Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-13

OOd1 SoLle udN to pe I'ttltll Nllu us we will soon learn to bepatieut with others" :"
 Yes, that's true. Did you ever think what trial Methuselah must have been to his family?'
 Yes. but Mcthuselah retained all of his faculties up to his eight hundredth year. He could read fine print. you re member. up to 7S6 years of age. and then he began to imagine that smoking was hurting his eyesight. so he quit for 80 years, but it did not help any and he went back to it. they say-only worse, to make up for lost time
 But the last so or 90 years of Methu- selah's life he got so that he used to re peat himself a good deal. Even Enoch was tried with him, and when one of Methuselah's grandchildren - some of them 200 years old-used to wake up with the croup in the night. the old man. forgetting that he used to have it when he was their age, would humble to him self and gnash his teeth for hours. after which he would put them back in the bureau and go to sleep again.
 But what started me off on the sub ject of old people was my wifc's grand father. He lives with us. He is 90 years old today, and we are going to give him a birthday cake. 1 have just bought eight dozen wax candles to put on it.
 My grandfather lives with us also He is S7 years old in November. Both of the old gentlemen live with us, hay ing no other relatives they can get along with My grandfather came to live with me when my wife and went keep ing house, and two years after that my wife's grandmother died and the old man came to our house.
 Ut has been rather ticklish business to manage the two. for my grandfather has an ungovernable temper, and for a moment or two sometimes you'd think he might assassinate some one. but once or twice a year is as often as he has an outbreak like that.
 My grandfather's name is Peradven, ture Primer, an old Bible name selected from the begat column of the good book l reckon. My wife's grandfather's name is Mortimer Dowd. They call each other Peradventure and Mortimer when they are calm, but if anything goes wrong they call each other Primer and Dowd.
 ''l was afraid that my grandfather might get one of his little spells of temper and drive my wifes grandfather into the earth with a club, for Dowd is the gentlest man you ever saw. So one day told Mortimer that Peradventure was the kind of a man that had to be sat down on the moment he showed any signs of temper, and if he had the nerve to shut him up once for all he would have no trouble, but was afraid he die not have the necessary courage. How ever, told him that he was so mucl older than Peradventure he must take g firm hand with him at the start.
 "I used to have them do the chores tc keep them out of mischief Mortimer had to milk and feed the chickens. and Peradventure cut the kindling and car | ried in the wood.
 "One day they had been down tow1 together, and Mortimer had bought [ songbook with the money l gave him It had the words of an old song set tc the tune of 'Wellington's Farewell Per | adventure had bought horehound candy with his money and had hidden a par of it in the woodshed, where l found il and took it away because l was afraiC he would be sick eating candy along I with the root beer he had been drinking | He discovered that it was gone a about dusk while he and Mortimer wer, in the woodshed together. Mortimer i as lovely character as ever lived. He ha. fine. soft, silky white hair and skin hk, an undressed kid. When the two ar, asleep at night together and go in at l o'clock to see if they are covered up al right, cant help comparing them, fo, Peradventure has eyebrows, you know that he can toss back like mane whel he wants to. and he has big red beal on him like penguin, and as you ap proach him at night you can hear i purr. He also sleeps on his back, ana his mouth comes unclasped at times.
 "But Mortimer has a soft voice and noiseless slumber that endears him t every one. He says very little, and i he can't hear very well he lets it go while Peradventure yells out 'Whichi