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Show Monarclis of the Sea Wbon the America won the Ikat International In-ternational yacht rare at t'owoa, Kng-latid, Kng-latid, fifty-two yeara axo. tho world little) knew at tho time Hint on a farm at Point Pleaannl. llrlxtol. It. I. two children worn playing who would It yachting and rupld navlKiitlon 1 generally, an all round, far reaching linpotua auch aa. Ill all Iho wide world, thoy bad never felt brloro. Tho aider, John II. HcrroHhoff, a aandy balrod, bluo-uyed, eiirut nt looking boy of ten, although foredoomed tn a life of , bllndneaa. could then aeo, and had ; alroady begun to whittle out pretty ; toy boata. Only three or four yeara I later ba built hla flriit boat for ao- Itual uaa. which waa considered a marvel of beauty and a d. At fifteen, fif-teen, hla ey en Ik tit failed him foravur, but ha would not bit anything die-oourage die-oourage hlin, an he cotitlnued tn aludy i boata, and to build them, too. The i younger, "Nat," a rathur roddlnh balr-; balr-; ad, rrddy faced, rotoilnh toddlor ot tkrno, at tho time of tho Cowoa eon-tout, eon-tout, - waa noted chiefly for au Irroproe-albla Irroproe-albla Inclination to run away to the 1 aliore near by, at every favorable op- portunlty, and lie uown on bla back In the aand and kick hla benla omit-antly omit-antly In tho wuter. Ho waa found often asleep lu thla poattlon by hla anxloua-' mother, one chubby band ; claaplng a wlnp of aonwcod, tho other full of et rauil, with Iho rliilng tide waablug hla buiu feet. Wheniivur ha j waa inlHxIuK hu waa nrl aoiiKlit for t on tha atiore, where, If ho waa awake and aaw that hla movements wura notod, ho would m'ltrrnHy npnnd tilA tltno In wati hhiK in-irtln Rhipri or atllnft rhtH nr toy bun'ii. Wht'n nldcr gmwn h tttndtd tli priintiry, litlrrmi'diulu und Krmntnnr h.1imIh, mid, luf or. tho hlwh nrhivd, undir thn prlncli aUhip ot Tlionm W. lllrknnll. now livlntc 111 Pntvldi'nro, tnt Htiya he w nlwuyn wdl tithitvd and HtudloiiR, only an nntlnnry puptl : In Kruminnr, rcndln-r. hik'IHiik r hin tory, hut hrlriht In phynlrul Kt'oKrapliy, umt'ltra, gi'iimolry. nd clioui.Hiry. and rumarkRMy kvt In imlurnl plillnn-ophy. plillnn-ophy. At this tlnio hn wiih lull for till K, thin, r.Ulior Hlondt-r, noino what liNMidy built, and had a notice ablo forward Inclination of tho hoad whlrh braamtt tnoro and muro pro tiounrod from a habit ho hau of cloio-ly cloio-ly wutfhliiK rival In hla many boat moon, cranlnK hla nock In nrdvr to aoo thorn from under hla boom. Mr. incline 11 Maya that tho mother of the young lIurrcMhtilTM, althouxh a Tory nmy woman, nmnanod to vlxlt tho hlh Bi:hoil two or throe tlmea a week on an av ram. and onrouraKod her children, aomu of whom woro blind, lu all ways poMxthlo. "My niolhor." aald Johu B. Uorronboff to tho writer. In IM?, "la olnhtyolnht, and atlll enjoya good bi-uHh, If I hava ono thing moro than unnthor to bo thankful tor. It Ih for her euro In childhood mul hor aynipnthy thr'oiik'h Hie. Hho iH ono of the boMt of tnothoi-H, and I fiol that I owo her a dubt I can never ropy." Hho haa I allied died. riuet'ess. |