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SOME COINCIDENCES I And Odd Stories. I WHAT IS A WORKMAN P I BY LLOYD MEYRICK. Odd things certainly do happen more frequently than we are inclined to credit. A story is now being told in a large hotel of a telegram that came addressed to a guest of uncommon name from a large provincial town. The man read the tele- gram, which urged him to return home at once, as his wife was very ill. The man packed up his traps and went hot foot to his house, to find that his wife was seriously ill, but that she had not sent the telegram. She had delayed informing her husband in hopes of getting better. The man at once sent the telegram back to the hotel, stating it was not meant for him. The manager on inquiry found that there was another man staying at the same hotel of the same name and from the same place. What makes the coincidence remarkable is the fact that the wives of both men were really ill, and that the telegram was true if read by either. The chances of a similar incident happening are very remote, but all things are possible once.- The late Lord Acton for many years kept a record of coincidences. A very strange one occurred in his own expe- rience. A rumour spread that his wife I had drowned herself. She had done nothing of the kind, but it was quite true that a Baroness Acton had drowned herself at Tegernesee, where Lord and Lady Acton were staying. To make the coincidence more noticeable she had drowned herself under their window. The strangest of all things noted by Lord Acton concerned Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, who was murdered at the bottom of what is now Primrose Hill, but was then known as Greenberry Hill, in London. Three men were found guilty of the murder and were executed. Their names were Green, Berry, and Hill. With reference to my first story of similarity of names, the following curious coincidence occurred some years ago at Huddersfield Savings Bank. Two depositors were at the counter together, one named Cain Quarmby and the other Abel Quarmby. It was naturally sup- posed that these men were relatives, but on inquiry it was found they were strangers to each other, never having even met before. The somewhat unusual name of Quarmby is local, and the name Cain is by no means uncommon in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield. I cannot understand, though, why parents should give their sons so ill-omened a name, unless it be that Cain has got his sympathisers as well as Esau. A parson, however, tells of the oddest coincidence: On one Sunday evening (he says) I was reading the 37th Psalm in church. My attention was suddenly drawn away, and there happened to me what I never re- member to have happened to me before in the course of my long ministry, namely, an ntter inability to recover my lost place. After an awful pause the clerk proceeded with the next verse, and a neighbour kindly directed me where to go Qn. On returning home my wife pointed the remarkable coincidence that the clause I had omitted was the latter part of Verse 36-"his place could nowhere be foand." I daresay such stories are endless, and are suggestive of some little imp that loves to play trioks with us. There is an allied class of story that deals with mental telegraphy or telep- athy, but I have inclination only for one to-day. The story is told by Mark Twain. He states he once wrote a long letter on a complicated subject, which had popped into his head between asleep and awake to a friend on the other side of America. He did not send the letter, but by return of post received one from his friend. "Now, Fll tell you what he is going to say," said Mark Twain, and read hiff own unserrt episrtle aloud, and then, opening his friend's dispatch, proved that they were essentially iden- tical. No doubt such an occurrence is easily explainable on the grounds of two minds working on the same subject, and probably coming to the same obvious con- clusions. Mill, in his book on ".Logic," says something very learned on this point, but I am too lazy to look it up. I am writing now in pneumonia vest and pants, but find it hard to be energetic. I To conclude these many times twice-told tales, we all know how dangerous it is to be unduly boastful of our intentions and achievements. Every schoolboy knows Nora's vow, of how she would not marry somebody and yet she did. The best lesson in humility is often rudely given. The late Air. William Pattison, who was appointed chief-constable of 'I Scarborough in 1865, declared on taking up his duties that he would make the I town so clear of crime that he would hang up his watch on a lamp-post and it would not be molested. The night after this boast someone stole the police-office clock. Enough! Each one of the above stories may be repeated by my readers without acknowledgment. What is a workman? An interesting case has just been decided under the Workmen's Compensat-ilon Act. Mr. Bagnall was killed while working for some chemical manufacturers. He was a graduate of Manchester University and a Master of Science. His earnings for the three years preceding his death were JE687 10s. The widow and one child' brought the claim—the former having some income from investments and the latter wholly dependent. The employers contended that no one could describe this distinguished gentleman as a work- man. The judge, however, regarded it as utterly irrelevant whether a man was a. Master of Science, a Doctor of Divinity, a Master of Arts, or president of the Royal Academy. It seemed to him that if he did manual work within the works he thereby earned his living in A way that brought him within the Compensa- tion Act. He was as much exposed to danger as any workman earning 20s. a week, and probably more, because he apparently had more dealings with the vats full of poisonous liquors, .and he had to lean over them and deal with them in a manual way. The judge awarded the widow and child the maxi- mum of E". There is going to be an appeal, but I Should say the judge is right. If Mr. Bagnall had been A chemist engaged solely in research work and upon whom no duty fell to expose him- self to danger the result of the claim might well be different. The fact of his being a graduate goes for nothing. There will soon be more education in the workshop than the counting-house, in the kitchen than the parlour. I rely entirely on my domestic in matters of grammar, spelling, and arithmetic, and I would not dare attempt to pronounce a French word before her for fear of correction. I have no doubt that when Greek is driven out of the Universities it will find a warm welcome in the pantry. Seriously, though, there is much good in the broadest interpretation of the word "workman." We all want inclusion under the term. It is the most insufferable piece of arrogance for some people to desire to monopolise the term, from which has been evolved that modern panjandrum called, "The Worker." We want more graduates as workmen to help us back to the dignity and high status of labour. Half of them would be a lot better off with the benefits of Trades Unions and the Compensation Act than as unpensioned, disunited, and miserably paid teachers. Still, of course, they are too distinguished gentlemen to be called workmen!

STOP PRESS Lateat Telegrams. EXPRESS" OFFICE, 5,45 p.rn REPORTED DEXfH OF li AMD A AT A. ESHOWE; Tuesday. — A iiiolloi, cylist, who hns arrived here from Port Xollaud. says that it is reported there that Bambaata has died of his wounds.—Reuter. r TIITE-TABf. C. Ill '.be Kirg'r Rtnch to-d.nr Mi-s Lily )I:¡r;4- W?". d-ir.crhfit of Wenldstor.e iMiddleeex' Urban "tnct i • nmrsl. was a-'vard^d c'nnuisrM aij?iii = t Mr. Charles T. Farrier, aepi'tn.nt secretary to a firm of merchant-, for breach of promise of marriage. If was stated that the couple bad a pkee of cardboard rttlcd offinto 100 squares, and that plaintiff tore off a card every EUD- day by way of measuring the time to elapse before the happy day, BOWLING AT CARDIFF, Another Corporation howlins srresn was opened Tt Grange Gardene to-day. THE CAMBEJJLEY HORROR. The poli-re at Camberlpy have ;nf'(l the following notice:—"Wanted for Murdfr. Man. aged about 35, about 5ft- 7in. in height, red cheeks, thick neck, dark eyes, "bi-own cloth cap, cloth coat, appearance respectable working row, It i8 now be. lie-red that robbery wag not the motive of the murder, as jewellery belonging to the Misses Hogs was not touched. TI13 Surrey police authorities have asked the aid of Scotland Yard. The doctors gire hope* of Miss Hugg's recovery. LCyCOX FINANCE IX THE STRERT. Console 89, Ac con tit 89s, .Midland 6S|, Great Weet-ern 312, North Western 157, Bertha* 119, Great Northern 45g, Doras Berwick 141. British 4-1 j. Great Ex- tern 823, Atchison- 93g, Erie 47g, Union 1-55. Hudson Bays 85J, East Rand 4 £ ilodder 6s, &aad itifteg 6 a-16, Chartered 1J. Goldfields I",

PHENOMENAL HENS. A startling epidemic is cruising through the two hemispheres of the hen world. The epidemic consists of the appearance of woaderful eggs with numbers on them. At Thorpe le Soken, in Essex, the other day, a Minorca which hitherto had led a blame- less life produced am egg with the flgrjre 7 embossed on the shell. Another produced one with 9 on it; and now a third (the proud queen of a hennery at Newport) has laid an egg inches long! A well-informed natural history correspon- dent writes thM these are but trivial examples of what well-trained hens can do when they really try. He says that the educated hen first made her public appear- ance in the late 40's, when (during the earth- quake scares of February and March, 1849) a fowl laid two eggs on two successive days with the word BEWARE! printed on them. She lived at Edmonton, but she was hatched at Ware, when she was the property of a. poultryma.a named Benjamin Edwards. London, still trembling from the earth- quake, imagined that her two eggs came as a divine warning; and Londoners fled into the country by scores and hundreds. There was no cataclysm; no disruption of the world; and then it was discovered that the mvstic warning I BEWARE I could be read another way, thus: I B. E., WARE (the initials and the address of the faithful hen's former owner)!

SEQUEL TO A BREACH OF PROMISE At the London Bankruptcy-court yesterday the first meeting of creditors was held under the failure of Charles William Orlebar, milk carrier, of Lower Clapton, who was the delendatit in a recent breach of promise suit brought by Miss E. M. E. Pitt. Damages were given against him for L100 and costs, making a total of E142 lis. 6d. This is his total indebtedness. He has no available assets. There was no offer, and the case went into bankruptcy.

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IRISH GIRL'S LOVE. "A DON JUAN AMONG PRIESTS" A Prosecution for Annoyance. "Why, I would not hurt a hair of his dear head, which is no reflection on him, because he has not got any." (80 declared Gretta Crawford, a school- teacher, 26 years of age, of Burlipgton- gaidens, Acton, when charged at Willesden yesterday with threatening the Rev. Henry William Caeserley, priest in charge of the Harleston. Roman Catholic Church. The accused, while waiting for her case to be called, amused herself by making eketohes of the various occupants of the dock. She stated, when the case began, that her name waa Howard, Crawford having been assumed when Father Casserley wished her to represent herself as a widow, some years ago. Father Casserley said that eight years ago he was visiting chaplain at Sit. Mary's Hospital, and whilst there prisoner was brought in suffering from the effects of poison, self-admindstered. He took an interest in her case, a.nd got her off, and øiuoe that time she bad oonsrtantly annoyed him by letterB. Letter that Led to the Warrant. On Saturday he received the following from her, and ion that a. warrant was granted And to be wroth with one we love, Dooth work like madness in the brain. And so even my telegram, the money for which I had to borrow, you will not answer. Very welL I keep no oath to God or man. I have no one to disgrace. My mind is made up. I take poison. I go into your churoh. I shall clasp you tight when you won't know, a.nd neither Campbell, police, or Marshall will undo my clasp until I am broken in bits. So then my name and yours shall be linked for ever, and God will send you to hell with me, because you are the cause of my going there. I long for full exposure of my misery. Do your worse, you and your detectives. Anger between us is to me worse than Portland or hell. May thousands of curses rest on any woman you have ever caressed, or ever will. I will scream in your church, "False, perjured priest!" Yet one kind word, I forgive," will save you. I have run to the door at every sound. For weeks I have not slept or eaten. Curse you, and the day I was born. Sun- day is my birthday, and my death day also. I will be worthy of my royal namesake. The tragedy will make England ring. "Terribly Desperate and Reckless." I Father Casserley said that since Saturday he had received other open letters and poeU oards, on the envelope of one of which was written, I will be next; I am terribly desperate and reckless." On another postcard she said she was the priest's cousin. On yet another ,ehe wrote: "Cruel insulter of a woman who has been your friend for years. There shall be silence for a time, and then the awful thunder." The Magistrate: Will you promise to dis- continue this sort of thing? Prisoner: Yes, not because I am afraid, but I am sick of the miserable ooward. My sister is a, nun. I, too, stayed in Father Oaroerley's convent at Harlesden, and there I learned that he was a Don Juan among priests. All the women were mad about him. But he is my property," went on the prisoner triumphantly. He has had the best of my life. I was only eighteen when I attempted my life. Let him tell you why I did it." The Magistrate: You will be bound over in the sum of CZO to be of good behaviour for twelve months. Prisoner: I will do it no more.

I AFTER 34 YEARS. I Pengam Couple Separated. John Old, 56, collier, of Pengam, was charged at Oaerphilly Police-court to-day with deserting his wife, Ann, who now lives at Bargoed. Mr. T. J. Thomas prosecuted, amd said that prosecutrix was both blind amd hard of hear- iug--an assertion indignantly denied. The parties were married as far back as August, 1872, and there were six children. Prosecutrix alleged that she was ordered out of the house and persistently ill-treated, whilst the defendant denied in toto the allegations. Emma Jane Old, a twelve^year-old daughter, ignored the warning finger of her father, and aroused a. laugh by her emphatic replies to his sternly put questions. Mary Ann Old, an elder daughter, favoured the father in her evidence, and said that her mother had misoondueted herself a.ut seven years ago. Witoess now exposed the mother because she was prevented by prose- cutrix from going to service at Bristol. Joseph Bennett and defendant also gave evidence. The latter alleged that his wife was intemperate, and had once put him in gaol for debt. He had not ill-used her for fourteen years. In answer to Mr. Thomas's question as to whether he would take hi8 wife back, defen- dant bellowed, Leave her be where ehe is." Further questioned by the advocate, defen- dant grew impatient, and snapped, "You have no bugin,ess to say anything," and "That is nothing to do with yon," to which Mr. Thomas retorted, "That is for their worships to decide." The Bench made an order of separation, defendant to pay 12s. 6d. a week, the wife to have the custody of the child Emma. Jane. ■

PATHETIC INCIDENT IN A CHURCH) On Sunday evening, when the congregation of St. Illtyd's Church, Penygmig-wh-e curate is the Rev. C. Roach (who, as already reported, was seized with a fit of paralysis whilst in the pulpit at Bargoed)--aalembled for the usual service it was found that the vicar, who was due to conduct the service, had hastened with &11 speed to Bargoed. While in this dilemma, they yere invited to the Welsh Church, and a bilingual service was held, after which the Bev. J. Humphreys, the curate, announced what had occurred at Bargoed Church. The large congregation knelt spontaneously, and there was a dead silence until someone started singing "Drosooh Chwi B,wy'n Gweddio" ("For You I am Praying"). The effeot was electrifying. The hymn was repeated over and over, until it died away in the sobs of the congregation.

I KEEPING ONE'S INCOME SECRET. Mr. Gayler, an Inland Revenue official, I giving evidence before the Income-tax Com- mittee yesterday, admitted that as an indi- vidual he objected to telling what his Income was. Some years ago, when he had 9,400 a year, on which be could claim the abatement of £160, he paid the full tax rather than diacloee his income. He showed the difficulties that would arise in a direct assessment of all ineomaeo-e.g., in securing detailed returns from 40,000 public companies, obtaining information from bankers, serving forms on those living in chambers, on trustees, members of wealthy families, and those living in private houses. About 1000,000 such forms would be required. Sir H. Seymour King: At present a great many make a return only from their busi- ness?—Yes. Mr. Gayler did not think the punishment by fines of wealthy men for orasion would have the effect desired.

MAJOR LODER AMD THE ENTENTE CORDIALE. PARIS, Tuesday. The Figaro to-day publishes the follow. ing letter from Major Loder, the owner of Spearmint, winner of the Derby and the Grand Prix;- Will you have the kindness to thank the French sportsmen and the French public and press on my behalf? They received the victory of Spearmint in the Grand Prix de Paris in the most sportsmanlike way, and with enthusiasm so cordial that I cannot find words to express my pleasure. It will be a joy to me if the warm recep- tion we have met with here has the effect of encouraging French and British sports- men to visit each other more frequently in future, and I hope that sport will a £ d the entente cordiale to become stronger every day; in fact, it seems to me that it already resembles an entente amicable.

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I Explosives hi Court, I CAERPHILLY ALLEGED BURGLARY I Prisoner's Sensational Story. "Stand up, Wilson," commanded Deputy- chief-constable Giddinga at Caerphilly Police- court to-day, and a burly-looking man named Robert Wilson, of no fixed abode, described as a labourer, was charged with breaking and entering the Oaerphilly District Council offices, and stealing one safe handle. Mr. John Evans prosecuted, Police-constable Robert Roberts related that be heard footsteps near the King's Arms, Caerphilly, in the early hours of June 2, and saw a man dodgoe into a side street. Proceeding up the street, he noticed the window of the district council offices open, and he at once went to the police-station to acquaint Polioe-sergeant James Griffiths. The latter accompanied his subordinate to the spot, and the man was, arrested. Police-sergeant Griffiths took up the narrar tive, and told the court that the window was also broken. He clambered through aud found some drawers, deed boxes, and a cup- board open, but nothing seemed touched. In the room was a safe and the handle was broken off, whilst a piece of fuse, with some soap pressed round to make it airtight, was in the keyhole. Without knowing what was attached to the fuse the sergeant pluckily snatched the fuse away. He then left Roberts in charge and went for the inspec- tor. On returning he found Roberts holding prisoner, who objected to go to the police- station. When the police-station was reached prisoner was found to be I In Possession of Five Detonators a portion of a. fuse, a, broken table-knife, two keys, matches, candle, soap, pocket-book, and & disinfectant, as vii as the safe handle. Referring to the safe handle, prisoner, when charged, replied, I picked it up on the (street." On June 6 a locksmith forced open the safe, and a fuee as well as a detonator and some soap were found inside, whilst pieces of the shattered look were also found. The explosive^ and other articles were now produced, and were gingerly handled by the sergeant a.nd Mr. W. Ware, a magistrate. Mise Margaret Thomas, the cLeaner, deposed that &he visited the offices as late as ten p.m. on Friday, June 1, aDd the windows were then closed, and not broken. Mr. John Evans, solicitor, who is deputy- clerk of the council, also told the court that the room which was for his use, amd in which all busineea of the council is transacted, was all right when he left it at 12.30 p.m. on the Friday. On being charged in the dock, prisoner j handed in a long written statement, which in effect stated that on the night in question he went to the model lodging-house at which he was staying the worse for drink. He left there for work earlier than expected, as he initemded making some rabbit snares, and picked up the brass handle just before he was stopped by the constable. All the other articles found on him were either his own or for use at his- work. He had worked some years ago at the Bute Quarry, and then served in the Boer War, but being captured by the Boers had lost all his papers. Prisoner was committed for trial at the quarter sessions. —»

A Doctor's Reputation. SOME STRANGE COINCIDENCES. Two women, Charlotte Wray, 45, and her daughter Alice, charged with what was described by one counsel as a diabolical plot against a medical practitioner." were again before the magistrates at Kingston yesterday. The medical practitioner in question Is now stated to be Dr. Sully, of Claygtate. The mother :was accused of giving false in- formation to the registrar when registering the death of Alice Wray's illegitimate child last month, and the daught-er with giving false information at the registtration of the child's birth last March. The case aroused considerable interest. On February 18 last she gave birth to a child, which was registered with the local registrar in the name of Arthur Albert Max Sully"; and when the child died on May 8, Dr. Busfield (Dr. Sully's partner), who attended it. gave a death certificate in the same name. Dr. Sully's Christian name is Albert Max. He demurred at first, but acceded on being told that the father, who was abroad, had registered the child's birth in his own name in view of the I Couple's Intended Marriage. The vaccination notice, in the same name, was shown to Dr. Busfleld in confirmation of this story. Dr. Sully, a grey-haired gentleman with gold-rimmed spectacles, denied in the wit- ness-box the allegations of Alice Wray. He had never spoken to either woman since November 1902, when he refused to attend Alice Wray. Both women now stated that they had never accused the doctor of being the child's father. Alice added that the actual father was a Mr. Sully whose whereabouts she did not know. The Chairman: It is curious he should have the same name! Dr. Sully: And that the Christian names should be the same! Finally, the magistrates announced that they considered that an error of judgment rather than a deliberate crime had been committed, and fined the prisoners L2 each, or 21 days, with time allowed to pay.

I BELIEVED IN POLYGAMY. MR. SMOOT NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SENATE In his report giving tne reasons of the Senate Committee declaring that Mr. Smoot, of Utah, is not entitled to a. seat in, the Senate, the Chairman (Mr. Burrows) declared (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph ") that it was evident that Mr. Smoot, though not practising polygamy himself, really believed in it, and that the Mormon governing body, of which Mr. Smoot is an important member, has for several years past encouraged polygamous co-habi- tation in Utah and elsewhere." A sufficient number of specifio instances, says Mr. Burrows, of taking plural wives among officials of the Mormon Church since the monogamous manifesto in 1890 have been shown by the testimony to demonstrate that the twelve Mormon apostles" connive at the practice of taking plural wives. The final paragraph in the report is devoted to the I uath of vengeance I administered to those who go through the ceremony known as "taking the endowments." The committee says it was proved that the oath was administered and expressed sub- stantially in this form-- You and each of you do covenant and promise that you will pray and never cease to pray Almighty God to avenge the blood of the Mormon prophets upon this nation, and you will teach the same to your children and your children's children unto the third and fourth generations. There can be no question, declared the com- mittee, in regard to the taking of the oath of vengeance by Mr. Smoot. He testified that he went through the ceremony of taking the endowments in the year 1880, and the head of the Mormon Church Itated that the ceremony is now the same as it has always been. An obligation of this nature would seem wholly incompatible with the duty which Mr. Smoot, as a member of the United States Senate, would owe to the nation, and it is difficult to conceive how one could dis- charge the obligation which rests upon every Senator so to perform his official duties as to promote the welfare of the people of the United States and at the same time be calling down the vengeance of Heaven on this nation because of the killing of the founders of the Mormon Church 60 years ago. The minority presented a report declaring Mr. Smoot qualified to sit in the Senate.

I THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES. Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson's battleships and the cruisers representing the British fleet left Yarmouth this morning between nine and ten o'olook. The weather was fine. The twelve battleships went eastward to the open sea. The cruisers steamed south. The Clyde Shipping Company's tug Flying Fox has been chartered and stationed at the mouth of Oork Harbour to inspect and search all entering vessels. Shortly before noon the Admiralty wired to the defending fleet to be on the alert to repel the enemy's raiders. Immediately the defending ships at Portsmouth began to steam out of the harbour-battleships, destroyers, and submarines pouring out as ftWit as they could. It was a very exciting spectacle. Stpecdal precautions were taken against accident, eepeeiaUy to the sub- marines, which are being attended by aataMPB licbttta.

Nurses at Loggerheads A PRETTY DISPUTE AT CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. A special meeting of the workhouse visit- ing committee of the Cardiff Union was held at the workhouse at a late hour yesterday afternoon, Councillor F. J. Beavan presiding. The Chairman referred to a. matter on the agenda which he thought was only a strange misunderstanding between the superinten- dent of nurses, Miss Williams, and Miss Per- rin, one of the charge nurses at the work- house infirmary. Miss Perrin wrote com- plaining that she had applied to Miss Williams on the 11th of May for a testimonial, as she was applying for another situation. Miss Perrin had to forward her com- munication with only two testimonials. She had not received a testimonial from Miss Williams yet. On the 29th of May an operation was performed on one of Miss Perrin's patients, and the preparation of the patient was left entirely in her charge, and she saw the patient carried to the operating- room. Whilst the operation was being per- formed she was prevented from undertaking the important duties which were customary to the charge-nurse without any warning or complaint by Mies Williams, who asked another nurse, holding the same position as Miss Perrin, to undertake the duties. Miss Williams had also reported her (Miss Perrin) to the chairman for impertinence, but she denied that she had been impertinent, and considered she had been improperly treated. Mr. Brown: It seems to me that there are grounds for what Miss Perrin says. Both Miss Williams and Miss Perrin were called into the room, and the points in Miss Perrin's letter dealt with. Miss Perrin wanted to know what was Miss Williams's reason for not giving her a testimonial. Mies Williams said she had told Miss Perrin that she would consider the matter of the testimonial, but Miss Perrin did not tell her she wanted three to complete her application or the date of the same. She did not give her a testimonial as she did not employ the nurses, and she did not consider they had any legal claim on her for one. For herself she considered it was a favour. The Chairman: What had you in your mind when you said you would consider it? Miss Williams: Miss Perrin resents any- thing in the form of criticism, and on differ- ent occasions she became extremely angry and excited. At one time Miss Perrin attacked me on the staircase because I had reported her, and I was never in all my life spoken to in such a manner. Some little time after she asked me for a favour, but I said, "Before doing so you ought to offer me an apology," and then she bounced out of my office. Coming to the question of the operation, Miss Williams explained that it was the cus- tom to ask Dr. Timms what assistance he required. On that particular day she had omitted to do so until he was actually in the operating-room. When she got to the room she missed Miss Perrin, and. Dr. Timms stating that he would only want help for a minute or two, she replied that if that was so Miss Turner, who was then present, had better help him. Later on Miss Perrin came into the room, and seeing Miss Turner being employed, she asked Dr. Timms what part she was to take. She saw a change in Miss Perrin's face, and as the operation was a very important one, and it was no place for a scene, she told Miss Perrin she had better leave the room, as she wanted no dis- turbance. Miss Perrin said she had had the respon- sibility of the nursing of the patient, and she was very much hurt to find the charge taken out of her hands in the operating- room. The patient had been taken there by her ten minutes before the operation, and she had gone back to do up the bed and returned. Dr. Timms agreed with Miss Williams as to what happened. They gave the charge nurses the important position, and if Miss Perrin had stayed on she would have got the next important place to Dr. Samuel and himself. Mr. Brown said the whole thing remained that this arose because of Miss Perrin's absence for a moment. Miss Williams: If she had waited she would have been filling the important post. Miss Perrin: I don't admit that. Both ladies were then asked to withdraw, and the Chairman said he could not help thinking that it was nothing more than a matter of feeling. Several members thought that Miss Williams ought to have given Miss Perrin a testimonial. The Chairman said Miss Williams thought that Miss Perrin should have apologised to her for her conduct, but she had not done so yet. That was the reaeon Miss Williams had taken no notice of the application. The Rev. D. Davies: I think Miss William" has shown an absence of consideration. It was agreed that the matter should be left in the hands of the chairman and deputy-chairman to see both the ladies and explain the opinion of the committee.

I AN IMPOSTOR'S BLUNDER. Begging Letter to Mr. R. Cory The story of how a. notorious begging-letter impostor over-reached himself was told on Monday at Tower Bridge Police-court. Joseph Smith, alias Tom Hill, was charged with forging and uttering a letter purport- ing to have been written by the Rev. F. B. Meyer, pastor of Christ Church, Westminster Bridge-road. The letter was aaaressed to Mr. Richard Cory, and the police said that but for the accused's mistake in calling Mr. Meyer vicar," the fraud would have been successful. The letter was as follows:— Great Suffolk-street, Borough, May 9th, 1906.-Priva-te.-To Richard Cory, Esq., Oscar House, Cardiff, South Wales.-Bir,- I have opened only yesterday a coffee tavern and lodging-house for single young men. Mr. Thomas Spurgeon thinks it will be a success, and draw away from the public-house-a. curse to all. Kindly help us with 10s. 6d. to carry out our wishes. It is called The Nelson simply from the memory of Nelson, a true Christian; yes, like the late good General Gordon. Please do the needful for me to my secretary and manager, as per addressed envelope, and I will thank you.—Yours truly, F. B. Meyer, vicar, Christ Church, Westminster Bridge- road. When arrested the accused admitted the authorship of the letter. On him was found a list of prominent people, inoluding the Rev. S. Baring Gould. Mr. Meyer's private secretary said Mr. Meyer regretted having to charge the prisoner. They would rather save the man if they oould. The Magistrate: Save him all you can, but protect the public. The accused was remanded.

I THE CITY VACANCY. A meeting of the executive committee of the City of London Liberal Association was held to-day, under the presidency of Mr. Irving Courtenay, when amongst those pre- sent were Mr. R. K. Causton (Paymaster- General), Sir Samuel Montague, Mr. C. D. Rose, M.P., and Sir P. Nickalls. The meeting discussed the question of contesting the vacant seat, and adjourned without arriving at a definite conclusion. It is understood that the Liberals -.re awaiting the decision of the Court of Alder- men regarding Sir Marcus Samuel's Inde- pendent candidature. The court of aldermen met to-day and decided not to contest the city.

CORONERS' SALARIES INCREASED The Glamorgan County Finance Committee this morning recommended that the salaries of Mr. R. J. Rhys and Mr. E. B. Reeoe, the coroners for the northern and eastern districts respectively, be increased by JBM each, in view of the increased number of inquests held. Mr. Watts Morgan raised objection to inquests being conducted in unsuitable rooms in public-houses, and the Chairman remarked that after March next the law would be so altered that inquests could not be held in public-houses where other suitable places were available. It was decided that, in view of the coming change in the law, the sub-committee be asked to recommend whether any revision of the payment made for the use of rooms was necessary.

BARGOED FIRE BRIGADE'S SPORTS On the application of Mr. C. S. Goodfellow, a. temporary transfer of the Ffakaiach Inn, Trelewis, was granted at Caerphilly to-day from William Rees to Jdbn Roberts. Mr. Goodfellow also applied for an occa- sional licence on behalf of Mr. David Phillips, of the Hia-nbury Hotel, Bargoed, on the occa- sion of the Bargoed Fire Brigade sports, which will be held on July 23. Mr. Phillips, who is capt-ain of the brigade, told the bench that the sports were being organised to defray the expenses of an out ing for the brigade, and the Bench, finding no opposition, granted the request from one till seven p.m.

"ADTICE TO MOTHERS. "—Are you broken In your rest by » sick child suffering with the pain by cutting teetfc? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mra. Wiaslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor auflerer immediately. It J8 plaanmt to taato. It produca natural, quiet sleep by Miterta* tho child iron palfli and the little cherub awakoe as brlfbt u tattoo* en aU rtimlaU. 1A. Itf. mr tattte, HM <

Allowances to Sisters. r f ————— —————' CARDIFF OPTI,CIAN'S FAILURE. Ernest Respin SooÜ. a well-dressed young man, told the Cardiff Official Receiver to-day that when his father died he took over his business as an optician in Castle Arcade. According to the will, he was to take the business and pay his two sisters zEl a week each out of it. Whether the business was solvent at that time he could not say with certainty, or even whether it was capable of maintaining him and these payments to his sisters. When he took it over he con- tinued it just as it was," without making any valuation or any investiga-tion as to its solvency. He drew about 30s. a week for his own benefit, and later found he could not keep up the allowances to his sisters. He had now bean in arrears with his rent for some time. He was a married man. The examination was closed.

Conspiracy in Egypt, 75 NATIVE OFFICERS CASHIERED. Seventy-five native officers of the Egyptian Army have been cashiered (says the Cairo correspondent of the Daily Express"). This decision is the result of a meeting of the Council of Ministers, at which the Akabah incident was under review. It is now clear that a widespread con- spiracy was being fomented by officers of the Egyptian. Army at the time there was a pro- spect of hostilities between Great Britain and Turkey. The success of the British ultimatum to the Sultan, coupled with the military and naval activities of Great Britain and the present sweeping action of the Ministers in punish- ing seditious officers, has had an excellent effect in re-eetaWiehing British prestige in Egypt.

"No Sleep-On Fire." SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC. William Richard Durham, 42, a compositor, of Bickerton-road, Holloway, failed in busi- ness some time ago. He attempted suicide by hanging, but was cut down and placed under restraint. Latterly he had been in better health. On Thursday he called on an old friend at Dresden-road, Hornsey, alnd is said to have made a sudden attack upon him, afterwards running out of the house. Next day deceased was found in the front garden of an empty house at Beaumont-road, Hornsey, having thrown himself from the top floor window. The doctor said deceased had first cut his throat, both wrists, and thighs, i There were traces of blood in every room, showing that deceased must have wandered about before he leapt into the street. On the floor of the top room was a large cross, marked in blood, and many slips of paper, upon jiihich were written abrupt messages. One ran: Dear Fannie,-I posted you a letter about Jack, dear old man. We had such a. row last evening. No sleep—on fire. My ears are bad. I am going dotty, I believe. Do enjoy your holiday as long as you like. Suicide during temporary insanity" wae the verdict.

ANOTHER M.P. RESIGNS. Colonel the Hon. H. Legge has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and thus vaoated his seat as representative of St. George's, Han- over-square. A meeting of the Conservative Association of the constituency was held on Monday to consider the selection of a candidate. Mr. Alfred Lyttelton addressed the meeting, and was afterwards unanimously adopted as the Conservative candidate for the vacancy. At the general election Colonel Legge had a majority of 2,073, the figures being:— Colonel the Hon. H. Legge (C.) 4,264 Mr. M. C. Mallik (R.) 2,191 Conservative majority 2,073 The electorate numbers 9,359. In 1892 and 1895 the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen (C.) was returned unopposed, and in 1900 the poll was:—Hon. S. H. Legge (C.), 3,852; Mr. W. Everitt (R.), I,VB--Oouservative majority, 2,574.

LORD SHREWSBURY AND HIS WIFE. Mr. Justice Kekewich, in the Chancery Division to-day, made an order that Lord Shrewsbury should provide during the residence of the countess at Alton Towers such plate as was provided from 1896 to 1900, and directed Lord Shrewsbury to pay the costs of the application.

SAVED FROM FIRE AND WATER A Lloyd's Valparaiso message states that the following are the names of the saved from the British barque Pitcairn Island, Wellington for London, previously reported lost by fire at 800 :-Williama, Clark, Lam- bert, Waddilove, Oberlin, Selene, Lunden, Anderson, iuanuen, jiaywara, captain, and second officer. I

STRANGE SCENES AT A THEATRE I In connection with Miss Ellen. Terry's jubilee matinee at Drury-lane Theatre to- day, people who had begun to assemble yes- terday morning outside the pit, amphi- theatre, and gallery doors, overflowed in-too, the roadway at one o'clock this morning. The scene then was one of the liveliest animation. Messenger boys who had been engaged to reserve place:- were provided with camp stools, whilst boxes, folding chairs, and other seats were on. hire. During the morn- ing the waiting throng played cards or slept, and with the break of day coffee and tea were served. About four o'clock Mr. Arthur Collins, Mr. Fred Terry, Mr. Hayden Coffin, and other well-known gentlemen. visited the theatre, and Mr. Terry procured refreshments for some ladies seated outside the gallery entrance. At five o'clock laite arrivals offered from 5s. to 10B. for places which had been held during the night, but an hour later two guineas were paid for two places somewhat removed from the amphitheatre.

TEMPERANCE MISSION IN GRANGE I The first of a series of open-air meetings took place on Monday evening at Holmesdale- square, Grangetown, when Mr. Samuel Stan- ton, of the Interna-tional Order of Good Templars, Grand Lodge Agent, addressed a large audience of working men, who soon became deeply interested in the subject of temperance so forcibly dealt with by the speaker. At tho close several questions were replied to by Mr. Stanton to the evident satisfac- tion of the audience. The Rev. Tertius Phillipe gave an introductory address, which was much appreciated, and Mr. Williams gave a solo.

PONTYCYMMER- MUSIC FESTIVAL I The music festival of the Welsh Congrega- tionalists of the Garw Valley, was held at the Tabernacle Chapel, Pontycymmer, on Monday. The singing, conducted by Mr. Madoc Davies, London, was of a very high order and betokened ample preparation by the respective choirs. The congregations were targe.

THE FEMALE TEMPER. Smiles, Xind words And looks characterise the woman who usea Hudson's Soap, and in her home peace and jove have their dwelling. A penny packet, will prove tills. Hudson's always deaI8 GENTLY with the Unoa, but RARMLV with ttu dirt." 11181

Weird Swansea Story. I BLIND LAD AND ALLEGED WOULD-BE SUICIDE. This morning a woman, named Iangan, aged 45, of 9, Odo-street, Hafod, Swansea, was oonveyed to the Swansea Hospital suffering from the effects of oarbolio acid, said to have been self-administered during the pre- oeding night. The woman was a lodger at tihe address mentioned, her husband being at present in America, and she had two chil- dren living with her at Swansea. During last night a blind lad, who lived in the same house, eon of the landlord, named Sharland, had his attention attracted to the woman's bedroom, and found her in a oteite of collapse, being a strong smell of car- bolic acid, in the room. The police were called to the house, and discovered a bottle under her pillow. A doctor was called in, and he ordered her removal to the hospital. Her landlord states that she is a very quiet, industrious woman.

Good News for Cwmavon I NEW WORKS TO BE ESTABLISHED. j A couple of months ago considerable public interest was evoked by the report that the Sulphide Corporation of Broken Hill and the Zinc Corporation of Australia, were nego- tiating for a site for works near Skewen. Since that time (writes our Port Talbot representative) negotiations have been in progress between the companies named and Messrs. Baldwin, Limited, for the latter's works at Cwmavon. It is now understood negotiations have been completed, aind that the Australian companies have taken the Cwmavon Works. Cwmavon has of recent years received severe industrial shocks, the last being the removal of the Rio Tinto Works to Port Talbot. To-day's good news will be hailed with delight. This new industry will mean a weekly increase in the shipments tut Port Talbot Docks of fram 3,000 to 4,000 tons.

EXECUTION HORROR I MAN FIFTEEN MINUTES IN DYING. I The body of a man dangling from a pro- jecting stone over the gateway of the Vene- tian castle called the Castraki has, writes the Mytilene correspondent of the Daily Mail" on May 31, been an object of curiosity. The Turkish warders here hanged the man, a Greek. He was condemned to imprison- ment for life for murder seven years ago, and orders came suddenly from Constanti- nople that he was to be hanged. Warders entered his cell at half-past eleven last night and aroused him, telling him that he was to be sent to Rhodes. He was shaved and given a suit of clothes, and hurried down to Castraki, which is by the water's edge. Here a Greek priest was standing. Catching sight of him, the prisoner realised for what pur- pose he had been brought there. Drawing himself up, he roughly refused to listen to the priest, and bade his gaolers accomplish their task. His hands were bound and the rope passed round his neck and over the projecting stone. Dawn was ju&t breaking when the rope, nearly an inch thick, was tightened, and he was lifted into mid-air. The knot had been badly tied, and for fifteen minutes the mur- derer struggled convulsively before death released him. The priest fainted at the sight, and was carried away bt the guards.

A MOTHER'S DESPAIR. I A distressing case came before Mr. Bag- gallay at Greenwich yesterday, Lucy Lewis, aged 40, a widow, of Edward-street, Dept- ford, being charged with attempting to murder her two children, William Alfred, aged seven, and Violet, aged two, by drown. ing, and further with attempting suicide. The accused woman seemed to feel her posi- tion acutely. It is alleged that the woman late on Saturday night was seen to jump into the Grand Surrey Canal near Blackhorse Bridge, Deptford, dragging the two children with her into the water. When taken to the police-station the wom&n said that after staying two hours at the house of her sister-in-law she went straight to the "and I took the baby in my arms and took hold of Willie's hand and purposely fell in. I told my sister-in- ilaw I was going to drown myself and chil- dreu, as I had a lot of trouble and no one to help me." The woma.n was remanded.

I GLAMORGAN BORROWING. At Glamorgan County Council Finance Committee to-day, the Chairman (Alderman T. J. Hughes) explained the proposal to acquire power to borrow £ 150,000 as capital expenditure on main reads improvements, in order that the burden of repayment should not fall exclusively on present day rate- payers. There were already improvements in contemplation, estimated to cost X25,932, of which X16,000 represented the cost of widening the main road from Cardiff to Pontypridd. It was decided to recommend the council to borrow the sum of C25,932 as soon as the plans are completed.

GLAMORGAN LUNACY. There are 1,369 patients (767 males and 602 females) at Glamorgan County Asylum, an increase of 61 on the year, leaving accommo- dation for 78 more. The tuberculosis death-rote has dropped from 24 to 10 per cent. The committee propose to spend L13,000 on recon- structions at Angeltown. The maintenance charge for the last quarter was 8s. Zd. per head per week.

PENARTH MARINER'S WILL The will of the late Mr. Andrew Black, 13, Plymouth-road, Penarth, master mariner, who died on May 11 last, has been proved by his executrixes, Mrs. Grace Black and Miss Grace Agnes Black, the widow and daughter, the groes value of the estate being E2,046 4s. 7d., and net personalty LI,842 7a.

ELECTED SEVEN TIMES. Alderman T. J. Hughes, of Bridgend, was, for the seventh time, elected chairman of the Glamorgan County Finance Committee at its meeting to-day.

"PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE," says Shakeapeue, and you do this, and more, by using ZNGLANIYS GLORY MATCHES. They are the Beet, most Bell- able, and Economical matches made, and you put money in the purse" ot British Artisan*, too; and that, surely, should count. Made at England'. Glory" Match Works, Gloucester. e224»—5 Is it becoming to me?" she asked, as she paraded in the costume of one hundred years ago, before the man who is not her lord and master, but is her husband. "Yes. my dear," said he, meekly. Don't yon wish I could diress this way all the time?" she asked. No, my dear," he replied; but I wish you bad lived when tLat was the style."

400 KILLED. ZULUS' LOSSES IN THE LAst., FIGHT. DU-BBAN, Tuesday. The total losses of the enemy in the battle with Colonel Mackenzie's fcrce on Sunday, exceeded four hundred. WITH COLONEL MACKENZIE'S FORCE, Monday. The report that Lieutenant Marsden, of Royston's Horse, who was wounded in the fighting in the Mome Valley, had succumbed is incorrect. The officer is lying in a critical condition at CL-tewayole tomb. The report was sent officially from Mome Valley.- Reuter. FORTY KILLED IN TREES WITH COLONEL MACKENZIE, Tuesday. Yesterday's work was an exhausting strain on the troope, the majority of whom marched for 20 hours, and returned into laager dead beat. Mamy horsemen put up their tired-out companions on their mounts, while ambu- lances and wagons were sent to pick up others. The Durban Light Infantry a.nd Nonquais compelled a large force of rebels j to shelter in the bush, which was driven with such good results that the enemy lost 160 killed. Their total loss was over 400. The enemy climbed trees and threw their assegais straight down at the troops. Over 40 of them were efuot in the trees. Darkness put an end to the drive. Another hour of daylight would have sufficed to complete the work.-PresI; Asso- ciation Special.

ESCAPED PRISONER Traced by His Sandwiches. Plihon, the young Frenchman who escaped from Guernsey Gaol whilst he was, awaiting trial on a charge of murder, was recaptured at Lancresee yesterday evening, after five days' liberty. He had made pre-j partitions for an attempt to leave the island during the night in one of the fishing boats. and somo sandwiches prepared for him afforded the clue by which the police die- covered his whereabouts. Plihon's knowledge of carpentry and experi- ence gained in the fishing industry were of service to him on Thursday, when he broke away the lock of hie cell door and made rope of strips of prison quilt; and his knowledge of handling a. boat would have assisted him in getting away if he had eluded the police yesterday. The constables who were searching tbe houses on the edge of Lancresse-coinmon found the sandwiches, and suspected that' Plihon was near. They entered one of the cottages, and found bim hiding under the roof. When caught Plihon stabbed himself in the body with a knife. Hia wounds, however, were slight, but he received a blow on the head which caused a. flow of blood. The man and woman who harboured Plihon were also taken to prison, and there r.-m now four under arreet on charges of having assisted the alleged murderer.

SUICIDE'S FINGER-PRINTS. A curious case, which proves the value of the finger-print system, was heard at an inquest at Birmingham yesterday. The body of a man, with the throat out from ear to ear, was found in a coffee-house in Smollhrook-street, on Friday. Detective. constable Parrack found that the man. who had £ 3 15s. in his possession, was wear. ing buttons marked "Pentonville." From the way in which the skin of the man's halnds was chafed the detective deduced tha-t he had been employed in making mats or mailbags. Accordingly he photographed th. body and took finger-prints, communicatini his results to Scotland Yard. A reply came stating that the deceased was a discharged convict, named George Tranter, and a verdict of "Suicide, therg being no evidence to dhow the state ol deceased's mind," was returned. This is the first time that the finger-prim system has been put into practical use ai Birmingham.

LORDLY MOTORIST LASHED. Robert Leonard Powell, of Chialehurst, was ftned 40s. and costs sA, Br-omley, Kent, yes- terday, for hav-ing assaulted Viscount Royston on May 13 near Bromley. It was stated that whilst his lordship was motoring with Miss Heron-Maxwell, daughter of Sir John Heron.Maxwell, Bart., they met the defendant driving a ooach and four. As the car went by Mr. Powell cut with his heavy whip a.t Lord Royston, the lash falling on the peak of his cap and his face. The defendant stated Lord Royston drove on the wrong side of the road within 6in. of his two leaders, and then swerved right across. He had meant to hit the chauffeur. not the plaintiff. He admitted having told Lord Royston that if such a thing occurred again he would get down from the ooaoh and do something worse." He had previously hit at a. motorist, but had missed him.

PAY" SATURDAY AT ABER Wynne Hulme, landlord of the Panteg Hotel, Abertridwr, was summoned at Caerphilly to-day for permitting drunken- ness. Mr. C. S. Goodfellow defended. Police-constable Saxa Evans gave evidence as to what he found in the house at 10.50 p.m. on the 26th ult. The landlord said he had three men to walk round the place, and could not account for the man escaping detection. Mr. Goodfellow made an eloquent appeal for leniency, and said that only recently the Landlords had been changed. It was "pay Saturday," and, as their worships knew, hotels in such districts were hard to manage on those days. Fined L5 and costs, or a month. Thomas Edwards, for being drunk on the premises, was fined 10s., or seven days.

FACTORY LIFE AND SUICIDE. Female suicide in Germany is increasing at an alarming rate, according to an American Consular report. It is suggested that the cause is the increased activity shown by women in indus- trial pursuits. In 1901 the number of male suicide in Germany was 9,451, and of females 2,385. In 1904 the male suicides totalled 9,704, while the female suicides had risen to 2,764, a. proportional increase five times as great, Saxony, one of the principal manufacture ing districts, shows the greatest number ol female suicides.

MISGUIDED POLICE ZEAL. The Erfurt police have sentenced a work man to a fine of five marks or one day's imprisonment because on May Day he allowed his dog to run about the streets decorated with a red hat, which created a sensation among the public, thus constituting a gross misdemeanour." The Berlin papers recommend the police to devote their attention to the preventiou of crime and the discovery of criminals. rather than occupy themselves with punish- ing workmen for wearing red neckties, or playing silly pranks such as the above.

I Y,34 10s. FOR A PENNY. Some high prices for early British pennies were obtained at Sotheby's rooms yesterday at the sale of a collection of coins formed by an astronomer recently deceased. A penny of Cynethrith, widow of Offa, the first English coin to bear the portrait of a. woman, made 10a.; one of Baldred, King of Kent, went for JE23 15s.; And one of his predecessor, Cuthred, was knocked down for fir¡ Sa.

I THE HEBBURN BAND. The tour of the Hebburn Colliery Bram Band commenced on Monday at Aberdare in the Market-tall. The band on Thursday II evening, a/fter the close of the Corpus Christi service at Cardiff Castle, will playa. choice selection of music in Sophia Gardens in aid of the St. David's Building Fund.

STRANDED LINER FLOATED. NEW YORK, Tuesday. A telegram from Oape May reports that the liner Westernland, wbioh, with nearly 1,000 passengers on board, yesterday went ashore on Somers Shoa-1, was safely re- floated at midnight.—Central News.

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DEPRESSION AT MAESTEG. I "Through depression at Maesteg, I was unable to realise the houses built by me." This was the cause of his failure alleged at Cardiff Bankruptcy Court to-day by Thomas Evan Thomas, originally a mason, but who became a speculative builder at 3Caesteg in 1902. His deficiency was XZ29 19B. ld. He admitted, however, that in August of laet year he found himself in such difficulties that if his property sold at its best he could not pay more than 10s. in the L. After this he obtained no goods on credit, although he could have had goods from his creditors. The Official Reoeiver: You mean that your creditors, knowing you could not pay your debts were pressing you to take their goods, and you were resisting temptation I (Laughter.) The examination was closed.

"MOST INIQUITOUS." I Glamorgan county accountant (Mr. R. Fisher), reporting to the finance committee to-day, declared the regulations of the Board of Education for special grants in aid of districts where the education rate is above Is. 6d. in the £ were so constituted as to appear the most iniquitous proposal during recent years in dealing with the distribution of Parliamentary grants." The "iniquity" arose, Mr. Fisher explained, from the inequalities caused by the separate charging of each parish for loans and capital expen- diture. The Chairman explained that Glamorgan was harder hit than any other county. Over the whole area the rate was not above Is. 6d., but some parishes were as high as is.. and these oould not claim relief. It was resolved to send a strong protest to the Board of Education.