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Show V -MAY LIVE FOR- TillEE: HUNDRED WEIRS Iiow Tr.xnty:FiYe Years Old, but Is Advancing Mentally and Physically Physi-cally at One-Sixth Rate. ' : i . t DELPHI, Ind.. April J 10. Clyde Harner, who lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harner, at Radnor, a small town four miles, south of Delphi, Is not only the smallest man in Indiana, but is attracting attention in the medical medi-cal world In a way that has never been known before. ' , i ... Dr. O. a 'Campbell of Flora, one of Indiana's most prominent physicians, has startled the medical fraternity with the statement that Clyde Harner will live S0O years, or even thore. Harner will be 25 years old next September, Sep-tember, yet he is only thirty-six Inches in height tand weighs but thlrty-flve , pounds, j ' j l a5 birth Clyde weighed ten pounds , Jl$l was different In no way from other J children. He grew'and progressed rap- idly and in a normal way until he was 5 t i. years old, when hie development, both mental and physical, was suddenly and mysteriously arrested. I He looks to be a young boy, and In every respect, save age. is a young boy. He is developing In every particular, bat at only one-sixth the natural rate. He eats but three meals per week, sleeps twenty-four hours and plays twenty-four hours, nor have his habits in this respect varied In nineteen years. As the years go by they have only one-sixth the usual jfKect upon this remarkable re-markable man, aner this fact has been eo apparent that it attracted the attention atten-tion of Dr. Campbell about a year ago and caused him to finally announce that the little man would live three hundred .years. Statement Seems Preposterous. The statement seems strikingly preposterous, pre-posterous, yet when the learned doctor's line of argument is considered, there is made apparent a strange feasibility about It that attracts the notice of the most conservative medieal authorities. "The boy will live to be 300 years old, just as sura as I have lived to be sixty." said Di. Campbell. "Have you ever no- ticed,". he continued, "that some men are old at SO years, while others are young at 70? I attach the greatest importance im-portance to this variance of time at which different men become 'aged.' "That some men become sear and old at what is commonly called a premature prema-ture time, because of dissipation, is a theory almost universally accepted, yet It is all wrong. While debauchery may in a small degree hasten gray hairs and a bent form, it does not of itself produce pro-duce that condition. I . "Longevity depends upon a physiolo- ttleal condition of the person in infancy, y"h!s is a fact I have myself discovered. ' t The seed of vitality Is planted at an early time, and is always unimpaired through life by any other element. "Years are piling up on that remarkable remark-able boy, but, as you see," he is not get- j ting old. The chemical change of each j cell in his whole anatomy is deferred and progresses only one-sixth as fast as that of an ordinary person. Live Six Times as Long. ! "Why will he not then last six times as long as an ordinary person? He is not wasting away. He is growing, slowly but surely. Six years to him are the same in effect as one year to you three hundred, to him would be thirty-three to you. It is scientific, though amazing. This boy's career will startle the world. Now, mind ne." There are other prominent physicians who hold the same view as Dr. Camp- bell and are just as enthusiastic in making ma-king the announcement of what they regard as a new and startling discovery in life history. Clyde's parents have received numerous numer-ous offers from circus managers, but they refuse to place him on exhibition. He has never been more than a mile from his Radnor home. At the present time Clyde is learning his a, b, c's and can count up to ten. |