The Rhos Herald

BRUTAL HIGHWAY ROBUERY. Whilst walking home from Blyth, Norfh- uiuberland, on Saturday night, Wih'r.d Ciougb, io od tweniyrone, son of the colliery manager at Hartley, was. su<Kieu !v con- fronted' by two ia«n. who jumped from be- hind a 'hedg« aiidrdieuuindcd mo««.-y. lie refused their demands, whereupon one of the wen drew a kuiic. and aoned a blow at him. Olongh guarded his head with his hand, and had it;* little finger completely iw:»vivd. The nevoid man Lieu struck him a blow which render<rd him unconscious. The miscreants ro b d him of what money he had about 21B.alld also took his watch aliti chairt, but were cheap arttviel., and they were on Sunday found in » field a quarter'of a mile away. Clt>ugh was found Mn the roadside uncon- scious and bleeding by a man named Kobson, who baadaged his wound and assisted him home.

SOME CHURCH MEMBERS. wlbur Church members aref; all right on th. IwSeve, trust, hope, pray, and preach, but- tr I re not so much on the do," says one of the characters in "That Printer of Udell -e (Hodder and Sfcougbton, 6.). a story of the Middle West, by Harold Bell Wright. The printer came to Boyd City iiil,-eaj,ch of work, and the Church members could do nothing for kim. The Church, itself was closed and silent except at service time, while the saloons weio open and offered warmth and comfort. It was George Udell, the character quoted above, win? took the prmter in a.nd gaye him work. George Udell was a man all through, and so was the young fellow he befriended. And it was "that {winter" who began the movement that revo- utionised the Church and Boyd City, "and made it an example to all the world for honest manhood, civic pride and municipal virtue." Another character in the story is Uncle Bobbie Wicks, himself a Church inembcr, but- brimming over with human kindliness, humour, and common-teense. Some of his sayings arc well worth quoting: "I know there is Church members that are meaner'n a mule with shoulder galls. They won't pull nothin' and would kick a man's headi off quicker'n greased liglitnin' "'Tain't Christianity that makes folks mean, but they're mean in spite of it." What such fellers as you want to do it; to listen to what Christ says and not look at what some little two by four Church member does." Yes, the Lord will provide, but we've got to do the hustlin' "I reckon education is only the trimmingf anyhow. It's the hoss sense what counts." The moral of the story is excellent, and so 18 the story itself.

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EPITOME OF NEWS 111 The Court of Common Council ttas decided to hold a day ce >sus of the City's population at a cost not exceeding £ 1,500. Mr. Churchill has promised to give special consideration, in connection with the Govern- ment Shop Hours Bill, to ilifi case of printers and florists. Mr. H. C. Vincent, who opposed the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer at the last election, is to be re-elected Major of Bangor. Aged 101 years, Miss Catherine Gould, a re- lath of Mr. Nat Gould, the novelist, has died at Hanson Mount, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The Home Secretary has declined to reduce the sentence on Maud ,Na.nkivell, whom the Plymouth justices sent to prison for a month for deserting her illegitimate child. Engineer-Commander W. K. Williams, tutor of the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert at Osborne Naval College, has been personally de- corated by the King w:th the Victorian Order. A well-known cattle salesman named Harry Naylor was at the Peterborough Quarter Ses- sions sentenced to three years' penal servitude for embezzlement. Mr. Se wyn Image received at. the Gallery of I the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours an address of congratulation on his ap]K>intmeut to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Oxford. As a result of tremendously heavy rain in Folkestone, culminating- in th« afternoon in a vioient thunderstorm, the lower part of the town was flooded, and traffic was greatly im- peded. At the Court of Common Council It was an- nounced that an anonymous donor had offered to place .£:{O bonds in trust, the income to benefit the poor-boxes of London police-courte. I As a memorial from the county of Surrey to King Edward it was decided at a meeting at Caxton Hall that i'uuds should be collected tor the erection of a statue atid an endowment of i J'" .000 for the Children's Convalescent Home for Surrev. I A boilei- working the plant of the American Manufacturing Co., at Green Point, ojk Es st Rive)-, exploded, tilling six fnemen and fatally injuring two. Panic broke out among 2,000 female workers, Harry Flanks (34), of Arnold, near Nol tirig- ham. iinished making a. coffin and sat down [II a chair to rt. When bis wif. came in a tew minutes later and spoke to him she got, no reply, and when the doctor was called in Planks was dead. It i thought that over exertion affected his heart. Anxious to apprehend & betting man, three Birmingham policemen disguised themselves as butchers and drove in a pork butcher's cart with a pig net spread over the vehicle. The policemen were able to get close to i book- maker, who, at the police-court, was-lined .£10 and costs. Prince Arthur of Connaught has aeepted the office of president of St. Mary's Hospital, Pad- dington. William Spicer, a contractor, of Ha-riington- rt).t.J. Sc)utb La-mbeth, olitained .£22 damages agaiiist. the London County Council in tic Lam- beth County-court for iujuric* to a pony van, and harness, owing to a collision with one of the Council's tramcars in Wandsworth-road in April. The Marylebone Borough Council decided to erect a new town hall tn Maryletxvne-road. The site is to be purchased from Lord Port- man at a cost of *lTie total expendi- ture will be about 1150,000. The Norwich Corporation have unanimously decided to give the mben of the police force one dav's rest in owyeti, which meant the appointment. of eleven additional constables at a cost of rising to jEOOO, t)er annum. A verdict of "Accidental death" was re- turned at an inquest held at Hampetead on Hr. Alfred Earnshaw Hea ver, of Cross field- road, Hampstead, wito died from heart disease brought about by a cycling accident which occurred in Queensland move than two years ago.. A. Lowestoft fishing vessel on her maiden trip, which occupied less than twelve homy, returned to port with a catch of herrings which realised AIOO. Aji 1860 three lire yt"11i.w onnsed fKistage eta-mp of Tuscany wa« sold for JB22 by Messrs. Ventoiru, Bull, and Cooper, at the Loudon Hotel, -Snrrev-sti-eet, Strand. John Wallace, a labourer, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude at. Preston for steal- ing two shillings from a till. There was a long list previous convictions against, him. A bov found a guinea of the, reign of Wil- liam II. at Coggeshall while removing' earth from under the floor of MI old cottage. A woman who traveHed from Nt>rthun:ber- land to defend an action brought at the Shore- ditch County-court to recover .t7 4s. succeeded in getting the amount reduced t» M>7 Is. A ferret was stated at the Tottenham Police- •coHrt to have cause<i a light between four women. A (lomeqtic sei-vant who was sueino; },r mistress for wages was swtked by the judge at the Bangor County-court how long she was engaged. Oh. it wasn't a bow-long engage- ment," she replied. The Hull police are investigating the mys- terious death of a young lady typist named Louise Stansfield. Death is stated by the doctors -to have been due to poisoning, but how the poison was administered cannot be ascer- tained. The Liverpool Watch Committee has decided to promote a Bill for the regulation of street, processions. This io a sc<juel tAo the Home Office inquiry into the religious disturbances at, Liverpool. The British Minister to China, aceoiupauied by Lady Jordan and Iii,* datigiiter. will leave London on November 14 to resume hie post, and. travelling by the Siberian Railway, will reach Pekin on November 28. Meiirs. Geut and Co., of Leicester, are making the largest electrical eieek iu the world. It will be plac.ed in the tower of an insurance company's building im Livti-pool. The four dials are each 25ft. in diamet*r, Aud the minute hands 14ft. Imtg. At Biadford-on-Avon Florence Ssaith, 30, was remanded charged with the manslaughter ef D r. Richard Thompson Caesar, of Bearsted, Kent. The doctor wa« kftocked dows by ae- cused, who was riding bicycle without a light. A« her six-year-old son did not retura from school Mrs. Spencer, of Applev Bridge, sear Wigan, went along tho i hank « weed have come, and found hi* dead body fioatjxig on the water. The, death is announced flOra Albany of Mr. ) David B. Hill, who was formerly a member of the United States Senate and Governor of New York. He was a candidate for Presiden- tial noiasination in the National V*Aioerutic. Cotivectioii of 1692.

OUR LONDON LETTER. [from Our Special Correspondent,] Nobody who was present at the Central Criminal Court during the Crippen murder trial will ever forget the experience. If it building, which was the setting for the sordid drama, is new, but it stands on a site which has been for centuries the site of London criminal history. Day by day there was unfolded theic one of the most re- markable stories of crime ever told on that spot of grim associations. From the open- ing speech of counsel for the Crown, down to the- passing of the dread sentence, there has been scarcely a moment which was not tease with an excitement which at times became almost painful.. Yet the ruan in the dock, who was on trial for his life, sat there through long hours, apparently unmoved, quite at his ease, even smiling sometimes, and seemingly less affected during the five days of his ordeal than even the usher of the court, to whom a murder trial is nothing ex- ceptional. The crime of which Dr. Crippen has been convicted was shocking and scnsa- tional enough, but what will make the trial more memorable in the annals of crime is the extraordinary nerve and coolness, and I the superhuman self-ooutrol of the prisoner. Another feature of the crime which of itself would have made it a landmark in criminal history is the part which science has played in it. There were a few days after Crippen'a disappearance when it seemed that he would never be captured and brought to trial; and he might, indeed, have got clear away and made himself secure. from apprehension had it not been for wire- jess telegraphy, that mysterious agency by mbam- of which it is possible nowadays to I get into communication with ships in lonely oceans. By this means Scotland Yard was informed that the fugitive was on board a I vessel on. his way to Canada, and, As he hoped, freedom. It is wonderful to thiak that for t.he few days which had to pass until the vessel arrived at 'her destination the whole world wag looking on at the chase and waiting for the end, while Crippen himself remained in ignorance that his whereabouts had been discovered. Wireless telegraphy and fajst steamers have made it a small world for those who flee from justice. Though no official announcement has been made, nor probably will be for some time, it may be stated that the date of the Corona- tion next year will be either Wednesday, June 21, or Thursday, June 22. The date was privately fixed early in July, a' d -tlik)ugh it is the custom to delay any official announcement of the kind as long as pos- sible, it ha« been* known in Court and diplomatic circles for weeks past. The new Poet Office, which has been built. on the niite of the old Christ's Hospital, stands upon three and a half acres of ground, is seven storeys in height, alid h a floor area of 467,000 square feet. Two of the storeys are below the level of the street. An excavation of about- twenty-seven feet was required for the building, aad anti- quarians will be interested and perhaps grieved to know that this necessitated the removal of part of the old London Wall. However, a bastion has been preserved, a wall built round if, and a roof placed a.bove, so that it may be examined at any time. It may be regret-table, in a way, that any part of the old wall should have been removed, but those who are interested are better off than they were before. They can see the bit that is left, whereas up to now they have only known that part of the. wall was there, hidden in the earth. The Walthamstow by-election is engaging a large share of public attention, and, afi was foreseen, the Osborne Judgment is play- ing a conspicuous part. The Labour Party are threatening to make things awkward for Sir John Simon because of his attitude on the question, and the outcome of the fight will be watched with keen interest. As always in the ewe of a new Minister seek- ing re-election, there has been an outbreak of protest against John Simon's return being opposed, and some of those who are political opponents of the Solicitor-General have declared their intention of supporting him under the cireumwtanoes, Wheu Sir Rufus Isaacs had to seek re-election for Reading the Unionists paid him the conipli- lawlat of not runuing a candidate against hiou, and it is contended that his fellow-Law Officer ought not to be compelled to fight for his seat. There is a general feeling tiiatl the statute which makes it necessary for Bewly-appoiated Ministers to seek re-elec- tion ought to be repealed, but neither party has any ground for rel;n)&oidsg the other in this respect. There is a Lads' Club in Hoxton which will sorely mists Prince Francis of Teek. This is the Claud Eliot Là.d. Club, of which Prince Francis had been President since its foundation. The club was started by the Rev. Claud Eliot, V ipa I. of Chrisi Church, Hoxton, and has dÓ11. splendid work amongst the youth of thi*; rough neighbour- hood. Many a potential hooligan has beeu led into a better way of life by the ill- fluence of the Prince Francis attended the opening of the club, and Hoxton welcomed him with a torchlight pro- cession. When Mr. Eliot died it was Pripeo c* Francis who took the lead in establishiag the club on a permanent basis a* a memorial to the 'laru vicar. Money was raised, debt cleared, the club was eularged, and a miniature rifle range and a gym- nasium were adoloil. Ilriiiee Francis was a. frequent visitor to the. club, and t(X)Ic, a. very warm interest in the lads who attended. He gave them thoroughly practical advice, and ttecured good situations for many of them. One of the m.;tit successful seasons of Promenade Concerts has now concluded, t IS very night for tea weeks there has fceea a I -M- great audience in the Queen's Hall, and I I in-a$ise that there must be many people who regret that the "Proms." have finished until next August. It the experii-neiit were made, ft would be found, I fancy, that a season lasting much longer than ten week* i would be a paying propositon. On Saturday afternoon the Queen's Hall Orchestra gave the first of their symphony concerts for the season. Mr. Henry J. Wood, of eotirre, conducted. The clever I)ram,n' ic Dances" i of Mr. Graneville Bantoek, lteard for the first time in London, were the novelty of the oc- casion. M. Rqoitl PugvK) was the pianist, appearing in Bach's fifth Rrandenburg Con- certo, with Mr. Albert Fransella and Mr. Maurice Sons; and in HI /.art's Concerto in F Major. Nobody can play Mozart like M. Pugno, and the audience had a great treat. A. E. M.

ILLEGAL CLAIMS. Judge Woodfall, at the Westminster County-court on Monday, gave judgmeni in the action in which Mr. Frank Cury.ou, lessee and manager of the Prince of Wnies Theatre, waK sued by Mr. E. T. L. nnWl, Press agent, and his wife for £10;) and A52 10s. respectively for services rende-ed. The action arose out- of what has become known as the "matinee bat incident at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and which was subsequently the subject of police-court pro- ceedings. When the action was heard at the county- court laliit week the disclosure was made th.. the whole "incident" was a plot, it being alleged that. Mi. Curzon agreed to pay Mr. Dann and his wife the amount claimed. b. Curxon denied liability, and stated that the arrangement of the came in the course of Mr. Dann's duties. Judge Woodfall on Monday held that the plaintiffs' claims were illegal, being con- trary to public policy, arlo that no action was maintainable upon them. He dismissed khe actions, each party to pay their own costs. In case of a successful appeal against this decision, and to save the expense of a MCiHad hearing, he stated what otherwise would have been his decision. found that MT. Curzon agreed to pay Mr. Dana .EIOS, and that defendant's set-off is valid. lie should have, therefore, given judgment for the defendant, with costs. In respect of Mrs. Dann's claim for .£52 loq.. he should have given judgment for her. with costs.

KING OF SIAM DEAD. King Chulalongkoru died at Bangkok at 12.40 on giiidiiy after a irw days' illness. The cause of death was mviemia. His Majesty had been suffering for several years from chronic nephritis, and his condi- tion took a turn for the worse during last week, and on Sunday morning the symptoms of uraemia had fully, developed. His Majesty then fell into a comatose state, and passed peacefully avray early \(lnSunda' mdrniwg. At a meeting of thePriTY Council, which wag hei(I after his Majesty's decease, the Grown Prince was proeiiH«ied King. There is universal .mourning; Cliulalongkorn has passed away at the comparatively early age of 57. Thefifth monarch of the dynasty, he was called to the throne iu 1S68. and his reign has been peace- able and beneficent. An educated rnin., and lite most Oriental sovereigns a polygamist, the King spoke English fluently. He had a private income of two Dlillioms sterling per annum, while his court jeweller was always certain of orders to the extent of £ 120,000 in the course of a year. The personal jewellery of the "Lord of the White Elephant," "Brother of the Moon," "Possessor of Four-and-twenty Golden Umbrellas," included a Stent* mantle, prodigally powdered with rare gems, and a throne of pure r:old. Since 1896 his Majesty has done much to improve th tntde -nd the status of his dominions. Gambling houses were sup- pressed, slavery abolished? au electric tram- way service introduced, and a railway system perfected. A postal and telegraph sy&teni was provided.

MOTOR SMASH IN A FOG. During a dense fog at Fareet Fen, near Peterborough, late ON Saturday night, a large motor-car collided witk a high gig, breaking the gig to pieces. One of the occupants of the motor-car, Mr.. Jack Somers, farmer, of .Ramsey, Huats, was hurled through the wind screen, and was carried in an uncouMcicus condition into a cottager's house, into the garden of which' 'the car had penetrated. The chauffeur, a man named Sheppaid, wan pitched over a fence aud waa badly hurt, but the third <n-ou pant fell into a ditch and escaped with a few bruîlll. The gig was driven by Mr. Harry Barlow, a well-known Ramsey farmer, wk» received a broken arm and internal injuries. He was taken home unconseiaus.

A MAY MORNING. It all began on a May morning, when Hilary Graham, just sixteen, went fearfully out to bathe her face in the dew that she might be- come pretty. And Frank Ci-awford came along, and did not laugh at her on the contrary, he followed her example seriously, as though he was quite as much in earnest as Mhe. AIM he lent. her a handkerchief, which smelt, of cigars, to dry her face with. was the Eretty beginning of the charming story which. fr. J. J. Bell has told in "Dancing Days (Hodder and Stoughton, Us.). There is no- thing that is new, perhaps, in this story of youth in love. There are, besides Hilary and Frank, a dancing-girl, whose portrait the young man carries in a letter-case which he un- fortunately drops on the clover field, and Hilary's father and mother, who are incline to think that Frank is not quite all that lie should be in order to marry their daughter; there are relatiorw. some nice and some not so nice; and there is Frank's old maiden aunt, who lectures him, gets very angry with him, threatens to cut him out of her will. and etids by being no end proud of him. All these people we have met before, but it is a long time since we so much enjoyed reading about them. Mr. Bell, who set the whole country laughing with "Wee Macgreegor," has Written a couple of clever novels of a more a^rione type since, and he now gives us a lore-story a!f fresh, as pure, and as fragrant as the clover-' field with the dew on it on that beautiful May iporniug.

CIGARETTE. The time hm come for you and me to part, For another has refused to share my heart With a rival—m, to you, I must therefore bid Adieu I My little friend in blue, With regret. I've sworn to give you up—there's no refreat J To cut you dead if we should chance to meet. Tonr life is ebbing fast, And my word of honour's passed That you shall be my last Cigarette •—Ada Leonora Harris, in the "Story-Telter/*

BENEFITED BY HUNTING; "Is Hunting Doomed?" is the title of act interesting article in the Pall Mall Mara- zine by Leonard who eaes ill changes which are coming over the land the beginning of the end, far ais the ipiyrt. of kings is concerned. Remarking upon the money expended by the thousands of iollowere of hounds on their horsed, forage, their own and their servants' clothing, horse clothing, saddlery, veterinary, and stable retriIigites. travelling,' and incidental expenses. First of all there are quite 200,000 horse* used for hunt- ing purposes. Average these at .£60 each theif total value reaches £ 12,000,000. The tot.al expenditure on these is quite enor- mous, and may safely be put down at an aver- age of £ 40 per horse. This amounts tf1 £ 8,000,000. Such figures have probably never entered the heads ot the great majority of tlio community; nor have ihev thought for one mo- ment into what channels the«e enorm.uw. samf- find their way, or the clauses who are directly or indirectly benefited bv hunting. Who. are the fortunate Varmeift, h()Mi-k!}.N, livery stable keepers, harnessmakers, saddler#, bit and stirrup makers, tailors, horse clothiers, ttorn and hay merchants, railway companies, eab and taxi drivers, hotels and iniw, grxw»t,. hunt servants, glovem ak era, hatters, haber- dashers, bootmakers, whipmakers, labourers, and others. All of these participate 1n the twenty odd millions sterling expeuued annuwiy by fox hunter*. Indeed, it is quite lw.ba.bl. that shooting and hunting tio-ether put b•» tweeit forty and fifty millions sterling 4"t-a tradesmen's, farmers', and others* pookettf. aaaaaiiy.

SEA. LAW Å ND SEA POWElt. Mr. Gibson Bowles once told the House of Commons that, if hi were allowed to maks the rulcis of the ritag, he would fight Hercules and the Nemean lion together-one of his rule* being presumably that- £ i»eJion should h in a secure cage until he had d'T,"irid of Hercules. Ho hae now written a learned and lively book, in which, he eontends, the Government have inadvertently agreed, and are about to ask Parliament to agree, to rules of the riny for fights at sea, which will put the BriUh Navy into just such a cage and tura it into a splen- did but harmless tame cat. This startling pro- position be sets forth in a book entitled "Se» Law and Sea Power," to be published by Mr, Murray. He is for peace so long as that, can possibly be kept, but in war he is for war of that most strenuous kind, whereby a century age Napoleon and all Europe were eoerced, their trade distressed, their resources ruined, and peace at last cleforeed-All which wto done by the use of British sea power. But to hzv* that power and to agree not to UN it Mto liewityr lieN- te he euieidal.