The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-27
WILL Mill CITY
PEOPLE Be 'STUNG'?
MAN WHO ALLEGES HE is 100
YEARS OLD AND HAS GUST
BEEN ROBBED OF EVERY CENT
ON TRAIN" WORKED THE SAME
GAME AT DEVILS LAKE.

1t looks as If a a number of Min
neapoIis people are about to be
"stung." "Old man" Morrison is there
and he got his picture in the paper.
And he got a fine writeup In with 1t.
1t will be remembered that The Fo-
rum printed a story a short time ago
about the people of Devils Lake being
caught with a swindling game by an
aged man named Morrison. This man
arrived in Devils Lake and gave out
a pitiful story about being robbed and
stranded without a cent. He claimed
to be 100 years old and told of a son
living In Montana who would take
care of him If he could get enough
money to get to him." The good peo-
pie of Devils Lake raised a big sum
of money and gave 1T to the aged
man who departed OF his way r~eioic-
ing. Later it was learned that he
was working the same game in other
cities and was evidently an old hand
at the swindling game.
A Thrilling Story.
The Minneapolis Journal Of last
night carried a big story on the front
page, giving a picture of Peter $.
Morrison" and the following thrilling
tale of woe:
IOUDGu DI the Iidtn OH WHICH lC
was j~ourneying from his boyhood home
in Dundee. N. Y, back to his present
abode in Big Horn Basin, WYo., Peter
S. Morrison, who will be 100 years
old in six months, stranded in Min
neapolis without a cent, today at the
Salvation Army Industrial home,p a
tiently awaited funds from home while
he gave voice to bits of philosophy
picked up in nearly a century of ex-
tSfnnaa on1 told hnry nfhnr1 WIGHT HNyn
to reach the century mark by follow
ing these simple rules.
How to Live to BE 100.
Among the rules for longevity which
he recommended were these:
Avoid excuses in all things.
Eat O. moderate amount of meat.
Masticate all food well.
Take daily exercise in the open
air,
Retire at 9 p. m. and rise at 5
a. m.
Leave off eating and drinking
while the food and drink taste
good.
81 went east last spring." said Mr.
! Morrison, ito get another look at my
old home in Dundee, Yates county, N
Y, and am on my way back to Wyo'
ming. / fell asleep in the chair cal
and awoke to find my vest open ant
my purse containing $S7 zone. I hat
a little money in another pocket and
a ticket to Milwaukee, so ] kept or
my way and tried to make the money
last as long as 1 could. / fell in will
a travelling man who brought mi
through to Minneapolis. When I go
here the Salvation army took me IL
until I can get money from my nephew
in Big Horn Basin to continue m!
journey home"
Centenarian's Philosophy.
Mr.. Morrison said that a agt
he used to think that when a mar
lived 100 years his views of life nat,
urally changed, but that now, wheI
he was nearing the century mark him,
self, he found he entertained the sam
opinions on most subjects that h
did half a century or more earlier
Here are some of the things he saiC
of himself:
az will be 100 years old March
II, 1918, but l feel like a kid yet.
II always tried to remember
that this head of mine was put on
my shoulders to control my ac-
tions and prevent me from abus-
ing myself.
I think everything in the world
was put here for mans use, but
not for his misuse and that, l
DG1ICNCI Is TIE S0CISI VI iOLB lie,
Il used liquor from my boy
hood, but I have never been drunk
in my life.
eff 1 live twenty-four hours
without learning something l con-
slider the time lost.
Il have tried to live so that
when l die l can feel that the
world is a little better for my hav-
ing lived.
at uyop+ fo live n @ lonr :. =
for myself, but after hat period
passes the good Lord will please
m best by calling me home"
Mr.. Morrison said he believed h,
owes his long life to early retiriny
and early rising as much as to any
thing else, and believed DR.. Woods
Hutchinson was mistaken in his
assertion that late hours were con-
ducive of good health and longevity.
lam a sailor by BIRTH" he said. "a
least, I was born on the Atlantic
twenty days out from Scotland, MarcI
IL, 1913, and was 2 months old be
fore the boat reached New York. The,
didn't cross the ocean then as uuickl,
as they do now.
But the steamship is only one o
a thousand inventions that have help
ed to revoIutionize the world since
was a boy. The telegraph and tele
! p1OAASS II SACSLA light anu "IT6l6S
biography were not dreamed of Their
But great as the change has been,
do no think the age Of inventions j
past. l believe thai wireless telegra
ply will yet be superseded by menta
biography. / believe firmly that tn
time is coming when men can com
municate with n another at a dis
tance by thought transference.
"Of the twenty-six presidents of tn
United States / have lived under al
but three. I was a voter when An
drew Jackson, the seventh president
was in office"
MI. Morrison said he served unde
Zachary Taylor in the Mexican wa
and served in the Twenty-secon
Michigan infantry from 1861 to 1856.
Tobacco Chewer at IA.
Il was never sick but twice in m
life," he went on, and on each occa
sion | had a contagious disease, tn
smallpox and the typhoid fever. TIL
secret of longevity. I think, consist
in the temperate use of things.
began chewing tobacco when / wa
Ia, and have always kept it up.
started smoking when / was SIS an
have smoked three times a day afte
meals since. / drink a cup OF coffe
at each meal