A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD
'DEBTSI”
A story, even an old story, if apropos may poist s'moral.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1899.
absorbed in my amusement that I took ho notice of her. Had remembered the peculiar taste which snakes display for music, would one would have listened, but I was taken too have continued playing, to sea, how long this much by surpriser and obeyed my instinct John Strange, an Attorney-at-law provided in which, as 1-have already said, is to destroy all This will that n monument of stond should be the snakes I come across, if Leander ju
placed over his grave with the inscription-confess that 1 have shown ingratitude to an Here lies an honest Lawyer." Explaining admirer of music, and think I was somewhat this peculiar provision in his will to his wile he too hastyl said, "Passers by the grave will pause to read the line. Hero fican-bonest Lawyer, and will at once exclaim, That's Stronge,
An Englishman on passing the lawyer's grave stopped to read the inscription on the tomb-stone Here lies an honest Lawyer" and was over- heard to remarke That's very extraordinary." What has that to do with a New way to pay old debts? Find the point in the following facts,
A foreign Physician practicing in Japan, more noted for contracting bills, than curing | ills, became indebted to one of his unfortunate and numerous creditors to the amount of Yen 199. From time to time monthly statements of the the debtor doctor but in vain. Finally the account had been sent by the merchant to creditor called several times at the delinquent After five futile attempts to collect the amount the morbid medicine man conceived the cunn ing scheme to settle accounts by sending to the merchant a bill for professional services.and rendered an account for five office consulta Yen 199" thus balancing the merchant's bill
Yokohama residents and others who know the facts and the doubtful doctor say "That was not Strange!"
doctor's nice to collect the overdue necount.
CATS.
The moral of the foregoing story is "Do not play music in summer time with your doors or windows open." 17th, June.
AT. E. H.
MR RIDER HAGGARD ON THE
FUTURE OF ENGLAND.
has within the last twenty years set herself | NILE RESERVOIR WORKS: with great energy to become a manufacturage nation, and has already gone far on that road.Sir William Gastin has just returned from when the seris were emancipated are now ouan and Assiout, and has furnished Router's Four-fifths of the estates left to the nobles opecting the Nile Reservoir Works, at As- mortgaged to the Government, which abstains Agency with the following noto from foreclosing through mingled motives of a migration of some two hundred thousand policy and a sense of equity. Every year sees cultivators to reap the harvests of the fertile thousand do not return. Last year when the sunny south from which some twenty or thirty Siberian Railway had reached a illstant point,
220,000 emigrants crowded to the trains, and railway officials were greatly perplexed to find the means of transporting these wholly unex
MARK TWAIN'S LEGACY TO POSTERITY.
unce of almost any South American state and proceed to develop it on business lines, To take the lowest view, it would always be an excellent speculanon. We are dubbed a nation of shopkeepers, but few have the emerity to deny that what we do is however incidentally, for the benefit of humanity.":
THE ORISIS IN THE TRANSVAAL,
pected passengers seaking, new bames in achemet Ali Channel, and it is hoped that opportunity his person, while all classes in House of Cominons on June 8th, summed up.
On the western bank the work of excavating the Navigation and Lock channels is well advanced. Should there be no failure in the which there are some fears, a large amount of supply of Portland cement from Europe, of
the coming flood. masonry should be completed by the arrival of
foundation and of building the masonity super
At Assiout the work of faying the concret structure is in fulk progress. The amount of work estimated for this season on the west bank should be completed before the arrival of the flood, supposing that the supply of Portland chment does not fail.
On the eastern bank work has been deferred
was not at site in sufficient tine.
counties, but it is well known that the deple the dull life of the country. He away from for the prescht season; as the necessary plant Tid prior to their return to America in October.
At both Assocan and Assiout work is being 14,000 men in all are employed on the tiva works. The river throughout this sunimer las case in 1898. averaged some three feet higher than was the
i
THE REPUBLIC'S ARMY,
ENGLAND'S POSITION,
M. Joseph Chamberlain, speaking in the When the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
declaring that a new situation has been creat the result of the "Bloemfontein Conference, by ed, says a London dispatch, he usert a preg. nant phrase, open to only one, interpretation. The politicians who have closely follow the..
declare that by means of these opening nego attitude with respect to them, are fully satisfied that the Colonial Secretary plainly meant to cations in which the British High Coramis- diplomatic resource to forced det signer, Sir Alfred Militer, had exhausted every element of the matters in dispute, it had been reconcilable and that it hope of an arrange proved definitely that President Kruger was ment by suggestive or diplomatic pressure Was henceforfli vain.
HIS POPULARITY. IN GERMANY. Consflemble progress has been made with Mark Twain, whose works have long vied in the Assouan cataract masonry is in progress with those of the best known pative contenu the works, both at Assouan and Assiout. At popularity in the German speaking countrie, throughout a great portion of the estern end of Porary writers, says the Viennnt corresponden. stance, been carried to the sound rock, which is the Kaiserstadt, become quite a familiar and the dam: The foundations have in every in- of the Times, as, during als two years stay in generally met withint a greater depth, below the welcome figure to the humour-loving Viennese urface than it was hoped would have been the and a great favourite Austrian society. The case. The foundation trench is being excavated American colony, headed by the official repre the island heat to what is known as the sentative of the United States, have missed po of doing honour to Trans-Alantic scarcely explored region. In Fmnce the masonry will very shortly be commenced there. Rierature in population does not increase, and therefore he deep chanhel, next to the Bab-el-Kebir Vienna have been the exodus from the country to the towns or Great Cate), hich has been selected for hext who is not unly a prephot in his own country, i eager to welcome a Villar colonies is not as great as it otherwise would be.senton's work, is now closed by a strong stone but whose name is one to conjure with among Mr. Rider Haggard has found in the exodus But it exists, and on a scale sufficient to alarm dam.
gentle and simple, from schonbays to courtier of the rural population of England a theme of economists who deplore the restlessness" of
and princes, in the lands of the German igugue. gaier pathos, and more full of tmgic possi the agricultural class. Even in the United
It may be fairly saldthat the prestige of literature of the Transvaal and, dir. Chauveraine bilities than bis imagination has ever conjured States, the farmers are mortgaged to the his
has been Lunsiderably enhanced when, as in dress to the Chamber of Agriculture of Norfolk, iniquity of crucifying them on it cross of gold.
leave of the chief of a State of which he has within the veldts of South Africa, In an ad- and Mr. Bryan waxes eloquent over the
this instance, its representative may take formal he owned that imagination failed him when he irrelevant points, we can better appraise the Having refreshed our memory on these not
been the guest, particularly when that chlef is when England will be spotted over with huge Haggard when he set out in inquire way the
been calling Mr. Clemens "the Ambassador at look forward to the time in the not distant future value of the various reasons given by Mr.
State Austria. The American newspapers have the head of the House of Hapsburg and that overgrown cities, surrounded, each of them by farm labourers in Eastern England are a vanish
large of the USA"; but Humorists in their market gardens, and beyond, what would be called in Africa veldt-unimproved. scantily ing quantity. He was told that the spread of
hours of relaxation have a habit of taking jokes improved country, broken hare and there by
education had made labour on the land dis-
seriously. That apparently is Mark Twain's the mansions of rich Colonial or City men, tasteful to the young, that the housing of the
way. Mr. Clemens and his family, who will encircled by their areas of sporting land. What
labourers was in some cases insufficient; be said had reference.especially to the Eastern
that the desire for music-halls and other forms
reach London about the beginning of June. will probably spend a couple of months in Eng of entertainment drew young men tion of the agricultural districts is in steady believe that there is some truth in these and inclined to progress throughout the United Kingdom. Sussex is not one of the Eastern counties, nor him to grasp the fact that the first cause is
other similar reasons, but his good sense fed carried out by night as well as by day. Some pet scheme of his to wrbidhi ke particulars ofal ders, and his next step will be a deniard. Ther is Kent yet in the former two hundred thou-economic-the labourer leaves the land because It is some weeks now says the Bangkok and acres are relapsing into waste moorland, Times, since we were approached on the sub. and for years spast some of the best land within In the present depressed state of the agricul it cannot pay him sufficient to keep him upon it. ject of Siamese cats. Were we an authority twenty miles of Condun cannot find tenants and on them, and would. we just jot down, all we would be gladly sold in fec-simple by the impro-tural industry the cultivator cannot pay him better knew?" asked a friend interested in the feline verished proprietors at £6 an acre. Some of the wages and live himself. As the farmer cannot tribe. In a weak moment we said we would. hetter-off Jewish traders in Whitechapel have
find labour at the only price he can afford in Up to that time our knowledge of the cat was been tempted by the low price to purchase pay, the day must come when the poorer land limited to the fact that a cat was a creature freehold property in that fame county and goes out of cultivation, and the area under with but one defect, yet that serious-here-self it, in small lots, to their co-religionists who foresees that unless something be done to grass, will be largely increased. Mr. Haggard, murders sleep.. We all know what it is Mr Haggard confines his attention chiefly to check the exodus the light and the heavy soils to wake from a telc dream of horrors, the continual and progressive shrinkage of the with a wild cry as of a soul in torment rural population in Norfolk and the neighbour- alike will go out of cultivation and become ringing in the ears. The noise is as if ing counties, and especially of the agricultural grase land, does not appear to be aware that Herod were butchering great numbers of able. labourers. Field and farm work has to be done land eventually grows weary of growing grass, bodied innocents. The cals are out enjoying weak, who can turn to nothing else. The young weeds instead. In Ireland it was observed, by elderly men or by the physically or mentally
and grows thistles, nettles, docks, and other themselves. That is all. You can lean over the verandah and empty your Smith & Wesson
many years since, that the grass lands were man to think of and the police man--and the leave it and gel twenty or twenty-five, shillings at them, but then there is the sleeping watch on the land at all, it is with the fixed desire to midnight reveller shrieking adieu to his pals. week at some other work. The great rovellst Then, you may hur! boots and things into the farms some four hundred acres of land; of his carls, anyhow.
is difficult to see, and four ploughmen none is under 50, and two are a cat in the dark, Cats between sixty and seventy. How are these are not dogs. Qur, enquiries were to affect aged ploughmen to be repinced when in a year Siamese catay however, and, prosecuted assidus or uvo they go into the workhouse or obtain ously, the following-is the result, called form- old age pensions from a pateral Government? worm-eaten tomes. The translation, which is is the sanie with other classes of agriculturists, from the original Siamese, is literat:
those who milk, the cows-women-will not undertake that work in these days thatchers; ditchers, and drillers, who require training and judgment. It was in vain that for a whole year the distinguished author sought a young and intelligent labourer whom lie could tempt with the offer of a good cottage. They all preferred a garret in, a city glum. The same complaint was
(To the Editor of the Australiau Star.). made by everyone in the neighbourhood. The Inspector of two counties and parts
Sir-When contesting the Lang electorate of two others reported in 1897-98 that last year and in dealing with the disabilities between 1871 and 1891 one-tenth of the of bodied at the encroachments of heavily agricultural labburers of Norfolk had left Absidised foreign steamship companies of the land, and there was teason to believe Australian trade, I more than once, by way that since then the decrease had been illustration, referred to Alfred Holt and Co.'s accelerated. The decrease in Suffolk during line of Blue Funnel steamers, engaged in the same period exceeded ten per cent. "Aplying between ports and islands of the Rast- constant drain of the best class of labourers is em Archipelago, from Great Britain's first flee going on the old and infira are left, and these reason why, shipa under a foreign
part, Singapore. What I then advanced as necessarily come on the fates. In Mr. Hag-
far
In Australia could only reach such of
MENSIAMESE CATS
(1.) The best kind is black, with white or coloured patches, bushy tail, black paws, black nails, black tongue, emerald eyes, and a sweet voice. Whoever has such a cat will certainly become a millionaire and be to enemies.
and be quite invulnerable (1)-A white cat must have some black apots or marks; it will then prove a mascote
for merchants.
IRVING IN ROBESPIERRE." The recent return of Sir Henry Irving to the stage in Sardou's new play, Rebespierre fat occasion not only of a display of enthusiastic the Lyceum Theatre, London, has proved the greeting to the great actor, but of divergent criticism of the drama. The prevailing opinion appears to be that the play, while containing elements of considerable merit, falls far short is the result very forgaly of the great personal of greatness, and that its successful production popularity of Irving himself. A writer in the
tanner which sailed in May took 500 of these
the officers and men. Two hundred Royal cred accommodation had to yield places to "eliefs, and passengers who had previously
Engineers sailed for South Africa frona Sout hampton on June oth
Mr. Chamberlain is not the" maa" to be Jiverted from his course. He has publicly and to telegraph to the Times some
Mr. Clemens has kindly-given me permissju, deliberately éspoused the cause of the Uitlan
voted a great deal of his time and which wil has already de occupy a great part of the remainder of his life contingency has been fully foreseen for months there will be energetic action to support the lenand may be stated as certain that this In some respects it will be unparalleled in the past Fresh troops and large quantities of history of literature. It is a bequest to posterity. munitions of war have gone to South Africa by in which none of those now living and colds very steamer. The troops have been descr paratively few of their grandchildren even willed as reliefs, but those they are supposed to "elieve: have renamed, in South Africa. A have any part or share. This is a work which is only to be published roo years after his death These are drawn solely for his own pleasure in whom he has come into personal contracts as a portrait gallery of contemporaries with
the work, and with the single object of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but in iruth; without malice, and to serve no grudge. but, at the same time, without respect of persons has been assembled, fuis qquipped and ready To Natal, notably at Ladysmith, a large force. of any kind. These portraits of men and nules from South Africa and Cyprus are on the or social conventions, institutions, or praderies o march at a moment's ublice. Hundreds of
waste lands is steadily increasing-pari patru but M. Sardou bad done well by the occasión. will be forgotten by the time his gallery inen, while the British troops there already by the official returns showing that the area of Robespierre' is in no wise a great play, Twain's books, which their author anticipates muster a fighting force of from 16,000 to 18,000 of the first performance his eye will not be written in the style of Mark It is ratimate that the Transvaal could
every attractive feature which has caugh magazines are packed with ammunition.
Mr. Haggard is more concerned with the effect The Lyceum demanda a series of suiking published. Any humour they may contain will number 11,000 men, commanded by the with the exodus of the agricultural population. the great cities, and especially on Londoning role is not a fine part, but it is such a part the subject if it is to appear in the portrait. of the inimigration from the rural districts on pictures, and these he has prepared. The lead- which appals even his practised imagination.as Sir Henry Irving's remarkable talent abd In Mr. Clemens's opinion, a work of the kind in South Africa since 1898. His wife was be entirely unsought. It must be inherent in veteran Major-General Sir William Francis utler, who has been in command of the troops Yet what else can he expect unless agriculture his magnetism, which is indisputable, have he proposta is only possible under the con Elizabeth Thompson, the well-known artist. once again becomes a profitable industry? always rendered at once most popular and mosditions he has laid down for himself. To use Bombay Gazette.
impressive. People have sometimes differed
He served in Canada in 1870 in Ashantee in, in their appreciation of Sir Henry's tragedy, his own words
874, during the Zulu war 1878-79, in Egypt 1882 and 1884-85, and commanded the British roops at Alexandria from 1890 to 1993. In splendid monted riflemen and mounted police ition, the British have a large hady of
meniéekenployment in the towns, and if they gradually relapsing into boga 'fact verifiable English Outlook (April 22) thus gives his women, painted with all their warts, as well as sont, the storehouses are full of forage and the
(3)-A bluish-black cat, with black tongue and nails, will bring much luck.
(4)--With copper coloured cats the tongue and nails must be of the same colour. If any one possesses such a cat he will become a minister of the realmente a
(5)-A greyish ene with black hairs () points) acts like a acharin the owner will be beloved of every one whom he meets. (This, it may the "Siamese cat.") ENESEE 7 An estate-agent in Hertfordshire testified
FOREIGN TRADE AND BRITISH SHIPPING.
should be
and
with
No one has doubted that he is a great flam “A book that is not to be published for a Boyant in that admirable form of act which century gives the writer a freedom which he is melodrama, a master, far beyond, rivals ditions you can draw a gun without prejudice
could secure in no other way. In these co Now a piece whice 'gives us Sir Henry asactly as you knew him and, yet have no fear Vailable "so if hostilities.break out 'events will Matthias & Co., only better, with ghosts and circumstances more striking and remark able than those carlier favourities; a character drawn picturesque and flamboy ant as Sir Henry's own personality for to with opportunities of terrifying and again of is M. Sardou's * Robespierre conceived touching by dignity and "tendemess-such a piece is designed for the artist whom we all know and heartily admire, and is never in any risk of failure. M. Snition has apologized for the acant chances he is given Miss Terry, For that matter he has given noftreat chance to Sir Henry Irving but he has
The plot
be-sald is what is known to foreigners-as, gard's neighbourhood:fony cottages are empty clearance ed one port of discharge safe, because bä popular, ground 72 73 him on my mind, whether they be of the present day superior to the British artillery, and signs are ((6)—A white cat, with while "eyer, like dia- that the same process is in progress.in that my audience as had sufficient intelligence:ta by the critic the drama is thus summed up interesting for immediate publication it would than the moral turport of the Orango Freb State.
and cause its owner to luberit another gulied or are quite te have.Circumstances have since proved howaccurately i
酥
of
The
of hurting his feelings or those of his sons o move quickly and hone grandsons. A book published 100 years hence While the country generally is backing Mr. containing intimate portraits, honestly and hamberlain, many well-informed people assert. truthfully drawn, of monarchs and politicians that, urged by Mr. Cecil Rhodes and the potent those varieties of humanity with which one frican Company, he is burrying the country bootblacks and shoemakers, in short, of ancial influences of the British Chartered South comes in contact in the course of an active lifein disaster. They say that not only will of so years, cannot help being then valuable as a President Kriger not retract, but that picture of the past. I have written' great deal the Transvaal forces, familiar with every of this book since I came to Vienna During inch of the country, will be able to cops the rest of my life I mean to write in fresh with any fores Great Britain can putin portraits whenever they come vividly befor the field. His artillery is lown to be much or pld acquaintances. To make such a buol
nt wanting to show that the Boers have more be necessary for me to confine myself to the consensus of opinion among prominent monds, must have fore pays, tail and ears county, and gave thetrus and serious comprehend that they were touches in the prison of Port Libre. We have seen the whole circle of acquaintances, and the undis London is that the British Govemment is in a Robespierre's son and his mother have been men of note. As it is, I choose them from my Uitlandera and South African capitalists in black. Such a cat will bring one large fortune fucts as follows: All the
I then gauged the result of the unfair foreign condemned practising for the guillotine, tending tinguished have about as good a chance of get right fix, that it cannot retreat from its position, --(7.)-Amercury coloured cat is a good one to the lavy, towns, railways, police, and age, competition to which that firm was subjected one another's children and going when their ing in as the distinguished. The sole pass and that if President Kruger does not recede keep its owner will be a very lucky person nursery gardens near London, leaving only the
(8.)--A black cat, with white collar, or aüille young men and those of weak intellect may be classed among the things not generally and ladies: We have seen the Fete of the
As this is a matter of some importance, and turn comes to the tumbrl shrieking sometimes pot to a place in my gallery is that the man or in is inevitable
er with dignity and quiet like well-bred men woman shall have keenly excited my interest. white cat with a black.
In 100 years they will all be interesting if weli Jaited States bo asked to mediate between briefy
Regarding the suggestion that the to possessor Collar is a fortunate cat who are of no use anywhere the middle-aged known. I need not ask permission
and the old to
to work the land, and as these die, relate the main facts, which are these. Some Supreme Being, obespierre insulted by bir and faithfully described. We have lost a great the Transvaal and Great Britain, Mr. Joseph like a saddle on its lack, and black eye-brow only a matter of time when there will be very.
(9)-A cat, of any colour, which has a markut become incapacitated through illness, there twenty-two years ago a line of steamers started on the son arrested, id at length recognized deal in the past through a lack of books writen Choate, the United States: Ambassador
is no one to take their plans. -If is, therefore,
ply between Singapore, the Dutch East by his father, Act IV; finds Robespierre with to this way for a remote posterity. A manys While every good American would is valued at 100,000 tals of gold.
Indies and the Australian colonies; under the Clarisss. She has been rescued, but the boy cannot tell the whole truth about himself, even welcome the possibility of helping a solution of (10) black cat with white waist-coat few bands left for agricultural work. Nothing dag of the Netherlands; while a branch of the
has gone. Father and mother stand by the if convinced that what he wrote would never behe, present situation we have not been approa thanughout to the tail, will bring a title of buta considerable rise in wages could check same line piled between Singapore and hull window. Below the tumbrils are passing amid seen by others. I have personally satisfied-hed in the matter, and 1 personally know nobility to its owner he will also be much the fight from the country to the towns," and
the Netherlands, Indian ports, and islands. Alour, from the crowd, What if Olivier is in myself of that and have got others to test it nothing of this proposed mediation by Ameri feared by his neighbours
the farmers, with present prices, cannot afford though dying the Dutch slag, and lie company there! Then another-Oh that's he not and look at it. You are too much ashamed of "We have not approached America, nor bas
that procession? First one tambril. He's not also. You cannot lay bare your privato soul. ra." An official of the Foreign Office sald to increase their outgoing, for labotir. Mr. Baghsh, and the company a principal offices Then the third sumbril and a fual convulsion, yourself. It is too disgusting. For that reason
the Haggard was told by a farmer that Education: En has done it all, and he is afraid that there is a were in London. Thus it was only allowed to the mother praying, the father vowing in an confine myself to drawing the portraits of very unlikely that America will be asked to do America approached us in this matter, and it is good deal of truth in that explanation. Lord run until trade had been suficiently developed agony that he will save his boy at any cost.
Others."
nything of the kind.” ".*\.- hen to become payable. When the British com- Then the tumbril of farms, which he has hither pany was forced into liquidation's company coll and must now pack off his Robespierre only women and Thank God; it's Sardou has broken the perely Dutch was formed, under Royal Dutch
(11)-A cat with a satin coat which in the sun will look like-shot-silk, and with a white nose, whoever posscanos such a cat within seven months, will become a rich and titled man. (12.)-Whoever has a coloured cat, with
army,
white from the mouth to the fore legs, will sees that the time ja at hand when:
(13)-A cat with a
become a prime mi spotted pose and mouth i cultivation for want of hands. He deemed it
is
a good cat to keep. the owner is poor, he will become rich, if rich, he will be ennobled
(14)-A car with white hair. from nose to wil is a mascotte for merchants,
(15).—A cat whose tail will reach its nose is & cat of valuerer will be rich and powerful,
(16) A cat with four white paws is only fit for noble families to keep
17-Spotted eared cuts are only suitable for priests; they give their owners good memory
to
and to show of Sir Henry's peculiar talent in a scent-terrifying and only in the
SOUTH AMERICAN POSSIBILITIES.
If has been found necessary in some quarters
At a mass meeting of Uitlanders held at tohannesburg on June toth for the purpose of confirming and supporting the proposals of Sir Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner, resolution was adopted, says a Transvaal
About this time. Mr. "Alfred Holt, of Liver very least degree absurd-with the spectres of to express a doubt whether ecil Rhodes was dispatch, declaring that "no settlement will be
to kept going at a loss; must go out of charter, to carry on the trade developed by to prison to look for his boy there, charity to give the agricultural population em-British capital and enterprise. ployment, but they will not work at farming desire to wair a black cant, and the drift is decided to carry on the trade under the British
Better education makes every young man a towards the towns, where clerks are super flag, starting from Singapore. His steamers of abundant already, and the brain market is the blue funnel were to be met flying all over ovestocked. Mechanical Invention may come the East To facilitate business a Dutchman to the recite to some extent send a lot of held the agency in Singapore, and for a time milk to London-so do the oflanders and all things worked smoothly until the Dutch the Danca" and I shall proba bo obliged agent, or partner, was in a position to sever his to milk the cows by machinery
othic men
all the privileges of a British subject in
tion. Fale and silent the shades advance on Robespierre perpetually moving in a light be tween green and dilver, and unmoved to wrath and menace, bowing with admirable grace and dignity when the Incorruptible asks if the word they would speak is murderer. From this scene, ilustrated by Sir Henry with all strange
must ultimately become the property of the United States. The South American Journal London, hattéfis to explain that many South American countries are fit for European emig ration and that England, as well as Germany will exercise influence there. The Estrella de Panama, a paper completely influenced from
President Kruger's proposals were considered.
which does not provide for wholly nudequate to satisfy the just demand of recognition of equal "polítical rights to all.”
the unenfranchised, wille Sir Alfred Milner's were andoned as the minimum acceptable, The meeting was orderly and was attended- by 5.000 Uitlanders. The Govemment issued a notice advising the enfranchised burghers to ance meeting to proceed without c Volksraad on June 10th approved Prevident After deliberating in secret all the day the
Goverment to draw them up in the form of a
A dead cat must not be thrown away, Bury her dislike the job; tand the winien mark, and form a company of his own, he, his une thy glamour, we pass at once to the: the United States, says, the Literary Digest Allow the meeting to proceed without disturbe
them in a safe place they will always bring and dig the boaeg up afterwards, and keep
Cats with knotte
not keep. Are dead ones referred
Juck
Cats that will cat heir young kittens must be sent away
ADVENTURE WITH A SNAKE
NO.TOV IUSICIANS.
just after dark, Iwas orgon. After having minutes, I noticed
«simit, along the. anake, gradually tretched full length five feet, and then it
Yesterd
played! anake č upper shelf Stame along uncle
alang the shelf no -seemed to lia--day abbbrance of all in fear on principle, irat once c
called for a club: Several and then ensued come
colled
poked
Had self up, and
noaking over and bre
thof hiking of cabinets
2157 butpat last; byilko
on f
frie
matters, for farming is very up as the Dutch East Indies. So spon at this compaby writer in collie Cllighs wiger will hui mend the free port of Singapore and all the libertyafid den ola Wolarta bagonal Conventions and inform infenders that South Americans need
the via dolorte being omitted this facilities to trade of a natural bomi subject in falls, dramatike: dcademy who was presen unite to defend themselves. A writer in the Kruger's franchise proposals and instructed the prafent prices; and if the labour bill
enangit, by Robespierre not take Cecil Rhodes seriously, as the future
Opistol
has little danger of conquest in store if they. high so profit can be made, and the land was fairly under way, the Dutch, authoritis, muri go back to rabbits. Already many began to citrail the privileges hitherto granted the right give
this curious picture of Let, Santiago de Chile declares that all Latin farmers prefer to pay their rent out of these to British steam ro
legor bog nations,
ns, France, Italy Portugal, Spain, and the Arun the of higher coltivation, Island ports were deciated, the Java and Tho čarolidity of the Paylish batedeia South American countries, will form an i
is real Aproved-list hus Ently evident fora shrinkage of
tw, which will be submitted to the Volksrad
regret that the British High Commissioner kad
Team sed suffel-ing the British, flag, or commanded, officered" Fenough spent half an hour last night in the Lectual union strong enough to neutralize The Volksraad niso passed a resolution of jackerslig vond that it is company; adopting the blue funnel, chfrist t
| to shipa fly: there is and enginected by Britiskers Thus the new decrease, Mr. Dutch flag, dismissed all Britishers, replacing
them with Dutchmen or half-castes and car Before following lilin of that dispiriting quest we must express surprise that a man who Has while the British owner was compelled to seen so much of the world should speak as if depend on the meagre trad the exodus which he regards with such evident North Borado, Stam, misriying,
which he was heavily
gallery
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which the Volksrand, considers reasonab
dense and devout A man standing at my Review, London, thinks the United States are not accepted President Kruger's proposals
of the Lyceum Theatre The audience pretensions of the Anglo-Saxon. The Saturday wooden partition, And yet he could not see America than is one of the European powers highest degree, necess
appeared to be hanging by his chin to a less likely to establish themselves in South the stage It was the terrible prison scene that. It says
Flaggard proceeded to inquire into its caused on the trådd. inaugurated by Mr. Holt, looked down upon over hats arid heads soild hg" But Yankee professions of biler mapPAK
Count
sayinppréhension, was a phe foreign competitors.
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War
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which gave Ger-causing a stagnation- Igup as a manu i been more keenly felt
alion has left the hipping firms from the latt
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pine wood on a hill that one has surmounted sincere, they would probably be more potent. A bushed pine wood it was and as the guillo. The proselytizing drength of Islam, has been: in all of tin's roll call proceeded every eye was set on chiefly, it not solely, due to her text that one
unfair those terribia
sand gollant partingu, s When were soldier gave his life forthis married namesake better than the grandest Glasur, and what
the Moslem. ay.
* as good at another and a great deal Avalue, tbeing
doubtful. which
been done in condemned at have I felt the beer comlug, and it came. When find accomplishment in the international. But in the religious field, might easily other the mother of that golden-haired child was torn an attempt to circumscribe equality in fatal and
teed away, with her pitinst promise to Tater the pine,wood did not breathe come back when liberty, degenerates into it nickname for very different, it may be feared but it adro di side wept quietly any were: weeping. All cannot be conjured with,
submitted to the spell of this scene of death the United States have hot, so far, made any medyashif any case, This sold his fees foff and sacrifice
headway toward the absorption of South Amen at prepare The Astonishing thing was
WIJKS CANS Their ding between the ant was oven there was only a quick sigh, their intrigues
worth of Mexico and For Slam.
borders have consti Faymomentary "whiliper," ETİK that "wastituted
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ain their blodiot Theil
had wept sild | doctrine,
help them to more ictive Thurs part than that of the dog in the inanger shouted
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"THACKERAY ON DEATH,
In her Introduction to "Denis Duval the
sketches of boy father with a letter on death, ist volume but one of the biographical edition eray's works, Mr Ritchie closed ber
hich he wrote to Mr.Proctor in 1836; in which bo days —
Thinking of It is thinking of God inscru-z ble immeasurable, endless, beginningles
this earth Into the lasnite, and we fear out
dren stay? preme, awfully solitéry,--Little: her out over Jelt sweet, cold hands and smiling faces, that di Indifferent when you cease holding them, and smile as the lid closing over them don't think "wa" deplore the old who bave had enough of living ard and have buried so many others, and weary of living it seems time
for where's the plexuse feast is over, and the t
uets gose. Isn't antian and co
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