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found him dead last week upon his office floor just 

 wliere lie dropped. He died there all alone. I said 

 to him one day, " Doctor, don't you e.ver get callous 

 and hardened to surgical operations by doing so 

 much of it day after day?" Said he, " Ridgway, 

 ■when you put your loved one, with all the agony of 

 your anxiety, into my hands for life or death, I 

 have in trust the most precious thing on o.irth. How 

 could I be a man and not feel — how could I get cal- 

 lous and hardened? " And after a moment's silence 

 he grabbed my arm, and said, " Kidgway, week 

 after week with trusts like that I sweat blood." And 

 last week it killed hira. And thus good doctors are 

 continually being killed. Take oflf your hat in rever- 

 ence to your doctor. And fall on your knees before 

 your Savior (Rev. 12:11). 



Please note from the above that surgeons 

 are not, at least not all of them, " harden- 

 ed " by their occupation ; and their fee to 

 those able to pay may not be so very unrea- 

 sonable after all. 



STILL BRIGHT AND WELL AT THE AGE OP 106. 



We clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer of Oct. 27 : 



Akron, 0., Oct. 26. — "Be temperate in all things, 

 but work," is the recipe for longevity given by Ohio's 

 oldest citizen, Mr. George W. Austin, Kent, O., who 

 celebrates his 106th birthday today. Two hundred 

 relatives and friends will assemble at the home of 

 Mrs. W. S. Kent to help him celebrate the event. 



Mr. Austin was born in Hartford, Ct., Oct. 26, 

 1808. When 18 months old he accompanied his 

 parents on an overland trip by ox team to Little 

 Rock, Ark., then a wilderness. In 1813 Mr. Austin 

 returned to Kent and has continued to live there 

 ever since. 



In 1830 he was appointed a mail-carrier and made 

 regular trips, on foot, between Ravenna and Canton. 

 Mr. Austin has outlived his wife, two children, and 

 three grandchildren. His two brothers died a 

 number of years ago. 



This old man is remarkable in many ways. He 

 has never found it necessary to have the services of 

 a physician. He never drank a drop of liquor nor 

 smoked tobacco in any form. It is to total absti- 

 nence and hard work that he attributes his long life. 



He takes a daily walk of one-half mile from his 

 home to his favorite barber-shop and reads the daily 

 papers. At present he is interested in the suffragist 

 movement, and expresses the hope that he will live 

 to see the State vote dry. 



Note, friends, that this man, so well 

 presented at this gi'eat age, never drank a 

 drop of liquor nor used tobacco. Total 

 abstinence and hard work is the way he 

 expresses it ; and I am more and more con- 

 vinced every day of my life that people die 

 because they sit down and give up. They 

 leave the farm and move to town so as to 

 " take things easy," and just as soon as they 

 begin to take things easy, stop exercising, 

 and keep right on eating three meals a day, 

 down they go. As for me, I hope and 

 expect to "die in the harness," God permit- 

 ting. 



I I r>KI. nv A BEESTINO, KTC. 



I once took a bad cold, and it settled in my right 

 eye. There were two little white pimple-like lumps 

 that came on the eyeball. They were very painful, 

 and felt just as if I had ray eye full of cinders. I 



realJy thought I had, but my wife and others said 

 I hey could not .see any thing except the little white 

 lumps. 'Die pain was simply aliout all I could en- 

 dure, and I am not much of a hand to complain 

 either. I had just about made up my mind to go to 

 town and have a doctor, when I happened to notice 

 a nucleus near the house, and decided to look and 

 see if the young queen had begun laying. Possibly 

 I was not as careful as I should have been; but at 

 any rate a bee stung me in the right temple, and in 

 five minutes my eye was so much better that I hard- 

 ly noticed it any more, and by evening it was en- 

 tirely well, and hasn't given me any trouble since. 

 Uniontown, Ala., Aug. 13. L. A. Haeqreaves. 



My good friend, your letter reminds me 

 of something that happened a few weeks 

 ago. When I awoke in the morning one of 

 my eyes felt bad ; but the more I washed it 

 the worse it became. Finally the pain be- 

 came, as you describe it, so great that I sent 

 for a doctor. I told him I had gotten some- 

 thing in my eye. A careful search, however, 

 revealed notliing or next to nothing; and 

 after removing every thing he could discover 

 he applied a drop or two of a solution of 

 boracie acid, and the pain and irritation 

 disappeared as if by magic. In fact, I ut- 

 tered an exclamation of joy and relief to 

 have it disappear so suddenly; and others 

 have informed me that this is the remedy in 

 common use, and affords relief from almost 

 any kind of irritation or similar troubles of 

 the eye. We now keep some of the solution 

 in the house, but my eye has never troubled 

 me since in the same way. Is it not possible 

 that the beesting produced a flow of tears 

 and lubricated the irritating eruption? 



KEEPING THE HANDS CLEAN. 



When I was in the walch-repairing 

 business years ago it was absolutely neces- 

 sary for me to keep my hands dry and 

 clean. In handling the delicate machinery 

 of a watch, soiled or perspiring hands 

 could never be tolerated an i'istant. On 

 this account I always had a wash-basin, 

 with soap and towel, near my work. And 

 this fashion has followed me more or less 

 all my life. Down in Florida I have soap, 

 basin, and towel outdoors near the gai'den. 

 It saves my climbing the step- to get into 

 the house, saves me from using the towels 

 indoors when I am in a hurry, etc. As INIrs. 

 Root does all the washing, I try to avoid 

 using the regular towel when I am in too 

 much of a huiTy to wash my hands thor- 

 oughhj. The while cotton cloth used for 

 sacks for middlings makes a very good 

 towel to be used on such occ.xsions. It is 

 also handy to liave around automobiles 

 when you Avant to wijDe your lingers. Down 

 in Florida tliere is no market for paper- 

 rags, as paper-mills are so remote; and I 

 believe there is uo market f jr grain-sacks 

 or sacks of any kind. They are just 



