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0[114 Note Boo]{ Our Note Bookj — ,1. — ——- i  Ad ventures in Psychics— Guinea Pigs Slain by Worry Poison; —Charming Slumber with a Human Skull. The "Brixton, in lii» un com eational sermoa for the local .MX .A. at Mount Plea- Sin; L on Monday aftcrnon, had some startling things to say about psyelric states, auto-suggestion, and the eficcts of mental and emotional conditions on physical health. For instance, lie told of a scientist who conducted a curious experiment. When in a normal con- dition of health and temper, he breathed into a glass tube. He breathed into another when much worried, and 'lUtO .H.t another wbrn In a bad temper Jv the last two instances, a line powdei was precipitated, of a, brown shade. This was given to a guinea pig. T;¡, guinea pig di eti -slaiii, according tc the pastor, by the poison of worry ana j bad temper I Insomnia would appear to have been one oi the evils with which this reverend dabbler in the psychical nu-a experimented (wru-es "La^s"). for lie related how he had responded to the complaints oi a young woman that she could not sleep by "suggesting" to her that sh e would sleep, and she did. This method of ausSPS??on for inducing Tli Is n-,c-ulio(I of u,?e,,ton l'oi- liidu(-ijig that recorded in the archives of Kir by Malzeard, an ancient Yorkshire church. It is said that in 1639 there was con- ducted in the church the trial of one Janet Biirnisbori, who was chargeo with taking a, skull out of the church- yard. Her defence was that a fellow parishioner could not sleep, and tllat she thought to charm him to slumber I by laying the skuil under his pillow Numerous are the recipes for sleep that have from time to time been offered to the victim of insoiiiiiia. Loi-d Itosehcry drank hot water, 4s if lie didn't get enough in politics; another says that to lie on a pillow of clover produces dreamless, but the sweetest and most refreshing sleep. The old me'hod 01 counting imaginary sheep who jump through a gap of an imagi- nary ludge is often effectual. The writer of this note has an infallible sleep-producer. He Just wets the back ot his head, and lies down. This did not fail, even when a headache was the cause of the unrest. One thing is very certain-the use of drugs 'should never be resorted to, for they ill- ariably war agaiQst normal sleep. 3s A weli l-know n Doctor of Divinity ob- serves that 'Sleep 's like a pigeon. It j; vou ii you have the- appear- ance of not looking for it; it flies away ii you try to catch it!" He is aeons- tomed to ;:dvise poisons suffering from neurasthenia, accompanied a's it is generally by insomnia, in these terms: ) Say to yourself as yon go to bed, I | don't care a fig whether I sleep or not j if 1 sleep, well if 1 do not sleep, also well, though not so well." This for- mula, he says, often works like magic. Jt is. of course, an example of the! auto-suggestion dealt with so hopefully by the Brixton A icar. T d G' I Tc-?3'? Go?-o. i The Holy truth, and nothing but the truth." «-«id a witness at the Swan- sea I'd ice Court. < A bomn- LttIe Swansea lad has been reading story bo-oks of late. His ambition now is to kill dragons outside the King's Palace. The members o! the Swan.sea Police Force were measured for new uniforms to-day. The summer is evidently be- lieved to be actually coming. = £ Amongst the congratulations Pre- bendary Carlilc received bv post upon his sixty-sixth birthday was a joint letter of hearty good wishes signed by the staff and all the inmates of the I t'hurch Army's Men's Labour Home at Swansea. At the Swansea Town Council meeting on Wednesday, it was noticable that ti), yentilatioll was much improved. One I no longer gets a headache after sitting j in the room for half an hour. The Úll- provement has been effected hv the I Borough Estate Agent (Mr. Albert Jen- kins), at a cost of only £ o. I

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r fP   nae? h<. ¡¡g¡ J 1-' J' ¡ ¡.¡ írJ I k? i- g?,? n | ? How the Friends i Met. j I I I I i INTERESTING STORY. I | Mr. Trevanion's Personal Expenditure. I Tho intelligence, first puhlished in the "Leader/' that the c v a,n I ii (".a.?." f' '•<ses a direct interest for | Swansea people by virtue of tlw fact, I that Mr. Hugh JCric Trevanion, the tcs- tator, visited the t-own some twelve mOllths ago, and that Mr. Albert iloe, to whom the deceased is reported to j I i I a,, c bequeathed the whole of his esta-te, j \\itll the exception of a few small lega- cles cstiniated approximately at j has created extraordinary interest and; excitement in the town. j Many columns have been devoted to j the affair in the London and provincial i papers. Some of the incidents) connected with the career of the Ulead gentleman. have been accurately j described other matters to which pro- j mineuce has been given are declared by j friends of the parties to be entirely mythical. I Mr. Albert Roe., I Mr. Albert Roe is a member of a. well- known local family. For scvsrat yoars i they kept the licensed premises situated in Greenhill-street, and known as tho Lppe" Lamb- Albert, who is now about, 33 years of age, as&isted his lather in the business for s,j!-Eal ALBERT EDWARD ROE, (from a photograph taken some years ago). years ago the father died, and subsequently the business was carried on by the widow and family until the license was taken away owing to tho opinion entertained by the local jus- tices that there were too many licensed bouses in the neigbourhood. 31 r Albert Roe, who is the second son, then followed the seai as a calling, and for a time was engaged upon a tine of steamers trading between Bristol, Swansea and New Yc-rk. Then he abandoned the sea for a time. In the meantime lie, had engaged in an office on the docks, but the old fascination of sea-life returning, he joined one of the Atlantic liners sailing out of Liver- pool. It was on one of thase voyages that he first ca,11e into contact with the 'ate Mr. Trovaniou. Heard Croans. One night, Mr. lioe was making his customary round of the ship, when ho was surprised to bear groans coming! from one of the saloons. lie entered tlw cabin, and there, so it is said, found un the floor in a very hysterical and excited state, a, gentleman who proved to be Mr. Trevanion. This was eight years ago. Mr. Trevanion had long before this become addicted to the drug habit. Of a highly strung, ner- vous temperament under ordinary cir- cumstances, he was weeping bitterly when found, owing to the fact that he had a short time previously received news of the demise of his grand-mother, by whom he had been brought up, and whom he described as his only friend. Mr. Roo did everything that, was possible to comfort him, and tended him with the greatest caro during the voyage. Mr. Trevanion expressed his great appreciation of the service thus rendered to him. and it is not surprising under the circumsttncos that a close friendship sprang up bc- tween the parties, which continued up to tlio time of Mr. Trevaniou's death at Brighton in September last. Blood Poisoning. Wherever the steamer, on w hich Mr. Roe was engaged went, there Mr. Tre- vanion insisted on going also. At a later period Mr. Trevanion's friend was transferred to a boat in the Canadian trade, but Mr. Trevanion found the cli- mate too severe for his constitution and the Canadian voyages were accord- ingly discontinued, although the two friends remained in constant communi- oil, Two and a half years ago M r, Roe was playing cricket on his ship, when he vas struck on the foot by the j ball, and sustained, what, was regarded at the time, as a very trifling injure- He was wearing on this occasion a pair of coloured socks. These were changed for another pair the following day. Mr. Roe's foot, however, began to cause some trouble, and on going to a doctor it was discoverot;1 that bloody poisoning had set in from the dye having got into the wound from the sooks he was wearing on the occasion of the accident. Acting on the advice of the medical man Mr. Roc returned promptly to Swansea a.nd was laid up for nearly twelve months, during which hij more than once hovered between life and death. His illness caused great anxiety to his friend, who not only wrote to him (Continued on Page 7.)

FOR JUSTICE IS THE END OF GOVERNMENT (" Tra,l,-r ('arlcon.) The Home Rule Bill (as reported elsewhere) passed the third reading in the Ccmmons last night.

PARLIAMENT, "j I Clause 18 of the Welsh I Church BilL I IMPORTANT DEBATE. I (Special to ihe header.") I HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday. The Speaker took the chair at 11 The Hon so went into Committee on the ^Established Church (.Wales) Biii, this being the twelith alio ted day. Clause 18 makes provision for the appli- cation of the property vested in the Welsh Commissioners other than tho property transferred to the represen- tat'.ve body and burial grounds. Part of this residue will be applied to public purposes, and the remainder applied by tho University of Wales for the benefit of the University colleges of Wales at I Aberystwyth, North Wales, South Wales. and Monmouthshire, the ..National Library of Wales, and the National Museum of Wales. All. Batburst moved an amendment having for it, object the application of tbproperty dealt with by the clause to the advancement of the Christian religion in Wales and Monmouthshire through the agency of one or more Christian denomination. The amount of this property was -C157,700, and it was nothing short of sacrilege to say that this money should no longer be devoted to the advancement, of Christianity m "Wales. The secularisation of this pro- perty was regarded with abhorrence by Christians both in England and. Wales. Mr, Ellis Criffith, I Mr. Ellis Griffith contesting tho amendment bit:d the substance of it was concurrent endowment. The early church was not merely a religious in- stitution but a social eleemosynary, the homo of hospitality, and the nursery of learning. The governing principle in the Bill's application of these funds was that they mmst lXl put to a. use of common beueiit to all. It was a matter of regret- that there were many outside all Christian churchcs who ought not to be deprived of these national funds. Nonconformists HI Wales would have nothing to do with this money, and they did not consider the proposal a possible solution. Had Nonconformists submit- ted this proposal, they would have been t01d that I bey were not only robbing God and Christianity, hut were doing it to fill their own pocke.t. (Ministerial clH..x'rs,) I S)r A. Gi'ifBth-Boscowpn said if th?re l was one thing in this Bin which the people of England an d Wales abomin- ?ted, it was the secularisation of Church funds Sir D. Brvnmor Jones said Noncon- formists in Wales would not touch this money on any terms. They would í have nothing to do", ith concurrent, en- dowment. He was prepared to absent to an amendment resisting the use of that part of the property formerly appropriated to parochial benefices to charitable eleemosynary purposes, in- cluding the aiding of poor scholars. Mr. Ormsby Gore said was glad to hear the right hon. gentleman express his willingness that the National Museum should go out of the scheme. iio hoped the Universities would follow. Sir Ivor Herbert. I Sir Ivor Herbert, as one closely con- nected with the National Museum, identified himself with the suggestion that 1.110 Museum shoulù be dropped out of the Bill. Mr. T. P. O' f ion nor declared that Pioiti.i.ii Catholics in Wales would not accept the money which the amend- ment proposed to give them. fit his view the highest worship of God wa-s the merciful rvice of man. 1 (Continued on Page 5.)

r I THE AVALA. Another Furness Liner's Battle With Hurricanes. CAPTAINS HEROISM. ] Following close on turn of the Furness liucr Snowden Range to Que-enstown, after a 53-days! j battle with the seas, comes news ot the arrival in a terribly battered state of another Furness tlii, AN-Itia. The Avala left Fowey, in Cornwall, j on January 4th with a. cargo of china | clay for Boston. On the fifth, sixth and seventh days out, she had a terrible ex- perience, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane. Huge seas swept the decks, demolishing all the deck cabins, fittings, life-boats, rails, and stanchions, and captain's bridge beiug practically swept away. The signalling gear to the engine-room was broken, iron rails twisted out of all s hape, the rudder damaged, and stearing gear disarranged. Captain's Heioism. All the personal property of The crew was damaged, and efforts to save the meat were in vain, the crew having to live for three days on biscuits, which they had to eat on top of the engine- room, as the water stood three feet high in tho bunks. About 1M o'clock on the night of the 10th, the captain decided to abandon the voyage. Hardly had the vessel been turned, when a huge isea broke over her, and Captain Franklin i was hurled off the bridge, breaking two of his ribs. Though sullering great pain, he never surrendered command, until the boat was docked at Oueenstown yesterday afternoon, and he and several injured seamen were removed to ho.,Pl- tal.

NOTE IN CANDLE-STICK. 1 Aberavon Suicide's Message to his Mother. At Aberavon on Friday morning, Mr. Howel Cuthbertoon held an inquiry into I the circumstances attending the dealh of David Hy. Jones, J, Wern-pJace, Aberavon, whose dead body was found hanging by a handkerchief on Thursday v morning. James Dayics (deceased's step-father) said that deceased, who was 23 years or age, was a groom-gardener, but had been unablo to follow his employment for some weeks through illness. He last saw deceased at 5.30 on Wednesday night, when the latter went out for a walk. On Thursday morning he found deceased hanging with a handkerchief 1\ round his throat, and tied to a beam. Deceased was quite dead. Deceased was always very jovial in the house. Note in a Candlestick. The paper (produced) was found in the candlestick. The note ran: Dear mother, please don't undress me. Bury me as ] ani, with my clothes on." He cut down the body, which was not quite co?d. Dr. Radchffc dep<M?od to examining th? body. Th?re ??& a distinct mark round the nck. He must have h(?n dead some hours. The cause of d('atL i was strangulation by hanging. De- (?'as? did not show any signs of depr?f- sion when he saw him the morning be- fore. The Coroner: It is evident from the 1 note that he h?d made up his mind to commit- suicide. The jury returned a verdict of suicide I whilst of unsound mind.

DATE FIXED. I The Second Inquiry into Mr. i Trevanion's Death. j Further to what appears in Anot h er Fnrth('l' to wbat a.ppears in állothcr column, a message received this afkr- I noon states that the second inquest on Mr. Trevanion will be held at Hove I Town Hall at noon on Friday next.

n _+ +-+ At a wild beast exhibition at Dun- kirk. one of the spectators attempted to caress a lion through the bars of its cage, when the animal seized his hand in its mouth. Before the unhappy man could be released his hand had been j bitten off.

HULLOI I From Telephone Table to Peeress' Castle. ASHBURNHAM ROMANCE. I From telephone girl to Peeress! Yesterùay we announced the death. vi-hicli took place iu Paris, of the Earl üi Aslibumham. Major the Hon. Thoma.s Ashburnham, who suceeds his brother as the sixth Eearl, u ent to New Brunswick twelve years ago, and in 1903 lie married Miss Maria Ander- son, who was at one time an operator under the New Brunswick Telephone Company. The Earl and Countess (says the Express' New York corres- pondent) will sail for England immedi- ately. The new Earl oi Ashburnham was for- merly a captain in the 7th Hussars, and an aide-de-camp tc the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, lie is fift" y-eight years of j age. ) Lady Katherine Ashburnham, by the (leittli oi her lather, the fifth Earl of Ashburnham. inherits his personal i tstak. She is a novi:iate of the Con- vent of the Second Heart of Roehamp- ton. i

FACTORY FIRE.  I Woman Drops Dead Whilst Watching Flames. A huge block of three-storey build- I ings belonging to the l>evland and Bir- mingham Rubber Works, and contain- ing costly machinery ai LeyJand, Lanes, ?Mas destroyed by ire to-day. Seven hundred persons are rendered idle. I An elderly woman fell dead while watching the progress of the lire.

l ARSON EXPERT! I I Man Who Set Two Hundred Houses on Fire. I (Reuicr's Foreign Speci-al.) New York, lhui-day.A man named i Isadore Stein, Mho had been convicted of arson, ati brough t from Sing Sing Prison to-day to give evidence against his confederates. He declared under oath that he had set 200 houses on fire with his own hands in order that his "gang" might collect the insurance money. j The District Attorney says he be- lieves that over a thousand recent firos in the city are traceable to the same criminal organisation = A similar state of affairs has been revealc-d at. Chicago.

THE STATION TWINS. I 0 N -W I We regret to state that the second I child of Mrs. Florence Goldsmith, who gave birth to twins in a Swansea IStaÜon waiting room yesterday, bas now died at the Swan.«ea Hospital. Tho mother, who was on her way to meet her husband at Port Taltioi, is said to be fairly comfortable.

ROOFER'S FALL AT PORT TALBOT. Tiiis morning the mot.or ambulance conveyed to the Swansea Hospital John Baruett, a roofer employed by Messrs. Rees and Kirby, of Morriston, and re- siding at No. 30, Fleet-street, Swansea. The injured man had dislocated his hip and fractured his leg by falling from a roof at the Port Talbot Steelworks, a distance of about 40 feet. L«rTer.—The man subsequently died at the Swansea Hospital.

n. The following names were omitted: from our report of those present at the Hospital Ball on Wednesday night: Mr. I N i W. F. Brook (M.C.), )1rs. Brook. Mi Brook. Miss Shepherd, and Mr. Gr<

ARRESTED. s — A Very Mysterious Affair. SWANSEA POLICE ACTION, Is it the King of the Bristol Thieves? Late last r' at High-street I Station. Swai .a, DetectJotimcn. _• ol the Swynsca BorcugU F on"< cftwtci the arrest ot a man who is- alleged to be wanted lor .steal nig a large sum oi "money at Llandrindoil Wells in Ociobc:' last. ltis The man strenuously denies Ins guilt iu respect oi such a charge, bet in spit;: of his denials lie wa«» taken i >:to custody, and is now locked up in Swansea await- ing the arrival oi a polite escort .irom Llaudrindod Weils. A "Leader" leporter has made fur- ther inquiries into the incident, ;is the result of which has been ascertained that. the man in question, along with others, came to Swansea uays age, unending to stay lor the Tenby Races. Some uupleasantuess is alleged to have a.riseu in the train Oil the way down irom Cardiff owing to one gentle- man— who was not one of the party-- making allegitious as to something which had taken place ou the journey. The poliec, howe\ er, did nut inter- fere, out it is understood '.h?.t a com- plaint was lodged with tiie railway company. Tiie second night that the arrested man and his iiiends stayed at S.van- sec.* resulted in police inquiries i-ti-g j instituted, loiiowmg which came the ;n- rest, as stated above. Tiie person no"- ii is ;111 elderly man, and it is alleged iJiat he is identical with the man WHO goes under the name of the "1\.In oi Bristol 'ilueves,' and that ho is me same pel- sou who superintended, some twelve years a-o, a raid upon tiie several Swan- sea hotels, wlncu resulted in u. large quantity of jewellery being removed to London, at which place n was subse- quently recovered. l'hi, however, was strenuously denied by the man concerned.

I DISENDOWMENT. Welsh Parliamentary Party's Conclusions. The "Welsh Parliamentary Party met yesterday. Sir David Br.\ nmnr Jones presiding; Sir Allied Mond and ot hers were present. After discussion of the destination of tho Jwtioual fund. obtained from D endowment, it was agreed t Ita t in the section of the Bill giving funds im the Welsh County Councils the words "public properties a, an object to wllich the released endowments could be applied be eliminated and a urovision bo making those funds applicable to bursaries lor children at the eouiity schools. Jt vus resolved to eliminate the National M.useuin from the Bill and to allocate the money given to it under the Bill to the National Library instead. It wa-i als-o decided to insert words to make it compulsory on the "Welsh University Authorities to spend a con- ?idcrabte portion of the mcnev grankd to them on fellowships aud dlO]arhlps for the poor stu'i?nec who are at or have been at one ot ?hc t hree constituem colleges. It was agreed that Sir David Brvnmor Jones, as chairman, should tal Ie .m amend, nent giving effect -L6I t hese dec-'?i ons

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[ MONGOLIAN TKKATY. St. Pi tersbtrg. Friday.-—Foileding telegram has becu received here frenj. Marinartchin. Mongolia: — r< TVo- jected treaty between Tibet and Jfon- golia has been concluded. con- tains, among other things, muttiai re- iogiiiiioii ot each State, by the otlier, and afterward s deals with develop- ment of trade relations between thcin. Jr aKo contains provisions for ad- vanccraent aud scrcari BnddKisfSn H UNG A K J A N > SUICIDE. Vienna. Friday.—M. aradv. 3 mem- | her of the Hungarian Parliament. j -hot him.-eli to-d;.y on SeTTravfring Pas-. He wa s su tie ring from an in- curable complaint. FRENCH ELECTION*. i message says first Fallot t showed :— Poincare. 381 Poi us 338 r,?, 1 A further ballot j "JOY RIDE" CASE. Sallows vas committed for trial. i i I

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