The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

facts, and acts on tucm WIKI stehoine'1
nerve, taking care not to overreach pi2
resources, aud while he cautiously prepares
against possible and trnnsitory pnnics, flrmly
adheres to his convictions. even amid the
clamor Of the crippled and tie alarm OF capt.
tai. Carley's conceptions were correct ana
still are, however defective their execution
His bluuder consisted chiefly in precipitatlng
battle without ample supplies of ammunition.
Had these supplies lasted he was sure to win
complete victory, despite some defects OF ex-
ecution. The panic blocked his ordnance
train and he lost. But he showed pluck to the
last. he remained on the deck Of his ship I'M
til she struck, and fell then only with the shat
tered timber and tangled rigging. Think OF
what his feelings were when he staked his last
dollar! With mistaken nerve he watched the
turn of the card. 1t was against him; and he
moves slowly away with the sharp pang OF the
camester, who turns from the table where his
whole fortune had been laid, and fixes his face
toward life Of poverty, perhaps OF penury
and want!
The case is not without its pathetic features.
Six months ago saw Carley at the Pendennis
Club, in Louisville cohort of sychophants
were hanging about him. | asked him not to
crowd me on mortgage he held on property
of mine. He was memorable. 1t was under
stood then that he had virtually concluded
deal BY which he had cleared million or more.
I thought bitterly of his refusal after some
service had rendered him on a previous oc-
casion; but can be just to him. There was
one room at the club which he and his friends,
whose name was legion then but has been
since changed to something less than cor
poraPs guard, held high carnival. From this
private dining room was often heard the pop
ping OF corks, the clink of glasses-the merry
laugh of voices, male and female. Several of
his guests were associated with him in his en-
terprise; others were mere toadies and para
sites who fawned before and nattercd him,
ever ready to concede him social clni
nence, for which the unfortunate man had
at once on ambition and a weakness.
Such occasions, he said, afforded him
recreation and refuge from oppressive bust
ness exactions. He drank little, his
source of ntoxication being the smiles of wo-
men, which We're not lacking. In n certain
circle he was the lion Of the club. A few days
ago looked at the same room, now silent and
less frequently tensnted. There was no Carley
about the club and but few of his intimates.
All had vanished. But the town was full of
gossip "Thc last heard of him." said one
twas that he was about sailing for Europe. !"
80, he has gone to pieces" said another-'he's
bundle of shattered nerves" 81 heard, y
said another, "that his wife is about to sue for
divorce" she was in town the other day"
said still another, "but no one saw him, and he
left as suddenly as he camc-a lawyer from
Eastern Kentucky was after him.
There is profound meaning in the bitter
jibes Of Jaques in "As You Like 1t" which |
have never seen noted by any Shakspearian
critic. When Jaques sees the hurt deer lam
gushing by the brawling brook, hcavng
groans that almost bursted its lcathcrn coat,
and with big round tears coursing one another
down his hairy nose in piteous chase, he notes
the careless herd, full Of the pasture, jumping
by their crippled comradc, scorning even to
look "upon that poor and broken bankrupt
there" Misery, he says, parts the flu1 of
company. The biting satrist and philoso-
pher saw in the base dcscrtion of the wounded
stag characteristic Of human nature, and the
point of his moralizing was to show our SINH
larity to the brute in such base abandonmcnts.
IT'S the fashion alike of the forest and of friend
ship; and alas. too often of the iresidc