Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-16
CHICAGgS SCIENTIST EDITOR.

LOS ANGELES NAl.s ApI4t 4t.-vOo.
Medill, the famous Chicago Tribune
editor, is living 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 in6rmities Of age may be washed
away. Mr.. Medin's own experience
lends credibility TO the claim, and his
political enemies who would gladly have
seen him dead years ago are beginning
20 fear that be may live forever.
al live here niae months OF the year
for my wife's health as well as my own,
be said 20 your correspondent. MY
home at Altadena, next 20 Andrew Nc
Nally's, was burned In NOvem Der, 1892,
due 70 The careleSsnesS OF a servant"
He rubbed his hands together a mo-
ment; then, holding them out 6siOre
me, said: "My fingers have been liz
tie equity, and are swollen some still.
That Is a bad one yet, =" and he moved
the second finger on his left hand like
tOggle Joint, and this thumb Is bad.
Bat they are improving DOW, 50 ] can
write well. I have been trying a sim
pie remedy that has been limoering me
Up"
Then be explained that far up 10
NE San Bernardino Mountains, which
rise 10, 900 feet above this city, Is res
srvoir that accumuiates pure snow va
ter, 50 soft that just % lave the hands
and face 10 10 refreshes. TO an obscure
frF e NHaHfI
repairs every few weeks 90 enjoy the
rare dry air as well as for the healing
water, and Is constantly supplied with
the water az his home mere, having it
brought down 90 him. 10 is not idle
caprice that has led him 70 use 10, but
scientific principle that he has been
uudying for wears.
This Is how he TELLS 10;
The virtue OF the water IS not In its
mineral properties, bur in their absence,
rs absolute purity, in particular its
freedom from lime. That IS the sub
stance. says De, "tbat gets into the
capiIiaries Of the joints and stops the
lubricating process that keeps the joints
timber. 10 obstructs the capillary cells
OF the hair so the pigments can no
longer ind their way through and it
becomes colorless-White. Little par
tices OF lime get into the cells Of the
stomach, OF the bladder and kidneys
and cause every form of indigestion
and Bright's disease; they get into the
heart and weaken It's action. In fact,
the whole process Of growing old and
wearing out is due 90 a superabundanCe
Of this white mineral substance
lining up till finally q man lies down a
brittle mummy hundred years before
his time"
"How did this theory occur 10 you?'
Ten years ago I began 20 study why
men grew old and wear out so soon. l
asked my doctor, and be only told me
that 10 was the inevitable law Of nature.
But I wanted a scientific cause; l
Psearched my library, but in cyclopedlaS,
scientific aud philosophical works 1
could find nothing on the subject. I
went % the leading book store In
Chicago and asked a man who knows
little about everything that is To- print
or ever has been published. He said be
knew OF nothing, but would try and
fnd something. & month later i went
in 90 see him. and be said be had con-
ferred with Mr. Poole. OF the Newberry
Library. bus they had found moth
Ing. A few months later he
met me or abe street and
told me he had written 20 his firms
agents lu New YORK. London, Paris and
Berlin, but they bad sent nothing. Sew
era years passed, and whenever / would
see the man I would ask, Have you
found that book Tor wee' and he would
say, 80, not yet Last June pack
age oi Eve books came 90 my office in
Chicago, and this Is one of them.
he produced small l2mO red covered
volume with the gold lettered subject
chow % ProonS Life" by Charles w.
D. Lacy Evans. NJ. r. c. =. T., aud on
the title page was the publishers i'm
erint. BaIIliere, Tindall Is Co., Paris
and Madrid, with a subheading, IAN
Inquiry into the cause OF old age and
natural death, showing the diet and
agents adapted for proiongation OF
life.'
THAT book shows that lime is the
obstructionist OF life. They are many
things Ia 10 that I call fads aud mis-
takes, for he narrows down the list
OF diet foods TO an impracticable limit,
saving, for instance that meat 0Cd
bread are to be avoided for the lime
they contain. But it shows that by far
the greater portion of lime taken into
the system Is by the water we drink.
Good gracious, look 40 your tea kettle;
10 is coated with lime. ASK any en-
eineer what is the trouble with his DOLL
ers periodically, aud he vii, tell you i'm
crustntious of lime. Why In Chicago
our water. taken SIX miles OUT DO the
lake. one OF the best supplies any city
has, contains nineteen grains OF lime 20
the gallon. and this Los Angeles water
has thirty grains.
"It Is the drinking process that grad
ually fills up the system with lime. in
the child 10 Is beneficial, for 10 goes 90
make bone, bat after middle age the
mineral accretion is superintendent. All
nv life have been taking 10 mo-e lime
than I have been eXpelling. Now / am
in measure reversing the process, for
] began 70 use distilled water 10 Chica-
GO last summer. But here / have this
soft snow water, which ! drink coDi-
ously. and it is disSolving the lime out
or my system. Every day throws of
some excess. I can feel the effects
all over me. The rheumatic swell
iac around the knee is Subsiding;
can walk better; my shoulder and the
muscles OF the back are becoming free
from the pains that made 10 impossible
for me 90 sleep without rolling from
side 20 side. I travelled over Europe
visiting al the celebrated water cures,
and went 20 the Arkansas Hot Springs
no relief I tried every known rem
e9v. scientific and QuaCk-nO relief. till