Barry Herald

TIME TABLES. AUGUST 1901 BA.R R,"ST Sundays im am am vu i n am a mi l ilia nip >n n n! > iiidh oiipn on Voi n n Suip 11 ti n o n pin pin urn p m am a in p mlpmlpm P'ij PP2IP1" BrylM st3 1015 .1159 Hi? 7.315 123 Sat. 5 7, >lvi5 5 655 1 0 920 12 323 «15 720|840 Barrv 5*1 615 71s 756 117 !»?l n>-|!tl 11155 1215 131 212 ?'» 321 352 123 5 5 512 « 1'510 7 0 3 5 S13O35 10OS55 955 1213114*2 333 520 725133-. BryDk 5*3 619 719 1 9 3?l 9?5 I02ljll 111-5 » l?tl 131216 2i1 321 i5i 13? 5 9 516 6 1 111 7 11 9 847 9?9 10 4 S59 951 icl7 ".4^317 524 729 *.51 Odnt'n 5'U «5-J 7i> 8 3 <U1 931 1047 1 1 7ll> 3 125? 157 3l9l*37i3*7 359 1(5 511 |«17 7 7 S12 85) 932 10 7 9 2| 10 2 1229 149 340 5^7 732 842 tVsPws 53*1 657 H 7 <H9 933 103?: 1112 12 7 1257 U ? 221 33?.. 440 5?1 mflli 817 855 1012 -» 7j 10 6 1225 154i:145 737 H47 Oopan 54172.. 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U131 1114 1?19 I >3 »l >11 3.»l 351 43 3 51^ 551 i?5 731311 9 9'9tl 10 9 194* 11 9 1931 1259 239 121 6 4 639^29 952 DaPws 614 734 S19 931 1051 1119 l?>l U7 3 S 315 1 35 555 137 1?? 559 53! ■ 7>1319 lit 935 1014 1053 1111 1039 l 4 214 429 fi 9 014 994 957 Odxt n 619 799 85t 931 1031 1131 I?}) 132 Mil 351 3 51 1 tHl? 113 5M 5 1 53 i 113 73ll ■! >M5 i 919 911 1 )". 105S 111 1011 I 9 219 431 fill B19 939 102 10 9 Bry Dk,632 7ll 8.57 91? Ill* ll27il?53 155>3I I >51 331 I 1131 115 513 5 7 53)| Hi7 17! S 3' 355 92? 9U 19?2 11 I 112? 1917 112 25? 437 617 652 9»2 10^ 1012 Barrv 5?5i716 9 I 9W1016 1131 j l?3 1 15) 213 >H 331 1 1 13V153 535 '111 6U!l55 7ll|33l!'» 9 92<5 913.102) ll 5 112« 10511 116 2-56 411 fi?l 656 946 109,1016 Bry I Id I. 95 I1 11 i 5 311 1 11 i -tllSUS ^617 "1,1 91 } 1S51 .3 0 115 625 7 0. 1 A LATE TRAIN will leave Barrv every week nit;hc (Saturday exoeptel) at. 11 30. arriving at Cardiff at 1150 Returning from Cardiff at 12, arriving at Birry at 12 20 The 2.48, 3.51, 4.59 and 5.43 trains to Clarence Road, and the 3.37, 1.13, 5.5, a>i 1 1.12 train from Clarence Road do not run on Saturday BARltY AND PUNTYPKl I>L) AMD VALE OF GLAMORGAN RAILWAYS. a m a. m p.m. p m ;t. ni p.m pin pili am pm pili pm am pm pili pm Barry l'od. 1225 5 20 748 4 30 735 Porth 8 38 1 37f 623 3 58 2 53 5 45 8 40 harry 7 37 1230 525 7 53 3 0 1 55 4 35 740 Havod 842 1 41 627 9 2: 2 57 549 8 44 Hlnry Dock 7 41 1234 529 7 57 8 1 1 59 1 39 744 1), -ntvpridd 8 48 1 47 633 9 8 3 2 5 55 8 50 Cadnxton .744 12 37 5 32 8 0 8 7 2 2 1142 7 47 Teforest 8 52 1 51 637 9 12 3 7 5 59 8 51 W^Tivoe 7 50 1243 5 38 8 C 1 13 2 8 4 4* 7 53 Kfail Iaaf 8 58 1 57 6 43 9 18 3 13 6 5 9 ,0 Croiffiau .8 1 1254 5 49 8 17 3 24 2 19 4 59 8 4 Cre^iau 9 3 2 2 6 48 9 23 3 18 6 10 9 5 Efhil Isaf .8 6 12 59 554 8 22 3 29 2 24 i 4 8 9 VVenv0e 9 13 2 12 658 9 33 3 28 6 20 9 15 Treforest .8 12 1 5 6 0 828 35 2 30 5 10 815 Cad..xton 9 19 2 18 7 4 939 3 34 6 26 9 21 Pontypridd .8 16 1 9 6 3 8 32 S 38 2 34 ;ïl4 819 IV. 1 ry Dock9 22 2 21 7 7 9 42 3 37 6 29 9 24 Havod 8 22 1 15 6 10 8 38 S 45 2 40 o *0 825 Barry 9262 25 7 11 9 46 3 41 fi 33 9 28 lorth 8 25 1 18 6 13 8 41 S4S 2 43 .5 93 828 Barry Islnd9 30 2 291 3 15 6 37 '-iti,,daN s Sundays btatioos am am a m pm pm pm pmi ni a mipmi Sl-itions amain am pm pinipin pm pm pm pm Barry dep 7 0 9 53 11 37 230 345 543 755 11 0 3 0 637 Bridg«n dep 750 830 11 8 1 25 340 523 730 910 1255 433 8 5 Rho^e 7 7 10 0 11 44 237 352 .550 8 3111 7 3 7 644' Souf. rndownRd 758 839 1116 1 33 348 431 738 919 1 3 441 813 Aberthaw 7 1110 4 11 48 241 356 554 S12;l 111 311 648,' L'antwit Major,, 8 8 850 1126 1 43 358 541748 930 1 13 451823 Barry dep 7 0 9 53 11 37 230 345 543 755 11 0 3 0 637 Bridg«n dep 750 830 11 8 1 25 340 523 730 910 1255 433 8 5 Rho^e 7 7 10 0 11 44 237 352 .550 8 3111 7 3 7 644' Souf. rndownRd 758 839 1116 1 33 348 431 738 919 1 3 441 813 Aberthaw 7 1110 4 11 48 241 356 554 S12;l 111 311 648,' L'antwit Major,, 8 8 850 1126 1 43 358 541748 930 1 13 451823 Gil.-aton „ 7 15 10 8 11 52 24? 4 0 558 S19,1115 315 752j Oilestou ,,814 857 1132 1 49 4 4 547 754 937 1 19 457 829 Llantwit M ijor,, 7 22 10 15 11 59 252 4 7 6 5 S30 1122 322 759j Abort'iaw „ 818 9 1 1136 1 53 4 8 551 758 941 1 23 5 1 833 S 'ir herndown Hm 7 32 10 25 12 9 3 2 417 615 838 1132 332 7 9] Rho .se „ 823 9 6 1141 1 58 413 556 8 3 946 1 28 5 6 838 Bridsf nd ar • 7 39 10 32 12 16 3 9 424 622 9 5 1139 339 716; B irry I829l9l3|ll47l2 4f4l9J6 2 8 8 953 1 34 512 844 BARRY RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS The total returns from passenger, goods, and mineral traffic (including receipts of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway) for the week endine August 2-lth, 1901, amounted to f10,888, beii-g a decrease on the trtfffic rf the cori'wpcmdirgr tag ywur oi

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ t W. H. HOOPEB & CO., h 99-100, HIGH ST., BARRY. X COMPLETE FUNERAL COMPLETE FUNERAL F URISHBR8 AND DIRECTORS. FUNERALS CARRIED OUT UNDER MR HOOPER'S SUPERVISION, ncluding ALL ARRANGEMENTS FOR CRAVE D MINISTER. Memorial Cards, Wreaths, & Tablets. Telephone :—National, No 64. Private Address, 2, Hilda Street, Barry. SEEDS. SEEDS. SEEDS. Agricultural, Garden and Flower SEEDS AND SEED POTATOES IN GREAT VARIETIES' Send for Catalogues to-: W. E. WALKER, Queen Street & North Road, CARDIFR. NAT. TELEPHONE, 818; POST OFFICE, 509. THOSE ABOUT TO FURNISH ARE INVITED TO Inspect my Stock of Furniture GOOD SELECTION AND REASONABLE PRICES. 43) J. H. ABBOTi, 39 & 41, HOLTON RD n_7_ 21 QRAVING J^0CK gTRFET, BARRY DOCK' JOHN RICHARDS Family and General Butcher. CCRNED BEEF. PICKLED TONGUES Customers Waited upon Daily. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED To. A TRIAL SOLICITED AT "I I f) j\ "T I Ii: S' Corner Holton Road & Pyke Street FOR STATIONERY, FANcy G OODS. T OBAccos, N EWSP APERS AND pERIODICALS. ACCOUNT BOOKS, FANCY AND GENERAL STATIONERY GOODS. Best Quality in the Trade. Unequalled Value. Albums, Purses, Photo Frames, Local Views, Ink stands, Letter Racks, &c., a Splendid Assoitment, KB" PIPES & TOBACCOS IN GREAT VARIETY. THE NOTED CIGAR DIVAN. Try our Manilla. Mexican, and Havana Cigars HANDBILLS CAREFULLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGH- OUT TOWN AND DISTRICT BY HENRY THOMAS (Blind Harry), ?', CROGAN HILL, BARRY DOCK. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE- OF ARMS, LEGS, HANDS. EYES. LEG IRONS, SPINE SUPPORTS, TRUSSES, LADIES' BELTS, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, CRUTCHES, etc., etc. Maker and Repairer ALLEN pEAKCE, 7, Charles Street, Cardiff And 35 and 36. Broadmead Arcade, Bristiol. dvertisement grcale. MALL PREPAID ADVERTISEMENTS. One Three Six Ins. Ins. Ins. 20 Words or under 0 6 1 0 2 0 1 )ver 20 and under 30 0 9 1 3 2 3 Over 30 and under 40 1 3 2 0 2 9 Each additional 10 words 0 4 0 8 1 0 LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ADVER- TISEMENTS. Parliamentary Addresses 6s. per inoh per insertion Prospectuses of Public Com- panies, and Local Authori- ties Notices 48. per inch. per insertion Local Election Addresses 4s. per inch. per insertion Auctioneers' Announcements 3s. do. GENERAL TRADE ADVERTISEMENTS. I tc 3 insertions Is. Od. per inch 4 to S insertions Os. lOd. J to .3 insertions 0s. 9d. U; insertions Os 7d. :.1 infwrtious 08-. ad. ^isceUanemis. rTTANTED, WASHERWOMAN, once a week V V good wages.—Apply 33, Travis-street, Barry )ock. APARTMENTS TO LET (Sitting-room and A Bedroom) gentleman preferred.—Apply S, BARRY HERALD Office. VPPRENTICES to the MILLINERY and SHOWROOM WANTED—J. T. FROST, Hlton-road. WANTED at once, Strong, Respectable YOUTH, able to Drive and make himself Generally Useful in Brewery.—Apply Woodspring, Broad-street, Barry Dock. WANTED, a HOUSEMAID must have good reference.—MRS BUCKLAND, 90, Holton- road, Barry Dock. A Respectable GIRL WANTED for GENERAL WORK must be compet-nt. and not unnoi 20 years of age.—Apply 3. Romilly-ioad, Barry. COMFORTABLE FURNISHED ROOMS T LET FR« NT SITTING ROOM and BEDROOM. —Apply X, BARRY HERALD Office. WANTED, DAY GIRL or GENERAL SERVANT.— Apply 7, Charles Place. WANTED, STRONG GIRL, about 16.—Ap- ply 67, Ki< gsland-crescent, Barry Dock. WANTED, a good Strong GIRL.—Apply, Mrs HILLS, 39, Quarella-street, Cadoxton. AN ACCOUNTANT is prepared to POST, BALANCE, or AUDIT ACCOUNTS by Single or Double Entry; Evenings.—Write P. W., BARRY HERALD Office. ENTS.—Advertiser, who has had Management ki of Properties in this district for the last Teu Years, and can prove experiencing the lowest percentage of voids for the period named, is OPEN to UNDERTAKE MANAGEMENT and COLLECTION of RENTS of PROPERTIES for Owners in and around Barry —For Terms, apply A. T. WHITE, 69, Porthkerry-road, Barry. MRS LUCAS, Nurse and Midwife, 7, Graving Dock-stieet, Barry Dock, MRS HOWELLS (late of Newport), 24, Regent- street, Bairy Dock, Experienced Midwife and Nurse; satisfactory recommendations. CYCLES CYCLES! Immense Bargains. Free II- *fy-J lustrated List, containing 1,500 New and Second-hand Machines from 30/- to 95. Marvellous Bargains in 1901 Machines. Five Hundred New Machines, 1901 Make. from 92 17s 6d. Single Machine at s<v holesale Prices. Accessories of every description at half usual Price. Large List Free, any address. Agents Wanted. Trade supplied.—WARRILOW & CO., Cycle Manufacturers. Weston-super-Mare. BARRY DOCK. 30, DOCK VIEW-ROAD. SALE OF VALUABLE LEASEHOLD SHOP and PREMISES in the IMMEDIATE NEIGH- BOURHOOD of the BARRY DOCK. MESSRS STEPHENSON and ALEXANDER 1 aie in triiet- d by Mr Edward Hug tes to SELL by AUCTION, at CULLEY'S HOTEL, BARRY DOCK, on THUT SDAY, 6ih September, 1901, at 3.30 (,'clock in the Afternoon, THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD SHOP AND PREMISES N"w occupied hy Messrs Lilley Clark, and imme- ,1Ïardy idjoining the new Board of Trade Offices at B i-i-y D ck. Furth, r Particulars may be obtained upon appli catiim to the AUCTIONEERS, 5, HIGH STREET, CAR- DIFF. DINAS POWIS, NEAR CARDIFF. SALE OF LEASEHOLD VILLA RESIDENCES. f ESSRS STEPHENSON and ALEXANDER 31 aie in*tructed to SELL by AUCHON,at an EARLY DATE, all those TWO VALUABLE LEASEHOLD VILLA RESIDENCES, Situate and being in Cardiff-road, Dinas Powis, and known as Cilstleview, with the house adjoin- ing, and held upon lease for a term of 99 years from 2nd February, 1898, at ground rents of t3 5, per annum upon one house and 92 178 6d per annum upon the other house. Further Particulars may be had upon application to the Auctioneers, Cardiff. p RELIMINARY N OTICE. BARRY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH A GRAND Bazaat and Christmas Sale WILL BE HELD IN THE School Buildings, Windsor Road, ON DECEMBER 11, 12, AND 13 VALE OF GLAMOKGAN AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT COWBRIDGE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1901. PRESIDENT: The Right Honourable Lord Tredegar OPEN CLASSES FOR RIDING, DRIVING, AND JUMPING. SPLENDID ENTRIES. For Schedules apply to T. J. YORWERTH, High-street, Cowbridge. P.O. Telephone, No. 7.

RUPTURE.—The Colbge Truss has been unani- mously declared by the Medical Profession and Press 'o be the most efficient article yet put upon the market for ?he relief of Rupture. Letters of thanks are bei> g rec-ived daily from grateful patients who have derived the greatest benefit since wearing the College Truss. The College Trusa b. ing made of i-oft pliable material, is easy and comfortable to the weaver, giving with every movement of the body. The pressure is entirely produced by a self-regulating contrivance, Satis- faction is guaranteed if not approved money returned. Price list and particulars post free.— Manager, College Truss Co, 342, Fulham-road (■•pposite St. Mark's College), South Kensington, Load,w, S. W.

NOTES AND COMMENTS RATES AND TAXES. ALTHOUGH "Death and Taxes" are pro- I verbially depressing topics, they, like King Charles's head, perpetually obtrude them- selves. Indeed, Rates, or local Taxes, next to crops, absorb most of the conversation in rural districts. We, therefore, need Bin kG no apologies for calling attention to the recent Final Report of the Royal Commission on Local Taxation, appointed as long ago as August, 1896. The inquiry prescribed to the Commission was into the present system under which taxation is raised for local purposes, into the contributions to local taxation by real and personal property respectively, and whether any alterations of the law were needed to render the proportions of those contribu- tions equitable. Several Reports have been presented. Of these the most lucid, and that which appears to us to be based upon the soundest principles, is the joint Report of Sir Edward Hamilton and Sir George Murray. The ordinary newspaper reader cannot he expected to wade through the dissertations, sometimes abstruse, upon points of local taxation with which these Reports bristle. Experience shews where the shoe pinches, and there are some obvious characteristics of rates and rating which every ratepayer, how- ever indisposed to scientific investigation, cannot fail to have constantly pressed upon his notice. To the "ungodly jumble of the law denounced by Cromwell two centuries and a half ago has been added another un- godly jumble called Local Taxation. Consider the multiplicity of Local Authorities. We live under County Councils, District Councils, Town Councils, Parish Councils, Boards of Guardians, School Boards and others. To the public: the disadvantage of a multiplicity of authorities is twofold. Effectiveness is paralysed, for very much the same reason as that which causes too many cooks to spoil the broth. In the second place, the detection of excessive expenditure is baffled. That time-honoured institution, the British War Oilice, is a cardinal example of ..these evils. In every reform of Local Government the points to be aimed at are simplicity of organisation and simplicity of financial arrangements. The difficulty in the way of curing financial disorder is the admitted necessity of supple- menting local resources from the Imperial Exchequer. It is here that the line of cleavago between the two political parties dis- closes itself. Rates fall more heavily upon landlords. "The higher the rates the lower the rent," is the old saying. Imperial Taxation falls moio on the general public, and the proportion is increased when, as in the cam of the present Government, fresh taxes are levied upon articles of general consumption. True to his policy of keeping his eye fixed on t h., landlord's interest, your Tory politician is incessantly scheming how to milk the Treasury fo the benefit of the rates. The* "tumble of the existing system helps him to do this by distracting the attention of the taxpayer. The saying is true of Local Taxation which was originally applied to law, that "it is a kind of hocus-pocus science which smiles in your face while it picks your pocket." *#*#« The arrangement at present obtaining is, in si ort, the assignment to local purposes <if n >. enues arising from specified sources which v\'>uld otherwise flow into the Exchequer and b< disbursed upon Imperial expenditure. The eflect of this is to obscure to the eye of "the Inan in the street the amount taken out of his pocket. Any reader of newspapers will notice about the time of the annual Budget speeoh the discrepancies of statement as to the sum total of our national expenditure. It is frequently reduced by the omission from the Tory newspaper press of the totals raised from the taxpayer but intercepted for the benefit of the rates, and this is made the easier by the fact that these totals vary in amount from year to year. It is not surprising, therefore, that a Unionist majority of the Commissioners report in favour of the main- tenance of the existing system and "move power to its elbow." In their judgment the main change needed is the further appropria- tion of duties to the relief of the rates to an amount estimated at 21 millions sterling. This recommendation amounts to a proposal that the taxpayers in the towns should impose fresh burdens upon themselves in aid of the country landlords. The patience with which towns- people tolerated the imposition of the Agri- cultural Rates Act of 1896 doubtless emboldens the Tory party to renture this audacious demand. *«•••••• There is only one way of checkmating this insidious system of quartering the landlords on the public fundi. That is, to adopt the simplification recommended by the Treasury experts, Sir Edward Hamilton and Sir George Murray, who have penned an able minority Report. Admitting that some subvention Las to be given to the rates from Imperial sources 011 acccount of expenditure national in its character, let that amount be fixed, and not an indefinite sum the component parts and total of which it requires a financial ferret to trackout. In the next place, by way of putting a check upon these raids of the Tory squirearchy on the public purse, let the State's fixed contribution be for a term of years, sufficient to allow the working of the new method to bo observed. But no serious attempt either at simplification or at a definite limitation of grants in aid is to be looked for at the hands of a Tory Government. Its "friends" proiit by confusion. To expect their acceptance of any plan of local finanoe which shall bo "understanded of the people," is to look for all inversion of the laws of natural history in which bats shall seek daylight and moles work above ground.

CADBURY'S Cocoa. ABSOLUTELY PURE, THEREFORE BEST. orany foreign admixture. Most Sustaining, Refreshing and Invigora- ting. OADHI.'RY S (Jo< 0,1 t Refreshing and Invigora- is "aperfect food," and it described by the £ i/»i'Wasi representing "the stan- dard of highest purity." When asking for Cocoa, insist o 11 having CADBURY's (sold only in Packets and Tins) as other Cocoas are sometinuv MfctAitutad far mlm of axtra profit

BARRY MYSTEKY. A TRAGEDY IN EMBRYO. Barry has just missed the sensation of a pathetic tragedy. In it were all the ele- ments of love and disappointment, hope, fear, and distress. Its inception was the discovery on Sunday last, in the Old Harbour, of a parcel tied up in such an untidy manner as to indicate the last rash act of a human being to whom life was NOT WORTH LIVING. The finder, on perusing the contents, saw at once that surrounding this bag of mysteries were endless probabilities; not to speak of possibilities, and he forthwith delivered the parcel into the hands of the local police, who sought to unravel the mystery. It was un- doubtedly a mystery, for inside the parcel were two rings of the kind usually worn by those of the male persuasion, a number of bills-all liquidated, as if the mortal who PROPOSED DEPARTING wished to settle accounts on earth before being presented with others elsewhere. There were also a couple of letters written by a female hand, in which harrowing tales of hope, disappointment, distress, and penury were unfolded, in language that would make the most callous heart beat with sympathy for the writer. A few scrap-t of paper, with some minor articles of apparel, made up the whole parcel upon which the police were sent forth to find an owner. So far, all well. But when the police visited the ADDRESS GIVEN they discovered that the person mentioned in the missives was so far from resigning his mortal state that he was even at that moment busily pursuing his avocation. Further, it was not necessary to go, for the mystery had been unravelled. The rings, we may also state, were not gold, but, according to the language of a local assayer of metals, "cold," and the whole affair must have been a hoax; but how the things got out of the possession of the rightful owner has not yet been made known. Thus Barry has escaped another sensation.

BARRY DOCK DISASTER, THE BENEFITS OF INSURANCE. IMPORTANT CLAIMS PAID. The London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow In- surance Company have paid to Mrs Rees, 35, Glamorgan-street, Barry; Mrs Syms, Lower p, ke-strpet, Barry Dock; and Mrs Gilbert, 103, Porthkerry-road, Barry, each the sum of X,500 in respect of accident insurance policies 011 the lives of their deceased husbands. It is a noteworthy fact that the three men only took out the policies in December last; consequently, only one premium bad been paid upon each of them. The Insurance Company is also to be congratulated upon having met the claims so promptly, the letters of administration being received only a day or so prior to the money being paid over. The announcement that the widows and dependents have each received this handsome sum will be very gratifying to our readers, inasmuch as the probability of either receiving compensation from any other source is very remote. It dpmods,rates also the advisa- bility for all workers to become insured in industrial, accident, and ordinary branches of insurance. The insurance of each of the men wrs effected through the local superintendent (Mr R. Jones, 172, Woodland-road, Barry Dock), and his local agents, who are known for their assiduity and energy.

CHILD DKUNKENNESS IN OUR CITIES. Mr Robert Vincent, writing to the Temple Magazine for September, gives a most interesting account of the Children's Home started by Dr Stephenson. With reference to the terrible condi- tion of child life in our great cities, he says Dr Gregory gives a startling picture of the crying need for the vigorous prostcution of the work among the children of our slums. It is quite a mistake to suppose, as many do, that the School Boards have completed the deliverence of the street children, and the Home constantly takes in cases quite as bad as those received 25 years ago. The worst cases are found among the children of criminals and drunkards these poor little mites when rescued from their inhuman parents being often physically injured by the effects of drink. From their baby- hood thev are kept in a state of intoxication, and the results are pitable to see. One little fellow of six, on admittance to the Home, possessed the physical and mental development of a child of two. He could not 8pek intelligibly, but mnde his wants known pretty clearly in an inarticulate way—his craving for rum. The extent of child drunkenness is, perhaps, the most appalling feature of life in great cities. A lady the other day brought a girl of 13 to the Home she was a confirmed drunkard, and nothing could be done to keep her outside the public-house."

IT HAPPENED IN CARDIFF. HAS THERE BEEN A SIMILAR CASE HfcRE P Even though there may not have been the same sort of a case in this town, the one we give below is very much the same as a local case, for we always think of Cardiff peop'e as our neighbours. Mr W illiam Cann, of 5, Habtrshon-street, East Moors, Cardiff, says My kidneys have been out of order for many vears, and for a long while past I have suffered from s' arp shooting pains across the small of my back that seized me whenever I steoped or suddenly s raightened myself up. My kidney secretions iroubedme very much, for they were often ac- companied with a scalding sensation, and in the morning I would see a deep red sediment. I got very bad and could do no work at all, so I began to be low and unhappy, for I had tried every kind of remedy but got no relief. I had reached this miserable condition when I chanced to see the dverti^-ement of Doan's Backache Kidney Pills in the Cardiff papers, so I procured a box, and after taking a few I began to feel the benefit of them. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills have acted like magic. The backaches have gone, my kidneys, which troubled me a good deal, act properly, and I am now entirely free from pain. You are quite welcome to publish this statement, it is perfectly true, and it gives me pleasure to n.ake the same. I am quite strong and well and able to go back to w, rk again, fur I am quite cured." (Signed) WILLIAM CANN. D,J,w's Backache Kidney Pills are sold by all chemists and diug stores at 2/9 per box (six boxes 13/9), or seot direct pr st free, on receipt of price, by the pro pri,,t, rs Foster- M ccle. liad C(, 8,Wells- street, Oxfori-stieet, London. W. If you are ill, write to us. Ynur letters will be treated with the strictest confiidcnce and privacy. We make no ch rge whatever for advice, and we may be able to sive you a world of suffering. Be sure you atk for the tame kind of pills that Mv Oaaa ktd fa*