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WEATHER FORECAST. YESTERBAT'S FORECAST. I YESTERDAY'S WEATHER.} North westerly winds, j North westerly winds, moderate; fresh and I fair; colder. changeable showery. I The forecast of the weather throughout the West of England and South Wales for to-day (Friday) is as follows:-Northerly winds, moderate or fresh change- able: some showers.

LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Friday, September 22.-Gibhons in F; anthem, II Ponder my words" (Gadsbv).

NOTES. By "OBSERVER." CARDIFF, FRIDAY MORNING. A comp. put houses yesterday where I wrote "horses." For Thursday this is inex- cusable. Had it been Monday I could have understood it. Just one moment, readers mine, whilst I say a word about a most deserving philanthropic object, the Cardiff Saturday Lifeboat Fund. This is so excellent an idea (not needing a word in its praise) that it is most satisfactory to know that it is in able hands and that no pains will be spared to make the fund, when the opportunity arrives, a thing to gladden the hearts of the central lifeboat authorities. But what I want specially to mention (listen, fair readers in particular) is that a meeting of ladies is shortly to be held by our worthy lady, mayoress (lady mayoress as a matter of fact, if not officially) for the purpose of forming a committee to stimulate and further the lifeboat Saturday movement. This is a splendid idea, and I am sure the women oj Cardiff will do all in their power to give it effect. Three cheers, then, for the success of the Ladies' Lifeboat Saturday Fund! It was with great delight (writes worthy Mr. Cadby) that I saw in the Evening Express about our school board play grounds. It would be a great blessing to hundreds of our children if these grounds were open on Saturdays. Where are our children to go at the end of the week—in the streets, or be shut up in our homes ? Reason and com- mon sense unite to say, Open the play grounds, where the young can enjoy themselves with- out fear of being run over by carts or run in by the policeman. A great deal more could be said in favour of your idea, but I leave it to pens more qualified than mine." Thanks, Mr. Cadby, you have spoken shortly and to the point, and would to heaven all correspondents would do the same! My own interest in throwing open the playgrounds is a rather selfish one. I should like the school grounds open on Saturdays and week evenings to relieve the streets of the roaring mass of juvenile vitality which now banishes peace even in the quieter parts of our town. Poets have sung of the musical character of children's voices and the like, but when people reach home after a hard day's work they expect peace at home instead of the Babel which usually assails their ears from without. Of course, some don't mind it in the least, but there are others who do, and I am one of the latter class. It would be better for children, parents, and public if the suggestion above alluded to were adopted. Come, then, 0 school-board, and give the poor ear-strained citizen a little peace! Whilst talking about children I will quote a few lines from the Lady which have a direct bearing on the sad case of our own little Cardiff Arabs :—A wretchedly-clad urchin, who leads the life of a peripatetic match-vendor, was encountered in the Strand by the writer the other day and examined, out of a spirit of curiosity, as to the height of his scholastic attainments. With little parched lips and ready tongue, he un- hesitatingly spelt words of three or four syllables, and that correctly, while compara- tively difficult questions in mental arith- metic met with correct and quick answers. He was but thirteen years of age, had passed the fourth standard, but looked, oh! so pale and hungry. Can nothing be done to give these poor, helpless mites clothing, food employ ? They are a necessary part of the great Nature in whose unutterable vastness we live, or they would not be here, and it would be so tranquilising to our meditations if we could each say Thank God, I have helped a starving fellow-creature to a meal to-day s Sir,-An advertisement recently appeared in the local press, to the effect that a general clerk was required in the borough engineer's offices. All that was required was to write a good clear hand, have a good knowledge of figures, and, if possible, a knowledge of shorthand. Now, I, as well as, I believe, the general public, would like to know why the chief business of the public works com- mittee on Monday afternoon should be to appoint a junior clerk, who must be thoroughly conversant -with squaring and cubing measurements and goodness knows what to be a favoured candidate. Besides, the advertisement did not restrict age, a most remarkable fact. Apparently, the advertise- ment was nothing more nor less than to know who wan starviug or not, and a downright insult to the common sense of those who troubled themselves to give testimonials or anything else to help a "lame dog over the stile," for the delectation of common coun- cilmen. November will soon be here. Let politicians sink their politics; let them re- turn men who will look after the mutual interest of the town in her moral, progressive, and prosperous aspect, and record their vote for the beet business man, and not' for the best politician.—I am, &c., Cardiff. JUNIOR. It's dangerous to say a word now-a-days, it is, indeed. Yesterday I said something by way of stirring up the public to give of their substance towards the funds of St. James's. Scarcely do I get outside the sanctity of my dwelling this morning when I am troubled by a wild-eyed member of St. Catherine's, King's-road,who has 57 reasons to advance why his church is as worthy of support as the others, nay more so. To save my poor bones, which for the nonce were in imminent peril, I consented to chant the praises of St. Catherine's, which I trust the public will here take as chanted. The extension of this church will be consecrated next week, when I am told Canon Thompson will officiate. Good people of Cardiff, and of Canton in particular, in your zeal for St. James's, I beseech you don't forget St. Catherine's I have. been spectator of an interesting little scene—the Poet and the Sporting Man in close confab. So I knew it was time for the old man's famous rhyming tips to come sound again. I grieve to say, though, the Sporting Man made tremendous efforts to haul the Bard over to the Tudor but his hoariness, with the fear of Stead before his eyes, absolutely and positively declined, so the wicked purveyor of tips had to sally forth alone. I shall be curious to note what kind of a fist the Poet makes of his verses now that he has turned teetotal. A private note from Mr. Stead was shown me he other day. Part of it read thus:—" I send you back the old man-cured. But it h: s given me a regular sickener in that line and I'll undertake no more cases. Judging by the effect of the remedy upon him, I think I am safe in recommending it as a universal cure." A nice cup of tea is the Wilkesbarre journal that set afloat the canard of the ladies' choir having been robbed of their little all." The story is an utter frost, or, to put it differently, a Yankee invention." Possibly the paper that circulated the stupid and fallacious item was the same that announced "our distinguished townsman, Mr. Jones, has broken his leg," and in the next issue made further copy by "hastening to add that the fractured limb was a wooden one." Gallant little Wales has come off well at Chicago. Clywch, clywch," Wat- kin And worthy Police-constable Ashton' right glad am I to learn of your success. You are doing more sterling work for your native land than the bards after all, and the publication of the bibliography on which you are now labouring will mark a most impor- tant era in the literature of Wales. I hear the literary policeman is taking his scanty holiday in London, where he is delving amidst the stores of the British Museum towards the completion of his bibliography- The report of Major Marindin on the Taff Vale disaster will, I expect, exercise con- siderable influence on the result of the claims for compensation. The Major says no blame lies anywhere, and as for the locomotive, it had been properly constructed and carefully overhauled. The speed (continues the major) was certainly not exces- sive, and the flaw in the hanging link on the axle-box of the trailing driving-wheel of the engine which led to the fracture of this link and was the real cause of the accident was in such a place and of such a nature that it could not well be discovered while the spring was still in position on the engine- As when a person dies suddenly without apparent cause juries bring in a verdict in which occur the words Visitation of God, '> so in this case I take it the expression might almost have been used without any departure from accuracy. The major says the driver might have done so and so and so and so, but to most people it will seem as though he acted with commendable presence of mind. On the one hand, to conclude, the report blames nobody for the actual cause of the accident, but holds that had the driver (who is not blamed) acted in a certain way the loss of life might have been less, or even nil. On this point I expect the lawyers will lay hold.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Interesting Facts About Interesting People. The Earl and Countess of Iddlesleigh will keep their silver wedding on Saturday. The Duke of Cannaught presented Mr. Cohen, the manager of the Australian cricket team, with a photograph of himself. The Duchess of Portland, so far as is known, is the only woman who has gone through the ordeal of having had a dress made and sewn on her person. Her Grace, having engaged a well-known firm of dress- makers in Bond-street to unuertake the work, stood upright for three hours while the dressmakers were fitting and sewing. Fitty yards of old lace were used. When Miss Ellen Terry is at home in her beautiful home in Barkston-gardens, she loves to surround herself with the innumerable girls who worship at her shrine. Most of them have aspirations in the direction of the stage, but the great actress, unless she sees signs of undoubted talent, invariably damps their en- thusiasm by good-naturedly "chaffing" them, or depicting for them in the crudest colours the disadvantages of stage life. The Countess of Rothes, who has just died in her 83rd year, was the seventeenth in suc- cession to the earldom, which is not con- fined to heirs male. The deceased became Countess of Rothes on the death, in Febru- ary, 1886, of her neice. The successor to the earldom is Norman Evelyn Leslie (Lord Les- lie), eldest grandson of the deceased coun- tess. He was born in 1877, and is now a scholar at Eton. Fond as she is of all animals,the Queen has a special liking for dogs, and especially for those of the Pomeranian or Spitz breed. The late Prince Consort liked these pretty, fluffy creatures, and they have ever since his death been represented in Her Majestvs kennels. Her reigning pet is a beautiful Pomeranian named Marco, who travels everywhere with his roval mistress, and is constantly being photographed and painted by members of the Royal Family.

BESMEARED WITH MUD. An Eloping Couple Have a Warm Reception at Llanelly. An exciting scene is reported from Llanelly, where a large crowd assembled outside the railway-station to greet a workman who had eloped with a copper-worker's wife, and was about to leave the district. The faithless wife. affrighted by the menacing attitude of the crowd, sought refuge in the station and left by train, but the man was pounced upon by his old comrades, and after being flogged w.YS besmeared with mud. He was chased through the district for more than an hour, and was eventually rescued in an exhausted condition by the police, and taken to the lock-up for protection.

APPLES ONLY Sustained a Man on His Walk From Cardiff to Hampshire. A young man recently found himself out of vcrk and out of money at Cardiff, and there- for, like many another prodigal, he began to think of his home, a humble enough place, in a Hampshire village. He turned his back on the town of his adoption, and set off "on the tn-mp," and during the .lays which followed he lived only on apples. "It was such a good y'!ar for them," he grateiully acknowledged, and he received from many a cottager all he could eat or carry away. Except that he felt "a bit low" by the time he reached the parental roof his physical condition was un- doubtedly excellent, and might (says the "Hospital") be taken as one amongst many examples that sound, fresh fruit is harmless. omm,mm

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PROFESSIONALISM. A Northern Football Critic's Opinion. ANOTHER MIGRANT. All sober from the hands of Stead, I'm with you, friends, once more; Eight glad to see the Athlete too, And talk our triumph o'er. He presses me to have a pint With him across the way, A bitter or a B. and S. I answer, Not today The fear of Stead before mine eyes, A perfect cure hath been. I shan't again, so help me, Bob I Within a pub. be seen. Converted to a better state, I'll strive to make my tips More accurate than e'er before, And free from stupid slips. To-morrow then I will begin, And, Tasters won't we go it ? So ends my yarn—yours to command Converted Office Poet. The Llanelly Association Football team is pretty certain to give a good account of itself this season I am told. There are several changes in the personnel ef the eleven, and all these tend to make it stronger and more for- midable. The new blood includes Dean, Bright, and Davies, all of whom are tried men, and have won distinction for themselves in other seeker teams of no mean repute. The first match of the season comes off at Swansea on Saturday, and an exciting game is expected. The scarlet runners will this year do with- out the services of Conway Rees and his brother Harry. Last year a lot of feeling was excited over the inclusion of players from a distance, whose travelling expenses had to be paid Saturday after Saturday. The club has now decided to utilise local talent, of which, thank goodness, there is enough and to spare. Next Saturday Jack Levering will play at centre against Morriston, and if he only shows his old form he ought to be permanently in- cluded in the team. I met Doherty, the swimmer, on Thursday night returning from a fruitless journey to Newport, whither he had travelled to swim Evill for the championship of .Wales. Through some misunderstanding, however, the match did not come off, Evill, so Doherty informs me, refusing to compete. The Swansea man feels that he has been treated very harshly in the matter, as for the last three weeks he has given up his business to train for this event. He pointed out that all the circum- stances were in Evill's favour, such as swim- ming in his own water, &c. However, Doherty, under the circumstances, claims the title of Welsh champion, and wishes me to say that he will defend it against all comers. Doherty, by the way, is a Lancashire lad hail- ing from Salford, where some few years ago he won the junior swimming championship. He is a well-made, sturdy little fellow, the beau ideal of an all-round athlete. On Thursday he looked fit to swim for a man's life, and it was a sad dis- appointment to him and his friends that the match could not be brought off. Rumours are flying about just now that a pro- minent Newport player is leaving the district, and may shortly be seen in the ranks of a tip- top Yorkshire organisation. The Pharaoh Boys in the late tournament, by defeating the Lambs, think they have accom- plished a big performance, and want some recog- nition. The Lambs, I hear, are perfectly willing to meet them again on the same handicap terms, and a gentleman has kindly offered to provide nine medals for the winners. Now, then, Pharaohs," walk up. Mr. J. J. Bentley ("Free Critic" of the Athletic News) has been interviewed by a Morning Leader man on the subject of football professionalism. Mr. Bentley is of the opinion that professionalism has improved the Associa- tion game and popularised it, too. Yes, pro. fessionalism has gone on improving the game," he says, and in my opinion football has a sufficiency of the future before it to satisfy the most expectant enthusiast. But there is a danger to which clubs areftying headlong in their zeal to excel one above another—particu- larly those clubs of practically recent origin. Rather than cast about them for talent which only wants encouraging to make a name for itself—look at the Wolverhampton Wanderers, for instance, who can win the English Cup with mostly local lads—they have laid big prices at the feet of what certainly are or were acknowledged 'stars,' with promises—nay, legal agreements — to pay exorbitant wages 'on arrival,' and so they have gone on pursuing this cut-throat policy to the bitter end, until now where do they find themselves? You count the number of solvent league clubs on four fingers. On the other hand, three crack organisations are struggling with liabil-i ties which tot up to four figures the rest fol- low in rotation. Not content with paying big sums down and big wages to follow, these institutions in their blind enthusiasm absolutely pay the men to idle away the summer months. Well, they do nothing in return why not call it idling at once. Mind you, I don't wish to be misun stood. Some of my best friends are professional footballers, and absolute gentlemen to meet with off the field. Good footballers conduce to good shows, and good shows to good gates, and so if a man takes football for his occupation and he can only last at it a few years, he ought to be made worthy of his hire. A first-class man fully deserves the £3 a week which we will imagine, is the average paid in the winter time. But why should he have his £2 a week in summer any more than the cricketer, who gets nothing during the winter ? It is absurd to pay men for doing nothing. A retaining fee? Absurd. And it won't—it can- not last. Something must be done, else clubs will be ruined—some have had to drop out of the contest already, smart clubs who can't go the financial pace." Of course, Mr. Bentley looks at the matter from purely a business point of view—most Northerners do the same—and this way of look- ing at the matter justifies, perhaps, his remarks. As yet, however, Rugby men— or, at any rate, those belonging to the Southern portion of the kingdom—are disposed to look upon Rugby football in its true and original light, that is as sport pure and simple, so that, whilst appreciating this gentleman's remarks, we are still disposed to keep the handling game free from the many evils and trials which, aooording to Mr. Bentley, do beset the path of our Association brothers.

GONE TO AMERICA. Barry Billposting Company Hope Soon to Make Up the Loss Sustained. The directors of the Barry District Billpost- ing Company (Limited) have just issued their third annual report, in which they V very much regret the loss sus- tained by the company during the past year, which has been caused by the embezzlement and irregularities of our late secretary, Mr. Lewis Lewis, Barry Dock-ahambers, Cadoxton, who, it will be remembered, absconded under extraordinary circumstances to America early in June last. Under the new management, however, the directors hope soon to put the bill- posting company on a sound footing favourable to the shareholders. Messrs. J. J. Williams and E. Hughes are the retiring directors, and the former gentleman, being eligible, offers him- self for re-election at the annnal meeting, to be held on Friday next, the 29th inst., at Cadoxton.

BILLIARP CHAMPIONS. Ives Still Leads in the International Matches. A Renter's telegram from New York this morning says: — In last night s play the American champion, Ives, still maintained his lead both as regards strength of his breaks and his total score, which went up by 1,000, as compared with 960 made by Roberts. The highest breaks made by Ives were 137, 125, and 105, and those of the English champion and 67. Their respective scores —j msr

-z "MAIL" WIT. Pungent Pars from Our Morning Contemporary. ( Lord Carrington, ehairman of the Welsi Land Commission, is a Freemason. We thought he was oi ly a Gladstonian. Merthyr is the only place under heavee which has an hotel with a card in the comaier- cial-reoin, Smoking not allowed in this room." The commercials are delighted with it. Some curious names have been given to t". Welsh choirs in America.. One Yankee pape: speaks enthusiastically of the singirof th. Welsh Lodius Choir." Another refers to tht, "Rhonoda Male Voice Chorus." Mr. Stoll is a great believer in printer's ink, but his faith was roughly shaken one morning this week when he read in a Cardiff paper that the Empire bill of fare was one which nobody should fail to miss during the week." Some of the American papers have been wrest- ling bravely with the Welsh words Sung abou by the Chicago Eisteddfod. Bryniau Kassia' comes out "Beyniau Kassia," a.nd "Hwfs Mon" is dwindled down to Hwfamon." We always knew that Sir Edward Reed was bit of an ancient, but it is a trifle surprising to find the Daily Chronicle stating' that the hon. member was born in 1630. Surely this state- ment must be ascribed to a member of the advanced section of the Welsh party who wants to say that Sir Edward is old-fashioned. A silver challenge cup found its way to Briton Ferry a few days back, and when a glad-hearted landlord heard of the triumph he said he would be pleased to fill the cup twice with whisky. When the good man saw the cup he had a crick in the back. It was only called a cup for short; properly it was a bucket, and would hold a gallon of the finest whisky ever born. We wish to be careful to explain that this is from a Swansea paper :—" Mr. Daniel Owen, in the Western Mail, asks why do people sneeze. Joseph Thomas, Carno, once answered the question. The first thing the Shunamite's son did after he had been raised from the dead by Elisha was to sneeze (see ll. Kings iv.), a,nd Joseph Thomas explained this by saying that he had caught cold in crossing the River Jordan." A young gentleman, who read a paper at a meeting of lay-helpers at Haverfordwest, urged rich folk to exercise a little self-denial, and recommended them not to be so extravagant as to travel in anything but third-class compart. meats. A comfortable-looking country vicar at ence rose and vouchsafed that as long as he could afford it he would always travel first-class, because," said he, it saves you from colds." That man spoke with a hard, practical know, ledge of the world and railway carriages. We should like to own the steamship Alacrity —that is, if a shipping reporter we've got is to be trusted. This boat, according to him, first foundered after leaving St. Malo, remained fast after previously striking several times," and, finally, proceeded on her voyage and reached Cardiff. Several somethings at the Docks" have been making ribald remarks about the paragraph, and more than one disagreeably insinuation has been travelling about. But we don't mind—we only wish we owned th< Alacrity, that's all. "WILtch our second page." This is what th. E vening Express has got on the brain just now Our ha'penny contemporary has a big boom on part of which is the giving away of fifty stan dard books every week. There are advertise ments in the plan, and some of them are of a kind to suggest that very soon the advertise- ments will be more interesting to read than even the other part of the paper. One man adver- tises that he has nothing much to advertise just now, but that when he has he will think of the Express way of doing it. It is worth saying that the Western Man published the results of the competitions at th, Chicago Eisteddfod several hours before somt of the most enterprising papers in America. Is the Express on Thursday, the 7th, we announced that the Rhondda male voicers had won in the Mail on Friday we noted that" Dyfed" had won the chair; and on Saturday morning we went on to say that the efforts of the Welsh ladies had been crowned with success. The New York World only secured these facts for its evening edition on Saturday, and they are nearly six hours behind us as well. When the fire burnt us out all our belongings and plans and fakes were destroyed, and from that time to this the Evening Express has been unable to publish the results of races with its old smartness. Yesterday a change came o'er the scene. There was a. big race on—the De Tralford Welter—asd without any noise and fuss the Express was selling in St. Mary-street within two minutes of the receipt of the message, and most of that time was taken up by the boys scampering to get there. The scene in St. Mary-street was a remarkable one. Muclg excitement prevailed, and the greatest satisfac- tion was expressed by the waiting crowd that the Express had re-gained its old fOllu, and that it was on the spot with an important result six minutes before any other paper put in am appearance.

£10,000 DAMAGES. A Lady's Claim Against the Sultan ot Johore. | The "Morning" says:—From information gathered with reference to the action of Mis £ Mighell against the Sultan of Johore, foSt| breach of promise of marriage, it appears that the plaintiff is claiming from his High- ness no less a sum than £10,000. The parties became acquainted in 1886, at which time they were on most affectionate terms. The Sultan was introduced to Miss Maghell as Mr. Albert Baker. He was constantly in her company, both in London and in Brighton. It seems that matters were going forward smoothly between the pair up to the time that the Sultan left this country in 1886 for, India. His letters were couched in the most endearing terms. The letters themselve. commence "My darling wife." A large number of these were delivered at Devon-, shire-place, in Brighton, where Miss Mi "■ hell was known as Mrs. Baker. She is not at this moment at Brighton, and her precise whr--pa-bouts are unknown. On the occasion of the Sultan's last visit to this country Miss Mighell, who was under the impression that she was to go to India with his High- ness, made some communications to him which he refused to acknowledge. Finding thai; she was ignored, she placed her case ia the hands of her lawyers. The Sultan introduced Mrs. Albert Baker to a number of persons, who regarded her ae his wife. During the time that the parties were cor- responding a large number of letters changed hands, which promise very interesting reading when the case comes on for trial. Miss Mighell is said to be bent on pressing bei case forward without any reference to nny possibility of compromise. The mat1' rOI argument in the law courts next .1" is whether a monarch may or may 11' bt sued upon an action of this kind.

WILL SEEK ADVICE. Southampton Invaded by German Paupers Returning from America. The Southampton Board of Guardians 1' solved on Thursday to take the advice of tht Local Government Board on a question which will greatly affect all ports of the United King- dom this winter, when an influx of foreigners is expected through the closing of the Exhibition and the unsettled state of the American labour market. Several desti- tute Germans arrived at Southampton, and were taken to the workhouse. The guardians applied to the German Consul to supply funds to send them to their own country, but the consul ra- plied he had no funds for such a purpose. The German Ambassador was then appealed to, but he stated that the application had been seut to the head consulate in London, and a long letter was received from that authority practically stating that no funds could be granted. The deputy-president pointed out that if the people ha.d been destitute Englishmen in a foreign country they would have applied to tbeir consul and been sent home, but this was the way Ger- many got rid of her paupers, aad the men in the workhouse had no cause to be proud of their Fatherland in that respect.

Winter Coming. Lord Rosebery arrived at Blackcraig thie morning, and after conferring with Mr. Glad- stone he will proceed to Balmoral. Snow baa fallen heavily in the district, some of the higher reads having- two feet of snow on them.