St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-04-05
THE S r. CLOUD DEMOCRAT.
JANE q. ENISSHELM. EDITOR
Thursday. April 9th 1890.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
CASSIUs M. CLAY.
suBJECrToTHE DECISION OF EoBoDTs
CONVENTION. '.
EDITORIAL CORRESpON
DENOE.

EDITORIAL CORRESP p ON
DENOE.
MART IRVING.
In Fairbsult, We met, in the person Of
Rev. Ormsby's Lady, a near relation Of
"Mary Irving" writer whose productions
used to enrich the columns Of the Nat on
al Era; and learned that her real name
was Mary Eliza Tcnncy. sho was Gov
ernness in DR.. Bailie's family but FIVE
years ago was enabled to realize the pur-
pose Of her life, 70 50 as Missionary
She went to Tocat Turkey, in the family
ola cousin, Rev Fl. j. Loepr ep, where she
remained until last Nov, when she wa,
married to DR.: Cyrus Iamlin Of Constan-
tinople.
PEALE'8 COURT OF DEATH.
l have seen copy Of tn. colored en-
craving Of this celebrated picture: and rs
it is just new very extensively advertised,
and rs our St. Cloud ladies' have rather
picture x,ania, they might like descrip-
tion Of this one. The fist impression it
makes on the mind as one unrolls it, is
"Gambrogc and Vermillion!" Next we
thought of the Dutchtnan' bear, when the
Meinherr had painted his hear and folks
failed to recognize his bearsbip, Hans wrote
under it "dis ish a pearv' but f*lks red
and looked and still did not see ode pear"
So, this pictue has extended notes ex.
planatory but VIC looked at the picture,
read the explanations, looked again and
could not make it out. 1t processes to H.
lustrate Bishop Porthus' poem on Death,
which speaks Of tho King Of terrors hold
ing court
BY shelving rocks and irterm;n8'cd horrors
Ofyew and cypress"
The horrors are there witt tho yew and
cypress left out The "Shadowy figure"
in the centre, is as clear in every outline
aud as strongly marked as if it wcrc cut
out Of gray granite. The human body ON
which his foot rests we arc told is the
corpse Of a youth; but it is rcd and rosy,
utterly innocent Of any Of the ghastliness
Of death, the feet and head over the op-
poaitc sides Of a rock; touching the Waters
Of Oblivion, to show the obscurity which
covers the beginning and end Of life.-
There is no mist on those waters, no fog,
nothing which indicates uncertainty. On
the left an old man approaches the mon
arch supported by red faced buxom !: IS;
Ola Age in the arms of Faith. She looks
very like triplet sister of Pleasure and
Intemperan>e who are making themselves
comfortable on the right hand side. The
explanation says they are approaching
Death, but fails to explain how they are
to get there without going through Obliv-
ion and coming up on the other side,
WHICH rather comports with the original
idea Of the body already under the denim
ion Of Death. War and Conaagration arc
figures appropriate to the design, and to
Gambrogc and Vermilliou; but the Victi N,
the Widow and Orphan arc rather fine
specimens Of ruddy health. Famine is
hungry in form, and as there is considcra-
bic indigo in the color, he will answer;
but Pcstilencc is hale, stalwart fellow CT
the prevailing hue. The notes inform US
that all these folks arc unconscious Of the
presence Of Death; but nothing in the
picture expresses tho idea; no mist or
shadow or cypress boush intervcncs be-
tween them and that strongly cut figure.
So, to, on the other side it's said that the
incense from the urn Of Pleasure, hides
the presence Of Death; but We fail to SEQ
the incense; and it requires hard stretch
Of imagination to conceive that all those |
folks, with their faces deathward should
fail to see the centre figure. The different
figures arc said to represent Consumption,
Despair, Fever, Apoplexy, Hypoconlria
Gout, Remorso, pc}irium Tremeas and
Suicide. The last three are so described