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COPYRIGHT. #1 THE El W all of Silence 1. [I A STORY OF CARDIFF, I I Special^ ?nttcn?for the "je?un? e}:ptess"I.  By SIDNEY WARWICK, I ( N AUTHOR OF < I I The Angel of Trouble," Through a Woman's Heart," No Past is Dead," I ? W Cat's Eyes: A Mystery;" Shadows of London," &c., &C- J ———— 4 SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. I Jim Meredith returns to Cardiff from India to inherit the va.st wealth of his uncle, who has left him everything beyond £ 1,000. The latter is bequeathed to Olive Lindsay, the old man's adopted daughter, who waa brought ap as his heiress, but wae out of his will because she was accused a.nd con- victed of stealinz. Since her imprisonmeat Olive Lindsay had dropped out of Slgt. Jim, one evening, motoring beyond CardiH in the direction of Radyr, hears a shot, and Weee>nUy there pushes out into the road. Jnet ahead of hia car a woman, who betrays great distress of mind. She begs him to v- help> her fly the spot. On their way a mounted policeman "tops them, and tate6 that a man hae been shot by a woman who has run awas. Having left the girl at her request near &a.dyr Station, after assuring her ue believed she had not done the tiling named by the policeman, Jim Meredith tlThds the victim is a man named Percival Detmold. Jim searches the grounds surrounding Det- í mold's house, and on a rot*; budi finds a f brown. veil, which he seizes and secretes. "Later, Jim finds Detmold was one of the witnesses in the Biack Pearl case against Olive Lindsay. In Cardiff one day Jim meets Mre.. Jard-ine. an old friend. Ethel Restarrick, a- young widow, and. formerly Jim's sweet- heart, aad another introduced to him as Miss Kennedy, whom he recognised, with a start, as being the girl he befriended en the night of the murder. 'An acquaintance greets the group, and pro- ceeds to banter Meredith for having, as he alleges, out him on the night of the murder, adding that he saw him (Jieredith) driving Miss Kennedy to Radyr Station. Meredith admits driving a lady to the station, but declares that it was not Miss Kennedy, whom (he added) he had just met for the first time. Owen Hughes proposes to Elsie Muir, and is accepted. Leaving the honse, he mt8 8a.rrol. 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 on 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 whisper 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 mnrderod Percival Detmold, is repeated. Hughts denies this, and declares Detmold threatened him with a revolver, which, m the struggle with Hughes. went off inadvertently a"d killed Detmold. Sarrol flouts this and shows Hughes a letter he is soins* to send denouncing him. Then teLls him to come back at nine o'clock, when he (Sarrol) wiU tell him what he intends to do. CHAPTER XV. (continued). "THE SHADOW OF SOMETHING COMING." For long before Beatrice Lloyd had mar- lied- Mr. Sarrol, of Newport, there had been eomethiiig like a love affair between her and Stephen Muir's &ccond son. He was a good-looking man, this second eon of the Muirs, who had &hown such few signs of following in the footsteps of his elder brother Alfred, the precise, plodding eon of his father, who had struck Mere- dith as being more of a machine than human. The two brothers were as unlike in feature as they were in habit. Philip and Elsie had monopolised all the good looks in the family; and Stephen Muir was secretly uncommonly proud of his hand- i, ome, dashing son, even whilst he deplored, •Jfis apparent inability to settle down to any- thimg. Probably if Philip had not beta a 13luir, to bias parental prejudices, Stephen oulod have dubbed him a rolling-stone, and ■might, have done so with strict truth. Elsie wondered. as the move was made Into the dining-room, what business her lover could have had with Mr. Sarrol. That it had been anything but an ordina.ry business chat she had no suspicion; Stephen iMuir, though annoyed and fnmitg. angry I with Owen whom he held responsible for %he outburst he had witnessed without in The least understanding, had taken Sarrol's -Lint. and had not spoken of it to his-wife w daughter. Time enough to tell them when his guests had gone. Somehow, dinner was not altogether a Wuocess to-night; a vague constraint seemed to affect the party of seven sitting at the tebe: a constraint, perhaps, communicated lelepathically by Sarrol-who sat, uu- usua^y [ireoccupied, contributing little to •he- talk, and having his glass filled rather frequently—awid by Mrs. Sarrol, who seemed nervous and constrained, stealing ocoasional nervous glances at her husband. An indefinable sense of vague, impending trouble oppressed her. She could hardly j kave told why, but she had been a bundle of nerves adl day. Something she read in her husband's face, in his manner, added to her unaccountable nervousness. She had caught bis parting words to Owen Hughett-there was nothing' in the words themselves; but the tones of the voice had struck her. Her married life had taught Beatrice Sarrol to read in her husband's voice subtle meanings that were very different sometimes from the •ctuak uttered word*; she had felt to-night me though something had been moving eecretly behind those words, something ominous; that envelope addressed to the superintendent of police had strengthened the impression. Once as she cast furtive glance at him, the sa.w his lips form a word. It was the word "Thief." And there was a cruel gleam in the heavy, flushed face that she had • iearned to know and fear. Joiin S&rrol was wondering what course he sfcoald take when half-past nine brought Owen Hughes to him—the man who had called him a thief. Once when he spoke to Beatrice, it was in a om.t. domineering voice that made Philip Muir's hands clench under the table. Throughout dinner, Philip had talked timost exolusively to her, ignoring her buebajad in a manner almost pointed. Perhaps he had never really been very deeply in love with Beatrice LlQyd-not so genuinely, at any rate, as he now fancied himself tgj 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 by his mother, and later by many women ca-ught by the attraction of his handsome face—now that &he- was no longer free. he liked to tell himself that &he was the only woman he had ever thought seriously about, who had made a difference in his life—the forbidden fruit that is always the sweeotst-until he had almost tome to believe in his own pose. And to-DiZbt the pose was getting out of baod in some extraordinary way, away from Ins eocArol. He had seen little of her since bar marriage; he had been away from Pen- arth at the time of it. The sight of the fragile prettiness that had always appealed to bim-that and the occasional shrinking took she stole at her husband. tha.t tol-d its trwa tale, bad mounted to his head. Row bLe- bated the overfed brute opposite to him, witb «he traces of has excesses already showing in tufs face—how he hated the man! Under the circumstances con-versation len. gTBShed. Elsie, who usually kept the ahY rolling in her animated way, was busy with her I)h-(-ghts-ba,PPY thoughts about her lover tlttB t were like the lilt of a song- in her heart. It was so wouxlerf-al she muet have cored all t abyng, but until his impetuons words she J bad not A-lised that she cared in that way I eC, love; it was as though at the touch of vomm as by fire the veil had been stripped from her eyes In a moment. She must I )w«j)6 h«.v« cared for him! -wee a tender smile about her mouth j 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 thoughts-a reference to Detmold's death. Slisie's filce frowned a little. She did not want to think of tragic thing-she wanted to think only of her new, wonderful happi- oess. Sarrol was chuckling, as if at some secret joke; his heavy face rose red and flushed over the vast, bulging expanse of shirt front. j Mention of Detmold led to the topic cf his sister, Mrs. Angera-y, and her stolen pearls. "Ever see that girl, Olive Lindsay, old Me redith's protegee, who took 'em." asked Sarrol 'I supose you have, Muir?" No; she never came to Cardiff, I think," replied Stephen Muir. "That escapade of hers was a lucky thing for young Meredith, ethi" "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 -anpleitisaut 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. It seemed to strike even Sarrol that he had gone a shade too far; at the intolerable rudeness Mrs. Sarrolfe face flushed and then went white Philip suddenly turned his eyes from her face to Sarrol's, and said: "I know you are an authority on company promoting. I wonder if you are an authority on women, Mr. Sarrol?" 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 pa.use followed. Mrs. Sarrol glanced nervously at her husband. half afraid of what might follow this act of championship. Sarrol stared at Philip for an instant; then unex- pe-ctedly lau.-hed-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 oreate a diversion. Rullo, wae that a flash of summer lightning outside? Hope we aren't going to have a storm." "Hope not, few my wife's sake-and our drive back to Newport to-night. You'd be a bit nervy, eh. Bee?" he said, speaking with an effort at amiability. One had only to look at the pink and white doll-like face to feel that Beatrice Sarrol was a. bundle of nerves. And yet thete -bAd been$,t times a look in her face, in her eyes, since her marriage tibet 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 aaid fsAe. Anyhow, the oar's broken in," added Sarrol with heavy humour—" she won't shy now at a pea.1 of thunder." It appeared likely, however, that there would be no s-torm-that, indeed, Alfred had invented the lightning in his desire to change the subject: as Philip and Beatrice Sarrol realised when aA last dinner was over, and they wandered out together on to the verandah into the pleasant cool of the sum- mer ni,-Ilt. There was no moon; only a handful of i stars piercing the dark spaces of the eky. The soft night air was full of the ecent 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 themselves to the billiard-room to smoke a.nd 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 room where at half-past nine Owen Hughes was to hear his fate. Beyond the frame of woodwork of the open long window in the room lay a wall of grey darkness and gloom. Walking along the verandah. Philip and Mrs. Sarrol had turned the corner of the house to this more desolate Mde. and their footsteps brought them to the library wftidow. The woman suddenly gave a little, uncon- trollable shiver. I am afraid you are cold?" Philip cried anxiously. Her face looked pale. No." She gave a little laugh that sounded forced. "I was thinking how dark and uncanny it looks in there, in that room- dark and sinister and silent, almost like a grave! Phil-ip-I suppose I oughtn't to call you Philip?—odd fancies come tife us women sometimes, and—don't laugh at me I won't laugh." Perhaps I've been fanciful all day—and it's my unlucky day to-day: that may have something to do with feeding 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-nighft?—apparently with- out any cause, juet as though some impend- ing evil wae 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 sadden impulse of her mood that had prompted the odd words, her eyes resting with a curious intentness oo the dimly out- lined window and the recesses of df-ep gloom beyond that it framed: dark, silent, sinister, as she had said of it-like a grave. [TO BE ON MONDAY.]

I FOOTBALL I BLAENAU GWENT LLLYWHITES RUGBY FOOT- BALL CLUB require Home and Home Fixtures; a-vewge age, 14.-Apply Gwilym WatAios, Tydanywol, Cwmttitery, Morv ei601ti24 GRANGE BARBARIANS R.F.C. (Third Division C. and D. L-eag,te) require Fixtures with good Junior Tennis on the following dates:—Xnias Day, Jan. 23, Felt. 6. 20, Z1; guarantees preferred. e626 CKEIx^lAU AND CBOESFAEN RUGBY FOOT- BALL CLUB require Fixtures (home and away) with' Junior Clubs for Saturdays.—Apply F. Savage, Hcostaff, Pontyclun. el55ld25 ARGOED n. B.F.C. want Home lsnd Home Matches with Junior Teams; average age, 17.—Apply, for dates, to A. J. Buseton, Hon. Sec. el5l6d2i SWAJfSHA V. CARDLFF, Oirdiff Arms Park, Satur- day, Jiovnobsr 2a.. Kick-olf at Three o'clock. e5742

VEVEjr tfOtl' CESTAINTY TOR HOPE.—When you I buy England's GMry Matches you have for a certainty the Bwt, most Sellable, and Caleapmt Match you can et?r hope to get; far superior to &DY foreign make. ^Hado at '^ftaad'a Glory" Match Weeks, CHonreatqfr,

I For Women Folk. I HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY DISHES. I After peeling onions rub your hands with a piece of celery to remove the smell. In frosty weather water-tape should be left dripping, so that the water shall not freeze. For a burn nothing is better than equal parts of linseed-oil and cold boiled water. 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. If troubled with beetles In your kitchen try scrubbing- the floor with warm water, in 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 eimple remedy for loes of voice is made in the following way: Take the white of an ek.g, bea.t it. and add to it the juice of one lemon and (sufficient sugar to sweeten it. The voice will soon come ba-ok if a tea- spoonful of this mixture is taken at short intervals. To Use Up Cold Mutton. Take lib. cold roast mutton, one glass claret. one tablespoonful currant jelly, one small onion grated, two tablêSpoonfuls water, and loz. glaze and sauce. Cut the mutton in trices, not too thin, flour and season with pepper and salt, put the onion in a etewpan with the wine, sauce, jelly water, and the glaze; ftir over fire until dissolved, then put in the prepared mutton and simmer together five minutes; serve hot with vegetables in season. This is a nice dish, and quickly prepared for a cold night. To Remove Marking Ink from Linen. Mix one to:is-pooiiful of chloride of lime to half a pint of cold water. When dis- solved, damp tne parts where the stains are with a small piece of flannel. If the marks do not disappear, add a little more lime to the same water, then re-damp. Then thorougohly rinse in clear cold water before washing the article. By adding a little of this liquid to your wa.&h-tub it will help to keep linen a good colour without damaging any article. When made, keep in a bottle tightly corked.

COLD FEET CAUSE DISEASE I Medical advice has just been given that the hot-water bottle is a valuable means of l keeping up the general state of health. "I can confidently assert that many people who are suffering from consumption to-day might ha<ve warded off that terrible disease had they used a hotwater bottle in bed at nights" (says the authority). Another doctor believes that the seeds of consumption and bronchitis are taid in the sleeping hours through coid feet.

LACE CURTAINS CLEANED AS NEW.—1, Minny- I eti^VCsawsa. 141. KttfcMir rises

Germany's Naval Scheme MORE DREADNOUGHTS TO BE BUILT t 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 £16,640,000 m 20,200.000 1910 22,000,CC0 1911 23,000,000 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- sists of: I 3 Dreadnoughts improved, 1 Indomitable improved, 2 small cruisers, 12 large destroyers, with, in addition, an unknown number of submarinee, probably twelve. Two of the German battleships for 1909 have already been ordered.

I Passing Pleasantries. Mr. Meanly (to his wife): It's your birth- cay to-morrow, my dear, and here's half- a-crown for you. You'd better keep it by so-a, because it's my birthday next month. PAT'S PRECAUTION. Two witnesses were up Whe other day at a South of Ireland a jsizes 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 nearly1 baffled prosecuting1 counsel asktd in a. tragic tone: "Will you 3wear, Pat Larra,i,n, that Thady O'Farrell ha-s never, to your know- ledge, stolen ohickens?" The responsibility of the last lie was too much for the witness. Shine, I don't know about that same," said Pat, but I do know," he added, straightenting himself, "that if I was a chicken, and Thady was about, I'd roost .hig.h!" I ONLY A SECONDARY MATTER. "Yes," said the affable theatrical manager, "oar next production is to be something really wonderful in the way of a comic opera. "Oot something new?" asked the inter- viewer "Yes, indeed. I have engaged Drillem Daily, the famous stage manager, to devise the evolutions and group-ings of the chorus; I have retained Cuttan Fittem, the cele- brated costumier, to plan and prepare t-he garments worn by the principals and the chorus, and I have engaged Redden Yaller, the renowned scenic artist, to execute the stage 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 Anot-her fine historical production is included in the list of bioscope pictures at 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- gramme will also include The Brigadier's Stripes," a fine military episode, shown in twelve magnificent tableaux; "A totw through the Voeges Mountains," when miles u;pora miles of beautiful scenery is brought before the audience; "The Ragpicker's Daughter, a moot exciting subject; and the Ppris Fire Brigade, in their wonderful drill. Musical items will be contributed by Mr. Wa-iter Hellier, the popular baritone, and Mr. Fred D. Jones, the favourite Welsh tkcor, whose sonigs, Pal of Mine and WheTi the hills are white with heather," will be illustrated. The ever-popular Mr. Bert Williams w4H recite to illustrations The Newsboy's Debt.

DIVORCED HUSBAND'S OFFER "If you will proceed to obtain a divorce, for which I understand you have ample grounds, your hus-band will allow you L400 a year. This communication Mrs. Ada Maria Smith, of Harrow, received in 1906 from a representa- triTe of her husband, a surgeon-captain attached to the Indian Army. She replied that such a course as was suggested wad ltra,r, to the teaching of her dear father," a,nd forbadden by her Church. She declined indignantly to enter into any bargain of the sort. She subsequently obtained an order for refltitrotkra 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 DISCREDITED It is Poin-ted out in a memorial a.gainst "the cruel and discredited Prac-tice of feeding serpents at the Zoo on live animals," that, though it is now neaaiy eighteen months since an rnftuentially-signed memoriaJ was preeeri,t,ed to the Duke of Bedford, president of the Zoological Society of London, on this subject, no answer has been returned. It is ad-led that it is the right and the duty of the public to satisfy iteelf that iuo cruel methods are employed.

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

REVOLUTION IN HAYTI P Paris, Sa-turda-Y.-Tlio "-Nlew York Herald" (Paris edition; publishes a telegram from Port-au-Prince stating that a revolutionary movement* hroke out on Thursday night in the southern part of Hayt.i, in the district of Aux Cayes. Matters are believed to be serious.

23 DOAS IN A HOUSE It was stated at Ma.rylebone yesterdky that Miss Helen barker, of Hampstead, had in her 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 so many that those that remained should not be a nuisance.

"THE WOMAN WHO GAMBLES" "The Woman Who Gambles," a- play, aF i it3 title implies, calculated to excite muoh interest, is the attraction at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, next week. The pieoe will be presented by Mr. Morton Powell's prin- cipal company.

BILLIARDS. I 8.-CANNONS TO LEAVE AN IN-OFF- (COPYRIGHT). [By RISO LEVI-.] Diagram 554 shows a position wherein the only stroke to play it; a very thin cannon off the white. Owing, however, to the cue ball being in such close proximity to the white the cannon is quite au easy stroke. Here again, by playing a gentle stroke, position for an in-off from the white can be left to continue with. A gentle thin stroke will only move the object white an inch or two, and thus it is bound to remain well situated for au in-off, provided that the cue ball takes the red ball half- ball-or fuller—on the side away from the top cushion. I Diagram 554.—A gentle thin ball-to-ball I- cannon to leave an in-off from the white. In the diagram the balls are so situated that a cannon on to the outside of the red or even full' on to it, even though it only slightly moved the white, could only leoave position for a forcing or feerew in-off from the white, but by g-ettin.g on to the inride of the nd-that is, on to the side away from the oushi-ou-the cue ball will travel a little farther into the open, and in this way the in-off that should follow will be rendered muoh less difficult, and may even be made quite a simple stroke. When, on the other hand, the position of the cue ball and the object white is such that a canmon full on to the red, made by a stroke which only slightly moves the white, can only leave a thin in-off to oontinue with, the cannon must be played in such a way that the white is. moved some lit-tie distance. This is, of course, easily effected by using a little more pace. An alternate way of getting good position for the in-off, when a gentle cannon full on to the red oan only leave a very thin in-off, is by playing the cammon very gently Oill to the outside of the red. so that the cue ball, after reaching this ball, may travel towards the cushion. Diagram 555 shows a variation of the posi- tion illust-rated on Diagram 554. The situa- tion of the object balls is very similar as regards the nature of the cannon, but the stroke is down the table instead of across it, and the oue bail is outside the object white and the pocket instead of being between them Here, again, a gentle stroke, which hardly moves the white and which causes I the cue ball to cannon pretty full on to the red, W1.J¡¡ leave good position for an in-off ] from the white- Diagram 555.—A thin cannon taking the red on the inside to leave an in-off from the white. Should the position be such that a gentle stroke, which hardly moves the white, and which causes the cue ba.11 to cannon full on to the red, will only leave position for a very wide iri-off from the white, the red ball, instead of being taken full, must be taken on the outside, and in this way the in-off from the white which should follow will be let-e wide than it would otherwise have been, and may even be a. simple half-ball stroke. A slightly faster stroke which still causes the cue ball to cannon full on to the :-cd, but which moves the object white more than the gentie stroke doee, will also often bring about the same result. Sometimes a combina-tion of -the, two methods may be advantageously enrployed. When the position is such that, however slightly the object white may be moved, a full or nearly full contact with the red can only leave a narrow in-off from the white,, the red must be taken on the inside, for by taking the red on the inside the cue ball will travel towards the side cushion, and thiia will cause the subsequent in-off from the white to be less narrow than it would otherwise have been, even when it does not make it quite a simple stroke. Diagram 556 shows a position for a thin bali-to-bail cannon. A gentle stroke which causes the cue ball to cannon full, or nearly full, on to the object white will generally leave position for a centre-pocket in-off from the white, though when the contact is not quite full, the centre pocket into which the in-off must be played, will depend upon whether the red has been taken to the right cr to the left. When the cannon is played with gentle strength, position for an in-off from the white will very often be left, even I though this ball may be taken much less than half-bajl. Diagram 556.—A thin ball-to-bail can-non. Red on the &pot; object white on the central line of the table and about 12 inches above the centre pockets. One ball 7 inches from the top cushion and 29J inches from the side cushion. Position may be left for a centre-pocket in-off tto,m the white. A thin contact will hardly move the white, a.nd thus the cue ball will come to rest at a point lower down the t,&bde--that is nearer to baulk--tha,n the white, often to leave 'quite an easy stroke for the centre pocket. Even should the in-off, which is left, require quite a thin stroke, such a stroke will not be a very difficult one, for, in the first place, the one ball will not be far from the white, and secondly, the in-off will be into a very open pocket. Mv. Leva's articles appear ey Saturday in the "Evening Express." No. 1 of this series aippeared on Oc-tober 3.

BUMMER HOTEL, DUKE-STREET, CARDIFF. First-class Billiard Table. Our Annual Professional Billiard Tournament commences Monday, Jan. 4, 1909. Valuable prizes. Entries close Nov. 25.-Fall particrti- lara from G. Matthews, proprietor. «5629

CARDIFF EMPIRE I MT. Fred Ginnett's company will appear in "Dick Turpin." Mr. Fred Ginnett's mare has perhaps attained the highest place occu- pied by any equine performer. Clever horses have not been few, but a.ll associated with this famous mare declare her to be unique in her part. Much of the interest naturally centres round the mare, which bears the great hiahwayman to York, and dies within sight of the historic Minster Towers. It may be too much to say that the scene in which the good mare dies, induced by exhaustion, "makes" the sketch; but,\ owever that may be, it is a certainty that Obe pathos of the incident cajoles the ready tear from the sympathetic eye just as easily as does the death of "Little Willie" in "East Lynne." That is whý the animal which is employed to represent the celebrated black mare must be perfect in her business, and Mr. Fred Ginnett declares that there never has been such a mare for the part as the Bess to be seen next week at the Empire. Newport Machnow, the Russian giant, will be the I premier attraction. The tallest man in the world, he stands 9ft. 2in. in height, weighs 27 stone, a,nd is 25 years of age. By profes- sion he is a farmer, and owns 2,000 acres of land on the outskirts of Moscow. Machnow will arrive at Newport on Sunday, and will be conveyed to the Empire in a full-sized furniture van. Another important engagement is that of Hermann Melot, the well-known conjuror, who has as is motto, Men were deceivers ever. Miss Phoda. Paul, a clever juvenile artiste, appears in a scene specially written and composed for her by Charles Wilmott I and Hermann Darewski, jun., entitled, "The Gay Gordons." Victor Newmann, the toIl'; B¡'Bo-, the charming Pa/vilion fijrla, and E. J. Sheldon, complete this fteOBg bttL

FROM ALL QUARTERS I Mr. Robert 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 Vanderbilt has asked Clyde shipbuilders to tender for a magnificent yaaht of 1,600 tons. Nine ohildren at Ballymena Workhouse have suddenly been taken ill and show symp- toms of poisoning. Raspberries have been gathered this week from two gardens at Gorleston, the fruit being of fine size and fully ripe. It was stated at a Local Government Board inquiry, held at Manchester yesterday, that 28,000 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 the most miserable spectacles in this world is a man trying to excuse himself," declared Judge Willis at Greenwich yester- day. "Mothers 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 tihe £ was declared on the estate of a London bankrupt whose discharge was yesterday suspended for two years. The Canadian Pacific Railway steamer Empress of Ireland arrived at Liverpool yesterday from Rimouski in 5d. 14h. 51m.— a record for the eastward-bound voyage. Professor Lombroso, the well-known criminologist, was yesterday said to be pre- paring a profo-und psychological study of the characteristics of the intellectual per- sonality of the German Bmperor. Sir John Gray Hill announces that he has oollectOO 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. I Mrs. Lloyd-George personally welcomed the guests to a meeting held yesterday at 11. Down-ing-street, in support of the Nurses' National Total Abstinence League, and sub- sequently consented 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 Ohuroh yesterday, the anniversaryj of the burial.

COLLIER'S MEAN THEFT Hubert Cinder by, collier, Ciinderford, was summoned at Iiittledaan yesterday for steal- ing 3ib. of candles and lib. of tapioca, the property of Eliza Nelmes, grocer, Littledean. 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-eovereiga. Witness had to leave to go uipstairs for change, defendant being then alone in the shop. On returning, witness noticed that defendant had 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 flow wihieh he purchased at Newinham. When defendant had gone, witness missed the candles and tapioca (produced). Defen- dant, witness added, had since been to her, and asked -forgiveness. Defendant was sent to gaol for one month, with hard labour.

T  N B?E?OOK I H-E QUE 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 hare 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 eoon to be able to announce that the book itself will be able 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 Oouill, the dead man's valet de chambre, was arrested last night. When charged he declared his innoeenfce, but he will be further interrogated to-day, and the police believe that the mystery will at last be cleared up. The arrest (sa.ys the "Matin") is due to the active investigations of Mme. Steinheil, who always expressed suspicion of Couillard. 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 I The father and mother of the Liverpool mttrclkared ohidd named Foy stated at the inquest yesterday that Trench, the youth under rermarnd, 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 him. A brother of the child said that about eleven on Saturday night he and a com- panion listened ait the boarded-up window of the cellar where the body was found, and they heard the noise of a sou e and a moaning sound. A few minutes later he saw Trench walking down- the street, eating chipped potatoes. The inquiry was again. adjourned.

PRINCE AND MINISTER I Paris, Ritnxday.-According to a, newspaper report from Belgrade, there has been another Anstto-Servian "incident." Oount Forgaah, the Austrian Minister in Belgrade, it is stated, walked by. the Orown Prince as though he bad not seen him, whereupon his Royal Highness stOtpped" and said, "Sir, it a/ppears that for some time past you have ceased to recognise me." The Servian press call attention to Oooint Forgach's lack of respect, and alleges that he has twice cut the Prince.

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

THE PALACE, CARDIFF I Another excellent array of talent is promised for next week, which includes, amongst others, Wilfred H. Benson's rom 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 SERVICES I The address to-morrow afternoon will be given by the Rev. J. Warwiok Armstrong, of Cathays Wesieyan 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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