The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-03-16
LONG-LIVED AMERICANS.
1t Is In Southern California that Mos,
Centenarians Are Found.

In New England there are less than thres
lives from the landing of the PILGRIMS
Among the Pilgrim records at Plymouth ia
letter from Pelegrine White who wa,
born on the Maytlower when it Law in
l'rovlncetown-th first white child hor,
in New England. Following that is a LEFT.
ter from an estimable Pilgrim deacon who
lived to be LOG years old, and who testities
that he knew Peregrine White. Following
that is letter from lady still living AZ
the age OF nlnety-two who saws that sba
remembers the aged deacon of lo6 years
Thus, less than three lives takes us hack 70
the Landing and to the Rock, which ia
almost as mysterious as the aerolite or
black stone, in the kaaba at Mecca, sincs
1t is like no other piece of granite on the
massachusetts coast. 1t may be mortifv.
ing to see that we have no greater antio-
ulty than this, but the efforts Of threa
persons to cover it is encouraging.
But 1t is in other regions of the continent
That we must at present look for the extra.
ordinary capacity of the New World for
producing old people. Well authenticated
are cases OF mission Indians in Southern
California who reached the ages 100 40
and lao. In that equable region all tina
great functions of nature 90 on with resu.
larity, so as to induce long running Of
the machine. But besides this, these old
men were probably free from care, from
religious doubts and skepticism and politi.
cal worry and ambition, and it is testified
that they were simple in their habits, tenn.
perate, and even abstemous, drinking only
water, and eating little but corn, which
they fitted for digestion by the vigorous
action OF their own grinders.
Lieutenant Gibbons found in a villaga
in Peru one hundred persons over the are
OF 100 years and either he or another cred.
ihle explorer there reports another man
there aged one hundred and forty. He
was very temperate man, ate his food
cold, and never ate meat EXCEPT in the
middle OF the day. In the highlands Of
South America the habit of old age is a
long established one.
The Ecuador centernarians are common
The census of 1864 found in the TOWN ~
Pilagun, 200 feet above sea level about
2,ooo inhabitants, among whom were one
hundred over seventy years of age, thirty
about eighty, eleven over ninety, five over
one hundred, and one who was one hundred
and fifteen Not many years ago there died
in Ambato woman named n. Cucalou who
was one hundred and fourteen, and on,
Don Jose Soto, aged one hundred and
twenty. In the year 1910, in the town Of
Banos, died old Morales, vigorous car.
penter to the end of his life, who was well
on in years, and the steward of the Jesuit,
when they were expelled from their prom
erty in 1867.
In 1888 a witness ina judicial trial wa,
proved to be one hundred and forty wear.
old, having been born on the nipbt of tbs
great earthquake which destroyed the old
town OF Ambato in 1898 How much
longer this man lived, who was graded Inv
an earthquake, is not yet reported
Mexico, notwithstanding it's revolutions
is equally favorable to longevity. In tina
state OF Vera Cruz there died a man in
lS93 who was one hundred and thirty
seven years old. That he was carried off
prematurely we have reason to supposs
for at Teluca, where the register is officially
and earthly kept, there died only few
years agoa man aged one hundred and
ninety two.