The Portland daily press., 1888-03-23
curious fact of common experiet

of a change. Instantaneously the thoughts
OF waking man are brought home. A light
sleeper arouses and becomes aware that the
clock has stopped.
So with John Nesmith.
He had been sitting in his easy chair be-
side his reading table, and book had fallen
from his relaxed hand. Straightway he
crossed the room to wind the great clock In
the corner Before performing this opera
ton he observed the several items of ac-
curate information which were registered
upon its face
''It is the fifth month of the year and the
twenty-frst day of the month, 9 o'clock and
81 minutes, the clock said.
AS the clock was only a marker of so much
of time, the record naturally ended at this
point. Otherwise it might have added that
this was the eighty-sixth year of the nine
teenth century, and that it stood in one of
the chambers occupied by John Nesmith.
lawyer, aged %, and that these chambers
were in Wellington street, city of Boston.
A tap at the door interrupted Nesmith in
his winding of the clock. Nesmith asked:
''Who is it?"
''Only me-" replied the ungrammatical
lady of whom Nesmith rented his rooms.
Seeing letter for you in the hall, and
thinking possibly you had overlooked it
when you came in, 1 thought | had better
speak about it"
Letter for me in the hallv' Nesmith re-
peated, advancing to the door. who leaves
letters for me in the hall? Mail for me al
ways come to the Office"
For all that this letter was brought with
the rest by the postman. 1t is heavy, too,
and looks foreign"
Nesmith took the letter with curiosity,
and observed the superscription with sur
prise, and, in his abstraction, quite forgot
to thank the landlady for bringing it to him.
She fingered at the door long enough to OBJ
serve him standing, side toward her, bend
ing bis head over the reading lamp on the
centre table, in order to scrutinize more care
fully the handwriting and the postmark on
the envelope. He was a dark-featured
young man, with black hair and moustache.
Character writes itself in the human face
undoubtedly, but there have been wise men
who would give more to look through a
mans private writing desk, to get an idea of
him, than to avail of the common privilege
Of scrutnizing his countenance John Mes
mith's face certainly did not declare what he
would do under any given circumstances. 1t
was rather calculated, indeed. to impress the
observer as an exceedingly reticent face,
and it had frown upon it at this moment
that made it very grim and forbidding.
The landlady made a careful estimate Of
the intensity of the frown, and became
reasonably sure that the letter was unwel-
come.
Mayhap it was; for the scowl did not de-
part as he began to tear the envelope, and
he tore it with degree of spite which was
almost violence. A considerable package Of
paper fell to the table.
Sand why all this from Haynie?" Mes
NTH asked himself ''Some pages from the
German guide-book imagined"
Then he sat down again, took up the manu-
script and read it. 1t was as follows:
Goettinsen, Germany, May o. 'S6.
My Dear Nesmith-My object in writing
to you this time is twofold. Firstly for
your own good, and secondly for mine. For
your own good want to ask you once more,
to urge upon you in fact, to accept your
rightful share Of the property which Uncle
Jepworth left me. / see no reason why you
should struggle along in comparatively
Strengthened circumstances when have
more than need or want. You were very
careful to tell me that you are acting
through conscientious regard for Uncle
Jepworth's wishes. Are you so very sure,
my dear fellow, that it is not sort of
wounded vanity and species of unreason-
able obstinacy which prevents you from
allowing me to become your benefactor?
/ do most earnestly hope that you will re-
consider your refusal, and by the next mail
let me know that you are willing to receive
from me that which 1 do not want, and
which shall be only too glad TO see in your
possession. Will you not search your heart
well on this matter?
Now. for the favor l spoke about. 1t Is to
Oblige one Of my professors, Dr. Emil
Anspacher, who has aided me in many ways.
And, in order TO make it Ineligible / shall
have to tell you, briefly, avery remarkable
story.
about four years ago, a very sick man, to be
treated by Dr. Anspacher, who was famous
throughout Europe for his skill as physi-
clan. This man had been treated by many,
of the leading doctors Of Germany, and had
been pronounced incurable With his last
hope he had come to Goettingen. DR.. Ans
pacher examined and questioned, and being
an honest man, knowing the narrow limits
of the powers of drugs. and not caring to ex-
pertinent with what he considered hopeless
case, ne ADVISED an ocean voyage, bilinhlilS
that the excitement of change of scene
might, at least, pr0long for few months
the life that his skill could not save. For SIX
months Dr. Anspacher heard nothing from
his patient and, then, one morning stran-
ger $50 the doctor thought entered his office.
He proved himself to be the man who, half a
year before, had left with the stamp of death
upon his face to try the sea voyage. That
the ocean could have. brought about this
change DIR. Auspacher doubted.
mott told a story He said
that he had sailed from Bremen for New
York 10 days after he last saw DIR. Ans
pacher. When near his destination in the
new world, the steamship was wrecked
After being in the water, several hours he
was rescued but the shock to his weakened
constitution caused a loss of reason. he was
sent north with some poor emigrants, and on
reaching Boston he died-so he said-and his
body was sold to Doctor. Lowenthal, who
by some strange use of electricity put life
back into it, after having performed an oper-
alton upon him while dead which would have
been impossible when he was alive. HIS
first sensation on regaining life was Earring
and humping of his whole system, then
came strange and unnatural dreams, ana
finally clear consciousness OF Things ABOUT
him. AS he opened his eyes the doctor
danced about his labratory with an express
sion of wild triumph on his face, He then
called out and beautiful girl came in, who
during the next few weeks aided the doctor
III caIllB loE HIS pdlient. when recovery
was complete, DIR. LOwenthal bought pas
sage for his patient to Germany, and told
him ito 90 and tell no one" He had ques-
toned both DR.. Lowenthal and his fair
daughter, as he supposed her, about the
means whereby new life had been given him
but could get no satisfactory answer All
the apparatus was carefully guarded, and
there was the deepest secrecy about every
thing.
DIR. Anspacher was the first to whom he
had told his story, and he did so with the
hope that he might discover the truth about
this remarkable cure. OF course Dr. Ans
pacher took the story with all due allowances
but he believed the man to be honest in in
tent and he had his own senses to prove that
n cure which all the doctors in Germany had
SET down as impossible had been performed
Therefore DIR. Anspacher wrote to DIR. Low
enthal, not one letter only but dozen. The
sole reply he received, however. was the fol-
having. which certainly contained little
enough information:
Dr Emil Anspaeher:
Geehrter Herr.-Warten Sic. Jetzt bin
ich mr. auf dem Rundkreise. Zines Tages
verde ich innerhalb des Kreise sein. Damn
will ich linen die Sache mittheilen.
Ihr ehrgebenster Diener.
August L0wenthal.
AS YOU are not German scholar L Will
translate this note for you.
DIR. Emil Anspacher:
respected Sir.-Wait. | am only on the
circumference. One day shall get inside
the circle. Then ! will notify you