Rhyl Journal

Rhuddlan. I HANES YR HEN BOBL A'R HEN BETHAU YN RHYL. Y LVII. BENOD.—Y map yn digwydd fod yn fy meddiant yr hen gyhoeddiad clodfawr Y Gwladgarwr," yr hwn oedd yn cael pi ledaenu yn gynar yn y f^inrif o'r blaen. Y m-,te yn debyg mai y fo oedd y cyhoeddiad cenedlaetiiol gore yr oes hono, ddim yn rhy hananol a sectol, fel y mae y rhan fwyaf yn awr. Y chydig oedd o'r naill na'r llall y dyddiau hyny yn awr y maent yn lleng. Son fod yr lien iaith i farw, wir Yn ol y llenyddiaeth sydd yn cael ei fwrw allan 'does dim perygl iddi ddarfod yn fuan. A dyna chwithiu yn Rhyl yn myned i gael cyfle ar- dderchog i es-tyn ei hoes trwy gynal Eisteddfod Da chwi, srwnewch hi i atteb ei henw yn genedl- aethol trwy siarad yr iaith Gymraeg, ac nid mwmian yr iaith fain, fel y'i gelwir. Wrth ,dr<li dalenau yr hen gyhoeddiad yr wyt yn myned yn fwy hoff o'i gynwys. 'Wn i ddim beth yw yr achos, os nad yw yr hen ddywediad yn cael ei wiro y tebyg yn tynu fit ei debyg-y fi yn hen, ac yntan yn hynach. Ac 08 byw fyddaf, ac yn dderbyniol gonych, syr, yr wyf yn bwriadu anfon rhyw friwr.ion yn awr ae yn y man o'i gynwys a farnwyf yn gyinwys a fydd yn adeiladol i'r darllenydd. Wrth droi ei ddilenau yu ddiweddar daethum ar draws yr hanei canlynol, a chan fod yr banes yn dal perthynas a Rhyl yr wyf yu tybii'd mai Stephen Davies, Dyserth, oedd yr awdwr. Dyma fel y dywed Syr.-Dy- munwyd arnaf anfon i chwi yr ychydig linellau canlynol i'w cofrestru ymysg eich 0,1aw] goffa- dwriaethau. Yr achlysur o hyn o ohebiaeth oedd marwolaeth Thornaa Pierce, bachgenyn 13eg oed, yr hwn ydotdd fiib i Henrv Pierce, lafarnwr, o'r Rlyl. Yr oedd yn llangc o nodweddiad dymunol a cloQun gobeithiol. er blodeao yn mhlith gwych feciigyn Cymru. Ei atbrylith awj-ddus i wybod- I aeth yuoedd yn peri idda ragori ar lawcr. o'i gyd-oesuiion a'i dirion ufuddgjrw<-h i'w rieni ydoedd ichos rheeymol o'u mawr hoflder o hono eithr er lull anwyldeb serchoglawn tad a mam angaa a dorodd yr impyn i lawr ar y 23ain o Dachwedd. 1830 ac ar yr aeblysur cyfansoddwyd yr englynion isod :— Dwys olwg oedd dy iselu,—a chaeth Nycli oer oedd dy gladdu Och in' daeth nych Angau du, Gwyl oerach na galaru. Irwyn flaguryn gorwych,—newid oedd Nodedig lan wrthrych Llifeiriawl nosawldrom nych Ddftw o iasau'r ael ddisych. Torodd ef imp tair-ar-ddeg-sef Angau, Cyfyngydd diosteg Marw yw'r dyn, er mor deg; Pwy waredir ? pa'r adeg ? Yr wyf yn gweled pe buasai y bacbgen uchod yn fyw y buasai yn bed war ugain oed. Y mae yn debyg fod Mr Vaughan, y Baths, yn ei gofij yn dda, achos y mae yn cofio pobpeth yn Rhyl, ac u gryfder wedi cyrhaedd pedwar ugain a chwaneg. Os nad wyf yn camgymeryd, yr wyf yn tybied fod y gwr ieuangc uchod yn ewythr, a Harry Pierce yn daid i Mr J P Lewis, y cyfreithiwr gonest sydd yc Rhyl yn awr. Cofier, wrth ddyweud hyny nid wyf yn golygn nad oes yn Rhyl rai gonest heblaw ef. Wrth son am onest- rwydd y mae yn dyfod i'm cof fy mod mewn cynulliad dros chwarter canrif yn 01, a dyna hen gymeriad gwreiddiol yn gotyn cyngor, sef a fedrai rbywun yn y cwmni ddywend wrtho yn lie i g*e twrnai gonest. A dyna hi yn wen dros y lie, a'r wen bonno yn awgrymu fod yn anhawdd ateb y gofyniad. Ond dyna rhywun yn meiddio tteb drwy ddyweud na wyddai ef ond am un, a liwnw yn Pwllheli. Os oedd hi yn wonu cynt yr oedd hi yn hearty laugh rwan dros y lie, a wir 'doedd dim medd peidio chwerthin wrth gofio ein bod ar y pryd yn mhell dros dri ugain milldir o Pwllheli, a fynte yn dweud mor drnanedd a phe buasai ar fedd ei fam. Wir, Mr Golygydd, wrth gcfio, un peth arall yn dyfod i'r cof, a dyma y peth arall hwnw, i mi glywed am dad Mr Ellis Eyton, yr hen aelod dros y boro yma, i'r hen wr ddweud wrth rbyw rai ei fed wedi rhoi Ellis yn brentis o leidr. Hen wr ben ffasiwn iawn oedd yr hen Mr Eyton. Yr oedd yn gnowr baco heb ei fath. Os gofyne rhywun am lond safn o faco yr oedd i'w gael yn y fan, ond os bydde rhywun yn gofyn am bibelled, na, fydde hi yn y fan, trwy ddweyd na roi o ddim o'r peth dalai i'w gnoi i gael ei losgi. Mi ddywedaia yn niwedd y bennod o'r blaen mai y crydd a'r teiliwr fvdde yn hon. Gan mai ychydig oedd yn Rhyl yr" oes bono o'r ddan ddosbarth gwasanaethgar yma, ac felly rhyw ychydig sydd genyf i'w ddweud am danynt. Edward Roberts a wnaeth enw iddo ei hun trwy wneud esgidiau gonest a da i wlad a thre, yn enwedig i lanciaa ffermwyr. Un o Prestatyn oedd ef. Dyn go fawr, golwg go sarng a dreng fydde arno yn tynych, ond fel ami i un yn troi allan yn well na'i olwg. Merch John Morris, saer maen, oedd ei wraig gyntaf, mab a merch oedd iddynt. Ei ail wraig oedd merch Robert a Jane Hughes, Cwybr Bach. Y mae y Cwybr hwnw yn mhlith y pethau a fu, fel llawer 0 bethau a fu, pryd yr wyf yn cofio dan deulu yn byw yno, yn awr yn hen bobl. Mi glywais fod gan Robert a Jane Hughes ugain o blant, ac i bob un gafodd fyw fod yn anrhydedd i'w rhieni. Rbyfedd y drefn, onid e. Ar y ffordd yr wyf yn cofio R Hughes yn gweithio, a 10s oedd y [cyflof, a'r gwenith yn gyffredin o bum swllt a'r hugain i ddeg a'r hugain yi hob, a'r haidd yn sofren neu ragor. Weithwyr anwyl, gwarcded y nefoedd ni fel gwlad a theyrnas rhag y chwile.i sydd yn mhen Mr Chamberlain, i esgor. Y mue yma filoedd hofTai j hyny gymeryd lie, gael iddynt hwy gael llenwi eu coffre, a chymered y gweithwyr a'u teuluoedd eu siawns. Gobeithio na welwch chwi a'ch teula n:or dyddiau caled welais i a llawer eraill sydd yn fyw fel finau. Mi wela's rhyw sylw lei hyn yn ddiweddar, fod Mr Chamber. lain wedi bod yn ruination i'r blaid Ryddfrydol, a'i fod yn awr ar ei oreu yn gneud yr un peth i'r blaid Geidwndol. Wn i ddim am hyny, ond hyn a wn, os nad erychith y gweitbiwr ar ol No. 1, wae fydd iddo ef a'i deulu am genedlaethau. Y mae y gweithiwr yn awr mewn ystyr yn ngwlad Canaan, wedi dyfod trwy ymdrech rhyw rai o'r Aipht. Darllenais brofiad rhyw wr yn ddiweddar yn dweud fel fyo "The people of this genera- tion have no knowledge practically of what the atatu of things were in the days of my youth and b yhood. say from 1823 to 1810, or they would scout Mr Chamberlain's ideas. Farm wage3 in Cheshire were 8sper week, wheat 10s to lis per bushel, and now 4s 3d. I have as a boy paid for lump sutjar 13d per lb, and !)d f »r raw, when sent to Whitchurch for it by my mother; tea 4s. per lb- The staple food of the farm labourer was buttermilk and potatoes sod whey and bread. No foreign wheat came into the ports natil the price had risen to 80 ppr quarter, and now it is received free it is 27s to 30s and when there was a bad, wet harvest, and the wheat and coru were sprouted, the flour would not make dry bread. It a all soft and putty-like inside the loaf. and the outside,:for about an inch into the loaf, would be as hard as wood. With my own little fingers as a boy I have drawu out the inside" of the loaf like putty, and if a bit was tlr)wn againtt the wall it would stick. The whole of the working people of England were wretchedly fed, clothed and housed, and I don't know n"w Chamberlaiu and his party dare to propose Pro- tection again, for that is what it means. Surely the people will scout the impudent proposal and fight it to the death. I sometimes wish I was younger to help to fight the battle." Mi allaf finau ddyweud llawer mwy nag a ddyw lwyù am yr acLseran enbyd y dyddian hyny, Mi ddylaswn ddywend mai Calfin oedd Edward Roberts heb wybod fawr am neb ond y ni," Y mae yn rbaid terfynu ar byn.

Rest and be Thankful. By Ia. During many long and wearisome hours of insomnia, caused by nervous debility, I have been reviowing the public movements, failures and achievement, of the last century, and especially of the sixty to seventy years I have been in the arena fighting for truth and righteousness, and I now offer a brief notice of some of them for the bentfit of the younger readers of the Journal." As first of importance, I note that freedom of speech and of the press have been secured. Without these progress would have been impossible. Through all the history of Anglo- Saxon progress measures for the restriction of free speech and a free press have been associated with corrupt, despotic and arbitrary government. Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberties," said John Milton, as with matchless pen he fought against the efforts of the Star Chamber to restrict the press. Through the last half of the eighteenth cen- tury the battle raged violently around Wilkes and Junius and other champions of popular rights, and Mackintosh and Curran and Erskine were brilliant defenders of free utterance. In 1707, in one of his few speeches for the prosecution of libel, Erskine said a free and unbiassed press, in the just and legal sense of the expression, has led to all the bles- sings, both of religion and government which Great Britain or any part of the world at this moment enjoys, and it is calculated to advance mankind to still higher degrees of civilization and happiness." A great American, Jefferson, declared, "I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government tuan in a country with a government but without newspapers." His meaning and his logic are plain. Govern- ment without newspapers would have no restraint and no responsibility, and would degenerate into profligacy and tyranny. News- papers without government would at least assure watchfulness, information and organized public sentiment. The one condition would be legalized irresponsibility. The other would be potential intelligence. Next, as second in importance, and as a co- rollary, I note that we have had an extension of the suffrage, which has made the House Commons the reflex, exponent, and of declarant of the sovereign will of the People, destroying for ever the govern- ment of individuals and classes. We have now a government of the People, by the People, and for the People, and further our freedom is not merely the freedom of the great mass but of the units-individual freedom. The spirit and principle of the past was that of the many for the few. The spirit of the present era is the principle of the few for the many, and the attainment of the greatest pos- sible happiness for the greatest possible num- ber. We sit under our own vine and under our own fig tree, and none can make us afraid. And all this has been obtained without the anarchy and violence which has been the price paid for freedom by the few other nations who have it. Next, we have greater knowledge and truer appreciation of foreigners. We are no longer supercilious Britons, looking down with con- tempt on Frenchmen, vulgarly spoken of as frog-eating worshippers of Terpsichore, and on the jolly and hard-working Dutchman as only a pot-bellied gormandizer, but recognize them as brothers notwithstanding what appears to us as their silly eccentricities. Next and last I have space to notice, we have free trade-power to buy from any willing to sell to us, though they may refuse to buy from us-power to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market. I don't say that we have got everything worth striving for or having, e.g.,—The land laws should be, and will be, amended. The nominal owners of land will have to be made to recognise the great cardinal fact that they are not the owners. That the land ia the inalienable property of all the people, and that they, the nominal or reputed, are only tenants, and hold it for the benefit of the people. Further, food must not be taxed, but absolutely free and only for revenue must anything be taxed. It appears to me that for a while at least we might, ought to, adopt the policy euphoniously expressed by the aphorism "Rest and be thankful." But suddenly our rest is broken by the clamour of men attacking the outposts of our security, shouting "Fiscal Reform," Protect your endangered industries," "Dig up the dust of those arch-deceivers Cobden, Bright, and Peel and their companions, and cast it into the bottomless pit of oblivion." A people with the racial stamina, energy and pluck which have colonized every strategical and otherwise valuable position on the surface of the globe, and whose merchant- men are seen in every port, need no protection or coddling, and if with their racial and acquired advantage they fail in commercial or political or any other domain of human energy to::successfully compete with foreigners, they deserve licking. I would not be uncharitable, but I opine that these Birmingham orators. whilom rabid radical free traders, and now would-be earls or knights, are not actuated by patriotism, but by a vulgar desire for notoriety or power and the emoluments of office, I admire Mr Balfour's placidity and patience while keeping the chair of Premier- ship warm for his successor—Earl Fiscal or Sir John Morley or Earl Rosebery, WThich ? Earl Rosebery was chosen by Mr Gladstone for the Liberal leadership, and might haye been Mr Gladstone's successor had he been an earnest politician, but he is too dilettanteish for an earnest leader. Again I urge rest and thankfulness, and seeking only, or chiefly, to improve and elevate the classes whose intelligence and industry have made our wealth and raised us to power. This is the noblest work, and one in which all may join. Yz. Rhyl, Nov 2, 1903. N.B.—Pray let it be understood that I alone am responsible for the opinions herein declared, and that I shall treat with respect respectful criticism.

Pleasant Saturday Evenings at Rhyl, THE STUDY OF NATURE. At last Saturday evening's concert in the Boys' Brigade Hall the late-comers found all the seating accommodation taken up, consequently a by no means inconsiderable proportion of the audience had to content themselves with standing room, Mr P Mostyn Williams occupied the chair, and w« supported by Councillor A Lewis Jones, the energetic chief of the promoters of the concerts. Miss Winnie Jones again undertook the duties of accompanist. The first part of a very enjoyable programme was as follows Pianoforte duet, Misses N Williams and Klsie Davies song, Miss Bertha Hewitt; recitation, Master R Johnson; quartette, Old Folks at Home," Misses Winnie Williams, Amelia and Ethel Hughes, and B Hewitt; recitation, Miss Daisy Allison hymn and ChllfU81 II Count your blessings," Misses Nellie Cheney, Kate Jones, G Hindley, and May Morris (encore). Then followed the Chairman's address, in which the subject of nature study was com- mended to all, especially the young, as one from which both wisdom and pleasure were to be derived. Nature, he said, was an open book written by the hand of God—a book that was superior to all other written books, From nature we learnt many lessons. In nature we found evi rything in order and harmony, everything declaring the glory of the Creator. The pebbles strewn over the beach were all sermons in stones, and could they but answer our questions they would relate to us their former history and tell us of the adventures they had gone through before they reached our shore. When we had obtained the key to their history we shouid learn that some of those pebbles had travelled thousands of miles :before reaching this country and had become detached from rocks in which was also hidden a wealth of history. Their variety and beauty alone were well worth studying. Again, what objects of beauty the [shells were. Even when the naked eye tired of 1 looking at them we had only to apply a magni-1 fying glass in order to bring to light still more: wonderful features which they possessed. How delicately constructed, too, was the seaweed cast up on our shore. Under a magnifying glass we we could derive from it something that would interest us and give us "pleasure every day of our lives. Nor need the study of nature be confined to any of those things. Everything living, from the smallest creature visible to the naked eye to the largest fish to be found, had its lessons for us. When going into the country for a walk every green lane would afford us lessons in wisdom. We could learn something even from the blade of grass. What lessons, too, the birds could teach us if only we interested ourselves in their habits. Another interesting study was the study of the great variety of birds' egga.,We could not fail to profit by watching the development of nature seeing how the flowers opened up, and how the leaves which clothed the trees with so many different colours were formed. He strongly advised his young friends to go and try every day they could spare to examine some new feature in nature, and note down and observe its development. By doing thvt they wouli be laying up for themselves a store of interesting knowledge upon which to draw in after life. Let them make a systematic study ot the book of nature, and he was sure it would teach them other things, for nature knowledge was a stepping stone to higher wisdom (applause).—The remainder of the programme consisted of the following items Pianoforte solo, Miss Winnie Jones; duet, Home, Sweet Home," Misses Bertha Hewitt and Amelia Hughes (encore) recitation, The Women of Mumbles Head," Miss Meyler Jones (encore)); song, Mr J Roberts Jones whistling solo, Master John Hughes duet, Daddy at the War," Misses Laura Bathgate and Amelia Hughes; reading, Lancashire sketch, How Jimmy Saved Baby," Mr H Halstead quartette, Prevention better than cure,"iMiEses W Williams, A and E Hughes, and B Hewitt.

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Holloway's Pills are of the greatest value to females of all ages. Manufactured only at 78, New Oxford Street, London. THE ST. ASAPH Diocesan Galendarfor 1903 A dozen unsold copies" can be had at the Journal" Office now at half-price (6d. each). W 10 HOW scrup rw IRME' co C, BALDWIN n Is -rO G. Perkins, Auctioneer and Valuer House, Estate & Insurance Agent, BRYNFFYNNON HO-USE, ABERGELE Auction and Private Sales of Property and Furniture, Cash advances if required. Immediate Settlements. Valuation for Probate or Mortgage skilfully prepared. Hotel and Stock-in-Trade Valuer. General Arbitrator. Estates carefully managed. Rents collected. House and Apartment Agency. Agent to the chief Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Companies. (267 MESSRS W. N. Martin & Co. LIMITED, Auctioneers, Valuers & Estate Agents, Fire Loss Assessors AND Arbitrators. Chief Office 55 MARKET ST., MANCHESTER Sales by Auction of Properties, Furniture, Stocks and Shares, &c., conducted by trained and expert principals and assistants. Valuations for Probate, Transfer & Compensation Claims. Businesses of all kinds Purchased or Sold. NO Wine, Spirit, or Beer Houses. Fire Losses Assessed. IMPORTANT.—To Tradesmen and others.—In case of Fire Ring us up, Telephone 89y. Manchester. It will pay you to engage us to make out your statement of claim, assess your loss, value and certify same, and sell the salvage by auction. Owing to the request of a large number of clients in Rhyl and Chester, we have decided to open Branch Offices in Rhyl, which will be duly advertised. North Wales Branch- TOWN HALL, RHYL, None but Expert & Fully Qualified Assistants on our staff l Moderate and inclusive Terms. (957 Wallis and Scott, (Late SARSON & SCOTT Auctioneers and Valuers. Mortgages Procured. Insurances Effected Rents Collected. Valuations Executed. Sales by Public Auction of Land and House Properties, Farming Stocks, Household Furniture, &c., conducted, with Immediate Cash Settlements. Trustees under the Deeds of Arrangements Ac 1888. General Certificate Holders, appointed b Sir Horatio Lloyd, Kt. Offices High Street, Prestatyn. (7804 MESSRS. Roberts and Co., AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS, Surveyors, House, Land and Estate Agents Mortgage Brokers, Probate Mortgage and Agricultural Valuers Fire and Life Agents, OFFICES- WELLINGTON CHAMBERS, RHYL, (94 The Oldest Established Auction and Estate Agency Business in Rhyl. Hubert R. Holbeche, Successor to Messrs Wm. Hall, and the Late T. C. Amos. AUCTIONEER, House, Land, and Estate Agent Surveyor, Valuer, & Architect. Sales by Auction and Valuations of Property, Furniture, Farming Stock, &c. 11 Valuations for Probate, Mortgage, Transfer, &c., Properties and Businesses Sold by Private Treaty, Letting and Collection of Rents of Residences, Houses, Shops, Farms, &c., Furnished and Unfurnished. Mortgages negotiated. Inventories taken and checked. Properties and Estates carefully managed. Building Estates laid out. Surveys, Maps, &c., for any purpose. Insurances effected through all principal offices. The Auction, Estate, and Survey Offices MARKET STREET, RHYL. And ST. ASAPH. Mr Jos. Williams, AUCTIONEER, & VALUER. Accountant, Property and Insurance Agen GENERAL CERTIFICATE HOLDER Appointed by His Honour Judge Horatio Lloyd,K SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION personally con ducted on reasonable Terms, with immediate Cash Settlements. VALUATIONS AND INVENTORIES prepared for Mortgage, Probate, Partnership, Transfer of Tenancy and other purposes. Representative of the leading Life, Fire, Acci- dent, Fidelity, Plate-glass, Employers' Liability, Burglary, Licences, and Live Stock Companies. Estate Agent in all its branches. Mortgages procured. Registrar of Marriages Private Address Peterboro' House, The Grove. Offices County Chambers, 51 Kinmel Street, Rhyl. 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Fred Wallis, Auctioneer and Valuer, Accountant, House, Estate, and Insurance Agenli ollector of Income Tax for the Parishes of Rhuddlan (Rhyl) and St. Asaph. Furnished and Unfurnished Houses to Let on application. Rents collected. Ben. Williams, Kinmel Chambers, Kinmel Street RHYL Is prepared to arrange for The Sale of Furniture and other Effects either by PRIVATE TREATY or by PUBLIC AUCTION. Moderate Charges and Prompt Settlements all transactions Hatwood & Co. STOCK AND SHARE BROKERS, Auctioneers, ffOUSE fy ESTATE AGENTS, LAND AND PROPERTY SURVEYORS Agency for The" Sun, Royal," "Liverpool and London Fire, Life, Accident, and Plate Glass Insurance Companies. The Oldest Agency in Rhyl—Established 1860' OFFICES-14 SUSSEX STREET, and 6 JOHN STREET, RHYL. 346