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DOWN TOOLS I I SOUTH AFRICAN LEADER'S HINT TO I BRITISH WORKERS. I CROWDS IN HYDE PARK. Hyde Park has been the scene of countless demonstrations, but there have been few larger than that of yesterday. The deported South African Labour leaders Headed a procession of about 50,000 persons at the Embankment, and in tl,") Parli nearly 20,000 more joined them. < There were nine platforms, from which both African and English leaders addressed the crowds. Down Tools." Mr. J. T. Rain, who is generally re- regarded as the leader of the deportees,1 made a strong speech, in the course of I which he said "On the day when the Dutch Government shot down over 30 of our; fellows in cold blood there was regis- tered a vow that twelve months hence! —and that will be July 5th next—all the workers in South Africa would: "down tools" in memory of that out-, rage. If it costs us our lives we shall be there. It is not for me toi suggest that you should do the same,! but I know of no better, no safer, and no saner way of solving the question." "Fold Your Arrrts." Mr. Crawford, ailothtr African leader, said "YOU must be prepared, if neces- sary, as a last resort, rigiiit throughout this great Empire, to fold your arms as one man and compel authorities to do you justice." The same resolution was put from all the platforms. It condemned the ac- tion of the Union Government in declar- ing ma,rtial law and deporting the leader?; and calling on the British Government to with-iiold assent to the South African Indemnity Bill. Amongst the speakers were: Mr. Will Thorne, M.P., and Mr. H .M. Hyndman, the veteran Socialist. TO SOUTH AFRICA. I English Labour Leaders to go Abroad. Mr. George Lansbury stated on Satur- day that a committee of the rank and file in the Labour movement cabled to South Africa asking the Transvaal Federa tion of Labour if t would be ac- ceptable to them for Mr. Tom Mann to pay a vis-it to South Africa to help in their organisation work while The \i?te;' are in England. The joint secretaries of the Federa- tion cabled back, welcoming the pro- position, and asking that Mr. Maim at ne.h.w..wvl proposed that Mr. Earkin, if'he is will- j mg, and possibly Mr. Ben Tillett, shall go out also.

AERIAL FEATS. LADY LOOPS THE LOOP FIVE TIMES., Lady Dudley was a passenger with I Mr. Gustav Hamel during a lialf-<hour exhibition flight at Worcester on Satur- day afternoon. Five times the loop was looped, once when the machine was only 200 feet lip, Nice, Stindav.-T-lie loop was looped fitty times to-day during the match hero between the French airmen M. Garros and M. Hanouille. Reuter. Paris, Sunday.—A Britisih officer, Lieutenant Skene, flew for a mile up- side down to-day at Buc and looped tho loop six times.

9ANELLY REVIVAL SCENES. I A Llanelly correspondent writes us I describing revival scenes which he says are''being witnessed nightly in the Island-place Mission Room. The fire is," he says, as it was in 1904 and 1905 in Llanelly." The meetings are under the direction of the revivalists who were prominent at Cwmtwreh some eighteen months ago. Visitors are coming to the ser- ,vi1 from great

FOREICH NEWS. I DEATH OF FAMOUS TURKISH STATESMAN MOTORS ON THE ICE I Said Pasha, formerly Grand Vizier of Turkey, died yesterday in Constanti- nople. He was a great statesman, and held the Viziership no lets than seven times. He held the reias during sotue of the most acute crises in Turkish his- tory. .10 SOUTH AFRICA. Things are quieter in Jagersfonteim, where the Basutos were believed to be collating, weapons. Additional police have Hen. >eut- • -—:—— ————— PERSIA. Teheran, Sunday.—The situation at Kaserun remains unchanged. Rein- forcements have not yet arrived. Madame Ohlson luus managed to leave the town, and is now returning to vShiraz. Some hope is entertained that Major Ohlson, the Swedish gendarmerie officer who was reported killed, may not I! be dead, as his body has not been re- covered.—Reuter. ————— 00 ————— RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. -There was a pictur- esque scene on the Gulf of Finland, when an international motor-car race was run from St. Petersburg to Cron- stadt and back, a distance of 50 miles, over the ice and snow. The 16 competi- tors were escorted on their way by a number of ice-yachts. The winner cov- ered the distance in 54 minutes.— Reuter. ———— 010, ————— AMERICA. At Little Valley, New York, Mrs. Cynthia Buffam has been convicted of murdering her husband by means of arsenic, and sentenced to death. The charges of administering arsenic to her three children were not pressed. The I woman had become infatuated with a man named Ernest Frahm, and desired to get rid of her family so as to marry him. Frahm will be tried for complicity in the crime. Houghton (Michigan).—John Hupta, secretary of the South Range branch of the Western Federation of Miners, and two other members of the Federation, have been arrested on a charge of mur- dering the three non-union English miners who were killed at Painsdale on December 7th last. Washington, Sunday.-Slr William Carrington has addressed a letter to the San Francisco Exhibition authorities stating that King George wished to offer a cup of the value of £ 100 for an international yacht race at San Fran- cisco in 1915.. r. ————— I BR;TISH EAST AFFflCA. l' 1 Mombas^^vAf9»d^?siKH.M. cruiser 'Pegasus sailed yesterday for Ri&maytis, whither 400 extra troops were recently ordered owing to disturbances on the northern frontier of British East Africa. —Reuter. — i —ii ■ ii — CHINA. Reuters Agency is informed by the Chinese Legation that the death of the ex-Premier, Chao Ping Chun, not due to poisoning, but to heart disease.

FASHION SENSATION I I WOMEN TO BE ALLOWED TO LOOK LIKE WOMEN. A great. meeting of Parisian fashion experts came t-o a sensational decision. They declded that in future women shall dress as-uwomenl •• Junoesque figures is the term ap- plied to the coming fashions; it means that the crouch and the sloped shoulders will be abandoned, and the straight- down, boyish figure will give way for something more rounded and ampler and following the natural lines of the body. Women are perpendicular now from the chin to the feet," said a great artist in clothes. "They are like Sylphs now, but are likely to become goddesses."

I THE ENTENTLB. I { (" Leader Cctrioon.) Our French friends visited Swansea I to-day to play Wales at Rugby football.

LAW AND ORDER IN IRELAND. I Colonel Seely made it clear at Ilkes- ton on Saturday that the primary duty of any Gpvernment "is to see that law and order are maintained," and that life and limb are protected in the United Kingdom. Yon need have no apprehension," he added, that this Government will fail in that duty."

Crowds of people visited the gardens ift front of Hampton Court Palace yesterday to see the crocilses, which atre now m :t111 bloom From 101 applicants, Mr. G. A. Bal- lard, of York, has been appointed as- sistant borough surveyor at Guildford (Surrey).

I UNARMED. FRESH LICHT ON BENTON S DEATH. i CARRANZA SAYS CREAT BRITAIN MUST NtGOTIATE. APPEAL TO SIR E. OREY. V There is a fresh complication in the Mexican situation. General Carranza, who is the chief leader of the Constitutionalist (or rebel) forces, and is General Villa's superior, has refused the request made by Mr. Bryan (American Secretary of State) for an inquiry into the death ox Mr. Benton. Carranza says that as Benton was a British subject, such a demand must be made to hun by a representative of Great Britain. The U.S. Government have received a report that Mr. Benton, who was un- armed, was shot in the stomach, and his body afterwards riddled with bullets to substantiate the story of a court mar- tial and a firing squad. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. Unexplained Delay. A telegram dispatched from El Paso (Texas) yesterday states that the jour- ney to Chihuahua of the Commission ap- pointed to investigate the eircum-Gtances, of the death of Mr. Benton was suddenly postponed or abandoned shortly before the members of the commission were timed to go on their train. Those concerned said that an explana- tion of their failure to start must be announced by the State Department at Washington. dth UNARMED. A Washington Report. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press says: "According to conclusive information which has reached officials here, Mr. Benton, who was not armed, was shot to death in General Villa's office, pistol bullets through the stoma.ch ending his life. Mr. Benton spent two hours waiting for an intt-r-, view with General Villa, walking back- j wards ard forwards in front of the I office. He was shot in the stomach after he entered the office, and received other wounds alterthe I fir^ prefvedi iriortal. '— Retiter. <■"< BRIEF WIRES. British residents in Mexico City have cabled to Sir Edward Grey a request that the British Government should at ■ once assume full charge of the investi- gation. British subjects on both sides of the border are urging Sir Cecil Spring Rice (the Ambassador) the necessity for im- mediate action by Great Britain. Medical experts state that, even if Mr. Benton's body is exhumed, it will bo hardly recognisable after twelve days in the grave. A Federal commander alleges that I Clemento Vergare, the American sub- ject alleged to have been murdered, was not hanged, but escaped and joined the rebels. Sir'Lionel Card en, British Minister to I Mexico, has arrived at Galveston, Texas.

DEATH OF LORD MINTO. MAN WHO LIVED AFTER BREAKING HIS NECK After an illness lasting several months, the death took place yesterday of the Earl of Minto, who was Governor- General of Canada from 1898 to 1904, and Viceroy of Indili from 1905 to 1910. Wheal he was Lord Melgund he was a famous .steeplechase rider, and there was no man of his time more popular on the Turf than Mr. Roily." lie rode several times in the Gralicl Steeplechase in Paris. When he fell on Zero in the Grand National of 1876 he broke his neck, and earned death- less fame among surgeons by surviv- ing- He was for some time in the Soots Guards, and was in the Afghan cam- paign in 1879, and the Egyptian cam- paign in 1882, and the ?orth-W?st re- p,IZ. in Canada in 1885. Lord Minto is succeeded by his eldest so, Lord Melgund, who is in the Soots Guards. I

SOUTH CLAMORCAN. f The South Glamorgan Labour Party have decided to select a Labour can- didate to contest the constituency at the next General Election, in succession to Mr. W. Brace, M.P. When the South Wales Miners' Federation requested Mr. Brace to dis- continue co-operation with the Liberal Party in his electoral campaigns, he replied that he did not entertain any hopes of retaining the seat under the condition imposed, and he intimated his intention not to seek re-election for that constituency. The Liberals' then selected the Hon. Roland Philipps as their candidate. Mr. Frank Gaskell is the Unionist candidate.

EX-M.P. DEAD. An Ottawa telegram announces the 1 death of the Hon. Charles Ramsay Devlin. Minister of Colonisation, Mines, and Fisheries in the Quebec Govern- ment. He formerly represented Galway City, Ireland, in the British House of Commons" Mr. Devlin was born in Quebec in 1859. He was Canadian Commissioner in Ireland from 1897 to 1903, and sat in the House of Commons for Galway City from 1903 to 1906.

APPLICATION TO SECEDE, FEIERATION AND NEATH AND SKEWEN LODGES I INQUIRY HELD IN SWANSEA A deputation, consisting of Mr. Tom Richards, M.P., Air. T. Smith, and !Mr. Wm. Vyce, attended at the Hotel Metropole, Swansea, to-day on behalf of the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation to hear evidence with re- gard to the application of a number of lodges in the Skew en and Resolven districts to secede from the Western, i and Anthracite Associations. In the middle of last year tho men im question, numbering altogether about 3,000, decided to secede, and asked for permission to do so, with the object of forming a new district, with ?Nlc,.?ath as a centre. The matter came before the District Committen in the oarly part of July of last year, and as a reanit of the decision then arrived at efforts were made to induce the men to retain their membership of the existing, .districts, Since then the matter has come! before the Federation, and it was in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Federation that the re- present atives of the Executive came down to Swansea to-day. A good deal of evidence was sub- mitted on both sides.

I SWANS' TWO TEAMS. 0 MATCHES WITH CROYDON COMMON AND LLANELLY CLASH. Swansea Town will on Saturday be forced ta place two teams in the fidld. At Pontypridd they oppose Llanelly in the semi-final round of the Welsh Senior Cup, whilst at. Croydon they will also be in search of Southern League points. x It is interesting to knoiF'—(writes Cygnet")—that the directors in mak- ing their bold bid for promotion, have decided to send thr ir strongest possible side to Croydon. Neither side has been chosen yet, and will not be until after Thursday's homo match with Ponty- pridd in the Welsh League.

THE BAPTIST MISSIONER. ———— 00 "ARREST" SAID TO HAVE BEEN AN '■ihvitat;q,c The following statement was issued yesterday in Lisbon:— "Dipatches have just been received from Angola giving an account of the events that have occurred at St. John the Baptist, in the Congo, in which the English Baptist missionary, Mr. Bow- skiil, was involved. Acts of-rebellion against Portuguese sovereignity in the Congo near Sao Salvaidor and at other 1 points have compelled the Portuguese authorities since November Jast to take measures of repression and to employ for that purpose the troops whose duty it is to maintain Portuguese sove-. reignity in the disturbed region. Used as a Fort. Some days ago it appears that the [ natives of Sao Salvador attacked the Government troops and entrenched I themselves in the mission at St. John the Baptist. The affair was deemed so serious that the Governor proceeded to the spot in order to ascertain the opin- ion of the missionaries, whose premises had been used as a rebel fort, naturally against the wm of the missionaries. w "The alleged arrest of Mr. Bows- kill was in all probability nothing moro than an invitation to him to remain at the disposal of the local Portuguese authorities until the arrival of the Governor. I A Denial, "The affair has nothing to dp with the recruiting of natives for Sao Thome, as the Anti-Slavery Society has insinuated without any ground. The rebellion of the natives is to be attri- buted to their habitual desire to avoid payment of taxes. The necessary measures have been taken for the paci- fication of the region."

PERSONAL I I ..10. Sir Frank Newnes will preside at the twenty-fourth .annual dinner of the Readers' Pensions Committee at the Troüadero Restaurant on Saturday, I April 4. < Mr. Jjeonard W. Llewelyn, the general manager of the Cambrian Combine Col- lieries, ha.s returned home after a trip around the world. The condition ol Sir Arthur Mack- worth, Bart., was on Sunday reported to be unchanged. a A marriage has been arranged be- tween Captain Hugh Ince Webb-Bo wen. the Royal Welsh Fusiliers attached head- quarter staff Egyptian Army), eldest son of the late Mr. f J. Wobb-Botveii, chief-constable of Pembrokeshire, and Flora McDougal, daughter of the late Thomas McDougal, of Rfjcshaw, Heirot, Midlothian, N.B. # Millicent Duchess of Sutherland is seriously ill with potma-iuo poisoning at Gibraltar, where she has arrived as a guest on board Mrs. Da.vid Beattv's steam yacht. A large party is on board. Her Grace was takeJl ill last week and was tonioved to a nursing home, where she will remain for a month.

LOCAL BILL. I House of Commons, Monday.—The Port Talbot Railway and Docks Bill, authorising the extension of the piers and the construction of a new entrance lock, to-day proved compliance with the further Standing Orders, and was sent by the examiners for report to the llouse, prior to the committee stage and third reading.

NATIONAL STRIKE FEARED. I It is feared that the London building trade dispute may extend to the pro- vinces. The locked-out workmen may, it is suggested, ask the National Building Trades Federation to declare a national lock-out of all classes ci building workers.

RAMSCATE CRIME. I PITCHER'S RELATIVES SAID TO HAVE BEEN INSANE I- STMKtNCS AS EVIDENCE. I The proceedings in connection with the shocking tragedy at Ramsgate (al- I ready reported) advanced another stage to-da- when William Hearn Pitcher, a youth of nineteen, was again brought before the magistrates on a charge of murdering Sarah Brockman, aged sixty-three. Chief Inspector Paine said that ac- cused, after his arrest, remarked, There is nothing more to say. I am guilty." Witness produced a broken chair, to which adhered a piece of veiling similar to that on deceased's hat. He also produced a. pair of stockings found in deceased's house. A previous witness- I Alice Brockman, who alleged that Pitcher assaulted her—had stated that Pitcher was wearing such stockings. Cross-examined, the Inspector said he had been told that a number of near relatives of the accused on the father's side, had been in an asylum. Prisoner was committed for trial on the capital charge.

THE SUNKEN- SUBMARINE. I ADMIRALTY ABANDON ATTEMPT AT SALVAGE I It is officially announced that it has been decided to abandon the at-tempt to raise the sunken submarine A.7, which is lying in WWsitud Bay, near Plymouth.

FREEMASONRY. I INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS OF THE GARADGG LODGE —— i The installation of oiffcers of the Caradoc Lodge of Freemasons took place in Swansea on Monday afternoon, the following gentlemen being installed in office Bro. R. D. Morgan, W.M., Wor. Bro. | A. J. -Ptizitan, I.P.M.; Bro. Frank C. Bevan, S. W.; Bro. li. C. Higman, J.W., Wor. Bro. C. D. Richards. P.M., P.P.G.S.W., treasurer; Wor. Bro. C. J. Tazewell, P.M., P.P.G. assistant secretary, secretary; Bro. E. R. Serle, S.D,; Bro. T. D. Jones, J.D. Bro. H. Ma.- WiJSd, T.G.>Bro. ny. fe. Da'vies, P.'P.G.T., tyler; Bro. Rev. E. Edmunds, chaplain; Wor. Bro. Lewis R. Rogers, D.C.; Bro. F. W. Harrison, A.D.C.; Bro. P. W. ckllen, organist Bro. T. A. Stephens, assistant secretary; Bros. G. T. Rees, G. A. Hemmings, John Evans (2), W. T. Griffiths, Sam Jones and W. P. Puddicombe, stewards; Wor. Bro. Gwilyui Morgan. P.M.. P.P.GT Std. B., chartty Steward; BrQ. R. D. Roberta. a.s.sistant organist; Bro. R. A. Jones, assistant charity steward. The customary hanquet was arrf* ixl j to follow the installation ceremony I

GUARDIANS'VACANCY I Nominations for the seat rendered I vacant on the Swansea Board of Guar- dians by the retirement of Mr. D. Richards in the Landore Ward will be made next Thursday. The Latfoitr Party has adopted Mr. W. James, Plough-road, steelworker, as their nominee, and it is rumoured that Mr. Enoch Harris, the well-known Plas- iiiarl hairdresser, is also a probable can- didate.

HANDLED A REVOLVER. —— —— While talking with a guest in the I dining-room of his residence, Barton LOdge, Torquay, on Saturday, Captain t John Clifford Kershaw handled a revolver. Through some cause a cartridge was discharged, and Captain Kershaw fell dead, shot through the head.

ANOTHER AVIATOR KILLED. I A Buenos Ayres telegram states that Mr. Newbery, an. aviator fell whila flying yesterday, and was kiUed. His; passenger was seriously injnred. l

I INDUSTRIAL SECOOL COM- MITTEE. Swansea. School Attendance and A-rt"n.?ar,e and afternoon, when a Home Office letter wit hregard to resignation of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and a schema of STiper- annuation was beuia considered, but T, would not be retrospective. It suggested that tho committee bring mat-te^bc-lcre L G.E. t-ccro-d in the seoor.d half, aad Bancroft converted. ifinal Soores W AI..E's-5 con. goals. 2 tries. FRACE-Nil. I OEANGETILLE 1, RED STORK 2, FLLRT. TERElt 3-geven ran. Also ran: Pat McCarthy Captain Parrdl, Lancelot II., Bagpipes. Snuch Africans 54 for no wicket. Betting: 5 to 4 Oranffeviile. -v N'A 9 —  Swansea Mercantile Co., Ltd. 18, PARK STREET, SWANSEA, MAKE CASH ADVANCES DAILY from £10 to £ 1,000. No Charge Unless Business Done. Bills Discounted. Strictly Private and Confi- dential. For further particulars, apply H. B, JONES, Managing Director. A STATU(E)TORY MEETING. After a heated discussion at a intet. ing of the Royal Society of British Sculptjirs, tho president (Sir George Framr ,ton) and the council resigned. rrh debau- had reference t-o the tl3,0(X gift by Mr. D. A. Thomas, the coal magnate of South Wales, of statues for Cardiff City Hall. Mr. Havard Thomas, the sculptor, had been nominated as representing the § society to adviso the Cardiff committee which was carrying out the cheme. When the idea of a competition of sculptors was abandoned Mr. Havard Thomas agreed to continue to assist Mr. D. A. Thomas. Ho was criticised foi this, but the council supported him, and the meeting, as stated, resulted in their resignation. The resignations are from the coun- cil only, not from the society. CLARK'S COLLEGE, THE WORLDS HEADQUARTERS -for SPECIALISED EDUCATION. 70,000 Students have already passed through our hands into Good Earning Appointments. We have rpore posts at our disposal than we have Students to fill them. PROFICIENT, EXPERT, AND THOROUGH TUITION IN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS AND, BUSINESS TRAINING. Write or call immediately for Fall Illustrated Prospectus, post free. Tuition may start at any time, the term dating from the day of enrolment. The Manager at the under- mentioned address will be pleased to see you. CLARK'S COLLEGE, Ltd., Local Branch :-PAGEFI ELD HOUSE, ST. HELEN'S ROAD, SWANSEA.

The Corner Column I To-day's ruling colour is yellow- daffodils and mimosa. Noticeable on the Swansea Bench this morning was the fact that Mr. W. J. Clancy sported a daffodil. A suffragette ellirged with lItriking a police officer with a drum- stick. Was it a fowl assault? as A German lad sang a Welsh air at Mai-tin-street Schools on Monday morn- tog., and he sounded his "ll's," too! Everyone at Pentrepoeth Schools, Morriston. were either a leek or a. daffodil except—on?of the masters! ti?iff'Odil exet?pt-oi);* Don't make the mistake that a tvojnan never uses It-4r head. How else eoiJkl she display her hats?—Cha ries i Divine. I A deaf and dumb man charged with drunkenness at the Police Court wrote, in answer to a note Were you drunk r Not much." # March 1 is the first day of the okl Roman year, September being, as it's •i&me implies, regarded as the seventh tnoJlth, instead of the ninth, as with 1¡¡¡. & "•& Now is the time that the amateurs tt'j to raise flowers on his backyard Patch of concrete and ashes, untreated ^it-h manure. "Hope pprings eternal," but the seeds never do. A London contemporary states that L'1ton: s hardest fixtures this season are U'itli Swansea Town. Apparently the heavy defeats they sustained last season 18 btill worr' ying tliem. It, ?.. One of the speakers at a Brynhy- fryd smoking concert said that he did believe, in a person who kept his 'tongue for his own body. Maybe; but there are busy-bodies. There was a very large congrega- ion at St. David's Roman Catholic '^urch on Sunday morning, but thaugji it WaS St. David's Day, no teferenœ was made in the sermon to the patron saint. Eccentricities of cali. graphy, and an ^Snorance of Welsh proved too much for Saxon who was trying to decipher CTdd Gweddi, and wrote Cwrw Uwely/' literally ''beer-bed." A Swansea milliner ekhibits a bunch of imitation radishes, presum- ably for. hat decoration. We are! Setting well on the way to see cab- j g sported, and this time next year I might even see a leek. sff # Last evening, about nine, a curious j^. ght w?s witnessed. It was raining, ."?- J??t one haH of the firmament wa<» ■ \<»ed with cJond. The other re- llJal!1ec! delightfully clear, Orion and rius glaring through the rain. v* t* Serious times are ahead for the Rev. T. J. Rhys, the protagonist of disinterested management. What 16e can we infer from the fact that the debate was adjourned because the Rev. W. Watkin Williams felt he would like to put Mr. Rhys on the rack a little." # # The new ervant, was dusting her 'tna.ster's room for the first time, and Paused to contemplate the typewriter. Be very careful not to touch that Machine. Mary," stywi b(>r mistress. Thero would be trouble if it got out 9* order.I shouldn't think of touch- it, ma'am. I was just wondering *here you put the thread in." The priest at St. David's Church 101, Sunday morning very happil., in- lsted that though the Devil in ^'OUTidrei, he is not so bad as we some- I T;tt)es think him. If we put ourselves ? ? the way of temptation, and the bel- it ia k e adi-a.ntage of our ivea k'ness, jjevil takes advantage of our weakness, ?e i? doing the nght thing from h's DO?t of view. The fault is ours. IRev. Morris Morgan, the veteran, had a very simple amendment at the .lï l'e Chufeh Council last evening. It the on-tik-sioii of the little word llr)t hut it made the resolution say that "no Licensing Bill for Wales shall be deemed satisfactory which does make Provision for disinterested manage- b1I'tt. Since the largest .British-built ^esse,l afloat is still the topic of so J^Uch discussion, the following official ITne-, and calculations in connection ih the launch of the White Star liner jritannic will be found of interest; ■Punching weight, 24,800 ton's; time 9°cuj>ied, 81 seconds; maximum speed .lann.eh, H! knots; draft forward, 41in. water; d;aft aft, 27ft. "in.; 30ad on brigger, 560 tons; ct,ez-n depth, 1ft.; stem depth, 17ft. # A small boy, who was si.tti.ng next liati htv lady in a crowded ^hlhibus. kept on sniffing in a most I oliii manner. At last the lady bear it no longer, and turned to ¡ lad, Boy, have you got a handker- ()f she demanded. Thp snia-ll boy ^°ked at her for a few second. and I ln, in a dignified tone, came the I nwer, "Ye <8, 1 'ave, but I don't lend to strangers." :1(: TO-DAY'S STORY. I A cemetery omciai was one of a I ??y which attended the funeral of a '?naman. He exhibited a great deal  ?tere?t in the curious services at the j^ve, and noticed that, amo? other "?r things, a roasted duck was left ?fe by the departing mourners. j. ?aHjug one of the Chinamen aside, asked Why did you leave that 1101,- on the grave? Do you think the 4 d ,lad nian will come out and eat it?" Ie ^epp^i" replied the laundrvman, allee samee as le white deadee man Sn and smelleg lfowlers.