The Rhos Herald

"OLD CHINA" JUDGMENT. The old china" case, which has engaged attention of Mr. Justice Lawranee and a ,-JWeefai jury for many days, terminated on M&aAs-y. The plaintiffs, executors of the late C. J. Dickins, based their ca.se upon, an ion that Messrs. Christie, Manson, and had negligently included spurious artwU# in the catalogue of a sale of a collec- ticat of old china which the testator had made. *J[he- jury last week found that, while the de- fettd&nts had acted negligently in the prepara- ■tfcm at the catalogue, the executors had not that they sustained any monetary loss m* negligence. ThÆ Judge said that not only was no damage but there was the actual finding of the -jury that no damage whatever had been sus- The conclusion he arrived at, there- ftfte, Was that, the jury having found that 4bt,re, Wtm no damage, the verdict upon the Icetfg was in favour of the defendants. In the ..d^rtfumsfca-nees, he would give the judgment "he 4preaki have given if there had been no inter- te discussion, viz., that he thought the ffs had failed to show that they were to costs. There would be judgment for fondants with costs, the plaintiffs to costs upon the issue upon which they had jMaKSC^ded, and, in order to entitle them to .at. he would grant a certificate that, it was #pr»per case to be brought in the High Court.

CREWE BY-ELECTION. 7 JU result of the polling in the Crewe Divi- Mem of Cheshire was. declared oh Monday after- rJKMW' The figures were W. S. B. McLaren (L.), 7,639 X H. Welsford (C.) 6,041 Liberal majority 1,598 "I "I no. TJwS vacancy was caused. by tne aeatn or the ,:aj.ht Hon. James Tonkinsoll, who was fatally in an a,ecident at the Parliamentary jfcwsfc-io-point races at Epping a few weeks At ihe general election this year the figures .n-; J. Tomkinsoh (L). 7,761 Sir J. Harrington (C.) 5.419 F. H. Rose (Lab.). 1,380 Liberal majority 2,342 In 1906 the Liberal majority was, ii,oUe, in •J9O0 1,199, and in 1895 the Conservative candi- fate had a majority of 550.

AN UNFINISHED MESSAGE. A toman's strange dying messages were re- at an inquest on Monday on the body of jK&sa-beth Nicholls, aged 43, Wigstow-road, 3Pl»ifct!>vv. The husband stated that recently his wife had t1 Ø()mewhat depressed and worried, although tberi,, I was no cause for it. Early on Sunday Jhcrjtiiig he woke to find her lying with her tfag&at cut. She died later in the morning in ■fi*e Poplar Hospital. A nurse at the hospital said that, thinking ifiat the woman wished to -give..some..message, hè guve her a pencil, but Mrs. Nicholls was "onli- able to write one word, "God." The patient, said, "Bless and forgive my- and, „ stopped. The witness asked her several times -if committed the act, and each time she sffooo-k ber head and said, "No." Tfife coroner said he thought that, the jury iwouf(I be justified in regarding the statements --Jtt&dte- by the woman to the nurse as hallucina- titms. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while •viewpfflfftrily insane."

ItYING BOY AND HIS FATHER. Air 'Bnrsjem, Staffordshire, on Monday, Alfred yfuxe, fra'ker and confectioner, was summoned --for neglecting his son Harry, aged 13, in a JWariru-f likely to cause unnecessary suffering and inpa-v. •Tht summons was brought under the Chil- .«j|pew Act, which makes it an offence for a parent to provide medical aid for an ailing -It was the first prosecution of the kind in ffee Midlands. Th evidence, given showed that the boy died Jltou> < onsumption, and although he complained „mA being poorly, and asked to be allowed to stay it) htltl. bi father made him get up. He daed on » v. It was not until the Wednesday that -Ikix Iwrynitted him to stay in bed. Thf defence was that everything possible was for the boy short of calling in a doctor. defendant was committed for trial.

ilAEf Ann Thomas, aged 22, of Walthametow, 1"7 employed by Lipton's, has been d 4:4,00 against that firm. She claimed 'Udl » machine for stamping the name on tin- Iklb was defective, and. owing to an accident, feand had to be amputated. When Mrs. Vera. Wise, the young pianist who 1 W play in the military hospitals in Natal .j&ttring the Boer war, gave her first recital at the JSoiian Hall lately, she received a bouquet MFr,om a "loniiny who listened to you when Jf&fi played to the soldiers in the Natal Military

ON THE STATUTE BOOK. 0 i BUDGET LAW AT LAST. II. Exactly a year after Mr. Lloyd George introduced the Budget for 1909-10 into the House of Commons, the measure has been passed into law, the Royal Assent having I been given on Friday. It wil be interesting I to give a summary of the principal proposals I of the Budget which has caused such a sensation. LAND VALUE DUTIES. 1. A duty of 20 per cent. on increment value on the occasion of transfer, grant of a lease for over 14 years, or death of the owner. 2. A reversion duty of 10 per cent. on the value of any benefit accruing to a lessor on the determination of a lease. I 3. An annual duty of id,. in the pound on the capital site value of land not developed for building or other purposes. (In the case of land belonging to a corpo- I rate or incorporate body, the increment duty will be levied on April 5, 1914, and every 15 years afterwards.) An annual duty of 5 per cent. is to be levied on the rental value of all rights to work minerals and of all minesal wayleaves. The death duties have been increased. Twopence in the £ has been added to the tax I' on unearned income, and a super-tax at the rate of 6d. in the £ is inasposed in respect of I incomes which exceed £ 5,000, charged on every pound of the amount by which the in- come exceeds £ 3,000. Earned incomes are relieved by raising the maximum from £ 2,000 to £ 3,000, while j in the case of persons whose incomes do not exceed £ 500 an allowance of £ 10 (equivalent to 7s. 6d. in tax) is made for every child under the age of 16. LICENSING AND OTHER DUTIES. The following are the new licensing duties 1. Soirit distillers: £ 10 for 50,000 gallons and £ 10 for every additional 25,000 gal- Ions; 2. Brewers £ 1 for every 100 Laurels, and 12s. for every further 50 barrels 3. Publicans: A duty equal to half the annual value of the licensed premises; 4. Beerhouse-keepers A duty equal to one-third of the annual value. Hotels are to pay duty according to alco- holic sales, while clubs are to pay 6d. for every pound's worth of intoxicating liquors purchased. Duties of 3s. 9d. per gallon, in addition to the existing duties, will be levied on spirits, and an additional duty of 8d. per lb. on tobacco. There is also a duty of 3d. per gallon on motor spirit. New taxes on motor-cars will be levied ac- ¡' cording to horse-power. VALUATION OF LAND. Apart from the imposition of the land duties, the provisions relating to valuation are important. It will now be the duty of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to make a valuation of all the land in the United Kingdom, showing separately the total value and the site value respectively, and in the case of agricultural land the value of the land for agricultural purposes where that value is different from the site value.

POLICEMEN SHOPBREAKERS. J Charges of shopbreaking against two police- men named Rushton and Huddart and two brothers, John, Thomas Wright and Albert Wright, were investigated at Liverpool Assizes- on Monday. Rushton was sentenced to five years' penal servitude xand Huddart to three years. Albert Wright was ordered to undergo three years in Borstal training, and John Thomas Wright, in view of eight years' pre- vious good conduct, was bound over. The allegations against the constables were that they broke into premises in Lime-street and stole a quantity of jewellery, and that they were concerned with the brothers Wright in break- ing into a public-house in Islington and steal- ing a safe containing £ 24 odd and other articles.

WARNING TO HOUSEMAIDS. I An unusual case under the Children Act was heard" at Marylebone on Monday, when Mrs. Hearne, the wife of Mr. James Hearne, an actor, summoned a nursemaid named Kate Bell for neglecting her thirteen-months-old baby. Mrs. Hearne went out one night leaving the nursemaid in charge of the baby and two other children. When she returned the nurse- maid and two other servants had all left the house, and the children were entirely unpro- tected. Candles, lamps, and g"s jets were alight in the house, and a serious accident might have happened had the children got up. Fortunately nothing serious occurred. As a warning to other housemaids the defendant was fined 40s.

DEATH OF MISS LOTTIE COLLINS. Miss Lottie Collins,. the famous music-hall comedienne, who will long be remembered as the singer of Ta-ra- ra-boorn-de-ay," died on Saturday at her North London residence, fol- lowing an attack of heart disease. Miss Collins, who was the wife of Mr. James W. Tate, became famous almost twenty years ago, when she first sang "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" at the Tivoli. Subsequently she toured America and the Colonies, and everywhere met with great success. The song had a most extra- ordinary vogue, greater probably than thai of any music-hall song before or since. ♦

FORTUNE IN A FORGE. An Athlone blacksmith named Patrick Seilly died in December, 1908, leaving assets valued at X3,000, and this estate was the sub- ject of an action in the Chancery Division, on Saturday, before the Master of the Rolls. It was stated that Reilly, who died a bachelor at the age of over 70, lived alone in his forge, where he kept a box in which was found £ 853 10s. 6d. in cash and a bank deposit/receipt for XI,806, dated December 8, 1839, the interest on this deposit having- mounted up to £ 488 12s. Immediately before hie death, Reilly made a will, but under its provisions disposed only of .£170

The Rev. Dr. W. Edwards has been elected vice-president of the Baptist Union, and will succeed to the presidency next year. In his annual report Dr. Coleman, medical office# of health' for Surbiton, suggests that influenza should be made a notifiable disease.

FUN AND FANCY. He: "Does your father know that I am the light of your life?" She: "Oh, yes, he told me to be sure and put you out at ten o'clock." Golfer on the Green (after several at- tempts to hole the ball): "What shall I do, caddie?" Caddie: "I should get down on ma knees, and blaw it in! Boy: "Mr. Smith is telephoning for his motor. Can you send it to him to-day ?" Head Man at the Garage: "Don't see how we can. Why, his machine is the only one around here fit to use!" Husband (arriving with his wife at the station just as the train steams out) "There! If you hadn't taken such a fearful time dressing we shouldn't have lost that train." Wife: "And if you hadn't hurried me so all the way here we shouldn't have such a long time to wait for the next one." There is a bright future before the small boy who, when asked why he had not gone to school on the previous day, replied that he had read in books that great and successful men usually started life without educational advantages, and that he was giving the thing a trial. Brown: "What did your wife say about your being so. late home the other night?" Jones: "Nothing at all. She just sat down at the pian6 and played Tell me the old, old story., Mrs. Jones: "Did you really expect me to accept you the night you proposed?" Mr. Jones: "Yes, love. Just before I got to your house I heard a dog howl three times, saw the moon over my left shoulder, and walked under a ladder" "You told us, boy," the tourist said to the urchin, who was fishing in the lake, "that the boat always left here at four, and we have now waited till a good deal past five." "Oh," said the boy, "it doesn't begin to run till next month." Butcher: "Well, sir, did that piece o' beef do for all your family?" Customer: "Very nearly; but the doctor has hopes of three of them!" D6ctor (to his cook, who is just leaving): "Well, Mina, I am sorry, but I can only give you a very indifferent character." "Well, sir, never mind. Just write it like you do your prescriptions." "True happiness consists in finding that you have paid two shillings for an article exactly like that for which your friend had to pay half a crown the day before." Father (gruffly): "Get away from the fire, Tommy. The weather isn't cold." Tommy: "Well, I'm not warmin' the weather; I'm warmin' my hands." "Mamma," shouted little Willie from the I nursery, "Johnnie wants half the bed." "Well," queried his mother, "isn't he en- titled to half of it?" "Yes," replied Willie, "but he wants his half in the middle." -c- Wife: "Billy, dear, I stitched up the hole in your trousers' pocket last night after you had gone to bed. Now, am I not a thought- ful little wife?" Husband: "H'm; how did j you know there was a hole in my pocket?" | A gentleman was put out of patience by some blunder of his new groom. "Look here! he cried in his anger, "I won't have things done in this way. Do you think I'm a fool?" "Fool, sir," said the groom, "I can't say, sir. I only came here yesterday." Lady (to new milkman) "Now, Mr. Jonee, I hope I can rely on the purity of your milk. I had to give up Mr. Smith because his milk became two-thirds water." Mr. Jones: "You can rely on this, mum.. It's bin para- j lysed by the public anarchist." I I Sufferer (to lady in front): "Madame, if you were to remove your hat I could see the j play." Lady in front (with manifestation of surprise): "Yes, but you could not then see my new hat." "Young iwan," said the pompous indivi- dual, "I did not always have this carriage. When I first started in life I had to walk." "You were lucky," chnckkd the youth. When I first started in life I had to be carried." j Tommy looked for a long time at his father's moustache, in a contemplative way, then broke out with, "When I grow up, shall I have feathers like father, mummy f West End Picture Dealer: "This, madam, ie merely a ehromo, and it is not expensive." Mrs. Suburbs: "Ah! To be had cheap, I suppose. Of course, Chromo is a very ob- scure artist, and cannot command high prices." "Aw, it seems to me, Miss Brown," said a "golden youth" to a pretty young lady, "I have fawgotten something—aw, let me see! She suggested gloves as the absent article. "Oh, no! Now I wemembah. Aw—will you niawwy ine ? "How are you coming along at golf now?" "Oh, fine!" "Broken any records yet?" "Well, not exactly; but I've broken thirty clubs, the honeysuckle vine, the cat's back, and six panes of glass since I began playing, so I am coming along strong." Grubb: "I hear your last novel has already appeared in its- sixth edition. How did you manage to become so phenomenally popular?" Scrubb: "Very simple. I put a personal in the papers saying that I was looking for a wile who is something like the heroine of my novel. Within two days the first edition was sold out." W "Eggs for Invalids," read the sign at a certain shop. "What is there unusual about those eggs?" asked a curious observer. "Why, them eggs is an absolute novelty," said the dealer briskly, adding in awed tones, "Them eggs is fresh." Patient: doctor, do you think I'm getting on all right?" Doctor: "Oh, yes. You still have a good deal of fever, but that doesn't trouble me." Patient: "Of course not. If you had a fever, it wouldn't trouble, me."

HOME HINTS, Breadboards should be scrubbed with «&StS or salt, to keep the wood a good colour. Blacklead mixed with vinegar will be found to give a specially good polish to the kitchen stove. If sour milk is used instead of fresh for mixing cakes, they will be both richer and lighter. A tiny sprinkling of Demerara sugar placed over each layer of meat in a steak pudding will make the steak tender. A black mark upon the ceiling caused by the lamp-smoke can be removed by washing it with a little lukewarm sodawater. When stewing fruit, add the sugar after the fruit is cooked, but while it is still hot. By doing this a smaller quantity of sugar ia needed. If linoleums and oilcloths are rubbed, after being washed, with a little linseed oil, they will be found to wear longer and have a polish without being slippery. When cutting fur draw a razor down the back of the skin where it is required to be cut, and this will not injure the long hair at all. as scissors are apt, to do. A liberal supply of carbonate of soda placed around the kitchen hearth, and any other favourite haunt of blackbeetles, will cause their complete disappearance from those places. When making pea-soup, if the peas are boiled a little while, separately, with a, pinch of common washing soda, they will be found to cook much more quickly. They do not need soaking. When linoleum or floor-cloth is past using again as a iloor covering, it can yet serve P* purpose as a fire-lighter, instead of, or in conjunction with, wood. Fold a small square into three and lay it on the top of the paper used for laying the fire. Fried Eggs with Rice.—Parboil some well- washed rice in water, then simmer till quit.e tender in good gravy, flavoured with half a teaspoonful of curry powder. Serve with fried eggs on the top. Meat will keep, even in the hot weather, for many days if it is hung in a current of air and covered with a muslin which has bees wrung out in vinegar. This should be re- newed every day. Veal Cutlets.—Cut a neck of veal into joints, take off the ends of the bones and lard the thick part of the cutlets with four or five pieces of bacon; season them with nutmeg., pepper and salt. and roll in bread crumbe and finely-powdered sweet herbs, then dip into well-beaten egg and broil before the fire, Serve with brown gravy and garnish with, lemon. If buying a hair mattress, choose oM filled with black rather than white, hair, as the latter has generally been bleached, and this deprives it of springiness and, makes it "mat" more quickly than the black or even the gray hair. The following is an easy amd economical way of polishing a floor for a dance: Take three pennyworth of beeswax, cut up finely in shavings, then mix with one pint of benzo- line. Let it stand for an hour, with an occa- sional shake, then rub in the floor and polish quickly. Potted Salmon.—Empty a tin of salmon, remove the skin and bones, break it up fine with a fork, season with a little pepper and salt, add a few drops of salad oil. Place in a glass dish and cover wiuu clarified butter, serve with sliced cucumber. If after eating onions the mouth and throat are freely washed with cold water and the teeth cleaned with powdered charcoal, nearly the whole of the unpleasant odour will be found to be removed. Parsley is also very good; a small piece should be taken after partaking of the onion*. By using this method of preserving them, f eggs will last twelve months: Take one tin of water-glass, place in a pan, and pour two gal- lons of boiling water over it. Stir until it has dissolved, let it stand to get cold, and then it will be ready for use. Home-Made Fire Extinguisher.—Take five pounds of common salt and two and a half pounds of muriate of ammonia, and dissolve in two gallons of water. When well dissolved fill into good-sized bottles that will not be difficult to break when needed, and eork tightly. In case of fire immediately throw one or two bottles into the blaze with enough force to break them and well scatter the contents. Any fire thus taken in time will surely be extinguished. When cleaning boards scrub the way of the grain of the wood; use plenty of warm water. Wash and dry one small piece at a time. Do not put more water on the boards than is necessary to make them clean, as they will t-ake very long to dry if made too wet. When the boards have been well scrubbed, they must be rubbed with a clean cloth, wrung out of clean, warm water; then with a dry cloth the way of the grain. If the boards are not well rubbed and dried, they will not be .a good colour, even after a good lIICrub. If you rinse a plate with cold water before breaking the eggs on it, add to them a pinch of salt, and then stand where there is a cur- rent of air, you will have no difficulty is beating them to a froth. The glass of spectacles or eyeglasses Mm be cleaned with a cloth which has been dip- ped in methylated spirits. A good polisji with a wash-leather will be necessary after- wards to prevent any cloudiness. 'I Constant blacking is likely to injure the leather of boots before very long, but thii evil may be guarded against by occasionally (about once in three weeks) washlng off *11 the blacking and rubbing oil into the leather. I Those, who possess a washable. paper in the kitchen should clean it with lukewarm water in which a teaspoonful of washing powder has been dissolved. Use a piece of clean flannel, and when the dirt has been removed dry the paper thoroughly with a soft clean cloth. .<- _</

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