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that "three boys from Eton, Harrow, weil of the younger generation, Mr. Hardy relates In connection with the incongiderate manuera Winchester were in a room, when a lady appeared. The Eton boy asked languidly it some fellow ought not to give a chair to the lady; the Harrow boy slowly brought one, and the Winchester boy deliberately eat down on it.
THE ROMANCE OF RUBBER. Thus attired, armed with a big kulfe and s Para is the name of a large State in the and a nest of coniosi cake-tina, he sets out at gon, and carrying a sort of galvanised slop-pall of Brasil, and alse in foreign commercial daybreak to the match of territory assigned to circles of its chief town, Belem, but "Par him. He rushes the nearest Hoves Brasilienis Rubber" has no connection recessarily with tafl tree resembling the ash of Europe either. In reality" Amazonian Rubber" would and makes a out in the bark at a con- ho more accurate, for the whole of the product venient height. He attaches one of his cake is derived from the Amazon or ita tributaries, tins with clay, and treats the next tree in a and is put aboard an occan steamer bennd for similar manner. At the end of an hour or so he the manners of their children; accordingly, for Europe or New York in one of the three Amagore round again, and empties the tine into the the credit of their parents, people try to be. "In China paronts are held responsible for ton porte-Iquitos (in Porn), Manaos (close to stop-pail. When the day's work is done he polite. If you ara motbed in a Chinese town Inaction of the principal rubber-producing returns home to a frugal moal of jerked beef, you should look straight at one or two of the streams), or Para (mighty miles inland on the black beans, and farinha (4 eart of yellow people and say, Your parents did not pay southern branch of the river). It has been tapiocal. The rabber milk is by this time a mach attention to your manners; they did not brought to one of these ports in craft of little thicker than treacle, and, if he has teach you the rules of all kinds, from the palatial river atentner enough in hand, he lights a fire of palm-like this will make the crowd slink away, one with "Neptuna" berths and eleotris light nuts under and old pot and dips a long wooden by one, ashamed of themselves.
propriety A romärk and refrigerating machinery, down to the paddle into the semi-liquid. This is exposed to loaky dug out."
Sometimes the voyage has the hot smoke, and soon hardens. A sunan dip been a straight-out run of a couple of thousand results in another layer, and he continues till he miles, sometimes a month's patient toil past has a lump of oroid shape about football few kilometros of rapids. A highly expansive size. This is ready for the market at the railway is being constructed round some of these to open up Bolivia, while another more modest more than comfortably industrious, but he has port of shipment. He has not been schema is in contemplation in connection with intentionally lonfed, for he knows that is the Upper Tapajos, a river which joins the main profits depond in the first place upon his skesm 400 miles above Para Arrived at its energy, as all-round price having been agreed port of final shipment, the rubber-at this stage upon per kilo. In the first place" is correct- in balls-is out up, boxed, suil prit aboard, during ly used, so he will probably and a substantial the procose being saddled with middlemen's contra-account prepared for the final settle. pefits and an export duty which would crush ment. His employers have contracted to supply almost any other article of commerce out of him with food, but the scale of diot is not s existen ca..
will feel the first economies. He can buy at hard and fast one, and it is his stomach that rainous prices from his employere extra food es well as cloth, rum, powder, etc.
Although there is at all times plenty of water in the main chaunel of the Amazon, many of the tributaries have a very rapid current, to escape which the steamers hug the shore when but it too fine, and they get ground. But the and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS. [52 Yousels bottoms are fat and the river bed is asually soft, so that little harm is done unless the grounding oscura datisig the vnsanto NEW CARTRIDGES. (fail). Then the water gradually sinks, floating islands of vegetation-often carrying fair-sized trees in active growth-settle around the vessel, the river laves her altogether, and the grass grows up bor sides to a height of ten feet or so. After a couple of months she prosents an ex- have cleared out, carrying with them overything traordinary appearance. Meanwhile, her crow
conditions prove favourable. But it often hap reasonably portable, to rotara next season if pens that the next "enchente (rise) is insufleient to- flost her off, and it is not an unheard of occurrence for a steamer to remain aground for four years. A voyage on a river stoamer is thus by no means a cut-and-dried affair, and those who make it usually travel prepared for anything.
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avampy district, he very soon contracts malaria,
the Chinese to their parents and to eld people generally are better than ours, though we may "Few people will deny that the manners of
think some of the examples of filial piety that
certain Lae. This worthy, when seventy years ara hold up, in Chiness books for smulation go to an absurd length. One examplo is that of a of ago, fearing that his yours might distress his parents by reminding them of their greater age, used to dress as an infant and play about the room.
sayings:-
DEFINITION OF A BORE. The following are some of Mr. Hardy's witly
marked: He was always giving us advice, so Speaking of a missionary, a wayago na.
we.killed him."
"The disappearance of the Heavy Father from the English stage is true to life, for to-day the Heavy Son and the Heavy Daughter are more common than the heavy parents;
talk about himself when you want to talk about A bore may be defined as 'a man who will
sell
This difidence arises from no chivalrong feeling, A Chinaman never argues with a woman. but from the conviction that he will be worsted in the end.
Working under a tropical sun and in a although taking immense quantities of power- ful drags. Sometimes he finds himself attacked by beri beri and his legs will swell up and he prosently dive, usually without much fuss. The writer was once asked by a subject to procura some cord to sling his hammock for him, Br the time the writer had drerything ready his interlocutor was dead. In another use a pas songer was carried aboard along a plank: Helogio; it is their privilege to impress and to "Women ought not to lower themselves to sid good-bye to his friends when leaving the influence, is pretty gouerally accepted that a change of shore and died before he arrived on board. It
understood disease, and, as this is out of the climate is essential for a cure from this little question in most cases, the seringueiro is usually ready to drench hisself at the slight ost signs of sickness with any proprietary medicine, and to trust implicitly in any casual stranger who may express a belief in its offipacy. One man addressed the writer There is strychnine in this, as follows: "Strychnine is good for fever. face-wash How much mast I drink to be a well-known cared
The seringneiro" (working rubber colles. tor) on voyage-from some district to the south ward with his family to the rubber plantations would furnish good material for a Turner. The weaker vemols sit around the Lares to against it" on a rubber station. A few years One never knows when one may be "up guard them, a precaution which strikes ago some people secured a concession on the a casual observer as hardly necessary. A.Tupajon, and set up a station and a rum mill. typical boop would comprise several They were doing or less broken pots of dall-red earthenware; attacked by Indians and driven out. During the well enough when they were two tin trunks, dented and scarred, yet rearguard action that followed they lost several retaining traces of a Neapolitan landscape on a groundwork of crimson and green; araangy turned and set fire to the station. Soon after they men, but finally got away. The Indians then re- "yallar" dog; one or two shot-guns of last century but one;
the discovered some barrels in the store below, and, variegated bundle of on starting the first one, found it contained cotton hammocks; a dirty black-browa turtle rum. But they were canny, and decided to tethered by a cord passed through a hole in his postpone the orgis until they had retrieved shell; the remains of sewing-machine; a every barrel. So they set to work, and were browa baby rolled up in a dirty white skirt; a getting along nicely when they resahed the groen parrot perched dejectedly on a support powder store at the back just as the fire burnt carved out of a kerosene box-and se m. The through. senhora is sitting on a corner of one of the trunks, her naturally thin cheeks rendered still more hollow by her efforts to keep alight a tiny black clay
pipe with a long, red stem of rood. The senhorita-like her mother, dres and in faded skirt of once bright chintz is sucking oranges, meanwhile look ing under her eyelashes at a youth who leans against a rough rail twirling his moustaches." Over his shoulder appests the pathetic face of an anionic cow. Under the feet of everybody. mixed up at times with a corpulent porker, roll a number of wide-eyed childrez, who are cocazionally picked up, smack- ed, fed, and set back on the deck to cool.
love crime for its own sake. They are merely It must not be ampposed that these people four hundred years behind the times, that is all They are living an unhealthy and hazardons life, and they are woefully ignorant of the finer things of civilisation, yet they are capable of long friendships and sincere devotion.
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American woman in London repaid something. Corelli for what she has done for visitors from entertaining her to luncheon at the Hotel Cecil, across the Atlantic to Stratford-on-Avon by London, recently. The gathering was organised by the Society of American Women in London, present to meet the novelist. The President, and a large and representative company was Mrs. R. Noyes Fairbank, had on her right Ambassador, and on her left the guest of the day. Madame Kato, the wife of the Japanese In proposing" Our Guest" the President referr ed to the debt which Americans in to her for what ehe daza at Stratford-on-Avon. especially for her idea for the establishment of Harvard House. Mr. G. A. Mower spoke in support of the feast, which was enthusiastically honoured. Miss Corelli, in reply, said American women in London were a loading force in one ly to the number of American ladies who had social life of to-day, and the referred particular- become associated by marriage with the British Peerage. The charm of the American woman was always present; it varied according to her condition and surroundings, but it was never en tirely absent. The Amexican woman was never quite like other women; the same heart and emotions moved her, but they moved her in a different way. She was absolutely origina The daughter not of an ancient kingdom rich in historic associations, bat of a lead of liberty, teeming with the impetuous rush of new ideas, she was always deeply interesting and never acknowledged that he owed all his inspiration dall, Hor power was limitless Mr. Taft had to his wife, and it was really Mrs. Taft who tribute should be of greater value to women
The seringueiro himself is engaged mean- while near the hiniwarke in a fierce argument. His face and body are pressed cluso tobia upon the little everyday doings and sayings of ruled the great American nation; and this antagonist, his arms are gestionlating wildly,
his very finger-nails are pantomimically everyone else. There is so much in the way than the bestowal of the franchise. She ruled
.ex-
remark is phrased.
pressing rage and scorn. The subject under discussion is probably whether a certain street Fonds to the Falace of Justice or not. A stranger would expect bloodshed, bat no actual fracas occurs. It is the quiet, unnoticed dispate that breauble. Then one observes a little group raler ordered the seer to be
up enddenly; a mufled report is heard or a badly stabbed man siuks to the deck. There is a rush, everyone talks at once, and the sa- vivor is bundled down below into the sweltering hold His subsequent fate is uncertain If the affair has happened nosz a largo towa ho is pat ashore and kept in prison pending a trial which usually faries out for want of witnesses; if ina remote district, and ho owes much money to his employer, inatters are "arranged," but even then he sometimes rejoins his victim in a harry In ono district the governor of the local gaol is also the Official Advocate for persons sonteed of orime. He has made a large fortune.
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with no place in which to rest the soles of their seen Americans in Stratford wandering about feet, and she hoped it would be which they would value. (Cheers.)
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E. J. Hardy, in his new book, "How to be which left here on the 3rd ultimo, at noon,
With a fund of amusing anecdote, the Rev.
The I.G.M. steamer Prinz Regent Fitpold, Happy Though Civil" (Fisher Unwin. 58. nat), arrived at Genes on the 30th ultimo, at 2 p.m. delivers some very practical wisdom on the conduct of
The P.M. str. Siberia sailed from Yokoham strangers,
daily relations with friends or en route to this port on the 28th ultimo, and is scheduled to arrive at Hongkong on the 7th
maxim," he writes, "but nothing is gained by
When in doubt give a dinner' is a gooil inst. doing so if you ask the wrong people or treat. possible from a lady of whom it was said that As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF them in a taotless way. Be as different a people went to her entertainmente to see her insult her guesta.
"How dreadful it is when you bring a lady in to dinner who cannot or will not way a word! In this predicament I have remarked, I do not mind being ugly, do you? and this brought the painfully ellent one to her speech if not to her
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Kinglake, the historian, liked dash and vigour in a talker; he declared that his heart stoppedțit ho was bored. A lady friend of his suggested that his pulse should be felt at dinner, after the second entrée, and if not satisfactory that he should be allowed to change places.
The first-class passengers on the upper deck are the employers and their families, ordinary South Americans, just now dressed rather shabbily. One-third of the men are colonelf in the National Guard, one-fifth doctors of law, or medicine, or engineering, or just doctors plain. They are alike in this that they hold, on some tenure or other, a stretch of rubber producing country, and are now going up-river to exploit it, taking with them a number of workmen and a large quantity of stores sap- plied-usually on credit--by aviadores," mer: chants in the big centres who have bought from the importers for cash or short dated bills. Ifrab ber comueads a good price this season, the avi- adores will be paid, but after a slump such as occurred last year they are usually a little bill- shy, and, since the seringueiros cannot go up. rivar without their assistance, a firm market is and therefore each person should take this meal "It is difficult to be agreeable at breakfast. not likely to be queered by over-production.
The steamer parsues hor
alone. Ideas do not come early in the day, and Torage with there is little was in saying how we slept or in dmerous stops to discharge
fow cases or carboys of rum, or to cut long, coarse grase for
ramarking that there was rain in the night. the cattle on the lower deck. There is no indecent haste displayed, but eventually our friends reach their seringat. The upper-deck people must go ashore tricked out best,
in their ard
016 watches with
interest the attempts of an Excellentissima Senhora in a black satin skirt and
a blouse of Parisian origin to settle herself in a tithy and oranky caroo. They reach the shore, and squatter along into the house, a long, single- storien beilding of wood and corrugated iron supported on
on piles and illuminated by two cheap kerosene lumps.
"When Lord Coleridge was travelling in The seringaeiro's home is not nearly so
America an interviewer ended an enumero- APPLI- tial, but consists of
palation of the big things of that continent by framework of plings Gr covered with palin leaves, & favourable habitat saying that the conflagration they had in Chi- and for vermin of all kinds. It stands in a rough To this Lord Coleridge blandly replied, I have cago made the fire of London look very small and also ELECTRICAL clearing with many tree-stumps and much
time desired. thorny undergrowth, but the children are soon
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great men's methods of administering a kindly Mr. Hardy gives some amusing instances of rebuke.
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