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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-28
THE WEATHER REPORT.

YESTERDAYS RECORD AND To-DAY's FORECAST.
Washington, Jan. 27-rhe storm THURSDAY nigh, IN
ontario has moved 70 NeVfound and second storm
has developed - rho north Of Lake Superior A -h7d
developed IN the Northern Rocky Mountain
region. and fourth storm. central last night IN the
Cult, moved the Guf Rain has fallen
Gulf Coas and the lake regions and IL the
interior 4 New-EnEiand IN the Upper Missouri
Valley and been generally fair elsewhere. incgd-
the Pacific coast. The u high central
Thursday night In North Dakota mas moved southeast
ward and stretches IN ridge - high pressure from
Texas no New-Engand The temperature has fallen
sharply ridge Albany and Boston reporting fall
on thirty degrees tVenty-four hours The temperature
has risen the Middle and Upper Missouri Valley and
the Northern Rocky Mountain region and has remained
stationary On Pacific Coast Threatening weather
be expected IN States with rain on the South
Atlantic Coast and Florida snow n the Red River OF
North Middle seour valleys ana generally fair
weather elsewhere The temperature VIII rise in the
,,nner AXE region and the Upper ssisspp Valley. and
win nearly stationary e's"where Brisk westerly
southwesreriv winds be expected on the North
Atlantic brisk high northeasterly winds on
tbA N.ddi. and South Atlantic Coaet
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COURT Of APPEALS CALENDAR.

Albany Jan z7.-The Court Of Appeals calendar
for Monday: Nos 7ee. so. 1872, 7ol. a4. sos. ST.
and Sl2
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VARIED.

The Danger line Of life is very close % "a oad
cold" cure IL In us incipiency with Dr u 'aF'.r
TSxpecfOrant
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DETAILED FORECAST FOB TO-DAY
F'or New England and Eastern Nev-YorS. fair; brisk
westerly winds dlminshns
For The District o. Columbia Eastern Pennsylvania
Jersey Delaware Maryland ard Virginia threaten
ing weather. light. variable winds
"f = Wce, Virginia Western New-York ana Western
parnevivanla threatening weather with hght SNOW on
~ lakes. brisk s0uthVeeterly winds
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Postomce Notice.

cs,ous ,. read DAILY By all interested. changes may
occur any tiue)
vo-.,s, mall. FOR the ending January y. lsSs.
% close promptly al cases al the General f2st-
,rA as follows Parcels Post Mails close one Hour s~''s
,bsn closing time shown below.
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Tribune Office Jan. p. A n The weather Yesterday
vaa FAIR and ,oi The temperature ranged between II
"a r. degrees the average f-..s degreeN being l6s
degrees lover than %; Thursday and 6n degrees
lower than - the corresponding DAY OF srt year
-hs weather TO-DAY vii b. fair and cold
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MARRIED.

wEIsT-rTrIKY-on wednesday January - - -
No 10 Central Park South. by The Rev s'snl.. y.
Hughes % Richmond. Ind Alice Longfello" dafn,~
n John K cilley. 70 pr. Harry ~. "ss of NICE
mond Ind.
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dorsed with fuI name end address,
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TRIBUNE LOCAL OBSERVATIONS

1, This diagram The continuous white line shows tho
changes IN pressure indicated by TIE Tribune sell
-s baron eer The dotted line SHOWS the tempera
ture a. recorded Perry's Pharmacy
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THIRTY SECOND BALLOT IN CALIFORNIA
Sacramento Cal. Jan. 27-On the thirty-second
ballot for Senator today there was no chanse
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49,. ~, steamer close Al THIS once caily ~ 80
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CORNELIUS VAN COTI Pos,mastss
Postofacn. New-Yors ~ Y. January - 1874 :
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A-The KensfcO Crmetery.-Puyate s,stion
Harlem Railroad l3 mrues ride from the Grand csntrs
Depot Once Is Fast 4edst.
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forth, bound for the home she loved as
much as she was capable of loving any
thing on earth.
Her people were glad to welcome her,
but more glad still was John Wilbur. who,
though he had seen the Circean senorfta
only once or twice before Baron Beaudry
carried her away from the scene of her
conquests, had borne her fair image in his
heart ever since.
John Wilbur was the son of a Pennsyl-
vanian oil magnate and heir to millions.
so there could be no possible objection to
his impassioned suit from a practical
point of view even had the ex-Baroness-
Countess been coldly mercenary, which
she never was. He was, moreover, per-
sonable young fellow, educated, accom-
plished and manly, and Clemente really
felt something very near akin to love for
him when she for his sake assumed for
the third time the responsibilities of mat
rimony.
For a few brief months the Young
couple were reasonably happy together.
True, young Wilbur found out, most
newly made husbands do, that he had
married a very human woman and not an
angel, and Clemente discovered that Span
ish temper and American temper are very
much alike, save in name, and that sweet
hearts and wives stand on very different
planes after the honeymoon is over.
Things would have gone very comfortably
with them, however, and because they
were really fond of each other they would
probably have shot the rapids of early
married life in safety and found smooth
sailing in the calm waters of prosaic mat
rirnoniai content had not the Wilbur fam
ily interested themselves in the matter.
John wrote them of his marriage, the
beauty of his bride and his own happiness
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Would he kindly excuse her, now that
she had arrived at this unpleasing conclu-
sion, and continue his lfe's journey with
out her? And the Baron, because he was
the politest of his polite nation, did ex-
cuse her, with charmingly expressed re-
grets, and went his way alone.
He was not gone very long, however, be-
fore Clemente began to feel lonely.
She could not recall him, even had she
wished, for he was-by the time that she
began to experience this, to her, novel
emotion-far beyond the recapturing pow
er of tugboats or steam launches; but
there were others.
There were several others, in fact, who
merited consideration under the circum-
stances, but they were further away than
the amiable and self-sacrificing Baron.
Still they were more get-at-able, and
there was a possibility that among them
there might be one whom she would like
better.
The New Workers she did not like at all.
though they stared at her in open admira-
ton whenever she ventured to show her
lovely face outside her own apartment.
She longed for the roses and sunshine and
the gay summer guests of Santa Barbara,
with a longing that, after twenty-four
hours Of restlessness, became irresistible.
She put the few Of her belongings that
she had unpacked back into her trunk in
a hurried muddle Of wrinkles and cross
folds; coaxed the cover down into place
with the weight of her charming self
perched upon it's curving apex, and tri-
umphantly turned the key in the Strain
ing lock.
Then she sent for her ticket, put on the
thickest of wells to cheat the unappreci-
ated New York men out of a farewell
gaze at her perfect features, and set
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A few days after there was a romantic
elopement. John Wilbur played the role of
the prodigal son successfully and Mr.. and
Mrs John Harper appeared in Cincinnati
dazzling all beholders with the sight of
youth, beauty and happiness set in a
massive frame of glittering wealth.
Clemente soon learned to spend money
as .energetically and industrtously as her
fourth husband, and between the two they
managed to make quite little dent in
the family funds before Harper decided
not to spend any more money at all.
Clemente looked utterly enchanting In
mourning, and so chastened was her
spirit by her sudden bereavement that
she even let her lovely eyes rest with toll
Grafton upon a resident of the State which
she had formerly despised.
Albert Rice was young business man.
His father was one of the senior members
of the long established and influential
firm of Hunt, Rice & Almy Of Albany, and
he himself held a responsible and lucra-
tive position in the house. He had all the
assurance, dash and personal magnetism
necessary to a successful business career
but he forgot business entirely when he
met Clemente Ruiz Harper.
Her beautiful face dawned on his mental
horizon like the sun of morning. No
music had ever sounded so sweet to him
as the soft tones of her caressing voice
and the dear little Spanish accent which
made her speech so delightfully."- different
from that of any other woman whom he
knew.
If she looked like houri in garments of
woe, how would she look in garb of the
delicately lovely tints which fashion de-
crees for the goUning of widow brides?
He had mind to solve that problem II
the fates would be kind. The grim sisters
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terly, and, at first, unreasonably jealous,
and Clemente soon began to rebel at his
unknd suspicious and unremitting espion-
age. There was enough of the undtscf-
plined child about her still to make her
desirous of doing exactly what she was
ordered to leave out Of her scheme of ex-
istence, and it was not long before she
began to f1irt most abominably whenever
opportunity offered Then came Quarrels,
at first slight and easily made up, and
then so severe as to cause not a little mild
neghborhood gossip. And then one day
young Madame Rice packed her trunk
again-this time neatly and deliberately
and went off on western trip with only
her maid for company, because, as she
averred, she found the Eastern climate
far too changeable and severe for her Cal
ifornia- bred constitution, and felt that she
needed change of air and scene.
Fancy apparently, but Fate most assur-
edly led her to exercise the privilege of
her stop-over ticket in Austin, and there
at the hotel table she became aware of an
those to which she was by this time ac-
customed, and looking up met the bold
ewes of VIII S. Hauk the famous Texan
stockman, plunging straight into her own.
It was a case of love, or, rather, ire
sistible attraction on both sides this time,
and few days later Albert Rice was no
titled that he need never expect his wife
to return to him, since she had found
some one whom she liked far better and
with whom she hoped to spend the re-
mainder of her life in peace and hap
piness.
claim to her the peace and happiness last
ed only a very few weeks. Hauk was
used to dealing with cattle and cowboys,
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but even staid Philadelphians listen to
gossip occasionally and disquieting ru-
mors had come through other channels
to the Wilbur home.
So it was that the Wilbur family an
nounced austereIy that they did not ap-
prove of young Mrs. John. They did not
care to mix their petroleum with Spanish
blood anyway but when the lady of
Johns choice proved not only to be Span
ish but to have been the heroine of two
other romances previous to her introduce
ton into their sacred circle she became
simply impossible. Father and Mother
Wilbur declined to receive her. They in
formed the youthful benedict of that fact
and implored him to desert the girl he
had chosen and return to the bosom of
his relations. AS an incentive to obedi-
ence they shut off his allowance. That
plan, however, did not work for a time.
John Wilbur was still charmed enough by
his wife's beauty to contemplate with
equanimity the prospect of love in a
Spanishtown 'dobe If need be.
Clemente, though, was different. She
was not troubled much about the money
part of the affair, but her spirit rebelled
at the attitude of her husbands people
toward her; and then, besides, she was
firing of him q little. A certain John
Harper. son of w. W. Harper, the veal
thiest stockbroker in Cincinnati, had ap-
peared upon the scene, and Clemente be-
gan to think ruefully that she had been
rather in a hurry, after all, in the Wilbur
affair. and might have done better had
she waited a little.
The result of all this was that when a.
letter arrived Offering the 1l-year-old wife
a handsome sum to eliminate herself from
the Wilbur equation she viewed the
proposition with favor.
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were Gracious and Clemente, after Jew

were gracious and Clemente, after few
short weeks Of deepest gloom, came out
into the sunshine again.
She made, as usual, charming bride,
and Mr.. Rice considered himself for some
little time the happiest of men. Clemente
was not domestic, and he discovered after
a little that she had other little idiosyn-
crasies which he as loving husband was
bound to overlook. She was far from be-
ing ignorant of the power of her beauty
by this time, and her love of admiration
had become a trifie too pronounced to be
pleasant, even to a husband who adored
her. She could not resist giving a glance
of her lovely eyes under their long black
lashes, and a half-shy, half-alluring smile
Of her pomegranate lips to any present
able man who was bold enough
to take second look at her in
spite of the Cerberus constantly
at her side. Oddly enough. AL
bert Rice, knowing as he did that he was
number five on his wife's list of persons
whom she had sworn to love, honor and
obey, could not reconcile himself to the
idea that any one else should look at her
with any save artistically abstract admir-
alton now that she was his wife.
Since he could not expect in the nature
Of things to be her Alpha, he wished TO be
her Omega. To tell the truth he was ut
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THE SAILOR BOARDING.
HOUSE AND DEEP
SEA VOYAGES.

long, low dining room at the back the
steward is spreading the table for sup
per. 1t is a simple enough process. There
is no napery to bother with; the table is
simply covered with oil CLOTH a cup
and saucer and plate is dumped down
opposite each place. Huge piles Of bread
and great joints of beef are placed at
intervals, and all is ready. From the
kitchen adjoining rises an odor of savory
stew, and soon the men come trooping in
take their seats the long wooden
benches. Chairs seem to be an unknown
luxury in this part of the world.
1t is all very rough and primitive, but
still not without a certain homely COM
fort. To a sailor half starved for four or
five months on hard tack and salt horse,
the fare must seem positively luxurious,
and it is no wonder he wakes fat and is
10th to leave the shelter OF his we'll
supplied boarding house. Yet, If the new
Federal law is to be enforced Jacks stay
ashore will be cut short by at least a
half while in many cases he will be
sent to sea without an outfit at all and
will be compelled to call upon the ships
slop chest and to pay any price which
the skipper may choose to demand. The
fact that he will have more money COM
ing to him at the end of the voyage will
not help him much. The usual spree on
landing may be slightly prolonged; that
is all. In the end Jack will fall back
penniless, just as he does now, upon the
boarding house keeper.
The long and the short of 1t is that
all these attempts to ameliorate the lot
of the sailor by legislation are bound to
prove futile. The shipping laws are made
by representatives who know nothing
whatever about the sea, and hence are
more likely to do harm than good. Thus
the new Federal law which came into
effect last month, though on paper it
looks an admirably designed enactment,
is likely to defeat its own object. There
is a most elaborate scale Of provisions
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AND THE NEW LAW

for the mariner, including everything
from canned tomatoes to molasses and
dried fruit. But only the simpleton i'm
agineS .bat the crew, once the ship is
well on the high seas, will get any OF
these luxuries. Many recent cases have
shown how utterly futile 1t is for the
sailor to appeal to our courts for redress.
and practically, law or no law, he is at
the mercy of the captain and officers.
who may treat him we'll or Ill, just as
they choose.
It is here that the striking difference
between American and English sailing
vessels is shown. Hardly a Yankee ship
comes into port without complaint being
made by the crew against the officers.
We hear terrible tales of brutality and
starvation, of hazing "bucko' mates and
embalmed rations. The public has grown
to accustomed to these horrors of the sea
that no one pays them much attention,
and our law courts never interfere. The
result is that the name ''hell'' ship has
become a reproach against our American
deep water vessels.
On the sothera hand, one rarely hears Of
trouble on board the English sailing ves-
sells, which come in such numbers to this
port Yet both classes of ships are manned
by exactly the same kind Of crew. The
American sailor has practically ceased to
exist, and the men who now go to sea
are a cosmopolitan lot, made UP of sweep
ings from every race under the sun. from
Dagos to Russian Firms. The English
Board of Trade scale of provisions is less
liberal than that ordered by the United
States law, and the English forecastle Is
certainly less comfortable than on most
American ships. Why then should there
be such difference?
The reason lies. not in the law. but in
the method of its enforcement. The Eng
lsh captain or mate knows that he must
respect the law, or else at the end of his
voyage he will find stern. unbending
Consul ready to investigate any COM
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HEARTY JACK TAR

see we can't afford to do 1t for less than
$40 two months advance, and that's what
we've always been getting.
Certainly, judging from the appearance
of the establishment, the business Is not
a very profitable one. AT least 1T does
not run into gliding and ornamentation,
mirrors and French paintings, as does the
liquor trade. The house Is low, tumble
down wooden shanty on some street near
the docks It looks as If 1t had never
known the meaning of coating OF fresh
paint, and the dreary looking saloons
which infest the neighborhoed keep it fit
ting company.
In the front room, which has that inde-
scribable odor peculiar to a ships fore
castle, half a dozen men lounge on
rough wooden bench. They are weather
beaten and stolid, roughly clad in any
sort of old clothes. They do not talk
much, but when they speak 1t is in short,
ierky sentences. Their conversation is of
the sea, but not of its romance. The mod
ern Jack knows nothing of the glory of
the waters; he only realizes the hard
ships of the life. He talks of his last
trip and of the ill-treatment meted out to
him.
Next voyage 1t will be Just the same
thing. but in the meantime Jack is con-
tent to smoke his short pipe and wait
patiently until the time comes for him
to ship. For he is entirely in the hands
Of the boarding house keeper, and knows
that he may at any moment be thrown
penniless into the streets with no refuge
to turn to. No other boarding house
will take him in; there is mutual un-
derstanding between the keepers. So
that the sailor must perforce accept the
first ship offered, no matter whether she
be good or bad: even If she be one of
those hell ships which leave behind
them at each port a fresh record of bru-
tality and bloodshed.
For the present at any rate, the sailor
Is fairly well treated and fed. In the
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2lED Tf7lRTEEN TINES III THREE YEARS.

and knew little about women save in a
general way-certainly he knew nothing
about spoiled and domineering little beau
ties ike Clemente Tolfskow-Beaudry-W Will
bur-Harper- -Rice-Hauk.
A stock ranch is not an over-pleasant
place, and a man who has become meta
morphosed into centaur and clanks
about during all his working hours In
Mexican spurs, with big whip in his
hand, his legs adorned with shaggy chap
arrajos, and a silver-trimmed sombrero
glued to the top of his self-willed head,
is not an altogether pleasing object to
gaze at unremittingly.
Clemente gazed for a time interested by
the novelty of it all; then she yawned,
shook her small fist at the universe in
general and-looked elsewhere.
Al Truax, a notorious follower of the
races and the heaviest player at Latonia,
made his appearance at the golden mo-
ment when those glorious dark eyes for
got their wifely duty, and presto, change!
Mr.. Hauk was left to run his stock ranch
alone without bothering over or caring for
a wife who preferred to delegate that
pleasant duty to a younger and hand
somer man.
The race track life suited her for
while. She liked the noise and confusion
and uncertainty Of it, but her temper did
not improve under ex-city conditions, and
when she discovered that her husband
was no more true-hearted than herself
she made some unamiable remarks about
vivisection and hied herself away to pas
lures new. To speak truly she retired to
a ranch in Southern California, where
Charles Williams. the owner, made her
queen Of his whole extensive domain.
Both she and Truax were equally anxious
for a separation, SO that episode was cas-
lily closed.
Ranch life was decidedly dull, however,
afterfhe excitement of the race track; 1t
was even duller than the stock farm had
been, and so Mrs Williams after endur-
ing it for month or so developed a con-
Stunning Inconsistencies which nothing
short of a visit to her childhood's homo
could assuage.
Once in Santa Barbara again her fancy
lightly turned to thoughts of a certain
sea captain who had patted her on the
head in her bare-legged youth and ad-
mired her from distance in the years
since then.
After all, constancy is the one earthly
jewel that time does not dim, decided
she and Mr.. Williams thoughtfully ef-
facing himself at this opportune period,
she set sail on the barkentine Of Cap
tain ]. Ellis, and made him the envy Of
Eureka by allowing him to announce her