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SEUTIOjN 3 THE DUELING PISTOLS OF KENTUCKY'S OLDTIME FIDDLERS. DEATH TO PLANT PARASITES. THE COURIEK-JOUKAL, LOmSVILLE, MOKNING, SEPTEMBEK 8, 1901. A Notable Contest At Glasgow, Prizes and the Prize Winners. COLONEL AARON BURR Even In Autumn They May Kill Trees and Vines Antidotes May Be Prepared At Home Suggestions Foe Ridding the Bark and Branches of Dangerous Insects.

Where They Are and Their Actual History. goes forward. Eordeaux mixture, lnde d. is standard and sovereign for grape rot mould, mildew and scabby rust Apply to grape vines as soon as the fruit sets, so as to prevent even the appearance of evil. A later application when the berries are half grown brings them to ripening sound and perfect.

Kerosene Emulsion. Put into a bis jar half a gallon of kerosene and one quart of buttermilk. Stir hard with a wooden paddle the harder the better. In live minutes the emulsion should begin to grow thick and buttery. It sweet TnMHf he nspd turn it sour with ing that old-time fiddlers are the very fathers of music, worthy of the greatest and kindest consideration, Instead ot deserving to be suppressed or in any way discouraged or hindered from making merry in the earth.

But, seeing we wlll.be pressed for time, I must confine myself to these brief remarks for tho present, and at once proceed with the programme. However, now, chat we have a permanent organization, greater things may be expected of us at future meetings, and it will be well for the city or town offering the best inducements for contests of the old-time fiddlers hereafter. I thank you for your kind attention. The following judges were then selected: Messrs. C.

W. Thompson, G. L. Vogle, Elzy Mitchell and Gran Hou-chens. Programmes wero then distributed to the large audience which had packed the house.

The President then arose and called the names of each contestant, one by one and the tunes were to plas'. The contest lasted until 11 o'clock at night, resulting as follows: First prize of $25, R. SI. Carver, of Bruce, Ky. Second prize of $15, L.

D. Carver, of Bruce, Ky. Third prize ot $10, D. Payne, of Rocky Hill, Ky. The proceedings of this convention, Including the by-laws governing the association, will be printed and sent to ail fiddlers In the State.

Glasgow, Aug. 29. Special. The meeting of the old-time fiddlers here Tuesday night, a3 predicted, was the largest and most Interesting meet-Ins of the kind ever held In the State. A permanent organization was effected, with Mr.

John M. Biggs, of Louisville, president; Messrs. C. W. Thompson, of Edmonton; John T.

Pedlgo, of Hor.se Cave; -It. M. Carver, of Bruce; John Gregory, of Fountain Run; Gran ilouchlns, of Bruce, as directors. Committees on Resolutions, By-laws and Credentials were appointed, and following resolutions were read and adopted, one by one: Whereas, 11 has come to our knowledge through the great daily newspapers the land that certain persons, claiming to be musicians, and belonging to some self-styled musical-1 society, have met In convention and did then and there pass resolutions condemning oid-tlme music and musicians, which, ft course. Includes old-time fiddlers, pledging themselves to hinder and discourage this ancient and interesting custom in every possible way; there-lore, be it Resolved, That we, the old-time fiddlers, and other good citizens of Barren and adjoining counties, view their high-handed proceeding with indignation and horror, as unwarranted, ill-advised and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of our great free country, which grants to each and every one of us the right to exercise our own free will, as we may think best, in the pursuit of pleasure and happiness.

Resolved, That we love and appreciate all kinds of good music, and are ready to rise up and call them blessed whose social and financial circumstances in life have enabled them to acquire a musical education; yet, believing that old-time music Is better than no music at all, we deplore the act of the musical society referred to in condemning us because we have not had the good fortune to become as pro-llcient in the art as themselves. Resolved, That In order to resist and defeat the evil intentions of these tt vowed enemies of our peace and welfare, we form a permanent organization to be known as the "Old-time Fiddlers' Association of Kentucky," for the purpose of holding regular meetings and contests every year, or oftener, in the town or county-seat offering the best inducements, as an encouragement to beginners and others to practice and perfect themselves in this worthy art. Resolved, That a president, secretary and a board of directors be elected, who THE 0LDTIME POSSESSION OF MR. 1NNTS BRENT HOPKINS, OF ST. LOUIS.

party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt." As the years go by the tone ot his-epistolary vituperation grows more personal and bitter. He charges Burr with grofB peracnal vices and notorious profligacy; forgetting, seemlrgly, how he himself had but a few years previously been involved In a scandalous liaison, and to clear himself politiea'ly had exposed the partner of his guilt by name, while declaring his own marital infidelity. In 1S02 one of those ubiquitous individuals, always In evidence when mischief is tried to fully open Burr's eyes to the perfidy of the man whom he still supposed was his friend. Burr lost no time In seeking out Hamilton, and demanding an explanation. The latter admitted that perhaps In the heat and excitement of political debate, he had spoken unthinkingly of his political opponents; but that nothing was meant personally.

He tried to apologize, but In that lame way characteristic of one who is detected in a violation of truth and friendship. Friendship a Sacrament. With Burr friendship was a sacrament Nearly seven years after the fatal duel, under date of February 10, 1811, he writes for his daughter's eyes: "My dear Theodosia, I am sick at heart, having made the most afflicting of all discoveries, the perfidy of a friend." He was loth to think of perfidy In Hamilton; he trusted to his assurances; not only this time, but several times thereafter, when the ofllclousness of friends came near precipitating trouble. The facts which at length led up to the duel are familiar to every reader, and the original papers easy of access. At this distance from the occurrence we can visit blame -on -neither of the principals for the resutts.

They obeyed an iron rule strictly observed by their class. To disobey was to lose forever what they prized above life. It has been said that the real culprit was that fickle public opinion which drove both these naturally amiable, generous and brave men to the arbitrament of the "code" and then treacherously turned upon the survivor. Some twenty-five years after the duel Col. Burr, at the request of a friend had a special claim to his esteem, revisited the old dueling ground at Weehawken.

It was here that "leaving their boat at the foot of the heights, Just where he had left his boat on that fatal morning a quarter of a century before," Burr and his friend "climbed over the same rocks, and soon reached the ground. Except that the rocks were covered with names and that the ground was more overgrown with trees, the place had not changed in all those years." "On reaching the scene, he placed his companion on the spot where Hamilton had stood and went to the. place where he had stood himself, and proceeded to narrate the incidents of the occasion. A Catalogue of Wrongs. "The conversation turned to the causes of the duel.

As he talked, the old fire seemed to be rekindled within him; his eye blazed; his voice rose. He recounted the long catalogue of wrongs he had received from Hamilton and told how he had forborne and forborne, and forgiven and forgiven, and even stooped to remonstrate until he had no choice except to Blink out of sight a wretch degraded and despised, or meet the calumniator on the field and silence PARIS green, Scheele's green and London purple, all of arsenical origin, are the things wherewith to conquer the myriads of garden- insects. Most of these" insects live by eating or sucking young leaves, vines and stems. Such as the squash bug, potato beetle and grasshopper quickly kill themselves If given the chance. To give them a chance, mix half a pound of the poison powder with half a pound of flour and a pound of sifted slacked lime.

Tie ItMn a cheese cloth bag and dust the plants well while dew is on them or Just after rain. The poison vanishes In fifteen to twenty days besides, if it did not, one would have to eat a whole barrel of the cabbages at one sitting in order to get enough arsenic for a discomforting dose. Bordeaux Mixture. Dissolve a pound of blue vitriol in five gallons of water, stirring well that no lumps may be left. Mix a pound of powdered unslacked lime with water enough to bring it to the consistency of creamy milk.

Stir well, strain out any grit and mix slowly with the vitriol; turn all into four gallons more of water. This Is to be sprayed or sprinkled finely upon 6hrubs and trees afflicted with rust or any sort of fungous growth. If there are insects as well, some form of arsenic powder may be added to the mixture, which must be constantly stirred while the sprinkling him. He dwelt much on the meanness of Hamilton. He charged him with being malevolent and cowardly a man who would slander a rival and not stand i to it unless he was cornered.

'When he i stood up to said Burr, 'he caught my eye and quailed under it: he looked like a convicted It was not true, he continued, tnat Hamilton did not fire at him; Hamilton fired first, as he heard the bail whistle among the branches and saw the severed twig above his head. From the number of pistols -that have been found among private collections and preserved In "dens," 1 have felt sure that the real pistols must be in existence somewhere so many counter-felts Implying the genuine. During the last twenty-five years, excepting the true weapons, I have been shown three Dlstols. bv three different persons. In widely separated localities, with the earnest assurar.cj that "This is the very pistol that 'murdered' Hamilton." i have heard of six others, the last one being preserved with superstitious veneration in the "den" of the Red Circle inn at Nashotah, and said to have made its heglra from the "Old Dominion" to its present resting place some few years ago.

It Is a significant fact that no two of these pistols are alike; nor have they an authenticated pedigree; while two are equipped with nipples for caps. The genuine pistols, with their handsome case, passed out of Col. Burr's, possession many years before his death; At his decease they were not among his effects. It is not probable that he took them to Europe with him in 1S0S, and their whereabouts from that date to June 8, 1812, when he returned to America, cannot be traced. They were probably with other of his effects in the care of the Swartwouts.

Between this latter date and the winter of 1813-11 Burr had the pistols in his possession; Indeed, he rarely traveled without them. From the winter of 1813-14 to the present day the dueling pistols of Col. Burr have remained, by inheritance, in one family; their subsequent history a matter of authentic record, and the pistol which sent death to Hamilton identified beyond question by a mark placed thereon by Burr himself. Among the officers of the Forty-second regiment of United States dragoons, some ninety years ago, was one distinguished for his personal bravery in action, and as being the possessor of those speciaf gifts which constitute the gallant officer and the polished gentleman. Capt Samuel Goode Hopkins was a fine type of the soldier of his day.

He took an active part in the war of 1812-15, "and lost bis holsters in a bloody fight in Canada, when his horse was shot from under him." Learning that Burr was to be in Washington, he went there in the winter of 1813-14, "expressly to buy the pistols," and called on Col. Burr In company with his father, Maj. Gen. Samuel Hopkins, at that time a Congressman from Henderson county. Ky.

Burr Imported these weapons from England at the close of the Revolutionary War, their maker being the celebrated W. H. Mortimer, "gunmaker to His Majesty, King George III." They were first used by him in his duel with Church, in 1799. This affair had no serious Issue, but rather furnished matter for a Jest, owing to a blunder of Burr's second. The last time they were used by Burr the world has not yet ceased speaking of.

I am Indebted to Mr. Innis Hopkins, of St. Louis, for the subsequent history of these weapons. The family papers and manuscripts of the Hopkins family in his possession furnish, among other valuable data, everything relating to these pistols, and their necessarily sanguinary history. Capt.

Samuel Goode Hopkins used them ef talnlv they are spirited and human in the reproduction. Diana, attended by her nymphs, chases an aged stag Into, the water of a stream, and Is about to dispatch it when the naiads rise to plead against its destruction. Mr. Spence worked six months on his paint mm attacks of great mental gloom; a phase of Intense religious melancholia. As he Increased In years, these fits of depression became more marked.

At such times he labored under the conviction that he himself was unworthy to 'partake of the sacrament which he administered to his flock; that he was damned beyond recall. His daughter, the grandmother of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, was an inheritress of her father's but in a more aggravated form, and, while this taint seems to have been retarded in Its advance among some of her posterity by the infusion of healthy blood, still the sad inheritance was in evidence In some of the children of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards; Plerrepont Edwards, his youngest son, but six years the senior of his nephew, Aaron Burr, and at school his companion and roommate, being a notoriously free liver and very dissolute: while In Esther, his sister, the wife of the Rev. Aaron Burr, the malady assumed the phase, at certain times when she was laboring under great mental or physical strain, of acute religious ecstasy or hysterical mania.

If she had been placed amid the environment where such intense natures have found themselves during some of the fanatical outbreaks in thejOId World, doubtless she would have rivaled the religious maniacs of these movements. To tills hereditary' taint I we may trace the cause of much of the moral obliquity of Col. Burr's nature. Despite the rich endowments of mind and body mainly counterbalancing this tendency, it yet exerted sufficient energy in Its peculiar way tq-pre-vent Its possessor being what otherwise he certainly would have been, one the most perfect men this country has ever seen. Yet even In his vices he was moja refined than the men of his tries 'were a matter of course.

SeT'S-as dueling. So! was the'convlvlal board. To drink deep-and sit long the special privilege of blrtn and breeding. Of Burr, however. It can be truly said, that he "never deceived or made a false promise to a woman in his life;" that during his married life his fidelity was never questioned; that he never fought but two duels; that in food and drink he was the most abstemious of men; that at the convivial board he never lost his self-control nor forgot to respond to the dictates of good breeding.

Oppcsed to this gifted man of honorable and illustrious descent was another as gifted, but lacking, and wofully so, in a certain qualification Inherently possessed by the other. It becomes amusing to the student of this subject to note the various reasons of the eulogists of I imllton (for not yet has he been honored with a biographer) advance to justify his enmity of Burr. They have pointed out every source but the rglht one. The exciting cause of the "Burro-phobia," as it has been well named, which Hamilton, from the beginning ot the acquaintance evinced and that in no creditable way lay so far beneath the surface and had its filaments so steeped In Hamilton's heart's blood, that his panegyrists, while doubtless cognizant of the actual cause, have not had the moral courage to disclose It In this source, we have hinted of, was nurtured the germ the ill-defined grudge which grew and increased through the venom It fed on, until it drove its entertainer to such intemperance in language and duplicity of conduct that there was no alternative left, saving the narrow ledge at Wcehawken. The two men lived under social conditions which we at this day can hardly comprehend.

One must possess fully the historic instinct to appreciate their surroundings. In their time great importance was attached to birth and descent when to be well born, well bred of known family, meant more than wealth, position and virtue imply now. At a later date this atmosphere was somewhat agitated by our own war of independence; and was further disturbed and altogether dissipated by the distant thunders of the French Revolution. Waning Phantom of Bank. There still, however, hung about the chief executive of the very young republic, as a sort of after-glow of tho departed splendor of colonial days, the waning phantom of rank, and all that pertains to such political decrepitude.

Washington was an aristocrat, and would have beer, untrue to himself had he been anything else. His party was the aristocraiic party of this country, and represented the wealth, culture and pride of birth, which in those days were three qualifications insepaiable. Because they held so tenaciotuly to these "Graces." his party lo3t prestige as time went on, and with prettige passed power and influence. The death of the Federal party meant, among other things, an open Senate; the disappearance of courtly manners with the advent of trousers: the cessation, on the part of the multitude, of deep obeisance to men of position; or the groveling of the masses to broadcloth and hair powder. Col.

Burr, being a born aristocrat, and therefore sure of his standing, sympathized with the people, and was himself a Republican. He stood for "the emancipation of the masses from the domination of classes." But It was Into a decidedly un-repub-lican atmosphere that Mr. Hamilton made his debut as aide-de-camp to Gen. Washington. With the latter he entered Into close personal relations, whil yet the chances of war were undetermined, and Yorktown some years off.

Hamilton's Illegitimate Birth. Here Hamilton encountered Burr. In many reipects the two. men were too much alike to associate together for any length "of time without the weaker of them experiencing more or less irritation. It was Hamilton's fate to feel this Irritation and to show it not in an open manner and to the face of the NOW IN THE By GEO.

H. YENOWINE. (The last article written for the Courier-Journal by Mr. Yenowlne and sent several weeks before his death.) a certain periodica! extensively read by the youth of tho country-occurred recently, under the title "Chance in History," the following paragraph: "Suppose- some Independent elector of President one hundred years ago, who was chosen as a supporter of Jefferson and Burr, had given a vote for John Adams instead of Thomas Jefferson, the result would have been, not the election of Adams, but the choice of Aaron Burr as President of the United States. "This, to be sure, is a case where tho course of history was not changed.

But might have been. And what a wreck Burr might have made of the young nation." Aside from an ignorance of fact, evident in a certain statement In the above article, I have wondered if the writer was aware that Burr became by Jefferson's election Vice President of the United States; that Jefferson owed his election as President to Burr's firm refusal to interfere when the tie In the electoral college threw the decision into House of Representatives; that the office of Vice President carried with It more Influence and prestige than it now does; and that it is a matter of common record that Burr made the finest Vice President this republic has ever had. Col. Burr left no descendants to protect or defend his name, while his antagonist. Gen.

Hamilton, not only was survived by a numerous progeny, but wealthy friends, members of a pew- GLASGOW, KY. iJ. II. BIGGS. L.

D. CAWJf. Old-time Fiddlers' Association. erful social and political clique, to propagate half truths and whole lies about man who had been for fifteen years, not longer, the object of Hamilton's Jealousy and vindictive malice. It was not until the publication of Parton's excellent work, that tardy justice was done to Col.

Burr's memory. one In these more liberal days can appreciate the moral cnu-age and manly fearlessness required of the writer who. Parton, dared, to rise up and give the world such a book. He wrote at a time when the atmcsphere was growing sultry with the lurid vapors of an approaching and widespread storm; when, however erroneously received, Col. Burr was remembered by one part the Union at least as the morning star of secession, arid it was well-nigh blasphemy for any one to doubt the canonization of Hamilton.

Col. Aaron Burr was of dlsti-guished I ancestry. On the paternal side he de- rived from the. Burrs, of Fairfield, Conn. John Burre.

the founder of the Fairfield branch, numbered John Win-throp and William Pynchon among his friends, and was associated with the latter In the purchase of Agawam and founding of Springfield. He wrs a gentleman of means, ab'lity, en'e-p ise industry, and withal a nnturvl-born -leader of men. There marked characteristics are found in his descendants even to the present dny. In the French, Indian and Revolutionary W-ars the Fairfield Burrs were prominent. They also gave to the colonies map-'strates.

Representatives, Senators, teche divines. Third in descent from this Fairfield ancestor was the father of Col. Aaron Burr Rev. Aaron Burr. D.

a graduate of Yale, one of the most finished scholars and brilliant orators of his time, and the founder and first President of Princeton College. A Line of Brilliant Ancestry. Through his mother, and talented Esther Edwards, third daughter of Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Col.

Burr was a. lineal descendant of Adam Win-throp, of the manor of Groton, Suffolk, of the Downlngs, of the same shire; of Rev. Thomas. Hooker, one of founders of Connecticut; of Rev. James Pierpont, pertaining to a prominent English family of that name: of Rev.

Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, and of Rev. John Warham, talented divine of Connecticut, his daughter Esther being Esther Edwards, Burr's great-grandmother. Among his noted ancestors on the maternal side was the Rev. John Warham, Exeter, England. He was a man high morality and profound piety.

was, however, subject to periodical i-lnftrar hpfnro niltlniT In the Oil. For winter use on outdoor things -'in i sponge in the emulsion and go lightly over bark and branches. Never uss u.e emulsion full strength upon any green and growing thing. 'Mix it with fifteen or twenty times its own bulk of lukewarm water when It is to be used as a spray. Thus used, itrJs sure death to plant lice and nil sortsbf soft-bodied, sucking things.

For banishing' red spiders stir a little sulphur an ounce to the quart into the emulsion, then dilute with twenty parts water. Do the spraying or sprinkling as close as possible, since It stays on longest then. Bisulphide of Lime. This is equally valuable against plant lice. To make it mix half a pound of flower of rulphur with half a pound of quicklime, cover the mixture with boiling water and boil for at least five hours, until a daik brownish, strong smelling liquid results.

Dilute this liquid with one hundred times Its bulk of warm water and use as either a wash or a spray. EMILY HOLT. fectually in the War of 1812-15, killing many an Indian and shooting down a chief at the battle of Massaineway. When Capt. Hopkins died, in 1S34, he left the pistols by will to his nen! ew, Innis Brent Hopkins, then a lad of eleven years.

But before the Captain's decease these pistols had figured with fatal effect In eleven duels. "The weapons have surely a blood-stained history," wrote to me a short time since Innis Hopkins, their present possessor, who received them from his father. Innis Brent Hopkins. "Among the sanguinary combats I might mention: Pettis, of Virginia, killed Biddle. on Bloody Isle, near St.

Louis; Edward Towns, of Virginia, -killed a Frenchman near New I Orleans; Capt. samuei tiooae j-iopKins killed a Spanish Count near New Mad- rid. while Hugh Brent killed a man from Georgia on Diamond Isle, be-: low Henderson, Ky. They were used several times in Virginia, twice in South Carolina, and more than once in I Kentucky with deadly effect. In an af-I fair of honor at Owensboro.

Robert Triplett shot, but not fatally, a lawyer named Thompson. Henry Clay and Capt Hopkins were fast friends, and the former was to have the pistols In one of his duels, but they arrived too late." Famous and Fatal Firearms. These pistols are, perhaps, the most famous and fatal firearms, of their character, on the continent, "and are a bone-breaking brace of the first caliber." The barrels are thirteen Inches long and carry an ounce ball. They are flint-locks, and the pans of the priming are lined with gold, and the touch-holes are bushed with the same metal. They are hair triggers, and shoot with great force and accuracy.

The "locks are very superior and of exquisite mechanism. It seems but appropriate that this famous heirloom should be that of a family whose name was- prominent in Burr's time, and who numbered him and many of his friends as theirs. Maj. Gen. Samuel Hopkins, mentioned above, and after whom Hopkins county and Hopkinsville, were named, was' Congressman from the Henderson district from 1798 till 1815.

He was a Lleu-tenan't-Colonel In the Continental line of Virginia during the Revolution, and was commissioned Major General by President Madison, who was his second cousin. He was also a double second cousin of Patrick Henry, their mothers being double first cousins. Stephen Hopkins, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, was alBO a second cousin. HORATIO GATES. Van Ness, Burr's second, always declared, up to his last hour, that Hamilton fired first.

An old gentleman named Baptist told a person who certainly was in a position to know the reliability of his Informant that the Colonel was in the habit of hiring boats from him. that on tho morning of the duel Burr sent for a boat, but Baptist having nono that suited him, he obtained one somewhere else. Thinking that something was wrong, Baptist followed in one of his boats, and was In time to see the duel. He said that Hamilton took as good aim as any man ever did; for his pistol boll cut a twig not two feet above Burr's head. The Eight Handling of Books.

A book should not be bent back till the binding is cracked and loosened, nor laid-face downward on a chair or table, nor left out over night in the rain, nor should its leaves be turned down to mark the place. Cultivate a good memory as to the page where you leave off, and be independent of external aids. September Ladies' Home Journal. Fainting. ing, and considers it his best piece of work.

"Diana Hunting" is now on exhibition at the studio in the Courier-Journal, and can be reviewed by art lovers. The pictnre is for sale and will probably remain in Louisville, where it was painted and where It has many admirers. CATS AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. Pussies That TJncle Sam Pays To Tree Post-Offices of Hats and Mice. "Several years ago a letter containing a large sum of money disappeared from the New "York post-office," wiites Hugh Netherton, in the Ladles' Home Journal for September, In telling of "Cats That Draw Salaries." "A month after the disappearance a desk In one of the rooms was moved, and on the floor was found a nest of young rats resting on a bed of macerated greenbacks all that was left of the missing letter.

TJncle Sam at last decided to employ a cat to protect the New York post-office from rats and mice. The first appointee in the United States Rat and Mouse Catching Service was a large, gray tabby. She secured the place through the recommendation of her owner. Who certified that she was not only a good FIDDLERS' CONTEST AT 5 BOSE AUSTIN. McFARLAND.

7-JOHN T. PETIGO. won second prize. J15. No.

4 President of the mouser, but also a friend of the Administration Qualities which she at once exemplified by her work. "With New York as an example, other post-ofTlces asked for cats, and today nearly every large office in the United States has Us official mouscr or rat-killer, who receives from nine to twelve dollars a year. This Income is expended under the supervision of the postmasters for the purchase of food. Milk is the chief Item, for the cats are supposed to provide themselves with meat." THE SONG OP THE BOW. Keen and low Doth the arrow sins The Song of the Bow, The sound of tho string.

Tho shafts cry Shrill: Let us forth again. Lot us feed our fifl On the flesh of men. Greedy and fleet Do we fly from far. Like the birds that meet For the feast of war. Till the air of fight.

With our wings bestirred, As it whirs from the flight Of the ravening bird. Like the flakes t'hat drift On the snow-wings' breath, Many and swift And winged for death Greedy and fleet Do we speed from far. Like the birds that meet On the bridge of war. Fleet as ghosts that wail When the dart strikes true. Do tile swift shafts hall Till they drink warm dew.

Andrew Lang. Not the First Bird Up. The lark is regarded as a very early riser, but there are other members of the bird family that are up before him. The goldfinch begins to pipe his notes abou-t 1 o'clock In the morning. The blackcap begins at 2:30.

It Is nearly 4 o'clock befcre the blackbird appears. It heard half an hour before the thrush, and the chirp of the robin begins about the same length of time before that of the wren. The bouse and the tomtit take the last stage ot the list. A Queen Bee From Italy. An odd consignment from Italy, which reached an Indiana town the other day, consisted of one bee a large Queen insect which is to form the nucleus of an apiary.

The Oldest lifeboat South Shields, Is said to possess the oldest lifeboat In existence. It has been in use since 1S30, and by means It 1,028 persons have been rescued. it the far by the if No as of the and the a of of He I man he envied, but, unfortunately, be- hind Burr's back. Hamilton, conscious i from the first of his own Illegitimate birth, grudged Burr his natural super- iority in the antecedents of unblemish- ea aescent ana assurea social posiizon. That Hamilton was extremely sensitive of his origin, and was, as a rule, discreetly silent on the subject, is evidenced by the scanty mention he has given it In Ms otherwise diffuse correspondence.

That it was ever a sore subject with him and his, we learn when we try to collate what has been recorded by them in reference to It. To attempt to harmonize the scanty mention of his parentage by Hamilton, with the confusing statements of his son, would stagger even the most urn- scrupulous and time-serving of genealogists. The contemporary testimony on this subject can be found by consulting the Pickering Papers, which are accessible to the student and general reader, and are the statements of his friends and admirers. These statements were accepted as fact In Hamilton's day, and are still by the undazzled student Wherever and whenever he could cross Burr's path, he did so. Nagged on by a pe'ty spite, scarcely acknowledged, he stooped to methods of detraction which his unsuspecting friend would have scorned.

Hamilton poisoned Washington's mind to such a degree that Burr's superior military talents never received adequate recognition. The able generalship he displayed In rescuing the regiment of the obtuse Knox from certain capture, and a fate worse than death, was passed over without a word in the Commander-in-Chiefs dispaitches: the cause of the omission is not hard to And-. So it was throughout his entire military service. He was away in the field, exercising those -talents In command or action, for which the Fairfield Burrs have always been noted, while tie man who wore to him the Bmlllng face of a friend was undermining him a't headquarters. Hamilton's Mania About Burr.

When It came to the political struggles, It was the same. To anyone who will, with unbiased mind, read the cor respondence of Hamilton concerning Burr Is suggested a doubt of the former's sanity. Taken as a whole, the letters show a steady growth of this mania about Burr, until we are forced to the conclusion that a man may be a great financier; he may have many outward gifts of manner, and many lovable gifts of head and heart, and yet, if he conjures up a phantom, and makes matters worse by chasing it, the course for him never ends this side I In private conversation as in confi dential correspondence. Burr was denounced by Hamilton In terms as unmeasured as undeserved. The free and unrestrained utterances of the host were treasured by Hamilton, the guest, virtually a spy at his friend's table, and, misconstrued and perverted, retailed to others with the hysterical declamations of a virago.

Outwitted by Burr in many a political contest, he strove in 1800, when through Burr's superior generalship New York was lost to the Federals, to Induce Gov-Jay to call an extra session of the old Legislature, where the Federals were in the majority; trusting to revive Burr's electoral bill, killed by them, at the regular session, and thus nullify the results of the Republican victory in New York. In course of time came to light among uov. ay papers, mis leuei, auu uii ii. had teen Indorsed by the high-minded Executive: "Proposing measures for On the east wall of Mr. W.

T. Spence's studio. In the Courier-Journal building, hangs one of the best repro-' ductlons made in this country- of Hans Marck's celebrated painting, "Diana I-IOnting," which attracted so much attention at the World's Fair. W. T.

1-Q. T. VOGLE. GRAN HOUCHENS. "DIANA HUNTING' Spence's Spirited Reproduction of the Great 5-R.

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8 shall appoint Judges of all contests, and determine where and when all meetings and contests are to be held, and to notify all members of the same, and that no contest shall be held or attended by any member of 'this association which was not authorized by its president and a majority of the directors, this being necessary In order to secure the proper Inducements to hold successful meeting In any city or town. The following address of welcome was delivered by Mr. Biggs: Ladies and Gentlemen: It haB come to our knowledge through the great dally papers of the land that certain persons, claiming to be musicians and belonging to some self-styled musical society, have met In convention and did then and there pass resolutions condemning old-time music and musicians, which of course includes old-time fiddlers, pledging themselves to hinder and discourage this ancient and interesting custom In every possible way. Now It so happened that a certain fiddler in Glasgow, in sympathy with the old-time fiddlers and their tunes, saw the announcement In the papers, which I have referred to, and. being justly offended at it.

called together a number of his fellow fiddlers for consultation In regard to the matter, and after due consideration decided to call a great convention of nil old-time fiddlers from all parts of the country, to meet here nt Glasgow ttS-day for the purpose of taking some action to resist and defeat the motives of those avowed enemies of our peace and welfare. In response to that call, and as the best evidence of the Interest and sentiment of the old-time tiddlers ot this Ptate in the matter, this great army of worthy and Intelligent musicians are here to-day, and I extend to you on behalf of the good citizens and business irien of Glasgow a most hearty welcome. It was not only ourintention to have a grent musical contest and entertainment here nt this time, but also, if possible, to effect a permanent organization for the purpose of holding regular contests nt this or some other suitable place every year, or oftener, and offering prir.es or rewards of merit for the best players, as an encouragement to the learners and others to practice and perfect themselves in this worthy art. At a meeting of the old-time fiddlers here to-day, such an organization was formed, to be known as the "Old-time Fiddlers' Association of Kentucky," of which I have ttie honor and great pleasure of being chosen President and Sec-rotary, which I appreciate highly, and I promise faithfully to promate the Interests of the association to the very best of mv knowledge and ability. I intended delivering a more lengthy eddress.

giving a history ot music from the date ot that affair In Eden down to the present time, show- Is of The original is now in the Metropolitan Art Gallery, In New. York, but is well reproduced in the five by ten-foot canvas on Mr. Spence's wall. The nude huntresess In the original are' said to be portraits of the wives' and daughters of Viennese nobles and bankers. Cer-.