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MARVELS AND MYSTERIES.
MARVELS AND MYSTERIES. BY RICHARD MARSH, Author of "The Beetle: A Mystery," "The Crime and tiie Criminal," "The Datchet Diamonds," &c., &c. [COPYRIGHT.] THE MASK. CHAPTER ill. Table d'hote had commenced when I sat down. My right-hand neighbour was Mrs. Jaynes. She asked me if I still suffered any ill effects from my fatigue. "I suppose," she said, when I assured her that all ill effects had passed away, that you have not thought anything of what I said to you this morn- ing-aboul my theory of the mask?" I confessed that I had not. "You should. It is a subject which is a crotchet of mine, and to which I have devoted many years— many curious years of my life." I own that, personally, I do not see exactly where the interest comes in." "No? Do me a favour. Come to my sitting- room after dinner, and I will show you where the interest comes in." "How do you mean?" "Come and see." She amused me. I went and saw. Dinner being finished, her proceedings when together we entered her apartment—that apartment which in the morn- ing I thought I had seen entered by my fellow- passenger—took me a little by surprise. "Now I am going to make you my confidant— you, an entire stranger—you, whom I never saw in my life before this morning. I am a judge of character, and in you I feel that I may place im- plicit confidence. I am going to show you all my secrets I am going to induct you into the hidden mysteries I am going to Vay bare before you the mind of an inventor. But it doesn't follow be- cause I have confidence in you that I have confi- dence in all the world besides, so, before we begin, if you please, I will lock the door." As she was suiting the action to the word I ven- tured to remonstrate. ? )t But, my dear madam, don't you think-" I think nothing. I know that I don t wish to be taken unawares, and to have published what I have devoted the better portion of my life to keeping secret." But if these matters are of such a confidential nature I assure you-" My good sir, I lock the door." She did. I was sorry that I had accepted so hastily her invitation, but I yielded. The door was locked. Going to the fire-place she leaned her arm upon the mantel-shelf. "Did it ever occur to you," she asked, "what possibilities might be open to us if, for instance, Smith could temporarily become Jones?" I don't quite follow you," I said. I didn't. Suppose that you could at will become another person, and in the character of that other person could move about unrecognised among your friends, what lessons you might learn!" "I suspect," I murmured, "that they would for the most part be lessons of a decidedly unpleasant kind." "Carry the idea a step further. Think of the possibilities of a dual existence. Think of living two distinct and separate lives. Think of doing as Robinson what you condemn as Brown. Think of doubling the parts and hiding within your own breast the secret of the double think of leading a triple life; think of leading many lives in one—of being the aid man and the young, the husband and the wife, the father and the son." Think, in other words, of the unattainable." "Not unattainable!" Moving away from the mantel-shelf, she raised her hand above her head with a gesture which was all at once dramatic. I have attained t" "You have attained? To what?" To the multiple existence. It is the secret of the mask. I told myself some years ago that it ought to be possible to make a. mask which should in every respect so closely resemble the human countenance that it would be difficult, if not impossible, even under the most trying conditions, to tell the false face from the real. I made experiments. I succeeded. I learnt the secret of the mask. Look at that." She took a leather case from her pocket. Abstract- ing its contents she handed them to me. I was holding in my hand what seemed to me to be a preparation of some sort of skin—gold-beater's skin, it might have been. On one side it was curiously, and even delicately, painted. On the other side there were fastened to the skin some oddly shaped 1bosses or pads. The whole affair, I suppose, did not weigh half an ounce. While I was examining it Mrs. Jaynes stood looking down at me. "You hold in your hand," she said, "the secret of the mask. Give it to me." I gave it to her. With it in her hand she dis- appeared into the room beyond. Hardly had she vanished than the bedroom door reopened, and an old lady came out. "My daughter begs you will excuse her." She was a quaint old lady, about sixty years of age, with silver hair, and the corkscrew ringlets of a bygone day. My daughter is not very ceremonious, and is so wrapt up in what she calls her experiments that I sometimes tell her she is wanting in consideration. While she is making her preparations perhaps you will allow me to offer you a cup of tea." The old lady carried a canister in her hand, which, apparently, contained tea. A tea-service was stand- ing on a little side-table. A kettle wa.s singing on the hob. The old lady began to measure out the tea into the teapot. „ We always carry our tea with us. Neither my daughter nor I care'for the tea which they give you in hotels." I meekly acquiesced. To tell the truth I was a trifle bewildered. I had had no idea that Mrs. Jaynes was accompanied bv her mother. Had not the old lady come out of the room immediately after the young one had gone into it I should have suspected a trick-that I was being made the subject of experiment with the mysterious" mask." As it was, I was more than half-inclined to ask her if she was really what she seemed to be. But I decided— as it turned out most unfortunately—to keep my own counsel and to watch the sequence of events. Pour- ing me out a eup of tea, the old lady seated herself on a low chair m front of the fire. My ^augter thinks a great deal of her experi- xnents. I not encourage her. She quite friglitens me at tunes. She says such dreadful things. I sipped mv tea and smiled -I don't think there is much^cause for fear." "No cause ff Jadr whe« she tells one that she might commit a murder that a hundred thousand people might see her do it, and that not bv anv gUibility could the crime be brought home to hec'" Perhaps she exaggerates a little." 41 Do vou think that she can hear?" The old lady glanced round m the direction of the be-rTo™& know better th» I. P„h would be M well to say nothing wh.ch JOU D0" But I^iust^telf someone. It frighten, gho ""Ydon* IK if"i -v" 1 W0Uld »»<=!> & St and SlK altogether like her man nervously, one over front of me, rubbing her considerably dis- the other. She certainly seemed co turbed. c T.nndon, and she She came down yesterday fro her experi- says she dreamed that she tried ments-in the train. "In the train!" mitrht be And in order that her experiment m g thorough she robbed a man." "She robbed a man!" "And in her pocket I found this. „ i t> The old lady held out my watch and ehai- was unmistakable. The watch was a hunter, l see that my crest and monogram were engraved up th*> case. I atood up. The strangest part ol affair was that when I gained my feet it seemed as though something had happened to my couia (not move them. Probably something m my de- meanour struck the did lady as strange. She smiled at me. 00 What is the matter with you? Why do you look øo funny?" she exclaimed. That is my watch and chain." Your at.(,h and cham—yours! Then why don't you take t.hem?" She held them out to me in her extended paJm. She was not six feet from where I stood, yet I could not reach them. Mv feet --med glued to the floor. "j I canxK* move. Something has happened to my legs." T Perhaps it J6 the tea* I will go and tell my ^Before l couM say a word to stop her sh? was gone. I was fastened like A post to the ground. What had happened to me was more than I could say. It had all come m an in.<tanc. I felt 3.4 I had feit in the railway carriage the day before as though I were m a dream. I looked around me. I saw the teacup on the little table at, my side. I saw the flickering fire, I saw the shaded :ampe; I was conscious of the presence of ail these things, but I saw them as it I saw them in a dream. A sense of na usea. was steal- ing over me—a sense of horror. I was afraid of I knew rot what. I was unable to ward cff or to con- trol mv fear. I cannot say how long I stood tlwrE-certa inly some- minutes—helpless, struggling against the pres- sure which seemed to weigh upon my brain. Sad denlv, without any sort of warning, the bedroom door opened, and there walked into the room the young man who before dinner had visited me in my own apartmfut, and who. yesterday had travelled with me in the tram. He came straight across the room, and. with the most perfect coolness, stood .trht in honnt of mp I flint in his F»hirt- front were my stutfe. When he raised his hands I could lee that in his wristbands were my links. 1 con id «ee tlfat he was wearing my watch and chain. He TO actually holding my watch in his hand when he addressed me. I have only hatf a minute to spare, but I wanted to speak to you ab^nt—Mary Brooker. I saw her ( portrait in your room—yoa remember ? She's what is called a criminal lunatic—and she's escaped from Broadmoor. Let me see, I think it was a week to- dav- and just about this time-no, it's now a quarter to nine; it was just after nine." He slipped my watch into his waistcoat pocket. She's still at large, you know. They're on the look-out for her all over England, but she's still at large. They say she s a lunatic. There are lunatics at Broadmoor, but she's not one. She's no more a lunatic than you cr I." He touched me lightly on the chest. Such was my extreme disgust at being brought into physical con- tact with him that even before the sdigfht pressure of his fingers my legs gave way under me, and I sank back into my chair. "You're not asleep?" Xo," I said. "I'm net asleep." Even in my stupefied condition I was conscious of la desire to leap up and take him by the throax. Nothing of this, however, \va« portrayed upon my face. Or, at any rate, he showed no sign of being struck by it. "She's a misunderstood genius, that s what Mary Brooker is. She has her tastes and people do not understand them. She likes to kill—to kill! One of these days she means to kill herself but in the meantime she takes pleasure in killing others.' Se-ft,t;ng hirr^elf on a corner of the table at my side, allowing one foot to rest upon the ground, he swung the other in t'he air. She's a bit of an actress. too. She wanted to go upon the stag*?, but they said that she was mad. They were jealous, that s wtiat it was. She's the finest actress in the wo-r.d. Her acting would deceive the devil himself—they allowed that even at Bread- moor. Bus she only uses her powers for acting to gratify her taste—for killing. It was only the other day she bought this knife." He took. apparently out of the bosom of his vest, a long glittering, cruel-looking knife. point—and the edge." He held it out towards me. I did not attempt to touch it. It is probable that I sfhould ndt have suc- ceeded even if I had attempted. "You won't? Well. perhaps you're right. It's not much fun killing people wk'h a knife. A knife's ad very well to use for cutting them up afterwards, but she likes to do the actual killing with her own hands and nails. I shouldn't be surprised if, cue of these days. she were to kill you. Perhaps to- il: ?h:. It is a long time since she kil'ed anyone, and she is hungry. Sorrv I can't stay. But tirs ,.1, week she escaped from Broadmoor as the clock had finished striking nine, and it only wants ten minutes, you see." He looked at my watoh—even holding it out for me to see. Good night With a careless nod he moved across the room, holding the glittering knife in his hand. When he reached the bedroom door he turned and smiled. Raising the knife, he waved it towards me in the air. Then he disappeared into the inner room. I was again alone—possibly for a minute or more but this time it seemed to me that mv solitude con- tinued only for a few fleeting seconds Perhaps the time went faster because I felt, or thought I felt, that the pres-ure on my brain was giving way; that I oflY had to make an effort of sufficient force to be myself again and free. The power of making such an effort was temporarily absent, but something with- in seemed to tell me that at any moment it might I return. The bedroom door-that door which, even as I looked back, seems to have been really and truly a door in some unpleasant dream-reopened. Mrs. Jaynes came in. With rapid strides she swept across the room. She had something in her right hand which she threw upon the table. "Well," she cried, "what do you think of the secret of the mask? The secret of the mask? Although my limbs were powerless throughout it all, I retained to a certain extent the control of my own voice. See here—it is such a little thing." She picked up Lhe two objects which she had thrown upon the table. One of them was the preparation of some 60rt of skin which she had shown to me before. These are the masks. You would not think that they were perfect representations of the human face -—that masterpiece of creative art-and yet they are. All the world would be deceived by them as you have been. This is an old woman's face, this is the f"co I of a young man." As she held them up I could see, though still a little dimly, that the objects which she dangled before my eyes were, as she said, veritable masks. So perfect are they, they might have been skinned from the fionts of living creatures. They are such little things, yet I have made them with what toil! They have been the work of years, tb."p two, and just one other. You see nothing satisfied me but perfection. I have made hundreds to make these two. People could not make out what I was doing. They thought that I was making toys. ] told them that I was. They smiled at me. They thought that it was a new phase of madness. If that be so, then in madness there is more cool, en- during, unconquerable resolution than in all youi sanity I m?ant to conquer, and I did. Failure did not dish-arter me. I went straight on. I had a purpose to fulfil; I would have fulfilled it even though I should have had first to die. Well, it is fulfilled." Turning, she flung the masks into the fire. They were immediately in flames. She pointed to them as they burned. The labour of years is soon consumed. But I should not have triumphed had I not been endowed with genius—the genius of the actor's art. I told myself that I would play certain parts—parts which would fit the masks—and that I would be the parts I played. Not only across the footlights, not only with a certain amount of space between my audience and me, not only for the passing hour, but, if I chose, for ever and for aye. So all through the years I rehearsed these parts when I was not engaged upon the masks. That, they thought, was madness in another phase. One of the parts,"—she came closer to me; her voice became shriller—" one of the parts was that of an old woman. Have vou seen her? She is in the fire." She jerked her thumb in the direction of the fireplace. Her part is played —she had to see that the tea was drunk. Another of the parts was that of a young gentleman. Think of my playing the man Absurd. For there is that about a woman which is not to be disguised. She always reveals her sex when she puts on men's clothes. You noticed it, did you not-when, before dinner, he came to you when you saw him in the corridor this morning; when yesterday he spent an hour with you in the train? I know you noticed it because of these." She drew out of her pocket a handful of things. There were my links, my studs, my watch and chain, other properties of mine. Although the influence of the drug which had been administered to me in the tea was passing off, I felt, even more than ever, as though I were an actor in a dream. The third part which I chose to play was the part of-Mrs. Jaynes Clasping her hands behind her back, she posed in front of me in an attitude which was essentially dramatic. Look at me well. Scan all my points. Appraise me. You say that I am beautiful. I saw that you admired my hair, which flows loose upon my shoulders "-she unloosed the fastenings of her hair 180 that it did flow loose upon her shoulders—" the bloom upon my cheeks, the dimple in my chin, my face in its entirety. It is the secret of the mask, my friend—the secret of the mask! You ask me why i have watched, and toiled, and schemed to make the secret mine." She stretched out her hand with an uncanny gesture. Because I wished to gratify my taste for killing. Yesterday I might have killed you to-night I will." She did something to her head and dress. There Wa.s a rustle of drapery. It was like a conjurer's change. Mrs. Jaynes had gone, and instead there sorl j • ore me the creature with, as I had de- had lt .to Davis, the face of a devil—the face I entire??11 *n t^le train. The transformation in its statelv wWas wopderful. Mrs. Jaynes was a fine, of life. TvU w*tk a swelling bust and in the prime short, KroJ15! a *ank, scraggy creature, with tended even t a day. The change ex- cultivated auvS. re v°lce- ^rs- Jaynes had the soft, rather than a This creature shrieked week to-day sinc^T6* fm Mary Brooker. It is a are everywhere np0T>°n eedom. The bloodhounds near. But they shall track. They are drawing ail had you." have me till I have first of She came closer, crouch" me with a maniac's eyes, p g forward, glaring at that hideous cry, half gasp10?1 iller 'lp;5 there came haunted me since the day >elP. which had it in my stupor in the train. 6' had heard "I scratched you yesterday, T V- your blood Xow I will 8uck k J you. I sucked "I scratched you yesterday, I bit yoL I sucked your blood Xow I will 8uck k J you. I sucked mine." ^ou are Sil(J reckoned without her host, i the tea. I had noc a* I had doubtl^ bC^^Sd to do, emptied the cup. x was again myself; I was only au;aJU^,a /av^ra^Spor- tunity to close. I meant to hgli, for liie. op^r She came nearer to me and nearer uttering all the time that blood-curdling sound vvhich wa8 lik the rTnzLd ory of some maddened animal. her Sanded iSnds were all but touching j supposed that- I ^i/ed her she gave a shriek ot drug, because vvhen fher unawares. I had astonish*d rage I had ^ke f j her over on her back. But J. through. Sh* undertaken more than 1 could had not only the face of a devil >he had th. Krength of one. She flung mo « » though I were a child. In her turn s down upon my back. Her fingers closed >• neck. I could not shake her off. She was otra g me. Sh<j would have strangled me—she nearly When, attracted by the creature's hideous c" which were heard from without, they forced tnei way into the room, they found me lying unconscioiis, and, as they thought, dead, upon the_ floor. days I hung between life and death. W hen life did come back again Mary Brooker was once more an inmate of Her Majesty's house of detention at Broad- moor. [The End.]
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I went to another doctor," replied Mr. Weaver, aRd he said there was no more rheumatism than in his finger nails. He treated me for a nervous complaint, but his medicine did not move the pains in my back in the slightest. I then tried a third doctor, and he told me it was rheumatism. I spent pounds in medicine, but: nothing seemed to do me any good. I was! getting worse, when I thought I would try Dr.' Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and the! pains almost immediately left me. But I was not! quite cured though, for 1 again had a nasty i attack. I th2n sent for some more of Dr. i Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and con-, tinued to take them until I had used several | boxes. I am glad to tell you that they completely1 cured me." On being told that his testimony would be published, he remarked that he was quite aRrep- able, and added further that too much could not be said in favour of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Mr. Weaver said that in consequence of the strike, having to maintain a wife and five children, he had walked about 40 miles the previous day in search of work, going from Cwmcarn to Newport, and thence to L'antrissant, Usk and Pontypool, and that he felt the effects of the walk less than a walk to Abercarn, during his illness, a distance ,I of one mile only. Before Iea\ Ing. the interviewer asked if the neighbours knew of his cure, and he replied that his case was well-known. and that several people had began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in consequence. DO NOT MAKE EXPERIMENTS —especially with your j health. The body is too < I' delicate to play with. Use only inedicine that < is known to cure. < ————— I 0? WIL'LIAHS"§m ILeoP! W: !» are not an i J They have cured thou- sanns of people in your own neigbboUrbood and 4 I elsewhere. see that you I get them with the full < name, as above shown j 4 (for it is an e*PePinieiit, i [ and a hazardous on8} J use a subs£i£u'te.. IF YOU THAT ] | YOU NEED THEM, ( ( ask your chemist for ) them. j If you don't k&ow ( J whether yo** need ^em, ] [ ASS: < Describe e*ac^ how ) you suffer, and we will < i tell you or J no. It wouldo't Pay us i for people to take Dr. I Williams' pink Pills and 4 not be cured; 1"8 flont J want any failures. | Address—Dr. Williams" Me^cme Co^p J | 46, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.c, ST. VITUS' DANCE. WONDERFUL CURE IN WALES. The little Welsh town of Llanfair, Caereinion, is situated some nine miles from Welshpool, and enjoys considerable popularity amongst anglers, so that Mrs. Rowson, occupying a cottage in Watergate-street, finds employment in the angling season in the mating of the seductive fly. Mrs. Rowson's labours in this direction have been i greatly interfered with by the serious illness of her twelve-year-old daughter, Sarah Rowson. The story of the mother, as told to a representa- tive of the Montgomery County Times, desoribes the case. m. My Sally began," said Mrs. Rowson, 'to be shaky all over. She seemed to have a kind of paralysis, and screamed terribly all through the night; for about nine weeks I did not get half- an-hour's solid sleep with her. She suffered from Vitus' Dance. She was always etaggering, and all her muscles were twitching and swollen. All her right side was twitching and every joint in her body was enlarged. The poor little thing seemed to be suffering very great pain, and wasted away to a mere skeleton. The fingers of her right hand were clutched to such an extent that I had to put wadding on her hand to keep the finger nails from cutting into the flesh. I had her under a doctor, and then got & recommendation for her for the Welshpool Dispensary. She was very weak, and the doctors advised me to wra her up in flannels, and give her cod liver oil, but her stomach would not stand it. I was almost despairing of her recovery when a friend recom- mended me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I sent for a box, and in less than three days they drove the swelling out of her joints, and as I persevered, I found they restored her, and gradually brought her limbs to their proper condition. She is now quite well, as well as I could wish her to be." Sally is now a bright, intelligent-looking girl, still bearing some traces of the terrible illness she has gone through, but with a happy smile and animated aspect. Her recovery is a very great surprise, and is talked of as being a really mar- vellous one.
SOMETHING FOR YOUNG FOLKS.
SOMETHING FOR YOUNG FOLKS. (BY COUSIN KATE.) A LITTLE GIRL'S VICTORY. Two little girls were playing together. The aider one had a beautiful uew doll in her arms, which she was tenderly caressing. The younger crept up softly behind her and gave her a sharp slap upon her cheek. A visitor, unseen and unheard, was sitting in the adjoining room and saw it all. She expected to see and hear another slap, a harder one. in retaliation. But no. The victim's face flushed, and her eyes had a momentary flash of indignation. She rubbed her hurt cheek with one hand, while she held the doll closer with the other. Then, in a tone of gentle reproof, she said: "0 Sallie, I didn't think you'd do that' Sallie looked ashamed, as well she might, but made no reply. "Here, Sallia." continued the older girl, "sit down here in sister's chair. I'll let you hold dolly awhile if you'll be very careful." Sallie's face looked just then as if there were some "coals of fire" somewhere about, but she sat down with the doll on her lap, giving her sister a glance of real appreciation, although it was mingled with shame. The hidden looker-on was deeply touched by the scene. It -as unusual, she thought, to see a mere child shew such calm dignity and for- giveness under persecution. Presently she called the child and questioned her. "How can you be so patient with Sallie, my dear ? "Oh," was the laughing answer, "I guess it's 'cause I love Sallie so much. You see, Sallie's a dear girl," excusingly, "hut she's got a quick temper, and-Salhe forgets herself sometimes. Mamma said if Sallie would do angry things to me, and I should do angry things to her, we'd have a dreadful time, and I think we would. Mamma said I should learn to give the soft answer,' and I am trying to." A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. We are all ready to admit that "A soft answer turneth away wrath," but somehow we often forget how effective a gentle word may be, when considering how best to right a wrong. A coal cart was delivering an order the other day, and the horse made two or three great efforts to back the heavily-loaded cart to the spot desired, and then became obstinate. The driver began to beat the animal, and this quickly collected a crowd. He was a big fellow with a fierce look in his eye, and the onlookers were chary about interfering, and contented themselves with exchanging uncomplimentary remarks about the driver in low tones. The driver was still beating the horse, when a little girl, eight years old, approached and said: "Please, mister." Well, what do you want ? "If you'll only stop, I'd get all the children round here, and we'll carry every bit of the coal to the manhole, and let you rest while we're doing it." The man stood up and locked around in a defiant way, but meeting with only pleasant looks, he began to give in, and after a moment he smiled and said "Maybe he didn't deserve it, but I'm out of sorts to-day. There goes the whip, and perhaps a lift on the wheels will help him." The crowd swarmed round the cart, a hundred hands helped to push, and the old horse had the cart to the spot with one effort. PREACHING AND PRACTICE. A crowd of little street arabs was gathered at the door of a mission waiting for their teacher. They were ragged and dirty, and many of them doubtless hungry; all of them familiar with hardships. There were swarthy, black-eyed girls with shawls pinned over their heads, and boys with toes peeping out of their ragged shoes. Presently a new arrival appeared, leading by the hand two children, a little more forlorn in appearance than themselves. ( See here," was the introduction of their guide, "these kids hain't got nobody to take care of 'em. They sleep in a box, and they hain't had nothing to eat to-day. Can't we do sunthin' lor 'em?" "Let's have a collection," someone suggested, and there was a general murmur of approval. jCaP was Produced and passed round. earnwLf an« 'unged into the recesses of tattered colWtm-8 Earthings and halfpennies, and the half penny ^jounced the result: "Fivepence- go to°mtK! a appointed to Some small cake^ t? a?d inve8t th* funds- into the hands of b?u^t''whlch were thrust bidden to eat wh! c.. dren, and they were found the two ovriV.?,hthe teacher arrived she group, contentedh? J! the centre of an admiring with much satisfaction th«1Dg Cakes* and into her hands tl0n the turned over
THE ROYAL JUBILEE %TAL¡ ,1)).…
THE ROYAL JUBILEE %TAL ¡ ,1)). EXCHANGE (incorporate There was a large and a^,n<^ ance on 'Change on Tuesday H, There were present Messrs. Roger ^Werton). W. H. Edwards (MorristonK H. Striok (Gurnos Co ), R. W. Tolfree (Uo*T18.Co.), E. Breffit (Cardiff), C. Wright (Govverton), George Sims (G.W.E.), W. Davis (Ebbw Vale Co ) c E_ and H. M. Peel, W. R. Quick, ti. v • Wuts (J. Watson and Co.), R. Hardv, T.111 (Barrow Co.), T. W. Jones, T. Herschen Jo^ E R Neville (Llaneily). E. P- /L„ath) p Richards (Pantyffynon), H. S. Sutton U Lean (F. S. Saunders and Go.), • D. E. Edwards (George Smith f'11 „ TiVaiit^0' (Clyne), Bertie Morris, W^ H.^ranc,, j T Davies (Blaenafon Co.l. IL rrij0tna8 S. Williams (Llanelly), Griffith (Chairman of Swansea Harbour), £ 1* (Llan" elly), F. VV. Mortimer (M^l.^ *«Sy), T. Simm, G. H. Blenkinsop- Geo. <j*V8t and Worcester Works), H. (^aVl„r(j' R Go.), Harold Perkins, Philip 'M 'T (Cil- friw), F. B. Watkins iL'Xiton Ferry?*8' W" H. Sampson (Pontardula19^ p q Bi»rl8 (^am" bria), W. Bright (Fairwoo^)' • F- F. Cart Ferry), W^H MMter8i and steadily during the weci prices prev^ 9d. ner ton higher than the P^f^Ulin* ,a week ago. The shipments a cagg ^med in Scotch and hematite, while ha9 been a reduction in stocn. MiddW ng a falling off in th, thus indicating that the b :ency- T 1l°n has more than made up for the i been a^P"ces of soft steel merchant bar adv ec^ nearly £ 1 per ton as a^nton but thfD?e in Staffordshire bars of 10J* P comparator 8 18 be accounted for by the ^rLahioned W0? LVa^ue that has existed in the ThicW b.ar iron and the present soft £ r tmnl ea^8 P^ee. The Lkers' recent bar- are fully maintained at the failing figures, and the advance PJ WOrks a. art^er stimulate prices. The Bessemer woria,^ great pressure for deliveries ha!! 80 that no business for prompt del a(rain t„ done. The shipment of tin plates have gain fallen off, great pressure for deliveries ha!! 80 that no business for prompt del a(rain t„ done. The shipment of tin plates and ? °ff' but all the works are fully e £ th(j he de- ficiency in shipments is madTbe prices of tw86 in the home consumption- er Plates will have to be advanced to cover tj* ^crewd cost of raw material, and there'"3 « 1ijher re- gard to be taken as to down to compete with America, who only to ing. leaving us the other haVtaken A further advance of £ 2 15 • gpelter ? oe block tin upon the week, *'h 'e od n* ad" vanced iOs per ton in the .8aS/femaiuin0pper shows a slight improvement, Qg un_ altered. „rr»nts, 50s 3d, cash buyer, rie IRON.—Glasgow warra" t. othet jers. MIBDLKSBBO'—NO.3, 44s 10id»Pro v umbers la proportion. for mixed nnmK« HKMATITK.—Warra*ti, 5os U brand- mberg, f.o.b. Cumberland, according 4C„ Ht u«Uai WKLSH BARS, £ 6 7s 6d. Angles.* f.o.t. at works.. Qd, f-0-1- at Works BHBET IBOK.— £ 6 18s to £ 6 17s t s. Steel lUiLS-Heavy "ect'ous. f.o.t.; light do., £ 5 Id 0d to £ 5 i to Vction and sd^}« angles, channels, 4c.. according to secv 'PeciacH. tl08TEEL SHEETS.— £ 6 '6, 0d to*« 179 ed. with the usual extras for the higher j2s BESSEMER STEEL.—Tiupl"" _Be*gt< M 12s 6d. ah SIEMENS' TIN-PLATE delivered in the dlstri"t; ne" f0r Bessemer >fa.i UN-PLATES.—Makers' (coke coke. 108 3d to 10s 6d °'e. donble bo*, i '1 10s ed to 10s 9d; charcoal. ng odby 20 0., 18s ed, 19s Od to 21s 61; best c £ .3d to 12s 9d; finished bl?ck pl«te' ,ff \0 duish of brand £ 7 to £ 7 108 per ton, according to^ pr, u'and wasters, 6d to Is per box iu Prirlceof sizes usual extras. AH deii percent. Dock, Swansea; tees have famished th« The Bwansea Harbour Tru«tees ii received from following official return of J^f11 u Ir°'n Week ending Lastwee*. Oct. 16, 1898. week last year g Boxes. 27 568 .• •• ^,062 Received 49,779 •• e6'445 24,209 Shipped 34,996 •• •• 150|173 M5,Mi wi uuci „ j t 1ZS DU COPPER.—Chili bars £ 53 6s AA110 BLOCE Tik, £ 80 7s 6d tc' 1F~B1u7rtceivedon'Ch.n„ 8PKLTEB.- £ PI0S perte^t 9ll> £ li 0s 0d_ LEAD. English, £ 13 L« • VELN> SELECTED for AUTDRACITE COAL.—Best NIG seC0nd aimiitV KTSS Od^ordinaryjar^e. -cording^to CUTM^P^RT^^sM'to1^0 0d.° ALL^IVERED f.o.b* to i3S °d: quality do., 10s Oil to 10s 6 •No>3Ehondda).l2s6dto BITUMIKOUSOOALS.-Large^ gd tQ 1Qs od cent- r, .r lQs to 21s Od furnace, 15s Od to^eTper toTf.o^. Swansea, cash 30 days, less 2i per cent. IROK (jREs'taf naS( per ^ylor,Beneonandc°.) 14. od Rubio 14s 6u per ton. ex-slup cash, 3o days.
BRITON FERRY.
BRITON FERRY. The newly-appointed curate to St. Clement's Church, the Rev. D. R. Hughes, B.A., late of Lampeter College, entered upon his duties at the above church on Sunday last, when he created a most favourable impression. We wish Mr. Hughes every success. Thanksgiving services for the harvest were held at St. Catharine's Church, Baglau, on Wednesday and Thursday in last week. The service on Wednesday was Welsh, and the Rev. David Hughes, vicar of Callwen, Breconshire, was the preacher, who discoursed an eloquent sermon, and for this occasion, St. Teilo's Choir, Aberavon, took part in the singiug. The services were continued on the following Thursday evening when the Rev. J. A. Harriss, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Swansea, occupiejl the pulpit and delivered an eloquent and appropriate d'scourse. Appropriate hymns were sung and the church choir under the conductorship of Mr. David Rees rendered the anthem Thou crownest the year in masterly style. The services were a decided success from every point of view. The offertories were in aid of the Swansea Hospital. The church was beautifully decorated with garden produce (from Baglan Hall) by the head gardener Mr. Gilbert. The funeral of the late Mr. Edwin Llewelyn took place at Ynysymaerdy Cemetery on Satur- day last. Previous to starting on the journey from Porthcawl, the Rev. A. Jones, rectot, con- ducted a short service at the house, and at the cemetery the Rev. W. Jones, Rector of Newton conducted the burial service, at which the hymns Disgwyl pethau gwych i dyfod and Beth sydd imi yn y byd," were sung. A large number of friends including the leading gentry of Port Talbot and Briton Ferry attended to pay a last tribute of respect. The coffin was covered with beautiful wreaths sent by relatives and sorrowing friends.
COMMERCIAL FAILURES.
COMMERCIAL FAILURES. According to Stubbs' Weekly Gazette, the number of failures in Eugland and Wales gazetted during the week ending Oct. i5. was rhe number in correspona- ins? week of last year was 159, showing » decrease of ■. The failures were distributed amongst the following trades, and for comparison we give the number in the corresponding week of 1897 :—Builders, Buildin? 111 a- terials, 9—8: Chemists and Drysaltery 2— 3 ^una' Glass, Earthenware, 2—0; Confectionery. Toys, Gooli5, g-O Corn, Couls, Minerals, 9-7; Drapery. ClothingTexturec, 19—2> Farmers, 5-7; Fuirmtixr Upholstery, 3-4; ilorses. Vehiclcf, 3—1; „,e W n Watch* u—1; Leather, 7-5 Metnls 10-i5; P'jper. Printing, &c., ft—4; Provisions, 16—35 Wines, Beer. Tuoaccuf, 6—13; Miscellaneous, 25-^U. • 13Tbe1h*gsroRntfl totals for 40 weeks, 1897 and 1893 wer«—Fur 1898. 0071 lor 1=97, 69.1. ,tg The number ot oilis ol sale in kncland enil,, K registered at the Queen's Bench r(.,p0iiiiin^ Oc: 15 was 139. The number in the ^rt^Pp°ortiol) week of last year was 1C4. ipe totals ior of the year to Oct. 15. are bills of sa.e recite^ England and Wales, 511', a decrease of ^29 Ana of sale re-registered. 4S2, increase 01 ceiving orders gazetted number 33/9, t 2g,2 an 156, and the registered deeds of arrange men > incrfrme of 25.
CONTEMPORARY CHAT.
CONTEMPORARY CHAT. Some comment has been made on the fact th&t Marchand's military rank is dropped in the Fashoda despatches. This is supposed to be significant. It appears that in the earlier despatches he was described both by Lord Salisbury and by Sir E. Monson as captain. The first telegram in which he figures as simple M. Marchand is one from our Ambassador on September 18th, and by this designation he is known in all the subsequent despatches, even ia the messages from the Soudan. There is no need to give a military title to an "emissary of civilisation." The report that the immediate cause of the recent assumption of power by the Empress Dowager of China was an impending Imperial edict ordering officials to do away with the ?ueue and adopt foreign dress recalls the' fact says the Graphic) that the custom of wearing the pigtail is of comparatively recent date in Chinese history, and at the time of Marco Polo's journey, and for long subsequently, there was not a pigtail in the empire. The ancient Chinese wore their hair long and bound upon the top of the head, and taking pride in its glossy black, called themselves "the black-haired race." The pigtail in its origin was not a Chinese but a Manchu method of dressing the hair, and it has only been worn in the Middle Kingdom since the commencement of the present dynasty. VMien, in 1627, Wu San Kwei, the Chinese Imperial Commander-in-Chief, tendered his I formal allegiance to the young Manchu princes, whom he had called in to quell an insurrection, and who stayed to found a dynasty, one of the conoitKjns stipulated was that the Chinese should adopt the national costume of the Manchus, including the plaited queue, on penalty of death, as a sign of allegiance. The enforced adoption of the pigtail was the cause of much friction at fust, but it was insisted upon, ind now it is considered by all alike as one of the most sacred characteristics of "the black-haired people, and thus the fashion begun by com- pulsion is now followed by choice. It is indeed a strange irony of fate that the present Emperor should give offence by his attempt at doing away with a custom which his ancestors had imposed upon the unwilling Chinese as a sign of subjection to their Manchu conquerors. Interesting experiments arc being carried out the nei ghbourhood of Chatham, under the auspices of the Smali-Arms Committee, for the purpose of testing a new man-stopping bullet for the Lee-Metford magazine rifle. The trials take place in a wood. where trees of a certain kind are selected as targets. The experiments are kept a profound secret, very few of the local military officials being even aware of them, but the Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette under- stands that the new bullet proves to b. a great improvement on the original Lee-Metford missile, and also on the Dum-Dum. Mr. Ruskin will probably be as much surprised as most people in learning that his illustration of the columbine in his "Elements ol Drawing" is giving impetus to the movement which is spreading very widely in America to make that the national flower of the United States The movement to obtain a flower which should symbolise the nation, as the rose does England, the shamrock Ireland, the thistle Scotland, began in the Columbian Exposition year, and the National Flower Convention was held two years ago, while another is expected to be convened at Washington by Mr. McKinley before very long. The country is to be flooded with pamphlets advocating the cause of the columbine. The corn markets have slackened a little during the past week, and prices are not quite so firm all they were a few days ago. Again a word of warning to English farmers. Hold the harvest. English wheat, according to Country Life, is the best value on the market this year. It is of magnificent quality, and has been well harvested. And, if it is not rushed upon the market, it is bound to find its level. But it must not be muddled away at five or six and twenty shillings a quarter. Australian farmers on some estates are now demanding a ha.lfpennya pair for the right to trap hares and rabbits on their property. As lately AS three years ago the Governments of the Australian Colonies were offering rewards for the destruction of these small deer, which had overrun the farmlands like a plague of Egypt. What gives them now a value is not the success ofathat policy of extermination, but cold storage, which enabled £80,000 worth of rabbits to be exported last year as food from the Colony of Victoria alone. This year the value of the export will, it is believed, reach £130,000. Hares in this colony are getting rarer. They have retreated to the "back lands," where it will soon be too expensive to follow them. A good story comes from the West End. A young fellow entered a large tailor's establish- ment, and stating that he was an officer who was about to rejoin his regiment in India, and that he thought about ordering an outfit, requested to be shewn over the establishment. The head of the firm did the honours personally. In one department a burly gentleman of de- cidedlv rustic appearance, was being fitted with an overcoat. When he set eyes on the young soldier he sang out: What, you 'ere, Mr. You see, you couldn't get my top coat made to time, so I'd to order one in London!" The "officer" slunk away with a very red face, and the astonished head exclaimed to the rustic: "Do you know him?" "In course I do," wa» the answer—"he's my tailor down ia the country!" You will remember, writes a Paris corre- spondent, that when the Empress of Austria was carried from the steamer to her bedroom in the Hotel Beau Rivage, a French commercial travelled, who had assisted in carrying her on shore, cut open her dress to find the wound with a pair of scissors which he had in his pocket. They were the ordinary little scissors with rounded points, such as all drapers assistants carry in their waistcoat pockets for cutting off lengths of material from the roll. Their owner is one of the chiefs of an Im- portant house in a town in central France, I am sorry to say that he has these sci&sors on view, and that his customers throng to his shop to see them, and to hear from him all the details of the ghastly event which recently horrified Europe. He is having a show case with a glass cover made, lined with satin, in which the historical scissors will remain per- petually on view as a means of attractiontor nis customers. Altogether, he must be an omcious, pushful, and rather disagreeable person. The British Empire continues steadily to grow, even whilst the average Briton sleeps, The last Australian mail brings details of a wholesale annexation cruise which has just been completed by H.M.S. Mohawk. The record ot tne Dag shews that the Union Jack was run up on fourteen islands, namely: Santa Cri Utupua, Tinakula, in the Santa Cruz gr0UP' M^tenia. Fenuloa, Lom Lom, Nifiloli, Bangauena, Bamga Natapa, Pelain, Nukapu, n^UPiD1' Tocupia, in the Reef and Swallow groups. And -it should be added-there wa.s also another item, namely, one volcano, in going order. Not at all a bad performance. The Rev. Canon Body, in c°3"ct.5on with the prison chaplain, has bee ing a ten days' mission in Durham • chaplain reports that he is very to the results of their labours. And, in l his hopes are well founded, a gentleman at present serving her Majesty, as it were, m Prison has evolved the following poetic gem irom his inner CO«ri0mgnoeing to try; though ever so dry (Thi^ mission basmademethink); 7 And I'll mend my ^J3 the future days, And give up the weary drink." The medical officer of Islington (Dr. Harris) has issued another warning to the public against minimising the ?vl^ effects of measles. The T«iineton authorities have just had to cope with a"eerious epidemic ot measles, the net result of which was a death-rate of nearly 8 per 1,000 under one year, 18 per 1,000 between one and two, nearly P^n between two and three, nearly 5 per 1,000 between three and four, the same between four and five, and, finally, out of every 1,000 children under five years old nearly 9 died. Surely, after such a statement as this, the doctor adds, no person can pretend to think that measles is so trifling a complaint that little or no care need be taken of the patient. And vet it is just this lack of care which kills, because it lays the patient open to secondary diseases, a fact which may be fully understood when it is stated that in 201 deaths measles was complicated with pneumonia, and in 94 cases with bronchitis. The rapidly vanishing section of the public which still retains a fractional curiosity in regard to Mr. Grin de Rougemont and his ways may be interested to know the price which he placed on himself as a public entertainer. lwlfii! i j societies, and others wishing to fo ow the lead of the British Association applied J? traveller's agents for terms. One hundred guineas a lecture-no less, they were u Is was ^ansen's figure. Since then j there has been a slumD in De Roue'emonts.
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J GAZETTE NEWS.—Bankruptcy Acts, 1833 and ¡lS90.-Receiving orders-Jacob Morgan, < of Brians Moor, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, farmer and general merchant.