The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-06-21

w heCP company HIS NdlltS w I'LL
each individual and the circumstances of
his life. Aristotle said that man is not
at his best until forty-five. Other writers
say that he is old then. The threescore
years and ten of the Psalmist had been
adopted by most people as the normal
standard. DR.. John Gardner, who has
written on 'Longevity,' remarks: Long
observation has convinced me that sixty
three is an age at which the majority of
persons may be termed Old
This last age, however, is mere infancy
compared with the ages said to have been
attained by many people. Mr.. c. Wal
ford, in his Insurance Guide, gives a list
of two hundred and twenty persons who,
he thinks, can be shown to have reached
the age of one hundred and twenty wears
and upwards. An American (Mr Joseph
Perkins, has published work in which
he records over ten thousand cases of cen
tenarianism. In his History and Antiq-
uties of Richmond' yorkshire, J Clarkson
tells the following story in reference to
the cause Howe Z. Wastell,' in which a
man called jenkins gave evidence as to
his age, when the agent of Mrs. Was
tell went to him to find out what account
he could give about the matter in dispute
he saw an old man sitting at the door, to
whom he told his business. The old man
said: 'Ah can remember nought about it,
but thee can find faather i t house, an all
do nought doot he'll tell We arl aboot it.
When he went into the house. he saw an
other old man sitting over the fire bowed
down with years to whom he put again
his question. Only with difficulty could
he make this old man understand what he
wanted. But after little time he got the
following answer: 'Ah moo nought about
it; boot maybe if yell go t yard We II meet
wi feather, who maybe can tell ye.' The
agent upon this thought that he had met
with race of antedluvians. However,
into the yard he went and, to his no small
astonishment, found a venerable old man
with a long beard, and Il broad leather
belt about him, chopping sticks. To this
man he again told his business, and re
ceived such information as in the end
recovered the royalty in dispute
One of the last services Dean Stanley
did for Westminister Abbey was to cause
the almost effaced inscription over the cele-
brated Old PARIS grave to be recut 1t is
as follows: Tho: Parr of We County of
Salop. Born in AID 1888. He lived in We
reigns of Ten Princes, viz: X. Edw 4, K
Edw. ), X. Rich. 3 X. Hen. !, K Hen. 8,
X. Edw. 6, Q, Ma, Q. Eliz., X. ia & X.
Charles. Aged 152 years. and was buried
here Novemb Is, 1885,
The old Countess of Desmond" who
is said to have died at the age of one hun
dred and forty, is mentioned by Lord Ba-
con, Archbishop Usher Sir William Tenn
Pile The first assures us that she did den
tige (renew her teeth twice or thrice, cast
ing her old teeth, and others coming in their
place
When certain Frenchwoman, eighty
years old, was running over the catalogue
of her ailments, her physician at last said
l cannot make you young again Ordi-
nary practitioners cannot do this; but there
are four famous doctors who, if they can
not make us young, can keep us for long
time from becoming old. Their names are
Temperance, Exercise, Good AIR, and
Early Hours. Many people do not believe
in these physicians, because they are cheap,
unaffected and truthful; but if they were
more generally obeyed old age would stay
away much longer, and when it came would
be far less burdensome
If men would only take as much care of
themselves as they do of watches or other
machines of which they have charge, they
would not grow old and wear out nearly
so soon. Sir Benjamin Richardson relates
a conversation which he once had with an
engineer who had charge of a large sation-
airy engine. The man surprised the emf
nent physician by telling him that this en-
CINE had been working as true as steel
ninety years. ''And do you know, he ad-
ded, lit has had eight masters | am the
eighth who has had the care of it; theo tn
ers are all either dead or worn out, and vet
it goes as if it were as young rs ever
Very strange, sir, isn't it, that an engine
should live so much longer than a man;
and it is not hard work for us either, or
exposed work, for the room is warm and
comfortable, and the place is of course
clean and light"
What did the men die from" asked
the doctor
Well three or four, am afraid, died
of drink; another, of bad temper; anoth
er, of worry; and So on. But the engine
went on all the same"
The fate of the engine says DR.. Rich
ardson, Its long life and continued in
dustry, puzzled the man. He often in his
lonely hours thought of it, and wondered
how many men would follow him before
the engine began to break down. 1t did
not puzzle me. That engine worked a
great many hours a day, truly; but it was
euuable in its work; it never ran loose; it
was true in its vocation; it was bright
new pin, clean in every point; it was serv-
ed with the best but simplest fuel food; it
had its furnace tubes clear; it was saved
from friction by having its parts oiled; and
it drank nothing but water. SO ii lived
on through nearly three generations, with
a good chance of living through three
more; it was allowed, in fact, to make the
most of its physical life. Its masters did
not make the most of their lives; they
might have been somewhat Industrious but
so clean as they made the engine; they
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