FEBRUARY 1, 1927
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Last comes the lean and sippered pan
taloon." The marks of decline and deere
pitude become more prcceptible. The
teeth are gone-the jaws approach each
other--the face is sunk; the eye quenched in
rheumatic voice feeble, unequal and whist
ling-the muscles wasted-the gait totter-
ing-thc sight and hearing rapidly fail-and
the other senses are almost obliterated.-
The mind lives NOT in the present-the
memory acts not upon things of to-day. The
green hills, the joyous gambols, the pure
friendships of childhood, all thrill through the
heart. The ancient man sits in the midst
of generation thrice removed from his own:
he appears insensible to those around him
he is deaf and participates not in their joys
he beholds their sorrows with cold unteel-


ing eve. But, WHY does he, at times convul-
sively grasp his staf-anc why does an un-
needed tear occasionally trickle down his
furrowed cheek9 He is looking back be
yond the existence of the present generation
perhaps the image of her who has slept in
dust for half century--she in whom his
youthful heart was "garnered up, appears
before his memory as once she bloomed:-
perchance the mother who watched or slept
DER his cradle, and enhanced the joyousness
of his early life, is breathing in his ear--or
the bosom friend and companion ofhis youth
full wanderings, smiles upon him, with the
truth and ardour he has so long been stran-
ger to. Where are hey2--Another people
has grown to maturity since their graves
were sodded Their memory has pcrished
except in the aged man, WHOSE long dried
fountains of sensibity gush forth afrcsh as
such recollections rise in his mind.


1.-The approach of death from slow-com-
ing decline and intirmity of nature, is mark
ed by the eventual oblitcration Of all the fac,
nlties Of mind and body. The breathing be
comes slower, and slower; the heart inter
mts its pulsatons; the blood lolters along
the veins; the extremities grow cold and the
feeble flame of life lessons until it ceases tt
be preceptihle, except at the centre, where
it family elimmers for time, and then il
gently extnguished without sigh or groan
without trace of emotion or of pain"