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BLOW TO BIMETALISM.
stances. What would you be thinking of,
Already it in ontmated that 850,000,000 Dear Sir, at such a moment? Want but wind and water, and things pertaining
will be taken in the Klondyke country thereto. during the coming year; and in view of
the remarkable outburst of the gold-mining are comfortably abed, especially in dirty At 11 o'clock of the night most passengers
fever in other States and in other ocuntrige weather; after a day of knocking about in a
the opinion is held that the one or mall foggy bay, with nothing to look at duction of gold may reach 3300,000,000 in the year, it being being now about but a small town, and that half hidden in $200,000,000,
mist. How cheerfully one hails the arrival The injection of 8106,000,000 of minted of bedtime, how plonestly ene puffs the gold into the currency of the world would last pips, how the aroma of the nightcap
tella peace and content and well-earned have no perceptible affoob
It prices.
as you fall into the first dose would be" only a slight infstion.
And But a ropose. undden jump of 50
you gladly find all thoughts fading away por cent in the output into chaos, except the thought that it is good. of gold would have a tendency to depress to herocked in the cradle of the deep.
the price of that motel. If it were a good
What's that? Just a ses bamping up
against the ship aside; and you sink agai into dreams.
deal depressed, the prices of commodities generally would rise, and the change would be noticed by everybody. It would be cavior for anybody to get an ounce of gold indeliuable something that lurries on your What again? No aux this. There is an The
than it is now. This will not happen.
change in the price of gold will be so slight bouts, throws peur heart into them, and
hurries to be a subject of practical discussion knowing how many steps of the companion on deck in record time, without you pxchange of the
only in thes are large and you devoured at every stride.
You
go to the side. Everyone does that by instinetthe instinct which bids.you look at the element you are going to make closer acquaintance with presently, How does this now acquaintance look Thune-
minta where necessarily delicate.
Silver
may ultimately riso in price, not because gold will drop toward the fanciful and vanished ratio of 10 to 1, but because in the rush for the richer metal silver mining is likely to bo neglected. If there travelling rollers which you have admized is a miterinily lessoned production and it from day to day from the safe distance of France and the United States do not unioni the big ship's dock, what are they like no their accumulated miilions, the price ought Look, they are leaping at the ship; they
not union that your safety is ainsing under your: foot to go up, even if the Indian minty remain
closed. Bimetalism, however will notne swirling sullenly mound the ship's manke any progress on that count. The counter, and as thoy hiss they rovest black large increase in gold productions will deal depths, "Oh, the borror of that unatterable that unhappy causes blow from which it perincesa out on the lonely ocean, Ecaring
strip. -York.
Then you think
may never recover.-The "Times, New round the helpleof the cold ombraso of
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1907.
HONGKONG MARKET PRICES. Corrected de Saturday, September 4, 1897,
4€ 1090 Cuch per Dollar Mecicam,
Elgheri. Lound,
Pinion.
斑慈
Poutres, White
180
白膽
Chinese Names.
Pomfret, Black
*140
黑糖
Butcher Mest.
肉食
Prawna:
250
明蛾
Bay
50
我毽沙
Bason, English,
"
Ame. Bugar cured,
SPO
J
Foochow c
**
Гарад, qured
來路烟豬肉 花旗幽猪肉 福州爆猪肉 日本爐精肉
Buck Fish,
90
80元 石狗我
Bonchy
雄
Salmon, (Canton), Shark,
200
馬友魚
G0
Beef cloin & prime cut, catty 140
無婠扒
Balt Fish,
100
鹹魚
Cornod,
21
catty
140
鹹牛肉
Skate,
60
J1
Rosat,
180
燒牛肉
Shrimp,
100
Snapper,
180
立
*+
Soup,
100
物
肉
Boles,
200
#
Steak,
ม
120
̇牛肉
桃沙魚
auto
Fonoh,
Ballook's Brains,
per set
60 QU
牛臘
Turbot,
120
左口魚
Tongue fresh, each
200
牛關
Doznied
**
17
Head,
Heart,
310
炒牛和
Turtles, small, fresh water,"
}
600
牛頭
Whiting,
catty 70
長憊
White Bait,
06
椒鱼仔
150
7 2>
Hump, Salt
Fous, >
catty
210
Fruits.
菓子
'. each
60
| Spples, (California),
Kidueya,
60
23
(Tientain),
120
caity 200 金山平禁 天津平禁
נוי
Tail,
100
#2
"
(Japan),
̇日本平基
Liver,.
, catty
TO
12
Bananas, fragrant,
30
無香蕉
་
Trips (undressed) catty, 60
Calves Head and Fest, not
"Hama, American,
600
牛仔頭牌
(bridon),
40
| Chestnuts, Chinese,«
200
Lb.
330
4
Carambola,
80
Chinese,
280
+
*
Cocoanuta;
esch
09
Buglish, New,
440
· **
Ground Nuts,
90
14
Japan cured,
Shanghai,.
Mutton Chop,
320
5
Grapes,
鮮機子
250
•
隆
Lemons, China,
160
11
Peel,
桔餅
[P
Lig,
180
"
Lixhees, Dried,
800
荔枝繁
Shoulder,.
120
"
JJ
Fresh,
Figa' Chitling
. całty
70
60
Lima,
檸檬
11
Foot,
110
t
| Mango, (Saigon),
each
玄南芒某
160
-
(Manila),
呂宋芒
600 450
Head,
Heart,
Mangosteen,
domen
山祥子
60
40
Oranges, Swed
新會備機
Kidneys,
. pair
70
Greed,
胸椎
FO
Livor,
lb.
100
+
Reri,
EN
Pork, Chop,
Corned,
+
Leg,
*
190
15
catty 180
鹹豬肉
**
豬牌費
Olivos,
Persimmons,
Pino-apples,
13
紅椅 白機 柿
each 80
Fat or Lárd,
180
11
豬油
Paare,
catty
50
Shoops' Head and Feet, sot
350
***
75
(Tientsin),
Heart.
each
00
40
羊心
71
Plan, Red,
**
Kidneys, Liver,
70
H
羊膜
Putzelo,
exob
球體
-150 140
肝
(Siam),
astky 160
Sucking Pigs,
. each $1.20 $1.25 *F.
lb. 110 生牛油
13
· Pudding,.
| Water Chesnuts, com,
Raisins, Muscatol,
Suet, Boes,
天津雲藥 紅牛
Mandarin,
桂林馬蹄 an
Vegetables, &or
菜蔬
*1
Motton,
100
VOAL
eatty 130 牛仔狗
Poultry.
Obleken,
catly
20
Capons,
260
Ducks,
140
75
Dores,
-euch
Egge, Han
doz,
120
Duck.
1.10
*
Fowls,
. catty
163
Cieero,
1:0
Нагов
each
Mask Deer,
Partridge, Pigeons, Pheasant,
Rice Birds,
Quall..
Bulpe, Turkeys, Cook,
160
+
brace
dow
Dach
160
#
• catty
BOU
M
Hen,
P
sach
生牛一傑學變與上綮大影
生羊油
1)
生日
Walaute
翔仔
Artichokes, Shanghaf, » catty
Beaus, (French),
木橋:
Curry Stuff, English,
Guepmbers,
Bitter Squash,
Garlic,
Teal, Wild Ducks, .
•
+ 3)
山藥
ON A CERTAIN PIANO. They don't give the Victoria Cross for playing the piano. Yet sometimes it is a
the sea, of the ocean caves far below, milus upon miles below. Scraps of old verses fit across your brain about 'the shark and the swordfish dark, under the ocean form, about the change into something rich and at tho depth of Full fathom Five,
very bold thing to do, und very effectual strange that happensomething reminds
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for clearing a street. At least many people have often thought no wheu listening to you you will presently be lying. Monsters .the thumping next door of the lady with of the deep with goggle oyes Sxed, and a pronounced affection for dance inusie cf. tentacles spread, to peor at you. The the days before Strauss. Have you ever frightoned people come up from below, heard ber
in the centre house they warm to the bulwarks about you, they performing of
a long terrace and have you heard the all look at the water an you do. They are Language
all which made all the other houses fascinated; they
30 the same:
me thing, PRICE LISTS. moro hideous than they naturally are? whatever abape may be in ita company,
Hour after hour it goes, relentless as and that
is douth.
Escaped they
thing
fate, monotonous as the marsh frog, ag- have many times by su and land, to be gravating 19
as the drop of water
yater in the
the overtaken at last. famous tortaro which by rostition roared harder than thunderclaps without a stop
for brass men striving to do it; through.
There is
is duty to be done-there are a
or a varistion in the eternal awful bang of out the ship faces are pale and nerves aro
It revives
paralysed with horror.
its expressionless monolay
дора
old dances long since dead; it
it plunges you The man who, rising above that turmoil, back into horr fatigue that havo marched quietly to the old piano in the ceased to live even in nightmares; it fills socis
it Elle social hall, brought the people back to life the ait, and thrills your fires with the and hope by the glorious power of music swing and lilt of resistions torpsichorean Aud soothed them, the tender women and inuity, until your brain, whirls with the the helpless children amongst them, into thought that you nou dancing yourself faster the ready alert obedience necessary for the and faster into a madluse, with Eopeno safety of their lives the man who did that more written on its frowning porads, was made of the stuff that heroes are made there to gyrate fox ever and over with of. increasing unwillingness to that fearful
monotonu.
More effective that than muskotry to
make deserts of fourishing towns. Very
"Death had suddenly looked at him in the
raidet-of his any unsuspecting hour; ex
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tended his awful hand towards him called The
him by name. But he thought of others,
bold too for any one of decent up bringing acted for others, sat down cheek by jow to attempt in the face of a pancoftil terrace with death at the piano, and played quiot- The Victoria Cross hus been given for any on as if whiting away the after dinner tions lega
plusky and deadly. The rhep, time. In like rosnner is it often said of sodist who refuses to learn angis íu ender soldiers that they go into action with the that he may not spoil is beautiful facalty steadiness of the parade ground. At any mo for improvising with both hands is worthment the ship might have plunged down 1012 attention also. So is the gentleman who into the great awful black deep Rai ho
has made up his mind to become a Resin-played on steadfast and faithful.
stain within twelve months after fac-fin- What did he play in that supreme hour!
ger oxercises, and breaks up a grand pino every week in his stern resolve in get there. Sp. is be monitorous persevering porformer who cannot dis
He knows, I dare swear, for the man who
ha nerve to formulate i tune through his
hands at such a time in put likely to forget
the name of it afterwards. But nobody else
cover that he is without any more likely to have taken the trouble to learn. But what matter what he played. He
talent than the hoof of an elephant which has the inseparable faculty of descending
played: that ideas
d out all the
LYN on several keys at cons. The sentimental wiped out
14
Long,
40
豆角
Beat Root,
20
紅藥職
Brinjals, Greet,
cathy
30
***
Rei,
30
J
Brassion
*
40
白菜
Bamboo Shoota,
90
+1
Cabbage, Chlusss com, »
30
Cabbage,
| Úkulidower, .
Carross
catty
140
Celery, Chingas,
140
13
English,
Chilies Dziad,
נן
Beds
WANA
BO
發送
In doing so he
of a persor, who mastars all the nice bits of ing and much-maligned instrument.
ent. 1, for Donatas and nocturns and always work done by that instrument in good, re-
my part, have never forgotten the
the good person Werk
wants
to trot them out,
the
kindly
I
I
who thinks he can make you feel as it pou verent, capabis hands. Henceforth, when- were at the opera avil ought to realise the ever I how the bud work, I protest I shall
of the orchestra through his
his remember the Tasmania. shall then in's piano ring at of the the bottom
the soily
by
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AND
are universally admitted to be Worth a Guinea a Box.
BILIOUS
NERVOUS DISORDERS, Bick Headache, Loss of Appetite,
Scurvy and Biotones on the Bin,
Disturbed Sleep, o
enthusiastically mistaken fingers, the drea-think of the have of muctifed For jemates of ali zgus thay are invaluable.
| full
mer of the music of the future, and the
brave man
rotary of the woudie of the past who dreams brave action into a sort of canonisation and druma his soul weakly away, all these among pianos. I shall also think of the have their claints. They are interesting
wha
did so much for the ship's and curious,
company in that evil hour by his sterling Perhaps the best claim for some special courage and presence of mind. Sir, I con- distinction might be made by those rare gratulate you, and hope one day to have lew who, among the millions who take the honour of shaking you by the hand- the piano, play with elegance and greco,
Fossil in the Sydney Morning Herald. who her forget that they have souls, and think more, therefore, of
TATFiNg pro- prieties of expression then of volumes of BOT
With there is the
Enement and shining poetry and re-
& music. They
ar the comforters of mankind and the
soothers, the nature's soft horse
desired by
Fing
90
IV one of the
Incomparable opit. One!
of the beat of the wood notes wild of
Fancy's child is their special property
among men and women-and of the latter
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
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REGISTER. Bptember 7th.an. 4. Pat.
they are more often than of the former. W'stock. 29.81 72
in the
There are few groas rug life
men and women go
enough and.
sodattaly
Twenty thousand
quietly Tokio
· Konahi....... 48.7
erough nowadays, Nagasaki.. 29.72
sand sewspapers, officered by
200,000 men of enterprising genius, who Kagoshims. 48.58
evay defect but toed eating, and all Gazis... 29
have
the great virtues of their amall defects are
mezədini |20|| 1788888 | 18998
Sharp P., 9.72 83 catering for the anisentent of the world,
ite instruction, and sway.
9.73 86 Swalow....29.7% 85 How often in the week are they striking Hongkong 28.71
Canton....40.! How often, on the other hand, are they dull? Tar oflover are they namber two thau num-
Vict, Peak! G.p Rock J0.7 kiacao..... 29.73) 93 There are no great tragedies in these days Haiphong 3.75 85 comferters. The soother more frequently Manils..... 48.70
上海水
Fish.
海鮮
40
Ginger, goung,
Fores Badish, Shal,
*120
Barbol,
Bream, Bombay Danka,
O'ton Fresh Water Fish, catty
Carp,
Catfish,
catty 163
Indian Corn,
piece
Lettuce, (English),
*ach 10
100 plecos
for
Mushrooms, Freak, Onions, Bombay,
catty
60
Green, Shanghai; Japan,
30
13
ber one.
EO
Okenes,
bundle 10
Potatoes, Sweet,
Bhanghai, Japan,
American,
world of business worries. Then it is wo
Catty 20
200
180
上海暑仔 日本銀仔 花旗華仔
art is neraro as it is true. In the blare of Tokio
蕭州暑仔 澳門卷仔
Codfish, Balt,
Crabe,
Outile
Dab,
Dice,
Dog Fish,
Bain, Congor,
Fraih water,
Eels, Yallow,
File Fish,
Frogs,
Break Fial
Garoup
Gudgeon,
Gurnard
Halibus
檸味
325 20
dosen 30 cm
$4.50
上白
$410
best quality, per plenl,
Common
(Chiume)
of Law
and order, and no much need of
in requirement, Nature's soft nurse. They come in the easy hours we get intu
when out of the toil and meil of the broiling
Bolinao....
29.75
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adore them and appreciate them. But their Wostook. 29.80 63, 09; sa ̈|9
instruments and fare of chards they have Kochi......
the courage of their micdest worth That Nagasaki.. Cross At all Eagostima
almost deserves indebted, and Guiz F...9.8
events, the world is
at bottom grateful, I hope.
Bu
phaep Pk, 29.82:
But seriously, I do know so instance of A20.82
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whatever the technicati- Swato...
ties of the mattor may be, is on a level Canton .29.80 with anything by which the Victoria Cross Hongkong 29.35 was ever won. Of I
course,
the work Luleau
Vict, Peake of the man who kept the Thamanis's par Gap Rock .82
Part-up
Macso Bengure from losing their houds by quielly
49.82 sisting down and playing the ship's pisau Haiphong, 29.82 We know the instrument, maug of as Bolinao.... 29.23 86
who have travelled in the erstwhile far Manilu.....9.3 88
ourite liner. How many times it did.S.Jamica
duty, how much off colour! It was by
stress of thumping, and humping, and
F. G. Free, Acting Director.
rolling, and tossing, and wait and water1 Hongkong Observatory, Hapt. Sib, 1897,
But
Hever
4 balter thing or
than ther last: Wo talk. 1. Barogrvan, Fadoned to 89 degrees Fahren, Nere fiddling when Remo was burnt, and to the level of the aca in inches, sentias,
Ing only to remember that that great arties and bundreds
mik
most prodigate of mon wa BULU BA 3. Tumeurayvan, in the skade, is degress March karsin. But this plane-playing while was sinking playing while
the ship was
of the sublinest things
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A.MEL Mrs J. B. Jackson Me U. J. William
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The Tido: Table given below has been Mr J. Boulton compiled by the Nautical Almanac Office in Capt, and Mrs W. 8.Me L. Malory London from the results of the analysis of Darey and abid Mr O. O Malaty observations taken by means of an automs Mr G. J. Chapman Mr R. Marten tie tide recording machine in the Water Clagt, & Mira Clarke Mrs G. E. Bailies Police Basin at Telm Sha Tea during the Capt. W. Van Car-Mit F. C. Olen ycare 1887-8-9
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Me
W. G. Bankin dinary Spring Tide which has been found Colonel Eladale, E.E.Mr A to be 2 feet belo mean sea level.
Mr A. Finke
To obtain the filepth of water on the tide Be M. E. P. Frost Mr A. G, Storm gange so the Victoria Naval Yard said 5 ft. Ever. F.A. J, Gace: Mr. O. Strug kanyer fa, and on the gauge at Esmont Dock, Colonel Gorgus Me 0, Tail E Aberdean, add 18 ft. 9 in. to the height 31r and Mm.O. VouMr and Mrs J. F given in table.
der Heyde dobild Thomas and child? Mr T. W. Hornby
3-Kommigt, in percentage of natumtion, the buidity of ale saturated wili mplsture being ber
grient dent of the hanging that goes on front ramming till night in vattage and mansion with 数 alatency for which as ressonable man areale
ja sasign & cause
Bat were the thoughts of this Mr Porter -that I baleye, was his name as he reaped the desk 1 Mush yo deuật m he thoughts of other gun under the circum,
Dumonton On Wœs, to two pulak. 5. FORCH OF WINE,
Bountert catding to 4. SPATE OF WRAzzan, i kda shy, du mehed alonde, ddrinating rain, ♬ teg, a glowny, all, I lightalar o erarosstypassing thepang, gequally, a range them, a komádat, mi pály
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9th to 15th September. HIGH WA
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