Evening Express

M.P.'S PRIVATE ZOO. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P. for Ayles- bury, who is 41 to-day, was dubbed the "oldest young man" m the House of Commons when he made his first appearance at West- minster. He was only about 30 at the time, whereas he contrived to make himself look like 60. He is a silent legislator, but at the outset of his Parliamentary career he created a sensation by appearing one hot afternoon in the Lobby in a tall hat com- posed entirely of white straw. It attracted so much attention that it was never seen again. He is a great lover of animals, and at Tring- Park he possesses the finest private "zoo" in the world. He has published some interesting works on zoological subjects. There is a story that his enthusiasm once went the length of despatching an expedition to the Arctic regions to catch some speci- mens of a rare flea only to be found in the vicinity of the North Pole.

THE TRUANT'S RETURN At Onigar, on Saturday, Alfred Goldthorpe, of Forest Gate, was committed for trial on a charge of breaking into the West Ham Truant School at Pyfield and stealing £ 43, the property of the superintendent. Gold- thorpe was formerly an inmate of the Traant School, which he left last year. On January 30 it was discovered that the superinten- dent's quarters had been broken into. Search was made, and Goldthorpe was found hiding in the grounds.

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The Man in the Street I A It has been unanimously agreed that the Welsh Pageant will be useful in the teaching—a practical teaching—of history. Anyhow, if anybody disagrees with the notion, the objector has not yet coane forward to support what might just now prove to be an unpopular view, for there can be no shadow of doubt that 1 the pageant is catching the public fancy in all directions. The forthcoming festival will inspire a new and greater interest in what has hitherto been regarded as a far from interesting school topic, and it can be made the beginning of a brighter and happier era. But, surely, if an occa- sional pageant can be exalted into so important an adjunct to the great state coach of education something can be said for the same principle on more mundane, everyday lines. About three or four years ago Monsieur Leo Clarebie was very heartily com- mended for the successful innovation in Paris of his novel and splendid idea in the teaching of history with the aid of dolls, dressed according to the fashions of the successive periods through which it was desired to take the interested students. I can fancy staid, old- fashioned paterfamilias growling out biting sarcasm about there being enough nonense in the schools already, and won- dering what on earth the country is coming to! Buft the critic may get a better impression if he will wait a minute. In the first place, the expendi- ture need not be on a lavish scale. The dolls, once purcliasedj may be regarded as school furniture, and,with ordinary care, made to last as long as, or longer than, reading books. The sewing class find the work of dressing the dolls both instruc- tive and interesting-far more so than the present plain and fancy sewing, which makes the school talic so deadly mono- tonous. The mistress would discover duty turned into a pleasure, and history lessons would be anticipated with a delight now wholly absent when the classes are called together to dive into the remote past. Where is the schoolboy or girl who cares a snap of the finger for the Plantagenets or the Stuarts when they are presented in the cold, uninteresting black and white of the dry-as-dust history books? But with groups of figures dressed in the picturesque Costumes of the period the interest of the entire class could be focuased upon the subject with an ease that would be as delightful as it is simple, and the natural curiosity of every child could be utilised to the giving out of very desir- able and useful knowledge. History without the embellishments of a Dumas or a Scott is heart-breaking enough to "grown-ups, and anything which can relieve the distress of youngsters now in the throes of the utterly useless and cruel cramming s-yst-em should be wel- comed by educationalists the world over. If history is worth anything at all it should be worth learning in a manner that will "stick." Driving knowledge into the heads of children like hammering nails into a post may be one way, but the better method is to get and maintain the interest of the youngstet-s-then the rest is plain sailing. Some short time ago I had occasion to refer to the regular invasion of smoking compartments by ladies when travelling on British railways. Whether or not this custom is due to the firm conviction existing in the breasts of our sisters that they are still the "weaker sex," and, therefore, have need to seek the protection always to be found among smokers, I did not then, and cannot now, investigate. But my attention has been drawn to a grievance borne by lady smokers "down below." It appears that the Government of Western Australia has decided that, in the interests and com- fort of male passengers, women, whether smokers or non-smokers, shall not be allowed to use compartments set apart for, and duly labelled, smoking." Indeed, any lady who refuses to leave such a compartment when requested to do so renders herself liable to a penalty not exceeding £ 10. Though one may have a little pity for the Australian lady smoker who is thus made an abstainer while travelling by law, there are not a few who regret, that matters are arranged so differently in the old country. The brilliant victory of Wales at Inver- leith on Saturday was the more credit- able because it was, undoubtedly, the greatest task that could be set any side. Again, it has to be said that brains count more than muscle even at footer. A "good big 'un" is always better than a good little 'un at the carrying code; but, apart from size and strength, the Welshmen showed themselves the cleverer lot. The critics are again saying that if the either side had the Welsh three- quarters they would have won, and so forth. Quite so. It was the same at the English match, and will piobably be repeated at the Irish game. it is another way of saying that the Welshmen have the brains. And it seems that, no matter how poorly off we may imagine ourselves for players, when men like Reggie Gibbs are unavailable and Gwyn Nicholls are on the retired list, there is always the probability of as good men appearing from the ranks of the recruits. Wales ought to have the triple crown once more.

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I Lost at Aberdare I I FOUND AT CARDIFF I Although only in his eleventh year, George Restorrick, eon of Mr. George Reetorricls, of No. 2, Farm Field, Briery Hill, Ebbw Vale, is an ardent follower of the Northern Union code. Few are the home matches he has missed this season, but when on Saturday his enthusiasm for the game led him to visit Aberdare, where the Ebbw Vale team were to play, he lost his bearings, and for a day and a half his whereabouts were unknown to his anxious relatives and friends. The youngster booked for Beaufort on leaving his home, and was seen at I Abernant Railway Station shortly after .twelve o'clock on Saturday. He reached I Aberdare in a break, the driver of which subsequently saw him in the company of a man and woman, who inquired as to the time of the departure the next train for Mountain Ash. From this stage nothing seems to be known of the whereabouts of the lad, who was not seen at the football match on the Ynys Field. The boy's father arrived at Aberdare early on Sunday morning, and called upon Inspector Xott, who, with his wonted readiness, put himself in communication with the outlying districts, and caused the youth's disappearance to be announced at the various p-lacee of worship. The secorld stage in the little drama was laid at Cardiff. About three o'clock Oil Saturday afternoon a lad, whose age was guessed to be about ten years, was found in one of the compartments of a Taff Vale Rail- way train at Queen-street Station. Up to Sunday night he had not been identified by the officials ur claimed by any relative; but inquiries then made at Aberdare and Ebbw Vale from the office of the Western Mail established the identity of the boy found at Cardiff with the boy lost a.t Aberdare. The lad is described as mentally deficient, though very sharp on some matters, and with a steady habit of placing himself in the hands of the police when he loses his bearings. Mr. Restorrick, the father, desires to state that it was through the press that he found his boy, for which he is very thankful. Mr. and Mrs. Restorriok were at the Car- diff Workhouse early this morning, and it \^as quite pathetic to witness their joy at having discovered little George's where- abouts. The boy also was delighted to see them, and showed evident signs of impati- ence to commence the journey home. Before leaving Cardiff, however, Mr. and Mrs. Restor- rick visited the "Western Mail" and Even- ing Express" office, with the object of tender- ing their Heartfelt thanks to the editor for haying interested himself in the matter, and caused inquiries to be made, which resulted in discovering the boy at the workhouse. The boy (said Mrs. Restcrrick) is somewhat partial to the company of grown ups, and refuses to have anything to do with children of his own years.

I GAMBLlNGAM-ONG WOMEN I Gambling has always been more universal among men than among women. Those women, however, who have come under the spell of that which an old writer calls "an enchanting witchery gotten between idleness and avarice" have usually gambled with greater persistency and rashness than men. Women fall more easily a prey to the feverish excitement whioh gambling induces, and thus lose much of that very womanli- ness which they themselves would uphold had not fashion decreed otherwise.—The "Ladies' Field."

I THE REPUBLIC'S CREW Captain Seal by, officers, and crew of the ill-fated White Star liner Republic, landed in Liverpool to-day, and were affectionately greeted by relatives and friends. Binns, the Marconi operator, was met by his sweet- heart, and to escape cameras and the large crowd he retreated to the passengefr shed. Replying to an interviewer, he said he only did his duty. n

HEAVY DRINK, HEAVY HEARTS "Heavy drink means heavy hearts, and I am inclined to attribute much of the greatly-to-be-weleomed light-hear tedness of the modern day to the fact that heavy drinking has completely gone out of fashion amongst all classes of the community," writes Raymond Bluthwayt in "Black and White."

FIRE AT A HOSPITAL A firo broke out in the dome of the Glas- gow Royal Infirtnary Last night. The fire brigade soon succeeded in getting the out- break under control, but, owing to large quantities of water descending from the dome iI-to the waird beneath, 40 patients were removed to another part of the building.

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FROM ALL QUARTERS Weighing lljlb., a trout 38in. long, was caught yesterday off Dover Pier The Bank of France has decided to issue new bank-notes. They will be blue, yellow, red, and green. Special carriages furnished with hot water pipes and mattresses are to be provided on the Prussian railways for dogs. A Yearns nip, believed to be the Astronom, a Hamburg vessel of 669 tons, is ashore about four miles north of Aldeburgh. At Christie's, on Saturday, 150 guineas was paid for a little French painting of a soene in Fontain-ebleau Forest, on panel, by N. Diaz. M. Takaako Kato, the new Japanese Ambassador to England, will leave Paris to- morrow morning, arriving in London in the evening. Out of a total of 2,805 motor-cabs in Lon- don 1,816 are owned by one firm, states "Motor Traction," while 53 persons own one cab each. The directors of the Union Castle Line are considering the advisability of installing Marconi's system of wireleas telegraphy on their mail boats Mrs. Carrie Nation stated yesterday at a meeting of the Surrey Chapel that she would be leaving London on February 12, perhaps, never to return. Sir Edward Eu^sell has accepted the treasurership of the Newspaper Preas Fund in 3ucee.i.-ion to Lord Burnham, who has become president. Starting thirteen years ago to oollect a million farthings for St. Paul's Church, Harringay Park, a lady has collected up to date 550,003. Although there are 56 licensed houses in the parish of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, not a single case of intoxication occurred last year among the 9,000 inhabitants. In view of the declining birth-rate throughout Iowa, a Bill has been brought in authorising the payment of 4s. to the mother of each child born in the State. While out shooting near Armagh on Sa.tur- day, Mr. Hamilton Henderson, aged 28, a brother of the Mayor of Kimberley, during the South African war, was accidentally shot dead. The battleship Edinburgh, which cost 1735,354 in 1837, and the battleship Rodney, which cost £ 769,523 in the following year, are to be sold out of the Navy as unfit for further service. Through her long curls becoming igniited as she was bending ovor the fire, a six-year- old girl named Kathleen Garter, of Thraps- ton, received injuries of which she died at Peterbo rough on Saturday. Mr. Chamberlain departed from London I for the SOIUitJl of France on Saturday, accompaniod by his wife. The right hon. gentleman is expected to make a prolonged stay in the South of France. '1.- The first cross-Channel balloon trip of the year has boen successfully accomplished by Messrs. P- Gardner and C. F. Pollock, who left B-ittp-rsea at 10 20 p.m. on Friday and descended at Crepy-en-Valois at 8.30 on Saturday morning- The death is announced at Bozen, Ger- many, of Herr Stoecker, a former Court Chaplain and well-known antii mitio agitator. He .i5;;ted London to deliver lee- tures in the a.nti-Semitic cause, buit was not well received"'—Renter. Experiments a,re now being carried out with a view to the use of wireless telegraphy for the benefit of North Ronaldshay, the most northerly of the Orkney Islands, to which an extension of the ordinary telegraph was asked for by the inhabitants. I Rear-admiral A. M. Farqmhar succeeded Rear-Admiral Inglefield in the command of the Forth Cruiser Squadron at Portsmouth this morning. He hoisted his flag on the cruiser Furious, and saluted the Victory, the flagship of the commander-in-chief. Rear-Admiral Ingllefleld hauls diown his flag on the Euryalus this evening.

MR TAFT AND PANAMA CANALI New York, Monday.-A cablegram from Panama states that Mr. Taft has sailed for New Orleans after expressing to the officials and engineers his satisfaction at the pro- gress made and the general organisation of the work. M. Gocthals, chief engineer of the Panama Canal, estimates that the total cost of the work will be 2,97,003,OOOdols., and that 111,000,000 cubic yards remain to be ex- cavated.

RADIUM AND PLANT LIFE I It has been discovered (says the "Univer- sity Correspondent") that radium rays act as a stimulus to the growth of plants. Up to l a certain point, exposure to the rays results in considerably inc.rea.se.d growth of germi- nating seeds, but if the strength or duration of the treatment is increased beyond this point there ensues a failing off, ending in complete stoppage of growth.

SALMON OVA FOR N.Z. At the annual meeting at Chester on Satur- day of the Dee Fishery Board, it was re- ported that the New Zealand Government were desirous of obtaining salmon ova for the rivers of tha.t country. The general pur- poses committee had offered to give them 50,000 ova of Dee salmon, the Government to hear the expense of removal, and this offer had been accepted.

PACKET LINER AGROUND I Fifty stewards of the Royal Mail steamer packet liner Trent, which is aground on Coral Reef, off Carthagena, Colombia, arrived a,board the company's steamers Tagus at Southampton to-day. The officers and crew remain on the Trent, which, it is hoped, will be re-floated.

LADIES' STOCKINGS The fact that he was wearing ladies' stock- in; led to the arrest of a labourei- charged with theft at Middlesex Sessions on Saturday. Such stockings happened to be amongst articles missing from a Wood Green house.

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, j Eating a nice meat pie; I[ A delicate course, improved by Roo's SaucS, -W II The best of all sauces to buy.

I Prince of Swindlers MAN WHO HAD FIFTY WIVES Harry J. Bauman, alias Herman Brandt, known as the Prince of Swindlers," was sentenced at Chicago on Saturday to five years' imprisonment for defrauding a num- ber of people. Ba,uman posed as a duke, who was related to European Royalty. He is a very fine- looking man, with a moat plausible air and distinguished manners. He imposed upon his victims with the greatest of ease, and it is said that he has swindled women in America out of at least £ 100.000. His particular line of crime was bigamy, and detectives declared in court (eays the 'Daily Chronicle") that he had at least 50 wives in Europe and America, each one of whom he had swindled out of money. He even defrauded the lawyers who were defend- ing him by giving them worthless cheques, and altogether he is a surprising rogue, whose retirement from the world for a while will be to its good.

A LINK WITH NAPOLEON Anne Josephine Rub-ay, who was the only living woman who could say that she had spoken to Napoleon at the battle of Ligny, died yesterday at Ligny at the age of 1C4 years. A week before her death she related the following story: — Before tho battle of Ligny Napoleon established his headquarters at my mother's inn. Napoleon's staff camped in the garden, where my father had buried his money. One rN?ht I went into the garden and wag I arrested. They brought me before the Emperor. "What are you doing here?" he asked, and I confessed my anxiety about my fruther's money. Napoleon said, "I am responsible for that. Call your father." My father came, and th,e Emperor- gave him some odders and asked him several questions about the surrounding- country. He also congratulated him on hi.3 daughter, and then turning to me bea id, "Here is my photograph, and he gave me a gold piece." The woman kept the gold pieca ever after- wards.

Bible-class & Burglary YOUTH GETS 2 YEARS' HARD LABOUR I William Booth, a good-looking youth of nineteen, of Harrow, wa.s tried at Middle- sex Sessions on Saturday on a charge of ¡ burglary. f There was a burglary at a shop in Low- land.s-roail, Harrow, and among other things taken were cigarettes. Detective Bagnall (X Division) met a friend, who gave him a cigarette; on it was an address which corre- spciiided with that at which there had been a burglary. The friend told the detective that prisoner gave him the cigarettes, and prisoner was arrested on suspicion. In his Possession was a five-chambered revolver, fully loaded, niue-teen cartridges, a red cloth mask, electric flash-lamp, combination tool I case containing a chisel, saw, gimlet, bradawl, screwdriver, and file. At his lodg- ings another revolver was found, loaded, a quantity of hall cartridges, and a rifle. Prisoner, before the magistrates, denied the burglaries, and said when be was alleged to have committed them he was asleep at a Fitzroy-equare clubhouse. This was said by the ohairma n to be an Anarchist club. Prisoner said he was a. member of the Harrow Boy Scouts, and had been asked to arrange a bushrangers' game," so he made I the masik for that purpose. He always carried a leaded revolver, and had a licence for one. He had been shot at, and ever since ha-d carried a loaded revolver. Evidence was givem that prisoner was a member of a Bible Class and a Sunday School teacher. A sentence of two years' hard labour at Borstal was passed, and Mr. Sharpe (the chairman) concurred with the grand jury in commending Detective Bagnall.

j W ARDER KILLED BY APRISONER I One of the warders in Moscow Government Gaol has been murdered by a prisoner, r.amed Siedacheff, lying under sentence of I death for his participation in an armed attack on a goods station on the Moscow Kazan Railway. Pri?pn&r attacked tha  warder with a brick, killing him.—Reuter. ¡

A Prophet ot Evil A WOMAN'S STRANGE VISIONS Mme. Juliette Bacon, a young FrenCh-I woman, predicted the Messina catastrophe in 1907, and her prediction was published in 1908, several weeks before the earthquake. Mme. Bacon now predicts a catastrophe in a Paris theatre. She is a pretty little woman, with fair hair and blue eyes. "I see visions," she said quite simply. "I was busy with my dinner one evening in December, 1907, when I saw spectral figures round my husband. First of all there was one, then a second, then a large crowd of them. The extraordinary part about the thing was that, although I had said nothing to my husband, he remarked quite suddenly, It is horrible; I feel as though there were A Lot of Skeletons in the room.' I saw the same vision every day for several days, and every time I could see the earth heaving and breaking. It was so terrible that I was afraid to go to bed at night, and I used to see it at home, in tha streets, in the restaurants, everywhere. I do not pretend to understand how these visions come to me at all," she said, "but I have always had them. When I was eight years old, in the country, I saw my god-father, and next day we heard that he had been killed near Paris while out shooting. When I was about fifteen I told my friends that my brother-in-law had died in Tonkin. We had a letter from him three days before, written in the best of spirits, but the news was true."

ROSES AT 1 s. EACH Never since introduction of the famous dark crimson Libei ty rose has (says the such a stir been caused amongst flower distributors a.s has resulted through the arriva.l of the Ulrich Brunner, a hybrid Remontant vigorous growing bush, with flowers of an exquisite cherry red. Retail florists find the demand for choico specimens of the forced Ulrich Brunner rose unique, and they have- little difficulty in obtaining as much as ls. apiece for them.

I I COMMONERS V. MARCHERS. CLEARING OFF" HUNGER MAUCHJ^RS." fEvaniiisr Kmress" Dhoto True to their threats, the Canton Com- moners to-day dismantled and razed to the ground the hunger marchers' settlement at Leckwith Common. Just before ten o'clock several men on horseback galloped over the encampment, which is now made out in lots for cultivation. They were accompanied by a large crowd of commoners and sympa- thisers and. several poliee-ofiicers, who were not, however, called upon to interfere. There were only five or six hunger marchers resting in the wooden s"cture- _—. which is used for ale,eiiin,an;d these were awakened by the falling boards of the struc- ture and the shouts of triumph of the com- moners. The caravan was pulled to pieces, and the material put on two trolleys and carned to the Canton Pound, where it was dumped. The commoners sat on top of the "furni- tu,re," shouting and cheering, and holding; aloft the boards with the hunger marchers' j instructions thereon, and waving red flags, a large crowd bringing up the rear. The prevailing sentiment was one of merriment and derision. The marchers were allowed to gather up their fuel, tin plate, sacks, &c., which they put on a truck and wheeled off the field. Subsequently Mr. Robert Williams, on behalf of the hunger marchers, had a long interview with Mr. Sydney Jenkins, solicitor, before whom he placed the facts, and ulti- mately instructed him to give advice upon the situation and institute such proceedings as he may deeit necessary From what May be gathered, it is possible that proceedings for arson may be instituted, the wooden structure, it is alleged, having- been set on fire and partly burned on Saturday night.

PRACTICAL JOKING I A singular and amusing ease came up at Dublin Police-court on Saturday, a clerk, named Thomas Summer, being oharged with handcuffing Richard M'Cormaok. The evi- dence showed that the prisoner and a friend vieited the Tivoli Music-hall on the previous evening, and there witnessed the perform- ance of a lady "manacle expert." They afterwards went to a hilliard-saloon, where, for a joke. Summer handcuffed the com- plainant. M'Oormack's shouts brought a policeman on the scene, and the too practi- cal joker was looked up for the night. The magistrate said he was satisfied that only a. joke was intended, and discharged the accused.

GIRLS IN ART SCHOOLS Too often a girl, entering a studio with the idea of ultimately earning her bread, dons a pinafore, parts her hair in the centre, surrounds herself with turpentine and easels, and after a oouple of years' training expects to paint a picture that will stir the heart of the British public to the core. Instead of accomplishing that feat she finds that she ha.s a dim idea of drawing, a still more obscure one of painting, and that she has not any genius, but only a medioc.re notion of the word Art.—"Woman's Life."

"A NUISANCE ABOUT TOWN." i James Gallagher, an elderly man, was at Newport to-day sent to prison for a month for being drunk and disorderly in Commer- oial-street on Saturday night. Police-con- stable Anning said he had a crowd of about 200 people round him, and was shouting that he would fight half-a-dozen Ohinamen. The police said he was a nuisance about the town, and it was one man's work to keep him out of public-houses.

'SOME OF I HE U!-EIVIPLOYABLE' At Aberavon to-day Joseph Driver and William Osborne, labourers, of no fixed aJTOfte, were charged with sleeping out on the boilers at Taibach Brickworks last night. Police-constable Poison proved the case. Dr. AmalIt Jones: Are you some of the un- employable? Osborne: Yes, sir. (Laughter.) Defendants said that they were looking for work. They were cautioned and discharged.

FELL OVER THE CLIFFS Albert Thomas, a rabbit-catcher, was walk- ing along the sea cliff at Rhoose, near Barry, this morning, when he accidentally fell over to the beach below, a depth of 30 to 40 feet. He was picked up and conveyed by Police-constable Spiller to the Barry Accident Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained a severe gash on the head and internal injuries. Thomas's condition is critical.

SAVED BY A SMACK The Ramsgate smack Avona entered the harbour this morning with the skipper and three members of the crew of the Ostend fishing vessel Anto,nenelie Louise, 190 tons, which eauik in the North Sea yesterday. The Belgia,n Consul has been communicated with.

ESPRIT DE CORPS i The Persian Government ir-tends to re- place Samad Khan Saltaney by another Minister to Pa<rifi, but the French Govern- menit has oeen advised that the new Minister refuses to etart for Paris until his prede- cessor s salary, which is four years in arrear, has been paid

YOUNG CARDIFF OFFICER Mr. J. H. Courtis, son of Mr. J. A. Oourtis, J.P., Deputy-Lord Mayor of Cardiff, has been gazetted as second lieutenant in the Oxford- shire and Cambridgeshire Light Infantry. Lieutenant Courtis has just completed his course of training at Sandhurst.

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YOUTHFUL INCORRIGIBLES Two lads named Thomas O'Brien (12) and Hector Jones (13), both of Aberavon, were charged at the local court to-day with doing wilful damage to the windows of the work- shop of Messrs. Galliver and Brady, situated on the Llewellyn Quay. The damage was estimated at jE2 10s. William Bowden deposed to seeing the lads throwing stones at the windows. They smashed thirteen large panes of glass in less than two minutes. Dr. Amalit Jones; The defen- dants would make very useful quick-firing guns. (Laughter.) Inspector Canton said that the two defendants were incorrigible. The lad O'Brien was birched only a fort- night ago. Hector Jones, who was possessed of a good voice, went about public-houses singing, and both were continually in mis- chief. BOrth defendants were ordered to be seut for four years to a reformatory or training ship.

THE SCOTCH OATH Several witnesses at Llandaff Police-court to-day appeared to have some difficulty in finding a clean page in the Bible with which to take the oath. Dr. Taylor, the presiding magistrate, remarked, "You all seem to want a clean page in the Bible. Why don't you take the oath in the Scotch fashion?" Imme- diately afterwards the doctor's advice was taken by police-constable Thomas, who took the oath in the Scoltch fashion by administering it himself, a system which Judge Owen has intimated he thought was illegal.

£10 WINDOW SMASHED "All I have got to say is, I was drunk," pleaded William Baldwin, who was charged a,t Merthyr to-day with smashing with his boot a plate-glass window of the shop of Mr. J. H. Evans, outfitter, Dowlais, doing damage to the extent of £10. The constable who arrested the man, however, informed the bench that the defendant was quite sober at the time. Baldwin was sent for trial.

OUT-OF-WORK'S THEFT "I was out of work," was the only excuse which John Murphy was able to make when charged at Merthyr to-day with stealing from the Old Taff Vale Brewery two fowls, the property of Mr. Edward Sweet. He was told that the fact of his being out of work was no justifica,tioll for the th-aft, and he was sent to prison for a month.

SEQUEL TO A DIVORCE The Archbishop of Canterbury has given his decision in the case in which the Rev. J. C Hendell, vicar of Charing, Kent, refused Communion to am Army officer and his wife on the ground that the latter had divorced a previous husband. His Grace has decided against the vicar, and directed him to admit the officer and his wife to Com- munion.

KNOCKED DOWN BY A CRANE A man named James Fearnlcy, aged 24, and living at 60, Hewell-street, Grange/town, Cardiff, and employed by the Cardiff Railway Company, was admitted into the Cardiff Infirmary to-day suffering from internal injuries, sustained by being- knocked down by a crane.

ANOTHER COLD SNAP Severe weather is again being experienced in South Lincolnshire, and this morning, with ten degrees of frost, all still waters are coated with ice. Enthusiasts are hopeful of further skating-"

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS "Argument" (Newport).—(1) Yes. (2) No.

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I COUPLE MADE IT UP I Mary Davies, Cwmavon, summoned her husband, Henry Davies, at Aberavon to-day, for wilfully neglecting herself and two chil- dren. Alderman Thomas Thomas, for defen- dant, said there was no suggeistion of cruelty. Complainant had left the home over a little quarrel. lhere was plenty of food in the house. He thought if the case was adjourned for a mon,th the parties would come to an amicable arrangement. Com- plainant said that her husband struck her and continually neglected her by going to his relatives. Alderman Thomas: That's just what we oomplain against. Defendant: She spends all her time with her people, and neglects the home. The complainant has a weakness for insuring everyone but herself, and I have here seven insurance policies, which is the way she spends her money. The Cha-irman (Dr. Arnalit Jones) advised the parties to talk the matter over, and swbsequently Alderman Thomas inti- mated that the parties had come to an arrangement, and he asked that the sum- mons be withdrawn. This was agreed to.

SIGNED 1 HE PLEDGE I IXorah Ellen M'Carthy, at Newport to-day, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Commer- cial-street, and, in answer to the magis- trates' observation that she had made many appearances, she said she had been to Father Hickey that day arud signed the pledge. The Clerk: Have you a copy of it to show the court? "-No, we have to go on our knees to Father Hickey. It is no use my taking anyone with me from the house where I live. They are all Protes- tants, and they only make a mockery of Catholics." T'he Bench adjourned the case for a month to see how tho woman behaved, and to obtain evidence with regard to her statement.

I FOUNTAINS FOR PARKS The first announcement made by the town- clerk at the Cardiff City Council meeting thik morning was the generous offer of Mr. Isaac Samuel, on behalf of his brother and I himself, to present two more drinking foun- tains to the city, to be placed in the parks. Both fountains were intended as memorials to alate brother and sister. On the motion of the Lord Mayor, seconded by Alderma.n W. J. Trounce, the offer was accepted with thanks, Mr. J. Gliappell (chairman of the parks committee) adding that he was sure his committee highly appreciated Messrs. Samuel's splendid gifts, and would allocate the best sites at their disposal for the two founltains now offered.

I ASSAULT ON THE POLICE At Neath to-day James Price, Water-street, Neath, was charged with assaulting Police- srgeant Ben Davies on Saturday night. The sergeant said he tried to prevent Price from beating another man, when he turned on witness, and kicked him savagely. With the assistance of Police-constable Watkin Jones, defendant, who was very violent, was taken to the police-station. Find 30s. and costs.

I CENTURY OF BABIES Mrs. Aim Fletcher, widow, who has died at the village of Langton, neaT Spileby, was known among the villagers as The Century of Babies." This soubriquet was given her I; because she had carried 108 babies to be I baptised. Not one of the infants was her own, for she died childless.

I PRISONER DISAPPEARS While a prisoner was being conveyed from Southampton to Dublin he disappeared over- board when near Kish Lighthouse, on the Irish coast, this morning, and no trace of him has been found, It is feared he was drowned.

I CARDIFF WIDOW'S DEATH Catherine King, aged 52, widow, of 7, Burt- streot, Cardiff, died suddenly on Sunday. I She had complained of feeling unwell.

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Pathetic Love Tragedy BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL'S LEAP Esther Osment (26), who had been in service near Bournemouth, committed suicide by leaping from a second-class compartment of the up mail train between Wareham and Ham worthy Junction. She received terrible injuries. She left in the compartment a. locket containing the photograph of a man who, it transpired at the inquest on Satur- day night, had married tlo deceased's sister after having kept company with the deceased, since when the deceased had been broken-hearted. She remarked to the booking-clerk on entering the train: "itlen were ever -deceivers." On her hat (which, with her gloves, muff, and sto'le, she had also left on the seat in the train) was found on its arrival at Wimhorne a very patheti- cally worded letter, in which she gave direc- tions as to the disposal of various articles. Verdict: "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."

COLD AND RMLUMATISM For various reasons rheumatism seema to be aggravated by cold, damp, chilly atmos- phere. The real fact is that cold produces contraction, and the effect is noticed, as a. rule, where muscular tissue is light and cir- cula,tion restricted by contractions or carti- laginous bands. In mc-ny cases, however, the pa-ins seem to be mostly in the large muscles; when this occurs it is solely on account of poor circulation. Take more exercise. Take a good dose oi physic. Take three to five grain doses of salicylic acid every two hours during the day. This dissolves the uric rcid a.nd facilitates elimination. Don't take aný more medicine than is absolutely necessary. Keep up the hot bath a.nd massage.—"Famiiy Doctor."

MODEL SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS "Gallant little Wales" has hitherto been noted for several thing's, but mere pa.rticu- larly for her chap-els and Sunday schools. According to the "London Welshman," the Tabernacle Welsh Calviui-tto Methodist ObUTCh at Aberystwyth can boast of a class in her Sunday School which possesses a unique record. Its teacher, we are informed, is the clerk to the Cardiganshire County Council, and among its members are included two Oxford University men, two from Cam- bridge, one Manchester College man, and an alumnus cf Cardiff College. One is an M.A., a second i- a B.A., a third an M.D., a fourth a B.Sc., and a fifth a F.R.C.O. Small wonder that our contemporary thinks that "few Sunday School classes can rival this striking record."

JUBILEE OF A FAMOUS HYMN I On Sunday the well-known hymn, There's a Friend for little children" was sung in numerous churches and Sunday schools throughout the country, it being exactly 50 years ago since it was written. This jubilee celebration was made at the request of the Sunday School Union, which has published a souvenir edition of the hymn. Mr. Albert Midlane, the author of the hymn, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1825. and fol- lowed the trade of an ironmonger. The hymn was originally published in 1859 in a monthly magazine called Good News tor the Little Ones.

AFTER 3,000 YEARS I Skates have baen discovered near SpaiMtea, in Germany, which those competent to express an opinion attribute to a. period 01 3,0C0 years ago. These skates were made from bones of horses, figured and perforated to attach to the sandal. Similar skates have been found a;t Moorfields, in Finsbury, and like discoveries have been made in Berlin in the bed of the Spree. These, and similar dis- coveries, we learn, enable the authorities to conclude that the European ice area in pre- historic times extended from Great Britain to Finland and from Norway to Hungary. n —

LAPPS AND STIMULANTS I The Lapps are very fond of stimulating Ldrinks; they think nothing o-f drinking fifteen or twenty cups of coffee a day, while their consumption of punch is on a vast scale. It is no uncommon thing (saya the "Wide World Magazine") to see numbers of helplessly- drunk na,ti-ves in the streets of Tromso, esp&- cially when the sale of reindeer flesh has been profitable. Yet robbery, and, indeed, crime in general, are practically unknown among them; the innate honesty of the I people is quite extra-ordinary. J

A LILLIPUTIAN SOLDIER 1 TTa4 s.11"t<flDW; ,R",1I1:h" ft,a..ila from Saint-Gilles aVaes), and rejoices in the nan-,O i of Charles Ysewyn. His height is 1.16 metres, or about 4ft. 7in. This Lilliputian warrior holds the record by ten centimetres, his rival "in tabloid form," as a contemporary would say, being a Walloon soldier. What would the father of Frederick the Great have done with these two mites had they been Prus- sians? The old King's craze was for an army of giants, and he paid about 11,100 for a Brobdingnagian Irishman.

I' CLAIMANT 10 2430,000 1 A printed petition to the King, dated January 6, 1908, referring to property said to be worth £ 430,000, was found on James M'Oave (65), who died in Marylebone Liifirmary from shock following fracture of the arm. Ann Hennessey, keeper of a common lodging-house in Edgvvare-road, said deceased on January 21 had a fall in the kitchen, and a doctor who was called in ordered his removal to the infirmary. He was wont to drink heavily. Open verdict returned.

CONSTABLE AND "CURiOS "Curios," was the reply received by an alert City constable who stopped a man in Barbican at daybreak on Saturday, and asked him wiiat were the contents cf a. parcel under his arm. When the constable expressed a v.ish to see the" curios" the man confessed that the parcel contained a >?ilvf"r-framed mirror which he had taken from 72, Begent-streeft. He added that he was hungry, and had had nothing to eat for two days. The magistrate at Marl- borough-street committed him for triail.

ALL DUE TO LAZINESS" Percy Turland, 22, an auxiliary postman at East Molesey, was committed for trial at Kingston on Saturday on a charge of detain- in and opening postal packets entrusted to him for delivery. A quantity of postcards, circulars, letters, a parcel, and several of the letters opened, were f?und at his lodgings. Asked why ho had not delivered them, he replied. It was all due to laziness." He said that he opened the letters "out of curiosity."

DEATH FHOM PARAFFIN LAMP The explosion of a paraffin lamp caused the death in Nottingham yesterday of Annie Taupton, acred 46, a Single woman occupying furnish,ed apartments in Coldham-street. A neighbour was attracted to ihe house by the smell of burning, and, bursting open the door, found the woma.n in flames at the foot of the stairs. The lamp which she was carrying had apparently exp1811eli, and she susta.ined frightful injuries, from whioh death ensued shortly after.

MILE END GUARDIANS FREE J. E. Iioftus, A. W. Ridpath, J. F. Stam- mers, Walter Trott, and Samuel Gilder, five of the ex-members of the Mile Eind Board of Guardians who were sentenced at the Old BaHey in August last for offences, under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, were released from Wormwood Sorubbs Prison on Saturday morning, having served a term of nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour, less the customary commission for good behaviour.

BRITTLE MARGARINE For selling adulterated butter, a Seve11 King's man, named, Hazel, was fined 40s. at Stratford on Saturday. He explained that in certain weather margarine was very brittle- When a package was being made up small I pieces might" fly off." Very careless, observed the magistrate, to leave margarine so near the butter. I know butter is slippery- Have a partition."

UNABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH Described as a chemist and druggist, Simon Waldo, of Commercial-road, who was suin* moned at Thames Court on Saturday inti' mated that he could not speak English. The Magistrate: What, a chemist in East London who does not speak English! Prosecuting Solicitor: Rather dangerous, I should say-

THREEPENNY BETS It was stated during the prosecution of street bookmaker at Westminster on Sat«r" day that sixpenny and threepenny bet* were extensively represented in the h slips found on him. A fine of £1;j imposed, and the slips were impounded.

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IN THE POLiCE-COURTS "I came over here to look for work," said Thomas Reader (seventeen), a young Belfast labourer, when charged at Cardiff Police- court to-day with begging. He was cautioned. George Merrick (22), a Bristol stoker, was at Cardiff to-day fined 5s. and costs for tra- velling on the Great Western Railway between Roath and Cardiff without a ticket. At Merthyr Police-court to-day Samuel Williams was committed for triad at the next assizes on a charge of assaulting a woman, named Sarah Birmingham. To-day at Merthyr Edward Reed was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday niglit in Graham-streeft. The Bench imposed a fine of lOt;, and costs, or fourteen days. A middle-aged man. named William John Morgan, from Llandaff, was at Newport to-day fined 21s., with the alternative of a month's imprisonment, for being drunk and disorderly in Shaftesbury-street on Saturday night. "You had better go back to Tylorstown and not disturb the peace down here," said Mr. J. B. Ferrier at Cardiff Polioe-court to-day to Evan Edwards (30), who was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Agate-street. He was cautioned.

U.S. AND ANTI-JAPANESE BILLSf Washington, Monday. Mr. Roosevelt denounces in severe terms the attitude adopted by Mr. Perkins, United States Senator for California, with regard to the Bills directed against the Japanese which the Western States are endeavouring to pass. The President characterises Mr. Perkins's anti-Japanese attitude as a wanton insult to that nation, and other phrases which he uses show how strongly Mr. Roosevelt is affected by the present incident. The Californian Legislature, howeveT, refuses to be rn(wed by the President's telgrams and messages, and I insists before throwing out the Bills that clear proof shall be placed before it that international oomplica-tions are likely to ensue. I

HANGED IN MISSION HALL I Dear Wife,—I czranot face you in this terrible agony.—Yours lovingly, Jack. The a.boveH*as the final message to his wife from John James Terry, a young master painter, wlho committed suicide by haaging himself in the Queenstown Mission Room, Blackpool. Terry and his wife were care- takers of the mission room, and on Friday, la,ce, kih-e fosun-d her when she visited the place, she found her husband hanging by a. rope from one of the rafters. At the inquest on Saturday night Mrs. Terry stated that for some time past her husband had complained of paans in the head and loss of memory. The jury returned a Yerdiot of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."