| Show THE presidents ILLNESS A STATEMENT wis was made in the te dl dispatches s yesterday to the effect that the president of the united states was standing on the brink of dissolution at least that without a radical change N in his methods and practices he would not survive his hii term fam this assertion came to us backed by no ao less les s a person than a physician of high degree ahr who had bad been taking notes and decided it to be his duty to t print them he claimed that mr C leveland was ws too much of a worker with his bis head and too indolent with his body thit that he be ate slid and draak too much and didiot did not walk enough most of which wo haye ve understood before and anyone at NI ail familiar with what is going on at WA washington may readily believe though but few we fancy we are among the un believers will be willing to accept the doctors d diagnosis of the cao case in its entirety and 11 loos upon his conclusions as the inevitable or even probable result ing it la Is something yo that causes nearly as many deaths is as the raili railroads oads just what has been set apt forth in connection with the ahe nAt nations tons chief executive leq men are xe h killing themselves by inches day after day sad and either do not kno know i if or knowing it do not care or are in such circumstances that they cannot call a ha baljo in the suicidal pron gramme so long as their winds minds hold bold out their nerves do not entirely falter and their lose not their cull g the brain is given nty no res rest and but I 1 nat ta le relaxation it t is contin continuous and add unrequited draft i upon pou ithrom it from the beginning of one ne J day to td tue tae commencement of another vai olier for the period of alleged repose t night when the is m an fn bed is 04 t thronged thron ged with chaotic ha otie lm impression produced by reason ottlie ot the unbroken strain scram of the jhb day dayer or the time taine is p po much tak taken enu un with vitti i g plans plana aud and ai arranging T details tails for the morrow that the amount of rest acquired by reason of and thu the dutia curtains ins of night is hardly even nominal there is with such people no time for junketing part parties ids ashing excursions cur or jaunts for any length of time thud in the recesses rece sues where nature is s ap uncorrupted uy art and the strati straw d upon the system by reason of the large quantity of aliment needed t to keep tile the nerve centrex bentres in their sock sockets 61 and the elec electric tiie messengers in their grooves groove is gend generally rally insufficient or else the bodily viger is sapped and physical strength undermined so that at last through weakness ea kness gli all around complete prostration is tm the result whether this ends iti ih death or of not depends upon the quantity of vitality which thel person inherited from liar nature V the e early death of president cleveland would be a serious if not irreparable loss to the country in more ways than one omitting all question of the serious shock which so lamentable an all event would produce there would of necessity be for a i short time an interregnum or period in which the government would be without a bead und front and complications of more or less lesa importance might arise at such a time then hl his temporary successor would be a republican publican Se and as aa such reverse the existing order ol of things all at once which might bring about such scenes as characterized the early part of andrew johnsons apostasy apo stacy from the republican party and confusion generally would reign at A later r 4 states that the president den wo was never in better health which af t true goes to show that he can stand a great gog deal ellmore more than some ot of his anxious friends think the later news is the more lil likely Lely to be true and is ia cart certainly almly congenial with our wishes in reference to him |
