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Wen-KnOWn peODIe.
alIing 0ptimistiCaIIy.

aT)HN u. ROCKEFELLER, an incur
J able optimst. viii take in good part
the Supreme Courts decision against
Standard OIL said Cleveland neighbor
Of the great millionaire.
Mr.. Rockefeller he resumed. is very
proud OF his optimism. / have often
heard him, indeed. lken himself in opti-
mism 70 the man who fell from the tower
of a skyscraper
This man was an optimist whom moth
ing could dishearten. lie worked In a
skyscraper's twenty-eighth story, and one
afternoon while admiring the glorious
view he lost his balance and fell from the
window.
Loud cries OF horror from the street
below at once filled the windows of every
floor of the skyscraper with agoniZed
spectators. To these horror struck peo-
pie the optimist, as he dropped swiftly
past story after story, shouted in CHEEKY
tones:
An right so far
And by jove. his optimism was justi-
fed concluded the Cleveland man: for
he alighted. quite unnjured, on noun
tain OF excelsior piled in the court
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six hours q night, of never thinking
in bed and Of wearing all of his clothes
sizes too large.
DR.. Wiley. an enthusiastic contesta mt
in the same race. tells me that he be-
longs to a society whose bylaws i'm
pose a fine on any member failing to
reach the hundred-year goal-by which
society he meant the hundred Year
Some of this noted pure food apostles
long-life rules are:
Most OF us may live on a high or
low plane Of activity at Will: we may
do much or little: we may yield early
to fatigue: or we may successfully re-
sist II for time with impunity."
TT is alphabetically advantageou to
consume less protein than most Of the
civilized races consume.
AS believe that most OF us eat too
much. so believe that most of us work
too briefly ana rest too long.
Effective sleep should be dreamless.
and IL Il is of the right sort 1t need not
occupy one-th!rd of all our life. For
most persons eight hours OF actual sleep
would mean nine hours in bed-and only
a sluggard would demand that.
I'VE will yet see 'professorships of
amusement in our colleges and universi-
ties. 1t is quite as important to know
how TO amuse ones self as to have the
leisure and opportunity 10 do So"
Uncle joe Cannon. the youngest
stripping of seventy-five known to public
life, gives these as his longevity rules:
Honor thy father and thy mother.
Take no thought Of the morrow and
don't worry.
work. work. work. with hands. feet.
legs and brain.
LEARN 10 sing. no matter how miser-
ably.
Sing and laugh. and keep on a-keep-
in on"
avoid all exercise"
Odd as 1t may seem. this is the para
mount rule by which j Pierpont Nor
gan hopes to prolong his life far be-
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Count Bertrand. the aged Partisan. recent
Is deceased. who attributed his long
life TO his habit of renaining in Lei.
day and night, for three months IN every
year. seeing no one during this snace
but a servant who brought him his nca :
and who was forbidden to speak a word
to him during this period of rest Ard
one Of his contemporaries was the lai
Lord Dudley, VINO sought To presefa f.s
youth by always sleeping between aSk
satin sheets.
But TO discover extreme faddists % thus
category we need search neither the past
nor the lands over the sea. In kewanee,
H.. there is a lady who believes She can
prolong her life by fondling snakes, Tor
which she has had strange attraction
since childhood. And there WAS recently
put on a train at Fitchburg, Moss, aud
shipped to Salisbury. y. g. an up
holstered. glass-lidded cotfinlike box con-
tanning a wealthy woman oNefpoWered
with the fear that ventilation would XIII
her.
Copyright. 1911. by John Elsreth Waik!nsJ
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The longevity rules of John d. Rookie
Teller. as lately announced by his physi-
clan. are:
.'First-Avoid all worry
''Second-Take plenty of exercise in the
open air.
.Thrd-Never overload your stomach,
but always leave tie table hungry.
He will live to he lGl ny those simple
rules, : said the oil magnate's physician.
And outdoor exercise is part of the
gospel of that remarkable legal genius,
John Marshall Harlan, justice of the
United States Supreme Court. who upon
the eve of his recent seventy eighth birth
day was preparing his dissenting cpin-
ions on the Standard Oil and tobacco
trust cases-opirio ions which had the entire
commercial world ny the ears. 1t is su-
per1uous 10 add that the favorite out
door sport Of The venerable justice is the
ancient and royal game of golf.
Few eeniuses who have entered this
century run share Edison's hope of speed
ing far past the hundreth milestone. But
there is one well known among US, who
ont Edisons Edison in this ambition. and
who predicts that he may live two cen
turtles This is our old friend. the genial
mandarin, Writing tang, former Chinese
minister to Washington. who, upon the
eve of his recall to Picking, uttered these
long life precepts:
Get rid of the notion OF old age: elm
mate it from your vocabulary: cease to
worry and fear.
Think health and happiness,
Think Young things. Keep cheerful.
Control your temper. Do not allow mall
ice or envy to enter Your mind, for they
poison the body. Accept the principle Of
universal love. for that is the highest
moral doctrine
That Ponce de Icons spring Of perpet-
ual youth is tinctured with the elixir of
constant occupation in congenial pursuits
has been discovered by most of these
geniuses as well as by many others
ahead of them in this jealous race
against old age. And to this category
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No Fear.

nOBERT W. CLEANERS has, as a now
N elist a fertility that is only exceeded
by his brillance
At the Century Club in New York the
other day one of those bores who are
the bane of all clubs drew his chair I'D
10 Mr. Chambers and said genlally:
chambers, you are writing at the rate
OF two and sometimes three novels every
wear, TO say nothing of your annual sheaf
of short stories. Aren't you afraid that
a time will come when you will have
written yourself out?''
MY dear sir" Mr. Chambers replied,
II have no such fear. Just look at your
own case. You have been talking for
more than sixty years and yet you haven't
talked yourself out, have your"
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now make use of this line for reaching
the rock hewn city of Petra, on the edge
Of the great Arabian desert 1t means a
saving Of at least twelve DAYS in the
journey from Jerusalem.
This is. of course. by no means the only
railroad in Palestine. The first to be
opened was that which connects the sea
port Of Jaffa with Jerusalem. built hy the
French, and which Will finally revert to
Turkey. The locomotives used TO-DAY
were constructed by the French for work
al Panama. The distance between Jaffa
and Jerusalem b. ran is fifty-tive miles.
and the journey occupies three hours
and forty minutes Indeed Ii often takes
longer not .nfrequently travellers being avp
or six hours upon the road. The journey
is particularly interesting one. IS the
the passes through til. scenes If mans
ola Testament events. such as the birth
place of Samson MiZpeh where the
children Of Israel from Dan 10 Reershe-
la. were called together several times.
and where Samuel was anointed KING,
the spot where the ARK rested and many
other sacred and historic places.
Ter many years this interesting line
could claim the distinction OF being the
only railroad III the Holy Land Now
three others, comprising those from
Beirut to Damascus. from Haifa round
to Sea Of Galilee to Damascus, and the
ladjez enterprise already referred 10.
'@irut on the Mediterranean, is by rail
..retv-one miles from damascus. The
,urne,- takes nine and one-balf hours
i.rn railroad is 4 narrow. gauge and for
7,.,binr the rnounta nous norton taboui
ertv miles,. a coE-p.l;.el and rack sys-
NJ Is em;,iored CrcsSins- a. il does thu
,.ahanoa ia lire raises through son.
aIlv hesls iful seenc75..
! later railroad IS thaf which runs fro:
tifn. on the coast. - Damascus. roun
: sea 81 5faH'ee. skirfing along tn
.oo- OF Mount Ger4as'. sas.cel % tha
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the colony have adopted flowing robes
and uncut hair" And there is a nature
cure colony lately organized by New
York state lady, who proposes to institute
as part Of the longevity treatment sun
baths. earth baths. a vegetarian diet
limited to two meals day, a choice of
colors for each patient. depending on
Temperament" and a regimen including
80 am. for rising, ; pm. for retiring.
Her colonists are to lie, nude. In trenches.
and have earth shoveled on top of them
until only their heads are exposed
Some months ago Or. John Fair. head
of Bostons New Life" cut, threw a har
poon into the demon old age and an
nounced that man may exist not only
for hundred, but a thousand years.
without pain, evil or Sickness" if he will
dress always in white, abiure meat, milk
and OIL rest a half hour before and
after meals and remain alone a half hour
daily.
Then there are individuals who. without
recourse to any cult. concoct very original
longevity fads for themselves, did the
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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER,
Who DEPENDS On EXERCISE

belongs the venerable Shelby NJ. Cuilom
who since passing his eighty first milestone
has assumed the res 'onsibilities OF chair
man both of the caucus and of the steer
ing committee of his party in the Unite.
States Senate. and who is now engaged
in writing the memoirs Of his sixty con-
tinuous years in public life
And other living patriarchs who largely
owe their longevity 10 the stimulant OF
continuous employment are Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, who gave the
literary world volume at eighty
SIX: Lord Strathcona the Cana
dian high commissioner who lately cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday in charac
teristic fashion. hard at work at his desk
laboring TO advance the interests of the
Dominion. John Bigelow, our former min
lister to France. who the other week.
when past ninety-four, returned from
Europe to put the finishing touches
on his new book dealing with the tariff
and the high cost Of living: DR.. James
c. Hepburn Of East Orange. n. j.. who
passed his ninety sixth birthday last
March. and who, since he was seventy
has published a translation Of the Scrip
lures in Japanese and a dictionary of the
Bible in the same language, and 1ssac c.
Johnson. the inventor OF Portland ce-
mentS and the master of many languages
who, since winning the century goal the
18th OF last January, has been continuing
his work Of translating the Gospel of st.
John from the Greek
Longevity fads, odd and wondrouS, are
being daily developed result of the
worlds interest In this spirited race for
the hundred year goal Prof. Ellie
Mstchnikotf Of the Pasteur Institute
offers span Of 100 years or more to
those who will drink his "zoolak, tie
curdled milk diet Of the long-lived Bull
garian peasantry. And another famous
Paris physician DR.. Doyen. promises
that his jelylike "coloids'' will prove a
preventive of disease as well as a cure
and will prolong life by fifteen to TWEEN
ty years. Then there Is DR.. Vain
wright Atkinson, who has lately been
feeding Londoners with his phosphor-
escent .'vitrogen,'' which he claims will
make new men and giants to walk about
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SuCCeSSWard.

MISS AN"TE S. PECK, tie mountain
W eer, was talking at a garden party
in Boston about her contemplated climb
in the Andes.
To what" said girlhood friend from
Providence. do you attribute, Miss Peck.
your success rs puntaineer?"
Simply 70 perseverance,. 70 as duty"
the other answered. That is the secret
of all success \ great department store
keeper put the idea, though, more neatly
than | have done. At a birthday dinner
he said:
= L attribute my success to the fact
that If a customer doesn't see what she
wants I've always made her want what
she sees
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To Live Long.

COI.. FL. 4. DU PONT Of the Delaware
~ family, was one Of the seven men,
bers of the West Point class Of ISL that
were present at the class golden ami
versary last month at the Hotel Aston.
Col du Pont, discussing at this ami
versary the interesting question OF loa-
gevity, said
The average age of the SURVIVORS Of
our class is seventy-tive Years. | am
sure that all these survivors, out OF their
vast experience. viii agree with me IN the
dictum that:
1T is not work that kills merit )
worry. The revolution is not what de-
stroys machinery. but the friction
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the land He has also promised lon
gevity to those who will take his choco-
late drops incosing colonies of benevolent
microbes. And while he has been prose-
cutting his experiments a biologist,
Prof. Qunton, has been preaching TIE
doctrine that inasmuch as all animal life
originated in the sea and that the fishes
retain more of natures original vitality
than any other creature, the injection of
water beneath his skin will renew
mans Tagging youth.
For the same purpose there was lately
opened in London an establishment where
persons afflicted with the disease of old
age can rejuvenate themselves by taking
'radium baths and by drinking 'radium
water"
Several duchesses. many harnesses
and countesses clothed in kind Of white
sack, with hare feet and flowing hair,
have been living wild fruit and vege
tables and taking sun and snow baths,
we are told in a colony lately promoted
by Herr Hoffman,. in Germany. for the
pursuit Of longevity. Men who Joined
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that the Young Turkish party came into
power on the overthrow of Abdul HanIid,
and what it has accomplished in po-
litical, educational, and particularly II
economic reforms is decidedly gratifying.
And in no department mas greater pro
gress been marked than in railroad build
ing.
The government has determined to car
ry the lines of the Hediaz railroad with
all speed across the 81 miles OF desert
between Medina and Mecca. Starting
from Damascus, this line runs almost due
south through wild and sterile country
for more than $50 miles 10 Medina, the
burial place of the Prophet Mohammed.
1t is principally used for carrying Mo-
hammedan pilgrims. Al many of It's most
important stations one can now send tele-
grams in almost any European language TO
all parts OF the world Until quite recently
they had to be written in either Turkish
or Arabic. Tourists visiting Palestine
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blocked by the Taurus mountains 10
lift the track over these mountains and
drop il down into the Gicilan plains on
the other side will be at once an eypen-
sive item and demand no small amount
OF engineering skill. The fact is, Ger
many is demanding certain guarantees
from Turkey 10 recoup her for the out
lay. They have now been granted. or
rather a compromise hos been effected, so
this portion of the control Of the railroad.
when it approaches the Persian gulf.
where British influence is affected. has
been fully discussed by the Turkish.
British and German governments, and
here again satisfactory terms have been
arranged.
Few realize what This means in the way
OF connecting the Asiatic dominiCns OF
the sultan and the kingdom of the shah
with Europe by direct railroad commune
cations. Another $50 miles and the Bag
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Holy City with the Hedjaz route This
project has been put forward by an Amer
lean syndicate, which also proposes to
run the track to the Dead sea. 1t would
be possible then to travel from Paris.
Berlin. Vienna or any Of the other enters
of Europe direct to Jerusalem by rail.
The moment he RagG:.a line passes
Kills 1t crosses and recrosSes the rivers
EuphrateS and Tigris. believe ed by many
biblical scholars to mark the site of the
Garden of Eden. Today this vast terri
tory Is nothing more than arid waste
infested by swamps. Traces of ancient
irrigation canals, however, may he de-
tected, and 1t is somewhat interesting to
learn that an English engineering firm
has obtained a contract from the Turkish
government to build a dam there, SO that
may bloom again.
One of the stations on this remarkable
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road is willing to sink capital in the en-
terprise and recoup himself on the re
suit.
That American business methods are
appreciated by the Young Turkish party Is
evidenced by the fact tnat number OF
American syndicates We're approached re-
Gently by the authorities and asked TO
submit tenders for supplying CONSTANT
nople and it's suburbs with an electric
street railway service At the same time
a concession was granted TO an American
firm for the construction and exclusive
operation OF telephones over greater
portion of the Turkish capital. while the
same remarks apply to Jerusalem Then
II was an American syndicate which re-
Gently secured q concession for the ex-
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FAMOUS Men Who Have
i Announced That They
Will See 100 Years-How
They Expect to Win the
Race-Edison's Novel Theo-
ries-J. P. Morgan to Pro-
long Life by Stunning All
Exercise = Long-Life Rules
OF Uncle Joe Cannon, ]. D.
Rockefeller. DR.. Wiley and
Many Others-New Longev-
ity Fads-Burial Alive, Sleep
ing Between Black Sheets
and Avoiding Ventilation.
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RE you entered
for the century
run against old
age?
Every week or
so some new con-
testant of distinc-
ton announces his
enrolment in this
race for the hun
dred year goal,
Edison the other
day predicted that
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versity of Pennsylvania have carried ont
some valuable excavations. Thus II is
not too much to expect that IN the near
future one will he able TO book by train
from Paris not only 10 the cities Of the
Holy Land, but 10 ancient Niutyah add
Babylon.
Uopyrighr. 1911. in tho l'rir"d States ~ Curtis
Brown. All British rights reserved
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posal involved mining rights. But the
Turkish authorities pointed out that the
Americans asked for no kilometer guar
antee and were entitled to them. The
trouble with the German railroad build
er In Turkey has been his demand for so
much per mile guarantee by the govern
ment The American, on the other hahh.
recognizing that there is nothing better
for developing country than a ran
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line IS Mosul, town which has sprung up
upon the ruins of ancient Ninevah. An
enterprising German has already planned
the erection of a modern hotel here for
tourists. After leaving Bagdad the line
will run southwark across the Euphrates
to Niedjef only a few miles from an
cient Babylon. where the members of
the Babylonian expedition of the Uni
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ploitation of the minerals in the Dead
sea basin S:,J0.0o0 it is said, being paid
for these rights 1t is well known that
this region is particularly rich in bitumen
sulphur, copper. salt, coal and oil.
The fact Is Turkey and her dependencies
are on the threshold Of great commercial
Developments and Americans have been
wise in securing valuable and important
concessions, II was only two years ago
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and they have met with the approval of
the Turkish government. Then, of course,
there is the famous Bagdad enterprise.
the concession to construct which was
given to the German emperor some
eleven years ago by the deposed sultan.
This line starts from Maidar Pashar. a
fiourishing Asatic suburb of CONSTANT
nople just across the strait. So far Ii
has reached Bulgaria, where it has been
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he would live to be $50 by virtue OF
his habits of eating only half a handful
of solids at each meal and keeping his
weight always at the normal. OF work
ing sixteen hours a day and sleeping
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dad line will reach Kills. already joined
up with the HedJaz enterprise. If the
Bosphorus has by that time been span
ned by a bridge. which has already been
suggested by the authorities in Constan-
tinople. the Turkish capital will be in
railroad communication with Damascus.
Medina, and also with the rest Of Europe
1t is also proposed 10 run a branch line
from Jerusalem TO Zizar. thus joining the
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yond his seventy-third milo stone, which
he passed this spring. When about fifty
the noted financier suffered breakdown,
due to overwork, and sought to repair
his one-time powerful physique by arti-
fetal exercise with gymnasium apparatus.
But a noted specialist after a thorough
examination prescribed follows:
stop exercise in every form. Never
even walk when you can take a cab.
You have formed the habit OF living
without exercise, swing Your energy to
YOUR brain 1t iS too late to change the
habit of a lifetime.
And since Morgan. twenty Years ago,
BEGAN to follow this advice. which he
has continued TO respect relgiOusly, his
brain has effected the achievements which
will make him famous as a tinancier and
connoisseur.
Quite the opposite treatment was pre-
scribed for Chauncey Depew when. at
the age Of seventy, he had a nervous
collapse. His physician packed him off
bag ard baggage to the establishment of
an ex-pugiist who gave his muscles lit
tie rest from the rising till the setting of
the sun and who sent him home a well
man. But Depew had always been an
active man physically. and even the
other day l saw him striding along the
street as straight as soldier and with
the elastic swing of an athlete.
My breakfast for years has been one
boiled egg he said on his serenty-sev-
enth birthday anniversary, last April,
and he added:
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THE true secret of happiness at any
age is TO be part of each generation to
be a participant in its work and In its
play, to appreciate its fun and TO laugh
at it's follies and to be an elder brother
in your church associations. in YOUR po-
litical organiZa tons, in your club life, IN
your fraternity, so alert and valuable IN
your activities that YOU are Welcomed
by the youngest. Their appreciation and
applause is the most healthfui of tonics
and one of the best aids to vigorous Ion
geyity."
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~ the near lUtuIS
Americans visiting
Europe will be able
10 journey from
any OF It's princi-
pa centers. such
as Paris. Berlin
or Vienna. to Je-
rusalem and TO the
principal cities and
ruins of Arabia
and Per ia by
means OF the iron
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road Jerusalem, the most sacred city
IL the world. as we'll as the holy city Of
Mecca viii shortly be in direct railroad
communication with Europe Then, when
the Bagdad project has progressed an
orher STAGE or two. railroad Journeys 10
tie fu@hraies valley, the alleged site
OF the Garden n Eden and where stood
ancient Nineveh. will be included in the
tourists eastern itinerary.
The linking w OF these ancient bib
liral places with Europe will be accom-
plished by American dollars and Ameri
can brains Indeed, what the Americans
are doing in Turkey and also in the
Asiatic dorn!nions OF the sultan in the
vay or railroad and transportation IA
,titl,s is almost Incredible. When the
Turkish parliament met III November
.,st there were submitted to II plans
pr me construction of no fewer than
900 miles OF railroad with mineral and
oil rights in Asiatic Turkey Inc Fari,
nus schemes were Professionally accepted
ana have been referred to parliamen-
tary committee for final adjustment
All this Is the work OF powerful
American syndicate. at the head OF winch
IN Dr. Chester. At first Germany entered
a protest, on the ground that the pro-