The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-07
A Result of
Interference With
A Natural Law
By JOHN Y. LARNED

Having received word that my grand
father. the late Professor Donnen-
shauner, had died In Germany and
had made me his heir, / went to his
home In Heidelberg, where he had al
ways lived, to settle his estate. In
overhauling his effects / came upon
the following curious manuscript, writ
ten and signed by the deceased;
see this morning by advices from
America that an eminent scientific in
vestigator claims to have discovered
serum for destroying the destructive
element that produces decay, or, in
other words, old age. / have conclud-
ed TO place my grandson, to whom l
bequeath my effects, in possession Of
facts to show that the discovery which
this American now claims as original
was made by me some years ago
shall not give the process by which
preserved youth The reason for my
not doing so will appear from the ex-
! perience / am about to narrate. / shall
simply give the only case which l ac-
complished.
After having succeeded with the low
er animals | naturally sought an OPP
| portunity to apply my process to man
kind i happened about that time to
| fall In with a lady who was DESTROYS
of marrying man much younger than
herself. She was Fraulein Bishoff, for
ty years old, and the man was Adolf
Beutner, aged twenty. They were cous-
ms and heirs to adjoining estates,
which would be much enhanced in
value IL they could be united. Besides
this fact, Fraulein Bishoff seemed to
love the young man.
| told her that / had discovered a
serum by which could keep her
young while Beutner was growing old.
II would be long process, for ii would
require twenty years for him to ar
rive at the same age as herself. Beut-
ner, realizing that match with his eld-
erly cousin would be to his interest,
would have gladly married her If she
had been Of a suitable age for him.
The fraulein asked me to propose my
plan to him, which | did, and he
agreed to marry her, trusting TO me to
keep her young till he had caught up
with her
The marriage was delayed at my
suggestion till / felt assured that my
serum was producing on the lady the
effect expected but as soon as / had
evidence of this the wedding took
place. The groom Immediately after
the ceremony set out TO spend a good
deal of time in travel being DESTROYS
of getting rid of the interval which
separated him from his wife without
seeing her He was gone five years,
but when he returned was still too
young to make a companion of a wo-
man so much older than himself. He
went away again for another five years,
when he returned with the same re-
suit.
Meanwhile the lady, in the matter of
age. stood stock still | had no fear
that / might not keep her from grow
ing older, but there was one trouble
in the way that l had not thought Of
in the beginning. A man of forty is
not likely to be satisfied with wo-
man of forty. He prefers a young
girl.
The matter between Herr Beut-
ner and his wife went on. very much
In the same way till he was thirty-nine
years old; then he wrote her from
South Africa that he had become in
terested in diamond mining there and
was growing rich. He In time wrote
that he was tired of a nomadic life
and on the day he was forty would re-
turn to her and settle down.
Feeling responsible for the relative
conditions existing between these two
persons, viewed the approach of their
real nupdals with solieitude, fearing
might occur 10 mar the re-
suit The lady who had waited twen-
y years for q husband was also get
ing a tri1e anxious. did what I
,ould TO encourage her. but she seemed
o have a presentment that what she
lad been hoping for would not he
ealized.
Three months before the time set for
he return of her husband she had
rot herself into such a state of worry
hat found my serum was not acting
l told her that II she did
lot throw Off her dependency we
hould have bad failure. This had
ounter effect from what I had ex-
ected. II frightened her. and she lost
ontrol of herself The result was
ysterical condition, which rendered
~ hypodermic injection absolutely in
Elective.
Within a week from a woman OF
orty she had become one of sixty.
nd. not being used 10 the presence OF
he youth destroying animalculae in
er system, she had deteriorated far
lore than she would have done under
rdinary circumstances. Indeed. she
as shriveled far beyond her years.
Then came the most distressing fea-
ire in the affair. Herr Beutner ar
we'd suddenly, full OF anticipation Of
.ttling down with a compsnionable
oman as well preserved as himself.
Id stumbled into the very room
here she was Seeing an old crone.
} asked her where be would find his
ife. The poor woman, realizing the
tuation. pointed to a room across the
NJ and as soon as he had left her