Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

(Copyright.) I TWO WIDOWS. The two widows were Mrs. George Knowle: and Mrs. JReginald Loch. Death came to the home of each almoatsimultaneously. On the Monday night Mr. George Knowles died from pneumonia, after a fortnight's illness, and twenty-four hours later. Captain Loch slipped on the icy pathway, struck his head against the kerbstone, was carried insensible to his home in Cromwell-place, and died before the grey streaks of a December morning heralded the advent of another day. Mr. George Knowles was a solicitor in good practice, and sixty-five at the time of his death Captain Reginald Loch was but thirty- five, and had but a paltry sixty pounds a year to leave behind him, to add to his widow's pension. ^rS" "^now^es sat beside her dead in the large bedroom in their house in Blooinsbury-place. I It was solidly nnd comfortably furnished, but contained none of the dainty and rare knick- knacks which made Mrs. Reginald Loch's bed- room like a fairy boudoir. Mrs. Knowles was fifty-six, stout and florid, with a frank, kind face, that had never been considered beautiful by anyone but the man who loved her. There was little in her appearance or manner to indicate the horrible heart-anguish she was enduring and the ser- vants passing noiselessly to and fro remarked to each other that "missus was bearing up wonderful well." Mrs. Knowles's nature had never been an expansive one, and she had neither given nor cared to receive sympathy and confidence from outsiders. Her marriage had been an exception- ally happy one: Ilusband and wife were thoroughly congenial and sufficient the one to the other. Each was a tower of strength to the other, and each turned to the other iu We hour of joy and sorrow, certain of finding com- plete sympathy and consolation. This sympathy and support had never failed either during thirty years of married life. Two children had been born to the Knowles-a son and a daughter. The daughter was well married, and the son was his father's partner, and lived at home. The children had added to the happi- ness and brightness of the home circle, but Mrs. Knowles, sitting with cold, clasped hands, watching the still face that would never more light up with love at her approach, found little comfort in the thought that she had still a son and daughter left to her. She loved them, and they loved her, but, oh, what a different kind of love it was to the love she had lost for ever She got the credit of bearing up well, and—if the truth must be told—of also being slightly devoid of deep feeling. There was no danger of any such accusation being made against the young widow in Cromwell-place. She was not in the room with her dead husband. He lay on a couch in the small morning-room off the hall, I into which he had been carried the previous evening. Mrs. Reginald Loch had been carried from the room when the doctor pronounced the dread sentence that life was extinct, shrieking hysterically, and had been more or less hysterical ever since, getting only such brief natches of sleep as were induced by the opiate given to her. She was surrounded by sympa- thising friends, who saved her from all need of thinking or doing anything. She was too nervous to be left alone, and too terrified to dare to take another look at the rigid, ghastly form that lay below. Her sunny, brown hair was rumed, and her pretty face red and swollen with weeping, but she was young and pretty through it all, and I her late husband's brother-officers and friends I were influenced by the fact, and one and all felt that no sacrifice on their part could be too great, if it saved the young, heart-broken widow one care or one effort. ) She and her husband had got on as well aa most married couples, with occasional tiffs and periods of coldness, followed by demonstrative devotion when they again became reconciled. On the whole, they had got on very well, and as AgneS Loch lay back on the soft cushions of a comfortable easy-chair, before her cosy I bedroom fire, pressing a flimsy handkerchief, steeped with eau-de-Cologne, to her burning I forehead, and enveloped in clouds of billowy lace and clinging white silk, she was the very em- bodiment of correct, inconsolable grief, and a far more attractive and to-be-pitied individual than the stout, elderly widow who, without any great evidence of heart-break, had taken her usual place beside her son at the ordinary dinner-table. Mr. George Knowles had been Captain Reginald Loch's solicitor, and there was some distant connection between the two, which was deemed sufficient by the young widow to entitle Alfred Knowles to assume the of cousin twhen, as his father's successor, he came to talk I' 'over business matters with her. Upon learning how little she had to live upon, Mrs. Reginald Loch bitterly bemoaned I her sad fate. Fortunately, the rent of the house was paid to the middle of the following year, and there was no need for her to leave her pretty home. She declared, between her sobs, that it would break her heart to do so, and that if she had to live on bread and water, and to do all the housework herself, she would try to stay on. The mere idea of the dainty, pretty little woman, either living on hermit'.s fare, or soil- ing her taper fingers with sweeping and dusting, was so awful to all to whom she confided her plan, that they resolved that, come what might, the dear little widow should not suffer. Thus it came about that after a secret con- j fabulation with old Colonel Marshall, the f>arlour-maid—who had been under notice to eave—told her mistress that both she and cook had made up their minds that they could not part from her, and that they were willing to had made up their minds that they could not part from her, and that they were willing to remain on without wages, which Mrs. Loch I repeated to all her visitors, with tears in her eyes, and which was quoted as proof of her kind I and considerate treatment of her servants. Mrs. Loch rather astonished Alfred Knowles and others, who deemed her incapable of aay shrewdness, by suggesting that they should find a good-paying guest to live with her, and lighten expenses but even this suggestion came to be regarded as one which had first originated in somebody else's mind. In the course of a few months a rich Scotch spinster was found, who was willing to pay » hundred and fifty pounds a year in return for I the social advantages promised to her by the widow. Having entered into this agreement, I Mrs. Loch felt bound to carry it out, and therefore brought her paying guest about as much as was compatible with the retirement prescribed by decorum. Meanwhile, Mrs. Knowles, in her large, gloomy house in Bloomsbury, was outwardly pursuing the even tenour of her way, but in reality was incessantly missing and grieving after the husband she had lost. Even the society of her son, which had in a measure lightened her solitude, began to fail her. Alfred Knowles now frequently spent his evenings from home, and accounted for his absence by telling his mother that he had been talking business with poor Agnes, and trying to cheer the poor little woman up. The other woman thought, with a pang, that she too might have been pitied and cheered up. But who cared now ? When she lost her husband she lost her only true and close friend, and it was but natural that she should be left alone. She accepted the situation as part of her heavy cross. Miss McVetch was forty and ill-favoured, but wished to settle herself; and as her fortune was large, she might have dohe so, as Mrs. Reginald Loch sweetly assured her she could ea.sIly do, had she been satisfied to wed either of the two impecunious and uninteresting suitors suggested to her by the widow. But as many charming men came to see her hostess, the Scotch lady saw no reason why she should not find someone more to her taste. Then words were exchanged, when the spinster perceived that the widow was the attraction, and Mrs. Reginald plaintively, but with a twinkle in her eye, implored her admirers to "make them- selves nice with her guest, and they all had a good laugh over Miss Me Vetch's matrimonial aspirations. Matters got worse. The Scotch visitor did not hesitate to call Mrs. Loch "a 81y little flirt," and finally to announce her intention of taking her departure to some more disinterested chaperon. The widow's grief and perplexity brought Alfred Knowles to the point. He was decidedly the beat-off of her admirers; and when he proposed, was accepted very sweetly. r [IjuiEKD.] —

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BRONCHITIS AND ASTHMA. TURNED OUT OF AN INFIRMARY. CURED BY VENO'S LIGHTNING COUGH CURE. Edward Pugh, 156, Stephenson-street, North Shields, writes as follows "I was six weeks in the Newcastle Infirmary, and was given up by eight doctors, who said I had Chronic Bronchitis and Asthma, and that I could not be cured. I could: not lay straight down in bed I had to use a. bed rest. I coughed incessantly, was very weak, and had attacks of suffocation at night; that is the reason I could not lay straight down in bed. I had been off work for two years. Since commencing Veno's Lightning 0011tgh Cure I do not need my bed rest, I can lay straight down in bed. I have not the bad attacks at night, neither do I cough, the wheezing has entirely gone. I am a deal stronger, and can I walk about, and feel as though I would soon be able to work." CAUTION.—Ask for Veno's Lightning Cough I Cure; be sure you get it. Avoid the dealer who tries to palm off another medicine. Price, Is l^d and 2s 9d. All Chemists and Medicine Vendors.

DOLGELLEY COUNTY COURT. FRIDAY.—Before his Honour Judge Evans. CASE FROM DYFFRYN.—John Griffith, Llwynmarch. Dyffryn, sued William Roberts. shoemaker, Dyffryn, for the recovery of £6 38 in a dispute having reference to grazing land.—• Mr R.'D. Richards appeared for defendant, and Mr Oswald Davies for plaintiff.—John Griffith sk. id. that there was an agreement between them » that he was to get four loads of manure for the I use of his grazing land, but plaintiff had not received them.—In his evidence defendant said I that the misunderstanding was due to the i plaintiff having sold for 2s 6d a picture valued afterwards at £ 500.—Judgment for defendant. I CLAIM FOR COMMISSION. — Richard Vaughan sued William Bushby, Llangollen. for commission for selling lime on his behalf.— Bushby said that the claim should not be made against him, but against the company, but the Judge said that he was responsible as he received the money.—Judgment for the sum claimed with I costs. COST OF PRINTING.—Mr Rees, Aber- I ystwyth, sued D. E. Davies, Barmouth, for the reoovery of the sum of 18s 6d. the cost of print- ing some cards.—Mr R. Guthrie Jones appeared for tha defendant.—R-ees said that. he had re- j ceived an order for 5000 cards from defendant at j the rate of 14s 6d per thousand. but when ha took the proof, a disagreement ensued respecting the price, and Davies refused to take the cards, and Rees claimed 18s 6d, the costs of setting the same.—A compositor from Aberystwyth testified that 6s 6d would be quite enough for the job, and Mr Edward Williams, Dolgelley, said that 7s or 7a 6d would be ample.—The Judge gave I judgment for 7s 6d.

A TAME BADGEK. Mr E. Lort, of Vaynol Park, writes a charm- ing article in the "Field" under this heading The fact that badgers are noctural in their habits, and seldom seen abroad by daylight, causes them to be very little known even by those who live in a district where these anima.Is are common; hence few people seem to know anything of their ways or their mode of getting their living. As a rule, badgers are character- ised as destructive to game, inimical to foxes by dispossessing them of their earths, generally obnoxious, and to be got rid of wherever and whenever practicable. Having lived for many years in a part of North Wales where badgers are not onlv numerous, but also, I am glad to say, receive consideration and protection, I am not of this way of thinking. I believe the badger is a much maligned animal, and only de- serves to be better known to be more appreci- ated. Moreover, having brought up one of these animals from a cub, and made it tame enough to follow me about li.ka a dog, I have had ample opportunitv of noting its interesting ways and friendly disposition. Sally was considered to be about three months old when she was un- earthed after two or three days' hard digging in an old stronghold, at which several men had to be employed. A tremendous male badger, said to weigh 401bs., was first got out, and im- mediately afterwards a big vixen. Next came my Sally, and her brother Jack. who, sad to say, subsequently died, notwithstanding an at- tempt to tame and rear him. I am thus able to say tha- I had met Sally's father and mother m fact, all her near relatives. I shall never forget how hopeless it seemed to try and tame this badger cub, for when she was not rolled up in a touch-me-not sort of a ball, she was snapping and biting at everything. There was nothing for it but to tackle her in a determined way, and this I did by getting hold of her by the scruff of the neck, not by any means an easy thing to do, for she could so raise the muscles of her neck that her skin' be- came perfectly tight and rigid. I found that, like other animals, .she enjoyed .being rubbed and scratched, and upon closer inspection, I discovered that behind her ears a small para- site (Trichodectes), often found upon puppies, lived in profusion. A scientific friend assured me that these vermin could not live on man • and thus emboldened, I got still further into her good books by destroying her troubles with vinegar and watdr The taming of SaUy was made more awkward than it would otherwise have been by the fact that she refused to eat anything for the first fortnight, though she afterwards took milk with evident relish. The first thing she condescended to eat was a fresh rabbit's liver finely chopped. By spending much time and patience with her, she eventually surprised everyone about the. place by following me everywhere, and anxiously giving tongue for fear of losing me when I went too fast for her. In this old oak panelled house, when we first eamie to live here, beetles sorely vexed our housekeeper, and indirectly vexed us, too. for every time she saw one she gave such a heart- rending scream that I thought she must have seen a ghost, for somehow the iold place was creepily suggestive of one. Well, I ohanced one day to mark an extra fine black beetle, and I persuaded the old lady to keep an eye upon it while I ran for SaJly, when the prompt way in which she despatched that beetle, after hunting it from under the stair carpet, redounded to her advantage in the pick of the bones, and plenty of stock-pot meat, so ticklish to her taste, and Sally continued her useful attentions to the beetles. As for m^es, she must have been born with a perfect knowledge of the art of catching them; in fact, in Sally's paws it became a science. She first listened along the surface of the ground, and having located her quarry, promptly dug down. The firmest turf on the driest summer day gave way to her claws in a way that was simply marvellous, and when I essayed to help her, it was clear she regardied me as an interfering bungler and a spoiler of sport. I never Slaw Sally pursue rabbits, or game of any kind. Literally speaking, she was a "pouncer," and a good one, too, for she never let ,go. Judging by what I saw when we two took our walks abroad, I think that could Sally have had her way, she would have told us that field slugs 't<nd worms were the tit-bits, and that an entree of beetles took some beating. She delighted ia slugging expeditions in a field! of loaig aftermath, and when the worms she had hold of attempted to retreat into the ground., she made a sucking noice, and in pressing all her weight excitedly forward she almost in- variably tilted right up until she nearly went heels over bead. And now, when I see in the J early morning a track all over the grass-fields like that a broom would leave upon the dew, I know badgers llaYè- been hunting for worms; and I can see the shiny places, too, where they, like Sally, have pressed their noses hard into the turf. Notwithstanding our long rambles, I was never apprehensive of her halting and gotae to ground. She gave earths of all sorts merely a passing sniff She would often let herself out from her yard, and, incredible as it may seem, she managed not only an awkward latch, but cleverly, while hanging on, pulled the door to- wards her. Once when I was away from home, Sally entered the house, went straight up to my room, a.nd refused to come 'from under my bed. Keepers had to carry up the barrel which served as her kennel, and force her into it. and! so carry her down. The taming of Sally was not accomplished without my having painful proof of the strength of the badger's jaw. An 181bs. badger hanging to the ends lof one's fingers a. time or two is, to say tho least of it, calculated to make a serious impression. Those who have had their digits shut in a door will best realise the sensation. This happened in early days though, and gen- erallv through my grabbing at her without due warning wiken picking her up in the dark. Later on, when she was accustomed to be handled, there was no biting, no matter how or where I took hold of her. Fat. round, jolly, and good- tempered concisely describes her figure and her character. With the exception of that already mentioned, uncooked meat was never given to Sally in early life; that is to say, not until she was ei-rht or nine years eld, and then only when a rabbit was given to a wild badger from the south of England that lived in the same house. Dog biscuits and the bones of cooked meat kept her in fine coat and condition. Sally had a wild, serenading lover of her own, daring and devoted to a degree; too daring, indeed, for the deep bass voice of the yard dog to inspire any terror. No one ever saw this brave badger arrive, but many saw his hurried departures. Cojuld the hieroglyphics he left upon the slate doorstep only have been de- ciphered, his tale iof love, touchinglv told, might- have turned the tide in his favour, instead of a contemplated alliance with a Somersetshire brock. This match-making of mine, as I might have expected, found no favour with Sally, and she not only gave the Somerset swain the cold shoulder, but the outside of the kennel too. It was not until Sallv had.more than rynce returned to me, weary and wet, after having been out slugging for hours, that I was convinced that she would never leave me in preference for a wild natural life of liberty. She would come into the house at all times to look for me, and once appeared while we were at dinner. An- other time I had1 almost given her up for lost; she had been out for some hours, and I went to fix her vard door open more firmly, when to my delight, the barrel which served as her kennel shook from side to sp.de—she was back, and busy drying herself. Out she came, so flurried and so fussy, such a lot to tell me about her long, lonelv ramble without me to run to when she srot frightened. Yet Sallv was not nervous, as onle might hlave exp|aicted, with ordinary gentle dogs. She scampered about and played beautifullv with a collie. If the collie got too familiarly pawing her about she made no attempt to snaip or bite, but. just drew up her back m -t dignified way, as if to say, I shall not play it you will not observe the rules, and old Tich seemed to know at once her playmate s meaning, and waited until Sally made the first move to continue the game, and then off they went, round and round, until Tich, in her exc.temen again forgot the rules. In Sallv's public life, onelmportant role she played was that of drag to a pack of hounds. I used to take her-for a long walk. after giving strict injunctions that the hounds should nov be unkennelled until I came to say Sally was safe in the yard, and, as a further safeguard, notwithstanding her tremendous weight, 1 al-, vavs carried her the first and last part of the way. She weighed 261bs. at her best (or. rather, worst for it was most difficult to keep. her down), and waa a. solid dead weight, roost tiling to carry, though she kept quite still, and often fell asleep under my cape. If one of my brothers touched her, even through a thick tweed cape, she resented the liberty and snuffled angrily, but, as before stated, she was well behaved | with strangers so long as they observed the rules and abstained from touching her. Though she was constantly in request for exhibition to visitors, she never showed a sign of hurting anyone who let her alone. There seemed to be a weird fascination about her society, which made people say at first they wished to see her and then repent having said so. I remember once being eagerly asked to show my tame badger, and Sally was no sooner in the room than the family lawyer and one or two other men were to be seen perched in a row upon the high back of an old-fashioned sofa like so many rooks. Quite unnecessary nimbleness on their part, for she ignored everyone but myself, and gamboled over and over, and played in a frivolous way quite unknown to those writers who describe 'the badger as an uninteresting, heavy, and slothful animal It is true that I never thought of calling, upon Sally until late in the afternoon or early in the evening, because I knew she would not until then be, so to speak, "at home," to me if she had her choice. When taken out in the morning, she followed with great care and cau- tion close to me, while at night her lively tricks were delightful, romping round and round until she was quite out of breath; her pupy-like playfulness never left her, even when she grew old. When winter came, she was more sleepy by day and not nearly so lively by night, feed- ing only at intervals of two or three days; indeed, the one favourite paw, which was almost invariable in a stickv 'state at this season from her habit of sucking it while asleep, seemed to supply almost sufficient nourishment for her. She was perfectly clean and well-behaved in the house. I used to bring her in on wet days, but, after exploring the room for a time and looking inquiringly at the stuffed birds, she rolled herself up at my feet with a sigh, which, I feel sure, was one of content, and not only slept, but snored.

SCIENCE IN THE COLONIES. A GREAT AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY. Australia, the land of gold, has given to the world a great number of marvellous things, but a discovery in that wonderful country made by a chemist and scientist, Mr Charles Forde. will perhaps do more good to the world generally than all the gold Australia ever has, or ever will, produce. This discovery is of a natural vege table substance that has the peculiar property of acting in the process of digestion the same as Nature's own animal Bile. Mr Forde, realising I the great value of this discovery and the boon it would be to the millions of digestion sufferers who (according to the regular medical science to date) were martsrs to pepsin, bismuth, starving and purging, decided to spare no expense in perfecting this remedy to make it a care for all digestion troubles and their attendant ailments. The result of his experimenting was the addi- tion of some eight other ingredients, and the whole being titled Bile Beans, a name given to express exactly what the preparation was—" A Bean for the Biie." The expense and care in perfecting and compressing this preparation to the size of a small bean has been very great, but the result has been a small oval hean that the smallest child can take w.tb cine of which last year the consumption reaciied some thirty millions of doses in Australia alone, rich and poor alike being the friends of this mar- The consumption to date has nearly baffled the best efforts of the proprietors, their labora- tories working night and day to meet the demand. Bile Beans have been found an un- doubted cure for headache, biliousness, in- fluenza, constipation, piles, liver trouble, bad breath, rheumatism, indigestion, dizziness, pal- pitation, buzzing in the head, fulness after eat- ing, loss of ambition, debility, anaemia, female ailments and irregularities, pimples, and a host of ether ailments that owe their origin to defec- tive bile flow, assimilation, and digestion. They are also of great service in nervous disorders, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, blotches on the skin, insomnia, and troubled sleep. They act quickly in restoring females to health, and for a general aperient and tonic remedy they are unequalled. These beans are placed on the market in such a form that anyone can take them without medical supervision; and, as the ¡ price is so very low, there are few homes that cannot afford to always have & box on the shelf I for emergency. If you are unwell, and would like to know whether or not Bile Beans are suitable for your case you may write to the proprietors, the Bile Bean Manufacturing Co., 119 and 120, London Wall, London, E.C., marking your letter Private." You will then receive a fair end un- prejudiced opinion and will be told whether or not the beans have ever cured a case similar to your own.

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POLITICAL NOTES. SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED i LORD METHUEIT'S defeat has brought home to the public mind the truth that the -official account of what is going on in Soutu Africa is a very rose-coloured [ Lord Methue" 3 picture. The defeat Capture and itself is only one of a Release: series of incidents, It is more striking and impressive than the rest on account of Lord Methuen's high military rank. There is nothing in the world so difficult to kill as independence, and the Boers are stout, fighters. Attention is concentrated on 801 big drive," but all the time it means that; troops are drawn off from some other place where they can ill be spared. A few weeks ago Lord Milner complained that "the pro- Boers made the Boer loom too large in the British imagination." When a success was reported the other day, Mr. Brodrick read out a telegram about tho anniversary of Majuba. Mr. Chamberlain not long ago assured a correspondent that the war was I nearly over. Last August Delarey himself was banished for his impertinence in carry- ing arms. All these things mak" reverses much more humiliating than they need be. The release of Lord Methuen should make j certain writers and speakers a little j ashamed of what they have written. and said. The Boers have been called outlaws, plunderers, banditti. The nation I has been hounded on to give them no ¡' quarter. A Cape politician actually pro- mised so much a-head for the killing of "rebels." Even some of ,our Generals have lapsed into this barbarous habit of slander and calumny., Nor have the practices sanctioned by the Government been always much better, Scheepers was not a rebel. He fell inta' our hands because he was seriously, perhaps mortally, ilk He is tried and shot.. There may have been evidence to convict him, though no one knows yet what it was,, and most men distrust a court of soldiers unaccustomed to evidence. But we might at least have had enough mercy to spare his life. Lord Methuen fell into the hands of the Boers. He was a great prize—the senior General in South Africa. Delarey knew that ho himself had been banished; that his own farm had been burnt to ashes; that officers of his army had been executed. But rather than add anything to Lord Methuen's sufferings he released almost as valuable a prisoner as the fortune of war could have brought him. It is to be hoped this magnanimity may soften some of the cruel judgments passed on the enemy. But who will say that such men, iightiivj n'outh after month, and shewing themselves chivalrous as well as brave, are fit to be made a vassal people P MR. MORLEY has made three great speeches in Manchester during the last three years. He spoke in September, 1899, against war. He spoke last Mr. Morley year on Mr. Gladstone's on life and work. He spoke o ijt j last week on the Liberal South Africa. party and its imperishable principles. Those years have been years of confusion, disaster, angry conflict, boister- ous passion, in the midst of which many a man has lost his grip of the truth. When Mr. Morley advises a great party to adhere to its principles he is only preaching what he has practised himself. He has never been deafened, or stunned, or cowed. If South Afrioa is to-day a black wiMemeee, and if life and treasure and a great name won by great deeds have been squandered, Mr. Morley may recall with satisfaction that he spoke when there was still time to warn the nation. The truth was unwel- come, and Mr. Morley had to make his voice heard against the waves of passion and prejudice. How many a shadow has fallen across the nation since then To-day men know something of the bitter fruits of the policy which they were told was so simple and so easy. That policy has created a situation out of which, as Mr. Morley said, no good settlement can follow. But it is statesmanship to try to discover the West settlement and to mmimisr^he evils and curses which are inseparable trom wrong policy. And there is only one way to accomplish that purpose. Lord Milner stands in South Africa for a policy of failure. He has nursed and fostered a bitter racial quarrel. With him as ■our representative a stable peace is hope- less. Lord Rosebery says it is a humiliation to recall him. A prospect of lasting failure is a far greater humilia- tion than any question of punctilio. This!, is the great practical truth Mr. Morley! drove home last Wednesday. It is a truth which the great majority of Liberals have appreciated, and which the country will one day learn.. THE National Reform Union, under whose auspices Mr. Morley's great meeting was held, have been constant to the great historical principles of. Morley Liberalism. It.was there- on Liberalism. fore an appropriate recog- nition of consistent and faithful Liberalism that Mr. Morley should have done the Union the honour of making his great defence of Liberalism at one of its. meetings. "Let us adjust our com- passes by the pole star, and not by showers of shooting meteors." That is Mr. Morley's answer to the policy of runaway Liberalism. Lord Rosebery and Mr. Asquith argue that Home Rule is unpopular, therefore Liberals must drop it. But what is to become of Ireland ? Liberals adopted Horm ^.Rule because they thought it a good thing for Ireland and for the Empire, lias it ceased to be a good thing because it is unpopular ? As a matter of fact, there are particularly striking illustrations at this moment of what a bad thmg the alternative policy to Home Rule is. Mr. Morley shewed how ridiculous it is to talk of the Liberal Irish policy blocking the way of other measures, a point Lord Aberdeen also made last week. The Irish questions are there, and must be faced; and Home Rule, instead of blocking the way, would clear the way. Mr. Morley did well to remind Liberals of their great past. Lord Rosebery spoke at Glasgow of the Mid- lothian campaign. That campaign was an intrepid arid sustained attack on a foreign policy of aggression and adventure. Lord Rosebery now declares that Liberals must never attack or criticise foreign policy. But the spirit of that campaign remains— the spirit which seeks truth, justice, and high purposes in politics through all the obstacles and odium prejudice or panic can oppose to it. It is because Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Lord Spencer, ^ind Mr.&Morley are true to that spirit chat Xiibsniisni is still a force in the nation. .d. 't

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DEATH OF AN ANGLESEY I PHILANTHROPIST. The many friends and summer visitors to North Wales will be indeed sorry to hear'of the death, at Amlwch, of one well known to them, Mr Richard Morgan, the founder, many years ago, of the Ragged Schools and Sailors' Rest, which through his energy have been supported bv voluntary contributions. His life was one of self-denial. Vlain, humble, and kind, he was un- tiring in doing all the good he could. The chil- drenTthe aged, the poor will keenly feel his loss, and young sailors now scattered about the world will deeply mourn him. Great is the sympathy with Mrs Morgan, his faithful co-worker, and four young children.

I FUNERAL OF THE REV R. Junes. The funeral took place on Friday, at Glan- adda Cemetery, Bangor, of Rev Robert Jones, chairman of the North Wales Wesleyan district, whose demise we reported last week. It was of a public character, and was largely attended by ministers and laymen. There was a preliminary service at St. Paul's Chapel, to the pastorate of which the deceased minister was attached for many years. At the chapel the service was conducted by the Revs Hugh Jones, chairman of the Wesleyan District (North Wales), Owen Williams. Carnarvon; Edward Humphreys, Rhyl; J. P. Roberts (Liverpool), and eloquent tributes to the life and work of the deceased were delivered by Alderman T. Lewis, J.P., ex-High-Sheriff of Carnarvonshire, and Mr Williams, Plas Lodwig. Bangor. At the graveside the service was read by the Rev D. Morris and Daniel Marriott, Llanfairfechan.

I BANGOR PETTY SESSIONS. I TUESDAY.—Before Thomas Lewis, Esq. ¡ (chairman), Harry Clegg, Esq., John Hughes, Esq., J. E. Roberts, Esq.. Thomas Roberts. Esq.. Dr Langford Jones, W. Pughe, Esq., and W. Lester Smith, Esq. RATES.—'Sixteen summonses had been issued by Mr H. H. Davies, the Bethesda rate collector, against those who had neglected to pay the general district rate. Mr D. G. Davies apr- peared, and the collector said that in every case there was an inability to pay- In some in- j stances part of the rate hadi been paid an-d in others promises had been made to pay as soon as others promises had been made to pay as soon as possible. The total rate unpaid in one case was over £ 10.—In reply to Mr Harry Clegg, Mr B. G. Davies said that many tradesmen were unable to pay at present.—In the case of the Bethesda I Cafe Company, for whom Mr Twigge Ellis ap- I peared, it was stated that the amount owing was JB25 5s 7d.Mr D. G. Davies regretted being I obliged to bring these cases into court, but the District Council felt bound to do so because their I financial year terminated on the 25th inst.—Mr Twigge Ellis said that owing to the disturbances at Bethesda, the Cafe had been empty since the 31st of December. It had been found difficult to have a meeting of the shareholders, many of whom worked in the quarry, and would not come to Bethesda to hold a meeting, owing to the dis- turbances. However, arrangements had been made to hold a meeting at an early date and provided the council did not press, the rates would be paid within a m»nth.—An order was made on the understanding that it should stand over for a month.—Orders were also made in the other cases, and it was explained that the authorities had waited until the very last moment before taking legal proceedings. DRUNKENNESS.—'Robert Jones. Llandegai, was summoned for being drunk, and was fined 7s 6d and costs. For similar offences, J. Lloyd Roberts, Bangor, was fined 2s 6d and costs, and Elizabeth McLaughlin, Kyffin-square, 2s 6d and costs. AN INSULTING TRAMP.—-A tramp, named John Jones, was brought up on a charge of being drunk and assaulting Mrs Rigby, Bangor.—The complainant said that on Monday the defendant came to the shop and asked for sixpence. This ¡ was refused, and then he asked for some bacon and eggs. He bought the bacon, and paid two- pence for it, but he did not pay for the eggs, and I was un the point of leaving the shop when Mr Rigby tried to stop him. Defendant turned and struck Mr Rigby, and was taken up by the police. —P.C. Evans (60) said he arrested the defendant and found Is on him.—Defendant admitted that he was drunk.—Mr Olegg said there was a. general complaint that the men who went to join the militia at Beaumaris were nearly all1 drunk before they joined.—Defendant said he j was too drunk to remember what he did.—A fine of 5s and costs was imposed. -A- DISTURBER.—Thomas Durkin, a tramp, was summoned for being drunk and creating a disturbance by fighting in Dean-street on Mon- day night.—He was fined 5s and costs. ALLEGED ASSAULT.—Mary Moran, sum- monoo: Ellen Moran for assault.—The younger Mrs Moran said that the defendant was her mother-in-law, and came into her house on the 7th of March and struck her in the face with her fist and a candlestick. The complainant then added that she took hold of a poker to protect herself, but she did not strike the defendant.— The defendant's daughter, May, gave evidence for the defence, and said that her mother went to the younger Mrs Moran's house with the in- I tention of giving her some help, and that the complainant accused her (witness) of being a. robber and a thief.—Mrs Jones, a neighbour, said she heard the younger Mrs Moran accusing Mav Moran of being a thief.—The elder Mrs Moran was bound over to keep the peace for six months and ordered to pay the costs.

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