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rr TTlflYPTTTh .liviilLMjo 1 1 ' mm ' .. Hi J-L J U U 11 : - ' : A VOL II. LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY, 1886. NO. 1 1 .i THE PEOPLES DRUG STORE, SMITH & WATSON, LEXINGTON, N. C. Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Dye Stutfs,Grass & Garden Seeds, Patent Medicines, Toilet & Fan cy Goods, in Great variety. ? We make a speciaity of BOOKS, STATIONERY AND- School Requisites. -o- Any book published furnished at Publishers price : Attention Students . 1 GOTO V7. G. PENRY'S " i ; ' v.-. -for niee- TIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, COLLARS, CUFFS, UNDERWEAR, HOISERY, HATS, SHOES, CLOTHING, and everything in the way of Gents Furnishing Goods. He has what you want and will give you the lowest prices in town. A full line of fancy and staple gro ceries always on hand and at bottom prices. vaItpucq p pi rwe if H I -UaiLO W UL.UUIvj Jewelry and Silverware. D AVI S & CORRELL KEEP A FINE STOCK OP EVERYTHING IN THEIR LINK Watches, Clocks and Jewelry to suit everyl)ody. T!iey make a specialty too of Silver Plated Ware. Prompt attention giv en to repairing, j ,. V . B&Give them a call.a H. J. HEGE, I . ' I3EALERIN" ITALIAN & AMERICAN MARBLE, TOMBSTONES, MONUMENTS, TABLETS, &C. LEXINGTON, N. C. M -: I All orders promptly filled, and sat isfaction guaranteed. Designs and cwtl mates furnished on application. BOOKS. Ile that many bokes redys, Cunnyinge shall he be. Wysedome is soone caught ; In. many leues it is sought: But slouth, that no boke bought, For reason taketh no thought ; His thryfU cometh behynde.- Se- Itcted,. TICTOR HUGO. Demorcst'a Magazine. On the 23rd day of last February, Victor Hugo completed his eighty third year, and all Europe united witn nis own t ranee in paying him its tribute of love and reverence. The Oil Bias of Paris issued an el egant ''Hugo Supplement" wholly devoted to the life and works of the "master," and containing numerous congratulatory messages sent him from the foremost citizens of the world. "The 4Sublime Child,' as Chateau briand. named him, deserves to be called the sublime old man," was the message of M. Pasteur, the greatest of French scientists. "In this glori ous longevity, France presents a beau tiful spectacle to the world." "Thy setting sun, seems but a fair, new dawn,' was the opening-line of TCutrene fanyM?Sn. .years after, his on, Victor. uel's poetic tribute, while Francois Copee, next to Hugo the first of con temporary French poets, enshrined his congratulations in an exquisite stanza which defies translation. "It is only the lofty, snow-crowned summits that give back the fires of the setting sun," was the missivejof the gifted Queen Elizabeth of Rou mania, known to the reading world as "Carmen Sylvia." "I offer the tribute of my respect to the great writer whose works are worthy of his country, whose life is worthy of his works," were the words that flashed across the Channel from Wilkie Collins, while the mes sage of another Englishman, Lord Lyons, ran, "Still may you have " 'All that which ahould accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends.' " VThis anniversary is a national fes-; tival," wrote Pierre Veron. "Victor Hugo, so Jong a man of combat, has become a pacificator through the pow er of genius. Professional jealously, sectarian animosity and political controversy are alike disarmed before him." Three months later, on the 22nd of May, the great poet and novelist, the stainless patriot, the revered and honored citizen, whose hale, beauti ful old age had been thus gracefully commemorated, died after a brief, ill: ness. ; All Paris, which had gathered with congratulations and good wish es around the home of the venerated poet, in the Avenue d'Eylau, now flocked to view his remains as they lay in state under the Arc de Tri omphe, whence they were borne, aN tended by sorrowing thousands!! to the final rest in the church . of jSt; Genevieve, transformed in honor of Victor Hugo into a Pantheon, as it had previously been when in the days of jthe Revolution it received the; re mains of Mirabeau. Could the silent singer and romancist have chosenhis place of sepulture, one inclines to the opinion that it would have been the cathedral of Notre Dame, the scene ana inspiration 'or nis greatest ro mance. - I Victor Hugo belonged to an an cient and noble' family of Lorraine. His father one of seven hrothers, five of whom had perished in the Revolu tion, was a general in the army of Napoleon; his mother, a native, of La Vendee, was -a devout Royalist. Born at Besancon, when the star of the all-conquering Corsican was in the ascendant, he. shared with his mother and two elder brothers the shifting, adventurous life of a soldier of the consulate and the empire, j After r various gallant -military achievements, notable among which was the routing of Fra Diavolo and his band of robbers, General Hugo accompanied the new king, Joseph Bonapajrte, to Spain, and held high office in the royal palace of Madrid. celebrated Spain and Italy in immor tal verse, he only revived the impres sions of a romantic boyhood. M The year 1812 found the Hugo fam ily in Paris, domiciled in the abbpy of the Feuillantines, a somber pile set in a large garden.. Here Victor and his two brothers, Abel and Eugene, studied with great ardor and unter the direction of excellent private tju tors. Victor, at, the age of fifteen, entered the lists as contestant fo? a poetic prize, offered by the French Academy. He received honorable mention, and, but for his extreme youth, would have been decreed the prize. The next year he won two poetic prizes from the Toulouse Acad emy. Chateau onana was soon after to recognize his genius, and give him initiation into the ranks of French poets, under the title of The Sub lime Child." 1! A Royalist, because his mother had nurtured him in that faith, he hailed the downfall of Napoleon with a delight that greatly exasperated his father. Political differences led, ere long, to a separation between Gen eral Hugo and his wife, the eldest son, Abl, following his fathers fort unes, the two younger sons remain ing with their mother until her death, four years later. ! In his fifteenth year Victor had made a wrager with his schoolmates that he would write a romance with in a fortnight; j: Bug Jargal was the result. Eight years later the work was recast and published. j A youth of nineteen1 at the time of his mother's death, he1 sought diver sion from his . sorrow In a novel, en titled, lion (Tlslandy a crude, but strikingly original work, which both surprised and enraged. the cities. The story is' strong "but "grotesque, and quite in defiance of the literary pro prieties.' I , ; . Eugene Hugo also engaged in liter ature much to the displeasure of his father, a practical man who declared that his sons need expect, no assist- ance from mm while tney per sisted in such pursuits. Victor re plied loftily, that literature was his vocation, by which1 he should stand or fall. From that hour he was thrown upon hi9 own re sources, i in the struggle with fort une that followed, he gained that insight Into the common lot of toil and self sacrifice, which made him ever after the friend and champion of the poor. Here he received his con secration as the poet of all human ity. The youthful Marius of Lea Misera bles is Hugo himself at this time. In the toils and sacrifices of his hero, he but opens a page of his own history. "Odes and Ballads," a volume of royalist 'and religious poetry, ap peared irj 1822, Abel Hugo defraying the costs of publication.; In one of these. ode? the praises of royalty are sung in such jdutcet strains that the scholarly Bburban King, Louis 2CVIII., expressed his delight by granting'the young poet, a pension of one thousand francs from ; the royal purse. : Other small successes soon followed, enabling the rising author to marry, and Adele Foucher, a young girl of eighteen whom he had known and loved from boyhood, be came his;wife. The youthful pair set up' their household gods, in a modest little dwelling pestling amid the shrubbery of Notre-Damedes-Champs. . Their house became, ere long, a literary and artistic center. Here met weekly a coterie called the Cenacte, and num bering among its members the bright est lights, in the new school of French art and literature. I A second volume of Odes and Bal lads, appearing in 1826, gave Victor Hugo, an assured place among poets. Bay Jargal, the romance already mentioned, soon followed, divested of much of its boyish crudity, yet violating every rule of conventional art. . The critics, almost with one voice, declared Hugo a barbarian a writer who set at naught the Diction ary of the Academy, and the poetic rules of Aristotle. Urged by the great actor Talma to write a drama, Hugo published his Cromwell n 1827. in a very remark able preface to this work, he flings down the? gauntlet to his critics, and declares that the writer need recog nize no rule but his own fancy ; that all which exists in nature exists in Continued on thin! page. i! ' ! i i : ;, - n : - ' ' . I .'.'.! : ' Jt J
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