The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. The death is announced from Grodno of the ) well-known authoress Elise Czzeszko. Mr. John Clay, of Chicago, is about to undertake the mastership at the North North- umberland Hunt. Before committing suicide at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, Alfred William Broth well wrote his will in chalk on a. manger. 4 j ard appearances mean nothing, Judge Emden declared at the Lambeth County- i court. "Nowadays they are more misleading than ever." At Nan, the French aTiator, fell li from bis monoplane a distance of 30ft. and fractured his skull. While at the bedside of her sick children, a Parisian woman named Chevalier was killed by iiglitning. The children were unhurt. Triplets have been born to the wife of Thomas Brown, a Workington, steel worker, at present out of regular employment. The babies have been baptised Edward, George, and Alexandra. At Alex&ndrovsk, in Ekatennoelav, a boat on the river Dnieper containing ninety-four workmen struck on a rock, and forty-seven persons were drowned. ¡ The Home Office have prepared a memoran- dum explaining the Compensation Act, copies of which are to be distributed to workmen by their unions. Mr. "Ben" Brockington, who died a,t Slough at an advanced age, spent nearly the whole of his life in the Royal employment, and was one of King Edward's favourite coachmen. Dick has sailed from Sydney for South Africa, where he will defend his title to the world's sculling championship in a match with Barry on the Zambesi. JudgTiierit in the case of El Wardani, charg'-d with murdering Boutros Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, has beer, pnoBOtuncpd at Cairo, and the prisoner sentenced to death. The strike at the Bethlehem steel wcsrlrs. Eastonv Pennsylvania, has been declared t an end. The strikers have accepted Mr. Schwab's terms. Thomas Walker, aged nine, the son of a cycle dealer at Penwortham, Preston, stepped off the footpath in front of a motor-car and was killed. At a meeting of delegates in Duugannon, Mr. David D. Reid, a London barrister and a native of Belfast, was adopted as the Unionist candidate for East Tyrone. A verdict of "Death by misadventure" was returned at an inquest on the wife of the Rev. J. R. Cieminson, of Otley, who WitS thrown out of a waggonette on Whit Monday and fatally in j ured. Mr. MeKenzie, Victorian Minister for Lancia, and Mr. Elwood Mead, chairman of the Water Commission, have sailed from MelbotlnH in connection with the Government's imn1Ïi:ntion scheme. A Brighton veteran educationist. Mr. Daniel Hack, has been presented with an iJnminated address in a leather-bound album, placing on record the town council's appreciation of his services to public education for upwards of thirty years. Lord Macdonnell, the umpire of the Con- ciliation Board of the Durham coal trade, sat at Newcastle to hear evidnece for and against the reduction of the Durham miners' wages. The Conciliation Board failed to reach an agreement, and referred the dispute to Lord Macdonnell. Pursuing their anti-Semite policy, the autho- rities at Kieff. Russia, will expel 2,500 Jevh within a. month, only 400 being permitted to remain. M. Jean Coquelin— son of the great Coque- I'n--wlio is now playing the dog Patou in "Chanticleer." has been married it, Neuiily to Mile. Blanch Miroir. Resolving to enter actively into the move- ment for securing the political citizenship of women, the Church Socialist League at mingham urge the abolition of sex inequality.. Although he had only just learnt d to swan a man named Alec Askew jumped into I i.e Wey at St. Catherine's. Guildford. rescued a six-year-old boy named Alfred Willett- from drowning. Mailomniedans resident in London held fI, Jalsa-i-Mu*am. or meeting of mourning, vi; • Kolborn Restaurant, to express their great a.t the death of King Edward ;(1 to pray for the benefit of his soul. Fifteen ships of the Home Fleet were ordered to sea in order to salute the Herman Emperor on his arrival, but his Majesty re- quested that no salutes be fired in his honour, and he was accordingly received in silence. Sunday scholars are afi increasing body, and therein lies the greatest opportunity of churches, said the Rev. J. J. Wright, at the anniversary of the British and Foreign I tarian Association in Essex Church, Kensi.g- ton. Energetically protesting against the Briti. l M.P.'s memorial on Russia's policy in J?inland. Count Bobrinski (Conservative) exclaimed m the Duma, "What would the English say if advjee were sent to them on their conduct m Ireland and India? Three cadets of the Harborovsky Corpus, 3.1 semi-military school near St. Petersburg, i-e- venged themselves' on a fifteen-year-old cadet who had coin plained of their "ragging" prac- tices by hanging him on a, tree in the play- ground of the school. When cut down the boy was quite dead. A conference to consider the question of imperial and international copyright hafs been held at the Foreign Office, under the chairman- ship of Mr. Sydney Buxton, M.P. All the Colonies are represented. A "valuable contract for has been placed by the Admiralty with Messrs. Beard more and Co.. of Glasgow." The firm only recently begsui. giiii ittakitig, and their first trial order of two 12-inch guns was completed a few months ago. The la,"itst order is for three 12-inch guns of the most modern type. In a large, unpretentious room on the second floor of the Jewish Girls' Club in Dean-street, Soho, the first Labour Exchange devoted ex- clusively to the industrial requirements of women and girls carries on its operation?. There have been a fairly large number of re- gistrations at Dean-street since the branch was opened. J A man named Alfred Brothwel1. who emn-, rnitted suic:de by hanging in a shed at Tonig j Sutton, Lines., wrote his will in chalk on a, I manger near by. It read. "Give Alice J650, and Sally the other; don't deceive me." At the I inquest it was stated that Broth well had been j greatly distressed by the death of the King. At the annual meeting in Glasgow of the Scatch Oil Coivipaiities, the chairman refjortcd that the companies had lost last year a quarter of a, million sterling through foreign competi- tion, and that the prospects for the current

..& OUR LONDON LETTER. [From Our Special CorrespondenL) will be no London season of auy account this year. Now that the Royal funeral is over society pieople are leaving town as fast as they can, for the country or the Continent, and town mansions are being left in charge of the caretakers. There will be social functions until the end of No1 The re-assembling of Parlia- mcnt will keep many prominent people is; London, smd there will be several events of a kind to attract the general public, but for Society—with a big S—what had promised to be one of the most brilliant sen s for many years has ended before it had fairly begun. What rriv.-t have forcibly struck many oh- I servers of the irameitoe crowds who watched J the great funeral pacesnt was the extra- j ordinary powers of endurance exhibited by j wonveu. Many of these had come from dis- I tant suburbs at an uzxavthh- hour of the i morning, and ta.ken u' their positions as j near the line of routv ,i» t- <-ou-ld get, to wait for hours and rop « wedged in among the thousand- of er people who I had conic out to see the ^i —1>e dnd to pay a last tribute to a beloved The heat on the sunny side of.the-,streets and to add to the di-i >m » i*- t < m this i.mse many had neither food nor drink until rafter the }>roc<'ssion had gone by. Consider- irtg the -rj- nujtilvcir of thosi who 1111d is J six thor.s-end cases of fainting wc > < 1 d. | And chose were not all women, by any j means. ingenious contrivances were brought { into use by sightseers who were short of stature. The police, had forbidden camp- j stools, but there were rnanv there all the,! same, which were -,o "ta!1d r,p:.H who"); the time came. After the people had clcared 1 out of Hyde Park a .pair of -tilts was fi>und. They had served to elevate their owner I foot or so above the heads of his fellows while the procession parked. It' was amusing to see how little effective was barbed wire in preventing tree-climbing. The crowd knew all about the wire, and had come provided with ropes which they threw over the branches, and hauled themselves into the trees, from which they obtained a splendid view. Occasionally a police constable would pause and look at the men in the trees, as if wondering whether duty demanded that he should climb up and take them in charge But always he decided that it would be better not to attempt it. There is a good deal of speculation as to how the political situation will be affected by the change in the Monarchy. Except that all are agreed that there will not now be another general election this year, nobody seems to have any very clear idea of what is going to happen. There is, of course, a general desire that the Throne shall be kept clear of political turmoil, and there are politicians on both sides who would wel- come a truce between the parties on the great questions at issue until King George has had time to look round. It would be extremely unfortunate if the Monarchy j should be placed in an embarrassing posi- tion, and it is possible that something may be arranged to prevent this. On the other hand, the Government are said to be of the opinion that, so far as they are concerned, the position remains unchanged, and that their duty is to press forward the Veto resolutions. In that case, of course, it is hardly likely that an appeal to the King can be avoided. One of the things which the House of Commons must do during this session is to pass a new Civil List Act, allocating sums to defray the personal expenses of the King and Queen, the upkeep of the Royal estab- lishments, the payment of civil officers, and of pensions. The support of the Queen- Mother is already provided for by the Civil List Act, 1901. passed on the accession of King Edward, which states that: "In the event of her Majesty Queen Alexandra sur- viving his Majesty the King, there shall be paid to her during her life an annuity of £ 70,000." The late King's Civil List amounted to £ 470,000, and there were, in addition, annuities for the Prince and Prin- cess of Wales, and provision was made for the King's daughters. The total came to £ 620,000, but it should be remembered that this did not all fall upon tax revenue. At the beginning of every reign the monarch surrenders his hereditary right to the reveniifes derived fCrown lands and forests, and some minor sources of income, the whole amounting in 1900 to £ 429,000. A great proportion of the amount which actu- ally is provided by the nation comes back to it in subscriptions, donations, and other ways. It is hoped that the great Victoria Memo- rial in front of Buckingham Palace, in which the late King took such a loving interest, may be completed and ready for opening in the spring of next year. It is to be a National Memorial, and a sum of over three hundredl thousand pounds was subscribed for it. The marble fountain which forms the base of the memorial has been in working order for some time, and the wonderful work of Mr. Thomas Brook, R.A., has been admired by thousands of people. In this lower portion of the memo- rial there are a thousand tons of marble and eight hundred tons of granite. When the whole is complete a colossal statue of Queen Victoria will look eastwards along the M&U to. the Admiralty. There will be flanking groups at the same level of Justice, Mother- hood, and Truth; and high above all will be a etatue of Virtue, with Courage and Con- stancy just below. The latest piece of enterprise on the part of the Tube railways is the adoption of a storm service of trains, which comes into* -l. 1_1;' ¥' -J._ gers »sr» sent into the Tube stations by a eud- I den d^ower. If our summer this year to be of the same variety last there I 'viiplit to be plenty of work for the storm «r- rice. For the purposes of the new deviee tbt; panics have a. weather observer of their own. He sits above Leicester-square station,, and keeps his eye open. If he sGes signs of rain, he "'calls up" on a strume"ri at his elbow, which communicates with all the Tube stations in London, and as once the storm schedule is- brought into operation at once, extra trains are put and the service is accelerated. A. E. M. „„,

SHOTS AT AN AUTHOR. t fi iiv a IL H. Sherard, i <111 unpleasant < i < it «tflii' p+. it tire home, I 11< i n Corbel', who i L-! -rn r „ i 'or eight v.paTs, j^ d a few days ;cL's k) h ,<• fancied that v i J- ,i« 'tva') :.?. i Be i 1 his di-sBiissaL it is that -he on Sunday engaged „ > d u. t i o .< h Reaching .1, 1 r f IL Sherard; and i r, m < ."i* took bin: n Few vnyds i7 > Cor bell at r i ( At ft 'k bl d 'wkMly m the 1 ,c -v.jth n in uj >, < ui -.nc a sc.\ere cut, ,id is uteri said to have whipped out a live- i ii b red r \nl\ <, vtlueh he pointed at i Mi i I ( dv t il twice pulVtl the r 'a ». i » *<• 1 J- however, fi-e ur SherArd 1 with Cor bell, v, oo iji time became q'l' i> r. He was placed under ii-i st, and OT) morning was brought before the NmiIIu.imj t_n county mag^st-iafce« 0" a charge of ctten.pted mmler. Me was remanded until Saturday.

CONTRACT FOR £ 4,250,000. Messrs. Gt-itnths nd Co., Limited. London Wall, have just. secured one of the largest and most im, > + "contracts for the con- I struction of i >t railway system. The I line is the < i j section oil the \:mgI- tudinal railway of Chili, and the contract price the huge sum of j64,250,000. Mr*. Norton Griffiths, M.P. for Wednesbnry, is managing director of the successful 'firm. The" awarding of the contract to Messrs. Griffiths is all the more gratifying as the tendering was thrown open to all the world; and many firms had the powerful political baeking ol their Government's re- presentatives. The decree far accepting the contract of -NTessrs.,Griflitit-s has just been signed by the President of the Chilian Republic, and on Friday next Mr. Norton Griffiths will sail for South. Ameriea. with a staff of engineers j and surveyors to make a prompt start with the work, which is expected to take several years to complete.

FATAL LONDON FIRE. A destructive fire, which resulted m the loss of one life and injury to five persoiM, J broke out at .the premises of Messrs. L. Bar- bellion, confectioners and caterers;, -Queen's- road, (iii Monday. ( The fire brigade succeeded in confining the ) flames to the premiss, but were unable to save the building. A plumber nampd William Sweehey, who was employed in the basement, was found dead there by the firemen who, hearing him j screaming for help, made several gallant attempts to rescue him. The poor fellow was seen to fall, apparently suffocated, and he was dead when an entrance to the basement was eventually made. A fellow workman^ who was rescued by a, police sergeant, was badly burned about the face, and he and three bakerH who were on the premises at the time were conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, whence after treatment they were sent. home. One of the firemen was also injured, Sweeney was twenty-four years of age, I and resided at Shepherd's Bush.

ACCIDENTS IN SCHOOL HOURS. I —— At Monday's meeting of fches Lancashire Education Committee, the clerk said if an accident occurred during school hoars the responsibility rested with tho County j Council and not with, the school managers, who only acted as the local educatiori authority's agents. Even if school premise^ were defective, the committee would still be liahle, for it. was their duty to see thej were in proper order. I Archdeacon Fletcher thought it was per- fectly ridiculous that time spent in the play- 1 ground should be considered part of the school hoiirs. j The clerk replied that it was the duty of j the teachers to see the children cleared off j ttlte premises as quickly as possible; by law, parents were compelled to give tip the ¡ control of the children for a certain period of the day to the education authorities. Th<> j latter were therefore the legal parent#, and responsible for whatever happened to (hem. Archdeacon Fletcher said it would be a I great injustice to voluntary school managers if they had to pay damages amounting to I hundreds of pounds.

) TWENTY CHILDREN. I The mother of 20 children was present in the West Ham Police-court on Monday, when James Talbnj, 14, and William Tallin, 12, of Plaistow. were charged with inducing the giving of <1. by offering matches, for sale. Mr. G. F. Crane, school attendance officer, told his worship that Mrs. Tallon was the mother of 20 children. Her hus- band. who had been earning 32s. per week, died two months ago. Upon Mr. Crane ask- ing the magistrate to send the younger boy awav, tbe mother burst into tears, and said. "Don't take them from me yet." Mr. Gillespie: Haven't you got enough if one or two go( away? How many have you at home r Mrs. Tallon: Eight, air. Air. Gillespie: Well, I will discharge James, and send William to the remand heme.

f LADIES ■ (■ftlilkV Free Sampte *t | I BLANCHARD'S I I APIOL fp STEEL PILLS I ■ Tfiih IK-pace explanatory Booklet and TMtinoiiials H JP (fM all Ckemiiu Vli per bw, or pwtfnefram "A_V'><> I!8iI Cannot be Beaten i I THE | 'NEPTUNE' Fouiitain P-eas AND T1-3 JK I 'BRITISH' o Stylo Pens. Ph Absolutely Reliable. C. Best British Make.. j' > "KICKS PROM 1/6 up to 10/6. Z 14 Carat Gold Nibs. (t) We stock them. ,.Q CaJl and see one. E-f R. Mills & Sons HERALD OFFICE, RHOS. TO ASTBSVSA SUFFHRE^S. ASana.u\ei1i « -i r L im. giving away 1,000 FREE BOXES' of m\ R« lit wIikli I guarantee to give instant relief. Enclose stamp foe P(II5Üge to bhAfNV, HAWICK, /"GENUINE Safe lnw«trii«iat in Debentures of Industrial J Cf»r>;|i'n<T. i*m .ii „ in ft *~t. 7 per cent, perannim1. pay- able ffm»i tprlv i i ntily guaranteed•Applicant* apply. 0«Wm>ok V mnile-ave., Sfreatham, Londoiw T'HlS.SH-CtJT »rv > 2s. 1;(1. bundle, 120 hetds; J },¡., ';(1.. (¡II Jn>* <s .« M n «», e¡I,.h with (Irder.-j\IaJJ;tger y (:h.3':1f':l M«.nr<r Vmit 1< »ii*m, Kvesliam. OPKOT^L.—Mtomm Card, with Photo of IlJt Kinjr. 7dl O dm. SompV» J ( » t 1 ee. Splendid value.—Sandfc 1:4, Oldlltwi Vat hf^t t /'») PKH, AVl.f-.fv <rv.;A l.tAN I'KKD.-—X w Penny lAnc. SliriaFt )| i-f t hous nvM-t's wi(h ~s. ^'nrt,. Stamp foi Mu — ,a il.isuN IsltOS. &(\»., as, .TACKS' ROW, M VNt HKSiKIt HOW to Beeomc a 19ARRIMR without interfering wfllt Jl present ocempattMa. Tsition by Correspondence fat Provincial Students stp^altty.—Apply, stamped addrea^ Austin, 4, Harconrt• buiiditigs, laner Temple, London. ALDRIDOW&-flSTIfA Y,. of BY!I!RL D r* C1ANATORTOM FOB COXRT1MPTIVE8.—Men only, 9<Mr per week.—Dean: Head,, Horrforth, Yorks. HOSIERY BAT:0AH?S.—Ladies' Seamless Black Canb» mere Dowblewcar Stockings. Three pairs 2/6, wolfifc 8/6. Pnrchase Aireet.—Joseph Park, Sonthpart. BILLIARD Lf Wl-l.TS o implet-e. latest hand painted whit* Opals, all size*. —ITolntes, Marsh-lane, Preston. £ 150. PRIZE-WINNING SOLUTIONS. £ ISO. FOR "Answers Douliles," Tit- Kits Dittoes, &c., Ac., bf actual winner of £ 19S in Answers," April 2nd. Full particulars, with Two Prize Solutions, for is. Rwl stamped envelope.—Geo. Wall, 6, Wharf dale-road, King's Cross* Lon40n. Meation pstpec, » NOW READY. NERYOUSrSS: BY 03. A. T. SCHOFIELD. ScaaK. ecowu 8vo, 1/- net. The Westutinste)- (laztttt,, says: "A singularly wise aad able book." Write for Spring Catalogue of New Thought Psychic and Occult Publications, and Rider's Mind and Body ttsodbooks. W. RIDER & SON, Ltd., 164. Aldersgate Street, L@udon. E.C. QALE. Good POf l .TKV FARM, STOCK, APPLIANCES. O £ 200. 4$acre*. Good resideiice. enclosed grounds. Pplendiily *itu*ted. Reat £ il6. — Howard, Kennerleigft Reetory, DcTOwhk* • Q5 £ K0LBr8' Aumr.'wx Cure for Indigestion, Dyspepsia. O Rllellm3til!tft.. Trial treatment, end 21- for 6/6 MI1s:a' Outfit, comprising '2 large bottles of Embrocation, special 1ths"II.ge Applisoee. and valuable Diet and Massage pank- CBKPAl PALAWB l>a««aHt — Payinif Guests received in Isealitjb Oootl tabta. S'C- weefcEy.—Becleston, Harry-road, Dulwiek. PURE SUSSEX QROUND OATS, 8/9 per cwto SUSSEX PATTENINO MEAL, 81. per cwt. DRY FEED, IGJ- per cwt. Cash with erftft COFPABD OW, MiUx, MAYPIBLD, SUSSBX. I SRI" WATERPROOF Boot Polish. Grand Prix Gold Merlat. Supplied to Royal Palace, Belgium. Two tins (one biacic,. one brow»),p«itrju<i, 7j|.d—Cteo. Brand & Co., Aberdeen, X. B. WE 1KB OI JSEIB TOWISSEUB'S PILLS I Ism a British Soraedv of 100 years' I GIVE! They altsohstely Jridi'. eat.on and x Liver Oompiaints. If you suffer V OXJ 'tend: is f-ix Rtaii)j)8, whe.a we will for- ward. Full Sized 1/1,i Boat for trial 71 per return p*»st. *%• CLOTH (Ladwf —N«.vt' Blue Seire Costume Length pecial value, 21/8.—22, Briar-road, Sheffield, T\I~iTRICT lt*m(;er,^ocMlOri?(inia«r'>ii(i Staff Trainer, Wan^fiA f<HT J I >(tincbe«'«r. Salary £ s weelt y. comruin»>ou overriiiinir. Must furn I, h « *<Ttiit!;T iN/. Appticaat* required 50 Mhnw inecessfui lmsiue-is rt'<C'Hd,-M:tIJ.3.gr. Uaaiiiuloyaient Dept., S4, BnlJett.. bil.. !• POLE TEA114 P ro MKTAU of oveay faserlptioa purchss«d for ssslk — K. B. BUJWAM> A Soats, l^ liimbeth Wslfc, London. npOBAOCOm GZ^ABS t flrOABSffjB»,I iiSbM. t&s t*sd» Mrtjr. so»Ue4. opanian," order* t»eS»W. »s«4 tor Hii<jsXf«t w a»y ot *ar9r*s<tot*. «r to Hwim tm 4 gtoaa, to,, &»*+* B&st*. Bun&taghiaa. LONDON PUBLISHER DROWNED. Mr. Alfred Nutt, the well-known London publisher, wa6 drowned on •• Saturday even- ing while endeavouring to save his son's hte. Occupying a, villa at Melun while on a holiday, he went out for a drive with his son, aged 17 years, who lifts been for som6> time in delicate health. The latter took the reins while his father walked alongside near the bank of tile Seine. Suddenly the horse bolted ami fell into the river, which at fchht point in about", ri 9ft. deep. Mr. Nut, jumped in to rescue his son. but was carried away by the swollen current* The non was rescued by pas«ers-by. M,r. Nutt'fi body was recovered about, an hour later by the captain of a small sail'ng >acht» Mr. A. T. Xutt, who wa,s in his ,'i^r<l year# was head of the well-known publishing Fwrn of Long-acre, and was a recognised authority on folk lore, on which subject h" wrii60 many books. He was president of the Engft liaà Folk Lore Society in 1897. .1>. .——