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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1892.
The Hongkong Jeleauph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1893. :
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THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.
LONDON, Jana Zyni. The platform of the Democratic party promises
The Kwong Mo leaves for Macao at 7.30 to marrow moming, not 5.3o a first advertised, returning from The Holy City at 8 pm. The return fare is only $1.20, while the single fare La reduced to 75 cents.
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TRUE CONSOLATION. : How sweet the uses of philosophy!
By which one la assured, in clices advere, That howsoever wretched things may b
A time will dombticas come when they The
be worse.
Tx Willard Opera Company is at present at Colombo, with a few of the old favourites, and is apparently doing good business. "JEAN" has favoured us with an interesting letter on the pride med fall of Senhor Marla Ferreirs the absconded Lee Yuen genfus, which we will gladly publish if It is supplemented by her (?) name and address, not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. CONSTABLE Livingstone (ne relation to the great African explorer) bad a couple of treya on them in Aberdeen to their ticket factory and
Result--Fined
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INTRODUCTION.
common, every/lay ploče, and perhaps hardly even that. He was much in the same position. as la Sydney, except that he was, the only larrikin present; otherwise matters were exactly. the same Jim Bell did not know what to do.
So be asked a pliceman. Everybody else was rushing about like a house on fire, just as in Sydney, with a pressing engagement som: where else—always somewhere else, niver where they happened to be, Put a man in soy place, and tell him to do something, and he is sure to want
some other place to do t The policeman is diferent. He has only one' where, and never need trouble to go to bed. No you actually are. The pollence like where was just that way. Jim Bell woke bim up, by skilfully pitching a plecenf deled fish Chinese fish-into his car, and thus opened a conference.
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repest of the McKinley law, demanda a rovision / L'He Albert medal of the Society of Arts for the lottery men "up" this morning. He dropped | from all over the earth, offering fabulous prices | thing to do-sleep and he can do that may." of the tariffs to the direction of free raw materials, Present year has been awarded to Mr. Thomas m reduction In the duty on manufactured good"" { Alva Edison, in consideration of the dis-seized them and about two 'pleuls of "blank who sell the Daily Fress every week four me like the present, and no place like when and endorses the demand for Home Rule for tinguished service rendered by him to the pro- tickets. Ireland.
gress of electric lighting, telegraphy, and the telephone.
THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.
'June 24th. The Barengh Elections are to commence on the 4th July.
THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK. New Oriental Bank the resolution for a voluntary At a further meeting of the creditors of the winding up of the Bank's affairs was confirmed.
THE PRESIDENTSHIP.-E
President Cleveland as nest President of the The Chicago Convention has nominated ex- United States.
MR. GLADSTONE'S MANIFESTO, The Right Hon'ble W. E. Gladstone la his Midlothian manifesto reiterates the necessity for The support hilberto given to the late Firms Home Rule, and predicts that Ulster will scan will, we trust, bo continued to us.
stone favours local option, the principle of one man one vote, and also a reduction in the number of hours of labour,
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A CASE against a China boy, charged with administering a stupefying drug to Mr. Andersen, the Chief Clerk to the Singapore Supreme Court, on the evening of the 14th inst, was opened on Mr. Haughton, June 3rd at the Singapore Palice Court before
THE Sydney Bullets says that “it looks ugly to see a man who has stood in the withe-box doring a libel-unit and deposed to the loveliness of plaintiff's character, subsequently reaching out under a garnishee-order for the damager awarded his friend.”
IN the tombs of the Pharaohs have been found very curious representations of the human eye in gold. Some of them are left eyes and others right. They are beautifully executed, the brows, rectangular pieces of metal.
tickets and paraphernalia confiscated, and all THE Sydney Bulletin says that a sensational assault and false-imprisonment case will shortly be heard in the N.5.W. Supreme Court. Plaintiff, a Police Magistrate, who claims £2,000 and has retained Mr. Wazt, Q.C., alleges that defendant, dissatisfied with an official, decision given by him, got him into a room, locked the door, and seriously assaulted him.
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SMITH (from the back-block); "They call 'es & primar donner, an' she does nothink but sing. It'll be the last time as I comes to see sich rol" BROWN:
Since we started out on this novel-wilting business, we have been besieged by syndicates" for the copyright of our works. The gentlemen columns of diseased Sunday School tracts under stolen title, at the magnificent price of thirty sight conte colums, approached us with an offer of Bfteen cents a column, but ina measly yellow print side by side with the as, we would not like to be disgraced by figuring fecubrations of our friends across the way, we declined. We are not to be bought kong. A novel is no good without a villain ofsome Hongkong, arst selling newspapers, and then It is not easy work writing novels about Hong-there just the game. Jim Ball got setled in sort-a bad man who steldes up and down rooms,
office bay, floor sweeper, and messenger. He step by step until he had attained the height of
such a position, and he was pread of it. was the only white boy in the Colony who held
and hisses through his teeth at good girls and man, novels are no good, but if you try to nice people, and says “Beware"--without such a describe him, your description is sure to hit some Old 'ard, she might improve body bigger than yourself, who comes mord presently; I hear there's one woman in the and asks to see you alone, and then where company as can kick files off the celllaby making all the bad people in our novels are you? We tried to meet the difficulty Yer may depend it's her she ain't called a do the "Vanishing Act," and go away for ever, donar for nothink, you bet."
but
the remotest spots on the earth, and now and then settle down, Exactly how they get themselves Flotsam and jetsam of all sorts drift about to
established is not often kaowar, but they get
return to a feeling of brotherhoed. Mr. Glad-ds and papils being carred out of little THANK Heaven! We have been for a long legal of the embezzlers nowadays leave that he took a fancy to his employer'ʼn daughter,
THE PAHANG MINES. (Special)Telegram to the Free Press)
RADE, Jana 14th.
Two Raub boats have arrived from Lebok Tina bringing the winding plant, greatly damaged, andoubtedly by the Sultan's followers. The Raub Syndicate's and the Bentong Com pany's godowns there are also destroyed.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL. "THE world, the flesh and the newspaper, Robert Buchanan.
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WE beg to congratulate the China Mall on having got out before us every day this week. "THERE are no booms to-day "That is the starved-out stockbroker's version of the popular refrain,
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamers Formosa and Rohtla left Shanghai for this port to-day, the former at daylight, and the latter at 9.30 a.in. FOR boarding the Monghur and the Fohlen without permission two water rats," who were ticketless as usual, were each fined $15 this morning.
Years rolled on (they always have to roll in novels) and Jim Bell grew ap, as many boys
but not to us. What may be of interest, if the progress in business was of interest to himself, bare's way of doing when given time. His
novellat has earned his dollar a colama, is
Austra Han cheek, which is superlative.
alangin is the petronification of cheek For
Being a boy of sense, red sizo of seventeen, be simply saw the girl, Mary Flood, and noticed that to his fancy she was the best all-round girl
tally far above the rest, and with a face is would be nowadays)-physically spleedid, men- In the colony (which was not saying much, nor
which the brightness of her nature was most pleasantly revealed. Fair or dark, tall or other wite, what matter?
the world have been constructed within the lasting ua and making ****8 blind drunk, hinder. Besides, we bèllave in the good old motto "If said nothing, and thought little more, He
It is said that four-fifths of the steam engines of twenty-five years. The total horsepower: in estimated at 49,000,000, of which the United Germany, 4,500,000; France, 3,000,000, and States has 7,500,000; Great Britain, 7,000,000 Austria, 1,300,000.
OLD Gentleman-?f you are bound to marry that young scapegrace, I suppose I can't prevent it; but I'll fix him so he'll have to spend his evenings In good company.
Trastial Glil-Oh, he will, of course! the money you get he'll have to win from me at Old Gentleman-Yes, ladeed, he will. All poker,
COLLATERAL Security, Levi-Shakey, bat you
pay but $5 for dem. Te price was $5.50. He zalt anything since I vas out? Jakey-I solt ela salt of clo's to a shentlemans who couldn't bat promise to come in to-morrow an' pay te rest. Lav-Vell, he neler comes back, Jakey-He comes back. To pants I wrapped op vas two sizes too small for him.
IN Taimania Proud Teuton, J.P, after heat- ing the charge: John Jones, I hat known you one long time; you can go to prison for free veeks." "But, your Worship," whispered the clerk, you must ask him whether he pleads
time back pestered by a peripatetic nuisance of round the office and the worst kind, who would persist in bumming paper late every sight, even he was sorry for when be got sober. Now and wiltlag columns and columns of stuff that
get aur work done. We sent him down to see at last we are rid of him, and have a chance to the "Awfuls" last night, and he has not been heard of since.
He had traveled the Sahara, braved the dangers
of the Nile,
Deleated raging Musulmans, and dined or Knew everything of politics, religion and the
crocodile;
Could Fox and fence, and scull a race, and please
In
bla ma-in-law-
short, had all accomplishments of men both
great and wise, But be couldn't run a business, for he wouldn't
advertise.
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Tax Boustead Institute for Seamen at Singapore is now rapidly approaching completion, or rather bas already been completed as far as regards and imposing elevation towards the docks. The the exterior, which presents a very handsome interns! arrangements are being made with all possible despatch, and the date of the opening ceremony has been definitely fixed for to-day (2nd July) when the Governor was to
the occasion of the opening, and it was under- ments were made to have a fitting ceremony on stood that the building would be lighted by the electric light.
THE latest inske yarn. A death-adder on the guilty' or not qulity' Gret.” “Ferry vell" tali formally open the new institution. · Arrange. -
Worship, "How do you pleat; kilty or not The kity Not guilty, 1 Waushup "Den I give you dree weeks, and your mate can go mit Jon
Endeavour River bit the handle of an axe. word swelled up to such an extent that It burst the eye of the sxc. BRIDE (Just after the wedding-Alfred, you a6o promised to give me a surprise after we were 0,75-I've got six children, my pet.
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I representatives bekind, who don't refund the amount of the embezzlements, but hurry up to assert their client's integrity if we libel them. you must run away with a woman, take a pretty is somebody. And that is our difficulty, for in one "-if you libel anybody, choose a man who
anybody. Francis, Q.C.. thinks to small beer of Hoogkeng nowadays we can find nobody who is himself, but that is fast his way.
Our tame novelist then thought it would be a he started out and called us a missionary and s good idea to libel the editor of this paper. So temperance lectures. That was what happened on Thursday last, when the general public thought there was a typhoon.
After that, the brillant gentas climbed down to write an ordinary shiling shocker, without any originality in it. When we rend it, however, and found the same old base deceiver and
feeble-minded girl, a hold mystery, a brother on thetrack with a deadly butter-kolfe and bottle of castor oil, a chucked it. We rrefer our murdera plain, without trimmings. Besides, he hoved in a slab of poetry on his own head be
it 1- of which this is a sample :-
The day bath coma, 'th Sabbath mor
For Truth I am is search,
Aa on my way since Christ was bor
To the Cathedral Charch.
Which is reared for holy wasluip
I bead not this repeat, Conducted by the Buskey Who Ase Karvaloshy Sant
La theateruodis Sunday school
When children come and go
As is cheered by the common rule
By Stand the Jon
anything but a picasant human being, whom be Jim Bell had no ides of considering her would prefer to the rest, in a mild, Platonic sort this, and nothing more, and as yet he was as a of way, if he was in a position to choose. Only sprat contemplating the moon. No sensible. sprat would die for want of the moon, but would Jude the best he could for himself as a sprat. until he actually found himself in a poslilan to Doing his best for himself Jim Bell prospered regard most people in the Colony almost of terms of equality. This of course was sime after his arrival; but time is always cheap loog in novels, and we may dispense with a huge mass of events which led up to such state. Hi progress was somewhat remarkable, as the world goes; but as Hongkong goes, he would be the most remarkable who had the least eventful
career.
married. Say, what is it? Groom (a widower) occurred in London during the Sixteenth century. | liability company in Hongkong, to be called the which the flesh is hair.". There was something exception; In that he had some brała,
THE phrase "Robbing. Peter to pay Paul" is supposed to have originated in an incident watch About the year 1540 the Abbey of St. Peter fo Westminster was clavated to the dignity of a
"Tinkle tinkle Hittle star, what a bally fool you are," and so on.. Also he had a hero who for seven long weary years purveyed in the and the wistful washirather, and other evils to dreary streets of London the succulent sponge
about disembodied spirits (spirits are much better with a body in them, and little ends) and bought Proms
gum-ancker who that grey headed, weather besten cheatmat about Daly Press to recount all the horrors of the the lady and the isossidgeah, I would take thing And last of all, he wanted. "five per cent of the profile on publication "Profili feelings to a great extent, and now the Office So we strangled him quietly, which hurt bis Goat is on the job.
THE P. M. S. S. Co's steamer City of Rio de cathedral, but ten years later was again joged venture to succeed, for they seem to have taken | defunct horse, and a hot He Introduced men had to kiss ber more or less, "It may be
Fancies, with malls, &c., from San Francisco to the 14th sito, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow morning.
A DIFENCE" What's the charge against this man, officer?" "No visible means of support," returned No, 5,070. "I can't afford to take me wife wid me everywhere," growled the prisoner. THE Detroit Tribune on John L. John L 1.25 Sullivan is undoubtedly a powerful educational For factor, especially when he is sober enough to Case get across the stage without failing into the 2 duz, i orchestra." Pinis.
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The first thing they have advertised (as per to-day's issue) is a re quest to subscribers to send in applications to bankers, with money. The advertisement does not state who are the bankers, nor what is the CHINAMAN, "run In" in December last by objects of the company, eor the names of the amount of capital, nor number of shares, nor the Inspector Stanton for having in bla shop an Indecent painting which he had copied from a that the public is requested to send money, to photo supplied to hit by a resident named Kylie
directors-in fact, nothing is stated at all, except left Hongkong, while aut on $ago baff, which somebody or anybody, before the 15th Inst. was extrested, but returned a day or two ago Taz-boy who wrote the following essay on and came before his Worship to-day. Mr. H. L. #Pants" in one of the Californian schools, har Mother-Joyful news1. Clars is provided for | Pennys Interceded with the magistrate been "suspended, so it is said-Pants are this summer,
In his behalf on the grounds that he did not made for men, and not men for pants. Women expose the picture for sale, had no intention of are made for men, and not pants. When Father-What do you mean? Mother find she has grown so that her corrupting the morals of the colony, did not brother's clothes just fit ber.
know he was committing an unlawful act, and a man, they are a pair of pants.
man pants for a woman and a woman pants for left for Canton because he was very ill and was pants don't last. Pants are like molasses Such Stanton stated that the defendant was respect la cold. practically rained, by the case. Inspector they are thinner in hot weather and thicker able resident and never offended before. He bis pants during an eclipse. Don't pos The man in the moon changes would be satisfied with a light a penalty the pastry for pante, you may be mis-
It was possible to impose under the
taken.. Men and Women ars often mla circumstances. Mr. Wodehouse said that be taken in was satisfied that as the law provided only for breeches of promises. There has been much pants, Such mistakes makes evidently had no intention to break the law he plural. Seems to me when men wear pants they Imprisonment in such cases and the prisoner discussion as to whether "pants" is singular or would blad him over in two sureties of $50 each are plural, and when they don't wear any they to appear before him for Judgment whenever are singular. Men get on a tear in their pants called upon to
do so,
and it is all right; but when the pants get on a tear it in all wrong.
ST. PETER'S SLAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30 Lm os Sunday, to convey men ashore to the Ir o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m. ADVERTISEMENT from an English paper -
Wasted, a burable conty, wOOKER, are theat is to deth
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If the £4 a year didn't make her humble, what would?
drink.
TO-NIGHT the Stanley Opera Company will Appear at the City Hall in thele master-piece, the pantomimae "Bluebeard. The Company is 0.75 essentially suited for this line of work, lo every feature of which it excels. Particularly, their gorgeous ballets, and the great "Ta-za-n boom 9.75 de-ay by the whole force of the company, are worth going miles to see. Tickets are already at a premium.
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ABSOLUTE sero is the term applied to that tem- perature at which the molecolar motions of mat» 1.00 tot cease, and the molecules are brought into an absolute and permanent contact with each other. In other words, it
It is that point at which hear 1.10 (which is the manifeststion of molecular
motion) absolutely vanishes. Up to a compara tively recent period there was a vast difference between the estimates made by the various physicists who had tackled the problem as to what constituted "absolute; zao," but now, thanks to the work of Pictet, Cailletet and others, philosophers are well agreed upon 275 degrees C. below sero (460 degrees F), The "cold of space is probably synonymous with "absolute Ecto,"
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SEVENTEENTH NOVEL.
SUCCESS.
PROLOGUE.
Wait till the Raubs go bigh, Willie, Wait till they boom again, Wait for a brighter sky, Willle, Sunable to follow Isic.
Now we are all gone bung, Willie,
In vain have the charmers hung, Wille," We cannot fill up your show,
Funds are so beastly low
Walt till we have some cab, Willie, Lie low and don't by rash ;": Willie, if you come now, love
You'll find es in a state of smash i You may have a gorgeous show, Willie, Plenty of well-formed legs, But just now it would not go, Willie, As sure as eggy fa egg. For everyone is busted, An awfully busted flash,
And the patrons or whom you trusted Couldn't stand a ten-cent lush | Then wait till the times improve, Willie, Wait till the downward move:"
Of Purjoms, Raubs, and Imaris.
Stops, and they goʻsky high i Out on the rolling seas, Wille, You may not get on the rocks But here, It's a certain freese, Willie, Worse than in shares and stocks. For all who had money ́scoated, Whether it was theirs or not,
The place is completely looted, And we are a dead-broke lot! Then walt with your fair young flirts, Willie, Willie, my own true loved one,
Wait with their muslin skirts s Wale tiil we pawn our shirts Wait till the
By the time this youth was twenty-three be was one of the most popular of the g lded youth In the Colony, and a favorite in Society-that body which is individually so great (in its own He was on friendly terms with all the young Individual orinion) but collectively so small.
bave four chair coolies with staring unifwms, people, af both sexes, in the class of persons who and visit at Government House. He was
At last he discovered that he was actually in love.
we. It happened that a great show war eing given
by the
Amateur Bramatic Clol, and "hat Mary-Flood was playing part in which vend mentioned that among professionals klasing in a to the real thing as the canvas mountains and hollow delusion, as innocent of any resemblance the property beer; but with amateur the
could, under the instructions of the stage MADE sam kissing is perfectly genuine. So, youth named Barber went in for leasing her all be ager, and rather carrfect the thing too far, Mr. James Bell (nox Jim, please) did the same, as probably all men do when there is any induce meet. But what gave the secret away was that Miss Flood resented the one, and not the other; she even let her resentment be visible to the naked eye, which was not as thoughtful ax her conduct asually was. Perhaps she meant It, however, for a purpose. Anyhow, the revela Hon was made, and was all over the colony in about two days, with embellishments, Hong kong embellishing is simply gasdy.
PART II.
Interval of six months. No end of charming Ilitla love scenes (technically termed "fat because they are usually so thin, warn threadbare) unavoidably crowded out for want of space.
The engagement of James Bell, esquire, ship, share and general broker, had almost run its due course, and the winter season lite ditto. He had been making efforts to roll certsin steamer which he had bought cheao, and found useless; and falling sale, had resolved to break her up. As a sort of farewell to the old ship, ha invited a small and select party to spend a social evening on board; and the festi vities
were proceeding at nineteen to the doser, when fire broke out on board. There was splendidly tragic scene, which would supply about a column and a half of padding, but that we never use padding in this papers Mary Flood was gallantly rescued by Mr. Barker, and sampans charged a dollar each to people who wanted to get to or from t
the scene of the fats.
*** Investigations showed that there was nothing accidental about the fire-it was a anbatantial, straightforward kerosene-and-shavings afinir. A Manilaman confessed that he bad been paid Sto to do it by Mr. Bell, who bad, inanied the steamer heavily when he bought her, and would lose no end of money by having to break her up... According to the confession, the Manils wen had received his instructions before the party ship when the crew was paid off; he knew was-arranged," and was discharged from the nothing of the party, but thought that was simply an additional blind when he found it going on at the time he was to set the ship on fire. The case was clear and got two years Instead ; his engagement was Bell lost the insurance, of course broken, and Barber got the girl.
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WooLr Bendaff, professional boxer, was eRx deck chairs on board ship the Boston 1.40 tenced to six years' penal servitude at the Transcrits comments: Some day the great "You Har 1 You villain! You blackmailer') Liverpool Assizes on set ult. for a murderous wavelling public will rise up and demand that You wretch 1 l show you a trick or two in 1.75 uit with a knife on a publican named dock chairs, individualized by numbers come the sweet by and by," interlarded with a few Allerton, who had refused to supply him with sponding to those of berths, be furnished passen- choice selections of Chinese Billagegate, was gers on all the ocean steamers. The discom what's square-shouldered, elderly, evil-looking fort of the present bothersome system of Celestial female roared out at Inspector Lee in seating passengers while on deck has been the Police Court to-day when that officer had borns too long. There is no more reason why succeeded in getting her nine months' hard people should have to take deck chairs abroad Labour for bringing a pretty little girl into the steamer than dining chairs; no reason why colony for purposes of prostitution. And then the price of ticket across the Atlaoile he fired off a charge at the grave occupant of should not mean a chance to sit down the beach, at the preservers of the peace in for the week de more the ticket makes the Coort, and, not content with that, stamped passenger the company's guest. Sop on the pavement enfalde the building and cursed pose the ralimad company made it. Incum the day that the fantwal seized this portion bent upon the oficials of steamer, companies her native land. Then she struggled with the to carry chairs aboard the cars on trans- constables who were taking her inte Gordon's continental Journeys The absurdity of that sort Hotel and finally wept like a new-born babe. of arrangement would be promptly apparent. She was very diny, poor thing, but doubtless will The steamer's chairless condition is relic of come out of gaol clothed and in her right mind barbarism. The Columbian year will bring and whiter, sien, than the driven mow thousands of foreigners to our shores. They This makes about the tenth conviction of should not be forced to put up with about the women within six weeks for committing this same sortof deck accommodations that Columbus offence of slave-trading otherwise doing their himself enjoyed.
leval best to supply the local and ever-increasing demand for young women, CONSIDERABLE sensation has lately been caused at Rome by the fight from her convent of a Young nun. The lady, who is described as of particularly attractive appearance, was at the Jim Bell was a Sydney lamikin, who heard Hapon Convent-of-Sant-Maria-del-Oric, Rome, bertangatacent tales of the "gorgeous earthich, his first proceeding was to borrow $5 from an When Convict Bell was released from gaol, Foochow
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in religion being Sister Ermelind of Pavia, by the way, is no more cast than Australia, but old friend, who was only too to suspicions entertained by the Mother still is thus referred to down there) and he wanted and get rid of him. Then, after lying in wait at Bangkok.
a gind to give it him Superior was becoming car ace tired of New South City a had Slogapura. ...............
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tangled in a love affair; she was transferred to after being only about ten years in and be pleasure of aceing, among the gamblers in a fan- Switow.
another convent, and when the Mother Superior wanted to see where everybody used diamonds as house, the lawyer who secured his conviction considered that all danger was over the sister to play pitch-and-teas,So he stowed my on Four Chinese, at 15 cents per bead, waylaid this regating. 8,353 tons, register, CA?
was recalled to her own community, Resenting vessel which ultimately landed him in Long Legal luminary, and smashed bin all to Hallar Outward an
what she considered the suspicion and Ill-treat kong, afer the tial rope's-eading from the polite way of putting 11) helped titmselves to gment of which she was made the object by the tipper and tulyfer from the condemned her money, in addi ..steamer, for Halphong.nues, and chafing at the manner
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Bo for that he got to China, and the manner princely remuneration, and got away safely. Pri- was watched, Sister Ermelind, who was Hothow, in the convent school, took five of her
Dyed of there was of no importance, son is no school of keout, and revenge ↳ sweet.
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falo her confidence, and so worked upon their were paved with mere ordinary stone, covered Any man who has been in prison knows what a The atrocis 20 Nez, Bell set to work to clear his character. sympathies that they offered her a refuge at with vary andinary meds the houses were built of Herculean task it is to get out that is, out of their own home should she fly from the convent. very prosala, materials, and the people seemed the pale of the prison talot. He had chiefly Wiadresteck Ultimately, therefore, the sister escaped from the to be her ordiasilly or extraordinarily poverty, before him the necessity of disproving the
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