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Show A. C. CLEVELAND. Tho announcement' of tho death of Hon. A. C. H Cleveland of Nevada is most sad news. It H comes a personal bereavement, for the dead man H and the writer of this were low; near neighbors H and tho friendship between them never had a H break or jar or doubt durinir the forty years H since it began. H Mr. Cleveland was a native of Maine and went H to California in the late fifties. Ho wont with tho crowd to tho Comstock and was all his life there- H after a resident of Nevada. H His first work in Nevada was tho supplying H of timbers to the Gould & Cirey mine. In 18G9 H he removed to Hamilton, Nevada, and three years H later removed to his farm ii Eastern Nevada, where his permanent homo was made. He was as I brave a man and loyal as ever walked the earth; H one of the most gonial and ligb .-hearted of men; I he was a, shrewd judge of human nature, a nat- H ural diplomat and altogether loveable. I His farm has been a free stopping place for I travelers for years. Ho was several terms a I member of the Nevada Legislature; was twice I a candidate for Governor, and had tho necessary I votes pledged to elect him senator three years I ago. Ho held many other places of trust. Ho I was a sterling, honest, high-minded, tender-heart- I ed, splendid man. Ho would not permit a gun to I bo fired near his home, lest it frightened away I tho birds; ho saw to the feeding of his cats and I dogs personally and still he was ready to fight at I any odds if aroused and ho was easily aroused I and up to a' few years ago if there was a horse I on the ranch that the men feared to mount Clevq- I land always rode him. He built up. probably the finest farm In Ne- I vada, and it has been said of all his thousands I of live stock that thoy are all thoroughbreds. I When the Nevada Legislature met three years I ago, ho wont to Carson City, was suddenly seized , I with pneumonia and though he recovered, the dis- I easo left his heart in a precarious state, and never I thereafter did ho regain his old ruddy complex- I ion or his old elastic stop. We suspect his heart I suddenly stopped, for only a few days since a I friend here received one of his old jolly letters , I I Sat' i i I if - - - - IS Iii Neve that all the excitement of yacht racing has KB 'I I . ever caused Sir ThomaB to forget his business, I f ; ;r and we venture the belief that his profits on tea El J ! i) I since he commenced yacht racing, at least racing HI f II for the cup, have increased more than the cost 1 iff of building and racing his yachts. Hence, -while B il ; P his pluck may awaken admiration, there is no H I ' ' f sympathy due him. We do not believe that he B 1 craves any. K 1 1 i The truth is that this rush for money makes B It; I us all a little flighty at times. When a live Lord B 1 ' a spends a little of his income in building and rac- B ; Jj! ing yachts, we say, "how wonderful!" and when B I V he is aIrly Deaten we say "What a pity!" But I 1 though the tar-heel who lost the $1.50 went home If without the calico which he had promised his wife I i !!, he would bring if he won, none of us' feel any ! 'jhf v sympathy for him and the chances are he was ob-I ob-I P ' i'i liged to cook his own supper or eat a cold one. I hi j! He had no sympathy though he very likely lay I If si awake half the night succeeding the pulling match I h ' ,1 and thought how different his prospects in life I 'I were to what they would have been had he won I I ; ; J the $1.50. I ill But speaking of yacht racing, would it not be B wel1 for the New York Yacht Club to revise its I ft ! T rules? When the old America off Cowes won the I ti .; t cup fifty-two years ago, she was a craft that had I 1 ! . . ij crossed the Atlantic in her racing suit and, the . l I'ace over, she was ready again for the deep sea, I j F and for many years thereafter was a most valua- ! i ble vessel. But of late years there has been such . ! 1 a straining for speed that all usefulness has been I i t h taken away from the flying machines. Would it I ' j a not be well for the club to announce that future 'I ffi challengers must be for long-distance, deep-sea ! f sailing, (to Bermuda and back, for instance), and H cl that yachts should bo judged hereafter for their H Jg I usefulness as well as for their speed? The Re-H Re-H j ! lianco and Shamrock III are mere worthless toys, H j 1 1 fit only for rich men's races near shore. Why H gi g'f j should men play with toys? in i(I ' ii |