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BALDES LAST TUNE. By HARTHA M'OULLOOH WILLIAMS. [Copyright. ISO?, by tho Author.] "Almighty God, Father in heaven, forgivo thy unworthy servant the Bins he daily oommitsl" "Don't, pop, don't! Wheuovoryou git the prayiu fit, it brings mo bad luck." "Lnokl What has luck to do with aeoh as your There's no ohnnco for you to loa?, exoopt when you want to." "But a mighty heap of ohnnco for mo not to win when tho othor fuller holds all tho oyards. Don't bo soft, pop. If whatever it is that sits up above us keeps any sort of accounts, 1 reokon you started with such a big oredit it ain't nigh balanced yit. Hcenis to mo you used to read somotbin 'bout him that aavetb a soul from death shall bide a multitude of sins." "Silenoel How daro yon"? "Dare? I dare anything, bocauso I'm your son, I reckon. I'vo board toll us you warn't afraid of notion, not even satan. Besides I remombor that lust oamp meetin, tbo lovo feaBt an tho huu died new couvorta all crowdin round an hnggin you an tollin you how your preaobln bad kept *em out of tho tire nn brimstone. It made mo proud of you, pop?it did, indeed. I most felt like I'd no a preacher myself until?well, after ward. '' A swift harduoss oamo upon both faocs. The older man said grimly: "Afterward you changed your mind. Woll, you had good reason to doit." Thon, dropping his faco in bis bands and speaking very low: "Do you know, Jim, if I was suro of heaven?as ?uro us I felt in them times?I'd ?ivo it up for jest ono year of tho old life?rid in nn preachiu six days in seven an eomiu home to tho poor little house that hold you?an Sally"? choking a bit over the name. "Tell mo one thing," tho other said, a dark red flushing all over his face. "Did yon givo up till that for?jofit a horso?" Tho old man shrank uneasily from bis sou's keen look. Ho opened his lips a&though tospeak, then shut them close, turned away and began fumbling with the toy* of an old ?ddlo. Jim went on remorsolofisly: "If you did, you must 'a' been crazy. Gad, it makes mo shiver, man, to think about that night I It was August, sorter starlight, fog all about, nn out of it oamo thorn yellin fiends with torches an tin pans an cow horns, an you in the middle, all tar an feathers. Thou some body shouted, 'Here's tbo noblo Chris tian gentleman that stolo Colonel Clay's horsol' nn I don't remember no moro till momin, an I know I must go away with yon." "What made you do it, Jim? I'vo wanted to ask you often, but somehow I couldn't sr.etn to fetch it," tho father Raid wistfully, without looking at his son. Jim nnswored simply, "Bocauso sho said I must. " Warm light glowed all over tho with ered, haggard, old face, so pitcously averted; slow tears dropped over the tangle of beard, and tho worn lips mur murod softly, "Thank God, I held my peace I" Thero was scornful speculation in Jim's eye. "I onn't make yon out," ho said after a minute. "So lot's stop talkie foolish an oome down to business. "What nro tho tunes for tonight?" "What's tho game?" "Pokor, if thoy'll lot mo in. If not, I'll try old sledge nn vuutoou." " 'Black Satin' '11 mean 'he's bluff in;' 'Tom Moriwoather,' 'raise him.' If I strike 'Rock of Ages,' call him an be quick about it." "Pop I" "Well." "Do you want to ruin my look for good an always? Shorelyyou wouldn't daro to play mother's hymn?" "Why not?" with a reckless laugh. "Your mother gave mo her roh. Didn't sho love you hotter than her soul, an do you think sho'd mind what I did if it was to help you?" . "Say yon rathor? But lot that tuue alono. You play COO other ones. It's Christmas ovo, an I fool enough liko unmet bin was about to happen with out hoarin thut tnno in n gtvmblin don." "Woll, you won't hoar it tonight, unless them's danger?dreadful danger ?ahead. Somehow I'm a bit shaky, too, an all this improvln conversation we've had hasn't helped to set mo up. " "Try this?it's tho only friond loft US," Jim said, pouring a glass half full of whisky and handing it to Iiis father. "Half thut, Jimmy ? bulf ? jest enough to make my wits an Angora ?'. nimble," tho old man said, eying tho .' glass thirstily, hut not touching it. , Without a word Jim poured part of / tho liquor on tho floor; then, ns Iiis fa / thor snatched tho glass and drained it, he said slowly: "I'll wait till aftor tbo gomo to drink damnation to Colonel Clay." The old man got up with sparkling eyos. "Tho bluo dovils aro all gone, Jim,"bo suid, catching up Iiis fiddle and striking a bar or two of "Off to Charleston." "Koep n levol head, my Ind. Hear the old woman talk?sho'll tell you all that's ugainst you tonight, an not half try. " "I'm afraid it's lock that's against me," Jim muttered to himself as ho fob lowod his father into tho street. "I've folt thumier in tho nir over since that lottor from Kentucky told mo that Colonol Allen Ol ay had started down tho river to Now Orleans." **???? Christmas before tho war was the soathern saturnalia, especially in tho river towns. White mon, black men, men of all intermediate complexion', drank and caroused and burned powc in honor of the day. Christmas eve w. peenliarly uproarious. Planters frot . many miles around camo in to soil aud boy and to end a day of furious trading with a night of high play. Jim and Baldy might reasonably expect a rieb narvast. If the pair bad nuy other names, nobody knew it. They had drift ed into the villago threo days before, up pavontly from nowhero, a pair of waifs that ovorybody lunghod at. Both wore tall and loan and slightly stooped, with meagor faces full of deep lines. Though Jim's bnir was white, as wool, tho other soemed to look on him ns a mere infant, Whom ho must guard and guido in all ways. It was odd that tho thin fringo back of Baldy's oars should be dark and silky as a raven's down. "Yon a?a." h0 saldf eo the groups which eamo aloof" drawn by thomngloof hisflddlo, "Jim's got the hair, but I've got tbo color of it. Afaybe I moughtouce 'a* had some othor name, but I'vo boon Bnldy so long?ear ly piety, you know?that I don't feel at home when yon call me not bin else." The Addle and Jim's rlflo mndo up their luggage. He was a dead shot. At all else he appeared the simplest back woodsman that ever gaped at. Romicivi lization. Tho gambling held him spoil bound. He stood for hours beside the players, who won and lost hands, mon ey, orops and slaves, his oyes shining, bis lean faoo Switching with ongor in terest. His father had usually to drag him nway and once onffed him roundly "for boin such a fool as to keor for them spotted papers." Tk*> Players woro noarly as moon' in teroBtcd in tho odd pair. When tbe two appeared in tbo saloon on the river bank, thorn was a chorna of welcome. It wan by far tbo moat gorgeous one in tbe place?full of mirrors and gilding, with a tbiok, soft carpet, a wheezy pif. no and nov?rnl pictnresof large and liberal, lovely ladies. Tbo atenmor landing was Just beside it. Indeed, wboovercanie off tb<? boat had to pan* its open doer. When, an hour later, Colonel Alleu Olny cauio through it, ho found Jim ' ?oatcd at tho ruaiu table, the picture of radiant verdauoy. lie had been invited to take a hand with tbe oraok pbiyera? ' the uervy not, aa skillful aa they were bold. Muoh to their astonishment, he bad pulled out a moleskin, oramtnod with coin, and risked it as freely aa the host of them, Strauger at ill, he won ? WouHtoadily, his father meantime walk- j ing round mid round, with tbe fiddle ' tuokod under his uliin, too reatleaa evl- : doutly for vontiniiuuH playing, but ; atriking now and then a few bara from aonio old familiar breakdown or reel. Invariably Jim bogged bim to "stop that squonkin." Aa invariably Buldy auid : "Oh, come away, Jim. Tbnt aiu't im place for you. You'll get to loain ; directly, an then whar'll nil our little OOttOU crop bo?" At first tbo rest bundled over It and auid aside ono to another that who ever won tbo poor greenhorn's mouey would, of course, giro it back to him, aftov ho had boon taught tbe folly of gambling. By tbo timo Colonel Clay onmo on tbo SOOUQ this benovoleut inten tion bad vanished in thin air. Fool'u luck did not begin to oxpress fortuuo'a favors to tho grconborn. Yet it waa luck pure and Himplo. There waa no aloight or pnlining in thoso awkward, trom bling bands. Two or thrco timea the limit had boon raised on purpoao to loaro him away. As tbo colonel camo iu tin; table waa fairly heaped with gold and notes. "What's In tho pot?" bo uaked onre teisly. "A thousand in uiah, two niggers and a wagon and mules," said u player who bad not "come in" tho game. Outside, through tbo warm fog, a steamboat camo down stream, puffing and churning In to tho landing. Nobody heeded it. All eyes wore rivoted ou the play?the players. Ah Colonel Clay looked, a slow dawu of recognition came into bis eye?. Ho glanced back from Jim to Baldy. Rook of Age*, cleft for me, Lot mo blue inyuHf in tlicot The fiddle tsccuiad to say it plainer than human speech. Jim half started from bis scat, then dropped back, say ing, "I call you." "Bottor stop your game, gentlemen. There is cheating ut the board," Colo nel Clay said, folding his arms and looking down from his G feet 2. Jim fared him, whito with rage. "Who saya no?" "Ida" "Why?" "Because there must bo when tho son of a horso thief is found playiug with gentlemen!" There was tho loap of a panther, a choking gurgle of breath, a wild cry: "Jim, Jim! Don't touch Iii in for yonr life I'" then a swift, deadly gleam of " Whs says sot" steol, and two men, foaming and breath less, held apart, while a third lay bo tweon, with groat spurts of blood gush ing up from biti breast. Tbo boat had landed. There waa a light, slow step ou the gangway; a Blen der, bowed worn an, with a face of nshos, paused half a breath at the door, then rau to tho prostrate man, knelt and pressed her band hard against tho up rushing blond. At her touch tbo wound ed man's eyes opened. Fear, shame and exquisito content came into, thorn. He put a feeblo baud over hers and said huskily: "Sally?you aro?just in lime." She. foil prone beside him, laid bar obeek softly to hin and said brokouly: "Ob, William?my bnabaud?forgive mo?forgive me that 1 laf? you to suffer so ninny years?aloael" "God bless you for it, Sally! I'm dy ing now?and truth eomoa eaay. If you bad staid with me, I never could hnvo spoken?and asked you to foreivo. Hmtd ovorybody away?even Jim?I can't dia easy until you know all." "Hush, hush, my dialing. I do know ? everything. Did you novor think what kept mo so lor.g? From the night you?left ns, Miranda Olny waa mad. I helped her bnabaud earn for her. Thrue months ago she died in my arms?sane, penitent?fully, freely forgiven, aa 1 hopo for forgiveness. " "Dear heart?trne heart"? careaataa hor baud?"you tried to atone, but in vuin." "Don't thinkcf that, William. Fray, pray! Tbo iim?> it abort, but God ia all merciful, nil powerful. Ask him to for give and save yon for Josiw' sako. " "For Jesus' sake," he repeated dream ily. "I taught Miranda to pray so when I knelt beside her in tho altar. Raise me?I am choking. Now give dm aay flddlo. Sing, Sally, as you nscd rc do, 'Hock of Ages,' while I play-" If Sally sang, only tho angels beard her. Her arms were clasped tight about her husbuud, hor che ck laid against irU ahonldor, her fingers dabbled in his lifo blood. Now and then her lips moved, but no aonnd of these pierced throng!) tho flooding melody that death itseli aeemcd drawing from Ihn strings. AI last tho player paused, with bow in air. An awestruck whisper, "It is Christum? eve, too," pierced through bis clouded eonsoiousness. "Christmas evo?eo it is, "he auid, langhing softly, "und I have a top foi Jim and a kisa for Sally. She won't mind. Jim ia jntt G years old nnd brut not learned to do without what h? wants. " "Pray, my darling, pray. You hnvc only minutes now." His breath mine in gfts.ifl. Ho groped for the fiddle bow and drew it foobly serosa the airings, aingiiig: "Lot tho water and tho hhiod From thy wound nd aida that flowed B? *f atn tho ?Vahle cur?"? Tho bow fell. There waa a conviilsivf snapping of string*. Ono masque of the passions was ended. TIIK BND. ;?" How often do you present your hi,, to that young fellow ?'' said a gen tleman to a cigar man whon a dude told him to charge him withapaokago of cigarettes. "Quarterly." "What? You don't moan to aay you trust him for thrao months?" " Oh, no, of course not. Quarterly In this caso means every timo the bill amounts to a quar ter.'' ?At tho funeral of an unmarried woman in Brazil, aoarlet is the mourn ing hue. Tho coffin, tho hearso. tho trappings of tho horses, and the livery of the drivers mua> be scarlet. . \ .... HIM, ARP AB A NURSE. The Children are Romping Around Him and tho Family Left Him to Iiook Alter Them. I consider myself an injured person ?wife gone to the missionary meeting, my two daughters gono visiting and here I am alone with three grandchil dren?got to watch them till somebody oomes. I'vo nover seen one of the stock that wasn't full of mischief and frolic. Thought 1 would take a little , nap on the sofa while they played I arouod, but It was no uso. They got, all the ohalrs in a row and played rail-1 road and locomotive awhile. Thenj they played suldier, and fired guns and killed one another and fell dead. Then they played horso and run round the centre table. I thought tbe little girls would get tired aftor a while and settle down to their dolls and make play house, but Lbo boy didn't like that and | so the racket continued. They turned tho chairs upside down and slid down tho backs headforemost and rolled over and turned sommersaults, and then jumped off tbe table and Iouogo and shook tbe floor and made the windows rattle like an earthquake. Will they nevor get tired ? thought 1. No, never. Hut by and by, when my wife oamo homo she settled them down and play ed club flst and trlmbletoo with them and 1 had peace. My folks have got an idea that it suits mo to take caro of tho children, and the children have an idea that thoy are to do as they pluase whon thoro's nobody about but mo, and so I sutfor myself imposod on and feel like an In jurod person. I believe I will go to the missionary society myself next time. Hut after all, there is ne use in pos ing as a domostic martyr or a patri archal packberso about these things, for I do liko to have the little chaps around me, especially little girls. Children aro a blessing to tho house hold. Thoy take away our solhshness and purify our footings. Their joy and glee and sportive happiness car ries tho old people back to their early life, when tho days wbro all sunshine. It is a End sympathy we feel wbon we see them so happy now und foreseo the troubles that await them. Poor Tom Mood. How sad be was when bo penned those touching lines : *? I remember, 1 remember The fir trees d?rk and high ; I used tu think their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a chiiiii:-11 lenorance, Hut now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther olT from heaven Than when I was a boy." Thero is no happiness liko a child's. If I could I would exchango all that I have realized slnco I was sixteen years old for that I had before. Those six teen years aro about one-third of the average life and tho memories of them are more precious thaw all tho rest. If a child is blessed with loving, indul gent parents those years are an un broken season of unalloyed enjoyment. Sometimes I seo my wife looking sad and dreamily into tho glowing embers aud know sho is thinking about her children or her childhood and recall ing the joys of her youth when she had a mother and could lay her head upon her lan and feel the soft caresses of her gentle band. What a weight of care and anxiety presses continually upon the heart of a mother. How often do her prayers ascend to heaven in tho dark watches of tho night? prayers for their hcaith, their welfare, their good conduct, their salvation. Hut with all tbe cares, anxieties and foreboding, children aro our greatest blessing and the family tho greatest bulwark of good society and good gov ernment, it is the law of our being I that man and woman bhould mate and marry and rear children, and thero Is I no substitute for the marriage rolation. j I hardly knew the vaiuw of a child I until a few weeks ago a dear little I grandchild got sick?very sick, and for j days and nights was very near tho gate of heaven. She suffered and wo watched and suffered with her. Her little iips and throat were swollen and ii fliiua d with dipt bardie sores. Her luugs rattled with pneumonia. How she pleaded with us for help?for re lief?pleaded with eyes aud hands, and wo could do nothing but caress her I and weep. 1 would have givon a mil lion dollars?yes, ten million, if I had hud it?to relievo that child and save her from suffering. Prayers or medi cine or good nursing or something >-av cd hor, and we aro all grateful. What is tbe value of a child, anyhow ? If one was up at auction what would the mother give V How insignilicant is property or gold or silver when com pared with it. What aro we all work ing for but children, their happiness and prosperity. Daniol Webster, tho greatest man this country lias ever produced, said : "A good father will shrink from no toil, no sacrifice to raise his children to a better condition than his own." If I was a judge and a father was brought bo fore me for steal ing or cvon for robbing, 1 would sr?'k to know the hiddou motives that prompted him to the crime. Many a man steals or cheats to get something for tho children, and tho world Is out raged und calls him athiuf and tho law sends him to tho chaingang. Hut after all, it is tho mother who screens them, protects them and wraps them in her bosom. I thought my wife was tired and would liko to r^st in her old age, but tho maternal in stinct still ptsbeeses her, and she seems as much concerned about the grandchildren as sho over did about her own. In fact, sho is leas exacting, and more indulgent, Tho little hoy wo have with us la a young cyclone and kenps tho home In an uproar. When I get outraged with his tumul tuous racket und thronten him with punishment my wife takes his part and says ho is nothing but a baby. Ye*, a four-year-old baby who slams the door like an athlete forty times an hour and don't mind anybody and I could regulate him in mi I bur if I I ml my way. My wife never allowed BUCh liberties from her own They wero ufruld of a spanking or of being shut up in tbo parlor When they got too boisterous. And now she pleads for this boy and says he is nothing but a baby. But I'll get him somo of these days when she coos to tbe missionary meeting?s^o If I don't. I've promi-i d him a licking every day for two months and he retreats to hor and looks defiance at me. But I'll get biro, see if I don't. Ho is nothing but a baby, but be takes this dog to tlio cow lot and eets him on the eo>^, and when I tell him that the cow win horn him and that she gives him mi!k, bo says he don't want any moro mil k. lb' h is tho chickens out of the coop, but bo is nothing but a baby. Hit I'll got him before the year Is out?seo if I don't. I'll do liko Dick Johnston, who was trying to ralte his boy on love. But tbo boy got so bad that one day Dick picked up a lath and walloped him good. It was a desporato remedy and had a line temporary effect, and Dick walked tbe piazza with a trium phant stride. "1 to'd you I was going to whip you, sir. L'or flvo long years 1 havo promised yen a whipping and now you havj got it. you son of Bo Hal." And Dlok pufft d and blpwed like ho bad fought a great hat'.l and whipped tho light. Ho bragged about tho performance for a woek. But it i didn't do '.ho hoy any lifting good. ' The whipping enmo jus! five years loo lato. I never did take much stock In bad little boys. Tin y are a nuisance, not only at home, but abroad. Boys rhyme with noise, and tho little ras cals want a gun or somo fire erackors or a drum or a tin born. It always seemed strange to me that mothers love their boys bettor than their girls, but I reckon it is right. I have known boys who had no otbr-r friend. A fa ther loves his boys accoidlng to their conduct, but a mother loves them any how. A Bweot llttlo girl li a treasure In the family. Sho in very olote kin to the anguls. Her value cannot bo esti mated id dollars and cents. If She is seriously sick the alarm paralyzes everything about the house. We whisper our anxieties in sad voices. We walk lightly and close the door gently and breathe our prayers silent ly. If she dies thero is an aching void the world can never fill. What is the value of a child ? When the railroad train kills a man the law yors sue for his value. It may be a thousand or ten thousand or fifty thousand according to his consequence, but that is nothing when compared with the value of a little ohild. Bow rioh these mothers are?rich In their children! How utterly poor wtes they lose them ! Bill. Arp. KILLED IliXIt SISTEIi-lN-LiAW. A Kentucky Woman in Jail and Awaiting Trial for Murder?The Husband Visits Her Kvery Day. Mrs. Amy MclntoBh, who stands in dicted for murder, is in jail at Boono ville, Ky. She killed ber slstor-in law, Mrs. Polly Ann Fox, wife of the noted mounta'n murderer and counter feiter, James Fox, now serving a term of ten years iu the penitentiary for counterfeiting. The story of tho killing is ono of the most (thrilling in Kentucky'? annals of crime. About a month boforo tbo killing, which took place on tho 10th day of last June, Amy R-lloy waa mar* rled to Merideth MclntoBh, brother of Mrs. Fox. Polly Ann was opposed to the match, and circulated a report damaging to Amy's character. Sbe could not provont tho marriage in this way, however, and after her brothor married the girl who wes just twenty one, Mrs. Fox continued to slander her sister-in-law. A few weeks after tho marriage tho two womer mot and Polly Ann abused Amy in the choicest mountain billingsgate. At that meet ing Amy showed a disposition to resent the abuso heaped upon hor, but friends Interfered and prevented nn alterca tion. When they parted Polly Ann told Amy 1 hat sbo would see her again, and tho noxt timo she would beat her to death. On tho day of the killing Polly Ann armed horsuif with u sled standard about three f?ot long, aod as large around as a chair post. She went to tho homo of her sister-in-law, but Amy saw her coining, and desiring to avoid a difficulty, escaped from the houso by the. back way and went to the home of her brother James ltiley, about a quarter of a milo dlbt mt. When Polly Ann learned that Amy had escaped to her brother's ehe followed. Wbon Amy saw her r niing to her brother's house she arme . herself witn a largo dirk and started back home, goiDg across the hill, a near route, in order to avoid meeting her angry sitter-in-law. But Polly Ann saw her, and running alter her, began to throw rocks, several of which struck Amy. Tbo last rock sbo throw knocked hei down, and tbo infuriated Polly Ann rushed toward her with sled standurd upraised. Just as she was about to strike, Amy sprang up and dodged tbo blow at tbe same time stabbing Polly Ann in tho left side. The dagger went to the hilt, and the point of tbe blade pierced t ie lower part o Polly Ann's heart. Polly Ann made another feeble effort to strike her sister-in-law, but sbo was t >o woak from tbo loss of blood and fell over, expiring within two minutes. Amy immediately surrendered to the authorities and was acquitted ou her examining trial. But James Fox nad boon acquainted of tbe killing of bis wife, ana ho wrote letters to several of bis friends in Owsley county, and they succeeded in having Amy indicted for murder at tbo last term of the Owsley oirouit court. She was unable to give bail and bad to go to jail. A* Fox and bis friends have often evaded justice when brought to book lor their law letbucss und count< rfeiting, by packing juries and manufacturing testimony, it is feared by Amy's friends that she will b? eon vir. tod. Sbo seems cheer ful and appears to think that sbo will be speedily acquitted. Sbo says : " Yes, there had been a hardness between us. She called mo bad names and said 1 was a mean woman, but she was my husband's .sinter, and I didn't want to burl In r. 1 tried to get away from heron that awful day, but she wouldn't let mo. 1 believe sbo would have killed mo then and thero if 1 hadn't used my knife." Tbo prisoner wild born in Brcuthitt county, K< ntueky, in 187;"). Ber father was Janus Hi ley, a in- mh'or of one of the oldest families, bis ancestors . mi grating to Breathitt early In this con* tury. Tbo HI leys have been often connected with the terrible feudal war* which raged in eastern Kentucky in tbe early eighties, and it was on ac count of his partioipanoy in a feud that James Hiley removed with bis family to Owsloy county. Tbe prisoner is a rather good-look ing mountain woman. She is live feet four Inches high ; has light, yellow hair; large biuo eyes, and withal a pleatant countenance. Sbo is very retiring, and when addressed by a stranger, looks down to tbe ground and replies at lirht in monosyllables. She weighs about 135 pounds, and Is as strong and muscular as the, average man of her ago. Her husband main tains that sbo is Innocent of murder. Ho says bis sister forced the- dot d upon Amy. Bnthe is too poor to bail hor out of jaii, and bo has to content him self with visititig her every day. THE I'ItlGATE CONSTITUTION. "Ohl IronsidcN" is to bo Converted into a Naval Museum. New York Sun. Tbo House asked Seoretary Herbert the other day bow much it would cost to prepare tbo frigate Constitution for -atfoiy making tbo voyage from Ports raouth to Washington, so that she. might remain at tbo latter point us a naval museum. Mr. MoAdoo, u-i act* log Seoretary, has promptly answered that it Will OOSt $IU(H)(), and that she has already about two-thirds of that sum available This year is the hundredth since the famous old craft first took to the water. Sbo has long been laid up in ordin -ry at tho N w Hampshire, yard, dismantled) while the rooted ami win now, d structure on her deck tells of a prolonged and peao< fut career luv u - ing strvlco as a p? notice cruiser for ca lets ami apprentices S..e k;s the thi.ii of six frigates ordered by Congress during Washing* ton's administration, and sie wni launched in Boston, September20, 17u7. Ten months later sue got umb r way an a frigate of 41 guns, and in 17b'.) was In the West l id es, assigned to Harry's, afterward Til loot's t-quudrnn. It w< s whilo on that duty tnat one of Im r officers, Mr. Hull, with a party of nv n using tho American sloop Sally, out out a French letter of marque, Wulub, however, had afterward to bo given up. Under Problo, in tho war wit'r Barbary Powers, she distlngu herself at to, blockade and bom in. ,ii of Tripoli. But it. was i second war with Great Britain Old Ironsides gained horgroatost Heturning from Kuropo at the ing of tho wa -, under Capt Hull, off tbe American coast sbo carm a British Mjjiadron, which gave < ami for ti.reo days ami nights si to uso every device of Seaman? esoapC .u her put sin rs. Boalu employed to tow her in the call kedge anchor was carried ahead dropped so that tho crow might i upon It; finally, on tho fourth day, ilio wind camo, and then tho Constitution stood away, with all sails sot, showing hor heels to her chagrined oneraios. It was a illgbt as famous in our naval annals as some victories. On the lilthof August, 1812, tho Con stitution, wbilo off tho Massachusetts coast, encountered the British frigate Guerrlcre. Daores confidently opunod fire, but Hull, waiting till he was in Highest of all in Leavening Power.?La ? t U.S. Gov't Report absolute&v pure exactly tho right position, replied with tremendous broadsides, which not only forced the f^uerricre to stride, but left her so disabled that Hull bad to blow ber up. Tbo American vessel was a little tbe larger, and bad more men and guns, yet tho defeat of tho Hritlsb frigate was such as to create a pro found impression both in Eoglaud aud our own land. Toward tbe end of tbo same year, under Balubridge, tbe Con stitution encountered another British frigate, tbo Java, off the coastof Brazil. This fierce naval duel was auother tri umph for American manoeuvring and marksmanship, and the Java, like the Guerriere, not only had her masts shot away aud bulfered a heavy loss of killed and wounded, but was such a wreck that sho also had tobe blown up. In 1815 tbe Constitution, under Stowart, made a double capture of tho frigate Cyaue aud sloop .Levant in tho sain ? aotion, afterward, however, los ing tho latter to u squadron which came to tbe rescue. Buch, in brief, is the old-time record of a vessel dearer to tho whole A moid can people than any other that floats. Tho Massachusetts Historical Society, In a memorial to Cougress, presented a few days ago, Baid thut it had learn ed that the Constitution must be re built or she would sink at her tnoor lugs. This seems strange, as it was commonly thought thut her timbers were .-omni ; but, however this may bo, tho Bocioty is right la urging that the vessel as well deser- os preserva tion as tho Victory, that bore Nelson's fltig at Trafalgar, and is kept by Eng land as a historical relic. Thero may bo conflicting views as to what should bo done witb tho Consti tution. New Hampshire would of course like to keep her in tho Ktttery yard : it has at times, alto, been pro posed to fit her up for the use of naval reserves, while the proposed transfer of her to the Washington navy.wird, where oho may be employed as a naval museum, is not uuiikoly to secure tbe favor of Congress. At all events, tho centenary of Oid Ironsides would bo svell celebrated by putting her in proper repair and ar ranging for her final resting place. In doing this tho aim should be to make the fewest cbauges possible, and to preserve everything in hor that comes from earlier days. It is quite enough that Earragut'a Hartford should have been altered with a view to utilizing her, fitting her up in mod ern fashiou. At least the o!d Constitu tion should not b t furbished up with any view to eking out her practical service. Wo can build modern ships, but she must remain to us as a speci men of tho navy that has passed away, and us a vessel whose name, as the Massachusetts memorial says, "is synonymous with seamenship, courage, and triumph." To carry tbis purpo.se out in its simplest, worthiest, and most t fftiOtive form should be the method of Congress iu dealing with Oid Iron sides. If the plan of a naval museum is adopted, it suould not be forgotten that she. is the greatest of the exhibits, aud must in no way be saor!flood to lens Important miscellaneous displays. THK WAIW NOW HAGING. There are Nine Kicice ami Bloody lomt-btB (Joiuj; on in Different Parts of the World. At luast niue bloody contents are waging in tho beginning of the year '?7. The fiercest of these aro in the tropics. If a belt were drawn round the earth taking in tho torrid and the south temperate z.mes, it would nearly i in brace every war country. The very latest sword swini ing is being done off the Clarion Islands. England api d Uiese islands and thought they WOUld make good coaling stations. True to her grab all, annexation prin cipe s, B'nglaud proceeded to tak< pos session of thcoo lovely spot.-. Uulor tun iiely they belong to M? xico, uuc Buglaua wasusKed to move off. She is now preparing to remain aud the Mexicans are loaning their guns. Spain ia between two Ii res, for its subjects in tbe I 'hi 11 i pine islands are in revolt. They will probably succeed, for Butcher Blanco, a companion ploco to Butcher Woyler, baa gone homo to Madrid to complain of tho lack of troops and money. In Peru tbore is a double beaded conflict. The gold mines aro the ex citing cause of the war. Tbe natives are defending their gold, while ether j nations are rushing iu to take it. < Brazil, the principal owner, is settling upon a dividing line with Bolivia. To this ttie Peruvians object, aud declare thut they will light to tbo bitter end j before becoming Bolivian subjects. The Indis ?< and natives are killing | tbe Bolivia Uruguay is another unsettled pur- | tion of toe western world. Far from j being at peace, as was supposed, it is now discovered that the rebel leader, Saraiva, has entrenched himself iu San Paulo, Brazil, and is gaining forces every day- His ohj.-ct ia to take Mon tevideo, Uruguay, and eatublish a now government. In thla he ia aided by revolutionists in Kio Grande Uo Sul, Brazil. The situation is60sorious that tne British warship "Kotribution" has bcon sent over for tho protection of British subjects there, aud Italy baa seut its warship "Piedinoute" for tho sumo purpose. Brazil bus still another internal heaving, a fanatic war lead by Antonio Coiiselheiro, '"The Good Jesus." The plan of tho fanatic is to kill the gov ernmental bead of each town, and place an apostle in power. In the lierc.est oonfllot 200 fanatics wero killed. The government lost ten in driving the rebels back Into Matte GroBSO. Tho dispute over Corn island is larg er in its complications than in actual territory. Corn island and the Mos q Uo territory belong, it is claimed, to Nicaragua. But Colombia wauts to own them, aa they were taken from i her yeaia ago. Colombia is slowly ! taking possession, but if she coutlnuca In her grab inland policy, she will bavo to tight Sun Salvador and Houduraa, who favor Nicaragua. Relations hero l are 60 strained that even the govern ment hardly knows the friendly powcra. In the old world horrid situationa prevail ; even Russia and Germany aro two nations not fully at peace. The former has recently discovered a gang of niliiliats, the largest and most poworful in tho reign of the present czar, and Germany is agitated with dynamiters. These have been tracked j to middle Germany and aro beiug ar : rested as fast aa found. Dynamite work* are being destroyed and dyna miters imprisoned. Iu Armenia rapid reforms are going on, and t..o powers have decided lo let the Sultan alone for awhile. Ho may j turn over a now leaf. If he does not i it ia said on good authority that the I power? of Europe have dccidt.d to take i Turkey away from him aud divide it I ul? This rumor has driven tho Sultan so ; wild with anger that recently he im* j prisoned, lined and tortured in various ways Influential members of the Hunt bohak aud Prose hak sooietiu , so called I revolutionists. Meanwhile the people of Asm Minor are starving and drown ing, and the stoppage oi the Orient express prevents tueir cry of woe from reaching the outside world. The situation in Africa is such that a speedy outburst i& regarded inevitable. The Boers are still under arms, ever suspicious that auotber Jameoou will ari.-o and raid them, and to the west ol them the Matabcles aro sleeping on their clubs, i nd the Germans are pressing from the north. The army of the Mabdi in the Sou dan has it? face pointed toward the Nile, down which the British troop* steadily move. Men i k and the Abys sinian.-, are. on one ham? of them and the Ashunti on the other. England and tbe Zilu tribe of Ar. goni are in the thro, s of war in South ern Africa. A British mis-ion station in South Africa bus been burned nuu frantic dispatches seut to England for h< In. The troubles of the queen of Mada gascar have begun again. An immense WE WANT TO EXCHANGE Pianos, Organ} or Sewing Machine} FOR -Good Horsas. Alexander Bros. & Co. GREENVILLE, S. C. Who is Will Whitener ? dp I TOW iSlooC He is our Fashionably Hair Cutter and Shaver, :?-IN ?fcNL>L-A HOTEL.?-1 -?oily of her subjects arose at Antana narivo and drovo the queon from her ?astle. The purpose of the uprising was to form a small separate govt . n ment for the plunder of travellers who In Madagascar ethics-, nr.- t'doves. England has her "weather ovo" upon this lslanu, und, it I? maliciously state d by a Kreuch correspondent, secretly ! incites tho revolutionists. Most of tho wars now going on are traced to tho love of gold. This is particularly tho case with South Amorican and African wars. In Cuba there is a sentimental olomcnt, that of freedom, outside of gold. IN T11K COURT HOUSC. A Woman Toll? Her KxporloUOO A moo.", tlio Lawyers and Court ! Ofttoials. Miss Mary Ucmphill In tho Abbeville Medium. Men will not tell tho truth and we huvo had it proven twice there >t lato. Once this summer when we \\ < tit on a visit, to tho polls and found It such a quiet, neat and orderly place in com parison to what it. had been d lor'.bed by the people who wero opposed to woman suffrage, and lu&t T ursday when wo went to tho court houso to attoud the Rowley trial anil found it to be a pretty decent place. In - p to of all the ugly things people say about it This trial has excited a grout deal of Interest and a number of women re solved to bear the evidence to 1 speeches, if "somebody else" would go. Somebody else did go and conse quently the crowd grew larger as the trial progressed. Our first Impression on entering tlve room was Iba', it was very hot ami there was a great crowd of people, and our second impression was that tho sheriff had very wisely divided tho white people from the col ored people. We took a look around and found the jury men on the 'eft hand side of the room, the lawyers scattered all around inside the railing, and tho judge above looking with calm Indifference at the drawing of the jury. The jury by tho way is lord of all thoy survey. Tho prisoner looks to them for salvation, tho eloquence of ' the lawyers, when they are not cutting at ono another, is dung equarely at their beads, the judge makes his charge to them and they retire with all the solemnity of a preacher on com munion day, ami bring back, after SO long a time, whether or 110 in their opinion tho prisoner is innocent or guilty. We went to the court house during the whole trial and looked in vain for something to uphold the argu ment that a woman would bo out of her sphere when in a court room. It is truo the aisle was crowded, but things were made lovely for ns by the three deputies who passed our crowd from one to the other until wo to >k a very comfortable seat inside the rail ing. We watched these deputies dur ing the day and thought what an easy lime some woman would have U8deputy when we get in our line work and get. to bo judges, lawyers, Bborill's, jury women, clerks of court and to till ab the other soft jobs Heating around a court room. During the three days of the trial we wore In the court houso some pari of each day, and the only thing that could have been questioned was the large number of men who worn ohow ing tobacco. The people in tho audi ence could not be blamed for this, ns the example was set. them by a num ber of the Abbeville lawyers and bj all tho counsel from Orecnvillo with the exception of two. ?The Columbia \l gistcr, i til ud ing to a rutinu- that bad b n currency to tho uilVcl that Mr. S II W. Scruggs will bo dlschnr d from bis position as ohlef clork at Ii Statt dispensary, makes tin: folio ?-,:<?. ment: " Dame Rumor lsalv i.\ son the go, but it will not do to pi; e Implicit credence in what she says, ()! otll'ei there are people who would like foi Mr. Scruggs to lose, bis job, hut they are not likely to bo gratttlod >r hob in no immediate danger el oftl-in decapitation. Tho uuklndost eu of a') Is the charge that ho is '| T cl up.' If holding ofhoo has cbtinged ? em iota, those who arc in da eonl cl with him have not discovered It. tic is just the saute Seth Scrugi ho ha* always been, and as plain as an ?ld -hoc. There it. one thing about wl I :; there can bo no dispute?-ho is one i I the most ex pei t bookkeepers i a the Stat e. Tnos< who have had occasion locxutnlm tin Dispensary books since ho took charge of them will vouch for that fact. He Knows his business thoroughly an I bis ? llloloncy has in no small i\< groe con tributed to the success with which the new State board of control has man aged the affairs el the Dispensary." THE LAURENSBAR. ii, y. simpson. c. d. uauksdams SIM'.'SON A ?AKKSllAl.i:, Attorneys at Law, LAURENS, sol'i'll CAROLINA Special attention given to the Invest i gatton of titles and collection of claims lt. \V. IIA 1.1.. I. W.SIM KINS. VV. W. HA I.I. BALL, SIM KINS A BALL, Attoviicyn at Low, Lauukn's, South Cakoi.ina. Will practice in -? J1 Mtat.* ami Cnileo Sinles Court. Special Httonliou given col lections W. II. >1 AKTIN, At torney at L-,? w. Lauuknh, - South Cakoi.ina. Will practice in h)I Courts of this Statt Attention given lo collection-. I. T. JOIISHON. >V. K I K BY ?JOHNSON & It ICH IS Yf at porn KYs at la vv, okkick? Kl ! it ng '.; ?ru - ?, M > ? i,tst side of Public ."sou.ir. . ATLANTIC ?'.)AST LIN* PA9SEN0KK DKl'A U'J'.M ENT, W-1 m i ngto,i, JV. 0., Jan. 10///, I ; FAST LINE ? ?KT iV f.VN - C inrlostori find Columbia i ntl l/l?pi South Carolina, North ( arc* 'Una, and A.lhens ami Atlanta con DUNSftO BOHBDtl i.h QOing \\ tsl. ' ? lig K U i No. f?2. No. >??', ; ui,tm* l?v_Charleston.\? 03 pn 8 20. banes. v im ?86 .bumM r. fi;,.') 106? Ar.Columbia. I . ? 16 i i r>s .Prosperity. ;: i/ 12 10pm .Nowhorry..., 2 12 60 .t Union. 2 jo i is _liSurena ? l \> 133 _Ureouwood. 3 01 .Vbbevillo . ft 10 .. ..Atbo 0?. V -?5 Atlanta. 6 16pm .. Winhs?oro,?. < .. li ii . 8 2u . .('harlot to. 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