Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-03-29
Perpetual
Youth
A Case In Which Ii Would
No, Work Well
By f.. a. NIT c ii & L

the legs of human beings and other
wise repairing the human body claim
that they are on the way 20 cut ont
substances which lead TO decay or
bring on old age and when they sue
coed we shall always be able to re-
main young"
Him.. grunfed Won Buest contemp.
tuously.
"iou seem to doubt the possibility OF
such n resDlt'
Doubt Il: 1t has been done long
ago
Been done long ago! What do you
mean. prufrssor?"
Professor ton Buest took his pipe
ont OF his mouth--he was always
smoking and looking the other In the
eye. said:
"Reinhard. the conceit of this age Is
intolerible. Most Of our discoveries
are accidental. though ! will admit
that nowadays our scientists are draw
ing ont natures secrets by scientific
experiment Why shouldn't what has
been accidentally discovered today
have been accidentally discovered be-
fore?"
"Recause 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 fathcrland those who In
vestigate for the love OF science and.
despising the world. do not always
give out their discoveries. and when
they do 1t Is because they will benefit
mankind"
what do you mean by saying that
the elixir OF life has been discovered"
II did not say that. Listen 20 me
and will impart u secret. Pasteur
did not begin our present methods OF
microbe investigation. Jenner began II
a century ago. Why should the idea
lay dormant from the time OF Jenner's
suggestion till Pasteur took II up and
developed II! II did not lie dormant.
Many scientists thought about II. aud
some made experiments based on the
idea OF vaccination which Jenner pro
pounded.
1T Is needless to tell You how he
came scientist Yon know all about
1t. was born a scientist. When
was n little boy was wondering what
held the clouds In position. why OBJ.
jects were reflected In soap bubbles.
how animals walked. When was six
years old | killed my pet kitten to see
Its works. which | supposed 20 be sim
liar 10 those OF clock. That may
seem shocking 10 yon. but II was the
beginning OF Investigations which led
me 10 prolong life
AT eighteen I left the university. |
had found the professors n stupid lot.
handing down what they considered
knowledge from one generation 10 an
other Some OF II was knowledge. hut
the most OF II WAS error The first
president Of this republic. Washington.
was killed by Just such men. who. fol
lowing mn ancient theory OF letting
blood In ease of fever. bled the Father
OF His Country TO death ! came into
my estate snon after leaving the uni
versity. a landed property In Pomera-
mia on the Rattle sea. There. rid Of the
false knowledge that flooded the world.
| established my laboratory
IL followed up the killing Of my kit
ten 10y an onslaught upon such Inferior
animals as would give me the secrets
OF nature worked twenty years. nj
the end OF which time discovered an
antiioxin for the decay that accompa-
MES age
why. professor" interrupted Rein
hard "you are seventy and Won look
seventy II you discovered this anti
toxin. why did you not arrest the ef
fects OF age in yonrseif?"
">ot so fast. my friend. AZ the time
I made the discovery was forty yeart
old could not bring back my youth
and the beginning OF disease Is the
time to arrest II. There IL another rea
son did not hunt for my antitoxin
because | wished tu live forever. since
! knew this would bring me intolerable
misery. ! experimental TO satisfy my
thirst for knowledge. And now ! car
explain 10 you why the world never
got my secret. did not wish TO cause
my fellow men 10 suffer. AT my pres
ent age have lived too long Had !
the physical strength OF youth this
mental ennui OF age would he with me
ANA what would this ennni be- In an
other seventy or twice seventy year,
"ln the lonely region IN which 'ivst
had one congenial friend Wcislsnd
His tastes were not my tastes or I
should have hated min. In his world !
found something different. something
To fre>hen the To MIN alone | con
iidrd my secret | nad cause Ia re-
greet my confidence lie had n dangh
ter fifteen years old. a iuveiy bcanti
FIJI girl Could yom Keep her ~ shs
II today. ne said TO me. The rest III
my life would hp supremacy happy.
II sighed. for ! knew that d''~ir'
10 preserve hls daughter youth wonl'
master him aud ne would pursue un
TN ! consented "a give h.r I.ri~iiir