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Our Note Book! Q Down With the I)rinkI-Goodl  c.. 1" Temp lars' Simplicity. —! Knowledge v. Denunciation1 —Swansea and Slumdom— The Cult of Competition. That the recent .'vrticles in the Leader with regard to the shuns oi Swansea have "gone home "—and not ii moment too soon at that--is proved by the fact that a. most important religious body in the town of Swan:a Las taken the ".natter in hand, and has fipooint'Cd a- comm i ttee -of .iu.spac.tion 1011 to go fnrtiwrinto the question. In the meantime the towns- people might endeavour to do some- tlljng in the way of pull;no; down the dilapidated old buildings which, almost on the very edge of the main streets;, force their hideous selves upon the at- tention of the passer-by at aU hours of i'-Ic day. Such buildings—quite apart from the- outrage upon good taste which they daily constitute, and tho eye-sore v. hich they never fail to to— jilust uf necessity bo a menace to the health of tho community, and it would be greatly to ihe adA-?.m,a?e of :d? mac (Jpu Si?c..? a tkast ?outd t?ke the p?ace of the dark grimy ?.dfs and lotteu rocls reekiug with age, and per- haps disease. It may be replied that the Corporation as such has no power over buudings which have been condemned unlit for human habita- tion. if that is so. then the sooner these powers are enlarged the better for fill concerned. The view taken by the Internationai Order of Good Templars—since when did this body change its name?—it Used to be the Independent Order—had delightfully clear expression in the any- thing but honied words of Mr. Honey- man, of Glasgow, the International Secretary who is also, by the way, Grami Chief leiiipiar of Scotland. The drink trade, they say, is a sin against God," "tho curse of the world, and -liO on. Prah. bition is what's w anted. I wish," an old doctor in Car-cliff used to say. I could sweep away the drink with a stroke of the pen I" # That is. however, one of the things vc hich in a free country, and in a world tending to become free, cannot possibly happen., Besides, virtue involves temptation. Even a. life-long teetotaller ho is firmly convinced of the value ri total abstinence, yet finds it neces- &»ry tqL moderate his confidence when inflects on the fact that, all down history, and in practically every land, from the time when good old osins in those unknown best days of ancient Egypt. invented pure beer, men have been drinking intoxicants of one kind or another. It will seem to him that the real remedy for intemperance is not denunciation of the drink traffic, but spread of scientific knowledge as to the actual and inevitable effects of alco- hol on the human body. As an indication of the great com- petition nowadays in the professional world, it is significant to note that for II. vacancy in the Swansea Borough Engineer s department, at a salary of ;Clfio per annum, over 100 applications have been received. These include a Master of Science, and men with long experience holding the highest qualifica- tions. This sta,te of things is undoubtedly due to a great extent to the spread of popular education, which, by flooding all the markets of labour, skilled and unskilled, professional and commercial, js forcing men who have spent hundreds of pounds or; their education to accept positions which offer them but a poor interest on their outlay. It is also interesting to note in con- nection with the abovo observations that there are scores of applicants for the position of attendance officer in con- nection with one of the Swansea dis- tricts. The salary about 27s. (id. a week, and there is a B.A. among,) the candidates fcr the position. -0 To day's Gossip. Londonderry has gone the whole H ogg I I Our contemporary's "exclusive" feats this week have not included over- much of the Hove inquest. There were 1.77 inches of rain at Swansea lest week—says the official re- port. had more than that down our neck in yesterday's downpour. Mr. W addir.gton says there is not 4Ul atom of truth in the suggestion that Unionists had departed from their ri" Ile1 i)all we say, then, that they have postponed their principles:' ? A Swansea, worker in Pittsburg Writes home to say that things are goiug Well at (he steel works just now. but ho anticipates s I a i; nines later in the year. Under 'rotee'don, too! Mr. Ben Dent, who is pursuing his Macclesfield Tariff Reform candidature .t Swansea, thinks th' country should t.? consulted before Home Rule is given to 'IreJand He said it in a dub that was O\cred last ejection with &uti-Irish :>'■ poste. s. llis h ur- (- i i The Salisbury (hJb Committee have. thinli?d the Entertainment Com- tnittee n for much good work done. "What about a special vote to Wooden Canon Carson and Certainly Not Law for tho entertainment they have pro- Tided? There's gratitude tor you! ¡ 'Anyone holding a ticket adm-t.tmsr Bearer will have Preference to a wcai. '—Local Tariff Hdorill adver- tisement. Anyone holding a tifpeet admitting the Other Man will be Jiiowu to the plat- fArm. <

THE RAILWAYS i Bill., I I AN AMENDMENT. | SIR ALFRED MOND'S STRIKING j SPEECH IN THE COMMONS. I CHANCELLOR'S REPLY. j TIk* C'luet subject before the House o; Commons yesterday was the Railways (Sc. ¡3ill. the second reading of which was moved by the President of the Boa roof Trade. In moving that the buread a second time that day six months. Sir Alfred Mond, MP., referring to suggc :ti011,s of previous speakers, said he was sceptical of Royal Commis- sions. They had one on waterways four or five years ago. A nn.st important report had been made, and it had 'ecu an absolute dead letter. Railway mat- ters were much too urgent, and wanted tu (leiilt iiioi-e than having to wait, four or five years I for report—which would be put on the shell. Traders wanted a much more direct approach to the Board of Trade and to xUmisters. (Hear, hear.) Ihe speech ol the President of the Board of Tride in support of the Bill had prised him very much, and he ¡jf,'¡ not think that 1.4:011 reflection Mr. Buxton would care to maintain at any rate one statement he had made. That was that the traders had killed the previous Bill. It was a somewhat uu- i?? "iiputat Ion to say that was the t'?,de fault. That Bill was killed, it was quite true. But if contained intier alia a clause which was intended to carry out what the trades asked for. Objectionable Clauses. liut it contained clauses most objectionable ir6m the traders' point of view. it was a question of how much jam could be swallowed with the pill, and the traders wanted as much Jam as they could get. But they never killed the Bill. The President of the Beard of Trade had talked about the traders' "unfounded fears." He (Sir Alfred) could only say that those unfounded fears were shared by every trading community and every legal adviser to a trading community in the country. What was the reason he and those associated with him continued their objection to this Bill in any shape 01 form ? It was be- cause they maintained, and he hoped to prove it conclusively, that when the pledge was given at tfie time of the railway strike it had been given cither in ignorance, under a misappre- hension or a misunderstanding of the law. Rates Raised. He then proceeded to quote case after case where railway companies had gone to the Railway Commission and got rates raised on the gi-oiiiid of in- creased cost of labour, etc. If the Board of Trade had lia-d those in mind ther would never for a moment have entertained the idea that special legis- lation was required to deal with the matter. It had been dealt with con- tinually by the Railway and Canal Commission Whv could they have nol gone before that Commission now Because they wanted a good deal more than they had had before. They did not want to have tn move that the costs had increased, and that labour was a large or sole element in this. They wanted to be in a, much more confirmed and preferential posi- tion. If they had had the Bill with original clauses standing they would have had a Bill which would have put on the trader the onus, and that would have put them in a much superior position. No Legal Doubt. It hd b,en said there was legal doubt. They had never heard of any legal doubt that had been shared by the Railway Commissioners. It was certainl y not shared by the traders. It seemed under this Bill that if a railway company improved the con- ditions of waiters in one of their holds; they could thereby justify an increase of rate on coal in the Midlands. That was a new principle to lay down in rail- way legislation, a principle traders would, or ought not, to accept. Accord- ing to the Ac't aT, present in force, a rail- way company must show that particular traffic was more costly to handle between particuta,r stations, and they could not put forward general statements. And that was the only point on which a trader could take a case before the Railway Commission. He could not resist an increase on general grounds. That seemed to him (the speaker) to have been entirely over- looked by the President of the Board of Trade. Passenger Fares. Then a statement had been made about increases in passenger fares .q, a set-off against working costs. Now if the question of passenger fares were raised before the Railway Commis- sioners they would say they had no jurisdiction to deal with them. Every legal authority he thought would agree with him that the Commissioners inter- pioted the Act under which they worked as dealing with goods traffic, and therefore in interpreting the pre- sent Bill they would not have any re- gruel to what might have happened as to passenger fares. That w«s cne of the defects of the Bill, and he did not think that tact had 1 een grasped. Then' how far could the increases of wages paid to servants 1 he passenger traffic come into thi- settle-niep, of rates for guards? Then a, point of considerable importance was that there was no allowance made for any economy which railways might Gbta.in in any orh"r direction. (Hear, hear.) Railways were in a state of transition, electrification was going on at a rapid rate, and in a few years' tinv. the whole of railway costs might be a ltered. And it seemed absurd to introduce such a limited Bill. (Continued on Page S.)

"NO DETAILS!" HBaranrriiir ir-r ■ ——■ (" Leader Carioon.) Swansea people have been much puzzled by a mysterious light which has recently been seen in the sky. Various suggestions have been put forward, but NO DETAILS of the strange visitor have been obtained. The Swansea rate- payers have been equally mystified by the "tight" shed upon the Council expenditure by the Elective Auditors' Report, but NO DETAILS have, as our leading article yesterday pointed out, yet been supplied to account for several of the Items. The ratepayers are anxiously awaiting a solution of both mystoriesi

ULSTER'S REPLY! NATIONALIST WINS THE LONDON BERRY SEAT. WHAT WILL CARSON SAY ? Mr. DAVID C. HOGG (Nat.) 2,699 Col. Pakenham (U.) 2,642 Majority. 57 Nationalist Cain. Thus Londonderry has shown how the Irish recognise the way which the Liberal Government have met their re- quest for fair treatment. They have declined to elect the Unionist candidate, and have, instea d, returned the Nationalist to represent them in Par- liament. Previous Elections. Previous elections tor the city re- suited as follows:— n January, l'lU.-i.\larqUls of tlamll- ton (U.), 2,43o Mr. Shane Leslie (Nat.), 2,387, Uiijoiiist niai., 57. December, 1910.—Marquis of Hamil- ton (U.), 2,115; Mr. Siianc Leslie (Nat.), 2,310; Unionist maj., 105. The victory ot Mr. tlogg is a striking evidence of the attitude of Ulster, not- withstanding the violent outbursts of General" Sir Edward Carson.

SHOULD WOMEN SMOKE ? FORMER BISHOP OF RiPON DOES NOT OBJECT TO THE HABIT. In a speech at Boston, Dr. Boyd Carpenter, Canon of Westminster, de- clared that he saw no objection to the use of tobacco by women. "If men lind pleasure in smoking," said the former Bishop of Ripon, why should that pleasure be denied to women Sooner or later the ques- tiou of smoking among women will auto- matically adjust itself, r ud I for one see no reason for the outcry against the habit." Dr. Boyd Carpenter declared (says the "Chronicle") that it was largely a matter of temperament and climatic conditions, and the prevalence of smok- ing among women in the Orient proved that unler ceC-am conditions th» habit was not harmful. Not every woman was physically constituted for indulg- ence in cigarette smoking, but those who were, there was no reason why thpy should not obtain solace from the weed.

CREW SAVED. During a tog in the Straits of C ihra itar a. collusion oculTed bet ween the Cadiz ste:1mer Conde \\íll"ooo and the steamer Bartoio, ot Bilbao. The Bartoio was severely damaged, ;1!1(1 sank four hours alter the collision, five miles from the coast. Her crew were picked up by the Conde Wilfi-cdo, and conveyed to Cadiz.

COUNTESS AND DEATH DUTIES, I- I- I Countess jchv's objection to the payment to the British Government by the executors of the late <)'w:he.ss of Manchester's estate, ol death duties amounting to £ 1.000. on an annuity left her under the Duchess s will, has been overruled by the New York Surrogate, The Counter Zichy based her case on tlie ground that she was an Austrian subject, and that, therefore* the annuity was exempt.

'=. Steohen Brown. of East bury, Berk- shire. was found yesterday drowned ill the river Lambourn. He had been, to a dinner at East-bury, and >s thought to have walked into the river aceidelJtj. J ally-

MR. A. E. ROE. I WEEK-END TO BE SPENT IN I SWANSEA. Mr. Albert E. Roe returned to Swan- sea last night after the i,nquest pro- ceedings. He will spnd the week-end with his relations, and will return to Hove on Monday in time to be present at the resumed inquiry, which takes place at the Hove Town Hall on Tuesday after- noon. when the Coroner yill sum up, and tile jury are expected to give their verdict.

SPY SENT TO PRISON. I u- GERMAN SUBJECT WHO CAVE IN- I FORMAT ION TO ENGLAND. (Reuter's Foreign Spccial.) I Berlin, Thursday.—The Supreme Court at Leipzig to-day heard the case against a young engineer, lihelm Ewald, who was charged with espionage in the interests of the Britiish Naval Intelligence Department. Ewald was formerly employed by the famous engineering firm ol Siemens and Halske, his work being connected with the installation of telegraphic and tele- phonic apparatus in German warships, and it was alleged that in Wtlhelms- haven, A:ei, and London he conveyed secret information to agents of the British Intelligence Department. Evidence was given that Ewald was leguiarly employed as a .spy by the British Admiralty and had delivered seven reports and plans regarding matters that ought to be kept secret. He was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude and ten years' loss of honour and police supervisi on.

UNRULY STEEDS. I At a ball at the Skating Club in Rome, which was attended bv nearly all the Roman aristocracy, Princess Radziwill made her appearance iu a chariot drawn by a lion and a h'opard. During the letes the beasts became unruly, and created such an uproar that they had to be taken away.

BURIED ALIVE. Whilst a number of men were carry- "\Yhilst a numher of men were carr'-I ing out excavations yesterday in con- nection with the extension of the («rcat Western Railway terminus at Padding- tun. one of the them noticed a quant-ivy of Oil giving way. Instantly he shouted a warning, but it was too late for the men in the pit to make their escape, and three of them were completely buried. J?pite the prompt euarts to dig them out, one was dead when his body was reached, and another was so severely injured that he died before a doctor could at- tend to him. The third who was .58 years old, was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, w here he died during the day. I

AN IMPORTANTCoMMITTEE. I Liberal Suffragists met at West- minster HaU yesterday aad appointed an m?upntia) committf?. of which Sir A?rcdMf'nd. Bart, M.P., is one, to deal with the franchise question, draft a Rill and report, and also to negotiate with the other Suffrage Groups.

PRINCE AND PROFESSORS. Di?sat?sfactinn ba? been caused among Munich doctors by 1 he grant of the use of the building of the Univer- sity to Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria for hi;, gratis medical practice. The professors protest that the Prince is merely a practising physician, and that the privilege accorded lilln has J hitherto been reserved strictly for pro- feasors of the umlversitv.

HOME RULE. THE NOBLE LORDS REJECT THE 'I BILL ON SECOND READING. I I ONLY POSTPONED. h em- i The House of Lords amused them- selves yesterday (or rather, just after midnight) by rejecting on second read- ing the Home Hule Bill, the voting i being: Against the Bill 326 For the Bill 69 Majority against 257 Of course, the Parliament Act has made the noble gentlemen 1ll the L ppeT Cnamber less formidable than, they were in what they would doubtless describe as "the good old days," and little more than a yea r "ill see Homo Ruie an established lact.

IN PARLIAMENT. I CHANCELLOR OUTLINES PROCEDURE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. At yesterday's sitting of the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, in the absence ot the Premier in Scotland, outlined the programme of business for the next few days as fol- lows; To-cly-Thir d reaùilíg of Trade Union Bill and report by the Com- mittee on the Sir Stuart Samuel case. Monthly and Tuesday—Report- stage Welsh Church Bill. Wednesday—Tliird reading Welsh Church Bill. Thursday—Supplementary estimates. Friday—Lards' amendments to Tem- perance (Scotland) Bill, and. if time permitted, supplementary estimates- In reply to Mr. J??etton and others, Mr. Lloyd Georae sa)f? it ?'a? hoped, with the goodwill of the House, to rise for the holidays on Feb. 1-5. The new Session, he could promise, would not begin before the first week in March. A Government resolution allocating time for the Report stage of the Welsh Ciiiirc-li Bill was carried by a majority of 112.

HEART MENDED. iime. Chesnau, a woman who was stabbed iu the Jeanne d',Are quarter 01 Paris by a rival in her husband's affec-t tions, has had her heart stitched UP., and is now in a fair way to recovery.

DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. j As the result of the election of a Democrat Senator in Delaware, the Democrats are now assured of a major- i it" in the United States Senate after March 4th. j

ASKING FOR MORE. Representatives of the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have waitp|l on the Can- adian Government asking for an in- j creased federal grant, m of the ter- rit-ory added recently to the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

THE EMPEROR'S HEALTH. It is announced in Vienna that the ■ health of tie Austro-H unganan Emperor is very good, and it is only the>; necessity of taking precautions against frequent changes of temperature, Mich as are produced by public ceremonies, that prevents his Majesty from being present in person at the funeral of the 1 late Archduke Rainer. J

i TERMINATION OF ARMISTICE. —— < I WAR RESUMED. J I TUKSJ SUBMISSIVE REPLY TO THE. BALKAN ALLIES. .«>- CONDITIONS REFUSED I Tiie. Allies have notified Turkey ot the termination of the armistice, and hostilities will be resumed on Monetae night, after the axpiry of the agreed fenr days. Turkey s reply to the Collective Note was issued last, night. It is concilia- tory, 111 fact, submissive, in wne. 'ihe (Jttomaoi Government tnai tu<??n(:tu6wii of pc?ce coi'?€??'<?n<? v»itu ?i;j. ?c'??? ?uu jtil<;r<?? u? ..u-i cmA?r?c?. -<? M ??ri???k-, it i? IJreeu. to p?c? i«>eU in tne haiius ol tiie x'Ovvers c.a. re- gards tiiat part- 01 tne town on the iijiiit bank oi the nver Marrtza., out it proposes that Turke— snail retain LLbaT, part on t-ne left bank, wiiero the niOisques and historic "monume-nts are I s; tuated. Indispensable. I As to ',he tEe Turkish Government pomes out txiat they are lnaispeiisaDie to the aeience 01 the capi- ta; ana tne security 01 Asia Minor, it is prepared, however, to leave their fate in the haixis 01 trie r(W\J8 ^roviueo that the authority 01 the Sublime Porte over tneni is maintained. in view ot the great sacrifices made any lurtker demands made 0" the Allies will be re- jected. Whether these concessions will meet the demands of the Allies remains to be been, but a deciuediy optimistic view is taken ill, Paris and Berlin. Dr. Danc-if, speaking on behali ot the Allies before the full text of the reply was known, stated that Adrianople and the islands must be ceded absolutely, and that until then negotiations could not be resumed. Curious Delay. I Constantinople, Thursdiy.-A some- what curious delay took place in con- nection with the presentation 01 the reply. It was dispatched this morning to the Ausiro-H ungarian Ambassador, but at the last minute the Govern- ment decided to postpone the iormaJ presentation until this afternoon, as it wished to modify some passage*. The Minister lor Foreign Affairs left the P-jrte at the appointed time .0 hand the Note to tiie Maaqois l'aila- vicini. and he had actually reached the threshold of the Austro-llungarian Embassy when hi? was stopped by a special messenger who had been beht after him. It is understood that the rupture of the negotiations in London necessitated a slight alteration 111 the wording ot the Note.—Rcuter. Armistice Denounced. I Sofia, Thursday .—The armistice has been denounced to date irorn 7 p.m. this evening. Hostilities will accord- ingly be resumed at 7 p.m. next Mon- day. By order of the army headquarters, war correspondents will not be allowed to ioiiow the operations during the new pha? of the war. The Government has ordered the cessation of all movements of trains past Adnanople.—Reutcr.

A RACE IN THE AIR. I An international aeroplane race from Berlin to Christiania, with prizes amounting to £ 4.000, £ 1.600, and will take place on June, 22nd next.

THEY DO NOT LIKE :T, I As the TPM]lt of the decision of l>r. I Woodrow Wilson, the United Sta.t<? I Pr?sid?nt-clect. not to give an inaugur3- • tion ba.U at White House, Ameriean 1/ dressmakers and milhnprs estimate tha.t I they will lose £ 300,000.

5.30 EDITION, TRADES UNION BILL. Tliird reading was agreed to amidst cheers. CUTTER MISSING. The Admiralty state that the cutter of the cruiser Perseus with one officer and eight men, Íi missing in the Persian Gulf, and there is verj lit tic hope of them being recovered. FALL OF CLIFF Seven 'ii engaged at R--i.tmgu.ejj ¡ Gap, near Brighton, in coast protec- tion work were buried by a tall of cliff. Two were killed, three re- mained buried under debris, aud two others were removed to the hospital. COAL KEPOKT. I Although the weather A a,- slightly (-oi(ler. tnere was- no alteration in the ijeaborno Hon,e. Coal market to-da-y. ù.. quotations. Arrivals 19. 1 Betting: fa to 4 KabzorLm. t

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