The Rhos Herald

-Sjji ir™ Our Special Correqpondent.) [AOOÜIt is a city of mourning. Almost .^Terybofly in the streets is displaying- somo .jwAward and visible sign of a grief which is jfelt by all classes. Men are wearing black I,ief" mourning hat ban els, or bands of bln.ek iofh -on the arm, while the whips of the 'bus- 4$rivers are tied with bows of crepe. The gny ^vlvare of spring costumes and hate, which ■ fsfiil made, the shop windows so attractive for :41;¡: past, have given place to sornbre-biied gucwetits .of mourning. The demand is so jgre.s#. that many (If the shops. liming had time for prepitratioT). were quite lHlRbk .< tfopc with it. There is little doubt that .'jRiumraing will be as generally worn as was 'f}, ease when Qim-mi Victoria: died. For JAmdoflll ioved the King, and the very street. .ijm3$iir!S are subdued, feeling something of the ..KOTO# win"cli has f. lien upon this imperial .ó"Üy. Proofs of the place which Knig .S&tfwavd held in the affections of the people .jtte t/cv be found in the tributes paid in eon- «;.TW«tion by people of every in Hie. • |W«c uf these* tributes are jr-'hnps crudely «jSxprMH«ed, but their sincerity and heart!elt .jfjeality are abundantly evident. The death of the will have a disns- ■iarttn* upon the London x-aKir. which fsffisl promised to he ore of the wosr brilliant for z. good many years. The Onvt was to ftate yeecived a ii I,-r of Iloyst! *isit<-rs. will now. however, come upon a ,(1 ftniftAtm. public event-, in v hich the 'Svifig to have taken a prominent part will .ew, be po.stponed. and some others will be .abandoncd altogether, while the programme pyivate entertainments airn.dv arraaged of course be materially 'changed and eur- 1.¡JfX1. It is aniKHinced that there will be mourning for a year, mourr.ing for months, and afterwa-ds hal'-Tnonrnirg. ■Thft. however, only those (,ü11llcd,d -ti th the Court. The period for general g- wilL it is expected, be three One of the most important: functions uf the was to have been the visit of King 4:k«?rge and Queen May to South A li- ";II ■XJj« ort^-n.'nig of the first Parliament titei-C. Of .sretttr?*? that is now out of the question. and it ■i$> v«-rv likely that the duty will devolve upon 4-he Duke of Co?n"!aught. I'^arliatnent met on Saturday afternoon •witboiit being summoned. and though in the ..iglk^wwo-ns the proceedings W<TC purely -■jl^vnirosl owing to the of, the Speaker, ttttmber of peers took the" oath of allegiance the new King in the House of Lords. The ■•jwttsediate meeting of Parliament in the case ,.0f' demise of the Crown is in accordance -H-tMj: the Act of Sue e mmi. Manv years ago Of ll < M > i.'rc'j w ^teees-sary J;.ëi¡J.f! i arliament conhi ,i—« ndjle, but Par- )kiar> t saw danger in that system. Times .•SWSfti? troublous, and the throne, they thought, -JfcigJlt- be seized by a Royal usurper who ..¡¡)tM be unacceptable to the nation. So they the Act of Succession, which states: the demise of the Crown PRc'l ment, if T.sgfjjkln £ is ill, lyl edizi to proved to act; i4lj '17 ;,4rml, if separated by adjournment^ or proroga- ifCP&i is immediately to meet and sit. The ,efeatb üfKillg Edward occurred during a, re- ,4', while when Queen Victoria passed away jPiWljament was not in session. Even if Par- Jis.iiWTit had been dissolved it would have vlreen revived, and would have been II. good • jPiwHalwait for six nxriiths. A] I J>>ndon was in the streets on Satur- Crowds watched peers and commoners $411114.Z into the Hotiset; of Parliament, and .JtBMWftti waited at Temple Bar and other "Jj;j eX-¡Yo'cting to hear the proclamation of ,4* nc w King. These were misled by the ,JifAtr", the vendors of which sold their wares 8.1 they could hand them over. It was ,#»«o*ai,<e<i that the proclamation would be -•*»*«$*• it- St.. James's Palace, Temple Bar, ,.48t) the ftoyal Exchange during the after- j141Úf, and the people declined to believe the xJpoBee when they said that there would be jonthhig (f the kiud until Monday. So they • jUitftat! for hours in vain. The people who fdt-hemi in the neighbourhood of St. James's did not wait im vain. They saw King1 ,,A;t6wg,e arrive to hold his first Privy Council oirty, to) mq.ke his declaration that it would be eftencfft endeavour under God to follow jki* father's example in striving to pronxote Htm m-fit interests of his jieople. The crowd "IÍfl¡;f( rim the members of the Privy Council ::JWi'w, and were able to recognise many pro- sijHtflWHi men. At Charing-eross there were, ,,44n-#6.e crowds also, quiet, sorrowing crowds, I .■jjWfc tHudmlilthly curious to see something of -Ih gytot. going, forward. And, at interval* in St. James's Park. the' .ntH! hry>ined out their farewell sa.lute to' Kdward—sixty-eight guns, one for each! r* t) £ his age. J 'Kw A»iglo-,Tapja.nese Exhibition, which is -to bol '>fK?ned this month, will be in many ] -1¥it$ô the most l>eautiful of a long series j /•«•»!s-rkabie exhibitions held in London, j jNftl •i^S.torH to the 'White City will be re- j ■jgpAevt !»rith »* feast of marvels. Inside the i '.kiI'u Cíty; there will be all the gorgeous of the East, and indeed the whole I will be like a bit of the Orient tran^r ] -¡. to Shepherd's Bush. The pavilions mm u «tored with specimens of the wouder-, «;kiU of the .Japanese handicraftsmen, ftutD-f ot w"e productions will be seen in ■fsmdUm for the first time. All the ,,Sbp<Mt»0e exhibits will be full of interest to f visitors, but the interesting things triU »<>t be all inside the pavilions. In the jgmW'tidft will be seen a miniature eounter- pt. (tf the fcity of Tokio, and a Japanese mhp- besidee. The Japanese gardens, too, • mifi claim -attention, especially tfae two abivi,at,ore, gardens with their extraordinary .JimNrf trees, of which so much has been i" -PU_ If the latest scientific prediction as to the weather turns cut to be correct., we shall kf-ve a. very d'efînite cause of quarrel with the u-nif Stream. The abnormally cold weather of last- summer, it instated, was directly traceable to the late arrival of the Gulf Stream drift, and to the fact that whey: it did tardily arrive it wasf at nothing like so high a temperature as usual. And we arc told that the Gulf Stream drift is late again this year, and the scientist who tells us these interesting things adds that he thinks it very probable the weather during the coming summer will be some- what similar to last year's. Remembering what ought to have been last year's slimmer, the rain and the cold and the influenza which it brought, it is most devoutly to be hoped that this prophet, like some other prophets, will prove to be wtmg. But the weather we are experien- cing in May is not of the kind to inspire anything but gloomy thoughts of what the summer may bo like. There if, a ray of hope: the Gulf Stream, eveiTf' though late, may be salter and warmer than usual. Then all will be well. Sir Hubert von Herkomer, a dreamer of dreams, has had a vision of a palace of art, I in Hyde Park. "A vast building, noble in; its structure, and surrounded by trees, fountains, statuary, flowers. T cittell at the! wide portal, and seem to come almost iiiiiiie.-I diatd- into a lotunda—gardens, I fancy, I domed in with glass. On 'all sides there is sculpture, seen in its most appropriate! tetting. From this central rotunda I see many rooms radiating. They contain thej Academy pictures, and, in projiortion, in' lighting, and in the principle that every j picture is separated from its neighbour, they! form an ideal series of galleries." The main, part of the palace, it should be noted, is to! be occupied by the Royal Academy. The1 realisation of Sir Hubert's dream will cost a trifle of two Tnilli(Yii,s- a, single year's in-, ■ come of two of the millionaires I know," he' h may S. A. E. M.

Oriola, a National-Liberal member of the I, Killed in a Berlin tramway accident. Count K Reichstag, has left a fortune of £ 3.000.000. Sir Henry Clay Frick, the millionaire art collector of New York, has purchased from the family of Prince Tarnow^ky the famous "Polish Rider" of Rembrandt. Visiting Beaumont College, near Windsor, with the Lord Mayor, who was educated there, the Lady Mayoress invited, the boys to spend their fir*'t day's holiday as her guests at the Mansion House. Judge Emden suggested at Lambeth County- y eourt that a new court should be constructed underground, in consequence of hearing being ¡ rendered impossible at times in the present > court by the noise of passing vehicles. The death occurred at St. Saviour, Jersey, of General Harry M,cLeod, aged 75. He served in the Afghan War of 1878-9, and was a colonel- commandant of the Roval Artillerv.

ALLEGED BOGUS BARON. At Hull Police-court on Friday the case was heard of the German whose name was given as Edward von Westerhagen, and who had posed fiB a German Baron, and who, it is alleged, is wanted over half Europe. He had several times appeared before the Htill on a charge of obtaining a thousand francs by false pretences, but in every instance he had been remanded. Three women declared that they had gone through the form of marriage with the "baron," who was charged with obtaining £ 40 by false t pretences from Joseph Scbaan, a native of Mul- hautsen, in Germany. The "Baron/' a dark, handsome, well- groomed man, Wfu:" stated to have adopted Jj maay aliases, his actual name being Emil | Richman, and his real calling a waiter. He had I been known, said counsel, as H Dr. Meyer, a matrimonial agent, H I>r. Ast, a doctor of medicine, » Baron von Sachs, 1 Baron von Reitzenstein, and ra Profesftor Robert Karl Katz. The first "wife to give evidence, whose name wa", withheld, "as she was endeavouring! to maintain herself and two children," said I that. Westemhagen married her in Rotterdam. |ln 1906 be told her he was not .married to her, | and she left him. 1 Mi»s Jemima Ribb eaid that Westernhagen lodged «ith her sister near London. He posed t as a professor of law in Germany, and In Eng- I land as solicitor of a German shipping COUl-, | pany. He married her sister at Leyton Parish i ■ Church, and deserted her, taking the last few ffi shillings she possessed. I A SCHOOL WITHOUT STUDENTS. I Margaret Ehlerging, a German woman, said ■ she met Westernhagen, and married him at a I registry office -at Fulham. He carried on prac- I as a doctor at Richmond-gardens, Shep- i herd""s Bush. She left him because he could not keep the home together. | Mr. Dawson, who prosecuted, told the story ■ of Schaan's association with Westernhagen. Rile came to Hull in consequence of an ad\er- B tisement asking for the investment of £ 120 "in a good school of languages with large profits." After he had paid £ 40 Schaan was intro- duced to the school. During the first week scarcely any students attended. There were no students on Monday morning, and only one before five o'clock o the Tuesday. There were none before four o'clock on the Wednesday, and none hefore four o'clock on the Thursday, none before six o'clock on' the Friday, and there were only four on the Saturday. From the 'time of Schaan's arrival till the arrest of Westernhagen he was treated mere as a servant than as a partner. Westernhagen had From the time of Schaau's arrival till the stated there were four teachers in the school. He explained this by saying. "Well, there is my wife, Fritz (a youth of fifteen years), and yourself. That makes four." Evidence would be called to show that the prisoner was not a baron, and was not an officer in the German Army as he had said, and that his teal name was Emil Richman. The hearing was adjourned.

8 NEW BOOTS CAUSE DEATH. B At an inquest held at Islington on Satur- day on James Nicholas, a house painter, his f widow stated that last- September he B bought: a pair'of-boots, and a week later felt paiu in his foot and leg, which he attributed ■ to the tongue of the boot rubbing the skiu. ■ Inflammation set in, and a doctor said de- Infl, Bceased had blood poisoning caused by the boot and the dye from the sock which had ,,o poi so in ed the foot. The man was removed B to the Holborn Union Infirmary, where he died. B Dr. R. T. Taylor said deceased told him ■ he had rubbecl his instep and caused a 8 wound through the new boot, An abscess E followed, and death was due, to general B blocwl poisoning. B A verdict of "Accidental death" was re- turned, « <m> —

1 A BRIGHTON TRAGEDY. B The body of Mr. Edward King, aged forty- eight, chief clerk in the Probate Office at B Chichester, and an ecclesiastical officer eon- ■ nected with the diocese, was found on the ■ beach at. the east end of Brighton. B At the inquest it transpired that the de- w ceased was at his office as usual on the previous morning. but left at half-past. ten. Sliortly p afterwards he was seen by some friends in the ft train on his way to Brighton. No one, knew w of any business requiring bin attention there. ft A witness from the Probate Office stated that j 5 the affairs of the deceased were in perfect 1 order. Some time ago he suffered from aerrons, s breakdown, from which, however, he had ap-! B parently quite recoTered. It was mentioned 6 that, Mr. King had taken a return ticket, the k unused half being found in his pocket. » The jury returned a verdict of "Foun4 f drowned." <

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WIDOW'S BREACH OF PROMISE. In the case of Bower v. Ebsworth, recently tried, in which Mrs. Ebsworth had judgment given against her for £ 100 damages for breach of promise, the plaintiff being a draper's i assistant half her age, Mr. Justice Grantham j ihas refused to grant a stay of execution, pend- ing an appeal on the question of corroboration, I and whether the jury understood it. j His Lordship said: The Court of Appeal becomes blocked by constant, applications for stays of execution. I do not think it right. I do not think people who lose ought to try and whether the jury understood it. j His Lordship said: The Collrt of Appeal becomes blocked by constant applications for, stays of execution. I do not think it right. I do not think people who lose ought to try j again—to have two shots for a penny. If it were only a penny I should not mind, but the successful litigant very often has to wait for a 1 long time he has paid his own costs there is another trial, and he has to pay hie costs of that, and when lie succeeds the other party is often bankrupt, and eannot pay. I do not think it ought to be done. It seems to me that people always applying for a stay tends to do away with the right of the public to have trial by jury that was when the judge agreed with the jury. I refuse the application. The plaintiff was granted costs.

YIPI-ADDYIAYEI-AYE. The question of how far a dance in the heart ■ of the doctors' quarter in the Wrst End of I I London becomes a public nuisance was raised | in a case heard by Mr. Justice A. T. Lawrence iin the King's Bench Division. 1 The dances were held at the Wei beck Private I Residential Hotel in Welbeck-street, of which I a Mr. Bayer is the lessee, and the Law Land | Company sought an injunction to restrain the f defendant from holding frequent dances, on the | ground that this practice was a breach of the i covenants contained in the lease, and a I nuisance to the other tenants and neighbours. I Several doctors who gave evidence com- | plained of the noise in the street hy calling for f motors, the noise of the band in the ball-room, ji and of the dancers occasionally joining in choruses. On one occasion neighbours were treated to a full chorus in mixed voices of | Yip-i-addy-i-aye-i-aye." f The defence was a denial, and residents at the hotel denied that, the dances caused any annoyance. A policeman and several hotel ser- vants also denied that there were any uoisee that could be called a nuisance. I JiKla'»n ":1,: reserved.

WHALETSLAND TREASURE HUNT. Whale Island, the famous naval gunnery school at Portsmouth, has been the scene of a treasure hunt. It will be remembered that the men con- victed of the robbery from the cruiser Indomit- able were arrested on the ishmd. The stolen bank notes were recovered, but the turn of £ 2,000 in gold was not. and there always has been an idea that it was concealed somewhere on the island. A sentry saw a mysterious stranger grubbing at a hole on the shore and asked him what he was about. "Digging for worms," replied the man. The sentry ^ordered him away, and it then flashed through his mind that there WM something suspicious about the affair., so he reported the matter. The authorities came to the conclusion that the mysterious stranger had some clue to the spot where the stolen gold was hidden and was searching for it. The police were com- municated with, and the treasure hunt began, but though they searched every likely spot no gold was found, and the hunt was temporarily abandoned.

I FUN AND FANCY. 0- 8- Teacher: "How many eggs are there in | dozen?" Pupil (son of a grocer): "Five | good ones, fivek fair ones, and two bad ones!" j? Nell: In Turkey a girl never sees her husband until she is married." Bella: "How funny; in this country she never sees him afterward." Giles: "My wife can drive nails like light* nrng." Miles: "You don't mean it! Giles: "1 do. Lightning, you know, seldom strikes twice in the same place." -1. g Jacks: "Brown is an exceedingly cautious man, don't you think?" Johns: "Cautious! .Why he wouldn't pay a compliment without g getting a receipt for it." g OToole: "Cive me a shave." New g Barber: "Have you got your own mug?" O'Toole "Me own mug, is it? An' do yez think I'd be alter coin around wid another ? felly's face atop luc s.iuiwldcrs?" g Visitor (remarking workmen in the road- way) "Well, the telephone and electric lighting ought to be periect in London." I Londoner: Yes, the companies leave SO bLoDe unturned." N Ralph: "Yes, she is pretty and sweet, but t she has no accomplishments." Rupert. I "No?" "No; she can neither play the piano, J "ing> dance." "Then how does she pass Ih her time?" "Oh, she does all the cooking and | housework at home." "Come along! Intro- j|duce me, quick!" If At an evening party recently the hostess I had bustled out of the room to arrange some I detail of supper or something. During her I absence a young man sang a sentimental bal- I lacf—to the intense agony of the company* | The hostess returned just after he had I finished. As he had to leave early he ap- i proached to make his farewell. "Good- 1 night!" said the hostess, with the usual ami* I ability. "Good-night! I'm 6o sorry you ean't |sing!" The young man crimsoned, and fled, B Mr: Jones was always particular to appeal? | to be in a better position than he really waif, I and he spared no pains to hide his vanity I from his children. On one occasion he took | his eldest son for a walk, and permitted him to play with some other boys whilst he read his paper. Going home later, Mr. Jones in- quired "Well, what did you talk about to those boys with whom you were playing?" "Oh," replied the lad, "I told them that you i proached to make his farewell. "Good- 1 nigbt!" said the hostess, with the usual ami* I ability. "Good-night! I'm so sorry you ean't .ing!" The young man crimsoned, and fled, j B Mr: Jones was always particular to appear | to be in a better position than he really waif, I and he spared no pains to hide his vanity I from his children. On one occasion he took t, his eldest son for a walk, and permitted him I to play with some other boys whilst he read his paper. Going home later, Mr. Jones in- quired "Well, what did you talk about to those boys with whom you were playing?" "Oh," replied the lad, "I told them that you were our footman I did it to keep up ap- pearance, you know." | "Gladly would I die for you," said the ar- s dent but rejected suitor. Her look of hauteur | was maintained despite this plea. "You are | in error," she replied, coldly, "if you think | the colour of your hair constitutes my chief objection to you." The parting was not pro- longed. U ? Lady (engaging new housemaid): "Daphne f I Xbat is much too romantic a name, with s young men in the house. I suppose you would I not object to being called by your surname?*" Applicant: "Oh, no, ma'am; fn fact I'm | quite used to it." Lady: "What is your sut- | name!" Applicant: "Darling." | The youn^ lady was a victim of the piano- f playing habit. "You must discontinue your practice for a time," said the doctor, "or it will I send you to an untimely grave." "Why dost you discontinue your practice, doctor?" Ahe re- S joined. "Then you wouldn't fill so many un- timely graves." 1 Mother: "I wish you would go on as errand t for me." Small Son: "My legs ache awful." i Mother: "Too bad. I wanted you to go to old F Mrs. Stickney's sweetshop, and-" Small | Son: "Oh, that isn't far. I can walk til ere i easy." Mother: ''Very well. Go there, and | just beside it you will see a grocer's shop. Go I in and get me a bar of soap." j I An old farmer and his wife were attending | a church service one warm Sunday evening. | The win lows were open, and the noisy | chorus of the crickets was distinctly audible. [ In due course the clioir sang an anthem, and |the old m'p.n. a music lover, listened enrap- Itured. At it's couch .-non Tie tunied to his wife and wintered: "Ain't that glorious and I I divine, Martha?" "Yes; and to think that I they do it all with their hind legs!U she I added. I I He was a stolid-looking youth from an Eng- lish college, but his American guide thought that the majesty, of Niagara, at any rat&, would move him to expressions of wonder and awe. There they stood, whilst the water thundered down with a deafening roar. The schoolboy looked, and looked, but said never a word. His astonishment, perchance, was I too deep for words. "Is it not simply mar* vellous?" cried the American. "Have you nothing at all to say?" The tourist turned on his guide. "Marvellous, did you sayt Why, bless me, I don't see how the water caB help coming down!" Wife: "Who was that man who just called?" Husband: "That was one of our ten- ants who called to pay his rent." Wife: "Yoa look so gloomy I thought it was a bill collee- tor." Husband: "I feel gloomy every time I lose a goÕd tenant. He is going to move." Wife: "Did he -say so?" Husband: "No; but he didn't ask for repairs." The young man was brought before the magistrate. "Have you ever been trrettedt" asked the latter. "No sir," was the reply. "Have you ever been in this oourt beforetH "No, sir." "Are you sure?" "Yes, sir." "Your face looks decidedly familiar; where have I seen you before?" "I am the bar- man in the hotel opposite the court, eir." First Man: "Beg pardon, but are you a waiter f" Second an "No." "Private do. tective f "No." ''Not a guest?" "No." "What are you then?" "Oh, Fm only the husband of the lady who is giving the party." Miss Angelina (to Lucy, the parlourmaid) t "Lucy, if anyone calls to see me this after. noon, don't forget that I am only at home to Mr. Fitznoodle." Lucy: "Yes, miss." In. terval of an hour, and Lucy reappears, look. ing rattier flushed. "Well, Lucy?" "Please, miss, Chare's been five gentlemen call, and when I told them you were out to everybody but Mr. Fitznoodle, they all seemed very sur. prised and annoyed, while the last one said: 'I am sorry for Mr. Fitznoodle.' I Jason,: "Many a wise word is spoken is jest." Mason: "Yes, but they ean't compare with the number of foolish ones spoken ia earnest-" r

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