The Worthington advance., 1899-11-10
FOUND B Z a Q CID EN IL.
The Strange Case Of Harvey ".
Rogers, Of Buffalo, n. Z.
Left His Comfortable Home T1venty-
Three Years Ago and Has Since
Been an Absolutely Aims
less Wanderer.
Especial Washington letter.

Students of, mental philosophy are
often bafaed when they try to explain
some of the peculiar workings OF the
human intellect. There are ample evl-
dences 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 well 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. ", left his position, home,
friends and comfortable fortune to
go to the Centennial exposition in
Philadelphia. He has since been a
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 steadfastly searching for
him for more than score of years.
Their diligence was rewarded one day
recently, when a 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 few moments he could hard
ly speak.
The story of the eventful life of the
old man, now 62 years of age, is an inter
esting narrative. His father was a
well-to-do farmer in Erie county, and
possessed fine tract of land in what
is now growing suburb of Buffalo.
+ When Rogers was boy the land was
reckoned to be worth about $50 an
acre; now $5O, 900 would scarcely pur
chase that much of it. When 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, anG
he became imbued with the spirit of g
wanderer. However, he returned home
after the. war was over and went tc
work for the railroad.
His father died, some of the estate
was sold, and by economy Rogers man
aged to acquire considerable sum Of
-meneyy--He- ePt-an-aocou in -thf
savings bank, loaned money on mort
cages, had a good position as 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 8
few weeks at the exposition. He took
with him only enough funds to pay
the expenses of an economical trip, fol
he was never spendthrift, but rather
frugal and modest in his wants. Weeks
went by, and finally they lapsed into