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LADIES' BICYCLE COUPON. THIS VOTE IS GIVEN iy FAVOUR OF Xwom of 1 Licensed House > I Xame of Tovm WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22. 1898. WORRY-KILLER- ST. JULIEN TOBACCO. -h- SOLD IN loz. PACKETS ONLY. — j $ut)lic$imisnnrnt £ CARDIFF. rp H E A T R E ROYAL. CLOSED FOR SUMMER VACATION. Will Re-open Under NEW MANAGEMENT. al329 QBAND THEATEK. Lessee and Manager.Mr. Clarence Sounea. Grand Popular Success of the Evergreen Irish Drama- THE JgHAUGHRAUN. Popular prices, from 4d. to £ 1 Is. Eariy doors extra.. Second price at 9. Doora open 7.10; early doors 6 45; commence 7.30. al383 eo Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more-deserve it." THE EMPIRE. Managing Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT! The Unique and Beautiful MDLLE. JJIANE DE JpoNTENOY, From the Palace Theatre, London, in SUPERBLY ARTISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASTERPIECES Off SCULPTURE, Arranged upon an improved and wholly unpre- cedented method of presentation. An en- tertainment perfect in finish and brilliant in conception. Engaged at exceptional expense. VILLIERS AND POOLE. In their Original Absurdity, entitled "Mixtures." FRANK DUNLOP, A Cardiffian exploiting the Variety Stage suc- cessfully. THE BROTHERS LANG, The Greatest of all Eccentric Knockabout Comedians. BLANCHE LESLIE. Serio-Comedy Songstress and Dancer. DKLANEY TROUPE OF ACROBATS. MISS MARIE DE SIEMENCOURT, Vocalist. DOT MCCARTHY, Characteristic Vocalist and Dancer. D. CLIFF RYLAND. The Man of Eccentric Notions. Next Week- Mr. Pat Rafferty, the Welsh Quartette, &o. R. G. KNOWLE8 IS COMING. Two Performances Nightly. Early one between 7 o clack and 9; late one between 3 o'clock and 11. All the Artistes appear at Each Performance. Box Office open daily (with exception of Satur- days) 11 a.m. to 4 p m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Satur- I days. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Plan of Boxes. Fauteuils, and Grand Circle. No Booking Fees. Telephone No. 625. NEWPORT. THE EMPIRE. J- Managing Director-OSW-ALD STOLL. 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To-day's Weather. The forecast of the weatbei throughout the Weit of England and South Wales for to-day (Wednesday is as follows W. a; ..s, fair and coolcv thell S. W. and wanner.

TEMPERATCRE. BAINTA LX. DATE. i^TTT Max.j Mill. iMean. 9 a.m |9p.m. To„al. Thursday. 16i 67 52 59"5 "00 "00 "00 Friday 17t 69 53 61'0 "00 "00 '00 Saturday jl8 55 50 52"5 "00 "00 "00 Sunday 19' 58 57 57'5 "03 '00 "03 Monday 201 63 53 60'5 '00 "00 '00 Tuesday >21 67 53 60'0 "07 *30 "07 Wednesday. 22, "03

Telephone: National. 502: Post-omce. 95. Telegrams: Express," Cardiff.

WHAT WE THINK. The Home Secretary's answer to Mr. D. A. Thomas in the Cordtnons last night can hardly be regarded as a satisfactory one. It is evi- dent. if we take the answer as embodying the news received from Mountain Ash by the Home Secretary, that the dispatches sent from the seat of war, so to speak, are watered to suit the taste of those responsible for the presence of the military in Wales. An important por- tion of the Welsh member's query went un- answered, we may presume because the answer would not bear out the necessity of the action of the authorities. Mr. D. A. Thomas plainly asked "whether there had been any riotous conduct amoiig any section of the populace at. Mountain Ash or among any of the inhabitants (50.000) of the Aberdare Valley since the coal lock-out began." The Home Secretary re- mained significantly silent on that point. Why ? He could not discover any symptoms of the probable occurrence of disturbance sufficient to warrant the presence of the military at all. And yet the soldiers are allowed to remain-so hard up for work that they create a riot amongst themselves in default of any more legitimate need for their activity. The very fact that the unwarrantable insult of military supervision has been offered to the strikers would have goaded iess peaceable men to riot and revolt. Did the authorities, under the influence of the coalowners, mean to invite such a revolt? If so, no more dastardly move has yet been chronicled in the annals of labour wars. Yet no other adequate reason for the authorities' course can even be discovered by the Home Secretary, with plenty of time and opportunity given him to frame an answer to a straightforward question. Mr. D. A. Thomas wound his query up with as neat a bit of sarcasm as we remember to have heard from his lips. Would the Home Secretary" suggest to the proper authorities the advisability of augmenting the police force during the stay of the military, so that the normal peaceful condition of the district might be maintained?" The Home Secretary might well have been exacted to say a word in answer, even to that -but the official mouth is closed. Only one recfon can be assigned—and that we have alr< ady. Might we not go a step further than Mr D. A. Thomas, and ask that the depart- mental force be strengthened during the strike to exercise proper supervision over the autho- rities responsible for piling aggravation on the colliers and expense upon the county. i

Powder and Shot. Madame Patti has arrived in London, and will remain until after Saturday next, when she will sing at the Crystal Palace Festival concert. » < Mr. Henry Jones, of Maesteg. is a rival in popularity to the Victoria Cross man since he came with lljing colours out of that miserable Margam mystery. *< The recruiting officers in Wales are the pr rdest men on earth just now. A few of them. marchi.ij a large squad of new recruits through Cardiff yesterday, held their heads so high in the air that one of them cannoned with an eCectric lamp-post in St. Mary-street, because he looked clean over the top, and didn't see it. « » « A breath of spring verse from a local butcher: The lambkin gambols gay, amid the mint he prances. And all its pungent scent his inner lamb entrances. Because he doesn't know, though quite as wise as Plato. That soon he will lie down with the new Lyon- naise potato. **•»# "These wars and coal strikes are terrible- simply awful;" said the pastor, visiting the wife of the cricketer. "Yes," assented the enthusiastic lady, earnestly. "Terrible is no name for them— they're beastly! The papers every day are full of nothing but strike and war, and can't find room even to talk about the cricket match when John makes 71 not out." # < I There is wrath among the Welsh members, for the astute Mr. Tomlinson has, not by any means for the first time, effectually spiked their gun. By putting a motion on the paper bearing on the Welsh coal strike and the des- patch of the military to South Wales, he has made it impossible for them to move the adjournment, as they had intended. Of course if they can get Mr. Tomlinson to with- t draw his motion they can go on. and some of them are, sanguine enough to suppose that "W. E. M." will be open to persuasion. ♦ ♦ The longest day of 1898 has turned out the warmest thus far of the long belated summer. The thermometer stood at 65 dfegrees in the shade in many parts of the country at seven o'clock yesterday morning, and 70 degrees was reached before nine. The warmest day last year was Mid- summer Day. when the shade temperature in London reached 90 degrees, and a large part of Essex was devastated by one of the most destructive hailstorms ever known in England. The invasion of Wales by the Saxons still continues, although centuries have rolled by since it first began. We hear that the beautiful residential and sporting estate of Gregynog, in Montgomeryshire, which comprises about eigh- teen thousand acres, has been sold by Lord Sudeley's trustees to Sir James Joicey. one of tha mineral kings of the North of England. Yea. they burrow deep for treasure in the North, and come to Wales to own the earth. It reminds us of the hungry striker at Moun- tain Ash. who found a sixpenny-bit inside a railway sandwich and was able to go off to the baker and buy the loaf. « » A dear old Welshwoman admired the squad of Rhondda recruits marching through Cardiff yesterday. She stood upon the kerb in front of the Black Lion. and her maternal heart could not find room enough to swell beneath her shawl, as they passed by. Dir anwyl, look at our Ben!" she cried. "Look at the walk on him—a sojer. look you, every bit of 'im!" "They'll have to shuffle along a bit better on parade, mum. said a policeman, standing near. Oh, yes, indeet. they will!" said the old lady, critically; all of em's out of step except our Ben and Dai-but. there, our Ben 'ed make the step for the whole harmy!" » « # Diane de Fontenoy, the famous beauty, whose rare classic charms are exhibited at the Cardiff Empire this week, is a young lady whom artists and sculptors agree to describe as the most perfect specimen possible of womankind. N) statue cut in marble can excel this living Venus. and the marvel is only how the magnifi- cent, effects accompanying her statuesque poses arc produced. Horses and carriages, seemingly cut in white marble, are I,dily introduced into the pictures, but the most wonderful example of stage effect is 1he figure of a centaur—a ccn-bination of horse and man—seen bearing away the fair Diane. Many a man in the Empire this week would wish he was a centaur. «■»• This might have been an obituary, but it isn't. Providence has, fortunately, interfered in favour of our poor colleague. He bought a sixteen guinea bicycle the other day and learnt to ride it, all the way to Newport and back. The warm glow of health chased the deep literary furrows out of his cheeks, and the fragrant summer breeze blew the coal-dust out of the crow's feet worn by literary toil. So far so good. But then he tried to ride the bike through town, and ran it over a cab —and six guineas for repairs must now be added to the price he paid for the bike a week ago. whilst another six guineas, doctor's fees, must be also added to the sum it costs him weekly to hang on to this expensive earth. « » • » « A correspondent from Chatham says that the week before last the Sappho went out for a natural draught trial, and on her re- ourn was taken for quite a new cruiser by several naval officers, the reason being that not a particle of yellow paint remained on her funnels. North country coal and even mode- rate speeds do not at all agree together. An officer who was present gives the appalling news that flames about 12ft. long proceeded from the funnels, due, of course, to imperfect com- bustion of the gases in the furnaces, and se- condary combustion taking place where it was not wanted. An order has now been issued that destroyers are to fill up with Welsh coal only. They would be of little use with North country coal, considering how difficult it has been to prevent their being a pillar of fire by night even when burning the best Welsh. # » » The Globe" correspondent discusses the Welsh coal question in relation to the naval manoeuvres, and this bit is especially interest- ing. coming as it does from an English source: "Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, the Unionist candidate for the Monnouth Boroughs, has written to a contemporary on this subject—and he has naturally had exceptional opportunities for studying it on the spot^that any lingering hesitation the authorities may have on the score of cost in putting in hand the works requirel for the defence of the important group of ports which open on the Bristol Channel night be removed if they would at the same time make provision, at one or other of these poits for the coaling of Her Majesty's ships. A careful calculation shows that a saving of something between 3s. 8d. and 4s. a ton might be effected by an arrangement which should enable our warships to fill up their bunkers at one of the ports of the Bristol Channel, instead of fending the coal round io the ports of the English Channel, as is now the practice." » • It's little the English press knows of the Welsh coal strike, and the less it kens the more it caws. The "Pall Mall Gazette" is really serious when it gives us this:— "Apropos- of the recent alterations in the dress regulations, would it not be as well to put in a paragraph directing troops called out in aid of the civil power to wear the full head- dress? A helmet or a busby does afford a certain amount of protection from blows with sticks or stones, and troops fully equipped in this respect present a more imposing appea- rance than when wearing the field service cap. Our troops in South Wales may at any moment be engaged in suppressing an outbreak of the striking colliers, and permission to wear helmets may save many broken heads." Our contemporary should have worn a busby long ere this, for such an idea as the last in that case never could have leaked out of an oneracked head. Judged by the military per- formances at Mountain Ash. the colliers are the boys who need the busbys for protective pur- poses.

MATRIMONIAL INFELICITY. Arthur Edward Hodges, a Cardiff railway inspector, has. after 21 years of matrimony, decided that marriage is not an unmixed bless- ing. He was summoned (before Mr. T. W. Lewis, stipendiary) at Cardiff l'olice-court on Wednes- day for deserting his wife. Mr. F. C. Shackeil told the wrongs of the deserted wife, but Mr. Lloyd Meyrick, in cross-examining her upon her evidence, elicited the fact that since her hus- band had left her she was in receipt of 19s. per week. made up of 4s. 6d. ai lowance from her husband for herself. 4s. 6d. from her husband in respect of the maintenance of a son, and 10s. paid her by the son out of his earnings. The husband, afterwards going into the witness-box. told a sad story indeed. He said that when he went home on February 11 at eight o'clock in the morning he saw his wife standing outside in an untidy condition. Upon going inside he found uo fire in tb3 kitchen and no meal pre- pared. He went to bed, but was not allowed to rest, for in a. few minutes his wife came up, abused him. and threatened him with violence. She went downstairs again, ana then set fire to a number of books belonging to his employers and smashed up the crockery and pictures. She afterwards went upstairs again and told him that she was going out, and threatened him with personal violence if he got out of bed before her ret iru. As soon as she had left the house he got up. and. gathering his personal belongings, took flight in a cab to another part of the town, where he had sÍIIce resided. He had charge of all the children, excepting one son. For years past his wife's conduct had troubled him. In 1890 she eft him for a period of six months, but he had forgiven her that. Her habits were very drunken, and fre- quently she was absent from her home for a day or more. She had run up heavy bills, with th-3 result that he was burdened with debt. and he had been obliged to advertise saying he would not be responsible for the debts she incurred. A charge of damage against the wife was also investigated by the court. It appeared thai some time after the separation of the parties the wife went to an allotment garden which Hodges held at Cathays, and there destroyed a large number of plants and vege- tables.—The Stipendiary ordered Hodges to contribute 2s. 6d. per week 'instead of 4s. 6d. as he had been doing voluntarily), without costs, and fined the wife Is. and costs for the wilful damage to the garden, and ordered her t3 pay £1 for the damage done. or, as an alternative, go to prison for month,

Excise Prosecution. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT GIVEN AT CARDIFF POLICE-COURT. Shortly after the opening of the Cardiff First Police-court on Wednesday, Mr. R. E. Spencer delivered judgment in the case of Windsor Mansel Thomas, who was charged at the instance of the Inland Revenue authorities with selling beer at a shop in Albany-road in connec- tion with which he did not hold a licence, although he held a licence in respect of other premises in Woodville-road. The defence was that orders only were taken at Albany-road, but were executed at Wo odville-road. Mr. Spencer said that, considering the whole of the facts, he could draw a distinction be- tween this case and that of Rogers and Co. a few days ago. It was clear that the order was given, and also upon what terms the order was accepted by the defendant—the notice exhibited by him in the shop that he undertook to deliver the beer. The intention of the defendant was very evident in his offer to accept payment for the beer. The terms of the contract were reduced into writing in the bill. The whole transaction brought no doubt to his mind that an offence had been committed. The defendant, hower, appeared to have acted in a bona-fide manner, and seemed to have had no intention of breaking the law. The nominal penalty of 5s would be inflicted. Mr. Spencer suggested to the Excise authorities that in future prosecutions of a like character should be taken under another section of the Act, which referred to the taking of an order. There seemed to be considerable doubt as to the intention of this section. If a decision was given upon this and tested in the Court of Appeal 'ts meaning conM be Refined. Mr. Mevrick: Parties are carrying on their businesses undir very considerable doubt just now, as they arc not clear upon the section. An application was made for coats, but court fees only were allowed against defendant.

ACCIDENTS OF THE WHEEL. Charles Pepworth. a rural postman, was on Tuesday a quarter of an hour late on his round, and in orcler to recover time rode down a dangerous hill at Cirencester on his bicycle. When turning a bridge at the foot of the hill he collided with the stonework. He was thrown from his bicycle and had his head smashed, death being instantaneous. John Clements Morris, aged 40, an artist, of Brighton-road, Croydon. was, returning on Saturday from Boxhill with three friends on bicycles, and in descending an incline was pedalling hard to gain the momentum necessary to climb another hill. when his foot slipped and he fell with great violence to the ground. He died on Monday morning from a fractured skull. At the inquest on Tuesday a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

FLOWER SERVICE AT CARDIFF. The Rev. W. E. W!nks held his twenty-second annual early morning midsummer flower ser- vice at Bethany Chapel. Cardiff, on Wednesday morning. Mr. Winks, who preached specially to ycung people, chose as his text. "Come unto Me all ve that labour, and I will give you rest." The chapel was tastefully decorated with flowers. One of the features of the service was the fact that the whole of the hymns were com- posed by Mr. Winks himself, one of the tunes having been specially composed by Mr. S. S. Bartlett, organist of Tredegarville Chapel, Car- diff. Three hundred copies of this tune were presented by the proprietors of the "Western Mail." After the service breakfast was served in the adjoining schoolrooms, the tables being prettily laid out with flowers, which were after- wards distributed between the workhouse and the Ely Schools.

A POPULAR FAVOURITE. Russian papers are not often amusing read- ing: for one reason, because Russian censors often suffer from a deficient sense of humour; hut the following advertisement, taken from the "Orlovski Vestnik," is altogether delightful: "This night will be produced, at Kremanchug Theatre, a real English tragedy, 3rtitled 'Hamlet; or the Prince of Denmark,' wiitten by W. Shekspeer, the Favourite of the local Public. This piece has had an enormous sve- cess at Kharkov." After this, it only remains for us to congratu- late the manager of the Kremenchug Theatre on his enterprise in discovering a new play- wright. and to hope that Mr. Shekspeer's tragedy was as popular in his town as it seems to have been with the public of Kharkov.

WARFARE EXTRAORDINARY In the current issue of the "Rambler" an interesting collection of suggested methods of aerial fighting in the Spanish-American war is given. Some of the ideas put forward are decidedly startling. Among the more sensa- tional forms of aerial warfare may be men- tioned the dynamite balloon, which is being considered in connection with the present war in Cuba. The balloon is to be a steerable one, and is to carry over a ton of dynamite. By these means it is calculated that Havannah could be reduced to ashes within an hour, and Spanish rule in the "Pearl of the Antilles" become a thing of the past. Professor M'Ewen, of Michigan, U.S.A., has invented a rocket for the purpose of military reconnaissance which is to startle the world. It is made of alumi- nium. is 60ft. long, and the professor proposes, as soon as he has perfected the idea, to take up excursion parties. These parties are to be taken up at the rate of 100 miles a minute! Awaiting the decision of the Patent Office at Washington is another marvellous idea for use in war time. A Mr. John Custer has applied for a patent of a pneumatic bomb, fired from a huge mortar, in which it is designed to carry soldiers through the air, and drop them inside the enemy's lines.

PEOPLE YOU KNOW. No. 1.-THE BAKER. Mr. T. Streater, 56, Southam-street, Kensal- road, London, writes:—I have received so much benefit from Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa, I feel that I must thank you for it. I am a baker by trade, which, as you know, is very hard work, but I am pleased to say that when I am done of a night I go home and have a cup of your Cocoa. and feel quite fresh again, and then I go and enjoy myself. But before I took to Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa I used to mess about indoors as tired as could be." Vi-Cocoa has become a household word amongst us. Prepared from substances of admitted dietetic value. Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa is at once digestive and refreshing, nutritious and invigorating. This is the secret of its phenomenal success. It seems, so far as we can gather, to agree with everybody, and everybody is agreed in giving it a good name. Apparently it is the accepted beverage of a people who ha.ve recognised and appreciated its remarkable health-giving properties. And certainly in this age of rush and worry, wear and tear, when the energies of mind and body are so severely taxed, it is an ideal food. Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa can be obtained from all Chemists. Grocers, and Stores, or from 60, 61, and 62. Bunhill-row. London, E.C. As an unparalleled test of merit, a dainty sample tin of Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa will be sent free on application to any address, if when writing (a postcard will do) the reader will name the "Evening Express." E6640

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE TOY. Mr. Furniss once overheard Mr. Gladstone asking the question, "Why is it that when we get a good thing we do not stick to it?" He fully expected him to launch into some huge political question as to the "Unity of the Empire," or "Universal Franchise." Instead of this he was somewhat surprised to hear Mr. Gladstone proceed: ":Now,. I recollect an excruciatingly funny toy which you wound up and it danced in a most comical way. I have watched that little nigger many and niany a t'rue, but lately V h ive been looking every- where to get one. I have asked at me shops in the Strand and elsewhere, and they show me other things, but rot the lunny nigger I recollect, so I have given up my search in despair."

LEFT IN THE TEAIN. A brown paper parcel was discovered in one of the compartments of a Hammersmith train at Baker-street Station on Tuesday morning. It was taken to the luggage office, and was found to contain the body of a nevwy-born female child. From- the appearance of the body death had been caused by violence.

IT IS QUITE TRUE THAT WEALTH IS FOWER, but the most valuable and powerful of all wealth is not coin of the realm. The wealth of a robist constitution is more pre- cious than money, and it enables you to get money. In the competition or life the weak ones go to the wall. The hest capital with which you can start your children in life is good health. If they do not possess it, they may acquire it. It is not a troublesome or expensive process, and it is™ disagreeable. Give them Horlick's Malted Milk. It is econo- mical. prepared easily, and very pleasant to the palate. AH children like it. and all thrive on it. Go to younchemist and get it. Price Is. 6d., 2s. 6d.. and 11s. A. free sample will be sent. on application, by Horlick and Co., 34, Farringdon- road. London, E.C. Send for ireddy's Diary," nost free. LJ5225

Jockey and Trainer. ASTOUNDING ALLEGATIONS MADE AND DENIED. In the Queen's Bench on Tuesday (before Mr. Justice Darling and a common jury), Stapleton v. Binnie was a case in which the plaintiff sued for damages for having been wrongfully dismissed by the defendant from his service, and also in respect of the defendant having spoken slanderous words of him. The defen- dant. by his pleadings, denied all the allega- tions made against him. Mr. Candy, Q.C., and Mr. Peacock were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Scott Fox for the defen- dant. Mr. Candy, in the course of opening the case for the plaintiff, said he was a young man who had not jet attained his majority, and, there- fore. he appeared in this action by his next friend, his father, who was a retired lieutenant in the Royal Navy. The defendant was a trainer of racehorses at Malton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and the plaintiff, when fourteen years and a half old, was apprenticed to the defendant for six years, to commence on January 5, 1893, tu learn the art and calling of a groom, jockey, and trainer of racehorses. By tha indenture of apprentice-hip the defendant covenanted to teach, feed, and lodge the plaintiff, to pay him yearly sums, commencing at £5, and in- creasing by £1 a year until it got up to JE10 a year, and, further, to pay him all travelling expenses. On the other side, there were cove- nants that the plaintiff should serve the de- fendant faithfully, keep his secrets, protect his property, not marry during the apprentice- ship, not haunt taverns, and so on. The case for the plaintiff was, that in the middle of the fifth year of the apprenticeship, the defendant dismissed him, and the question would be whether there was any good ground for such dismissal. Then, another part of the ca/se for the plaintiff was that the defendant said of him, and in the way of his business, "He ab- sconded from my employ; he has been con- tinually drunk; and ha has stolen my cigars" and a further question would be whether there was any truth in these allegations. Then the defendant had covenanted to pay the plaintiff, during the six years of the apprenticeship, in all £45, and this covenant, the plaintiff said, had not been performed. Lieutenant Stapleton having given evidence, William Stapleton, the plaintiff, said that at the defendant's he began by being a stable boy, but in April, 1895, he was allowed to ride for the defendant. He lived in the defendant's house with the other boys, and they had their meals in the kitchen. At first he had no pocket-money. He rode at Thirsk for the de- fendant and lost. He rode Wrinkles. You had the honou- of being last on that occasion?—Yes. (Laughter.) He rode Almond at Eglington, and he also rode Slide and Dress Improver. On Dress Improver he was beaten by a head. He remembered Redcar, in June, 1895, and White Cockade. He thought that he rode the last-named horse in a selling race. It was the second favourite. Mr. Binnie told him that he need not worry about getting away at the start, because he was not wanted. What happened in that race?—He was, third or fourth, he thought; he could not say which. Soon after the race was over the defendant swore at him. What for?—Because he hit the horse to keep her straight. He had, in fact, used the whip. There was an inquiry before the stewards (If the race as to his riding. His master told him he was to be sure and say that he tried all he could to win. What did the stewards do?—They cautioned him as to his future riding, and they cautioned Mr. Einnie as to his future training. Witness continued: He rode Domineerer at Redcar races, he thought, in the same year. Domineerer was a horse trained by the defen- dant. What passed between you and the defendant on that occasion?—When he put me on the horse he told me I was not to win, and was not to get into the first three. Had the horse anything to say to that?— The horse tried to win, and I did all I could to hold him back. I was not in the first three. Witness continued: In May, 1896. he again went to Redcar with a horse called Aliment, which had been trained by the defendant. He had had no order that he was to be put on to the horse; it was to have bieen ridden by Goff, the head jockey. About half an hour before the race the defendant came to him and said he was to ride her. He told him to do aU he could to win. but he would not let him have a whip or a pair of spurs. Witness asked for a pair of spurs, but the defendant said that he did not want any—that he could win without whip or spurs. Witness was beaten by a short head. The defendant came and cursed and swore at him for not winning, and told him he was no good. Witness never spoke at all. This was the last race witness ever rode for the defendant. What became of you after that?—He was put to putting back the dung-heap and to chopping wood. Mrs. Binnie told him he was to go out of the house. Parkerson, the head jockey, was over him when he slept over the stables. The defendant took no notice of him, and from May, 1896, to March, 1897. he was not learning any- thing, and the defendant found fault with everything that he did. At last Parkerson told him that the defendant said he was to clear out. Witness waited for half an hour to see if the defendant would send for him. He not having sent for him, witness went out, but he never absconded. Did you know that Mr. Binnie was a strict teetotaler?—I knew that he was not? (Laughter) He got drunk once at a supper that the defen- dant gave to celebrate the birth of a son or a daughter. It was the same thing all round-inter alios ? —Ye-. Cross-examined: The defendant was a very good master to him down to 1896, and until after ha rode Aliment. He was caught jn Seale's public-house trying to steal a bottle of rum. and he was let off on hi" promising tro do better Annie, a servant of the defendant, gave him cigars; about six, at odd times, alto- gether. She had no right to take the cigars, but Mrs. Binnie knew of it. Mr. Justice Darling intimated that the learned counsel need not trouble himself as to the slander. Mr. Binnie, the defendant, was called, and spoke to having treated the plaintiff well. Is it true that you instructed him to "pull" White Cockade?—No. Or that you instructed him to pull Domi- neerer?—No. Did you wish him to win when you made him ride Aliment without spurs or a whip?—Cer- tainlv. Mares are as a rule never ridden with spurs, and it requires a very able jockey to use a whip when riding a mare. and appren- tices as a rule are not allowed to do so. Is there any truth in saying that you got drunk with all your lads at the supper?—None whatever. He had not been cautioned by race stewards. He further contradicted many other statements which had been made by the plain- tiff in the course of his evidenc. Mr. Henry Parkerson, the head man in the defendant's stables, denied that he turned the lad off, or that the defendant told him to do S3. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. There was judgment in accordance with the finding, with costs.

JOURNALISTIC RIVALRY. Whatever may be the case in Cuba and the Philippines, the war (says the "Daily Chronicle") continues to rage at its fiercest in the columns of the. New York "yellow journals." When facts give out, there is always the imagination of the gentlemen who deal with the "specials" to draw upon. Apparently the contest rages hottest between the "World" and ths "Journal." and the latter paper in its issue of the 10th tells, in plain, unvarnished language, how it laid a trap for the "World," and how the "World" fell into it. This the "Journal" did by inter- polating into a telegram the statement that "Colonel Reflipe W. Thenuz, an Austrian artillerist of European renown," had done such and such a thing at an engagement at Aguadores. near Santiago. The "World" had not this exclusive piece of news in its account of the fighting, so it conveyed it from the "Journal," attributing it to its own correspondent, and slightly varying the verbal form. Now comes the "Journal." with the distressingly frank explanation of its interpolation, and the intimation that the name of the Austrian colonel is a mere elementary anagram—as any sub-editor worth his salt might have- seen—of the statement "We pilfer the news."

THE BIGGEST LOCOMOTIVE. Experimental trips are being made at Grantham with what is claimed to be the largest locomotive in the United Kingdom, and, possibly, in Europe. The engine was built for the Great Northern Railway Company, at their Doncaster works: it has ten wheels, four being coupled with driving wheels of 6ft. 7in., and weighs 100 tons. Its total length, including the tender, is nineteen yards. It is made with a view of running the Scotch express, a speed of from 50 to 65 miles an hour being got up with the greatest ease.

EPPS'S COCOA—GRATEFUL AND COM- FORTING.—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations ot digestion and nutrition, and by a careful appli- cation of the fine properties of well-selected COCOA, Mr. Epps has provided for our break- fast and supper a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. We may escape many a fatal shaft. by keeping ourselves well fortified' with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."—" Civil Service Gazette."—Made simply with boiling water or milk.—Sold only jn packets and pound tins, by Grocers, labelled—" JAMES EPPS AND CO. (Ltd), Homoeopathic Chemists. London."— Also makers of Epps's Cocoaine. or Cocoa-Nib Extract: Tea-like: A thin beverage of full flavour, now with many beneficially taking the place of tea. Its active principle being a gentle nerve stimulant, snnplies the needed energy. without ondolx exciting the system. e6396—m.w.

Insurance Mystery. REMARKABLE EVIDENCE IN THE TANGIER CASE. The Tangier correspondent of the" Daily Mail" on Tuesday sars:— In the Consular Court to-day the hearing was resumed of the charge against Owen M'Donnell Callan of attempting to murder Hubert Birkin at the Bristol Hotel by attacking him from behind with a life preserver and then by shooting him in the face with a revolver. It will bs remembered that in .Ins case Birkin attributes to Callan a desire to benefit under tho policies for £50,000 issued by London life societies on Birkin's life; while Callan, in support of his denial of the attempted murder, suggests that he could have no interest in the insurance moifey, inasmuch as it would all go to London money-lenders—namely, the Life Interest and Reversionary Securities Corpora- tion (Limited), 161a, Piccadilly, who took out the policies on Birkin's ;ife. The Attorney- General prosecuted, and the prisoner conducted his own defence. Prisoner made an application, which was agreed to by Acting-Consul Madden, to have Mr. Consul White called as a witness. Peter Sacconi, father of the proprietor of the Hotel Bristol, deposed to hearing a disturbance on the night of May 19 going on downstairs, and to finding a man on the top of Mr. Birkin holding him down by the throat. Mr. Birkin was struggling to get free. Witness took the man's hand from Mr. Birkin's throat and pulled him away, while a French officer, who came in at that moment, assisted Mr. Birkin to rise. Both men were covered withu blood. Wit- ness, on being cross-examined, would not swear that the man was not holding Birkin down by the arms, nor did he see a man strike the wounded man with a revolver or life-preserver. Ai first he did not recognise prisoner as the man who was holding Birkin down. George M'Kcchnie, who was re-called, ad- mitted that anything said by the prisoner or witness on the way from the Hotel Bristol to the consulate would have been heard by Sterwin. Saul Moreno, a guide, gave evidence that he had been sent to the French pharmacy for cocaine by both the prisoner and Birkin together, and was not refused the drug at the pharmacy, as he had a doctor's prescription.! He afterwards got some from another chemist. He asked prisoner for money to refund him what he had spent, ard received £5 from the prisoner, who said, "Don't tell Birkin; pay me when you get your bill settled. Stanley Jones is coming from London to pay everyone." The prisoner went to Gibraltar the same week to meet this gent" eman. and he told wit- ness when going to make Mr. Birkin as drunk as possible that night, and Stanley Jones would see him in the morning. The prisoner told witness many times that Mr. Birkin was mad, and also showed him a revolver and a life-preserver, „and said, "If Birkin ever troubles me I will Ifeill him." Witness was eighteen days in Mr. Birkin's service, and left because he did not get paid. He saw no indications of madness about Mr. Birkin. On cross-examination, witness said:—"I spent £25 in eighteen days on the three of you. I don't know who signed the note I took to the French chemist, which I did of my own accord. I asked Dassoy not to send to Gibral- tar for any more cocaine, and did so because I was told it was poison. I did not make Birkin drunk that night." The cross-examination was not concluded when the court adjourned till to-morrow.

NEWS GLEANINGS. On Monday at midnight a sad accident hap- pened at Messrs. Powell's colliery, Aberbeeg, to George Thomas, who fell under some loaded trucks while letting them down a aiding. The unfortunate man succumbed to his injuries about seven o'clock on Tuesday mornmg Spring Cleaning.—Windows Cleaned practi- cally, expeditiously, and economically.—Send post-card the Original Firm. Minny-street, Cathays, Cardiff. Telephone, 741. 1 It is reported that one of the crew of the steamship Mitbs. of Maryport, a Swansea trader, supposed to have been lost, is a Swansea man, named John Davies, of Cwm-terrace, Hafod. Dyeing and Cleaning Un-to-datc,-Eyery Description of Clothing, Household Furnishing, Ac., satisfactorily treated.—Send post-card (Company well known), Minny-street, Cathavs, Cardiff: 2 At the Roman Ca'.holic Cathedral at Water-, ford a number of theological students from :F}ngland, Wales, and America were ordained priests, for missions outside of Ireland. Spring Cleaning.—No More Delays.—Carpets effectually Beaten; new patent; up-to-date machinery just put in.—Send post-card, the Original Company. Minny-street, Cathays, Car- diff. Telephone, 741..5 The Rev. Dr. Clifford is announced to lecture in the Cory Memorial-hall to-morrow (Thurs- day) evening, under the auspices of the Cawliff Free Churches Council. The subject of the lecture is The Greater Britain of the Future." Dr. Clifford recently completed a toftr to the Colonies. Spring Cleaning.—Carpets taken up and re- laid or re-arranged by practical men. on the shortest notice.—Send post-card Minny-street, Cathavs. Cardiff. Telephone,* 741. 6 Mr. D. Davies, of Cardiff College, has accepted a call to the pastorate of Pontnewydd Church (English), and purposes commencing his duties in August next. Spring Cleaning.—Lace, &c.. Curtains Cleaned and Finished in our well-known style.—The Original Company, Minny-street, Cathavs. Car- diff. 3 George Maddocks, landlord of the Cambrian Inn, Tredegar, was fined 40s. at Tredegar Police-court on Tuesday for keeping his house open during prohibited hours on the 12th inst., and Arthur Holmes and James Davies were fined 10s. each for being on the premises during illegal hours. Spring Cleaning.—Carpets Chemically Cleaned. -0 fading or shrinking. Moths effectually removed; wonderful results. Comnany well known.—Minny-street, Cathays. Cardiff 4 Mr. J. L. Jones, Trevecca College, has received and accepted a call to the pastorate of Mansel- ton Church, Swansea. Dyeing and Cleaning by Post, Carriage paid one way. Price sent by return of post; best workmanship; moderate charges; company well-known.—Minny-street, Cathays, Cardiff. 7

CARDIFF ODDFELLOWS. Saturday. July 2, has been fixed by the Car- diff Grand United Order of Oddfellows as the day to celebrate their centenary. A procession will be formed at 1.30 in Westgate-street, and, headed by military and other brass bands, will parade the town, arriving in the Sophia Gar- dens about 2.30, where sports will take place. In the evening the gardens will be illuminated, and a irtusical programme will be rendered by the Cardiff Cymmrodorion Choral Society and thj Cardiff Mechanics' Band. All those who desire to take part in the sports are requested t) inform "he secretary. Mr. W. H. Owens. D.S., 62, Salisbury-raad, Cathays, not later than the 25th inst.

CREMATED IN A COKE OVEN! A boy, named T. Bainbridge, has met with a horrible death by falling into a burning coke oven at East Heaton Colliery, near Seaham Harbour. The Rev. Canon Burnet, a local clergyman, performed the Burial Service by the side of the oven.

DARBY AND JOAN UP-TO-DATE. Mme. Chenay, whose sister was Victor Hugo's wife, has won her caiie against her husband. The old couple have been at variance since 1861. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine gave a, decree of separation yesterday, to the advan- tage of the wife. The disunited pair are octo- genarians.

PINK OF POLITENESS. From the Agony Column of the "Standard:- IF the gentleman who. by mistake, took eisrht £ 5 notes out of another gentleman's pocket cn the lawn at Ascot last Tuesday made any money out of them. would he kindly return the original capital to Sportsman, care of W. Everett and Son, 17, Royal Exchange, London?

SUICIDE'S LAST THOUGHT. In the hat of William Cornford, who was killed on the line at Heathfield, was found a letter, which contained these sentences:—"Will 'Answers' consider this claim? I have been a subscriber since 1890." A copy ef "Answers" was found with the letter in the hat.

KILLING OFF THE JEWS. The "Daily News" correspondent sends an amusing story of the anti-Jewish riots in Austria. It seems, that an absurd tale is cir- culated among the peasants that, according to an old prophecy, when the number of Jews on the globe reaches six millions the surplus must be killed. The numbgV reached that figure some time ago, and they think a reduc- tion must now be taken in hand.

A Soldier's Letter. THE VICTORIA CROSS HERO AND HIS COMRADE. An Incident 77hich Sheds More Light Upon the Character and Devotion of Lance-corporal Vickery, V.C. A soldier's letter home is always full of inte- rest, but we are in receipt of a copy of a letter from Lance-corporal Vickery, V.C., to Mr. G. Kemp, of 36, Westbury-terrace, Cony- beare-road, Canton, which glows with especial interest under the circumstances that accom- panied and that have followed it. Lonce-cor- poral Vickery's brave devotion to his friends and comrades won him the Victoria Cross, and that devotion, so conspicuous on the battlefield, is not less marked in his attention to the young soldier Kemp upon his sick-bed. Private Kemp, the son of Mr. George Kemp, left Cardiff with Lance-corporal Vickery to join the same regi- ment, and whilst one soldier has returned laden with honour, the other young Cardiffian sleeps in a soldier's grave in India. The letter which follows was sent by Lance-corporal Vickery to his dead comrade's parents, and in it we may learn another phase of campaign life, in which the Victoria Ctoss here is seen on the high road to. the honours he has gained :— No. 3937, F Company, 1st Dorsetshire Regiment, Parade Barracks, Bengalore, Madras. India. December 9, 1896. Dear Mr. Kemp,-I now answer your letter, which I received by the last mail. I will give you as much information as I can as regards your son's death. I saw him for the last time about three days before he died. He seemed quite cheerful and full of hope of getting better. The doctor expected him to get over his illness then. But I was sorry to hear the next day that he had been taken worse. I didn't see him after, as I had to go about four miles from here to do my annual course of musketry, so I didn't have the chance of seeing him again. After he was taken worse he was a bit delirious at times-as you Know, it is nearly always so in fever. He didn't say anything about home when I saw him, and I've made inquiries, but he didn't have any particular wish before he died. It must have been a great blow to you when yc u heard the news at home. It is the Lord's will. and He knows what is best, and I hope an I trust He has taken him to a better place, where he hasn't the troubles of this world to endure. It is one great com- fort for you to know he was well looked after during his illness. He wanted for nothing while he was sick. The hospital sister who nursed him is a very kind lady. Everyone who has been under her care speaks well of her. I am glad to tell you the men of his company are subscribing to get a gravestone for his grave, as the poor fellow was very much loved and respected by all his company, and all who knew him. It seems a very sad thing for a young man to be cut down in life as he was. Fever is a dreadful thing in this country. We lost a lot of men about the same time as your son died. I suppose you were told it was enteric fever he died of in the letter you received from the military authorities. I shall be much pleased with one of his cards. Would you send out two, if you have them to spare, as one of your son's friends said he would like to have one? I will try and get the photo of his grave as soon as the stone is erected, but it won't be till after Christmas, as it takes the people out here so long to do anything. I mus.t now bring this letter to a close, as I've told you as .much as I know at present. If there is anything else I can do for you I shall only be too pleased to do it.-I remain, your sincere friend. PRIVATE S. VICKERY.

COUNTIES AND CRIME. The ingenious statistician, Mr. HolL School- ing, is to the fore with some interesting par- ticulars about the distribution of crime. He shows by diagram the position held by each of the English and Welsh counties as regards the number of persons tried for indictable offences per 100,000 of the population of each county. Monmouth is the most criminal county, and is followed, at some distance, however, by Glamorgan and by London. Northumberland, Lancashire, and Warwick hold the next three place-, high up the ladder of crime. Cornwall is the best county in England or Wales, and inspection of the bottom of the ladder shows that some of the Welsh counties have an ex- cellent record as regards comparative freedom from crime. Put in tabular form, the ten worst and the ten best counties as regards crime come out as follow:- Ten Worst Counties f Ten Best Counties per 100,000 of Popu- per 100,000 of Popu- lation. Iation. Monmouth 369 Cornwall 57 Glamorgan 302 Carmarthen 63 London 258 Pembroke 65 Northumberland 239 Cardigan 70 Lancashire 236 Westmorland 80 Warwick 233 Merioneth 81 Staffordshire 227 Carnarvon 87 Durham 226 Anglesey 92 Worcester 205 Huntingdon 99 Nottingham 195 Flint. 102 Although England claims the best county (Cornwall) and the worst (Monmouth), the posi- tion of Wales as regards goodness is seen to be very strong. With the exception of Glamor- gan, which is only second in crime to Mon- mouth. the Welsh counties are nearly all near the bottom of the ladder of crime; and Wales holds seven of the ten places taken by the best counties in England and Wales.

THE SOLDIER'S REWARD. A popular local writer in the "Shields Daily News" mentions the fate of a local V.C. hero in the course of some general observations on the Findlater case:—"If an admiral or a general has the good fortune to win a battle or two with the help of the common soldiers or-, sailors who face the music at close quar- ters. the admiral or the general gets a title and several thousands a year, while the soldier who risks his life-and he cannot possibly risk any more—gets, if he is disabled, the glorious privilege of" a menial job, and a prohibition against taking advantage of his deeds. The general gets his decoration, his title, and his liberal allowance for himself and his deocen- dants, and the soldier gets told that he will bo sent to Coventry if he appears in public, even at a concert. We had a Victoria Cross hero some time back in North Shields, and what was he employed at? Had he a nice comfortable Government berth? Not at all. Had he even a nice easy job under the corpo- ration? No. He was promoted from the ranks to sweep the streets, and when his sweeping days were over he was followed to Preston cemetery by as many soldiers as couid be got together on short notice. I wonder what those soldiers who followed the heroic street scaven- ger thought as they marched behind his ;,o*T-.n to the cemetery? Perhaps they wo ad iaink it would be far better to be shot down at the front in the performance of duty than to be sent from sweeping out the muzzle of a gun to sweep the streets."

CYCLING AND FALSE HAIR We are told that the steady demand for false hair can be put down to the still increasing popularity of cycling (says the "Cycle.") "WIHt has cycling got to do with false hair?" you will say. Well, a gteat deal. Ask the girl who uses her curling tongs or puts her hair in pins every night, and she will tell you that the chief disadvantage of cycling, in her idea, is the fact that it is disastrous to artificially curled hair. Thus the reason for many of the "warranted secure in all weather" fringes which appear in the hairdressers' windows labelled "for cycling." It is not a very nice idea, this wear- ing of other people's hair, when you have an abundance of your own but many girls prefer to overcome this prejudice rather than appear untidy and dishevelled to the community at large.

TALE OF AN ENGLISHMAN. Here is an amusing account of an English- man's sang froid, told in a "Standard" report of the bombardment of San Juan. When the bombardment commenced he was asleep at his h'.tol. A waiter rushed up and shouted to him to get up. AS the Americans were bombarding th" town. The Englishman opened one eye. and, looking annoyed at being aroused, told the waiter that he had not had enough sleep. After repeated efforts he was, however, pre- vailed upon to get up, and soon afterwards he appeared ;n the coffee-room and ordered break- fast. He had hardly commenced when a shot struck the roof of the hotel, falling in the bedroom he had just left, and smashing his bed to pieces. The Englishman turned with a smile to the waiter and said, "I say. next time they bombard let me know, and I will get up at once."

MATED TO A TEETOTALER) A woman applied at Lambeth Police-court on Tuesday for a separation from her husband, with whom she had lived for 38 years Mr. Denman: What is your complaint? The Applicant: Because he is a teetotaler he thinks he can do as he likes. I have three half- pinV, of stout a day, and he thinks that is too much. I can't live with him any longer. Mr. Denman If you have managed to get on with him for 38 years, it is a very odd thin^ that you should now say you cannot live with him any longer.

310 IN A FAMILY. There is a woman named Sally Shiver living ip the State of Georgia, who has 235 living children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. In addition to these, 75 of her descendants are dead, bringing up the grand total to 310. She is 90 years old and makes a point of visiting all her descen- dants in regular order.

Swimming Baths. CARDIFF SADLY BEHIND OTHER TOWNS. Brecon Dog Show Executive Offer Special Inducements to South Wales Financiers. The question of proper bathing accommodi tion for the youth of the town seems likely t engage the attention of the council at no diii tant date. I aan afraid, however, that the question will be dealt with in the lighl, and airy fashion the council usually deals with important matters. For one thing, I fancy they look up >n the baths as a hardy annual that engages their attention once a year, but never seriously. Two or three poor youngsters lose their lives by being drowned in the Taff. Our wiseacres on the council shake their heads, and remark, "How sad it is." The next day the matter has gone from their minds, until, perhaps, in the following summer other youths lose their lives. Did but the council fulfil their duties to the town by providing proper baths instead of the cowshed sort of arrangement that now exists, one could hardly lay the blame at their door. As matters are now, however, the council may justly be charged with the lives of t.he boys that are being constantly lost in the Taff. The baths arrangements of Cardiff are a disgrace < to the town. I question if any town in the kingdom of half its size is anything like so badly off as is Cardiff. Mark you, the rate- payers are to be blamed almost as much as the council. It is in the ratepayers' power to force the corporation to build baths. Why on earth, do not those parents who are ratepayers remem- ber this, and take advantage of it. The council" may sit and waste their own time and the public money, but still, if the public do niaki up their minds for the council to effect a towr improvement the council, say what they may will have to do it. A reminder from the rate payers, cycling and athletic clubs would dt some good just now, if only as a start in tht matter. I invite correspondence upon the subject. The Brecon Dog Show Executive are evidently wishful to do all in their power to encourage the attendance of the fanciers from this part of the Principality. On Tuesday the secretary (Mr. D. W. E. Thomas) wrote down to Cardiff, inquiring what number of fanciers could be guaranteed if a special train was put on for them. At present the matter is in abeyance pend- ing a reply from those South Wales fanciers who will be showing. Personally I have spoken to something like a score, all of whom wiJ1 attend, providing they can go up in the morn- ing and take their dogs with them in time for the judging. It is not so much a matter of a special train right through as it is a special from Bargoed to Brecon. Fanciers could travel from Cardiff by the 5.55 a.m.. providing there was a train from Bargoed to take them 011 to Brecon. I fancy this is a matter that the Cardiff and District Dog Fanciers' Society should take up, and by communication with the secretary of the show endeavour to make journeying to Brecon on the morning of the show practi- cable. The entries close, I notice, on Tuesday, June 28. There is, therefore, six days in which to make all arrangements, and it would be better, by the way, if arrangements could be made before the entries close, for then many more would enter their dogs if they found it possible to send them up on the morning or travel with them. Perhaps the secretary of the Cardiff Society and also the secretary of the Brecon Show would like to say something dn the matter. If so, this column is open to them. Speaking of dog shows, I hear, unofficially, that Mr. Vicary, of Newton Abbot, is unable to judge fox terriers at the forthcoming Weltfil National Dog Show. Who will take his place is not yet settled, but I hear it will be either Mr. Pim, Mr. Redmond, or Mr. Doyle. The other judges, I understand, are as originally announced. The programme for Gloucester annual sports has just been issued, and although the prizes will not be quite so valuable as in previous years, yet as the meeting (being held on the day following August Bank Holiday) can be worked" with some of the big holi- day meetings, there is sure, as usual, to be a big entry. The only ten guinea first offered is, I believe, for the sprint, but in the other open events the seven-guinea prizes are sure to be good value for the money, which is decidedly not th case at all athletic gatherings. The victory of W. H. Taylor. the Gloucestet three-quarter, in the Midland Counties Om. Hundred Yards Championship on Saturday was, I am told, immensely popular among all sections of Gloucester athletes. Taylor is really one of the most popular of athletes, and his victories are, therefore, always welcome, His performance on Saturday was a very meri- torious one indeed, and if he goes for national honours, which I believe is his intention, he should take a lot of beating. The "Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette" in this month's issue informs its readers that, owing to the large number of fatal accidents each year on Birdlip Hill. near Gloucester, inquiries are to be made as to the possibility of erecting a special lamp at the top of the hill warning cyclists of the dangerous declivity. The hill is, doubtless, a very dangerous one, but to say that there are a large. number of fatal accidents there each year is decidedly "stretching it." To my certain knowledge, says a Gloucester correspondent, there has not been at the outside more that two fatal accidents on the hill mentioned ii double that number of years, and I believ that not more than one fatality has occurred there. "And vou are right and I am right, and all is right as right can be." Gilbert's words came forcibly back to us in the report of the latest phase of the battle of Dorking. The landlord of the White Horse had a test case submitted to him, and at first refused to admit the blooniered girls. But they insisted, and threatened proceedings, and finally 'vere giver, a private room. And now the Rational Dres; League, which had instigated the case, says i: will support the White Horse, as private room are what they want, and the unskirted ladie are rushing with feminine enthusiasm to bless the landlord for whom, but one short week ago, they had no curses loud and deep enough. What with the battles of Dorking and battles in Cuba, these modern wars be strange things. Gilbert has never given us anything so funny. By the way. I saw a couple in "bloomers" on a tandem on the Newport-road the other night. Cannot they give some local landlord a chance of a free ad.—the Grand Hotel, for instance? The question of a cyclists' club house that I mentioned some time ago is, I note from" circuit received this morning, being carried Gn. The letter states that the meeting wiL be held at tha Royaf. Hotel, Cardiff, on Tues day. June 28. All cyclists, attached .)r not are invited to attend. The new /aachiiie for judging the finishes of sprint races was used at the Huddersfield meet- ing. Opinions djffer as to its success. Undet any circumstances, I do not think there is much likelihood of its being used at the championships. F. W. Cooper ran finely in the 300 yards hurdles handicap, in wb' cL he preferred to compete instead of contei'.m^ the Northern Counties quarter-mile hurdle cham- pionship at Winnington Park, Northwich. It is to be feared that this latter and similar events are not held in very high -a-com. for they are seldom won by the best men eligible^ WELSH ATHLETE.

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