Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-01

- bat II" GoetCr puts 3 lew FIaticSI !
books IN his vati6e ana some v!sis q. rr..zi!-
! cine. AM leaves MS patients hero IN .he
/ han3s 81 othe- phy>ieIan- ani taxes ths rail
| Train Before he gets u taa infested regions
he passes crowded rail- trains. regular and
ezra. ta@lncta" sysac aa3 af-ri-ate3 popa
ia'lons. liz arrives - a city over which
great horror Is h-ooiias H goes from
i couch = couch, fe"hn, 81 the paise aai
studying symptoms ani u-eSrrlhinl, Gay n.
Tar lay, night after night. -un,u fellow
! pAys,cian says: "Docsor. Yon hal better
- home and rest. Yo4 look mis- /
erabie. BG. he cannot rss, whls -
/ many suffering. On anA on until /
soma morning lnds him n a ieliriun. In !
which he talks ~ hone. and thea rises aad /
SAYS be must 20 ami took after those patti |
snts. He Is told 10 lie down. but he 4 ach's |
his attendants until he falls hack ana Is |
weaker AMI weaker, and dies for peopla with /
whom he hal no kinshir. AMI Tar away from |
his own family. and il hastily put away in a
! stranger 5 tomb and only the fff,h part Of "A
! newspaper line tells rs Of his sacrfise-his
| name jues mentioned among nya Yet he
has touched the farth@st height q suhlimity
IN that thre. weeks Of humanitarian service.
He goes straight "a arrow 70 ,hs bosom
81 Him who all. Il was SEX. AMI Va Wis
ite | Ne" Tl.e for life B!0o! for blood.
Suh~titu:ion'
In the Legal profession. I So tha same prin-
ciple of self atrdce. In 1sl5 William Free
nan, . panp~r.zai AMI iiiottc negro. was al
Aubu-n \. Y. On trial far murder. He ha!
Slain the entira Van Nest family. The foam
in, wrath of the community could be kept
IF him only by armed constabies. VINO
wauh volunteer 10 lie his counsel2 M
attorney wanted T. saeri'ee hs popularity
by such an ln-fatefn ta@5, All were silent
save one-a youn. lawyer with feeble VOICE
that could hardly ha haart outside the har
pale AMI thin AMI awkward. 1t WAS William
, II. seward, WIZ saw that the pris oner was
il Otic an a-ponshle AMI ought 20 hc l.ut
IN Al asylum rather than pat = death,
tho heroic counsel uttern- these beautiful
II sr,i-
Il speak now in the hearing ot peonle
who have prejuicei prisoner and con-
de,nlei me for plea lin; IL ms hahaif. II"
IS aconTlct. pauper. a necr2. without intel
! e"t sensa or emotion. Nv chitl with m
aff-rtionate smile di@lrms nv carewarn face
Of its frown whenever | cross my threshold.
| The beGc.t in the street obiiEnS ma t. give
D because m SAYS, Got bless yon' | pass
: Nv dog caresseS me with fonineSs if will
: but smile him. Ny horse recognizes na
. when fill his man.er. What rev tri. what
: gratitude. what sympathy nni affsc
i ton | expec; here Tncre the pris
: oner sits. Look at him. Look At the assem-
/ blage around you. Listen to their Ill sup
/. pressed cenonres an their excite fears ani
i tell me where among my naghbors or my
It fellow men. where even in his heart can
: expect to fad n sentiment. thought. not To
n say OF reward or OF acknowledgment. or
II even Of recognition? Gentlemen. you may
i think OF this evidence what you please.
Q bring in what Verdict yon can. but | assev-
It crate before heaven and you that. to the
If best Of my knowledge and belief, the pris-
n oner at the bar does not nj this moment
n know why it is that my shadow falls on you
f. instead of his own
'. The gallows got its victim but the pos:
at mortem examination OF the poor creature
y showed to all the surgeons and to all fh'
10 world that the public was wrong. that Will
I'd lam H. Seward was right and that hard
n stony step Of obOqGy in the Auburn court
IL room was the first step Of the stairs OF famt
n up which he went to the top, or to within
t one step OF the top, that last denied him
q through the trea 'h"rv Of American politics
Nothing subiiner was ever seen in an Amer
IT lean courtroom than William II. Seward
/ without reward standing between the turl
~ of the populacc and the IOathsDIe lnbocile
il! Suh,ttuti9r'
4 In the realm Of the fms arts thore was n
ut remarl latie an instance A brilliant bu
as hvpnrcriticjsei painter. Joseph William
III Turner was met by yotl"y Of abusn from
p. all the art galleries Of Europe. His paint
II inc9. which have since won the applause 0
:e 81 civilized na.ionS-"Ihe Fii,h Plague 2
ar E-vit" '.Fiehern N on L. Shore l.
Il S1ualIy Weather" :" calais Pier" TN SUI
h EIsin, Through Mist" ani "Diio9Buildin.
+ Carthage -wer" then targets for c.itir
- 10 shoot n. IN defense of This out
- ra-eousy abu.e man young author 0
n tw"nty-tonr wears, Just one wear o4t Q
a. cJ.Ie,e. came forth with his pen an1
: wrot" tba abIest ani II Jst fan 1us Essay
/ On art that IN world ever saw y ev~
/. viii see-John Elskin's "Mo!ecn Pain
j" ter-. For seventeen wears thus autIo
le fought the battles ~ the m4ltr"atei arts
! AMI after. II pow ,rty AMI broAen' h"1rt" !
n n-s- the painter ha del AMI the puhii
tried 20 undo their rru"lt+e- toward him T.
! ..ivin-: him Il hic funeral ana burial IN :;
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