Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-13

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death-been struck by his paleness when
he was conducting or playing-every-
thing seemed to tire him more than for.
merly. The whole town was terror
struck, his friends trembled when the
news Of his illness spread abroad, but
when he began. TO amend they again be-
lieved 10 his ultimate recovery. A few
days afterwards he received visits from
his friends, was in good spirits, and
| Esas plan after plan. He even wanted
to 20 TO Vienna to fulfill his promise of
conducting the Elijah, but his friends
dissuaded him from this exertion. To
Frau Frege, who weRt to see him, he
said, well, / gave you a pretty fright;
must have been a cheerful looking OBJ
ject." By degrees the convalescent felt
better and better. and was allowed on
the 28th to take walk With his wife.
he even wanted to 60 out again, but
the careful wife persuaded him to rest,
and he consented; and, alas! immedi-
ately afterwards he sank down. They
called it paralysis The anxiety and
sadness of the next days cannot be de-
scribed. The whole tewn shared it with
relations and friends. Once more an
apparent improvement showed itself,
but he soon became highly excited, and
began talking English wildly; and on
the Sd of November, at halfpast two, he
had third attack, which completely
shattered his senses. The bulletin is be-
sieged, but the news which it gives tells
of no improvement, and so the 4th of
November draws nearer.
Midday.-The physicians, DR.. Ham
mer, Hofrath Carus, and surgeon Wal
ther, are with the patient by turns. The
bulletin which Schleinitz writes declares
the case to be hopeless. Herr and Frau
Frege, David Rietz, Schleinitz, my wife
and |, remained anxiously near the sick
room. The only words Of encourage.
ment that the doctors can give are these:
" If there should be no fresh attack, the
seeming quiet may bring about a happy
change, and he may be saved. But this
repose was only the result of the decline
of his physical strength.
Evening From 2 clock in the after
noon, when a repetition of the attack
was feared at the same hour as the day
before, utter Inconsistencies set in. All
the more delicate organs and mental
powers we're gone. and he lay quiet,
breathing loud and heavily. In the eve
ming we were all assembled around his
bed. without fearing disturbances; his
angelically peaceful countenance, the
stamp OF his immortal soul, Impressed
itself deeply and indelibly on our spirits.
His Cecile bore the terrible weight Of her
grief heroically-she never once broke
down, not word betrayed her suffering.
His brother Paul, like a moving marble
statue. was continuglly at his bedside.
This tragic scene was still heightened by
the vainly expected arrival of his sister,
Frau Dirichlet, and his relations, Herr
and Frau Schunck. DIR. Hartel had
gone off to Berlin to fetch her, and also
DIR. Sehonlein; but they did not come.
From nine in the evening the fatal end
began to approach, and the breathing
became slower. The doctors counted
the respirations as II they wanted to
enrich science with new discoveries; his
features became transfgured; Cecile
knelt by his bedside, snffnsed in tears;
and in the deathly silence Paul Mendels.
sohn, David, Schleinitz, and / sur
rounded the bed, in earnest prayer.
With every breath that escaped from
him.. l felt the struggle of the great
spirit which was breaking loose from its
mortal frame. At twenty-four minutes
past nine he breathed. ont his great soul
with deep sigh. The doctor took Oecile
into another room. and supported her in
her speechless grief. knelt by the bed,
accompanying the soul of the departed
one to heaven with my prayers and
kissed the lofty brow before it had grown
cold under the hand OF death. We re-
mained some hours together bewailing
the irreparsble loss, and then each one
retired, with his grief His children had
been SAINT to bed at nine, and were al
ready sleeping calmly when God called
their father to Himself. Even the awful
of the funeral celebration can
never come up to the feelings which
overpowered me then, and which shall
always carry about with me in remem-
branae of that beloved friend, a man
beyond the possibility of ever being re-
placed. The whole city moprned, the
had no concert on the 4th
Of November as nsual-and who would
have gone to listen to it7 That one
broken chord had taken the tune out Of
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