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NODIADAU CYMREIG. Gan MORIEN'L odd Jn hwjrr nos Sul pan gyrhaeda- ml» Cln kagerlong fawr Sandy Hook. Yn yf elem, ac, ya ddysymwth. daeth anJr 0 ^e^enau ° oleuni i'r golwg yn wasg- 11a am ^roedd. Pa le i'w hwna ar ein „ ? aswJ p Gwyddem wrth nifer y pelenau goleuui a welem fod yno ddinas. Yr ateb ateb oedd mai New Jersey ydoedd. Ar ol c?fDe^ yn mhellach, canfyddem ar ein n» £ yn y pellder un goleuni trydanol yn aweh na'r Heill, Goleani ydoedd yn oael ei Wed 1 ^aw anferth«l 0 ■r1 ei chodi mewn ynys fechan o fewn J pQydig o ffordd o New York. Gelwir hi uwies Ilkyddid, rhoddwyd hi yn rhad gan vij*1d? *r Unol Dalaethau ychydig o flyn- yn ol. Er mwyn i'r darllenydd rhywbeth am faint y ddelw, fo?;}0 e' thrwJn Jn bedair troed- at»v i° a k°<l ei holl gorph o faint cyf- m oedd yn ddichonadwy peidio a eadtvl fod ei thrwjn yn ddigon hir i arogli COrMes o bell J Deil un llaw i fyny yn uwoh *iphen, ac yn y llaw hono y mae pelen o trydanol, yr hwn a lewyrcha am filldir- edd yn mhob oyfeiriad. meddjlddrych wrth ei gosod yn y fan °n~-yn gwynebu y ddyfodfa o Kwrop, a'r gojetmi yn ddyrchafedig yn ei deheulaw— oead gosod *11 an Du Tries Rhyddid yn eroesawu Y cenheàloedd i'r America. Ar y cyntaf. yr oedd rhes o bigiadau hirion yn gollwng allan eum trydanol allan o amgylchedd pen y aaelw Gwelwyd, maes o law, nad oedd gerrnod ° ryddid yn dda, yn enwedig "pen" Jadid, a pkenderfynwyd diffodd y goleani yn "mhen" y dduwÏes. Y rheswm ydoedd fod y lath iP'yuodeb o oleuni lliehar yn y nos irr, V ^yryiu y morwyr agofal Uongau Za ■±J^Dir °'r gwaelod i ben y ddelw i-chant ° risiau troellog. Tua ohanol -York7 ^1Wrn°d diweddaf y bum yn New ddelw Tw? ^TTn. a«erlong i ymweled a'r eria'itn ddr,Rgo y cannoedd f0g J'0?' ini rhan o'r « £ l r a chul, a bum bron a Y?o5? 1 rwf yn y?tod y d*itb 1 11 °^wed sain pobl yn uwoh i ei_Z 7 ^ywyUwch; ac, yn ddisymwth, widld <an, yw. fy tnhen yn dy- f' „?! Jr wyi -yn IIewygu!" (Oh! I am tinting!) buasai yn gwneyd hyny, JL^ dyfodjyn ben-dra-mwnwgl i lawr yr elgynfa dywyll a chul ar fy nhraws; a digon <y £ .mai i'r gwaelod, gol-yn-nghol, a hyoy o latheni, y bnasem yn eyrthio! ^d, trwy drogaredd, ni ddaeth y lady i lawr. Wedi dringo yn uwch, daethnm o hyd iddi. oedd wedi eis(«dd yn un o'r eisteddleoedd aS «ydd wedi eu darpar, yma ac acw, o fewn oohr yr 8sgynfa. "Yr wyf yn well yn *J-r', pan ddaeth am yn ddiamybod i i, ohcrwydd y tywyllwch, igyffyrddiad a. hi. u hjny yn ddychryn i mi wedy'n; ond nid cymaint a-r dychryn cyntaf. Esgynais IfYDy i dalcen y ddelw, a syllais ar New York *i hamgylchoedd poblogaidd tnvy un o'r nenestri syddar draws ei thalcen. • • Ond yr wyf wedi myned o flaen yr hanes. Safodd y llong nos Sal, a draw, yn mbell tu- ^wnt i'r goleuni yn llaw uchel y ddelw, can- 'yddemresi hirion o oleuni. Pelenau trydanol 9*ddynt ar hyd oohrau pontfawr ac estynedig bp°i^"n' jr boll olygfa yn un jT rt.k a *wynol anghyffrcdin; yn hynod WMthif1 treulio wyth o nos- »Sr, ar11 fwrdd^yr16^'?nd eidd°V ll0er f'- SE' S'lw^Liaa-'fS bobl: I V' Pro^ n<i(i yw cymorth ya ftw5x i ^n, j.^01-0^ i'r werin ddyfod &,q cWrlf !ile' gwl*d eiQ brodyr y^deimia/t KV" t a.° 0 ran cyd" i'r 0es ^,wr.o ddynion yr ochr Unol T)ai °Lyn dirnad mainfc serch pobl yr Nid Cvmr„huQ. tuaS at Jr Hen Wlad." ?rJTdain 1° DT)1^ -vr w^f *n 61 feddwl, o.;d ydyw hi ? p on • Onid Gwlad ein tadau'' Wl»^ redaf fod eu serch tuag at yr pQftdl Imfo/0 debyg i'r hyn a deimlai y yn Babilon, tua diwedd y ■^d oedd fa ° o'u caethgludiad. PPJd hTrn'sv Wr- 0 honynt, ag yn fyw y fyQJddoedd wedl gweled an llygaid, en* ani T ynoedd Judea. Ni wydd- yn0 ond' tr F1 a'i hen deml ardderchog ^°iivnt »n ^-hane8- Yr oedd bron pawb o yr oeddvnt ° Babilon yn awr. Ond °edd eu tad Plywed ara Sion Wen Y r wrthynt n rrfi1 uau rnai»au wedi son llawer Sermon am Libann?' Aaron aV »\ i?1 *°yn enwedig am Mosea, telyoorion In ii" Ie>am y telynlau' a'r l!»wen chwedl p hWyl ar dd-vddiau 0.].L^ywbe^ °'r fath sydd yn eynhyrfn Wl,^ yr Americanaidd tuag at "yrHen hKli t' ,/d^ynt hwy.ffwlad ydyw lie y mae n iaradoaiaeth yr hiliogMth jn cydymgyf- arfod. Nid anghofiaf bytb hen Wyddel yn Pittsburg. Yr oeddwn mewn shop tobacco. Yr oeddwn wedi prynu, ond yr oeddwn un ÂlBerloanaidd i dalu. Yr oedd Îrishmsn-dyn yn rgos i ddeg a tbri- Qgain o oedran-^erllaw o dan effaith diod Sjdarn. Pan oedd',rn vn y bcnbleth, ftrwydd na chymerai y ghopwr arian I cly^ yr hen wr °'r Ynys Werdd I sibrwd, roegis wrtho ei hun, Byddwch yn s-redig wrth y bachgen Byddwch yn gar- r., "*?rtho, oherwydd y mae o'r hen wlad. ,rro&is i edrJch arno, a dynalle yr oedd ef yn aril ta,a'r IiawrJ a cfaan y«gwyd ei ben yn i™? yn°la blaeil» adroddai yr ymadrodd- ion uchoa. Yna daeth yn mlaen, achan Tn y caiGiai Americauaidd i'r shopwr, dy- eaoudj "Mi a dalaf li drosto, oanys un o'r fy^7w e' •' Rnoddais fy llaw yn Yn °2 1-P*ddy, a theimlwn bair Ceridwen YI, dechreu cynhyrfu. "Pa faint o amser gof • r,Pan ddaethoch o'r Iwerddon ?" Tnol^i8 lddo> "Ni fu i yno erioed," ebe fe f 0Qd un o'r Iwerddon ydwyf fi." Os y »ei?^ /no ei'ioed," ebwn yn ol, pa fodd d'odP" t^dywedyd mai oddiyno i chi'n wedod yn sarug arDaf' a dy ac 0nii j 1 °ddiyno oedd y nhad a mam, Wedi i»Ji w h/Qy J7 nn a bawn v £ a&tGan oWrthm, cYr,Ldclofais ei fod yn agos i'w Ie. d Gwuaed thai øylwadau yn y oiniaw faivr a j ni Delmonic°. New York, a wnaeth KitsoM 7-D Srjt ?yiwodd Syr James hyddai'p^6-1 araetb' fod yn credo pe horth „ ryd?in rywbryd mewn angen cym- io».0/uy edryoh am dano gan ei hil- hen uw x. menc*n*idd. Pan ddaeth tro yr cyfeiriod/.tWL/ ^adfrjdofi Sherman, i aiarad, a'i feen j J,^ir yr ^ame8>a cban awgrymu yW!?°dd' bod rhialtweh yn myned TrydanS g0n y byddwn ni yno!" enol « T\jyr ymadrodd yr holl bobl yn brea- enol. "Nos peneJiu nlo arddwrn." a "cbyet y hen *r Wa iDa d'wr»" ohwant cofleidio arwr ar lawer o honom. ?r °«dd aefvlKW^ ni09 Sul fajrd haoer nos- toll yseo^lj dawel yr agerlong ar ol ei aohos y.n ^hob oyfeiriad yn awr yn (>mreig iM 1 Oofiwn yr ymadrodd °«dd fy rnvf *?? ddymunol," fcc. ac yr y yrdodau wedi gyru cwsg yn mhell. Teimlwn ryw hoenusrwydd bachgen- t aidd wedi dyfod i fy ysbryd. Clywais ddy- wedyd fod fy nhadcu a'm mamgu yn eu hieuenctyd yn ami yn agor dawns Mabsant yn Ystradfellte. Tebyg mai yr yni naturiol a dderbyniais yn etifeddiaeth oddiwrthynt hvvy-diolch iddynt am dano, ao na dderbyn- iais ddim gwaeth oddiwrthynt-oedd yn awr I yn ymyraeth yn fy anian a'r tipyn sel Fethod- J istaidd o barth y Sabbath, gan beri i mi daro dawns ar fwrdd y liong mewn ardal bellenig. Trechodd "Shon Gorph" 1 unwaith eto, ac ni fu dawns. Ond gorfu i mi a brawd arall dawelu tipyn ar yr hoenusrwydd drwy gerdded yn ol a blaen ar hyd y liong hirfaith. Jidrychwn ar y ser,gan geisio bodd- ¡ loni fy hun a'i yr un ser ag a welem yn < Nghymru oedd y rhai uwchbtio yn awr. ] Dacw, mewn gwirionedd," ebwn, Aradr ) Arthur, ag sydd bob nos, trwy y flwyddyn, I uwchben Uwm Taf, yn aredig cylch o am- 1 gylch y seren ogleddol. Ond hawyr bach, y < mae ef yma lawer yn nes i'r terfyngjlch nag 1 ydyw gyda ni." 1 ft Fel hyn, wedi hir gymdeithasu i'r ser, 1 aethum i fy ystafell, a chyegais fel baban, c neu, fel y dywed yr ysgrifenydd American- I aidd, "Fel y pagan, yr hwn sydd mor druenus I ei gyflwr a bod heb glywed erioed fod y fath ] le ag uffern yn bod t" Pan ddihunais, yr 1 oedd y wawr wedi agor ei ddorau yn ddystaw, j ac wedi gollwng y ffrydlif goleuni ar draws I bryniau, dolydd deiliog, ac afonydd llydain. Aethum ar y bwrdd, ac 0! y fath olygfeydd swynol oedd yn y golwg. Ymestynai New York yn mhob cyfeiriad, ao yr oedd pobpeth I a welem yn arddangos cyfoeth a diwylliant y ( preswylwyr. Palasau eang a thai, a'u ffenestri yn adlewyrchu pelydrau haul y boreu. Aethom i lawr o'r agerlong yn hoenus ar hyd tramwyfeydd gogwyddedig i'r Custom House. Yr oedd pob un yn cario cwd neu ddau, ond 1 yr oedd y gweddill, megys boxes, i'w cario yno j gan weision y llong. Yr oedd yn nhy y dreth res o lythyrenau i fyny, ac yr oedd dodrefn pob un i'w osod o dan lythyi'en gyntaf ei gyf- enw {surname). Er enghraifft, fy lie i oeddo danylythyren "M." Y mae hyn yn rheol yn awr yn y gorsafoedd a'r porthladdoedd trwy y byd, ac, fo ddichon, y bydd ei wybod o ddefnydd i'r davllenydd a ddygwydd fyned i deithio. Wedi i ni fyned o dan arolygiaeth swyddog- ion y dretb, allan yr aethom ao i gerbydau oedd yn ein haros gan awdurdodau gweith- feydd America. Cawsom em swyno gan yr olwg brydferth ar dai mawrion oddeutu yr heolydd llydain y teitbiasom ar hyd-ddynt. Dyna oedd yn fy mben i o hyd — Ptant Prydain yw perchenogion y rhai byn qoll I" Yn ddiddadl, yr oedd y ilawenydd a deiiiilwn yn debyg i'r hyn a deinila rhieni wrth gaiafod yn ddisymwth brofion o lwyddiant eu plant I # Safcdd ein oerbydau o ilaen gwcsty gyda y mwyaf a welaia yn fy mywyd. Y mae biliau y rhai mawr yn fawr hefyd, a chawson ddeall hyny hefyd yn mhen pedwar diwrnod pan ddaethom i'w tain. Nid hoteli yfed yn unig ond un i breswylio ynddi ydoedd hon, ao yr oedd y pethau i'w yfed mewn ystafell o'r neilldu. Yr oedd tap a chelwrn o ddwfr at ei yfed ynddi mown congl o'r brif fynedfa. Dyma yr hotel gyntaf a dwfr yn rhad ynddo a weiais i yn fy mywyd. Ond y maeyn beth oyfEredin yn hotels America. Yn wir, y mae tebyg- olrwydd mawr y gwelir yr Unol Daleithiau i gyd, cyn pen fawr o Hynyddoedd, heb yr un { ty i werthu diodydd meddwol o'u mewn. y mae bagad o honynt yn awr na clieir yr un diferyn o un math o diodydd meddwol ar y Snl o'u mewn. Ni chaniateir i'r landlord ei roddi yn vhydd ao yn rhad i'w lodgers a ddigwydd fod yn lletva yn ei dy y dros y Sabbath. G wnaeth un on cyfeillion ymgaia i gael ewrw gyda'i < giniaw yn y gwestdy lie yr oedd yn aroa yn Philadelphia. Aeth un o'r gweiuwyr Negro- aidd at y landlord ar gais cyfaill. Daeth gwrytyyn ol gydag ef, a dywedodd Ni feiddiaf hyd yn nod ei rhoddi yn rhad i chwi. Ar ddydd adnewyddiad fy nbrwydded," ebe fi, yr wyf yn gorfod tyngu llw na wnes wertbu na rhoddi heb dal am dano ddiod feddwol o un math ary Sul yn ystod y flwyddyn flaen- orol. Heb i mi wnayd hyny gwrthodid adnewyddu fy nhrwydded/' Ymddengys fod y myglys hefyd yn myned yn ddialw am dano yn America ond yn y ffurf o cigars. Nid oes neb yn ysmocio pibau yn gyhoeddua, beth bynag, yn yr ardaloedd y buom ni ynddynt. Dywedodd dyn ieuanc wrth gyfaill i mi, pan welodd ef yn mygu pib, I- Gosodir dyn a fyddo yn ysmocio pib jwaa i lawr yn 'greenhorn' yn union." # # Ond i ddychwelyd at ein hotel yn New York. Yr oedd iddi naw neu ddeg o loriau, uu uwchben y llall. Yr oedd pob un o'r rhodfeydd ag ystafelloedd yn arwain o'r ddwy ochr. Yr oedd fy ystnfell i ar y ohweohed esgynfa o'r Uawr cyntaf. Yr oedd grisiau mawrion, eang, ao igam-ogam, i fyned i fyny; ond nid oedd not, yn eu dringo. Ai pawb i fyny ar yr elevator—peth yn union o yr un ddull a cherbyd pwll glo. Ond, wrth gwrs, yr oedd hwn yn Ilawer mwy mind, Pan yn scfyll ar y cerbyd, ar waelod y pwll hotel- aidd, bn rhai o'r boys Cymreig ar fedr bloeddio, If Pull up!" fel math o goffad- wriaeth am yr hen Solomon Davies dduwiol o'r Ddinas !—y mae yr hen Solomon wedi myned up •' i fyw er's llawer blwyddyn! Yr oedd ystafell y ciniawa yn yr hotel yn gymaint ag ambelll gae, Yr oedd yno ddjgon o luserni a goleani trydanol ynddynt i haner dallu dyn, ac yr oedd yno, o leiaf, haner cant o weinydd- wyr. Ond y peth mwyaf dyryslyd i ddyn o'r wlad yn nglyn a'r giniaw oedd enw jwb peth ar y hill of tare yn yr iaith Ffrengaeg, A wyddostti beth y dodent bytaten i lawr ar y papyr ? Dim ond Pomme Y gwir am dano, yroeddofnarnaf fi ordero oddiar y papyr, rhag i mi gael ffrogen, neu ryw gre- adur felly, i'w bwyta, mewn camsyniad. Bum bron a meddwl ar y cyntaf mai moddioo at y gwallt oedd Pomme! R
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Skaters Deprived of their Sport. At Wisbech on Monday an extraordinary scene was presented. Some local skating matches had been arranged on the canal, but a sluice keeper named Pogson-it is alleged with the intention to spoil eport-brokp. up the ice by letting in water from the River Nene. The feeling against him became intense, and a great crowd assembled, with threats of vengeance, nau his house. Pogson was roughly handled, aud had to run for his life. He was followed by infuriated pursuer", and took refuge in a house, Afterwards a largo number of people assembled, broke the windows of the keepers house and did other damage, also burning his effigy.
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£ 30 a Head for a Meal. I Thp.Lon<lon correspondent of the Sheffieíd Inde- pendent met the othar day a young gentleman whose claim to immortal fame, so far as it has been established, is that he has given one of the most expensive dinners of modern times. Of course, he comes from America. He is on bridal tour, and the extravagance in question was dis- played in the way of a farewell dinner to his bachelor acquaintance?. There were ten of them present, including the host, and the dinner cost JB300. Thirty pounds a head for a Ir.eal is not bad, The thing seems incredible, and, so far as it can be true, one is glad to learn that a principal item in the expense was the flowers.
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PEOPLE WE READ ABOUT, » '« Henry M. Stanley is a short, thick-set man, und scarcely a picture that has been recently printed of him shows his face exactly. The most distinguishing point in his appearance is his hair, which is plentiful and very nearly svhito- The Sultan's income is enormous. He draws ialf a million of English pounds from the State taxes; he is said to draw two or three times as much from the Crown pro- perty. He owns a very large num- ber of palaces on the Boaphorus, and a ;reat proportion of the best kiosks and villas on its northern banks, which h. grants luring his pleasure to Ministers and favou- rites, or to persons who have married mem- bers of his family. He is, in faot, the sole I n fountain of honour, wealth, and distinction in his country; every Turk depends on him For position and fortune; his expenditure is enormous; his oharities are said to be very great; his gifts and benevolences are equally to; he complains that no one ever comes near him who does not want something. It is said that 3,000 persons are fed daily in his palace, tnd that he sends out dinner3 to a vast aumber of others by way of cbarity. M f Some unexpected changes have taken plaoa :n the Episcopate during 1890, but no one )ould have anticipated that with the dying pear would pass away the venerable figure of Dr. Thomson, the Archbishop of York. It !?as, however, known that His Grace had been seriously ill for some time past, and it will be remembered that he was unable to preside over the last Church Congress. Dr. fhomson, who was born at Whitehaven, in 1819, was one of the bishops of the old school, and a contemporary and friend of Bishop Wilberforce. In this connection a very amusing story is told of the late Arch- bishop. He had been pointing out that he bad received a step in the Church for every shild born to him. It is to be hoped, brother," said Dr. Wilberforce, "your family will not continue to enlarge, for there are only two translations more possible to you— Canterbury and Heaven," The translation to Canterbury was early barred; Archbishop l'homson had to rest the second son. of the Church. Since the biographical boom in literature was started with Firth's ° Iieoollections and Followed up by the Bancrofts', no people, even af mediocre note, can escape the importunities of the publisher. Alive, they are incessantly dunned for reminiscences; and, dead, their papers, correspondence, and diaries become &s bank notes in the hands of the assiduous literary undertaker. Hr. T. Wemyea Reid has added to the already eonsiderable stock of latter-day biography by the publica- tion of to The Life and Letters cf Lord Houghton," and he has certainly acqitted himself of his difficult task with judgment, good taste, IHid ability. Mr. Reid has acquired an excellent reputa- tion for big treatment of biography. He is always judicious in his selection of letters and papers, and he manages to make the resulting book interesting. Mr. Reid, it may be known, is editor of the Specifier and literary manager for Cassell'a. He made his reputation first as editor of the Leeds Mercury. Mr. Gladstone, who celebrated his eighty- first birthday on Monday, takes luncheon almost invariably alone, eating only a small slice of beef or mutton and drinking one CI. of light claret. The afternoon is devoted to social or political duties, but Mr. Gladstone always finds time to tako a Jong walk by him- self or a drive with his wife. Occasionally he visits the theatre or opera, and invariably at midnight, but never before, he takes hit candle from the hall table and lights himself to bed. He has himself stated that be always leaves business outside his bedroom door, with the result that he invariably sleeps well. Mr. Gladstone does not smoke, and dislikes tobacco in every form. He has no need for stimulants, and scarcely ever drinks anything stronger than light claret, of which he does not profess to be a connoisseur, lie has a pro- found contempt for smart attire and a rooted dislike for new clothes. In town, in winter, he wears a tall black hat and black clothes, which inolude a queer-looking short overcoat with long cape fastened on. The cape, which is absurdly disproportionate in length to the coat, generally opens out as the wearer walks along the street, and assumes the appearanoe of great substantial wings. In summer Mr. Gladstone dons a tall white hat and wears light clothing, usually of grey cashmere. Mr. Gladstone is not a rich man. P:1 income does not exceed £7,000 a year, and the demands made upon the purse of a man in his position are enormous. SURE CURB for Worms in Children, Kernicks
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"dgnipu yu:" NOTES AND QUERIES" relating to the past history of Wales and the Border Counties. fContributions intended for pullicatien in this column shtuld be addressed ff Editor, Notes and Queries, WEEKLY MAIL, Cardiff." Real ntmesani addresses must be given in confidence, and MSS. must be written leqibly on one side of the paftr only. J WEEKLY MAIL," JANUARY 3, 1691.
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NOTES. SOME WELSH SUPERSTITIONS.—Moit of the old Welah superstitions are gradually dying out, but there are a great many which are still tOm- I moo. A strange belief is that which ascribes ill- luck to a person who, after having commenced a journey, turns back. There is a counter super- stition to this though, for if the person who turns back enters the house backwards, and sits down before starting again, making, as it were a fresh start, no ill luck will happen. It is considered unlucky to start on a journey or to commence any new work on a Friday. Welsh servant?, when entering upon their duties in a new place, will not, as a first duty, do anything which requires them to put their hands in water; if they did they would not be in that place long. Neither will they ever let the water in which they mean to wash dishes arrive at the; boiling point, being afraid of the disastrous calamity of not gaining one new sweetheart in the year. They are also superstitious as to the day on which they go to & new situation. Tuesday is generally considered to be the luckiest day To ensure luck in the ensuing year, the first person seen by any ono on a New Year's morning should be one of the opposite sex. A superstition regarding bees ascribes no luck to a hive that is bought; the bees must come of their accord or be given. This is not, however, strictly kept; no money is exchanged, it is true, but the general way is for the buyer to give the value of the bees in other goods. It is considered very unlucky to see a new moon through a window or the branches of a tree; to spill the salt at table, or to cross knives. A quarrel may be expected from the last circumstance. If a cock crows at the house door, if the soap falls, or the black coal in a fire overhangs the bars of the grate, visitors are said to be near. When dogs bark very loudly in the night whispers are rife that a death in the imme- diate neighbourhood may be expected soon. The hawthorn blossom and the pretty snowdrop are said to bring ill-luck with them when brought into a house. Kittens born in the month of May aro thought to encourage snakes to a house. Two candles burning in a room at the same time are said to indicate a wedding, as also does the cross- ing of hands at parting among a group of people Welsh mothers will not put their babies before a mirror till they are three years old. Neither will many of them think of taking the wedding ring off their fingers till twelve years have passed from the blissful day on which it was put on they believe that if they did so they would sacrifice all chances of happiness in their married life. Tontardydais. MORWYN MORGANWG. SUFFERINGS OF WELSH CLERGY. (ante Oct. 25, Nov. 15,29,1890). I continue my extracts from Walker's Sujftr-ings ef the Clergy Gelliqaer-Rer. R. Covey.—The revenues of this living were seized in the beginning of the Rebellion. In the year 1645 the parishioners chose one David Davies, an Aoabaptist, to be their tetcher, who was to take care of what the people might give him, but he was not to intermeddle with the tithes. Be preached down tithes for throe years, but finding Sir Voluntary less liberal than Sir Tythe, Davies became mutinous, and let to preach the Divine right cf the minister to the tithes, and a tumult was the result, and the said David Davies was dismissed with P.100 quit money. The godly people of this parish sold tho old bells of the parish church-the millennium dispensing with bells. There is a tradition in the parish that the bells were stolen in the night by people from Bsdwellty, and that theywerecarriod away in a wagon across Gelligaer Mountain towards Bargoed. The wagon got fast in a bog, and could not be extricated before daylight, and rather than they should be detected in their posses- sion they threw them into the bog, and the place has been called ever since pwll clychau." Hengoediana says that the above David Davies was a native of Neath, and that his elder brother, Richard Davies, Esqr., Penmaen, was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1659, and another brother under- sheriff, and the third a recorder or remembrancer of the county, and the fourth, Rev. William Davies, M.A., was chaplain to the judge at Cardiff. David Davies when at Gelligaer was enlightened as to the neceesity of being baptised, and he requested a Mr. John Miles, of Ilsoonl. and a Mr. Proud to come to Gall gacr to baptise him and when the parishioners turned him out of Gilligaer Church, he went to the neighbourhood of Swansea. He was then appointed, through the recommendation ef Mr. Myles and Proud, to be minister of the B-ptist congregation at llston, and as he was an able speaker, the congregation atllfton sent him out to preach the Gospel to the world, and dedicating him through their prayers to the grace of God. We find him next a minister at Lianharran. In 1651, when the Baptist Asso- ciation met at Carmarttwn, tlMy settled that wbeu brother David Davies was in the Gelli (Welsh Hay) that some brother from that church should be suet to Gelligaer or Lfatdiarran, so that the cause at Llanharran should not be interrupted during the absence of David Davies. In 1653 he took pait in a debate on Ca'vinisin and Artnenianism, against Mr. Wiliiam Erbury, of St. Mary5*, Cardiff, in Llantrissafct Cliurc),. Iu the Baptist Association at Abervan, March 1st, 1654, he was named amongst others to write a paper on the duty of officers and members in the Church, which lie reid in the following meeting of the association. In the same meeting, The Brethren from Aberga- venny requested the Church at L!an!ri-saut to send as often as they could, the brother D. Davies to the neighbourhood of Lacgybi.' Da.vid Dtivies was at Llaotricsant four yeor. and was dismissed from that Church for speaking harshly to some of tho Brethren of the Churchy" (To be continued.) Gelligaer. Ltwis EVANS.
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REPLIES. "TUMBLEDOWN DICK" (Nov. 29, 1890).-At one time this name was the sign of many a hos- telry. It came into vogue immediately after the restoration of Charles II., being a satire upon Richard Cromwell, who fell from the Protectorate perch so soon after the death of his iron-banded father. Butler thus alludes to the incapable Richard in "Hudibras":— Next him (Oliver) kit son aud heir-apparent Succeeded, though a lame vicegerent; Who first laid by the Parliament, The only eruteh. on which he leant, And then rank underneath the Stale, That rode him above horseman's weight. And, again, in "The Cobbler and the Vicar of Bray :— What's wor.-e, Old Noll is marching 07 And Dick, his heir-apparont, Succeeds him fn the government, A very lama vicegerent; Hell reign bat little time, poor tool, But link beneath the State, That will not fail to ride the fool 'Bore common horseman's weight. Until recently (as your correspondent points out) there was a Tumbledown Dick" at Cardiff, and when old London Bridge was in existence another on the Southwark side. At Woodton there is still, I believe, the same name, the tavern painting representing a red-waistcoated John Bull, boltle and glass in hand, toppling off his chair. There used to be one midway betweea London and Hursley, Richard Cromwell's us\jl\ residence. It stood on the high-road to Winches! s>\ hard by Farnborough Station, Booxv ORK.
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THE LOVING MOTHER'S LASti SHILLING, One night in the spring of 1886 Mrt. McPhee was sitting in her humble home in Glasgow. It was nearly time for her son David to be back from his work, and she was anxiously expecting him. Indeed, her mind was full of sad thought* about the condition of her family and herselfJ Her husband, who was a card grinder, and enw ployed at the Oak Bank Mill, Glasgow, for moM( than ten years, had died in 1882, leaving three; children for her to take care of as best she coulcu He had long been in ill-health, and could only make 18b. a week, and it kept them very poor. When at last, he died there was no one left tdr earn bread for the family except David, then at lad of thirteen, and feeble and ailing at that* Eight years had passed since then, and by God's mercy they bad somehow lived and kept to- gether. 1 While re-calling these things Mrs. McPhflft suddenly heard a. sound as of somebody fumbling at the door and trying to enter. She went to tha door and opened it, when who should come stag* gering in but David, looking so wan and exhausted that, as she sayq, "the expected to see him fall- dead at her feet." All through that fearsome nighc he lay in great agony. His loving mother nursed him faithfully, without resting or sleeping a; moment. She gave him some medicine they, chanced to have in the bouse, and applied hot flannels and fomentations. If anything werft needed to make the poor woman toll harder to! save him it was tha terrible thought, •• Whatg if David should be taken away! Wbat theoj would become of his poor old mother and thftl children? For he is our bread-winner and all we- have." In the morning he was a very little betterf' and the mother went to a doctor in Cowcaddens* street, who prescribed some medicise and a bliitsc plaster. Thic, David afterwards said, eased him a1 little, but left him so weak he could scarcely crawl. j' The good Jad got back to his work, but he wai a pitiful eight to see. Yet he bravely (tuck to hist work for the sake of his dear mother and thflt younger children. Only a few weeks ego, however, it was that David told the story which throws light on tha event we have just described. He says:—" I am twenty-one years old, and am at present employed at an Agricultural Implement Workeg Cattle Mar* ket, in this city, Glaegow. I was weak and gickly from childhood. About five years ago I began to feel very bad. I could take no food that agreso with me, and had great pain after eating. I had a nasty, sticky taste in my mouth all day long, but worse in the morning, and a strange, sinking feel4 ing at the pit of my stomach. Although I craved for food, it did not satisfy me, but only caused me distress. I was then working at Woodsaid'9 Bronzing and Galvanising Woiks, aud thought that the fumes from the bronzing did not agred with me. I fell away to a shadow, as no food that I ate seemed to digest. "Getting weaker and weaker, I gave up my e mpioyment and got another place, but was no better for the change, and one nigbt, in the spring of 1886,1 went home more dead than alive, and mother said she thought I would drop dead on the floor. From that time until November, 1889, 1 never knew what it was to be free from pain ilnd suffering. I went to bed tired and got up tirnd, and it was the taido all day long. I was that drowsy I could sleep all day and all night, but was not a bit refreshed by it. So heavy and stupid my sleep was that my mother raid, if a drum was beat at my side, it would not wake me. Last autumn I got so weak I could do no more then crawl about like an animal that is hurt, and I thought all was about over with me. My father went off in he same way. Mother was nearly heart-broken about me, and bad given up all hopes, when one day ill November, 1889,1 read in the Catholic Times of the wonderful cure of a railway guard by a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. "I read the story to mother, and we were anxious to try the remedy, though we had small hope? of its curing one in my condition. We had lost so much work and spent so much for medi. cines that we could hardly afford the money to buy the Syrup. But mother said, I DaVId, you shall qive this a trial,' and she parted rnth her hot shilling for a bottle, which she bought of Mr. Clelland, tho chemist, in Argyle-street. "After the first few doses I got a little better, and after persevering with it for a few weeks I gradually got etroager and went back to my work. You must not imagine I got well all at once, for having been ill all my life it wow impossible. But I soon began to eat better. All I took did me good; I slept like other people; the eight sweat, grew less; and after taking six battles I was healthy and strong for the first time since I was born into the world. It is only fair to say I owa my life to Mother Seigefs Syrup." Our informant speaks of Mrs. McPhee as a fine, looking lady, and of David as a bonnie lad, who appears more like an educated clerk than a worker among machinery. Divid's ailment was profound and chronic indi- gestion and dyspepsia. We extend our congratu- lations to his mother and himself, and earnestly hope they will from this time on eajoy health, happiness, and prosperity.
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