The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-14

psised % Extreme Old Age.
Tho supreme court Of Georgia recentIy
decided that man who hns reached bis
sixty sixth year II "axed." Tho decision
was made under CLAUSE of the constitu-
tion OF Georgia exempting the property Of
tagged and inflrm persons from levy and
sale, the law being construed literally In
order TO promote It's object, the court hold
Ing that q man % years old is entitled to
tts protection.
This need not raise unnecessary alarm
In tho breasts Of "thosc who arc old, or
who arc growing old" Notwithstanding
the opinion, it still remains trus that q
man 10 mo older than hc feels" even
though the cogging finger Of time does
point forward on tho dial plate. Old at
66i Look at Gladstone at 81, and Bis
marck ak 82i DO they show any diminu-
tion Of intellectual vigor or activity Le-
gouve, the French scadepician, 10 In his
ninetieth year, Lao XIII In his eighty
eighth, Senator Morrill, In his eighty
eighth, Justice Field In his eighty second,
ex-senator Palmer In his eightisth, while
Queen Victoria IL about to celebrate, In
her seventy ninth year, tho longest Eng
lish reign in history. Tbese are but a few
Of the great numbers Of men and women
In every land today who are exercising
q potent influence on the world, and In
every walk Of life and of human endeavor
and aspiration are a. active and as useful
a. ever. hR
Let no man think aohievsment n not
for him simply because tho family record
sums up his years 10 . threatening total.
"Tho sixties" said Red JsCket 10 his
young braves, "hAve all the twenties and
forties In them"
Cato learned Greek at eighty, Bophocles
Wrote his grand "Rdipus' and 6imonides
Bore OF the prize Of vrse from his compeers
When each had numbered more than fourscore
years.
And Theophrastus at fourscore and ten
Had bat begun hie "Chasacters Of Mem"
Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales
At sixty wrote the "CRnterbury TILES"
Goethe at Weimar. toiling TO the last,
Complsted "Faust' when eighty years were
past.
History resouDd4 with the performances
Of men whose years numbered threescore
or more-"my Cid with the 6eecy beard, {"
driving the Moors from Spain, Dandolo,
doge of Venice at 90 and storming Con-
stantinople at %, and In our own time
Won Moltke at 70 conducting . campaign
unparalleled for brilliancy and result in
the history Of war. There are fsats of
arms; would you search other deldsf In
science there are Darwin and Spencer and
PasteuR and Lister, and II you 60 back
. little Sir Isaao Newton, who could name
q discovery for every one Of his 86 years.
1t was Voltaire who said that II all the
great men Of all the ages could be assem-
bled In congress Sir Isaac Newton would
be chosen to preside by unanimous con-
sent.
In literature and art the names Of those
who In advanced years won imperishable
renown are legion. Every body can recall
their names. Milton wrote his great epic
when nearly 90. Miohael Angelo at 80
won the triple crown for excellence In
painting, sculpture and architecture.
Browning at "a wrote his most character
istio poem, and .fennyson at 81 gave to
the world the most exquisite of his lyrics.
We name but few, for the roll Is long
The Georgia Judgment Is all right
enough for the case before the court, but
let no man of SO think that it applies to
him. Let him. after the cheerful manner
Of our beloved "autocrat," look old Father
Time squarely In the eye and tell him he
does not know what he is talking about
II he calls him old!-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.