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TALES OF INSTINCTI .8 Wisdom of Animals I FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. BY LLOYD MEYRICK. What a number of problems are around us in a simple country walk. Once you leave crowded towns you are in the land of instinct. All the birds and beasts have some unerring guide which puts our boasted reason to shame. Of course, you must bring to all these things the sympathetic eye. It all depends upon the point of view, which reminds me of a story. Two strangers were contemplating Niagara, and the Nia,ara, aiid the first stranger said: "It seems a pity, does it not, sir, this vast volume of water running thus uselessly away:" The other man replied: "You speak, sir, I presume, as an engineer?" First Stranger: ":K 0, sir-as a milkman." Let us for a moment dwell with the lower world, and drop all the dead- weight of business cares. Pope raised lv(? i b iiies cares. many large questions in his essay on "Man." and no query is more pregnant than when he asks: Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison and to choose th?ir food? Prescient, the tides or tcmpieets to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the stand. Instinct may be described as a guiding light directed to a practical conclusion, but not by means of premises, telling the what but not the why, guiding cor- rectly but not supplying the knowledge on which alone could a correct judgment rationally be based. That there is such a guide can hardly be denied. What man could do only with much elaborate training animals do unhesitatingly and a,t once, and, while it is simply out of the question to suppose that they have the conscious knowledge by which he would have to steer, they arrive at the goal by a straighter and surer path. To give in illustration an oft-quoted example: Wasps of the genus called Sphex by up with their eggs a store of animal food for the benefit of their young when hatched. It is desirable, from their point of view, that the victim chosen for this unhappy function should be rendered helpless, but, at the same time, not killed, that so the provisions may keep fresh. This is effected by stinging him in one or' more nerve- centres, thus paralysing him for motion, but not immediately affecting his life. One species of Sphex, for instance, preys upon crickets, in which three nerve-centres have to be thus dealt with, to reach one of which the neck has to be stretched back, while the others are minute spots in other parts of the body. For a man to do this would require the nicest knowledge of anatomy. Yet the Sphex performs the operation with un-' hesitating accuracy, and a young mother doing so for the first time cannot be. guided by experience, while she cer- tainly has not an elder instructor at her elbow. Another species of the same genus uses caterpillars instead of crickets, and to paralyse them from six to nine stings are needed, one between each of the segments of the body, the brain being also partially crushed by a bite with the mandibles. Another species ot wasp uses grasshoppers in a similar fashion, and to reach the desired nerve has to bend forward the victim's head and bite through a membrane. An instinct fundamentally the same is occasionally found in animals altogether different. Thus, there have been found in a polecat's nest as many as forty frogs and toads, all alive and able to sprawl helplessly, but each bitten accu- rately through the brain, so as to in- capacitate them for locomotion. It appears that spiders are up to all the tricks of the latest Japanese wrest- ling. Thus, a spider in whose web a beetle had been entangled, and who was in trouble with so boisterous and unruly a prey, has been observed to bite through one of the forelegs; the beetle then bending its head to soothe the injured limb, the spider quickly passed a thread round the head and bound it down in a position that made further struggle hopeless. Insects that live in community, such as bees, wasps, and ants, need the most complicated machinery of instinct, that their polity should stand. The individual members must be willing, not only to work, but to work for others, and not for them- selves, and they must be respectively ready for the diverse functions assigned to them. To quote Rearnur:- Hardly are all the parts of the young bee dried, hardly are its winsrs in a state to be moved, than it knows all it will have to do for the rest of its life. It seems to know that it is born for society. Like the others, it leaves the common habitation, and goes in search of flowers. It goes to them alone, and is not embarrassed to find its way back to tihe hive. If it goes tv draw honey, it is less to feed itself than to commence its labours for the common weal, for from its first journey it sometimes makes a collection of wax. M. Maraldi assures us that he has seen bees return to the hive loaded with large balls of this substance the same day they were born. An instinct of quite I another kind, but in which it is equally difficult to trace a satisfactory origin, is that exhibited by the wild duck in her efforts to decoy an intruder from her young. So well is the game played as to deceive a person who is familiar with it in books. An angler, for instance, is wading up stream among the hills, when suddenly as he turns a corner, out flops from under his feet a duck, one wing dragging helpless, while she impotently beats the water with the other. If young and inexperienced, he will be sure, unthinkingly, to make a dash at the bird, which, flapping and quacking, just out of his reach, leads him floundering on, and waterlogging his waterproofs, only to find her presently, on a sudden, recover her powers and be off while, if he had waited quietly and looked about him, lie would have seen a brood of ducklings paddling in all directions to seek for cover. That a partridge will go through the perfor- mance of dying is attested by Mr. Harri- son Weir, the well-known artist- A little way in front a partridge was struggling on the ground, sometimtSs on her back. and then rolling over and over, till, after one or two apparently exhaustive efforts, she fell, and lay as if dead, The whole thing being a deliberate impos- ture. Are birds unselfish? A Vriter says that while observing a nest of house martins, I remarked that though the young birds appeared to fight selfishly for the foremost place at the door to secure food, yet just before a visit of the parent, one that held the position who had been fed on the previous visit drew suddenly back and another came forward. This looked very like another case of self- denying instinct. Were there not some 1 such provision, a weak nestling might easily be starved in the background, as the parents stay but a moment at the opening, and feed tho bird before them. I have no space to give some account of the migration of birds, but the wander- ings of the herring and the salmon are still more extraordinary, and of them it is a still less hopeful task to attempt any explanation. What guiding lines can be found in the waste of waters, even if it I is true, as has gravely been asserted, tJiat salmon-smelts go down their native river tail fivst in order to observe what should be their way up again? Turtles, also, which at other times spread themselves far abroad in the ocean, manage to hit off at the breeding season the little island of Ascension—a tiny speck in the midst of boundless waters—which many mariners with the aid of chart and sextant have not been able to find. How- ever, I must leave this talk of a few strong instincts and a few plain rules." I had intended to make a few observations on the courteous and instructive letter of "Docksman" in your issue of last Wed- nesday, but I must take another oppor- tunity.

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IN A DREARY CELL Outfitter's Stay at a Police- station COMPLAINS OF ILLEGAL ARREST. The Pol ice Commission sat again on Thurs- I day at the Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster. Sir David Brynmor Jones (president) was in the chair, and the other Commissioners present were Mr. Rufus Isaacs, K.C., M.P., Mr. Dickinson, M.P., and Mr. Whitmore. Mr. Eldon Bankes, K.C., and Mr. Muir repre- sented the police. Earl Kussell was present on behalf of the Police and Public Vigilance Committee. An allegation of improper arrest was brought against the police by Edward Wells, an outfitter, of Camden-road, Finsbary Park. Mr. Wells stated that on the afternoon of the 13th of October last he was talking to an omnibus-driver in Kelvin-road, Highbury Barn, on business. He had been there about two and a half hours engaged in his busi- ness, when Police-constable 166 N put one hand on his toliar and another on hiti sleeve and hustled him about. He did not know tho constable's name. Witness asked the constable why he was handling him in that fashion, and the answer he. got was, "Will you so away?" Witness said, "I shall not," and the constable then remarked, "Down you go to the station." When be got to Upper-street Police-station the constable charged him with disorderly conduct and with using obscene language. He had been marched along to t.he station, which was twenty mitLiitfW walk away, and he went quietly. When the constable was about to sign the oharge-sheet, witness said, "Can you conscientiously sign that charge-sheet?" The constable made no reply, but signed the sheet. IX A DARK AND DREARY CELT). After being searched, witness was put into a dark, dreary, ill-lighted, stinking cell. He looked rounfi to see the cause of the stench, and he saw 'an open closet half-full of refuse. He was kept in the cell for about three hours, and then bailed out. He was brought up at North-London Police-court, but before going into the court he was ebown into a room to mix with the likes of which I had never seen before." When the case was called on the police-con- stable said witness was making an unneces- sary noise, using bad language, had an alter- cation with the omnibus-driver, and held the horse's head. Witness gave evidence on his own behalf, and in dismissing the case Mr. Fordham, the magistrate, said the con- stable had exceeded his duty, and must in future use more discretion. Witness believed the magistrate said the constable had not stopped at telling an untruth to get a con- viotion." Witness added that, as he had been. a life-long abstainer from intoxicating liquors and swearing, he thought it was right to come before the Commission. Witness complained that one man with whom he had to associate in the room adjoining the court was a man described by the newspapers as a "leper," who stank horribly. His condi- tion was so bad that he was not admitted to the court. WAS THE CONSTABLE SOBER? Henry Carter, coachman, of Highbury, stated that Wells was unjustly arrested, and Frederick Hill, the omnibus-driver, gave similar testimony. Questioned by the Commissioners, the wit- ness said there was no quarrelling between Wells and the 'bus-driver, but they were talking loudly about money matters. Neither used, bad language. The Chairman: Was the constable sober? Witness: Yes, he looked sober enough. In reply to the chairman, Mr. Muir said the constable, whoee name is Durham, and the police-sergeant at Upper-street who took the charge would give evidence in regard to the charge next week. The next case taken was that of George Mullins, a. porter at Covent Garden, who was charged at Tower Bridge Police-court with being drunk in Oak ley-street, Waterloo-road, on Sunday, the 9th of September last. Mulli-ns is the person who was given P,100 in Covent Garden by the man who a few weeks ago was lavishly distributing money amongst poor people in the locality of the market. THE CELEBRITY OF MULLINS. I When he entered the wlknese-box Mullins asked that his name should be suppressed by the press. The Chairman: Why? Mullins: Well, I am a man who received the £ 100 for distribution amongst the poorest in Covent Gardens, and since then I have been much annoyed. It has appeared in the papers all over the country, and hundreds of people follow me about. The Chairman: All the mischief seems to have been done before you came here, and by what has occurred all the evil seems to have been done. You seem to have already achieved celebrity. (Laughter.) Mr. Whitmore: Your presence heye will not secure you any further celebrity. You will not become any more celebrated by appear- ing here. (Daughter.) Mullins: Well, the men at Covent Garden won't forget to chip me about it." They'll say, He's got the XIOO, and now he's on the Royal Commission." (Long laughter.) The Ohairman said he was afraid, now tha.t the matter had gone so far, there was no opportunity of keeping it out of the news- papers. AT THE EAR-HOLE AGAIN. I Mullins then stated that he was locked up for drunkenness at 11.30 at night, and at twelve o'clock the divisional surgeon said he was "not drunk, although he had been drinking." When in Oakley-street that night he said to Constable Morgan, at the same time tapping him on the shoulder, "At the ear-hole again," which was a suggestion of bribery. He did it jocularly. The officer then punched him in the ribs, and, subse- quently taking him into custody, seized him by the back of the neck and struck him again. At the station Morgan struck him another blow, making his mouth bleed. Mr. Rose, the magistrate at the polioe-court, said he was not satisfied with the evidence, and dis- charged the prisoner. The police version of what occurred will be taken next week. The Commission then proceeded to con- sider a charge brought against the police by James Baker, ironmonger's assistant of Notting Hill-gate. He alleges that the police falsely charged him with being drank and disorderly on the 30th of September last in Kensington-place. The inquiry was adjourned till Wednesday next.

I GENERAL BOOTH TO VISIT JAPAN. General Booth, who conducted a. moneter meeting at, Bu&ch Circus, Berlin, on the occasion of the Prussian day of humiliation and prayer, informedReuter's correspondent that he was going to Japan a.t the beginning of next year, and hoped to spend April in tha.t country. The general will travel via the United States or Canada.

OBSTINATE RINGWORM I SPREADS THROUGH FAMILY-ZAM-BUK I ALONE ABLE TO ERADICATE EPIDEMIC. Ringworm is, admittedly, the most trouble- some and obstinate of children's skin and ec-alp diseases. The unique power of Zam- Buk has just received further proof in the experience of MT. and Mrs. F. W. Jollands, of The Tolt, Meadow Walk, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. To a. reporter Mrs. Jollands said:- About fifteen months ago I discovered that one of my three children, a girl aged four years, had contracted ringworm. It was very slight at first, appearing on the crown of the head about as big as a threepenny piece. There was no discharge, but the hair came off rapidly, until there was a. bright red patch abont an inch and a half in diameter completely bare. It was very much inflamed, and awfully irritable, and the child suffered considerably when I dressed it. Of course, I kept her at home, and aboilt two months later the dise-aee showed itself in the other girl, aged six, and also in my boy. aged two. In the cases of the younger girl and the boy the ringworm was confined to the head, but in the case of the elder girl the pores spread all over the body, affecting the chest, throat, and legs as well as the scalp. I consulted a. doctor, and he prescribed ointment and lotion, to whic.h I gave a fall and fair trial. I followed his instructions eractly, but without any beneficial result. I had all three children at home for five months. In spite of my extreme care the obstinate disease got a. firm hold. "At last a neighbour persuaded me to try Zam-Buk. I noticed t,hat the irritation was very much allayed after the first application, and the children liked the dressings im- mensely. The rings became narrower every night, and Zam-Bnk continued steadily in its work of eradicating the disease until all three children were perfectly cured. Skin and scalp are now in each case sweet and healthy, and the hair has grown again, too." Zam-Buk expels disease from skin or scalp, and is especially valuable for ringworm, scalp irritation, eczema, psoriasis, sore backs, abs>cesi?e.s, boils, pimples, festering sores,, poisoned wounds, cats, bruises, burns, scalds, piles, and pains. Of all chemists, or the Zam-Buk Co., 4, Red Cross-Street, E.C., for 1. or 3s. 9d. per box (2s. 9d. or large fa.mily size contains nearly four times the Is. lid.). e609

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X40,000 DAMAGES I Liners' Terrific Crash I 21 KILLED, INJURED & MISSING 1 The huge North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, of over 14,000 tons, was leaving Cherbourg roadstead at 8.30, after taking on board 170 passengers for New York, when misfortune overtook her. The weather was foggy, and she was going through the channel leading out of the roadstead, when the far smaller Orinoco, one of the smaller vessels of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet, steamed in on her way from Southampton to call for mails and passengers for the' West Indies. Nothing could avert a collision, and the two steamers met with a terrible shock. The Orinoco struck the Kaiser Wilhelm, as she may bo called for short, on the star- hoard bow, crashing into her and remaining fast. Both captains gave the word to go astern, and the vessels parted. As it was feared from the extensive da-mage to both ships that they .were in danger of foundering, signals of dis- tress were made. Both, however, were able to make their way slowly back into the roadstead, the Orinoco having only her fore- part damaged. When the shock came there was a great panic among the 700 steerage passengers in the bows of the Kaiser Wilhelm. The cries of the wounded- and the shouts of those who feared the vessel was sinking terrified the whole body of steerage paqsengers. One woman even jumped overboard in her fright, but she was safely picked up. All the steerage passengers on board the German liner were Hungarians or Russians, and of these it was' found that four lia.d been killed by the shock and about ten injured. Many were terribly mutilated. The injured were taken ashore and con- veyed to hospital. One of them, a young girl of thirteen, who sustained severe inter- nal injuries, subsequently succumbed. Three of the crew of the Orinoco were qrcl when the ves,,els striici,, knocked overboard when the vessels struck. and, it is believed, were drowned. The damage done to the Kaiser Wilhelm is estimated at LAO,Central News. Later messages state that altogether five passengers of the Kaiser Wilhelm were drowned, and three members of the crew of 1 the Orinoco are missing, and believed to be drowned.

OUR COAL SUPPLIES Records & Estimates. Mr. Gladstone -received at the Home Office on Thursday a deputation of some of the, members of the Royal Commission on our Coal Supplies, who asked that the records a;nd estimates, which they had prepared at great cost to the country, should be kept up by the Geological Survey, to prevent their labours being almost abortive. The deputac- tion consisted of Lord Allerton (late ohair- man of the Coal Commission), Sir George Armytage, Mr. Brace, M.P., Mr. Sopwith, and Mr. W. Russell, C.B. (secretary of the Com- mission). ilord Allerton said the members of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, 1901-1905, would like, if possible, to prevent the records and estimates, which they prepared after much work and at great cost, from being wa&ted, as those of the 1866-1871 Commission were, And they would welcome come attempt to keep these records and estimates up to; date. Sir George Armytage, Mr. Brace, M.P., and Mr. Sopwith having spoken in support, Mr. Gladstone in reply said he recognised the great value of the work done by the Commission, and they should take the fullest possible advantage of the fruits of their labours. A drawback which existed lay in the fact that the Homo Office had one great defect, in that it bad no Mines Department, and to his mind it was some- thing of the nature of a scandal that it should be so. He looked upon a Mines Department as being absolutely essential, and to have a branch specially devoted to the mining industry and all the questions which referred to it, on the sa.me Jines as the Factory Department had been instituted. The right hon. gentleman promised to co- operate with the Treasury and the Board I of Trade to secure that the work of the Ooa-1 l Commission should be made use of to the fullest possible advantage of the country. I The -deputation then withdrew.

SHIPPING FREIGHTS. I Chairman of Royal Commission I i Our London correspondent wires:—I under- stand that Mr. Arthur Cohen, K.C., has been appointed chairman of the Royal Commis- sion on Shipping Freights which has just been appointed. The Commission was originally intended to investigate the South African freight market, but its scope has now been enlarged. Mr. Cohen is a judge of the Cinque Ports, was one of her Majesty's counsel in the Ala- bama arbitration, member of the Royal Commission on Unseaworthy Ships, and a Royal Commission on Trades Unions. He will be assisted by Mr. Owen Philipps, chair- man of the Royal Mail Line; the Hon. Charles Lawrence, deputy-chairman of the London and North Western, and others.

NEW MINES INSPECTOR. I In the House of Commons on Thursday, I Mr. BRACE (Lab., Glamorgan, S.) asked the Home Secretary whether Mr. John Masterton, J.ollgrigg Schoolhouse, Scotland, has been appointed as an assistant-inspector of mines for the Cardiff District, and if so, does Mr. Masterton speak the Welsh language, as a majority of the miners employed within the area of the Cardiff District are WeMi-speak- ing miners. Colonel IVOR HERBERT (R., Monmouth-? shire, S.) abo had a question on the paper on the same subject, and he asked, in addi- tion, whether Mr. Masterton has had any prac- tical experience of coal mining in the South Wales coalfield; whether the Home Secretary would state the number of oaudidat,= the appointment who possessed both qualifica- tions, and whether, having regard to the fact I that Welsh is the only language spoken by a considerable number of miners in the Car- diff District, he would re-consider his decision in regard to this appointment. Mr. GLADSTONE, replying to both ques- tions, said that Mr. Masterton was first in the recent competitive examination for two vaoancies in the inspectorate, but the ques- tion who was to be assigned to fill the vacancy in the Cardiff District was still under consideration. In any case, he would be a Welsh-speaking inspector.

WHERE TIME IS CHEAP. The Select Committee on the grievances of the Post Office employee on Thursday ascer- tained from Sir Henry Tanner, of the Office of Works, t,hat in one case five years elapsed between the requisition for and completion of a work which cost only £ 2,200; many months sometimes passed before one department replied to a lotter from another; and the ohairman ascertained from a witness that ten months expired before a filter and two glass,ce were supplied; and three and three- quarter years were occupied in negotiating with a railway company respecting a few windows. In another ease it took seven months to get plans for some hydrants, and a further nine months before the hydrants were supplied. Meanwhile a fire occurred.

NEWPORT MAN POISONED BY GAS. The Newport borough coroner (Mr. Lyndon Moore) held an inquest at Newport on Thurs- day respecting the death of Charles Da-vies, aged 28, who was employed at Messrs. Rey- nolds and Co.'s, drapers and furnishers, Oom- mercial-street, as house porter. Deceased lived on the premises, a.nd on Monday morning was found dead in his room, the latter heing fnll of gas. He had been rather despondent for the last few months. Dr. M'Ginn said that when he saw the deceased he was suffering from gas poison- ing. He died at the hospital on Wednesday from paralysis, caused by ga-s poisoning. Mr. George Rey, the head of the firm employing the dd. wrote testifying as to Daviee's straightforward character, and the Rev. W. Vivian (Hill-strc-et Methodist Churoh) spoke of him as being a man of great religious zeal. The jury found that the deceased came to his death by gas poisoning, but whether it was an accident or otherwise there was not sufficient evidence to show.

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Big Boom in Burgtaryi NEWPORT HOTEL VISITED: NO CLUE I Burglaries at Newport are becoming, unfor- tunately, not only more numerous, but also more daring. When Mr. F. J. Jones, land- lord of the George Hotel, Maindec, and his staff got downstairs on Thursday they found that the place had been burgled in a most audacious manner. The billiard- room window at the back of the house bore. distinct marks of the intruder or intruders' handiwork. Having obtained access in that way, a visit; was made to the bar, and the cash till was made the objective. This bar accessory, weighing lkwt" was wrenched from its) fixture, and oarried to the billiard-room, where it was not only broken open, but smashed in the most ruthless manner, and between S,4 and Y.5 abstracted. Mr. Jones has not missed anything except the cash. The job was done some time between two o'clock and 6.50 a.m. The cash-till was taken far away into the billiard-room to be broken, so as to be out of hearing of the inmates of the house upstairs. For the present there is no cine, except that a screw-driver was left behind.

CLAIMS AGAINST RUSSIA In reply to- questions in the House of Commons on Thursday, Sir E. GREY said that since May last, in consequence of the Buis-sian Government having refused to re-consider the claim advanced on behalf of those concerned in the destruction of the Knight Commander, his Majesty's Government had proposed that the case should be referred to arbitration at The Hague. As regarded, the Allanton, the Russian Government had also again refused to entertain the claim advanced for compensation in respect of the seizure and detention of that vessel, and after careful consideration with their legal advisers his Majesty's Government had decided that there were insufficient grounds for further pressing the claim, and the parties con- cerned had accordingly been so informed. In the case of the Cilurnum the Prize Court at Libau on the 22nd of August last decided that the jettisoning of some cargo she carried was in order in consequence of its contraband character. The parties inte- rested did not, however, enter an appear- ance at these proceedings, and had intimated that they did not dei-ire to take any steps with a view to appealing against this deci- sion. The remaining oases, which he speci- fied in May, were either still forming the subject of correspondence between the two Governments or were shortly expected to come before the Libau Prize Court. I

MAESTEG POLICE HAUL. Within the last two weeks no fewer than I five arrests have been made by t.he Maesteg police in connection with various charges of I theft. The first arrest was made by Police- constable Frensham, the prisoner being the man who was alleged to have stolen a driving whip from Mr. Boyd Harvey. The same constable also arrested two otner men, one of whom was alleged to have broken into two places at Swansea, and on Tuesday Police- constable Mahoney arrested a man charged with stealing X3. On Thursday evening Police-constable Mercer apprehended a man named Albert Harding, who is alleged to have broken into Maesteg Town-hall on Sep- tember 3 and stolen a large quantity of clothes and other articles, the property of a theatrical company then performing there. The police have found at his lodgings at Maesteg a large quantity of the clothing illeged to have been stolen from Pontypridd Town-hall and Trevecca House, Pontypridd. Harding, who is a native of Bath and has lately been working underground, will be brought up at Bridgend to-day (Friday). He is about 30 years of age.

MORE ROOM FOR PATIENTS. I The fund for re-modelling the out-patient department of the Cardiff Infirmary has received a great impetus by the public- spirited action of the Ocean Coal Company (Limited) and the Ta-ff Vale Railway Com- pany, whose directors have voted the sums of £ 100 and 1;50 respectively, towards this good object. The importance of there gifts at this juncture cannot- be overstated; and apart from their material value, they, together with the donations of other companies, show con- clusively how exploded is the old selflah cry that a public company has neither body to bi kicked rt-or soul to bo lost, but that when directed by men of wide sympathies com- panies are fully alive to their human relationship.

WELSHMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS A meeting of the Cardiff IV,-I,-h Society (Cymry Caerdydd) was held at the Old Town- hall on Thursday evening, when Cochfarf (Alderman Edward Thomas) presided, and Mr. W. J. Gruffydd, assistant lecturer in Celtic at Cardiff University College, delivered an address on "Folk Poetry of Wales." Cochfarf referred to the time, within his own experience, when a Welshman dared not proclaim his nationality in Cardiff for fear of ridicule, and re-called several bitter fights for the rights of Welshmen in their own land. The present-day differences were mere skirmishes in comparison, and need not he feared if the Cymry resident in the city would bat stand together and bravely "face the muzic."

SHOCKING STATE OF A WELL Ann Davies, a widow, of Newport, was summoned by the Llantarnam Urban District Council at Cwmbran on Thursday to show cause why an order should not he made by ¡,he bench for the closing of an alleged polluted well on her premises at Tycoch, Llantarnam. Mr. H. H. Haden, clerk to the council, pro- secuted, aud Mr. G. R. Thompson, the county analyrt, said that the wat-er -was nothing more or less than cesspool effluent and house- hold filth. The water was so absolutely foul from animal matter that it was unfit to I wash floors with. Tho Bench made a permanent closing order.

WELSH AWARDS AT THE MILAN I EXHIBITION I We have received an official notification from the British Commission at the Milan I Exhibition stating that amongst the awards to exhibitors are a gold medal to the Welsh Industries Association, and both gold and silver medals to the Vale of Neath Dinas Fire-brick and Cement Company.

KING HAAKON IN LONDON. I ——— I ENTERTAINED TO LUNCH BY THE NORWEGIAN CLUB. I The King of Norway on Thursday went to Rit/s Hotel, Piccadilly, London, to lunch a-s the guest of the Norwegian Club. The pro- ceedin? verc private. His Majesty was I accompanied by Queen Maud, and attended by ? numerous Huitc. The Royal party arrived in three closed carriages from Buckingham Palace; and were received in [ the vestibule by Dr. Nansen and staff of the Legation in London. Outside a large crowd I had assembled, and the King and Queen were warmly greeted as they passed in. Their Majesties were conducted to a, splendidly decorated lunchoon-hall, where covers were laid for about 130 persons, including most of the prominent Norwegians in London. The general decoration included a blending of British and Norwegian flags. The only toast proposed was the health of their Majesties, proposed both in Norwegian and in English. The King made a brief speech in response.

I CAMBRIAN CHECKWKIGHER. CASE ADJOURNED SINE DIE AT FORTH. The oase in which the Cambrian Colliery Company, Olydach Yale, seek for the removal of Mr. J. Thomas, of Lower High-street, Cly- daeh Vale, as ebeckweighei- at the colliery was down for hearing at Porth Polioe-court on Thursday. Mr. W. Kensholc, however, who appeared for the company, explained to the stipen- diary (Mr. Arthur Lewis) that an arrange- ment had been come to whereby the case should stand over, it being hoped that it would not now come on a.t all. j The Stipendiary, under the circumstances, suggested that it. would be better to adjourn the ease sine die, and, as Mr. A. Thomas I James, who represented the oheckweigher, acquieeoed, this course was followed.

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THE CARUSO CASE. Chorus Girl's Evidence. MRS. GRAHAM TO BE CALLED I NEW YORK, Thursday. A number of Italians cheered Signor Caruso when he arrived at Yorkville Police- court to-day on the charge of annoying wonwn in the Central Park, but these c-heere were mingled with hisses. There was a con- siderable force of police on duty to keep back the crowd outside, but the oourl-room was crowded. A number of minor cases had to bo dealt with before Signor Caruso's, and the singer had to await their settlement, the centre of observa.tion. There was a sensational incident imme- diately on the resumption of the hearing. A woman was confronted with Signor Caruso, who, in reply to questions, denied that ho had annoyed her at the Metropolitan Opera House on February 4 last at a per- formance of Parsifal." It was reported that selle was a chorus-girl belonging to the Opera Company. Deputy-Police Commissioner Mathot next asked Signor Caruso whether it was not true that he bad behaved in an Improper Manner I to several women at the horse t'how. Here- upon. there was a heated exchange of words between the lawyers engaged in the case, which ended in Commissioner Mathot declar- ing that when he brought out the evidence that had been unearthed it would be known what manner of man he believed Signor Caruso to be. The Court was repeatedly forced to restore order. In the course of his direct examination yesterday Signor Caruso said he saw Mrs. Graham outside the monkey house, where he "exchanged glances" with her, and not again until she swore the complaint against him. T,)-day he said he t'aw her several times in the monkey house, but not near enough to enable him to describe her clothing. When asked to describe Mrs. Graham's glances, which he interpreted as an admis- sion that she was a woman of doubtful character, he said that he, was unable to describe a glance, but he could re-call it. Dr. Adolf Donziger, a lawyer and formerly United States Consul in Madrid, gave evi- dence that he reached the monkey house just as Signor Caruso was entering it, and be did not see defendant annoy any women. No scene occurred, and no woman touched or struck Signor Caruso, so far as he could see, and the singer walked out apparently alone. Signor Caruso was standing with his hands in his pockets in front of the snake case, With Several Women on either side of him. Cross-examined, witness said that he knew Signor Caruso well, and declared that he habitually carried his hands in his pockets, and frequently had a strutting; gait, and thrust his hands and his coat forward. Witness admitted that he was interested in the case, and said he volunteered as a witness because he believed that Signor Caruso was a gentleman and the greatest tenor of any time. and he did not want him or his career to suffer. He swore that from his observation it was a physical impossibility that Signor Caruso could have acted towards any woman in the monkey house in the manner described by the detective yesterday. He stood within 10ft. of Signor Caruso, and had a practically unobstructed view of him all the time he was in the building. Mr. Conried in his evidence declared that all his business with Signor Caruso had been carried on through the medium of an interpreter, thus tending to refute the police witnesses who had quoted a number of Signor Caruso's alleged remarks in English at the time of his arrest. Other witnesses were called, but no decision was arrived at to-day, and the hearing was again adjourned until to-morrow morning. Before the adjournment the Deputy-Police Commissioner informed the court that he would to-morrow produce Mrs. Hannah K. Graham, the woman whom Signor Caruso is alleged to have annoyed.-Reuter.

OFFICIAL RECEIVER. Removed from Merthyr to Pontypridd. In the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. D. A. THOMAS (R., Merthyr Tydfil) asked the President, of the Board of Trade wEetner he proposed to transfer the office of the official reoeiver for North Glamorgan from Merthyr to Pontypridd, and, if so,.could he state on what ground? Mr. KEARLEY (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) said on the appoint- ment of a new official receiver to the North Glamorgan district it was proposed to fix his office at Pontypridd, because it was con- sidered that this town was the most con- venient for a groat majority of those who were concerned in the bankruptcies of the whole district. The three court towns which in future would comprise the official receiver's district were Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil, and Aberdare, and the average annual numbers of the cases administered in them for the last five years were—at Pontypridd 46, at Merthyr 29, and at Aber- darge 19. Pontypridd, st.andin.g at an impor- tant railway junction, was more convenient of access from most parts of the district, than Merthyr, and from the large trading centres of Bristol, Cardiff, and Newport, where many of the larger creditors in oases arising in these courts carried on business. In answer to a question by Mr. KEItt 1IARDJ F. on the same subject, Mr. Kearley wrote:—As regards the inten- tion of fixing the office of the new official receiver for the North Glamorgan district at Pontypridd, the hon. member is referred to i the answer given orally this afternoon to the other hon. member for Merthyr Tydfil. It has not been thought necessary to seek the consent of traders and others resident, at Merthyr Tydfil on a question which has to be considered with regard to the con-, veu.ience of the district as a whole. It will, however, be arranged that the new official] reoeiver shall have at Merthyr ait agent to represent him in local matters.

STIPENDIARY AND ARABS. ■ PEOPLE "WHO SPEAK WITH A BUTE-STREET ACCENT. There were Arabs not a few in Cardiff Police-court, on Thursday, and several of them figured in the witness-box and took the oath according to the formularies of the faith of the Prophet of Islam. The stipendiary (Mr. T. W. Lewis) was adjudi- cator. Sam E. C. Ashton, E. P. Williams, and A. B. Blunden, first, second, and third engi- neers of the steamship Eton, now in Cardiff', were summoned for assaulting Ali Osmari on the high seas on August 7. There was another summons against Williams for assault on August 3, also on the high seas. Mr. Morgan Rees was for complainant, and Mr. Harold Lloyd was for defendants. Complainant in his evidence of aJleg-ed. ill-treatment, said the chief engineer came to the stoke-hole and dealt bini a violent blow on the back and kicked him, and upon tha't the second and third engineers caught hold of his arm and leg and dragged him for some distance. Dr. C. Treasure, J.P., reported upon a very serious injury to the shoulder, which might be permanent. The captain denied that any complaints were made to him, and said that if such complaints had been made they would have been thoroughly investigated quite indepen- dently of the status of the alleged assailant and the nationality of those assaulted. The Stipendiary dismissed the summons forthwith, refusing to believe that British officers would have acted as suggested, and adding that defendants left the court with- out a S'taiu upon their characters. A Mohammedan named Mahomet Mahomet. boards ng-house-ke?per. Bute-road, summoned Abraham Ha,mad for assault. Mr. Morgan Rees was for complainant, and Mr. Harold Lloyd defended. There was an interpreter in the case, and the not unusual tangle happened. His Worship in dismissing the summons, said it was difficult to get at the truth with English-speaking witnesses, but when witnesses spoke the various languages with a Bute-street accent the difficulty was very much increased.

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Cardiff Steamer Los1 f WRECKED IN SOLWAY FIRTH: CREW I RESCUED The crew of 21 h-ands of the Cardiff steamer Grayfield, commanded by Captain Tyson, have been rescued by the Maryport lifeboat and la.uded at Maryport. The Gray- field had a cargo of 3,000 tons of iron ore for the Workington Iron Company, and-on arriving in the Solway Firth on Wednesday night was unable to pick up a pilot owing to the heavy weather. She dragged her anchor during the gale, and became a total wreck. The rescue was attended with great danger, and the lifeboat -crew showed da,iiger, anrl the li4 splendid seamanship. Heavy seas threatened to dash the boat against the wreck and stove her in, so the crew beat about for an hour or so until the tide ebbed, when they rain alongside, and the sailors leaped 011 board, all getting off safely. The Grayfield belonged to the Field Line, Limited (Messrs. Evan Jones and Co., Car- diff), and was a steel serew steamer of 2,J2¡ tone*. She wafl built by Messrs. W. Gray and Co. (Limited', West Hartlepool, in 1900.

DEATH OF LORD HAMPDEN I Viscount Hampden died at 7-50 on Thurs- day evening. The deceased peer was the second Viscount Hampden, being a. son of a, former Speaker of the House of Commons. He was born in 1841, sa.t in Parliament for several years as member for Hertfordshire. Stroud, and the Ktroud Division successively, and wai Governor of New South Wales from 1895 tc. 1899. His son, the Hon. Thomas Walter Brand, who served in the last Boer Wai succeeds to the title. In 1886 the late viscount, who was then thi Hon. H. R. Brand, contested Cardiff in th< Unionist interest, his opponent being Sir E .r. Reed. The election was strenuously fought. the chief issue then being the question oi Home Rule for Ireland. Mr. W. T. Symonds, J.P., who was at the time a prominent supporter of the Hon. Mr. Brand, in an interview with one of onr rcprp- sentatives, said the contest was a most exciting one, the gre-at point then made on the Unionist side being that Mr. Brand was prepared to oppose Home Rule at all costs. However, Sir Edward Reed was returned, but only by a majority of 342, as against a majority of 863 scored by Sir Edward on February 27 in the same year. Mr. Symonds added, "I have never known a, more polished orator, or one who was more courteous than Mr. Brand during the throes of the contest, and on all occasions when it was my privilege to meet him."

COAL-TRIMMING TARIFF. I We understand that the negotiations for the proposed revision of the coal-trimming tariff at Cardiff, Barry, and Penarth have reached a point in regard to which a definite answer must be given within a, brief period. Upon the breaking off of negotiations by the shipowners some weeks ago it will bo remembered that the coal exporters, feeling that it was necessary seme steps should he taken to settle this vexed question, which might, if left (ypen, have serious consequences to the trade of the port, held a meeting at which fully nine-tenths of the coal exporters were represented. The committee was strengthened and empowered to formulate a scheme. After a conference with the coal- trimmers' representatives a scheme has been drafted. This embodies the maximum con- cessions the coal-trimmers are prepared to make. It has the approval of the coal- exporters' committee, and (except, possibly, as regards minor details) represents the "rock bottom" -terms of the coal exporters and the trimmers. As already reported in our columns, this scheme is to be submitted to tftie shipowners, who arc invited to nieei the representatives of the other interests at an early date. It is proposed that the new tariff shall come into operation early iu December.

NEW MINERS' UNION. 1 To the Editor of the "Evening Express." Sir,—Mr. Wm. Brace, M.P., treated the ixroposed new miners' union very lightly in last night's "Evening Express." Conserva- tive miners have tried to be exempt from paying the obnoxious Parliamentary levy by meeting the executive council to discuss it in a fair way, but they were told point- blank that they would have to pay it. [ think it is a shame to think that they got to keep Mr. Brace in Parliament as a, Liberal member. How would the Liberal members of the Federation like to keep a Conservative member in Parliament? The way to prevent the new union coming into existenoe is for the Central Executive Council to make the Parliamentary levy optional.—I am, Ac., WM. DAVIES. I 14, Western-street, Trehafod.

ARREST OF A WITNESS. I Harry So rat-ton, collier, of Caerau, Maesteg, who is the principal witness in the Taff Vale Railway tragedy case. which is to be heard at the Glamorgan Assizes, has been arrested on a, charge of etealing Lg 18s. from his lodg- ings at Caerau. A warrant for his arrest was issued a few weeks ago, but nothing was known as to his whereabouts until he pre- sented himself to the Portsmouth police, and told them that he was a. witness in a case of aUeged manslaughter to he heard at the Glamorgan Assizes, and had no money to get back to Glamorgan to give his evidence. The Ports-mouth police then communicated with the chief-constable of Glamorgan, who informed them that Scratton was wanted on a warrant, and upon this information Scratton wan immediately arrested.

SHOPKEEPER FOUND DEAD. I Mr. D. David, of the Boot Shop, New-road, Porthcawl, was found dead in his bedroom on Thursday evening. Mr. David lived alone. He had not been seen for the past few days, and on Thursday Mrs. Thomas, a sister ol the deceased, called. Receiving no reply, she got her husband and Police-sergeant Jenkins to obtain an entrance into the house through the back door. Upon going upstairs they found Mr. David lying against a wall. Dr. Hartland, who was called, said he must have been dead Z4 hours. Deceased was 62 years of age

WAR GAME AT CARDIFF I A war game between the South Wales and Monnioutbsbiro and the Gloucestershire Tactical Societies was fought out at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, on Thursday evening. The scheme, which was set by Colonel Rees Ban- field, C.B., D.S.O., briga.dier of the Welsh Volunteer Infanltry Brigade, assumed that an enemy had la-nded at Porthcawl, occupied Bridgend, and intended to march via Llan- trisant and Caerpililly to the coal valleys, destroying railways and cutting off the coal ports.

I THE WORLD'S COAL I A return issued on Thursday gives the fol- lowing figures of the production of the five principal coal-producing countries in 1905;- The United Kingdom, 236,129,000 tons; Ger- many, 119.349,000; France, 34,778,000; Belgium, 21,505,000; and the United States, 350,821,000. The figures for the United Kingdom, Ger. many, France, and the United States are in ea.ch case higher than in any previous year, but in Belgium the output shows a decline. The value of the coal produced in Great Britain wm £ 82,039,000.

MANCHESTER n MYSTERIES. I The Manchester police are now fully con- vinced that the boy whose dead body was found in a cellar of a slum in MauohcsteT on Tuesday has been murdered under horrible conditions. No clue to the perpetrator of the outrage has been found. A similar tragedy, which still remains a mystery, occurred in the same district eighteen months ago.

MR. THAW'S TRIAL. I Mr. Jerome, district attorney, made an application -I)efore Judge Greeiihaum at New York on Thursday for the removal of the trial of Mr. Thaw to the criminal branch of the Supreme Court. The judge assented, and Mr. Jerome then withdrew the application to Judge O'Sullivan for a special panel. The date of the trial is u-nfertain.-Reater,

KILLED ON THE RAILWAY The body of a man, who had apparently been killed by a train, was found on Thuni- day on the railway at R-isca. He appeared to be a tramping labourer or collier. Ho seemed to be about 50 or 56 years of age, and wae 5ft. 5in. in height.

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