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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CARDIFF. THEATRE ROYAL. Lessee and Manageress.Mrs. Edward Fletcher. THE VIRTUE OF EXCELLENCE. STILL PREDOMINATING. UNPARALLELED SUCCESS! GLORIOUS ARRAY OF HARMONIC TINTS in THE ROYAL PANTOMIME, JJOBiiifcjON £ JRUSOE New Specialities bv the Beautiful ATALANTA, And JENNIE AlJPLETON, The Marvellous Impersonator and Juvenile Prodigy. Early Doors Open at Six, Ordinary 6.30; com- mence Seven o'clock. Children Half-price. Special Terms for Schools, &c. MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY AT TWO. Special EXCURSIONS from ALL .ARTh. Booking Offices at Messrs. Thompson and Shackell's (Limited), Queen-street, from 10 till 4. Telephone 521. -1^8 R AND T H E A T R E Lessee A Manager, MB. CLARENCE SOUNES A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH AND PRONOUNCED SUCCESS OF THE Second Grand Gcrgeous Pantomime, ALADOIN. Mr. Ronald Graham's Triple Company. Full London Ballet and Chorus. Marvellous Specialities. MATINEE SATURDAY. January 29. at Two. ¿ Doors open 1.30 Early Doors 1. Pantomime prices:—From 6d. to £1 Is. Chil- dren Half-price. Second price at 9 o'clock. Early doors extra. Doors open 7; commence 7,15. Early doors 6.15. Box Office at Mr. R. Lane's, 3, Duke-street. a187 • 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more—deserve it." j rjl H E M P I R E. Managing Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT. ENGAGEMENT AT ENORMOUS EXPENSE of the gUEMESE IJROUPE OF REAL INDIANS IN THEIR NATIVE COSTUMES AND SPORTS, Twenty in number, who constituted the attrac- tion at the Crystal Palace in THE BURMESE VILLAGE. THE WOOD TRAVELLI TRIO. Variety Entertainers. WAL PINK AND COMPANY. In the Weird, Spectacular, Fancy, entitled— TWO WISHES. New Scenery and Music. PROF: JENNION'S MARIONETTES! The Merriest of Marvellous Mannikins. FRED NEIMAN. With his Animated Minstrels. MR. AND MRS. HANNAWAY ROWE, In their Beautiful and Picturesque Entertain- ment. Mr. Hannsfway Rowe is the Original "Sequah." CHARLES VINCENT, Comedian. The Celebrated MDLLE. DE DIO! In her Remarkable Dances, Including ''She" in the Fire of Life. Next Week- BRISTOL'S EDUCATED HORSES. Box Office open daily from 10 to 4; Saturdays, 10 to 1. Also from 7 to 10 each evening for book- ings for subsequent dates. Two Complete Performances Every Evening between 7 and 9 and 9 and 11. NEWPORT. rp H E M P I R E. Managing Director OSWALD STOLL. TO-NIGHT. Xmas Sketch from the Cardiff Empire, JOLLY. BOY'S JUBILEE; or, The Phantom Bride. (lie Gaertners. Angeline, Premier Lady Juggler. Macdonald Troupe of Dancers. Japt and Japo in the Wire. Master George Elliott. Professor Bristol's Horses. Ponies, and Mules (ten in num- ber). Next Week:-THE CHARITY GIRL. Y~CE.UM, NEWPORT. Proprietor MR. CLARENCE SOUNES TO-NIGHT, at Seven, and During the Week, ROBINSON 0RUSOE Pantomime, including the Leopold Brothers. MATINEES THURSDAY and SATURDAY, at 2. Price, 6d. to .&! Is. Telephone 158 (Nat.). Box Office open daily. 10 to 4, at Lyceum only. Doors open 6.40. Early Doors 6. Children Half-price to Matinees only. NEXT WEEK—ALLADDIN Pantomime. 5a694 ^—————— NOW READY. SECOND EDITION. THOROUGHLY REVISED AND ENLARGED. OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY A PRACTICAL BOOX FOR AMATEURS, To which is appended a Memoir of the Rev. PREBENDARY WEBB, by ARTHUR M E E F. R. A. S. (Member of the British Astronomical Associa- tion, Member of the Sceiete Astronomiqne de France), assisted by a number of eminent Astronomers. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. 2s. 6d., Postage 3d. extra. WESTERN MAIL LIMITED. CARDIFF; and 82, FLEET-STREET. LONDON. 57323 M^MMMMM———WMMMMMM Niortimer's Mixture For Croup* Whooping Cough. Coughs, & Coldf Of all Chemists. Price. 1/1M AUCTIONS. TO-MOHROW 'THURSDAY), 27th JANUARY, AT THE SALEROOMS. 11. HIGH-STREET, CARDIFF 1YT ESSRS. GOTTWALTZ, BOWRING, .1.TJL and PERRY will SELL by AUCTION. at their Salerooms as above, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY). 27th January, 1898, commencing at 2.30 o'clock, a large variety of EXCELLENT OFFICE FURNITURE AND FITTINGS, Removed for convenience of Sale, including A AVFLL-MADE BROWN OAK BREAK-FRONT BOOKCASE, Enclosed by glazed and panelled doors; writing tables on turned leg supports and pedestals of drawers, two enclosed desk top washstands with iHtinsrs; TWO SOLID MAHOGANY PED2STALS OF 6 DRAWERS, Copying presses on stands, nest of pigeon holes with tambour front, walnut Wellington nest of 6 drawers with locking plasters; MAHOGANY CLERK'S DESKS ON STANDS, A 5ft. nyihoganv pedestal writing table, office chairs with stuffed and hardwood seats, 2 draw- ing boards. A 4FT. 61X. BROWN OAK AMERICAN WRIT- ING TABLE With revolving shutter front and patent spring locks, a 3ft. mahogany bookcase, waste paper baskets, stationt ry cabinet, inkstands, Ac.; Also TWELVE WROUGHT-IRON THIEF AND FIRE PROOF SAFES, Direct from the Manufacturers. Messrs. Jacob Oartwright and Son. Phoenix Works, West Bromwich, and fitted with their invincible powder-proof locks and duplicate keys. ON VIEW MORNING OF SALE. al74 ADDRESSES. SOLD IN BOTTLES, Is.; BY POST, la. Id. ^00THACHe| 11^|| fft' cute* DAILY TESTIMONIALS OF THIS GREAT CURE ARE BEING RECEIVED FOR TEE FOLLOWING :— FOR TOOTHACHE, FOR HEADACHE, FOR NEURALGIA, INFLAMED GUM& FOR BOILS, SORE THROAT, CHAPPED HANDS, AND SORE LIPS, AND IT WILL CURE ALL KINDS OF fAIN; IN FACT, A REALLY GOOD pnN KILLER. SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS. AGENTS:— CardiH: Anthony and Co., Chemists, St. Mary. street. „ Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Queen street. „ Hicks and Co. (Limited), Chemists, Duke-street. oj Hicks and Co. (Limited). Chemists Cowbridge-road, Cantou. » A. J. Bellamy. Chemist, 61, Paget- street, Grangetown. „ Messrs. Due's and Sons, Chemists, St. John's-square. „ E. Edwards, Chemist, 2, Mackintosh- place. Albany-road. „ F. Mill ward, Chemist, 60, Wcodvilte- road, Cathavs. „ R. Mumford, 60. Castle-road, Roath. „ R. Mumford, 17, Meteor-street, SpJot- land. 110 C. Clarl«\ Chemist, 2, Coburn- street. Ca that's. *„ Howell Phillips. Chemist, 253. Bute- street. II R. Prust, Chemist, 14, Broadway, Roath. oj Jesse Williams and Co., Chemists, Queen-street. .< D Thomae. Chemist. Penarth-road „ Mr. Coleman, Chemist, St. Mary-street » Mr. Wakefield, Chemist, 100, Cowbrid^e-1 road. ° h Mr. Owen Jenkings, Chemist, Cow- bridge-road. t. Richard Hughes, Chemist, 29, Splott- Aberavon: kr. Thomas Nicholas, Central Supply Stores, Water-street. Hall 61 Mr' Tu(ioJr Williams, Dentist, Medical Abergwynfl: Richards and Son, Grocers. Abertillery: Morgan Bros., Carmarthen Butter Stores. Barry Dock; Hicks and Co., Chemists. 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RESSMAKING.-Ladies' TaUor-made and U Braid Costumes, Wedding and Evening Dresses, Mantles, Ac., Made in the Latest Style; fit guaranteed.—Address T-ewis and Evans. 78, W.vndham-crescent, Cardiff. e5836 Wa———ww J'WfcaqBu+a—i——i APARTMENTS TO LET. pOMFORTABLY:FURNISHED Apartments to Let; convenient, to 'busses; suitable for Lady or Gentleman: with or without board- terms moderate; no children.—Apply A 4, Even- ing Express Office, Cardiff. e6840 Ap ARTMENTS.-Twl? or Three Rooms to Let; A suit officer or engineer wife; no children —5, Welford-street, Barry. 4493i28 9A Glynrhondda street, Cardiff. — Superior Large Front Sitting-room, with Bed and Bath Room en suite; or Boarders; moderate terms. p3 /COMFORTABLE Apartments for Lady or C Gentleman: ouiet for study; no children. —^Gold-street, Roath, Cardiff. 4395i27 WfELL Furnished Sitting-room and Bedroom » to Let to One or Two Gentlemen: good attendance; one minute from station.—Apnly Mrs. Wright, Oak Villa, Caerphilly. 4391i27 PENARTH.—Lansdowne Private Hotel; exten- JL sive Channel view; superior accommoda- tion; moderate ehaiges; special terms to per- manent boarders. 2803d SHOP ASSISTANTS WANTED. 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[ Mutual Astonishmenf. I- PEXARTH SYNDICATE: I am simply astounded at your trivial objections to our lighting- Penartli by electricity: Ycu. surely, are Joking, and cannot intend spending the ratepayers' money on such nonsense? CARDIFF CORPORATION: I am astonished at your remarks, sir! Allow me to u-11 you that I am not given to joking. and that my objections are of the most serious character.

NURSEMAIDS AND SERVANTS WANTED. WANTED, a good General Servant.—Apply 28, Miskin-street, Cardiff, after seven p.m. [i!8 T\TANTED^-good Cook; baking: dairy two TT cows); small family: kitchenmaid kept.- State watres Mrs. Railton, Heywood Lodge, Ten- by. L14984 TX^ANTED, experienced and efficient Parlour- » V maid- wages £ 20 (all found but been.— Mrs. Lowry,' Brynhir, Tenby. L14985 REQUIRED, a-tidy Young General Servant; no family.—ApiTiy. after seven o'clock, at No. 178, Newport-road, Cardiff. 4472i26 W7"ANTED, about the Middle of February, I Two experienced Servants, Cook-General and House-Parlourmaid.—Apply Mrs. Wellfield Thomas, Carmarthen. 57862 BOOTH'S Park Registry.—Wanted, superior Servants Public, Private; Ladies Suited. Disengaged, Barmaids, Housekeepers. Superior Beds for 'ser\nnts.—4, Frederick-street. Car- diff. 4489pl WANTED .it once, a good General: also a good Girl who is Used to Business and Would Make Herself Generally Useful.—Apply Blake, 34. Barry-i oad. Cud ox ton, Cardiff. i28 on MRS. H. Evans's Registry^Oflice^for Servants, 47, Angus-street, Roath Park, Cardiff, pi WANTED, good General" Servant; about 20; abe to cook; seme washing; assistance given; good wages.—Apply Farley's Registry Office, Tenby. 4453pl N'UESE Wanted.—Applv Mrs. J- A. Jones.. 40, Newport-road, Cardiff. 4279129 T^TURSE.—'Waifted" thoroughly experienced N Nurse; not under 35; good eedlewjuan-, Cliurchwoman; good wages.—Owen, Brynteg, Aberystwyth. b 435^29 NURSE Houspmuid Wanted; one child; good references required.—Apply Dr. Evans. 19, "ft ind-or-e<niunade. Cardiff. 4363i27 NURSE H(lusemaid—Wanted; must be fond of children; Welsh oreferred — Apply, with references. Mrs. W. T. Leyshon, Danygraig, House, Pontypridd. 43C2129 IVJURSl^-Wanted, First .Week in February, N experienced Nursemaid (not under 2o) to Take Charge of Two Young Children: highest references indispensable.—Applv- between eight and nine, 14, Park-place, Cardiff. al51 PLAIN Cook Wanted, under housekeeper; nobleman's family: £ 25. Head House- maid. £ 24; two others kept.-92. St. Michael s- hill, Bristol. 4420i31 WANTED, good Plain Cooks. £ 20: expe- rienced Parlourmaids, £ 18; Working Housekeepers. Generals, Housemaids, Young Nurse (Assist in Houseworks-London Registry, Aberzavennv. — WANTED at once, experienced Cook; no W kitchenmaid kept.-Apply, before eleven o' cle ck, 8, Park-place, Cardiff. 4557i27 nOOKWanted at once: good reference re- quired.—Hollanton House, Marine-parade, Penarth, Cardiff. 437aijl "\7|7TnteD, thoroughly experienced Cook for W Private Boarding-house, J.landrindod; good wages to competent person. Apply, by letter. The Mount. Llandaff. 4412i27 117 \NTED, Cook-General and House-Parlour- VV maid, middle of February.—Apply, stat- ing -age, &c., Mrs. Oliver Sheppard, Cartrefle, Bridgend. un 4415i31 TTTA NTEL< a good Plain Cook or Cook- VV General—Mrs. Stranaghan, Marine- paradeL T>enarth. 4318i29 -), 1JI7A.NTEP. good Plain Cook-Mrs. Hunter, VV Roseinount, Newport-road, Cardiff (next Roath Lawn Tennis Court). 4297i29 T^rANTEIX a good Cook. who is Willing to YV Help in Spare Time; good references wanted and good wages given to a competent girl.—Apply Q 23, A\ estern Mail, Cardiff. 4300i29 WANTED, good Cook. 25 to 30, Gentleman's Small Family; help given: good wages. -0 29, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 4_3oni29 WANTED at once, a strong, active, capable Cook-General; waiting at table indis- pensable -Apply Mrs. Dolby, Cheddleton House, Newport, Mon. 42o5i28 TXTANl'ED, a good Plain Cook; three m VV family: three Welsh servants kept; fare paid.—Particulars to D., Es'silmont House Bed- ford. 4!96127 W" ANTED, Cook-GeneralTrcnce, with good references; two other servants kept.- Apply, after six, at 39, Cathedral-road, Car- diff. j 4117i26_ WANTED, Cook-GeDera; twotin family; house-parlourmaid kept— Apply. with reference. Mrs. Gregor The Hawthorns. Llan- daff Station, Cardiff. 4171126 =- NURSEMAIDS AND SERVANTS WANT PLACES. YOUNG Lady Requires Situation in Sweet .1 Shop or Any Light Business; to live in; inexperienced.-O 9, Express, Cardiff. el0627i27 HOUSE-PARLOURMAID Disengaged; tall: jn thoroughly experienced; aged 24: good reference.—Mrs. Stuart, 2, Frederick-street, Queen-street, Cardiff. 4315i26 HEALTHY Country Servant Disengaged; H plain cooking, wash, and iron: four years' good character; £ 12.—Address 9, Radnor-road, Canton. Cardiff. 4317i29 LADIES SRited with All Classes of Servants. L Situations Secured for Servants. Fee. Is.— Miss Walters, 30. Page-street, Swansea. 4227i27 ,an- BARRY District Registry Office, 19, Glamorgan- street. Barry.—Ladies Quickly Suited; Servants with good references Wanted; enclose stamp for reply. 4222i27 CLERKS AND MANAGERS. ADVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- masters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letters addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. WANTED, a thoroughly capable, efKcient *» Book-keeper and Cashier; salary to com- mence £ 100 per annum.—Apply.-Stating age and experience, with copies of testimonials, to 0 62, Western Mail, Cardiff. 67868 "ITTANTED at cnce. a smart Youtlf as Short- hand Clerk: must be an expert typist' 'Barlock).—Apply Monmouthshire Steel and Tin- plate Company (Limitedi, Pontymister Works. Mon. 37866 WANTED, a First-class Certificated Colliery » Manager for Castle and Cethin Collieries. Cyfarthfa, Merthyr; must be well up in the Practical management of collieries.—Applv, giving experience, salary expected, and testi- monials, to Crawshay Brothers, Cyfarthfa (Limited). Merthyr Tydfil. 57865 TTrANTED, Junior Clerk for larse Shipping » Office; state age and previous experience. if an\ —Apply O 49, Western Mail, Cardiff. i28 \\7"ANTED, respectable Lad for Large Office » at Docks.—Apnlv O 43 Western Mail, Car- diff- 4412i51 BUILDERS' Merchant Require Clerk. 19 to 25; B previous experience of the trade preferred. —Apply, by letter only, stating age, qualifica- tions, references, and salary required, Davies Bros.. Newport. Mon. 4405i31 ""XT AXTED a Bessemer Manager: must be f" thoroughly up to date.—Apply, stating references, experience, and salary required, to O 31, Western Mail, Cardiff. 57837 JUNIOR Clerk Wanted; quick shorthand writer—Apply, stating age and wages re- quired, to 0 30, Western Mail, Cardiff. al39 WANTED, thoroughly-experienced Clerk at Colliery in Swansea Valley; must be steady and reliable; young man preferred.— Write. stating age. experience, full particulars, to Box 60. Western Mail, Swansea. 4329i26 MANAGER Wanted for the Royal Hotel, Swansea.—Applv, -stating age, experience, with copies of testimonials, to F. G. Gould, Bridgend Hotel. Pentre Ystrad. 57792 £ 1—An Income of 12s. 6d. to £1 Per week can be earned in spare time or evenings by any p-rson able to write.—Proof sent free any- where to those sending addressed envelope toT. Smith and Co. (Dept. 9Bi, 79, St. Helen's-gardens, Nor h Kensington, London, W. L12663 BI-If-DEI! and Contractor's Clerk and Book- keeper Want Engagement; prime cost and estimating: early riser: first-ela** ref Apply Q 48.. Western Mail. Cardiff. 4435pl TITANTED. Re-engagement as Junior Clerk: accustomed to estate agent and accoun- tant's offices: shorthand and typist; aged 19.— Apply U 38. Western Mail. Swansea. 4424i31 CLERK (26) Seeks Re-engagement: well up m company work: good accountant: tho- roughly reliable: confidential; nine years ex- perience at Docks: highest references; mode- rate salary; absta.mer.-o 39, Western Mail, Cardiff. 4584i31 \\TANTED, by Young Man. with five vears' VV experience in Building and Joinery Trade. Position as Contractor's or Timber Mer- chant's Assistant.—Address N 92. W estern Mail, Trade. Position as Contractor's or Timber Mer- chant's Assistant.—Address N 92. Western Mail, Cardiff. 4llli26 MISCELLANEOUS SITUATIONS VACANT. ADVERTISERS are Cautioned that Post- masters are Not Allowed to Deliver Letters t Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-cflice. Letters addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names ma-t bear the address of ¡ the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail. GRANITE Masons Wanted for Fine Axinc: wages 9d. per hour.—Apply S. Pearson and Son. Port Talbot Docks. 57859_ WANTED, Sawyer to Work Small Circular » » Saw to Cut Box Board and Keys, <&c — Applv Lancaster,_N_ewent. Glos. 4446pl TIN-PLATE Worker or General Hand for Ironmonger's Shop.—Apply personally Perkins Bros, and Co. (Limited). Cardiff. 4353i27 SMART, active Boy Wanted; must possess g Jod character as to honesty.—Apply Johnson and Co.. Manufacturing Confectioners, Tudor-road. Cardiff. 4565i27 "IT7"ANTED, for Wholesale Waterproof Gar- » V ment and Indn-rubber Trade, an expe- rienced Young Mali for Warehouse,—Apply 0 35. Western Mail. Cardiff. 4569131 RAT Catcher Wanted at once; must be expe- rienced.—Address 0 26, Western Mail Office, I Cardiff. 4354i26 C^OACH Painters.—Wanted. Young Man for y Tradesmen's Carts and Assist with Best Work; constancy.—Apply, with reference, Samuel Probert. Abergavenny. 4306i29 Messrs. Sydney E F. Walker and Co. have a Vacancy for One Articled Pupil.—For tern.a apply Cardiff I Electrical Works. Severn-road, Cardiff. 4283i29 "ITTANTED immediately, a good, reliable Smith for Points and Crossings, Ac.; state wages and experience— Address Alpha, Western Mail. Swansea. 4330i26 ~V\TANTED, an energetic Utter; must have » experience in roof ironwork, built iron girders, template making, temporary erection of work; a good opening for a reliable man: state wages and experience.—Address Alpha, Western Mail. Swansea. 4331i26 TTTANTED, good Banker Masons and Wallers. TT -Apply Foreman, New Church of St. Matthew. Chapel-Allerton. Leeds. 57808 WANTED. good Copper Smiths.—Applv Llewellins and James. Castle Green. Bris- tol. 57799 BUTCHER Wanted: youth about 18; live in; B solicit and make himself useful in shop: abstainer preferred.—Address Butcher, Western Mail, Swansea. 4l54i26 A PPRENTICES Wanted for Two large Cargo Steamers, 6.000 tons; premium required. —Apply, by leyer, N 99, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 4148i26 TTT ANTED, competent Smith, Used to Engine » t Work.—State age. references, and wages, Fielding and Piatt. Gloucester. 57460 Fielding and Platt. Gloucester. 57460 TTT ANTED, for Manchester District, good Non- »'T Society Pattern Makers, Fitters. Turners Machinemen, and Blacksmiths: to good men constant work and good wages.—Address, stating references and fnrther particulars, to B 75. Wes- tern Mail. Cardiff 55335 "WrA-^TI.I) immediately, Cowman; g iod » milker; used to farm work.—Apnly. with references, Mrs. Williams, Henstaff Court, Portydun. 4429; 27 "1VANTED Youth to Assist in Stable and » » Garden; outdoors.—Apply Dnn-v-Brvn. Eadyr. 4371i31 \Xf ANTED, respectable Lad; indoors able to » • milk, attend horse, and be generally u>e- ful.—Apply, with reference, Rev. Davies, Cood- kernew Rectory. Castleton. Cardiff. 4291i29 SER) ANT Rov Wanted. about 17, to ,;le,nI'ony, Trap. Garden, Generally Use- iui; all found; good character.—Adnev. Llan- steptian, Carmarthenshire. 4289126 WANTED, good Groom; must understand 11 ,T.youn? horses and willing to be useful. Also W orking Farm Bailiff; Wife Dairy and Poultry.—Apply, with references and wages re- quired, Mwyndy, Llantrisant. ;269i28 GROOM Gardener W'anted: must understaiid both duties thoroughly; attend horse and trap. milk one e-ow: greenhouse, flowers, kit- chen garden, and generally useful.—Address O 5, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 4l82i27 TTT ANTED. Married Man. about~50~~( without » family preferred to Live on Small Grass Farm, Make Himself Generally Useful; good place for a smart, careful young man.-Apply W. L. Morr's. (Jompton House. 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THE CASE OF PAUL JERSEY* [BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SFOITORD.] SPECIALLY SET FOR THE EVENING EXPRESS. TART T. The President of the bank had not roi-e through the world making friends. He had pone through the world making money. He was not, however, a cruel man naturally. He often had to say" No" to people whom It,, would rather have served if he could have done that and have served himself, too. He often had to take advantage of people; it sometimes made him wince a little, and called a colour to his large, fat face; but lie fancied they would have taken the advantage had the affair been reversed, and so «pndonecl the fault. He had still a recollection of the way he got a start in life by settling a friend's estate and leaving the heirs with very little; but the re- collection was growing vague, and besides there had been a doubt, if he remembered right, and he had given himself the benefit of the doubt: and he had married one of the chil- dren to a rich man and provided the other with a place in the bunk and had stood his friend in various emergencies; so that, on the whole, he said,, it might be called square. Be- sides, it W:15 a great while ago. and he was not the same man. The President did not give so much in charily M he meaut to give by-and-bye. He argued that with money ii1 hand he could do better with it, and double the amount to be distributed after a while. He let it be understood, however, that he did Mt approve of a "ian taking his money out of the community and leaving it all to his family; and, although it was known that he was shifty and slippery, he was aware, when he took his walks abroad, of a slight air of expectancy in the community. That he was not popular did not trouble him nmch. No one could be popular who refused vault accommodations to unsafe persons, he said to himself, shuffling fway in his long overcoat and big shoes. But then lie had a duty to perform to others than himself; for even if he owred the greater part of the stock there were other shareholders; all 1 oil these other shareholders, he said, one and lI!l thought the President a good a nel a hie ilia n. When, however, the President one day gave the town-hail an illuminated clock, and the next yea" built a public bath-house, there was a slight revulsion of feeling in IÙ, regard; when he presented the town with a small fund whose income was sufficient* to pay for watering the streets, various people told him they had occa- sion to thank him every day of their lives. And when he built and endowed a homo for aged couples then every one declared that the President, had a tender heart, and, whatever else might be said of Irni, it must be confessed that he loved his home, and had always shown a keen respect for family life. The President, being, after all, a human being, did love his family. He considered Irs children the very crown of creation, and, without putting it into words, he felt that the earth had existed until now in order to produce those fine and exquisite things. Even to look at them gave him a sort of subtle pleasure in another -way, for he was sure that unless he was a good man at heart he would not b" the father of mcli faultless beings. And that sweet and beautiful spirit, his little grandson—there are no words to express the President's joy over that child from the day of his birth. His wife had been a pretty woman in her day her day had long gone by, but she still held her husband with the tradition of her beauty. Now she was a dyspeptic, and he felt that possibly she had been given him as a discipline, to keep his heart open on the pitiful side, and he was v.;ry tender with her. She was very tender with herself, too. Her dyspepsia did ,)ot til!,)w ))(,I. to ezt!, -III(] I(]ill iier to sleep. I Her dyspepsia tore her nerves to pieer-s, so thai {she had to be spared every excitement; her dyspepsia woiild not ))ow her to lie down, and her weakness would not let her sit up; her appetite.cmved all the good things she saw or suielled, but her dyspepsia forced her to go without them, and she told her symptoms of this dyspepsia 'to everyone, and made the air so vocal with complaints that you almost wished she had never had the dyspepsia. If his wife had been well there would not have been a crumpled rose-leaf in the President's lot. He understood perfectly, because she told him of it every day. that the least shock niigllt kill her, and po life had to be more quiet than he likfd, but as it was he felt that he would not change with any man living. It had been a grief that his eldest, daughter's husband had died, but. not a keen grief. He did not like to have her melan- choly. but he was sure time would soften the pain, and it had been a joy to have her bring the boy home to live, and he doubted if he did not love the child better than he ever loved his own children. And you would hardly wonder if you had seen the boy-a little incarnate sunbeam, with his yellow curls, his eyes, as blue as heaven, danc- ing behind the long, back-curling lashes, his dimpling little bow of a mouth full of pearls, all life and light and motion while awake, all fair, white innocence while asleep. No; you would only have wondered how he came to be the President's grandchild: and that was what the President sometimes won- wered himself. "J tell you, Jersey," he said once, when Paul Jersey*, having failed to waylay him down- town in order to secure a favour in tire Presi- dent's power to grant, had climbed to the palace on the hill where the President now lived, and had been refused the favour, but refused in so friendly a manner that any other man than Paul Jersey would almost have felt that it was best he shouldn't have it, qud would ha\e been quite sure that. be. had better not have brought business up there into the President's leisure—'T tell y°u» Jersey," he said, "when you're disgusted with business, and want to forget there is a world of bonds and stocks and bills, have a boy iike th:s to come home to and you'll be in another country in no time! And l,e lifted to his shoulder the boy. who came running in and clung about his knees, looking out from shelter at the stranger. "1\1y boys are all girls," said Paul Jersey. "So are mine," said the President "and ii s a strange thing- Jersey-I was always fond of my family, as you know, but I can't remember ever caring for one of my girls as I do for this little fellow. If anything should happen to him I think it would kill me: I know it would kill my wife. But nothing can: nothing can: he's the perfect picture of health, and I mean to have liini brought up like a Spartan soldier: he shall be the first scholar and the first athle.e of his class; he shall throw the discus and take the prize as the runner in the Olympic games: he shall be afraid of nothing in the shape of clay. And he shall be a good man, too—he'll hav3 money enough." "You're right there," said Jersey, bitterly. "It takes money to be a good man." I ilif'lilc .%oti*l-e oilt there," said (lie Pre- sident. "I know very good men who are poo". You are a good man yourself, Jersey." "I'm poor enough," laughed Jersey, "if that's what you mean. So self-evidcntly poor that you needn't remind me of it." "I don't me-ui anything of the sort." returned the greit man. "I'm not saying iiirs-li things with this boy in my arms. The fae;, is, Jersey, though this isn't the pl<Jce I" t::lI;ntJ>incs: I wish 1 could help ycu. I should bo jrlad to h?!p you. Find some other tiling, one where I could be of use. but I've had a better offer in this matter, and I should be wronging my family, I should be wronging this boy here, if I let any friendly or sentimental considerations have weight agfi,lst, their interests." Jersey lifted his eyes from an old Indian rug that a prince's sandalled feet might have trod, and looked about him at the sumptuous room, the walls panelled in silk, the carved woodwork from an old Frmch chateau, the Yenetian mirror that had once mirrored a queen's beauty, the blue Sevres vases as high as his head, the gold tripod fr>m which drooped an armful of red roses, the portrait by Merle of his child as a cherub, exql"E*te in soft, delicious colours that made the beautiful baby flesh seem as if tran- substantiated to heavenly material; the painting by Vibert. glowing with fine scarlets, the dreamily and indescribably gorgeous Symons and the the Fortunys. "You are looking at the pictures," said the President. "That portrait is what I call a good investment, apart, quite apart, from its personal interest tc me as the child's grandfather. That Vibert-I paid a fortune for it: it will always fetch it, too; the finest satire on wealth that can be thought of. That SynMns—well. it cost me just a twentieth of what it will be worth some day in the open market. You needn't look at it all as :f it wen. mere luxury. Jersey. It's business, you see." "I>usines=," sa d Jersey, "should never follow I us into the seclusion of our homo*. Yes, I see." ho added: "and the increment of this sort of business is a great deal of personal satisfaction ou the way." thought, of it makes me happy that I am all twisted out oT shape the way I am. because i) would be what had made you think of the other children who arc twisted, too: and sometimes I go to sleep just happy thinking of what vcii would do if you could, and how dear and prc- cious you are! she said, turning her face to hide it beneath his bending over her. And when Paul Jersey laid her down and left her in the dark he felt humbled into the soul ( f 111111. thinking what he was and what this child 'dreamed he was. And yet Paul Jersey was not a bad man, as men o0—a man who would take the best end of i bargain, a man who would s.-heii.e and plot lor an advantage, a mall with no high ideais of his own, with 110 fine sense of honour or deli- cacy, and who said he was living in the world and must do as the world did. He was quite well aware that he was mt loved abroad, but that did not trouble him, he was not working for love, but for money; like the President, he had set up money for his gcd and all lesser gods were of small consequence. It was about a month after this when tl,<* gossip of the town was still lively concern- ing the attack upon the bank, the lire, the heroism, and the illness of the cashier, and the subsequent action of the President and directors in endeavouring to reward him by a gift of tin- old estate that Paul Jersey wanted, and with the cashier's singular refusal of a reward for doing his duty, that Paul Jersey spinning dong on his bicycle was talking ov-r the affair with a companion. "Quixotic," said Jersey. "But he always was Quixotic. Never would take an advantage when it stared him in the face. And he'll live End die a poor man. By George. I wish they'd offered it to me!" "Well," said the ot.hcr man, "if you had snatched those securities from the safe on the instant of an explosion." "Did he?" said Paul Jersey. 'Did her Why. if I had been the one to do that they would have said I had been overtaken in the act of making off with them!" He went on alone after the way divided, still thinking of the cashier's luck and folly, and looking about him narrowly, after his wont, as he went for chances of real estate speculation. There might be a hill-field, with advantages of situation of views and well-jfrown trees, that lie could buy for a song and lay out as a park and sell in house lots, and make as much out of it as if he had Irs way with the President about the old place, or there might be an unex- pected water-powej that would be worth having, or even a spring of unusual quality: so he lost no chances. It was already twilight, and he was some ten miles from home when he turned about, not having seen just the thing. "Well, well," he said to himself; "it's always darkest just before dawn. Something's bound to turn up," and bent over his handle-bars. At a cross-road he hesitated-the turnpike was tlie more frequented, but the cross-road was the shorter; and he turned down that way. He had passed one or two lonely little farms that told a pitiful tale of the holders, and tlu low fields belonging 10 the town commoners, when jibst before reaching a small dwelling, hardly more than a shanty, standing 011 its knoll. he struck a protruding ledge in the road and took a header that indisposed him for more wheeling jusl at that moment. Leading his wheel, he limped along a few rods, and sat. down to ease ofY his hurt 011 the grass bank just below the feuce of the little h..use. It was too dark to sec much ot any- thing. but he rwbbed his aching ankle, and de- cided that a short rest would probably make it all right. As lie waited voices from the rickety wooden steps above and behind him caught his ear—one of them a voice lie had heard before it seemed 10 him. He turned his head, and half saw and half guessed. two men sitting there like black shadows against the light that just then kindled in the cottage window. Where had he heard thai voice before? 'It was strangely fawiliar-and associated, too, with something unpleasant—a rough, coarse voice the other had the dull. decp, monotone that might, belong to some surly gaoler. Hear- ing those voices lllade Paul Jersey feel that lie himself was a gemieman. "There's no place like out 0' doors for a safe talk," said the tirst voice. "Inside there the women set. a halt of a tiling, aid there's an end to the business. And this thing, you see now is as easy as roilin' off a Jog. (To be continued.*

"Hanny" Present—A j .air of gloves. Wkn i i? often found where it isn't ?—Fault. Ships that seldom sail out of sigh;—Hardships. Where a dentist has a r'I11 to show his teeth —Ill liis show-cases. He: "There is one w\nl in the English la:i- gang" t hat is spelled atrociously." She; "What is that. If" "Atrociou>h "What did you find the greatest difficulty von had to encounter in the Arctic reg'ons. Mr. ice- berger. "Getting bad: home." .Man Reformed.—James: "It makes me a bette.' man every time I kiss you. darling." She. "Oh. James, how good vrm miwit h»'"