The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-08

That book shows that lime is the OBJ
structionist OF life There are many
things in it that / call fads and mistakes,
for he narrows down the list Of diet foods
to an impracticable limit, saying, for IN
stance, that meat and bread are to be
avoided for the lime they contain. But
1t shows that by far the greater portion
of lime taken into the system is by the
water we drink. Good gracious, look at
your tea kettle, it is coated with lime.
ASK any engineer what is the trouble
with his boilers periodically and will
tell you incrustations of lime. Why in
! Chicago our water taken six miles out in
the lake, one of the best supplies any
I city has, contains nineteen grains of lime
to the gallon, and this Los Angeles water
has thirty grains.
1t is the drinking process that grad
ually nils up the system with lime In
the child it is beneficial for It goes to
make bone, but after middle age the min
eral accretion is superintendent. All my
| life have been taking in more lime than
nave been expelling. Now | am in
measure reversing the process for bean
to use distilled water in Chicago last
summer. But here have this soft snow
water which drink copiously and it is
dissolving the lime out of my system
Every day throws off some excess. / can
feel the effects all over me. The rheu-
matte swelling around Ithe knee is sub
siding; / can walk better; my shoulders
and the muscles of the back are
becoming free from the pains
that made it impossible for
me TO sleep without rolling from side to
side. travelled over Europe, visiting all
the celebrated water cures, and went to
the Arkansas Hot Springs-no relief I
tried every known remedy, scientific and
! quack-nO relief till began to use pure
water. Now, for the first time in many
| years, / can lie down and sleep all night
My digestion is better; l am practically
renewing my youth"
The white-haired man rose, walked
{ back and forth, almost erect, as his
| whole form tingled with exhiliration of
! feeling.
DO doctors recommend this gen.
erally9"
He smiled. There are no fees, nothing
for the doctors in prescribing pure water.
| They are the last ones to proclaim such a
| simple remedy"
HAS the climate of California helped
youl"
1T is good for elderly people, for it
is free from the rigors of the east and
north, but people die here as regularly as
| anywhere"
The latest subject Mr. Medill has taken
up to investigate is bacteria as the cause
of universal disease, and he showed an ex-
1 NCl Po 4lOlLl HIS paper TGllGCblQS ING IuB6E-
| est he has in this subject.
| But" he said with a quizzical look
from keen gray eyes, Il would not give
| you the impression that devote all my
| time to what may seem to be fads and
theories. l fill in my spare time with
them When out here l am freed from
the routine of Office duties, so l take up
these things, not exactly fora pastime, as
| would not undergo the labor of study if
| IL NOT with a VIayV of hapnfifiu
| somebody.
! 81 have been lazy for several days with
a little touch of the grip and have been
! working at my correspondence and max
ing dispatch for my paper" There were
slight ink stains on his fingers.
DO you write by hand2"
! Yes, tits inconvenient to have stenog-
rapher in the house all the time to do
letter writing, for 1 always correct let
| tiers and have them rewritten. l never
| got accustomed to systematic dictation
of newspaper articles I think it tends
| to verbosity. When 1 am in my office in
! Chicago | usually write out the heads of
an article and sketch plan for it with
| snort notes, then read it off slowly to a
stenographer, filling in and rounding it
up But out here it is just about as easy
for me to do it all by hand"
From the 1nconsequential way that Mr..
| Medill speaks of his daily labors one
would hardly think that at distance of
| over 1000 miles he closely watches and
directs his metropolitan paper. Every
mail carries letters to his trusted lieuten-
ants, while several times each week the
wires vibrate with an editorial dispatch.
| These are only diversions for his restless
| energy.
As the visitor took leave, thinking re-
| port wrong in its estimate of Mr.. Medilps
age, he ventured to ask him how old he
| was.
II have just turned my seventy-first
year." he said. 81 have rounded my
third score and ten, and am leading a
| superfuous existence"
| HERBERT HAYWOOD.