THE AMERICA S CUP DEFENDER, COLUMBIA
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Details of the Race I
Between Columbia §
and Shamrock. |
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!!<([ contest may con
y) fl I fidently be expected
n) LW when Sir Thomaa
"fjZjLl\ Lipton comes over
'''J/fIT /S\\ here in the fall to
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I!m p " race
r. be the tenth since
the proud day when
the eagle first ac
quired a right to
perch upon that
trophy. But it is not time to be
frightened yet. The British papers
are doing their best to scare us, but
SIR THOMAS J. LIPTON.
(Challenger for the Amorlea.C'B Cup.)
*e should keep up our courage for
the present. That the Shamrock, Sir
Thomas Lipton's challenger, is a dan
gerous craft is hardly to bo doubted,
but that she will defeat the Columbia
is not yet a foregone conclusion. We
(A satl was dropped over the stern to prevent photographers getting a picture of the
lines of the yacht.)
have been told that the Shamrock had
a concealed centreboard, and that this
■was what would beat us. We have
read that she had a way of putting her
chain cable up her sleeve and taking
it out for the purpose of the race;
that she had a hollow keel in which
all sorts of dangerous expedients could
be concealed, and that she was in
general a craft more filled with mys
teries than our own Fetimore Cooper's
Water Witch. But the lines of a
yacht, like murder, will out. Her
dimensions may be kept secret, yet
they, too, will ultimately be known
WM. FIFE, JH., THE DESIONEB.
CAPT. WBISOE. CArT. UOOARTR.
(The Shamrock's iloalgner and her two
skippers.)
with something approaching exactness.
The dimensions of the Columbia
have been obtained from men who
have had means of learning them, and
are trustworthy. They put the yacht's
length over all as 131 feet; beam, 22
feet 2 inches, and draught, 19 feet 10
inches. Her painted water line
measured 89 feet G inches, and it was
believed that she would float, when
all rigged, at about 89 feet 8 or 9
inches. The following table of dimen
sions of the two yachts is taken from
the London Daily News.
Columbia. Shamrock.
Ft. In. Ft. In.
Length over all 131 4 132 2
Water-line length. 89 10 89 C
Beam 24 24 6
Draught 20 20
Displacement Columbia, 149W tons;
Shamrock, 147 tons. Sail area—Columbia,
13,940 square feet, Shamrock, 14,125 square
feet.
The Columbia, which is the third
cup defender designed by Nathaniel
Green Herreshoff, is owned jointly by
Commodore .T. Pierpont Morgan and
C. Oliver Iselin, both of the New
York Yacht Club. Roughly speaking,
Bbe will cost to build and run about
3225,000 for the season, of which the
Herreshoffs will receive about 8110,-
000, which includes the hull, rigging,
sails and extra spars.
The Columbia in C. Oliver Iseliu
has a capable amateur manager. His
famous racing flag, the black and red
swallow-tail, has been carried tri
umphantly to victory on the Titania,
Vigilant and Defender. No patriotic
Americau doubts he will be successful
this year. He has in Mrs. Iselin the
most charming mascot in the world.
His aids are Woodbury Kane, Herbert
C. Leeds and Newberry D. Thome,
all excellent yachtsmen.
His skipper, Charles Barr, is one of
the smartest in the world. He is a
Scotchman, but has long been natur
alized. He is the only man of foreign
birth who will sail on Columbia. He
is thirty-five years old, and was born
at Gourock on the Clyde. In Chief
Mate Allen, Captain Barr has a thor
oughly able and experienced officer.
The orew of Columbia hail from
Deer Islo, Me., and a better lot of
seamen never broke a biscuit. There
are thirty-nine all told, and ten of
them sailed on Defender. Many 0 [
them have been captains and mates 0 f
coasting vessels. They are a lithe
THE nULL OF THE COLUMBIA.
agile lot, and handle the Columbia to
perfection.
The Shamrock's skippers, Hogarth
and Wringe, aro men just a little over
thirty years of age, and yet both bave
been sailing in class matches for sev
eral years. Hogarth lias had charge
of most of Fairlie's successful boats,
and Wringe made another boat of
Ailsa when he took her over from Jay.
The designer has, therefore, complete
confidence in them. The crew con
sists of uo fewer than fifty men, thirty
Scotchmen and the rest Englishmen—
four officers, boatswain, two boats
wain's mates, carpenter, carpenter's
mate, sailmaker, nine leading seamen,
twenty-seven able seamen, two stew
ards and two cooks. In addition,
Tom Batsey and six sailmakers will
look after the canvas. Of the ship's
company, only ten have not sailed in
America's Cup contests before.
The contests between two such
yaohts as Columbia and Shammok,
manned by such men, cannot fail to
be of magnificent interest.
Simplicity of li|tl Woman.
The natives of the Philippine
Islands—that is the pnre bred natives
or aborigines—are called Tagals. They
are of the Malay raoe and are aboat as
wild and unsophisticated as any of the
savage peoples of the world.
They are not an ill-favored race, and
some of the women are very pretty.
TAGAL PEASANT GIRL.
The illustration is made from a photo
graph of a native Tagal peasant girl.
Her family evidently has had the bene<
fit of contact with civilization, as hei
dress indicates. Some of the Tagal
women dress elaborately, but in the
country places, it is said, they are
wholly unconscious of the feeling oi
mo'desty as applied to dress so com
mon with the women of Europe.
Fight. Uetwecn Cnmelp.
Two camels were brought into the
grounds at the back of the palace and
made to face each other. They were
male animals, whose vicious tenden
cies had made it necessary for them
to be kept from the rest of the cattle
and who had been carefully fed in the
chieftain's fighting stock as being
especially powerful animals.
At a signal from the prince the
creatures were let loose and shambled
toward each other. At first they mere
ly feinted and skirmished about in
clumsy fashion, their long, awkward
legs an irresistibly ludicrous sight.
Presently they begau to foam at the
mouth, their faces became contorted
with fury, and a sort of fencing match
took place.
Their heads darted from side to
side, and they strove to seize each
othor with their teeth. They groaned
and roared furiously, aud the specta
tors were soon worked up to a high
pitch of excitement.
At length one camel seized his enemy
by the leg, while the other, a large,
long-haired animal, retaliated by laying
hold of his opponent's ear. Blood
flowed freely, and opinion was divided
as to which camel would be the vic
tor.
At last the long-haired camel, whose
grip on his odversary's ear was not
very firm, suddenly let go, but the
other continued to hold onto his an
tagonist's leg uud even to drag hia»
about, roaring with pain.
The prince eventually gave the or
der to separate the combatants, but it
required the efforts of nearly u dozen
men with ropes, chsius aud cudgels to
put an eud to the affray. Even then
the wound ou the leg of the van
quished cauiel was so serious that 1
believe the poor creature was crippled
for months.—London Globe.
ftoetlie** Mignon Found.
T'je Goethe Society, of Vienna, has
just discovered the real story that lies
back of Goethe's beautiful creotion of
"Miguon," which has passed into so
mauy songs aud eveu into an opera.
This story runs that in 17GI an Ital
ian equilibrist, named Caratta, went
to Goettingen with his troupe. In his
company was a child, evidently of good
family,who took her part with marked
reluctance. The report soou spread
that the child had been kidnapped by
Caratta, but he tied, and escajjed all
inquiry.
The fate of the eleven-year-old Pe
cronella, as she was called, caused a
great sensation in Goettingen. Young
poets of the town wrote ou the theme,
ind Daniel Schiebler, one of the uni
versity students, collected these poems
into a volume. Soon after Scliiebler
went to Leipsic, where he was thrown
much with Goethe, And told him the
sad tale of little P< tronella. A decade
later this Petronella became one of
the most charming of poetic creations.
—Goethe's "Miguou."
A Strange Spring.
Perhaps the most extraordinary
spring in the world is that which
gushes up from the truuk of au oak
tree at Ouchy, Switzerland. The tree
is> an old one aud of immense size,
and it is a mystery just how the water
ever forced iti way up through the
trunk from a hole through which the
little stream of clear, cool water,
babbles out as from a faucet. The
villagers regard this tree as endowed
with miraculous properties and many
vii>it)rs come to Ouchy to see the
vtrange sight.
FOR THE HOUSEWIVES.
To Soften Hard Water.
To soften hard water, take one
ounce of quick lime to four gallons of
water. Stir it thoroughly, aud when
it is settled pour off the clear solution
and it will be enough to add to two
barrels of hard watar.
To Ci an a White Ktraw Hat.
Try this plan: First brush it well
with clean water, to remove all dust,
and allow it to dry, than dissolve one
teaspoonful of oxalic acid in a quart
of boiling water; dip the hat into this
and rub well. Dry, and then stiffeu
with white of egg or a clean transpar
ent size. If necessary, press the brim
with a hot irou. Some people do not
dip the hat into the water, but merely
well wipe it over with the mixture
and afterward wipe it with clean wa
ter to remove auy stickiness there
may be.
To Remove Stain A.
To remove stains from whito gciods:
Perspiratiou stains a e removed by
applying a strong solution of soda;
rinse well and dry. Mildew is easily
taken out with chloride of lime. Rasp
berry and stiawberry stains will dis
appear if boiling hot soft water is
poured over them. All other fruit
stains are removed with oxali; acid.
Oxalic acid will also remove leather
and ink stains. Tea, coffee and choc
olate stains may be removed by using
boiliug hot soft water. If of long
standiug soak in glycerine and wksh
the latter out with cold water Foi
orange aud lemon stains use diluted
ammonia. To remove red iron rnst
make a thick paste of lemon or pie
plaut juice, salt and starch aud expose
to the sun. Try oxalic acid for black
iron rust. Use alcohol or molasse9
for grass stains. Blood stains can be
removed by soaking in cold soap suds
to which a little keroseue has been
added. Use kerosene, machine oil 01
vaseline for tar or fresh paint, and
afteiward wash with soap aud cold
water.—New York Journal.
Tlie Science of If ouaokeeplng.
The labor of hou9ec!eaniug can
nowadays be fairly reduced to a
Bcieuce. Before opening the cam
paign against dirt there are some
small preliminary hints that, if heeded,
will do much toward lessening the
work.
For instance, the housekeeper
should beforehand go over every room
with a notebook and pencil, jotting
down a list of the things which are to
be done in each place. When the list
has beeu finished,all the meuding and
small repairs in each room should be
gone over—all the torn embroidery,
curtains or linen should be putin
order, broken vases or china mended
or replaced, and ehairs that need an
extra screw be fixed.
In the linen cupboard the linen that
is to be used in each room should be
systematically laid out, each piece on
its particular shelf. This ariay should
include clean curtains, towels, bed
spreads, cushion covers aud doilies.
When this has beeu done the house
cleaner will know just where to find
each clean article as it is needed.
IlrcipM.
Spiced Currants—Make a syrup of
three pounds of sugar, oue piut of
good vinegar, two tablespoonfuls each
of cinnamon and cloves aud one-half a
teaspoonful of salt. Add six pounds
of currants and boil for half au hour.
Cocoanut Drops—Beat the whites
of three eggs to a stiff froth. Mix iu
lightly oue cup of powdered sugar
aud one cup of freshly grated cocoa
nut. Drop pieces the size of a hick
oiv nut onto buttered paper. Bake iu
a moderate oven.
Suuderliu Muffins—Sift one piut
flour with two teaspooufuls bilking
powder, one-half teaspoouful salt aud
one teaspoonful sugar; beat three eggs;
add almost a pint of milk, then stir
the milk aud eggs into the flour. Bake
in gem tius iu a very hot oven.
French Broilel Steak—Cut the
steak an iuch thick, dip into melted
butter aud lay ou a hot gridiron aud
broil over a hot fire. Just before re
moving from the fire sprinkle over n
little pepper aud salt. Pour over the
steak a sauce made by mixing butter
and minced parsley to a cream and a
few drops of le.non juice. Serve very
hot.
Cherry Consomme—Put over fire
three pints water, one cup sugar, a
two-inch piece of ciunamou and thin
rind of one lemon. Boil five minutes,
add oue quart sour cherries aud boil
till cherries are soft. Cool, strain,
add the crushed pulp and juice on
orange and put ou ice till dinner time.
Stone one quart sweet cheriies aud
put iu pretty glass bowl with cracked
ice. When serving the consomme add
a teaspoonful of cherries to each cup.
Compote of Raspberries—Pick over
carefully one and a half quarts rasp
berries; put them in a glass dish nnd
set on ice; shortly before serving
sprinkle over two tablespoonfuls
sugar; press out the juice of oue piut
raspberries; put the liquid with the
same quantity of sugar over the fire
and boil ten minutes; lot It get cold
and pour the syrup just before serv
ing over the raspberries. Curiaut
juice may be used instead of raspberry
juice. A compote may also be pie
pared with half currants and hal. #
laspben ie».
« liinesp Names for Foreign Land*.
In making treaties with China each
foreign country has choseu its own
name. England is YiugKwo.the flour
ishing country; France is Fa Kwo, the I
law-abiding country; the United
Simes, Mei Kwo, the beautiful coun
try; Germany, Je K-vo, the virtuous
country; Italy, I Kwo, the country of
justice; Japan is Ji Kwo, the laud of
the suu, but prefers to be called Ji
Pen. the laud "112 th««isiucr «nn.
TALKING WISE-
When tbe daylight fades away
Aud the sunset colors play
O'er tbe mountain in tbe west-
Thai's the time I like the best;
When I've done up every chore,
Gatherln' jest outside the store.
With tb" good old cbums I prize,
Settin' 'round an' lalkln' wise.
'Lections an' monopolists,
Base ball gam sand fights with fists.
Naval victories, war on land,
Trusts, Imperialism and
All the rest! If vou'd come 'round
You'd enjoy it. I'll be bound.
It 'ud fill you wltb surprise
If you heard us talkin' wise.
Golf Is what some people like.
Others fish or ride a bike;
Some play ball or sail a boat;
Some 11 sing by ear or note.
But us folks our pleasure finds
Jes' improvln' of our minds,
When the busy daylight dies,
Settln' 'round an' talkin' wise.
'Course, we're amncboors. That's aU.
But I've heard big men an' small
Meetln' to debate fur pay—
Made their daily bread that way.
'Twan't no more convlncin' than
What'll pass from man toman
When we folks extempor.**e
Benin' 'round an' talkin' wise.
—Washington Star.
HUMOHOU3. \
Tommy—Say, paw. Mr. Figg—
Well? "How big is the universe?"
"As big as all out doors, of course."
He—l wish I couhl be a kissing bug
a little while. She—Ob, well, there
might be a little kissing bee, you
know.
Williams—The baseball profession
seems to Ie gettiug overcrowded.
Hopkins—Yes, the colleges are turn
ing out more ."layers thuu the clubs
can use.
"Do you mean to say that you will
recognize Aguinaldo as a dictator?"
asked the rebellious Filipino. "I can't
help myself," was the sorrowing re
ply, "I'm the official stenographer."
Mr. Kildby—Who is making that
infernal jaugle on the piano? Mrs.
Kiddby—That is Constance at her ex
ercise. Mr. Kiddby Well,for heaven's
sake, tell her to get her exercise some
other way.
"When a man pays attention to a
woman," says the' Manayuuk Phil
osopher, "it's generally a sign that he
wishes to marry her, and when he
doesn't pay attention to her it's often
a sign that he has married her."
"Freddie," said his mother, severe
ly, "didn't I tell you that you
shouldn't ride your bicycle today, be
cause you were naughty?" "ibis
isn't my bicj-cle," said irreddie; "it's
Tommy Jones's. We've exchanged just
for touay."
"Your hair isn't wet, uncle, is it?,"
asked little Tommy. "No, of course
not," replied the amused relative;
"what makes you think my hair is
wet?" "Because I heard mamma say
you had a bard time to keep your head
above water."
Maudie's papa is night editor on a
newspaper, a taut which Maudie ap
parently hasn't learned, for when some
one asked ber a few days ago what her
father did for a living, she replied: "I
div it up. I link he's a burglar, 'tause
he's out all ni^ht."
Little four-year-old Flossie was
looking at a picture book aud finally
said: "Jlamrna, why do men hunt
lious aud tigers?" "Because tbe}'
are cruel and kill sheep and poor lit
tle innocent lambs," replied her
mother. "Theu why don't they hunt
the butchers, too?" she asked.
Mrs. Newham—Oh, John, there
was such a tender-hearted tramp here
today! Mr. Newham Tender-hearted!
Mrs. X.—Yes. I asked him to weed
the garden to pay for the dinner I
had given him. aud he said he was a
botanist, and that it hurt his feelings
to destroy living plants.
"When I can't sleep at night," said
she, "I say to my husband, 'Oh. read
me one of my dear minister's ser
mons!' And he has not lead live
minutes wbe.i lam sound asleep!"
The "dear minister" said, of course,
that he was delighted to hear it; al
though it was not wholly for that pur
pose tbe sermons were published.
To Work Cleopatra** Mine*.
"Yes, we've got a concession from
the Egyptian government, which gives
us the right to mine for emeralds and
other precious stones on tire coast of
the Red Sea for the next five years,"
said a well known Bond street jeweler.
"I have Dot yet signed the conces
sion, but it's all right. Egyptian
emeralds? Here's a basketful, or at
least of ore or talcose schist, from
which the emeralds are derived.
Here's a fine piece of emerald, now,
aud here, aud here."
To tbe uninitiated eye they were
not exactly Hashing green fires, aud
the reporter wanted to know if tbe
color was coming by a later mail.
"Color? Some of these have been
lying out there in the legion of the
Nile these two thousand years, and
th<> s in's taken the<o!or out of them,
as it will out of everything. And it is
a sun there.
"We expect to get some good
stones, of course, or else wS shouldu't
have made the arrangement. Why,
Cleopatia's famous jewels were mined
there, and you will remeuii er she
gave as presents to Ambassadors por
traits of herself engraved 011 emeralds.
Tbe stones during her l were re
garded as st.ietlv royal property, and
E'Jtypt was described l>y Mandeville
80013 ">OO years ajo as 'a country of
fair emeralds.'
"/\ here are the mines? 111 the
centre of a great mineral field formed
by a depression in a loug range of
mountains which runs all along the
Bed Se.i coast. There are two maiu
emeia'd mining centres. That of
Sikail, approached from the sea by
the Wadi Jatnal, is the largest aud
most extensive, aud some ten miles
north of these are the Jabel Abbara
n.uoi." —London Leader