Evening Express

CROWN PRINCE'S BILL I There is much comment on the action of the German Crown Prince in having a rail- way restaurant keeper at Wessely, a small Czech town, dismissed for overcharging a bill. The Prince had been for a fortnight's deer-stalking at Gmunden and Salzkam- mergut, and was returning to Berlin via Prague when be stopped with his suite At the station for lunch. A bill for £8 was pre- sented and paid, but the Prince afterwards complained of the amount through the German Consul at Prague, and the restau- rant keeper was removed. The man thereupon appealed to the Arch- duke Franz Ferdinand, informing him that he had spent £58 on beautifying the place for the Crown Prince's isit, h34 bought a new silver service, and got new coats for his waiters. The Archduke has now telegraphed to the Railway Minister ordering the restaurant keeper to be reinstated.

PROFITS IN COTTON I i I In his tabf-e of the year's profits in the Lancashire cotton industry, Mr. William Tat-tersall, of Manchester, gives for 65 mills the sum of 442.3,277, which, works out at the rate of 16i per cent. on share capital. Altow- iJJg for 41 per cent, iinteretrf, on loans, the rate of profit on &H capital employed is 123.

COAL MINE'S TOLL. A tITTLE LAD'S DEATH. BY MR. WILLIAM BRACE, M.P. LVice-President of the South Wales Miners7 Federation]. On my way from home to the House of Commons last week it was my duty to break my journey to visit a colliery in connection with a question in dis- pute between the employers and work- i men. Just as I reached the pit-top I was informed that a little lad had been seriously injured at the coal face, and that he was being brought out of the mine: But, to my great sorrow, a sorrow that has weighed heavily with me since, the little lad had died on the journey out, and it was his little dead, broken body that was taken to his grief- stricken home. If the members of the House of Commons—aye, and the share- holders and directors of companies engaged in operating our dangerous industries—could know the workmen's lives as I and many others do who come into close touch with these pathetic experiences all too often, there would not be the trouble there is in securing improved conditions of employment for them. We are disposed to complain about the hardness of the work in Par- liament, and hard and trying it cer- tainly is ofttimes, but at least our labours are conducted under conditions of safety. Therefore, when parties are inclined to doubt the wisdom of the pro- gressive legislators or the Government in making the speed somewhat above the average in the pressure for social reform, it should not be forgotten that the legislative machine at its best moves much more slowly than the needs of the people demand. The Workmen's Compensation Bill, which passed its Report stage a short time ago, while being an advance upon the present law, could have been con- siderably improved, and I venture to think would were the righteous claims, of Labour duly realised. But, apparently, one must be satisfied to move in stages, securing all one can to- day and pressing to-morrow for what has been left. Personally, I believe that it would havo been better had no con- tracting-out been allowed; not that I have a bias against institutions like the Permanent Relief Society as such, but because I do not think any society ought to be allowed to take the place of the Act of Parliament. If it is thought desirable to have a Permanent Relief Society, then let it be by way of an addi- tional benefit organisation, and not a substitute for the Compensation Act. Probably, this will be the lines upon which these organisations will direct their energies in future; at any rate, it will not be so easy to get workmen con- tracted out of the amended law as the old, for the Registrar of Friendly Societies will not be at liberty to certify a contracting-out scheme unless the workmen by a majority vote, ascer- tained by ballot-, agree to make an appli- cation to him for a contracting-out cer- tificate. This form of gathering the view of the workmen is the natural sequence to the very unjust manner in which many schemes were presented and certified in many parts of the country during the years that have gone since 1897, and, as in addition to this it is laid down that all contracting-out schemes must contain provisions which will enable a workman to withdraw should he desire to, it can with truth be said that after the passing of this Act no man need be divorced from the Compensation Act unless he himself desires deliberately and inten- tionally to be. As a further protection to those workmen who are at present contracting out of the Compensation Act, the amend ing Bill provides that present schemes be amended so as to carry out the conditions of the new compensation law, which makes it quite clear that the workmen must be given the full scale of compensation without payment of any contribution, and should they pay a contribution, say, to a perniane-IT, relief society, then an additional amount of relief must be given in proportion to their contribu- tion. This is a manifestly fair arrangement, and I marvel that the workmen did not insist upon such a benefit from the first. Had they done so. then I think we should have had none. or but. very few, contracting-out schemes. But the permanent funds would not have been abolished; rather, they would have been turned into purely workmen's societies, to bridge the gulf of the first two weeks for which no com- pensation under the old Act was paid, and in giving some additional assistance, with, possibly, an old-age pension scheme attacked of a general and generous character. In the first schedule a substantial step forward has been taken. Under the present law 110 compensation is paid for the first two weeks. Under the new Bill compensation will be paid from tho first day in cases of serious injury, and if a workman's injuries are not of a. character to lay him idle for two weeks and more, then no compensation is to be paid for the first week. This arrangement was the result of a compro- mise, for as the Bill left the Grand Com- mittee on Law compensation was to be paid after three days. I said in tho debate in the House that I thought the compromise was not an unfair one, taking all the circumstances into con- sideration. and I see no reason to alter that opinion. Clause B of this schedule also makes a necessary provision for voung lads, and is worthy of quoting in full: As respects the weekly payments during total incapacity of a workman who ii under I twenty-one years of age at the date of the ill jury, and whono average weekly earnings 1 are less than twenty shillings, one hundred per cent- shall be substituted for fifty per cent. of his average weekly earnings, but t.he weekly payment sha.l'l in no oaee exceed ten shillings. Originally Clause 16 of Schedule 1. was drafted so that should an employer, or, in other words, the insurance company, think that an injured workman had recovered sufficiently to re-commence work and the workman thought other- wise, the employer upon applying to the registrar of the county-court and paying a fee could have him sent direct to the medical referee, without reference to the county-court judge, and if upon examination the medical referee con- cluded that the man was able to work, regardless as to whether such a conclusion was right or wrong, the medical referee's certificate was final. Such a system as this the insurance companies have been striving for for some time, but, happily for the workmen, the Home Secretary realised before it was too late that to give the medical referee such a position would place a lever in the hands of un- scrupulous parties which could be used to make an injured workman's life un- bearable if he did not clear off receiving compensation. As I had made myself personally responsible for this amend- ment, I was naturally pleased when, after speaking a few words in its favour, Mr. Gladstone, without waiting for me to argue the question, caused it to be notified to me that be would accept, as he very properly said, when he came to deal with it, that the case in favour of my amendment was unanswerable.

Jewels and Raiment. I AMERICAN WOMEN DENOUNCED fLazy, Luxurious, Loud & Useless' American woman, after being accustomed for generations to extravagant adulation on the part of her countrymen, now finds, herself the object of fierce denunciation by scientists, philosophers, and divines. At a great congress of the leadmg Presbyterian ministers at Cincinnati (says the "Daily Mail ') ehe is being savagely criticised as lazy, luxurious, eelfish, loud, assertive, and useless. Professor Selby F. Vance, the occupant of the Chair of Theology at the Lane Seminary, the oldest theological institution in the West, said: "The American woman of the present day is like these women of Bible times, who crushed the life and soul of their men to get more i-ewels ajid raiment to decorate their persons and gratify expensive and worse than useless tastes." Several other divines spoke in the some strain, declaring that the deterioration of American woman- hood both at led and re-acted in the American man's I Worship of the Dollar I Scientists bring even more injurious accusations a-gainst the sex. Speaking at a conference at the University of Chicago, Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, Lecturer on Political Economy, accused the American woman of "wiggling." He said that the absence of the se-nse of form manifested it- self in general slouchiness," not only in dress and manner, but in the study, the intellect, the language, and the thought of the nation at large. Particularly noticeable was the American woman's manner of walking. Her "wiggling," swaying movements, said the lecturer, made her the laughing-stock of Europe. English, French, and German women walk with some dignity, but the young American woman progresses with a sort of "wiggle" that is ungraceful, Undignified, and Ridiculous New York ladies indignantly deny the accusation that they are wigglers," but profess the utmost unconcern as to the opinions of the political economist of Chicago. Leaders of society have been inter- viewed, and cite Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who has recently returned from Europe, and who declares that American women have the best figures of any women in the world, and are, therefore, entitled to wear the best costumes. In respect both of style and fashion of dress, and the manner of wearing it, Mrs. Fish says that her American countrywomen surpass all other women in the world, including even the Parisiennes. So economists and divines do not matter.

TAR:S WEDDING HITCH A stalwart young man, an A.B. in tr.'f- Royal Navy, named Hatwood, whose parents rc,- ,I df- Lt R?e,dhill, witli reside at Redhill, with Miss Polly Parsons, of Shalford, came to Red-hill, Birmingham, yesterday to he married. Everything was proceeding satisfactorily until the Eev. E. C. Stevcjjs, the curate, -Oiscovered that tihe Hhalfeaxl certificate was not in order. The usual formalities of the Church had appa- rently not been conformed, with, and the rev. gentleman was unable to proceed with tihe ceremony. Telegrams were despatched to Shalford, but a reply did not come to hand till after the legalised hoar for weddings, so the ceremony had to be put off till to-day, when the pair were married quietly and departed on a short (honeymoon.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. In the Italian Chamber on Tuesday, in the coarse of a. general statement on the foreign policy of the Government, Signor Tittoni, Minister for Foreign Affaire, said that when ItaJy first entered the Triple Alliance, and when it was renewed, Italy never lost sight of the necessity for retaining the friendship of England. He declined to admit that there was really any antagonism between England and Germany. If there had been any tem- porary coldness, it was due to a sensation- loving newspaper press, which he declared was also responsible for exaggerating grossly every incident in connection with Austro- Italian questions. Signor Tittoni added that, as a matter of fact, the relations between Italy and Austria were steadily improving.-Gentral News.

A BAD TIME ALL ROUND Mine. De Thebes, the Paris seer, has issued her forecast for 1907, which prophesies a bad time all round. She foretells a pitched battle between the British House of IJOrd", and the Commons, which will be ended by the peacemaking efforts of King Edward. The struggle between classes and masses in Eugland, she declares, will become serious. France is to have a. year of very rough weather, and a chequered expe-rienci, generally. Germany will have a thoroughly bad time, with financial catastrophes, and all sorts of scandals. Many of her princely houses will be in mourning. In Austria-Hungary there will be ciyelones in the valley of the Danube, and the old Emperor will not leave his crown to his expected successor. The prophetess foresees a bad time for the United States, and Belgium may expect grave political and social occurrences.

TURKEYS' DEATH WARRANTS The killing of turkeys in Norfolk, where the 1argestand finest birds are reared, began yesterday. Within the next three days tens of thou- I sands of turkeys will be dealt with, hundreds of men and women being employed in pluck- ills and drese,ing them. The season has been favourable, and the turkeys, which scale from lOlb. to 35lb., are making about 13. per lb. wholesale. The principal poulterers handle about 5,000 each. Truck loads are being forwairded to London and other large centres, and special consignments are going to France, Switzer- land, and other Continental countries.

DEATH OF A SHAKSPEREAN SCHOLAR I Literature has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. William J. Craig, who died in a nursing home in London after an operation. He was born at -Agbanloo, county Derry, in 1843, and graduated at Trinity College, Dub- liu. At one time professor of English litera- ture at the University College, Aberystwyth, he was subsequently tutor to Lord Hugh Cecil at Hatfield. About eleven years ago the "Times" states, he abandoned all other occu- pations to devote himself to the work of Sha-ksp-eare, and designed a glossa.ry of Shakspearean language on a, colossal scale. That undertaking was unfinished at his death. He edited the text of Shakspeare for the Oxford University Press, as well as the little quarto edition in 40 volumes, with brief introductions and notes. He was also editor-in-chief of the elaborate Arden edition of Shakspeare, on which many efficient soholars worked under his direction.

PAWNED THE LODGER'S CLOTHES Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, a- mother of eigfht, living at Abertridwr, appeared at Caerphilly 0.1 Tuesday on a charge of stealing a m-it a« 1 vest, value 15. from John Gardner. Mr. Toni Phillips defended. It transpired from the evidence of prose- cutor that he lodged with defendarnt for 13s. a week. He was ordered to leave before a week ended without any cause, and then found that the woman had pledged the articles. 8hp offered him the ticket for 5s; This was not denied by the woman, but she declared to Police-constable Saan Evans that 7s. was due to her, and she was advised by a friend to do so. The articles were pledged for Is. 6d. On promising to hand over the clothes the woman was allowed to go.

ROYAL GAME FOR PAUPERS The King has sent a hamper of game from Sandringham to King's Lynn Workhouse.

DECEMBER SNAKES A Launoesfcon sexton, while digging a gra\e at tlbe cemetery, kiUed five suakes. each about a foot long. I

BKRM ALTNT5 BREAD— Who Is It that says most? which oan say more TIlM tblt rioil prlJae." am "8on>wkM IjcbIt.

German Liner Stranded CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE The Prinzessin Victoria Luise, which ran ashore at Kingston (Jamaica), is a total loss. The bottom has- buckled, and the ship is flooded fore and aft. Her captain blew away the back of his head with a rifle, and not with a revolver.

I Leap Through a Window I MAESTEG HORSE'S DASH An extraordinary runaway accident occurred at Maesteg yesterday evening, when a horse jumped right through a window into a greengrocer's shop, taking with it the baker's van to which it was attached. The animal, which was standing in Alma- road while the driver was delivering bread from the van, took fright, and dashed furiously down the road, and failing to take,? the turn at the bottom, jumped through the window of Mr. Henry Leonard's green- grocery shop. A little boy named Aneuryn Thomas, "ho was standing in front of the window, had a narrow escape from serious, if not fatal, injury. He was knocked into the shop through the window, but received only a few cuts, one of which had to be stitched.

——— I NEW ARMY SCHEME. I Proposals for the establishment of a. territorial army in lien of the present forces -of Militia and Volunteers have been drafted by the Army Council, and are now being considered by a joint c-ommittee of Militia and Volunteer officers. It is understood that provision is to be made for the voluntary enrolment of an army of 400,000 men, half of whom will form the territorial army, the remaining half serving in the territorial ajmy reserve. Service is to be for six years in either. Men serving in the territorial army may elect to serve on active war service for a period of two years, and for the purpose of specially training these men, instead of ass-embling with their own county organisations annually, they will join special battalions, who will join in combined training with Regular troops. The administration snd training of the new army is to be placed in the hands of lords- lieutenant of counties, assisted by a general staff especially selected from the officers of the territorial army, and who will act as the permanent staff of the force. The army will be formed into divisions with geographical designations, e.g., the (Northern) Territorial Army. lL is understood that the financial inquiries relative to the scheme are extremely favour- able for its adoption, and that there is mucii in the proposals to admire. Mr. Haldane is confident- that the general lines upon which the army is to be created will prove accept- able to both the Militia and Volunteers.

Killed by Trucks i CARDIFF SEAMEN'S DEATH ABROAD Two Cardiff seamen have met with a sad and untimely death at Savona, Italy. Their names are Miohael Walwh and William Free- man, and both were about 30 years of age. They lived with Mrs. Young, of 8, Evelyn, street, Docks. Walsh was Mrs. Young's brother, and Free- man her cousin. They were firemen on board the steamship Gem, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Gem left Cardiff on December 1 with a oargo of coal for Savona. Having reached that port, Walsh and Freeman went for a walk round the town. This was on the 14th inst. When returning to their boa-t they by some mieans or other were run over by railway trucks, and were both killed. The aad noewlS was conveyed to Mrs. Young in a letter from a, comrade received by her on Tuesday. The bodies were buried together on Sun- day. It was Freeman's first. t.rip in the Gem, but Walsh had sailed in her previously.

AMATEUR THEATRICALS IN CARDIFF, Among charitable works in Cardiff few deserve and few receive such an amount of commendation from so many sections of thought a.nd effort as does the University Settlement on the Moors. The a.mateur theatricals which were given in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday were on behalf of the furnishing and equipment fund for the new Settlement-hall. It was never supposed that the performances would realise the £ 500 which is needed to clear the institution of debt under this heading, but so well were they patronised that the result will certainly mean a big step towards the conclusion of the fund. This was an effort made more especially by the county families of Glamorgan, and the audiences on Tuesday afternoon and evening in the stalls and circle of the theatre were representative gatherings of county people. In the after- noon Lord Tredegar, who is the president of the Settlement, paid a visit to the theatr-e-i what is now for him a, rare occasion. And it was an encouraging sign that the seats which were best filled were those of the highest prices. The two short pieces played were Shades of Night" and "The Balladmonger." They had been rehearsed and were produced under the direction of Mrs. Henry Lewis (Greenmeadow) and Mrs. Tyler (Llantrithyd).

STOKERS AND DISCIPLINE The naval commander-in-chief at Devonport requests us to state that, With reference to a Devonport correspondent's statement which appeared in some of Tuesday morning's papers that there was i-ecently a disturbance among the stokera at the Royal Barracks, Devonport, and that the men resented certain orders, I shall be glad if you wili contradict it, as nothing of the sort has occurred, and, in view of recent reports, is very injurious to the credit of a blameless body of officers a.nd men."

SAILORS ON STRIKE Strikes of (steamship sailors, including men employed on coasting vessels-, lia-ve begun at Genoa, Naploõ, Leghorn, and Bari. The strikers will be proceeded against on charges of mutiny. Mail services are, where necessary, being carried on by torpedo-boats. The shipowners have resolved to lay up vessels until the sailors give an undertaikSag for better conduct in future.

NAMES FOR THE NEW TUBEI Further suggested names for the Hammer- smith to Finsbury Park tube include Fin- I ham, by Mr. Will Crooks, M.P. The other proposals are:— The Pie. Piccalilly. Bromfindilly. Bromfinsdilly. I

MORE TO FOLLOW I "Any more?" said the clerk at the Basing- stoke Petty Sessions yesterday after Mrs. Webber, who applied for a vaccination exemption order, had given the name of her child as Eva Sarah Bertha Josephine. "Yes, the full name is Eva Sarah Bertha Jose- phine More Webber," the mother replied.

WOULD NOT GO TO BED It was stated yesterday at the inquest at Islington coroner's court on Miss Ann Eleanor Hamilton, who died from bronchitis, that for the last three years she had not gone out of doors, although in good health, and bUl not gone to bed, but had slept sitting up fully dressed in a chair.

ISTEVZNZI BREAD— I la great ngUMt.

I Russia and Japan I STRAINED RELATIONS The relations between Russia and Japan have become much more strained. The Com- mission charged with the elaboration of the treaty of commerce has suspended its sittings (says the "Tribune"), and the meetings of the sub-commission whiich was appointed to settle the question of fishing rights have also been interrupted. The situation is grave. Russia, fearing that Japan may seize Northern Sakhalin, now proposes to submit tlhe whole question of the fishing rig-his to arbitration.

I The Vatican's Threat. HOW A REBELLIOUS BISHOP WILL BE TREATED The Vatican continues to deny that the Spanish Ambassador to France was approached with a view to inducing him to assume the protection of the interests of the Holy See in Paris without informing his Government. It is emphatically declared in Vatican circles that there is no intention of taking reprisals by abolishing the French protectorate of Catholics in the Holy Land or anywhere else.-Reuter. The examining magistrate at Tarascon, vho refused to deal with the perpetrators of the recent disturbances at Barbettare, is to be tried by court-martial. Up to the present >>0 declarations have been made, applying to 32 churehes.-Reuter. Twenty-nine archiepiscopal and episcopal residences and 31 large and 23 small semi- naries in France, making in all 83 ecclesias- tical establishments, have been evacuated up to date.—Reuter. At a Cabinet Council in Paris on Tuesday it was decided to oppose the disjunction of that part of the Government proposal which deals with the devolution of church pro- perty.—Reuter. A Rome telegram says:—On hearing report that the Bishop of Tarantoise had made, or allowed to be made, in his diocese the declaration prescribed by M. Briand's circular, and that he was also forming an association for worship in accordance with the Separation Law, the Pope is stated to have said, "If the news be true, Mgr. Lacrois will be the first to know that he will be rigorously repudiated by the Holy See, and also by his colleagues of the French Episcopacy, who have given such an admirable example of Catholic discipline." This is thought in Rome to show with what inexorable severity the Vatican is ready to treat clergy who do not follow the Papal instructions.-R-eut-ar. A Huge Legacy ROME, Tuesday. The newspapers announce that the recently deceased Bishop Oadami has bequeathed four millions of lire to the Pope, with a request that the money may be devoted to the needs of the Church in France.—Reuter.

YOUNG CLERK'S DOWNFALL. I At Clerkenwell Sessions on Tuesday Frede- rick Andrew Phillips, eighteen, a clerk, who cried bitterly, pleaded guilty to having stolen a bunch of keys, the property of Mrs. Alice Ann Baker, an independent lady, of Aigburth, Liverpool, and to having been con- cerned in stealing from the Grand Hotel, Llandudno, jewellery valued at X90, the property of a Mr. John Ghorlton. Counsel for the prosecution said the prisoner was a native of Liverpool, add the son of a gentleman formerly in a very good position. In December last year the prisoner committed a jewel robbery at an hotel at Leamington. Leaving there he went to Glas- gow, where he was arrested, and he was ulti- mately tried at Warwickshire Quarter Ses- sions. He had been previously convicted at Droitwidh, and the judge, hearing that the father would make good the remainder of the missing jewellery of the total value of £60, bound the prisoner over on condition that his father undertook to carry out the promise to send him to Canada. Prisoner went there and stopped some time. Last month the prisoner deposited a bag in the cloak-room at Euston, and removed it the same evening. On that day a £200 jewel robbery was committed at the Euston Hotel. There was no evidence against the prisoner, but on the 30th Mrs. Baker, return- ing to her room, found the prisoner tamper- ing with a trunk. He ran off, but was arrested at Bloomsbury, where the pawn- tickets were found connecting him with rob- beries at, hotels at Harrogate and Blackpool. Sentence was postponed to see if the prisoner would divulge anything regarding the E20,0 robbery at Eueiton, not any article of which has been traced.

I RAISULI SHOWS FIGHT. TANGIER, Tuesday. Ben Mansur, Raisuli's khalifa, posted strong guards in the outer market place to-day. He declares that Raisuli has received an Imperial letter ordering him to obtain recruits for the Sultan for service with the Shereefian Army. This statement is generally believed to oe untrue, and merely an excuse for Raisuli to have a force ready to back his demand. It is stated that Sid Mohammed Guebbae, the Minister of War, is carrying on negotia- tions with Raisuli for the latter to givo up the governorship of the Fas and to assume that of Beni Aros. Should this change be made, Raisuli's guards would be removed from the market-place and friction between the authorities would ba avoided.Reuter.

1 1207 FOR EACH PERSON A paper, by Mr. W. J. Harris and the Rev. K. A. lake. on "The Estimates of the Realisable Wealth of the United Kingdom, based mostly on the Estate Duty Itcturus." was read before the Royal Statistical Society yesterday. Sir Richard B. Martin, president, being in the chair. The writers stated that, allowing for the deduction of certain Government property which could not be reckoned if the national debt were included, the total wpalth of the United Kingdom was £ 8,950,000,000. This' sum, dis- tributed among the population, would allow £ 207 for each per.-on, producing, if there were any safe investments then to be had, £7 per head per annum, or say 2s. 8d. per week, or about 4d. per day.

INDUSTRIAL INDIA, India, the land of mystery, is rapidly coming to the front in various fields of in- dustry not generally associated witn the fast. It is, pe-rnaps, not widely known that our Indian Empire possesses no less than fifteen coalfields, while iron is worked on a considerable scale in three districts, two of which are situated in the immediate vicinity of Calcutta. X.or are oil fields wanting; seventeen more or less important centres are engaged in this industry in the provinces of Bengal and Assam, while tobacco cultiva- tion is another valuable asset to the latter as well as to Madra^s. Part XVI. of "The Atlas of the World's Commerce" (Newnes, Price 6d.) gives a lot of details concerning this new factor in the world's industrial progress.

BOYS IN COLLISION. I A coroner's jury at Swansea Hospital on Tuesday returned a verdict of Accidental death" in the case of James Stevens Ito), Earl-street. Hafo-d, Swansea, who last Thurs- i day was knocked down. by another boy in Boweu-street while they were running to sell a newspaper, and who afterwards died in the hospital. j Mrs. Margaret John, who took the boy into her house, and Mr. Thomas Harry, who oarried him home, were both thaniked by the coroner.

MADMAN AT WINDSOR CASTLE j A young man. named John Pollard, of Iver, near Slough. went to Windsor Castle and said that the late Queen Victoria left him some money, and that he had come to see about it. The police banded him over to Relieving- officer Simms, and Pollard was examined by the doctor, who certified him insane. He was then taken before the county magistrates, and subsequently conveyed to Moulsford Asylum.

I STEVENS' BREAD— conounm -1 i. 1*'f8ClÜOQ.

INSIDE A CONVENT. Remarkable Death of a Nurse who I Wanted to be a Nun. 11 GOOD-BYEI I AM GOING." I The Kensington coroner on Tuesday even- ing inquired into the remarkable dearth of Emily Tibworth, a nurse, aged 36, which occurred in the Roman Catholic Convent ot Poor Clares in Ladbrooke-grove, Nottin.g Hill, where deceased went to nurse nuns ill with influenza. Miss Tibworth took a liking for the convent, and desired to become a nun, but the Mother Abbess thought this inadvis- able, and arrangements were made for her to leave the convent last Saturday. Subse- quently she was found dead in her cell. Christina Dupiny, who was attired in the garb of a nun, and who for fifteen years had not been out in tihe world, said she was the Mother Vicaress of the Poor Clares. Deceased first went there about a, year ago, and came again in May to train as a novice and to become a nun in the secluded part. The Coroner: What nuns are there iif the convent ?—There are the lay nuns, who go out into tlhe world, and the choir nuns, who do not. With regard to deceased, she was under- going training to become a nun, wasn't she? Yes. She had to remain a year and a day after I She Made Her Confession before she w&s axlirutted to the Order. If satisfactory, she would be admitted. She wou'ld remain for the rest of her life in the convent. After her first profession she was told that she was net suitable. The Mother Abbess told her that, and it was arranged that she should go out. She oried at this, amd seemed very much upset, and asked to 00 allowed to remain. Thiis request was granted. Again it was felt that she was not suitable, a-nd it was arranged that she should go out cm Saturday. On Saturday morning, about Sleven o'clock, she saw the Mother Abbess. "Later," said the witness, I went to deceased's oeH and found her lying on the bed with her arms across her, and her hands holding a crucifix." What did you do?-I did not touch her. Why?—I felt she was dead. But why, if you felt that, did you not go I to her?—I was frightened, but I felt quite satisfied that sbe was dead. She was not held up to ridicule, was she? I —Not at all; everything, as I said, was done To Save Her from Pain Cttlher evidence showed before death Miss Tib-worth went to the dispensary and took something from the cupboard in which the poisons were left. After that she met Emily Clara Read, a.nother nun, whom she em- braced, saying, Good-bye, I am going." E-ead told the coroner she was not aware Miss Tibwortlh was leaving the convent; she knew, however, that she was not considered sufficiently in earnest. Dr. MacLeod, of Ladbrooke-grove, ex- plained that the Order was a purely praying one The sisters prayed for the world. The nuns nüver- wore shoes or stockings. Those who went out were sandals. In the secluded parts none entered except «a priest in case of extreme illness or imminent death. The nuns went to bed at eight until twelve, then got up and prayed for four hours. Then they retired again. Witness said- he was called to deceased, and found her in her cell lying prone an her back, dead, and clasping a rosary and cruci- fix. She was quite peaceful, and looked as if she had laid herself down to die. Dr. B. Spilsbury, pathologist to St. Mary's Hospital, said death was due to syncope from rupture of the heart. There was no sign of any poison. Deceased had evidently felt unwell, amd had laid herself down on the bed and died. Verdict accordingly.

"I'LL HAVE YOUR LIFE." I Violent Attack on a Warder. I Warder Shepherd, of the Pentonville il Prifon staff, described an exciting experience when he appeared cut Clerkenwell yesterday to prosecute John Dyer for assault. The warder said that prisoner was under- going a sentence, and was in his cure. As the witness opened his cell door to pass in his dinner some missile hurtled past his (the witness's) head. Witness withdrew from the door and drew his staff. He then flood at the door, and prisoner said, "I'll thave your life." The witness told him that if he attempted (to throw at him again he would strike him. He heard a tin rattle against the wall and a stone crashed against the door. Witness went away and reported the matter. r Dyer said he was being kept down. His food had been taken away and he was punished for trivial offences. The magititrate, sentenced him to two months' hard labour.

NEW HEBRIDES OUTRAGES I Despatch of Warships. I The despatch of British warships to the New Hebrides, au-iounced by Mr. Deukin, the Australian Federal Premier, is for the purpose of punishing natives concerned in several recent outrages. Mr. Deakin has received a number of dis- patches from the Imperial Government on the subject of the New Hebrides convention between Great Britain and France. The correspondence between the home and Commonwealth Governments, which will be published shortly, is believed to include cer- ta-inf?ets warding the efforts of a German syndicate to obtain estates in the ?ew ii?ortdes. during the recent Iwg()Ûations between the French a'ud Britibh Govern- meuts.

ELECTRICITY FOR SOUTH DOCK I Arrangements of an experimental nature, which may have a very important bearing upon the development of the electrical supply in Cardiff, have just been come to between the corporation and the Cardiif Railway Company. For the past two or three years negotia- tions have been proceeding between the corporation a.nd Sir W. T. Lewis, as repre- senting the Cardiff Railway Company, regarding the supply of electricity in bulk to the Bute Docks Estate. The completion of the new South Do-ck is now near at hand, and, with a view to ascertaining whether the cranes to be used on the new dock can be worked satisfactorily by electricity, Sir W. T. Lewis has accepted the offer of the corporation' to give a supply to the four craai-es at present worked. It may be mentioned that no cost will be incurred in the matter by the corporation, as the Cardiff Railway Company have agreed to pay the whole of it. This simply means that the corporation will give the supply at their boundary. Sir W. T. Lewis has requested the electric lighting department-and the sanction of the committee has been given-to carry out the necessary work an behalf of the Cardiff Railway Company, and this will be done at once. The present application affecting this experiment will necessitate a supply of about 300 hors-power, and strong hopes are expressed that this will turn out satisfac- torily, and that in the course of time the Cardiff Railway Compa,ny will take a con- siderably increased supply from the oorpora- tion. We understand that the terms offered are of an extremely advantageous nature, and such as are likely to induce the railway company to consider fUTther extensions in this direction in a. favourable manner. From the ratepayers' point of view the benefit to be derived would be a considerable one.

MR THAW'S TRIAL FIXED Mr. Justice Newburger has ordered the trial of Mr. Thaw for the murder of Mr. I White to begin 011 January 21.-Reuter.

•• WASTE NOT, WAST ROT." If you tau care to bu1 ENGLAND'S GLORY MATCHES you waste" nothing. Every match Lights and Burns well to the end. You want no others after a trial. All English made. Made at England's Glory Match Works, Gloucester *2340 2 At Saron Congregational Chapel, Bedwas, the Rev. D. Tafwys Jones (Caerphilly) delivered his popular lecture on My Scrap Book before a large audience. Mr. L&iIia Miles presided.

Real Life Romance. WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR HUSBAND A remarkable story of a Jersey woman willm went to London to search, for her husband* took a situation, and, at the end of years, came across his photograph acci- dentally in a lodging-house in Soho, was told in the Divorce Court yesterday. In 1894 Louis Lancieu, of the Royal Naval Reserve, married his wife, Celestme Engenif. a- Frenchwoman living in Jersey. They had lived together in Jersey for three days, when the husband mysteriously disappeared, leav- ing the house at seven o'clock in the morn- ing. He nevefr returned, and t-he wife, sus- pecting that he had gone -to London, sold her shop in St. Helier and ca,me to London, where she took a situation in an hotel ia Leiceeter^quare. Mrs. Lancien ma,de t":a acquaintance of the landlady of a lodging- house in Greek-street-, Soho, and when vot- ing- her friend one day she noticed in t-ne room of one of the lodgers a photograph", whioh she at onoe reeog-nised as that. of her (husband. Being then only a, chambermaid, Mrs. T.-aii- cien had no means to make inquiries, but she took an eating-house in Soho, and after four years saved sufficient money to cause "in- quiries to be made. She then found that h.! husband had been living in Canning Town and had frequently been to the Soho lodging house and stayed wi,th he woman in whoso room the wife had seen his photograph. These facts were proved before Mr. Justice Bairgrave Deane, who adjourned the case for further evidence as to the validity of th3 marriage and the domicile of the husband

Collapse of a House. INMATES BURIED IN RUINS A terrible catastrophe occurred during night in the neighbonrhood of the Jar din d-s Plan-tea, as the result of an explosion in an alcohol store, a two-stcrcy house. No. 12, Rue Requelerune, completely collapsed, burying the inmates in the ruins. So far as is now known for certain, one man has been killed and fifteen persons wounded, but it is feared that more victims may still be lying beneath the debris, and a. vigorous search is being prosecuted.

LITTLE HUMAN DERELICT Child Sold for 4s. A little golden-haired girl, aged two, ha been bought and sold in a public-hou^e a* Rainford, a village near St.. Helens, for tri(4 nm of 4s. A man named Thompson, who works at a. local colliery, was in the hostelry, when woman with a child, accompanied by two men, entered. They all chatted for seme t,ime, and incidentally the woman remarked that she wished someofne would take the child. Thompson ptromptly offered her fe. for t>" infant, and the money v;s. immediately paid oven a.nd the child given, to Thompson. When he took his purchase to his home. in Harding s-row, his wife refused To sign R. paper taking over the child, and the ct-hrr mysterious woman was given her child au:l told to depart. She did so, but Thom.psoiF darted out, of the back door and gave the woman another Is. In,-in she finally parted with the child. The men and woman left the neighbour- hood, and nothing has been heard o-f them since- Thompson has sitiM got the little hUIDQD. derelict, ajnd she is being loaked, afier by Thompson's wire and mother, who, how- ever, are unable to keep it, and efforts a."e now in progress to get the- child into a home.

NEWPORT TRADER SUNK Remarkable Reticence of ths Survivors. A Dover correspondent states that up to Tuesday evening nothing could be obtained, from the captain of the ill-fated steadier Cap Juby, which foundered with twelve men on Monday while bound for Newport from Antwerp. He has not yet made *his report to the Customs authorities, but is waiting the arrival of the owner. The vessel sank in thirty seconds in thick weather, and except the captain and lour men, who were on deck, the other member; of the crew below must have been drowned like rats in a trap. The survivors, as already reported, were picked up by the Arlington.

THE CABINET CHANGES New Post* for Mr. Winston Churchill In the event of Mr. Bryce accepting t: post of Ambassador at Washington, it im- probable that Mr. Winston Churchill will be offered the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland.

SWINDLER'S CLEVER RUSE. A young Londoner travelling to Carcli'F on Tuesday evening was cleverly swindled ,,f 7s 6d. Before the train left Paddington Station man who spoke with a Welsh accent and said he was going to Cardiff entered the compartment, and gave instructions to a coloured man on the platform about. his lug- gage. Presently this man returned, and said ho had seen to the luggage. 'Anything to payasked the owner of the luggage. Yes; 7s. 6d. replied the coloured man. The other made a pretenco of looking for money, and pulled outva 15 note. The train was on the point of starting, and the gentleman with a ,We-].ii accent turned round to the people in the com- partment and asked if anyone could fur- nish him with change. I'm going down with you to Cardiff," he added. The young IxMidoner before referred to brought out some money from his porker, and the mall with the £5 note tcr-1: 7s. 6d., turned to the door as if to pay 11;" friend outside, and dropped on to the phr- fcrm as the whistle blew. Before anyone h v.? realised what had happened the train off, and nothing more was seen of the We.k-.hy gentleman, his luggage, or his i_ j note.

EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER At half-past eight o'clock on Tuesday evening a- terrific explosion occurred on board the Russian Company's first-class mail steamer Imperator Nicolai, now in harbour at Odessa. The vessel was partly shattered, and seven men were severely injured. An examination of the ship leaves no doubt that the explosion was due to deliberate malice, an infernal machine having been placed in one of the bclds. It is presumed that the outrage is the work of some of the seamen who were recently on strike and were compelled to resume m-orl on the employers' termis.-Cep-tral News.

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