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ANGLERS & ANGLING. I Qualifications for the I Profession. IsOME ANCIENT PREJUDICES. I BY HARRY BOWEN. One man in his time plays many parts. At present I'm an angler. This has happened to me since last summer. At that time I can honestly say that becom- ing an angler was quite the furthest necessity in my mind. But now all my regret is that so many years—neglected angling years, which never can be re- enlied-are past for ever. I say this because I am thoroughly convinced that r angling as a sport beats anything that ever was or ever will be. I have been brought round to that way of thinking not from any actual expe- rience of my own, but from that of a friend. He assured me that angling was the one pastime made for man. He emphasised sacredly that it brought out all that was best in the human being, and, further, said that one day's angling was quite sufficient to produce permanent health, and to add, in addition, a first- olass crop of best-seasoned virtues. These were perseverance and observation, and self-control and carefulness, and wisdom and joy, and a few score others, which he mentioned somewhat in the above order-easily to be obtained if not already possessed, or, if the stock were short, by even one day's angling. And these, he said, were only a few of the abstract values that angling bestowed quite freely upon everybody who believed in her and faithfully followed her ways. Being an angler of many years' growth himself he knew, of course, and I take it for granted that he was (and is) correct, and thus I say that angling beats any other game alive-beats it easily. Whether as a health-producer or a virtue- begetter, a vice-exterminator or a mind exerciser, it easily distances out first. And I state all this on the strength of my friend's experience and veracity. I I have also bought a rod and reel and some thin animal's gut, and some fac- simile flies, and some real mad worms, and much salmon spawn on the strength of the same security. All these are pur- chased for that one day's fishing, which is to produce fish for food and content- ment an(Mother essences for condiment. One day's fishing he has promised me— one whole day-in which he means to teach me the delights of angling with a rod. He means me to confirm from expe- rience what I affirm on the credit of his word, my great opinion of angling. Now, I confess that angling has not always been high in my estimation in fact, I allow that at one time it occupied a third grade position in my mind. Anglers, too, 'were pretty low down. The best I could ifchink of them was that they were material masses of living loneli- nesses. The worst I imagined them was that of men- who had passed, by many years, their individual seasons of sense. Somehow, a mental picture of an angler always had rain in it, and muddy water- and a man's muddy trousers sitting on a II muddy bank. And the picture always' included a float for bobbing from fish- bites, which never bobbed from fish- bites. If it bobbed at all, it was the wind or the overwhelming ripple that bobbed it, and not fish-bites, though the latter received the credit. I also had an idea that no Association anglers caught fish except by accident, but that they always talked as if they had because it was a rule of the Association so to talk, as though heaps of fish had been wilfully landed by pure and pre- vious design. Certainly, I was strengthened in this idea by the invari- able emptiness of the baskets of anglers whom I waylaid occasionally fresh from day and night fishing. If I required to borrow a trout or two for friendship's sake, the usual answer would project, Very sorry, had fine sport but no fish had several pounders yesterday, wished you had asked me then. I shan't forget you, send you a beauty later," which later is not yet. I make this declaration of my early wrong impression of angling and anglers, more in the nature of an apology than anything else. An apology for hav- ing dared to speak carelessly of them at an anglers' annual smoker held At the Thomas Arms Hotel, Llanelly, in the early month of this year. The mistake of ever having invited me there at all was managed by the energetic hon. secre- tary of 'the Anglers' Association, Mr. D. T. Richards, and it was quite natural for him to fall into error number two of inviting a paper on angling. I could not refuse Mr. Richards, although he was the someone who'd blundered, simply because I knew his heart is in the fish, and he spares neither himself nor his purse to make angling popular. Every season he rears thou- sands of young trout in lozenge bottles in his greenhouse, as stock for re-charging the reservoir. Of all the Angling Association he is the most beloved by the three others, which feed upon the fish he so thoughtfully rears, and so are rendered strong enough to keep awake all night, thoughtfully plac- ing themselves out of reach of Mr. Lloyd Morris, the president's night gun. I say I could not refuse Mr. Richards, and when he said that the reading was just the worst thing he had listened to, and that he would like iit published so that confirmation of his criticism could be arranged in folio form, there was noth- ing to do but to agree. And such as it is, here it is in full, title and all:- A Paper on Angles, Angling, and Anglers. Read before the Llanelly Angiera' Asso- ciation at their Annual Smoker in the xea-r 1906. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—I have to thank you sincerely for your kind invita- tion—to—me—to meet you—here—in Smoke It was real nice of you. It was high time it oaine. We anglers are funny men. That ie your only excuse for overlooking me in the years that are p-asft, and also gone for ever But perhaps you thought I was no angler—you didn't dream I could angle. Perhaps you don't know even now. Well, my word is my bond, and you have it now in the .select of my solemn words of honour -that particular one used for trade pur. poses—that I can angle, and that so I am an angler. But, supposing I couldn't angle. Does that show I'm not an angler? No, Mr. Oh,a.irma,n, it doesn't—n. shows nothing— absolutely nothing. For an angler us born—not made. Catch- ing fish is only a detail, and doesn't quality nor disqualify. An angler has the I &,ngknig qualifications and Charaoteristi incepted in h.im when he starts from acratoh in the race of life. There's no doubt of that, and I solemnly tell this august body of smoking anglers that, fish or no flsh, you have in me one who holds all the qualifications and characteristice an angler should hold. In me you see one possessed of every possession an angler 1\ ever possessed from the time of Ieaac W al ton-dear old Isaac--of whom I speak as a very old friend, and, wi.t,h my hand superimposed over my heart, as should ba done when, any speak of this, the father of our sect, the finest twine twister that ever toyed a trout or gaffed a gurnet—I say I possess all the qualifications ever possessed from dear old Isaac's time down to the present day—the day of Tot-ten, of Blake, ,and of Jonah Thomas and the fishmonger's slab. Now, gentlemen, having laid claim to those qualifications, let us revise and fur- nish proofs. Now, what are the qualifications of an angler ? Briefly they are these: I 1. Strong imagination. II. Strong speech. I III. Strong patience. IV. Experience. Those are the qualifications, and that is the order of their values in angling. Let us take them one by one. First, Strong Imagination. I tell you (oh, ye freshwater fishermen!) I that I give in to none of you in imagina- tion, and the strength of it carries me right away. I can magnify a miserable minnow into a tip-top four-pounder trout with t.he best of you. I can talk of a full basket arrfl carry it with a heavily-burdened air-whii-- still refusing the passing stranger the luxury of a passing peep-with t,he a-blest ot you. I can fish with salmon spawn and try to believe it only paste with the most JÜghly concepted of you, and can make glorious catches after all other anglers have left for home with the simplest of you. And I can make good my pretensions by the surreptitious purchase of good, hone-st fish at the fishmonger's slab in a manner such as the most proficient amongst you could not cavil at. Oh, yes, when there's imagination wanted, I have it; when there's telling wanted, it can be told. And when I've finished, no one will be ablo to say, "The hAlf has never been told."

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Noises Next Door. GRAMOPHONE AS A WITNESS. An Amusing Diary Read. A gramophone, which was described as one of the best and loudest of its kind, was a. witness yesterday in the King's Bench Division, amd in the opinion of both judge and counsel it fully justified its description. Mr. H. A. Butt, a tiiafcer merchant, of Littlehiampton, sued his next-door neighbour, Mr. W. N. Griffith, for damages for main- taining an intolerable nuisance, and asked for an injunction restraining him from con- tinuing it. The gramophone was the intoler- able nuisance. Mr. Hume Williams, K.C., for Mr. Butt, said that his client was married early in 1905, a.nd took his house at Littlehampton, which was one of a pair of semi-detached villas. His next-door neighbour at that time was in possession of a wife, a dog, a phono- graph of moderate power, and Eeven or eight children. He was also of a, Bociable nature, amd had many, visitors, who called frequently and stayed late. In September last Mr. Griffith and his family went away for a holiday, and returned not only invigorated, but with an addition to the family in the shape of a gramophone. The evening parties became more frequent and the Guests Stayed Later. One of the gramophone's accomplishments was the imit.at,ion of a banjo, and Mr. Wil- liams said tha.t Mr. Griffith and bis guests kept time to it by stamping on the floor and beating on the grates with the fire- irons. The dog, too, entered into a vain competition with t.he gramophone, but always retired from the contest, hopelessly outclassed. The gramopttione invariably cloeed the evening's entertainment with "Home, Sweet Home," in which it was par- ticularly powerful, and sometimes it played this selection five or six times. The noise was so great (Mr. Williams said) that Mr. and Mrs. Butt could not sleep. Their Dervoes became shattered, and several times they felt compelled to seek refuge and repose away from home. Finally, Air. Butt was driven to the extroemity of keeping a diary, in which he made entries during the early hours of the morning. Som-e of these entries, which Mr. WiHiams read, disclosed an alarming condition in the Butt house-hold. They were as follow:— Awaked from sle-sp by gramophone's playing. Their small dog was turned out three minutes past two. Had no sleep since awakened by gramophone. Loud gramophone started at 2.15. Had to have dinner in hall, as noiw was insupportabie. Smulay night had ilo?? ;se leave supper un- finished and leave table. Driven from Table. January 31.—Had to quit lunch on account of gramophone's noises. Gramo- phone started at 10.10 in the evening. Loud cornet solo st-ill a.t it. Past eleven o'clock when we were undressing. Feb. 3.-Gra-mophone still at it. Sunday night gramophone .started for evening at 9.20, finished at 1.12; dog barking com- menced at 12.30. Songs played, the loudest they have, I am marching away to be a soldier." I have been awake since eleven. Two o'clock dog turned out. Was awaked by Griffith's horrible shotrtir.g. Noise of grarnoTiihone was such that we could not say our prayers in the bedroom on account of it. We had again to-night to say our prayers in another room on account of Griffith's gramophone. Can't sleep a wink. Gramo- phone still at it. The gramophone ronred out. Thought spout of gramophone had been put in the chimney to make it louder in our room. This note made at quarter to one. Gmophone still at it. To-day sent organ-grinder away. Said h3 would play in Griffith's garden. Directly he left the gramophone was started. My wife was crying with the torture of it, ana had to finish dressing in my room. Bedelia is unbeara/ble. My wife is bys- terical, and the gramophone is still hard at i t. Mep (rR. Butt) was go upset that she bad to lunch at the Ferns. At 11.15 the gramcphone was belching out Bedelia." Bedt,ha" was started just before 9.15. It seems as noisy as a smoking concert. Wife very poorly and gramophone belch- ing hard. Gramophone started at 3 p.m. When we came homa at 9.10 "Bedelia" was being played. Gramophone played" Loch Lomond," "Bedelia," Killarney," Ac. Although I stuffed the bed-clothes into my ears the noise was dreadful. Wife in dead faint on floor. I consider her nerves a wreck. The gramophone waa then brought, into court, and at his lordship's command its melody flooded the court. At the conclusion, of the luncheon adjourn- ment. Mr. Willta.ma announced that fin amicable agreement had been reached. Mr. Griffith had promised to give an undertaking to moderate the gramophone, and to pay part of Mr. Butt's costs.

l Divorced for Cold Feet Two notable divorce cases filled the columns of the American press yesterday. One relates to Mr. Jamas Duke, "the Tobacco King," who gets a decree because the court deemed thal. the misconduct of his wife with Major Huntoon was abundantly proved. The other reports the petition of Mrs. Josephine Russell, a handsome young Chicago lady, wealthy in her own right, who got a divorce because her husband smacked her" and otherwise beat her. The fair plaintiff, whose evidence convulsed the crowded court with laughter (says the Daily Telegraph "), testified that &he occa- sionally had cold feet, and that was tho source of all the trouble. Counsel sought to show that the lady's feet were not occasion- ally. but always cold; but she stuck to her statement that they were only cold "occasionally," when their natural warmth had been reduced by walking the chilly rloor. With serious emphasis she declared that on the night when her husband first assaulted her she did not touch him with her cold feet. Nevertheless the brute threw me out of bed, and beat me." On other occasions her husband smacked her, always because of the alleged cold feet. These cold-feet quarrels became chronic, and she had no alternative but to ask the court for relief, which has now been given. The case was virtually undefended.

PUNCTUAL BIRD. In a railway van of the Marbach-Heilbronn line, in Wurttemberg, says the "Schwabische Mercur," a little family of r-edtails have built their nest. While the van, which travels over the line every day with milk-cans, stops at the station for a couple of hours, the male bird, leaving his companion hatching her eggs, goes out in search of provisions. The extra ordinary part of the story is that he never misses his train, but always arrives exactly one minute before it starts. The little family are, of course, great pets of the railway men.

THE TEA DUTY. A representative meeting of tea retailers was held yesterday at Monument House, London, and the following resolution was passed: — That, as the reduction of a penny in the tea duty makes it impossible to give the Somall consumers the full benefit in any other way, present prices should be adhered to, but the quality of the tea supplied should be improved to the full extent of the reduction."

I STAGE-STRUCK LADIES. I Prisoners Sentenced. At Old Bailey, to-day, Charles Henry Houghton (40), salesman, and Hedley Howard, alias H. Gar (38), dealer, were each sen- ten.ced to twelve months' hard labour for conspiracy to defraud in connection with a bogus theatrical agency in the Strand. A number of young women gave evidence that they paid prisoners money on their promise to secure situations on the stage for them. They did not, however, obtain any engage- ment. (OTHER PARTICTTI.AES OX PAGE 4.)

j HORSE DROWNED IN A PIT. While a cartload of rubbish was being tipped into a pit at Small Heath yesterday the horse suddenly swerved, and both the animal and pit cart fell into the pit, which was about 50ft. deep. It conta.ined some 12ft. of water, and the horse was drowned.

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Dublin Doctor and Wife I CHLOROFORM STORY DENIED. I When the hearing of the Dublin separation snit was resumed yesterday the respondent, Dr. James B. Coleman, gave evidence, and denied the allegations of his wife that he starved her on the honeymoon, tried to hyp- notise her, and treated her cruelly. Questioned as to his wife's charges of cruelty during the honeymoon, he said there was not a particle of foundation for them. It was absolutely untrue that he made coarse and indelicate remarks to her. Until he had heard the charges from his wife's lips in court, he had never heard a suggestion of them. Referring to his wife's treatment of him in his own house, he said that for months at a time she absolutely ignored him, and refused to answer his salutations. She asked him in November to escort her to a ball in the Rotunda, and when he went told him to go home, refused to dance with him, and would not go into the refreshment- room with him. Your wife, said counsel, has stated here that some time at the end of February you tried to chloroform her by putting a pad across her mouth. Is there a particle of I truth in that?—Not a particle, or anything like it in any shape or form; nothing what- ever. Have you ever in your life, either on your patients or on anyone else, practised hyp- notism?—Never, and I know nothing about it. Continuing, Dr. Coleman denied that he had ever suggested that his wife would die in her confinement. There was no truth in the statement that he nsed to stare fixedly at her for hours, or pounce on her behind doors. When he went out to Ballintyre Hall to see his child, Mr. Theobald Frazer appeared and said, You cannot see your child." The doctor said. Does my wife say that I cannot see my child?" Theobald replied, "I say that you cannot see your child." The doctor then left. Never Called by His Christian Name I In cross-examination, Dr. Coleman stated that his wife never called him by his Christian name during their honeymoon except on their wedding day. At the conclusion of the examination the jury retired to consult, but after seven minutes returned and said they had decided to proceed with the case. The Rev. James Murphy, S.J., who was Provincial of the Jesuits in Dublin in 1903, described an interview which, at his in- stance, took place in the Jesuits' house, Gardiner-street, between Dr. Coleman and his wife. When Dr. Coleman arrived his wife was already there. "What happened?" said counsel. Father Murphy: He went straight to his wife, embraced her most affectionately, and said something to the effect that "there may have been faults on both sides." Father Murphy added that Mrs. Coleman had made no complaint to him that her husband's conduct was coarse and brutal. All these allegations had come upon him with surprise. Counsel: Did Mr?. Coleman give you the reason why she left her husband?—I do not recollect that i-he did. Priest's Emphatic Denial I Counsel (having consulted with Mrs. Cole- man): I ask you on your oath, did Mrs. Coleman tell you the reason? Did she not tell you that the reason was hie conduct, and that it was "coarse and brutal and that the could not stand it"?—Most emphatically no. Did she complain of his misconduct?— Most certainly not. Two servants of Dr. Coleman's were examined, and their evidence tended to negative the various eharg,eg, made by MT8. Coleman. The trial was adi"1trnf:d till Monday.

Prince of Wales' Return The official programme for the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales on their return to England from India, was issued by Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas, Commander- in-Chief at Portsmouth, to..dw. Their Royal Highnesses will arrive en board the Renown, escorted by the cruiser Terrible, at seven o'clock on Monday evening, and anchor at Spithead. The Channel. Fleet, under the oommamd of Admiral Sir A. Wilson, will be a,t Spithead in readiness to accord nlLval honours, and if the Prince is flying his flag a Royal salute will be fired by the whole fleet. At eight o'clock on Tuesday morning the Channel Fleet and all ships in conunis- sion at Portsmouth will dress with rainbow bunting, and at eleven o'clock the Renown will enter Portsmouth Harbour and proceed to the South Ra,ilway jetty, where a guard of honour of one hundred seamen from the Excellent Gunnery School and one hundred Royal Marine Light Infantry from Fortcm Barracks will be drawn up, with the Royal Marine Band, under Lieutenant George Miller. The usual courtesies will be exchanged as the Renown comes alongside, and as soon as she is moc,r? the Mayor and Corporation of PoTtsmouth will go on board in their robes "f offioe and nresent an address of welcome. Some time will be occupied in removing baggage from the Renown, but at three o'clock in the afternoon the Prince and PrLttceos will land, being received by the principal naval and military officers of the port and garriso-n. Guards of honour similar to those cf the morning will again be mounted and further salutes given as the RoyaJ travel lers land amd as the special t.ra.in which is to convey them to London leaves. Renown Sighted Off Ushant. I Brest, Saturday.-At, ten o'clock this morning the Renown, flying the flag of the Prince of Wales, and the escorting cruiser passed five miles west of Ushant Creach, pro- ceeding north-east. The Royal Spanish yacht Gira-lda, with King Alfonso on board, passed from the north, two miles north of Ushant, this morning.—Router.

ECHO OF A SCANDAL. I General Oa-ffarel was stabbed by a, man in the street at Paris Inct night while on his way home. He fell to the ground in a pool of blood and fainted. A few minutes after he recovered and managed to drag himself to a cab, in which he was taken to the hospital. General Caffarel will be remembered for his connection with the decoration scandal in 1887. He was then on the General Staff at the Ministry of War, and was proved to have trafficked in tue Legion of Honour. His chief agent was a Mme. Limouzin 'who parsed the crosses to her clients, who paid handsome fees to the general. General Caffarel was cashiered, his narne being erased from the army lists and struck off the list Of the Legion of Honour.

r The Russian Spectre. I GIGANTIC PLOT: MERTHYR MAN'S WARNING. A Merthyr correspondent, writing us with reference to the plot against the Czar believed to have been discovered in Paris, eays a Welshman just returned from Russia reports that a Large quantity of ammunition has been smuggled into the country lately in con- nection with a more elaborate plot than any ever dreamt of by Nihilifits. Not only are the public arming, but a large portion of the Army, Navy, and Customs officials a.re in the scheme for the overthrow of the Government. It would be well for the Empress and her children to come to England at once, while Welsh people should Sell everything Russian.

ANARCHISTS TO BE EXPELLED FROM FRANCE. Paris, Saturday.—According to the "Journal," the examining magistrate who is inquiring into the bomb explosion in the Bois do Vincennes has discovered the existence of a secret society composed of young Slav students of revolutionary tenden- cies, who have handed themselves together for the purpose of committing terrible crimes against persons and property. The TLagis- trate went to the hospital yesterday and tried to question Sokoloff, who refused to give any answer. It is -believed that he has become worse, and that he may succumb to his injuries. The newspapers announce that many foreign Anarchists who have taken refuge in France will be expelled. Six of them, against whom decrees of expulsion have already been issued, left for Great Britain yesterday. The "Gil Bias" has received a letter from a group of Russian students of both sexes, in which it is declared that the bombs carried by Striga and Sokoloff were meant to be employed in Russia and not in France. Striga, it is intimated, was a member of the execu- tive revolutionary committee at St. Peters- burg which had decided to make an attempt aga,inst the Czar and his Ministers at the opening of the Duma on the 10th inst. Striga went to Vincennes solely for the purpose of concealing the bombs in his possession. In conclusion the Journal" says the Russian revolutionaries would not throw bombs in France, where they live without molestation and are comparatively ha,ppy. The "Figaro" has ascertained that the man seen running away after the explosion was an inhabitant of Charenton, who was terrified at the oeetirrence.-RL-uter.

COMTE WITTE'S RESIGNATION. I St. Petersburg, Saturday.—The "Official Messenger" to-day announces that Count Witte has, at his own request, been relieved of the functions of Premier, while reta-ining the title of Member of the Council of the Empire and Secretary of State. The Czar has conferred upon him the Alexander Nevski Order set in brilliants. M. Durnovo (Minister of the Interior) has been permitted to resign his post and become Secretary of State, at the same time retain- ing the dignity of Senator. The official orga.n also contains the an- nouncement of M. Gore my kin's appointment as Count Witte's successor in the Premier- a-% Coun?t Wi?t?tf,'s in the Promier-

I Disputed Agreement. I A QUESTION OF SINKING PITS. I In the King's Bench to-day (before Mr. Justice A. T. Lawrence) there came up from the last Cardiff Assizes for further considera- tion the case of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company v. Thomas. Mr. Abel Thomas, K.C., M.P.. Mr. Roland Vaughan Williams, &nd Mr. Strahan (instructed by Messrs. Cbeston and Sons, london) were for plaintiffs, and Mr. S. T. Evans, K.C., M.P., a.nd Mr. Bailliaohe represented the defendant, Mr. Oliver Hugh Thomas, colliery owner. Defendant's counsel were instructed by 'desm?s. MetœJfe and Sharpe, agents for Messrs. R. P. Charles and Sen. of Neath. The action was brought to recover damages for alleged bleach of an agreement l<?aeo to sink certain pits at Llett-ybrongi, and the jury found for the plaintiffs, fixing the damages at 12,750. The point was taken on the part of defendant- whether the plaintiffs had any right to sue at all in an action- Mr. Evans said the alleged breach was of an implied term in an agreement dated the 4th of July, 1896. Mr. Thomas was the lessee of certain mineral properties under two leases, one dated the 1st of June, 1890, and the other the 1st of August, 1890, aaid under the second there was a covenant that he was to sink pits within eighteen months of the date of the lease. That period had expired long before the agreement was entered into which was sued upon in this action. The short point was this. Mr. Thomas intended at one time to sink pits in a particular spot. The plans were amended 00 that the traffic from the pits might go along plain- line. They gave defendant. £ 4,000, but the latter parted with his interest in the leads, and the pits were not sunk. Mr. Evans submitted that on the covenant defendant was under no obligation to plain- tiffs to sink the pits, a work which would have cost from £ 50,000 to £ 80,000. Judgment was entered for the plaintiffs for £ 2,750, with costs, and a stay of fourteen days was granted pending appeal.

I SHEEP WORRYING, At Pontypool Police-court to-day John Price, farmer. Tala,cba Farm, Cwmffrwdaer, was summoned by Walter Challoner, farmer, Gelli Deg Farm. Pontnewynydd, for allowing his dog to d am age several lambs, the pro- perty of the prosecutor, to the extent of £ 2. Mr. T. P. II. Watkhiis. solicitor, Pontypool, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. W. J. Everett defended. Mr. Wat kins reduced the amount of damages claimed to 15s.. as it was over six months ago since the first lamh was injured, but said that the dog had frequently worried la.mbs and sheep which belonged to prose- cutor, and at different times had killed 110 l«s truam. three ewe. two wethers, and five lambs. James Pugb, haulier, Pontnewynydd. paid that on April 17, whil-st going to work, he saw defendant's dog chasing a. flock of lambs and sheep out of a wood on prosecutor's land. It caught the last lamb and worried it, a-nd subsequently kiHed it. When witness ran up the field the dog ran away. For the defence John Price said that the dog wafs shut up in the house on the night of the 16th of April at 10.30 when he wen.t to bed, and was there when Alfred Price, his son, got up i,n the morning at 5.30. This statement received corroboration from other witnesses, who sa,id that the dog was about the bouse and near the barn until about 7.30. The Bench, a-fter a retirement, found that defendant's dog did kill the lamb, and ordered defendant to pay 15s. damages and 15s. costs. The Chairman int,imated that if defendant were summoned for allowing the same dog to worry sheep again an order for the animal to be destroyed would be made.

WESTPHALIA TRAGEDY I Miners Die of Starvation. Twenty-two dead bodies were found yes- terday during excavations in the Bornssia Mine, in the WestphaJian coalfields. An explosion involving the loss of thirty-nine lives occurred in the mine in June last. There is every indication (says the "Daily Mail") that the unfortunate men died of starvation, and not from the explosion. Hoping for rescue till last, they caulked all creviccs in the face of the rock with, strips of clothing to prevent the inrush of the poisonous gases. Just as in the case of Courrieres all hope of rescue was given up shortly after the explosion.

SOCIALISTS AND MILL GIRLS The action of Messrs. Coates. the well- known thread manufacturers, in abandoning the extension of their works at Paisley, has caused a great sensation locally. It is asserted this morning that the Socialist Labour leaders have been inciting thouf-ands of the mill girls to discontent for a long time past, and that affairs have now reached such a crisis that the firm have boeri. compelled, for self-protection, to transfer much of their work abro.a.

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IBONAPARTISTS PLOT TO ESTABLISH A MONARCHY Important Documents Seized. I Paris, Saturday.—In his recent speech a.t Lyons, M. Clenionceau declared that the judicial authorities were in possession of proofs that reactionary parties were employ- ing political agitators to foment strikes. The "Mat-in" understands that the proofs referred to were contained in a copy of instructions to be followed in the event of a strike which was seized at the residence of a Bonapartist leader. These directions were to the effect that the Bonapartist agents should proceed imme- diat-ely to the scene of any fresh agitation, and, besides c,onceiltral,ing their local sup- porters, should endeavour' to win over the leaders of the movement as quickly as possible. In another document seized it was declared to be the duty of the royalists to encourage revolutionary strikes calculated to lead to anarchy, it being hoped that the natural re-action would bring about the re-establish- ment of monarchy. The "Journal" adds that the judicial authorities have also discovered that papers of tha General Confederation of Labour with regard to a general strike were handed over to a royalist agent last summer in return for the sum of 7,000 francs. The examining magistrate is at present endeavouring to ascertain whether the leader of the strike movement among waitem has been paid two sums of 1,500 francs and 3,500 francs respectively for certain services. —Reuter.

The King in Paris Pari" Saturday.— The "Petit Parisian" this morning publishes a eulogistic article on the subject of King Edward's stay in Paris. After recalling the many happy hours of his younger days which his Majesty spent m France during the long reign of Queen Victoria, the article is aJways with joy that Paris welcomes King Edward. When he leaves England in order to visit France he does not go to a foreign land, but to a second fatherland."—Central News. Paris, Saturday.—The King will leave Calais at three o'clock on Monday afternoon on board the special steamer Invicta, a.nd will reach Dover at about four o'clock. A Royal train will be in waiting at Dover to convey his Majesty to London.—Renter.

CRASHED INTO ICEBERG. The crew of the London steamer Anglo- Peruvian, which, while on voyage from Shields to Philadelphia, was lost through a collision with all iceberg, landed in the Tyne to day. It appears that after the vessel had slowed down off the banks of Newfoundland, owing to dense weather, she crashed into an ice- berg, and was practically ripped open on the port side. The crew stood by her three days, and everything was done to save her, but she sank. The crew had just previously been ta k, off by the Bristol steamer Mohawk. The Ang-lp-Peruvian was a magnificent vessel, and was built at a cost of nearly 170,000.

DRINK AND LUNACY. 1 Those who announce the increase of lunacy have l1gleded, according to Dr. Toogood, medical superintendent of Lewisham Itifir" mary, the diminution owin.g to many alcoholic cases not requiring to be treated in asylums. In the last ten years, he said, in a lecture at Greenwich yesterday, of 471 snch eases under his notice only eighteen had to be sent to the asylum. Iii half the cases it was wanton cruelty to dub them lunatics for a mere temporary mental indisposition. The proper sorting house for the poorer classes, he said, was the infirmary, and for the middle class he suggested the provision of mental wards at each of the gen-eral hospitals.

KIDNAP CONSPIRACY. At Newcastle Assizes on February 28 Francis Duguid was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and fined 1100 for conspiring to kidnap a girl named Chetwynd from the possession of her lawful guardian, Mr. Christopher Leyland. To-day, in the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved, Mr. Duguid appealed against the sentence on technical grounds. The court, however, unanimously affirmed the convic- tion.

CHINESE LABOUR. Johannesburg, Saturday.—The heads of the mining industry, in view of the possible danger to the labour supply by the posting up of th,a repatriation notice, will make an application, to the Supreme Court on Mon- day to test the legality of the Government's a,ot.i,on.-Reti,tier. Pretoria, Friday.-Tho Chinese labour returns for March quarter are as follows: — Imported, 3.503; repatriated, 581; died, 253.-1 Reuter.

WIFE ARRESTED FOR MURDER Now York, Saturday.—A dispatch from Io8 Angeles, California, to the "Journal" states that Mrs. Albert Dabney Storrs, cousin- of Mrs. Shaw Astor, was arrested last evening on a charge of having mur- dered her husband, Mr. Roland Storrs, at his country mansion nea.r Los Angeles. The accused lady has been released on bail to the amount of 15,000dols. The police state that it is possible that Mr. Storrs oommit.ted suicide.—Central News.

THE STEAM TURBINE At the Royal Institution in Albemarle- street last night the Hon. Charlee A. Parsons delivered a. lecture on "The Steam Turbine on' Land and at Sea." One of tha most interesting features of the evening W:11" the display of a diagram showing a comparison of earning power of a turbine-propelled crois- Cha-nnel stea.mer a.s com pared with three other ve-ssels fitted with ordinary engines on the same route. In a comprehensive survey of the turbine the lecturer conclusively demonstrated its e-'onomy and efficiency.

371 MILES AN HOUR. Thomas Carpenter, a chauffeur, of 98, Northfieid-lane, Ealing, was sentenced to a month's inipi-isoum-enz by the Guildford magistrates to-day, for driving to the com- mon danger at Shalford and failing 10 stop when called upon to do so by the poiice. His speed was stated to be 37J miles an hour. The defendant who, seemed staggered at the sentence, gave notice of appeal. There were seven previous convictions.

I 140 DAYS AWAITING TRIAL. "If the depositions are not here by Tues.-II day, the prisoner will be diach?rg'?d," said ,thü BDw-strBet magistrate in ordaring WoM- gang Bemitz, alias Peter Wells, a farmer accused of a false pretences charge in Ger- many, to be further remanded. The accused has been 140 days under arrest. Yesterday was his twenty-first weekly appearance at Bow-street.

I THE FIRST CHERRIES. The first cherries of the season were on sale yesterday at Covent Garden. They ca,me from France, and were quickly secured by West End fruiterer. who paid at the rate of 2s.. per lb. Englir-h cherries will not be obtainable until six vreekw lal-cr. Devon and Cornwall have already sent small consignments of gooseberries, and yesterday some were received from a. Kent grower near Dover, which fetched 9d. per quart. ——

POLITICAL AGENT'S DEATH. News reached Uoc,1,ntpr to-day of the death of Mr. F. W. Walter, who wounded himself with a rawrin a fit of depression during the Parliamentary contest in the Eye Division of Suffolk, whore he represented tho Tariff Reform League. The deceased, who was about 45, was a man of considerable reputation as a political agent, and was! popular with all parties.

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I Perilous Trip to Paris I 53 HOURS UNDER A TRAIN. One of the most extraordinary journeys on record was performed by a man who arrived at Paris on the Orient express from Con- stantinople yesterday. As the express drew into the railway terminus one of the railway officials suddenly shouted: There is a dead man on the bogie of the restaurant car." Investigation was promptly made, when it was found that the man was not dead, but asleep, with his overcoat wrapped around his face. He was awakened (says the Daily Express"), and a. moment afterwards, dishevelled and grimy, he crawled out on the platform. "Hungry! hungry!" he said several times in German to the crowd of officials who I' surrounded him, pointing, at the same time, to his mouth. Food and drink were supplied, and when he had consumed them he was keenly interrogated by one of the restaurant car officials. I am a Roumanian," he eaid. My name is Dimitri Bouzilas, and I am a vine grower by trade. I came from Constantsa, a port on the Black Sea. I took the boat from there to Constantinople, hiding myself in the coal hole of a, ship because I had no money. From Constantinople to Paris I have travelled under the kitchen of the restaurant car. I chose the kitchen, because I thought it would be warmer, but it was terribly cold all the way. "I had no food or drink with me, and I could not have eaten it even if I had it, for I dared not move." If the man told the truth his adventure has been a marvellous one. His journey under the train must have lasted fifty-three hours, for the express left Constantinople at 2.20 on Wednesday morning, and reached Paris at 7.30 on Friday morning. The man made himself understood with difficulty, so that the full story of the terrible journey could not be told. He has been locked up for examination, and is to be sent back to Ronmania. in a day or two.

I Leap from Eiffel Tower. I AMERICAN'S TERRIBLE DEATH. I Paris, Saturday Morning.—The Eiffel Tower ¡ was the scene of a terrible tragedy yester- day evening. A visitor to Paris, named August Braun, ascended, in the company of some friends, to the second platform of the tower, and, wlitlio?ut p, tower, and, without giving warning of his intention, suddenly leapt over the edge. His body struck the first platform, 260 feet below, death being instantaneous. Braun was of German nationality, but a. naturalised American subject, living at 113, Elder-street, Oincinnatti. He is said to have been strange in his conduct daring the last few dayis.- Central News.

MAGNETIC SHEATH-KNIFE. I Most sailors carry a sheath-knife, and no fisherman is without one when a trawler goes to sea. But it is only just beginning to be recognised what risk to shipping may be involved in the practice. It appears that knives of a highly-magnetised kind are now- adays being soid in large numbers to sea- farers, and that some of these instruments are so magnetic tha-t if the wearer brings them within 18in. of the compass-howl he may deflect the needle fully two points either way. Quite recently there have been an exceptional number of fatalities to Eteam trawlers, and people are speculating as to how far the magnetised knife may be responsible for stranding attributable to clfviation from the correct course. The matter is regarded as so serious that the Secretary of the Grimsby Steam Fishing Vessels' Insurance Company has issued a. formal notice to masters, :n which he points out that, while they cannot always prevent these knives from being carried by members of their crews, they must stringently direct that no knife shall be worn by any person who is steering the vessel, or who is on the look-out in the bridge-house. A hope is added that manu- facturers will see tbe, importance of produc- ing knives which sha-il be non-magnetic, and, therefore, incapable of producing the risks to which th-e circular draws attention.

I JAPANESE PALMISTRY. I The Chinese and Japanese call the thumb the groat finger," and connect it with one's ancestors. Our index finger is with them the "head or man-pointing finger," and has to do with the father. The middle or longest finger belongs to the mother, while the next or nameless finger is the property of sweethearts and wives (the Westerners have chosen this finger, too, for the wearing of the wedding-ring). The little finger concerns our descendants and posterity. The ball of the thumb, the celebrated mount of Venus," according to palmists the world over, from Lincolnshire gipsies to Parsee seers, retains its qualities appertain- ing to sensuous, sensual, and mundana matters with the Japanese hand-readers, too. Both Japanese and Chinese servants in signing and sealing agreements with their masters frequently moisten their finger point with ink and press it on to the paper. As a. means of Identity or personal sign- hmnual these finger-prints appear to have been long known in the East. It is, therefore, no surprise to find that Japanese palmists, in addition to examining the" lines" of the open palm, extend their inquiries to the pore-patterns on the tips of the fingers and thumbs.

DUST AT LLANISHEN. I A public meeting was held last evening ot, i,la,nic,hcu to consider the dust question, the Vicar (the Rev. W. Dovey) presiding. Mr. Fred H. Hath way, of Gladwyn, moved that the chairman of the parish council bring the nuisance before the district council, and other speakers called for the regular water-I ing of the roads. After opposition speeches by Meissrs. J. Hurman, J. Rces, H. Llewellyn, and others, the resolution was lost by five votes. The Cha.irma.n having promised to ascertain, whether a poll could be legally granted and to communicate the result of his inquiries to Mr. Ilathway, the proceedings terminated. During, the meet,ing one of too speakers caused considerable excitement by declaring that many ratepayers were under-assessed in a glaringly disproportionate manner, but as this question was not on the igomda, it was ruled out of order by the chairman.

A GOOD REASON. I The Postmaster-General was rang up on his telephone at home. After the usual Halloes and "Are you theres?" this ques- tion ca.me along from a man to whom lie was certainly under an obligation: "I want you to give a protege of mine the post- mastership at The Minister replied that he could not promise, but would con- sider the matter. Twenty minutes lat-er he was rung up again. This time he was in- formed that the protege was no more fit to be a postmaster than a camel would be to take up double-entry book-keeping. The Minister asked what had happened in so short a time to change his friend's esti- mate of the man. "Why," was the reply, "when I telephoned before he was sitting beside me—what else could I say?"

OUTRAGE IN A VILLAGE INN At Wigton Police-court yesterday two Cockermout-h labourers, named Robert Nicholson and George Wise, were remanded for a week on a charge of being concerned in a dastardly outrage at Roseley. Two men, wearing masks, entered the Wheat Sheaf Inn, and attacked the elderly inn- keeper and his wife with heavy sticks while they were in bed A lamp was overturned, and the bed caught fire. The men then made their escape. The arrests were made near Longtown, on the Scottish border.

POST FOR MR. MOSS, M.P. I The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Samuel Moss, M.P. for East Den bigs hire. Deputy County-court Judge for Chester and North Wales Circuit, in view of the lengthy period of rest which will be necessary for Sir I Horatio Lloyd after his severe illness. It has been suggested that Mr. Moss's appointment comes under the category of an office of profit under the Crown, which necessitates the vacation of a seat iu Parlia-j meut. ¡

BETTER BE SUEE THAN SORRY." When you I ask for England's Glory Matches be sure you get them. They are the best-made matches in the world. I Cheap and nv?ty foreign made matches are but I sorry substitutes; much more ex=,,a?re =. I Bnjiattd'a GIQrY" Hatch Workfi, Gloucester. e22W—4

I Murder or Suicide? I OLD WOMAN WITH THROAT CUT. I A tragedy—whether murder or suicide it is impossible to determine at present, although everything points to the former- was discovered in South London yesterday. Mrs. Elizabeth Schreifer, who kept a newsagent's shop in Clapham Park-road, was found dead in her back parlour yester- day evening with three wounds in her throat. A blood-stained razor lay on a table near by the body. At about a quarter to six several cus- tomers called for their evening papers, and being unable to obtain any answer to repeated knocks on the counter they called in Mr. H. Hyett, who keeps a general shop next door, and he, on going through to the back parlour, found Mrs. Schreifer lying on her back on the floor dead. Mr. IIyett said last night that he sent 'at once for Dr. Corin, and saw him take a handkerchief out of Mrs. Schreifer's inou t h. "It was stuffed tightly into her throat," said Mr. Hyett, and it struck me as being very suspicious. The doctor said she had been dead for some hours. "I saw no s'igns of a struggle, but, although Mrs. Schreifer was a little eccentric in her ways, I shoul dnot say that she was the sort of woman to commit suicide. "8üme of the neighbours say they heard screams early in the afternoon, but not being sure whence they came they took no notice of them. Mrs. Schreifer was a woman who kept herself very much to herself, and alt-hough I have lived next door to her for twenty years I know very little about her." Mrs. Schreifer was between sixty and seventy years of age, and lived alone. It is said in the neighbourhood that she was possessed of considerable means, and it is known that she has relatives who are well to do. She was last seen alive by neigh- bours at about midday.

The Paris Disturbances I A GENERAL MISSING. Paris, Saturday—The "Journal" publishes a telegram from Toulon stating that the general of the local garrison believed to have been implicated in the reported plot against the Republic has left the country. The "Echo de Paris" announces that the Anarchists Poucet and Morel have been a.rrested in connection with the disturbances on May 1. Nineteen of their companions escaped. The two men violently resisted arrest, and it took several policemen to secure them.—Renter.

SOLICITOR'S SUICiDE On Birthday of His Dead Wife A pathetic letter was read yesterday at tho hiqueet at Isleworth on Mr. Edward Philip Stanley Alderson, a solicitor, who shot himself on Thursday Ici-t. It was stated that since the death cf his wife, five years ago, Mr. Alderson had been subject to terrible fits of depression. Thurs- day was the anniversary of her birthday, and he seemed more depressed than ever. The letter, which was addressed to his mother, was found beside his body, and waa as follows:- My brain perished on that awful night when Eve died. My life is useless to. me and a, burden to others. It is not, fair to you or the others who have befre-nded me. I sl)a.11 give up before long. Please try ndt to spoil the children. The great thing is to let them think for them- selves. As for me, I hope you will n,-A grieve. I have seen some such ending since I was twelve years old. A verdict of "Suicide while temporarily insane" was returned.

I WRIT LEADS TO SUICIDE. Shortly after Oliver John Hine committed suicide at Longton by nearly cutting his head off with a circular saw, his brothers found him dead, with a writ for bre-aoil of promise by his side, and also a. letter addressed to his fat-her. The letter ran Dear Father,—Before ycli get- this letter I Shall be gone. The reason I have sacrificed my life is because 1 cannot hear the disgrace that- will come out in time. Remember me to all t-hat are near and dea,r to me, especially to the girl I have been engaged to. Hoping she will think well of me, may Lord have mercy on my FOUI. I am not afraid to meet death. I ha.ve known, about this for some time. Deceased's father, on going into the box at the inquest yesterday, sobbed bitterly, and said Oliver was his favourite eon. The engagement of his son was broken off when his young lady left the Potteries district for Yorkshire. The jary found ibat deeeafed cut his throat with a. saw while of unsound mind.

I A WIDOW'S LOAN. I They met at. Margate. He is a school attendance officer at Goda;iming, his age 66. I She is a widow, a.nd lives at the Ritrea.t, Staines; her age 44. They corresponded subsequently, and she borrowed £50, for tha return of which he sued her at. Ohertsey. Counsel read letters from t.he plaintiff, some of which commenced, "My darling pet." "You asked her to marry you?" he queried. "Nothing of the kind," was the reply. In one letter he asked that a reply might be sent to a. post-office. Counsel: Was that to prevent it getting into the hands of your wife and daughter-:? -V,pry likely. The widow said the plaintiff frequently asked her to marry him, and was "a per- fect. pest" at Margate. Judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costs.

RATS AND WEDDING CAKE. "A horde of rats as big as rabbits" haunts the Dublin General Post Office, according to a statement 01 an official reported in the "Irish Independent." which tells an amusing i-,toty of a wedding cake despatched from Dublin for Canada. The wedding cake was packed in a box and duly posted at the Dublin Post-office. In the night the rats attacked the parcel and ate not, only the cake but the box its-elf. Nothing was left but the string and part of the address label, and with these slender clues the tender of the wedding cake was traced. A fl",h wedding cake is now going out t,l) Canada at the expense of the Potstmaster- General.

NAME DISPLACED BY EPITAPH A Dunmow tradesman has obliterated his name from the front of his shop, stating it had been there quite long enough, and has replaced it with the following quotation from the epitaph on the tombstone of Lord Herbert:— He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven.—Lord Herbert."

I THE RITUALISTIC TRAMP. During a discussion of the vagrancy question by the Lower House of Convocation at Westminster yesterday, the Rev. Douglas Ma:-leane said it should be remembered that all tramps were not illiterate. On occasion tramps would drop into church at matins and ea&ily follow the service in the Prayer Book. Then there was wiiirt, he called the Ritualistic tramp," who addressed the priest as Father," a.nd inquired what time vespers were." (Laughter.)

OMNIBUS OVERTURNED. An omnibus carrying twenty-five pafsen. gers slipped into a trench dug in connec- tion with the widening operations in Worple road, Wimbledon, and overturned, yester- day afternoon. Several of the outside passengers jumped off, but many others went over with the omnibus. Several complained -of slight injuries and chock, amd received medical attention, but there were no eases of serious injury.

OFFERING TO THE SUN GOD A womon named Paola Nizza burnt, her- self to death in Palermo yesterday (says the" Daily Express ") as an offering to the Sun God. She saturated her clothes with petroleum, and after damoing madly round applied a torch to the hem of her skirt. Some four years ago the woman's mother killed herself in. precisely the same way in Ohioa-go, and a few months back her sister also offered horself as a sacrifice.

BOOTS and SHOES Wholesale.—Shoe Seile < should Visit Boyle and 00:8 (Ltd.) War, house—Woman by-street, Cardiff. lgvery sort of Boots. Shoes. and Slippers in Stock, and cam be desd&tohed same day.

Y,100 FOR INTOXICATION. I A penalty of L100 was imposed, yesterday at the Mansion House for intoxication. Mr. William Manuel Potter, an insurance broker, was summoned before the Lord Miayor to sho-w cause why a surety for LW to be of good behaviour for six months should not be forfeited, and Mr. S. E. Pritchard, who became bail for him in a like amount, was also summoned. Mr. Potter was bound over on November 15 last after several convictions for intoxica- tion, and on April 25 last he was again oon- victed and fined. The Lord Mayor ordered the sureties to be forfeited. "What, JS50 each!" Mr. Potter exclaimed. Yes; I told 3»6a it was an expensive matter," said the Lord Mayor.

BROTHER ASSAULTS SISTERI William Hyatt, a raspectably-dresfsed, middle-aged man, was at to-day summoned for assaulting bis sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Garland, mar-ried woman, of New- town, Risca, on April 30.—Mrs. Garland said she went to defendant to remonstrate with him about their mother going to the work- house, when he knocked her down. Defen- dant's answer was that he onJy pushed h's sister away when she tantalised him. The Bench fottnd that th. assau It was committed under provocation, and ordered defendant to pay t'he costs.

BREAKDOWN ON T.V.R. f The Taff Vale Railway train diie in at Meriitoyr at 10.13 o'clock this morning was nearly an hour late in arrival on account of a breakdown in the ctigine between Mer- thyr Yale and Trordyrhi-w. Another engine had to be requisitioned to bring the train forward.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. I Johnson (Newport).—The greatest, number of points Plymouth have beaten Newport by during the last five years are 14 points to 3 I &t Plymouth. April 10, 1S96.