The Newtown bee., 1900-04-20

short life and & merry one. I want tl live long life and jolly cne-in my own way. Some men like their clubs and society. That's all right. I don't belong to club and they couldn't hire me to wear 8 swallow-tailed coat. IA lot of men have a fine time with midnight baRqueting and speech-making Let them go. I've got room up here on the hill, two hundred feet above Chi csgo, with the windows open at the bot. tom, and it's as good as picnic to me to go to bed there at 8 o'clock every night. The trouble with most persons is that they're eating themselves to death.
 ''I've got lot of money that I earned in this western wilderness years ago, and don't want to die until have giv. en it back to the west. There ara lot of places out there where the young fel. lows need colleges and schoola, and I'm fixing them up as fast as I can. This giving away of money is great fun, it's exhilarsting. Besides, .it's worth all the big celebrations on earth to wake up from a nap feeling spry ss kitten. That's why wrote the Dewey crowd and told them that if were younger I would go in for a jolly day and cheer for the admiral with the rest.
 1 The venerable benefactor who has given away his millions to colleges and ia beginning to give out the principal, l., chuckled as he thought of the nap he had been wakened from by an Iowa college president who wanted to talk over plans for the use of big donation. "The doc tors tell us not to sleep after 8 hearty meal, but I sleep just the same, and I'll outlive the doctors that are giving the advice.
 "You see," he continued, "this nap business comes natural to me, for it's only going back to an old habit I had years ago. For twelve years I was 8 doctor in Massachusetts. The people didn't have time to get sick during the day, and they kept the doctors running all night. That's how I came to nap during the day. Now Pm simply going back to the old scheme"
 When Dr Pearsons was asked how a man could live to be hundred years old, he said: O'Clock work, clock work, all the year round" Then he wanted 10 know what good it would do for him to explain, and then added: "Wen if it'll do any good, if it will sort of point a moral, I'll tell you. And SO he chatted on, laughing to himself when he talked of the chickens out in the yard that laid eggs for his breakfast, stirring himself when he said he did not know what an ache or pain was, and had thrown meni- cine out of doors years ago.
 He says for the man who wants to live to ripe old age to keep cool, don't over load the stomach, breathe pure air and lots of it, eat vegetable diet, don't eat late suppers, go to bed early, don't fret, don't go where you'll get excited, and don't forget to take nap after din ner.
 "When came out to Hinsdale to live, fourteen years ago." he said, "my friends told me Wouldn't live five years. See these trees out there, I've got two hun. dred Norway pines around this house on the hill, and Pm two hundred feet above Chicago. Pure air. The pines help make it so. sleep in room up stairs that,h seven windows. There areiseven open firepiaces in this house. I keep the windows. open-and at the bottom, too. Then when eight o'clock comes I get under pile of comforts and sleep like 8