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= PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CARDIFF. THEATRE J^OYAL. Lessee and Manageress.Mrs. Edward Fletcher. Theatre Telephone, 362. TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, E A S T L Y N N E, STILL RUNNING SUCCESSFULLY. Time and prices as usual. Booking Offices at Messrs. Thompson and Bhackell's (Limited), Queen-street, 10 till 5. Jelephone 521. MONDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 13th, Mr. GEORGE THORNE And J. L. SHINE in the New Farcical Comedy, entitl ed- rjiOMMY", For the First Time on any Stage. Flans Now Open. ON XMAS EVE, THE ROYAL ANNUAL PANTOMIME, written by GEORGE THORNE (of D'Oyly Carte Fame), and which will be produced in a style Worthy of the Principality of Wales, entitled JJOBINSON CRUSOE (Up-to-Date). 57098 ;7- ARA N.D THEATRE Lessee and Manager. MB. CLARENCE SOCNES PRONOUNCED SUCCESS OF THE GREAT LONDON DRAMA, gAlNTS AND jglNNERS, By Henry Arthur Jones. POPULAR PRICES—4cL to 10s. 6d. Doers open 7.10 (early doors 6.45); commence 7.30. 57099 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more-deserve it." THE E M P IRE. Jtanagins Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT f THE AUGMENTED TETARNO rjlROUPE, Under the direction of the celebrated FRED KARNO, In an Elaborate and Excruciatingly Funny Pantomime— "JAIL BIRDS," In Three Big Scenes. Scene I. THE QUARRY AT PORTLAND. Scene II. CORRIDOR OF PRISON. Dinner Time—Serving Table d'Hote. Scene III. INTERIOR OF CELLS. Warder's Office—Carpenter's and Barber's Shops. A most Laughable Production and Infallible Care-killer. 1,ES FRASETTIS, Xylophone and Violin Soloists. MDLLE. FMMY'S Interesting and Clever Troupe of FOX TERRIERS. .FRANK SEELEY, Eccentric Character Comedian. PALLES AND CUSSICK. Comedians and Burlesque Boxers. ROSE TILLEf. Songstress and Dancer. ARTHUR ST. GEORGE. Patriotic, Descriptive. and Comic Vocalist. The Popular Comedian, TOM COSTELLO, Of "Comrades," "Ship I Love, and Trinity Church" fame. Next Week:— LOCKHART'S COMJC ELEPHANTS And tHE BOISSETTS IN "-THE BRICKLAYERS." Box Office open daily from 10 to 4; Saturdays, 10 to 1. Also from 7 to 10 each evening for bookings for subsequent dates. Two Complete Performances Every Evening, between 7 and 9 and 9 and 11. J>HILHAItMONlC-JI AIvI., OA.ttDJ.Fi?' ilT LAST TWO WEEKS. Must Close SATURDAY, December 18th, having to Open in Swansea for the Annual Xmas Season, commencing December 24th. Enor- mous Reception and Stili increasing Popu- larity of MR. JOSEPH J>OOLE'S UP-TO-DATE MYRlOKAMA. More additions for the Last Two Weeks:—Her Majesty's Diamond Jubiiee Procession; The Royal Carriage at St. Paul's Cathedral; The Mansion House Illuminated on Jubilee Night. Last Two Weeks of Poole's Variety Confedera- tion. Special Engagement i'or the Last Two Weeks of REX FOX, the Monarch of the Aerial Black Wire. Poole's Prize Band. Popular Prices, 3s., 2s., Is., and 6d. Early Door at 7, 3d. extra. Every Evening at 7.45. Matinees Wed- nesday and Saturday at 3. Doors open at 2.30. Manager, J. W. Poole; Proprietor. Joseph Poole. Last Two Weeks. Close Saturday, December 18th. 56515 NEWPORT. THE E M P I R E. Managing Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT! LOCKHART'S COMIC ELEPHANTS, including the far-famed" BONEY," in the Most Amusing and Extraordinary Entertain- ment ever given by trained animals. THE THREE KEZIAHS, The Sisters Montrose, Johnny Dwyer, Mary Lynne, Flo Burris. and Rezene and Robini. Next Week—"Jail Birds" and Permane's Bears. —~ LYCEUM NEWPORT. Proprietor Mr. Clarence Sounes. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, an Entirely New American Novelty, direct from New York, U.S.A., QRIENTAL A MERICA. Prices 6d. to £ 1 Is. Box Office open Dally Ten to Four. Telephone 158. Nat. Next Week: "SAINTS AND SINNERS." 55694 := THE GREAT BLOOD I URIFIER THOMPSONS BURDOCK PILLS Overcome the worst forms of diseases, and the foulest state of the Blood, Stomach. Liver, and ■Kidneys; they go to the core of every disease, where no other medicine has power to reach. In Boxes, a.t Is. lid: and 2s. 9d. each. Sold by all Chemists, or from the Burdock Pill Manu- factory, 44, Oxford-street, Swansea. IH!V i.( Jill. ILI' THJ3 BEST TYPEWRITER. PUBLICATIONS. STRENGTH; AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT, By SANDOW, With ANATOMICAL CHART Showing the EXERCISES FOR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. The work embraces the renowned athlete's simple method of Physical. Culture for the Home. the Gymnasium, and the Training School, including a. Biography dealing with the chief incidents of Mr. Sandow's Professional Career, with Mr. Sandow's System of Dumb-bell Exercises for Physical Development, each exer- cise being separately illustrated. Can be obtained from Booksellers, or the Pub- lishers, GALE and POLDEN (Ltd.), 2, Amen-corner, Paternoster-row, London, E.C. Price. 2s. 6d. L14796 A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION 1-3 where to liny your Furniture! There is so much rubbish sold in these degenerate days that the greatest care should be taken in selecting the Firm from whom you purchase. Now, HOW ARE you tJ know upon whom you can rely? We submit- that the experience gained by the trading of nearly half a century points most conclusively to the fact that no Firm on Earth can serve you better or cheaper than JJEVAN AND £ JOMPANY (LIMITED), who to-day are beyond all Question the largest Furnishers in South Wales and Monmouthshire, and they defy any competitor to disprove this statement. WHAT STRONGER pROOF can be adduced to show that by entrusting your orders to this large and old-established Firm you wiil not only have the advantage of an immense selection, but that, both with regard to quality and prices, you will receive the very highest satisfaction? All goods are delivered free by rail or own vans, and the I fJRAIN JjlARE pAID of all cash purchasers of a reasonable amount. Drawing-room, Dining-room, and Bedroom Suites from Three-and-a-Half to Fifty Guineas per suite. Bedstead, Wire-woven Mattress. Wool Overlay, Bolster, and Pillow complete for 27s. 6d. Organs and pIANOS HALF THRICE. Carpets. Linoleums, and Floor Cloths of newest designs; and every requisite for furnishing throughout at equally low prices. ,'M B EVAN AND COMPANY, 21, DUKE-STREET, And 97, ST. MARY-STREET, CARDIFF; 97, WIND-STREET, jgWANSEA; OPPOSITE TOWN-HALL, NEWPORT; CLARENCE-STREET and HANBURY-ROAD, p ONTYPOOL. AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY DISTRICT. el876 B. PILLiS. — JgEECHAM'S PILLS, BEECHA 1\1'8 PfLLS. AYorUi v, Guillen :I, Jio-c. EECHAT.l'S PIl/rTs. For Bilious itneks. • BI3ECJHAM'S PILLS I'or Nervous Disorders. EECHAM'S PILLS. For Imiipestion in all its form-. BEECHAl\J'S PILLb. I'or Wind and Pains in tlie Stomtmii t.)EECHAM'S PJLLS. 1-or Sick Hendiu.iie. 1<7EOHXM'S PILLS Siived 'be I.ivos of ThoM^'i M KK <JH A [\r5~TMT7L^ I'or Giddiness. EE <J H A^rs^p f17r7s: j.) For Fulness and Swelling a.fter H n'<, EECHAM'S PILLS A ro Worhli :i r-iiiiiip;i it Mot. EEOHAM^n L Lib" A Wonderful for IAS all i-; EC HATi\S~pnii7S Are Aiiauted for Old ;ind Vouui. I BUSINESS ADDRESSES. SOLD IN BOTTLES. Is.; BY POST, Is. Ifi. ji'1 cu^: R fC, C DAILY TESTIMONIALS OF THIS GREAT CURE ARE BEING RECEIVED FOR THE FOLLOWING: FOR TOOTHACHE, FOR HEADACHE, FOR NEURALGIA, INFLAMED GUMS. AND IT WILL CURE ALL KINDS OF FAIN; IN FACT, A REALLY GOOD PAIN KILLER. AGENTS:- Cardiff: Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, 1J Queen-street. i, Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Duke-street. Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Cowbridge-road, Canton. „ A. J. Bellamy, Chemist, 61, Paget- street, Granpetown. f,A Messrs. Duck and Sons, Chemists, St. John's-square. „ E. Edwards, Chemist, 2, Mackintosh- place, Albany-road. M F. Millward, Chemist, 60, Woodville- road, Cathays. ,a R. Mumford, 60. Castle-road, Roath. M R. Mumford, 17, Meteor-street, Splot- land. i. C. Clarke, Chemist, 2. Coburn- street, Cathays. „ Howell Phillips, Chemist, 253, Bute- street. „ R. Prust, Chemist, 14, Broadway, Roath. „ Jesse Williams and Co., Chemists, Queen-street. D. Thomas, Chemist, Penarth-road. Aberavon: Mr. Thomas Nicholas, Central Supply Stores, Water-street. Aberdare: Mr. Tudor Williams, Dentist, Medical Hall. AI)ergi-ynci Richards and Son, Grocers. Abertiliery: Morgan Bros., Carmarthen Butter Stores. Barry Dock: Hicks and Co., Chemists. Blaenavon: Messrs. D. Davics and Co., 100, Broad-street. B!aina: Thomas Jones, Liverpool Stores. Brecon: Mr. W. Tudor. Chemist. Brvnmawr: Messrs. H. Connop and Son, Grocers. Carmarthen: C. E. Davies, Chemist, 10, King- street. Cheltenham: Mr. J. James, 5, Promenade. Clarbeston Road: Robert Reid, Grocer, New Shop. Cowbridse: Mr. J. G. Harold Bird. Ebbw Vale: Mr. David Hughes, Grocer, Victoria-street. Hereford: Messrs. Clarkson and Son. 9, High- ten's cc. Llantwit-Major: Mr. William Cummings. Llanstephan- Evan T. Dkvies. The Emporium. MI dhyr: Messrs. G. M. and R. Gunson, 67, and 68 llicrh-street. Morriston: Mr. L. Bevan. Medical Hal!. Neath: Mr. C. Hutchins. Chemist. Newport: Messrs. T. Cordey and Co., High-st. Newport: Phillips and Son, Drug Stores, 92, Commercial-street. Penarth: Stranaghan and Stephens (Limited). Pembroke Dcck: F. J. Tallett, 14, Diamond- street. P->r.typri<ld: Mr. Isaac Prothero, Grocer, &c. Pontypridd: W. H. Key, The People's Chemist. Pnrth: Messrs. Thomas and Evans. The People's Stores. Porthcawl: Mr. T. Langdon, Grocer, John- street. Swpnsea Mesrs. Taylor and Co. (Limited), Wind-strest. Tondu and Aberkenfig: Co-operative Society (I imited). Tredepar: Mr. C. J. Price. Manchester House. Trejierbert: Mr. Enoch Bavies. The Stores. Trocdyrliiw: W Morgan and Co. Sole Manufacturer: pHIL PHILLIPS, 24, ST. MARY-STREET, CARDIFF. Cratif ftotires. ILBT DECOEATCES. Wf D~A"V-fs A N D S UNS >1 I POINTERS, GLASS, OIL, AND t'APEK-ANGlNG .MKliOIA^r-5 11. QJEKN STREET. ETC. XF YOU WANT YOUR CL(TTHEs NICELY CLEANED, GO TO HORB8.-DYRR. 1. \T ''Ir, -I ) -i. !"i: I V 7 FURNITURE. BEVAN A- COM P A N Y7~LTM IT ETT "THE CARDIFF FURNISHERS," 3T MAItY -STRKKT \p K): s.: K' HATS. A RSLEY'S HAND-MADE HAT- 211, :;<1" »ti>1 3s «i.—15. \Vyndll4lfJ Atcj<d« atn' <0. Caroliiip street MTY FHONJ TPR MAKFTL. MW* -0_ BHISTTlftATIC CTTHli. FOi: FULL VAKTlCIJLltS APpr,y To PH i L P H I L LIP fi 24, ST. 3M AUY-STREET PREPAID ADVERTISEMENT. "EVENING EXPRESS." OXCL SI* o. CEo nsri's. I TIMES -1- 'I ON-Cir SI* nsri's. TIMES 20 Words o 6 1 0 1 6 30 WorJs 0 9 1 6 2 3 40 Words 1 0 j 2 0 3 0 ords 1 0 I 2 0 3 0 50 Wards I 3 i 3 0 | 3 6 Notioo to Advertisers. IMPORTANT.—Advertisements to be classified mast reach this office by 10.30 a.m.; but. they can bo inserted up to 4.45 p.m., under head. in? of TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. The boxes provided for answers to advertise- ments appearing in the "Evening Express" ore not intended for any other pnrpose whatever, and cannot be allo wed to be used for the distribution of printed or written advertising circular or announcements of any kind. > The above cnarges apply only to consecutive insertions of th" iollowing class of advertise- ments Situations Whnted or Offered. Apart- ments. Money Wanted, Partnerships. Lost and Found. Miscellfi^po-aa Wiints. Businesses, Houses. Shops. Offices to Let or Sell. Specific Articles for Sale Privately. Name and Address to be counted. Orders sent through the nost, to be accom- panied by Postal Order or Halfpenny Stamps. Advertisements are received also c-t the following Rnb-oSices NEWPORT TREDFGAR-STREET. SWANSEA CASTLE-STREET MERTHYR .VICTORIA-STREET. FONTYPRIDD 4a. TAFF-STREET. HEAD OFFICES: CARDIFF: ST. MARY-STREET. BICYCLES. SPECIAL Clearance.—Six Solid Safeties. 0 38s. 6d.; 4 Cushions. 50s.; 4 Pneumatics, £ 5; cash only.—Morris Bros., Cycle Works. Ponty- pridd. Repairs, Plating, and j-namel'ing promptly. el!)47 -t.. DRESSMAKINGS. D- RESSMAKIN G .Ladies' Tailor-made and D Braid Costumes. Wedding and Evening Dresses, Mantles, Ac., Made in the Latest Style: fit guaranteed.-Address Lewis and Evans. 78. Wyndham-crescent. Cardiff. e5836 POULTRTT. POULTRy.-If you want your birds to pay JL you write for prices and samples of food to Noah Rees and Son, Hay, Corn, and Seed Merchants. Cardiff. e6115 MONEY. IVfl" o N E Y TO LEND m to TO £500. NO SURETIES., NO FEES. MONEY ADVANCED IN FULL RE-PAYMENT BY AGREED INSTALMENTS. STRICT PRIVACY GUARANTEED. Prospectus and all information FREE. Call or write to R. PHILLIPS. 7, PEMBROKE-TERRACE. CARDIFF. MISCELLANEOUS. AMATEUR Picture Frame Makers.—Mr. Wills. Castle Arcade, Cardiff, Supplies all Kinds of Picture Mouldings Lt Low Prices. Hundreds of Patterns to choose from. e65o4 TOBACCONISTS Commencing.—See Illustrated T Guide (259 pages), 3d.—Tobacconists' Oat- fitting Company. 186, Euston-road. London. Hairdressers fitted. Manager, Henry Myers. e6437 EARTHENWARE and China.—Seconds £ 2 Crates: best £ 3; or will send 15 dozen Seconds Articles for 17s. 6d. Write for Lists.- Webbe and Co., Longton, Staffordshire Pot- teries. 00034 IS Yonr Watch Wrong?' The Best and Cheapest Shop in Cardiff for the Repair of Watches of every description, English or Foreign, is 38, Castle Arcade (third shop from Castle-street), by James Keir, for ten years with Mr Spiridion. Clocks and Music Boxes Cleaned and Repaired. e4209 CLERKS, etc., WANTED. ADVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- masters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letters, addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. DRAPER'S Clerk.—Vacancy for an efficient Sold Ledger Clerk.—Apply, stating fullest particulars, to Ben Evans and Co. (Limited), Swansea. 2092zl0 A-NTED, a Junior Clerk; good shorthand fV v,'riter.—Apply W. Gilbertson and Co. (Limited). Pontardawe. 57161 rpHE Pioneer Life Assurance Company I (Limited*.—The Directors pre Prepared to Receive Applications from Gentlemen to Act as Branch Manager in South Wales; those with good local connections preferred; remuneration by salary and commission.—Full particulars of past experience, with references, to be addressed to the Chairman, 11, Dale-street, Liverpool. 57159 WANTED, a Few Shorthand-Typewriting f f Clerks.—Applications, by letter only, with copies of recent testimonials, and stating salary required, to S. Pearson and Son (Limited), Contractors, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire. 57148 CIVIL Service Appointments. — Numerous Vacancies and Good Salaries; brilliant successes May. 1897: passed 604 last year; full particulars free.—Mr. Skerry, M.A., Y.M.C.A., Bristol. 57131 ROCER'S Clerk Wanted it once, for a High- class Familv Store Trade; outdoors.—State full particulars K 67, Western Mail, Cardiff. z9 AN'Tt:D, iii -t Large Office-ht the Docks, a tV resoectable Lad; must be good writer.— Address K 58, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1954zll •—An Income of 12s. 6d. to £ 1 iJer Week 3wJL Can be Earned in Spare Hours or Even- ings by Either Sex who can Write.-Proof ?ent free anywhere to anyone sending self-addressed envelope to T. Smith and Co. (Department 9 B), 79. St. Helen s-gardens. North Kensington, Lon- don, W. L12562 AGENTS, etc., WANTED. A DVERTISERS are Captioned that Post- al- masters are Not allowfed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initiais or Fic- titious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. WANTED, respectable Young Man as Traveller, to Work Cardiff, Barry, Bridg- end. and Monmouthshire Hills in Provision Trade; must know customers.—Apply K 69, Western Mail. Cardiff. 2058z10 A Capital Chance Offers Itself at the present time to a Trustworthy [Man; the remunera- tion will be good to reliable person.—Address K 42, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1916zl0 GENERAL aud Commercial Printing and Stationery.—Good Traveller Required, with sound connection, to Wo<k South Wales and District.— Apply, stating Jvrevious experience. terms. &c., to E. H. Webb.'Bedminster Printing Works, Bristol. >,■ 57024 wwi1i II'1———a—— MISCELLANEOUS ^.AliES. 1 000 Business Cards, Memorandums, or Bill- i heads, 3s.; 10,000 Usefcl Handbills, 2s. 6d.; samples free.-Fisher and <!o.. Machine Printers, Broadmead, Bristol. > e4418 FIREWOOD at Cardiff Union Workhouse, 2s. F per Cwt.; delivered-in any part of the borough.—Orders to Master. Workhouse. e6574 LARGE Assortment o» Christmas Cards Now on View.—Stationery Department, Wes- tern Mail, Cardiff. e50430 PARLOUR Games, Is., post free; Obstacle P Race, Quoits, Japanese Billiards, Chinese Bagatelle, and the Latest Novelty, "The Penalty Kick Table Football.—Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. e50430 THE Latest Improvod Letter File, Hie Morden" File; 4s. 6d.—Stationery Depart- ment. Western Mail, Cardiff^ e50430 Thick Buff Copying Sheets; extra strong; y specially adapted for typewritten letters; letter-size, 2s.; foolscap, 2s. 6d.-Stationery Department. Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 SIXTY Years a Queen.—Part I. Now Ready; s 6d., postage 2d.—Western Mail Limited, Cardiff. INVOICE and Letter Files. All the leading styles.—"The Sequence File," "The Warwick File," "The Standard File," "The Common- sense File "-Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. 50430 SAVE Time" Letter c4rds, 25 for 4Jd„ post k-3 free: an improvenlent on the Govern- ment card.—Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 "JDATENT Automatic Office Paperweight and A Monthly Calendar for Four Years, Is — Stationery Eepartment, Western Mail, Cardiff. THE "Handy" Book Marker, 3d., post free — Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 1LB. Cream Notepaner and 100 Envelopes. Is., -L in Two Sizesy Private Or Commercial.— Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. MILKSELLER'S Delivery Book! ls.- iA,1 stationery Department, Western Mail, Ca."di:?. 50430 THE New Game. Table Football, Is., iiost free.—Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. 50430 ADHESIVE Linen, Tape for Renairins: Music, A &c., 3d., post free. per roll.—Stationery Department. Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430. AUTOMATIC Constant Level Inkstand; Is. 2d7 A post, free. -Stationery Department Wes- tern Mail. Cardiff. 50430 1 000 Page Letter Conyitig Book; halt bound J calf. 5s.; special line.—Western Mail Sta- ticrery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. rVHE "Trypograph" Copying Apparatus: pro- jL duces thousands of (copies from one hand- writing or typewriting.—'Price list on applica- tion to Western Mail Stationery Department, Cardiff. 50430 STYPOGRAPHIC Fountain Pens.a.. post, < fiee; invaluable to every business man.— Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. TAKONARDS, for addressing boxes. AcTTid. T and 2d. per packet.—Western Mail Limited, Cardiff. 50430 TONTII,'Q "ITniversaJ'- Portfolios for Lettcrg, C3 Price Lists, &c., !ic.; from 4d. each.—Sta- t'onerv Department. Western Mail. Cardiff. POCKET price 6d.—Western Miil. Limited .Cardiff. 50430 A DJUSTABLE Drawer Partitions, 1s. per box. J\. —Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. e50430 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANTED. DVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- XJL masters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. DRAPERY.—Wanted immediately. Young D Ladv for General Drapery. Accustomed to Window-dressing —O. H. Jones, Paget-street, Grangetown, Cardiff. 2074z10 YOUNG Lady Wanted for Drapery; Wefsh.— Y Apply Jas. Davies, Draper, Ferndale. z9 GROCERY.—Wanted, a good Junior imme- G diately; must be accustomed to horses.— Apply, giving full particulars, to Thomas Davies, Grocer, Hirwain. 2071z8 DRAPERY.—Wanted atonce, an experienced Young Man.—Apply, with full particulars, W. R. Williams, Draper, Pontypool. 2037zl4 WANTED, a Young Man for the Drapery Department.—Apply, stating wages, to Manager. Co-operative Society. Cwmtillery R.S.O.. Hon. 57139 D- RAPERY. Wanted, experienced Young Ladies for Mantles, Millinery Sales. Gloves, Dresses, and Manchester.—Give full particulars of experience and salary required Howell Bros., Penarth. 2030z9 DV. APERY.—Want ed. a steady Young Man; Welsh; go.'d window-dresser.—Apply to R. Edwards, Merthyr. Z021z9 GOOD Junior Wanted for Grocery and Pro- visions.—Apply Williams and Co.. 30, Clifton-street, Cardiff, j 2005z9 Clifton-street. Cardiff, j 2005z9 DRAPERY.—Wanted, smart Junior; good stockkeeper and salesman; gents', mercery; serve through; state references, salary, Welsh.—Randell, London House, Llanelly. z!3 PROVISIONS^—Smart Salesmen Wanted at PROVISIONS^—Smart Salesmen Wanted at P once.-Apply Lipton, St. Mary-street. Car- diff. 1987z8 rpO Grocers.—Wanted, Several good English X and Welsh Assistants and Juniors to the Grocery and Provision Trade for Newport and elsewhere soon after Christmas.—Apply, stating age. experience, references, and salary desired (indoors), to Pegler's Stores, Pontypool. 57089 DRAPERY.—Wanted, an experienced Young D Man; Welsh.—Glass and Roberts, General Drapers and Mil!iners, 4 and 20, Green-street, Neith. 1937z8 WANTED at once, a good Assistant; one used to Gil bey's preferred.—Davis Bros., Pontypool. 1920z10 I)RAPERY. Experienced Hand Wanted; D must be good salesman and window- dresser: Welsh.—Apply, giving full particulars. to Jenkins, Draper, Ferndale. 1857d8 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANT PLACES. DVERTISERS are Cantioned that Post- masters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names must, bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail.. DRAPERY.—Young Man, 20, five years' expe- rience, Wishes to Go Abroad.—Address K 62, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1998z9
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NURSEMAIDS AND SERVANTS WANTFI). WANTED. Beginning January, good General Servant for Small Family nurse kept; good wagres to capable girl.—Beilingham, Woodlands Villas, Swansea. 2090zl4 ANTED, fo^Private House, near Padding- ton, a Cook-General; about 9.0; wages £ 12 to £ 14; fare paid.—Address K 72, Western Mail, Ctrdiff. 2067z3 COOK-GENERAL Wanted.; able to wash and c do plain ironing; Church girl; wages £ 15; small family.-State Age, experience, refe- rence, to K 73, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. z10 ONDON.—Kitchenmaid. £ 15 12s. yearly; Nurse-Housemaid, £ 12; Young General, £ 10. Family two; no washing; fares paid.- Address 71, Park-street, Bristol. 2086z14 OOD Plain Cook~ Wanted; £ 26 to £ 28; kitchenmaid kept; gentleman's small family; quiet situation.-92, St. Michael's-hill, Bristol. 2061zl4 WANTED? Kitchenmaid. qualified under experienced cook, to Take Place of Cook in family of three; three Welsh'servants kept. -State service, wages, ic., B., Essilmont House, Bedford. 2046z8 WANTED, experienced General; must be Welsh, strong, and healthy.—Apply Mrs. Packer, Aldergrove, Porth. 2045zl0 ø WANTED at once, experienced Cook-General; baking, small dairy.—Apply, stating age, wages, and giving references, to Mrs. Routledge, Bedwellty House, Tredegar, Mon. 2051 y.10 ANTED, Cook-Gerteral; small family; t V housemaid kept.-Apply E., 38, West- bourne-road, Penarth, six to eight, or by letter. 2054z10 WANTED, General Servant, Able to Wash; other servants kept; country.—State age, wages, reference to, Mrs. Saunders. GIanrhwdw. Kidwelly. 2052zt0 WANTED at. once, good General Servant. Who Can Wash and Iron Well; no family: comfortable home.—Apply Mrs. Pinner, 37, Commercial-street, Aberdare. 2053zl0_ GOOD General Servant Wanted;—Apply, be- tween six and eight, to Mrs. Prust. 14, Broadway, Cardiff. 2023z9 WANTED, Miss Pedler's Registry, Gover- nesses' Agency, 17, Pembroke-terrace (removed from 22, Charles-street, Cardiff), Cooks, Housemaid, Kitchenmaid, Generals. Disengaged. Housekeeper. 1996z13 ANTED, a Girl who has been a General Ser- W vant to Assist in Housework.—Mrs. Linton, Llandaff-place, Llandaff. 2033z9 WANTED, an experienced General; able to do plain cooking.—Apply, with references, to Mrs. Hawkins, The Laurels, Llantrisant. z9 WANTED, General Servant; experienced; used to plain cooking: help given; wages £ 15.—Apply 7, Ninian-road, Cardiff. 2005z9 WANTED at once, clean, willing Girl, about w 18, as General.—Mrs. Ward, Mumbles, near Swansea. 2010z9_ "ITT"ANTED, a good, respectable Girl; about ft 17; good home; small family.—Apply 28, Station-street, Barry Dock. 2008z8 AN experienced General Wanted at once: A must have good reference.—Anply 27. Windsor-place (off Queen-street), Cardiff. 1993z9 WANTED, good Cook General. Also House- Parlourmaid; state age, wages, height, and reference.—Apply Stepney's Select R^is'ry Office, Abergavenny. 1898zl0 \\TANTED, Cook-General. for London; £ 18 to VT start; fare paid; gentleman's imall family; no washing; housemaid kept.—Address 71. Park-street, Bristol^ 1902£10 WANTED immediately. Three good General Servants.—Anply, with references, stating wages. Manager, Knighton and Central Wales Servants' Agency, Knighton. 57101 WANTED, Early in ^January, experienced General; housemaid kept; wages £ 14.— Apply Mrs D. H. Lewis. Wind street. Neath. zll WANTED, General Servant; gentleman and lady in family: £ 14; no washing; man kept to clean boots, knives. &c —10, Brooklyn- chambers, Bristcl. 1 1939zll WANTED at once, experienced General: two in family good wages.—Apply, in the first instance, 49, Oakfield-street, Roath. Car- diff. l882z9_ GENERAL Wanted at.once; able to do plain cooking; good reference. — Hollanton House, Marine-parade, Penarth, Cardiff. 1345z9 WANTED immediately, an experienced House- Parlourmaid.—Write, stating age. wages, and length of character from last situation, to Mrs. Nicholas, Brynteild, Llandilo. 1355z9 APARTMENTS TO LET. PENARTH.—First-class Apartments to Let; P near Station and Cliffs; good cooking and attendance.—Apply 77, Plymouth-road. zl3 LARGE Front Sitting-room, One or Two Bed- rooms, with or without board; close to town and sta.tions.-9. Park-place. Cardiff. 1919zl0 COMFORTABLE, Well-furnislied Apartments; ) convenient to town and stations; terms moderate.—J 47, Western Mail Office, Car- diff. 1405z9 QQ Charles-street, Cardiff.—First-class Apartr OO, ments; central, near stations, trams; good cooking and attendance. 1858z9 PENARTH.—Lansdowne Private Hotel; exten- P sive Channel v.'ew; superior accommoda- tion; moderate chaiges; special terms to per- manent boarders. 2803d —— PREMISES. ADVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- masters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initials oi Fie: titious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail- OYSTERMOUTH.—Gentleman's Detached Resi- dence, designed in the style and character of a mansion; commodious stabling; low rental. -Box 40. Post-office, Swansea. 2084zl4 TO Let, Cottage (four rooms), with Meadow, seven acres; three miles from Cardiff; near railway station.-Apply Freemasons' Hotel, Cardiff. 2059zl4 USK.—To Let, a House, containing three <J re(-ept on-ro in four bed and two dress- ing rooms, besides servants' rooms; stable. coach-house, tennis court.-Apply B., Market- street, Usk. 2041z14 CARDIFF.—To Let. 79, Stacey-road; being re- decorated rent £ 40 per annum.—Apply Sessions and Sous (Limited), Penarth-road, Car- diff. 2018zl3 PENARTH.—Furnished House or Apartments to Let in Westbourne-road; terms mode- rate, according to rooms required.—F 63, Wes- tern Mail, Cardiff 1999z9 TO Let. 28, Glynrhondda-street; thoroughly T renovated with latest improvements. Also 67, Alexandra-road, Canton.—Apply 145, Clifton- street, Cardiff. l?82zll rpO Let. 50 and 58, Oakfield-street also 18, X Neville-place.—Apply W. C. W. Knapp, Cory's Corner, Docks, Cardiff. 1907zl0 TO Let, 22, Charles-street; immediate posses- T sion can be had.-Apply G. H. Walters, Old Brewery, Cardiff. 1895zl0 KING'S Vale Villa, Cardiff-road, Newport.— Convenient Detached Residence, with three reception-rooms and seven bedrooms, to Let, with immediate possession.—Thomas Parry, Auctioneer, Newport. 1879z9 TO Let, 25, Park-place.—This conveniently- situated Residence may now be Rented without tho stabling .—Apply Gottwaltz. Bow- ring, and Perry, Cardiff. 1818z8 A Private House to Let, No. 9, Coldstream- il ,errace; in first-class condition; splendid bath, newly fitted, hot and cold water; also lavatory.—Apply Mr. Price, Tudor Hotel. Car- diff. 1796z8 TO be Let or Sold. 50, Clive-rcad, Penarth; large garden.—Apply 12, Glebe-street. Pen- arth. 1321z8 HOUSE; conveniently situated; suit travel- JL1 ling draper or other person requiring con- venient corner house; rent low, or sell reason- able figure; Venetians, bath (hot and cold), eloc- tric bells, Ac.—Kevs at Shaftesbury-chambers, next Shaftesbury Hotel, Newport. I8i9zl5 THE South Wales, Monmouthshire Property Register for Dec. Free on Application or Post.—Hern and Pertwee, House Agents, Auc- Post.-Hern and Pertwee, House Agents, Auc- tioneers. Valuers, &c., Cardiff. 28813 WANTED, moderate-sized Unfurnished House, with Garden, in Monmouthshire; easy reach of railway station.-Full particu- lars to Colonel H. W. Stockley, The Priory, Abergavenny. 57166 WANTED, to Rent Small Country House; accessible to Cardiff by rail; Dinas Powis, Llanishen, Caerphilly, &c.—lo4, Severn-road, Cardiff. 2040zl4 DINAS Powis.—Wanted, in March, Villa (four bedrooms).—Apply K 50, Western Mail Cffice, Cardiff. 1930zll I \J~ANTED, within 20 miles of Cardiff, Small \J~ANTED, within 20 miles of Cardiff, Small T ? House and 10 Acres Grass Land.—State lowest rent K 54, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1950z8 MISCELLANEOUS SITUATIONS VACANT. UTCHERS.—Wanted, good all-round Man; JD must be good salesman.—Apply,, with refe- rences and salary, Hutchings, 37, Albany-road, Roath, Cardiff. 2055zl0 TO Tailors.—Wanted, at once, Coat or General Hand, for Permanency.—E. B. Haynes, Usk. 203Sz8_ WANTED, Pattern Maker (Non-Society).— State references and wages Fielding and Platt. Gloucesr.er. 57142 WHEELWRIGHTS Wanted; good wages and W constant work to experienced men; no improvers wanted.—Apply Stone's Steam Wheel- wright Works, Newport, Mon. 57140 ELECTRICAL Engineering.-Messrs. Sydney E F, Walker and Co. Have a Vacancy for Gne Articled Pupil.—For terms aoply Cardiff Electrical Works, Severn-road, Cardiff. 1927zll TAILORS—Wanted, Young Man Able to Cut and Make Uti; sober and reliable; comfort- able home.—Williams. 10, West-end, Llanelly. z8 WANTED, by Large Firm of Steamship Owners, respectable, tall, and strong Lads. not over 17, as Sea Apprentices: no pre- mium, but surety required.-Apply, with photo, to K 45, Western Mail, CardHf. 1912z10 WANTED, Foreman Boilermaker for Dry W Docks and Engineering Company; must be sober, good timekeeper, thorough knowledge of piece rates, and able to estimate cost of boiler and ship repairs; state age, previous service, and salary required; send copies of testimonials (not to be returned).—Applv to K 38, Western Mail, Cardiff. 57053 WANTED, for a London Firm of Engineers. Coppersmiths; non-society; wages 40s. per 54-hour week.—Apply, by lett»r, to E 62, "Mer- cury" Office, Bristol. 57045 A Trustworthy and active Man, with some spare time, is Wanted; highly remunera- tive terms to suitable man.—Address K 34, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1868z9 "\XJ"ANTED, good Turner, non-society, on f f best work; state age. references, and wages.—Address H 15, Western Mail, Car- diff. 56968 WANTED, for Manchester District, good Non- Society Pattern Makers, Fitters. Turners, Machinemen. and Blacksmiths; to good men constant work and good wages—Address, stating references and fnrther particulars, to B 75. Wes- tern Mail, Cardiff. 55335 WANTED, Young Man (indoorsl. Accustomed IT to Horses, Deliver Milk, and Willing to be Useful: good references.-K 74, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1991zl3 \\7"ANTED, a reliable Groom-Coachman, T V knowing his work, to Drive a Pair.— Apoly. stating age and wages, to Mrs. Stokes, Cuffern, Roch, R.S.O., South Wales. 2043zl0 (1ARDENER Wanted; must understand fruit, T flowers, vegetables, and greenhouse work, and be willing to be generally useful.—Y 12, Western Mail. Newport. 2026z9 WANTED, steady Youth as Groom-Gardener and to be Generally Useful.—State full partculars, references, Ac.. Vicar. Duffryn, Neath. 1961zll MISCELLANEOUS SITUATIONS WANT PLACES. NAVAL Pensioner Wants Place of Trust or Charge of Small Engine; 14 years' refe- rences.-Address A. W., 188, Penarth-road. Car- diff. 2085zl4 MASTER Baker Wishes to Recommend a good, practical Workman, Bread, Cake, and Smalls.—Apply T. 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I BIR LAST CLIMAX. SPECIALLY 8ET FOR THE EVENING EXPRESS■ There has been a red spot. on the college too rid this week. The sober, sedate, between- I tinjes gay and frivolous life of Berkeley has been darkened by a crime. A young girl whose 3ianie is on the class rolls of the great nniver- sity died last week, died suddenly, mys- teriously, amid circumstances which point to but one explanation of her death. Only the girl herself could tell why, wherefore, how, and *he is gone into the speechless, silent beyond. /And those who jfrope on the outside, around tho J facts of her death, can come only to the liideouf coivchision that selt-murder lurked in the hear! of the maiden of nineteen summers who walked among them under the grand, beautiful oaks of the college grounds and started at the call of the big bell on the library building. The conclusion, the assignment of the motive and the girl herself, Anna Blytlie Holywell, witli calm, studious forehead and girlish primness, seem strangely far apart. The faces that arc turned upward on the slabs of the Morgue, with I yellowing skins and glazed eyes exposed to the cruel view of the passer-by, do not look on life with so fine a hope as that which thrills the student beginning his university career. Ugly stories these poor defenceless faces have be- hind them, stories of crude, unbridled love, of poverty and despair, of the cheap, garish lights of a cheap apology for a theatre, of beginnings in crime which must at last be ended in crime. Their unwashed souls seem to hover like a dirty vapour over the bier where the unwashed clay lies stretched. The horror of suicide which attaches itself so often to stunted beings like this drags Anna Holywell into another circle, a different com- pany. She was not of the kind of -woman whose face even in childhood bears ( lie presage of a dark experience, the cold uplifted unsight- 'I liness of a morgue slab. She was a student in the University of Cali- fornia, a freshman looking forward to her intel- lectual career with tlie high excitement, the devotion which it inspires. She felt the four years spread before her full of interest and activity. She would widen, widen, widen, and take in all the wonders that are in the heart of I bo 'ksi and the centre of things. It septus as it' one mind could not bend itself [ to magnets so opposite-—the aspiration to the intellectual ideal and the lure of suicide. It [ seems as if the very absorption in the studies which pressed closely in upon her time would exclude all other thoughts, as if the white, glittering purity of the one !ife would wipe out the blood-streaks of the other. 5 Yet intellectual men have committed suicide. why not intellectual women? Men of high ability, with an extensive view over the whole landscape of thought and action, have talked of suicide, raved over it, dreamed of it, and ad- mitted that it fascinated them. Tolstoi strug- gled long with the impulse to hang himself. Why not an intellectual woman, too? Not that Anna Blythe Holywell was an intellectual woman. She was only the poor little bud that would have ripened into one. Hers was the aspiration for the intellectual life, the longing that comes years before its fulfilment. The longing may have been the root from which her disease grew. Who has not felt the misunderstood yearning for something out of the common, something above and beyond the life that is around him? The poor little girl was too young to understand this as the first groping of intellectual curiosity, the first sign that her wings were made to fly with. And so this longing which could not satisfy itself in a' moment grew weary of the world and the stale flatness of it in comparison with the hopes of the young imagination. There was no perception that later this imagination would gild whatever it touched, and Uutt the common- place would vanish in the brilliancy of the medium in which, it was cast. No perception of this—too young, too young. Something out of the ordiuary-a being and doing something that would focus all eves on her. And yet the stupidity of all eyes, the ordinary humdrum of the people around her, the need of a lover. The lover is a necessity to the girl, to all girls—only with some of them he is not the thing of trousers and conceit that may be met at the next corner. While the practical maid of common sense and the comfortable domestic ideal which leads her happily on to its own fulfilment is making her life bright with the companionship of a young man who matches her in practical ideas and practical lovemaking, the girl of imagination forms her lover of the sunbeams and the perfumed dew of the morn- ing. He is -a. knight, tall—always tall—and has eyes which glow with the homage they dare not express. He is a persistent wooer and is wil- ling to perform all the labours of Hercules to win a smile from her. Sometimes the imaginative girl whose mind has been directed to literature and history will have no less a lover than Julius Ciesar or Alexander the Great. King Henry of Navarre and Sir Philip Sidney are lesser characters who still have a hold on the affec- tions of girls living several centuries after their decent interment. Then, there are the heroes of George Eliot's novels—Felix Holt and Daniel Deronda—who have been adored by many besides the highly wrought young woman on whom they finally bestowed their affections. But whether of action, history, or fancy, this lover is always terribly real. He has his exits and his entrances. He goes through whole chap- ters of romantic love- entanglements, and whole volumes of poetic companionship with the woman he loves. He is always just about to make her his own, when some ugly, criss-cross circum- stance intervenes. Who can be sure that Anna Holywell's lover was not one of these? Her imaginative tem- perament, in the hypercritical ardour of extreme youth, probably saw thQ, men around her in two forms, either as quite ridiculous, awkward, foolish, and impossible, or else—with those of more than the usual share of manly good looks young gods whom she could worship only from afar. Her fancy may have been some uncon- scious young brave, once, seen never forgotten, or purely the fabric of her imagination. Then literature would help to do the rest— literature which is so divine that those who cannot look through eyes like its own must see a dismal ugly world around them in comparison with its illumined pages. It is not only cheap, foolish novels which put strange fancies in a girl's head. These, after a high school education, are readily dis- carded as worthless and foolish. The very greatest among the men of genius who have made literature give a distorted view of things to the very young and impressionable mind. I The tremendous lifting that there is in a pas- sage of perfect blank verse makes the brain totter and the nerves quiver. Not love of the gross and earthly kind stirred the young girl's bosom with strange alarms and a faint, rapturous sickness, but a reflection of the exalted intertwinings of the love cf a Shelley, a Petrarch, or a Dante. The gift that literature confers on its dis- ciples is that of always finding the world and oneself interesting. A very young disciple catching the idea of ''interestingness" tries to arrange everything to match it. A live with- out romance becomes less than worth living. One must be feeling all the time, if not feeling joy, then pain. and the more immature the mind, the more it is disposed to regard pain as the only form of feeling. A morbid delight in the mere sentimentality of being unhappy becomes the ruling passion. The young girl without many healthful com- panions of her own age, and isolated frcm home, surroundings and home sympathies, as Anna Holywell was, begins to find the study of her own artificial emotions a necessity to her happi- ness or what in her morbid state passes for hap- piness. Ths dramatic interest of her position a.s a young and perhaps beautiful girl who is yet utterly miserable and disgusted with the inanity of the world becomes a luxury for her to contemplate. She feels herself un- usual, and the longing for something above the common fate of women in a trivial domestic destiny and the effort to reach the immense coloured lamps of literature are satisfied. She swings herself between the extremes of things and balances on the sensation she herself makes to herself as audience. The ordinary world of sports and pleasures, work and play, sense and nonsense, dissolves from her view. She is a heroine—a woman whom a poet might make his theme. There are many girls who reach the extrava- gant state, with the measuring-rod between the actual things and people around them and the beings of their own imagination, quite lost and sunk to the bottom of the sea, who never even brush ever so faintly with the hem of their skirts the suicide idea. But others whose fair exterior and laughing face would deceive the most veteran judges of character, dwell with morbid relish on the idea which led poor little Anna down into the depths from which there is no rising. They remember that Keats, who intoxi- cated the world with the beauty of his words, said that he was "oft-times half in love with easeful death." The outward terrors are lost sight of in the inward craving to experience the sensation; to be, then not to be. To go out like a quenched candle, to fade like a sta.- at sunrise, to melt into nothingness like a ?t ain of music—it is a fascination. » The motive is never far to see. Honie, friends, everything to look forward to, a life wf usefulness just beginning—these would not weigh in the balance against an imagined lover who had grown cold, an imaginary crime of re- morse, a heart too fine and sensitive to bear the uninteresting stupidity and monotony of the daily life around it, the refusal of others of coarser mold to recognise the particular distin- guishing something which makes a heroine of the girl, the futility of studying when the expe- rience of a vast, spiritual, all-encompassing love is the only thing held worth living for, are reasons of weight and substance to a mind feed- ing on its own morbidness. Of tne few girls of imaginative and literary temperament who arrive at the extreme, it is the very rare exception which thinks of exe- the idea. The more morbid the nature, the less inclination there is to action of any kind —even this kind. Most of them remain languorously 1 ;alf in leva with easeful death for a while, then wake up to find it all a bad dream, a brief disease like whooping cough or measles. No one ever imagines that such thoughts could have come even most remotely in contact with the nice, bright girl he knows, anl it is horribly, inexpres- sively shocking when one, with perhaps a little different distribution of nerve-force put the' thought into action. It was given to Anna Holywell to be the hideous, startling exception.
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