The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-08-01

have wept at the sight Of wounded

!. have wept at the sight Of woundf
d sparrow.
|. Another night and day, like the othe
only more intensely agonizing. MartE
. Warren was sullenly Indifferent now
suffering had palsied every noble feeling
Charlie moaned for supper-too wea
and spent to sit up, he was lying on th
rock, his head in her lap, his great eye
fixed on her face.
She tore open a vein in her arm wit
her scissors, and made him drink tn
blood. Anything, she said. to herself, t
calm the wild, wishing yearniDgs of hi
eyes. ..... .---.
The boy raised-he sat up and peer
ed through the darkness.
Mamma" he said, Papa is com
ing. l felt him touch me-
She wept at the mockery, and drew
the child frantically to her bosom.
The night was fair-lit up by new
moon.
Overcome by a deadly exhaustion
against which she could make no resis.
tance, Martha fell into an uneasy slum.
ber, which towards midnight, was broken
by a startling cry. She sprang to he1
feet and gazed around her.
No! her eyes did not deceive her
there on the shore stood the stalwart
form of her husband, and he was calling
her name with the energy OF despair.
She could only cry out, 30, Mark,
Mark" and fell senseless to the earth.
When she awoke to consciousness, she
was lying on her own bed in the cottage,
supported by the husbands arms.
1t was no dream. She and her dar-
ling boy was safe; and he came back.
Many weeks passed before she grew
strong again, but Mark tended her as a
mother would an infant. and by the time
the autumn trosts fell, she was he blithe
Martha Warren of old.
At the time of the freshet, the bridge
over the Ammonoosuc had indeed been
swept away, but Mark, impelled by an
uncomfortable fear-almost PRESENT.
ment-had crossed the river, at the risk
of his life on log raft, and reached
home only to find it vacant.
The descendants of Mark Warren and
his wife still dwell among the fertile
valleys of the Ammonoosuc, and the old
men still tell to their grandchildren the
story of Martha Warren and her child.
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How long ought we to Live!
We have the impression that 70 is
he appointed period of human life. But
he average life is far short of it. And
many might and ought to live far be-
7ond it, who perish, as we say, prenaa-
urezy. DR.. Haller gathered up thou
sand cases of men who had lived to be
1undred years old and over: twenty
line of these lived to be from 12O to
L30, and fifteen of them from 130 to l4O.
Henry jenkins, a Yorkshire fisherman,
lied in December, 1910, at the age of
80. Thomas Parr is the most celebra-
ed of very old men. He was farmer,
md up to the age of 130 was able to
lig,. plough and thresh. DR.. Hervey,
he famous surgeon, dissected him after
leath, and found no appearance of decay
n any organ. Demetrius Garbowsky
lied in Poland, in 1880, at the age of
SO. Petrarch Cars:an died in 1924,
It the good old age of 1876. His biogra-
'her says of him: "He was born at Jo-
rosch, village four miles from Tens
var. A few days before his death he
walked four miles to beg. His eyes
we're much infamed, but he still enjoyed |
little sight. His hair and beard are
# greenish white color, like mouldy |
'read, and he had a few of his teeth re-
naming. His food was chiefly bread |
md certain cakes called cazzatscAeu, to-
ether with good glass of brandy, such
S is made in the country" Another
amily, in Hungary, by the name of Ro-
'en, attained great age. The father
81, the wife and mother 164. They
ad been married 142 years, when their
'oungest child was lis. A few years
60 peasant died in Russia, aged 1877
ears, 10 months and II days. He had
2 children, one of whom, a daughter
,as still living, at the age of 100. He
stained the use of his faculties to the
.st day Of his life and was very cheer
IL. In 1880 there were in the United
tates 1,556 persons hundred or more
ears old, the oldest being 14O. This
vas an Indian woman III North Caroli-
a. Baily, in his Annals Of Longevity,
lentions the case of Thomas Can, whom
lc parish register of Shoreditch ahirms
, have died in 1850 at the age Of 207
land the ST. Petersburg Gazette speaks
a man who died in 1912, aged 200.
tut what are all these cases, compared
ith the patriarchs? Think Of Adam,
20; Seth, 912; Enos, 905; Canaan,
20; Jared, 962; Noah, e56; and Me-
969 Why issa e
an SO much Shorter now than then 4
Thy do some men live SO much longer
ian others. now Is there any reason
by the ordinary life Of man should not
J greatly prolonged? !? We cannot in
le generation overcome the inherited
sgeneracies that reduce our years, but
le laws of health are now 50 well un-
srstood that we might, in a few genera
ons, bring back q race Of longer-lived,
ore enduring and useful men than have
ved since the food This is worth
linking of; and if no general reform
N be wrought, it is still in the power
any household to initiate the work
Id set a noble example.
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.We have been carrying on the Lou
vile Journal thirty-seven years, and
lring all this time we have known no
an Of business in the city to fail who
literally. And we have known