The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-10

slain by the exhaustions Of public life or
by hand Of assassin. Our public men
cannot control their time, cannot regu-
late their hours, cannot escape the I'M
! ploration of constituents. All who go
down to invalidism through the service or
! God or their country are martyrs.
Remark the fourth Insomnia is no
sign OF divine displcasure. Martin Luther
had distressing insomnia and wrote:
! when [ wake up in the night, the devil
! immediately comes and disputes with me
and gives me strange thoughts, until at
last [ grow enraged beyond endurance
and give him i'll words" That conse-
Grated champion of everything good, Dr.
Stephen H. Tying, ST., in his autoblog-
raphy says that the only encouragement
he had to think he would sleep at night
was the fact that he had not slept the
night before. One of the greatest Eng
lsh clergymen had gas jet on either
side of his bed, so tina: he might read
nights when he could not sleep. Horace
! Greeley told me he had not had sound
sleep in fifteen years, Charles Dickens
understood London by night better than
any other writer, because not being able
to sleep he spent that time IN exploring
the city.
Words of Consolation.
Remark the fifth Let all insOmnlsts
| know for their consolation that some peo-
| pie sleep more rapidly than others, as
much in one hour as others do in two,
and hence do not require as long time
| in Inconsistencies. In a book on the
subject of health years ago I saw this
fact stated by a celebrated medical SCI
enlist: 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 III
thirty minutes as a way train in sixty
minutes. People of rapid temperaments
ought not to expect a whole night to do
the work of recuperation which SLOW
temperaments require. Instead Of max
ing it a matter of irritation and alarm
be a Christian philosopher and set down
| this abbreyiation Of sOmnolence as mat
ter of temperament. An antelope ought
not to complain because it was not an OK
nor an eagle because it can go faster
than barnyard fowl.
Remark the sixth: The aged insomnists
should understand that if their eyes are
held waking they do not require as much
! sleep as once they did. Solomon, who 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 mastica-
ton on the part of the aged when he
| says, ''The grinders cease because they
are few" and Of the octogenarian's eau
| ton in getting up ladder or standing on
a scaffolding, saying, .'They shall be
of of tbat xx-bi ol, 10Th
| of the whiteness of the hair by compar-
ing it to tree that has white blossoms,
| saying, 1.-THE almond tree shall flourish, H."
| and speaks of the spinal cord, which is of
|. the color of silver and which relaxes III
old age, giving the tremor to the head.
| saying, THE silver cord be loosed." But
he says of the aged, ssHe shall rise up mt
the voice of, the bird"-taat is. about half
past in the summer time, an appro-
pirate hour for the bird to rise, for he
goes to his nest or bough at half past
in the evening. But the human mechan-
ism has been SO arranged that after it
has been running a good while a change
takes place, and instead Of the almost
perpetual sleep OF the baoe and the nine
hours requisite in midlife six hours will
do for the aged, and ''he shall rise up at
and women remember that they have
been permitted to do great deal of
sleeping in their time ana that if they do
not sleep so well now as they used to it
is because they do not require so much
sleep.
Insomnia Warming.
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 halt. A prominent
financier who recently departed this life
was an officer in over hundred financial
and charitable institutions Thousands
OF editors, of lawyers, of physicians, of
merchants, of clergymen are now dying
of oyerwork. Do not be in the board of
directors for more than three banks and
two trust companies and five li29 and fire
insurance establishments. Do not rs pas
tor preach more than three sermons a
Sunday and superintend your own Sab.
bath school and conduct Bible class the
same day. Do not edit paper and
write for three magazines and go to four
public dinners where you will be called
on to make a speech more than four
times a week. Do not go so deep into
the real estate business that before spring
all the real estate you viii really pos
sess will be piece of ground about six
feet long and three feet wide. Your in
somnia is the voice of nature, the voice
of God saying, "Better slow ur!' Stop
that long, swift train, the wheels of
which are taking fire from the velocity
and smoking with the hot box. Do not
burn the candle at both ends Do not
commit suicide.
The Last Sleep.
Most people are tired. The nights do
not repair the day. Scientists, by minute
calculation, say that every night comes
little short Of restoring the body to where
it was the day before, and so every sew
enth day was put in for entire rest. to
make up in reparation for what the
nights could not do But so restful will |
be the last sleep that you will rise from
1T without one sore nerve, without one
tired limb-rested, forever rested, as only |
God can rest you. O We tired folks all I
UP and down the world, tired with work,
or tired with prosecutions, or tired with +