The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-08

persons. Having schemed the transfer Of
wealth that suffces to his wants, he dis
appears from one corner of the world, and
contrives that his obsequies shall be cele-
brated. He reappears at another corner
of the world, where he resides undecided,
and does not visit the scenes of his former
career till all who could remember his fea-
lures are no more. He would be pro-
foundry miserable if he had affections; he
has none but for himself. No good man
would accept his longevity; and to no man,
good or bad, would he or could he commu-
nicate its true secret. Such man might
exist; such man as | have described see
now before me- Duke Of in the court
Of, dividing time between intrigue and
brawl, alchemists and wizards; again in the
last century, charlatan and criminal, with
name less noble, domiciled in the house at
which you gazed to-day, and flying from
whittier, traveller once more revisiting Lon
don, with the same earthly passions which
| filled your heart when races now no more
walked through yonder streets; outlaw from
the school of all the nobler and diviner
mysteries. tExecrable image of life in death
and death in life, warn you back from
the cities and home of healthful men back
to the ruins of departed empires back to
the deserts of nature unredeemed T.
There answered me whisper so must
cal, so poten.ly musical, that it seemed to
enter into my whole being, and subdue me
despite myself Thus it said
II have sought one like you for the last
hundred years. Now l have found you,
we part not till 1 know what 1 desire.
The vision that sees through the past and
cleaves through the veil of the future is in
you at this hour,-never before, never to
come again. The vision of no pulling, fan
tastic girl, of no sickbed somambule, but Of
strong man with vigorous brain. Soar,
and look forth !'' q
GAS he spoke, | felt as if rose out of
myself upon eagle wings. All the weight
seemed gone from air, roofess the room,
roofes the dome of space. l was not in
the body,-where, I knew not; but aloft
over time, over earth.
Again 1 heard the melodious whisper:
"You say right, I have mastered great
secrets by the power of will. True, by
will and by science | can retarn the pro-
cess of years, but death comes not by age
Alone Can | Illustrate the accidents which
bring death upon the young?'
"No; every accident is a providence.
Beforea providence, snaps every human
will"
'Shall die at last, ages and ages hence,
by the slow, though inevitable, growth of
time, or by the cause that call accident
"By cause you call accident.
as not the end still remote? ?" asked the
whisper, with slight tremor.
Regarded as my life regards time, it is
still remote
"And shall /, before then, mix with the
world of men as did ere l learned these
secrets; resume eager interest in their strife
and their trouble; battle with ambition, and
use the power of the sage to win the power
that belongs to kings ?"
"You will yet play part on the earth
that will fill earth with commotion and
amaze. For wondrous designs have you
Ga wonder yourself) been permitted to live
on through the centuries, All the secrets
you have stored will then have their uses;
all that now makes you a stranger amidst
the generations will contribute then to make
you their lord. As the trees and the straws
are drawn into whirlpool, as they spin
round, are sucked to the deep, and again
tossed aloft by the eddies, SO shall races
and thrones be drawn into your vortex.
Awful destroyer! but in destroying, made,
against your own will, constructor"
"And that date, too, is far off ?"
''Far off; when it comes, think your end
in this world is at handr'
elbow and what is the end ? Look east,
west, south, and north"
Gin the north, where you never yet trod,
toward the point whence your instincts
have warned you, there a spectre will seize
you. 'Tis Death! see ship it is haunt
ed; tbs chased it sails on Baffled navies
sail after that ship. 1t enters the region
of ice. 1t passes a sky red with meteors.
Two moons stand on high, over ice-reefs.
l see the ship locked between white
defles; they are ice-rocks. l see the
dead strew the decks, stark and livid, green
mould on their limbs. All are dead but
one man,-it is you! But years, though
so slowly they come, have then scattered
you. There is the coming age on your
brow, the Will is relaxed in the cells
of the brain. Still that Will, though
enfeebled, exceeds all that man knew be-
fore you; through the VIII you live on,
gnawed with famine. And nature no longer
obeys you in that death-spreading region;
the sky is sky Of iron, and the air has
iron clamps and the ice-rocks wedge in the
ship Hank how it cracks and groansl
Ice will imbed it as amber imbeds straw.
And man has gone forth living yet, from
the ship and its dead; and he has Chamber
ed up the spikes of an iceberg, and the
two moons gaze down on his form. That
man is yourself, and terror is on you,-ter-
ror, and terror has swallowed up your will.
And see, swarming up the steep ice rock,
gray, grizzly things. The bears Of the
North have scented their prey; they come
nearer you and nearer, shambling, and roll
ing their bulk. And in that day every
moment shall seem to you longer than the
centuries through which you have passed,
And heed this. after life, moments con-
tinued make the bliss or the hell of eternity
"Hush," said the whisper. "But the
day, you assure me, is far off, very farl |
gobaek to the almond and rose of Damas-
Gus! Sleep"
The room swan before my eyes. / be-
came insensible. When | recovered,
found G-holding my hand and smiling.
He said, "You, who have always declared
yourself proof against mesmerism, have
succumbed at last to my friend Richards"
"Where is Mr.. Richards?"
'Gone, when you passed into trance,
saying quietly to PIE, iyepF friend will not
wake for an hour" - ssa-s4.
T asked, as collectedly as I could where
Mr.. Richards lodged.
cat the Trafalgar Hotel"
'Give me your arm" said l to G..
s'Let us call on him: have something
to say
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