Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

move tfco present objections. spinal anesthesia, however, is' supposed to have been used first by Dr. J. L. Corning, an American surgeon, in 1885. Doctor Coming experimented on rabbits and dogs with injections of cocaine In the spinal tract. Later ha tried it on a man with such success that for two hours after the injection the patient had no feeling in his legs. But cocaine and kindred drugs have a depressing efTect on the heart. The Roumanian surgeon uses strychnia to counteract this effect.

Ten Pittsburg men, all of them millionaire* have died within the last few weeks. Nearly all of them were what is known as "self-made men,” who started in a humble walk of life and by their own efforts managed to get on to the great highway —or great white way—of wealth, and all of them were? actively engaged in increasing their great wealth up to the time of their death, which came suddenly, and in most cases was untimely. Twenty-five others, whose wealth ranged from SIOO,OOO to $500,000, aIBO died suddenly within about the same period. These men had succeeded. They had got out of life what they started in to get, but with growing possessions desire had also grown, and they kept on striving for -more v running their physical machinery at high speed until it broke down under the strain, at a time when it should have been giving its greatest service to the world —not in piling up of a greater individual fortune, but in making the world a better place as the result of successful experiment. And all <arer this nervous country of ours thousands of men are following the same program. They are succeeding marvelously; they are piling up wealth for themselves—and their heirs. Some of them are not doing it in the nicest manner, and others are doing it in a manner that is not nice at all, to speak of it most charitably. But they are succeeding, and success with them is the end that Justifies the means. And then there are others who are succeeding by perfectly legitimate methods, as far as commercial ethics are concerned, but, nevertheless, they are committing physiological crimes because they are wrecking themselves in their efforts, and are as certain as the Pittsburgers mentioned to pass on to their end long before they have enjoyed that period of life which under normal conditions they would have a right to expect. The making of much money should not be the sole end of man. There are a good many things in life that are more important. Besldes. whatever may be his success, there comes a time when a man should cease from such vigorous efforts. To him who has run the machinery very hard it c’omes sooner than to him who has worked more leisurely. It is not easy to say when this time comes, because it varies widely with different individuals, but if a man will look back over what he has done as compared with what the average man has done, he can get some idea perhaps of the limit of his activity. If he has succeeded greatly, well and good; if he has succeeded somewhat, well enough; but when the time comps it must be recognized or —It will merely be a question of probating his will.