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MAN, MAID, AND FORE.

Olive and I sat upon the terrace boking the broad flower garden. From indow above us came a murmur of voice)id Mr. "Melton Multitude and his son Setore con versing earnestly, though of their less wa caught no word.

Nearly healed ?" said Olive ofending 'forward to look at the dark repon my wrist, which a' shrapnel bullet" brought about. That, and fever, had se home from South Africa. My old chuton had invited in to this place of his fatin und berland. Here I had found healin, and had grown to love Olive Weynold Mr Muhitude's adopted daughter.

"Nearly healed." I answered wing up my left sleeve. "At least all pain has gone. The bullet, you see, struck back of my hand and travelled to the. They say that a bullet in the hand wilke a pian cry; it tears so many nerves. I clined to believe that."

Olive's head hent lower as sheed a word of gentle sympathy. Ifer brown brushed my face; her fingers were laid my arm. She turned upon me a look of this natural surptisc.

Olive!" I explained impuls, and rais ed her hand to my lips.

"And I tell you, Seton," she an angry voice above us, that if you do harry Miss Weyman not a penny of my m shall you

have!"

If a thunderbolt had fallen feat I do not think we could have been dismayed. Olive drew her hand from minif the touch had burned her fingers. She suddenly, with shining eyes and cheeks fre, and dis- appeared, leaving me in a statemotion that can be better imagined than døed.

Until that moment I had no of old Mr. Multitude's intentions with regh Olive, but his shouted determination hadle the matter only too clear so far as wancerned. I waited about the house in a of anxiety until Seton appearet. On sef me, to my great relief, he at once took nfto his con

idencefe fuld ins of the dreement be tween him and his faber, and þd-

Between you and me, To love Olive. What are you staring at? I loved her in my quiet way for years; and guv'nor had only inquired into the ur-secf my affec tions, all would live one sthly; but he began by telling me I was a time in mar rying Olue, tunt I and knowl(along what were his wishes, and that theme I hurried up the better. I declined to digated to in matters of that kind, and wid Something like a quarrel."**.

Well," I answered, gloon "so long as you love her it doesn't much)ter."

"You forget that there's her side to the question, old man. Supposifhe doesn't love me? As to asking her we shall take my tane about that."

I said no word as to whalive and I had

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901.

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· Seton fashed an answer back; "Vessel sails `in four days; the Ancar". I made inquiries, and found that the Racer generally took about thirty-eight days for the journey, so that she ought to arrive at Southampton on the 28th of

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weeks. It could be done with a special lic- | it did not-as happened many a time-swallow ence and no accidents.

the homestead, as well, and turn the prosperous Bettler and his family of one day to destitute fugitves the next And in a continent that was practically without waterways, and whose river. channels were dumb and dry for the greater part of the year, it was natural that drought should scourge the flocks like a pesti lence. It was a commonplace in the history of squatting for a man to see the results of the work of all the best years of his life wither he fore his eyes while fie looked on helpless. And, as the inevitable opposite of droughts, there were the floods, that with their terrible sudden ness would sweep away half a struggling man's possessions in a night. The lesser worries of the squatter's life were plentiful. Comfort- killing, sheep destroying insects existed in singular profusion; flies and mosquitoes were a perpetual tornient-life in the bush, where a man was making a hand-to-hand fight of it with Nature at her rawest and roughleat, was full of heavy cares and wearing trifles.

Uriah Multitude, in the meantime, was get ting nervous: he regarded my movements with palpable suspicion. I did not like the man, and he took an little pains to conceal his distrust of Olive, whom he knew slightly, that I did not acquaint him with the trend of events. When five more weeks had passeil, leaving but ten days to the end of the year, he must have felt very sure of the property,

Then, to iny great dismay, the Racer met with bar weather, and iubecame clear that the big steamship would upt, reach England on the 28th. I waited in a fever of anxiety till that day arrived, and tiren persuaded Olive to come with her friends to London. "It may be that a single hour gained will turn out to be of vital importance," I said to her, though I little guessed how literally true my words would prove to be..

On the evening of the 29th of December we arrived in London. On leaving my hotel an hour later I saw Uriah watching me from the opposite side of the road. He had followed turned abruptly and disappeared.

us. I crossed over to speak to him, but he

On the evening of the next day we learned that the Racer was in the Channel, but a great storm was raging. I knew then that it would be a fearfully close thing. But twenty-four hours remained to us. Within that time Seton must land, a special licence be obtained from the office at Doctor's Commons, and the mari ringe take place.

the

"It cannot be done," said Olive, pale under

continued strain, I will be touch and go," I answered ber The family solicitor "I have done all I can. will be here by mid-day to-morrow; the clergy. man is ready all that is wanted is the man himself. I am going to Southampton to-night

to meet him."

it is in the populating of this naked, rich, inhospitable waste with sheep and cattle that the first romance of Australian history lies, Since the beginning the land had lain as a blank page in the history of the world; within the span of a single century it holds a rich and thriving nation. The tale of its sudden rise is | beautifully epitomised-its needs and destiny were given form and utterance-in the career of the first Australian-born great man, the

squatter statesman, Wentworth.-H. G. M. Ilvaine, în Harper's Magazine for April.

THE PLACE OF THE POCKET

MODERN SOCIETY.

When the writer visited the Elison-Ball

during the day. This will not be beautiful, per- and, indeed, a whole band, as well as a vocalist haps, but it will be eminently useful and towards combined. Such machines can be secured from the useful, after all, is the trend of life at the pre-63 39 upwards, The dearest instruments ars sent day. But let us hope that the resourceful the concert phonographs, a few of them run ingenuity of the age, the ever-increasing privi- ning up to £ja leges of the sex, will give us more than this; that when woman has obtained the suffrage and eventually the right to enter Parliament, she will, once in the House, see to it that every woman in the land shall have a right to at least two good and easily accessible pockets in rea- | sanable places. Then, and not till then, will she be able to spread the wings of her capacity, and, no longer let or hindered, will she soar at last on the flaps of her pockets to equal heights with men.-The Rangoon Times.

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MADAME PATTI'S WELSH CASTLE.

No small amount of consternation has been created among the villages in the Swansea Valley, Wales, by the announcement that Mime. Patti (the Baroness Cederstrom) is about to sell her castle, Craig-y-nos. The great diva is immensely popular with the humble falk in the neighbourhood (says an English paper) and they are naturally loth to lose their Lady Bountiful,

They include a handsome diamond bracelet miniature of her Majesty framed presented to her by the late Queen, and a brilliants. Then there is the portrait of the Queen of Portugal set in diamonds and pearls. In a little cabinet are the jewelled enr-rings worn by Marin, the greatest of all tenors, on one of the last occasions when he and Patti sang to gether. There are several laurel wreaths in solid gold, one, especially beautiful, having its composer, and the character which the diva engraved upon each leaf the name of an opera, represented.

Craig-y-nos, which means "Rock of Night," takes its name from a huge, domeshaped hill, at the foot of which the beautiful castle nestles. The majestic building is flanked with a succes- sion of conservatories, Vineries, and peach houses, and a prominent feature is a spacious IN winter garden, which at night is illuminated with electricity. Like most most ladies, Mme. Patti has a wholesome dread of burglars. Two sentinels patrol the castle grounds, and all the The real cause of the inequality of the sexes is the difference in the number of their pockets.alarm bells. These precautions are necessary, windows are fitted with an ingenious system of Man has been equipped by nature with nine for the castle is a veritable treasure house. It pockets: woman, with only one, and that one

is stocked with priceless gifts from Royalty and she cannot find. This in itself constitutes an other distinguished people whom the great impassable barrier, and is a hopeless bandicap cantatrice has delighted with her singing to the development of the female. I have no Many of these weasures Mine. Pati keeps in hesitation in affirming that the pocket is her boudoir." the seat of most of the virtues, some of them punctuality, method, order, good temper, good possibly of a minor kind, but virtues still--

memory, cleanliness, friendship, generosity, calmness. I take haphazard qualities which u man may be supposed to desire in his wife: but he must not hope she will have them, for they are all contained in her pocket, and she does not know where that is. A file reflect on will convince the thoughtful that the above instance. A man, let us say, has, occasion to statement is not an exaggeration. To take an make an appointment; he takes out his pocket book, which he finds ready to his hand in the

Besides owning the largest piano in the pocket where he always keeps it, looks to see

world, Mme. Patti has at Craig-y-nos the most what bis engagements are, makes a note of the expensive orchestrion. This wonderful instru new one, and puts the book back in its placement is equal to the combined efforts of sixty with the case, calm, and dignity engendered performers, has a repertoire of over eighty by certainty and custom. But what does a

operatic selections and airs, and cost £3,000. woman do under like circumstances, asked, we A treasure that:Minė. Patti holds in no less may suppose, when out of her own house, to ing week? It would be idle to expect from her that she should produce a pocket-book: the very word would here be a misnomer, for in her case the correct description would cer tainly be a four-book or an under-the-mble book. She tries to remember without it, her That same evening Olive and Seton were made man and wife, and the bells that rang the engagement book being at home. She then ar new year in sang their wedding chimeranges the new appointment for a day already Cassel's Saturday Journal,

The morning of the last day of the year dawned; but the Racer was not to be seen on the horizon of the grey, tumbling sea. I saw Uriah sneaking about the docks. I pitied the fellow, but what I saw resolved me that Seton should not lose his inheritance if I could help it. At eleven o'clock the Racer was sighted, but with scarcely a word of greeting, I seized it was 1 pm. before she landed her passengers.

Seton by the arm and we rushed to the station. There we learned that we must wait sixty-five minutes for a London train. I could have wrung my hands.

"The office will be closed"1 groaned, "we cannot get there in time."

"Hold on," said Seton; "we'll have a special if we can get it.".

Consolidated Phonograph Company's establish- iment he was pointed out a huge trumpet 84 in height, with A-diameter of it at its widest part, which the company had just built to the order of the #Rev. W. Carlile, of St. Mary-at-HiH, Through such a huge hurn a voice could be heard distinctly in every part of a large hall. The giant trumpet at the Hippodrome" ruus, it very close in point of size.

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It is interesting to note that the firm are about to place upon the market a new instrument, which will be the largest phonograph ever made. If you wish to set up the latest giant of "talking machines" in your drawing room, it, will cost you 80 to do so. It is primarily intended for use in large halls and concert- rooms. It will be possible to turn the music on in a large dancing-hall, and, yet be heard above the din and noise made by the visitors and dancers --7he New Press.

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"Assuredly," I replied, "we will" He remarked, William said, "We will go to the Kneipe." The Kneipe, as you are doubtless aware, is the sole extant relic of the unce popular wor ship of Bacchus, and the Germ..a student is is the only surviving Bagctant. This is a well-known fact. I have for some time had a desire to participate is a really'disreputable ge; therefore we will go to the Kneipe and we will be very merry indeed."

So it came about that as the clock on the ORTHE COMPANY. Stadtkirche struck eight we definite steps into the beer ball of the Hotel zum grünen 1.öwe. Here. Schmidt and Herr Meyer were seated with fire other studenth

walked with

round a table at the further end of the room. William has a method of taking off his hat We approached them and made nur salutations.

which he has acquired here and which he takes it hy the brim with his finger and alleges to be pre-eminently German, He

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and expense.

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Agents. problem to the German mind, the King of Hongkong, 14th May, 190. England. William, with his characteristic extravagance, called for zwei Glass Bler,"

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esteem because its intrinsic value is almost ni conversation then passed on to Jew-hate (literal of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their

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overhean! on the terrace.In my inmost hrtune, they kept the line fairly clear and make some arrangement for a day in the follow- is an old doll which she calls "Henriette," and German opinion of the Jews. Gratification take immediate delivery of their Goods from

thoughts i believed that by rash about sir. Multitude had defeated high ends. I had learned something of Olive pirit. Whether she loved Seton or not I cl not guess, but now that she knew that thrch her only could Seton come into his inherite I believed that she would refuse to have at in such a tran- saction. If Seton asked to be his wife, he would inevitably awake her the sinister suspicion that a fortune arke prompted his love vows. As for me, wait was quite clear that I must think no more live. Seton had said that he had loved her years.

What I anticipated and fed came pass. At the end of a month Selsked Olive in be his wife, and she refused, I knew then "that my friend's love for hethought undemon

strative, was desp. He annhced his intention of going abroad, and want me to go with hin. I declined, for 1 thght I could be of more use to him if I remail in Cumberland.

He had been gone but now days when old Mr. Multitude was seizedjith an apoplectic fit, and died within twentyr hours

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The property alluded to coisted of the big house in Cumberland, and but two thousand pounds a year. By this matrous clause in his will the stubborn old in spoke from the

grave.

Selon had been absent fda fornight before he sent us an address that ould find him. I immediately wrote to tell of his father's death and of the terms othe will. To this letter received no reply.

In the meantime the hose was shut up Olive continued to live with me friends in the neighbourhood. I also refined the spot, for I was resolved to discher if Olive really loved Seton. If I could assured of that, then I told myself that all custs I must prevent the approaching atastrophe. Time was precious. There werenly six months to the end of the year. Alrey Uriah Multitude sharp-faced, alert man was on the scene, For decency's sake he pt himself in the background; but I kaes that never spider watched a possible prey sploatingly as Uriah looked forward to the hih probability of an unexpected legacy.

And a special we had. Also, hy great good howled us up to London in capital style. Arrived at Waterloo we rushed into a cab, gave the driver a monstrous tip, picked Olive up at her hotel, and reached. Doctors Commons exactly twenty minutes to the good.

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which she proudly explains was given to her when leven years of age" for singing nicely."

· PHONOGRAPHIS,

The Edison-Bell Consolidated Phonograph Company, probably the largest manufacturers of phonographs in England, engages a staff of experts to speak, play and sing into the record. ing machines. This important branch of the work is known as the recording departament. The department really consists of a number of rooms for producing different records, In one room nothing but solo recorda, both instru- mental and vocal, are made.

Simple as it may seem to speak or sing into phonograph, many of our greatest actors and actresses completely fail in producing a good record. Indeed, such well-known actors as Mr. Charles Wyndham, Mr..R. G. Knowles and Mr. Louis Bradfield have been obliged to have more than one attempt before their best artistic efforts have been established in wax. Ladies invariably make better records than, inen, through they have one fault, that of put sing in sentences that are not required. When Miss Edna May first sang one of her favourite songs into the funnel the walked up to the gramophone and remarked, Say, how do I stand for this thing? Forgetting that her words would be recorded.

and we listened to the discussion on the King of England. After about half an hour ly in England?" I said, "Ja, whisky." (I do Herr Schmidt said, "What do you drink most-

not possess the language in its entirely.) The

transl.), and we were much interested by the

was expressed that two tribes had been lost. Presently Herr Meyer said to William, "What does one generally drink in Eng land? We drink," said William, "half bottle of whisky per man every evening." "Ach!" said Herr Meyer, and then gracefully turned the conversation by narrating an anec dote about the King of England. This produced others on the same subject, and an interesting discussion followed. After another half-hour an idea occurred to Herr Schmidt. He ex pressed himself as curious to learn what might be the Englishman's favourite hever age. "There is, William explained, "a beverage called whisky, of which everyone partakes to the extent of one bottle night- "¡y." "Ach, sul said Herr Schmidt in polite surprise. After this William called in loud tones for "noch zwei Glas Bier" to prove his assertion, and we then entered upon a most absorbing conversation' on the Jew and his position in Germany. Someone observed that he had been pleased to learn that there were only

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out of the original twelve tribes still in existence. At ten o'clock we felt that three glasses apiece was a sufficiency of beer, and by general consent we adjourned to the Cafe zum blauen Engel, where they sell good red wine,

No Fire Insurance bus been effected, and any Herr, as we drank our glass of wine, we heard Goods remaining in the downs after the 22nd some interesting facts about the King of En-tant, will be subject (rent gland. Later the Jews came in for some rough

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & CO., conversational banding. Herr Meyer had just

Agents finished his glass of wine when a look of in-

Hongkong, 17th May. Yo terest came over his face. Turning to me, he said, "Have the Englanders a national drink? "Ja" I said, "whisky." William came to my aid at this point. "Most people drink five bottles a day in England" "Ach, so!" said Herren Schmidt and Meyer together. At eleven o'clock it was determined that we should “ now go and drink in the American manner."

So we left the Blauen Engel and went across to the Höllenkeller, which is situate in Para- diesgasse, "Here we shall be very merry in- deed," opined William. Herr Schmidt ordered egg-flip, and we drank it with spoons, and as- we drank we discussed the possible danger of the two lost tribes being some day found. In cidentally Herr Meyer asked what the King of England drank at dinner. "Ja, whisky," said 1. This led to a complete account of the King of England from a most intelligent student, DA whom ogg-dip was beginning to have an effect.

A visit to a phonograph 'factory is a most interesting experience. The manufacture of occupied, laying the train for a whole series of these ingenious little instruments is decidedly vexations-agonies of misgiving, of recollec simple, but the methods employed for secur tion, sending messengers and telegrams, mani.ing records are distinctly unique. festations of temper on the part of a justly. aggrieved and inconvenienced friend, evoking It is in vain to look for anything sublime in a corresponding disturbance in the bosom of the story of the colonisation of Australia, It the offender. What would become of a man if had no Pilgrim Fathers, no Abraham; there his business arrangements were conducted in was, at starting, neither loot nor revenue to be this fashion? But I contend that the reason drawn from it. In its native, unexploited con- they are not is not that he has had a public- dition it was reckoned the barrenest and school education, or that the Latin declensions most inh-spitable country under heaven; it form so admirable a training for the mind; nor lay for a couple of centuries known but un- is it that men are naturally more competent, claimed. The haisting, of the ensign at Batany

or endowed with memories or better temp- Bay in 1760 by Captain Cook was more a ers; it is that they are endowed with more matter of racial acquisitiveness than anything pockets. Or, apart from questions of busi else; Australia lay untenanted till 1788, when ness, there

more romantic { it was put into requisition, as a convict station. qualities in which men at the first blush appear Thence forward it was more the splendid to excel, such as that of generosity, using the Ollast n the event of my arm on aut marrying Mobstinacy of the squatter than any far-see word here to denote the impulse to give away Olive Weyman before the preseny has expired, the perty shall pass into the postsalof Urian Stultitude, my ing spirit of enterprise that proved Aust money. A friend of mine, beneath whose only surviving nephew.'.

Fralia the finest pastoral land in the world. window a crossing sweeper plies his trade, The father of the great breed of flock masters remarked to me one day that she had been that was to rise in the new country was a rer interested to observe how much more readily tain Captain Macarthur, who; dimly foreseeing the men who passed gave to this crossing grent things, came home in 1803, to Boat a sweeper than the women did, and the de- mastord company. Ale was roktually backed duced from this that women have not the in his enterprise by Ser Joseph Banks, who, open-hander! impulse in any marked degree. had sailed with Cook: hetried to raise a But whether or no this be true as a general modest £20,000, and failed. After infinite proposition, it seemed to me that on this As the actress sings, a dainty little sapphire badgering of the stupid powers that were, he occasion the deduction was drawn on quite turning tool, known as the stylus, is set in wrung from then a quali concession of land, insufficient grounds. There is no reason at matiat, recording the waves of sound on a wax and returned alone. He was humanly alone, all why a man should not put his hand in his. cylinder. The point of the stylus is exceed- that is; but in the dia-wrated chan pocket as often as he likes on a rainy day asingly fine, and as it travels over the surface of ewes and

tear hy aaported about well as on a fine one. whe

La belle afaire He the wax cylinder it is driven more or less deeply that time-authorities differ

crosses the roar, in comfort, holding his.um- into the material, and turns off a shaving which precise date-be corved the send of many brella in one hand, the other free, at a mo varies in thickness, according to the quality of fortunes tie was faced on landing with the men''s notice, to perform graceful acts of the sound waves which fall upon the diaphragm. historic denterleadedness of Bligh, then charity. But his wife, alas is trying the while It is exceedingly amusing to watch the endless Governor of New South Wales, who said, when with one hand to hold up her long skirt out of stream of fine, hair-like turnings which fall he heard of the Macarthur concession, "You've the mud, quite hopelessly destroying any pos from the little tool while a record is being got 5,000 acres of the muest land in the country, sibility of getting at her pocket, even for the made. but by God you shart krep Keep it, how most ordinary and prosaic purpose; with the Passing through some double doors another ever, Macaither did and in his fight to hold it other hand she tries to hold up ber umbrella; it room is entered, which may be styled there was a foreshadowing if the future would require a third, if she had it, to hold to- the "band-room." He a full instrumental supremacy of the squatter

gether her boa and cloak that are fapplag about band, under the baton of a conductor, is Turned from outlaw to crown lessee, the in front. ls she then, in this miserable plight, to playing popular airs, matches, walizos, squalter's primal characteristics always clung be condemned, forsooth, if she does not put etc. The musicians are so grouped around to him; he always headed the slow pageantry her hand into her pocket and pull out her the phonographs that the volumes of sound of settlement; it was he, invariably, who met pennies as freely as does her husband? I from each instrument striks full upon the and turned the rough edge of unmitigated should like to see exactly how far his generous horns, the front row of the performers being nature; he supplied or inspired the daring and impulse would carry him if the legs of his deated on ordinary chairs, and those bebiad on, endurance that were called for in the opening trousers trailed on the ground, and he had to raised state. In this room as many at sixteen up of the new continent. Out of the squatter's hold them up in crossing the road, and to hold horns may be detected, so that na ikay records needs, whether for expansion outward to fresh his tie and coat together in front and keep may be secured at one sitting, of the pastures, or for the maintenance of his stock his umbrella open. He would then come to large phon purpose of playing into thesquiter phonograph companies employ band "I have long bad an unpleant suspicion that Ollya xe- run, nt for, the link of transport between him the conclusion, as every woman has done for the And to fahren as he had an engedhetare aid and his coastward markets and bases of supply long since, that the only way of rewarding little machines. No musicians could wish for fused because of stood could have known anything about the will before it was -out of these grew all the purely Australian a crossing-sweeper on a rainy day-whert, a thore appreciative and thoughtful audience.. Then we empty the casks into the river Thames, tead, but at any rate when the new year comes I shall ak types of workers on the soil,

by the irony of fate, he deserves it the As soon as the record is made it is taken off her again to be my wife. I stauld tuên ban þoor may, it is true, but she will know that my love for her is entirely dle

For the greater part, the founding and form- { most-would be to carry penhy in the mandrel and sent to another department, interested.

ing of squattages was accomplished in the one's mouth, as a blind man's dog carries where it is tested by a corps of experts, who I had, not a moment ho lose.. That I'would teeth of grudging nature and called more for the to box into which, under more favour throw out everyord that gives the slightest show his letter to Olive was the last thing men of grit than glory. It is true that-mare able conditions, that penny ought to fall. There suggestion of a defect. Long training in this Seton would wish me to do, but I did not particularly in the early times, before the is a great deal more to say on this subject; it work has made them sensitive to irregularities

letter was in Olive's, hand I'vatched her rangers maintained at times a reign of purault of art and literature, is governed by the noticed by the average istoper, It is a curious face steadfastly the read. When she cat terror. And it is also, eminently, true that accessibility of the pocket. Anyone who has spectacle to ass a dozen man perched on high to the passage quoted she turned very white; In the tales of the Australian land-explorers, been in the house with a female relation who stools about a large room with their cars closs

from Ortay

Burke and Wills, there is ai uses glasses must have bean conscious of the to huge trumpets, listening intently to the fine a record of pluck as the annals of the race perpetual limitations of opportunity brought ejecting music. can show. On these, the Austral rowdies and | into the existence of one who finds herself at After passing the text room the records are heroes, popular imagination loves to dwell, a picture gallery without her spectacles, or un-carefully wrapped in cotton, then in paraffin and concerning them it has been fed liberally able for the same reason to read at home. But paper, and finally placed in card-board boxes, with song and story. But the men who bore, I think I have said enough to show that the These boxes are stored in numbered bins, and the brunt of the war that made an Anglo-Sax morals, the cultivation, and the happiness in the company's works referred to tier upon tier on province of Australia were the aquatters. of the home depend ultimately apon the of bins may be seen, representing thousands of Their fighting was chiefly in endurance. position of the pocket. But what to be different subjects. One phonograph firm in New They had to face an almosty empty land, done? There are some savage tribes, 1 York boasts of possessing go0,000 wax cylingar peopled by an aboriginal race that was believe, who carry all small objects they want in their recording department, the most cowardly in the world, and never in their ears or in their hair; but, our cars In the manufacture of the cylinders a special really checked the march of settlement. (on this occasion I regret the fact} are not ble kind of wax is used, it is melted in large vats, There was not a man-hunting wild beast enough to contain a memorandum-book;and | each of which holds about rooolb. There are in the whole country; it grew native pas our hair, when done according to the present generally three meltings in all, and between ture, on which stock throve splendidly, and fashion, would be unbecomingly disturbed by cach the fluid is carefully strained to remove needed no housing the year round. Thus the having a bunch of keys in it. In default of any hird or gritty impurities which it might land as it stood was ready for seitlement; the anything better, we may hope that, since it contain, for the presence of foreign substances, business of the squatter was to bring his flocks seems to be a law of nature that when ons or even a few particles of fine dust would and watch them while they obeyed the natural organ, gradually atrophied, disappears, another interfere in the production of a good record. laws of increase. Opposition to their increase develops in its place, so if the pocket in the Phonographs suitable for commercial pur osme to no marked extent either from mar or female is gradually dwindling and disappear poses cost from £5 to 30. But thousands of brute; it war in facing the naked elements that the squatters fortitude, was called for a bush her hands will gradually creases in size people purchase them for amusement in their and grasp until enormous and prehenalle, they sown homes. After all, the phonograph is a fire coming when graus was thick and dry will be able to hold dimly and conveniently decidedly interesting and ampang jastrumenti might turn plenty to famine in a night, even if everything she wants to carry about with her | it las, víolib, a trombona, a pianoj, a combat

At length, not hearing om Seton, I began to despair. The months spped by until only two remained before the yer should close, I saw and conversed frequently ith Olive. Anxiety or some other feeling was elling on her health She looked worn and pie. Then one day. received the long-expected latter. I tore it open, and when I came tothe following words I gasped as I saw my opportunity

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Of M11 Chamizte, and: TRI "SAKITAS" Co.Ltil, Bothmal Dress, London.

£4950

About midnight a sort of brain-wave must have passed through the company, for Herren Schmidt and Meyer sald both together. "You Englanders drink wbiaky, do you not?" I had got as far as "Jawh when William interrupt- ed me. "We do," he said. All of us drink CLARKE'S B 4 PILLS are warranted to

cure, in either sex, all acquired or cons whisky-out of casks. We finish a cask in two titutional Discharges from the Urinary Organs, evenings. Then on the second evening we Gravel, and Pains in the Back, Ereagiram became merry, and we go out with our casks Mercury, Established upwards of 30 yearsy caught them put them inside the casks Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the and catch policemen. And when. We have In boxes, 45. ái, each, of all Chemists and which exply the to Westminster Bridge World Froprietors: The Lincoln and Mid- Yes, we drink whisky in England." Ach, so land Counties Drug Company, Lincolit

Fugland, said the students in chorus.

Then wo all I got up and went out. "Now," said.William, we shall see what the German student can do when he is intoxicated," the end of the Paradiesgasse there stands a

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hesitate. Before half an haut had paased the convict stain had been obliterated--the bush- might be shown how all rent education, sin in tone and quality which would scarcely be Mayer, & we will put out that was amp And HYPO-PHOSPHITE of LIME

then she gave the note Back to me

"You had no right to how me that letter," she said in a low voice.

#Yet if it rolls away the stone from the door of somebody's happiness? You remember what we overheard on the terrace 2. Mitts, Weyman, if there be a misapprehension for Seton's, for your own sake, give me leave to act while there,

yet time,"

What would "Bring Seton back

you do??

Why not? I see no harm in that." But may I tell him to me home before before the end of the year??*

She looked up at me with the shadow of a smile in her eyes. "You see that he writes from Hongkong?" she said.

So that we have not an hour to lose, I should cable to him. He would have six weeks and three days in which to reach England

Olive was silent for a long time, and then she said, “Very well, jell Seton that I sent the message."

These words destroyed in me the last vestige selfish hope. My one idea now was to get Sein home and married in a little over six

so the student who know about the King of England leaned against the lamp-post. Herr Meyer climbed on to his back, and Herr Schmidt climbed on to his back, and amid breathless' excitement turned out the lamp. Then he climbed down, gazed at his work for & moment with admiration, and tuming to the party said: "Ach, it is done. We will now go home to be" So we separated. Will the Grinen Love, there merry: to has thus described the evening in his diani the Bistien-Engel, there more merry; to the Hullankaller, the most marry; and so home, Bat William is not an Invariably truthful. persoN,

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Ma speciality, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1808.

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