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Show M Noah Raby Dies at 132. WfiijH jjrSJnclc" Nonh Raby, as he was affcc- i U tlonutely called by his fellow paupers, 1 1 flj used to say laughingly that he could not I . die and that he would live two hundred I yjfl years, but the lapse o time gradually B Hi weakened his marvelous constitution, B and death has at last claimed its own. B nH His was an interesting career. Thcro was romance in it, for he was twice disappointed dis-appointed in love, and although both episodes occurred many years ago, ho had forgotten neither, and even in his last days would speak of them with tender ten-der regret. He had used tobacco and drank whisky, whis-ky, o he said, since he was 1 years old and did not give up either habit until he had reached the age of 131 years, when ho came to the conclusion that perhaps they were injuring his health. Toward the end he was blind, but ho never for a moment lost full possession of his faculties and was always an entertaining en-tertaining talker. If his own story was true, and he never deviated from it, Raby probably was the oldest man In America and perhaps in the world. He said that ho was born at Gatesville, N. C, on April 1, 1772, and that he could offer infallible proof of tho fact. When 11 years old he was bound out to a farmer, with whom ho remained until he was 21. Then he set out to seek his fortune. "Wandering to Virginia, he was made overseer of the Parker plantation, near Norfolk, at a snlary of $200 a year, but there he fell desperately In love with his mistress, Mrs. Sarah Parker, a widow. She rejected him and he left the plantation and enlisted In the navy, seeing, service in the war of 1812 on the man-of-war Brandywinc. At the end of the conflict Raby went back to the old plantation, only to find that Mrs. Parker had married another I man during his absence. Then he made Ills way to New York, where he obtained ob-tained work on a farm on Staton Island. Hero he met a girl named Anne Dun-leavy Dun-leavy and fell In love with her. Anne seemed to reciprocate his passion, and all arrangements had been made for the wedding when she eloped with another. The Bhock was great to Raby and, turning turn-ing his back on the place, ho made a vow novcr again to place confidence or trust in womankind. Until the very end he averred that he had kept his word. After other wanderings, in which he pursued his work as a fanner in vari ous places, he finally settled down near Now Brunswick, N. J and passed a placid existence until he grew too old to work and was taken to tho poor-house. poor-house. That was forty-two years ago, and since then he had lived the life of ease, smoking his pipe on the plaaza and recalling re-calling tho hazy visions of the long past. Ho was always willing to chat with visitors, of whom he had many, but he never betrayed much Interest in tho doings of the busy world without. Raby could neither read nor write, but his was the education of experienco ' ; i ll and vicissitude, and he was wise In hlji lllH way. Indeed, to the country folk In UfH the neighborhood of the poorhouse hit ll was an oracle, if only by virtue of hi UH great age. and often they sought hliu for advice. H It was always a proud boast of thfl iH old man that he had once seem. Georgj IH "Washington at Portsmouth, Va., anq 'H he would take great delight In descrlb ' lng the first President with whaj , pH seemed to be accuracy. He would alsc talk entertainingly of the early days oi jH the Republic, and of the great men hi ; had encountered, New York Herald. ) t jH |