Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10

however, before MS trial naQ been con-
cluded. Raymond Lulli was still
more eminent adept. who labored con-
currently at finding the philosophers
stone and converting the Mussulmans.
A dubious story makes out that he once
visited England and was assigned apart
ments in the Tower, where, If the
legends do not lie, he made f6, 0OO.OO
worth Of gold out of iron, quicksilver,
lead and pewter. In his Testament
UNI, Lulli boosted of having converted
1900 pounds of these base metals into
gold. Roger Bacon was firm believer
in the talismanic stone and an ardent
seeker for it, though he did not there
fore neglect his studies in physics and
astronomy. Pope John XXII. was
claimed by the alchemists as a distin-
guished worker in their craft. and they
insisted that his bulls on the subject
We're only aimed at false pretenders. and
claimed that the Is. 600. 600 forms he
left in his Golfers had been made. be-
cause they could not have been amassed.
Jean. de Meung. the anthor of the
-"Romande de Ia Rose" was another
alchemist of note. and PLAYED a sad
practical joke on the Cordeiiers, TO
whom he bequeathed a weighty chest,
which they fancied would contain his
treasure, but proved to be filed
with states scrawled with hero
glyphics. Nicholas Flannel after
studying the book written lin
LatinD by Abraham. patriarch. jew.
Prince, philosopher. Priest, Levite and
astrologer.' for twenty-four years made
Il lot OF mercury into silver January
-. 1882, and converted another large
quantity of quicksilver into gold on
April %, and by simultaneously dis
covering the elixer of life was enabled
to prolong his life to the age OF lie,
when he died. leaving great treasure.
Modern skeptics, however. insist that
he was miser and usurer. who dab
bled in alchemy. The tradition was
long current that he was alive and was
fated TO see his 600th year, and SO late
as 1916 his house, in the Rue de Mari
vaux, at Paris, was taken and ransacked
by credulous seeker after his boards
or the secret by which he amassed
them. In England, in 1i04. the making
Of gold and silver was declared a felony,
fears being entertained that some alche-
mist working with an ambitious Baron
might overthrow the throne. but in
1454 the King issued several patents to
associations formed for discovering the
stone and elixer. George Ripley, the
Canon of Bridiington, declared a quar-
ter of a century later that he had dis
covered the process of making gold by
calculation, solution. separation, con-
junction. putrefaction. congelation,
citation, sublimation. fermentation, en-
altation, multiplication and projection.
but in his old age recanted and owned
his mistake. Bernard OF Treves. his con-
temporary. spent seventy-one years and
a fortune in experimenting with spirits
of wine, alum, copperas. dung.
mercury, melted lead. a-salt. essence
of egg-shells, vinegar and aquafortis,
and according to the writers
found the stone at the age of eighty
two. though his own testimony is that
he discovered in his eighty third year
that the secret of philosophy was con-
tentment. Giles de Laval. the infamous
Marechal de Rays, when he had run
through his immense fortune set to work
with the Indian Prelati to find the phi
lOsopher's stone, but the devil declined
to come to his aid. though nearly hun
bred children were offered on his Satanic
Majesty's altar. and the Marshal and
Prelati were sent to the stake. Jacques
C9ur has always been claimed by the
alchemists as an adept. but though he
pretended to have the philosophers
stone the contemporary courts estab-
lished the fact that he amassed his i'm
mense fortune by theft and forgery.
Later came Cornelius Agrippa, whose
gold. however. was only good for twen-
ty-four hours; Paracelsus, "the zenith
and rising sun of all the alchemists;"
Denis Zacpaire, who on Easter Sunday.