South Wales Echo

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TO ADVERTISERS. The South Wales Echo is GUARANTEED te have a Larger Circulation than that of ALL the other Evening Papers of South Wales and Monmouthshire added together. As regard* Oardiff alone, it is almost un. necessary for us to add that the circulation of the South Walti Echo is IMMENSELY GREATER than that of any other Evening Papar. ROGERS' AK ALES AND Pot-tTrift"- IN 4% GALLON CASKS and UPWARD? FROM 10D PER GALLON. la. BREWEHY, BRISTOL CARDIFF OFFICES, 2, MILL LANE.

I The Man About Town. Are the streets of Cardiff to be paved with Jarrahdaie Jarrah, Canning Jarrah, senti- ment, or, as a correspondent suggested some time ago, with the heads of the City Fathers 1 The question seems interminable, and all the while the principal streets are in a vile condition, irregular, smothered in blinding dust in fine weather and immersed in mud after half-an-hour's rain. Sentiment played a large part in the discus- sion of the subject yesterday, but business ultimately prevailed, and the consideration of the contract for more than a million hard wood blocks for street pavements will be advertised and entered into de novo. After all, Cardiff should profit by the legal contention, and the burgesses expect the Corporation to act like private business men and get the best bargain for the town. Obviously we are not anxious to pave the streets on the sentiment plan, nor with an expensive legally protected trade description, though Jarrahdale Jarrah does sound poetical and alliterative. A difference of opinion exists on the point whether Jarrahdale Jarrah hard Australian wood is the same as Canning Jarrah which comes from the same district, but another part of the same forest, and costs in this country 21,300 less upon the quantities required for the Cardiff contract. The Corporation have surely an expert who can say positively whether one wood is as durable as the other, and if not samples of J. Jarrah and C. Jarrah can be tested on the testing machine in the Engineering School at the College. I fancy Prof. Elliot could soon determine the fact even if timber merchants and experts dis- agree. Yesterday's decision is business like, and we have narrowly escaped a little senti- mental move. Strict bvsiness, gentlemen, in all contracts, else why advertise for tenders ? But Pave, 0 Pave our Streets I Those cocked hats and scarlet robes worn by the visiting Mayors on the day of the opening of the Exhibition did it. After the gentle sallies of wit and the attempts at depicting obeseand rotund Councillors and tall lean Aldermen in such toga and head gear as the distinctive garments of old-time authority which moved about the Town Hall and the streets of Cardiff for a brief hour-no eloquence could persuade Democratic Car- diff Councillors to adorn themselves in such raiment. But the vanity of some men is deeply seated, and there are representatives of the fat and the lean kind of Councillor who crave to be seen in public places attired in cap and gown, so that, presumably, they may band them down to their families and to posterity at the very gowns and hats which they wore on the day when the Prince of Wales visited the Borough of Cardiff 1 Municipal portraiture is being carried on so enthusiastically in full and three quarter length canvasses that a special gallery for Town portraits will soon have to be built. I would suggest that instead of so many square feet of canvas being presented to the town the Town Clerk or his office boy should be provided with a pocket camera, and that it should be part of his duty to secure midget portraits of all Aldermen and Councillors for the Municipal Portrait Gallery. This honour might compensate some civic rulers for the loss of distinctive garb as Councillor or Alderman Quoth Councillor Good, with the fire of true patriotism in his eyes This motion is beneath the consideration of the Council. In these democratic days cooked hats and embroidered petticoats are an absurdity." From that moment the proposal of Councillor White to wear official robes when the Prince comes was doomed to ignominious failure How could a proposal live after such fiery sentences ? Alderman Bees buried the pro- posal in a peroration of Aldermanic i eloquence, punctuated by the plaudits of his hearers. Thus the peroration of Alderman Rees There is such a thing as self-respect. Had they any left? (" No," and laughter.) Were they going to expose th,-maelves-(" Never ")—to public ridicule, and subject themselves to the jeers of every street gamin ? The members of the Corporation will meet the Prince attired as intelligent citizens, and not rigged out as proposed, like decorated Corporation puppets. Something might be said for the Corporation donning Green ribbons on the First of April. When the lawyers do not know the Law The following very pertinent letter reaches me on the question of taking the Oath tn Courts of Law. It will be remembered that the question was raised by witnesses object- ing to kiss dirty Testaments, and in mentioning the various methods of taking the oath in different countries, I said that the practice of swearing with raised hand was general throughout Europe. It is also legal in Scotland. My correspondent now shows that It is admis- sible in English and Welsh Courts, and thus the objectionable and very dangerous ordeal of kissing the unclean cover of a Book, which many people dread, may be escaped if only they know their rights. I have noticed that directly a man asks to affirm or makes any objection to kissing a book, most Court officials regard him as a heathen or some monstrous being not fit to be loose in Society. That feeling is passing away, but it is not entirely gone. Surely the Court officials who are administer- ing oaths every day ought to know the law on the subject. One can understand the Court being baffled a little when a Parsee or j Mahommedan comes forward to be sworn as I a witness. Here is the letter Dear Man About Town,—Permit me to draw your attention to the 5th clause of the J Oaths Act of 1888 1 If any person to whom an oath is administered desires to swear with uplifted hand, in the form and manner in which an oath is usually ad- ministered in Scotland, he shall be permitted so to do, and the oath shall be administered to him in such form and manner without further question. I have frequently availed myself of the right to be thus sworn, and my desire has been treated with courtesy at the Coroner's, County, and Police Courts. However, I have not in a single instance met with an official at any of the said courts who was acquainted with the exact formula of the Scotch ath. A copy of the Act may be procured from Messrs Eyre and Spottiswoode, Fleet-street, at the price of one halfpenny.—Yours truly, D. DANIEL JONES, M.B., Edin. Cwmaman." One of the members of my Poets' Com- pany writes to say that he heard the cuckoo and saw the swallows on Sunday, which was a real summer's day. He adds a note and a poem To the Lark." His note runs "This is what the Roath Park and the birds beget in a-well, there, you know, a heart wearied with disappointment, on a Sunday and after a week's illness. How do 'I you like it ?" It is not quite a Shelleyean lyric, but good occasional verse. I TO THE IiABK. Heavenward winging, Swraphlike singing, Bird of inimitable note; Out o'er the lambent air, Swpet goes thy eong and rare Making a grave for care- Magic. melodious throat. Lifting man higher. Musical flyer, Portlier and further from earth. Duty's richest singer thou, Smoother of wrinkled brow ) Oh to be with thee now, Finding a mightv new birth. Melody flinging, Earthward bringing Heaven and Jove by thy song Up in thy birl-ss cage, Sing, aud the soul engage, Free it from pain and rage, Gotten by man and his wrong. B. Dear Man About Town,-I am "glad to see you giving attention to the doings of the Aberdare Urban District Council in refer- ence to their persistent refusal to adopt the Notification of Diseases Act, and can assure you that you will be heartily thanked by the residents for your action. At present the medical officers in the town positively decline to report any case of infectious disease to the Council or its Medical Officer, Thus a serious out- break of infectious disease may occur days before the Medical Officer or the Inspector of Nuisances becomes aware of it. I trust, however, that what has been already written may be the means of inducing some of the District Councillors to move in the matter, so that the pros and cons of the action of the Council may be thoroughly discussed. There are one or two other questions in which the inhabitants of Sweet 'Berdar are anxiously waiting a move to be made. During the recent election the question of a free library was vigorously canvassed, and each of the candi- dates expressed themselves in favour of the adoption of the Act. So far, however, nothing has been done, and some of the electors are wondering whether this is to be kept until it is again wanted as an election cry.—Yours, J.Q." A body of intelligent representatives and ratepayers should surely need no persuading to adopt the simple provision of an Act of precaution which injures no one, but which insures every resident from the danger of unnecessary exposure to infectious disease. It is the most simple and elementary pre- caution that a body of citizens can take. Every other district in Wales and England has adopted it. Perhaps the Aberdare District Councillors take pride in being different from other men I Their pride may yet be humbled by a serious epidemic. The Free Library Question raised by my correspondent is another matter. Books are deemed to be part of the necessaries of existence, and it is better for towns and districcs to pay for books, papers, and Free Library buildings than for gaols and work- houses. In every well-regulated city, town, and district-in some villages even-a Free Library and News Room are held to be public necessities just like sewers, paved and lighted streets, and a water supply. But if all the District Councillors of Aberdare have given their promise in favour of the Free Library, why wait Are they, too, affected by the gentle vice of hanging things up ? These two questions concern the physical and mental health of the people of Aberdare. They should go together. One is impossible without the other: Mem sana in corpore sano should be the motto of Sweet 'Berdar I"

I TODAY'S WEATHER, 4.30 P.M. DArS FORECAST. POR ANGLANT), S.W., AYJ) SOUTH WALES. North-easterly winds; tmh fine warm. GBNKRAI There ate stal no signs of any important change fa I the weather

——WMM L 11 N PW—WI ■■ Men of the Day. ï i I Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was boro in London, May 13th, 1842. His father was a military bandmaster. As a choir-boy at the Chapel Royal he gained the Mendelssohn ) Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Musio in wm A. S. SULLIVAN. 1856. and there completed his musical education. He went to Leip-ic horn 1858 to 1861. His music t o Shakespeare's Tempest" at once attracted public favour on his return in 1862. Constantly writing cantatas (" Kenilworth, 1864. &c.), oratorios (" Prodigal Son, 1869 "Light of the World," 1873), anthems, songs, &c., he yeb remained without any specialty extensive popularity till he hit upon a. vein of burlesque operetta, which be produced in con. junction with W. S. Gilbert, who wrote the litarettog. The first of these was Trial by Jury" (1875), followed by The Sorcerer (1877); H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878), which ran for 700 consecutive nights, and had probably the greatest success in England and in the United States of any work of the kind Pirates of Penzance (1880) Patience (1881); Iolanthe" (1882) Prin- Oese Ida (1884) Mikado (1885), revived in 1888 Rm'diKore (1887) and The Yeoman of the Glwrrl "(1888). For the Leeds Festival in October, 1886, he set 'o music an arrangement of Ootobfr. 1886, Golden L-^gend." Iv?nhoo" was L nK f eUpw'a produced m 1891. and m September. 1892, new opera, Ha(ld,in Hal! the libretto ot which was written by Mr S. Grandy, was brought out at the Savoy, and Raided fresh distinction for the great composer. T'ie association with Mr Gilbert was resumed in 1893 in Utopia, Limited." Sir Arthur was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in R78. and knighted in 1883. He is a Mus. D. Oxford and Cambridge.

LOCAL AMUSEMENTS. "The Shop Girl" at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, The Shop Girl," the great musical farce of the Gaiety, as produced at the Theatre Royal, camliff, last eyening, was a remarkable success. Bright, vivacious, and rippling with mirth, there was not a dull moment from start to ifnish, and frequently the audienoe was convulsed with pttals of loud laughter that would not be repressed. Messrs Morren and Mouil. lott's Company includes a galaxy of talents, and the leading characters, as sustained last night by Mr Rit"-ii Wallett (Mr Septimus Hooley), Mr OhaR. S. KittB (Charley Appleby), Mr Tom Fan. court (Mr Nliggles), Mis AdaClarke (Aria Smith), and Miss Lyddie Esmonds (Bessie Brent, the shop girl), were irreproachable. Miss Lyddie Edmondt* impersonation of the title role was an exceedingly clever performance, and a favourable reference is due also to Mr Wellesley Smith as John Brown, the Count Vaurien of Mr Cimrles D. Cleveland, and the Tweets of Mr Wm. Cromwell. The mounting of the piece is a charming bit of work, and the songs and dances which are interspersed in the performance are specially attractive. The Bandit King at the Cardiff Grand. There is plenty of excitement and plenty of stirring realism about the play at the Cardiff Grand Theatre this week. The Bandit King is one of Hardie and Von Leer's pieces, and the leading parb is played by Mr James H." Walticlc, the originator of the modern pque6trian drama. One of the features of this absorbing play is the introduction of several splendid horses and a mule on to the stage. The company is a strong one, and last evening the audiance were lavish in their praise. On Wednes- day, Thursday, and Friday The Cattle King will be played, and this, we may remark, is a drama of equally absorbing interest. The Empire (Cardiff). Despite the closeness of the weather the Empire was thronged at each of Monday's per- formances, and patrons were enabled to pronounce upon the effective arrangements made for their comfort, for with a full house, and on the hottest evening of this year, what is now undoubtedly the prettiest musio hall in the provinces was so admirably ventilated, mainly by the novel sliding roof, as to prove a welcome retreat. But the quality of the show was such as would have compensated for many inoon- veniences. The chief attraction was the first exhibition of the LumiAre Cinematographe. This comes direct from the Empire, L >ndon, where it formed so lucrative a boom." In addition to this startling novelty the usual number of variety turns are given, moat appreciated of which were those of Paul Langtry, than whom thnre is no more popular nigger, and Arthur Roaedon, a one-time Cardiff amateur, who has conquered where so many have failed. The Empire (Newport). I These were the chief items on the programme given at the Charles-street Hall on Monday Harry Champion, truly a popular comedian, who introduced several new songs; Carrie Joy. a clever and phasing vocalist The Oscars, musical comedians Ziobe, m her piotorial entertainment; Frank Cuyne. comedian M. Paul, the n-agician; Mr Horaoe Ward, comedian and the three Sisters Wynne, vocalists and dancers, from ing Gaiety Theatre. What wonder that the buildtbe was well filled and that the audiences were appre- ciative. Blas6 indeed would be the visitor who could not thoroughly enj iy such fare. The Empire (Swansea). I As good wine needs no bush so the programme I at the Old Pavilion speaks for itself, and it is grati Tying to state that music ball habitues in Swansea district can appreciate talent as they did on Monday, and as they will undoubtedly continue to do so during the week. Included in a company forming one of the best combinations ever brought together at Swansea is the great Don Juan, a Caioedo tight-rope walker and comedian Joe Edmonds, the blaok comedian Miss Lilian Robina, serio-comic and balladist; Allis and Juan, comedians and dancers R. W. Bentley, comedian Miss Agnes Hazel, light comedy songstress Gladys Hallett, serio-connedy songstress; and Master Herbert le Martine, vocalist and danoer. The Panopticon (Cardiff). I The Kentucky Minstrels again attraoted large andienoes to the Cardiff Panoptioou at both performances on Monday. An entirely new programme of songs, sketches, glees, and danoes was submitted, which proved highly diverting and entertaining. The corner men- prominent of whom were Dock Watson and Kool Kennedy—kept up a oon- tinual run of catchy" jokes and comic business which oaused a good deal of laughter and applanse. On Sunday evening next anuther saored concert will be given, when some of the most popular solos and choruses will be sung. In the curiosity halls the most imposing feature is the mystical illusion of Galatea," which has recently Wn revived after its complete destruc- tion by f re.

RAID ON COAL MERCHANTS, I Extensive Use of Unjust Weights. I I A Number of Defendants Fined, I The Cardiff Weights and Measures Department have passed over the coal hawker tpd looked after the people who sell the ooal to these retailers. The result was that a number of summonses were issued on the complaint of T. C. Major, the Chief inspector of weights and measures, and these were heard by Mr Stipendiary Lewis at the Cardiff Police Court this morning. The Park Ooal Company, Limited, of Salisbury-road, Cardiff, were fined £ 2 and costs on each of two summonses for having in their possession unjust weights. Alfred Hunt, coal dealer, of 171, Eldon-road, for possessing un- just weights was fined JB2 and costs. Frank Nicholls, of 12 and 13, Mountstuart-square, ooal dealer, was fined E2 and oosts for having one unjust weight in his possession for trade use. Michael Mahoney, for a like offence, was fined 22 )P,nd oosts. Mahoney is a coal dealer of the New Rhymney Coal Yard. There were also the following oonviotions for possessing unjust weights William Marks, of the New Rhymney Coal Yard, fined ;02 and costs; Robert Rixon, also of the New Rhymney Ooal Yard, fined B2 and costs E. T. Sanders, of 3, Newport-road, fined JB2 and oosts; Daniel Madder, of the New Rhymney Coal Yard, fined 22 and oosts and Wm, Henry Morgan, of the Old Rhymney Coal Yard, fined B2 and costs. In nearly every oase the offence was admitted.

I NOVICE AT CYCLING, I Fatal Aooident. Mr W. White, dispenser to a Launceaton Corn. wall,doctor,died in the Infirmary there last night, frominjuries received while bicycling on Thursday Deceased, being a novice at cycling, lost control of his maohice white going down a very slight slope in Horse-lane and was dashed with great force into a brick wall. Mr White, who belonged to Wokmg, sustained concussion of the brain.

t RIOIOUS 8TUDENT8. RTO JANEIRO, Monday.—The students of the Polytechnic School here created a disturbance to-day. They threatened the director and m:l treated several of I" professors, stiotitil, Death to the D;u," Down with Monarchy." Lone live thR RAWWUO.

I Mail Packet Robbery. I X3,000 WORTH OF BULLION MISSING. I Yesterday morning, on the arrival at Dover of I the mail packet Albert from Ostend, it was ascertained that two large baskets con- taining registered postal parcels were missing. Over 20 of the lost packages were usured, and t.bey are supposed to have contained much valuable property. They included three parcels which together contained at least 93,000 worth of bullion. It is believed that tbe remainder of the packets were almost equally nluable. How or where the robbery was effected remains for the J present a mystery. I As soon as the matter became known the Scotland Yard authorities were communicated with. and during t'" whole of yesterday Superin- tendent Donald Swanson and his officers were investigating the affair. It is believed that Continental thieves have carried out the robbery. I A CONTRADICTION, j With reference to the sensational story published this mnrning of a robbery of bullion on its way to London, the Central News learns to-day that the alleged stolen baskets we.-e not shipped at all from Ostend. They had been placed in safe keeping, and were found all right this morning. The baskets have been shipped to-day, and will arrive in London in due course to-night. The Press Association is officially informed that there was no robbery from the mails at Dover yesterday. When the mails arrived some parcels were found to be missing, which upon II inquiry it was ascertained had been accidentally left behind at Ostend. The missing parcels arrived at the General Post Office in London this I morning and are intact.

HIGH CONSTABLE OF ABERDARE I Election of Mr E. M. Hann. This morning at the. Aberdare Police Court- 'I Mr W. M. North, Mr R. H. Rhys, Mr D. T. Davies, Mr D. Davies, Mr Griffith Jones, and Dr. D. Davies on the bench- Mr Lewis N. Williams, the retiring High Constable, attended, and submitted the names of three gentlemen for the office. The Bench appointed the first named on the list, namely, Mr E. M. Hann, general manager of the Powall Duffryn Colliery Company. Later on Mr Hann attended the Court to take the usua' • fhs, and was congratulated by the members the Bench. He was then in- veated with the chain of office by the retiring High Constable. An informal meeting was held at the Black Lion Hotel, a large number of congratulatory messages being received by the new High Constable. I Interesting Details. 11 Breaking through the practice which hasfor some I Y,-ar& past conSned the Hitrh Constableship ot I I MB E. M. HANN. Aberdare—or to be more accurate, the High Oonstableship of the Division of Miskin H!gher-to the con- fines of the town of Aberdare, the retiring High Constable, in accordance with the wishes of an influ- ential deputation which represented the I claim of out-lying dis- tricts, placed the name of Mr Edmund Mills Hann (general manager of the Powell Duffryn Company) ou the head of the list and the magistrates approving of the selection that gentle- man was this morning appointed High (ion- stable for the forthcoming year. This is the first time for the honour to be conferred on a resident of Aberaman, and the appointment is deservedly popular throughoub the district. The New High Constable. I Mr Hann is a Durham man, and was born in 1850. He entered the mining profession at the Hetton Collieries, and soon after completing his articles obtained a manager's position in the Cleveland Ironstone, under a firm which had some interests and connections in South Wales, through which Mr Hann first visited South Wales in 1872. In 1879 he joined the staff of the Powell Duffryn Company, being appointed manager of the New Tredegar and White Rose Collieries in the Rhymney Valley. SIDCtl 1885 he has had the entire control of the company's operations in the Rhymney and Aberdare Valleys. The output of the various collieries now approaches 2,000,000 tons annually-double what it was when Mr Hann became the com- pany's general manager. He has also had the charge of the Penrhiwceibyr Colliery, owned by the Penrhikyber Ooal Company, since the middle of 1893. He is a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and a member of the Council of the South Walf Institute, Soon after his removal from the Rhymney Valley to the Aberdare Valley he took an active interest in the local government of the pariah, and was elected, November 18th, 1880. a member of the Aberdare Local Board of Health, a position which he held practically without opposition until the board was dissolved by the establishment of the Urban District Council in December, 1894-Mr Hann heading the poll for the Aberaman Ward at the first election of members for that body. In March, 1881. he was elected a member of the Merthyr Board of Guardians, a position which he baa held ever since. In private as well aa in public life Mr Hann is greatly respected. He was one of the earliest supporters of the Aberdare Naturalists' Society, of which he was the president in 1891, and did much to seoure for the town the excellent series of Gilchrist lectures which were delivered under the auspices of that trust.

A CURIOUS CUSTOM, I A curious custom was observed at Leighton I Buszard yesterday in accordance with the will of Mr Edward Wilkes, a London merohant, who died in 1646, and was the founder of ten alms- houses and the over of other public benefactions. The trustees of the charity annually, on Rogation Monday, meet in the morning, and, accompanied by the town crier and a band of boys carrying green boughs, beat the boundaries of the parish at various points, on their way halting at the various properties from which the Almshouse Endowment Fund is derived, and at these spots, as required by the eccentric founder, the will of Mr Wilkes is read while one of the boys stands on his head. The perambulation over, plum rolls are given to the boys. Until recent years these rolls, with a half-pint of beer to each recipient, used to be given in front of the chief hotel in the town, but the beer is now dispensed with and additional rolls are Riven, these being sent to the children in all the schools of the town. The trustees of the charity, the widow oooupants of the almshouses, and the town crier in the evening dine together. A special sum is set apart to ensure that a sermon in memoty of Mr Wilkes is preaohed by the vicar in the parish church each year.

HUSBANDS AND WIVES. The New Summary Jurisdiction Aot. ISFKOIAII TKLKGRAM TO THE "1£080."] At Swansea Police Court to-day Thomas Llewellyn Thomas, of 2, Delhi Cottages, St. Thomas, joiner, was summoned by his wife under the new Summary Juris. diction Act to show cause why a separation otder should not be made. Mr Leeder said defenaant bad repeatedly assaulted his wife, the assaults having com- menced six months after marriage and continued to the present time. There were three children, tbe eldest being nearly eight, and the youngest three. The applicant admitted that she was given to drink, and that she had struck her husband with a brush. Defendant said there was as muoh biame on one side as the other. The Bench granted a separation, allowed the applicant oustody of the ohildren, ordered defendant to contribute 20s a week, and pay the costs and advocate's fee.

THE AMERICA CUP. The Dunraven America Cup fiasco is apparently still having its results in New York, for Mr H. M. Kerley, the well-known agent of the White Star Line there, and Lord Dunraven's representa- tive, has just resigned bit membership of the Now York Yaoht Club, of whioh he has been a member since 1891.

SUDDEN DEATHS AT CAROIff, The sudden death has been reported to the Cardiff Police of Margaret Daniels, aged about 24, residing at 11, Penarth-road. The deceased retired to rest on Monday night complaining of being unwell, and this morning was discovered dead in bed. Hannah Catherine Box, aged 56. of 52, Harold- street, Roath, also died suddenly on Monday night. She oomplained ef feeling ill about 5.30 and died at 10.50.

Visitors to the Cardiff Exhibition will be surprised at its vastness and amazed at the multi. tudinous sights to be found there, but a3 nothing can be properly appreciated and enjoyed without good health, it will be well for those who axe a little run- down, weak, debilitated, or out of sorts to first consult Dr. Bridgwater, M.D., U.S.A., of 18, Custom House- street, whose success as a specialist in nervous and kindred complaints has obtained for him a world-wide reputation. Delight in life and the capacity to enjoy life's delights delightfully ts soon found under his treatment. Note. -Consultationi only at 15. Custom I House-street, Cardiff !90e

I A Trilby Auction, I The Price of Feet. I One of the most singular methods of raillÎ money to aid in paying a Weeleyan preaobeP salary was that resorted to the other eveniol ia the village of Suffern, New York. ø was inaugurated by a Mrs Moore, secretary of the local branch of the Epworth League and took the form of a Trilby auction. TW prettiest girls in the village bad arrayed their selves in all their finery. The young men bill donned their Sunday clothes. The entertainment took place in the lecture-room of the MetbodiJI Church. A curtain bad been drawn across tit. front of the platform and ao arranged that It buill to within four inches of the platform. TM young men were gathered in front of this ourtMe with their eyes glued to the open space at tW bottom. Mr O. G. Wiley, a merchant, 01 [ Suffern, and a pillar of the church, was lbO auctioneer. Presently one of the young wotneS walked out upon the platform, and the speotatotf beheld her feet. Now," said the auctioneer, these feet will B'I. to the highest bidder, and the purchaser wig have the privilege of takinsr the possessor of tM feet to supper." Ah-h-h-li murmured IIbf young men. The identity of the feee," coif tinued the auctioneer, will not be revealed until the sale is over. Now, gentlemen, wbrf will you bid for the feet that stand before yon f. Ten cents," timidly ventured a youth. What! Ouly ten cents for those Trilbies Well, wellt well Ten -ten-ten-iffteen-that's rlgbt J Oonrf along, boys. When I was as yonng as you I'd never stop at fifteen cents for—twenty—good boy Twenty—twenty—twenty Any mort bids Are these delicately-curved Trilbies goiaf for only twenty cents Shame Jast think of the poor girl's feelings Going to supper with. young man who only bid twenty cents for bel feet "Twenty-five then said the same yOU09 man who had bid twenty, whereat the auctioneot smiled. The first pair of feet finally went to thii young man for twenty-five cents. The yotu)2 lady was Miss Frey, one of the belles of tW village. Now's yeur Chance, 80ys I JJ I When the bidding became slow half a dozen of the girls came upon the platform at one time anl stood in a row. Now's your chance, boys, sail the auctioneer. Wo will begin with the feei at the extreme left. What am I bid for them?" "Twenty cents. Twenty—twenty -twenty Any more ? Thoae lovely feet going for 20 cents ? Why, when I wat young—that's right, t wen ty-ti ve.-twenty-five- twenty-five! Going, going, gone 1" It was Mint May Wiley, the daughter uf the auctioneer. Then came a pair of feet with high insteps, "Thirty cents cr:ed a young man. "Thirty one!" shouted another. "Ttkirty-twol" Tile bidding on these feet ran up to 50 cents and then paused. Goiiag-goin-" Fifty-one hastily cried the youug man who had started tbe bidding, and it caught the feet. The owner ol them was Miss Belle Clay, also one of the prettiest girls of the village, and the bid was the highest of the evening. After the Bidding. The auctioneer found that high inatepa aroused brisker bidding than flat ones. He also found that the feet were absolutely no index to the nature or the appearance of the possessor, fof some of the prettiest and moso popuiar girls of the League went for ridiculously low sums. When the sale was over there was a great deal of clisappointment and a great deal of rejoio. ing. Some of the young men who bad obtained feet for ten cents found that they had won the very girl whom they had desired, while some that had allowed their enthusiasm to oarry them above 30 cents found they had the wrong girl. Strange as it may seem, many of the ladiso whose feet brought large bids were elderly and far from beautiful, while in other instances very pretty lasses had been auctioneered off at the first bid.-IVest-niinster Gazette.

LOCAL MATRIMONIAL CASE. COME TO CHAPEL AND BE RESPECTABLE. A Wife Obtains a Separation Order. Mary Ann Jones, the wife of William Ohria" mas Jones, a printer, residing in Upper Kincraig- street, Cardiff, is a woman w hose life is not a bed of roses. Hor husband behaved towards her ia a brutal manner, and her own people would not interfere, and her mother told her "to be respect- able and come to chapel" when the daughter complained. She refrained from taking proceedings against her husband for some time because he was secretary to the Welsh Sunday School Union, The husband, however, went a step too far. with the result that he was heavily fined for committing an aggravated assault upon his wife. This did not conclude the case, for the parties again ap. peared before Mr T. W. Lewis (stipendiary magistrate) at the Cardiff Police Court this mormnir, when Mr A. Rees (representing the plaintiff) applied for a judicial separation. Me George David (David and Evans) opposed. Mr Rees proposed to go into previous vawatdbg. The Sbipendiary That is not necessary. If he has been convicted for an aggravated assault that is sufficient to make an order. Mr David said lie was going to contend that such was not tho case, and proceeded to argue that the assault must be the cauee of the wife leaving the husband. After a long argument upon the temis ol the section of the Act, the Stipendiary said he thought plaintiff was entitled to an order. Mr David Of course, sir, if you take that view there is no answer to it. The only answer I proposed to give was that her leaving w.,s not leaving in consequenco of this assault. Therw were other reasons which induced her to leave and which were not a justification for her leaving. The Stipendiary: That may be so, but it appears to mo that if the husband is connoted of an aggravated assault the wife ia entitled to ar order. The question of means was then gone into, and a weekly wage of 30. was admitted. In answer to the Stipendiary, plaintiff said ah* was not 18 when she married, and had not beer accustomed to any business. An order was made for 8:3 per week, tht husband to pay costs, and the adjudication in tho assault case was altered. The fine of AS and costs was reduced to E3 including oosts, withA week to find tho money.

VIOLENT ASSAULTS AT CARDIFF A One Legged Man. Two cases of violent and unprovoked aaaaolt were heard at the Cardiff Police Court to-day before Mr C. II. Evans and Mr David Duncan. The first charge was laid against Harry Solomafc by his wife, Catherine. The parties reside at 1. Ruby-street, and the prosecutrix alleged that tht prisoner eame home on Monday evening and asked for his dinner. She did not havs it ready, and in consequence of this be struck her on the h,-ad, Peos-,cutrix went into the passage, and tin prisoner followed behind her and indicted several blows on the head with a jug. Dr. Penroae said the blows caused three punctured wounds on the back of the bead and one incised wound on tht right side of the head. The prisoner was sent fti prison for a month with hard labour. The second cMO investigated affected George John Richards, who was charged with assaulting and wounding John Williams in Custom Hooao street on the 11th iDali. Williams waa standing in the doorway of the Gordon Coffee Tavern, when the prisoner came up to him and asked fat twopence to get a night's lodging. Proseootoc refused to give it to him, and thereupon Richard* struck him across the head with a walking-stiel^ inflicting a goodly-sized wound. This evidenM was corroborated by Charles Thomas, a by. stander, and the magistrates, characterising the assault as most unprovoked, sent Richards to prison for one month with hard labour. The prisoner, on descending the stops leading to the cells, turned to the magistrates and said, I thank you. I oan do that on ons leg." This seemed the only possible way for Db. prisoner to perform his sentence, as be waa already minus a second pedal member, and hobbled into the dock on a crutch.

I OLD BIBBY," I A Lifeboat Veteran. The death i. announced of William Bibby, tht Southport lifeboat veteran. He was over 80 yearc of age, and bad helped to save more than lives. It is satisfactory to know that, though overtaken by poverty in his old age, bit wantc wore provided for by public subscription. and be was, besides, able to earn many a half-crown by posing to artiRts and photographers who were attracted by his picturesque and venerable appearance. Old Bibby," as he was called, was skilful in notmaking. -Daily Graphic.

A Story by Miss Braddon for a P,'nny. The Doll's Tragedy, a complets siory by the author of Lady Audley's Secret," dtc., will appear in the Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News of Saturday. May 23td.