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These publicans are all the time overtaxing the people. If they would do as the preacher tells them, the people would be more contented." Then the preacher addresses himself to the Pharisees and the Sadducees in the crowd, and cries: "O generation of vipers! Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth fruits worthy of repentance." Says Herod within himself: "I like that.
But he was coming to the end of his strength, exhausted by a life of struggle and wretchedness, by long overtaxing of his physical and mental powers. He died in 1885, in the vigor of his years, cut off by disease. The whole of Jewry mourned at his grave. And Ha- Shahar soon ceased to exist.
We shudder to hear what is alleged as to the prevalence of criminal practices; if back of these there can be shown organic incapacity or overtaxing of too limited powers, the facts belong to the province of the practical physician, as well as of the moralist and the legislator, and require his gravest consideration. Take the important question of bleeding. Is venesection done with forever?
The luxury of rest was so great, after his long, wearying toil, that he concluded that he might as well spend a half hour in that fashion as in any other. The echoes and pains of his bruises had departed, or, more properly, perhaps they were consolidated with the aches and pains following upon the overtaxing of his limbs. "Oh, dear! How tired I am!" he sighed, as he stretched out his limbs.
Experienced teachers, women physicians, philanthropic men physicians, and wise mothers, are, as I have said, more afraid of an undue development of the emotional nature in these critical years, than of overtaxing the intellectual powers; and it is doubtless true that while very few of the girls and women in the upper classes overwork, a very large number suffer in health from the absence of interesting and absorbing employment.
No matter how hospitably the tiny cottage might be thrown open for their reception, it would certainly be overtaxing its capacity to attempt to make nine extra people comfortable there for the remainder of the night it was barely one o'clock. "We'll gladly stretch the walls to take you all in," said Donald Ferry, "but perhaps the big house plan is the better.
Occupied the day holiday in reading and reclining, and went to bed feeling pretty well. "Friday, Feb. 23. At 8.30 A. M. weighed 166 pounds; 3.30 P. M., temperature, 99° F.; pulse, 98; lung expansion, 2-3/4 inches; went home and to bed, feeling considerably exhausted owing to a hard day's work and too many callers. "Saturday, Feb. 24. Did not rest very well from overtaxing the brain yesterday.
You are not looking well; you must have been overtaxing your strength, and need a rest." "Doctor, cure yourself, I might well say," I rejoined. "There is nothing much amiss with me. I am a little fagged perhaps, nothing more. But you look very much run down. I am sure you have been neglecting yourself very much of late."
This occasioned him some little inconvenience, for his naturally considerate disposition made him careful of overtaxing a landlady no longer young. He rang his bell with reluctance, and when he did so, often went out on to the landing and shouted directions down the well-staircase, in the hopes of sparing any unnecessary climbing of the great nights of stone steps.
But listen to me, my little girl, and try to be reasonable. You are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nothing can mean as much to you as your health. What will keeping up with the other girls amount to if the strain and the overtaxing makes an invalid of you for life, perhaps? "Mind you, I am not saying that the work itself is too great a tax.
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