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NEW YEAR'S EVE. I Enter—1907. BY LLOYD MEYRICK I The dear children were giving a little Christmas pantomime of their own, in which all the good fairies proposed to each other and got married. During the progress of the play the mother of one of the "actresses" went behind "too scenes" and found her little girl sitting all alone in a corner. "Why, Alice, darling," she inquired, "have you been left out of the pantomime? Why aren't you on with the other fairies?" "I'm not left out, mumsie," indignantly answered Alice; "I'm the baby of the Princess, waiting to be born after her marriage." To-day behind the scenes the baby waits for all of us to play its part as 1907. I am not going to give my readers a dose of cheap moralising or a list of New Year resolutions. Personally, my lot is as near an ideal one as it is possible to be, and all I ask of the coming year is mono- tony. I have got too fixed in my habits even to toy with the question of giving up drink or tobacco. All such hazardous experiments are for the youthful and adventurous, and I prefer to dree my weird unchanged. There is, no doubt, a magic about January 1. It is a fresh starting-place, and beams on us kindly as another chance. We would all like in life a pre- liminary canter-a run over the course to know the stiff places and the slipper- ing ground. Many of us after such a trial trip would run the race with greater care and credit. This, however, is not to be, and we make little halting- places of our own, from which we speed anew with fresh heart and hope. Such a place is the end of the Old Year, when as a country we gather together to take breath and then gird up our loins for another toilsome twelve months. We are all of us half children, and we have little tricky ways of dealing with our- selves. There is something ragged about a resolution made, say, in October —there is no proper footing-place for permanency. No well-rounded man could keep a holy vow in such a month, but January 1 is the day of days for the clean slate and the new leaf. To-day, on the edge of the New Year, there are a number of men and women straining at the leash anxious to be allowed to speed on the path of unaccus- tomed virtue. It is very well it should be so, and that we should all take periodically fresh draughts from the fountain of Hope. There is always a chance that the new and the untried come bearing gifts. For example, my reader, in the language of Carlyle: "When thou thyself-a watery, pulpy, slobbery freshman and newcomer in this Planet-sattest muling and puking in thy nurse's arms, sucking thy coral, your very freshness made of you a wonder and a miracle." In you mankind was to have a fresh start, and, possibly, the end of 1907 finds you with a sheaf of resolutions to steady straying feet for the New Year. In different parts <5f the United Kingdom there is a great variety of observances in connection with the in- coming of the New Year, and one of the principal is the complexion of the person who announces the New Year. Great importance is attached to this question in some parts of South Wales, and also in the North of England. It is considered to bring good luck if a dark- ooloured man goes outside the house and begs admittance on the stroke of twelveI and brings with him the New Year. Some of these heralds take into the house a loaf or a piece of bread in their hands as an emblem of the plenty to be enjoyed by the occupants of the house during the forthcoming year. In New- castle-on-Tyne they attach a great deal of importance to the first foot. If he should be a dark man it is a sign of good luck; if a light one not so lucky; but, alas! if a woman, the worse luck will befall the household. Similar to the first bearing of the cuckoo, it is of the greatest importance whether or not you have money in your pocket and vour cupboard full on New Year's day. In some parts of Russia on New Year's Eve two lads are led about from door to door, one dressed in festal raiment and crowned with ears of rye, the other wearing a ragged dress and a wreath composed of straw. Before arriving at a cottage they are veiled so as not to be I easily recognised, and then its owner is told to choose one of the two. If he selects the richly-decked mummer a song is suug by his visitors predicting for him a plenteous harvest and a well-filled purse. If his choice fall upon the other the singers chant a melancholy strain fore- boding woe. It is natural for me to turn to one of the most characteristic of the essays of Charles Lamb on New Year's Eve. Of all sound of all bells-bells, the music nighest bordering upon heaven-most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. I never hear ;t without a gathering-up of my mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelve- month, all I have done or suffered, per- formed, or neglected in that regretted time. I begin to know its worth, as when a person dies. It takes a personal oolour; nor was it a poetical flight in a contemporary when he exclaimed I saw the skirts of the departing Year. It is no more than what in sober sadness everyone of us seems to be conscious of in that awful leave-taking. To one so pathetically wedded to life as Charles Lamb every year flees on swift wings. Perhaps to-night many, conscious in a thousand subtle ways of the nearness of the call hence, may unconsciously reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. They may say with Lamb — I am in love worth this green earth—tiie face of town and counut--the UMpeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet sib unity of sfareets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I do not want to be weaned by age, or drop, like mellow hait, as they say, into the grave. Happily, however, this morbid attach- ment to life is not general or even natural. The great majority of us will die decently and without regret. But to take Lamb in a lighter vein: — Then let us welcome the New Gnesfc, With lusty brimmers of the best. Mirth adhraore should Good Fortune meet And readers e'en Disaster aweet;. Let us but line ourselves with sack, We better shall by far (hold out Till the next Year rhe face about. How say you, reader—do not these verses smack of the rough magnanimity of the old English vein? Do they not fortify like a cordial, enlarging the heart, and productive of sweet blood and generous spirits in the concoction ? And now another cup of the generous! and a merry New Year, and many of them, to you all, my masters! It is to be hoped that the guardians and corporation will be enabled to settle down amiably in the City Hall together. There ought to be ample room, and I have no doubt the council will do its best to make the newcomers comfortable. There was an overwhelming feeling in Cardiff against a new building and large expenditure, and the guardians are grace- fully acknowledging the situation. Those who know the size of the City Hall cannot imagine there will be any difficulty about accommodation, and there will be, for the! future, many advantages in the close co- operation of the two bodies. There will be centralisation without prodigal outlay. In answer to "Suspicious Burgess," I should advise him to go to the ward repre- sentative he knows best, and place his information fully before him. If his sus- picions are correct, I have no doubt full inquiry will be made. I must, though, point out that there is more than a touch of cock-and-bull about the story. Before I should feel justified in venti- lating the matter in this column, I should want to be more satisfied as to .the truth of the statements. After all, there is far too much vague innuendo indulged in, I and I am not going to encourage the silly and malicious practice.

I 'Bus Overturned. I SERIOUS MERTHYR ACCIDENT I An alarming accident, mercifully slhorn of any fa-trul consequences, or, indeed, of any very serious personal injuries, occurred at Merthyr on Saturday night. At about a quarter to eight o'clock, whilst a. two-horsed 'bus belonging to Mr. Hole- house, of The Avenue, was going to Troedy- rhiw, laden with people who had been into town marketing, the wheels, owing to the slippery state of the road, skidded in Ply- mouth-street, opposite the shop of Mr. Ridh, grocer, a.nd the near hind-wheel giving way, the vehicle turned completely over on its left side. The pole snapped, and the (horses maintained their feet. The 'bus was driven by Henry Marshall, of Tai-Hatry Blawd, and the conductor was a, boy named John Brill, of Georgetown. It carried the following passengers:- Miss Bella Rowlands, 5, ChuTCih-stareet, Pen trebaoh; Mrs. Mary Ann Davies, 29, Chapel-street, Aberaanaid, and a baby in arms; Mrs. Mary Wheeler, Hill-street, Troedy- rhiw; Mrs. Rates, Cardiff-row, Abercanaid; Mrs. Mary Ann Davies, Cardiff-row, Aber- canaid; Mr. and Mrs. T. Owen, 1, Chirr oh-street, Pemtrebaoh; Mrs. Catherine Marshall, and her boy, Bartholomew, aged eleven, 3, Morlais-street, Daffryn; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Tai Windbes; Mrs. Sarah Ann Bailey, 18, Long-row, Pentrebaoh; Mrs. Ann Jones, The Cottage, Pentrebaoh; and Mrs. Mary Jane Price, 7, Hickman-etreet, Pen trebaoh. • The driver was thrown from the box wthen the upset happened, and Mrs. Maa-y Jane Price, who was riding at his side, was also precipitated to the ground. Her plight was more serious than that of any of the others on board, for she was in a delicate condition, and the fall rendered her very hysterical. The inside passengers were jostled against each otjier pell-anell, and their shrieks brought a big crowd upon the scene, which was one of affrighted commotion. Some of them were able to scramble out themselves, but the rest bad to be extricated by the folks around. Information of the accident was at once conveyed to the police, and Police-constables Evans, Johns, and Howeils were the first to arrive on the spot, Inspector Reee and other officers following immediately after. It was at first thought that certain of the passengers had been dangerously hurt, and so medical aid was summoned. The whole of the persons who had ridden in the 'bus were taken into adjacent public-houses—some to the Barley Mow and the remainder to the Ship and Bell—where they were seen by Dr. Ward and Dr. Webster, who hurried down! the instant they received the call. The' doctors were relieved to find that, though they were all suffering from shock, there were a. few who had sustained no injury! whatever, and that the injuries of those who had been wounded were confined principally to slight contuisions about the head, face, and hands, with in some oases trifling outs caused by the near windows having been smashed. The most serious case next to that of Mrs. Price was the case of Mrs. Owen,/ whose right I arm was severely sprained, if not broken. All the unfortunate victims of the mishap, excepting poor Mrs. Price, could have walked home if necessAry, but they were taken in cabs provided by Mr. Holehouee. Mrs. Mary i Ann Davies in the oapsizal lost from her poaket £2 9s., but R2 Is. Sd. was picked up and restored to her. A sum of 5s. which Mrs. Wheeler lost was also recovered, and a purse containing Ids., lost by Mrs. Bailey, was likewise re-goined. There is a feeling of great gratification throughoUit the district; that the accident did not culminate in a terrible catastrophe.

TREAT TO CARDIFF CHILDREN I Eleven hundred children were entertainedl on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last by Councillors W. H. Renwick, J.P., H. C. Vivian, and J. A. Kidd at the South Church-street Council Schools, Cardiff. Mrs. Renwick, Mrs. Kidd, and Mrs. Vivian, supported by lady friends, took the various tables, and contri- buted to the evening's enjoyment at the entertainment. The following ladies and geDitlemen amused the children during the evening, viz.:—Miss Kidd, Miss Clake, Miss Maggie Snowball, Miss Sparkea, Messrs. RiaID Lang, T. Lucas, J. Dyer, S. Taylor, R. Red- ford, Master Stewart, nigger troupe, and others. Mr. G. B. Harrison was accompanist. Councillors W. H. Renwick, Vivian, and Kidd I presided on the respective evenings. The committee consisted of Messrs. Valentine Wat- son, W. Lawrence (hon. secretary), —. FarreJl, and the masters and mistress ess of the various schools, viz.:—Messrs. Edwards, Sharpe, and Famsworth, assisted by their assistant, teachers. The catering was carried out by Mr. F. W. Phillips, of the Tresillian Hotel, Penarth-road.

I PRESENTATION TO LORD WINDSOR. I A very handsome silver dinner service of forty-seven pieces which is now on view in the window of Messrs. John Williams (Limited), Queen-street, is intended for Lord Windsor (the Hon. Other Windsor-Olive). His lordship came of age in October of 1903, and the dinner service was subscribed for by the agricultural and mineral tenants on the family estates in Glamorgan. The delay in, completing the presentation was caused by the advancement of Lord Plymouth in the peerage and the consequent change", in the coat of arms. The service cost £ 300, and the committee were fortunate in buying the silver at an advantageous market moment. Lord Windsor is at present A.D.O. to Lord i Selborne in South Africa. )

BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROGHES, 66 Years' Repiutaftdon For Coughs and ccttis. For Bronchitis and Asthma* For Influenza and Catarrh. For SoreoMs of the Throat. For Speakers and Singers. They otteaatfaea tb* Vote* i ????.«?.??. .? ?   ?-

Body Uier a Bridge CARDIFFJLICEMAN'S FIND About six o'clo^n Sunday morning Police- constable Davie;g) found the body of a man lying undeie railway bridge in Her- bert-street, Card It was identified as the body of WiIliai%.tthews, 76, of 65, Elm- street, a night wmau for Messrs. Watsons and Co., timber m^ants. Dr. Buist was sent for, but found lifltinct, and the body was removed to the nbaxy. The deceased had not been in good Lith for some time past. but made no pariar complaint, and was engaged in conve-.ion with one of the Docks policemen 2W minutes before his body was found. inquest will be held.

Paul Roost Pontypridd I SERMONS OF T FOOTBALL FIELD I Unusual interest 8 evinced at Ponty- pridd on Sunday aftoon in the visit of Mr. Paul J. Roos. captapf the South African football team, whoddressed a crowded gathering in the la Town-hall. Nearly all interes; in football in the district were prese Alderman Richard Lewis, J.P., presiding)n the platform were many local miniaterind members of the urban council, in a.tion to Messrs. Ack Llewelyn, T. E. Lewiseish Football Union), and other supporters the game. The visit was arranged by thenmittee of the local Young Men's ChriistiiAssociation. Alderman Lewis sakj offered no apology for being on the^platin to give a hearty Welsh welcome to th4istinguished gentle- man who would speak the vast assembly before him. He wapresent when the memorable defeat ofie Welshmen took place, and those p forgot their disap- pointment in admiringe man who had led their opponents to viet.. He admired him personally, not only as ootballer, but as a Christian gentleman. e welcomed him again for another reaf-his country had become attached to thiountry. Mr. Roos, who was rd with prolonged cheers, thanked thoee pijnt for the warm welcome accorded him. Referring to the Young Men's Ctoristian relation, he said that in South Africa th had a Students' Christian Association z Christian En- deavour Societies, and icape Town and other large centres assertions on similar lines to those in Great -itain. In Wales recently they had been bled with a great revival, which had not t reached them across the water. They vbt however, still praying for it. There haden a flickering, but nothing compared wit.,he great Welsh movement. Mr. Roos took r his text three words, "Watch, pray, alldlit." The three words, he said, were they-note of life. They could take them to > football field, for no one could move step without Christ. Men could not all ministers, but they could preach by their »ds and actions, and could do 80 in playin football as in the everyday walks of life. Ijre the players' a.otions could be seen by t-isands, and if t-heir conduct was good it .uld appeal to others. Let them take Chriijxito the foot- ball field, not only as playerbut as specta- tors, and try to dissociate tmselves from the idea that footballers anathletes were fighters and drunkards. Theiwas no neces- sity that they should be so. They needed sport to keep the body in trin Football was an excellent moral training, id in it were the true spirit and enjoyme) of sport.

AN INTERRUPTED OMANCE A singular case of theft waseard by the Eastbourne magistrates oil tturday. A young Frenchman, Rene DeicOie, who was sent to England to learn 3 language, pleaded guilty to stealing twos notes, the money of Mrs. Celene Mariag(pToprietress of a dressmaking business. The prosecutrix said that EKolque, who had been paying his addresses iher daugh- ter, was in the habit of coming the shop a.nd spending several hours a y with his sweetheart and the family gently. The two 15 notes were missed fr\ the tilL Delcolque affected to be very co^rned, and told witness she must have raisin the notes, and that they would, no doub be forth- coming. Some days awterwtards admitted having stolen them, saying he tcc them to re-pay a loan. He became greatly distressed, aIremained in the house all night. Before aving he begged her not to take proceeding gtatmg that his mother would return thc-noney at an early date. Upon that she Poised not to press the matter, but as the alley did not arrive she obtained a. warra., for his arrest. Prisoner said his friends, ovvingto unex- pected troubles, dropped his aliow1<:e> and he was compelled to borrow. This dOt he was pressed to discharge, and seeing le notes he yielded to the temptation to st4}. them. The bench sent him to prison for month.

LIVES LOST FOR FARTIINGSI A child three years of age wa, fatally burned in her parents' home, IELyltford, while the grandmother went next [oor to ascertain the hour. The mother stated at the inquest iat the child wiUi wearing flannelette, whicleaught, fire. The Coroner: Oh, dear! This is ti tenth case I have had in nine days in wlch the child has worn flannelette. It exp°ls chil- dren to terrible dangers. The oth. stuff is only about a farthing a yard in4e, but m,others will not buy it. I

ANNOUNCED HER OWN SUIDEI Mme. Marie Sinson, a music-hall urtiBt, attempted suicide on Saturday a her house in the Rue Victor Masse, Parisafter sending a- message to the police nofeying them of her intention, and asking tlhn to cremate her body. She dressed herself in white, woun< her hair in ribbons and flowers. and theUs,hot herself. When the police arrived she stag- gered to the door and opened it, and ,hen dropped at their feet. She is not exPbted to live.

NEW WAY WITH CRIMINALI. I The first case under the New Z-ea%r-d Habitual Criminals Act has taken plao4 at Wellington, where the Chief Justice of ,he Colony, in sentencinga. man named Spal";w, declared him to be an habitual criminal The effect of this decision is that Spari^j will be sent at the end of his two years' sen- tence to a reformatory, and be there detaifed indefinitely under the indeterminate eente^e clause. The man has a police record of ^7 convictions, and has spent twenty years a gaol.

PROMISCUOUS KISSING The secretary of one of the large*, weavers' associations iin Lancashire yesten day informed a reporter that a large nun: ber of aocioas and other functions axe beini arranged out of funds raised by mistletoe forfeits paid by mamagers, overlookers, and other mill officials. He declares there have been lots of promiscuous kissing in mills and sheds, of course under mistletoe, this festive season, and the average penalty of a. shilling has been paid to vivacious Lancashire lasses most readily.

BIG BRUSSELS BLAZE I The great Colin amd Donnay stores in the Rue Neuve, Brussels, were completely destroyed by fire last night, the buildings and bheir contents being reduced to ashes in half am hour. The flames spread to several adjoining houses, but in each oase were got under by firemem. The damage is estimated eut a considerable amount.

FORGOT THEIR FEES I The jurymen at the Stepney coronerlacoutt on Saturday were dosohanged, and were leamms ?b? o<M'r? w&m the coroner reminded <'hem???.t???<M'?? ——————-——? ?- —?—? '?— .———?-.?

In Memory of Little Son I I MUNIFICENCE OF MR. W. J. TATEM I Gift of 1,000 Guineas to Cardiff Infirmary. Mr. W. J. Tatem, the well-known Cardiff shipowner, has signalised the ending of the year 1906 by the munificent gift of 1,000 guineas to the Cardiff Infirmary. The secre- tary of the institution has received a cheque for that amount from Mr. Tatem, with an intimation that the money is to be devoted to the endowment of a cot in the children's ward in memory of his little boy—Master ] Thomas Shandon Tatem—whose untimely i death was such a sad blow to his parents.' The same memory has also been perpetuated by the recent gift of 1,000 guineas to the Seamen's Hospital for the endowment of a cot. This is not the first time Mr. Tatem has helped the infirmary. for it will be remem- MR. W. J. TATEM. bered that at the famous mayoral banquet when Mr. Thomas Andrews inaugurated his infirmary fund Mr. Tatem, with characte- ristic generosity, responded on the moment with a gift of z6250, and again at the festival dinner in 1903, ever which Viscount (then Lord) Tredegar presided, he sent a donation of 100 guineas. Mr. Tatem's sympathies are, however, not limited to hospitals, but enter into many fields of philanthropy, and the practical and unobtrusive kindness of himself and Mrs. Tat-em has helped to brighten many a poor and cheerless home. Amongst other institutions assisted by Mr, Tatem is the Snaresbrook Merchant Seamen's Orphanage, towards which, at a recent gathering in London, Mr. Tatem gave 250 guineas. In Cardiff he has always taken the greatest interest in the waifs and strays of the city. He gave an outing to these poor children in the corona- tion year, and each year since then he has shown his practical interest in their welfare, and is closely identified with the dinner to be given to them next month. It is earnestly hoped that Mr. Tatem's example—so thoroughly in keeping with Christmastide and all it stands for-will inspire other wealthy men to aid in the effort to permanently increase the income of the infirmary, an institution which does so much to minister to the pressing needs of those most dependent upon our pity and compassion-the sick and suffering poor.

NON-UNIONIST MINERS. I Threatened North Wales Strike 1 A grave crisis has been reached in the coal industry of North Wales. The general notices posted at the various collieries to cease work next Wednesday are not considered sufficient' by the masters, who have informed the men's representatives that each employe must send in a separate notice. The council of the North Wales Miners' Association held a special meeting at Wrex- ham on Saturday night to discuss the situa- tion. They resolved to re-affirm a previous resolution that all men and boys engaged in manipulating the coal who are members of the association and are employed at col- lieries where any non-union men are work- ing are to come out on strike on Wednesday next. Reports were laid before the meeting show- ing the numbers of non-Union men and boys at present working, as follows:—Wrexham and Acton Colliery, 150; Gatewen, 2; Plas-I power, 6; Point of Ayr, 2 firemen and 2 boys; Black Park, 50; Wynnstay, 12; Westminster, I 10; Brynkinallt, 6; and Gwersyllt, 16. At the other collieries it is understood that all the employes belong to the association.

STOLE A HANSOM CAB. A madman's adventure with a hansom cab was described at the West London Police- court on Saturday, when Herbert Crawley (22), a grocer's assistant, of Hammersmith, was charged with stealing a horse and hansom cab. The cab was on the rank at Walham Green, when the prisoner suddenly walked up, climbed up to the dickey, and drove off. The cabman pursued him with another cab, and overtook him three-quarters of a mile away. A constable stated that the prisoner seemed rather strange when arrested, and another constable said he tore up the pillow in the cell, exclaiming that he was King of Spain, and would send them all champagne in the morning. The gaoler informed the magistrate that he had been obliged to set two officers to watch the man. While in the cells of the court he had changed clothes with a prisoner, broken his watch up, and given his chain away to another prisoner. A sister stated that the prisoner had been in an asylum for six months, and was dis- charged as cured. Last year he went off his head and broke into a friend's house at Haslemere in his nightshirt. The Magistrate directed the police to take him to the infirmary. I

"WENT ROUND LIKE A TOP." I A singular story was related to the Bir- mingham magistrates on Saturday by 4 young butcher charged with assaulting his wife, and also with being drunk in the police-court. The prisoner, whose name is Moore, h.%d arrived at court intoxicated to answer a summons for desertion, and he aggravated the matter by assaulting his wife and one ct her witnesses. Prisoner did not deny that he was drunk. In fact, he told the justices that, as the result of taking a few "old ales" before entering the court, he "went round like a top," and that when he, felt in his pockets to pay his solicitor's fee, £1 lis. 6d., he found that all his money had gone. The Magistrates di dnot sympathise with the prisoner on his loss, and, regarding his offences in a serious light, sent him to gaol for three months with hard labour.

TALKED TOO MUCH I "Do I look like a thief, sir? Is it for the likes of him to speak like that?" asked a woman, appealingly, of the magistrate at Jld-etreet on Saturday. Sure, your worship," she continued, he's \een round the house three or four days qnce, and will not go away-" The Magistrate (gently): Oh, don't make sich a noise! The Lady (more vehemently): But he has, y>ur worship—three days running-with his j knocking at my door, first to get my name, H?n to get my Christian name, and then j H know bow I spelt Donoghue. -th' I :=- r:j

Doctor in the Dock. I ILLEGAL PRACTICES ALLEGED I Married Woman's Startling Story I Startling evidence was given at Marl- borough-street when (before Mr. Benman) Caleb Charles Whitefoord, 63, a medical practitioner, of Upper Mary le bone-street, W., was placed in the dock on a remanded charge of performing an illegal operation upon Mrs. Lillie Baker, of South Wimbledon. Mr. Muir appeared for the Treasury, and in outlining the evidence said that the case had reference to a married woman named Lillie Baker, living apart from her husband with another man. When she was in a certain condition the man introduced her to prisoner, who operated upon her. She then paid prisoner a sum of LS for per- forming the operation. That was in October, 1905. In March last Mrs. Baker agatin became enoeinte, and visited pri- soner in June. After some bargaiining prisoner agreed to perform an opera- tion upon Mrs. Baker for the sum of three guineas. He did it in the same manner as before. She paid prisoner altogether seven visits at his premises, and six times he operated upon her. Mrs. Baker had no reason at all to visit prisoner's premises except in connection with her condition, as she was otherwise in perfect health. Mr. Muir went on to say that the modus operandi of prisoner was that when a woman went to his premises in Upper Mary- lebone-street he asked her the very odd question, "Have you been here bef<ce; Who Introduced You P The woman was then conducted upstairs to the first floor, where there were two rooms—one a furnished front room used as a eitting-room. When a.&.itZ that room the woman was conducted by prisoner into a small room adjoining, in which there was a. bed. In that room had been discovered a very large number of instruments used for illegal practices. There was a crucifix on the wall. Besides the instruments tlhe police came across a quan- tity -of correspondence of the most sugges- tive character, eofme of it, indeed, going quite beyond suggestion, and dealing with plain statement of fact. The first witness called was Dr. Charles Murray, of Trinitjy-road, Wimbledon. He bad known Mrs. Lillie Baker, of Clarenoe- road, SOutn Wimbledon, for eighteen months. During the early part of that period he attended her for anromia and indigestion. He knew in April of this year that she was enceinte, about which she spoke to him. On August 20 last he was sei)t for to see Mrs. Baker at her residence, and found her suffer- ing from hemorrhage. A certain event occurred the same night. Lillie Baker then gave evidence. She said she was married, but Lived Apart from Her Husband. She was 26 years of age. She and her husband separated about three years ago, she then taking a situation in a public- house in the West End. Whilst employed II there she formed the acquaintance of a man other than her husband, and with whom she became intimate. As a result of that inti- macy she discovered in October, 1905, that she was in a certain condition. She disclosed the fact to the man with whom she had been intimate, and with his aid secured drugs, which did not, however, prove effective. The man was subsequently instrumental in her I being introduced to Dr. Whitefoord. She entered a room with Dr. Whitefoord, who locked the door, and then asked her what she wanted. She told him that a friend of hers had been there, and asked him for what sum he would perform the operation. He said he would do it for five guineas, adding that the previous week he had received a sum of 25 guineas. Witness said she could not afford five guineas, and prisoner agreed to do it for three guineas. Wit- ness then went on to describe the operation performed upon her by prisoner, after which he gave her a bottle containing medicine, saying she was to take it until the pain was relieved. She detailed a second visit to prisoner, when he again performed an opera- tion upon her, for which he charged her three guineas. When she went to the small room the second time there emerged from it a young woman. She had seen other women at prisoner's place during her visit there. At this point the hearing was adjourned until Friday next, prisoner being allowed out on bail in the sum of X5w.

"MIDNIGHT MELODRAMA." The Rev. J. H. White, vicar of St Augus- tine's, South Croydon, does not approve of watch-night services. Writing in his parish magazine on the subject, he says: There is a horrible, deadly silence just as midnight approaches, broken only by the tolling of the bell, which answers to the slow music of melodrama. This is mere sensation of the worst kind, and it is a pity it should be encouraged in the name of religion. The absurdity of the wlUtle thing is bet- ter seen when it is remembered that, the length of the year being between five and six hours more than 365 days, the year can- not begin anywhere in the neighbourhood of twelve o'clock midnight, except occasion- ally. The best place for people at that hour, he says, is in bed. If, however, they like to "keep it up" by toasting the King, etc., no one will be likely to quarrel with them. pro- viding only that, in rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, they do not for- get to render to God the things that are God's. The vioar objects to the exalting of the civil year above the Church's year, and says the commencement of the civil year is a. purely arbitrary arrangement. The year need not begin on January 1 for any more cogent reason than on April 1.

DEATH OF SIR A. SANDISON Sir Alfred Sandison died at Constantinople on Saturday after a long illness. The deceased was a well-known figure in Constantinople diplomatic and official society. He entered the British Consular Service in 1859, was appointed dragoman of the Embassy in I860, and retired on pension in 1894. Sir Alfred Sandison'a diplomatic abilities were of a high order, and he showed much tact in handling many delicate and important matters.— Reuter.

UNCLE EVERYONE WANTS. I Mr. Alfred Howard Lloyd, J.P., of Hare- woods, Bletohingley, Surrey, has am entirely praiseworthy appreciation of the oppor- tunities of Christmas. J He has shown, moreover, a. marvellous apti. tude for availing himself of them by making what is probably one of the most delightful and expensive Christmas-boxes on record. Evetry one of his 37 nephews and nieces has been made happier by the receipt from him of a cheque for 21,000..

PUNISHMENT OF SCHOLARS I The committee of Newport Elementa," I Schools have warned two assistant tea<?Mrs that the infliction of corporal puniahm?mt upon scholars is a direct breach of the rules, and that any further complaint which was proved would be met by instant dismissal. J

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I Lady Burdett-Coutts I SUCCUMBS TO BRONCHITIS. A LAVISH BENEFACTOR. I We regret to state that the Baroness Burdett-Coutts died at half-past ten on Sun- day morning at her residence, Stratton- street, Piccadilly, aged 92. The deceased lady, who had been ill for several days suffer- ing from acute bronchitis, was attended by Dr. Cowerford and Sir Thomas Barlow, but no hope of recovery was entertained. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The Baroness Burdett-Coutts was one of the most remarkable of women. Her un- bounded wealth only gave her the oppor- tunity for unbounded charity. To rehearse even in outline the more out- standing of her benefactions would exceed the scope of a brief review of a career that covered, and had outlasted, the longest reign in our history. A life-work which founded and end-owed three bishoprics, buiit or restored churches in every part of the country, founded and maintained schools, relieved the poverty of provinces, and, as it were, by a stroke of the pen wiped out some of the most hideous plague-spots in the greatest city in the world cannot be summed up in a few sentences. Moreover, it is un- necessary, because the greater achievement of her philanthropy must be familiar to all. Not only was she the only woman on whom a peerage of the United Kingdom had been conferred in recognition of her personal worth and work, apart from ancestral or vicarious claims to distinction, but she was the object of the almost affectionate regard i of every class of the community, of the costermonger no less than of the courtier. J &he had received ovations from all sorts and conditions of men that only geinuirl:rt sand,L %,d m i r  tion for her character and pereon.ality could have elicited. When, in 1868, the Reform procession trailed for three solid hours past the well-known house at the corner of Piccadilly and Stratton-street, the vast crowd of demonstra- tors and onlookers sank their political differences by cheering Miss Burdett to the echo. When, in 1887, she visited Ireland to see the fruits of her own work there, every cabin along the coast from Queenstown to Baltimore was gay with improvised bunting, and at night the coastline twinkled with impromptu bonfires. On the night of the Diamond Jubilee, when Piccadilly was a tidal wave of packed humanity, as soon as Lady Burdett-Ooutts, with her old friend, Sir I Harry Keppel, came out on the balcony the crowd recognised her at once and broke into I cheers. Of her clearness and independence of mind she gave early proof. Inheriting her vast fortune when a young girl, very many people at the time were anxious to help her in dis- posing of it. But she would have none of it. With one lifelong friend and companion, Mrs. Brown, "she stood out against the world," and made for herself a sep-arate and indepen- dent existence of her own. Social successes in themselves, though few London hostesses have entertained more lavisMy and bril- lia-ntly than the mistress of the great house in Stratton-street, did not appeal to her. The work of the Church of England in the Colonies did. So by 1847 she. had endowed the Bishoprics of Cape Town and Adelaide, and a few years later had, at the cost of zES0,000, founded and endowed the See of British Columbia. If these foundations— together with those of the churches of St. Stephen in Westminster and Carlisle--illus- trate the munificence of her gifts to the Church of England, her philanthropic work in Ireland was an example of the discrimina- tion, free from all denominational bias, and sense of responsibility that made the relief she offered a lasting ber.efit to a whole popu- lation. The network of the baroness's charities was widespread. Within its meshes are found such different objects as the Turkish Com- passionate Fund, which alie created and administered in 1878, and the system of drinking troughs for horses which now abound in OUT thoroughfares. From the former of these enterprises two interesting results ensued. The Sultan con- ferred on this benefactress the Order of the ) First Class and the Cordon of the Medjidie, and her acquaintance with Mr. William Bart- ) left. who administered the fund on her behalf, ripened into friendship, and culmi- nated in a marriage which for over a quar- ter of a century had been a union of un- clouded happiness. Baroness Burdett-Coutts was a charming speaker, partly because she always had some- thing to say worth hearing, partly because she spoke without notes, but chiefly because her voice was one of the most pleasajyt in London. Its charm was inherited from her father, who, as Lord Reaconsfield once told her when dining with her, was the beet speaker he had ever heard. The baroness was not unknown in South Wales. Soane years ago she visited a friend at Burry Port, and during the week she drove to Llanelly to see the famous Thursday mar- ket, where she admired the last Welsh cos- tume and Welsh hat worn by one of the butter women. The baroness's fortune amounted to thirteen tons of English sovereigns.

I NATIVE 8F LLANDOVERY. Dr. Wynn Westcott held an inquest at I Hackney on the body of D." Jonathan, 50, draper's assistant, late of 7, Abney Park- terrace, High-street, Stoke Newington. Thomas Brown Stephens, a draper, identi- fied the body as that of one of his assistants. Deceased had been in witness's employ for about two years. He was formerly a shop- walker, but gave way to drink. The Coroner: Had he ever threatened to commit suicide? Witness: Yes, when I have threatened to send him away, but not recently. Witness added that he did not know deceased's Christian name, but had seen a post-card addressed to him, D. Jonathan.' His native place was Llandovery, but witness had been informed that there were no 1  tives living there. Deceased had a Ia;?1..?d sister, but witness could not say where ehe I now was. h 1 The Coroner remarked that's e would doubtless be found if the press took notice of the case. Other evidence showed that about 12.30 a.m. on Boxing Day the deceased was found lying at the foot of the staircase at the above address, quite dead. In his pocket was a pint bottle of beer. Dr. Richardson stated that death was due to concussion of the brain, caused by the fall downstairs. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

I WHISKY BOTTLES IN BED I Ellen Hartley, 2. Alexandra-terrace, Maesteg, was summoned at Bridgend on Saturday for selling liquor without a lioenoe. She did not apnear. Sergeant Rees Davies deposed that on the Previous Sunday he, with three constables, watched the house occupied by defendant and her husband. He detailed the times at which several men entered. On entering the house he found four men, all of whom had been supplied with drink, two being help- lessly drunk. A man, who gave the name of John Jones, admitted that he had paid 6d. for a quart of beer. Witness spoke to finding bottles of whisky in one of the be as, and there was a nine-gallon cask of beer in the cellar. A letter was read from the defendant admitting the offence and pleading for leniency. A fine of ;E4. including costs, was imposed, and thp. Bench ordered the confiscation of the beer, &c., found on the premises.

I DEALER AND DOMESTIC I Surprise was caused at Abertillery on Satur- day when it became known that Mr. William Banford Downs, a well-known local furniture dealer, had been arrested on a warrant on a charge of assaulting Lily Chapman, aged 20, single, a domestic servant in his employ, on December 24 and 28. Downs was taken before Mr. E. JO!les Williams, and after evidence of arrest had been given by Sergeant ljathera-U he was remanded on bail to the petty-sessions at I Abertillery on Wednesday next, himself m X50 and a surety in C25. The accused stoutly denies the charge. I

DIES IN HIS CHAIR I Mr. E. B. Reeoe held an inquest at Cardiff Town-hall on Saturday on the body of Daniel Green, a mason, aged 72, who died suddenly in his chair at 25, Flora-street, Cathays. Deceased's daughter, Mrs. Sylvester, said deceased had been ill. at intervals, for four or five yeaa-s, suffering from asthma, Dr. Paterson attributed death to natural causes, and the jury found accordingly, BICYCLES TOUCH BOTTOM PRICES Presiding at the annual meeting of Singer and Co., at Coventry, Mr. George Singer said the selling price of cycles appeared to have vouched the bottom, so that only an increased I output was required to improve results.

MAN FALLS TWENTY FEET John Howard, a labourer, was admitted into the Mertnyr Workhouse Infirmary on Sunday morning suffering from internal injuries caused through falling from a height of about 20ft. at the Oyfarthfa Works.

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Woman in Flames 1 HOUSEKEEPER'S REVENGE A woman named Lepoivre wreaked a ter- rible vengea-mce on her late employer's wife at Versailles on Sunday. She had been living as the housekeeper of a butcher named Joseph Berget. who two years ago divorced his wife. Last week the butcher met his former wife. and took her hack to live with him. Mine. Lepoivre was in consequence turned out. On Sunday she dressed herself in the Iblue and gold uniform of a gas inspector, and, carrying her own clothes under the loose cloak worn by the inspectors, went to the Bergets' home. She rang the bell, and asked Mme. Berget. who opened the door. to show her the gas meter. While pretending to examine the meter she dropped a screw. Mme. Berget stooped to pick it up, whereupon the sham inspector poured a bottle of alcohol over her head and lighted it with a match. Mme. Berget, who became in an instant a mass of flames, shrieked for help. Her two little children, who rushed in from the next room, were badly hurt in trying to help their mother. The little boy, a child aged four, will probably not recover. Mme. Berget's screams were heard by the neighbours, who rushed in, to find that the kitchen was ablaze. With difficulty some of them extinguished the names, while others attended to the injured woman and children. Meanwhile Mme. Lepoivre had slipped up to a room on the top floor, and there changed into her woman's clothes. Half an hour later she walked calmly downstairs, but she was stopped by the concierge, who knew she had reason to hate Mme. Berget. She was arrested on the arrival of the police, and she makes no secret of her crime.

LLANDOVERY BURGLARY Shortly after midnight on Saturdiy the premises of Councillor T. Roberts, Crown Stores, Llandovery, were broken into. Entrance was effected by means of the office window, one of the glass panes having been cut awa3r to enable the fastener to be detached. The provision premises were then entered, and the till taJcen away completely, but there was very little money in it. as Mr. Roberts had, as usual, placed the major portion of the takings in the safe overnight. Some bananas and other fruit were eaten and the skins thrown on the floor. Several ounces of tobacco were also purloined. The ironmcmgeTy depart- ment was visited, and about-eight watch ea taken away. The burglars got away undis- turbed.

WELSH CHURCH INQUIRY The Welsh Church Commission, in spite of protests from various quarters, seems bent on taking evidence, for some time at least, much in the same way as it has hitherto, and before finishing with Carmarthenshire seems disposad to have a foretaste of what can be expected from Glamorgan. The Oom- missioners want to ha.ve some evidence from typical or gpecim-en districts in Glamorgan ready for submission by their next sittings, which will be on the 10th, 11th, and 12th of January, and the Rev. H. By-non Lewis, sec- retary of the Congregational Evidence Com- mittee, has received a. request to have a num- beTof witnesses ready by the 11th of January,

I RECORD IN HIGH WAGES A new wage agreement has been arrived at between the Graigola, Pacific, and Atlantic works proprietors and their men at Swansea, the employers agreeing to an advance of 5 per cent., making the wages 15 per oent. above the standard for factory hands and 10 per cent. above the standard for shippers. About 500 men are engaged in the trade, and they will receive advances of from Is. 3d.. to 2s. 3d. per week. The wages are the highest ever paid in the history of the patent fuel trade.

GERMAN MINE IN WALES. Active preparations for sinking the 900 yards deep sihaft to the coal on the Whit- wortih Estate, Deaa- Neath, which was pur- chased by a German syndicate in July, 1905, have been begun. Large iron tubes for carrying a. bridge for railway conneotion have been placed in the bed of the river. Much material is being brought on the ground, and a number of workmen have been engaged.

COWS CREMATED. Owing to a cow kicking over a lamp while being milked at a farm near Weymouth on Saturday eighteen cows, a calf, and a goat wore destroyed by fire. The overturned lamp set fire to some fodder, and the cow- shed was quickly a mass of flame. The fire brigade arrived after the fire had burnt itself out. When access to the cow- shed was possible the bodies of the animals were charred beyound recognition, and their heads were found still chained to the posts.

TO WED AT 83. At the last meeting of the Cuckfield Guar. dia,ns, one of the nurees, a woman still in her thirties, asked to be allowed to resign on the 31st, as ehe wished to wed a Baptist minister, who is 83. The guardians decided that she must not leave her post until the proper notice had expired.

EMPTY HOUSE MYSTERY. A schoolboy named Samuel Acheson dis- appeared from his home in Belvoir-street, Belfast, last Monday, and was yesterday found unconscious in an empty house. His condition is critical. Foul play is sus- pected.

EQUAL TO DEATH PENALTY The Home Secretary has granted a reprieve in the case of Majy Hlutchby, sentenced to death ait the recMit Nottingham Assizes. The Society for the Abolition of Capital Punish- ment sent a petitioa on her behalf to Mr. Gladstone. It was pointed out that the woman was suffering from cancer, and that, therefore, a stmtenoe of imp-riso-am-ent wag equal to the infliction of the death penalty. James Dagnall, the miner semt-enced to death for the murder of James Dalton, at Conisborough, has been reprieved. When he was informed of this by the governor of Wa,kefield Gaol he showed no signs of pleasure.

NO DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE A question as to a doctor's certificate arose on Saturday over the death a few days ago of a little child named Glyu Matthews, in Clarence-street, Swansea, for which no certificate was forthcoming. It was reported that a certificate had been refused by Dr. H. Rawlings, but it was explained that this was not owing to any suspicious circum- stances, but that it lay between two doctors, a.nd the father had not been instruct-ed whatp- to do.

BOYS AND DETONATORS Some boys placed a detonator on Saturday evening on the tramway rails in Oxford. street, Swansea, as is frequently done by mischievous lads. This one, Police-sergeant Cuff reports, when passed. over by the car, went off with a loud explosion, and a man named Oliver Reine, of 9, Henrietta-street, awansea, who was standing by, was struck in tne neck by some substance and received, a. slight bruise and abrasion, for which he was treated by a doctor.

THREE SETS OF TWINS At the farm of Ltettyglyd, near Llamdilo, the residence of Mr. Evan Roderick, three cows have given birth to twin calves each during the last few days. Out of the three oon Mr. Roderick is the happy possessor of pix calves. All are doing well.

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