everything. Would that some genius
would invent an ometer which, being hung
| around the ne,k and dropped over
heart and lung. would by the pulsa-
| tion and respiration, tell whether ono
| Is under too great pressure or might carry
| more. All brain workers would want sucn
| an ometer and want it right away. For
the lack of it how many are dying and how
| many haze died OF overwork? A prominent
| fnancier who recently departed this life
| was an officer in over 100 financial and
| charitable institutions. Thousands OF
editors, of lawyers, OF physicians, Of
! merchants. of clergynen, are now dying
| OF overwork. Do not be in the board of
| directors of more than three banks aud
| two trust companies and five life and
| lire insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three SER
| mons Sunday and superintend your
| own Sabbath-school and conduct
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
IL paper and write for three magazines
| and go to tour public dinners where you
| will be called to make q speech more than
| four times week. Do not go so deep in
| to the real estate business that before
| spring all the real estate you will really
| possess will be II piece Of ground about six
| feet long aud three feet wide. Your in
somnia Is the voice OF nature the voice OF
| God, saying, Better slow us!' Stop that
| long, swift train. the wheels OF which are
taking lire from the velocity and smoking
| with the hot box. Do not burn the candle
at both ends. Do not under too many
burdens sweat like camel trudgng from
Aleppo to Damascus. Do not commit sui
| eide.
Remark the eighth: All the victims OF
| insomnia ought to be consoled with the
fact that they will have good, long sleep
after while. Sacred and profane litera-
| ture again and again speak OF that last
| sleep. God knew that the human race
would be disposed to make great ado
about exit from this world, aud so H. in
| spires Job aud David and Daniel and John
and Paul to call that condition "sleep."
| When at Bethany the brother who was tue
| support OF his sisters after their father and
mother were gone had himself expired,
Christ cried out in regard to him,
"He is not dead, but sleepeth." Cheer
| ing thought to all poor sleepers, for
that will be pleasant sleep, in
duced by no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightful dream. interrupted by no harsh
sound. Better than any sleep you ever
took, o child OF God. will be the last sleep.
In your slumbers your home fnny be in
vaded by burglars and your treasures car
red Off but while here and there, In one
case out OF millions, the resurrectionist
may disturb the pillow OF dust the last
sleep is almost sure to be KEEP. from inva-
sion. There will be no burglary of the tomb.
And 1t will be II refreshing sleep. You have
sometimes risen in the morning more weary
than when you laid down at night, but
waking from the sleep OF which speak
the last fatigue, the last ache, the last
worriment, will be forever gone. oh, what
u refreshing sleepi
SO my hearer, my reader, Good night"