The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-03-03

any large number of grsndfathers 81
granemothers to grow up and get the
hairs properly whitened and their bac
bent to the curve which belongs to
years of age.
When another hundred years ba,
gone we may be sure that there will n
be nearly go great difference in tt
number of old people in the diferel
States, but we may also be quite sure th.
then, as now, those people will live lonl
est who live among the wind-swept hill
of the northern and middle States of thi
country.
Perhaps I ought to say not "people,
but "white people," for the negro i've
longer in the South than he does in th
North.
One of the best means of measurin
the relative length of life in the diferen
States is that afforded by the experienc
of the thirty principal life insuranc
companies of this country previous Il
1874, including the records of over mil
lion of lives, insured for over twenty-si,
hundred millions of dollars.
From these records We learn that th,
States and Territories in which the insu-
rance companies had the least loss by be
ing compelled to pay the money they had
agreed to pay in case of the death of the
persons insured in them, or, in Other
words, where healthy, full-grown white
men and women, sufficiently well-off to
pay insurance premiums, lived the long
est we're the following: Nebraska, 81
Iowa, rs; Wisconsin, II; Vermont, 30;
West Virginia, 81; Maine, 80; Massa.
chusetts, s6; Kansas, s6; Oregon, S6
Illinois, 81; Colorado, 81 Delaware, SS +;
New Hampshire, 49,; Rhode Island, 80;
and Michigan, 80. In this list the figures
following the names Of the States show
the proportion of the loss by death, if
the average loss is considered to be 100,
so that the smaller the figure the greater
is the average length of life indicated.
On the other hand, stated in the same
way, the States where the loss was great.
est, and the length Of life least, were !:
Louisiana, 176; Texas, 175; Arkansas,
l72; Florida, 1877; Mississippi, 1854;
Tennessee, 1853; Alabama, 1874; and
Maryland, 12s. The corresponding fig
ures for some of the other States are:
California, 81; Connecticut, "a; Georgia,
96; Kentucky, 1903; Minnesota, 1O7;
Missouri, ILL.,; New York, 95; Ohio, So;
Pennsylvania, 81; South Carolina. lis;
Virginia, lO4.
These figures also show that life is
shorter in the South than in the North,
and in the fiat, low lying grounds than
among the hills and mountains.
Thus far I have been speaking of the
length of life as measured by ordinary
time-by days and weeks and years. But
here is another way of measuring the
life of man, or of boy, and that is by
,he number of new things that he sees
and hears, the number of thoughts that
be has, The amount of work that he does.
There have been men who for several
Years slept twenty-four hours out of the
wenty four each day, and in one sense
uch life, though extended many years,
8 but short one.
1t is not only low long a man lives but |
low much be lives that is to be consider
d. Every boy knows that week of one
,art of his life is worth month of |
mother part. Where, then, do men live
he most? You can easily tell the places
where men think they live the most, for
hey are the places where there are the
aost men, that is, the great cities. There
, where a man lives not only his own
ife, but part of dozen, a hundred, a
housand other lives as we'll where he
as the strongest inducements to make
be most of every hour he can spare from
Ieep, either for work or for play.
What almost all boys desire is to have
luch life and many kinds of it; to see
1e entire show and not to have to wait
20 long for something new. And you all
now that the more life you get in a Civ.
d time, the more sensations and changes
on perceive, the more you do, the short
: seems the time. When the same
,ings and the same people are seen day
fter day, mans day may not only seem
'Dg to him, but actually be long in the
cripture sense-that is, increased in
amber and yet give him less life.
1t is the instructive recognition of this
ct that makes the farmers boys dissst-
fed with mending country life, and
ads the young men and women to seek
70 cities. And hence, it is that our
ties are growing 80 fast, although in
any parts of them the people are dying
fast.
But is this shortening of life in the .
ties a necessity? 1t is not possible to
tain many days as we'll as full days, to
I'VE most Of the opportunities, the ez-
.ements, the society, and the pleasures
city life, or at least all that are really
,rth having, without giving up the
ospect Of peaceful and pleasant old =
e?
Certainly it is; and people are begin. d
ng to understand this, and to ask that J
shall be made possible for them to do Q
This is piece of work that the boys
over the States, country boys as we'll '
city boys, will have to undertake, and !
~ will have full lives in doing it. q
ow it is to be done-that, as Kipling
Is, ia another story, which may be told 8
reafter. J
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