MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1901::
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I sat over Bridge till midnight-
The clocks were striking the hour: The electric light burned o'er mo
With filly-candle power,
Ianw by its bright reflection
On my hand and the cards held there That my golden guineas remaining Would fail to another's share.
For. gripped in my nerveless tingers,
That luckless night we played; The cards were all sixes and sevens.
And gloomy with club and spate.
Safe in the enemies' clutches
The lamps closely lay, Audi the current of lack against us.
Bare all the tricks away,
As, carrying all before it,
And streaming away from my pocket
The Grand Slam cleared the board,
The cherished fivers poured
And like those tivers, flowing
flood of thrights ruslux our me, From my fast-decreasing stora,
And I filled my glass and swore,
How often, on, how often,
In days that will neer return. I had sat over Bridge till midnight
And hoped that the luck would turn!»
The Matemins Cande by gate Calcutta correspondent time the North German Lloyd Steinship Company proposes to run stcamere to Bombay, implies the revival of a project which has more than once been mentioned by us. So long ago as February uf last year, we stated that early in the new century, the German Company would begin a service of steamers from Bombay to! Continental and English ports. Various circumstances have delayed the realisation of the scheme. One of the chief causes of postponement has been that Company preferred first to develop and consolidate its position in the Far East. In that object it has beut largely assisted by recent heavy increases in the subsidios grunted by the Gerrian Government. How far it has hoon Huccessful in capturing the Far Eastern trade the passenger lists testify. The 'German mail is now the most popular line running from Japari and China through the Canal. British and American lines still control the Pacific route, but it is believed that the Hamburg-American Company intends soon to establish a service across the Pacific, the place of embarkation in America being one of the newer seaports in the Western States. With all tacao developments it is certain that the lucrative. traffic from Bombay to Europe will not be much longer free from the element of vigorous competition on the part of German steamship owners.
A or Calcutta correspondent has pointed out, the North German Lloyd Company will only bave to rua furry steamers from Bombay to den connecting with the China and Australian loats, to provide a regalar weekly service. The dream of a bi-weekly mail servies is hardlys or imagine, within the bounds of possibility at present but it is by means chimerical. A regular weekly Derman boat from Bombay would place foreign competition with the Peninsular and Oriental Comysy upxo a very diffrent fouling from the fitful and spramedic opposition hitherto offered to the British line. But Anglo-Indians must not rudulge
reduced fores even if the scene The capty pockets filling
Still out and shuffle past
And the full ones emprying fast. Europe by the Nor German Lloyd C
And for ever s and for ever and . The second-class puissenger (Whene'er I call raise the lumps), may redejte better accommodation on As long as the inch shall vaTY,⠀⠀
aby
How often, ok, how often.
Had I grudged the red cards' worth, And wished spuder clube, and hopel traps
Were anything else on earth!
For my brain was dull and faddled, And my heart was fult of care, And the burden of cricks against me Seemed mere then I could bear.
But now that my parse is opty, And I play for love or shells, Like the odor of brine from the ocean
(Or other, as plaisant smelk), Whenever I deal or shut
shuffle
Comes the thought of the good games c'er; And the watching of others gambling
a consolation poor.
And I think bow many thousande
Of, cash-uncumbered Each bearing his Dummy's burdens, Have extorer Bridge since then.
see the len procession
as the pack holds trumps, ellam weed cherish the idea tha e Line The Game and it changing changes
travelling: These |- ind its ups and downs shall be
The joy of the Inoky gambler edwith. And the Bridge of Sighs to me
be recko
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