The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-16

srfesd 10 nav in case 81 the death Of the
persons insured in Thorn, or IN other Wotus,
where fairly healthy, full grown Wnlte
men and women, sufficiently Well gu " PAy
insurance premiums, lived the longeat, were
the following; Nebissks, s,n,y .ssusn: Yer.
mont, eighty; West Virginia, eiShty-one;
Maine, sichty.three; Masaachusetts, e.rnty-
sjx; Ksnaas, eighty-six; Oregon, cightg,six;
Illinois, eighty-seven; Colorado, slghts-
seven; Delaware, eighty eight; New IiaMET
nine; and Michigan, sighty-nine. IN this
list the figures following the names o. w
statss show the proportion OF the loss Wy
death, IL the average loss 10 considered to
be 100, so that the smaller the inquire the
greater 10 the average length OF NE 1nui-
Gated.
On the other hand, stated in the same
way, the states whore the loss was greatest,
aud the length OF life least, were: LOUISE
ana. 176; Texas, 175; Arkansas, l72; Floriah'
167; Mississippi, 1854; Teanesses. lG5; AN
bana, l34; and MARYLAND, Nv. me CORES
ponding tgnrea for some q .hs p nnns
states ave: California, ninaty-Iaevan Oon-
nccticut, ~ninsty-four; Geor2ia: nlnety-sia'
Kentucky. 103; Minnesota. lo7; Mlssoarl'
III; New York, n~inety-hve; OHIO, ninety.
three; Pennsylvania, ninety-two; Soush
Carolina, 115; Virginia, 104.
These 6gnres also show that ne ~ ~ ~
Ill tu0 oO0tA tAAM ~ VAo - -
fiat, low lying grounds b among tns nllis
and mountains.
Thus far / hays been speaking AZ the
lsupth Of life az measured by ordinary tame,
BY days and weeks. and years; IN sn y. :
ID another way OF measuring the NE q :
ber Of new things that he sess. and hears;
the number Of thoughts that he has; inc
amount OF work that he does. There nave
been men who for several years slept
twenty hours out of the twenty-tour each
day, and in one sense such . LIE. though
extended many years, 10 but a short one.
It is not only how long a mai lives bns
how much he lives that il to be CONSIDERED:
Every boy knows that = week of n part OF
his life il worth a month Of another part
Where, then, do men live the most! 9
can elsily tell the places where men thlnk
they live the most, for they arc the places
where there are the most men-that 10 the
great cities. There ID where . man lives
not only his own life. but a part of a dozen.
a hundred, q thousand other lives as we'll;
where he has the strongest inducements TO
make the most OF every hour ne can spare
from sleep. either for work or for play.
What almost all boys desire is to have
life and many kinds Of it: to see the
entire show and not have to wait too long
for something new. And you all know that
the moro lifs you get in a given time, the
more sensations and changes you perceive,
the more you DO. the shorter seems tAo
time. When the same things and the same
people are seen day after day, a mans days
NAV not only seem long TO him, but act
ually seem long to him in the scripture
ssnse-that 10. increased in number, and
yet give him less life. 4
It il the instructive recognition OF this
fact that makes the farmers boys dissatis-
fed with amending country life, and leads
the young men and women to seek the
cities. And hence il is that our cities are
growing 50 II st, although in 30 many parts
Of them the people are dying SO fast.
But is this shortening of life in the cities
q necessity? IL it not possible to obtain
many days as we'll as full days, to have
most of the opportunities, the e1citements.
the society. and the pleasures of city life,
or at least all that are really worth having,
without giving up the prospect of a peace
full and pleasant old age?
Certainly it Isl; and people are beginning
to understand this. and to ask that it shall
be made possible for them to do it. This is
a piece Of work that the boys all over the
states, country boys as we'll as city boys,
will have to undertake, and they will have
full lives in doing it. How it is to be done
that, as Kipling says. is another story which
may be told hereafter.
JOHN S. BILLINGS, M. D.
Convrioht