The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
GREAT MEN.
Bismarck and Mature Frederick the Great and Agriculture-Moses
 and the Care of the Body.

and the Care of the Body. Scores of men who have achieved
 worldwide fame have been among | those who, cared the least for display or | luxury in any form. Though some of l them have been able to indulge in, ex- travagances they have steadily avoided l it. says The Chicago Chronicle.
 Benjamin Franklin, who is famed for | his discovery that lightning is electricity
 and who introduced the American colo
 nial postal system, and who furthermore. ! as will be remembered, served America l at the court of France as Minister Plen- l ipotentiary, was one of the leaders of
 early modern times in the study of na-
 ture and natures laws, and not the least in domestic science. His first maxim | was: "Eat not to dullness; drink not to
 elevation" Even in his youth his mind
 was filled with schemes of self-regula- ton and guidance and he set before him | the task of acquiring the habitude of certain cardinal virtues based upon sim l pie living and habits of thought His | constant effort was to better the condi-
 tion of mankind and his methods were | intensely practical.
 Since the early times simplicity of preaching. teaching and eating have been
 the great factor in the worlds advance ment. The great mass of mankind do not understand, nor care for, abstruse reasoning.
 The record of Abraham Lincoln Is trac-
 ed back to that time when he was seen sitting on @ rail fence in one of Amer
 ica's small Western villages, with law l book in one hand and a piece of maize
 bread in the other. Abraham Lincoln
 was a man of simple habits. and his greatness was to no small extent de- pendent upon that early simplicity and goodness which gave strength to con-
 science, mind and body.
 Frederick the Great fostered above all agriculture and the cultivation oG fruits and vegetables. His endeavor to benefit
 his people was based upon the natural laws pertaining to their health and sim pie happiness. He recognized the fact,
 ever since clear to the minds of the lead CTS of the Germans, that the body is the
 basis, and must be simple and complete ly nourished in order to perfect the sol-' dier, statesman orr the peasant.
 Bismarck's great work had for its basis the recognition Of the simple laws of na- ture. He followed them, and as a result there came about a new manhood and new womanhood, first fin Prussia land later in the Empire.- Bismarck's natural and acquired astuteness taught him, as similar perception and reasoning had taught Frederick the Great, that politi= cal economy, rural economy and domes- tic economy are, as sciences, closely in- terlinked and interdependent in their re-. lations to the State. Q.
 While in France as United States Min ister, Thomas Jefferson wrote respecting the education of a daughter who was with him in Paris: .'Of domestic econ-' omy she can learn nothing here, yet she must learn 1t somewhere, as it is of more solid value than anything else.' To his friend, Peter Carr, he said: "A strong body makes a strong mind" Jefferson practiced his preaching by subsisting mainly upon simple natural foods and he Iabored zealously all through his btssy life for the upbuilding of an American system of education which should teach. men how to live in accordance with the laws of nature. He died at the age of S4 and he had not lost tooth nor was one of them defective.
 It will be recollected that the laws of Moses are replete with instructions re- gardinS the care of the body in sanita- ton and in diet, as well as in fasting and
 religious duties. It is due to these laws
 that the health of the Jews when in reas- enable condition, is so universally su- perior to that of the average of other DeoDlaa