WHAT SAVED UNCLE JOE old lifting machine that long ago proved a health preserver the secret ot perpetual youth which has permitted uncle joe cannon to be as young as he Is at 72 has just been rediscovered here by a former senator from new hampshire says the washington correspondent of the boston herald henry W blaar who Is no youngster himself having been born in 1834 and the present speaker were fellow members of the house 30 years ago doth at that time were in poor health they suffered from in digestion and were so frail and puny looking that each anticipated the ne cessley ot purchasing a bouquet to place with reverent hands upon the grave of the other they lived in the same boarding house in those days and to prolong their lives entered into partnership for the purchase of a lifting machine which they erected in a hallway outside of their rooms and upon which they practiced diligently night and morning with a view to the improvement of their physical beings the other day mr blaar in rum magling around his house stumbled in an attic upon the lifting apparatus long since discarded it reminded him of the days when he and cannon were on the erge of the grave and despaired of attaining old age in great excitement he went down to the capt tol hunted up uncle joe and broke the news to him joe said he do you remember way back yonder when you and I 1 dlan t think we would live more than a weeke I 1 certainly do said uncle joe 1 I think you were the thinnest sickest man in the world and I 1 lived in constant fear that I 1 would have to buy pair of black globes and walk slow ba hand your hearse member that old lifting machine we used to have you bet I 1 do said senator diala and I 1 found it this morning just aa good as new too be over to try my muscle in a day or two laughed the speaker it certainly was a health preserver all right