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HENLLAN EiaTEDDFOD.-Nos Wener diweddaf, yn Neuadd Henllan, cadwyd eisteddfod wir Iwydd.anus o dan nawdd aelodau Ysgol Sul Henllan Cafwyd caderr- ydd rhagorol ym mherson Dr. T. J. Jenkinb, H^ llan, ac arweiniwyd yn ddyddorol a hapus gan John Lewis, Y.H., Meiros Hall. Y beirniaid oedd- ynt-Cerddoriaeth, Mr. C. Meudwy Davies, L an- eili; barddoniaeth, Parch. D. Lewis, B. A. lAp Ceredigion); traethodau, Mn. D. L. Evans, lands, a Samuel Jones. Trebedw Factory, ad^d" iadau, etc., Parch. E. Jones, M.A., Llangynllo; gwniadwaith, Mrs. Newland, Dolha, a Nurse Hughes, Henllan; cyfeiyddes, Miss Mav Jones, Pwllcornol. Y trysorydd oedd Mr. D. J. Davies, Penrhiwgotta, a chafwyd ysgrifenyddion rhagorol vn y Mri. E. Davies, ysgolfeistr Aberbanc, a John Jones, Caercadw. Trodd yr eisteddfod allan yn Uwyddiant, ac yr oedd y cystadleuaethau „n Iluosog ac o t;afori uchel-yn enwed.g gyda r^ pnf eorau. A ganlyn oedd rhestr y buddugwyr. Pr Jvstadleuaeth gorawl (3 chor yn cystadlu): Goreu, Oor Henllan a'r Cylch, o dan arweimad Mr E Davies, ysgol feist r, Aberbanc. Cor plant. Dyffijn Orllwvn, o dan arweiniad Mr. David Davies, Cnwc Wythawd (T.T.B.B.); Cor o'r lie, o dan arweimad Mr. Eben. Jones, Tyhwnt. Pedwarawd :Mr. Tom Jones. Pwllcornol, a'i gyfeilhon. Dcuawd (T. a B.): Mri Tom Jones a David Thomas, Nantgarran. I n- awd Baritone; Mr. S. Davies, Bronwion. Unawd Tenor: Mr. David Thomas, Nantgarran. Vna j Contralto: Miss Davies, Penralltybie. Unawd, Soprano: Mrs. Jenkin Evans, Neuadd, Horeb. Un- awd i rai heb enil lo'r blaen (T. neu B.): Cyd- fudugol, Mr. Evan Thomas Rees, Penbeihbach .a J. D. Rees, Coedyperthi. Unawd i fechgyn dan 15 oed- 1, James Davies. Bronwion; 2, Willie Davies School House, Aberbanc. Unawd iferched dan 15 oed: 1 M. H. Phillips, Tro'rlon, Felindre; 2, Lizzie Williams, Bryngoleu, Henllan. Unawd i blant dan 12 oed: 1, Nellie Jones, Troedrhy w; 2, Lizzie Isaac, Brvngwenith. Deuawd i blant dan 14 oed: 1, James Davies, Beulah, a'i gvfaill; 2, Megan James, Top, a'i chyfeilles. Deuawd ar y berdoneg: Cydfuddugot. Katie Jones, Railway-terrace; May Jones, Pencnwc, ¡ù brodyr Wi% a David Jones, 1, Railway- terrace, Henllan. Can, "Eglwys Henllan J. J. Evans. Traethawd: Mr. Daniel Rees, Brongest. Llvrhvr Caru: Miss Sally Thomas, Horeb. Adrodd- iad i blant, dan 14 oed: Cydfuddugoi, Maggie Davies, Milestone, Penrhiwllan, a Catherine Frances Thomas, Mvnvddbaeh. Llandyfriog. Gwybodaeth GvfFredinol: Mr. David Richards, Alltfawr, Henllan Darllen ar v pryd: Miss Sally Thomas, Horeb. Afternoon teacloth: Miss Jones. Berllan. Par o fenvg: Miss M. H. Jones, Aberllcine. ARDDANGOSFA.—Yn y rhifyn nesaf or JOURNAL eeir hanes y "poultry show" gedwir yn Kalian dvdd Calan. Cystadleuaeth newydd a dvddorol ydvw yr un am y "baby" goreu.

LLANGELER Y mae plwyf Llangeler yn enwog am godi offeir- iaid. ac y mae yn dal ati o hyd. Dydd Mercher diweddaf ordeiniwyd y Parch. Daniel Evans-Davies i guradiaeth Aberaeron. Mab i Mr. a Mrs. Davies, Troedrhiwllan, yw ein cyfaill. Derbyniodd ei addysg elfenol yn Ysgol Genedlaethol Llangeler. Aeth oddi yno am dair blynedd i Ysgol Ganolraddol Llandvsul, ac vna i'r College School, Llanbedr, am dair blynedd arall. Ar derfyn yr a mser bwp derbvniwvd ef i Goleg Dewi Sant, lie y graddiodd yn B.A. Y mae Mr. Davies yn ddyn leuanc bywiog a gweithgar. Bydd bechgyn Aberaeron yn ffortunus iawn o herwvdd v mae Mr Davies yn bel-droedrwi da. Chwareuai gyda'r College First XV. Yr oedd yn barchus iawn gyda'u gyfeillion ac y mae yn ymadael gyda'u dymuniadnu goreu. Hir oes iddo wasanaethu yr hen Fam Eglwys.

DAFEN PRIODAS.—Bu priodas brydferth yn yr Eglwys hon dvdd Mawrth wvthnos i'r diweddaf. Y par priodas- ol oeddent Miss Maggie Walters, y Post Office, a Mr. Phillip Britten, o heddlu Llanelli. Pnodwyd y par ieuainc gan y Parch. A. Britten, Gorslas, yn cael ei gynorthwyo gan y Parch J. R. Jones, Dafen a'r Parch. T. R. Davies, Llwynhendy. Wedir briodas dychwelodd yr holl gwmni mewn cerbvdau caucdig i'r Post Office, lie yr oedd gwledd ddan- teithiol wedi ei nharotoi gan Mr. a Mrs. Walters. Yma eto cafwyd anerchiadau doniol gan y tri gwr parchedig vdvm wedi enwi, a rhoddasant gynghor- ion pwrpasol iawn i'r par ieuainc dedwvdd. Y maent yn myned i fyw i Lanymddyfri, lie y byddant, gobeithio. yn ffvddlon iawn yn yr Eglwys. fel y maent wedi bod yn Llanelli a Llwynhendy. Hir oes iddynt.

NOD10N DATGYSSYLLTIAD I'R FFRYNT.-Y "veto" oedd y nwnc yn amser yr etholiad. ond Datgyssyllt- iad svdd yn cael ei ddwyn yn mlaen yn flaenaf. Golvgir ei basio cyn y Coroniad, a golvgiv ereu di"-on o Arglwvddi newydd Radioalaidd er patio Datoyssvlltiad drwy y Ty Uwchaf. Dvna v "scheme" diweddaf; felly, yn He tvnu y Ty Uwchaf i lawr, gwneir llawer o ArHwydd'i newvddion, a hyny gan y blaid sydd wedi bloeddio yr holl wlad "I lawr a'r Argfwyddi!" Onid yw dynion yn bethau rhyfedd! Nid oes genyui Rycldfrydwyr fel Gladstone yn awr. "PUPS MOND "—Yr oedd Ben Tillet yn siarad vn Abertawe y nos o'r blaen, ^hadwvd swn ciaidd "pan haid o grytiaid difoes. "Hallo!' ebe Ben, "What was that noise? Are th.e any of Monds Pups' in here Y mae Mr MondI weai adeil ad a tv i'r "Young Liberals," nc yn rhoddi ffest iddynt bob hrn a hvn. a dywedir fod vma^do fawr ,o "bups" yn cael eu magu i fyny yn calaidd. YR EGLWYS AR BRAWF.-Bu ar brawf caled o flaen v ddirnrwvaeth. Y mae gwaharol artrodd- iadau allan. Y cvhuddiad yr erbyn yr Eglwys vw, ei bod vn esgeuluso iaith y genedl. nemarr bym- rae: vn Eglwvsi Cadeiriol Cymru; dvnion vn cael eu talu, g-anoedd o bunau, am wemyddu i ddyrnaid: fod Cvmreigwvr (it vn cael eu newynu ffan awdur- dodan e^lwvsiar. Dygir Goronwy Owen. Totian Glan Geirionvdd, Tudno, ac amrvw guradiaid sydd eto vn fvw L-er bron, edlychia^d o brearethwyr vn cael ell dvrchafu dros ben rhai benach a ealhioracb. Anwvbvddodd vr esgobion Daniel Rowland Thomas Charles, a'r ddau ddyn mawr yma wanveh- odd yr eglwys yn Nghvmru: hyn sydd yn cael eu taflu i wyneb yr esgobion; rhaid eu gwynebu.

< [ÂLL BIGHTS Rismtbd-] Humorous Review of the Year BY JOHN FOSTER FRASEIR. Hasn't this been a jolly year? I am too lazy to rummage the pages of my second- hand encyclopaedia to unearth the date, but it must have been -when men wore powdered wigs and ladies sported high coiffures that Britain was last blessed with two elections in one ear. But some people never are satisfied. I know men who growl that our Parliaments are too long, and then, getting their second breath, declare it is outrageous the whole country should be put to the tur- moil of two elections in twelve months. Yet the sensible people amongst us love political turmoil. A good, breezy, merry political meeting is more exciting"than a plav, and not half so eye-aching as a cinematograph entertainment. And there are people who say we will be having another general elec- tion in a few months. Hurrah! If the throats of our leading statesmen go rusty, let them deliver their fiery and blood-boiling orations before the furiously fluttering shutter of a cinematograph and pour their lofty souls into the tube of a phonograph. Then, when we feel depressed and want rous- ing up, we can have sixpennyworth of Mr. Lloyd George. POLITICAL CONUNDRUMS. How our minds have been improved by these two elections! We've learnt bits of his- tory we have never heard before—and I almost feel glad I haven't got many noble dukes and wicked marquises and belted earls and bold, bad barons amongst my acquaint- ances. I do not want the greengrocer to make nasty remarks about the company I keep. But if you are neither a maniacal Radical nor a fanatical Tory, what fun you can get out of polities And during this charming Christmastide, when we are burn- ing our fingers whilst roasting chestnuts, what conundrums we can ask: Is Mr. Asquith in Mr. Redmond's pocket? How long has Mr. Balfour been a democrat? When is a majority not a majority? Can you end the peers by making more peers? And shall we smile at the new speeches of noble lords: "Fellow countrymen, if you want to have the hereditary privileges abolished, vote for us. If you want useless lords swept out of the Gilded Chamber, vote for us. If you want a really brainy, elected, nominated Second Chamber, vote "for us. We trust you; trust us. If we cannot decide, and the Commons cannot decide, and we bring our heads together and both cannot decide, you must decide for us. We trust you. Vote for us! Shade of Lord John Manners, bab- bling his famous verse, perish this and perish that, "but leave us still our old nobility 1 As OTHERS SEE US. And when there is a general election, what need to buy books? Our "literature" is supplied free. Where is the necessity to purchase Christmas numbers. They are not half so funny as the political cartoons of the year. What a mixed breed of parrots and worms our politicians become at election times? A man never knows what a purblind ass with vicious tendencies he is till he has delivered what he considers a neat little speech on a political platlorm, and then reads the comments on him in "that wretched rag" on the other side. Just think of the splashes of colour brought into the drear, drab months by election favours-red and blue, orange and piuple, green and pink, besides the exquisite confusion LOCAL COLOTR. When you were a "true blue in one constituency you thought you were a Liberal. But you crossed the street, and found in the adjoining constituency that all the Conservatives were wearing blue ties, and the Primrose dames luid attached blue bows to tli2 collars of their poodles. You are cheered in one street and rotten-egged the next. I do hope no fool M.P. will in- troduce a Bill deciding that the party colours should be the s-une all the country over. Consistency would be so out of place at election time. No doubt something quite important has been decided by the two elec- tions this year. But I've never got together two really sensible Englishmen who can agree what has been decided. That is the exquisite thing about t11"se politics. A general election can decide Yes and No at the same time—it all depends on the colour of your tie.. THE HOBBLE SKIRT. I raise my hat to the French. They have given us the most daring and dashing and crashing of aviators. In these last and blessed twelve months one of their dramatic poets has given us "Ciiantecler," where- upon all the P-iris leniies have decked them- selves with cock's feathers, and British dames, determined to be in the fashion, have wran^ed themselves in plumes until the stoutest of them have hobbled along the streets like pantomime roosters. And re- member, too, this glorious year provided us with the hobble skirt and feminine hats the size and tll- shape of kitelun copper-iids. Charming thing, the hobble skirt It shows the graceful lines of the dainty figure cf the pretty little maiden tripping acrrss the road. The only people who do not like the hobble skirt are fat women who look like balloons. UP THE POLE. Dr. Cook has not been to the Nortii Pole. First lie told us he had. Perhaps he has been reading English election speeches, and the spirit of truth entered him. Anyhow, lie now says he has not. But the American Presi- dential election is in the offing, and maybe before long he will produce convincing proof that he did go there. He says that he said he went there because his mind got de- ranged. But that is the very time he may have wandered up the pole. However, he is an interesting man—almost as interesting as Mr. Roosevelt. THEODORE THE GREAT. Great man. Mr. Roosevelt. How delighted we all were when he was given a gold box at the London Guildhall. Then lie told us what a frightful mess we were making of things in E;ypt. We loved him for his c-an- dour: we like to have our shortcomings pointed out. But it is such a pity none of our statesmen have returned the compli- ment. Could not we persuade Earl Rose- bery to journey across the Atlantic and tell the good people of the United States a few truths about American rule in the Philip- pines. or of the treatment of the coloured race in the fin est country on earthy What an experience Lord .Ros"hej,y would have, what a delightful book he would be able to write— if he was allow-, cl to return to England alive. Or perhaps he is waiting till a trans- atlantic flying machiLP i complete. He will have to arrange with Mr. Wellman, captain of the aerial brig—courageous Mr. Well- man. who lifts been telling the world for twenty years of the mighty things he in- tends to do—but never does. THE EATING AGE. What a gay, merry people we are becom- ing Twice has Paris been nearly dvowned, but London stands nobly where it did. London is becoming one huge caravanserai of hotels and restaurants. "Those now gorge who never gorged before, And those who always gorged now gorge the more." There are more music- halls in our towns than there are lighthouses on our coasts. The man with rubicund nose who sang alcoholic ditties is out of date. We have bowdlerised and bovrilised Shakespeare at the 'alls, sandwiched in between the

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PRACTICAL FARMING BY A TENANT FARMER. GROOMING COWS IN WINTI21. Cows are never so omfortabe and well doing as when out night and day in the summer time. Their coats then are clean, neat and agreeable, and their existence is absolutely peaceful, which is the only state in which they ,are the greatest suc- cess. When tied*- up in the sheds and kept in at night in the autumn one can almost fancy their going down in the mouth as much accumulates on their coats, and the itching discomfort is displayed. They are apt to decrease in condition and milk giving too. This is said by many to be owing to the want of grass and summer conditions. Nothing is hardly ever said about the muck being a hindrance, and yet I believe that in this is to be found the true explanation of small milk giving in winter. Cows oppressed with mucky ocats are never happy, and a worried cow is of all, the least generous in milk giving.. Discontent is a milk shrinker to a surprising extent, and there are other agreeable and profit-making differences be- tween the dirty and clean cow. I am a great be- liever in grooming cows as an aid to their gener- osity. We groom our horses for appearance sake and also to give them comfort. Let a horse re- main ungroomed in a thick matted coat and it will be the most miserable animal alive, but it is not possible that the cow with the muck clinging to her as if held in a coat of armour must be mis- erable too, and all who know their nature and their liking for comfort can imagine how it must tell against them. No right minded person can un- derstand why cows are not groomed daily and kept quite clean in winter, as all own that it is advan- tageous and beneficial. The want of time and hands is not the fault. If I do not attribute it to lazi- ness I must to indifference and all careless of the- greatest comfort to their cows will never occupy the agreeable position of being a successful dairy farmer. I never blame the cowman or his assistants wholly for the filthy state of the cows. The owner who tolerates this can expect nothing else, and many who milk approve of the filth so little that as the stinking dirty cows come into their hands they hurry away from them as quick as possible and it is here that a most fertile source of shrinkage in milk yields are to be met. No one who has the least respect for their associations can sit down and milk a muck covered cow agreeably, and the oper- ation is brought to a close as soon as possible, while the clean sweet cow is fondled and adhered to till the last drop is extracted and given cheerfully. Cleaning or grooming the cows now and again is not the best way. Giving them daily attention is the most acceptable; indeed the only right way. The work is easily got over then and both the oper- ator and the cow will show manifestations of the highest approval. highest approval. SHEEP THAT KILL WELL. There were 74 sheep and lambs kiiled and hung up in the carcase competitions at Smithfield. The leading breeds were represented and it was not very difficult to spot the outstandingly meritorious. In the long wooled breeds, the first winners were both Cheviots. The lamb was 7 months 2 weeks old, had a live weight of 124 lbs. and scaled 76 lbs. when dressed. Ine heap was 19 months and 2 weeks old with a live weight of 122 lbs. and 77 lbs in the car- case. The quality of both was excellent. In the class for short wooled breeds not exceeding 12 months old, the winner was a Southdown and gained the champion cup. This was a most exquisite speci- men. It weighed llllbs alive and 771bs when dressed. It was compact, of lovely form, and ripe to the greatest nicety. In the older class the winner was a Hampshire-Down, aged 20 months 2 weeks. It weighed 168 alive and 107 lbs. dressed. Both quan- tity and juality were amply present. In both classes the Suffolk breed came in second, and we must place this breed amongst the best, as they ran the winners very close indeed, and were most numer- ously erhibited. In cross, bred lambs the Suffolk Cheviot cross came well to the front and so did the Oxford Down Suffolk. For crossing purposes the latter is one of the best known as both weight and quality is attached to it. THE COMPOSITION OF A CHAMPION FAT BULLOCK. The carcase competitions and displays are amongst the most interesting and certainly the most in- structive at Smithfield. The slaughtered and dressed carcases are displayed to great advantage and fascinate all who inspect them. This year's cnampion carcase in the beef classes was found in a cress-bred animal between the Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn. Its age was 1 year 9 months 2 weeks, and it will be pointed to by many who are argue in favour of the earliest ripening of cattle as a superb mpport of their cause. That it was hi", there can be no doubt. Many will ask if such animals can be matured under two years why keep them till three years? This will receive further notice. Attached to each carcase is a card giving details of the composition, and the champion had a live weight of 10cwt 2qrs 181bs. Suet, gaul, reed and fat 18 lbs, far, gut, fat and trimmings 201bs, tongue and tail 11 lbs, head and feet 52 lbs, heart, hiver and lights D'lbs, trip; fleck &c., <9 lbs, hide 83 lbs. intestines 18 lbs. carcarse 98 stone 5 lbs. (TgLY COATED LINCOLN PIGS. Thcee are net qualifying as we expected to see- them at the Smithfield Show. There were six exhi- bits in two classes in 1909 and that was their exact number again this year. I never look at any pig class with three entries only as a success, and I am disappointed as I have had kindly words to say of the breed. Further the weight of the pair not ex. ceeding one year old in 1909 was 10 cwts 1 qr 24 Ibs and this year the corresponding only weighed 7 cwt 3 qrs 14bs. FOOT WEAR ON THE FARM. There is no class of the community that suffer so much from wet feet and the serious ailments that often follow than those engaged on the farm. It i marvellous that cases of sickness and death are not more common from this cause, as in the winter time more particularly wet feet are a daily ex- perience. A good deal of this may be attributed to paper and flimsy made boots, which are incapable of excluding wet, and I am tempted to write a word to-day in praise of the clog. Those daily saturations in December have suggested this. The wear- ing of clogs is more of a northern than a southern fashion, and many have a peculiar aversion to them because they think they are only appropriate for the poorest of people but that is a weak idea as surely ones health and comfort is the first con- sideration and although clogs may be both cheap and noisy, they are eminently wet resisting, and gratifyinsjly cosy. The wood soles have a peculiar warmth and exclude wet to an extent that is a real bocn. Their being obtainable at one quarter the price of boots is therefore not their only advantage and in urging their adoption for winter wear on the farm I can testify from personal experience that for comfort in wet weather the most expensive boot can- not exceed them. I believe their cheapness make many think they can only be next to useless but the proof in actual wear gives a vastly different im- pression. RED POLLS AS FAT CATTLE. Some have not a very good word to say of the Red Polls, and regard them as a third rate as fat- tening cattle. This is doing them an injustice as as when well bred and properly managed they make excellent beef. Proof of this was very convincingly displayed at Smithfield where a steer 1 year 10 months 3 weeks. weighed 13 cwt 3 qrs 2 Ibs. another 2 years 10 months weighed 16 cwt 1 qr 18 Ibs, while a heifer of a similar age turned the scales at 15 cwt 1 qr 16 lbs. These were admirable in quality and really choice. DAIRY UTENSILS IN WINTER. Cool condition are usually looked on as the best for dairying operations, but winter conditions are not all in favour of successful dairying. Damp muggy. atmospheres are not the most agreeable for the taintless keeping of milk, cream, and butter, and the utensils are much more difficult to keep clean now than in summer. The open air and sunshine that sweetens them so agreeably then are mainly awanting now, and to avoid taints it is most desirable that all the utensils be most exactinglv cleaned every time after using. ooden materials are the most difficult to keep sweet as now they are hardly ever dry and their constant moist state i especially induc- ing of taints. In washing all should use hot boiling water, washing soda, a penetrating brush and plenty of elbow grease. There is real pleasure in cleanli- ness in the dairy and there will be no success where it is not daily observed. Ventilation is a help but more than that is needed. Readers requiring advice or information by post must address their communications to "Farmer" c/o The Editor, and in all cases enclose stamped directed envelope. Reply to M. J. Evans.— FEEDING BULLOCKS—They would be best in sheds at night, but if you have not accommodation they will succeed out in the open. Oats are a most substantial and pushing food, and you will profit by using them. The best mixture you can possibly feed them on is: chaff 8Ibs., oats 3lbs., and molas- sine meal 51bs. per bullock per day, dividing morning and evening. The oate ought to be crushed. The mollasine meal is a charming food for all cattle that are being developed, for any purpose, and they gain more on it than any other food that can be used. It is splendid in wet, cold, and all weathers.

MARKETS GRAIN. NEWPORT.. Wed., Dec., 21st.—The close prox- imity of the Christmas holidays set activities on Change here to-day at a minimum. All commodities were quiet at unchanged prices. CATTLE. NEWPORT., Wed., Dec., 21—There was nothing done at the cattle market here to-day, all the usual buyers being engaged in preparing their Christmas meat shows. CHEESE. NEWPORT., Wed., Dec., 21—A brisk demand con tinued to prevail at this mar-vet for a supply which was rather limited, and no difficulty was experienced in obtaining full current prices. Quotations:—Caer- phillys 63s to 68s, fancy dairies 69s to 70s. Cheddars 63s to 65s and Derbys 68s per cwt. BUTTER. CORK., Wed., Dec., 51st-Firsts 100s seconds 95s thirds, 84s., fine 98s, fresh from 100s to 88s per cwt. PROVISIONS. WHITLAND, Thurs., Dec. 22.—There was a poor attndancland supply.. Quotations:—Butter—in casks Is to Is Od per lb, in pound rolls Is Id to Is lgd; eggs, 8 for Is 2d; rabbits, 7d to 8d each; live fowls, 4s to 46 6d per couple; dressed poultry, 9d to 9d per 1 b; geese, lOd to 10d per lb; turkeys. lOd to 10d per lb; beef, 8d to 9d, mutton 9d to pork 6d to 7d per lb. There was a large supply < t poultry, geese, and turkeys. LLANDILO, Sat., Dec. 24.—The market was a small one. Poultry was very scarce, but there was a good demand. Quotations:—Fresh butter, Is Id and Is 2d per lb; cheese—Welsh Sid, cream and Caerphilly 8gd; eggs, 9 for Is; poultry—turkeys (trussed) Is 3d, geese (trussed) Is and Is Id, ducks (trussed) Is, fowls (trussed) Is Id per lb; game— pheasants 5s per brace, hares 3s each; rabbits, 9d each. CARMARTHEN, Sat., Dec. 24.—A very small supply was brought to market to-day. Quotations: —Cask butter Is ld to Is 2gd, and fresh ditto Is 5d to Is 6d per Ib; dressed poultry were speedily disposed of at Is 3d to Is 6d per Ib; eggs, 8 for Is; cheese, 37s 6d per cwt. LLANDILO, Tues,, Dec. 27.—Messrs. William and Walter James auctioneers Landovery, Landilo and Swansea, held their fortnightly sale of fat cattle, sheep, lambs, pigs, and porkers, at the Llandilo Urban District Council's Market to-day. Thirty head of fat cattle, a large number of lambs, and 60 pigs and porkers were disposed of at the follow- ing prices:—Fat cattle from JE12 10s to J315 10s, pigs and porkers from £2 to JB4 10s. and lambs from 20s to 25s each.

LAWYERS IN PARLIAMENT Discussing the constitution of the new Parlia- ment, the "Law Journal" says:—'Tn the new Parliament, the number of lawyers is practically the same as in the old. Last January 169 members of the legal profession were elected, including 139 barristers and 30 solicitors. This General Election has resulted in the return of 163 lawyers, including 136 barristers and 27 solicitors. Practitioners in the law cannot, of course, claim to be so wel 1 re- presented in the House of Commons as these figures would appear to indicate, though they have every reason to be gratified that the constituencies show not the slightest tendency to show the hostile feel- ing which is sometimes expressed against the poli- thical lawyer. Considerably more than half the 136 members of the Bar who have been victorious at the polls are merely nominal members of the pro- fession. It is pretty safe. indeed, to srate that. the practising lawyers in the new House of Commons do not number more than 80, but, as a matter of fact, the members of Parliament who are active members of the legal profession are somewhat more numerous than they were. While four well-known members of the Bar who sat in the last Parliament —Mr. H. E. Duke. K.C., Mr. Hemmerde. K.C., Mr. T M Healy, KC. and Mr H A Colefax—have been defeated, eight members of the Bar not in the old House of Commons—Mr. Leslie Scott, Mr. Felix Cassel, KC, Mr Montague Barlow. Mr. Rigby Swift, and Mr. R. J. Neville, on the Unionist side. and Mr. A. H. Marshall, Mr. Clement Edwards, and Mr. A. M. Scott on the Liberal side—have been re- turned. While two solicitors on the ministerial side —Mr. F. G. Hindle and Mr. A. G. Hooper—have failed to keep their seats, three other solicitors be- longing to the same party—Mr. Philip Morreil, Mr. Donald Maclean, and Mr. A. H. Richardson—have increased the number of the Government's gain. The result of the General Election is to leave the Cabinet of 'all the an undimished ma- jority, and to slightly increase the number of prac- tising lawyers who play a part in the framing of the laws they help to administer."

PILES PERMANENTLY CURED CHURCH OFFICER'S TRIBUTE TO ZAM-BUK. Mr. E. P. Evans, of 105, Ratciiffe Road, Lough- borough, as Treasurer of the Local Independent Methodist Church and the President cf the Lough- borough Working Men's Trading Society, is an individual held in the highest respect, and one whose word may be implicitly relied upon. His own tribute to Zam-Buk for rescuing him from a painful and very prevalent complaint will therefore carry great weight with othed sufferers. Mr. Evans who is a railway foreman, thus described his case to a reporter :— ''My life was made miserable by itching piles which troubled me for seven years." Mr. Evans confided to the Pressman. 'Often I was in too much to either sit or stand, and I lost many a nights sleep through the constant itching and burning of my complaint, I kept at my work though it was often a big effort"; but at last I was obliged to stay at home. ítrioo man, ointhments and oth2r ordinarv preparations without being benefited in the least. Then I was attended by a doctor, who said I should never be right until! I was operated on. But I couldn't bring myself to face the knife, so I went back to useless ointments again. "Two years ago a friend advised me to give up ordi. nary ointments and to try Zam-Buk. which he felt sure would do me good. I confess, having suffered so long without relief, that I had but little faith in anything; but Zam-Buk soon made me change my views. I got relief from theitching and burning the very first time I applied the balm, and the im- provement was maintained with each dressing. "1 continued using Zam-Buk until the niles ceased to trouble me, but I waited many months before I ventured to consider myself permanently cured. As I have not had the slightest trace of the trouble now for nearly two pears, I am convinced that Zam-Buk has completely rid me of this most distressing com- plaint."

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gallant who raises traction engines with his teeth and diaphanously-clad females who skip round in subdued light. No more the high- kicking lady. Even the languid, bare-footed, serpentining-armed Maud Allans are things of yesteryear. We have wild feats of dancing to the ravishing strains of Tschaikovsky. MERRY AND MORAL. Oh, we've developed our eirs-(mr musical ears this year. Why, we've had Strauss' "Elektra," which bored us tremendously, but which we said was wonderful. Now we have "Salome," not the real Continental "Salome." That would shock our aunts. But a milk-ard-water "Salome," which might be presented by young ladies at a seminary at their breaking-up" party. We are merry—but we arc moral. However, the halfpenny evening papers, with plenty of divorce details or crimes like that of Crippen's, manage to sell a f-ew copies. DOMES OF SILENCE. Now, though twice this year we heve all had one another by the hair and the cars on political matters, what an air of sweet reasonableness has prevailed in other things. Haven't we had a Conference, Mr. Asqn-rh and three gallant Liberals meeting Mr. Balfour and three noble Conservatives- That was nice. Hammer and tongs, of course, in the House of Commons, but at the Con- ference meetings Mr. Balfour helping Mr. Asquith on with his overcoat, Mr. Austen Chamberlain and Mr. Winston Churchill politely accepting each other's cigarettes, Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Lloyd George taking pinches from the same snuff-box. and my Lords Crewe and Cav.dor in amiable squabble on the doorstep because each wanted to play the taxi-fare. Sixty-horse- power motor-cars will not drag from the Con- ferencers what took place at the Conference. I've an idea it had something to do with the House of Lords, though I would not be abso- lutely sure of that. CONFERENCE COMPENSATIONS. Some people are sorry the Conference failed-let us see, wasn't it that the Liberals were so shocked with the hereditary in- gredients of the 'House of Lords that they threatened to make many more peers to hinder the peers' doing what the peers have been doing? I know it was something abstruse. Let us be glad the Conference failed. Success -*oitld have meant no general election, no demosthenic floods of oratory over the land, no gaudy posters, except those of the approaching pantomimes —how tame the pantomime posters have been in comparison with the pictures of idiotic dukes, of the Chanc^Mor of the Exchequer, dressed up like a pirate bold in "Peter Pan," and Mr. John Redmond, like King Cole, that merry old soul, strnddled upon sacks stuffed with American dollars! CHRISTABEL V. WINSTON. Bravo for Conferences—which fail. Let us have a lot more-but they must fail. And let us have them in public. Do we not live in the land of the fr-e-e-e? Has not our flag for a thousand years braved the battle and the br-c-e-ze? Are we not in a democratic age? Do not all our hearts throb with pas- sionate love of the people—especially when, arrayed in our best clothes, some grimv-clad toiler sits next to us in the omnibus? We ought to have had a Conference this year between the Cabinet and the ladv Suffra- gists. (Tomahawk the man who started the use of that silly word Suffragette.) Olvmpia, the Albert Hall, Shepherd's Bush—that's where the oratorical conflicts would have taken place. I woiild have given one-tenth of the money I am to receive for writing this brilliant article to hear Miss Christabel Pankhurst and Mr. Winston Churchill "confer." By way of relief we could have had a "whip dance," quite exciting, almost as whirling as a Russian dance. "VOTES FOR WOMEN "—22. The cause of woman is advancing. Like a great wave it is sweeping towards progress. Two champions of the irresistible cause stood up for women's suffrage at the elec- tions. In London, in East St. Pancras, out of 6,951 votes cast, the astounding total 22 votes were given for the Suffragist candi- date. In the Camlachie division of Glasgow, out of 8,505 votes cast, 35 went to the Suffragist candidate. Let anti-Suffragists tremble. The will of the people slnll pre- vail. The sun of emancipation is beaming cl over the land. It dazzles one. THE SPICE OF LIFE. It has really been a nice year-i f only'you will look at things from the proper point of view. Remember Mr. Balfour won the Par- liamentary handicap, and Mr. John Burns hLi,, had his salary incmsed to £ 5,000 a year. A Labour Government has come into power in Australia, and King Manuel in- stead of worrying about the rule of Portu- gal, can spend his days in shooting over English fields. The superiority of the negro has been demonstrated in that Johnston licked Jeffries in boxing out in far-away Nevada. The Duke ox Connaught has been to South Africa, and Mr. Roosevelt has had a whirlwind oratorical tour throughout the United States, and the Americans seem to be getting tired of him. They prefer Grahame White. There has been the usual crop of revolutions in South America. There have been riots in Berlin, floods in Paris, and peace has reigned over St. Petersburg. And England has had rain. We would have had to talk about the weather if we had not been able to talk about Lloyd George's "langwidge," and Balfour's "running awav," and "Redmond's dollars." What a blessing the general election was' "TIM'S BAD TIME. And let us be grateful for the sparkling diamond-like points of interest "in the year that's awa." The billiard record has been broken—a break of 1.052 by Mr. George Grav. There is something of which Empire builders should be proud. Besides we've had a comet, Halley's, sweeping across the skies. Its effulgence was rather disappoint- ing. but old women tell us it was account- able for the excessive rains, and young men fancy it must have had some influence on the elections. Certainly the stars worked against Mr. T. LVi. llealy. bitter, vitriolic, sardonic "Tiger Tim," who lost his scat in Louth owing, as he says. to drunken intimi- dation. and, like the gallant he is, e-caped from meddenjd electors by skedaddling across a potato fi dd carrying a school black- board with hill) as a shield, just like a Roman in the brave days of old. A TRAGEDY IN WAX. Canadian Volunteers shot well at Bislcy, and United States tors were stuffed with Euglish roast beef at the Mansion House. There has been a "run" on th? Birkbcck Bank, with hapny results for the Birkbeck, and Army airships waltzed round the dome of St. Paul's. Men have flown from Pa'is to London' and from London to Man- chester. And the biggest ship in the world lias been launched at Belfast, the Olympic. A lady got into trouble because she wore a ten big hat at a theatre. But a woman has shown she can play golf as well as a man— which is significant. The Jockey Club has protested against excessive snap-shotting at race meetings, and part of the Brussels Exhibition was burnt down—and the waxen figures of British statesman in Yorkshire clothing succumbed, dribbled, ran-together, so that you could not tell which was Mr. John Burns and which was Mr Balfour. -And the Terra Nova has gone off to the Antarctic to plant the Union Jack at the South Polo. WHAT TO EXPECT. There was a ring in the New Year bells of a year ago that the House of Lords was to be speedily hurled into the limbo of the jwicked. Twelve fatal months and the U Gilded Chamber remains. Again the bells will toll dolefully. But their lordships will smile. Meanwhile many new lords have been created, and come New Year's day, so rumour saith, others will don the crimson robe and their ladies will order the sweetest things in coronets to wear amid the glories of the coronation some six months hence. England has lot yet been invaded by Ger- many, but "William II. continues to deliver grandiose speeches to soldiers of the Father. land. Mount Etna was in eruption, and Mr. Churchill has delivered many speeches. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Now, have I said anything about the general election? I do not mind leaving out the most momentous things, but nn incident like the election—the two elections in one year—should not be overlooked. Enough coloured ribbons have been sold in the past year to decorate the entire earth like a fanciful Easter egg. Are we not a sensible people? And we have spent £ 4,000,000 instructing the country. Who, therefore, can say trade is bad? It has been a bumping year/ of prosperity. Play- houses where classics like" Toe Bad Girl of the Family have been produced have been crowded nightly. IF NOT-WHY NOT? We have had Form IV. It sounds like earlv school days. Those of us who do not own land, and therefore have been saved from castigation as horrible people, have much to be thankful for. Enough hair has been lost from more or less respectable lords during the oast year to stuff all the chairs for the Coronation. Form IV. is a sort of Christmas puzzle run mad, and you have to give a correct answer or goodness knows what punishment will descend upon you. From where did you get your land? Who had it before you? How much did he give for it and why didn't you give more? What was it wortli in 1644? and what would be its value if it was in the same state as at the Norman Conquest? How much do you expect to get for it when you sell it? and if not, whv not? I have not been a staggered recipient of Form lV. myself, but I have talked with men who have. and from their tirades of denunciation I have gathered that the things to be answered in Form IV. are something of the- above nature. Yet John Bull goes about with a smile like a spring morning. THE END OF ALL THINGS. The grand thing for which we ought to be thankful is that Earl RoseVry has kindly been giving us is:- advice..lie is not like the common ^oliiie'an. lie stands on a pedestal apart, and has t, ] 11S our faults, what we have left undone, vhit we ought to have done, what we ou-rht n -t to have done, and generally dn n'l.el there is no health in us. Yet de :>e the two elec- tions and a wet sinnnirr and wintry months that are nearly all r ;n, old Britain has toddled along fairly wei1. Only the Ulster- men are sharpening their sabres, seeing their guns are in order, and making our flesh creep as to what will happen if we have Home Rule. Mr. Join Redmond strikes Napoleonic attitudes and rather likes to be called the Dictator. TIT FOR TAT. A German gentleman was arrested be- cause he got too near to English forts. Two English gentlemen have been arrested be- cause they have approached too near to German forts. The German gentleman has been allowed to go home, but the English gentlemen are still detained in Germany. They will eat their Christmas dinners at somebody else's expense. This is a matter which might have been discussed at election No. 2 this year. Mv own view in regard to the election-- but I fancy I have refer- red to this matter before.