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COPYRIGHT, A THE 7 ?- I Wall of Silence I A STORY OF CARDIFF, I I Specially Mritten for the "JEcJtlng lerpre.;s "I I By SIDNEY WARWICK, I AUTHOR OF I I The Angel of Trouble," Through a Woman's Heart," No Past is Dead," I I Cat's Eyes: A "fvsterv," Shadows of London," &c., &c. I I ?,? -1 ?., I I -I N SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. J Jim Meredith returns to Cardiff from India to inherit the vast wealth of his uncle, who "has left him everything beyond £ 1.000. The latter is b-eqrt earned to Olive Lindsay, the old man's adopted daughter, who was brought up aa his heiress, but was out of his will because she was accused and con- victed of stealing. Since her imprisonment Olive Lindsay had dropped out of signi Jim. one evening, motoring beyond Carain in the direction of Radyr. hears a shot, and presently there pushes out into the roa.d just ahead oÏ his car a woman, who betrays great distress of mind. She begs him to help herfiy the ?pot. On their way a. mounted policeman stops them, and states that a man as been shot by a woman who has run away. Having left the girl at her request near Radyr Station, after assuring her fie believed she had not done the thing named by the policeman, Jim Meredith nnos the victim is a man named Percival Detmoua. Jim searches the grounds surrounding Det- mold's house, and on aroo bush finds a brown veil, which he seizes and secretes. Later, Jim finds Detmold was one of tne w ltnes&evs in the Black Pearl case against Olive Lindsay. In Cardiff one day Jim meets Mrs. Jardine, an old friend, Ethel Restarrick, a young widow, and. formerly Jim's sweet- heart, aid another introduced to him as Miss Kennedy, whom he recognised, with a start, as being the girl tie befriended on the night of the murder. An acquaintance grerts the group, and pro- ceeds to banter Meredith for having, as he alleges, cut him on the night of the murder, adding that he saw him (Meredith) driving Miss Kennedy to Radyr Station. Meredith admits driving a lady to the station, but declarea that it was not Miss Kennedy, whom (he added) he had just met for the first time. Dwen Hughes proposes to Elsie Muir, and is accepted. Leaving the house, he meets Carrol, whom he suspects of having been in league with Percival Detmold to defraud him (.Hughes) in the matter of a ship's paint of which Hughes held the rights, and which he had entrusted to Detmold to put on the market. He challenges Sarrol en. the point, and the latter demands proofs. Heated words follow, Sarrol strikes at Hughes, the latter is about to strike back when Stephen Muir appears and separates them. Sarrol turns to Hughes and whispers something which makes him recoil as from a blow. Hughes and Sarrol adjourn to the library, where the whisper, which is an accusation that Hughes murdered Percival Detmold, is repeated. Hughes denies this, and declares Detmold threatened him with a revolver, which, ra. the struggle with Hughes, went off inadvertently and killed Detmold. Sarrol flouts this, and shows Hugh-es a letter he is oing to send denouncing him. Then tells him to come back at nine o'clock, when he (Sarrol; will teil him what he intends to do. CHAPTER XV, (continued). "THE SHADOW OF SOMETHING COMING." For long before Beatrice illyd had mar- ried Mr. Sarrol, of Newport, there had 1}ær¡ something like a love affair between her and Stephen Mint's second son. He was a good-looking man, this second eon of the Muirs, who had shown s*u-eh few signs of following in the footsteps of his eider brother Alfred, the precise, plodding son of his father, who had struck Mere- dith as œing more of a machine thau human. The two brothers as unlike in feature as they were in habit. Philip and Elsie had monopoiised all the good looks in the family; a-ud Stephen Muir was secretly uncommonly proud of his hand- some, dashing son, even whilst he deplored.. his apparent inability to settle down to any- thing. Probably if Philip had not been a Muir. to bias parental orejudtces. Stephen would have dubbed him a rolling-stone, and might have done so wit11 strict truth. Elsie wondered, as the move was made into the dining-roctc, what business hoc lover could have had with Mr. Sarrol. That it bad. been auyt-hin? but a.n ordinary business chat she had no suspicion; Stephen Muir, though annoyed and fuming, angry with. Owen whom he held responsible for the outburst he had witnessed without in the least under-standing, had taken Sarrol's hint, and had not spoken cf it to his wife or daughter. Time enough to tell them when his guests had gone. f Somehow, dinner was not altogether a success to-night; a vague constraint seemed to affect the party of seven sitting at the table: a constraint, perhaps, C0:lmu:n.icated telepathic-ally by Sarrol—who sat, un- usually preoccupied, contributing little to the talk, and having his glass filled ra-ther Frequently—and by Mrs. Sarrol, who seemed j nervous and constrained, stealing occasional nervous glances at her hTubaTsd. j An undefinabie sense of vague, impending trouble oppressed her. She could hardly have told why, but she had been a. bundle of nerves all day. Something she read in her husband's face, in his manner, added to her unaccountable nervousness. She had caught his parting words to Owen Hughs-there was nothing in the words themselves; but the tones of the voice had struck her. Her j married life bad taught Beatrice Sarrol to read in her husband's voice subtle meanings that were very different sometimes from the actual, uttered words; she had felt to-night as thodugli something had been mnving secretly behind those words, something ominous; that envelope addressed to the su peri nt en dent of police had strengthened the impression. Onco as she cast a furtive glance at him, she saw his lips form a word. It was the word "T'hief. And there was a cruel gleam in the heavy, flushed face that she had learned to know and fear. John Sarrol was wondering what cours.e he should take when half-past nine brought Owen Hughes to him—the man who had j called him a thief. Orjoe when he spoke to Beatrice, it was in a, cart, domineering voice that made Philip NIT. i r's hands clencu under the table. Throughout dinner, Philip had talked almost exclusively to her, ignoring her husband in a manner almost pointed. Perhaps he had never really been very deeply in love with Beatrice Lloyd—not so genuinely, at any rate, as he now fancied himself to have been; but—it was characteristic of the weak, self-indulgent [ nature of a man like Philip Muir, who had been spoilt as a child flY his mother, and later by many women caught by the attraction of his handsome f"e-now that ¡ she was no longer free, he liked to tell himself- that she was the only woman he had ftver thought seriouMY about, who had made a difference in his lifthe forbidden fruit that is always the sw,eotest-antil he had almost come to believe in his own pose. And to-night the pose was getting out. of band in some extraordinary way, away Itom his control. He had seen little of her since her marriage; he had been away from Pen- arth at the time of it. The sight of the fragile prettiness that had always appealed to him-that and the occasional shrinking look she stole at her husband, that told its own tale, had mounted to his head. How he hated the overfed brute opposite to him, with the traces of his excesses already showing in bis face—how he hated the man! Under the circumstances conversation, lan- guished. Elsie, who usually kept the abll rolling in her animated way, was busy with her thoughts—happy thoughts about her lover that were like the lilt of a song in her heart. It was so wonderful: she must have oared all along, but until his impetuous worete she h-ad not realised that cine cared in that way I of love; it wa.s as though at the touch of passion as by fire the veil had been stripped I irom her eyee in a moment. She must! ^Jiways have eared for hilQ! I TTrere was a tender smile, about- her month as she looked down at the spray of syringa I at her breast that Owen had pinned there. She knew there would be difficulties to face- obstacles; but she always had her own way in the end with the father who doted on her. And she would have her way in this. And even if they were comparatively poor, she and Owen. until he had made his way, what did that matter? Youth and love can con- template poverty so serenely. Then the voice of John Sarrol broke in* upon her pleasant thoughtis-a reference to Detmoid'd death. Elsie's face frowned a little. She did not want to think of tragic things—she wanted to think only of her new, wonderful happi- ness. Sarrol was chuckling, as if at some secret joke; his heavy face rose red and flushed over the vast, bulging expanse of shirt front. Mention of Detmold led to the topic cf his sister, Mrs. Angeray, and her stolen pearls. "Ever see that girl, Olive Lin-rLsay, old Meredith's protegee, who took 'em, asked Sarrol "I snpose you have, Muir?" No; she never came to Cardiff, I think," replied Stephen Muir. "That escapade of I hers was a lucky thing for young Meredith, "Poor girl!" said Mrs. Sarrol suddenly, with a touch of feeling. "What a sad affair it was-" Her husband broke in rudely: "Oh, poor girl,' be hanged! Hope they gave her skilly and spoilt her pretty hands scrubbing her cell floor," he said. with his unpleasant laugh. She was pretty, I've heard-and all women are jealous of other pretty women, and I expect if you'd only confess it, for all your charming pose of pity, my dear, you hope so, too!" For a moment there was a dead silence, f It seemed to strike even Sarrol that he had gone a shade too far; at the intolerable rudenetSs Mrs. Sarrol's face flushed and j then went white Philip suddenly turned his eyes from her face to Sarrol's, and said: I "I know you are an authority on company promoting. I wonder if you are an authority on women, Mr. Sarrol? j He could not. keep the words back. But a swift after-impulse caused him to try to tone down this deliberate brusquerie to his father's guest by a would-be genial laugh. One had only to look at his eyes to realise how forced the laugh was. Another moment's awkward pause (followed. Mrs. Sarrol glanced nervously at her husband, half afraid of what might j follow this act of championship. Sarrol sttred at Philip for an instant; then un-ex- pectedly laughed-perhaps, he felt that the weight of sympathy was against him. A laugh in which Mrs. Muir with a sense of relief joined She had been watching her eon anxiously. Alfred threw himself into the breach to ereate a. diversion. HuEo. was that a flash of lsummer lightning out&ide? Hope we aren't going to have a storm." "Hope not, for my wife's sake-and our I drive back to Newport to-night. You'd be abitiMrvy.eh.Bee?"hesaid.spea.kingwith an effort at amiability. I One had only to look at the pink and white do-ll-like face to feel that Beatrice Sarrol was a bundle of nerves. And yet there had been at times a look in her face, in her eyes, since her marriage that seemed to hint that perhaps in this dainty, delicate doll of a woman there were deeper latent potenti- alities waiting to be brought out at the touch of life ami fa.te. Anyhow, the car's broken in," added Sarrol with heavy humour—" she won't shy now at a peal of t-hundor." It appeared likely, however, that there would be no storm-that, indeed, Alfred had in-vented the lightning in his desire to change the subject: as Philip and Beatrice Sa.rrol realised when at last dinner was over. and they wandered out together on to the verandah into the pleasant cool of the sum- mer night. There was no moon; only a handful of stars piercing the dark spaoes of the I sky. Tha soft night air was full of the scent of flowers. The peaceful garden lay half-revealed, half-imagined in the deepen- ing dusk, as the man and the woman walked slowly along the verandah. Sarrol, Stephen Muir, and Alfred had betaken I themselves to the billiard-room to smoke and talk shop" before Philip and Beatrice had left the ladies in the drawing-room. The side of the great house, where the French window of the library was, lay in deep shadow, pierced by no lights from any window. The library was in darkness, that I room where at half-past nine Owen Hughes was to hear his fate. Beyond the frame of woodwork of the I open Ion? window in the room lay a wall of grey darkness and gloom. Walking along the verandah, Philip and Mrs. Sarrol nad turned the corner of the house to this more desolate side, and their footsteps brought them to the library window. The woman suddenly gave a. little, uncon- trollable shiver. I am afraid you are cold?" Philip cried anxioucly. Her face looked pale. "Xo." She gave a little laugh that sounded forced. I was thinking ho-w dark and uncanny it looks in there, in that room- dark and sinister aaid silent, almost like a gra.ve! P,hilip-I suppose I oughtn't to call you Philip?—odd fanciee come to us women sometimes, and-don't laugh at me I won't laugh." Perhaps I've been famciful all day-ind it's my unlucky day to-day: that may have something to do with feeling as I do," she said; "queer, superstitious fancies that come to one sometimes, one doesn't know why or of what—have you ever felt like that, Philip. as somehow I feel to-nigh.t ?-a,ppa.rent ly with- out any cause, just as though some impend- ing evil was casting its shadow before and unconsciously one's mind was oppressed by the shadow of that .something coming She broke off abruptly, as if half ashamed of the sudden impulse of her mood that had prompted the odd words, her eyes resting with a curious intentneBs on the dimly out- lined window and the recesses of deep gloom beyond that it fra-med: dark, silent, sinister, as she had said of it-like a grave. [TO BE CONTINUED ON MONDAY.]

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For Women Folk. —— ——. HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY DISHES. After peeling onions rub your hands with a pieoe of celery to remove the smen. In frosty weather water-taps should be left dripping, so that the water shall not freeze. Fo,r a burn nothing is better than equal parts of lineeed-oil and cold boiled water. I Put into a bottle and shake well before using. Cheap linoleum makes an excellent kitchen dado, easily kept clean, and, if only lightly nailed to the walls, can be removed with very little trouble if necessary. I If troubled with beetles In your kitchen try scrubbing the floor with warm water, in I which a small quantity of quicklime has been dissolved. This is a most effective and simple remedy, and soon rids the place of these troublesome pests. A s<;mp!e remedy for ic)sts of voice is made in the following- way: Take the white of an ekig, beat it. and add to it the juice of one lemon and stifficient sugar to sweNen it. The voice will soon come back if a tea- spoonful of this mixture is taken at short I intervals. To Use Up Cold Mutton. Take lib. cold roast mutton, one glass claret, cne tablespoonful currant jelly, one small onion grated, two tablespoonfuls water, and loz. glaze and sauce. Cut the mutton in slices, not too thin, flour and season with pepper and salt, put, the onion in a stew-pan with the wine, sauce, jelly water, and the glaze; stir over ftre until dissolved, then pat in the prepared mutton and dimmer together five minutes; serve hot with vegetables in season. This is a nioe dish, and quickly prepared for a cold night. To Remove Marking Ink from Linen. I Mix one te:spoouful of chio-ride of lime to half a pint of cold water. When dis- solved, damp tne parts where the stains are with a small pie<?e of aanncl. K the marks do not dJsa-pp?ar. add a little more lime to the same water, then re-damp. Then thoroughly rinso in de.ar cold water before washing the article. By adding a little of this liquid to your wash-tub it will heap to keep linen a good colour without damaging any article. When made, keep in a bottle tightly corked.

Novel Souvenir I FOR CARDIFF THEATRE GOERS I If for nothing else but to obtain a copy of the comic souvenir, the public should visit the New Theatre next Monday evening, when Mr. Seymour Hioks will appear with Miss I Male Ash and' the original Aldwych Theatre company in "The Gay Gordons." On opening a prettily designed cover twenty humorous drawings of scenes and incidents! in the play are found, and each of them is worth a frame. There is, moreover, at the foot of each plate a delightful explanation (written by Miss Betty Hicks, the four-year-old daughter of Seymour Hioks), who tells the Teader in a prefatory letter, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Public and all the little Publics," that she under- tcok the editing of the souvenir, as she was "nearly a quarter to four, and no one can remain a cynic at that age." The following a.re re-productions of eoime of the drawings in the souvenir:- This is mummy with the dog, it is called I Brandy.' Daddy christened him Brandy because he has only to pat the dog and ?ay I Hoda,' and the servants 1IDdrstand. Isn't I he quick?" This is daddy telling mammy he loves I her. He does! not do it a bit like this at I home, and they do not have tea on the floor at our house—at least, only during sPring- <^teaning. I often ask daddy why he crawls ibout the stage in this a-et so much, and he I iiays it is because his knees get so cold in a kilt when he stands up." "This is my daddy's cigair, and the lines at the ba.ok of it are Winkle's idea of my daddy's face. I .woulcln't eay he was like Mairtin Harvey-one of them wouldn't like it; but I ask you."

COLD FEET CAUSE DISEASE I Medical advice has just been given that the hot-water bottle is a valuable means of keeping up the general 6tate of health. "I can confidently assert that many people who are suffering from consumption to-day might have warded off that terrible diease had they used a hot-water bottle in bed at! nights" (says the authority). Another doctor believes tha.t the seeds of consumption and bronchitis are laid in the! sleeping hours through oold feet. I

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Germany's Naval Scheme I -0 1 MORE DREADNOUGHTS TO BE BUILT I The particulars of the German Navy Estimates for the year 1909, published yes- terday in Berlin, indicate that the German Navy Act, passed in the spring of the present year, is being carried out to the letter, not- withstanding Germany's financial difficulties. Under that Act the figures of the German Estimates were fixed as follows:- 1908 £ 16,640,CC0 1909 M,2W,oco 1910 22,XO,c?o 1911 ?Z, i, d, In view of the fact that the British naval programme for the year 1909 is being settled at the present time by the Admiralty and the Treasury, special interest attaches to the German programme for next year. It con- I sists of: 3 Dreadnoughts improved, 1 Indomitable improved, 2 small cruisers, 12 large destroyers. with, in addition, an unknown number ol submarines, probably twelve. Two of the Germa.n battleships for 1939 have already been ordered.

Passing Pleasantries. Mr. ?tfeanly (to his wife): It's your birth- day to-morrow, my dear, and here's half- a-crown for you. You'd better keep it by you, bceause it's my birthday next month. PAT'S PRECAUTION. Two witnesses were up the other day at a South of Irelaudassizes in a case which con- cerned long-continued poultry stealing. As usual, nothing- could be got from them in the way of evidence until the nearly baffled prosecuting counsel asked in a. tragic tane: Will you siwear, Pat Larraga/ii, that Thady O'Farrell has never, to your know- ledge, stolen chickens?" .The responsibility of the last lie was too much for the witness. "Sli,tire, I don't know about that same," said Pat, "bitt I do know." he added, straightening himself, that if I was a chicken, and Thady was about, I'd roost ,high! ONLY A SECONDARY MATTER. "Yes," said the affable theatrical manager, "our next production is to be something really wonderful in the way of a comic opera. o p e r a. "Got something new?" asked the inter- viewer. "Yes. iudeed. I have engaged Drillem Daily, the famous stage manager, to devise the evolutions and ,-m,ul).ings, of, the chorus; I have retained Cuttan Fittem, the cele- brated costumier, to plan and prepare the garments worn by the principals amd the chorus, and I have engaged Redden Yaller, the renowned scenic artist, to execute the ftage settings. Can you beat that?" "But who are to write the music and the libretto?" "Pooh. Haven't had time to think about that yet."

ANOTHER HISTORIC EPISODE I Another fine historical production' is included in the list of bioscope pictures at i Stoll's Panopticon next week, when episodes of the thrilling French Revolution will be introduced, under the title of "The Martyr- dom of Louis XVII." This is described as a triumph in animated photography, and should be well worth seeing. The pro- grarmme will also include The Brigadier's Stripes," a fine military episode, shown in twelve magnificent, tableaux; "A tour through the Vosges Mountadns," when miles upon aniles of beautiful scenery is brought :t)e,fore the audience; "The Ragpicker's I Daughter," a mo-st exciting subject; and the Paris Fire Brigade, in their wonderful drill. Musical items will be contributed by Mr. Walter Hellier, the popular baritone, and Mr. Fred D. Jones, the favourite Welsh tenor, whose songs, Pal of Mine" and When the bills a,re white with heather," will be illustrated. The ever-popular Mr. Bert Williams will recite to illustrations "The .Newsboy's Debt-"

I I I DIVORCED HUSBAND'S OFFER j "If you will proceed Jo obtain a divorce, for which I understand you have ample grounds, your husband will allow yon L400 a year. This communication Mrs. Ada Maria Smith, I of Harrow, received in 1906 from a representa- tive of her husband, a surgeon-captain attached to the Indian Army. She replied that such a course as was suggested was "contrary to the teaching of her dear father," and forbidden by her Church. She declined indignantly to enter into any bargain of the sort. She subsequently obtained an order for restitution of conjugal rights. This was not complied with, and her husband was found to have been unfaithful. Yesterday she was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court.

"CRUEL AND DISCREDili-ED "I It is pointed out in a memorial against "the cruel and discredited practice of feeding serpents at the Zoo on live animals," that, though it is now nearly eighteen months since an influentially-eigned memorial was presented to the Duke of Bedford, president of the Zoological Society of London, on this subject, no answer lias been returned. It is added that it is the right and the duty of the public to satisfy itself tha-t no cruel methods are c-mplayed.

A LEGATION MYSTERY I A' telegram from Berne to the Paris I "Eclair" states that Count, Roenar, one of the secretaries of the German Legation and i a nephew of the Grand Duke of Baden, was yesterday found dead in front of the Lega- tion buildings, having apparently acciden- tally fallen from a window. The count was engaged to be married to a. niece of Prince Buelow, the German Chancellor. I —

REVOLUTION IN HAYTI P I Paris, Saturday.—The "New York Herald" (Paris edition) publishes a telegram from Port-an-Prince Mating that a revolutionary movement broke out on Thursday night in the southern part of Hayti, in the district of Aux Cayea. Matters are believed to be I serious. r

23 DOGS IN A HOUSE I It wa-s stated at Marylebone yesterday that Miss Helen Barker, of Hampstea4, had in Iher house in July 23' dogs and two cats. Miss Barker. who said she had now only fifteen dogs, was ordered to get rid of them, or of I 80 many that those that remained should not be a nuisance.

"THE WOMAN WHO GAMBLES" The Woman Who Gambles," a play, a,-I its title implies, calculated to excdte ni-uoli, interest, is the attraction at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, next week. The piece will be presented by Mr. Morton Powell's prin- cipal company.

FOREIGN MAILS. To ba despatched frotji London to-morrow, Xov. 22- OUTWARD.-Morning- To Iceland, via Leith. ONDAY, NOVEMBER 23. Morning- To Egypt, by It'iliaii packet. Evening— To Egypt, Seychelles, Mauritiuf, and Madagascar, by Frc-nch packet. INWARD.-Due To-morrow- From Australia aad Ceylon, via Naplez. pue Monday— From United States, Ac., via Plymouth.

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RUMMER HOTEL, DUKE-STREET, CARDIFF. First-ci*ss Billiard Table. Our Annual Professional Billiard Tournament commences Monday, Jan. 4, 1909. Valuable prizes. Kntries close Nov. 25.—Pull particu- lars frum G. Matthews, Proprietor. e5929

CARDIFF EMPIRE I Mr. Fred Ginnett's company will appear in "Dick Turpin." Mr. Fred Ginnett's mare has perhaps attained the highest place oocu- pied by any equine performer. Clever horses have not been few, but all associated with this famous mare declare her to be unique in her part. Much of the interest naturall t centres round the mare, which bears th? great highwa,ym?m to York, and dies within sight of the historic Minster Towers. It may be too much to say tha-t the scene in which the good mare dies, induced by exhaustion, "makes" the sketch; but, however that may be, it is a certainty tha.t the pathos of the incident cajoles the ready tear from the sympathetic eye just as easily as does the death of "Little Wiiiie" in Eas.t Lynne." That is why the animal which is employed to represent the celebrated bla-elt mare must be perfect in her business, and Mr. Fred Ginnctt declares that there never has been such a TiiaTe for the part as the Bess to be seen next week at the Empire. Newport Maehnow, the Russian giant, will be the premier attraction. The tallest man in the world, he stands 9ft. 2in. in height, weighs 27 stone, and is 25 years of age. Blk profes- sion lie is a farmer, and owns 2,000 acres of land on the outskirts of Moscow. Maehnow will arrive at Newport on Sunday, and will be conveyed to the Empire in a full-sized furniture vaal. Another important engagement is that of Hermann Melot, the well-known conjuror, who has as is motto. Men were deceivers ever." Miss Rhoda Paul, a cicver juvenile artiste, appears in a scene specially written and composed for her by Charles Wilmott and Hermann Darewski, jun., entitled, "The Gay Gordons." Victor Kewmann, .the impersOinator; Bi-Bo-Bi, the charming Pavilion Girls, and E. J. Sheldon, complete this strong bill.

FROM ALL QUARTERS -————— -—————. M.r. Rooort. Glassby, the sculptor, died at his Chelsea house on Thursday from pneu- monia. Mr. John Digby has been elected treasurer of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. A Berlin judge decided yesterday that a winter overcoat is a necessity, and cannot be seized for debt. Mr. Cornelius Yanderbilt has asked Clyde shipbuilders to tender for a magnificent yacht of 1.600 tons. Nine children at Ballymena Workhouse have suddenly been taken ill and show symp- toms of poisoning. Raspberries have been gathered this week from two gardens at Go-rleston, the fruit being of fine size and fully ripe. It was stated at a Local Government Board inquiry, held at Manchester yesterday, that 2B,000 people in the city were in distress. Mr. Soames, M.P. for South Norfolk, de- parted yesterday for India and Ceylon, travelling for the benefit of his health. One of thd most miserable spectacles in this world is a man trying to exeuse himself," declared Judge Willis at Greenwich yester- day. "Aloth,ers never put matches under lock and key until they have lost one or two chil- dren," said the City coroner at an inquest yesterday. A first and final dividend of one half- penny in the £ was declared on the estate of a London bankrupt whose discharge was yesterday suspended for two years. Tthe Canadian Pacific Railway steamer Empress of Ireland arrived at Liverpool yesterday from Rimouski in 5d. 14h. 51m.- a record for the east ward-bound voyage. Professor Lombroso, the well-known criminologist, was yesterday said to be pre- paring a profound psychological study of the oharacterisfcios of the intellectual per- sonality of the German Emperor. Sir John Gray Hill announces that he has collected from members of the Law Society enough money to defray the expenses of a portrait of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the society's hall. The Central Unemployed Body for London yesterday decided to submit a scheme to the Local Government Board for the ac- quisition of an estate for a new farm colony, the location of which was not disclosed. Mrs. Lloyd-George personally welcomed the guests to a. meeting held yesterday at 11, Downing-street, in support of the Nurses' National Total Abstinence League, and sub- sequently oc?sented to be a vice-president of the league. "Died victorious on the heights above Quebec, 13 September, 1759. He was buried beneath this spot 20 November, 1759," runs the inscription on a memorial brass to General Wolfe, unveiled in Greenwich Parish Churdh yesterday, the anniversary of the burial.

COLLIER'S MEAN THEFT I Hubert Cinder by, collier, Cinderford, was I summoned at Li ttl edean yesterday for steal- l ing 3Ib, of candles and lib. of tapioaa, the property of Eliza Nelmes, grocer, Littledean. Mrs. Nelmes stated Mrs. Nelmes stated that defendant came into her shop and was served with a penny- worth of cough sweets, for which he tendered half-a-siovereign. Witness had to leave to go upstairs for change, defendant being then alone in the shop. On returning, witness noticed ttiat defendant bad something under his coat; which was not there when she served him. She questioned him, but he denied that he had taken anything. He had some flowr which he puTohaised iat Newinibam. When defendant had gone, witness missed the candles. and tapioca, (produced). Defen- dant, witness added, had since been to her, and asiked forgiveness. Defendant was sent to gaol for one month, with hard labour.

THE QUEEN'S BOOK 1 I The stimulating effect which the appearance of her Majesty's Gift Book had upon the public has been daily displayed since its issue on November 13 by the continuance of the enormous demand for copies. Up to the present time all the copies which have been despatched to booksellers and agents have been devoted to satisfying the orders sent in to the respective firms, and this condition of affairs'will probably last until the end of the week, when it is hoped that the book will make its appearance upon the bookstalls generally. Arrangements have now been effected. through the kindness of his Excellency the Russian Ambassador, whereby extensive pub- licity will be given to the Queen's Book in Russia, and it is hoped soon to be able to announce that the book itself will be able I to be issued to that country free of Customs duty, as well as to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

MURDER OF AN ARTIST Paris, Saturday.—In connection with the mysterious murder of the artist, M. Steinheil, and his mother-in-law in May last, the "Matin" to-day announces that Remy C'ouillard, the dead man's valet de chambre, was arrested last night. When charged he declared his innocence, but he will be further I interrogated to-day; and the police believe that the mystery will at last be cleared up. The arrest (says the "Matin") is due to the active investigations of Mme. Steinheil, who always expressed suspicion of Coiiillard. After following up various clues there was at last discovered in the valet's pocket-book a pearl taken out of its setting, which Mme. Steinheil recognised as having belonged to her.

TRAGEDY IN A CELLAR F The fatiler and mother of the Liverpool murdered ehidd named Foy stated at the inquest yesterday that Trench, the youth under remand, visited their house on Sunday morning and called out, Your little Tommy has been murdered with the half of his head off." Trench said a neighbour told hi,m. A brother of the child said that about eleven on Saterday night he and a com- panion Listened at the boarded-up window of the cellar where the body was found, and they heard the noise of a scu e and a moaning sound. A few minutes later be saw I Trenoh walking down the street, eatit (?bil37p,ed potatoes. The inquiry was again adjourned.

PRINCE AND MINISTER I Paris, &-uturda-y.kccordiijg to a newspaper report from Belgrade, there has been another Austro-Servian "incident." Count Forgsaah, the Austrian Minister in Belgrade, it is stated, walked by the Grown Prince as though he had not seun him, whereupon his Royal Highness stopped and said, Sir, it appears that for same time past you have ceased to recognise me." The Servia-n press call a.ttention to Count Forgach's lack of respect, and alleges that he has twice cut the Prince.

ABERGAVENNY BYE-ELECTIONS I Polling took place at Abergavenny on Fri- day to fill two vacancies in the council, the I results being as follows:- GROFFIELD WARD. W. D. Woodward (C.) 287 Charles Powell (Lab.) 141 CASTLE WARD. T. Dellafield (C.) 148 F. Deverall (L.) 137 F. Pc-art (Lab.) 2

THE PALACE, CARDIFF .1 Another excellent array of talent is promised for next week, which includes, amongst others, Wilfred H. Benson's com- pany in "The Last Halt"; Stidden and Dun- bar, musical comedy artistes; Florrie Bur- nett, the lady with a voice; Clifton and Gib son, the argumentative pair; The Lontes, Walter Clyde, Raymond's pictures, and the celebrated Avolos.

PARK-HALL S-KVICE8 I The address to-morrow afternoon will be given by t,he Rev. J. Warwick Armstrong, of Cathays Wesleyan Church, and Mr. James Waugh, M.A., will occupy the chair. The Cardiff Ladies' Choir (conducted by Miss Morfydd Williams, R.C.M.), will render a duet and chorus.

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