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-=:=-2--==- -=- The Source of "The Ancient Mariner." "~T" *— [BY IVOR JAMES, CARDIFF.] Coincidences. Th No' v- ^UrirLr name> J^e ^'me of the Ancient J«mwV t0 been suggested by Cionft The ^es quoted in ^ords « Ami!1 a-re Produced with the ftnd tenni i -Se P.eri's (1) made most hideous ^°P« it n°+Sf in night season, and I relate w;fu IL. acc0Dnted ridiculous if I How and «, Meditations I was affected tions. amongst my ordinary avoca- c°aceivA^1Cfu afford the reader as I then ^ared r' these few ragged and "Pelt in ih1168 "me *n both instances being In the same way, r-i-m-e. Teared rimes II A an, any words more aptly describe the ncient Mariner," as penned by Coleridge ? No. VI. H 6 8^'P *n the poem suddenly sinks cau,e closer to the ship,. The i* spake nor stirred, And C*me c^ose beneath the ship, Undo. fJ:RA4SR,LFC a sound was heard. Still, water it rumbled on, and more dread The si^ sh'P and split the bay, k Wont down like lead. Whici, c tliat loud and dreadful sound, Like lIe 1 sky and ocean smote, Mv hn^ i **atb been seven days drowned, *UW?7 laJ afloat; Witl- ^S dream9 myself I found the pilots' boat," This aftft0'^a^es place on his arrival at afii°n £ « +1 strange and weary wandering l^ghthousA ?Usan^ dangers. He beholds the big o» t'le ^miliar hill, the ancient °ars> the nif f^untry- He hears the dash of hermit and +uS °heer, the voice of the holy Il> James's enfilot:s *• and any 0f X. ia.rrative we cannot expect to ^atur&l wi,- ri.c^ colouring from the super- ve find distinguished the poem but have amy„„Circ,Unastances which may very well The An ^e whole train of thought. hi* ^ar"ier of the strange voyage fr°m th- _.P (2) in order to preserve her C'rcfii»8iji er 8fcorm3 °*- a sea- 'le be no" only are interesting, but of +u- ^e'a'lin&j as illustrative of the the 9thing which probably served to fix tbeterlnd of Coleridge on James's narrative. I, lore, give them hat3, November 1631, after six months' ice th w^n^, and wave, and mountains flear J J? ^enrie^a Maria came to an anchor in08^ 'OT,r bar, which shut her out of is]4t)(j .fine and excellent harbour," in an ^sUnd ° sten';d by Captain James Charlton ^0*evp ln, honour the King. Posterity, Priate r> called it by the more appro- ^intername •^&ine3'3 Island. The northern ahead Was now uP°n advancing. It was to «nn» coId- Th« mist was turned int had'mdeed> b*een descending inten f°r S°me weeks- 'j he frost was • The storms were frequent and ifa rhe men in a pitiable state. any were sick. Jiverything right up to the "■e-place was frozen. The sails, which the Captain calls the wings of the ship, had stiffened into a useless (3) lump. The feeling «ad come, and had deepened on all, that ere they niUut spend the long, dark, reary monthg of winfcer jt live 7 doubtful whether the ship could Sea th? w'nter storms of the North ^r°baViy0 sns^'ain ^uman life aboard would IZ"?7, — be impossible. • was quite near, and to the ^QII^+I r on'7 boPe» the sailors looked *'Bk c aud lovin»1y- At length from the (4) miai?e the request that some little house e th i built a^01"^whereby they might ,,Je^er sheltered and recover their The^topsails were taken down (5), jy a fire, and stowed away between ^Wto n also came topmasts and rigging. I slarid and all the islands round were ^er 0r deer and signs of savages. Six Cafr'ed alWk*0 tbe new hocne. Others » K^^orta *u ^oofl and clothin<* and other f/ could from ship to shore, d^ ,We sensibly perceive withal k*l*nd' sink into more miseries. Was a'l deep covered with snow, the • • What would re5erver T i°Ur most merciful God and Leased °U 7 "n°w. As the storms of wind m'n f°rce t'5e danger to the hull & p *as i'6 an(i more manifest. The little and tossing against the 11 el J? j'he 10 danger of being blown on \V^rocks'> now bein^ driven W°ttghby /r re' say.s James, "{Sir Hugh ti,' °*»t (j0„.1y) came into my mind, who, was driven out of harbour in o.'Ahom n: an, 8o starved at sea Vb winl ° c'oc^f at night on November sto»m r,?ame UP at N.W. and blew a ali 'c^ wind (7) was off the shore, og^ u.s ]0 awaJ all the ice frem bn- '1 a bu^ore we were afloat. There accnn -r°llin& sea withal about the of^- Anfi^an^ed a great surf on the to s*a nr. +i°W Were we to tbe mercy a# in h j^rounc'- By ten she began hinst th bor dOclr, and soon after to beat lwr-v fifth u.nd. We thought that 'Wt0 biTV would have 8taved c»w ^llt. Vu The danger was great and *«vheld ^a" was best to do P The rP<J t0 + So'eIan consultation, and it was e(I to.take advantage of the first high W th dsePer water, and send the Dr 6 ?ttom, as the only possible 29t.es.e''ving her through the winter. s)je "e resolution was carried out. 'sinking she began, says n(,»el more and more that we could »s 5° any thing in her. Nor would k. a8 we would have her, but 8tl befoa. double blows, first abaft ftndu f9' '1 was wonderful how she i-fw it." a quarter of an hour an £ •j^ noon her lower tyre WJ? that -I 80 counterbeat on the b«at the bulkhead of the thJ^es, aj^°wder-room, and fore-piece all s!s fl' i w^en it came between decks and h wildly about, and the water -v ^onderfully, so ihat now we f.ii7 minute when the Bhip would Ittw her v0!]6068, 0Ke 0dock not er udder, and that was gone we till tj,lc way- Thus she continued W UPonth/ew 0'°lock, and. then th# sea 44 4p, I deck and soon after the Cf) r, stOod, uur nM-n. that were low," "d larro ng upon- us.aliuost dead vrk-h looL- J misery and their e^h uPon them again, and both ^*rin with woeful hearts." The f aUd i>) ff away. but probably the sun %lr«Ut 8ttn8«t, and V4 criny 8hapes that shadows wcra „ colours came." I k 0on Ti da*h of on" P °ts cheer, 4_tt I turned perforc&-I\wa.y a beat appear." «T«)°n' 8&-yft Janies- "Th« 1)0 ti4«ship." I n§ companion* eli to ge into her." There succeeded a moment of ter- rible suspense. There was some unaccount- able hesitation in the captain's manner. The orew appear to have thought that he (10) had determined to remain where he was, and go down with his ship. They frantically called to him. 11 They, expressed," he says, their faithful affections to mee, as loth te part from mee." (l I told them (11)," he adds, tfiat my meaning- was to go ashore with them. And thus lastly I forsook the ship." They rowed away with difficulty through -the ice, and at length reached the firm land. "Say quick, I bidjthee say, What manner of man art. thou ?" We greeted our fellows as best we could, at which time they could not know us, nor we them, by our habits or voyces, so frozen all over we were-faces, hair, and apparel." The sinking of the Henrietta Maria would necessarily strike Coleridge, would not unnaturally strike any and every reader as a very bold and daring expedient—very bold and very daring even in our own day, with all our appliances for raising sunken vessels, but infinitely bolder and more daring 250 years ago. How lift her again ? James was an intrepid and fearless soul. He who had the heart to sink the ship had within himself all the resources necessary to make her float again when the winter was past. He had in his own mind designed a system of pontoons to be formed of the beer and wine casks stored in the hold-a pontoon to be fixed on either side of the vessel, with cables passed under the keel, and so to buoy her ap." The incident, to say the least, is a very uncommon one. To a man of Coleridge's quick and great imaginative powers the weirdness of the whole scene would be immensely suggestive—suggestive, it might easily be, of the still more weird scene of the sinking by supernatural means of the ship of the Ancient Mariner. The leading ideas in both poem and voyage are identical. In either case the ship has arrived in harbour. Both ships are sunk —one by natural, the other by supernatural means. In the ship of the poem the only living soul is the Ancient Mariner at the last moment, as the Henrietta Maria goes down, Captain James stands alone on the deck. The pilot carries the Ancient Mariner ashore the ship's boat bears Captain James to the island. No. VII. The Ancient Mariner of the poem beholds between him and the sun a skeleton ship, and on board Death and the nightmare Life-in- Death gambling for the crew. Charon's* boat is older than Virgil older than Aristophanesf older than Euripides J; older, probably, than the Egyptian Ame-nthes $; and so is Charon himself, the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the rivers which surround the infernal regions. The British Arthur sailed to those regions in a ship of glass. In Teutonic mythology we have a ship built of the parings of the nailfi of dead men. In the great northern sepulchral mounds the skeletons of the warrior Vikings are mounted on the skele- tons of their horses or on the skeletons of their pirate ships. The Vanderdecken still haunts the sea round, the Cape of Good Hope. There is no maritime border without a skeleton ship. Coleridge himself had, no doubt, seen the plankless ribs of many a wrecked vessel standing forth out of the waters like spectral monuments. There were too many of them on every coast, even in his time, and under happier auspices they were rapidly increasing in number in all the shipbuilding yards of the kingdom. A skeleton ship was nothing new in 1707. The question which is of interest to us is -What induced Coleridge to introduce a skeleton ship into the rime of the Ancient Mariner ? What reminded him, as he was planning the poem, of a spectral vessel P What was the suggestion, the germ which was developed into the skeleton ship ? It is necessary to bear in mind that Wordsworth, as he says on Coleridge's authority, affirms pretty definitely that the poem was founded on Mr. Cruikshank's dream. It is necessary to remember, also, that for thirty years De Quincey, fully believed that the germ was the albatross incident in "Shelvooke'a Voyages." There was no possible reason for wilful misrepresentation. The whole question probably resolves itself to one of dates and reliability of memory, De Quincey's conclusion, formed in 1810,was pub- lished in Blackwood's Magazine in 1840, how many years after the conversation or corre- spoadence on the subject with Wordsworth we have no means of ascertain- ing. The inference is quite clear, that, for some reason or another, De Quincey had misinter- preted the evidence tendered to him by Wordworth. Wordsworth's explanation was written after 1840, at least 42 years subse- quent to the event. He spoke on the strength of some statement made by Coleridge some- where, probably, near the time of the publica- tion of the "Lyrical Ballads,"—1798. It will be seen that as De Qnincey, in all human proba- bility, bad mistaken what Wordsworth had said, so Wordsworth, in his turn, had mis- understood and misinterpreted what Coleridge had volunteered to him about the origin of the poem. Something certainly passed on the subject between Coleridge and Wordsworth. Cruikshank may have dreamt his dream may have been connected with James's narrative. The facts may have partially faded away from Wordsworth's memory. The skeleton ship and the struggle between Life and Death were very old and very familiar throughout the world. Almost the only uncommon thing in the picture drawn by Coleridge is the gambling scene, which is nothing more than a modification of the Dutch story of the aristocratic murderer, Falkenberg, who was condemned to wander for ever over the seas in a speotral bark, attended only by his good and evil spirit, which for more than six hundred years have been playing dice for his soul. 9 But in Captain James's journal there is certainly a something which may have been the basis of the skeleton ship of both dream and poem, the little speck which developed into a sail," and at last into- "Tliiit stradga shape [which] drove suddenly Betwixt us and the sun." In October and November, 1631, the Northern Seas were covered with an unbroken surface of ice. The mists were crystallised into snow, which both in the sunlight and the moonlight lay like a shroud over the frozen sea and over hill and dale to the most distant point on the horizon. It lay like a winding- sheet, too, over the deck of the old Bristol ship. It clung with strange, unearthly beauty to prow and mast and rigging. The crew moved about in shrouds of snow, like walking pieces- of ice, says Captain James, unable to recognise escb other by either habit or voyce, 110 frozen all over WE were— faces, hair, and apparel icicles hanging" from their hair and beard and eye-lashes; the forehead, cheek, chin, and nosa frozen white as paper, or white as leprosy, as Coleridge has it. A change comes over the scene, The falling blinding snow once more thaws into a blinding mist, and the crystals on prow, and spar, and rigging adhere more 'Mneid V.. 298; tRui. 202; JAJcestis, £ 63, ttl; I fDlod. 90. i Btebsteim Dentelies Bagenbllch. Wolf. Nitder !A4i dische, sagen 30. Tliorp*: Northern Mytholoy. 111., J9« firmly together. To the thaw succeeds frost- "The harbour bar was clear as -.Iasi, So smoothly was it strewn; And on the bay the moonlight lav, And the shadow of the moon." The Ice King and the Snow Queen are once more supreme throughout all Nature. It freezes until the bows of the Henrietta Maria, with her beak-head, is all ice half a foot (12) thick"; around the cable the ice is as thick as a man's middle the sails and rigging are covered with a coat of crystals the ship, hull and bow, and stern and masts, and sail and rigging, stands forth like a ship of ice (13) in a sea of ice, the very embodi- ment of Arthur's ship of glass. The sun (14) shines in the clear, blue sky, and it lights the spectral vessel with all the colours of the rainbow, the crystals of ice sparkling like stars and burning green and blue and red. It is a phantom ship upon a phantom ocean. In truth, a double vision might be con- structed from the narrative :— "The western wave was all aflime, The day was well-nigh done Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright sun And straight the sun was flecked with bars, (Heaven's mother, send us grace) As if through a dungeon grate lie peered With broad and burning face." In the gloss w, read—" At its (the ship's) approach it seems to him to be a ship, and again it seemeth him but the skeleton of a ship." Let us now turn to James's narrative. But first let me say, parenthetically, that it is not material whether or not Coleridge perfectly understood the meaning of the tech- nical terms used by the captain. I am dealing only with the impression which Captain James's words would probably leave on the mind of a poet uninstructed in the language of the sea. We could see," says Captain James, If quite through her (the ship's) seams betwixt wind and water." In another place (15) we are told, (I All her cut water and stern were torn and beaten away, together with fourteen foot of her keel"; much of her sheathing" was carried off; her bowa were broken and bruized"; many timbers crakt"; many other defects there were besides, so that it was miraculous how this vessel could bring us home again." The picture is certainly very much like the picture of a skeleton ship. (To be continued.) —— NOTX. -1. P. 38; 2, p. 51; 3, p. 42 4. p. 42; 5, p. 43 6, p. 49; 7. p. 49 8, p. 51 9. p. 52; 10. n. 52; 11. p. 52; 12, p. 42; 13, p. 46; 14. p, 42; 15. p. no.
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MEN WHOM I HAVE KNOWN. [By Charles Wilkins, F.Gr.S.i JOHN GRIFFITH, Vicar of Aberdare and Rector of Merthyr. It speaks volumes "—tha phrase is a medley, though a common one—that a Cardiganshire boy ahould have swayed the religious mind of two great districts, and gained two distinct reputations, first as Vicar of Aberdare and afterwards as Rector of Merthyr. From college to a tutorship, and from that to the charge of Aberdare, was a natural advancement for John Griffith, and in Aberdare he became a power and an institution. H filled his church to overflowing; he mixed with his people socially, aiding them in every pos- sible way, until his name was familiar on every tongue. In Conflict with the People. The only time that he lost slightly with the mass was when he gave his Blue Book evi- dence," and censured the colliers for their habits and for the too primitive way in which they carried out their sanitary arrangements. For this ha received condemnation-first at the hands of offenders, who did not like to be censured; and, secondly, at the hands of patriotic Welshmen, who did not like to see their countrymen held up to reproof. But John Griffith never stepped back from any position he took up. In his impulsiveness he may have ex- pressed himself at times a little too strongly, but he never said aught but that which was true, and, once said, he stood by it as a sentinel besides his post he mounted on guard literally by his word. This brought him forward into great prominence, and he defended himself manfully and showed that it was no thirst for notoriety that impelled him, but a sincere desire to improve men and to leave the world better than he found it. He next turned to abuses in the Church, and during his later years in Aberdare and his early years at Merthyr gave a powerful series of letters in John Bull, which must have had excellent effeet. He Was No Coward. One instance of his practical bent, of bis being as ready to do &i xo preach a proper course, was shown at Aberdare. He was passing through the streets one day and noticed a riotous assemblage -a crowd around a couple who were fighting desperately-and ne policeman near. Single- handed he rushed amongst via mob, squared them with his si ick, and scattered the-A. His robust manlihood and sturdy courage characterised hib life from college days to the And. He once said that at collegc some of the young men had got hold of the rhyme, iaffy was a Welshman and Taffy was a thief," but, he added, clenching his fist, they did not dare say it in in, presence." A Remarkable Transition. He liked manly habits, nnd did not look with dis- favour upon the spirts of the field. An incident of the manly art" used to amuse him very much in narrating. It occurred during the making of some portion of the Cambrian Line. Se was taking his usual morning walk when he noticed two of the men working on the line quarrelling, and then leisurely proceeded to square their diffe- rences by a stand up fight. It was so quietly done that he did not feel justified in interfering, and there was no occasion, for after a few rounds had been fought one of the men literally polished the other off in quite a scientific way. He noticad the features of the victor, and passed on. Many years after, and not very many before he died, he happened in a certain p-rt of the country to attend with a deputation upon the managers of a rail- way, and was struck with the countenance of the chairman. "Where had he seen it before?" Gradually the truth dawned upon him The skil- ful pugilist had worked his way up to greatness. It was the victor! As a Preacher. John Griffith was inspirational. Bo may, apd I have no doubt did, win hoLores mathematical at collf ge, and thoroughly understood.the teaching and rule;, of Whately and of Locke; but in his sermons, he excelled more in giving ,)Iay to his imaginative and descriptive power than in logical disquisition. Few men were better read, and yet there *as never any parade of his knowledge. Few were better classical scholars, but you had the s:p of the Horatiin cup and tasted of the VirgiSan horsy without being reminded of whose feast you were partaking, In his illustrations he was i ways happy, and would point hit lesson with an old-world fable or AD incident of modern time with singular felicity. In such an anecdote he always impressed one with his belief,now grown stronger in this scientific age. of a sentient power in plants, yet no ct e tnok a more stubborn side of opposition to the protoplasm thinkers, as we may call them. Hte Doctrinal Views. ? had many old-fv hionSu view. I l:'Te that, like many a classical mind, his opr-^na of Deity was of the paternal cast, fashi- ned in the mould of Jupiter, His throne the cloud*, than of the all pervading Spirit1, which, animating Nature from the simplest to the greatest e* her phenomenon, is now the doctrine in the higher schools of religion *nd science. He believed emphatically in a resurrection of the body even to the personal deformities and injurtes caused in life, and regarded the man who cited the growth of vegetation, of bushes, and trees la a church- yard absorbing the decaying body as a a^ptie, ,0- "00, .4: and for such had no regard or patience. While pinned to a belief in old-fashioned doc- trines, he yet agreed in a modification or transfor- mation amongst the workers, especially in that of the Devil "The Devil is not dead neither," said h, does he go about as a roaring lion. The Devil accom- modates himself to circumstances and conditions. He can be the Iayo distilling poison into Othello's ear, in many a way arousing hate, envy, bringing the worst passions of our nature into play, so that lie may benefit; lie can be the gentleman—no horn, no tail, but a brand new hat on and a leng- tailed coat, mixing in society, bland, persuasive, oily." As a Benefactor. The care he openly showed in dispensing gifts was often taken by men as indicative of a parsi- monious nature. Nothing was farther from the truth, but he took great delight in doing good by stealth, and at heart was one of the most generous of men. Many an instance could be given in proof of thisj and it is only in the belief that not even now would it be acceptable to him to have cases told that I refrain. But I must tell one instance of his public acts which will always redound to his sympathetic feeling. He started the soup kitchen, relieving thousands of children daily, and this gave great uffence to the employers of labour, as in their opinion it encouraged the men to hold out longer, and thus protracted the lock-out. But to John Griffith it was an act, not of opposition to the coal- owners and ironmasters, but of pure humanity. Man can take care of himself; children cannot. This was part of his creed. His Love of Music. It has been said of him that he did not care for music. Probably not of the higher class, but for the homely ballad and for the devotional he had. One of his favourite hymns was For Those in Peril on the Sea," composed by » Welshman. The finest anthem he ever heard was at St.,Davicrs by Mrs. Tom Edwards-" I know that my Redeemer liveth." It was the last she ever gave, and he remarked afterwards it was given with the voice of an angel. As a Saiiof. Born by the famous Bay of Cardigan, John Griffith's early years passed within sound of old ocean's roar. His eye familiar with Jack" on sea and ashore, he had all, the instincts of a sailor, and his greatest delight was to be on his yacht gliding out of the little port of Aberdovey. Years before he died one of his old congregation of Aber- dare visited him on board, and described, with the power of a skilled delineator, John Griffith at sea. The vicar was gone, the rector and rural dean were gone. There was not a vestige left of the clerical. He was the captain, with an eye for that cloud no bigger than a man's hand in the west there, and with an ear for the lap of the ware against his boat and the whipcord crack of the satL Then he was happy. And happier still when, after a plunge in the deep sea and hardy fare, .he sailed out until the sight of land waa lost, and only the heavens and the sea met. I have de* scribed,or attempted to:do so,in the later volumes of the Red Dragon my impressions of him after one of these sea trips, when he returned fresh from a communion with the God of Nature, and revelled in his description of the storm when the disciples thought they were lost, and of the sermons* so to state, handed down in Scriptural history. Then his narration was wonderfully realistic. He seemed to have been with the saitmaker, and to have engaged in the miraculous draught of fishes. Sfothfut Merthyr. I suppose Merthyr ia a decaying place. It was the Metropolis. It certainly is decaying in sound- ness and vigour of feeling, and, with the veterans who are fading away one by one, win become the village again as of old. Why do I state this ? For one reason, certainly-no one has led the way to place up a memorial to worthy John Griffiths. It must have been the darling wish of his heart to be laid to rest in one of the tiny and primitive God's acres by the sea, within the sound of its eternal lullaby; but did he ask for it? No. He had hosts of friends—Jew and Gentile, Church and Dissent—and be craved to be baried ia his own parish, in the heart of the town; and beloved as he was and honoured, how few think now of the noble teacher who laboured to the last few days of his life for the moral and the temporal good of the many ? Collegiate training and the touch of the bishop's wand may have given us semblances of John Griffith in outward seeming, but the sturdy, honest, and kindly-hearted man we knew and reverenced is the creation of other Hands.
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Great alarm has been occasioned inBradford by another outbreak of hydrophobia, reported on Wednesday, when a mongrel terrier attacked nearly a dozen persons—two, a lad of ten named Evitt and a young man named Gill, being each bitten in nine places. Six deaths have taken place in Bradford district from hydrophobia, during the j last three years. Duiing that time the police hare captured and destroyed over 3,000 stray dogs. Fair white hands. Bright clear eomplsxion. Soft healthful don.
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PURS' SOAP, for Toilet and Nursery, specially prepared for the de4leateskin of ladies ud children and others sensitive to tb* webtbo, winter or stunner. Prevents redness, rotichneas, and chapping. Bold everywhere. Lares Scented Tablets Is.; Smaller tanMftttedl.Cd. L5759HI IF You Suffer from Headaches or Biliousness, Try Kernick'e Vegetable Pilt*. They strengthen the systea. lid. and 2». Sd. per box. 6203 EDAD I WHAT PRICE INFLUENZA ? JD 100 TO 1 I DON'T GBT IT. I'M WEARING T YLEKS pURE WOOL SANITARY QLGTHING. MAESLLYN MILLS, LLANDYSSIL rS2933 OLDEST & BEST COUGH REMEDY, Eeatlng*B Loienges. OLDEST & BEST COUGH REMEDY. Keating's Lozenges. OLDEST & BEST COUGH REMEDY. Keating') Lo enffes. OLDES1 & iSlST COUGH REMEDY. JBr,ting> Lozenges. OLDEST Sc iTK.1T COUGH REMEDY. E sting's Lozenges. OLDEST & BEJT COUGH REMEDY. Eating's Lozentres. OLDUST & BEST COUGH KEii^DY. ANT POCTOR WILL TELL TOT" there is no better Cough Medicine than KBATING'S LOZENGES. One gives relief; if you Buffer from cough try them but once; they unit csre, and they will not Injure your her 1th; they contain only the purest drags, skilfully oombined. Sold every* aere tn 13fd. tins. LC322—2 IF YOU SUFFER FROM BILIOUSNESS, lalg..D.4.CHBS, INDIGESTION, or IiTBR COM- PLAI. TRY KERNICK'S VEGETABLE PILLS They are easy to swallow, being very small, requir no oonancment indoors, strengthen the system, and hare been tried by thousands, who pronounce th.'m to e the TEST MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. FB7MCXII YBGBTABLS PILLS strengthen the syxte' brace the nerves, and* puri ty the blood, and are universally declared to be the best medicine ever dlt* Ogered. They are r«?oiM»efcded to females <m all gold lM ?JA.. Is. ld,, u 2s. 9». Sfsu, Bold by CHvmists. M. 01 direct of KBBKT.CX wd BOJT. -CU- diH. low DAFlriL OWEN AND CO.'S ABO it AIL WAY SNNR TABLKB, TH" EMY <M PUB- shed t» I* 2». per annum free bv >io*t Mwrytttft (fc&lil* 11 :-==-==- -WHEELEXS SELECT SEED LIST: "Y^THEELER'S SELECT SEED LIST for 1890 has now been posted to their nume- rous Customers. yyHEELER'S SELECT SEED LIST Contains illustrations and descriptions 4 the fine3t and newest varieties of Vegetable -eeds, including Peas, Beans, Broccoli, Beet, lh ussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Celery, Cucumber. Lettuce, Leek, Marrow, Melon, Onion, Radish, Savoy, Turnip, Tomato, Potatoe?, &c., &c,, at prices at which they can be delivered Carriage Free by rail (except small parcels). w IIEELERIS SELECT SEED LIST, Price One Shilling, Post Free, Wheeler's Complete List of both Vegetable and Flower Seeds without illustrations, comprising all the leading and best Vegetables, and upwards of a thousand of the choicest Flowers, may be had Gratis and Post Free. T C. w HEELER AND SON; gEED ROWERS, GLOUCESTER. 8674aJ SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PBICa Sugar Coatdl. Farely V tibl8.; QARTEITS LITTLE JQIVER pTLLS POSITIVELY CURE TORPID LIVER, BEADACBE, BILIOUSNESS, DIZZINESS, EFFECTS OF TOO HEARTY EATING CABTEM LITTLE LIVER f ABB BQMCE0PATEIC IN SIZE, 1 ALLOPATHIC IN ACTIOS EASY TO TAKE. OF ALL CHEMISTS Is. lid. Genuine in Blue and White.Wrappr. THE T ViOL9HOO AL&SF CABINET-MAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS iNB "GENLRAL HOUSRrTJRNBHERS "r 5, ST. J OHFTS-SQUARE CARDIFF, FURNISH ON EASY rjlERMSi OR FOR CASH, DIRECT FROM THE MAKERS. THE ATLAS FURNISHING COMPANY coNTnnra TO srorar :j FURNITURE OF EViSRY DESCRIPTION T* HouseliaMer*, Lotoeri, Hecnaufet> %n4 «|1 Classes ia any Nation on their well-known JJIRE pURCHASE gYSTEM, The LibUalTerms of which are Acknowledged to be Undoubtedly the 103T ADVANTAGEOUS EVER OFFPIIR" ( IN CARDIFF OR ELSEWHERE. The Furaishteg Department oeaprisu BVEBY HOUSEHOLD HEQUIBITB. IHCJYPARG 8HBBTS, KNIVBS, KBTTLBS, BLANKETS, FORKS, 8AVOBPA81. QUILTS. ORUBTI, FBITDHBB, FIKBIKON8, The ever increasing Business of this well-knewn Ilms. and the very considerate manner la wHah they treat with all their Patrons, has made this Company tie most deservedly popular In the trade. Tasks, „ •. £ 3 Weekly Psymeats Is 6d £ 30 Weekly Payments Ue e& „ „ 2s Cd ISO „ h ifi £ 10 4s 3d £ 100 r, a 616 „ „ 6s Od £ 250 „ „ Wi £ 20 fs Sd 1 ALL GOODS CARRIAG i PAID within 289 Mile*. PIANOS OH BABY TBBltt. „ BATH CHAINS, ELTAilD, BAST CAH?UA6If» Lent ont on Hire by the Day or Week. -7'. and with Option of Pu-sm- CHAIB8LEllIOTltBTMrUTO PARTIOL. ProspeetQies and Price lists Post Free on applbattak OAKETS Wellington" KNIFE POLISH; 0 The Original Preparation rot polishing Cutlery, For nse wtth P«ros or Yiibtssi. OAKEY'S « Wrflingtnr" KNIFE K'LIStf. For Cleaning Knives Equal to Cutlery. i \AXET8 "wSin^n^CtflFE POI IStt5 V Used without t«»Wa» Yollsfrv ^tn>y:. AKET&aSgSn"KNIFE POLISH1 OAKEY'S WeUMftoa KNH B TOL'SH* JOHJT OAX!T*" £ fcfKCJCajmtaeUrrsrs it ■MIR*. CLOTH, ffESiyiKPTB* 4RIDQ<-B0AD. LOKPOy, ».9. DANIEL cnvFN. & eo/s A b Rirl-WAi" TIMS the onlyeae P«K IHhod in vral-s, pr'ce ld. 2t per *r.ri:rm- vesjsy It.