The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-07-07
sion in social way, save on the ladies Of
the Strand and Of Haymarket. he CON
scludes that the political and social system
1T Great Britain is a sham, and HES him
| ssf away to Paris. a
Nasby's Betting Young Man.

j. / rom ITo near OaSkosh, Wis, named Tibbitts.
rs me Vas "a an e1eslent young man Of his kind,
ana a., ne very soonscquired the reputation
winch ne deserveosof being the yery best
poker player on the Sip. BE was uneasy
W = game was organized in the morning.
and groWled ferociously when the lights
were turned e down at twelve at night. He
was impatient with slow playe-s because. as
ne sald' all the time they wased was SO
m Q loss to him He could drnk more,
Scotch whiskey than any one on al, chin
and he was the pet Of the entire crex, -1 FIX
his hand is always in his pocket He ruin
ed the rest of the passengers by his reck.
less iberalty. His father was a rich Wis
consin farmer, and this is his first experi.
sence in travelling.
4 What time he could spare from poker
and his meals was devoted to writing =
letter to his mother, for whom the yonnp
scapegTace did seem to have great deal of
respect and very considerable amount of
love. bis letter was finished the day before
we made Queenstown. so that he could
mail it from there. He read it to me. The
sentences in parenthesis were his com
ments;
| On BOARD THE Cry OF RIcHa1oND.
NEAR QUEENSTOWN, May IS, 1881.
| DEAR MOTHER; While there is every
| thing to interest one from the interior in a
| sea voyage, confess that have not eEioy-
ed the passage at all. have no heart for
1t, for my mind is perpetually on YOU and
my home in the far west you see it will
please the old lady to know that I am
thinking of her all the time. Didn't Iscoop
that jack pot nicely last evening? Hadn't a
thing in my hand and Filkins actually
opened itwith three deuces.) The ship is one
OF the strongest and best on the ocean, and
is commanded and manned by the best
sailors on the sea. The passengers are all
good, serious people, with perhaps one ex-
ceptlon. There is one young man from
bottle Of whiskey in his room, and who ac-
tualy tried to tempt me to play cards with
him. But he is known and avoided by the
entire company.
we have regular services in the grand
saloon every morning, and occasional meet
ings for vocal exercises and conversation
at other hours. have just come from one
at which
You are not going to send this Internal
aggregation Of lies to your mother, are your"
I asked
Why not? She don't know any better,
audit will make her feel good. have my
opinion of man who won't give his old
mother pleasure when he can just as we'll
as not. l Will, you bet.
But such atrocious ies!"
II II chance that I can stand lies of that
kind when they are told in SO good cause
love my mother, do. Let's see where
was I? Oh, yes"
discussion was mostly on the progress of
missions in the far west. (The cid lady is
treasurer of a society for the conversion Of
the Apaches, or some other trbe.) Just
now the sailors are heaving log, which
they do to ascertain the speed the ship is
making. Mr.. Inman, the owner of this ship |
is a very wealthy man, and he has every
thing of the best. He furnishes his vessels
with nothing but black walnut logs to heave
while the others use pine or poplar. Capt.
Leitch is a very humane man, and never I
uses profane language to his crew. On
other ships the men who go aloft are com
PEELED to climb tarred rope ladders, but I
Capt. Leitch has passenger elevators rig
ged to the masts, such as you saw in the
Palmer house in Chicago, in which they
sit comfortably and are hoisted up by a
steam engine.
Great heavens. You are not surely 60
ing to send that?"
"Why not? What is an old lady in silver
spectacles on a farm thirty miles from any
water more than we'll going to know about
a steamer? 1 must write her something !
for she persuaded the old gentleman to let
me take the trip. amt ungrateful amt
I'll give her one good letter. anyhow. Why,
by the way you talk, should suppose you
never had a mother, and if you had that
you didn't know how to treat her. hate a
man who don't love his mother and isn't
willing to sacrifice himself for her. All I
can do fer her now is to write to her and
write such letters as will interest her, and
the dear old girl is going to get them if the
paper and ink holds out, and they are go
ing to be good ones, too.
I have got to be a good deal of a sailor,
and if it we're not for leaving you, which l
couldn't do, -believe should take one of
these ships myself. I know all about star
board, and can tell the stern from the
bow. On a ship you don't say I will go
down stairs, but you say II will go below.
One would think that had been born on
the sea, and was true child of the ocean.
Owing to my strictly temperate habits at
home, and my absolute abstemiousness on
the ship, have escaped the terrors of sea-
sickness. AS you taught me, true happi-
ness can only be found in virtue. The
wicked young man from New York has been
sick half the time ,as a young man who keeps
bottle in his room should be.
The nice wooden stockings you knit for
me have been great comfort, and all re-
greet is, I am afraid have not enough Of
them to last me till get home.
1.-THE young villain had purchased in New
York an assortment of the most picturesque
hosiery procurable, which he was wearing
with low cut shoes. The wooden stockings
he gave to his room steward.
The tracts you put in my yalise have
read over and over again, and have lent
them since to the passengers who prefer
serious reading to trashy novels and itera-
ture of that kind. What time have had
to spare for other reading have devoted to
books of travel SO that may see Europe in
diligently.
BY the way he stopped to say. fare
the Argyle rooms in London actually
closed, aud is the Mabille in Paris as lively
as it used to be? Great Cesar! Won't i
make it lively for them!
In another day we shall land in Liver
pool. and then shall be only FIVE hours
from London. long to reach London,
for do SO delight to hear Spurgeon, and
attend the Exeter hall meetings, as you de-.
sired me. But as we shall reach London
on Tuesday. shall be compelled to wait
Til the following Sunday five long DAYS.