Temperance and Old Age

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 11, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 32.

Temperance and Old Age.

A New York paper tells us that at ninety-nine years of age Barney Morris became a day laborer in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Recently he reached his one hundred and sixth birthday. He is very proud of the fact that during the seven years he has held his present position he has not lost a day from his work. He does not look over sixty or seventy years old. He is healthy, and his thick gray hair is what men many years his junior might envy. He was born in Ireland in 1792. He accounts for the wonderful preservation of his faculties and health at an age few men reach at all, much less in this splendid state, from the fact he has never smoked, and only tasted an alcoholic beverage once, just for curiosity. So temperance treats her devotees.