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HOW A QUEEN RETAINS HER BEAUTY.

One of the fairest queens in Europe is Queen Nattle of Servia, and her greatest beauty is her neck. The world has just been let into the seciet of the method which has largely enabled her to develop this charming feature. The Queen lakes frequent and regular exercise with a heavy pitcher on her head

The result of this is to straighten and streng- then the neck, and to give it the form which the highest standard of female beauty requires, Not only does this exercise add to present beauty, but it arrests the ravages which time makes more quickly in the female neck than in any other place.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1900.

hand, he inay scarcely advance at all. So that the mere fact of one being a marksman by no. means proves that he is a capitul shot.-F. Mr. Gazelle.

A TRAGEDY IN MINIATURE.

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WHEN YOU ENTER BY THE FRONT DOOR,

[ BY E. S. }

I suppose age is relative, because people always vaguely make this remark whenever the subject of age is mentioned. Perhaps it is better for the remark to be vague, if it has any reference to age; but I think it is time that sothebody said something new about it. Unfor- unately, I cannot be the person to say it. Ever since I returned frogs visiting my old school the other evening, I have been clinging des perately to the faint hope that age is only relative..

Some people say that it makes them feel

to like to be one of those people, though I do not believe in then much. I do not believe it makes any cae feel young to meet all the children who used to be in the junior class, and to find them talking about husbands and baby boys of two, That is the kind of conversation I had to sub-

very old indeed,

I was sented in an armchair over the fire enjoying my evening pipe. At my side, in a space cleared on the edge of the round table that occupies a considerable part of my room, was a red Japanese tray, with a water-bottle, decanter, and tumbler. I was about to pour out my usual glass, when l'observed a lady- bird, of the ordinary type-red with black walking round the edge of the spots tray. The resemblance between the colour. If you could obtain admission to the gmundsing of the tray-red with black markings-young again to revisit their old school. I should of the Queen's residence, near Belgrade, at and that of the ladybird caused me about eight o'clock in the morning, you would watch him as I poured out my whisky, see her Majesty taking a brisk walk with her and wonder vaguely whether a distant view of pitcher on her shapely head. She is accom- the tray had misted him into coming down on panied by a dame d'honneur, who is not herself to the table in hopes of finding a friend, and an expert in the art of pitcher carrying. what he made of the situation now he had Queen Natalie has very abundant black arrived Presumably he found it a little dist, to the other evening, and it made me feel hair, and of rich colouring. Her figure is appainting. For after walking round the tray, very strong and erect, and her carriage is up the tumbler, and tlown again, he set off on

a voyage of discovery across the table. perfect, for her favourite exercise tends to develop the latter quality as well as to beautify the neck and shoulders. Her Besha has the firmness of marble. Her head is placed on her shoulders after the the wanner of the Venus of Milo. There are no protruding bones, no wrinkles, no hollows, but rieither any superfluous falness.

The exercise un which Natalie owes so much of her charm is one which has been practised by women of the poorer classes in many coun- tries from the earliest ages. Rachel. we are told, mel Jacob when she was going to the well with her pitcher. The women of Oriental coun. tries, of Greece, and of Italy, have always been accustomed to carry pitebers and other burdiens on their head. They have little idea of beautify ing themselves when they do this, but,, never theless, they are doing so. The girl who worries about the shape of her neck probably never thinks that its defects are due to lack of exercise tending specially to strengthen this part. She may be able to profit by the example of the Queen of Servin.

WHAT IS A MARKSMAN ? ...

[BY ONE OF THEM.]

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Now, my smoking-room table is about as dull domain as a ladybird might wish to find. It is covered with a dark maro-e-coloured cloth, and "littered" with papers. In and about the papers are various objects which might possibly be looked upon as picturesque ruins, or interest. ing natural features-an inkpot, several well- worn, ink-spotted leather boxes, an ash-pan or two, a blotting pad, and an upright mahogany Stationery case; but the whole place is us indeed anything in a destitute of vegetation, ladybird's fine, as the Desert of Sahara. Obviously his being in my smoking-room at all was a mistake, and, being a humane man, resolved to put him out. I induced him, by means of a little persuasion from behind, to walk up my finger, and then, going to the win- dow shook him off into the night, and came back to my armchair and newspaper.

than this new one.

Something seemed wrong, to begin with, when my hansom pulled up at the front en- trance, instead of dropping me with my box and my umbrella at the side door. Then remembered that I had no box and no umbrella and that the side door would never open to me "gain. I recalled how I used to long for the privilege of walking in at the front door, just like Virginia Wells, for instance, who had left last term, and only returned to pay grown-up show off her grown-up clothes. calls, and But when I came to walk up the forbidden steps; it was not half so thrilling, I found, as at old rust through the side door, straight into the arms of Clementina Brooks. Even with the certainty in one's mind that Winifred Mullins would be there as well, that old way of coming back to school was ever so much nicer But directly entered the hall, the old flavour had returned. There were the garlands of flowers we, had been hanging I smoked and read for soine ininutes, when up all the afternoon, with the very gap in them that marked my tussle with Winifred Mullins something moving on my cout-sleeve caught It was the ladybird again--the very

over the possession of the hammer; and there my eye. saine; had I not noticed a tiny indentation unwasthe usual child in pink with the programmes, the child in pink always does, just his right wing walking about on my sleeve standing,

on the one spot in the whole hall where nobody as if nothing bad happened. From my cuat he proceeded on to my cuff, and thenue to my

could help jostling her; and there was the same tall figure, in the doorway beyond, hand. I got up again, went to the window, and, keeping my eye on him this time, flicked with the unchanging face, and the unchanging him off with dre finger and thumb of my sunile, and the unchanging bouquet of Bowers ve had all helped to buy, for a surprise- others hand, and to the best of my belief saw

surprise that never failed to surprise. him fall.

Except for the trifling circumstance that was being handed coffee by another child in pink, instead of being the child pink myself, I believe should have forgotten that had not come in by the side-door, after all,

Deave my cup of coffee!" begged the child in pink. Hospitality, to the child in pink, generally means a keen competition with all the other children in pink as how much food each one cau band the innocent visitor

I wanted to find out what the popular idea of a marksınan was; so, as Johnson was there

I had almost forgotten him, when, turning ready to hand, standing in front of the fire' trying to balance a cigarette in his mouth I redund to replenish my glass, I actually found marked casually, I say, Johnson, what's a him walking up the water-bottle. I had scruti. marksman le did not turn round on ne nized him so ininutely on the last occasion with Well, you ought to, know, if anybody that I had not the smallest doubt as to his docs," or any silly remark of that sort, because indentity. I was obliged to admit that he had he prides himself (on the strength of his name, scored; and after watching him drink a drop I suppose) upon being a dab at a definition, of moisture on the rim of the water-bottle, and so, carefully removing the cigarette, at left him master of the situation and turned my

attention to the newspaper. once replied, "A man who can hit a mark."

Al I never thought of that. But it seems a trifle vague, don't you think? What sort of mark? A threepenny bit or a haystack? And how far off?"

He cogitated. At length he proceeded: "Well, then, I should say, a man who can hit another five times out of six when he comes within the range of sight, like the Boers do, you know."

"I fancy you had better leave out the quali fication," said I, "because I don't know. We will put the full-stop after range of sight and I'm much obliged to you."

Now the above conversation is not invented for the occasion, but was an actual fact. John son was a fair specimen of the ordinary man, who, like fonty-five men out of every fifty, does not know the first thing about rife-shooting, and he actually thought it possible that such a feat as he described could be accomplished, not by some individual, superbly endowed with the necessary skill, but by what we call a "marksun."

Having had some trifle of experience of the business, 1 venture to say that there is not a Queen's Prizeman in existence who could dn such a thing, to say nothing of the 2,000 or 50 over whose shoulders he has to climb before reaching that eminence.

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THE LAST WATCH.

(An incident of the battle of Graspan.) - Major Plumbe of the Royal Marine Light. Infantry had a pet terrier dog who followed him through the fiercest fire imaginable, and who was found, six hours after the sight, guard- ing his master's dead budy...

In Ladysmith the wounded are well attended to. The recoveries are very rapid there, and men who have been wounded, which at first seemed to be seriously, are soon back again to their work. It is in the beleaguered town of Ladysmith that we have to report upon the work of the physician as against the general work of the surgeon, for unfortunately added to the war we have pestilence. Enteric fever is laying low many of our brave men, and this is not always so quick s matter as wounds ac quired in the engagemets. In South Africa.

to the Lee-Metford, says it is gentlemanly. in the whole world, and been prepared on the novels, or what hot. The nineteenth-century spot to suffer martyrdons for her sake. Yet this damsel is decidedly too independent and enter- | bulle!" Theta bullets, as also the Mauser, placid and ordinary being was really Clementina prising to rashly embark on perilous or prosaic usually pass right through the body or limb, Brooks! As she merely shook hands with me, matrimonial waters without having first seen a and leave a clear passage which heals rapidly. instead of falling upon my neck and munnuring little of life and its pleasures. And quite sen- Only rarely does it make a large outlet, and "Darling" I concluded she felt equally dissible, too! We can only be young pace. then it is generally opposite a comminuted

fracture. "Fancy meeting you here!" 1 appointed. said, feebly. It must be years since we met!" was Clementia's effort. The conversation be coming slack after this, she turned to the pretty- girl on her left. You remember Winifred, me in a charming and ladylike manner, Why don't you ?" she said; and the pretty girl greeted she did not hurt some jeer at me about the shortness of my skirts, and then dodge behind Clementina for safety, I could not imagine. "Winifred Mullins!" I I exclumed. "Why, what have you done with your pinafores, child?" Winifred laughed softly. "I have said, blushing. "And ian' Mollins; it's

add them on to my small daughter," she "Oh, don't! interrupted. But it was no good; she talked about."Jack, dear," and "the wee baimie" all the rest of the evening.

If I need anything else to remind ine that I had come in by the front door, it was waiting to crush me in the hall, just ns I was going out by the same way. My child in pink, having beaten Evelina in ices as she had already done in coffee, found time to give me a parting nod, and I asked her why she had not taken part in the play? She tossed her head scomfully,

"Didn't you see it was acted by the little ones?" she asked.

So, even when you enter by the side' door, age may still be relative.-P. M. Gazette.

SOME FAMOUS OLD MAIDS.

One of the most famous of old maids was. Queen Elizabeth. Her rule over Great Britain certainly comprised the most brilliant literary age of the English-speaking people.

It was Maria Edgeworth was an old maid. her writings that first suggested the thought of writing similarly to Sir Walter Scott,

Jane Porter lived and died an old maid. The children of her busy brain were Thaddeus of Warsaw" and the "Scottish Chiefs," which have moved the hearts of millions to excite ment and tears.

Joanna Baillio, poet and playwriter was "one

of 'em."

Florence Nightingale, most gracious lady, heroine of Inkerman and Balaclava hospitals, has to the present written "Miss" before her

name.

The man who should marry her might well crave to take the name of Nightingale,

And then what names could the writer and reader of those of whom the great world may not know, but we know, and the little world's of the village, the church, the family, know und prize beyond words?

DONT'S FOR BRIDEGROOMS:

Don't be nervous.

Of course, you can't-help it, but don't.

"Don't shout or mumble your "I wills," but just turn on those deep, rich, soulful organ tones that will make the girls in the congrega tion' nudge each other and say, "Isn't he love ly 1

Don't think you're playing first fiddle on your wedding day. You're not.

Don't give a bachelor supper beforehand. At least well, no; don't.'

Don't call her "old woman," on the wedding journey. It fools to one and only makes her

feel bad.

The next evening I was surprised, and a during the evening. "That's my third cup, triffe amused, to find him there again. This and Evelina has only handed one!" said my time he was obviously interested in the child in pink, triumphantly. It was nearly features of the neighbourhood. He climbed her last cup, for 1 only just grasped it in up one or two of the boxes, and then time to save it from being precipitated began

ascent di my stationery down her frock, so great was her haste to rush case. He reached the top and peered off and crow over Evelina. I managed to keep down into the inside, and I saw that he was her long enough to ask if there was anybody meditating a descent. I felt moved to frustrate left at school whom I knew. "Are you an old this design, and, getting up, with the point of a girl?" she asked, opening her eyes. "You look much more like a visitor! What's your pencil tried to push him back, with the result that he promptly fell off into the deepest name?" I told her, but she did not seem en division among my papers and envelopes, lightened. "You must be one of the antedile gave vent to an expletive, and, with vague re-vians, I should think," she remarked, with collections of an irate 'bus conductor, who, in engaging frankness; " because I know all the reply to an old lady who had dropped sixpence

names within the last five years. I thought | THE QUEEN AND HER SOLDIERS. down the window-frame, exclaimed, "Do you you looked more like a visitor than a girl. But think we're going to turn the bloomin' 'bus I ask Evelina! She darted off, and retumed upside down for sixpence !" began taking out with excitement written all over her face. the papers and envelopes; then, turning the say, Evelina says you're the one who writes, and case upside-down, I gave it a series of knocks, of course there isn't anybody left newwho knows with the result that the ladybird fell out on to

you. She says you're much too—I meam, are the tablecloth.

you the one who writes?" I admitted the im He lay motionless on his back for a secont. plication, feeling that it made me more prehis-

loric than ever. or two, and 1 feared the adventure bad been

So thought the child in pink. too much for him. However, on a gentle hint I knew you were one of the antediluvians!" from me, urged with the point of the pencil, he she murmured. recovered, and, showing a trifle niore Imste than usual, pursued his voyage of discovery, limiting his field, however (as far as I observed him, to the plains,

I felt inclined to greet him as an old friend, when, on coming in from dinner the next even ing, I found him again walking about on the table. Indeed, my interest in him bad been so quickened by the adventure of the night before that I went back to the dinner-table and procured raisin, and breaking it into small bits, strewed his path with with fragments. That he deriv. ed support from these imorsels (whether physi, cal or moral i am not prepared to say) I feel assured. For he stood with his nose in con- thet with them for periods varying from twenty seconds to five minutes.

I was indulging in an old cigar the follow- ing evening, and it had not, occurred to me even to think of the ladybird, when, turning to knock off my cigar end, I inadvertently buried my little friend, whose curiosity had led him to investigate the inside of my aah-pan, in a shower of ashes. I quickly put down my ci gar and extricated him. Now, what he had been doing before I have no means of ascertaining, but he was apparently wat, for the cigar ash stuck to him, so that the rescued insect deposited on the tablecloth presented the most deplorable sight. He was caked with ashes from head to foot. Instead of shining red and black, he was a hideous, grimy grey, and his legs were so clogged up with lumps of ash that he could hardly move.

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In the lecture room, where, as of old, the play was to be given, I felt a little less like an ante- deluvian. It seemed only yesterday that I had played Vadius to Clementina's Trissotin, both of us clad in gymnastic costumes to suggest a masculine appearance, with cloaks fungs over our blue serge shoulders to add a dash of jauntiness. Just as I calling the meek and lamblike manner in which we had got through the quarrel scene, half the curtain went up and disclosed half the singing class; and the whole of the roem said "Cladys!" I had been pitying Gladys

was re

The Queen takes a vivid interest in the wounded who have lately been accommodated in the splendid wards of the Royal Victorin Hospital at Netley. During the last few weeks each of the Princesses who have been staying at Osborne fras-been sent across the Solent from time to time, bearing not only kindly messages, but also gifts of a more substantial kind from the Sovereign to those of her soldiers who have the rule laid down some forty years ago by the lately suffered in her service. According to Queen and by Prince Albert, who, in this kind of matter were always actuated by the most de licate good taste, royal visits to Netley Hospi- tal are regarded as being strictly private, and no report of what is said or done, either by her Majesty or by any other Royal visitor, is allowed to reach the press, save by unauthorised channels. The Queen on more than one prcasion has expressed her annoyance when little anecdotes as to what she said to the patients and what patients have said to her have become known to the outer world.

ever since I came in. She was one of those told off to manage the curtain, on account of her general steadiness and presence of mind. PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE DARK. She was not dressed in pink; that kind of girl never is. I know because I was that kind of

Some very curious things may be done with girl myself. I was always told off for the same kind of job, and I was never dressed in piak.sulphate of quinine, which has some most used to long to be one of the scatter-brained, peculiar properties, one of them being the pink sort instead, who could not be trusted to

power to Impress an image of itself on a sheet of sensitised paper in the dark. do these unpleasant things, but were free to

If a design be drawn on a sheet of paper with sit and enjoy the performance from beginning sulphata of quiains, exposed for a few minutes to end with a light heart. I, like Gladys, never

to the sun, then placed on a sheet of sensitised enjoyed a bit of the performance; torn with

paper, put in a book, and left for a few hours, anxiety, I used to sit where she was sitting, with the curtain string in my hand and the plaster a perfect image of the drawing will he found cast of bramble leaves digging into my neck Impressed on the sheet of paper. Writing may behind; and, like Gladys, I invariably forgot be copied on sensitised paper in this way, but to pull the string when the one moment came.

It must be reversed in the reproduction. for which I was supposed to be there.

It is easy enough to arrive at some corrobora, tion of this statement. You inve only to take the scores, made by the first ten men, say, in the final stage of the Queen's (they are all get oal in the newspapers), which is fired at 800, poo and 1,000 yards. Those are not long dis- tances for our present day rifles, and they may be taken to represent the "range of sight" within which you could see a man. Then, out of all tie shots, see how many are bull's-eyes," and remember that a bull's eye is three feet across, instead of about eight inches, which is all that could be seen of a man when he lies dawn to let you shoot at him. If he were moving about it would be a far more difficult matter. How many of these shots could be supposed to be within a circle of eight inches in the centre of the bull's eye? The thing could not be done at five hundred yards.

Besides which, in firing at a man, all the cir cuinstances of the case would be to one's disadvantage, whereas at the targets they are the most favourable that nature will allow.

And now we will see what the markeman is The term is merely one that is used by the military authorities to signify a man who has managed to fire through the three classes prescribed by the regulations. More than that, it means nothing. Although, of course, it includes ail the good shots of every degree, yet the immerse majority merely scrape through, and are satisfied; inest of them scarcely firing

I watched him for a second or two, wondering another shot for the whole season, unless perhaps at their prize meeting once a year. Only how Nature would propose to deal with the a very small portion of them can be described emergency. (He could neither lick himself as good shots, and as to those, the fact could like a cat, nor roll like a dog.) Then, reflecting only be discovered from the rest of their shoot- that it was perhaps, not surprising that she had ing, and not simply from their being marks omitted to provide for such a contingency as men. This year's marksmen are those who had now occurred, I made up my mind that fired through the last season's course. The man must come to the rescue.

sound I picked up a small camel's hair brush that third class was fired first at 200 yards; then the second at 500 and 600; and the first at lay on the table, dipped it into water, and, put- 700 und 800. It is necessary to score ating the embarrassed insect on the tray, pro- certain number of marks in each class before cended to wash him. I carefully removed the proceeding to the next. The first class was the ashes from his back, delicately sponged his in seven shots at each of the out of face, and his nether anatomy, and freed his and then, turning him over, scrupulously ranges, thinly marks to be obtained out of a possible fifty-six to make one a marksman, clogged-up legs, Then I picked him up from This could be done without once hitting the his humiliating position, and had the satisfac three-foot bull's eye, which counted four. Cut-tion of seeing him walk away obviously relieved side this, "centre" counted three, and the I thought of him once or twice during dinner mat of the target, eight feat broad and six feet the following evening, and went so far as to high two marks. Thus twelve outers and two bring him in a chocolate from dessert. But he After the part-song came the play, 1 centres would be sufficient. If a man had a was not there. Nor, though I frequently looked should have enjoyed that play much more if quiet or favourable day, it could easily be done for him, did he put in an appearance during. I had not known all the awful perils that if the weather was troublesome, the case would the whole evening. I wondered if my washing surrounded it. It was impossible to sit

quite different.

w operations had been too severe, and wished I and observe with an open mind, when i Next below the marksman comes the first had not put quite much water on the brush. knew that one false step taken by the class shot," who is a man that cannot get However, there was nothing to be done. He retiring performers would hurl them into through bis first class, and that is all that these was not rather bighsounding terms imply. The Vor him. and it was hopeless to try to find the back garden instead of landing them safely lunteer who has become a marksman may Towards bed-time 1got np to find a pipe be compared to the youngster

who cleaner on my chimney-piece. My easy-chair has passed through the first part of his is covered with blue embossed velvet. As apprenticeship, and got some ides as to the use, turned towards it. again, my eye still vaguely of his tools; he may, ultimately, after years of seeking a small porton dressed in red and trial, turn out to be a skilled artificer, or only stopped down and looked closer. It was the very ordinary Britisa Borkmate, a black, was attacted by something on the seat. So with the young marksman, After years ladybird-perfectly fat and perfectly dead. of patient work in all kinds of weather, and at For two martel hours I had been sitting on a number of different rangos, during which time he je accumulating experience, he will, if he has the ability to use it at the proper moment, furn out an excellent rifleman, On the other

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When the blushing Gladys responded to the call, and allowed the rest of the singing-class to be seen, we had a part-song. I do not think it would have mattered much if that side of the curtain had remained down, for it would only have concealed the altos, and I have never yet been lucky enough to hear the altos in a part-song, I used to be an alto myself. and when I was not singing the treble part octave lower, I was never uttering be distinguished Perhaps some altos do make alto sound; but I am sure most of the altos, the other evening, only wore sprays of flowers and sought with searching eyes for their mothers in the audience. ficenes of the sprays of flowers that sdamned I was greatly struck by the size and magni- the singing-class in general; then I remembered the enormous ones I used to press upon Clementing on occasions of this sort, and I knew that sprays meant humble, adoring affection.

WHY MEN MARRY WOMEN OLDER THAN THEMSELVES. No man who is a close observer of human raturo at the present day can fail to be struck by the way in which the nineteenth century young men affect the society of women older than themselves, and by the extraordinary and fncreasing number of marriages in which the bridegrooms are considerably the junior of their brides. This is undoubtedly an-de-siecle, and utterly upsetting to all previously conceived ideas of the relative ages of men and wife and the fitness of things,

Our ancestors would have viewed this present fashion with as much astonishment and horror as they would the railway, telephone, telegraph, and electric light. One answer to the question undoubtedly, that women are so much younger now, than they wred to be, so bat man of to-day marrying a woman ten or fifteen years his scnter would not be regarded so much as martying this grandmother as of old. One has only to compare the Iftorture of the past with that of the present to see at what res me and women were considered mar rageable, and vich vormi.

"Goodbye, my dearest dog, my faithful

Tip" He fattered--as in accents low and kind, And swimming eye, and pale and trem-

bling lip

Before he left-he gave one took behind. Goodbye, goodbye, old dog," he breathed

again.

"For where I go,-old friend, you must

not come."

And with these words, he strode across

the plain. Dreaming his last såd dreams of Love and

Hone.

Mid cannon's roar,' and rifles' deaf'ning

crack.

THE TWO MOST TRYING MONTHS are January and February, for that is the late summer, and it is then that enteric Yever and dysentery are more rife. The sanitary arrange- ments of many of the towns are not at that can be desired, and therefore tend to encourage the spread of these diseases. We hope that before such an undesirable state ofthings exists the brave little garrison will have been relieved, although such hope is not so encouraging as it was a few days ago.

WHY PAT ATE THE CHICKEN.

One has but little thought of woe or weal;

A Scotchman and an Irishman happened to But once Tip's Master gave a quick glance

back,

be journeying togeiler through an almost And smiled, to see Tip-trotting at his heel.dered about in a pitiable condition for awhile, interminable forest, and losing their way wan when fortunately they came to a miserable hovel, which was deserted save by long chicken. As this poor biped was the only thing eatable to be obtained, they eagerly despatched and prepared it for supper."

The Kopje's stormed, fierce raged that

dreadful fight. They gain the top at last with British yell! With one last piercing cry for "Queen and

Right,"

One payer-one thought-one gran

Tip's master fell!

The battle's o'er-while there beneath the

skies.

The hem's life blood stains the dark carth

red.

In Death's grin agony Tip's master lies But trusty Tip is watching by his head. Ah loving faithful Tip! He licks the hair That clotted lies upon the noble brow And raises on those features once so fair, A wan faint smile in that dark hour of woe.

He feebly strokes Tip's round and silky

-head:

The effort's great-and with a last low

groan,

The Hero murmurs as he sinks back dead, "I thank Thee, God-I do not die alone." The hours drag on, and midst the broken

cries

Are mingled raging wind and beating

rain.

Yet when at length Dawn glimmered in

the skies,

The terrier still stood guard beside the

slain!

E. M. D'A. in Japan Mail.

THE B. A. M. 0. AT THE FRONT.

EXCELLENT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORK.

Our Generals at the front have received volleys of criticism from those at home, and much of it has been of a hostilo character after inactivity or misfortune, But the medical department of the army now in the field under our flag is the one in which there has been no irregularity, and in which there has been no room for anything but praise. So perfect seem to be the arrangements, and so ready the corps and so quick the response of volunteers, and so efficient the men engaged in the work, that there does not appear to have been a hitch anywhere. In speaking thus of the medical department, of course, the nursing staff and ambulance corps are included, as well. The response in the desire for nurses was so great that the War Office declares that if all were accepted there would be not only one nurse to each wounded man amongst our own army, but also one for each wounded Boer, still leav ing a large reserve for any emergency.

So many out of the foremost ranks of the medical professions have volunteered for the front that it has been said in medical quarters that "if another half-a-dozen are culled from the profession at home, equal in surgical skill to those who have gone, there will be a dearth of skilful operators at home." In reply to this statement Health says: "We do not think that is quite the case, but it tends to show the position held by these surgeons in the minds and estimations of their brethren. They are

MEN OF TRAINING AND EXERIENCE, and we believe that their presence in the field will be a means of saving many a life and limb to our poor soldiers, who will come home with a loftier idea of the humanity of surgery and a thankful heart to the medical profession in general."

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Fortunately for the medical staff, the Geneva Convention in its Articles made special provi- sion for the protection of those tending the wounded, and also of the wounded themselves. Article II. of the Convention of 1864 states: Persons employed in fiospitals and ambulances comprising the staff for superintendence, medi- cal service, administration, transport of wound- ad, as well as chaplains, shall participate in the benefit of neutrality whilst so employed, and so long as there remain any wounded to bring in and succour." $

The supplementary Convention of 1868 also more clearly defines the position of the medical

staff. It states: "The persons designated in Article II. of the Convention shall, after the oc. cupation by the enemy, continue to fulfill their duties, according to their wants, to the sick and

WOUNDED IN THE AMDULANCE

or hospitals which they serve. When they re quesito withdraw, the commander of the occupy- ing troops shall fix the time of departure, which he shall only be allowed to delay for a short time in case of military necessity.

Working under such auspices, there is every reason to entertain great hopes of the success of the surgical work.

counts of the war and the weather, that the It must not be forgotton, when reading ac- army is on the other side of the Equator, and that there they have a summer's heat to con in the afternoon, under the cover of the army tend with. Surgeons in the camps, ente that bell tents, the thermometer registers out 115 deg. F. This is a temperature that is dom reached at Home in

THE HOTTEST SUMMERS,

When laid before them, Pat concluded that it was insuficient for both himself and Sandy, and he therefore proposed to his companion that they should save the chicken until the next morning, and that the one who had dreamed the piensantest dretm during the night should have the chicken, which was agreed to.

In the morning Sandy told his dream. He thought angels were drawing him up to heaven in a basket, and that he had never before been so happy. Upon hearing the conclusion of the dream, Pat exclaimed-

"Och, shure, an' be jabers, I saw-ye-going aa' thought ye wouldn' come back, so I got up an' ate the chicken meself!”—Box of Curios.

Insurance.

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE Undersigned AGENTS. of the above- THE

Company are prepared to accept First- Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 18th May, 1894.

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Consignees.

"WARRACK" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S.S. ARGYLL" FROM GLASGOW, AND LIVERPOOL. CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed

that all Goods are being landed at "their" - risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whencé and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 7th instant, will bo subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 9th. instant, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are. to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 9th instant, at 3 PM.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, Bilis of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL CO., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 3rd April, 1900. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

[440b

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENÀNG AND SINGAPORE. “HE Company's Steamship

ΤΗΣ

"KUMSANG,"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informedbat their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after Noon, the 9th Instant, will be

Godowns at East Point.

landed at Consignees' risk and expense. into

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

· JARDÍNE, MATHESON & Co General Managers. Hongkong, 6th April, 1900.

C

TOYO KISEN KAISHA

NOTICE.

T451b

“ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

"AMERICA MARU."

are hereby notified that their Goods are at their risk being discharged into Lighters and/ or landed into our Godowns at Wanchai and delivery may be had either from Lighters or: from Godowns upon countersignature of Bills of Lading.

"Goods remaining unclaimed after the 8th instant will be subject to rent.

Cargo to be delivered from alongside, z No Fire Insurance has been effected.

C. L'GORHAM, Acting Agent Hongkong, 6th April, 1900. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

FROM SHANGHAI HE Steamship

THE

"URANO,"

and one that does not send to help the condition of the wounded. Information shows, however, having arrived, Consigness of Cargo are hereby The hovellat of a bygone, generilen would that the climate is all in favour of the rapid formed that their Goods are being landed at movement of the wounded, and it is pointed ir risk into the Gedowns of the Hongkong have twish a bold man indeed who would have in the green room; when I knew that Gladys carried in the history of his heroine beyond out that the general condition of the men, their at Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, was liable at any moment to dabble the curtain her teens. By the age of twenty-one she was stamina, and general physique are potent fac-Lifted, whence delivery may be obtained

* Claims will be admitted after the Goods in the footlights, instead of steering it dextor-utually married and done for, and probably the tors in the success attending the surgeons'opera-

mother a small family. The age of hero, tions.. The Boer bullets make clean wounds have ft the Godowas, and all Claims must be. ously over them; and when I knew from ex..

rather than ragged ones, and this considerably sent to the office of the Undersigned before perience that the armour of King John had a too, scutely excels the heroines's. He was nasty trick of giving way at the waist, and that sometimes allowed tillbirty but even then was relieves the fear of suppuration, and all are Noon the 13th instant, or they will not be - sideways and behave like a forage can. the Queen's crown might at any moment slip looked upon as quite tlderly. Compared with agreed that suppuration, is extremely frequent, recogn

time preremy, when we have almost middle-considering the nature of the

No 1 aged heroes and beroines to our latest and fablonable novels, this seems absurd.

But I forgot all about the play and became an antediluvian again when a familiar voice greeted me from behind. In the old days, if any one had told me that Clementine was either placid or ordinary looking, I should have retored that she was the most beautiful person

At the age when their mothers were eloplag to Greina Green, or wosed, married, and a',” our girls are still in the school room, at college, travelling, Budying art, medicine, kaj writing

wounds..

Insurance has been effected, and remaining in the Godowns after the nt, will be subject to rent. of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & CO.,

[457 ngkong, 6th April, 1900

The chief Grearms being used are the Lee any Go Metford and the Mauser, though thors am yet | 13th lj a few of the old-fashioned bullets employed, and it is with the wounds caused by the latter that our surgeons experience a difficulty and become anxious. A wounded Boar, referring

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