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Show OBNTUHY OLD AND WOtlKINO. VToadatt What Witt llappa to nira Whan lla data AsaJ. The new superintendent of street! at Calais, Me, has Just reappointed Patrick Meyers, who will be 10S years old next June to his old place aa custodian cus-todian of the city sidewalks, a post which he has held for 37 consecutive years In 1891, when substitutes wero getting from 1800 to II 000 to go to the war, and nntlonnl and state bountlei made the total sum up to 81,500 to U,. S0O. Myers enlisted, nnd having pasted a successful examination as to bit physical abilities wat rejected on ac count of hit age, being 04 years old at that time It was discouraging to me" said M)ers, In speaking of tha matter last week I wat a pocr man, and the bounty money would hare bought me a line home, which I should havo enjoyed after serving out my tlmo In the army I felt so bad that I didn't care to do any kind of work for nearly a year I knew 1 waa at itrong and healthy as I ever wat, and age doesn't count to men built the way I wat After a time I secured a Job for the city to work on tho streets When I had been digging sewer dltchet and shoveling dirt for ten years they put me In charge of tho sidewalks, where I havo been for a long time. My work It not hard, but It keeps mo busy I earn my money and Intend to tttck to the work at long nt they will have me" Tho old man lives In a mall home, which he hat bought and paid for out ot hit earnings at $1 SO a day. Hit widowed daughter acts at houtekceper for him Iteport aayt ho hat a tidy turn In the local savings bank Hit body Is bent from hard work and ho limps at times when tho rheumatism rheu-matism gets Into hi. legs, but his general gen-eral henlth Is still good He call hit threo niealt a day and sleeps ten houn every night Ho has smoked two 10-cent 10-cent plugs of tobacco a week for tho past 91 years, never any more nor any less. Years ago ho took a glass ol whisky when he fel! that ho' needs I It. but was never addicted to the habit. Since he has passed his hundredth birthday ho hat frequently regretted that he was not permitted to enter tho army. "If I had served a year or two," sild he, "I could get n pension to help mo out when I grow old and unablo to work Its of men younger than t nm who were In tho army and never received a scratch aro drawing si much at 812 a mouth, I nm told "Chicago Journal, |