The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-11

ule now WHen you are On Lne tnIesnOlu VI
Immortality. Couragel We shall soon
reach the shore"
Impossible" he answered; 'take it, F"
and he pushed the box toward me.
Hold out one hour longer" | cried,
and, at the same moment, q mass of water
buried us in an abyss. When / came to
the surface, buoyed up by the spar, Juan
Manuel Ursubll and his box had disap-
peared forever.
A short time afterward launch from
Vera Cruz picked me up, together with
the other survivors of the wreck.
In Vera Cruz Joined q caravan of mu-
letters and set out for the City of Mexico,
where | purchased an estate and two
servants with the gold had preserved in
q belt clasped around my waist. There,
in reading and contemplation, | passed
fifteen years. | never worked at any
thing. / said to myself: unlike other
men, l do not need to make provision for
old age, for, when am child, there will
| surely be some blind man whom l can
serve as a guide. And when | become 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-frst, count
ing from my BIRTH was strong and
erect, had lost all wrinkles, my eyes were
bright, and full black beard covered my
face. NV servants were wont to say their
master dyed his hair, and the ladies of the
quarter murmured that the Senior Bes-
cayan seemed to grow younger daily.
There was one ripe blonde OF some thirty
years whom l thought seriously of marry
ing, but always on reflection | saw the i'm
possibility of it. ''In little Time" l con-
sidered, "she will be of my age and l of
har md oil oh ho
older than ]. | cannot love, nor marry,
nor live; my moral torment is insufera-
bic. 1t is best to terminate it at once"
AS the speediest means of ending my
life, l set out in the quality of volunteer
with the soldiers sent by the viceroy
against the Indians. But though / always
fought in the posts of greatest danger, the
bullets and arrows of the enemy respected
! me. / could not achieve death.
After peace was made with the savages
/, with some others of my companions,
remained in the forests devoting our time
to hunting. Among these simple people
my adventures, knowledge and great ex-
perience soon earned for me the nick
name of "Yhokero Oytcho," which means
THE Great Liar"
For twenty years l remained in these
| forests accommodating during that time, al
most 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 con-
ISOLATION, and which still linked me to my
old life; this was the habit [ had retained
of smoking the old and grimy pipe of my
| Gussurrandi home.
Wearied at length by this 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, ex-
| planning as much as | could of Juan Man
uels apparatus and submitting, if neces-
| sary, to q new injection. / was al years
| old when | presented myself before the
| eminent physician, r. Clark Maxwell. He,
on hearing the object of my consultation,
| put on strange face; examined my body,
my papers, my recollections of so many
| years, felt the old scar on my neck, and
| had me make drawing of the apparatus
! of the empiric; then be shrugged his
shoulders, elevated his eyebrows, pursed
up his lips, stuck out his tongue, and con-
| Guided by telling me to ''call again to-mOr-
row." | called the next day and submit
| ted to a new examination by several other
doctors whom Maxwell had called in
! Then l placed myself under their care for
/
upon me with various kinGs 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, de-
| cided that | was insane, my papers, recol-
! lections, and my entire history but the
| product of a diseased Imagination, and
also declared DR.. Clark Maxwell, who es-
poused my cause, of unsound mind. This
conclusion was arrived at by means of the
ballot-box. On reaching my hotel found
the doctors bill. This seemed to be the
only subject upon which they were unan-
imOus; they valued their services at $685.
600. After paying them religiously
found myself worse Off than before the
consultation, my condition weakened, my
abnormal existence without remedy, and
my purse considerably lightened.
| l took passage again for Spain, con-
WINGED 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 | landed two police agents
arrested me and conducted me to Jail. 1t
seems that travelling companion of mine,
seemingly an honest man, and to whom l
had loaned some money during the trip,
| informed the captain of the vessel that
was notorious thief fleeing to Spain with
the funds of a great American association.
| / protested and gave proof before the tri-
bunal of my innocence, but as | could pro-
| duce no witnesses, and as they found me
| possessed of large sum OF money, Justice
closed her eyes, or rather opened them too
much, for / was thrown into cell, and
the court began to pile up sealed docu-
ments 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 remained in prison
for a long, a very long time.
At last it happened to occur to some one
to order an inspection OF the prisons. The
iailer, supposing me a mailman or n very
dangerous criminal, had placed double
doors upon my cell, and served me
through hole in the lower panel. When
the door was opened he fell back with q
cry of alarm. He had imprisoned man
of thirty years, tall, ruddy, and with full
beard, and now found youth of eighteen
or twenty, with scarcely a hair on his face,
clad in the loosely fitting rags of an old
suit of clothes. | was again taken before
the tribunal, and learned that had been
confined for eighteen years, and that every
cent OF my money had been expended by
Justice in ascertaining the truth. The re-
suit of the investigation was that l was
not myself, that the prisoner of the mill
lions had escaped, leaving me in his place.
| The taller was declared an accomplice of