The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-06
Htms very FRENZY to 'MericanA But II wud be-
much ez my head WIZ with to lot " hup without

TILL come out" N sF8i5, 81 ~ tigl4 sfiIt5
The doorkeeper smiled, calmly lifted up the
goid-fringed flap Of his side pocket and dshed
out two printed orders, saying:
Ez luck would 'av It, 'ere's couple some Honble
Member give me to give to some friend Of ism wich
was coming 10 to night WITCH as MT come. " ".
!, we took the orders and passed in Among
tae vices we are compelled to practice in order
to get along with any degree Of comfort let
my friend do all Of the bribery-not so much
on aooountof moral as financial scruplea. It
costs something to get through land which
doesn't apparently contain man with strength
OF mind enough to refuse shilling.
Wen, here We were, classified as members
friends" in gallery at one end Of the house
OF commons room seventy-dve feet long
and forty-flve wide. should think It about
one-thirtieth as large as tho house Of represen-
tatlves at Washington, though the commons
contains one-half more members. just below
US they sit-an hundred or so-mostiy With
uncomfortable benches. At the other end,
facing us, sits the speaker in little sentry
box in tho middle aisle, with what looks like
o bunch Of pine shavngs on his head.
AT his right slopes upward the bank
OF Liberal government benches to, the
wall and at his left four right the correspond
ing bank Of Conservative benches. In the
middle Of the front bench on the Conservative
side sits the Conservative leader-Sir Stafford
Northcote-a tall man in Prince Albert GOAT
and gray trousers" with long, gray beard,
and small eyes that are concealed most of the
tune by the stove,-pipe hat pulled forward
he sticks out his legs, thrusts his
hands deep. into his pockets and listens,
He listens to Mr.. Gladstone, Immediately OBJ
posite, who stands in front Of the lower Lib
err era bench, and says few words in favor Of
sational tone, quietly, with correct rhetoric
aud small infection. Presently he sits down.
1t is noticeable that, all the evening. the
premier is about the only man who does not put
on his hat, always excepting, Of course, the man
with the crown Of pine shavings who sits in
the sentry box. Extending from the
sentry sem 81 box -, to 49,, the center q the
three clerks, o, American oongressD, and
tables containing hundred or so OF books !:
and next to these. in front Of the premier, is
elevated the great mace of the sergeant. at
arms. Il is q gilt club, about the shape Of the
conventional picture Of Gains. Six feet long
and foot through at the butt, aud if it is Of
metal it weighs at least ton. Mr. Gladstone
does not try to swing it around his gray head.
but he bows under the shadow Of it, and writes
In 2 memorandum book in his lap-probably
writing up his diary. To this work he sticks
earnestly, while the gable goes on. He is
thin and feeble-looking, but his clearly cut
face shines with intelligence, and he chances
up every now and then to catch some feetin9
scrap OF the debate
The members of the English. parliament are
VIGOROUSLY the worst takers in the world.
Daniel O'Connell must have hada fine back
ground Of dullness against which to show Of
his forid brilliancy. The members all talk in
conversational tone; they hesitate in speech;
they hem and haw; ;they go back to pick up
the dropped stitches in their vocal knitting
work; they say II am-ur- -trooly sorry--ur-
honorable gentleman-ur-below the gangway
-ur"-but let us remember that 70 eur" is
human.
The house Of commons-like the hall of
peers at the other end of Westminster palace
is small, eramped, meage.; and the COM
all, one cannot but have respect for this
British parliament 1t legislates for the
whole OF the great realm. and it works cheap.
1t keeps firm grip on the empire, but it's
annual expenses are less those of any Ameri-
can legislature that happen to- be acquainted
with. They are not quarter as great as those
of New York A road can scarcely be laid out
without permission Of parliament; a new
bridge cannot be built without act Of parlia-
menti new dock cannot be erected on the
Mersey at Liverpool without act Of parliament;
and yet all the legislation of last year amounted
made more than 2, 200 pages.
BITS OF ExPER1ENcEa
I called at Lady Wilde's on Wednesday. She
is q stately lady OF great force and earnestness,
and is popular entertainer. She bewails the
condition of Ireland, and says: t'We have not
received single pound from our Irish estates
for four years Our poor tenants cannot pay. :"
Oscar is back from Paris, in quarters on
Charles street. His mother tells me that he
has cut off his hair. Miss Adelaide Detchon,
noted in New York for great beauty aud
dramatic vivacity. reads at Lady Wilde's
reception tomorrow.
This afternoon I have been around to the
regular weekly reception given by James Rus
sell Lowell, the American minister. and Mrs.
Lowell. It was O Enthusiastically pleasant
affair. The residence of our minister Is at No.
10 Lowndes square, close by the picturesque
ness Of Hyde park and the frivolities of Rotton
Row. but it is plainly furnished, and the re-
csption was as simple and unoeremonious as it
could be with any propriety.
during the last two days are Theodore Tiltou,
Mrs. Frank Leslie, Edwin Booth and Miss
Agnes B. Huntington, who has been studying
music three years in Dresden, and who has
just sung there aud in Lsipsic and Paris She
is said to possess a phenomenal contralto
voice, and shortly returns to America
have not seen shawl worn by any woman
in England They are altogether discarded
w. A CROFFuT.