The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-06

knoedler, went to Paris. Again Meissonier engaged
by telegraph to HIM and failed to do Was
failing TO secure audience called ct his home and
cornered him. Same old story. Not done. But
well begun. Hard art. Would make q splendid
grand! But he must have $4,000 for itf
THE same now monotonous negotiations with
Cincinnati were gone through with, and the final
roSa.eop to pay Ss suffer-
who had nsv reeeyed special
mad He told Gassousr to 20 to the srso
heaven Of liars and swindlers, to get out that he
wouldn't IT. have one Of his pictures ct any price,
sonier finished his picture and sold It for 1885,
900, and it cost Mrs Stuart $4,000 in America.
That's the way with good many continental art
sts ihear that she had standing offer Of $780,
Here we are, humping against the bar in the
Mersey, and trying to make head for Liverpool.
w. A. CRoFFUT
THE GAMBLING MANIA
It is week since the Alaska touched land and
! sont of my first letter. just before finishing
that letter in the dining room, went on deck
and found that the betting mania, which had
manifested itself for three days rather
strongly. had grown into frenzy. Some
became pretty we'll acquainted. were seated in
circle on deck holly discussing the contin-
gencies of landing In the smoking-room
below deck were other groups gathered around
tables in cloud Of smoke, Watching an ever
growing pile Of gold and silver in the center of
each table, uttering strange, mystic cries,
solemnly dealing more cards, and occasionally
raking in the little piles Of specie thus ex-
posed. Their faces were white and unsullied
by the sun. But the group on deck wore
upon their noses the hectic flush of solar
abandonment, and each one was shedding skin
n tho
steamer lands. the visitor can easily distinguish
the poker players from the rest because each
ardent poker player bears aloft a blsnched aud
undecorated prov. But there are are other
ways Of gambling beside poker playing. Here
from New York, Boston, Wick sburg and Osh-
kosll-railroad men, merchants, ministers,
drummers, professors-fghting time with q
new diversion. They all talk English money,
now, for they have it in their pockets
caed the nusa tbs q III. So from Sos Chi
Queenstown pronounced Queenst'n) is even
Taken bya little man in spectacles, walking
up and down the deck, and they exchange
a shilling that the pilot doesn't wear silk
hat" This is discussed by nearly all the group,
and, finally, it being thought that the odds are
not great. enough, the bet is made two pounds
to shilling. s'What'n you bet he doesn't
wear swallow-tail coat and white
ueCh-Gle. pun Ill uau III u Teu I0Z- Dut tQlS
is thought too preposperous and is not insisted
on. Bets are now made in rapid succession,
Of shilling to pound. that the pilot is mar
ried; that he will have his pantaloons tucked
into the top of his boots; that he will have red
hair: that he will be clean-shaven; that he will
vessel, of course); that he will carry an UNI
brelia; that he will step on the ladder with his
left foot first
'sIll bet So even," says theatrical man
agar, who has been ill most of the way. and
has not yetIearned the new language, s'that
the pilot don't wear any socks or undershirt"
Even this queer bet finds taker.
tLst's bet on the number Of his boots" says
HeDry E. Abbey: languidly. ''pll bet guinea
he has twos," says Moore, president Of the
Mutual Union.
'srll bet" exclaims sausome, .sthat you'll
yon try to verify some Of your other bets"
[Laughter1 ~
'.Let's bet on his name," suggests reckless
young fellow with nose like full blown
rose.
''rll bet" said lady in a yellow rug, turn
ing softly in her steamer chair and lifting her
head from her pillow, that this pilots name
is Pontius"
And 30 they went on by the hour, while the
lilac band in the distance broadened and deep
ened in contour and color, and the sailing
vessels we had passed faded away to the west,
and the big gul!s, harbingers Of land. came out
and greeted tho great ship, fitting before it
like heralds and dashing joyfully after it along
Its silver train.
LIVERPOOL.
A glance at Liverpool ! stayed there two
days and was not very deeply impressed. The
public buildings arc adequate, and some of
them even stately; the steeets are irregular
enough to be picturesque: the two parks
Princes and Setton-are stable and well kept,
and the Liverpooliaps are fond of cxclaiming
At,.k LII Eksl.
in England" The choicest inner portion
of these parks is locked out from the public
and reserved fort the exclusive use Of the gen.
.tlemen whose mansions encompass IL, in tho
midst Of beautiful and fragrant gardens I
called at several Of these which were to let,
81. 900 q year. Imagine an imposing stone
mansion, in the midst of lovsly gardens and
lawns. and opening down throug grove to
one of the most charming parks in the world
mansion large enough for family Of
dozen to be had for rental OF $75 a
seems OF first sight, is an infaIlible sign OF bad
times in England. Her day Of prosperity is
past 1t is hard work to make u living in ''the
fast-anchored isle" High rents are sign of
thrift The streets Of Liverpool, "the chief
commercial city Of Great Britain" are worry
still, AID to d New Yorker every day seems like
Sunday. The first question an American asks
is. Where are all the drays? Where are the
carriages? Is this holiday? We drove for
hours in the afternoon through the fashionable
streets andSup and down the famous park roads,
and a qua not Pr NEE. more carriages than We could
st. Paul. Detroit, or St Louis, they would have
been ten times as numerous. The great
raught horse, with one Of
his shaggy feet as big as a half bushe,
still moves slowly through the town
q huge, hairy. "Reminiscences of the
hat NJ
Huxley would call ian obvious survival"
or course we visited the tremendous granite
docks that loom along the Mersey like FORTH
cation, impregnab!e and imperishable. The
docks are not exactly a part of Liverpool; they
are Liverpool; without them Liverpool would
not exist They ara the source Of her pride,
and of whatever prosperity she has left They
bring to- the subscribers an income Of S., 0OO,-
900 year. But this, I find by inquiring,
is not three per cent on the investment; and as
for the ships which find shelter here, they do
not return two per cent to their owners. The
fact is that Liverpool is in the position which
Venice occupied in the sixteenth century-her
power is departing. She is the complacent
mart Of q bankrupt nation. England to-day is
levying, not on her earnings, but on her
s sns Dy
New Zealander. will squat triumphsntly on Lon
don bridge and view the ruins Of St. Paurs,
but he is not nearly so preposterous figure as
he was
IN PARLIAMENT
delayed availng myself Of Minister
Lowells offer of an "order' to visit the houses
of parliament, and last evening the notion
siezed me to 60, Notwithstanding. and take my
chance to get in. A friend was in similar
mood, and we started of. My ''guids' says,
"NObody can be present at q debate in the COM
lament" had met two Of tho members In
New York, my friend knew.another, and had
letter to still another; but, on sending our
cards in from the lobby. We discovered that
none Of them were present
My friend said to the doorkeeper, in his
sweetest voice, laying his hand on my shoulder:
s.Ths is distinguished stranger from America,
He Is one of our most celebrated redacteurs"