Evening Express

THE WELSH SIDE. By HARRY BOWEN.* The team chosen against Ireland to- day was, on the whole, well received, though from the point of view of its being a sound rather than a brilliant side. Why this opinion should hold is not quite clear at first. The changes made in the forwards hardly make for this opinion, for the three rivnv men are given as scrimma-gers and clever players. Powell, undoubtedly, works with, his head as well as body and feet. Westacott has impressed those who have been fortunate enough to see him play lately as being quite the equal of Powell, while Evans bears stamp as a sturdy 14st. 71b. scrimmager, who does his work and does a dash on top of it, the one in nd wise interfering with the other. In the backs there was one change, and, perhaps, it was here that the opinion was conceptod. The change from eisrht to seven backs, with the preference for Gibbs rather than Trew, undoubtedly gives the groundwork for the opinion. Gibbs, as a half, is known for the sound- ness of his play, defence being his especial forte. Trew is known for his brilliance, attaekfbeing the best part of his work. The Swansea man will cut out openings, the Ca.rdiff man will prevent them being cut by others, while, on the other hand, the Cardiff man will stop a mountain, while the Swansea. man will circumvent it, getting round to pull it back from behind. Except as between the two men I fail to find any reason for the idea of soundness rather than brilliance, but as between the two in their methods of attack there is quite sufficient to give sufficient justification for that ida. Now I am not giving anyone the idea that there has been a great miscarriage of justice in the selection of Gibbs over Trew. The Swansea man has been off- oolour lately, the Cardiff man decidedly on-colour; and, though as between their abilities the scale would fall in Willie Trew's favour, when present form is taken into consideration it takes much discrimination to know the hang of the balance. So no idea. of great injustice being done need strike anyone at all. The difference of form has outweighed the difference of the men. But-and this is what we were getting at—the one man's strength being attack, the other's defence, is what fixod the opinion that the side is sound rather than brilliant. For the play of the occupier of the outside half's position determines the character of the day's game more than that of any player in any other position in the Welsh game. Winfield went to Belfast determined to wipe something dI a slate. No one questions his right to be Welsh back to- day, and ii-ot -t man wished him anything r but well in the slate wiping effort. The goal-kicking in the last jnatch at Belfast was what beat ua after all. Thus: Ireland, 1 goal 3 tries Wales, 4 tries. The three- quarter line, with Teddy Morgan, Gi be, Gwyn Xicholls, and Maddocks, make it a case of "Hats off." Gwyn failed to get away for the lut Belfast match, and the ¡ news gave sickly spinals great prominence. It would have been calani ito-u-, if anything ¡ had prevented him taking part in to- day's tussle, which is spoken of as his last international. Maddocks has done remarkably well. Now and again he gives one chills, but more than now and again he works these off by the introduction of really hot stuff. This surprise is a startle of the first order. He springs this startle on the attack, he encourages chills in defence. If the London Welshman could only be per- suaded to get down to the ball to stop rushes chills -would be right off. It is in attack that Reggie Gibbs can score. The sharp click pass is what is wanted—the pass that proves the ball to be no more that 14oz. in weight and not o61b. The Irish following up is too rapid for delays in ball transit. There is a suspicion that some of those who have done forward service in the past are tail- ing off more rapidly than is good for the side, but I fail to be able to agree that the differenoe is great enough to make them less than the best -we have.

*MR. LLOYD MEYRICK'S Notes now appear in the Evening Express" on four days a week, i.e., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. (MR. W. BRACE'S Labour Notes appear on Wednesday, and MR. HARRY BOWERIS, on Sport, on Saturday,

I Family of Five Shot. SEQUEL TO A LAW FEUD. A telegram fromoio states that a family of five people haa been murdered as the result of a law feud. The courts had ordered a. man named Pola to pay a debt wathin three days to a neighbour named Lenci. On the thdrd day Pola, accompanied by two men, went to Lenci's hotise and stated that he h&d brought the money with him. He aeked that Lenci's family might be present as witnesses to tlhe transaction, and Lenci called in his sister and three daughters. As Lenci took a pen to gigia the receipt for the money, the three visitors raised their rifles and fired two volleys, killing the entire I family on the spot. The murderers were afterwards arrested. Daily Expreea."

"Flying Rou ndabout," I NOVEL FORM OF FLYING MACHINE I Mr. James Shanks, of Clapham-park, London, an ex-bootmaker and now an auxiliary postman, claims to have solved the problem of aerial navigation. For forty years Mr. Shanks has spani his leisure moments studying aeronautics, and more especially the flight of birds, for, like many others who are working in the game direction, he is convinced that man can only fly when ho has mastered the "science" of the bird's wing. In order to raise suffloienrt. money to per- fect his flying machine. Mr. Shanks has con- Sltnroted a. "flying roundabout," which is pro- pelled not by a gas engine, but by silken wings. This novel form of "merry-gorcrund" weighs about t?ree-quarters of a. ton. A "Daily Express" representative enjoyed a. spin on it yesterday under one of the arches of Clapbam Station. There are six seats on the roundabout, carrying twelve persona. In front of each seat is a handle and a pair of silken wings, made after much study of angles and air resistance to give the power exercised by a bird's wings. Bach wing is about three and a half feet long. As soon as the handles are turned, the merry-go-round is set whirling at a vigorous speed, entirely by the action of the wings. The flying machine, which is to be the out- come of the ronndaboutt consists of four great rigid wings of silk built on ecientiflo principles and two wing propellers. Across a slender bar "the flying man" will sit bicycle-fashion, and will raise himself from the ground by .turning the handle which j sets the propellers' wings in action. The wings have extraordinary lifting power, even when teeted by the hand.

POLITENESS OF THE BAILIFF The official politeness which is displayed by the twentieth century bailiff was illus- trated at Clerkenwell Oounty-court yesterday when a man applied for a bailiff's certificate. Judge Edge: When instructed to levy a distress, what would you do? Applicant: In the first place, I should go to the house and knock at the door. Judge Edge: That would be very polite and considerate on your part, but it is better sometimes to turn the handle and walk in. (Laughter.) With the bailiff expected the polite knock )3 not always answered. What next would you do? Applicant: Having got in, I should present my card, and tell them in quiet tones what my bnsisess was. (Laughter.) Judge Edge: That is another act of polite- ness. but it is not the essential thing. Yon would show them the warrant? Applicant: Oh, yes, when I had announced myself. Judge Edge: A lot might happen during these preliminaxy politenesses. What next would you do? Applicant: I should ask them if they were prepared to pay the rent. If they said No," I should say, I don't want to be too harsh. Is there any chance of your getting the money in ono hour?" If they said Yes," then I should give them the b-our. With regard to the possession man I should not put them to any more expense than I pos- sibly could. I Judge Edge: That is quite right. But you ha-ve oinitted one of have omitted one of the most important things, and that. you should serve a notice of the distress upon the tenant saying where the goods have been removed to and the date and time of sale. Applicant: I should certainly do that. Judgo Edge: And you would afterwards give aji account to the tenant, so that he would know if the landlord sued him after- wards exactly what amount had been handed to th3 landlord for his rent. Applicant: I would do that. The certificate was granted.

PENNY FINES FOR SWEARING I The final review of a.bout forty doomed licensed honsee at Birmingham yesterday yielded some quaint witticisms, whioh kept the magisterial court in a. ripple of merri- ment. The Star Beerhouse was described by the def^hriiing solicitor as the shooting star, nut., as he explained, because it was a star of the first magnitude, but because it had a. shoot- ing gallery. The fishing club which met at the Nag's Head, said Mr. Aneell, met to discuss "terminological inexactitudes" of a piscatorial character. A new lease of life was asked ocn behalf of the Royal Oak because it had aj2 anti- swearing club. "What is that?" inquired Mr. ffeumbridge, one of the magistrates. Mr. Aneell: I know sufficient about it to say that it contains no golfers. Tbe landlord said that they fined a man a pemny every time he swore, and another penny was otaimaed from every oustomier who did not come clean, ohaven. This money, it was explained, was devoted to a general pic-uic in August. In connection with the refusal of a laud- lord to supply tea. to a customer, the Bench said under the new Act the Moetsee viae bound to supply this, amd a note of the rfefhsai wWld be mad» tpr^knb naott Jtoecaing 4I:;r.

WELSH CENTENARIAN I AMMANFORD FARMER 102 I YEARS OF AGE. At Hendrefawr Farm, almost on the top of Gerazim Mountain, and about four and a half miles from Ammanford, lives Mr. David Williams, who will this month celebrate his hundred and second birthday. Tnti-l a few weeks ago Mr. Williams enjoyed excellent health, and was in full possession of all his faculties. He has a wonderful memory, and re-calls the time when in his teens he assisted in haulage MR. DAVID WILLIAMS. work in coune.dion with the formation of the turnpike road from Pontardulsis to Car- marthen. He was born in March, 1804, at Llannon, about eight miles from Llanelly. When a. lad he attended a small school at Llanedy. the schoolmaster being known as Dafydd Cymraeg." Mr. Williams was twice married. His second wife was known as "Betty Llwyndu," being herself a widow at the time she married Mr. Williams. They lived together for a large number of years at Llwyndu, near Pantyffynon. After the death of his second wife he removed to Hendre Fawr to spend the remainder of his days with his son, Mr. William Williams. He was one of a. family of ten, and of that number onlv he and a brother, Mr. John Williams, Loughor, are now living. Mr. WiLliams has been a non-smoker all his life. Up to quite recently he could take his place in the hayfield with men 80 years his junior. It year he sheared a number of sheep and helped in the general work of the fftm. He would walk all the way to Ammanford (about four and a half mile?), where he has a large number of friends. Ho could re-oall the old coaching days, ,and remembered the railway from Llanelly to Brynamman being made, as well as the line to Llandilo. Ammanford, known then as Cross Inn Fach," was only a hamlet. Both Mr. Williams's parents lived to be 92 years of age. Mr. Williams can read well, and always shaves himself. He lives on a plain diet, and has always been strong and healthy. A few weeks ago, however, he had a slight illness.

ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED. I An eloping couple had their plans frustrated to-day at Liverpool. A middle- aged man and a young woman, the daughter of a publicum in East Norfolk, were reported missing, a warrant being out against the man for deserting his wife and family. It was ascertained they had booked pas-ages for Canada, and while proceeding to the steamer the man was arrested by a police superin- tendent from Norfolk. The young woman returned to her home.

TIRED OF SLEEPING OUT. I I William Hemming3, of nI c) fixed abode, was I charged at the local court to-day with, wil- fully damaging a. plate-glass window, value jES, the property of the Pontypridd Urban Council Heminings informed Police-con- stable Roberts that he had committed the damage, as he had been out of work for some time, and was tired of sleeping on the mouintain tops.—He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. I

RELIEF FOR SURETIES. I The four sureties for Richard Brown (32), of Patrick-street, Cardiff, who had been com- mittedoto the assizes on Dcoember 9, 1905, made application at Cardiff Polioe-court this morning for relief from their obligations, on the ground that they had reason to believe Brown intended to flee from justice. Their Worships (Messrs. T. Andrews end T. H. Stephens) granted thean the relief they asked for, telling Brown that he would be allowed bail if he could find new sureties for the same amount (150). I

ENGLAND FOR EVER. An elderly Frenchman who was charged at Wood Green with begging and drunkenness said he oould ppeak English, French, Spanish, and German. He was arrested because he was seen standing in the street, cap in hand, shout- ing, "I want, monish." The Magistrate: You will go to prison for seven days, and possibly you will be sent back to your own country. An Officer: Would you like to go back? The Prisoner (wagging his head and laughing): Na, na.. (Laughter.)

THE RHONDDA "CATHEDRAL." I In order to denote their appreciation of the pplendid edifice known as the "Cathedral of the Rhondda," the members of Zoar Baptist Chapel, Penygraig, have just pre- p-ented the contractors (Messrs. Charles Jenkins and Sons, Porth) with a. hand-illu- min.atoo oak-frame;l address. A deputation, consisting of the pastom (the Rev. D. C. Jones), and Messrs. Samuel Davies and, D. John, members of the church, waited on the con- tractors on Friday night, and formally pre- sented the testimonial, which was received by the head of the firm, Mr. David Jenkins. The chapel was recently completed at a cost of £5.1J.,Q, the architèct being Mr. Rhys Griffiths, Tonypandy.

THE LAND TENURE BILL. In the House of Common? yeterday Mr. Agar Robartcs moved the second z=,.? l-ri the Land Tenure Bill, which, he said, gave t'he tenant farmer the right to make im- provements and claim compensation for them at the end of his tenancy, and limited the landlord's right of distraint to one year's rent. The second reading was carried.

REMARKABLE MURDER CHARGE. I At Coventry to-day Charles Ernest Robert Taylor, a carpenter, was brought up from Warwick Goal, where he is awaiting trial in a robbery case, and charged with tho murder of a man and his wile, Richard and Mary Phillips, a.t Stoke Park, on January 10. The town-clerk gtated that evidence had been submitted to the treasury, who had instructed counsel to prosecute. Taylor addressed the bench, and said he wished to state that he had nothing to do with the crime. He was remanded. 'I:

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Budget of Small Hope TO BE INTRODUCED AFTER EASTER The Budget will not be introduced into the House of Commons this year until after the Easter adjournment (writes the Lobby cor- respondent of the Daily Express"). The chances of a favourable account are con- sidered good. Revenue is coming iu satisfactorily, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer wiU venture upon no definite estimate of income against expenditure until :12r the olose of the financial year on -March 31. ExpertB n national account keeping do not consider that the result will permit of any ninteri-al reduct/ion. of taxation. It is regarded as doubtful, for instance, if Mr. Asquith. will find himself in a. pow-tiion to relieve the payers of income-tax by a ein gle penny. Moreover, the State departments are not sympathetic in their economies. The saving effected in the cost of the Navy, amounting to about £1,500,000, has been dis- counted by an increase in Civil Service expen- dit,ure of over £ 1,000,000. The Army's offering is only £ 17,000. At beet, then, the country cannot look, in the opinion of the Budget prophete, to more than a small surplus. At the same time, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is given the credit of opportunities invisible to those out- aide the Treasury.

SCRAPING UP HIS FINE. I Risca Man a Shilling Short. I "No trust hero" seems to be the prevailing spirit of the court at which the county justices sit at Newport. To-day a man, named Thomas Hart, was summoned for using bad Jamguage at Risca on February 24. Defendant acknowledged that he had had a row with his wife. The Bench found that there were several previous convictions, and they imposed a. penalty of 209. Ha.rt managed to scrape up from his own pockets and those of a friend or two 19s. and ten- dered that amount on account. He implored in tones audible to the whole court a cojjflplo of women to lend him the other shilling, but they declared thart, they had not got it and walked out of the court- The court officials declined to accept the 19s., which was handed back to the defendant, and he was escorted to the cells.

AN ABDUCTION CHARGE. I William Milner, 29, of independent meains, laitely residing at Marlborough-mainsions, Victoria-street, and Bertha BrajidottL, 26, wife of his Swiss valet, again attended (before Mr. Curtis Bennett) at Westminster on thei.r bail to answer the charge, preferred om Jaaiuairy 27, of taking from the custody of her mother a girl under sixteen years of age named Lucie Musgrove Jones. Sines the charge was originally before the court there have been repeated adjournments, without a reason, being assigned in public. The proceedings yesterday were again formal, the defendants standing before the magistrate for a moment whilst Mr. L. D. Dutton, their solicitor, asked tha.t there should be a further adjournment until the 30th in st. The Magistrate assented, and the bad! of both defendants was extended until that date.

HORSE-SHOES WITHOUT NAILS I Two American inventors have pa.tented a, nailless device for shoeing horses. This device, which is called a horse-shoe eaurrier, is the extreme of simplicity, being gtainjved in a single piece out of mild eh??t. steel, lone-eighth of an idch thick and bent to the required shape. The carrier is formed with a toe-piece, and with two side-bands esttetod- iug forward from the heel ends of the device. These bands add the tGt-Pifte are joined by a bolt, thus firmly holding the carrier to the foot, because the hoof at the sole hee a. larger circumference than at the point where the bands encircle it. At the rear ends of the carrier cups are formed to receive the heels of the hoof. These cups prevent the carrier from spreadiOg1 open and eiipprng t off the hoof.

TRAINS AND WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY I Wireless telegraphy hae been the subject of some recent experiments on the Chicago aild Alton Railway. Dispatches to moving trains disclosed some interesting variations in the strength of the signals- For inst&tice, the electric radiations sent from St. Louis seem to prefer following the Mississippi River, for where the track runs alongside that stream a remarkable increase of intensity in the signals has been noted. On the other hand, the overhead frameworlc of a, bridge across whioh the train is running seems to screen off the radiations. When the train is run- ¡ ning broadside to the transmitting station the strength of the signals is increased. A. I speed of SO mile* an dofca dot Impede J the reoectfon of e WCUAX

HITCHER CRUSHED. A SHOCKING PONTYPRIDD FATALITY. Mr. E. Bernard Reece held an Inquiry at Pontypridd Police-court this morning con- cerning the death of T. A. Evans, 20, a hitcher, living at 107, Bonvilstone-road, Coed- pemmaen, who was killed at the Trevor Pit, Trehafod, on March 8. Mr. Dyer Lewis, his Majesty's inspector of mines, was present, and the Lewia-Merthyr Colliery Company was represented by Mr. G. M. Roberts, surveyor. W iEiam Harper, a hit-olier, gaid the deceased was an assistant under him. At the time of the aocidemt they were standing between the shaft and the "drop" from one landing to another. Their business was to clear coal which had fallen. Whilst the deoeaaed was cleaning on obstruction a full tram of coal ini a lift came down suddenly and caught deceased on the back. Assistance was immediately forthcoming, but it was evident that the deceased was killed imsbantly. Replying to. the Coroner, witness said he called to the man to raise the lift when the accident happened. If he had done eo he would have called to the epragger to stop the tram of coal bedng put into the lift. The noise from the engine may have prevented him hearing. Mr. Dyer Lewis said the aocidetnA was caused by the cage coming down, owing to the brake not bein g pi-nmed down, or on account of the brake slipping. Dr. Carrol, Trehafod, described the nature of the injuries sustained by the deceased, the lower part of the body being almost flattened out. Death was inetantameous. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned, but the jury expressed the opinion tbait the brake was not in order, and tihait a deeper suiap should be made.

Cardiff Man and HisWifel A SEPARATION ORDER GRANTED. I Nine weeks ago to-day John Matthews, a big, strong-loo king fellow, went home to his wife in Scott-street, Cardiff, drunk, so she told the Stipendiary this afternoon. He picked up the lighted lamp, and appeared to be going to throw it at her. However, she ran out, and he told her not to come back again. She went to her mother, and in the meantime he spent his energy in smashing up the furni- ture. Several times, she Mded, she and her two children had been sent on to the street, and sometimes on Sundays her children had been obliged to run on the streets when quite nude. Her husband had burnt "several things belonging to the children," and once he left her for dead in Cairns-street, Cat hays. On Christmas night be tried to strangle her, and he turned the little boy out of bed. The husband liere held up a letter and exclaimed, "I want to know what is the mean- ing of this; I received it about a month .ago?" This letter the stipendiary read, and the wife admitted that she had written it. "I was an innocent girl when he married me," she said, "and after we had been married two years he told me he had a wife living." "I have doul nothing cruel to her," said Matthews, who wiped away a tear. "I would not have summoned him," the wife went on, "but ho, stole my child from my mother's dear, and I want the children in my care." After Mary Clarke, a neighbour, had given evidence about several assaults, the husband went into the box, whimpering, "I am sorry this has dome about." "You needn't whine," called the Stipen- dia.ry, "that will have no effect on men. Tell your story in plain English." Defendant gave a long, rambling story, in which he complained that he had found his little boy wandering in Wood-street, thinly clothed, and had taken him to Clydaoh Vale, where he was working. Have/your beaten your wifp?" asked the Stipendiary "I don't evar remember laying hands on her," answered Matthews. A separation order was granted, and the husbfend was ordered to pay maintenance of 98. a week, and the wife to have the custodf of the children.

= ?-  SEDUCTIVE RHUBARB WINE. Newport Landlord Succumbs. I The terrible seductive power of rhubarb wine was again in evidence at Newport to-day. David Evans, landlord of the Rodney Arms Inn, Newport, was summoned (before the County justices) for being drnnfe and disorderly whilst in charge of a horse and trap on the highway at Risca, on Sunday, February 25. Defendant, who did not appear, was repre- sented by Mr. Lyndon Ooo. Polioe-sergeant Barry stated that when he served defendant with the summons Evans said, "Well, look here, I'll tell you the truth. I went to Machen, and in ft public-house I was talking to a very nice young woman. I had a. glass of rhubarb wine, then I had another, and after that I had a. thidr. Then I fell in the corner on my head. Oh, yes, I was drunk; there's no doubt of it." A youth named Edgar Williams spoko to seeing defendant in the trap a.t Risca whilst he was wa-iting for his chapel to open. De- fendant was driving about recklessly, and had some narrow escapes from collisions. Police-constable Lewis said ho took defen- dant to the police-station, where he was de- tained until he became sober. Mr. Cooper said this was another oase showing the effect of rhubarb wine upon men who were usually well bebavtd and quiet. Defendant had been, and was still, unwell. Dr. Neville had been attending him for nervous debility, and he (Mr. C-ooper) submitted that it was quite well known what the effect of even a small quantity of alcohol had upon men in that state. The Justices'-clerk: Had the young lady anything to do with it.? Mr. Cooper: No, I don't think she had. It was simply a question of the rhubarb wine, which has before now overcome better men than Mr. Evans. The Bench, in the result, imposed a fine of 20s., including costs.

FATHER'S RESPONSIBILITY. I Risca Man in Arrears. I A young man, named Fred Phillips, who said he was working on the main t-runk sewerage works, was brought up on. a warrant (before the county justices) at New- port to-day for neglecting to pay E2 14s. on an order made in favour of the child of Linda May berry, a, wsll-cfcreeBed young woman from Risca. Oom pi art-riant'« mother said the order (for .38. par week) had been in force two yea.rs, and defendant had paid very little under it. The last payment was 10s. in October last. Defendant acknowledged that he had bees, committed to prison already for making default under the order, and said he had only ge. coming to him as wages. I The Clerk: Yon will have to pas, this m-omey. I am always telling you young mo:nl that. Olyi is no laughing matter, and if you go on in tihis way amd keep going to prison, yon will spend the rest of your days at Usk. The Bench decided to commit him for two mmtbal gaol.

MAKING UP FOR LOST TIMEI Before Mr. Plowdem at Marylebone came I Julia Gorbett, a married woman, who was accused of assaulting a police-constable by throwing over him a pint of water which had been supplied to her in a cell tut the police-station to dridk. Mr. Plowden: It didn't do much harm, I suppose? Constable: Well, it wfmtt down my neek, aud I was wet thcmyugh. The prisoner pleaded that she had not been charged before. Mr. Plowden: Well, yon have made up for lost tithe now. You get drunk, break a win- dow, nse bad language, and conclude by bap- tising a constable. (Laughter.) Five éhil. ugs, or five days.

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I MEDIUM EXPOSED I I Spiritualistic Cheat. MAN WHO DUPED EXPERTS. An immense sensation has been created in the Spiritualist world by the exposure of a famous medium. He enjoyed a great repu- tattiou Sn all gra.des of society, and members of the peerage had been to see him. On the 28th of last month a sea-noe took pla.c.e at the house of Mr. Ronald Brailey, at Elgin-orescent, W., with the famous medium present. As usual, some interesting pheno- mena. are said to have taken place, which astonished most of the sitters. After the seance the chair which the medium had used was placed aside and wrapped ra a rug, the medium expressing a desire that it should not be bandied lest any detrimental psychic force, residing in the handler, should affect it. Then something happened which can be best told in Mr. Brailey's own words, as given to a "Morning Leader" representative yesterday. Examining the Chair. There had been present at the mance," said Mr. Bmiley, "a gentleman of very great literary experience, who is a student of, and writer on, the subject of criminology. This j gentleman, I should also say, is a, man with, keen powers of critical observation, and has always been desirous of knowing and seeing everything of a pay-ohdcal nat-uro. Well, I was telling him a.bou.t the care that was exercised in keeping the chair wrapped up so as to avoid these detrimental influences, when ihe asked me whether I had; examined the chair. I said, 'Oh, no!' simply realising the need of protecting all these things from the cross influences of indi- viduals. But,' I added, we'll examine the chair, and see whether everything is all right.' Thereupon we went into the room where the chair was, and removed it from the rug. But the moment I touched the chair my psycho- metric power asserted itself, and I exclaimed, You are perfectly right. Here is a secret chamber. Mr. Brailey defines psychometric power as the ability to read, by Bensation and in- tuition, the surroundings of persons, places, a.nd things through the magnetism which surrounds such persons, places, and things." Secret Chamber Photographed. The next thing we did," continued Mr. Brailey, was to search for a spring. B? t finding none, we forced the back of the chair open, and discovered that it had been locked, a keyhole becoming visible in the forcing. We, therefore, had a key made to fit the lock, put the chair carefully together again, and had a. photograph taken, showing the secret apartment. I-ast Sunday we called a meeting, with the object of laying our plans for the seance, which was to take place on the following night. I need not say that, as the sequel has shown, they were laid well. On the night of the seance the medium,, as was his custom, offered himself at the outset to a searching personal examination, which was carried out by Mr. Drew, who is also the possessor of the psychometric power. Mr. Drew, with another, entered the. csbi- net in which the medium does his spiritual- istic work (it is his own cabinet, by the way). After the medium had been stripped and examined, Mr. Drew asked him whether anything was secreted either in the curtains of the cabinet or anywhere else, and whetber the chair was all right. I think,' said Mr. Drew, I'll examine the chair outside the cabinet. The chair was accordingly brought out. The keyhole was speedily laid bare, and when the specially- made key had been inserted and the secret chamber laid open the scene was moat dramatic. "The medium turned ghastly pale, his eyes protruded, he clasped his head in has two hands (Mr. Brailey here imitated the Adelphi- villam attitude whioh the medium struck), and began to collapse." Secrets of the Chamber, The secret chamber revealed the following varied oautonts:- A collapsible dummy head, made off pink I stockinet, with flesh-coloured mask (with pieces of stockinet gummed over the eye- holes) the loose stockinet was, doubtless, used to represent the shrunken skin at the neck; six pieces of fine white China silk containing in all thirteen yards; two pieces of fine black cloth (doubtless used in the so-callcd dematerialisations); three beards of various shades; two wings, one white and one grey; an extending metal coa,changer for suspending drapery to represent the second form, with an iron hook on which to hang the form; a small flarfi electric lamp with four yards of wire with switch, which could be used when the medium was away from the cabinet to produce so-called spirit lights within; a bottle of scent, pins, and a powder-box to produce the necessary ghostly pallor. "These things," said Mr. Brailey, "he used to put on in the cabinet., and then come out masquerading as different spirits— sometimes as the spirit of an elderly lady, sometimes as that of a child, or old man, and so forth. "Well, there had meanwhile come into the room, at the psychological moment, the well- known psychic investigator, Dr. A. Wallace, M.D., of Harley-etreet, accompanied by a friend who was a, detective. A lady shorthand writer waa also present to take everything down as soon as the man had recovered consciousness. Dr. Wallace charged him with fraud; and the medium confessed his guilt. The money which had been contributed by the sitters was thereupon returned by him, and the dummy articles were annexed, and transferred, for inspection, to the offices of Light.: The culprit himself was allowed to go free. Was Genuine Once. Since then I have received a letter from him thanking me for what I had done, and explaining that he really was a genuine medium once, but that a spell under which he laboured, and which he could not under- stand, had made him fraudulently produce the previous (genuine) manifestations. My own belief is that he really was a spirit medium, but that, having lost his power, and not wishing to oonfess it, he resorted to these practices. Indeed, there are many people whose faith in him will not even now be shaken on account of the mar- vellous tests whioh ha-d .been given through his power. One thing as Spiritualists we are more than gratified at, and that is that we have shown up the fraud ourselves instead of other people doing it. Spiritualism is built up on facts, and not on frauds, and Spiritualists are efer to the fore to root out everything of a fraudulent nature."

EXPELLED FROM HIS CLUB Lord Ardilaun, Sir Andrew Porter, Master of the Rolls, and Mr. Percy Bernard, who rati-red in favour of Mr. Long at the South Dublin election, figure amongst the defers damts in au interesting action in which a writ has been issued by Mr. Edward Martyn, of Tillyra Caatle, omwty Galway, against the committee of the Kildare-street club. The oil use of the action is the expulsion of Martyn from the club, which is the Oarlton of Ireland. Mr. Martyn has identified himself in a marked way with the Gaelic movement. Of recent years he has given utterance to extreme Nationalist views. Ho was for many years a justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant for his native county, bnt an incident in connection with a refusal to let "God Save the King" be sung in a concert in his hQlUse led to a request for an explanation by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Martyn's reply was in the nature of a. defiance, and he resigned his position ae magistrate and deputy-lieutenant. The immediate cause of Mr. Martyn's expulsion from the club was a speech denouncing recruiting for the British Army. Mr. Martyn oaks for an injunction restrain- ing the committee, the members of the club, and their servants from inierfaring with him in tJBya enJoymer-VaC fib&ym -qf-tlMvnrtwfr.

SO-CALLED REM EDY j ———.——— I KILL815,OOO BA-BIE8 ANNUALLY The use of laudanum and aniseed as a ¡ medicine for babies was strongly condemned by Dr. Marriott, the presiding magistrate at Stockport, yesterday. A young woman was charged with attempting suicido, and it was stated that she obtained the poison for the purpose from a chemist, who supplied laudanum and aniseed to her on the understanding that it waa for a baby. The chemist says it is a common mixture for babies, who are peculiarly susceptible to the effects of opium," said Dr. Marriott. All I can say is that over 15,000 babies are done to death annually by this so-called remedy, which is eminently adapted to increase infantile mortality."

I Needle in His Heart I YOUNG DOCTOR DRIVEN TO SUICIDE ] An inquest was held at Wimbledon on Friday on the body of Geoffrey Owen Parsons, a doctor, aged twenty-six, lately residing at 12, Elia-grove, Wimbledon. It appeared that the deceased qualified as a, doctor in October last. He suffered from heart trouble, and had lately been consider- ably depressed. On Tuesday night last he left his bedroom clad only in shirt and trousers, and was seen by a constable to attempt to dive under a train, but was caught by the engine buffer and flung to the Bide of the metals. Both arms were broken and the left foot crushed. Dr. Percy F. Barton, who had known the deceased for many years, said that when he was a student he discovered that be had heart disease of a serious type. Be had been depressed since he passed his final exam., suffering from headaches, and always wishing to avoid people. A Needle in the Heart. An autopsy revealed tha.t his heart was enlarged, and fin. over the a,pex of the left veytt-ricle was found a common needle fixed across it, with its point upwards and towards the right side. It had evidently entered low down in the front of the hea.rt near the apex, as the scar was quite visible in the ventricular wall. No mark could be found in the skin cor- responding with the point of entry, and the needle was so black that it must have been there a long time, probably years. Death was due to acute delirious mania-, accelerated by the injuries. The fact of the needle being in the heart must hsve cansed some pain, and undoubtedly increased deceased's suffer- ing. It was a very extraordinary case. The jury returned a verdict of Suicide during temporary insanity."

I Swallowed a Sponge. I LADY'S REMARKABLE SUICIDE j Circumstances attending the death of Robina Morrison, 35, a member of the I Empress Club, Dover-street, Piccadilly, formed the subject of an inquest art, West- minster yesterday. The deceased, who was unmarried, had been muoh depressed recently through a family bereavement. She also worried a little about money matters, being under the impression that she would not be able to meet her liabilities. Her brother told the coroner that her anxiety in this direction I was quite unnecessary. He had seen no writ- ing bearing on her death. Harriet Smith, the deceased's maid, said they had been at the club three weeks. On Tuesday witness took her some hot water, and Miss Morrison said she would be down to lunch. At that time she seemed brighter than usual. At 4.30 ahe ,went to Miss Mor- rison's room and found the door locked on the inside. She fetched the porter. who effected en entry. Deceased was then found lying on the bed dead. Witness had no suspicion that death was not natural. Dr. Robert 8. Trevor stated dearth was due to I Carbolic Acid Poisoning. I In the stomach he found a Turkish sponge, 3in. long, 2iu. broad, and liin. atcross at its thickest part, and was of opinion that the deoeaaed swallowed it either for the pur- pose of relieving pain, or to suffocate herself. There was acute consumption of the rigfofc long. Dr. Alfred Chalmers Austin, of Broughton Aetley, near Rugby. said he had been con- sulted by the deceased, who feared she was suffering from consumption, but he was unable to detect it. She was despondent, and inclined to take a gloomy view of things generally. He knew she had promised money for charitable purposes, and that because she oould not get it soon enough it worried her. There was no question of insanity, but it was a. "borderland" case, and not n1-uoh would have been required to send her over tlhe line. He advised her to leave the quite oonntry villiage life and come to London. The Coroner said the circumstances sug- gested that the deceased had not only ta&en the poison, but that she endeavoured to con- ceal the fact, and for a short time was suc- cessful. The jury found a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity."

THREE DRUNKS. IN A WEEK I Talywain Labourer's Record. I At Pontypool to-day Thomas Hoskin, a labourer, hailing from Talywain, pleaded guilty to three charges of drunken and dis- orderly conduct on successive days. Starting on Sunday night, the 18th ultimo, the defen- dant appeared to have gone in for a regular drinking bout. disturbing the neighbourhood of TaJywain every night after stopgap with his sho-uting and swearing. Police-constables Vaughan and Ferriss, who proved the charge, stated that the defen- dant used some very disgusting language. Defendant had no excuse to offer. He was fined 10s. on each charge, or Z1 days' impri- sonment in default.

SWANSEA HARBOUR DUES. To-day the Court of Appeal further con- sidered the case of the Swansea Harbour Trustees v. the Asseesment Committee of the Swansea Union. Mr. Danckwerta, K.C., for the defendants, continued his argument in support of the decision of the Divisional Court tha.t harbour rates on shipping and goods ought to be taken into consideration in rating the hereditaments in the occupation of the trustees. In support of his contention that -the tolls were levied on account of the occu- pation, of the land by the trustees, the learned counsel pointed out that under the Act of 1854 the dues were divisible into three classes. There were, fli-st, the tonnage dues tn respect of vessels entering the harbour; the second class were dues in respect of goods loaded or unloaded elsewhere in the harbour than in the town float; a further tommage due was imposed if vessels remained in dock beyond a certain period. This fact strengthened and supported his argument that the tonnage rates were given for the use IOf something which was in the occupation of the trustees. The proper way to read an Act of Parliament was not to find all sorts of definitions of the language used, but to read the words in. their popular oonse. If they were to go on defining every word how was the poor ma.n in the street to obey the law? He submitted that he had made out a suffi- cient connection between the occupation of the harbour amd the imposition of harbour rates on shipping and goods to justify th. judgment of the court below. The turned co?Mel had not coneltd bja argume!'t when the court rose, and tt?:lf?r ther hearing was adjourned till Monday.

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A FORLORN HOPE. MINERS' MONEY "WASTED." Tredegar Workmen and Mr. Winstone. At a meeting of Tredegar Colliery workmen to-day, 31r. Onions, agent, was asked if the Federation executive had power to vote £2Z5 towajd3 the expenses of Mr. Winstone in oozir testing the Monmouth Boroughs, as he did not run under the Parliamentary scheme. Mr. Onions rep-lied that, whether they had power or not, they used it. ("Shame.") A Workman: They should be made to refund it. Mr. Oniions: The graimt was made in acoord- acco with the tenrfh object of the comstitutinal I want to be loyal to my colleagues, and will not express a personal opinion. The matter can be ventilated a& Monday's oonferenoe. ii desirable. Mr. J. Jones moved a resolution protesting against the executive taking this power into their own hands without consulting the mem, who found the money. This was seconded. In reply to a further question, Mr. Onions saad there was no clause in the constitution, investing the executive with this power. Mr. T. Davies, chalirman of tho district, remarked that money earned by the sweat of the workmen had been wasted in a forlorn hope, and the executive should know the feeling, so as to obviate a repetition. The motion was unanimously adopted. A Workman: Can we get the money back ? The Chairman: You will have to apply to Mr. Wimstome. I expeoU (Laughter.)

The Spoils of War A GENERAL'S 400 TRUNKS. Madrid, Friday,-Senor Negriee, & Repnb- lican, in the Chamber to-day asked the Government to hold an inquiry into abuses attending Spain's recent colonial wars. He 8a.id that generals had been known to return home with as many as 400 trunks, while one of thttn. according: to a current report, had indulged in lunches costing £ 1,C00. The widow of another general deposited 70,000 donros in a London bank in her name. The Premier said it was inopportune to return to the master which he considered dead.—Renter.

Card iff Ch i Id Scalded Mr. E. B. Reece bold an inquest at tbo Town-hall, Cardiff, on Friday, on the body of Arthur Henry Osborne, aged five, who died from scalds. Ada. Osborne, 39. Topaz-street, wife of Albert James Osborne, ship's steward, and mother of deceased, said that on the afternoon in question the child fell in a sitting position into a bucket of hot water, whioh witnEt168 mother bad put on the kitchen floor. The Coroner condemned the practice of placing hot water within the reach of chil- dren. The jury returned a vordict of "Accidental death."

MERTHYR WILL CASE. I In the Chancery Division to-day Mr. Justice Farwell resumed the hearing of the action by Mrs. Eliza. S. C. Williams, widow, of Cathe- dral-road, Cardiff, and Mr. Alex Frederick Bland, trustees of the tcFtfltor'g will, against Frederick Carlyle Williams, son of the testa- tor and also co-trustee with the plaintiffs. The testator carried on business as a watch- maker and jeweller at 129, High-street, Merthyr Tydfil, and made his will on the 2nd of May, 1905, by which he left to his wifo interest in the premises, 129, Righe't" j Merthyr, and left the business also to her, | but to be carried on by his son for such salary as his mother should allot him, with the view that ultimately the business should become the property of the son, to whom he gave an option to purchase the house, No. 129, for the sum of R700. Some time afterwards the testator took the eon int-o partnership, and covenanted that he would retire from. the business on the eon attaining the age of 25. Then the father died, and the son, attaining the age of 25 in 1904, obtained possession of the business, and purported to exercise the option of pur- chasing the house, No. 129, High-street. The house realised zCI,700, and the defendant alleged that his co-trnstee, Mr. Bland, told him that the £1,000 beyond the X700 (the option price) became defendant's property. The young man removed to No. 119, High- streot, but it was alleged that the business did not succeed, and in twelve years' time the defendant was largely indebted to hia mother and to the trustees, who in the terms I of the will had financed him to a considerable amount, taking an assignment by way of mortgage as security for the trust moneys. They now asked for an account and the appointment of a receiver and manager. Hie Lordship found as a fact that the option to purchase had not been exercised, and that the sum realised on No. 129 belonged to the trust estate. He referred the matter to Chambers to appoint a. receiver and mana- ger, and directed accounts to be taken of what was due to Mrs. Williams and what wae due to the trust estate, with liberty to apply as to the Realisation of the business. ooets were reserved.

STRIKE ON THE SOUTH WESTERN. The whole of the "cleaners" in the service of the London, and South Western Railway Company at Bournemouth went, on strike this morning, amd it is reported that the men at Eaetleigh and other depots have joined them. Considerable inoomvenience has oon- BequBntlly been caused to the company, as tftre engines had to leave the sheds unaleane<L The strikers compteuhi that their wages have been reduced 6dL per day. Thte rates hitherto- paid have ranged from 15s. to Ite. per week.

KAISER v. KING. Kaiser William is fortunate in higremem. brances. The Prussian trooper who stopped his Majesty's runaway horse many years ago is now a. prosperous Kansas farmer, so the Kaiser invited him to Berlin for the silver wedding feaM?titee. Tha? act will do the I German Emperor more good in America I than the gift of a thousand statues of his ancestors. Not all sovereigns have had the knaock of thus doing the right thing. A swan flying out from the Canal in Bushey Park startled one of tbe horses of George II.; I the animal ran away, threw the groom who was riding it, and Impaled itself upon some iron spikes in the park. How lucky that the man was not hurt!" said Lady Suffolk. Pray, where is the luck?" asked the King sneeringly. I have lost a good horse, and I have got a great booby of a groom to keep."

THE WHITCHURCH COMMON- At the last meeting' of the Whitchurch Parish Council it was decided to write to the representatives of the Bute feetate pointing out the nuisance created by gipsies and others on the common, and asking for the necessary authority to abate the nuisance. On Thursday evening a special meeting ot the recreation and cominons committee of the council was held, at which the reply J. received from the Bute officials was read It gave the oouncil the meoesstety power, anci it was decided to communicate with the. police on the subjeot. During the discussion the oodduct of the district council in not using the powers they possess to open out the t-oad in front of the houbce abutting on the oanrAon wtos criticised.

PURITAN SOAP BOOKLET JI Messrs. Christopher Thcnss and Bros, (Limited), of Bristol, the proprietors of Puri- tam. soap, have published a neat booklet in connection with their business. It is en titled "The little Book of the Purytswn Girl," and coTiitaukis a good deal of nutarestang iuforma* twm. AithnVugih the price is materkefd 2d-, the parbHoaatfan viU be <seout. postace paid to iJJ appliawrt* I