Show 4 C 4 sP I N i it t a r 4 r a 4 t r a r o 1 2 w fP i S f 1 Yo- Yo k v j Yx a f. f I. I w x n John Shell of r Lesl Leslie e County Kentucky Is Now Cutting His Fourth Set of Teeth Although Declared to Be in His Year 1 to By Joseph H. H Appelgate tT fr 0 O begin with there are 16 living reasons K t 1 I why longevity may be extended to the ripe P old age that enjoyed Bureaus I of pf vital statistics show that these reasons reasons 14 men and two women have lived a total of 1661 years The he four foul youngest of them are the oldest oldest- two of them tie them tie for high honors at years leach each The average age of the superannuated clan clanis lis is years Nary a one of them admits old age and all seem destined to go on defying the years There i John Shell of Greasy Creek near Hyden Hyden Hy- Hy den aen Leslie county Ky who was born in 1788 as the record records show Old He took unto hims himself lf a wife six years ago when he was Today i there is a year old son of that second marriage playing with the great grandchildren 1st J. J of this remarkable man who was turned down 00 When he be enlisted for the Mexican war because he was then too old for active service He remembers remembers re re- re- re members Daniel Boone he cast his first pres presidential presidential i- i vote for Polk he has a receipted tax bill paid in 1809 he helped clear Boones Boone's virgin forests for ests eats of Indians And he manages to get along ong enjoying life with a fourth set of teeth clear vision good hearing occasional horseback riding plenty of hard work which he says is the secret of long Jong life supporting his young wife well I.- I. But two individuals dispute the title of oldest oldest old est st man with Shell Unfortunately they cannot cannot can- can not hot attempt to prove their age as Shell can because because because be- be cause they haven't the records But if they are pretenders they are good ones for each says he has li lived ed years One is Domingo a 1 Digger bigger Indian of the Laguna Mountains Cal the other is Zorro a Turkish laborer at Constantinople Constant Constan- Constan F who complains he hasn't been favored by British employment since the Crimean war And there are the dozen others who have Reached or passed the century mark without a thought of cancelling their leases lenses on life Dr Andrew Macolm Morrison year old lecturer and musician of 1030 1020 South Hope street Loa Angeles Cal Cat recently celebrated celebrate his century mark by marrying Dr Mary Augusta Barne Barney who is young at 72 But apropos of marriage in advanced years years there there is no such thing in this page as old age how age how about Mr and Mrs Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Remsen Teller of Broadway New NewS York Vork city who w were re wed a few days ago after waiting 50 years for the death of their first mates mates' to free the way to the romance which began in S youth and was temporarily blighted for a half- half century tury because of a foolish lovers' lovers spat Look fet ht their photographs for which they posed for this page Do they look old oM Why they're just dust Its as ambitious as two kids of 20 embarking on the f flea feea of matrimony Then look at Ch Charles rIes Mur Murray y years ol old ala d gatekeeper of Trinity cemetery Washington Heights New York city Isn't he a afine alino fino fine lino looking old man Looks as sprightly a as John hell Two Women Past Past Century Century Mark I more than Here are the rest of the recorded OO No doubt there are arc man many many mo more e Whose names belong here Count Greppi the Italian Senator leads the tre list by Virtue of prominence He is But Thomas Morris Morris orris of Lincoln Lincoln- Neb belongs belong next to Shell because he is and can prove it Mrs Kather Kather- e of Lafayette avenue Brooklyn N N. Y and Mrs Sophia Orr of Morrison treet Syracuse N. N Y and respective respective- respectively lve- lve members of the favored circle Jy ly are arc the women jT dge Milton C. C Louden Loude of Linden active ft A 1 1 S 'S 9 Vv Ji V- V 1 u s V a i to tor i ii e J I. I J of ij 1 be I e 4 r 1 tJ 1 Simply a Matter of Counteracting the Damage Wrought by Phagocytes Declare Scientists Who Now Believe They Can Rebuild the Human Huma Body Faster Than Advancing Age Can Can- Disintegrate It J L k JJ t n I c J Jr r. r I r e i a i i G 1 i t n i r- r 6 r s w J e 1 at B- B Dandurand still attending to his clerical duties at in Winnipeg Manitoba David M. M Eddy for whom the town of Escondido Cal Cat held a public reception when he recently became became be he- came Capt John Black of Eastport Me just past Dr Joseph S. S Halstead of Breckenridge Breckenridge Breckenridge Breck- Breck enridge Mo who is John H. H Whitmore of West One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Thirty street New York city years old and Uncle Jake Jako Terry of f Ripley Miss now cutting third teeth are the others in the club Science Watches Life Decay Y Yet t all aIr these these scientists scIentists say a thousand years from now would be regarded as mere stripling children because men of the microscope area are about to snatch the secret of living to be a thousand thousand thou thou- s sand nd not from a miraculous fountain such as Ponce de Leon sought but from the miracle of life itself as it goes on in the body every mo mo- ment Science has taken a great stride forward It has found u d the cause of senescence has watched through powerful lenses the actual process of de de- de- de cadence Tiny little living Jiving things cause beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- youth to fade and wrinkle unto death eating away bone and muscle and life cell And the experimenters experimenters experimenters ex ex- are close on the discovery of of a means of feeding these microscopic destroyers so that they will stop eating the bodies they inhabit Can it be done Who can say no in face of the marvelous victories of science in the last half half- century Old men know that life is a grand scrap W Were We're cre born k kicking and kick against dying How many are aware aware that right in the body itself in inthe inthe inthe the viscera a few moments after the first feeding there begins in the baby a battle between cell and microbe which is really the beginning of the end of life This battle goes on ceaselessly Many things influence it It even continues after death But it is fascinating to study this struggle of life to live Great physicians long ago abandoned the purge and th the leech Now they loose in the blood of the sick millions of microbes Somehow the inoculation of the sick same germs from which they suffer increases the appetite and capacity capacity ca ca- of the phagocytes which feed on offending microbes To this treatment may be ascribed a good bit of the credit for the conquering of the which no longer should alarm the patient who obeys the But according to some phagocytes don dont don't t always attend to the business of feeding on disease germs germs Maybe they dont don't get enough to satisfy their t appetite Anyway they begin in inma inmans' inmans ma mans mans' s latter Jatter years an attack on muscle bone and cell which produces dissolution and decay This process is called Pictured on this page are striated muscle fibres showing how this process affects that important important important im im- im- im part of the human organism The little black spots were the result of No doubt the old fellow of 81 from whom the muscles were taken told his grandchildren he was suffering suffering suf suf- fering from rheumatics Look at the photograph of the bony matter in the sternum of the same man and see how that bone was destroyed The particular phagocytes that ate ato that bone were Instead of digesting the lime line they bit off the bone they spat it out It was then carried carried car car- ried in the current of the Jhc blood and deposited along the back This is auses the stoop in old age Compare these to t the e views of healthy anterior and posterior femur lemur bones produced on this page Now you can can understand how you could live Iwo r L to be a thousand even older if the scientists only find a way to stop this Of course it will be no simple matter For there are many things that are puzzling For instance old age can make just as many m many ny cells as youth they have discovered But why some phagocytes which feed fat on disease germs should also eat nerve and brain cells muscle and bone is more than they h have ve discovered They dont don't yet know whether this destruction is a cause or an effect of old age Just now they are studying to find a means of feeding these little rascally And when they do well do-well well there will be a need of some sort of international agency to find room to house the inhabitants of earth Many things scientists bave have learned greatly encourage their research It is a fact that certain glands of the body particularly in a man are impervious apparently to the onslaught of the They are seeking to determine just why it is that these glands can resist them t em while the brain cells often fall easy victims It is not so many years back that the smallest s1 At Right Section Right Section of Human Bone Disintegrating Disintegrating Dis Dis- integrating Under the Onslaught of Phagocytes Phagocytes Phagocytes Pha Pha- and at Left a Healthy Bone Free from Devouring Influence of Old-Age Old Germs I Photographic Micro Plate Showing How a Particle of Bone Marrow Is Attacked by and Devitalized bit of matter was called a particle Then molecules mole mote cules were discovered followed by atoms ions and electrons Will the tho powerful lenses of the tho thea a Newspaper r Feature Service 1020 t r At Right Right- Form of Disease i Germ Attacking I the Lime Substance 1 r of a Bone Causing ausin g It to Disintegrate and Decay Below Charles Below Charles Murray at t Years Still Active as a New York City G Gate te Keeper 1 Mi W r f Z 1 p f fw 5 w f frEE rEE J l r v P S r J r II J r 1111 1 How the the tle e Wicked Li Little the Germs Called Phagocytes 1 Attack the l Iu Muscle cle Fibres of the Aged g d Causing using jl r Cramps ra Stiffness and nd Other Infirmities V J I F f Li a c e Ij J o x 9 Y Ya a l 9 1 25 4 s s P b I Ig experimenters eventually discover l life e smaller than the phagocyte life that lives within the phagocyte just justas as the phagocyte lives within human hu man life Is that the secret of life Recently Recently- relatively speaking it was discovered that th the most infinitesimal part of a piece of steel is is' inconstant inconstant in inconstant constant motion For ages such a thing was not even suspected Who would have been permitted outside the padded cell who made the assertion a few years ago that everything on earth is in motion Is it the same with cellular life Is life a series of f concentric living organisms Well science is not particularly interested in nn whether it is or not For it is turning its attention attention attention atten atten- tion to and brings to bear on that all all- important all subject all the skill anI and the experience experience experience ex- ex and the indefatigableness which has brought about so many wonders in the past half- half century But it may occur that in the study of life lifo within life the microscope micros ope may eventually Bis- Bis is- is cover the cell the multiple possession of which constitutes constitute t what we like to call a constitution You have s seen seen en it many times the spectacle of a. a little anaemic chap attacked by a disease conquering conquering con con- it with appa apparent ent ease case while the big fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low was gathered unto his fathers in a few short hours or days Recall what havoc influenza made among the so-called so healthy Far the greater great great- er number of its victims were were strong and rugged folk They lacked that something in their blood which the family doctor calls constitution What is this constitution While some scientists claim that old age cannot be inherited they grudgingly admit it has been long recognized recognized that a man who comes of a a. a long-lived long family family fam fam- ily has ha's a tend tendency to Jong longevity vi The first qu ques- ques s. s I t I tio tion tion that an J agent asks one orle one is How Haw How old were yo yo- your r parents parents parents' when died if they 9 f they skY jj W are dead Scientists wag their heads a and d maintain a a J i l strange silence when es- es i about the possibility passi j. j r Y that there may be 00 bea a tin tiny cell too small for jf detection th the microscope microscope micro- micro Ii by 2 scope w which hi c h. h is in fn i n 1 itself ts e If j the elixir of l life e which J ii men have sought X i began A living Jiving organism organism organ organ- j ism S so o 0 infinitesimally i r rJ small that it mIght be be 1 transmitted In a a. a drop of J protoplasm and through t J. J a mysterious s a ag agency g e n ncy c y if f ft propagate itself a as aa s t the the h e J hrs hr's t child grows into an army V against which disease and and f. r 7 the pro process c e s s of 4 N must battle longer before overcoming the perso person per per- per person son so in whose blood they they- t ey- ey t i exist c r rny Investigation on has disclosed disclosed t that t the ductless I i v j glands of of the body contain organisms known as as V tf hormones What they are has ha not ot yet b been d de de- jm 9 But it has been established that when when h they disappear from the glands the the luckless individual in- in m. m f f r r. r S does not death Are these f t gf i organisms the the tiny guardians of life of-life life ife 0 or are they hey o. o only colonies colonies' of more microscopic living things Jh a VI which are part of them them- 1 Science has not ye yet f 7 t concluded f t i According g to Dr J Jacques a ques Loeb of the Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- j r feller feUer In Institute old age is a disease c by iV g-iV 1 iJ taking into the foreign organisms He Wo t- t s f believes that medicine can indefinitely post postpone ne V iJ death if the patient begins treatment as soon a as t n r rJ something so goes wrong with his system J 1 fy Dr Loeb says j iDeath i- i l Death i is not inherent in the i individual divid al cell Ji i but is only the fate of more complicated organ- organ t- t t. t t v 3 fi f 9 u. u I s i 7 I I 1 r fJ p pi i tf a 3 s sF F r I. I t Iii ii t. t s sF ij f A j fP j a aR R r 5 J L I 14 ii K Mr and Mrs Edward Remsen Teller To- To Year Old Bride and Groom Jest Just J Married Marred After a Courtship Dating Back Bac iy Half a Century Ir isms in itt which types of cells or ti c a Ii 4 J Jare each other are dependent on Death of 4 r i complex organisms may be traced to the activity F of a black sheep in the society of tissues and a d organs organs or or- x gans which constitute a organism m t e tj apparently believed that the he pha was wa the black sheep and many scientists 3 agreed with him So having baving discovered that that 10 much with an even break as the expression v goes science may may ay soon usher in tho the era of the year old man Inan L. L L. L if 1 y 4 u S j w t h th f |