The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-13

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 up. He was vezy doleful and vexy peni- te1t-as he always is-and he ~ suck
 me just sIo. Half an hour before going ashore the sseward touched his cap fcI the regular tps-Ss. He got il. fhen
 the under steward touched his and got s. Then the boy touched his and smiled feehly over dollar. 1 am mol sure even nov that did right in abstain ing from the tender of SIo bill to the captain. He glowered on me anyhow with an uncommon ferocisy as went down the gang-plank. Tally. therefore, for the last day of the voyage s14. and for the whole trip. Say.
 Before got od the company's dock 1 made the interesting discovery that the pecuniarities of the custom-koase officer are universal His naughty and acquisi- tive spirit recks little of the difference between free trade and protective tariff. That Is, he is quite as ready to take q sovereign in Liverpool as he is to accept Gen dollar bill in New Ycrk-the con- sideration in both cases being. Sc far as can learn, equal. l had nothing that would have been dutiable even in New York, but the stern fascination of the office in Liverpool knocked ive-dollar bill out of me.
 asked a policeman how .o get to the hotel 10 which had been recommended. He called cab for me and mechanically put ont his hand l dropped a shilling into the hollow space of white Berlin wool and it vanished. The cabman when he closed his door after me was SI.2s better of for carrying a simple American. Tally so far, S,,, 90, and l not six hours old in Liverpool.
 forbear from mentioning or even de- scribing the hotel at which stopped. lt is frequented by Americans, who shall enjoy and pay for their experiences, un- tutored and unrestrained. It afforded me very bad bed, a very poor dinner and a wretched bFeakfas, at a cost of S6 The waiter accepted 2, cents with a scowL The chambermaid, who was lean and surly, took her own douceur of 50 cents in even worse part, the boots |" smiled derisively over another quarter, and the porter sniffed audibiy over his shilling. Luckily for me there were no bell-boys, otherwise should have fared even worse. Total for the hotel, s7.2s; tally s23o7s so far.
 As was leaving the hotel was ac- costed by the usual American expecting remittance from Chicago. He spoke with 3 marked English accent, and his topography was ,riae shaky, but he was in deadly earnest and had little time and so he got $ out of me in a jiffy. A decent-looking artisan with a paper cap, who hailed my cab and shut the door, all but openly asked for a quar- ter and got its Epglish equivalent The cabman relieved me of another [, 5, and the porter who grabbed my neat portmanteau and took i, to be labeled with filthy patch of blue paper with paste on ito its utter ruin-took $ cents more; total, So7 5: grand total, s257 50.
 When got to Huston square figured up what my comparatively brief trip in the Northwestern had cost me. It amounted. tips" and all, to SIS. Tally, therefore, s2ss.so.
 A porter called a cab for me-25 cents. The cab took me to the rooms recom- mended to me by friend near the Suand-SI. Il was growing downy al- ready in the matter of cab fares). My lunch in a restaurant which wouldn't be tolerated on Sixth avenue cost me SI Go the policeman who directed me to 1t took $ cents, and a small boy complacently pocketed another $ cents for showing me how to use the door-knocker when he saw ne searching desperately for the familiar bell of my new lodging-house l; total, S335. Tally for all so far, S75S S5. went immediately to bed both to get little necessary sleep and evade the exactions of the universal British tax gather and his tips" But alas. lit- erally reckoned without my hosts, for no sooner was snug in bed than was be- set by thousands, as it seemed to me, of broad-backed Bntons, each sponging for tribute on my vital currency. was as knobbed and furrowed as an ear of corn when l woke next morning.
 The boy who asked me what time, please, would lave my breakfast was SO slow in conveying my reply to the inferior regions that felt obliged to quicken his movements with a quarter. When he brought me my boots, roughly cleaned and doubtfully polished, he wore 50 for bidding scowl that timidly rendered him another shilling. He pocketed 1t with a gruff acknowledgment and disap- peared.
 After breakfast set out to see London. In doing SO l saw five policemen at 5 oents each-SI.25 four cabmen at about dollar each, g. four boys ~ho shut me in the cab at $ cents each, si;a man who told me which door to enter at St. PauPs, E cents; a man who told me couldn't go over the houses of paSlia- meus without an order, $ cents; two men who said something could not un- who pointed out the beadle of West minister Abbey, 5 cents; the beadle of Westminster Abbey, splendid, royal looking person in scarlet and gold, SI ; three deputy beadles who gave me some truly stxSsling historical informaaion about the Abbey q 90 cents each, sI.so one eyed man who shook my faith in the sA-- ss- IA -K Al -f-