THE PENNYCOMEQUICKS,
BY Ș. BARING-GOULD, '
AUTHOR OF
** 'NĦALAN"'"COURT ROYAL,“
·Jonя HERRTYO," THE SAVEROCKS" &c.
| Now First Published.] CHAPTER V.
RITE AND Dropter Mr. Silobation slept rondly, only troublod" by the mistake about the tablecloths L'he ap tain stopt soundly, troubled by nothing at all. The seruam of sixty-whistle, the bray of buzzer and bavi of syron, the jungle of alarm bells, and the hum of voians ontside their windows did not pouse them. They kad bepaa nenustomed to Chen discordant noises which started the oars overy morning early, to rons the mill bands and all them from their beds. Moreover, the wbis ties and buzzers and syrena ware not in the town, but were below in the valloy, at some distanco, and distance modified some of the disso, ca.
It is true that Mrs. Sidebotten dress and to dream is not to enjoy perfect rest. Shedron that her brother Jeremiah was examining the tablecloth, and that she was dribbling water over the sheet, out of a marrow-agoon, in patterns, to give it an appearanes of being figured with seorna and oak loaves. Arxi els found in her dreaus that deremiah was hard to prayands that what be had before hira was a figured damask table cloth and not a chent. And she thought how aba assured her brother on her word that what ho saw was a watered table-cover, hal mightily ulaasid she was with Lorylf at her ingeudity is equivocation.
man in the prime of life who was smothered in vix inchot"
Yee, but he may have left the tow-path in time, and then, instead of returning home, have gon about helping the poor creatures whe baye bean washed unt of their houses, and some of them have not had time to get into their clothes It will be like his kind heart to remain mit all night rendering every assistance in his power"
There is something in that," said Mr. Sidebottom, and her face become slightly longer.
He has not been found” "No, unt yet."
Mra. Bidobotkem muted.
"I don't see," she said, “bow he can have got away if he went on the tow-path. I havo heard he was seen going on to it. The tow-path is prooisely where the greatest danger lay. It is exactly there that the oneront of the descending flood would reach what you would call its maximum of relocity. Is not Salome como in yet Why is she out? What is she doing!"
Then in cams berson, in trim order; neither the danger in which is unclo might be, nor his prospect of luberiting that unalo's fortune, could induce Lambert to appear partially dressed. His other drow him oside into the dining room Cambert," she said, there is no plate. 1 on sorry for it, for if Jeremiah had laid out muony in baying aflær, he would have gene in for Ling's pattern, or Thread and Shall-which ago both odious, rules and ostentations, only soon on the tables of the nouzenze riches."
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la my unclo not returned ?”
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THS DAILY PRESE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 1880.
but it would probably domolishik Asit noared, however, ho was relieved to discover that it was a bayrick; and on it, skipping from side to side, much as the ost had skippail on the cradle, he obaɔrved a fluttering white figure.
thres. The dawn would not break for two or thres hours.
I say, are a minister ?" suddenly, asked the man in a nightshirt and great coat,
"No, I not," answered the insunfacturer.
impatiently. Never mind what
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Now he saw that a charos offered better than that of remaining on the fragile kot. The bricks me to get rid of this confounded cotings plane." would give way, but the bayrisk must foot. If Theral there?" exclaimed the man, Now tion, and my Business will hereafter be carried against FIRE at Current Ratse he could possibly swing himself on to the hay, he thon rt swasting when thou ought to be praying on antor the namo and title of ANTON & would be in comparative safety, for it is of the Why doet's wear a white tie and black class if | STEWART.
J. ROSS ANTON. nature of strong carrants to disembarrass them thon bant a minister. Thon might as weel wear solves of the cambrous articles wherewith theya blue ribbon nánd bo a drunkard”
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It was, however, difficult in the nuertain light to judge distances, and calculate the speed at which the floating island cams on, and the rick struck the unt before Jeremiah was prepared to loup. He, however, caught at the hay, and trioil to scrambled into the risk that avortopped him, when he was thrown down, struck by the white figura that leaped off the bay and tumbled on the rond, over him. In another instant, before Jere mish could racever his frot, the risk had made revolution and was danoing down the stream: leaving a smell of hey in his nose, and the late tecoat of the stack sprawling at his side............
"Ton fool!" exclaimed Mr. Funnycomequick, angrily, "what have you come here for. P
I could hold or no longer. I was giddy. thongs there was safety here.”
hance here than on the rick you, haro donerted. You bave spoiled your own chance of life and mins."
Mr. Pennyectequisk did not answer the fallow. The man was crouched in squatting posturo on the roof, holding up one foot after another from the acid slates that numbed them, His night- shirt hang as a white fringe bolow his great-coat. To the eye of an entomologist, he might have boon taken for a gigantic specimen of the Canbernell Beauty,
"If thoa'd'o been a minister, I'd 'n med nowt. As thou're not, I knaw by thy while necktio thon mast buon syrt to a dancing or a dining soirs. And it were all along of them soirees that the first Flool came. We kaawa it fen Scriptur. folkes more eaten and drinkin'. If they'd been drinkin' water, it bed nevar 'a come. What was 'Flood sent for but to wash ont alcohol, and it's amne nasw.
Mr. Femaycoquiok paid no hood to the Ian, he was anxiously watching the effect pro-
duced by the feet of the piano on the walls.
"I'm starved wi' eand" monnad the half naked man. "I left my bed and got through t'door as 1'water cane ciping in, and I soram'led up on to trick. I never thows Frick would ha"
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"lare, then," said Jeremiah, removing his great cont, but with a bad grane, "take this”:
"That's better," mid the man, without a word of thanks, as he slipped into the warm overcout. « Ehi now," said he, “it'worn hobbat for the way Criak span shoot I could no' ba' stuck there, I wouldn't ha' gens ont of life, spinning like skoprill" (lec-totam), "not on n'account; I'd a gone staggering into t'other world, and babesa fook for a drunkard, and I'm a teetotaller, have bean these fifteen years. Fifteen years sin' I took l’pledge, and never bust out but onco,"
"You hare water anough to satisfy you now," said Jeremiah, grimly,
No, Lamb! and, there is a good soul, run down the road, befir yonseif, and seertain whether the tow-path, in which your anole Jore mish said to was going, is really submerged, and But towards morning the house was consed by to want opth, and ascertain aho at what rate violent ringing at the front dine bell, and by the current runs, and whether it is likely to sub-frated away.” calls under the windows, and gravel thrown at side, Mrs. Casworth thinks it not impossible. the panes. The watchman had come, at Salono's that your unciemay be helping the wrateles who desire, to enquire if by almpas Mr. Fonuyeome are getting out of thoir bedroom windows, or are quick was there. He had gour out, attor his reperched on the roofs of their houses. Oh, Lamb! tara home, and bad not returned or been soon. if your uoste were to turn up after the agony of Foach war entertained that he might have mind he has occasioned me, I could hardly bear ben swept away in the flood,
it. I would go into hyatarios. My doar Lamb! Flood: what Bord ?” asked Mrs. Sidobottom do keep that old woman talking whilst I can up "The valley is full of water. Holroyd resor stairs to Jeremiah's dressing room. I must get voir be busted."
at his every day smails, and sea if he has left his "As-Mf. Penayomequick has not been keys in the pocket; men do such insotsidorste things. I must do this as a precaution; you understand lost tho koys should fall into im proper hande, into the hands of designing and ascrapulous persona, who have no dɛim on my "He has not been here since he dined with us.". brother whatever, and no right to expect more *He said he was bonn' to take a stroll on than a book or a soup as a remeinbrapeer, tow-path. I ased hit there. If he's not got Lamb! it looks suspicious that Salome should off it afore the flood caure down hieʼa, lost,” k keep out of the way now. Coolnes gracions! "Lost! Fiddlesticks! I menu-bis my soul."what if she has been beforband with me, and is Mrs. Sidebottom's heart stood still for a womeak out omconfing the spoils! Go, Lamb, make on What! Jeramial ripe, and dropped from the tres quiries after your role. and keep an eye open. dreatly. Jereink one down the river with the for Salore The girl is deep. I will go und Angea-d-chezal inside him that he had enjoyed search the pockets of your uncle's pyjamas pep BV cruently,
per and gall, I know them. We must not put or allow temptations to lie in the way of the un conscientiona”
"No, mam. Miss Cusworth thought there might be a chanca be bal zora Tack here Bad was staying talking."
She ran upstairs and hammered at her son's door. His window looked out on the valley, not into the street, and Lo had not been roused at the same time as bis mother. As she ran, the thonght came to her uncalled, ke, temptations; "I needn't have had champagne sí vix und sia. It does not matter ufter all that the sheet and the tablecloth chauged pince. I might just be well have had cheap prapes.
Lamb!*ake culled through the door, "Lamb To get up.
Your ancle is droward. Slip into your garments. He has been swopt by the flood. Don't stay to shave, you shared before dinner, Lod your prayers can wait. Do com as quickly ns possible. Net a minute is to be lost.”
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CHAPTER VI. ·
"Dost's wantic argy?" asked the max. "Pecos if so, I'm the moan for thee, Peter-one, thras, twenty, what doat's any to that, sh 2”
Jaromich was no mood to argue, nor was the time or place suitable; but not so thought this fanstir, to whom every tian and place was appropriate for a dispute about alcohol,
*1wonder whether the water is falling" said the mafccer, drawing himself away from his compenica and looking over the edge into the current. Is saw apples, hundreds of apples swimining past; a long wavering line of them coming down the stream, like migrating aula, or a Reohabite procession, turning over, bobbing, but all in sequence one bobind the other. By daylight they would have resembled chain of red and yellow beads, hat now they abowed en jot. grning on silver. They had come, no doubt, from a farmer's store or ont of a huckster's cort.
A COTTAGE PIANO Mr. Penascomequick had but just reached the hat of the keeper of the locks when he saw a great wave rushing down on him. It extended across the valley from bank to bank, it overswept the raised sides of estal and river, and confound. ed bath together, and, as if impelled by the antagonism of modern socialism against svery demarcation of property, caned the hedges of the several Plus Bul bounding walls to dis|víle. apper, ongi lied or overthrown.
Jeremial leaned over the earn of the hut to test the distance of the water; then caught-an apple and threw it on the roof, whence it rolled aver sad rejoined the processen on the further
***Tis a pity now," mattered the man in uight- shirt and topoost, “'tis a pity aboot my bellook, I were bown to soll'u a Friday.”
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Agats the forelogs of the piano creaked against ch the bricks and now dislodged them, so that the water tore through the openings made.
Thus's Scriptur' for it," pursued the fellow. "Oh, I'm right! but my tona are morial could. Don't wy road that Nanh sad his family was saved by water? Pater, one, two, three, twenty, newer me that. That's a power for thes ved because they was teetotalers." At that moment part of the wall gave way, and some of the roof fell in
"Our only chance is to reach the poplar stump," said Jeremiah. "Come along with me." "Nay, not I answered the man. The ships Tarshish was nared because Joush was cust crerboard. Go them, and I'll stay here and be safe. I'll no bo ung mair, i' t'same box wi an alcohol drinkar."
Hidrow up his foot under him, and put his finger into his mouth to warm them.
Mr. Ponnycomeqaick did not delay to use per anaeica. If the man was fool enough to stay, he must stay. He slipped off the top of the hut and planted one foot on the pisso, then the other; his caly obance was to reach the broken poplar, soramble up it; and lodge in ita branches till morning. To do this be must reach it by the broken top that at proseat was might between the legs of the piano, so that the water brashed up over the twigs. Jorenish sprang among the boughs and tried to scramble along it. Probably his additional roight was all that was required to sunp the remaining fibres that bold the portions together, for hardly was Mr. Pennycomequick on it than the strands yielded, and down past the crumbling but rashod the tree top. laten with its living burden, entangled, hood about with the whip-like branches, and as be passed he saw the frail structure dissolve like slump of sagar in boiling water and disappear.
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She opened his door, and saw her son with 2 The hat was but seven feet high on one side disordered hond and sloupy eyes, stretching him and six on the other, and was small squars self. He hul tumbled out of his bed and luto brick structure with a door on one side and a Suddenly, Jeremiah recoiled from his place, his dressing gown. There was gra in the room, Woodan bezch on that toward the looks. Unfor for, dunuing on the water was a human body, a turned down to a yea when ont required fortunately the hat had been ran up on each woman, doubtlese, for there was a kerchief about light; and this the captain, when used, had Aconomical principles that the bricks were set on the head, und in the child, also dead turned up again,
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"Oh Lamb! Do bestir yourself. Do you hear that your noto is dead, and that he has been carried away by a food. It is most advisable that we should be in his house before the Cascuough for the purpose for which it was designed over it, but it did not close the eres, which again Trade worths or the servants have made away with alter against weather. It was roofed with ghomered forth. Then, up rose the corpse, anything. These are the critical moments, when sandstone date at a slight lucline. Fortunately lifted by the water, but seeming 10 struggle to things disappear and onunot be tmcod afterwards. the door looked to the east, so that the corrent gain its fout. It was owught in that swirl, that No one but the Cusworths know what he had, did not enter and exert its secumulated strength dimple Jeremiah had noticed on the fun of the there may be plate nur jewellery that belonged against the welle to drive them outwards. The food above his pluso of refuge. to his mother. I cannot tell. We do not know door had been so placed because the west wind How arnet the torrent was! Not content what money thoro is in the house, and what se was that which brought most rain on its wings. with drowsing homan beings it rowped with curities he has in bla strong box.
Jeremiál put a foot on the bench, and with anthem after the life was choked out of them, it My dear Lamb! Yes, brush your hair, and don't look alacrity to which he had long been a stranger, played with them ghastly pranks. The andor Minpid. You may lose a great deal by lack of saved himself upon the roof of the shatter, not current macked the body back, and then rop it promptitud. Of course wa mint be in charge. before the water had emitten it and swirled about against the bricks, using it as a batteringram. The Cusworthe have no locas standt. I shall the bus and formed over his feet. Bad he not | Then it caught the head of the poplar and whip- dismiss them at the oarliest conveniens. Good slung to the roof, he would have bean swept away.ped the corpse with it, as though whipping it on gracion, me, what things you men ore! If yougo To the weat the darkness remained piled up, to its work which it was reluctant to perform. to barl von get fromzy and rumpled in a way wo- dense and undiluted, as though clouds there The manufacturer had gone out that night with Todin. mon never do. I have noticed, in orossing the contained in them another forty-eight hours of his umbrells, and lud exeriod it with him to the Channel, how a man who gote seasick breaks up rain. A very Pellon piled on Orsa sormed to roof of the hut. Now with the crook he nought altogether and becomes disreputable: whereas occupy the horizon, bit above this the vault bo to disengage the dead woman and thurst her women tony have been ten times as ill, yet when came gradually clearer, and the orescent moon away from the wall into the main current; he sho stupa ashore she is decent and presentable. poured down more abundant light, though tha: pould not endure to see the body impulled froad-9. I can wait for you no longer. I shall go on by was rot in itself considerable.
losg againt the bricks. myself. When you are ready, follow."
Mrs. Sidebotton con back to her room, and was equipped to start in an incredibly short time. When she again came forth she looked into her son's room once more and, said, "T 30 hope and trast, Lamb, that your nocte rok bis keya with bin It would be too frightful to suppose that he had left them behind, and, tant Doso.Cusworths shoni have had the house to themselves and the keys all this while."
By this light Jeremiah could see how wide- spread the inundation wis how it now allod the trough of the Keid, just as it must have filled it in the remote prehistoria ago, when the western hills were sealed in foe, and sent their frosty wa tere burdened with jooborgs down the valleys they had scumped out, and over rocks which they furrowed in their pasange.
Jeremiah looked at the lock-keeper's_cottage,
*What art a' doing? asked the man, also look- ing over. Then, after a moment he uttered a cry, draw back, clasped his hands. then locked. again, and again-exclaimed--
Sho's my own less, and sho's a bugging my baiza."
What do you mean " "It's my wife, ch'tin a pity"
Mr. Peanyenmegniok succeeded in disengag
at any longer as a possible place of refuge, bating the corpso and theasting it into the stream, victof compassion for the unfortunate mat who it was caught and whirled past. The man look. was in it. Not a sound insped thenge; not aed after it, and moaned
Mrs Sidebottom hest mad to the residents of for half brother, which stood on the stope of the hill a few minutes' walk from the factory, light gears token that he had been roused in time It all comes of them fomentations," he said. | There was now such light for her to sento effet bic aseapo, if only to the roof. Proba. "8) had pains shoot her somewhere or other that the whole basin of the Keld, was occupied bly, almost certainly, he and his wife were float and Nan sed sho'd rah in a panno'rth o' by water, that not the #lds only, but the willing as corpses in their little room on the ground whisky, was aghu it, I was agin it—my mind yards a wall were inundated. The entire pas flour.
miegave me and now sho's taken and I'm loft, 'cos I had nowt to do wit.”
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As this mixture is plonsous to the taste, and war. rated free from anything injurious to the most aplicit affecers to give it a trial to test its value, delicato mastitntion of afther sex, the Proprietors
THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS. Clarks's Boon Mixture is sold in Bottle 2. Ud. and 113, cock, BY ALL CHEMISTS and PATENT NEDICINE VENDORS throughout the world. then COMPANY, Lingola, England. Trade Mark Proprietor, TES LINCOLN And Midland COUNTIER "BLOOD MIXTUR
pulation of Megatroyd was awake and afoot, ! Amy on the rides to the north, yellow lights had giving tongue like a pack of longles. The were twinkling, and thence came sounds of life. siret or road leading down the hill into the The steam salls had ceased to shrill; they bad miah, whisky or no whisky. This hat will valley was oronded with people, some bnrrying done their work. No one slept in Mergatroyd- not slana muoli longor.” down to the water, ethura ascending, laden with no one in all the towns, villages, and hamlète “I skudu’é miudao bad if I'd sold my ballook." goods from the houses that had been invaded by down the valley of the Kell-any more that groaned the man. "I had an offer, but like a water. The cottagers in the bottom bad esemed, night, save those who, smothered by the water, fool I didn't alone. Now Tay boun' to lose ne were being rescued. What had became of the slept to wake no more
everything. 'Tis vexing." workers in Mitchell'sno ono knew, and fears were Hard by the lock, growing out of the cubank- Just thon a heavy object was driven against entertained for them. The mill itself stood above ment stood a Lombardy poplar. The sudden the wall and shook the hat to its foundations, the water, but if the hands engaged in it had at blast of wird accompanying the water had twist. shook it so that one of the stone alates was dis tempted to learsit, they must have been overtakered and snapped it, but had not wholly rared lodged and fell into the water. Jeremiah loan. and carried away by the flood. Fortunately the the top from the atom. It claug to this, attached over the saves and looked again. He could majority of the wills were rar the hill sides ed by ligaments of bark and fibres of wood. The make out that some piece of fornitore, what he than Mitchell's, so that escape from them was stroom caught at the broken tree-top that trail- could not distinguish, was thrustagslust the wall comparatively say. The real of the torrented on the cansoway, shook it impatiently, drag of the hnt. He saw two legs of turned mahogany, had been along the course of the river and canal, red it along with it, ripped mars of the nerves with brass castors at the seas that glistened and though the water surged against the wall that fastened it, and asemed intent on carrying in the moonlight. They were about four fest that enclosed the mill-folds, and even entered it wholly away,
and a half apart, and supported what might be the walls and avamped the hassments of the Notwithstanding his danger and extreme dis table or secretaire. The rushing water drove houses therein, it was with redgoed fores.
comfort, with his boots full of water. Jeremiah these legs against the wall, and the castors rag Mira. Sidebottom gare little attention to the was unable to withdraw his eyes for long from and felt about the bricks a groping for a wesk aponce of horoa, to the distress and alarm that pre the brakan tree, the top of which whipped the joint where they might knock a hole through Failed. Hor ons dread was fest she should reach base of his place of refuge; for he calcuated. Then, all at once, the legs drew or fell back, and her brother's bouac too late to prevent its pillage, whether in the event of the water undermining as they did so the upper portion of the piece When she arrived thorn the found that Salome the hat, he could reach the stamp along the pre. of forniture opened and isofosed white was not in, that Mrs. Casworth, a feeble and various bridge of the broken top.
and black teeth, in fact revealed a keyboard. siskly woman, was frightened and incapacitated But other objects presented themselves, glid. This was bet for a moment, then the instrument from doing anything, and that the "servants ing past, to distract his mind from the trea: By was heaved up by a wave, the lid closed over the
the wan and atragging light he saw that various keys, and the two brass-armed legs were again 29, articles of en zecortain nature were being whirl-impelled against the fragile wall.
were ant in the strasta.
Ask for CLARKES BLOOD MIXTURE and do 18790
not be persuadać kotaku am imitation.
DOWLANDS' KALTDOR cools and refreshes the face and hands of all expasad to the hot san and dust, eradicates freckles, suubarn, tan, &e, and produces a beautiful and delicate complexion
BOWLANDS: “ ODONTO
whitens the teeth, provente decay, and gives a pleasing fragrance to the breath. preserves and beantifies the hair, and can be | ROWLANDS MACASSAR OIL so bad in a golden colour.
Bizes 3/6; 7: 10/6,
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, 13th July, 1988.
TO LET
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Consignees wishing to receive their Goods on
RISKS Bocepted at CUERENT RATES OF the Wharf are at liberty to do so. PREMIA.
Jas. B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary Hongkong, 30th March, 1988.
TRANSATLANTISPIREINSURANCE COGNIZED
COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
Agents for the above Company, are prepared to The Undersigned, having been appointed ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & Co.,
Agents.
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No Ciname will be nimitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all claims must be sont in to the Undersigned BEFORE NOON, ON 1711 THE 19ta ing, or THE WIJA, NOT BE RE-
No Fire Insuratice has been effected, and arv Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 23rd
stant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
O. BACHTRACK.
Agent Hongkong, 9th February, 1889. TOCONSIGNEES OFOPTIONALCARGO EXO. S.SCO'S 8.8. "ACHILLES," FROM LIVERPOOL.
CHIPPING Orders must be obtained from the
Undersigurd not later then the 18th inst for shipment per steamor “AN÷ENŐK.”
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, 17th February. 1-89. [266 OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANŤ. '
Hongkong, 16th November, 1972. THE LONDON ASSURANCE
INCURIORATED BY KOYAL CHARTER OF ais -
MAJEST KING GEORGE THE FIRST,
A.D. "1720. THE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Corporation. arm prepared to grant Insurances as follows:-
FIRE DEPARTMENT. ECOND FLOOR of HOUSE No. 64, Policies inned for long or short periods at
Queen's Road Central. Possation from 1st April next.
Apply to
LAI HING & Co., No. 153, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 7th February, 1899. 1289 FURNISHED HOUSE from Ist of
MAY,
A PORTION of "DRACONSFIELD ÅRGADE.” "BREEZY POINT." Inimeliste Possession. "BISNEE VILLA” POKKOLOM. GODOWNS at BOWLINGTON.
Apply to
SHARP & Co., -BRACONSFIELD-ARCADE. Hongkong, 29th Jaunery, 1889.
TOLET.
35/53, Kowloan. Apply to
current rates.
LIFE DEPARTMENT. Policies ismod for Bems not exeeding £5,000, at reduced rateė,
HOLLIDAY, WISE € Co. Hongkong. 26th July, 1872
| 18 NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY AT HAMBURG,
THE Undersigned, Aders for the bore Company, are prepared to GRANT IN: SURANCES to the extent of $65,000, on first class risky at ourrent rates.
MELCHERS & Co Hongkong, 27th-Miroh, 1976.
113 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877
.. IN KAMBURG.
BUNGALOW in GAP Lors Nos.THE Undersigned, Acoute of the more Company, are Prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at Current Rates.
POSTA & Co. Agents. Hongkong. 19th January, 1881
350
F MUSSO & Co. Hongkong, 4th February, 889.
TO LET. ENTRY, LET MARCH NEXT. TO.3, WEST TERRACE.
Apply to
No.3
G. C. ANDERSON,
13 Praya Contral. Hongkong, 20th January, 1859.
“TO LET WITH BARLY POSSESSION.
PALMER
OUTRAL LONDON, 1815
Are represented in China by Meure. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. ..............
SIEGEN & Co....** Lane, ChawPÓKU & Co. & by
+
[9:29
#
NOS. 1, 2 & 4, QUEEN'S GARDENS.
Apply to
-G. C. ANDERSON,
13, Praya Central. Hongkong, 26th January, 1889.
212
HONGKONG WHARF & GODOWNS
........
|165
Co.
H. E. REYNELL & Co. in Japan.
Sabjoined are some of the iteras consigned by
these well-known Shippers.
SPIRITS, COGNAC Their popular "4 Star" quality and COGNAC Their well-known "Star" quality
best. No better shipped:
RCOTCH WHISKY,
See Separate Advertisement.
IRISH WHISKY,
PORT" INVALIDE."
Goods received ou STORAGE at Moderate Rates, in First-class Godowns.
STEAMER CARGOES Uscharged on THE BEST-Only one quality consigned. favourable terms.
Also Entire GODOWNS to LET.
Apply to
MEYER & Co Hongkong, 2nd July, 1887.
TO LET.
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Tovalids in partiotlar are recommended to select this Wins. See special Advertisement,
SHERRY,
For Connoisseurs the following Wines have
their own distinctive merita—
Ask Chemists for Howlands Articles, of Fs present in the promption of the COMP. The" INVALIDS;" pale, delicate, fine flavor.
What made my brother go out ?" asked Mraz Sidebottom," why was he not in bod like sed peat: and the very uncertainty as to what It is hardly to be wondered at that the no- Christian P"
they were gave scops to the imagination to in-cients attributed living conle to streams and ter- 1189 rest them with horror,
renta, or peopled their waves with mischievona
"He had been sitting up, talking with Sa lome," answered the widow, "and us he had taken no exercise for iwo daya, and rfid not feel sleepy, he said he would take a short walk!
What keys has be left, and there are theri
Tatton Garden, London.
Wholesale and Retail Apante for Chius:
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
Shanghai
7 EATING'S GOUGH LOZENGES.
For awhile the water rossed over the sluico, nixes, for they not at times in a manner that K' but at last the immense force ororted on the ass fraught with intelligence. It was so now valves torn them apart, wrenched one from the Hero was this hat, an obstruction to the foot, Couona, AFIRMA, BEONORIS, DIFFICULTY hinges, three it down, and the torrent called feeble in itself, yet capable of resisting its first of BREATHING are spoily ouro by KEATING'S triumphantly over it; it did not parry the door impetas, and likely to defy it altogether. The Cover LENGES (recognised and recommended off, which held still to its lower hinge, at least water alone could not disolve it, so it had called by the Madical Faculty No other remedy f for a time, though it twisted the iron in its other means and engines of destruction to its aid. half so effective. Oze Lozenge slons gives re- socks of stone.
At first, in a careless, thoughtinas fashion, it bad lief. They contain no Opfam, Morphis, nor any
FROM the 1st February next, OFFICES
TOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIA.
Apply to
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, 4th December, 1858
$22
$25
FOR SALE
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CHAMPAGNE, 1880 WAL
HEID SIE OK'S
per case of 1 dogan quarta,
per case of 2 dozen pinta. PAUL DUBOIS & Co.'s CLARET, GRAND VIN LEOTILLE. $25............ per ease of 1 dozen quarta, CLAREC, CHATEAU LAROSE. 813............ per one of 1 dozen quarts.
$14
89.30
$7,50
$8.50
$5
per cass of 2 dozen pints. "PONTET CANET,
per caus of 1 dosen quasta. PALMER MARGAUX.
per case of 1 dosen cuncis, per anse of 2 dozen pinta, LORMONT.
per cass of 1 Jozan quarte.; JOHN WALKER & BONS OLD HIGHLAND WHISKEY. $3 ................. per vase of 1 dozog bottles. Also OUTLER PALMER & Cus
WINES AND SPIRITS,
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1884.
135
I do not mean the key of the grocerias or of the callar, but of hle papȧrs and cush box."
Mrs. Cusworth did not know. She had nothing to do with these keys, she expposed that Mr Ponyeomaquick carried them ubont with him. The water war racing along, nor noiselessly, thrown a dond pic animat it, then the corpee of violent drag, and may be taken by the most de **Frobably," said Mrs. Sidebottom; but gen. but with remoraless determination, throwing a woman weighted with her dead babo; and now, lieste. One or two at bedtime ensures rest when tlemen when going out to dinner sometimes for stipks, stras, and than a drowned pig at the ob having cast these away as unprofitable tools, troubled by the throat. Sold by all Chemists in get to take the keys out of their pockets and strucitve but. At one moment a boat shot past. brought up, at great labour-a cottage piano smell This, Tenn put them in those of the dress shit. I had a If it had but touched the hut, Jeremiah would & piano is perhaps the heaviest and most vam-
aband. De did it, and many, a lecture I have have thrown himself into it, and trusted that it brous piece of furniture that the food could have PLRIEL, WOLFF & Co. given him for his wint of prulenes. Do you would be stranded in shallow water. Ho know selected, and, on the whole, thebestadapted to serve
PIANOFORTE MANUFACTURERE, know where his everyday clothes ase? I sup- how Insecure was the building that sustained its purpose, as the doosssed pig was the leaat.
22 & 24, Rus ROCHECHOVART, PARIS, pore he went abroad is bie drase coat and swalls him. There was no one in the but. It had What fores it must have exerted la bring up this I had better have a look and make sure."
(FOUNDED IN 1609), |been moored originally by s rops, which was instrument, what judgment it must have employed Mra. Dusworth thought, in reply. that pro-suapped, and trailed behind it,
in choosing it! And what malignity thero win in GBAND & UPRIGHT PIANOS en Bale bably the clothes would be found in Mr. Penny. The moon flared out on the water, that looked the food in its persistent efforts to break down the at all the principal Mesioni Instrument Dealers. semequick's bedroom.
[like undulating mercury, and showed a dimple | frail substructure on which stood the two men -There is a light in it, I suppose," said his on its surface above the hat; a dimple formed. The ison framework of the instrument in the The following are applied to Order hell-sister."By the way, who had charge of the } by the water that was parted by the obstruction; wooden back was under water, the bass with the Strings, and all metal parts in the Puno plate pi
and about this eddy sticks and strands were re-pedals rested against the foot of the ant. The pacially galvanized to resist damp, and prevent I hare," answered the widow.
volving. Then there approached a cradle in water driving at the piano thus lodged, partially rust; and for countries where there is a difficulty. "You have, then the key of the plato-chest ?" | which whimpered a babe. On the trails stood heaved it, as though a shoulder had been sub- in obtaling lumem Wrestplanks in Steal are "There is no plate chest. There is a cupboard." ¦ eat that had taken refugo there from the water, mitted to the book of the instrument, and thus made fitted with ALBEET's Piss, giving the "Iron plated ?"
when it found no other spot dry for its feat the feet were driven with sharp impatient greatest guarantee for standing in tuns, and "Oh, no; there is no silver, or very little- | And now the ocadla swung from side to skis, and stroken-aguint the brickz. Moreover, ovary tuned with a simple time-piess Key some teaspoons, all the rest is electro. But as it filted, the cat lowped to the praisal side, time that the pisno fell back, the lid prer the
ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S do you think, Mrs. Bidebottom, that dear Mr. meearing pitifully, and then, as the strange koys also fell back, and the white line of keys RICHY, 86, RUE LAFATETTE, PARIS. 1464 Organs, in aither max (aired or sentitutionali
Sole Agent for India and China, L. H. is warranted to ourò all diesharges from the Urinary Penpyocmequick is lost The widow's boat larched before a wave on the ulher side, laaghed out in the moonlight. But whenever
the est skipped back again to where it was be the wave, baaved ep the piano, then the lid fell E BRITISH NORTH BORNEO Graal wad Pains in the Book Guaranteed free from fore, with tail erect and plaintive or, but, by over them. It was horrible to watch the piano Published at SANDARAN on the lat of sack Proprietor TP LIMON NOMIDLAND COUNTIE Mecoury. Bold in Boxes, 4. Bila yuch, by all Chomistu * HERALD, SE
and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the World "But we cannot tall, we do not know, but he ila fortinotiva shiftings, preserving the balance, labouring as a willing slave to batter down the may have taken refuge somewhere.”
of the little craft. The oracle was drawn down, wall, it did so an opening and shutting its mouth, month at en Andal Subscription, including | Dave COMFANY, Lisonin, Bogland. Fiddlesticks- I mean, bardly likely. He was between the walls where the slice had beer, though alternately gasping for breath and | Postage, of 81.50, payable in advance,
YOMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS. on the tow path, and there is no place of refuge and whether it passed in safely beyond, Jeremiah then returning to its task with grim resclation he would reach from that."
could not tea."
** The moon was now disentangled from the clond, Local News, tha progrees of the ammorous: The Offer of the above Bank have been "Roully dead! really dead! The poor widow Now his attention was arrested by a huge black it ahone with sharp brilliangy out of a wide tractFlasting Companies, and other commercial This Day REMOVED to BEACONSFIELD broke down.
object sailing downstream, reeling and spinning of cold gray sky, and the light was reflected by enterprisse, together with all Government Pro, ARCADE. "Dead, of course, he is deed with all this as it advanced. What was it! -A house lifted the teeth of the keyboard every lime they were alamations and Notificationis published by
CHANTRET INCHBALD, water. Bless ma! You would not wall in the bodily and carried along ↑ Jeremiah watched ita dinclansd.
anthority.
Agent ocean to drown him. I have known a case of a lapproach with uneasiness; it it struck hin briek i Har's The look of Mergatroyd church struck Hongkong, 4th February, 1889.
ayen filled and she began to ery.
"Lost ob, of course;"
1.
CO Contales, trustworthy information regarding,
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Hongkong, 4th February, 1988.
42 PILLA
"AMOROSO," w Stanter Wine, very popular.
B
* Manzanilla,” a clean dry appetising Wine. "Bucket-WHITE SEAL,” a special favorita in
China, very delicate and soft..
CLARET,
13
CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
"ACHILLES,"
are hereby notified that the Cargo is being dis
ebarged into Craft and/or lardod at the Godowns of the Undersigned: in both cases it. will beat Consigveed risk. The Carge will bo ready for delivery from Craft or Godown est and affor the 12th instant
Goods undelivered after the 19th inst., will be subject to Rant. All dupuugid Goode must be left in the Godawns where they will bo er amined at 11 Aan, 19th inst.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agouts. Heugkong, 11th February, 1889. 1266
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
YONSIGNEES per Company's Stommer
*MEÑELAUS””"
are hereby notifod that the Cargo in being dis surged into Craft, and/or landed at the f downs of the Undersigned, in both cases will lie ut Consigneus" riak. The Cargo will be realy for delivery from Craft or Godown on and after the 12th instant.
Goods undelivered after the 19th instant, will be anbjoot to Bont. All dşmaged Goods must be left in the Godowns where they will b examined at 11AM., 19th insti
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, 11th February, 1889. "GLEN" "LINE OF STEAM PACKETS.
SINGAPORE
FROM LONDON, PENANG, AND
HE Steamship
THE
'GLENLYON,"
having arrived from the above ports, Consignees
of Carge by her and by the 8. S. Denmark goods are being landed at their risk into the from New York are béreby informed that their
godowns of the HongKong AKD KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED, AT KOWLOON, wherice delivery may be obtained. Optional cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before Noor, TO DAY
Cargo remaining undelivered after the 16th instant, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Con- siguées are requested to present all claims for damages and/or shortages not later than the 3rd inst otherwise they Will not be recognized.
'Bill of Lading will he countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agon
1319 Hongkong, 11th February, 1889, ·
NOTICE
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
Perfectly para Bordeaux, not loaded to pleaseHIPMASTERS AND ENGINEERS D
vitiated palates.
"
MOUTON.............in quarts and pinta: LAGOSE.........................................in quarts and pints ST. ESTETHE. quarts and pinta. MARGAUX-MEDOo in quarte and pints.
· LIQUEUR,-
| BENEDICTINE from the Monastery.
C. P. & Co. are the Bolo Consigtors of this
world wide known Idqueur. For Prices apply to either of the above Firms marked.
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EMPLOYMENT AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE-OFFICE.
NULL information will be given at the above
Filosoft Stations. Ofters in this Colony and the East in general and of Suitable Persons available for Employment.
WANTED at the above Ofɔé—A OLERK for a Mercantile Business in Hongkong.
P. BOHM. Hongkong, 3rd Jaunary, 1889.
TORSALE.
ULES MUMM
·CHAMPAGNE, C. $20 & Ft. $21. DUBS FRERES DE QERNON & Co. BORDEAUX CLARETS,
AND
-WHITE WINES:
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NP respontfully informed that, if upon their arrival in this Harbour, none of the Company's Foremon shonki to at hand, owiors for repairs if sent to the HEAD. OFFICE, No. 14, Prayn Central, will receive prompt attention.
"In the event of complaints being found necessary, communication with the Undersigned. is requested, whau immediate stopa will be taken to reotify the cause of dissatisfaction.
D. GILLIES, Socratery. Hongkong, 26th August, 1895.
129 MABINDUR K MANUFACTURER
•
OF FIRST CLASS FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY, COLLEGE CHAMBERS.
DRAWING ROOM AND DINING ROOM SUITS, LOUNGES AND EASY CUAIBA, HIDEBOARDS, WARNHOVEJ, DIESSING TABLES AND MARBLE TOP Wask? STANDS, MANTEL AND CONSOLE GLASSKA.
SILK PLUSHES IN VARIOUS COLOURS. TAPESTRIES' in Latest ĮDesions.
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. Hongkong, 26th April 1888.
H
YM
TAI
COAL MERCHANT,
· has always'ozi bawl
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CHAU. LEOVILLE, at $23 per Cass of 1 dos. Lisa BrocER OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF
OHAU, MARGAUX, st_129-1
BAXTER'S "BARLEY BEEE," Celebrated 7 you'ra" Old WHISKY,
1281
at 38.25 per Case of dox.
"GIBB. LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 10th November, 1839.
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1589
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