Show THE HERMIT the sad history of george life the remains of jacob known as thy bermit who was found dead in bis hub near the ocean beach south of golden gate park sau francisco on the afternoon of christmas day were in such an advanced adago atago tint an failed to reval tho cause of death though it ia to have from some a of the reporter in investigating the causa of the and lerable ne rable life led by the recluse accidentally stumbled across a resident of san co who biad been intimately with during the early part of the liter residence here in 1873 and learned from hira as much of the mans history aade him ff had from bis own lips the story of the great wrong which broto the half crazed and wholly heartbroken man to the solitude of the ocasa beach sufficiently ro to be worthy of publication and it is consequently appended the earlier portion of it being told by himself to hia friend WEfT st EARLY gava every promise of a most brilliant lie was barnof wealthy par TOU io one of the great commercial Germa ayt and al an early at unusual pro ratsa of becom ug a man of unusual miral worth antl his orly under the super private tutors provided by his proud parents anil at whence lie graduated at hr age ot 24 with high honors some three yer were then spent by lim in travel oyer various por bioni of ane civilized world finally arriving arri Ying ht homo conly before the war between franco and germany hiis arvic er vic were at once offered hi country aej anil till the close of that bloody struggle coming out with but few wound and much distinction after a faff months sojourn iu hia ancestral coraa his gravels ravels ra vels making the city of new orleans alace dipre he at once into society his good loo kf l ling afoa wealth tit cyrin liia A aport the cirola of the we Iro polls the acau n between new society bolle oon rip eneil aiato iato mu a conru bip af abotsi abu tsi be result of the unon ba one child A wante n nl in traveling in tho of the upper bial brought on a pul irlo nary faction fec tion which physician in hain could only be benefited by a voyage and fo jurn sn ome milder chimato cl imato aind ins family set ul froia w via tes w here finding he deti ted no from with alia COAT FOU he o try ih e sand It linda aih difo declining to him aad the chud m on cuish street and aided alone iame pek ht wife consoled herself with etters ht batt her relics HI it war to ile gaetin of ili city tee ol 01 cpr lonely q arter ind fihe iffa t eek madr concenia con senia bai atie quiet people with alif by her husband not lacking for he young artelt war not ori before he wan into the at lio bouie q the lay for timetha M off abe too icare bopf d few weeks kh began fir hm excesses eg rather than opu lt afaf her beauty an ivac wu winning manner finding interfered riah li free mee now uncheck ej passions the little ono wag gent in chargi sofa to her busbia in about this alfr narae associated that of in a unpleasant manner the finally becoming ao that lier bier deserted the entire on the community lover like wn deserted hert and driven to b A HSAI bao Q i Itu pont st hr only kiino to learn to loathe her fearful avocation tb debartol dep for tha enty in aonie ob puro portion of which ho u now supposed to be living short becom trig alarmed att not hushu hearing from glicr aej hia lical ll aing al loret returned to san fran circo binl friend dreading to eatn upon him in an dwor lo 10 his in quirks merely hi ru thai ili n had her early hun Io ellel v in pursuit aad nearly year wallfred hither and litnor in search of hm bif anil mid money like water in his fruit leu birch finally hear auf frodi homo of the arrival of his cald lo 10 returned to thi i cita with ohp vaia hope in hia heart alt her frob abi city liht ate temporary shortly after hi return ho for tho biral liias U BJ of hia t anh hock together with ht anxiety the proceeding ten or eleven monter being utti clent to utterly him and an atack of bi old ocemay the complaint that so nearly ended ilia lilo before lie up in the for up vard of thre montla it the end end of which time he waa dich rg el a wreck in mind aud body he ceased all with hi iTea and wandered rubout until the latter part of the yer which he occupied until the day of hii ditth here ho dragged out a living on what J the sa ivanord Ivan oed ta throw away having for hi only the lio auch old junly w an be the choris P arnes attracted bahia which showed thao hi unkempt Bly enly oft ten made efforts to draw him ou butin an ordinary reet ing his only re ponee to question being a slamming of the door of bi hut from whence no efforts could dislodge him lie refused all offers of assistance only occasionally ac cep tinga book or paper when chance threw them in big way ilia cabin when opened was found to contain a collection of articles from the ocean gach as pieces of hell corald corals sea weeds eto hf whole being foul and in thi extreme several letters bearing bariou dates alio found in ahr cabin they were all from hii frimid and relative two being frosti hi mother nho is evidently dwle aced and fe elile ahe lettera nearly ail bleab of the writers having headd of tho existence led by and upbraid him for refining to return home or accept their aid several instances being spoken of where nib BEE tEXT iiii which he evidently either did not call for or returned to them touched and thug one who might have been an ornament to and a true man among men lived the life and died the death of a wild on account of one woman perfidy it is stated but not authentically that the author fera ruin returned to thi city some two year ago oa her bridal tour w the wile of a wealthy boston ant and that while driving on the beach one morning with her husband and a party of friends she was recognized by hoeffel who would loudly all her by name and then chase the carriage until he fell ex hausted upon the beach siad the party returned to the chiy and reported that they had been forced to lee from madman whether the wife who had cabied tho light to go out of unfortunate life ever learned oher husbands sad ostracism is not known the remains of the unfortunate hermit were interred yesterday in the potters field and thu ended a life which wim avery prospect of being bright and glorious to the end |