Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1889.

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HOW HE BECAME YOUNG. rfrom the Spanish. One August afternoon, in the year 1S70, I met, at the outskirts of Berunegul, in the San Bias mining region, not far from the town of Legutiano, a company of villagers who were following the body of a chiM to the cemetery. The little corpse reclined upon a cushion surrounded hy flowers, and, as is customary in that country, was borne upon the head of an old womn. Moved by idle curiosity, I inquired whoso child it was. "No one knows, sir," replied a villager; "it was found, alive and naked, there in the glen some two years ago ; was taken to the house of Gus3urrandi and continued, little by little, shrinking, shrinking, and falling away, until it became like a newborn infant, finally ceased to nurse, and died. Stranger Ptill, its face wrinkled like an old man', and its fingers aro burned and stained like those of one in the habit of smoking a pipe." The details aroused my curiosity, and I joined the party in order to obtain a view of the strange corpse. Before it was deposited in the grave, while the women wept and prayed, I examined it. The villager was right ; the body certainly presented a most incomprehensible appearance. Imagine a newly lorn child, the forehead and cheeks marked with hard, callous wrinkles, the half-opened eyes retaining an expression of marked intelligence, and the upper portion of the thumb and index-finger of each hand yellow and discolored like those of an old smoker. The child being buried, I returned with the party to Berunegui to pass the night with the Gussurrandi family, being well acquainted with them. "What did that child die of?" I asked mv hosts. "Ah, Mr. Richard," replied the wife, "it must have been a case of witchcraft, for a stranger thing never happened. When we first found the child it ate bread, meat and pottage; afterward the four teeth it bad fell out. it quit eating, seemed to lose all knowledge of persons and things, and we were compelled to suckle it, and in the last days of its life it lost even the power to do this. When first discovered it peemed a well-sized child, but it gradually shrank to half its original size. The exrression of its eyes was remarkably inteligent; it acted at times as if it wished to epak, seemed to understand perfectly all that was said, and appeared continually laboring under some mysterious and terrible agitation." "And you have no idea as to where it came from ?" "Not the slightest. One day, on returning from work we found it, quite naked, amidst a heap of old clothing. It aroused our pity, we took it in and cared for it. Among the clothing there was a bundle of papers and an old pipe." "Where are these objects?" "I have them all in a box," replied my host; "but as I cannot read, 1 have never examined them closely. One day I showed them to the priest, but he told me they were written in Biscayan, and he could not understand them." "Bring them! Bring them!" I cried excitedly. "I will bring them, but will you read them all, every bit, to us?" "Yes, friend Gussurrandi, all, and will make all as plain as possible." So, after suprer, a lamp was lighted and placed at my side, and, after the men had filled and lighted their pipes and all taken seats around me, I unrolled the bundle of papers given me by my host. It was composed oi many leaves of different sizes, ages, and styles of writing. I arranged them in order, and, with ever-increasing astonishment and curiosity to myself as well as my listeners, read the following: The 20th of August, 1785, completed my eighty-fifth year, and I found myself in the kitchen oi my beautn-.il home, seated at the table with Don Juan Manuel de Ursubil, a tamed empiric, a man of great ability and recondite knowledge, whom I had known intimately from youth. My children and grandchildren, after celebrating the anniversary of my birth, had retired to their homes. The empiric, myself, and an old serving-woman, who waited upon me, were alone in the house. It was 1 o'clock in the morning, we had 6inoked thirty-four pipes of tobacco and drunk five jars of cider, and, though at that time 1 was rugged as an oak tree and of an exceptional constitution, so much smoking and drinking caused my head to spin. The empiric was even worse than myself. For more than an hour he talked unceasingly of humors, clavicles, systems, plasters, and other things of which I understood not a word. I listened 6ilentlv. "You do not answer me," he finally paid. "What can I answer?" "You might say something, man. "What are vou thinking of?" "That I am very old and shall not last much longer." Juan Manuel struck the table with his fist, and, with a loud lauern, exclaimed: " '.Not much longer' what folly ! Why. you can live as longa the fancy strikes you." "Truly r "Surely. I have a secret of everlasting life; but I fear the inquisition and the priests, if they learned of it. I would be taken for a sorcerer andit would go hard with me." "Juan Manuel, are you telling ma the truth?" "The exact truth. Ah, if I could but find one who did not wish to die." "You could easily find many." "You are mistaken. Men are peculiar in their modes of reasoning; they fear death, but they fear more the operation they must undergo U escape death. They would rather die taan suffer for a few days." My brain reeled. This learned man expre.ed himself with such positive conviction that it already seemed to me that death no longer existed. There was an . ineffable satisfaction in the thought. We drank several more glasses. The old nervant was sound asleep. The stocking she had been knitting bad fallen from her hands, and the cat was playing with the yarn. "Why do you not make a proof of your theory upon yourself?" I at length asked the empiric. "What nonsense! How could I operate upon mywlf, when the performance demands all my care, observation and Btrength?" We a train Telapsed into silence. My eighty-five years weighed heavily upon me ; a new life appealed to me too strongly to be resisted. I decided, and rising middenly cried; "J do not wish to diel Dispose of me!" "Done!" answered Juan Manuel, rubbing his hands with pleasure: "eighty or eighty thousand years hence we will again drink cider in honor of th 20th of Aupust." He arose staggering, seized my arm, and paid : "Let us go." "Where?" "To my honsc. This very night all hall be accomplished." "Iet us go then." And in my ühirtleeves, jmt m I wm, we set out, unsteadily, reefing and stumbling, toward his bouse. On reaching his room, Juan Manuel lit a lmp, took off his hat and coat, opened a drawer of a table from which he took an apparatus composed of wires, bandages,

tubes and bulbs, with wooden keys, then rooled up his sleeves, pushed a bed from an adjoining alcove into the center of the room, placed a large copper kettle beside it on the floor, and turning to me said, smilingly: ".Now placo yourself at full length on the bed, and remain perfectly "quiet" I extinguished my pipe and threw myself upon the bed, stretching myself out as much as possible. The empiric then produced a lancet, and, after feeling my left arm, made a broad incision in one of the veins. I heard the plashing of the blood as it fell into the caldron, while Juau Manuel busied himself preparing his strange apparatus. This must have consumed a quarter of an hour, when I began to feel horribly weak and faint from loss of blood. All effects of intoxication had disappeared. From time to time the empiric felt my pulse, murmuring as ho continued his work : "More ; more yet !" I do not know how long a time elapsed, but I suddenly found that I could not move; I was consumed by thirst, but could not make an articulate sound; I could only lie thero and listen to the monotonous dripping, dripping of the blood as it fell into the caldron. My sense of vision, though, had remained remarkably clear and distinct. The empiric again felt my pulse. "Good!" he exclaimed; "a little more" and, finally, "Enough!" and he remained contemplating me for some time in a species of abstraction. Then he bound up the wound, and taking 6ome small pieces of linen, moistened in water, he introduced them into my mouth, pushing them into my throat, using for this purpose the wooden handle of a spoon. Then he closed my nostrils with pieces of dampened tow. "So!" he said, when this was accomplished, "we are progressing finely. Now breathing almost imperceptibly, and with the heart barely fluttering, we'shall come within a step of death, but that step we will not take." My condition was now simply indescribable. I seemed to have no body, for only the head retained warmth and life. A terrible oppression weighed upon my breast, my ribs seemed crushed in, and I felt an intense agony in every respiration as I inhaled a little air through the damp cloths. My head seemed burning, and the slow pulsation of my heart reverberated in my ears like the blows of a hammer. Juan Manuel, after contemplating me for some time, took a deep drink. "It is necessary," he said, "my nerves must be steady." lie then went out and returned in a short time, carrying in his arms one of his grandsons, a beautiiul four-year-old child, who appeared wrapped in a profound slumber. He laid the child down beside me and made the sign of the cross over it. "My plan," he said, communing with himself, "must have occurred to many; but the actual problem is that the regenerating blood shall not come in contact with the air; that it shall pass warm, pure, full of life and throbbing with power, from the heart of the child to the almost lifeless old man. The old man loses his blood; there it is in the caldron, weakened and vitiated by tho sins and pains of eighty-five years. Tho child is going to transmit his almost entirely ; but it will not matter, for, after eight days, the little that will te left will have multiplied, and the child will be as robust as before. Blood is fire; a ßingle drop serves for the base of a life. I know there are doctors in Salamanca and Alcala who laugh atme, for it is the privilege of men of science to laugh with impunity at others, whether they are riht or wrong. But after my friend shall have lived for two thousand years, where, then, will be the doctors of Salamanca ?" lie again placed his hand over my heart; it scarcely fluttered, and the noise in my ears had died away. "Now is the time," he exclaimed ; "he will feel nothing now." He then took the strange apparatus from the table and enveloped my neck with its bandages, doing likewise with the child, who etill remained without moving at my side. "e.t, from rTier large vessel he took a dark ointment, with which he smeared the wooden keys of his apparatus and also my neck, all but one side, where, by means of a cupning-elass, he had drawn the flesh into a roll. The bulbs were squeezed together, the tubes in which they termined adhering firmly to my own and the child's neck. Among the wires constituting the apparatus wero two long and strong ones which the empiric, grasping with both hands, gave a sudden jerk, as if he wished to separate them ; at the same instant I felt a sharp pain in the side of my neck and the child gave a terrible start. Then a cloud passed before my eyes, but I could still hear Jean Manuel rubbing his hands with pleasure and murmurin2 to himself: "It beats, it beats! after twenty years of thought and Btudy the air does not not enter the priests and doctors are vanquished!" On opening my eyes, on the following day, I found myself stretched upon the same bed. The empiric was beside me. I endeavored to speak, but could not; the empiric placed his finger on his lip and shook his head. "You now have within vour veinp," he said, "the revivifying blood of youth. You will begin life anew at the age of four years. What terrible heat ! A hundred and eighteen pulsation; the new blood pours through your veins like a torrent in a mill-race. This fever will last for fifteen days, during which time you must take nothing but milk. My little grandson is resting well; in six more days he will have recovered. Ah, my apparatus is a marvel." At this juncture a knock came at the door, and my old servant, Maria Anton, entered. "What has become of my master," ehe asked. "Here he is, a little indisposed because, in accompanying mo home, he stumbled, and" "That accursed cider I" "No, Maria, it was owing to the darkness. Two of his ribs are misplaced, but inside of fifteen days he will be all right." Maria Anton, thus reassured, departed. "J'oor old woman!" mused the empiric; "how many of your granddaughters will have to wait upon your master!"

I For many days the empiric paid me hourly visits, ieeung uiy pulse, giving me milk, and talking to himself. My condition was very peculiar. My whole body was burning with a fevcriRh heat, and I experienced a general trembling.with light pains in the chest, back and ribs on drawing a breath, but felt a eensution of restful satisfaction when the air waj cxpellod from my lungs. By degrees my strength returned, and at the end of twenty days, accompanied by Juan Manuel, I returned to my own house. "I believe your life is now assured for another epoch," he said, as wo approached my door, ''but you must be careful, as it is, of course, exposed tho ame as before to disease and violent accidents. I have merely lengthened your days by renewing the vital element which sustains lite : what you should do is to be silent and watchful." Some time passed, and my health and strength became enviable, save for that strange, persistent pain in the breast accompanying each respiration. Yet I could niver convince myself that Juan Manuel had succeeded in bis undertaking, but looked upon tho operation us a grave indiscretion, committed while we were both intoxicated, and I expected to dio at the ueual age of mankind. i'lve yearn later my face was more ruddy, my pulso stronger, my appetite and strength doubled, and strangest of all, the bald portion of my head tubs again

covered with beautiful gray hair and the wrinkles on my hands had disappeared. Juan Manuel," then just turned seventy, was mad with exultation ; he would spend whole hours smoking and contemplating me with all the affection and interest of an artist looking at his work. "What puzzles me," I said, "is that constant pain in my breast." "And me, also," he replied; "I have been thinking of that for three years without being able to discover the cause. It seems to me, after five years, my grandson's blood should have become accustomed to flowing through your veins." After three more years my face was still rosier, my health and strength greater; in fact, my wonderful vitality terrified all my friends". On mv one hundredth birthday I entertained all the relatives who had assisted at the celebration of my eightyfifth, that is, all save some eighteen who had passed away. The empiric, meanwhile, had aged greatly, and his health was visibly failing from day to day. Only in his eyes gleamed " the old expression of vivacity and satisfaction. One morning, very early, he came to my house, and, shutting himself in my room, said to me: "You aro now convinced?" "Yes, my friend, entirely convinced." "Well, then, we must wait no longer. I feel very old, and, to tell the truth, the idea of "dying does not suit me, holding as I do life in my hands. But there is a difficulty in the way; we cannot continue living here to repeat and exploit my discovery; they will persecute us relentlessly. It is therefore necessary for you to make a great sacrifice for me. Let us go to France." "To France!" "Yes, there we shall enjoy our mavellous conquest; there I shall initiate you into my secret; you will operate upon me, and a thousand years from now we shall be able to give an account of ourselves." "I owe vou this second life and will obey you.' I collected some gold I had laid by, bought two good mules, and, under the pretense of paying a vow to the virgin of Aratte, took the road to the frontier. We established ourselves in Bordeaux, and Juan Manuel began to instruct me in

his secret. My intelligence, far from weakening, seemed clearer than ever; and my eyes, which had been far-sighted, bad become strong and regular. Still, sometimes, I felt a vague pain on thinking I should never die; Juan Manuel was astounded; my hair was gradually turning black, and my appetite becoming daily more enormous; but his consternation was complete when I one day told biro that I had become much enamored oi the daughter of our hostess. Mile. Busant, and Mas inclined to marry her. As all tho world knows, the entire city was aroused when the news went out that I, an old man of a hundred and six years, wa3 going to take a wife. They pursued me, caricatured me, besieged me our house became a perfect Babel. "Your madness may cost us dear," the empiric said to me, with great sadness; "now that I am ready for you to operate upon me, you have doubled your age, and soon all France will le talking about you. I am profoundly disgusted with you and feel like abandoning you and dying myself, if you do not listen to me. Will you hear me?" continued the old man, beginning to weep. "Yes," I replied, "I am all yours." "Well, then, abandon Mile. Busant, forget the insensate love, and let us flee from here." "But whither?" "To any of tho American colonies; and as soon as we land, you will operate on me." I eeparated therefore from my aggrieved little lady as diplomatically as possible, leaving her a magnificent present, and, almost in secret, we set out for Vera Cruz in an English vessel. During the tedious passage wo entertained ourselves by conversing amicably, always, though, upon the same theme. "What I cannot explain," said the empiric, "is your complete and entire regeneration. After my wonderful operation, it was natural that you should have retained your aped appearance, gray hairs, baldness, etc., indefinitely, the new blood merely maintaining your actual state. But it has been exactly the reverse ; you are younger, stronger and more full of life each day." "As for myself," I answered, "what annoys me is this complete revolution here in my breast." "I have not forgotten that either." said the empiric; "night after night I have revolved it in my brain, until I feel as if I were going mad." And once again Juan Manuel resumed his discussion of his apparatus, plans, hopes and glory. One afternoon, as I was enjoving a siesta, he came to my with dilated eyes, pulled me from mv bed, and dragged" me on deck to a solitary spot where, seizing me by the neck, he made a careful examination of the scar left by the famous operation. At its conclusion he fell into my arms completely overcome, saying, as he wiped away a tear: "Well, we have done it." "What?" I interrogated. "That cursed drink! Horror, horror, and a thousand times horror! You are the most unfortunato of men, my poor friend." "What are you saying ? "What have you discovered in me?" Seizing me by the hands, he dragged me back to our cabin. "At last," ho exclaimed, "I have found the explanation of the pain of your abnormal respiration of your astonishing regeneration. When, on that never-to-be-forgotten night, I injected the blood of my grandson into your veins, I was a little a little " "Exhilarated, eh?" "That's it, exhilarated. That unlucky cider! You scarcely lived; your veins were empty after the "great bleeding. On performing tho operation, I lanced the child in an artery, and oh. curse of drunkenness! in you I opened a vein. The action of your heart wai bo weak the rush of new blood reversed it. Through your veins rushes arterial blood, and through your arteries venous blood flows. No wonder there were pains in your chest. Your heart and lungs act contrarily. Your circulation is reversed and you live tho reverse of all men. our organization is being reconstructed exactly contrary to what happens to ail other men; while they journey toward old ago, you travel toward infancy. You aro not a hundred and six years old, you aro only seventyfour; eleven years younger than I, because we must count backward from the day of the operation. O God, forgive me, forgivo mo! "But, man," I said, "what of all this? I feel well; what can happen to me?" "Unhappy man, you will be seventy years old, then fifty, forty, and after " "But can you not correct this?" "Impossible! Your case in ono that no doctor or scholar has foreseen, one no book refers to, one no man has imagined or believed possible. For you there is no scientific precedent or explanation, you aro a living paradox, an absurd positive, and an impossible reality. It was a case of malpractice on my part. You will operato upon me without drinking, of course after two days of clear water, you underetand and then wo will poo if, after observing, you can remedy the evil. But, ah me I it is Impossible. Wo can do nothing but weep." And large tears flowed over the old man's wrinkled cheeks. Ono night, a little before reaching Vera Cruz, our vessel foundered in a fearful tempest. The emperic clasped tho box containing bis precious apparatus, I lushed myself to a epar, and for two hours wo

were the playthings of the furious waves. "I can do no more," cried the poor old man. "Courage,'' I called to him. "Do not die now when you are on the threshold of immortality. Courage! We shall soon reach the shore." . "Impossible," he answered; "take it," and he pushed the box toward me. "Hold out one hour longer," I cried, and, at the same moment, a mass of water buried us in an abvss. When I came to the surface, buoyed up by the spar, Juan Manuel Ursubil and his box had disappeared forever. A short time afterward a launch from Vera Cruz picked me up, together with the other survivors of the wreck. In Vera Cruz I joined a caravan of muleteers and set out for the City of Mexico, where I purchased an estate and two

servants with the gold 1 had preserved in a belt clasped around my waist. There, in reading and contemplation, I passed fifteen years. I never worked at anything. I said to myself: "Unlike other men, I do not need to make provision for old age, for, when I am a child, there will surely be some blind man whom I can serve as a guide. And when I beeome a mere infant some good woman will be found who will suckle me at her breast." At my forty-fourth year that is to say, the one hundred and twenty-first, counting from my birth I was 6trong and erect, had lost all wrinkles, my eyes were bright, and a full black beard covered my face. My servants were wont to say their master dyed hi3 hair, and the ladies of the quarter murmured that the Senor Bescayan seemed to grow younger daily. There was one ripe blonde of some thirty years whom I thought seriously of marrying, but always on reflection I saw the impossibility of it. "In a little time," I considered, "she will be of my age and I of hers, and eventually my children will be older than I. I cannot love, nor marry, nor live; my moral torment is insufferable. It is best to terminate it at once." As the speediest means of ending my life, I set out in the quality of a volunteer with the soldiers sent by the viceroy against the Indians. But though I always fought in the posts of greatest danger, tho bullets and arrowB of the enemy respected me. i could not achieve death. After peace was made with the savages I, with some others of my companions, remained in the forests devoting our time to hunting. Among these simple people my adventures, knowledge, and great experience soon earned for me the nickname of "YhokeroOytcho," which means "The Great Liar." For twenty years I remained in theso forests, accumulating during that time, almost without effort, nearly half-a-million dollars. But to me this great sum of money possessed no value. There was only one thing which offered me any consolation, and which still linked me to my old life; this was the habit I had retained of smoking the old and grimy pipe of my Gussurrandi home. Wearied at length by thi3 savage life, I separated from my good companions of the forest and repaired to New York with the intention of laying my case before the most learned doctors of the country, explaining as much as I could of Juan'Manuel's apparatus and submitting, if necessary, to a new injection. I was 141 years old when I presented myself before tho eminent physician, It. Clark Maxwell. He, on hearing the object of my consultation, put on a strange face ; examined my body, my papers, my recollections of so many years, felt the" old scar on my neck, and had me make a drawing of the apparatus of the empiric; then he shrugged his shoulders, elevated hin eyebrows, pursed up his lipe, stuck out his tongue, and concluded by telling me to "call again to-morrow." I called the next day and submitted to a new examination by several other doctors whom Maxwell had called in. Then I placed myself under their care for twenty daj-s, while they experimented upon me with various kirn's of diet, bled me and submitted the blood to analysis and countless proofs, and finally took me before a sort of medical congress, whose members, after a heated discussion, decided that I was insane, my papers, recollections, and my entire history but the prodifct of a diseased imagination, and also declared Dr. Clark Maxwell, who espoused ray cause, of unsound mind. This conclusion was arrived at by means of the ballot-box. On reaching my hotel I found the doctor's bill. This seemed to be the only subject upon which they were unanimous; they valued their services at -8,-000. After paying them religiously I found myself worse off than before "the consultation, my condition weakened, my abnormal existence without remedy, and my purse considerably lightened. I took passago again for Spain, convinced that the poor empiric knew more than all the doctors, and determined to realize the dream of my life, to die in my own land, at my old farm-house. As soon as I landed two police agents arrested me and conducted me to jail. It seems that a traveling companion of mine, seemingly an honest man, and to whom I had loaned some money during the trip, informed the captain of the vessel that I was a notorious thief fleeing to Spain with the funds of a great American association. I protested and gave proof before the tribunal of my innocence, but as I could produce no witnesses, and as they found me possessed of a large sum of money, Justice closed her eyes, or rather opened them too much, for I was thrown into a cell, and the court began to pile up sealed documents bearing upon my case. They would not listen to me, but sent out to all parts of the country for information concerning me; and meanwhile I remained in prison for a long, a very long time. At last it happened to occur to some ono to order an inspection of the prisons. The jailer, supposing me a madman or a very dangerous criminal, had placed double doors upon my cell, and served me through a hole in the lower panel. When the door was opened he fell back with a cry of alarm. He had imprisoned a man of thirty years, tall, ruddy, and with a full beard, arid now found a youth of eighteen or twenty, with scarcely a hair on his face, clad in the loosely-fitting rags of an old suit of clothes. I was again taken before the tribunal, and learned that I had been confined for eighteen vears, and that every cent of my money hau been expended by Justice in ascertaining the truth. The rosult of the investigation wa that I was not myself, that the prisoner of tho millions had escaped, leaving mo in his place. The jailer was declared an accomplice of the substitution and imprisoned, leaving me at liberty, after vain endeavors to ascertain who I was. Thus it was that on foot, almost begging alms, I returned to tho place of rny birth. I inquired, without telling who I was, for my Bons; thev showed me my grandsons already married. After seeing my house and orchard and all tho places made dear by remembrance of past pleasures, filled with a profound padncss, I fled as if ashamed. Had I told who I was, no ono would have believed mo; they would havo Imprisoned me or sent mo to a mad-houso even my own descendants. I returned to Madrid, and for eleven years was a servant, match-seller, newsboy, bootblack, and I do not know how many other thing. During this tirno I continued writing my memoirs and smoking my old clay pipe. My intelligence romained and still is clear, but each day I write worse, and believe I will end by being uuablo to form a letter. In 18(1.1 I wan soven years old or it might bo a hundred and sixty-three. To-dny I am nix, have been reduced to less than half my total hight, my second teeth havo fallen out and been ronlsced bv mv first or in-

I fnntilo ect, and my head Is covered with

beautiful auburn hair. My power of understanding is being annihilated, together with my strength and childish tendencies. Walking, walking, and su'Jering greatly, I have returned to my native land. I say that I am an orphan and poor, and they give me alms at every house. Yet even though a beggar, it is consoling to live side the house where one was born. Here the manuscript is very illegible, and further on, in letters scarcely legible, it says!: It is impossible for me to hold the pen or write one letter beside another. I do not know what will become of me; I only beg that some day. when I am found, and am unable to speak or eat, that I may be carried to my house of Gussurrandi, because I wish to die in it. Jose Antox. While I read, the women had arisen, terrified, making signs of wonder and

terror, and crossing themselves often. As I finished, they exclaimed in a chorus: "Blessed St. Barbara! It is impossible to believe that! Impossible!" Gussurrandi consulted me as to what ho should do in the matter. ".Nothing," I said ; "quiet the women, and forget about it, all." All the women dreamed that night that the empiric Juan Manuel, completely intoxicated had fastened his apparatus on their throats. THREE WISE BOYS. 11 ut the One With Modern Ideas Got the Old Man's Farm. Lincoln Journal. Once upon a time an old man called bis three sons to him in the dusk of the evening and in a faltering voice said to them: "My boys, in a little while you will have no father. I am standing on the shore of the river of death, and soon 1 must launch my boat upon it. Now, I have, as you know, a line farm, upon which one man can thrive, but as there are three of you, I have been sorely perplexed as to which should have it. I have, theretore, decided to give each of you $3 that you must spend to-morrow, and to the one making the wisest purchase shall the farm be given. Come to me to-morrow evening and tell me how you have each expended your money. Now, cood night, and heaven bless you all." The following evening the three sons assembled before their father. "Reginald," said the latter to the eldest, "what did you purchase with your $2?" "Father," returned the son, "I pondered long that I mitfht make wise use of the money, and at last bought a pair of strong shoes." "Well done, well done. The journey through life is rugged and hard, and the thorns are thick: upon the way. You have shown prudence and forethought, and I love you the better for it. And what did you buy, Aueustus?" "I, too, thought long and deeply," responded the second son, "that I mipht not purchase anything trivial or foolish. Since the cap that I wear is worn and rapged 1 bought a hat with a wide brim, which I show you, my father." The old man regarded him with a glance of pride and a:!ection, and said: "You, too, have done well, Augustus; often in this world the brow is fevered and the sun's rays beat fiercely npon the aching head, and your hat will comfort you. I rejoice that my sons are so filled with wisdom. And you, Theophilus, what did you buy?" "My father," answered Theophilns, I didn't ponder worth a cent. As soon as I left you last evening I blew in my stuff for live tickets to the base ball games." With tears of joy streaming dbwn his furrowed face the venerable man embraced Theophilus and murmured, in a voice hoarse with emotion: "Had I a farm as large as Texas, with a windmill on it. it would be yours!" And then Reginald and Augustus moved sadly away into the gathering gloom, and while the one tried to keen the flies off himself with his hat the other kicked himself severely with his boots. In Memory of Mrs. Allen Hamilton of Fort Wayne. Oone never paused a nobler soul The portals of the heavenly soal, hor left a fairer track below. It seems, not many years ago, Mnce I beheltl her pleasant face, Aglow with t?ndjrne.s and grsce, And all we prize of i ure and good. In lovely, lofty womanhood. A face, all sweetness in repose. Touched with daintiest tint of rose, Her eyes I Jo forgot their hue But know tho gifted soul locked through, With that mysterious light that brought The meaning of unspoken thought, And left a plow on cheek and brow Alas, so pale and silent now. I did not know her long, but well. Her very presence wrought a spell That charmed the heart to rest and peace, And gave relentless care surcease. Ah, fondly, memory still records Her gracious mien and winning words, When la"t we met O bitter pain! To know we shall not meet again. Then, she had barely passed life's noon, And, crowned with years, she died too soon. Many will miss her for she bore A mission to this shadowy shore, And, in her own unsullied life. As daughter, sister, mother, wife, Taught, in her unobtrusive way, The good and true from day to day. Many will mlm the band that fed The hungry bound the hearts that bled The car, that never heard in vain, The appeal of sorrow, want or pain. But all her earthly work is done Tho volume sealed the guerdon won, And she is gone from that true heart That was of her life's life a part Gone from the home where she had been. For many years, the love-crowned queen, From shadowy types and symbols old To glories, tongue hath never told, Where she will see and feel and know The things we dream of here below Will hear her ransomed kindred sing Her welcome song, before the King, And look, without a doubt or fear, In His dear face who died for her. Beech Bank. Aug., Sa rah T. boLTOlf. I'eavnuts For Ininmala, John McCarty in the St. Louis Globe-Demo-erat: I discovered lately in an accidental way a simple and efficacious remedy for insomnia. My nerves had pot out of fix, my sleep had become broken, and very often I would get up out of bed and take long street walks with the hope that the fresh air would do me good. One nicht as I was coming home after one of these listless promenades I stopped at a street stand and bought a nickel's worth of peanuts, which were very fresh and palatable. Vlien i got to bed I slept like a top. I wondered if the peanuts bad given me the sleep, so the next night J tried them again, without taking the walk. Another Bound sleep. I continued to eat 5 cents' worth of peanuts every night for a month and at the end of that time I had pained fifteen pounds and could sleep ten hours without walking. I told a medical friend of mine about the discovery 1 had made. He laughed a little, but said that peanuts contained an oil which was soporific if taken in laree enough ouantities. If that is true, why couldn't an effective anirsthetio be made of peanut oil? A Curious Test of Hreedlng-. (Ponton Courier.) It is told of a wealthy family in New York that it is their regular custom to apply to new acquaintances a test of breeding which they are accustomed to call the "booby-trap." They seat the stranger in a rocking.cliair and, sit about to watch him or her. If the visitor rocks the verdict is triven apainst blm and he is thenceforth cut oil' from the calling list of the family. If he or she sits quietly and does not way to and fro the case is considered as being decidedly in bis or her favor. She Knew the Host. American Commercial Traveller. "Maggie, I am in great trouble. I am engfitred to two younc; men at the same time, and the weddimt-day is set for both on the same date." "Well, Unit, which is the best?" "I don't know, Henry is a banker's son and Arthur is a reporter." "Well, goodness trracious, Lizzie, be sensible and take Arthur. lie can describe the wedding in his paper." Snnltnry Item. TrxM Siftlng. Mrs. A "You say brandy is a good remedy for colic, but I don t agree with yon." Mrs, II "What do you know about It?" lrn. A "A good deal, llefore I had brandy in the house my husband never bad roliu mora than once or twice a year, but as soon as I kept a surply ho had coliu iJu's itr day,"

THE STORY OF MONTICELLO.

IIow the noma of JefTerson I Said to nave Come to Its Present Owners. University of Virginia Letter.J The Monticello plantation ia owned by a man named Levy (pronounced, or rather requested to be pronounced, Levvy.) I will tell you how he came into possession of it if you will listen to a long etory, which you will not hear elsewhere. My narrator had it of his father, and his father of his father, who was the son of that Martha Randolph, Jefferson's only surviving daughter, who was left at his death, when her father had paid every dollar he owed, even to the uttermost farthing, without a home or means of support. It happened in this wise, and we must go back to tho second war with Great Britain. When that difficulty was over the TT. S. government gave brevet rank to most of the creditable army and naval men who had served through the struggle. Young Levy was breveted lirst lieutenant and went over to France, where he took high rank in Jewish social circles so high rank that one oi the maiden ladies of the Rothschild family declared her passion for the handsome, commanding-looking young American, and swore that she would become his bride. The elder Rothschilds were a shrewd lot. They sent for the handsome black-eyed officer and asked on what terms he would instantly return home. He indignantly assured them that he was "an officer and ä gentleman." They accepted this fact and increased their bribe, but not until he had obtained something like $150,000 a large sum in those daj's did the gallant American feel that his honor would be unstained and his purse at the same time replenished. He remained in our service till about 1S26 or 1827, a short time after Mr. Jefferson's death, when Mrs. Randolph was about to quit Monticello, being destitute of means to keep it. A relative of her family was in Philadelphia on business, and in his hotel he mentioned that on a certain day, just time for him to get to Charlottesville, Monticello would be sold. Five gentlemen who happened to hear this speech had a consultation, came to the Virginian, and asked what figures the house and grounds would probably bring. "It will be sold," said the relative, "for $3,0 X) to satisfy a creditor who will gladly let it go for that on account of his consideration for the family, for we hope'to buy it in." The five Philadelphians at once banded the Virginian 3,000. "Give it," they said, "anonymous to Jeflerson'a daughter. It ia from five men who honor his memory too highly to permit his homo to go out of the family." The Virginian was a kind-hearted but loquacious fellow. His whole nature was Btirred with this good news. In the stage coach that night, between Philadelphia and Washington, the home-keeping youth betrayed his homely wits. He told everybody "of how his "Cousin Martha" was to have Monticello for the rest of her days; that he had the check for the amount in a Philadelphia bank. He treated everybody to old rye whiskey on the strength of it when he reached his stopping place. Put there he lingered, like other migntier men, too heavy with slumber to go on when the bugle sounded. His potations cost him a day's delay. Fut the other passengers were not 'belated. Among them was a handsome, 6talwart, youngish man with Hebrew features. When the Virginia relative arrived in Charlottesville a week later he went in haste to the pressing creditor. "Here," he said, "is your $3,003, old man, and Cousin Martha and the children have got Monticello." ".Monticello," said the creditor, was bought yesterday at 12 o'clock by a northern gentleman, who had seen tho advertisement of theßale in a Washington paper. It was not my fault. I'd have gone under to-day if I hadn't let him havo it at my advertised price." The Virginian went out dazed he went to the hotel, he found the Jew, and asked him what he would take for Jeßerson's homestead. "One hundred thousand dollars," said ho who had outwitted the Rothschilds. "Mein fren, you are a glever feller, but you talk too much." Well, as Jellerson himself had said, there is nothing bo foolish impotent rage. Tho beloved Monticello passed into the hands of Commodore Ievy, and Martha Randolph and her children entered it once more only in all their lifetime. The old rogue was a good-natured creature. He kept the houso and grounds immaculate. Jefferson's belongings were sacred from profane touch. As each year the graveyard gate was opened to receive some member of the fast-decaying race his sable coach and driver followed the last of all mourners in the rear. His rejected wreaths he would return to the humblo mounds when the family had driven down the winding mountain road. The year of his death he wrote a note to Martha Randolph, and said to her that in her declining years she might feel, perhaps, less bitterly. "Would she and her remaining daughters come to the houso and spend the day on Jefferson's birthday that he himself would not intrude upon them?" "I must see it before I die," said the old woman, and at 9 o'clock that spriug morning they entered the grounds. All was unchanged as they drove to the terraced box walk in front of the house. They entered, and every chair, every table Mas in its place. All the rooms were opened, all the bodies were on their accustomed shelves on the walls. At the dinner hour respectful servants announced that that meal would now bo served. They ate in peace, and not till they had seen the sunset from Jefferson's own window in his office, did they depart. Then for the first time they saw their host, who, with bared head, handed them into their carriage. After that Mrs. Randolph's family let bygones be by-gones, and the old commodore was accepted at gentlemen's dinners and cIudh, net, however, freely among the women of the upper class. Rut there came a day when he received a letter that sent him frightened and without stopping for wind or weather, a brighter sky, or more propitious auspices. It was signed by about five hundred citizens, and it informed "Abram (or Isaac, I forget which) Ievy that if he did not quit Albermarle within twelve hours they would tar and feather him." It was all on acount of Kliza, his own pretty, darkeyed niece, who had como with her mother, his widowed sister, to live with him, and with whom he fell in love, went with her over the border and married her, for all the world as did the duke of Aosta, records of whose splendid wedding we revelled in last spring, with his sister Clotildo's lovely daughter. He went to New York, afraid to return. Ho was neventy-two or five, perhaps, when he died, and when his will was opened the old French proverb proved true, "On revient a aes premiers amours," lie left Monticello, the real love of his life, to the stato of Virginia, with tho one condition that it become a homo of U. S. soldiers of the rank of major in tho army and paymaster in the navy. Rut that wan a gift Virginia was not at that timo (101) willing to accept. She declined tho legacy; it fell to the general government. Rut "Uncle Pam" did not care to place his broken-down officers in a hostilo country. Tho property reverted to Levvs heira, and after six or ten years of neglect a young lieutenant In tho U. S. navy, calling himself Levy, but pronounced" it Levvy, announced himself the nephew and heir of the old commodore. I know nothing of this gentleman except that ho charges 25 cents admission to tho grounds and has closed tho houso to all Yiwtors,

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