THE GOLDEN BULLET. I, who tell this story, am a ring. Lot the reader ing aside the incredulona smile with which this announcontent is received, and listen.
Who can say 1 In the promic science of to-day we call these things coincidence
But there she found him. I saw the terror coms into her eyes as sho gaced on his white, unconscious face then it chang
In this age of the world it is the impro-ed to true womanly courage. No use to ablo that attracts attention,
faint; to scream! No one was not. Can I ara aware that this sounds more like he be dead? She thought, and with a
bis
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EW, Laur and WELL VENTILATED, wearing 100 fost on the Praya, deep water, by 180 foot, and 20 feet high,
Victor Hugo' than a goiden utterance, a great fone: sha:knult-and-four cheek, ing us, as it were, in a gentle slumber to With 100 Feet Frontage on Middle Street
I will get on with my story.
I am not a very valuable ring, and woro I to sinto my intrinsic worth, my young lady reader might compare me ecorafully with a certain brilliant that sparitles on kur alcagement-finger-whichever one that
might be.
I connet at present of an intaglio, the head and bust of Cleopatra cut in onyx by a Roman artist, and set in a disk of pure Oslifornian gold. The disc is pot solid, but consists, in fact, of overal distinct bats through which the finger can be seen, I think I am rather artistic and unique At present I am on my mastor's little fir ger, and sometimes he kisses me. For, as it may seem, they both love me, strange and I am a very happy ring,
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The colour rushed back into Ter and the terror faded out of her oyce. lives, she said. She laid his head upon hor knees and from my place aboat his neck, I saw that she thought him bona tiful. And in the depths of that silent wood she etooped and kissed his forehead, and in soft Spanish accents begged him not to dio. She brought somia-water from a spring, and gently forced him to par- take of it. His pulse throbbed with more strength, and he opened his eyea. I could not help it, little rings he said, warderingly: I had no bullet, and could hold out no longer., Poor Jin poor Jim You cannot arve me now, my talisman, ho added, foably, 'yon cannot save me now.
Ent I can, and will cried Isadora, as I was not always so complete and fash-she laid him gently down, and ran to bring ionable as I now calm happiness the others to limust have your of my present existence has only come me after a stormy early life.
When
way, and name him, said the art and Garth was young I lay embedded in the heart sole guardian of Isadora Quandary when of the Sintras. An earth-quake
Stanley was brought to their beautifal great Essure in the mighty rock wherein home acar the City of the Angels, but, had lain go
80 long at rest. Moisture and for my part, I object to having the house disintegration caused me to be washed with turned into a miner's hospital. Ob. Auut!" the crumbling rock down the streain of upy cried Isadora, I fool at
though I must? new existence. My progress from, the and, as in neat things, she had hur way, beautiful Sierras towards the sun was grad- Who could die with such nurse Her ual bat sure. My specific gravity-ho only presence in the room was balm to the gravity I foar that I posses-csazed ue to stricken R. Who that has been nursed sink with other anggots of our golden through a long illness by such a ministering family, and to lie in the glistening sands of angel but has alatost wished hu might be the San Joaquim, all untouched by the ill for ever! And Stanley grew to love outside wold. Then came great foods hor, and he felt a great joy that she had which stirred us roughly up, and whirled made him well us farther towards the mighty bay. whose waters, surging through the Golden Gato, mingle with the great Pacific. Again I sank, the sanda shifted, the coma of the stream was changed, and I became a unit ia vast of alluvial gold.
knew it warto koop it to keep back the Califoral changed hands Mar-stormy billows of that Pacific which cease- ehalf discovered gold. The fever spread, tesely lapped the shore, as the raighty wars and the bxciting history of avarico and of love which surges in the human heart, crime on the use side, and of manly cour- and rolls on sometimes to peace, more often age and perseverance on the otar-the to destruction! history of reckless gambling, of mad sion, and of death which followed the days of 49, and out of which chaos as evolved the grand State of jo-day,
athy charmy ong vine of the lives of
30a".
I
ed
I diverge. A young miner found me. first results that gladden was among the
I saw it coming I saw it in her eyes; I felt it in the wild throbbing cf his heart. He saw as he recovered that, by her roundings and the deference that was paid to her, she was what the world cells rich, and he tried keep back. He did not
"In a few
and their eyes met.
with a sigh, days I shall un," he told hor, You should not sigh now: you are nearly well,' she said, in a soft low voies, while he murmured:
Not s'en the dearest heart, and next Kunwa half the reasons why we smile or
his eyes as he worked his chin. “I ¦ our own, will keep you, my beauty,' he said, as I lay in his hand, and he smiled at me with his brave blue-grey oyca, as a talismar to lead me to better fortune. God knows
1
I can stand a little of that now, ho con- tinued, with a sad smile, as he drooped his handsome head and cast his eyes wearily
the ground,
fell me the story of that queer bent ring,' she said I know it partly, for you have told it me.' And so he told my story white her eyes showed her wonder and her grief.
-
*I, you, have a talisman I love," she said when he had done. It is an intaglio ny father cut in Rome. He was an artist and a sculptor, and loved my mother dearly. She gave it ma. Shall we exchange until
until
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the world works in obedienco to certain laws and a study of theso proves that thom who have the judgmont and the will to bikle on the shield, which nature plane ready to their greep, may ward off the in- sidious attern of the implacable enemy of life, until, in s. rire. old age, the vital Iscoltion gradually decay, and the Angel of Peace glides softly into our prebohco, lead.. the regkine beyond the shadow of the tab. The Fall Destroyer maskes his first ap- proches in many forms, but none are more favoured by him than that of a deadly fue now proying upon the very vitals of Modern Society. What is this foe? There are for among us who have not been or are now to soms extent its victime. Would the reader now if ha, too, is under the ban of this frightful scurge Let him ask himself" whether he exporiances any of the following symptoms
There at pains about the chest and sides, and sometimes in the back. The mouth has a bad taste, especially in the morning; and there Are feelings of dulness. The ap petite is poor, a sort of sticky slime pollosta. about the teeth, there is a feeling as of a heavy laad
stomach, and sometimes on the
of the sensation at the stomach, which food does not wiaty. The eyes are sunken the hands and feet become cold and feel clammy. After a while a ought sets in, at first dry, but attended in the course of a few months with expecto ration of a greenish colour. The sufferer foals coristantly tired, and sloop seems to afford him no rest. Nervousness, irritability, and evil forebodings follow. When rising suddenly, there is a giddiness, a sort of whirling sensation in the head. The bowels become costive: the skin is dry and hot at times; the blood becomes thick and stagnant; the whites of the eyes are tinged with you low; the urine in Reanty and high coloured, depositing a a sediment after standing. There is frequently a spitting up of the food at tines with a sour taste and at others with a swestish taste. This is ofton attended with palpitation of the heart or impaired vision. with spots bofore the eyes, accompanied by great prostration and weakness. All of
its
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Apply to
these symptoms aro in turn prestuur. It is O thought that nearly one-third of our population las this disanse in some of varied forms. Medical men hare mistaken the nature the malady. Its true name is Dyspepsia or Indigestion; for which a cer
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N° Leure all and worthites, sind I should be glad
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Apply to bosom of destruction. Your preparation however, is an exception, and is un- Oon of my brothers doubtedly useful. took it with considerable beneft; and to be candid with you, I only laughed at him, and said,Bis faith bad healed him. I was very ill anyself this year with Congested persuasion by my brother, to please him, I consented to try Mother Seigel's Syrup, and I set hound to say, that in spite of my prejudice and unbelief, it did me more health now, but not quite well, and proba- bly norer shall be again, as my heart has
I was always with hin after that. He had me busten into a rough ring, and I was proud to envirale the finger of his browned and honest hand. I liked him from the Erst. Singularly handsome, hie pleasant emile was tinged with that sadness which lends such a charm to great hearts and gentle natures. It softened the brightness of his face as a streak of
morning clond tempers the garish brightness of the early day. He was happy in that he sought his fortune before His grow into that dull,"
rings down the curtain on the final scene.
The claim where I was found did not pan go deep enough. It was abandoned, and through some of those early-day scenes of Claspstra lay upon his heart. When he which have now became matters of history. again sought las cost, his heart in a wild
Spdog found w in a lonely mountain † tumult.
It of expectation Isadora had gone become weak, although I sin considerably but in ease of those deap and
Until we meet again ?' he faltered.
se they exchanged, and the little ugly bent ring lay in hor warm white bosom. Thus they parted. He went back to his claim with a new hope in his heart and will to do all that love would prompt oud
right. They had struck jt rich, but for tunes do not come to us as quickly as toro, and it was two years ere Stanley Destand felt himself an independent man. Two
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grey faros so many of us sit ont till Death genus exsenta for her sake. Jim was Liver flizestion, &c., and after TENNIS COURT attached. Entry usHE PRKINGULAR AND ÜRIENTAL STEAM } Goods on board Vessels and on Huile of "Avstralasiat.
put well. Perhaps they did not went years of hope and fear while the intaglio of good than anything else. I am botter in
pretaresque
gorges of the Sierra Novada mountains,
tou niouths have passed. It is war to yon, thinking age. I mention my caso
Sheppard Pole (Ph. C.}
where Nature is to be seen in her grandest avering by the abures of the most pictur-rast to you-I remain, faithfully yours,, mood. There my master and his pard-esque of Italian-lakes. A woman, young- mer' Jim wore working
We
o claim together and beautiful, is sitting half absorbed in 3 HAVE NUT BARDA SINGLE COMPLAINT, It was a lonely and a dangerous apot, when thought, half looking at the glistening rays
consider the human
who in of the moon hywuac fested the mountain, and tainted with their surrounding "presence
wait-
hay
Baldock, Herta, January 4th, 1883. throuh the struggling
Gentlemon, Perhaps it would be ap- playfully
kiss the rippropriate to
to state, that it gives me grünt the evilisation of those early days. pled
pied surface
of-the-water. here is pleasure to push and advance the sales of It was it Barly evening, and both were dreamy sadness in her years of one
medicines, on account of their worth. your sitting before the cabin door watching the ing. She sighs, and, as her bosom leaves, I have not had or heard
taplaint & single c entrancing glories of the setting Bunashe-is-reminded of a little zing neating about your medicines since 7 have sold with a ravishing extravagance of colour them. This rug, she says softly to herself. them, but, on the other hand, unbounded it bathed the towering height-of-the-geand-There is-n- rustling-of-the lentes, and-in a- testimony as to their worth, therefore-
eld mountain.`
"We ber struck it rich, Mr Stanley,"
said Jim, We hey track it rich, but I hov bea warned to quit. These damned Juar para hoy their eyes on this here olaim. and
hey ben as good as toll that onia ya quit diey treat us to cold lead. P'raps they'er blufin', but I reckon we won't go 'till we light out for goed with our little pile".
moment more he is at her side.
ply.
can with confidence bring them to the 'I knew you would come,' she said aim-public noties.
dozens of the foofd92 I Bold-114′′
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.
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FOR A MONTH OF SIX WEEKS, WILL-FURNISHED HOUSE at AMOX,
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My darling he cried with trembling This, I think, taking into account that the and he took her in his arms and inhabitanta are under 2,000, and there are kissed her passionately.
two other agents in the town, will give you Ia good idea as to how it is appreciated
hare. Faithfully youts,
See,' she said, blusting like a zole; have kept your golden bullet."
Don't you think, my dear, that you had better come indoors. The night air Jim was right, mused Stanley Dus grows chill,' said a deep voice from the mond, as in the cold gray light of the fol- shadow at this moment. With the aspi lowing morning he looked with bitter gious inspiration of jealousy, Stanley drew sadness on the dead face of his lata hisself up to his full height. Isadora, partier. Holics gone for good, and I who is that mau? This was the insolence like to follow, and he glanced at his of love. In an instant the girl was trans: right arm hanging healer and bloody at formed. The rich blood of a long line of his side, while wound in his shoulder hans and resented the tone. The wo
Castilian ancestor, throbbed in throbbed with burning pain.
Boughly but with great tenderncas, ho buried his man was superb as, taking the hand of the friend, working with his remaining arm, stranger and tasting a withering glance of and racked with pain the while.
mingled dofiance and store-and many
One
himal more remains. he said to other things at Stanley, she said. "This,
as with the skill of a surgeon hair, is my husband
As que stricken
cat pu from the heart of a rafian who, dead, Stanley could omy exclaim, Jeho not far from the hut, lay stark and cold. shaphat?!
little falisman,' he said, and will forgive the ignoble use
You
have
saved
me my
At this moment a sound like the shriek
I put upon you; teo," My buckalot was of a distant locomotive was hear. The
woman whose hair, by an enormous stretch
all gone, and you, my golden bullet, saved dense foliage by the lake pacted, and a my life, and he glanced at the lifeless form of the out-throat who would never more jump a claim in this workt
of the courtesy of imagination, might be
called auburn, and whose tout ensemble was
This, reader, happened in the days of the very splitheosis of hysteria, entered the
ramroda and muzzle-fondera.
arers and threw her gasping form on Stan-
He washed me carefully, and being paroley's breast.
I retained no stain of that horror.
Battarail and warped out of shape, 1
no
I could
This was Isadora's cus. She did not miss it:
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enger encircle his finger, so he hung it,' she said, with a look of hor illus. * Lagos.
rious progenitur, Stout Curler, whon, with
me tenderly about his neck. Stanley then sale oy, he started at the Pacific, Sir
set fire to the cabin, which blazed and Who is that Woman?** crackled. Jim's funeral pyre,' he saith,
eyes
Stanley's voice seemed to come from afar with swimming
and now I go to or with a sob like the wail of a lost spirit, succour orto death and, with his gol he replied, This, Madanfe, is My Wife!' den talisman about his neck, his stricken As the shadows of night deepen found forat was soon lost in the shadows of the this strange group, and the waters of the gaand old mountains.
lake blacken with the fast, gathering gloom,
An excursion party in the hils at early I nee the rosy lips of the beautiful landora dawn. They had driven from the quaint, part, and hear distinctly articulated through Spanish-looking town thus early to avoid her pearly teeth the words:
the hotter and more vertical rays of later hour. The cheerful neighing of the raust angs showed how they appreciated the
halt. No confort or luxury had been for getton, and all seemed happy.
WELL PH SLAMMED ? Sydney Bulletin.
OVER THE SUNSHINE OF EX-
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Tasmania
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ample, VERANDAUS, with a TENNIS-GROUND and small GARDEN attached.
For Terms and full Particulars, apply to
The OFFICE, China Mail. 17th September, 1685.
For Sale.
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AND
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no
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NOW ON SALE CHINESE DICTIONARY
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All Contributors of business, whether Share Chesty in Hom day previous to sailing.
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to
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SUMMER TIME TABLE.
THE KOWLOON FERRY.
By fares from (Hinged Japan STEAM LAUNUS DEN
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Hung-heung Lo. Kai-lang
Hung
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Consular Invoices to accompany
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to the Collector of Customs, Ban following hours
addressed
Kang-Chung BUNDATI Kung Kok
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For further information as to Freight WEEK DAY 5.-No Order must exceed £10 or $50 guage, constructed on the basis of Kanghi's The life of this party and the happiast ISTIONOF HANGS A BLACK CLOUD (unless drawn on India, when R150 is the Lamperial Dictionary, contains all Chinese or Passage, apply to the Agency of the 1400 en langs de Zou Z. Lapsas Wani among them all, thoroughly enjoying their With the uncertainty of life is mingled limit), nor will more than two such Orders characters in practical use, and while alpha- Company, No. 50 Queen's Road Central.
Ma-taw Chicag ostensible admiration, was a young girl of the dark mystery of death! While, on the be issued to the same person, in favour of ctically arranged according to the sounds
KUND. HARMAN, pirisps, oightoon, whose oval face, dark, one lund, we catch the welcome spuud of the e
of the oldest dialect of Chios, the Cans by the same mail. breath of
Acting Agent, life fast- brave, laughing eyes, and generous wealth new!
of an addition shudder
Menny Orders on the United Klug: conse, it gives also the Maddarin, pronun-
of all characters explained in Hongkong, September 18, 1885.
1638 by means of Postal Notes, as to which neo
of hair, like the raven's wing, betrayed her
to:
cur species, on the o
-talls of
other
WO
yes,
blond Talk; welte, and grkorful we hear the ashing wines of the Destroy./dom for sams not exceeding £ are granted to
Spanish
fawa, the rattaded outlines of her ing Angel The mighty vale of the great separate notice or the Hongkong Postal basury were yet barely anggestive Influence which rules the Universe has Guida
of voluptuousness. She busied herself to make pronounced our fate; the dread Bat has
that its usefulness is by no means to the Cantonese Dialect, but the Thesaurus of work is a practically
China, 83- -Suma not exceeding $50 may be re the whole Written Later the the hostess to die! But, though we cannot prevent means of Postage Stamps, subject to
mitted between the Ports of China by cient and moters, an
Empire, whilst ke laughing merrily, she wan
all comfortable and happy, for it was her gone forth, and every mortal msn is
party, and she liked to play
in a demure and
doomed
when all were any manner. Then, can we postpons death The question 1 charge of one per cent for cashing them:erve the purposes of philofo
momentous, even if it concern the pro or Money Orders can be granted at Hong- dam slowly away from then, as though langation of life but by a single hour, ma kong or Shanghai on Ports where there are she craved solituds, and the gem of the much as overy instinct prompte as to fight, wood saw from under those long dark the boldest battle wo man for this glorioss Agencies of the Hongkong Post Office
General Post Office, Hongkong, April 1st 1895. - as betraying the hidden fancies of a young nature, and it is our duty to obey, But Small seralitatises can be made to them there still remains the question; cas death places by moans of Postal Noter. Ben separate girl's soul.
Was it late that led her from the others? be postponed by a single, hoor Toys for (nosice or the Postal Guide.
lashes an expression at Duce peve and boon of existence. The promptings of in thoughtful an expression beautiful to see, stint are but the spontaneous voices
to the student
"guide
A Supplement, arranged for being cound and used by itssil, and containing a List of the Radicals, an Index, and a List of Surnames, will be published and wild separately OKOSKE
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