Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-07-25
ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND. FRIDAY MORNING, JU
Perpetual
Youth
A Case In Which 1t Would
Not Work Well
BY F. A. NIT II E L

81 see by the newspapers" said Rein
hard, that these institute fellows who
have been substituting knee joints In
the legs of human beings and other
wise repairing the human body claim
that they are on the way to cut out
substances which lead to decay or
bring on old age and when they sue
coed we shall always be able to re-
main young"
"H'mr' grunted Won Buest contemp-
tuously.
"You seem to doubt the possibility of
such result"
doubt it2 It has been done long
ago"
Been done long ago! What do you
mean, prOfessOrT
Professor Won Buest took his pipe
out of his mouth-he was always
smoking and, looking the other in the
eye, said:
"Reinhard, the conceit of this age is
intolerHble. Most of our discoveries
are accidental, though l will admit
that nowadays our scientists are draw
ing out natures secrets by scientific
experiment. Why shouldn't what has
been accidentally discovered today
have been accidentally discovered be-
foreY
because such discoveries electrify
The world, and we all know of them"
Some OF them do now that knowl-
edge is SO widely diffused. But you
who are German know that there still
remain in the futherland those who in
vestlgate for the love Of science and
despising the world, do not always
give out their discoveries, and when
they do It is because they will benefit
mankind"
What do you mean by saying that
the elixir OF life has been dlscoveredT p
II did not say that. Listen to me
and l will impart n secret. Pasteur
did not begin our present methods of
mlcrobe investigation. Jenner began 1t
a century ago. Why should the Idea
lay dormant from the time Of Jenner's
suggestion till Pasteur took 1t up and
developed It2 1t did not lie dormant.
Many scientists thought about It, and
some made experiments based on the
idea OF vaccination which Jenner pro
pounded.
ut is needless to tell you how be-
came a scientist. You know all about
1t. was born a scientist When
was little boy was wondering what
held the clouds In position, why OBJ
jects were reflected In soap bubbles,
how animals walked. When was six
yenrs old killed my pet kitten to see
It's works, which supposed to be sim
liar to those OF clock. That may
seem shocking to you, but 1t was the
beginning OF Investigations which led
me to prolong life.
AT eighteen | left the university.
had found the professors stupid lot
handing down what they considered
knowledge from one generation to an
other Some Of II was knowledge, but
the most of II was error. The first
president of this republic. Washington,
was killed by just such men, who, fol
lowing an ancient theory OF letting
blood in case Of fever, bled the Father
OF His Country to death. | came into
my estate soon after leaving the uni
verslty, landed property in Pomera-
mia on the Baltic sea. There, rid Of the
false knowledge that flooded the world,
! established my laboratory.
81 followed up the killing OF my kit
ten by an onslaught upon such inferior
animals as would give me the secrets
OF nature. worked twenty years, at
the end OF which time ! discovered an
antltoxln for the decay that accompa-
MES age"
"Why, professor" interrupted Rein
hard. "YOu are seventy and you look
seventy. II you discovered this anti
toxin, why did you not arrest the eff
fects OF age In yourselfT'
"Not so fast, my friend. At the time
I made the discovery was forty years
old. could not bring back my youth,
and the beginning Of disease is the
time to arrest It, There is another rea-
son. ! did not hunt for my antitOxin
because wished to live forever, since
| knew this would bring me intolerable
misery. ! experimental to satisfy my
thirst for knowledge. And now can
explain TO you why the world never
got my secret. | did not wish to cause
my fellow men to suffer. At my pres
ent age | have lived too long. Had !
the physical strength Of youth the
mental ennui OF age would be with me.
And what would this ennui be In an
other seventy or twice seventy years2
an the lonely region In which lived
had one congenial friend-Weisbard
His tastes were not my tastes or !
should have hated him. In his world
found something different, something
to freshen me. To him alone l CON
fided my secret | had cause TO re-
greet my confidence. He had n daugh-
ter fifteen years old, lovely, beauti-
ful girl. Gould you keep her as she
Is today he said to me, the rest OF
my life would be supremely happy
81 sighed. for / knew that desire
to preserve his daughters youth would
master him and he would pursue me
TIL | consented to give her perpetual
youth. ! paid no attention TO this
first broad hint, but II came again and
again and finally took the form Of n
definite request.
"FOr year resisted, assuring
WeIsbnrd that n consented the day