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\-EO-UAva short STORY.J Petticoat…
\-EO-UAva short STORY.J Petticoat in Footer. BY P. G. WODEHOUSE. My brother Bob sometimes saytf that if he dies young or gets white hair at the age of thirty it will be all my fault. He says I was bad at fifteen, worse at sixteen, while present day," ae they put it in the :t.ihies of celebrities, I am simply awfuL Phis is very ungrateful of him, because I always done my best to maJre him a credit to the family. He is just beginning Bis second year at Oxford, 90, naturally, he trajits repressing. Ever since I put my hair ip—and that is nea.rly a year ago now—I lave seen that I was the only person to do iiis. Father doesn't notice things. Beeides, Bob is always on his best behaviour with father. We had taken a jolly house in SkxEwae-street from October, and I was having the most perfect time. I'm afraid father was hating it. though. He said to me at dinner one night, "One thousand five hundred a.nd twenty-three vehicles passed the window of the cmb this 1D.(}rning, Joao." ■"How do you know?" I asked. "I counted them." "Father, what a waste of time!" "Why, what else ie there to do in London?" be said. The morning after this, when father had gone off to his club—to count ca.b8 again, I suppose—I got a letter from Bob. "Dear Kid" (he wrote),—"Jnsrt a line. Hope your're having a good time in London. I can't come down for Aunt Edith's ball on your birthday, as they wont, let me. I tried it on, bat the Dean was all against it. Look here, I want you to do eomething for me. The fact is I've had a lot of expenses lately, with my twemty-flrster and so on, and. I've had rather to run up a few fairly warm bills here and there, so I sbaJI probably have to fconoh the governor for a trifle over and above my allowance). What I waat you to do is this: keep an eye on him, a.nd if you notice thaft he's particularly bucked about any- thing 0118 day, wire to me first thing. Then 1'11 run down and strike while the iron's hot. See? Don't forget.—Yowrs ever, BOB. It was on the waning this letter came that Aant Edith gave her ball. She is the nicest of my aunts, and was taking me about to places. I had been looking forward to this daaoe for weeks. On this particular night everything was absolutely perfect. I looked very nice. I know one isn't supposed to be aware of this, but father and Aunt Edith both told me, as well as at least half my partners, so there was a mass of oorroborative evidence, as father says. Then the floor was lovely, and everybody seemed to dance well except one young man who had come from Cambridge for the ball. He danced very badly, but he did not seem to let it weigh upon his spirit at All. -He was extremely cheerful. "Would you prefer me." he asked, "to apologise every time I tread on your foot, or s. hall I let it mount up a.%d apologise col- lectively at the end?" I suggested that we might sit out. He had no obi ection. "As a matter of fact," he said "dancing's good enough in its way, but footer's my game. I said, "Best gankJ on earth, footer. I say, see that man who just, jxas&ed us with the girl in red?" I said I did. "That's Hook." "Yes; I remember was his name." "Best forward Oxford a had for seasons. See him dribble—my word! Halloa! there's the band starting again. May I take you-" At this moment Mr. T. B. Hook detached himself—with relief. I thought—from the lady in red, and, after looking about him, eaught sight of me and made his way in my direction. I admired the way he talked. He seemed to be on springs. He danced splendidly, but in silence. After making one remark to him-about the 11001' which caused him to look scared a-rwl crimson, I gave up the idea of oontversation, and began to think, in a dreamy* sort of way, in time to the music. It was not till quite the end of the dance that my great idea, came to me. The music stepped, and we went into the conservatory, ily partner's silence was more ing. His waltzing had disguised it. I said, "You are very fond of football, aren't Y0n?" He brightened up. "Oh, yes," he said. "Yes. Yes. He paused for a moment, then added, as t if he had an inspiration, "Yes." "Yes?" I said. "Oh, yes," he replied, brightly- "Yes." Our conversation was getting quite brisk and sparkling. I have a brother who's a very good player," I went on- Yes?" Yes. He's at Oxford, too. At Magdalen." "Yes?" Are you at Magdalen ?" Trinity." ) "Do you know my brother?" I saw he hadn't heaj-d my name when we had been introduced, so I added "EoTaney." I don't think I know a-ny Romney. But I don't know any Magdalen men." I thought you might, because he told me you were probably going to put him into the Oxford team, I do hope you will." Mr. Hook, who had been getting almost at home and at his eaee, I believe, suddenly looked pink and scared again. I heard him whisper, Good Lord!" "Plea.se put him in," I wemrt on, feeling like Bob's guardian angel. I'm sure he's much better than anybody else, and we ♦taould be so pleased." You would De so pleased," he repeated mechanieally Awfully pleased," I said. I couldn't tell you how grateful. And it would make euch a lot of difference to Bob. I tell you why, but it would." "Oh, it would?" eaid he. A tremendous lot. You won't forget the name, wiU you? Romney. I'll write it down for you on your programme. R. Romney, Magdalen College. You will put him in, won't you? I be too grateful for any- thing. And father-" "I think this is ours?" said a voice. My partner for the n.et dance was stand. ing before me. In the ball-room they were just beginning the Oxford boating-song. I beard Mr. Hook give a great sigh. It may have been sorrow, or it may have boon relief. I got a letter from Bob a fortnight later saying that he was still i.n the team, though he had not been playing very well. He him- self, he said, had rather fancied he would have been 'eft out after the Old Malvernians' match, and he wouldn't have complained, because he had played badly; but for some reason they stuck to him, and if he didn't do anything particularly awful in the next few matches, he said, he was practically a certainty for Queen's Club. "What's Queen's Club?" I asked father. where the 'Varsity match is played. We must go and see it if Bob gets his Blue. Or in any Bob did get his Blue. I felt quite a thrill when I thought of what Mr. Hook had suffered for my sake. Because, you see, there were lots of people who thought Bob wasn't good enough to he in the team. Father read me a bit out of a sporting paper in which the man who wrote it compared the two teams and said that "the weak spot Ln the Oxford side is undoubtedly Romney," and a. lot of horrid things about his not feeding his forwards properly. I said, I'm sure that isn't true. Bob's always giving dinners to people. In fact, that's the very reason why I stopped. "Why what?" said father. "Why he's so hard up, father, dear. He is, you know. It's because of his twenty-first birthday, he said." "I shouldn't wonder, my dear. I remember my own twenty-first birthday celebrations, and I don't suppose things have alltered much since my time. You must tell Bob to come to me if he's in difficulties. We mustn't be hard on a man who's playing in the 'Varsity ma.t0h, eh. my dear?" I said, I'll tell him." Bob stopped with us the night before the match. He hardly ate anything for dinner, and he wanted toast instead of bread. When I met him afterwards, though, he was look- ing very pleased with things and very friendly. "It's all right about those bills." he said. "The governor has given me a cheque. He's awfully bucked about my .Blue." "And it was all me. Bob," I cried. "It was «very bit me. If it hadn't been for me, yon wouldn't be playing to-morrow. Aren't you, grateful. Bob? You ought to be." "If you can spare a moment and aren t too busy talking rot." said Bob, "you might tell me what it's all about." Why, it was through me you've got your Blue." So I understand you to say. Mind ex- plaining? Don't if it would give you a headache. "Why, I met the Oxford captain at Aunt Edith's dance, and I said how anxious you were to get your Blue, and I begged him to put you in the team. And the very next Saturday you were tried for the first time." PETTICOAT IN FOOTER TWO Bob positively reeled, and would ha fallen had he not clutched a chair. I didn't know people ever did it out of novels. He looked horrible. His mouth was wide open and his face a sort of pale green. He Weated like a sheep. "Bob. don't!" I said. Wb&tever's the matter?" He recovered himself and laughed feebly. All right, kid," he said, that's one to you. yoa certainly drew me then. By gad! I thought, you meant it at ftrei. N My eyes opened wide. "But, Bob," I said, "I did." His jaw fell again. "You mean to tell me," he .@.aid, slowly, "that you actually asked- Oh, my aunt!" He leaned his forehead on the mantelpiece. "I shall have to go down," he moaned. "I can't stay up after this. Good Lord! the story may be all over the 'Varsity! Suppose somebody did get hold of it! I couldn't live it down." He raised his head. "Look here, Joan," he said; "if a single soul gets to hear of this I'll never speak to you again." And he stalked out of the room. I sat down and cried. At the match there was a lot of running about and kicking at first A little Cam- bridge man with light hatr got the ball after a bit, and simply tore down the touch- line tin he came to Bob, and Bob got in his way, and he kicked it to another man, only before he'd got it the other man who had been standing nearest to Bob at the beginning of the game took it away from him and sent it a long way up the field. "Well played, Bob!" said father. "That little man with the light hair is Stevens, the international. He's the moet dangerous man Cambridge have got. Bob will have his work cut out to stop him. Still, he did it that time all right." The ball was being kicked about quite near the Cambridge goal now, so I thought Oxford must be getting the best of it. The little man was standing about by himself looking on. if he were too important a person to mix himself up with the others. Bat suddenly one of the other Cambridge men sent the ball in his direction and he was off with it like a flash, and there seemed to be nobody there to stop him except Bob. wno was jumping about half-day down the field. All the Cambridge men raced down in the directto-n of the Oxford goal, and Bob met the little man as he had done before and made his pass to the other man. Then Bob rushed for this man, though there was another Oxford player rushing for him too, and the Cambridge man with the ball waited till they both were quite near him and then kicked it back to the international. "Oh, Romney, you rotter!" said one of the young men in front of me, m a voice of agony; and then there was a perfect howl of joy from half the crowd, for the inter- national, who hadn't anyone between him and the goalkeeper, who looked nervous, ran round and shot the ball through the net. Well, there's one of their goals," said the not quite so bright young man. "Ghap writing in the Chronicle this morning said Oxford would be lucky if they only had three scored against them. What a rotter Romney was to leave Stevens like that. Why on earth can't he stick to his man?" Father looked quite grey and haggard. If Bob's going to play the fool like that," he said, "he'd better have stayed at home "What didn't he do?" I asked. "He dxdn t stick to bis man. He gets up against an inter-na-ticna.1 forward, and the first thing he does is to leave him with a clear field. He must stick to Stevens." The whole air seemed full of Bob's wrong- doing. I suppose it was a sort of wireless telegraphy or something that made me do it. At any rate, I jumped up and shrieked in front of everybody, in a dead silence, too: "You must stick to Stevens, Bob!" Then there was a roar of laughter. I suppose it must have sounded funny, though I didn't mea.n it; and everybody who wanted Oxford to win took up the cry. Only after shouting, "You must 5tic-k to Stevens, Bob" once, they began, to shout, "Buck up, Oxford!" Bob turned ccaxlet-I was looking at him through father's fl,-Id-glu-ses-and I believe he was swearing tojaimself. Then the game began again. Bob told me afterwards, in a calmer moment, that my cry was the turning point. Up to then he had been fearfully ashamed o-f himself for letting the Cambridge man kick the ball away from him, but that now he felt that he must look so foolish that it was not worth while trying to realise it. He said he was like the girl in Shakespeare who smiled at gTief. He had parsed the limits of human feeling, The result was that he found himself suddenly icy cool, without nerves or anxiety or anything. Anyhow, the result was that Bob began to play really splendidly. I can't juclge foot- ball at all, of course, but even I could see how good he was. He slipped about as if be were made of indiarufc;xsr. He sprang at Stevens and took the ball away from him. He kept kicking the ball back to the Cam- bridge goal. In fact, he thoroughly redeemed himself, and if it hadn't been for the Cam- bridge goalkeeper Oxford would have scored any number of times. Just before half-time an Oxford man dad score, so that made thorn level. "Weil, Romnecr's done all right lately," said one of the young men. "If he plays like that all the time we mj?itt win. What on earth he was doing at the start I can't think." The sun was getting very low now, and Cambridge had to play facing it. It seemed to botihcr them a good deal, and Oxford kept 0:1 attacking, Bob coming up to help. At last, after they had been playing about twenty minutes, Stevens wont off again, and Bob had to race back and stop him. He just mana-g-J to kkri: the han ovir ih-c touch-line. One of the Cambridge men picked it up and threw it to another Cambridge man, but Bob suddenly da,roo between them, got the ball, and tore down the field. There were only two men in front of him besides the goalkeeper, and he wrig;Joo P't one of them, and father -ood up and waved his b a, r, and shouted instructions. Then the last Cambridge man bore down 011 him. It wa,s thrilling. They were 011 the point of charging into one another, when Bob kicked the ball to the let and ran to the right, and the Cambridge man shot past, and there wa-s Bob in front of the goal just getting ready to shoot. Then the ball whizzed into the net, and all over the ground you could see hate Elying into the air and sticks waving and a great roar went up from everywhere. It sounded like guns. "All tie same," said the bright brown young man, "he ought to have passed." Nothing more was scored, so Oxford just won. The end was rather funny, because I know yen are wondering what I said to Mr. Hook and wha.t he said to me. and what Bob did. But it wasn't a. bit like what I had expected. When I came down to the drawing-room after dresfdng for dinner Bob and the captain were standing talking by the fire. 1 d.. I think you have met my sister already," said Bob, dismally. "I don't think I've had the pleasure, murmured the other man. Bob turned to me. I thought you said you met Watson at Aunt Edith's ball. So you were palling my Kg after I didn't. I wasn't. I said I met the cap- tain of the Oxford football team. "Well that's Watson." "Are you oaptain, really?" I asked. I've al'.v'tys been told so." "Then," I said, "I think it's my duty to tell you that there is a man calied Hook— T. B. Hook-who goes a-bo-ut pretending he's captain. Hook of Oriel? Rather ishy man? Doesn't talk much ?" Yee." Oh, he's captain of the Oxford Rugger team, you see. I'm captain of the Soocer," said Mr. Watson. "So it was Hook you asked?" said Bob. "Thank Heaven. You haven't ruined my career, a.fter all. Though I admit," he added, kindly, "you did what you could."
Passing Pleasantries.
Passing Pleasantries. Mcrtie: I'm going to marry a man who draws beautiful pictures. Gertie: That is all very well; but does he dra.w any salary? I'V-2 come olim," said a,n electrician to his wife. "Well, what makes you insulate?" asked the wife. Einstein: Ikey, you must nod voar your specs ail der dime. Ikey: Vy nod, fader? Einstein: Pecauee you vea.r der glass out looking through it so much. A well-known M.P., carrying a bag, was accceted by a boy near St. Fancras Station. "Carry your bag, sir?" No, thank you." Carry it to the station for tuppence, sir?" The M.P. replied again, ".No. thank you." Carry it for a penny, sir?" Again he replied, No, thank you." Whereupon the young cuffian got into the road and shouted at the top of his voice several times: G a.rn! You ought to be ashamed of your- self to ask me to carry that great, heavy bag to the station for a ha'penny!" The M.P. ea-ys that the scornful glances of the crowd made him feel quite guilty.
CURES ECZEMA.
CURES ECZEMA. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the torturous itching of eczema is stopped by the firot application of the new discovery, Cadum, an external remedy that directly attacks the scat of the trouble ajid exerts a soothing and healing influence on the skin- tissues. If you suffer from any skin or soalp trouble, use Cadum. Eczema, pootiasda, rlng- worm, pimples, bla-okheads, rash, scaly skin, eruptions, and all disfiguring diseases are quickly overcome by the wonderful power of this new remedy, leaving the skin eoft and clear. 6d. and le. a box. all chenriate.
I For Women Folk.
I For Women Folk. HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY DISHES i !To make Japanese cement mix rice Sour well with cold water, th?m gently boil it, when it will be beautifully white, and dries nearly transparent. I Apricot Tart I A pound of apricots, sugar, puff-paste. Peel and stone the aprioots. Line a shallow tin with the paste, put in the apricots and sugar, put narrow strips of paste across, and bake for about half an hour. Turn out of the tin, and serve hot or cold. A Substitute for Cream I ■beat the white eX an egg to a froth and mix well with it a very small lump of butter. You must be careful to put either tea- or coffee very gradually to thi", substitute, or it may curdle. This recipe will be found both chea.p and equal to cream. Blackberry Brandy I 10 half a gallon of blackberry juice put ljlb. of lump sugar, ioz. of ground cinnamon, hoz. of ground nutmeg, ioz. of cloves, and I loz. cf allspice. Boil it a few minutes, and I when cool add one pint of braaidy. This is I an iriva-luable remedy for diarrhoea. I Vegetable Marrow Rings I A small vegetable marrow, egg-bread- crumbs, eggs, tomatoes Pare the marrow, take out the seeds and cut it into rin?rs. Dip each ring into flour, seasoned. with salt and cayenne-popper, then into beaten-up egg and breadcrumbs, and fry them in boiling drip- 'I ping until brown. Dish them up, put a poachcd egg and half a cooked tomato in alternate rings, and serve very hot.
FOR WELSH FOOTBALLERS I
FOR WELSH FOOTBALLERS I The "Western Mail" Football Annual I An easy record has been ereated this year by the "Western Mail" Football Annual, which is now in the hands of the newsagents. It is replete with the information required by every football player and enthusiast. Never before has it contained such a quan tity of interesting matter. The fixture lists of all the first and second class Welsh and West of Engla,nd clubs are given, to the num- ber of well over one hundred, there being nearly double the number of lists contained in Last year's handbook. In addition will be found the rules of both the Rugby and Association codes, the records of inter- national matches and cup-ties, and a mass of I other valuable and interesting information A particularly attractive feature, however, is a series of special articles by men famous in the football world. Thus:- Mr. Percy Bueh writes on "Why Footballers Love Football." He describes the illimitable joys of th? Rugger game, the infinite pleasure of drop- ping goals and gliding through microscopic openings. Mr. R. T. Gabe has a fascinating article on "My Most Memorable Game." Mr. Ga.be describes his personal sensation-s before, after, and during the great match in which Wales beat the All Blacks. No Welshman wiil ever forget this historic game. A remarkable article appears by an anonymous writer, whose pen-name is All White." The article is entitled, The Secret of Swansea's Success." It is well known to- every Rugby foot- baller that the Swansea, team has gained astonishingly consistent success during the past twenty years, and the writer lifts the veil from the methods by which this success has been achieved. Mr. George Mercer, the eminent writer on the Association game, has penned a breezy I and entertaining article under the heading, The Future is Before Us." Mr. Mercer dilates upon the great progress of the Association game in South Wales, ) discusses its present prospero-ug condition, and, as his oaption implies, expresses abundant conSdencc in the future. I Although the handbook is much larger and much more attractive than it has ever j been before, the price, as usual, is only one I penny.
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I AN UNGRATEFUL TRAMP. I
I AN UNGRATEFUL TRAMP. I Thomas Arlott, a tramping labourer, and Gertrude Arlott, his wife, were charged at Littledean yesterday by Police-constable Griffiths with the theft of an overcoat, value 5s., the property of James Wicks, collier, Cinderford. Prosecutor's wife deposed that an the afternoon of the day in question the male prisoner came to her house and asked her to exchange some scent which he had got for some sugar. She gave him the sug-ar and let him keep the scent. He inquired where he could get work, and she advised him to try the pits. She also gave him some pota- too. Prisoner having to-ici witness his wife and two boys wre along, and they had nowhere to sleep, she offered the use of their stable, and they decided to use the loft over the stable. Witness lent them some coats to covor themselves with. Next morning, early, prisoners had gone, and the coat in question had gone, too. The court sent the man to gaol for two months, and directed that his ) wife should be bound over for six months, to come up for judgment when called upon.
I__NEWPORT EMPIRE 8 I.NEWPORTEMPIREI
I NEWPORT EMPIRE 8 I NEWPORT EMPIRE Kate Carney will give her latest sketch, "The Yiddisher Boy." The first scene is out- õidt) Aldgate Station. London. Saturday afternoon, and the second is laid in Petti- coat-lane, Sunday morning. No one will dis- pute Kate Carney's claims as one of the best impersonators of characters drawn from the. "masses,' and her powers of delineation and the funny situations suggested are sure to cause uproarious laughter. Not the leaet charming part. of the entertainment is pro- vided by Miss Ithoda Paul, who at sweet seventeen has developed a most piquant ren- dition of light comedy songs which gain additional attractiveness by reason of her youthfulness and vivacity. The remainder of the programme includes I that clever comedienne Ruth Lytton, in her dainty Scotch character-studiee; Little Zola, the miniatii.re comedian; Matthews and Reecc, the incomparable athletes, the King of Sweden having personally complimented Charles Matthews on his jumping feats; Moon and Morris, who are very original comedy artistes; the "whistling man in I white," Arthur Slater; and new bioscope pic- tures.
IHOW TO CURE CORNSi
I HOW TO CURE CORNS For soft, corns between the toes, dust every morning with boracic acid, and place a thin layer of absorbent cotton over the corn. For hird corns, rub the thick skin off with a I piece of fine sandpaper, and remove the small hard centre with a knife, being careful not to make the toe bleed. Grease well -with vaselins 11i;h and morning, thus keeping it salt till the healthy skin has a chance to take the place of the liaird callous. Apply plenty of soap and water and brush thor- ough" y with a good brush—this stimulates circulation and keeps the bard calloas from forming. Binae the feet in cold water, and dry thoroughly, again applying vaseline to the corn. Bunions may be treated in this way.
"I AIN'T NO SUFFRAGETTE"
"I AIN'T NO SUFFRAGETTE" Miary Maloney, a fat, red-faced, masculine- looking wcrmsii!, was charged at Bow-street yesterday with being disorderly and assault- ing a constable. It waa state-d that when the prisoner was arrested for creating a disturb- ance she spat in a constable's face She was ordered to pay two fines of 20s. each, in default two consecutive t?nne of fourteen d?ys' imprL80nm eat. The Pn€<m?r (glaring I at th? oonat?b'e she had assaulted): You -ee I what you have dene, don't yer? Why don't yer lock up them sliffragettes instead of pinching a liard-working woman like me? I D'ye exe? I ai,u't no suffragette. (Laughter.)
RATHER MIXEDI
RATHER MIXEDI A tall Western girl, named Short, long loved a certain big Mr. Little, while Little, little thinking of Short, loved a little lass named Long. To make a long story short, Little proposed to Long, and Short longed to be even with Little 6 short-comings. So Short, meeting Lon, threatened to marry Little before Long, which caused Little in a short time to marry Long. Query: Did tall Short love big Little less because Lit-tie loved Long?
I EAGLE WHICH EATS MONKEYS…
I EAGLE WHICH EATS MONKEYS One of the newest arrivals at the Zoologi- cal Gardens is the monkey-eating eagle from the Philippines, whioh is to be seem im the vulture aviaries. This bird is so raxe tbeut there are only four skins of the species in the musetrms ol the world.
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Henri Piet v. Dick LeeI
Henri Piet v. Dick Lee I MONDAY'S FICHT AT MOUNTAIN ASH ——— The contest between Henri Piet, the French boxer, and Dick Lee, of Kentish Town, at Mountain Ash on Monday evening is certain to be a good one. Lee is well known aa one of the cleverest and gamest boys of his class in England, and Piet has shown his quality in his fight with Fred Welsh. Lee and Piet have met in France, and Lee was defeated by the wonderful little French- man, but it is claimed for Lee by ail who were cognisant of the circumstances that he was unfit to fight at the time by reason of ha,ving been very ill crossing the Channel. At any rate, both boys are very anxious to try conclusions again, and are looking tor- ward to the present opportunity at Mountain I Ash on Monday night in the hope that it will enable them to finally setile the I question of supremacy. When Dick Lee fought Fred Welsh some two years ago, the decision was given to Welsh, but there were very many who thought it should have gone to Lee, and there were more who believed the contest a draw. Let Lee beat Piet in a decisive way and he will be justified in asking for a chance at Welsh again. Lee is well aware of this, and is anxious to get another chance at the champion; therefore, lie will do his best to win over the clever Frenchman, who has so far given Welsh his best fight in this country. Something of a line on Lee's possibilities as a fighter can be drawn through the fact that he has beaten Joe Fletcher three times. Also he has beaten Seaman Hayes six times, George Moore once, Young Lilly onoe, and other good men besides. On the lace of things, therefore, the contest between the two boxers is one cl the sort that promises intense interest for those who witness it..No one can tell in advance what The result will be, and the chances are that it will be in doubt to the end, and that is the sort, of contest that is most exciting to behold. Piet has been preparing faithfully for the I bout, as is his invariable custom, and Dick Lee, conscious of how much depends on his performance, has left notning undone to get himself into the best possible condition. bnallenge to trie Victor j Joe Fletcher, who was defeated by Freddy I iVelsii last Monday, is prepared to moet tfie winuer oi tiie Piel-Lee contest for from ioO to ilOi acide. Tne noantain Ash Syndicate j are prepared to put up a substantial purse for tHe proposed contest ii it can be r a tinea. I Another Offer to Ivioran I Writing to "The .Sportsman," Mr. A. Shirley, of Cardilt, manager to Jim. Eriseoll, says:—"I feel it only dae to myself iMid to j,,r.Ls,coil that the public should know that we both mean business, and in order to try and bring Moran and Briscoll together I submit the following oiter: A parse of L2,000 or 50 II per cent, of the gross gate, whichever may be the larger amount, the contest to take place at the Pavilion, Mountain Ash, on Monday, [I October 11 next. Now, if Moran really desires to fight I hope he will accept this offer, so that we can fix the matter up without delay. \1 enclose cheque for £ 2,0C0, so that there I can be no question a.bout the money." ===== I
CARDIFF -EMPIRE1
CARDIFF EMPIRE1 Mr. R. A. Roberts heads the bill at Cardiff Empire next week, and wiu awaken more interest than ever with his quick-change repertoire. Although in all cases Mr. Roberts makes a full change, in many cases even to the boots, one change occupies only one and a tenth second, whilst the longest change occupies 4! seconds. It may be news to readers that the changes are made in almost complete darkness. I know where everything is," says the protean artiste; .1 my touch is so keen. In one case, where I made a jump from the top of an 8ft. 6in. staircase I undressed as I jumped, and before I reached the entrance through which I made a re-entry—a distance of 30ft.—I was completely transformed." Speaking of earlier days, he says, They were times l should not like to go through again. Imagine playing parts in a Shakspearean repertoire in one week! and for 25s. a week." George Gilbey, otherwise known as Spouty," the goal-keeper, is another star turn. Xext week he will give his new crea- tion, Constable Duffy." Gilbey's first real 'hit" was made at Birkenhead with a policeman song called Monkey," and the famous comedian remembers a, funny story in connection with this. I wao playing at the Gaiety," he told the writer, and after singing three songs, the Monkey song was called for. Upon remarking that I had tak111 the musie out of my books, thinking it wa.s played out, a voice from the gallery s-a-id, 'George, oan't yer sing it without the music?' I replied, I'm sorry; but I cannot.' The answer was brief and to the point, Go on, kid; I'll whistle it! Boseow's Midget Wonders, who give, a.mongst other thing?, a boxing display; J. W. Hall, the well-known comedian; Ruby Laws, in a society sketch; Six Lancashire Lassies; Frank Leon, the great dancing expert; Mildred Bryan, with new songs; and the popular bioscope complete a good en ter t ai n men t.
I CARDIFF LACROSSE CLUB i
CARDIFF LACROSSE CLUB i The annual meeting of this club will be I held on Monday evening to elect oiffcers for I the coming season. A good list cf fixtures, with moat of the leading clubs in the West, I has been arranged, and matches with at least one london dub are expected to be added shortly. The prospects of the club, both as to numbers and strength of the first tea.m, are bright, a considerable influx of new m-embers taking the place of those who have left the district or are reti-ring from active participation, and the club should regain its old position at the bead of the South Western A'ocia.tian. Play will qtart on the 13t.h with practice on the <?ame ground in the L!a.ndaS Fields as 1ast year.
I BRIDEGROOM'S DILEMMAI
I BRIDEGROOM'S DILEMMA I There is a French citizen at Lyons named Joseph Marius Lafon, who is in a curious dilemma, in regard to his marriage. He was born on April 21, 1881, and by some curious error was regis-tered on the list of births as (being of the opposite sex. Now that he wants to get married the authorities decline to perform the ceremony until all the neces- sary formalities have been complied with in regard to getting the register altered. This is likely to take some mouths.
THE CHEERY OLD SOUL.-I
THE CHEERY OLD SOUL. I Mary Knight, aged 62, stated at West Ham Police-court yesterday that it was elation at hoi husband's receipt of an admission order to the workhouse infirmary that induced her to sing in the street the song, "I love to think of the days when I was young, tiddly- urn." "God love your old face," she re- I marked oheor-ily to the magistrate as 'he I remanded her. —
- TRAIL OF APPLES I
TRAIL OF APPLES I It was stated at Strutfofd Police-court yes- terda.y thc:.t Ernest Allum, a thirteen-year-old schoolboy, who was fined for stealing fruit, was traced by a trail of apples which had fallen from a. hole in the Swk in which he was carrying them a-way. t
fSERMONS FOR GOLFERSI
f SERMONS FOR GOLFERS I The Rev. J. F. Kendall, vicaa- of St. Ger- main's Church, Blacfcheath, is inaugurating what he calls sermons for golfers, to be given in his church on Sunday mornings for the benefit of those who play on the local links. I
I SKITTLE NOTES. I
I SKITTLE NOTES. I I [By "FLOORER."] I The Cardiff Skittles League look forward to a most successful season. There is already a membership of twenty clubs, and several more application have yet to be considered. Should these be accepted there is every prob- a,bility of the league being formed into two divisions, as it will be impossible for a club to go through the large fixture list that would be entailed by all the olubs being placed in one division. Registration forms should be sent in by the olub secretaries as early as possible for their registration before October 1.
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'Not Really aBad Woman'
'Not Really aBad Woman' WOMAN FORGER'S PATHETIC PLEA Thers was a remarkable development at the Central Criminal Court yesterday in a case in which Maud Kohler, aged 36, of no occupation, pleaded guilty to having forged an order for the delivery of a banker's cheque book, with intent to defraud. The prisoner is stated to have gone to the Standard Bank of South Africa and. repre- senting that she was a Mrs. Eolfe, receives a ehoque book, the order for which she signed in the name of Maud Rolfe. Mr. Rolfe, it was st-ated, was a retired South African farmer, who had been living with prisoner for some years. Prisoner swooned while the prosecuting counsel was making his statement. Subse- quently she was able to address the Recorder, iihe said:- I do think, for my own sake and the sake of my boy, you should consider me, because I was driven to it, and I am not really a bad woman. I have been perfectly true to this man. I believed in him, and I trusted him. as he was a friend of my father, who held cno of the best positions in South Africa. Having perused papers which had been handed to him, the Recorder said he was quite satisfied that the relations between the parties put an entirely different complexion on the Ca.303, and he would pass the nominal sentence of four days' imprisonment.
MONDAY'S RACING.
MONDAY'S RACING. WARWICKOCRAMME. WABWIOK MEETING. -The AEDKN ALL-AGED SELLING PLATE of 103 sovs; winner to be sold for 50 sovs. Six furlongs. -The WARWICK HANDICAP PLATE of 30rj sovs; the second to receive 20 sovs. One mile and a quaiter. ye st lb Lord Etur;"e -Moredia AV Waugh 4 9 0 Mr R J Fcirciuharvan'-? Mallard II Farquharbon a 8 12 Mr L Lnguy'a Thunderbolt .DlgO) a 10 Lord Carnarvon's Oni K R C Da.Y.'>Æ 3 0 4 Mr H J Hall's sanuysiKe W ootion 4 8 2 Mr H WalKer's Queen Mother ..Fergruf«in 3 8 3 Lady de Ba*.Ue'e Blacii Sea I Darling 3 7 12 Mr C Hobscil's Queen't Courier Clement 3 7 9 Mr H M Smith's Awake 11 Eeardsiey 4 7 2 Lord Coventry's Coup ue Grace HaugH 6 7 0 Lord Derby's Queea'e Journal Hon G La-nbton 3 6 li Mr .V i'oroce's Engagement Bailing 3 6 11 —The CASTLE PLATE of 102 sovs; allow a noes. One mile and tLiee furlongs. y st lb ye st lb Mr J B Joel's Temnoe Moiton 3 8 11 Mr J Buchanan's lemeraire H D;<riiiig 4 8 11 Ljrcl Derby's Lon,plel 11 ..Hou G Lamb toil 4 8 II Mr S Joel's .C eck 0 II Mr JA de itotluchiid'e .Slow Leopard b Pratt, o 8 11 .\11" C Carioll's k\ ueatear S Darling 4 3 J Mr J C LVOHS'L Abeiard 11 1' Harti^'JUi 5 8 8 Mr R C Dawson's cthampoo R C Dawson 3 8 3 Mr .Merry's Double Fortune Braime 3 8 3 Mr J B Joel's Submit Morton 3 8 0 Mr J Baylit'e Canonist T Leader, Jun 4 712 Mr W A Jarvis'c* Lyntaurie Jay vis 3 7 7 H Lytiiam's Nithrdale W'ootton 3 7 7 Duke of Portland's Curzola. W Waugii 3 7 4 Mr W B l'ureioy's Ganymede II Lewie 3 7 4 Mr W M G Singer's Grimepound Taylor 3 7 4 The WARWICK RACE GATE COM- MITTEE HANDICAP of 150 sovs; winners extra. One mile. ys st lb Lord Howard d Wald's Marozzo Major Beatty a 10 0 Lord Westbury'e Darraidou Farquharscn 3 8 8 Capt :1" D Grissei's B'iying lima A Co'.e 4 8 7 Sir E Caasel'B Sir Wolfus .Hon F Lambton 3 8 6 Mr F Jienion'-s Maiehal Ney Medcalle 6 712 Mr W Go^dchild's Sclinappe Shtyrrard a 7 11 Mr J P Azola's Dtesclute Torterolo 3 7 10 lr U B Ifmay's Garrogie Kobinson 3 7 10 Mr C F Youn, e Alarifc C Young 4 7 S Mr J H Bennett's Dandy Bird T Young 3 7 7 Mr H Lytham's Wild Georgie. Wootton 4 7 7 Capt F Forester's Lifter "liber Lewis 3 7 5 Mr R Poltiliampton's The Merry Widow Digby 3 7 0 -The COUNTY SELLING NURSERY HANDICAP of 100 sovs; winner to be sold for 50 sovs. Five furlongs. st lb Mr R Wootton'e Tyrconnel Wootton 9 5 Mr G Ed warden's Ara .r Hartigan 9 0 Sir R Hermon-Hodge's Prelude Clement 8 12 Mr D C Gilroy's llackler'e Beauty Watts 8 9 Mr L B B?auchamp's Can't Sing E Hunt 8 8 Mr F C Stern's Bobele.igii 4. D,i,,s87 Mr T A Edge's Irish Vote P-rkcs86 Mr A Stevens's c by lactantius; dam by.\lt6! Thnkh-Morlsnd .tevene 8 3 Lord Werbury's Salvia Farquhareon 8 3 Mr W T Sharpe's Witoh Finder .Gurry 8 3 Mr PXelke'« Woodland Maid .Pickering 8 2 Mr T Cannon's Howl T Cannon 8 1 Capt 31 I-liigrhes's Joliette Davies 7 13 Mr C Bewicke's c by Bentinck, data by Ocean Wa.ve-Lacy Gower Cort 7 12 Mr R Wriglit'f? Golden Harvest Allen 7 12 Mr D C Gilrov'e Ma.rie Lohr A'att-710 Mr C F Young's Wolf's Glen .C Young 7 10 Mr W _F Parrish's Cover Over Rogers 7 9 Mr J C Sullivan's Bay Bachelor .Sullivan 7 6 Mr J Butters's Valley Brook. Butters 7 5 —The KNEILWORTH MAIDEN TWO YEAR OLD PLATE of 106 sovs; the second to receive 3 sovs. Five furlongs. et lb Lord Howard da Walden's c by Eager-Cha"finch Major Beattv 9 7 Mr C Bower Iemav's WelbuTy Rcbintcii 9 7 Mr H Lytham's Minter Wootton97 Mr G Alton's Kiln-,allock M'Xenna 9 0 Mr A F BaKet's Tretsco Abbey Penee 9 0 Mr Browning's Galtee King .Sir C Nugent 9 0 Mr J Buchanan'e Bull's Run. H Darling 9 0 Sir E Cassers Firefly Hon F Lambton 9 0 Mr D M Gant.s Scotch Ways Phillips 9 0 Mr R Gurney's Rose Mallow Private 9 0 Lord Howard de Walden's Orpiment Major Beatty 9 0 Capt M w Hu,i??,? Pent?Iicue D?v'M 9 0 Mr JR Ke?-n?,,? uffragist S DlS 9 0 Sir J i KI elks Loo A B Sadler 9 O Mr J J aPrkjn.=Jon 9 Royal O'Xeill Martin 9 0 Mr G A Prentice's Churchill Bell 9 0 Mr J A de Rothschild's Nankeen .Pratt 9 0 lIr J C Sullivan's Jeweller Sullivan 9 0 Mr Buck worth's Golden Dream Priele,aI! Lord Carnarvon's Berenice n c Dawson S 11 Mr R B Dobeifg f by SUpender-GOOd Day II Rooney 8 11 Mr FaTq..har?n-. Grev.H? .Farq?o? 8? OW Grevn)es Solemnity j g .1 Sir R Herrtoil-Hodve'Di kJ'*J Bel! 811 Mr T F Hooley s Biact Ha. GwS 11 Mr C E Howard's Litle Ben .S Darling 8 11 Lord Howard de Waldcc's f by YO¡OdYOkj-W aw 31?ior Beatty8 11 M? HB Mr H Lytha'¡l1'S hl<jc Wootton 8 11 Mr A f ^Avington—Swtch Bro? Mr H S Mitchell's Groe Pallid jj i| }Ir H S :Mltche1.fJ Grove "Hallick 811 Mr E Mcor.'s Mi? Portland .Tor?o 8? -'Ir ? ?J?'\?? .?Pt  ?Hr ) N?no?'s Angehque 'p?tt an Duke of Port;Md's Lady '.Vhftefoot WWa?h s 8 1n1 Mr H P Whitney-? g by H?mbuJg-YorkvUie Be? JoY er 811 Mr E A Wigan's Wood Nymph '?? ? ? Ii Major J D Edwards's Santia .PH?n For Later Arrivals See Page 3.
WINNING JOCKEYS
WINNING JOCKEYS COMPILED FROM MARCH 22 TO ?PTESIRER 10 I:>CLUSn E. -M?wgt „ st Ib lst 2n<l 5rd t'npU t; ceniaee F. Wootton 6 5 106 95 5S 22? 4?& 21 35 D Maher 8 a ? 42 30 136 286 27 ?7 ?.A.Hig?. 7 12 71 50 52 231 17.57 A*. SMby. 8 3 57M55 165 2,0 1932 C. Trigg 7 6 52 50 56 315 474 10 97 Walter Griggs 7 11 47 47 45 241 380 12.36 B. Dillon 8 10 33 55 37 m ? 11.98 F. FOX 7 2 33 37 45 247 363 1059 H. Jonc. 8 6 33 3ê:6 24 le9 19.52 G. 7 8 33 24 24 m 192 17.18 J. E. Evana 6 0 30 30 17 1M 236 12.71 J. H. Martin 7 7 27 55 23 143 22,3 11.84 H. Stokes 7 5 26 1 4 14 126 1M 1444 0. 8 0 25 31 25 147 2¿j 11.35 William Griggs 7 11 25 40 49 194 308 8.11 H. Randall 7 11 24 18 27 103 172 14.18 H. East. 6 0 21 18 ?1 138 198 10.60 E. Wheatloy 7 9 21 25 16 143 205 1024 W. HaJsey 8 0 20 29 24 151 224 8 02
NEW MEANINGS TOOLD WORDSI
NEW MEANINGS TOOLD WORDS Bus: A kise. Rebus: Kiss her ag-ain. Omni- bus: Kiss all the girls in the room. Blunder- bus: Kissing your mother-in-law. Syllabus: Two girls kissing each other.
FOREIGN MAILS I
FOREIGN MAILS To be despatched from London Sunday, Sept. 12:- OUTWARD.-Evening- To Constantinople a Jul Smyrna, parcel maik, via Liverpool, per s. Avon. Morning MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. Morning:— To Eg"vpt, by Italian packet. To Oeylon, by German packet. To Faroe Islands, via Leith. To Faroe Islands, parcel mails, via Leith. Eveninig- To United States, parcel mailS, via Liverpool. INWARD.—Duo Sunday- From Unitl'd States, &c., via Plymouth. Due Monday- From United States and Bermuda, via Plymouth.
LOCAL OVERNIGHT CHARTERINQ3.
LOCAL OVERNIGHT CHARTERINQ3. Cardiff to:- Havre. 48 3d, Stokes ley or sub., 1,400 tons maximum (Watte, Watts, Limited) Ha-v, 4s, SkeJdon, 1,750 tons (Sooiete Com- meroiale) Vladi'voe'to'ck, 12s 6d (?), several steamers (i,am,b-rt Bros., Limited) Buenoe AyrieslIia Plata, 12s 9d, Common- wealth, 4,.300 tons, September 20 (Cory Bros., Limited) Genoa, 53 l,d, 5,200 tone (E. J. Hill and Co.) St. Nazaire, 5f 60c, 800 tons (T. Beynon. and Co.) Bochefort, 5f, ILftzeLmere, J.,450 tons flMargan and Cadogan) Newport to:- Naples or Torre Aoinirnffliata, 56 1, 800 tons delivery, 3,000 tons (R. W. Jones and Co.) Genoa, 6s, Guis-ernp-e Aocame, 4,000 tons (Soeiete Oommercaale) Swansea to:- Cherbourg, 4s 6d odal, 53 fmel, 1,450 tons (Societ.e Oommerciale) St. Nazaire, 4f 871c, Greenihill, 2,800 tons (E. W Cook and Co.) Cherbourg, 46 6d coal. 5s fuel, Yakan, 1,450 tons (Societe Commercial) Rouen, 4s 10d, Linn o' Dee, 700 tons (Blaen- oae-Gurwen Colliery Company) Rauen, 4s ld, The Princess, or substitute, 700 tons fOleeves and Co.) Civitia Vecchia, 6s 9d coal, 7s 6d fuel, 2,800 tons (H. J. Hill and Co.) Stuigsund, 5s 6d, Verdfaaidi, 1,000 tons (In- gram and Co.) Port Talbot to:- LCTWIOH, 3s lOid. 1.250 toa» <Pymain, WaitBOtn)
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IBilliards.I
I Billiards. I I 46.-CROSS CANNONS. j j By RISO LEVI (Copyright). I Diagram 635 shows a, position which, with slight variations, not infrequently occurs. With the object balls to the measurements given under the diagram a cannon may be made by three totally different strokes, viz., off the red ball a.nd the top cushion, by a screw off the white playing from the left end of the D. and by a cross cannon off the white. The cannon off the red is a very diffi- cult stroke to judge, and the after-position I resulting: from such a stroke is obscure. The screw off the white is also a DL\.GRA:;Í e35.-A cross cannon by moans of a thin stroke played with ije. Object ^.vhite lin. (ron"> the side cushion and 43in. from the ton ^.vhio'.i. luvl ba!l lin. from the top cushion and ,C. from the side cushion. Cue ball end of the D line. diffioult stroke, and owing: to the pace at which such a stroke must be played, little or no control can be had over the ball £ The cross cannon is also a difficult stroke, but provided that it is played without much pace very good position will generally b- left when the cue ball gets well on to the red. For this cross cannon the cue ball should bo spotted at or near the right end of the D, and aim should be taken for a thin oontact with the object white, the cue ball being struck with the side which will be running- side off the side cushion. Most players miss this cannon, not because they do not play with enough side. but because they do not take the object ball sufficiently thin. With the talis to the measurements given under Diagram 635 the objeot white should be taken about a quarter-ball or even a shade thinner than this. Diagram 636 illustrates a cross cannon that is only possible with extreme side. With the balls to the measurements given DJ TRAM e.36.-A cross cannon piayed with extreme íde. Red baJI 3in. from the side cushion and 45, from the baulk cushion. Object white 3in 7775m the side cushion and 6in. from the top cushion. Cue ball on the D semi-circle. under the diagram the contact with the ob- ject ball should be about half-ball. An ap- preciably thinner oontact will cause the stroke to fail and a considerably fuller than half-ball contact will make t-he stroke a run- throug-h and prenent the cue baJJ from travel- ling across the table to the red. Mr. Levi's articles appear every Saturday fai the "Evcning Express." No. 1 of this series appeared on Oatoher 3.
aim1, II' . 1 in I MISS ELLALINE…
aim1, II' in I MISS ELLALINE TERRISS' VISIT I I Mr. Chrles Frohman is sending to the New Thea,tre, Cardiff next week one of the largest companies he has e"ern't..on tour, and one of the strongest castes. He will present Miss EUaline Terris in his latest London success, "The Dashing Little Duke," a musical play by lr. Seymour Hicks, with all the original MISS ELLA LINE TERRIS AT THE isEW I THEATRE, CARDIFF. scenery, dresses, special furniture, &c.; in fact, the original production in its entirety. This will e Miss Ellaline Terris's first appea.rance in Cardiff, and she will be sup- ported by a large company, including Miss Blizabefth Firth. Mrs. A. B. Tapping, Miss Nellie Dade, Mr. Norman SeJmond, Mr. Johnny Dan vers, and Mr. Fra.nk Wilson. "The Da6hing Little Duke" 16 a musioa.l play ba-scd upon the story contained in a play produced in Pris in the year 1710, entitled, "The First Loves of Richelieu." The music is by Mr. Frank Tours (who will personally control the oroheat.ra- durinp the present, tour), and the lyrics are by Mr. Adria.n Ross. Miss Ell-aline Terriss as the "Due de Riche- lieu" has made a great personal success.
ILOCAL TIDE -TABLE.I
I LOCAL TIDE TABLE. I Ill S I +-1 S ? ? § ??! ? ? s s I S I S I z ¡ ? S I  3 5 5 g 1 § £g i S t3 -? ? 0 < M a M ,j (?) Ö z Satur-fM. 1 3 52 1 4 li 1 3 39 I 3 65 4:0 4 51 day. E 422 44 2 11 424 1 5 21 6 25 Sep 11 Ht i 30 2: 19 9! 6 iol 29 0 28 8 28 3 Sun- (M.. 4 4a 5 7 4 40 1 4 49 5 49 1 5 52 Sun- r:511 5 30 5 6 1 6 13 1 6 16 day1, 2 fft 74 16 21 3 28 4 30 8 1 30 10 ? 30 5 Sep Mo,?- fM: 5 32 &M j 5 9 ¡ 5 32 1 6 54 1 6 36 day. E 5 51 &9 5 49 5 51 6 53 6 57 day1. 3 (Ht 5541 122 669 129 5 31 10 1 32 6 I 32 1 Sep Ht 32 Tues- fM. i 6 7 b 2S> I 6 7 b8 r 6 lf| TT3 day. I E. 642 1 624 624 ? 7 27 7 29 Sep-M. i 62S 1 1 22 11130 4 32 3 33 10 33 4 Sep 14 Wed- fM. 608 6 511 640; 640 7 43T 7~4> da.y, < E 6 50 7 13 6 56 (I 6 55 1 58 7 59 day, 15 t Ht 33 5 1 23 7 31 0' 33 2 ?4 8)34 1 Th'n. Î.' 7 9 7 28 ¡ 7 il 7 10  "8?3 ? 8 14 '37,2 9. 7 4 725 1 724 1 8 27 I 8 28 day1, & 1 Ht 1 36 24 0 1 31 2 33 5 34 10 34 2 K. Dock 8111. 1 Heath BMin. Alexandra. Dock.
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GRAND NEW SERIAL STORY.
GRAND NEW SERIAL STORY. ?r"?  ? ?** ??? j<?? !?** "FOES OF ?? ? B t?' JUSTICE BY -I IIEADON HILL, Author of "Unmasked at Last," "The Hidden Victim," "Her Splendid Sin," "A Traitor's Wooing," &c., &c. CHAPTER L L' THE WARNING. ine single gas-jet turned low for economy's sake, scarce served to gain an answering gleam from the phials and jars on the shelves of the dingy dispensary. From the Blackfriars-road outside there drifted" in through the open doorway a blend of many odours—of fried fish, of petrol and decaying greengrocery. And, t-o tickle the ears as well as the nose, there resounded through the same hungrily expec- tant portal the ceaseless tramp of pedes- trians on the broad pavement, varied by scraps of conversation mostly carried on in raucous, gin-sodden voices, and at not infrequent intervals scintillating with a sometimes ingenious but always lurid blas- phemy. The young man who sat swinging his heels on. the counter of the dispensary was vaguely conscious that some of the scrappy talk that floated in upon hi. solitude might have been quite interest-fid if it had not been dipped so suddenly its it passed out of earshot. But be was more intimately con- cerned with the unending footfall, and with the question whether one of those who train ;;ed heavily, or one of those who rihulfied along, would turn aside and enter that opened door. Dreamily as he seemed to I listen, he was really on the alert to jump down from the counter, turn up the gas and assume a professional demeanour the moment such a happy consummation was secured. j For Julian Pecfold, Doctor of Medicine by right of diploma in the schools of Oxford and London, possessed nothing but the drugs on the sparsely furnished shelves and a little loose silver in his pocket. His rent was six weeks overdue, and in default of payment on the morrow his landlord was going to distrain and put him out into the street. In fact Julian was at the end of his tether, with only the last slender chance of an answered advertisement between him and starvation. 1 Yet his pleasant, honest face was not that of one who had deserved such a fate at seven-and-twenty, nor had he. After a university and hospital career, during which his only fault had been the prefer- ence of outdoor pursuits of more legitimate studies, the supposed rich uncle who had promised to buy him a practice had died insolvent, and he had been compelled to turn his hand to anything that came aloiio- He had acted as assistant and locum tenens in nearly every county in the kingdom, till a longing for independence had tempted him to invest his paltry savings in the dis- pensary from which he was now to be ejected. The thing had been a fraud from the start. The district was already over- stocked with shops where the motto was advice and medicine for sixpence," and as a newcomer he was the first to be crowded out. It was a poor game at the best requir- ing a great number of patients for the earn- ing of a bare livelihood, and the patients of the locality preferred the down-at-heel medicos with whose bibulous faces they were familiar to the young stranger who wore clean linen however threadbare his ooat might be, and who objected to being cursed in the South London venacular. Lean as a greyhound, yet with a deep chest and muscular biceps of a gladiator, Julian Penfold's one pleasure in his sordid struggle for existence had been to keep him- self in perfect physical training. He had rowed in the 'Varsity eight, had been cham- pion heavy-weight boxer, and had carried off prizes innumerable in athletic contests; and he was loth to relax his grip on the only quality that had brought him fame. As he often reflected ruefully, if his name was as well-known to the editor of The Lancet" as it was to the gentlemen who preside over the sporting papers he would be making his ten thousand a year in Bar- ley-street. He stifled some such thought now, as he pulled from his waistcoat pocket for the twentieth time that day a slip of printed matter. It was an advertisement which he had cut out of the previous day's Daily Telegraph "-the sole remaining bulwark between him and financial shipwreck. A half-humourous and rather wistful smile flitted across his clean-shaven, tanned face as he read once more the anonymous invi- tation which had caused him to seize pen and paper for reply. "To Young Medical Men.—An elderly gentle- man requires the exclusive services of a fully qualified medical man. The selected a.pplicant will be expected to reside in adver- tiser's ho-nee. He must be under thirty, of irreproachable character, and of stalwart and vigorous frame. This is not a mental case, but the circuimstainoes of the post will only be described to applicants whose title to the above qualifications is beyond doubt. —Apply X.Y.Z., Oflice of this paper." Julian carefully re-placed the cutting, laughing a little as he did so. "I fill all those conditions to a tick, but it's hardly like my luck to get so much as a. nibble," he muttered. "It would be a qu-oor billet, I fancy. Some hypochondriac with an en- larged liver and a morbid fear of death hopes to prolong his existence by having a tame physician on the premises. But where does the stalwart and vigorous frame come in. I wonder?" Ho swung himself round on the reverse side of the counter, speculation as to remote co-ntiii-gencies driven into the background by the immediate prospect of raking in a certain sixpen-ce--a sum insufficient to stave off impending ruin, but which would post- pone for twenty-four hours the necessity of joining the homeless brigade which "dosses" on the Embankment. For his quick ears had caught the sound of footsteps slackening, and then diverging from the stream of traffic towards the open door of the dispensary. Before the doorway was darkened he had turned up the gas and fallen into the pose of tha busy healer doing mysterious things, with a pefctle and mortar. Glancing up in his best professional man- ner, which somehow with Julian Penfold was never quite the real thing, he nearly gasped with astonishment at the apparition before him. Never in his life had he looked upon such wondrews beauty as that of the girl who had entered. As she crossed the floor her large, lustrous eyes were fixed on him as though she were striving to gauge his capability, or else, could it be. to learn the impression she herself was making on him. A slight flush mantled in the pure pallor of her cheeks, lending a warm glow to the coil-tour of the perfect oval. She was dressed like an assistant in one of the cheap drapers' shops near by, in a shabby black coat and skirt of the ready-made order, but Julian felt that such sorry garb was an in. sult to those gracious curves and to that queenly carriage. "You wish to consult me?" he asked, try- ing to address her with the brusqueness 1 which he found' was most appreciated thero- J abouts. I "Yes, I want something for headache— chronic headache," replied the girl rather j diffidently. Julian looked at the unblemished skin and the clear eyes, and concluded that the malady could by no possibility have a bilious origin. It sprang, more likely, from neuralgia, caused by dra ughts in the einfFy atmosphere of some crowded workroom or shop. The answers to a few questions he put as to her symptoms struck him as vague and evasive, but on the whole they bore out the view he had adopted of the cause of her trouble, a.nd he made up a simple mixture t in accordance with his diagnosis. "There," he said, as he handed her the bottle; "if you will take that as directed I think you will find relief. If not"-and he was conscious of a hope that the contin- gency might arise—" you must come 'and see me again. If I am here," he added, remem- bering has landlord's threat. The fair patient took the bottle, looking at it with a strange dislike, as if she sus- pected that the contents were nasty. "How much do I owe you for this?" she asked, giv- ing him the full benefit of her beautiful eyes. The phraee rang oddly, seeing that the dispensary walls were plastered with half a doaeai notices in staring capitals that advice and medicine were for strict cash at a uniform price of sixpence. Julian essayed to be flippant. "If I were where I ought to be—in a West End consulting-room-I shonhi charge you two guineas," he said. In the Blwk- i I friara-road, as you see by these placards, I am compelled to allow you a cash discount of two pounds one shilling and sixpence cff that sum." You mean that your charge is six- pence," the girl smiled shyly. "Well. to be quite candid, I—I am even too poor for that. I have only twopence with me, and there is the 'bus home." With which she put the medicine down on the counter, and stood waiting his verdict with an anxiety so apparent that it touched Julian's heart —also his sense of humour. It was really too ridiculous that this charming girl and -he should be at logger- heads over a few pennyworth of drugs which morally belonged to his landlord, and which that irate individual would in any case have annexed on the morrow. The wistful pleading in the sweet face across the counter prompted him to match his patient's frank confession of inpecuni- osity with his own. "Then I must be generous at someone else's expense," ho said, gaily. "I am really not so solvent as you, for I haven't even two- pence that I can rightly call my own. I am going to be sold up to-morrow, and I suppose that that stuff, which I sincerely trust will do you good, really belongs to my creditors." He expected that she would take up the bottle and gratefully depart, but a thrill shot through him when she ignored it, the divine light of pity shining from her "wonderful eyes. Yes, there could be no doubt about it, the girl had forgotten her own ailment in sympathy for his distress. I am so sorry," she murmured gently. Oan you do nothing to put matters right? Forgive me, but you do not look like one to I aooept misfortune without an effort to over- come it." Julian laughed a little bitterly. "A tor- rent is sometimes too strong for the strongest swimmer," he 6a,id. My troubles are not swimmi,e,r, he 6-,v d beginning to-night. I have stood a good many I bulictings from the waters of into before l throwing up my arms and going under." And have you no prospect of starting afresh—of taking up other and, perhaps, more congenial work amid pleasanter sur- I roundings?"- Julian glanced at his pretty cross-examiner, flattered by her interest in his poor affairs, an,d willing to prolomg a discussion that was in itself so pleasant as to distract his mind from its subject. Her interest appeared to be perfectly genuine, and he saw no reason why he should not humour it. He was not a vain man, and poss-ibly all the more ) because of that he surrendered to a sym- pathy he was unable to account for. He told of the last chance that stood be- tween him and complete penury—vaguely at first, merely mentioning that he had answered an advertisement which might lead to employment. But urged by those seduc- tive eyes and an innocent inquiry thrown in here and there, he grew more explicit, and finally, in a burst of confidence, he extracted the cutting from his pocket once more and spread it out on the counter. That e the billet that I'm after," he said, admiring the trim head as it bent over the paper. One that would suit me down to the ground, as far as qualifications go—even if it means the minding of a homicidal maniac. These few lines seemed charged with the promise of adventure, of something out of the common ruck, for the lucky chap that gets the berth." The girl scarcely read the cutting through, and before he had finished speak- ing she was looking up at him gravely. I have reason to know that you will be offered this post," she said in a low, earnest undertone, almost as if she was repeating a lesson. "And I implore you, when it is offered, not to accept it, Dr. Penfold. There is danger in it—deadly danger which I cannot explain, which I do not really un- I derstand. But this is a message—I came here to-night on purpose to bring it—from one whose mandates it is unsafe to disregard. You will be guided by what I have said, I won't you, and refuse to have anything to do with the person who inserted that adver- tisement when you hear from him?" I Julian's first impulse was towards righteous indignation. No one likes to be approached under a pretext which is un- blushingly discarded as soon as it has served its end. It was galling to have wasted pity, and then to have laid bare his own secrets to a fasoinatirug stranger, when it transpired immediately afterwards that there was no pity, and, consequently, none for the reci- procal oonfidence into which he had been tempted. For the moment this sense of petty irritation prevented him from perceiving the larger issue—the mystery of his visitor's knowledge of and intervention in his private affairs. So the headaches are mythical, and you came to pump me With a view to delivering your prrecdoxis warning if I should turn out to be the proper recipient?" he began, angrily. But the pleading eyes tamed him I in part, and, restraining himself, he went on in milder tone: Well, please go back I to this formidable person, who seems to have go great an insight into my business, and very politely ask him to mind his own. You might also add that a threat of personal danger is the least likely way to induce Julian Penfold to abandon a course he has shaped for himself." The girl had dropped her head with real I or pretend-ed meekness before the rising storm, but at its rather weak termination she looked up boldly. You are right to blame me, though if you knew the details I do not think you would," she said. "I oan quite understand your despising and disregarding the threat. A brave man would do that. But you were so kind to me, Dr. Penfold, before you dis- covercl that I was a fraud, that I am hoping that you will grant my request if I make it a personal appeal, asking you to forget any- thing I have said about a third party whom I trust yon will never meet. Come, to please me, the girl you pitld, i-in-d who is grateful for that pity; be wise in time. Do anything rather than accept that past." You are a clever actress, but you won't deceive me twice in the same evening," re- pLied Julian, half relenting. "I am not deceiving you now—upon my word and honour I am not," came the eager protest. I would do anything to deter you from incurring the peril you would rush into go lightly." I don't doubt it," rejoined. Julian with sarcasm. Because you want to carry out the behest of the bogey-man who sent you. And to gain your purpose you are feigning a very pretty personal kindness towards myself. No, young lady; I must respectfuHy decline to be cajoled, just as I have already declined to be threatened. I shall certainly enlist under the banner of that amiable advertiser if he comes my way." It was the girl's turn to be angry now. The red lips pouted, then opened to show two rows of pearly teeth, suggesting, Julian thought ludicrously, that she was going to bit-c. But before she could steer her wrath into any defined channel of word or deed the sound of footsteps was heard on the threshold of the dispensary. Julian's un- satisfactory patient shot a glance at him eloquent of mixed Imotionc,-th,e unvoiced anger that had trembled on her tongue, a hint of supplication, a trace of coy approval —and then fled like a startled hare, brushing past i'n her night to the street a tall, some- what stooping man who was entering. The young lady seems in a hurry," said the newcomer in cultured accents that tinkled sharp and clear like a silver bell. As h-3 spoke he pushed back the soft felt hat which he had worn well down over his eyes, disclosing features which Julian at once reco'gnised from pictures in the public prints. The gentleman with the fine brow and the shrewd, ascetic face was no less a personage than Sir William Grasmere, the celebrated hanging judge." A fair s-nonyma and a luminary of the bench formed a curious combination of visi- tors to a cheap dispensary on the eve of bankruptcy, Julian thought as he stood ex- peotant.
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