The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-10

man I would ask: n'Have you found
that book for me- and he would say:
No. not yet Last June package Of
five books came to my Office in Chicago
and this is one of them"
he produced small IL mo. red COW
cred volume with the god lettered
subject: "How to Prolong Life" by
Charles w. D. Lacy Evans, NJ. &. C. S.
E., and on the title page was the pub
fishers imprint Railliere Tindall s Co.,
Paris and Madrid, with 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
obstructionist of life. There are many
things in it that 1 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
the system is by the water we drink.
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 viii 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.
cit is the drinking process that grad
ually fills up the system with limes In
the child it is beneficial for it goes to
make bone, but after middle age the
mineral accretion is superabundant.
All my life 1 have been taking in
more lime than I have been expelling.
Now / am in measure reversing the
process, for began to use distilled wa
ter in Chicago last summer. But here
I have this soft snow water which I
drink copiously and it is dissolving
the lime out of my system. Every day
throws off some excess. I 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. travelled
over Europe visiting all the celebrated
water cures, and went to the Arkan-
sas Hot Springs-no relief! 1 tried
every known remedy, scientific and
quack-no relief, till I began to use
pure water. Now for the first time in
many years 1 can lie down and sleep
all night. My digestion is better; I
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
claim such simple remedy"
The latest subject Mr.. MedilI has
taken up to investigate is bacteria as
the cause of universal disease, and he
showed an excerpt from his paper re.
fecting the interest he has in this sub.
ject. 5A
But" he said, with quizzical look
from keen gray eyes, Il would not
give you the impression that I devote
all my time to what may seem to be
fads and theories. / fill IN my spare
time with them. When out here am
freed from the routine of Office duties,
so take up these things, not exactly
for a pastime, as would not undergo |
the labor Of study if it were not with a
view of benefting somebody.
~ have been lazy for several days |
with little touch of the grip and have
been working at my correspondence |
and making dispatch for my paper"
There were slight inkstains on his |
fingers.
do You write by hand9"
Eyes; it is inconvenient to have q
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. I |
think it tends to verbosity. When I |!
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, 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 incopsequential way that |
Mr.. Medin speaks of his daily labors
one would hardly think that st dis |
lance of over two thousand miles he /
closely watches and directs his metro
politan paper. Every mail carries let
ters to his trusted lieutenants, while /
several times each week the wires vi i
brate with an editorial dispatch. These
are only diversions for his restless
AS the visitor took leave, thinking
report wrong in its estimate of Mr..
Medill's age, he ventured to ask him
how old he was.
II have just turned my seventy-frst
year." he said. 81 have rounded my |
third score and ten, and am leading a
,uperhuous existence"
HERBERr HAYWOOD.