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FROM ALL QUARTERS Mr. Robert Glassby, the sculptor, died at his Chelsea houoe on Thursday from pneu- monia. Mr. John Di-gby 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 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 Gorleston, the fruit being of fine &ize and fully ripe. It was sta.ted 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 Norfollk, 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 ma.tches 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 suspondod for two years. The Canadian Pacific Railway steamer Empress of Ireland arrived at Liverpool yesterday from Rimou&ki in 5d. I-h. 51m.— a record for the eastward-bound voyage. Professor Lombroso. the well-known criminologist, wa.s yesterday said to be pre- paring a profound psychological study of the characteristics of the intellectual per- sonality of the: German Emperor. Sir John Gray Hill announces that he has collected from members of the La.w 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. Mts. 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 consented to be a vice-president of the league. "Died victorious on the heigihts 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 Church yesterday, the anniversary I of the burial.

COLLIER'S MEAN THEFT I Hiutbert Cinder by, collier, Cimderford, -was summoned at Ldttledean yesterday for steal- ing 31b. 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 ooug-h sweets, for which he tendered half-a-eovereign. Witness had to leave to go u,ps.tairs 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 flour wlhich he purchiaised at Newroihiam. When defendant had gone, witness missed the candles and tapioca Produced). Defen- dant, witness added, had since been to her, and asked forgiven ess. Defendant was sent to gaol for one month, with hard labour.

THE BOOK 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 hare 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 bookst&lls 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 to be issued to that country free of Customs duty, as well as to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

MURDER OF AN ARTIST I Paris, Saturday.—In connection with the mysterious murder pf the artist, M. Steinheil, and his moth-er-in-la-w in May last, the "Matin" to-day announces that Remy Couillard, the dead man's valet de chambre, was arrested last night. When charged he declared his innocence, but he will be further interrogated to-day, and the police believe that the myetery will at last be cleared np. The arrest (says 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 OIL the Liverpool murdered ohidd warned Foy stSted at tihe inquest yesterday that Trenoh, 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 him. A brother of the child said that aibout eleven on Saturday 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 sou e and a moaining.sound. A few minutes later he saw Trench walking down the street, ea-ting chipped potatoes. The inquiry was again adjourned.

PRINCE AND MINISTER' I Paris, Swturday.-Aooording to a newspaper report from Belgrade, there has been another Anstro-S-erviau "incident." Count Forgaah, the Austrian Minister in Belgrade, it is stated, walked by the Crown Prince as though he had not seen ham, whereupon his Royal Highness stopped and said, "Sir, it appears thwt for some time past you have ceased to recognise me." The Servia.n press call attention to Ootunft Forgach's lack of respect, and alleges that be has twice cut the Prince.

ABERGAVEhNY BYE-ELECTIONS Polling took plaoe at Abergavenny on Fri- day to fill two vacancies in the council, the I res-nlts beine as follows: — GROFFIELD WARD. W. D. Woodwa.rd (C.) 287 Charles Powell (Lab.) 141 CASTLE WARD. T. Dettafield (C.) 148 F. Deverall (L.) 137 F. Peasrrt (lab.) 2

THE PALACE, CARDIFF I 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; TlIe Lontes, Walter Olyde, Raymond's pictures, and the celebrated Avolos.

PARK-HALL SERVICES I The address to-morrow afternoon will be given by the Rev. J. Warwick Armstrong, of Gathays WTesleyan Church, and Mr. James Waugh, M.A., will occupy the chair. The Cardiff Ladies' Ohoir (conducted by Miss Morfydd Williams, R.C.M.), will render a duet and chorus.

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r<PaMi £ £ ^aB|^ THE wa of Silence A STORY OF CARDIFF, SpcciaUp ?nttcnfor tbc Evening ?prc?e" IBy SIDNEY WARWICK, I AUTHOR OF ? AUTHOR OF I ? The Angel of TrouMe," Through a Woman's Heart," No Past is Dead," I ? Cat's Eyes: A Mystery," Shadows of London," &c., &c. M BYXOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. I t Jim Meredith returns to Cardiff from India to inherit the vast wealth of his untie. Who has left him everything beyond £ 1,000. The 'i totter is bequeathed to Olive Lindsay, the old man's adopted daughter who was, t brought up as his heireee. but was out of his will because she was accused and con- I victed of stealine. Since her imprisonment ) Olive Lindsay had dropiped out of sight. Jim. one evening, motorurg beyond Cardiff in tbe direction of Radyr, hears a shot. and tpresent-17 there pushes out into the roaa t just ahead of his oar a woman, who betrays great distress of mind. She begs him to help her fly the spot. On their way a I mounted policeman stops them, and states r that a man has been shot by a wozMat I who has run away. ^Having left the girl at her request near Radyr Station, after assuring her lie believed she had not done the thing named by the policeman, Jim Meredith finds the 1 victim is a man named Percival Detmold. I Jim searches the grounds 6urrour-dilig Det- t mold's housed and on a rose Push finds a I brown veil, which he seizes an.d secretes. Later, Jim finds Detmold was one of the witM-OBes in the Black Pearl case against Olive Lindsay. Cardiff one day Jim meets Mrs. Jardine. an old friend, Ethel Resta-rnck, & young widow. and formerly Jim's sweet- heart, and another introduced to him as Miss Kennedy, whom he recognised, with a start. as being the girl he befriended on the night of the murder. & aoanaiavance greets the group, and pro- oeeds to banter Meredith for having, as he alleges. oat 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 declares that it was not Miss Kennedy. whom (be added) he had just met for the ftrst time. Owen Hughes proposes to Elsie Muir, and is accepted. Leaving the house, he meets jBarrol. whom he suspects of having been in league with Percival Detmold to defraud him (Hughes) in the matter of a ship's point 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 m. SJarrol 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 tha,t Hughes murdered Perciral Detmold. is repeated. Hughœ denies this. and declares $et?Zid threatened him with ?. revolver, which, m the struggle with Hughes, went, off inadvertently and killed Detmold. Sarrol flouts this. and shows Hughes a letter he is going to send denouncing him. Then tells him to c-ome back at nine o'clock, when he (Sarrol) will tell him what he intends to do. « CHAPTER XV. (continued). •"THE SHADOW OF SOMETHING COMING." For long before Beatrice Lloyd had mar- ried-Mr. Sarrol, of Newport, there had been something like a love affair between her and -Stephen Muir's second son. He was a good-looking man, this second tabu of the Muirs, who had shown su-ch few i signs of following in the footsteps of his elder brother Alfred, the precise, plodding i 8cm of his father, who had struck Mere- dith as being more of a machine than j human. The two brothers were as unlike lin feature as they were in habit. PMlip and Elsie had monopolised all the good ilooks in the family; and Stephen Muir was > secretly uncommonly proud of his hand- Vtome, dashing son, even whilst he deplored, :1Iis apparent inability to settle down to any- j ftfr-rr Probably if Philip had not been a pfnir, to bias parental prejudices, Stephen Would, have dabbed him a roiling-stone, and WiffhA have done so with strict truth. Elsie wondered. as the move was made Into the dining-room, what basinets her lower could have had with Mr. Sarrol. That ,it bad been anything but an ordinary buwnese chat she had no suspicion; Stephen Muir, though annoyed and fuming, angry witii Owen whom he held responsible for the outburst he had witnessed without in the least understanding, bad taken Sarrol's Hunt, and had not spoken of it to his wife or daughter. Time enough to tell them when his guests had gone. Somehow, dinner was not altogether a success to-night; a. vague constraint seemed to affect the party of seven sitting at the j illieble: a constraint, perhaps, communicated ) "P&thi"Xy by Sarrol—who &at, un- it?naLI7 preocoup, coctribntin? little to the talk, and having his glacs filled rather frequently—and by Mrs. Sarrol, who seemed servous and constrained, stealing occasional ue-rrous glances at her husband. An undefinable sense of vague, impending troubles oppressed her. She could hardly. have told why, but she had been a. bundle of SeT- all day. Something she read in her trosband's face, in his manner, added to her unaccountable nervousness. She had caught bit parting wor4s to Owen Hughes--ther-e was nothing in the words themselves; but the tones of the voice bad struck her. Her married life bad taught Beatrice Sarrol to read in her hus band's voice subtle meanings were very different sometimes from the actual, uttered words; she had felt to-night as though something had been moving «eoretly behind, those words, something .eminooe; tiha/t envelope addressed to the ■ n>perratendeo £ of police had strength en ed ,Abe impression. j Once as she cast a furtive glance at him, She saw 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. John Sarrol was wondering what course be should talie when half-past nine brought Owen Hughes to him-tlhe man who had eMled him a thief. Onoe when he spoke to Beatrice, it was in t wrt, domineering voice that made Philip N-air'a Aiands clench under the table. Throughout dinner, Philip had talked almost 'exclusively to her, ignoring her baBbaad in a manner almost pointed. Perhaps tte had never really been very daeplr in love with Beatrice Lloyd-not so ffsauinely, at any rate, as he now fancied tujmself to have been; but-it was obaraot-etistic of the weak, self-indulgent nature of a man like Philip Muir, who had bleB spoilt as a child by his mother, and %Ktgsr by many weaien caught by the attraction of his handsome face—now that she was no longer free, he liked to tell himself that she was the only woman he had ovw thought seriously about, who bad made a ettflererjee in bis hfthe forbidden fruit that is always the sweatf-t-until he had almost come to believe in his own pose. And to-night the i-ose was getting- out of hand in some extraordinary way, away from has control. He had seen little of her since her he had been away from Pen- artfe at the time of it. The sight of the fragile pretiiness that had always appealed to bim-that and the occasional shrinking look she stole at her husband, tha-t told its own tale, had mounted to his head. How he hated the overfed brute opposite to him, watt the traces of his excleeses already showing in tjjy faoer-ho*r he hated, the man! Under the carcumfctances conversation lan- guished. Elsie, who usually kept the abll rolling in her animated way, was busy with her tihoughts-lMwpy thoughts about her lover tKbat were like the lilt of a song in her heart. It. was so wonderful: she must have cared all sbdng, but until his im pet hots words she fcad not realised that she cared in that way sf love; it was as though at the touch of yeeeeon ae by fire the veil had been stripped front her eyes in a moment. She must always have oared for him' "We was. tender smile atonal-her month as she looked do win at the spray of syringa 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 hare 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- templa.te poverty so serenely. Then the voice of John Sarrol broke in upon her pleasant thoughtls-a reference to Detmold's death. Elsie's faoe 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 -Isto-len pearls. "Ever see that girl, Olive Lindsay, old Meredith's protegee, who took 'em." asked Sarrol "r supoee you have, Muir?" No: she never came to Cardiff, I think," replied Stephen Muir. "That escapade of hers was a lucky thine for young Meredith., ah?" "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 hamged! 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 gp^i'd only ) confess it, for all your charming pose of pity, my dear, you hope so, too!" For a mopemt there was a dead silence. t It seemed to strike even Sarrol that he had gone a shade too far; at the intolerable rudeness Mrs. Sarrol's face flushed and then went white Philip suddenly turned his eyes from her face to Sarrol s, and 6aid: "I know you axe 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 g-uest by a. would-be genial laugh. One had only to look a.t 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 follow this act of championship. Sarrol otared at Philip for an instant; then unex- pectedly laughed-perhaps, he felt that the weight of sympathy was against him. A j laugh in which Mrs. Muir with a sense of relief joined She had been watching her j son anxiously. Alfred threw himseli into the breach to create a. diversion. Hullo, was that a flash of summer lightning outside? Hope we aren't goiing to have a storm." "Hope not, for 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. bond-lo of nerves. And yet there bad been at times a look in her face, in her eyes, Since her marriage that seemed to hint that perhaps in this dainty, delioate doll of a woman there were deeper latent potenti- alities waiting to be brought out at the touch of life and fate. Anyhow, the oar's broken in," added Sarrol with heavy hUIDOur-" she won't shy now at a peal of thunder." It appeared likely, however, that there would be no storm-^that, indeed, Alfred had invented the lightnoing in his desire to change the subject: as Philip and Beatrice Ba,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 nigbt. There was no moon; only a handful of stars piercing the dark spaces of the sky. The 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 themselves to the billiard-room to smoke and talk "shop" before Philip and Beatrioe had left'the-fadies in the drawing-rooan. 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 hilf-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 side, and their footsteps brought them to the library window. The woman suddenly g'a.ve a. iittle, unconr trolLabde 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 unoanny it looks in there, in that room- dark and sinister and silent, almost like a gmve! Phikipi—1 sutxpose I oughtn't to call you Philip?—odd fancies come to ujs women sometimes, and—don t laugh at me I woe t laugh." J1' Perhaps I've been famciful all day?amd ii. my unlucky d?y t<?-d??y: that maj have something to do with fe?iT!? as I do." &ha -aid; "qur, superstitious fancies that oome Iw ?ne I!Ometim, one doesn't know why or of whAt—?a?e you ev?r fdt like that, PMlip. as somehow I fl to-m?ht?—a.ppa.r?nMy with- out any oause, just as though some impend- ing evil waa 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 intentness on the dimly out- lined window and the recesses of deep gloom beyond that it framed: dark, silent, sinister, as she had said of it-like a graTe- [TO BE CONTINUED ON MONDAY.]

I FOOTBALL BL?ENAU GWEO:I RUGBY FOOT- 1 BALL CLUB require Home aiict Home Fixtures; average ige, H.-Apply Uwilym W&t?M?, Tydanywal, I CwmtHr: Won el601d24 GRANOE &AHBAfHAXS B.F.C. (Third Division C, aad D. Lea?'K) require Fixturm with -ood Junior FTeeab! Tis on th" following dates :—Xium Day, Jan. 23, Feb. 6. 10, 27; g'laIa.nt preferred. ?626 CKEIvJ'lAU AND CROESFAE-11 RCGBY FOOT- BALL CLUB require Fixtures (home and away) with Junior Clubs for Saturdays.—Apply F. Savage, Henstaff, Pontyclun. el5old25 ?K?OED It. R- F C wa?t Home o?d Home )I?itch? ;î'(;¡r Iia.Cv=: :n7p¡mefotte'; I j to A. J. Bumbton, Hon. SC. el5lW21 I SWA5-CA V. CARDIFF, Cardiff Armis Park, Satui- day, Novtwber 21& Kick-oil at Three o'clock. e57421 VEVER Q?tT CERTAINTY FOB HOPE.—When ym buv Log., ?? G?ry Matches ym have for a owtainty the Bmt, most Reliable, and Che&pea Hatch 70U cao ever how to IC; far superior to My foreign mua. Ha* ?'??Md't Gloal Hstqh ?WJ? CUMMMt?

For Women Folk. 1 I m HOMELY HIJTS AND DAINTY DISHES. I After peeline onions rub your hands with a piece of celery to remove the smell. In frosty weather water-taps should be left dripping, so that the water shall not freeze. For a burn nothing is better than equal parts of linseed-oA and cold boiled water. Put in.to 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 simple remedy for loss of voice is made in the following way: Take the white of an ekg, beat it. and add to it the juice of one lemon and sufficient sugar to sweeten it. The voice will soon oome back if a tea- spoonful of this mixture is taken a.t short intervals. To Use Up Cold Mutton. Take lib. cold roast mutton, one glass claret, one table-spoonful currant jelly, one small onion grated, two tabVespoonfuIs 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 stewpan with the wine. sauce, jelly water, and the glaze; stir over fire until dissolved, then put in the prepared mutton and simmer together five minurtes; serve hot with vegetables in season. This is a nice dish. and quickly prepared for a cold night. To Remove Marking Ink from Linen. I Mix one tens-pooruful of chloride of time I to half a pint of oold water. When dis- solved, damp the parts where the stains are I 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 thoroug-hly rinse in clear cold water before washing the article. By adding a little of this liquid to your wash-tub it will help to keep linen a good colour without damaging any article. When made, keep in a bottle tightly corked.

I COLD FEET CAUSE DISEASE I Medical advice has just been given that the hot-water bottle is a vahiable means of keeping up the general state of heaJth. "I oan confidently assert that many people who are suffering from consumption to-day might have wa.l"lk>d off that terrible disease had they used a* hot-water bottle in bed at nights" (says the authority). Another doctor believes that the seeds of consumption and bronchitis are laid in the sleeping boors through cold feet.

I L COBTAISS.CI^ANKD AS NZW-I, Kiraiy- eUeZLr W, National, e6C28

Germany's Naval Scheme 1 -0 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 yoar, is being carried out to t letter, not- withstanding Germany's financial difficulties. Under that Act the figures of the German Estimate-, we-re fixed as follows:— 1908 £ 16,640,000 1909 20,200.000 1 1910 n,ooli "co 1911 23,000.600 1 In view of the fact that the British naval programme for the year 19G9 is being settled a.t the present time by the Admiralty and the Treasury, special interest attaches to the German programme for next year. It con- sists- of: 3 Dreadnoughts improved, 1 Indomitable improved, 'I 2 small cruisers, 12 lrg-e destroyers, with, in addition, an unknown number of l submarines, probably twelve. Two of the German battleships for 1909 have already been ordered.

I Passing Pleasantries, i Mr. Meanly (to his wife): It's your birth- Jay to-morrow, my dear, and here's half- I a-crown for you. You'd better keep it by you, because it's my birthday next month. I PAT'S PRECAUTION. Two witne-es were up the other day at a South of Ireland assizes in a case which con- cerned long-continued poultry stealing. As usual, nothing coiild be got from them in the way of evidence until the nearly baffled prosecuting counsel asked in a. tragic tone: Will you Iwear, Pat Larragan, that Thady O'Farrell has never, to your know- ledge, stolen chickens?" The responsibility of the last lie was too much for the witness. Shatre, I don't know about tha-t same," said Pat, but I do know," he added, straightening himself, that if I was a chicken, and Thady wa? about, I'd roost .high!" I ONLY A SECOND AH Y MATTER. "Yes," said the affable theatrical manager, "our next production is to be something really wonderful in the way of a comic opera." "Got something new?" asked the inter- viewer. "Yes, indeed. I have- engaged Drillem Daily, the famous stage manager, to devise the evolutions and groupings 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 repowned scenic artist, to execute the etage 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 Another fine historical production is included in the list of bioscope pictures at Stoll's Panopticon next week, when episodes of the thrilling Frencq 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 seeding. The pro- gramme will also include The Brigadier's Stripes," a fine military episode, shown in twelve magnificemt tableaux; "A tour through the Voages Mountains, when miles upon miles of beautiful scenery is brought before the audience; "The Ragpicker's Dta-ugihter," a most 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, PaJ of Mine and "When the hills are white with heather," will be illustrated. The ever-popular Mr. Bert Williams will 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 husband will allow yon £400 a year. This communication Mrs. Ada Maria Smith, of Harrow, received in 1906 from a representa- tive of her hueboand, a surgeon-captain attached to the Indian Arufy. She replied that such a course as was suggested was "contrary to the teaching of her dear father," a.nd forbidden by her Church. She declined indSgrtan-tdy to enter into any bargain of the sort. She subsequently obtained an order for reetitration of conjugal rights. This was not complied with, and her husband was found to ha.ve been unfaithful. Yesterday ahe was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court.

"CRUEL AND DISCREDITED" 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 rnfluentially-signed memorial was presen/ted to the Duke of Bedford, president of the Zoological Society of London, on this subject, no answer has beem returned. It is* added that it is the right and the duty of the public to satisfy itself tha-t no cruel methods are employed.

A LEGATION MYSTERY A telegram from Bertne to the Paris "Eclair" states that oount Eoenar, one of the secretaries of the German Legation and a nephew of the Grand DUlke of Baden, was yeesterday 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.

REVOLUTION IN HAYTI P Paris, Saturday.—The "New York Herald" (Paris edition) publishes a tele,gram from Portiau-Prinoe stating that a revolutionary movement broke out on Thursday night in the southern part of Hayti, in the district of Aux Cayee. Matters are believed to be serious.

23 DOGS IN A HOUSE It was stated at Marylebone yesterday 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 80 many that those tha.t remained should not be a nuisance.

"THE WOMAN WHO GAMBLES" "The Woma-n Who Gambles," a play, aF it3 title implies, calculated to excite muoh interest, is the attraction at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, next week. The piece will be presented by Mr. Morton Powell's prin-1 cipal company.

FOREIGN MAILS. I I To be despatched from London to-morrow, Not. 22-1 OUTWARD.-Morning- To Iceland, via Leith. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23. Morning- To Egypt, by Italian packet. Evening- To Egypt, Seychelles, Mauritius, a-nd Madagascar, by French packet. INWARD.—Due To-morrow— From Australia and Ceylon, via Naples. Due Monday- "From United States, &c., via Plymouth.

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J CLARKE'S iiBLOOD imixTu?". This famous medicine will cleanse the blood from animpu- riies from whatever cause aris- ing. Asafe remedy for Eczema, Poison, Seres of ali kinds, Balls Bad Legs, Scrofula, Blood Eruptions, Ulms, Glandular SWO',?,p Of Sanwa%" FMty yeMt' NW-M& Bogart ot_.

BILLIARDS. I ———.—. 8.-CANNONS TO LEAVE AN tN-OFF- a (COPYRIGHT). .1 [By RISO LEVI ] I Dia,gTam 554 shows a position wherein the only stroke to play is 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 a,n in-off, provided that the cue ball takes the red ball haJf-ball-or fuller-on the side away from the top cushion. Dia.gra,in 554.-A. gentle thin ball-to-ball cannon to leave an in-off from the white. In the diagram the balls are eo situa-ted that a cannon on to the outside of the red or even full on to it" even though it o,nly slightly moved the white, oould only leave position for a forcing or screw in-off from the white, but by getting on to the inside of the red—that is, on to the' side away from the cushion—'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, cannon full on to the red, made by a stroke which only slightly moves the white, can only leave a thin in-off to continue with, the cannon must be played in such a way that the white is moved some little 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 can only leave a very thin in-off, is by playing the cannon very gently on to the outside of the red. so that the one ball, after reaching this ball, may travel towards the cushion. Diagram 555 shows a variation of the posi- tion illustrated n 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 cue ball is outside the obct white and the pocket instead of tfeing 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, will leave good position for an in-off I from the white. I Diagram 555.—A thin cannon taking the red on the inside to leave an i-n-off from the white. Should the position be such that a gentle stroke, which hardly moves the white, and which causes the cue ball to cannon full on to the red, will only leave position for a very wide in-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 less wide than it would otherwise have been, a.nd may even be a simple half-ball stroke. A slightly faster stroke which still ca-uses the cue ball to cannon full-oit to the l-e-d, but which moves the object wEite more than the gentle stroke does. Will aJao ofteai bring about the same result. Sometimes a combination of the two methods may be adva-n,tageowly employed. 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 fil-off from the white, the red must be taken on the inside, for by taking the red on the inside the cue ba.U will tra.vel towards the side cushion, and thaa wiU cause the 8Ubaequent 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 I ball-to-ball caiwion. A gentle stroke which causes the cue ball to oannon 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 or 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 though this ball may be taken much less tham half-baill. t Diagram 556.—A thin boll-W-ball cannon. Red on the spot; object white on tthe central line of the table and aibout 12 inches above the centre pockets. One ball 7 inches from the top oushiion and 284 inches from the side cushion. Position may be left for a centre-pocket in-off from the white. A thin contact will hardly move the white, and thus the cue ball wiH come to rest at a I point lower down the table—that is nearer to ba?lk—thao the white, often to le?ve quite an easy stroke for the centre pocket. Even should the m-off, which is left, require quit? a thin stroke, such a stroke will not I be a very difficult one, for, in the ftrst place, the oue ball wiH not be far from the white, and secondly, the in-off will be into a very open pocket. Mr. Leivi's articlesappear every Saturday in the "Evening Express." No. 1 of tihns series appeared on October 3.

I RUMMER HOTEL, DUKE-STREET, CARDIFF. I First-class Billiard Table. our Annual Professional Billiard Tournament commences Monday, Jan. 4, 1909. I Vaiu?b.e priMe. Entries close ?o?- 25.-F'uU ptrticu- I W?o from G. Matthews. Proprietor. 06929

CARDIFF EMPIRE I Mr. Fred Ginnett's company will appear in Diok 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 all assooiated 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 highwayman 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, however that may be. it is a certainty that the pathos of the incident cajoles the ready tea.r from the sympathetic eye juet as easily as does the death of "Little Willie" in "East Lynne." That is why 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. I Newport I Machnow, 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. By profes- sion he is a fanner, 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 vain. Another important engagement is that of I Hermann Melot, the well-known conititor, who has as is motto, Men were deceivers ever." Miss Rhoda Paul, a oleveir juvenile artiste, appears in a scene specially written and composed for her by Charles Wilmott and Hermann Darewski, jun., entitled, "The Gay Gordons." Victor Newman n, the inrpersoma/tar; Bi-Bo-BA. the charming Pavilion Girls, and E. J. Sheldon, complete this etroaw-JslL f