Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

dcnt SGred the Steamer from GTeck. or
Himself jr0na "a C''"d'e Lecture.
John Paul has mace a mid winter voyage
from New York to Liverpool, and sends MS
experience ca route 10 the New York Tribune:
There was one v!l'ninous- looking fellow
about decks, ana the fact that he always hat
his bands In his coat pockets gave rise To the
suspicion that he had dynamite slowed
away there. and 10 tdis suspicion consider
able color was given BY the smudglness OF
his bands when lac showed them at table;
they looked for all the world as though he
were always fumbling over some kind Of
gunpOwdcr. But IL turned out eventually
that he was one OF the most harmless persons
on hOard,-day and night board IL would be
called, l suppose, for he did little else but
eat,-heing simply an agriculturist, who,
after an exhaustive survey of the farm lands
of America $50 far as n seven days trip by
rail from New \ DIRK to Cincinnati, aud few
nights III Chatham street concert saloons
may be called exhaustivel, was returning to
his native Devousbire In disgust. tiller OF
the soil he well may have been-certainly
tis hands would have soiled the tiller. Great
Agrippa, though, what hands he did hold
when II came TO the beautiful but somewhat
uncertain game of draw poker in the even
iDgl (FOr, in anticipation of meeting our
minister 10 st. James, IL did seem ecssSary
that We Americans should practice a little
on the way over; and the agriculturist hav-
ing some curiosity about the game, it were
manifestly discOurteous as well as I'M
American TO refuse TO enlighten him.)
Nothing less than three OF Kind
And as, Notwithstanding the most care
ful indoctrinatiOn, he had the vagUest ideas
regarding the relative value of pairs, Sc
quences. fushes, and the like, this made it
extremely embarrassing. You could never
tell what the fellow held-just as apt was he
to bet on nothing at all aS on p quartet OF
aces. CuriOusly enough, he mastered the
whole science of the game in his very igno-
rance OF il, making 10 deahl il A man stayed
out, almost certain slaughter If he came in.
Happily, however, the sweet little cherub
that sits up alOft, TO keep watch DER the fate
OF poor Jacks, did not permit the nag OF the
free hearts hope and home to be so foully
sm!rchet as ii would have been had for
eigI er borne away the spOilS of war, and the
eagles OF victory finally perched on the
shoulders OF a representative OF republic
can II stitutionS Never, l am sure, can q
presentation 10 the queen at the hands OF
Minister Schenck give so much pleasure to
the American (whOSe name | will not hiatt
at, even under the disguise of blank, dashes
and asterisEs, lest IL bring to his ingenious
face the blush of that sensitive moiesty
which always accompanies q great heart
and sometimes big hand;) never, repeat,
can any presentation 10 one queen give the
exquisite pleasure that thrilled his frame at
the presentation OF two queens 20 him by the
dealer, on that memorable night, when he
drew pair Of them and sat, serene aud
smiling as king, behind the fOUr! Shall
draw veil over the scene? Or Sh all | go on
after the manner of Tacitus and +. :. Arthur
and naTrate how one man misled by the mer-
etriciGus glare Of 'ace5 rushed madly upon
10 lay down "three eighJs;' how yet another
made mistaken calculation as TO the com
mercial valRe OF flush. wAle even "oue
more unfortunate, raShiy impOTtuNate,"
seized upon that most inaJISpici0uS time for
attempting to slatch his blind like q BRAID
from the burning by betting his hand as
he made it" No, | VIII not. Suffice it 10
say that firmly believe that IT was by
pair that Adam was tempted in The beau
tiful garden. and not by an apple-at least
not by ore Of any kind with which mOieTn
scieTc &c is familiar.
Probably the smoking room would have
been less extensively patrOniZed ual the
~eatt Ell been mliGer. BUtTealIy Il was most
''pokeTish' all the while anu beyond an ac-
tive stirring up at The game Of that name,
WHAT IS there 50 calculated to make things
Wsrm- for somebody, AT least?
On Saturday We sailed, and the next day
was sunday. Al . quarter past 10 precisely
Gil the crew of duty were summoned AFT,
and pray er- hooks were distributed among
them-very much like pixies 10 repel board
ers. TIE passengers, tO0,-a majority, at
l"ast,-eathered IL the cabin, pulpit cushions
were mprOVISCd from the sofa ones and the
captain, sitting a tins eXtempOriZed desk IN
tnefuil cal Onicals OF Il commander IN the la
man navy ,soDorOUSly read the service il SUCH
cases appointed. Sunday was well kept, on
the whole. Nothing hey Ond eXigent duties
were required Of the sailors. Even the ship
did not labor much because she is "A good
ship, perhaps.) And as IL was a day of rest,
many OF The passengers refrained from eat
Ing.
Until now no symptoms of sea-sickness
began
occur at the tables. The voice of merriment
was less loud Mrs. Malaproper remarked
To ne ccEndentially that she wished she
Were ca the terra Gotta, and Immediately
disappeared in the direction of her state
room Good Mrs. Piper, the stewaricss, be-
cSue an animated soup-hOuse, dispensing
bowls of cruel.
A fair wind, and more than a hatfuI of 10,
we had all the way over Flying before 1t
vita STOW and Sltet-the dRa,Helan Dl1tYGn1yhlt
OF heaven peltipg US pitilessly as we fiew,
L. 4 a
In on ell sides, while kissing round our bull
warks, seething IN our wake, and boiling
under our PROV,
The water, like witch's oils
Burn green and blue and white,
one could but think Of the Ancient Mariner
In his enchanted ship, driven drearIly by tue
curse which followed the twang of his cross
brow. And around us hOvered white-winged
OF murdered albatrOsses.
Tie most ancient mariner In our ship
"averred" that in all his crossings OF the It.
laDtic he had never made SO cold q passage
and haZarded the remark that ii was a
pretty rough sea. To which assertion OF
mine our English radical (have / before men
ately responded with "Beg pardon, it's not
what one would call a rough sea, you see,
but only heavy swell, you know" The
Worts had scarcely left his mouth before we
shipped sea that wet him up to the middle.
SO IL Will be with his political theories, /
fat cy-wbile he is arguing that things should
not and lLdeed cannot be as they are, he'll
be suddenly lifted off his feet by them
II may be unfair TO generalize from limited
observation, but If called on now for an i'm
IrOptu definition of radical, / should define
IL as one who disputes everything and talks
principally about himself L set out TO be
radical In early life, but finding that the or
thodON viewed me with horror, that the
moral locked upon me with disgust AMI the
great mass of people didn't care a continaa-
TAI about me any way, quietly hauled up
my contumaclOus horns and sent out new
roots on all sides, and have been much hap
pier ever since.
II is possible 10 have too much of a good
thing, and one tires even of n fair wind after
week or two. The roll OF "A ship becomes
monotouous, and little pitch as a varia-
tiOn-the sort OF snort ana toss that "a shin
gives as she dives into a head sea-would be
welcome. I'm never sea-sick, but we sit
down TO dinner, for 1astance,-a long wave
comes and takes the ship up in its arms,
launching yOu from IT'S tOpmost sum
init with swish, as the bowler at ten
pins delivers his ball, ard away you go scoot-
ing down an inclined plane of seeming inter
miDable length; the sensation is as though
your stomach were sliding away from YOU
and, IN consequence, you eat with consider
able uncertainty. In bed, too. NY bones
are sore with the rolling over and being
pounded on both sides alternately. It is not
a toe aVs- IL