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THE PERFEPT TEA FIN!ST TEA IN THE WORLD FROM THE TaA PLANT To THE 'MA CUP IN ITS NATIVE PURITY., aim:soon" Tea is packed udder tho supervition afthe Toe growers, and is advertised and sold by them as a sample of the best qualities of Indian and Ceylon Teas, For that meson they see tbet pone but the, Vary fresh leaves go into Kowloon pactageo, That is why "Monsoon,' the perfect Tea, cats be aeld at the same peke as inferior tea. It is put tip in Reeled caddies of %lb,z lb. and s lba„ and sold in that!, flaziours at 4oc,, son. and Ocze. • If veer grocer does not keep it, tell him to write to Srkitl klArrgIt & CO,, 20 and sa Front Ste Sass Tor :As THE Slia\A/MAYS GHOS Away tripped Virginie,and Aire. Varley, leisurely detmentling, folicreted her husband to the platform ot the allow, where alse ensconced hereelf at the (seat of custom, whilst Solomen assumed the active director. ship of the band. The baud, comprising thirtyelive instrumento, greened, wheezed, banged,and blared in a gig box,obedient to a rotary handle. The crowd flowed in, and the sound et copper and silver tinkled pleasantly through the tunes played by the mechanical orchestra, whose &drains had long ceased to charm.,the musical, ear of ita proprietor. Solomon, indeed, was wont to relate a story to the disoredit of the orchestra. ' One day,' said Sol, 1 takes a pitch right oppisyte a °henna' druggis's please, an' in doo time I teens up. Well,he stands it regular an' pinch y for about half a hour or so, an' then be walks over. "Mister," he says—quite the polite gentleman—"I ain't a aomplainin' party as a rule,"he says, "but your orgiu , is too much for me." 'Well, governor,'' I ups an' says; "you ought te have more human natur' than complain," I eve: "I know it's hard on you," I says, " to have to lieten to it, but you'll think o' me some- times," I says, "with a tear o' pity on amount o' my havin' tia play it regular, won't you ?" It oied him up, if you'll believe 100,' Solomon would add, as sudden as a clasp -knife.' On the present oocasion Mr. Varley ground away meohanioally, and was more bent upon observing the faces of the orowd than even on the pleasaet tinkle which made its way through the wheeze and blare of his own music. There were straw he.ta in plenty before him, but the partioular straw hat of whose owner Jim had warned him was not there, and the showman was not sorry for its absence. The common interest in zoology was not strohg enough to induce young men of gentlemanly exterior to follow his unrivalled collection from village to village, aud Solomon had needed no warning Eta to the object which caused the wearer of the straw hat to follow the show witie a persistence so unusual. Perhaps Solomon was mentally short- sighted. Perhaps, notwithstanding two. years of matrimonial experi- ence, he was little versed in the ways of women. Possibly his own open-hearted nature and sterling honesty and straight- forwardness helped to blindfold him. Virginia had gone intothevillage to buy floss silk—quite the most innocent of errands. And the young gentleman in the straw hat was not anywhere in the immedi- ate neighbourhood of the show. Quite a satisfactory matter. It never ocicurred to him that the young gentleman might mest Virginia. He would have been ready to knock down anybody who had told him that Virginia had gone to meet the young gentleman. • The showman's daughter went along the shady aide of the street swinging a dainty little basket inher hand. She bought thefloss silk to satisfy conscience and answer Bible inquiries,and then strolled on under the shade of pleasant boughs into a leafy lane. She blushed and trembled as she went, and Was many a time tali inclined to earn back again, but by-and-by a young man wearing it straw hat heaved in sight, and throwing away a half smoked edge.r,turned his loung- ing walk into a quiok one, and approached her smiling, hat in hand. • So you are here after all he said gently. • '1 shouldn't haveoome,' fluttered ' if I had dreamt that you would be here,' Don't,' said the wearer of the straw hat pleadingly,—' don't be be so cruel Its to 803' so.' 'Don't think I came to meet you,' said the little coquette. - 'As if I should think of such a thing 1' 'I hope you will think of it sometimes,' said her companion softly. "If you knew 'iow lonely it is to wait! If you knew how hard it is to go away without having seen you can't always be strolling about country lanes,' said Virginia pertly ; 'I come as often aa I can.' 'You do try to come, then ?' he asked. 'How you do try to trap one, Mr. Verschoyle !' said Virginia. 'Say -"George,' ' said Mr. Verschoyle, ignoring the charge. 'No, I shan't Is 'Say 'George,"' said Mr. Versohoyle agaimstealing an arm about) her waist. she said, half tremulously defiant of her own tremors, andhalf ten der, 'George ' She only whispered it, and blushed like a peony. He stooped down and kissed her. She made a movement of resistance, and another, as if she would free herself of his encircling arm. But he kaew his power by this time, and kept his place and took his kiss and strolled on by her side under the shadow of the leafy trees. The foolish captive little heart fluttered beneath his hand so that he could count its beatings. He never thought or cared to think now sadly and sorely it would beat in days to come because of him. He was a well looking yeungster, with nothing of the traditional villain about him. A fair face, a tall and lithe figure, with a good breadth acmes the chest and shoulders, a drooping blonde moustache, frank eyes enough, a gentle voice, a handsome hand—a little too much bejewelled—but no cloven hoof, no sinister aspect to affright or warn. Faust had no need of Mephistopheles to teach him how to woo this silly Marguerite. He had trapped wiser women in his time unaided. And little Virginia was in love with him. Her head was tull of foolish Visions of fine things to wear, and a noble house to live in and imposing servants to wait on her, and a carriage with finehorses,with footmen holding on behind. To be honest with her,, these visions made no -part of her love, but were only part of what his love would dower her with. So they walked along the leafy lane beneath the shadow of the pleasant boughs, and he lied to her and she believed him. CHAPTER IL ' • It rained on me August night in an English seaport town ea English summer skies know how to rain. The tem. peat had gathered suddenly after weeks of eultry weather, and the olouds burst in a deluge. The great 'drops fell with a sound of ociatintlolls thunder on the canvas roof of Solomon Varley's show, but the proprietor ot that establishment was falai), with satisfaction. The sudden atom although it lIO4 ditT,Oreed the cgowd In 'It out, lied hastened 0110 half of WO people inside, and Solomon had each is house Se he had rarely seen. It was feeding time,and, double pricebeing charged at that hour, Mrs. Vatley atthetieat of custom had ecaped a four -fold silver harvest. The tent was well illuminated, but every mow and again the lightning glared thrtstegh the cienvae, and Wag) of the kinglier sort of beasts answered the folio witig thunder thunderous- ly. There wee a certain sort of majeety in being proprieter of a wild- beest Show under sueh eircumatances, and Solomon was in his glory. Suddenly his wife cisme in with a, shawl over her bead and fainted her way through the crowd. Solomon, seeing that alte made towards him, went easily to meet her, She WAR raft, and breathing hard, and clutching him by the arm with boeh halide she gasped, out two words 'Jenniee gone l' 'On a night like this I' said Solomon. 'She'll catch her death.' 'She's gone, Sol, she's gone Cried the mother, almost screaming. What d'ye mean ?' asked Solomon. People began to etare at them. Come out o' this,' he said, and seizing her by tho arm, lie forced, his way through the orawd to the outer pletform. The raiz' came down in straight -ruled glittering lines, blurring .the lights in the shop opposite. One blinding Rath of lightning tell as Solomon and his wife caree upon the platform and a tremendoue roar of thunder followed. New, What's the matter ?' he asked, when the awful sound had rolled itself away. , The woman wrung her hands and moan- ed. 'She's gone, Sol, she's gone l' was all the answer she could make. 'What d'ye mean?' °pied the showman, refusing to recognise a meaning. 'Oh, Sol, dear Sol !' she toned, clinging to him and breaking into tears. 'Come along 1' cried Solomon, shaking himself free and seizing her arm again. 'Come along 1' He hurried her through the pelting rain to the house on wheels. 'Now; what's the matter?' _ 'Sol,' cried his wife, waving her hands up and down like a mad woman, 'the's run away.' Solomon's face was white beneath its bronze already, but at that cruel stab he turned ghastly, and his hands dropped to hie aides like lead. 'Here's a note ' oried the distracted mother,now fumbling at her drese,and now waving her hands wildly. 'Here'e a note' she left behind. Oh, Sol I oh,my poor Sol, as loved her dear ! Oh, Sou! bear up like a dear good soul! Don't break your heart, don't break your heart l' Andsaying this she oast her, arms about him, and swooned and lost all knowledge of her agony for a little while. Solomon laid her gently down and stood above her like a statue. ' A step came up the ladder, but he did not hear it. A hand was laid upon his ehoulder, and he turned. There stood Jim, wild-eyed, dripping wet, and as pale as death. 'She knows ?' said the man, half recoiling at sight of the prostrate figure. 'Yes,' amid Solomon, "she knows.' see her go,' panted Jim, for he was out of breath with running. follered, thinking somethire was the matter to take her out on such a night as this.' A flash of lightning heralded a peal of thunder over- head, and the showman oould only see his moviug lips but heard nothing ore thitil the noise had mrolled away again. 'They got in to a cab an'drove a way. I oould 888 08 they was a•makin' for the Ring's Dock or else for the South Pier, an' I run like mad, but I lost sight of 'em.' 'Solomon heard this, but returned no word. When it was all spoken he moved slowly away, and,taking up a glass,ponred water into it from a brown pitcher, and then sat down beside hiswile and moisten- ed her lips and temples. 'Ain't you a goin"-to do nothing ?' cried Jim. Ain't you a goin' to feller her to the world's end? Ain't you a goin' to catch that feller, if you travel till .you're grey afore you do it, and twist his wicked neck for him? That's what I'm a pin' to do, master.'• Solomon did not answer, but looked slowly round with a drawn and ashen noun- tenance like that of a man in mortal pain. 'Be a man, master,' said Jim'laying a rough hand gently on his ahouIder, and changing utterly in voice and manner. 'Be a man, an' take it fightin.' Fur the Lord's sake, , master, don't lay down and let it kick you.' 'Jim,' said Solomon, ii`peaking hoarsely, 'don't think 1 take it easy, an' unlike a father, because I don't say nothin'.' 'God forbid l' said Jim. past etnine ien run- ning a clumsy finger down column after the other from the place, and went back to list, and then upon 'Thos Day's Depart. his task. said Jim ; wheer is itT' Atter a moment's search he laid his hand upon it, and run - column came at last upon the shipping n where else but here. Leastways, not now.' He waved his hand, as though to dismiss 'But my place,' said the showman, as if annonsaious ot the interruption, 'is no- Thtaer was a mornin' paper here to -day, at nine for Rotterdam, one at half - e ter Blown' ' (meaning Boulogne), one at ten for Queenstown, an' nothin' from the pier. Theer's time to catch 'em yet.' He was gone through the storm, before Solomon could find a word. The streets were cleared of people by the rain. Lighening and thunder were almost cone tinuous, and the storm raged with a tropio fierceness. The man tore through it breathless, and never stopped until the dock was reached. He 7as so spent on getting there, and his own mad hurry had so foiled his purpose, that he oould not speak for a minute or two. When he asked for the boat to Rotterdam, it was pointed out to him.. There. Cleared the dock this minute.' The blinding lightning showed the boat for a fragment of a second, and the darkness ate her up again bodily, said vomited her into hideous light again' and once more shrouded her. 'The boatfor Boulogne* then?' Here, lying close at hand,'- geld the oilolothed dock policeman, and, as jim turned to get aboard, the official laid a hand upon the rainasoaked sack whioh covered hie Ihoulders and detained him. 'You're in a hurry to leave your 'native land, young man,' said the policeman. 'I'm in b. hurry to stop somebody else from leavin' it,' panted Jim. 'Don't atop me, for the Lord's sake. It's like life OM' death.' - 'Robbery?' asked the policeman, still keeping that detaining hand on Jim's ahoulder. 'Yes, an' worse,' said Jim. It ain't murder, is ItT' ain't BO mire O' that either,' Jim replied., Even In all the agitation Of hia spirit he was loyal to the reputation of Sol Varley and his household, and would not, if he could help it, betray Virginia by a word. 'Cheer's a cove tagoire off by one of these here boate—I don' went no givire in charge—not at present, leestveays. may have gone rready 1out stop int) no longer, master. It's like life an death.' The peliemneu releeeed him and he °limbed on board the boot. The lightuing Za I11isprelltug swift sheet ou oheet of bine, but the thunder WOO crashing and rumbling te the northwarde, and no Iona r 'spoke at the flash, but growled eullOnly seeonds lee;, and the rein haci, ceasedaa addenly as it came. Jim thought hinmelf alone on deck, when the dock, and the shipping, and the warehouses, and the woter, aud the very hee,vena all seemed te Make a sudden leap at Wm in the vivid lightning, and to rush baok with am awful swiftness as darknees truck light dead. The twinkling yellow lamps wore nothing in the pause. With the next flash an oliclothed figure spre,ug into being and went out again, and °erne along the deck as if each flash that followed drove it forward with a fiery wind. Then there was darknese for a second or two, and the twinkling lamps recovered light a little, and Jim saw the oilclethed figure ;sear. What is it, mate?' Do you carry, passengere?' demanded Jim, still breathing hard, and opeaking like a man foredone with, haste. Yes,' said the other. Is there a young man among 'ern, a gentleman, with blue eyes an' light MOUS-. taohios, with, a lady, a young lady, veyr pretty, in a dark frock ?' Ilia hurry waa so passionate, he oould scarcely speak. 7'1 don't know, said the seaman. What about era' if there ia?' 'I've come to stop 'em,' said Jim. 'They must be stopped; it's life an' death.' 'Have you got any authority to atop 'em 1' asked the seaman, 'If you have, an' they're abroad, I'm captain of this boat, an' I'll eta it aoted on.' 'See if they're here master,' said Jim beseechingly. 'It's life an' death to more thanolne., rromg woman bolted?' asked the Captain. 'Yesai said Jin -4 wills wild reluctance, as though the, answer were plucked out of hies. *For the Lord's sake, master, see if they're herb. It' life e,n' death.' 'I can't say whether they're aboard or not,' said the Captain, 'but there is a pair as seems to answer your desoription. Passage booked yesterday. They're all the pessengers I have to-night—and likely to be, by the look o' things, Come this way. The bows of the boat having been warped already from the wall, Jim had climbed aboard at the after -end, aud the deck he stood on formed the roof of the saloon. Be followed the Captain to the main deck, and peered into the saloon from the side of the steward's pantry. ls that the pair?' asked the Captain, with a tight grip on Jim's shoulder. That's the pair,' said Jim -in a hoarse whisper; drawing back on deck again. Verschoyle was leaning over little Vir- gini_,a who was crying behind her veil. Have you any authority to stop 'em?' asked the Captain. No,' said Jim. But, master, look here.' He waved his hands abroad plead- ingly, and his voice was thick with hurry and despair. I've been a servant of her father's ever since I was a kid. I've left her motheraswounded dead off, an' her father a-settin' by her that broken-hearted it'd melt a stone.' D'ye 'think they're married?' asked the Captain, speaking into his brown hand lest he should be overheard. Jim shook his•head with a negative SO decided that the Captain was convinced at once, and said, 'Eh, dear!' in a tone of pity. At that tone Jim took heart. • Master,' he said, maybe you've got a daughter o' your own. Have o heart, master—do, for the Lord's sake, have a heart.' Wait here a bit,' returned the Captain. 'Here, stand there.' All the time they talked together the lightning roiled on its sheets of flame with less and less rapidity and brilliamce, and the thuncter rumbled farther and farther away. And Jim, who had.perhaps as much right to associate his own emotions with the elemental disturbance as the feeble dentle. men who make verses on that topic personal to themselves, felt in a vague way that with the passing of the storm and the coming of the stars hope came. He waited in silence with a beating heart. Verachoyle and the Captain came from the saloon together. What have you to say to me ?' asked Verschoyle in a constrained and haughty tone. The Captain cleared his husky throat and squared his oilskinned shoulder. 'I'm a family man, sir,' he said, and a plain dealins man, and I'll come to the Vint at once. Is that young lady your wife, sir?' You should know better than to get drunk,' said Verachoyle, angrily amazed, 'when you have a journey before you and a ship in charge.' That's no answer to my question,' said the Captain. 'Are you married to that young lady?' • What ia the name of heaven is that to you?' demanded Verschoyle, with a curse thrown in. • I Well, here's a man who says you're not, and if you are—you know—you can say you are, and there's an end of it.' 'Show me the men,' said Verschoyle. Come here,' isaid the Captain aloud; and Jim stepped forward. He was still labouring for breath, and hiving striven to breathe softly to lititen, he Was breathing all the harder now. Verachoyle knew him. This is the man,' said the Captain. 'Ile says you're not. Now, I say, are you? Answer a pain coestion straight if you please, sir.' Suppose Idecllne to answer?' ' Then,' said the Captain bluntly, I refuse to /ferry you.' You are legally compelled to carry me.' • Am 1?' said the Captain'with a short laugh. Then I'll take thelegal respon. sil3ility, and you can take your legal remedy. That's all. Get your traps together. For I am damned, said the Claptaln with a mighty emphasis, 'if you travel in my boat, ,wherever else you travel.' Very good,' said Verschoyle With 'Savage hauteur. You will repent thie.' 'Not me,' said tho master-tnariner oheerfully. 'I hope you will, you—' There followed it Sentence of descriptive phrases which ellen rest unrecorded. The Captain had as rich and racy a vocabulary ail any man who over trod the boards of a Channel steamer, and, glowing with a com- fortable glow of righteous and triutnphaut wrath, he flung its treasures at the retreat., ing Versehoyle by the mouthful. All on a ;sudden he checked the Diluent Of hie anger, and entered the saloon. Verachoyle, pale and disturbed, was speaking to Virginia. The Captain put him et one side and sat down by the girl, who was crying bitterly. Versehoylo began to rage at this, and the Captain turned upon him in grave reproof. 'What do you meat by 'tieing Ann guage alre that afore a '&41 111 give you thee° Childrnri Cry for Pitetteeg esAficuial Iminutee to he off my boat, youuss Man, And U you're not off it in that tinie yell% leave it a good, deal more evsift and Budden than you'll caro to.' Then ignoring Veraeloyle'e presence, he took Virginia's hand between his two big palms, and addressed her, very gently : 'My pretty clear'I'm a father, and I've Been a deal of life in my, time. I ain't apeekitig angry to you, am 1? Now, you go borne, and be a good gell, and A hiesairig to your father and mother. And don't you, listen any more to that blackguard as wants to lead you Astray into a foreign land, and then r::Y9u:veran aieav broken.eY" hArted. Gohome,mypretty, That'sthopai0ryou, 'We are going to be married in Boulogne,' mobbed Virginia. 'That's your lying game, is it?' ertid the Cap tain, risin g and turning upon Verech oyle, 'Now tell her that poor yarn before a man of the world, will you ? Eh ? Will Yen ? Yu miserable liar I' 'How dare you?' oried the 01, sobbing. • Row dere you speak so ?" 'Come, Virginia,said Verschoyle; and she arose, crying bitterly. '1 speak so,' said the Captain, 'because it'e true. He won't tell me a lie like that. And if he does, rli see him stick to it. Pil appeal to the consul on the other side and see things square.' This the captain delivered with the air of a man who clinches the nail of proof ; and, burning again upon Verschoyle, denaancled to know whether that would suit him. Virginia had raised her veil, and was looking from one to the other. 'My poor dear,' said the Captain, softening as he turned to her, 'be doesn't mean to marry you. Ask him if he. does. Pm game to take you to Boulogne'—the Captain was warlike again, and directed, this statement at Verschoyle—,and put you under the Consul's care till this nice young mess acts fair by you. Ask him if he rustle it, my poor dear.' The Captain was quite a study for an actor in the rapidity with which he changed his face and voice and manner when he looked from Verschoyle to Virginia, or from her to him. 1 Ask him if he means it l' cried the Captain, thrusting his . hand almost in Veraohoyle's face. The handsome rase2s facse,_ with the lowering frown upon it, said' No' without a word, or need of one. She read the base denial there, and burst into renewed teare, and wrung her hands, and murmured that it was cruel. Oh, it was cruel, cruet I Moved by the sight of youth and beauty brought to such distress, the Captain turn- ed upon Verschoyle for the last time. . 'yew then I Sharp there l'One minute more, and I'll have you chucked overboard. I you there l' Jim entered. ' Collar them two portmanteaus and chuck 'em ashore.' Jim seized the luggage, and would have been rejoiced to extend the order to its owner. 'Now, get out.' Ver- schoyle retired before the indignant Captain, mounted the ladder, crossed the !saloon deck, and went aore. Jim threw the luggage unceremoniously after him, and then, following the Captain, returned to the saloon, and, taking Virginia's hand, led her unresisting, from the vessel. ' God bless you, master, for what you've done this night,' said Jim in taking leave of the Captain. The Then -were moving about the deck by this time, the mate was ordering here and there,ropes were tugging across the darkness and the ship was quivering with the short urgent stroke of the engines. ' .' Take her home, andgood luck to you,' said the Captain in reply and went baok to duty, and tresaed sea -going virtue to a atiff glass by the way. Verschoyle summoned a hansom and drove to an hotel, feeling- mean, as our transaAtlantio ceasing, say. The writer feels an unfeigned joy in kicking him out of the story. For a while poor Virginia suffered Jim to lead her, being, indeed, so broken that she eas.reelY knew hirn,or knew of anything but Verschoyle's baseness. But after a 'time she turned and spoke. 'Good. -bye, James. Be kind to lather and mother. ''Sliss -Virginia,' said James, ' if you knowed how broken-'arted they are, an' how glad an' svillin' they'll take 3 ou home again, you'd never dream of leavin"em. You ,00uldn't.' She twined her hands together with an action which bespoke pain and shame and auger and remorse. A hundred other things were in tho gesture too, and Jim, without being anything of o psyohologiet, read and understood them all. ' Oh, Miss Virginia,' cried honest Jim, half crying, 'have a heart. For the Lord's sake, have a heart,' She stamped her foot, and made a down- ward. gesture with both clenched hands. '1 won't go home,' she cried distracted- ly. ' I wet., go home. How can you be so cruel?'. r„ 4 Cruel, Mise?' said Jim. ' Whatever can I say for to persuade you? Such a head as mine,' said ,Tim with a distraction of aspect more than equal to her own, 1 ain t fit to be trusted with es burning body. It's me, Miss—Jim. Why; you've laughed at me hundreds of times, you have. Don't you know me? Lord, I don't believe she knows me l' Whilst he spoke she walked on rapidly and ,Tim followed. 'Mies Virginia,' he appealed again, ' come home to your poor father. Think of the missies, impounded dead away.' She quickened her footsteps to a run, and Jim held on behind her appealingly all the way. Suddenly she stopped and turned upon him panting. I won't, go home,' she said, with a sullen resolution unlike anything he bad ever known of her. 'Thrown away l' she cried, breaking into sobs and tears' again, ' de- aertecl I Go home to be an eyesore to them! To be pitied, and scolded, and forgiven 1' Then sullenly 0110e more,. '1 won't go 13°Julime 'IS agitation and unoertainty were pitiful. He stood and babied upon her sorrowfully, but could not find a word. Looking about her once, she faced round and walked Bwiftly. He followed. She stopped again. 4 I ant going away,' she said 'I shall never go home.' for Infants and Children. ceetarta Leto well adapted to chili:treatise* I recommend itsa superior to anYliniaariPtinn known ta Me." A. Amman, M. D., 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N, 11; '4 The use of Castoria is so universal and its merits so well lanown that it seem° a wort of supererogation to endive° it. Few arethe intelligent families who do not keep CastOria within easy reach." Demme Kamm D.D., New York city. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Castor's cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stornaolf, Dkultoaa, Bructatims, Mlle Worms, gives eleep, and promotes di witCti Mier/otos medicatioa. rim several, years I have recommended your Castoria, ana shall always continue to de ea as" it has invariably produced benaciai results. Bowat IP, rooms, 11, ra, "'rho Winthrop,"' *Oda Street and 7th A -ye., N'ew York City rnis OrniTAInt COMPANT, TT Nitorlar STAUB; Niaw Toler- figalffireisliCiatEneas , O Very well, Miss,' mid Jim in down., right helplens cleaperation. Where you goes I goes, an Pll faller you to the world's end.' , (70 533 ooNantuars) ANTI -CHRISTIAN RIOTS. Boualis Douro. Church Furniture at eau- ou—Murder and Itobbery at moo ()hong. • .Advices from Tokio, dated Sept. 17, state that another anti•Christian outrage is reported in China. On the 23rd of August, as service was proceeding in one of the chapels of the American Board of Missions in Canton, a number of roughs entered the building, vilified the native Chrietians, declared that the l3Iack Flags had beaten the Japanese, and said that a reward of $2 would be given. to a Chinaman that killed a foreigner. Owing to the tumult, the min- ister had to discontinue the service, after which' the mob proceeded to destroy the furniture. News otmnes from Foo Chow that at Hoo Chong, near Hing Ha, an attack has been made on the native Christians. Several of the latter were wounded,one fatally. Eight houses were looted and destroyed and the cattle of the Christians were stolen. The riot is said to have resulted from a proola- motion with a double meaningissued by the Magistrate on the subject of the Kuehang massacre, The report adds that five appeals made to the Magistrate for protection were U713uocessful. Li Hung Chaog has been appointed Man- ager of the Imperial Chancery, or Prime Minister of China. He will henceforth reside in Pekin. Opinions differ as to the significance of this step, but there Boerne to be little doubt that it means the great Viceroy' a political extinction. How to get a "Sunlight" Picture. 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