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Show H Hjj THE ATLANTIC. A magazine before us has pictures of all' the Bu yachts that competed in the late contest, and looking at them as illustrated under full sail, an amateur would pick out the winner as readily as would the stable boy, should he see a dozen cold-HD cold-HD blooded horses entered to race against one full- blood horse. Looking at the yacht pictures the Hfl first thought with thousands has been: "If her masts and spars are not carried away the Atlantic will be a sure winner." Still it must have been a little uncomfortable on board if the winds were fresh. The chances are that her lee rail was out of sight half the time, and that no sailor aboard of her had a dry rag of clothing on him from Hb shore to shore, for her decks must have been re- H peatedly swept by seas. But then her feat of Hj crossing the Atlantic in twelve days was worth the trouble. Columbus had three little ships, two Bj without decks, but with them he discovered a world. Captain Barr was also on a voy-age voy-age of discovery. It was to see if a certain craft WM of which he was master could not find Europe, D sailing from New York, in less time than any sail- H ing vessel had ever made, and he, like Columbus, Hf found his world. It was a good trick, too, for it K' gives the wprld the cpmfprting assurance that when all the coal and coal oil of the world are consumed, it will still be possible for man to sail the seas and make good time unless the weather weath-er signal men run the winds down to their caves and lock them in. |