; John D., Methusaleh,
and Old Man Noah
John D. Rockefeller celebrated his
eighty-second birthday recently by
playing a round of golf, and that with
the mercury pushing its way up well
toward the nineties. Age has net with
ered the old fellow to a mummy, nor
has his custom of making a daily round
of the links staled his enthusiasm for
the game. As well as millions, John
D seems to have learned the secret of
amassing years. Not always will he
shoo the King of Terrors from his door
as easily as he does the wolf. But he
is tackling the problem of longevity
with a brave heart, a strong will, a
well-ordered stomach, and as sure a
golf stroke as may be at his command.
Already John D. has exposed the fal
lacy of the dictum of the Psalmist in
arbitrarily fixing, the limit of human
life at threescore years and ten, with a
bare possibility in extraordinary cases
of its reaching-Jour score. As was as
serted the other day- bv a New York
physician in an address before the Al
lied Medical Associations of America,
because the Bible says that a life shall
be threescore years and ten, the people
expect to die when they reach that age.
It’s all wrong. 'They hav$ lust hypno
i ti-zed themselves into’-the- belief, be
. cause it’s in the Bible.. Given a sound
<■ constitution and a clean record, there
i is -no reason why a man or woman
should not reach 150 years. Indeed,
George Bernard‘Sh-aw in his latest and
craziest vision of the future sees no
reason why science and health, not
necessarily the varietries^expounded by
M rs. Eddy,-but jus|t plain science and
health, can not prolong life three or
i four hundred years-or even indefinite
ly. In his preface to;’’Back to Methu
saleh” George explains that men do
not live long enough; they are, for all
the purposes of big-h civilisation, mere
children when they die Presumably,
• however, the same power that made
this mistake can remedy it. If on op
(MJl tUuini muuauj
term of iiis life at three score and ten
years, he can equality-fix it at 300, or
3.000, or even at the .genuine circum
stantial selection Mmit, which would be
until a sooner-or-later-inevitable fatal
, accident makes an end of the indi
vidual.
But the ultimate evolution of man.
as Mr. Shaw figures it, is rather start
ling to moderns of "lofty ideals.” He
gives us a picture of the world in 31,920
A. D.. a world to all appearance that
of the classic Greeks. He and She An
i cients, some of them thousands of years
old, wandering around—thinking.
Never eating, never loving—thinking,
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and that only. They have shed all
their habits and virtually all family
ties. They make super human beings
by artificial means—ingenious chemical
processes. Our system of reproducing
the species will long ago have been
abandoned as something too primitive,
coarse, crude, clumsy, haphazardous,
uncertain, something totally inconsis
tent with the higher evolution. Why
should a woman to:l and moil fifteen or
twenty years rearing a family of chil
dren with, like as not, not a single po
tential highbrow in the bunch, when,
by feeding a few acids and alkalis into
a biological machine and turning the
crank, full grown adults of approved
intellectual capacity are produced in
fifteen minutes and in any quantity de
sired? Just as the true scientific spirit
of this age consists in original research,
so will the true scientific spirit of that
consist in original experimentation in
homo sapiens. The principal occupa
tion of these beings the first 20*1 or 300
years is sculpture. A certain Pyg
malion creates living automata, which
are so like the men and women of 1921
that they must be incinerated in a few
minutes, so dangerous are they.
iHut to come back to the earth of
1021. Mr. .Rockefeller has read his
Bible and knows there are higher au
thorities on longevity in it than David.
Moses passed away in the prime of life
at 120, Jacob at 147, Isaac at 180, and
Abraham at 175. Methuselah lived for
969 years. We don’t know much about
the kind of life he lived, but we do
know that the man who ran second in
the longevity race, Noah, planted the
first vineyard and got drunk-on the
wine thereof. The ripe old age of this
fine old soak, 950 years, would seem to
bean argument for the wets—but let
that pass. Enough to know that Old
Man Rockefeller is still keeping Father
Time at his distance—that the golf
club is still mightier than the scythe.—
Anaconda Standard.
Gordon Betties anc George Hamilton
left Tacotna a couple of days ago for
Flat.
Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska
April 28th, 1922.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing un
der Hie laws of the State of Calif
ornia, whose postoffice address is
Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif
ornia, has made application, through
James M. Stredten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, before the United
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska,
for a United States Patent for the
consolidated placer mining claim
known as, THREE STAR ASSOCIA
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In
noko Mining and Recording District,
Territory of Alaska, and designated
by the United States Surveyor Gen
eral of said territory as Mineral
Survey No. 1274; the exterior
boundaries of said placer claim, ac
cording to the plat and field notes
of said survey, now on file in said
land office (with a magnetic varia
tion of 20 deg. 12 min. E.), being
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION—
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 ft. in ground, in earth mound,
scribed 1-1274-38., whence U. S. L
M. No. 1274 bears S. 62 deg. 38
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 46 deg.
39 rain. W., 3034.2 ft. to Cor. No
2; thence N. 28 deg. 48 min. W.
646.15 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N
34 deg. 28 min. W., 662.65 ft. tc
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. 06
min. E., 2769.1 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area ol
84.12 acres.
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DI&
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three
Star Association Placer, this survey
a hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 3-1274-3S., and
1-1274-.; whence U. S. I*. M. No.
1274 bears N. 61 deg. 34 min. E.,
2996.95 ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 09
min. £., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 33 deg. 24 min. W. 898.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg.
34 min. E. 700.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 34 deg. 28 min. E., 662.65
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
12.389 acres.
NUMBER SIX BELOW DISCOV
ERY—Beginning at Cor. No. .1,
identical with Cor. No. 2, No. Seven
Below on Yankee Creek Placer, this
survey, a hew spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 ins. sq., set 2 fit. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 2-1274-7B.,
and 1-1274-6B.; whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1274 bears N. 57 deg. 43 min.
32 sec. E., 3666.52 ft.; thence S. 36
deg. 57 min. W., 909.30 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 deg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 19.998 acres.
Expressly excepting and excluding
from this application the Three Star
Association placer of this same survey,
total area applied for 32.387 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on the
N. E., No. Ten Fraction, unsurvey
ed ^ on the S. E., claims unknown
andv-unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
5 Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
unsrarveyed, and on the N. W.,
claims unknown and unsurveyed.
TJ. S. h. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
spruce post, 3 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
3 -ft. in ground, situated on sloping
hillside in prominent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, latitude - 63 deg.
03 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
min. W.
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