Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — Goethe and His Doppelgaenger. [ARTICLE]

Goethe and His Doppelgaenger.

Goethe, when a young man, was jsesting by the roadside on one occasion when he observed the figure of a mid-dle-aged gentleman approaching him on horseback. There was something in the stature and general appearance of the stranger t.iat attracted ,his attention in .a iharked degree, for the face and figure seemed to be his own, although much older and more developed. In their costume, however, there was no similarity whatever, for while the stranger wore the robes of a councilor of state, the young poet wore the ordinary dress of civil life. In the course of years afterward and when the circumstances had been near* ly forgotten it was brought before him

again in the most startling manner, for one day while passing the very spot l where he had long since encountered -the stranger, he found himself similarly mounted and riding along leisurely and perceived that in form and feature he was now the very counterpart of the mysterious horseman and, to crown the miraele, that his costume was the same to the minutest detail, as he was himself now a councilor of state also.— Belford’s Magazine.