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A MOTHER'S HEART.
A stretch of level meadow land,
p.y patches gray and brown between,
Rave where long, intervening fields
Are brightened, by tlio tender green
(if earl v v heat a rippling stream,-
Tiirough sedgy banks, flows swift and fain
-And gbmiises of a-vjllage dim,
In distance, makes a picture fair.
Here on tl.o edge, a lily pond,
"Neath crowded foliage, lithe as palms,
And daises coy, like country maids,
Peeping to catch reflected charms
In.theblue mirror, flecked with white,
And there the lustrous lilies lie,
In a wft drowse, aridj dreaming, hide
Their hearts of gold frani curious eyes.
'" -.. ,-7''
Jwcet Christabel, with innocent brow,
My little maid, bufc twelveyears old,
Stands smiling. ':I wouli fain," the sars,
"Find some one with a heart of gold
Like tlie.se pure, flagranti lily buds',.
That bathe at will in air and dew;
If I could reach their garden ljd
I'd make a wreat h or the,m for you."
I break a slender alder stem, ;' ;
The waxen beauties draw to shore,
A regal cluster, dripping poar's,
And slill ray darling jnsksTor nore; i.
Then platting rwift the shining jerown,
She lifts it to my tresses' fold, t
An 1 cries with sudden tenderness, . -
"Yours, mother, 13 a heart of gold.!' ,
Mary A.Denison.
THE OBIENTAL BOX.
II Y BVKLYX
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THORPE.
There was a chill in the night,- but it
was divinely still 'and clear. One of the
windows opening from th-j library into
the garden stood wide open. 'Hugh L- f
lingwell reveled- in fresh ai in all'hj'gic
nic. rigors. ; Sixty winters had bleached
his hair and seamed his imperious face;
hut they had been powerless to dim the
keenness of "his glance, to impair the
athletic stiaightness of his build, to dull
the unbending aggressiveness of his
caustic temper, of his sardonic misan
thropy. . . i
It was a hmdsome, harsh, eagledike
. visige on which thciight of the low
linip fell. Presently the eves wandered
to the window and th? block of white
moonlight touchiug its threshold. Hugh
belli no well rose, and . with his hands
crossed behind his back wamlercd out in
to the garden. - -
Under the quiescence of the night there
t was ,1 vague stirring of spring, a vague
; premonition of a roming change. The
5 stern man walking over the moon -bathed
lawn on the outskirts of which the out
j lines of leailess boughs cast a tine inky
j tracery, a -h-iir-drawn interlacement,
lifted his face once or twice and the
sh tdow of some emotion seemed to pass
over it. Such a night brought back
memories memories not yet buried be
yond resuriection, though the dust of
'on 3 ears lay heaped upon them.
At a turn of the walk the high encir
cling stone Avail came into view. There
was a little door in it, sometimes used
by the gardener, but more generally
closed and locked. It now stood ajar.
Hugh Lellingwcll frowned. , Careless
ness in any department of the domestic
machinery this autocrat who had retired
from the world visited with relentless
vigor. He walked forward with a quick
ened steic
j At that moment, from the shadow of
a !ump of evergreen trees, a j-ofing man
--emerged and a young girl.
-The girMumcd white and with an in
stinctive gesture, as though half begging
-protection, half giving it. she laid her
hand on the young man's arm. He was a
handsome, beardless young fellow. He
recovered himself quic kly, and a look of
determination which did him credit,
settled about his mouth.
VMr. Lellingwcll " he began.
"So!' interrupted the old man slowly,
and as though the other had not spoken,
"my timid niece deceives me, does she?"'
Tnele!" cried the girl, with trem
bling appeal, 'I never meant to! If you
would have allowed Hal to come to the
house "
"Allowed him to come to the house?"
laughed Hugh Lellingwcll. "No I don't
think I was likely to do that!"
"Mr. I.ellingwell," began the young
man anew, "it would never have been my
- Avish to enter your grounds secretly in
this way could I have seen Stella in any
other manner. To make her my wife is
the dearest wish of my life "
''Which, like many other dearest wishes,
Avill go unfulfilled. And since I find
that my own niece cannot be trusted,
that she steals out of the house at night
to meet young men at the garden gate, I
hall see to it that something is done to
restrain her propensities in that direction
: from now on."
And with the same unruffled, sardonic
ca 'm 11 ess, which o Stella was more
r dreadful, because more unusual, than
one of his usual hursts of uncontrollable
passion, Hugh Lcfringwell took his niece
ly the, anii, and, without a glance in the
r direction of the young man, led "her back
to the house. "
Half an hour later Hugh Leffingwell
wa again al?ne in his library; but this
time lie was not reading. He had put
down his niece's little love dream "the
romantic puppy love of those two young
snips" with his usual high-handed suc-
ess. and he flattered himself that he
: could take such measures as would
effectually make an end both to their
sentiment and their deception in the
future. He now dismissed the entire
matter from his mind. lie was not clis
; appointed in Stella, he told himself.
Mie was very fair, very delicate, a young
angel to the sense of vision in her frail,
soft beauty. But she was a woman, and,
7 ne every other woman, weak and false
-: at heart. Did he, Hugh Leffingwell,
not know the brood? The bitter old
mtsogynist laughed shortly to himself,
c I113 was a good sample of the whole.
They were all alike all alike.
He had settled himself to his books
and papers on first descending from
' tella's room and deliberately turning
1 l-key f her door behind him. Rut,
for sorne rc;,son h;g thoughts wandered.
I he restless influence of this late JIarch
night seemed in a subtle fashion to have
made its way into his blood. The
niemories which had come thronging
a'iout him like a troop of shadowy pres
"fnus, vague, haunting, half denned, as
fie walked under the moonlight, rose
no;iri into nearer being, taking on a
ttore vital shape, a more pressing atti
tude. We all have such moments, when
the present recedes, and the past rushes
into the vacant place with the force of a
liberated tide when the dikes are opened.
The dike may have been a strong one
and high ; it has stood through so many
years that we may have forgotten the
pent-up waters! lying silent on the other
side. Rut nature never suffers wholly a
divorce from that which has been, and
she has strange and unexpecte 1 touches
wherewith to i raise the spell of sorrow
long exorcised, a weird power over dor
mant. chords that suddenly go vibrating
backward uatit they rouse a myraid
echoes in the chambers of the dead. .
For some time Hugh Leffi ngwell walked
to and fro through the length and breadth
of the silent library. All the hou?e was
still. If the elves and sprites of the
night were abroad their revels were not
more soundless than the subterraneous
up-pushing of I the coming" blades of
grass. j
Presently the master of the house went
to a tall desk in one corner of the room,
and unlocking it - with a key 'which he
extracted from a metal box, he drew from
the recess of a small drawer a second
box a wooden box of curious Oriental
workmanship long and rather flat. He
had not looked at it for thirty years.
What made him take it out and open
it to-night? He himself could not have
told. j . .
Slowly, and with a strange expression,
he drew out the yellowed contents, and,
sitting before the fire, laid them npon his
knee. Two small bundles of letters, tied
by a faded ribbon, emitting the" dead,
acrid, musty odor of obV-ts long shut
away from the 'air and the light, a lock
of soft hair, a pressed rose flic old, old
tokens. How do men of sixty, if they
chance to have preserved any such em
bodied memories, usually regard them?
With the genial laugh of the philosopher
who has learned the relative value of
things; with a Jhaif-Rabelaisian smile at
the rememberances of that time when the
blood tan warm and the pUlse beat fast;
with a saddened, senile shake of the head
as the shadows'of lost hopes and dreams
pass in dim procession before the dulled
and sluggish vision. But Hugh Leffing
well was ti strange man owned in his
nature an adamantine fibre that refused
to run into the molds which shape the
development of other men. When
he had last locked this box and its
contents out of his sight it had been with
a 'dark passion of scorn and hatred that
through all the intervening years had
survived, that j had -wrapped the whole
course of his life and changed him into
the gloomy recluse a5 which alone the
few friends of his latter days had known
him. And even now, as his nervous fingers
untied the little bundles and the letters
fell disperse i to the floor, the same loolv
of hatred, the 'same, scorn, flared up in
his deep-set eyes." '
Oh, yes; she had been pretty enough,
the creature to
whom these letters had
been written I
She had yellow hair, and
a long, swan-like nec'.c, and eyes like
violets under water. And she had looked
as true, as innocent, as saint-like well,
as that little chit of a Stella, whom he
had caught keeping a tryst
beardless boy he had turned
with the
from his
door a month before! And
had seemed in I her something
yet there
stronger,
something more vital, too. She had taken
his soul taptive; he, the self-centred man
of thirty who had never loved easily, to
whom to love at all .was to love change
lessly, with that a sorption and exclusive
ness which is more.j a n than pleasure to
him who feels it. -Hugh Leffingwell was
a rich man now, but then he was poor
and without standing, without opening,
without prospects, save as he saw them
in his own consciousness of strength, and
as she professed to see them through her
faith and her love. How steadfast seemed
that faith of hers! How sweet ah me -how
sweet had been her love ! . . . .
That last night he had gone to her
father's house she was all in white, with
her yellow hair hanging in curls about
her milk-white'throat and a rose at her
breast. . .1 She had followed him
out when he was going away, out upon
the moon-checkered shadow of the porch.
He was to be back in less than a month;
no great journey. Rut. the separation be
fore them both seemed one of intermina
ble years, , .j . Three weeks had not
passed before he heard that she was to be
married. As he looked back it occurred
to him that for days he must have been
out of his mind. Fast as steam could
carry him he hurried back.. He believed
nothing. She,' with her own lips, must
tell him that she had thrown him over.
He forced himself into her presence. He
heard the truth. Even then he doubted
her own faithlessness. Her - father, he
kr.ew, had never liked him. He be
sought her, - he commanded her, to tell
him- that she had been coerced, driven,
compelled into this marriage. She
turned as white as the dead, but she
spoke Steadily! No one had compelled
her. The man she Was about to marry
was rich very j rich.
4And you arc marrying Jiim because he
is rich:" j
She looked up at him.'
"Yes." '
He laughed, . He turned and left the
house. (
A few weeks later she was married.
She only lived a year. Two days after
her death the box was brought to him by
an old family j servant whom she had
trusted. "They was her last words to
bring it," said the woman. Hugh Lef
fingwell opened it. It contained what
he had expected his letters to the girl
he had loved, and more, a lock of her
hair and a rosc the rose she had worn in
her breast the night they parted before
he went on his journey. The touch of
these objects had burned his fingers.
lie started up now from his sitting
posture, and the box, which had lain on
Ids' knees, rolled off and struck the brass
andiron of the fireplace before it fell
against the tiles and near the red embers
of the logs. With an instinctive motion,
Hugh Le ffiing well stooped and rescued
it from its threatening doom. As he took
it up it seemed to him that something
rattled. He looked at the box more
closely. He saw that it had a false bot
tom, which, sliding out through the
force of the concussion, revealed a folded
pajier within. I The most cursory exam
ination of the interior of the box- would
have made its 'mechanism patent to the
eye.. But Hugh Leffingwell, on that day
thirty years ago when he had received it,
had crushed its contents back with ' a
feverish hand and thrust it out of sight
without a second -glance, to remain iin
destroyed, but ever unopened till he him
self should pass beyond.
ne drew the ? paper from its long
hiding place with a : hand that had
grown suddenly ! unsteady. So faint
were the time-dimmed 'characters, writ
ten as in the feeble hand of one in great
straits of illness, and so blurred had the
old man's eyes become that he lift 1 to.
take the letter nearer to the light, and
then pause a moment. ;
Huoh: They have told me that I cannot
live, and I know myself that I am dying. I
can speak now. Him whom the truth would
have injured my father has passed away..
Perhaps the telling of it can do uo good now.'
If it were to do again I would do it. But
you shall know it. My father had been guilty
of forgery. Only by my marriage to the
man who would settle upon me a large sum
could he be saved. That is all. I could not"
tell you then. I mafle you think of me as -badly
as you could b x-ausa I was afraid of
myself. Goo 1-bye. 1 Perhap? you will never
forgive me. But I loved you always.
. . . . Miriam. ".
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When Stella came gliding down to the
breakfast table the next morning her
young face was wan, and the traces of a
sleepless night and; many tears were
marked in purple circles about her eyes.
She was a few minutes late, and she
glanced toward the hearth rug where her
uncle stood with a nervous apprehension.
To her surprise, however, he made no
comment. ;
She drew near timidly to wish him
good morning, and then she saw how
changed, how ill, how aged h looked.
"Lncle," she pleaded, full of a tender
ruth that obliterated and forgot her own
sorrows:-"Are you not wcll'f"
Instead of answering he put his arm
about her shoulders and pressed her head
forward so that he could read every
suffering line of her face. It was like a
bruised flower.
"Do you care for : me,! Stella?" he
asked. "Have you any love, any affec
tion, at all for me?"
"Uncle, uncle!" sobbed the girl,
thrilled through and through by the
altered tone of his voice, -all her poor
heart overflowing: "I love you dearly,
dearly! If you. would only et me !"
"Have I been very harsh to you,
Stella?" he said aiain, stilljholding her,
still in the-same voice. 1
"No, no I would always have, been
happy if you had only loved me a little."
she said eagerly. J
"Poor child" ! ' r He dropped his arm
from her shoulder saw the smile that
dawned through her tears, j
"Yes, "he said, "speaking more to him
self than to her, "I believe you do love
me cross grained, hard, selfish old man
that I have been I believe ! you love me
well enough to make a great sacrifice for
me. Is it not s o, Stella?" ;
She understood his meaning, and
though her lips quivered, she impelled
herself to utter the words bravely.
"I have been thinking of you many
times since last night, uncle," she said.
Her eyes were fixed on the ground and her
voice was very low. Xf -if you do not
wish it if you can ncver-j-never relent
toward Hal I will do as you think best."
But the effort was almost top great for her
strength. ; !
"I oelieve you, child, I believe you!"
said Hugh Lellingwcll. , He stooped over
her and for the first time since she had
been left to his sole charge,! a wee infant,
he kissed her forehead. "But it shall
not be." He paused. His next words
were unintelligible to her. "Two
wrecked lives are enough." I He looked
down at her. lie smiled, "Call Hal
back,,' he said. New York Mercury.
A Young' Man of (Jreat Nerve.
"Speaking of nerve," said a Chicago
club man, "I will tell you a story of a
young man, the son of one of our largest
manufacturers, who displayed the great
est nerve of any man I ever heard of.
He was an officer in the navy, on one of
the old hulks of our boasted squadron,
which had the honor to escort General
Grant on some of his ' excursions along
the coast of China. The aforesaid hulk
or vessel was off the coast of Japan, in
that most treacherous of all seas, caught
in a terrific gale. Everything was done
to make her weather the sea, but the vio
lence of the storm continued unabating,
and it was found that the boat would go
to pieces. The officers and seamen were
called on deck, and it was the unani
mous opinion that it waj only a question
of time, and a mighty short one, when
she Avould succumb to the elements. The
small boats Ave re all put in order, a stock
of provisions was placed in each, and the
officers and crew were parceled off for the
different boats. : Everything was ready
to put oil at a moment's notice, and every
one was expecting a terrible struggle for
life, if not death by drowning.
"The suspense was something im
possible ; to conceive uuless one has had
a similar experience.' A man can look
forwr.rd to being hung or shot with com
parative intrepidity, but to; face drown
ing is a torture of the soul inost harrow
ing. Th;s young man knew no fear,
never knew any, and probably never will.
He was born fearless and he cannot help
it. While all the other officers and men
were on deck ready and Availing to jump
in their boats, he quietly remarked "that
as there seems to be nothing else to do.
I'll go down and take a nap." And he
went down to his cabin and went to
sleep. Fortunately the vessel rode out
of the storm in a few hours and was safe.
This young man of nerve Avas the hero of
those terrible anxious hours, and his
brother officers delight to repeat how he
said "as there seems nothing else to do,
I'll go down and take a nap." Chicago
Journal.
Where Hie Sun; Shines at " Midnight.
A Namaka (British America) letter rto
the Wheeling (W. Va.) Inteltigeneer
says: I am within 800 miles of the Arctic
f 'ircle. where the 3un mav be seen at mid-
iiiirht in the summer, and in Avintcr it is I
night the whole tAventyrtour nours.
Even where I am noAv I do not think that
the light of the sun is entirely gone at
midnight, for at 1 1 o'clock I could see
it, and, going to sleep then, I did not
awaken till 3, and at that time the dawn
of day Avas plainly seen. .
Needs Confirmation.
t
The latest theory advanced, that, by
an order ot Providence, three per cent,
more men than women are j born in war
time, while three per cent, more women
than men are born in peace, we arc in
clined ;o regard as needing confirmation.
' It is not probable that Providence has an
j" open eye to the battles that are going on
upon the earth's surface, j or makes a
special interposition to repair the losses
1 men create by their own crimes or follies.
Boston Herald.
1 GREAT YACHT RACE.
1 STERN ATIONAL CONTEST BE1 WEEN
THE VOLUNTEER ND THISTLE.
The Volunteer Wins Both Races De
feating the Thistle With Ease.
THE AMKRTCA'S CUP..
The greatest nautical eAentof the year has
been the international yacht race at New
York, between America's rapres3ntative, the
sloop Volunteer, and Great Britain's cham
pion, the Scotch cutter Thistle. This last
contest for the America's cup differs from
previous international contests. It was not
simply a race prompted : by the enterprise
and pluck-of an English yachtsrmn anxious
for the honor of reclaiming the Cup captured
by the American yacht in British waters
thirty -six yeari'ago. It was a 'test, of the
merits of the American and English models
as represented by the best yacht ever yet
launched in English waters and the best
yacht ever huilt in . Americi. It was a con
test between the two nations for the yachting
championship of the world.
THE VOLUNTEER.
The conditions upon which the America's
cup is sailed for are that the challenger
must win it twice out of three races in
order to carry it off, and the de
fender must be victorious the same
number of times to insure its remain
ing in this country. One of i he series of three
races must be sailed over the regatta course of
th'3 club holding the cup, and that is why
the race of this year's series ' was
sailed over the course of the New York Yacht
Club. TI13 second race is over a course
of !) nautical miles to Avindward and
return, and the third race, if neces
sary, over a triangular coarse of 40
nautical miles outside shandy Hook.
The following vivid account of the victory
won cn the first day by the Volunteer is
taken from the New York papers:
By 8 o'clock A. m. the harbor was in a
tumult of preparation. Industrious launches
leaped from wave to wave, and up th3 gan
Avays of the yachts were handed innumerable
and bewildering girls; leviathan steamers
blew long and fitfully, hurrying their
thousands aboard; multitudinous cats floated
seaward with limp wings; dories and dingies,
catamarans, wherries, . mammoth liners,
packets, barges everything which could
rloat and move was busy as busy could be,
getting packed for the race.
Finally all was ready. The two . 3rachts
had hoisted their anchors and were standing
to and fro like two thoroughbreds on a track,
Avatching each other and the flagship.
They had the same sail set. includ
ing those mentioned, ! and the baby
jib topsail. Their perfect symmetry made
them seem small. They were the centres of
observation to an immense cire'e of boats, for
all the craft had been forced back tid they
formed an immense ring on the water, as if for
a contest with soft gloves for the two nation
al representatives. The Regatta Committee
on the steam yacht Electra looked at their
watches. "Bang!" went the Electra's gun.
It Avas 12: o'clock.
THE THISTLE.
The yachts stood back and forth uneasily.
"Bang!" went the second gun at 12:3t. and
almost with its echo the Thistle came about,
and, under the light breeze, crossed the fine
first.
The Electra tooted, and then the hullabaloo
was indescribable. Every whistle w s
turned loose to its fullest capacity. Abo e,
the dull roar of the big ones rose t-e
shrieks, screams and squeals of the litt e
steamers. " Bro-o-o-o-o," " Bra-a-a a-a,"
" Bre-e-e-e," " Brow-ow-ow," the whistles
steamed away in dissonant and deaf
ening chorus, their boats covered with steam,
through which the smoke of manyjguns came
bursting out, though their reports, rapid aj
a pack of big firecrackers, could scarcely be
heard in the grand uproar that prevailed.
Amid the magnificeat racket the Volunteer
crossed on the heels of her rival, the respec
tive time of the two being 12:34:5 S and
I2:33KK3. The breeze; was from - the
south. Both boats stood across .f the
bay, the Volunteer reaching farthest.
Then over the faces of the specta
tors on the wharves, of the additional thou
sands that lined the shores, of the black
throngs on the two forts, a'nd the multitude
on the verandas of the shore hotels came a
look of blankest surprise. The Volunteer.
farthest inshore, had caught a breeze. The
Thistle was unlucky and did not share it. Tb
JJoston yacht began to speed down the Bay in
the most cheerful and careless of moods,
while the Thistle stood still on the face of the
waters. Minute after minute tha strange
fugbt continued. It was partly lack, and
rartly judgment, but it wa3 unfortunate.
Tho race was to be ended at the start it
teemed.
Yard after yard the Volunteer crept away
until she had nearly a mile the advantage.
Then the sails of the Thistle filled, and she,
too, started, but too late. It was one of
those accidents that occur in all
races. The win4 had shifted four
"points to the westward. The Volunteer had
caught it long ahead of her rival, and as she
went ahead of her down the Bay it constantly
freshened, and she got the first of its fresh
ness and increased her lead. It shifted
gradually, and the Thistle, trying to follow
the Volunteer continually f e 1 off, until it
seemed that she was no mat h for the Burgesj
boat in pointing. Who headed in close to the
w-ind and fell on? so often as her sails began to
nutter that the superiority of the center board
boat in close sailing became more apparent
m-f.emiDg than it was in fact. The whole
fleet of spectators were surprised. They had
looked forward to a very close race, and it
had become simply a procession.
All the way out to the Southwest Spit this
state of affairs continued. The throng of
boats rushed into the Narrows so close to
gether that it seemed as if one could pass
from fort to fort by merely jumping from
dock to deck. They 'went forward rapidly
to keep up t with the Volunteer, and,
consequently, interfered with the
Thistle. The wash of the steamers natur
ally imp?ded her progress; and this would
have been a source of general regret had
not the same thing hapjened later 011 to the
Volunteer, so that the injury was equalized.-
The Volunteer was away in the lead, like a
snow-white lamb leading the flock. They all
stuck close to her, leaving the Thistle far be
hind, like a little black sheep that nobody
would speak to. , -
The course to the lightship was in the same
order with the same incidents. The old red
ship, with its round day marks at the mast
head, rolled in quite a sprightly fashion
over the responsibility Avhich had been
thrust upon it, and was gorgeous
with an entire new set of Stars
and Stripos. The floating city surrounded
her long t efore the Yoiuateer arrived. When
the Avhite boat rounded they made such a
whistling and cannonading as the lightship
neArer heard before. It was a new Venice
out in the oceanv Secretary Whitney de
clared it the greatest marine spectacle that
New York had ever seen.
The homeward course wasnotexcitinj. The
Volunt er had a lead that it Avas impossible
for the Thistle to overcome. After rounding
Buoy 10 she set her spinnaker and fairly flew.
The Electra people made themselves merry.
The plain and simple fare of the cabin was
discussed with interest. .
During the long course homeward the posi
tion of the two boats changed little. Finally
the fleet of steamers, augmented by number
less yachts that had been waiting up the Bay,
came to a standstill about Buoy 15. The
Electra came to anchor. Everybody was
waiting to welcome the victor.
She came sweeping over the waters as if
she were alive. Her snow-white spinnaker
was drawing to its fullest, and she seemed
like . a hurrying white cloud. The green
Avaves curled away under her' fore
foot,- holding up to her Aviiite gar
lands of victory. In the West the sink
ing sun was a disk of molten red fire. Across
the dull green Avater, marking a line straight
from the buoy to the flagship, it scattered
flecks of ruddy liquid gold to mark the win
ning line. The steam fleet stood silent and
breathless. The Regatta Committee Avatched
vigilantly.
"Now" cried Mr. Taylor, as her mast
came into line. With a roar the two guns
of the Electra went off together. A broad
side echoed from all the fleet. The yachts
were wreathed in blue powder smoke.
The " signals fluttered, the spectators
cheered, the tugs, - like a flock of
brown beetles, rushed across the line to con
gratulate her, and the. whistles could "have
been heard when they once got to going by
every sharp eared Scotchman on the Clyde
itself.
' After many minutes came the Thistle. She
too came rushing in Avith spinnaker set, but all
too late. She too was greeted with cannon and
whistle, but it was rather melancholy. There
was no golden line across the restless water.
The sun had gone out behind the clouds and
the landscape was gray and cheerless. A
silver moon shone down upon her coldly, for
it was a cold day for the Thistle, the coldest
day she had seen in her racing experience.
The Volunteer's Second Victory.
After one postponement, owing to unfav
orable weather, the second and final race of
the series was sailed on Friday, and resulted
in a still more decisive victory for the Ameri
can sloop Volunteer. The day was rainy and
THE START FOR THE SECOND RACE. .
torrgy, and tne race therefore was uiveccd of
many of the spectacular features which pro-v.-'ile
l on the first day,
'i he course was twenty miles to windward
and return from the Scotland Lightship.
During the race a fresh wholesail breeze pre
vailed with a lumpy sea, just the sort of
weather in which a cutter usually shows to
the best advantage as compared Avith a cen
terboard sloop. But in the twenty miles
thrash to windward the Volunteer beat the
Thistle by 11 minutes 4U) seconds.
The issue 'of thx race was never in doubt
after the boats came about on the second
tack, and it was only a question of how much
the Volunteer had gained by being able to lie
closer to the wind than the cutter. There
after the race as a race lost much of its in
terest, because the Volunteer continued
steadily to out-point and out-foot the cutter
until the wind ward mark was reached. In
the twenty miles run before the wind back to
the starting line the Thistle gained 2 minutes
54)' seconds. The wind freshened dur
ing this stage of the race and as it came
up f rom'behind it helped the Thisile a little
more than the Volunteer. Something, too.
she gamed by being quicker to set her spin
naker than was the Volunteer. It was the
opinion of most judges that if the wind had
blown harder the Volunteer would have
gained still more on-the Thistle in the thrash
to windward. The actual time consumed by
the Volunteer in completing the forty miles
was 5 hours 42 minutes 534 seconds, and by
the Thistle 5 hours 54 minutes 51 seconds.
Many steamboats, steam yachts and tugs
accompanied the yachts, notwithstanding the
unpropitious weather, but their number ap
peared Small by comparison with the myriad
of craft of all sorts that crowded about the
racers during the first day's race. The
steamers on the whole behaved themselves
well and there could be no complaint on that
score. So, therefore, the America's cup, won
thirfy six years ago from Great Britain, will
remain in this country at least a year longer.
A colossal stick of lumber from Puget
Sound has been contributed to the Mechanics'
Erhibitition at San Francisco. Its length is
151 feet, and it is 20x20 inches through.- It is
believed to be the longest piece of lumber
ever turned out of any saw mill.
A tax of one dollar per year has been
levied by the government o Costi ltia on
every male inhabitant over eighteen years of
age. The proceeds are to be devoted to im
proving the roads oMhe country :
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Eastern ami Middle State. J
Thk Philadelphia Mint is unable to supply
the demand for cents, nickels and dimes.
A mortgage for $50,000,000 against tho
Central Railroad -Company of New Jersey,
and in favor of the Central Trust Company
of New York, was filed the other dav at
Wilkesbarre, Penn. It was dated July 1, ISS7,
and is to run 100 years, bearing interest at
the rate of five per cent.
Thk Democratic State Convention in ses
sion at Saratoga nominate i the following
ticket on Wednesday: Secretary of State
Frederick Cook, renominated; Stato Trra
urer Lawrenca J. Fitzgerald, renominated;
Attorney General Char iei F. Talr, pres
ent Chief Deputy; Comptroller Iklward
Wmple, State Senator ami ex-Congressman;
State Engineer John Bogart. The platform
adopted praises Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
Hills administration, approves the present
Civil Service-. Laws. Imtdeorus the subject
one which might appropriately be sul
mitted to the popular vot opposes sumptu
ary legislation, and demands that Federal
taxation le reduced.
The Massachusetts Republican in Staw
Conventual at Boston renominated the
present State officers, led by tioA'emor Ames,
the single exception b ing Andrew J. Water
man, a new man, for Attorney-General. The
plattorm favors the protective tariff, ap
proves the present temperance laws and fa
A'ors the submission to the people of a prohibi
tory amendment. The Civil Service laws,
National and State, are upheld and Cleve
land's administration denounced.
A stay of proceedings was granted by
Chief-Ju I-e linger, of the New ork C -urt
of Anjeals, to Jacob Sharp, tho chief briber
of the New York "Boodle' Aldermen. The
New York Sheriff was preparing to tak-a
Sharp to Sing Sing Avhen the stay was
granted.
Di'Rixo the third quarter of the present
year there were l.'.ris business f lilures in tho
United States, Avith aggregate liabilities of
$73,000,000.
The Volunteer easily defeated the Thistlo
in the s?cond and concluding race for the
America's cup at New York.
Sonth and West.
An Indian outbreak is reiorted from th?
San Carlos reservation in Arizona. Post
Trader Horton has be-?n murdemi. '
Two men John McArJle and J. C.
Reardon recently attempted to (lie a land
claim at Indian Valley, Cal., which had al
ready been filed by Newton Azbell, they
claiming that thes latter's entry was de
fective. A few days ago Azbell went to their
cabin and shot both men flead. He then sur
rendered himself to the authorities.
Miss Phoebe W. Couzixs has been ap
pointed the United States Marshall at St.
Louis, by Justice Miller, of the United States
Supreme Court, who is presiding in. the Cir
cuit Court there. M iss Couzins's predeeessr r
was her father, who died lately.
The streets and houses of St. Louis were
lavishly decorated in honor of the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of tho Re
public. Many thousands of veterans from
all parts ot the Union were present. The
grand street parade, set down for Tuesday,
Avas postponed on account of rain .
At the meeting of tho National Encamp
ment of the Union Vetera u' Union, in Chjatc
land, a pension bill to be submitted to Con
gress Avas unanimously adopted. It is in
tended as a service pension bill, and as an
addition to all invalid pensions which have or
may be granted.
An entire passenger tram, while running
at a great rate of sjx?ed, was hurled froai a
high trestle near Jackson, Term., some of the
cars turning completely over. Thirty jer
sons were injured, some fatally, j
A race Avar has broken out in Brazoria
and Matagorda Counties, Texas, largely occu
pied by colored people, and troops have been
sent to the scene.
A derrick fell in a St. Louis brewery,
killing one man and seriously injuring five
more.
A Michigan farmer who was bitten by a
horse, and fears hydrophobia, is going to
Paris for treatment by M. Pasteur.
The election canvass in Tennessee this sum
mer and fall has been fought out on tho
Prohibition question, and the tinal struggle at
the polls resulted in a close vote, the Anti
Prohibition ticket being successful by an es
timated majority of' from 5, 0 to 10,000.
East Tennessee gave 20,000 majority for Pro
hibition. The colored vote Avas cast large
ly against Prohibition.
gA single highwayman in Texas robbed
two stages the other night, relieving the pas
sengers, who were 'compelled to stand in a
row on the roadside, of about $2,000.
Washington.
Four negroes quarreled over a game of
cards near .Washington, D. C, the other
night. One of them attempted to shoot an
other, but missed his aim and killed a by
stander, George Rawlett, a young white
man.
Under the terms of its recent circular the
Treasury Department has purchased a large
amount of A arid 4 per cent, bonds.
The President has invited Mr. William L.
Putnam, of Maine, and Mr. James B. Angell,
of Michigan, to act with the Secretary ol
State in the negotiation for a settlement with
Great Britain of the disputes growing out ol
the questions connected with the rights of our
fishermen in the territorial waters of the
Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland.
Both gentlemen have accepted.
13 The Navy Department has directed tht
Commandant of the New York and Norfolk
Navy Yards to prepare for the building ol
the 6,000-ton ships ordered by Congress.
Foreign.
The Franco-German frontier has been the
scene of another exciting episode. A soldiei
on the German side shot into a group of five
sportsmen and four beaters on the French
side. A beater was killed and a hunter badly
wounded. The soldier says he believed they
were on German soil, and that he ordered the
party to halt lfore firing. The affair has
created much uneasiness in oflicial circles.
A Police Inspector's skull was split open
by a woman armed with a poker at the evic
tion of Colonel Meadow's tenants at Ardna
crusha, Ireland.
A Chinese transport has been wrecked on
one of the Pescadores Islands. Three hundred
soldiers, and the captain and crew, with the
exception of one man, were drowned.
The British steamer Matthew Cay has
been wrecked off Cape Jinisterre. Ten per
sons were drowned.
Jennie Lind, the one-time noted singer,
has had a stroke of paralysis at her English
hora.
The Pope will create three-new Cardinals
in December.
The Scotchmen and Englishmen are greatly
disappointed by theresultof the international
yacht race at New York. The universal lo
hef ws that the Thistle would win.
A DEFEAT OF THE K OF L.
Operators Accept Mill Owners Terms
- at Iiouisville.
The strike in the woolen mills of Louisville
Ky., which was inaugurated two mouths
ago, has proven a f -ilure.' The mill owners
refused to take back any of the strikers wto
would not sign an agreement to give up all
allegiance to the knights and come back at
t he old was. They were compelled to close
Recently, h wever, their employees legan to
seek their old places at the owner's terms,
and nearly all of the weavers hive agreed to
the conditions. Two mills are at work and
another expects to be able to begin at once.
It is a very severe defeat for the Knights
of Labor, . who . lose nearly seven hundred
members, after supporting that number for
two months, each having drawn fioru two
to five dollars a week from the labor treas
ury. , '
THE GRAND ARIIY.
PKOCEEMMiS OF THK .NATIONAL
ENCAMPMENT AT ST. LOl'IS
Position of the Organization on Pe n ! i
Law Defined.
The National Ewampme.at ef th (,V I
Army of tho Republic Jiwmliii-l i i : .
Louis on Thursday monv.'ig. Th- r rt
of committees was reuaic 1. the llrt in or! r
being tho Commit Ui oa l'. nM'.ns, Tl - v
relate their efforts to p -u n liU-r.d 1 ' i
tiou from Conjrrs and th7 fate of th Im
pendent Pension Bill. The ciiurnitt-n vr.
at Washington during the dclutH in tm n -OA-er
the lull
After the A-eto of the Depnd nt ln : i
bill by the President thcCnmmitb e prepared
a new bill for presentation at tl .-
next Congress. Tnis bill nifik-s pro
vision for tension to all veb -ram
who are. or w ho may hereafter l--oin im
able to earn their 'own livelihood; f. r a
direct eontinna nee of icumou.s for i Low
in their own riht; for an inere.w
of tho present pittance to 'minor chil
dren, and for fathers or mothers from
any date of lepn.hnc, Such a law, th
committee says, would at mir remove fully
12,000 Aeterans from the public nlnishoii-"-;
where they now rest, making them --n
sioners instead of puijwrs, provide p n
sions for fully as man v mere now d.-j n I. -nt
upon private harit"y, and put i to tl
general pension Jaws, for the !i t
time, the recognition of tho priix-iple that ten
sions may lo granted to Mirvivois of li e
late war without abi'nte pr.of of diibility
arising from the mtvi'-, pro .f almost Onto--.-siblo
to procure aft a-the lap- of moieth iti
twenty years. Tho bill is similar in general
principle to that vetoed, but the obje.-tioii-jtauper
clause is omitted, makin,; tin-, a dis
ability, and not a dep mdcfit, bill.
The result of submitting this bill to ti e
comrades of tho Gran I Army of the lh piil.!i.
shows that whatever legislation some of th
comrades desire, they -ire pra t m mII
unanimous for everything rout lined m
this bill. Whatever else may U desira
ble, the committee knows from the ex
iierienee of five years that any additional
legislation is only to lx se ure t ineh by ineh
aftermost Jersisrnt effort. Tin committor
therefore recommend tho continuance of
earnest 'effort in favor of the following
'The bill prepan! by this commit b-
granting tensions to all veterans now hs
ablod or in need, to mot hers and fat hers from
date of dejiendeno.?; continuance of pen-ions
to widows in their own right and an un ie a-
.for minor .children.
"All of tho recommendations for incrca--i
and quali.ation f pensions for six i ial di-a
bilities ixade in his rcf-rit report by Pension
Commissioner Black.
"A pension of 12 er month to all widows
of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors
of tho late wa r.
'"Increased tensions for the severer dUul.il
ities, substantially ns presented in the bill
prepared by the United States Mainr-d Vet
erans league.
"Pensions for tho survivors of rebel pris
ons, substantially n3 presented in the bill of
the National Association of Prisoners of War.
"Increased pensions for los of hearing or
eyesight.
"A re-enactment of tho nrrear law, an
equitable equalization of Itouiities.
"The fame tension for the widow of tho
representative volunteer soldier nt the t nioii
Army John A. Ixigan as is paid to tho
widows of those typical regulars Thomas
the Bock of Chiekainaua, and llain ix k, nl
ways the Suiterb.''
The Committee on the Annual Address of
the Command'T-in-Chief indorsed 1h- ad
dress and cmgraTTTtaTed Commander in 'hief
Fairchild and the Grand Army of th.
Republic ujKtn his administration of th i
past year, stating that all his oHb i il
acts and every sentiment contain -d
in his address meet the approval of the com
mittee, and they Iteliove, the approval of I let
comrades. They recommended the appoint
ment of Past-Commander in Chief KoN-rt
B. Beath, as historian of the order, in
dorsed tho recommendation of a n iin.i
nent national headquarters, and approved
the suggestion that the General Govern
ment includoin tho next decennial reiisus an
enumeration of the Union soldiers m l sail
ors of tho late war who may I living in
1S00. Tho report was unanimously adopted,
with three cheers for Fairchild.
Close? of t be I'n camp men t
At the final meetin ?" of the Grand Army
National Encampment on Friday the
Committee on lb solutions presented major, t y
and minority reportson the a month or . i
vice Pension bill. Tho majority of the com
mittee reported against tho m -axure and t ho
minoiity of live (a committee of ono
from each department) reported for it.
Resolutions offered by Mr. 'andervooi t cen
suring President Cleveland for vetoing th
Dejtendent Pension bill were defeat!, and
tho majority report of tho committer w u
adopted by a vote of ;ilh to I7'i.
Tiio following were the nominations for
Commander-in-Chief for the ensuing year:
General Slocum, of New York: General T.
Ilea, of Minnesota; General T. Anthony,
General D. P. Grier.
Slocum received 1 .".", Anthony (;, Grier
and Ilea 2i4. Sherman r -reived one, an I
Warner of Missouri one. Rea was declare I
elected. He was escorted to the platform by
the defeated candidates Anthony and Gmr,
and returned thanks to the erica mpm "lit. ton.
Rea is a Pennsylvanian by bii t h, enli-ted in
an Ohio regiment at the outbreak of the war
ami was promoted several times for gallantry
in the field, being finally brevete 1 a Major,
lie has been a most active organizer and
member of the G. A. It. and has twice I--. n
elected Senior Vice Commander in Chief.
Ho is now on tho U-uch in Minnesota.
Nelson Cole, of Missouri, was elected Senior
Vice-Commander, and John ( .'. Linahan. of
New Hamhirc, Junior Vie Commander.
General Iawren'-e Donahue waseh-cb-d .Sur
geon General. The Be v. Jvlward An -I- ru
was elected Chaplain-in Chief. Tie- o!3ic-rs
of tho encampment were then duly in tali- I.
and the National I'ricampuient came to an
end. Next year's G rand Encampment wid
lte held at Columbus, ( hio.
The banquet given at the Ia'ndell Hotel in
the evening to the ih-b-gab-s of the Nation J
Encampment whs a brilliant affair. Govei s
were laid for 'i-'tO, tho War Governors b i.
among the guests. The resjons-s t to a -m
were marie by General 1-w Wall ire-, G -n--i , : i
John M. Palmer, Hannibal Hamlin. Gover
nor Curtin, Corjtoral Tanner, Cen-ral ( '. 11.
Grosvenor, Bi-hop Fallows, General Fair
child, Judge Rea and others.
A FEMALE SMUGGLER.
How a Boston Dressmaker Came t
' firicf. A Valuable Seizure.
Among the passengers Avho arrive.! at N -
York on the steamship La Gaseogne, j :
day was a Boston dressmaker, named !!i
M. Kennedy. When her baggage bad !
placed on me deck, sue openeu one oi i
trunks, and taking out a silk dress rare'- '
threw it on the floor. Then she qiii kl
jacked up a box that had laid under thedi
and handed it to a man who started to j
it in his trunk, which had lx-en pa- 1. ' :
move was s -en by sjtecial customs c r
who seized the box and arrested the v :
and man. The box contained four ban '
hand-embroidered dresses, worth f---vr-hundred
dollars each. Thj dress t ! - I
lx.-en thrown af de was found to 1k lir. I w ; t
rv.tlv lnpol nnil tillrnn.l citlin .!-.
And inspeetress found that Miss K. n: :
had laces, silksetc.', to the valu- of sea i
thousand dollars concealed on her j r
Her Other ba??ayp. three trunks and a i
ing caso were seized but not op-ned. T!.
-w I , I .1 .. i i ' . .
i,wua uisiurereu are vamwi at i i.ooo u ;
thought that tho other baggage, will vi ' S ,
much morC