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HELEN MATHERS, Author of Coming Thro' the

A Man-of To-day," &c.

[COPYRIGHT.]

I did the right thing according to my lights. With the hammering together of my scaffold sounding through my cell, I repeat that I did the right, the only human thing, even if it turned out in the end-murder, even if in the life to come it divides me for over from all that made my heaven upon earth-that might be making my heaven now but for my mistake.

But to-morrow this time I shall know-know if God has set me where from afar off I may behold, but not touch, my beloved, perhaps meet his eyes full of an awful reproach, and regret for the full years of life that might be his but for my sinful haste, and yet I cannot think that this will be so, for God is love, and from

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1899.

there have sought and obtained the first opinion procumble on Anthony's case, and he would be yet alive, while free as God's air I should moye besides him instead of writing this con fesslan in the condemned cell to-night.

It was 1 who encouraged him to write a pamphlet about his discoveries, who even pro tended illness myself when, as he grew more suffering, he wished to turn his face homeward, I who furnished Dr. Siegfriden with every opportunity for watching the course of Anthony's malady, to which I had long ago been able to give a name. For one day I had found the doctor in hit library, the table covered with books, notes, and medical papers, all of them, as I swiftly, and half unconsciously, noted, on one subject--cancer.

I thought he made a gesture as if to hide them as I stood looking down on the table, but I cried out in a horse, strange voice, You fear that is my husband's complaint?" and I pointed to the awful words that beaded an open page on his desk.

He gave me a troubled look through his glasses. He was a big man with absent

doctor knowing more than he, and so the precious days never to be recovered went by, and there was yet time to save him and me, but I did not know it.

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The day was drawing near, now, nay, the very hour was at hand to which I had looked forward trembling, when he would long for death, and death should be far from him, and at last that moment came, for Anthony looking at me with dim eyes, cried

As the result there is very little of that feeling of colour distinction that prevails in America..

The more common people of Hawaii are a picturesque and interesting study, for while they have made a pratense of adopting the customs of those with whom they have been thrown in contact, they have still retained the traits that have been the characteristics of the race since the earliest days of sayagery. They a contard raw fish-end pol, that queer Faisture that looks like paste, feels like cold in anguish, "I can't die, Gipsy. Can't yeast and tastes like buttermilk, and they are you help me?" I folded my arms about bis still the careress lazy people they always neck and said no word, but later on, I watched" | "have been. The Kanaka man wears a Dr. Siegfriden out of the village, then wet white neylige sult, much like that of his boldly to his house, and asking leave to write more civilized brother, but aboni his aletter in his room, was left there alone to work shoulder he wreathes a garland-of flowers and

will. my

in his wide brimmed straw hat are thrust many flowers and pescock feathers. also go barefoot. They wear a bright-hued The women Mother Lubbard, belted in with festoons of gaudy flowers and green vines.

In the Hawaiian (stands one may select the kind of clunate that is best suited to him and know no other. He may select a spot that is

I knew where he kept his poisons not under lack and key as Englishmen do, and I poured enough prussic acid into a blue phial to kill twelve men, and took it home with me.

Then I drew Anthony's head down on my breast for the last time, and the pain being less, we had one little hour of love of which even

clangs, bangs explosions, crashes, thuds about, of falling against the doors, of an old man grodns, whistling, sounds, of animals moving shuffling about in slippers, and much more, These noises were heard chiefly by Miss Freer but also at one time or another by upwards of thirty persons. The ghosts were less frequently herself and two or three servants saw ghostly and less conspicuously visible, but Miss Freer figures in the house. Miss Freer and an Anglican clergyman had at different times a vision of a brown crucifix; whilst a Catholic priest was able to recall, after a little prompt ing, that he also had had a similar vision in the house some years before; lastly, Miss, Freer frequently anw a vision of two women -one of them a nun.. This, vision, which had apparently been originally suggested through opposite side of a small stream, and always planchette, was always seen in one spot, on the after nightfall. After they had been in her coin- pany, had heard the ghosts talking, and had carnt from Miss Freer what to look for, the Anglican clergyman and another lady were able also to see the non. As regards the sounds jective, and due to normal causes. Professor Oliver Lodge, who stayed over a week in the nat impressive Colonel Taylor, who is haunted houses, thinks that some discount described as a well-known

self-suggestion; that the sounds which he him. expert" in should be made for errors of observation and self heard were of quite an ordinary kind; and, as regards the voices heard when the nun Isabel and her ghostly friend were seep con- versing on

of voices could be real into the noises of the running, stream." It may be added that many of the rooms were furnished with set-basins having pipes communicating with with hotwater pipes, though the apparatus the outer air, and that the house was fitted up was out of order during part at least of Miss

whether any of the sounds could be due to the Freer's stay. No experiments, however, are recorded as having been made to ascertain expansion and Contraction of these pipes under changes of tempemture, nor was even a phono- graph employed to test the objectivity of the noises.

establishment for curing coffes in the Negri this enterprise will be carried through He Sembilan. The Resident General hopes that believes that, if Malay coffee is only properly dried, cured, and mellowed by keeping it will meet with a study sale, at far better prices than those now quoted. A European Company has manufacture coconut olt; machinery is now at bean started in Selangor to plant coconuts and work and the venture only depends for success on the regular suppyly of copra

RAILWAY WORKING SATISFACTORILY." The Rallway extensions have made such progress, as was to be expected considering the funds at disposal. It will take six years to complete the 170 miles of extension; that and give through railway traffic, from the are required to join up the existing lines

Dickson on the coast of Negri Sembilan. As centre of Province Wellesley, to Fort regards open lines, they continue to worle satisfactorily and give good returns; but the of short sections must be relatively higher than: cost of maintenance and working of a number will be the case when the existing lines are proposed extension.

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exceeding love' was born my sin, for love, and minded ways that I then thought a sign of death could not cheat us, and that night--that sufficiently-coot white yet frosts are unknown heard, there is no proof that they were not ob joined up into one, by the completion of the

genius, but which I know now were the out-night--instead of the medicine I always gave love's very anke, I die."

him, I poured the contents of the phial down Now there is love, and love. The love of award signs of a rambling and ill-ordered brain.

his throat, and turning

my arms as he lay,. dering sigly he died.

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man for a comrade is strong and deep; the love of a woman for a woman is a loyal and beautiful thing; there is the unquenchable parent love; the love between brother, and sister; but all these are as naught beside the love of a man and a woman who are drawn together by natural affinity, and merging their half lives into-one perfect whole, And heaven in each other's eyes and company.

Oftener than not such, souls, predestined to complete each other, ucet too late, and recognise, only to pass by with anguish, the perfect life that might have been theirs, bot such was not Anthony's fate and mine. For us was reserved a harsher destiny. Upon us who had lasted and known the highest good,. a judgment was to fall, heavy in proponion as our happiness had been great but the judgment was not of God, but of my making. Had I not intermeddled with Him all would now be well, our feet set in the broad beautiful path of life

that we both loved so well.

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"Do you wish to know the truth ?" he said with a sort of satisfaction underlying the con-

of his expression. "You need not tell me." I said harshly. "I know," and in that moment my youth leaped up

nce, then died in me for ever and ever."

"I diagnosed his case almost from the first," said Dr. Siegfriden, with something alert in his voice that angered me, and he proceeded to for the symptoms from which my husband suffered, and the inevitable, end to which they tended.

with his lips, to my lips, with one long shud.acend from the sea to the mountain-tops house, holds that they were, "objective, though

When I had washed and stretched him, dear, I unlocked the door and sent tor Dr. and he lay all comely, my beautiful love, my Siegfriden.

and chilling winds blow not; he may select another spot where the heat is excessive, or he feel the air growing cooler with almost every step. remarked, every graduation of temperature, In fact, as one scientist has

volume of wind currents, is presented in the altitude and humidity, with varying forces and Hawaiian Islands. Moreover, each grove, beach, vale, summit and belt of land preserves its respective climatic attributes almost un changed throughout the year. It is this latter for invalids. certain clinate may be selected and there one may remain without fear of change, or by travelling about from place to place one may follow what is some- temperate latitudes."

hing like the rotation of the seasons in the

The Revenue of the Federated Malny States" for the year 1898 amounted to 89.304,467. $10,000,000 in 1899, and a considerable further is probably safe to anticipate a Revenue of increase in the first year of the new century.

The expenditure exceeded the revenue owing: to the fact that $5.363,330 were expended on the construction of Railways, Roads and Works... It is worthy of note that the cost of Establish amounted to only a fifth of the Rovenue, which is a very low percentage.

describe with the minutest details the reasons him, went quietly away to the ministers of inw, fact that bas made thèse islinds the ideal spot number the other side of the burn," any ments throughout the Federated Malay States

I could not see then what I know now, liow by bringing a feeble untrained mind to bear on a subject of which he had blade a special study he had not only been able to master it, but had malady as the fatal ene he had always in his become predisposed regard any internal consciousness, and upon which he had the ignorance and concult to believe he could throw fresh light.

thony had to live. Dr. Siegfriden replied, heard him out, then asked how long An-

not in so bad a case do more than slightly re- three months at the outside. Operation would tard his death, the disease was certain ta recur, and only a prolongation of his agony be ensur ed. I questioned the man ruthlessly as to the it was possible to do in their alleviation. i extent and duration of these sufferings, of what made hit show me how to use a syringe for the injection of morphia, wrung from him a promise

not to utter one word of what really ailed my Anthony to him, and then-somehow I crawled away, crept into his dear arms, and for the first tine in any life fainted dead away. They were back to face the awful truth, which I must hide round me still, those dear arms, when I came

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O that we two were lying

Under the clarchyard sod

With our limbs at rest on the earth's gross brast.

And our soul as reat with God i

And our souls at rest with God, with God!" The cry rose from my heart; it was with me always in the long days after, but I choked it back, and only dared to cling closer to what would so soon bave passed beyond my cling. ing, and soon Anthony had soothed me into peace.

He asked me no questions, but I knew after- wards that he bad read me like a book, and that his.own opinion of his case tallied with the doctor's. So it fell that one day when he had suffered more than usual, and had increased the morphia doses as much as I dared, that he took my face in his two hands and said:"

We have been very happy, little one, and now it's nearly over."

Anthony," I said in a whisper, "I'm coming

too."

He shook his head, the dear dark head that was the most goodly thing to me in all the world, and said-

not one.

He will never. suffer any more," I said, and having already said my last good-bye to my daring for the little space until I should jain confessing my guilt, and prepared to pay my punishment for it to the uttermost farthing.

I don't know how long or how short a time clapsed before Dr. Siegfriden came to and told me that at the post mortem, the Ine with a 'struggling horror in his eyes,

something that an operation would have re real reason of Anthony's illness had been discovered, and it was not cancer, but moved, leaving Fim strong and well as ever. He had made a mistake in his diagnosis of the case, and he implored me, now that in my haste I had arrogated to myself the Divine right of taking a human life, never to reveal the truth. It would mean ruin to bim, and nothing could bring Anthony back, or save me from the consequences of my mad act. I suppose him, but when they got me away from the went really mad then. I know I tried to kill monster whose ignorance had caused me to slay my. Anthony, I never thought of excusing myself by telling the truth, and only tell it now because no one will read it till I am dead. And Anthony, I know, has forgiven me.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT HAWAII.

HAWAII, July 20th. To tell the truth and nothing but the truth. about Hawaii, as I have been instructed to do by the editor of this paper, is certainly a unique undertaking. For years the press of the United States has been printing letters that purported to describe things as they were on these islands, but I have found that much of the matter has emanated from the pens, of sub- sidized correspondents or from writers who relied too much upon their imagination for

their facts.

That Hawaii is beautiful no one can deny. That these islands are among the choicest of our new possessions there can be no question, but that they constitute an earthly paradise for a man out of a job is a statement that is not true to fact. For some time the opinio has prevailed that all one had to do was to to Hawaii and that wealth would follow as a go

last of all our colonial possessions to which

On the contrary, Hawaii is the very necessity.

should advise a man to go unless he has sufficient capital to make him independent of circumstances for a long time, as well as en ough surplus to allow him to take advantage of his opportunity when it presents itself.

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many of the better class of natives are well Politically Hawaii is about as peaceful a place as one could wish to see. The whites and satisfied to accept the protection of Uncle Sam. As the native proper as he is seen in the common walks of life, he has no opinions at all upon the subject. Of course there are still natives in high positions who are through royalists at heart, but even they are willing to accept things as they are. The common native, however, harbours no resentment at what "downfall" At the same time he does not feel anti-annexationists have been pleased to term his

from the bondage of a monarchy. The simple any sentiment of gratitude at being relieved

fact is that political feelings of any kind area disturbing element and the average native is decidedly averse to making any effort either mental or physical. Under these circumstances it will only be necessary for the United States Government to use wise discrimination in the placing of the ballot and there will be little dan. ger that this one of our new possessions will ever cause, us any trouble.

GEORGE ALFRED EDWARDS, in the San Francisco Chill,

PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.

A LADY IN A HAUNTED HOUSE,

Lastly, though the house stands, as the authors point out, is the best-known seismic. area in the British Isles-an area in which 455 shocks have been recorded in less than forty. the last night of the tenancy, when no sounds years-a seismometer was only introduced on

the manifestations were also in abeyance were heard. It is interesting to note that during Professor Lodge's stay, but renewed their vigour on Miss Freer's retum. Miss Freer and her coadjutor have the painful task of recording that, whereas prior to the visit of Mr. F. W. H. Myers and Professor Lodge the invisible presences had affected a "plaintive and religious tone thereafter a marked change was observed, and that "hostile irreligious" influences were so potent as to cause Lord Bute to perpetrate false quantities in reciting the Latin Office for the Dead. Perhaps various misprints in the Latin quotations in both these books are to be attributed to the same malign induence. The ghosts were exorcised by a bishop and two priests on May 6th, and no more phenomena have apparently since occurred. On the whole, the discemung reader will probably be disposed to the verdict on the case delivered by Mr. Myers with agree

and decided that there was no such evidence as representing the S.P.R." I visited B as could justify us in giving the results of the inquiry a place in our Proceedings.

FEDERATED MALAYA,

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Now the gates have clanged to-behind him, will be shown in wax, and I shall take my place soon they will close upon me also, and my effigy among those criminals whose shedding of in- nocent blood is of an inexplicable character, no motive of greed, or hate, or even jealousy being discoverable for the deed. Those who look at me in my pillory will see a girl not yet twenty, with a sinali face described by Authony as "mostly dimples, where it is not blue eyes aud curly black eyelashes, and they will call me a hardened offender, and the women will wonder what my little game was, arid who the other man could have been that I kept so cleverly out of the case. Ile was there, of course, could see the certainty of him in the judge and jury's eyes, in their utter failure to find a reason for my killing the man who adored me, unless I adored somebody else and yet I think that afterwards my unmistakable joy when condem- ned to death did not tally with this belief of theirs, and I can see even now the long, pitiful look of scrutiny with which the judge regarded me as lingeringly he placed, the black cap on his head, and sadly passed judgment upon me, Anthony's mother, was in court, and if a blighting curse can pass from eye to then shall here drag me down to hell. Being his mother, perchance she loved him even as he loved me, for there is no limit to a mother's love, and the boundaries of his for me had never come within Anthony's and my ken. She came to me here in this cells she charged me as one on whom the necessity of confession and repentance Jay heavy, to tell her why I had done this awful, this unspeakable thing, and I held my peace and bowed my head, while the strands of her suddenly whitened hair cut through my very soul, because to have told her the very truth would have wakened her poor, numbed heart to such Infaltely worse agony than any she had yet known, and so she went away in in silence, while I thirsted for a kiss, a word of

"You mustn't, Gipsy. My sweetheart was. love and forgiveness from the woman who loved never a coward. Only it's hard." And then

First, it must be remembered that Hawaii is him almost as well as I had done. Anthony's he asked how long Siegfriden gave him, but I old doctor has been here also, urging me to tell would not tell, only entreated him to have before San Francisco was established and the hot & country. Honolulu was a city the truth-that it was an accident: that I did

another opinion, but he refused, saying that he people of California sent their children here to not know. I was giving. Anthony "the polson;

would spend every hour of his remaining life

be educated before 1850. A new and unde but I asked him how could that be, when the with me where nune could intrude on us-no, veloped country has inducements to offer the colour of the bottle and its label proved un mistakably its contents? Then I must have

Faint-heartedly pleaded for his mother, here. The population of the islands is limited seltier, but there are no such opportunities been mad, he said, and, like most mad that she might see her boy once again, for I

and the mercantile field is filled. There are people, had turned in my paroxysm on what

was jealous of his every look, his every moment loved most on earth, and mad people his sight, so that in spite of everything, we had

of time now, and he could not bear me out of in Honolulu as there are in any city of the just as many physicians, dentists and lawyers may not be hanged; but I demanded of him,

same size in the United States and almost did he think a lifetime in an asylum a fair ex-hours and hours of pure happiness together. without exception they are men who have been change for a few moments of suffering, instantly This is not a medical treatise, so I will give no educated in the best colleges of America. followed by freedom to seek for, even if I might details of his illness. In many of the works of This leaves nothing open but agriculture and fiction now written, and which must necessarily there certainly are opportunities if one has the not join, my beloved?

He broke out furiously at me then, for he hatt fall into the hands of ignorant and innocent capital to go into this business. To do this known and loved Authbay all his life, except persons, there is far 100 strong a favour of the requires from $5,000 to $6,000 at the least, and that last year we were abrund, when would to dissecting-room, but the public was never more it must be admitted that the returns will not be God we had remained sit home t Then he cross- morbid-minded than it is to-day, and the very much greater than they would be from similar questioned me for the hundredth time about newspapers will print only horrors on the great investments in the States.. that illness of Anthony's think had preceded but posters with which to tempt buyers, knowing did not cause his death. Once my tongue will go unread

that what is to the good and credit of humanity the largest of which is Hawaii. It has an area Eight islands compose the Hawaiian group, slipped, and John Halsbury was perilously

of over four thousand square miles, and while near the truth, but he never quite grasped it,

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not knowing to what it was written I never found out that the man who helped to should come, how often have I drawn back in

filled with sugar, coffee and rice plantations, make the post mortem an Anthony had been shame from these very sheets, scattered his medical adviser for many months, never broadcast through the land, that will devote the Hawaiian Commercial Company has its Maut is more generally cultivated however, for knew of the hideous blunder that and been whole pages to the sin and shame of some headquarters here. It is also the location of a made as to the cause of my husband's com- wretched man or woman, or to minute details dozen other plantations, and its sugar interests plaint.

Come of some foul crime, that does but find its instant alone represent a capital of nearly forty million Was ever a man's blunder more quickly imitation among those feeble-minded people dollars. There are some sugár plantations on smothered by a crine than was this obscure who like sheep will follow where one has led Molokai, but as the leper settlement, to which German doctor's by mine? His anxiety must and until total silence is preserved about all all the sfflicted are banished, is located there it is have been agony pending, and during, my criminals, so long will the epidemic of crime not regarded as such a desirable place of abode trial, while I can almost hear the sigh of relief rage unchecked, and each poor suicidens the other islands. The principal island of the he will breathe when he reads in the newspaper deem himself a hero when he commits the that my debt is paid in full, and that no

most cowardly deed a

group is Oahu, on which the capital, Honolulu, man hat power zealous member of his profession will ever now

is siuated. Nearly all the wealth and population to commit at all.

Yet even be able to twit him with his mistake. N such a coward, such a wretch was I. For 1 Oahu, and a more cosmopolitan conglomera- of the Hawaiian Islands make their home on had resolved that if Anthony must take that last long journey alone, there should be no

tion of a population it would be difficult to long tarrying before followed him through According to the last census that has been

imagine the gate of death to a fuller, more glorious taken the population of Hawaii was 109,000, of existence than any we had known here, and which 33:436 were Kanakas, as the natives call this. I would compass in such fashion that no-themselves: 21,600 were Chinese, 15,000 Portu act of imine on earth should in that future guese, 24,400 Japanese, Boo American, 2,200 divide us, for it has ever been my thought that English and Scotch, while the remainder were God gets apart those who rashly, enter His divided in nationality among the French, Dutch, presence unsummoned, nor ever suffers them Scandinavians, Peruvians, Spaniards and sov. to mingle with those whom he has called, and eral other peoples. whom they loved on earth. Something was forming in my mind and Anthony knew it not, and; my plan seemed good in my own cyas, aye, and pure and merciful, since by he would be spared those last awful stags Anthony himself treated the matter lightly, of his disease from which I knew on my no And

But the very faculty of seeing visions, even so long as he had me beside him, and at count more than his own, his brave soul and Able to conduct his explorations more tortured body shrunk. As he grew fechler and

though these, visions appear sometimes to cor- pasiduously, did not seem to suffer greatly less able to go abroad the hours pressed heavily

a bad witness in a haunted house. She sea too respond to outsido realities, makes Miss Freer though I could see that he had changed from upon him, and I would hear him moan at night,

many ghosts. In her first volume she relates day to day, while gradually the waxen pallor of and I knew how, the whole panorama of our

two or three instanges of the kind she sees the Il-health replaced the brown skin with which life, as it had seemed, meant to be, unrolled

apparition of a woman in Hampton Court I was so familiary and from a strong he became thefore him nace ba said to me that he charming as this entrance to the harbour or Palace, and hears, the mover a sick man and an object of open pity to all could bear our fate better had the time of year

existent fumiture in not been spring. And he marvelled much, I.

lonely farmhouse in around him.

The social lines are not drawn very closely Scotland. But it is in Blouse that her *taña se ducckruf can a WOMAR Thou think, that i did not grieve more, that no men in this country and there is less of that moral psychical faculties fairly run riot BHouse we made but one, heart together, Iwarable to tion of the future ever crossed my lips, that I rigidity that predominates in a colder and hide from him the real reason of my encourage would not hearken when he spoke of the duties more rigorous climate. The Americans are division of the responsibility between the is a country mansion in the Celt fringe. The ing him to lager so long in this quiet place that would be mine I stood alone-a rich the leaders in all the social and political affaife three persons mentioned on the title page of the and this was my conviction that Dr. Siegulden woman, and how I sailed instead of wept when They are the descendants of the missionaries book appears to have been as follows: Colonel thoroughly understood at case, and was likely he hade me marry again since life was long, who came to the islands three-quarters of a Taylor took the house, Miss Freer ved to do him more good, than any other physician and I was but little more than a child yet. century ago, but they do not hesitate to extend in it for some months in the early part of 1897, to whom I could take film,

And so the week passed, and Dr. Siegfriden, social courtesies with the half-breeds or the and Lord Bute paid the rent Miss Freer kept free now that the freedom of riches, and watching always said, "The end is inevitable, educated native. In fact many of the latter diary. There was no lack of materials and fall in the price of coffee. The prospects there being so zálon upon our time sitewhere, but it comes far more slowly than I expected, are extremely refined people. They live in Marle Bashkirtis was not a more conscientious of coffee are now discouraging. But the plant there cesale to do once this what Wor plead and be frowned as a inan does when his caluxurious homes, and their children to Amorit recorder of the minute of daily experience. ers meet misfortune by experimenting with surned out our undoing for had we been culations have turned out wrong, and sill my can and European institutions of learning and There were sounds of many kinds whisperings, new staple articles such as rubber and coce sompelled 10% return to London; We shouldayofwam bold, and i never dreamed of any have all the comforts shat waith can bestow, voices in conversation, rapi, knockez thumps, nuts An effort has been made, to opad. An

I am dure that he was, and is, an honest man that he was ignorant to the extent of thinking he saw other than what was the truth, I am also cartain; but often l'ask myself way malignant destiny directed aur, wandering, Vittle Gempa village in which Carl Siegfriden lived? The place was interest Ing only to an anilquary, which, Anthony just then was by way of being, and we had turned sheer out of our way for him to Indulge this taste, when for the first time since I had known hint he fell ill and rapidly developed a train of symptoms that gave me intente anxiety, while they seemed to arouse the liveliest interest in Dr. Siegfriden, whom I had, bastened to consult

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The value of the traile for the fear, under. review amounted to:-Imports $26,116,445, Exports $35,241,003, total $62,357,449.-Strafts

Times.

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PRAISE YOUR WIFE.

"How do I look?" asked a young wife who stood before her husband dressed to attend a party with him.

He raised his eyes from the paper he was reading, looked it be critically, and said:

"All ribgt. You'll do,"

did not know it. She was conscious of locking Her heart sank and her lips quivered, but he' her best, and she wanted a word of praise, of admiration from her husband, and she failed to receive it.

Why was he so grudging of his praise? Ask the average man who answers his wife in that way when she asks his opinion, as he invariably does, and he well tell you that she always looks well-dressed in good taste and above criticism, But why doesn't he say that to her? or rather, why does he not make a little lover-like speech remarks he would bestow on the costume of an for such an occasion? Even the courteaus ordinary acquaintance are withheld from his own wife...

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used to say to his wife: "My dear, you are There was a husband-he is dead now-who looking charming this evening:" or, "I love you best in that blue dress of yours." He was

poor stick of a man in the way of worldly those loving tributes given to her with a lover's success, but his widow canonized him for just,

like to be a man just to show what a good hus- deference after many years of wedded life..

"Oh," said a disappointed woman, I would band I could he."

A MAN'S CHARACTER.

It is not the amount of money, the amount of power, the amount of brains that a man has that_is_his_distinguishing feature, but hi character. Whatever following-men may temporarily say or do to the contrary, this is a fact that which separates him from others and gives him his individuality is his goodness or luck of goodness, according to its degree. Money, power, and

tion and recognition, but the standard of the mine have their place, and they do exert an influence in temporarily deciding a man's posi ages, by which any one and every one is tried, is character, and in' Gods' sight, which is the final and determining sight, men are what they are in their wishes and purposes. Beauty of person, brilliant achievement, acuteness of intellect, sway of authority are secondary, while goodness is primary-Evening News,

BOME CHINESE PROVERBS

Our "Necessity is the mother of invention device;" our "Haste makes waste" has UF has in Chinese the equivalent, "Neod breeds gent spinning makes bad yarn;" our "If you" mount a horse you must ride him has "He who bestrides a tiger finds it hard to dismount our Pot calling the kettle black" has The tortoise laughing at the turtle for having no hair; our Looking for a needle in a bag sack" has "Dredging the sea for a pin i our "Handsome is that handsome does has

Miss Goodrich-Frcer is a lady whose writings, under the pseudonym of "Miss X." have long been familiar, says the Daily Chronicle, to readers of the Proceedings of the Society for Paychical Research-for love and for euphony known as the S.F.R. and for same time, we believe, she also edited the extinct periodical, ly published "Essays in Psychical Research," Borderland. In the first of two volumes recent and The Alleged Haunting of B-House"

RESIDENT-GENERAL'S_REPORT.— -Miss Freer, after making clear-that-her- own attitude towards her fellow-investigators and the occult-in general is that of the candid

A SURVEY OF TIN. friend, proceeds to give sketches of some departments with which she is specially fam: Federated Malay States for 1898 has been pub

The report of the Resident-General on the liar. The chapters on hypnotism, the impe-

pelished and bears date 3rd May. The Residen: rative Idea and obsession, though brightly deals with them collectively, first, and points out written, contain little that is new. The Welsh that 1898 was, as a whole, a year of made by the author to St. Winifride's Well, and likely to remain the chief branch of industry Lourdes" is a picturesque description of a visit progress in Federated Malaya prosperity and Tin mining is of the bathing of the sick, the halt and the blind there. The Resident-General considers that in the healing waters of the pool. But it is in the present high average of prices will continue the chapters on intuition, crystal gazing, and for some time. He does not share the opinion centres, for here Miss Freer speaks with nu haunted houses that the interest of the book of those who think that the supplies of Malay

tin are being rapidly exhausted. The Resident thority, being indeed, in the language of the General is confident that immense areas of al- Spiritualists, clairvoyante medium." She luvial tin deposits still awalt discovery and that can see visions in the crystal, a glass of Chablis, underground tin lodes are at hand in unex- a mahogany table, on the wall, in the air, or in her mind's eye and again, like Socrates, or washing is exhaustless. So long as wages are plored localities. The supply of water, for Joan of Ar, she hears voices that others can- paid in silver, and so long as China can be not hear. Her familiar demon is not, however, freely drawn upon for labour, the future of tin- the proof afforded of some strange power of di- misgivings. The only danger to fear is the find- always concerned with weighty matters; but mining in Malaya, he says, need not arouse vining thoughts is none the less interesting for ing of a substitute for tin. The labour supply that, as in the following incident. When tra velling with a friend Miss Freer suddenly found reasons, the immigration of Chinese into the is the next source of anxiety. For a variety of herself impelled to ask. Who is Frances States has almost ceased for the last two or three at Eastbourne?" and further to declare that years. It is probable that, on the last day of Frances was an elderly lady, wearing a cap. the year, the Chinese population of these States Now the friend addressed had the day before was less than it was a few years ago. The firsttime of the existence of just such a Frances, steps to remedy this by offering encouragement had not been thought to possess any interest being given to the idea. It was thought that then on her way to Eastbourne. The matter in money for the direct importation of Chinese But the rise in the price of tin prevented effect for Miss Freer, and had not been mentioned to her. The whole episode was purposeless, but, the miners would, in their own interest, under as Miss Freer assures us, typical of one claas take to introduce such labour as they require of her intuitions. Our author's psychical ex- perience commonly, however, takes the form that it is, however, a fact that, unless the sup ed. The Resident General then points out

those seen in the crystal, simply reproduce old duction of tin will be reduced for the very of visions. Most of these visions, especially ply of immigrant Chinese is increased, the pro- memories and images, generally of the sub. reason that it has risen in price; That sounds conscious sort. But sometimes the vision ap- a curious statement, but the explanation is that parently reflects the unuttered thought of some

the Chinese now In the Peninsula are free men, the newly-acquired husband of a friend, there they can make $1 to $1.50 a day by fossicking ather person, as whan, on her introduction to and they will, not work for wages so long as rose up before her the picture of this gentleman about on their own account. It is, however, running the gauntlet of his schoolfellows pre-ning to come in.

of whom she had never previously heard a fact that Chinese immigrants are now begin paratory to his expulsion from a public school. This incident, it may be noted, rests on Miss Freers word alone; probably not gold was exported in the year 1898 than in the The Resident of Pahang reports that less even a member of the S.P.R. would have previous year, This is disappointing, but, borative testimony. But in many cases Missie in any danger. On the contrary, the Raub from his shaking hand. His eyes were wild the hardihood to ask in such a case for corro- fortunately, it does not mean that this industry and sank back in his chair. A telegram fell, The merchant uttered a sharp exclamation Freer's clairvoyant and telepathic visions- mine has considerably strengthened its position, his face white, and bends of perspiration tood though not recorded with that scrupulous care If any conclusion can be drawn from the value Piper'a trances are attested by her friends and that the Raub property is looked upon as being which Dr. Hodgson has bestowed on Mrs. of shares, It appears to the Resident-General whispered among themselves.

men. In the outer officä" by the evidence of her own diary, and certainly worth at least a million sterling. If that is

"Touch of heart disease?" asked once.

No; the old man can't take up a note,” said much better foundation than so, then Pehang has a great future before it as another I've heard rumours of that kind a gold-producing State. The Indications of We fellows will have to be looking for another gold are widespread throughout the State, and place," Rauh is only one of many properties which had white man settled in the State, Gold has been been worked by Malays for years before any found in all the other States of the Federation, but it is probable that its greatest development may be expected in Pahang,

it is very mountainous its fertile valleys are received a letter in which she learnt for the Government, in the middle of the year, took "Looks are bom, in the heart. The

by a crowd of curious, lazy people, all barefoot When a boat arrives at Honolulu it is met ed and all dressed in the loose flowing garmente ago. In fact, the first impressions that the that have taken the custom up to a short time stranger receives of the city are its barefoot people, its smooth, hard, wide roads and its attractive doorways.

That Hawaii is a land of beauty is evident from the first glimpse that one has of the coun- try. You may go from one end of the globe to the other and not find a bit of scenery one-half Honolulu.

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LAND AND COFFEE Generally speaking, perhaps, the most satis factory feature in the administration of the Malay States is the amount of Land Revenue now collected in all of them. The Land Re- and amounted to 8636,937. In the year 1877 venue for 1898. was the largest yet obtained the total Land Revenue collected in Selangor amounted to $605, while the other States contributed nothing at all. European plant era throughout the States had to face a serious

sidered a drunkard whether he taste wine or Chinese say, "Tinder should not be stored near a fire" "A rednosed man will be con not Cutting off the nose does not remedy a bad odeur n When the mule is beaten, the while playing a guitar to an ox;":"Ifyou.cannot horse is frightened also: "It is hardly worth

the soup in which it was boiled." An Impro have the dumpling, it is something to have vident man in spoken of as one who waits till he is thirsty before digging a well; a prudent man as one who waits to see his guest before. bird perched on its branch, or as ane wills spreading his feast; an unreasoning man one who cuts down a tree in order to catch,the, breaks up his furniture in order to kill the lat

concealed therein.

HE HAD AˆFIT..

on his brow. The

"Get to work--he's coming to again." despairing sigh, picked up the paper from the The merchant wiped his brow, fetched floor, frowned and amped his foot, as if to summon all his resolution, placed the telegram

on his desk, and forced himself to Yeat. 456 bitter message This was it

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my grosgrain suit at once. You will remem Dearest James, Please send the waist for ber the one, as it has revers on the fromage and chain stitched biases on the back, the back room, under your winter overcoal is in the lower trunk in the cupboard besid If not there, it must be it the sealed box board. If you don't find it there, it must b on the third shelf in, the frant-room cup- somewhere else. The trunk key pre in second wardrobe drawer, unless they werd.jp in the chiffonnier and I think the key: in vase ont end of the mantels waist so as not to wrinkle Strand

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