The record-union., 1897-07-27

Brown bread, sir?" the little man
asked, as he brought the stew in steam
ing. 1t is a cheerful English custom to
serve slices of brown bread. even with
raw oysters.
BY no means" I told him. Crack
ers''
Yes sir. Thank you, sir"
And butter"
Yes. sir. Thank you. sir"
And tomato catsup."
Thank you, sir. But we have no cat
sup, sir
No matter. The stew was such as one
could hardly hope for outside of Amer
lea. In the land of Hall Caine they GER
tainly understand the proper treatment
of the oyster
SAMPLE BRITISH JUSTICE.
There is every reason to have conf
dence in the quality of Justice dis
pensed in the big Courthouse, for it
was one of the lawyers of the court who
was on trial-a solicitor of Liverpool
! named Joseph H. Yates. He and his
clerk and policeman We're accused of
conspiring to defraud a woman out of
a legacy of about $4,000: and his lord
ship in the red gown very justly asked:
When a lawyer and his clerk and a
policeman conspire to defraud an ig-
norant woman, what possible chance
has she?" The jury convicted all the
prisoners, and the lawyer afterward
pleaded guilty to uttering a forged will.
| and also to perjury. Ny sole reason
| for mentioning this trial is to show
what fO ha
things in England The lawyer was
sentenced to penal servitude for life
the clerk to ten years, and the POLICE
man to two years
GOOD SERVANTS SCARCE.
| The remarkable demand for Generals
in London I find is just as pressing
here. One cannot take up a newspaper
in either city without seeing scores of
such advertisements as this: Wanted
a good General, not over %; must be
neat and tidy; salary, f14 yearly. APP
/ ply at so and So" Or this: Wanted
good General; must be competent
washer and ironer; salary, E16 yearly
Apply at SO and So" The omission of
the word servant" after the word Gen
eral gives the advertisement a mill
tary appearance that they are not en-
titled to. The advertisements tell the
story of the scarcity of good servants
They are scarce in London, scarce in
Liverpool, scarce all over England
just as hard to find as in America,
though they work much harder here.
And it is the same thing across the
Channel. An American lady who has
| been living some years in Paris was
telling me the other day about the ex-
cellent cook she left behind on coming
to London.
And why did you not bring the cook
with you?" l asked.
''Oh, could not afford it, she re-
piled "The wages We're nothing, only
| 80 francs a month. But she made at
| least S5 week extra out of me in the
purchase of provisions. The cooks all
do that, and it makes the wages too
| high
Americans in Liverpool generally
| have some business with the steamship
| offices. which cluster together down
Water street, perhaps a mile from the
| Courthouse There are trans" that
go down, but il is only a pleasant walk.
India House is a sign across big
! business building on one side of the
street near the offices, and almost OPP
posite is the African House" Then
| little further on are two more familiar
signs The first is, American Express
Company" and the second is New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road Company" 1t made me feel IKE
stopping in to buy ticket for Albany
My business being chiefly with the Gu
nard Company, l had occasion to cli1np
the stone steps to their office great
many times, for / was engaged In the
unsatisfactory work of waiting for the
arrival of a steamer, and l never
| climbed those steps without nall eA-
pecting to break a bone or two Wheth-
! er the volume of business is so great
or the stone so soft, l do not Know
but every step is worn down into sfants
and curves and hills and hoiioWs, tnal
make going up dangerous and going
| down much worse.
| Once inside, however, they gave me
every facility and all the information
they had, and fulfilled their promise 10
telephone me at the hotel as soon as my
steamer was sighted. The information
| about steamship movements is very
complete here, as naturally it would be
! in SO important a harbor. A vessel can
| hardly move in any part Of the world
without news of it being posted within
| a few minutes in Liverpool. After leaV-
| ine Queenstown, the American liners
run almost as if on a railway time table.
| They told me that the steamer waited
! for would reach the landing stage at {
| o'clock in the morning. BY 100 O'Clock
| her passengers We're coming down the
sangway, all smiling and sunburnt.
T 1T A
| There is so much good statistical in
| formation about Liverpool in the guide
| book that I feel as if / ought to copy
some of it. But, as this is jubilee year,
1 shall try to restrain myself. 1t is not
how many steamers land their passen-
gers here every year. but how they land
| them, that is of interest to you, If you
| have never been here and are thinking
| of coming. The landing stage at
| Liverpool is so often mentioned in the
steamship advertisements that / had
some curiosity to see it. And it is easily
reached, for several lines of trans and
buses end their journey at Pier Head"
which is the river bank between
Georges Dock and Princes Dock, and
it is in front of Princes Dock that the
| landing stage lies.
| The landing stage, then, is a great
| floating wharf, made of wood, more than
1900 feet long, and, should think,
about 80 feet wide, so we'll fioated that it
| feels as solid as the shore itself. They
tell me that its predecessor, which was