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Our Note Book! A Heroine of the Sea.—The Terrible Experience of the Cambrian Clileftain.-Ilie Recent Fire at Gorseinon. -.Need of a Local Fire Bri- gade.—What Should be Done. An instance of a lady's heroism at tea is recalled hy the death of Mrs. Florence E. Triomas, at Liverpool last Honday. ;\1 r: Thomas was the wife at (Japt. Hugh Ttwinas, who is at pre-41 nent abroad in command of a ship, and who was in lH master of the Liver- tioot ship, "Cambrian Chieftain." a 1111) 1-1 an which vessel, while OIl a passage from ■.Newcastle, .S.W. lor Taita-i with a carg:> of coal iN, as dismasted, and thrown over on her beam ends during ii heavy ^ale through the shifting ot her cargo. Mrs. Thomas was ac- e, car-?). companied on the trin by her children, .i ri cl when the position of the vessel and her new became perilous she en- <x>u raged the crew by the display of a very brave and indomitable spirit. # When it was feared that the ship would founder with all.pn board, Capt. Thomas decided to abandon her, and when the ship Dee on a passage from the West coast of America for the United Kingdom hove in sight and bore down upon her, he ordered the crew to leave the ship. By means of .a life-boat, Jlr". Thomas, her two •children and the apprentices Mure transferred in safety to the Dee. A second attempt at rescue failed; the lifeboat capsized, and the four men in it were drowned. Some three months later, the whole shipping world was .startled by the safe arrival of the Cambrian Chieftain at Tdtal. At the time Mrs. Thomas wrote a vivid account of the disaster to her hus- band s vessel for the ''Liverpool Journal 01 Commerce," and many eulogies passed on the very able way in which the article was written. I The fire which took place some time ago at Ponybryn-road, Clorsemon-—and which was so pluckily extinguished by. tIvc IlWU (Messrs. (<. M. Presiey, Stack. AV. Williams, and two employes of Mr. wewis, bunder and contractor), induces a correspondent to ask whether the time has not arrived for the Parish Council to look into the question of the torma- 1 ion ot a tire brigade for the district. When fires break out at. the present time it is necessary to wait until the brigade has been brought from Swansea, sml in the event of a big conflagration the changes are a hundred to one on the p.oii. ses being burnt down before th«'. brigade can arrive to render any prac- tical assistance. Following a fir*- at Morriston rome 12 or 18 months ago. steps were taken to form a. voluntary brigade there, and it is urged that the time has arrived when the matter should be taken into very serious consideration not only by Gor- i-cinon, hut by the authorities in all the outlying districts. Years ago when hre broke out at Gorseinon, the com- plaint was that thero was no water, For some time now there has been an! adequate supply, and undoubtedly the pubtic could rest with a greater sense of t,e,itrl ty if they were confident that a brigade with proper appliances was at hand in case of emergency. It is a matter of surprise that this question has not Iveen taken and dealt with seri- ously long ago. ————— ————— A certain councillor is a "terror' on salaries. Wouid he object to the raising of his own The Swansea Empire programmes were late in their arrival on Monday night, but the management got over the difficulty by announcing the turns on the screen. The meeting of the Swansea Educa- tion Committee created a record on M onday, the business being transacted ill one hour. And Mr. —— was there. too 1 "If I wanted to be converted to j Liberalism, I would not read book s by j Liberal writers, but by Consevative poli- i ticians," said the Hon. Roland Philipps at Pontarduhiis. -A- -X- Mr. Ben Matthews, one of the re- tiring Pontardulais councillors, has missed only one Council meeting during his twelve years' stewardship. On '■hat occasion he was away in London on Council business. o)\ In "The Barrier" the old miner ^No-Creek Lee,' is asked why he allows two well-known rogues an entry to his Haim, where gold has been found. The, fid prospector wags his head, and re- phf'. "Why does a blackbird let a cuckoo share his nest ?" citc?-?o shai?e his nest? The Hon. Roland Philipps, at Pon- tardulais, summed up the Unionist leaders as: "Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who believes in food duties, and Mr. Bonar Law, who thinks he does not be- lieve in them now, but may do so later on. Mr. Balfur was chucked out of the leadership because he did not believe in them, and Mr. Bonar Law was nearly chucked out because he said he did be- lieve in them." F-

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?UIRL'S STRANCE  I STORYN MEN AND A MARE. ALLEGED CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MAlMiNG HORSES. I I THE RAT. i i The 'following extraordinary statement has been made to us by a young domestic ser- vant now employed in Swansea. We publish the story as she give it to one j of our representatives, and she assures us J that her recoSiection of the events de- I scribed is quite clear. he girl has supplied us with notes of the j conversations reported, from which we have compiled the account given below. We may.arid that the girl bears an excellent character, which is testified to by the state- ments of various persons interviewed in. dependently. | An extraordinary story is told by a A n xtra.ordinar'y story is told by a Swansea girl of a mysterious conversa- tion alleged to have taken place some time ago between two men. The young woman happened to he engaged in a situ- ation not a hundred miles from Swansea, and on one 'occasion, w hen going to visit a doctor and to make some purchases, she went into a shop. While there, she says she overheard a conversation between two men about a mare. A Conversation. The next day she agai n saw the same two men. She says she was giving her order when a man came into the shop, lie seemed as though he had been running. This was the conversation: What are you puffing a bout r There is no need to kill yourself..Have you had t!iat mai,c. That's all 1 want to know." Yes." How was she:" "As quiet as a lamb." No signs of struggle?" So." How did you get her?" "1 had her forelegs, and she went down on her knees, and 1 managed to get the others easily." "Which way did you CaIne?" 1 cut across the fields and came out through the big gate." Blue-bcttles." Did you see any of the blue-bottles on your way r" 1 saw one oil the road by the lamp- post, with his hat over his eyes and his ha.mU to hi« mouth." "That's how the s are. When they are wanted, they are not a bout. rj! give the -'8 some work before 1 finish. You can do things under their nose. man I'll wake the up The girl could not wait any longer, so told the tradesman she would call back, and then went to the surgery. On her return, she was questioned, and the tradesman would not believe that she had gone to the doctor's, and even went so far as to taste the medicine. She re- marked that it was strange to see the shop door closed. The other man stood hy the door with a rope in his hand. The tradesman said to her: "1 thought you was gone to tell the blue --IS) you don't want to go telling them. Jack (the other man) was still by the door, continues the girl. "J nwde my way out, but was stopped. Jack caught Jiold of my arms 1 got loose he then put his hands on the panels of the door to top me. T tried to force myself many ways. Jack said to the shopkeeper, 'She is strong, man." The tradesman had a cleaver on the counter with the handle towards the door, and a box was inside the counter. He put his foot on the box and his hands on the counter ready to jump over. 1 tried harder to get away. Jack put his knee against the door. I dashed through, but nearly fell on my face on the pa,vement out- side. A man, my next-door neighbour, was passing at the time. Saved Her Life. I "The following Saturday," she coc-n- t':nues, "1 went to the shop to pay a bill, and the shopkeeper asked if I had the bottle of medicine. Ho told me to keep that bottle. It was that saved your lifp,' he said. not the medicine.' lie said he had the chopper ready, and the box bv the counter, and it wouldn't take him long to jump over. It wouldn't take me long to come there now!' Mrs. —— came from behind a screen, and said, 'Go on! Don't speak to the woman like that.' On the following Saturday, she says, her employer told her how the shop- keeper was standing drinks at a public- house, and saying, 'Drink up, boys! I've had another horse!' The shop was then closed for four or five weeks. Then Mrs. (his wife) opened the shop and sent for her. She told her that Mr. had left her; she feared he was going about doing wrong—that he was going about maiming horses. The girl then told her of the conversa- tion she had overheard. "Don't say anything for the sake of me and the little girl," said the woman. The girl says she afterwards took a situation in a Swansea hotel, and there saw the tradesman, who staved there for three nights. He had "Knives for maiming horses." as she put it. I told a policeman that 1 saw those knives with and that the man (•lack) was with 1 said to later, 'What are these knives used for? They are for maiming horses, aren't the'?' said, 'No, they are for scraping the things down. You must not take notice of them things" Saw Them in Picture Palace. In a,bout half-an-hour afterwards, he called me as I was passing, and asked where in the did I see those things. I told him on a picture palace film. He s-,iid, Why for horses more than anything else?' T told him the story of the picture. He went il)to, the room raving with temper. He told the people in the room if it was a girl (Continued on Page 5.) J

TIIEIR MAJESTIES IN THE STATE COACH. | ifhoto by McwsfafeT illustrations, Ltd.) Their Majesties, In the State Coach, going to the Houses of Parliament yesterday. The procession and the scene In the House of Lords were most impressive. j

OUR PRINCE. PORTION OF HIS VACATION TO BE SPENT WITH THE KAISER. It has been decided that the Prince of Wales will leave London for Germany on Monday evening next. It is understood that at least some portion of the Prince's vacation will t)(- I spent with the Kaiser.

CHARTS GRIEVANCE. I RHONDDA DIRECTORS TO RECEIVE HIM PERSONALLY. A Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway guard, who is aggrieved owing to the fact that another man has been ap- pointed to a TKist to which he considered he was entitled by seniority, has asked permission to place his case personally before the directorate, and his applica- tion has been acceded to. A "Leader" representative, who bas? made inquiries, is informed that t iie Rhondda and Swansea Bay Company, in conjunction with the Taff Vale Com- pany, were appointing two inspectors to act for both companies at Treherbert, and that they appointed the man whom they considered most suitable for the position. With regard to the suggestion which has been made that the aggriev man g(rrle-, g r.1 iii.,in was 'victimised" because he had been the mouthpiece of the men on the Con- ciliation Hoard, the "Leader" represen- tative, who called upon him this morn- ing, was assured by Mr. David, the traffic superintendent of the Rhondda Company, that there is not a shadow of fo-incbtion for it, and that when ap- pointments were made the question as to whether men were members of any particular organisation never entered into consideration at all. As far as he knew the majority, if not all the mem- bers, of the uniformed staff belonged to tho Railwaymen's Society, members of which filled some of the most im- portant posts under the company.

COMING HOME AGAIN. Ottawa. March 10th.—The Duke and Duchess of Connaught will leave the capital next Wednesday, and after a short stay at Montreal, will leave for England, sailing from Halifax on March lith.-Reuter.

"I NEW CHIEF RABBI. Dr. Hertz. the new Chief Rabbi, arrived at Fishguard on the Mauie- tania yesterday. His installation will take place next month

PRISON RIOT IN' SPAIN. Oviedo. )La.rch 9.The oonvicts in tho prison here mutinied to-day, using knives and revolvers. The civil guard intervened, and five persons were severely and several slightly injured.— Renter. j

THE HOT CROSS BUN. I W riting -in his parish magazine, the I Hm-. R. U. W. Smeaton, vicar of AYell- ingboro', says he has observed with pleasu.ro the movement by the bakers • against the tyranny of the hot cross bun. He wished bakers would combine and rciusG to bake any more.

CHILDREN MURDERED. I Walter Sykes, aged twenty-four, a labourer, was sentenced to death at the Leeds Assizes last night tor the murder of Amy Nicholson, aged 10, and Frances Alice Nicholson, aged 7, at Rotherham, on November 15. The cbildre nset out for home after at- tending an evening rehearsal of a con- cert. Next mornmg they were found with their throats cut beneath a hedge.

THE RIVAL BLUES. ] The Oxford crew yesterday roweù! from a stake boat moored under Putney Bridge to the Mile Post in 4mio. 4osec The time was fairly good, as the tide was slackening, but the rowing was laboured. The Cambridge crew rowed from the Mile Post to Hammersmith Bridge in1 tho good timp of 2min. 58sec., but they appeared to be well above the Mile Post when they started.

LORD TREDEGAR. DEATH OF A BALACLAVA HERO I I NO HEIR TO VISCOUNTY. I I I We regret to state that Vis- count. Tredegar died this morning. Deceased, who had been ill for some time, was born, in Apirl 1831. He served through the Crimean war, and rode with his regiment in the Balaclava charge. Deceased was Conservative M.P. for Breconshire, as Mr. Godfrey Charles Morgan, from 18o8 to 187-5, in which latter year ke succeeded to the Barony, and in 1905 created a Viscount. There (s no heir to the Viscounty, but Lieut.Col. Courtenay C. Evaus Morgan, decea.sod's nephew, succeeds to the Barony. Lord Tredegar, who died at Tredegar Park, would have reached his 82nd birthday had he lived until the 28th of next month. Dr. Reginald Brewer .states that his Jast moments were peaceful. A captain in the 17th Lancers, his stirring: account of the charge of the Light Brigade, given in a letter to his people, which we have already published, will he remembered.

THAT BAD EXAMPLE. I A national convention of hoboes (tramps) was held at New Orleans, and it was decided to adopt the bunger- stnike in order to secure their release from goal WhCll convicted of vagrancy. 0 oJ

A WOMAN'S OATH. I I am speaking the truth by my eye and by my hai r," exclaimed a woman witness in Yarmouth Police Court wnen it was suggested n cross-examination that her version of an assault wtus not correct.

I MOTOR HEADLIGHTS. I Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, has arranged for a series ot experiments at tne National Physical Laboratory to tain how tar it may be practicable to frame regulations prohibiting the sue of dazzling headlights on motor-cars.

MOTHS AND MONEY. I Ximcna rGlashan a twenty-year- old California girl, known as The Butecrfly Queen," has niade a. profit of £ 80 during the last twelve months on the sale of butterflies and motlis I which she collected in the wild country around the Caiitornian-Mexican border.

THE MONDAY MOOD. I Mr. Cecil Chapman, the Tower Bridge magistrate, speaking at a meet- ing of the Legal Temperance Society at Lincoln's lUll last night, confessed that on Mondays his temper was always worse, because he had more cases ot drunkenness to deal with than on any other day in tho week.

SACRIFICED HER SKIN. I In order to save her son-in-law, who had been terribly burned on the side, a Frenchwoman named Manouvrier. jiving at Avesnas, has repeatedly allowed the surgeons to cover tne burns with portions of her own skin. When congratulated by the surgeons on her pluck, sho replied I am always ready."

1 —^ UNIVERSITY TROUBLES. I Jt is stated that great unrest and dis- I satisfaction exist at Bristol University, not only among the teaching staff, but also among the j. raduates of the univer- sity. with regard to the alleged abuse of their powers by the Council. A searc hing inquiry is.demanded, and questions are to be addressed to the Government in the House of Commons next woek.

MARCONI ACTION. I MINISTERS TAKE ACTION AGAINST FRENCH NEWSPAPER. I It is announced t.hat Mr. Herbert Samuel. l he Postmatcr-General. and Sir Rulus Isaacs, the Attorney-General. have instituted proceedings against Le Mat'in," the well-known Paris newspaper, tor alleged libel in oonnec- tion with certain specific statements which that newspaper published charg- [ iug them with dealing in Marconi Com- pany's shares. The Matin has a publishing office in London, and the action will be brought there. j

FRIENDLY FRANCE. I FOREICN MINISTER AND THE II MILITARY PREPARATIONS. I Writing I in the "-Dally and Leader," Mr. Harold Spendei "'ay? that ti e en(,h Foreign ?inustpr, M. Jonnart, has asked him to convey to the British public the assurance that the French CovcTumeni desires nothing but peace. He assured himi that the new military preparations of! the French Republic are undertaken! simply and solely in the cause of national defence. t itt. J-oiiiiart also said that France' faces tho situation with profound calm and with absolute trust in her future.

POLITICIANS INVOLVED. — ♦ MORE LIGHT ON THE METHODS OF THE NEW YORK POLICE. i A woman named Hertz, who is alleged to have been the keeper of disorderly I houses ?n New Yt i k lor many year;, il and was recently sentenced to prison, I has made a complete confession to the District Attorney, Mr. Whitman. Her confession covers, it is said, 20 years, during which she declares that she en- joved police protection for which she paid liberallv and svstematicallv. It is stated (says the "Times" corres- pondent) that her disclosures, which arc substantiated by considerable docu- I mentary evidence# may involve police officials and well-known politicians.

FALSE FIRE ALARMS. During Sunday night the London Ere Brigade were the victims of nine I malicious fa; alarms.

AT WORK ACAIN. A Normanton message says that Guard Richardson, of the Midland Rail- way, resumed work this morning. As he boarded the train for Grime- thorpe he was cheered by his s hed-mates,

THE TERRITORIAL FORCE. The strength of the Territorial Force on March 1st has been returned at 9.290 ofifcers and 252,965 X.C.O.'s and men, fln increase of two officers and a decrease of 2.365 of other ranks since Frbr-uarv i 1st.

THE INOPPORTUNE BEETLE. The appearance of a black beetle on a concert platform at Brisbane lrightened I a lady vocalist into a fainting fit. Her accompanist rushed shrieking from the hall, and the perlormance was stopped.

I PRESTON-PANS RELIC. A skeleton with the remains ot a gold and silver decoration on the breast has becn found at Tranent, Haddingtonshire. The skeleton is supposed to I>C that of an officer killed in the battle of Prestonpans in

AN UNKNOWN CRIMINAL. I Sentence of penal servitude for life has been passed at the Milan Assizes on the Anarchist who shot and killed two people and severely wounded live others last May. The curious feature of the case is that the identity of the criminal has never been disclosed.

FUEL WORKERS' DREAD. I PITCH CANCER. HOME OFFICE INQUIRY RESUMED AT I SWANSEA. I RE'JOtfMENDATiCKS. I The Home Office inquiry, under tne Factory and Work shoos Act, 1901. as to the draft regulations for the manu- facture of patent fuel (briquettes) with the addition of pitch, which was ad- iourned from the 20th June, 19H, was resumed by Mr. Alfred Herbert Lush, the Commissioner at the Crown Court, Swansea this (Tuesday) morning. It will be remembered that the inquiry was adjourned to enable the employers to make certain tests and practical trials of new draft regulations at the various works with the object of pie- Tentinc disease arising from the curry- ing out of the industry. Mr. Llewellyn Williams, K.C., M.P., appeared ior l the Home (?ice, and Mr. Fr.mk Gaskell for the owners. Amongst those present were Mr. J. H. Rogers (H.M. Superintendent of Factories. S.W. Division), Dr Legge (Home Office). Mr Edwards (H.M. 1n- spector at Cardiff). Mr. J; Wignall, J.P.. Alderman T Merrells, and others. Certain Suggestions. I Mr. Liowelyn Williams in opening the in quire; erred to two years ago when the inquiry was started at Car- diff on Aprii 26th, 1911. They had iourteen or fifteen sittings in ail at Car- diff and Swansea, and finally in Lon- don. The last sitting was held on the 20th June, 1911 and in consequence oerta,in suggestions were made by Mr. Sankey, and the Commissioners wa.s good enough to say that certain experi- ments should be made in order that it lir'ghr be quite certain that the regula- tions which were applied to this indus- try should be fairly and properly applicable to it. Mr. Llewelyn Wil- liams then referred to the enormous increase that had taken place in tie exjvort of patent fuel from Swansea. J I. might be thought that the men i\ bo bandied tlie pitch were the mÚA liable to d'Lseajse. but as the inquiry proceeded he was not quite certain that Uiat was realised. One of the most ?xtraotd'nary things. to his mind, was d¡a1 it (.Liscovered that the shippers, who only handled the I fimhed article, suffered from epithe- I f'i nI?,hed article, sufferc-( l i'roni c?pltbe- Two Kinds of Trouble. I There were two kinds of trouble to which the men engaged in this industry had suffered. The tirst trouble was in regard to, the eyes. In the main the pitch grinders were the people who suf- fered most. He reinenitwred visiting the Graigola Works two years ago, and he was very much impressed by the fact that nearly all the men who were en- gaged Oil the pitch, either in carting it on trolleys to the mills or engaged in grinding it; complained of some affec- tion to the eyes. Some of them wore. goggles and others crepe. He was told that they lig(i now got all their pitch under cover, and therefore ail the men who were employed in breaking it, up or inking it away on the tivileys d?j not sdíer thn.ugh the' eye* be:ng affected by the unlight and high wind. which gan' them considerable troubi? when they "worked in the open. I He believed that one of the resulis ■ of the injury would be to show that the men did not now suffer excruciat- ing agony and irritation to the ta<? ) which they previously suffered. Since j the last inquiry other (>xpf>m{'ra had been made with regard to goggles and certain bnd of ?ap to sec A-heTh", (Continued on Page 5)^ (Continu4-J onPagC5?.

MOTHER AND DAtGHTER DIE Bodies of Mr; Wviiian Jetfriet- and her dilt;ht-er; wcll-knl)wn God'nunc ladies, were found 1ll liönd there. Daughter had left note taying ihe W2j about- to commit suicide, and \fcdvi*in& mother tu do .I.J lolloped her. 7 -1 I -.AN&r-IL-EI SEELEIO;: lleuaaurs found in fcamlet IY-, Llauaamlct, Line L--cu pru\cd t 0 J).) those of Jordan Juhc. Vcrdict to- day's inquejt~of "Accidental del th." Report nest edition. HIGGINS CASE, Jury failed to agreo. Case 1--11: be ti aid again. Pric-iaer bound o\ vr it) £ "l<Yl to appear ujxt A'7." Judge remarked ca^e should have been dealt vith at fcwausea Quarter Sessions. r

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