Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

DEATH CUSTOMS OF THE KLONDIKE INDIANS. The native Indians of the Klondike region have particularly strange customs with regard to the dead. There are no ceremonies at the grave. The rude coffins are laid on top of the ground and then hidden with piles of rocks or lumber, on which is displayed all the belongings of the deceased, whether valuable or not. For instance, one may see a bright red blanket. How grateful it would have been to those left in this world's cold! But the blanket was his, and he would need it upon his long, solitary journey. What Indian would rob the dead ? It is notable that when anything ever is removed from a grave it is by a white. or at his instigation, though he would be apt to suffer if it were known. About ten years ago a man died, as was supposed, and was buried in a shallow grave. It proved to be only a trance. He wakened at night, and, being big and strong, threw the clods from him and returned to his home. But the villagers were angry, probably considering there was something uncanny, if not devilish, about the affair. They dragged the man to his empty grave, fastened him down with stakes, covered him a second time with earth, and left him to suffocate.

LESSONS FROM THE nEES. "Don't stir up a beehive unless you know it is a rich one," said an apiarist to a visitor at his bee farm. "I thinit that I would leave them alone altogether," was the reply. "They have too angry a buzz about them to win my confidence." "You are not used to them, that's all," said the beeman. For example, these hives are full of honey, and if I puff a little smoke into the doors so as to sort of suffocate the sentries I can topple a hive over, \liandle the bees like so many beans, clean the honeycombs, and carry them off. The bees won't harm me." And, to prove his words, the speaker performed his experiment and came back to his friend with a smile and several heavy combs of honey. "If those hives had been nearly empty," said the apiarist, "I would have been lucky to have escaped with my life. The tenants of a poor hive stinff to kill." "That's strange," said the visiter. "I should think that they would defend their hoards with especial jealousy, and the more they have the hotter they would fight." "The reason is," said the beeman, "that when alarmed the bees fly to their storehouse and gorge themselves, When full "of honey a bee can't bend its body and sting." Which should be a lesson to us," said the other—"Don't get too full." .r

SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN ON THE LIBERAL PARTY. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, acknowledging an address of confidence j resented to him at Belmont Castle, his seat in Scotland, by a deputation from the Liberal Associations of the Montrose Burghs, said he had not had an easy time in the House of Commons or in the country during the past few years; but in all that had happened he regretted nothing, while he remembered not the sneers and abuse of opponents, but the friendliness of friends, and, above all, the loyalty and good sense of the great body of the Liberal party throughout the country. He considered that as long as Liberals stood upon the old principles they made way, hut when anyone tried to strike out a line of his own and departed from the old ideals he did not think the degree of success attained justified the attempt made. He condemned the Education Act, and said it remained for the people of the country, when they fully realised the nature of the new system, to determine how far they would submit to it, and how far they would endeavour, at the first possible opportunity, to alter or overthrow it. With regard to the war, he had nothing to retract of what he had said concerning it, and urged the im) ortaiiee of grappling with questions of domestic policy on the lines of the old root-principles of Liberalism. In reference to the question of labour representa- tion, he should welcome anything that would add to the number of Labour members of the type already sitting in the House of Commons.

EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE. The Marquess of Londonderry, speaking at the annual meeting of the Darlington Chamber of Agriculture, claimed for the Education Act that it would have the effect of benefiting the agricultural interesk. The great advantage of the measure was that it co-ordinated elementary, secondary, and technical education, and in future the controlling authority in each district would be able to denl with education with due attention to the needs and industries of the particular locality. This had been impossible under the system that had hitherto obtained.

A widow named Fanny Yarwood, after being- intercepted in an attempt to commit suicide on the railway, jumped into the Iliver Weaver at Leftwich. A man named Brown gallantly plunged in to the rescue, but the woman struggled so violently that he was compelled to loose her and she was drowned. It is understood that strong efforts are being made by the friends of Lieutenant G. Witton (ru w undergoing life penal servitude at Portland) to obtain his release. Orders have been issued for the cruiser Severn to pay off at Chatham on January 14th and trans-fer her crew to the Mersey, which becomes the guard- ship at Harwich.

PERSONAL INJURIES AT FIRES. A fire, by which three persons were badly burnt, broke out at 7, Linhope-street, Dorset-square, W.C. A child of four years named Celicia Welch was so terribly burnt that she had to be at once removed to hospital, and her parents, John Welch and Eliza Welch, were burnt in a lesser degree in trying to extinguish the llames. By a fire at 45, Havelock-street, N., Mrs. Louisa Sherborn was shockingly burnt on the face and hands.

Business Notices. ft PLYNLIMON LAKE TABLE WATERS. SODA WATER IN SYPHONS, AND IN LARGE AND SMALL BOTTLES. o Q o m Z :s > E-1 z z J. P. Tt4onlAE P-j c Hff/w'ar. H E-4 |^SE>?'STV„YR J A z w 0 ö 0 p p. John P. Thomas, M.P.S. Pharmaceutical & Dispensing Chemist, 20, GREAT DARKGATE ST., AND 60, TERRACE RD., ABERYSTWYTH. MILDRED HOUSE, NORTH-ROAD, ABERYSTWYTH. c o M;F o iriTn L E APARTMENTS (BOARD OPTIONAL). Five minutes from Parade and Station. Vinft nositinn. modern built, electric lilyht. bath '(hot and cold), excellent cuisine. Cook late Speakers Court, House of Commons. Proprietress, H. JENKINS. WINTER FASHIONS. C. M. WILLIAMS. GENERAL JQRAPEEY ESTABLISHMENT, 10, PIER STREET ABERYSTWYTH" Is now showing a Good Selection of NEW GOODS IN A LJL DEPARTMENTS^ NOTED HOUSE FOR STYLISH HATS AND BONNETS. LAMPETER. It WALTERS' Commercial Temperance Hotel Within 5 minutes' walk from the station. Fitted up in the most modern:style. Hot and Cold Baths. Teas & Dinners provided at short notice HEADQUARTERS C.T.C. PROPRIETRESS MRS St « WALTERS. John Roberts TOBACCONIST, 25, IJIERRACE ROAD. 9 Â BERYSTWY) J AGENT FOB GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY CO. I TD J. YE ARE Y, 177N0RTHGTTE~ST., ABERYSTWYTH GREENGROCER, FRUITERER & FLORIST With a hoice Selection of VEGETABLES, FRUITS & FLOWERS. Charges Moderate. All Orders promptly attended to. Having been 30 years HEAD GARDENER at Gogerddan, customers may rely on being supplied with the best of Goods. SEEDS Potatoes, Peas Vegetables and Flowers, all f the best quality. Business Notices MILK BUSINESSES. Rattray & Jenkins Just to hand, 150 MOST GENUINE BUSINESSES, from 8 to 100 Barns. More experience in the Dairy Trade than any other Dairy Agents. Those from North and South Wales, please write or call. RATTRAY & JENKINS, AMNER ROAD, ROOMWOOD ROAD, CLAPHAM JUNCTION, LONDON. A WORD IN SEASON. TRY MORGANS Pectoral Linseed Balsam Certain Cure for Coughs, Colds, Influenza, and all affections of the Chest, Throat, and Lungs. ——— HAS CURED OTHERS. WILL CURF YOU. Prepared only by R. MORGAN, PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST, ABERYSTWYTH. Sold in Is. & 2s. bottles WONDERFUL RESULTS. BLACK LION HOTEL, STRATA FLORIDA. FIRST-CLASS Family & Commercial Hotel (Private Housadjoining for Visitors). HEARSE AND FUNERAL CARRIAGES KEPT ON THE PREMISES. TERMS MODERATE. RED LION HOTEL PONTRHYDFENDIGAID. PROPRIETOR EDWARD JENKINS. THIS old established and well known Hotel has JL been recently renovated. Parties, Cyclists, Commercial Gentlemen and Visitors to the noted Teify Lakes and Strata Florida Abbey, will find every accommodation and comfort on very moderate charges. Best Ales, Wines, Spirits, Cigars, &c. Posting in all its branches. Good Stabling. onveyances meet all trains at Strata Florida Station. Edwin Peters CASTLE BOOT & SHOE WAREHOUSE, 51t Great Darkgate Street, ABERYSTWYTH. Three doors above the Town Clock. GENTS' LADIES' AND CHILDRENS' BOOTS IN GREAT VARIFTIES. I- ADDE-NIS MAGIC TEA MAOC* II ¡: Jl !:— ■ THE BEST IN THE MARKET WILLIAM WILLIAMS & QOMPANY ■ Contractors to'His Majesty's Government Oil Engines CUNDALL'S SIMPLEST, ECONOMICAL AND MOST ,,{1< RELIABLE OIL ENGINE IN =" EXISTENCE. PATENT. R. CUNDALL & SONS. LTD. SHIPLEY, LONDON, and PARIS. Makers of the Largest Oil Engines in the World. Educational. ABERYSTWYTH HIGH SCHOOL. CAERLEON HOUSE, ESTABLISHED OVER 50 YEARS. PRINCIPAL MISS RHODES. (Successor of Miss Trubshaw) Efficient staff of Masters, and resident English and Foreign Mistresses. Pupils prepared for London Matriculation, Cam- bridge Local, Associated Board of Royal Academy of Music and Royal College, Trinit College, and other examinations. Physical Training, Hockey, and Tennis. Cardigan County Schools, FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, I Establisbed. under the Welsh Education Act. I HEADMASTER D. REES, M.A. (London), Ph. D. (Leipzig). ASSISTANTS B. MORGAN, B.Sc. (Wales). D. WHITE JONES, C.M., F.R.H.S. MISS M. H. JAMES, M.A. (London). MISS A. I EWIS, C.M. MISS G. W. WILLIAMS (Cookery and Laundry). Scholarships and Bursaries to the amount of £ 120 annually are tenable at the School. For particulars, apply to the Headmaster or the Clerk. JAMES. STEPHENS. Clerk HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS VI C TOR I A (MARINE) T E R R A C E A BERYSTWYTH; SEPARATE KINDERGARTEN. PRINCIPAL Miss KATE B. LLOYD. Certificated Mistress, Assisted by a Staff of highly qualified Resident Governesses. REFERENCES— Thomas Jones, Esq., B.A., H.M. Inspector of Schools Llanelly; The Rev. O. Evans, D.D., King's Cross, London. E. H. Short, Esq., H.M. Inspector, Aberystwyth. Principal Roberts, M.A., U.C.W. Principal Prys, M.A., Trevecca College. Dr Scholle Aberdeen University. Rev T. A Penry, Aberystwyth. Pupils prepared for the London and Welsh Matrictt ations Oxford and Cambridge Examinations, &c. For Terms &c,, apply PRINCIPAL LLANDYSSUL COUNTY SCHOOL. HEADMASTER: WILLIAM LEWIS, M.A. CANTAB., WRANGLER 1890. Assisted by a highly-qualified Staff of. £ 4 Residen and 2 Visiting Teachers. Very numerous Successes, rapidly increasing from year to year, at the Public Examinations in Science and Art, at the Matriculation Examinations of the Universities of Wales and London, and at the various Preliminary Examinations for Banks, Law, Medicine, &c., &c. Commodious new School Buildings, with well- fitted Laboratories, &c., and most healthily situated amidst about 4 acres of grounds of their own, care- fully laid out for all school games. N.B.—Cookery and Laundry work tanght by a qualified Mistress. Excellent Accommodation for Boy and Girl Boarders with the Headmaster at a very moderate fee. Tuition fee: ZI per term, or P,3 per annum. ABERYSTWYTH COUNTY SCHOOL. HEAD MASTER: MR. DAVIDXSAMUEL, M.A. (Cantab). SENIOR MISTRESS MISS E. M. EWART, M.A. (Vic.). ASSISTANT MASTERS AND MISTRESSES MR. THOMAS OWENS. MR. N. H. THOMAS, M.A. (Oxon). MR. P. G. FEEK, B.A., B.Sc. (Wales). MR. T. O. PIERCE, B.Sc. (Wales). MISS S. E. THOMAS. DRAWING MR. J. H. APPLETON, Cert. Art Master. COOKING MISS H. BERTHA JONES (Diploma in Cooking and Laundry Work—1st Class). Pupils requiring Railway Season Tickets will^please apply to me forthwith. SCHOOL RE-OPENS SEPTEMBER 23rd,' 1902. JOHN EVANS, 6, Portland-street, Aberystwyth. Clerk OVERCOATS.. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION jt? GRAND SELECTION OF j j lir § Ready-made and to Order. WINTER CLOTHING ||| AT LOWEST CASH PRICES. INSPECTION INVITED. Ig ll/j| ri NOTE THE ADDRESS: "v" 0 Daniel Thomas. %2014 1 0 so 22-24 LITTLE DARKGATE ST.

Cant he wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour round her path a stream of living light. ROGERS.

When will the day bring its pleasure? When will the night bring its rest? .Reaper and gleaner and thresher, Peer toward the east and the west:— The Sower He knoweth, and He knoweth best. ANON T The Dattle of life, says Ian Maclaren, extends -over a vast area, and it is vain for us to inquire About other things in the army it, is enough tnat we have received our orders and that we have held the few feet of ground committed to our charge. ♦ Raskin defines the rich man in these words, worthy of remembrance He is a rich man, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest and most helpful influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

New Year. Has the past year made you poorer than you were before ? Has it, perhaps, removed some treasure from your precious store ? .Have your feet trod stony pathways, and your eyes shed tears ? Have your hopes found no fulfilment, has your faith been dimmed by fears ? Loek before you! These are sorrows you have left behind, And the unknown Future waits you, full of pro- mise kind. Take each day the joy it biingeth-you will have your share- And whatever trouble cometh God will help you bear. J. S. T. • ♦

The Race of Life. Nothing strikes one more, in the race of life, than see how many give out in the first half of the course. Commencement day always reminds me of the start for t,he 11 Derby," when the beauti- Jfol high-bred three-year-olds of the season are brought up for trial. That day is the start, and life is the race. Here we are at Cambridge, and a class is just graduating." Poor Harry he was to have been there too, but he has paid forfeit; step out here into the grass back of the church; ah I there it is:- HUNC LAPIDEM POSUERUNT SOCII MCERENTES." But this is the start, and here they are,—coats bright as silk, and manes as smooth as eait lustrale -can,make them. Some of the best of the colts are pranced round, a few minutes each, to show their paces. What is that old gentlemen crying about ? and the old lady by him, and the three girls, what are they all covering their eyes for ? Oh, that is thsir colt which has just been trotted upon the atage. Do they really think those little thin legs ,can do any thing in such a slashing sweepstakes •as is coming off in these next forty years ? Oh, this terrible gift of second-sight that comes to some of us when we begin to look through the silver rings of the arcus senilis J Ten years gone. First turn in the race. A few broken down two or three bolted. Several- show in advance of the ruck. Cassock, a black colt, seems to be ahead of the rest; those black colts commonly get the start, I have noticed, of the others, in the first quarter. Meteor has pulled up. Twenty years. Second corner turned. Cassock has dropped from the front, and Judex, an iron- -gray, has the lead. But look how they have thinned out I Down flat,-five,-six,-how many 1 They lie still enough I they will not get up again in this race. be very sure 1 And the rest of them, what a tailing off" I Anybody can see who is going to win,—perhaps. Thirty years. Third corner turned. Dives, bright sorrel, ridden by the fellow in a yellow jacket, be- gins to make play fast; is getting to be the favour- ite with many. But who is that other one that has been lengthening his stride from the first, and now ahows close up to the front Don't you remember the quiet brown colt Asteroid, with the star in his forehead? That is he; he is one of the sort that lasts look out for him 1 The black colt," as we used to call him, is in the background, taking it easily in a gentle trot. There is one they used to call the Filly, on account of a certain feminine air he had; well up, you see; the Filly is not to be despised, my boy I Forty years. More dropping off,-but places much -as berore. Fifty years. Race over. All that are on the course are coming in at a walk; no more running. Who is ahead? Ahead? What! and the winning- post a slab of white or grey stone standing out from that turf where there is no more jockeying or straining for victory 1 Well, the world marks their places in its betting-book but be sure that these matter very little, if they have run as well as they knew how 1— Did I not say to you a little while ago that the universe swam in an ocean of similitudes and ,analogies 1 I will not quote Cowley, or Burns, or Wordsworth, just now, to show you what thoughts were suggested to them by the simplest natural Objects, such as a flower or a leaf; but I will read you a few lines, if you do not object, suggested by looking at a section of one of those chambered shells to which is given the name of Pearly Nautilus. THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their stream- ing hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread its lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn 1 From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn 1 While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:— Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul fe As the swift seasons roll Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nebler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea 1 OLIVER WENDEL HOLMES.

O Nature Notes. The following is a record of the rainfall for December last at Bronwydd, the residence of Sir Harteine Lloyd, Bart-taken by Mr Beasly December, 1902. 1st 041 20th 0 23 2nd (severe frost) 0 04 21st 0 09 llth Oil 26th 0-02 13th 017 27th 002 14th 100 28th 0 37 15th 0'76 29th 013 16th 1-31 30 th 003 17th 065 31st 006 18th 010 19th 0.20 5-70 Notes.—It is noteworthy that in this district the rainfall of June^has been exceeded only by that of December of the past year, and although we have a ,greater number of days with rain, yet the total for I the year is less by nearly five inches. December shows eighteen wet days, yet about two-thirds of the month's total fell on four consecutive days. Below I give the totals for the last three years, Which may be interesting:— No. of days Year. with rain. Amount. 1900 185 4817 1901 185 4501 1902 200 40-23 Records of early finds will be gladly chronicled in this column from week to week. Should readers be unable to identify specimen of early blossoms we shall be glad to give what assistance we can if they be forwarded to the office of this paper in good Audition. White of Selborne's list, will be found a most useful and trustworthy index of what OOe should expect to find at various times of year

CARDIGANSHIRE IN 1808 BT PHILIP SIDNEY." Strangely enough a day or two since, when looking over a pile of old volumes, in the attic of a thatched Devonshire cottage, I chanced to alight upon the fragments of a Directory," printed in 1808. Though many of its pages are missing, the Welsh portion of it is tolerably perfect, and here are some of the items concerning our county and its towns, as printed for the edification of all and sundry, before the first decade of last oentury had run its course. CARDIGANSHIRE then bad 10,187 inhabited houses, with a population of 49,336 souls. The number of parishes was 77, covering 726 square miles, or 496,000 acres. It was divided into five hundreds, with six market towns. The air and soil vary in different parts; in the southern and western districts, which are tolerably level, the air is mild and temperate, and the soil is fertile; but the mountainous parts towards the N. and E. are bleak and barren, yet they afford pasturage for large quantities of sheep and black cattle. The part towards the sea shore is in high estimation for the growth of barley, which is generally sent to the neighbouring counties for seed. The mountains contain lead and other minerals; and one lead mine near Aberistwith is said to be so rich in silver, that it has sometimes produced 70 or 80 ounces in a ton of metal." The reader will notice I am not altering the present to the past tense, preferring rather to let the words remain as originally printed. The principal exports are black cattle to Kent and Essex pigs and salt butter to Bristol; and barley and oats to Bristol and Liverpool." There is a perfect gem of description anent our lovely Teify The principal river is the Tyvy, which, issuing from a small lake on the eastern side, bursts through a very rocky tract, till it forms a regular channel, and, passing Tregaron, reaches the border of Caermarthenshire at Llanbeder, whence it becomes a boundary of the counties to the sea." Those of us who have walked by Teify from source to sea will not tan to recognize line accuracy of this paragraph. The other rivers are the Ryddol, the Iswitb, and Clevedoc; which during summer are mere shallow brooks, but in the rainy season they are often swelled to furious torrents, bearing down every obstacle, and even tearing up the soil of the vallies which they fill with stones and barren gravel." The market towns are Cardigan, Lampeter, Tregaron, Llannarth, Llanbadarnvawr, and Aberist- with." Let us now follow this extraordinary order, and see something of the position of these towns." CARDIGAN has a public hall where the busi- ness of the county is principally transacted, and it makes a grand appearance. The gaol is a hand- some building with a chapel, Erected in 1798; a very few remains of its antient chapel aie now to be seen. The assizes are held here." The number of its inhabitants is 2,129. The government of the town is vested in a mayor, 12 aldermen, common councilmen, and other officers, who enjoy several privileges, and it sends 1 mem- ber to Parliament." What a truly delicious bit is this of the other officers who enjoy several privileges ? How I should like to be able to tell you the officer's names, and what were the privi- leges they enjoyed I The principal inn is the Black Lion fairs are held on 13th Feb., 5th April, 8th Sept., and 19th Dec., with a weekly market on Saturday." Gentlemen's seats in the vicinity are Llangoed More (0 Lloyd, Esq.), 1 m.; Castle Malgwyn (J Hammett, Esq.), 3 m.; Pantydery (J Bowen, Esq.), 6 m.; and Blaenpant (W 0 Brigstocke, Esq.), 7 m." LLAMPETER OR LLANBEDR is a borough and market town, formerly of more consideration than it now is, the population is 69*4. The town is governed by a port reeve, bailiff, and town clerk, and is contributory with Cardigan in sending 1 member to parliament. The sessions are annually held here the first Wednesday in October." Note the absence of any reference to mayor or town council, three officers only; we wonder had they any privileges." The town has a brisk trade in horned cattle, horses, and hogs; fishing parties resort here from a considerable distance. Half a mile from the town is a bridge over the Teivy, supposed to have been erected by King Stephen, whence the place is also called Llanbedr Pont Stephen. A meadow near the river is still called the King's Meadow, where he probably encamped." The Black Lion is a good house where post- chaises may be had. he mail arrives at 1, the afternoon, and goes out at 3 aft." TREGARON OF TREGASON, even though it is one of the market towns gets but scanty notice being but a poor, straggling, and ill built town, which has a Tuesday market and fairs on the 15th, 16th and 17th March anually. Population 1133." LLANARTH," alas alas, gets no further notice at all. LLANBADARN VAWR OR FAWR is both a town and port, 1 mile from Aberystwyth, situate on river Rydal. This town has a small harbour and is governed by a port reeve. Its market is on Tuesday, but the flesh market is removed to Aberystwyth." Of Llanbadarn Harbour and its port reeve I should like further information. Its antient church, erected in the form of a Greek Cross is the mother church of Aberystwyth. Here is a Sunday School for 500 children. Popu- lation about 1300. Between this town and Aberystwith, on the banks of the river, stand the ruins of Plas Grug, an antient mansion, supposed to have been the residence of Owen Glendower." Good is it that noble Owen has had more accurate biographers than this unknown man. ABERYSTWYTH appears to have been a place of some strength, but its wall is now almost entirely decayed, as well as its castle, which is said to have been garrisoned by Oliver Cromwell. The church is a handsome gothic edifice, and it has also a good town hall. The government is vested in a mayor, recorder, common council, &c., and the inhabitants carry on a considerable trade in fish, and lead. Great quantities of lead are dug up in the neigh- bourhood, where are also several vestige of ancient encampments." Its Bankers, Messrs Jones, Davis, and Co. draw on Esdaile and Ce. (the Aberystwyth and Tregaron Bank) Evans, Jones and Co. draw on Veres & Co." Its population 2,254. The weekly markets are held on Monday for butter, cheese, fruits and on Saturday for meat. The first Mondays in May and November are called hirelings Mondays, as great numbers of servants attend on those days to be hired. The fairs are the Monday before Easter, and 18th December. The principal inn is the Talbot. There is a receiving house for letters. The mail arrives at 12 noon, and departs at 5 in the morning." The author seems unable to leave out another reference to n Pleas Grig, a fortified mansion, a short distance from the town which again he tells us is supposed to have been the residence of the celebrated Owen Glendover, or Glendwr. Its remains are pretty considerable, and in a good state of preservation." Twelve miles hence is Pon ar Fynach or the Devil's Bridge: it consists of two arches, one thrown over the other, each arch springs from rock to rock, over a tremendously deep abyss." Now we have four arches, one over the other, and Plas Crug mansion far from being an ornamental adjunct to our town. J

I HUGH DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE NO MORE Difficulty of Breathing. NO MORE* Sleepless Nights. NO MORE Distressing Coughs. DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for COUGHS DAVIES'S COUGH M'XTURE for COLDS DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for ASTHMA NO MORE Distressing Coughs. DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for COUGHS DAVIES'S COUGH M'XTURE for COLDS DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for ASTHMA DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for BRONCHITIS DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for HOARSENESS DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for INFLUENZA DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for COLDS DAVIES'S COWH MIXTURE for COUGHS B DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE for SORE THROAT 6f DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURS—Most soothing ft DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE warms the Chest H DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE dissolves the Phlegir R DAVIES'S COUGH MLXTTTRE-for S5NOES.S W DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE—for PUBLIC FL DAVIES'S COUGH MIXTURE SPEAKERS H THE CREAT WELSH REMEDY. I Sl3Sd. HI9 Bottles. Said E-:J"llJÎtt: 9 Sweote than Honey. Children like > •. H HUGH DAVIES, Chemist, MACEYNLl £ ifl71 r III

TULIP MANIA. During the tulip mania in Holland in 1636 and 1637 a single bulb of a ttflip named the Viceroy was, according to Amateur Gardening, sold for four tons of wheat, eight tons of rye, four fat oxen, eight pigs, twelve sheep, two hogsheads of wine, four barrels of beer, two barrels of butter, 1,0001b. of cheese, a bundle of clothes, and a silver piteher.

.0 A LAND WITHOUT ANIMALS. .Taran is a land without the domestic animals. t i:- this lack which strikes the stranger so forcibly n limbing upon Japanese landscapes. There are no •*H*—the Japanese neither drinks milk nor eats "at. There are but few horses, and these are ■irt( d mainly for the us- of foreigners. The }rt carts in the city streetf: Are pulled and vd by cool it's, and the pleasure carriages are ••v.u In wen. There are but few dogs, and these e neither used as watch dogs, blasts of burden, r n hunting, except by foreigners. There are no in Japan, and wool is not used in clothing, k and cotton being the staples. There are no —pork is an unknown article of diet, and lard ■Is not used in cooking. There are no gnats, or mules, •r iloiocevp. Wild animals there are, however, and in ailici-lar bears of enormous size. War, of course, as acquainted the Japanese with the use of animals. The army has cavalry horses and others to dreg the ifeld ««ns. The Km cress also, in obvious imitation of European Royalties, is an expert horsewoman, and saddle horses are kept for her use. (.)

A CITY OF SALT. One of the most remark ble cities in t.he world is Ke'burg, near Cracow, Poland, for, besides being situated underground, it is excavated entirely iu rock salt. The inhabitants, to the number of over 3, CGO, are, of course, workers in the famous salt mines, and all the streets and houses are of the purest white imaginable. One of the most famous r"aLmes of the city is the cathedral, carved in salt and lighted with electric lights, and when the late C-zar Alexander visited it, eleven years ago, he was so fascinated with the magnificent ( fLct of the light upon the crystal walls that lie presented the cathedral with a jewelled altar cross. Such a tiling as infectious disease is unknown in Kel^erg in fact, the maiovify of the inhabitants die of old age.

NAMING THR BABY. A Ilindoo baby is named when twelve days old, a.nd usually by the mother, says the JVew Penny Magazine. Sometimes the father wishes for another name than that selected by the mother; in that case two lamps are placed over the two names, and the name over which the lamp burns the brighter is the one given to the child. In the Egyptian family the parents choose a name for their baby by light- ing three wax candles; to each of the three they give a name, one of these always belonging to some deified personage. The candle tiat burns the longest bestows the name upon the babv. The Mohammedans sometimes write desirable naates on five slips of paper, and these they place in the Koran. The name upon the first slip drawn out is given to the child. The children of the Ainos, the half-savage people of northern Japan, do not receive their namer; until they are five years old. It is the father who then chooses the name by which the child is afterwards to be called. The Chinese give their | boy babies a name in addition to their surnames, and they must call themselves by these names until they are twenty years old. At that age the father gives his son a new name. The Chinese care so little for their girl babies that they do not give them a name, but just call them number one, two, tJhree, and so on, according to their birth.

HOW SAVAGES HUNT THE LION. Lion-hunting by savages, armed only with spears or bows and arrows, must have been incomparably more dangerous, and therefore infinitely finer sport, than the pursuit of these animals by civilised man at the present day armed with modern rifles, writes Mr. F. C. Selous, the famous hunter, in the Sports of the World. In my own experience I have known of lions being hunted down and killed with spears alone by the high-spirited and courageous bar- barians who once guarded the great herds of cattle belonging to Lo Bengula, the last great chief of the Matabele. In those days-I am speaking of thirty years ago-but few of these people possessed fire- arms. However, if any of the King's cattle were killed by a lion or lions, it was a point of honour with the guardians of the herd that the. marauders should be destroyed. Armed only with spear and ox-hide shield, these men would follow up and surround the enemies of their king, which were usually found sleeping at no great distance from the cattle kraal after their heavy feed of beef. When the lion had been ringed, the warriors would close in on him, and the object of their vengeance, finding retreat cut off on all sides, would stand at bay, facing first towards one of its naked assailants, then towards another, growling hoarsely all the while. It was then the part of one chosen man to rush forward towards the lion, shaking his shield and shouting out words of contempt and abuse. Almost invariably the lion accepted the ehallencw and cnargea aown upon tne intrepid savage, who with such splendid courage faced the terrors of its claws and teeth with no weapon save a puny spear, As the lion charged, its challenger, after making one stab at it with his assegai, was dashed to the ground, but endeavoured to fall beneath the cover of his great ox-hide shield. At the same moment his companions rushed in from all sides, and the lion was soon stabbed to death. In these encounters many men were killed or more or less seriously mauled; but a single lion, when once surrounded and brought to bay, seldom escaped. When, as eften happened, a party of lions were attacked, one or two were usually killed, and the rest broke through the cordon.

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DESERTED BABIES. ATTEMPTS TO HOODWINK A FATHER. On the nurse, Eleanor Susannah Gale, agrd thirty- six, of Baondesbury-road, Kilburn, who is accused of receiving and abandoning infants, being again brought up at Marylebone, a third charge was pre- ferred against her—of abandoning a thirteen-day- old male child on December 13th, 1901, in a second- clasii railway carriage between Willesden Junctien and Broad-street, thereby endangering its life. Mr. Rowe, who prosecuted for the Treasury, said a Mrs. Newland was confined of a son in November, 1901, in the house of a Mrs. Ballinger, a midwife, living at Latchmere-road, Battersea. An advertise- ment was inserted in a paper asking for a home for the child, and, as a result, en December 13th, 1S01, Mr. Newland and Mrs. Ballinger took the baby to 15, Brondesbury-road, and handed it over to the prisoner. The same evening, about an hour and a- half later, a gentleman discovered a live babv on the seat of a second-class carriage at Broad-street. Finally, the child was identified by Mrs. Ballinger in the City of London Union. It would be seen that the prisoner endeavoured to pass off on Mr. Newland no fewer than four children as his infant, and as an excuse for that extraordinary proceeding a letter was received from her, in which she pre- tended that she had been playing a huge joke, in order to win a bet of £5 that she could make Mr. Newland believe that the boy of a friend of hers was his son. The inference was pretty conclusive, that the prisoner had changed the child's cJo: lies, and within a few minutes of receiving it had taken it to the railway and abandoned the infant on a cold, wet night, by leaving it in one of the carriages. All this had been done, he suggested, with the object of plunder. May liallirger, certified midwife, said Mr. Newland received a letter from the prisoner in reply to an advertisement, describing herself as a widow, aged thirty-eight, with no children, and anxious to adopt a child. She kept a good hou^.e, and had three servants. In a second letter she said she would accept the small premium cff*red, as her income was about E600 or iP,700 a year. She wanted a child to bring up as entirely her own. Even- tually Mr. Newland paid the prisoner iEI5, for which -Ilie gave him a receipt. Some time afterwards, in consequence of some correspondence, the prisoner wrote to Mr. Newland stating that she was unable to keep the joke up any longer. The little chap he (Mr. Newland) had Eeen was the child of a friend of hers who was moving at the time. The letter continued: "I must tell you how I came to play you such a trick, which I am now 6orry 1 did, but, I wanted to win a bet of £ 5, believing I was right that you would not know the child, he has altered so and grown. My friends were sure you would, and bet me L5 I would not make you believe their child was yours. I have lost mv £ 5." On February 16Lh the prisoner invited the father to call and see the baby. He and witness went, but the baby they saw in a cradle was not Mr. New- land's child. A week later the prisoner brought ano her baby to their house to be vaccinated, but Mr. Newland objected, as the child was not his. In April, in consequence of a communication from the prisoner, witness went to the prisoner's sister's house, and after waiting half-an-hour an undertaker calhd with a coffin containing the body of a dead baby. It was not a bit like Mr. Newland's child. On the 27th of the same month she went with St rteant Bex to the City of London Infirmary, vhere she was shewn a child which was undoubtedly Mr. Newland's baby. Detective-Sergeant Bex said he had endeavoured to find the Newlands, but failed in tracing them. Mrs. Ballinger said she know the father of the child as Mr. Newland, of llllunslow, and the child'* mother as Fraser, or Fletcher. Witness found Newland used to have letters left at a Houuslow address. Other evidence having been called, prisoner, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

UNDER THE MISTLETOE. Edwin Clayson, at one time a Marylebone Vestry- man, was fined by Mr. Plowden for assaulting his wife. Prosecutrix, who is forty-four years of age, said her husband struck her because she allow eel a young man to kiss her under the mistletoe, though he himself had similarly saluted all the young ladies in the room. Defendant told another story. He said that when he remonstrated with his wife for inviting a young man to the house, "she swallowed a tumbler of hot rum, said she would do as she liked, and struck him with a kettle of boiliIg water."

EXTENSIVE CYCLE THEFTS. At Croydon Quarter Sessions, James Banton, thirty-eight, of Green-lane, Penge, was charged with stealing and receiving a quantity of bicycles, fittings, tools, and a motor cycle, value in all about £ 300, the property of residents in the Norwood district. The accused, an engineer, had a workshop at Windmill-road, Croydon, and, later, a place at Green-lane, Penge, and at these places portions of the stolen property were found. In the cese of receiving two bicycles, value £ 20, stolen from a house in Sydenham-road, Croydon, accused was found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment with hard labour.

SAD RELIGIOUS TRAGEDY. S At Temesvar, in Hungary, says a Vienna corre- spondent, a short time ago a young Jewish soldier fell in love with a Christian girl who reciprocated his affection. But owing to the reli- gious difficulty the parents of both parties refustd their consent to the marriage. The young man, aftir a violent scene with his father, returned to barraclts and shot himself mortally. Before he lost consciousness he was baptised at his own .request. The .father demanded that the body should be buried in the Jewish cemetery, but the authorities declined to allow this as the young man had become a Christian while still conscious. He has therefore been buried with Catholic rites.

A KLONDIKE CONFLAGRATION. An extensive fire occurred at Dawson City, in the Yukon gold mining district, on New Year's Eve, says a despatch from Halifax (N.S.). Goodwin's Hotel and several shops were totally destroyed, and the fire brigade had a hard fLIit to save Second Avenue from the ihmes. The I.;ss is estimated at £ 15,000. The local temperature at the time (at a reasonable dib.auce from the fire) was 45deg. below uro-77de. of frost!