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Updated: June 22, 2025
To-night is one of them." "That," she said coolly, "is unfortunate. You have been over-working." "I am worried by a problem," I told her. "Tell me, are you a great believer in the sanctity of human life?" "What a question!" she murmured. "My own life, at any rate, seems to me to be a terribly important thing."
Two died in India, one a soldier in one of the Frontier skirmishes: the other an I.C.S. man from over-working in a famine-stricken district. The youngest fell in the Boer War ... so you see Mrs. Hope has the right to be proud. Aunt Alison used to tell me that she made no moan over her wonderful sons.
It was this excitement that he must cure, and as there are many remedies for insomnia, he tried those which, it seemed to him, were suitable to his case; but bromide of potassium, in spite of its hypnotic properties, produced no more effect than the over-working of the brain and body.
The ladies glanced at him affectionately and deferentially; he was gently scolded at times for over-working himself, the sleepiness which nowadays frequently overtook him in all sorts of places being attributed to excess of genius and zeal.
PHILEMON BLISS, Esq., a lawyer of Elyria, Ohio, who spent some time in Florida, gives the following testimony to the over-working of the slaves: "It is not uncommon for hands, in hurrying times, beside working all day, to labor half the night. This is usually the case on sugar plantations, during the sugar-boiling season; and on cotton, during its gathering.
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