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THE GENTEEL A.B.

MUSIC HẤTH CHARMS.

[By A. J. DawsOD.] A misty moon with a “wheel' round it Illumined a dripping world of docks and ships, of alky, su lan water, miry stone, and glistening paint-work. Rain was not notasily falling, but Porto London was running wet. The great ship, bound neck and stern, lay buddied like prisoners in a french, all their beautiful buoyancy depart I their daring cowed, their golinatry abduct the arucl rigidity of stool hassers,

by the

"And I'll go no more a-rovin”

With you, fair maid,

A-rovia', a-rovin,'

Bines, revin's been

à my ra-i-a,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8¤, 1906.-

I'll go no more a-ro-ovin' With you, fair maid. "Her cheeks was red, her eyes was brown, Mark well what I do says Her cheeka was real, her nyan was brown, Her hair like glow worms hangin' down.

evan

Many of these he promised to marry and borrowed their savings to bay furniture or for immediato needs. He wrote them beautiful tors letters copied out of a letter, writing book ty yours old. At one time he was engaged to as many a mine women and bad to write aine

ot-anoh letter.

More inelegant thenau English girl. Thehon he met Gortrade Jcliffs, 25-year-

fashion of the quick waltz and the

our

the day. Mies Jolie gas latter tail of

of the mobject sought to be illustrated. Others attribute the awkwardness and inelegance of our women to the habit of quick walking and ranging. Oriental women who walk with grace and with the beauty of movement seldom walk fast; if they, by any claucu do, they are Kitchen Lancers has driven the postry of motion from old girl, he struck & snag. Misa Jolliffe koops ball-rooms, On the men's side the traga tobacconist store and has a good business. And I'll go no more a-rovin"," eto,

spirit of B

Import has been destroyed by the love of McLeod bought his cigars tes there and soon get Boforo that clipper ship picked up the trades paco. Quick and large bags made by dricing, on friendly terms with the proprietress. They Rosalind and fingered out on the little box of a although they bave undoubtedly i

were improved the faloon pious, fit wel

and written down,

touches." McLeod also got all bis oigars and maraivo dook-gates, and othor humiliating the airs of all the obaation infory note of i broad ot game and demaud a bigber standari? of 00 engaged and then bare the "quick

in Bill's repertoire. skill in actual shooting, kave driven into disus aigarettes free. Sho followed the crowd about as though mon the botter sporting traits of

But on I found my

working dogs and of woodcraft. Driving game has noient

conesting in the galley. greasy cont

And Bill pally heuly was towaril, had often seen this weapon banging under a pointed her. After a while no one else in the a couple of months' walking, and given two er grey-wamed son-wester on the starboard bulk-

starboard watch ever thought of head of the galley, but had never before foaud

singing out on three days of rapid slaughter where mechanism the watchmau handling it. To laid it ngide av I

a rope. It didn't seem fair to Rosalind,"

in the shape of ejectors and our trigger guts But the elimuz casneue dark and dirty night take the place of the one alertness required in Ernst the nonming, at our conversation turn

off the Cape, when the clipper had began to run leading and adjustment. Ia big game shooting ed the more readily to mensie for the reason that my friend had been hoarsly humming the air

down her basting nanong the great green Caps the high-velocity rides lava spoilt the beauty of a famous charty in which I was anore than ages in the back of his head and diemal thoughts ad antage to man over beast.

mumbers Chat give the mast hardened steerman and skill of the stalk and given an unfair Paco in the commonly interested. I had once presented of good ships poet and sank all standing, hunting field has introduced riding to heands

of this chanty, writin from

Dat memory. On this night the starboard watch were thron instead of hunting, and hounds are now lifted to one of the most learned of me critics, who quarters of an hour on the main tops'le till then had possessed in the collection of which

a board. be had only a mutilated version farling a sail that was wet and stiff as have and and in sentencing him denounced him 107. the song. The great magu ląd surprised tas by marked for its own. Bill was in the buot (your their skill, I war wo hero quick as "pirate among women's i ffection."

gound sentiments" but which began

Movie of longan friend fingering an morised, whenever Bill's watch was on deck and the knowledke wuch of the healthy exercise of "Darling Vi." Asbor name is not Violet, and

copy of

and

I

the warmth of his thanks, and prasound the

ghe

also taken away D never disap

a sail the gront west wind seemed to have oar-

for furling, where

at once to an halloa, where in old days they would

takon in

guns

as there were oun or two strange matters ro- ferred to in a postsoriot, Miss Jolille became suspicious. She bad MeLeed watched and found he was paying attention to veseral other wo att. More intimate inquiries resulted in the dia- covary that her Proddy was engaged to all these other women and had been arrowing their moary.

This came the grand smash. Miss Jaliffs was courageous enough to have McLural accested Many of his flowery epistles were read in Coart

one of the fiant and next pontiral pines the weight is, and at tila yark-arm for need of individual In YOU SAVED ME

of real folk-lore in the forgangs. Despite his great learning, I. as an ignorant outsider was able to furnish him with another detail of

servies: chanty is not pronounced as though it were spelt. "charnty," but as though it were spoltshenly."

I

had no soouor put my first question to the watchman regarding the song I had hand bim humming over the concortina than I www in formed wish colourful emphasis that if hnd nover hoard Bill Chanetare sing chantis I could not be said to know what chanty-singing was. Given his place above the block, and a watch to tail on to the rope. I gathered that the sost genteel of Railormen possessed a voin fo compel the elements withal-a silvery pipe think rahhod d you of the

of the consciou-ness of cold, wet frat or bleeding finger-tips, B

and do you wonder how the bearenly choirs in Paradise had man. ngad to fritil their funeful duties throughout the ages without the assistiuca of Bill Chosenzore.

And of what follored of the watchman's talk I can only any that it was true romanes, and expres my singuro regret that I find myself unable to reproduce it here in his words. As a rate, his words have remained with me like the refrain of a catchy tune, and I have been :

nate to te them down practically verbatim. These, e best he ever gave me, are as far out of zay ranch though they had been Chaidon. Is all

งคู่ some of them, but, alas they don't look right when I set them down in the pressic, familiar medium.

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It seems there was once a young girl horn al bred on a liverina sheep-station in Australia, beautiful as Ehakespeare's fancy painted Rosalind, and throated like the nightingale Whon le sang she brought tears fath blundabot of the most burdenst tough who ever hled a sheep's Bank with his shears in her father's abads. She sang ne she breathed, brentse she could not help it; and when she mug, other folk caught their brush and just,

By ex

livert to listen.

Well, in due course Rosalind (for she owned tho zame, besides deserving it) was sent Homa to have her gift studieri, classified. and developed along the stereotyped lines in European cou servatoires. Before bor course of study was

quife finished she showed signs of a possib

nervous breakdown of some sort; some said she pined for the rolling open stretches of her antiva Elvering. Anyhow, the doctors demanded a reminton of her sentence, sad

thair orlers sad by the girl I was shipped off to the Antipodes aboard

swearing.

bob man is always in this int

and magazine rifles with, we are told by by experts, a lova

personal olement and of the where thus strain is), and is used some coatles there is the impressionist sol.ool and less of that night that were far more

ore like prayers

thon

technique. Photography has its large following of snap-shoot-rs, the less said about which the owing to their solemu length and seriptural tautology. But at long last the man's batter. In literature we have the undeveloped mastery, begot, and the great al began to rise. short story, thore being no time for solid reading Then Bill forgat his curses, and gave them a on the part of the hurried. Then there are the farling hoty in a voice that would have short drinks charmed pearls from oysters : --

ad lightning" lushwood; not playing spate declarations at bridge and hundreds of other illustratione prove how the Baving of fir

time, which is not really needed, is the excuse for an exaggerated baates in almost overy walk of life, to the general detriment of all. Fortunately in our gamus, apart from sport, th fashion has not assorted itself. We have rather gone the other way, and three days' matches at ericket, the leisurely game of golf, and the re-introduction of croquet, the slowest of all ✰ game, may still save the situation.-tangoon Gazette,

Ase

And we'll farl

A

And pay Paddy Tyle for his boots. Well heare,

Aye.

With a swing,

Atal pay Pildy Hayle for his Toote " On their way down from aloft they found Rosalind clinging in the shrouds, supped to the skin. Haltoned against the ratines-listening,

worde

It was Bill who carried her down and sft, to the door of the cabin in which the shrivelled aunt lumbered poneefully, but no one kauss what always followed him and never left him when he passer bola them, Only, her eyes

Was to be seen, right up to the hour at which, when

she listened to Leave her, Johnny, leave her "; -

mouring in Part Melton ue, thought I heard the Old Man say, **Leave her. Jobbuy, lente her; "You may go shore and touch your pay,"

· R's time for us to leave her.

sirest

Bill was invited up to the hotel in Collins

whare

Rossilind stayed with her father for a time; but what could some of such a story? But Bill and the watchmat bad front seat at lur only public appearance, and Melbourao will ever forget her singing, as a encore, of "No other man shall think me fair," She was married to a squatter zillionaire afore this slipper left Ansuration waters, and they buried for in the Riverina ten meaths

later.

"I will cut my breasts outil they bleed,

Lowlands, Lowlands, horrak, my Joàn; I will cut my breasts until they bly,

My Lowlands a-eng !?

HUSTLE,

A MODERN FETISH

We have often been reminded of late how the

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MILLIONAIRE'S MARRIAGE,

A STRANGE STORY.

There is a remarkable American wedding story now being investigated It concerns Mrs. Frank Walker, well known in Pittsburg sicists, who charpes her alleged husband, Lir. Pater McCool, a millionaire Pittsburg oil pre duert,

with abandoning her. Mr. Malool replies by denying that ho married Mrs. Walker, and aliogus that another man im- persoualed him, asing his anne.

Mr. McCool has been living in Butler, Penn- sylvania, with the wife whom he admittedly married eighteen years ago. She is an acknow- has live! for the last two years in a fiue man- ledged I social leader in that town. Mrs. Walker

sion at Piltaburg, which she says was given to her by Mr. Mool.

married Mr. MeCont at the hom oth, 11:34, th

In her complaint Mrs. Walker says she home of her sister, Mrs. Scott, in Kec. John Stoon, of Ascension Memorial Church, officiating.

He bought me the linase I occupy, and for- nished it," she says, "and the property is in By Fame At bis request I agreed to retain the name of Walker 1 wave trouble with that Butler woman. We lived, oh so bappily, two years, but six months ago he left me. Unti then he never denied that I was his wife. I am

Pure there was no mistaka at the wadding."

Mr. Steen, the

sailing ship, a fall-rigged clipper, with the love of hurry and busite in charsoteristic of the recollects Mrs. Wyman, stated that

were the

shrivelled little aunt who acted as ber due In the forecastle of that

that clipper ship were A.B. and my triebe

friend the watchman. Now, the cabin allotted to Rosalind and her But was immediately under the break of the poop, between the starboard poop-ladder and amidships. When the tug bad cast off and sail

age, that speed is a modern fotiak, to which comfort, safety and good work are all sacrificed. On the other hand, there are those who regard its a mark of the go-sheed qualities of We

Wextero civilisation and a proof of the vigour of a nation. These argue that the law of mochanies is not applicable to business, so that more speed instead in the

the of meaning a law of power rouans rather a rapid

very well, because

of her brilliant red hair and creamy complexion. She was soch a beauty as one Bus only once in a lifetime. She came to my house," he says, "late at night on June 19th, 1904, with s zone. They seemed in a great burry, and I married them. The man said he was Peter McCool, of Pittsburg, but if he really was I don't know. Since then I have compared the signstore of

was being made, Rosalind was ack. Alleen of that wealth which gives street to the real Mr. McCool with tho signature fired

incressÜ

I

Do

little cabin watching her aunt hande ware on drek at the time, and in doa all business. However tras this may appear to the marriage certificate by the mau 1 married of their pie right puurida Roenlint's porthen when thus casually stated, it will not bear toonid say they riera ant written by this ma

outside investigation

law of science must have should were same (which looked along the maindeck), and Bill some complementary law in business, as in all man. On that night the young woman gave monster the t'gallant rail to get bis hold above else, and wealth, without ability to use i

her it aright, the bisek, as shanty-man. Then his silver longue does not impart strength to a people. Fertne kuow whether she was telling the truth then namo as Miss O'Neill, and said she bad never bofore been married. Of course, don't spoke, and the yard began to rise to the gained rapidly by the individual have not haunting cadeness of this beautiful piece of proved a great incentive to general progress.

or since. The man I married to her made maritime folk-lore.

Each stanza consists of four lines, the first Hurried speculation too often ends in disaster impression on me, and I would be unable to which leads to the disorganising of soun identify bine, so there is no use in my seeing and bird being surge at of atuty znas, the business, or, if succonrful, places wealth in the Mr. Me Cool, sarri dub ti to really whether second and fourth by the rest of the crowd as Fands of those who are not the most able or sator is the mus I married to the young woman they pall. In each stanza the third line is a administrators. Rapid manufacture meaus, or por." repetition of the first the second and fourth, frequently shoddy goods and cheapness upon To English readers it may seem a little the crew's part, are the same throughout. which as uation can retain ber prestige, which strange, that a marriage can be effected 80 is her trade strength. Speed in excesa always easily in the United States, but each a wedding "I dreamt a dreta the other night,

meaux a loss of some great or useful quality. is quite possible. In many big cities of Lowlands, Lowlands, hurmsh, my Joli

The I dreamt a dream the other night,

preference given to hand made goods over Anerics couples making up their minds to go! machine-made goods points to the fact that "hitched" in a hurry can go to sa hotel and My Lowlands a-ray.

there is this complementary law in business summon the hotel chaplain by telephone at any matters and that a gain in pace of production time up to midnight. There have been cases means a loss of quality or power, Alertness is which I have already described in The Daily another thing altogether and absolutely

Telegraph of young couples going to some from baste, still even speed up to a certain p

ainnsament resort, missing the last train boma of more importance under modern conditions and then waking up a local clergy man with an then great maperiority of production; but the insistent demand that he should marry them touloney now-a-days is to sacrisico more to speed immediately. than is demanded by the circumstances of trurin, and the good qualities of

of thought quiekuoss and action arazigerated into a bliad runaway of bath, the gaddass of speed demanding her Baorifices on all sides.

Thus

*I dreamt I saw my own tras love,

Lowlands, ect.

"He was green and fret with weeds so cold,

Fowlands, etc.

** I am drowned in the Lowland seas,' he said,

Lowlands, ofr

**I ahali

ahall never kiss yon again,' he said,

Lowlands, etc.

*I will cut my breasts until they bleed,

Lowlande, ete.

"I will cut away my bonny hair,

Lowlands, etc.

"No other man shall think me fair,

Lowlande, etc.

"O my

love lies i Lowlands, Lowlambs, kurrah, my Jobu;

es drowned in the windy Lowlands,

ay love lies drowned in the windy Lovisada,

My Lowlands a-ray.

TI

spart.

There are plenty of illustrations. Thrze usually held up for criticism are those partaining o are told that there are to rapid travelling, wor than fifty miles as hour and that the recent sily trains a day in England which cover more terrible railway nosid-ata bove all been dus to

sideration the hurried start, the extra juling

A PIRATE OF AFFECTIONS.

Josiah Suaith, known under the theatrical naue of Frederick McLeod, a robust and good- looking actor, has just been sent to jail for ains mouths for defrauding a pretty girl out of little less than £.0.

a

affections. His father was a mechanie, who MeLool is known as a pirate among women's

Belay that roared the hours cole of the racing and the demand for speed, and when one spout all he could earn on giving the son a first- tute: BIMI

Oway

forward to the starboard considers that the time gaited on a hundred class education. The son, when still under braces.

Bill's silvery pipe fell silent. The miles raz by a train travelling sixty miles age, graduated from college and secured wizz upper topsail was laat and drawing.

as a teacher in a public school, He position as At the beginning of the spound verge of the hour over one travelling dfty is only twenty quickly promoted, and earned a good salary. Chaty Rosalind had appeared in the loon minutes, and at the same time take into conseil daya fall on his fattror, who had to resort

was

coeping on hand on either side of it, and general loss of euafort outaill, apart from to sweeping a crossing, and finally dial in the her wonderful free fraud in its dark centre. the greater risk, the gain of time seos scarcely Dr TOURS

groat liquid

Lad followed мунія

the

McL married the head-mistress of a worth Lit. rise Bud fall of Bill's chest, which followed the of spoed is much

In motor car travelling the lovo

worse for

shool, who had money. He became & spaud- mevements of his hands on the rope; and her sacrificing the comfort of others and not thrift on this money, and in a year had put head bad awayed ever such a little tv and fo

whim. Tho

it danger with the rhythm of the song. So she had stood, your own

all. Then he ran haavily into debt and their while the chanly lasted, like

He got under to other travellers is greater, the increased home was sold. McLeod dad.

stirred bypastized.

aest

up dimages laed and crops an assumed name another job as school teacher, wish could tell you just how that cbanty

and depreciates the value of al road-side and soon afterward married another woman, sounds, even when sang by an ordinary sell property, selfishness is fostered and a good cause who had a little money. He feed her and back; how the wait of it twines among the other injured by the mrre love of

of speed.

again disappeared. But besides thi aonstantly criticised craze for The woman believed in him and thought

Her

& creature

music of wind and water, straining sails, and creaking cordage. Yan would nesor

No other man shall think me fast t

once it

paca

for a mers

it

means

in travelling rather than any true wish to only that he bad mat with foul play. She st that save time there are many more mattere in which communicated with the polics and news had fouted aid your hearing through driving the evil is present but with less realisation by the papers. The man's picture was published and public in general; in fact in almost every act of his first wife recognised it. Then the fall story spindrift. At least, one is sure Rosalind never life the spirit of undue basto is forgot

it. She

grept forrard through the e

is noting

adversely came out. spray after a while, because the fore topsail letter writing which after declining for may

A recent writer laments the loss of the art of McLeod fed to South Africa, but was arrested halyards were taken to the capatan, one watch

there and brought back. He was sent to jail for Un bja being thez busy aloft, sud at the capstan Bill years has received its final blow at the hands of bigamy and his wife sacared a divorce.

Lbe giving them The Fair Maid of

pasteart. Another is in toars over release from the penitentiary MoLood became picture Amsterdam!"

the loss of art by the appearance of the half-tone an actor in small travelling companies, Re block, which thongh capable of great things if fleeced the women in the companies and became time be spent on its production, yet on account so notorions that no one would give him of the rapidity with which it can be done, gives employment. Then he begau to prey on cur illustrated papers but a smudgy suggestion barmaids, telephone girls, nad postoffics efecke. {

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