Secret Of A Long Life

My únele, Daniel Stnith, of Oxford, Maine says a writer iu tho Now Yurk Ledger, was most ornphatically a man of regular preoiso habits. I was intimato with hira for years- spending dnys bene:ith his rc'of, and te sojoürried for brief seasons with me - and I never saw him in a paasion, nor heard him speak in an ex cited tone of voice, though I have hcard hiui say bitter and cutting thing3. His religioús instinets led him Quakerward, and it' he liad ouo political itein of faith stronger thán aüothcr, it was universal poace. I was one day talking with his son, Mark P., of tho man s habita and temperamont, and I said : " Keally Mark, you are in body older than your t'athrir." ' And wel) may I be, " sáid he. "I have done more work than he ever did." " And yut," said I, " Unolu Daniel never has been an idle man." " No,' replied Mark, " ho was novor idle ; but I nevor knew him to hurry. I romembei when father was í!io only ahos maei in our di.ítiiüt. No matter what was the work on haud," nor how many feet Were bare, whon bis hours oí labor werp don', oíí went iiis aproü and his s.'tison of rest was his'own. I cali to inind a certain occasion when we were rtt work in the hay-field. We had a lot of valú.ible hay dowii tfnd spread upon the eronnd, sutEoiently cn'réd to' carry in Wo wererakinffit and thore weresigns of rain. Father wns ahead of me, and 1 callod to him to hurry. I ealled to hitn a second time and m impationce was Dtaitifest. For mercey's sake, fattier can't yóu hririy up just a ltttle ' Üon't you see th clouds over the hill 't Tho rain will catoh us." " Ho stopped - he was not more than forty thtm- aud setting the tuil of his riikc lip'oti the groiind, lïe turned und addreásod iue." , " Mark," said ho, " I have ïïothirig to do with the rain ; I have only niyelf to bo answerable foT. God has givon m.' just ray sharo of strength, and it must tftgl me me my lifetime. I oan't waste it now ! ' " I don't remcmber of ever trying to hrry him again." I BftW my unole Daniel, at the age of oighty-!een swinging the soythe upon the. vory pïece of intervale where' his sou had BOUgnt in vuin to liurry Kim - geven :::d forty yeata beforo. He pagsed away beyond thu vale, two years ago, at thu ripe oíd age of uine-six.