ROUGH ON THE MISSUS.
A middle-aged man, with what appeared to be a load on his mind, visited an Arctic steamer and seemed interested in what he saw.
"ay," he said to the officer on deck, "I'd like to go on the next expedition,"
"It's awfully cold up there," remarked the officer, discouragingly.
"I don't care about that."
"You'd have very little to eat and might have to starve.
That wouldn't be pleasant," said the visitor, "I should say not returned the officer, and you might be eaten by your comrades."
Is that so? That would be distinctly bad" And then," continued the officer, "you wouldn't see your wife for three years, and possibly longer. You know you can't take her with you."
"Well returned the gentleman, after a long pause, "I think you can put me down on your books. Your last argument captured me."
MAGIC IN THE ROSE-CARDEN.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1901,
"I congratulate you on your theory of feminine existence."
"Oh I don't apply it wholesale, only to the spoilt daughters of Fortune."
"Take care! If you hegin to call me names, I shall put you into the story as the Beast."
"Ah! he won Beauty, didn't he?" said Dimsilale lightly, throwing a strawberry at the
white cat.
WINTER ON THE SUMMIT OF
THE FUJI.
A LADY'S REMINISCENCE.
of
A
my
In the rose-garden," said Dinsdale to him pose, because they find real life so delightful and publish the manuscript which this intrepid sire, which made it impossible for the visitors i
self, repeating the information he had just received at the house. "That's just where one might expect to find her."
She shrugged her shoulders. "Publishers will tell you that children prefer stories of real life nowadays. If they do, it must be, I sup- that they can ever have to inch of its the grown-up prople who want fairy-tales
outside to come in head first. So they were obliged to crawl in the other extremities first." Mrs. Nonaka here gives a leaf out of her
THE LATE QUEEN'S INCOME.
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THREE CENTURIES.
with a clinking nolie, fall down in lumps ofice. Į girls are as scarce as those with transcendental | PEOPLE LIVING WHO HAVE SEEN It was these icicles and frozen lumps of snow beauty; the great majority, thanks to the grow- that I often went out to gather in a large piece ing arts of dress and coiffure, are passable, of cloth or a big basket which the wind would nice-looking, or prenty. AD. 2000, at this rate, How and then wrench away from me in un- will find Mr. Hamum's descendants advertising have seen three centuries? The first to come How many people are living to-day who Slightly over six years ago, toward the mid-guarded moments. About the 20th of October for a plain woman as a freak!
the door of the coltage had got frozen fast and
to mind is the Dowager Lady Carew, who' dle of the month of October, a thrill went
could not be opened, and my attempt to thaw
entered on her third century on Jan. 1st at her. through the reading public of lapan, the cause it open with some hot water only resulted in
riverside house in Woodstown, Co. Waterford. of that sensation, which largely partook of the the grass at her feet. She hesitated; then said, being the announcement in the papers
anture ní a boundless astonishment, mingled was on one of those days that my husband
Lady Carew, the daughter of a major in Well- plastering it over with a fresh layer of ice. Elizabeth glanced down at him, as he lay on with no little degree of alarm and admiration, and I were saying that as the arctic weather
The actual fortune possessed by her Majesty iagton's army, was married before the Queen at her death is not known but it must have
was born. She danced at the famous Brüssela a little hurriedly," That's the worst of fairy bold, unprecedentedly bold; attempt by a lody had set in in carnest we need not expect X sonby said that the Queen did not own a
been considerable. In 1885 Sir Hanty Pon- ball on the eve of Waterloo, a distinction only tales."
one other living lady can claim-Lady Sophia "Oil, of course it couldn't happen our of Fuji. It will be remembered that some time though i heard some one talking outside. I
to pass the winter on the summit of Mount Visitors from below within the year, when
million of private money. Since that year,
Cecil. Lady Carew is in her ro3rd year, having fairyland," he replied, in a matter-of-fact tone.
however expenses have been curtailed and her been born while her father was busy quelling Elizabeth was silent. The hands that lay in previous to the date mentioned that noted was at the time in our store-room sawing some
savings must have increased. The one excep
the Irish rebellion of 1798. To escape from peril her lap clasped and unclasped themselves meteorologist Mr. Nonaka had gone up to the logs to burn in our stove and stopped to
tional period was 1887, the Jubilee Year,
her mother fled to Haverfordwest, where Lady nervously.
top of that mountain with the determination toisten for your don't know how welcome a
when the most lavish entertaining was indulged Carew was born. But Lady Carew's memory You will send the storids out to me when
make meteorological observations in that high human voice sounded in that mid-air solitude.
in, and immense sums were spent in all direc of the 18th century can hardly be distinct, if they are published?” he asked, turning to her.
region during the winter, and the lady who Presently the voice outside said: We are
she can recollect it at all. He who would learn took the world so much by surprise her freezing please open the door and let us in- tions. From the country, the Queen was "They will not be published. There's in almost recicless audacity, which sawitha quick This appeal was followed by vigorous allowed for her privy purse, £60,000; for ex of the last century but one from one who lived deuland for fairy tales."
in it should go to Guernsey and talk with Mrs. Why not? There are still children, aren't band, no less than of the enthusiastic interests to try to open the strenuous door, and my and retiring allowances, £131,260; and for Margaret Neve. She is 108, her age being
ever, barn of her intense devotion to her bus-stamping of feet. It was no use, however, for penses of the household, 172,500; for salaries there i
placed beyond dispute by documentary proof. husband and I after efforts finally succeeded Royal bounty, alins, and special service, she took in his work, was none else than in forcing open one of the glass windows of the £13,:00. These suns leave unappropriated
Mis. Neve is a lady of great culture, who the wife of the scientist in question. The cottage which was only one foot by two-feet in
£80,040.
speaks five languages and has travelled in Shimpo has been fortunate enough to securs
In addition to this sum, the Queen, when she eight countries. Until she was 104 her chief lady recently prepared, giving some of the uni-
came to the throne, secured a grant of £8,000 recreation was gardening; now she spends her a year for her mother, the Duchess of Kent, spare moments reading her Greek Testament que experiences she went through in a solitary,
while after her marriage the Prince Consort had Should the live until the 18th of January, sho a separate allowance of £30,000. The Queen will celebrate the 78th anniversary of her wed wished the Prince to have £1,000,000, but Lordding day.-The Rangoon Times. Melbourne persuaded her to only ask the coun- try for 450,000. Her Majesty was much annoyed at the further reduction of the allowance. So soon as the Princes came of age, suitable grants were made to them, while on their marriages the Princesses were voted incumes of £4,000 a year. These figures are merely given to show that so far as the Civil List is concerned, the Sovereign has the individual disposal of almos pense is mentioned and provided for. Trades every shilling of it. In detail the Civil List is a wonderful document. Every item of ex
men's bilis, the department of the Master of salaries, and gratuities are all duly men- the Horse, the Royal Wardrobe, pension tioned. Every imaginable want, whether to eat, drink, wear, or give away, has certain stinis set down for it. Hence it is that the income from the Duchy of Lancaster, which Sovereign of Great Britain by private right, and pinperty and title belong to the reigning directly into the privy purse, and her Majesty as an appurtenance from the Crown, is paid could save or spend it as she pleased. The Queen's revenue from this source had been £26,000, in 1867, £29,000; in 1869, £31,000; steadily increasing. Thus in 1865 it was
1872, £40,000,
except, of course, those spoilt daughters of ice-bound cottage, 14,000 feet above sea level diary and from it we learn that the unexpected
she added.
A grey stone wall, moss-grown, falling into ruin, enclosed the rose-garden. It was broken by an arch, from whose summit long grass and plumes of yellow seap-dragon waved, and the arch led to a flight of grey steps, and the steps sprang from out its shadow into warmth, cun- shine, and perfumed air. The last step was level with a straight gravelled path between two stretches of grass in which the rose-beds were set. It was une. White clouds danced over a sky of laughing blue. White butterflies danced above the roses. The hot air was filled with spicy, aromatic scents: it thrilled also with the song of blackbirds, with the twittering and chirping of innumerable finches, with the whiteni of hidden grasshoppers, slili, insistent, yet soothing in its monotony,
In the shadow of two hazel trees on the grass a little table, was placed, at which sat a lady, writing. She wore a white dress, and in the chair behind her there was quite a mound of brightly coloured cushions, purple and ruse and pink. Her gown was ali flecked with splashes of shadow and sunshine, and over her hair dancing shadows played be wilderingly.
Dimsdale stopped a moment, when he reach- ed the top step, and stood looking at her wiha certain fixedness of attention. All unconscious, she went on writing, and he began to cross the grass towards her. The turf was thick and soft, and his footsteps were noiseless. He was close upon her when she laid down her pen, and lean ing back in her chair, while with one hand she mechanically pulled purple cushion into place behind her head, she began to read over what she had written.
And it is they who invent them for the work-a-day world, apparently. Well, it is a gracious thing to do.
Jave! how those scarle: roses blaze And just listen to the bees. I shall remember my last day in England."
Elizabeth drew in her breath. and the girls will be so vexed to miss you," she Aunt Con said in back of his head. You have scarcely told me conventional voice, addressing the anything, and they will all fall upon me for new en-they come back, so please begin, yo sail to-morrow, you say? Tomorrow evening, I suppose 1
tween.
•
,"
Give all
abeth, and wondered what she had said.
"Goodbye. Good luck i" murmured Eliz He scarcely looked at her, but hurried down the drive at the head of which Elizabeth stood, She was still standing there, looking towards the gate, when half an hour later the roll of voices falling distinctly on the still air. wheels became audible, then laughter and
the utmost of the winter. We give below a translation of such portions of the re miniscence as may prove most interesting to
the reader.
From the introductory remarks which Mrs., Nonaka jots down, we learn among other things that it was on the gth of October, 1895, that she greatest mountain of Japan is generally made. arrived at Gotenba whence the climb up the After a couple of days of rest and preparation of the rath following, escorted by her husband's she commenced the ascent on the early morning younger brother, who had arrived there from Tokio the night before and joined her for the purpos, and some coolies and others. To quote her own words;—
Gikai of Chishima with a cooile, who had been sent thither by Cal Ganji with letters and other gift to the brave couple who had in the interests of science dared to pass a winter in those lofty regions.
201)
In another part of her paper Mrs. Nonaka says: "The atmospheric pressure at the summit, is I
told about 300 mm fess than at the sca level, and while fetching deep breaths, even when sitting up there, I used to find
great relief in quietly--so that I would scan get out of breath if I were to busy myself about. Supposing that game were plentiful up there, it would have hunting such as one may enjoy in Chishima been quite impassible to indulge in energetic with such a heavy thing as a gun on the shoulder.
... The ceaseless and untir-
".
A second source of income which the Queen held until the Prince of Waler came of age- when it was, nccording to precedence, made over to his Royal Highness was the Duchy of Cornwall, the estates of which lie in Devon, Somerset, Wilts, Surrey, and London. The
ewing to the Prince Consort's untiring energy Duchy had been at the time of the Queen's accession hopelessly mismanaged, and it was
having. In 1824 the gross revenue had fallen to that his eldest son's heritage was at all worth £32,000; in 1872 it was was nearly £70,000.
When the Prince of Wales came of age, instead from his Duchy, as the last Prince of Wales of having from £13,000 to £14,000 a year had, there was a revenue of £50,000 a year The income is now increasing at the rate of clear, and cash enough to buy Sandringham. about 3,000 a year, on the average.
They spent the day in the rose-garden. Lunch was served under the hazel trees; tea in the
Early on the 12th, I left the hotel accom- shadow of the clipped hedge, over which, when
panied hy my brother-in-law, the proprietor of cool of the evening, they watched the hay. The people of the hotel all appeared to be lothing wind was constantly blowing the snow up Jater they strolled along the grass border in the
the main branch of the hotel, and some coolies. makers returning from the tong hayfields.
to let me go and the aged mother of an official from below and it looked on the finest of days Gradually, very gradually, the rose flush died of the village office and a daughter of the Presently there were long wizened shadows out of the sky and a faint moon began to silver.
manager of the hotel were so kind as to offer to the top of the Fuji in bright weather, you us if it were snowing. If you look cinsely op to come up with me, for it would be so lone will think it is enveloped in some white vapoury lying across the fields, with shining lakes be- some, they said, for a lady to make such an substance that is neither mist nor cloud, how
Bats wheeled noiselessly overhead; ascent without a companion of her own sex. floated on warm waves of air, across the rose- every now and then the scent of the hay was They actually followed me up to the third rone
ever, but the dry blizzard which so often tor mented me. We were naturally compelled garden
of ascent, in spite of my well-meant protesta- therefore to keep indoors most of the time. tions; but the weather of the morrow being na This sort of life gradually began to tell on our "I must go," said Dimsdate at last, breaking certain, I finally prevailed upon them to go digestion and rob us of our appetite. Gene a silence which followed much talk.
back indeed I could not help feeling deeply rally when one has to work hard, meals are. to Elizabeth that there had never been a pause in Well, assisted by the rest of my escort I at circumstance in which we were placed we came Looking bark on the day, indeed, it seemed the single hearted kindness of the country folk. I think, one of the pleasures of life, but in the
reflect on a danger that was past? the talk; that if there had been... But why length reached the summit toward dusk. When to e denied even that commonest of pleasures,
my husband saw me, the first thing he said was and the only jay I felt while there was when "I must go," he repeated, "h! it's very told you to stay at home and lank after followed my husband to gar observatory and comfortable at the Wheatsheaf. Well, the family what has brought you up here? Is there noticed how low the mercury was in the "Good-morning," he said quietly, She started, raised absorbed eyes to his face, why. Besides, I start at nine o'clock to-morrow. (where Air. Nonaka's house was) or Tokio
you see I thought the house might be full, that's anything the matter with the family at Fukuoka barometer. and then their expression suddenly changing. I must spend a few hours with my godfather, (where Mrs. Nonaka's parents lived)?' I an-
"Among the various apparatus that my sprang up and held cut her hand, while the
and go on to Southampton from there. Gord.swered all was well at both places. Thereupon, less, the battery having burst asunder owing to husband had taken up there, many became use. sheet of paper dropped to the table and thence bye," he shook her hand warmly. slid over the edge to the grass.
he said, 'What is the use of your coming up the frost. Then it was a regular thing for a here then? You should descend in the morn- You" she cried gaily; and at this hour.my messages to Aunt Con and the girls. Good-
fierce north wind to blow after each snowfall, bye."
ing. I only replied that we would talk over and on these occasions what gave us the greates: that matter afterwards.”
Rather harsh, nay almost brutally harsh, Mr.frozen into a solid mass cfice as big as an apple trouble was the anemometer, which would get Nonaka's words as recorded here may sound; barrel, which held fast the "T" shaped stand on it is but fair to remark that what was up which rested the meter, the vanes would become permost at the time in the mind of the
as thick as a fair sized piece of timber with ice scientist must have been the safety of Mr. that gathered around them and would then often Nonaka herself as well as the care of their break owing to the force of the wind. All these children left at Fukuoka and of the other had to be repaired of course each time they members of their family. Deeply absorbed too, were damaged. Especially difficult was the As he was, in the subject of lus observation, he work of rescuing the meter from its envelope must have also felt some apprehension that the of ice, so as to let the wind get at the instru- presence of a woman in his cell and in his
ment. You must know that the particular ap: place of voluntary exile would demand all or paratus I am speaking of stond behind our too much of his attention. On the other hand observatory and at a point where if une the words must have fallen like a cruel blow made a slip, he would roll into the yawning as it was this devotion as well as the deep in followed him, holding various necessary on Mrs. Nonaka, devoted wife as she was, and crater. Whenever my husband went there terest she took in her husband's scientific in-
tools for him-but I assure you that these trips, vestigations which had made her come up to
short as they were, were not of the easiest kind. life which had never before perhape fallen to his visits to the observatory, picking my way him and voluntarily share with him a kind of At night too I generally joined my husband in the lot of any woman to experience. And it is along by the help of a wind-proof lautern, no wonder that she goes on to say quite te Wind-proof as it nominally was, it was not signedly in her journal "Whether as AA proof against the all-powerful wind on the effect of the great worry of mind with which I have been afflicted for the past few days or of light. Once the flame was thus blown out I breezy top of the Fuji which often blew out the the sudden change of climate induced by the ascent to such a great height above the sea
had to go back to the cottage to re-light the Jantern, and "dangerous" is no word to des- level, I began to feel a-headache and without cribe those trips in the darkness. I don't know even a supper, I passed that night half awake how-often I had to go back for a light and each against a trunk." and half asleep, wrapt in a blanket and leaning time my husband had to wait for me in the
darkness standing over the most dangerous pre- This splendid sum her Majesty left practical. the powerful wind which eternally blew about lated to cipice, which was made doubly dangerous byly untouched, and it must now have accurqu the place. And then these visits of my husband herited from her husband, who was of a most £1,000,000. The Queen also in-
a night-no hot the night but about one or two to the observatory were made generally twice
careful and business-like disposition; a large o'clock in the morning 1"-Japan Times.
part of the 600,000 he left behind him,
THE CLOTHES PHILOSOPHY OF
Did you come by the night train?"
He looked at his watch. "Eleven o'clock and call it a very respectable hour."
"You must have risen with the lark!! "I should if there had been one to rise with,
they don't care for the Temple.' Why didn't you write?" she asked repro. chfully. "They've all gone out for the day to de Farley Agricultural Show. They started At ten o'clock, in brakes and chaises and what not. It looked like a circus,"
"So Jennings told me. At least he didn't mention the circus, but then people of his class are so ueimaginative."
She smiled. Sit down and have some
strawberries."
corners
close to him.
"I have bidden it farewell "he replied, watch ing two white butterflies zigzagging above the hedge of sweet-peas which sheltered the roses on their western side
"It's Elizabeth cried some one. "Hulloa, Betsy! You ought to have come. You were stupid not to come. It has been so jolly, hasn't it, mother?"
now-
And then dismounting, noise, confusion, questioning: and an hour's babel of talk, of laughter, of
He threw himself down near her under starte incredulously. It must be later. She The church clock struck one. Elizabeth the tree; and gathering together the of a big cabbage leaf full of
was just wondering how.inny centuries it 'was strawberries, which was on a chair beside
since she put out the light and lay down to her, she dropped it gently on to the grass, years ago since I refused him... and now repeat a few monotonous sentences. "Five
"And now give me news. Talk to me of
it's he who doesn't care. Five years ago, and dear damn'd distracting Town!" she com- manded.
Ages passed, and it struck the quarter. She got up, and crossed the room. Her window looked upon the rose garden, and was the only room in the house which had a view of it.
It was a breathless night, a night of unreal loveliness. Only once before had Elizabeth seen the magical effect of mist and moonshine. curtain. The garden was full of silvery mist, which she recognised when she drew back the which it was hard not to believe an exhalation from the moon itself. The shadows of the rose back down the mountain, first her hired escort, The following day (rath) Mrs. Nonaka sent trees slept upon the grass. Every tree, every and then her brother-in-law, Of the latter's bush, was enveloped in a luminous sheath of departure she says: "I watched him go down haze.. Like the lightest, most ethereal of gauze and as his figure grew smaller and smaller, veils, the haze hung from the tops of the taller until he suddenly disappeared bebind a buge trees to the earth but above the tree-tops the rock, and I awoke to the indescribable lone. sky was clear, radiant, darkly blue, and spang-liness of my position. At the same moment, however, I came to realise that the lofty sum- kneeling down, rested her elbows on the
Elizabeth drew a long breath of wonder, and, mit had become a region uninhabited but by my husband and myself and began to regard window-sill. All at once she started back into the great mountain as if it were our own pro- the shadow of the curtain, and trenibling a perty. Even now when I look up to yonder little, bent cautiously forward.
sublime peak, I cannot help feeling as if it were
"What do you mean?,”
*
"Just that. I'm going to. Burmab. * Do you train that big white cat to lie just there. on the grass border? It's an admirable bit of composition."
"Toosey? Yes. He's part of the deco ration." The purple cushion slipped suddenly from the back of her chair, and she stooped for it "Oh, thanks! Never mind. Why to Burmah?"
"Why not?"
"Isn't it the caterpillar who talks like that?-led with faint stars. or can it be the March hare 7a
"I don't know, but I lay no claim to origina- lity," replied Dimsdale lazily. I am content to model my conversation on that of the Im
mortals."
"The Immortals are apt to be nggravaring." "Doubtless. It is their prerogative." There was a moment's silence.
When you have recalled the fact of your mortality, perhaps you will give me some fur ther information," said the lady at last, with a
touch of asperity.
*
Asimely reminder," he answered, slowly turning towards her. "I was beginning to fancy myself, on Olympus. It was presump stuous folly,
You don't look well." Ee Brake off suddenly,
"It is the heat," she said, bending to re- Arrange the pinks in her belt, "What are you going to do in Barmah?"
"Bask in the sunshine, observe the natives, and incidentally superintend the construction of canals. "
"When do you go?". "To-morrow."
There was a rustling at the moment amongst the papers on the tabio, behind Dimsdale, and the grass was all at once strewn with loose white sheets,
Some one a man-was walking in the rose. garden. He had emerged from the black shadow moving slowly across the grass. His leisurely thrown by the box hedge, and now he was movements calmed Elizabeth's first fear; yet, when she had satisfied herself of the nightly visitant's identity, she trembled more than ever and crouched still farther back into the shadow. The man walked the length of the garden, and paused under the hazels, where the little table and the basket-chairs still remained back against its heap of cushions, which, Eliza- He seated himself in her chair, and leant beth found herself inconsequently reflecting, ought to have been taken in. For a long time he was very still. She could see the glowing end of a cigarette in the darkness of the moon charmed trees and presently a tiny shower of sparks as it was dung away. He rose then, moving the chair a littls from its place, and so disclosing two white objects which it had concealed.
He stooped for them. Elizabeth saw that one was a sheet of paper the leaf that had dropped that morning when she rose to great her visitor. The other, something smaller, she could not properly distinguish.
our own."
And thus I came to keep house on the summit of the Fuji. But knowing we!! that all would be over if I were to provoke my husband into saying that I was a bother to him, I did my utmost to prove myself a useful assise the daily cleaning of the cottage, etc, besides tant to him, by attending of course to cooking, attending to the pleasant job of breaking, and melting ice so as to keep on hand a supply of drinking water, making a shicho (a sort of mos, an effective protector from cold draughts when quito net made of paper which is said to make used at night), and so on. As the days went by, the cold grew more and more intense, the fierce wind which was blowing constantly, making it the mora penetrating, Speaking of the wind, its roar, as it madly careered among the rocks, was really deafening and the thunder ing continuing day after day was enough to make one feel dirty in the head, calm weather being very rare thing in the course of a month. And this cohsant wind storm made it a very difficult task to go outside "I didn't think there was a breath of wind"
for a supply of ice. When I did go outside I he remarked, rising to recover them. He began
had to protect my head with a heavy hood to arrange them in a neat pile, and presently turned to put them once more on the table.
which only allowed the eyes to peep cut, and The man folded the paper, and put it in his the body with an equally heavy overcoat, while i Elizabeth was leaning on her chair; her pocket the other, a little white mass, lay in would put on my hands a double pair of mit hands war folded in her lap, and she was locking absently across the rose-bads, to where sently, bending down, touched it with his lips, atmosphere would cause painful "burna" on the pains of his hand. He looked at it, and pre-tens, as the least exposure to the freesing the leaves of a poplar hung flickering across a stretch of blue sky.
Elizabeth started. Of course it was the the unprotected parts. Indeed it took me #A novel?" he asked, putting a book on the waistband!
bunch of white pinks she had worn in her lang time to make preparations every time top of the pils, and tapping the papers as he
was under-the-necessity of going outside the spoke.
The moonlight faded its witchery gave cottage even for a few minutes, so that no ides place to the new magic of dawn, Dawn trem of the great trouble I had to go through on A novel?" she repeated vaguely, bringing bled into the rose and gold of another day. there occasions can be had in the world below. her eyes slowly back to his face,, "Obl-ap Haymakers brushed through the dewy grass on
Then the cottage was literally encased in solid no-just a fairy tale,"
their way to the fields, and from the rose- Dimsdale looked at her critically moment, garden Elizabeth watched them with a more was everywhere covered over with a thick walls and roof of hard ice, while the ground and then sml'ed
glacial pavement, so that in going out of the Cottage I had to walk almost on all fours when not clinging to the rocks to prevent myself from slipping. And the location of our cottage was down the entire beight of the mountain, such that a fall would have sent mo rolling
baly for a while, the intense cold: freezing it "On the summit the snow remained as such Into a solid mass of ice doon after its fall. If you were in the cottage, you would have heard the snow blows against its outer bikes and then,
ing face.
You are amused? Why?" Only because it is so characteristic of you,"
One of them bad already taken to the inn a What is characteristic of me-precisely.
note which at that very moment Dimsdale was reading with incredulity sempered by hope. Where is Miss Elizabeth askere cannot do without the last page of the last pings. What a ridiculous question Where chatter of my fairy tale. Will you bring it should she hd but in the rose garden writing the rose garden before sight o'clock this fairy-atorios P
Elizabeth raised her head quickly, as if about
Mornings to speak She checked herself, and laughed instead.
The Kangoon Times,
ELIZABETH."
i
THE NEW CENTURY.
the "Fashions and Fancies" weekly column in "X and Z," who collaborate in turning out the Globe, make these prophetic guesses as to the kind of garments Society will wear during the next hundred years:-
Consignees.
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THE T. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
"BENGAL,"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown are being landed and placed as their risk in the vessel are hereby informed that their Goods
Company's Gadowas at Kowtoon, where each Consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the This vessel brings on Cargo:- Goods are landed.
From London, &c., ex S.S. Oceana & Arcadia, . From Calcutta, er S.S. Berneo.
From Persian Gulf, er S.S. Simla, King
Arthur and Assyria.
4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
From Aleppi, er S.S. Nisam and Naterri. Goods not cleared by the 24th instant, at
any case whatever,
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in
All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob. tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised.
A. M. MARSHALL,
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No
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The above Steamer having arrived, Con signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their. Bills of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside,
will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel and expense.
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents, Hongkong, 18th February, 1901.
[4 OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY,
Far more romantic, however, than the in- comes from long-settled heritages can ever be, was the origin of the greater portion of her Majesty's great wealth. On the 31st of August, 1852, there died a pen Camden Niold was the son of a goldsmith urious old gentleman of seventy-two. John who had executed work for George 111, and kept a shop in St. James's Street. The old
ameliorate the condition of those pour wretches jeweller was in his way a great philanthropist, and emulated Howard in his attempt to who languished in his Majesty's prisons. He sent his son to Trinity College, Cambridge and the bar, and at his death left him £250,000. This great sum John Camden Nield saved and invested, living himself in miserly fashion. When his will was opened it was found that with the exception of a CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship few legacies he had left his fortune of Queen Victoria, begging her Majesty's most £500,000 to "her Most Gracious Majesty, are hereby notified that their Goods are at their risk being discharged into Lighters and or landed into our Godowns at Wanchai and gracious acceptance of the same, for her sole use and bencût, and that of her heirs. The delivery may be bad either from Lighters or Queen sought out Nield's relations and gave
from Godowns upon countersignature of Billa them 1,000 each and raised a monument to
of Lading.
his memory.
a most
NOTICE,
"GAELIC
Goods remaining unclaimed after the 37th.. instant will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
J. S. VAN BUREN, Agent. Hongkong, 20th February, 1901. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
It was in her comparatively poor days that her Majesty purchased the greater portion of the Osborne estate. Norris Castle was where she had stayed in her childhood, but was obliged to give it up as she said she "could not afford it." A little later Balmoral was bought and the Castle built Both these private properities of the Queen had been added to very largely from time to time and their value is yearly in crassing. Osborne is now reckoned as being five times as valuable as when it was purchased having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby in 1844.
1881, when, by the advice of Lord Cross, Lord The Queen had another stroke of luck in Sidney, and the late Sir Arnold White, her for £78,000. The market value of that pure solicitor, she bought outright some property chase is now reckoned at about £170,000.
According to the new Doomsday Book, her Majesty owned privately some 37,372 acres of land, which yielded a yearly in come of between £20,000 and £25,000, The ueen owned three very fins idrests. They estate bought from the Fife trustees in 1851, were those of Balmoral, part of the original Ballochbine, acquired by her Majesty from the late Colonel Farquharson, of Invercauld, in:878, and Abergeldje.
life in 1866, with a reversion to the country.at Claremont was granted to the Queen for her the day of her death, but in 188s her Majesty bought it from the Crown. Of property abroad the Queen possessed land and bousca at Coburg, ad one of the most magnificent villas at Baden which was left to the Queen by a Princess of the house of lfchenlohe,
HE Steamship THE
"CHINA,"
their risk into the Gadowns of the Hongkong informed that their Goods are being landed at and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained,
Optional Cargo will be discharged here unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 27th instant, or they will not be recognised,
any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the No Fire Insurance has been affected, and 27th instant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 20th February, 1981.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA:
NOTICE."
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What sort of century will the twentieth be from a sartorial point of view? What strange ideas and fashions is it bringing us? Perhaps in 2,000 our great-grand-daughters will be all had a change iately of seeing how very robe in toras, or their feminine equivalent. We becoming the dress is, at Her Majesty's. But, if so, we shall have to give up the barn-dance, and walix in a very smooth and gliding fashion. Orshall we bound about in garments as nearly And where will the feminine athlete be then? resembling those of a trapeze artist as possí ble? One thing is nearly certain; and that is that we shall not be wearing frock coats. Wo men could not exist comfortably without single curve in their clothes. We are not so mathematical as men, and do not, therefore, delight in angles and straight lines, and par allelograms, and all the rest of it. What is more probable ihan all is that we shall have a perfectly now style. what it will be like we cannot conjecture: Adam and Eve probably thought they had hit on the one and only made of garmenture, and could not imagine any other to follow. Eve, however, may have won dered.
"Dress is coriainly becoming more of an art for woman to know and wear what suits ber; and less of a knack. It is not sufficient now the must think each dress out, inch by inch, as carefully as an séipr studies each line of his part. Every detail must have significance of some kind or another. Either it must answer another detail in the gown, or it must, corre spoad with her carriage lining, her wall paper, her dog. the colour of the flowers in the mom, apparently isolated piece of colour is fastened or her curtains. It is fairly safe to say that if on a dress, it has its meaning somewhere in the environment of the carers At this zate, we shall soon have Colleges for Saiterology, or fastitutions for the Prepagation of the Science Evening gowns grow more and more beauti- of Significance in Dress,
the whole toilet. Already there is a far greater ful avery year and the same may be said of nearly half a million pounds worth as her own. Stores from No. 13 to No. 5, D'ÁguiĽin proportion of good-looking women than there was fifty years ago Plain women are in the minority, like exesadegly, many ones jugly,
AIGNEES ́of CARGO per Steamship.
“HONGKONG MARU,"
It must not be concluded, however, that the vast fortune of Queen Victoria had merely Economy with sufficiency had been the watch risk being discharged into Lighters and/or dropped into her hands, or rolled itself up. are hereby natified that their Goods are at their word of her Majesty's career, and daring the landed into our Godowns at Wanchal and 40's," when every year the most gorgeous en delivery may be had either from Lighters of tertainments were perpetually, being given to
from our Godowns upon countersignature of crowned heads and for the good of trade and
Bills of Lading. the circulation of money, at the Royal palaces,
Goods remaining unclaimed after the agth the ministers of State used frequently to instant, will be subject to rent. boast of the wonderful management which
No Fire Insurance has been effected. the country for a penny-piece. No monarch could do things so rurally, and yet never ask
J. S. VAN BUREN, Agent can point to such a mass of valuables as
Hongkong, 22nd February, Joe 17 were presented to her Majesty's private person at the time of her first Jubilee, and though much of the gold and silver plate Crown property, the Queen could claim at Windsor is like the Crown Jewels,
NOTICE OF REMOVAL. ZA
Generally that have REMOVED my BEG to inform my Patrons and Public
Her private collection of jewels, was also very STREET. valuable, while her laces, of which she was re tremely proud warsworth vary many thousands of solinda suka memarle
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