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#% THE IV ) WaH of Silence ) f A STORY OF CARDIFF, II I Specially Written for tbe "Evcnina impress" II By SIDNEY WARWICK, t AUTHOR OF I The Angel of Trouble," "Through a Woman's Heart," 44 No Past is Dead," I B Cat's Eyes: A Mystery," "Shadows of London," &c., Ac. t SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. t Jim Meredith returns to Cardiff from India I to inherit the vast wealth of his uncle, who has left him everything beyond £ 1,000 The -la.tter is bequeathed to Olive Lindsay, the old man's adopted daughter, who wae brought up as his heiress, but was out of I his will because she was accused and aon- victed of steading. Since her imprisonment Olive Lindsay had dropped out of sight. Jim. one evening, motoring beyond Cardiff in the direction of Radyr. hears a shot, and presently there pushes out into the road juet ahead of hie oar a woman, who betraire 1nj expression and movement great die trees ot mind, plainly fearing and flying from jomething. It answer to Jim's questions, she makes aon incoherent statement, and begs him to help- her fly the ?pot. On their way a mounted policeman stops them, and states that a aura hae been shot by a woman who- has run away. Aftoer the constitute departs Jim's companion dacIaree she did not- do the deed. but was frightened at the horror of it. In the conversation it is discovered that a thiek veil, winch the girl said. she was WD'" when in the grounds of the mur- dered mans house, is ming, and Jim shudders at the pomibility of its being dis- covered by the polke, and thus furnishing a clue. He says nothing of his fear, but resolves to return and look for it. Having left the girl, at her own request, near Radyr Station, after assuring her he believed she had not done the thing named by the policeman, Jim Meredith drives back to the place of the murder, and there finds that the victim is a man named Pexcival Detmold, Fearful leet the girl he has befriended left some clue in her flight, Jim searches the grounds- surrounding Detmold's house, and 'Oft a roøe bush finds a brown veil, which he aeizes and secretes. Driving to Cardiff he Scets an old friend. Owen Hu?hee. who 9:trays much excitememt at the mention of Detmold's name, and declares him "one of the biggest scoundrels unhung." Later, Jim £ nde Detmoid was one of the witnesses in the Black Pearl case against OliTe Lindeay. Days pa.8S ajid no clue is foumd to Det- mold's murderer. Meanwhile, Jim Mere- dith goes to his late unole's house in Surrey in search of information concerning Olivo Lindsay. He finds norae, but meets the vicar, who declares his arm conviction of Olive's com- plete innocence. Returning to Cardiff he is met in the street by three ladies, a Mrs. Jar dine, ail old friend, Ethel Resfatrick, & young widow, and formerly Jim's sweet- heart, and another introduced to him as Mios Kennedy, whom he recognised, with a start, as being the girl Le be-friended on the night of the murder, and whom he now has sufficient presence of mind to greet at* an utter stranger. I -il CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) .1 THE EYES OF A JEALOUS W03LLN-. I Of course, I am coming; I'm looking ( forward to a long chat," Meredith said, but no. pulse stirred the quicker in him. A dead love like his had no chains; she had killed his love too swelf when oh-o had killed, his faith. The broken illusions had been swept into a cupboard, and the key turned long ago. They lay -tivere dust-covered, beyond hope of mending. He almost wondered at his own impaeeive- iMes, as he thought of their last Parting. But between that parting and now lay like a dividing sword that letter she had sent ham breaking off their engagement, telling him of her impending marriage. i Meredith could remember every word of tptert'better—of self -ex c u lpa«i<9<n with tfhi-eh she had tried to veil her motives. She had hinted vaguely that it was to please her people; that they had practically driven her into the marria-ge-all the old threadbare excuses: it weald have been too humorow to have pretended that she loved the man She was marrying-the elderly, dried-up, shri-relled little man of money. Twe yeare after Ethel's marriage her si £ tef had3 ibafribd too; someone had sent him out a paper with the account of the wed- ding; it had reminded him ironically of the woman who bad jilted him-for Beatrice Lloyd had also "married well" in the cant Plarase-and Jim Meredith had wondered with a bitter smile if the same motives had actuated both sisters, a family trait? He eould not somehow imagine John Sarrol, cf: affection. I This woman hud played fast and loose with him once; but Mrs. Jardine's estimate was righthe would not have another chance of doing so. "I have just come up to Cardiff to-day from London, or rather from Surrey," he went on -"a little place with the queerest name in Jte world. Sevenwaye-why. you don't know Miss 'KenJ'1edi"' -he cried. She had made a little impulsive movement; her eyes were suddenly turned on him, with involuntarily parted lips as if she were about to speak. But if so, she cheoked the; impulse almost as he put the abrupt; question to her. For a moment she did not II answer. Oh, I know parts of Surrey a MttJe. Eve "<»,1. I Jœow part.s of Surrey & Ut. Eve! Kennedy said, dMrega,rdiD? the 'qut.ion. I "JDO you mean the house or the village is called Sevenways? What a curious naaue. Where is it?" I Tucked away under the Surrey Hills, with a given in the middle of the village, fWlod old thatched cottages smothered in climbing roses, and a delightful old Manor Souse there, that was my uncle's, that 'r\-e fallen in love with. Mrs. Jardine, what does one do with white elephants?" -1 "Do you mean the Manor H<møe? Is it a, very white one?" she smiled. 'Fraid so. But it's a charming old house. There's a date carved somewhere in a atone over a doorway. <mly the second figure's crumbled away, so one migbt easily be a century out in one's calculation of ita age; I' and there aire raftered ceilings of old brown I oak and deep-recessed, tiny-paned windows— I oould go on talking about the house irat.i] your coachman expired on his box with chagrin at my keeping the horses waiting ■o long!" he laughed. ,He paused, as a mutual aequaintanft, < young man very sprucely dressed, with a.n eye-glass and a somewhat fatuous smile, trolled up to them, raising has hat. Hulk> Bobby!" said Meredith with a nod; the name seemed to fit the newcomer like a label. His surname might have been a superfluity—no one ever dreamed of calling kirn by it. "WelL good-bye Mrs. Jardine. Good-bye Mts. Reatarriok. I'm afraid I've fieta,ined your carnage an unoonsciona<ble time; but for Bobby's opportune arrival goodness know* how long I should have gone •P talking. Good-bye, Miss Kennedy." The atraageneee of meeting her again like this: (fell through his talk with Ethel and Mrs. JTardioe Meredith s mind had been running en that. It wae almost aB though fate had intervened to throw them together again. -I'll tarke Bobby along with me," he added caily, "or Jte:U probably detain you farther, so that yWl will never reaoh your ftrottnatk u at ail t"  ."B<M. tba? <m very &Be. Merecütat," J t-t4e* the y?M? man. I call Uia? beh? ? 4og in the manger, by Jove, don't you, mm Jardine? And that reminds me, Meredith. I've got another bone to pick with you-for cutting me the other night." "Sorryv )NMB was that? I -don't femember." wet-I, it's some time ago now; lie nigft I th&t. Detmold was shot," and the smile Suddenly died from Meredith's face; but the words gave him no premonition of what was coming. I WH runuong to catch a train, Just as you were driving Miss Kennedy up "jjo the statioo at Ba4,yr in your motor, don't you Know ? said the younger man with a. laugh- His laugh wiae oelebrated in Cardiff. Its sheer, fatuous inanity would have been a. vatoaMe aoset to any oomediaji in musical samody. Vast* fit octarmB. -ra» &be last thing to be expected of the speaker; and indeed under ordinairy circaimstances there would have been nothing in the remark. As it was, Mere- dith felt a. cold chill pass through him. Though he had not seen Bobby, evidently the la.tter had caught a glimpse of the girl as she left hia car that nicht: could anything have been more unfortunate? He and Mies Kennedy had just now tacitly professed to meet a3 complete strangers; he saw Ethel Restarrick look from him to the girl vrith,- a sudden. Suspicious glance, swift; to notice the discrepancy- Mrs. Jardine looked puzzled. He did not dare to look at the girl's face. Meredith could barve kicked the tnrcornoioue Bobby with pleasure. He must save the situation somehow; for "111 toes far it. Heads—yes; tails—no." I the girl's sake he must remove if possible, the impression left by the words, and the con- struotion that would inevitably be put upon it, th&t would reSect on her. Meredith's code of honour would not bave permitted him to lie to save himself; but he monst lie now to save her. What on earth are you talking about, Bobby, in your charmingi y irresponsible way?" he cried, with scarcely a moment's hesitation, forcing a laugh. I drove a lady certainly to Radyr station one night; perb-aps the night you refer to; only yoa are mistaken ae to the lady." Bobby shared at him incredulously. Quite mistaken, of course," added Mere- dith hurriedly, to check Bobby's evident impulse to speak. I have on-ly just been introduced to Miss Kennedy. To-day is the first time I have heard her name." Meredith did it very well; his manner wis easy and assured- Miss Kennedy laughed; and with her laugh that sounded quite natural he felt with relief that the situation was saved. He looked at her and her eyes thanked him But began Bobby blankly; then stopped suddenly, as though it had dawned upon him uncomfortably that, whatever the facts might be, the tactful thing for him to 1 do was to admit an error. Which he accordingly did rather awkwardly. Meredith stole a look at Ethel Reetarriok's face. It had suddenly grown oold and hard. Was sbe convinced? CHAPTER X. J THE SPIN OF A oora. I Good-night, Meredith—and ever so many thanks." "That's all right. See you to-morrow about what we've been talking of. Only consider it quite settled, you know." The two men stood at the door tslking for a minute or two longer before they shook hands and parted. Hughes wal-ked with, a buoyant step along the path to the gate. his head erect, and with a confident, ela.ted look in his face—he did not look the same ntan as that Owen Hughes whose strange, excited manner had puzzled Meredith when, motoring from Detmold's house, he had met his old sohoolfriend. Meredith stood looking after him a moment before re-entering the house. Lucky that vacancy occurring at the colkieries," he said to himælf-" I'm gla.d I can do Hughes a good turn. And he's just the man for the poet, though I expect Muir will jib a. bit when I tell him the thing's settled." And at the saane moment Owen Hughes was saying to himself with a smile: Stephen Muir would never have offered me the job!" Meredith had offered him a poet at the firm's collieries in the Bbondda VaJley, that had become unexpectedly vacaot—a good post that would lead to still better things. Obaractenstioally, Meredith had made up his mind in a hurry, and bad c-loeed with the offer of the furnished houee at Penarth; he had not only decided to take the house, bat bad taken possession within four days of his return from Sevenways. The place suited him, standing high up not fa.T from the restored old church on the headland: a comfortable boose, not to big for a bache- lor's requirements, standing in a. pleasant, shut-in garden, with green trellis covering the white walls, up which jessamiae grew that almost coTered one side of the house. Owen Hughes had dined with him to-night and at dinner the host had broached the, Question of this vacancy. Stephen Muir would never have offered me t-he post," Hughes said to himself again, as he walked out of the ga4e. A church clock was ohiming haJf past six. They had dined early; and Hughes had come away directly after, as Meredith had an appoint- ment. Owen Hugitts had never got on very well with Stephen Muir, though owing to the tie oi his relationship with Mrs. Muir, be had been intimate with the famly since boyhood, and was frequently at the house. His feet had turned aJmost instinctively towards the Muira' house now, as he walked along the cliff road, by the Windsor Gardens, in the Lavernook direction. It was a big, imposing house, standing baot" from the road, with great iron gates opening on a long carriage sweep and trim wooded grounds. Hughes walked past the rates. hesitated, and walked on, as if un- decided whether to go in or not. His first impulse had been to go to the house; he wanted to see Elsie Muir, wanted her to be the first to hear the news of his good luck; he knew that she would be glad. Bat it was nearly seven oclock-en awkward bosr, for the Ifain dined at had past; and periaaos Elsie would be upstairs dressing for dinner. He walked irresolutely past the gates; and as irresolutely paused at the end of the road. As he looked back he saw Philip Muir, Stephen's second son, ride up to the gates on his bicycle and pass through. Stephen Muir was a self-ftade man who worshipped success; and Hughes knew that it was mainly because he, after throwing up a good appointment at the Aberdare collieries to try his luck abroad, had not done particularly well in the States, that Stephen Muir had dubbed him a rolling- fftone-and to be a rolling-stone was a crime in this ambitious, successful man's eyes. But after all I have worked hard," Owen said to himself suddenly-" which is more than Philip there has ever done; and my knowledge and experience are worth money in the open market any day—which Stephen certainly cannot say for his second son! If ouly Detmold had played stra-ight by me— but it's no good thinking of tha.t now; I've got to swallow my disapointment"; and a frown came into his face. Now I've got this chance Meredith's given me, and I'm going to make the most of it, and perhaps some day 11 Perh,a,ps some day it might lead him to the realisation qf that dream that was in his thoughts now as he looked towards the houfe where Elsie Muir lived. "Shall I go in? I might perbvrA3 oa,t-ch a glimpse of her for ten minutes," thinking of the girl round whom that dream was woven, though he had given her no hint of it by spoken word. I'll toss for it. Heads I-yæ; tadls-no." Owen Hughes spun the coin. It was a head that lay upward in the roadway. And he laughed. Thart. settles it" He walked towards the gate. The spin of the ooiu-a. trivial thing to alter the whole of a man's destiny. Perhaps farte laughed, knowing how the mere chance of that upturned head" in the roadway was to alter all Owen Hughes's future. He walked through the gate. (TO BE CONTINUED ON MONDAY).

For Women Folk. HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY DISHES Horseradish should never be scraped till it is really needed for garnishing, for, by stand- ing. it loses much of its flavour, aud looks like paper shavings. 1La.ve a thook piece of horseradish root ready when it is likely to be needed, so iha* it can be used at the last moment. Uhoose apples with care when pur- chasing them. The heaviest axe best, and especially those which on. beiiy pressed with the thumb yield to i) with a. slight crackMng noise. Prefer lar\aI I apples to small, for waste is saved in peeijj and oaring the fruit. -1 To Store Apples. Apples may be kept in good condition through the winter if stored in barrels having boles bored in the bottom and sides. The barrel should be stood on a dry plank, raised from the ground, so tha-t the air may circulate freely t-hrougbl the openings in tile 11 cask. Strengthening Essence of Beef. Chop- finely lib. lean beef, put in a jar, and cover closely. Plaoe in a pan of cotkl water, bring gradually to the boil, and aimm,er gently for three hours. Tihis will dra,w every chrop of juice from the meat. Drain, and add a little salt. This will be I found a splendid nouiriahiineiiit for invalids.

I FOREIGN MAILS. To be despatched from London Monday, Nov. 16:— OUTWARD.—Morning— To bgypt; by In packet. tvening- To ¡,ft. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Haiti, by trench packet. To CouBtantinojue, and Smyrna, parcel mails, via Liverpool, per s. Saragoasa. To West Coast of Africa, parcel mails, via Liver- pool, per s. Addah. INWARD.—Due Monday— From West Indies and Pacific, via Southampton. From United States, &c via Plymouth. From Mauritius, Seychelles, and Zanzibar, by French packet.

LOCAL TIDE TABLE. I 1 I 3 4 *• d j 4 "• « 2 3 5 3 H 5 2 -n SI is 5 i a j is 3 i Satur- i AL 9 45 10 5 1 9 38 9 47 I 1C 33 110 34 day. < E. 10 6 10 27 10 0 10 9 I JO 53 10 52 NOT1" B' 29 5 19 5 6 1. 2.7 7 128 2 17 4 Sovl4 .71 L-16 11 16 &un- | I 10 Z'l | 10 52 10 25 10 34 H 16 ;n 16 a»y, j E„ .1 0 I 11 21 1, ?, i 11 3 12151 45 11 46 Novl51 2 ) 18 0 ?34 1 ? 2a 2 25 9 24 11 *«m- ?. 11 o3 11 62 U 30 11 34 — 20 1 — 239 £ • i — — — — 0 20 0 23 NOTJ6(Ht:27 6 17- 1 2 12 U 25 3 24 4 1 2!9 Novi6 Tue»- I M. 0 7 0 k7 1 7 091101-13 d.y. ? 044 15?046 I 0 47 1 42 i143 N<ob.vyI.7fR? 27 6 17 4 22 3 2S 0 I 24 3 23 4. d*y, IS, 27 6 17 4 j 22 i 25 0 | 24 3 | 23 4, :'fI; j ;11 i I 2 j 2 I 2 22 .'ad'y ? Rt 27 10 1 8 .3 i 156 2 J 2410ol 11 'AI 4\2> 5)26 2 24 10 | 24 1 E. Dock Sill, t Roath Basin. I Alexandra Dock.

MR. WRIGHT'S AEROPLANE I Paris, Saturday.—Yesterday, after winning the prize of the Aero Club of the Sarthe for too first aerorplandst flying at a height of 100ft-, Mr. Wilbur Wright made the following (Statement to a. correspondent of t'he ("Journal": — I hold to my statement that there is no reason why I should not be able to attain a height of 800 metres with my aeroplane. It is oniy out of prudence and because there is no necessity for flying higher that I generally keep at the height of about twenty or thirty metres from the ground in my flights.

-= FOOTBALL CARDIFF BOXBTJRiOH B.F.C.. requires Fixtare for Saturday, Nov. 14th (away).—Write or wire Arthur V. Thomas, 45, Ntnian-road, Cardiff. ell77dl4 CARDIFF ROXBURGH SECOND XY. requires Fix- tures (away).—Hon. S&c., Arthur V. Thomas, 45, Ninian-roaid, Cardiff. ell78dl4 CON W AY-HO.ID SECONDS (ASSOCIATION) have following open d.a.tes:-Dec. 2ôUl, Jan. 30th, Feb. 20th (away), March 13th, 20th, 27th, April 3rd (home); average 4WO 13-14.—Apply W. Lock, 6, ELanover-etreat, Canton. ell44dl4 NEWPORT SECONDS V. CARDIFF RESERVES, Cardiff Arms Park, Sat., Nov. 14. Kick-off, 3.15. e5742 PANTEG UNITED R.F.C. require Fixtures on the following dates with good junior teams: November 28, December < £ January 9 and 23, March 6 and 13; guarantee accepted.—Apply Bev. T. IL Am"i, Uriffithstown, Moru 85992 PILL KARRIE-RS F.C. require Home Match Nov. 11: guarantee given.—Apply 11, Marlborough-roadj Newport. ?12GCri:« NUWBRIDGE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB bave the foUowin^ datea open:NO?. 21&t, Dec. i2th (it.<vay). Dee. l&th. XprU 17th. Ja?. ?h antí6t (home) (?on afnIiatod.?—J. W. Mear, Hon. Sec., S6wbr, Hon. 61241diS

NEVER QOTT CKBTAtSTTT FOR HOPK.—Wte J'IIIJ I buy Kaglud's Glory Matobes you have for a aarUloty th. Bftt, most Bdtafcte, and Cbeafieat Hatch 70a can ever hope to get; far autieiim to any foreign maktc Made at "Sagtapd?* Glnry" Matoh. 1

BILLIARDS. do 7.—CANNONS TO LEAVE AN IN-OFF (COPYRIGHT). [By RISO LEVI.] Ddagrain 550 shows a position that with slight variations occurs every now and then. With the cue ball in hand a cannon can be made easily enough off the side cushion by playing from somewhere near the centre of the D line, and it is quite possible to get position for an in-off from the white by means of this cannon, but there must always be an uncertainty about the leave when this cannon i5 1ja.yed off a cushion owing to the difficulty of getting on to the object white with sufficient accuracy to leave an in-off. An alternative and for good players a better wiay of playing to leave position for an in-off is by means of a slow screw full on to the object white, the cue ball being spotted at or rear the end of the D as shown on the diagram. If the angle can be made a right angle the roue ball can be made to cannon full on to the object white by means of a; half-ball cr slightly fuller than half- ball stroke with screw. When the object white is taken quite full the cue ball will DIAGRAM 550.-A slow-screw cannon to leave an in-off from the white. ROO ball 19in. from the s'de cushion and 30;in. from the Daulk cushion. Object white alia. from the side cushion and 17.in. ■! from the baulk cushion. With the balls placed to these measurements it will be found that no ball-to-ball cannon is an from any part of the D without screw or force. remain very near the spot previously occupied by the white, and this baJl will travel as indioated by the intersected line to leave good position for an in-off, provided them the strength of the stroke has been well- juiged. This screw cannon to leave an in-off from the white requires extremely good handling, and even good players often fail to obtain the posit.:on played for, by reason of their not getting sufficiently fall on to the white. Nevertheless, there is a greater likelihood of getting position for an in-off from the white when playing this common by a ball-to-ball screw than by p'aying it off the side cushion. When playing the' cannon by a ball-to-ball screw position for an in-off will sometimes be left even though the cue ball ta-kee the seoond object ball quite differently from what waa intended. No player can, however, rely upon getting position in this manner, and when he does it is the result of luek and not of skill. Bia grain 551 shows another s(r,&W-oanrion positicm. The cannon presents very little difficulty for any fair player just as a stroke, but it requires very well pliaying to en-sure good after-position. Instead of screwing direct on to the object white the one ball should be made to take the cushion just before it reaches this ball, as shown by the continuous tne. Also, the stroke must be a DIAGRAM 5^1.—A screw cannon off the cushion to leave an in-off from the white. A difficult stroke. Red ball 17Jin. from the baulk cushion and 26in. from the side cushion.' Object white 2in. from the baulk cushion and 12jin. from the side cushion. Cue ball 13in. from the baulk cushion and 20Jin. from the side cushion. slow screw, otherwise the object white will tra;vel too fair to leave any in-off to oomtinue with. The intersected line on the diagram indicates the direction in which the object white will travel when the cue ball strikes the cushion at the correct distance from it, and the length 01 this lin# shows the distance the' white should travel as the result of a perfect-strength stroke. Diagram 562 shows position for a cannon off the side cushion. With the balls plaoed exactly to the measurements given under the diagram, the oanmou can be made quite easily 'by means of a plain half-ball stroke. Heare, ag&in, tihe leave to play for is aji in- off from the white into the corner pocket, but unless good Strength be osed the cannon will result in the object white travelling too far to leave this in-off. Ln plain ha If-ball strokes the cue ball and the object ball travel with about the same speed f- the moment of contact, amd thus I they travel approximately the eme =tn Z, reckoning from the point of contact, conse- quently as in the stroke illustrated on Dda- gram 552 both balls strike the side cushion at very nearly the same angle, they IDiUst ootlh rebound from the cushion with approximately the same speed, and as, in order that position for an in-off from the DIAGRAM 552.-A cannon off the cushion to leave an in-off from the white. Red bail 71in. from the side cushion and 37iin. from the top cushion. Object white 7in. from the top cushion and 244in. from the top cushion. Cue ball 29iin. from the side cushion and 28in. from the top cushion. white may be left for the next stroke, the white must not travel any f-art-her than indicated by the intersected line on the diagram, the C'uoe ball must rebound from the cushion with very little more speed than ie necessary to cause it to reach the red. If the strength of the stroke hAs been correctly gauged the cue ball will not travel more than an inch or two after reaching the red provided that it cannons full on to it, and not more than a few inches should it take it aibout half-ball on either side. The nature of the ensuing in-off from the white will, of course, vary with every varia,tion of the cue ball's contact wl-tSi the red, but provided that the object white travels very nearly as indicated by the intersected line on the diagram, and that the cue ball camions geutly on to the red ball, the in-oif will always be a fairly easy stroke and often quite a simple one. Diagram W shows position for a very simple cannon off the red on to the white. If, however, the cannon is made by a ball- to-ball stroke the object white will in all probability fall into the pocket, and even should it not do so it will, as a rule, remain so oloee to the pocket that it will enter it the next time it is hit. If, instead, tlfe canmon is played off the top cushion, as illustirated by the oontinuous line on the diagram, the object ball cannot enter the pocket, amd if the strength of the stroke be so well-judged that the cue bail rebounds off the oushAon wirtlh iititle more pace tham ie

FROM ALL QUARTERS Sealing a. ladder forty-five feet igh, Mrs. W. C. Ijoosley has jnjst laid the aipex stone of a new Baptist church at High Wycombe. Mr. Eequith rejected yesterday the pro- posal to have half-hour intervals for ven- tilation during the evening sittings of the House of Commons. Outbreaks of black scab in potatoes are believed, the Board of AgricrultuTe stated yesterday, to be far more numerous in England than in Ireland. Last night's "London Gazette" announces the appointment of Mr. E. J. Soares, M.P. for tbe Barnstaple division of Devonshire, to be .a Charity Commissioner. Beggars are manufactured by the help they get from foolish benevolent people in the streets," declared Mr. Plowden, the Mary- lebone magistrate. yesterday. I only wish I had power to punish such people." Since the inland postage in France was reduced from three-half pence to one penny two years ago the number of letters posted yearly has been increased by 190,000,000, or 27 per cent. William George Collins, of Suodland, near Rochester, aged 60, a one-armed postman, retired yesterday, after over 40 years' service, during which period he has walked nearly 300.0C0 miles in the performance of his duties. Samaooppa," exclaimed an Italian yes- terday at the London City Summons Court. The interpreter was puzzled. "Samaooppa," the man repeated with emphasis. At last it dawned on the court tihat he meant the same as the policeman."

RUMMER HOTEL, DURB-STKEET, CARDIFF. First-c? BUlia.rd Ta.M<- Our Anitu? Professional  BUllaYd Tournament commences Monday, Ja Z 4, 1909. Valuable prizes. Entries close Nov. 25.-FuU p&rt1=- I lara from G. Matthews, Proprietor. e5929

Passing Pleasantries. Brown: I hear that you attended that fifty-round pri-figlit? Jones: Yes. Brown: What did you think of it? Jones: Very tame. I am. a. married man, and my wife's mother lives with us. Muggins: Is your son in business? Juggins: He's a cocffcracfcar. Muggins: What line? Juggins: Debts. His Honour (severely): How coculd you, sir, be so mean as to swindle people who put confidence in you? Prisoner: Well, your honour, I'll make it, worth something to you if you will tell me how to swindle them as don't. "This is my home. Beautiful, isn't it Built with the products of my pen." f "Then you are a writer?" No, indeed; I am a pork-merchant!" Husband: Are you re. my dear, that on this grassy spot began a war that laeted ten yeaxs? Wife: Why, John, it was here that you, proposed to me. Husband: Exactly. Just ten years ago.

THIEVES ROB THIEVES I A. detective told an amusing story at Gierken well Sessions yesterday of the extra- ordinary competition aonong pickpockets at the last Marathon race from Windsor to tihe Stadium. Two men, named George Guest and William Lake, had been found guilty of attempting to pick pockets, sen- tence being postponed for further inquiry. "There were nearly as many pickpockets as honest persons in the neighbourhood of Wood-lane on the day of the tace," said the detective wtho watched the accused while disguised as a narty; "they were driven to robbing one another. There was terrible competition among them to get something from somebody." The prisoners told the court that they took the detective for a "rough" or a pick- pocket.

MILLIONAIRE MURDERED I Mr. Walter E. Amnion, the millionaire oleoanargarLng manufacturer, was shot and instantly killed at Pennsylvania Sailway Station, New Jersey, yesterday aiternoon, by Andrew M'Grath, a. former, eonploye. Mr. Amnion was at the head of the stairs leading to the street when M'Grath approached and fired three shots in-too his ,bre.in. The millionaire had no time to defend himself, and fell in a heap on the ground, whale the assassin rushed through the crush of screaming, hysterioal ladies, clearing three steps at a time, until caught ion the out- stretched arms of a policeman. M'Grath was immediately ta.ken to gaol, where he calmly observed, "We had business relations, and he did me. I am ready to take my medicine."

A RACE TO SUICIDE I About one o'clock yesterday afternoon Henlry Harrison, a. faxmer, of Page Farm, JFreokleton, saw his daughter Isabella, who for some time had been suffering from religious mania and depression, running towards a deep pit 200 ya.rds from the farm. Fearing her intention he set off in pursuit, and, when the girl was only, fifty yards tram the pond, he shouted to her brother, "Look at our Bella," but the girl reached the pit first and plunged in. The brother ran and brought a rope and so drew has sister to the bank, but although artificial respiration was applied by a doctor life was found to be Extinct.

ANOTHER LARGE SUN-SPOT I A sun-epot, large enough to be seen during any minute of clear sunshine with- out the aid of a telescope, is now passing across the face of the SUD. On looking through a woll-smok-ed piece of glass, a black speck-whioh is in rea-lity about six times the earth's diaineter-will be observed in the right-hand top quarter of the sun.

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