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she the same ''get there qualities. Thus
far the Niagara has had no difficulty
beating her every time they have met Prob
ably ere this isherimperial ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
that he did not place the order for her de
sign with Herrcshoff instead of with Wat
SON AT all events he could not be blamed
for feeling that way after reading this
criticism In the London Yachting World for
August 2:
So far as the present season is con-
cerped the most disappointing of the new
boats is undoubtedly the German EN-
peror's yineta, designed by Mr.. G. L.
Watson and built at Kiel. The yacht,
which in design seems to be miniature
edition of Valkyrie III, must have been
too lightly constructed or else the nia-
terial employed is'to blame; at any rate,
during the recent regattas at Kiel, she
was so badly strained that she had to
give up racing until her framework had
been strengthened. On the same day the
Herreshoff tweDty-rater, Isolde, sister
ship of Niagara, escaped scatheless, though
indeed there was a lumpy sea on the
Stollegrund.
The Isolde, referred TO above, belongs
to Baron Won Zedwitz, a rich German OF
aristocratic lineage, with a strong paru-
ality for salt water sports. Despite the
fact that she is constructed on the same
lines as the Niagara, the latter has al
ways beaten her and she has also been
left astern pretty generally by her Brit
ish competitors. This it will probably
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Haunted by a Crime.

Al general election in England can
didate personally unknown to the voters
of a certain borough was asked by party
leaders TO stand FOR it. He belonged to a
good family and was a barrister of prom
Use in London. His path to success was open,
as the borough belonged to his party. But
when he mounted the platform to address the
electors, after a sentence or two, he sud-
denly became pale and confused, his eyes
fixed on a board opposite on which was
scrawied with charcoal, Forty poundsl'
He stumbled through short speech, and
then hurriedly left the stand. A few days
later he rose to speak in another town, and
again the mysterious words, written in
black on the wall, confronted him. Again
he left the platform, and that night retired
from the contest for the seat in Parliament
Not long afterward he disappeared from
public life and retired.Ao an English colony,
where he hid himself on a nch. The words,
ii was found, referred to theft committed
in his youth, which he supposed had been
forgotten.-Argonaut.
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A Chimney Full of Birds.

Between and 7:15 O'Clock each even
ing one of the most remarkable sights in
Kansas City at the present time is in prog
ress At 6:45 chimney swallows begin to
gather in the air over the Vineyard Market
building on Eighth street. As the minutes
pass hundreds of birds come from alldirec-
tions until the sky is black with their
wings.
They skim about In an airless way until
leadership, they form and begin to circle
about in the air in a large oval directly
above the chimney at the northeast corner
of the Vineyard building. Other birds
coming up join the circle until thousands
of them are In the mad whirl.
At 7:15, with no apparent signal, they
begin to pour down the chimney like water
from pitcher. Down they tumble, thou
sands of them, until one wonders if there is
an Underground outlet TO the chimney,
which hardly seems large enough To hold
them all In few minutes they are out
of sight.
All the time they are on the wing the air
is full of faint rustic and the whistle
of q composite of the many sharp, staccato
chirpings of the birds.
After all are i'll come a few stragglers
that attempt to enter the chimney also
These are driyen away by the birds inside
Then the stragglers fly up until they reach
the spot where the general whirlconIinenced
and they, too, fly around the circle sew
eral times and then dive into the chimney.
There are always a number of curious
people in front of the building watching
the birds One old colored man is there
every evening He says he has watched the
birds for several years in this great act of
chimne y-fiiling. They always choose
dead chimney somewhere about the city
for their lodging house. Last year they oc-
cupied large brick building on Main
street.-Kansas City Star.
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big cutter, and sending the Vigilant back
10 America simply to act as trial horse
for the Defender.
Howard Gould has this year been racing
IN British waters with the Herreshoff
twenty-rater Niagara. Among the owners
of twenty-raters in England there are TO
be found more titled swells than in any
other class devoted to yacht racing. Yet
1t is pleasant to note that nobody has'ven-
tured to insinuate that young Howard
Gould is seeking social advancement rather
than sport. One reason iOr this may be
found in tue fact that the Niagara has wona
majority of tue races in which she has been
sailed, and although she has by no means
made tue clean sweep in her class that did
last year the Herreshoff ten-rater Dako-
tah-of which the Niagara is an enlarged
edltion-British nautical critics concede
that she is the crack of the twenty-rating
fleet.
The Niagara is a racing machine pure and
simple. Herreshoff designed her with an
eye single to speed She may be described
best as a big canoe with a bulb fn-keel
attachment. Her dimensions are about
as follows: Length over all, 60
feet; load water line length, 40
feet; beam, 12 feet; draft, hull only,
feet inches; depth, keel to deck,
feet inches; draft extreme, II feet Her
construction exhibits that remarkable com
bination of Igh$ness aud strength for
which nerreshoff is famous, end an equally
characteristic sacrifice of comfort to con-
siderations of speed Her interior shows
an extreme head room of only feet
91-2 inches, with less than 4 feet in the
forecastIe No yacktsman who eXpectea'
to make his ship his home would select
the Niagara, but she generally ''gets
there" ahead of her competitors, and
that is what she was built for Her per-
formances justify more screaming than the
American eagle has yet INDUCED in on her
account She is commanded by Capt
John Barr, who has had a long and varied
experience in all sorts of craft on both sides
of the Atlantic. He sailed the Thistle
when she was beaten by the Volunteer
and commanded Gen. Paine's Jubilee in
the trial races of 1898 He is a Scotch
man and he learned his business on the
Clyde.
Deserving of first mention among Howard
Gould's swell competitors is that royal
Jack of all trades-and master of nota few
the Emperor of Germany. He bought the
Thistle after her failure TO capture the Amer
ica's cup and rechristened her the Meteor.
He raced her frequently and gamely, but
she stood no show against more modern
boat like the Britannia, and when they raced
together the German Emperor found himself
compelled 10 follow in the wake of his
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ing a match for the Niagara, is the Earl
of Lonsdale's Eucharis. She is an up 10
date racer in all respects, and was turned
out by Fife, in hurry, for the express pur-
pose of meeting the Yankee craft. Lord
Lonsdale is fond of quiXotic enterprises,
and has money enough to indulge his
facy wherever it may lead him. 1t led him
to hunt for the North Pole once. His an
cestral acres are situated in the county of
Wesmoreland, and include some magnifi-
cent game preserves. The Prince of Wales
is frequently his guest in the shooting sea-
Son, and enjoys the unstinted hospitality
of Lowther Castle. He is the owner of a
biz: schooner, the Verna, of BIG tons, and on
board of her off Cowes, last season, he
entertained the Emperor of Germany and
the Prince of Wales and seEeralpther swell5
in regal style. The Emperor of Germany
returned the compliment when he got back
to his own land. Lord Lonsdale's turn
came round again this season, and he en-
tertained the German Emperor in magnifi-
cent style on his estate, as has been told in
recent cable dispatches. Socially, there
fere, Lord Lonsdale may be. said TO be
fright in it" He is young man. He was
born in 1857, and in 1878 married Lady
Grace Gordon, sister of the present Marquis
of Huntley.
A Another young nobleman who races
against Howard Gould's yacht is the Earl
of Dudley. He was born in 1867, and sue
cceded to his fathers estates and title In
1885. He is wealthy and has magnificent
place in Worcestershire, to which the Prince
of Wales occasionally goes to help him thin
out some of the game. When the Prince
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cup girl the better and votes hei a greater
success than any other kind OF girl ever
seen She is the only one of all the seasons
vista OF girls who can sit with feet in pools
of water and yet be able that evening to lead
the chorus OF the popular yachting song In
a clear voice.
The cup girl is a very willy miss. In fact,
she isn't quite all she seems to be. Notice,
please, how she insists on keeping on that
thick mu filing coat of hers. That coat, with
its immense satin sleeves, is heavy enough
4. In texture to ward off the spray like water
from ducks smooth back. Note how she
keeps that white broadcloth coat buttoned
10 the chin and how she settles its skirts
around her and adjusts the very bewitching
feather trimming.
A VIKINGS DAUGHTER.
II am too warm,' she insists; then she
adds, carelcssiy, with a slight lifting of
the tip-tHted nose, Il think / must be
d S-ended from seaflriDg ancestors back
In the Viking days. To me all seasons are
alike upon the seal Never too hot; never
too coldi Always a thick coat, never
warmth nor chill
She careessly steps away to the breezlnS
side of the boat as she says this. Little
cheatl She pretends by her walk and her
absolutely unruffled appearance to be a
maid OF the sea. watch me. / have ridden
upon doiphn's back and visited the cave
of b.owy Aeolus,' she seems to say, as she
balances herself lightly before the breeze.
But there are those who know the secret
OF her comfort afloat, Just as many have
come tounderstand the wbitened coolness OF
the summer girl and the perfume of her
locks But the cup girl has not So many In
her confidence as yet. Those who are In
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goes to Hungary to enjoy battue with
Baron Hirsch, Lord Dudley is usually
one of the party. He first took to the turf,
but wisely abandoned it, after paying a
good round price for youth and experience.
He took to yacht racing in 1892, with the
little five-rater, the Vigorna. She proved
failure, and in the year following he got
another boat for the same class, the In
yoni, which shows great speed in light
weather.
Among Howard Gould's competitors are
other young men Who have wealth, but no
titles. Francis Bellingham Jameson, Of
Dublin, can afford to hire steam yacht to
accompany the Luna on her racing tours.
Another crack twenty -rater, the Zinita,
is owned Jointly by the brothers William
and James Connell, young Scotchmen, who
cut their eye teeth at yachting on the Clyde.
The cable dispatches which describe the
victories of the Niagara, say nothing about
how her owner is improving his social op-
portunities. But there is no denying, save
through lying, that they viii make some
people here feel envious.
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turn out is due to the fact that she is
not so well handled as the other boats.
At yacht sailing, German tars have not
yet had practice enough to reach the high
standard that obtains in Great Britain.
Lord Dunraven, principal owner of the
new Valkyrie, is one of Howard Goulds
competitors in the twenty rating class
His boat, the Audrey, is one of his own de-
sign, and very creditable production
She wasn't a success last season, but with
the energy and perseverance that ischarac-
istic of him, he remodeled her during the
winter, with the result that her speed has
been greatly improved She has oCca-
sionally beaten the Niagara, but has more
often been beaten by her Lord Dunrayen
is a sportsman all over. Thorough" might
well be his motto. He is never contented
with one yacht only. He handles tiller
almost aa.well as professional, and holds
a sailing. masters certificate, which was
granted to him by the board of trade only
after he had passed satisfactory eSanlina-
ton. Though in addition 10 the Audrey and
his interest in the Valkyrie he also owns a
speedy cruising cutter, the sixty-rater,
L'Esperance, he has just given an order for
another yacht of 20 tons. She Will be
ketch-rigged and used for cruising pur-
poses.
Prince Edmond Gustave veBatthayny-Stratt-
man, is another bIue-blonded aristocrat,
who occasionally gets a good view of the
stern of the Niagara when chasing her in a
race in his stauncb little yacht, the
Stephanie He was born in Milan in 1926.
The family derives its name fro the village
of Batthayn in the province of BaTanya.
1t claims descent from Urs III, who was
chief of the Huns in $40. Possibly it goes
back toAtalla. The name 'Strattman" was
annexed by means of an hyphen, when, a
couple of centuries or so ago, Count
Batthayny married Eleonore, Countess of
Strattman, thus also acquiring possession of
the extensive Strattman estates in Upper
Austria. He has lots of titles, but is con-
tent to be called Prince Batthayny for
short. He is veteran yacbtsman. One of
his earlier ventures, the Kremhilda, of 106
tons, was a great prize winner in her day
Her success started the building of the
colossal single stickers in England, whose
superior speed soon put an end to schooner
racing. They have only one thing against
Prince Batthayny in England-tbat he
wasn't born an Englishman.
Another owner of a twenty-rater though
not very successful one, is Prince Henry,
of Battenbcrg, who, in 1885, had the good
luck to marry the Princess Beatrice, the
youngest daughter of the Queen, and for
his kindness and consideration, was made
His Royal Highness,'' and put in pos
session of several sinecures and given sun
dry emoluments, not without some groaning
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creation and an English entity, so far as
her appearance is concerned. for She models
her cloaks after her English cousins, who
have sailed for cups for generations, and
shehas the skip walk of the Wales princesses,
who are the enthusiasts of the britannia,
and she copies the ways of the Dunraven
sisters, who are very amiable girls.
Though not strictly pretty, as our pretty
girls go, they are sweet-tempered, strong,
well-bred and very pleasant companions.
The cup girls all know Lady Rachel and
Lady Allie" But Americas cup girl has
distinct attributes.
CUP CoMPLISHMENTS.
In these days, speaking of a woman, it
Is not "Who is she?" and "Wbat can she
do?'' The cup girl can rise as little before
light, dress herself as prettily as though
for an afternoon sail, take a hearty break
fast, walk a mile and step on board
yacht. The mists are on the bay, but she
does not care. She has wet that front wave
of hers with alcohol and steamed it dry over
a hot tongs, and she knows that her bangs
will stay in shape through the wetness and
breeze of the early sail. She has put on
cork sole shoes, looking delicately dainty,
but lined with the spongy material to pre-
vent wetting her feet, and when the spray
dashes over the deck she holds her place in
trepidly. Perhaps she is at the wheel for
minute doing real duty.
"Ho, ho!" calls out the sailor r-owner.
"You are getting wet boots, my sailor
lass!"
"Nay-pay," calls back the yachtswoman,
I'm for p'intin' her nose to sea in spite
of the waves, for we've clear day ahead :"
Every one laughs at the drawly sea-far
tone of the cup girl, as she sings her answer
back over her shoulder in imitation of the
old captain, who is immensely tickled by
the bit of drollery, and every one loves the
for all to see, and they hurry along the Val
kyrie's crew to get it,
The cup girl of America is an English
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Won RnInw's Little Joke.

A German paper tells a new story aboutthe
late Dr. Won Bulow. A lady of the German
court insisted on being present at the re-
hearsal of symphony and dherimportunities
at length prevailed. But Won Bulow pre-
pared q terrible revenge. He directed the
first bassoon to play his part through from
beginning TO end as solo obligato. The
musician complied, and long before he had
finished his appointed task the lady was in
a position to sympathize with the wedding
guest in 1.-The Ancient Mariner" who
"beat his breast, for he heard the loud bas-
soon. New Y York Tribune.
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MAsco7s FOR |YAcHTsMEN
c. Oliver Iselin Is Very Fond
of the Defenders Dog.
VALKYRIE'S WHITE SEA GULL
Vigilant's Parrot Says;
"Larboard! How's Your
Mother-in-Law?

happened to be on shore when the De-
fender found her mascot. And as that is
the happiest instant in the career Of a boat
/ can say that literally saw Good Luck
step aboard the Defender. Its staying
powers are another thing, but for time
the Good Luck was ON deck certainly.
The Defender was dry-docked, for they
were putting new masts and spars upon her.
So dishevelled did she look that she might
have been having her keel taken out and
a centreboard substituted, so utterly TO the
level of an old hulk did her alterations re-
duce her.
Iselin felt depressed His thousand dol
lars worth of boat and his million dollars
worth of pride he would have sold at that
minute for one cent cash. He had come
ashore, and stood disconsolately cying
his boat.
FINDING THE MASCOT.
There was Swapping around his heels,
a s-n-a-rl-as only a yellow dog can snarl!
And Iselin looked down just in time TO see
the cur grab a niouthfui of his trousers and
shake viciously: at is a masoot!' called
out seaman on the boat. Its mascot,
sir!''
Without saying a word, the boat-owner
ducked down, grabbed the yellow dog by
his body, lifted him in his arms, and gave
him squeeze that drowned the snarl In
long, discomforted yelp. go for collar
as quick as you can," he called out tn one
of the lads, land have Defender" put
upon it. Get silver chain, or gold one
il you want to, and See that it is strong.
This mascot is not going to get away, IL l
can help it,
With the yellow dog In his arms, the
usually dignified head of Americas yacht
syndicate, executed delighted dance.
Take him aboard the Defender" he
ordered a sailor near by, land get some
thing to swab off this mascot with. Don't
wash bin too clean. May take off the
luck"
When Mrs. Jseiin saw the dog she was
highly delighted. She bought him yellow
ribbon, parted his hair, and brushed 1t as
well as its texture would allow, and
scrubbed his nose into a semblance of
pinkness.
What breed would you-er take that dog
to be?" asked Mr.. Ise.in of an old salt
who stood hitching his tfousers and watch
ing the lucky founding. waller, sir,
doan know, an yit do know! On Ian they
doan have very perlite names fur animals
an things thet doani know whar they cum
from. But on sea were perliter. should
say that thar dorg was a cross between a
yaller cur and a SON of a sea dorg!''
vIGILANT'sj BIRD.
The yaller ours sgeiealogy was duly
entered in the ships log, and now none
so ornamental as he upon the fore deck.
The yigilanrs parrot-is both beautiful
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before the Queen accepted him as son-in-
law, ne was sailing around in 62-ton
yawl That was in 1874, and coon after
that he got rid of her and bought q
schooner, the Gelert, 80 feet on the water
line. His twenty -rater, the Asphodel, was
built for him in 1894, by Watson. He will
probably get another one soon, for he is an
enthusiast in all forms of out door sports
and shows such q disregard for his neck
when he rides to hounds, that many Brit
ishers have forgiven him his foreign birth
and good luck.
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Milord's Girls Are of the
every English" Variety.
LADIES RACHEL AND ALLEN
"Cup Girls in General Are
Willy Mrs. Gould's
Yachting Gowns.

New York, Sept 14.-Cup, cup, cupl 1t
is nothing but the cup! Cup dinners, cup
snppers, cup excursions down the bay. And
that is not all; there has sprung up out of
the September winds a new creation, the
cup girl, and SO popular is she become in
these Dunraven days that the summer girl
is completely forgotten, and even the pretty
girl is extremely insipid compared to her.
Two English girls now set the type for
the cup girl. They are the Ladies Rachel
and Aileen Dunraven. They are followers
OF the cup, literally chasing 1t over the
ocean for the second time, and they hover
around it, as IL stands in Tiffany's window
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and complaining of the part of British tax
payers OF radical tendencies. He is q
colonel in the British army, colonel of the
Isle of Wight Volunteers, Captain General
and Governor of the Isle of Wight, and Gov
ernor of Carisbrooke Castle. His taste
for salt water, however, is not simulated
merely to please the British public Long
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and accomplished She is a poll, was
picked up or bought down In the West
Indies, joUrneyed to England in sail
ing vessel and was presented to Mr.. Gould
by a sailor who applied for q position in
the crew. The parrots repertoire of
language is large and nautical. She conf
monty sits upon the mast head and sings
out her orders to the crew.
"Larboard, II you can't remember it,
starboardI'' is her first order every morn
ing as after her cup of sweetened coffee
she settles down forf,e days work. As
the breeze rises she calls out: "Luff, luff!
Larboard, starboard." To all newcomers
she says "Howdy," holding out an aniabIx
claw, and to her intimates she shouts:
"Hows your mother-in-law?' in the most
rollicking voice imagina BILE. The Vigil
ants mascot has her sad hours as well as
her gay ones. at these times she laments
loudly calling out: 'Where's my Ida?
Where's my Ida? The only girl ever
loved! Ida, come to my rescue I'm
swooning away!''
Polly vigilant has her convivial moods.
In these she digs a claw into her feathers
in imitation of a pocket. "Jest sixpence,"
she announces. "Jest enough to buy
small bottle of ink when we get on shore.
Open a small bottle OF fink with me-"
The cries and remarks of this bird are
much appreciated by the crew, and never
is Miss Polly badly treated except when
uttering her convivial cries when the boat
is being beaten. The sailors VIII not allow
her to rejoice then, and she is hit over the
head with a cup of hard salt water if she
attempts a laugh or remark about 1.-The
small bottle of ink"
sUPERHUMAN VALKYRIE.
Half way over TO America the Valkyrie
enjoyed poor spell of weather. She did not
sail well, nor would her rigging set firm and
trim as i; should. The devils in the Ship
grumbled the mate, running to larboard and
TO starboard to see what was the matter.
ma bit," replied sailor, .'but she
sees yon pretty bird making for her an
she's waiting for the creature"
"You pretty BIRD was a great white
seagull. Its breast, like snow, showed
above the boat ike fleecy cloud in a
blue sky, and not until she. settled on the
topmast did the men see that her wings
were black as night. Never was seasuil
blacker Oh top and winter underneath
than the Valkyrie gull. 1t Journeyed all
the way to thiss country on top the mast
coming down to eat crumbs off the deck,
and it is still resident Of the boat.
When the mascot gull shows its white
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uncle, the Prince of Wales. He is not the
sort of man who relishes being left behind
In anything that he goes in for, so at the
close OF last year he commissioned Watson
10 design him twenty y-rater She was built
IN Germany under Watson's supervision.
She is iin-keel boat, but not OF the same
extreme type as the Niagara. Neither has
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HOWARD GOULD'S NIAGARA
Sport Across the Atlantic
Among Titled Swells.
CRACK OF TWENTY RATERS
A Herreshoff Boat Which
Beats the Kaiser's and
Dunraven's.

When George Gould was racing the
vigilant against the Prince of Wales
Britannia last year, and losing most Of
the time, some !Ill-natured persons said
of him that he was trying harder to get
into swell society across the Atlantic
than he was to win races. No more
emphatic refutation of that charge could
have been given than this patriotic and
public spirited course this year in foregoing
any furtherracing with the Prince of Wales
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Historical warrant.

Nurse-Bertie, you naughty boy, leave
off playing with your soldiers directly
Haven't told you that you mustn't play
with them on Sunday?
Bertie-Yes, nurse; but this is religious
War.-Golden Days