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Uosiiin iijuUu^ed. | "Periectit.n of Blended Whls '—La.i | 5 t EXCELSIOR 4 SCOTCH WHISKY J "We K«sxamlned analytically tins '«•- p Scotrii Wfej ky, ami lind it t > lie ilauturtit; exoelknt tJsvuur, nini well matured, • <■ 4 With c-titilicilet.- »afe iiTut pauiUiMe stin 'aj.?.. the*iek i conv»'.e«cent.° —Pravtitivtw, 1'. LxuD*Bmusxo>, M.D.. LL.D., ic. • SOLK PJJOyRIKTOliS- MARGRAVE BROS., 1 LLANELLY. f i for CARDIFF and PENAilTIT— MESSRS. STHANAGHAN STEPHENS. j EXCELSIOR ] SCOTCH < WHISKY,] "Keccttirnetided with oonfidenc-e as a Stiuui:»i JafTJ. Sick ami C'ljivuiusc-pnt. nd; n PnirUsiw* ? i —~ — — TRY IT. TRY IT. I i I W I LL I A, M-L- SEED AND SULTANA CaW i 4D. PER LB. j 1 Nothing in Town to equal this CaVe st,-th. j price. Sold elsewhere at 6d. and 8u. pA? lc.; Buy a pound and try it,yourself. T: e | o( the cake n ? the eating* j J WILLIAMS, | COLLEGE STREF 1" -1 THE WEDDING CAJKJfi ST3IJI Nr>TICBS. S^rANSi' If! ,'B A' CV"d7 i AT j'-ASSiVAL .:i f Wfei h*4itdi *■&>-■* Bila> on it&t'i. srs :ZUMER Sis, 1894, r vfi^- ^:V i sctti!. Longi dt Difser •>. 11> r»r,d Pais -h\ zutfc-B of the A p ;;fi'n:\?'lW tAj-Ci. v np*oa of ]f*?A{>r t.l ttc ubove rtc. -jimibkglAtii iroes Dt-own* ilife L&$- i-5# or .¡ A si 'la. 8d.; c; • at ? y.L'^namo-.ice 7.30 _;J ri* *r SiV* VI I KG MRN' S *LUB ^5 4 iHE- MI;if fjw>iEax¥. f,.A ElO K «,i'I filfe on the iStfc atid iStjlt ^sG-V J i-uriesA of the w u. s 1 \vi*i htH'tljf rfia 'v j [1901 TEJs or I «»' £ > ■ iv.'P '1 IlA L' > J i or C 2*. .v'"nu- hM'\ ~x> au? c°" 4.. Wlkf} a: \V A'. o A. Hit Ainu J U»a }),t.icl. £ 1735
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&tH4E en j T S Ii L.<o> \tl..LL J, î i;srt z 3Grief of uvac-i- ? 'J.1; t.. cii ui 'ie! -h tin- .tbt<et?& a. bc -*ri, \J; tlie ";ViLAI. V09 tup duty on ut?;■ io,f ii ifgiunst Hie -2Q Ib, .J! McK-^eyiam, thv» isjcjiaf%utarr juat 5<llB.t £ at £ r.;5urgvn f', rii?« S.i* V/v Iju rival (»nt ii' i ;va duty t '> a 'o%x:x& pt-v 'i, above thfiS- a^r-r «k» ■■c.ioxQ. Xinlev r,r-v- %'iaveri^.iioe per -> f yf corrcs- p V iJ>J!V4)e- V.1 j'n^uctioil in %J»f is kUll to; rciivi" it -r i iiH Pi ;».+•' ->uggeBt* tlw- -'V t by # ] tedu.i.:on ii. t ;n çou- ->« Xnci- •nSBfcgs to titc n>^ 1 & 'S+tujk it" ,.y«* 9. d.nu.nd J £ s>rfeo(i« xi» -.lAdr. of tii» 5 3?Sl ft *ntjis.'<ts it vas, »jb vt*pf/issib. £ •♦v, tMic. £ »* V» *if ■s<*a4 *fc*r euwot 1 5 £ >v £ s Tftfooat { Wksei 0| the j wjp InSio* and t • •iv~ '-■> X ■ "t the c n at OUT Ivr "• '? M)c ^SfctUiiCVucurs; •> i-. <■■ ing to touch the wage-rate. If, as a body, j they can hold together sufficiently well to | induce them to hope for success in attack- ing the waga-rate, they would, for the present at all event*, apply their strength to better and more profitable purpose by striving to secure better terma from the middlemen. Any giuns effected by cutting down wages would probably go straight into the pockets of these gentlemen, who usually secure their own terms because the trade is infested by the hand-to-mouth maker, who cannot afford to have any of his capital laid up in stock, and who, so long as he can make both ends meet, is prepared to accept the best offer lie can get at the moment. The question of re-ad justing the wage- list may have to be boldly faced some day if our American trade gets really into the balance.. But the day has not yet arrived. T'erhaps it will not arrive for many years. No one is able to say what effect pre- cisely <the new tariff is going to have on the iafant industry in the States. Our Liverpool contemporary is convinced that it will enable the Yankees to produce all the plates they want. Well, we shall see. It will be possible to judge with some degree of confidence in a few months. If we are to be guided by past results, the new tariff will starve out the American producer,, who came in with McKinleyism. It is hardly credible, as argued by the Liverpool journal, that I the American can produce tin-plates at a '^profit, when 64 per cent— fcimeitkKUythe reduction in the duty- has Uwju knocked off the market prices. To believe it involves believing th&t for the last three years they have been making fite or six shillings albol profit when investors make fortunes Mttoifas many pence per box in this country. Ae a class the American producers have not shpwn any marked signs of prosperity. Qa the contrary, nine firms at least have during the last twelve months gone to the #alL At the present time tin-plate manu- facturers in the States are declaring that they cannot go on unless wages are re- I duced. This conduct hardly fits in with 'the views of the Liverpudlian.. < One-third of our present trade with the United States is indisputably beyond the reach of native competition. This third tepresents the plates introduced into the cduntry used for canning oil, fruity fish, <&c., and in that form sent again out of the country. In order not to handicap the eaTnnajs each of the three last tariffs provided a drawback or rebate by which the money paid on unshipping the plates is returned when the latter are cut up for canning purposes. Thus they are really free from duty. The Swansea District seat is not to go a-begging. The possible und probable can- didates would c'l a decent hall. The two men who seem to come first in favour among the Radicals' are Alderman Freeman and Mr. Llewelyn Williams, B.A. If the alderman be sincere in his expressed determination not to be tempted away from business by the evanescent glories of a Par- liamentary seat—and wo think he is—then I the journalist who founded the Pest and wh ■ now serves the organ of the Welsh Liberal party will take a lot of beating. But if brought into conflict with Alderman Freeman he will probably have to b»4e awiiilo-for hia onLzv into Pa..liJ:lnW11t., &*<%he only conclusion j possible if we rightiy gauge the drift of feeling in the constituency. Some of our contemporaries allude to Sir John Llewelyn's disapproval of a persecuting policy on the part of the Great Western Railway Company in respect of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway as if it were a new thing only just dis- covered. In point of fact it is as old as his connection with the Great Western. As becotoes one whose interests are largely bound up with the prosperity of Swansea, and as one closely identified i from his youth upward with the old town, he has ever stood up for it. The singular thing i.« that a merit should now be made of it as if Homo sudden change had taken place in his attitude. Wo can appreciate I to some.extent the difficulties of the posi- tion occupied by Sir John on the Boaz d of Directors when Swansea matters are under trtatment. Resignation would suggest 1 itself as a happy release from vexation, and embarrassment. But such an action II would not suit Swansea. Far from it Better wage the fight within than leave the town without a single friend at Court. So we hope that, come what will, Sir John Llewelyn will stick to his post. Major Jones is not a success as a political prophet. It may be due to hi3 want of heart in assisting to bring about their fulfilment. Last spring, when it; seemed safe thing to shout and pose a» the fierce, impatient patriot, he said I Unless the Government will promise to cairy Welsh Disestablishment through all! its stages in the House of Commons I during the ensuing session y hat is known as the Welsh Par.iamentary Party will break up into thirty-one fragments, and then the druma will beat for a fresh muster." Wo do not happen to know what fragments" usually do when tlio drums beat for a frosh muster, but it is the fact that the session ha3 ended; Welsh Dis- ^siabHshment ha mot been carried through CI all its stages, and nothing very serious has h ippoiied. The drums xruy hava been beaten—some rnomber or another of "what is- known as the Welsh Parlia- mentary parts" ia generally occupying himself with the noisy instrument—but where" the mustor and the revolt implied r One cf the first to sound the retreat wa > the little Major. And he set the exam; 1; also.
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FOR THE IRISH PARTY, MR:" GLADSTONE'S CHEQUE The Freeman's Journal publishes corres- pondence between Mr. Morley, M.P., and Mr. Healy, M.P., on the subject of the subscriptions to the Parliamentary Fund from Mr, Glad- stone and Lord Tweednootli. Mr. He&ly asksii-the indupsadunee of action and free- iooi of the party is to be hampered or lessened in consequence. If they arc- retained he would be compelled to reconsider his relation to the party. Mr. Morley I dates that he knows nothing or Lhe matter beyond what he has seen in the Press, but his opinion is that instead of ask- ing IIr., Gladstone for a subscription, the thanks of the Irish party, accejipanied by a toiid memorial of his services, should have been voted to him out of their fund. The ingr&tHade to which he has been treated is atly capped by apposi ng to him now for a subscription to support them, Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., also writes pretesting against .he acceptance of the subscription, and irging that a meetibg «f the party be held at mee,
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iwrr"1 iri OUR NOTEBOOK. DISESTABLISHMENT. v. j dISESTABLISHMENT. [By 11 Makx Jokes."3 J A fall-throated psalm of thanksgiving arose the other day frem the priests of Cymru Fydd that assembled at the high place of Llandrindod. The cause of this unwonted gratitude was the disestablish- ment wrought by the District and Parish Councils Bill, whereby the parson and churchwardens have been disestablished in several spheres of civic and philanthrepic life where they had hitherto been esta- blished. By that Bill the parson ceases to be the civic head of the parish, and the churdkwardenB become more ecclesiastic than civic. The Bill does effect a real measure of disestablishsaent. And if the Cymru Ffyddites choose to give thanks for this mercy they should be encouraged. There is no reason, indeed, why Churchmen and Liberationists should not unite to give thanks Liberationists should not unite to give thanks for such an Act of disestablishment. For I Churchmen have no objection to disestablish- ment with a small j, but only to Disestablish- ment with a capital D. Indeed, the whole dispute between the Church and Liberationism may be said to turn upon the question whether disestablishment shall be written with asmail or a capital D. Kor does this imply that the question at issue is frivolous. For as the Church was once rent in twain by the letter i, and history has approved of the struggle, so may we contend over the method of writing the d in disestablishment, feeling that great issues are involved therein; feeliqg, too, that history will justify us. The d in disestablishment is pregnant with vast consequences. If written in capital Disestablishment—it implies that there is such a thing as Establishment, with a capital E. And this is the great primal falsehood, I the fruitful mother of lies, in the Churcb- Liberationist controversy. It is assumed by the Liberationists that the State, at tome particular moment of history, Established the Church, and that all the rights and privileges (if any) of the Church are derived from that Act. This assumption is a baseless fabric, for the Church has not been Estab- lished by the State it has simply established itself. And thus, while Establishment is a myth, establishment is a reality. During the whole history of the Church it has been establishing itself in this or that position or by modifying some I already acquired position, it has been ¡ re-establishing itself. Establishment (with a small e) is simply the totality of all those laws, Statutes, and ordinances which in any v.ay define the position and duties of the Church and her ministers. It exnresses, thero- fore, no fixed, invariable relationship between Church and State, but a varying and a variable one. Even the District and Parish Councils Bill, by effecting a I certain measure of disestablishment, is an I essential part of the establishment that re- mains. In principle, therefore, the establishment of the Church does not differ from the establishment of Dissent. It mUht not be I forgotten that Dissent is established by law- aye, even endowed by law. The first step in any process of establishment is the winning j of toleration. That is the foundntion of every establishment. And the Church had to win for itself, by persisting to exist, a tacit Act of I of Toleration, even as Dissent won for itself I an overtact of Toleration. It is these Acts ef Toleration, tacit or overt, which constitute the foundation of establishment whereon the I superstructure, consisting of innumerable definitive i*1' regulative ioww. Ife Created. AOQ owing to the age ana tiie youth of the Church and of Dissent, the establishment 011 of the Church is a more complex structure than that of Dissent. But Dissent is erecting I a goodly structure, too-a structure exempted by law from taxation, and whose property is often gratuitously managed by the State. I Nor is Dissent satisfied with the measure of its establishment. It wants furtherestablish- ment: seeking from the State power to take possession, wherever it wills, land whereon to build its temples. This may be 1 ight: but, right or wrong, it is establishment, and preferential establishment too, vrherebv I citizens who profess certain religious opinions are preferred to those who hold them net. Were ail the gifts of dissent equal to its power of self-deception bow irreaistable it would he. Conld it persuade others as it has succeeded in persuading itself that it may 1 receive toleration from the State, protection) from its laws, exemption from its taxes, I I assistance Irom its officers, favonr in its dealings, without ite beiag estttbhshod—its eloquence would become a danger to the State. Fortunately huoibuc, thouch powerful, is not all powerful And the day is surely nt hand when Dissent shall rot reap the bene- r I fits of establishment while seeking to deprive the Chureh of like benefits. I The Church, like Dissent, h:.s indeed, been established, but not Established. And having I been established, the Church has no objection to disestablishment--with a small <3. For as establishment is the accumulation of laws touching its life in one wav, so disestablish- j ment is the abrogation of those laws which nave been deemed absolete or mexpectienfc.and the establishment of others of a different j nuture. Perhaps, we may say, that I duiing the Restoration period the Church was over-established, and that since t'nodnys of William Ill. a process of gradual disestablishment and re-establishment has set ii. Now, far from objecting to this, many of us honestly wish to Lee disestablishment extende 1 in many directions we desire te ¡ see all Inw6 which hamper the action of the Chureh in her corporate life abrogated, and we wish to see her given greater constitu- tional liberty. B 't we do object to Disea- » -l 11 1 L« u ■ rt_ I tariisnment ni'vci wiejufs, i-ujeuy uecftuse It I involves th$historical fn.sehood of Establish- I ment: but also because, while Church and Dissent in England and Wales have been established by >■ similar a::d equal proecss. Disestablishment is to be applied to the Church alone. Disestablishment, like the Chapel Sites Bill, will be a great preferential \et in favour of Dissent. And Ave cm not ullow, without tho strongest opposition, the passing of s':ch an Act. Justice demands I equal treatment. Aguin we must oppose I Disestablishment in the interest of public honesty. It cannot but have an injurious effect upen the nat ional character when tho I partvot iiiel-unco guid "—the possessors of the ^Nonconformist con:>ci"nce "-reprobate ¡ in the Church what they exact for themselves, seeking to destroy Church establishment while retaining the rights and even the privileges of Dissenting establishment. When the "conscience" which is desirous to regulate nation*! life is thus hypocritical, into what hypocrisy will the nation not fall ? into what hypocrisy will the nation not fall ? When the conscience" is dark, how great, an ethical darkness will possess the nation The great need of Wales is a satirist to raise I honest laughter against the hypocrisy of those who say to the Church "Thou must not remain estabiished-it is "criteee," but are themselves established; who say to ih* j Church: "Thou must derive no benefit from I the State," but receive State exemptions and State aid themselves: who say to the I Church: "Thou art the Church of the rich," but are themselves the slaves and syco- phants of middle-class, dissenting plutocracy. Wales has material enough for a magmficeltt.11 satire. She await* the man. I' I'hf (J lurch, than, may very well object to Disestablishment, or, at ies.it, demand thst1 tines Church and Dissent are established by a like process, they shall be alike disestab- lished by similar methods. If Disestablish- ment, with the capital D, is to be the position of the Church, let it also be that of Dissent; if Dissent is to have disestablishment (the right of re-arrangement and of re-establish- ment), let the Church, too, demand dises- tabliahment with the small d.
1 OUR CORPORATION CONTEST.
OUR CORPORATION CONTEST. SOME CITY FATHERS WILL BLUSH; OTHERS REVILE THE VERDICT. BIG MAJORITIES FOR THE WITTIEST AND PRETTIEST OF SWANSEA COUNCILLORS. THE PRIZE-WINNERS. Our Corporation Contest has been a huge I success. Coupons sent by post; dropped into the office letter-box, or handed over the counter, have been steadily pouring in, and quite a batch arrived on the day fixed for closing the contest. Several points disputed over for years have at last been definitely settled-by-the great heart of the democracy. No longer need we be burdened by doubt as to which member of the Council is the wisest, the wittiest, or the best-looking. Like other vital questions nowadays, these have been submitted to Demos and determised by the counting of noses. Modern problems are all solved by the same infallible method. THE BEST SPEAKER IN THE COUNCIL, In the counting of ths coupons one gentle- man went off with a rush, and steadily main- tained his lead throughout. Judging frem the names of some of the voters, he found not a few supporters among men who care little for the principles with which he has prominently identified himself. Alderman Rawlings heads the list as the beat speaker in the Swansea County Council. He was 1 easily first with 132 votes next came Alder- man Tctton, with 63 Alderman Freeman, 47; while Aldermau Chapman was fourth with 29. Scattered votes less than 20 in I number were given to his Worship the Mayor, Councillor Rocke, Councillor R. 8. Lindley, Councillor Daniel, Councillor Harris, and Councillor Morgan Hopkins. THE WITJ EST SPEAKER. The unanimity in regard to the selection of the wittiest speaker in the Council was re- markable. It was a case of eclipse first and t the rest nowhere. Our teaders decided by 192 votes that Councillor J. Viner Leeder is the best master of wit among the city fathers. Aftor this we expect him to live up to his reputation. We shall denounce him unsparingly if ho does not furnish at least one sparkling jokelet at each meeting of the Council suitable for our Post Bag.' Councillor Leeder has incurred a fearful responsibility. Alderman Tutton is his only serious rival. His votes fell just short of a hundred—97. Alderman Chapman comes third with 23, and scattered votes are given to Alderman W. Thomas and Councillor Morgan Hopkins. Wo mieht here remark that the latter Meems to have had friends de- termined to believe him best in all things. They plumped for him. THE MOST USEFUL MEMBER. Opinions differed widely in the selection of I the most nseful member of the Council. The Mayor heads the list with 71 votes—his Mayoralty doubtless iufluGnced many. Ceun. Daniel comes second with 44; he is "followed bv Aid. Freeman, 36; Aid. Martin. 34 Coun. Mayne, 30; Aid. Richards, 28; Conn. Watkins, 21; with scattered votes for Couns. R. S. Lindiey, Westlake, and Spring. THE MOST DIGNIFIED. Close .,HInning between Aid, Mason and Aid. Tutton was the feature "of this contest. In the result the former won by 83 votes to 76; Aid. Rawlings being third with 47; Alu. Freeman fourth with 39; the Mayor, 28; and Aid. Martin, 26; followed with sioaitei'cU. vote# for Aid, W. Thomas, Coun- cillor E. R. Daniel, Councillors Rooke, Spring, and Harris. ) THE BEST-LOOKING MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL. There was only one man really in this race. This was Councillor F. Bradford, who won hands down with 172 votes, to 65 given to the next best, Alderman 'futton. Councillor J. Viner Leeder t got 32 votes; Councillor R. 8. Lindley 29. The four ought to make a good group, with Councillor Bradford as centre-piece. Some votes were distributed between Coun- cillor Rocke, Alderman James Jones, and Alderman Chapman. The luck seems to have been against Alderman Tutton, who took second place in four of the competitions, and polled more votes thun any other member. In view of a possible second competition, he ought to go in training for ono of the events. The duty I cf being strictly impartial, imposed upon restrains us from acwising him as to which department he may best abpire-vrhotber to I cultivate his oratory or his wit, acquire a more dignified pose, or strive to become mere beautiful. That, however, is a point which may sa.ety be left to his judgment. As for Councillor Bradford, he may hear of some- thing to his advantage by calling at the office. We waqi a canvasser to wait on lady advertisers, and the situation is at his dis posa.t a suitable reward for one whom o-ar lady and gentlemen readers delight to honour.
Advertising
THE AWARD. I OF THE lOBRMEV AND COUNCILLORS 0111 aVVAKS'A OOKPOKATIO-V, The best speaker is I ALDERMAN RAWLINGS. The wittiest speaker is COUNCILLOR J. YJNER LEEDER. The most useful member is I ALDERMAN PIKE. The most dignified member is I ALDERMAN MASON. The best-looking meiuber is I COUNCILLOR F. BRADFORD.
j THE PHIZE WINNERS.
THE PHIZE WINNERS. No one gave the nai:;cs c;:aet!y as decided j by the general vote, but three came very near it, Two predicted four corre.tty, ..cd gave tic next best in tho fifth case, one describing Ald. Tutton as the wittiest i s^eaKer instead of Councillor Viaer Leeder, and tho other Aid. Tuiion as ihe most dignified j n Uio place of Aid. Mason, selected II by popular vote. A third gave Aid. Freeman, instead of the Mayor, as the most useful men.bet. of the Council, AS Aid. Freeman ) was not second this coupon is not quite as eood as the two others. We nave, therefore, decidad to award Eight Shillings each to the I first two: MR W. A. MORRIS 1, Uowcr-street. bwansea: and MB. Hi". ROBINSON, 125, High-street, Swansea: while a third prize of Five Shillings is given the third: Mr. D. J. WILLI AJUS, II, Raima-street, Swansea. Cheques for the several amounts will be sent to-d..y to the competitors in question. -+-
NEW MAGISTEATES~FGR ABERAVON.I
NEW MAGISTEATES~FGR ABERAVON. It is. reported that the clerk or the peace I for Glamorganshire lias received an intima- tion from the Lord Chamberlain that the following gentlemen have been placed on the ComaÚlsíon of the PeRoce for the Abci-Hvcn District:—Dr. Arnalfc Jonc-, Acer, vju ¡ Conservative); Charles Jones, draper, Abervon (Radical): Edward Da vies, tin- plate manufacturer, Tcibach (Radical Edward Knox, estate agent, Margam (Con tcrvative); Lewis Lewis, retired draper, j Aberavon (Radical); J. M. Bmith, grocer and j ironmonger, Aberavon (Conservative); and H. Vivian, Copper Works, Taibaeh (Radieal)^1
THE POST BAG. * * !
THE POST BAG. It is a fact worth noticing that one of defendants in the recent battle of the boohi* and the stipendiary magistrate who tried were both educated at Rugby, though not, course, at the same time. I 1 There was a big argument in one of up trains this (Monday) morning. It aroflJ through the overcrowding of several of tlIi I compartments, and a Swansea Socialist Ok. ing why first-class passengers should loun" three aside. A dealer in the Swansea Market who It noted for his honesty was heard to rem* the other day that he neither experienced tb* bitterness of being sold nor the IweetllfSl of selling." That Madame Patti once sang a gloo sottf in a Welsh cottage in return for a glass Of milk is not only true, but it is a thing wbiell has its equal every day that Madame is in tb* neighbourhood of Craig-y-Not. A Post man who saw the sc/i-disa*^ prophet Elijah in a cell at the Guildhall 00 Saturday afternoon, swears that a goe* fumigation would have done his allege holiness more good than all the chariots fire ever dreamed of. Miss Talbot, ef Margam, is an amateur photographist. She has a fine c- lection of views frem the sea voyages she took in the past in company with her father, it includes some splendid photographs of tilt father of the House of Commons. One of the workmen now engaged in OV cavating Wind-street for sewerage purposa* was overheard to tell a comrade that thtf had got to the bottom at last, rand would n00 have to go underneath it. "And in the 10"- deep a lower deep."—Vidi. Paradise Lost." An inmate of the Workhouse recently asdo, a complaint to Mr. Birch am. He said that b0, had not seen the Visiting Committee go rotm^ for several weeks. Mr. Bircham sympathise^ with him, and did not forget to remind tb» members of their duty. Subsequently bJi. learnt that the inmate was blind. Mr. Tom Costello, during a recent en- gagement at Manchester, was waited upon VT- a deputation of lame and cork-:egged who asked him to refrain from singing Trinity Church I met my doom," On *h* other hand, many 'Swansea lame men ba** been highly amuMdJby it. -& An old story antvived by-the H-ail th-b1 which says that a Swansea amateur tonoo, with a big voice was recently confidential^ telling his friends that The deuce of it don't you know, when yeu come on you deo^ know what to do with your hands." ww don't you try shoving them in your mouth said an impolite ruffian forming one-of company. A certain Swansea «;c £ st is making aN effort to break his neck. He should be>es*2 ful, however, that in trying to attain his eop he doesn't cause any body else to Buffe&j The gentleman in question tried to race the Mumbles car on Tnursday evening, in so doing nearly knoaked two pedes over. By the way—tbe point is scarcely worth noticing—he came a terrific and must feel tore to-day. Two Swansea policemen were'fairly vse^W prised the other evening when a complained to them that his fcoota vhad be^j stolen off his feet. However, at bis- they accompanied him in pursuit of the thi whom he proceeded to track through t co* of public-houses. In one of theseiie himself arrested by a Llanelly policeman a charge of stealing money, and when* t other two at length ran the boot thief to 1,1 they could not find a prozecutor. The Cardigan guardians were last week that one David Jeremiah, an ivo mate of the Cardigan Workhouse, was charg*" I able to Swansea Union. There was, said the elerk, a cheap excursion to Swansea 00 Thursday, and, perhaps, it would be as vvelli for him to go by it. Mr. T. Llewelyn: AJaClA there is a horae show there as well, I think* (Laughter.) The Clerk: I don't take Uluøll interest in horses a bicycle is more in 011 re. -The neccessary order for the elerk visit Swansea was made. AXianelly violinist was recently practising in one of the rooms of the AthenæUIØ Hall when a gentleman entered the room saying, "Excuse me, sir, but wb»^ is your name" ? The violinist gave the desired information, and the pair fell intø conversation. Just as the stranger WAO leaving, the instrumentalist ventured to £ "And may I ask, air, wbat your name is ? Oh," was the ready reply, I am liir Arthur Stepney." The anecdote reminds us ot another visit once paid to the same hall by Sit Arthur. An art-loan exhibition was about to .bc held, and the ex-member entered the roOøJ just in time to see a workman falling through one of the pictures lent by him. I The smartest thing one Bwanaea parel ever accomptiahed in the way of reporting occurred many years ago. The Rev. David I' Da vies, of Stockwell,was announced to preach in Merthyr. His sermon had already ap" peared in the Homilist, of which periodical I Mr. Thomas was the editor, and a cop" of that paper was duly handed in at the Swansea offiee in order that the discourse might be j got into type. The sermon was published in exienso in the enterprising sheet, with such annotations as to its excellence, and th* thrilling effect it had on the audience, as cir- cumstances would seem to justify. It turned cumstances would seem to justify. It turned out that the rev. gentleman missed the train, and t'ae sermon, for obvious reasons, was not preached at ail. Trifles like this make Iii- I tolerable. i This is English as she is sometimes spok«c at Swansea when the hot weather brings the fiies and cheap-trippers, A company of the latter stood and listened to a row at the end of the street. Quoth he, Tell what's the matter there, I shouldn't wonder ? and his friend sagely rejoined, I don't knew, so tbey tellnie." This reminded a correspondent of the etory told of the two Frenchmen, each Of whom claimed to tioLv,,3 the firmer grip on th* English tongue. Tbev laid a wager, appointed a referee, and the first started off with his eppcimec Did it rain to-morrow ? Eec it was," added the rival, and the referee de- cided in favour of both, and they took three" of absinthe with the stakes. Four youths were summoned at Swansea racentij for playing cards in a public place. It appears that a police officer came upoe them suddenly on all fours, and accuse** tkem ef being knaves. They retorted that they were not playing for filthy (l)ruchre, and asked him what the deuce he mea*t» Two of them managed to shuffle off, bnt the otliers, although they tried hard to quaintance with tha policeman, and y,rf* within an are of pegging out, were to don the handcuffs,and pack themselves" to a temporary crib provided by the Govern- ment. They interviewed lb? magistrate^ and after a nap said, Your Honours, the police are only trying to irump up a against us." The Bench replied, Whist. condemned the trick, and, tlealiny lenienW with them, recommended the use of » and hoped the punishment would fUit,