The life-story of a Hongkong Bank note can never be written. How much of jurly and sorrow, comedy and tragedy. humour and pathos is thus lost to the world never be computed. Conceive how a fiv dollar note may flutter daintily through the taper fingers of fair dames, drop reluctant from the horny hand of toil, or wing airy flight, from the ill-guarded pocket youth. What matching of ribbon, pure of family joints, and unprecedented poker hands may it not have gazed upon, mutely observant, awaiting in certainty its ft_ passage from place to pie hank note ix the genius of motion, it iv at once a friend, an enemy, ruler, "a slave—in fact iv i things that its end ix certain. comes a time when the voice of which is as the sword of Azmel, dee that it he "called in." and with that word i€ passes in flame from the world which loves it.
On Thursdaya melancholy procession drove unnoticed by most, through our streets. It took its doleful way to the Crematorium. An Aquarius van led, seated on whose box-seat. plunged in gloom, was. our whil Behind that a earrings bore Tennis Player, and a Man of This vehicle, with its solita occupant, made passage for a second riage, wherein four coolies strove to hide an overmastering grief behind that which all writers of books call Chinese impassivity This was the funeral march of the called in" nows—thus were the little fluttering messengers of power condemned to a Wor Cuex, Mate?" may he a rong form of salutation, but the kindliness of its intention cannot be questioned; therefore it may not be out of place to adopt it here. those who may be safferiag from d health can be speedily relieved from misery by the aid of Holloway's Pills and Ointmen They ar- equally yood for the old, young, or middle-aged, For weakness, lassitude, fever, diatrhwa, dysentery, measles, croup and similar complaint, these medicines cannot be equalled; whilst for skin diseases. sores, ulcers, scrofula and old wounds, they have effected cures in cases declared hopeless by eminent medical men. Full directions 8 to the use of these remarkable remedies are given to purchasers, second-class funeral. The Crematorium was reached, they felt the awful breath of the furnace, shrivelled, and died. Th Golf Secretary waygled 'a visionary m over their place of rest, blessing them in death as he had not in life. The Scot, the Tennis Player, and the Man of Figures, struggled with his emotion, and muttered at last, "The debit is paid off. The long account is closed. Farewell The coolies remained impassive.
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