Weekly Mail

Explosions at powder mills often throw per- sons out of employment. Mrs. Llewellyn, Baglan Hall, who is. happily, recovering from her recent indis position, is a first cousin to Mr. Henry Labouchere, M.P. The great meteor reported by us yesterday morning was seen by many observers in various parts. There is some evidence that it exploded high over the South of England. Even a newspaper sometimes gives a sigh of relief. This is how a Pembroke journal begins its editorial matter this week:—"We have been so busy in the jobbing department this week that our news must suffer. We are eorry, yet thankful." Said a Swansea paper yesterday: By a foolish printer's blunder, which we deeply regret, we stated on Thursday that a 'smoker was held in connection with the St. Andrew's Society of Christian Endeavour. Of course, it should have been a social.' "Of course" In speaking to the Merthyr people about the question of the housing of the poor, Mr. Ben Davies, the miners' agent, said that if he wanted to go to live in a place where he would be driven to commit suicide in three weeks he would go to Dowlais. Yet the hill town has produced thousands of Mark Tapleys. Light, more light! The following is the report of a local football match which reached us on Saturday night:—"Canton United v. Eastbourne (East Moors).-Played on Leck- with Common. Commenced in darkness owint to the goal-post and touch-line flags. missing. Result unknown." We should think 80. As there is not so much water in the Cardiff reservoirs now as there was this time last year, the population will have to drink slowly. The present supply is some 796,000,000 gallons, which gives every man, woman, and child in the town some 4,500 gallons apiece. This ought to be enough for quite a few weeks with care. It is told of a Welsh draper-and we might believe it but for the fact that as a race Welsh drapers are the keenest men in the kingdom—that after dressing his window witn hosiery he put a ticket thereon which read:- "A large stock of Ladies' Hose, pure Cash- mere. to be cleared at ald. per pair. They won't last long at this price." The Rev. Mr. Winks, denying the assertion of the Western Mail that the Unsectarian Eight" resort to antediluvian electioneering, says they are up to date: Although they reach their meetings leight, And cabs outside impatient weight, The hurried Unsectarian Eight Are, notwithstanding, tip to deight." A story which comes from Carmarthen hints that the Rev. J. E. Flower has not said the worst possible about the pillars of Welsh Nonconformity, some of whom are occa- sionally tipsters as well as tipplers. At the bye-election at Carmarthen a deacon is said to have strained every nerve and 'used every art to arrange a bet of a sovereign on the result. The old dress worn by the scholars at Wil- liams's Endowed School, Caerleon, was bright ■ blue, with a. white badge bearing the initials "C. W." Now, instead of badges, they give the scholars E5 notes at the end of the year. In Usk Parish Church there is a curious inscription in Welsh which has puzzled anti quarians. There was a great dispute over it about the end of the eighteenth century, and two well-known antiquarians gave totally different meaning to it. For the first time in the history of Brecon Congregational College and Trevecca Cal- vinistic Methodist Oollege an inter-collegiate debate has been held. This opens a new era in the history of Welsh colleges, and is men- tioned by a correspondent as a proof of the combining force which is at work throughout .the denominations. The subject of the debate was "That the Annexation of the South African Republics is Unjustifiable." Brecon took the affirmative and Trevecca the negative. The result, of course, was a win for Brecon. Mr. Hirwen Jones is given a prominent place in this week's Candid Friend." Mr. Jones is a Cardiganshire man, and started his musical career in the eisteddfod. He studied voice production tinder Mr. Shake- speare and Signor Eandegger. One of his first successes was at St. George's-hall. in Liver pool, where he took the place of Mr. Edward Lloyd at short notice. Since then Mr. Jones's career has been one of continued success. He has twice toured the provinces as a mem "ber of Madame Patti'e concert companies, and was a member of Madame Patey's company on her farewell, which ended bo tragically in Sheffield. Next spring Mr. Jones is going through Canada and the States. It may be that the absence of swear words from the Welsh language makes a Welshman hesitate about using strong words in any language. A Welshman was giving evidence before Mr. Justice Bucknill in Liverpool a couple of days ago. He was supposed to have heard somebody make use of a strong expres- sion. Tell me what was said," remarked the judge. The witness hesitated. Now come," coaxed the judge; "you won't offend anybody in this court." Still the witness was dumb. "Then you won't tell us?" said the judge, and a nod of the head by the witness was the response. Facing the jury with beaming countenance, the judge said:- "Gentlemen, he is a sailor man, and won't use bad language." Dear Mr. 'Day by Day:" writes a. corre- spondent, the posting of the Lloyds and Ebenezers in continguous parishes in St David's Diocese forms a line stretching right across Carmarthenshire from Cardigansbire to Breconshire like a line of blockhouses In the Diocese of Llandaff, in a corner of Glamorganshire, we have something like a 'concentration camp.' for we have the Rev. Euseb'us G. E. E'chardson at Baglan, the Bev. Zacchaeus P. Williamson at Margam, the Rev. Pelagius Evanson at Merthyr Mawr. and the Rev. Stephen Jackson at Llangynwyd! It is the Transvaal and Orange River Colony i at home; and the pro-Boors may study lord Kitchener's methods without risking their necks by «tudy:ng the methods of our Lords of Llandaff and Menevia." The increas:ng know'edge of the necessity for airy rooms for consumptives is bearing- good fruit, and some of the kind-hearted and wealthy people are providing suitable accom- modation for their poorer brethren who are afflicted w:th this terr:ble disease, and who are too ill to travel far from home. We have heard of a case in which a lady of high posi-" tion in Glamorganshire removed a poor girl from the small cottage in which she was residing to a comfortable room in one of the houses on her estate. Furthermore, she had the mom furnished in a suitable manner for the sufferer's reception. Unfortunately, the girl was incurable, bnt such acts of unas- suming charity deserve to be recorded if onlv by way of an incentive to other people. More harm is wrought by want of thought than e'en by want of heart. Either Breconshire has fallen off in natural wonders or some of its people are less expert at wielding the long bow. An old chronicler says:—" Three miles from Breknoke is a moun- tain of such heisrht and operation as is incredible; and were it not that I have witness to affirm what I shall speak. I should blush to let the report thereof passe from mv I penne: No lesss than eight that had been bailiffes of the towne came to visit me and reported, that from the tonpe of that hill, in the Welch called Mounehdenny or Cadger- Arthnr. they had oftentimes cast from them and downe the north-east rocke, their oloakes, hattes, and staves, which. notwithstanding] would never fall, but were with the aire and winde still returned backe and blowne 11p: neither, said they. will anything descend from that cliff. he:ng so east, unless it be stone or some metalline substance: affirming the cause thereof to bee the clouds, which are) sene to reacho much lower than the top- of1 hill." There are five solicitors on the Carmarthen County Council. Gwenchaur is the latest spelling of Gwen- draeth. It appears in a. Swansea contem- porary. There is not much demand for mild cigars in Cardiff. Smokers generally like something with strength in it. Part of Saturday's football toll in Mon- mouthshire were two broken legs—one at Llan- foist and one at Newport. The craze for foreign languages in business alarms a Cardiff porcelain dealer. He dreads having to learn Chinese for the china trade. No doubt, on the principle that the better the day the better the deed, two boxers up the hills are going to box for £ 50 on Boxing Day. Have the women who use the Cardiff Market been in the habit of indulging in sly whiffs? A notice prominently placed on Saturday read: "Ladies' Cloak-room: Smoking Strictiy Prohibited." A correspondent who is well informed in Church matters has reason to believe that the new Dean of Bangor wiU be a well-known South Wales clergyman, who, years ago. ministered in the northern part of the Prin- cipality. A Worcester paper of 1801 chronicles this item"Marriages.—Last week, after a court- ship of upwards of 50 years. Adam Wathen. butcher, and Letitia Bevan, spinster, Talbany Hall, Pembrokeshire, whose united ages amount to 120 years." Mr J. G. Woolley, the Chicago prohibi- tionist, who is now at Cardiff, casts up the Church in the Americanism, "Too much book- keeping, too little business." All the "causes" may soon nave sky scraping chapels with the usual Yankee elevators (hydraulic for the Bap tists). When speaking of tolls in the Swansea Market the older hands always speak of having paid their "pitchings," It is a reminis cence of the old days when country people used to pay a small amount for the privilege of offering for sale their produce on tll, cobble-stone3 which lined the principal streets. Even the Welsh language is modernised ir. America. A banquet in honour of Mabon" was held in Wyoming, and, of course, the menu and all it contained was Welsh—with an American accent. The event was called on the programme "A Banqwest"—which is enough to give the Welsh Language Society a stroke of paralysis. A gentleman from Treorky was walking along Queen-street last night when the whole of the electric light in shcps and street went out. The Treorkyite stood transfixed on the pavement; then. clutching hold of one who turned out to be a local vicar, he said. in a voice that reverberated through the darkness: Who blew them out? Mr. Allgood, th3 Liberal agent in Cardiff, has sent out a circular to local Radicals to say that the contest for the school board .8 not going so well as I had hoped it w<J^d." Good! Why on earth should the voters ^ilect a board with a majority pledged to oppose a Government scheme projected in the best interests of education? No wonder Swansea's rates are so low. It has just been discovered that the county police have been policing a piece of the Swansea borough ever since 1835. The charge of two public-houses and 150 dwellings at Bonymaen will now be formally handed over to Captain Colquhoun. but nothing can obliterate this sixty years' theft of shoe-leather. From particulars to hand of the great meteor described by correspondents in our columns last week, Mr. Denning, of Bristol- the leading authority on such matters-states that the visitor when first seen was a hundred miles above the neighbourhood of Yeovil. Its flight was at the rate of 30 miles a second. and had it continued it would have fallen into the sea 23 miles south of Eastbourne. "A few days ago," writes a correspondent, "references were made in your column to the similarity of clerical Christian and surnames in the vicinity of Llandovery. and I beg to chronicle a remarkable coincidence, viz., that the Rev. Stephen Gladstone, vicar of Hawarden, has two curates named respectively Caine and Abel, the latter gentleman being a native of Ram, Lampeter." The little boys in Cape Town know some- thing, if the story of a returned Volunteer is to be credited. He says that at a recent examination one of the questions in the mis- cellaneous paper was, "What is meant by printers' devil?" A boy, who evidently had been taking an intelligent interest in current topics, replied, "The censor." He ought to have had full- marks for that! The VisIt to Cardiff of the Antarctic explorer. Mr. C. E. Borchgoevink, brings to mind one to whom he is as wide am tne paler. asunder—Dan Leno Daniel once gently admonished his audience for being under the wrongful impres- sion that the North Pole was a clothes prop or a distant cousin of the doorpost. It was, he asseverated, to his sure and certain know- ledge, a well-oonducted "public." A Pembrokeshire schoolmaster has achieved a feat in teaching his scholars the botany of the wild flowers in their district. The school has just sent as many as 138 varieties of wild flowers to the Paxton Society, which encourages education in that direction. This is the more remarkable, as in th3 parish referred to the people are all Welsh-speaking, and the master has, Jtot of all, to teach his scholars English. | I The motor-car is rapidly becoming a familiar, sight in Glamorganshire. During the summer visitors to Southerndown were fre- quently aroused from their contemplation of the beauties of Nature by the "toot-toot" of Mr. Herbert Homfray's automobile. and now Margam Park echoes with the familiar sound, proceeding this time from the motor-car owned by Mr. Andrew Fletcher, which is an object of much interest to the rural popula- tion. Miss Batlmrst, junior inspector under the Board of Education, is leaving Cardiff for another centre, after a residence of some years. During her stay in this district Miss Bathurst has greatly interested herself in the children, who will misa her bright presence and unconventional manner. She has been the means of bringing forward a number of promising young folk who might otherwise have remained neglected, and her services in securing a regular dinner for the little ones of the blind school are greatly appreciated. A massive inkstand has been presented by the King to Mr. Judah. the manager 0 of the Hotel Cecil, in recognition of the courtier- like urbanity, forethought, and close attention which are distinguishing features of Mr Judah's managerial genius. The inkstand bears this inscription" Presented by E. It VII. to Monsieur Auguste Judah, for services rendered during 1901." Before he took up the managership of the Hotel Cecil Mr. Judah was manager of the Royal Hotel in Cardiff, wher. his many excellent qualities are still a fra- grant memory. "You referred last week," writes a corre- spondent, "to Holywell. I have been there and have seen the crowd of crutches left behind by cured or, at all events, benefited cripples. One fact struck me, that, as a: Lourdes, the water was intensely cold. Ordt nary spi, water was not in it. This alone would give a shock to the system which might have a beneficial result, and we all know the virtues of a good wash in cold water, not to say tubbing. A departed doctor of my acquaintance believed in the 'miracle3' achieved by cold water, which he found ordi nary people regarded with aversion, -and in many ways he circumvented them by includ- ing it in his prescription in a roundabout way." A few days ago a touching instance of saga- city on the part of an elephant was related by a Newport minister at a meeting of Wes- leyans in Breconshire. He said that in a menagerie an elephant became strongly attached to a hen, and when the hen was sitting upon some eggs in anticipation of tir arrival of little chicks the elephant displayed additional interest. The huge creature would become quite alarmed if the hen deserted her charge for long. Upon one memorable occa- sion the hen was absent so long that the elephant, fearing the consequences might be serious, in an excees of friend'inesc endeavoured to act in place of the wandering hen, and with touching solicitude sat himself on the eggs. The opinion of the hen when she returned will not bear reporting. Thoughts like the following go to shake our confidence in things. They are based on science, and, consequently, correct. Looking at the full moon a man is liable to run away with the idea that the luminary is there! But that doesn't follow. We do not see the moon as it is, but as it was a second and a quarter before; nor do we see the sun as it now is. but as it was eight minutes before; i.e.. the orb of day may have already five minutes back been dispersed into invisible atoms, and yet we sefc it entire and perfect. Jupiter is to us as it was fifty-two minutes ago, and Uranus as two hours before. We see big stars as they were from three to ten years ago, and twinklers of the tenth magnitude as they were at some period long B.C. But we see the Cardiff School Board, on the other hand, just as it is at the present day, and the Rime remark applies to the Cardiff Fish Market! In the course of an interesting article on "The Coastwise Liehts of England," sontri- buted to the December Quver by Miss Gertrude Bacon, whose exciting balloon adven- ture near Neath, in company, with her father and a well-known aeronaut to boot-the Rev. J. H. Bacon-will be re-called, the fair writer points out that the Mumbles Head light, liod I by the Corporation of Swansea. ;nd the Cor- biere light, in Jersey, which belongs to the government of that ieland, are the two excep- tions amongst the whole ol the coast light- houses round our shores, as well as all the lightships, buoys, Ac., that are not either managed and controlled from Trinity House, Tower Hill, Kent. It was comparatively late in the history of the establishment that the board obtained full and absolute possession of the English lighthouses. Up to the time of William IV.. indeed, certain lights were in private hands, or leased out to individuals, who too often were more intent on the co ilee, tion of dues than on the safety of the mariner, j Now this in. happily, adl altered. A tombstone inscription is often a grave error. The child who is seen and not heard remains to be seen. How is it that the Nonconformist pulpit has not begun denouncing ping-pong? Mr. Morgan, the re-elected Premier of Wes- tern Australia, is a Monmouthshire man. It is the Carmarthen Town Council, and not the county council, that counts five solici- tors amongst its members. Holywell is about combining the mediaeval and the modern. She already has her world- famed miraculous well, and she will shortly possess a free library. Out of 47 regiments of Imperial Yeomanry in Great Britain the Glamorganshire Regi- ment stands forty-third in order of prece- dence. A dogs' home has been taken in hand for Cardiff. Mr. Cuthbert Goulding is moving in the matter, and, aided by many friends of the movement, he is determined to reach suc- cess. There is a noted hostelry near Llanarth, built 450 years ago, which has been closed for 40 years, and is now re-opened on the same plan as Lord Windsor's moael inn at St. Fagan's. In the current number of Week End" there is a photograph and a letterpress sketch of ■' a, feminine conductor." This is Madame Clara Novello Davies, who is never tired," says the writer, of impressing people with the fact that a woman need not necessarily be masculine because she is a successful worker." Can Cardiff and Swansea never lie down together? The medical societies are disagree- ing now over the proposed fight against con- sumption. The Millennium will truly have dawned when the local lion and the lamb are found in blissful co-operation. We don't .•lay which is the lion, for we don't want any correspondence. Mr. Passmore Edwards, the well-known London philanthropist, having been approached with the view of extending his .nunificence to Merthyr, has given a reply saying that he has done nothing, and at pre- sent intends doing nothing, for South Wales, because he thinks that the wealthy owners of collieries and steelworks whose profits run into thousands of pounds a year are the proper persons to provide libraries and insti- tutes for the district. Mahomet is always going to the mountain, and he has just done so in Brecon. William Rowe, who was arrested the other night for leing drunk and disorderly, told the police at the eleventh hour that lie could not walk to the police-court, because he believed hia ankle was out. The magistrates thought that. ts some time would elapse before the 'bus or another vehicle could be obtained to convey the defendant to the court, they would save time and ejpense by walking down to the police-station to interview the defendant there. Fhey did so, and Rowe, a labourer with no axed abode, was sent to prison for fourteen days. Regarding the escapes of criminals, the Outlook" says that when the newspapers declare that all ports, towns, and roads are yeing closely watched, the man who knows can only smile. There died the other year 'n a little place in Wales a man who fled from justice on aecount of forgery and embezzle- ment in a northern town. He simply took various trains, slow and local by preference, direct to Wales, engaged lodgings, and there remained for twenty years untraced and un- suspected. He even married, though his wife was alive; and only some papers found, quite accidentally as it were, in a tin box at his death revealed his identity. One writer in describing the National Liberal Federation's meeting at Derby says ihat Mr. LjIoyd-Ccorge a appearance as the re-strainer of pro-Boerism was the feature of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon. It was on his appeal that the amendments were withdrawn, and an innocuous rider added urging the Government to send to South Africa a special commissioner who should see whether a satis- factory settlement of the war could not be arranged." Innocuous is it? We know what Lhe Boers want, and we know that Britishers don't want any special commissioner to go out and arrange another Majuba settlement. Clearly, Dr. Moxon has made a deep impres- sion on the mind of the Rev. J. Morgan Gibbon. Writing in the "Christian World." Mr. Gibbon says:—"Dr. Moxon, whose remark- able speech at the City Temple a few years ago made so deep an impression, is one of the best talkers I have ever met. He has a little habit of wandering away into French, Italian, and even Spanish quotations, which is a little disconcerting, and had I not been able instantly to cap his quotations from modern tongues with such scraps of Arabic. Syriac, and Sanskrit as come easily to the lips of a Welsh-speaking man, the Old Country wou.d have suffered another defeat at the very time when every paper was crowing over the failure of the Shamrock II." One of the happy things said by Lord Tredegar at the Cymmrodorion dinner in London was spoken after the reporters had left. In proposing the president's health. Dr. Henry Owen had made graceful allusion to his lordship's Welsh ancestry and WeJsh name fMorgaa). Acknowledging the toast. Lord Tredegar observed that he had found the name useful. In the company of uncompromising Nonconformists he could refer to his well- known Pelagian namesake; in that of zealous Churchmen he with equal propriety referred to Bishop Morgan, the translator of the Welsh Bible; in the company of men of enterprise and adventure he made the most of Henry Morgan the Buccaneer; and amongst those of Stuart tendencies he did not fail to mention the merits of David Morgan the Jacobite. This humourous sally was received with much laughter. It is worth bearing in mind that the average height of the Briton is 67.t3 inches, whil:it his average weight is 153.21b. The Scotch are the tallest, the general average being 68.61 inches. Next come the Irish with an average of 67.90 inches; the English are third with 67.36 inches, whilst last are the Welsh, with 66.66 inches. rhe Scotch also take first place in the matter of weight, their general average being 165.3ib. rhe Welsh are second with an average of 158.3Th.-a fact which proves that if the Welsh are short, they are sturdy. The average weight of the English is 1551b., and that of the Irish 151.11b. The lowest average height in England—66 to 66k inches—is to be foung in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouth- shire. and in Wales in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. The highest standard of seight-160 to 1651b.—is found in North Wales. The lowest—145 to 150Th.-is found in Shrop- shire. In "Chambers' Journal" for December Harold Lewis, B.A., describes "An Hcur with a Dictionary," and interposes a kindly thought for Wales. He says :—" The walnut is literally the foreign nut,' the first syllable being the jame as Welsh, which means foreigner, and was the name given by the Anglo-Saxon con- querors of Great Britain to the previous inhabitants, whom they drove into the ■ountry called Wales, or Corn-wall. Welsher is, of course, a defaulter upon the race course; but I shall throw upon the dictionary the sole responsibility of suggesting that it refers to the bad faith of the Welshmen. We know the old lines "—and then the writer quotes the abominable old distich composed by John Bull when he was running away with a country, and found that poor Taffy wanted to keep just one of his own stock. Mr. Lewis adds that the doggerel referred to merely nroves that there was no love lost between the conqueror and the conquered." The announcement of the approaching retirement of the Hon. W. W. Vivian from the management of the Dinorwic Quarries will bring back to many minds memories of the great strike which followed hi3 appoint- ment some fifteen years ago. The strike arose out of the imposition by Mr. Vivian of certain new rules which the quarry.nen at the time considered to be irksome and unnecessary. The settlement was, on the whole, a victory for the management, but it was a victory which was used with mercy and tact. Mr. Vivian made a point of knowing his men and of taking an active and sympathetic interest in their daily work. He studied the quarry- man's er-ft in all its particulars, and would take a hand with the men at working the stones. The Manchester Guardian says that the prosperity and the peace that have prevailed in the Dinorwic quarries ever since the first outbreak of restivenese was overcome nrove how easy it is after all to manage the Welsh quarryman when tact and firmness go hand in hand. To make a home thermometer, get some red ink and a piece of glass tubing. Warm one end of. the tubing in a gas jet till it gets soft and closes up. Then gently, blow down the other end, at the same time twisting the tubing round in your fingers until you make a bulb about half an inch in diameter. Now place some cold water in a cup and tinge it red with the ink and place the open end of your tube into the water. As the bulb cools the water will be sucked into the tube. Now warm the bulb and again place it in the cup, and yet more water wi'l be sucked up. Repeat this till the tube is full, then heat it to boil- ing point and close the open end. The ther- mometer is made. To find the boiling and freezing point- place the bulb in boiling water and in ice respectively, and mark the spot to which the water rises or sinks. Mount the thermometer on a suitable board and divide the span between the boiling and freezing points and you have a thermometer that may be relteo on. So writes a correspondent, but we prefer to go out and buy a sixpenny one and not burn our fingers!

HOW TO MAKE GINGER WINE FOR CHRISTMAS. Equal to three shilling bottles of good Ginger Wine (non-intoxicating) can be readily and easily made by using a 4Ad. Bottle of Eiffel Tower Lemon Ginger. It is an enormous boon for children's parties, and. being made by the ma-nufacturers of the celebrated Eiffel Tower Lemonade (so generally used for the same purpose), the quality of the article can be fully relied upon. If you cannot get it from your grocer, send 4id. for a bottle to G. Foster Clark and Co., Maidstone. L2336

NEWPORT SUICIDE. CLERK TO THE GUARDIANS CUTS HIS THROAT. At an early hour on Friday Mr. John Powell, clerk to the Newport Board of Guardians, was admitted into the Newport and County Hos- pital suffering from serious injuries to his throat, evidently self-inflicted some hours previously. Mr. Powell, who was 55 years of age, had been in a depressed condition for some few years. Whilst with his wife and family at their home. Tan House, Caerleon, on Thurs- day night, Mr. Powell went out to the orchard, and he is supposed to have cut his throat with his own pocket-knife. f Medical assistance was called as soon as the serious affair came to the notice of his friends, but he was in such a dangerous condition and in such a restless state that it was fov-d necessary to convey him to Newport Hos- pital, where he died soon after mid-day on Friday. Mr. Powell had been under medical care for some considerable time, suffering, it is believed, from nervous dyspepsia. Ho had been clerk to the Newport Guar- lians for. some six or eight years, but had been in the service of the Poor-law authorities alto- gether for over 30 years. He was also a well- known Friendly Society official', and secretary to the Newport Oddfellows' Medical Associa- tion. Although the deceased gentleman had been at times during the last few years very much depressed, there was nothing in his manner to fear that he would take his life. He attended the meeting of the guardians on Saturday last, but, on the advice of his friend3, went early in the present week to the Limpley Stoke hydro establishment, the in- tention being that he should stay there for a time for rest and treatment. He returned to his home at Caerleon on the following day. On Thursday he did not go to the officc of the guardians, but in the evening seemed to friends who called upon him at Tan House to be a little brighter. At night he went out to the orchard at the rear of his residence, and was missed till about ten o'clock, when the sad discovery was made. Dr. De Gruchy, of Caerleon, was called in, and about midnight Dr. Lane and Dr. Paton, from Newport, were called. The windpipe was so much injured that it was thought desirable to perform the operation of tracheotomy. An ambulance was afterwards procured, and between three and four o'clock on Friday morning Mr. Powell was removed to Newport Hospital. He leaves a widow and seven children. THE INQUEST. An inquest was held at the Town-hall, New- port, on Saturday evening, before the borough coroner (Mr. W. Lyndon Moore). Mr. A. H. Rees. assistant clerk to the guar- dians, said deceased was clerk to the board of guardians, and lived at the Tan House, Caerleon. He appeared to be in his usual health on December 4. when at the union offices. He seemed at that time cheerful, and displayed great ability in dealing with the accounts which wore placed before the finance committee. After business he got into a peculiar state of mind, and complained of pains in the stomach, and said he was afraid that inflammation of the bowels was coming on. Witness had great difficulty in persuading him to return home. When he left the offices he said "Good-bye" to witness. He seemed in a low and depressed condition. Witness assured the court that all Mr. Powell's accounts were perfectly straight. Dr. De Gruchy, of Caerleon. said he was called to the Tan House on Thursday night, about ten o'c'ock, and found deceased lying down with two very severe gashes in his throat. There was a bottle of liniment found near the place where in the grounds ontside the house the body was discovered. The bottle had a poison" label on it, but it was empty. Witness could not detect any peculiar smeil about the body. A white-handled penknife was found near the body. It would require a great deal of force to inflict the injuries with the lmife. The windpipe was cut. but not the large blood vessels. The wounds were dressed, and the operation of tracheotomy was performed after Dr. Paton and Dr. Lane had arrived. Witness had attended the deceased for about two months. He was suffering from dyspepsia and gastric neuralgia. He had been to see a specialist in London. Sir William Cowers. Deceased would suffer great pain at times in the region of the stomach and would be temporarily insane. He was a sober-living man, and so far as witness knew had no domestic or office worries. Deceased was taken in his own conveyance to the Newport Hospital. Dr. Hayden, house-surgeon at the hospital, said deceased was admitted about 3.30 on Friday morning, and die at noon the same day from failure of respiration. Evidence was given of the finding of the body in the grounds behind the house. The Rev. D. Bevan Jones, a personal friend of the family, said he was at the deceased's house on the night when the terrible deed was dene. Deceased was then calm, but rest- less. He had been suffering from insomnia, and said he only slept middling on Wednesday night, and had suffered a great deal of pain since dinner time on Thursday. It was the in- tention of his friends to take him to St. Thomas's Hospital almost immediately. He went to a sanatorium at Box, near Bath, the previous Monday, but returned again the fol- lowing day. The jury in the result found that Mr. Powell committed suicide whilst temporarily insane." At a meeting of the guardians on Saturday the Chairman (Mr. T. Dutficld) saW he believed the death of the late clerk was one of the saddest things that he had ever heard of, or. probably, any of the guardians had ever heard of. As to the manner of his death he would not dwell upon. He supposed in 999 of such cases out of 1,000 it was found that the persons were not in a right state of mind when they committed such an act. (Hear. hear.) He would dismiss, however, that state of the case, and would just like to look back upon the career of Mr. Powell since he had been with the board. He started many years ago in a very low position, and gradually worked himself up until he obtained thh chief position under the board. The late Mr. Powell took office when the work, had got a little behind, but he set to work in such a way that he soon recovered it. One of the matters that lie took up with great spirit was the question of the removal cases, and the result of his work in that matter was that he saved the guardians scores, if not hundreds, of pounds Then, after the passing of the Act a great increase of work was cast upon Mr. Powell, as well as many new duties in connection with two new rural district councils. Bnt he soon made himself proficient in the work, and there was no man in the county who in Poor- law or highway knowledge was superior to the late Mr. Powell. The work of the assessment committee also entailed a large amount of work, and it was a matter for congratulation that there never was a case in which the assessment committee had been defeated. It was noticed by some of those who knew him that Mr Powell's health was shaT+.2-e.d after hia serious illness of two years ago. He was one of the very best officers that any board could have, and lest there should be any suspicion that there was anything wrong with his accounts, he (the arpaker) wished to say that the accounts were kept in an admirable manner, and he felt perfectly certain that there was nothing wrong with them. He pro- posed that a vote of condolence with Mrs. Powell and the family be passed, and that it be sent to the family with a letter, and also that the vote be entered upon the minutes of the board. The Vice-chairman (Mr. W. H. Brown) seconded the motion, and desired to endorse all that the chairman had said. The Rev. D. Bevan Jones, who had known Mr. Powell intimately, and scent the last hour of his life at Caerleon with him before the sad occurrence which terminated his life, supported the motion. Th-; vote of condolence was passed in silence, all the members rising. On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-chairman, it was decided to send formal notice of the clerk's death to the Local Government Board, and to appoint Mr. A. H. Rees, the assistant clerk, as clerk pro. teml Government Board, and to appoint Mr. A. H. Rees, the assistant clerk, as clerk pro. tern. The Chairman announced that the funeral would leave Newport Hospital on Tuesday at 2.30 p.m. for the cemetery, and guardians and friends would be welcome to attend.

CHARGE .AGAINST A LLANDOVERY FARMER DISMISSED. At Llandovery on Friday David Rees (63). farmer, was charged with assaulting a girl named Alice Lant, aged fifteen, daughter of a cattle drover.—Defendant alleged tllat an attempt was being made to victimise him, and the case was dismissed.

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BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. 'I FURTHER DECREASE IN IMPORTS | AND EXPORTS. The Board of Trade returns continue to dis- close falling values both on the import and the export sides. The imports in November showed a decrease of £2.923.177, or nearly 6 per cent., and the previous increase on thp earlier months of the year is now turned into a decrease of £ 1,769,407, which is. however, only a fractional percentage. The exports decreased in value during the past month £ 1.782,213, which is about 71 per cent. For the eleven months the decrease is £ 11.654,222, or about 41 per cent. But an analysis of the figures gives more favourable results than the totals appear to indicate. The falling off in the exports, for instance, is almost entirely confined to four denominations, and one of these, raw materials," accounts for more than two-thirds of it. Here the principal decline is in coal; and it is more in value than in quality. Coal, indeed, accounts for £ 1,359,637 of the total decrease in raw materials of £ 1,373.733; and this decrease is chiefiy in value. The other export decreases during the month are in metals and metal manufactures, machinery and millwork, and new ships for foreigners. Though these declines are com- paratively large, the total of the three is only equal to about two-thirds the value of the decrease in coal shipments. On the other hand. there are slight increases on the month in articles of clothing, chemicals, and mis- cellaneous goods, and a considerable and signi- ficant increase in the Parcel Post, which is evidently being developed into an export trade of substantial value. There was likewise a very slight, increase on the month, and a rather larger and more gratifying increase during the eleven months in yarns and tex- tiles exported. Despite the apparent giving way under several heads, there is no ground shown in the latest returns for serious mis- givings as to the future.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT IN PEMBROKESHIRE. SUB-POSTMISTRESS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. At Pembroke County Police-court oil Satur- day Octavie Thomas, late sub-postmistress at Angle, was charged with embezzling certain sums of money on the 24th of April, the 2nd of May. and the 3rd of June. amounting respectively to 12s.. ZW., 3Cs., and 10s. Mr. D. Hughes Brown prosccuted, and Mr. R. D. Lowless defended.—William Richards, the postmaster of Pembroke, gave evidence as to the alleged defalcations, and explained to the bench the system by which the prisoner is said to have committed the frauds.—J. Nicholas, a labourer, gave evidence of deposits, and also produced his book, showing the entry made by the prisoner in respect of amounts not accounted for to the head department.—A clerk from the General Post Office also gave evidence as to the non-pay- ment of the amounts.—The prisoner was com- mitted on two separate charges to take her trial at the next quarter ae3sion3, bail being allowed, herself in £ 20, and two sureties in £ 10 each.

CARDIFF DOCTOR'S DEATH v IN LONDON. Dr. George Danford Thomas, coroner for Central London, received information on Saturday of the death of Dr. Edward liodgson. lately residing at 171, Castle-road. Cardiff. It appears that the deceased on Tuesday went to London on business, and that at half-past eight that evening he was found lying in the area of the Metropolitan Railway offices, ZGl, Craven-road, Paddington. How the deceased gentleman came into the area remains a mystery. The caretaker of the premises heard groans on Tuesday night, and found the doctor lying in the area in a semi-conscioas condition, with injuries to the head. It was discovered that the area gate was open, and the supposition is that the deceased slipped against the gate and fell head foremost into the area. The police were immediately sum moned, and the gentleman was removed on an ambulance to St. Mary's Hospital, where he was seen by Dr. AVhitmore, one of the house-surgeons. An examination showed that there were injuries to the head, and, despite all that medical skill could do, Dr. Hodgson remained unconscious and died on Friday morning. It is believed that the deceased sus- tained a fracture of the skull, but with a view of ascertaining the cause of death the coroner has issued an order for a post-mortem examination to be made. Mrs. Hodgson was communicated with, and visited the doctor before his d; th, together with other rela- tives. The inquest will be held at Paddington Greeu to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, and in the meantime the police are making inquiries with a view 01 discovering whether anyone actually saw Dr. Hodgson fall into the area. The late Dr. Edward Christian Hodgson was for a short time last year in practice in Com- mercial-road, Newport, and he came to Cardiff a little more than twelve mouths ago. He waa a man of between 40 and 50 yeara of age, and hcldconsiderable qualifications in his profes II eion. He was an L.R.C.P.I. and L.M., L.B.C.S.I. and L.M. (honours), 1895; L.M. Rot. Hosp., Dub., 1895; E.C.S.I., certificate of merit, Rot. Hosp., Dub.. and Fell. Roy. Acad. Med., Ireland. He was comparatively little known in Cardiff, and lately he was a candidate for the post of honorary gynaecologist to the infirmary.

HORSES AND MEN. The horse is a nobul animil. It has four; legs—one at each corner-,t head at one end and a tale at the other. The head is opposit the tale, except when the animil turns round, when the tale is oppoait the head." This is what a schoolboy wrote of the horse. Old Mavor, anthor of a. School Primer extensively used early in the Nineteenth Century, was hardly able to tell us more. Yet Mavor wrote in the Horse Age, previous to that Age of Steam which is now verging into the Age of Electricity. A physician of great eminence writes:- Our racehorses are trained so young that they soon a.re unfit for the racecourse. As v/ith horses, so with men. A man used to be satisfied to have earned a competency at 60; now he strains to retire at 45 with a fortune. As with men, so with racehorses; the difficulty is to keep up their appetite and digestion." With unimpaired digestion the horse is enduring and fleet, the man fit to sustain cheerfully the extremes of fortune. Mr. Alfred Barnea, of Albert-road, Keyn- sham. near Bristol, says:—"That world-famed remedy, Seigel's Syrup, has been a priceless boon to me. Thanks to its wonderful power. except for slight lameness. I am as strong as ever, though 62. When first indigestion laid hold of me, everything went wrong. Often I was seized with giddiness and trembling, and had to grasp some support to keen from falling. My appetite failed, and, instead of that feeling of comfort and contr tment which follows a good meal well digested which I used to experience, there was a gnawing pain in my chest as if I was about to be sick. though relief seldom came that way. I couldn't sleep well, and consequently was weary and worn ont during the day. After a fashion I managed to get through my busi- ness; but it was real hard work. For eight years I continued like this, never really well or free from pain. Many were the medicines I tried, but none of them did me any good. Indigestion was sapping my strength and making an old man of me before my time. It bad such a grip of me that I feared nothing would shift it; but it has gone now, and its departure dates from the time I began to take Seigel's Syrup. After taking the medicine for a week or two my condition was immensely improved. It sharpened my appetite and made food agree with me. I became bright and cheerful, and felt younger. I thankfully acknowledge what Seigel's Syrup has done for me, and my experience may be published in any way." Snch is the signed. statement of Mr. Alfred Barnes, a man well known and esteemed in Keynsham. Mr. Barnes's case, clear and un- mistakable as it is, can be paralleled by hun- dreds of others throughout the United King- ¡ dom. In our Carnegie Competition we have awarded One Guinea to the following:—Wil- liam E. Dieberry. 8, Mill-street, Maryport, Cumberland; Henry Hibberd, Hedge End, Botley. Hants; E. F. Humphreys, 49, Castle- ford-road, Sparkliill, Birmingham; Beatrice M. Bacchus, 4, Matlock-place, St. Vincent- street, Ladywood. Birmingham; C. Evans. 2, Dagmar Villas, Tivoli, Cheltenham. Further awards will be announced in the newspapers from week to week. L501

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A WELSH GIRL. Mary Ellen Dyter, a young housemaid, taken into custody at St. Asaph. Flint, was brought up on remand at Westminster Police-court to answer a charge of concealment of birth. The prisoner was in service at Eccleston- square, Pimlico. and in April gave birth to a male child. She had no medical or other attention, and the day afterwards went abont her work as usual, telling no one what had occurred. For a time she secreted the body of the infant beneath her bed, but. leaving with the family for Wales in the month of July. she transferred the body to a coal cup- board. There it was found three weeks ago. Dr. Evans, the acting divisional surgeon of police, said. owing to the time which had elapsed, it was impossible to say whether the child had had a separate existence. The police stated that the verdict of a coroner's jury was Still-born." Mr. Sheil committed the accused for trial.

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WELSH MOUNTED INFANTRY IN ACTION. CAPTURED BY A TRAITOROUS FELLOW-COUNTRY MAN. We have received the following interesting communication from Mr. David Jenkins, dated Kimberley. November 15:— A few weeks ago eleven men of the mounted infantry attached to the Welsh Eegimcnt left Vryburg with the intention of scouting a part of the country round. They reached a farm some eight miles from Vryburg; the tenant was on commando, and the wife and chiidren were in the refugee camp. All was quiet around, and our men thought the country was safe. They off-saddled their horses, and went into a farmhouse for a rest. Betore they had been there very long they discovered that .a party of Boers were hidden not 500 yards from the spot, and they had not iong to wait before the house was subjected to a hot rifle fire. Our Welsh boys took in the situation at a glance, and a hot fire from both sides now commenced. They had excel- lent protection in this house, and it would have taken the Boers ail their time to drive them from there, except at great loss of life. But, alas! the same cause that has led to other surrenders was to be found here, viz., the want of ammunition. It was getting less and less, and before long these brave fellows would have fallen into the Boer hands, as others had failen before. But these men were made of sterner stuff. There was to be no sur- render; every shot was to be fired, and then a dash for freedom—or death. One of the little party was sent to get the horses saddled. and all was at last in readinees for the plunge. They were only eleven, galloping for all their horses were worth. The bullets fell thick as hail around them; at last three wounded horsemen lay in a broiling sun on the African veldt. One of them. an intelligent young Welshman—a lad hardly out of his teens-had his horse shot from under him and himself wounded in the leg. Eight escaped, and- returned safely to camp. On came the ¡ Boera to our three wounded, and the feelings of these may better be imagined than described. They had heard of Boer brutality; I they had heard of the killing of the wounded at Vlakfontein; they had heard of the terrible threats made by these Boers.' All these I thoughts and hundreds of others passed through their minds. On and on camo the Boers. At last the leader came up to my j informant, and judge of "Taffy's" astonish- ment when the supposed Boer asked him in the pure Cymric tongue, "What are you doing out here? Your place is at home with your mother." He was too staggered to reply, and during the 24 hours he was a prisoner in the hands of his traitorous fellow-countryman he spoke not a word to one who in disgracing himself had narrowly escaped sending one of his own nationality to his death. It appears that this man was the commandant, with an Englishman as his chief officer. He appeared to be about 25 years of age, and spoke Welsh fluently. He refused, of course, to give any information of himself, and, truth to tell, our wounded Welshmen did not want to know. For 24 hours they were prisoners, and during that time they had nothing to eat or drink. Their wounds were bandaged by a Dutch doctor, and they were sent into the British lines under a flag of truce. One is now in Kimberley Hospital, having had his leg ampu- tated this week. Another may be seen here walking very lamely, and with every appear- ance of having done his share in the war. And as you watch him slowly walking up the street you cannot help but think, "Who are we fighting in this war?" I knew we had almost every nation under the sun to fight against, but I little thought that a Welshman would be found in the Boer lines. Should he ever fall into the hands of his fellow-country- men. may God forgive him his sins, for he will have little time to make peace with his Maker.

COMPENSATION CLAIMS. i TWO NOVEL CASES AT CARDIFF COUNTY-COURT. A, claim of an unusual nature was made before his Honour Judge Owen at the Cardiff I County-court on Friday, Mrs. M'Auliffe, the wife of a labourer, as his next friend, brought an action against the Mount Stuart Dry Dock Company for compensation for an accident by which be had become insane. He is now in ¡ the Bridgend Asylum. Some time last June M'Auliffe was working on the steamer Neptune in the dock, and an accident happened by I which he. presumably, fell into the hold, for he was found there unconscious. After treat- ment at the infirmary, it was found neces- sary, in consequence of the accident, to remove the poor fellow to the asylum. A point I in the caae was whether the employers were liable for insanity on the same basis as an ordinary accident, but the point waa not con- tended. An order was made by consent for the payment of £1 a week during incapacity, and special orders were made for the medical evidence. Another case was that of Charles Escott v. C. E. Dovey. Plaintiff, who was represented by Mr. A. Parsons (instructed bv Messrs. Meyrick and David), was accidentally injured on April 10 last while working for Corfield, Son, and Co.—a firm that wa3 declared bank- j rupt on the next day, and Mr. Dovey was appointed trustee. His Honour had granted j permission for the trustee to be sued. By t the provision of the Workmen's Compensar tion Act it is possible to join an insurance J company as third party to an action after such bankruptcy. The bankruptcy of Messrs. Corfield took place before any proceedings had i been commenced. Mr. J. T. David represented the insurance company, and Mr. Bromhall Mvoji for the trustee. His Honour intimated that he could not hear the insurance com- pany's opposition, and Mr. David said he appeared for the trustee. His Honour replied that he could not hear two solicitors for the trustee, and suggested that they should eeti ie the point themselves. He subsequently held that the action was brought in due form- that the trustee could be sued and the insu ranee company added. Having remarked that the fact was extraordinary that the point as to the liability of the insurance com- pany had never been raised before, the Judge made an award for the amount claimed, which totalled some C7 odd.

RHYMNEY RAILWAY. CHAIRMAN RETIRES OWING TO ILL-HEALTH. We are officially informed that Mr. William Austin, barrister, of Ellernrnede, Totteridge, Herts, who has been for some years chairman I! of the Ebymney Railway Company, has retired from that capacity. It is understood that Mr. Austin's health is not satisfactory. Mr. Austin is also connected with a number of other public companies, of four of which he is chairman. He is a director of the Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Company (Limited). Mr Franklen G. Evans, J.P., of Llwynarthan. Castleton. near Cardiff (deputy-chairman), has ¡ been elected to the vacant position, and Sir Myles Fenton is the new deputy-chairman. Mr. Franklen Evans is a director of a Targe num- ber of local companies, including the Cardiff Gas-light Company, Barry Island Cottage Company (chairman), John Bland and Co., I Pontypridd Waterworks Company (chairman), &c. Sir Myles Fenton is a gentleman who has won world-wide fame as a railway expert, and I to his efforts the amalgamation of the South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways was mainly due. He was elected a director of the Rhymney Railway Company a couple of years ago. He is a director of several British, Colonial, and foreign rail- ways, and is consulting director of the South Eastern Railway.

GLAMORGAN WATER SUPPLY. ¡ IMPORTANT PROPOSAL: A COUNTY RESERVOIR. Dr. Williams, county medical officer, in the course of his quarterly report, which was con- sidered by th., sanitary committee of the Gla- morgan County Council on Friday, referred to the importance of county councils having large powers of supervision and control in respect of me qaesLion or waier euppiy in ineir areas. He considered it very desirable that a complete report on the water supplies of the county should be prepared. Dr. Morris moved that Dr. Williams be requested to furnish such a report. He thought they should consider whether there ought not to be one very large reservoir which could supply all the other reservoirs in the county. The motion was carried.

VACCINATION FINES. At Abertillery Police-court on Friday Joseph Partridge, greengrocer, and Frederick Wintle, insurance agent, were summoned to show cause why they had not paid fines, amounting to P,2 10s., imposed on March 31st last, for failing to comply with the Vaccination Act. TheJ.oca.1 Anti-Vaccination Society defended, andT-aised a plea of conscientious inability. The Bench ordered distress warrants to be issued, to be suspended for a month, or, in default, seven days' imprisonment as first- class misdemeanants.

LIBERAL UNIONISM AT LLANELLY. A vigorous Liberal Unionist campaign was opened at Llanelly last week, when Mr. J. H. Morell, of London, delivered a very interesting lecture on South Africa. The value of the lecture was enhanced by a number of lime- light views. Mr. Morell, who, it may be stated in pasaing, is a cousin of General Baden- PowaTi. showed an intimate acquaintance with the hintory of South Africa, and his remarks on renent events possessed a high educational value. Mr. Dan Williams, J.P.. Box Housa. ooousied the chair.

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