Show THE AGE TEST The question of age and efficiency is up again agai for discussion in in ome some of the eastern papers It was vas sprung by bJ the resignation of Dr Harris fr from m the presidency ency of Amherst at the age of 08 He gives as a reason that wl lc he docs does not feel old nor any dulling of his intellectual perceptions yet jet it is inevitable that as aa the seventh decade nears S completion there cannot be the impulse zest or momentum of former years Dr Benton of the University of Vermont de declares de- de d- d clares dares that three score years score years and more moro constitutes Constitutes constitutes the thc age of leadership in the councils of or thought today S There is not much in either theory The efficiency efficiency effi effi- effi- effi of f a ma man is due partly to his habits of life partly to the fiber that he was made mad of originally When the world gets farther advanced there will probably be a machine made something like what the dairymen use to test milk to find out how much is cream how much is butter fat how much is sweet mil how much is buttermilk and how much is sour milk and mans man's efficiency y will not be judged by the years years years' he has b been en o on Ii earth bat batby batby by the amount of cream he lie has left in him and the absence of sour milk S And yet many men h have ve passed th their ir usefulness usefulness useful useful- ness at 30 many m more re at 40 more till at 50 Those that pass 50 in good shape are liable to hang on a long time S There is some rock that carries gold silver copper cot cop per an and lead It is valuable according to the amount of each metal If the base metals predominate nate- nate then nate-then then the ore is worth saving for the base metals for the work work they they can do for the use they are in the world If they wear out at 40 or 50 or 60 GO and there is nothing left but the gold then the amount of gold that is remaining is what makes the test or whether there is any more us use in in working working working work work- ing the tailings over And it is so with men meu A great majority of men arc are all base metal They y serve a purpose and aud when they die it is no special loss Some have a 1 percentage of gold and under modern processes if ife e enough ough can be saved of that it will do to work york the rock a little longer But the tire rule is with men as it is with rock it is as very ery seldom m the tailings tailings tailings tail tail- ings ar are worth working over t |