Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

KOlni mj 1 iiii TOWN. :71 On Visitors. Visitors in He lump are a funny bundle," as a dissatisfied lodging-house keeper said, when she saw the backs of her departing guests.. This set me a-thinking of all the odd and funny, all the smart and dowdy, all the old and young, all the pretty and plain visitors I have seen here this season and some—not all-of these thoughts I sit rnvsel" devn to give my readers this week, before beginning another r r: jus articles. All large and important seaside resorts get their share of visitors, and surely Aberystwyth—even though its band-stand is not yet ready—is no exception. If the weather be at all favourable, as it certainly was this year, the visitors of the best class—I mean those of county standing—come in May and June, some taking a whole terrace house for one family and their friends. Then Aberystwyth is certainly at its best, sum- mer term at College is in full swing the sounds of 1 11 tennis and of crkket are in our cars, and our streets are bright with students, whose faces are not yet darkened with the shadows of approaching Exams. In July comes an invasion of bath chairs and invalids, whose doctors rightly order them here before the rush begins. The terrace and the flat Llanbadarn bad are found to be most :acceptaple for their daily drives. In August, of course, comes that mighty ruth whioh is so important a feature from a lodging- I house keeper's point of view; that rush which this year shewed its volume and intensity in the begin- ning of the month, when parties of visitors, who had chanced getting rooms till they arrived, walked the streets foi many hours in their search for beds. In September comes the quiet, staid visitor, who, without the necessity of timing the seaside visit to the weeks of school vacation settles down to an enjoyable time, despite the closing in of the evenings and the suspicion of advancing autumn chills in the air. At this time, too, we see our farmer friends amongst us, who, having harvested their grain, leave the homestead and potatoes for a while, and with wives and acquaintances betake themselves to the seaside for the annual outing. Stand any afternoon on the platform as the trains from the midlands—often arriving in three portions—pour out their packed compartments of varied visitors in our midst. What a quantity what a difference Some well-to-do, and with purses amply lined shout I porter" and order him about as if made for his especial and sole use. Others, quiet and steady going, knowing'all things come to him who waits, and contented to wait a few moments ere seeking out the means of getting their baggage to their lodgings. Talking of baggage, what odd and funny things some visitors think it necessary to bring with them to our outlandish town. I've seen a Birmingham careful father and mother, with their flock of family in yearly order of arrival, like steps in height, one taller than the next, bring two sscks of potatoes, for their con- sumption, fearing probably that Cardiganshire will fail to supply that hunger, which the sea air will kindle. Baths, violin cases (like baby coffins) sewing' machines, bicyclcs in basket crates, bicycles in canvas, and bicycles in swaddling clothes, pet dogs, and other impedimenta, all are dumped down on the platform to tax the temper of the guard and the ingenuity of the town porter to con- vey in safety. The system of advance luggage is becoming more and more appreciated, with the result that before the August Bank Holiday I counted 133 tin trunks on the platform full, at one time all awaiting the arrival of their owners. And then note the simplicity of some owner, who at the busiest moment waylays the platform super- intendent with the remark "Where is my tin trunk!" What sort is it mum 1 is the natural query on the uniformed man's part? -Why of course its yellow with a rope round it." "Yellow with a rope round it." Great scott! says the man, there are fifty here like it! What foolish things too some visitors think it necessary to ask at the station. Here are some facts I have heard myself:—" Porter, is there a post office in this town?" "Master will the 2 30 train go at 2 30 ?" Say guard why did'nt we stop at Bow Street 1" Visitors have been not unwisely divided into three classes by an experienced lodging house keeper viz leather trunk visitors, tin trunk visitors, and no trunk at all visitors. Quite so, we get "Tit-Bits" and "Answers' visitors, Sporting Times" visitors, and" Christian World visitors. Then there is our true collier visitor—not he who came by week and got disgrace- fully drunk in cur town--who comes in August, with the missus and the kids," who patronises High-street for his clean lodgings, and brings a small bag of coin with him, all of which must be spent ere he again sees Glam. He generally does his shopping early in the day, goes to the grocer and lays in a small shop on his own account, tin fruit, pickles, jam, biscuits, tea, sugar, ad lib, flings down his gold and carries off his purchases himself. The bookstall is a place where human nature, as seen in our visitors, can be studied with profit; up comes RW,Ú Jl buckram suit, gaiters, and pipe, 4' Say, boy, do you get London papers here 1! "Will you send me the nlowcome-in-Marsh-Tatler weekly for a fortnight?" Don't take it, Sir" What, not hove our weekly?" "No, sir, never heard it asked for before." Gaiters goes off grumb- ling at the ignorance of the natives 1 Then we get the pompous party, Mr. and Mrs. Goldbug, family and nurses," who want everything, order everything, and are mightily offended if the overworked porter does not offer with a smile to carry their heaviest trunks up to the fourth landing. Then there is the out for the fortnight kind of visitor who would have you believe he has four ralets at least at home, but who, alaij, have forgotten to send their master away with a change of clean linen in his fearfully new portmanteau 11 Then, too, we get the visitor who t-hitiks you can tell'him nothing, that he knows all about our place, in fact much better than any resident, the visitor who when you happen to mention our college looks at you and says, Aw, what college, never heard of it before (A fact), Then we get the boasting, bragging man. Here is true instance of twr. siu-b men early in June, Say, Chawlcy (who evidently arrived 24 hours after Cecil) these Aberystwyth fools nevah bathe, I've actually had ,the first bathe in the place yester- day; man at box said no one had been in before me." Yaas," says Chawley, frightfully dirty lot, we'd show il-iu a thing or two in our College," Beg your pardon, friend," says a resident on same seat, What date did you say was the first for a bathe here I Yesterday, sir, when I came." y you weren't With some of us," replies the "Vit for a party « £ listening students, u we've E!ti(,e earty January." "Say Cecil, away from iibese impudent fellows"— 44 ;fi)e visitors go or/er the College Library deed. IVI)(;N he ?*' says the bulgy fflan pointing to the painting of Principal -i,.O,ir late principal, sir, considered a 'feaiii," replies the Sergeant. "Never the paly before," says the bulgy fijgg-oi humanity (a fact). wo get odd visitors, so \U{1 do we get 'he v oropoition .f right happy, pleasant I lie seem to fcnow instinctively, are .od Lomes nnd worth any amount of atii. i t. and care. • And then as October dawns we co; r. sovereigns, and for- thankful if we've ma rent and taxes, PHILIP SYDN.

WORLD IN A WEEK. Preparations are being made at Cairo for an im- mediate expedition against the Khalifa. Seventy-five cases of plague and thirty deaths have occurred at Oporto since the commencement of the outbreak. Hundreds of people are said to have been killed by a disastrous earthquake in the Mendere Valley, Asia Minor. The clubhouse of the Formby Golf Club was completely destroyed by fire early on Monday morning, the damage being estimated at between P,7,000 and £ 8,000. The inmates—nine in number —had a narrow escape from being burned to death, the five having made considerable progress before the alarm was given. A young Swede named Larsen, carpenter of the Norwegian steamer Kagni, in dock at South Shields, has been arrested on a charge of murder- ing the chief mate on Saturday night. It is stated that Larsen resented an order given him by the mate, and that in a scuffle which ensued he plunged a kniie into the officer's breast. Owing chiefly to the large number of com- mittals of hop-pickers during the past three weeks. Maidstone Gaol has become so crowded that it has been found necessary to transfer some of the prisoners to Chelmsford. Two men engaged with a threshing machine were killed on Monday at Westwell, near Ashford, through the floor of a granary under which they were dining collapsing and falling on them. Six other men escaped, one with some injury, and the others unhurt. Fort Chabrol has been peacefully surrendered. All arrangements were made by the Government for bringing the ridiculous seige to an end, and the occupants were warned that a forcible entry would be made into the Grand Occident if they did not submit. M. Guerin consequently quietly gave himself up to the police, and was at once placed under arrest. His companions were allowed to go free. A strong gale from the west south-west raged in the Channel last week. On Wednesday week the fishing smack 2,401, of Boulogne was reported to have been lost with all hands near Ambleteuse. The North Wales coast was swept by one of the hightest tides of the year, forced up by a north- westerly gale. The Conway Valley was flooded for miles. Messrs. David Burnett and Co., of London, held an important sale of the estates of Mrs. Bankes- Price, at Llanbedr, Talsarnau, and Harlech, Merionethshire, last week, in 60 lots. Great interest was evinced in the sale, the Town Hall at Portmadoc, where the sale was held, being crowded. All the lots were sold, and they realised upwards of £ 35,000. Many of the holdings and smaller farms were acquired by the tenants, several of whom had been in occupation from father to son for over 200 years. A TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE. Further details have arrived regarding the earth- quake in the vilayet of Aidin, in Asia Minor, on the 20th inst. It appears that great damage was done in several towns, and that more than 200 persons perished. The railway was damaged, and streams of sulphurous water sprang out ^of the ground in the neighbourhood of Aidin. LIGHT FROM DUST. Two years ago, when the Shoreditch Vestry started its combined electricity works and dust destructor undertaking, there were many doubters of the wisdom of the step, and the opponents of municipal enterprise did their best to turn the new venture into public odium. Even the most enthu- siastic supporters of the scheme did not dare to hope for the great success which has now been achieved. The accounts of the first year's working showed a surplus of income over expenditure of some E2,000, but as a result of the second twelve months' operations the credit balance has leaped to the large figure of P,7,745 10s Od. The dust destructor has, during the year, destroyed no less than 23,000 tons of rofuse, against 18,000 in 1897. A startling fact is that 750,000 Board of Trade units of electricity were generated from the heat of the parish refuse alone, and the utilisation of waste steam from the engines for heating the public baths has saved the ratepayers the sum of £ 1,800.

— DREYFUS FREE. Captain Dreyfus left the Military Prison, Rennes, shortly after three o'clock on Wednesday morning. Early the previous evening a friend of the prisoner's called at a local coach hirer's and ordered a landau, which he said he would require for some time after ten o'clock. About seven o'clock he returned and asked that the landau should be ready at three in the morning, indicating the place where he wished it to wait for him. Shortly before the hour fixed, a landau drawn by two bay horses, the same which brought Captain Dreyfus from Bruz to the prison after his landing from the cruiser Sfax, stopped near the Place de la Mairie. The coachman received orders to drive along the embankment of the Canal de la Vilaine through the Place Laennec, where Me. Labori stayed before the attempt on his life, to the corner of the Rue St. Helier and the Boulevard Laennec, where he was to wait. At this spot a valet beckoned to the coachman, and he drew up alongside the walk. The carriage had hardly come to a stop when Captain Dreyfus, accompanied by a member of his family, appeared. They entered the carriage, which immediately turned half round, and was driven at a gallop out of Rennes. Rain was falling at the time in a cold, penetrating drizzle. After the last houses of Rennes were left behind the carriage proceeded in the direction of the village of Vern. Here it turned to the left, and, passing along the Avenue de la Gare, stopped about 500 yards from the railway station. Captain Dreyfus and his relation alighted and walked the remainder of the distance to the station, which they entered just as the train for Nantes arrived. They immediately took their seats, and the train left directly afterwards for Nantes. Mine. Dreyfus left Rennes at ten minutes to twelve the same morning, accompanied by her father and her brother, M. Paul Hadamard, and by Dr. Weil. Captain Dreyfus has published: the following declaration:—The Government of the Republic has rendered me my liberty. To me freedom without honour counts for nothing. From this day I shall continue to strive tor the reparation of the fright- ful error of which I am still the victim. I desire that the whole of France shall learn by a definite declaration of justice that I am innocent. I shall never be at peace until there is not a single French- man who can accuse me of a crime which another has committed. The Daily Chronicle address of sympathy with Mme. Dreyfus has received 112,130 signatures. The health of Captain Drefus has undergone a change for the worse. The relapse took place after meeting his children on Saturday.

HIE TRANSVAAL. The Colonial Office on Monday issued the text of two dispatches forwarded to the Transvaal Govern- ment after the meeting of the Cabinet last Friday. The first despatch expresses profound regret at the Boer Government's refusal to accept the British Government's moderate and conciliatory offer of September 8, which alone can be relied upon to secure fair and just treatment to the Uitlanders, and announces that the British Government are, in consequence, compelled to consider the situation afresh, and formulate their own proposals for a finail settlement of the issue created by the per- sistent policy of the Boer Government. The second dispatch repudiates the insinuation by the Boer Government against Mr. Conyngham Greene of breach of faith concerning the joint conference proposal from the Transvaal Government dis- patches, and deals with non-interference and suzerainty questions, and the use of the English language in the Volksraad, astonishment being expressed that the latter should have been charac- terised as unnecessary and unadvisable by the Transvaal Government. The situation generally remains unchanged, though the military activity is continued. A news agency states that horses in batches of 100 are being sent to Woolwich from Aldershot, Devonport, and the chief garrison towns of Eng- land for shipment to South Africa. A large number will leave on Tuesday for Durban in the Johannesburg, from the West India Dock. If an army corps is despatched to South Africa 11,802 horses will be required, but a much larger number will be sent in order to provide for sickness, casualties, and reserve purposes. Mr. Charles S. Jerram in The Armies of the World states that the Transvaal has population—Whites,. 295,000 Kaffirs, 620,000; wRy strength, 26,500; 14,200 of these being between 18 and 34 years of age. A meeting which was nnnounced to be held in Trafalgar-square on Suoday to protest against war with the Transvaal proved abortive on account of a hostile demonstration, The voices of the speakers were drowned, missiles (ere thrown, and several attempts \v,ere made to attack the speakers, but these were frustrated by the police. It was cal- culated that 30,000 persons were in the square. Mr. Evelyn Cecil, M.P. (Lord Salisbury's nephew) who has been making personal inquiries in So.,th '.friea, is reported to have entirely altered his views on the situation, and is now in of the P»oers. Over a thousand refugees arrived in Dnrfeu last week from Johannesburg and the corporation, and %• i he ladies relief committee are doing their utmost to provide for thedistressed women and children. Men are working day and night on the railway in Cape Colony fitting up trucks for the convey- ance of troops. The railway is already prepared to convey 2,000 men daily. It is now officially stated that the Cabinet will meet at 12 30 on Friday next for the consideration of a further dispatch to the Transvaal Government, formulating Great Britain's own proposals for the redress of the Uitlanders' grievances in the South AfricanRepub!*c. WHAT SIR WILLIAM HAHCOURT SAYS. Sir William Harcourt addressed a meeting of his constituents at New Tredegar on Thursday night. Speaking on the Transvaal question, he said it was a strange thing that for the last four years we had been constantly told that we were mi the brink of war. He hoped the day would arrive when we should be able to pass a year without that being the condition of things. He read in a newspaper that the less he said of the position in the Transvaal the better. He felt, however, that he could not and ought not to keep silence on the subject, because, with Mr. Chamberlain and the other members of the then Liberal Go\ eminent, he was responsible for the settlement which was made by the British nation with the Government of the Transvaal in 1880. He could not observe without indignation and reprobation the persistent attempts which were made by the war press to aggravate the position of affairs and to prevent a peaceable settlement. If there was anything which could induce President Kruger to give an ear to the appeals for reform it would be the experience which he and his people went through when they became exiles from the land of their birth. All the grievances of which they tlion complained arose because they desired self-government, and under British administration this was denied to them. Reviewing the Conventions of 1881 and 1884, Sir William Harcourt said the result of the second was that the British Government kept a veto on the foreign affairs of the Transvaal, but in their internal affairs the people of that country were granted Home Rule. In the despatch of May 9th the Republic claimed that its rights arose, not from the Convention of 1884, but from the inherent right of the Government as a sovereign inter- national State. Just as he rejected the theory that a general suzerainty was retained in the Con- vention of 1884, so he said this contention could not be maintained. The Transvaal could not claim to be a sovereign international State when it had surrendered the control of its foreign affairs. Both sides had made allegations which could not be maintained, and if we could only get rid of them we should have peace to-morrow. There was a precise document which defined the relations of the parties, and in heaven's name let them stick to it. Of course that did not exclude the right of a State to protect its own subjects from ill-treatment. He wanted to know what there was different in the circumstances now from those of May, 1896, when Mr. Chamberlain de- nounced the idea of a war in South Africa. The right honourable gentleman passed on to the Bloemfontein negotiations, and said it was not sur- prising that the Boers were reluctant to carry out at once such a revolution as was demanded- Referring to the offer of the Transvaal of a five years franchise he said that the sufficiency of that franchise was beyond dispute; it was the condition attached, namely, the abandonment of inter- ference in the internal affairs of the Republic for the future, and the dropping of the suzerainity controversy, that caused that proposal to be rejected. He proceeded to examine the two conditions, and said that in his opinion they were not such as ought to have involved the refusal of the offer. That the proposal of the five years' quali- fication had not been carried through, was, he thought, a great disappointment and a great dis- aster. He thought, however, that the Transvaal Government were wrong in withdrawing from the five years' franchise. Having made the proposal they ought to have adhered to it, and ought to have adhered to the conditions. The conditions ought to be accepted, and then we should be exactly in the position we deliberately assumed in 1884. In conclusion he expressed himself in accord with the views of Sir H. Campbell- Bannerman as stated in the telegram published yesterday.

LLANDDEWI BREFI. Hyx SYDD I HYSBYSU fod y Welsh Gazette ar werth yn y lie hwn yn masnachdy Mr. Tim Morgan. Anfonwch eich hysbysiadau i'r Gazette "-y gore a'r rhataf yn y Sir. LLENYDDor,.—Y mae y Parch. David Byron Lewis yn bwriadu dwyno'rwasggyfrol o'i weithiau barddonol yn bur fuan, dan yr enw Blodau Cariad," ac y mae anerthiad wedi ei gyfansoddi iddo gan D. O. Jenkins (Byddarian), Llanybyther. TAN I TAN wedi tori allan mewn Amaethdy o'r enw Werncoly! ac wedi anrheithio y lie I Dyna y newydd cyntat ddarfu dori ar ein elustiau boreu Gwener diweddaf, a mawr y cynwrf ddarfu iddo achosi yn y pentref, ond erbyn gwneyd ymholiad mae yn debyg fod pethau wedi troi allan yn well na'r ofnau, oblegid darfu i'r elfen ddinystriol gael ei meistroli cyn iddi gyffwrdd ond yr ystabl yn unig. Yr oedd adeiladau ereill yn gyssylltiedig a'r ystabl, ond darfu i'r cyssylltiad gael ei dori, ac felly cyfyngwyd y tan. Yr oedd y tan wedi dechreu cael gafael yn yr ydlan hefyd, ond darfu iddo gael ei drechu yma hefyd cyn gwncyd fawr niwed. Dywedir i'r oil gymeryd lie ruewn can- lyniad i ddiofalwch ac esgeulusdra llanc ieuangc oedd yn cysgu yn y ty allan trwy gyneu matchen a'i thaflu o'r neilldu, ag i hono fyned i gyffyrddiad a'r llosgadwy. Dinystriwyd yr ystabl. Dynawers etto i amaethwyr i fod yn fwy gofalus am yr hogiau sydd dan ei gofal. LLWYN HYFRYD.-Dyna enw palaslly prydferth newydd spon ger llaw y pentref, wedi cael ei adciladu gan Mr. Rees Jones, Abercanaid, Merthyr. Hen frodor o'r lie ydyw Mr. Jones, ond fel llawer ereill darfu i rhagluniaeth ei arwain pan yn ieuangc i Morganwg, ac yn y wlad bono y bu lr. Jones am flynyddoedd yn gweithio yn ddiwyd a llwyddianus; a thrwy fod yn olalus a darbodus y mae wedi casglu llawer o dda y byd hwn, ac wedi penderfynu dyfod yn ol i'w enedigol fro i dreulio gweddill ei oes rhwng bryniau Dewi Brefi, pa rai hwyrach y medr anerch gyda'r bardd wrth gofio mangre ei febyd 0 fryniau hoff 0 fwvnaf fro 0 feusydd hafaidd "lion Lie bu'm i'n ddifvr, gauwaith do, Heb flinder dan fy niron. Y mae Mr. Jones yn Ymneillduwr a Rhyddfrydwr cgwyddorol a goleucdig. Fel prawf ei fod yn Rhyddfrydwr trwyadl gallwn goinodi ddarfod iddo ddyfod yn ei unswydd o Morganwg i'r Llys Cof- restriadol yn y lie hwn i ddal gafael yn ei bleidlais pan ydoedd y Toriaid yn amheu ei hawl jddi ychydig flynyddau yn ol (ar v dvbiaeth yn ddiameu na fyddai iddo ddyfod i'r llys i'w hawlio) ond yn hyn darfu iddynt cael ei siomi. Eiddunwn iddo bob mwyniant yn y Llwyn Hyfryd.

GOGINAN. CYFARFOD NIISOL.-Cyiihali;vy(i Cyfarfod Misol Gogledd Aberteifi yn y Dyffryn dydd Iau a Gwener diweddaf, o dan lywyddiaeth y Parch. John Williams, y gweinidog. Cafwyd cynulliad lluoscg o bregethwyr a blaenoriaid dydd lau. Bu oryn lawer o faterion dan sylw, ond ni.wnawn ond rhoddi ychydig o bonynt. 1. Cafwyd adroddiad gan y cenhadau a fu yn Cymdeithasfa Penfro. 2. Cadarnhawyd adroddiad y cenhadau a fu yn eglwys Gosen yn cynorthwyo yr eglwys yn newis- iadbugail. 3. Pasiwyd rheolau addysgy weinidog- aeth fel y cynygid hwy gan y pwyllgor oedd wedi bod yn eistedd i roddi ei farn arnynt, gydag un eithriad bychan. Teimlid fod y pwyllgor wedi gwneyd gwaith da, a diolchwyd i'r brodyr am eu trafferth ac am y gwelliantau doeth a chymedrol a gynygient yn y rheolau hyn. 4. Penderfynwyd fod nifer o frodyr i fyned i Gapel Sion ar achos neillduol. 5. Penderfynwyd ail-drefnu yr ymwel- iad a'r eglwysi, yr hwn sydd i fod o hyn i ddiwedd y flwyddyn hon. 6. Penderfynwyd cyhoeddi llyfr cyhoeddiadau eglwysig am yflwydclyn nesaf fel arfer. 7. Trefnwyd y cyfarfod diolehgarwch am y cynhawaf i gael ei gynal ar ddydd Mercher, Medi 27. 8. Cafwyd papyr rhagorol ar Gyfarfodydd daufisol yr Ysgol Sabbothol," gan Mr. Thomas Owens, Aberystwyth. Gwnaed amryw awgrym- iadau o welliantau gan Mr. Owen, a diolchwyd yn gynes iddo am ei bapyr gwenhfawr. 9. Derbyn- iwyd Mr. Edwards, pregethwr ieuanc o Salem, yn aelod o'r C. M. Ymddiddanwyd ag ef aryrachlysur a rhoddwyd cynghorion iddo gan y Parch. T. Levi. 10. Hanes o'r achos yn y 1 lie. Dadganwyd llawenydd fod yr eglwys yn dn.l r- ir cystal yn ngwyneb yr boll symudiad; >y i( wo, ii bod oddi yno trwy yr ugain mlynedd diweduai. Dadgenid fod yn eu plith bob undeb a brawdgarwch fel swyddogion, ac hefyd gwelid yn ol y trefniadau rhagorol fod yno ysbryd gweithio. Mae gan y cyfundeb gapel eang a bardd yn v Dyffryn, a mynwent a hen gapel yr hwn a ddefriyddir fel schoolroom a thy capel hefyd, ac y mae yr oil yn eiddo y cyfundeb ac wedi tain am danynt oddigerth can punt, a dadganai y gweillidog dymun- iad cryf i glirio yr hyn sydd yn ngweddill yn ystod y flwyddyn ddyfodol, ac yr oedd yn aiulwg fod y cyfarfod misol yn teimlo yn awyudys i'w gcfnogi ef a'r eglwys yn y gwaith da hwr.j, 11. Pregcthwyd nos Iau a dydd Gwener i gynnulleidfaoedd lluosog gan Parchn. J. C. Evans, iiuri h; D. Ti. Williams, Salem; J. Bowen, Rhydfewiigaid; T. E. Roberts, M.A.: a David Jones, Hult Road, Liverpool. Cafwyd cyfarfodydd rhagorol o'r dechreu i r diwedd. Dyma y tro cyntaf mi gredaf i'r Parch D. Jones gael ei alw i gyfarfod misol fel gwr dieithr yn yr ardaloedd hyn, ond eredwll mai nid dyma yr olaf gan ei fod wedi rnoudi boddlonrwydd cyffredinol- Yn niwedd yr oedia nos Wener talodd y Parch. T. E. Roberts, AL A., duiolehgarwch cynes i gyfeillion y lie am dd.erbyn a chroesawu y cyfarfod misol, a cliann,, j, i yn uiwr y a'r tretbiadaii oedd wedi Cli gvy;ieyd yma.

"BEDD Y CRISTION PUR." CYFLWYNEDTG I MRS. ROWLANDS, Bangor Cottage, Penllwvn. ar ol ei lilau, Mr. John Rowlands, Aberystwyth. Mantais rlyn yw cael ei godi Yn awyrgyleh bur y wlad, Lie mae natur mewn gwyrddlesni, I Rhwng mynyddoedd Cymru fad A dymunol ydyw huno Yn ei chysegredig dir, Lie ceir heddweh i anwylo, Daear Bedd y Cristion pur. Tyfodd JOHN, fy nghyfaill ffyddlon, Yn mhrydferthwch dol a thwyn A dadblygodd natur ynddo, Dcgwcb ardal werdd Penllwyn; Carai pawb ei siriol wyneb, Fel gwynebpryd rhosyn ir, A phawb eto, mewn anwyldeb, Garant" Fedd y Cristion pur." Tarddodd allan o hen deulu Oedd yn barchus yn y lie, Ac mew. heddwc h cadd ddadblygu Yn ngoleuni pur y ne.' Cafodd natur heb ei llygru Gan elfenau, poen a chur, Gydag ysbryd iach, er hyny, Yn ei Fedd mae'r Cristion pur." Yn ei lygad caed ei galon, Ar ei wyneb caed y dyn, Ac yn hwnw caed y Cristion, Fynai fyw fel ef ei hun. Ei dynerwch, gwyn, diweniaeth, Fel y bore, oedd yn glir, A thynerweh yn ei hiraetb, Wlitha Fedd y Cristion pur." Bachgen didwyll oedd yn fachgen, A dyn didwyll fu o hyd, Nes ymgodi yn ei elfen I ororau arall fyd; Ffurfiodd iddo'i hun gymeriad, Gloew, cadarn, fel y dur, Ac y mae o hyd yn siarad, Uwch ben Bedd y Cristion pur." Meddai feddwl llym, a manol, A serchiadau plentvn Duw, Ar ymylon yr ysbrydol A'r sylweddol carai fyw. Treuliodd oes i wneyd daioni, Yn mbelydrau claer y Gwir A blaguro yn ei dlysni, Hyd ei fedd wnai'r Cristion pur. Yn ei angladd hawdd oedd wylo, Am gyfeillion bore foes, Aethant fel efe i huno o fy mlaen o loes i loes Beddau rhai o honynt yno, Welais yn y dystaw dir, Dan y prudd-der oedd i'w deimlo, Ar lan Bedd y Cristion pur." Aros wna ei loew fuchedd Ar ei ol yn fyw o hyd, A blodeua gras a rhinwcdd, Ar ei Iwybrau yn y byd. Am ei deulu, Duw ofalo, A disgvned gwlith y Gwir, Ar y blodau fo'n uddurno, Anwyl Fedd y Cristion pur." Pisgah, Talgareg, CYNFFI IN". Ni ddarfu i'r afon Nile orlifo ei glenydd fel arfer eleni, a chvfrifir fod y golled mewn canlyniad yn cyrhaedd y swm o £150,000, Bu daeargryn mawr yn Asia Leiaf ar yr ugein- fed o'r mis hwn. Gwnaed difrod mawr mewn llawer o'r trefydd, a ca'dd dros ddau cant o bobl eu lladd. "THOMAS E. ELLIS, A.S." Er gwall a niwaid y deuai diwedd Oes Thomas Ellis—eto mae sylwedd; Ei fywyd union, uwch ei fud anedd, Yn urddo gwerin a hardd gywiredd A chan bawb, wrth erchwyn bedd—a phareh llwyr Y mawrheir synwyr prif Gymro'r senedd. Y penill uchod o waitb cystadleuwr a eilw ei bun "0 hirbell," enillodd y wobr yn Eisteddfod Car- narvon yr wythnos ddiweddaf.

DREYFUS. Y mae Dreyfus yn rhydd. Rhyddhawyd ef o'i garchar yn Rennes ychydig fynydau wedi tri o'r gloch y boreu dydd Mercher, wythnos i ddoe. Tua'r adeg hono daeth cerbyd i fyny at borth y carchar, daeth Dreyfus allan ac aeth i mewn iddo, a gyrwyd ef ymaith ar frys i'r dref nesaf lie yr esgynodd i'r gcrbydres ac aeth fw ffordd ei hun, na wyddai neb ar y pryd i Dywedir fod ei icchyd wedi tori i lawr yn hollol, ac yn ol tystiolaeth rhai ei bod yn anmhosibl iddo fyw rhagor na Jdau fis new dri. Cyn ymadael a'r carcharor bu rhaid iddo dynu yn ol ei apel i lys uwch. Y mae wedi ysgrif- enu i un o newyddiaduron Ffrainc i ddweyd nad yw rhyddid heb anrhydedd yn werth dim ac ei fod yn penderfynu adenill ei gymeriad yn ogystal a'i ryddid. Dywed hefyd y bydd iddo geisio argy- argyhoeddi y wlad a dangos i Ffrainc pwy yw ci gwir elynion. Ar hyn o bryd y mae Dreyfus yn Neheu Ffrainc, ond ni wyddis eto pa Ie y bydd iddo dreulio y gauaf. Y mae Maer Pwllheli wedi eynyg iddo dy gwych, a thir saethau yn nghyd a cheffylau a cherbydau yn rhad ac am ddim. Nid yw yn debyg y gwna Dreyfus dderbyn y gwahoddiad hael hWll o llleyn—ond canys beth am hyny y mae gwyr glew Pwllheli wedi llwyddo yn eu hamcan-sef rhoddi tipyn o hysbysrwydd i'w tref.

^— ■ M. i Y TRANSVAAL. PAROTOI I RYFEL. Ar hyn o bryd y mae y ddwy wlad yn prysur barotoi i ryfel, ac ni wyddis pa eiliad y daw y wys i'r g&d. Y mae'r anghydfod wedi llcdaenu gymaint erbyn hyn fel y maeyn bur dcbyg y bydd i nwydau reoli yn lie rlieswm o hyn allan, ac y bydd i'r naill ochr neu y Hall gael ei chario ymaith i eithafion. Cyfarfu y Weinyddiaeth dydd Gwener ac y mae eu penderfyniad wedi ei wneyd yn hyspys. Dywed Chamberlain yn ei ncges i Kruger ei bud yn hollol ofer cario yn mlaen tel y gwneir yn bresenol, ac fod yn rhaid dwyn yr anghydfod i ben; ac fod Llywodraeth ei Mawrhydi yn awr yn gorfod ail- ystyried y mater, ac fe fydd yn rhaid i'r Llywodr- aeth osod i lawr ei thelerau ei hun bellach er cael terfyn. Wedi cyngor y weinyddiaeth dydd Gwener nid oes dim newydd o bwys wedi cymeryd lie yn yr ymdrafodaeth ond y mae y ddwy wlad yn parhau pn brysur i gario ymlaen eu darpariudau milwrol. Y mae y trigolion yn ymadael o'r Transvaal wrth y miloedd gan ofn fod rhyfel ar dori allan. Y maey talaethau cymydogaethol—yn enwedig yr Orange Free State—yn penderfynu rhoddi pob cynorthwy i'r Transvaal. Gadawodd yr agerlong "Jelunga" Southampton ddydd Mercher gyda dros til o tilwyr i Ddeheu Affrica. Bu Arglwydd Lansdowne ar ymweliada'r Swyddfa Byfel, a ehafodd ymgom a'r prif gad- lywydd. Wedi hyny, bu Arglwydd Wolseley mewn ymgyngboriad a chynnrychiolwyr Swyddfa y Trefedigaethau a'r Llynges-Lys. Y mae dwy agerlong wedi eu cyflogi yn Lerpwl gan y Llywodr- aeth i gludo milwyr. Bydd iddynt gychwyn mhen ychydig ddyddiau. Y mae y teimlad yn erbyn rhyfel yn enill north o ddydd ddydd. Yr wythnos ddiweddaf bu Syr William Harcourt yn anerch ei etholwyr yn Nbre- degar a siaradodd yn y modd mwyaf pendant yn erbyn myned i ryfel a'r Transvaal. Gwnaeth Mr. 0, M. Edwards, yr aelod dros Feirion, hefyd araeth benigamp yn erbyn ymyryd a gweriniaeth y Trans- vaaal drwy drais. Bwriadid cynal cyfarfod mawr yn Trafalgar square, Llundain prydnawn Sul diweddaf ac yr oedd tyrfa o tua 30,000 i 40,000 wedi dyfod ynghyd ond codwyd terfy.sg gan y blaid sydd yn blysio am ryfel a gwrthodwyd gwrandawiad i'r siaradwyr. Teflid afalau ac wyau at y sawl a gynygai anerch y dyrfa, a gwnaed pob peth i luddias amcan y cynulliad. Yr oedd tua mil o heddgeidwaid marchog yn bresenol. Yn ngliyfarfod blynyddol llhyddfrydwyr Meirion y dydd o'r blaen, dywedodd y Parch. J. Gwynoro Davies, Abermaw, ei fod yn gofidio yn fawr fod un math o anghydsain ar y mater hwn yn dod o Gymru. Hefyd, gofidiai yn fawr oherwydd rhai areithiau oeddynt wedi cael eu traddodi gan un o'r Aelodau Cymreig yn Nhy'r Cyffredin, ac allan oddiyno. Pan oedd yr Armeniaid Cristionogol yn cael eu medi wrtli y cannoedd, yr oedd rhyfel yn beth rhy ofnadwy i gyfreithloni Lloegr i ymyryd ond yn awr, pan mai ychydig o aur oedd mewn cwestiwn, rhaid rhyfela a thywallt gwacd, Un cri mawr a wnaed gan un siaradwr oedd fod Lloegr yn gorcbymyn iddynt ddysgu Saesneg ochr yn ochr a'u hiaith eu hunain ond ychydig yn ol yr oedd y person hwn ynbreseool mewn llys yn Nghyinru pan y darfu i'r barnwr fygwth anfon Cymro uniaith i garchar os na roddai ei dystiolaeth yn Saesneg, ac eto ni chododd hwn ei let o gwbl yn erbyn y fath fygythiad. (" Cywilydd.")

A Congregational Historical Society is being formed, the object of which will be to collect, examine, edit, and publish the numerous interesting documents and records of the denomination. A number of leading Congregationalists are giving their support to the movement, including the Rev. H. Arnold Thomas, Dr. A. M. Fairbairn, Dr. Forsyth. Dr. A. Maokeimal, the Rev. A. Rowland, the Rev. C. S. Home, Professor Adeney, Mr. V. Uiirtlet, and Mr. A. W. W. Dale. • T