Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1910 — Stevenson’s Cup of Misery. [ARTICLE]

Stevenson’s Cup of Misery.

R. L. Stevenson, writing in 1893 to George Meredith, in an epistle quoted in his says, with heart touching pathos: ■_ “For fourteen years I have not had a day’s real health. I have awakened sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head _ swam for weakness, and for so long, it seems to me, I have won my wager Aid recovered my glove. I am better now—have been, rightly speaking, since first I came to the Pacific—and still few are the days when I am not in some, physical distress. And the battle goes on—dll or well is a trifle so that it goes. I was made for a contest, and the. powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle. At least I have not failed, but I would have preferred a place of trumpetings and the open air over my head.”