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TELiEEEKXSEBJ KcUipnJ 790 800 and CsaiUMrcial 1819 i6a EVENING DESPATCH THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 1911 KING AND AVIATOR THE SHEPHERD OF DARTMOOR BARRACKS SENSATION COLONEL ATTACKED WITH A BAYONET THE HONOUR CONGRATULATIONS TO HIS MAJESTY tomb of Csecilia Metella and tlie shattered aqueducts tramping across the plain shadowy and countless troops of funeral mourners passing from a grave" MrvJT Mackail h-as just delivered his last public lecture as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University Its title Progress of Poetry" was not a misnomer Mr Mackail does believe that poetry is progressing The number of minor poets has not influenced him to this conclusion though tie agrees that minor poets arc better than they used to be But he finds and his highest hopes are based on the discovery a notable and widespread advance in understanding of what great poetry really is and what all poetry ought to be an advance also in the standard of criticism and appreciation It is often Raid that poetry is not read in these days Never was there a more incorrect statement Mr Kipling has conquered a body of readers who before he wrote never opened a poetry book A school of poetry not only in England but still more in Australia and Canada is being erected after Mr Kipling's plan It is direct sincere vivid Above all it allows itself to be read The future of poetry cannot be despaired of while the poet keeps his eye so intently on reality Iron girders through which an umbrella can be poked pictures and statues dulled and eaten away black lungs instead of pink these are a tew of the consequences of a number of days like yesterday Fog and smoke brought down the roof of Charing Cross Station Fog and smoke lengthen the obituary column iu the newspapers Fag ami smoke eat away stone buildings fine day we will thank Sir tY Richmond and the other enthusiasts who give the public and Parliament no peace till measures be taken to put an end to this pestilence Apathy is always hard bo overcome and though jewellers silversmiths and builders can see the damage they incur from fog the ordinary man cannot see his lungs turning from pink to black and unless he gees he is slow to believe Thp man who watches the clouds of smoke pouring trom the chimneys of his town is rather inclined to feel poor deluded wretch a sort of pride in such evidence of industry Tlie pleasure fair is cne of the oldest forms of English amusement) Though now shorn of much of its former brilliance it still survives witn the roundabouts shooting galleries cocoanut all eve aud other attractions peculiar to its existence' Certain Wigan councillors have given the modern pleasure fair a very rough handling in tlie course of a great debate as to whether the showmen should he allowed to set up their allurements in the market-place to all the elements that make for roble MR JUSTICE GRANTHAM AND HABITUAL CRIMINALS LONG SEN CES FAVOURED Charging the Grand Jury at Lancaster Asstoee yesterday Mr Justice Grantham said tho state of crime to-day was different from what it was half a century ago Not only the county of Lancaster hut the country generally had greatly improved Magistrates dealt with more cases but still education was responsible for the diminution of less serious crime Them was one case before the court which was important because of the controversy that had been raging in the papers about the way iu which people frequently convicted should be dealt with The case was one of attempted suicide but the accused had never committed any serious crime No doubt the jury would have heard of the celebrated individual who had obtained world-wide reputafc tion because of the intervention of a gentleman very high in his Government He referred to the gentle shepherd of Dartmoor His case brought to light the great difficulty of magistrates and judges in deaLing with cases of habitual criminals Here was a case of a woman sixty-two years of age charged with attempting to commit suicide and he was asked to give advice to the chairman of quarter sessions as to the best way of dealing wrth such oases because he wus told there was hardly a quarter sessions at which there were not cases of attempted suicide from Barrow It was impossible to lay down any general direction as to how cases of that kind should be dealt with Every case must be dealt with by itself In the case before the court there could be no doubt the woman tried to commit suicide-by etrangling herself in the police cell Fortunately or unfortunately according to the way they looked at it she was seen by a constable and prevented from carrying out her intention Whether she was liappier now or not he could not tell but at any rate the career went back a long time She had been convicted forty-seven times for drunkenness and small thefts What were they to do with a woman like that? Now that the woman was brought before the court for attempting to commit suicide the most charitable thing Would be to give ner a long sentence it was no good sending her out again with a light punishment On tlie other hand bel knew cases of attempted suicide tliat had been brought about by when people had not courage or pluck to withstand the trouble In those cases slight punishment or no punishment at all was sufficient In cases of attempted suicide there should either be no punishment at all or a severe punishment because a long sentence was for the benefit of the person punished The woman Margaret Kerrighan (62) laundress was found guilty of attempting to commit suicide and Mr Justice Grantham sentenced her to two penal servitude He said that the prisoner had nearly reached the end of a life misspent by drink Neither blacklisting nor sending to an inebriate home had been of any use STRUGGLE WITH HOUSEBREAKERS SECOND ARREST IN BIRMINGHAM In connection with the breaking into of the premises of Mr Charles Allen jeweller of 27 Hylton -street during the dinner hour on Thursday last the police have made a second arrest and the prisoner a man named Arthur Harris of no fixed abode was brought before the Birmingham Stipendiary (the Hon Stephen Foster) to-day charged with Being concerned witn the other prisoner ConnojU-who is on remand till to-morrow in committing the offence Harris was also remanded till to-morrow It will be remembered that at the time the manager of the business was on he premises and heard noises He went into the office and saw two mom A struggle ensued and one of the men Connor was detained and on being brought into court the next day was remanded as stated above THE PARISH DIGNITY ULTIMATUM TO COUNCIL TUB DISTRICT The town of Coggleehall in Essex through the good offices of the Braintree Rural Council has been provided with a new waterworks The Council fixed a day for the opening ceremony and tusked a prominent lady in the parish to turn on the stream It was to have been a rather informal affair aud some of the inhabitants of the little town took offence at their not being invited wnnst others said so important a matter should De marked with a public dinner The Parish Council took the matter up and made representations to the Rural District Council that unless they had a public dinner they would absent themselves from the opening ceremony The result was that the ceremony was abandoned and it is now the intention of the Council to dispense with any formal opening At the meeting of tho Rural Council yesterday it was expected there would be a scene But the Coggleshall councillors held their peace The Water Committee merely reported that the works had been completed very satisfactorily and the water was ready for turning on PROVED ALIBI AMUSING REASON FOR DELAY IN PROTESTING INNOCENCE A singular incident occurred yesterday in the attarylebone Polica Court Two witnesses a music student and a companion yesterday identified Thomas Line-ham of Heekfield-place Fulham as a man who stole a £5 overcoat from a house in Portadown-road Maida-vale on December 10 The accused listened attentively to the evidence and when it was completed he calmly 6aid- that when the theft was committed he was in Wormwood Scrubs Prison Why you mention that before asked the magistrate and Lineham replied I was just waiting to see how the witnesses would swear mv life (Laughter) A detective made inquiries at Wormwood Scrubs and found that the statement was correct is clear you have been the victim of mistaken said the magistrate in dieebarging Sim Before this he had been committed for trial on a charge of being concerned with two others in stealing and receiving another overcoat from Argyie-road Kensington He declared that he was innocent also in this caso and asked the magistrate to acquaint the jury at the cessions with what had happened in the other case Mr Paul Taylor promised to do so CHILDREN AND IMAGINATION ARE THEY DEVELOPING A LITTLENESS OF MIND? said one tpeaker The fair carries disease and i qeath in its train quoth another '-t deprived of their pleasure fair the whole tenour ut the debate by the city fathers seems to suggest that the burgesses may And comedy somewhere oise t-sru on he hallowed Liarket-cq Few if auv will we imagine feel other than satisfied at the result of the trial of Edward i 1 I rederiek Mylius on the histone and happily rare charge of libelling a King of England There are doubtless people in" this country 1 hough their presence is never very spicuous who earnestly desire the abolition of the Monarch and the establishment in its place of a Republican form of government These peoole are entitled to respect for their political (minimis and they have a freedom expression iti Mils country greorter tiiBii in uny othei But in so far as they are honest they will condemn the libel which this man Mylius acting in conjunction witty the publisher of the i i I j- iberator who care no show hs face on this side of the Channel so assiduously cir- eulated to the defamation of the char- i i actor The worst aspect of the case is object with which this scandalous fabrication t-Ai al1i iuKlished good many i was Copco teil ani puDiisnea a goou many fll IKtR who KlinnOrL toilO jVlOUBXCHlOdl sound loyalists who support the Monarchical principle and respect the present holder of the Kingly office for his many excellent qualities both as a man and haps thought it action should have all deeming it better falsehoods with a have per-that the been taken at to treat malicious regrettable and I i i OBE REMEMBER THE OLE AND RELIABLE MIXTURE POST FU MV! 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Colds Asth Bronchitis Hoarseness Dph-then Sore Throats SboKneas of Breath Comsrra prior Influenza Whizing Tickling in the Throat Difficulty of Expectoration Inflammation ami Congestion of the Lungs Whooping Congh Croup and all Affections of the Cheat Throat Dungs and Air Passages This is a valuable give it a trial Do not be put off -with anything else Bottles Is IMjcL 2s 9d 4a 6L and 11s Prepared only by 1 KBKKMAN Chemist 108 and 109 Xcknield-street Birmingham 1 by poet to any part of the Kingdom for stamps or Vders for auy of the above prices A Bristol Customer says: Your Cough Mixture has relieved my daughter A Sbifnal Customer says: "it is a most WONDERFUL Mixtore and has done me MORE GOOD than anything elss" Any Chemist not having this Mixture in stock will procure it if asked to do so There is no mistake as to the value of the Medicine it is certain to do good It is the best general Cough Mixture iu the world try it and prove its value If Agents happen to be out of stock don't be disappointed Send stamps direct and no delay Have no substitute SPECIALLY APPOINTED AGENTS OT BIRMINGHAM AND Hedges and Son Dale-end and Branches Soutnall Bros and Barclay Chemists BuiestreoL Bellamy and W'akeGeci Chemists 1 Easy-row Mr Britten 78 High-street Miller and Sons Chemists Hockley-hiil Mr Moate Chemist Coventry-road Prosser and Co Chemist? Spring-hill Kemp and Tabbener Chemists 21ti Ashted-row Erdington 8 Thomiey and Col Ltd Snow-hill and Branches Mr Wv Iut Pearson Chenut Mr Hewens Chemist KING'S NORTON-Mr Bloomfield Chemist Mr Croake Chemist Jj Mr Humble Chemist -Sfc Hughes Drug Stores And most Chemist and rtOUGH IXTURE Tolkeen Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Pianos Pianos Pianos Pianos Pianos Have pi Tern 11-round pleasure and satisfaction since 1MT ley's Constitution Hill RILEYS OORN'ER Three Minatea down 6 bow HilL Sola Depot for Tolkien Pianofortes SATURDAYS CLOSED AT 2 cus AjLAN A TVOE OR VOE (Scotch Whisky) MITCHELLS AND BUTLEES A' i Value Allowed TL on any Secondr-hand Kano i part payment of New Piano MAJBETNEAU STREET CORNER THE SANDS AEB RUNNING OUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET SUIT AT 27s 6n TO ORDER FOB A FEW DAYS ONLY Dean "The Tailor CORNER OF CORPORATION-STREET AND THE OLD SHOP IN THE FULL-RING (nifljlit oppoeite tlie Seed Shop) A FEW OVERCOATINGS LEFT AT 21s TO ORDER Thursday February 2 1911 Notes of the Day mi It is wonderful what a penny will purchase nowadays To the hungry man it means a dinner and to the person who wants legal advice and cannot raise the usual 6s 8d it represents a cheap load to the law That wonderful institution the Salvation Army is now dispensing legal ad vice to all and sundry whoaeed it for the modest fee of a penny stamp- One could hardly expect to get it cheaper and the queries dealt with ranging from the knotty problem of workmen's compensa-tion to the fearful complications of the Budget land taxes have in the last three months numbered 670 We suspect that the penny t-tnnip lawyer is net nearly so much appreciated by his legal brethren as by a public athirst for law on the cheap To the lawyer whose clients are few and far between it must be galling to 1 kink of what those 679 consultations with the Salvation Army might have produced The high rafcps that have followed the federation of the Potteries into one borough may cause some misgiving in the hearts of residents in Birmingham and the districts affected by the Greater Birmingham scheme Yet there is no cause for alarm Tlie conditions ore in every respect dissimilar Birmingham possesses all the advantages of full development in its undertakings and at little or no expense to the rates all the outlying districts will soon be able to avail themselves of the advantages of this municipal enterprise In the Potteries there were six small towns each governing itself and the building of a new Town Hau and the unifying of the various undertakings naturally necessitated a Considerable expenditure That expenditure has certainly caused a serious increase in tho rates leading to last meeting of protest Schemes of federation have not always the same advantages as in Birmingham Monte Carlo boasts that it will shortly have the most beautiful golf links in the world A thousand feet up above the Mediterranean they will command a view of a wide stretch of that enchanting coastline But as to these new links being absolutely the most beautiful who is sufficiently omniscient to endorse such a claim? All we know is that the world is full of beautiful links Quite naturally and in response to the demands of the game golf betakes itself to places where Nature is at her roughest and wildest where her floor is dry and sandy and high uplifted Play on the Braids with Reekie" below yon Seat on one side the Castle rock on the other Remember how you once played at Hinksey with fair city of the dreaming for a constant companion Play at Torquay and at the seventh It slice yonr drive hundreds of feet down into the waves Or go to tho Campagna and use your uiblick in the long knotted grass between the MR SOPWITH'S FLIGHT TO WINDSOR CASTLE As reported in last Mr Sopwith the young aviator who won the Baron de Forest cross-Channel prize for long distance was honoured by an invitation from the King to fly from Brooklands to Windsor Castle and accomplished the feat yesterday coining to eaith easily aud gracefully on the lavn of Windsor Castle after only one stop Datchet His Majesty who was Matching for the arrival along with the Queen Princess Mary and Princes Henry George and John was the first to greet Mr Sopwith und to congratulate him On-Lug to rhe fact that a alight mist prevailed the aviator when he started abont one was unable to ascend to a greater height than 150 feet for at a higher altitude he could not see the ground over which he travelled Leaving the aerodrome at Brooklands ho was soon lost to eight in the haze flying in the direction of Staines at which town ho flew out of tho mist into glorious sunshine After being in the air for about twenty-five minutes Mr Sopwith alighted at the golf links Datchet where he took luncheon at the residence of his sister Mrs Raikes liising again he resumed his journey and shortly before four was seen by he townsfolk of Windsor approaching the castle After circling the Round Tower from which the Royal Standard wag fluttering Mr Sopwith descended as described In his interview with the King Mr Sopwith explained the working of the machine which is a Howard-Wright biplane of all-British make Hi3 Majesty wrJ much interested in the aeroplane and the story of the flight Afterwards Mr Sopwith returned to Datchet by air proposing to stay the night with his sister Mr Sopwith is only twenty-two years of age and has made remarkable (progress in tihe science of aviation He first came into prominence by beating the duration record for British machines a night of 3 hours 13 minutes at Brooklands last November Prior to that time he had made ortly a few short flights On December 18 Mr Sopwith flew fro 'sichiirdh to Chirimont fit Belgium and tlu iti the Baron de Forest prizo ot JA0U0 with the first cross-country flight ivhich hd attempted- Earlier in his career lie ivas well known in motor cycling and marine motor circle PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS MR THOMAS BEECHAM AND A BIG PROGRAMME Mr Thomas Beeckam was the conductor of tho fifth concert of tlie Birmingham Philharmonic Sooiety which took place at tlie Town Hall last night Tho programme reflected the immense energy and enterprise which has been the outstanding characteristic of Mr career as a musician He is one of those rare apostles of progress whose couiage is as ample ao his financial resources are large though it is on record that he is a disappointed man in regard to his attempt to conquer London with his operatic grand slam It is to be hoped that he will turn once more to the provinces upon the cultivation of which the musical future of this country most certainly depends Wo have spoken of Mr energy and enterprise and who but a man who had both in abundance would have tackled the following programme in one Overtore "Oamaival Romain Borlioz Tone-poem "Paris" Delius Siegfried's Songs Wagner (Mr Frank Mailings) Overture in major Boccherini PraL'ide IAprep-Midi un Fbune Drimesy Priz? Song "The Meisfceisinwrs Wagner (Mr Frank Mnltings) Tane-poen JE5n Heldenleben Strains The concesk may be written down a great success if we add the qualification that there was a little too much music to be adequately digested at a sitting and that tho gastronomic process wag not assisted by liaving the most substantial dish reserved to the last Mr Beeclram too failed to touch liig highest point at the close of the first half of the pro- gramme as though suffering from the reaction from the strain of the larger works A crisp and clear rendering of the Berlioz overture led up to the novelty of the evening the tone poem of Frederick Delius the Englishman of German extraction who lives and works in France The music is of the impressionist kind and like nothing elee of the same genre It stamps Delius as an original musical genius and it is this very originality that makes his admirers a eeffact few Yet there is nothing very difficult to understand' once we grasp the fundamental aesthetic idea which his work This tone-poem for instance describes Ills of night and early dawn with its peculiar street cries It is the emotional effect which the spirit of Paris as he feels it makes upon him that he endeavours to convey in terms of music To apnieciate him you must accept unreservedly his point of view They are impressions about which there is no question of right or wrong You may find pleasure in their expression or not but yon cannot quarrel with his -point of view to ns is a very delicate and beautiful piece of music full of harmonic charm and what we vaguely call atmosphere So far as one could judge without previous acquaintance with the score the playing waa excellent The Boccherini overture was a simple pleasing interlude and then came more modern music in the shape of the now familiar Mr Beecham rather laboured the delicate exotic fantasy and scarcely realised tho mood of the music especially in its middle section where the sensuous element becomes clearly marked Heldenleben is a mighty-work which contains a good deal of sheer ugliness sc-me trivialities and more than one tedious moment The composer seems undecided between depicting purely external things in the drawing of his hero or of doating with him in subjective fashion The result is that we are always breaking off front purely emotional music into brutally descriptive such as the clang and clamour of the battle scene which could lave lic-en managed just as effectively by an intelligent stage carpenter The raison of tho long dialogue preceding the fusion into the glorious love song is difficult to understand It seems a rather childish end elemenary way of suggesting in musical terms the emotional development of the state of love However as we have said Heldenleben as a whole is a mighty work and wo must take the rough with the smooth because the smooth is so good Mr Beecham secured a very fine rendering in which no point necessary to the elucidation of tho programme was missing Mr was rather overweighted in tlie Wagner songs but sang with fine expression and intelligence though tone was sometimes marred by forcing COCOA TRADE AND SLAVERY MOVEMENT AGAINST THE NEW LAW The Lisbon correspondent of The Times says The question of slavery in the Portuguese cocoa plantations in Sao Thome and Principe is again coming into evidence Ono of the principal abuses of which the cocoa planters wore accused was the non-repaf liation of nalivo labourers to Angola where they aro geiierally recruited at the termination of their contracts Thanks to the energetic campaign on tho part of tho British Anti-Slavery Society the provisional Government after duly yorifymg tho abuses decreed absolute anil obligatory the repatriation of all natives at tlie expiration of their contracts Now however a group of the most important plantation owners have formed a deputation and iu the absence of tho Minister of Marino and Colonies who is in Oporto taking part in the festivities they waited upon tho Minister of Iho Interior to beg him to suspend the law alleging that if enforced it will cause them serious loss The Minister replied that he would Like the matter up with the Minister of Marine and Colonies on his return If the Minister of Marine and Colonics accedes to tlie planters' request the good effect of tho British Anti-Slavery humanitarian campaign of several years will be practically lost PUBLIC MORALS CONFERENCE A public morals conference under tho auspices of the National Council of Public Morals will ba held at Edinburgh on February 7 Among the subjects to be discussed are Education for parenthood The methods employed by the Church in guarding and guiding young people between tho ages of fourteen and seventeen National righteousness The moral influence of books and newspapers Heredity and morality The age of protection Special sermons on pnblic morals will no preached in the churches of Edinburgh Glasgow Dundee Dunbar Haddington Hamilton Lmlith- oir Perth Stirling aud other places DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN A GUARDROOM An attack of a most sensational character is reported to have been made by a private upon Colonel A King of the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) at the York Infantry yesterday Colonel King it ia stated was attacked with a sword bayonet and would probably have been seriously injured had not the Adjutant Captain Jeffrey dashed to his aid and seized the weapon wielded by the man who was iu a state bordering on frenzy So desperately did the latter cling to tho bayonet that it was only when overpowered by a number of non-commissioned officers and men that ha could be disarmed So far ks can Be ascertained it had been found necessary? in accordance with the usual practice- bring) the man for an offence against disciplimy before the Colonel for admonition cr punishment The offender was a man recently transferred from the depot at Richmond who it is alleged had been accused of ill-treating hie wdfe who is the Tho matter was gone into by tho Colonel who reprimanded tho man fortius conduct and advised him to treat his wifo in a more kindly manner mduture No punishment was inflicted But tho man appears to have resented tho remarks and when he was ordered to turn and leave the room he wheeled suddenly to the iert't and rushed for the Colonel in a menacing manner at tho same CTae snatching a sword bayonet from the side of one of the guards who were in charge of him Colonel King was taken unawares and would probably have suffered some injury had noCth Adjutant ami the guards sprung forward and seized the naked weapon for the possession of which a desperate struggle then commenced Both the Colonel and the Adjutant attempted to take the weapon from the fellow but he held on to it with the grimmest determination and it was only when a number of privates and noncommissioned officers rushed into the room on healing tlie noise and tho calls of the officers that the man was disarmed The sword bayonet was forcibly wrenched from his hand and as one of his fingers was through the ring near the handle of the weapon the finger was broken and almost torn off When the man was overpowered he was placed in the guard-room and subsequently removed to the Mil it a Hospital where he remains under a guard to have his injuries attended to Happily both the Colonel and the Adjutant fortunately escaped injury -but one of the guards is reported to have had his hands cut The military authorities refuse to give any information as to tho occurrence THROUGH AFRICA ON A BICYCLE 5700MILE JOURNEY Two young Englishmen have inst finished of the most remarkable journeys ever made in Africa Mr Frank Melland and Mr Clolmeley both assistant magistrates in the service of the British South Africa Company in North-Eastorn Rhodesia started last July from their stations with two bicycles to go through tho heart of Africa to Cairo They arrived at Cairo on January 19 having ravelled 5700 miles in 170 days Part of the route followed lias never before been traversed Both Mr Melland and Mr Cholmclity were schoolmasters in England until a few years ago Melland and I met on July 24 last year at Kasunvi North-Eastern said Mr Cholmelei yesterday fifty-one days we walked a ltd bicycled through German East Africa towards tio Victoria Nyanza ell bicycle proved deject vc so we shared mine taking turns to walk We ran across some interesting people during this part of our journey One of the Rukiva Valley tribes we found has a ruling caste of totally different origin to themselves This caste appears to be of the Galla stock from Abyssinia and until recently observed the same etiquette as prevailed in the families of the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt For instance they could only marry their own sisters The natives in the northern corner of Uganda treated ns extraordinarily well One chief electrified us bv trotting out a small cadet corps all quite naked dovs ranging from ten to twelve They had a cavalry bugle and two side-drums and were commanded by a youngster who put them through the ordinary motions of company driLl almost without a mistake walking and bicycling through Uganda we arrived at Gandokoro the day after Christmas There we sold our bicycles and kit and took a Nile river steamer to 'Khartoum and fiimce fo Cairo Neither Melland nor myself had any illness to speak of during the six months We lived chiefly on fowls sheep eggs and potatoes with a few native vegetables and an occasional potted delicacy We drank large quantities of tea generally with tinned milk and a small dose ot whiskey' after HUMAN FLESH GRAFTING EXPERIMENT SUCCESSFUL Some time ago reference was made to the surgical experiments of Dr Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute Now York which consisted ia such operations as amputating a paw and grafting in its place the paw from another dog These experiments were intended of course to pave the way for similar operations on human beings Dr Pirosano a Buenos Ayres surgeon (says tho Paris correspondent of the iias now effected an operation of this kind on a patient in the hospital in that town If we except tho fact that tho patient died it may be stated that tho operation was brilliantly successful The man was sufferyg from a swollen oedamatous leg at the root of the thigh there waa a tumour tho size of a- new-boru Dr Pirosano determined to cut out tho diseased portion of the artery aaid substitute a segment of equal length from the healthy leg of the first poor wretch that should die in tho hospital Tne opportunity soon presented itself and ten hours after death the surgeon cut out about six inches of femoral artery from the corpse and placed it in Lukewarm physiological serum This done he removed the aneurism replacing it by tho healthy artery borrowed from the corpse Tlie substituted artery started work 6atisfac-torily and the diseased leg began to resume it normal colour and temperature The swelling went down and for seventeen days everything wont on well Then peritonitis supervened and carried off the patient within twenty-four hours EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE TRYING TO SET FIRE TO A HUSBAND Extraordinary allegations were made Cardiff yesterday against a woman fifty years old named Charlotte Olren who yuis charged with attempting to murder her husband by throwing paraffin oil over and then Lying to sot firo to it with a match Tho husband said taut no was mtfang half as lee in a chair between five and six clock in the '-cuing when ho felt something thrown over him and heard his wuo say 1 It murder Ito smelt paraffin To iu uucstiou why she had done it she made no replvi Instead she ran out and returning a few minute threw paraffin over him It owr Lls sJ3u sliourdci Iii-S vest rjid shirt seated and sho then threw lighted match at lam fortunately it foil tiro fret awav and tho oil on the floor did not catch fire He' ran for the police and lodged a charge uW wife he said had previously threatened that she would Prisoner was comnnttod to tee assizes I DR JOW FIT'S ENGAGEMENTS The Rev Dr Jewel has promised to preach at Tabernacle lexicon on Friday March 10 this engagement follow mg immediately the National Free Church Council meetings at Portsmouth when he will relinquieh his preei deucy and receive the greetings of Free Otmnch-nien He i pledged to preach on tlie following Sunday athe Metropolitan Tabernacle his last service at CnrrVlane having been according to present arrangement the previous Sunday ami he is not to bo in New York until the first Smtdav in April When as Dr Jewett hopes ho will preach in 'ax-rVinm- in July on a short return visit to tins couiM'y the Rev Silvester Horne will be preaching in Dr Joweu'a V( ort: 'iu ANOTHER PREPOSTEROUS STORY THE LAW AND MORGANATIC MARRIAGES The newspapers of the country unite to-day in congratulating the King on the complete vindication of his honour in the law courts yesterday The following are among the most striking passages from the leading articles of our morning contempora ries TIMES I This charge has uttortjy broken down and it won Id be the samo with others such as the preposterous suggestion that the King one of the most temperate of men is too fond of wine It is a false charge and a silly one His Majesty is one of the finest shots in his dominions and nobody could be that except a man whosp nerves were in perfect order and not shaken by indulgence The gossip however is a sample of the wicked scandals circulated about great personages by malicious or sometimes merely reckless people Lets it be silenced once for all together with the graver insult formulated by the creature who skulks in Paris and spread by his agent who was yesterday sent to prison Of one thing all who know anything of their Majesties are that a more blameless pair or a pair more happily mated never occupied the position of King and Cueen of this realm The slander as published by Mylius was curiously inept since it alleged that the King had been United in lawful-and hojy to one of the Misses Culme-Seymour that he abandoned his true wife aud entered iubo a sham and shameful marriage with the daughter of the Duke of and that thereby he committed the crime of To do Mylius justice he seems to have learned from some legal friend- possibly one of the Hindu students with whom he that there was a well-defined barrier to any marriage with one of the Misses Culme-Sevmour in the conditions indicated We do not mean as his fatuous correspondent Mr Holden James thought that there is in this country any barrier to the marriage of the Heir to the Throne or of any other Prince with a commoner King or Prince may lawfully copy King CuphHjiin and marry a beggar-maid provided there is compliance with the legal for- malities laid down in the Royal Marriages Act an( without snchticompliance he cannot marry a Princess of any Loyal family The Act applies equally no matter what the rank of the intended consort may be No sort of ceremonial in church or at a registry office can in this country consti tute the marriage of a descendant of George If unless the Act has been complied that is there must lie the assent of the Sovereign given under the Great Seal and therefore upon the advice of the Privy Council or if the Prince desiring to marrv b'e over the age of twenty-five years after twelve months notice to the Privy Coiin of an intention to marry In no other (conditions is marriage possibte and in this country there are no half-marriages and if a Prince and a lady live together without a valid legal dbremony which would give the lady the rank ami title of her husband they do so test as anv other person plight in defiance of law and morals 1 he evidence before the Court yes- ter(jay showed that there was no ground whatever for the slander on the honour of the King and a'otta disdSrS mrtHigeinciit There can be little doubt that every member of the Royal family has resented with moro or lass indignation the necessity imposed on its fipa(j 0f proving that he had not inflicted irre- parable wrong on the gracious lady who shares throne as well as on the lady said to be a discarded wife I may venture to hope how- ever that an anger which is indubitably righteous will be to some extent appeased by the certain knowledge that all the subjects are np cs in llt? and th their sympathy i foonmf -f 11 1 1 if iftneol a vVinir AfuuKflpq fill fll no is respectfully offered to heir Majesties on the annoyance they have suffered POST" Iu uo other country in the world would a man accuser! of so serious an attack on the head of the State receive such generous treatment The exact impartiality of English justice has never been more fully displayed Had it been DAILY NEWS" By a procedure such as no King has ever before ventured to adopt and such as no private citizen could be called upon to adopt his Majesty has set big marital reputation upon a rare eminence The domestic virtues have not been cultivated by all British (sovereigns but they have always been accounted a singular crown by tlie British people King George has undergone an ordeal which brings him 0 undergo that ordeal as they congratulate in the to meet the charge aa an ordinary citizen and add his testimony to the already overwhelming evidence That (courageous dote rim nation to vindicate his per-war honour against an attack wholly con- temptible will establish him yet more firmly in manYe fSLSU aU( cd possible his for the (Sovereign to appear ins own Law Courts liis Majesty King ras readv contempt But the publication of the libel wat as follows: only way to deal with the British Monarchy is to cut away respect for as fcoon as people cease to respect it it is done for They will not respect it when they see that such attacks as were made could be made with success and This communica- lion discloses tlie dastardly nature of the con- spiracy In order to advance the Republican campaign in Engiand the personal character of -n individual sovereign is to be blackened by a a direct challenge to the forces of law and order in this count rv and for that reason it! i i i necessary that action should be taken irrespective of the personal aspect of tlie case his Majoty In one ot his letters to Mylius the editor of the Liberator wrote baseless slander The case for Republicanism is so weak has to be bolstered up with foul lie-spreading designed to deprive King George of the respect in- which he is held by the vast msioritv of his subjects of all classes and een very cruelly wronged in this matter not by 3 yesterday deledant alone but by a very creeds The cowardly filanuerers think they number of the subjects who would perhaps are rafe because England is a land of free hardly recognise themselves as partaking in some i measure in this man guilt TlTe King speech and cherishes the punciple of the s1m)WTI courage as well as a good liberty of its Precs Consequently libels on con science in welcoming full publicity He the hi tilted in the land can be perpetrated deserves for it the admiration and the sraapathy -n of me people and abova all their fuller fairness success and impunity It was neces- aEj charity-if ever again they are called upon sary as we have said to take action in this in his case to believo the beet of a man until case to demonstrate to other possible Repub- anything but the best is proved lican emissaries of the same base type as James and Mylius that such a method of propagating their political doctrines could be pursued neither with success nor impunity In one of his elegantly expressed epistles the man Mylius states that the King is above the law which is made only for his li subjects and In the ample time he now has for revising his ideas of the this common mud-thrower will be able to reflect that the law of this land which is made to protect the humblest of tlie subjects can also be invoked to protect the King himself and that in whatever degree the King may be above the he is not so far above it that he cannot if need be act through his own ndicial system to vindicate his personal honour So far as his personal honour was concerned there was no need for his Majesty to defend himself publicly to the majority of his subjects in this country At the same time scandal is an insidious thing and this morganatic marriage story was rapidly spreading and had reached the Colonies If it had gone altogether unoon-tradicted a false impression migtyt have been created in the minds of those who do the King so well as his loyal subjects in this country who have closely watched his career and know him foT what he really is Accordingly trial serves the desirable purpose of contradicting once and for all a particularly offensive rumour which has been passed round by scandal-mongers for a number of yeans A letter in the own handwriting containing a denial of the allegation was read at the conclusion of the trial and previous to this the utter baselessness of the libel had been proved up to the hilt by evidence -which would have been accepted as conclusive in any legal action Anyone who should flow attempt to revive this scandal should earn the contempt of honest men who villteave nothing but profound sympathy with King George in the painful ordeal which ho has passed through A vivid account of the tragedy Abersycfian near Pontypool where acolliery con tractorxsamed John Ttnton (45) is alleged las previously reported in the Despatch to have fired a bullet through a door and killed his wife who was on the other side was given yesterday at the inquest by a lodger named William Harris Mrs Tin ten he said returned home at seven on Sunday morning after being out all night and upon her husband asking where the had been she refused to tell him and threatened him -with a hatpin During a struggle which followed the couple fell on to the sofa and rolled to the floor but the wife at last got free and ran out of the back door Thereupon the husband picked up his gun and fired through tho door Immediately afterwards tho fourteen-year-old daughter opened the door and hearing her exclaim witness went and found Mrs Tinton had been shot through the head he exclaimed shot tho Tinton went forward and after looking at his wife said Well Bill 1 have got another barrel here and I will blow my own brains His daughter got the gun away A sergeant said that when he visited the house two hours later Tinton was asleep in a chair On being charged with murder be said was mad drunk I right I remember seeing On the way to tlie station he said has driven me to do this I suppose it means the rope but I care my mother told me I would be The jury returned a verdict of but added a rider that there had been such provocation as to justify the exercise- of mercy THE FEMININE METHOD A woman At Oerkenwell County Court yesterday said to another You have not paid me The Second Woman I say hae First Woman: 1 say you have not Second Woman You know I have First Woman I know you have not Second Woman Can you stand there and eay I have not psid yon First Woman have not jvaid me Second Woman: I say I His Honour (interposing): That will do The hero was tlepieUd on Ihe fronl of the hoc with a yeJow fata red ami black hair white eh in red and black waistcoat and fcl-ue trouceva was i-taniing on vcilow eronrd raatras a rwl and black shadow Behind a crimson kanicapc with irx trices Iciartinatiug a erey-bioc i ky This amusing description of a rejected book was given at LC'O Education Committee li eeting when the report on the books selected by the elementary schools prizes was considered ting on the fact that Fables had dropped from fourteenth to forty-fourth place Mr Rogers said this fact was at first sight a little disturbing almost ind-cating Unit children -instead of looking on the imaginative side were developing a littleness of mind This doubt however vanished when they noticed another book which had leapt into popularity Wonderful a fine work of imagination Nelson and Gordon like Queen Victoria occupied quite respectable places but for the Life of Mr Gladstone there were only fourteen requests In poetry Shake-pcare was an easy first but they must not infer from that that their children were likely to become groat students of Shake-epearo any more than that the child who received a Bible for a prize would develop into a profound student of Holy Writ Tennyson was the next favourite while Browning was almost a negligible quantity Mr Cotton criticised the songs selected by the sub-committees The Wassail would he feared associate Christmas in the minds with gluttony and heavy drinking He objected also to Here's a health unto his on the ground that it was a cavalier drinking song The idea wa- that they go into a public-hon Nc'ami get two pennyworth of ale drink- hi- Majeri health or bo banged (Laughter).