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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CARDIFF. rjlHEAIEE ROYAL. Lessee and Manager ess. Mrs. Edward Fletcher. Theatre Telephone, 362. TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, AST TT Y N N E. STILL RUNNING SUCCESSFULLY. Time and prices as usual. Booking Offices at Messrs. Thompson and Shacbell's (Limited), Queen-street, 10 till o. Telephone 521. MONDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 13th, Mr. GEORGE THORNE And J. L. SHINE in the New Farcical Comedy, entit] ed- rpOMMY, For the First Time on any Stage. Plans 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). 57093 GRAND THEATRE Lessee and Manager. ME. Clarekce Sounes PRONOUNCED SUCCESS OF THE GREAT LONDON DRAMA, gjAlNTS AND SIN KERS. By Henry Arthur Jones. POPULAR PRICES—3d. to 10s. 6d. Doers open 7.10 (early doors 6.45); commence 7.30. 57099 ""Tin not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more—deserve it." THE E M P IRE, Managing; Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT! THE AUGMENTED KARNO TROUPE, Under the direction of the celebrated FRED KARNO, In an Elaborate and Excruciatingly Funnv Pantomime— "JAIL BIRDS," In Three Big Scenes. Scene L 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. LES FRASETTIS, ( Xylophone and Violin Soloists. MDLLE. F.MMY'S .Interesting and Clever Troupe of FOX TERRIERS. FRANK SEELEY, ] Eccentric Character Comedian. PALLES AND CUSSICK, Comedians and Burlesque Boxers. ROSE TILLED. Songstress and Dancer. ARTHUR ST. GEORGE. Patriotic, Descriptive, and Comic Vocalist. •The Popular Comedian, TOM COSTELLO, i Of "Comrades," "Ship I Love," and Trinity Church" fame.. Next Week:— LOCKHART'S COMIC ELEPHANTS And THE BOISSETTS IN ""fHE 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. PHILHARMONIOHALL, CARDIFF LAST TWO WEEKS. liust Close SATURDAY, December 18th, having to Opea in Swansea for the Annual Xmas Season, commencing December 24th. Enor- mous Reception and Still increasing Popu- larity of MR. JOSEPH JpOOLE'S UP-TO-DATE MYRIOKAMA. More additions for the Last Two Weeks:—Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee 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 for the Last Two Weeks of REX FOX, the Monarch of the Aerial Slack 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 Jj M P I B 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 Daily Ten to Four. Telephone 158. Nat. Next Week: "SAINTS AND SINNERS." 55694 ———————IT——BMW— THE GREAT BLOOD [ UR'.b'IER THOMPSONS BURDOCK PILLS Overcome the worst forms of diseases, and the foulest state oi the Blood, Stomach. Liver, and Kidneys; they go to the core of every disease, where no other medicine has power to reach. In Boxes, at Is. Hd: and 2s. 9d. each. Sold hv all Chemists, or from the. Burdock Pill Manu- factory. 44, Oxford-street, Swansea. H ,E THE 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 nhief 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 pIPORTANT QUESTION Is where to buy 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 t > 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 JgEYAN AND £ JOMPANY (LIMITED). who to-dsy are beyond all question the largest Furnishers in South Wales and Monmouthshire. and they defy any competitor to disprove this statement. w HAT STRONGER jpROOF :an be adduced to show that by entrusting your orders to this large and old-established Firm yon will 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 [ree by rail or own vans, and the rjlRAIN JjlARE pAID nf 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 PiUfcw complete for 27s. 6d. Organs and IT plANOS JJALF pRICE. Carpets, Linoleums, and Floor Cloths of newest designs, and every requisite for furnishing lhrcughout at equally low prices. JgEVAN AND 0OMPANF, 21, DUKE-STREET, And 97, ST. MARY-STREET, CAHDIFF 97, WIND-STREET, gWANSEA OPPOSITE TOWN-ITALL. N EWPORT; CLARENCE-STREET and HANBURY-ROAD, pONTYPOOL. AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY DISTRICT. el876 J^EECHAM'S PILUS. BBECHAl\i'S PILLS, E P,,C H A IAI'S PILLS. Worth it Guinea :i. );0,. B~^EOFFITRS PILLS" For Bilious tacks. BF/IVOHAM'S PILLS I'or Nervous Disorders. CHAM'S PILLS. For Indigestion in all its forms. B~ EECHAM'S PILLS. l or Wind and 1'air.s in tlie Stomach BEECHAM'S PILLS. For Sick Hcall:ile. YVIOEC ;>J AM '^TIT7LS JT> Have Saved Die T.IVPK of I » K K<JH A M'STJITls^ ]'\>v Giddinesrj. HAM'S PiLLs; J ]'01' Fulness nnd Swelling :ift,er 1\í a1-. I »EECJHAM'S PILLS S") Are WnrUi :I :T KOT. E c 11 11, t jb. U A Wonderful J\J'1 fOl Age? K KU HAir^rLI^ Are A diluted for Old und Youus. BUSINESS ADDRESSES. SOLD IN BOTTLES, Is.; BY POST, Is. Id. OOTHACIFE DAILY TESTIMONIALS OF THIS GREAT CURE ARE BEING RECEIVED FOR THE FOLLOWING: FOR TOOTHACHE, FOR HEADACHE, V FOR NEURALGIA, INFLAMED GUMS. AND IT WILL CURE ALL KINDS OF VAIN; IN FACT. A REALLY GOOD PAIN KILLER. AGENTS:- Cardiff: Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, j „ Queen-street. Hicks and Co. (Limited). Chemists, Duke-street. „ Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Cowbridge-road, Canton. „ A. J. Bellamy, Chemist, 61, Pacet- street, Grangetown. 00. Messrs. Duck and Sons, Chemists, St. John's-square. f, E. Edwards, Chemist, 2, Mackintosh- place, Albany-road. „ F. Millward, Chemist, 60, Woodville- road. Cathays. M R. Mumford, 60, Castle-road, Roath. „ H. Mumford, 17, Meteor-street, Splot- land. „ 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. Tudo- Williams, Dentist, Medical Hall. Abergwynfi ■ Richards and Son, Grocers. Abertillery: Morgan Bros., Carmarthen Butter Stores. Barry Dock: Hicks and Co., Chemists. Blaenavon: Messrs. D. Davies and Co., 100, Broad-street. Blaina: Thomas Jones, Liverpool Stores. Brecon: Mr. W. Tudor. Chemist. Brynmawr: 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. Cowbridsre: Mr. J. G. Harold Bird. Ebbw Vale: Mr. David Hughes. Grocer, Victoria-street. Hereford: Messrs. Clarkson and Son, 9, High- terra cc. Llantwit-Major: Mr. William Cmnmings. Llanstephan • Evan T. Davies, The Emporium. H( rthyr: Messrs. G. M. and R. Gunson, 67, and 68 TTigh-street,. Morriston: T.Tr. L. Bevan, Medical HalL Neath: Mr. C. Hutchins. Chemist. Newport: Messrs. T. Cordev and Co., High-st. Newport: Phillies and Son, -Drug- -Stores, 92; Commercial-strect. Penarf,h: Stranaghan and Stephe"-? (Limited). Pembroke Dock: F. J. Tallett, 14, Diamond- street. Pontypridd: lfr: Isane Protliero, Grocer, &c. Pontypridd: W. H. Key, The People's Chemist. Forth: Messrs. Thomas and Evans, The People's Stores. Porthcawl: Mr. T. Langdon, Grocer, John- street. Swansea- Mesrs. Taylor and Co. (Limited), Wind-street. Tondu and Aberkenfig: Co-operative Society (I imited). Tredegar: Mr. C. J. Price. Manchester House. Treherbert: Mr. Enoch Davies. The Stores. Tioedyrliiw: W Morgan and Co. Sofe Manufacturer: — pHIL. PHILLIPS. 24, ST. MARY-STREET, CARDIFF. Cratif Notices* \ET DECOKATCES. Yv DITVTS A N D s ONS" VV < PjaINTKRS, GTJ ASS, OIL, AND r*APKR-HANGING MWKG IAN L'^ 11. Q-JE^y-STREET. "»T7».TVOF K 3, ETC'. YOU WANT TOLTR CLOTHES TUCELY CLKANKI>, GO TO JTO n BS. DYWtu. 1. V-'ir, O V ■) RTTRIFITT7RE. BEVAN X-, COMPANY. LIMITED "TlfX CARDIFF FUItNISHEUS," 3T. :\fAaY.)Tf:FI';T AND 1)1,11 HATS. PARSLEY'S HAND-MADE HATS zs. M. ami 3s ini-—IS, Wyndhnm Arcade &n<t 10. Caroline street frY FT:OM T rm makkr. exrsimATic CTTRE. I'Oli VAKTJUULRS APVuY To PH I J J PHILLIP ci 24, ST. 3fAIiV.STI*J £ i;T PREPAID ADVERTISEMENT. "EVENING EXPRESS." THRK1E SIX TIMES. TIMES -1-1- 20 Words 0 6 | 1 0 16 3C Words 0 9 1 6 2 3 40 Words 1 0 2 0 3 0 50 Words 3 | 3 0 j 3 6 Notlbo to Advertisers. IMPORTANT.—Advertisements to be classified must reach this ofiice by 10.30 a.m.; but, they can be 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 purpose whatever, and cannot be allowed to be used for the distribution of printed or written advertising ciicalar or announcements of any kind. The above charges apvily only to consecutive insertions of the following class of advertise- ments:—Situations Wanted or Offered. Apart- ments. Money Wanted, Partnerships. Lost and Fonnd, MisoellfiTvms Wants. Bus'nessea, HoTises. Shops. Offices to Let or Sell. Specific Articles for Sate Privately. Name and Address to be counted. Orders sent throngh the ÐOSt to be accom- panied by Postal Order or Halfpenny Stamps. Advertisements a.re received also t.t the following snb-oEQces:— NEWPORT TREDf GAR-STREET SWANSEA CASTLE-STEEET MERTHTR VICTORIA-STREET. FONTYPRIDD 4a. TAFF-STREET. HEAD OFFICES: CARDIFF: ST. MARY-STREET. BICTCIiES. SPECIAL Clearance.—Six Solid Safeties. O 38s. 6d.; 4 Cushions. 50s.; 4 Pneumatics, £ 5; cash onlv.—Morris Bros.. Cycle Works, Ponty- pridd. Repairs, Plating, and j-namel'ing promptly. e!347 DRESSMAKINCt. DRESSMAKING.-Ladies' Tailor-made and Braid Costumes. Weddinsr and Evening Dresses, Mantles, &c., Made in the Latest Style: fit guaranteed.—Address Lewis and Evans, 78. Wyndham-crescent, Cardiff. e5835 POULTRY. POULTRL-If you want your birds to pay P you write for prices and samples of food to Noah Rees and Son, Hay, Corn, and Seed Merchants. Cardiff. e6115 MONEY. H/r O N E Y T~0 LEND IVJL £ 5 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 at Low Prices. Hundreds of Patterns to choose from. e6564 rpOBACCONISTS Commenclng.-See Illustrated X Guide (259 pages), 3d.-Tobacconists' Out- fitting Company. 186, Euston-road, London. Hairdressers fitted. Manager, Henry Myers. e6437 EARTHENWARE and China.—Seconds L2 JL Crates; best JE3; or will send 15 dozen Seconds Articles for 17s. 6d. Write for Lists.— Webbe and Co., Longton, Staffordshire Pot- teries. o6034 IS Your Watch Wrong? The Best and Cheapest Shop iu 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. kliniited), Swansea. 2092zl0 WANTED, a Junior Clerk; good shorthand writer.—Apply W. Gilbertson and Co. (Limited). Pontardawe^ 57161 rriHE Pioneer Life Assurance Company X (.Limited).—-The Directors are 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 experieuce, with references, to be addressed to the Chairman. 11, Dale-street, Liverpool. 57159 WANTED, a Few Shorthand-Typewriting YT Clerks.—Applications. by letter only. with copies of recent testimonials, and stating salary required, to S. Pearson and Son (Limited). Contractors, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire. 57143 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. 5713/ GROCER'S Clerk Wanted at once, for a High- class Fa-milv Store Trade; outdoors.—State full particulars K 67, Western Mail, Cardiff. x9 ANTED, in a Large Office at the!3oeks7^ respectable Lad; must be good writer.— Address K 58, Western Mail. Cardiff. 1954zll f»-(.—An Income of 12s. 6d. to £ 1 per Week c&JL Can be Earned in Spare Hours or Even- ings by Either Sex who can Write.—Proof sent 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., WAUTED. AGENTS, etc., WAUTED. 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 Initiais or Fic- titious Names must bear the address of the Advertise.- oc one of the Offices of the Western Mail. WANTED, respectable Young Man as T t 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, Cardi|f. I?16zl0 GENERAL and Commercial Printing and Stationery —Good Traveller Required, with sound connection, to Wo fit South Wales and District.—Apply, stating previous experience, terms. Ac., to E. II. Webb,iBedmin3ter Printing W0rks, Bristol. -57024 MISCELLANEOUS .-ALES. 1 000 Business Cards, Memorandums, or Bill- » heads, 3s.; 10,000 Useful Handbills, 2s. 6d.; samples free.—Fisher and Ob., Machine Printers, Broadmead, Bristol. e4418 FIREWOOD at Cardiff Union Workhouse, 2s. per Cwt.; delivered in any part of the borough.—Orders to Master, Workhouse. e6574 LARGE Assortment Oi 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 f PHE Latest Improved Letter File. The Morden" File; 4s. 6d.—stationery Depart- ment. Western Mail, Cardiff. e50430 ft On 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 Yeara a Queen.—Part I. Now Ready; 6d., postage 2d.—'Western Mail Limited, Cardiff. INVOICE and Letter Files. All the leading styles.—"The Sequence iHle," "The Warwick File," "The Standard File." "The Common- sense File "-Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 SAVE Time" Letter Cards, 25 for 4id., post k? frefl"; an improvement on the Govern-' ment card.—Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. 50430 fJATENT Automatic Office Paperweight and J, Monthly Calendar for Four Years. Is.— Stationery Lepartment. Western Mail, Cardiff. THE "Handy" Book Marker, 3d., post free— Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 1LB. Cream Notepi'T'er and, 100 Envelopes. Is., t iii Two Sizes. Private or Comraercinl.— Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff, 1\/1 ILKSELLER'S Delivery Book, Is.— It 1 stationery Department, -Western Mail, Ca-din. ■ y:. 50430 rpHE New Game. Table Football. Is.. oust 1.. X free.—Stationery Department, Western Mail. Cardiff 50430 A DHESIVE Linen, T^pe fcr 'Renairinc Music, £$. ,t-c., 3d., post free, per roll.—Stationery Department. Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 A UTOMATIC Constant Level Inkstand; Is. 2d., .XT. post free.—stationery Department Wes- tern Mail, Cardiff. 50431,) IGOO Page Letter Conying^ Book; half bound calf. 5s.; special Iine.Western Mail Sta- ticrery Department, Western Mail, Cardiff. mHE "Tryy>ograph" Cofryihg Apparatus: pro- X duces thousands of copies from one hand- writing or typewriting.—Prjce list on applica- tion to Western Mail Stationery Department, Cardiff. 50430 STYLOGRAPHtC Fountafti Pens. vs.. post fice; invaluable to Pv-#ry business man.— Stationery^ Department, Western Mail. Cardiff. n_' -+. TAKONARDS. for addressing boxes, <&c.. Id. T and 2d. per packet.-Wtstern Mail Limited, Cardiff. J 50459 QTONE'S "IIniverssJ' Portfolios for Letters, S Price Lists, &c., &c. from 4d. each.—Sta- t;onerv Denartment, Western Mail. Cardiff. POCKET Cinematograuhe; price 6d.—Western Mail. Limited, Cardiff. 50430 "~A DJUSTA^E Brawer PaSfitlSfie. p«r A -Stationery Department, Western Mail, Cardin. e50430 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANTED. A DVERTISERS' are Cautioned that ?ost- il 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 Lady for General Drapery, Accustomed to Window-dressing.-O. H. Jones, Paget-street, Grangetown, Cardiff. 2074z10 YOUNG Lady Wanted for Drapery; Welsh.— Apply Jas. Daviee. Draper, Ferndale. z9 GROCERY.—Wanted, a good Junior imme- diately; must be accustomed to horses.— Apply, giving full particulars, to Thomas Davies, Grocer, Hirwain. 2071z8 D"RAPERy.-Waiited- at once. an experienced D 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., Mon. 57139 DRAPERY.— Wanted, experienced Young Ladies for Mantles, MiUitiery Sales. Gloves, Dresses, and Manchester.—Give full particulars of experience and salary required Howell Bros., Penarth. £ 2030z9__ DRAPERY.—Wanted, a steady Young Man; Welsh; (rood window-dresser.—Apply to R. Edwards, Merthyr. 2021z9 GOOD Junior Wanted for Grocery and Pro- visions.—Apply Williams and Co.. 30, Cli fton-street. Cardyf. 2005z9 DRAPERY.—Wanted, smart Junior; good stockkeeper and salesman; gents', mercery; Cli fton-street. Cardyf. 2005z9 DRAPERY.—Wanted, smart Junior; good stockkeeper and salesman; gents', mercery; serve through; state references, salary, Welsh.—Ran del 1. London House, Llanelly. z!3 PRO VISIONS.—Smart Salesmen Wanted at once.—Apply Lipton, St. Mary-street. Car- Welsh.—R&udel!. London House. Llanelly. zt3 PRO VISIONS.—Smart Salesmen Wanted at once.—Apply Lipton, St. Mary-street. Car- diff.. 1987z8 TO Grocers.—Wanted, Several good English 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, Genera! Drapers and Milliners, 4 and 20, Green-street, Ne-ith. 1937Z3 WJANTED at once, a good Assistant; one VV used to Gilbey's preferred.—Davis Bros., Pontypool. 1920zl0 I )RAPERY. Experienced Hand Wanted; 1) must be good salesman and window- dresser; Welsh.—Apply, giving full particulars, to Jenkins, Draper. Ferndale. 1857d8 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANT PLACES. DVERTI3ERS "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. DRAPERY.—Young Man, 20, five years' expe- D riencc. Wishes to Go Abroad.-Address K 62, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1998z9
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NURSEMAIDS AND SERVANTS WANTED. ANTED. Beginning Jannary, good General r" Servant for Small Family nurse kept; good wages to capable girl.-Bellingham, Woodlands Villas, Swansea. 2090zl4 1 ANTED, for Private House, near Padding- ton. a Cook-General; about TO; wages | X12 to £ 14; fare pald.-Address K 72, Western Mail, Cardiff.. 2067z3 COOK-GENERALT 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, zip ONDON.—Kitchenrnafdr £ 15 12s. yearly; • Nurse-Housemaid, £ 12; Young TJeneral, £10. Family two; no washing; fares paid.- Address 71, Parlt-street, Bristol. 2086z14 zirli GOOD Plain Cook Wanted; £ 26 to £ 28; kitchenmaid kept; gentleman's small family; quiet situation.-92, St. Michael's-hill, Bristol. 2061z14 W.OTED, Kitchenmaid, qualiifed under W experienced cook, to Take Place of Cook in family of three; three Welsh servants kept. I —State service, wages, &c., B., Essilmont House, "Bedford. 2046z8 WANTED, experienced General; must be Welsh, strong, and-healthy.—Apply Mrs. Packer, Aldergrove, Porth. 2045zl0 WANTED at once, experienced Cook-General; baking, small dairy.—Apply, stating age, wages, and giving references, to Mrs. Routledge, Bedwellty House, Tredegar, Mon. 2051zlo WANTED, Cook-General; small family; w housemaid kept—Apply E., 38, West- bourne-road, Penarth, six to eight, or by letter. 2054z10 ANTED, General Servant, Able to Wash; W other servants kept; country.—State age, wages, reference to Mrs. Saunders, Glanrhwdw, Kidwelly.. 20527,10 WANTED at once, good General Servant, Who Can Wash and Iron Well; no family; comfortable home.—Ajjply Mrs. Pinner, 37, Commercial-street, Aberdare. 2053zl0 GOOD General Servant Wanted.—Apply, be- tween six and eight, to Mis. 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 AN TED, 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 18, as General.—Mrs. Ward, Mumbles, near Swansea. 2010z9 WANTED, a good, respectable Girl; about w 17; good home; small family.-Apply 28, Station-street, Barry Dock. 2008z8 AN experienced General Wanted at oneej must have good reference,.—Anply 27. Windsor-place (off Queen-street), Cardiff. 1995z9 WANTED, good Cook General. Also House- Parlourmaid; state age, wages, height, and reference.—Apply Stepney's Select R^isfry Office, Abergavenny. 1898zl0 TT 7" AN TED, Cook-General, for London; £ 18 to TT start; fare paid; gentleman's .mall family; no washing; housemaid kept.-Address 71. Park-street, Bristol. 1902zl0 WANTED immediately. Three good General Servants.—Apply, with references, stating wages. Manager, Knighton and Central Wales Servants' Agency, Knighton. 57101 WANTED. Early in January, 'experienced W General; housemaid kept; wages £ 14.— Apply Mrs. D. H. Lewis. Wind-street. Neath. all ANTED. General Servant; gentleman and lady in family; £ 14; no washing; man kept to clean boots, knives, Ac —10, Brooklyn- chambers, Bristrl. 1939zll WANTED at once, experienced General; two in family; good wages.—Apply, in the first instance, 49, Oakfield-street, Roath. 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OYSTERMOUTH.—Gentleman's Detached Resi- 0 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, T seven acres; three miles from Cardiff; near railway station.-Apply Freemasons' Hotel, Cardiff. 2059z14 U- -=.- SK.-To Let. a House, containing three U reception-rooms, four bed and two dress- ing rooms, besides servants' rooms; stable, coach-house, tennis court.—Apply B., Market- street, U sk. 20417.14 CARDIFF.—To Let, 79, Stacey-road; being re- decorated rent £ 40 per annum.—Apply Sessions and Soas (Limited), Penarth-road, Car- diff. 2018zl3 PENARTH.—Furnished House or Apartments P to Let in Westbourne-road; terms mode- rate, according to rooms required.-F 63, Wes- tern Mail, Cardiff. 1999z9 TO Let, 28, Giynrhondda-street; thoroughly renovated with latest improvements. Also 67, Alexandra-road, Canton.-Apply 145, Clifton- street, Cardiff. lS82z1t TO Let, 50 and 58, Oakfield-street^; also 18, Neville-place.—Apply W. C. W. Knapp, Cory's Corner, Docks, Cardiff. 1907z10 TO Let, 22, Charles-street; immediate posses- 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. 1379z9 TO Let, 25, Park-place.—This conveniently- situated Residence may now be Rented without the stabling—Apply Gottwaltz. Bow- ring, and Perry, Cardiff. 1818z8 A Private House to Let, No. 9. Coldstream- A i-.errace; in first-class condition; splendid bath, newly fitted, hot and cold water; also lavatory.—Apply Mr. Price, Tudor Hotel. Car- diff. 1796z8 To he Let or Sold, 50, Olive-road, Penarth; T large garden.—Apply 12, Glebe-street. Pen- arth. 1821z8 HOU3E; conveniently situated: suit travel- line draper or other person requiring con- jLl line draper or other person requiring con- venient corner house; rent low, or sell reason- able figure: Venetians, bath (hot and cold), elcc- tric bells. Ac.—Kevs at Shaftesbury-chamhers, next Shaftesbury Hotel, Newport. I8'i9zl5 THE South Wales. Monmouthshire Property Register for Dcc. Free on Application or Post.—Hern and Pertwee, House Agents. Auc- tioneers, Valuers, Ac., 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 ANTED, to Rent Small Country House; WANTED, to Rent Small Country House; accessible to Cardiff by rail; Dinas Powis, Llrtnishen, Caerphilly, <5cc.—134, Severn-road, Cardiff. 2040zl4 Cardiff. 2040zl4 DINAS Powis.—Wanted, in March, Villa (four bedrooms).—Apply K 50, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 1930zll TTTANTED, within 20 miles of Cardiff, Small T T House and 10 Acres Grass Land.—State lowest rent K 54, Western Mail, Cardiff. I950z8 < I MISCELLANEOUS SITUATIONS VACANT. BUTCHERS.—Wanted, good all-round Man; must be good salesman.—Apply, with refe- rences and salary, Hutchings, 57, Albany-road, Roath, Cardiff. 2055z10 rr*G Tailors.—Wanted, at once, Coat or -I. General Hand, for Permanency.—E. B. Haynes, U sk. 2038z8_ WANTED, Pattern Maker (Non-Society).— State references and wages Fielding and Piatt, Gloucesrer. 57142 REELWRIGHTS Wanted; good wages and t T constant work to experienced men: no improvers wanted.—Apply Stone's Steam Wheel- wright Works, Newport, Mon. 57140 ELECTRICAL Engineering.—Messrs. Sydney F. Walker and Co. Have a Vacancy for One Articled Pupil.-For terms anply Cardiff Electrical Works, Severn-road, Cardiff. 1927zll rpAILORS—Wanted7Young"Man^Able~tcrCut and Make Up; iober and reliable; comfort- a,ble home.—William-, 10, West-end, Llanelly. z8 WANTED, by large Firm of Steamship f 1 Owners, respectable, tall, and strong Lads. not over 17, as" Sea, Apprentices; no pre- mium. but surety required.—Apply, yittt photo, to K 45, Western Mail, Cardiff. 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).—Ayph* to K 38, Western Mai!, Cardiff. 57053 WANTED, for a, London Firm of Engineers, Coppersmiths: non-society; wages 40s. per 54-hour week.-Apply, by letter, to E C2, "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 ANTED, good Turner, non-society, on VV best work; state age, references, and wages.—Address H 15, Western Mail, Car- diff. 56968 WANTED, for Manchester District, good Non- Y V 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 ANTED, Young Man (indoors). Accustomed TV to Horses, Deliver Milk, and Willing to be Useful; good references.-K 74, Western Mail, Cardiff. 1991zl3 'TT/'ANTED, a reliable Groom-Coachman, T knowing his work, to Drive a Pair.— Apnly, stating age and wages, to Mrs. Stokes, Cnffern, Roch, R.S.O., South Wales. 2043zl0 GARDENER Wanted; must understand fruit, G flowers, vegetables, and greenhouse work, and be willing to be generally useful.-Y 12, Western Mail. Newport. 2026z9 WJANTED, steady Youth as Groom-Gardener VV and to be Generally Useful.—State full partculars, references, &c.. 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. Hearn, Baker, Newton, Mumbles. 18S8z9 AS Working Farm Bailiff; must be sober: A understand cows. sheep. horses; good milkers; no dairy; part farmhouse garden; £1 weekly.—Mr. Bromley Edmunds, Gwaingledr, White Cross, Pontyrridd. 2094z9 AS Cowman; thoioughly sober and reliable? aged 28; two in family: good poultry rearer: years in last situation; good refe- rence; disengaged—J. Harnett, Swanbridge, Lavernock, Penarth. 1995z9 YOUTH. 18. 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BTR LAST CLIMAX. SPECIALLY SET FOR THE EVENING EXPRESS. -1 There has been a red spot on the college I ♦rovid this week. The sober, sedate, between- times gay and frivolous life of Berkeley has been darkened by a crime. A young girl whose name is. on tlio class rolls of the great univer- 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 the is gone into the .speechless, silent beyond. I JLnd those who grope on the outside, around the I facts of her death, can come only to the hideous conclusion that self-murder lurked in the heart 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, with calm, studious forehead and girlish primness, seem strangely far apart. The faces that, arc turned upward on the slabs of the Morgue, with yellowing skins and glazed eyes exposed t$ the cruel view of the passer-by, do not look on life I with so fine a hope as that which thrills tha student beginning his university carcer. Ugly stories these poor defenceless faccs 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 bcinps 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 the presage of a dark experience, the cold uplifted unsiglit- liness of a morgue slab. She was a student in the University of Cali- fornia, a freshman looking forward to her intel- lect ui)! career with the 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 books and the centre of things. It seems as if 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 ether thoughts, as if the white, glittering purity of the one life would wipe out the blood-streaks of the other. Yet intellectual men have commiU cd 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, top ? 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 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 that 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 ordinary—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 hot 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 Caesar 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'b?sides the highly wrought young woman on whom they finally bestowed their affections. But whether of fiction, 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 J youth, probably saw the 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. 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, ox 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- a rran- 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 from 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. Tli3 dramatic interest of her position as 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 elfort 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 post 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 risinir. Th 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 star, at sunrise, to mslt into nothingness like a ?t'ain of music—it is a fascination. The motive is never far to see. Home, friends, everything to look forward to, a life of usefulness. justbeginning-thes,e would, not weigh in the balance against an imagined lover who had grown cold, ail 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 tile few girls of imaginative and literary temperament who arrive at the extreme, it is Hie very rare exception which thinks of exe- ci:riiKr 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 Vilf in love with easeful -deitli 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' tbotighi into action. It was given to Anna Holywell to be the hideous, startling exception.
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