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Show LAST OF THE BOLIVARS. Death ot a Nipliew of the Great South American Liberator. When we turn our eyes through the lens of South American history and recall re-call that bloody struggle for independence, independ-ence, we behold the shadows of many deathless heroes, whose steps along the corridors of time have left a trailing trail-ing light of glory behind them. Such a cluster of noble patriots include Miranda, Mi-randa, Paes, Sucre, Monagas, Bermu-dez, Bermu-dez, Falcon, Vargas, and Simon Bolivar, Boli-var, whose names will live in imperishable imper-ishable grandeur as long as the human heart can cherish deeds of valor and sentiments of unalloyed patriotism. But by far the most eminent and foremost man of that period and the one who infused his lofty individuality among all his followers, was General Simon Bolivar, who has ever since been known as the Libertador the Washington of South America. And well has he won such fame, as the idol of his people, the admired hero of Europe and America, the conqueror of Spain, the liberator of half a continent, conti-nent, and the founder of five nations. By the strange fergiversations of Latin-American politics, and the rivalries rival-ries and jealousies of smaller men, the great Libertador, within two years after his successes, found himself an exile an outcast from the nations he had created. In the sadness and humiliation hu-miliation of exile he passed his days, dying at Santa Marta in 1830. A tardy reversion of national feeling succeeded, succeed-ed, and twelve years later, his remains were brought back to Caracas, and amid the greatest pomp he was laid to rest in the pantheon of his native city. The last direct relative of the Libertador, Liber-tador, bearing his family name, has Just died in Caracas, at the extreme age of ninety-one years. He was Don Fernando Simon Santiago Bolivar y Palacios, the son of Colonel Juan Vicente Vi-cente Bolivar y Palacios, the only brother of General Bolivar (this brother broth-er being lost at sea while conducting a filibustering expedition during the patriot wars). Don Fernando lived until the time of his death in an unpretentious un-pretentious quarter of Caracas, in a very ordinary house, sparsely furnished, furnish-ed, which could in no particular give an impression of the large wealth he is reputed to have left. He was extremely ex-tremely infirm, feeble and palsied, requiring re-quiring constant attention, as his helplessness was so complete during the last years that his food had to be raised to his mouth by another. Through the influence of such physical weakness, long confinement, and the drooping energies and faculties of extreme old age, his mind was naturally natur-ally weakened, and, as unfortunately often occurs with the aged, this beclouded be-clouded condition was manifest in an intense bitterness against all who were directly or remotely related to him. Venezuela Herald. |