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Show If the plats of Thomas W. l-aweon to havo Boston represented In the trial racci to pTck a defender for the Amer-Ica'a Amer-Ica'a Cup sre successful and It the Boston Bos-ton boat fo selected for the honor, It will be Tom of Boston sgalnst Tom of London, copper ogatnst ten, Boston brains and, New England teaman-hip against slmllir British products Although lit does not ssy so In so many words Ur Lawson hints that he will have the assistance nnd advice of thu euccesiful veteran of cup defense history, General Charles J Paine, of Boston, owner in whole or In part of the Puritan, Mayflower nnd Volun-teor Volun-teor The make-up of the crew has nut been settled (beyond the skipper, nnd Mr Lawson hints that notable college athlctea will hive places In the crew, but this may be changed aa tho programme pro-gramme evolves. Mr Lawson's desire to havo the yacht sailed by New Icelanders Ice-landers from Watson down, with a sprinkling of amateurs la In line with his desire tojnake the boat thoroughly representntlri of that section of the country thai hat led tho world In yachting for yeara. There wlljjbe no aecrecy about the Boston boatf Bhe will not be built In a tightly closed shed and launched In "pettlcoats,"?s wss tho Columbia Neither wllljjt be given out that ahe Is to be built, by one firm, while on other Is secretly at work upon her Tho public wW be at liberty to Inspect her at all stkes, snd Invitations will bo Issued to no members of tho syndicate syn-dicate controllng the New 'York boal and to the lfe-reshoffs ta attend the launching of tie Boston yacht From now n sjl those connected with the liuSjAe.of tb boat will hustle Designer Crownlnshleld gavo an order lost week for the model, that Is tho little wooden Image to exact scale of tho new boat. When this has been passed upon by the Advisory board It will be reduced to bluo prints, and tho work of drawing each framo 'and part to scale will be begun Mr 1-uwson Is a New Rnglandcr by birth and a Southerner by descent Ho Is In lino from John Lawson, first surveyor-general of North Carolina In tho province period, who enmo over from England In or about 1700, roamed about tho country In tho pursuit of his calling, came much In contact with the Indians and wrote a book on the Car-ollnas, Car-ollnas, which was published in London Lon-don Three of Mr Iawson's uncles were Episcopal clergymen, and ho was reared In the Episcopal faith. Mr tawson's lovi of flowers and knowledge of them ! one of his notable nota-ble characteristics Tho story of his '830000 pink" has traveled tho country. coun-try. Kor four yeara before thla particular partic-ular carnation flower, Mr, Lawson was the purchaser of all that wera grown, buying for his wife first when ahe waa an Invalid Upon her recovery It Tvaa uaed largely In dinner table decorations, decora-tions, and In vases In their several homes At length, out of compliment to his wife. It was ghen her name "the Mrs Thomas W. l.awson pink " Then the new flower won a silver cup, offered by Mr lawson himself, In competition com-petition In n Boston flower show Then various efforts wero made to rapture It An offer of 10 000 for a stock plnnt wss made by lllgglnbothnm, uf Chicago Chi-cago Then came an otter of $15 003 from n New V)rk firm for one halt the product of tho greenhouse at which It wns produced Mr Lawson raised Mr lllfglnbolhams offer by 11,000, or 17 000 for n single plant tn be given to the clt) nf Boston for propagation by Hie city forester, provided its name be not changed and the right to propagate prop-agate It bo given to no one else Then, tho competition waxing warm, ho made his offer of 830,000 for lho whole "output' "out-put' or 8 000 plants It was the largest larg-est prlco etcr paid any variety of marketable (loner ,Mr Lawson Is said to be wUIIng to pay as extravagant a price for n winning win-ning yacht. JlcxJeridle and the Ureaty. Senator llcvcrldgn of Indiana, became, be-came, temporarily nt least, n factor In tho senate during the discussion of t ONE OV Mil LAWSON 8 STEAM YACHTS tho Hay-Pauncefoto treaty. He had original and logical Ideas about that Instrument Ho was opposed to tho original draft and made his opposition felt both In and out of executive session. ses-sion. It would take a long tlmo for Beverldgu to overcome tho Impressions he created Immediately after his first advent In Washington The oldtr senators sen-ators will hardly forgive blm for tho courso ho pursued during the first session ses-sion of tho fifty-sixth congress This was Indicated about ten days ao when tho number of thu leaders of the He publican majority got together one night for a confcrcnco on tho Hay-Pauncefoto Hay-Pauncefoto treaty They rutsemblcd at a somewhat later hour than had been originally fixed and Senator Krye was tho last member of the conference to arrive As ho entered the room whero tho meeting was to be held and glanced around at his dignified associates he caused a ripple of laughter by gravely asking, "What has not tho leader of tho senate arrived! Ileally, I tan not see how wo can proceed to transact business" Ha mentioned no name, but everybody understood who ho meant Charles Holllnson Lamb, the architect archi-tect of tho Dowey arch In New York city, Is a grandson of Charles Itollln-son, Itollln-son, who was tho most prominent steel engraver of his time and who, when the committee walled upon him to en- Hfl grave tho set of gold buttons for tbo B suit In which lho first president of the H United Stairs was In take his o-tth of office, did the work nnd refused com- pcnsatlon saying that tho honor was sufficient Mtntc and riant -t, H The latest musical folly la that re- H rently announced by Professor Hans H Tlctgen, n Herman musical savant Un H has discovered plants that are sensl H tlve to music llosays he hns n plsnt H that unfolds Its leaves when some one H begins playing but closes them again H t the music Incomes dissonant Homo H planta he affirms are stimulated by H pleasant harmonics and n symphony M will expedite tho blossoming of a rose. M It la to be hoped Professor Tlctgen will H follow up his Investigations. If a sin- H gle plsnt Is amenable tn the concord H of aweel sounds a wholo garden of M plants should manifest the same prcu H llarlty, provided thero Is music enough M A brass liand might be usefully cm- M ployed In expediting the products of a M Mil LAWSON UTItAININO KAIUl M truck farm while a mandolin orches- H Ira could be relied upon to stlmulsta H a flower garden much as It dots a H "rosebud garden of girls." Some dla- B crimination should be? used, however, H In the music played No one can Im- H aglno the havoc which might bo ere- BJ atcd In a cabbago field or a celery farm M It a Strauss tone poem were let looao HI In all Its noisy dissonance M Europe.' Industrial Crisis. H Tho state department at Washington H Is advised by lis consults nt some of BJ the European trado centers that an H Industrial and financial crisis Is Ira- H ponding there, If Indeed It has not ac- H tually begun from Uermnny comes H the assertion that "the wav- of Indus- H trial prosperity In Europe, which has steadily risen slnro 1895 has taken n H turn and begun to recede,' that all H signs point to a crisis In ludustrlal fl lines before two years bare paaacd, and I that any political disturbance m!gh,t bring on tho Inevitable crash with ex- tremo suddenness. In verification of theso discouraging predictions It U I pointed nut that houso rents and In- I dustrlal stocks have begun to decline, I that factories nro closing and that tho I shipping Interests and water material I Industries are making the most nf tho South African and Chinese disturb- 1 anccs. German students of economics I analyze tho situation as being the result re-sult of overproduction IVllnburgh university Is to lose Its octogenarian president Sir William Mulr, who la 81, will retire Ik. fore tho new century Is many months nld Ills public service goes back U) the Indian mutiny, through which ho was In chargo of the Inlellgcnco department at Agrn I)r Jameson, tho leader of the famous fa-mous raid on tho Transvaal, left for j Swilh Africa today with the Intention j -( urging Cecil Ithodcs to push his j schema for the federation and paclfl- ( cation of South Africa. I |