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THE CHARGE,

NÝ JAMES PERDU.

(Spreially written for the "Hongkong!

Telegraph."

How long we were kept sitting in our saddles there I don't know, All round one heard the jingling of harness, and bridles as the naggs Hung up their heads and fretted at the long wait, and the slow creak and grunt of the saddles as the weary riders shifted in their seats, Alongside of me sa trooper of B. Company was glaring over the plain at the enemy, keep ing up a continuous stream of-anths against them and all belonging to them, while another was talking to his troop-horse as he caressed his neck. If anyone dares to so much as have a whack at you, I'll blooming well knock his blooming lead off. I will so help me, so don't you mind, old man!" He scowled round defiantly at the black masses of the enemy's infantry on the verge of the plains.

An officer swore softy under his breath as his horse sidled a little into the ranks.

As we looked out across the middle distance we saw out infantry advancing to the attack. A shiver of excitement settled down through the, ranks, soaking up file alter file as it were. The wind brought as the sound of their fire, where we were, but they were soon hidden by the smoke-drifts of their rifles. Now and again R figure or so would stand out for a moment and lien disappear again in a shroud of white smoke. It seemed ages for us waiting there in reserve-listening and watching ignorant of how the action was going.

Once we saw a huddled mass of infantry, break and scatter towards our lines. A murmur of ra e shook through our ranks and we listen- ed yet more eagerly to the hoarse note of the battle raging somewhere behind the thick smoke.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900.

They had apparently heard my last cry and were coming more quickly towards me, scanning every face they passed by the light of their lantém. A fearful anger seized me that some other man would be found by them, and taken for the owner of the voice they heard, while was left to the cold despair of the night on the deserted. field. At any rale must make them hear and come to my aid.

I raised myself on my sound arm and lifted myself as well as I was able. I gathered all my strength for one last appeal for aid and help as I raised my body for the effort an agonishing pain shot through my back and Telt consciousness leave me as I fell sliding" down against the body of my old mare.

(The Times, Friday, February 9th.) ·

Mennwifife I close my eyes, and I am at once

A GENTLEMAN RANKER. He was sitting with his back against a boulder, his rifle-barrel resting on a stone, the stock on his knees. He was using the stock for a desk, and was writing laboriously in pencil on A crampled half-sheet of paper.

A SOUTH SEA PARSON'S WIFE.

FLECTHER CHRISTAIN'S GRAND-DAUGHTER.

"Died on December 5th, 1899, at Norfolk Island, in the South Pacific, at "the_age of ninety years.”

The lights were moving steadily in my direc| THE PREVENTION OF MALARIA. in water for about a week before they assume modulated. Twice again through the night

the tion now. I must do something to attract

mosquito, farm. As larvae, like those of I saw that magic procession from curtains to their attention, for the pain of my arm was

the common goat, they rise to the surface cornice, and the impression is strong on ma now that I can recall it at any moment. I live of the water to breathie; and film of oil on the increasing, and threatened at times to rob me of my senses, I called out again as joudly as The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine surface is speedily fatal to them, by blocking up in an enchanted land, with beautiful things all I could, "Here, help... On they came at hos just issued a memoir, or small book, con

their air spiracles. The fully formed mosquito about me. It is an accompanied life, a life of

sweet music, mellowed and hallowed by dist the same pace as before. I called aagain...taining Instructions for the Prevention of lives for many weeks, but is not presumed to They stopped and I felt rather than saw that Malarial Fever," for the use of residents in

travel far, and probably always obtains its foodance, a life blissful as a lotus-enter's, and a life the man with the lantern held it up and threw málarious places; and these instructions are of within easy reach of its native pool of water, to that I shall be loth to quit for the humdrumness.

As I read the seast notice in an - Austrálian the light in my direction. My consciousness so simple and sufficient a character, and so well which it periodically returity for the purpose of of mere mundane existance. seemed fast draining from me... I felt I must calculated to effect the purpose for which they fore, by drying up the pools in the vicinity of with Bobs in Pretoria, where I hear the screams

paper, memory, goes backs to a day more depositing its eggs. Much may be done, there-

than twenty years ago, and I see before make a last effort to guide them to me, before are designed, th 1 we are induted to repeat, for

me the calin, sweet face, and deep, kindly the moving blackness that seemed closing in the sake of calling attention to them, the lead houses, or by treat them once a week with of Mrs. Kruger, as she is subjected to a figorous eyes, of one of the most lovable and gentle film of kerosene oil. Much may be done also personal examination by a female searcher old women that ever lived-a woman whose on my senses enveloped me entirely.

ing facts of one of the most important discover-

Presently herskirt is brought in and examined ies of modern times. The fevers collectively by killing the mature, insect when resting upon

a wall after its meal; and it is to be noted that by the general staff. Sewn up in it are found

very presence and soft, tender voice filled. terried malarial, which range from what was

the heart of many a rough wandering sailor bonds, bank notes, and diauionds to an amount not uncommon in certain parts of England fifty the true Anopheles rests with its body almost at

with thoughts of home and peace, and all. years ago, under the name of "ague." to the right angles to the surface of the wall, while the

far exceeding anything her husband ever asked for moral and intellectual damage. A few Nobbs, the grand-daughter of the famous and that was good and pure.. Such was Sarah malignant and rapidly futal forms met with in absolutely or comparatively harmless goat rests

minutes later pond one brings in the Pre- the tropics, have constituted, perhaps, the chief with its body parallel to the wall, or even some

what inclining towards it. The little book or silentess's st. But here the discreet vision the wife of George Hunn Nobbs, who for more ill-fated leader of the Bounty matiny, and impediment to the colonization by Europeans

pamphlet to which we refer contains instruc- fades as I hear that well-known voice at my of many countries which in other respects ap

than fifty years was chaplain to the Pitcaim tions for identifying and destroying, the An-

elbow whisper, Your heef-tes, sir."-and Norfolk Islanders. Nobbs had had a most peared to be admiralty adapted to undergo

Gazette development under the influence, of civilized opheles, both in its adult and in its larval forms, immigrants. In some of these countries the

and also for rendering habitátjons in the tropics as safe as may be possible against ité incursions. native races are at least partially free from

ability to the disease; but, even when this is The whole of the few pages of which it consists are written with admirable brevity and clear. the case, and it is by no means universal, they are generally of low type and of depressedness, and should enable Englishmen, armed in vitality. Vast regions of Africa have long been complete panoply of knowledge, to preserve their health in regions which have proved regarded as almost necessarily fatal to white nices; millions of acres in India are left only too fatal to many generations of their

predecessors. without cultivation; and even Europe itself has Asheen desolated over considerable portions of

its surface. The Italian Campagna, so fertile and populous under the dominion of the Ro- mans, has in modern times been reduced by malaria to an arid waste almost destitute of human inhabitants; and Wellington's army when in Estremadura, was assailed with such severity as to threaten its very existence. In England during many periods of our history malana has prevailed over wide districts, and even within living meniury was not uncommon in the "fen country"; but not least of the it presented to in. quires difficulties which

was due to its constant tendency to disappear before drainage and cultiva

this cause Chiefly from

it has been to so large an extent banished from our restricted opportunities of studying its pheno- mena, while the observers who have traced its course in foreign countries have worked out innumerable details with regard to its behaviour, the varied climatic conditions under which it exists, its relation to soil, to altitude, and to vegetation, which were practically quite value- less until, within the last few years, the key was obtained to their interpretation. This key

They told me, I was quite delirious when they found me next morning. The doctors said my back was broken, as wellas my arm. soon as they had tinkered me up enough to stand the journey, I was sent home.. Oh, yes married "The girl I left be hind me " She said she only loved me more now I was a cripple, because it made me dependent on her But that's a woman's way.

tion.

THE HIGHER İNFLUENZA,

[ny M. S.]

of us, and the men, began to settle themselves, anxious-about-it.It-was-a-marvellous shores tha: English physicians have had bungus, never known save to the initiated and

and the ranks lightened. The officer loosened bis sword in its scabbard, and I could see him smiling to himself.

At the word of command we all moved for- ward from our cover and reached the open plain. As we did so a shell went over our hends with an angry sound. Then for the first time I began to think of what war meant, and 'wounds and the black horrors of the battle field

WOUNDS IN WAR. Writing from the auxiliary hospital at Natal,, of the Estcourt armoured train incident, a pri- We were, one and all, chafing at the delays,There are no bones smashed in my foot, but vate in the Durban Light Infantry. says: when we got our orders to advance across the three of my toes are quite dead owing to the plain and charge the left flank of the enemy.

nerves being destroyed. My throat bothers A sigh of contentment rippled over the whole

me when swallowing, and the doctor seems escape. Dr. Hall would not believe it, till be saw it himself, and when he saw it, he remarked, You should be dead' However, I am not dead, and hope to get my revenge before it is all over. I cannot understand yet how any of us got back at all. 1 got the shot in the foot shortly after we left the truck, so could do little but lie still and fire. Just as the engine was getting clear, I was making for it, to try and get in, but got shot through the throat. I know enough of first aid to know that there is a big artery there, and from the way the blood gush ed out I thought it was all over with me, but to my intense relief I found that, after lying I felt I would like to give up the game, for still for some time, the bleeding was stopped The engine was passing at the time, got hold cold fear was in all my bones, but the troop all

of the side, and hung on it for 60 yards. I'was round, me kept me steady, Another shell

just on the point of falling off when the engine plunged into the ground ahead of us and flick-stopped. I got on the tender side, and stood on ed up a sheet of sand in our faces. We the 4in, ledge, with my foot dangling, till we got covered our facts, but it did not explode, to Endandale, where I got on the cab. It was and in another minute we had got beyond it.

pouring with rain all the way back, and I was Now the order was given to "Trot out,"

chilled through. My foot seemed to weigh followed in quick succession by the word to

200 lbs. Bad as I was, I could not help think, "Canter." We were covering the distance ing how fortunate I was compared to the poor between us and the enemy at a good rate now.

fellows left behind, many of them wounded, The horse of a rear file near me, stumbled and fell, bringing the rider down. He was a recruit and all of them certain of Pretoria." or little more and he gazed over his saddle the troop as it went, with a look of horror by changing to surprise as the death, that seemed inevitable, swept by on either side of him. Each horse swerved as it reached him and he

by night. I fell angry with the men who some where across the plain were throwing these shells, simply to prevent me getting back to England, to my mother's cottage, and the girl I had left behind me. It seemed to 'solect my particular squadron for a mark.

lay there untouched,

Gur ranks.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT CHAMPAGNE

It is somewhat disconcerting to learn, on the authority of a correspondent of the Scientific American, that there is more champagne drunk in one year than the champagne district produces in seven, and it is interesting to Doto which countries take most of the genuine article. Last year the champagne district exported 19,630,000 litres, valued at 91,327,552 francs. England bought more than half the total. Belgium followed a long way after with 2,778,000 litres, Germany with 1,859,000, and the United State and Canada with 1,419,400 litres. Russia was satisfied with 498,300 litres. It would be interesting to know where the spurious six-sevenths of the cham- pagne supply is made, and of what, the con- stituents are composed.

THE FORTUNE TELLERS OF PARIS,

functionaries at the Prefecture of Police in-

has been afforded, at last, quite as muchy by

improvements in instruments and methods of research as by increased diligence on the part of those by whom they were employed.

I do not speak of that form of the disease of which the bibulous are wont to boast "Cured it in a day, sir, with a bottle and a half of old Scotch. Little head the next morning-that was all." Nor do I refer to any mere three- day form of it-nothing so ephemeral comes. within my ken. For these are but the lower walks of the disease, while I speak of the Higher Influenza, where the patient, prostrate for i werk at least feels a mental and spiritual ex

altation never dreamed of by the profamam

lives in an enchanted land of song and fairy visions. Let those who doubt that I say sooth catch the disease at once in its achter form and they will bear willing witness in my favour. I was sad at heart when I discovered from unmistakable symptoms one morning that 1 had it. I secretly resolved to get to the office and try the one-day cure. But my hypocrisy with the matutinal egg was speedily "You're eating nothing," said Flora. "Your eyes are running, and you keep shivering. I shall send for the doctor at once. "You have Infuenza.

discovered.

She sent for him, and I knew his detestable system was to keep his patient in bed until completely recovered. Hie, of course, sentenced me to bed at once.

Beef tea and milk-and-sada alternately every hour" were his orders. When he had gone, I learned from Flora that for reasons connected with the baby's diet she could not nurse me, and a professional nurse was ordered in. Then, indeed, my doom was sealed. For twenty-four hours I tossed, kicked, perspired, and groaned to find an ache in every limb. The doctor came and said. I was going on excellently, that my temperature was but little above its normal level, and that in a week or so should be up. I immediately resumed and maintained during the day the kicking, teasing, and perspiring. A night nurse begged me to try to sleep. I obediently closed my eyes, and instantly be held a limitless forest of huge serpents : monster anaconda, vast pythons, hooded cobras, and fierce rattlesnakes writhed before me.

I open- ed my eyes again. When I next closed them it was to find myself in the midst of a tangle of monstrous machiney, throwing out gigantic

mis in

every

direction, while mocking loathly

hear the roar of his cannon. My eyes were now closed in ecstasy, and I could distinctly see our cavalry in the enemy's trenches, driv ing them helterskelter before us. From the fat front I could hear the pipes shrill "The Cock o' the North." So clear yet distant was the sound that I turned to the nurse and said, "Do you hear the band?"

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"This is devilish hard work," he said, "but

adventurous career even before came to lonely little Pitcairn and married Sarah Christian. Entered at eleven years of age in 1811 on the bubles of the Noebuck, in 1813 he sailed asjunior Then he entered the Chilian service, under officer in the Indefatigable to. "Botany Bay."

Lord Cochrane, and in 1817 was made lieütén- ant for distinguished services. He took part in the famous cutting out of the Spanish frigate Esmeralda, of forty guns, under the batteries of Callao at midnight on November 5th, 1820: attempted to capture a heavily armed Spanish ship near the Chilian fortress of Arauco; was defeated, with a loss of forty-eight men out of Trooper 943 gave him bis idea of it. isn't a 'k' in it. But it doesn't matter. All-adventurer, Benevideis, with sixteen others of

That's all wrong," he said. "'m sure there a party of sixty-four, and carried a prisoner in

to the stronghold of the savage robber and spelling's gone to the deuce. I never learnt anything at school, and not much since."

Trooper 943 laughed. "Seems to me you

must get it done to-day. I was always a poor fist at a letter. How do you spell 'reconnais sance'?"

know a lot," he said,

"No hlarney! If you don't know as much you ought to be ashamed of yourself,"

Trooper 043 laughed again. He was lying on his stomach with a sharp, eye towards a possible shot. A dozen other men were intent on the same business, while a couple more were looking after the horses.

They never offered me no commission," he said.

"Well, I didn't take the one they offered me, did 1? made up my mind when I was a kid I wasn't going to be a gentleman. I don't sec why you should keep on sniggering. Tell me how to spell that blessed French officer's naine. and shut up. I didn't see the good of being a

gentleman, like a lot of chaps I knew, it didn't look like a trade that'd suit me. I did all sorts of things to harden myself; used to wrap up in a blanket and sleep on the floor instead of in bed. I daresay you think that was all tommy rot. Well, p'raps it was."

....

A byllet buzzed overhead. Trooper 943 sighter and fired. Got him?"

wouldn't like to be the bloke's wife and family"

"Tell me if you see anything else. I must get this finished."

He scribbled on for a time in silence, drop- ped his pencil, picked it up, and rose to stretch himself."

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his command. Three of these were English- slaughter of their comrades, were exchanged for men, and they, with Nobbs, after witnessing the four of Benevideis's officers. Quitting the Chilian service, Nabbs entered the English merchant' service, and after some extraordinary adven- tures and escapes from death he suddenly con-- ceived the idea of settling down on Pitcairn Is land, the people of which were then attracting. much attention in England. Reaching Callao, he bought a cutter of 15 tons burthen, and, accompanied by an equally adventurous Ame rican with the particularly American name of Noah Bunker, he reached Pitcairn in October, 1828, and in the following year he married Sarah Christian; and for more than fifty years he was the beloved friend and pastor of the descendants of the Bounty mulineers. Ho died at Norfolk Island in 1884, and his wife has thus survived him for fifteen years. She lived to see her children of the fifth generation. Five stalwart sons and the same number of daughters Islands her direct descendants number nearly still survive her, and on Norfolk and Pitcairn

two hundred.

Well fitted was such a girl ns Sarah Christian to mate with such a man as George Nobbs, when he married her in 1829. He, a brava sailor, intense in his devotion to his country and his pride in its glorious naval annals; she, * grandchild of -a man who was himself a King's officer, but was driven to despair and madness by the tyranny of his famous birt Bavage-tempered commander. That they should meet and become the progenitor of daring and adventurous seamen and whalers in but one of the minof and unrecorded events- that go to build up England's supremacy of the

L. B. in P. M. Gausite,

sea.

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"Git down, stoopidt" said Trooper 943.1 A second bullet buzzed, and the other's right arm dropped to his side.

"Slick through the shoulders," he said. He sat down-again, looking a little pale. said 943. "Told you so. Does It 'urt ?#

"Now you've bin and spoilt your'andwriting," "No, not much. Here, just sign my name THE WORLD'S ANNUAL OUTPUT at the end of that letter, will you P

Trooper 943 signed the name in a shambling, awkward hand. Then he began to grumble again,

Just like you. The best in our little lot gatnale in him. Eli me, if you ain't a daisy"

The other took the letter and crammed it into his pocket with his left hand.

"Shut up," he said. "I can shoot from the loft. Hallo look outt"

The men were on their feet and in the saddle in a moment, all but Trooper 943, who fell to one of the twenty bullets that had spit amongst them The letter-writer was down again in a flash and again, though rather feebly. "Well, you are a had him across his horse, Trooper 943 laughed daisy 1" he said.

The men scattered and rode off in a spatter

of bullets,

"Drop me," said Trooper 943. "I'll be all right. You'll only git copped"

"Shut up!"

be remembered all the days of a fan's life, They did not get copped, but it was a ride to

also, the letter was spoiled."

hours later. You fair saved me."

"You ought to 'ave the V.C.," said 943, some

“Did 1?" said a voice from the next bed. And you spoilt my letter, you ungrateful beg. gar. You might have chosen somewhere else to bleed."

OF BOOKS.

In few countries is there any central and official Authority whose duty is to keep a record of books published in ther country. Such

is

the case in Russia, Spain, Portugal, Austria, China and Japan. So, too, in Germany and the Netherlands, but for these latter two satisfactory returns were available from non-official sources. Mr. Ronald Smith, however, succeeded with much trouble in gathering accurate figures giving the average annual production of books in the following thirteen countries; the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France Germany, Italy, Egypt, the Netherlands, Bel gium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzer- land. The returns from other countries not named here, would not materially alter the general results of those which are given, and a careful analysis of them-which Mr. Smith did not trouble to mark—gives mást extraordinary. results.

In the first place, the total number of books issued by these thirteen countries in a year averages-77.250. Which country publishes the most As an Englishmam, I am very surprised. that England does not head the poll You, as Americans, will be, perhaps, even more sur prised that the United States does not head the poll. That honour belongs to Germany, which averages 28,908 books a year, The high places head. *

of Germany, France and Italy will doubtless "Fair saved me, you did," he said. "You cause surprise, especially when the analysis of ain't a gentleman, are you? Oh, no the list of books published by each country is Frchange.

examined.

Trooper 943 grinned and tried to turn his

It had long been known that any continued prevalence of malarial fever was attended by the occurrence of extensive changes, apparently of a degenerative character, in the physical condition of the blood: and these changes, when they were made the subjects of investiga. tion by the aid of modern microscopes, were Traced to the presence of parasites as invariable concomitants of the disease. Blood owes its colour to the presence of innumerable minute bodies called its real corpuscles; bodies so minute and so numerous that a single cubic | millipiètre of blond contains an average of about five millions of them; and it was within these corpuscles that the parasites were discovered. Malarial fevers art characterized by definite exacerbations and intermissions; and it soon became apparent that these were severally coincident, in point of time, with successive stages of the life We now opened out, for the bullets of

history of the parasite, each attack of fever denoting the hatching of a new brood, and the infantry were flipping everywhere in

presenting the successive stages of shivering, My right hand sie suddenly

of heat, and of sweating, coincidently with their dropped his reins, swayed unevenly in his sent

growth and development, at the conclusion of and then clutched his rein again wildly, his

which each corpuscle which had been invaded face set in a horrid grin of pain and rage. His

by them perished, and its function as a carrier horse, checked in its stride by the sudden pull

of oxygen to the tissues was abolished. Unlike pigmies ran in and out among its giant con on the rein, stepped short and jerked its head

the now familiar vegetable parasites collectively valutions and gibbered hideously at me. uncasily and he dropped limply from the saddle

called microbes, by which so many other diseases | Evidently, there was no chance of sleep. In and trailed along the ground with one foot

are occasioned, the parasite of malaria belongato | despair turned my thoughts to the war, and caught in the stirrup.

I was in a mad rage and fury to reach the

the animal kingdom; but, like the microbes, its then suddenly and to my amazement I found numbers increase with amazing rapidity. Until not only that I was wakeful, but that my brain men who were shouting at us. When the word

they reach to a considerable amount, the para- was in a state of abnormal activity. In an came to "Charge" I set my spurs in my horse's

site would not be productive of serious symp-instant I was with Kitchener on a forced night side and she leapt forward like a mad thing.

toms; but, by the time that an attack of fever march, turning Cronje's left flank at Magers- My only desire was to cover the ground.

is fairly established, these numbers often fontein. By daylight we were in his rear on quickly as possible, and not continue to be the

amount to something like two hundred and

a hill commanding his position. Under a ter- target for men I could not reach; the noise

fiity millions, and thence would range upwards rific howitzer fire, our cavalry and mounted of the firing deafened ine. With uplifted,

to a billion. It had long been known that quinine infantry rushed the kopjes in front of us and sword I daslied on. We were nearly up to the Few people would suspect what an extra-

was the most potent of all remedies for ague; drove the Boers out with the naked s front rank of the enemy now and I could make ordinary number of fortune-tellers drive a cut the faces of some caked with blood and thriving trade in Paris. One of the principal all sorts of doses had gradually led to the experi-ing the enemy in force, and we could plainly and its administration at all sorts of times and in Meanwhile, Methuen from the front was attack. sweat and the black of flying powder grains.'

Suddenly a dull, numb pain shot through formed me recently, that his department had mental determination of the conditions of its my upraised arm and in vague wonder I saw my the names and addresses of over two thousand greatest efficacy; but, prior to the discovery of sword falling from my grasp. A scream of persons who make their living and in the parasite, it was regarded as being essentially "anti-periodic "in its effects, that is to say, as pain from my horse, and I felt her falling many cases an excellent living, by the most beneath me. A heavy sickening blow across elementary and common of all the forms exerting some mysterious influence in prevent- my back and I remembered nothing more.

of the pseudo-science of divination, by ing the rhythmical recurrence of morbid to the further discovery that quinine cured ague When I came to myself evening was fasting fortunes from cards. There are other phenomena. The discovery of the parasite led

varieties of fortune-tellers galore: those who

She went to the window and listened, then clusing over the plains. Everywhere round me predict the future from a handful of pins thrown simply by poisoning the parasite; and that it

was most effective for this purpose when given came to me and said, "There's nothing. It's a lay dead and wounded men. I tried to rise, at hazard on a sort of chess-board, or from the

in such doses and in such a way as to be present symptom of the disease to think you hear but could only lift my head and look about me, shapes assumed by the dregs of coffee in the bottom of a saucer, those who resort to

in the blood in sufficient quantity during a music. Try to forget it." I smiled-1 could My arm too, bung powerless by my side.

Near me lay my poor old mare,

and I saw

but smile and shut my eyes again. Every mesmerism and sonambulism, the chirograp. certain period of their growth. But it seldom

The next point of interest is: What class of killed them all, and more usually left a few where the Boers were in retreat, everywhere she was fast going out. A sob caught in my hists, the drawers of horoscopes, and many individuals, perhaps more or less languishing, falling by scores before our restless pursuit,

A TIGER STORY.

book is published in the largest number each throat as I saw her eyes grow fixed, her breath-others.

year? Serious people will he gratified by the ing labour and stop. I thought of the many The cartomancista, however, are in the but still living and reproducing their kind, and

everywhere those who escaped from the

fact that educational and classical books win times the gallant brute had carried me, and 1. majority. The methods of all of them are iden. capable of giving rise to a fresh attack of fever, trenches found our men in waiting for them;

Bangplasoi is excited over a tale about a in this race, coming in first with the tremendous and the playing of the bands grew louder and tiger. It seems that on the 9th ulto, a man could have wept at losing my last friend, and tical, but their prices vary greatly. Their even after the lapse of many months.

number of 11,631 out of the total of 77,250— the only remaining tis with home and country, stock-in-trade, apart from some little imagin- The next stage in the investigation was to louder, and now it was "Rule, Britannia," they and his wife and child were walking into the nearly a seventh. Novels come second with, A little further on a horse with it's back ation, considerable cunning and unlimit ascertain through what channel the malaria played. Crosje's army-what was left of it town from their home some soo ren away in 7,948 volumes a year. One of the most signi broken aczamed out in its pain, round in taret, a specially prepared pack of cards, body and Dr. Patrick Manson, who had pre-

beating the ed impudence, consists solely of the parasite became introduced into the human surrendered!

The nurse now took my temperature, and the jungle, and they had got to the Bangpla- ficant facts is that books on political and social Di hill when the woman disappeared the economy greatly exceed in number books of as a rule clumsily hand-painted and pasted enviously traced another form of infection to the said it was nearly normal. I saw her write it had fallen behind, and the man sat down theology and of sermons. The first number to squares of cardboard. The cost of consult mosquito, was, we believe, the first to suggest down, and noticed that the first figure was a

and waited till he began to get alarmed. Then 7,299 against 5,959 of the latter. At the bottom nine. Think of it! Temperature, so to speak, he went to investigate, and found bloed leading of the list come books on sport with the small ing the fares ranges from a few shillings, that this insect was the most probable della

from the road along a jungle path. That total of 181.. quent. The investigation of Major Ross, to below proof, and yet this mental exaltation. eagerly paid by innumerable servant girls and

whose letter claiming priority we were glad to was about to shut my eyes again, for I was scared him and he cleared out for Bangplasoi minor demi-mondaines, to live and even ten

Germany publishes the most books in no pounds. The fortune teller who can command give insertion on Wednesday, finally established in haste to get to Pretoria, when the figures on

with his child as quickly as possible. Four less than seven out of the twelve classes- these latter prices deals with society ladies, but the correctness of the hypothesis. The parti. the cretonne curtains caught my eye. They men who were out hunting hares on the into which the books are divided. In the most assiduous clients of all are actresses, cular mosquito concerned is of the species consist of butterfier, birds, and flowers, but hill next day started a tiger close to the only one class of book does England who, with scarcely an exception, believe in the known to najuralists as Anopheles, and the evi- now in the gentle glow of the firelight I saw a

animal, roared, and then bolted. Since then talents of the cartomancists, and many of whom dence of the crime is complete. He, or ratherahe, hundred lovely shapes whose existence I hady spot where the woman was last seen. The get a first place, and that class is novels, for the ladies of the family are the role offenders, never before suspected. There were kings the people of Bangplasoi have been afraid to history (which one expects Germany to have) France manages to get two first places for go week after week to the same wise woman

and queens, ecclesiastics in pontifical robes, and swallow, with incomprehensible docility, is fumished with salivary glands which secrete the contradictory revelations elaborated for the poison which she injects into her bites. A knightly men in armour, lovely maidens ander the place. Some twenty of the and poetry and the drama. France also des garrison have been out trying to find the with the U. S. in publishing an equal number. female may be hatched from a captured larva, † stately youths, and a host of laughing trip- | tige woman was seen by any of them, how country which secures a first place and that la

but did not succeed. No further trace their benefit. The cheaper fortune-tellers are

of books on sport. Italy is the only other of the seldom or never consulted by men, but curiously and fed for the first time by being permitted ping fairies. I looked steadily at the time- enough, the cartomancists whose charges are to bite a man suffering from fever. She will piece, and noted that it was two minutes to ever, beyond the few drops of blood, and evil for its famous books on political economy. high often have men among their customers. swallow one or more of the parasites or their three, and that I was wide awake. Then slowly minded people are saying that the lady may P. L. Parker in the N. Y. Independent.

at first and afterwards with increasing speed have eloped, and that the presence of the tiger There is one known speculator on the Paris spores as part of her meal, and, if kept in Bourse who never ventures his money unless confinement, their life within her body may the figures moved out of the tapestry and began next day was only a coincidence.-Bangkok the tarot has assured him of the likelihood of he observed. They ultimately find their way climbing to the cornice above them. There bis being successful; and it must be admitted from her stomach to her salivary glands, and are but olx inches between the cornice and the that his confidence in the cards has, so far, not from these, are injected with the poison into ceiling, but this space rapidly widened as the the blood of the next victim-whom she may ploddid glittering crowd thronged there, while betrayed him, for he is exceedingly rich.

The police have made desperate efforts on select or may be furnished with. The process after them came tripping over the glassy sur

red

and a stop to this form of can be watched from beginning to end, face of the mirror lovely fairy shapes In swindling, but they have abandon the enterprise as hopeless The Paris of the most interesting and curious character, mass of beautiful figures, and before my eyes world's cosillest pipe. It is the Kallian, or was transacted a transformation scene of such state pipe, and is used on special occasions. It fenne can no more disperse with her fortune which, at the same time, completely clear tellers than with her dressmaker or milliner. up the whole question of the nature and magnificence as the boards of old Drary never, is valued at $400,000, and is ornamented with diamonds, rubies and amaragdites. The long However, not a few membert of the soothsay- causation of the fever. All speculations about know ing corporation ultimately get into trouble air, about soil, about "malaria bolt" and the Suddenly, as my shoulder was gently shaken, snake-like stem and the bowl gre of pure gold

The Sultan of Turkey also possesses pipar my with the police by declining to be content with like have been rendered obsolete. There is no it all vanished, and a voice whispered in

"Your soda-and-milk,"

great value. In 1862, when the Prince of what must be called the legitimate" profits reason to believe that the parasite finds access

As 1 setled down once again to the enjoy Wales was on a visit to Turkey, he was invited of their profession. Owing to the hold they to the human body through any other channel, mosquitoes" which gnats" or

ment of my thoughts, I heard a voice át a by the Sultan to smoke a parghita, an Oriental obtain over their victims, and the knowledge or that the "s they arquire of their secrets, they are tempted infest regions free from malaria are examples distance smging a bright and lively song pipe, in which the smoke passes through not infrequently to launch out into blackmailing of Anapheles. If this particular insect could of which could but femperfectly catch the water. The pipe was added with dia no and other disreputable transactions, which land be extirpated there is every justification for words. This was followed by some exquisite and was worth $15,000. It was given to the them not frequently in the criminal dock the hope that malarious fevers would disap- choral singing, to which I listened with prince as a memento of his visit to Constan Indeed, an account of what goes on.in connec pear from the earth; and, fortunately, the wide-open eyes; and then game selections tinople. Another pipe, made entirely or meer schaum and amber, and belonging to Prince tron with these fortune-telling dens would make extirpation does not seem likely to present from my favourite operas, played by a

Ferdinand of Bulgaria, is reported as costing very curious chapter in a description of the any surmountable dificulty. The egge are bind of stupendous proportions, yet all at s alimy side of Parfului life.

laid in water, and the larym, when hataked, liva | distance and all most softly and' exquisitaly | 97,000,

earth with its hoofs; its eyes a great despair. Here, a beavy shell had ploughed up the ground for several yards, and there a tangled heap of men and arms told of last fierce stand on the part of the infantry

As the evening cold crept abroad my arm began to throb and ache. It seemed to have grown suddenly twice its natural weight, and prodigiously heavy was conscious, 100, of being hungry and thirsty. I dared not shift my position, for every time I moved the pain in my back became unbearable.

The chill wind of evening wandered fitfully over the scene, like the wall of a low-lattient.

Would the searchers never come? Was 1 to left here to die of cold and starvation on the field. Was I to escape death in action only to fie and watch it come neater and nearer like the terror of a nightmare? A huge sense of Impotent rage against fate, the ordering of the world, and against my own comrades filled me with wild fury.

Somewhere on the plain lights were moving and stopping, till to my watching eyes they grow and indistinct. Would none ever Come my way... I began to think Fate had various occasions to put had practically, to and it constitutes a chain of morbid action į gold and silver till the cornice was a moving | kings), the present ruler of Persia, owns the

had some grudge against me personally, and would not allow me to be found and rescued, I felt I could cry and scream with the anger of my drawn perves.

At last the lights seemed nearer to me my eyes tried to part the thick darkness. Yes....

they certainly were coming my way very slowly, but still coming. I dared Hot take my eyes off them lest by: so doing 1 in some way lessened the chance of their find ing we How lowly they moved they were still a long way off. An incautions morgment brought me and acute twinge of pain. I watched them with a tenseness of yearning that was itself a pain. I called ouf, but my lips were dry and parched.The words sesmed to clot upon my tongue-my voice sounded then and impotent.

Car,

Times.

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PIPE: The Shab-in-Shah; of Padishah (king of

TH

~timation,

AN APPEAL.

HE SUPERIORESS of the'ITALIAN' CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Post Ports, for the kind patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK, ME.

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on old ones,

Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Car

dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Ebroidery. Materials can be supplied, if required.

The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Children of the Poor School bow are taught by the Shaters,

Hongkong, sand April, 1892, "

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