We were to listen for one shrill note which was imperative.
No one would care or dare to remain after that.
Dr.Doremus showed me one evening a watch he was wearing, saying: In Ole Bull's last illness when he no longer had strength to wind his watch, he asked his wife to wind it for him, and then send it to his best friend, saying: 'I want it to go ticking from my heart to his.' That watch magnetized by human love passing through it is now in the possession of Arthur Lispenard Doremus, to whom it was left by his father.

It had to be wound by a key in the old fashion, and it ran in perfect time for twenty-nine years.

Then it became worn and was sent to a watchmaker for repairs.

It is still a reliable timekeeper, quite a surprising story, as the greatest length of time before this was twenty-four years for a watch to run.
I think of these rare souls, Ole Bull and Dr.Doremus, as reunited, and with their loved ones advancing to greater heights, constantly receiving new revelations of omnipotent power, which "it is not in the heart of man to conceive." LINES Read at the Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of DOCTOR R.OGDEN DOREMUS, January 11th, 1894, at 241 Madison Avenue, by LUTHER R.MARSH.
What shall be said for good Doctor Doremus?
To speak of him well, it well doth beseem us.
Not one single fault, through his seventy years, Has ever been noticed by one of his peers.
How flawless a life, and how useful withal! Fulfilling his duties at every call! Come North or come South, come East or come West, He ever is ready to work for the best.
In Chemics, the Doctor stands first on the list; The nature, he knows, of all things that exist.
He lets loose the spirits of earth, rock or water, And drives them through solids, cemented with mortar.
How deftly he handles the retort and decanter! Makes lightning and thunder would scare Tam O'Shanter; Makes feathers as heavy as lead, in a jar, And eliminates spirits from coal and from tar.
By a touch of his finger he'll turn lead or tin To invisible gas, and then back again; He will set them aflame, as in the last day, When all things are lit by the Sun's hottest ray.
With oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,--all-- No gas can resist his imperative call-- He'll solidify, liquefy, or turn into ice; Or all of them re-convert, back in a trice.
Amid oxides and alkalies, bromides and salts, He makes them all dance in a chemical waltz; And however much he with acids may play, There's never a drop stains his pure mortal clay.
He well knows what things will affect one another; What acts as an enemy, and what as a brother; He feels quite at home with all chemic affinities, And treats them respectfully, as mystic Divinities.
His wisdom is spread from far Texas to Maine; For thousands on thousands have heard him explain The secrets of Nature, and all her arcana, From the youth of the Gulf, to the youth of Montana.
In Paris, Doremus may compress'd powder compound, Or, at home, wrap the Obelisk with paraffine round; Or may treat Toxicology ever anew, To enrich the bright students of famous Bellevue.
He believes in the spirits of all physical things, And can make them fly round as if they had wings; But ask him to show you the Spirit of Man-- He hesitates slightly, saying, "See!--if you can." Wherever he comes there always is cheer; If absent, you miss him; you're glad when he's near; His voice is a trumpet that stirreth the blood; You feel that he's cheery, and you know that he's good.
No doors in the city have swung open so wide, To artists at home, and to those o'er the tide; As, to Mario, Sontag, Badiali, Marini, To Nilsson and Phillips, Rachel and Salvini.
Much, much does he owe, for the grace of his life, To the influence ever of his beautiful wife; She, so grand and so stately, so true and so kind, So lovely in person and so charming in mind! I had the pleasure of being well acquainted with Mr.Charles H.Webb, a truly funny "funny man," who had homes in New York and Nantucket.
His slight stutter only added to the effect of his humorous talk.

His letters to the New York _Tribune_ from Long Branch, Saratoga, etc., were widely read.