St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-12-09
FOUND BY ACCIDENT.
The Strange Case Of Harvey W.
Rogers, Of Buffalo, N. Z.
Left His Comfortable Home Twenty
Three Years Age and Has Since
Beem an Abs0lately Ain.
less WanaereF.
,sn.c,., w..h,n1ton Letter.l

Especial WA0hlnSton AeSter.J
Students of mental philosophy arc
often baff,ed when they try to explain
some of the peculiar workings OF the
human intellect. There are ample evl-
depces of the fact that some men have
dual natures; and many men OF re-
search and profound thought believe
that every human being is SO endowed.
Some investigators claim that each
lobe of the brain is in some degree IN
dependent of the other, and that good
impulses come from one lobe OF the
brain, while bad impulses come from
the other Some scientists assert that
If subjects could be found, who would
permit surgical operations. SO that one
lobe of the brain might be removed,
in that manner they could discover
which is the good and which the bad
side of the human thinking machinery.
Lapses of memory are we'll authenti-
Gated, and intellectual freaks abound
in the daily experiences OF observant
men.
Twenty-three years ago last Septem-
ber Harvey w. Rogers, railroad sta
ton agent at Hamberg, suburb OF
Buffalo, n. Y, left his position. home,
friends and a comfortable fortune to
70 to the Centennial exposition in
Philadelphia. He has since been
wanderer up and down the country,
from one extreme to the other, but has
never returned to his home. Not once
in that time did he communicate with
his relatives, and they, hoping almost
against hope that he was still alive.
have been steadfasty searching for
him for more than a score of years.
Their diligence was rewarded one day
recently, when = meeting between
Rogers and his family was effected at
the Office of his attorney in this city.
It was through the efforts of the lat
ter that Rogers sisters were enabled
to find their long-lost brother and that
they came here from Buffalo to meet
him. Their recognitions were mutual.
and while the women wept for joy, the
old man was so overcome by emotion
that for a few moments he could hard
" speak.
The story Of the eventful life Of the
old man. now 62 years Of age, is an inter-
esting narrative. His father was
well-to-do farmer in Erie county, and
possessed a fine tract of land in what
is now a growing suburb of Buffalo.
When Rogers was boy the land was
reckoned to be worth about $50 an
acre; now $4,000 would scarcely pur-
chase that much of it. When a young
man he enlisted in the Ninth New York
cavalry, and served throughout the
civil strife. There the romance Of his
nature developed. The home life was
to him rather shiftless and aimless, and
he became imbued with the spirit Of
wanderer. However, he returned home
after the war was over and went to
work for the railroad.
His father died, some Of the estate
was sold, and by economy Rogers man
aged to acquire q considerable sum of
money. He kept IN account in the
savings bank. loaned money on mort
cages. had e good position Is station
agent and became well-to-do. Still he
Was never wholly contented.
During the centennial year he start
ed for Philadelphia. fully expecting and
intending to return after spending q
few weeks at the exposition. He took
with him only enough funds to pay
the expenses Of an economical trip. for
be was never q spendthrift, but rather
frugal and modest in his wants. Weeks
went by, and finally they lapsed into