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(Copriyht.) THE MISSING LINK. By the Author of Secret Chains," "Raitortd," "Until the Day Break% kc., Jtc. Your brother's life Falls into forfait. Alas, what poor ability's in BM To do him good?" "Command me to my brother, soon at night 1')1 saad him certain word of my success." Mtature for Measure. CHAPTER XVII. FRBS AV tAST Anne presented herself at Exeter Gaol next day, passed through the gloomy corridors, with the grimfased warders unlocking massive doors to let bar through, and then locking them again behind her, and entered Martin's little cell with a (reart more joyful than it often brought to a prison. It was a sweet and high reward for all her efforts that she should be the first messenger of peace and good tidings to her brother, who was totally unconiscious of the entire change in hia fortunes. Martin looked as though prison life had aged him at least ten years, even since Anna's last visit, to pale and haggard had he grown. He Greeted his sister in his usual undemonstrative ash ion. "Well, Anne, how are you ? Come, sit down and tell me all the news." But Anne remained standing, still holding Mai tin,*# hand in bers. She felt as though she must oreak gradually to him the tidings she had brought. "The news I have to tell is very good," she began, in a rather tremulous voice. "Mr. Harrison says we must have patience a little loager; they will not set you free just yet; but- oh, my dear Mait; n, nearly everything has been found out. They have arrested the man they believe to be Susan's murderer, and you will be cleared." He stood looking at his eiister for a moment or two before he spoke. Then he drew a deep breath. "Here, Anne," and he pushed a chair towards her, "you had tcttai- sit down and. tell me the whole at or. And so she told him, and he listened a'most without a word. Hut when hlie had finished he said in a low and somewhat broken voice: "And it is you who have done it all; you have done this for me. Well, you are one of those of whom it is written: I Her price is above rubies. "Ah, but, Martin, I have not quite done it all; it was Dick Lawson's mother who first found the broken sleeve-link. It is she who has been my greatest help and comfort ever since you have been here; she said there was nothing in the world she wouldn't do for vou and me in our trouble. Anne seemed destined that day to shake her brother's composure. He had borne the news of his coming release calmly enough, but he visibly trembled now. He turned abruptly away from her, and then he said, without looking round: "That woman must be a saint on earth if there ever was one. But, Anne "—Martin faced her again and tried to smile, but his lips quivered- "it wouldn't be very hard to be kind to vou." "She feels as much for you as she does for me. She said her heart was full of sorrow for you- those were her very words." Again Martin was almost struck speechless. "If ever I come out of prison again- was all that he could say. "You will, you will, dear!" Anne replied eagerly, "and outside your own home there's no one will welcome you more than Mrs. Lawson. The brief quarter of an hour, which was all the time allowed them by the prison regulations, soon passed away. The moment of parting was a sorrowful one, after all. It was hard I to leave Martin still a prisoner, the date of his release uncertain. Possibly he would not be set free until the end of Captain Carteret's trial at the coming Assizes, and, if so, Martin would have to spend his Christmas in gaol. Anne went back to the Exeter railway station, where she had an hour and a half to wait for a South-Western train to take her home. In the waiting-room were two men sitting talking together by the fire. She recognised one of them as a farmer living in the neighbourhood of St. Stephen's, but he had his back to her, and was not aware of her presence in the room. He was speaking in the loud tones of a countryman. The name of Stambridg. aroused Anne's attention, and it was impossible for her not to bear what was said. Hs told me and r.nother party in confidence how it happened he don't much care to have it talked about, S ambridye don't; it'll do him no how it happened he don't much care to have it talked about, S ambridye don't; it'll do him no good with the chapel folk, you see; but I tell him he'll be bound to be witness at the 'sizes; and then it'll all have to come out, whether he likes it or not. You see, the afternoon before the murder happened, Stambridge rode over to Bridestow to see a man that had a dog he'd a fancy to buy; and on his way back, being nasty, foggy weather, he went into the Dartmoor Inn for a drop of summat hot, and I suppose took more than he was used to; he's a very sober man in general; but, however that may be, he got stupid like, and fairly dropped off his horse as he was coming across the moor, and there he lay for hours, with his horse grazing beside of him. He got sobsred after A bit, enough to find his horse and get on him again and ride home, pretty nigh starved with the cold, as you may suppose. But he's uncommon put out as to what they'll say at the chapel when they hears of it; such a man for the prayer meetings and Sunday-school as he is; and to think of him lying drunk alongside the road that very night as his poor young woman was made away with! And here we may say farewell to James Stam- bridge. It so turned out that the fact that lie was lost on the moor the night of the murder, as well an Martin Derrick, and with a less presentable reason for it, never became generally known, and Captain Stambridge's character for strict 1 sobriety remained unassailea. The time w 11 i speedily come when he will find someone to console him for the loss of his Susan. "A candle is never so easily lighted again as when it has just been put out. Anne, fearing she might be recognised, left the waiting-room, and paced up and down the platform for a while. Presently there came into the station a down Great Western train, and amidst the crowd of arrivals she saw Mr. Harrison, somewhat to her surprise, u she thought he had gone home to Tavistock the night before. His keen eyes speedily caught sight of Anne, and he hurried up to her, looking quite eager and animated. "Miss Derrick, you are the very person I have been wanting to see; a most extraordinary thing has happened. Come into the waiting-room, ana will tell you all about it, and then I am off to the prison to see your brother. I hardly know if they will let me this evening; probably they will, though, ween they hear all about it; but this I can say confidently: Mr. Derrick will be set free to-morrow." They had got into the waiting-room by this time; it was vacant now, and they stood together by the fireplace, too excited to sit down. "I slept at Taunton last night on my way home," began the lawyer. "I went there to see an old friend and client of mine, and it was there I heard of it. The police were bringing Captain Carteret down to Exeter last evening; apparently by some oversight, one of the doors of the compartment they were in was left un- locked, and not very far from Taunton he made a dash for it, and leaped on to the line. As soon as the policemen could get the train stopped they went back to look for him, and found he had fallen down an embankment in the darkness, and was lying there desperately injured—dying, in fact. They managed to carry him to a house and got a doctor, but it was no use; and then the wretched man, finding it was all over with bim, said he would confess everything, and clear an innocent man; and so they fetched a magistrate and took down bis depositions. Aad now, I suppose, by this time he is dead." This was the story which Captain Carteret told, with some additional particulars which Anne learnt afterwards. Eight years ago Franeis Carteret had fallen desperately in love with his mother's maid, Susan Derrick; and Susan had been clever enough to make him marry her. His mother, Mrs. Norton, knew only that there waa some sort of intimacy between her son and her maid, and she dismissed Susan in disgrace. Carteret, who had, of course, kept his marriage secret, and who hid away Susan for a few months in London lodgings, was soon tired to death of his wife, and took the opportunity of his regiment being ordered to India to get quit of her. He gave her a sum of money down, and promised to send her a regular allowance; she undertaking on her side to keep the marriage still a secret until his return from India. Time went on, no more money came, and Susan could not discover her faithless husband's whereabouts. She took another situa- tion as lady's-maid, and lived comfortably enough with Mrs. Evelyn. When seven years had passed without hearing from Francia Carteret, she learnt from the legal handbook which she found in Martin's room that she could marry again without fear of prosecution for bigamy, although the second marriage would not be a legal and binding one. She hesitated for some time when James Stambridge offered her a home; then finally made up her mind to run all risks and marry him. About a fortnight before the wedding, on the afterngflfl fif UP dv that SUtthrirtgs Må àit. betrothed had driven together to Tavistock, it will be remembered that Susan walked on alone while the horse was being shod at a wayside forge. It was then that she met Captain Carteret, to their mutual surprise. He was at that tinu- stationed at Plymouth, and he had missed his way coming home after a day with the Lamerton Hounds. Captain Carteret promised to visit hei next evening at Row-tor Farm,and to makesnmr arrangement with her. He was desperately alarmed at the sudden and un looked for re appearance of his wife. A report of her death had reached him; and, believing he was free, he was engaged to marry Miss Hartley, a wealthy, amiable, but extremely plain girl, whose money he coveted, but whose looks he ab- horred. Susan had carefully planned a time for the meeting with her husband, when she knew her brother and sister would be away from the house; and she sent out the girl Eiiza, so that she might not be betrayed by any witness to her interview with Captain Carteret. He came punctually at five o'clock, the time appointed. The husband and wife met tolerably amicably at first, each being in fear of what the other had power to do. Carteret offered Susan money to buy her silence; but she was in a state of indecision, whether to force him to acknowledge her as his wife, or whether to take his money and marry Stambridge which after a time maddened Carteret. Susan, inclining at the moment to keep her first marriage secret, went into Martin's room to consult the legal handbook, which she knew was in her brother's bookcase, in order to dis- cover whether the law could touch her if she married again, now that she knew her husband was living. Captain Carteret followed her, in a state of violent irritation; taunts and threats passed between them; at last he seized the re- volver which he saw above the mantelshelf, merely to frighten her into submission—so he said in hie confession. At all events, there was a desperate struggle between them, Susan, in her mortal terror, vainly shrieking for Martin to come and protect her—in another moment, Carteret had shot her dead. Afterwards, in horror vand remorse, and the wild hope that she might still be living, he raited her up, carried her into the parlour, laid her on the sofa, and tried to force brandy down her throat from the flask which he carried in his pocket The next minute he heard carriage wheels driving up to the house, and then his only thought was his own safety. He extinguished the lamp, but he had not time to escape befo'e Anne had entered the house, and had actually touched him. However, he got clear away without being seen by anyone, thanks to the extreme darkness of that foggy night. In his terror of being recognised at any railway station, he walked the whole way back to Plymouth, and it was not until he came into the lighted streets that he discovered that-probably in the struggle with Susan—one of his diamond sleeve links, Miss Haitley's present to him, which he wore much against his will, had been broken and lost, and was, perhaps, lying somewhere on the floor of- Row-tor Farmhouse. Then the miserable man's punishment began, in the ever-haunting fear of detection-t-) end only in a violent death. Anne took Mr. Harrison's advice, and went home by the next train. It was unliktly, he said, that the prison officials would allow her to see her brother again that day; be, the lawyer, would remain in Exeter, and in all probability he would be able to bring Martin, a free man, down to St. Stephen's the following afternoon. Anne went home to bring the joyful news to Martin's faithful old servants, and then after a hasty meal she sallied forth again, weary and exhaueted as she was, yet forgetting everything else in her great happiness; and she walked a mile or more, Richards accompanying her with a lantern through the dark and miry Jane, to the bouse of Mrs. Lawson. She had the first right to know what her discovery of the "missing link had done for Martin. Another night and morning passed, and then Azit,6 wu onde more at St. Stephen's railway stati n, summoned by a telegram from Mr. Harrison. The train from Exeter presently drew up to the platform, a carriage door opened, and Martin sprang out. The lawyer had travelled down with him, and the old man put his head out of the carriage window, and actually waved his hat to the brother and sister, as he was carried onward to Tavistock. Martin held out his hand to Anne without a word, and they hurried quickly out of the little station where the stationraaster and the porttrs were standing on the platform gazing at the re- leased prisoner with great interest. The trup was standing in the road outside; just as Martin had put in his portmanteau, had comfortably settled Anne-in her seat. had taken the reins in his hand, and was about to drive away, there came riding %y four farmers of the neighbour- hood, on their return homeward after a run with the Lamerton Hounds. One and all drew bridle as they saw M;irtin. The news of his release had—thanks fo Mrs. Lawson and to old Richards-spread far ;md wide already; and everybody in the place knew by this time that the real criminal had befn ar- rested, and had made full confession. Porular opinion at once swung round with that violence which is habitual to it. The strongest fooliti, of everyone was that Martin Derrick had hec n treated with injustice. He had been arrested in his own house, and every man among ft cm could realise the bitterness of such an insult to one's own hearthstone. He had been carried off to prison; not been let out on bail as he was be- fort; add dark visions of the sufferings and in- dignities he must have gone through in Exeter Gaol filled the villagers'minds. All the while he was an innocent and deeply injured man; and then the question began to be asked—had he ever had fair play P So the farmers, all of whom, in days gone by, had more or less boycotted Martin Derrick, now, one after another, held out their hands to him. "We're uncommonly glad to see you safe home igain, Mr. Derrick," "Horeyou haven't suffered in your health frcm all yo'i have gone through." "You've been served shameful by the inagie,, crates, and the whole lot of them "None of us are safe if this here sort of thing is to be let go on—innocent parties to be took up and sent to gaol!" Martin tried to respond graciously, but these salutations caused extreme discomfort to the reserved and sensitive man. More was to come, however. Somehow the very hour of Martin's arrival home had becomo known in the village, and as they came to apart where the road widened, and the whitewashed Wesleyan Chapel on the one fide, and on the other Watkins's cottage, with "Devon Con- stabulary painted above the doorway, and the principal shop, and the one humble little public- house of the village, near at hand, all give importance to the spot-there stood a group ot men and women, girls and boys, who, as th, well-known trap and brown horse came in 5ieht, began to wave hats and handkerchiefs. "This is more than I bad bargained for, "Mlid Martin, with almost a groan. "I willh we had driven round by the other road." "Ah, but it (Ices them good, poor souls," replied Anne, gently. "They have a feeling tr,&" everybody has been unfair to you." He was now forced to smile and nod to the people as he drove past them-toinewhat as if he had been made a king very much against, h s will. Then a bov called out: "Three el-e,-i for Martin Derrick! and so they hurrahed after /¡;m until he was well out of lieari-ig. And nowthey were away from the right out in the open solitary country, witi. ;h, rolling purple brown waves of l.'artmoor spr> a iinj out before them, waves crested here and t en with granite rocks. It was a calm, grey day; the air came softly from the souih-v.-t from the sea Leyond Mount Edgcuinbe, j.. faintly visible in the far homon. Martin drew a long breath of the fr"c;h, HV f'O- scented air; he held his head a little higli< > colour came back to his wan cheeks, a look i deep content was in his eyes. "I don't, thirk ever knew before how much I cared for e%. r. square inch of the place," said he. "We I (1,- gone through a great deal together heie, i you and I, but we have been very h. ppy to. t r all the same, and we will never leave Kt w-iO: Farm if we can help it." There was nothing unwelcome to Martin 1\, the further greeting which awaited him as in drove up to his own door. Richards and 1: wife in their Sunday best, MITH t eaming F»<E', stood there to welcome the I elovect un. master. Eliza, who had not quite recovered ti ordeal of eiving evidence before the COIONN and the magistrates, had gone for A holiday tp her aunt's house at Plymouth. It. was happiness unspeakable to Mdin 1, come back to his home; to feel hie freedom 111 every breath he drew, to walkabout the fat. i! I -a, rooms, which were radiant with firelight, with tbelast flowers of the yek%,r-chrysEoiitlit and a fev late roses. His own especial ariv hs I was drawn up to the parlour fire; on the L ¡ the best white damask cloth was spread, Ai) I was laden with what looked like a wed, in feast, so garnished were tbo substantial di -HT with flowers and evergreens. But before he would touch food, or SEPT him- self by his own fireside, Martin said in a in- voice to Anne: "I should Inetosee Mrs. L and thank her for all that PHE has done for YEN. He did not venture to clai Yr, any of Mrs. I kindness as intended for h^nself. "She was here when I weut away," rt-} ]I Anne, involuntarily looking tiound for her, has been helping me all the morning getting • P. thing ready lor'jou. 1 begged ».« W J jgtttVtw you bad WH KM" "Mrs. Lawson has just stepped into my cottage, miss," said Mrs. Richards, at that moment coming into the parlour with a dish con- taining a couple of hot roast fowls under a plated cover. "We will go and look for her," said Martin, and so the brother and sister, leaving the dinner untouched upon the table, went across the farm- yard, and were just in time to see a humble figure, in rusty black, stealing quietly away from the cottage door. They speedily overtook her. Mrs. Lawson had been shedding a few tears. Anne Derrick might receive back to life her brother from his prison grave, but nevermore would the widow's son return to her lonely home. Yet with a gentle smile, and eyes bright with the "clear shining after rain," she looked up into Martin's face, and timidly held out her hand to him. "I wasn't going to stop just now, Mr. Derrick. I didn't want the sight of me to bring a bit of shadow on your happiness to-day. But I meant to come again soon, indeed I did, and tell you how glad and thankful I was to see you safe home again." Martin grasped Mrs. Lawson's thin, trembling old hand in his own strong, youthful one. He could not speak for a minute, he coulii only look down into her face, his eyes filled with tears. Some sacred words came into Anns's mind, as they stood thus, in a silence full of deepest meaning. "Mother, behold thy son." At last Martin said in a half-choked voice: wish I could tell you all that is in my mind about you, Mrs. Lawson "And I've been wanting to tell you ever so many times, but I could never pluck up courage to do it before," she answered. "My heart's been full of sorrow for you all these two years; I could understand what you've been feeling. But now the worst is past, the winter ia over and gone, as the Bible says. Please God, there's brighter day* coming for you and your dear sister." "And for you also, Mrs. Lawson, I hope," s-id Martin. "There shall be, if I can make them brighter." [Thb END.
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» LOCAL PATENTS. ? ——— This Weekly List of applications for patents is compiled by WILLIAM J. MUNDKN, of 75. Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Editor of The Inventor's Assistant. This journal is the only one published en- tirely in the interests of Inventors. It is issued monthly, price One Penny or six months' sub- scription, post free, Ninepence. 19,364, 12th September, George Shaw Rich- mond, Victoria Engineering Works, Llanelly. Improvements in machinery for cleaning tin 01 metal, coated sheets or plates. 19,650, 16th September, Albert Comley, 6, Stourpark Avenue, Newport, Mon. An im- proved lifting screw jack for various purposes, with or without reversible ratchet attachment. 19,661, 16th September, Enoch Lewis Enoch and William Morris Ladd, 4, Cambrian Place. Swansea. An improved horse collar protector and shield or preserver.
_______i The T rearris Burglary.
The T rearris Burglary. A Clever Capture. A very plucky capture was effected at Ponty- pool last Tuesday in connection with the bur- glary which took place at the step of Messrs Edwards and Sons, in Perrot street, Treharris, in the early hours of Sunday, the 18th inst., when watches and various articles of jewellery were stolen, to the estimated value of upward of L200. It appears that Mr Donoghue, pawn- broker, had a watch offered to him in pledge, the number of which corresponded with one of the watches stolen at Treharris. He promptly gave informettion to the police, and P C. Jones (5i) succeeded in arresting the man, who offered a desperate resistance. On Thursday, the 22nd, the prisoner, David Davies, aged, 23, of Coedcae Court, Twynyr odin, was brought before the magistrates at Mcithyr Police Court. Police-sergeant William Davies said that he received the prisoner in cus, tody on Wednesday at Pontypool, where he had been arrested by Police-constable Jones. In- spector Pask handed him a silver Geneva watch, two silver rings, a door key, and a cupboard key, which had since been identified as forming part of the property stolen, together with a six- chambered revolver, loaded in four chambers, that had been found upon the prisoner when searched. On this evidence the prisoner was re- manded for a week.
A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.
A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. 'DEAD AGAINST VACCINATION." John Pearce, 50, Church street, Bonvilstone road, Coedpenmaen, made an application to Dr R C. Hunter and Mr P. Gowan, at the Ponty- pridd Police Court on Friday, for a certificate of exemption under the new Vaccination Act. Mr Porcher (justices' clerk): Why do you want it? Applicant: Because I am dead against vac- cination. TSLr Porcher: Why don't you like it? Pearce replied that a little boy of his had had to be vaccinated three times, and it had been breaking out all over him. The lad had suffered a great deal in consequence. Dr Hunter: Have you thought seriously over this? Pearce: Yes, sir. Dr Hunter remarked that one or two men were now seeking relief, and small pox at pre- sent existed at Barry. Applicant: I had a sister who was never vac- cinated, and she never had small pox. Dr Hunter: Oh, she had some. The certificate was then granted.
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FALL FROM A TAFF VALE TRAIN. A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. An exciting incident occurred on the Taff Valo Railway near Maes-yr-haul Junction, between Llsntrisant and Pontypridd, on Friday evening, In the 7.22 train from Llantrisant to Pontypridd WAS Mrs Evans, of 24-, Park terrace, and her fcur-year-otd daughter. By some means the little one fell out of the train, and the mother BY the time the train arrived at. Cross Inn Sta- tion had ;>ecome quite hysterical. Police-ser- geants Hold and Phillips, who were on the rail- way platform, were informed of the occurrence, HIZ had not. gone far when they met a Grettt Western Railway signalman bringing the little girl towards the station. He had found her 1 walking about. Strange to say. she was quite unhurt, and it is surmised that she fell on the signal wires alongside the railway, and thus her fall was broken.
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THE DARLINGTON ELECTION.
THE DARLINGTON ELECTION. The Parliamentary by-election at Darlington has resulted in the return of the candidate op- posed to temperance reform. In any other con- stituency this result would have been regarded with great dissatisfaction, but the Darlington election is admittedly devoid of political or any significance other than that pertaining to the in- fluence of the Pease family in the town. That the present member should have violated nearly every family tradition and still retain the sup- port of the people is a significant tribute to the family name, but it is very difficult to associate the name of Pease with the support of the drink traffic and the advocacy of the sale of drink on Sundays, as the present representative has done. DRINK ON THE GOLDFELDS. At the annual meeting of the National Tem- perance Federation of the British Isles, a memorial was prepared for presentation to the Government of the Dominion of Canada urging upon them the responsibility of taking precau- tions against incentives to drunkenness and law- lessness which are likely to became rampart among the diverse elements attracted by the rush to the goldfields in the North Western parts of British North America. The memorialists say "That the opening and multiplication of places for the sale of intoxicating liquors is a common source of the drunkenness which proves an incentive to extravagance, reckless gambling and lawlessness which renders life and fortune insecure, makes the enforcement of public order most difficult to those charges with its adminis- tration, and occasions the ultimate 3egradation and ruin of many a young man who set out from home with bright hopes, and who, instead of re- turning to enjoy his hara-earned wealth, finds a dishonoured grave in the goldfields or returns a miserable wreck." It is possible that the high prices demanded for liquor may prevent the more prudent from becoming victims to the traffic, but it is not pleasant to read that in Dawson City, for example, "saloons abound," and "drunkards of course there are, but as soon as one of them makes much noise he is locked up and duly fined next morning." TEMPERANCE IN THE ARMY. The recent pronouncements of the leaders of the Army in favour of temperance means a great deal mere than appears at first sight. That the health and morality of the Army should be main- tained is a matter of the first aecessity to its leaders, and it is no mere matter of sentiment which leads to the condemnation of drinking as the chief cause of deterioration. The Army Temperance Association is doing work in spread- ing an interest in temperance and securing ad- herents to the principles of total abstinence in the service, and it has the best wishes and cord. ial support of the officers. Already it numbers about 6,000 members, and during the recent manoeuvres on Salisbury plain its refreshment tents supplied wholesome and non-intoxicating drinks to the forces engaged. THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CANTEEN. Behiad the "blood and glory" business of the recent war with Spain, the American people have ronsed to a pitch of intense excitement over the infamous canteen system in the volun- teer Army, and the Government is being impor- tuned to effect a radical reformation. A letter front Major-Goneral Shaffcer shows that the American as well as the English commanders realise how detrimental drink is to the well- being of their men. In this letter written from Santiago de Cuba General Shafter says: —"I have always been strongly opposed to the can- teen system or UIE sale of intoxicating drinks of any kind on military reservations, and have opposed it until absolutely overruled and reques- ted to establish a canteen at my post. I regard it as demoralising to the men, besides impairing seriously. their efficiency. The plea that it fur- nishes a large sum, which it does, to improve the table of ihe men, is, in my opinion, a very poor one. as the Government of the United States is perfectly able to feed its men without any assistance from the profits of rum selling. I have absolutely prohibited the sale of liquor or the opening of saloons in the city of Santiago. and have refused commission for cargoes of beer to come from the States here. I think that the necessity of refraining from drink is fully real- ised by all the men, and of their own accord they would refrain from drinking." HOW BUSINESS MEN VIEW PROHIBITION. The interest in the impending plebiscite on Prohibition for the whole of the Dominion of Canada increases as the day fixed for the poll 1 draws near. The temperance party have made the most extensive preparations for the event, and the liquor int erest is fighting literally for its very existence. The New York "Voice" has made an exhausive canvass of the leading busi- ness firms in Canada as to how they regarded the drinking saloons from a purely business point of view, whether they considered that the saloons helped other forms of business or hurt them, and whether or not they were conducive to the general prosperity of the community. It was considered that an expression of opinion from the hard-headed business-men of Canada would have an important influence upon the vote to be taken on the 29th inst. The question definitely submitted to the heads of firms, was: "Do you consider that a saloon located in close proximity to your establishment is a detriment to your business? If so. why?" In almost every instance the answer has been a decided affirmative, not more than six or eight of the hundreds of firms who sent in replies, having anything favourable to say for the saloons. The tenor of the replies amounts to a wholesale con- demnation of the traffic in drink. RAILWAY SERVANTS AND THE DRINK HABIT. On the great American railways the rigid en- forcement of the rules against visiting saloons is beginning to bring about a great change in the J habits and conditions of the railway employees. Not. only do the roads get better service, but the men find themselves better off financially. The reform has been confined to the ranks, but has reached many of the higher officials. Sober men are required in these days of fast trains and heavy business, and the feeling has grown that a railway employee who uses liquor at all may at some time drink a little too much and cause an accident which may destroy much life and pro- perty. The men themselves are beginning to appreciate fTiese conditions, and many of them are glad that the companies have taken up this reform movement. In England the various Railway Temperance Unions have brought about a very satisfactory state of things among the railway men of all grades, and cases of intem- perance are extremely rare.
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ON THE CHOICE OF P USB AN D. BY SARAH GRAND. Writin cn "The Choice of a lgmbslldo the "Young Woman" for October, :&I Sarah Grand says:—"Many a charming ° rich throws herself away on a glib scampi as he protests, marries her for the pleasØ possessing her, there being no other waY, casts her aside without compunction pleasure palls and the money is spent. Vie what sort of women such girls become 4 ruined and deserted, or wreckers pre)-jJJg society. It is generally said of one of wretched wives that she has nobody to bJaJJle herself: she chose him,she would have hiØ, would not be advised. Naturally not- she did not even know enough to enable realise how very much more there was to Even if she were an intelligent girl, sba exercise no discretion in the matter, having nothing but the most superficial acq rI ance with men, either practically or tbeO tI cally. she was quite unable to compare with another and judge of their respective In fact she has less power to choose & b than she has to choose a horse, for with to the horse, external appearance is some Fortunately, nowadays parents and gu get their proper amount of blame and d for their neglect of duty in such cases-- children themselves rise up and call t-he,, 0 thing but blessed. For a girl has a jf demand of those in authority over her tbc y ledge requisite to enable her to choose a properly when the time comes. I would » every girl, Do not be too easily pleased fJ man; be fastidious, have a high ideal. a man is agreeable is not reason enoool accepting him: he must have some higbef mendation. His power to make himself able may be a mere trick, which he$ keep up in domestic life for want of the qtt of head and heart, such as truthfulness, t1. fishness, refinement, sympathy, and %ffee lif which go to make good manners genuine* jj easy to make sure of a man in this resp £ he talks about old people cont-emptuollsly, pays them no kindly attention, and if he consistently polite to everybody, have to do with him. His manners are a poor v which will not stand the slightest frictio"* bo tice, too, if a man adores you for no øf I your "beauty, and speaks of other wome i le physical charm were all he cared for, ware of him. That kind of man is a ere V, mal, who will disgust you in a month J of you in a year—if you can stand him SO
------------.SHOCKING ACCIDENT…
SHOCKING ACCIDENT 1 THE RHONDDA. BOY CRUSHED TO DEATH. II A shocking accident occurred on Sattlrd o a little boy named Bundy, 11 years of of Mr Alfred Bundy, fireman; emplo Bwllfa Colliery (Ocean), Ton. About .1^ •" in the morning the lad had been plwyiiig COr his companions on the incline of the 1'011 oil liery, where the rubbish is conveyed up JÎ side. It is conjectured that he had beeo j¡# on the horizontal sheave, which is a jD" f X fixed in heavy woodwork at the. top 0 &V" cline and over which the steel rope tr £ fe }je> that whilst the machinery was in failing to jump off. was caught in the oood waS and crushed to death. One of the ø.Ø .efØ '115 almost. severed from the body. TW. TeTf^€j discovered about 12 o'clock at night u11 ",¡,oj)'! wooden structure. The parents, with keen sympathy is felt, came to the distf^j» cently from Treharris, where the father similar position at the Trebarris Colliery-
Alderman David Morgan Criticises…
Alderman David Morgan Criticises New Sliding Scale Agresme11 -J According to the "Western Mail Morgan, speaking at a conferewc of c W held at Merthyr on Monday last, Ls re- have described the New Sliding Scale Agre le as disgraceful, and said that the a settlement" made during hi* impriaonm^^f, not been, brought about in a straigiitt'orw^ ff(J. ner. He would go '-0 far p.* to be t1J' that if lie had not been iu gaol the agrc £ reP1* would, never have been made. Those tatives of the men who had been party jjt1 ing it ought to be ashamed of theinse'^j all would not have cared if they had se'o tioll absolute minimum at all. The c0jr Act was the next matter dealt with, and ^ce, ference, after hearing Mr Morgan passed a resolution counselling the not to contract out.
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SHEEP WORRYING A* TONYREFAIL. t On Monday, at the Ystrad Police jl- fore Mr T. P. Jenkins, in the chair, pr Williams, and Mr E. H. Davies), Tboill vies, farmer, Caercwilaisisaf Farm, Tonylc ttr sumoned Thomas Davies, Gelligacr. loss of a sheep, value L2, alleged to have killed by a dog, which the defendant 0 Alderman T. Hughes, solicitor, Bridgetiv, .,i, peared for the plaintiff. and Mr J. Phillips, :,0 tor. Pontypridd, for the defendant. tIJ8 Thomas Davies, the plaintiff, said that 19th of September, he visited his field e^fIt o'clock in the morning and the sheep *'ere j i» ail right- Two hours afterwards he dog in the field, lying upon a sheep which ø dead, and blood oozed from the carcase- dog was actually eating the sheep, and to quit t-he field with blood about its DO other parts of the body. 2 Sheep Worrying at oTnyr aX jJ¡e'¿ Corroborative evidence was given by t*^ named Leyshon and Goodman, who ch»se dog- and found it on defendant's premiseS- ibo For the defence Mr Phillips urged tj¡3tøJ sheep had been killed the previous it. that the defendant's dog had only been eatiog, Witnesses were called who stated tea1 sheep was cold, and that there was n° blood there. Their worships ordered the defendant 303 and costs. ,I
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