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Show fl AN OGDENITE IN THE SEVENTIES. M A gentleman -well along in the seventies was greeted by the H writer as a young man this morning. He qualified what we said H by saying. M "No, I nm not a young jnan, but I feel vigorous and am young H in mind. If I were to live my days over, I would do as I have done H keep active. More men of good constitution fail in health through H inertia than any one other affliction." H The man we were talking witli is as straight as an arrow, he 1 walks sprightly and, were his white hairs dyed, he might pass for H fiftj. He started his career in the west as a pioneer. For thirty H years or more he must have been forced, by the conditions in Utah, H to stir himself or drop by the wayside. lie learned to be up and H doing, to be industrious, active, energetic, so that, when ,tne days H of ease came to many in this region, habits of industry hnd ben H formed which impelled him on and forbade surcease. He refused to H lie on the downy couch of indolence, he persisted -in getting up H early and performing his full share of the world's work; lie Icept H good hours, avoided banquets and strong drink, and now, in -lis H old age, he is jouug in spirit and preserved in body. Hj Many men. following the will-o'-the-wisp called ease, are led H into the dismal swamp of disease. The man who desires health H must early resolve to do as the subject of this article has done H discipline himself to work and avoid the allurements of idle H pleasure. HH Be up an.l doiug. that is one of the laws of life. B |