The Rhos Herald

SOLDIER AND FRIED FISH. -At an inquest on Private Plaistow, 1st Batt. "jSaat Surrey Regiment, stationed at Plymouth, .<ja.notiter private named Mooney gave evidence -that in the regimental coffee-bar he and ■JPlai&tow called for a pennyworth of cold fried Jish. Mofcmey noticed that the fish, which he -thought was fresh herring, wns black inside. He warned Plaistow against eating it. Plais- "ttrw replied*, "I can't help it; I am hungry." Dr. Tyadw, Royal Army Medical Corps, jsi&ted that on admis.sion to hospital Plaistcw's was diagnosed as one of ptomaine poison- Ivg. A director of the firm supplying fcod to the ,eoflW.' bar said the fish was specially treated by own employees.. Over 1,000 pieces of fish were sent out on that day, and not a single plaint had been received. The Coroner thought < that without imputing •jjwiy blame they could not disregard the evi- of Private Mocney, who refused to eat -the fish and was alive. The jtry returned a verdict that "Death was Jiie ptomaine poisoning, but that there was ■ ijisuSfSfCfeut evidence to show the cause." --0

MARRIED NEIGHBOURS. The story of a married couple living in sepa- '1"ate cottages two doors from each other was told on Monday at Feltham, where the wife of Charles Austin applied for a separation order. Mt's. Austin said her husband lived with her Until a few months ago. Afterwards he left going to a house two doors away, but sent jbfr 5s. a week, which, however, was not suffi- rfient for her support. Bothe had been married before, and for the .-defence it was stated that Aust'a had a large family to support, and that when he married Jatiff present wife he did not know she had a family. The summons was dismissed. iI"

THIRTEENTH DREADNOUGHT. The Colossus, the thirteenth and greatest our Dreadnoughts, was launched on Saturday from Scott's yard at Greenock, on the Civile. The ceremony was performed by Lady ■ Cole!)rook, and all the shipyards had de- .glared holiday, as this was the first Dread- fjought built on" the Clyde. It is only nine months since the keel was laid, constituting something like a record. By the end of the current financial year £ 1.803,460 will have been spent on the Colossus, exclusive of the cost of the arma- ments (amounting in all to about £ 150,000). _.As the ship is to be completed by July, 1911, -the total cost will probablv work out at ;"between. £ 1,650,000 and £ 1.700,000. The Colossus is the ninth British battle- ship of the Dreadnought type J to be put ftfioat. In addition to these, there are armoured cruisers which are counted as Dreadnoughte. Of these four are afloat.

HUSBAND "SPIRITED AWAY." t' A husband who was stated have "got -jnixed x up with Spiritualists and been .Spirited away to New York" is now being jUKtfotwslv awaited by his wife, who applied to the ilic-hgate magistrate to help her to find him. The Magistrate: We cannot go to New iYork. We have no jurisdiction there. The Wife: You cannot compel the ''Brotherhood of Life" (to which the man ibelonged) to tell me where he isr The Clerk: You had better join the brotherhood. The magistrate said they could not help .be woman.

LADY CASHIER ROBBED. As Miss Parr, a cashier employed by Jtf<»K.«r». Brown and Barlow, of Holt-street, .Birrnmgiiam, was leaving the Astoji-road branch of Lloyds Bank with the money for the wages of the workpeople, a young man approached her from behind and snatched •violently at a satchel containing £ 50 in gold. The chain snapped, and the thief made oft' with the bag. Miss Parr shouted for help, and herself fan after the thief for a short distance. other men who were standing at the fiwrner of the street when she came out of the bank made no attempt to stop the mis- .«re&Jtt, but ran off with him, and all four were seen by a cyclist who gave chase to 0eale a wall leading to the towing path of a canal. They then got clear away. Miss Parr had a quantity of silver in another bag, but retained possession of this. Several other robberies of a similar nature JtayO taken place in Birmingham lately.

POLITICAL SENSATION. I 1 C 1 i i i nas been entseJ in i L 1 i y a revelation mode by I Sir f ( L V d > i formerly political adviser to the JLtoine Office and chief of the I Criminal Investigation Department at See h -i1 Yard. The revelation is a, con- fession of the authorship of the Parnellisni ( and Crime" articles which appeared in the "Times" in 1887. Writing in "Blackwood's Magazine," Sir Robert says "To the present hour I do not know whether the Home Secretary was then of my authorship of The Times' artielce of 1887 on 'Parnellism and Crime,' for in relation to that matter I acted with strict propriety in dealing with Mr. Monro and not with the Secretary of. State. "I made no secret, however, of the fact that in my Whitehall days I wrote for the Press, and this may have made the Home Office suspicious of me after I went to Scot- land Yard. But if Sir Adolphus Liddell had been at I Whitehall he would have treated me frankly and as a gentleman, and I should have given him the facts, and I should have to Id I' him that when I was gazetted a police com- missioner I said good-bye to journalism." It was the publication of these articles which led Mr. Houston, secretary of the Loyal and Patriotic Union, to send to the "Times" I the facsimile of a letter alleged to have been written by Mr. Parnell condoning the murder of Mr. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1882. Eventually the Parnell Commission was ap- pointed. It sat in 1888, when Sir Robert Anderson had left his Home Office appoint- ment for Scotl-and-yard. The Commission declared that the letter was a forgery, and Richard Pigott, who was alleged to be the author, crossed to Madrid and committed suicide when arrested. The "Times" finally apologised to Mr. Par- nell, and paid him £ 5,000 damages for libel. Sir Robert Anderson, however, still be- lieves that the letter was not a forgery. "When the Commission was appointed," Sir Robert Anderson has told an interviewer, "I was applied to, as Chief of the Depart- ment, by the Times to assist them in their investigations. "I refusedj flatly. I referred them to the investigations. I "I refusedj flatly. I referred them to the Secretary of State; and I may say that what- ever assistance they did get was far less than would have been given to a prosecutor in an ordinary criminal case."

MUSICIAN AND HIS SON. An unfortunate night scene outside No. 2, Clifton-gardens, Maida Vale, the residence of Mr. Michael Hambourg, professor of music, was described by the police at Mary- lebone Court on Saturday, when Oscar Hambourg, aged 24, a musician, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using bad language. Defendant, who was very drunk at the time, was seen by a policeman to smash a window at his father's house. His father 'was called up and immediately he? opened the front door the accused struck at lam. "I don't care," he remarked when arrested, "father should let me in." ivlr. Mieliaei Hambourg said he would like to withdraw the charge, because he thought his son was mentally deranged. His son y had very highly strung nerves, and was said by the doctors to have no understanding or .will. They advised that the best thing to atop him was to take him to a hospital. Mr. Plowden remarked that as tliic, was really a matter between father and son, and as the father did not wish to go om with it, he would allow the case to be dropped. 'I 1

LONDON FLAT TRAGEDY. The victim of a London flat tragedy, which was inquired into by a coroner's jury, was at one time one of the most successful business men in the north of England. He was described to tne jury merely as Dan Ryland, a commission agent, of Connaught Mansions, Prince of Wales-ioad, Battersea, and the address of the son who identified him was not disclosed. It was stated that Ryland had twice been in I an asylum, and that lie had lately lived with his sister, who had said she wished she were dead and out of the world. Friends went to the flat to convey her to a mental institution, I and it was then that her brother's body was found. He had held his head over tne bath, | and cut his throat. The jury returned a ver- j dict of suicide while temporarily insane. j Twenty years ago, it is said, Ryland was Bamsley's leading commercial magnate. From I humble beginnings lie created the largest glass bottle works in England, and. he was reputed I to be worth £ 500,000. At one time he was an aspirant for Parliamentary honours. His financial ruin was believed to be due to his entering coal-mining enterpises, and he failed with liabilities of a quarter of a million.

A BORDER WEDDING. A grass slope among the hills dividing Eng- land and Scotland has been the Scene of an impressive marriage. The bride resided on the Cumberland side of the border, abouti fifty yards up the hillside from the stream which divides England and Scotland, while the bridegroom is a shepherd belonging to the Te viol head district of tiie neighbouring Scotch county of Roxburgh. It was desired that the marriage snoukl take place at the bride's house, but the English mar- riage laws do not allow of a marriage being solemnised at a private house. To get 'over the difficulty the services of a Scottish minister were obtained to perform the ceremony, but it was necessary thftt tne wedding should take place on Scottish ground. Accordingly it was decided to have the marriage at the place indi- cated. The bridegroom's party travelled five miles over the hills from the nearest railway station, and were joined by the bride's party, who walked down the hill to the spot. The custo- mary young men's race was run after the mar- riage, and the party then recrossed the stream and mounted the hill to the bride's house.

Jews, said President Taft at the banquet. of » New York Jewish Society, are "excellent citizens favouring and order," and he re- marked, "We are glad to have them in our country." Appointed to consider the question in March, If)G,.i, t special committee reported to the Court of Common Council of London that it is un- desirable to alto- the custom, which has con- 1 tinued since 1393, of electing aldermen for life.

Don't throw away boiled starch when finished with in the laundry, but pour it in the water to wash oilcloth or linoleum. Be- sides making it look bright and clean, it will double the wear. After flannelette articles have been washed I they should be rinsed in water in which loz. of alum or sal ammoniac has been dissolved. This little precaution will make them non- inflammable, and may be the means of earing many little lives. If a child's hair will not lie straight do not wet the brush, thinking this will have tjam desired effect. It won't. Whenever the hair dries it will be as bad as before, and thi. Í8 very bad for the hair. Rather put a few drops of some hair-lotion on the hair and brush it well. When heating irons by gas never place them on the ring, but get a piece of sheet- iron, place it on the gas-ring, and then put the iron on it. This keeps tJ irons from sweating and then getting rusty aryi spoiling the clothes. Combs should hot be washed with water. This is apt to split the teeth. A stiff nail brush is a good thing to keep for cleaning them. After using the brush take a damp cloth and wipe between each tooth. An inexpensive mixture for the whitening of boards consists of equal parte of silver sand and fuller's earth. A little should be sprinkled on the wetted boards, before they are scrubbed, and after the scrubbing the boards should be well rinsed with plenty of clean water. To burn a candle without waste, get a cork the size of the candlestick and fit in the well, leaving about a quarter of an inch from the tip. Then put a long needle down the centra of the cork, so that it leaves half an inch protruding from the top. Then fix candle; you will find it will stand quite firm, and can be burnt down to the end without wasting the inch that is generally in the bottom of the candlestick. BE OPEN-HEARTED. If you want to keep young, don't try to keep up an appearance beyond your means. The continual strain and worry soon do their work. An inactive, aimless life, on the other hand, rich, heavy diet, late hours, too little open-air exercise, all bring wrinkles and grey hairs. Be open-hearted. The oldest people "at heart-whatever their years—are those who go about with a suspicious fee ling that every laugh or joke is against them, and that every little kindness is actuated by eome ulterior motive. GOOD COOKING MEANS HAPPY HOMSS. It is a mortifying confession to make that marital happiness may depend upon the culinary skill of the wife, yet none the less is it a fact which cannot be gainsaid. That the etraightest, way to a man's heart lies down hie throat is an old and oft-quoted proverb, while we are told even by poets that it is easier for civilised man to live without love than with-, out cooks. A man may have the patience of Job, yet it is not wise to try him too often with indigestible food. It is the bounden duty of every wife to care for her husband's comfort, and in these days of inefficient and uncertain domestic service, to do this re* I quires a fair degree of culinary skill. ¡ {SHOE DANGERS. J The danger of wearing thin shoes in wet and cold weather is obvious, and yet many women make no difference in the thickness of their shoes, whether it is cold or warm, wet or fine, and many dangeroue illnesses are caused through this foolishness. Shoes that are too loose should also be avoided, often being the cause of painful blisters and corns. Many people, after bearing the torture of pair of shoes that are too small, go to the other extreme, and wear those that are too large. When buying shoes, one must bear in mind Uiat kid is very pliable and soon stretches, so that the shoes should not fit too comfortably at first. BENEFIT OF LAUGHTER. <" 1 Laughter improves one's health and look. because it improves the circulation by stimu- lating it, sending the blood bounding through, the veins. This is the benefit of all laughter, if hearty enough it causes decp inspirations, calling into active use every part of the lungs, favouring an increase of lung power, and thereby developing a healthy chest. When the chest and breast are lifted and expanded, the sagging, weeping willow lines of the face disappear. Therefore, laugh a little every day.

USEFUL RECIPES. MARMALADE.—Get four Seville and fonr sweet oranges and two lemons, and cut them into very thin slices, picking out the pips, and to each pound of fruit add three pints of water (cold). Let them stand 24 hours, then boil till the chips are tender. Allow this to stand till next dav, and then to every pound of boiled fruit add lilb. of sugar. Boil until the syrup jellies, and the chips are quite ten- der and transparent. This may take from half an hour to one hour. The oranges and lemons should be washed, and all specks taken off before being cut up. MILK SOUP.—Take one goon-sizea turnip, one Spanish onion, one carrot, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one quart of milk, one ounce butter, and two ounces flour. Prepare and cut the vegetables into dice, and boil until soft. Make a batter of the fi-aur with part of the milk, and add it to the remainder when boiling, with the butter. Stir and boil carefully for five minutes. Take out half a pint of the liquor in which the vegetables are boiling, strain the latter and mix with the milk in the tureen, thinning the soup down. if necessary, with part; or all, of the reserved liquor. Season with salt and pepper, and serve at once.

SOUTH u3L3MJE33E5LXOA. £ S frmn LOXIHtKto 111 O LJE.f ANBLRO, SA XT'hH, MONTR VIl>E",or HVBXOS A IIt tCSby ROYAL HOLLAND LLQYD FAST MAIL bT-EAMERS. Apply to the Local Amenta, or to the General Agents- WAINWRIGHT BROS. & CO., 21, FENCHUROH STREET, LONDON, E.C. HEMORRHOIDS or PTT,FS.-Head the "Target Book." 8; nt post f,.te.-Wride lh-os., Chemists, Southampton. m!rJZm¡2Z{\¡¿i:11jt:k, I IlaYA I\- nbber Heels E Raw Rubber has advanced over 100% above If H the normal price. Rubber heels made from natural rubber cannot now be made for the price at which g they have previously been sold. JB There are two courses open. jH One-to take it out of the quality. jj The other-to advance the price. Quality has made the market for Redfern's Navy Pads, EH || and Redfern's are determined that, the standard of at H quality shall be maintained under any circumstances. 9 So the price is advanced. Men's, per pair; H JLadies' and Children's, 5d. per pair. O/ell boot and ittores. REDFERN'S RUBBER WORKS LTD., Hyde. Nr. Manchester. B ZI ¡j¡J; Blac Books of R ren ø v WHO'S WHO. 1910. Crown 8vo., cloth. Price 10s. net f Or bound in fell red leather, with rounded corners and gilt edges. Price .12 s. 6 d. net. I This years issue contains about 23,000 biographies. ( WHO'S WHO YEAR BOOK, 1910. ClowriSvo., limp cloth cover. Price Is*, net. Important and useful tables, formerly incorporated in *• Who's Who." :t;=1; ENGLISHWOJYIANS YEAR-BOOK AND DI- RECTORY, 1910. Edited by G. E. MITTON. Crown 8vo.. cloth. Price 2s. 6d. net. THE WRITERS' & ARTISTS' YEAR-BOOK, 1910. A. Directory for Writers, Artists and Photograph- c ers. Fifth Year of New Issue. Crown 8vo. cloth. ls. net. A. & C. BLACK* Soho Square, London, W. l THE LIGHTNING BINDER For all classes and sizes of Papers, Music Lecture Notes, Sermons, Statements Letters, Magazines- Periodicals, &c- Perfectly tJght but Immediately released. HI 1111"1111' >11, u. h.. .'ilk I atl,t tit. — /j K| Ct,.u II" .,U'UI Uhl"n' W JjBF w "'Utu.u'" ,U"8' .IIIU" ft I C"IUt,'U"I1''11 .flll""IUI let. |f_ ft I t.II.t fUtl,nUt' '.U"i' rt n k /ASgfe* U fltl uulr U"U'UUf' .tD "at "ltI" talfl, V- letS'icr/rfG spe/HQ A Wonderful Office TIDY. Bound In Full Clothi Strong Steel Spring Backs "'uIAJIv.aI!I.t.'U"H.b'a.À"IIII'tI.tI'" Can and f same at K., MOl. & Seme, Herald, Office Riio*