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Aberystwyth Council I I UNSEEMLY SCENES IN THE CHAMBER I At a meeting of the Aberystwyth Town I Council, the mayor (Mr. C. M. Williams) pre- siding, the deliberations were, as usual, characterised by some very angry scenes. The Town-clerk reported that, in accord- ance with instructions, he had delivered the defence in the action which was being brought against the corporation by Mr. David Phillips. Alderman Peter Jones accused the mayor of dastardly conduct, and of having betrayed the council in complaining to the town-clerk of certain proceedings he had ta.ken in the master. The Mayor said he had only asked the town-clerk whether the action had been dropped. Mr. J. Gibson: But it is a fact that you had information from the other side. The Mayor denied the accusation, and said he had been faithful to the interests of the ratepayers. The Town-clerk also reported that the application by the council for a writ of prohibition in the rate appeals instituted by the mayor had been granted by the High Court, on the ground that the mayor had not entered into the necessary recognisances for the costs. This would prohibit the deferred decision in the appeal being given at the next quarter sessions. The judge ordered each party to pay its own costs. Mr. I. Hopkins: We are not the gainers, a fter all. Mr. J. Gibson: I suppose the mayor will pay his costs out of the sadary we pay him, so that the ratepayers will have to pay the whole. Mr. J. T. Da vies: The mayor's salary has no-thing to do with the matter. The Mayor said the last had not been heard of this yet. Mr. J. Gibson: Dear me! Are you going on with it? A deputation of fishermen waited upon the council with a request that they should be exempted from the regulation's recently passed to prohibit street-hawking in every shape and form. No resolution was passed, but the Mayor .-aid it would be open for any member to bring the matter up at the next meeting. Mr. T. J. Samuel, chairman of the ftnanoe committee, moved that a. general district rate of 2s. 6d. and a water "rate of 6d. in the £ be made for the current half-year, thds being a reduction of 3d. upon the rates for the preceding half-year. While Mr. Samuel was explaining the estimates Mr. J. Gibson complained of inter- ruptions by the mayor. The Mayor: But I must correct mi&- statements. Mr. J. Gibson: Why don't you get out of the chair? Get out of itt The Mayor: You are too impudent to be noticed. Mr. J. Gibson: What aOOult your vile spirit? The Mayor: I thifnk I show a, very good spirit, or some of you would have been removed long ago. Mr. J. Gibson: Try the removal. The Mayor: Yes; I shall have no hesita- tion when I go about it. Mr. J. Gibson: Loud laughter. The Mayor: The other day a young man of the same name as yourself was removed in Glasgow, and I shall have no hesitation once I begin. Mr. J. Gibson: After loW interruptions by the mayor, Mr. Saniued resumed. Mr. Samuel ref-erred to an anonymous circular distributed about the town dealing with the corporation finances. Mr. J. Gibean: The man who issued that statement was a.n arrant, coward. Mr. F. Morgan: And a liar. Matters grew more heated as the discussion contintued, and JEr. J. Gibson said the mayor was not catoble of conducting the meeting. The Mayor said he would defy anyone to conduct the meeting with such members- as he had to rule. Mr. J. Gibson: I could find someone in Carmarthen Luma/tic Asylum who would do it better than you. The Mayor said if some of the members visited that institution, as he dad, he feared t.hey would never come back again. Mr. J. Gibson: You are supposed to be con- ducting the meeting, amd you are for ever jawing. The Mayor: And yon are jawing amd inter- rupting &11 the ttme. Eventually the rates as recommended by Pb-a flgwwift .committee were adopted. i <

The Man in the Street -r The re-opening of the out-patients' department of the Cardiff Infirmary yes- terday was made remarkable by another example of Mr. John Cory's munificence. The new wing, to be opened in two years', time, will, it is estimated, cost another £7,000 a year for maintenance. Mr. Cory has offered £2,000 for the first year if the public will see that the re- maining £.5,000 is raised. No doubt, the public will rise to the occasion and provide much more than this in its zeal for so good a cause. The infirmary is growing with the city it serves, and, recognising its good work, the people should be only too glad to support it pro- perly. If anything, the infirmary is called upon to serve too large a district. The wealth of the Rhondda and the Rhymney Valleys should make full depen- dence upon Cardiff unnecessary. Hos- pitals are badly needed in both those districts. It is also unfair, not to say cruel, on the sufferers who meet with accidents in the mines to have to take them all the way to the city. They ought to be able to find skilled attention nearer home. The destruction of £20,000 worth of his pictures by M. Claude Monet, the great French impressionist paint-er, because he did not consider them worthy of him, has caused a sensation in art circles. But he is by no means the first artist to make such a sacrifice. Bou- guereau, Tissot, Mfllais, and many another great 'artist has, for the same reason, destroyed or left incomplete the fruit of years of work. Mr. Holman Hunt once said, "Over a.nd over again I have put aside the fruits of six months' labour." After spending seven years on The Triumph of the Innocents," he calmly set to work to paint it all over again; and once he destroyed his entire set of preliminary studies for "The Shadow of Death," the result of many months of hard work. hen his "Hamlet and Ophelia" was rejected at the Royal Academy, Mr. Briton Riviere said, "I was so disgusted with it that I tore it into strips and watched it dis- appear in the flames"; and his "Girl Under the Sea," from "Lalla Rookh," shared the same fate, with many other disappointing canvases. It is, in a way, consoling to know that cart-wheel hats are to be succeeded by coal scuttle bonnets. That is not to say that the new headgear for ladies is to take the shape of the receptacles which do duty in most drawing rooms of the present civilisation. These polished articles of walnut wood do not lend themselves easily to the milliners' art, nor to the oval faces of pretty women. The new bonnet is to be something like the old-fashioned scuttle with which our grandmothers used to replenish the kitchen fire. They are similar to those worn in the days when the late Queen came to the throne, and like those which have made Salvation Army lasses the prettiest of their sex throughout the country. It is also the headgear of Quaker ladies, and by common consent it is very becoming. The only thing that the ordinary man is afraid of is that the new bonnet may develop too much, and it is hoped, by the younger generation certainly, that the sides will not be so pronounced as to make oscula- tory exercises difficult. At last, it seems, the mails are to cross the Atlantic direct, and though the pro- posed change will be only in the nature of an experiment it may have far-reach- ing effects. No one out of Ireland seems to know why the journey in and out should be delayed by calls at Queens- town, unless it is the prestige granted to custom. Anyhow, it is stated in Liverpool that the advantages claimed for a direct service between that port and New York are to be put to a prac- tical test. The Cunard Company will run their leviathan, the Mauretania, across on an experimental trip without putting into Cork Harbour. The liner leaves the Mersey on Wednesday, May 27, and, given favourable conditions, may reach New York the following Monday night. It is anticipated that if this voyage comes up to expectations arrangements will be made with the Government to drop Queenstown as a calling-point for the mail service. And after this it is possible some consideration will be given to the desirability of saving another day, or the best part of it, by using Fish- guard as Liverpool's successor. The Territorial Army will have justi- fied its existence, so far as Cardiff is concerned, if it becomes the medium of providing the city with a really good public-hall. The need of a place to hold gatherings up to 10,000 people has been evidenced on more than one occasion, and a city that boasts the Chancellor of the Exchequer as one of its freemen should be better off in this respect. The Property and Markets Committee yes- terday received the suggestion of the Glamorgan County Association to pro- vide such a hall with considerable favour. Cathays Park is not an ideal site, per- haps, for a public-hall that is to be for the convenience of the entire city. But, while it would be difficult to select as good a spot elsewhere., it is about the best possible site for the local units of the Territorial Army. All things con- sidered, it would be a good 'thing for Cardiff, and it is to be hoped there will be as little* delay as possible in getting on with the sc heme. The competition among the councils of the Principality to possess the noisiest bear garden appears to be a hopeless affair. Aberystwyth displays the posses- sion of resources which make the efforts of the other authorities look exceedingly small. A council that possesses an alder- man who can accuse the mayor of dastardly conduct and of betraying his fellow-members must be acknowledged to be supreme in this line, to say nothing of the attacks which come from ordinary councillors. The attempts made in other parts of Wales only look puny in com- parison, and possibly serve as spurs to urge the seaside men on to doughtier deeds. The terms "coward" and "liar" are all too frequent, and the References made to the Carmarthen Lunatic Asylum seem to bear hardly upon an unfortu- nate and inoffensive part of the com- munity. It is difficult to imagine even the inmates of omental hospital demean- ing themselves to extent that the Aberystwyth Council habitually descends, and the only thing to do is to leave them in unquestioned possession of the .field.-

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 ROMANCE OF WELSH MINING LIFE Prominent Personalities of the Pit BY THOMAS RICHARDS, M.P. (Secretary of the Welsh Miners' Federation.) I 19—THE WOMEN OF GARW WHO ROUTED THE DOCTOR SOME I NOTABLE CHARACTERS. The flight of the Amazons of the suffragette cause from Cardiff, Pontypridd, and other places in these days, consequent- upon the bitter hostility that has been aroused against them by Miss Moloney's bell-ringing performance during the Dundee election, reminds me of the battle once fought and won in the Garw Valley by the wives and daughters of the miners of the Ffaldau Collieries. The management of the collieries had appointed a doctor for their workmen and families in the very general, high- handed manner exercised in those days, when employers were not satisfied with having the labour of the miner at the colliery as a means to secure a return on his capital, but after, or even before, paying him the wages, very hardly earned, sought to make a further profit upon the house he lived in, the food necessary for the existence of himself and family, dictated to him his shade of politics and religious creed, and, in this particular instance, his medical atten- dant and drugs in case of illness or accident either to himself or family; while, at the same time, compelling him to pay for them by deducting the cost from his wages. Having very little power of organisa- ti-on, although the workmen resented this treatment very strongly, they had little hope of being able to successfully oppose it, and the company-appointed1 doctor was installed in his position of having his salary secured for him at the colliery offices, while he either treated seriously or, as was too often the case in similar appointments, as imaginary, many of the complaints and illnesses of the workmen or his family in which his services were requisitioned, doing, pos- sibly, as was once done by a colliery doctor in the village in which I live. Collier-Dispenser I This last-named doctor engaged an old collier to fill the positions of groom, butler, coachman, gardener, and handy man generally about the house. The man displayed a very commendable j aptitude in the performance of the multiplicity of his duties, and it occurred to this ingenious doctor that with a little training he might act as dispenser in his surgery and enable him to dispense j with the qualified assistant stipulated: for in the terms of his contract. John Evans, who had worked in the pit for 40 years, was called in to the surgery and given his instructions. Bottles numbered one, two, and three were prepared i with mixtures of Epsom salts, jalap, magnesia, &c., and the doctor went his rounds, leaving his Latin prescriptions; with his patients suffering with broken legs, bronchitis, nystagmus, tubercu- losis, tonsilitis, and various other "ites," and the members af the families going to the surgery where the old collier, after a careful perusal of the variety of Latin prescriptions presented to him, found no difficulty in filling their bottles with the necessary (?) mixture. But John one day in jovial company revealed the manner in which he was able to read the language of the pro- fession by stating that all he had to do was to look for the No. 1, 2, or 3 found in the corner of every pre- scription, and serve the medicine from the bottle with the corresponding number. It is scarcely necessary to add that even the colliery company were unable after it became known to keep John Evans, collier, behind the surgery counter, and he was soon relegated to the duties of attending to his horse again. I do not know that the Ffaldau workmen's experiences were in any degree similar to this; but their wives and daughters upon the occasion of the appointment I have referred to made up their mindls that if their husbands and fathers had failed to protect them they would use their own powers of self preservation. Large demonstrations of women and protest meetings near the residence of the unfortunate doctor became the order of the day. A number of county policemen sought to intervene, but, being too gallant to offer physical resistance, were put to rout, the battle ending in the complete victory of the Garw women without their silvery tongues having the: assistance of the brazen tortes of the tongue depended upon by Miss Moloney; and The Exit of the Doctor I from the valley was hurried and I permanent. The colliery doctor is still a prominent personality of the pit and pit village life, and his peace of mind is even now very largely dependent upon the suffrage or sufferance of the women folk. Mrs. Richards, the leader in the memorable fuz-ht at the Ffaldau, is still actively engaged as a member of the board of guardians in attending to the welfare of her sex. I have no doubt that in this fight, as in all others for at least twenty years at the Ffaldau Collieries, William Davies, checkweigher (Billy Bach), was found encouraging the women in the task they had undertaken. A cursory glance at Billy's watch chain with its various appendages in the form of medals, would lead a stranger to ask what was his regiment, and in what engagements on the battlefield he had won them, but upon a second glance his stature would at once dismiss the idea of his ever having marched with the troops. Further inquiries would elicit the information that the medals had not been won by Billy, but by the fowls he had reared and exhibited at various shows, and as if to vindicate his lack of riches Billy's chief victories have been secured by Bantams, which, like Biliy himself, have been able to hold their own against all comers. A Fearless Advocate I In the days of the agitation against the Sliding-scale scarcely a man through- out the coalfield was more actively engaged than John Morgan, then check- weigher at the Ffaldau Collieries, who has since been overtaken by one of the greatest- calamities that the human race l are subject to, that of total blindness. In consequence of his strong opinions j and fearless advocacy, John was oftenj found in opposition to the powers that I be; but I shall be glad for him to know! now, in his days of darkness, that wo I have very kindly remembrances of his j disinterested, honest service to the cause fit tbe W ales- saiaers, L siiioereijJ trust that the Garw miners are taking care that the little business he depends upon for a living is kept in a flourishing condition. Let all those who read these lines go to the shop next week, and let John know that his past services are not forgotten. The gentleman known as the non- Unionist in the South Wales collieries, like the tramping fraternity, gets to knoy the collieries where he is likely to be able to oaiolo the officials by various excuses for not paying his contributioos to the Federation until his next opportunity for flitling comes, but after one experience in trying his hand upon William Davies, checkweigher and secretary of the Ocean Colliery. Blaengarw, he arrives at the conclusion that a second application of his devices would result in failure. William stands no nonsense. His one reply to all and sundry is- I pay; the other men pay. You reap the same benefit; you must pay, and there is no more to be said. I wonder whether Sam Harris, over- man at the Ffaldau Collieries, has for- gotten his tramp over the mountain to attend the miners' conference at Aberdare as delegate for the Ffaldau workmen. In those days to get to Aberdaro by train in time for the conference it was necessary to start the night before, but Sam upon this occasion having determined to walk from the Garw to Aberdare, with his safety lamp alight in his hand, com- menced the journey over the mountain at Blaengarw about two o'clock on the morning of th0 day the conference was to be held. After many hours' walking, he descended the hill, and made for what he expected to be the town of Aberdare, but upon his arrival found it to be Neath. Sam was not to be beaten. He started afresh, and about 3.30 p.m., half an "lour before the conference terminated. Sam, bespattered with mud and perspiration, appeared at the door of the conference room, with his safety lamp still in his hand. The late David Morgan (Dai o'r Nant) had been in violent contact with Mabon on that day, and a wag, sitting next to him in a corner of the room, immediately hailed Sam with his safety lamp, and invited him to his part of the room, as there had been several large outbursts of gas there. I doubt whether Sam in his experience as overman has ever met greater accumulations of gas or more violent explosions than were experienced in those days by the delegates who attended the miners' conferences at the Bute Arms, Aberdare. I THOMAS RICHARDS.

LATE MRS. BOYD HARVEY I There was a sol-emn Requiem MaN) ait the Bridgend Roman Catholic Church on Wednes- day morning "for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Julietta Antonia de Boyd Harvey," wife of the popular general manager of North's Navigation Collieries Company, whose death, it will be remembered, occurred in Malaga, Spain, where she was visiting her daughter. A large number of friends of the family attended, including Mr. W. A. Scrivener, Mr. E. Breffit, Mr. Salis (Spanish Consul at Oar- diff) and Mre. Salis, Mrs. George Spray (Car- diff), Mr. W. E. Lewis (Bridgend), Mr. a.nd Mrs. J. M. Handall, Captain Crean, Oaptain Eli-era, Mr. Otfelow P. Traherne. Mr. J. P. Gibbon (agent of Messrs. North's Collieries), Mr. A. J. Griffiths (Cardiff), Mr. N. G. Jones, Miss Begg, Miss Waddle (Porthoafwl), Mr. Poula.ine (Bla-ma), Mr. Heywood, Mr. M. H. Tyack (Swansea), Mrs. Tom Harvey, Mr. Allen Bruce, and Mr. J. W. Jones. Mass was sung by Father E. Morall, Father Gwyder, and Father M'Loughlin, and thp choir was formed by monks from St. Michael e Priory, Belmont, Hereford.

TWO SHAKSPEAREAN WEEKS A revival of popular regard for Shak- spearean ptiays is manifest in Cardiff, and, showing the true managerial instinct. Mr. Robert Bedford, of the New Theatre, has adopted the daring course of having two Shakspearean weeks in succession. But there is no doubt that Mr. Bedford has cor- rectly diagnosed public feeling. Following Mr. Oscar Asche and Miss Lily Bray ton, next week Mr. William MolliBon will appear. He will produce four plays by the Bard of Avon, as well as "David Garrick" and "The Bonnie Br?r Bush. Those of Shakspeare, it should be noted, are difr-nt from thae? plays preænted by Mr. Asche this week. Mr. MolMson has achieved such fame in Shak- speare's works that he is sure to have a successful week. The same company will a pq)ear in "Macbeth" as played for twelve weeks during the great Sh akspea-rean revival in Manchester.

MISSING MEN Considerable anxiety ia felt in Llandebie as to the whereabouts of John Hopkins, a labourer employed at Pistyll Lime Works, Llandebie. He has been missing from his home since Saturday. He is a married man with no children, and was, apparently, in good health. He stands just over 5ft. in height. and has blue eyes and light brown hair. He was wearing a blue suit and a cap. His parents are said to reside in Raglan (Won.), and he has other relatives in Swansea. Thomas White, who resided up to Wednes- day, the 13th inst., with Mr. William Evans, 17, High-street, Pontlottyn, left his lodgings on the evening of that date, and has been lost to view. Inquiries at his home in the Forest of Dean have been unavailing. He is about 26 years of age, 5ft. Sin. in height, of a dark complexion, with a slight dark moustache.

BRAVE MUTINY VETERAN I Another Indian Mutiny veteran. CaPtain David Shields Marshall, the frther of Mr. R. S. Marshall, of King's-road, Cardiff, has died at Glasgow, in liis eighty-first yea.r. He was late of the Royal Horse Artillery and the small arms ammunition factory, Dum-Dum, India, and he had medals for Cbiliarl-w-aush, Gooj erat, and the Mutiny. He won his cam- mission while defending a powder magazine on thd frontier. He was in charge of a. detachment of sepoys, and, though his men deserted him, he held the position single- handed until a«?istance arrived. He was buried with full military honours at Oath- cart, N.B.

CARDIFF MOTOR CLUB I The following are the official awards of the OaTdiff Motor Club's hill-climb at Rhubina. on Saturday CYCLES. Figure of merit. 1—W. PolLard, T.s. 7.72 2-J. H. Wyndham, 2 Minerva. 6.23 CARS. 1—E. M. Griffiths, 12-14 De Dion 7.% 2—H. J. Norton, 12-14 Singer 722 WINNER OF MOTOR UNION MEDAL For the best figure of merit: E. M. Grif- fiths, 12-14 De Dion car. I

BARRY CliFF TRAGEDY ( The funeral of Robert Morgan, the man whose death at Barry is surrounded by eo much mystery, took place at Lansdown Cemetery, Bath, on Wednesday. Morgan was a native of Bath, where his family lived for many years, and in 1906-7 he was a regular player for the St. Stephen's Rugby Football Club. The floral tributes included wreathe from the Barry Branch of the Boilermakers' Society and the Barry Dook Conservative Club and Institute.

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FIRE-BRIGADE'S PROTEST Sequel to Bargoed May Show A ipeouliar position has cropped up in con- nection with Dargo-ed May Show. At the winding up of the committee at the Plas- newydd Hotel last evening (Mr. D. M. Yor- werth presiding) a. protest was xeceivod from the Gwinbran Fire Brigade against being perna-lised three seconds in the four-man drill and four seconds in the two-man drill far not taki;r.ig part in the parade. Mr. Gus Jouee said the judges were appointed with the approval of the National Fire Brigades Union, and, bcsidcs, the "brigade did not compete under protest. It was resolved 'to refer the dispute to the National Union. The positions of the first three in each of th-o two competitions were:- FOUR-MAN MANUAL. Penalties. Actual time. Sees. Sees. 1, BrymnaWT 0 36 3-5 2, Owmbnam .3 36 3-5 3. Owmbraa 3 39 TWO-MAN MANUAL. Penalties. Actual time. Seas. Sees. 1, Bryrumawr 0 53 2-5 2, [Newport. 0 55 2-5 3, 4Dwmbran 4 52 2-5

A FOOLISH JOKE At the North London Court yesterday Arthur George Law, coachman, was charged with uttering a gilded farthing for a baM- sovereign at the Amhurst Arms, Hackney. Charles August, Fielder, a lad, said tha-t he was serving in the bar when Law called for a drink and tendered what appeared to be a half-sovereign. The witness took it and noticed tha.t it was a gilded farthing. r After paying for the drink in coppers, Law endeavoured to induce him, said the witness, to change the coin, and offered hfni 5s., and later 7s. 6d. of the change, saying thart, the governor would not know whether he or the barmaid had taken it. It was stated that Law, when arrested, said he produced the ooin to test the boy's honesty. Mr. Til ley, who defended, urged that the whole thing was a joke—a very silly one, he admitted—but Law had no felonious inten- tion. Law, who was given an excellent character, was discharged.

I LONG CRIMINAL RECORD There are not many people who would go to a deputy-ohairman of quarter sessions for a, reference. But apparently William Nonquet would, for on a detective asking him if anyone could give him a good cinameter he replied, Yee, Mr. Lovela.nd-wvele,nd." Nonquet pleaded guilty at Newington Sessions yesterday to st-mlimg a parse, and was sentenced to three yeaxe I perual servitude. His criminal record is:- 1893-Laxceny, fourteen days. Attempting to stoal, bound over. 1894-Laroony, six months. 1897-Woundiol\g and assaulting polios, ei-gtitean months. 1698—Frequenting, three months. 1699—larceny and assault, eight months. Rogue and vasfaboawl, three months. 1900—Stealing horse and cait, twenty months. 1902-Stealing a watch, 21 1904—Unlawful possession, two months. Prevention of Crimes Act, twelve months. 1905—Stealing a purss, one month. Loitering, twelve weeks. Attempted burglary, two years.

GERMANY'S ISLAND FORT During the coming summer huge works will be commenced on Heligoland with the object of better fortifying the island and rendering it safe against the inroads of the North Sea. The work will be undertaken by the German Admiralty with the object, it is stated, of increasing the defensive power of the plaoe. The first operation will be the building of a new torpedo station and extending the existing harbour to enable it to contain four more torpedo boat divisions. This undertak- ing alone will cost £ 1,500,003, an expense which is to be spread over several years.

IMPORTANT TREATIES The United States Senate has ratiefid an arbitration treaty with Denmark and a treaty with Great Britain for the con- veyamce of prisoners of either country across the territory of the other, and authorising the wrecking and salving companies of either country to assist distressed vessels on the great lalres or the boundary waters; also a treaty with Japan, protecting traode maris in China amd Korea.

TERRITORIAL ARMY The Loord Mayor of Cardiff has oonvened a public meeting at the City-hall on Thurs- day, .Tune 4, for the purpose of bringing before the inhabitants of the city the im- portance of supporting the territorial forces of the oountry. The scheme for the organi- eaJtion. of the troops wbich Cardiff is asfaed to provide will be fnUy explained by experts jga tiho ineniy

CRASH IN A FOG I O ———— Newport Trader Sinks Canadian Boat DRAMATIC APPEARANCE OF FOUR STOWAWAYS "Three hundred and ten cattle drowned and 67 human lives saved" sums up the story of a collision which occurred near the Wolf Light- house, off the Scilly Isles, about three o'olock yesterday morning (as briefly reported in yesterday's Evening Express"). The steamer Japanic, 2.296 tons, belonging to the Specific Shipping Oompany, laden with coal, bound from Newport to Monte Video, rammed the steamer Latona, 2,708 tons, bound from Montreal to London, and the latter sunk in twenty minutes. The Latona had on board a crew of 59 and four passengers, the latter consisting of a family of four—father, mother, and two children. There were also 310 cattle and a general cargo. The Japanic had a crew of 29. Fortunately, all the human lives were saved, the only mishap being a severe crush- ing for one of the crew of the I-atona during the work of rescue. A Terrific Crash The vessels appear to have run into a dense bank of fog. The look-out had barely time to shout "Vessel ahead!" when with a terrific crash the Japanic rammed the Latona nearly amidships, ploughing through her sides until she was nearly out in two. The Latona. immediately commenced to settle down, and no time was lost in lowering the boats from both ve«?els. The stem of the Japanic was shattered, and the bow platings stove in above and below the water line, but, fortunately, her bulkheads kept her afloat. There was not much sea running, and the work of transferring the crew and passengers of the Latona to the boats was comparatively easy. All were transferred to the Japanic, and within twenty minutes of the collision the Latona was seen to go down stem first. Stowaways' Appearance As she disappeared, strangely enough, her siren gave a loud and melancholy blast. When the survivors of the Latona were counted it was found that they numbered 67, instead of the complement of only 63, and the increase was accounted for by the fact that, realising the fate of the vessel, four stowaways had crept from their place of hiding! The stowaways were all men. The Japanic stea.med slowly to Falmouth, and soon after seven last evening the whole of the survivors wore landed and accommo- dated at the Royal Cornwall Sailors' Home. The lady passenger was in her dressing- gown when rescued, and the two children were wraped in blankets. "Just when I was leaving the vessel," said one of the crew to a press represen- tative, I saw a great pool of blood forming where the stem of the Japanic had crushed in amongst the cattle. Many of the cattle had their heads practically cut off. Some had broken legs and others were smashed t<M pulp." The passengers were named Brooks, the husoand being a native of London, and his wife a Canadian. They were going home to see Mr. Brooks's parents in London. ANOTHER STEAMER IN TROUBLE ¡ The London and South W?t.ern Railway Company's swamship Princess E rl,?tw?a,? from Southampton to St. Malo, put into Jersey this morning, after having grounded between Sark and Jersey. The vessel was got off without much diffi- culty, and her passengers a.nd mails were landed safely in Jersey. It is not believed that she has been very badly damaged.

An Old Lady's Delusions REMARKABLE LETTER8 TO HER SOLICITOR Sonce peculiar delusions of an old lady were mentioned in the Probate Court on Wednesday. Application was made to the court that it should pronounce against a certain will of the late Miss Blamche Scott, sister of the late General Alexander Scotit. During the laifcier yea-rs of her life Miss Scott lived at a home near Bristol under medical oare. Mr. Barnard, K.C., in opening the case, said that in 1869 Miss Scott wrote the following letter to her &olicitor:- I think it inust have been, about 1874 when I went to Weimar. It was there that I met an officer, Captain Von H-. Although I had never been introduced to him, he used to ride out lill the afternoon, so I could oThly go out in the mornings. One day he sat next to me at the same tahJe. After having avoided him for two years, I met him out riding one morning. I took my usuial walk t.he next morning, and on looking round was astonished to see that at every window in the barracks there were officers hanging half out laugh- ing at me. I persisted for two or three mornings in my walk, but then had to leave the place. I hope you will not write to say that it is so maaiy years ago that you ca.nnot do anything. The insult remains. Will you ■write to the captain and ea.y that, I consider myself as having been insulted by his insinuating that I went out to meet bdm ? Other Strange Fancies Other delusions of the un-fortunate la.dy I were stated to be:- That men caine up to her in the street and made accusations. That a man stared at her in churcfh, and that she was protected from him in some mysterious way by the preacher. That, although Primrose League dames might travel alone, it was not safe for them to stay at hotels. Mr. Barnard added that the will he sought to upset was made at the home." It left £ 1,000 to a Oaptain Goodrich, and was attested by the chaplain. A medioal witness from the home" said that Miss Scott was suffering from chronic delusions. She was never fit to make a will during all the time he had known her. During the evidence of another witness the following was quoted from. one of Miss letters:— The lower orders here are horrible. The other day someone came up to me with an effigy of a baby in her arms. People belonging to the higher orders are in-dignamt that I should be run after on the public road and be insulted by having an effigy of a baby thrust in my face. Mr. M"Call, K.C., counsel on the other side, indicated that the point at issue was the ques- tion of the time when Miss Scott's mind gave way. This would affect another will made in 18G5, before the testatrix went into the home," put forward by MT, Barnard's side. Canon Williams Called Among the witnesses called was Canon William Williams, of St. David's Cathedral, with whom Miss Scott stayed between 1889 and 1891. He said that he and hie wife never baw anything strange about her, and she behaved like a perfect lady. In May, 1891, however, the canon wrote to 3fies Scott's brother a letter in which he saidi Wo have had a lot of trouble with her, and have had ever since she came here. She insulted a clergyman at my table in the presence of the bishop. Asked to explain this, the Oanon &,Aid:- "S,he had a delusion about Mr. Thomas, a curate, who was supposed to be in love with her, or she in love with him. At my house she saw a clergyman whom she thought was Mr. Thomas, and, forgetting herself, she spoke to this clergyman, whom sohe had never seen before." Evidence was called, and, in the result his Lordship found that the liist will could not stand. He pronounced for the will of 1885 set up by the defendants, the costs to come out of the estate.

MRS. GUNNESS IS, DEAD The coroner at r1 Porte (Indiana.) officially declares that Mrs. Gun-ncss died in the fire which destroyed her farmhouse on April 28. end that her death was the result of felo- nious homicide, the plrpet-rat-or of which is unknown.

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PET DOG'S TONGUE .—————— I —————— CAUSES HYDROPHOBIA AND DEATH May Doctors Destroy Consciousness ? NEW YORK, Thursday. On Monday Mr. W. H. Marsh, Brookland, a manufacturer, visited the Pasteur Institute for treatment for hydrophobia. He was informed tha.t he had waited too late, and was doomed to die in a few days. He then calmly returned home, arranged his business affairs, took farewell of his family, and died last night. DootorG eased his la-st hours with opiates. He had not been bitten, but was infected throtigh a scratch on his hand while t-ending a pet dog. Licked by a Pet Dog It appears that six weeks ago Mr. Marsh dressed a wound of a pet brindle bull terrier, which licked his hand while he was adjusting the bandage. The animal afterwards behaved eccentrically, and, on the advice of a veterinary surgeon, he waf shot. As he had not been bitten, Mr. Marsh thought it unnecessary to take precautions. Last Saturday he was seized with giddiness, folio-wed by a curious nervous twitching of the body. Then his throat swelled, and he was unable to swallow even liquids. The physicians advised his removal to the Pas- teur Institute, where the do-ctors diagnosed the case as hydrophobia too far advanced to be cured. How long will I live?" asked the stricken man. Possible five days, not more," came the reply. Then Ma.rsh adjusted his affairs and went to bod. Give me lots of chloroform, doctor, when the convulsions come on," were the la.st intelligent words he spoke. A Momentous Inquiry The Medico Legal Society has appointed a committee to investigate the case and determine to what extent practitioners may use drugs to destroy consciousness at the request of a patient.

COINCIDENCE Little Helena Eaigling, the nine-year-old daughter of a builder living in Somerford- grove, Tottenham, returned home from eohool and cani.pl ained of having been punched" by another girl while at play. SIne wa,, taken to the Metropolitan Hospi- tal, and died of appendicitis an hour after admission. Three years Mro, the mother said at the inquest yesterday, Helena's brother, aged ten, who had been pushed by a tealcher because he was a dunce, died in the same hospi tal—also of appendicitis. Dr. Vosper sa.id that Helena's death had nothing to do with the blow given by her school comrade, and the jury returned a verdict of Natural dth."

OLD MAN'S DESPAIR A sad story of an old man's despair was ..told yesterday at the West Ham Police-court whom. Jolh,n Wa-rd, a labourer, 64 years old, was charged with attempting to commit sui- cide by throwing himself into the docks. A lady connected with the Barking-roa-d BaptilSt Tabernacle said that on Thursday la.5rb the man's wife died after fourteen hours' illness, and the old roan ivat so overcome witih despair at the idea of his wife being buried by the parish that he tried to kill himself. Mr. Gillespie, the magistrate, discharged him aft-er his son had promised to take oare of him., and allowed him IDs. from the poor- box.

SONGBIRDS SLAUGHTERED Owing to the extreme rigour of last winter alud the wilful destruction of songbirds in various parts of the country, France is threatened with the extinction of her larks, finches, and thrushes. Professor Corcelle, of craa.mbery, has addressed an appeal to the public, warning them that if farmers, gamekeepers, and poachers continue their conduct they will soon have exterminated all the small birds in the country. As proof of the necessity for legislative measures, he declares that thousands of larks are killed and sold at M. a dozen. So great is the slaughter somttime-, that large quantities of birds which cannot be sold are thrown away.

A FRENCH CENTENARIAN Mme. Augustine Delaurier, who claimed to have been the last of the "grisettes" of the days of the Second Empire, has just died in the Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, at the age of 103 years and 9 months. Centenarian though she was, Mme. Delaurier remained in full possession of her mental faculties, and was sprightly and gay to Ithe last. Her life had been full of adven- ture, and her stories of the days when she sold violets and roses to habitues of the Montmartre cafes, at a time when bouquetieres were in vogue, were related with a piquancy that would have done credit to a professional raconteuee.

THE GARDEN OF EDEN Sir Thomas De-war, presiding over the ladies' dinner of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, of which he is master, in the cours-o of his speech pointed to t,he figure representing Adam as the first gardener on the ba.nner of the company, and concluded his remarks with the following verses of his own composition:— Here's to the Garden of Eden, \V hicn Adam v/as always a-wecding, Till Eve by mistake got bit by a snake That on a ripe apple was feeding. So a longing seemed then to possess her, For clothing sufficient to dress her, And ever since then it's been the pleasure of men To pay for her dresses—God bless her!

SAXON COURT MYSTERY The Saxon police have a puzzle before them in a mysterious attack upon the French tutor of the King of Saxony's children—the successor of Giron, who eloped with the now divoroed wife of the King. Court offi- cials are doing their best to hush up the in- cident, but it is now known that on Sunday last the unfortunate tutor was found lying on the grass of the park at Schloss Wach- witz, a royal castle, bleeding from dagger wounds. Revenge following "Ollie romantic adventure ie hinted at as the reason of the attack.

SKELETONS IN A GARDEN Digging for sa-nd in his garden in Gloucester-road, Peckha,m, the tenant, Mr. Cox, struck what looked like a IDmQature graveyard. He found first one skull and then another till the number reached four, with a, corresponding amount of human bones. The police and doctors believe that the remains are those of men between 25 and 50 years of age, and that they have lain in their present position for over half a century. — < '?'

OCTOGENARIAN'S SAD DEATH A verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned at the inquesrt yesterday on the body of Mrs. Jane Williams, aged 82, of Pontyfoel, St. David's. The dec-e.a.sed lady, who lived alone, was found by some children lying dead on the floor of her house, with her head partly under the grate. The face and upper part of the bcdy ha-d been terribly burnt, but it is conjectured that death preced-c-d the burning.

THE HEAVIEST PUBLICAN I References in some obituary notices of Mr. William. Gates, piiblioaji, Hig-h Wycomibe, who weighed 20 stones, to the effeot t.ha.t he "was believed to be the heaviest publican in England," arc disproved by the existence of Mr. Wm. Ecdeatone, of the Coach and Horses, Stonebridge, who turns t,he scale at 42 stones.

OSTRICH EGG OMELETTE Ostrich egg omelette is the latest delicacy to be served at a West End Hotel. It figured last night, for the first time, on the dinner menu at Hathett's, Piccadilly. Ostrich egg3 arc, of course, a rarity in England. They come from a private ostrich farm in the Midlands.

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"FORT CHABROL" AT HANLEY I The story was told yesterday at Hanley Ponce-court of a fight with the police which took place on the Rocks, one of the most notorious parts of Hanley, on Sunday last. The police went to arrest fome men, to whose assistance other men came. They treated the police very roughly, and then the men ran to a house near DY and barricaded them- selves in. Extra police were summoned, and in the presence of a great crowd from the neighbourhood the house was eventually stormed, amid showers of bottles, bricks, and crockery from the upper windows. The police fought their way upstairs, and arrested a number of men and women, some cf whom were yesterday sentenced to terms of imprisonment.

WOMAN MISER'S HOARD I An inquest was held at Huddersfield last. evening on Emma Mason, aged 68, described as a charwoman, who was found dead in her house on Tuesday, having apparently been dead a week. It was stated that in the house in which there was no food there was found a York- shire bank book with JE197 to the deceased's credit, a Poet-office Savings Bank Book with other money, making a total of £ <29 19s. 7jd. The old lady had been very ecentric and. miserly, and was in the habit of collecting firewood and selling it. Apparently bhe nad no relatives.

NATIONAL DEBT VARIATIONS I The variations whioh have taken place I i.n the NI.Tliotucl Debt during the past 34 yealrs are shoiwn in a White-paper issued yesterday. The aggregate gross liabilities on April 1 next year will amount to £ 762,326,051. In the 34 years the debt has risen and fallen as follows:- 1375-6 £ 767.268,559 lS79-eO. 7"11,775.078, 1836-6 719,862,117 I -18S8-7 ■ 742,ce4?201 ih(xj: ?!5.M!,7:4 ? 1903-4 £ 795,149,190 1904-5 794,498,100 1S05-S 796,756,491 I f 190-7^ 46-Vj704; In. 1875-6 the ccst of intere6t and manage- ment of the d-ebt was £ 23,394,114. Last I year it was £ 20,017,659.

AN UNFIT HORSE I At Cardiff to-day (before Sir W. S. Cross- man, Dr. Treasure, and Messrs. Richard Cory, and Isaac Samuel) Percy Martin, 27, was j charged with working a horse in an unfl" state in Shakeepeare-etreet on May 18. Gharles Rees, cabman, figured as defendant for a.Howing the animal to be so worked. Police-sergeant Price said the horse was suf- fering from several raw wounds The Bench found the owner £5 and costs, or one month, and Martin 40s. and costs, or 1 fourteen days. I

A PREMIER AND FOOTBALL I Mr. Price, the Labour Premier of South Australia, speaking at Glasgow yesterday, isaid that he found in Great Britain twenty- two men playing football to 60,000 looking on, and was told that it was the development of the British race. That was humbug. It only developed a few professionals. It was bad for the nation to have too much play and too little work.

FIRE AT PENTYRCH I A fire broke out in Pentyrch, near Cardiff, y-esterday afternoon in the house of Mr. Llewellyn, collier, Temperance-row. The chimney caught fire and lighted thf thatched roof. All the efforts of the police man and several civilians to extinguish th< fire failed. It spread to the adjoining house and both houses were gutted. The grea??i portion of the furniture was oaved.

WHISKY WITH "A BITE" I i Mr. H. C. Craig, a director of Dunville and Co., was a witness before the Whisky Oom- mission yesterday. He explained that many people liked whisky wtth a bite." Mild whisky that would please the Com- mission-if the membem touched such a thing—'wootld not be appreciated by a collier oil a LarFe. (Lauglit-or.)

WAR UPON SPARROWS i The SioklesmeTe and District Sparrow Club during the year ended March 31 last, haJ paid for 16,394 sparrows and eggs. As then are still immense numbers of sparrows tc be seen about, this will give i-cme indicatior of the extraordinary quantity in the dis trict.

I FREE HC USE & COAL FOR M.P. With the object of placing Mr. Charles Fen wick. M.P., on a more equal footing with tb other miners' representatives in Parliament the Northumberland Miners' Council yesteu day decided to provide the member for Wans beck with a free house and free coal supply from the Labour funds. I

PAUPER'S LITTLE BANK I A female pauper lunatic chargeable to th< Chelmsford Union, who was admitted intc Brentwood Asylum in 1869, and has cost ovei £ 1,000 for her maintenance, has been found to be possessed of over £80 in the Pos.t Office Savings Bank. A justices' order has been obtained for the money to be handed over for the benefit of the ratepayers. J mmrnmmmmmm

DEMAND NOTE FOR H. A Colchester resident has received a demarw note for one farthing in respect of a rati "for special expenses under the sanitary Acts." After walking a mile to the oolkwtor'J office to pay it he tendered a halfpenny, bui. the colleotor could not give him the farthing change. I

28 OUNCE BABY ¡ Dr. A. J. Co'born, of Cor.nollsville, Fean I sylvania, has furnished an affidavit with tin story of the smallest baby ever born aliV I adid healthy in Western Pennsylvania. It kI a ono-and-thmm-quart--r-pmmd girl. ?

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