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SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1908,
A WAR CORRESPONDENT. have come away with half the Maloo.on credit if I'd wanted! Too much Union Jack and Patty Debts Court down South! Propose to sail direct from Nagasaki ta Hongkong when this show is over! But cominn so my horse John the Baptist!→
[Br N.] I know him in the chrysalia-that is to say-long before he over thought of de- veloping into that brilliant butterfly of journalism, a Special Correspondent and correspondent for Router at that..
Eron in those daye-the.carly Nineties in Japan; his acquisitive faculty was the
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By devious paths he led me through the Chinese town at the roar of the British Concassion, and into the South-East quarter thereof, which had been recently severely shelled and was now practically MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
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ahop, he knocked on the door, which was aion, to his friends.
During the time that I shared a mess opened by a Chinese youth with a most with him, fand you can imagine what sort of unprepossessing face and one nye mlusing. a mose it was when I say that he rap it, and | "Ogalops! said my friend; "Itling olo fan' he lived mostly during the day by scation, look see John the Baptis Can do?" the liquids that has imbibed, when sé home," Om do"! said the one-eyed factotum, consisting principally of black coffee--every as he ushered us through the shop into quarter of an hour and groom creme-de- what had been the family diningroom of menthe every firo minutes since his the establishment, I, following close an appetite for solids, except when abroad, his heels, received an unpleasant shock never troubled him till about 2. o'clock in the morning)-I had known him to acquire thres horses, dag.cart, a couple of bicyclos, a 30-guines Groeber gun, a assorted pedigreo, some odds and ouds of konnel-full of assorted slogs of equally 1749 household furniture, and many other smaller triflus, without any monoy changing hands as'neval in such transactions.
PHAROS HAS A MESSAGE TO YOD.. on as anxious to put your son to a business that he will prosper. Will your daughter be happy in her married life? You are in love. Have I made a wise choice In mate? Shall I take a partner into my business? Should I be wise in going abroad? All these questions Pharos can answer and advise by the aid of astroligy. Why not put this to the tent? Send F.0. value 1. and addressed, stamped with your Birth Dats, Fall Pharos, D. 14 .45, Union Street, Glasgow, Kare and Title and Tow nor County of Birth if possible; upon receipt of same hares will send. written Test With the above Pharos will send you Free a written Forecast of your Hongkong, October 31, 1997.
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ditors with Hoa, when they would work, and casing his blooming voice in the wilderness with a meat-chopper when they wouldn't-ever tries to bite me, though he took s [-retire to a stato of retrenchment and whole pound of flesh out of the shoulder obscurity on board this ill-gotten craft; of my last myfoo, and at least two-pounds- bub ne, after two or throo days of the life (and-a-half out of the lower dorsal domain solitary he would, become ennuyé, it in- of the coolie who prozeded him.”. variably ended in his keeping "open "He's a shapely little animal," said I, houao" (or should I say “open boat"?) "orea if he is a cannibal. Where did you aboard the "Hobo" name much more get bim?"
"But how did he come"? said I.
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THE TWENTY FOURTH ORDINARY appropriate in its Americas meanlug-a-"Wolk" be answered, aftur a moment's | ANNUAL "MEETING «[ SHARE questionable tramp than in its Japanese thought, "I didn't exactly get him. He HOLDERS in the above COMPANY wil
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at the
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COMPANY'S St. George's Building 6. Connaught Road, naturally no particular economies resulted,
Victoris, on MONDAY, the 30th March, He had been educated at Rugby, and
1908, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving. polished off in France and Germany, and
a Statement of Accourts and the Report the languages of those countries he had
of the General Managers for the year "It was after the return of the Soyouding 31st December, 1907, and electing acquired in an elastically broad way which our expedition about three weeks a Consalting Committee and Auditors. made him a master of the purest and theago I had just arrived when they come
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"He came to me in this way," said my friend, reminiscently!
Ho exhibited occasional lapses of train all out up toribbons. I had bean trying memory in denoting the particular portion
in with 800 casualties and heir baggage-IDAY, the 5th March, to MONDAY, the
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of the United Kingdoms which had risen to buy, beg, or borrow a borse without re- to distinction as bis birth-place. Soo
ault. So, he said, I had to content myself times it would be Devonshire, sometimes with wandering down the various lines Wales, but more frequently Ireland, but where horses were picketed, and coreting his powera of acquisitiveness and the shape them from a distance. Two or three nights of his nose gave these statements, the after Seycacur came in," he continued, "I former & flat, and the latter a hooky was strolling down the Admiral's commis devisl.
sarist lines, secompanied only by my little Without doubt, his ancestors had been frond Herr Mauser. (Here he indicated on MONDAY, 90th March, at 5,50.1 fishermen upon the Judean littoral, whose Mauser pistol in its unhandy-looking butt descendants, when the fishing gave out in caso). Curiously enough." he said, "I those parts, turned their attention to the had a halter which I had picked up mors lucrative game, in other dlines, of apparently belonging to nobody-near the baiting their commercial lines with the Baluchis' quartom, hanging over my shoul Semitic sprat to catch the Christian der. What fow horses thore wore that bad Jonckeral.
Burvived that disastrous show were I had lost sight of him for some years—is charge of Seymour's own special corps he had come South to escape the attentions of Horse Marines who did not seem
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which had been shanghaied and pressed. He was beautifully and appropriately into the service of H.B.M.'s Navy.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that dressed in that hurmaphrodite garb which "These poor heathen ponies, having the YEARLY MEETING of the Society will distinguishes tho trus war correspondent fixed idea that all mich are Chinese mafoos, be held at its HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, alike from the common-or-garden military who will tie them up tight by their hende, user's Building Apr 1909, at NOON,
Hongkong, en THURS officer in working costume and the much and kick them unconsingly in the pite of for the purpose of receiving the Report of
DAY, the rd April to-bo-pitied civilian aport in riding-dress. their stomachs. or else bait them over the the Directors together with the State- We fell each upon the other's neck in at tender parts of their backbones with ment of Accounts to Sist December, 1807, mutual appreciation of the re-union, and four inch batubog, are always ready to asand of declaring Dividenda, et then proceeded to the bar to signify in the and the offensive, and when they assume it,ciety will be CLOSED from 18th April,
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laying of much Tientsin dust which had gathered in our throats. He explained to me, botween gulps, hat ho had come up for Reutor and an Australian paper.
I saw poor John the Baptist-quite the likeliest of the bunch-standing quite THE CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE There was no need for any one to apart from the west,
ostracised, sent suggest to me that his acquisitive to Coventry, and looking very lonely. propensities had been resently on the approached his gently with the romp the most riotous of romps! I could mouthed and with his usual cream, FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY baltor ready, while he welcomed mo open-
· TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the only 'idly "speculate as to who were the pounded him, persuasively and well, opor viotims.
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the soft susceptible part of bis pretty pink MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the From his helmetod head, across his proboscie with Herr Mausck, and, whilst he above Company will be held at the HEAD much-be-pocketed cont, over his cords, and the Government halter for my own, and kog, on THURSDAY, ther
a busy thinking of the pain, I orobanged big! En 12 URSDAY, Basdeed. Apel, almost down to his Stolwassered calves, imited him to come home with me to 1908 at 14.30 for the purpose hung and dangled the spoils of his ingenious supper and that's how he came to, receiving the Report of the Directors, plausibility. As the White Knight in Nobody appeared to mind his going, and I together with Statement of accounts to Alics in Fonderland bristled with mouse- suappropriately hoarse marine laugh when ant aure that the Horse Marines laughed traps, bee-hires, dish-covers, and other they discovered that one more of "them
ansils, for which bis frenzied brain con- bank condemned screaming-and-kicking pany will be CLOSED from the 9th to jarod up some possible utility, so was may crimsoned offspring of female dogs of budding special decorated with the para-
phernalia of his newly-adopted professioncstora-otestera cd-Chinose-mules"bad dig.
nights later I was awakened in Ho nearly staggered under the load of my room at the Club, by Reater's Special Kodak cameras, field-portfolios, Feather sitting down with a flop on the side of my covered capitens, field-glasses, and the should arise, dress, and
bed, with a
a peremptory demand that I et ceteras which hung about him, since
accompany him ព · ច small expedition, the object of In addition to about a double regula- which he did not
not immediately oxplain,
wato
tion kit he bore a sumptuous: sation- "Scenting an adrouture, I rose and went kanpanck, a holster big enough to hold with him to the quarter in which his
diggingsTM half-a-dozen horse-pistols of the year of
but to a miterated,
a street Waterloo, and a couple of pouch-bandoliers ing parallel to his own, and a place a
couple
of blocks further off... Arrivod there, chock-fall of revolver agamtinition. A
ho: led me to a
a heavy more precociously workman-like specimen nativo cart, apparently laden with four, of the journeyman journalist I have never over which his boy stood guard, and to which was harnessed the strangest com aron before, or behind, or since. When tiation of beasts of burdeneren for my Brst gasp of astonishment was over, North China--that man ever saw together. and the dust of Tontain had been washed a dilapidated skeleton of a cow and little bit lower down, I naked him, with very mangy mule at the pole, with John the characteristic cheek of an old mess extemporized traces
the Baptist caparing about, as loader, In mate, where and how he got them all. : Have
His reply was just what I expected for asked you roused me out of bed,"
Barcastically
to assist you to bake ho was always truthfoily frank with me in bad for the whole dashed international the matter of his tuany questionable Bhat up you carmine old idiot, be
nemy of decapation undertakings-In Shanghai, old chap replied. 12 foot! Spsee || Silver !. Rippin place, Shanghalt. "Not a bit and you'vo quà to help me get it, home
Honking or Eligapars Mariner and safely stowed away Chidake to accommodating Give gon everything you 3 want 1-Balieve I could||
To make a long story abort, we got the
(Continued on Fame 3.)
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