The Rhos Herald

A SLEEPWALKER'S ADVENTURE. Ch.d only in a nightdress, a young woman aged al/out 20 was rescued from the tunnel of the Liverpool line of the London and North- western Railway npar Crewe on Tuesday morning, after an exciting adventure. It appears that she had been walking in her sle.c.>p. and wae in a liisrhlv 'excited and hysteri- cal condition when help reached liv-r. She had been wandering up and down the track for a time before she seen bv « young man on the embankment to run into the tunnel, the .approach to which is protected on one side by a 12ft. wall, and on the other by an iron fence. He followed her into the tunnel with a rope, by means of which she was finally drawn up the wall. But for this timely rescue she must have been knocked down and run over by an express train which paesed through the tunnel a moment later.

DUMFRIES ELECTION RESULT. Polling took place in the Dumfries Burghs on Tuesday, and late the same night the result was declared- The figures are: Mr. J. W. Gnlland (Lib.) 1,877 Mr. J. Bryce Duncan (C.) 1,585 Liberal majority 292 The by-election was in consequence of Mr. Gullands appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury. Compared with the elootion, in 1906, the L, iberal 'vote shows « decrease! of 158, while that of the Conservatives is increased 183. __—,—, —r— ■K

i ,-j=gg=? f There a persistent heavy rain in Bombay, twenty-two inches having fallen in the past i week. The low-lying quartets of the city are j flooded. v Since th? opening of the London Spectacle Mission over 25;000 spectacle# haVe been given to tMopli tofto ctanot afford to tray ttom. ".¡:: :f.

BUDGET BULL'S EYES. (FROM THE BUDGET LEAGUE.) Lord Lansdowne has been very promptly iftuwered by Mr. Winston Churchill. Last -Nreek Lord Lansdowne suddenly jumped off tb fence on which he had been sitting, and .{ftfelared himself in favour of encouraging 4;he House to take a free hand with the JBttdget. Now, by the rule of our Constitu- tion, the House of Lords has nothing to do <with finance; and Lord Lansdowne knows tfhafc as well as any other man alive. But ttst Friday he spoke as follows We shall have to consider, with an open Blind, no doubt, the bill as it emerges from tlie examination of the House of Commong, ld we shall endeavour to do our duty by it undeterred by threats or vapourings There is no mistaking that kind of talk. We all know by now what the House of rdB means by "an open mind" and by doing their duty." They "did their by the Education Bill. They "did sSlieir duty" by the Licensing Bill. Their dilty has a singular way of jumping on parallel lines with their interest and their inclination. There can be no excuse, there- fore, for misunderstanding Lord Lans- ti&vme's threat. It is practically an an- of his intention to lead the -fory Party in throwing out the Budget Bill. It is useless to parley with such threat- swings. All attempts to compromise and ;fe-rsuade these gentlemen have proved use- Bess in the past. The best way is to answer -tht!1n straight. That was what Mr. Win- Churchill did when speaking at Edin- pttrgh on Saturday afternoon, July 17th. replied in the simplest possible language: No amendments, no excision, no modify- ,ing or mutilating will be agreed to by ue. So the issue is n,&w joined, and we shall £ what we shall see. The people of Eng- have never given a direct vote to the Manse of Lords yet, and it does not seem likely that they are going to begin sort of game at. this time of day. The Increment Tax has now passed xSnrcragh Committee, and during this week #the.'House of Commons will have passed to slhe second of the Land Taxes-the tax on reversion of leases. That is a 10 per -(tent, tax, and is another claim of the State do some small share in the big windfalls ■.that drop into the laps of the great land- owners. The leasehold system dof' not exist Jill over the country, and so there are some who probably do not quite realise Plow big these windfalls are. The system JjH'fcvails, especially in London, where there ■wftve been some very remarkable cases of SBttge and sudden profits. Take the case of the great shop known as vCojrringe's, in Buckingham Palace-road. facts came some time since before the County Council. What are they? years ago the lease of that great estab- '.si#gpnent expired. The rejit on the same pro- rjMSrty was raised from £ 3,665 to ^4,000—an in- «*»»*> of JS535. In addition to that, there was ;,11 fine of £ 50,000 to the Duke of West- :annster, the owner ,of the land. Not only 'fc new buildings had to be erected by vshe, firm at a cost of £ 80,000, to the satis- "<*fc^on ^u^e- Tlie firm was helpless. Jtt eould not move its premises without loe- its business. So the fine was paid and rent was .increased. it not right that such profits as these come to tlie landlord without any ilttbour on. his part should pay 10 per cent. .¡- their profits? That is all that the Gov- ^niment are asking. The Government in the present Budget not taxing industry, but are encourag- it. They are throwing open the land "Sot the people, and reducing the burdens on enterprises like this shop in West- Ihil-titer. In that way they will increase revive the building trade, and the prosperity of the country. So true this, that since the Budget was brought in has already begun to revive j | .When the Budget passes, this increase ix receive a fresh impulse. Those „ > criticise now will then be the first to 1 tJ'Kaiie, 5e?e is a story of a fight for freedom in township. At Reigate, on July 1st, ±\i the public-houses except five raised P*ice of their beer by the amount agreed among the brewers. Ten years ago in j^Part of England that decision would een accepted as part of the workings universe. But since then there has Tfc 1 » change of spirit in Reigate, as well "•MA c^lange of Parliamentary representa- Ajs soon as the price had been raised i.he., very firms which.. had been asking '.t. eight more Dreadnoughts" and refus- Ifee* waik—-the labourers ceased to drink r^L r those houses. They sent for ginger- >t, r- What beer they bought they took from five otter- houses. h was the result? Within twenty- idhf urs those publicans found themselves -tko men. They just fell into the ranks of j, *Wiei»ployed. Within another twenty- r tiours they were sending a deputation Sri* brewers to allow them to lower tlieir Within another twelve hours the was reduced. And now they are giv- ing away in the vain hope of recaptur- the ks* trade! 'v-: Ryone wouW gather from the debates in Commons during the Jast fort?- %olsi .)^at this Increment Tax was a tax that *j, e landlord into the workliouse Attfl t into a lunatic asylum. Itnu^ ^ls *S: judgment of Mr. iBernatd at p't working of the Increment Tax it runs, as -high/ as 2^1 per it W r discover any reprobation of • S^c or oppressive, cwr m having BiisiMsrtfaiMjactiong ml ^stite." L l On the contrary, the tax seems to be espe- cially easy to collect: It was stated that the tax was worked without friction, and it was specially commended on the ground of facility and cheapness of collection." Frankfort alone is already obtaining from this tax £ 50,000 a year. ? The Budget does not fall only on the rich. It is just all round. It taxes the luxuries of all classes, while the Tariff Reformers want to tax their necessities. That is the real choice—bread or tobacco? Meat or motors? Cheese or whisky ? Living or land ? Ali 4; my good man," said the, critic of the Budget, "but you will have to py more for 0 your tobacco and your whisky." That may be," said the working man, but in my house there's only one that drinks whisky and smokes tobacco, while there's ten that eats bread." WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. PRESIDW tT'S ADDBESS. The Wesieyan Conference commenced its business on Thursday in Wesley Chapel, Lin- coln. The President (the Rev. William Perkins), ia his address, said they had to fight against tre- mendous odds. It had been said that the vitality of the Church was low. The great malady of the soul was "cold," but he believed that the revival was near at hand, although it appeared that the work of bringing men and women to conversion was never so difficult as to-day. They had had revivals of various kinds. Some years ago a special attempt was made to Chris- tianise that strange personalty the Londoner, but it had markedly failed. Then followed a movement which was evidently difficult, the Welsh revival. He sometimes was afraid that their distinc- tive features of Methodism would disappear in a vague undenominational Christianity, as if they were getting into their churches a sort of Cowper-Temple religion, as it had got into the schools. They must aim at two things, the salvation of society and the individual alike. They must not give up the individual for their social work they must not give up the para- dise of heaven for the garden city on øarth. The Rev. Dr. Pope presented the report of the Home Mission Committee. He said all their connexional funds appeared to have suffered, and at the end of the year he feared they would have a deficit of £ 1,000. On the motion of Sir George Chubb, a special resolution was adopted in view of the retire- ment of the Rev. R. D. Allen, who for the past thirty-six years had been head of the work of Methodism in the Atmy and Navy. A report on Weslevanism in the Army and Navy showed that the Wesleyans numbered 23,523, of whom 1,506 were church members. They had now over forty soldiers' and sailors' homes, of which two, at Portsmouth and Woolwich, had been opened during the year. The result of the ballot for the election of lay representatives of the Wesieyan Con- ference for the next three years is as follows: Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P. (Newcastle-on- Tyne), Mr. Henry Holloway (London), Mr. Thomas Wallis (Lincoln), Mr. Charles W. Early (Oxford), Mr. Thomas Cole (Sheffield), Mr. Charles Heap (Rochdale), Major-General Campbell (Sheffield) Mr. George Boyle (Bed- ford), Mr. Josiah Gunton (London), Mr. James J. Mack (Liverpool), Mr. Ebenezer Parkes, M.P. (Exeter), Mr. E. Percy Bain- bridge (London), Mr. William Walker (Whitehaven), and Mr. Walter H. Berry (Faversham). The Conference passed a resolution in favour of including the study of social facts and problems in the college curriculum. Principal Workman (Westminster) strongly opposed the suggestion on the ground that it would tend to train up a set of demagogues. At the afternoon session on Monday it was agreed to refer the membership question to a special committee to report to the next Con- ference. The Conference declared that dancing, card-playing, games of chance, entertain- ments which legally required a dramatic licence, and, amusements of a frivolous and Tulgar type were contrary to their rules as affecting the use of trust property, and could not be allowed. The report of the Wesley Guild, presented on Tuesday, showed that the present number of guilds is 2,602 with a membership of 176,202, an increase of 5,478 in the year. Sir George Smith, of Truro, urged the mem- bers of the- Conference to -work against the grow- ing tendency to desecrate the Sabbath by motoring, Bunaay golf. and. the attempts of travelling, theatrical companies to give per- formances- on :the Lord's Day. He also warned Methodists against the laxity springing up within their 0'" 11 borders. At the afiei noon session the Conference passed a resolution declaring that the time had come when duly qiialiiicd and elected women shodd be admitted as lay representatives to Conference.

PRISON FOR FORMER CLERGYMAN Charles Woodhouse Shepherd, fifty-four, describing is a tutor, but stated by the police to be an habitual criminal, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday to having obtained = £ 3 by false pretences front Mr. II. J. Wilson, M.P., and to forging and uttering a claim for repayment of income-tax I. in the name of his brother, who lives at I Fulham. j The history given of the prisoner showed j that he was originally in Holy Orders and a very clever man. Drink, however, brou^kt his downfall; Since 1905 he had been guilty of fraud, forgery,' and watch-stealing. It was stated +liut he had now no occupation, was stated tbat he had now no occupation, except fraud. He lived in common lodging- houses, and made a practice of writing to people in his brother's name for money. Once | over his brother's name he announced his > awn death, and asked for money to save hiitt- I self from a pauper's grave. I the Recorder remarked that he seemed to have pestered even his aged mother, who Was eighty-four, and he, should sentence him to I. tive years'; penal servitude.

?=?==== j Four houses. in Ethtlrtd-atreet, Lambeth- I walk, London, partly subsided, but none of the oouvants, waf] injured. One of the silver pólln pieces coined for Charles I. out of the pl»te of loyal Oxford 's colleges fwss sold- for £ 55 at Sotheby's. j • \&>liTia has apologised to Argentina for the J «tt«c(s 'bB the Argentine Minister in La. Paz, fad all dancer of hovtilitiei it

.0_ EAST-END TRAGEDY. On Tuesday evening the Bethnal-green coro- ner held an inquiry with reference to the death of Nellie aged 55 years, a charwoman, lately living at Coventry-street, Bethnal-green, where her dead body was found in a locked-up house. Eliza Richards, of Englefleld-road, Kingsland, who has been remanded on a charge of manslaughter, was present in custody. William Austin said that on Tuesday after- noon (last week) the accused, his aunt, whose real name was Elizabeth Davey, came in very excited and said, "I have killed old Nell, the woman who looks after my house." The Accused: I had a few words with him over deserting from the Army a second time, and that is why he has come up to tell these wicked lies. Witness: You are wicked to me. Why shouldn't I be wicked to you? The accused then went into the box and gave evidence. She said another woman struck the deceased, after calling her a liar. Deceased fell to the floor, and they left her there. The jury returned a verdict of "Man- slaughter against the accused, who was com- mitted for trial on the coroner's warrant.

ROYAL YACHT TO THE RESCUE. Princess Henry of Battenberg's yacht Sheila, with the Princes and Prince Alexanders on board, going to Southampton on Tuesday afternoon, rendered timely assistance to Captain Sladeolver's cutter yacht Quickstep. A passenger steamer coming down South- ampton Water, had just passed the yacht Quick- step, causing her to roll somewhat, when a sudden squall caught the Quickstep, and her mast snapped and came down with a crash. The mainsail and rigging smothered the yacht, which was for some time at the mercy of the sea, being quite out of control. No one on board was injured. By the directions ci Princess Henry, Captain Green, skipper of her Royal Highness's yacht, directed the Sheila with all speed to the un- lucky vessel..The crew of the Sheila went on board the Quickstep, and were busily employed gathering up the wreckage. The dismasted yacht was afterwards taken in tow by the Sheila up Southampton Water.

WORKMEN'S TERRIBLE DEATH. Four workmen were descending the Daisy Shaft at Hartford Colliery, Northumberland, on Tuesday, to attend to some electrical work, when the cage left the guides and overturned, precipitating the occupants to the ttom of the shaft, a distance of pome 200ft. The bodies were shockingly mutilated. All the workmen in the pit at the time, num. bering several hundreds, were apprised of what had occurred, and under the guidance of col- liery officials they reached tli- bank by going through the workings to an adjoining pit. Z, The unfortunate victims are Robinson, a fitter; Sturdy, an engineer; and Dixon and Clark, labourers. A Bedworth miner named Georee Hnffer was killed bv a fall of coal at the Col- liery, Nuneaton. He had been on strike for three weeks, and only resumed work on Tues- day.

PRINCE'S CHAUFFEUR FINED. The adjourned summons against Walter Sherwin Engall, of 62, Goldsmith-avenue, Acton, for driving a motor-car at an excessive speed, was heard at Salisbury on Tuesday. A week ago the clerk of the court challenged a statement made by the defendant that he was acting as cb^utenr to the Prince of Wales at the time of the alleged offence. A letter was read on Tuesday from Sir W.* Carington, Comptroller to the Prince of Wales. It ran: "Mr. W. S. Engall was employed to drive the second car of the two used by the Prince and Princess of Wales during their Royal Highnesses* late tour in the West of England. Evidence was given that the defendant drove the car at a speed of twenty-six miles an hour. He was fined < £ 5 and costs.

> FATAL FAMILY QUARREL. At Llanhilleth, a mining village in Monmouth- shire, a domestic (juarteiliris ended in the death of a father and the arrest of his son. About i it, ( n Moi day a labourer named Dunn quarrcHid and his seven- teen-year-old .we, A t-.hiDiildi interposed on his mother's behalf. FaHrer and hon passed hot d a i words, and afterwards it is alleged that the f latter picked up a poker and attacked his father with it, striking him about the head. The wife fled in terror when she realised the terrible 1 development of the quarreL

HOME HINTS. A teaspoonful of common salt in a glass of water will relieve colic. To remove mildew, rub parts with green tomato, and wash as usual. A little whiting put on a damp cloth will clean paint easily and well. Never neglect to season food well before sending to the table to be served. Insomnia may often be driven away by drinking a glass of hot milk just before retir- ing. To melt the jelly purchased in bottles, stand the bottles in warm water until their contents become liquefied. A good way to tell when ham is fried enough is by the fat. When the fat is brown (not burnt) the ham is done. Odd bits of celery, if washed and dried slowly in the oven, will keep for weeks, and can be used for flavouring soups and stews. o When polishing furniture, add a little vinegar to the polish; this will get rid of the dead, oily look so often noticed alter clean- ing. To clean rusty steel, cover it with paraffin, and leave it for twenty-four hours. Wipe off the paraJfin, and polish the steel with pow- dered emery until it is bright. Semolina an^ Uurrant Pudding.—Put two ounces of semolina to soak in warm milk. Mix well in a baein with one ounce of finely- chopped beef suet, two ounces of currants, and one ounce of sugar. Add one pint of feoiled milk. Pour the mixture in a buttered pie-dieh, and bake slowly for about an hour. Do not use too much force in polishing1 shoes. A" gentle brushing with a soft bruen is better than the vigorous work of the boot- black. Never allow a thick crust of blacking on your shoes. Wash it off occasionally, and apply & little caator oil; then polish over in an hour or two. r If mothers would make short-sleeved, loose flannel waists for children to wear under the first spring dresses, many colds might bo prevented. These are also useful on cool days in summer and in the autumn before it is cold enough for winter flannels or heavy, dresses. They take the place of an extra outside garment which alwaya hampers a child. Baked Eggs with Cheese.—Beat the white* of the eggs to a stiff froth. Mix grated cheese with the whites (allowing one table- spoonful of cheese to each egg). Salt to taste. Turn into a well-buttered dish, and drop the yolks whole a inch and a half apart on to it. Bake until the yolke are done to suit the individual taste. In any case of poisoning, get the patient to drink a large quantity of milk, beaten eggs, or even flour and water. This tends to dilute the poison, and makes the emetic more effec- tual. An emetic should be administered as promptly 88 possible, unless the lips appear burnt, which is a sign that the poison is of corrosive nature. Stewed Beef and Rice.—Cut one pound of beef steak into neat pieces, wash half a pound of rice, and put both together into a pan with an onion, cut small, pepper and salt, and one quart of water. Cover closely, and let it stew slowly for three hours. Chop some parsley fine, and stir it in just before serving. Sago Soup.-Put two ounces of sago into a saucepan with three pints of water, .three- pennyworth of bones, two sliced onions, head of celery cut small, two turnip's, and season- ing to tute.Cook until soft; then rub through sieve, return to the saucepan; add j one gill of milk and a little cayenne. Serve with croutons. j Chestnut Soup.—Boil one quart of chest- nuts for twenty minutew. Remove the sheila and the skins. Put into a saucepan with tnough boiling water to covet them, add a | teaspoonful of salt and a piece of lemon rind, | aiid when soft rub through a sieve. Then pour over them, stirring all the time, two quarts of some weak stock, and add a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Bring to a boil, and serve very hot. If preferred, the butter may be left out. —: One way to give lingerie a dainty scent ia to put orris-root into the water in which the clothes are boiled. It will impart a faint per- fume of violets to the clothes. Another method is to fill little muslin bags with freshly-powdered orris-root and put them among the linen on its return from the laundry. Browning.-Take an old iron pan, make it quite hot, rub it over with a little dripping; then put into it a. pound of brown sugar. Stir it over the fire with an iron spoon until it is all melted and a dark brown liquid. Remove it from the fire and allow it to cool fifteen minutes; then pour into it h:f! a pint of water, return it to the fire and stir carefully till quite smooth. When it is cool, pour it into a bottle and cork it tightly. When not in u&e hot-water bottles made of rubber should riever heghut away in a drawer or cupboard where no light can reach them. All rubber articles keep in better con- dition when exposed to the air and light, and last much longer if treated in this manner. It t is a great mistake to allow hot-water bottles to remain fall of water during the daytime until they are once more required, the best niethod being that of emptying out the water and theft ih&tfinjj them half full of air. 'I-W" if yoa have to uge a. bright., clean saueeppn ov*r a smoky 'Are, «>n«ar a little grease W; the bright pact issfore putting it on. This prevent* the smoke from hurting it; and, if you wowla,it ii hot soapy water afterwards, it will be m bf^t again as/.eve* Nickel, plate must, fNqntly cleaned and polished. Clean it with a mixture of am- mouijft and washing soda, and 'i,hen polish it with f a little thin whiting paste on a leather. If cleaning of this kind is given every week it will be easy to keep the nickle bright, tout if it is once allowed to get dull and shabby- looking;' it' ★?Jl take' eome lime' and i&oubie' to restate it original t: f \&t. f

MORE CAVALRY. The surplusage of cavalry reeraite appea to have led to an ifaportant new departure. f A special Army Order,. issued by the Army Council on Monday fttight, states that with a viéw. to providing the machinery necessary for the trainitf t4 drafts Aii-i remounts for the oavelty retIM(-q L ill the field, it has beexi decided to forza Eeeei-y« caraky regiments on ;l3»bitiaatioE, It liais altt>beea .4ecide4v cavalry depot' in eacSs eoMittaiid, except i AJdershot. Four or «i» regiments will be alKHatefl to eaeh iUspoti, mtM in everyl, CaAw Hnkc41 regimntiØ will be .alkttai to the same depeft. < On the esdUbSj^kiu eat of depofc „ _rk)tlf^ 61 its -affi the Eeserve squa 'I li-,ted r^gi» uienlc will be abolsohed; A Unserve wgrimeat «4.il be. formed for and afflicted to ea«!» ai. 'cavalry regi- itfenti, making io. efiirteem Ileeerve r i meats. Reserve ieaVstry rejjiments iU > over immature and -acafit Serving soldiers, r&f ctvikl and surplue wwrvistia. *"• •; v Jf J f *1 x,UT.i l'<Z