The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-12-28
4 ENCIL VI M.AEkGiNA LA,
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Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.l


Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.I
The antiquity of chatteI mortgages is
undeniable. Even Job i'll his day com
planned of divers persons, They drive
away the ass of the fatherless. THEY TAKE
THE WIDOWS OK FOR a PLEDGE jon
XXIV. 8
When the great Professor Wilson. the
| immortal Christopher North" went over
to the pale majority, scarcely one of the
numerous ensuing obituaries failed to
notice his wonderful physical gifts. One
writer describes his
'.Thunderous brows, and lips intense
Of CARR LOUS-GOD-INNOCENCE''
whatever that may be Another tells Us
of how, with his eagle beak and lion like,
name" he resembled the Napiers From
the third we have the opinion that he must
have resembled Adam in the primal
strength and beauty Of "undeseased man
kind, while even Harriet Martinean for
gets her constant NIL ADMIRARI to recall
the majestic port Of the great ''all round
athlete (mental and PHYSICAL with his
step shaking the street as he walked and
his eye piercing stone walls.
1t strikes ne as remarkable that some
thing similar should not have occurred III
the various obituary notices of the late
Judge Settle. All who ever saw him, re-
cOgEized him as the perfection OF manly
beauty. His form was worthy of sculp-
tors study; his face vas full of strength
and sweetness, and his eyes in particular,
were rot surpassed in power to command
or attract by those Of Kit North himself
Always full of brightness and senSibilitY
they We're magnetic when aflame with
emotion. Never shall | forget their fash
as they gittered responsive to some imi-
tating home-thl ust Of Gov. Vance in the
famous debates between these two in 1876
'Nevcr, OH, my comrades, never
Shall we see that falcon eye
Redden with its inward lightning
As the bOur Of fight drew nigh"
This fine word painting by Professor
Aytown, of the cleaning battle Joy IN the
face Of Dundee might well have been
written Of Judge Settle, when stirred by
such excitement as | have mentioned.
There is one evil which | lave seen IN
der the sun, and it is common among
men. Let me give an instance OF it: on
page 20 of Vol. /, No. 3, of The Metro
poiltan," which styles itself "a monthly
journal OF popular literature" find an
article entitled, "A Claim to Human Graf
ltude." It begins with quite realistic
| description of the assassination of Marat
by Charlotte Corday. The circumstances
Of tn It Sublime murder are given with
great accuracy. 1t was tragedy which
has stirred he souls of men for nearly
| century, and moved to hei4 hts of noblest
temper the genius of more than one deln-
eueator Of hlstory's heroic figures Lam
artlne refers 10 this exalted murderess and
liberatriX Of her country as the angel of
/ assassination" The fancy Of kiopstock has
decked her grave with poetry's perennial
yerdue; the devotion Of Adam Lux to her
memory mas thrown reflected illumination
or her own deathless deed the matchless
powers of Carlyle, wrought upon by the
sadly strange thought OF this lovely
maiden, in her convent stiffness dream
ing. not of love paradlses and the light of
Ife, but of Codrus sacrifices, and deaths
Weli-earnod," have dedicated to her fatal
encounter, with Marat, that wonderful
chapter IN his French Revolution nara
ting how that, ''mutuaily eXtinctive,
the beautifuilest and the squalidest have
come together and extinguished each
other" a use-I had almost said novel
/ has been made of this strange, sad, event
full history, by the enterprising journal
| aforesaid, in comparing the riddance of
! France, 10y this deSpera te female hand, to
| the emancipation of the world from LIVER
| COMPLAINT by H. H Warmers Safe
/ Cure" of another remarkable female
/ contemporary of Charlotte's, La Gull
! lotine,' but for their prescriptive ex
/ cuse, "CoMMUNIS ERROR FACET JUS" This
;,basenyut of noble names and deeds to
| the Vulgar ends of tricky advertising, are,
| however, not to be tolerated. Long we
had the complaint of Sir Thomas Browne
that 1.-The Egyptian mummies, which
| Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice
now consumeth. Mummy is become mer
| chandise, MIRIAM cures wounds, and
Pharoah is sold for balsam." Shall we
Nineteenth Century heirs of all the ages
compete with the ghouls 3f commerce
whom Sir Thomas has transmitted to our
execration2 We devoutly hope that We
may not. Every lover Of elevating art is
debtor to Mr.. Corcoran for that heart
moving picture in the Washington gallery
of the sad, quiet, death resolved face of
Charlotte Corday behind the prison bars
of her short incarceration, bat for him
who would have pictured in Charlotte's
hands banner with this strange device,
but for Neglecting Warmers Liver Treat T.
ment, Marat would Not be Dead, nor | in
Hell," We can only wish that tle stones OF
Paris should have risen in the liveliest
mutiny that even THEY ever knew. Il. Ii.
Warner is one Of many, His remedy
may be safe enough; | believe it an ex-
cellent one; and | sincerely hope that, re
lying iltl ltafter Oh its ail-sufficient merits
and l say this honestly be may, III the
future, instruct by example his competl
tors and interiors to disuse an unhalloweC
practice of subjecting names Of blood
bought renown to the mere purposes o.