Milford chronicle., 1905-03-10
Hard Work nnd Lonr Life.

As rule, the greatest thinkers and
the hardest mental workers in the
world have been among the longest
lived men. Study the long list Of men
old in years. but young in heart branch
ing out into new work when mt seventy
years or beyond Marden, in his book
Pushing to the Front" has a marvel
GUS collection of illustrations in refer
| ence to this fact. Dandolo the doge of
! Venice, was a warrior who led his sol
diers in battle at ninety-four and was
offered a crown at ninety-siX. Titan
at ninety-nine was struck down with
the cholera in Venice when he was Mt
work on one of his canvases. Pope
Leo XIII. at ninety-three was the most
powerful personality in all Europe
both on account of his pontifcal throne
and his own powerful mental equip
ment When an American bishop said
to him, "Your holiness, we hope God
may let you live to become a centcna-
rian," the pope answered: My friend. !
do not try TO limit the power Of God. |
l expect to be as hard at work after l |
am a hundred years old as I am now"
DR.. Samuel Johnson wrote his greatest |
book when nearly eighty. James Watt |
learned German when he was eighty
five. Isaac Newton and Benjamin .
Franklin were hard at work on scien-
tifc subjects when over eighty. Lord
PalmerstOn and William Z. Gladstone
were both prime ministers Of England
at fourscore years. Robert Hall"
says Marden, learned italian when
past sixty. Noah Webster mastered
seventeen languages after he was fifty.
And some of the best works of Long
fellow. Whittier and Tennyson were
written after they were seventy"
Aged friend the reason you are
old and whitening up is be
cause you have stopped branching out
You have taken in sail and are drift
ing, simply drifting, toward the rocks
of death, and drifting fast Take a
new lease of life by taking a new inter I
est in things. Study. study. study. /
Work. work, work. Go and hear every /
fne singer and every good speaker and /
read every new book that you can. i
The most foolish law the United States i
ever made was when it es- :
old soldiers homes, where I
he Old veterans of the civil war could G
20 ana live and do nothing. If an old r
soldier is Physically helpless, then, OF q
,Ou 50, he should be cared for. But a h
well soldier in Danville H., or Santa L
AO.ica Cal, or Milwaukee, Wis. or n
he & Id Soldiers home in Washington t
hoHi be encouraged to work if he is v
Iblc to. Stagnation means premature Il
leah, mental and physical as well as v
piritual 1T is better to wear out p
han to rust out" is a poor maxim. O
We nave no right to do either But |
would tell those who are coming on t.
Owarl old age there is more danger s.
or most of us Of rusting out than of II
out. I
Don't Talk of Troubles. Il
How should we renew the strength W
young manhood? By never talking ty
bout our ailments or m.sfOrtunes if t.
re can avoid it. If the rheumatism al
ill pull at our nerves and swell our al
1ints. then as far as possible don't &C
lention it. If the holidays bring up al
nd memories, then If we must cry q
t us go to our rooms and have a good e.
y alone, but not before others. II se
e were once wealthy and some old ty
lends Of better days viii now have be
othing to do with us, then do not keep dS
those who are still faithful III
us with our never ending tales Of Of
Oe. The most common sense pre- be
ription l ever saw written by ply he
clan was not to be taken IN small 81
lis hst in knockdown doses. The "a
was a sign placed in the uT
tunda OF a large sani.arium in the Of
ntral part Of New YORK state. It ev
as in a most conspicuous position, wi
here all the patients could see it. 1t