Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-08-27
A Result of
Interference With
A Natural Law
By IOllN 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 curous manuscript, writ
ten and signed by the deceased:
see this morning by advices from
America that an eminent scientific In
vestig-tor claims TO have discovered n
serum for destroying the destructive
element that produces decay. or, In
other words old age. have COmclud-
ed to place my grandson, ~ whom |
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 cx
perIcncc am about to narratc. shall
simply give the only case which | nc
complished
After hnving succeeded with the low
er animals | naturally sought an op
portunty to apply my process to man
kind. ! happened about that time to
fall in with II lady who was DESTROYS
Of marrying man much younger than
herself She was FrHulcin BslOn, for
ty years old, and the man was Adolf
Beutner, aged twenty They were cous-
ms ana heirs to adjoining estates,
which would he much enhanced In
value If they could be united. Besides
this fact, FrnulcIn Blshoff seemed to
love the young man
l told her that | had discovered II
serum by which ! could keep her
young while Bcutncr was growing old
1t would be II long process, for II would
require twenty years for him to mr.
rive Mt the same ngc ms herself Rcut
ncr, realizing TINT match with his cld
erly cousin would be to- his interest
would have gladly married her If she
had been of Il suitable age for him.
The frnulcin asked me to propose my
plan to him, which ! did, and he
agreed to marry her, trusting 10 me to
keep her young till he had caught up
with her.
The marriage was delayed mt my
suggestion TIL felt assured TINT my
serum was producing on the lady the
effect | expected, but M soon as | had
evidence of this the wedding took
place. The groom Immediately after
the ceremony set out to spend n good
deal OF time In travel, being DESTROYS
OF getting rid Of the interval which
separated him from his wife without
seeing her. lie was gone five years.
but whcu he returned was still too
young to make companion of a wo-
man 40 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 | had not thought OF
I'm the beginning A man of forty Is
not likely to be satisfied with n wo-
man of forty. He prefers young
girl.
The matter between Herr Beut-
ner. and his wife went on very much
in the same way TIL 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 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 nuptinls with solicltude fearing
something might occur TO mar the re-
suit. The lady who had waited TWEEN
ting tritle anxious. | did what
could to encourage her. but she seemed
to have II presentment that what she
had been hoping for would not be
realized
Three months before the time set for
the return OF her husband she had
got herself into such state OF worry
that | found my serum was not acting
properly. | told her that II she did
not throw off her dependency we
should have bad failure. This had
counter effect from what had ex-
pected. 1t frightened her, and she lost
control OF herself. The result was Il
hystcrical condition, which rendered
my hypodermic injection absolutely In
effective.
Within week from woman o..
forty she had become one of sixty,
and. not being used to the presence q
the youth destroying animalculae In
her system, she had deterioratcd fur
more than she would have done under
ordinary circumstances. Indeed. she
was shviveied far beyond her years.
Then came the most distressing fa
ture In the affair. Herr Bcutner ar.
rived suddenly, full of authorization of