Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-15

YEARS-FROM PHOTOGRAPH FROM LIFE
was offered to the landing Of the troops.
Owing to this fact the British commander
gave orders that the people should not be
nolested and chat all provisions should be
pa ia for, which was accordingly done.
In 1925 Heal purchased farm of several
hundred acres at Searsmont, near Belfast.
He, determined upon clearing and develop
ing this land, and turned all his energies 70
that end. He took great in terest in raising
cattle. and his farm was usually IL a good
state o 7 cultivation. He was very frugal,
very in vUstrious, almost parsimonious in
his stvle of living, and as he was considered
a success. nj farmer, it was anticipated that
during so long a life his accommodations
would be &C usiderable, but at his decease
very little W Us discovered, and what has
become of his wealth nobody knows. Some
suspect that b e buried his money, and as
he never confidt d it to any one, his secret
died with him.
He took quite ar active interest in f-~itics,
and was a stauncit Democrat, having voted
at every election fl sDm 1900 to 1880 His first
vote was cast for .rhomas Jefferson Pos
sibly his absolutely quiet life had something
to do with his longevity. he rarely left has
own neIghborhood, and never, 1t is said,
Travelled on a steamer or on railroad train
He never saw any thing of the turmoil and
hustle of the world, and ms nerves were
never disturbed. He was quite unletlered,
being unable to read or write. He kept his
accounts by peculiar marks on his barn
door, which he alone under stood. His mem
ory was highly cultivated, owing to the con-
slant calls made upon it on account OF
his being unable to read and write, and this
aided him in keeping ms accounts.
Physically, he was well proporSioned ano
strongly built. He WAS five feet eight
inches in height, and weighed normally
lis pounds. He had full, well-de yeloped
chest. BE was great taIker, and had a
loud voice His health was so perfect that
during his whole life he was only orice Wis
rted by physician until his last illness
HIS eyesight and hearing continued unim
paired until the end. His halr did OF turn
gray until he had experienced the frosts OF
hundred winters. He WIS remarkably
good sleeper, retiring usually at sunset and
rising at dawn. He was good esgter, liv-
ing on fresh meat during the autumn and
early winter when the farmers were
slaughterng, but during the summer his
diet was principally salt pork cut into
slices and fried The bread Dn his table
was made from wheat, rye, corn, barley
and buckwheat from his own farm. He
used tobacco nearly his whole lifCa He pre-
ferred 10 chew rather than smoke the weed
When young he was addicted to the use Of
spirtuous liquors. He never had amy men
tai labor of any KIND, or any care or WORRY
A curious feature OF his life is that at the
age of one hundred and five he concluded
to remain indoors, and, although being quite
strong and active in his movements, he did
not leave the house during the last five
years of his life. He did not use a cane,
aud at times was as active as a boy. He said
he could move about the country as veal as
ever, and would give no reason for his vol /
untary secluslon He retained his faculties
TO the end. and died quietly, and was buried /
in a field in his own farm.
1t is interesting for moment to look at
the remarkable changes that have taken
place during the lifetime of a single human
being Heal was born in the midst of the
revolutionary war, and was nearly three
years old when the surrender of CORVALLIS
marked the close of the struggle. He vas
In his nineteenth year when Washington
retired from she Presidency, and during
his life al the Presidents were nominated
to their high offices. He was nearly fif- (
teen when Louis XVI was beheaded and
the Reign of Terror began. He had entered
on his twentieth year when NAPOLEON was
made First Consul and was twenty-six
years old when he was elected Emperor.
1t was in his thirty-seventh year that the
great commander was defeated at Waterloo.
he lived during the period of the
three French revolutions. During his
life France had been three times a
kingdom, three times an empire and
three times a republic. He was a
boy in his teens when Robert Burns was
composing his lyrics, when Burke was
laundering in the House of Commons and
when Sir Joshua Reynolds was giving the
world his great works of art He was
twenty-eight when Fulton launched the first
regular steamboat, and sixty-six when
Morse first brought the telegraph into prac-
teal use by sending messages between
Washington and Baltimore. 1t was almost
impossible to conceive that a single life can
span such epochs in history.