The Rhos Herald

TRAIN TWICE STOPPED. A Liverpool to Birmingham express wac ^topped twice owing to the conduct of William Wedgwood, George Johnson, and George Edwards, all of Birmingham, who were .charged at Crewe on Tuesday with disorderly io-,Ir. Johnson's face bore traces of a grim struggle. His eyes were closed, and he had to be led .bIt!} the dock. The other -net? were al«o badly £ ut. They had been to Liverpool, and began lighting on the return journey. The eo.'u- jnunication cord was pulled itunc-orn. ThE guard and driver of the trai n found the 11V" gitl tug on the floor of the compartment, the •win,low was smashed, and thei's was eloquent evidence of a fierce struggle having taken p lace. Officials were placed in charge of the men ftfid the train proceeded. The defendants re- fumed fighting and threatened to throw each -Other through the window. So violent did they become th-it it was impossible to restrain them, and the train had to be stopped a second time, and the men put into separate compart- ments. The accused, who said they were out for a day's ernoynient, were each fined and costs, ín addition to paying for the damage.

ADVENTURE WITH BURGLARS. How an agile constable climbed a shop blind in order to secure the arrest of a prisoner was told to the Old-street Police-court on Tuesday, wbeu Harry George, a shop assistant, was charged on remand with being concerned with three other men not in custody with committ- ing a burglary at a confectioner's shop in City- toad- The police evid-eneo showed that about 3.30 ft. Hi. on December 20 three men were seen loitering about 56. East-road. A constable kept watch, and 'heard one say, "It's all right, Harry, the road's clear." He then went jo- wards the men, who all ran away. A noise as 4jf the jingling in the shop caught his SHr, and he blew his whistle for assistance. police-con stable Clews, 504 G; ran up. and woman's voice from an adjoining house ..called out: "There's a man on the «taii-s here, I can't get down to the door." The eon- tabic at once climbed up the shop -blind, and, .enter in a, the house by -!oor window, found the prisoner ivonched on the stairs, and &rresle:i him. Pris oner now said lie had been led into it by the others. He was committed to the Sessions.

tREATMENT OF SICK PRISONERS. At orison on Tuesday, Mr. -•Troiitbeek held an inquest on the body, of 'Jieiirv Stevens, aged >26, of no occupation, who died from suffocation due to hemorrhage whilst ■suffering from consumption. It was stated de- ceased was undergoing a term <if twelve men lbs' hare! labour. J. J. rof the, prison, said deceased had }XVJ in and out of the prison during the last ten years, and had v; been uuder treatment for chronic con- .sunipiii.'ii. lie was placed in one of the special ..cells for the iceeptiou of coinitinipvive eas-.s. 'Describing- the treatment- of such <ises, 1:he iloeter said thev en .ffstr.i ivxtra exercise and el;) sieeini medieiiK'. He was stircialiy exau;in"d oin'-e a week ;;nd could see a doctor any ti.e.- = e r-i:a-d. Tn t<" t,) tie:- c-sra-.? t. v.-e iice.s;- s'^fl eei^s -were socially bulii i- ^e-e- eeses an-:i ".v, re -yepeatedly fumigated. "h/ei-Vi hiug thar- modern treatment of eonsiuqintio.a required wa earned 4>nt. The jury returned verdict of "Death froia AAtural causes."

orlIER MEN'S rINDS. There is nothing people dislike so much as being told the truth about themsclves.-Mu. IDEN PAYNE. SURVIVAL OF TIIE FITTEST. In the twentieth century the individual who shows the greatest tact, capacity, and strength of personality to carry the old into the new will come out on top.—LIS v. DR. SCOTT LIDGETT. IF TIlEY ONLY KNEW. Boys are better of.r iii the works where they have dirty hands than they are as clerks with clean shirts.—THE SHEFFIELD MASTER CUTLER. A VV\ ERROR. A purely self-ccutred interest in business leads men into the imai error of supposing that their own jiR-ciiods are perfect.—SIB WILLIAM PRIESTLEY, M.P. A FRIENDLY HINT. The average iiiiiii at the present time spends a lot of time in seeing what the Government- is to do for him. It would be much better if he spent a little time see- ing what he could do for himself'.—MR. C. II. KEMP. THE RAINY DAY. Sickness will assail the most healthy, and at such times the thrifty man wants to be assured, that he has made provision for the rainy day which will^come in the history of all. and should consequently be provided- against by pmdent men and women.—LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONS. Nowadays nearly every walk of life is open to ladies except the legal profession, where the solicitors are prepared to spend their last six-and-eightpence to keep them out. In medicine it is found that they can be as can- did as any man in Harlev-street. In litera- ture there is no one who can touch them in descriptions of behaviour and misbehaviour. there even seems to h the before long- of ladies sharing with men the tre- lnendoufe task, thts forbidding task, of going once every three or four years to a Council school and making a cross on a piece of paper. —MB. PETT BIDGE. THE GREAT SCOURGE. It is quite within the bounds of possibility that within two or three generations, if people would only arouse themselves to the necessities of the battle that is before them, we could do for tuberculosis what has been done for small-pox, for typhus fever, and for several other of the great scourges.—DR. W. OSLER. MAKING FOR PEACE. If now we can negotiate throughout a posi- tive agreement with some great nation and abide by the adjudication of the Inter- national Arbitration Court on every issue which cannot be settled by negotiation, we shall have made a long step forward in demonstrating that it is possible' for two nations at least to establish between them the same system of due process of law that exists between individuals under a Govern- ment.—PRESIDENT TAPT. — x IN A RUT AT FORTY. It is an open question whether, after the age of forty one's mind ever breaks new ground, in the sense of being original.—DR. P. WATSON WILLIAMS. YOUTHFUL CONCEIT. Medals won at school make some small boys cock-sure and ready to teach their grandfathers.—JUDGE BACON. THE GUINEA STAMP. If degrees could be bought at a shilling apiece people would be taken for what they can do, and not for what they are labelled as being able to do. PROP. SILVANUS THOMPSON. A SOUND PRINCIPLE. It is a sotiiid of eight or nine syllables when a word con- taining two will serve tire purple.— ARCHDEACON BEVAN. INDIGESTIBLE" EDUCATION. I do not think of England as an old lend. lish bovs L,r--[ is rising up. But I do think there is room for improvement in their edu- cation, which ought not to make their minds }¡¡ (:I Lt\ .n■ ,-j'_ 1 t. J L. )!"{Ü -\t school they given indigestible foo[1- knowledge with the shell on it.R— SIR GEORGE RUID. OBVIOUS AND UNTRUE, Obvious explanations are seldom the true oiies, for simplicity is "ot n characteristic of Natitre.-SIR WILLIAM CBOOKES. PREVENTION. It will be a grand thing when all doctors. are engaged to keep people well instead of curing them when they are ill.—Ds. A. B. OLSEN. THE CALI. OF THE WILD. In every human being is to be found a- strain of his long-dead ancestry—a voice that whispers of the free, untamed life of a less J civilised past.—MR. GEORGE LOWE. ¡ I EVEN IN POLITICS. I The beauty of holiness in private life can be exhibited during political contests as well as at other times.—I).EAN WELLDON. 1 THE WORST INEQUALITY. [ The world is a place of inequalities. There are inequalities of birth, of health, of talent, I pirt the worst of all is inequality of oppor- | tunity. Fortunately that is an inequality I within the power of man to- rectify.—EARL OJ? I/rrroN.

POPULAR SCIENCE. I&HFSCT OF THE SUN. It is not generally known that the light of the sun it moon exercises a deleterious effect oi f LODIS. Knives, drills,' scythes, and si( I u ni a blue colour if they are exposed i t ime to the light and heat- of the u t larp edge disappears, and the to >1 I t ted absolutely useless until it is FISH BY WIRELESS. eeless telegraphy is being introduced among German fishing vessels. The advan- tage of this system of communication is that it permits one vessel that is making a good catch to eport the matter to another vessel of tl i e company, so that the entire Jieet in; i i with the largest possible quanti- ties of fish. Furthermore, they can inform the m an age is of the public markets respect- ing the quantities of fish they have for sale, so that in case of an unusual catch, arrange- ments may be made for distributing the fish in the least possible time. SLEIGHING BY MOTOR. People who are fond of sleighing may now apply to their vehicles the 'principle of pro- pulsion, as utilised on aeroplanes. The | MOTOR-SLEIGH. sketch shows a machine fitted up in this way, Ithe rider sitting immediately behind the pro- pellers, while the motor is placed under- aeath. s HOTEL INVENTION. A new system of paging guests has been introduced in Chicago. Instead of having a boy go through the hotel calling the name of the one wanted, automatic enunciators are provided in various parts of the building, which consist of loud speaking receivers capable of being operated from a central station in the hotel. Forty receivers may be operated by a single transmitter, and this number may be increased by the use of re- peaters. The apparatus was tested in a hall containing seven thousand people, and could be heard perfectly clear throughout the hall. Q DOUBLE MAIL-BAG APPARATUS. A new bag exchange system, for railway mail-vans, wnich has been given a test on the Illinois Central Railroad, is based on the use of pivottcd arms. The apparatus is of the "give-and-take," type, and the exchange of bags is made by pivotted arms that release and catch the rings to which the bundles of bags are attached. Fastened to the door of the mail-van is an arm for delivering the { bags, and a grasping device for receiving i them. The bundle of bags to be delivered "GIVE-AND-TAKE MAIL-BAG DEVICE. I from the van is strapped to a ring, which is provided with a short spur that fits into the end of the delivering arm. As the van passes the station, the ring is caught by tlie grasp- ing device on the post, the spur pulls out of the delivering arm, and the bundle of bags is left behind. In receiving mail on the van, the same process is carried out, except that the action is reversed. Both the delivery and receipt of mail is accomplished simul- taneously and witnout jar, a sharp click jn- t dicating the accomplishment of the transfer. STARLIGHT IS EARTHLIGHT. Starlight does not fully account for the brightness of the moonless night sky, and a German astronomer concludes that it may be i partly due to "earthlight "perhaps to a permanent aurora attending the earth. The light varies on different nights and on diffe- rent hours of the same night. In Germany it seems to be from seven to fifteen times the amount of mean starlight, but is believed to be not so great evervwhere. L MOUSTACHE AND HEADACHES. Dr. Paul Klager, the famous Viennese I physician, has delivered a sensational lecture before the medieai society. He says the growing fashion of' shaving the moustache is responsible for tiie growing number of patients suffering from' headaches and diseases of the respiratory organs. Among 500 cases of serious headaches and diseases 500 cases -of headaches and diseases of the rnose and throat, he had counted 420 patients who had their moustaches shaved off. The moustache is a natural protection for the nose against the invasion of cold air, dust and microbes. Women are not so often in the streets and wear veils to protect them- selves, and their are narrower than those of men.

.c There are over 3,660 members of the Corps of Commissionaires—retired soldiers and saiiora of his Majesty's Regular Forces,

A THOUSAND PAGES. There are more than a, thousand cloeftiy- printed pages in "Pears' Shilling Cyciope* which has information to impart" upon it I wonderful variety of subject?. It contains dic- tionaries of the English language, of general information of prominent people, of poultry, of cookery, of health, and many other subjects, besides an atlas of the world, and a ready reckoner. It is, says the editor, an entirely new Cyclopaedia.

SONGS AND DANCES. In concert-halls and other "places where they sing," a certain new SOJig" ¡w .Mr..J. Aidie D.ix 11 li'r. J. Di is sure to be popular. it is called "The Song of the and as will be guessed, it is for a baritone voice. Stirring words by P. J. O'Reilly are treated boldly and with fine vigour, and the song is one of the best the popular composer of "The Trumpeter" has yet written. The publishers are Aseherberg, Hop- wood, and Crew, Limited, who also send out two songs (A and B) by the gifted German composer, Max Roger, which are perfect gems. They are called "Cradle Song" and "When the Linden Blooms." Another song which. demands mention is by G. D. liawle. "Sleep, Dear, Sleep," is its title, and it is full of beauty and pathos. Amongst a number of interesting instrumental pieces published by the same firm are the second of the hitherto unknown P&ganiui compositions for violin and pianoforte, and a charming waltz by Mr. Archi- bald Joyce, entitled, A Thousand Kisses

A TRAGEDY OF EXTRAVAGANCE. Mrs. John Van Vorst has some intereste'-nv*- things to say in the "Pall Mall Magazine"* about the,extravagance of "the homeless rich who live in the fashionable hotels of London. Alas (she writes) for a lotig time it has been ) known that nothing a woman wants ever seems expensive to her. A few items gleaned from hotel offices where bills have been paid for the feminine residents give some idea- two hundred pounds for a single tablecloth, one thousand pounds for a parasol, boih. of I course, elaborately ornamented with real lace six guineas for a dog's coat trimmed with ermine; forty guineas for three pieces of gerie." Perhaps the most recklea*. of all these dashes into the Arabian Night world an order given for stockings by a irdy to a mer- chant, from whom the fabulous story comes I directly to as. "They wvst be fine enoueli to. rtass, both at I once, th^cugti wnldk'g T-im-. *he d. i-i: t 1. A workt.a,n was found sroTh -ntly The stockings .wer>e woven as; fLw as cobwebs. The bill was paid- four hundred and eighty pounds the coie" Only, alas • while the lsuly, n>-J'ed in some great hotel drawing-room, wan showing her pretty an.klec,. ehvd ;n their diaph nous cover- in of ;ill,7.e stockings had gone blind, quite, quite hi,;¡.

HIGH-WATEH 1IARK." Marinorama was the name of v. pleasure city which Mr: Jucld Orme built on no island some- where near the month of the Thames: an island which, before he obtained possession of it, was little better tluin waste land. He built sea wots, canals, and other things, and made a kind of Venice of the place. lIe had intended it to be a pleasure citv only, for summer trippers, but city clerks and other people were attracted by its lovely name, and went to live there in large numbers. So that | Mr. Judd Onne grew enormously rich. He was just the sort of'man who would call a place by sach a name as Marinorama. and he was in other wnys a thoroughly bad lot. He had obtained possesion of tile iilAnt.1 by means of a crime, which he ill- duced another man to commit, and he bad. <>■er in his career, acquired some land out. in Au. t.:itl, of which the rightful possessor was Jack I nde hy. I That young man came to England to nudt'' hi«> diRgoiTP. Orme handed over a che;pi.\ and Endfrbv then found out about the island, the real" owner of wlo -h it strangely enongh,nppeared, was the p 1 to whom he wfts engaged As Mr. Ort. e bad ma tie something like two million* out of the island, it was only'fair that he should aeoedo to Jack's modest demand hal'-a-inilbon for v. And the money had no sooner K-ee p',i! than the floods came and swepr. away Murine a!.u< All these, and many mor oxciiieg Feajfus Hume tells us in" liigh-^aier ijiark 0". V, Vrj ifce ».s,jid Co.).

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I MR. BALFOUR HECKLED.. Manchester, according to Mr. William Hasiam Mi] 1-5. in Pro- vides Mr. Winston Churchill with the audi- ences he likes beet, aud it .gave Mr. Balfour in 1906 a better three weeks of "hecklmg than he has enjoyed before or since. "That is not true, Mr. Balfour," said a man on the front row. He wore a blue hiiidkerelicf around his neck and had on his knee a tin can, j obviously containing his supper. "In what respect;" Mr. Balfour replied with his exquisite courtesy, "does it strike your mind as being an inaccurate statement of fact?" t Whereupon the Ardwick voter with the blue handkerchief and the tin can rose in his.place, and, Mr. Balfour sitting down in his, pro- ceeded to give the why and the wherefore and the when, throwing it into a form which the i newspapers were, able to print exactly as it fell from his mouth.

A SUSCEPTIBLE SOLICITOR. I Edinburgh is the scene of Annie S. Swan's latest story, "PIiona Keith" (Hodder and Stoughton, 3s. 6d.), and a very readable story it is, of the wholesome kind that we have learned to expect from this author. Rbona belongs to a good family, and her parents have their full share of family pride, which receives a severe shock when their only daughter in- forms them that. she intends to marry Roger Dunbar, a handsome young solicitor whose re- putation is none of the best. Certainly the author does not make him particularly attrac- five, and Rhona's infatuation is hard to uhder- atand, for she is a woman in age, and in all other matters is as sensible as a Scotchwoman I of one of the best fanllhes ought to be. But there it is She insists upon having her soli- I' citor, and the knowledge that she will suffer pecuniary loss by going her own way will not turn her aside. It is Mollie Dunbar, a girl "of the common people," but of extraordinary beauty, who saves Rhona from throwing herself away. The susceptible solicitor-is quiteunahle to resist Mollie, and he leaves Rhona in the ¡ lurch. She is thankful afterwards. Mollie is a flirt and extravagant, and not at all fond of Roger, and the two have a rather miserable time of it. The appearance of an old lover of Mollie's causes a rupture, which is healed by the intervention of Rhona, who "passed on with her eyes full of happy tears." i