The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-14

who have passed the meridian OF lift
can compass themselves by luvelil
| ity It is bad thing for an old mar
or old woman to sit looking at til
| vivacity of their grandchildren shous
ing, Stop that racket" Better josr
In the fun Let the eighty-year-old
grandfather join tho eight-year
young grandson or granddaughter
My father and mother lived To sec
over eighty children and grandcllil
dren and great-grandchildren, and 6
more boisterous crew were nevti
turned out on this suiluna!.y sphere,
and they all seemed TO cry 20 the Old
folks Keep young" and they did
keep young.
Don't walk with q cane unless you
! have to, or only as defense in a city
| afflicted with too many CANNES.
Don't wear glasses stronger thar
necessary. putting on number tets
when eigatectls will do as Wei Don /
go into the company Of those wLc
! are always talking about rheu1l.4-
tism and lumbago and shortness Of
breath and the oreyity OF human lifo.
1t is too much for my gravity to heer
an octogenarian talking about tie
shortness of human life. From all J
can find out he has always been here
and from present prospects he Is al
ways going to stay. Remain young.
Hang up your stockings in Christ1n; s
time. Help the boys fly the kite.
Teach the girls how to dress lnezr
dolls. Better than arnica for your still
joints and catnip To-: for your sleep
less nights will be large dose OF
youthful companionship
THE WORLD. IS GROWING BETTER.
Set back the clock Of human life.
Make the shadow of the sundiaI Of
Ahaz retreat ten degrees. People
make themselves old by always talk
ing about being old and wishing fol
the good old days which were never
as good as these days. From all
can hear the grandchildren are not
half as bad as the grandparents were.
Matters have been hushed up Bat
if you have ever been IN q room I'D
joining a room where some Very OLD
people little deaf were talking OVe1
old times you viii find that this age
does not monopolize all the young
rascals. It may now be hard to get
young people up early enough in She
morning, but their grandparents al
ways had to be pulled ont Of bed
1t is wrong now to play mischievous
tricks on the unsuspecting, but eigaty
years ago at school that now venura
bic man sat down on g crooked +2lI !
not accidentally placed there, and !
purposely drove the sleigh riding par |
ty too near the edge of the enbank |
ment that he might see how they
would look when tUmbled into TIE |
snow. And that man who has SO little |
patience with childish exuberance
was in olden times up to pranks one |
half of which, if practiced by the |
eight-year-old of today, would set |
grandfather and grandmother crazy. |
Revive your remembrance Of what |
you were between five and ten years
of age, and with patience capable OF |
everything join with the young. Put
back the shadow Of the dial not ten
degrees, but fifty and sixty and sew
enty degrees.
Set back your clocks also by enter
ing on new and absorbing Christian |,
work. In our desire to inspire the
young we have i'll our essays haG
much to say about what has been &C
complished by the young; Of Romu-
lus, who founded Rome when he was
twenty years Of age; Of Cortes, wlt
had conquered Mexico at thirty
years; Of Pitt, who was prime min
lister Of England at twenty-fou1
years; Of Raphael, who died al
thIrty-seven years; Of Calvin, who
wrote his Institutes at twenty six; OF
Melancthon, who took learned pro
fessor's chair at twenty-one years; o.
Luther, who had conquered Germany
for the Reformation by the time he
was thirty-fve years.
And it is all very well for Us to
show how early IN life one can dc
very great things for God and the
welfare Of the world, but some Of thC
work for God has bee.
done by septuagenarians and cx.tO
genar1ans and nonagenarians. IN
deed, there Is work which none tn
such can do. They prese1-zc Tx
equlpolse Of senates, of reIis.ia..,, ,}e |
OF refOrnatoyy .ryl@-
ments. Young men for avcin.i q
men for counsel. Instead o. az C.
you beginning to fold Up yoar - /
91es, arouse anew your c1oz-,::zes |
with the experience you have %
tanned and the opportunities Of Oh
you have had during a LONG
life you ought to be able to do in one
year now more than you did in ten
years right after you had passed outI {
d your teens. Physical power less,
your spiritual power ought to be
more
Up to the last hour of their lives
what power for good old Or. Arch
bald Alexander, old Dr.. Woods cid ! !
DR.. hawes, old DR.. Minor, old Dr.. !
Mclyalne, old d.. Tying, old Dr.. 6
-andl1sh, old DR.. Chalmers! What +
nave been Bismarck to Germany, and 7
Maidstone to England, and Oliver $
Wendell Holmes to America in tae4I ;
1ne OF an advanced sage2 Let me ,
Jay to those in the afternoon Of Ifa.l
oont be putting off the harness: |
when God wants it off he will take if g
1T. Don't be frightened out of life bv 7
he grip, as many are. At the first +
neeze OF an influenza many give II, !
Ill as lost. =
NO new terror has come on tbe1 f
'arth. The microbes as the cause Of =
disease were described in the Talnud :
e7enteen hundred years ago as in. r
,lslble legions of dangerous ones. +
'on't be scared out of life by all this 3
ak about heart failure. That tro,1hlei .
las always been in the world. That | :
what q II tho L. L 1, I