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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CARDIFF. RJS H £ A T R E ROYAL. Lessee and Manageress.Mrs. Edward Fletcher. Theatre Telephone. 362. » Friday. Dec. lith, Mr. J. L. Shine's Company, including the celebrated Comedian, GEORGE THORNE. in the actual production of an ,E. original Farcical Comedy, in three Acts, entitled TOMMY O D D By Osmond Shiilingford. Hon. Thomas Dodd.Mr. George Thorne. Mrs Goodwin Miss Alica de Winton. A Crowded House Last Night Voted "Tommy Dodd" an Instantaneous Success. Roars of Laughter. The play produced by J L. Shine. Time and Prices as Usual. Booking Offices Messrs. Thompson and Shackell's (Ltd.), Queen- atreet. Telephone 521. Important Notice.—This Theatre will remain Clesed until Xmas Eve, Friday, December 24th, owing to the extraordinary preparation of the "Royal" Seventeenth Annual PANTOMIME, JJOBINSON £ <RUSOE (UP-TO-DATE), written expressly for this Theatre by Geo. Thorne an4 F. Grove Palmer. look Out for Special Bills. 57249 RAND THEATRE Lessee & Manager, MR. CLARENCE SOUNES LAST TWO NIGHTS OF QRLENTAL A M ERICA. Popular Prices—4d. to 10s. 6d. Doors open 7.10 (early doors 6.45); commence 7.30. GRAND NOTICE.—Look out! Good Wine Needs no Bush." BOXING DAY, December 27, Production of Mr. CLARENCE SOUNES' Fourth Grand Xmas Annual- JJOBINSON CReSOE. By the ORIGINAL LEOPOLDS and Their Grand Double Company of Pantomimists. 57249 THE M P I R E. Managing Director OSWALD STOLL. not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more-deserve it." TO-NIGHT! L OCKHART'S -j^LEPHANTS, Including BONEY. Elephants Riding the Tricycle! Elephants Standing on their Heads! Elephants Playing a Drama! Elephants Simulating Intoxication. Elephants Exciting Unbounded Applause and Laughter. .THE FAMOUS BOISSETTS, FRANK, WILLIE, and ALBERT, and Troupe, in That Uproariously Funny Pantomime, "THE BRICKLAYERS," Depicting the Humorous Sitle of a Labouring Life. THE BOISSETTS IN "THE BRICKLAYERS and LOCKHART'S COMIC ELEPHANTS Head a programme comprising also VENTO, the Popular and Novel Ventriloquist. SISTERS DESMOND, Duettists. LILIAN VENTO, in her Prismatic Dance. 4 HARRY KENT, Comedian. E. J. RICKARD, Vocalist. DEXTERIA and DOUGLAS, and the Mystic Cabinet. Next Week- "THE DAIRY MAID." Box Office open daily from 10 to 4; Saturdays, 10 to 1. Also from 7 to 10 each evening for book- ings for subsequent dates. Two Complete -Performn-nees Every Evening oetween 7 and 9 and 9 and 11. PHILHARMONIC-HALL, CARDIFF J- LAST TWO NIGHTS CLOSE SATURDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 18th. x R. JOSEPH -pOoLE'S 4YRIORAMA and VARIETY CONFEDERATION, The Largest and Best Touring. Every Even- ing at 7.45, Wednesday and Saturday at Three. Doors open 715 and 2 30 Early Doors 3d. eyfra. Prices, 3s., 2s., Is., and 6d. Must Close Saturday Next. 56515 NEWPORT. rjl H E E 1\1 P I R E. lwiuiaging Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT! The Augmented Karno Troupe in "JAIL BIRDS," Which has scored'a triumphant success at Car- diff during the past week. Three big scenes throughout the Performance, of which the fun is convulsingly laughable. Permane's Bears, Bros. Artois. George Brooks, The Gerrettos, Prof. Dunning, Miss Kahn, and Syd May. LYCEUM, NEWPORT Proprietor MB. CLARKNCE SOUNES THIS EVENING AT 7.30, THE GREAT LONDON SUCCESS, jgAlNTS AND jglNNERS, Prices 6d. to £1 Is. Box Office open Daily Ten to Four. Telephone 158, Nat. Next Week: Arizona Joe's "BLACK HAWKS." 55694 THE GHEAT BLOOD URIFIER THOMPSONS BURDOCK PILLS Overcome the worst form? 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. lid. and 2s. 9d. each. Sold by all Chemists, or frum the Burdock Pill Manu- factory. 44, Oxford-street. Swansea. MANUFACTURER. IIORSFORTH. OFFERS HIS OWN liwOns DIRECT from the LOOM :.t MILL PRICES, vix :— Serges, Fancies, Cashmeres. Bie*es. Meltons. Man le Cloths. Patterns sent free (n application. Save all intermediate pro. Special Lot of Dress Meltons, itll shades, a' 1 per yard. Njortime r"'s Mixture W&r Croup, Whooping Cough. Coughs, & Cold* I Of all Chemists. Price. 1/13' PUBLIC NOTICES. CARDIFF SCHOOL BOARD The Board have decided to REDUCE THE FEE Payable in th'ir EVENING SCHOOLS from 2s. to Is for the REMAINDER of the SESSION. The Reduced Fee- will be returned at the end of the Session t., all Scholars who maKe NINE ATTENDANCES in Each of Two Subjects. The Schools will RE-OPEN after the Christmas holi- days on MONDAY, January 3rd. 1898, but Scholars who are desirous of Joining the Classes are specially requested to do so at once. J. J. JACKSON. Clerk of the Board. Howard-gardens, 13th December, 1897. e6603 SOLD IN BOTTLES. -Is.; BY POST, Is. Id. -OTHACHE||. DAILY TESTIMONIALS OF THIS GREAT CURE ARE BEING RECEIVED FOR THE FOLLOWING:— FOR TOOTHACHE, FOR HEADACHE, • FOR NEURALGIA, INFLAMED GeMS. AND IT WILL CURE ALL KINDS OF VAIN; IN FACT, A REALLY GOOD PAIN KILLER. AGENTS: Cardiff: Anthony and Co., Chemists, St. Mary- street. „ Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, „ Queen-street. „ Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Duke-street. „ Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Cowbridge-road, Canton. „ A. J. Bellamy, Chemist, 61, T'aget- street, Granpetown. Messrs. Duck and Sons, Chemists, St. John's-square. „ E. Edwards, Chemist, 2, Mackintosh- place, Albany-road. n F. Millward, Chemist, 60, Woodville- road, Cathays. „ R. Mumford, 60, Castle-road, Roath. „ R. Mumford, 17, Meteor-street, Splot- land. „ C. Clarke, Chcmii 2, Coburn- street, Cathavs. „ Howell Phillips. Chemist, 253, Bute- street. „ R. Prust, Chemist, 14, Broadway, Roath. Jesse Williams and Co., Chemists, Queen-street. D. 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SPECIAL Clearance.—Six Solid Safeties, 38s. 6d.; 4 Cushions, 50s.; 4 Pneumatics, £ 5; cash only.—Morris Bros., Cycle Works, Ponty- pridd. Repairs, Plating, and i-namelling promptly.. e!947 DRESSMAKING. DRESSMAKING.—Ladies' Tailor-made and in D Braid Costumes, Wedding and Evening Dresses. Mantles, Ac.. Made in the Latest Style; fit guaranteed.-Address Lewis and Evans, 78, Wyndham-crescent, Cardiff. eo835 POtTIiTBY. POULTRY.—If you want your birds to pav P you write for prices and samples of food to Noah Rees and Son, Hay, Corn, and Seed Merchants, Cardiff. e6115 PERSONAL. WILL the Gentleman who was Travelling Third Class to Barry Dock about Noon on Saturday, November 20th, Dressed in Black Coat, Corduroy Trousers, with a Rough Sack of Goods, and accompanied by a Lad, and who also Found the Ticket on Carriage Floor that could not be produced at Dynas Powis Station by his Fellow Patssenger, kindly Communicate with H. Warwick. 21, Strathnairn-sireet, Car- diff? Evidence important; liberal reward. ezl7 MISCELLANEOUS. OLD ^ngyavings, purchased at late Dean Vaughan's Sale (grand selection); also have Antique Furniture, China, Glass, Curiosities.- 18, Castle Arcade. Cardiff. el056oz20 TOBACCONISTS Commencing.—See Illustrated T Guirle (259 pages), 3d.obacconists' Out- fitting Company, 186, Euston-road, London. Hairdressers fitted. Manager, Henry Myers. el0566d EARTHENWARE and China.-Seconds L2 JLL Crates; best £3; or will send 15 dozen Seeoftds Articles for 17s. 6d. Write for Lists.— Webbe and Co., Longton, Staffordshire Pot- teries. 00034 TS Your Watch Wrong? The Best and A» 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 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANTED. A DVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- A 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. ("1ROCERY and Provisions.—Wanted inline- X diately after Xmas, Single All-round Assistant; willing, quick, and obliging.-Full particulars first letter, Young, Barry. 2510z23 GRuCERY and Provisions —Wanted, good C- Junioi. at once.-Apply Heal, Salisbury- road, Cardiff. 2442z22 ROCERY.—Wanted, a trustworthy, expe- rienced Assistant; well up in provisions; Welsh.—State full particulars W. D. Thomas, Sun Stores, Dowlais. 2423z21 GENTS/ Mercery—Smart Junior Wanted; Welsh.—Williams and Co., The People's Hatters, Mertliyr. 2427zl7 GENTS.' Mercery.—'Wanted^ a sharp Appren- tice.—Apply Williams and Co., The People's Hatters, Merthyr. 2426zl7 DRAPERY.—Wanted at once, a thoroughly D experienced Young Lady as First in the Lace Department; personal application pre- ferred.-Evans and Allen (Limited), Newport, Mon. 2410z21 DRAPERY.—Wanted, a Young Man for Manchester Department (good salesman); must speak Welsh.-Apply, stating experience, salary, and age, Thomas Yorath, Swansea. z21 OUTFITTING;—Wanted, a sharp, pushing 0 Junior.—E.' Siedle and Son, Merthyr Tyd- fil. 2357z20 GROCERY and Provision Trade.—Wanted, for January, smart, up-to-date Managers and Assistants forsoutil Wales; must be good sales- men and window-dressers.—State age. if single, salary (out), and full particulars of last situa- tion, to W., Star Supply Stores, Pontypool. z20 OUTFITTING—Wanted at once, smart Im- prover; good stockkeeper and salesman.- Apply, stating full particulars, S. Roderick and Co., Glyn-Neath. 2283zl8 AGENTS, etc., WANTED. A DVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- .ti. masters are Not allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initials or Fic- titious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. A GENTS Wanted Everywhere, Canvassing r.i. Shops, Hotels, and Principal Families, in Town and Country; liberal commission and salary; good reference.-Apply, by letter, U 12, Western Mail Offices, Swansea. 2498z23 WANTED, by a Firm of Brewers, a good Traveller, with experience in Carmar- thenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire Districts; good salary; references required.— Address L 31, Western Mail, Cardiff. 57315 AGENTS residing in Cardiff and Swansea, Call- ing on Grocers and Ship Chandlers, May Hear of Additional Commission.-K 88, Western Mail, Cardiff. 2309z16 ENERGETIC Mai of good appearance Wanted in Cardiff, to Solicit Business for Well-established Firm; special terms to capable man.—Address L 1, Western Mail, Cardiff. z18 ANTED immediately, trustworthy and W energetic Men to Represent British Homes Investment Corporation: application by letter only.-28, Richmond-road. Cardiff. 2268z18 A Good Opening.—Energetic Man with Spare Time Offered First-olass Agency; excellent terms.—Address K 94, Western Mail. Car- diff. 2227z17 BRITAIN Insurance Friendly Society, 15, Queen-street. Cardiff .—Wanted, Ten More Agents in Cardiff District on permanent weekly salary and commission.-Young men of good character and connection only need apply to V. Huzzey, District Manager. 2204zl7 CLERKS, ete., 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 6f the Offices of the Western Mail. WANTED, inV Coal Office, Junior, able to Write Shorthand.—Address L 34, Western Mail, Cardiff. 2480z20 WANTED, respectable Young Man at once as Clerk for Butchering Business; must be good scholar; good references: wages £1 per w eek. — Address L 30, Western Mail, Cardiff. zl8 KLONDYKE Research Syndicate Require a Few Gentlemen at £ 200 each, to Complete Expedition of about 20; syndicate have, own light dt.ift steamer now building to navigate upper waters of Yukm, carry a year's provi- sions, Ac., and to be members headquarters.— Apply Office, 15, Baltic-buildings, Liverpool. zl7 WANTED, a Junior Clerk; knowledge of shorthand and typewriting.—Apply A. F. Lowry, Neath. 57295 WANTED at once, respectable Lad for an Accountant's Office.—Address L 18, Wes- tern MaIl,' Cardiff. 2377zl7 WANTED, an Office Junior.—Apply, by letter only, to Sessions and Sons (Limited), Penarth-road. Cardiff 2318z20 T1TANTED, competent Man for Builder's VT Office; mst be abfe to draw, take off quantities, and assist generally.—Apply, stating wages and references, "0 J. Jenkins, Canal Wharf. Merthyr. 2305zl8 YOUTH Required who can Write Shorthand Y and Work Typewriter .—State salary and experience Powell, Cooke, and Co., Auctioneers, Bridgend.. 2246zl7 Pi.-An Income of 12s. 6d. to £ 1 per Week 3wl Can be Earned ifa Spare Hours or Even- ings by Either Sex whq can Write.-Proof sent free anywhere to anyone sending self-addressted envelope to T. Smith and Co. (Department 9 B), 79, St. Helen's-gardens. North Kensington, Lon- don, W. » L12562 MISCELLANEOUS LALES- ADVERTISERS are Cautioned Uiat 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. FOR 'Stale, Ittrg<ygiieU Kennel, in excellent con- dition, cheap; can be seen any time; no use to present owner.—Apply A 1, Evening Express, Cardiff. e6546 1 000 Business Cards, Memorandums, or BiU- 5 heads, 3s.; 10,000 Useful Handbills, 2s. 6d.: samples free.-Fisher and Co., Machine Printers, Broadmead, Bristol. e44l8 FIREWOOD at Cardiff Upion Workhouse, 2s. F per Cwt.; delivered in any part of the borough.-Orders to Master, Workhouse. e6574 LARGE Assortment 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 wCu Thick Buff Copying Sheets; extra strong; iJ specially adapted tor typewritten letters; letter-size. 2s.; foolscap. 2s. 6d.—Stationery Department. Western Mail, Cardiff. 50430 SIXTY Years a Queen.—Part I. 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"PATENT Automatic Ofifce Paperweight and JL Monthly Calendar for Four Years, Is.— Stationery £ epartment. Western Mail, Cardiff. rPHE Latest Improved Letter File, The X Morden" File; 4s. 6d.— Stationery Depart ment. Western Mail, Cardiff. e50430 APARTMENTS TO LET. FIRST Class Apartments—Drawing-room and j- One or Two Bedrooms.56. Cathedral-road (close to Park Entrance), Cardiff. 2491z23 PENARTH.—Lansdowne Private Hotel; exten- p sive Channel view; superior accommoda- tion; moderate charges;, special terms to per- manent boarders. 2803d PUBLIC.EOUSES( TO Let, Two Fully-lkensed Public-houses in Pembroke and Pembroke Dock.—For full particulars apply to the Pembroke Dock Brewery Company (Limited), Pembroke Dock. 2507z20 DUKE, Principal Bristol Valuer and Agent, 13, Clare-street, Bristol.—Selected L.st 'lorn and Country Houses for Disposal, post free. 57324 Ij^REE Spirit Vaults, in centre of City; proof payments to brewers draught beers alone over JE50 monthly; £ 350.—Duke, Bristol. 57324 WELL Paying Corner Public, in denseiy-popu- lated district; taking £ 17 weekly; £ 260 everything; money-making concern; yard.— Duke, Valuer, Bristol. 57324 COMMANDING Corner Market Inn, taking c j6140 monthly: sub-letting clears rent; stabling; several clubs held; JE575 cash only required.—Duke, Bristol. 57324 DELIGHTFULLY situate Country Fully- D, licensed Inn, with garden, orcharding; trade approaches L80 monthly; £ 300; lease; splendid inventory.—Duke, Bristol^ 57324 £ 60 Cash.—Fully-licensed Inn, near shipping; good dwelling-house; wonderful oppor- tunity. Another, £ 40; splendidly-fitted concern. -Duke, Valuer, Bristol. 57324 RARE Opportunity.—TO Let, a Full-licensed Public-house in One of Suburbs of Swan- sea; main thoroughfare; thickly populated; doing a splendid remunerative trade; imme- diate possession.-Apply C. LI. Watkins and Co., Hotel Brokers, Swansea. 57311 FOR Sale, Free, a Full-licensed Hotel in New- port; doing large proof trade; immediate possession; part purchase may remain on mortgage.—Particulars Young, Auctioneer, Newport. 2414z21 THE Lease of Beerhouse (Fiveears); £ 15 weekly, proof rent £ 32; genuine.—Young, Newport. 2414z21 ROADSIDE Inn; famous trade doing; ingoing £ 80; lust tenant 24 years; fifteen other houses; call.-Hillman, Auctioneer, Bridge- street, Newport. 2409x17 r"PO Let, the Bull Inn. Caerleon.—Apply on the X Premises, or to Searle and Herring, near Bridge, Newport. Mon. 23 £ 6z20 PUBLIC House to Let.—Apply Wm. Hancock and Co. (Limited),' Anchor Brewery, New- port. 57253 CARDIFF.—Fully-licensed House, in Central C Position; doing excellent trade; fourteen years' lease; cash about £ 750.—Powell and Co., Borough-chambers. Cardiff. 2274zl8 NEAR Cardiff.—Fully-licensed Country House: N capital position, main road; good lease at low rental.—Powell and Co., Borough-cham- bers, Cardiff. 2274zl8 SPIRIT Vaults; busiest thoroughfare Bristol; bound draught. beers only; profitable trade, JE30 weekly: last tenant made fortune; guaranteed genuine; ingoing zC750 down.- Apply Tebbs, Valuer, City-road, Bristol. z22 MISCELLANEOUS SITUATIONS VACANT. ADVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- misters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initials or Fic- titious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. WANTED immediately, Non-Union Iron Moulders; top wages paid for first-class men—Only good men nped apply to Stothert and Pitt (Limited), Bath. e6609 WANTED, a young and active Man as Store- keeper in Ship-repairing Works: must have had previous experience in same position. Also a good Man as Donkeyman; one used to tugboat preferred.—Apply, with copies of testi- monials cnly, to L 35, Western Mail, Cardiff. 57334 WANTED, for Estate Work, a Sawyer; one that can do rough carpentering.—Apply, first instance, by letter, giving testimonials, reference. Ac., to W. M., Post-office, Llanarth, near Raglan, Mon. 2335z20 WANTED, an energetic Working Foreman Moulder Where Four or Five Others are Kept.-State experience and wages to L 29, Western Mail. Cardiff. 57314 BAKERS.—Wanted, good Bread Baker, with a Knowledge of Smalls.—Apply, with parti- culars, at once, 8. J. Mules, Castie-street, Swan- sea. 2403z21 GROCERS' Warehousemen. — Smart, active Men Wanted, in the Cake-packing Depart- ment.-Apnly D. Jones, Dickinson, and Co. (Limited), Dowlais. 2383z17 TT7"ANTED,, an Improver, Shoeing and Jobbing 11 Smith, for Country Work.—Apply A. Wil- liams, Smith. Llanglbhy. near Ned&itort, Mon. zl7 WANTED, a Cupola Man and Drtsser.— Apply Pengam Foundry, Pengam. 57313 ELECTRICAL Engineering.—Messrs. Sydney F. Walker and Co. Have a Vacancy for One Articled Pupil.-For terms apply Cardiff Electrical Works, Severn-road, Cardiff. 2325z20 WANTED, a Colliery Mechanic, to Take T Charge of Steam and Electric Machinery. —Apply Hediey's Collieries, Neath. 2235zl7 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 further particulars, to B 75. Wes- kern Mail. Cardiff. 55335 GARDENER Wanted, Willing to be Generaliy Useful; state wages, with and without G Useful; state wages, with and without house, &(' no application considered without fullest particulars of experience, &e.-L 33, Western Mail, Cardiff. 2479z23 WANTED, Groom.Gardener; must tho- roughly understand flowers and kitchen garden, and care of good horse.-State age. qualification, and wages, L 15, Western Mail, Cardiff. 2347z20 MISCELLANEOUS SITUATIONS WANTED. YOUTH Seeks Situation: Pony and Garden preferred; good reference; aged 17.—Apply J. Brian, Resolven Vicarage. Neath. 2453zl8 GARDEiNER; single-handed; be generally useful; used to glass; three years in pre- sent situation; ten years previous; single- handed; can milk; married; good references.— W. James, Heath-gardens. Whitchurch, Cardiff. 2422zl7 SITUATION Wanted.by Young Man as Groom" or to Look After Horse and Trap, in Gen.' tleman's service; excellent character.—Address L 13, Western Mail, Cardiff, 2341z20 W°? £ IN™. ^fants Re-engagement W After Christmas, through gentleman giv- <ng up farming; experienced; wife dairy and poultry; good reference.—A., Dantwyn, Pontar- du1als- 2302zl8 YOUNG Man (21) Seeks & Situation as GroonT- abstainer; from Devon.—Address L 12 Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 2340z20 WANTED, by respecable Mnrried~Man7SitTia- tion as Gardener; experienced in all branches.—Address Gardener, Maesycoed Pont- ypridd. 2220z17 WANTED, Situation as Groom-Coach man • f f married, no encumbrance; ride and drive single or pair; two years' good reference from last place.-Apply Coachman, 17; Alexandra- street, Neath. 1850»17

Finished. THE RESTORER: "There, although I say it myself, as. perhaps, I shouldn't, that's a^iieat a job as you'll find in a day's march!"

NURSEMAIDS AND SERVANTS WANTED. WANTED. a good General as Housemaid; two other servants kept.—Apply Matron. Cottage Hospital, Porth, Pontypridd. 2445zl8 WANTED, thoroughly experienced, efficient T T Laundresses, to Undertake Large House- hold Washing; good furnished cottage and laundry.—Venables-Llewelyn, Llysdinam. New- bridge-on-Wye. 2449zI7 GENERAL Seryant Wanted for January 2nd, not under 20. Able to Do Plain Cooking; housemaid kept; large washing out; wages £16. —Mrs. Jones, 28, Victoria-road, Penarth. z22 HOUSE Parlourmaid Wanted; aged about 20. —Write, stating age, religious denomina- tion, and where last in service, to Mrs. De Ferry, Kilymaenllwyd, near Llanelly, Carmar- thenshire. 2443zl8 T^T'ANTEE, General Servant, Able to Do Good t 7 Plain Cooking, for a small family; housemaid kept; comfortable home for suit- able girl.—30, Richmond-road, Cardiff. 2434z22 WANTED, Cook-General; able to do plain cooking: housemaid kept; good refe- rences required.—Apply Miss Thomas, 223, New- port-road, Cardiff. 2431z21 TTOLSEMAID; family three; £ 20; parlour- nL maid and boy kept. Also Plain Cook; early dinners; £ 25; young kitchenmaid kept.- 71. Park-street, Bristol. 2421z21 WANTED, General Servant; housemaid kept; references required.—Apply Mrs. Cordey, The Grange, Stow Park, Newport. z21 ANTED, a clean, steady General as Plain vv Cook; aged about 25; good character; kitchenmaid kept.—The Matron, High School, Carmarthen. 2417 zl7 "0^ ANTED, a General Servant) good wages v v given .-Doinfries House, 32, Caroline- street, Cardiff. 2388zl7 T7ITANTED, January 13th, Useful Maid; good 11 plain needlewoman; lamps; assist house- work; thoroughly good character.—Mrs. Jones, Penyrock, Llandovery 2389z21 WANTED, a good General Servant; able to do .plain cooking: must have good refe- rences.—Apply Davies, Chemist. Rhymney. z21 \\TANTED, good General Servant, 20 to 25, t Able to Do Plain Cooking.—Beer. High Mead, near Abergavenny. 2394z21 WANTED, in January next. trustworthy "t General Servant, to Assist in Bar; refe- rences required.—Apnly to A. Delafield. Mon- mouthshire House, Abergavenny. 2379z21 WANTED, Nurse Attendant for Private Asy- lum; £ 16. rising £ 2 per annum to £ 24; superior engagement.—71, Park-street, Bris- tol 2364z20 WANTED, by Welsh family in London, com- petent General, with Knowledge of Plain Cooking; good references indispensable.—Apply, stating wages, Mrs. J., 85, Nightingale-lane, Wandsworth Common, London, S.W. 2332g20 GOOD Cook Wanted: £ 28; family four ladies; good situation. Kitchenmaid, £ 14 (General would do).—92, St. Michael's-liill, Bristol. z20 WANTED, after Christmas, exnerienced House-Parlourmaid to g:o to Ireland w th a Lady; small family; good wages; aged 25 to 30 —Apply, by letter, Mrs. Baldock, Co:ty Mawr, Talybont-ori-Usk, Breconshire. J37255 WANTED, a Nurse for One Baby of Five Months; must have good references from similar situations.—Apply to Mrs. Gumon. 20, Church-street, Merthyr TydviL 2303z18 WANTED, good Cook-General; baking and W dairy essential; to live in country; wages £25 per anllum.-Apply Croesonan, Llangibby, Mon. 2253z17 T7f7"ANTED, Useful Maid, Gentleman's Small T\ Family; good wages; must understand dressmaking. Also Sewing-maid: £18 to £ 20; no dressmaking.—71. Park-street. Bristol. 2243zl7 WANTED, a good General Servant; used to children.—Mrs. Rowles, 49, Grange-gar- dens, Grangetown, Cardiff. 2213zl7 WANTED, an exnerienced General Servant, Able to Do Plain Cooking.—Apply Mrs. Herne, Suffolk House, Llandaff-road. Car- diff. 22"6zl7 WANTED. Early January, a good Cook- General; aged from 25 to 35; two in Family; nurse kept; must have good personal character from last place; two miles from êown: good wages to competent person.—Rerily U 10, Western Mail Office, Swansea. 2235zl7 NURSEMAIDS AND SERVANTS WANT PLACES. LADIES Suited with All Classes of Servants; Situations Secured for Servants. Fee, is.— Miss Walters. 30, Page-street. Swansea. z23 COOKS, Housemaids. Parlourmaids Kitchen- maids, Generals always Disengaged. Ladies suited daily.—Mrs. Stuart, Queen-street Registry. Z. Frederick-street (near corner Queen- street),- Cardiff. 2482z23 GOOD General Disengaged; aged 22; two years' very good character; can cook well; good-class servant.-Maggie, 92. St. Michael's-liill, Bristol. 2474z22 THOROUGHLY" Good Plain Cook Disengaged T Early in January; one year and six months' good character; clergyman's family. -F. A., Brooklyn-chambers, Bristol. 2420z21 A3 General; plain cooking, wash, iron; strong and healthy; three years' refe- rence; £ 12; country servant.-9, Radnor-road, Cantpn, Oardiif. 2282zl8 WANTED, a Situation as Cook in Gentle- man's Family: country preferred, kitchenmaid kept.-Address to U 9, Western Mail Office, Swansea. 2234z17 "ITT"ANTED immediately. Situation Barmaid; ? V used quick counter trade; could assist house duties; good references.—A., Commerce House, Saint Helen's-road. Abergavenny. g21 WANTED, by Youn Lady, Re-engagement as Barmaid; thoroughly experienced; good references.—P., 24, Alexandra-road, Can- ton. Cardiff. 2342z20 BARMAID Disengaged aged 23: experienced; B good references.—Address L 2, Western Maik Cardiff. 2293zl8 PREMISES. CONVENIENTLY Arranged 7-roomefl Villa. > situated North-road, Alaindy. Cardiff; bay window, bath, lavatory, w.c., gas. blinds; plea- santly and healthily located; frequent 'busses passing; low rental.—Inquire 128, Albanv-road. _2506z23_ CATHEDRAL Road.-To Let. convenient House; three reception, seven bed rooms, bathroom, usual offices, &c.; rent only .£50.- Apply Lern and Pertwee, 94, St. Mary-street, Cardiff. 2492z23 QT Pierre Estate, Monmouthshire.—To Let, kJ ;m Eight-roomed House, with stable, necessary outbuildings, orchard and garden; situated wiLhin i-mile of Portskewett Station.- For particulars apply John Williams, St. Pierre Far Chepstow. 57327 I'TiLNlSHED House to Let at Chepstow: ten minutes from station; beautifully situated; terms very moderate.—Mrs. Worsley, Upper Hardwicke, Chepstow. 0 2486z24 rpO Let, 45, Claude-road. Cardiff; immediate X possession; rent moderate.—Apply New- man, Dynas Powis. 2478z23 TO Let, Treoda. Villa. Whitchurch: nine T rooms; bath (hot and cold); large con- servatory; garden.—Apply The Elms, Whit- church. 2476z23 2Q Park-street, (opposite new Post-oSice).— i Commodious House; low rent.-Evans and Hughes, Estate Agents, Wharton-street. Car- diff. 2462z22 IFRESHLY Papered and Painted. 160. New- pert-road Also Smaller Residence near. Both large rooms; sanitary.-Apply 168, New- port-road. Cardiff. 2440z22 TO Let, The Lawns, Usk, a charming Resi- dence on the banks of the river; good stabling and coach-housi.-Particulars Young, Estate Agent, Newport. 2414z21 BOEHOETAN, Clive-place, Penarth.—Seven Bedrooms: modern improvements; good view of the sea.-Apply 101, Cathedral-road, Cardiff. 2375z21 BANGOR street; six rooms, bath-room (hot and cold water). Neville-street; nine rooms, bath-room (hot and cold water). 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NINE SWORbS OF MORALES. o BY GEOUGE HOMERMEYER, I I SPECIALLY SET FOR THE EVENING EXPRESS. (CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY.) "Ah, Senor Gonzales, at last! A late guest, ) but what news does he bring of the greater laggard?" "Where is Donna Pancha?" whispered Gon- 7ales, stooping over old lavas, where the latter sat at the upper end of the lar&e apartment. "In her rooin with her maidens She will be here presently." "But cannot I speak to her there for a moment first?" "ISurely: you know the liotae. Rap at her door and one of the inrls will come. Then you can send her word," Gcnzales hurried oft, and Ri -as gitzed after him curiously. But the old ranohero was too easy-going, and also entirely too completely under the dominion of his daughter, to worry his indolent brain' much over the actions of those whom that c^ughl er chose to treat as close friends. "Perhaps he brings a message, thought the old man, and so dismissed the subject. Meanwhile Gonzales hurried on, and a moment later had followed the advice given him, and Bent in a message to the young mistress of the caea. He Vuited not-long for an answer, for, e, en before he had expected it, a hand was laid upon his arm, a pair of dark (yes were gazing into his, and a voice, musical, if a little high- pitched, uttered the !in;le word: "Well?" Pancha Rivas was a very lovely zirl. ajbait i there was a metering. twme ngni in net uura eyes, which, to one who looked beneath the surface, might have somewhat marred the per- fection of her beauty. Gonzales' own eyes lit up with passionate longing as he saw again the fair face wlnse influence upon him, alas! had thus far not beet) for good, but he paused not to gaze, dear to his scul as was the sight before him. "He is coming," he uttered hoarsely. "Coming—-Manuel?" said the girl, speaking in a half whisper, her eyes lighting strangely. "Yes. Manuel. He will be here before mid- n.ght." A strange, tremulous ripple of laughter escaped the red lips of the girl, though it seemed that she shuddered in her merriment. "Before midnight!" she echoed. "Why, then he will "keep the tryst I made for him." "And you?" "1, senor? Why, if Manuel, after all, is true, you would not have me faithless?" Again sha laughed, and to the man who "toocl bende her, "'ilh his dark face drawn and rigid, he." j.iirtli was maddening.. "And I-I am nothing?" he murmured, half under his breatn. Pancha- shrugged her shoulders. Suddenly Gonzales flungs him-ielf upon his knees, and words. tremulous and imploring, poured from his lips. There was no hypocrisy in either speech or action. He had come into this girl's presence with a black lie already framed to 1 ell that he might thereby move ber to his will. But now it seemed that something—no ordinary scruple—impelled him to strive to triumph without this last crowning act of tieachery. "Pancha, Pancha!" he said, passionately. "It is all true. He is coming. He will be here. But must I lose all--I, who love you so madly; I. whom you have taught to believe you preferred to him who held your childish promise? Did you not tell me that he would not come? Did you not tell me you had sent your message late that you might win the freedom I believed you wished only that you might give yourself to me? Oh, Pancha, Pancha, love of my soul! Are you, indeed, as fickle as the wind? In days past men have said so, Panchita, and I —I have forced them to retract even while I prayed in my soul that there m,ight be something of truth in their wf id-—just enough, Parish 1, to cause you to turn from Mmuel to me! Oh, mi que- r;da! tell me that I did not win only to lose again. What if he comes, indeed, now so late? Laggard he is to claim a bride at the eleventh hour. Is not your heart mine, Pancha? Giv_• me your hand, then, while there is time. The priest is here. He would do the bidling of your I father, and your father lives only to gratify e\ery wish, every whim of vours. Pancha, P:;nchita, my heart, my very life is in your bands. If you have no thought for yourself be merciful to me!" The words came forth in a torrent, pitiful, imploring, but the very spirit of perversaness and coquetry had seemingly entered the girl. Surely she could not otherwise have turned from the kneeling pleader, paying, so coldly: "I think you have had your chance, Sen.)r I Gonzales. I am sorry for you, of course, but I cu'iinit, but ijelieve that were I a man and in your place I could have seen to it that my rival did not keep his tryst." "Dies!" exclaimed Gonzales, starting to his feet, shocked both at the suggestion itself, as coming from her, and at the consciousness of the vain treachery with which he had antici- pated it. "You do no mean that I should have "I do not mean that you should have done anything," she said, speaking with yet great coldness. "But I think that I. in your place, might have managed to detain him, and that. too, without harm to either. You, senor, seem to have lacked the mind to plan such a strnV.agem— 'or was it the courage to carry it out that was wanting?" Gonzales' pale cheeks flushed red at the cruel words, and when he spoke arrain all the passion words, and when he spoke arrain all the passion and pleading seemed to have gone out of his voice. "Spare me your taunts, senorita," -he said, coldly. "I would have spared you—but now I have that to say which it will not please you to hear." She turned upon him with a swift suspicion. "Speak!" &he said imperiously. "What is it that you mean?" "I mean that Don Manuel de Guerra is indeed on his way hither, and he will be here before midnight. But-he is not coming alpne." "Who is with hint?" "The brothers Morales "The Nine, Swords," exclaimed Pancha, smil- ing again. ("They will be brave guests at a wedding." "You interrupted me," said Gonzales, hoarsely. "Someone- else accompanies Sunoi- de Guerra and his friends. Someone else—a woman "Ah!" said Pancha. a fiery light flashing in her eyes, "'Dolores Morales!" "You have said, it, Donnrt Pancha,' replied Gcn7ales. "That was her name—a month ago." 1'ancha's cheeks grew livid. "Go on," she whispered "Now she is the Senora Manuel de Guerra." For one moment Pancha did rmt speak. stand- ing pule and motionless, with dilated eyes fixed upon Gonza'.es. "Married?" she murmured at last. "The stories were true, then ? And he brings her here -here, to me! It is thus he answers my sum mons. And I, I am to be shamed before my people and my guests! Oil, how has he dared to put this affront upon me ? I—poor, feeble wretch that I am!—I am but a woman, only a woman! Yet how dared he? Does he drexm that my father and my kinsmen will pass this by? Ah, no, no! He cannot think it. Good cj>u?e, indeed, to bring the Nine Swords! But, oh. Manuel. Manuel, who would have dreamed that you could do this thing!" "Senorita!" said Gonzales, as if eager to break in upon her passionate speech, "I would have spared you this humiliation. I could not bear to tell you what I knek, but I wo'ltd have made the triumph yours and the mockery and confusion his. But you would not listen." She turned to him swiftlv and clasped his arm tightly vith her trembling hands, then pushed him fiercely from her. "Go!" she said. "Bring niy father here." The tapers burned before th3 improvised altar, the incense from the swinging cesser perfumed the air Bride and bridegroom knelt in their places, she with face pale and rigid, he with eyes that ever sought the floor and with hands which trembled with every breath he drew. There were looks of doubt and uneasiness, too, upon the faces of the guests, for this seamed a strange and, to many, an ill-omened wedding. There | had been no explanation of Gonzales' appearance as the bridegroom—only a brief, alur«st stern 1 statement from old Don l'edro that his guests had been entirely wrong in believing that Manuel de Guerra had been ex- pected as anything but a. guest. But there was a* dark look upon Rivas's face as he made this statement, and pow, as he witnessed the rites that were making his child a wife, the gloom of his countenance did not lighten. It was over at last/the last prayer said, the blessing pronounced, and. as bride and groom and the kneeling guests arose and found oppor- tunity to glance about them, the massive clock which old Don Pedro had at infinite pains and excessive expense imported from Mexico in the first year of his settlement in California, struck the last hour of the night. But the strokes had not begun when the attention of all was attracted simultaneously, as it seemed, to a group of men standing just within the door- way, through which they had entered silently and unnoticed during the concluding cere, monies. The strangers atood somewhat in shadow, and there was something in their grim silence which irritated Rivas out of his usual habit of un- questioning and indiscriminate hospitalty. It was with something of suspicion that he spoke, suddenly and sharply "Who are you, senors, and what do you wish of me?" It was Carlos Morale? who stepped forward and made answer. "We wish nothing of you, senor, well or ill. We are the Morales, and we were not bidden to your wedding feast, but we have one with us who was." Then the group opened, and four of the btothers came forward holding the corners of a large serape upon which lay, as in a, hammock, what seemed the body of a dead man. Onward they walked, Carlos leading the way, and the startled guests moving backward as they advanced toward the altar place. There, at the feet of the white-faced bride and her trembling husband, they laid down their silent burden. Francisco Herrera, who walked with the group, knelt beside the motionless form of his friend, with the tears flowing down his cheeks, but the Nine Swords stood about them, dry-eyed and stern, and with hands that seemed prone to rest upon the hilis of the weapons that they would not willingly draw in the presence of women and a priest of God. To Carlos they still left the office of spokesman. I would grieve to frighten so new a bride, senora," he said. fixing his eyes pitilessly upon the white face before him, so I hasten to tell you that I believe our friend here is not dead. If the soul has, indeed, left his body, then, senora, you have the comfort of knowing that your will was his even to the last, for he died as a true man should, striving to fulfil the behest of her who heid his pledge of faith. He did fulfil it, lady, for we, his friends, can vouch that I19 was here before the clock struck twelve. Living or dead, then, senora. Manuel de Guerra kept his faith, and if olhers have chosen to make that .faith a 'folly, why, his is not the blaine." Pancha struggled with herself as if striving for strength to speak. Then her white lips moved. How was he hurt?" she whispered. "Ask that., senora, of him who stands beside you. Ask of him whose was the ambuscade, whose the treacherous attempt at murder." "You—you!" gasped Pancha, turning with fierce eyes to the ghastly-faced man at her side But the Nine Swords gave no heed to this, nor did Herrera. Silently the bearers lifted their burden again and moved towards the door. Then it seemed that old Rivaa awakened as fI om a dream: Leave him here," he said. He is my foster son." But he stays not beneath the same roof with that dog, said Carlos sternly. Gonzales started forward with a cry. "'Dog! he screamed. "I will have your life yet for that word!" Come not too speedily to seek it. Senor," sair Carlos. "I should be loth to make so fail: a blide too early a. widow." And the scorn in his eyes, as he turned them from one of the two pale faces to the other, seem to cut like a scourge. Then the group of friends passed out into the night. Now Pancha turned again to her husband. "Ccrne with me." she said. He followed her to the room where he' had scught her earlier in the night. There she stopped. Then it was all a lie?" she said. He could not meet her eyes, but she heard him n'urmur five words half under his breath: It was for you, Pancha." She sprang forward and struck him in the face with all her strength, and he staggered back against the wall, startled, outraged and wholly miserable. Then this strange girl laughed with a quick catching of the breath, and held out her hand to him—the hand that had struck him. "If I had had my dagger," she said. I know I should have stabbed you. But. as I did not, and since you are my husband, and I have lost forever the one true man in all the world for you, I think I will forgive you. Now, let us go back and cheer up that frightened set of wedding guests." Manuel lay that night under the hospitable roof of the Carillos, but with the coming of the next day his strength had so far returned that it was deemed safe to take him back to the Casa Morales. So, borne in a litter, and guarded by the Nine Swords and his recovered friend Herrera, he made the journey, moving by easy stages and with many rests. It wad even- ing when the journey's end was reached, and Manuel found himself once more within thfc v.alls where he had but twenty-four hours before vowed to sacrifice nis heart to honour and duty. They laid him upon a couch in the great living room, and then, somehow, it seemed as if everyone suddenly fled and left him to himself. But his lonelinesq was only for a moment, for a soft footfall sounded in the room, a swift step crossed the floor, and in the dusky half light some one knelt beside him—some one who lifted his weary head in soft, loving arms and pressed her warm lips to his cheek, whispering so sjftly and so tenderly: Manuel, Manuel! I sent you away. but you have come back to me! Oh, Manuel! I ,am so happy, so happy!" THE END.

Mrs. Outcrtown: I understand that your husband lias gone to Klondyke, Mrs. Littleville? Mrs. Littleville No he started for there day before yesterday, but fortunately he got into a railway wreck before he had gone a hundred miles and had both arms broken and his head split open. They brought him back and he is in bed upstairs now with three doctors working on him. » Rev. Dr. Primrose:, You say if you had a good suit of clothes you would be able to make a living ? Weary Raggles: Yes, sir. Den dey wudn't chase me away from de free lunch. Cobwigger: I understand Terwilliger has a' broken leg. Did you hear how it happened J Merritt: He bought a horse that was adver- tised to be so gentle that a woman or child could handle iL