The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-08
EDITOR AND SCIENTIST.
Joseph Medill Explains His PhySiO.
logical Theories and Their Effect.
How Life May Be DoubIed-Lime Pro-
duces the Decay of Old Age. and 1t is
Taken Into the System Mostly by
Drinking Bad Water.
.Copyright.)

Taken Into the System Mostly by
Drinking Bad Water.
(Copyright)
Los Angeles, Cal, April 7.-Joseph
Medill, the famous Chicago editor, is liv-
ing quietly here and is working out some
of his interesting physiological theories
| Up in the San Bernardino mountains he
claims to have discovered a fountain of
| youth, in which the infrmaties of age
may be washed away Mr.. Medills own
experience lends credibility to the claim,
and his political enemies, who would
gladly have seen him dead years ago, are
beginning to fear that he may live for
ever.
On a corner lot stands his large at
! tractive buff and white framehouse with
brick and granite foundations, corner
trimmings and stone steps. A circular
| south veranda extends from front to side
around which climb roses that breathe a
welcome of perfume. Date palms, fan
| palms aud magnolias ornament the green
unfenced lawn, while pepper trees with
| deep green pendant branches like the
weeping willow, and with clusters of red
berries, line the street front. The enter
ing visitor is shown into a spacious front
room filled with sunshine. The
walls are white satin finished and the
| ceiling gold starred. A warm red rug
and bamboo mating cover the floor
There is white silken furniture with
| delicate blue tracings, and a richly
cushioned couch stands by the broad fire.
place glowing with hot Goals, and dash
of blue drapery encircles a gold framed
| painting. The wood work looks whittier
| in contrast with the dark red portieres
| hanging at the hall and back parlor en-
trance.
A quick step descended the stairs, the
red porJieres parted and Mr. Medill stood
| between them, his tall figure accentuated
! by long plum colored silk lounging robe.
He made me feel at home Immediately
and in the conversation which followed
! he said Il live here nine months of the
| year for my wife's health as well as my
own. My home at Altadena next to An
! drew McNally's, was burned in Novem-
Der, 1892, due to the carelessness of a ser
want" He rubbed his hands together a
moment, then holding them out before me
said: My fingers have been a little
equity and are swollen some still That is
bad one yet, and he moved the second
! finger on his left hand like toggle Joint,
land this thumb is bad. But they are
improving now so | can write well.
have been trying simple remedy that
has been limbering me up"
Then he explained that far up in the
San Bernardino mountains, which rise
! 10000 feet above this city, is a reservoir
that accommodates pure snow water, so
soft that just to lave the hands and face
in it refreshes. To an obscure hostelry
near these waters Mr. Medill repairs
every few weeks to enjoy the rare dry
air as well as for the healing water. and
is constantly supplied with the water at
his home here, having it brought down
to him. 1t Is not idle caprice that has led
| him TO its use, but scientific principle
that he has been studying for years.
This is how he tells it:
THE virtue of this water is not in its
mineral properties, but in their absence,
its absolute purity, in particular its free
| dom from lime That is the substance"
| says he, that gets into the capillaries of
| the joints and stops the lubricating pro-
cess that keeps the joints timber. 1t OBJ
structs the capillary cells of the hair so
! the pigments can no longer find their way
through and it becomes colorless-white
Little particles of lime get into the cells
OF the stomach, of the bladder and kid
neys and cause every form of Indigestion
and Brlght's disease they get into the
heart and weaken its action. In fact, the
whole process of growing old and wearing
out is due to superabundance of this
white mineral substance-a lining up till
finally man lies down brittle mummy
a uuudLCu years UcIOFb MS IltQe.'
How did this theory occur to you2"
Ten years ago l began to study wbv
men grow old and wear out so soon. I
asked my doctor, and he only told me that
1T was the inevitable law of nature. But
l wanted scientific cause: l searched
my library, but in cyclopedias. scientific
and philosophical works, | could find moth
ing on the subject, l went to the
leading book store in Chicago, and asked
man who knows a little about eyerv-
thing that Is in print or ever has been
published. He said he knew of nothing
but would try and find something. A
month later went in to see him and he
said he had conferred with Mr.. Poole. of
the Newbelry library, but they had
found nothing. A few months later he
met me on the street and told me he had
written to his firms agents in New York.
London, Paris and Berlin, but they had
sent nothing.
Several years past, and whenever I
would see the man | would ask Have Won
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 one of them"
He produced a small 12mo red colored
volume with the gold lettered subject.
How to Protong Life" by Charles w
ID. Lacy Evans, NJ. r. G. S. E., and on the
title page was the publishers imprint
Ballliere Tindall x Co, Paris and Madrid.
with subheading, IAN inquiry into the
cause of old age and natural death, show
ing the diet aud agents adapted for pro-
longation of life"