The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-08
A VETERAN OF '7e.
A Practicing Physician Claims to be
 125 Years old.

Philadelphia Record:
 4, Phiiadelphia boasts of it's old insti-u- af ti9ps fs.an and M it's old people too The oldts; I IS cia Hed She declares her ago to be :si yeats n inmats of the Homo for In ',rnl anG reed Colorcd Persons thIs wo man is practically helpless
 But for activity and health the wonder or all the old wonders is Dr. Charles smith, if a mistake has not been made as 70 . the date Of his birth. He claims to be To years old, and looks to be good for SC years more.
 A practicing physician. this man has many patients and he does a full day 6 work every twenty-four hours. Living at Egg Harbor City, N. J., Dr. Smith comes to this city once every Wednesday, when he spends a half dozen or more busy
 Yes, I am 125 years old" the doctor said to a reporter who called on him. He lsNof middle height and stout. His face Is very red and his huge white mustache face look still .redder. As he spoke he rose from his desk and paced the room with youths springiness.
 tember 25. i77s. in illinois. There was, ss though. no Illinois then; there was only wilderness. The place where was born is about 50 miles from the present Cairo. ' He stated that he had been married three times and that his third wife was still living. A son was born to him in 1866. he said, when he was 09 years old.
 lO WHdL uO yUu lInpuIe your lOnG nIe and your excellent health?' was asked
 "To my medical studies the physician replied. 'I was graduated from the medi- cal school of the University of Jena. in 1908. and from there I went to Persia-to a city whose name I can't recall-and in this city studied medicine for nine years more. in college of the Parsees. The Parsees understand medicine much more thoroughly than we do. and they live in a much simpler and much more whole some way. It is really not uncommon to md smong M them vigorous men of the age Of 200 years and over."
 art of liTing?' ' 'ee' 'e' us III 'he oh. they prepare their food more care everything" said Dr. smith. They eS .sleep e1 precisely seven hours every night they walk and exercise in the open air every morning, and they go in ardently for
 Dr. Smith added that the Parsees know almost all there Is to know about the medical properties of herbs, and that this tknowledge, td too. helps them very greatly
 Why, the Parsee physicians can tel what Is the matter with you if you are il without asking you question or looking at your tongue or feeling your pulse" ht went on. They tell by your face-by tn, lines In it-for every disease has its owi peculiar markings that appear on thu markings are as legible, as intellgible a. print. myself read the lines of tn, face. It took me six years to learn tha | one thing alone''
 | pr. Smith said he remembered Wash ington, Franklin and Madison
 saw Washingt on when I was 10 year.
 old he declared. Tt was near Mt Yer non. Washington got out of his car
 riage to talk to my grandfather, Charles
 Smith, whom he knew well. I remembe 1 the President as a tall, rather slende
 man: with broad shoulders and deel chest He wore knee brooches, low shoes | with silver buckles, and a long coat. bu | l can't remember the color of hi | clothes"
 At Dr. Smiths place at Egg Harbo | City there Is a spring in which he wade
 every day, winter and summer. The olt | man still has his own teeth, which arr
 excellent; his eyesight is keen and hi
 muscles strong and supple.