Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-05-31


He said he knew of nothing but would
try and find something. A month
later l went in to see him and he said
he had conferred with Mr.. Pool of the
Newberry library, but they had found
nothing. A few months later he met
me on the street and told me he bad
written to his firms agents in New
York, London, Paris and Berlin, but
they had sent nothing. Several years
passed, and whenever ! would see the
man would ask; u'Have you found
that book for me- and he would say:
No, not yet Last June a package of
five books came to my Office in Chicago
and this is one of them"
He produced small 10 mo. red COW
cred volume with the gold lettered
subject: "How to Prolong Life" by
Charles w. d. Lacy Evans, NJ. r. c. S.
f., and on the title page was the pub
fishers imprint Bailliere Tindall & Co.,
Paris and Madrid, with a Subheading:
can inquiry into the cause of old age
and natural death, showing the diet
and agents adapted for prolongation of
life
That book shows that lime is the
obstructionisto of life. There are many
things in it that call fads and mis-
takes, for he narrows down the list of
diet foods to an impracticable limit,
saying, for instance, that meat and
bread are to be avoided for the lime
they contain. But it shows that by far
the greater portion of lime taken into
he -. H. l.
Good gracious! look at your tea kettle;
it is coated with lime. Ask any engi-
neer what is the trouble with his boil
ers periodically and he will tell you in
crustations of lime. Why in Chicago
our water taken six miles out in the
lake, one Of the best supplies any 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 fills up the system with lime. In
the child it is beneficial for it goes to
make bone, but after middle age the
mineral accretion is superintendent.
All my life ! have been taking in
more lime than have been expelling.
Now | am in a measure reversing the
process, for began touse distilled wa
ter in Chicago last summer. But here
/ have this soft snow water which l
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 rheumatic
swelling around the knee is subsiding;
can walk better; the shoulders and
the muscles of my back are becom-
ing free from the pains that made it
impossible for me to sleep without
rolling from side to side. l travelled
over Europe visiting all the celebrated
water cures, and went to the Arkan-
sas Hot Springs-no relief l tried
every known remedy, scientific and
quack-no relief, till | began to use
pure water. Now for the first time in
many years l can lie down and sleep
all night. My digestion is better;
am practically renewing my youth.
do doctors recommend this gener
ally?"
He smiled There are no fees, moth
ing for the doctors in prescribing pure
water They are the last ones to pro
The latest subject Mr.. Medill ha:
taken up to investigate is bacteria as
the cause of universal disease. and he
showedSan excerpt from his paper re
flecting the interest he has in this sub
ject.
But he said, with a quizzical look
from keen gray eyes, Il would not
give you the impression that l devote
all my time to what may seem to be
fads and theories. / fill in my spare
time with them. When out here i am
freed from the routine of Office duties
SO take up these things, not exactly
for pastime, as / would not undergo
the labor of study if it were not with a
view of benefiting somebody.
II have been lazy for several days
with a little touch of the grip and have
been working at my correspondence
and making dispatch for my paper. y
There were slight inkstains on his
fingers.
DO you write by hand?"
Yes; it is inconvenient to have a
stenographer in the house all the time
to do letter writing, for / always cor
rect letters and have them rewritten.
never got accustomed to systematic
dictation of newspaper articles. /
think it tends to verbosity. When /
am in my office in Chicago usually
write out the heads of an article and
sketch plan for it with short notes,
then read it off slowly to stenog-
rapher, filing in and rounding it up.
But out here it is just about as easy
for me to do it all by hand
From the inconsequential way that
Mr. Medill speaks of his daily labors
one would hardly think that at dis
tance of over two thousand miles he
closely watches and directs his metro
politan paper. Every mail carries let
tiers to his trusted lieutenants, while
several times each week the wires vi
brate with aneditorial dispatch. These
are only diversions for his restless
energy.
As the visitor took leave thinking