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Passing Pleasantries. 1 ♦ 4 Mrs. Dorcas: So you're sorry I put you into long trousers? Willie: Yes, ma. Now that Christmas is here I wish I was wearing girls' stockings again. Christmas in Lodgings.— Landlady: After the dinner we will have games in the parlour. Oldest Boarder (carving very tough turkey): That's light! I don't believe in all work and no play A well-to-do Yorkshire farmer sent out invi- tations for a Christmas party. Two would-be guests, not understanding "R.S.V.P." put their iiends together to puzzle it out. At last one says: "I know what it means, 'Refreshments served very plentifully.'

I "Evening Express" Specials. THIS WEEK'S LIST. THURSDAY.—Football Photo: Haverford- west "Soccer" Captain. FRIDA Y.-Dercl. Vane's second Sketch: "The Russian Brig." Mr. J. Daniell on "Why England Fails at International Matches."

Obituary. r. -1 MR. JOSEPH OWEN, TROEDYKHIW. The death occurred on Tuesday morning of Mr. Joseph Owen, of Troedyrhiw, Merthyr. The deceased, who was upwards of 70*years of age, had been ailing for some months, but it Mr. JOSEPH OWEN. [Photo by Chapman, Swansea. was only within the last few weeks that he had been obliged to keep his bed. He had repeated attacks of influenza, and also suf- ferfdfrom pleurisy, muscular rheumatism, and pneumonia. These visitations of sickness rendered him prostrate, and he gradually sank until he passed away, to the sorrow of the community. Mr. Owen, who was a finely-built man- erect and smart as any soldier, until illneS3 struck him down—was a native of Llanelly. He came to Merthyr as mill manager at the Plymouth Works, in the days of Mr. Anthony Hill, and he continued to hold that position until tho works were closed. In conjunction with several other local gentlemen he after- wards started the Willow Wireworks, which lie managed, but the undertaking was not pro- fitable, and the concern was eventually aban- doned. From that time on until his death he carried on a lucrative business as an iron merchant and greaoe manufacturer. The deceased gentleman was closely identified with the public life of Merthyr. About 21 yeara ago he was elected to a seat on the board of guardians, and it was only in April last that he ceased to occupy it. He was always tender to jile poor as a guardian, and as a private individual he was most kind and gene- rous" in relieving their necessities. H? was a. member of the school board for twenty years without a break, and for a considerable time was chairman of the sites and building committee. He was on the old local board of health, and then on the urban district council as cne of the representatives of the Plymouth Ward. He was chairman of the council in 1899-93, and during the earns year he held the ancient and honourable olIice of h;gh-constable. For some years, down to the end, he presided over the delibe- rations of the health committee, and he had been an overseer ever since the council had been invested with the power of appointment. When Mr. Pritchard Morgan first came before the electorate soliciting election to Parlia- ment, Mr. Owen took a very active part in promoting his candidature, and it was to Mr. Owen's influence and that of his old friend, the late Mr. John Vaughan, that Mr. Morgan was chiefly indebted for his return. Mr. Owen remained the doughtiest champion of Mr. Morgan's interests throughout the whole period that the latter sat in the House of Commons, and at every meeting which the then junior member addressed on the Mer- thyr side of the constituency he occupied the chair. Last year, in recognition of his public services, Mr. Owen was presented at

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From Punch" To-day THE MITYLENE MARCH. (Solo for the French Horn.) The Saltun: I don't like solos! Give me the good old-fashioned European concerto! FACING THE FIRE. The Mentmore Chief: "Although I am not unaware that a superfluity of culinary assis- tance is apt to exercise a detrimental effect upon the consomme, still-" [Drops a merry thought into the stock-pot. ["I feel that at a crisis in the fortunes of the country, which I am persuaded is grave and daily increasing in gravity, I should put my views into the common stock."—Lord Rosebery at Mentmore.]

On Secret Service. DEREK VANE'S ADVENTURES. DereK Vane, the author of "The Three Daughters of Night," "The Mystery of the Moat House," "The Spell of Delilah," &c., Ac.. has broken out in a new place, namely, as tha writer of thrilling sketches of crime inves- tigation. and has given out a series which are breathlessly interesting. While each sketch is complete in itself, the series is on a plan of which the following is a bare outline:- Mrs. Dumare-sque, the heroine, a clever ama- teur detective, is requested by the Govern- ment to investigate certain difficult and romantic cases. The extraordinary work thus undertaken is depicted in the articles, and a reference to the programme will show the variety of scene and incident introduced. This series is now being published in the "Evening Express" on Fridays. PROGllAMME Nov. 8.-A RACE WITH DEATH. 15.-THE RUSSIAN BRIG. 11 n.-A VOICE OF THE NIGHT. 29.-A MODERN MIRACLE. Dec. 6.-THE ELIXIR OF LIFE. 13.-LINKS IN A CHAIN. 20.—A DIAMOND MYSTERY. 27.—AL-CHINDUS, THE PRIEST. I

Michael Coming to Wales. I The Parisian outdoor cycling season having I come to an end, Jimmy Michael, the midget I (says the Paris correspondent of "Sporting I Life") and Tom Eck have packed their traps and leave France to-day (Wednesday) for Wales, where Michael is to put up with his uncle, who has been in France since the Welshman has come over. On the 20th inst. he met with Eck and M'Farland ship on the Kronprinz Wilhelm en route pour la libre Amerique.

Llangibby Races. We learn that over 50 boxes have already been ordered for the meeting to be held to- morrow and Friday at Carleon, and that, as the course is in excellent condition, rain can- not harm it. The Blaen-y-pant Maiden Sell- ing Hurdle Race is on the first day's card, and entries are due by six o'clock this even- ing. Venetian Monk and Aline have left Ireland for this Newport meeting.

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I Chepstow Conservative Club. The annual meeting of the Chepstow Con. servative Club was held on Monday night< when Mr. Henry Clay was re-elected president. and Messrs. J. Price and A. E. Mullins wer4 respectively elected president and vice-pra tident of the executive committee.

A Mother's Pangs. The Merthyr Express says that a remarks able affair has happened to the wife of a hitclier at one of the Dowlais Iron Company's collieries. "I am thirty-one years of age, and the mother of seven children," said the lady, a Mrs. Davies, when questioned," and for years and years I have been a great sufferer. After the birth of each child I remained weak and frail, unable to do anything at all. And my last confinement in August, 1900, was the most severe trial. I suffered agonies, and afterwards, though I tried doctors, chemists, and the kind recommendations of my friends, I got no stronger. The weakness would not leave me. I was thin and powerless, and, would you believe it, I could not lift a cup ta my mouth to take my food." And yet," said a reporter from the Meiv tnyr Express," who called upon her at her residence, 1, William-court, Ivor-street, Dow- lais, in that town, and found Mrs. Davies look- ing well, surrounded by her healthy-looking children, you seem hearty enough to-day." Yes, sir," broke in the husband, my wife is now strong and thoroughly recovered." And many other things have pulled me down, too," interrupted Mrs. Davies. I have been an awful sufferer with palpitation of the heart, and I've had some bad attacks of erysipelas. But, though I feel so well now, I have suffered more than I can describe." Would you tell me what is responsible fot the great improvement in your health?" I make no secret of it," replied the happy wife. I am thankful you have called, so that other poor sufferers may know all about it. After taking all kinds of medicine, and feeling no better, I was almost giving it up. when one day I read in the 'Merthyr Ex- press' of a remarkable cure in Merthyr through Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people. I determined to try the pills, so bought a box, and took them according ta directions." J With what result? asked the interviewer. Tell him all about the cure," said Mr. Davies. 'Twas wonderful, sir," and he spoke in a tone which betrayed his delight at hit wife's recovery. After taking the first box," responded Mrs. Davies, "I seemed to gain strength, and I tried another. My appetite came back gradually; I ate food without pain, and I con- tinued to take the pills until .in all I had six boxes, and what I did not use I always keep by me. I felt like another woman at the end of the second box; better than I ever did before." The husband added: And we advise every. body to try Dr. Williams' pink pills." Point. ing to her seven-year-old girl, Mrs. Davies said: "She was delicate for years, and after the good I derived from the pills, I gave her some, and all the others, too. They all take them now, from time to time. The' little boy had sores all over him, and was very- weak; but look at him now, sir," and the reporter then examined five of the healthiest youngsters one would wish to meet. "We thank Dr. Williams' pink pills for all that," said both Mr. and Mrs. Davies together and we,, have recommended them to many friends." Can you point to any other cure? asked the pressman. Yes. sir. Since Dr. Williams' pink pills cured me I recommended them to a young woman in Dowlais, who had had St. Vitus' dance for a long time, and Dr. Williams pink pills cured her." The world knows little of its greatest suf. ferers. Women bear in silence what would often send strong men to their beds; in no way have Dr. Williams' pink pills done more good than to women of all ages, from girl. hood to age. They relieve the headaches- the agonising backaches, the constant or regularly recurring pains and misery which curse so many lives; while to men they are an unfailing tonic and nerve restorer, curing (in both sexes) anaemia, consumption, rheuma. tism, sciatica, St. Vitus' dance, paralysis, indi. gestion, bile, and loss of appetite and strength. For two shillings and ninepence (six boxes, thirteen and nine) Dr. Williams' medicine company, Holborn-viaduct, London, will send the pills by post; they can, however, be ob- tained from chemists, and honest tradesmen will not seek to push substitutes. Dr. Williams' name on the wrapper is a guarantee; pink pills without it are a useless substitute. L153 Printed by the Proprietors, Western" Mail Limited, and published by them at their Offices, St. Mary-street, Cardiff; at their Offices, Castle Bailey-street, Swansea; -at the Shon of Mr. Wensley WIlhams, Bridgend-ali in the County of Glamorgan; at the "Western Mail" Office. Newport; at the Shop of Mr J P. Caffrey, Monmouth, both in the County 01 Monmouth; .at the Shop of Mr. David John. Llanelly, in the Countv of Carmarthen- and at the Offices of the "Brecon County Times, The Bulwark and Lion-street, Brecon, in thf Counfcv of Brecknfick. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1^ IMt,

rand showing ail the prismatic coiour3 of the rainbow. The form of the ice-island was that of an irregular triangle, and in about five hours we had sailed round it. Eut there was no single point at which any boat ever built could have landed, even had it teen a dead calm and the sea^as still as a mill-pond; rmuch less in such aT^heavy surf as" was th?n foaming and seething ail around it. No sign of living tiling was seen, excepting one great sleepy seal, that had crept into a hole, just above water-mark, and lay there as if he were in quite comfortable quarters. There was no sign of boat, or spar, or w»eck. It was a pic- ture of atter desolation. j f We hovc-io again, at the nearest point from which i.ie man on the iee-l'-erg could be seen, j He was lying on his back, with one arm folded in an unusual manner under his head. the whole attitude being one of easv repose: indeed, had it not been for the marbiy look ol his face and hands, we could have fancied that he was sound r-sleep. He was clothed as one of ihe better class of seamen, in rough blue pilot-cloth, with large horn buttons; he had no hat. asad by his side lay a small boat- hook, to which was tied a strip of red woollen stuff, apparently a piece of the same which i.c wore round hia neck. This, no doubt, rb- poor feDow had intended planting on the heights as a signal. In sueh a thin, clear atmosphere, with the aid of a powerful tele- scope, even his features might be plaiiiy traced, and his iron-grey hair seen moving in the wind. Tha second mate stoutly declarad thafchs recognised the man—he was quite sure of it— an old chum and shipmate of hia with whom he had sailed many a long voyage, and some part of whose wild, varied career he told us the next evening. What seemed to convince him more than anything was the peculiar way in which the dead man's arm was stowed away under his head—his old shipmate, he said, always slept so, even in his hammock.

Mrs. Young Wife (shopping for Christmas); I vant a large, fat turkey, young and tender. Poulterer: Yessum. Mrs. Young Wife: And be sure and have plenty of stuffing with it. My husband is very fond of stuffing. plenty of stuffing with it. My husband is very fond of stuffing. "We went skating on Christmas Day. I trie hard to get him to propose; but there we sat, and, though he saw I knew what he was think- ing of, he just remained siient until I hit upon an idea." "What was it?" "I dug my skates with some force into the slippery surface, and asked him to notice how easy it was to break the ice."

Troedyrhiw with an illuminated address and a purse of £150. During the past two years the deceased had bean called upon to bear a series of bereavements in the loss of two sons-in-law, Captain Edmunds and the Rev. Mr. Jnnes. of Abercarn, and his own son Mr. Thomas Owen, who held a very high position under the Midland Railway Company at Derby. This last blow was the bitterest of all, and it affected him so much that he was never the same man afterwards. The funeral. which is to be public, for gentlemen only, has been fixed to take place on Friday next, the cortege being timed to leave the house for Cefn Cemetery at one o'clock.

Numerous and strange were the conjectures and remarks nrtde by officers and men. Who and what was he? How long had he been there? How did he get there? The general conclusion was that he was one of the crew of some vessel wrecked upon the iceberg itself, of which no vestige remained. "Yes, like enough." said one of the sailors, "she run into the ice in the dark, and went down like a stone, same as we might have done any time this last month or so." "Perhaps he was aloft when she struck, ana got pitched up where he is now." "As like to he pitched into the moon," re- joined another contemptuously. "Why, that there precipice is three times as high as the tauntest mast ever rigged." "Perhaps, now." suggested a third, "it's some awful cruel skipper who has been a- starving and in-using of his crew till they couldn't bear with it no longer, and was drove, to mutiny, and put him ashore there, all alone, to die by,himself, so that they should; not have his blood upon their hands; or may be he was a murderer, or a Yankee alave- keeper." It was quite an old man who spoke next- one looked up to as a great authority on all such matters, although he was usually re- markably taciturn, and woald never enter into an argument. He quietly deposited his quid in his hat; and, as he always did this pre- paratory to making a speech, his shipmates waited in silence for him to begin. '-That th?re ice-island." said he at last, "wp.m't launched yesterday, nor yet last year, nor the yenr before, perhaps; and by the looks of him he's been for a pretty long cruise in warm latitudes-last summer maybe-and then come home for the winter. If you loog away yonder—thpre, just this side of that high point like, a. church steeple, only lower down, there's a place looks darker than the rest. Now, it's just there that I expect a great piece has broken off and drifted away; and t. calculate 'twas lower and more shelving off-- not so steep and. rocky, like as it is now. 'Twas there that poor chap was cast ashore from ship or boat. He was trying to make his way up to the heights to take a look round, and hoist a signal, when he lay down and went to sleep, and never awoke again; only where he is now, vo;:f seE', must have been covered with snow then', or he couldn't have kept his footing." Having said this much. he replaced the quid in his mo ith, and spoke no more. There was no earthly use in waiting longer. and yet the captain seemed loth to give the order to fill and bear away. "If the poor fellow had a spark of life ;n him. he would have moved before this, tor it's six or seven hours since we first saw him. But if he did move, it would only be to slide down over the precipice, for no living thing could keep a mooting on sucti a slope as that, and if there are any more of them we should have seen them before this time, although we could never get them off if we did." Then, pausing suddenly in his walk on rntr quarter-deck, he gave an order to get a gun. ready forward, and presently came the answer. "All ready with the gun, sir." "Fire! In a few seconds the echo of the loua report resounded from the icy wall; for another in- stant all was still, and then came a noise like a rattling of loud thunder, proceeding from the centre of the berg. The danger of our proximity to this vast object now became more and more apparent, and all sail was made to get a good offing. But we had barely proceeded a quarter of a, mile when the same noise was heard again, accompanied by a rending, crushing sound, the intensity and nature of which is perfectly indescribable. The vast mass was parting in the middle. down the course of the deep valley before mentioned; and slowly and majestically the eastern half rolled over into the sea, upheav- ing what had been its base, in which were em- bedded huge masses of rock covered with long I sea-weed. The other part still remained erect, but was swaying to and fro, as if it also must capsize. This convulsion caused less foam and turmoil than might have been supposed, but raised a wave of such tremendous magni- tude that when it neared our ship she seemed a.bout to be overwhelmed by a rolling moun- tain of water, higher than our mast-heads. But the good ship rose upon its crest, and be- fore again sinking into the hollow we saw the man upon the berg-still in the same posture—glide swiftly down the slippery in- cline, shoot over the edge of the precipice, and plunge into the raging surf. A sensation of inexpressible relief was ex- perienced by all; it had seemed so dreadful to pair away and leave him there unburied and alone; now, at any rate, we bad seen the last of him.