Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-05-04

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ed in the position he desired and oS
pressed great satisfaction that he had not
been killed outright, as he earnestly wish.
eu 10 see and TO speak with A. NJ
before he died.
AS soon as Ormo fell, A. NJ. NC.
eomPanied by Lynn, retired from the
peach, and was already far on his wav
pack 10 the city. He felt satisfied, from
MS ann, that mortal, if not an instanta-
mGously fatal, wound had been inflicted.
lhe atonement for his fathers murder.
so lar, at least, as Ormc could make il with
ms blood, and for his share of the deed
was, therefore, complete. II remained. if
possible, to seek out and to punish his
confederate and then the eXpiatory sacri.
nee lor the wilderness tragedy, would be
Hiilsheu. lie ieIt no remOrsc of con-
science, not even the least regret. for the
lall OF Orme, and was already revolving
IN his mind plan for the detection of the
other assassin of his father. when the
messenger overlook him with the news
that Orme had revived, was mortally
I wounded, and wished to speak with him
before he died.
/ This was startling announcement, but
a moments reelection determined A.
II to accede to the wish of Orme.-
The atonement of blood for blood, which
had Just been eXaCted, had cancelled all
feeling OF revenge or animosity, in his
mind, towards his fallen foe. From the
revelations which, in all probability, Orme
would make in relation to the murder of
his father, he might get some information,
or extract some hint, to direct his search
for the confederate assassin. At all events.
no evil, if no good, could come from a
compliance with the request of the diving
ieIon, and, therefore, accompanied by
Lynn, he returned with the messenger 10
the beach.
On Lis arrival, he found Orme sinking
under hemoThage from his wound, the
blood molstening the sand in the trough
scoopcd out on the beach, in which he
had been placed, so that he was seated, or
rather reclining, on couch saturated
with his own blood. His face was blanch-
ing TO the cadaverous hue of death The
fierce glace Of the eye was gone; the eX.
preston of the counteuance had changed |
from the severe aspect of hardened vil> |
iainy TO the soft shade Of regret and the |
old man OF crime having disappeared, a
ne" being, repentant, humble, and sor,
rowtul, met the astonishcd gaze of A.
NJ and his friend. The near pros,
pect o dissolution, while it awed the spirit
had almost miraculously transformed the
outward expression Of the dying Orr:c.-
lie was resigned, deeply penitent, and ex-
tremely delighted to see A. NJ.
This apparently total change Of charac-
ter in persons who have led the most
abandoned lives, produced by the, pros
pect Of impending DEATH has been fire.
quently observed, and is recognized as n
possibility of humanity, alike by
the poet, the moialist, and the philoso~
pher A most striking eXemplifcation Of
1t Is seen in the account given by Shaks-
peare of the death of Sir John Falstaff.-
When that mountainous parsonage, one
of the matchless creations of the genius
Of the worlds master delineator of human
character, came to die, his mind, accord
ing to the description of the poet, revert
ed to the fresh scenes and the pure JOYS
Of childhood. Abjuring the favori.e vices
Of his life, except his inordinate passion
for sack, he forgot his bachanal bluster
and brag, and became gentle and simple
rs child. lie played with flowers and
Dabbled of green fields, the playthings
md the playfelds of boyhood d-oblivious
IF the events, and apparently free from
The vices OF his past career The deliber-
alton is true to nature, and will be ac-
,epted as philosophically just by every
,ttentivs observer of human conduct and
character.
The change Of character thus described {
~ the poet, and now witnessed bv A.
II in the dying Orme. is seen only !
n those persons whose natures, morally
ound at the core, have been perverted l
" education, warped 10y passions too Law u
silly INDUCED, or misled by evil associa- !
ions. In these, the apprehension of APP |
,roaching death seems to strike off from
he character an outer crust which moral c
berration has produced and hardened I
round its central and more normal cha
acteristics, which, thus liberated from i'm !
shine forth and indicate the
ative goodness Of their perverted natures. Il
% this class Orme belonged. Nature gave I
i'm, originally, good head and warm
cart, but evil associations and worse prac-
ices, couded the one and corrupted the
ther, and he became that not uncommon G
loral monstrosity--a self-made demon, u
reducing a harvest Of evil actions upon !,
he subsoil of an originally sound moral u
But now that the hand OF 81
cath was upon him, the enveloping crust
evil fell of, and A. NJ beheld the g
rme of earlier days-such, indeed, as he
as, ere the crime of murder had darken- al
his soul with guilt, or q gamblers ca al
,er had spread its leprosy of moral pol
ltion over his head and heart. o.
Seeing A. M.-- already at hand,
rme beckoned him to come closer, re- "
Nesting at the same time, the other per-
ms present to retire short distance
own the beach. A. M---- approached, SC
nd the rest withdrew. Then requesting
. NJ to seat himself on his cloak II
,read close by upon the beach, Orme d,
ade to him, in low, failing voice, n o,
,nfession. .I .e st
ITO be continued u n.
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