Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

Be True. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. DR. BONAR.

Day and Night. Said day to night: L I bring God's light: What gifts have you ? Night said The dew." I give bright hours," Quoth day, and flowers;" Said night: More blest, I bring sweet rest." LADY LINDSAY.

+ Books. A Book is a living voice. It is a spirit walking on the face of the earth. It continues to be the living thought of a person separated from us by space and time. Men pass away; monuments crumble into dust. What remains and survives is human thought. What is Plato ? He has long been resolved into dust, but his thoughts and his actions still survive. SAMUEL SMILES. ♦

+. Industry. There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the north-west passage that brings the merchant's ship as soon to him as he can desire- in a word, it conquers all enemies and makes fortune itself pay contribution. CLARENDON.

An Emblem of Human Life. The things which, even in their time of beauty, are not enough for a man's soul-have all but a time to be beautiful in, and then they fade and die. A great botanist made what he called -1 a floral clock," to mark the hours of the day by the opening and closing of flowers. It was a graceful yet pathetic thought. One after another they spread their petals and their varying colours glow in the light. But one after another they wearily shut their cups, and the night falls, and the latest of them fold itself together, and all are hidden away in the dark. So our joys and treasures, were they sufficient did they last, cannot last. After a summer's day comes a summer's night; and after a brief space of time comes winter, when all are killed-and the leafless trees stand silent—" littre ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang." DR. MACLAREN.

—ii ■ Vulgar Wealth. Rich men no longer spend money wisely. Their expenditure has reached a pitch of luxury and magnificence that cannot pass unnoticed. Their houses, dress, establishments, horses, and equipages, are hid under no candle, and the purse-proud vulgarians, who have risen to the top during the last thirty years, surpass in so-called refinement and magnificence anything that the world has witnessed for ages. The amelioration in the physical lot of the labourer and artisan has been comparatively trifling: and the contrast of the advance between the poor and the opulent can cause no gladness in the hearts of the former. Are we, thinking men and women, to suppose for one moment that this contrast has escaped the notice of those who are at the wrong end of the balance ? Is it not already certain that the political agitator and iconoclast are trading on that invidious contrast by word of mouth and by popular literature? What, it will be said, is the remedy ? What utopian scheme is it proposed to expound ? The answer is very simple, and to the real aristocrat, to the refined mind, to the man of light and leading, will probably suggest itself. Ostentation must be made unfashionable privat* refinement must no longer be allowed to lapse into a luxury which is vulgar and contemptible; and personal comfort which swells into ostentation must be treated at its true value, as low, base, and unworthy of noble natures. THE SUNDAY TIMES.

♦ Sea Colours. Let the light be pure, and the whole sea glitters with a transparency and brilliancy in its tints never equalled on land. Brilliant spangles of gold perplex the eye that looks sunward; brilliant azure elsewhere underneath the azure sky; while, opposite the sun, where soft-tinted clouds dapple the horizon, the smooth water gleams with roseate, saffron and amber dyes. When the air is murkier and the heaven overcast, the faithful water loses this transparency of hue. Heavy opaque blues and greys chequer the dull floor. A colourless sky looks down on a colourless sea. In ordinary weather, in fact, it is the delicacy or its neutral tones which gives to the water-surface its chief charm to the eye. You see nowhere such greys as at sea—greys clear and silvery, greys soft as pearls, greys dusky dim, greys touched with ever so faint a suspicion of gayer, richer colours. They pass by finest gradations into and out of one another; they play across the chord of colour with every changing hour. A bright cloud stains them for a moment. Before squall and shower, there runs athwart them a bar of blackness, like the frown upon a pleasant face. Deep noon swallows them up in its intensity of blue. Morning and evening come to steep them In warmer colours. What wonderful combinations of solour are to be seen when the thousand lights which make the western sky resplendent are broken and repeated and confounded in moving water! :For lights which burn in heaven, fixed and .single, are caught but confusedly by the restless sea (as all heavenly light is on the earth); multiplied into ten thousand copies, yet not one -•copy perfect. J. O. DYKES.

The Angel of the Sea. The great angel of the sea-rain; the angel, observe, the, messenger sent to a 8pecialplace on a special errand. Not the diffused perpetual presence of the burden of mist, but the going and returning of the intermittent cloud. All turns upon that intermittence. Soft moss on stone and rock, cave fern of tangled glen, wayoide well-perennial, patient, silent, clear, stealing through ;its square font of rough-hewn stone, ever thus deep, no more— which the winter wreck sullies not, the summer thirst wastes not, incapable of stain as of decline, where the fallen leaf falls undecayed, and the insect darts undefiling; cressed brook and ever- eddving river, hfted even in flood scarcely over its ? stepping-stones,—but through all sweet summcr j keeping tremulous music with harp-strings of dark: water among the silvery fingering of the pebbles.; Far away in the south the strong river gods have all hasted and gone down to the sea. Wasted and burning white furnaces of blasted sand. their broad beds lie ghastly and bare, but here in the moss lands, the soft wings of the sea angel droop still with dew, and the shadow of their plumes -falter on the hills, strange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets, born suddenly and twined ;about the mossy heights in trickling tinsel, ^answering to tham as they wave. RUSKIK.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. PARSONS' DOLE BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill, and on the main clause, Lord HERRIES expressed regret that the mea- sure had been brought in so late in the Session. Although the amount of money proposed to be given under the Bill to the titheowners was small, an important principle was involved. He thought that in matters of that kind the principle should be followed which was adopted when the Agricul- tural Kates Act became law. The Earl of SELBORNE said the Bill was intro- duced to remedy an injustice which had been too long unredressed. The clause was then agreed to, and the Bill passed through Committee without amendment. CONGESTED DISTRICTS BILL. Lord HARRIS, in moving the second reading of the Congested Districts (Ireland) Bill, said that it was introduced for the purpose of remedying cer- tain defects discovered in the operations of the Congested Districts Board. It also made pro- vision for the expenses of the Board out of money provided by Parliament. The Bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. BOY SAILORS. Mr. CHARLES M'ARTHUR asked whether shipowners had as yet to any, and if so to what, extent signified their intention of availing them- selves of the proposals for the carrying of boy sailors included in section 6 of the Mercantile Marine Fund Act of last Session and whether any, and it so what, number of boys had Deen enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve under the provisions of the scheme. Mr. HANBURY said that no :special intimation had been made to the Board of Trade by ship- owners generally as to the extent to which they were likely to avail themselves of the provisions of the section to which his hon. friend referred. So far twelve firms had since April 1 enrolled boys as probationers in the Royal Naval Reserve under this scheme, and the number of boys so enrolled was 112. OVERTIME IN FACTORIES.: Sir CHARLES DILKE asked the Home Secre- tary whether he would modify his order as to overtime in factories and workshops in which the washing of bottles was carried on, so as to prevent any risk of its being held in law to apply, contrary to his wish, in the (case of the washing of bottles in jam factories. THE HOME SECRETARY I am quite clear that the order referred to does not apply to jam factories, and I cannot think that there is any risk of its being held in law to do so. The Factory Department will see that it is not made use of in jam factories. CHARTERED COMPANY'S ACCOUNTS. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN said he was not able to answer the question of Mr. J. Ellis as to the papers concerning the accounts of the British South Africa Company. He was doing his best to urge the printers to deliver them to-morrow. There had been so much pressure recently for important papers that he was not quite certain they would be able to deliver them. He had also promised further papers with regard to political reform in the South African Republic. These also would be distributed to-morrow morning. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. BALFOUR, in reply to Sir C. Dilke and Mr. John Ellis, said it was true that on two of the days allotted to Supply the House had adjourned before midnight, but by doing so they had probably got more money than otherwise they would have had (hear, hear). Seventy-three votes remained to be taken, but as far as he knew every great depart- ment of the State had passed under review except the Board of Agriculture. The Colonial Vote would be the first taken to-day. With regard to the altering of the rule as to Supply, he would consult with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of the Treasury as to whether it might be possible to carry out the suggestion of the Committee which sat in 1888, and to alter the form of the Estimates so as to diminish the number of votes to be taken (hear, hear). If that met with the general assent of the House he thought they would find they could get through the Estimates more smoothly next Session. Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN: Is there any intention to have a Saturday sitting? Mr. BALFOUR No, sir (cheers). NAVAL WORKS BILL. NO AMENDMENT IN COMMITTEE. The House then went into Committee on the Naval Works Bill. On Clause 1, authorising the issue of Z3,100,000 for defraying the cost of the proposed works. Mr. EDMUND ROBERTSON moved an amend- ment. His object was to insure that this scheme of naval works should be carried out under annual Bills, according to the original intention of the programme, instead of by biennial Bills. He had taken a figure which would not unduly limit the powers of expenditure of the Admiralty during the year, but which would compel them to come to Parliament for renewed authority at the end of the year. Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN said experience had shown that the annual Bill was not the most convenient arrangement from the administrative point of view. The Committee well knew the difficulty experienced by the Admiralty in framing estimates, and it was hoped that by giving them- selves greater time over which to spread the Estimates, much more accurate calculations could be made than bad been the case in the past. That was the principal reason for the change. A sub- sidiary reason was that the works staff, instead of being occupied with the Bill next year, should be able to give their undivided attention to the enormous works of which they would have charge. Sir U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH hoped the House would not embark on the novel experiment of biennial instead of annual Bills. The amendment was rejected by 168 to 95, some amusement being caused by the Chairman calling on Sir U. Kay-Shuttleworth and Mr. Robertson as tellers for the Opposition. A PROTEST. Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE moved to leave out Clause 1, as a protest against the whole expendi- ture. The Bill for naval works and armaments had been increasing incredibly from year to year, and he thought a protest would strengthen the hands of the responsible Ministers against the experts who were pressing for increasing works and armaments. In four years the expenditure on naval works had been more than double. Whilst our trade had only increased since 1883 something like five per cent., our armaments had increased sixty per cent. Mr. BROADHURST protested against the ex- travagance of the Government. Instead of wasting money on armaments, they should do something for the working classes of the country. Mr. GOSCHEN denied that the Government had indulged in extravagant expenditure. Unless new docks were constructed it would be impossible to dock our large ships in time of war. The work- ing classes certainly ought not to object to the proposed new works. Mr. LABOUCHERE suggested that the Govern- ment should reduce the expenditure on armaments by Z10,000,000, and use that money for the purpose of establishing an old-age pension scheme. Clause 1 was carried by 159 to 48, and the Bill passed through Committee without amendment. WELSH SETTLERS IN PATAGONIA. Mr. BRYNMOR JONES asked whether two British subjects—William Evans, the chairman, and David R. Evans, the secretary, of the Council of the Welsh Settlers in the Chupat Valley, in Patagonia—were in January last arrested by officers of the Argentine Government on a charge of high treason: what were the grounds for the said charge, and had they been tried; and whether the Government proposed to take any steps to pro- tect British subjects in the Chupat Valley from such conduct of officers purporting to act under the authority of the Argentine Government. Mr, BRODRICK: The only information in our possession relative to the arrest of Messrs. W. and D. R. Evans is the communication to the Foreign Office by the honourable member. Her Majesty,s Government are not aware whether the persons in question are British subjects or not, but if they were 'born in the colony they would be Argentine citizens according to Argentine law (at least while within the Republic). Her Majesty's Minister at Buenos Ayres has been instructed to report fully on the existing condition of the settlement, and to endeavour to ensure to British settlers the most- favoured-nation treatment to which they are entitled by treaty. That report has, however, not yet been received.

-> PERSONAL. A marriage has been arranged, and will take place on August 5th., at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, Richmond, between Mabel Lucia Marie, the fifth daughter of Mr. Bowen-Rowlands, Q.C., of 12, Dovvne-terrace, Richmond, and Arthur Daniel Deviche Jones, the eldest son of Mr. Daniel Jones, St. John's, Wimbledon, barrister-at-law. Mr. Denniss, the general manager of the Cam- brian Railways, who was returning from the Wesleyan Conference, was being driven home on Friday night, when the carriage in which he was riding was run into in Church-street, Oswestry, by the mail van. The shaft and the off wheels of the carriage were broken off, and Mr. Denniss received a seveue shaking through the carriage turning over.

BARMOUTH INTER- MEDIATE SCHOOL. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE. IMPORTANT SPEECH BY PRINCIPAL REICHEL. PURITANISM, ITS INFLUENCE IN ART. Thursday, July 27th, was a great day at Bar- mouth, lor it witnessed the consummation of the inhabitants' efforts, to plant in their midst an intermediate school, after battling with difficulties such as few other towns have had to combat. The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone and the interest manifested in the event was general, albeit only commensurate with its import- ance. The new school buildings occupy a central position, being situated on the beach estate, a little beyond the station, and in close proximity to the beach. The contract has been let to Mr. Owen Owen, Barmouth, for £2070. Owing to the small- ness of the space available, the building had to be planned with two stories, and the architect (Mr. J. E. Evans, Barmouth) has been compelled to pay more attention to general convenience than to ornamentation. On the ground floor are the assembly room, three class rooms, masters' room and mistresses' room, with a cloak room near each entrance. On the first floor are the cookery physical laboratory and lecture room, and general room. The site covers a quarter of an acre of ground, a playground being arranged on each side. The school—a dual one-- is built to accomodate one hundred pupils. The headmaster is Mr. E. D. Jones, M.A., and the head mistress. Miss Owen, B.A., who are assisted by a capable staff of assistants. THE LUNCHEON. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone was preceded by a luncheon, which was held in the Assembly Rooms, where there was a very large company of ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Hughes presided, being supported at the cross table by Principal and Mrs. Reichel, Rev. and Mrs. Gwynoro Davies, Mr. Clendon (Dolgelly Grammar School), and Mrs. Clendon, Miss Griffith (Arianbryn), Rev. D. C. Edwards and Mrs. Edwards, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. Solomon Andrews, Mrs. Richards, Mr. W. G. Morris, J.P. (Chairman of Local Governing Body), and Mrs. Gwyn Williams. The vice-chairs were occupied by Dr. Jones (Bala), Major Corder and Mr. Hugh Evans. At the close several toasts were proposed. That of the Queen having been duly honoured, Mr. Hugh Evans gave The clergy and ministers of all denominations," which was acknowledged by Rev. D. C. Edwards, who observed that no one had worked harder for the cause of education in Wales than the ministers of the different denominations. Mr. E. D. Jones, M.A. (the headmaster), in sub- mitting the guests," remarked that they had been looking forward to that day for the past four or five years, and he was sure the teachers, scholars, and inhabitants of the district were all glad to see so many friends present to rejoice with them on such an occasion. A number of them had come from a great distance, and at great incon- venience, their interest in education and in the success of the Barmouth School being so great that thev had sacrificed a great deal in order to be there. He expressed the hope that the work they would do that day would be a work that would last for many generations to come (applause). Mr. William Evans, responding, said that he considered it a great honour to participate in this important work. He congratulated the people of Barmouth upon the excellent fight they had made under such enormous difficulties during, the last 10 vears, difficulties which would have daunted any community less vigorous than Barmouth with the rates at 10s. in the E. No one could have blamed them for allowing the school to be left alone for a few years, but the difficulties, it seemed to him, only arose for them to overcome, and he was very pleased to see that by starting the school they had commanded the sympathy of peo- ple outside Barmouth. The success of the Bar- mouth County School depended on the success of the Elementary School, and the Elementary School would not be successful unless the parents saw that the children attended the school regularly (hear; hear). A single day's absence from school might be the crowning factor in preventing a child winning a scholarship. The Rev. S. S. O. Morris, formerly headmaster of the Dolgelley Grammar School, and a most successful teacher in his day, used to say that lie preferred a plodder to a genius. Regularity of attendance meant a bigger grant, and lie should like to appeal not only to the parents but to the members of the School Board, and to the magistrates to do all they could even at the expense of some unpopularity-to make the children attend school regularly.. With unity in this matter, he had no doubt that the County School at Barmouth would produce for the nation many a Tom Ellis and Owen Edwards (applause). Mr. Solomon Andrew, who also responded, re- marked that he was very glad that they were favoured by such a glorious day. He congratulated the people of Barmouth upon the fact that they were all of one mind in promoting a school which of all things was the mark of the rising generation. Without knowledge no one had a chance to succeed; when they got learning they had a chance to fight the world, though he was sorry to say he did not get much education himself, so far he had done witbout it; nevertheless he was a great advocate of education. He urged parents to do all they could to send their children to school when they saw they did not send them, they ought to ascertain the reason. It was a grevious thing when they were taken before the magistrates and prosecuted. Perhaps if we were the parents we should do the same, when we saw and read about poor children not going to school, when we stepped into the shoes of the parents perhaps we should be a little more lenient and charitable not to prose- cute them. Don't think (continued Mr. Andrew) I don't want them to go to school. Far from it. I wish all children went to school, but if we saw sometimes into the inner side of things we should be more sympathetic. They should be charitable in all things. He congratu- lated them on the school. They had fought manfully, and be thought they would reap a great reward, because a school was elevating. He hoped the school was for boys and girls, be- cause both ought to go hand in hand People talked about the good old days, but when they looked on the good old times they never found them, because they never existed (laughter). Now was the good old time (hear, hear). Everything was progressing through "intelligent power." Therefore, they must educate their children then they would have better times and less labour they would work not twelve or eight hours but four hours a day (applause). It was only for them to use intelligent power to make things work well. Therefore, he hoped they would all put their shoulders to the wheel, and have a school worthy of the town of Barmouth. Because they had much to be proud of in Barmouth. It was a charming place. Only twenty years ago one of their finest buildings was built, what would the place be like twenty years hence, with their fine school, and after they had all put their shoulders to the wheel ? He hoped he would do his best to help them on (applause). He was their neighbour. He hoped that by-and-bye one school would not be sufficient, but that they should have a second, because his motto was keep moving." Let them never give up while life lasted (applause). Dr. Jones (Bala), in proposing" The Welsh University," congratulated the headmaster upon the success which had so far attended his ardent efforts for the increase of the school. He had had a good deal of anxiety and worry to go through in "I looking forward to that day. He hoped now they had seen the last of them,and that from this time for- ward he would be able to reap benefits from these efforts. He hoped he would see a great number of pupils, male and female, taking their degrees in the Universities, in the arts, science, and the medical and surgical section. Even now almost a third part of the medical curriculum could be taken at the Welsh University Colleges, and he hoped every section would be taken so that no Welshman or Welshwoman would have to go to England for any degree they might require in anything. It was a subject on which every Welshman felt keenly. They saw in it the coping stone of the efforts of the great men who had gone before, whose memories would ever remain green among them. Principal Reichel, responding, said that they recognised at first that there was a danger of tho life of the schools being unduly cramped and con- fined by machinery, and during the last two years the object which the authorities—Intermediate and University-had in view had been to ensure the maximum liberty to the schools in the forming and working of a curriculum, and the minimum of external coercion. The Universities were, there- fore, closely-connected with the prosperity of the Intermediate Schools. He explained the change that had been made in reference to the matricula- tion examination, and said the number of candidates this year had increased. He had also been surprised at the way the students-and not merely Welsh students-had taken up the Welsh degree cou-se, the excellence of which was shown by the fact that the University of London had recently made certain changes on the same lines (applause). iOr. Lloyd gave The Ladies," for whom Mr. Clendon responded; the Press" was given by Rev. Gwynoro Davies, and responded to by Mr. Hall, and Mr. Jones Griffiths proposed The President and Vice-Presidents" Dr. Hughes, Major Corder, Dr. R. D. Jones, and Mr. Hugh Evans, to whose exertions in bringing that day's event about he referred in eulogistic terms. Major Corder, responding, regretted the absence of Mr. Charles Williams, and expressed the opinion that there was a great future in store for the school, and, as a consequence for Barmouth itself. They had worked together well in regard to the school, and if Barmouth could only work together in the same cheerful and generous spirit the place must prosper in the future. There was, he con- tinued, no local scholarship, and only one county scholarship open to scholars from that district, and as soon as financial matters in connection with the school were settled they ought to raise among them a scholarship worthy of them (applause). The company then dispersed. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE. The ceremony of laying the foundation and memorial stones took place at half-past three in the presence of a large assemblage of the general public. Those who laid the stones were Mr. Evan Thomas, Hafodybryn. Llanbedr, Mr. Solomon Andrews, Cardiff, Mr. William Evans. Miss Griffiths, Arianfryn, Mrs. Richards and Mrs. Arthur Hughes. Before the stones were laid some speeches were delivered. The Rev. Z. Mather remarked that the success of the scheme so far had been beyond the expecta- tions of the most sanguine. He gave an account of the-deputation to the Governing Body to the Joint School Committee in December, 1890, when a deputation from Bala succeeded in obtaining a school from Barmouth and a welcome upon their return bv a brass band. There were then breakers ahead which had to be faced, but now all diffi- culties had been surmounted and the foundation stone would ba laid under the most favourable cir- cumstances. Tha number of scholars, which began with nine, soon went up to seventy; the conse- ffuencewas that the local governors felt constrained to erect a school for over 100. He hoped the school would become the school of the county, and that it would edncate boys and girls to take part in the great competitive battle of life (applause). Alderman Lewis Lewis also delivered a speech in Welsh. Principal Reichel remarked that he knew of the difficulties under which his old pupil and valued friend, Mr. E D. Jones, had been working, and rejoiced that the discouraging circumstances were now over. In going over the present premises he was struck not only by the want of space but by the total unsuitability of the buildings for the pur- pose for which they were being used. That did not only involve a difficulty in carrying on the work but was a very serious drawback in the moral train- ing of the school. Under such circumstances it was impossible to cultivate habits of order, method, and neatness, and it was very important in the training of boys and girls to produce these habits, because, in the first place, such habits made the work more efficient, and in the second place, there was a moral training in it—the training of self- control. Therefore when the school got into its new buildings, one might hope that these habits would be acquired which, when the pupils left school, would be to everybody the hall mark of efficient work whatever trade or occupation or pro- fession they undertook, and in the second place, would enable the devoted tuition of Mr. E. D. Jones and his staff to have twice the effect they would otherwise have. Proceeding Principal Reichel said he would like to touch cn two points of special importance to Welsh schools. Their system was new and their schools were being organized on an independent basis of their own, and were exci- ting great attention outside Wales in fact they exciting more attention in higher quarters in Eng- land than in high quarters in Wales. The two points were the question of art and the question of athletics-the aesthetic point and the athletic point. A stranger coming into North Wales for a holiday must, in many cases, be struck by the extraordinary contrast between the almost magical loveliness of the scenery and the almost equally magical ugliness of the architecture (hear, hear, and laughter). Cowper said God made the country and man made the town. One was tempted there to say, God made the mountains and man made the houses." This, he believed, was. largely due to the great religious revival of the- last century. To that religious revival Wales owed a priceless debt of gratitude, but it must be remembered that every great movement, however valuable in itself, always carried with it certain elements of evil, and the duty of wise men. and; of subsequent generations was to accept that gipeat inheritance which had been handed down; 00' them,, whether it were of intellectual,, mora, or reFigious reform, but to endeavour at the same time to purge it of those inevitable elements* of weakness, imperfection, or even eNTil-for the- imperfection of human nature must necessarily be found in it. Now Puritanism had undoubtedly stamped upon people's minds very widely the feeling that there was something radically bad iin art, that it had a demoralising effect. Now was this true ? No doubt a good deal could be said for it.. There was a kind of art which had a most demoralising effect. One could study it on a large scale in the Paris Salons." Precisely the same might be said of literature and music.. Art—using the term as meaning painting, and sculpture only, which were only two branches- of it-art, literature, and music all stood or fell' together. They were only modes of expression, of ideas, of emotion. There was a debasing litera- ture and there was an ennobling literature there was a debasing music and an ennobling music. It was precisely the same with art. And if we did not believe that how was it we were so proud of our mountains ? They were the art of nature. They were that which appealed to the eye. Litera- ture had its ennobling side music had its enno- bling side and its bad side. If they wanted to see how literature could debase let them read a good selection of French novels if they wanted to see how music could debase let them attend a good course of the London Music Hali; but he need not try and persuade a Welsh audience that literature and music had their ennobling side. The great Greek philosopher, Plato, in drawing up his ideal state, drew a distinction between the kind of music he would allow in his state, and the kind of music he would not, There was a kind, he said, which did men harm, it relaxed the muscles of their minds and souls, and made them feebler and poorer creatures, and to that he would have nothing to say, There was one mode of music, however, which he would allow, the Dorian, which the Spartans allowed, because it was ennobling music, and fitted men for great deeds. That was alluded .to in the first part of Paradise Lost" by the most sublime of all poets, Milton, in describing the exercises of the falling angels in hell:— Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood, Of flutes and soft recorders, such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage Delib'rate valour breathed firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat. Art, using the word in the restricted sense of sculpture and painting, had its voluptuous and debasing side; it had also its ennobling side. They talked of "severe beauty." There was a beauty which bad severity, an awe-inspiring character, and the scenery around them that day made them feel nature was sometimes the veil of God. Their schools should recognise from the beginning the importance of this, that the things which people saw would influence their minds, and those responsible for the organization of the schools should take care that that side, the assthelic side was not neglected; but that beautiful objects- he did not mean ornamental objects, but objects that were beautifully proportioned-on all sides should meet the eyes of their growing boys and girls, and mould them to high and noble thoughts. He came now to his second point, athletics. Athletics had been unduly neglected in Wales. There was no doubt that athletics were altogether overdue in England at the present day. It had got to be a perfect curse, to his mind be spoke as a strong advocate of athletics. The way in which things were going on now, athletics were simply getting into the hands of a small handful of professionals; the great body of people only went to see them and bet upon them, never playing the games themselves. That was not the athletics one wanted. No doubt athletics were prescribed by the Puritan movement because they were regarded as a mere physical amusement, and there was no doubt that over-indulgence in amusement was weakening to the character. But now let them look at it on the other side. A child weot to a school to be trained. It was not to acquire knowledge—how much knowledge could he acquire at a school ? It was a mere grain. What they wanted to do was to train the faculty of body, of mind, and of soul. That was the real thing a school was for, so that children, when they became men and women, might go out masters of themselves-both of their own minds and bodies, and able to take up any work which might come in their way. In any case, therefore, physical development would have to be attended to in the schools, and one of the most powerful methods of physical development was what they called school games. The second reason was more important. It was this games supplied, and alone supplied, a moral training-a training in certain moral qualities which nothing else supplied. They supplied a training initiative, pluck, endur- ance, and self-control in a way which nothing else did he spoke now not his own opinion, but what was universally recognized in England, and was beginning to be recognized on the continent. He was recently reading a book by a Frenchman, who asked, How is it that everywhere throughout the world the Anglo-Saxon is crowding us out, that their colonies succeed, and ours don't ? And the writer proceeded to put it down to the different training. That, perhaps, was not altogether cor- rect, for there was a good deal more than the differ- ence in training but after all there was something in the view of a foreign observer, who was trying to account for the weakness of his own country- men. He said their school system drove all the initiative out of them. They turned out admirable clerks and officials, who obeyed all the orders they got, and nothing more, but not men who went to different parts of the world and shifted for themselves. He attributed the success of the Anglo-Saxon to the large amount of self-govern- C, C, ment that English toys bad in their schools in the management of their own games. If any one doubted this, he would ask had they ever tried to play a game of cricket, and gone out first ball 1 They noticed that it was a great moral trial for the player without showing that he felt it. People who coul 1 do that had a certain amount of moral strength about them which would be a most valu- able factor throughout life, and, therefore, he would argue that the masters and the members of the Local Governing Body at Barmouth should encourage the legitimate use of games amongst the boys and girls as much as they possibly could. He had bean much struck himself in the first place at, the comparative want of stamina amongst the men students who came to Bangor. Over and over again he had seen them breaking down under the strain of heavy intellectual work, and why ? Because they came there in a poor physical con- dition, because they were men who never played a game in their lives. That was one of the evils the new school at Barmouth must remedy. The present Viceroy of India said the other day there was a danger of a particular class of men getting up whom he called the White Baboo—the very highly-educated native of Hindustan, who was unequalled in passing examinations, but place him in a Government province and where was lie? He had not the qualities necessary. He had not the initiative. Qualities which enabled him to pass very good examinations were only of secondary importance. Lord Curzon of Kedleston said with reference to our system in India there was a danger of men being called too much to office work and not going about. Principal Reichel instanced the official who wired to head-quarters 11 Tiger on platform eating stationmaster. Telegraph instructions" (laughter). They wanted in this country to turn out the kind of boy who would be able under these circum- stances, when a tiger was engaged in eating a man, to act without telegraphing for instructions (laughter) Continuing the speaker, answering the question What is the ideal of education here ?" said there was a distinct danger in Wales of those who were interested in education—and the interest in IVales was enormous as compared with that in England—there was a danger of people confusing education with examination. They could not have any system of education properly inspected without some examinations, they should always bear in mind that the examination was a necessary evil. It was not a good thing in itself at all, it was a bad thing, but they could not get oil without it. But it was in danger of holding up a false ideal both to the teachers and taught. Let them remember that they had examinations simply because they had not yet been clever enough to find out how to do without them. The true test of a school was not the scholarships or the prizes won, but the men and women it turned out for future life (applause). What kind of men and women did it turn out? That was how it should be judged. Did it turn out thoughtful, conscientious, cheerful, and con- tented people or quick, shallow, pert, disconteuted people ? To the boys and girls there he would say—what a large responsibility rested upon them.. With them it rested to create school patriotism,, which was one of the most valuable things to the training of the future citizen. If there was any school patriotism, there would be in that town, much town patriotism. They were beginning a school there and with them it rested more than with, any future generation to make the tone of the school. Wales 20 years hence would have been re-created for good or bad by its Intermediate Schools. If they could look through a huge telescope and see what was going on throughout Wales, they could see the country was passing through a great period of transition,. and that the whole future depended upon what was being done now. Careful educational enquirers in England and the continent were regarding with. great interest what was going on. It was a very big thing for good or for evil, and he would therefore appeal to the masters, to the governing body and; all interested, that the motto of the school should be the motto which Mr. Owen M. Edwards had chosen for his magazine, I godi'r hen wlad yn ei hoi" (applause). OVER £ 500 CONTRIBUTED. The following amounts were placed' on the different stones:—Miss Griffiths, £ 20; Mr. Thomas, Birmingham, 100 guineas; Rev. D. C. Edwards, £ 20; Mr. Solomon Andrews, £ 50; Mr. Robert Richards, £ 20; Mr. Hugh Evans, £ 50; Mr. Robert Jones, C5; Mr. William Evans, 50 guineas; Mr. W. J. Morris, £ 50; Dr. Williams, Penarth, Z5; Mr. Benjamin Allsopp, 3 guineas;, Messrs. David Jones & Co., Liverpool, £ 5;. Alderman Lewis, £ 50; Mr. Samuel Pope, Q.C., £ 100; Mrs. Dr. Hughes, 10 guineas; and children o, the school, £11.

WELSH CONGREGA- TIONAL UNION. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. The annual meetings of the Congregational Union of Wales were continued at Llanelly on Wednesday,. There was a large attendance at Capel AIs for the morning conference, when the President (the Rev. W. Thomas. Whitland) de- livered the address from the chair, His subject was The Bible, the Product of Extra-ordinary Inspiration.' In a word, he said this was the great question of the age, not only among all Christian denominations, but among humanity at large, in this world and the next. The researches and the marvellous discoveries of scientists and the open confessions proceeding from them, all conspired to make the subject a timely one in every respect. The Bible was a matchless library, the books of which stood separately as the books of the ages. While acknowledging the natural inspiration of poets and men of eminence in every department of life, yet it could not be compared with that of Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles of Christ. The former could not sink to the depths and rise to the heights with the latter. One of two things was bound to be true of the Bible in comparison with the other books of the world. Either the Bible was produced by professional and Divine in- spiration, or common and natural inspira- tion was superior in the books of the Bible to that in any other book. Dwelling upon the greatness and the importance of the extraordinary inspiration of the speakers and writers of the Bible to the whole population of the world, he said it was essential to regard it in this light in order to counteract the poisonous learning of the Deists of the age in reference to the revela- tion of God in words, and also to counteract the fallacies of the Church of Rome regarding the Bible and the Church. The Bible was kept from the people in that Church as a dangerous Book. It was their duty as Nonconformists to checkmate the diffusion of such small ideas. Again, it was essential to counteract the contentions of those who may be regarded in the school of means of doing the Bible an injustice by their extreme views. Whoever refused the Old Testament and Moses ought, as a matter of consistency, to finish with the New Testament and Christ at the same time. They should look upon the Bible as the Word of God, and not as infallible in its exalted mission-to teach the religion of God in this world in order to prepare men for the next world. The inspiration of the Bible was again necessary to counteract the universal influence of the religious books of the false religionists of the earth. The Bible was the only Book that could thoroughly reform and ameliorate the world (1) in a literary sense: (2) in a social sense; (3) in a political sense; (4) in a monarchial sense (5) in a religious sense and it was the only Book that would endure everlastingly in use and renown. "Llyfr doeth yn gyfoeth i gyd—wych llwyddiant A chleddyf yspryd; Gair Duw-nef yw hefyd Beibl i bawb o bobl y byd."

LLANON. MUSICAL SUCCES-On Thursday, the 27th of July, the Cledan Male Voice Party from the above place visited Bow Street Eisteddfod to compete in the chorus" Rhoddwch i'r Iuddew ei ddefod." It must be remembered that this choir had only a fortnight's practice. Three parties presented themselves for competition—the above mentioned, together with two others from Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn. The Cledanitcs were first called to give an account of themselves, and sang in fine style. The other two parties were seen to be out of it before the adjudicator had given his verdict by the frown on that worthy's brow, who without any hesitation, proclaimed that we deserved the laurels. This is the second time this year that a male voice party from Llanon has been declared victor. Cheer up Llanonians, and take courage to make other efforts more serious. Make use of the ability which you possess in your vocal organs. I hope we will again appear in other eisteddfodau, and earn greater distinctions. On our way home that night we had a stop at Llanrhystyd, and pleased the villagers by singing the chorus, but on our arrival home a patriotic feeling seemed to have been implanted in every soul, for the Llanonians soon gathered together to cheer the victors. Mr. D. Davies, conductor, was immediately carried shoulder high through the village and followed by the crowd. After this procession the Cledan party gave the final touch to the chorus, after which the the crowd dispersed. Hearty congratulations are due to Mr. Davies, Bridge street, on his brilliant success. We also owe our gratitude to the Rev. D. Lewis, vicar, for his kind and worthy instructions which he gave us on two or three occasions. We are also greatly indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Davies, Levant, for kindly lending us a room furnished with a piano, to practise in. Moreover thanks are due to Miss S. A. Jones, Roseland, who ably played the accompaniment.—ONE OF THE CLEDANITES.

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