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ROWAN BERRIES.

A rowan-treo Out-branching, berry-laden; And underneath it at their play, Two children, happy as the day, A laddie and a maiden.

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He brings the store In baby glee, and lingers, Watching her weave her necklace fine, Shouting to see it grow and shine, Between her busy fingers.

Bing, little lass,

And let the song be sprightly;

•With rounded ankles, warm and bare, With sunburnt face and tangled hair, Few hearts can beat more lightly,

My lady's gaude Beget no greater pleasure, Nor yield their owner auch content, Buch artless pride and innocent,

Ae does thy simple:trosenre,

Leave her to own ** The pearl and opal tender; These, and the flashing ruby's glow, Botter become her neck of snow,

Then thine eo brown and slender.

Marvellous youth!

What little makes it morry! Sunshine is gold; and then who cares For jewels, while the rowan beare

Its bright, familiar berry ?

Leisure Hour.

PUT DOWN THE BRAKES.

No matter how well the track is laid,

No matter how strong the engine is made,

grade

Put down the brakes,

AMENDED ACCOUNT OF INHERIT- ANCE AND "PATRIA POTESTAS" IN CHINA.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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There it was, in italics, half-way down the "personal" column of the Herald, con- spicuous only for ita singular and most aggravating combination of letters and figures, the sole clue to the whereabouts of the gem I had been after for over a week, scarcely resting, eating or sleeping in my anxiety to scoure the reward offered in heavy burglary case--and something else.

That something elee." My heart sank within me as I flung aside the enigmatical puzzle bofore me, and leaning back in my

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No. 4814. DECEMBER 7, 1878.

UNRAVELLING A CITHER. guised hand on a little scrap of paper. I that the man's friends may know how he Ozib-Novy un hegjlweb mrisy zg 127 asked leave to retain it, and, permission met his death. The landlord of the public- Uria hgivoy."

being granted to me, I returned to my room house will know we left together. Tho man was about thirty-six years, & fent 6 at once.

I pored over the cipher for a long time, inches high, stout, fresh complexion, and and discouraged at my inability to make out hair and whiskers red." Replying to Mr one word of it, was finally about to abandon Newton, the inspector said the prisoner was it, when I chanced to look at the reverse perfectly coherent and apparently in his side of the paper. There were figures and right senses. The prisoner, who said ho words on it, and I read, United States was a native of England, said the statement bonds, $10,000," and other memoranda, he had made was quite true. Mr Newton indicating that it had been a looss wrap said that if the pistol went off by necidant it was no murder, but he would remand the per for valuable papers.

Thon I knew that the advertisement bore prisoner at the request of the polico. And so until the day upon which the an important relation to the robbery. story opens I was unable to make head or So wearied was I that I fell asleep with tail of the searet enigme.

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NARROW ESCAPE. OF THE DANISH

ROYAL FAMILY.

A Copenhagen correspondent, writing en of. 20, agen

The Royal family had on Monday night awake until noon-time. It is wonderful my head upon my desk, and I did not

a narrow escape from instantaneous death. how a brief repose will clear the mind. I took up the paper with renewed energy, and The King, the Queen, and the Trincess Thyra had left their country residence of bright idea flashed over me. Simple as it was, I had not thought of it Bernsdorff Castle with the intention of driv before. The entire message was written ou ing into town, to be present at the repro- the substitution of letters, based on the sentation of a new national opera. The road roversal of the alphabet. Instead of u, from the castle crosses the railway line from the last letter, was substituted; instead of Copenhagen to Elsinore, and there is there 5,y was used; the alphabet reversed was foron gate, which is closed whenever a train is expected to pass; but on this night, by the key to the solution of the puzzle.

I gavo utterance to a shout of joy, for, the neglect of the gatekeeper, a gato was left open, and the Royal carriage went on following out the theory, it read:

Larry, meet me Saturday night at 127 its way, when suddenly a train turned the Fire street. Ned."

And "Ned" or Edward was the name of wheels of the carriage were actually touched ourve, and passed no close that the hind Dayton's footman. I began to see a very by the buffers of the engine; while only the large mice. But Fire street-there was no presence of mind of the driver of the carriage such thoroughfare in the city, and I was containing the ladies and gentlemen in wait- "floored" again,

ing, which followed close after the Royal carriage, saved its cocupants from certain destruction, the train passing between the two carriages. The Queen was naturally much affected by the terrible danger, and Her Majesty was unable to remain in the

Gradually the thought goourred to me, on the basis of reversal and opposites adopted mean "water"-ita direct

Feverse?

ago, to the life-interest of their father's wife, if living, or if dead, subject to the" life-interest of the concubine who has pre- cedence in point of poverture, whether there The following notes may be of interest to ho other concubines of better birth, greater those who are engaged in making research age, or other advantages, and whether this into subjects bearing upon Ancient Law. senior concubine bo or be not the mother of Though most of the following information any of the sons or daughters. It may be was originally derived from one single mentioned here that the two Empresses authority, from data furnished by the Dowager, who are now Co-Regents of the customs of one single Province: yet so Empire, are in this plight. The Empress absolutely identified are the views of one Dowager-wife has a slight nominal precedence individual with those of the community in rank and titles, but reigns in a sort of way, in which he has been brought up, and above the Emperor, in conjunction with the Empire in regard to the two points of ger-Concubine-Mother, who, though mother obair gave myself up to the gloomy reveries 30 similar are the customs all over the late Emperor's mother, the Empresa-Dowa- Paternal Power and Inheritsher, that, with of his late Majesty, and also, by adoption of of the past. Edun Dayton-how I loved the above saving clause, we did not hesitate his present Majesty, (who on his death-bed her! How fair and beautiful as a summer's to submit the words of this man, subject to adopted his cousin to be his younger bro-idyl had been the wook in which I had mot correction, as a fair authority for China in ther), (or theimpersonation of himself) ranks

my affection was returned. How well I general. We have since had opportunities with, but after, the Empress-Dowager-Wife her, had loved her, and had been told that of conversing with natives of other Pro- in all Imperial documents.]

remember the bitter barting a hopless one It will be seen that, in the case above, it seemed to me when I learned my fate vinces, and see nothing whatever in the in- formation giyen, at all incompatible with the sons inherit in equal shares, though there her father's lips and passed down the our general experience. On the contrary, eldest often receives a double ahere; but it brown stone steps of the Dayton mansion, we find that our original statements are is not uncommon for the brothers to tempo- wondering if the inclination of monoyed men corroborated throughout.

rarily yield up their shares to the manage- towards stone resileuses was not caused by First, then, the authority of the father is ment of the elder brother, either in whole or the existence of a similar hard material in neairy unlimited by the positive law. Of in part, for the glory of the House, or by that part of the human anatomy known as the persons of his children, male or female, reason of the youth of the younger brothers, the heart. he can disposa in almost any way he may in which case it will revert to the waivore

I was a poor man, he said, and the think fit. He may sell, or use, in almost of their right, upon the death of the "wai-profession of a detective was a precarious any manner he deeme it good, the offspring ves." It is for this reason that we have, in one. His daughter loved me; he could not born to him, whether by his wife, his con- the above instance, said "if not ancestral deny that, but she was his only child, and cubines or his slaves. If, however, he lets property." If A had had the rights of his her wealth and position demanded a match out his daughter as a temporary, wife, he brothers E and F waived in his favour, on

with some social equal. He would not may be punished with sixty blows. It is his dead E and F would get their shares, and break her heart by absolutely refusing to well known that female infanticide is pre- the sons of A would only inherit A's share sanotion our engagement, but if within a valent in many parts of China. Wo doubt, subject as above to the right of A's wives see I could secure a fortune of $25,000 and however, whether it is more general than in which, as we have explained, differ slightly a lucrative business, and Edna was still of some European States: the reason why it in different provinces. In this case the pro- attracts attention is that, not being a crime, perty would be ancestral, as no question of the same mind-well, he would consider it.

Twenty-five thousand dollars! I grow no concealment, or but littlo, is attempted. waiving a right to property earned by Asick at the thought of the condition imposed, by the gender of the message, why should In some places it is not uncommon to see could arise. To sum up, the inheritance is a stone set up in the villages, engraved with identical, ancestral og.no, except that, such upon which I was to purchase my future not Erg ??

bappiness. In the reception of a meagre I dashed down the stairs, and, bailing a theatre during the entire performance of the When you find it running on a downward the words, Girls may not be drowned in waivings of right being common, it often salary and utterly unknown, where was I to mab (for I did not forget that it was Satur opera. The railway company instantly dis-

this pool." Of course the habit is more happens that ancestral property goes to the raise this amount? And what business prevalent in some districts than others, and brothers before the sons. The true course capacity had I, the son of parents who had day, and that evening was the appointed missed the gatekeeper, but at the request of time for the meeting of the two burglars, if the King, who thought that "the man had if it gains, under stress of poverty or other of deagent, however, is to the sons. stimulus, undue frequency, the local antho-grandsons of A, that is the sons of 1 given me every luxury and neglected a

street.

be careful in future," he was reinstated in Vacant Number 127 was an empty lot! -]

his situation. Day and night for over a month I brooded police in England would issue prohibitory capita. If the eldest son receives a double left us homeless and in ponury? notices if the sparrows were being killed share, it is because his own son must some over my sorrows, when one day I was

I paused, disappointed, and dismissed the off, or dead cats thrown in the village-day represent the head of the family. If Aroused into, renowed life by the reception vehicle, again having recourse to the puz-

INSECTS IN MAURĪTTUS, The points to lay stress upon has £10,000, and his son B is dead, both Band of formal but ceniteous note from Mr. zling enigma! So aear the solution and yet pond. are these. It is not distinctly declared Chaving sons living, Cgets half, and B's sons

If only the daylight would last longer A sudden inspiration of renewed energy to be an offence in se it is not, cum-get helf. So if B's sons have been married and

doomed to bo balked at the last, and paratively speaking, common; it is never have begotten sons, B's sons being dead,

and I had forged the last link in the chain in these latitudes, where exercise is only respectable; poverty is almost invariably B's half will be divided into as many parts

of evidence! There had been reversal in possible after sundown. However early we the sole cause. The practice stars to be as B had sans, and cash of these parte into

Ross. Happily, there are no snakes or most common in Kiangsi and Fukien. In as many parts as of each these one had

the order of numbers from one to ten, as in set forth, the end of the walk is sure to be Canton it is uncommon creept amongst the sons, always subject to the claims of their

the letters of the alphabet, and 197 meant accomplished stumblingly in profound dark- poisonous reptiles of any sort, nor have I Hakkas, who often stifle their female children respective mother or grandmothers, who with a cloth, steeped in wine, laid over must, according to the custom of some places,

yet seen anything more personally ob- their mouths when asleep, The Penal all be dead before the property which vests

a grudge, though, to a little insect called Code translated by Staunton provides no in the sons or grandsons ie freed from their

Jestionable than a manequito. I rather owe the mason fly, which has a perfect passion punishment for this specific offence, but lifo-management, as explained above.

for running up mud huts (sompared to its the authorities, when they deem it de

larger edifices on the walls and ceiling) on sirable, seem to punish it under the

my blotting-books, and between the leaves convenient dinner against. "general wrong

of my pet volumes. The white ants are the doing" (pu ying. There is also a statute in the Penal Code providing a punishment

bear of their performances would do credit worst insect foe we have, and the stories I of 100 blows for any one who shall chastise

to the Arabian Nights. I have already a child or grandchild so that it dies and another of 80 blows and one year's banish-

learned to consider as pests the little soft ment if such be killed designedly. These

the picture-frames at night as soon as ever brown lizards which emerge from behind punishments, however, many easily (it is said)

the famps are lit. They come out to catch the flies on the ceiling, and stalk their pray in the cleverest and stealthiest fashion, Occasionally, however, they quarrel with each other, and have terrifio combate over- wriggling inch of tail dropping down on of course, the time when one is frecek from one's book or paper. This cool weather is

butterflies. A stray grasshopper, with green wings folded exactly like a large leaf, or an inquisitive mantis, blunders on my writing- table occasionally, but not often enough to be anything but welcome. As my sitting room may be said, speaking architecturally, to copsiet merely of a door and coiling, there is no reason why all the insects in the island should not come in at any one of the seven

choose. Good Words, open doors (I have no windows) if they

If the demon of drink has entered your soul,

And his power is getting beyond your control, rities will make it an offence, just as the and C, inherit per stirpes and not practical education, until a orash came that such they were), I soon had reached Water had such a lesson that he would be sure to

And dragging you down to a terrible goal,

Put down the brakes.

Remember the adage, "Don't trife with

fire 17 Temptation, you know, is always a liar; If you want to crush out the burning desire,

Put down the brakes.

Are you running in debt by living too fast? Do you look back with shame on a profitless

past, And feel that your ruin is coming at last P

Put down the brakes.

Whether for honor, for knowledge or gain, You are fast wearing out your body and

braio,

Till nature no longer can bear the strain,

Put down the brakes.

GRAINS OF GOLD.

The favors of fortune are like steep rooke only eagles and creeping things mount to the summit.

There are people with whom penitence stands for repentance-people with whom wearing mourning dispenser with feeling

BOXTOW.

be ransomed

at the mansion.

Dayton requesting my immediate attendance By feat winged as I hastened to the house of my loved Edns. What did it mean? Had he relented? Was Edna sick, or did hard-hearted censor? I was ushered into business await me at the pleasure of my the library, where I found the old gentleman in an intense state of excitement, pacing the floor, the window broken in, papers and boxes scattered about the apartment, and a eate in the corner brøken open.

I stared at him in amazement.

"You seem agitated, Mr. Dayton," ventured to suggest,

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I looked at my watch--three o'okok. I went to the nearest looal telegraph office and at the following dispatch to Chief of

Police:

Bond to this effeo three efficient men in citizen's clothes."

I signed my name, lit a cigar, and awaited the arrival of evening and my companion officers.

We have supposed that A has two some and a daughter; the male lineal heirs of A's sons, however remote, will exclude A's daughter, because she is not of the family

"Agitated agitated, sir! I am wild. name, or, at all events, may, at any time Late last night, or early this morning, for the meeting appointed by the two men, It was dark when we reached the place esse to be, in case she marries. A's lineal male burglars entered this apartment by means of It was a vile groggery, kept by a woman, descendants, however remote, will also ex-yonder window and broke open the safe, clude A's brothers: these again will exclude When I came down this morning. I found and a resort for the very lowest class of A's nephews and also A's daughter, who affairs as they are now, and nearly $100,000 of false whiskers, and I entered the bar- rufiane. I had put on a felt hat and a pair can only inherit if no one is living belong in money, bonds and jewellery gone." ing to the family, and having the same

I stared mutely. The immensity of the room, having first placed my men in

advantageous position on the outside. To transfer these four points to the case name,-in other words no agnate, in the robbery petrified me. of male ofspring. It would be no statutory Roman sense. This is however almost im

"No," he thundered, coming to a full Within half an hour there entered an old woman, veiled, bearing some bulky object malum in se it is never practised, for the possible, for an heir is generally adopted from A witty man finds it diffenlt upon ecca-simple reason that a male child is never the youth of the required generation (ise chi).stop. "I have no confidence in a police force behind her closk, She made a sign to the

which fails to protect a house from such an aim to be dall like everybody also, and, so always work, and is looked to as the sup- herit from & before their cousin, actually the booty for its return. There is the room

regarded as a ding, partly because he can

The sons of the brothers E and F would in- audacious burglar, and expects one-half of woman behind the door and then went into head, with the invariable result of a

the next room, I caught sight of her feet umally contrives to be stupider than any port in old age, and partly because he only daughter of A, whether this daughter were and wonder is a list of the stolen property.incasso not in shots, but in men's boots. I as she passed through the door; they were body else.

name and honours by inheritance. If the inherit, and only, if unmarried, supposing entire affair in your own hands. Call upon the woman. world

son has no official rank, there is no limit to no agrati could be found, it must not be me for whatever money you require in- an the age at which a father can kill or sell supposed from this that members of Chinese attempt to recover the property or to detect him, by positive law. After, however, families are left to starve. The brothers the thieves. If you succeed within a month, son has reached puberty, or, still more, man- or uncles must maintain and endow their will pay you $30,000. If you fail, I will hood, local public opinion, being unused to sisters, aunts, nieces. An extra portion pay your expenses for the month and place in the affirmative. such phenomena, would regard with high is often reserved for the marriage of unmar-the case in other hands., Are you satis-significantly. We are going to divide the disfavour a father who should kill his adult ried daughters. In short all-powerful Cused "" son, even in a passion, Still more so, if he tom sece to the maintenance of every agnate

I gasped spasmodically. Thirty thousand

And I opened the door. wished to sell him in short, in practice or cognate member of a family. Even the dollars? A fortune-more than the price it would be almost an impossibility. In senior concubine is said to bo compelled by of my happiness! And then the pride of the second, by a table, on which lay a large Thore was no one in the first room, but in fit of rage the Emperor Tao-kwang, moral law to protect and maintain her junior profession came to my aid, and told him I tin box-was my game-Larry, the burglary grandfather of his late Majesty, and of the rivals; but, whether she is or not, the wife should succeed. present Monarch, is said to have kicked one is certainly so bound. An adopted son_(4

Here, through the feeble twilight of this Ioan be depended upon to keep up the family married or no. If married she could never believe you are konest, and I leave the went quickly to the bar and made a sign to insect visitors, and I have not yet seen any

Groping, how many, until we pass and reach That other, where we see as we are seen, Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves, By taking true for false, or false for truel

Tennyson,

EVILS OF THE DRINK TRAFFIC.

It

"Ia Larry in there?" I inquired in a load voice, pointing to the other apartment.

She looked at me sharply, and then replied Keep anybody that comes out," I said,

swag."

I examined the apartment. The burglary and a tall, spare form in female attire, with

footman, Edward. Edward, the footman--a tall, lank specimen

"You can drop on that little dodge, of humanity-had heard a noise in the night in the library, but had paid no atten-gentlemen," I said, quietly whipping out tion to it, as Mr. Dayton was in the habit race at revolvers. The house is sur- of writing very late, and he thought it was rounded, and any resistance will only make

it worse for you. Larry, open that door." his employer.

He unbolted the rear door under the

was watched,

OUR STEEL FLOTILLA,

Our steel flotilla is being rapidly in- creased. Preparation is being made for

built on the Clyde by Messrs. Elder & Co.

The Christian commends to "Christian brethren, who may not yet have been tho roughly arvased to the onormens and rainona evils of the drink traffic, the following ex tracts from the press."

The first two, it Bays, appeared some time ago; the third is of his sons to death. This is stated to have t8) has no claim whatser to inherit, un-had been effected very simply apparently Peil thrown back and terrificà face, and the froza a sporting and theatrical paper of last preyed upon him to his death; doubtless all other sous are dead. A son har

Ices on account of the reproaches which he subsequently to the adoption of a son will weak; the last is from a religious paper of encountered. In instancos, however, where not entirely exclude such adopted 200. recent date:-

be eased with wood, at Chatham, and five a son has official rank, the father zoust is unusual to adopt unless the adopter has

building the Constance, a steel corvette, to By a little self-denial, by drinking a little obtain the Emperor's permission before he no sons; and it is unusual to adopt

gunboats of the same metal are also ordered to be commenced "forthwith. In the mean- Ieen beer, by paying fewer visits to the gin- can in any way control bis person. It must stranger until the adopter has sought in vain

time the first of the half-dozen steel curvetten shop, many parents might, instead of put be evident that this is the caso; otherwise for an adoptive son amongst his nephews and

What puzzled me most was the means of ting their children to work at the age of any high officer in the Emperor's service cousins. & peculiar custom exista (shuang entrance and egress adopted by the burglar silent, persuasive eloquence of my revolver,

hag come to Portsmouth to receive her soven or eight, have left them at school till world he at any moment liable to recal at tino) of one man conserting with two wo- or barglars. The library was fully fites and three officers entered.

Need I tell the rest? Edward, the foot- armament and prepare for son, where the the age of eleven or twelve. A single pint his father's book and nod. The mother has men, the descendants of one of whom are to feet from the ground, had a bay window, of ale may cost fourpence and for that sum exactly the same power as the father; that be held the grandsons of his father, and the and, except the broken pain of glass, there house and had chloroformed his employer. built at Pembroke has already been for some man had admitted his accomplice into the frie, one of the two steel despatch vessels paid weekly, two children might be taught is, when a widow. Doubtless, however, descondants of the other of whom are to be the to read, write, and cipher. It is not poverty, publie opinion circumscribes this, in the case grandsons of his uncle. The step-son (i was not the slightest sign to show how the He had kept the booty hidden in his room, toonths past. Mercury, a sister to the Aras window had been gained. A ladder would not daring to go out to communicate with is still on the stocks at Pembroke, but all it is beer, that has robbed the children of of growing children, still more than that of tas) of a man, being the son of a second wife have done it, but no marks of a ladder, no his pal, except as has been seen, for fear he the rest of the steel-vessels-in-the-first- knowledge, of liberty, morality, health, and the father.

by a former husband, has no claim to in-

group have been launched. The Constance long life. It is not poverty that fills our A son or daughter who causes the death lerit his step-father's property. Nay, the signs of footsteps exhibited themselves in

The property had not been disturbed, but is to be of the same tonnage and power as hospitals and gaols: it is gin. By the time of his or her parent, or his or her grand property of a woman vesting immediately in the damp ground, wet from recent rains. that a child can use its hands, and earn father or grandmother, paternal or maternal, the husband, in the absence of agreement servants one by one, but could and no clae to before conviction, and were never heard of measurement, with engines of 2,300-horse I was sorely puzzled. I examined the justice was cheated, for both men escaped the Clyde corvettes, namely, 2,350 tons eighteenpence a week, it is offered up on or a wife who causes the death of a hus the sons of such a man by his former wife justify the slightest suspicion of complicity the altar of the great god Gin-Daily Tele band's parents or grand-parents, in any way would inherit from their father the property in the affair on their part. The work hat again. As for me, I quietly handed $6,000 power, and, like there, is designed for a graph.

whatsoever, is invariably sentenced to the thus brought by their step-mother, to the The Great Beer Power-If the public severest capital punishment, to wit, being exclusion of their step-brother; but in such evidently been done by scientific burglars, business suprat, resigned, engaged in swift, unarmoured cruiser. The steel erg-

I inquired into the antecedents of Edward, were aware of the gigantie intinence of the sliced in pieces whilst alive. Roundly cases it is generally agreed that the property and they bad worked at their leisure. brewing interest, and of the way the brewers speaking, there are no exceptions to this maunge their system, they would be con- rule,

The power over a wife's person is much vinced that it is one of the worst entises of national drunkenness. As a rule, alaost more limited.--We shall speak of this when every public-house is the property of a rich we come to discuss the question of marriage. brewer, who puts into it a tenant pledged to Meanwhile may state that there is but cell none but his landlord's beer, which he one case in which the husband can kill his baya at his landlord's price, and out of which wife with perfect impunity,-when taken in he can only make a living by inducing his flagrante delicto with a paramour, who must sustothers to drink far beyond what they also be killed on the spot. require, while the beer itself is often so doctored and drugged as to serve no purpose but that of stimulating thirstPall Mall

Galette.

perenes tanter, but I am sure dram-drink-

of such a second wife or concubine shall the foreman; but Mr. Dayton averred that revert, on her second husband's death, to her he would allow no suspicion to rest on so own son, or to own family,that is, to faithful a servant to the family. I resolved the family of her first husband.

and married Edna.

ployed is but a fraction of an inch in thickness, and is not intended, therefore, to give the vessels protection from heavy SINGULAR CONFESSION.

gons, but simply to afford a strong.building At Marlborough Street, on Oct. 22, Henry material, while at the same time permitting to inquire more about him however; but I Thorne, seaman, was charged on his own the ships to be constructed with very fine found nothing against the men, and tom-confession with having committed a murder lines. Our steel flotilla will now consist of name unknown. Inspector Sheppard, C. and five ganboats. Of the last-named, two porarily dismissed him fram my mind as at Glebe Island, Sydney, by shooting a man, of two fine despatch vessels, seven corvettes, having no connection with the case.

You heard no noise on the night of the Division, stated that on Oct. 21 the prisoner will carry but one heavy gun apiece, and was brought to the Vine Street station by a the other three will be but lightly armed, None. I slept nuusually sound last constable, and said he wanted to tell him so that their metal may not diminish their

something. The prisoner then made the apood, and will carry only two armour-piero

mysterious piece of business,

to some clearance near and aboot for drinks while their engines are of exceeding power,

It hardly ever happens in China that a man dies without any agnati or cognati, In such a case, however, whoever will take his name and keep up the family honours may enter upon the property. The neighbours rcbbery?" I inquired of Mr. Dayton. will select an heir for bini. Supposing A has two sons B, C, and a In spite of the above rules the father oan, daughter B, and besides these, an elder in soins places at least, if he chooses, dis night.

I went away thoughtfully, for I had found following stattement-On Feb, 20, 1877, ing guns cach, together with broadsides of brother E, and a younger, F. & dies, poo pose of his property as absolutely as of the in the library an empty bottle which, from I was in the Butcher's Arms, Glebe feland, 64-pounders. The Iris and the Mercury, sessed of an estate worth £10,000. If A's lives of his children. Praction, however, the scent, I know to have contained chloro- Sydney Australia, at two o'clock in the although more than half as large again as the estats was not obtained by him by inherit generally renders this theory, if it exists, form, and I had noticed the marks of muddy day. A man, who said he was a stock-corvettes, are to be still more lightly armed, I don't aften venture into a pubife house, ance--tc. if it was obtained by purebace" inoperative. The father may, by will, name best cauling from, the apartment, while driver from upcountry, drank with me at for their main quality is to be swiftness but the other night my duties forced me to from his ancestors--it will pass in equal shares one son, or even a daughter, or yet even a around the window none were to be seen, the bar. An argument arone between ne with just a sufficient armament on board I stood at a bar and watched an old hag and to the sons B and 0, subject in some places stranger his devices. This, however, is à pretty girl indulging in unlimited two's | to the qualified life-intercet of the mother of Feeldom if ever done, and when done, is giles, too, had been broken by a quick about shooting, and the men, having a six- wherewith to defend themselves. They will of Old Tom: I'm not a fanatio nor a tem mothers of B and C. If there are both a modified by a compromise. Uncommon as low not cut out. Altogether, it was a most barrelled revolver, suggested we should go carry nothing heavier than à 64-pounder,

wits and a concubine living, the wife in wills are, written wills are much rarer than

I watched all dives frequented by the to decide which was the best shot. I agreed. 7,000 horses nominal. It is for this reason ing is increasing fearfully among all classes such cases manages the estate, even though oral injunctions. In Canton such will raekomen of the city, and worked like a We left, and went to a clearance and fired that the Iris has proved herself so swift.a of women, As I watched the ornamental mother only of the younger son, but if there are called chuk shu, and a copy is given to beaver. I could not obtain a glue to the six shots each at a tree stump, the man sailer, being indeed the fleetest vessel in the onek having its top turned for a perfect be only a conoubino living, no matter whe each aon. sizes of "two's neat" I thought in a Ginther alo be the mother of B and C, of Bor

perpetrators of the daring burglary, and, proving the best shot. It was my turn to navy, with the exception of torpedo launches, Finally, in the case of the senior cenou after three days of unremitting toil, I was fire again, the man standing on my right her speed at a recent trial having been Falase at truth it would be labelled, "Death of either she manager, the estate bins managing the estate for the general good, sonsidering if it would not be as well to call side close to me. I had the revolver in my above twenty-one miles an hour. Our une and Damnation twopence a glare during her life-time. If the sons are of the separate earnings of this or any other contrafessional assistance when the ad-right hand when from some cause the armoured steal flotilla will, therefore, cons We regard with increasing anxiety the insager they manage the estate-in-endly cubine de net swell the general estate, but vertisement in the Herald, at the head of revolver wint off and the shot entered the stitute a marked seature of the British navy flushes which the publican class are able to tobeert with their mother or mothers. If in are inherited by the song of that concubine, this story, attracted my attention. In head of the man behind the ear. He jumped in the futureDaily News. exert on political as well as social life but suck caces there are more than two corrubines or those concubines. It appeare, however stinctively 1 divined some connection with up and fell forward, as I believed, dead. the new scheme by which the great brawer beside the wife (there can be but one wife that this last rule would soureely hold good the crooked" business, and whether it remained about five minutes, throw away

A Dutch clergyman was in the habit of Besares a number of publicahotices, puta into at a time); this wife, or, after the wife's at Canton

referred to my case or not, I resolved to the revolver, and turned the body over; but,

Loding it did not move, I became frightened giving out two lines of a hymn at a time for ascertain its meaning:

I went down to the Herald office that and left and got to Sydney. I remained the effvir to sing. One dark, rainy day ho morning, and, introducing myself, attempt there until evening, then went to Newcastle could not see the words, and suid, Kine the Ballot Act. The revising bartister has management of the catate. No concubine His helt having been out, and various ed to obtain come description of the person New South Wales, and afterwards shipped eyes ish dim, I cannot ree; I left ming Very properly refused, at Liverpool, the ban bear legitimate sous unless her lord has claim of such mers managers to the been previously married to a wife. A second offers of inney soap, hair restorer, etc., who had hended in the advertisements The for Hong Kong. Then, being ill, I came specks at home." The choir; supposing this franchise, and tre hope his decison will be legitimato wife; married after any number of having been declined, with and without clerk stated that it had been received by the Pekin, ateater to Southampton into be the hymn, struck up the time of com bonfirmed. Elections without the pernicions concubines, takes precedence of aneh last in thanks, the barber care unto him: "Will through the mail, in a letter enclosing the Sept. 1877 Since I came to England I have mon metre. Loftience of the boot interest would be alto managing the life estate. Hence the estate your hair do that way, sir The customer amount requisite for-ite insertion in the had no regular employment, being in bad Mein Gott! mein Gott! dat ish no hymn, gether pater and better; and we would gladde vested in the sons in equal shares, irre conteraplates himself with care in the mirror paper. "Could I see the original copy health, I have slept in lodging-houses, I only said mine eyes rash dim. The choir y see some form of wise legislation which spectively of whether born out of a wlis or then returning to the sprifcial obair and He would see and a message was sent to having no home, and am now destitute. I sang these two lines, the old fellow, saving would restrain the power of publis.houses st concubine, but subject, if the sans are under anveloping himself in the calico wrapper, the composing room. Luckily the copy had wish to state that the shooting was #thinks de debil's in you all,” Dat vask he plretten time-dunday School Chronitih, Tage, and, to some places, even if ever | replies' aciemnly; "Burt & festle longer!" been, presurapt. It was writing in a dies pero sucifont, and I make this statement hymn at all, we

then managers, and Beonres their votes for decante, only the concubine first cohabited

the great brewer's nominee, is fatal to pos with, whatever her age tie-d-vis the others; Hdical integrity and a manifest violation of or whatever her birth, and origin, has a life

E. H. PARKER,

The old fellow brawled out,