Telegram-herald., 1889-09-04
ELIXIRS OF ALL TINES
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tencLngs anaOEg gther t6inzs, tlAt he esc
clseoyersd al elixir Of isanort1 youth
C4glos.ro. VITO no0rLsEed Ia tie latter
part 81 the slgatesI tn ceatury cid . Aysiy
business ia t1s elixir tAzs w1s especially
popular with tAe ladies'. C4g.iostr0 assured
his oupss that o. virtue o. tie specie -
bad zires1y attained his l5lta year, and ris
charming wife, his &ccOnp pAcs "A the
swiEcse, oftea talked s+ectl1naIe.y Of her
son IS "a ''o1icer IL TIE Dgtcn navy
Re ane as wife CONDUCTED triumphant
tour through Europe uatl they struck Ito
court OF s. Petsrsbarg. where the Empress
Cathsrne snd her Scotch physician, Roger
soa, who were skepticsl concerning ellxlrs,
saw through their deception and they dis
appeared. They came up again IN another
part OF Europe. and carried on their scheme
of fraud with vary nag success until CagA-
( ostro Was Pot IN JAIL Ia Rome for Free
Masonry. In spite OF the virtues OF his
'e.lxir OF immortal youth, he died IA the
fortress OF San Leone, in his nlty-second
year. His wife ended her days in = con
vent
Aloertas Nsgnus, who was born in the
latter part OF tho twelfth century, gained
60 extensive knowledge OF chemlz ,ry that
he was commonly reputed 70 be n sorcerer,
and many legends of wonder have come
down attached 70 his name.
Roger Bacon, who was one OF the earliest
scientific inQuircrs In the realm OF the mys-
terieus, nourished IN the thirteenth century,
though his mind was so remarkably able
and his intuitions so clear that he is re-
/ garded as having lived four centuries be-
fore bis time. he was for all practical pur-
I poses modern thinker, whose conception of
science was Just and clear. de completed
his studies al Oxford, though very little IS
| known of his life there He went over TO
| Paris ard took the degree Of doctor OF the
ology, and in 1850 was back in Oxford lie
was fun Of vim anu aggressive in contro-
versy. or course he got into trouble on
account OF his books, and spent fourteen
/ years in prison. He wrote an enormous
number of works, though his best-known
was his ''Opus Majus."
He was q firm believer IN astrology and
the philosophers stone, and Is reported to
have said that he knew the circle had been
squared.
Paracelsus was another mysterious
genius O. the past, who with great mind
groped IN the gloomy chambers of knowl
edge, end, OF course, often went astray. He
gave up all the studies OF the schools and
set out through the world travelling like a
tOurneyman scholar, and studying as he
said from nature herself He spent years
studying all the phenomena of mines and the
diseases that affected miners or course
he acquired good deal OF knowledge that
other people did not possess, and his belief
IN hlU.self was so complete that by sheer
forco Of self-confdence he forced others tC
listen and have faith in him.
He had his own theories concerning the
makeup and the moods Of nature Hi.
eagerness to understand the relationship o.
man to the universe led him 10 the Kaboal
ls, whore these mysteries, as he thought
Rse explained, and from these unsubstantia
materials be constructed visionary
philosophy.
Defective as they may have been aud un
founded on fact, his Kabbalistic doctrines
man body upon outer nature for its susten
ance and cure. The doctrine OF signatures
tho connection OF every part OF the little
world of man with corresponding part 0
the great world OF nature, was a painful
and false eXaggeration Of this doctrine, bu
the idea carried in its train that of specifics
Paracelsus had seen how bodies were puri
fed and intensified by chemical operations
and he thought II plants and minerals cOul'
be made TO weld their active principles !
would surely be better 70 employ thes
than the crude and unprepared originals
He had, besides, by some kind OF intuition
arrived at the conclusion that the operation
Of the body were of a chemical charac
ter, and that when disOrdered the.
were 10 be put right by counter opposition
ef tho same kind Technically he was no
o chemist. He did not concern himself
either, with the composition OF his com
pounds or with an explanation Of what Oc
CURED In their making. II he could &c
potent drugs 20 cure disease he was con
tent. and he worked very hard In an EN-
prical way 20 make them. He was prob
ably a believer, too, in the philosopher
stone, the fetish OF his age.
Ponce de Leon, though he was no chemist
had an abiding faith that sn elixir of yOutl
flowed la 9 fountain somewhere IN th
world. he became convinced at one tim
that the well was situated II the newly dis
covered land Of America, and came ou
here % seek II. he didn't fnd the fountain
but he did discover Florida, the land 0
flowers. he KEEP. up his search Tor tn
fountain OF happy Immortality until q
died, when IL Is 70 be hoped he found IL
From his day 10 this there have bee
scores OF people a. earnest as he n the
belief i1 tEs existence Of an elixir of life
Some Of them simple so.rchers IN the worl
% a1airs and others grave savants delvinl
into the depths Of scientific knowledge.
Wicked Lobbyists.
Among the lobbyists IN Wsshin gfon VII
I r~7Se their living ont Of the uoorle vh