Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-28

p%ortant) -Chauncey NJ. Depew be.
came 80 years Of age. The club
| chronicler will record that he was in
| all respect in as good condition as on
the first of these happy events near,
ly a quarter of a century ago. Their
is only one minor note in our JOY, and
that is the absence of so many who
we're in that original charming com.
pany. But their places have been
taken by their sons, and to me the
first of these remarkable gatherings
is so recreated that | seem to be
greeted and welcomed by the same
good fellows and cordial friends.
Eighty sens to be universally re
garded as a sort of almost impOssi'
BILE climacteric. In all countries and
among all peoples it is an event, n
as every body is hoping to reach the
same age, the days of the man OF st
are shortened ny everybody anXi-
ous!y asking. How did yon do it?
Give us the continuation
Distinction of Age.
The Psalmist gave dis tiactiOn to
this age b. his declaration in the
ninetieth psalm, The days of our
age are Vhree scor" and ten and
though men be so strong thai they
come TO four score years, yet 1t Is
their strength then but labor and
sorrow; so soon passeth IL away and
we are gone" But times were far
Il; Sfnrcr Vphnr tho uco1yniCt uyVnfo
The sanitation of today, the meth
DDS of preserving health, the Vol
derful discoveries in medicine and
surgery, the elimination OF perils to
life and eugenics were then unknown.
1t is a tribute to their outdoor life
that any OF them lived to seventy
No one, even with all the knowledge
and skill in our day, could hope &c
reach eighty if he enjoyed all the
pleasures OF iDavir, nor would W.
even at seventy be improved by the
remedy King David's physicians de-
vised to keep him warm. John Bige-
low writing his memoirs at ninety
two was as cheerful, hopeful, charm
ing and inspiring a man as | knew OF
any age, and for ten years showed no
sign that beyond eighty "his strength
was but labor and sorrow" Neither
did Gladstone whom | met in the flush
Of his great victory lat So.
The German Ambassador records
that Theirs, at 81, in his discussions
with him, which saved France, was
the liveliest and ablest Frenchman
whom he had met. | found Lord Halls
bury, ex-Lord Chancellor of England,
one of the most active and interesting
of mel at s., and now at 81 he Is
writing a monumental work, the re-
vision and codification of the laws
of England. Lord Palmerston, when
Prime Minister at SO, said that thu
prime of life was seventy-nine, and
Sir William Crooks, the scientist,
says ne has at 81 been so absorbed in
the marvels of science and its posi-.
bilities that age has never occurred
to him and he has laid out work
which will require so years to CON-
plete. AS an example from the in
dustrial world, | was associated as
an attorney with Commodore Van
derbilt during the later years of his
life. He was more alert, wise ami
efficient at so than at any period and
th' acknowledged leader in the rail-
way enterprises Of that t,fre.
Gray Hairs Fatal.
A few years ago gray hairs were
a fatal handicap to employment,
Professor Osler did a good service
for the unemployed when he declar-
ed that at sixty we should be chloro-
formed. 1t led to wide and universal
discussion and developed the fact
that the best work in every depart.
melt of human endeavor ia done by
men over fifty. Our presidents are
vigorous illustrations. Taft was nev-