Show A WELL PRESERVED VETERAN THE following letter addressed essed to bishop burton is ie a curiosity iu in its way as it shows an instance of a man main bordering on a hundred years old with his hi mental faculties and physical powers remarkably well preserved he Is i an old friend of the Bi Bia hope the latter having been but a boy aken he be first made mr landers acquaintance april 26 1891 beloved brother robert T burton this old man loves you with a love that is in stronger than death and hopes to meet you u in the morning of the first resurrection N to enjoy a thousand years reign on the renewed earth I 1 was wag ninety six years old on the 20 h of august last I 1 never enjoyed better health in any time in my life than I 1 have for the last ten years and at present see no cause why I 1 may not live to be a hundred years old my sight and hearing are somewhat impaired though I 1 am writing this letter without the aid of spectacles my wife was so eighty five years old last january 78 we are both striving with all diligence to make our calling and election sure beloved brother if it Is possible to find and out the address address of my nephew ebenezer landers and send it to me you will greatly oblige directing to blue rapids kansas in care of arthur J H hagar my my wife joins me in kind regards to you yon and yours As an ever your brother in the lord johw JOHN LAN LANDERS DEItS any person able to furnish the information desired by the writer of the foregoing letter will confer a favor by forwarding it to him at the address embodied in the communication I 1 |