Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — For Tired Young Men of Thirty. [ARTICLE]

For Tired Young Men of Thirty.

The young man of thirty who complains that he feels tired, has had his day, can’t keep up with the procession, and the like, should call to mind the work such men as Gladstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bismarck, and a score of others are doing, though they have all passed the three score and ten years allotted to the span of human life. All these men have been hard and life-long workers. A locomotive will be more damaged by a year’s lying up on a side track than by twenty years of hard steaming and hauling. Not one toiler in a thousand dies of overwork, but thousands have died and thousands are dying of the diseases induced by sloth, and the vices of which idleness is the appointed guardian. Gladstone at 73 could fell a tree for the pleasure of the thing, and would defy the blows of the enervated youth of modern cities. George Cruikshank, the artist, walked ten miles a day when verging on his 80th year. Titian did some of his best work when he was 70. The natural stimulus and support of the muscles and the nerves is work. For want of it the system rusts, like a machine that is retired from service. Young men are very wise in their own conceit, but they can still take a lesson from the old, especially when these old men bear the honored names of Gladstone and Holmes. — Baltimore Herald. Mb. G. E. Reardon, Baltimore, M<l., Commissioner of Deeds for all the States, Buffered for a long time with rheumatism, which yielded promptly to St. Jacobs Oil.