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Show TRYINO TO MAKE OOLD. Hack In the forests of Jefferson coun. ty. Now York, In a cave. Uvea aged Wllloughby Uurnapp, who has spent nearly fort yeara In an attempt to discover the secret by which gold can bo made out of baser metals. Ho hat not only grown old In the atrange taak, but he has also grown queer, for ho nets strangely and talka queerly. Ilia appearance la that of a patriarch, with white flowing beard and matted hair. Forty yeara ago the crate of alchemy al-chemy revived In the farmlanda of Jefferson Jef-ferson county, Wllloughby Uurnapp and his young wife lived happy and prosperously those days. Hut when the crate for gold-making came Uurnapp Uur-napp waa one who abandoned the plow for the crucible. Hla kitchen became a laboratory With him the crate never died, Ily day he poured over hla queer book and by night the kitchen crucibles cruci-bles burned bright with evil fires. Finally Fin-ally hla wife died, hla farm waa aold, and Uurnapp, now grown old In hit fruitless effort to solvo the question of gold-making, took up his abode In a mountain cave, far removed from any other habitation of man, Here he lives and pours aver his books, anl makes experiments all without success. suc-cess. The golden secret It apparently aa far from his reach aa It waa the day that he left the plow for the crucible. Hut the old roan la determined All he wants, all he asks. It to bo let alone WlLLOUailllY 1IUIINAPP. In bis cave abode And thta It granted, grant-ed, for few persona visit him except the poor authorities who have him un. der their care. |