Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-26
DYSPEPSIA AND DESTINY.
Men Who Neglected Their Bodies
 Failed When Success Was Nigh.

Failed When Success Was Nigh.
 Man has a machine. m apparatus of delicate adjustment, but of great pow er-his body-bur too often he neglects to use 1t, says the Boston Globe. He lets It rest in ease or slumber in sloth. He coddles it. He arrays 1t in fine lin- en and purple, bedizens it with jewels | and pampers It with indigestible foods, often sparing it the arduous labor of mastication. He permits it to sit awk wardly with crossed legs or stopped shoulders. as If the trunk was too fragile to hold up its limbs, or the weight of the atmosphere was an Atlas load for it's back.
 And what reward hath the mind for flesh? Ingratitude and complaining ac- companied by accusations. The poor, facilitated muscles and nerves justly charge that the overseer mind has been neglectful of its duties and. despising So weak and ignorant a foreman. desert or rebel, and leave their shoud-be boss lmpotent to carry out the true work of a man.
 The marvellous mind of Alexander, which ruled world. had no discipline for its body after 1t became acquainted with oriental pomp and seriousness, and disregarded the stalwart virility with which In other days 1t tanned Bucephalus.
 Napoleon. busy with rearranglng the map of Europe. did not properly mas ticate his chicken a Ia Marengo and allowed 1t to pass In the rough into the spoiled child of a stomach. trusting to the lyer-a weak one inherited from his father-to complete the lack of mastication.
 Probably the great disaster of Leip- zig was due to his careless eating.
 Yoltare has said the fate of na- ton often depended on the good or bad digestion of prime minister, and Mot ley declares that the gout of Charles V. changes the destinies of the world.
 Balzac, incomparable novelist, died at 50 when he had planned for a life of rural rest, died because he allowed the craving stomach to have coffee at all hours and in great quantities; and while his mind sauntered in all the highways, lanes and alleys of human society, his body. cablned in monks robe, took no exercise, but stuck to a garret. except when a sheriff's ap- proach made flight a thing desired by the agile mind.
 In that delightful essay, Saints and Their Bodies,' Colonel Higginson says: Three of the four Greek fathers ruin ed their health early and were invalids Of the whole eight were able bodied men-Ambrose, Augustine and Athan- asius-and the permanent influence of these three has been far greater than that of all the others put together"
 He Is born for minister" New England parents once said or the puny twigs of the family tree, while they deputed the lusty limbs to bear the buffets of secular storms.
 Luther scoffed at Juyenal's axiom of "A healthy mind in healthy body an axiom commended to the degenerate Romans-but other religious leaders have welcomed and needed the warn- ing contained in the saying of the great satirist If Calvin was an invalid all the days of his life George, Michael and Martin were robust. If some noted prelates have not treated their bodies as they ought, we have seen even a delicate Leo XIII. illustrate to the let ter, "mens sana In corpore sano."