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But there were two men (sea- ' men), whose busi- ' ness was fighting and not talking, on the ground to oppose this humil- iating scheme. These were Capts. C h a rles Stewart ' ‘ 1 ‘ ' " and William Bain- bridge, of the navy. “What are our ships for if not to fight and attack the enemy when their country goes to war? If when a. war comes they are all to be laid up it would be better to give up altogether this pretense of a navy, which son :us to be only used in peace time, when there is no real work for it to do. No doubt if one of our , frigates falls in with the enemy’s squadron it will be captured; but English frigates do not always sail in squadrons an y more than our own, and if one of us meets one of them alone at sea. ‘we shall be able to give a good account of ourselves.’ Let the frigates go to sea to show what they can do; at the worst they can only be captured, and the country will be no worse off than if they were laid up to rot in idleness.” Such was the language of these sailors. With the exception of a grand flotilla of gunboats, suited only for river and harbor service, there were but fourteen vessels afloat to make good these bold promises. Of this number six were frigates‘and the rest sloops, brigs and schooners. The Brit- ish navy had 230 line of battle ships, carry- ing from 60 to 120 guns each. with about 600 vessels Of smaller rank. However. the powers that be wisely de- cided to let the seamen run the navy, and how capable Bainbridge was in war as well as in council was demonstrated in his very first encounter with the “ruler of the wave.” Within a few weeks after orders were given for the little navy to put 1 to sea the courageous captain was placed in command of a small squadron intended for-cruising in the Pacific ocean. With the already renowned Constitution under his own command and the sloop Hornet, under (Capt. James Lawrence, Of “never give up the ship” fame, he sailed in October, 1812, for the coast of Brazil, where he was to meet the frigate Essex, under Capt. David Porter. Soon after arriving off the South American coast the Americans found the British sloop Bonne Citoyenne in the bar- bor of San Salvador. As the Britisher was about an even match for the Hornet, with the favor :slightly on her side, Capt. Lawrence chal- lenged the English captain to fight with his ship, giving a pledge, which was agreed ‘to by Commodore Bainbridge, that the Constitution should not interfere in the :action between the ‘two sloops. The ideas of chivalry had notxdied out in those days, :at least among allseamen. The English- :man, however, refused to engage in the novel combat for the reason, as he declared, that the Bonne “.Citoyenne would defeat the Hornet in short order, and that under those circumstances the American commo— dore would not remain an idle spectator and see a ship under his orders go down unaided. He hoped that an opportu- nity would soon offer when the Hor- net and the Bonne Citoyenne could meet alone and have it out. But when Bainbridge sailed away with the Constitu- tion soon after, leaving the Hornet alone before the port, the English sloop refused to come out and redeem the promise, but waited inactive in neutral waters until a British seventy-four hove in sight and chased the little Hornet away. The Essex, which was expected to meet Bainbridge and go “to the Pacific, cruised for some time off the Brazilian coast, finally capturing an English ship carrying $50,000 in specie. With this Capt. Porter started off on the famous cruise of the Essex alone. Bainbridge was now in the situation he had predicted in saying to his superiors that the British vessels did not always sail insquadrons, and that meeting vessel for vessel the American vessels would give a good account of themselves. Two or three days after parting company withthe Hor- net at San Salvador the Constitution sight- , ed two vessels in the distance and immedi- ately stood for them. It was seen that at least one was a ship-of—war, and Bainbridge so maneuvered the Constitution as to draw FRIGATE CONSTITUTION. that one away from her companion. In a short time the stranger hoisted English colors and proved to. be the war frigate Java. ‘he other vessel was an American merchantman, prize of the Java. The Con- stitution mounted fifty-four guns and her opponent thirty-eight, or, as some state- ments have it, forty-nine, although rated at thirty-eight. A heavy broadside from. the former greeted the show of English colors and the battle was Opened. Bain- bridge was a hold fighter. It was he who ran his vessel, the ill fated Philadelphia, into the harbor of Tripoli in chase of a Tripolitan and lost her on a treacherous shoal u ndar the guns of the Barbary pasha’s fleet. The ships Were far apart and began maneuvering for advantage. They were about evenly matched. The Constitution had more seamen than the Java, but the English vessel was the faster ship—a great point in her favor in maneuvers. .A‘lwx (1:.rwanaq um AI: Lyssa: ' hip. The tuc-. tics of the Java were to rake the Constitu- tion, which was classed in the itch navy as “a bundle of pine boards un er a bit of striped bunting.” But Bainbridge was alert, and although his wheel was shot away at the outset the loss was speed- ily remedied and the vessel handled with at skill. In a short time the commo- ore was wounded by a musket ball in the He refused to leave the deck and soon received a second wound, which was very painful. Still he stayed above, di- recting every movement, his fine figure— be was over six feet tall—commanding the admiration of his men. his dark eyes now flashing with the brilliancy of excitement and again calm in the moment of intense anxiety. Wherever such a man treads in the scene of battle he is a host, and his presence makes his men followers indeed. and emulators of his bravery. During the first half of the fight the ves- sels _ remained at a distance from each other, and Bainbridge finally determined to close in and stand the Java’s raking, so that he could put in some of the de- J structive hull shots for which American captains were famous. The Java soon had her bowsprit shot down. and Bain- bridge turned the Constitution sharply on her heel and dashed away from the raking fire of the other. The Java was now quite unmanage- able with her headsails gone, and the Constitution fell astern of her and raked her deck. Again the Constitution turned on her heel to avoid a return fire. The Java was soon alongside, however, her Captain determined to board the Ameri- can. The gunners of the Constitution frustrated this attempt by their admirable firing. The Java in closing ran her jib- boom into the mizzcn rigging of her op- ponent, but she soon lost both her jib and the head of her bowsprit, and received a severe raking from the stern. The fore- mast went down under this fire, carrying in the forecastle and main deck. Bainbridge hauled off the Constitution rapidly, avoidinga raking fire by doing so, and shortly came up under the Java’s quarter without receiving a shot. The vessels Were now broadside to broadside. 'At the next fire of the Constitution the Java lost her mizzenmast, and all that remained was her mainmast with its yards gone. The English captain now ceased firing, but it was noticed did not strike his colors. Thinking that this might be owing to excitement over the severe damages suffered by the Java Bainbridge lay to and after an interval, seeing the Java’s ensign still flying, prepared to open his guns again. The English flag came down. Meanwhile the Java’s main- mast had fallen, having been perforated ‘ \‘flt -lfiup’fir‘ . — ‘II , p4 . " r‘“ BRITISH BOARDERS FRUSTRATED. with shot. during the fight, was cut close to the deck and her foremast about twenty-five feet up. The hull shots from the Constitution had torn her sides open and she was, leaking badly. The English commander had fallen Her mizzenmast, which fell during the fight mortally wounded. The second in command, finding his vessel a hopeless wreck, surrendered. Among the prisoners was Gen. Hislop, governor of Bombay, and a number of officers of that colony. After the removal of prisoners and valuables Bainbridge ordered the capture to be blown up. The casualties on the Constitution were thirty-four killed and wounded. Of those on the Java three sets of figures are record- ed. The English ofiicial report gives 22 killed and 101 wounded. Bainbridge re- ported to his government that the Java had 60 killed and 101 wounded, but an officer of the Bombay service wrote on the day of the battle from on board the Java that the losses were 65 killed and 170 wounded. All of these differences may be reconciled by taking into account that the Java had on board men of two arms of service—military and naval. The military assisted in the fight and thirteen of them were killed. Doubtless the English naval reports gave only the list of seamen, and the figures supplied to Bainbridge were in- complete, while those given by the military officer included both classes of fighting men and were correct. The victory of the Constitution over the Java closed the brilliant achievements of the year 1812 for the little navy which Bainbridge had promised should give a good account of itself. The campaign at sea had opened in August with the loss to the British of. the Guerriere in battle with the Constitution, then of the Frolic with the Wasp, and of the Macedonian with the United States, and at the close of December the second victory of the Constitution. With this exploit the cruise of the squadron un- der Bainbridge closed so far as he was con- cerned. The Hornet cruised off the South Amer- ican coast until February, and on the 21th of that month encountered the English brig—of—war Peacock, the first fire being broadsides exchanged at half pistol range. Lawrence soon placed the Hornet on his enemy’s quarter and gave her a destructive low fire that cut her into pieces, killing her captain and disabling forty of her crew. The English colors were struck, and before the wounded could be removed she went down, carrying several of her crew and three of the Hornet’s men who tried to rescue their unfortunate foemen. After this Lawrence followed Bainbridge to home waters. Commodore Bainbridge reached Boston early in 1813, and was greeted with an ovation. Signal guns announced the ar- rival and the streets were lined with peo- ple. When he walked along, supported on either side by the naval heroes Rogers and Hull—it was Hull who, with the Con- stitution, defeated the Guerriere—the en- thusiasm of the crowd ran high. The Massachusetts legislature, then in session, gave a vote of thanks to Bain- bridge and the officers and crew of the Constitution for their victory over the -Java. From that time the Constitution was popularly called “Old Ironsides.” Bainbridge commanded in Boston harbor during the remainder of the war and de- fended it zealously against British en- croachments. I A SINGULAR VISITATION. A Young Man's Peculiar Vow. and the Effect It Has on all Appearance. Walter J. Scoot is a young man scarce 23 years of age, who resides in a western city. Young Scoot is an ordinary looking indi- vidual save for an abnormal growth of hair that covers his face. neck and head. His whiskers are nearly a foot in length, and of a reddish color that affects a slight bluish tint under certain conditions of the atmosphere. The hair on his neck is long and silky, but it curls close to the skin. The horny tissue that covers his cranium is a marvel. It is nearly as long as his whiskers, but it stands straight out from his skull. like the hair on a wig of a side show Circassian, and each strand is as stiff ~ as a wild boar’s bristle, and could be used to sew carpet with or'to make a scrubbing brush. The wonder is. though, that this peculiar growth has developed Within the past three years. When young Scoot was 20 his face was as smooth, soft and silkish as that of a maiden of 15; the texture of his hair was fine, and his eyes were shaded by long, delicate lashes that would have made a Spanish senorita putrify with envy to have seen them. The wonderful change was the work of a single night. . On Scoot’s twentieth birthday a pet poodle dog he owned died. He was over- come with grief at the loss of his pet, and at one time it was thought .he would be seized with spasms. He denounced every- thing, and going out into the street bare headed he shook his fist at the sky, and in a paroxysm of frenzy he cursed and re- viled the Omnipotent. He sworelby every- thing holy that he would never shave his face or have his hair cut. He went into the house and sank insensi- ble on the floor. He was put to bed and remained in a. comatose condition until the next morning. He was awakened next morning with the sun. Then the marvel- ous change. His hair stuck out over his head like the quills on the back of a porcu- pine, suid his face was covered with a shaggy heard several inches in length. It grew close up to his eyes; his eye- lashes had dropped out, and about the only part of his face left uncovered by the strange growth was his nose. For the past three years Scoot has religiously kept his oath. He is well educated. a good writer, and apparently in every sense a man of brilliant parts—Chicago Special Press Bureau. Escaping She‘ol. According to the Talmudic idea, certain persons are mentioned who will escape hell or have their torment therein lightened. Whoever articulates every letter while reading the Shema (Deut. vi, 4—9) will, have hell cooled for him. Three kinds will never see the face of hell—those who are ground down by poverty, those who suffer from bowel sickness and those who lie at the mercy of creditors. To these three some rabbis, whose experience of matrimony was perhaps unfortunate, add those who have a shrew to wife. Charity'to the poor, by feeding them and otherwise, opens the door of escape from hell. Whoever shears a portion of his goods for the poor and is charitable is re- leased from the judgment of hell. A pas- sage in Gittin likens the charitable and the :injharitable to two ewes passing through .1 river of water. The ewe which is shorn reaches the Opposite bank in safety, but the ewe which remains unshorn is drowned. It is also said (Prov. x', 2, and Prov. xi, 4) charity (A. V. “righteousness”) “deliver- eth from death.” This is sometimes re- cited at the present day at a burial by the keeper of the ground or other person,when money is commonly given for the use of the poor.—-Nineteenth Century. Ancient Shop Signs. It seems no risk to assert that in our state there are not ten men born within the commonwealth, of New England par- ents, who cannot read and write. I have heard it suggested that the curious signs above the doorways of taverns and shops, which were so common 200 years ago, were really aids to those who were unable to read. The “Green Dragon,” the “Blue Lion,” the “White Horse” and the “Bunch of Grapes” over the doors of the colonial inns of Boston rendered them easily identi- fied, whereas a. signboard would have been unintelligible to the mass of the people. In like manner shopkeepers were wont to mark their doorways, doubtless for a similar reason. A relic of this custom is seen occasionally even today, conspicuous examples being a gilded ostrich above a milliner’s door, a kid above a glover’s and a spinning wheel above the door of a linen shop. But the real significance of these signs has passed away, and the signs them- selves have disappeared before the ad- vances of the school master.—Boston Ad- vertiser. A Professional Opinion. Professor Dana, of Yale, frequently gives illustrations of wit in the recitation room. It is customary for the‘ students to bring with them from time to time such bits of stone as they have chanced across, and to submit them to him for examination and explanation. “This is a piesh of shyenite, and that a very fine speshimen of mica shist,” he would customarily explain, with an accent peculiarly his own. “And what is this, professor?” ques- tioned an eager youth one day, as he placed before him a small red specimen that was strikingly suggestive of a. bit of brick. The professor held it up to the light and scru- tinized‘ it with the closest attention. Then his brow contracted, and he said slowly and ponderously, “This. sir, is a. rare piesh of impudence.”—New York Herald. In an Old Book Shop. A rummaging tour in an old book shop the other day showed that the picture cem- etery itself might have to move. Down under a pile of old and torn books and pamphlets lay a still more torn album fill- ed with pictures taken some ten years ago in the region of the Bowery. Fortune had evidently been unpropitious, and the loved ones’ pictures had gone at auction with the clock, the stove and bedstead. “7130 could it be that would thus buy corpses that he could not even dissect? It might have brought five cents at the sale. The old book man could not now get rid of it as a gift, so it lies in the corner, While some one talks Of “little Patsy that had the measles and died three years ago come Easter.”—New York Tribune. From that time forward, 5 throughout a long Official career, nothing _ occurred to dim the luster of the honors won in that daring battle on the decks of the Constitution. GEORGE L. KILMER. l He Wanted a Group. A colored man came into the studio Of one of Chicago’s prominent artists a few days ago and asked the price of portraits. The artist said: “Bust or full length?” 1 “I thinks, sah, I prefers a group,” said the negro. “How many in the group?” said the artist. 1“Oh, jes’ a group of myself,” was the re—' P Y- ‘ " The artist’s talent or price for “group” of one did not succeedin getting the order. —Chicago Herald. 61:0 ”gang. Ilauoo it! :::1Imm 73.!) qur' IS CHARITY? n is not the gut oétentation bestows, ' Nor the tear that from sentiment languidly new; Nor the cushion that’s spread for a. purple robed' guest. N or the bidding the wealthy and proud to a. feat. But ask of the gospel—its pages have said - It is love to the creatures your Maker has made; And if in the heart the good tree taketh root 1 It will shed o‘er the life its most beautiful fruit. ’Tis the “little address“ in the wiping a tear; ’Tis the whisper of hope in the demlatc ear; ’Tis the smile of encouragement given to one Whom malign degradation had marked for her cwn. ’Tis the answer that turns away anger and wrath; ‘Tis the hand that strews roses in misery‘s pathzé ‘Tis the foot that treads softly the chamber of pain; ‘Tis the gift that the giver expects not again. ‘Tis the word that is said in an absent one’s praise, Or to save from dishonor, distrust or disgrace; ‘Tis the thought that would wound never uttered in jest; The apology urged; the fault frankly confessed. 'I‘is the hiding what others would not wish re- vealed; 'Tis a friend‘s secret error forever concealed; And in every transaction that‘s open to view "I‘is to act as you‘d wish others acted to you. -Polytechnic Magazine. Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness, Hay Fever A'New Home Treatment. Sufferers are not generally aware that these diseases are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrance of the nose and eustachian tubes. Microscopic research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result of this discovery is that a simple remedy has been formulated whereby (:atarrh, catarrhal deafness and hay fever are permanently cured in from one to three simple applications made at home by the patient once in two weeks. N._B.—Tlns treatment is not a snuff or an ointment; both have been discarded by reputable physicians as injurious. .A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is «ant on receipt of three cents in stamps to pay postage by A. H. 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