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•л half miles. Upon one Sunday afternoon, suffering with the malady which led to his death, he was taking his accustomed walk when he fell from exhaustion on the common outside the city and was unable to proceed. He was fortunately seen by two negro men (everybody knew him) and was carried in their arms to his home, whence he went to Philadelphia and placed himself under the care of the celebrated doctors, Physick and Chapman. Without avail, however, as in a few weeks his body was brought back and buried by the side of his dearSvife."— (Green Bag.) j The great-granddaughter to -whom that letter was addressed, says: "The Chief Jus tice died Monday, July 6, 1835. It was in the evening, and he quietly and peacefully closed his eyes in this world with the blessed certainty of opening them in Heaven." On the morning of July 8, about five o'clock, the body of Chief Justice Marshall was removed to the steamboat lying at the foot of Chestnut street wharf. The Mayor and Council and majj/y citizens went down with the boat as far as New Castle, and the Bar committee traveled to Rich mond. As the funeral cortege moved slowly clowri Chestnut street the old Liberty Bell began slowly tolling a majestic salute to the na tion's dead. It was the first time the bell had sounded since February 22, 1832, the centennial anniversary of Washington's birth. Desiring to preserve intact the most venerable relic of the days of 1776, the au thorities had made a rule forbidding the ring ing of the bell except on very important oc casions, such as the death of Marshall was deemed to be, and so the sonorous tones of the great bell which had proclaimed liberty and sounded the death knell of British dom ination, rang out impressively over the city, and groups gathered around listening spell bound. Suddenly there was an ominous sound, the beautifullv crystalline tone became dis

cordant and jangled, and on examination it was found that Liberty Bell was cracked. It was subsequently rung on several occa sions, although the tone was doleful. Final ly, on the celebration of Washington's Birthday, in 1843, the crack was so much increased in size that the bell was thenceforth kept mute forever. As it stands in all its silent dignity, in hon orable retirement within the sacred precincts of the shrine of American liberty, it is not only the symbol of all that is highest in patri otism, but with its pathetic crack is also a vivid reminder of the august sage and the mighty Judge whose expounding of the Con stitution placed that instrument of law and order on an unassailable basis, and whose memory a grateful nation honors.1 VATE LIFE AND CHARACTER.

Marshall was, like Lord Camden and other eminent Judges, a great reader of novels. On November 26, 1826, he wrote to Mr. Justice Story that he1 had just finished read ing Miss Austen's novels, and was much pleased with them, saying: "Her flights are not lofty, she does not soar on eagle's wings, but she is pleasing, interesting, equable^and yet amusing." - Ш? Binney, in his sketches of the Old Bar of Philadelphia, incidentally mentions: "After doing my best, one morning, to over take Chief Justice Marshall in his quick march to the Capitol, when he was nearer to eighty than to seventy, I asked him to what cause in particular he attributed that strong and quick step; and he replied that he thought it was most due to his commission in the army of the Revolution, in which he had been a regular foot practitioner for near ly six years.'' You would not forgive me were I to omit to mention the Quoit Club, or Barbecue Club, which for many years used to meet on Saturdays at Buchanan's Spring in a grove on the outskirts of Richmond. The city has 1 Mr. Chief Justice Charles B. Lore, of the Supreme Court of Delaware.