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pail SATUJggArj SEPTEMBER SO, 1890, THE WEEK'S NEWS. {From Thursday, Sept. 11th, to Tuesday, Sep, 16th. 1890, inclusive.) It is feared that the Liverpool sailing ship Lord Raglan has been lost with all hands. A husband and wife in Hungary fought so desperately with knives that both were killed. The Royal vine at Hampton Court this year is stated to carry 1,400 bunches of grapes. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has decided to use live snakes in her forthcoming represen- tation of Cleopatra." The illuminated bicycle ride at Cardiff on Saturday in aid of the funds of the Infirmary resulted in a collection of t232, The remains of the late Canon Liddon were interred on Tuesday at St. Paul's Cathedral. The rumour that Mr. Dillon was to be called as a witness in the O'Shea divorce case has not been denied. The New York Herald in its issue of Satur- day announced the suspension for the present of its daily edition. The Jews residing at Vilna, in Lithuania, are being subjected to such gross ill-treatment that they are in large numbers emigrating to Palestine. A youth but fifteen years old appi ared on Friday before the Newport magistrates for the seventh time, charged with drunkenness. A mining disaster, involving, it is feared, the loss of 150 lives, is reported from Germany. A soldier was murdered at Plumstead on Friday night by the son of a widow, who had discovered him to be criminally intimate with his mother. The Cardiff-laden steamer Ashdale, whilst bound for Tralee, foundered off Lundy Island, to which the crew escaped in their own boats. A determined attempt has just been made in Constantinople to assassinate the Armenian bishop, but, fortunately, he escaped with a severe wound. A big scheme for kidnapping wealthy children in Kansas City has just been frus- trated by one of the gang informing the police. The horribly mutilated body of an unidenti- fied workman has just been found on the main line near Birmingham. A thought-reader at Chicago, after his per- 0 formance, went into a cataleptic fit, from which he was with difficulty restored. The Bishop of Chester has written a letter to a correspondent, in which his lordship advocates the opening of churches freely on week days as well as on Sundays. At a meeting of Scotch miners' delegates in Glasgow on Monday it was agreed by a majority to demand an advance of Is. per day. Mrs. H. M, Stanley has just published a book upon Arab street life, which she has illustrated with engravings of her many pictures on the subject of Arab life. Fifteen persons in the Baroda district of India have just been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for gross and fatal cruelty to an old woman, whom they considered to be a witch. Damage to the extent of nearly L-W,000 was caused on Monday by a fire which raged for several hours at the Briton Ferry Chemical Works at Neath. At the Central Criminal Court on Friday A. C. Weston was convicted of forging and uttering cheques purporting to be those of ¡ Lady Duulo and Mr. Wertbeimer, and be wat sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The Queen of Roumania on Monday visited Penrhyn Castle and Carnarvon, where she was presented with an address by the corpo- ration. She was entertained at luncheon in the castle by Sir John l'uleston. At Southampton William Sprow, leader of the late strike, was committed for trial at the assizes for intimidation, whereby it was alleged the steamer La Plata was prevented from going to sea. Rumours are current in Swansea that at the next Parliamentary election for the borough there will be both an independent and a labour candidate in opposition to Sir Hussey Vivian, the present member. At London Guildhall on Saturday two privates of the Somersetshire Light Infantry were sentenced to three and two months' hard labour respectively for a violent assault on a police-sergeant near Bisley. The Magistrates said that the state of things prevailing at Bisley was a disgrace to the neighbourhood. A considerable stir has been caused in Chatham through the suspension of two officials of the postal telegraph "staff of the garrison, and the general report is that the offence is divulgence of important administra- tive secreis, hut from inquiries it seems probable that if there have been improper dis- closures of secrets, they were in connection with private speculation and not with Govern- ment affairB. A horrible baby-farming tale is reported from Long island, America, where a man and wife have been arrested on the evidnoe of their son for murdering infants committed to their care. In an old building in a wood sick And dying children were found drugged and starved, and olothing that had belonged to 75 children was discovered. A deputaivl from the Federated Ship- masters' Societies, representing 7,000 chim- masters and officers, waited upon the intcrin. council of the Shipping Federation on Tuesday, desiring the shipowners to recog- nise their newly formed federation, and to support them in resisting the coercion brought to bear upon them to join the Seamen's and Firemen's Union. The council expressed complete sympathy with the views of the deputation An inquest was opened atWoolwich on Tues day afternoon on the body of John Stewart, quartermaster-sergeant of the 51st Battery Royal Artillery, who met his death under aad and singular circumstances at Plumstead on Saturday morning, and for which Walter James Lyons it in custody. The accused, who killed the deceased by stabbing him with a large knife because he found him in company with his mother, a widow, was found guilty of wilful murder, but reoommended to mercy on account of provocation. His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarenoe, arrived at Glanusk Hall on Monday where he stays as the guest of Sir J. R. Bailey, M.P. The towns of Aber- gavenny and Crickhowell were brilliantly deoorated and illuminated in honour of the occasion. On Tuesday His Royal Highness went from Glanusk Ilall to Brecon, where he was presented by the Mayor with an address on behalf of the corporation, in a costly casket. He afterwards visited the agricultural show. His Royal Highness was everywhere reoeived with the utmost enthusiasm.

The O'Shea Divorce Case. The Irish Tunes London correspondent says akv John Dillon, M.P., is to be subpoenaed to give evidence by Messrs. Wontner, the solicilsors acting for Captain CrSlien, in the divorce suit he has brought against Mrs. G?9hea. This, it is antici- pated, will prevent Mr Dillon fros; politically tour- ing in the States in company with. Mr- Wjlliam O'Brien. Mrs. O'Shea has made the disclosure ordered by the court of certain documents, and has thus avoided a committal for contempt which IMS threatened by Justice Hannen.

To Contributors. Acknowledged with thanksMies E. M. PEN- NINGTON, Cardiff (" In Ecstacy" and Lost Awhile"); E.F.M." (" My Ladv: A Passer By" and An Autumn Evening Reverie") GEO," Shooter's Hill ("The Butterfly and the Cater- pillar"). 16 E. B."—Sorry your effusion is not up to the standard we endeavour to maintain in this column.

Waiting. Pale shines the moon in yonder sky Oh, many feet are passing by Yet, where's that step well known to me ? Hurry love, I wait for thee. The night grows dark and I'm alone, Save for the Ever-present One Quicken thy stride my husband dear, My heart is filled with nameless fear; Pale, still, tlio moon, darker the nightv And I 'gainst terror vainly fight, Why art thou yet so far from home ? It is so late; oh, dearest come! Come! and dispel my countless fears. Come, soon, and chase away my tears, The stars shine forth in bright array, I Why art thou still so far away ? I The house is lit to welcome thee, In dreams-our lovely children three I am alone—the door ajar, With eager eye I gaze afar. Waiting for thee, beloved one, The hour of midnight almost gone If he doth now near danger roam, Oh Father, lead him safely home. Clydach. MAGGIB GRIFFITHS.

FORGOTTEN. Though all the days are raining Throughout my lonely life, Though you know peace and contentment Ana I vain longing and strife, Though I labour from early daylight Till the sun dies out in the west, And weary with fret and turmoil While all day long you may rest; Though my life is devoid of pleasure, While yours is a joy complete- To my soul I am glad for your gladness, My beautiful heart, my sweet! Though all through the hours of darkness, While you are tying asleep, I lie in my darkened chamber Wide, wide awake, and I weep; Though my hands are always empty, While yours with treasures are filled Though your hopes bloom on for ever While all my longings are stilled; Though my heart turns yearningly Backward to th&time of the might-have-been, I am glad that you have forgotten My passionate heart, my Queen! Though your path lies in the sunshine, And mine in the shade of night; While mine is besot with sorrow, And yours is tranquil and bright; Though all through my weary lifetimo The world is a blank to me, And I wander for ever lonely. While you're in gay company. I wait and endure in silence, Some day I know we shall meet And be happy together in heaven, My beautiful heart, my sweet Cardiff. E. M. PENNINGTON.

THE INEVITABLE. I like the man who faces what he must With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear; Sees his hopes fall, yat keeps unfaltering trust, That God is God; that somehow, true and just, His plans work out for mortals; cot a tear Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, Falls from his grasp; better, with love a cruet Than living ia dishonour envies not, Nor loses faith in man but does his best Nor ever murmurs at his humbler lot, But with a smile and words of hope gives zest To every toiler; he alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate. SARAH K. BOLTON,

DYiN They are waiting on tire shore For the bark to take them home fhey will toil and grieve no more, The hour for release hath come. J. All their long life Jies behind, Like a dimly blending dream There is nothing left to bind To the rtalms that only seem. They are waiting for the boat, There is nothing left to do; What was near them grows remoto, Happy silence falls like dew Now the shadowy bark is come, And the weary may go home. By still water they would rest, ] In the shadow of the tree; ■ i After battle sleep is best, After noise tranquility. -RODEN NozL, in The Academy.

WOOING BY FLOWERS. Once on a time, to woo a maid Three suitors sought her bower, Give me, I pray," the maiden said To each, thy favourite flower." The lord, he took a. lily faie That grew in regal pride; This flower put in thy raven hair 'Twill suit a noble's bride." The knight, he plucked a rose and cried, n This flower place on thy breast." The bard a violet gave, and sighed, "Ah near thee let it rest." Come back agaia at autumn-tide And meet me in thy bower And ye shall learn," the maid replied, How fares it with each flower." At autumn-tide they stood once more Beside the maiden bright; Thsn from a vase the flowers she bere And placed them in their sight. The lily leaves were dull and stained; The shrivelled rose was dead The odorous violet fre?h remained- The bard," she cried, If I'H wed." JOHN FBAKCIS WALLER, in the Fauuly Maqarine.

It was reported in Canterbury that an East Kent hop planter, who has succeeded in growing an enormoue crop of hops, bad sefused an offer of £50,000 for his entire crop. Near Bellefonte, in Pennsylvania, lives Mrs. Eiiu. Stanton, who claims to be 115 years old. She is a good eater, a good sleeper, and an expert snake killer. Staff-Paymaster William T. Feneoclr, of her Majesty's ship Rodney, was sentenced by court- martial at Slieerness on Tuesday to be dismissed his ship for drunkenness. He bad an excellent character. This is the centenary of the tall hat. Dr. Franklin's simple Quaker hat led, by the usual force of re-action (says a correspondent), to the high, stiff one, which in its early days was re- garded as a sign of progressive tendencies on the part of its wearer. About fifty years ago it be- came the hall-mark of a respectable social position, and indicative of nothing beyond, except by its condition. Merlin," a well-known authority on dairying, writing in he Field, calls attention to the un. wholoaomeness of milk preservatives, such aa borax and salicylic acid. It appears that these drugs are so commonly used in America that a demand has been made for their prohibition by law. In this country they are not extensively used for milk; but in the case of most of the cieam sold in small jugs by grocers, though not in that which has been Scalded, artificial means are used to keep it sweet. Many butter-makers also, use one of the prepara- tions referred to. The subject needs investigation, M the sale of cream is now very large.

SOCIALISM IN FRANCE Will Workmen Get All They Want? [By FLANEUR.] French Socialism is very difficult to define, because the conditions and habits of the worker are altogether different from those of his international fellows, Of abstract or German Socialism, it has no representative party here, and which may be summarily described as the equalising of all social in- equalities. Not that Article o, 2-equality- of the Republican trinity is honoured in the i observance. There is no country in the world where official distinctions and hononre are more coveted and run after than in France. Titles are not meant-gach have no importance for the French; save for hotel keepers and waiters. The red ribbon of the Legion of Honour commands more respect than the title of duke or prince. The violet ribbon, bestowed by the Minister of Public Instruction for in- tellectual accomplishments, is so freely given away that Senator Jules Simon, when he waff appointed Minister of Education, was astounded to see the porters and the men- bousemaias who made up the offices deoorated with the violet ribbon. That might pass in Sootland, where the "laddie" who blacks your boots is able to porrect you in your I Horace. -■ t ♦. • j French workers do not sincerely demand eight hours as the maximum for daily labour. atill leas a uniform wage remuneration, as 1 they lean for piece-work. They join in the I international demand, because to win both, I while not affecting them, implies the triumph of their order. In Paris, Lyons, Saint Etienne, &o., the special indus- tries of these cities are oarried on by the family, whose bead is both capitalist and worker. No law can ever pre- vent a man labouring as many hours a day in his own home as he pleases. No ourfew bell oan ever ring for him. Nor can France be ever converted into a vast national model farm, since the required labourers for the vineyard already own the land. Rest factories and mines—the minority of the population. The Mines for the miners'' is an experiment that has been tried and failed. At this point the working population branches into two distinct schools,led by Montagues and Capulets. One bellows for that slice of the moon, the nationalisation of factories, &0.; the other agitates for a slice of the unearned incre- ment," an equitable division of that portion of profits which capital pockets over and above a fat remuneration for risk, surveilr lance, and inrested cash. ) In other words, profit-sharing. This plan seems at present to be at a standstill, though many employers aooord their hands a partici- pation, more or less generous, in their gains. The Duohesse &UzU, the proprietress of the Clicquot Champagne Manufactory,has recently adopted the plan. The workers, however, have for ideal the possession of the capitalist's, business to U run it," not by the State, bat by themselves, viewing the owner as a kind of active-sleeping partner, maintaining that it is labour employs capital, not the reverie. All workers agree that when injured by ACCi- dent the State ought to secure their subsis- tence, and when age or infirmity incapacitates them from work the nation should pension them. The State ought to annuitize those who develop, as well as such who defend, the existence of the oountry. There's where we are now.

Under the failure of George Washington Butterfield, company promoter, the summary oi accounts issued from London Bankruptcy Court shows debts unsecured £ 1,550; assets "Nilia England." He attributes his failure to the costs at an unsuccessful action against the Financial Hews. P. Carlisle Wilson, of the Bath-road, Catford, and Brixton Ramblers Cycling Clubs, on Monday, it is said, beat the fifty miles tricycle record by 5 min. 44 sec., his time being 2 hours 44 mio. 21 sec The course was from Hitchia to Peterborough, and the wind south east. Collins, Albone, Bennett, Edp., Mills, and Sangster assisted as pacemakers