The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-14

SCH and from those who have gone before
| MIN ne can learn how important it is to make
this Judgment intelligently and then live up
to 1t faithfully. Four well known Maine
men, each of whom has attained length of
days, have given to .the Lewiston Journal
the story of their success in this respect
DR.. Hiram H. Hill, aged 70, of
Augusta, Daniel Stickney, aged
aged 81, of Presque Isle, Albert w. Paine,
| Esq, aged II, Of Bangor, and Neal Dow.
| aged So. As might be expected they have
quite different ideas about what is condu-
Give to long life, though their experiences
have been such that all of them would en-
dorse the rule often laidldown by intelligent
old ladies': Keep your head cool and your
feet warm If you would live long. DIR. Hill
condenses his rule of life into this state
ment: 81 inherited constitution and
makeup for long life and my management
by myself has always been plain, simple and
constant. At times l have overworked, but
always avoided it when l could. have
aimed to keep myself employed from my
childhood up, and always been busy about
something. 1 never loafed much. When
not engaged in my profession, instead of
hanging about worthless places. have been
around some machine shop or place where [
could learn something. My plan of manage
ment has always been simple. If any man
ner OF food disturbed me left it. If under
pressure of business have been overworked
have always remedied it as soon as posi-
BILE. l have always had a watchful care of
my health" Daniel Stickney, after men
tioniLg that he lets alone spirituous liquors
and tobacco, lives moderately and so orders
his spiritual life that mo fear of a terrible
hell ever troubles him." gives the credit
for good portion of his long life
thus: "Of the 81 years of life with which l
have been favored, twelve of them have been
Sabbaths. Four thousand three hundred
and eighty Sabbaths properly improved are
enough to make any man, however bad, wise
and good. think that the Sabbaths which
/ have enjoyed have added at least - years
to my life." Neal Dow gives share of the
credit of his vigorous old ageyto his hardy
ancestors and their simple, temperate modes
OF life practiced I'M accordance with their
Quaker training; but he does not give to
them all the credit. From early life," he
writes, II was led to avoid intoxicating
liquors and to abhor tobacco almost as mnch
as alcohol in whatever form. 1t lis largely
due to this, think, that have been able to
survive many of my fellows, with consttu-
tions as strong as mine, and with surround
ings as favorable to longevity, but who did
not, as l did, see the good of abstinence
from such things nor the danger, as did, of
any indulgence in their use. however mod
crate the practice might be at the begin
ming" Hon. Albert w. Paine agrees with
Mr.. Dow in the great influence of heredity
and total abstinence from intoxicants and
tobacco; but goes further and proscribes cof-
fee and allopathic medicines, neither of
which he has touched for over forty years.
Water and milk and the homeopathic
infnitesimal dose" are his bev-
erages aud his medicine. His
garden and other duties of a Housekeeping
life have given him all needed exercises and
''no bird and seldom fish" have met death
at his hands in any expeditions for health.
The lesson that these four aged men i'm
press is that one should lead temperate life
in all respects, and an abstemious one in sew
eral respects. They have done so, and have
succeeded. 1t would undoubtedly be easy to
find four more aged men in Maine who have
led very different lives, but their example,
while showing that there is no necessary Sc
cret of long life, do not constitute any argu-
ment against the desirability of temperance.
The navigator who has been tossed through
the rapids of Lachine may come into the
dock as safely as his brother who has taken
the sure and quiet canal; but this does not
prove the rapids as safe as the canal