Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-02-02 | Page 4 | Ages of Men.

HE AGES OF MEN HEN I I Ron Joseph Choate was 78 yea years s of age Q January Jan Jan- ahry ah- ah uary ry 24 Speaking of him hin the Sun says By the conventional l and least significant nt method of measurement meas meas- his age appears to be 78 A cording According to the standard of 01 vital endurance vitality and mental men men- tal fal a rower power p wel interest in the world around aroundhim him and undiminished faculties for public u usefulness useful nes ness ns J lr jo Joseph eph H. H Choate is anywhere any in the le prime i And And the Sun Sua thinks the most appropriate description de de- of him would be what he himself said about Lord at i Lincoln nc ln Inn Inns as follows r He Ie is the very incarnation of perennial youth Time like an ever rolling stream bears ears all its sons sos sons avay away but the lord chancellor seems to stem stern the tid ne Instead t ad of retreat retreating like th the th rest of ofus us its advancing ing waves lie he is Actually work work- it his way up up sti stream am lIe He demonstrates what I Il l have ave be beeri m trying to to prove for for the last three y years ar that it th the eighth decade of life is far fur the best hest and I Ims In ms m.'s n ne re he hc will join with me n in advising you all to J Hurry up and get into it as as S soon as as you you can an Human Burnan lives litres are like the trees in the forest Sonic Sonie are oak some arc are hickory some are soft sott wood We Ve go go through an old n-old old fashioned forest and perhaps the most beautiful tree we see is the old fashioned basswood We 1 e return in ten years and we ve find it prone on the UC ground permeated with ith dry di rot while the gnarly old oak on the corner is just as gnarly as ever but larger and the branches that he e poises against the gale al are aie e stronger than ever and so he stands for years while the bass basswood goes down in twenty i k It is s so with men Some last for for fora a century a al amany l od c Jt many py l last st fourscore core Cre a good ma many succumb u l th three score e.- e. e co e and ten most of them di die at t three three- heere ce eore re and three e anc and they are rc called aU old ld m men n- n Ile liber fib r man has much to do with it the will if f the man has more and so the ages of men ought not to t to be reckoned by the arith arithmetic or the almanac or the family Bible but t by what they arcand are arc and what they theY- can do fol Some e of them do not live long enough some of ff em live too long because when a a. a man gets to a i t w when en he is a blessing blessin to his friends and and to to the he public it is most pitiable to see sec him pass on When another one lives until all his usefulness is gone jone e a and he he is just an incumbrance then ten although 1 t i I I. I of the present day clay will not per permit mt i ime that he lie be chloroformed and and out of the way a