Show artificial GOLD of aa geald alio I 1 alne in poverty 14 A savant haa bean discovered ha has succeeded in producing bethi by thi moat simple meana th results so es erly sought for by the in science ever bince the day of solomon who is thought by adepts to have been himself one of tha moat expert wondrous adept chosa wh osa ox tra ordinary in the wonderful work ne has accomplished la a man TOy aars of ge doomed to solitude BOlI tude and poverty as all such men arft canto J ally remarks a london correspondent corres in the pall mall gazette he lives in a quartier perdu grenelle Grea elle and was as founded attao ot the mans genius as he unfolded cne by one the specimens spec imena of the s perfection of the work to which he had devoted the better pirt of more satisfactory result than the miserable dwell which he was from the elements a wretched garret through the roof of which the rain waa at the very moment of the interview in streams upon the the adept before the visitor several jip imen s of golden it various stages A lump of gold tor instance taken from a mine in mexico and by its side another piece produced by the mixture of different metals according to proportion and not to be distinguished from the original as taken from th mine even with the magnifying J glass jno difference could be detected his ex plan atlon of the method by which h had arrived at the fabrication of the metal waa clear and aimala he had always been impressed the edca that gold waa created by the bombina lion of other and that it dimply the highest perfection perfect ibn ing upon the same principle ia visible in tho gradual development of objects belonging to the animal and vegetable kingdoms king doma the i tion to ascertain the fact upon the very spot ot its product idt induced him to start forth amid ic heard of hardships and opposition to begin hia world in mexico just alve and forty years ago the identity of tho two specimen ac now before you e aid ane adepts is absolutely undeniable they are cef earno in every rea 1 r d efy aln minutest examination of abe i amps skeptical among the lor the weight the proportions 0 tha component element sare identical yet here I 1 have been waiting ng a waple lifetime for some one kooring to oring m help and encouragement encourage men ito i to multiply my experiments IB order the world that the preciosa preci oua which mankind aa ever such undue value is of valueless the mockery 1 aud laughter with I 1 nearly hal a century ago filled with despair and I gave up tho hop which had sustained 1 mj through the yeara of and privation 1 had en durad tho hope of enriching my country by means of my discovery it independent inda pendent whether of war corfam j ine or commerce or indeed ofa any calamity but death and how have you lived alt years 1 inquired the interviewer shivering as ho grazed at ane comfortless aspect of the place ina which ahia imaginative of raca was lodged and then the adepT 31 waa fain to confess thai while 1 moral was sustained by the dream ol 01 the future wealth of aho world in which he could not hope to share afir physique was dependent on hi labora aa ft cheap at J profession he camb auxt to keep the few elarka of life ro in hla poor worn out bodye from being extinguished altof fatha 0 |