SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN. A great Queen lay dead; in silent gracious majesty, hushed and at rest for ever. The streets of her cities were hung with black, and her people wept. The land the Queen had loved, all England moured sadly for her loss. And far off, across six thousand miles of land and sea, a small boy sut sobbing passionately.
will not say my prayers without Gracious Quen. She is our own Queen. You go and ask mother."
Bot, Master Bill, our Gracious Queen is dea; how can your prayers for her any more? You must pray for the King now."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1901.
"In the morning" time' we'll make some']I wreaths for the Queen, Billy, like mother did with white flowers when they took the Colonel away on the gun-carriage."
"Good night mother, and I'll say 'God Save Gracious Queen every night."
So Billy marched past Lusette with defiant glance, and victory bristling all over his little body,
"Perhaps its rather like heathen mythology". thought the mother ruefully-or perhaps it is the way saints were created in other years. But Billy half keep his hero worship until the call comes in another day for sons of the Empire to arise, and my two little men must For Luseite. Billy's nursemaid, burst out
work, and fight, and if needs be-die-as sold- weeping afresh. Her eyes were already rediers of the Queen, or, for the honour of the and swollen with tears. She was full of grief King." for e Empress, whom, realistic as are all her rack, she almost worshipped as the embodiment of ank and power. She had wakened at sun. ris, poor girl, to the crash of the awful gun that told the solemn tale of death. She had read every word of the blackedged newspaper, and listened all day to the solemn bells tolling, pad the guns booming drearily across the water; and now, here was Master Billy vexing her soul to the depths of its religious and royal fuindations.
At was the quaintest little house in the world, the one where Billy and Rupert lived. It stood by a corner where two roads sloping past at back and front merged into one and picked up the tide of life and traffic that rolled away city- ward, and towards the grey stone pile where wise councillors wrote minutes and made laws, and the wiser men that followed read them and said "we concur," or "we annul." But the two little boys that lived in the corner house did not care button for the musty laws or the great men that made them, and knacked them on the head. Life was full of things that really signified and left a day far too short for the time one wanted to fit into it. There were ponies, and guns, a stretch of blue sea and yellow sand not a hundred yards from the compound gate, and, above all, beauti fut soldiers drilling and playing bands every day. Rupert and Billy, knew every air the band-sergeant had ever laught his men, and every night of his life for three conscientious years of prayerhood, ever since the first day he had understood the tune, and came home fastinated with the grand roll of its sonorous sounds, Billy, of his own accord, had prayed solemnly, or sleepily, as the case might be, "and God save 'Gracious Queen' Christ sake. And here to-night, fdrsooth, comes uselte, interfering and giving her orders about Queens. As if boys who were a soldier's sons and very soon going to be soldiers themselves, didn't know that even at dinner saldier-sahibs said prayers for the Queen, much less going to bed, indeed!
"Let's go to mother ourselves, Billy," said Rupert, in the strength of his two years' superior wisdom Lusette isn't a padre, 1 don't see what she can know about people's prayers."
In the darkening shadows of the verandab Rupert's and Billy's mother was rocking softly to and fro in her low lounge chair, perhaps thinking sad thoughts herself about the little old lady who lay sa stil! and quiet to-night.
"Oh, if you please Ma'am, Master Billy will pray for the Queen,"
Mother, I think Lusette is a meddling owl, and I want to say my prayers to you "Course 1 must pray for the Queen!
"Mother, is our Queen really dead?" asked Rupert solemnly, standing before her and reading her face with wide questing eyes..
*But can a Queen die like that, just like any common person?" queried Billy angrily.
"Dear heart, even Kings and Queens must come to die when God is ready for them."
But I wouldn't want to die if I were she, and leave all the crowns, and bands, and soldiers, and be just like anyone else, lamented Billy.
"I don't understand how she can be gone quite away. If she has has left our world think she must be alive somewhere up there in the dark blue sky," said Rupert thoughtfully, leaning his brown head against his mother's shoulder whilst his eyes wandered over the low belt of casherina trees up to the clear, star Atudded sky above.
Billy squatted on the verandah steps with his chin in his little hands, and gazed upward too, trying to fathom the secrets of the pale carly moon, and the myriad golden kingdoms over
head,
"The Queen has gone away. I think it must be to our own star, Roc-the beautiful bright red one that shines always over the mangoe tree. Oh but I din't want her to go away, he cried turning suddenly back towards his mother, all the worldwide woe that six years of life can gather crushed into his cry of sorrow, And what am Ito say for my prayers now mother? I don't want an old King. Had'nt better just go on saying 'Gracious Queen'same as before ?
There was a moment's silence and his mother did not answer; something drawing tight some- where around her throat held her dumb.
"I guess God will save her and keep lier safe to be some other people's Queen up there," he said meditatively."
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And Billy prayed his prayers extra distinctly for his own satisfaction, and Lusette's benefit, and he and Rupert were safely tucked up in their little white beds to sleep the dreamless sleep of childhood, that recks neither of Queens nor of kingdoms of golden crowns, nor of red flashing stars, while still there came one last steepy murmur-"Good night, mother, God save-Gracious-Queen, me and Rupert-own
men."
T. C. D. in The Advocate of India.
JOHN BARLEYCORN.
BY AN ACTIVE ANALYST.
(Globe.)
This gentleman, the great stay or boldfast of the British character and constitution, being now on his trial, I have thought it my duty to investigate him. I have done so with some
reluctance, as I do not as a rule drink baari But when I take a subject up, I empty it thoroughly, even when it is a pint pot.
By way of a start, I thought I would see what beer is like in the mass. therefore obtained leave from Messrs. Brown, Stout, and Co. to examing their largest brewing val, some soft. high. I did so by descending it in a diving dress. After passing through about roft, of carbonic acid gas, of about the same density as the Un- derground Railway air, I came upon a thick soupy froth, all working like a sea of pea-soup in a storm. I think if the company would give this froth away to poor washerwomen, it would greatly tighten their labours, and not be much loss to the beer. I then descended into the stout proper. To be full of stout inside is the experience of many, but to be surrounded by it outside and not be able to get at a drop, is unique and rather tantalising. I passed down through 30ft. of this liquor, and then came to the ocean hed at the bottom, formed of a teh, alluvial deposit of grains, "out of which spruvis a miniature hup forest. Having been there, I am in a position to aver that the bottom of the vat is not strewn with the corpses of mourning coach.horses, put in to strengthen the stout, as popularly sup- posed. I certainly saw what looked like the woolly head of a black man, bu on examina, tion found it to be merely a mop which had tumbled in
After emerging from the val, the manages kindly gave me a quart of stout to analyze, which I did in an easy chair in his back office, with the blind down. I proceeded, not by vulgar chemical reaction, but by drinking it off in glasses. The human organism is really the best analyst in the world, being the only ap paratus which cannot lie. I found that the first glass contained a strong feeling of cheerful ness and hope, so that I fully believed, while it lasted, that Jenkins will pay me that he borrowed fast Christmas: I have never discovered such a hope to be resident either in water, tea, or coffee; therefore it must have come from the stout. The second glass contained a strange, kindly feeling towards my wife's mother, now resident with us. All the old desire for her bloud gave place to a re- cognition of the fact that she has, after all, a right to live. The third glass had a curicus prompting to benevolence. I thought with shame of the number of times our district visitor had rattled her missionary box under my nose, in vain. So strong was this in- gredient in the stout, that i determined to give her dd, even though I went without a new suit af clothes to do it. The last glass yielded a vast amount of self respect. It made me feel quite as good as any other man, and a little better. On the whole the analysis was most satisfactory.
make you impinge upon the lamp-post. ~When | friskiest, it will throw you quite off your balance, That the same bece should create an additional moon in the sky, and give Castor and Pollux a pair of twin sisters, is little less remarkable,
This is as far as I have got with our bedh' up to now, but when my present unfortunate attack of enlarged liver, lumbago, and hydrocephalus has subsided, I hope to investigate further.
THE LIVING IMAGE.
"You know that there is nothing that would not do for you," said Gerald Vase-tenderly,
The obvious feeling in his tone irritated|| Lady Aubrey. What right bad this boy she considered him a boy, though he could not have been less than twenty-eight] to spikk to her in this preposterous way to her, a woman, with a daughter two years out-as if she were quite a young woman, nay, a young girl of suitable age? It was too absurd. More, it was tiresome; because his way of going on was noticeable, and kind friends had already hinted to het that it had not escaped remark.
#There is one thing," she said fretfully, that you know well I want you very much to do and that is to find yourself a nice wife with whom you could be happy-but you won't do it"
I bave found one with whom I know I could be happy," he replied wistfully. "But"
"I must go in," said Lady Aubrey, rising abruptly. or I shall catch cold. When one grows old one can almost feel the mist rising, while you young ones think that it is still de lightful out. No, don't. trouble about me; I can find my way in alone, and I am sure you must have many not keep you froingements, which I would Lady Aubrey would not have described her. self as old to anyone else than Gerald Vane, and to him she merely, did it with a purpose. As a matter of fact, she was a remarkably | young-looking woman, and the acutest obser ver would hardly have guessed her age but for the existence of that very legible human docu. ment, her sweaty-year old daughter.
Helona Autrey was one of those fortunate women, who preserve their figure. Save that it was a trifle more firmly set, but little change had come over her in this respect since the days when she was the slim, tall, graceful Helena Wynwood. Her hair was quite un- changed, and she wore the same smooth full bands which had been so becoming to her in her youth and which caused her admirers now to compare her with Mary Queen of Scots. Though, if we may judge from her authentic portraits, that ill-fated Queen could never have been half so good-looking as Lady Aubrey was Lady Aubrey knew her good looks and her power. As a rule she was not disposed to undervalue them, and she had no desire what soever to sink down on to the shelf. The out- burst with which she had silenced Gerald Vane's attempted declaration was prompted not by the spirit of candour alone but by a chaos of emmations, among which irritation played no little part.
There were so many excellent reasons why she should not have interrupted him. She knew as well as possible that he could be happy with her, and she felt, almost against her will, that her feelings towards him, if she once allowed them to slip from control, would not be very dissimilar from complete reciprocation. Then she was poor-a widow living on a small in- come in a small house in a village which lay as completely out of the world as if it were perched on the Welsh mountains instead of posted within twenty miles of London and two of one of the greatest roads of communication in England. Gerald, however, was wealthy— the rich man of the district. He owned the fine estate of Lynxton Park, which formed the back ground of the village, and bosides had in herited Somerset House only knows how much in the convenient form of stocks and shares, How nice, it would be to be mistress of Lynxton. Park, to leave off contriving, abstaining, screwing, in order to make two ends meet and keep up appearances! How delightful it would be to indulge in the little luxuries of life which she had always denied herself to bring Madge forward in a manner suited to the distinguished family from which the girl sprang, and which had always ignored her-to be able to do something for the many friends who had been so kind to her for years' without hope of return-except so far as they may have derived it from the lustre of her title!
When all these points are considered, it will be seen that it required no little determination on her part to refuse Gerald's proffered love, and in fact she felt so uncertain of herself that she rushed to the defence at the barest glimpse of his waving Bag in order to prevent him from ever coming to an actual assault. A fortress that is so timorous must be weak.
I was thereby encouraged to analyse in the same way an equal quantity of Messrs. Double Exe's ale; so next day I'dispatched our girl for it to the tavern round the corner, warning her to cover the jug with her apron, to keep out the dust and the eyes of the neighbours, and not to sip any. I fully expected an equally agreeable analysis, but lo, this ale consisted of an entirely different st of emotions. That wicked feeling against my wife's mother came back in re- doubled force; and had she been in the room, The explanation of all will sound strange I should have run her out neck and crop. Ai ¦ in these "days. There was some ten or it was, I made faces at her photo. Then it 'twelve years' difference between them and in contained that state of mind which I cannot the lady's favour, and she honestly believed put a name to, but which prompts a man to that the disparity of age constituted a fatal keep on saying to himself. "What a fool I barrier to a marriage. Perhaps this would not wast" When under this prompting, all the have presented itself so vividly to her imagina. situations in which you have made a doub- tion but for the fact that she had made Gerald's ledyed ass of yourself come back upon you: acquaintance originally through her intimacy when you put 55, on the pen, or 50 on with his mother, which dated back to the days the favourite when you failed to kiss a pretty when the young man, as a younger son, was girl, after she had told you point blank that studying diplomacy in the Far East. She did she hated kissing; when you listened to the not feel herself equal to face Mrs, Vane's scorn. He was growing quieter now under the invoice of the house agent, or the bland advertise- ful eyes and indignant tongue, The very us fluence of the darkness, and the sadness, and
ment of the bucket shop. There was also much concern, or even satisfaction, with which that the soft hush of the night. Silence reigned a combativeness in that ale. I felt more than lady regarded her son's attentions to her while in the shadowy unlit verandah, whilst the ready to have it out with Jenkins, and indeed "dearest friend only showed how utterly out. two little men leaned on either side of would have forgiven him the L5 for the privilege side the range of possibility did she regard the their mother and reasoned in their strange of fattening his features, or gouging out an prospect of the friendship assuming a more childish minds, as yet to faintly tinged with eye. In short, that ale contained all that is the alloy of earth's dull colouring, about God bitterest in sentiment. No wonder that the and Queens and that mysterious thing called girl, who had sipped some after all, threw a death. There were no sounds but the soft teacup at the cat." lap of the distant waves, and the sighing of the night wind in the trees,
God will always save our Gracious Queen, dear; she is Hls whether in life or in death."
"I think she will be a great loss to all the world," said Rupart thoughtfully,
"Yes," said Billy mournfully, I wish I had seen our Queen just ance "fore I came to die
too,"
Do you think we will ever go back to our Queen, Rue?" asked Billy at last in bis soft CATCssing voice.
"I don't see why not, Bill. All the men that were brave down here and saved people's liver she called Victoria mon. You can't belong to ★ person just for ance, and then stop belonging to them, and never be theirs any more. Can you, mother? If Billy and I gat crosses like, Captain John's little brown one, would'nt we be the Gracious Queen's own men too? Father told me it makes Captain John. Victoris Billy was still starting sadly up through the sight at the red flashing star he called his own, and around which the two little lads had woven endless legends, and fairy day dreams.
serious form.
If Gemid had only boca ten years older!" "You know," said Gerald reproachfully in. reply to her attempted dismissal, "that there is no engagement that I would not throw over- I thought it would please you. Not that I have any
"It wouldn't,” cried Lady Aubrey hastily. What would please me would be if you would come and tell me that you were engaged to a really nice girl"
subsequently analysed Messrs. Salacine's celebrated barrefied family beer, highly recom-if mended by the faculty for making blood, fat, muscle, and almost everything else required by a family, and a handy substitute for vinegar or oxalic acid.
Abour three glasses made me the most eloquent man breathing, I felt that I could explain anything, from the policy of the Govern ment, to the procession of the equinoxes. I was so pleased with this, that I called my wife in to hear me do so. She got tired before I did. She said scornfully that bed was the proper place for me, when, of course, my proper place was the House of Commons or the Royal In- stitution. But certainly Salacine's beer is real bottled Cicero, and for those who like elo- quence, will save a great deal in washing.
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wreich on the face of the earth, and determinad | be passed away.' It was at Brighton this year, that be had better go away,
Reeves was staying at Hassock's. He wanted Lady Aubrey was half glad when he was to come home with me to my rooms and sing
to me. Let me sit down to the piano, Johnny, Generally, however, a captain who shrinks Let him keep away for a year," she thought, and sing you "The Death of Nelson" and from the exposure and ruin that must follow "and he will have forgotten nie. But if he My Pretty Jane," and all the other songs you simply sticks to his post-whether his mind remains faithful after a year-elf-perhaps like I could not have stood it; it would have gives way may remain an open question-and Of course I should not think of such a broken my heart. We sat in a quiet arbour; hesa perishes. So that what passes for heroism thing."
held my hand and sang quietly to me spatches should, perhaps, occasionally be called by it was while he was staying at the Watchats! of a few things, and I hear his pathetic voice an another uglier name; though it must not be that he met Miss Wynwood. Her first appear now when I am telling you."
supposed that all captains who refuse to leave `ance was quite a shack to him.
their ships are suicides.-S. and Gossip.
What, the here, sweat Helen, fair Helen. "No, it's a gid surely-much younger-with a "mooth girl's face, and what a complexion-- Wliat a beauty. But she is just what she must have been when she was a girl-it is too re-
farkable.”
He was introduced to Miss Wynwood and found it was still more remarkable; for ler name was Helen too, and her voice-it he.had been blindfolded he could almost have swojn that it was Lady Aubrey who was speaking.
'Oh, you know Lyaxton," said the girl later, when the acquaintance had progressed a little. "Then I daresay you know my aunt, Lady Aubrey. She is said to be like me. you see any resemblance??
"Yes, a great deal, in a way. Of course she is a little older."
"A little older! Why, she is over forty. But i believe she makes-up well.*
"I am quite sure that she does not make up at all," cried Gerald hotly.
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SAYINGS ABOUT WOMEN.
Beauty in woman is power. Tears are the strength of women.
A flattered woman is always indulgent. Women alone know true loyalty of affection.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. A
Nature makes fools; woman make Coxcombs. Men are the cause of women's dislike for one another.
Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man.
Before marriage Woman is a Queen; after marriage, a subject.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Wonen enjoy more the pleasure they give than they receive.
There is no more agreeable companion than the one woman who loves us,
A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved.
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Miss Wynwood shot a quick glance at him. "I don't mean what you mean," she said quietly. "And, of course, I am very proud of being thought like her. She has always been the beauty of the family-jects to men who abdicate too much. aspecially twenty years ago."
Really, if this girl had any wish to make her aunt appear quite old, she could not have gone to work in a better way. Before they had been acquainted for three days she had contrived to. make Gerald's love affair assume slightly ridiculous light in his eyes. Not that he had ever referred to it. Not that Helen Wynwood ever gave the smallest token of being cognisant, of a still more important question-did she know that he had been attracted to her at the first by her resemblance to her aunt? Putting the maiter on the most general principles, does any young woman like to be admired because she resembles a relation old enough to be her mother? There is some food for reflection
there..
From the Watchers' Helen Wynwood 'was going back to town. Yes, she liked town in the winter. There was always the rink, and as she was a subscriber she went there alinost every day. Did Mr. Vano skate? Wasn't it fun? A pity that he wasn't going to be in town! They might have met, and she would so like to learn the Dutch foll that he talked of Ras, of course, men were always full up with shootin' and huntin' all the winter,
For some reasons she wished she were a man.
Gerald wrote, to Lady Aubrey-all about himself and her; not a word about the younger Helen. One wonders whether-if-Lady Aubrey, true to her programme, did not reply though it hurt her not to. Also, she began to miss Gerald terribly by now. Gerald wrote again, but there was still no answer,
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A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid.
If woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him. Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty or good, or well-bred, or graceful, but because they are themselves.
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"The Court. and ordered the captain's cértificate to be suspended for twelve months." It is not a particularly startling sentence, this that one commonly sees at the end of the report of a wreck inquiry. But what a terrible significance it has to the skipper himself! For the loss of a ship through some error of judg ment and the consequent suspension of the master's certificate means, as a rule, irretrier- able ruin to that seafarer. It is a million to one against his ever getting another vessel.
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Sometimes a captain may be accounted to deserve all that the suspension of his certificate involves, but in general he is to be commiser- ated. It is a hard thing for a,man to be ruined for one solitary false step, and still more for the fault of a subordinate. Yet thousands of men have had their career blasted in one way of the other. Only a few years ago a captain, with a clean record extending over a quarter of a cen. Therefore Gerald, cursing his fate, drifted tury had the misfortune to wreck his ship on somehow up to London, drifted somehow into
the French coast, He was held to be blame. the rink, and in the same inconsequent fashionworthy, and as a result bis certificate was skated into a course of devotion to the present suspended. That sealed his fate. When the niece as the image of her absent aunt with the
period of suspension was over he hoped to getT AM open to meet anyone from 8st, plus to inevitable result, as in all idolatry, that the Another command, but the firm that he served T image assumed in time a more definite reality for twenty-five years not only refused to let than the original,
him have a ship, but to give him employment of any kind, even in a humble capacity.
Several other captains have recently been punished with like severity for the blunder of those under their command. As an illustration of how this comes about a well- known disaster is highly instructive, A certain liner was once in charge of the chief officer, the captain being below, or, at all events, taking no active part in the navigation of the ship. The officer on the look out forward was not in
If Lady Aubrey had written "Come,” Gerald would have flown to her side. If the bad mere- ly written a good scolding, in reply to any one of his half-dozen letters, it would have been | something. But she did not write at all. No wonder he began to lose hope. Yet she thought about him more than ever.
She fell into a bad habit of wondering whe- ther he would be faithful at the end of the year, If he were After all, ten years were really nothing nowadays, and such marriages were common enough though of course she would never think of such a thing. Her thoughts often made her blush and with the shame of this to help her, she steeled herself to wait and give noʻsign,
Then one day there came a letter in an un- familiar band. It was signed "Your affec tionate alese Helco Wynwood." It informed the "dear aunt” that the writer was engaged to be married to a "young friend of yours" whose name it is perhaps unnecessary to add was Gerais Vane and so on in the usual style of these letters. But there were some sentences that burnt themselves in on Lady Aubrey's memory as if they were written in letters of flame. "Gerald is the most devoted of lovers now but I cannot help thinking that he was attracted to me first by some resemblance that he saw to you. He used to mve about you then feel sure that you must have been very kind to him, and that you well be very glad to bear of my engagement."
Now Lady Aubrey was a good woman but there was one relation whom the cordially de- tested, and was mortally jealous of, and this was her niece Helen Wynwood, who was "a younger and prettier likeness of herself. And if there was one person whom the younger Helen loathed more than all the rest of the world It was the elder Helan, who had been held up to her in all her hours of naughtiness. from childhood upwards as a model of all that
a woman should be.
There was dead ailence in the cottage for a moment, and then might be heard the sound of a woninn softly crying-The Rangoon Times,
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his usual place, because of some wat paist there or there-about; he was further aft than customary, and consequently could not see as far ahead as he could in the regular order of things. Suddenly he hailed his superior-
"There seems to be some ice ahead sir."
I think it is only cloud," came the reply from the bridge.
Once again did the look-out draw attention to a grey, misty indefinite something in the distance; but the ship-which was making about nineteen milles an hour-was kept on her course. And then there seemed to spring out of the water a huge, towering iceberg, into which the ship crashed, rebounded, and dashed again, finally being telescoped like a railway carriage in a collision.
Now, for this mishap the captain was held responsible, and his certificate was suspended accordingly. Here, then, is an exemplification of the hard lot of the skippers who have of late suffered in much the same way. The com- mander of a liner which tilted against an iceberg and yet returned to port was, however, excep tionally fortunate in having employers who are not bound down by the iron rules of their class.
Convinced of the injustice of the sentence, they nobly assisted their servant to carry the case to the House of Lords, where it was squashed-a sequel which, as a whole, has rarely been parall- eled
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LOT 3-All that Piece or Parcel of Graund situata at Victoria, aforesaid and intended to he registered in the Land Office as Section, D of Inland Lot No. 797. Area 1,900 Square feet. Term 999 years. Annual Crown Rest
$25.
What becomes of captains whose certificates are suspended for the loss of whips? Some accept subordinate positions, others take to drink, and practically all go from bad to worse rapidly. One, who ranawell-known liner ashore, afterwards left the sea and worked in America and now be is trying to "gain admittance to a certain charity for destitute mariners a charity where there are already at least half a dozen TOOLE AND SIMS REEVES. men with a similar life history. Some of these decayed seafarers have a brilliant record and a Toole and Sime Reaves (writes Joseph clean one, save for a single blot--they have lost situate at Victoria, aforesaid and intended to LOT 4All that Piece or Parcel of Ground Halton in the People) were very Intimate a ship. friends. The comedian tells a story of how he In another and a more exceptional case a be registered in the Land Office as Section E mat Reaves in a train on the way to Liverpool captain who played a part in a celebrated ship of Inland Lor Na 797 Area 4400 Square and asked him to teach him the notes of "The ping disaster has suffered much since he left the feet, Term 999 years. Annual Crown Rent, Speaker's Eye," a comic song that bad a vogue bridge. His courage falled him at a critical 530. for a long time. Reeves took the request moment; and, as many lives were lost on the LOT -All that Piece or Parcel of Ground seriously, and it must have been intensely occasion, and the newspapers gave columns of situate at Victoria, aforesaid and intended to amusing for Tools to have Reeyes show him space to the occurrence, all the world knew of be registered in the Land Office as Section F how to sing it, Reeves giving the comic words
his chicken-heartedness. The result was that, of Inland Lot No. 797 Area 4,855 Squara and melady with operatic verye. One day. In addition to having his certificate suspended, feet. Term 999 years. Annuni Crown Rent Toole heard that Reeyes was staying at a he was regarded by the public as a coward.
$31. certain hotel in a city he was passing through! Such was the scorn with which he was treated The comedian called, and was informed | where he was known that he left the sra, and, that Mr. Reeves was in the garden. Tools changing his name, turned his hand to many saw him sitting in a shady corner reading a dry-land occupations, including that last for newspaper; he knew him at once by his black source of the needy, canvassing. About two and curly hair. Tools crept behind him, and years ago he held the humble but necessary saluted him with a snatch of " My Pretty Jane," office of "chucker out" at a public-house situ of which Toole could give an excellent imitated in one of the slums of a certain port. My last experiment has been with the popular
tion. Reeves took no notice. Tools laughed It is not surprising, therefore, that a caplain It's not a very large star, that bright out, beer of Messrs. Glucose, Invert, and Co. I am | respect—""
to himself, and stood apart, feeling, perhaps, often elects to perth with his stup. Many a even although it is the biggest of the whole lot bound to say that this is the most curious This threat of course reduced him to obedience that Reaver wanted to finish his reading, of man has practically committed self-murder I don't see how it can possibly hold very many of all the beers. I have analysed. Its effect for a while. But he broke out again and desired to encourage his fun. Then the come rather than face the 'consequence of his mis people from this would he mused mournfully upon the feelings is absolutely nil. But, again, and the continual conflict so got on her dian went for the great lenor again, this time take. One unquestionably did so; through his Thera bright idea awoke within him. Mu per contra, it contains a most strange nerves that there was almost a sense of relief trying a full verse of "Come into the garden, fault, his ship was run into off the Irish coast hstoff cried eagerly #1 expect the Queen and powerful influence over the earth and the mingled with the bitterness when the matter Maud, Reeves got up and took another seat and began to founder. The crew then took to
at got God to keep it for her to save her own heavenly bodies. We are all aware, of course, Aain; her very own ones. Me and Rupert that the earth is going forward in space at the refused him.
was brought definitely to the issue, and she had Toole gave him a taste of "Tom Bowling," the boats. When the captain, the last man en to have the little brown cross and be the
whereupon Reeves turned upon him to inquire aboard, was about to leave, he remarked that co's own men. So if she's not in an awful
rate of so many miles per second, and when
It was ant Reeves he had forgotten something, and went to his If you really love me as you say," she added what the devil he megat......... we walk abroad we all allow for that progress, afterwards, you will go away from here for a at all,
cabin, fill it up we could get there and see We move our bodies unconsciously, so as to time, Why not accept some of those many the Sucan yet, Rupen."
Toole has returned to his house in Maide As he did not return, one of the officers went hit the medil between the direction we want to invitations and go shooting! It will do you Vals, London, still deeply saddened with his in search of him, and found him lying on hit God mustava settled something like that with the wa Well, the effect of this beer is to your time.
Billy, I expect we shall. I'm sure go in, and the rate the street is travelling round much more: good than staying here waiting long illness, and unable to speak much louder face, with a reyolver tightly grasped in his right the Queen.*.
high than in a whisper. He related to me a very hand and a portion of his skull blown away; interfere in the most arbitrary fashion with that This Gerald positively refused to do. But | pathetic Incident, of his last „menting, withs dead. – 12 was roxartheling reported, out of rate. It will stop the sarth capriciously, so that when he found that Lady Aubrey, by some Reeves. You know how greatly admired consideration for his relais and friends; that angular, coincidence, was always out when he and loved Bin Reeves," he said. Poor, dear he had refer to leay kry bridge and and called, he regarded himsaid no she most illused | fellow, I am gladi à mimi hins once again before | Bank with the lip rand, as the veral brokes |
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"You are cruel and heartless, returned Gerald and his pain was obvious in his voice, "You know I can never love may other woman but
"My good boy," interrupted Lady Aubrey, secretly much dismayed-for the dreaded the necessity of refusing him in so many words "crual and heartless " is not proper language to address to a lady of my age, an old friend of your mother's and almost old enough to be your mother, I should be sorry to have to send you away for good, but if you are so wanting in
Lor 6.-All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situate at Victoria, aforesaid and intended to be registered in Land Office as The Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No 797. Area 11,970. square feet. Term og years. Annual Crown Rênt $80.
For further Particulars and Conditions of :Sale, apply to
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, 12, Queen's Road Central Hongkong, Solicitors for the Vendors,
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THE AUCTIONEER, Hongkong, 7th February: 100,
JUST ARRIVED.
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