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AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions
to 20 by Public Auction,
YOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-DAY (SATURDAY),
the 7th PEERuan, 19, at II A.M.. at their SALES ROMs, No. 8. Des Vaux Road, Corner of lee House Brook,
A QUANTITY OF
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES,
Compris ga
[ALL RIGHTS Reserved.] CHRIS OF ALL-SORIS,
BY
THE PONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7т# 1903.
S. BARING-GOULD, Auther of Mehatäh," "John Herring,” etc. (HAPTER XI.
FROM WEST TO EAST. Here's a mazo tent, indeed, Threngh for thrights al meanders! by your
patience, I needs must rest me.
Tempest, Act II, S.2. ----Afler n-fortnight spent in Comberland Man AN ASSORTMENT «I JEWELLERY;sions, Christine con somewhat weary of the
NEW FELTATS BRACES. TIES. "SOCKS," "&" "ding
Aleg
And
10000 of EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES, TERMS:Aseun).
HUGHES & DOUGH, Auctioneers,
Hongkong, 5th February, 100),
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned have received instructions
to all by Public Auction,
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FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-DAY SA PERDAY
the 7th PERTUARY, 1906, at 2,30 1.31., at Bir¦ SALES Roons, No, S. Dus Voter Road, Corner of lee flower Street,
A QUANTITY P OLD PEKING CURIOS,
Comprising MING DYNASTY PORCELAIN. ITONG | HI VASES, SUNG DYNASTY BRASS and COPPER INCENSE BURNERS 2014 VASES, LARGE COPPER BELL, SILK EMBROIDERIES. MANDARINS' CLOTHES, LACQUERED WAKE. BAMHOU BA QVINGS, Mus, &c.
Cut logues will be isspel, and the Grots will be on view on Friday. ..
TEMSAN usual,
ICGUES & HOUGH, Antioueers.
Hongkon 4th February 13
PUBLIC AUCTION.
shoes, very soiled, fiorked by covoral pairs of bonze eclcured feather boots,Abaro the line of shooë was a dirty enrd, on which was scrawled "Wedding outfits provided." Amangy looking cat, found in the infatise of a magenta ribboned hat the peace denied her in the streets, while ber kitten alternately play with the ostrich Leather of another hat, and stared in surprise at a dirty little girl, who standing at the front of the window called to a friend: "I sye Emily Jine come 'ero and look at, this 'ore kitting." A lively trade was carried on at the next shop by a seller of herrings and fried fish, and the he fried fish in scraps of soffed and crnniped purchasers, children and women, carried off newspaper. A low music ball, with a otice outside that Reearing Billy would that evening She felt herself boxed in, and that with un old lady who was exacting, an inveterate talker. sing a new and laughabla song, and Lucy Toll Fura somersaulty as a living wheel deraanding alt ber attention, and a good deal of would service. This was not all. Lady Barbara took carrying a lighted candle all the while in her her nut for drives in the lived broughan she mouth. Next a beerhows, in which giris math ↑ hind spoken of, to call on her friends, old ladies, man were shouting and laughing and romping. widows and withored spinsters, whose converst. A menagerie of oats and dogs and birds in ciges 'du was even less interesting than that of her outside a dealer ́s in live pets, and whers parents annt)- And Amut Barbara frequently forgot to servomed and ultural profane language, and Christened take her purse with her, or was without change,hildren looking on laughed. and was therefore borrowing repentelly of Chris, from this thoroughfare, and was speedily lost
in a maze of small back strents. and never recalling the itebt.
life he was leading, and to understand her. munt's objections to the lift.
If it had not been for that lift. Christine might have slipt ont unobserved for a stroll by berself, but if she did descend by that contriv- in, her aunt soon found it out. nad lay in wait for Ler return. he had enquired of the boy who worked the machine when Miss Lavenham had gone out, and then had wanted to know where she hid beer, and why she had hit her slowe For so long a time.
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She looked up at the houses: however much lashed by the jain, they were merer wasted the dirt had eaten into the brick, and nothing
at fire would get it onl
She might as well here thrown away her card, of so little serving was it now. She pre- santly found her eff in a foul marrow strust. A gap of historms gies was in the midst, engaged in land altercation with a couple of elderly women, who were screaming abuse at them, and wer, answered with defiant shricks, while others standing by yelled advisa or on- Children, repulsive on acconut
Sir John Chandos bad born as good as his word, He took the two ladies to the opera, 415 with the restal: Ikat Lady Barbara was too tired
next day to rive till lunch time, and was poevish.enragement. In the afternoon she was indisposed to go out and for a martel, dil not seem inclued to talk. Accordingly. Christine thought that the op- portunity had com for which she had been looking, when she might call on hor cusin Martha, the daughter of her father's brother, who had a vicarage in the East of London.
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THE Undersigned Inve regsived instructions
to Sell by Public Anction.
FOR ACCOUNT.OF THE CONCERNED,
001
MONDAY,
9th FERUARY, 1904, at 11 A.M.. at their SALES ROOMS, No. 8. Das Vcenx Rord,
Corner of Lee Hinge Street,
40 DRUMS of No. I ANTI-CO ROSIVE PAINT;
35 DRUMS No. PAINT.
TARMY-As usual:
Aud
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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 5th February, 13
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LONDON,
ARE THE SOLE EXPORT BOTTLING AGENTS
----For
JOHN JAMESON & SON'S
WHISKEY.
And on each Larbel must be found the following Notice and Siguslure. In order that Consumers may feel assaged of genuineness, we would mynest attention to this our Special Export Label, and to our Trade Mark and Name on Carks, Capsules and Cases, also to age nurk
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Clarke's Blood Mixture
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She examined the mup, for she had never been Toast, and the Mansion House, and her acquaintance with the city and all that lay towards the ann rising from it was little or nothing.
Regent Strut she knew and Bond Street, also Oxford Street and the Parks, but little beyond the thoroughfares and open spaces. However, after an attentive study of the map she trusted to be able to find her way. She did not, relish | the notion of taking it with her, and standing at a corner unfolding it, consequently she jotted on a card the names and directions of the streets and turnings she should take, and trasted with the aid of her card without much diffaty tofhad the way to S. Mark's Parsonage, Bulawayo Place.
She entered an omnibus that conveyed her to the Royal Exchange, and there she got out. She struck towards Bishopsgate Street without dificulty, through Threadneedle Street, and got into the main thoroughfare which she She pursued her aressed by Crosby Hall. course for a whilé along Bishopsgate Street and then strack Fast, to find speedily that her troubles had began, and that ker card failed her. She was in a world new to her, and it looked like the off-scourings of an old world, consist ing of mean and shabby honses, of a tangle of. sordid streets, along which rambled people as +habby and sordid as their surroundings, Nothing was bright and attractive save the gin palace with its vulgar glitter. Here stood up the vast bulk of a Model Lodging House with ite iron talconies swarming with dingy children, as though infested with parasites. Cords form- ing a lace work in three balconies supported drooping linen that had been washed, but could perer le whitened, and was patched or tattered. A few men leaned over the railings, with folded
of their dirt, with elottel dali hair, played in the gutter, regardles; of the altercios. for with such scenes and sooods they were familiar, They made pullets of sodden cablinge teaves tu throw at mch other, or rolled one another in the wire romping me fighting,
Christine Riool still.
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She would fain have asked her way, bat could broil, or distinguish not venture into the anyone sufficiently respectable for ber address with the chance of a courteous reply.
Police were few in these parts apparently, She had not seen one for some time.
She hesitated for a moment what to in, and then resolved ou passing the quarrelling women' and girls, and wake for the head of the street,
As she pressed forward, the young people noticed her, and a look of intelligenes flow from one oge to another. Something was whispered,
d in another moment she was aurronded insfld: struck, thrown from one girl to another, turned shout, umid jeorr, ouths, end fasphomies; hur t t was huncked off her bead
When rud she was struck in the face, for the moment blinding and partially stunning het. she came to herself, the gang had dispersed disappeared down passages and through doors. Aleu, singularly cuough, simultussly almost all the elder women vanished na well. Hende that'þad projgated from the windows were with- drawn, and the sashes lowered, women standing in their doorways felt an immediate need for unwever, Christine was too dazed to observe," hustoning into theic own apartments. This, She felt as though she must fall-and to pre- ont skis, canglit at a lamp-post and clung to it Sho put her hands to bee face, tingling from to brow. A sense of sickness came over her, and a mist swem befors Lør eyes.
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Next moment she wild hars faisted, bud not a hurd caught her, and a voice said: "Hev they 'art you, Mars? Things are gone too far, the blackguardesses,”
Christine rallied and looked at the person who spoke to her. This was a study wepeh, in a ragged cotton gewi, with a fringe over her eyes, and a tortoiseshell comb in her matted hair. A look ot good, nature skous through the grime of her face, and sko spoko in kimily tones.
"Baal mu exclaimed the girl. it was a shine, Lut wat else can yer expect in Queer
treet of a Saturdyo?"
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Curis gazed at her with hack lustra syes She was not seriously injured, but bewildered and frightened.
Come erehen," said the girl; blow me can sit you on n cheer there till you pull round." light :f I don't thing you into our 'ouse. Then she added: “If you wihand ure four pence L-it run-round us earner for a drop o` gio."
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The agonizing itching and burning of the skin, as in eczema; the fright- To scalling, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair and erasting of the scalp, as in scalled head; the facial disfigurement, as in pimples and ringworn; the sful suffering of infants and the anxiety of worn-out parents, na in tulk erust, tetter, and salt riam, all demand a remedy of almost superhuman virmes to successfully cope with them. Such are the CUTICURA remetes, the purest, swertest, most speedy soil economical curatives for the skin, scalp, and blood ever ecto pounded. Mothers are their warmest friends.
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"Oh, no, ho gasped Chris with a shiver: "not that, plense; but a stonki like to sit down. for a 11
Ers you are ground fluorers we are. LADIES' GLOVES. Ther' nus diy in but my brother, Cecil And. poor devil. 's won't 'net you; though ad a mind once to low up all London, aud would 's done it but for CAUTY."
She took beil of Christine's arm, thrust her own through it, and drew her towards the houss in which she lived, No. 8,
Christine was too confused, too greatly alarmed to know clearly what she was doing.
The gir el her through a doorway, down a the rear, dark passage, threw open a side door and thrusting Cistine in ssid:-
There now, sit you down. This hero cheer ave four legs. Til for some gin, if you will"
Chris shook her head, "Only let me get my› breath," he said, "that I may thank you for your kindness.”
(To be coatinveils
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was one of small habitations rau up of brick with narrow doors and doll eyed windows, som.o three storeys high, 1inched one againt the
For Scrofula, Scarry, Boxsus, Skin and Blood Dinother to keep in their warmth. ruses, Blackheads, Pimples, and Sures of all kinds, it
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Mr. Stephon Morgan writes: Fluce suffered sizes 1896 with a varicose nicerute leg, and have been un der five doctors. I also attended two hospitals, but it nne they suggested that should have my leg off and at the other that I shald have the veins lenched and tied up. You may ges my feeling, therefore, te find myself now eared by taking Clarke's Blood Mixtare and applying Clarke's Miraculona Balve, epocially I have a family of eight childern. My leg measured 18in, round gainst 14in. the other, and part of my work I have done on my knees. The rat ter coming froin my leg was as back as soot, but it has now completely healed up, and I am out of agony a thing not known to me for the past sight yours. I must say I think my case a marvellous ane. I h mence taking Clarke's Blood Mixture in July, 1896. and the cost has been one small bottle to try the effect Brat, and finding the proper retocily; the ten large
oner, also a few pole of the valve, and my leg net uff. I leve spent pounds in other relics, let the have been no good to me. I shall be pleased to answer. any questions, and afflicted brothers aui sisters con nos my leg for themselves. You sake any use of this letter for the public good,
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The atmosphere was not the same as West of
B. Faul's, the sounds that met her ears, the faces the encountered, were quite different from what are familier to her.
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She passed under a buge factory will dull hurd walls, behind which was the thrill of machinery, and abore rolled volumes of black suvke from a tall ebimuey.
Then she entered a thoroughfare, but saw neither cub nor Lansong in only a brower's- dray laden with cisks, and costermenges wheeling their barrows. There was a stall where winkles and welks were sold, and children crowded about it, picking the winkles out with pins, and throwing the shells when empty into the gutter. The shops made no pretence to he attractive. At the greengròere the regeiables had a tale appearance; the orpages were puffed as though they bud been rolled in a sack to inertase their size. There wasa dirty shop, the window plastered with ballads that had clung to the gines fill they were yellow; an old- clothes vendor, with a Jewish jowl and garmenia that u ver could have been made to fit bim, stool in bis deck. Two or three doors say was a second-bard 'clothes shop. The window displayed every article of feminine attire. At one end of the window was a row of white kil
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