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All Rights Reserved.*] I tU°HN§ 0 JBSun!. TO-OAT'S STORY. e "EVENING EXPRESS" NEW SERIES. j The Story of Fine-ear. COMPLETE. Something like five-and-twenty or thirty years ago there was. in the prison of Brest, a man sentenced to the galleys for life. I do not know the exact nature of his crime, hut it was something very atrocious. I never heard what his former condition of life had been; his features were naturally well. formed. but' their expression, was horrible. II Every dark and evil passion seemed to have left its impress there; and his character fully corresponded to its outward indications. Muti-1 nous, gloomy, and revengeful, he had often hazarded his life in desperate attempts to! escape, which hitherto had always proved abortive. Once. during winter, he succeeded in gaining the ftelcts, where* hp endured fer i several "days the extremity of co!d and hur:g'- r He was found, at length, half-frozen and :n- I sensible under a free, and carried back to prison, where, with difficulty, he was restored to consciousness. He was watched more ciosely, and a double chain was added to i is already heavy fetters. Several times he attempted suicide, but failed through the vigi-j lance of his gunrds. The only result of the! experiments in this line was the loss of ;.n [ itiiij, which he fracttared in leaping off a high wall. After suffering amputation, and a s'x months' sojourn in the hospital, he had to -c-- turn to his hopeless life-long ta^k—work. One day this man's fierce humour seemf-d softened. After the honrs of labour, he seated himself, with his companion in misery to whom he was chained, in a corner of the court, his repulsive eountcnance assuming ciuite a mild expression. Words of tenderness were uttered by the lips which heretofore a«ul been only opened to blaspheme, and. with his head bent down, he appeared to be watching some object concealed in hi3 bosom. The guards regarded him with disquietude,! believing he had some weapon hidden wiuiin his clothes; and two of them. approaching him stealthily from behind, seized him roughly, and began to search him. before he could make any resistance. Finding himself eom-

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A Cardiff Man's Misfortune. .—— INTERESTING PARTICULARS. The prolonged operations in South Africa 1 and the state ot the coal trade in South Wales as themes of popular conversation are for the i moment eclipsed by the interest attaching to the adventures of Mr. E. Taylor, of 41. Market-road. Canton. Cardiff, related the other day to a "Cardiff Times reporter. The reporter called upon Mr. Taylor, who is a carpenter and wheelwright by trade, to verify the rumours which had 1-iezu in circulation in the district. "A loc of people have asked me the same question." said Mr. Taylor, when the reporter made his quest known. "I have always been a strong and vigorous man, and. although I am getting on in years, all my children having grown up and looking well after themselves, I am still able to follow my employment with regularity, and in proof of this I may say that, although I have been engaged by the same firm for over thirty-two years, I have never lost a single quarter in the morning while I have been working. ] although I have to get up before five o'clock every day so as to get to my wqrk at the Docks at the proper hour." •• 1. however, was very unfortunate soon after Christmas last, and had an attack of that prevalent and exhausting complaint, i influenza. I was so pooriy that I was at last obligsd to stay at home and call in a doctor. For aix weeks. I was unable to go to work. and was under medical treatment altogether for three months. Then I was very far from well, for. as is often the case with influenza, it left something behind it. With me it was weakness of the heart, accompanied by great shortness of breath. In fact, so severe did the trouble become that I was at one time unable to walk to the end of the street. At the same time I had completely lo3t my appe- tite, and, although I had always been a robust man, I had wasted away to practically j one-half my usual size. Indeed, my friends would hardly believe I was the same man. for I had become so thin and emaciated that I could put my clothes around me twice over. ] and everybody said they had never seen a man so altered." | "Yeg," interpolated Mrs. Taylor, "that was! rot all. for he had an attack of eczema which spread in spots about the size of half-a-crown, and covered, his chest and back." ] "At the end of six weeks." continued Mr. Taylor, I could just manage to go to work j again, but any great exertion reduced me to ] a helpless condition, and I had to lay up for an occasional day or so every now and again. I For some weeks I continued to take the t doctor's m-dicine. but I was not satisfied with the results. Then my wife persuaded me to £ try Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people, of which we had often read testimonials in the papers. I was not keen upon doing so c but she was determined to make me give them a trial, and I am very thankful I did so. I 2 cannot say I noticed any improvement at first, but after taking three boxca I expe- e rienced a distinct change for the better. After T that I had no hesitation in continuing them. I did so, and took in all seven boxes. The result has been that my appetite is now as a ?ood as ever, I am putting on flesh, and I am aow as strong and healthy as I was before 3 t had that influenza attack. They braced up Tiy nerves, and increased my blood supply, d Hy friends soon noticed that I was regaining iiy former robust appearance, and the fact 8 hat Dr. Williams' pink pills were the cause 13 toon got noised about the neighbourhood— h hat is likely how ycu heard of it. t< I am quite willing for you to publish these ° acts, and my wife, who at one time thought should never get well, is recommending in hem to a number of friends at every oppor- ■ il unity." L15533 I il breast, and then, addressing the head-graoler, who happened to be passing by, he said: "Sir, if you will allow me to keep this rat, I solemnly promise to be perfectly submissive,^ and never again incur punishment." The officer gave a sign of acquiescence, and passed on. The convict opened his shirt to ;ive one more look at his little pet. and then contentedly resumed his labour. That which neither threats- nor imprison- ment. the scourge nor the chain could effect ;as accomplished, and rapidly, by the in- uence of love, though its object was one of he most despised among animals. From the jomeut when the formidable convict was per- nitted to cherish his pet night and day in Vs )osom. he became the most tractable and veil-conducted man in the prison. His her- ulean strength and his moral energy were joth employed to assist the officers in mam- aining order and subordination. Fine-Ear, as he called his rat. was. the object of his increasing tenderness. Often, during the period of toil, the convict would smile with delight when his little friend, creeping from its nestling place, would rub its soft fur against his cheek. But when, on a fine sunshiny day, the rat would take up his position on the ground, comb h ? long moustaches with his sharp nails, and dress his long ears with his delicate paws, his master would evince the utmost delight. The latter, apparently confiding ill his master's protection, went, came, sported, £ >r stood still, certain that no one would injure him, for to touch a hair of the rat's whisker would be to incur a terrible penalty. One I day. for having thrown a pebble at him. a prisoner was forced to spend a week in hospi- tal before he recovered from the effects of a blow bestowed on him by Fine-Ear's master. The animal soon learned to know the sound of the dinner-bell, and jumped with joy en the convict at the welcome summons. Four years passed, when one day poor Fine- Ear was attacked by a cat. which had found her way into the workshop, and received several deep wounds before his master, flying to the rescue, seized the feline foe and actually tore her to pieces. ¡ The recovery of the rat was slow, and f< r the next month the convict was occupied in dressing his wounds. It was strange the inte- rest which everyone in the prison took in Fine-Ear's misfortune. Not only did the guards and turnkeys speak of it as the topic of the day. but the hospital-nurses furnished plaisters and bandages for the wounds, the surgeon even condescending to prescribe for him. At length the animal recovered his strength and gaiety, a'.ve that one of his hind paws dragged a little and the cicatrice still re- mained on his skin. He was tamer and more affectionate than ever, but the sight of a cat was suCirient to throw his master into a paroxysm of rage. and. running after the un- lucky pws, he would, if possible, catch and destroy her. A great pleasure was in store for the con- vict. Thanks to his good conduct during the last four years, his sentence to imprisonment for life nad been commuted into twenty years, of which he had already served fifteen. > "Thank God!" he -Tied. "Under His mercy it is to Fine-Ear I owe this happiness!" and he kissed the animal with transport. Five years still remained to be passed in toilsome imprisonment, but they were cut short in an unexpected manner. One day. a mutinous party of felons suc- ceeded in seizing a turnkey, and. having nhut him up with themselves in one of the dormi- tories, they threatened to put him to death if all their demands were not complied with and a full amnesty granted for the revolt. Fine-Ear's master, who had taken no part in the uproar, stood silently behind the officials nnd the soldier?, who were ready to fire on the insurgents. Just as the attack was about to begin, he approached the chief purerintendent, and said a few words in a low voice. "I accept your offer," was the reply. "Re- member, you risk your life; but if you suc- ceed I pledge my word that you shall be strongly recommended to the Government for unconditional pardon this very night." The convict drew forth Fine-Ear from his breast, kissed him several times, and then, placing him with-in the vest of a young fellow- prisoner with whom the rat was already familiar, he said in a broken voice: "If I do not return, be kind to him, and love him as I have loved him." Then. having armed himself with' an enor- mous bar of, iron, he marched with a deter. 8 mined step to the dormitory, without regard- ing the missiles which the rebels hurled at his 11 iicad. With a few blows of the bar he made :he door By open, and. darting into the rooti, 1e overturned those who opposed his entrance, t hrew down his weapon, seized the turnltey, ind flung him, safe and sound, into the pas- ê1 ;age. While in the act of covering the man's es- cape from the infuriated convicts, he sud. lenly fell to the ground, bathed in blood. C )ne of the wretches had lifted the iron bar 11 Lnd struok down his heroic comrade. He was carried dying to the hospital, and ire he breathed his last he uttered but one vord; it was "Fine-Ear"' c Must I tell it? The rat appeared restless :nd unhappy for a few days after this event, t lut he soon forgot his master, and began to how the same affection for his new owner hat he had formely shown to him who was ead. Fine-Ear lived a long time after this, fat leek, and strong; but he no longer remetn- ered the dead, nor regarded, tt1-8 sound of is old master's number, which formerly used II ) make him prick up his ears and run from ne end of the court to the other. Does this only prove that rats, as well as y len. may be ungrateful? Or is it a little a lustration of the wise and merciful arrange- lent that the world must go on, die who will? m

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Passing Pleasantries. Sister Ethel: I TJDderstand Mr. Noodle sprung from a fine old house. Brother JacK? Yes. I'm told his father kicked him into the street. Short: Do you know I've a strong suspicion I that the house I"to living in is haunted?" Nabour: I know it is; I see the landlord's agent there nearly every day. Travelling Man: A chop and a cup of coffee quick! My train leaves in twenty minutes. Waiter: Yes. sah. Half-a-crown, sah. "Dg you want pay in advanoe?" "Yes, sah. Yo' may be gone before it's cooked, sah." "Women have their rights even in the 'busses these days." ""Yes; and the men make them stand up for them. too." "With what a gracefully sweeping motion she handles a fan!" "Yes-,she used to keep the flies off the table in her father's lunch room." Papa: Mercy!' What an interrogation point you are! I'm sttre I didn't ask such strings of questions when i was a boy. Little Son: Perhaps if you had you'd know more.

THE LATE AMEER. A Deputation from India. Simla. Monday (12.8 p.m.).—The Government I of India is sending a deputation of five I influential Mohamedan gentlemen to Cabul to offer condolences on the death of the late Ameer and to pay respects to the new ruler on behalf om his Majesty's Government.—Cen- tral News.

INTERESTING INCIDENT AT CARDIFF.—A I remarkable case' was brought to the notice of this paper and investigated, in which a cure was effected by Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people in a striking way. The result of the investigation is given in another column of this issue. There is evidence on all eides that this medicine is held in the highest esteem throughout Wales. Dr. Williams' pink pills have cured paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism, and sciatica; also all diseases I arising from impoverishment of the blood, scrofula, rickets, chron:c erysipelas, consump- tion of the bowels and lungs, ansemia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular I weakness, loes of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache, neuralgia, I early decay, all forms of female weakness and hysteria. These pills are a tonic, not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name-Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people, and are sold by Chemists, and by Dr. Williams' medicine company, 46, Holborn- viaduct, London, E.C., at 2s. 9d. a box, or six boxes for 13s. 9d. Pink pills sold loose or from glass jars are not Dr. Williams' pink pills; accept them only in the pink closed wrapper as above described. L15533 as above described. L15533

Ringing the Changes. HOW A BOOKMAKER'S MANAGER WAS "DONE." Before Mr. Curtis Bennett at Marylebone Police-court, London, on Saturday, a hawker, named William Greenaway, aged 39, of Hol- lington-street, Camberwell, was charged with stealing lCs. by means of a trick. William Henry Buszing, a bootmaker's manager, employed at 217, High-street, Cam- den Town, said that on Friday evening the prisoner came to the shop and purchased a penny pair of bootlaces. He tendered half a sovereign in payment, and upon receiving the change he feig-ned to discover that he already had plenty of silyer in his pocket, and asked the witness to return him the half-sovereign for ten shillings. Witness did so. Thereupon the prisoner, having counted the silver into his hand, gave him back the half-sovereign, saying, "Now. if you give me a sovereign it will be all right." Not noticing at the time that he was thus being cheated of 10s., witness gave him a sovereign, and he left the shop. When lie realised what had happened witness went in search of the prisoner, and, finding him in a public-house, accused him of the theft. He at first denied it, but afterwards gave witness Ss., and asked to be let go. In cross-examination, the witness said the prisoner had bean drinking, but knew well what he was doing. The Magistrate: He seems to have been the more wide-awake of the two. (Laughter.) The Prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done Warder Cook proved previous convictions against him of twelve months and twenty months' hard labour for larceny and attempted larceny respectively, and he was thereupon committed for trial.

GREAT FIRE IN NOVA SCOTIA. Halifax (Nora Scotia), Monday.—The lumber and shipping town of Pugwash was last night the scene of a conflagration which destroyed Z5 buildings. Insurance covers one-third of the loss, but many of the suf- ferers are hnancially ruined. Pug-wash was swept by a i-imilar conflagration two years ago.—Reuter.

The Manchurian Agreement. Victoria 'B.C.), Sunday.—Advices received here from the Far East show that, according to the correspondents of Japanese journals, the agreement between Russia and China relating to Manchuria gives Russia exclusive mining and railway privileges in the province. All the Chinese troops are placed under Rus- sian control for two years. When peace and good order have been restored Russia will with- draw hall her forces, and at the end of a fur- ther period of tliree years will withdraw the whole. The Shanhaikwan-Newchwang Railway is to be restored to Ch-na on condition that it is not used for the conveyance of British troops.—Central News.

ON BEING SHY. Jerome says, "A shy man's lot is not a happy one. The men dialike him, the women despise him. and he uisiikes and despises him- self." So "being ElhY" must be a sore evil under the sun. To Le rich, or great, or good, or ambitious on heanny lines in commendable, but to be shy seems to bring down on yoursell universal contempt and pity, and the worst of it is you feel y" II don't deserve it. Of course, Jerome refers to men, for you seldom meet a eliy girl. <rls are merrie, and coy, and blushing, and uice (some of them excep- tionally nice), but siy girls are as scarce as bank notes. One writer advertises a cure for shyness in men. He says, "Adopt an eaey and p.easing manner, especially towards ladies." Easier said than done. Very seldom married men are shy. It would do some of them a lot of good if they were. But can you imagine a man or woman either being too shy to go and purchase a box of Page Woodcock's Wind Pills, the finest remedy for the cure of Indiges- tion. Wind on the Stomach, Liver Complaints, Sick Headache, Costivenese, Nervous Debility, Palpitation of the Heart, Biliousness? No, I really can't. Mies E. Baxendale, of 29, Swinton-terrace, Dunkirk-road, Halifax, June 15th, 1901:—"I have received great benefit from taking your Wind Pills for Indigestion. For twelve months I suffered fearfully with Indigestion and went to three different doctors in Halifax and one in Bradford. They all seemed to do me good for a time. I commenced taking your Wind Pills eighteen months since, after reading one of your Booklets, and have enjoyed good health ever since. I have recommended them I to several of my friends. Rev. R. Warnock, M.A., Glenhoy Manae, Augher, Ireland, writes :—"Dear Sir,Would you kindly send me another box of your Wind Pills? They have been a boon to a great many that I have given them to who suffered from Indigestion." Page Woodcock's Wind Pills are sold by all Medicine Vendors at Is. lid. and 2s. 9d.: post free for price by Page Woodcock, Lincoln. e9297 Printed by the Proprietors. Western Mail Limited, and published by them at their Offices, St. Mary-street, Cardiff, Monday November 11, 1901.

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pletely in their power, the convict exclaimed: "Oh, don't kill him! Pray don't kill him As he spoke one of the guards had gained possession of a large rat which the convict had concealed in his bosom. "Don't kill him." he repeated. "Beat me; chain me; do what you like with me; I u: don't hurt my poor rat! If you will not givi him back to me. let him go fre8!" And wliik he spoke, and probably for the first time sinc( his childhood, tears filled his eyes, and the) I ran down his cheeks. Rough and hardened as were the guards they could not listen to the convict and set his tears wifhrut some iteling of compassion The one who was about to strangle the rat let it fall to the ground, and the terrifiei animal immediately disappeared behind animal immediately disappeared behind pile of beams and rubbish. The fel >11 gazed anx-iously after the 'at ond scarcely breathed until he saw it was out of danger. Then he rose, and silently, with the old i.avagi look, followed his companion in bonds, and lay down with him on their iron bedstead, where a ring and a chain fastened them to a massive bar of the same metal. Next morn:ng on his way to work the con- vict. whose haggard face showed he had passed a sleepless night, cast an anxious, troubled glance towards the pile of wood, und I gave a low, peculiar call, to which nothing re- plied. One of his comrades uttered a light joke at the ]os3 of his favourite, and received in reply a furious blow, which felled Ihe speaker, and drew down on the offender severe chastisement from the taskmaster. ) Arrived at the place of labour, he worked with feverish ardour, as if trying to give vent to pent-up tions: and, while stooping over a large fje.m, which he and others were try- ing to raise, ie felt something gently tickle his ciieek. He turned round, and gave a shout of joy. There, on his shoulder, was the oii'y friend he had in the world—his rat! who, with marvellous instinct, had found him ,mt, and crept gently up to his face. He took the; animal in his hand, placed it again in his