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NEYLAND NOTES. -:0:- King Death has been amongst us again, and claimed as his own the old and respected resident, Mr William Griffiths, of Picton Place. It is only some nine months ago that we published in this column the wording of an address which was presented to him on his retirement from the Dock-yard. The funeral took place on Sunday, in the Cemetery. The Rev. W. Powell officiated. There were many hun- dreds of I-e-aple present to pay the last tribute of re- spect to the deceased. In the evening of the same day the Rev. W. Powell nrcacSicd the funeral sermon, choosing for his text lJefcoid an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." Mr Griffiths leaves a widow and a family of eight children, most of them grown-up. There w<¡;¡ n special meeting of the Reading Room, members on Thursday evening of last week, called, I believe, for tbe purpose ot passing a vote of condol- ence with Mr J. Griffiths, of Excelsior House, and the family, on the loss of his father, the late Mr Wm. Griffiths. A very beautiful wreatn was suoscriuea for on the spot, and was carried to the Cemetery by members of the room. This touching act of sym- pathy and kindness on the part of the lads was gratefully acknowledged by the recipient. On Tuesday evening, the 27th inst., the debate on Whether the use of Tobacco was prejudicial to health proved to be most interesting. The sides were taken by Mr Gilbert Harries and Mr Walter Evans for the ayes, and Mr W. M. Thomas and and another (whose named I have missed) for the nays. The nays won at the ballot. The next debate has for its subject, "Should bicycles be taxed tit There is now no possibility of Neyland being made an Urban District at this half-year, and after the statements that were made by the Chairman of the County Council at its last meeting, there will be some astonishment at what will be published from the Local Government Board, in the form of a letter which has been received by the Parish Council. Therefore at the next parish Council (whioh is by law established to take place on the fifteenth of April, or seven days before or after) and which will be held at j Neyland on the 12th of April, there will be some more flies in the honey."
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BIRTHS. March 14, at the Myrtle Villas, Letterston, the wife of Mr John Williams, Guard G.W.R., of a daughter. March 23, at Scollock East, Ambleston Parish, the wife of Mr E. Bateman, of a son. DEATHS. March 27, at Swan Shop, Solva, Mr Jtsepli Lloyd, aged 57 years. Deeply regretted,
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While the interval between the acts of the war drama still continues, it is only possible to conjecture what will be the course of events when the curtain again rises. In order to form some sort of idea we must study the present situation of both combatants and endeavour to form an estimate of their relative strength. The Boers have persistently concealed their casualties throughout the campaign, but the truth is beginning to leak out, and some estimates of these-which are des- cribed as moderate-put them down at 15,000 men. It is quite possible that the exact number will never be accurately known, for, apparently, it is not a Boer custom to call the roll after an engagement and it is at least open to question whether the various Commanders have any means of ascertaining the actual number of men present on any given day. But for prac- tical purposes the figures given above of 15,000 casualties may be taken as correct, and that being so it is doubtful if the Boers I can put 40,000 fighting men into line at I the present date. The British on the other hand, after al- lowing for details on the lines of commu- t, j nication, should be aoie w dispose i of 120,000 men at the front, a sufficient force in all human probability to render the issue of a battle absolutely certain. The strategy of the Boers remain to be seen. The soundest plan of campaign to- day would seem to be to retire on Pretoria and concentrate all their available troops there in a final effort to avert defeat, or at least to postpone it until such time as a possible intervention might be made in their favour. To hold Kroonstadt and the Biggarsberg at this date seems only to court disaster, and we expect to find that rear- guards only are holding either in force, and that the bulk of the armies and the whole of the heavy guns will be quietly retired to the capital. Should this not be done, Roberts from tbe'eentre can detach a di- vision to operate by the Cape to Cairo rail- way, which from Mafeking can move direct on Pretoria, 70 miles distant, while Lord Roberts moves North on Kroonstadt and the Vaal River, simultaneously with an advance by Buller into the Transvaal. The Boers cannot be everywhere at once, ana if a triple advance of this character is made it is highly probable that neither column could be opposed by one half of its strength, while in that case the others would have but a weak opposition to meet. To organise such an advance time must be given to the left column, starting from Kimberley as its base, to organise its trans- port and concentrate. It is highly pro- bable that this was Kitohener's real mission when he was supposed to be chasing a few rebels in the West. In that case the ad- vance should now very shortly begin, and we may expect developments in the course of the next week. The death of General Joubert will not improve the prospects of the Boers. There is apparently no-one to succeed him as Commander-in-Chief. It is said that he was averse to his country going to war, but he was certainly a restraining influence over the most heedless portion of the Boer army. It is rather a noteworthy coinci- dence that yesterday we read that much ill-will was fermenting against Joubert, and to-day we read of his death! Was this associated in any direct way with the ill-will ? t
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[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] YN AMSANG EIN TADAU THE ANTIQUARIES' COLUMN. GIiI8 DEWI, DYFED, AND THE WITCHES OF GLOUCESTER. As the Editor of the PEMBROKE COUNTY GUARDIAN, and other good Pembrokeshire friends of mine, have been offended by curiously edited words of mine to the Gloucester Welshmen dining together at Caer Loyw on the First of March, I think it best to ask the Editor to print a correct version of what I did say of Dewi and his native Dyfed. I am all the more anxious that he should do so as I may wish to visit Pembrokeshire again. Being a Cardy, it will be understood that I cannot admit the superiority of Pembrokeshire to Keredig. ion; but subject to this qualification the candid readers of the GUARDIAN will ad- mit that I could hardly have spoken more favourably of the former county than I have done. I have freely admitted Dewi to be a Dyfed man, and that the rest of the Principality has accepted him to be her patron saint under the Dyfed form of his name. By the way, that brings me to the question of the Pembrokeshire dialect: I al- radv have had some valuable words from it such M mwni (moor or mountain), and gwrug (heather); but comparatively little of it is on record for the use of philologists. The difficulty is that most young men who know Welsh are too anxious to shew what masters they are of printed Welsh and how well they can imitate the shoddy Welsh characteristic of some of our news- papers so it is all but impossible to in- duce them to come down to unrecorded dialects. Perhaps, however, the Bditor can induce some of his readers to give him an occasional column. I can assure him that by printing the specimens thus ob- tained he would be rendering a most valu- able service to Brythonic philology. But to come back to the business of this note here are the remarks I made concerning the saint; they appeared in the Gloucester- shire Chronicle for March 3. Oxford. JOHN RHYS. [We shall be very pleased to receive and print letters in Pembrokeshire Welsh as suggested by Prof. Rhys. Communications on this subject should be addressed to Mr J. Brynach Davies, Llanfyrnach, B.S.O., the editor of our Welsh column.-D.J Professor Rhys, rising to propose "St. David, was given a most flattering reception. He said In speaking of St. David as the Welsh national saint, that is I may say, a fact as to whiell there cannot by this time be any doubt. Still there are many things to suggest the question at what, stage a saint becomes a national saint. When the Hev Rice Rees wrote on the Welsh Saints, over gjxty years ago, there was no church dedicated to Dewi Sant in the whole of North Wales since then I know of one such built in Denbighshire by an English landowner, and so far as I know that is all. The same sort of remark applies to the leek as the national emblem of the Kymry. I have known people years ago in parts of North Wales who seemed not to know the words cm- jbinen and ernin but to speak of them as lakes, even when talking Welsh, nor was the vegetable very familiar to them under any name whatso- ever. But we have made great progress since then, and drawn ourselves closer together. To come back to the chapels and churches be- longing to Dewi, they are mostly in the diocese called after the Saint; there are very few in what is reckoned the original diocese of Llandaff, and only two or three in what was once the diocese of Faaarn. Then, within the diocese of St. David's itself, the bulk of Dewi's churches and endow- ments belong to his own country of Dyfed. St. David was descended from Keredig, who gave his name to Keiedigion, now, roughly speaking, re- presented by Cardiganshire, which, as everyone here will doubtless admit, is the one and leading county of the thirteen. So you see that Saint Davitf, being in a sense a Cardiganshire man des- cended through Keredigf rom Cunedda Wledig, the ancestor ot many of our best known Saints and Princes, was of a very strenuous stock, and had in this respect everything in his favour. On his mother's side he was connected with a Dyfed family, that is to say-with the anachronism in- inevitable in such cases-he was also a Pem- brokeshire man, and this, I must confess, one cannot help feeling must have been rather against him. Well, it is not to be wholly denied that St. David was a Pembrokeshire man down to his very name. The people of Pembrokeshire when they talk Welsh have the audacity to talk it in their own way; they make the word for new into and the word for mountain or moor into mwni, while other Welsh people not corrupt- ed by the Demetiari dialect say newycld and myn- yad. In this way they make Dewidd into Dewi. Early in the history of Christianity our Brythonic ancestor* had borrowed the Biblical name Darid and naturalised it regularly enough into Dewidd; then the men of Dyfed presumed to put their own impress on it, and to make it into Dewi, nay to recommend that form to the rest of the Princi- pality as the name of the national saint, and we Un accepted it from Caer Dydd to Caer Gybi. So they now sometimes go so far as to style Pem- brokeshire the Premier County. But I am sure no Cardiganshire man can stand that-the line has to be drawn Somewhere. The saint, as I have admitted, was essentially a Dyfed man or a Demetian; but you will ask what Dyfed was: well some people are in the habit of regarding Dyfed as Pembrokeshire and the nearest portion of Carmarthenshire; and in this sense we have the name surviving in that of the parish of Llandysilio yn Nyfed, that is to say Llandysilio in Dyfed. It is on the borders of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, and the name has lent itself from of old to a little joke against the people and parish of that Llandysilio, because LIandysilio yn Nyfed sounds like the Welsh for Llandysilio drinking, and the name, I believe, was found useful in more than one dises- tablishment campaign. Whichever of the two counties most of the parish is in, it is undoubtedly in Dyfed, though, owing to the encroachments of Carmarthenshire, the county of Pembroke repre. sents only a portion of Dyfed. In a far wider sense I should take Dyfed to cover the whole country where the Dyfedwys or Demetian dialect prevails, from the neighbourhood of tlanrhystud and Llanddewi Brefi in Cardiganshire, to Ty jjdewi or Saint David's, and from St. Dave's eastwards over the Towy to the Llychwr and the domain of the Gwentian dialect of Glamorgan. All that area was probably once Dyfed and occu- pied by the race to which the Saint belonged. Curiously enough we meet with a still wider application of the name for some authors would seem to have regarded Dyfed as synonymous with South Wales to the Wye or even the Severn. Take for instance Geoffrey of Mon- mouth's History of the Kings of Britain, in which he mentions this City of Gloucester, on the banks of the Severn, as being on the border of Loegria or Lloegr, that is to say England, and of Demetia or Dyfed. We seem to have indications of the same political geography in the Mabin- ogion, which represent Pwyll, King of Dyfed, not only leaving his realm, which extended east beyond the Towy, to his son Pryderi, but also owning as one of his men a nobleman called Teyrnon, in Gwent Iscoedor Nether Went. Then it is suggested in the Mabinogien that Pryderi added to his father's kingdom by marrying a princess, whom one might call a Gloucester lady. For her name was Kigva, daughter of Gwyn Gohoyw,'son of Gloyw Gwlad-Lydan, or "Gloyw, the Widely-Ruling," son of Casnar, of the princely stock of this island of Britain. Perhaps it was as a sort of accompaniment or corollary to this alleged wide sway of the Kings of Dyfed that the story was invented as to the Saint of Dyfed being made Archbishop, for which there seems to be no historical basis whatsoever. Now you will give me credit for bringing Dewi Sant's people and their rulers into a sort of contact with Gloucester, for I have mentioned how Geoffrey says that Gloucester on the Severn was on the confines of England and Demetia, and the Mabin- ogion tell us how Pryderi married the grand- daughter of Gloyw, after whom, according to other accounts, Caer Loyw, Gloucester, was called. This story would take us astonishingly far back, for not only does Gloyw » name become in Anglo-Saxon Gleaw in Gleawecester, that is to say the Chester or fortress of Gleaw, whence later what is written Gloucester and pronounced Gloster; but the name of the place in Roman times was in Latin Glevum, which, excepting the Latin termination, coincides exactly with the name of Gloyw. The change from an early syllable glgu or glSw into Gloyw is quite regular in Welsh, but English writers on the name of Gloucester have sometimes created an insur- mountable difficulty for themselves by copying as Glovi what was meant to be read Gloiv or Gloiu Gloiu is genuine Welsh and Glovi is genuine gibberish. The importance of this City in Roman times and the fact that the Severn served once as a great boundary must probably be accepted as the explanation why Gloucester as Caer Loyw figures so conspicuously in some of our Welsh stories. Take for instance that of Kulhwch and Olwen, in which we have the adventure of two of Arthur's men who came up the Severn to Caer Loyw riding comfortably on the shoulders of the Salmon of Llyn Lliw to converse with Mabon ab Madron who was prisoner here in a dungeon, from which they and Arthur's host had to deliver him. Where was that prison, laved by the tides of the Severn? Then the story of Peredur introduces us to Naw Gwiddon o Widdonod Caer Loyw, or Nine of the Witches of Gloucester, to whom Peredur is sent to school to be drilled in the mili- tary art and all kinds of equestrian feats. Later these Witches of Gloucester made themselves so troublesome that Peredur and Arthur had to make war on them, and in that war, as the story says, they were all killed; but I wonder whether that is not an exaggeration, and whether there are not still here some of the descendants of the Nine Witches of Gloucester. This is a question in which I feel considerably interested, and I should be surprised if no story has come down to modern times concerning the Witohes of Glouces- m o ter are you sure there is nothing known still of this Caer Loyw breed? If you can find any traces of then;, kindly let me know; they seem to have been Amazons of great power. After this digression due to the fascination of the Witches of Gloucester I must hurry back to the subject of this toast, our great Saint: I think there can be no doubt that he was great: witness the area of his diocese, the fact of his having become the national saint of all the Kymry, and the recorded fact that at one time a third or a fourth part of the whole of Ireland was subject to his authority. He called upon them to drink to "St. David." The toast was duly honoured.
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WAR NEWS DAY BY DAY. SATURDAY. Lord Kitchener has done his work in the west of Cape Colony in his well-known Egyptian manner,, which is as much as to say thoroughly, rapidly, and at infinitesimal cost. The last attempt at a rising on the part of the disloyal Dutch has ignominiously col- lapsed. Lord Kitchener will now rejoin his Com- mander-in-Chief unless he is entrusted with the direction of the large column which is preparing to strike the Transvaal from Kimberley. General French, with a force of cavalry, is still at Thaba N'ohu, but we hear nothing as yet of the fate of Olivier. T The retreat of Colonel Plumer from Lobatsi to Crocodile Poola is announced, Mafeking is known to be hard pressed and Colonel Plumer has had great difficulty in making his way south. Proclamations succeed one another with puzzling rapidity at the Boer headquarters, but it is amusing to learn that President Kruger has issued one annex- ing the Free State, and that ex-President Steyn has issued another to the effect that the said State is still independent. i. Further news of Sir A. Milner's movements shows that the purpose of his journey is to investigate the manner in which martial law is being enforced. MONDAY. From gallant little Mafeking we learn that the spirits of the garrison had risen at the news of tile Paardeberg victory and the relief of Ladysmith, coupled with the proximity of Colonel Plumer s ^ThcT'pause in the advance still continues, but movements are now probably in progiess of whi:h we hear, and are likely for some days to hear, nothing I the reorganisation of the transport, necessary after the catrastrophe on the Riet, should be nearing com- pletion. It is Dossible that Lord Roberts will decide to wait till the railway bridge at Nervals Poat is re- built before he advances on lvroonsiaa. No further news has arrived of the Boer eommaud- oes from Norvals Pout, Stormberg, and Aliwai North, which are moving along the road to Lady brand, close to the Basuto frontier. On Friday they were five m-iles north of Smithfield, having made good their escape from General Gatacre's main force, and being pursued only by his mounted scouts. The south of the Free State is not as yet cleared of the enemy. A commando about 5oo strong is stated to be entrenched near Fauresmith, under Command- ant Van Der Post, who has refused to surrender. We may expect to see the Paardeberg taotics repeated against him a cordon of troops will be eatrenched round his position, and he will be vigorously bom- barded. Asitrili column detached from General Clements' force has entered Philippolis and hoisted the British flag. The Boers are reported to be thoroughly cowed, yet it is to be noted that they are bringing in only old They allege that they have burnt their Mauser?, but this is a point into whioh.careful inquiry will be made. A party of four British officers, who rode out on Friday beyond tneir camp on the Modder River with- out any o eort, were fired upon by the Boors. Lieut. Lygon was killed and the others wounded. TUESDAY. A strong column is now moving to Griquatown, whence, after destroying the Boex force at that place, it will advance upon Mafeking. The Boers in Natal appear to be falling back from the Biggarsberg to Laing's Nek, in spite of reports that they are entrenching themselves heavily at the former place. With the, force at his disposal Gen. Buller should have littlu difficulty in turning their position, though a long detour will be necessary in the case of Laing's Nek- It is a question whether there are more than 10,000 Boers at present in Natal, as the main force now seems to be at Kroonstad. It is not likely that General Buller will attempt to move till Lord Roberts is ready. Any advance in Natal will, thereiore, be a sign that the Comman- der-in-Chief is again marching out to strike the enemy. The Boers at Kroonstad are entrenching and pre- paring in the hope that Lord Roberts will make a frontal attack npon their works. Here, as at Mag- ersfontein, the cavalry will be able to get round them. It was anuounced that Sir George White would I take command of the bentre, but he is coming home owing to ill-health, and Sir Frederick Forestier I Walkea will probably take the centre instead. WEDNESDAY. There is skirmishing in many quarters, but as yet no sign of an advance. The weekly casualty return shows that down to March 24 our army in South Africa lost 2,130 killed, 9,807 wounded, and 3,516 missing and prisoners- deducting the forty-nine officers and men re-captured at Bloemfontein. Thus our total losses in the field have been over 14,000 men, or nearly half an army corps. To these must be added 1,200 deaths from disease. The Boers have lost more heavily than ourselves in the recent fighting less heavily than ourselves in the earlier stages of the campaign. But as we have some 5,000 prisoners taken from them, it will not be much of an over-estimate if we place the total de- ductions from their forces at 11,000 or 12,000 men. Some estimates place their losses at 15,000. A message from Mafeking suggests that supplies have been got iuto the place, possibly by native as- sistance, while it is known that the garrison has made some captures of cattle from the Boers. The treatment of the rebels in the Kimberley district is provoking strong protests from the loyalists, who point out that, the leniency displayed simply places a premium upon rebellion. It is to be hoped that the traitors will be disfranchised, and, at least, compelled to pay for ths damage which they have done to the farms and property of the loyal colonists. Else the dissatisfaction and danger will be great indeed. Our outposts on the line of the Modder north of Bloemfontein are getting into touch with the Boer rearguard. There has been skirmishing between the 9ih and 16th Lancers and the enemy, in which one officer has been wounded. The most advanced British position is eight miles north of Glen, where the railway to Kroonstad crosses the Modder. THURSDAY. General Joubert is dead. It is officially announced from Pretoria. The cause is said to be a etomaohio complaint. We have news from Mafeking to March 16th. The investment was more or less relaxed, and the enemy were concentrating to oppose the Rhodesian relieving force. Food supplies had been sufficient, but it was eupected that a further reduction of rations would soon become imperative. Railway communication between Kimberley and tha camp at Warrenton is on the point of being opened. Lord Roberts is reported to be actively engaged in making disposition of his forces to the north of Bloemfontein, and the period of inaotion in nearly at an end. Trains full of troops are, says a Pretoria message, frequently leaving for the fighting line near Kroon- stad. General Clements is rapidly marching north. His column left Philippolis on Sunday, and reached Fauresmith on Tuesday, passing through Jagersfon- tein on the way. The distance covered was about 50 miles. The Colonial Division, under General Brabant, is about to occupy Wepener, on the Basutoland border, some 50 miles beyond Rouxville. At the latter place many waggons and much stock belonging to a com- mando had been delivered up. The pacification of the southern portion of the Free State seems to be complete. General French has returned to Bloomlontein from Thaba Nchu, where he had information by heliograph from Maseru of the trek of the remnants of the commandoes from Norvals Pont and Stormberg. Boer reports state that Grobler and Oliver hav now reached a point where they cannot be cut off, and thattheir forces will join those under De Wet and the Federals will be able to offer formidable opposition. Maseru, however, in describing Colonel Pilcher's bold march into Ladybrand with a handful of men, and his retirement on the return of the enemy in overwhelming force, presumes that the line of retreat towards Kroonstad must have been °UAn Exchange Company's telegram from Cape Town says the Boers are removing their big guns from the Biggarsberg, and are apparently abandoning tbHeavy rains have interfered with the movements of the British column against the rebels in the north- west of Cape Colony, but better weather has now set in, and the oolumn resumed its advance northwards on Wednesday. A fight with 800 rebels is axpected. Sir George White was presented with an address of weloome at Cape Town on Tuesday and in reply dwelt on the importance of holding Ladysmith as a shield for Natal. He took full responsibility for the disaster at Nicholson's Nek, which be said was due to the splendid intelligence service of the enemy. He could not move a gun in the night but they knew of it in the morning. [Our latest War news will be found on another page].
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PEMBROKE DOCK -NEWS. -):(- The work of levelling the ground for the new Naval Hospital is nearly completed. The building when erected will certainly improve what is looally known as the Fort Road. The work of preparing the site was entrusted to Messrs Brown and Young, and it is more than likely the name of the successful builder for the erection of the Hospital will be made known in a few days. J The Narberth Amateur Opera Company is to visit Pembroke Dock on Easter Tuesday, and I sincerely _1_J..J -4-¥\ Tf: trust they will be accoraea a spieuuiu is highly creditable that such a small piaoe can pro- duce a company to give such a pretentious work as Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore." There need not be the slightest as to how it will be produced, as Mr J. B. Williams and his Company have never failed to give unbounded satisfaction on coming before the public, It will be under the auspices of the Committee of the Nurses' Home, and I predict a bumper house. The new Cruiser Spartiate is assuming all the appearance of one of H.M. Ships. The coat of black paint given to the hull of the vessel, relieved with the usual band of white, has effected quite a trans- formation. All the cold water tests in connection with her boilers have been made with the most satis- factory results. Mr Suter, Assistant Constructor, in charge of the mould loft, leaves Pembroke yard at the end of this week for a similar position at Sheerness, and no pro- vision is made in this year's estimates for his successor at this yard. *#* A modest youth fearing to transgress one of the canons of Ball Room etiquette, which he has lately been committing top heart, asksd a military M.C. for introductions, and was immediately enuffed out by the reply You require no introductions here." The streets are again being torn up for the drain- age scheme. The Contractor hopes to accomplish his work in eighteen months, and seeing the expedi- tions manner in which he is setting about his job, I am inclined to think his hopes will be realized. 1ft The details of the Welsh Regiment are expected shortly to leave Pembroke Dock for Devonport. This is muoh to be regretted as the inhabitants ex- pected to have the honour of welcoming home the brave men of the old 41st, and of hearing the strains of its fine band for a lengthened period. The fine swing of the regiment when on the march is often a topic of conversation in the Dock. When stationed at Pembroke Dock vacancies in the positions of Sergeant-Major and Drum-Major ocourred, and Colonel Quirk who then commanded filled them with men from the Coldstream and Grenadier Guards re- spectively. There was much heart-burning among expectant recipients in the regiment, but the im- provement in their marching was so manifest that it was evident the Colonel had made no mistake. On Monday evening last at the Royal Edinburgh Hotel, Mr Slewett was the recipient of a very artis- tic address, presented by the Loyal Welsh Lodge of Freemasons. The presentation was preceded by a dinner to which about 50 of the brethren sat down presided over by Mr Price, W.M. P.M. T. Scott Phillips made the presentation. Several songs were given by Bros. Saunders, Phillips, Evans, and Brown. Bro. Leonard gave a recitation.
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One of the great grievances of curates is that they are not represented in the Convocation of the Church, nor, so far as representation goes, is their existence recognised in any department of Church control. It is now suggested that the franchise for representation in the Diocesan Con- ference should be given to every clergyman diiectly he is ordained and licensed to a curacy, and that the diocesan representatives of the curates should in each diocese send one of their number to Convocation.
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CHEERFUL FOLK. By Cheerful Folk I do not mean people who are always laughing. Mr SFurgeon jaswJKis always laughing is a fool." Big doses of giggleism do not make for cheerfulness. Some people are so much in the habit of complainD the> ve to like it, and are only happy when they're miserable. We re sure ot io We heard of a man living at Bradford who had a habit of looking very miserable, and always waTkinJ wiSi his hefd down and eyes fixed on the pavement The people m the town say that when he first came to live there many years ago he lost a thieepennrbit, and and had been looking for it ever since. Cheerful people are always thankful people. Some people measure a man's religion by the length of his face. Away mtn such cant man's religion should be judged by the BREADTH of his face. Let us tij to be wo.TN of the S eulogy-" A man he seemed of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows But how can a man be cheerful when he is suffering from Indigestion, Wind on the Stomach, Liver Complaints, Sick Headache, CoslNe^^ Debility, Palpitation of the Heart. Biliousness, &c.? How? Why take Page Woodcock's Wind Pills, the finest remedy in the world for these distressing evils. Mrs. Jos. Eeeves, 18, Jesson Street, West Bromwich, wntes have been my best friend. I had been ill m bed for 4 months joui V-ind is and Cough Pills effectually cured me of Bronchitis and Asfchuia. I have recommended them to scores of people, and witnessed the same good results." Paoe Woodcock's Wind Pills being purely Vegetable, Tasteless, and Mild and Tonic in their action, may be taken with perfact Bafety by the mosi delicate of either hex. Page Woodcock's Wind Pills are sold by all Melicine Vendors at Is Ud and 2s 9d; post free for price from Page Woodcock, Lincoln. Be particular that you ask for "Page Woodcock's Wind Pills," and see that you get no other.