The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-17

In New York in one July numbered / .435.
in November OF The same year there were
nut 900. By the middle OF that month the
line OF increase Of death beg MS to rise,
and from now IN until about the middle
OF Aprf when the max mum fatalities oc-
cur
There is no reason for so many people
dying IL Is merely question of care IN
formation, education. The principles OF cli-
matte change are not known to one rerson
IN hVe hundred. What we need is more
light on the subject of general health Peo-
pie should be dfilad To look out for them-
selves on days hat the weather man says
are going 60 be cold and mo ST. The fatal
character of these kinds of climates IS tee
reason why our great health resorts are
Srowing so rapidly. The San Gabriel val
| icy along The mounta ms, including Los
Angeles county, is dry, but not too dry,
| ana warm. The Riviera corresponds 10 Il.
| ana both the e localities are the Mecca
OF thousands who are victims of the cold.
moist days of the year.
1ou know, or perhaps you do not"
continued the old man with the reputation
OF being a crank but who in point OF
iact, thought a great deal and spoke rare
~, the idea of death is, so far as the
wplng out OF an individual Is concerned.
more or less Of a missioner. We look at ID
IN the wrong way, We have been edu-
NeA'h W btiAtNG lEdL our luutNiuualitY Is
centered In one frame, one body one
brain, when nature has provided Just the
reverse, and to make IL plain has divided
man about, scattered his blood good and
bad, his brains, stupid or brilliant among
many. In a word, q man has a son. Is
not tho son an integral and absolute part
OF his father and mother2 No parent can
be said to die so long as the son lives
You think / am a crank Well, per-
haps am; but ! am the founder Of the
new school OF philosophy that has hun
dreds of followers who believe that there
never has been a real death, as you UNI
derstand It, since the creation. A man
dies. Is he really gomez BY no means;
he has merely served his purpose, and to
put IL brutally, nature has no further use
for him. But to say that that mans in
fiuence In the world is at an end is folly.
His energy and his brain power have all
been a strain, and the machinery has
given way but his personality, his mental
characteristics. his physical being, have
been merely transferred 90 another, who,
with youth and vigor, passes them on to
some one else
you may laugh al this now, but the
more you think It over the less you viii
laugh. That this Is so explains many sim
gular things. Have you met some one or
seen something that was unaccountably
familiar to you, and that made you feel
that you had seen IL before? Well, so you
had. The person who would say In this
age that the impression made upon the
brain Of a grandfather or great-grandfa-
Their cannot be transmitted from father
to son for several generations Is very
much behind the day. If man has been
a great general for several generations
you will not deny that the mental bent
can be transmitted to the Rreat-grand-
son. He wishes to be a soldier and ex-
hibits qualifications for that profession
without knowing why This is the A B G
Of inheritance. Is Il any more difficult to
believe that IL your seventh great-grand-
father lived In a home that was his chief
delight, that IL his son lived there and
also spent a life od devotion TO this place.
that you coming suddenly upon this
house, never having heard Of 1t, should
feel that you had seen Il before though
you knew not why? This Is a common phe-
nomenon and proves what / say that a
man does not die in the accepted sense; he
simply passes all his faculties to some one
else; his frame crumbles TO dust, but he
lives.
"Of course" added the learned bee keep
err, Cooking at 1t Ia this way man is
pretty well distributed around after a
while but 1t Is distribution, not death. /
make no attempt 10 urge my views. What
is the use? But IL is a consolation to me
that ! am going to live on for ages; not
by any reincarnation or any OF that kind
OF bosh, but live In my son or daughter,
influencing them all their lives"
Suppose you have no children" suggest
ed the listener
We'll" was the reply, "in that case you
revert back to some other branch and you
live, Of course, but greatly distributed and
your influence is liable to be lost In the
combination of hundreds of others But
mark my word, we never die in the ordi-
nary sense. Our body exists until Il Is
worn out, then disappears, and we reap
pear again--a sort of endless chain"