Evening Express

MAN HUNT IN A TUNNEL An exciting hunt after a suspected burglar took place at Southampton on Sunday n.ight. The tenants of a house named Fernlea, in the Polygon district, had beena,woay for some time, and on Sunday night the people in the next house beard a. noise, which they proceeded to investigate. Mrs. Curtis, the nextrdoor neighbour, saw a mltln, and fol- lowed him until her husband appeared. The two men struggled, but eventually the suspected burglar beat Mr. Curtis off with a. blunt, heavy instrument, injuring his head. The ma.n made off towardii Southamp- ton West Station, and a h1.1eand cry was raised. It was thought be had entered a twine 1 near the station, and this and some railway trucks were carefully searched by the police with lanterns, but no trace of the man could be found. Large crowds of people gathered in the vicinity and at both ends of the UmneL

BURIED FOR CENTURIES I I Workmen employed bar the Irfeb Pea.t Development Company at Derrylam, near Portadown, have dug up from a bog a rtanlet of butter which must have been hurried for centuries. The batter, which is in a, fair state of preservation, is enclosed in a firkin hollowed out of a. tree stump and covered by a lid on which is neatly worked a handle carved out of the same piece of wood. A Uufge sum of money bag already been offered for the find.

DESTROYER REFLOATED The destroyer Sairacen was refloated to-day with the aid of a tuig, amd was ageasted into gheeroeae Harbour prior to docking for the I examination of her bottom.

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I Romance of The Harem I CURIOUS AFFAiK IN RUSSIA A goodly spice of piquant romiance flavours a brief police report just received from Dvinsk, a. city siituated between St. Peters- burg and the German frontier. A fair-faced lady, with soft, graceful movements, delicate robes of Oriental hues, and the somewhat familiar name of Goldstein, ao-rived there some time ago, and put up at the principal hotel. The undefined touch of Eastern spl-endour that characterised her aroused attention, whicih, sip reading from the public to the police, degenerated into vulgar suspicion. It was noted as strange that the fair visitor, coming from the Argentine, had yet dropped hints of historic deeds done in Stamboul a twelvetmo,n,t,h ago. One day the prying police paid a domi- ciliary visit to the heroine of two hemis- P,,h,ereg. and discovered sundry receipts for large sums deposited in foreign banks, heaps of rich jewels, gems, and gold coins, their sparkle hidden by the heavy stuff of a. girdle in which they were sewn up. The authorities allowed the interesting lady to retain her apartment, but set a guard over it and her. The lady's father, however, who eeeine to have been accompanying her, they took into custody. A voluminous correspondence in several languages, which the authorities confiscated, is being deciphered with interest. It is rumoured that those letters indicate thiftt the lady was a diist-ing-uished exotic inmate of Ybdul Hamid's harem, and that amid the turmoil of the final act in that Sovereign's public career she esc.afped to the Argentine f'} hurriedly that she had no time to lay aside these valuable mementoes of the Caliph of Mam, which the authorities believe ought, perhaps, to be restored.

BISHOP OF LINCOLN DEAD The Bishop of Lincoln, the Right Rev. Edward King, who passed away peacetfully t-his morning, was the oldest member of the episcopal bench, having been born in 1829. He bad been Bishop of Lincoln since 1885. For ten years he was principal of Cuddesdon College. During his tenure of the bishopric Ritualistic practices at Lincoln caused his lordship to be tried before the Archbishop of Oanterbury for non-con.formity to the rubrics. The charges were dismissed except two, in which unjustifiable practices were ordered to be discontinued. The Bisihop of Lincoln, had been uncon- scious since Sunday, and suffered no pain. The sad news was announced to the citizens of Lincoln by the tolling of "Big Tom" in the cathedral tower, and the announcement was also made at the morning service. The funeral will probably take place at Lincoln Cathedral on Friday afternoon.

ICARRIAGE FOR LORD MAYOR The proposed Lord Mayor's carriage was the centre of an amusing discussion at the Cardiff Property and Markets Committee to- day, when Mr. W. C. Chick, Westgatestreet, wrote: "I notice by the evening paper that you intend purchasing a carriage for the LoIrd Mayor of the city. I b;g to say that I have several very good, that I will be pleased to show or sell you. I would also be pleased to let you have my very befit landau painted any colour you like, with the Cardiff coat-of- arms on the same, the carriage to be stored a.nd kept entirely for the use of the Lord Mayor, for a retaining fee of L5 per annum. I would be pleased to supply you with- a pair of horses, harness, d-rirer, and footman (when required) at the following prices, viz., 15s., 21s., 3Gs., or 42s., according to arrangement, or the t.ime engaged. I would be plea.sed to quote you for supplying a pair of good hor?es, with best halrnoo and a reliable driver (I taking all risks), per year if retaiured." The Chairman (Mr. A. C Kirk) said they might thank Mil". Chick for his letter, but it was decided at their previous meeting not to further consider the matter, having agreed that it was more a matter for the Lord Mayor. Mr. Morgan Thomas: It is not a question for the Lord M.a.yor. It is not in other town". Mr. W Jones: It should come out. of h.is £ 1,000. The Chairman: The committee Was dead against it at the laet mteting. Mr. Alfred Good: You can mipe the ques- tion again in a hundred years' time if yon are alive. (Laughter.) Mr. Morgan Thomas: Ask one of the mer- chant princes to present us with one. (Mo-C laughter.) Witih this the ma-tter dropped.

ALLEGED SERIOUS OUTRAGE I At Croydon to-day James Sampson, Joseph I Francis, and James Christ.ie were remanded on a charge of housebreaking a,nd attempted murder at South Norwood. Mr. William Taunton, an elderly man, left his house un- occupied at ten o'clock yesterday morning, and, returning about four o'clock, was attacked by two men, knocked down, and left senseless, the men making away with a watch, rings, and ot,her property. He recovered eventually and communicated with the police, who, after scouring the district all night, arrested the three men charged, on whom stolen property was found The Police Inspector stated when he went to Taunton's house he found the room smeared with bloodstains, and in a front room was a dead terrier. The animal's head was smashed in, and a broken gun was lying near by. When he arrested Francis at Thornton Health a revolver was found hidden in the coal hole of the house, with a number of cartridges.

"STREET LAWYER" LOCKED UP I William Bromwe'll (35) and Frederick Wilt- shire <34) were b&fore the Cardiff magistrates to-day on a charge of using obscene language and a.sea,ulting Police constable Joseph Sparks. The police-constable said that the prisoners, with another man, stood near the monument in St. Miairy-street. When asked to move Bromwell used bad language, and challenged him to fight, afterwards striking 'him to the ground with a blow on the head. Brain well had to be taken to the station Oil a cart. Inspector Bingham said Bromwell ca.me to Cardiff with tilie hunger marcihers, a;nd at that time severely assaulted a police- main. He was "a street lawyer." (Laughter.) Wiltshire had been up eleven times, five being for police assaults. Mr. Leister Jones (chair- man) gave each six weeks' hard labour, and complimented the civilians who assisted the constable.

DEATH UNDER AN/ESTHETIC In the case of Beatrice Bessie Hawker, aged fourteen, of 41, Newall-street, Abertillery, who died while undergoing an operation at Aber- tillery, the jury on Monday returned a ver- dict of Death by misadventure while under- going a surgical operation." Dr. T. D. Sullivan said that during the operation on deceased, who had suffered from tubercular disease of the glands of the neck, his assistant called his attention to the collapse of deceased, owing to the failure of her heart, which was caused by the anaes- thetic. The operation was suspended, but all efforts to restore the girl failed. The father said that he was siltisfied that all had been done that could be done.

BRIDGET'S RECORD Bridget Collins (38) made her 120tb. appear- ance at Cardiff Police-court to-day on a charge of using bad language in Bute-terraoe and aesaulting Police-constable Victor Chappie, who had a rough time in making the arrest. Inspeotor Bingham said the woman had just come out of prison after doing two months. In short terms she had served five years and four months since 1893, the charges including eleven police assaults and nine shebeen summonses. Mr. Lester Jones (chairman) committed her with bard labour to the seagions for sentence as an incorrigible.

INCOME-TAX APPEAL To-day in the King's Bench Just-ice Bray gave judgment in the appeal of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Glamorgan against being assessed for income-tax in respect of interest derived from the licensing compensa- tion fund held by the justices as the oom- pensation authority. His lordship held that all the technical points raised by counsel for the quarter sessions failed, that the appeal was quite devoid of merits, and he gave judgment, dismissing the appeal, with caste. ■

PREACHER ON PREACHERS In his presidential address at the fifteenth annual council of the Evangelical Free Churches the Rev. J. H. Jowett, of Birming- ham, who took for his subject "Ministry of the Word," urged that ministers must preach more upon great things of the Scripture. They mmat grapple with big things, avoiding fierce soneation-alism--a peril already at their gates-in some quarters a mend also steering clear of cold officialism and diotatoriaJiam.

NEWPORT RATES Newport Town Council to-day Weed to a borough rate of 3s. in the £ (2d. less than last year) and a general district rate of 3s. 6d. in the £ (the .;ame as last year).

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Foundling's Fortune YOUNC CARPENTER BECOMES A COUNT I A romantic story has been revealed by the death of Count de M-, in the Ardeohe, Prance, in consequence of which a. working carpenter has suddenly found himself the possessor of the title of count wilth a. hand- some fortune. Twenty yeans ago too poor-law admin ietra- tion entrusted one of its new foundlings to the wife of a postman in the Ardeche. The baby grew up beloved by bit; foster-parents and playmates. The postman, in the coarse of years, changed his re-sidence from one village to another in the department, until he finally settled down. At the age o4 fifteen the boy was apprenticed to a carpenter, and stayed on as a workman. A short time ago the young carpenter received a visit from a gentleman about 30 yeans of age, who informed him that he wlas his half-brother, and promised to take him to see his mother. The gentlema.n kept his word, and a few days ago the young carpenter was invited to go to a station in the south of the department. There his ha-IfbrotA-ier, who was waiting, took him to a chateau in the neighbourhood, where his mother was waiting. His father, the Count de M-. died two months ago, leaving him the heir to a- hand- some fortune. It is added that tlhe count and the young man's mother were not married until within two years of the father's death, and that was the reason of hie parentage being kept secret. The young count presented himself yester- day before the Imperial authorities to per- form his service.

DIVORCE COURT MUDDLE I Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane made a. strong protest yesterday against the slipshod methods of the Government when, while try- ing an Admiralty suit, he was a6ked to hear an urgent application in connection with a, divorce action. The application was to have been heard by Sir John Bigham, the retiring President of the Divorce and Admiralty division, whose promotion to the peerage was announced yesterday; but the President did not sit, merely holding on unofficial recep- tion of legal friends in his private room. Meanwhile, it was stated, a person whom it was sought to attach was about to leave for America. As he had no time yesterday, Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane was therefore asked if he would take the case to-day. IIt is absolutely impossible," he replied. I have already fixed a case for to-morrow. There are a lot of witnesses from Germany in the case I am trying. As far as I can see, the fault is not with anyone connected with the court, but with the gentleman who makes appointments with- out giving notice that the appointments are made. There are a number of undefendoo cases in the list. I do not know what is going to happen. It is a very serious thing, and many of these poor people will have to Bend their witnesses home again."

ONE FALSE STEP I A respectable-looking man complained to Mr. W. B. Luke, the Willesden magistrate. yesterday of the conduct of a polioe officer. Five years ago, he said, he was convicted of theft. Afterwards he determined to lead an honest life, and up till recently was in a good situation and comfortable lodgings. A short time ago he met the constable who wá, instrumental in securing his conviction, and he immediately informed his employer and landlady of his past error, with the resul that he had to leave both situation, and lodgings. The Magistrate said he did not know what he could do. A mWi who had not borne a good character could hardly expect the same rights and privileges as a man who had. Applicant: Then am I to be punished all my life for this one offence? The Magi- strate: You might write to Scotland Yard, but I can do nothing.

CURIOUS ACCIDENT I A correspondent writes to the Field" describing a curious incident in connection with the traeport of pheasants. "One of my keepers, he states, put twelve cock pheasants in a poultry craite to take them in a donkey o&rt from one pheasantry to another, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, the time occupied being about a quarter of an hour. On arrival nine of the twelve were found to have tied themselves together, eight by the tails and one by the head, the latter being suffocated. They were p.o tight-ly tied up and in such a bad tanigie that it was necessary to cut off their tails to free them. I have never heard of such un occurrence before, and cannot imagine how it happened. There was room in the crate for several more birds, twenty in all, at least."

PROGRESS OF CREMATION I During 1909 the movement in favour of the disposal of the dead by cremation has con- tinued (says the British Medical Journal ") to iriake slow but steady progress. The number of cremations carried out in Great Britain was 855, an advance of 60 as com- pa.red with 1908 The grand total since the opening of the Woking Crematorium in 1885 to the end of 1909 wae 8.121. The Cremation Society of England has been very active in its propagand,a, work, and quite recently a cremation society has been formed at Edin- burgh. The ultimate object of the pro- moters is to have a crematorium erected hi the city, but in the meantime the purpose of the society is to popularise and interest the public in the movement.

I GAVE HIM A NOTICE." Here is a new Mark Twain story: "As nasty a dig as I ever administered in my newspaper career in Virginia City," said Mark, "was directed ag-arinst a man, named Fergu,son. At Ohristm-as time Ferguson invited me to see the presents he had given his wife. The man expected, of course, a write-up. Well, he wasn't disappointed. The next day, in a prominent place on the first page of the 'Enterprise,' I inserted this para- graph 'John H. Ferguson's Christmas gifts to his wife are much admired. They include a diamond stomacher and many other beau- tiful specimens of out glass

t AVIATOR'S SUCCESS HALIFAX Tuesday. Messrs. J. D. M'Curdy and F. W. Baldwin, the well-known Canadian aviators, made a series of very successful flights oti the Baddeck Ground, Cape Breton Island, jester- day morning. Using the machine styled by them an aerodrome they went up together several times, and afterwards Mr. M'Curdy alone flew for half-an-hour, expressing his beloef when he descended that he could have continued indefinitely. The Governor-Geflenal has telegraphed his congratulations, and the Militia department has decided to send officers to watoh further trial&Contava News.

I LORD CURZON AND STUDENTS Representatives of, the Glasgow University students have received a communication from Lord Curzon, Lord Rector, stating he received the courteous intimation of the plebeieoite result, which he hopes he does not err in regarding as renewed asutwrance of confidence on the part of the great majority of the students. His lordship expresses regret to the Students' Council for all the trouble to which they have been put through the poetponement of his rectorial address.

I FATE OF FAMOUS INN I If "the decision of the St. Asaph magistrates is confirmed, a. famous tourist in.n in WaJes will be closed. Tbe bouse is known by the sign of "The Croea Foxes," CIaocood, Bodel- wyddan, but it is more famous to tourists as "Stanley's Old Bome," from the fact that the mother of the famous explorer, Sir H. M. Stanley, lived there and that he visited the place. By a majority the Bench. decided to refer the licence for compensation.

SPRING EARLY, BUT WELCOME For the third day in miocewiion the tem- perature over the greater part of England rose to 55 or 56 degrees yesterday, lilac is in leaf in many parts of the South of England, and the fruit buds are near to blossoming. Generally the season is from a fortnight to three weeks in advance of last year.

I 124,000 FRIAR HEROES I Excavations at Hartlepool have discovered thirty-seven skeletons and traces of an old priory known to have existed in 1240 and demolished in 1547. The skeletons, it is believed, Mè tbo" of friars, 124,000 of whom axe said to have perished hn Britain ht nUN- ing victims of the black death." Ã

BINGVILLE SOCIETY ITEM I Mrs. Gad Simalley is making God some ging- ha.m shirts. Gid is terribly hard on shirts. When he tries to put one on and it don't go on quick enough, he gets mad and tears it all to thunder. We would hate to have as quick a temper and as nasty a disposition aa Gid has.-bingville Bugle," U.S.A.

I The REAL KEMEDY for COUGHS or COLM is I HAYtM?'S BALSAM. It CUBM t?m. CU& doe 1/. and 2/6d.. of all ChemUta M4 store& elt15..

Plans of Evan Roberts SHORTLY RETURNING TO SOUTH WALES Mr. Evan Roberts Is about to emerge from I bis retirement. He leaves Leicester in the course of a. week or two to re-join his friends in South Wales and hopes shortly to re- commence religious work. For the present he is inaccessible to callers, a.nd the many letters he receives from well-meeiling, but inquisitive, people go unanswered. Mr. Roberts is staying at the residence of a, well-known Leicester lady lecturer in Toller-road, Stoneyga.t.e--the suburb in which Leicester's eeif-made men have their parti- cularly modern villas. Much of his time he spends in reading theological works. It was in one of the humblest of Oadby's cottages that I had my first impression of him (writes a. special correspondent of the "Evening News"). He sat talking to a frail young man far gone in consumption. The one wish of this young fellow-Her- bert Matthews by name—had been to see Evan Roberts, the collier preacher, who so ioften passed near his home. With instinc- tive sympathy, Mr. Roberts hastened to gratify this desire within a, few hours of the case being brought to his knowledge. A Stuay in Contrasts I ine simply-furnished kitchen of the little two-storey dwelling furnished a dramatic study in contrasts. Like Mr. Roberts, young Matthews has been a miner and a preacher. Mr. Roberts sat on one side of the fireplace, his arms resting on his walking-stick, and his face craning forward eagerly listening while the frail invalid, propped up in the chair on the other side of the hearth, told how one day he had been converted at a revival meeting, and how he had begun preaching at Whitwell, n the Derbyshire coalfield. They talked heedless of my presence. His face alight with the excitement of the visit, Matthwe told of his struggles, how he had worked thirteen hours a day as a shoemaker in Leicester, and then bad gone to the col- lieries. He related, unaffectedly, the difficulties he had had in breaking with old companions, and how he had saved and scraped to buy books so that he could study. I spent five weeks preparing my first sermon, and when I got into the pulpit to preach it I wished the floor would open and let me through." In five years the evangelist has filled o11t, and it was hard to realise that this calm, self-posseSsed young man, with massive shoulders, powerful head, and plump, rounded cheeks, is the same individual as the wasted, hollow-ey-ed evangelist whose 'hree hours' dumb agony in the Welsh oha-pel at Liverpool in March, 1905, prepared a terrified congregation and the world out- fide for the news of his mental breakdown. The dark-brown hair is curly at the temples, the broad forehead is yet unlined, the large, full hawl eyes lose nothing by being screened behind the spootacles which give the wearer, perhaps, fliore the air of the student than he would otherwise oonvey. Stress of Modern Life He has still a trace of the old shyness, and is reflective and reserved. It was not easy, as I found, to draw him into conversation, least of all about himself. When we left the cottage he discussed the case of the young man whose life was ebbing away-at the age of 25. I asked Mr. Roberts whether he thought men who sacrificed their health in their enthusiasm for religious work might not be aoting after all quite wrongly and from an erroneous view of what duty demanded. I agree," said Mr. Roberts. There is a point at which a man ought to consider himself first." In the stress and hurry of modern life the idea that every hour ought to be spent in cultivating a man's talents could be oarried too far, and the only sane view was a frank recognition by the individual of .his limitations. I have learnt that myself," went on Mr. Roberts. In these five years I have learnt a bitter lesson. It is one I shall never for- get. It is one advantage that I have had it so early in life. In some cases the warning has come too late. I shall be careful for the future. Never aga;in shall I undertake a. six- weeks' mission —you may be sure of that. I am going to Wales in a week or two. At present I have no fixed plan. I am going to see what the need is, and I shau gi?o; ing to eee what fbe need is, arid I shall be guided by circum- stances. "There is no doubt," he added, reflectively, "of this-the multitude is cruel. It is merci- less to those of whom it makes heroes. I have been able to sleep well, amd that has helped my recovery. I am quite well again now. Here in Leicester I have been very quiet. People have been kind-they have left me alone." Mr. Roberts is reticent on the subject of the fruits of revivals, but it is eiErni.'fioa.nt that lie is a contributor to a religious periodical which is just now publishing articles on the evils of revivalistio excite- ment.

STRANDING SEQUEL I An action has been brought in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, by Captain Albert Willia.m Sem'ber, of Glasgow, against the Amalgamated Press Limited, London, for 12,000 da.ma,ges for alleged slander. The plaintiff states that in 1S07 he was appointed to the command of the sailing ship Gunford, which in October of that year sailed from Hamburg for Santa Rosalia, and which, while on the paesage, stronde-d on an unchartered shoal of reef near Cape Stroque, Brazil, and became a total wreck. In an issue oi "Answers, of which the defendants are the proprietors, a paragraph was published in October which, the plaintiff says, represented he had been a party to a fraudulent and crirnina-l conspiracy with the owners and insurers of the vessel. The defendant.s pleaded the action is irrelevant and deny having slandered the plaintiff.

WHAT IS "DEVIL DODGING"? Mr. E. A. Charles referred a-t Newport Cor- poration meetinig to-day to the proposed ex. penditure of LZ70 upon the improvement of Woodland-road, and asked for an explanation and justification of such an expenditure upon. private property. He thought it was another case of the importunate widow. Alderman Groonland (chairman of the work? committee) did not know which was the importunate widow—the landlord or the cor- poration. Tbe scheme was to carry through a thoroughfare in an important district of Maindee and the taking in of land which would never become building land. Mr. W. Evans characterised the whole matter as a bit of "devil dodging." Alderman Wilkineon wanted an. explanation of that cryptic phrase, but none was forthcoming. An amendment to refer the matter back for further oon- deration was defeated by seventeen votes to ten.

JUNSATISFACTORY BUILDING? Mr. Edward Daviee, Sit Newport Corporation to-day. raised the question of revising the building bye-laws, because, he said, the way in which some of the property was being erected was not creditable to the town. He did not wish to out any reflection upon the corporation officiate, because, no doubt they had a. great deal to do, and they had not sufficient time to be upon all the buildings as they were being erected. Bat he assured the council that the way in which some of the ptoperty was being erectedwas not satisfac- tory to the town.

I FATAL BOXING CONTEST I An inquest was opened and adjourned at Stepney to-day on Robert Bertram Watson, formerly in the Royal Navy, who died early on Sunday morning at Wonderland, White. chapel, after taking part in a boxing contest. A railway stoker named Crowder, who knew deceased, and who accompanied him to the hall on Saturday night said he watched the contest very closely, and it was a very fair one—in his opinion-, the fairest "he had ever seen in (his Hf.e-from start to finish. The deceased was leading from the beginning to the last minute of the ten rounds, when Watson reeoived three blows, and, falling down, remained until he was counted out. Witness did not think there was any irregu- larity in the contest.

UNDERGRADS' ESCAPADE Five undergraduates attempted to per- petrate a hoax on the management of the New Theatre, Caimibiridge, on Saturday night. Two of them, disguised as ladies, sought admission, but they were betrayed by their walk and voices. The managing director, Mr. W. B. Redfern, refused to admit them, and at this moment a, prootor came upon the scene, and there followed an interesting interview with four of the would-be hoaxers, one "ladv" having escaped in the confusion.

DESERTION AND ELOPEMENT I Harry Clark, shoe operator, was charged at Birmingham yesterday with deserting his wife and three children and leaving them chargeable to the Birmingham Guardia.ns since October last. Up to this date he had been working for a firm in Newtown Row, and then eloped with a married woman named Hall. He was apprehended in Glas- gow, where he and the woman were living together. Prisoner was sent to gaol for a month.

His Daughter: Father, I Jsili-l1'd stat at home to-night. Mr. Slowboy will want to ask you for my hand. Her Father: Has he really proposed at I im,tp I l HM Daogbter: No, bat he wiU to-nd?ht. i k

Tobacco and Health SMOKING HELPS TO RESIST DISEASE Gentlemen, you may smoke. Smo-kers can now quote in self-defence tbe very latest medioaJ opinion, to the effect that tobacco, so frur from being harmful, is jaat the contrary. Dr. de Kermahon, of the French Army, has been diligently collecting statistics on the subject, and announces that the irresistible evidence of figures proves to him that smokers are healthier than non-smokers. In this the' French scientist is supported by a well-known West End consultant. "I quite agree with Dr. de Kerma.hon," he said to a press representative yesterday, "In the first place, there is not the slightes t doubt about it tha.t tobacco is to a largA* extent a germicide. "Take post-mortem work. Very many d-rxv tors who do it are heavy smokers, becausj they know that they are far less likely tA¡ b8 affected by a.ny poisons or germs, espe- cially in the throat, if they smoke. "If I myself am going to any caee I thinfc is diphtheric I smoke on the way there and when coming back. "Smoking helps one in another wa.y. It helps to build up the general health, Tobacco is very soothing; it calms the mind, a.nd so strengthens the system to resist disease. "But always smoke the best tobacco your purse allows, and, if you afford to pay a.t. least 10s. 6d. a hundred, smoke it in the form of cigarettes. If yoti cannot pay so much, smoke a good pipe, so constructed that the nicotine never passes your lips. Then, when you are puffing at your ease, remember that you are helping to make yourself healthy, and your mind will be more. contented than ever, and that will add to your physical well-being."

'TEC'S SMART CAPTURE John Kelly and Daniel Garcia, labourers, of no fixed abode, were charged on remand at LlanhiUeth to-day with breaking and entering the Llanhilleth branch of the Blaina Co-operative Society and stealing articles of the total value of JB6 3s. 8d. Detective-sergeant Caldicot (Newport) stated that whilst visiting the lodging-houses in Newport he met the prisoner Kelly, and noticed that he was wearing a new shirt, waistcoat, and trousers He asked prisoner where he got them from, and received the answer "Find out." Witnesj replied, "No doubt I shall be able to d\J that," and took prisoner to the police-station, where he ijras searched. A rawnticket for n quantity of new clothing was found in pri. soner's possession, and the clothing, together with that which the prisoner was wearing, was identified by the manager of the Go operative Stores as the property of thoe, society. Garcia, who was also wearing a quantity of new clothing, was subsequenti.1 arrested at Chepstow. Prisoners both pleaded guilty. Kelly wTas sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and Garcia to four months. The Bench warmly compli. mented Detective-sergeant Oaldicott upon the skill and adroitness he used in arrteting prisoners upon very meagre first evidence.

EDUCATION CODE IN WILL A small education code is embodied in tha will of Anna. Maria Helena, Comtesse da Noailles, of Hyeres, France, and of Holywell. Lodge, Meads, Eastbourne, who left property in Britain worth £ 13,020. She left two-thirdit of her residuary estate and her Meads estatif to found there an orphanage for daughter of Church of England clergymen, layinu down the following rules for the education of the girls:- No competitive exeminatiom. No study before breakfast. No study after six p.m. Ail lessons to be learned in the morning. No girl to work more than four hours an.1 a half daily. No arithmetic, except the multiplication tables, for children under ten (vide Herbert Silencer). No ohild with curvature of the spine to write more than five minutes a day until thirteen. Each girl must be certified by two phren, ol a gists as not deficient in coirsc i en tiou s uesi a.nd firmness. No child to be vaccinated. Religious teaching to be equally fat, removed from Calvinism, and Ritualism.

CLOAKROOM CONDITIONS Mr. Morgan Thomas called attention at a meeting of the Cardiff Pi-operty and Markets Committee to-day to the cloak-room condi- tions at the City-hall at the Liberal recep- tion, when a charge of 2d. was made, at the, same time disclaiming all responsibility for < the lose of articles, contrary to the custom; a.t railway stations and elsewhere. T'he Chairman (Mr. A. C. Kirk) said he sup-p&ed they were as responsible as other people else- where. Mr. Morgan Thomas said he under- stood the statement sent out to the Liberal executive requiring a £5 deposit caused a lo* of heart-burning. Mr. Allcock disclaimed, making any statement of the nature cqm- plained of. He explained that he had soiM correspondence wi-th Mr. Allgood (secretary of the Liberal Association), who altered the form of agreement to such an extent that its was not binding on the users of the hall if they damaged the building. The agreement. was m-ati-lated to such an extent that he did not feel like accepting it. It was agreed that the whole matter should be revised as to the placing of responsibility, Ac.

AT AL POLITICAL DISPUTE At Staffordshire Assizes yesterday David Harrison Jones, a miner, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Henry Stokes at Walsall on January 15 The parties had been friencs and on the same side in politics up to the last general election, when the accused changed his views At a public-house, while the men were under the influence of liquor a quarrel arose about party favours and tho accused struck the deceased, whose death fol- lowed. The Judge said the case appro ache 1 misadventure, and bound the accused over to come up for judgment when called upon.

I BODY IN A BARRY LANE Passing through the lane dividing Richard- street and New land-street, Barry Dock, this morning on his way to work a mechanic. named Percy, saw the dead body of a raaj lying full length on the ground face down- wards. Police-sergeant David Rees end Dr. Bray were summoned, and the corp&e was taken to the town mortuary. On the body was found a seaman's discharge bock, addressed, Frank Duffy, Belfast." Death I_ was apparently due to heart failure.

A SOLDIER AY LLANISHEN Thomas Lamb (seventeen) after eleveri weeks' experience in the Special Reserve cf the South Wales Borderers was before the Cardiff justioes to-day on a charge of being an absentee. He joined at Newport, and it was stated that when his leave expired he was seen into the Rhymney train at Car- diff by his brother, apparently making for Brecon., but he juimp-ed out at Llanishen. He was remanded for a.n escort- Detective Gurney made the arrest.

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE The weather was threatening when Oxford went oat to-day. The ohief task was a flood row from Hammersmith to Mortla,ke, in which thev experienced a bead wind an-l rough water. The form was fa.ir and the time 13min. 42seo. Cambridge did a lot, of long, steady paddling, journeying to Thorny- crofts and back. They did very well in rough conditions ab-ove Hammersmith.

COLLIERY STRIKE RIOTS At Castle Eden yesterday a furtlwr charcs was beard in connection with the colliery strike riots at- "Ho-rd-sn in January. Thomas M'Guire and John Robert Johnson were charged with arson by setting fire to the fur- niture of the club on January 26, when the flames were extinguished, and were com. mitted for trial, bail being allowed M'Guir<j was also charged separately wit-h setting flra to the furniture the next day, when the dub was. btiirnt down, and committed for triaL The damage was estimated by a witness eU £ 9,000 or £ 10,000.

ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? be downhearted, John; your mother- is here!" slhoated a woman in Cardiff Police- court to-day before being ejected. The prisoner was John Cox (22). who was oharged on suspicion with deserting from the Leinster Regiment, at Devonport. He joined at New. port in March, 1907, and was now remanded for an escort.

GIRL'S SUICIDE An Abertillery jury on Thursday returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound, mind in the case of Ethel Mayberry, single, aged 24, living with her parents at 124, Alma. street, Abertillery, who died on Sunday as the res-ult of taking a large dose of salts of lemon.

RETIRE, NOT RESIGN Dr. Lloyd Davies asked at Newport Town Council to-day whether Alderman Wilkinson was in orded in speaking after his "resigna- tion." Alderman Wilkinson said he never had "resigned." What he said he would do was to "retire." J

ADVV-T TO MOTHERS. "—Are you broken in yoW rest by Do sick ohlld suffering with the petal of cutting teeth? Go at onœ to a ch, and g- a bttle of rs. Wlnslow'a Soothing Syrup. It Produc? natural, U"! bL by relte1' the child from paJu, and tn« U\ûe c.h awake* as btlgM as » button." Contains so poioMooa In?Ddieot. Of all ObamiotiL IN per battle e2010 j

BECAME HER SLAVE ■c> I STRANGE MURDERCOKFESSIUN Amazing Story of Desperation The trial at Venice of Naumoff for the murder of Count Kamarowska and Counteae Tarnowska and Prilukoff for complicity, reached a. dramatic stage when Naumoff made hie statement to the jury. The court was crowded, and immense throngs watched the arrival of the prisoners in gondolas. It was easy to see that Counters Tarnowka enjoyed the privilege of being cordially hated by the public, especially the women. Some of them openly expressed the wish that the countess's gondola might sink, and that she might end her career in the water. At the outset there was a short legal dis- cussion, during which Countess Tarnowska was noticed to be weeping. Hitherto she had preserved a completely impassive demeanour. Ln his own defence Naumoff related that shortly after leaving the army he made the acquaintance of Count Kamurowski. This was about August or September, 1906. In the foilowing April he again met the count, who was acoompanied by Countess Tarnowska. In the meanwhile Countess Kama row ski had died. Naumoff admitted that Co unless Tar- nowska produced a great impression upon him, and this impression grew more profound every time he saw her. In the course ci time their friendship became of a more intimate character. I Led to the Cemetery Pausing now ajid again in order to pick up the threads of remembrance, Naumoff de- scribed to the court how be followed the countos.5 from place to placc, always at her bidding. "I felt. he said., "that I had becojne her slave." At Kieff he accompanied her to the cemetery, where a man named Sta.hl was buried. This person had committed cvuiciditf. said X.'wmotf,')ooooau.oo the countess bad refused him her love." According to Naumoff's statements, the countess played upon his emotions just as jh-e pleased, now inflaming him with ardent jiaresses now reducing him to despair by •■old disdain. At a certain period 6he began to kindle his jealousy of Kaotarowski, and when an insulting telegram, apparently sent by the latter, was received by the countess fit Kieff, Naumoff was ready to revenge her. He wanted to challenge Kamarowski to a duel, but the countess would not hear of it. She warated him to be murdered. At this point Naumoff completely broke iiown, and, burying his face in his hands, sobbed vie lently. Countess Tarnowska ap- peared to be made of marble, and did not move an eyelash. I Declaration of Love Prisoner proceeded to state that the ooun- «« furnished him with Kaanarowski's address at N'aples and accompanied him to ine ytunion. Siie said to nim as he left, "I see that you love me more than all the ;>theirs, and I love you more than anybody." When Naumoff arrived at Venice he went to ICamarowski's house, but feeling unwell he returned to his hotel. He went again the iext morning. "On the door being opened," Naumoff pro- ceeded, "I saw the count, and, without speak- in,- a word, I fired cut him. Then I turned the weapon against myself, but it missed fire and I threw it away, as the countess ha.d ordered me to do. When I sa.w the poor ma-n fall I was thunderstruck. He said to me, 'My dear fellow, why? What harm have I done you?' He asked me to call for help, and I opened the window and shouted. I di-I not want to escape, but when the people ca;me they took me by the shoulders, lifted me up, and put me in a gondola, which took me back to the hotel. Then I was overcome by a horrible fear, and I was possessed by )ne thought—to got aw-ay." At the oonolusion of his statement Nanmoff collapsed on Ms seat, and the hearing was adjourned.

CARDIFF BANKRUPTCY COURT i At Claxdiff Bankruptcy-court to-day David Joseph Bufiord (trading as Burford and Co., builders' merchants, Queen-street, Cardiff) .ntderwent his public examina,tion by the Official Receiver (Mr. George David) before the Registrar (Mr. Harry Cousins). Debtor ,;a:ld his chief debtor was a builder, a-n undie- caargoo bankrupt, named Thomas Morris, who still owed him C347 10s. 9d. All his furniture had been got on the hire purehiase system, and belonged to a London firm. M,r. Walter Scott, who appeared four the trustee (Mr. C. E. Dovey) applied for an adjourn- ment, which was granted till the next court. James John Perry, baker, of Railway-street, Cardiff, in his examination, said his liabili- ties amounted to £122, chiefly confined to four flour merchants. He had given long credit, but he denied that he had neglected his business in order to attend to his prize pigeons. The examination was closed. David John Davies, Station-road, Kenflg Hill, formerly trading as a greengrocer and posting master, said he lost two horses owing • to their breaking their legs while he was driving them, and that wae the chief cause of his failure. The examination was closed. Edgar Fennell, trading as E. Fennell ajid Sons, fishmongers, at Taif-street, Pontypridd, and also until recently at Queen-st.reet, Oar- diff, said he paid £1,000 for the Cardiff busi- ness, and sold it in October last for £ 750. It was carried on in a lock-up shop, for which he bad to pay £ 200 a year rent. He had only been able to make a. living out of the Cardiff business. The examination was closed. George Cleverly Carpenter, Brid-ge-street, Cardiff, bootmaker, who attributed his failure to a family quarrel, and Albert Vinoent, High-street, Namtyffyllon, collier and general dealer, also underwent examination.

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Lewis, Butcher i.y lill1.lld. eaWaulo iT10 Bottle Dealers.—Wanted immediately, Second- J- hand Vinegar Quarts.— fieply, with price, W 71, Svwning Express. Cardifi. R Sale, Gent's Cyc?e; quie new.—Apply 121). 11lver- X ne:!8-laœ, ftoath I1.rk, Cardiff. eu.10 W.VSTBD, Nurse for Sswport, endofMurch "tTifee voting children.—W 73, Evening Express, Car. dJlT- «J350ul4 A-N"rED, Cook-General; housemaid kept,; thrwTn VT iamily.—Apply WratervlUe, Tydraw-road, Cjrdiff. T><>U B* EMOr-r H_ -Anmdell Boarding eftainTah- -D Cecil-reaid, Bosconibe; 3 minutes sea, ipior; retomme;1de.d; from 21s. e3048u!4 ■pOJfTYPBlDD.—House for Sale, «, The Avenue; '6 JL rooms, =<ruilerj' ic.; ii good condition; pe&Qntly situated; .w ground rent.—Apply at above ouio ~W*" f A>"TED, Geaera? ("Ie to enu of ?rch V?wport-W 72, Z?mms Epresø, C?rdi? e5961ut4 LODOiXGS or ApartBMnto. T»ith or without board • ;?ath; every convenience; cars strt???t nd terms abodemte. cloee to town:=I_O_kt-road, (4nton. auM WANTED, voun-g Girl to Aesiet General; aged 15 to 17; used to children; OOtJJltry girl preferred — Apply 10, Bwhrnond-terraos, Park Place, Cardiff, euio LADY'S Bkyde for &Ie. in good condition. W(>U""lItr. Canton. Cardiff. e395&ulQ WANTED, good General; knowledge If plain cock ing; £ 20- w, waalflng; boy kept.—Apply 29, Newport-road, Cardiff. e58S4ulO rpo Let. Bedroom and Sittm?-?obm; 2 y<Mnc ladto I%r gentlemn; AiWIe 4s. 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I f The Ian in the Street. I A I I like to sometimes take my wisdom in I small doses from the ancients, drawing the line, of course, at a few generations be fore the early Pharaohs and the mys- teries of the Sphinxes and the Pyramids. And, as the sun has been shining lately, producing over the whole of this favoured spot of the hoary old earth an optimism that stands undismayed in the face of all ill-fortune, I am disposed to agree with the veteran actor, Mr. Henry Neville, that there is no time like the present. In spite of the croakers and the dismal pessimists, who talk perpetually about the "good old times," and notwithstand- ing the efforts of free libraries to induce readers to take out Christmas stories" and other seasonable literature, we ought really to be very thankful that some scorching meteor of the past did not put an end to this somewhat prosaic earth long ago. Halley's Comet might easily have pushed our ancestors out of exist- ence on a previous visit, and in such an event where should we be now? As Mr. Neville points out, probably there were never universal good old times, and oer- tainly, as we were not there (so far as we know), it does no good to worry about the matter. Apart from the General Election, from which I trust most of my readers have recovered, and the one which is threaten- ing to overwhelm us, the world seems a very nice place on which to sojourn for a space. Talking of General Elections, I notice that the people who go about can- vassing are already getting their smiles fixed against, the coming event now cast- ing its shadow over the country. On Saturday I met a lady who called on me in January for my vote. I wondered a.t her urbanity, until she let the secret out by remarking, W e shall soon have another election, and I shall want your vote again!" Perhaps this is at the bottom of the secret—with the sunshine that has succeeded the showers. With everybody trying to influence votes, it is no wonder that the world appears so lovely to those who usually f -d the ba/ttle of life rather grim and sometimes cruel. Nothing produces such a generality of smiles and soft words as this vote-hunting business. We poor voters know what it is to be smiled upon by candidates' wives and their fair retainers, and we also know the glassy stftre that succeeds the day of the election. But cheer up, my friends the electors, a good time is coming, and at least until the next voting day the world and his wife will continue to grin at you. And if the sun will also continue to do his duty, there is no need to grow anxious about the income-tax, the finan- l cial burdens of the country, and little matters like the jumping rates and tradesmen's bills. Poets are coming on apace, spring is here, and your only duty, dear reader, is to grin with the world-if you would not have it laugh at you. Above all, you now know that all the talk about "the good old times" is noth- ing but a fallacy. In the days long gone, people had their worries, and with them they had not the skating rinks, champion choirs, theatres, public parks, steam- boat excursions, Boy Scouts, divorce com- missions. popular preachers, free libraries, football matches, old-age pensions, boxing bouts in the papers and in the ropes, egg-laying competitions, marriage and sex problemll of which now assist the earth to turn on its axis. ,Even the mis- fortunes of our neighbours help to make the newspapers spicy, and if all people were perfect what should we have to read, or our novelists to write about ? When you come to think about it, Pharaoh's wife was unable to boast of a Ciiantecler bonnet, and the directoire' costumes of her day were not half so elaborate as those which helped to glorify South Wales recently. Altogether, it is good to live, and while the sun shines we shall pro- bably remain of this opinion. Nothing could have been more satis- factory than the parade of Boy Scouts at Cardiff yesterday on the occasion of the visit of that world-famous general, Sir R. Baden-Powell, whose name has become linked with the movement. The great "B.-P." was unfeignedly pleased with the display given, and the conditions were all that could be desired. No doubt, the Scout leader's visit will greatly encourage the movement, though it has made won- derful progress up to the present. The scene presented in Cathays Park, with the sun shining on the city palaces and monuments, was a memorable one, and will not be forgotten by those who wit- nesed it for a very long time to come. In these upright, lithe, picturesque forms the public saw our future defenders, and the early and useful train- ing they are now getting should mean a more advanced type of volunteer than the country has been able to enjoy hitherto. There is nothing to say against the volun- teers of to-day—they form a fine body of men. But it has been well said that to do anything well there is nothing like starting early, and the training these boys are getting should give them a tremendous advantage, as well as incul- cating a genuine love for soldiering. The prospect for the old country is more rose hued than ever it was before. Now that Glamorgan and Monmouth- shire have got over their county council elections, it will be possible for many of the public men of South Wales to settle down to public business, though the elec- tions for guardians and district coun- cillors are worrying enough to clog the atmosphere for a time. Unfortunately, a lot of public men cannot wait patiently for the electorate to decide these matters in a calm, impartial manner. Invaria- ably the month or two before the elec- tions are spent in the making of election speeches, and as these occur at the meet- ings of the councils, with an anxious eye on the reporters, it fcilows that public business must suffer, notwithstanding the fact that the main object of the speakers is to show the eleotors that they are taking an enormous interest in the concerns that touch the ratepayers' pocket. It will be a happy day when the men in the seats of the mighty feel thiwt there is no need for all this, and that they may settle down comfortably to the consideration of road repairs, sewerage matters, births and deaths, water and light, and the hundred and one little affairs that call for their considera- tion.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S HEALTH I Mr. Chamberlain at Cannes yee-terday walked for a, distance of about 500 yards west- wards along the promenade, leaning: on the arm of Mrs. Chamberlain, and accomp-anied by MiMo Chamberlain. His invalid chair was brought a.ong behind him. It was noticeable that, the right hon. greufcieman walked with a much firmer step. Alter resting & little while on one of the seats, he returned to lunch. Mr. A. E. W. Maeon, until lately Liberal M.P. for Coventry, ie in Cannes, and recently took lunch with Mr. Chamberlain. He founA his ho t remarkably keen and bright, and iistened 10 more than one striking remark on the present political situation in Great Britain.

JUDGE AND THE NEW OATH I A Righ Court judge and a commissioner of ¡ assize animadverted upon the new oat-h yes- terday At Warwick Assizes, where the grand jua-y made a presentment against the Oaths Act, Mr. Justice Darling said the new statute was not passed on any representation from the judges. It led to a great deal of delay, and was nothing like so solemn as the old form. but was simply a means of waating time. He hoped the repreaeri-tation would Lead to a revision of the statute. Mr. Com- missioner Scrutton, K.C., at Leeds Assizes, said he was doubtful whether the beet form of oath had been arrived at.

ALWAYS 'MERRY AND BRIGHTI I have been in a fourteen days' hurri- cane w, ,h them," said Sir Ernest jshaekletoj ye&terday, in speaking of the common sailor at the annual meeting of the Dread- nought Hospital, Woolwich, and we have been wet through and absolutely without comfort. Yet when a bag of potatoes was washed open on the decks in the middle of the night the men merely picked up those valuables, singing, Here we go gathering nuts and May.

HURLED TO DEATH I Whale Charles Dewhirrst, a steeplejaok, was fixing a lightning conductor on a taJl chimney at Green bank Ironworks. Black- burn, yesterday afternoon the tackle in which he was slung gave way, &nd be fell a distance of fifty feet <m a labourer named Sunderland, who was working at the base. Sunderland escaped with minor injuries, but Dewhurst died in the ambulance on his way to the infirmary.

ANTICIPATED When Elizabeth Betts entered the doab at Acton yesterday charged with being in.ca.pa;bly drunk she said: I am very sorry; won't yon allow me time to pay?" The Magistrate: You haven't been fined yet. Don't anticipate. Don't give yourself away like that. After evidence was given a pre- vious conviction wae proved, ailld Bet.te wa4 fined 5a., the magistrate adding, "Send for the 1IlODey."

1J tNTOJHE LION'S DEN I On a charge of theft George Warner (29), a porter, was remanded at Marl be rough-street yesterday. Polioe-conetable Page stated that at n.ine o'clock yesterday morning he was in bed at his address, 12, Hills-place, Oxford- gtreet. and heard a rost?m? in his sitting- Toom, next his bedroom. JnmpMig out of bed, I caught the prisoner stea.liDg a coat &IW Ve8t.

HEIR WANTED TO JE8,000 I An interesting clause figures in the will of Dr. Atfred Barratt, of Bdghaston, Birming- ham, who left estate of £ 16,061 gross value. Dr. Barra-tt left some £8,000 to hie son Alfred, bu<t as his present whereabouts are unknown Dr. Barratt, has directed his trustee to adver- tise for bim. If in two years he cannot be fOond it is to be presumed he is dead.

WHITES V. NEGROES I TAMPA (FLORIDA), Monday. A posse of whites pursued and shot dead t," negroes, brothers, one of whom had mur- dered a white at Palmetto. Other negroes returned the fire, wounding two men of the posse, one fatally.-uter.

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I 19-Year-0ld Wife ISEEKS SEPARATION AFTER 3 MONTHS Though she was married only three months ago, Madeline WilheLmina Stevenson applied to the Birmingham magistrates yesterday for a. separation order against her husband, Edward Henry Stevenson, a farmer, of W ifihaw. Mxs. Stevenson is nineteen years of age. Counsel stated that the applicant's hus- band was angry with her all the evening of their wedding day because she questioned the housekeeper concerning some detail of house- hold management. On the following day she went with him to Liverpool for the honeymoon, but during the journey he told ber he was sorry he had married her. The next day they returned home, and he said she was not his wife, and alleged that she had married him in a wrong name. Her mother had married twioe, her first married name being .Mills and the second Williams. She (Mrs. Stevenson) had, theretore, married the defendant in the name of Mills-Williams. The husband (counsel added) told hi3 wife to go away, as he did not want her. She stayed with him a week and then went to her sister's house. However, she went back, whereupon he asked her why she had not stopped away. She replied, My place is by your side." It was also stated that the wife was treated as an absolute stranger, and that the house- keeper, before her eyes, was shown great affection. One night her husband sent for the housekeeper and she remained in his room. his wife being turned out and the door locked. A separation order was granted by t'he magistrates.

THE CORDITE WALKING-STICK On reading in "The Globe" the account of Mr. Haldane's cordite walking-stack, I was not greatly surprised (writes a correspondent, who says that at some remote period he read a little chemistry). I once heard Lord Justice Fletcher Moulton, whose scientific attain- ments a,re well known, give an enitert-aining account of a fright which he experienced in the Temple. It was, I believe, during the cordite litigation. Of the details I am some- what hazy, but. not as to the main ciroum- stanoes. The substance either under litiga- tion or consideration was found to be too highly combustible, and the problem was to reduoe its effect. One day Sir Hiram Maxim called on the gireat authority on patents. Producing a cake of the explosive and a small amraea\ he commenced to beat it vigorously on a letter weight in Mr. Moulton's cham- be". Every moment the renowned Q.C. expected to find himself hurled into the Thames or somewhere else, but the inventor was unperturbed. He exT'laiaed tha.t with this original deadly explosive he had com- bined another equally deadly, but the result of the combination was to diminish, the explosive power of each, and to obtain the' substance required.

I TO END WAR Apropos of the rumour that some scientific nan has discovered rays that will kill at four miles, a correspondent of the Liverpool Post inquires whether anything is now known of the nature of the Secret War Plan of Lord Dundonald, which was several times submitted in strict confidence to British naval and military experts, and was pro- nounced to be capable of practically annihil- ating an enemy and of utterly destroying fortifications and ships. Equally mysterious are the invisible shell and long range of Samuel Alfred Warner, who, from about 18J0 until his death in 1853, endeavoured to induce the British Government to adopt his two discoveries, but would tell nothing until be was paid f,200,000 far each. He made at least one successful experiment (blowing up a ship at a distance) to show hi's powers but his secrets seemed to have died with him.

CROMWELL'S BURIAL PLACE The interesting question is discussed in an article in the "Church Family Newspaper" ao to whether Northborough Church, neB." Peterborough, contains Cromwell's bones The only positive evidence to that effect is that ol thf nurso who saw the beai-se oom- taining them driven by night through Huntingdon, not stopping there, as she hoped and expected, but taken further north, and also that of the post-boy, who said he was paid the mileage fee to Northborough. There is no indication of them having gone so fa" north as Newbu.ry Abbey, although a stone in the passage there says; "Under this stone rest the bones of Oliver Cromwell. ac. and the facts of Cromwell's widow coming to live here and being herself buried here, are in favour of the persistent tradition in the pariah that Cromwell was secretly buried here, and another body substituted for his in the night that it lay at the Red Lion, Holborn.

NEAR EASTERN SITUATION I BERLIN, Tuesday. A telegram from Sofia to the "Vossisahe Zeiturg" states that M. Milovanovitch, the Servian Foreign Minister, in a.n interview granted to the Oonstant'nople representative of the "Alliance Bulgare," said his present jonrney had as its object the development of good relaitaona between Servia and Turkey. The relations existing between 8ervia and Bulgaria were friendly, but the time had not j et come for the formation of a Balkan Loasrue. With ies-ard to the Aastro-Eussiian negotiations, M Milovanovitch said, Either they will fail and we shall remain in pre- cisely the game good situation as at present, or they will suooeed and our mutual inte- rests will be guaranteed against all attack. But it mast not be forgotten that Turkey has to be a Balkan state as much as our- selves."

HOW TO KEEP WARM r For making dishonest use of his knowledge of plumbing, James William French (48), of Herne Hill, was sentenced to six weeks' ha.rd la-bour by the Lambeth magistrate yesterday. It was shown that he tampered with the gas piping arrangements in his house in such a way that he surreptit iously ob-tained about £Z5 worth of was during the last six months for nothing. When an officer of the South Metropolitan Gas Company called at the house one night he found that the household had retired to rest, but that all the lights were full on, while in two rooms, heated by gas stoves, children were lying practically Belted on account of the warmth.

OUT OF THEIR CLASS I While fining three young men living at Clapton yesterday for defrauding the Great Eastern Railway Company, Mr. Hedderwick at the North London Court toAd them that they should not travel beyond their means or commit frauds in attempting to make people think that they were better off than they really were. These little frauds led to much more serious things. No man ought to be ashamed to travel in the class to which be belonged.

THE BARBER'S BOY I Under the present Loudon County Council bye-laws no child under twelve years of age may be employed as lather boy or similar occupation in any barber's or hairdresser's shop. The annual report of the Education Committee states that this work is open to many objections and suggests that the age limit should be raised to fourteen years.

RELIGIOUS UNITY f One of the candidates for the Erith Divi- sion of Kent at the tnpnty oouncil election was proposed by the local vicar, seconded by the head of the Franciscan monastery, and aas ented to by one of too most promi- nent Nonconformists in the district.

From All Quarters I Heavy consignments of pineapples in excellent condition were received at Covent Garden yesterday, and were sold as abeaply as 2s. each retail. The Bohemian Diet baa decided, in view of the critical financial situation, to release from the asylums 280 inmates whose minds are but slightly unhinged. Straw bats were to be seen in the Strand yesterday, end a foreign visitor startled the passers-by as be walked slowly along wear- ing a orimson plash Hombu:rg bat. A lecture on Halley's comet, which was to have been delivered by M. Baeff, secretary of the Moscow Astronomical Club, has, for some unexplained reason, been prohibited by the Governor of Tula. M. Delcluze, the new Socialist deputy for Calais, baa printed cards with the words, "You are reqfoeeted not to bother people, please." These are given to aJI persona who ask to eee him at the Chamber. The Italian Navy liengue is offering a prize of iCl6 for the best naval book for schoolboys. Trials are shortly to be made with an airship which hae been built at Belvedere, Kent, by Mr. A. E. Thiersch, a local engineer.