Show WHY SHOULD WN DIE t I 1 mod of our readers will answer this without hesitation by saying beca we cant help it I 1 but there are otin e r opinions lons dr IV A ham mond of chicago has i theodys theorys which it not now Is in A new shape regarding the caute of death and the means by which be prolong edin le finitely ile claims that peolar die through their agnor ance of the lawt which govern their existent exi stend nod also because of their inability or unwillingness to give heed to those with which they are ac quainter quain ted lie ference is made to the first chapter of genesis in which the forbidden fruit episode is referred toas ing that the life of man WIS to be eternal but the acquisition of chii knowledge of good evil decay overtook him the it I 1 1 I 1 thereupon presented that it would b more in accordance with the actual affairs at the present time to believe that death comes ith loss oll n deage rather than it as file Is lost not through A of knowledge but an of ignorance the astonishing con elusion Is then presented that there joe ariot win to be any physiological rason why uia n should die at all to use his own language from a I 1 knogge of the causes of greater titan that possessed fifty ago and from the advance of medical science leading to batter methods of treating tile deviations from the nor mal health are subject the life of a generation has vt it hin I 1 lie period mentioned been lengthened lenth ened from fire to six years that is man instead of living thirty years as he did fifty years azo now lives nearly thirty six years looking at tile stion alion this only it will be seen that it Js merely a of time when his we will be extended to thousands thou sandi of I 1 years and that with an eternity of ehno his life also will be eternal this is very ingenious and thereupon the doctor reasons that we know that this life Is continued through the I 1 death of the various atoms of the sey eral tissues that enter into the corn po bivion of body his mans are I 1 kept in action by force and the fore does all the metamorphosis of matter thus to obtain heat we burn wood or coil and isbee and gases are evolved in the process to generate electricity we convert zinc or some other metal in to salt through the action of in acid and elec trimly in set free in the body the brain the heart thil liver the muscles all act wk the destruction or rather alteration of the substance of which they ar com pod avith every thinht that ein injates i the brain with every emotion which it feels with every act of the will it orl ell till every perception which t a certain D the acet aral tissue Is broken down into simpler onit tance and through barf oui c hanne leja excreted from the I 1 body with every pulsation that the 1 vt k tk t k 1 tira ti ra z amal I 1 abo ugh it may be in amount Is destroyer eJ andis cast I 1 1 tem to anka irwin for new substance 1 with every contraction of a mawle no maffer how small from the effort required to jirld the heaviest kind of a madse hammer to that necessary to lift a pin or to crook A finger or to I 1 tissue dies and being noi fitted for the pur posts for aich it was formed is taken up ty the veins and like that coming from he brain and the heart and the the stomach and aalthe I 1 other organs which serve the pur aws of the body Is gotten rid of through the kidneys and the skin and the respiration to be reformed 0 ut side of tle bisted into other subi I 1 stances which in the i r turn make the food by which the my Is again dished A very and easily accepted point is contained in the statement that th a food that man takes into his h ought to be of such quantity I 1 and aliby as would exactly the which through the action of ilia several organs his body Is to undergo if it is excessive in either of these directions or if it Is deficient disease of some kind will certainly be the Y he know to be able his daily food to the ex I 1 Pitted dily d ily requirements of his EYE tem digesse could never ensue abr ugh alib exhaust on of any one of his vital organs A large majority of the morbid affections to which he Is are due to a lack of this knowl leam it Is ver mors plainly in dannem for instance that a man on suppa n he mumin should isay to himself roday ro day I 1 have to read ten PA a of Blac kannes commentaries 0 twenty oddon tol walk thres aillean ant 8 half to pay A visit of eiolf an hours duration to my grandmother and to take my heart to the theater cibere I 1 1 1 A 0 hours to ao this I 1 4 tn 9 atit his pencil and hook as ito so much carbon slot nitrogen nit of coil I 1 lie exact eighton eight of these say end I 1 can gt rie quantities from eight ow ea ill four ounces of eggs t of beef six ounce it 1 atlea figur ounces 0 fish a bif h I 1 lit beef stoup eight ounces of W tr I 1 ounce of fre t mke them P a little bould in case 1 I 1 forve any demand kilada ul wk ins for mental r phy seal exe tion I 1 have to add to abeso I 1 a othra which vill com pe n 11 te for the loss N w that lie is exactly bulit in ha and that the arv Is neither too great nor too litle but compensates the anticipated loses los es th 10 death of each cell in the brain or t or tile be followed by the birth of a new cell which will take its place and assume its functions I 1 a fe w could be na pos sible objections to the doc torte ide not only being accepted but working perfectly in tw in the result stalled for example if aman were sentenced to for life he I 1 aiho pitt illa I 1 MM our I 1 1 4 ia M wa 1111 71 7 l 1 1 P 1 WI pit 1 15 V 09 jr I 1 ir 11 1 I 1 avona of men lie would bo apt to get tired of it and want to it in the usual way after he had been locked or four hundred yeats pe chaps much earlier and it a fel low had a rich aunt and he ivas her only heir the thought that she would never depart for it better world might be of a dampener upon his feelings merlou l the doctor carries his theory altoe neither eton enor me tile exposed to tile attrition of the air alone will last forever and tile handiest hardiest har diest trees although some of thein Inte dotto the savior by several bun d red years have decay written upon every branch and must succumb at put if he speaks in the C P aratine degree he is right tile duration of life compared to hat it ough L to and w 0 uld be with proper babits and care 0 28 very trifling lini instead of being the exception should bo thil rule |