Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-21 | Page 10 | Who Are Old Men, Dr. Osler?

positions, then retired as the grand old man of Maryland, but now he has resumed.' -And seriously, we believe that the increase in general intelligence in the country, in the added skill of the medical medi-cal profession, the added remedies for disease which have been discovered, the added knowledge which the average nan has of his own system and what is hurtful to it, will show In the census of 1920 that the average of human life has been .prolonged fifteen years in the last one . hundred, and fhe time may come, as some scientists believe, when the secret principle on which human life exists and when it is better known what wears out the body and the antidote anti-dote can be found for it, it is not Impossible that the average ave-rage of human life will be a full century. There was a physician in Paris some years ago who said he had . found out what caused waste in the human system and how to remedy it, and that he should live until some accident caused his death. He kept his word up to over one hundred years, and then was killed by being tossed out of a carriage. The only drawback to that theory is that a good many men live longer than they ought to as it is, at least they live until the event of their funeral, except ex-cept as a matter of courtesy, is no longer held as a sorrowful sorrow-ful occasion. i WHO ARE OLD MEN, DR. 0SLER? , If Dr. Osier will look over the record of the United States Senate he will see what a fraud he la Mr. William Pinckney Whyte takes an oath as Senator at the age of eighty-two to succeed the late Senator Gorman, and those who know him say that he is a bigger, brighter, stronger jjjbjj than Senator Gorman ever was. Then Senator Pettus Is eighty-live. Senator Morgan eighty-two, and Morgan can oat-talk any man in the Senate, that is, so far as time is ooncerned. He has but to stand up and open his mouth "ind the) words flow in continuous stream without halt or testation for three, four, or five hours, or, if the Senate will listen, for two days. Time has lost its limitations when it come to Senator Morgan'! speeches, and then there are but two or three Senators In the nail that can talk as well as Morgan. This new Senator Whyte of Maryland was a ' Senator forty year ago. JAfter that he held distinguished