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LABOUR MANDATES. Arranging the Groups. I THE L.R.C. AND THE OTHERSI BY MR. WILLIAM BRACE, M.P. I [Vice-President of the South Wales I Miners' Federation]. After the struggle and stress of the I contests in the constituencies those of us who had been honoured with success at the polls presented ourselves last week at the House of Commons to commence our Parliamentary duties. To me it has all been very strange and interesting. Although to visit the Houses of Parlia- ment is not a new experienoe, I confess there is a wide difference in going there as a member, with all the liberties and privileges attaching thereto, and going there having to stand in the outer lobby until some friendly-disposed member took notice of one. As a representative of one's constituents it makes no difference, so far as I have realised, w hether a man is the son of a collier or a duke. The officials in charge were more than courteous to explain the rules of the place, and, as one who does not care to be singled out, I endeavoured to make as much use as possible of the fact that the House was not in session to find my way about, so that the usual rules of proce- dure might be properly observed. I cannot think why proper accommodation for the whole of the members has not been pro- vided. Happily, I secured a seat, but there were scores of members who had to stand, crowding one another like a lot of schoolboys, during the selection of the Speaker. It must have been most uncom- fortable, and was anything but dignified. Still, it has for a long time been the same, and, doubt kiss, those in authority work upon the policy that what has been accepted for other Parliaments must be borne by this one, even to the crude, laborious method by which the oath is administered. I stood substantially over half an hour in a line waiting my turn to take the oath, exactly as people line up waiting at the theatres. But to odd. as I thought, insult to injury, just as I had taken my place to take the oath the officer, or Clerk of the House, who had charge of the arrangements nearly sent me into a fit, by stating that I must wait until the Speaker had returned from i lunch, as the hands of the clock pointed to 1.30, which, according to the rules, was the proper time for him to adjourn. My readers may believe me, even if I never stand tip to make a speech in the House, it can never with truth be said that I was a silent member. But an eloquent Irish member who was waiting his turn next to me did something more than remonstrate with the Clerk, who had nothing to do with making the rules, and, therefore, had no power to vary them; he boldly addressed the Speaker, and pleaded with him not to adjourn until the batch by the table had been sworn. The Speaker, with a readiness which won my gratitude and admiration, readily responded to the appeal. So trying had the experience been that I was tempted to "affirm," an I could have done that in a fourth of the time, the I number waiting m that line being com- paratively few. The one thing that surprised me most in a red-letter week was, I think, the ready manner a number of policemen and other officials who, to the best of my belief, never saw me in the flesh in their lives before recognised me and addressed me by name. They must have spent a. great deal of time studying the photographs of the newly- elected M.P.'s before the House met. Having gone through the preliminaries, a number of meetings took place between the various sections, groups, or parties in the House. In the old Parliament all the Labour members were united in one group, with Mr. John Burns as chairman and Messrs. Bell and Fenwick as con- veners or secretaries. This was made impossible in this Parliament through the nctWn taken by the members returned under the auspices of the Labour Representation Committee, who held a. meeting the day before Parlia- ment met and formed themselves into a party, selecting their chairman and whips. To this meeting no members other than those affiliated to the L.R.C. were invited. I do not pretend to say for a moment that those members were not acting quite within their policy and right, but it did occur to me, and time has only deepened that conviction, that no harm could have been done if all Labour members, regardless as to their connection, had been invited to a con- ference for friendly discussion, so that a joint effort might have been made to bring about unity among all the Labour members in the House. If, after that conference, the members affiliated to the L.R.C. felt bound to take the step they have to comply with their constitution, they would have been quite as free to do so, so far as I can see. As Messrs. Keir Hardie, Henderson, and Shackleton did unite with Mabon, Messrs. Richards, Burns, Bell, Burt, and others in the late Parliament when the same L.R.C. con- stitution was in operation, I cannot appreciate that there is anything in that constitution to prevent the same course being followed, in this Parliament. There may, of course, be substantial reasons in the minds of the L.R.C. members for operating upon a new policy in this Parliament; still, it would have helDed to save misunderstanding for the future had a meeting been held and the position frankly, but kindly, discussed. Anyhow, it has not been held, and as the L.R.C. members have determined to take their own oourse without reference to the other Labour members in the House, it will be the solemn duty of all of us who have the cause of the workers to protect to avoid so far as possible aU disagreement, which cannot fail to weaken the voice of the workers, not enly in the House, but the | country. I, therefore, welcome the declaration of the L.R.C. party that they will be prepared to co-operate with other Trades Unionist members on Trades Union and Labour Bills. Finding ourselves in the position we did, we who were not connected with the L.R.C. held a meeting and formed our- selves into a Trades Union Labour Group, appointing Alderman Enoch Edwards, the president of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, our chair- man, Mr. Richard Bell vice-chairman, and Messrs. Fenwick and John Ward secretaries. Our group will also be pre- pared to co-operate, not only with the members of the L.R.C. party, but all other individual members or parties who are aiming for the same legislative reforms as ourselves. The question where we sit is, to me, very immaterial. For the moment it may be advantageous to sit on the Opposition benches, because there is more room there, but, aa a fact, we shall sit with the Government; yet we shall no more support the Govern- ment, right or wrong, than will the members of the L.R.C. party. After all, it is the division lobby that will be the important determining factor, and not where one takes his seat in the House. I notice from the newspaper reports that my friend Mr. Pete Curran at the L.R.C. Conference calls into question our right to form ourselves into a Parliamentary Labour party, and when the proper time arrives, and in the proper place, intends to ask who has given us a mandate to form such a party. So far as the members of the Miners' Federation are concerned, they have an equally clear and distinct mandate to take part in the formation of such' a Labour party as have the members returned under the auspices of the L.R.C., and it is a mis- take for Mr. Curran and his colleagues to assume that no member other than those returned under the auspices of the L.R.C. have the right to speak in the name of Labour. At the Miners' Federation of Great Britain annual conference, which, by the way, is the greatest national organised body of la bour in the world, a resolution was passed authorising miners' M.P.'s to support a Labour group in the House, and this is the mandate upon which my colleagues and myseif acted when we took part in forming the Trades Union Labour Group in this Parliament. But, apart from such a mandate, had I been returned as an individual without specific instructions from our society, I would have taken exactly the same step; for, surely, no one will seriously argue that a man like myself has no right or standing to speak in the name of Labour, For thirteen years, or until I was nearly; 25, I worked in the pit as a collier, making my living with my hands, and since then have been a paid Trades Union official for the men I worked with in the collieries. I have spent my life either as a worker or workers' leader, and the same is the experience of my colleagues. That being so, I hold that no man can have a more complete creden- tial to speak in the name of Labour than my colleagues and myself can produoe. Were I to discuss the claims of some members of the L.R.C. party to speak in the name of Labour, as Mr. Curran challenges ours, and personal experience were the touchstone to deter- mine the point, I think I should have no difficulty in proving that they possess small claims to be classified as Labour members. Indeed, I feel constrained to say that there is doubt in my mind as to whether" Labour party" is quite the right title the L.R.C. members should use. But if they care to use it J, for one at least, shall not com- plain. The only point I desire to make, and I do this quite sincerely and without offence, is that the members of the L.R.C., if they wish to act fairly and justly to men like myself, must not assume that they, and they only, possess the right to speak for Labour, and that they, and they alone, have the welfare of the workers and their families at heart.

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A DAKOTA DIVORCE » Lady's Two Husbands. REMARKABLE REVELATIONS. A story of an unfortunate marriage, a determination to cut off all her home associa- tions by earning her livelihood in a foreign country, and a second matrimonial venture under romantic circumstances, was told yes- terday in the Divorce Court by Mrs. Amy Armitage, the daughter of a wealthy gentle- man named Passingham, of Milton, Cam- bridgeshire. This lady is applying, under the Legitimacy Declaration Act of 1858, for a, pronouncement of the validity of her marriage with Mr. Edward Armitage, whom she married in Dakota on the 30th of June, 1892. Previously, at the age of nineteen, Mrs. Armitage was married to Mr. Charles A. Sillig, an American, who was referred to dur- ing the proceedings as having conducted business in the Strand as president of the United Exchange. This gentleman Married a Second Time in 1699, and last year filed a petition in the English Courts for a declaration of the nullity of this union on the ground that his first wife was still living. But on applica- tion, the petition of Mrs. Armitage was ordered to be taken first. Mr. Sillig and his first wife did not live happily together, and in 1886 the lady's home was broken up, and she went to reside with her parents. In 1891 she left England. In South Dakota she obtained a divorce, and, in 1892, married Mr. Armitage. Before leaving England she wrote a letter to her mother with reference to her httle son and daughter, Chap" and Dolly, the former of whom had been adopted by Mrs. Paesingham. In this letter Mrs. Sillig said: My wish is that I should entirely drop out of your life and faarnily, and that "Chaip" shall be put in my place. "Chap" will have all my maney. I will never claim amy-thing. I don't want one more penny of your money, nor does Dolly. As this will be my last request to you, I hope you will try and carry it out. I hope than when I leave here I shaJI leave no trace behind me. I sRieU adopt some very common name, amd may change it again to atop people of a mischievous turn of mind, from running after me. In the witness-box Mrs. Armitage related the circumstances which led up to her second, marriage. Slaving resolved to mate (her home perxna- nently in America, she wrote announcing her intention to a number of friends, including Mr. Armitage, "An Old Friend of my family's." He received her letter In the West Indies, and replied deprecating her intention, and suggesting that they might see more of one another in the future. In answer, she wrote saying she supposed he was thinking of marriage, but that she had made up her mind not to marry again, as she had long been in poor health. "Some weeks Later I received another letter from Mr. Armitage," the witness con- tinued, asking me to reconsider my de- cision. At his request I met him in Chicago, and an indefinite arrangement was made as to what might take plaoe. In the summler of 1892 he wrote from Mexico, saying he was very seriously ill, and as a. result we were married much earlier than we had intended. At the end of that year we returned to Engl-d, where we have since lived together. "I bad no sort of communication with Mr. Sillig until the summer of last year. Then I found he had filed a. petition seeking a decree of nullity of his marriage with another lady. I sought to intervene, but found I could not do so, amd so I entered upon these proceedings." Mrs. Armitage described her first marriage as Excessively Unhappy." Having determined to earn her own living after the separation from her first husband, she underwent a year's training in a. Lon-I don cookery school. During this period she received anonymous letters and telegrams, and learned that people whom she did not know were making inquiries about her. She heard also that when her children attained the age of seven years an effort would be made to take them from her. "This hastened my departure," the witness added w-ith considerable feeling. She denied that she went to Yank-town, South Dakota, because it was a place where she knew she could get a divorce quickly. "I went there (she assured Mr. Graham- Campbell, representing the Attorney-General) because it was out of the beaten traok, and thought I might live there tree from any malicious interference." Mrs. Armitage added that when she left England she was receiving the income from M,000, which had been left her, and an allowance from her mother. In America she supported herself by giving lessons in cookery, and by going out cooking. Mr. Graham-Campbell drew the attention of the judge to a letter written by Mrs. Armitage to her mother before she started for America. One passage ran: Let me get a good start out there before anyone knows I have even left England; three months will soon fly over, and then I can take proceedings. Once I begin proceedings, I don't care if it succeeds, I shall speak of myself as a widow, and people will own accept my position as such. The Jndge; This letter is pretty obvious, no matter what the lady says, but I am not sure if it affects the question. Evidence as to Divorce Court procedure in the United States was being given when the case was adjourned until this morning.

A CARDIFF DOCKS SMASH. The shuts from a tip at Cardiff Docks fell on the deck of the steamship Emerald, which was loading coal in the East Baein on Tues- day. Work had. been temporarily suspended, and no one was injured, but a young man, Mr Sandin, who had only just passed under the shate, had a narrow escape. The hatch coamings of the vessel were levelled with the

TRIP ON THE HOLY GANGES. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove from Benares to Assi Gha.t on Tuesday, pass- ing on the way through the Church Mission- ary Society's compound. They embarked in the Maharajah's State liorge and made a trip down the river. Thousands of pious Hindus were bathing in the Holy Ganges, and the gh-sto were thronged with fakirs and pilgriips. They aJso passed a burning ghat, where funeral pyres were smoking. During the return drive their Royal High- nesses stopped to visit Queen's College. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess visited the Central Hindu College, and drove in a motor-car to Ramnagar to take tea with the Maharajah. In the evening their fioyal Highnesses embarked on the river to view the illuminations.—Press Association Foreign Special.

THE ALLEGED FRAUD ON THE HEARTS OF OAK. At Bow-etreet, Iondon, on Tuesday Michael Charles Moaby, formerly surveyor to the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, and Samuel Geddes, land agent, were charged with fraudulently obtaining L6,000 from the Heaarts of Oak Society, and Meaby was further charged with perjury in the High Court. The magistrate found that there was no case against Geddes, and discharged him. He com- mitted Mea.by for trial for perjury and for causing, by false statements, money to be obtained by a. third, party.

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Russia and Welsh Coal On several occasions since the beginning of the present year we have referred to the placing of orders for Welsh coal for shipment to Odessa and other Black Sea ports, a market which, owing to the prohibitive import duty imposed by the Russians, has been closed to our coal for a number of years. As already explained, the coal was needed for the railways, and the cause of the demand is tbe threat shortage of liquid fuel which has arisen owing to the destruction of a large portion of the equipment of the Baku oilfields in the recent disturbances. An Odessa special correspondent, writing on February 14, says: -"Owing to strikes on the railways and other disturbances, the price of Russian coal has advamoed enormously. To relieve an intolerable state of affairs, the Government has given permission to the South Western and other railways to import 100,000 tons of British coal duty free. The duty amounts to 8s. per ton, as nearly as possible. Already orders for about 80,000 tons of the best Welsh coal have been placed at Cardiff, so that a welcome impetus is given by Russia to our colliery and shipowning interests." A number of cargoes have already left Cardiff.

Horse Killed by a Train I At Swansea County-court on Tuesday Thomas Randall, of The Meyals, Swansea, sued the Swansea and Mumbles Railway Company for £15, the value of a horse killed. Mr. Stobbo Andrews appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Olark for defendants. The horse was a stray one, and was killed at five o'clock in the morning.-Mr. Andrews urged that the defendants, by tbeir Aot of 1804, had an obligation to fence in the rail- way, but Mr. Clarke said they would require Parliamentary powers to do it. Mr. Andrews said that immediately the horse was killed it was buried by the com- pany. Mr. Olsa-k said it was a stray animal, and bad been buried because it would be a nuisance. The company had paid lis. into court as value of the carcase. His Honour: Quite enough, too. Judgment was given for defendants.

Scene at a Newport Firel Early om Tuesday morning a, fire occurred at 59, Henry-street, Newport. It was found to be a very unusual affair. The house is tenanted by Daniel Grace, a labourer, aaid his family, who sub-let a portion of the premises to another family. There was a tremendous uprising of flame in one of the rooms caused by a pile of wood saturated with oil taking fire. and spreading the con- flagration to the surrounding furniture. The family in lodging had gone to bed. They were aroused, and got out of the house-- which was believed to be in serious jeopardy -as quickly as possible. Some members of the fire brigade luckily arrived early on the eoene, and, with the police, put the fire out. Da.niel Grace, the occupier, is in custody oharged with wilfully setting the furniture on fire, and with assaulting the police

I GENERAL BOOTH ON HIS EMIGRATION I SCHEME. General Booth on Tuesday addressed a large gathering of the Royal Colonial Institute on hub emigration scheme. Many Coloniets were present from Qanada, Australia, and South Africa. General Booth said that the existing poverty was a great discredit to our boasted civilisation. Work, and not charity, was needed, and a man required permanent remunerative labour. This work was waiting in Canada, by means of which our surplus population would be saved from gravitating to the filthy slum, the hated workhouse, the cruel casual wards, the hopeleBs prisons, and the semi-hells upon earrth which we knew erieted to our ooet.

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Odd Characters. FACTS STRANGER THAN FICTION. Facts stranger than fiction. Of these I have just been told two fresh and very strange examiples (says a. writer in "The Gentlewoman "). A gentleman, once a Fellow of Oxford, who shall be nameless, on leaving the University, now many years ago, took a house in the country and set to work on inventing an imaginary language for an imaginary people who lived an altogether imaginary life. Mr. A. has now reacihed the point of writing books in the language which no one but himself knows, and his life is as far removed from ordinary mortals as if he were a denizen of Mars. He is not otiherWtiseaD eccentric, and sees a few friends, with whom he converses in an every-day way on every-day topics, althougih his whole existence is given up to an engrossing folly. I was telling a lady who was calling on me the other day of this particular fact, stranger far than fiction, when she laughingly re- plied: "Ah! But Mr. A. is scarcely so odd an individiia-a as my uncle, old Captain B., who Refuses to Live by Daylight. My uncle lives in-" she mentioned one of Maylair's best known squares, "and now for years and years past he has never risen earlier tham 8.30 in the evening. Breakfast is then eerved to him, and at about 10.30 he sallies forth for an evening stroll. At 11.30 he goes to the Savoy or Carlton, where he invites a party of friends to join him at a repast, which is his dinner, but naturally their supper. After a. convivial meal, he sees a friend or two home, takes another walk, and returning to his house has five o'clock (in the morning) tea served to him. After that he reads, writes letters, enjoys a light supper, and retires to rest again, when everybody else is about to rise in the house. His own rooms are furnished in black plush hangings embroidered with gold. The floors are of white maarble. Oa.pta.in B. is a mar- ried man, but his wife and children lead their lives by day. Curious!"

Garter Conferred on the Mikado The chief function of Prince ?rthar of Connaught's mission, the conferriittt of the Garter upon the Emperor of J & behalf of King Edward, took pla? on nesday morning at the Imperial Palace at Tokio. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a brilliant assemblage of Imperial Princes, high Government officials, and Court functionaries, including the staff of the British Embassy. The Emperor subsequently returned to the Palace a.fter his visit, and expressed his appreciation of King Edward's signal mani- festation of his friendship and goodwill. In the evening there was a grand Court banquet in honour of the occasion. The Emperor has conferred on Prince Arthur the Grand Order of the Chrysanthe- mum, and has also decorated other ra-embera of the mission.-Reuter.

MR. LONGWORTH'S RUSE. New York, Tuesday.—Everyone is congra- tulating Mr. and Mrs. Longworth upon their success in evadimg the reporters yesterday when they left Alexandria, a few miles from Washington, on their way for their honey- moon in the Southern States. Alexandria is a small town remote from prying eyes. The pressmen and photographers scored the first point in the game when they secured a oar in front of the bridial Pullman oar which was to call at Alexandria and take the young couple away. When the train arrived Mr. amd Mrs. Long- worth, both looking very well, were on the platform, the latter writing her autograph on a card for a little negro child, who recog- nised Mr. Roosevelt's daughter. Mr. Long- worth's scouts had prepared him for the enemy, and, says the report, before the army of enterprising American pressmen could descend from the train their intended quarry toad taken their seats in the Pullman, which was immediately detached from the press oar, and travelled away alone. It is very rarely that American pressmen are outwitted in this easy style, and their description of the incident furnrishes material for a good laugh.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DIRECTORS In the Chancery Division on Tuesday Mr. Justice Warrington had before him a. peti- tion by Sir Frederick Ripley, of Bradford, and Othere, for a compulsory winding-up order against the Yorkshire Woolcombers' Association (Limited). Petitioners were credi- tors for rent of certain factories in Bradford loaded to the defendant company, and the petition was opposed by the company on the ground that there were no assets on which a winding-up order would operate. Petitioners, however, said that the company ought to have a large claim in damages for fraud against the directors, vendors, and promo- ters of the company, and that on the basis of a previous judgment by Justice Eady £ 360,000 might be recovered in this way. After going into all the circumstances of the promotion and working of the company, his lordship held that there was no ground U a, compulsory order, and he. OacniagMl t.he petition with coete.

News from the Mines [ I FALL OF ROOF. ( An inquest was held at the Tredegar Arms Hootel, Tredegar, yesterday, before Mr. J. B. Walford, the district coroner, touching the death of Thomas Childs, 53, collier, who was killed at Whitworth Colliery on Saturday. The evidenoe showed that the overman I visited the working place of the deceased, and pointed out the dangerous state of the roof and the necessity of timbering. The deceased's two sons were engaged in preparing the timber, and deceased proceeded to pull; down some coal, when a large quantity of j roof fell, and killed the deceased instan- taneously. j The jury thought that deceased was j engaged in preparing for ntting up the I timber ordered by the overman, and they returned a verdict of "Accidental death." Noah Morgan, a young man, 23 years of age. residing at the Corner House Hotel, Tre- herbert, who had served three years with the 2nd Welsh Regiment, and who only returned home from India three weeks last Saturday, was killed by a fall of atone from the roof at the Ynyefeio Colliery, Treherbert, on Tuesday night. At Abersyohan on Tuesday Dr. D. J. Jones conducted an inquest on William Henry Davies (43), a collier residing at Snatch wood, who was injured by a fall of roof at the Llanerch Colliery on Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." The Miners' Federation were represented by Mr. Wine tone, the district agent, while Mr. Matthews, from the office of Mr. T. S. Edwards, Newport, appeared for the rela- tives of the deceased.

I qwanseaPainter's Fall I I S• wansea Painter's Fall A serious accident occurred on Tuesday evening at the Caswell Bay Hotel, near the Mumbles, to a painter named John New- oombe, of 20, Brynymor-road, Swansea, who was engaged on a job at the hotel. His ladder broke in the middle, and be fell from a oonsidera.ble height. An ambulance was sent for from Swansea-, and he was taken to the hospital. It was found that he bad broken an arm and injured his head, amd it was also feared thait his back was broken.

HORSE'S HORNPIPE DANCE. Amusement was created in the Shoreditch County-court Vesterday when a cabman, in defending a claim by the London General Omnibus Company to damages for injuries done to one of their horses by the defen- dant's runaway horse, said that as soon as a. motor horn was sounded his horse did a danoe. Counsel: Was it a hornpipe or a Highland fling? (lsughter.)-More like a, barn dance; he seemed to have gone mad. Did all the others join in?—It's a wonder they didn't, as there was a. barrel-organ going. (Laughter.) Do barrel-organs affect the musical susoep- tibilities of horses?—Well, come, now, you imagine a. motor-horn and a, barrel-organ. Isn't it enough to upset the best horse that 1 was ever bred? (Renewed laughter.) Whia-t happened when it bad finished its dance?—It bolted straight up the road, jumped on top of the 'bus horse, and danced hornpipe on his back. (Loud laughter.) A verdict was found for the defendant. Judge Smyly, K.C., holding that the defem- dant was not liable for the horse b-oltdug.

IMPORTANT TRADES UNION CASE The Appeal Court on Tuesday further heard the arguments in the case of Ward, Look, and Co. (Limited) v. the Operative ( Printers' Associations' Society amd its eecre- tary, in which the defendants appealed a.ga.inst the verdict and judgment for L650 damages in favour of the plaintiffs. The court expressed the opinion that there was no evidenoe that the defendant Union or secretary caused or procured men in plain- tiffs' employ to retard or spoil work. The hearing was again adjourned. j

I GOVERNMENT AND THE LICENSING I QUESTION. Instead of bringing forward this session a ighort Bill dealing solely with the subject of a time-limit for licences, the Government prefer to contemplate the introduction as one of their principal measures next session of a Bill to deal upon more comprehensive lines with the whole licensing question.

IRISH GOVERNMENT REFORM I The Irish Lord-Lieutenant, replying to an address from the Derry Chamber of Com- merce, said that the reasons which applied to the system of private Bill legislation in Scot- land would certainly apply with more force to Ireland, which was less easy of aooess to London. He appreciated the need for a closer contact and inter-oommunication between Bovenm?ent departments and the Taj?oTM local bodlœ tbrousbovt the countm

Amazing Criminal. I FORTY-ONE YEARS OF CRIME. I "The Parson" Again Convicted. 1 Twelve times convicted in twelve different names, having spent Z6! years of his 69 of life in the seclusioli of prison cells, "The Pan-eon," a maequerader in clerical a.ttire, appeared yesterday at Olerkenwell Sessions as an incorrigible rogue and vagabond. Under the alias of George Dale, "The Parson" was ordered confinement for twelve months—the maximum punishment. Grey-whiskered, venerable, gontlemani7- lookitog, "The Parson" justifies his soubriquet which the criminal classes awarded him for merit amd ability in thieving. In reality, this eminefntly respectable-looking gentleTma-a. is a hardened old sinner, wliose "speciality" has long been the pretence of piety, going to chmroh, not to listen to the service, but to rob the congregation. His gaol record astounded all who heard it yesterday. Here it is: 1865, two months' imprisonment; 1866, twelve months; 1868, two months; 1869, six monfihs; 1869, seven years' penal servitude and seven years' police supervision; 1876, eight years' penal eervitude amd seven years' police supervision; 1884, five years' penal servitude; 1893, twelve months' im- prisonment; 1894, three years' penal servi- tude; 1900, twelve months; 1902, three months; 1904, three months. Forty-one years of Persistent Crime! An aristocrat in Gw 6ociety of criminal cdroles, Dale scored to waste his olevemeaa on robbing common folk. lvhat he liked best was to read society journals, and put himself down m a carefullyjkept register of fashion- able events as an uininvit-ed guest. His usual programme was attendance at St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, St. George's (Hanover-square), amd Kensington Church; any society function, weddings, christenings, confirmation services, where the wealthy congregated, found him present. As the oon> gregation broke up his deft fingers drew purses from pockets, watches off Aha.inp, and valuables from bags, with all the patent fas- tenanga of which he was familiar. His garb was always clerical, and a soft felit wide- awake hat covered his hands, whilst a. satin- lined cloak, ha.nging over his arm, concealed his movements. And all the time a, prayer-book Showed pro- minently. When Church ceremonials were "off," "The PaffBon" frequented the theatres. The prayer-book ohanged to opera-glasses, and in the hurry and crush of an audience leaving the vestibule of fashionable theatres "The Parson" plied his profession. The prison warders know him as Battersby, Carpenter, Hopkinson, Nash, Day, Griffiths, Gilbert, Clayton, Bailey, Webb, Mi-Mer, and Briggs. He will be able to re-christen himself again in a year's time.

ENGAGED PUPIL TEACHERS Permitted to Wear Rings at Card iff. Miiss Mabel Daisy Turner, a student at the Rothertoam Pupil Teachers' Centre, has won unexpected fame by .refusing to give up wearing an engagement ring while attendi-iig her classes. It occurred to one of our representatives that there might be imita- tors of Miss Turner at the Cardiff Pupil Teachers' Centre, and he accordingly approached Mr. Charles Morgam, B.A., the principal of the centre, a-nd asked him if young ladies attending his classes were allowed to wear engagement rings. We have too mudh work to do at our school to interfere in such matters," said Mr. Morgan, with some emphasis, "it is a. miatter for the parents, and not for the teachers," he added. "Some young ladies, as you know, like to show off their engage- ment rings, while others like to conceal them. They can please themselves about wearing their engagement rings as long as they don't interfere with their studies. There may or may not be young ladies in our school who wear engagement rings, but, as I said before, it is a matter for the parents I and not for the teachers." Cardiff girls evidently enjoy more freedom than their sisters of Rotherham, of which town, by-the-way, Mr. W. J. Board, for some years the deputy-town-clerk of Cardnff, is the town-olerk.

ALLEGED HUSBAND MURDER BY LAUDANUM. At an inquest held at Haswell, Durham, on Tuesday on Thomas Worthy (50), miner, who died from the effects of laudanum, alleged to have been administered by his wife, a verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned against the woman, who was committed for trial.

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MOURNERS MOBBED Scenes at a Funeral. WIDOW HOOTED AT GRAVE. There was a disgraceful scene yesterday at the funeral of a Sheffield man., the mctourners being literally mobbed. The deceased, who war, well known in Shef- field, committed suicide on Thursday. Nothing remarkable was revealed a.t the inquest, but during the past few days rumour has been very busy, and when the funeral left Trafalgar-street, where the widow lives, a crowd of hundreds of people created a, hostile demonstration. The place of interment is over three miles from the residence, but many people fol- lowed all the way. At the cemetery an even larger crowd had collected, and the efforts of the police to keep the people out of the burial ground were altogether unsuccessful. The mob, how- ever, was prevented from going into the- church. When the coitrnfeng coaches reached the, cemetery gates A Tremendous Yell went forth, amd hooting and jeering was kept u,p until the funeral party had passed into the building. The moment the doors were thrown open after the service the rowdyism re-commenced, and the police 1100 the greatest difficulty m, protecting the widow from violence. A mam who had been specially eeleoted by the crowd for a display of hostility did not leave the church with, the other mourners, and when the mob had passed on towards the burial plaoe he quickly got into a. cab and drove away, but not without receiving a. parting shout from some of the people who had been watching for "him, < The scene at the graveside was of a. dis- gusting character. When the final sentences of the burial service were concluded a terrible row bega.n. Men: and women yelled and hooted, and epithets of a most unseemly character wlere hurled at the widow., This continued until the mourning oexuehee drove away.

Church & Her Property A public meeting was held on Tuesday at Hirwain, when addresses were delivered by Mr. W. S. de Win ton, M.A., Mr. W. Godfrey, amd the Rev. Canon Camber-Williams on the subject, "Does the Church Receive State Aid?' Mr. De Winton said he was satisfied that the present attack upon the Church would eventually be to her advantage, as was the case on the oocasion of the last onslaught. That the Church and the clergy were not State-aided was demonstrated by what the late Mr. Gladstone and the Rev. Mr. Freeman. had said on the subject. The fact was that the law restrained people from giving too- much to the Ohuroh. Mr. Godfrey said that Dissenting Churches in England and Ireland had received over £452,000 more from the State than had the Church of England Canon Gamber-Williams also spoke on the same subject in the vernacular.

"THANKS, GOOD DAY." An elderly mam was yesterday sued for a small debt. Judge Edge: What do you do? Defendamt: I can do anything, &nd eoulcf do a job in your garden; and could wash your carriage, clean your harness, or any- thing that wanted doing. (Laughter.) Judge Edge: You are a very bandy man, no doubt. (Laughter.) Defendamt: I will pay. That is my firm in- tention. (Laughter.) But I can't go to the oorner of the street, knock people down, of rob old men. (Laughter.) Judge Edge: Oh, dear no! Plaintiff woul d not wish you to do anything so bad as thait.. You cam go. Defendant: Thank you, sir. Good day!

A PROTEST IN COURT. The adjourned hearing at Bow-street yes- terday of the oase in which Michael Charles Mea.by, formerly surveyor to the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, and Samuel Geddes, a land agent, were charged with fraudulently obtaining X6,000 from the society, resulted in the discharge of the prisoner Geddes. The magistrate committed Meaby for trial for perjury, and also under Section 89 of the Larceny Act for causing, by false pretences, money to be obtained by a third party. Mr. Geddes: Have I no remedy against these people for dragging me here week after week? Don't you think it's monstrous that I have no remedy? Sir Albert de Rutzen You have a most able gentleman to go to if you want advice.

I SHOOTING BURGLAR'S RECORD A "shooting burglar" is how the police yesterday described Charles Hilton, a grim- visaged, sturdy-looking fellow, who pleaded guilty at the Clerkenwell Sessions to being found at night with housebreaking imple- ments. He as known to carry firearms when engaged in crime. He is regarded as a clang-ero-as man, and police officers have been specially warned against him. His sentences for the last thirty odd years are as follows:- 1869: 7 years' penal servitude. 1875: 15 months' hard labour. 1878: 12 months' hard labour. 1882: 10 years' penal servitude. 1900: 7 years' penal servitude. A sentence of three years will now be added to the list.

POISON AS A PEACEMAKER. The strange poisoning case at Haswell, County Durham, in which a miner, named Thomas Worthy, died from laudanum, was investigated at a coroner's inquest yesterday. The man oame home on Saturday the worse for drink, amd as he was quarrelsome, his wife, it is alleged, placed some laudanum in his beer to send him to sleep. The sleep, howevei, proved a. fatal one. Police-sergeant Irving said that Mrs. Worth asserted she had no intention of harming her husband. She wanted to quieten him merely. Two sons of the Wortihys relate that they saw their father with a knife in his hand, and heard him threaten to cut his wife's throat. 8ho knocked the knife out of his hand. The jury returned a verdict of "íurdar."

WELSH OFFICERS AT KING'S LEVEE Colonel Rees, V.D., commanding the 3rd Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers (of which his Majest-y is hou. colonel), presented his officers as follows: -Lieutenant-colonel Jones, V.D., Lieutenant-colonel Landon, V.D. Majors Sinclair, Lewis, V.D., Mitchell, V.D., and J. E. Thomas, V.D., Captains Llewellyn Thomas, T. H. Herschell, Jones, Hunter. Perkins, .C.B., Jenkins, and M. S. Morgan, Lieutenants Cownd, Gough, Arthur Thomas, H. Edmond, Jenkins, Pollard, Jerry, and Browning, Surgeon-captain Stephens, Chap- lains Lillingstone and Morgan, and Captain and Adjutant C. E. Herbert Stepney. In the evening Colonel Rees entertained his officers to dinner at the Hotel Victoria. "The King was the only toast, and was enthusiastically honoured.

Remarkable disappearance of all grime, mud, and dirt.—A fact! The washerwomen in Glasgow say1- that "FOIWlo is a splendid powder." Fbamo ia a pure special soap for vory heavy washing..Powerful. Easy ajid safe. Leaves no smell. Ask your grocer for a. penny pactet — three for twopence half, penny. 11M2 STEVENS' BJEEAD- 1A gnal toopeol sm