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struck US, and piling in over the cathead
fill the decks and so tax the scupper-holes
that we had to burst the bulwarks to let
the water run off.
We were cold, wet and hungry, and when
eight bells struck Liverpool Jim was the
first TO reach the fo'k'sle and snatching up
lthe empty wooden kid rushed with it to
the galley and returned with big ''plum
duff" that was smoking hot. There were
sixteen of US in the watch, SO Jim pitched
in and cut it into sixteen pieces, using for
the purpose his sheath-knife, the one that
he cut his tobacco with and the tarry ropes
that he spliced. Ship-owners then didn't
provide sailors with carving nor any other
kind of knives and the head carver of the
watch usually cleaned his by rubbing it up
and down the leg of his trousers that were
so stiff they would stand alone from tar,
grease and dirt.
We who were nearest the kid had the
first whack at the duff" and by the time
the men at the wheel reached the fo'k'sle
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her servants, but gives them an encourage
ing word now and then. She makes their
lives as comfortable as she can. They have
plenty of good food and have hot dinner
every day of the year. Each of them has
room to herself. Mrs. Schieffelin has
provided large sitting-room for them, a
large front basement-room which is car
peted and supplied with tables prettily
covered, easy chairs, book shelves and good
readable books. Here they can receive
their friends. No work except ironing is
done in this room, and the ironing board
is out of sight when not in use.
The servants go to the theater once or
twice during the winter, and always have
a Christmas dinner served in courses, to
which they invite two or three friends.
When the family goes to Europe the serv-
ants are not discharged. Mrs. Schieffelin
has found this a satisfactory arrangement.
When she last arrived from Europe she
found that the servants had put the house
in perfect order and had placed every
ornament where it belonged. Some of her
servants take an interest in woman's sui
frage and in politics and read the news
papers regularly Milwaukee Sentinel.
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all had been supplied but themselves.
Looking into the kid and seeing both
heels-or end pieces-they growled and
cursed the duff, the plums, the kid and
the day.
Both were fighters, and as such were the
"bullies'' of the watch. In the slang of
the time they were known as "bucco
sailors" or the "bloody fortys." There
were many other hard cases in our watch,
yet, strange to say, these two fellows had
us all cowed.
"I'm not one as is goin' to put up with
any of this bulldozing, said Yorky,
in his hand, and asked, "Did the skipper
send his spyglass with the duff? ! can t
see any of them blasted plums with me
naked eye"
No. said his chum, Wexford Dan, ~
don't s'pose he did, and with an oath he
continued: "Look you here, .Yorky,, can
only see two plums in this piece and they
are so far apart that bloody old slave
driver ought ter send us donkey to carry
me from one plum to t'other. I'd like to
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Don't bulge shipmatesl" yelled Dan,
always spelling for fight of some kind,
I'VE amt done nothing that he should put
US in irons for"
you ish to plain, you fool, for what you
be no satisfied mid the schmall piece
cried the now exasperated German, who
had gained his feet; but Dams hard and
wicked fist soon silenced him, seeing which
the captain jumped from the poop and
buried his big iron Delaying pin in Dams
head, cutting it open and telling him to
the slippery deck. Yorky with blow
from his fist sent the captain sprawling
into the scuppers, kicked him in the face
and was In the act of pushing him over
board through a hole in the bulwarks,
when the second mate, upon hearing the
row, rushed on deck and struck him with
HEAVIER, breaking his arm below the elbow
and cutting cash in the side of his face
that reached from the roots of his hair to
the end of his chin.
Dan and Yorky, after their wounds were
roughly dressed by the boatswain, were
thrown down into the lazarette; some
of us were sent aloft in the binding snow
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GRADING The new TRACK.
FIRST WORK OF CONSTRUCTING THE
OCEAN VIEW RACECOURSE
BEGINS.
EVERYTHING WILL BE IN READ1-
NESS FOR RACING TO BEGIN
NEXT NOVEMBER.

A large force of workmen will begin to-
morrow morning to grade the Ingleside
Tract for the new racetrack that is to sur
pass all others west of Chicago. They will
have no time to lose, for before half the
ground is graded building will be COM
menced.
The various contracts call for extensive
operations and require all work to be fin
ished before next September SO during the
summer the grounds will daily present a
busy spectacles. On November next the
new track will be formally opened and
racing for the winter season be commenced.
In all, it has been estimated that before
the track is completed an outlay of $780,
600 will be represented in the enterprise.
The ground alone, which has an area of 1877
acres, lying south of the Ocean House
road, behind the Ingleside cottage, cost
$500, 900. Grading will cost $4,000 and
buildings about $4,000
Ed. Corrigan, A. B. Spreckels, Henry
}. Crocker and Joseph Ullman are the
principal men in the company, and have
many well-known Eastern horsemen asso-
ciated with them. They will at once erect
stalls for 400 horses, and Mr.. Spreckels
and Mr. Corrigan will have their racers
housed there as soon as the stables are
ready. Before the racing season opens
there will be many of the best Eastern
strings at Ocean View. A novelty in the
treatment of horses will then be introduced
on a large scale. The track is but short
distance from the ocean beach, and horses
Will be taken there daily and given salt
water baths to strengthen and harden the
sinews of their legs to degree that cannot
be reached with fresh-water bathing. Great
care Will be taken to have the track prop
erly drained and so arranged with LAYERS of
coarse rock, broken stones and sand that it
will absorb rain water rapidly and keep
hard and firm during the winter
So far as the buildings are concerned
they will be copy of the celebrated Haw-
thorne track at Chicago, with all the latest
Improvements added. There will be a
betting ring, and many conveniences that
viii be new in San Francisco. Besides. the
grounds are to be set out in ornamental
shrubs, and grove OF eucalyptus and cy-
press will be planted Immediately to form
a break against the winds.
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uff, +" said Yorky, stepping out from

the duff" said Yorky, stepping out from
among US.
The - you do. What's the matter
with it?" asked the mate, savagely.
What's the matter with it? IT'S
rotten, that's what It's, sir, cried Dan, as
he took a position close to Yorky. '"Tisn't
fit for pigs to eat, SO faint, and we've all
come aft to see the captain and ak him to
look at it"
Dan was a square-shouldered deep
chested, powerfully built man of about %
years of age. He had massive jaw and
was very ugly looking. There wasn't a
hair on his face. He wouldn't allow any
to grow on it. Instead of shaving he
pulled it all out with his fingers, and he
kept the hair that grew on his head cut
close TO the scalp. He had an idea that
his strength went into his hair. His
body, he used to say, furnished nourish-
ment for the hair the same as
the earth nourished wild weeds,
and as he wanted muscles instead of
hair he had pulled the latter out
by the roots. His muscles were very large
and hard. I've seen them when he was
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commandment received the letter with all
due respect and read from it as follows:
"a deep-laid plot has been organized at
Berlin, the object of which is to effect the
torclble release of the convict, Kinkel,
from the hands of the authorities We are
now watching the movements of the con-
Splrators and are preparing to arrest them.
In order, however, to prevent the POSSIBLE
lty OF a surprise, the bearer of the present
letter, Colonel -, is commanded to take
charge of your prisoner, whom he will i'm
mediately conduct to the citadel of Magde-
bourg, and there place him in the hands of
the Governor of that fortress"
The commandant had the unfortunate
klnkel aroused, heavily ironed and placed
in the postchaise, which set off at once at q
rapid pace, guarded by the colonel and the
four dragons, with drawn sabers, on the
at high speed, taking relays of horses, the
uniform of the colonel and the magical
words, "On the Kings service, being suf-
fcient to secure the highest expedition
They rode all night. but the morning
came at last-a gray winters morning
and they stopped, and the colonel himself
opened the carriage door and babe the
prisoner alight, as their journey was ended.
Kinkel obeyed, and found himself not at
Magdebourg but on the seashore, a boat
drawn up a few feet from where he stood,
and in the offing ship with the British
flag flying. Don't you know me, my dear
master?' cried the counterfeit colonel,
tearing off his false mustachio. "I am
Carl Schurz. Come, let us embrace once
more on German soil, and then away for
England"
Kinkel could not speak. He could only
burst into tears. In a few moments they
were in the boat and rowing toward the
ship in the otfing. As they assembled the
vessels side Kinkel put his arm about
SchurZ, saying: "My wife, my children,
where are they?'
He said no more, for in another moment
Nine. Kinkel was in his arms, and his
children were clinging to his knees.
The reward which Carl Schurz received
for this heroic deed was the enthusiastic
applause of all Europe.
The subsequent life of Kinkel of more
than thirty years was peaceful one. He
landed at Edinburgh where he was most
cordially received by the cultivated society
of that capital. He soon afterward went
to London, supporting himself by series
of lectures on German literature. In 1852
he came to this country with Carl Schurz.
but after while he returned to England,
where he was appointed professor of Ger
man literature and lecturer on the fine
arts in the University of London. He held
this position until his death on November
IL, 1882, lecturing occasionally in Paris on
Christian art, but he never again set foot
in his beloved fatherland.
JAMES r. GILMORE.
Copyright, 1895, by s. S. Mcclure Limited.
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QUARTER De- JUSTICE
OK
How JACK h9ST Ill
--1--- -" PLUM DUP
q -

Our captain was a Yankee who traced
his genealogy to Plymouth Rock and be-
hind it to Penzance, small seaport town
in the west of England. He came from a
family OF sailors and was proud of his
grandfather, whom he used to talk about
as the boatswains mate of the old frigate
Constitution.
To-day is Washington's birthday he
said, calling out to the steward, who had
picked himself up out of the lee scuppers,
where he had been washed by a sea as he
was trying to reach the galley; tell the
cook to give 'em a mess OF plum duff for
ward, and let 'em have an extra allowance
in honor of the day"
The gale that had been blowing for sew
eral days seemed to stick to US, and the
snow and hail that fell upon the yards and
shrouds froze solid, making US look like a
floating iceberg, and the big green waves
that rose away off on the weather bow
would curl up into kissing froth as they
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''Pass it up here. Let me see it."
Eyes, SIR here's mine, sir, said Yorky,

"Pass it up here. Let me see it."
Eyes, sir; here's mine, sir, said Yorky,
handing his up.
tAnd mine, too" interrupted Dan.
care you all dissatisfied ?" asked Captain
Nickerson, looking at the rest of US, who
stood in a group around the BOBBY hatch
in our dripping oilskins.
eve speaks for the watch" cried Dan.
81 didn't ask you, you burgoo-eating
hound, your roared Nickerson, turning
around and grabbing one of the iron be-
others speak for themselves"
"Yorky and Dan, they speaks for the
starboard watch, sir, spoke up Liverpool
Jim.
''Then let me have your duff, all of you.
Call the steward, Mr.. Lane. There are
plenty of Steerage passengers who will be
glad to eat it. Here, steward, take these
mems dinners from them; good living is
Il stranger to their stomachs; they're toe
we'll fed anyhow. If this rough weather
continues much longer Ill have to put
them on short allowance"
Kohler, German, whose bunk was
under mine, hated to lose his duff-and
many of US sympathized with him, bui
lacked the courage to speak out-said
"Dhan un Yorky obey shay It's nashty
bat I'm tam hungry, sir"-blff, and away
went plate and duff into the lee scuppers
Yorky had given it kick that knocked il
out of his hands, and Jim hit him q
thump in the back of the head that landed
him beside his duff, with "Take that
you saurkraut-eating houndl'
t'Put those two mutinous scoundrels in
irons and trice 'em up' shouted the cap.
tain to the mate, "and get to - forward
out of here! be - quick about it the
rest of you!"
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A discussion of the servant question, now
being conducted by New York journal,
has brought to light mistress of much
intelligence. Her name is Mrs. w. H.
Schieffelin, and her. treatment of servants
is model which other troubled mistresses
should try to copy. Mrs. Schieffelin begins
by insisting, whenever she engages serv-
ants, that they shall agree to do what
ever they are asked, that they shall never
say that this, that or the other is not
their work. Having induced them TO
make this agreement, she does not
abuse the right. She feels at liberty
to ask the upstairs girls to help in
the dining-room, but does not often request
this service. She is not afraid to praise
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take the whole bloody lot of it and ram it
down his bloody throat, | would"
That's the way to talk it, - exclaimed
Yorky. "Blowed if I'm goin to cheat my
stomach by givin' it plum duff as isn't
plum duff. Come, let's all go"
"Yes, all you fellows come too" shouted
Dan, and being too cowardly to say no we
got up and went carrying our duff with
us. Many were reluctant to go, as we
were hungry and our mouths were water
ing for a mess of plum duff, the first that
we had since leaving Liverpool, thirty
three days before TO say no meant a
broken head, so we joined the procession
to the poop in binding storm, with our
duff under our oilskin coats to shelter it
from the whitened spray that drenehed the
decks.
When we got as far as the BOBBY hatch
Mr.. Forsyth, the chief mate, demanded to
know what we wanted.
1--WE want to see the cap'n, sir, about
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with slush pots to grease down the masts,
and we not only lost our "plum duff" din
ner, but our watch below.
There were four hundred and fifty emf
grants-young men and women slowed
away in the tween decks beneath battered
down hatches unmindful of the fact that
on the wave-swept decks above them a
bloody encounter had taken place that
might have brought about the destruction
of the Connecticut and turned her into a
coffin and the combers which curled up
around us into burial shrouds for her liy-
ing freight. DENIS KEARNEY.
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On the
Street!

Close observers have noticed that during
the past year there has been marked i'm
provement in the character of the footwear
seen here on the street. Further investi-
cation will reveal the fact that this is so
because that footwear includes thousands
of pairs of fine shoes from San Francisco's
big factory at 5s1-583 Market street that
were retailed direct to the wearers at fac
tory-that is retailers cost-prices.
The money paid for them is no more
than inferior shoes would have cost at the
retail price.
Thus the bold departure of this impor-
tant local industry has enabled people to
spend less and dress their feet as we'll; or
spend no more and dress them much
better
ROSENTHAL, FEEDER & CO. have
just entered on the second year of their
retail-the twenty-sixth of their whole
sale-career; and as their extraordinary
offer is becoming more generally known
every day they are apt to double their
business this year.
The retail business is confined strictly to
city and suburbs. This department
(ground floor 581-5S3 Market streeD is
open every night till and Saturdays
till 10.
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JUDGE CAMPBELL MANDAMUsED.
Liauor-Dealer Does Not Like the
Election Pledges.

Albert Baldetta, now on trial in Judge
Campbelps Police Court for selling liquor
without license, has secured writ of
mandamus from the Superior Court COM
polling Judge Campbell to transfer his case
to another court.
The writ is issued in pursuance of one of
the contentious which have been going on
in the Police courts over the election
pledges of the Judges. In..his application
Baldetta sets forth that in The Republican
platform, which Campbell Endorsed. was a
plank which pledged all candidates, if
elected, to use their best endeavors to re-
strict and suppress just such places of bust
ness as he is carrying on. For that reason
he alleges prejudice, and wants his case
transferred. This was refused, and Bal
delta now has his writ, which will be heard
before Judge Sanderson next Friday.
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Hunting Unstamped opium

The customs authorities have again turned
their attention to Chinatown 1t is
thought that large quantities of unstamped
opium are concealed there, and Surveyor Eng
lish seems determined to unearth it if he can.
work under his instructions, and number of
small seizures have been made. Yesterday ten
cans of the unstamped drug were found at %
cooking outfit was found in one of the base
ments on Cum Cook alley.
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NO OLEWS WE'RE DISCLOSED

The Inquest on Cornelius Stage Reveals
No New Facts.
The inquest upon the remains of Cor
nelius Stage, proprietor of the Ingleside,
who was murdered on the 18th inst, was
held in the Coroner's Office yesterday.
Nothing of sensational character was
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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 81, 1895.
DIR. A. T. SANDEN-Dear Sir: L have now filed
out my report to you of the first months use of
your DIR. Sandens Electric Belt. When | got this
belt from you i thought il would be miracle If it
cured me. L was wreck in body and mind weak
suspicious, fearful and skeptca of everything in
Guiding myself. Now hardly dare tell You how
Nearly all waste of power has stopped; there is
now hardly sign of il left. The vigOr that is
priced highly began returning in two weeks, and
can see it growing daily. Development has been
pronounced. and 1 am more daring, firm and
powerful. feel as IL were many years younger;
clear-headed and stronger in mind and body. This
appliance is very grand thing a medical agent,
and will not part with it at any cost. 1 am now
certain that will soon be restored to manhood. L
write TO me again address me
JOHN WALLIN,
General Postofice San Francisco
This letter is beacon-light TO sufferers II leads
the erring one TO safe and road to health-to
the perfection of strong and vigorous manhood.
If you are wasting time and money in drugging,
stop it: Throw physic TO the dogs. If you have
done nothing toward recovering your strength act
quickly. Time wears swiftly upon falling vital
forces and each day neglected now brings you five
days nearer the end of your life-line''
A pocket edition OF the celebrated astronomical
work, ''Three Classes OF Men," illustrated is sent
free sealed, by mail, upon application. Every
young, middle-aged or old suffering the slight
est weakness should read it. 1t will point out an
EASY, SURE AND SPEEDY WAY TO REGAIN
STRENGTH AND HEALTH WHEN EVERY
THING ELSE HAS FAILED. Address
SANDEN ELECTRIC COMPANY,
Council Building, Portland, Oregon.
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he found Wonderful Cure for Lost
manhood when he tried DIR. Sanden's
Electric Belt. His manly strength al
most completely restored in thirty
days,
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How 10 Treat Servants.

Copyright, 1895, by s. S. Mcclure, Limited
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-10
ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR FREIGHT.
Experiments Frequently Made and Prsc-
ticaI Results Expected.

ticaI Results Expected.
The latest test Of tho electric motors on
tho Nanthsket branch Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad was In
some respects more interesting and sig
nifcant than those which precoded H. Tho
first tosts were made with train Of pas
sengcr cars. A speed of 40 or 30 miles an
hour was easily attained, and nj one time
for short distance the rate was nearly 30
miles an hour, but the bearings became
heated, and "hot box" interrupted tho
trial. IL was proved conclusiyely, how
ever, that tho capacity Of the motors was
sufficient to meet all demands on the line.
IL IL stated that the weight Of tho train
was about l75 tons
by the latest trial the power Of the mo-
tors as haulers Of freight was tested. Tho
motor car-which resembles AN ordinary
combination" passenger and baggage
car, but Is much heavicr--was attached TO
a'train Of II freight cars, heavily loaded.
The start was made easily, and the train
was moved Mt the rate Of 25 miles an hour
without tho slightest difficulty. Then five
more loaded freight cars were added TO the
train, and the entire weight to DO hauled
was thus increased to more than $50 tons.
The motor car drew the train az easily as
before, and at tho end Of the trip pushed 1t
back again.
There IL no freight traffic on the road
where this test was made. The line Is a
short one, used exclusively for passenger
traffic In the summer. The company did
not have In mind, therefore, the use OF
electric motors for freight service on this
Nantasket branch. We referred some time
ago to the significant admission Of the
company's vice president that successful
test OF the new motors on this branch
might lead to the substitution Of electric
force for steam on two Of the company's
four tracks between this city and New Ha-
ven. II train of 16 heavily loaded freight
cars can be moved easily and economically
by electricity at rate Of 20 miles an hour,
we shall sec freight drawn by electric force
on some Of the main lines In the near fu-
ture.-New York Times.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-10

Your Golden Opportunity.
Auction sale ofthe Paw't Loan Co.
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Every sad news, sir. The lady you
came to meet died suddenly of heart dis
ease two days ago. Mrs. Marshall here
will tell you all about It,.
And as Harry Carstairs rceled against
tho wall of the captains cabin his wife
confronted him, her thin lips fixed In u
terrible smilc.-Good Company.
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