Evening star., 1897-06-12

furtive promenade along the spacious deck.
What spacel What frecdom! The long
covered walk. deserted by the swells-some
OF US called them swells-stretched out
Hospitality. Or were it preferable to lull
the too-tossed nerves on a well-chosen
bench. approximating the motionless CEN
ter of the ships high-pitching seesaw?
When up there doomed the figure of a
ships policeman-master-at- his title
pasterful, armed with a little brief au-
thorty.
BACK to Quarters.
Now out of this. Second-ciass passen-
gers not permitted on this deck Shall 1
tell yees again?'
This experience was mercifully in the
dark. upon the lonely. fearful. full mid
ocean. unlit by stars moon. Others had
more humiliation attached to such illegal
attempts at strolling. One Prussian adoles-
cent. with pig -headedness and masterful-
ness exuding from every pore. a most pecu-
liar financier in that he Travelled second
class apparently to economize the price of
come two to three large bottles of cham
payne each day. would make daily incur
sions into the forbidden promenade. Full
OF the courage of the bottle. he would show
handfuis of English sovereigns to the dis
gusted ships policeman. threatening to
buy the vessel and discharge him for his
rudeness." Ignoble and vapid as the in
cident appears. 1t was rot without Its daily
solace to the timid second-class souls who.
under similar circumstances had felt the
sting of that authority's "rudeness" But
against the tipsy sauciress of the berlin
youth the policeman felt his poweriessness
ana. dreading the absurd scenes daily re-
cLrrence, would stink miserabIy forward
as the psychological hour drew near, to
leave the task of chasing back the bow to
@ more stolid seaman
In this matter of drink think there Is
less OF 1t in the second cabin than the first.
IN the course of half a dozen or more
crossings. have never failed to witness the
regulation scandals of the more aristocratic
smoking room, and with but few excep-
lions there has never failed the regulation
dipsomaniac. kindly furnished with as
much drink as he could call and nav for
till say. toward the last two days when
Just as regularly. he must be shut up in a
space cabin with a steward told off To s;t
by him and dole out the doctor,s cbIo-sI
furnished free of charge like a free Innch
on shore Then there is always that othar
rvilent I,',s OF the hquor-fuddled tourist or
as may be. to the transatlantic gamblers
whom the Dar room stewards and the pur
1erS anu their clerks must know by sight
Strange Farce
once II was youthful doctor from the
south. bound for Vienna to compiete hIs
studies He was JuggIed Out of all his
leauy money and had to give an order On
the purser. the custodian of a draft which
ne 1ndorsed. for some three hundred dol
idrs more Tne smoking room habitues-
ccbhe H'c OdyS Out-COnVened
themselves into an Indignation meeting
ana easily convinced the gamblers tnsf
Ihey ought to give the money back But the
hSntuckian would not receive IL, Then fol-
lowed strange farce. The money dis
eorsed by the gamblers was placed in the
hands OF committee of four whose task
IL then became TO draw the burnt child To
the hre aSain-for his own good In trufh
II was not hard. for there was rich red
sporting blood In the young doctors veins.
he entered the new crooked game almost
without enticing. Delighted 10 win largely
at each sitting. flushed with victory-for
getting even with this game is always VIC
tory-he bet them up as remorselessIy as IL
his sole desire was to strip the four mill
anthropists of their last dollar
The poker OF the second class is not like
this There was a poker game on this trin
fve-cent ante. fiye-cent bet. with yo-
raciouS kitty. Its harmless nature how
ever, may be OWNED when 1t Is learned
that the returning Maine man. cleaned out
In South Africa. made O two-dolar bill
presented to him out Of secret charity, last
three days. Yet he calculated that he mad
two dollars worth of drinks out of the
kitty In that time. Our only alcoholic
seemed to be the Berlin bud. whose violent
preference for sweet champagne. 1 fancy
scanda.ized our Americans-all ludicrously
faithful to American traditicn-Sar more
than his mere love for the cup.
A Good-Natured Lot.
We were humble folk. although we
Judged all things. incontcstabiy humble, to
the point Of not ridicuIing or even senteel-
ly deprecating the presence among US OF
nine anasua1c, sad-eyed. cheerless British