A FOOLISH WISH.
"You have hancu,” said a youth to his mothert, who
Atoori
While he sat on a corn-tbeat, of daylight's docūna -- * Yon have heard af die Duslahı boyfe'whantle of mond; I wish plant this Danisha boy's velable were mino...
* And what would you do witwter - "Tell me,' sho
Walle an archumilu playet over hur beautiful fec. > I would blowe it,” he ausworth, then my fair mud Would thy to my add would then take her pun
Is that all you wish for? Why Best roay be yours
Wilkout key magic “ tão fair maid crtenki
"A favor nonlight, aneh geel zalues sopiires."
And ale playfully watet beroslľ by his side,
crevasso, but he clid down the hilo, MOTHER
lea with appalling swiftness. About 100 foot down the crevnano thraed, and from thenoa, to the bottom he slid down on his back, and in an instant found himself in two foot of ice water that rushed to help form the River Arvo that flows through Chamounia
Trozen
many wi
When his brother and the other guide and how matters stood and heard the faint toos of the Alpine born in the ice depths, the brother shouted dove to cucurrage him to, hold out, while the other rau back to the big hotel for rupes and help All the visi- tore and mat withe guides come back with him, and in a short time they had the half nan up on the surface again. It *I abgl Jdww ft revin," add the youths, fout the charm was a fearfully arrow swapo. Herizoff
Wound work so Umt nut even modesty's check ted around and held on Would be able to how fure my nok your white arm." went down and looked over the edge of the būs stailed-mad-mine Inch-hee-white-arun'round-lis-drivas The sideween a clear luminous
darktoning a blac
as they went down. We could hear the rush of the water below. The Doctor dropped a stone iako the chama, And would lay your fait lonk to this brown one of and that, more than anything olas, made as ronlize its depth. The stone dropped to
Yet once more I would Low, the music divine
Would bring me third time an exquisitu blin
i,
Atal your lips stealing past 12 would give men kiss,”
1
the turns in the crevass and, then we heard it ringing against the sides as it wont down and down, seemingly to the center of the
The maiden laughed at in her innocent gle
*What a fool of younelf with the whistle road earth.
make!
For only wider bow sill, 'twuld be
To sit there and whistle for what you right take.!
TO-MORROW.
Dint up a wreath and give it me
- Bofore this dill thay nilasen,
An in the gacharels fel dore he
The thongas well as rusos:
Weave violeta la and greenant buya,
Weare willow for toy cortow
flowers for the yesterday,
White lies for teamorrow,
White Bufen, for they tell of peace
Beyond the gates of avaz. Whoro whispers of the potal'a releanA
Scen petic kine of Aráven, And yesterday—but at luas gena
Asda Inaçılı must borrow
A hope of that swift-ghing down,
The promise of AMCROFTON",
Forevertaure to-morrow İçmis
Wright visions n' compidotusiras: True lover, and treatçadfunt friouis
With faces full of sweetness;
Biz backward all em Girand gray,
And vaguely kozebel with wuroF;
Ice not for your yesterday
If I may have tommorres,
The punti past-A1! domil indeed,
I weep not for its poin
Its phentams weird in snore 3 heed
Than Wost witrea wills Wlowing:
Prous mouword, aye, and upward, beut,
While I may glue borrow,
For lape and I shall never port While I can læsve uzmiarÍUM, --Karnest McGadung, in the drier Over
DOWN A CREVASSE,
RY LOKE KRABP.
Now,' said De Bunts, I'll tell you what we must have. We don't want a common guide. We want a guide with a story. When I reach a place I always look out for
some follow who has had in unusual ex- In such a spot as this there perience. must be duzuus, of men who have had thrilling experiences. Right here at the fout
who
of Mont Blanc there must be man
|
As a returned the Doctor and I walked together behind the guide, who was some fistance-head. Wo were both very unch impressed by the story told on the very spat where it Furi
is Tienrod. That ought to be a great lesson for you,? began the Doctor. Why for no Well, in the telling of a story. Now, if writing that adventure, tho chances are that you would spoil is by pl
the ing up
He told it in his agony. simple, direct way, that to my mind wuN ly more drilling than all the fino
you were
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3rd January, at 4pm,
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If you take a severe cold, and are
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therd was an absence of brag
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senzation he felt was an antral desire the fever.
poly
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Tompe:
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DECEMBER 23. 10 ture all the world over. Now to prore ;
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Shanghai.. 50,34 57 81 ww then we will have his story with all his
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and got his words na noate, take your pencil.
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health will result.
Oh, yes, but the trouble is I can't read it, vor can anybody clau afto, the notes are written. That has always been my draw back with shortband.'
Well, do the best you can." When we got to the hotel the Doctor in- rited the guide up to his room to have a He asked the guide to sit down, and glaza. I softly turned the key in the door so that we would not be interrupted. The Doc- lor drew up his chair before the guide and said:
You seem to be a very healthy man ? The guide said he had to ba
The guide business was not an occupation for invalida. I am a physiotan. Please allow rae to feel your pals.
גען
Yes, but look hans, I interrupted, you have to take the guides as they sumo. I understand there are about 240 guides in Chamonix, and that the traveler has no choice. They are engaged in rotation.
True, answered the Ductur, but there Are excoptions to this rule. A lady going aldag,
for justares, has her choice of guides. You can talk English only, and that at timesed to caress the horny palma of the guido, not uumized with slang, so you can chudes
The guidu sousewhat reluctantly gave his wrist to the Doctor, who, finally took both the guide's bande in his own and looked him straight in the eyes, while his lingers soon.
The Swing neemed very une sy for a few
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language, and as for me I have the privilege
taking any guide I wish,"
of
Why you more than another?
Because I am a member of the Alpine Club'
peared to subeide in his chair, and as the 'Doctor's face moved closer to his the guide's eyes bocaine axed and glassy. It was in- toneely eilant in the recm.
LONDON, ENG.
Government Notification.
No. 56.
At last the Doctor moved his open hande The Doctor was a rather peculiar man. I before the guide's face, and the disengaged imagine that if it had not been for a misfor-hands of the Swiss fell listlessly to his siles. tane he would have becomes a noted phy. His eyes
closed. sician. This misfortune was the death of You cannot stand up,' said the "doetur. Then the Dector gavo up practice, gave apud to his chard-heavily, but esamed-root-The following Rules regarding signalling
an uncle, who left him a large fortune. The
10 yatinad
It is the 10th of August, 18
his body to travel and to call it. He said the guide, hoarsely. suiance, ho Was pleased
expected to make sono great discoveries in
.of
You
took a party across the glaciar that
esmerisa.Erea while sid
said the guide, in the same sepul-
the way traveled he was continually experimenting with anybody who would allow him to ex-chral voico.
the
'Dida't you take a party across the glacier sud come back by the short eut
No,' said the guide.
periment on him. He said that the great What I cried the Doctor, in surprise. discovery of the present century was electricity, and that the great discovery of coming century would be the utilization of that mysterious furve of which we get indications in mind reading and that sort of thing. Electricity, be said, was only faintly known at the beginning of the century, while now it is a household neces-be
Bity
He cortainly did some wonderful things with people in the mesmeric trance. He put a person to sleep and have him
describe the interior
a house
Of
Weren't you and your brather to take a party up the glacier that afternoon ?
No,' said the guido.-
The Doctor was nonplussed. He thought had mistaken the date and asked me if it was eutract.
Ask
The dute is the one he gave us. him what he did that day.'
Oba-
pecta that when he gives the results of his esid we must have an accident. He is the
be
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SIGNAL STATION, VICTORIA PRAE, HONGKONG.
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4. When Signaling to Men-of-War-in- the Harbour or in the Giling, a White En-
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The baromoter continues rising and gradients for N.E. winde are increasi g loudy, cool and rather damp weather pro
vaila.
WV. DOBEROK, flonerniment dstronómer.
- Ingkong Observatory, December 23.
1. BADOPTER, reduced to 5% degrees Fahren. unit, and to the level of the cou in fuebes, touth
and hundredths.
3. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in degrees, Fahrenheit.
The Stormor has splendid Accommodation and carries a Doctor and Stewardess.
For further Partientare, apply to
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERTES MARITIMES. PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANCAIS,
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1Wincka, A.
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ants the terms and conditions of the Cam pony's Black Bills of Lading,
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the 27th December,
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ON
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Cargo and Specio will be registered for London as well as for Marsailles, and a
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What did you do that day ? There was not much to do then. thousands of miles away, haown only to vas i was not much sought. There were of the auditors. Once the sleøper vividly } un accidents for a long time. Accidents told how a murder had been lost that bu bring the people. My brother Radulph, had never before heard of. The Duster ex- Le was the clever one of the family. He
researches in his forthcoming book it will clover one; I am the strong une. We went at the Yard Arm, and Distance, off at the and Pedder's Strest upon
crime.
glacier. We tried to go When the Doctor and I went to the office crerastes at the bottom up one of the vessel is made out, shut not a Mail Steam
the water was or, the Vesela Distinguishing Flag will be of the guides to secure our Bian, the result too
At last we found cos that was substituted for the Compras Signal, and it 100 strong. of the Doctor's inquiries was that Hertzoff narrow and the current weak. We found will ko Lapt flying until the Ship anchors. wad the very man we wanted. Horta if we
we could walk
up a long distance un- The Distance Signal will be kept up fifteen
Heesid minutes after the Steamer is made out. some years before bad had the most thrill-tit i beesme too
recorded in the Alps..
Re ing escape ever
that
would do.
wo broke glacier of the Mer de Giace. He was alone round to the top of the glacier
possible for any murderer to hido histogether to the morains at the foot of the Mast Hend, will be hoisted when the Floor of Building, recently occupied by and the Lplication.
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barrow.
Then
He
my
6. If the Steamer is a regular Mail want Steamer a Gnu will be fired, and 2 Ball over
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bat full down a crevasse in the great alpenstuck and I took one dier and I the English, French, or American Ensign, the time, but they found his broken alsat autong the stones until he would blow with the Distance off at that time, will be
ut the lip of the cravaso and down his hor He ised the alpenstock in the penstock ut in the depths they heard the tooting of his crevice. Then be went to the hotel and shown at the Mast Head. The Compass horn. It took 3 feet of rope to bring hit told them he was anuasy about me. When Signal and Symbol will be hauled down.. When The Ball and Eusign will be kept up until and ever since then he was a guide he and the other guide came across the ice the
vessel anchors. The Distance Signal those who had any they blow their horus and I want up she will be kept flying for half-an-hour, and for by sought
- Comfortable FOUR or SIX ROOMED Joice in tho
the selection of guides, and, besides
crevasse and blew ruine. After a long time!
changed at each successive half hour to show
HOUSE Furnished or Unfurnished recital of his thrilling story had the rope carne down... fed it around me the Distance off at thoas tinges, When the in IrCUMOND TERRACE, with use of Tass illed his
and they imlled me up. When the accident, vessel is between Green Leland and the COURT. So Hertzoff took the Docter and myself was printed in all the papers all over the North Point of Hongkong the Distance across the glacier
Apply to day. We left the world a great many people came to Cha Signal will be hauled down. If this Mail *beaten path somewhat so that we might amounix.
Steamer is not in the Harbour when it i he fell spot where he in and hear the story
red light will just where it happened. The crovasse was while the guide slowly told how the deed be exhibited at the Weal
been narrower at the was done. He was amazed and chagrined.
green light at the East Yard Arm guide slipped over, What made His hero had crumbled,
anchore What I like, I said as I finished the
bie,
the
wide
lus parsa vo many su
one
that
it had
but it
occusion
piderse was that at the titse, the
The Doctor himself seemed in a trance too dark to distinguish sha |
or &
7. River Steamers will not be signalled.
time the
was alone. He had taken a party last of the writing, what I like about us This approach of other Steamers from Macao scross the glacier and was returning by a story is the simplicity of diction; the 1 ahort out to octanvert. He and his evident truthfulness and the absence of all or Canton will be made known by showing brother were to take a party op the glacier brag
in the afternoon, and his brother, who was
waid the Dostər rousing him. Of course I shall never hear the waiting for him at Montanvect, became self up, Biarmed at his absence. With another guide end of this if it once gets out. All the
to admit that now.
other
therop
the National, or Houses Flag and Symbol
Yard Arm.
8. If a Flag showing that an Officer of high rank is on hourd an incoming vessel, a
or the Flag alone will be hoisted at the Mast Head
he started to meet him, and knowing the same, you behaved bis story quite as much similar Fing will be shown above the Ball, short cut that the guides generally ok as I did, although of course you won't When alone, they followed it. Coming to a valley in the ice at the bottom of which was He made a few passes and woke the guide
9. The approach of Men-of-Warand Sail- You are tired, mid the Doctording Yessels will be notified by their proper Symbols and National Colours, or House
Yard Arm
the narrow crevasse, they saw on
the stuck fost au
side & broken up the whale story. Her I think you dropped asleep for a few mo- Flags, at the Quarter of the Yard, or at the
sau lind come down the incline ne usual
mente. Have a glass of wine.
with his alpenstock to keep the descent
from being too swift the alpenstock
and
1.
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