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HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

HONGKONG, Friday, October 13th. Messrs, Benjamíu, Kelly and Forts, in their weekly share report, state-With the exception of fairly large purchases of Indo Chinas for the North, basiness has remained very inactive. Banks. Hongkong and Shanghai Banks con- tinue out of favour owing to political affairs and are obtainable in small lots at 338 per cent premium. The London rate dropped to 58 but has since risen to £59. Nationals are wanted at $27. "Marine Insurances. Unions are steady at $242 ex the dividend of $18 per share paid to day. China Traders are obtainable at $601 ex the dividend of $4 per share paid on the 11th instant Cantons are steady with buyers at $147) Fire hisurances. -Hongkong Fires have been sold at $330. Shipping Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats have been done in a small lots at $30 and $291 Indo Chinas experienced a sharp rise owing to a strong demand from the North and shares have been sold at advancing rates up to $79. Douglas Steam- ships have been placed at $473 and $48, Star Fernes have changed hands a $ig and $19 Refineries.-Continue out of favour. Mining-Punjoms advanced to $11 sales but did not maintain the rate and are again obtain- able at $10. Charbonnages are firm at $245. Queen Mines have been fixed at 45 cents. Jelebus are easier and have been done at $14.33 and $14.25. Raubs have been taken off the market at $64 and 64) and close steady. Great Eastern and Caledonians are enquired for at $2. Docho, Wharves and Godown.A small sle of Hongkong and Whampoa Docks at $15 per cent. premium has been effected. Kowloon Wharf shares have been negotiated at $94 and $93. Lands, Hotel and Buildings Hongkong Lands have been placed at S160, $107 and $107. West Points have been booked at $30. China Providents are in demand at $98. Cotton Mills. Hongkong Cottons have been fixed at $60. Miscellaneous-Green Island Cements have been done at $283 and $281, and are steady with buyers at $283. Electrics have been sold at $13-

SHIPPING REPORTS.

Captain A. Levi, of the steamship Poseidon, from Singapore, reports-Strong N.E. mon.

soon.

Captain R L. Lincoln of the steamship Kwanglee, from Shanghai, reports:-Light to moderate N. Easterly and variable winds and very fine clear weather.

Captain W. J. Davis, of the steamship Haimun, from Swatow, reports:-Light vari able wind, fine cloudy weather throughout. Vessels in Swatow: Tientsin and Heihow.

Captain F. W. Joslip, of the steamship Kang Beng, from Saigon, reports:Light Northerly to N. Westerly wind and moderate head sca; to fresh N.W. gale and high cross aca. Strong Easterly to N.E. wind and high N.E. sea to port

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1899.

CAMPAIGN IN THE PHILIPPINES,

statement to Senator Elkin: "I make a pre- A Washington despatch credits the following diction at the Philippine insurrection will be at an end by January, I am confident of this. The Filipinus who are in rebellion will be crushed and will make no more traible. The campaign is to be waged relentlessly after the middle of October, "

bably five additional Brigadier-Generals will One additional Major General and pro-

new volunteer army which is being organized. be appointed by President Mckinley for the Two of the Major Generals of volunteers, Shafer and Ous, are Brigadier Generals in the regular service, and it has not been decided whether vacancies caused by their promotion shall be filled. Under the army reorganization law the 'resident is author ized

than ever. When he reached the stile he seat. ed himself astride of the topmost bar, and look

He had a piece of news for Jim; a piece of ed expectantly down the road.. Ilis son-in-law, Jim Norris, would soon return from 'market, news at which he was not only much elated, but which he meant to announce in a most original manner.

Maggie Jim gravely contemplated the child's puckered little red face, but did not commit himself.

again, smoothing the sheet, and drawing for Mrs. Buxton wrapped up mother and babe ward the curtain of the bed, so as to screen laggie's eyes from the light. Then she per- able time a train of waggons hove in sight, without murmuring, merely pausing at the einptorily desired Jim to take himself off, a After what appeared to him an 'unconscion command which the holes fellow obeyed some piled high with empty baskets, and others door for another look at Maggie. It had not faden with nuck of rich hue and powerful, occurred to him to kiss her, and tender words aroma. Jack stood up, falancing himself on did not spring naturally to his lips. But the lower step of the stile, and eagerly scan Maggie's eyes rusted lovingly on the awkward ing the faces of the drivers. Some of them figure standing with stainsy fingers fumbling lay outstretched on the yielding mass afore at the latch, and a queer had sheepish smile mentioned, as content as though they reposed on his grimi face. She smiled back, and on rose-leaves, others walked slowly alongside drawing the bed-clothes down a little way, of their horses; but, for the most part, they sat waved the baby's tiny arm. And so they balanced on one of the shafts-a favourite posi-parted. Jim returning with a beaming face to tion with carters, and one attended with no the kitchen. small danger to those not exceptionally sober and wide-awake.

to appoint one Major General for every 12,000 men enlisted. When all the volunteer regiments now being recruited have been organized the United States Army, regular and

Hallo, Ned, hasto seen our Jim?" cried there are now seven Major-Generals corres volunteer, will consist of about 96,000 men. As Jack, as the waggons lumbered by, his own stout team of roans, and his son-in-law's lanky ponding to 84,000 enlisted men, the Presidente not being vet in sight. will be enable to appoint one more Major General

It is not likely that the question of selection of this officer and of the new Brigadier General return to Washington. The President has will be taken up until after President McKinley's established a rule that applicants for appoint promotion, and it is therefore practically certain ments as general officers must win their

that the officers who will be selected by the President must have distinguished themselves

the Spanish war or in the Philippines. Two of the Brigadiers, Smith and Funston will return home shartly from the Philippines to be mustered out. Hate has already returned so that Oris and Shafter will be considered as holding the rank of Major Generals of Volun teers and, not as Brigadier Generals of the regular service. This will give the President the right to appoint five new Brigadiers,

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%.. (Published by Arrangement.) DADDY JACK & DADDY JIM,

h

M. E. FRANCIS, (Author of " In a North Country Village

* Dan, etc., etc.) [COPYRIGHT.]

PART 1.

fell throud. He's sat o'th shaft asleep as Ah, he's yonder, seet enough, without he's like as not."

"He's nobbat ninepence in the shillin' at th shes from his pipe. Bai I'll tell him sum best of times," remarked Jack, knocking the mat as 'ull wakken him."

The roar, indeed, with which he greeted Jim, when the blue, muck-laden waggon at last ap peared, would have awakened any sleeper who was neither dead nor totally intoxicated, and Jim who was not by any means "market fuddled" sat upright at once, yawned, and en- quired drowsily "What's to du

from his perch, and laying a detaining hand on "What's to do?" echoed Jack, descending the leading horse's bridle. "Suminat as surprise thee. fasa' thou wakkened up yet, lazy bones? I tell 'ee what it is, Jini. Thou's be found some gay layin' th road wi' thy yead as flat as a poncake, an' thy in'ards mashed tozjelly. So tell ce. Why doesn't thou get a tap ' th' muck, lad, if thou's set on a doze? Nice soft bed for thee, thot !"

"Our Maggie sauces me fort," pleaded Jim. "Hoo's allus agate bargin' about my cloo'es -hoo says they smell thot strong hoo cannot ston' it.""

"Ah, well-the stuff raight be a bit sweeter," commented his father-in-law in softened tones. "Well, mun 1 tell 'ee what we'n gettin yonder sin' this mornin'."

fim senuched his lantern-jaw, and looked up interrogatively.

**

We'n gotten a paste-egg! Our Maggie "We line thet."

tell ce' suunal about it," said Jack, solemnly.

vity, but the mere sight of Jim's puzzled face He endeavoured to retain a becoming gra was too much for him; and he broke into a paroxysm of laughter.

"A paste egg, lat, I tell 'ee," he repeated brokenly, A proper paste-cgg. Ho! Ho! Ho‡ "Ah," commented Jmu at last, "To-morn's Easter Elt-in yon retter.some paste eggs,

Jim woke up next morning with a 'vague sense of exhilaration for which he could not a first account, but which presently resolved itself into paternal pride. When he had "cleaned him," and scraped his week's growth of beard off-a painful and lengthy operation plastered his locks well with hair-oil, and donned his Sunday suit of board-cloth, he went on tip-toe to Maggie's door. He could hear her mother moving about and talking; then startled him. the splashing of the water, then a sound which

"It's niver th' little un! Eh, but it is--for sure. Ark, how hoo skrikes oot. Eh, my word, hoe's gradely lungs. Hoo's a rare little lass"

He opened the door and peeped in. Baby's ablutions were going on, much to her own dissatisfaction, the half terrified admiration of of her mother, and the delight of " Grandma."

little before the end, and her feable hand with THE RICHEST BOY EVER BORN, drew the curtain that concealed her husband's face from her.

'Art thou theer, lad?" "Aye-Pam here.".

HE IS RELATED TO EIGHTY MILLIONAIRES. This is the story of the richest boy even bon

"Thou's-thou's gelten th' little weich, Jim. He is probably the first billionaire baby, being Hoo'll soon he company for 'ee."

the son of Harry Payne Whitney anil Gertitida

nodded, and Maggie with a sigh closed her eyes.

Jim said nothing.

Vanderbilt Whitney, and the great-great-grand- Thout love her and see to her?" He

san of Commode Comelius Vanderbilt, who Inid the foundation of the vast Vanderbilt for the bedside: he was no longer wanted there William H. Vanderbilt, who increased that for-

Late on that same day. Jim left his place by

tume. He is the great grandson of “Czar Maggie had gone Home.

tune more than any member of the family, and Heis the first grandson of William C. Wait the grandson of the present head of the family. ney, who owns the street railroads of America, the States. He is, ton, the grand nephew of and is one of the greatest financial geniuses in Colonel Payne, the Standard Oil magnate, and he has, in short, more gifted money making ancestors than any other baby boy alive

in the kitchen, and neither spake a word. Jack Te and the old farmer sat opposite each other shifted his position in his big elbow chair every with his fingers on the table: but Jim sat glower now and then, cleared his throat, drummed ing into the tire without moving. Overhead they could hear the women aoving to and fro about Maggie's bed.

smothered excla

Presently Jack, having a deep sigh, drew forward a covered basket that stood on the neighbouring table. Ji heard hit falling with it, though he would not term his head; but after a moment or two, mation made him look round. His father-in- law had come upon poor Maggie's last piece of work: an unfinished baby's shirt with the needle sticking in it.

"Hoo wur-hob wur alios a great hand at th' necile," said Jack pitenusly,

eugged hands, burst out sobbing.

And then Jim, covering his face with his

(To be,continued.)

FALLING 3,000 FEET. SOME WONDERFUL ESCAPES BROM IMMINENT

DEATH.

oom thy ways in an' shut yon door," com- manded the latter. Th child '11 catch its death o'cold." Jim shut the door and advanced into the room, pausing at the foot of the bed to

There used to be a story in Hawaii about a nod at Maggie; then bending down, and resting

native who always took his morning dip off a his hands on his knees, he took note of the enough this yarn met with little belief, but, point of cliff 120 ft. above the surf. Naturally contonions of the pink-wonder-in-Mrs-Bux-considering the distance a man can fall and yet ton's lap.

live, the Hawaii native's performance is, per- "Hoo mind's me suminat of a frog," he ob-haps, not so wonderful as it sounds. served after a pause.

Grandma paused a moment in speechless in. dignation.

Well, an' thou should be ashamed of thysel'. As bonny a little wench as iver drawed breath Did iver a body bear of sick a thing? A frog

"It were th' little limbs stretchin' out an' pullin' theirsel's up as made me think it," ex- plained Jim apologetically;" an' you' little round body huo's geiten-el, i connet but fancy hoo's a look of a frog."

Only the other day one read of Mile. Morel, who, with her mother, fell on the Alps near 30ft. of this was perpendicular, and the rest Zermatt a distance of over 1,200ft, The first

the mother was killed; the younger woman es- down a tremendously steep slope. Yet, though caped with mere bruises.

F. S. Sutherland, late of the United States Navy, has turned Steeple Jack, and has had in this exciting profession many wonderful es Did the iver leet on a frog wi' such a

capes. While in Chicago in 1898 he climbed yead of air?" enquired Mrs. Buxton, rabbing the waterworks tower, 240ft high. the towel round and round the little helpless made a sheer plunge of 175 ft. head with its coating of dark fluff.

When near the top a stone gave way, and ke He struck the "Nay, cannot call to mind as I have," re-telegraph wire goft, above the street, and landed. sponded her son-in-law with a loud laugh. in fin. of slush in the roadway. The suggestion secured to him infinitely huin. ourous.

Hundreds of people saw Sutherland falling, and stond spellbound with horror. A fearful though that clinched the matter,

"Well then," summed up Mrs. Buxton as death seemed inevitable--nay, it was generally Jack-and-Jim-went their way to church, pre-ed the telegraph wires. Doctors and ambul believed that he was dead long before he reach

but presently, after much shuffling of the feet, triumph, the congratulations of friends and amined Sutherland they declared, much to the Jack laughed on till he was almost suffocated, fashion; and received with a certain dignified life might ternain; but when the doctors ex

gently, equally jubilant, each after his own ances were sent for in the hope that a spark of and rolling of the head, he recovered a decenkinsfolk congregated outside the lych-gate semblance of composure.

onlookers' surprise, that there was little the matter with him! After seven days in hospital he was up and about again!

Farmer Jack Buxton strolled leisurely along shadow of the hawthorn hedge, to the high the well-trodden path which led, under the

road. In his hand was a thick stickat bis heel followed a pogrel sheep dog, "not much to look at," as his master, said, "but as sensi- ble as a Christian" in his mouth was a short well-smoked black pipe-Jack looked what he was, a sturdy, comfortable northcountry farmer, well content with himself and the world. Captain N. G. Majer, of the steamship-left of the thorn Eedge was a neid of autumn-han yo'? - Well."

It was a sunny, breezy, April day. To the Mongkut, from Koh-si-chang, reports-Left Koh-si-chang on the 2nd with moderate winds to the right a pasture in which Jack Bus sown wheat, already making a brave show; and fine clear weather up to Palaran, thence ton's cows were feeding. Through the brit strong winds up to Paracels, thence heavy gales liant delicate green lattice of the new-bud- of typhoon force for several days. On the 12th ded hedge, he caught a glimpse of one or two fell in with large launch adrift with no one on sleek red backs, and standing still a moment board, took her in tow and brought her to port, he could hear, launch's name On Lec-

creatures her he crunch, crunch of the meeting in the fresh young herbage. A little further on was a gleam of white-and a horned head, with a pair of mild eyes and dilated nostrils breathing wann clover scented puffs, peered at its master

in the green. jack cocked

TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF MISSIONARIES AT FOOCHOW.

"Eh: Jim-thout a noddy if iver I see un. Thou connot mak' nought o' th' paste egg,

thou? Why lad, thou'rt a feyther, tekst con sure Our Maggie's getten a little 'an. Thou'rt "Daddy Jim"I tell 'ce. An' it's a wench, mon - little fat lass, wi' black e'en same as her grother an' her gron mother. Theer-what does thou say to thot?"

"I like as if I were glad it's Easter to-day," oliserved Jim to his father-in-law as they sauntered homewards.

"Why so?"

"Eb, because all they hymns thou know 50 j'yfull like-Hallyloors an' that seems as if all wor o' count o' th' little wench."

"Eh!" said Jack, "Well-thou'rt a rum chap I dun know but what thou't reet, though. But Chrestmus 'ud ha bin happen a better time. fort

We are glad to hear that the terms of settle-throughs and his head a Rule sideways, took hat to the back of his head, and gaped at the to ha coomed. Unto as a child is born,' thou

ment re the Kien Ning case have now been agreed upon by HB.M.'s onsul and the Chinese Authorities. If these terms are ad- hered to it is little likely that there will be any repetition of the rioting and disorder which occurred some months ago and we may hope that our Missionaries will be allowed to carry on their work of healing and teaching in peace and quietness. The terms of eettlement are as follows

-The alleged murderers of the Native Christians are to be brought to Foochow for trial. The trial to take place in the presence of H.B.M.'s Consul and one or more of the Missionaries. Other participators in the riot or the ringleaders to be sentenced to imprison- ment by the local authorities.

Jim tumbled off the shaft, pushed his battered his, pipe out. of his mouth, and smiled. Bob, new-made grandfather, a slow rapture gradual-knows." the dog, standing a bule behind him, prickedly creeping over his swarthy face.

ears, and showed his glistenning white teeth

"Eb

...bas it coom?! as though to follow suit.

his

The cow, after contemplating them for a ed her long pink tongue, and caught hold of a moment or two, stretched out her neck, extend particularly tempting thorn-bough; whereupon strode forward and tapped her on the nose, Jack, uttering an extraordinary sort of growl,

None of thot!" he cried threateningly, "thot theer 'edge isn't for thee, own lass. Ah, thou may look and toss thy head. What's getting into theeth winter, that thou man grass for, and clovet, antall they turmits thou's coom nibblin' my 'edge? Be off wi thee- docsto year or we's try if Bob can nuak thee run a bit.

2. A Bond is to be entered into by the comptrollers of the 24 Lien Kak at Kion Ning guaranteeing peaceable residence to the Mis

He flourished, his stick, and the old lady, sionaries and the Native Christians. Such taking the hint, retired a little way into the Bond to be signed in the presence of H.B.M.'s Consul and of two of the Missionaries at Forfield, pausing, when she had attained what she chow and scaled by the High Provincial

considered a safe, distance, to survey him with Authorities. It is also to be signed and scaled

a defiant air. by H.B.M.'s Consul. The chief superintendent of the 24 Lien Kaks and the next in authority to be brought to Foochow to sign sald bond.

(This Bond was signed and all the above conditions carried out on Monday last at the Yamen of the Frovincial Judge, Mr. Playfair, the Rev. Lloyd and Dr. Rigg being present.)

3-Compensation is to be paid for all losses and expenses incurred.

4-A stone tablet is to be erected in the City of Kien Ning on which the toleration clauses of the Treaty of Tienuin are to be inscribed.-Foochow Echo.

A ROMANCE OF A LONDON HOSPITAL.

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"Ah, it has coum-and doesn't thou think it's bin long enough of the road? Well, thou'lt then, an' I'll see to the waggon." be for seein' it, I fancy. Gothy ways a-whoam

"Eh," ejaculated Daddy Jim, surrendering the reins, it's coom. My word:"

Of wi tho' the little wench 'all be half-up grown 'afore thou sees her if thou doesna stir thysel a bit."

An' that were the paste-egg," went on Jim who was rather slow in taking in an idea, "Eh I were welly moidered wi thy paste-egg. the wench were the pastc-cgg? Well to think I could na think whativer was to do. Ho! Ho!

on't."

He had clambered over the stile by this time, and was now shambling off in the direction of the farm, as fast as his huge loose-jointed limbs would take him, chuckling to himself now and then, but not so frequently, nor so loudly; as turned," observed the farmer to himself hoowhelmed at the news. It had come. He was "Hon'll be at it again sonn's ever my back's his. father-in-law. He was too much over will for sure. Mich same as our owd missis

a father. His missus had a little 'un. Eh! -hoo have her way Daisy yonder minds ine often of the owd

as how'tis. Owd Mrs. Baxton, an upright, stirring old body, lass, wiber white face an's her black c'en, traced a certain resemblance to that of the in whose long pale face there could indeed be an' thot sheer stubbor way hoo has. Eh, white cow, was bustling energetically about the tear me. But hoo's 'appy enough to-day. Eh, our Mary ud be some mad if boo was

kitchen when Jim entered, and waylaid him as he was making for his wife's room. hoo is, an I am, too. An' Jim. Whatever'il Jim say-Hallo! What mischief han yo' agate, yo' young raskils?"

Turning suddenly round the corner, for the hedge, and the path with it described an abrupt angle Just there, he had come face to face with a party

of small boys, decorated with | ribbons, carrying flags, and further provided with baskets, each of which contained hens' eggs in greater or lesser mimber.

Eh, Mester Buxton!" exclainted one little fellow after a startled "we'n nobbu!

pause, coom paste-eggin." put in another.

"Ah, Easter Sunday to-morrow, ye know,"

with a portentous frown, "what brings yo paste "Easter Sunday or an Easter," growled Jack eggin' my field-ek, yo' little scnps? I've mind to paste-egg yo2, I have."

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severe, but the egg-collectors merely nudged The farmer'stone was rough, and bis expression each other and grinned: Farmer Jack's bark. was known to be worse than his bite.

"We was on our road to yo'r place, mester; we thowt happen Mrs. Buxton 'ad spare us a two three eggs," observed the little spokesman of the party, presently, with a sly glance. "Hoo alius does." Hoo's gien us geese eggs an all sorts."

Thou mun tak' off thy sheon," Jim obediently kicked them off. Thou art na fuddled, I 'ope?" "Nawe," said Jim, "I've robbut had two gills.

"Thou munnat be talkin' an' moiderin' our Maggie-"

"il niver cheep," said Jim.. "Well, then, coom."

She led the way, her son-in-law following her, treading heavily enough in his "stocking feet, an expression of awe on his swarthy face, and his eyes round with wonder. There fay Maggie in the fourpost bed, her pale face, with its pretty dark eyes resting on a grand frilled and spotless linen sheets had been carefully pillow slip. This, with a hew counterpane, prepared for the occasion. Jim came forward

unwieldily on tip-toe.

not. An how art thou, lass 7

"Eh, Maggie," he said, with a little one-sided

It's a wenth, Ji," whispered Maggie. "I doubt thou'd rayther me ha' had a lad."

"Nawe," said Jim, "I'd as soon ave a lass to start wi."

shrill grandmotherly. glee. To start with he "Eh, bless the lad "cried Mr. Buxton, with

says. Thou're fur goin' forrard, art thou? Poor Maggie 'ull happen not be in sich a hurry for another. Wilt thou lass? "To start wi, says he."

A recent number of the Daily Telegraph contains an account of the romantic marriage of a patient in St. Thomas's Hospital, London. The bridegroom left the country to seek work In London, and fell in love with his landlady's daughter. Then came an interval when he was away as a stoker. He returned to London- the girl always faithful-and got work in an iron foundry, where he met with a terrible Accident, necessitating his removal to St Thomas's Hospital. The broken limbs were bandaged, and in any ways he did well, but there was a something mysterious which baffled the doctors and nurses. This turned out to be his strong wish to be married--the girl was equally willing. We give the rest of the story in the Telegraph's own words: "An ambulance approached the bedside, and, all encased in plaster, and as rigid as an effigy in marble, the man was borne to a neighbouring church, where the ceremony was performed.. And when the band, softened to transparency by non-usage and the gentle nursing of months, was raised from the recumbent form to place

Maggie laughed weakly, and Jim began to the ring on the finger of the kneeling gitl,

think he had said something rather clever. Here the farmer suddenly threw back his

"Ah, a lass is reet enough," he remarked, It looked as if this man too, belonged head, and uttered a guffaw, in which the lads rubbing his hands, and chuckling ecstatically, to the past and was slowly awaking into Joined, though the joke was quite unintelligible for a beginnin'. We's ha' a lad next." life again. The ceremony, ended, the little to them congregation was back into the world, and "Ah," pursued Jack. The missus hus now; howd thy din. What doesto think our Ark at him," said Grandmother. "There reality. On the doorstep the patient's pipe was gelen a gradely paste-egg. Ye munnot go Maggie's yead is made on? Well, doesn't thou lighted, and he had a good sinoke for the first get in her road. Turn yo round again, my time for weeks and weeks. This was strictly ads, an go some other gate on Sec yo- a bonny little lase, hoo is, bless her little 'cart. want to see the child? See then......elt, Hoo's According to the penniside of the hospital, theers a penny-to-bugauge sticks off wilson Hoe's a gradely little wench see her little authorities. Then, on the way -back were two drinks in quiet pinces well there. The boys, only half content, turned as they legs, an' her ands. Eh, theer's a mony childer Observation.hts tag was according to auth their wake, watching them as they chambered

1 out of 1 were desired, and Jack followed.mord.orly in a mouth and not half the aise d only. And when the patient found himself over the sale at the further end of the field, and once more in hospital he was congratulated betook themselves in the direction of the Vilage right and left There was: magin in the whence they had come. Then stood still ceremony that instantly

Nature more and chuckled.

nesds, sometimes so bai

Burgear

"Well, our missus connot be moidered wi yo' to day. Hoo's other things to be thinkin' on. We's getten a big paste-egg o' ow're own as take's all we're time to see to."

pace

“A paste egg! It's a notion, thot." He went on again his broad gaburet face creasing itselfinto a thousand Jubilant wsinkios, his eyes twinkling under their shaggy grizaled * brown bithai Fa Montis more, aunty angi

in his great paw, shaking it gently up an down.

Jim bent over,

over, and took the tiny fist tenderly thy Daddy. Eh, we's be gradely friends, thou "Shake ands, little lass. Shake 'ands wi an' me. See thou, Maggie, hoo's getten howd of my finger. My word, hoo ha.”

gio,

"I think hop favvours the murmured Mag

"Nay, nay, hoc tak's arter our family sate Mrs Huxton hastily; # Hod's getten say en

"Ah," meditated Jim, "but they cooms when they'n a mind, they childer."

Nay, they comes when th'A'mighty sends'. em, corrected Farmer Baston; which pious sentiment Jim endorsed by a sigh, and ashake

of the head.

The house seemed very silent when they returned: Hob came forward to meet them, wagging his tail, but otherwise nothing seemed to be stirring.

The child's asleep," said Jack, nudging his son-in-law with a grin. "Thon mun mak' no noise, lad, Eh, thou' ha to larn to keep quiet, noo theer's a little un i' th' 'ouse."

theirsel's," answered fi, kicking off his boots, "I'll nobbut creep up tax how they find and mounting the stairs with a creaking pause on each step. Before he had got half way, however, the door of Maggie's room opened, and Mrs. Buxton appeared, her long white face longer and whiter than ever, her finger on her lip.

th' kitchen. Hoo's none so well."

"Go thy ways down, Jim: theu mun keep i "What?"

th little un'asped Jim. "What's amias

little un's reet enough. It's our Maggie. Hoo's "Nay, go thy ways down, I tell 'ee. Th' takken a turn or suamat. I've sent for doctor." She withdrew, closing the door very softly, and Jim-went creaking down again with a woful

face.

"Our Maggie's takken a turn." is What sort o' turn?"

A bad turn I reckon"--this with a quiver , they lauses, they do sometimes is their first childer. Dunnot looked so scared, mon. Hop'll be reet-thou'lt see. Hoo's allus bin a strong 'ealthy wench-naught niver alled

Is doctor coming?" .. "Ab, they'n fetched him." "Reet...

her,

thee."..

Hoo'll be hersel'i no time I tell

Jim sat down, rubbing his knees, and staring disconsolately into the fire. Jack wandered up the same encouraging remarks over and over and down between door and window, making again, though his face gradually lengthened, and he was obviously uneasy.

Presently the doctor came. The two men looked at each other as he descended the stairs, but neither of them found courage to question him Mrs. Buxton's face as she followed him fold tale of its own, and sundry phrases. which they caught of the murmured colloquy Alled them with dismay.

Hard work to pull through Peritonitis

set In

What's that?" whispered Jim to Jack. "The titus-our Maggie's getten-th' titus brown-titus," answered Jack.

"Eh, an, we niver heered her cough," ejaculated jim, and then the pair fell to listening again but they could hear no more

Mr. Whymper's fall when climbing alone on the Matterhom the year before his successful ascent is well-known. He bounded from rock to rock down to the bottom of an almost perpendi- cut, but the only fasting evil effect was the cular gully for over 30oft. His head was badly impairing of his memory.

A few years ago a father attempted to kill his children by throwing them off the Suspen sign Bridge at Clifton, and one of them, a girl about eleven years of age, survived that terrific plunge. A woman, too, once reached the water below in safety, after an attempt at suicide by jumping from the same pampet. But this happened in the days of the crinoline, and it was the balloon-like expanse that saved her. Charles Woolcot's terrific tumble from a height Most marvellous of all is the account of of no less than 3,000ft. It was in Venezuela, and he was making a parachute decent. The parachitite refused to open till within a hundred or two hundred feet of the ground. Then it spread out suddenly-and split.

and both kuces, broke his right thigh and hip, The unfortunate man crushed both ankles

other injuries. Yet after a year in hospital, he, dislocated his spinal column, and suffered too, recovered sufficiently to write an account of what was probably the most fearful accident mortal man ever survived.

A PUZZLE FOR ORICKETERS.

Turkish waters some of the young officers During the time the English fleet lay in decided to vary the monotony by playing 2 cricket match. Sides were chosen, the ground high dignitary of the Turkish Court was in- was prepared, and wickets were pitched. A. vited to witness the national game of the English visitors. Reclining on cushions in his carriage, with his servants at hand to fan him, he watcher, the young Englishmen in flannels exerting themselves beneath the broil- ing fun.

At length, after one of the field bad run nearly to his carriage and returned the ball to the wicket-keeper, the Pasha said to an Eng. lish friend who stood beside him. "Why did that young man run so fast to get that ball?" game and spoke of the spirit of emulation The Englishman endeavoured to explain the evoked and the fine qualities developed by the derstood, but after a pause he added, "If that national pastime. Apparently the Pasha un young man ran so hard and took a rauch away directly he got it? trouble to get that ball, why did he throw it

Soon the doctor drove off, and Mrs. Buxton. re-entered the kitchen. She stood still for a looking from one to the other; then she tried moment resting her hand on the table, and. to speak, failed, and raised her apron to her eyes, distant church bella Chyming merrily,

Through the open door they could hear the Jim rose, and walked upstairs without a wording When Mrs. Buxton followed, the found him seated by his wife's bed, half hidden by the

curtain.

theer's a good lad" "Ask," as Maggio moan “Go down, Jim," she murmured gently, ed. "Hoo too bad to notice, thou'rt nabbut

'th road 'ere thou connet do her no good."

Till bide, as how t'a, said Jin sullenly, and bide he did all through the long hours that place at the bedside omaggie's pain left hers. ensued that Allent motionless figure kant it

RUNNING A BAILWAY.

SIXTY THOUSAND MEN TO LOOK AFTER YOU

and princess, one duke and duchess, fifty mil

The boy has among his relatives one prince lionaires, and

THIRTY MULTI-MILLIONAIRES,

He is particularly fortunate in comparison. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jun. This baby is not. with his cousin, the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. smiled upon by Cornelius Vanderbili. The new baby is the first grandson of that magnate to be recognised by him and hailed with joy

He is not only fortunate, moreover, because of his relatives. It was no mere figurative silver. spoon that he found ready for his small mouth when he arrived a few months ago it No: 2, West Fifty-seventh-street He has a dainty bassinet all in blue and white. He has a layetto fit for a baby king, and before he was more than a few hours old he began to receive valu able presents. Already he has received cheques enough to start a big bank account.

Here are some of his presents→→

A fine chain of chased gold with a diamond clasp and a wee hersehce pendant studded rattle, made of with small diamonds suspended from it; a

—AS ELEPHANT'S TOOTH,

with gold bells and set in gold and precious. stones: a pair of tiny sleeve clasps of turquoise surrounded with small diamonds; and a neck. lace and sleeve clasps of small pink comis set alternately with diamonds,

Vanderbilt Whitney. Mrs. Whitney does not sleep. Neither has his little sister, Flora Payne Young Whitney has never been rocked to

believe that rocking is healthy to children. Therefore the bassinet for the new baby has been made stationary.

FUNNY LAWS MADE FOR BOYS.

Perhaps the most remarkable of all laws made for boys (says a writer in Chutns for September) exists in Heligoland, a little island about a mile across, which England gave to Germany nine years ago in exchange for some land and right of way in Africa. Here no boy un house for any purpose whatever. That in itself is der the age of sixteen is allowed to entere publice

sixteen to enter a theatre! The pantomime sea- nat remarkable, as the sante law existe elsewhere, but the law goes on to forbid any boy under

Heligoland. And New York, according to son must be a very sad time for the, children of recent case, has a similar theatre law in operas tion. The city of Roanoke, in Virginia, is very anxious that the morals of its boys should not be corrupted, and the City Council has recently passed a law providing that all boys-and girls-under sixteen years of age must be in the house at nine o'clock at night, and must not go out alone again. In the winter months in the streets alone is eight. Another clausa the latest hour at which they are to be allowed enacts, too, that no proceedings will ba taken if the boy has a written permission from his

anless he or guardian to be out, but hours mentioned runs the risk of being that permission, or is searching for a doctor, the boy who is out after the arrested and his parents fined. It seems in credible that there should be a law anywhere to them, but boys under sixteen in Norway art forbidding boys to accept what is freely offared. strictly forbidden to accept cigarettes from any body, either as a gift or in exchange for pay ment. The enactment is part of a wider w govering the relations of boys and tobacco...

sell tobacco to such boys are subject to a.Gu The sale of tobacco to boys under sixteen absolutely prohibited, and tobacconista, who Tourists are forbidden to offer boys tobacco in any form, and are liable to prosecution if they, accepts it. Even a father is fined, if he is do so, just as the boy is liable to a fine if he known to be guilty of breaking this law, the object of which is, of course, to protect the health of the boys of the country.

£800,000 FOR A YACHT,

HUGE FORTUNE SUNK IN BUILDING

SUMPTUOUS PLEASURE CRAFT.

which has been built for the Queen at Tenby, The new steam yacht Victoria and Alberi, will be on completion the handsomest and fast- est yacht any British sovereign has possessed. It rank second to the Emperor of Russia's wonderful yacht, the Polar Store which is said to have cost close upon a million of money.

Nothing more lavishly elaborate than the fitting and decoration of the Polar Star could easily be imagined. Money has been drilled alo her frame in hundredweights. The decorations hundred and fifty guests, cost approximately of the dinning saloon alone, which will ta £20,000. Exquisite paintings by some of the cabins, and all the woodwork is elaborately most celebrated artists adorn the saloons and carved. There is a fine library and mules room aboard, and a beautiful white marble fountain, while some of

THE ORNAMENTS ARE OF THE RAREST. The Standart, the Czar's smaller steamyacht, of 4,300 tons is much more frequently used than the Polar Star. She cost lightly ordr £400,000 This is only about half the price of the Polar Stars but the Standart in one of the most sumptuous yachts afloat.

There is accommodation aboard for a crew of three hundred, twenty officers, and eighty: passengers. There are three magnificentsultes of apartments devoted to the use of the Em peror and Empress, a billiard room, and music saloon.

The London and North Western Railway Company has a capital of £119,000,000, and a revenue of more than £1,300 an hour; Its 2,300 engines travel over 41,000,000 miles in a year; 156,000 passengers a day; £2,500 goes every day to keep the line in a proper state of repair. ir employs over 60,000 men, and carries over

The dining saloon is panelled in tulipwood; Every day each foot of the line is Inspected. line. Many of them live in the company's own There is a platelayer to every mile of single fittings are of heavily carved solid, silver, the door handles, finger plates, and the lamp cottages, in buildings on which £40,000 a year silver fittings; and the walls and doors of the

There is a fine marble Bath room, with heavy- is spent £140,000 a year is wanted to keep in principle cabin are elaborately inlaid with roads, and about £100,000 a year gnes in paint-ments and additons have been made to her working order signals, bridges, and approach ivory and mother-of-pearl. So many, improve and repairing, besides 30,000 in rebuild. appointments since she wasfitat.completed the

The wages bill for the permanent way she is now worth probably half as much again alone amounts to £26,000 a month.

as she originally cost

which £110,000 goea in wages. Besides goods considering her beauty and purpose, a comps, Then comes the rolling stock, to keep which The German Emperor's famous steam yacht, up to the mark takes about £300,000 a year, of the Hohenzollerni, of nearly 4,000 tons, was waggons, there are over 5,000 passenger carratively inexpensive vessel, costing consider riages, 758 carriage trucks, 600, horac-boxes, ably less than £200,000.She has a very beau about Boo brakes and parcel vans, including a tiful interior, and splendid accommodation for for dog-saloont, and thirty-three post-office crew and passengers alike and la considered Itbour item being beraly 410 per vehicle .... tenders. A third-class carriage costs. Good, the one of the fastesty amoothest going yachi

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