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SECTION 3 THE "COTJRIEK-JOURNAL. LOUISVILLE. SUNDAY MORXTNG. JIARCH 19. 1S09 Settled 1 III I I it 1 1 I II' fc-K i-fJ ''1- iu fv.

5 Oldest and Most Interesting 'ji Place In Western- Kentucky. tm ii i ui 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 ii hi 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 i i' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii Along the Picturesque 4-H-l-M M-fr8-? 'I'l i eswassa aw ea sb i.fi 'w ONE HUNDRED YEARS 1 pwrltten for th BOUT forty miles from the it mouth of Cumberland rlv- er, nestled among om of the most picturesque hills which border that romantic the quaint little town of the oldes settlement in stream, is Eddyville. Western Kentucky, and It would be hard to find a spot more sequestered or more thoroughly delightful Every rock has Its history, houses built a hundred years ago are still standing, and there are few of the Inhabitants who can not trace their ancestry back to some distinguished name of pioneer 'days. To this quiet little nook their forefathers came long ago, lived, loved, married, died, and here their descend-- ants have been content to follow out. In the same place, the same peaceful destiny, even to the sixth generation, for snch the children of to-lay num- ber from the earliest settlers.

Old landmarks untouched by the desecrating hand of progress have fallen into plct-" uresque decay, and the sun peeping over tha hilltops a't this, the close of the oentury, beholds many of the same things upon Which It shone at the dawn of 1800. And the. waters of the Cumberland, rippling past, seem to touch shores which they have so long kissed, with a kind of reverence. as if conscious of the honored dead buried there, mingling in their mur-. tnur a sort of requiem for these departed heroes, with a salutation of respect to their children's children, now living in the dear little town, which this year celebrates its centennial, and -i abounds in so many rare historic associations.

i Settled In 1799. There is some difference of opinion about Just when Eddyville was settled. rTbut the original plat of the town, which has been preserved, shows that it was '-made the county seat of Livingston county in 1793., This document is very much discolored, and almost crumbled to pieces, but the introduction, which can be read with some difficulty, is -interesting. It is as follows: "Commonwealth of Kentucky, to wit: At a County Court begun and held for Livingston county on the 27th day of in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and the court proceeded to ballot for i.i i-r place for the seat of Justice, and to 'flx the public buildings on, for this county, and thereupon the tickets being counted out, majority was found in favor of Eddyville. And again at a County Court, continued and held for said county aforesaid; en the 26th day November In the year 1S00.

It was V' 'ordered that the town "of Eddyvilje be "Ttstabllahed on the following plan, and that Charles Stewart, Gideon D. Cobb. Davis. John Pounds and William rw Pobln appointed trustees of said Jvwn." Under this is drawn the plan, j'-untn 1809 Caldwell county was organ-'1'tjie. with Eddyville as its county seat, but it was soon moved to Princeton.

When Lyon county was created, in 1834. -Its county buildings were located at Kddyville, where they have since malned, so the old town hart been at different times the county seat of three It took its name, Eddyville, on ac-' count of Its situation between two big eddies in the river, which has caused steamboat pilots to object to it as a difficult place to land. its early days It was quite an shipping point, being the head cf navigation on the Cumberland, la a direct route from Nashville to New Orleans, and the center of river trade Southern Kentucky and Middle Ten-, uessee. it One Hundred Tears Ago. Early in 1799, Just one hundred years ago, Matthew Lyon came from Ver-.

tnont with a colony, and settled in the place, with which his name is so closely associated. Among those who came with him were the ancestors of families well known in history. There were Cobba. Machena. Marsballa and others equally distinguished.

There Is some conflict about the exact date of Mr. Lyon's coming to Eddyville, V. which possibly arises from the fact that he was in Congress from Vermont in March, 1801, and Is said to have cast the deciding vote which made Jefferson President instead of Burr, when the contest about their election threw the 'matter into Congress. But CoL Lyon evidently came down with his colony and then went back to serve out his term. since there Is a grave stone on the Lyon lot in the Ed dyville cemetery dated 1800.

which makes it sure that he came before that time. Then Gideon Cobb, who was one of the first trustees of the town, was bis party. They came down the Ohio from Pittsburg; thence up the Cumberland to Eddyville. I Some of them settled Just below Eddyville. and the place was called YaAkeetown, tut no vestige of It now Matthew' Lyon's history previous to his coming to Kentucky is too well known to be retold here.

Suffice It to ay that he was born in Ireland In 1736, came to America on his own responsibility when a very young man. being sold on bis arrival here to pay his ship's -i passage, as has been frequently related. and started in his new home without a cent. He served, with honor in the revolution, and was elected for several terras to Congress from When he came to Eddyville he gave up poli-. vtics for a time, although he afterward served in Congress from Kentucky, and devoted himself to business enterprises.

Sils leading industry was a ship yard, which grew to quite extensive propor- a numoer oi me Vermont col-" were Interested with CoL Lyon in this. The hulls for several gunboats intended tor use in the war of lill were buUt here. tar The Lyons Home. house which Mr. Lyon erected Jbtia residence In Eddyville early In the present or late in the last century is U11 standing.

It is situated on one of Courier-Journal. the hills of the place, overlooking" the rtw one side and facing northwest. it ib luiii oi wonp, is now in a very dilapidated State," but bears traces of an old-fashion, beauty in de- sign and finish. One of the back, rooms downstairs is used for a small private The youngsters poring over their books, and the-pretty -young teacher demonstrating- a perplexing problem on the blackboard, seemed- unconscious or oblivious of anything Unusual in their surroundings, and gazed with wondering curiosity at the visitor who asked permission to go through the old building. They were possibly too busy learning to bound China to know that their own State or.

town had a history. The house is one story and. a half. The lower floor originally had two rooms In front, with a hall between, and an ell back. The partition dividing one of the front rooms from' the ball has been taken nut; however, 'leaving a large room arranged for a schoolroom, but now unoccupied.

The ceilings are low, and the windows high, with broad sills and facings painted white. In what was the hall is the stairway leading to the upper story. Only two rooms up here are the rest simply being a barnlike space bare rafters. CoL Aaron Burr'a Guest. -There is a well authenticated -story to the effect that Aaron Burr visited CJ.

Lyon in this house -once, and occupied ohe of these little hilf-story rooms. It Is. according to tradition, the one in the northeast end, to the left of the top of the stairway, going up. This visit is accounted for byjvthe fact tfiat Burr and. CoL, Lyon had been good friends Id Washington, and the former seemed to feel no sentiment it tBniTt against the Colonel for hla.jpppqsltfon to him for President.

r-. He was CoL Lyon's guest. In Eddyville December, 1806, Just atter, his acquittal In Frankfort, and beforebis capture by the United States GvernmenV to -an- swer to the charge of- treason, at, Riwhr mond, Va. l- He stayed two weeks, and to the room in which he is supposed have slept there is attached a pecuilatjnter-j est. It is a quaint, roughly-plaateced.

whitewashed bttle artair.vwKlj large fireplace in the Just door. Two small, windows-, on either side of this fireplace, commanding a view of the cemetery, on an adjacent hilltop, are the only other openings to the room, and it seems-an ideal place' for the batching of a conspirator's plots. It is presumed that he tried to Induce CoL Lyon to Join him rh his scheme, and that he refused. It is that two of the vessels Ja hi fleet captured January 14. 1S07, on the Mississippi river, had -been built by CoL Lyon In Eddyville.

which looks a little suspicious for that distinguished gentleman. In recalling Burr and his fate, one is always tempted to moralise on how differently history might have handled bis name had his plan succeeded, for it took success to make a Napoleon. whose brain evolved a project that seemed wilder than that of the American traitor. Gen. H.

B. Lyon; now living at Eddyville, when discussing his grandfather's connection with Burr, and his refusal, or supposed refusal, of that 'fascinating plotter's overtures, laughingly said that he would not have rejected what seenv ed such a splendid opportunity for fame and fortune. EddyvUle's Rrst A little distance from the Lyon residence, on the side toward the river, an old tower', marks the situation of the first church built In Eddyville. It was about i BOOM 127 OLD LYON HOUSE (Wh.di Aaron fi-rf he Visited Eddyville in liKAi.) wwm th 'r', W. i COL.

MATTHEW LTOIT, of Eddyville. given by CoL Lyon to the town, was used by all denominations as a place of worship, and also as a kind of public haJL. The tower belonged to a later -edifice. erected as an Episcopal church, but It was. built on the spot where -the old church- stood.

Just, at the foot of this hilL near the river bank, la a large spring; with a rock- HOME OF COL. MATTHEW LTCN, 1800, oldest house la Eddyville, and stilt standing. basin, surrounded by cliffs, with a rock Mally supplied the town with water. 'This-Is very beautiful In summer time. but is now by the overflow.

spring was evidently the cause tor Eddy ville's situation, for in the early days iple seemed to depend on springs altogether for drinking water, and when Cot, Chittenden Lyon dug the first cistern the place, at his father's old home." which he Inherited. It was thonght. that be endangered the health pt.hM family by allowing them to drink the from It. The ground around the spring was donated by the first CoL Lyon to the town. Sleeping: For All Time.

'One of the most interesting spots in the. whole of Eddyville, and another gift of CoL Matthew Lyon to the town, is the old cemetery. It is located on a hill northeast of the one on which his residence stands, and is very close to it. The story goes that a beautiful daughter of CoL Lyon, Just eighteen years old, was engaged to be- married, and he had given ber the site of the cemetery, on which to build her home. But before her dream of love waa realized she died, and found a last resting place where her earthly paradise was to have been erected, being the first person buried In the 'settlement.

After this berather gave the location to the town a cemetery. veatone which tells the story of the untimely end of this young girl Is a plain slab, with a kind of Gothic top, very much moss grown. The in scription reads: 0... "In-Memory of Lorram. Daugh- ter of M.

Lyon, who departed this life. August, lsou; aged 18 years." Next to' this is anpther stone, with a similar inscription, except that the date is July, 1801. and the name is "Beuiah Lyon, daughter of M. Lyon, aged five years." 7 -r But it is around the first grave that the most sentiment lingers, and the pathetic narrative of the bright young life, so early cut off, in the first bloom of beauty and happiness, is told with hushed voices by those with whom it has long been familiar. And th? stranger who hears it-Xor the first time fetls instant sympathy, 'for Joy and sadnese.

love aud pity "are the same, the world over. -7. Gen. has a. little daughter narvtd forvthls relative who died so long ago, and yet to memory will always be a fair young girl who had a sad fate.

'Kear. her grave that of her He left Eddyville Just previous to 1S12.V' to trace noma bots which he had built fof; use, in. the war of that date. as4 scot to New Orleans loaded with sujrpl lea were either -ton or stole" by the man'tovwhora they had been inirufted. rhich caiwed CoL Lyon to become bfinkrapt-' He never returned to sent balk' word to two sons, Matthew and Chittenden, to sell his property there and pay his debts.

He then went to Arkansas, and nerved for some time as Indian agent. In 1823 I- 1 "A yy.is(7;;yv;.,::wi he was elected to Congress from the Territory of but died on lAu-gust 1 of the same year, before be took his seat, at Spadra Bluff. Ark. Ills, re-, mains were brought back, and buried in the Eddyville cemetery, April by his sons. A great many of the victims of4 the.

scourge of Asiatic cholera of 1SC3 are buried here, the most of them in unmarked graves. A prominent man who was laid to rest In this graveyard several years ago was CoL Willis B. Machen. who died at the ripe age of eighty-six -years. He lived 1' tM.

I 1 a i 7 THE OLD MARSHALL HOMESTEAD, Built in the SO's, one of Eddyville's landmarks.) all his life in or near Eddyville. and had a noted career, lie waa a brave Confederate soldier, a member of Confederate (Congress in IS 62, and was in the United States Senate from 1S7S to 1S75. ITritnble Vis! tors." A little incident worthy of mentioo'-in .1 the history of the small town is the fact that Jennie Llnd stopped there when she made her tour of this, county. in 1S4V She oame over from Nashville by stage coach and stayed In Eddyville for several days, waiting for a boat to New Orleans. The house in which she was entertained is s'yU! In existence.

It was then the- Laclede Lfc. tel. kept by Mr. Frederick Skinner, but its palmy days are over, and It is now the abode of tenants- more picturesque than cleanly. Mrs.

Lucy Childers now a. resident 5of Eddyville, says that though a child at the tlm she remembers th sweet sinKr well. Sh gave bo public concert, but rr. hearsed in the hotel parlors, in the even. Ings, and.

the friends of the houl proprietor were invited lij hear her. MkI Chiiders says that the personal appearance of Uxe little, plurap. darH-halred womun. her clear, sweet voice, her rich dresj add xracaful attitude as she with one hand resting upon a small table, ore vividly impr-smrd utoo her as. if' were only y-terday she bad en flijl heard her.

Tli tnb.e by -which site Btoc1 is still kt-p. a treasured in the Skinner family. Another notable personage wbo otice visited KddyvlIIe was President Taylor, Jus after he was elected President while he a on his way from the South ta Washington to b. ururaied. He onjy stopn-d for a short while, however, coming up from the boat larding.io tha top of thi bank to addrexs a crowd of patriotic seots.

who had gathered to Welcome him The First Bessemer Steel. An Invention, which has given the locality considerable claim to fame, and has ''ti-filSJ lQl --111 jj i ALL THAT BEMAUTS OF EDDTVULFS OBIQINAL PLAT. -'N Preerved in the. County Archives. meant a grat dcl to the world; war made i there-in 1846,.

when discovered the procts of making Bessemer steel. Mr. rom Penraylvania in.the early "forties, and established an iron furnace -near in connection with mints from comes Iron ere said to be the best to be found anywhere. The posBihili. ty of coBvt-rting the crude ore into steel, by which the trouble and cist of making It were immeasurably reduced, was flrst dnnionstrmted in this furnace, but Lord who was.

proprietor of a large iron foundry in England, gave the discovery to the world several years later as own. It Is said that thu method was Kto.en by some of his workmen, who ware In this country and visitod the Kelly furnace. Kelly and BeaemT. after, being long In lUitrnt.on. finally effected a compromise, by which Kelly received large royalties on.

the patent, but the process took the name -of Btmwror. Mr. a. N' Leonard, at pnxtent a citucen of Bddyvlile, says tttat. the of making in tlr.s way was -really, his father s.

and, he saw: htm illustrate- to Mr. Kelly one day by "drawing- fc the sand bow It might dunet but lte M1 before the mat ter was Mr. lt-oi ara. nan, o-fore coming to Eddyville, the first roiling mill west of the Allegheny mountains, at Pittsburg- Mr. Kelly has the d'stlnctlon of importing to America the first Chinese labor.

He brought tea Chinamen to Eddyville to work in his factory as of sugar kottUs. One of these kettles Is now kept on Silver Cliff, near Kuttawa, as a relic. ep resen ta ti ves of the Old Town. Vitarmln- tepTesentatlve. mt the eti.

town's quaint bUtory and romantic tra-dlt ion still living there Is Mrs. Nannie Poindextcr, widow of J. T. Polndexter, a portrait who gained Considerable prominence during his 1 ietlm: as an artist; Mrs. Poindextcr Is thiVgranddaughter of a marring 3 which occurred on Corn Island.

near Louisville. In lWi-i. The bride was Mia Mary 1st ton, daughter of Capt. Jamev atton. who had the glory of being the first man -to carry-j noa4.

over tha falls at Louisviller and" her- btrand was Mr. George of Clark's men. Mr. and Mrs. Graoey came to the Infant settlement, on the Cumberland.

Immediately after their marriage, and their descendants art to-day -among -the town's most prominent people. Mrs. Poindexter's mother was the oldest child and married S. P. L.

Marshall. A part of the great Marshall family of Kentucky. h.le a member of the Legislature from Caldwell county, in lid, Mr. Marshall secured thegassage of the bill which made Lyon county, and became its first County Judge In 1K4. The old Marshall homestrad, built by him some time in the thirl Us and.

910 used aa a hotel. Is one oi Eddyville's landmarks. Mrs. Poirrflexter wears some earrings that originally belonged to. her great-grandmother, Mrs.

Patton. They were first given- to her daughter-Mary aa a bride, then to "Airs. Marshall, next descending to Mrs. Polndexter. They are plain gold 1tiros fitting close to the ears, ohe also a waiter that came from the old fort at Corn island, which is considerably over a- hundred years old, since it was brought by the Pattons from.

Ireland, and they cajue frcm Virginia with George Rogers Clark in It Is round, about two feet In diameter, and is metal with an open edge that- has a lacy effect. In the een--ter thore is painrad a design in fruit. Mrs. Polndexter has had it mounted in a h.indMnw (ram ot carved wood, and it rents uiori -arv eaflW of the hum workman-ship. rhe a.lso hss a prayer book which belonged toMrs.

Patton. Mrs. Lucy Jk-acey Childers, of Eddyville, and Kelly, Ot Louisville, Whose-hui-ba-rd Invented Hfiwemer steel, are also-granddaughters Of Mary Patton. Mrs. -Childers tells a very vwtty Indian story In which her fathe.r.

-Mattbow Gra ws concerned. It sfmif that an old Indian chie, camping some illatance from the- town, took a great fancy to little Mutthf-w. -who was then about six years bid, unit aked hi father to let hint tak rhe chlid for a viBit to his camp, to. last, "is Ihe'old chief exiiresscd-it, "three set- flnob ty tha Bttn t- tiracey submitted the matter to hie 'wife, and told- her if she. could gnt her 'oiwet to' lrt the boy go.

It would be a treat thing for rl.em in surtnij the frionu--hip of Ufic Indiana. Hut Mary Paltou itrw'w'a grirat deal about Indiaa treachery nd crui-My. and teas borr-nvd at hs idea. fnsMng-her-chiJd sucrr Finally, however, brave woman that she was, she decided to let him go, realising the strength of her husband argument, And, sure enough, in thre- days, acuord- "inp to -promise, the little fellow -was brought bark well and happy, deckd in feathers, war oalnt and armed with a 1 f' 1 bow-and arrow, just like a little Indian boy. He said he remembered the event as one or the proudest moments of his childish life, and he wondircd why his mother took him In her army and wept when he returned.

He was put on a bear skin to sleep at night, he said, and every t.m he awoke rhe old chief was sittiig by h.m, apparently guarding his slumbers. Mra Childers had two brothers who were with Cobb's battery of gallant soldiers, who organised in Eddyville and fought so nobly in the cause of the South during tho civil war. One of them. Frank P. Gracey, was Captain of the company toward the close of the war.

And to prove that bravery and soldierly daring are still In the hlood. her son. Col. tiracey Childers. is now with the First Tennessee volunteers at Va la.

CoL Childers war rtwntly promoteu by the death Of Col. W. O. Smith. Mr.

also had distinguished ancestry, being a son of Miss Phoebe Ann Culpeper, daughter of the Colonial Governor of Virginia. A portrait of her, splen-d'dly executed by her artist son. is among his wife's collection, as well as one of her own mother. Martha Gracey Marshall. Several of Mr.

Poindexter's pictures were displayed at the World's Fair. Among them was a portrait of ex-Otv. Charles Anderson, of Ohio, who moved to Kentucky in his old age and built tho thriving little town of Kuttawa. a few. miles from Eddyville.

Mr. Polndexter came to Eddyville In 1S5K, married Miss Marshall In IK, snJ afterward, traveled extensively in the South with his wife engaged-in his art. hut thev finally came bacH to her native place. He died and was burled In the old cemetery there several veara hh M--Pcrndexter Is about seventv-six yesrs of ngcawd very proud of her fam-flv. TsWJsr'as' quite Indignant over the fact that CoL J.

Stoddard Johnston denied In the Courier-Journal a short while sinco that Capt. Patton was th first to take a boat over the falls. She says that is undoubtedly true, as the annals of the family wfll show. Price of the Long- Ago An old account book found in Eddyville for 1515-11 shows a decided difference In the price of things then and now. The writing In the book Is extremely neat, being done, evidently, with a quill pen.

The charges are made In shillings' and pence, and afterward carried out in dollars and cents. The price of calico was seventy-five cents a yard, while whisky sold for STHc by the quart, or for fl to $1.25 per gallon. Pins were twenty-five cents a paper, sugar twenty-nve cents a pound, coffee fifty cents a pound, loaf sugar H-e a pound no 'wonder they took their whisky straight, some oae remarked, on seeing this), and domestic C2o per yard. 1 One pair of socks -are charged ti and shirting was tl a yard. "One set of geography" cost is.

"One dose of castor oil twenty-five cents." One nutmeg On skillet (1.50 snd two venison hams 'fifty cents. Besides venison, whisky was about the only article that was cheap, and the people of those days must have appreciated the fact, from the quantities they seemed to consume. Opposite one noted name of that time a quart of whisky appears on every page, and sometimes the amount Is largely Increased, showing that he was a Kentucky gentleman of the old school. A queer book of prophecy entitled "Armageddon," which made quite a stir wheh. It was published many years ago, was written on the Eddyville hills.

The author, Mx. 8. D. Baldwin, died In Nashville not lffng since. Brave and Patriotic.

A sketch of Eddyville would not be complete without something of the company of men sent out from there to fight on the side of the Confederacy In the civil war. This Is generally known as Cobb's battery, although flrst organised under the leadership of afterward H. B. L-yon. They started out eighty strong and -smped first under an old beech tree, near iddyville, which has sine baen held in great Under its generous branches the old company had a reunion in October.

18S7. Capt. Lyon waa soon promoted, and Robert Cobb waa placed in command. Under him the fought with HOUSE IN WHICH JENNIE IWben she vlailad valor at Shiloh, Vicksburg. Missionary Ttidge and in a number of other battles.

They occupied. In fact, a very distinctive place In the Southern army, and It would take a separate story to do justice to their accomplishments. Toward the end of the war. as has been told, Capt. Frank P.

Gracey, -on account of Capt. Cobb taking higher rank, was msde leader of these men tried and true. Of the eighty who went out only fifteen returnea. ana jusi mite the reunion under the old beech tree, but 1 one or two more are yet living. The flag which sent with them through the entire 1 1 I Af th.

I war is now a enrnvueu iv widow vf Capt. Gracey, who lives at Clarksvllle. Tennv Illustrating the very close tie that bound thftsc soldiers together, a touching incident occurred several years ago. One of them, who was city marshal or Eddyville. was compelled In making an arrest to kill a man.

and for It was sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. NO especial defense m-aa made, and nothing was thought of the matter, but a short while after the court's decision Lieut. Bart. James, who was at the t.me traveling In Texas, appeared in Frankfort. tH called at the executive office and asked to see Gov.

Brown. "Governor," he said. "I have come to see you In behalf of a poor fellow down In Western Kentucky, who la, under sentenoo to go to the penitentiary. He la nothing to me, and I know little of the law in the case, although I have brought you the court pPrB to examine, but I know tne man. We were comrades in Cobb a battery, and fought side by aide during the whole of the civil war.

He was the gunner In our company, and never during the four years struggle did I see him swerve one Inch from his duty. It was a rime, too. Governor, that tried men and no two who have faced death together can ever quite forget It. And now. I have come all the way from Texas to ask you to pardon this unfortunate fellow, so that he may In his old age the imotn'ny of a priton cell, for I feel that his bravery, in days gone by deserves a better fate." The Governor's eyes were moist a Jie I'wlil take your word.

Mr. James, without looking at the papers. I believe your old comrade hss been unjustly sentenced. The pardon shall be Issued at once. And it was.

Three Eddyville young men. besides Col. Grscey Childers. already mentioned, now hold Important positions in the United States army. Frank Lyon, son ot Gen.

Lyon, a part of the engineer corps of the Oregon. Finis W. Smith. First Lieutenant in the Twelfth regulars, and Walter Smith, of the navy. The last two named were in the battle at El Csney, and ar now in Manila.

80 the fighting stock In the old town Is not exhausted. Coming to Eddyville of the preaenl time. It has about SU people, and is well known as the location of the Branch State prison This is quite a handsome stone- buiwing Imposingly situated a yery. high hill In the town, and is, a credit to the sraaii city as well as to the State. Taken as a whole.

It Is a charmingly Interesting spot, and supports its one hundred th birthday with burning dnliy and pride. ORA LEIGH. MOST HOB-RIBLE. v- Punch. A bill has been Introduced Into the.

State Legislature of Wisconsin to prohibit tight-lacing. Paper.l Our health indeed: As If we need Your men to watch and foster us! Upon my word, who ever heard A notion- so preposterous? Male men! And pray, what right have they To come sad preach aud.prate. As If they knew that we must do Whatever they dictate to usT For. sayihow can a mere male man -See if a girl's tight-laced or no? How can he tell if she is well. If Nature made her waist or no? However wise in their own eyes.

Still certain things they couldn Or if they do, the bold, bad crew, More shame to them! They shouldn know. The gsme they play? It's plain as they! 1 They think that we've been cold to them. And thy are not content with what Few ft vors we have doled to them. But now they'll seise whate'er they please. And when they come embracing us.

They'll only cry they want to try If any one's been lacing us, wicked wile! 6 plot most vile. For ravishing a kiss of us. To any him that has a whim For ravishing a kiss of us. We'll be their prey by night and day. Unless we stop this sorry bill.

And be pursued by suitors rude horrible! Most horrible! t' a Old Kentucky Papers. 0 Smith's Grove Gasette. Dr. N. P.

Allen, of this place, has In his possession several numbers of the Argas of Western America, published at Frankfort, and dated January ZL 1813, to, November 6, The number for August 21 contains a circular letter of Solomon P. Sharps to the oitixens of the Sixth congressional district, and also a cir cular letter of Hon. John Rhea, of Ten-, nesaee. to his constituents. It is a four-page, rive-column sheet, edited by Gerard A Berry.

"Printers to the Commonwealth," yr Allen also has three numbers "of the Guardian of Freedom, puhltsh-d at Frank-fort in 1MH by E. C. Berry. The issue of August 27 announces the rexult of the State election of that year. Christopher Gren.

up was elected Governor and Caldwell Lieutenant Governor. Phineas Cox was elected to the Legislature from Warren county, and Robert Stockton from Barren. Xipling'g Pay. British Weekly. Perhaps no one receives such large prices for his work as Mr.

Rudyard Kipling. He has contracted to write eight stories for one of the magasines next year. Tor each of which he will receive about 29. This is simply -for the English serial rights ef the stories. In addition Mr.

Kipling receives payment from America, India and the colonies. This will probably bring up the price of the stories to about ioou each. LIND WAS ENTERTAINED Eddyville In 1M7.1 making for the year. In, addition to this Mr. Kipling receives the royalties for book publication in England and America.

This will not amount to less than about 4.000, so that for each story the author ult'mately receives1 not less than 1.009. Whether these high prices will be kept up la very doubtful. If tha cheap magaslnUm succeeds In. injuring the- older periodicals they can not be maintained. It remains to be seen whether the public cares much for names, and It must be remembered that the papers with the largest circulation In this country do not depend upon nam at alL I remember some years ago Mr.

Kipling contributed one of his best pieces of wcrk. better work by a great deal than. he has been doing lately, to a month, ly review. The editor Informed roa that not one extra copy of the periodical was A SHIP AND UTS. SHIP went sailing out ait break of Out on the sea's broad, peaceful, dimpled breast: Laden with precious cargo stored away.

Stanch to withstand, tho oft by wild waves pressed. Fond hearts bade her farewell, and wished God-speed, Majestic-, grand, the good ship passed from view: With all sails set, the growing breese to heed The sun was shining, and the sky was) blue. The years went by, and those who'd watched In pride. Waited In vain the good ship's coming back; 1 For In foreign masts gone, torn side. She lies, a' victim to the storm's wild rack.

-Drifting about wherever Fate might send, The band that guided it forever still. Day after day Its hutl the fierce wave rend. It drifts, obedient to (ha currents' will. A life went forth one dsy when skies were blue. Full-freighted with fair promisee and hope; -1 Vowing that to itself Jt would true.

Wending; its way up 'Life's fair, sunny Slope; And there were those who'd watched him thus depart. And breathed a prayer that God would guide aright: A father's love, a mother's yearning heart. Him shield and buckler In the endless fight. The years are long, and Time can't heal all things. And those- who -watched his coming watched fn vain; -Tls sorrow only recollection brings.

The sweet old days will never come again. Somewhere, a broken wreck, he's drifting new, i Aimless and lost, upon Life's shifting sea; Hope fled, ambition gone, forsworn each vow, Thus moving onward to eternity. E. CARL L1TSET. A Btfeet-cAfEptBoda, I meet a good many strange people," said the street-oar conductor as ha stopped the car to let the fat party off.

"but yesterday I think I capped the climax. An overdressed woman and a small boy got on -my car. and as I rang up their fares the small boy became Interested In my bell-punch and Insisted on ringing the little bell just aa I did. "I oouldn'f sae soy way clear to amusing children at five cents a ring, and said aa much. Then the woman flared up and said she thought that I might let little Willie ting the ben It he wanted to.

"I kept my temper and explained to her that the street-car company collected five cents from me for every time that the ball was pulled, "She put her fat hand Into ber pocket-book, and. extracting twenty-five cents, handed it to me and said haughtily: 'You may let little Willie ring five "Mow, one of the company's rules says that we must be polite and obliging at all times, so 1 submitted. "Little Willie, with a -coo of delight, rang the bed. while 1 stood there like a fool; the mother beamed and a roar went up (rom the passengers. "As 1 escaped to the other end of the car the woman said, with a toss of her head: 'Little Willie always gets what he aska "A moment later little Willie conceived the plan of ringing up his mother, using her ear as a hanuie.

and giving it such a jerk as to bring tears to her eyes. "Then little illie was turned down and got what he should have received in the first placea good spanking. "Then an unfeeling passenger remarked In an audible tone of voice that that was probably the first time that little Willis ever got something that he didn't ask for. (New York World. Society Notes Prom Life.

Miss Bloonose' ChlUur, of Boston, Is vis. ltlng the Bondsanbons at th palatial residence on Madison avenue. Miss Chillur Is a famous Boston belle. She will he a great catch for somebody. Both P.

Tayleures Dummy and J. Fatuous Cbumpp seem in. terested in' that quarter. F. Blase Manners was seen walking on the avenue last Wednesday with Mrs.

O. Pcnipus Pride. Tlwm is no truth in tha report that Mrs. Kummunbiit Innltt has a real bishop for a coachman. It is only one of those resemblances don't you know.

Vancey Gerloot drove bis new tandem on Friday. On the seat with him was Ttayle-ire Jooea. The whole turnout waa very- effective. Vancey didn't mind the wheel-horse doing all the work, but when the leader kept turning about and facing the other way It did annoy him. Vancey 's mother was a Kentucky Bibber.

That was a gorgeous banquet given by the O. Howe Vulgs on Friday. The wine alone coat tl.AO. Mrs. Vulg was a Balti.

more bt-lle. She married Vulg because she wantad to. Hia fortune la estimated at almost any old figure. A Bobbing Wind. A curious instance of the effect of the shape of the ground upon the wind blowing over It waa recently noted by Monsieur Batut aa be -was experimenting with kites) in France.

When a north wind floated tha kit tha latter kept Its balance easily, hut 'when the wind came from tha south or southeast the kite pitched and bobbed in a very irregular manner. The explanation waa furnished by the character of the surface ovar which the wind had paaand. Coming from tha north It had a plain country to blow over; but coming from th outh and southeast, it passed across broken hills, which set it into Irregular puffs and urtdulationa. A Olrton Girt. Glrton, a college for women, at England.

has turned out some bright women, but evidently It doe not give every one of its students a mastery of Engitah style. A Glrton undergraduate, having Inadvertently umbrellas wkh a fellow-stud eat, is. said to have evolved, this "Mis presents her compliments to Miss and bogs to say that she has an umbrella which ln't mine, so If you ha one that Isn't bar, no doubt they are tha onea" 0 -)' I I 4 3 i i- i.