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N very few words Pats told his story.

As Elinor had believed, he was forced beneath the water by the sliding earth and stones; but instead of lying at the bottom he had been carried by the under-current far out toward the middle of the river. On coming to the surface, more dead than alive, he found himself among the branches of an uprooted pine, also speeding toward the sea, at the mercy of the torrent.

Numb with cold from the icy water, he clung to this friend all one day and night, ever drifting toward the Gulf. At last, when rescued, he was barely conscious. And on recovering his wits he found himself aboard a Government coaster just starting on a two months’ cruise.

“I insisted on being landed. They refused at first, but when I told them the situation–of the solitary girl I was leaving alone in the wilderness,–they not only put me ashore, but gave me all the provisions I could carry.”

“Bravo! A boat-load of lovers!” exclaimed the Princess. “And they did well!”

“Indeed they did!” said Pats, “for they were pressed for time, and it cost them several hours. So, in high spirits, I started westward along the coast, expecting to get here in three or four days.”

Then, turning to Elinor: “Do you remember the wide marsh we noticed from the top of that farthest hill to the east, at the end of our journey last autumn?”

“Yes, I remember. We thought it the mouth of a river.”

“Well, it was the mouth of a river, with a vengeance. That marsh extends for miles on both sides of a river as impassable as ours. Ten days I tramped northward up the farther bank. And then, in swimming across, I lost nearly all my provisions, and most of my clothes.”

With a slight bow to the Princess, he added, “I hope madam will pardon these intimate details: also certain deficiencies in my present toilet.”

“Make no apologies, and tell everything,” she answered, “I am one of the family.”

Pats continued: “During nine days I travelled south, retracing my steps, but on this side of the river. The woods are different up there, with a maddening undergrowth, and it soon made an end of what clothes I had left. Yesterday morning I saw the sea again.”

To every word of this narrative Elinor had listened, absorbed and self-forgetful. As for the Princess, she loved the unexpected, and here she found it. The more she studied Pats, the better she liked him and his cheerfulness,–a cheerfulness which seemed to rise triumphant above all human hardship. She took an interest in his unkempt hair and barbaric, four weeks’ beard, in his scratched and sunburnt chest and arms. Even in the tattered remnants of his clothes she found a certain entertainment. And she noticed that while he stood talking in the presence of two ladies he appeared unembarrassed by his semi-nakedness, perhaps from the habit of it. And, after all, what cause for embarrassment? How many times, on the beach at Trouville, had she conversed with gentlemen who wore even less upon their persons?

Another surprise was given her when a brown setter, from somewhere in the forest, came flying toward them, and threw himself upon the long lost Pats. And the dog’s delight at the meeting was similar to Elinor’s. He, in turn, was presented to the Princess, who patted his head.

“Bon jour, Monsieur Solomon. I am happy to meet you: and for your enthusiasm I have the profoundest regard.”

Then, as they all started toward the cottage, Pats still answering Elinor’s questions, there appeared among the pines a black figure which recalled pictures of Dante in the forest of Ravenna. This figure halted in surprise at sight of the half-naked savage approaching with an easy self-possession, a lady on either side. And evidently the savage was a welcome object–a thing of interest–of affection even, if outward signs were trustworthy. And his Grace, when presented to this uncouth object, made no effort at assuming joy. Whether from an unfamiliarity with wild men, or from some other reason, this creature proved offensive to him. The lately lamented lover appeared politely indifferent to the priest’s opinion,–good or bad,–and this so augmented his Grace’s irritation that his words of welcome displayed more dignity than warmth. After proper congratulations on the return of her friend, he said to Elinor, in impressive tones, with a fatherly benevolence:

“We always rejoice when a human life is saved, but it would prove a sad misfortune, indeed, should it cause you to falter in your high resolve and return to worldly affairs.”

Elinor instinctively edged a little closer to Pats and slid a hand in one of his,–a movement observed by the Princess.

His Grace, with yet greater impressiveness in tone and manner, added:

“Yours is not a nature to forget or lightly ignore a pledge once given. And please understand, my dear child, it is for your spiritual future that I remind you of your solemn words to our dear friend–to him who is no longer here to recall them to you, and whose beneficent influence is forever gone.”

Into Elinor’s face had come a look of pain, for these words to a conscience such as hers were as so many stabs. Pats frowned. Still clasping the fingers that had slid among his own, and with a slight upward movement of the chin, he took one step forward toward the prelate. But before he could speak the Princess acted quickly, to avert a scene. In a vivacious, off-hand manner, yet with a certain easy authority, she said, smiling pleasantly in turn upon her three listeners:

“You speak of a convent? Ah, your Grace forgets something! Religion is a mighty thing. We all know that. But there is one thing mightier–and here are two of its victims. ’T is the thing that makes the world go round. You know what it is. Oh, yes, you know! And it has made archbishops go round, too; even Popes–and many times! And when once it gets you–well! il s’en moque de la réligion et de touts les Saints–for it has a heaven of its own. Moreover, we must not forget, your Grace and I, that this unconventional gentleman–”

Here she turned a mirthful glance upon Pats and his rags, and he smiled as his eyes met hers:

“That our unconventional gentleman has already tried to give his life for this girl. Moreover, he will do it again, whenever necessary, and she is not likely to forget it.”

Indeed not, if truth were in the look that came to Elinor’s eyes.

“Princess,” said the Archbishop, “this is not a matter for argument. It is a question to be decided by the lady’s own conscience.”

“But I have made no promise,” said Elinor. “I told Father Burke it was my intention to enter a convent. It was merely the expression of a wish–not in the nature of a binding promise.”

“But to me,” said Pats, smiling pleasantly upon the Archbishop, “she did make a binding promise–a very definite promise of a matrimonial nature. If she enters a convent–I go too.”

Thereupon the Princess laughed,–a gentle, merry laugh, spontaneous and involuntary. “A nunnery with a bridal chamber! Fi, l’horreur! Imagine the effect on the other sisters!”

At this utterance the Archbishop closed his eyes in reprobation. Then, with a paternal air he regarded Elinor. “Dear lady, I have no desire to argue, or to persuade you against your wishes–or against the wishes of your friends. Pardon me if I have appeared insistent. I only ask that you will not forget that our Church is your Church–that in sorrow and in trouble, and at all times, her arms are open to you.”

Then addressing the Princess: “I am the bearer of a message from Jacques Lafenestre. The baggage is aboard, and the yacht can sail whenever your Highness is ready.”

With a ceremonious bow–ceremoniously returned by the group before him–his Grace strode slowly away toward the little path that led to the beach. The Princess also–after handing to Pats the key of the house–moved away in the direction of the two graves, promising the lovers another half hour for their parting visit to the cottage. She had gone but a few steps, however, when she stopped and wheeled about as if moved by a sudden thought.

“You know well the tapestry that screens the chamber. The scene in the Garden of Eden?”

Both nodded; and Pats exclaimed: “The most entertaining work of art I have ever seen!”

“I give it for my wedding present, so that Madame Pats may have a portrait of her husband as he appeared when first I met him.”

With a smile and a nod she turned away and the jaunty figure was soon lost among the trees.

Once more alone, Pats and Elinor turned and looked into each other’s eyes; and both discovered an overflowing happiness that choked all words–and all attempt at words.

Pats opened his arms. As of old, she entered, and the familiar rite was observed.

The surrounding silence remained unbroken. But in the murmuring of the pines, in that floating music now dear to both, there came to the reunited lovers a subdued but universal rejoicing–felicitations from above.

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 and some less cowardly hand to be found to put to death a man like myself? This has nothing of justice in it,—it is base revenge.” But the merciless Spaniards were deaf to his appeal. Various successes and discomfitures ensued, when, about the termination of the sixteenth century, the Araucanians besieged the enemy in the fortress of Puren. Unable to reduce the place so speedily as he desired, their chief presented himself before it, mounted on a fine horse recently taken from the governor, and challenged the Commander, Don Garcia Ramon, to single combat at the end of three days. The defiance being accepted, the Chieftains met, each accompanied by a small body of men who stood at a distance. Putting spurs to their horses, they advanced impetuously, but at the first encounter the Araucanian Toqui was pierced through the body by his adversary’s lance. Refusing to acknowledge himself vanquished, he endeavoured to remount his horse, but in doing so expired. These events were followed by the siege of Villarica, a rich and populous city belonging to the Spaniards, which, after a resistance of two years and eleven months, fell into the hands of the Araucanians. A similar fate awaited Imperial and Osorno, other cities of equal importance, and their inhabitants were led into captivity. Incessant wars, with very short intervals of repose, occupied almost the whole of the seventeenth century, and thousands after thousands fell in their prosecution. But the Araucanians received an important accession to their strength, in the union of a warlike tribe called Puelches, which was thenceforth incorporated under the same government. The eighteenth century did not open more auspiciously; for although a cessation of hostilities had prevailed some time, the Araucanians became sensible that it afforded opportunities for the Spaniards to form new and permanent establishments within their territories: the arrogance of those who resided among them, under pretence of protecting the missionaries, had also excited their indignation. Villumilla, a man of low origin but distinguished abilities, was appointed military Toqui, or commander in chief, and formed a plan for expelling the Spaniards from the whole coast. But his attempt to raise his own and the neighbouring countries, in the year 1723, proved abortive, and the war was marked by nothing except some inconsiderable skirmishes. Peace having been restored, the Spanish governor conceived a scheme for the civilization of the Araucanians (regarded as chimerical by those best acquainted with their disposition), which was persuading them to live in cities. They agreed, however, to build a city, and were supplied with materials by the Spaniards, who also had assistants and superintendents on the spot, but suddenly seizing their arms, they killed their overseers, about the year 1753. Peace was once more interrupted by repeated encounters, and at length a bloody battle ensued in the year 1773. The Spaniards found themselves unable to retain any settlements within the Araucanians’ territories, and the natives, in opposition to all the skill and force employed against them, have ever since been able to keep possession of their country. See the excellent work of Molina, on the Natural and Civil History of Chili, and Alcedo’s Geographical and Historical Dictionary, Art. Chili.

ARCON, a French engineer and military writer of eminence, and memorable as the inventor of the Floating Batteries employed against Gibraltar, was born at Pontarlier in the year 1733. He was originally destined for the church; but, instead of employing himself in the studies suited to that profession, he became wholly engrossed with plans of fortifications, and was at length admitted, with the consent of his parents, into the Corps of Engineers. He distinguished himself at several sieges during the seven years’ war; and had acquired so much reputation by his professional services and by his writings, that he was specially employed to assist in the last grand effort made by France and Spain for the reduction of Gibraltar, in 1782. It was about this period that he projected the famous floating batteries; an invention which inspired the combined armies with the greatest hopes of success, and which at first occasioned no small degree of alarm in the British garrison. “The battering ships,” says Drinkwater, in his interesting account of, this memorable siege, “were found to be no less formidable than they had been represented. Our heaviest shells often rebounded from their tops, whilst the 32 pound shot seemed incapable of making any visible impression upon their hulls. Frequently we flattered ourselves they were on fire; but no sooner did the smoke appear, than, with the most persevering intrepidity, men were observed applying water, from their engines within, to those places whence the smoke issued.” Of the ultimate fate of these expensive and formidable engines of attack, all British readers must be sufficiently informed. Not one of the whole ten escaped destruction from the bombs and red-hot balls poured upon them from the garrison. M. D’Arcon, however, published a memoir to show, that his batteries were wilfully exposed to destruction through the envy and jealousy which the contrivance had excited among the Spaniards; and this statement seems to have obtained the general concurrence of his countrymen. But projectors do not readily admit any inadequacy in their schemes; nor will a vain-glorious people, who have been foiled in war, ever ascribe their disgrace to the superior skill or constancy of their enemy.

M. D’Arcon appears in the capacity of a General in the first years of the Revolution; and, in particular, was employed in the invasion of Holland, where, in 1793, he besieged and took several fortified places. He soon afterwards withdrew, or was driven from public life; and remained in retirement till 1799, when he was made a member of the Conservative Senate by Bonaparte. He died the following year, aged sixty-seven. He was a member of the Institute, and author of the following works:—1. Reflexions d’un Ingenieur, en reponse à un Tactitien, 1773, in 12mo. 2. Correspondance sur l’Art de la Guerre, entre un Colonel de Dragons et un Capitaine d’Infantrie, 1774, in 8vo. 3. Defense d’un Systême de Guerre Naturale, &c. 1779, in 8vo. 4. Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire du Siege de Gibraltar, 1783, in 8vo. 5. Considerations sur l’Influence du Genie de Vauban dans la Balance des Forces de l’Etat, 1786, in 8vo. 6. Examen detaillé de l’Importante Question de l’Utilité des Rh

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text: The Melodist/Poll of Horsely-down

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text: The Melodist/The Blacksmith

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text: The Melodist/The Cobler and his Wife

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text: The Melodist/The Wounded Hussar

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text: The Melodist/Nobody Coming to Woo

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 When a provisional release is to be granted with bail and with security also, the movant shall, before the release is given, provide the security required.

There are three types of security, namely—

cash deposited;

other asset deposited;

a person serving as security with his assets declared.

When it appears that, due to subsequently known information or on account of fraud or mistake, the bail bond has been appraised too low or the security is insufficient, the official or court has the power to summon the persons related to the bail bond to appear at the same time and, in the former event, alter the bail bond by increasing the amount of money or, in the latter event, demand additional or better security.

In the event that a provisional release has been granted by a court and the case passes to a higher court, the higher court has the power to revise the order of the lower court by requiring the accused to execute or provide a bond with a higher amount of money, or if it finds that the security is insufficient, it may order the provision of additional or better security.

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 212 the natural recoil of a strict and fervid believer from the graceless and licentious luxury of the day: but it was seized by the discontented classes as a weapon against the Government. Visiting Syria, the ascetic, whose spirit was stirred at the pomps and vanities around him, preached repentance. "This gold and silver of yours," he cried, "shall one day be heated red-hot in the fire of hell; and therewith shall ye be seared in your foreheads, sides, and backs, ye ungodly spendthrifts! Wherefore, spend now the same in alms, leaving yourselves enough but for your daily bread; else woe be unto you in that day!" Crowds flocked round him at Damascus, some trembling under his rebuke; others rejoicing at the contempt poured on the rich and noble; while the people at large were dazzled by the vision of sharing in the treasures of the classes thus denounced. Uneasy at the disturbing effect of these diatribes, Muʿāwiya resolved to test the spirit of the preacher. He sent him a purse of 1000 pieces, and in the morning, affecting to have made a mistake, demanded its return; but during the night Abu Dharr had distributed the whole in charity. On this, Muʿāwiya, convinced of his sincerity, and apprehensive of the spread of his socialistic doctrines, despatched the preacher to Medīna, telling ʿOthmān that he was an honest but misguided enthusiast. Before the Caliph, Abu Dharr persisted in fearlessly denouncing the great and wealthy, and urged that they should be forced to disgorge their riches. ʿOthmān condescended to reason with him. "When once men have fulfilled their obligations," he asked, "what power remaineth with me to compel any further sacrifice?" and he turned to Kaʿb, a learned Jewish convert, to confirm what he had said. "Out upon thee, son of a


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651–5] Jew! What have I to do with thee?" cried Abu Dharr, smiting Kaʿb violently on the stomach. Argument being thus of no further use, ʿOthmān banished the preacher to Ar-Rabadha in the desert, where two years after he died in penury. Finding the end approach, the hermit desired his daughter to slay a kid, and have it ready for a party of travellers who, he said, would shortly pass that way to Mecca; then, making her turn his face toward the Kaʿba, he quietly breathed his last. Soon after, the expected party came up, and amongst them Ibn Masʿūd from Al-Kūfa, who, weeping over the departed saint, bewailed his fate, and buried him on the spot, which became one of holy memory. The death of Ibn Masʿūd himself, a few days after, added to the pathos of the incident. The plaintive tale was soon in everyone's mouth; and the banishment of the famous preacher of righteousness was made much of by the enemies of the Caliph. The necessity for it was forgotten, but the obloquy remained.

When himself minded to assume the office of censor and rebuke the ungodliness of the day, the unfortunate Caliph fared no better. The laxity of Syria had reached even! to the sacred precincts of the Ḥijāz; and ʿOthmān, on attempting to check the games and other practices held to be inconsistent with the profession of Islām, incurred resentment, especially from the gay youth whose amusements he thwarted. Gambling and wagering, indeed, were put down with the approval of the stricter classes of society; but there


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 An application for withdrawal of a bail bond or withdrawal of security can be made when the person executing the bail bond delivers the alleged offender or accused back to the official or court.

When the alleged offender or accused absconds or attempts to abscond, the person executing the bail bond or serving as the security may ask the nearest administrative or police official to take the alleged offender or accused. If unable to ask for help from such official in good time, he shall have the power to take the alleged offender or accused himself and send the latter to the nearest administrative or police official, and such official shall have the alleged person or accused sent with dispatch to the official or court, with the travelling costs borne by him.

Once the case has reached its finality or the liability under the bail bond has ended in accordance with section 116 or for a different reason, the security shall be returned to the person who should receive it.

In the event that a bail bond provided to a court is breached, the court has the power to order enforcement of the bail bond or as it finds appropriate,

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text: The Melodist/A Bottle and Friend

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 214 were not wanting many who, displeased with the Caliph's interference, joined in the cry of his detractors.

The enlargement of the grand square of the Kaʿba, commenced by ʿOmar, was carried on by ‘Othmān while he visited Mecca on pilgrimage. And here, too, the ill-fated Caliph met with opposition, The owners of the demolished houses refused to accept the compensation offered, and raised a great outcry. The Caliph put them into prison, for, said he, "My predecessor did the same, and ye made no outcry against him." But what the firm arm of ʿOmar could do, and none stir hand or foot against him, was a different thing for the weak and unpopular ʿOthmān to attempt. He was more successful with the Mosque at Medīna, originally built by Moḥammad, and hallowed by the mortal remains of the Prophet and his two successors. This was now enlarged and beautified. The supports, at first the trunks of date-trees, were removed, and the roof made to rest on pillars of hewn stone. The walls, too, were built up with masonry, richly carved and inlaid with rare and precious stones. It was a pious work, and none objected.

Yet another cause of murmuring arose from certain changes made by ʿOthmān in the ceremonial of the annual Pilgrimage, which, though in themselves trivial and unmeaning, excited strong disapprobation at the Caliph's court. He pitched tents for shelter during the few days spent for sacrifice at Mina, a thing never done before; and, to the prayers heretofore recited there and on Mount ʿArafāt, he added new ones, with two more series of prostrations. The ritual, as established by the Prophet himself, had been scrupulously followed by his two successors, and a superstitious reverence attached even to its minutest detail. When expostulated with on the unhallowed innovation, ʿOthmān gave no reasonable answer, but simply said it was his will to do so. Disregard of the sacred example of the Founder of the Faith offended many, and raised a cry among the Companions unfavourable to ʿOthmān.

Again, beyond the immediate circle of his kinsfolk, ʿOthmān made no personal friends. Narrow, selfish, indiscreet, and obstinate,—more and more so, indeed, with advancing years,—he alienated those who would otherwise have stood loyally by him, and made many enemies who


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 651–5] pursued him with relentless hatred. Moḥammad, son of Abu Bekr, and Moḥammad, son of Abu Ḥodheifa, were among those embittered against him at the naval victory of Alexandria. And yet no very special cause can be assigned for their enmity. The first is said to have been actuated by "passion and ambition." The other, nearly related to ʿOthmān, and as an orphan kindly brought up by him, was now offended at being passed over for office and command. Both joined the rebellion which shortly broke out in Egypt, and were amongst the most dangerous of the Caliph's enemies. Nor was it otherwise with the people at large. A factious spirit set in against the unfortunate monarch. The leaven fermented all around; and every man who had a grievance, real or supposed, hastened to swell the hostile cry.

To crown the Caliph's ill-fortune, in the 7th year, he lost the signet-ring of silver which, engraven for the Prophet, had been worn and used officially both by him and his successors. It was a favourite and meritorious occupation of ʿOthmān to deepen the old wells, and to sink new ones, in the neighbourhood of Medīna. He was thus engaged when, directing the labourers with his pointed finger, the ring slipped and fell into a well. Every effort was made to recover the priceless relic. The well was emptied, the mud cleared out, and a great reward offered; but no trace of the ring appeared. ʿOthmān grieved over the loss. The omen weighed heavily on his mind; and it was some time before he consented to supply the lost signet by another of like fashion.

Besides the two daughters of the Prophet, both of whom died before their father, ʿOthmān had other wives. Three still survived when, in the 5th year of his Caliphate, being then above seventy years of age, he took Nāila to wife. Of her previous history we know little more than that, once a Christian, she had embraced Islām. She bore him a daughter; and through all his trials clung faithfully by her aged lord to the bitter end. The days were coming when he needed such a helper by his side.


text: The Melodist/The True British Sailor

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text: The Melodist/The Soldier’s Dream

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text: The Melodist/The Sailor's Love-Letter

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text: The Melodist/For a' that, and a' that

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text: The Melodist/Tullochgorum

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text: The Melodist/The Bonny Scotman

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 If any criminal case has already been instituted before a court but the case is not yet conclusive, the limitation governing the right of the injured person to institute a civil case shall be interrupted in accordance with section 79 of the Penal Code.

If a prosecutor has instituted a criminal case and the court has sentenced the accused to punishment to the point that the case has already become conclusive before a civil case is instituted, the right of the injured person to institute a civil case shall be subject to the limitation under section 168 of the Civil and Commercial Code.

If a prosecutor has instituted a criminal case and the court has dismissed the charge and acquitted the accused to the point that the case has already become conclusive before a civil case is instituted, the right of the injured person to institute a civil case shall be subject to the limitation under the general principles of the Civil and Commercial Code governing limitation.

To require any person to appear before an inquiry official, or before a superior administrative or police official, or before a court with regard to an inquiry, preliminary examination, tri-

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The King's Anthem

 * "The King’s Anthem" in The Melodist (1818)
 * "The King's anthem" in Five old songs (n.d.), a Scottish chapbook printed in Falkirk
 * "King's Anthem" in Birks of Aberfeldy (1817), a Scottish chapbook printed in Edinburgh
 * "The King's Anthem" in The Musical Charmer (1819), a Scottish chapbook printed in Falkirk
 * "The King's Anthem" in The Sailor's Tragedy (1823), a Scottish chapbook printed in Falkirk

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 In any criminal case in which a public prosecutor has already filed the charge with the court, the injured person may move for permission to participate as a prosecutor at any stage of the trial before the court of first instance adjudicates upon the case.

In a criminal case which does not concern a personal offence and in which the injured person has filed the charge, a public prosecutor may move for permission to participate as a prosecutor at any stage before the case becomes conclusive.

When a public prosecutor and the injured person are joint prosecutors, if the public prosecutor finds that the injured person would impair the case of the public prosecutor by performing or refraining from any procedural act, the public prosecutor has the power to move to the court for ordering the injured person to perform or refrain from such act.

As regards criminal cases of the same subject in which both a public prosecutor and the injured person have filed charges with the same court or different courts of first instance, each court has the power to, either proprio motu or upon a motion filed by the prosecutor at any stage before the judgment is given, order the cases to be merged into one and the same case.

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the close of ʿOthmān's reign, the hidden ferment, which (Syria perhaps excepted) had long been everywhere at work, began to make its appearance on the surface. The Arab tribes at large were displeased at the pretensions of Ḳoreish. Ḳoreish themselves were divided and ill at ease, the greater part being jealous of the Umeiyad house and the Caliph's favourites. And temptation to revolt was fostered by the weakness and vacillation of ʿOthmān himself.

Ibn ʿĀmir had been now three years governor of Al-Baṣra, when Ibn Sabaʾ (or, as he is commonly called, Ibn as-Saudā), a Jew from the south of Arabia, appeared there, and professed the desire to embrace Islām. It soon appeared that he was steeped in disaffection towards the existing government,—a firebrand of sedition; as such he was expelled successively from Al-Baṣra, Al-Kūfa, and Syria, but not before he had given a dangerous impulse to the already discontented classes there. At last he found a safe retreat in Egypt, where he became the setter forth of strange and startling doctrines. Moḥammad was to come again, even as the Messiah was. Meanwhile ʿAlī was his legate. ʿOthmān was a usurper, and his governors a set of godless tyrants. Impiety and wrong were rampant every-

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 654–5] where; truth and justice could be restored no otherwise than by the overthrow of this wicked dynasty. Such was the preaching which daily gained ground in Egypt; by busy correspondence it was spread all over the Empire, and startled the minds of men already foreboding evil from the sensible heavings of a slumbering volcano.

The outbreak of turbulence was for the moment repressed at Al-Baṣra by Ibn ʿĀmir; but at Al-Kūfa, Saʿīd had neither power nor tact to quell the factious elements around. At his first public service he had offended even his own party by ostentatiously washing the pulpit steps before ascending a spot pretended to have been made unclean by his drunken predecessor. He was foolish enough not only to foster the arrogant assumptions of Ḳoreish, but to contemn the claims of the Arab soldiery, to whose swords they owed the conquest of the land. He called the beautiful vale of Chaldæa The Garden of Ḳoreish—"as if forsooth," cried the offended Arabs, "without our strong arm and lances, they ever could have won it." Disaffection, stimulated by the demagogue Al-Ashtar and a knot of factious citizens, culminated at last in an outbreak. As the Governor and a company of the people, according to custom, sat in free and equal converse, the topic turned on the bravery of Ṭalḥa, who had shielded the Prophet in the day of battle. "Ah!" exclaimed Saʿīd, "he is a warrior, if ye choose, a real gem amongst your Bedawi counterfeits. A few more like him,and we should dwell at ease." The assembly was still nettled at this speech, when a youth incautiously gave expression to the wish, how pleasant it would be if the Governor possessed a certain property which lay invitingly by the river bank near Al-Kūfa. "What!" shouted the company, "out of our good lands!" And with a torrent of abuse, they leaped upon the lad and his father, and went near to killing both.

To awe the malcontents, emboldened by this outrage, ten of the ringleaders, with Al-Ashtar (of whom more hereafter) at their head, were sent in exile to Syria, where it was hoped that the powerful rule of Muʿāwiya and loyal example of the Syrians might inspire them with better feelings. Muʿāwiya quartered the exiles in a church; and morning and evening, as he passed by, rated them on their folly in setting up the crude claims of the Bedawīn against the in-


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Hon. Henry Buist, one of the most prominent lawyers and citizens of South Carolina, died at Charleston. He was born in Charleston in 1829; was graduated from South Carolina college in 1847, and was admitted to the Bar in 1851. He entered the Confederate service at the beginning of the war as a captain in the 27th South Carolina regiment, Hagood's brigade. He was captured while charging the breastworks at Petersburg in 1864 and held as hostage on Morris Island under the fire of Confederate guns. After the War he resumed the practice of law and achieved large success. He was elected State Senator from Charleston county in 1865, and was a prominent Mason, having attained the highest degree. He was Grand Chancellor of the Supreme Council, Scottish rite, thirty-third degree, and inspector general of that order for South Carolina.


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Works

 * An Account of several fiery Meteors seen in North America (1765) by John Winthrop
 * History of the Pacific States of North America (1875–1890) by Hubert Howe Bancroft
 * Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico) (1939) by Henry Augustus Pilsbry
 * The Eurypterus beds of Oesel as compared with those of North America (1892) by Friedrich Schmidt
 * The Red Man and the White Man in North America (1882) by George E. Ellis

Encyclopedia articles

 * 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/North America

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Northern America

 * Bermuda
 * Canada
 * Greenland
 * Saint Pierre and Miquelon
 * United States

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 * Belize
 * Costa Rica
 * El Salvador
 * Guatemala
 * Honduras
 * Mexico
 * Nicaragua
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Caribbean

 * Anguilla
 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * Aruba
 * Bahamas
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 * Bonaire
 * British Virgin Islands
 * Cayman Islands
 * Cuba
 * Curaçao
 * Dominica
 * Dominican Republic
 * Grenada
 * Guadeloupe
 * Haiti
 * Jamaica
 * Martinique
 * Montserrat
 * Puerto Rico
 * Saint Barthélemy
 * Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Saint Lucia
 * Saint Martin
 * Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Trinidad and Tobago
 * Turks and Caicos Islands
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 : 26. Berklahi didalam mimpi.

"To fight in a dream." To take trouble for nothing.

 * 27. Bunga pun gugor, putek pun gugor, tuah pun gugor, masak pun gugor.

"The flowers fall and so must all things fair, the old drop off and the fully ripe." Death is the common lot of everything.

 * 28. Buat baik ber-pâda-pâda, buat jahat jangan sakali.

"Do good in moderation, do not do evil at all." Excessive goodness is apt to exasperate the rest of mankind. It is enough to be tolerably good, and to avoid doing anything actually wicked. Thus the Malay moralist.

 * 29. Bertitah lalu sembah berlaku.

"The royal command is waived and the petition is allowed to prevail."

A common expression at the Court of a Malay raja, when the sovereign, allowing himself to be influenced by representations humbly made to him, recalls his words, and graciously suffers the suggestions of his chiefs, or the prayers of a suppliant, to prevail.

 * 30. Ber-tangga naik ber-jenjing turun.

"To ascend by climbing a ladder and to come down with the hands full." The trouble and difficulty of climbing up to the notice of people in high places are repaid by the substantial favours to be got from them.

 * 31. Bapa-nya burik anak-aya lentu-lah ber-rintek.

"If the father is spotted the son will certainly be speckled," "like father like son."

 * 32. Ber-kilat ikin didalam ayer aka subah tahu jantan betina-nya.

"As the lightning flashes on the fish in the water, I can tell the males from the females." Means "what is the use of attempting concealment? I can read your secret with the greatest ease."

 * 33. Berhakim kepada brok.

"To make the monkey judge," or, to go to the monkey for justice." A fable is told by the Malays of two men one of whom planted bananas on the land of the other. When the fruit was ripe each claimed it, but not being able to come to any settlement they referred the matter to the arbitration of a monkey (of the large


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 kind called brok.) The judge decided that the fruit must be divided, but no sooner was this done than one of the suitors complained that the other's share was too large. To satisfy him the monkey reduced the share of the other by the requisite amount which he ate himself. Then the second suitor cried out that the share of the first was now too large. It had to be reduced to satisfy him, the subtracted portion going to the monkey as before. Thus they went on wrangling until the whole of the fruit was gone and there was nothing left to wrangle about. Malay judges, if they are not calumniated, have been known to protract proceedings until both sides have exhausted their means in bribes. In such cases the unfortunate suitors are said to berhakim kapada brok.

 * 34. Tanam tebu di bibir mulut.

"To plant sugar cane on the lips." To cultivate a plausible manner concealing under it a false heart.

 * 35. Tiâda akan pisang berbuah dua kali.

"The plantain does not bear fruit twice." A hint to importunate people, who, not satisfied with what has been given to them, ask for more.

 * 36. Tiâdakah gajuk yang begitu besar diam didalam hutan rimba itu dapat ka-langan manusia?

"Does not the elephant, whose size is so great and which inhabits the recesses of the forest, fall into the hands of mankind?" A sententious reflection on the superiority of mind to matter, intellect to brute force.

 * 37. Tanam lalang ta'kan tumboh padi.

"If you plant lalang grass you will not get a crop of rice." A man must expect to reap as he sows.

 * 38. Tangan menetak bahu memikul.

"The hand is chopping (wood) while the shoulder is bearing a load." Said of a man who makes money in several ways or who has various employments.

 * 39. Ta-kan harimau makan anak-nya.

"The tiger will not eat its own cubs.'

The Raja will not order the death of one of his own children.

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 TOBA,—SUMATRA.

From a detailed description of High Toba, in the Batak Country, appearing in the Sumatra Courant of the 4th April, the following particulars were recently translated in the Straits Times. Since the Military operations of the Dutch from Singkel, some accurate information has, for the first time, been obtained regarding these interesting districts, hitherto a terra incognita even to the Dutch themselves.

"High Toba, which is at present so much talked of on the coasts, is a table land, situated between the 2nd and 3rd degrees of North Latitude and between the 95th and 20th degrees of East Longitude from Greenwich. It is generally an extensive steppe country covered almost every where with thickly growing lallang and intersected by clefts from 200 to 300 rhine-land feet deep. In the plain the Tobanese cultivates dry rice and ubi. In tilling, he makes use of an efficient plough drawn by one or two buffaloes. In the clefts which usuaily abound in water, many promising Sawah fields are met with. Excepting maize, gambier, pisang, and some other fruits, no produce is, however, found, even fire wood is very scarce. Notwithstanding this scarcity the soil cannot be termed unfertile, it being almost every where covered with a thick layer of humus. But mutual divisions among the people and mutual hatred prevent joint efforts to irrigate the land by canals from the Batang Taro river which rises there. High Toba being about 3000 feet above the sea level, the temperature is very moderate and may sometimes be even termed cold. In the shade the thermometer barely rises to 20° Reaumur, and early in the morning it falls to 12° R. The populations of High Toba, who in manners, customs, several of their general laws, and certain pecularities [sic] of character form a whole, may be divided amongst inhabited places lying 1 to 2 hours from each other; or if preferable, amongst districts containing 20, 30, or 40 villages close together. On the other hand, on the shores of the Toba lake, 1,000 villages containing 300,000 souls at least can be seen at a glance. A traveller coming from the south can see the lake lying 1,500 to 2,000 feet below him, the panorama being an impressive one, assuredly too grand for cannibals like the Bataks. Even Switzerland with its abundance of lakes need not be ashamed to include that blue mirror in its landscapes. The Toba lake is fed by a great number of streams which flow into it from all sides, chiefly from the north. It has a considerable outlet on the cast. It lies from east to north west, being about 10 hours long and 4 broad, with a breath of 6 hours to the north west. In the middle there is, however, a


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 large and thickly peopled island. The prahu's of the natives are made of long hollowed-out tree stems, provided on both sides with outriggers to keep the equilibrium. With there very heavy and unwieldy prahus manned by 200 to 300 men naval battles are sometimes fought. On the shores of the lake, which are as it were covered with villages, there are splendid terraces laid out into rice fields lying one above another. The villages are mostly well fortified and impregnable to a Batak enemy, but in constructing them, cartouche, shot and shells have naturally not been thought of several are surrounded by walls 10 to 20 feet high which are often protected by ditches 20, 30, and even 40 feet deep. These ditches are flushed by the help of conduits, and, when the village is besieged, can again be filled with water. One village, so fortified, once held out against an enemy 10,000 strong. For greater security bastions are also built, surrounded by concealed pitfalls, ranju's, and such like. Notwithstanding the great scarcity of wood, the houses and lam's (assembly houses) are very strongly and elegantly built, the honour and riches of the natives consisting in them. We have already often mentioned that Toba is thickly peopled. Almost all the Batak-tribes hold that Toba is the cradle of their race. In the character of the people there is, however, something savage, something unbridled; yes, something of the animal. To those however, who can deal with them they are accessible, and suffer themselves to be led by them. Yet, in consequence of other circumstances, missionary work will be somewhat difficult there. In no case however will it be hopeless labour. Besides great riches and deep poverty, the most intense cunning, and credible narrow mindedness, we find there also the most disgusting deformities by the side of many slim muscular and well built forms. These contrasts are caused by the complete freedom of the one and the complete dependence and slavery of the other.

"Let us look upon a genuine Tobanese. There he stands before you with regular, large and well built figure, usually with significant and defiant looks. His clothing gives one at once a high opinion of his prosperity and princely descent. A durable garment, either black and white, or black and red, of the value of 4 to 6 Spanish dollars, is bound round the trips by a white girdle, and hangs down to his feet. Another garment as costly hangs over the shoulder. Both his ears are adorned with gold rings, and ou his head he wears a white or red turban. At feasts the latter is of silk, or be wears an ornamental string of pearls through his hair, which he allows to hang down in long plaits in war time; besides a copper pipe, worth 30 Spanish dollars. In Toba a tael of gold is worth 8 Spanish dollars.


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 "In terrible contrast with the dress of the well-to-do, is the deep misery of the slaves. When these unfortunates become enslaved by usury and deceit, every measure is, generally speaking, taken to keep them in the lowest stage of poverty and want. In the possession of a great number of slaves consist, properly speaking, the wealth and the pride of a prosperous Tobanese. It is no rarity to find notables or headmen each possessing from 100 to 200 slaves, there being even families who possess as many as ten villages, all inhabited by slaves, who till the fields, build the villages, and serve as soldiers in the wars of their masters. We have still to name one pitiable class of men, namely the eunuchs who, however, save in Toba, are no longer found in the Batak country. Luckily they are few; they are used to accompany and attend upon women. For free people and headmen wives are very dear in Toba. In Silindong and Pangaloan, people pay 10 and more buffaloes for a young woman. In Toba the figure rises to 20 and 30, besides horses, gold, slaves, &c. In Toba alone the custom still prevails of keeping the skulls of deceased fathers and grandfathers. The dead man remains several years in a sopo, in a coffin closed with rosin, until the skull can at length be taken away without difficulty. On a suitable day the eldest son takes the skull of his father to the market place, shews it to the head men present, while he gives away a cow for public use saying "Our father wished once more to visit the market." Alter this there follows a series of festivities in honour of the deceased, for which the whole family bring together 20 to 30 buffaloes to be slaughtered. During the festivities the skull is adorned with a silk turban and gold rings. The skull at length finds a resting place in the grave. On domestic oceurrenees, and in war time, the skull plays an important part, together with the spirit of the deceased. Should a skull be made away with, it is considered as foreboding ill-luck, and as being the greatest disgrace that can befall a family."

 SIAMESE TITLES.

The following note is appended to Capt. Burney's map of the Siamese Provinces (referred to at p. 57) and is no doubt in Capt. Burney's handwriting. It was probably written in 1826, when the first Treaty with Siam was framed.

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218 defeasible rights of Ḳoreish. Subdued by several weeks of such treatment, they were sent on to Ḥimṣ, where the Governor subjected them for a month to like indignities. Whenever he rode forth, he showered invectives on them as traitors working to undermine the empire. Their spirit at last was broken, and they were released; but, ashamed to return to Al-Kūfa, they remained in Syria, excepting Al-Ashtar, who made his way secretly to Medīna.

Months passed, and things did not mend at Al-Kūfa. Most of the leading men, whose influence could have kept the populace in check, were away on military command in Persia; and the malcontents, in treasonable correspondence with the Egyptian faction, gained head daily. In an unlucky moment, Saʿīd planned a visit to Medīna, there to lay his troubles before the Caliph. No sooner had he gone than the conspirators came to the front, and recalled the exiles from Syria. Al-Ashtar, too, was soon upon the scene. Taking his stand at the door of the Mosque, he stirred up the people against Saʿīd. "He had himself just left that despot," he said, "at Medīna, plotting their ruin, counselling the Caliph to cut down their stipends, even the women's; and calling the broad fields which they had conquered The Garden of Ḳoreish." The deputy of Saʿīd, with the better class of the inhabitants, sought in vain to still the rising storm. He enjoined patience. "Patience!" cried the warrior Al-Ḳaʿḳāʿ, in scorn; "ye might as well roll back the great river when in flood, as quell the people's uproar till they have the thing they want." Yezīd, brother of one of the exiles, then raised a standard, and called upon the enemies of the tyrant, who was then on his way back, to bar his entry into Al-Kūfa. So they marched out as far as Al-Ḳādisiya, and sent forward to tell Saʿīd that "they did not need him any more." Little anticipating such reception, Saʿīd remonstrated with them. "It had sufficed," he said, "to have sent a delegate with your complaint to the Caliph; but now ye come forth a thousand strong against a single man!" They were deaf to his expostulations. His servant, endeavouring to push on, was slain by Al-Ashtar; and Saʿīd himself fled back to Medīna, where he found ʿOthmān terrified by tidings of the outbreak, and prepared to yield whatever the insurgents might demand. At their desire he appointed Abu Mūsa, late Governor of


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 nor of a country. The Governor General of India is styled Chow Mooung Bengala; Khun is love and gratitude, aud a Chief in conversation is styled, "Chow Khun." Than is just, so Chow Than is a title generally given to a chief. Pya, when added to the name of a country or town, sigaifics Governor, thus the Governor of Penang is styled Pya Ko Mak, or the King of Kedah Pya Mooung Serai. The Siamese name of Kedah, Mooung Serai, is taken from Kedah Peak, which they call "Khas Serai," and the Malays "Gunong Jerai" or "Cherai," "Chow Pya" may be translated into Governor General, but it is a title also annexed to high offices near the sovereign, and particularly to chiefs nearly related to the Royal Family; thus the "Kalahom" or commander in chief, and the "Chakri," or Prime Minister are called "Chow Pya." The former superintends the affairs of all Provinces to the South of Bangkok, and the latter, of all to the North of that eity; and to their affairs respectively the most minute reports are transmitted from every Province, from Singora to Cheung Mai or Zemce. The present Minister for Foreign Affairs is a Pya, "Pya Klang," and being related to the Royal Family is often styled "Chow Pya." He is said to be very friendly to the English: Prak, when annexed to a form or country, may be translated into Lieutenant Governor; "Luang" or "Chrom" to a Resident, and "Mom" or "Khom" to an officer in charge; much lower in rank "Pya," "Prak," &c., are also conferred as honorary titles on other public officers, and when annexed to a man's name appear to correspond to Baronets, Knights &c. The late Mr. Light is said to have been made a "Prak" by the King of Siam.

"Punahua," Loubere translates into "Hua" (the head) of "Phan" (Thousands); but I am told the title is derived from "Phoh," father, "No" on, "Hua" head, meaning "I bear you as my father on my head" denoting the higheschighest [sic] respect according to the custom of oriental nations. The Siamese generally affix the wood "Phoh," father, to the names of their chiefs. The three sons of the Chow Pya of Ligor styled "Phoh Kloom," "Phoh-Pho" and "Phoh-Sing," the last of which resembled so nearly the Malayan wood "Poosing" deceitful, that the father on establishing that son at Kedah directed him to be always called by the Malayan title "Baginda Muda," or young Prince. The Siamese name for Singapore is "Ko-mai" new Island."


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Scope of the Guide.The present guide may roughly be described as dealing with such material remains of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome as are in the possession of the Trustees of the British Museum.

To define its scope more precisely several exceptions must be mentioned. Thus, Roman objects found in Britain are kept apart, because their primary interest is as illustrations of an early stage of national history. The coins of all places and periods are most conveniently kept together in the Department Coins and Medals. The Greek papyri, including works of Hyperides, Aristotle, Herodas, Bacchylides, and others, are grouped with other manuWhere the streams of later Egyptian and Greek scripts of a later period. histories mingle, it is impossible to make a complete separation of the two. The glass of all periods is for the most part collected in the Glass and Ceramic Room, and some of the finest pieces of Roman silver plate have been placed in the Early Christian Room. The objects bequeathed by Sir A. Wollaston Franks are for the present kept together, and some fine Greek bronzes are shown in the Waddesdon Bequest.

Method of the Guide.The method followed, so far as the arrangement of the collections permits, is that of tracing the historical progress of each class of objects. (A table is annexed to show the mutual relations of the various classes in respect of date.) For convenience in using the Guide, the objects in one room are generally described together. Sometimes, however, the visitor is taken through rooms, on his path, to which he is brought back later, to study their contents. Thus, from the Entrance Hall, we pass through the Roman Gallery (p. 93) and Graeco-Roman Rooms (p. 81), and begin with the sculptures in the Archaic Room.


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 Passing through the Circle, out of the West door of the "Pavilion," we reach the "Two Planked Bridge," guarded by the spirits of deceased brethren, "Kiet-Beng-pu"(42 結明富) and "Ban-Bun-beng," (43 萬文明) whose "spirit throne" (44 亡兄故弟神位) or tablet, is on the left side of the bridge-head. On this tablet is the inscription.

 * "When will the day of vengeance arrive?
 * Until then, we will cherish our resentment, though it be myriads of years.

The right hand plank of the Bridge is supposed to be of copper, and that on the left, of iron.

At the bridge-head is the couplet.

 * "Staggering across, we leave no traces behind.
 * "While all creation is silently expectant, seeing that the day is already beginning to be red.

In the centre of the Bridge, underneath.

 * "A true prince will accomplish everything ho takes in hand.
 * "A true man will bring to perfection all he undertakes to do.

On the Bridge, are hung, "Ang" (45 洪錢) coin to the value of 30,821 cash, and underneath are three stepping-stones, arranged in a triangular figure, over which we pass to the "Fiery valley" (46 火坑) or "Red Furnace," (47 紅爐) guarded by a malignant though just spirit, called the "Red youth," (48 紅孩子) who enviously scrutinises the hearts of all who approach him, and mercilessly slays all traitors with his spear, and consigns their souls to the flames.

According to the testimony of the Head men, many victims have fallen by his spear in Singapore.

Having passed scatheless through this ordeal, we arrive at the Market of Universal Peace," (49 太平墟) and the Temple of Virtue and Happiness," (50 福德寺) which are at the end of our dangerous journey.

In the market is Chia-pang-hong (51 謝邦行) who sells the precious "Ang" fruits, of five kinds, and in the Temple, besides the inscription already noticed on the Spirit throne of deceased brethren," is the following couplet.

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 : "In this virtuous family there will be no trouble; the Sun will continually illumine the door."

In a room convenient to the Lodge, on the right of the "Market of Universal Peace," the candidates having purified their bodies by ablution, and wearing clean clothes, are prepared for admission.

Each candidate must be introduced by an office-bearer, who is supposed to be responsible for him, that during four months, the new member (52 新客) shall not even come to words with the brethren, and that for the term of three years, he shall not break the more important of the 36 articles of the Society's Oath.

Experience however shows, that this obligation sits very lightly on both new members and Head-men, at any rate amongst the class which now-a-days composes the Societies.

Each candidate having paid a fee of $3.50, ($2 of which go to the treasury of the Lodge, while the balance is expended in fees to office-bearers, and in the expenses of the evening), his surname, name, age, place and hour of birth, are entered on the Register of the Society, and copied on a sheet of Red paper.

In token of having cast off all allegiance to the present dynasty "Chheng," the "queue" of each is unbraided, and the hair allowed to flow loosely down the back, the right shoulder and breast are bared, and the candidate is not allowed to retain a single article on his person, except a jacket and short trousers.

In consideration of the poverty of most of the new-comers, they are not required to put on new clothes, but newly-washed raiment is insisted upon.

The Sien-Seng, Sien-Hong, Ang-Kun, and the Chhau-oes who act the parts of the Generals guarding the gates &c., must, however, dress in new clothes on every occasion.

After preparing the candidates, the Master proceeds to arrange the articles on the Grand altar, the most important part of this duty being the insertion of all the paraphernalia in the "Peck measure," or "Ang Tau." (53 紅斗) On the front


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 of the "Tau" are four characters, Plantain, (54 蕉) Taro, (55 芋) Plum, (56 李) Orange. (57 桔) Behind is the inscription, "The provisions in the Peck measure are Red (Ang)."

Inside the Tau, is placed a peck of rice, amongst which is deposited a red paper parcel, containing 108 of the "Ang Cash, (58 洪錢) and the whole is neatly covered with red paper, into which the Sien-Seng sticks the various articles and instruments, symbolical of the history and objects of the Thien-Te-Hui,* in the following order.

(1) The Flags of the "Five Ancestors," which are triangular; each containing the surname of one of the five priests, Chhoa-Tek-Tiong. (59 蔡德忠) Png-Toa-Ang (60 方大洪) Ma-Chhian-Hin, (61 馬招興) O-Tek-Té, (62 胡德帝) and Li-Sok-Khai; (63 李色開) and the name of the Province,—Fuh-Kien, Kwangtung, Yunnan, Hu-Kwang, or Chekiang, in which each priest founded a Lodge.

On these Flags, are inscribed in abbreviated characters, the mottoes, "Obey Heaven, Walk righteously,"(64 川大丁首) and "Exterminate the Chheng," (65 收滅青 [sic]) or, "Overturn the Chheng, restore the Beng."

The flags are, Black, Red, Yellow or Carnation colour, White, and Green, (or Azure blue); all have a pennon with suitable inscription, and before inserting each in the Tau, the Sien Seng recites an appropriate verse.—e.g.

The first, or Black Flag of Hok-Kien.

 * "The black flag of Hok-Kien has the precedence."
 * "In Kam-Siok (Kan-Suh) they also associated together, and laid a foundation."
 * "The "Beng" conferred on the Lodge, the title of "Blue Lotus Hall."
 * "So the whole 13 provinces shall guard the Imperial domains."

(2) The Flags of the five horse dealers or "Tiger Generals, (66 五虎將) Lim-eng-Chhiau, (67 林永超) Li-sek-ti, (68 李色智) Go-thien-seng, (69 吳天成) Tho-pit-tat, (70 必達) and Ang-thai-sui, (71 洪太歲). These flags are of the same colour and description as those of the five ancestors. On each is the name of the General, and the Province, Kansuh, Kwang-si, Sze-chuan, Shan-si, or Kiang-si, in


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redemption that Christ hath purchased, every man might perish, and be condemned for ever. But if reconciliation potentiall or a possibility of remission only be purchased by the death of Christ, how is this made actuall by application? If it be actuall and effectuall, why is it not applyed and given to every man? will not God give to every man, that which Christ hath merited and purchased for every man? The merit of reconciliation by Christ, and the application thereof must be distinguished: but for whomsoever eternall redemption is purchased, for them he hath obtained grace and glory, and upon them he will actually conferre that grace and mercy, sanctifying them to be a peculiar people to himselfe. Heb. 9. 12. Matth. 1. 21. Joh. 4. 14. Application is as necessary an effect of redemption or reconciliation purchased, as burning is of fire; and there can be no redemption, but of necessity it must bring application, both in respect of Gods justice, and Christs sacrifice. Dan. 9. 24. Heb. 10. 10, 14. Therefore there is but one reconciliation, and that actuall and effectuall, though it may be universally proposed in the Gospell: and that particular actuall reconciliation is none other but that very same, which God meritoriè and impetratorie hath proposed by the death of Christ. As for the present Text alleadged, reconciliation is not predicated of the whole world, taking the world for every man in the world, nor reconciliation put for reconcileablenesse. For it is manifest the Apostle speaks of the world as it was to be considered in the times when Christ suffered, or after, when in respect of present state the farre greater part were impenitent, if not obdurate sinners, aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, without God in the world: and I desire to see that Text of Scripture, where God is said to reconcile unto himselfe the whole world of impenitent and obdurate sinners, as such; or where we shall find, that all such be brought under a new Covenant. It is also as plaine, that he speakes of the surrogation of the Gentiles in the place of the Jewes, and is to be understood of the world opposed to the Jewish Nation. That world concerning whom the Lord had spoken before to Abraham, saying, In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed: That world, which the Prophets foretold should be added to the Church, and given to the Messiah; This world, I say, which God hath promised to blesse, and adde to the Kingdome of the Messiah, he hath reconciled unto himselfe,


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54 girl was scolded by all, except her father, who loved her dearly.

Years went by, and these young girls grew into beautiful young women, and were beginning to think of getting married. The father, though anxious to find them all good partners, was sorely afraid to part with Martha, who had become a wonderfully beautiful girl; the step-mother, on the other hand, was anxious to get rid of her. She was not particular in what way; but she knew that Martha was the chief attraction in the house, and that while she was there, the other two girls were not likely to stand any chance. Many a young man had already asked for her hand, but Martha was in no hurry, as she cared for none of them very much; so she refused them all; but no one had yet proposed to the other two girls. The step-mother began thinking what she had better do to get Martha out of the way. At last she thought of something that seemed to her a very good idea.

"Martha must really make up her mind to marry some one," said she one night to her husband.

"But she does not care for any one; besides, what should we do if she did? who would feed the animals and look after the hut, if Martha were to marry?"

"Stuff! you surely don't want her to stop at home altogether, and die an old maid?"

"Certainly not; yet who is to look after everything, and cheer us in our old age. I am sure neither Pasha nor Masha would care about that."

"Of course not; they will soon be snatched up. In fact, they would have been married now, only the


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Rh dear, good girls thought that Martha being the eldest ought to marry first."

The old man hesitated.

"Well, yes, wife," he said at last. "My Martha ought certainly to marry, but the question is to whom; she cares for no one."

The woman laughed to herself.

"I know of a suitable husband," she said.

"Indeed, and who is he?" asked her husband astonished.

"Why, Jack Frost. He is rich, he is handsome, what more could she want? Look at all the fir and pine-trees, look at the ice and the snow,—they all belong to him, every one of them. I hear that he is looking about for a wife, and if he takes a fancy to Martha, which he is sure to do, no one could help it,—how rich she would be!"

The old peasant opened his eyes and mouth very wide, and stood staring at his wife in great surprise. However, thinking that she knew best, he at last asked her,—

"But where is this Jack Frost you speak of to be found?"

"In the forest, of course, you silly!"

"Yes, but that's rather a large order."

"Well, look here! Early to-morrow morning you must harness the horses to the sledge, take a large empty box, and drive into the forest with Martha—drive on until you come to a very dark pine thicket. In front of you, you will see an ice-hill, upon which stands a large fir-tree; put the box under this tree, and leave Martha with it; but don't tell her the reason


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56 or anything about it; only just say that you will come back and fetch her in a few minutes; and that she must wait patiently till your return;—and all is sure to turn out well, just as I wish it."

"But she will die of the cold."

"No, not she; Jack Frost will look after her."

But the woman's idea was that Martha should sit on that box until she died of the bitter cold which surrounded the ice-hill, near which Jack Frost resided.

Next morning the old man did as his wife had ordered him; he harnessed his horses, and drove off with his daughter to the ice-hill, where he left her to sit on the box under the big fir-tree, telling her that he would come back soon and fetch her away.

Poor Martha sat there for a long time, trembling with the cold. Not knowing why she had to stop there; but only that her father had told her to wait for him and not to move, she meant to obey him come what might. She felt dreadfully miserable, as she saw that the day was drawing to a close, and yet her father did not come. Had he forgotten his promise? or had something happened to him? She tried to cry, but no tears came. Suddenly she heard a slight noise close to her ear: it was Jack Frost jumping from tree to tree. When he saw her he came nearer to where she sat.

"Are you warm, pretty maiden? are you warm?" he asked, in a cold, clear voice, from the top of the fir-tree.

"I hardly know," she said with a shudder, as she tried to look up, but had not the strength to do so.


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to wit, as they are blessed in Abrahams seed, actually and effectually.

This is the Priviledge of the New Testament, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe, as is most apparent in the words next following, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation, and by the sentence it self; God was in Christ. But what is proper to the times of the New Testament cannot be attributed to every man in the world, even those that sate in darknesse and the shadow of death, before the light did shine upon them. The reconciliation here mentioned is actuall, effectuall, particular reconciliation, purchased by Christ, published by the Apostles to the world of Jew and Gentiles, and received by them in the Covenant of grace. For it is explained by the non-imputation, or remission of sinnes, (at least as one part or branch of reconciliation) which is a transient act, conferred in time, and inferreth a change of state and condition in the partie justified or reconciled, and of other reconciliation betwixt God and man the Scripture speaketh not. And it is to be observed, that the Apostle saith not, Christ hath purchased that God is reconcileable, or actually reconciled on his part, as if before he were irreconcileable: but God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, where the world is the subject or matter of reconciliation, which is changed in respect of state or condition, now received into actuall favour, whereas heretofore it lay under wrath. In another place the Apostle puts reconciliation by the death of the Sonne of God, and justification by Christs bloud for the same: where justification cannot be taken for possibility of justification, but for actuall justification by faith in the bloud of Christ, wherewith Salvation is joyned, whereby we are acquitted from the guilt and punishment of sinne: and so the justified or reconciled are opposed to sinners, ungodly and enemies. In respect of our antecedent state, we were enemies, when reconciled to God by the death of his Son: but by reconciliation we are received into grace, and of enemies made friends and sons. In these passages we cannot find reconciliation put for reconcileablenesse, nor predicated of all the world, nor all the enemies of God, nor in any other Scripture. For though


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At 128 Fulton Street, New York, (Sun Building,) and 13 Court Street, Boston, Mass.

Barlow & Payne, Agents, 89 Chancery Lane, London Geo. Dexter & Bro., New York City Stuken & Bro., Philadelphia. R. Morris & Co., Southern.

Responsible Agents may also be found in all the principal cities and towns in the United States.

The Cumberland Civilian of Friday says:— “The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west of this place is progressing as well as could be expected at this season of the year. Now and then a snow storm comes and stops the work for a day or so. But the snow stays not long, and the never-failing effort that is always made in such cases to regain lost time in a little time brings all up square again. The work is pushed on with great energy. undefined

The Cincinnati Gazette is urging the Cincinnatians to subcribesubscribe [sic] to the stock in the proposed railway from Covington to Lexington. The Gazette states that stock to the amount of three hundred thousand dollars has been taken in Covington and the neighborhood. In addition to this sum, the friends of the project expect to procure subscriptions to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars in the counties through which the road, when completed, will pass. undefined

We learn from Plattsburg Republican, that a large meeting of the business men of that place, was held last week, to take into consideration the project of building a road from Plattsburg to the Canadian line to connect with a projected road to Montreal. This road if built will give a direct railroad and steam boat communication with Albany and Montreal. undefined

We lean from the Memphis Eagle of the 21st ult., that the most enthusiastic feeling prevails in Northern Alabama with respect to this road, and that there is a fair prospect of its vigorous commencement and speedy completion. undefined

The road from Milwaukie via Waukesha to the Mississippi, is in course of rapid construction. The Board of Directors have just published a favorable and encouraging report. undefined A Railroad is proposed between Newport and Fall River, to connect with the Boston and Fall River Road. undefined The largest of the Louisiana Dry Docks, at Algiers, sunk in deep water. The dock had been sunk for the reception of a ship, to the usual depth and when the pumping machinery was put in operation the whole dock was found to be in a sinking condition. It is estimated that the expense of raising it would be at least $10,000. undefined The whale which made a pleasure excursion into Province town harbor last week, was very inhospitably treated by the people of that place, being harpooned and cut up within an hour after his arrival. He made about fifty barrels of oil.

This arrangement of machinery is to place the cutting buckets on revolving arms, to scoop up the soil in the embankment, and deliver it in proper channel to conduct it away.

Fig. 1. is a side elevation, and figure 2 shows the cutting scoop enlarged—a side and a plan view, and the chain, J, on an enlarged scale also. A represents the frame mounted on flanged tyer wheels, O I, for the purpose of travelling on the rails of the road. There is an angular frame in front, carrying the shaft of the revolving cutters, K, K, which are attached to the arms, G, G. W is a spindle with a bevel wheel, L, on it to receive motion from a bevel pinion, M. (dotted) on the main shaft, V. The said spindle, by a screw on its lower end, communicates motions to a bevel pinion on the outside of the shaft of the ratched roller, H, and from it a chain, J gives motion to the cutting scoops, K, by passing the other roller, H. N is an endless chain, which passes over the roller, O, and this chain is marked to show that it is a series of buckets which receive the dirt from the scoops by a spout on the other side, and by turning in the direction of the arrows, the said buckets discharge into the receiver, B. P P is another such endless chain of buckets, which receives motion from the two eccentrics, T T, at the top, on the shaft, V, which, by connecting rods, SS, move the roller, R. This set of buckets receive the earth from the spout, B, and deposit it in the receptacle, Z, which has a sliding bottom worked by the wheels, E E, on the rail, F, to allows the workmen to shoot it into the cart, thereby enabling this portable steam excavator to work its way along.

A motive power being employed to give motion to the crank, U, on the shaft, V, which, by the screw on the top of the angle shaft, X, and the one, D, on the lower part, causes the machine to advance at any speed, according to the nature of the ground to be excavated.— The whole of the parts must be built strong and firm.

Along the whole of the limestone strata of these regions are innumerable lochs, or freshwater lakes, presenting a singular spectacle. Although they have been waded in for miles, the depth is never more than from one to three feet. All these lochs and pools swarm with myriads of minnows, or the very small fish known by the name of barnsticles in the north, and in the winter the water around those fish becomes a solid mass to the bottom and the fish are often found in clusters, and so brittle that their bodies may be broken like a piece of glass, and yet on the ice thawing, animation is again established, and they become as lively as ever. Assistant surgeon Henry Mathias, of the Enterprise, belonging to the recent Artic expedition, had some of the ice, with a cluster of minnows, placed in a tumbler, and when gradually dissolved, it appeared very pleasing to witness the re-animation of these fishes under a milder temperature. The late gallant officer attributed the phenomenon to the heart of the little fish being surrounded with a fat oily liquid, which is never liable to be frozen; and was further confirmed in his impression, by ascertaining that while every other substance on board the vessel, unless careful kept, was frozen, and had to be cut and heated before use. aA [sic] cask of Stockholm tar of fat, standing on the deck at the time of the very lowest temperature, was not in the least frozen, and when required could be poured out to the very bottom, like treacle. The Enterprise and Investigator are now on their voyage again in search of Sir John Franklin. The only shadow of a hope for him is the fact that nothing whatsoever has been heard of him or his crew, which consisted of more than 100 hardy and able men. undefined In a recent lecture delivered before the American Institute, by the celebrated Professor Agassiz, he stated some curious facts respecting insects. He said more than a lifetime would be necessary to enumerate the various species and describe their appearances.— There are numerous species collected in the museums of Europe, but they form only a small part of the whole number; and even of these, the habits and metamorphoses are almost entirely unknown. Meiger, a German, who devoted his life to the study, had collected and described six thousand species of flies, which he collected in a district ten miles in circumference, but of their habits he knew scarcely any thing. They have been collected in Europe twenty-seven thousand species of insects preying on wheat. In Berlin two professors are engaged in collecting, observing and describing insects and their habits, already they have published five large volumes upon the insects which attack forest trees. undefined A Letter in the Boston Post from South Weymouth, relates that a resident of that place, happening to take a ramble through a piece of woods, on Sunday, found inextricable entangled amid some trees, a vehicle called a buggy—the horse alive but emaciated, and almost frantic with hunger. The horse and buggy had been missing four weeks, the animal having strayed away, as is supposed, from Abbington.

The Committee on Science and the Arts, constituted by the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts to whom was referred for examination an Artificial Leg, invented by Benjamin Franklin Palmer, report—

That the peculiarities of this invention consist in part, first,

An ingenious arrangement of springs and cords in the inside of the limb, by which, when the wearer is in the erect position, the limb is extended and the foot thrown forward, whilst, when he is seated the limb remains flexed so as to present a natural appearance.

Second—By a second arrangement of cords and springs in the inside of the limb, the foot and toes are gradually and easily extended, when the heel is placed in contact with the ground.

In consequence of this arrangement, the limping gait and the unpleasant noise made by the sudden stroke of the ball of the foot upon the ground in walking which is so obvious in the ordinary Leg, is avoided.

Third, By a peculiar arrangement of the knee-joint it is rendered little liable to wear, and all lateral or rotary motion is prevented.

It is hardly necessary to remark that any such motion is undesirable in an artificial leg, as it renders its support, unstable, &c.

The pressure of the artificial leg is made uniformly upon the surface of the sides of the stump, and not upon the end, by which arrangement the danger of ulceration and inflammation of the flaps covering the end of the bone, is, in a great measure avoided.

The committee have seen the artificial leg worn by the Inventor himself. It is light, well shaped, easily adjusted, and of a surface readily kept clean. The shape of the leg is such as to represent exactly, when clothed its natural fellow.

He is enabled, by means of his invention, to walk without a cane, in such a manner as readily to deceive one not acquainted with the facts of the case. All the natural movements of the limb, except motion laterally, (which is undesirable) are beautifully executed. He can throw either leg over the other, and can mount a height of five inches, with either leg indifferently, without assistance.

In conclusion the committee would remark, that the artificial leg of Mr. Palmer is superior to any that has yet come under their notice. It is light, strong, beautifully shaped, apparently very durable, self-acting in a greater degree than any they have ever met with, easy and natural in its motion, and possessing, apparently, all the qualities desirable or attainable in such an invention.

The Committee would recommend the award to the inventor of the “Scott's Legacy Medal and Premium.”—[a medal bearing the inscription “To the most deserving,” accompanied with $20. Awarded,]—and also to the Committee on Exhibitions to award him the first premium for his model exhibited in the late Exhibition. By order of the Committee, Actuary.

[It gives us much pleasure to publish the above document from this eminently scientific body, concerning the superior mechanism of which we have frequently spoken, and to which we would call the attention of all who need such an assistance, and desire to obtain the most perfect article. B. F. Palmer & Co. are now located in Springfield, Mass., and are the only manufacturers. undefined There is a vast fund of original and interesting matter in our columns this week.


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AMARYLLIS sarniensis, petalis linearibus planis, staminibus pistilloque rectiusculis corolla longioribus, stigmatibus partitis revolutis. ''Linn. fil. Ait. Kew. v.'' 1. p. 420. ''Thunb. Jap.'' p. 131

LILIUM sarniense. ''Dougl. Monogr. t''. 1, 2.

NARCISSUS japonicus rutilo flore. ''Corn. Canad. Kæmpf. Amæn. p.'' 872.

The Guernsey Lily, as it is moft commonly called, is originally a native of Japan; where it is described to grow by  and  who visited that island, the latter says on the hills about Nagasaki, from thence roots are said to have been introduced to the garden of  at Paris, in which it flowered, October 1634: its introduction to this country, which was subsequent to that date, as Dr. relates in his Monographia on this plant, "happened by a very singular melancholy accident, of which Dr. who no doubt had it from some persons then residing in Guernsey, gives us the following account: A Dutch or English ship, it is uncertain which, coming from Japan, with some of the roots of this flower on board, was cast away on the island of Guernsey; the roots were thrown upon a sandy shore, and so by the force of the winds and waves, were soon buried in fand; there they remained for some years, and afterwards, to the great surprise and admiration of the inhabitants, the flowers appeared in all their pomp and beauty." Some of these soon made their appearance in this country: Mr. relates, that the plant was cultivated here in 1659, by General at Wimbledon.

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Blanch almonds (see page 166), and place one on each side of a small ball of fondant, or cover almonds with fondant, shape like a very small egg, and roll in granulated sugar.

Take fondant, cooked or uncooked, of any color or flavor, roll out one eighth inch thick, shape with round cutter one and one half inches in diameter, and roll around cherry, leaving a small portion exposed. Place in paper cases. Vanilla, coffee,and pistachio fondant look particularly well with the cherries.

Select as many firm, smooth, candied cherries as are desired. Cut each cherry, starting at the open end, into four sections, and separate into petals. Make a tiny hole at the other end, and insert a strip of angelica one and one half inches long for a stem. Place a small ball of fondant between the petals, and arrange on a doily, or use on top of a box of bonbons.


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Cut candied cherries almost in two; between the halves of each cherry place a flat ball of fondant, press together gently, and roll in coarse granulated sugar.

Color the heavy cream a deep shade of lavender, add flavoring and cocoanut, and let stand ten minutes. Then add sifted sugar, heat over hot water until softened, and drop from the tip of a fork on wax paper, in rough balls the size of a chocolate cream. Leave until firm. Color paste may be omitted, or other colors may be used instead of lavender.

Put water and coffee in a saucepan, bring to the boiling point, boil two minutes, and strain through double cheesecloth. Add sufficient confectioners' sugar to stiffen, and knead until smooth. Use for walnut, pecan, or cherry creams, as centers for chocolates or bonbons, or roll out


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Wash dates and remove stones. Fondant, either cooked or uncooked, may be used. Flavor and color fondant as desired, roll in small cylinders, put into the dates where the stone was removed, and roll in granulated sugar. Pile on a bonbon dish, or pack in layers in a candy box with waxed paper between each layer. Chopped nuts may be mixed with the fondant, or the edge of the fondant projecting from the date may be dipped in chopped nuts.

Melt chocolate over hot water, add butter, sugar, yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon colored, whites of eggs beaten stiff, walnuts cut in pieces, and vanilla. Spread in buttered pan, and when firm cut in squares. This fudge is always soft and creamy.


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Mix syrup from a jar of preserved ginger with two tablespoons of the chopped ginger, and add sifted confectioners' sugar until stiff enough to knead. Knead until smooth, shape in small balls, and decorate with small pieces of preserved ginger.

Mix lemon juice and extract, and add sugar slowly until stiff enough to knead, adding color paste to make a delicate yellow. Knead with the hands until smooth, roll one fourth inch thick, and cut out with a small round cutter.

Put maple syrup in a small bowl, add sifted confectioners' sugar a tablespoon at a time, stirring until smooth, and adding sufficient sugar to make candy stiff. Knead until smooth. Shape in small balls, and roll in nut meats.


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RV 75 (WORK IN LONDON) Naples and, mutatis mutandis, in Ukrainia and the Levant. For London calls out across the lands to the spirit of Romance, to the spirit of youth and the spirit of adventure—to the Finer Spirits.

There are such glorious plums. And the thought of them eventually fills alike those City Meccas and the square, blackened brick, balconied dock-dwellings; it fills the bare rooms in Whitechapel, where dark and hook-nosed men sit amid the stench of humanity, their mouths filled with small brass nails, silent amid the rattling clatter of hammers on boot soles. It fills, too, the behind-counters of large drapers, the very sewers with large neutral-coloured scavengers, and the great Offices in Whitehall. In the whitewashed and grimy courts of Saffron Hill splendid-limbed, half-nude children tumble, dark eyed, like the cherubs of Cinquecento pictures, round the feet of dark men puffing cigarette smoke, and fair Venetian girls lean back, smiling and chattering, in bright head-cloths, bright neck-cloths, bright bodices and bright petticoats against brilliant barrows. Hook-nosed, saturnine and imperturbable old men mix, with the air of sorcerers, flour, vanilla, cochineal, and condensed milk in pewter freezing pots like infernal machines. The Finer Spirit because, to-day as always and for ever, the streets of London are paved with gold.

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