Show DRUGS TO PRODUCE SLEEP They Arc Rarely Necessary and Almost Al-most Invariably Dangerous An excclltorlnl writer of this city took m overdose of sulphonal n few days aGo to Induce sleep The result was death The belief bus been very common that sul phonal which wna Introduced Into mcdl l rvl I practice fifteen years ago Is a simple and safe rfmed and that no one will be In tlansT from a dusk of any size Sul phonal cit not hr taken with impunity by person with overtaxed hart or Inactive kidneys Tho number of cases of death from Its liSt bus not been large but persons per-sons vho report to any drug which will produce aleef should know that some kind of a powerful effect I1 15 at work upon their nerves In one form or another They ought also to know that If a person who natural I requires seven or eight hours nlcop gets nn average of three or four hours sleep a nigh t he Is not going to die for a long time ns a result of the want of sleep and if careful in his way of living soncral unless there Is some cause for his sleeplessness of n dangerous nature will pet over his Insomnia Wo have had attacks of It from time to time and In no Instance have token an anodyne or a hypnotic or a soporlilc while some of our friends have become the victims vic-tims of drugs and have been ruined In tjjo prime of life when a few little things would have brought them to normal habits hab-its i At such limes the open air an entirely entire-ly I unstlinulatlne diet chiefly vegetables the nonuse of ton and coffee at all events lato In the day tho proper uso of milk aa a food nnd not as a beverage sipped rather than poured down doing no mental work of any kind after sunset sitting In front of an open lire without gas I lighted l In the room setting chilly Intentionally Inten-tionally and If I wakeful taking monoton ourpuxcrclse In the midst of tho night until un-til the point of fatigue Is reached reconstructing recon-structing Imlfforgottcn hymns and plcccn of poetry mentally making a multiplication multiplica-tion table that shall run up to fifty and reciting It hour after hour never moving If I possible or allowing any part of the body to move breathing very slowl through the nostrils and counting tho number of breatho anything to prevent a mental operation that stirs up many of the brain cells any or all of theso monotonously monot-onously done will In a few days put an end to Insomnia A nap In the middle of tho day Is sometimes I tho only thing that will calm the nervous system so as to bring back sleep at night The best of nil rules Is never to admit to tho bedroom a single thought of onen troubles apprehensions or business It this cannot bo done with eyes shut let them be open and tho gas lighted All theao experiments were once tried by ua for two weeks and we averaged about three hourp a I night At tho end of that time wo strapped a fourteenpound i knap sack on our back and started on a pedes trian tour The first day we made fifteen miles tho second day twenty not hav ing l slept more than three hours in tho Interval I The next day was Sunday and we went to sleep under a monotonous ser mon As soon as the service was over th bed was found and a long nap taken But the habit of not sleeping had been fixed and during the night but two hours of sleep waG obtained The next day tho diet wan milk three quarto being consumed In the course of the day Insomnia took Ito flight The walk was continued until 200 miles had hon covered at an avoaeo rate of twenty mIle a day and no nlgn of sleeplessness appeared again for many months A drug would have given us amlcpma at any LImp Hypnotics and 1 alcoholics of al sorts are most dangerous A druG habit Is as bad as an alcoholic habit A word to the wise ought to be suf ficient Christian Advocate |