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People with any artistic taste will join In devoatly hoping that Alderman Trounces floating bath will not be adopted at the Roath Park Lake. Of I course, the thing may not be as bad as it reads, nevertheless we can hardly avoid sharing Councillor Chappell's opinion that it would be &,hideous thing, and that it would ruin the appearance of the lake. A floating bath a hundred feet long and forty five feet wide with "canvas walls artistically decorated"— 7e gods! If the latest news be true German Royalty has forged another European link. Young as the King of Spain is, he appears to have already been smitten by the tender passion, and his engagement will shortly be announced to the Duchess Marie Antoinette Mecklenburg-Schwerin. We may congratulate the young monarch on his choice. German blood is fruitful blood, and if he marries a German Prin- cess Spain is not likely to be in danger for lack of heirs to the throne. A well- filled Royal quiver is one of the best safe- guards against disloyal machinations. Hoity-toity! Wliat's the matter at Iiandaff, anyway? Some time ago the Whitchurch Parish Council erected in this district at some expense street name-plates, and also placed on the door of each house a number. The district council is at present, it appears, engaged in pulling down the plates and erecting new ones in their stead, with- out, be it remarked, having made a single alteration in the names themselves. The numbers are also to be treated in a similar manner. The parish council paid for the plates and numbers and defrayed the cost of putting them up, and that body will again be called upon to pay the sum expended in doing the work a second time, unless they lodge an objection in the proper quarter. We feel sure the Cardiff Corporation will fed quite envious of a body that can be so reckless as this! Perhaps, the district council are merely teaching the Whit- church Parish Council its place, but it is rather an expensive way of doing it. May be, however, they consider that the end justifies the means. Where is Mr. D. R. Morgan? The Torrey-Alexander mission com- mences at Cardiff to-morrow, and will be continued till the end of the month. The I meetings will be held in the lare hall that has been constructed in Cathays Park, and which seats 7,000 people.! Assuming that everybody in Cardiff were to attend the meetings twice or thrice this would give the whole population a chance of putting in an appearance in the course of the month. It would be inte- resting at the end of the mission if it were possible (which, of course, it will not be) to publish statistics stating exactly how many individuals have attended and how many have benefited by the ministrations. The mission at Bristol was marred by a theological dis- cussion, which raged furiously in the local papers, and which, no doubt, was not what the evangelists intended at all, their purpose being to stir people up, so to speak, and let the various religious organisations deal with them afterwards. Mr. Alexander was married lately to Miss Cadbury. daughter of the eminent manu- facturer and philanthropist, whose splen- did work at Birmingham and elsewhere is so well known, and whose model town at Bourneville is one of the most interest- ing things of its kind in Great Britain. Bourneville is on the Midland line, a few miles this side of Mr. Chamberlain's city, and as you pass through it a distinct whiff of cocoa assails the nostrils, just as when passing through Burton there is a most grateful and refreshing perfume of beer. Cocoa and philanthropy seem to go together. Mr. Cadbury is certainly one of those who have known how to translate convictions into actions, and who has done his part towards helping his less fortunate fellow-countrymen to help themselves. There are no slums in Bourneville. The place is beautifully laid out, everything is alike artistic, comfortable, and sanitary, so far as these I conditions can obtain in what is, after all. a manufacturing centre. Of course, it is easier to commence a town on these lines than to reform a town which has for centuries gone on increasing in the stupid, old-fashioned, blundering way. If Cardiff, for instance, had to be begun anew we fancy its builders would avoid many a pitfall. But it is useless sigh- ing for the impossible, and, after all, there are many less salubrious places than the Mciropo 1:S of Wales. ha E We notice that there is an Esperanto club at Liverpool. A meeting was held at the Royal Institution on Wednesday evening, when the president (Dr. R. J. Lloyd) gave an address upon the merits of the Esperanto language, and explained its beauty and economy. The club has been at work since April last, and is said to be more than ever impressed with the advantages which would accrue to the community from the knowledge and use of this language. All this makes us inquire where and how Esperanto stands in Wales. Few readers will require to be told that Esperanto is a new language designed for universal use, and to be utilised for intercommunication alongside I the tongues already in existence. It is certainly spreading at a considerable rate. It is said to be easily learnt. As keen n critic as Mr. Zangwill, writing in one of the weeklies, is constrained to express his appreciation of Esperanto, though he is evidently not blind to its weak points. Cardiff, as a cosmopolitan centre, ought to be pegging away at Esperanto. If you want to say "I don't know where I have left the stick" in Esperanto, you just say l: Mi no scias hie mi lasis la bastonon"; and this phrase will give any linguist who chances to read this paragraph a hint as to the construction of the language. It has this advantage (?), according to Zangwill, that "all the rogues of creation will be able to understand one another." We hope, however, this will not be taken as a reflec- tion on the Liverpool and other clubs!

I Mainly About People. I His Royal Highness Prince George of Crete, who is expected in this country about the end of October, is one of the most imposing- looking of European royalties. Standing well over six feet in height, and with a muscular development which would ensure him a living as a. professional strong man were he less happily situated, this fair-haired, blue-eyed Northerner is probably the most popular man in his father's kingdom of Greece. He is a sailor to the backbone, with aJI a sailor's breeziness and devil-may-care manner, and all the warm-heartedness too, which the children of the sea are supposed to possess in such a. marked degree. He is just as brave as he is big, and as kind as he is brave, and the worship of the many does not.seem to have spoiled him. It was Prince George's strength that saved the life of the Czar of Russia, his cousin, when the two were travelling in Japan. A native policeman, filled with the idea that the death of the heir to the E-ussian throne would be a. service to his country, rushed at the Czar with drawn sword and nearly suc- ceeded in killing him at the first blow, which inflicted a nasty wound on the Czar's head. Before the fanatic could strike again Prince George had stretched him flat on the ground, and be was quickly seized by those about him. As a matter of fact, he may have done more injury than was thought at the time, for it is considered by majay who should know that the injury to the Czar's brain was the cause of the subsequent attacks from which he has suffered. The late Czar, by the way, was also a, man of tremendous physical strength. When Prince George and he met they would often pit their powers against one another in some difficult feat. At last there came a time when the elder man bad to bow to the younger. Well, George," he is reported to have said, I am not so young as I was; at your age it would have been another matter." In Athens, among the many stories they tell of Prince George is one relating how he came in a slum district on a father who was apparently beating his child to death. The! bully refused to desist, go the prince tucked him under one arm and the child under the other and bore them off to the nearest ipolice-offl.ce! "7 Lord Blythswood, whose name figures among those who have been having good sport with the rod on the Tay, is a most popular Scot- tish peer, not the less so because he is deeply attached to his beautiful home in Renfrew- shire, and does not care to spend much of his time doing the social round in London. His lordship is the first peer of his line, and since he has no children the peerage was created with special remainder to his brothers, of whom the eldest, the Rev. Sholto Campbell-Douglas, who married a daughter of the late General Lord Alfred Paget, is also childless. The second brother, however, Major- General Barrington Douglas, has three sons living. Although he is nearly seventy years of age and venerable in appearance at that, Lord Blythswood is far from being at all feeble. It may be- remembered, indeed, that in the early part of the present year, being disturbed by burglars in the middle of the night, he aroso and gave chase with such effect that the intruders were glad to jump from a window and scuttle off in the dark- ness. Blythswood, the family seat, is called after the small, but immensely valuable, pro- perty, now part of Glasgow, from which his lordship annually draws a very enviable income. The house is big, unpretentiou.,j &nd co=fortably situated m a richly-wooded] ¡ estate, and has harboured more than one Royalty in recent times, including the late Queen Victoria, and more lately the Duchess of Fife. Lady Blythswood is a sister of Earl Car- rington, and also of the Countess of Harring- ton. She is a tall, fine-looking woman, who dresses with a certain middle-aged magni- ficence. She is extremely fonu of music, and rarely misses attending the best concerts when she is in town. She was married to Lord Blythswood some 40 years ago, when he was plain Mr. Archibald Campbell, became Lady Campbell in 1880, when her husband was created a baronet, and Lady Blyths- wood in 1892. Lord Blythswood sat in Parlia- ment from 1373 to 1874, when he lost the seat, and was again elected in 1885 for West Ren- frewshire, a constituency which he repre- sented till he was called to the Upper House. By the way, if Sir James Blyth should ever be made a peer-which is far from unlikely- and elected to be called by the name of his estate, Blythswood," the confusion would be terrible. A good wedding wish for Lady Aline Daw- son Damer, who is shortly to bo married to Mr. Vivian, would be that she may have the experience of one of her own ancestors, a certain striking personality who, living to th3 age ninety-one, had the rare lot of never having had one single day's illness all his life to the day which ended it. This was the more extraordinary when one considers the turbulent times in which he lived, and the position of danger iu which he was placed, being in command of a regiment during the civil war, besides having accomplished peri- lous secret communication with Cardinal Mazarin. He was not without humour, nevertheless, for after the Restoration he disposed of his estates in Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, and bought property in Ire- land on the plea that I am minded to think of my life, and of a surety, no man's is safe in England." His Hibernian recipe for longevity evidently proved efficacious. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women want to be stage managers. I had once the honour of meeting Mr. Lewis Oa-rroll, says a. writer in the Academy," and he conversed with me on Greek roots. I sait opposite to him at lunch, where there was a. large party assembled. He ate a biscuit and drank a. glass of sherry; he spoke but a few words. But afterwards in the drawing-room he foregathered with mine hostess's two little girls, wfhoin he enter- tained to their delight. This conduct was, I have been told, typical of the man. He was never so happy as when with the chil- dren; he seldom shone brightly in the com- pany of his contemporaries. By a ouriosity of fate his two great boohs are a delight to old and young lllike. It is announced that Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras," has struck ile on his property in Texas, and has become at a bound a comparatively wealthy man. The poet is a man of simple tastes, and he lives very quietly in a beautiful spot among the Oakland Hills, near San Francisco. He visited the Klondike once, but rather in search of new impressions than of gold. His one extravagance has been the building of his funeral pyre, a great block of solid masonry, on the top of which, when he shall hZ shuffled off this mortal coil, his body is to be reduced to ashes at the cost only of so much wood as may suffice for the purpose. en the ashes are to be scattered to the four i winds of heaven. He means, in fact, to be remembered not by his tomb, but by his works. Our ridiculous attitude towards the nigger is having a very dangerous effect in West Africa, says a writer in To-day." The send- ing of a brutal and ignorant savage like the Alake of Abeokuta to England was bad enough, but that dangerous absurdity was on a par with the whole system of nigger fetish. For the sake of advertising certain official nincompoops, and of appealing to the conscience of England," the Alake was foisted upon this country as a person of importance. His official position is that of a provincial mayor, and a mayor of a town, moreover, that is so seething with treason that comparatively recently it has been necessary to overawe it with troops. Cun- ning and brutal, he is the very last nigger who should have been allowed to tread the paths of English civilisation. The result of all this policy of undeserved conciliation is that the country inland is on the point of rising, that white men are hustled in the streets, that the tribes are organising a revolt, and that before long murder and Maxims will be the order of the day. Unless we return to our old and sensible policy of honourable and just treatment of the nigger, there will be a conflagration in West Africa, only comparable to the Indian Mutiny.

ARCHBISHOP IN AMERICA. I The Oneness of Our Kindred. I Philadelphia, Saturday.-The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived here by special train from New York yesterday morning. His grace was met at the station by Bishop Whitaker, of Pennsylvania, and others, and was taken on a short sighteeeing tour, including the Independence-hall, where the declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. The Primate was then conveyed to the Horticultural-hall, where he addressed the junior members of the St. Andrew's I Brotherhood. Your kindness," said his grace, emphasises to me the absolute oneness of the English and American branches of the Church and the almost oneness of our kindred nations. I am glad that the misunderstanding of a hundred years ago has been driven, happily and blessedly, and, please God, permanently, away from our hearts and minds. "-Reuter.

I ALL ALONE No home; father in prison; mother dead. This is the brief story of a ragged little boy named Crossmfen, whom a policeman found at one a.m. sleeping in an old van in a public-house yard at Wood-green. The little fellow woke shivering, wet, and hungry, and the kindly constable promptly took him to the nearest coffee-stall and fed him on coffee, eggs, and bread and butter. Then Orossman was removed to the com- parative comfort of the police-station, and yesterday he appeared before the magis- trates-who could just see the top of his head over the dock rail-charged with sleeping out." As a matter of fact he had been committing that particular offence against the law for at least five successive nights. An aunt now presented herself and pro- mised to look after him, and "Tom All- Alone was handed over to her.

I POSTHUMOUS TREASURES. I A literary windfall of rare interest has fallen to the Paris reading public, or, to speak with precision, a select and narrow section of it. The Paris correspondent of the "Newcastle Chronicle" states that there are about to be published 100 hitherto quite unknown letters of Prosper Merrimee. Besides the importance naturally attaching to each a collection, these letters are marked by a note of continuity and cohesion rarely found in the published letters of eminent persons, inasmuch as they are not letters addressed to all man nor of casual or intimate associatbut we.re written solely to one family during a mutually close friendship, The family was that of Lagrene.

FeIs-Naptha washes fine laces without per- ceptible injury. Go by the book. Fels-Naptha 39 wiuoa itreet London E 0 POUNDS for POINTS, "Evening Express" Football Competition foO for correct Forecast of Six Matches on October 8. i I ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, THE FOLLOWING FOOTBALL MATCHES will be Played, And the 11 EVENING EXPRESS" offers £50 For a Correct Forecast OF THE POINTS SCORED BY THE WINNERS OF THE SIX MATCHES:- I CARDIFF v. MOSELEY, at MOSELEY. NEWPORT v. DEV0NP011T ALBIONS. at NEWPORT. SWANSEA v. GLOUCESTER, at GLOUCESTER. PONTYPRIDD v. PENARTH, at PENARTH. TREORKY v. TREDEGAR, at TREORKY. LLANELLY v. ABERAVON, at LLANELLY. ————— At the foot of this announcement will be found a coupt, relating to the match between Cardiff and Moseley. Coupons ir the other five matches will appear (a different one on each day) n the Evening Express" for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdf, Thursday, and Friday during next week. Each of these Coupons must be filled up with a forec&t of the result of the match named in the coupon, together with ie name and address of the competitor, and the whole of the tx I coupons must be posted in one envelope by next Friday Nigli's post, addressed "Evening Express," Cardiff (or be deliveredat this office on Friday night), with the word 11 Forecasts writPn in the top left-hand corner of the envelope. Competitors may send in as many sets of six forecasts as they desire, but each set must be enclosed in a separate envelop. To the competitor who sends in a set of absolutely corect forecasts of the points scored by each of the winners of the six matches a sum of £50 (Fifty Pounds) will be awarded. If no one gives a correct forecast of each and all the maters, then to the three competitors who send in the nearest forests will be given, in order of merit, zC5, E3, and El. In the event of two or more competitors sending in the correct scores, or being equal. in merit for the smaller prizes, the amount will be added to or divided at the Editor's discretion. The decision of the Editor on all points relating to the cOm- petition will b.' final and binding on all competitors. Cut this out and Pin the Set of Six Daily Coupons Togebep. COUPON. < j MATCH—CARDIFF V, MOSELEY, TO BE PLAYED OCTOBER 8,1904. I predict tha.t will j I predict that will win, scoring pAhts. Name Address I""a. I" Date Oct. 1, 1904.

FATAL TRAM RIDE. Blaengarw Accident and Sequel. At Bridgend this morning George James, a farrier, of 8, Church-terrace, Blaengarw, and Michael English, ostler, Blaengarw, were charged with riding on a full journey of trams on the incline on August 31, in viola- tion of special rule 235 in force at the Inter- national Colliery, Blaengarw.-Mr. Kenshole, Aberdare, who prosecuted, stated that the defendants jumped on a full journey of trams which was proceeding up the incline. The incline was very steep, the gradient being one in six. The journey got within thirty yearcle of the top, where the hitching plate between the first and second trains gave way, and the other trams ran back. The two defendents were able to jumy off, but another man, named Thomas Davies, who was also riding, was kiUed.-Evidevea to this effect was given, and the defendants were fined £ 2 each.

HOTEL THEFT AT CAERAU. I William Thomas, of no fixed abode, was charged at Bridgend Police-court to-day with stealing a bottle of whisky, the property of Richard Phillips, Blaengwynfi Hotel, Caerau. The barman saw Thomas standing on the counter, take the bottle, and put it under his coat.-He was gent to prison for six weeks. The same defendant, for stealing a pair of boots, the property of David Thomas, Caerau, was sentenced to six weeks' gaol, the terms to run concurrently.

I LIVELY CARDIFF VISITOR. [ Thomas Bees, an employe at the Dowlais Works at Cardiff, was described to the Mon-! mouthshire magistrates at Newport to-day as being one of the Cardiff visitors," which make matters so very lively every Sunday at Rumney. He was summoned for being drunk and disorderly at Rumney on Sunday, Sep- tember 18th. It took three policemen to get him away to the boundary of the two coun- ties, Monmouth and Glamorgan, and as he would not at first give his name 'and address he was arrested, but released when he relented to give his name. Two women, he had, the police said, given a good deal of trouble on the previous Saturday, figured in the affair, and there was a big crowd when the police had to deal with them. Superintendent Porter informed the magis- trates that the Sunday scenes at Rumney still continued, and he had to send three or four extra policeman there every Sunday. Defendant, who protested that he was not drunk, and only spoke a very little while to the women, was fined 20s. or seven days.

I DROWNED IN BEER I While a brewer named Joseph Coates, in the employ of Messrs. Rowlandson, Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, was skimming the yeast off a large vat of beer he fell in. Joseph Williamson, a fellow-workman, went to his assistance, and the lives of both men were imperilled. Their cries attracted atten- tion, and a rescue party quickly appeared on the scene. Williamson was rescued in an unconscious condition, but recovered under medical treatment. His companion was not got out until some minutes later, and he was then quite dead, having been suffocated by the yeast. Coates had been in the employ of the firm all his life.

A PERFECT LEMON JELLY. For the exquisite flavour of Ripe Lemons there are no Table Jellies to equal Eiffci Tower Lemon Jellies. Beautifully clear and they always act.

BUILDING COLLAPSE?. i r BUILDINüLLAP8E8, I Strange Incident at Carliff. I Shortly after one o'clock this aftillOOn a brick building at the back of Broa^y, in the lane dividing Richards-terraPO from that thoroughfare, through some matks sud- denly collapsed. The building was IlSd for storing china and earthenware. Without any warning the roof and walls Ive way, and fell into the lane. The noise wf3 exceed- ingly loud, and etartled everyone il the dis- trict. A number of workmen wer< near at the time, but the last one had jift Passed before the accident occurred. It (48, how- ever, a near shave, for a slate is foiling, knocked off his hat. As the thorohfare is much used it is decidedly fortunap that no one was injured. Crowds of peolle visited the spot during the afternoon.

THE BABY'S ESCAPE. I A short time ago (says the ,4!08pital "), in a large provincial children's tlospital, a baby developed an attack of Jeasles. As none of the hospital nurses cold well be spared for the special isolation i)eces8ary, it was decided to engage two prfate nurses from an outside institution. A pttter, new to his work, was told to telephone for the two nurses to be eent at once. In dtl oours.a two tall and solemn-looking broad pen, dressed exactly alike, and each carrying 1 small black bag, presented themselves at the ospital, eay. ing that they had come in aniswf to the tele- phone summons to nurse the facial caee! When they heard that it wae a. tjliY baby they was dumbfoundered. However, t}e latter was eoon explained; the new ported had used al wrong number by mistake, and telephoned to a male nurses' co-operation. The two big men. looking exactly like Tweedledumand Tweedle. dee, were then, to their great hef, allowed to depart, and a fresh telepJ°ne Message soon brought two regulations, efrooked, and becapped nurses for the little eaSlea baby. j

NEWPORT EDUCATION OOMMITTEE 1 The Newport Education (^rannttee bae decided to engage Mr. Holland (who has been recommended to them by Dr. 6adler as an educational expert) to repoffc upon the education requirements of the borough at a, fee of fifty guineas. The Architectural Works Joint Committee has considered and come to a decision on the I question of architectura,l work on the 6Cb s. The plan of the school board was to Five out their work in rotation to the arokitect8 of the town, but this joint bf the new education oommittee and tfe DorPOra-tion recommended that that plan 1(-Is terniinated, and that a. qualified architect he engaged at L250 per annum in the borOlIgh engineer's office, and that the borough engineer under- take all work oonnected. witli the schools.

A DEAR TWOPENNYWORTH. For taking two pennyworth of coal from the tips of the United N tips of the United National colliery at Risca. September 9, Aaron Crooks an old man, employed at the colliery, \fttB fined 10s., or seven days' imprisonment. Mr. H. S. Lyne, who apPeared for the prosecution, said it was not the value of the coal that the company looked at, but the fact that the defendant, whp had been warned before, was in constant work, and oould get his coal at coct Priee. it was necessary to put a stop to the theft of coal. ADefenda-nt said he had working at the colliery since he was nine years of age.

LADY CURZON, The following bulletin was issued at Walmer Castle this mornins:— TAa.dy Curion has had sow# aloep during [ the night, and haa taken nourishment, well.

I'ANISHED FORTUNES ICTRAORDINARY STORY OF A WASTED LIFE. k sad tale of wasted life and fortune was lated at Blackburn yesterday, when illiam James Lucas, a-ged fifty, stood in the "ell, charged with abandoning his two tiildren. Mr. Lucas, who formerly occupied a high osition in the town and was esteemed as man of great commercial talents, was tated to have been three time married. His tecond wife was a sister of a, mmeber of 'he Blackburn Bench and herself part owner )f a large cotton mill and much property III the town. For some years Lucas managed the business, but he developed a fondness for drink, and the inevitable crash came when his wife and sisters, whose capital was invested in the business, found it had all vanished, and that the house property had also been mortgaged up to the hilt to supply his extravagances. His wife's relatives came to the rescue, and backed him as a weights and scales manu- facturer, but this business, too, smashed. Then his wife died, leaving the two children forming tho subject of the charge. Mr. Lucus married again, but his third wife quickly separated from him, report saying that each believed the other to be wealthy, and Both were Mistaken Eighteen months ago Mr. Lucas was found at Southport touting for a restaurant in the day and washing up dishes at night. In the meantime, he had left his children with a Poor couple, who, getting no help from him, found it impossible to keep them. The children, ragged and in want, appealed to Nancy Yates, who had been their father's servant in his time of prosperity, and she kept them twelve months, on the father's promise, which he did not keep, to pay for their food. The result was that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children took the matter up, and Mr. Lucas wae arrested. The accused, who was well known to occupants of the bench, denied with emotion that he had ever had the great wealth attributed to him, but said that if the magistrates gave him a chance he would make an effort to keep the children. The Chairman (Mr. Austin Cottam) said they all knew he oould do well if he would make up his mind to keep away from the drink, and they would give him a chance of regain- ing his position. Lucas was fined 10s. and ooste for abandon- ing the children, and ordered to pay 6s. weekly for the support of a younger chlid, who would remain in the custody of Nancy Yates. LOST 160,00 IN A DAY. Another case of a lost fortune came to the notice of the Stroud Board of Guardians yesterday. Application for relief was made by Thomas Russell, 78 years of age, of Missirdine. The applicant, an agricultural labourer, living alone, was once a well-known bookmaker, and was also in business as butcher in the city of Gloucester. He possessed considerable wealth, and drove his carriage, but lost large sums of money on the turf. He is said to have lost as much as R60,000 in one day. The board granted him 3s. a week for a. month, but told him he must find lodgings, it being against the rule to give relief to aged persons residing alone.

BORING UNDER THE 8TRANDJ The presence of several rough-looking tents in the Strand, Fleet-street, and Ludgate-hill have during the last few days excited con- siderable curiosity among paseare-by. The structures are not the dwelling-places of a. new nomad tribe, but "workshops" of a firm of artesian-well engineers employed as pioneers in a scheme for constructing a, great sewer from the north side of Haanmeramith to Bow. Their object is to ascertain by boring opera- tions the "lay" of the strahe depths of gravel and clay-in order to facilitate the work of constructing the sewer. The contraot provides for the boring to a. depth of 55ft., and includes operations at St. Paul's Churchyard, Ludg-,iteeirous, Fleet- street, Strand (two), and Pall-mall. At the two first-mentioned places work has ceased. At St. Paul's it was necessary to bore to a depth of 63ft. before a satisfactory foundation was reached—40ft. into the clay. At iiudgate-circus clay was struck 2ft, from the surface, and a base was found 5ft. further down. The clay is that peculiarly blue sub- stance found as substrata, all over the Metropolis, and is sometimes 200ft. deep. The drills are operated by hand, as the use of steam might startle the horse traffic.

MAN UNDER THE BED. I Just after Miss Alice Jackson, of Maida- vale, had gone into her room on Thursday evening, a man crawled from under the bed. Startled, but not frightened, the young lady at once rushed to the door of the room to prevent his escape. The man took a silver cigarette case and two silver trays from his pocket, and handed them to Miss Jackson, who then allowed him to go out. As soon as he had departed, however, ehe regretted her leniency, and raised an alarm. A hunt for the burglar, who had by that time left the house, followed. In Sutherland-avenue a man pushing a truck was accosted by a stranger, who walked beside him. A few minutes later a police- man had arrested the stranger, Peter M'Laughlin, and charged him with the house- breaking. M'Laughlin was yesterday remanded at Marylebone. Asked in court whether she was married, the prosecutrix replied, "No; but I am going to be in about three weeks."

I MR. SHEPHERD'S VENTURES. I Mr. David Shepherd, who is now in Cardiff Gaol awaiting trial on the charge of embezz- ling the moneys of the Cardiff Corporation, was associated with the undertaking of Messrs. Poynton and Co., boot manu- facturers, Cardiff, which concern was wound up in August last. What his losses, if any, were in consequence has not been made public, but in the course of the investigation of the promotion and business of Poynton and Co. Mr. Thomas Haywood Poyn- ton, the managing director of the company. was subjected to a close examination on his connection and dealings with Mr. Shep- herd, who was one of the directors.

DEATH OF A PROSECUTRIX. I A woman named Ellen Kelly, whose face was smeared with blood, complained to a constable in the Harrow-road that she had been knocked down by Arthur Ward, a young plasterer, who was arrested. On the following day the woman died, apparently in a. fit, and a coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes, accelerated by drinking habits, Ward being entirely exonerated. When Ward was brought up at Marylebone again yesterday on the charge of assaulting the woman the magistrate said he was con- vinced there had been an assault, and Ward must find bail or go to prison for a month.

l Th e Rig ht Hon..Tames Bryce, M.P., andMr8' Bryoe Me the ?uceto of Mr. Roosevelt at [th. White House tor a. few day*.

STOP PRESS 0 iUJr Jri?Jbbo Latest Jelegrams. EXPRESS OFFICE. 6.0 p.m. GLAMORGAN GOLF CLUB AUTUMN MEETING. The Gia;viorgan Bowl was won this afier- by iir. G. Ilsuwick, juu. i'inai gcore"5wau«;a, 6 goalf:, 2 tries. 35 points; Xeth, uil. .=: r:: iiTG3 c*CC;*0 ,1):2 :!YZ i;, a:! 2 ::c vSve 1L': l i t3): Abcrcarn, nil. IV, o tries isix .points); Poutardudais, nil. iialf-tiiiie score:—Merthyr, two goals; Pontypridd, one goal. nail-time score: -C,.terphilly, nil; Ponty- sndd, nil. LEAiiUE.—HAijF-H3IE SCOKES: Stoko, OTIC; Forest, nil. :LÜ(liÛ3rJrOlgh] 1111; VU¡U.)ll, nl. Bury, nil; Woolwich Aiicual, ail. i¡,f¡ffirid United, nil; Coiir.t! nil. XCWCHSUQ. tvvn; S jancjiflstor Cit; nil, A4t.;4 Vma., twa, one. Waekfema Kovcrs, Siicffieli V.edne.,day, nil. Woh-eriianiptcn, nil Derby County, nil. Preston North End, two; Small Heath, nil., I »

ONE SOVEREIGN EACH. Î A oopy of the "Evening Express" was yester- day purchased for one sovereign from each of the persons named below at the addresses given:- CARDIFF.—Mr. George Bennett, 38, Constella- tion street. CROSS =S.-Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 26, Salis- bury-street. CWMTILLERY.—Mrs. Elizabeth Pcaree, 17, Gaen-street. NEATH.—Miss Hes, 21, Os born-street. NEWPORT.—Mrs. Cleave, 15, Clytha-crescent. RHYM'NEY.—Mr. Richard Griffiths, 50, Plan- tation-street. TONYP ANDY .—Mrs. Sophia Lewis, 113, Bim- rose-street. TREDF,GAR.-Mys. Annie Welsh, 30, North-lane. YSTRAD.—Mr. William Davies, 40, Ystrad. road.

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. I Girl Fatally Shoots Her Father. I A fearful tragedy has taken place at St. Ouen, in the family of a man named Gardel. Gardel drank, and there were perpetual quarrels between him and his wife and daughter on this subject. At dinner a fierce quarrel broke out at a moment's notice. In a second every portable thing in the room was being thrown by one of the three. Everything was broken to pieces, and at last, as there was nothing left to throw, the father went out in the garden and com- menced to bombard the house with flower- pots, logs, stones, pails. These missiles went smashing through the windows and imperilled the women's very lives. Suddenly the daughter, her face livid with rage, appeared at the window. She had a large revolver in her hand and opened fire upon her father. He instantly fell, shot in the head and shoulder. Then the girl came out of the house and continued pouring shots into her father's body, and he was so fearfully wounded that he implored, her to put him out of his misery. For reply she still fired at him. The police came upon the scene and removed the dying man to a hospital and arrested the daughter. The house looked as if it had been wrecked with shells. Among the rubbish were found no fewer than ten cartridges which the girl had fired.

FOR SHOOTING A CAT. I Robert Lanchester, of Malpas-road, Brock- ley, was summoned at Greenwich for cruelty to a cat by shooting it. Lousia Green, a neighbour, said she was in her kitchen in the afternoon when she heard her cat, which had been sitting on the fence, cry out. She went out and found it lying at the foot of the fence, bleeding from a shot wound in the neck. The animal remained in agony till seven o'clock, when witness's hus- band returned home and destroyed it. Inspector Potter, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the defendant told him he was shooting with an air gun from a bedroom window when he saw the cat, and shot at it, hitting it. Mr. Kettle said in view of defendant's good character he would only impose a fine of 5s. and 2s. costs. j

LLANiSHEN LAD'S ESCAPADE I The young Llanishen lad, Spencer Bloom- field, who ran away from home on Wednes- day, was found yesterday at Chepstow, and was brought back to his home.

LOVER'S RESOLVE. I n_- SWEETHEART'S TERM OF PENAL SERVITUDE. When Lee, convicted of the Babbacombe murder, passed into penal servitude, nomi. nally for life, after his ghastly ordeal of thrice being taken to the scaffold, Katie Farmer, the girl who was his sweetheart, resolved .to give up her life to waiting hia release, which would, under ordinary circum- stances, take place at the expiration of. twenty years. The news of her first lover's approaching release has painfully recalled to her the terrible events of 1884. To a correspondent she spoke sadly of the last time she ever I saw Lee. "I remember it most vividly," she said. "It was at the inquest, close on twenty years ago. I recall he walked with his head in the air. although he was in such deadly peril. "He recognised me and smiled, and said, 'Good-bye, dear.' Those were the last words I ever heard him utter. He never sent a letter from prison to me, and never asked me to visit him in Portland. "I can speak about Lee now without pain or any emotion except sorrow that he has been lunable up to now to prove his inno- cence if he really is speaking the truth. "I cannot credit that one who was always so good-hearted and free and easy could have done such a deed." Allowances should be made, she claims, for a letter in which she promised that she would never grow tired of wainting for Lee. "I was then a Silly, Sentimental Girl I and did not know my own mind." The letter fully shows the intenseness of her feel- ing at the time. My dearest love (she wrote on October 12, 1884), what can you possibly mean by tell- ing me that you love me, and then writing to know if I wish to break off our engage- ment?. I tell you the engagement, shall not be broken off by my consent. If it was your lot to crack stones in the street, and you will still take me to be your wife, I will not eay no. No, my love. I am prepared to battle with the world before you make me your wife, and shall never be tired of waiting for you, Jack. Have a little pity for me. Perhaps if I had loved you less you wo "• Id have loved me more. You have been my only friend, and you have been my chief support. I have depended on you for something more than a friend. Before concluding I would very much like to see you once more. It cannot be long. My love, Jack. "In the old, happy days, before that ter- rible tragedy blotted everything out," con- cluded the lady, with a sigh, after reading this letter, "it was different-we were young."

TOO OLD AT 43. I Poulterer Drowns Himself. I Unable to get work, William Carter, 43, a poulterer, of Willesden-green, drowned him. self in the Grand Junction Canal. He left a situation, but found that hiS age prevented him getting another, and he was consequently depressed. Since the death of his wife he had been cohabiting happily with a woman named Humphreys, and on Sunday he told her that was the laat Sunday's dinner he would ever have. He was seen to mount the footbridge leading from Kensal-road to Harrow-road, and throw himself into the canal. A carman named Charles Shillito jumped in and recovered the body, but life was found to be extinct. In his pocket was found a note as follows: "Carter. May God forgive me. Take care of the chil- dren. Love to all." At the inquest yesterday the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."

HUMOUR OF THE COURTS. I Some amusing incidents diversified the hearing of judgment summonses in Brentford County-court yesterday. A debt collector informed his Honour Judge Short, X.C., that a debtor could pay, but that he was a man of no principle. Well, has he any money?'" inquired the judge. Money? Yes, sir, plenty," was the reply. He has twenty shillings a week and his tea every day." Amid laughter, in which he himself joined, the judge announced that a debtor, a clerk in the City, had been in court that morning and had gone to the post office (situated immediately opposite the court) and addressed to him a telegram reading:- Cannot face the ordeal; will pay on Mon- day." He can pay, sir; he is a member of the Dive Club," said a solicitor's clerk of another debtor. Is it a swimming club?" asked his Honour. "No, a fashionable club at Ealing." You are dressed differently when you sit down to your seven o'clock dinner to what you are now," was the observation of a witness to a gentleman who owed a cham- pagne bill. I saw you through the window when I served the summons," added the witness. A prosecutor who gave his name as Bidg- good had to spell it for the Stratford Police- court clerk. I have never heard that name before," admitted the official. "I found that British ale was far too strong for me," pleaded John Broadwood, a sailor belonging to an American warship, when charged at Bow-street yesterday with inebriety. He was let off on promising to go back to his ship at once.

MARRIAGE PURGATORY." I I would sooner put up with this than live in purgatory," said Percy Lett M'Gary, aged 36, of the Indian Civil Service, now residing at Balham Hill, when a detective arrested him for bigamy. Did that mean his first or second mar- riage? asked the South-Western magistrate yesterday. "His first," said the detective, who had been describing the arrest. He added, • Don't let my legal wife go to the house and create a disturbance. The first marriage, it was stated, took place in Simla, and proved unhappy. Then, after four months' acquaintance, Mrs. Cathcart, a widow, was wedded to Mr. M'Gary at Bays- water two years ago. Both wives," each fashionably dressed, were present in court yesterday, when M'Gary was remanded. It was not I who informed the police," observed Mrs. Cathcart

OLD LADY'S "VERY GOOD LIFE." I With the exception of two years, when she was in Caterham Asylum, Miss Emma Brown, a septuagenarian living in Camelia-street, Wandsworth-road, had regularly attended Holy Communion, and morning, afternoon, and evening services at her church. On Sunday last, when she attended Bible class, she complained of illness, and told a friend afterwards that she thought she was going home." On Tuesday she attended a mother's meet- ing at the Priory Institute, Devonshire-road, and died during the singing of the hymn, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." At the inquest yesterday Dr. Freyberger attributed death to senile decay, and a ver- dict accordingly was returned. It is evident that Miss Brown was an old lady who had lived a very good life," sym- pathetically remarked Coroner Wellington.

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MOTHER'S HEROISM RISKS DEATH TO SAVE LITTLE ONES FROM FIRE. The danger of leaving young children alone in a room with a fire in the grate is painfully illustrated by a story that comes from Earl's Court. In Hilmer-street lived a horsekeeper, named Hyatt, his wife, and three children—Maud, aged four, Freddie, aged two, and a baby. About one o'clock yesterday the woman went out to do some shopping, leaving the children alone in a back room, the baby being in a cot. On her return the house was full of smoke. As she approached the room the suffocating fumes were almost impassable, and flames greeted her as she flung open the door. Mrs. Hyatt dashed into the room, and as quickly as possible dragged the baby from its cot. In her anxiety to bear it to a place of safety she stumbled downstairs and fell. She had no time, however, to think of her. self Consigning the infant to the care of a neighbour, who at once went off to the doctor, she returned to rescue the other children, but it was impossible to get near the room on account of the smoke. Screaming and wringing her hands, the poor creature dashed hither and thither in wild dismay, now crawling on her hands and knees in hopeless endeavour to evade the smoke and flames, now running forward, only to be mercilessly beaten back. A neighbour, Mrs. Hunt, tried with no better success, and, almost out of her mind, Mrs. Hyatt ran screaming into the street. Two men came to her assistance, and, the flames subsiding for a moment, they were able to enter the room. It was too late. Between a charred armchair and the fire lay, tha almost unrecognisable bodies of the two little ones. Before she could learn the terrible news the poor mother collapsed, and was taken to Dr. England, who found that she had been badly burned on the arm. Later the loss of her children was broken to her, and she was prostrated with grief. It is supposed that the children caused the fire when playing near the grate. Another burning case was investigated by the coroner at Greenwich. Eliza Ball, aged ten, was left at home in charge of thref younger children. She lighted a flre to make tea for her parents on their return, and fell asleep in front of it. Her clothing caught fire. This awakened her. She rushed into the street, where neigh. bours extinguished the flames, but the poor girl died from her injuries.

Those Dreamland Faces "CATS AND WILD ANIMALS ALL OVER THE CELL." Joseph Murphy confessed to deafness when he was brought before the Cardiff magistrates on a charge of stealing two shirts from 23, James-street, and Court-officer Gregory, meekly protesting that it was a hopeless job, began to bawl the charge into his ea.r. Murphy stood it without a murmur, although he showed no signs of deafness to the shop assistant yesterday. He didn't move a hair, but, preserving his stony stare, mourn- fully said that he came from Philadelphia. "Try the other side," suggested the Clerk. "No, that's his best ear, sir," returned Court- sergeant Evans, with a grin. "But he's not deaf; he tried this game last time he was here." The shirts were produced in court, and Joseph unbuttoned his ooat to show he had no need of one. "I was drunk. and I don't know anything a.bout it," he said irritably, as Court-officea Gregory lustily yelled the evidence at him from a distance of half an inch. "I've been drinking all the time," he told the bench. "Last night there were three big navvies walking over my chest, and cats and dogs and wild animals all over the cell." Alderman Thomas; What was the colour ol the animals? What about the colour of the navvies?" echoed a court officer in an undertone. Joseph finally retired into seclusion for month.

"PRINCESS" ARRESTED. The beautiful young brunette who gave her name as "Madame de Moelly" to the police after her dramatio arrest in the Avenue d'Elan turns out to be Mdlle. Yvonne de Mayrema, the daughter of Marie I., "the King of the Sedangso." One of the leading Paris jewellers charges her with obtaining trinkets worth £4,000 and disposing of them at ridiculous prices. Her arrest has set all Paris talking, for the "Princess" had a. large circle of friends. Those who knew her haughty spirit are ohuckling at the description of how, when the detectives approached the carriage, the lady, with the gesture of an outraged queen, sent them rolling in the dust. Her late father had a European renown. In 1870 he and some twenty other adventurers forestalled a. German expedition to th. Sedang country, in Cochin China. This oountry, at the time, was ravaged by an epidemic, and Mayrema. and his volunteers worked like slaves to save the dying thousands. In gratitude they elected him Marie I., King of the Sebangs, and the territory was assured to France.

MET IN PRISON. Two months ago a thief forced a drawer In the offices of Messrs. Evans and Company, chartered patent agents, Chancery-lane, and stole two blank cheques from a cheque-book. Before the loss was discovered one of the cheques, filled in for JS50, and with Mr. Evans's name forged on it, was cashed by A. Smith," at the National Provincial Bank. Nothing further was heard until yesterday, when Henry Thomas gave himself up at Bow- street, and admitted that he was the A. Smith," who cashed the cheque. I only had £ 15 for my share," he added. "The other man had the remainder. I don't know his name. I met him in Brixton Prison about two years ago, when I was on remand. I have been wrongly accused by some of the boys, and that is the reason I gave myself up." Thomas, described as a carman, living in King's-cross-road, was subsequently brought before the magistrate and remanded on charges of theft and forgery.

A CARDIFF PUZZLE. To the Editor of the Evening Express." Sir,—My solution of the above is as fol lows.— Starting from the Royal Oak Hotel, con- tinuing up St. Mary-street to Dnke- street, on to the tunnel in Queen. street, under the tunnel in boat, and down the canal to the East or West Wharf, Penarth- road, over ship school bridge and under at low water, and down the side of the Taff, over Wood-street Bridge, up Station-approach, and there you are.—I am, Ac., there you are.—I am, Ac., BONES. Cardiff, Sept. 30.

WINDFALL FOR RAG SORTER A Dover woman, employed as a rag sorter at some paper mills, has received inform- ation that a fortune of several thousand pound3 has been left her by her husband, who many years ago emigrated to Australia. The woman is a member of the Salvation Army.

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