The Carmarthen Weekly Reporter

CARMARTHEN U Dltt THE SEAKCJB LIGHT Donne, oome, and you down; you ebaH not budge, You aball not go, till 1 act you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of yoa SU.UU¡;&rZA The question of raising the assessments has given place to the problem of lowering the temperature. «** There has been a good deal of soreness all over the county on account of the recent action of the police in endeavouring to collect licenses for a good many traps which were never licensed before. And the recent dis- cussion at the County Council has rather intensified the feeling. The argument which is put forward by the Man in the Street is that the Excise Officers used never to enforce the law in the present drastic fashion. Th.s, however, does not prove very much. The Excise Officers had such immense districts that a good deal must have escaped them. The mesh of the County Council net is a good deal finer, and the result is that a good many fish are landed who might have escaped for years under the old system. If the police go on as they have begun, nobody will be able even to keep a mouse trap without a license. The whole controversy turns on the ques- tion "What is a market cart?" The law ex- pressly lays it down that to claim exemption a vehicle must be "constructed adapted and used" as a market cart. This is very com- plicated when you come to consider it. It must not merely be "used" as a market cart, otherwise a gentleman of a parsimonious turn of mind who sent his brougham to town with a sack of potatoes under the seat might be able to claim exemption. And it must not merely be "constructed and adapted" other- wise a man might use a market cart during the week to drive to the races or to an agri- cultural show. It is very eacy finding out the meaning of any one of these words by itself; but taken together they form as com- plicated a text for controversy as any civil or ecclesiastical enactment which the wit of man ever devised. It is not the least good arguing about the kind of market carts in which the farmers used to come to town twenty or thirty years years ago. We know all about the good old gambo or long-body whose ordinary pace was two miles an hour, but which when at express speed travelled as much as three. A journey of five or six miles in one of these was like a trip across the channel on a stormy night- only not quite so pleasant. In those good old days, farmers' wives wore home-made dresses and hob-nailed boots, and farmers' daugh- ters never had more than a "quarter's schooling." Now we have changed all that. The modern Welsh -farmer's wife reads the fashion papers, and his daughter goes to a high school'. It is altogether out of the ques- tion to expect that with the increased com- fort and refinement evident in other direc- tions, people should continue to travel in the prehistoric chariots which used to satisfy their forefathers—or their foremothers. WM The great bone of contention has been the "back rest." One df the Committees of the Carmarthenshire County Council had a long discussion on the subject, and they seemed to have been of the opinion that trie line must be drawn at "back rests." They were quite willing to close their eyes to a certain amount of cushioning. After all there is not much difference between a moveable cushion, and a bag of straw or corn or wool. If a farmer chosc to take a sack of straw,to market there is nothing in the Act to say that he shall not sit on it. If he should not happen to sell the straw or corn or wool as the case may be, there is no earthly reason why he should not sit on it on the way home. As it is impossible to object to a moveable cushion, it is as well to say nothing about cushions at all. The law does not expressly lay it down that a farmer's market cart shall be a kind of torture chair or penitential stool on which he shall come to take a sufficiently gloomy view of the world in general and of local administrative bodies in particular. As for the back-rest it is quite a different affair. There is no explaining it away. It is express-Jiy put there to make people com- fortable, and you have to pay a license for comfort. We must not get mixed up in regard to the controversy. It is not forbidden to anybody to have back-rests the only ques- tion is whether a license should he paid for them or not. It is true that the standard of comfort has advanced. But should farmers and farmers' families have to pay taxes for the additional comfort They have to pay a good deal more for their smarter clothing; but they have not to pay the County Council a lioense for it. After all, whatever the County Council Aiay decide, the ultimate decision lies with the magistrates. As u result, we shal have one standard of taxation in Carmarthen, another in Llanfihangel-ar- arth, and a third in Penrliiwpal. Perhaps somebody will take a case up to the House of Lords, and that august assembly will have to decide how much discomfort Carmarthen- shire people are expected to endure in driving their butter to market. No doubt, the deci- sion would afford an additional reason for mending or ending the House of Lurds. *#» The appointment of pensioners under the C. W. Jones trust marks a distinct era in the history of Carmarthen. The conditions for these pensions are so strict that a person who gets one of them may well feel that he has obtained a certificate of respectability. If I had only been a year older—pensioners must be at least GO years of age—I might have had a, try for one myself. Unfortunately ages have to be properly authenticated. There is a saying that a man is as old as he feels— which is very handy at times. Thus when •you go to get your life insured you may feel that you are only 39, and when you are applying for a pension next day. you may feel that you are itj. This wretched system of registration of births is about the most ob- noxious thing,which was ever invented to irritate people. This is a distinct case of a. fund being of some practical use. Ten persons receive a substantial benefit. When ten elderly men get 10s a week each, it makes a decided differ- ence in a small community. If a hundred men had received Is a week each, the money would have been wasted, because the shilling would not have been of much good to any- body. This new charity and Rudd's Charity are too very good funds. Morris's Charity, on the other hand. is so spread out in small doles that it is of little u.se to anybody. It was left to provide "coal: blankets, and other comforts for the poor at Christmas time." It is distributed to the pastors of the different churches in Carmarthen, who, in turn divide it amongst the poor. This is pretty rough on the poor who happen to be Agnostics; out that is another question. Then a large share of the money has gone to the Soup Kitchen, winch possesses all the advantages and is open to all the objections of all iorms of temporary relief. So long, however, as we have casual poverty, we shall have a demand lor casual relief. The governors of the Sanatorium have decided that their, year shall commence on the 1st July. There are so many different "years" that one more or less does not matter. We have grown so accustomed to the idea that the year commences on the 1st of January that we forget that that is after all a purely conventional arrangement, and that there is no more reason why the year should begin on the 1st January than on the first of any other month. Indeed, the names of several of our months, September (seventh month), October (eighth month), November (ninth month )and December (tenth month) show that the year must at one time have begun in March. *«• The year was reckoned for many centuries in Europe as beginning on the 25th March. With the adoption of the "New Style," which rectified the calendar, the recognition of 1st January as New Year's Day followed. This leads occasionally to a good deal of historical confusion. The execution of Charles 1. took place on the 20th January in the year 1648-9. It was 1649 according to the Continental style of reckoning, our modern style; but it was only the year 1648 acording to the style then in vogue in England. The English Revolution is described by English writers as taking place in "88" but it was on the 22nd January, 1689, that William and Mary were elected sovereigns and Jamess IT. deposed. It was 1688 according to the style of reckoning then in vogue in England; but it v.-as 1689 in France and Holland! Be- tween the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in Italy in 1582 and its adoption in England in the begining of the eighteenth century, you never know where you are in dealing with any event which took place in January, February, or March. Even now we have public bodies ending their financial year on the 31st March. The ecclesiastical year begins on the 1st Sunday in Advent—which is the Sunday nearest to the 30th November. The municipal year begins on the 1st November; farmers take their holdings in Carmarthenshire from the 29tli September to the 29th September, but on the other hand they hire their servants from the 14th November to the 14th Novem- ber. The French Revolutionists when they determined to start everything on a new plan, decided that the year should start at the autumnal equinox (the 22nd Septembe ). In fact, if you go into the thing thoroughly, you will find that there is a year ended nearly every fortnight, and that a young man is really entitled to an old age pension beforo he has raised a moustache. e*e We have not heard so much of the Early Rising Bill this year. The passion for early rlsin,, has very quickly evaporated after a slight experience by its advocates. In theory the thing is all right, but in practice it is found that very early risers are quite ex- haused before the day's work is begun, and that they are so sleepy in the afternoon that they are good for very little. A humourist once said that the principal pleasure in knowing Latin and Greek was that they enabled you to despise people who did not know Latin and Greek. It must be con- fessed by early risers in their candid moments that one of the chief pleasures of early rising is that it enables them to despise people v/ho do not rise early. Besides, this matter affords an excellent proof of the saying that "too far east is west." Nobody is up so early as the person who has not gone to bed at all. The head of one of the collages at Oxford half-a-century ago was a great believer in the benefits of early rising and required all undergraduates to attend chapel at 5 o'clock. He was very much struck by the regularity of one group of students who never missed chapel. But the attendance of the others was very irre- gular. and the time to be altered to 6 o'clock. Strange to say, although the attendance as a whole improved, the group which used to come regularly now seldom appeared. When asked for an explanation, one of them said, "Well you see it's this way; after winding up the night we used to go to chapel at 5 o'clock; but hang it all we can't stay up till six o'clock. That's a bit too much." • #* The opening up of the Gwendraeth Valley Railway to passenger traffic is so arranged that it is no benefit to Carmarthen. Ponty- berem is nine miles by road from Carmarthen and nine miles from Llanelly. By railway it is now 27 miles from Pontyberem to Carmar- then and 14 miles from Pontyberem to Llan- elly. Seeing that the railway fare from Pontyberem to Carmarthen is 2s 3d, it ought to pay somebody to run a motor service over the nine miles of good road at a much cheaper rate. »»« At a meeting of the guarantors of the Eisteddfod the other n-ght, it was stated that a special effort would be made to co-opt men who "were famous in music, art and literature." And at least a dozen of us tried not to ook conscious. ALJBTHEUL

FOR OLD AND YOUNG, MORTIMER'S COUGH MIXTURE FOR COUGIIS, COLDS, WHOOPING COUGH, ETC., ETC. — OYER — 70 YEÂRS REPUTATION IN THIS DISTRICT. THIS CELEBRATED WELSH REMEDY Is now put up in cartons (securely packed for transmission to all parts of the world), and contains n Pamphlet, written by an eminent Medidal Authority, dealing wi'th the various beneficial uses of this specific. Price Is I d and 2s 9d per bottle. The larger bottle is by fai- the cheapest Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society In connection ii-itli the visit of this society to Talley Abbey on August 25th, Sir James Drummond, an active member of the Carmar- thenshire Antiquarian Society, will preside, and Professor Green and Mr Wiiiis Bund have been asked to speak on the architec- tural and historical aspects of the Premons- tratensiian abbey. J

A Visit to Amraapford Camp. Ammanford has been a kind of Welsh Aldershot during the last fortnight. Our devoted Carmarthen men went there one fine Sunday morning; and all sorts of queer stories reached us as to the hardships which they had enduerd. Humours of deaths in the camp trickled through to the Ancient Borough, and caused our blood to run cold with horror. I was informed in King street that no less than fifty of the Territorials had died from bronchitis, peritonitis, and pneu- monia, following on exposure to the elements in the servcie of an ungrateful country! On Saturday I decided to go to Ammanford in order to investigate the alarming mor- tality amongst the "Terriers." To get to Ammanford you have to go first to Llandilo, which is a kind of Welsh Crewe. The Llan- dilo people were all full of the talk about the camp. In Llandilo I was informed that 22 Territorials had died in the camp from over- exertion during the manoeuvres. It was not so bad as it looked; but still 22 men dying from over-exertion is no joke. And I have good reason to believe that there is nothing so dangerous as over-exertion. You'll find heaps of folks who are brave enough to run many great risks; but they draw the line at over-exertion, which they regard as a most fatal complaint. To get to Ammanford you have to pass through Llandebie—the place where the lime comes from. At Llandebie, it was stated with authority that ten had died in the camp, and that the cause of death was supposed to be enteric fever. The case was evidently not nearly so serious as it had been reported; but still it was a pity that ten men should have lost their lives by going to camp at Ammanford. When you go to Ammanford, you get out at Tirydail. There is some technical petti- fogging distinction between Ammanford and lirydail; but nobody except natives and old inhabitants know the difference between the two. It is like the case of Pembrey and Burry Port, or Manchester and Salford, or Glasgow and Govan. When you cannot poss-i- bly understand a thing it is as well to accept it by the light of faith. I have always found that that pllan has saved a lot of trouble. At Tirydail I learned that four of the Terri- torials had died of influenza. Once you get into the Amman Valley, you are struck by the coal-dust—you are struck literally and metaphysically. It is over everything. To come from Lljtndilo to Ammanford is like journeying from Canaan into the Wilderness. One of the most painful things in this world is that it is so difficult to live in beautiful places. Beauty is all right; but you can't live on it. It is very like what Sandy McPherson said to his cow when he drove her up the rocky hillside and tethered her amongst the sparse vegetation. "Weel, Rosie," said he "if ye canna get muckle to eat here, ye'll hae a grand view Few of us are content with the grand view and the result is that the tide of humanity flows steadily towards places like Amman- ford. At every step you take in the Amman Valley you meet somebody from Carmarthen. But the Amman Valley is a veritable Johannesburg. You meet Italians, Germans, Irishmen, Lancashire men, negroes, Scots- men, Jews, and North Wafians. It is im- possible to say who are the natives of Am- manford. In Carmarthen, when a man says "I'm a native of the town," the stranger has to take a back seat. But here the natives never boast that they are the aborigines of the Amman Valley they keep dark about it. It is such an unusual thing to be a native that they do not wish to appear odd and pretend that they are new comers. In Ammanford, the great subject of dis- cussion was the fact that two houses had been placed "out of bounds." When a house is placed "out of bounds," it means that soldiers are not allowed to enter it under severe penalties. This ban is usually placed on houses when for some reason or another it is not considered that they are desirable resorts for soldiers. There is no suggestion of the sort in this case; the houses in ques- tion are two df the most respectable and well- conducted in the district. The ground alleged for the ban is that accommodation was refused to soldiers in uniform who came as an advance party to get the camp ready. It is not admitted that the allegation is true; but the commanding officer has at any rate placed the houses "out of hounds." Whatever may be the rights and wrongs of the affair, this is how it stood on Saturday last, and it is not advisable for obvious reasons to attempt to set forth the merits of the dispute. If the Territorials are restric- ted to some extent in their quest of alcoholic refreshment, they have perfectly liberty in other directions. Ammanford is a place in which the refreshment business is highly developed. There are several cafes of a high class appearance; and every second house sells bananas. If they don't sell bananas, they sell fried fish. There must be pn extrar ordinary craing for fried fish on the part of the inhabitants of the Amman Valley, for everywhere you meet signs notifying that that delicacy is to be found within. The camp is about a mile and a half from Tirydail Station. You pass some cross roads, and there is a finger post with three fingers. It is no use trying to get any in- formation from the finger-post. It is too deeply begrimed with dust to be legible, When you get to the camp at length you see an array of little tents interspersed here and there with broad pavillions. Just" outside the camp I met a crowd of khaki-clad figures proceeding along the road with such celerity tliat I thought they were after the enemy- or the enemy after them. An enquiry elicited the fact that they were going hom. My informant, who was evidently a collier having a holiday, stated that two of the Teritorials had died of heart disease. When you get in- side the camp you see one big tent bearing on it in huge letters "Buckleys," and further up there is another tent bearing the legend "Young Men's Christian Association." All tastes are provided for. The little tents— they're called bell tents because they have no resemblance to any bell—are each about ten feet in diameter, and eight men are sup- posed to sleep in every one of them. This would seem like over-crowding anywhere else, but such is the custom of camps, The field where the Carmarthen and Pembroke men were encamped was like Danyrallt marsh—or rather like what Danyrallt "marsh would have been had it been chosen as the site of a camp. Everybody was talking of Tuesday's deluge. There is a theory that the tents are waterproof; but the rain has no respect for Government regulations, and wiP insist in coming through a tent which is sup- posed to be waterproof. The men frvore re- galing each other with tales of the efforts which they made to keep cheerful when a stream of water was running through their beds. And yet they put up with it cheer- fully enough. It is strange that q. man who has a horror of a damp bed at an hotel or in a private house will think it good fun to spend the night in a ppnd when he is in camp. Those who spent the fortnight at Amman- ford have nothing further to learn of the hbrrors of war. (Dying is easy compared to having to live under such conditions. The poor fellws were "Terriers'' when they went to camp but before they had been long there they found out that they were supposed to be spaniels. Things had got into such a condition by the middle of the week that the Carmarthen men made up their mind that they had come to the Amman. VaFey to enjoy aquatic sports. Towards the ned of the first week, it was decided to ask the opinion of the men them- selves, whether it was desirable to keep on for another week. Almost unanimously the men decided to see the thing through. The only exception, were the Monmouthshires, who had been alloted a duck pond for their camp. They threw up the sponge; it would have taken the full of an Atlantic liner of sponges to mop up their camp. It was they who marched out to the station in a body in the morning, I asked one of them how he liked the Army. He said that the Army was an right; but that there h;, d been some mis- take about it and he had been induced by false pretences to serve in the Navy for a week. In spite of their having had to "rough" it it was quite clear that the men enjoyed the the whole thing. It is said that the essence of M holiday is a change and it was a great change for most of them have to get up at five in the morning and after a hurried break- fast to so marching and careering over the mountain for the bert part of the day. One day they went out at nine in the morning, and were not back uuitl four in the after- j noon. And they were still fresh enough to go down town after all. There is doubt that with all its drawbacks, healthy men enjoy camp life. It is a bit of the "simple life" of which we hear so much. We have hypno- tised ourselves into believing that dinner must be eaten off a table covered by a linen cloth. It is astonishing how little tlfere is in the superstition, when you are hungry and get the dinner without the table clotii. You think if you get wet, you'll be dead in an hour or two. You get wet through and through, and somehow or other you don't die and that delusion is ended. Talking of deaths, I asked a Carmarthen man how many had died n the camp. He said that nobody had died at all, but that the Llanelly Band had played the "Dead March" before leaving to attend Sir Arthur Stepney's funeral. St) that was the founda- tion of the reports I- AUTBSU.

Carmarthen Oounty Police Uonrt. This court was held on Saturday, before Mr F. Dudley Williams-Drummond, Hafod- neddyn (chairman); Mr D. L. Jones, Der- lwyn; Mr J. LI'. Thomas, Gilfach; Mr H. Jones-Davies, Glyneiddan; Mr A. 0. Davies, Uplands. GAME TRESPAISS. John Thomas, Ffynonbrewyn, Llandefeilog was charged by Mr A. 0. Davies, Uplands, with trespassing in pursuit of game at Pen- trecwn Wood on Wednesday, 21st ult. The defendant pleaded guilty. Mr H. B. White, who appeared for comr plainant, said that Mr Davies had been very much troubled with trespassers on his land. On the day in question defendant went to the wood with a dog after rabbits. He was spoken to by the tenant of the land, and made a partial admission, but, although he was warned, he went there again on the following day. The Chairman said that it seemed to him that Mr Davies had been very lenient. The defendant would be fined 1 Is 6d, including costs. Mr A. 0. Davies did not sit on this case. LLANDEFEILOG SHOW. Dd. Jones, licensee of the Red Lion Inn, LSandefeifog, was granted an occasional license for the sale of beer and spirits between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., at Llande- feilog Show to-day (Friday). DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. For being drunk and disorderly at Llan- arthney on the 12th ult., Wm. Jones, collier, 10, High street, Tumble, was fined 5s and costs. P.C. Jenkins, who proved the case, said that about 11 p.m. on the day in ques- tion, he found the defendant lying asleep on the Porthyrhyd Road. He was drunk, and when witness woke him up he cursed and swore, and refused to give his name and address. ADJOURNED. Wm. Davies, carpenter, Ivy Cottage, Llan- stephan, who was charged by P.C. J. L1. Thomas with being drunk at Lla-nsteglian on on the 13th ult., did not appear. The case was adjourned for a week, and if he does not appear then a warrant will be issued for his arrest. A STRAY HORSE. Henry Bow en Davies, haulier, Bridge st., Llanstephan, was charged by P.C J. LI. Thomas with allowing a horse and cart to stray on the highway at Llanstephan on the lUth ult. The constable said that about 8.15 p.m., he found the horse and cart unattended, and on going in search of the defendant, he found him in the Castle Hotel. He asked defen- dant if he had left anyone in charge of the horse, and he said "No." Defendant then went with it himself. Defendant, who did not appear, was fined 5s and costs.

Scalps in a Bad State. "About eighteen months ago my four chil- dren had ringworm on the body and head. They were under the doctor's care over three months without any satisfactory result; in fact, they got worse. Then we tried several other so-called remedies without effect. All the hair came off in patches and left the scalp dry and .scaly. They were in a dreadful state. At last a friend persuaded me to try Cutiouiia tSoap, Ointment, and Resolvent. I had two lots of each, and before I finished the second lot1-hey were completely cured. Now they have beautiful' heads of hair, soft and glossy. I still continue to use the Cuti- cura Soap, which I find mqch superior to all other soaps for the head and siJ1. My chil- dren had been suffering nearly twelve months before I tried phe ffuticura Remedies. Edward S. W akflr, 67, Oxford street, Lough- borough, eioestør, Eng., Dec. 6th,

LLANDOVERY. NOTABLE SUCCESS.—Dr Hubert ortiillips, son of the Rector of Newport (Pern.), has just been elected to the William Brown' exhi- bition in medicine and surgery at St. George Hospital. The value of the exKTntion is £200 (£100 per annum for two years). Dr Phillips terminated his student car^g-r as a medical' student in June 'of this year by taking the M.B., B.Ch. degrees of the Uni- versity of Oxford, and was at the same time awarded the Brackenbury Prize in medicine of £30 and the Brackenbury Prise in surgery (£30). This success brings to a close a career of outstanding distinction. Since leaving Oxford, where at the final examination for the B.A. degree he took a first-class honours in natural science, Dr Phillips took the open university scholarship, and soon followed this up by being awarded/ the Webb Research Prize (£30) in bacteriology at St. George's Hospital. Not only is his career one of bril- liancy. but one of marked versatility, as he has distinguished himself in every branch of medicine and the collateral sciences. Dr Phillips was educated at Llandovery School, from where he proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford, where he was a scholar.

Fatal Accident at Carmarthen. A distressing accident occuired on Thurs- day evening the 29th July, when a five-year- old named George Billing Curnick, son of Mr and Mrs Wm. Curnick, 12, Parade load, was killed by a railway truck, near the L. and N.W.R. goods shed. An inquest was held at the Shire Hall, on Saturday, by Mr Thpnias Walters, Coroner. Mr Thomas Davies, Chapel treet, wis the foreman of the jury. Edith Eleanor Curnick, wife of M. J. vAirnick, cattle dealer, 12, Parade road, the mother of the boy, said that on the evening in question he left the house between 7.15 and 7.30., with two of his companions. He said he was only going down to the Parade to play. She had always told him not to go near the cattle pens. He had often been warned by the men down there not to go there. He would never have gone there by himself. She was always going after him. The others got over in safety, and he was the unfortunate one. It was a warning, to the other little ones. Lewis Jones, 10, Parade road, who was near the spot playing cricket in front of the L. and N.W.R. goods office, said that he saw the deceased hanging on to a truck on the town side of the goods station. The truck was moving. The boy shouted, and witness and his companions ran towards him; just as the truck got near the big lamp, deceased shouted and fell right under the truck. Wit- ness saw the wheels of two trucks go over him. On one of the trucks was a heavy cannon from the Barracks. He was holding on to the truck, which was a very low one. Witness knew the deceased very well. He often played where we did, but they always sent him away. He generally played on the Parade. Witness had never seen him on the railway before. Wlien witness got up to the deceased the lower part of his body was terribly mangled. A man told witness to put him on the ground. Witness did 80', and went for Dr Harries. By the Coroner: Deceased had no foot-hold on the truck, but was hanging by his hands. John James, shunter on the G.W.R., of Little ater street, said that he had been on the railway for 34 years, and had great experience in shunting. He did not see any- thing of the accident. He had great trouble with the children, who were sometimes under the trucks while in motion. He had often tried to stop the boys playing there, but when sent away they would go but came back again. He was shunting ten trucks. Dr Denzil' Harries, who attended deceased, said that he was severely injured, and died from shock. He only lived for about twenty minutes and was unconscious from the start. The Coroner, in summing up, said that the only way to prevent the children tres- passing was for them to listen to their parents, and for the parents to take all pre- cautions. It might be a consolation to the mother if he said that, in his opinion, there was no blame at all attached to her. He thought she had taken all care, and did not doubt that they sympathized greatly with her over this pad accident. He did not think, either, that they could suggest any- thing to the Railway Company by which these accidents could be avoided in future. The Companies were very careful and very sorry when anything of the kind happened. It was the first inquest of the kind that he had held since he had held office. There was ,in his opinion, ho blhme attached to anybody. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci- dental death," and wished to convey their deep sympathy to the parents.

Worth Knowing. The terrible itching caused by eczema stops with the first application of the new discovery Cadum. It is an antiseptic that goes direct to the seat of the trouble, allays inflammation, destroys disease-producing germs, and begins the healing process with the (first treatment. From the moment Cadum is applied, distinot and rapid relief is felt, and each successive application pro- motes the growth of new tissue until the affected part is entirely replaced "with a growth of perfectly healthy skin, For pimples, rash, blotches, blackheads, chafings, barber's itch, insect .bites, scaly skin/ erup- tions, sores, and other skin troubles, surprise ing results are obtained with an overnight application. Cadum is sold at 6d and Is per box at all chemists, druggists and'stores.

Will of Mr. W. H. M. Yelverton, Whitland Abbey. AN INHERITANCE ONLY FOR ROMAN CATHOLICS. Mr William Henry Morgan Yelverton, of Whitland Abbey, Whitland, Garmarthen- smre, who died at Biarritz on tlie 3rd of March, aged 68 years, left estate of the gross value of £27,998, with net personalty £6,438 and probate of his will, dated 26tli June, 1908. with four codicils, has been granted to Mr Francis Dudley Williams-Drummond, of Hafodneddyn, Carmarthen; Mr W. Morgan Griffiths, solicitor, Carmarthen; Mr Cecil Hubert Mongan Griffiths, of Carmarthen; and Mr Godfrey Evan Schaw Protheroe- Beynon, of Trewern, Whitland. The testator left his Government stocks upon trust for Henry de .Missey and his daughter during their joint lives, with remainder to the sur- vivor, and £100 per annum during the life of his sister Henrietta Maria Yejverton to his niece Henrietta Blake, He directed that good homes should be found for all of his pets, and he left £1,000 to the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese in which Car- marthen is situate and the IJUJV P. Clifford upon trust, to apply the same for the benefit of the priests of the Roman Catholic Church, Union street, Carmarthen. He left all his real estate to Luttrell Bruce Blake for life, with remainder to his heirs in tail male, and with further remainder to his daughters and their heirs in tail male, and he charged the real estates with annuities in favour of the younger children of the life tenant. He left his furniture to devolve with the real estate, directed that if a person entitled to the said real estates shall not be a Roman Catholic, such life tenant shall within a year of succeeding to the eaid estates, or; if an infant, within one year of attaining the age of 21 years, become a Roman Catholic, and should a life tenant refuse to 'become or cease to be a, Roman Catholic, then the interest of such one shall cease, and the estates shall devolve to the person next in remainder. He also directed that Luttrell Bruce Blake shall within twelve months of testator's death assume the name of Yelverton. He left the residue of his personal estate to Luttrell jjruce Blalke.

The Late Mr. D, L. Evans, B,A., New Quay, FUNERAL AT WEfRN CEMETERY. The remains of the late Mr D. L. Evans, of Harbour View, New Quay, who was killed by a fall from his bicycle, ware interred at the Wern Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon of last week, in the presence of a large num- ber of student friends and spectators. Wern Chapel, in which the burial servi was held, was packed with a sympathisng congrega- tion. The sermon, a scholarly discourse, was preached by deceased's old pastor, the Rev D. Adams, B.A., Liverpool, in the course of which he made several touching references to the deceased. It was he who had first encouraged him to qualify for the ministry, observing while he was a member with him in Liverpool his great devotion to the work of the church and in the science and art classes, where he was distinguishing himself while worfldng during the day at the carpenter's bench. There was a large number of minis- ters present, many of whom testified to the high esteem in which they held the deceased both for his inteTlectual endowment and his qualities as a man. Principal Lewis, of Brecon, paid him a very high tribute, and spoke ith much feeling of the evidence he had given of his deep love for his country (Wales) and for its language. In addition to the large number of beautiful wreaths, by means of which local friendsi expressed their affec- tionate regard, some very lovely floral tri- butes were sent from Liverpool,' Cardiff, and Carmarthen.

Gwendraeth Valley Railway. LIGHT RAILWAY FACILITIES. In connection with the opening ot the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway fur passenger service under the powers of the Light Railways Act, an in- lormal inspection 9 the line was made last week by a party of invited guests, conducted Mr Arthur Morgan, the general manager of the company. The railway traverses about 11 miles of country, and provides travelling facilities for some thousands of persons who have hitherto had no transit in their district. So far back as 18% the then directors con- sidered the propriety of seeking powers to work the railway under the Light Railways Act, but it did not bear fruit untir the 7th April, 1908, when a large number of resi- dents in the Gwendraeth Valley met the directors (Sir Thomas Pilkington and the Honourable Sidney Peel) and 31r Arthur Morgan, general manager, at Pontyberem, and the cogent reasons then advanced by them left no alternative but to proceed to carry on the work now completed. Stations have been erected at Burry Port, Pontyeates, and Pontyberem respectively, and halting places at Pembrey village, Pinged, Trim- saran, Pontnewydd, and Ponthenry, to meet the requirements of the passenger traffic. Ten carriages, each capable of carrying 70 or 80 people, have been provided, equipped with acetylene gas lamps and vacuum brakes. The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway Company has a long history. It was formed in the 52nd year of the reign of King George the Third (20th June, 1812) under the name of the Kidwelly and Llan- elly Canal and Tramroad Company, for the purpose of improving and maintaining the I Kidwelly Harbour and certain canals or tram- roads, and to improve Kymers Canal, all in the county of Carmarthen, and to supply the said harbour and canals with water, and to acquire lands and make and maintain works for that purpose. In the sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth (10th June, 25) the New Pembrey Harbour Company were incorporated and authorised to make and maintain a harbour in Pembrey, Car- marthenshire, and a canal and a railway or tramroad, all in the said county, to connect the said harbour with the undertaking of the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Tram- road Company. In the fifth year of the reign of King William the Fourth (12th June, 1835) the name of the New Pembrey Harbour Company was changed to Burry Port. In 1865 the name of the company was changed to the "Kidwelly and Burry xort Railway Company." When the com- pany was authorised to acquire Kymers Canal and to fill up all or any part of that canal and of the canals of the said company necessary (0 enable them to make certain railways which they were thereby authorised to make and maintain. The conversion of the canal between Burry Port and Pontyberem was authorised on the 5th July, 1865, and in the following year the Kidwelly and Burry Port Company and the Burry Port Company were amalgamated, and their undertaking was henceforth designated as the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway Company. In July, 1869, 40 years ago, the first mineral train was brought down the new line amid much rejoicing. 4 In 1872 the company were authorised to make and maintain certain works for the im- provement of Burry Port. In those days oversea traffic was conducted by means of sailing vessels, a large trade being done between this port and France. In 1891 they were authorised to extend their railway and connect it with the Llanelly and Mynydd- Mawr Railway at Llanelly. The annual tonnage carried over the rail- way for the last ten years has increased from 380,000 to 600,000. In 1907 through book- ings for generali goods was introduced, since which the increase of this class of traffic has steadily grown. During recent years the number of collieries in the valley has been increased, while others have been developed. The harbour at Burry Port is most advan- tageously situated for the shipment of anthra cite and other coal, and vessels up to 1,800 tons burthen can be dealt with. Burry Port is a capital centre for the import of pitnvood ores and general goods. The height of water on spring tides is 22 feet, and on neap tides h feet. The width of the dock gates is 45 feet. p The dividends paid by the company during the last ten years have been from 2t per cent. to 5 per cent. on the Preference Shares, and frm 2i per cent. to 10 per cent, on the Ordinary Shares. Passenger trains were run on Bank Holiday and the company will in future maintain a regular service of passenger trains.

Border Children at Llanelly. BOARD OF EDUCATION HOLD AN ENQUIRY. Mr Francis Hamer Oates, barrister-at-law, an officer of the Board of Education, con- ducted a public inquiry at Llanelly on Thurs- day, the 29th ult., regarding the accommoda- tion at the rural schools for the rural children excluded from the Llanelly urban schools. ')!r Lloyd K.C., M.P., appeared on behalf oJ the county education authority rx.D" ^dm.u»ds represented the parents or the rural children, and Mr Henry W. Spowart watched the proceedings on behalf of the Llanelly Education Authority. Mr Lloyd Morgan said a request was made by the urban authority to the county council to make a contribution towards the education of the rural' children, and the amount asked for was 17s 6d per head. The county author- ity said that they would not pay this con- tribution because they had proper schools ttitn sufficient accommodation for the cliil- dren to attend. There were 228 children ex- cluded, of whom, he understood, 128 were at present not in attendance. Mr Joseph Morgan, chief attendance offi- cer, Carmarthenshire Education Authority gave evidence showing that there was suffi- cient accommodation in the county schools. Mr Edmunds: Are parents bound to send theIr chIldren to that are under- staffed? The Commissioner: Y Oll are quite at liberty to oall evidence as to why they refuse to send their children to the schools Mr Edmunds said that now, for the first time in Nonconformist Carmarthenshire they had the suggestion made by the majo- nty of the county council, which was chieflv composed of Nonconformists, that the chil- dren of Nonconformist parents should be sent to the Church of England school a-t A elmfoel. If anything was said in favour of sending the border chiHren to the Felinfoel SC,I0,01 *here ?V0.,lId *>e declaration of war The Commissioner: Is that a threat to me The Commissioner said he would make a report to the Board of Education,

Carmarthen Declines. Carmarthen very rightly declines to act upon hearsay especially when the actual ex- periences of local men and women are avail- able. What is given here is not mere hear- say from a distant township, but the personal experience of a Carmarthen man.To all who are tormented with piles, eczema or any itch- ing skin disease, this home evidence will indeed be welcome. For seven or eight years I have shffered from itching p, es," says Mr Tom PacT tlierf6 U ,S Water ^reet, CanS mv sittino- n J6 y Were caused through r«L s vn famp when 1 sot + ."ii Rights the irritation was simply ei ri lie; it broke my rest, for I was unable to Set any proper sleep. I did my best to get rid of the piles by trying different ointments and things, but obtained no relief whatever from them "From what I read about Doan's ointment I was induced to try ii, and I am glad I did for even the first application brought ease' I gave this ointment a thorough trial, with the result that it has made me better than I have been for years. I can heartily recom- mend it to all who suffer with piles. (Signed) Tom Pace. ° Doan's ointment is 2s 9d per pot, or six for 13s 9d, of all chemists and stores or post free direct from the Foster-MoClellan Co;, 8. Well, street Oxford street, 'S™ had. Same kinJ °f °int- CARMARTHEN: Printed and Published by th« Proprietress, M. LAWRENOB at her Offioea ? Blue-street FRIDAY, August 6th, 1909 j I