Weekly Mail

THE GIPSY ARISTOCRAT. LADY GROSVENOR TIRED OF THE SIMPLE LIFE AND RAIN. Enamoured as she is of the simple life, Syeira Lee, the gipsy, has had enough of it for this year, at least. The weather is driving her back to civilisa- tion and society, for when Syeira Lee drops the mantle of the gipsy she stands forth as Lady Arthur Grosvenor, wife of Lord Arthur Hugh Grosvenor, and one of the most popular women in society. It was at the pretty village of Somerford Keynef:, in Gloucestershire, that a press repre- sentative found her and her caravan. She had outspanned" in a field behind the rec- tory, and was busily engaged in her house- hold duties. "I am on my way home to Cheshire, she eai v intend to have a more extended tour, but this wretched weather, which still shows no signs of improving, has decided me to give it up," and she gave a shrug expressive of disgust. I have been caravanning' for five years, but have never had such a bad time before. It has rained nearly every day, and lias been cold, too. I love the country, and a,1ls the best way of seeing it, but it is hardly enjoy able under such conditions." ,,AS^ w ,sh° had met the discomfort of tho heavy rains, Lady Arthur remarked that she was plentifully provided* with mackin- toshes. I can drive from inside the caravan, too," she said, "so that I am all Tight for shelter. It spoils the pleasure. though, to have to remain inside. "The roads have been very good all the time, and even on the by-roads I have not met with much mud. The cold ?nd damp have not affected my health at all." Standing at the door of the 'caravan, math a Panama hat on her head and her dark brown dress clasped by a leather belt her appearance gave proof of this She looked the picture of health, and her cheeks had been coloured by the bracing air to a deep ruddy hue. She would confess to no adventures "My jaunt has been a quiet, peaceful, and uneventful one," she said. I have had no adventures and no experiences out of the' ordinary. I do not know how many miles rwe have covered, but by the time I reach Cheshire it will be some four or five hundred miles."

MARK TWAIN'S NEW SUIT. HIS ADMIRATION FOR WOMEN'S GAY CLOTHES. Mark Twain, wearing a white suit, was the guest of the Savage Club the other evening. It was the first time he had worn white olothes since he arrived in England, he said. I wear white clotihee in the depth of 'winter in my home," he added, but I don't fo oat in the streets in them. I don't go out to attract too much attention. I like to attract some, and always I would like to be dressed so that I may be more 000- spicuous than anybody else. If I had been an ancient Briton I would not have con- tented myself with blue paint, but I would bave bankrupted the rainbow. (Laughter.) I so enjoy gay clothes in which women clothe themselves that it always grieves me when I go to the opera to see that while women look like a flower-bed the men are a few grey stomps among them in thedr fciack evening dreee."

NEW TORPEDO WORKS. It is announced that the Admiralty has ■Drastically adopted a big scheme for torpedo manufacturing on the Clyde. The erection f w/-vr-kg to £ 30,000 has already been /vvmmenoed at Fort Matilda. Loch Long has SS tt-und admirably suited for torpedo J o.nd it is quite probable the £ £ £ Slty will concentrate this industry on G1jte*

PRIEST AND DOMESTIC. + GIRL'S STORY OF A VISIT TO I CARDIFF, At Limerick Assizes on Saturday an action was heard, in which the Rev. Michael Kier- nan, parish priest of Carron, County Clare, sued Michael LdiraaJie, a herdsman, for damagtes for slander, which was alleged to! consist in allegations against plaintiff of immoral relations with defendant's daughter while she was in his employment. Counsel for plaintiff said defendant had a large family, and lived near Father Kier- nan's house. In July last year defendant's daughter, Annie Linnane. went into the plaintiff s service during the absence on a holiday of his old housekeeper. Plaintiff about this time heard rumours regarding the character of Annie Linnane, and spoke to her. Nothing further happened until November, when she went to a married sister in Cardiff. It was alleged that plaintiff gave her L12 for the journey, and that she underwent an illegal operation in Cardiff, and that plaintiff sent her another ot. It was also alleged that he gave the girl's mother £ 100 in notes. All these allegations were denied. Plaintiff received it letter from the girl from Cardiff asking him for assist- ance on account of the services her family ha4i done him, but he took no notice of the request. The girl returned home, and in March her brother waited on plaintiff and informed him of his sister's condition. He asked him not to denounce the scandal from the altar, and to came to the house to bap- tise her offspring. Surely, said couneel, in a Catholic household it is not the seducer that wo aid be asked to baptise the offspring. The plaintiff refused to do so. On April i the girl went into Ennis Workhouse, and on April 22 a child was born. About ten days after, on going into the worfchonse, plaintiff was horrified to hoair that his name was con- nected with the matter. Such an allegation was absolutely untrue, and a pure invention. Among the witnesses was Mary Reynolds. plaintiff's housekeeper, who said she remem- bored seeing Annie Linnane with a policeman in a lane in May last year. In cross-examination, witnees said she was not suggesting that impropriety took place The plaintiff, Father Kierman, said he had been for eight years parish priest of Carron. He was ordained 22 years ago. He absolutely denied the allegations made against him with respect to the girl Annie Linnane. He knew that Mrs. Linnane had gone to Dr. MCormack, Bishop of Gal way. He denied that a letter from Annie Linnane to her mother was read to him by Bishop MCormack. Witness believed that the child wa6 alive. In opening for the defendants, Mr. Moriarty, K.C., said their case was that '.he allegations were absolutely true. It would P\(>Ied to the jury's satisfaction that the plaintiff in the action was a disgrace to the priesthood, and was leading a profligate life, that he was a disgrace to the Church and a pest to the congregation. Annie Linnane stated she entered plaintiff's employment in October, 1904. On the third day he seduced her, and subsequent miscon- duct took place in the* sacristy of the church and other places. Witness denied that she had been guilty of impropriety with anyone else. when she discovered her condition plaintiff told her to go to her sister in Cardiff, and he would give her gome money. Ho gave her £10, two single notes. She wrote to father Kiernan from Cardiff, telling him that she was to go under an operation, and that all her money was gone, and asking him to send her more, or that her brother would come over for her and report^the plaintiff to his bishop. She got a X10 note and two single notes from him. Subsequently he offered her jEoO in settlement, but she would not take it, and finally he offered her, and she accepted, jElOO. The hearing was adjourned. JURY DISAGREE. The trial was resumed on Monday. To protect some of the defendant's witnesses an extra force of constabulary was on duty. Mr. Moriarty addressed the jury on behajf of the defendant, asking if plaintiff was not the father of the girl's child, who else was. Counsel alluded to the payment of £ 100 to tho girl, and said that unless the jury were absolutely determined to break their oaths they should find in the circumetacoec proof to the hilt of Father Kerin's guilt. Except they were Catholics —— His Lordship, intervening, said he would not have the religion, of the jurors referred to. His Lordship said the fight was one for life between the parties. It was the first time that he had heard such a charge, there being no country so free from sexual vice as Ire- land, and no clergy more deservedly respected and more pure than the clergy of the branch of the Catholic Church recog- nising the supremacy of the Holy See. It was with consternation, he approached this terrible case, which he was glad was left with a jury. After forty minutes the jury returned into court, when the Foreman said that they could not agree. They were sent back, but ultimately dis- charg-ed without agreeing to a verdict.

BOGUS BARON AND HEIRESS THE POPE ASKED TO ANNUL A MARRIAGE. All over the Continent there is growing resentment at the facility with which foreigners can get married in England. Here are two recent cases in point: Two persons living in Vienna, a Christian and a Jew, but not Austrian subjects, came to London to be married, and were legally married according to English law. The marriage has been declared invalid by an Austrian court, on the ground that the parties had contracted marriage knowing tha.t the union of a Christian and a Jew was illegal according to the laws of Austria Ilf}^ aged under 25, eloped from Italy with a woman to England, where thev no7e^arr!!f .by The man had not obtained his mother's consent, which is necessary under Italian law before he has necessary under Italian law before he has PW. aDd OD her I>et'iti<>Q the court at mamS. <te°reo annralling the The da-nger of such maniages from the English or American woman's standpoint iq ?T by; following narratives of -Berim .and Nuremberg correspondents- *w;Plar? beins taken at the Vatican and Through the American Embassy in Vienna to unravel a painful matrimonial tangle involving Aim Dougherty, a young Phila. delphia heiress, and an Austrian calling ™lf Goepel, who were mar- rp? a London registrar last spring. u niet 011 1110 Riviera, where Mrs a°.d daughter were on a visit, amd Baron Goepel accompanied them to London. The daughter, despite her mother's protest, announced her intended marriage, which was later attended by Mrs. Dougherty. Air Dougherty arriving soon afterwards insisted on the marriage being confirmed by a, Roman Catholic priest. At Dresden early in June a dispute over money culminated in a painful scene in a hotel restaurant, which ended in the "baron" being ejected and; handed over to the police. The Doughertys, who were in Paris last week, have initiated legal steps for the annul- nient of the marriage, and have also approached the Pope wit.h the same object They have discovered the mother of "Baron" Goepel, who says that her son is a penniless man of no noble birth, and who is heart- broken at his deception. A certain London firm, foreigners, who advertise all over Europe offering to procure English marriages for aliens, have begun an action for libel against a Hamburg firm, who have raised a counter-action against the London marriage-mongers' German lawyer, while the Public Prosecutor has also inter- vened. The facts of cases where fees of £ 30 were paid for such marriages may emerge at the hearing. A Daily Mail" correspondent gives an example to show that the German autho- rities are being roused to action in the scan- dal. At Erlangen a couple reside who many years ago were maxried in England. The authorities have now discovered that this marriage was performed in an illegal man- ner. and refuse to recognise it. Th<- result is that their children will be declared illegi- tima-te nnless they go through the form of civil marriage according to German law.

BETRAYED BY A WOMAN. DISHONEST .CASHIER'S SPECULA- TIONS. Chester B. Runyan, who stole £ 19,000 from the Windsor Trust Company, New York, and was arrested by the betrayal of a woman after a fierce fight with the police on Friday, says that he took the first mo-ney early in June to speculate on the Stock Exchange, hoping to make sufficient profits to take him where the climate would cure his consump- tion. He lost over £3,000 in speculating last Saturday.. The woman to live with, whom Kunyan had left his wife said that she did not know that he was the thief fill she saw his picture in the newspapers. The polioe have recovered £10,000. Runy?-n says that he gave the woman £ 3,000 r,nd that ehe stole another £ 2.000, which she denies. The trust company offered JE:400 as a reward for the arrest of Runyan, plus 10 per cent. of the money r recovered. The woman now claims the reward, and threatens to sue for it, but she and her negro maid are detained on a charge of receiving stolen goods. The police believe that they know where the missing £ 5,000 is concealed. Runyan's brother-in-law says that his wife retains her r belief in her husband. VIEW OF THE CAMBRIAN COLLIERIES AND PORTRAITS OF THE FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN, GENERAL MANAGER, .SECRETARY, AND SALES AGENTS.

DANGERS OF THE MINE. ♦ OFFICIALS DESCRIBED AS SLAVES." The Gaj-w, Ogmore, and Gilfach Districts of the South Wales Miners' Federation held their demonstrations jointly at Porthcawl on Monday, under the presidency of Mr. T. D. Mathias, Nantymoel. Mr. W. Abraham (Mabon), M.P., who had a rousing reception, spoke in Welsh. He expressed the hope that the Royal Commis- sion on Mines would be able to do something to reduce the number of colliery accidents. The Commission would do its best, but if they were to get real protection of life and limb in the collieries the workmen them- selves must make up their minds to take every opportunity to help themselves. He had attended all the sittings of the Commission, and he had wme to the conclusion that, in some form or other, there must be more effective supervision of mines tham there was at present. Another class of inspectors was necessary. (Heir, hear.) The position of what he cailed the slaves of the mines—the examiners—should be improved. If any of the workers in the mines deserved the title staye" it was the fireman. Some employers wore trying to prove that there was no necessity at all for any amendment of the Mines Act, and they asserted quite boldly that if the Mines Act were carried out this would be sufficient. He would sa.y this: If the Mines Act were carried out now there would not be half the neoossity for improvement. But the Act was not carried out, and who were responsible? The gentlemen who now said that the Act was sufficient. There were flresmen of ability and integrity doing their best to cope with thedr work. Some had 45 or 50 plxtoes to examine within two and a half hotrrs of the commenoement of a shift in the morning. It was an impossibility for amy man to do it. A system had come into vog-ue of giving the inspeotor an assistant or assistants, but the fireman had become responsible for the safety of the plaoes which he had not personally examined. That was intolerable. Let the employers who declared that the Mines Act was sufficient put their house in order. In the Rhondda Valley three or fonr col- lieries belonged to one company, and for the last three years they had arranged a system of three shifts for examiners. Aa many men were employed at those collieries as in the Garw, but only one man bad been killed during the last three years. (Hear, hear.) That proved his point, and it was evidence that the Royal Commission wanted. He was going to insist that thia question should be investigated, and lie hoped some- thing would be done. WAGES ADVANCE: MR. BRACE NOT SATISFIED. The annual demonstration of the Maesteg District of Miners was held on Monday. Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, miners' agent, who presided, said some provision should be made in the agreement by which oolliers could insist on a minimum wage. In eight price-lists in Maesteg this had now been arranged. The recent advance of llj per coat, would go as surely as it had come. What they wanted to do was to raise the minimum until the fluctuations practically ceased. The public and the colliers were still being fleeced by middlemen, whose profits did not go into the audit of the coal- owners' books and did not influence wages. The raising of the minimum would beat this gamble out of the field. Mr. Evan Thomas, Rhymney, having spoken. Mr. W. Brace, M.P., said that, although a wonderful advance had been made in wages, they were not satisfied, but instead of moving by districts they were moving in n'ationalities. Recently a conference was held in London representing every coalfield in the kingdom, and a resolution was passed to endeavour to lever wages up by advancing the standard. In South Wales and Mon- mouthshire wages were now 52i per cent. above the standard, and they would try to get 30 per cent. of this incorporated in the standard, which he did not consider unfair as between interest and interest. In this case they would get interest on the 30 per cent. T^^tins *wae al3° addressed by Mr. "J" -Uavies, solicitor for the district, and a comprehensive resolution carried. "SOCIALISM THE ONLY HOPE." The demonstration, of the Eastern Valleys Mr *wU d afc Pontypool on Monday, T 'Cwmbran) m the ohadr. trnfhfl:t^? Wins-tone said he oould not say that he kiiew there was a ->arfc of tie Government to thai Pf^jons next year, and he siub- h rn?ey accepted the statement \/vn? /h!U10ell<>r of tie Exchequer r»piTitriUCed Budget, the question of old-age pensions was nothing more than a hollow mockery and a sham. Mr. Philip Snowden, u p said that Socialism waa the onl-v WTCT C' i „ r,J this 7 Bope of the workers, aH^the world TlT* wrongs lay at the door of «lie workers who were now realising that fact, and cSaliste and other opponents of Socialism. c £ idd rS more hopo to put back the Labour movement Sntic*5" 8U>P ^RRS SERIOUS DISPUTE AT MERTHYR. The Bute Vein at the Cwm Pit of the Cyfarthfa Collieries, Merthyr, is nowentirelv idle, and 124 of the colliers by whom it has been worked are out of employment. The impasse has been brought about by the I refusal of the management to accede to the demand of the hauliers, who asked to be paid an extra turn per week for working in very wet plaoes. Consequent upon this refusal, the hauliers handed in their noticea, at the expiration of which some of the officials were put on as a makeshift to take their places. The management are repre- sented to have declared that they were unable to get other hauliers, and as they could spare the officials no longer, they gave the colliers notice, which terminated at the end of June. On Friday last Mr. Evan Thomas, chairman of the Haubers Associa- tion, and Mr. John Williams, agent of the Merthyr District, had an interview with the management, with the object of trying to effect a settlement, bat their efforts were abortive. However, it has been arranged that during the present week these two gentlemen shall make an inspection of the vein to see the condition of things for them- selves. At the monthly district meeting on Saturday night a deputation of the colliers waited upon the delegates to lay before them the hardship of their situation, and it was resolved to grant them strike-pay, the ques- tion of supplemental aid being referred to tho various lodges for consideration. I

THE MYSTERIES OP MIND t RED-HAIRED GIRLS & WHITE HORSES. Subconsciousness Iaoat mysterious Part of the mental Its workings are inexplicable, and 80 6 its freaks are as amusing as they Mysterious—such, foe instance, as 'tha^ J^^ipg a main who sees a red-haired gir look for a white horse. R Professor Gustavt# Haldiorstnan, a Berlin psychologist.. ln York, has been giving some i11^ s. ° £ weird operas tions of the subconec101^ He tells, for install > of a New York newspaper reporter w ™. a. remairkablo faculty, of six or seven seconds ahead an aCtlrrl 38 the coming of a person into » toe was seated and what that &a-y, or what j movement or gestture "I spent many li°^«t«rial <^iL&ays the professor, "in the of the newspaper, and s^fled score of times. Be inva^.ly into a pro fuse perspi ration or whutevS' sight of claarvoya^^strated^ you wish to term it, was The professor cla111* ^scorered a score or 6o of inS,ta^«0ions mysterious control of the euhc° over the con- scious brain. j "In all high minds," he says. U d by poets and paintersienS ^w^y, the subliminal, or r>T>eaj t ^ocess which is not or does not be controlled by the directive -p0^1 mind, is exis- He quotes the case f who "possesses a highly tempera- ment. He is one of tb« m,Cn^n the world, but at time0 oughts of the terrifying character in^do themselves upon him, and his will'p'0wer JS unable to drive them • "The suggestion con^ him involun- tarily as to what the, P°, effect on his future life would be lf 5^°uld ueIay his wife and children, never has the slightest desire to LiL^A-deed'but the thought will "I have met a lady. of New- York, and whose familiar to nearly all newsp-a-1?^ J^aders, who, whenever she wai*-S iQ r garden, has the thought come to beT';a°f,° *s no' queen of flowers, the wse not the queen of flowers.' It is ° .'n' course) but she can no more help having that sentence ran through her head particular time than she can help breathy. Another instance, amusing because of its trivial nature, ls that of a musician. Tlie a k&r from any of Wagner's b^nscioQene68 says, 'Who killed cook ^™-Wa,gner.' As in the other instance. taught is in- voluntary, but it cannot he sttffed. "Another, and equally a. u^ing case, but a proof, n-ev-ertheloss, oi i^tence of t-li-o subconscious mind and P^wer to control a physical function. 8Th it really sounds very foolish, is^ a. editor -who cannot air&d Woman on the street -without & to loolj for a white horse. „ It does not niatter ,i he may be absorbed in study 11 he has made up his mind never yie d to the sub- liminal suggestion 6 lnvariably turns'his head the nioro passes a girl with red hair."

LADY IN THE_CUPBOARD. JUSTICE STARTLED BY MUFFLED SCREAMS. --=-- Divorce proceedings o^tween M. and Madame X. -A- P\ fy decision of the Paris courts hasentak-d the lady. first, to leave her husbands ^hlctl she did, and, secondly, to fS1fCSIf°+ t>r°I>erty might be hers in the she shared with him, and in ^'lu^ ^^ri"ies to reside. A justice of the p ] ■ th a clerk, accordingly called on hn.^an<l and affixed seals on the doors of all cupboards, chests of drawers, &o., which might contain perty belonging to his The husband during th„ proceedings dis- played some nervousness and emotion, which appeared natural under e c .rcarnstojioe«. Chests of drawers fall of a*d hang- ing cupboards full ef dresses were sealed up in turn. The justice came to a large cup- board in the wall. The husbands agitation increased. Mast you seal tha-o one up t^p.. he asked. The justice «^d it was his duty to do so, and placed the red seal, which cannot be broken except oni an order from the court under severe penalties The husband looked more and more dis- turbed. The justice and hie clerk, their charge fulfilled, were retirnig. They Wcre arrested on the threshold by muffled screams. "Let me out! I shall choke. I shall Btarve! I shall die!" shrieked a aopratnio voice. No lady was to be seen in the flat. The voice appears to f™m a cap- board," said the justice. I-. does, the hus- band replied, looking shy. -bet me out! I shall die!" the soprano voice continued. The husband pointed out whi-jh cupboard should be opened, and tbe justice broke the seals. Tho re emerged a young perRon, ruffled, ro#y, and agitated, but comely. The justice looked at her. This, he said, is clearly not properly covered by the meaning of the Act defining effects common to the two parties now applying for dissolution of their marriage." The obvious conclusion was that the law did not require the young person to be sealed up again, and she was released. She ex- plained that ehe had been cadling on Mon«. X. when the justice arrived, and both had thought it better that she should eoorete hereelf temporarily. But when the seals were put on the cupboard in which she had »°ught refuge she feared that she might have o remain there until the divorce proceedings rminated, and ehe screamed. Her evidence, of fa°t. hastened the ease con- witK^S^x-ha*obttAMd

ELECTRICITY IN COAL MINES THE CAMBRIAN COLLIERIES INSTALLATION. brian at the Oam- to witness the opJdM^ 00 Tuesday power station by^foj T electrical the chairman of tL r^' wlfe of (Limited) Oamibria.n Collieries °00 and -wi Party, numbering between wLf „ journeyed from Cardiff Great Western Railway Stoa, £ k>n by a special twain, reaching the collie *y shortly before noon.

ALDERSHOT MISHAP. + TEN SOLDIERS INJURED BY EXPLOSION. Ten men were injured on Monday, two of them seriously, by an explosion which occurred during demolition exercises in which the troops of the 3rd Infantry Brigade were engaged at Frith Hill, AIdeTshOt. The men, some thousand in aJl. had been paraded to witness the Royal Engineers of the brigade demoliah a portion of a, field work by under- mining and blowrog up. Brigadier-general Campbell, the officer in command, had the work explained to the men, who were drawn up at about a thousand considered a eafe distaasoe of all, and for some unexplained reason, the force of the explosion, instead of bemg down- waaxis or upwards, was direction, scattering &tocies and debris of all descriptions among the men, many of whom I. were hit. There was a loud shcot of Lie-down," and the troops instantly obeyed, just as a second ma-ne was sprung. This time a shower of I stones passed harmlessly over their heads. The two seriously injured were removed to the Oonjiaught Military Hospital, where it waa ascertained that their injuries, which were chiefly confined to the lega, were not likely to prove dangerous. Others were treated on the spot by the Medical Corps, their injuries being mainly flesh wounds and contusions.

GAVE DRINK AWAY TO COAX TRADE. C ARMATLTHENSIRRRE BANKRUPT MAKES AN ALLEGATION. Carmarthenshire Ba/nikraptcy-ooarfc was held on Wednesday before t-he registrar (Mr. T. Parkinson, J.P., Castle Pigyn), the exaimina- tions being conducted by Mr. Thomas Thomas, the official receiver. John Davies, 34, Bridge-street, Lampeter, clog and clog-block manufacturer and boot retailer, had. gross liabilities amounting to XA31 14s. Id. He admitted having acted foolishly in not keeping a proper system of books. The Official Receiver: You are a great reader, and consider yourself a literary man, as far as Welsh is concerned. Debtor: Other people say so. The Omcial Receiver: You dontsay so You r 7g SSfiSJtZ, came a manof J d experience of keep proper books?-1 haa ^ow to keep bookkeeping. I don t Kn" books. The examination was closed. REVIVAL OaUS1|S FAILTO Bnrry Henry Edmunds, of Bta Railway Port, formerly innkeeper -ao occupa- Hotel, Burry Port, but n Glamorgan tion, and lately residing gro^s liabilities Hotel Giilfacihgoeh. h>ao ° ted to rank [amounting to £ 1.456 fi'jen cy £ 1,101 0s. Id. at £ 1,191 16s. 8d., ^^Sy been a miner, Bankrupt, who had P™3 the Glamorgan oommenced business „ 1904, with a Hotel, Gilfachgoch, in hased the lease of capital of £ 1(W- ^-e ^y.en tenant, the oon- the hotel Lod-wiU £ l'0K- He sideration for tne the st(OCk, Ac., at a also agreed to tak Ttt€d to £ 325. Debtor valuation whien. a conclusion, that he said he had ay Hotel, Burry Port, at took over tne ThC) former tenant must a wrong vaiuati ■ drill].s awajy- before the have been gvvi_^de That was sometimes valuation don° irnfRrial Receiver: What would be his T^doingso.—Debtor: To send up the object in the goodwill of the house, barrelage to-day that you agreed to Do sum you mention under a fal8e SlV° esentation ?—Under a false statement I gave too much. nothin& to prove it? A" my o^rn idea. The revival, add^ ]ahtor had a serious effect upon his S,ngs and ho bad to pve a lot of drink making's d€r coax trade. a The examination was closed for a month. 7»Ir J- Lewis Phillips, Llanelly, appeared for the debtor. m0ST BEMARKABLE^MAERI^GE SETTLE. for the debtor. m0ST BEMARKABLE^MAERI^GE SETTLE. The liabilities of James Lewis, butcher and ftV dealer, of 1°. Catherine-street, Car- were expected to rank at J>i f £ z b«kr™t««- i Pnilrre lo-sses on contracts to °'f h^t0 the Joint Counties Asylum, want of meat to tne^ gTmk ia • want of seUing' houses, owing to deterioration in Stae On theasyl-umcontract he SS; «io »a,e at entered into ™?rT}fd his second wife in 1904- had kept no books of aceoun^ He had been supplying the asylum wltn\? did nffota°d OQ for the last twenty y«ars' £ whether he was making a P °t- His trade was always a- cash Dot given « credit to any customer all his life. Debtor was c\0^t^X^ra^e(1 as to why he had shown prefercncv m the re-payment of loans to Mr. :r. John Lloyd, and others, kn" "1fr/l he was insolvent to the extent of £ 1,400. He eaid that he did so under pressure, a they were watching him like a <1°& ^ne Sot the asylum cheque every quarter. Mr. Roy Evans Newcastle Emlyn) put a number of questions in regard to the marriage settlement, which the Registrar remarked was the most remarkable marriage settlement he had ever read. The examination was adjourned for a month.

PRISONER SHOT IN TRYING TO ESCAPE. Residents in Wandsworth were startled on Saturday by the report of shots near the prison. Six were fired in rapid succession, and it was said that a prisoner had escaped from gaol. The prison officials were reticent, but a lad states:—"A man. ran down the railway embankment (which is close to the prison grounds). and on reaching the lines was eeen to throw up his hands a-nd fall as though shot." r Asked how a prisoner could get away irom the gaol, a warder said: In two or tnree ways. Only a few weeks ago a man escapea and ran into Trinity-road, where he was seen by a constable on. point duty, who brought 'Ht" down by a blow -with his truncheon.

+ SOCIALISTIC MEASURE IN' THE HOUSE. In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. RAMSAY MACDOJSTALD (Laib., Lei- cester) asked leave to introduce a Bill to provide work through public authorities for unemiployed persons. He eaid it was appropriate thcut the measure was introduced thiat day, beea-use it played a consideraiblo part in the J arrow election. It assumed that the problem of unemployment would be permanent, and that it was the duity of the State to provide against it. The local amitihorities would be required to register the unemployed, and every county borough and urban district council with a popu- lation of 20,000 would be required to produce schemes for providing work. A central un- employed committee would be created, and special commissioners would be appointed to co-ordinate the work of the local authorities. The work would ioolooe the making of n-aticnaJ roads, afforestation, amd the re- okidaation of waste lands. The central body should have compuilsory powers for. the a-oquieition of lands. Persons of experionoe in industrial orgiajQisation should bo attadb-ed to this. Reilisf should not be a votmg dis- qpuoiliifoatiion. Those who would not work aould be reported to a court of snmma-ry jurdsdiotioni, wfho wouild be emapowered to enforce control over them for a period not exceeding six months, wihioh would have to be passed in producing reasonable work. Phe necessary funds would be obtained from the local rates when no exceptional distress existed, and should such distress arise P-aorMraiment must vote the monejy. Leave •was given, axud the BiU waa brought In tmd read a. first time.

"THE SOCIALIST DELUGE." Mr. Keir Hardie, speaking at Glasgow on Puesday, observed that it bad been said that iie Jarrow election would cause Liberal and rory to sink their difficulties in order to resist the oncoming Socialist deluge. That night be a true appreciation of the facts, but it would not save the country from Socialisni.

A NIHILIST'S FLIGHT. DARING ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA NARRATED. Karpovitoh, the hero of one of the most sensational Russian murder trials of recent times, has arrived in London, having escaped from Siberia. Being a member of the NIhilist fighting organisation, he had been chosen to assassinate General whom he shot down in St Tff> th'L^rSe °f hiB lon« trial in Februart t? proceedings of which were kmt T' ^ihilist organisations served u death sentences, which tW J dg€s Wlfch carry out should their to Terrorised in thi comrade be convicted, not condemn the th'° judges did him to l; tv man to death, sentencing no^sSirf^1,?11! exile" This, however, did word ivQ, terrorists, who, tru<^ to their two «f fv,° UP to present moment shot Tvflv•. ° tnree judges. In March Kar- dat^ r ^raS sfirnt to Siberia, and from the tinn + n dcParture plans were in opera- t0 sec are his freedom, and on April 12 I mJtfe a daring escape. n ,e course of an interview, the escaped nvict told the story of his flight in the tolloTvins^irianneT: — When I was sent out to Siberia there Cre> unknown to the authorities, five other Members of my party in the oonvoy of pri- Mhers. We were informed that I should be >ent to tho desolate district of Borgusin, from which an escape would have heen almost impossible. Now we had no 'ose. It was arranged that I should ei late illness in order to be allowed to aI1 3n a cart instead of walking. com- appointed spot on a forest rof Russia, ^ades, who had followed us fr°arriage to would be waiting with another ^gorl van :ako me off. The horse t could linger was to be lamed, so that -gnt although behind the rest of the <?„'0f the escort [ simulated illness travel in tlie van. would not allow me ic the effects of 3o I took a ,Bt^ 0f the precarious condi- ss.vsrtJub. ^1 °bta"ie<i perai8- Ma,i6 i A srn-3-U cats into thp b?i's le^C above the hoofs and rubbed Shor Sto the rounds, with the result tho horse soon began to limp, and we compelled to linger behmd the rest "f.?ee the forest, and wh€n d arrived at the pre-arranged spot the driver was prevailed upon to inspect the horse's feet. While^ do\ng ^J?<; overpowered. "j. jumped mto another carriage and was driven post haste into Verchneudinsk, where I took a lrL to Vladivostok, and proceeded to lokio without the slightest dimculty.. "From japan I took boat to Alexandria in Egypt, and Afterwards I journeyed to Austria, where I found myself for the first time tracked down by the Russian spies, who have now followed me across Europe. "Fearing that the Continental countries might extradite me to Russia, I England, and here I shall hide best I can from the persecuting P° "After I have succeeded in fating lotrt I shall return to Russia." In and hide Karpovitch will leave the East End and hide away in a small provincial

GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING PKIME A f<^ aT1 aemra'nc« tnat a measure W the hetter hoi^ing of the working classes Swool-d be included in the programme lor n«*t session. Sir .HENRY CAMPBELL-BAN^ERmAN wrote in raply. His Majesty's Government are fully alive to the importance of this question, and it is their intention to intro- duce legislation dealing with the better housing of the working classes at V"e earliest practicable moment. No effort r-n (their part will be wanting frame a measure which shall be adequate to the [necessities of the case.

| GUARDIAN INDICTED. —♦— SEQUEL TO A DISTURBANCE AT A SALE. The Carmarthenshire Quaxtor Sessions were held on Friday, Mr. Arthur Lewis (vice-chaiT- man) presiding. The calendar was a very light one, there being only thiree prisoners for trial. John Davies. farmer, Nantyrhyddod, Gonwil, a member of the Carmarthen Board of Guar- dians, a.nd his brother, Bees Davies, farm servant, Gwastad Bach, Llanpunrpsaint, were charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Thos. Stephens, farmer, Gwastad Fawr, Llan-pumpsaint, at Conwil, on the 13th of May. Mr. Lleufer Thomas (instructed by Mr. H. Brunei White, Carmarthen) appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. Lloyd Morgan, K.C., M.P. (instructed by Mr. James John, Car- marthen.), appeared for tho defence. The assault was alleged to have taken place a.s the result of a quarrel -which took place at Cwmeinon sale, and the complainant eaid he was struck and kicked on the head and rendered unconscious. A witness stated, in reply to Mr. Lloyd Morgan, that there were 27 gallons of beer at the sale. Mr. Llovd Morgan: We have heard that there were 40 people at the sale. It does not seem a bad allowance if there was none left. They can stand some drink in that part of the country. (Laughter.) The defendant John Davies alleged that what led to the quarrel was a suggestion made by Stephens as to his (defendant's) relations with a Mrs. Amy Jones. He caught hold of Stephens by the coat collar and asked him if he were not ashamed to make such a suggestion, whereupon Stephens felled him, and witness's brother, on being called upon, intervened between them. After an absence of twenty minutes the jury returned a verdict of Not guilty," and the defendants were acquitted. The decision was received with approval by a densely- packed court, and the cheering waa con- tinued as the two bruthers emerged from the Shire-hall.

DOGS ACT CAUSES TROUBLE DISCONTENT AMONG FARMERS IN CARMARTHENSHIRE. A meeting of th9 Carmarthenshire Stand- ing Joint Committee was held on Wednes- day, when General Sir James Hills-Johaea, V.C., G.C.B., Dolaucothi (who presided), moved the appointment of Earl Cawdor as chair- man for the ensuing year.—Mr. J. Lewes (Caeglas, Llandilo) seconded, and the motion was carried unaniimously. The finance committee reported that .E2.4M would be required for the maintenance of the police during the quarter. A discussion took place as to the operas tion of the Dogs Act of 1906, especially io its relation to the granting of exemptions to farmers for sheep dogs, which is a vexed f!. question in petty-sessional courts. It, f appeared from a return that in the ten divi' £ sions in Carmarthenshire 6,194 application* were received, 5,694 allowed, and 497 refuse^j'* there being four pending. Newcastle Emiyf' had been the most strict, having refused f out of 358 applications. j, Mr. John Johns (Paroeithyn) as^^ whether the magistrates' clerk at Lland^ (Mr. Lewis Bishop) had forwarded a num^ of notices of exemption to farmers in district by post unstamped, thus making farmer pay double postage. that. Mr J. Lowea Thomas: I can ame**01" It was done. Mr. Johns moved that the ,< peace ask why it was done. The Act he added, was very unsatisfactory. 111 oaeo he knew o-f a. mam -who bwd. two ooga wfho was granted exomp-tdone. and. another with quite aa much, laud was refused exemption for one dog. To obtain an exemption now ooet more th'an 7s. 6d., and there was a great deal more trouble too to get it than an ordinary licence, It was exactly the same thing in regard to farmers' trap licenses. It was the duty of the stand- f^mmittee to take notice of the fact that the excise officers in the Carmar- then district and all around the borough summoned Farmers when they did not rake out trap licences to the borough police- court, and the borough magistrates in this way made a harvest out of fines that should go to the county. The same thing occurred in regard to the summoning of people sued by the guardians for the maintenance of relatives receiving outdoor relief and living in the comity. It was robbing the county of fines which belonged to it, and if he -were summoned he would certainly object to be tried by the borough magistrates. (Laughter and Hear, hear.") Mr. Mervyn Peel (Danyrallt) remarked tha the Act merely said that they must p°fj the notices, but it did not say, You *5^ put stamps on." (Laughter.) As was no provision for the re-payrnfSJo* clerk for the stamps he wooM ncticeS and in this particular case over 1-™ ° weone sent out—it would be a serious if the clerk had to pay the cost of own pocket. skittles to The Chairman said it 'waa^* £ ot have paid suggest that the county v j the posage on thesej^o43SSded to a<,k the M Se Home !te £ Sr^J^tei2 =-

CHURCH V. CHAPEL. AN ABERYSTWYTH CHARITY PUTE. The comtrovery regarding the oomstitnti^ cf tbe governing body of the Aberyst^ charity known as the Joseph and Downie's Bequest is still unsettled. A sum of money is derived annually from y charity for distribution among the deeea-Vi poor of the town, and the Noneoofoa^^y who aro now in a minority, claim th» than aire entitled to a larger represent^1- tiatt0ra they have on the body of trUf^aK°' whsrn were precipitated a few Williams, a th« nomination of Mr. Jp-^ » life trustee, Liberal a.nd Nonconifofmif^^y in favour of was rejected by the and Conser- Mr. E. P. Wynne, p, ^p^aled to the Charity vative. The minority acCept the nomination, Commissioners not replied by asking the a.nd the Coimmi^ new scheme of mamagt"- trustees to yepresenitation which wodl^ ment, a»y conflict on religious or do away ^und6. politickJgung of the tl't13teœ iust by Mr. WiIliaJn EJ0COnded by Mr. T. J. W £ SS.C }lr. Hugh oP:tJQ8ed and 63id t 1 nwneY w?u}d have been left to the loCi:t SK body lt ^a fornde+, ^^Shton said the Noncon- of the town had as much, land the money as the Church of Eng- ^v- W. Matthews, vicar (who pre- But it was Church of England money. xt not? I Laptain Doughton: No; it was the money of JOSePrh and Jane Downie. The proposition to adopt a new Was defeated by four votes to three. The minority announced that they wouJll¡¡ Proceed to draw up a scheme themselves ad Present it to the Charity Commissioners.

BULLET TO STOP ANYTHING A new form of bullet has been discovered which promises to revolutionise rifle ehoot- init is almost exactly similar to the one now in use in the Army except that, instead of being flat-nosed, it tapers to a fine point. This slight difference, however, has been found by Army musketry experts to give the bullet osrtavn overwhelming advantages, which in actual warfare might, all other conditions being equal, gain victory for the side that used it. An Army officer told a press representative at Bisley recently that he first experi- mented with the new bullet a week ago at Cambridge. "At first," he said, I found I missed the target altogether. Then I discovered the cause. The elevation and wind allowance necessary with the fiat-nosed bullet were not required to nearly the same extent with the new bullet. There is an immense gain also in muzzle velocity with the pointed bullet. The muzzle velocity of the existing fiat-nosed service bullet is only 2,000ft. per second. With the new bullet it is as much as 2,450ft. per eecond. new bullet it is as much as 2,450ft. per eecond. Suppose a soldier to be firing at an enemy, say, 800 yards away. All he will have to do will be to aim the rifle straight at his adversary without troubling about elevation or wind allowance, and the bullet will find its mark." The increase in the point-blank range from 500 yards to 800 yards will be of incal- culable value in warfare.

SUSSEX COAL DISCOVERY. As a. result of long-continued investiga- tions undertaken at the instance of Earl De la Warr, an important discovery of ooaJ has just been. made upon his lordship's Sus- sex estate in the neighbourhood of Ashdown l Forest. The seam, which runs north and south, is at some points within 20ft. of the surfa/ce.