Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — A Farmer’s Remarkable Record. [ARTICLE]

A Farmer’s Remarkable Record.

I adopted a vegetable diet in 1841, when twenty-two years old, writes Rev. J. B. Saxe, of Fort Scott, Kansas, and for more than half a century I have eaten no flesh or butter, havo drank no tea or ooffeo, and have lived mostly on graham or corn bresd and fruit. Daring all these years I have had hardly a day’s sickness, have consulted no doctor, taken no drugs and have always been able to do vigorous work, cither mental or physical. What makes this more striking is the fact that I began life with a feeble constitution, and was an invalid most of the tiino, alwaysN doctoring, up to my adoption of this system. 1 have seen most of my early acquaintances, healthy and vigorous young men and women, pass away while 1 am conscious of scarcoly any bodily or mental decay; und in my seventy-third year can do anything 1 could at twenty, and do it better and easiej. I oun see no reason why I may not live twenty years more, aswoll as havo for the pust twonty. Though a clergyman by profession, I nave boon engaged in tunning most of the time for thirty years, and labored with my hands nearly evory day; and I assure my brother farmors that thore is no need of being sick, or having imything to do with drugs or doctors, or boing laid up with age and infirmity at seventy. Nearly every American could and ought to live to the ago of 100, and most of them to the age of 200; and oould if they, lived right from ohildhood. Captain Beiley says that whon captive among the Arabs ho saw mou 300 years old, and still ablo to follow tho tnbo in its wanderings. Hoalth and endurance are as neoessary oapital as land to a farmer, and should be cultivated as oarefully and as soientifioally if ho would have success iu his vocation. —[New York Tribune.