Year: 1872

The pulpit, the bench, the bar, the


forum, have contributed their legions


of victims TO drunken habits. The


beautiful woman, the sweet, singer


the conversationalist, the periodical


writer, have filled, but too often the


drunkard's grave. Now that the press


has become such great power in the


land, when the magazine must come


out on certain day, and the daily


newspapers at fixed hour, nothing


waits, everything must give way to


the inexorable call for copy, aud, sick


or we'll, disposed or indisposed, asleep


or awake, the copy must come. Tho


writer must compose his article,


whether he feels like it or not; and ii


he is not III the vein of writing, he


must whip himself up to it by the


stimulus of drink. Some of the great


estwriters of the country have con-


fessed to the practice on urgent occa-


sions, of taking a sip of brandy at the


end of every page, or even ofteuer. 1T
may have escaped the general reader'sr
notice that more men have died young


who have been connected with the


New York press within ten years,
and that, too, from intemperance9 than,
in all other educational 'callings put,
together; young men whose talents
have been of the first order, and gave


promise of life of usefulness, honor
and eminence, The best possible


thing for a man to do, when he feels
too tired to perform q task or too


weak to carry it through is to go to


bed and sleep q week, if he can. This


is the only true recuperation of brain


power, the only actual renewal of


brain force. Because, during sleep
the brain is i'm state of ease, in con-


dition to- receive and appropriate par
ticles of nutriment from the bloode
which takes the place of those which
have been consumed in previous la


Dor, since the very act of thinking
consumes, burns mp solid particles, ss


every turn of the wheel or screw OF
the splendid steamer is the result of
the consumption by fire of the fuel in


the furnace. That supply of consum-
ed braint substance Scail aonly be 4iad
from, the nutriment. particles in the
blood which were obtained from the


food eaten preHiously, and the -hfeiR


is SO constituted that It can best re-
ceive aud appropriate to itself those
particles during the state
of rest, of quiet and of stiffness in
sleep. Mere stimulants supply moth
ing in themseIves-they only goad the
brain, force it to q greater consump-i
ton of its substance has been so fully
exhausted that there is not power
enough left to receive a supply, just
as men are so near death by thirst or
that there is not power
left to swallow anything, and
all is over The incapacity of the
brain for receiving recuperatiye- par /;
ticles sometimes comes on with the
rapidity of % stroke of lightning, and
the man becomes mad I'm an instant,i
loses sense, and is an idiot. Itnwas
under circumstances of this very sort,
in the very middle of sentence Of
great oratoricaI power, one Of the
most eminent minds of. the age forgot
his ideas, pressed hisi hand upon bis
forehead, and after moment's esi-
lence said tGod, as with q sponge,
has blotted out my mind. p Be assured,
my readers, ifThere is rest for the
weary only, in early and abundant
sleep, and wise and happy are they
who have firmness enough to resolve
that "By Gods help viii seek it in
no other way.n-HGLps JouS7adl; IF
HeuLth.rs5 vd DYlGgIsG aJ , sa u v