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Show THE UPWARD WAY. There is a professor of chemistry and anatomy in Indiana that for many years has devoted his life to the study of the elements of the animal body which create and sustain existence. He believes be-lieves he is close upon the discovery of the long sought for elixir of life, and claims that he has already succeeded in producing a salt which applied ap-plied externally and internally brought to life a boy who had been half an hour under water. This is referred to merely to call attention to the work that is going on in a thousand laboratories labora-tories to chase diseases to their very den and to impale them there. The old alchemists in their struggles to find this same elixir, this something which will give to mortals immortal life failed, but they gave to chemistry the dignity of a science and discovered many of the acids in use now. This same zeal is not confined to any one sphere. In Germany, hundreds of men are working through chemistry to add to the world's food productB Or to reduce to smaller forms the substance of the food now in- 1 use. Suppose an army could put eight days' rations ra-tions in their pockets, it would bo a step towards conquering the world. In the same line, the reduction of metals is being studied and it is not unreasonable to expect ex-pect that within a few years there will be no more rebellious ores, that the means to obtain from the rocks all the value that they possess and without loss, will be at hand. That has been the purpose from the beginning. It was the thought that mind should rule matter and that all nature should be subject to man's will. The floods will be overcome at last, the floods and the droughts. The means will be forthcoming to anticipate disasters dis-asters and to provide against them; as the world increases in population, to find new means to feed and warm the people, to bring out more and more of the productive properties of the soil and of the water; to cheapen food and clothing and to reduce to a minimum the fear of poverty and want. The more that science is probed, the more readily it yields its secrets and with each now door opened, the more rare become the treasures treas-ures revealed within. The Indiana professor will not discover the elixir of life, but he may discover wnat will be an antidote against many diseases, what will be such a reinforcement for bodily energy that lite may bo greatly prolonged and man's capacity for work be continued up to the time when the tissues tis-sues of the body, like a wornout machine, will run down and stop without a jar. It is good to think that mankind are to suffer less and less from disease, to enjoy more and more contorts and honest joys, for with increased blessings and decreased uffering, his mind will more and more put aside the brutalities of the race and be clothed with more and more graces. |