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—' THE LEISURE HOUR. Can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight 11 Poar round her path a stream of living light. ROGERS. — — THE SECRET. We've heard a secret," said the pines, A secret sweet to know," And whispered to the sky above, And to the ground below. Then all the sunbeams danced for joy, And, from their mossy beds, The primroses were seen to lift Their pretty yellow heads. The cowslips and the violets Peeped softly out a6 well, To hear the thrilling secret that The pine trees had to tell. The river stayed its crooning song, The leaves came bursting out, To hear, with wild excitement, what The secret was about. But when the cuckoo heard the news, He spread, with eager call, The secret all about until It wasn't one at all! So then the birds, and flow'rs, and trees, Proclaimed, with might and main, The secret that the pine trees told: The sprin's come back again! Constance M. Lowe. —From Little Folks for March. JUSTICE IN HISTORY. History is not a mere drama, it is justice; conquerors and despots would have too great an advantage if they were only to be judged of (as has hitherto been the case with Napoleon) by the sound of a great name or the dazzling lustre of glory. There are flatterers of those who have gained renown, as there are of the powerful, because fame is also a power, and because by placing themselves within the rad- iance of a great name, people imagine that they participate in its magic influence, and may be able to crush all before them by the auth- ority of prejudice. f Lamartine. THE DEFIANCE OF SPRING. At last she comes! the long-desired Spring, Swift-footed now, now dallying on her way, Yet drawing near and nearer day by day To the content of every living thing; The air is filled with vague, sweet whispering, The violets peep out shyly, and the gay Dear daffodils will make no long delay To join the fair ranks of her following The angry East Wind fain would drive her forth, Knowing that April follows in her traill- Her faithful handmaid and his fairest [ Yet, though he calls his brother of the North Unto his aid, mocking their efforts vain, She cries in their despite, I will notgo. —Mary Grace Walker. •» < < s ORDER AND PROGRESS. We are apt to regard party distinctions and Party connections as more stable, more im- putable, than they really are, or ought to be. Between the conservative and progressive types of human mind and character, the con- servative and progressive forces whose resul- tant is the march of human affairs, the differ- ence is, in the abstract, radical and funda- mental. In concrete, however, both types are i often represented in the same individual, both | ^°rces are essential to the conversation of politi- | society. Human society is founded upon 0rder and lives by progress. The essential dia- I Auctions of'political party correspond to these I two essential elements of human society. Both t necessary to the State, each is the comple- ment of the other. If either party were left t delusively to its own bias and bent, society fould either moulder in stagnation or perish | ll* revolution. But these alternative catas- ^r°phies are prevented by the fact that parties j composed of men, and that in all men, ^°ugh one tendency or the other may pre- ^°Hunate, both tendencies exist. No man \'r()Uld avow himself hostile to all change; few desire to sacrifice order in the pursuit of Progress. j. R. Thursfield. (Life of Peel.) < < 11: "'HEN SPRING AND THE THROSTLE COME BACK FROM THE SEA. ^^ch is here with her sound of brooks, j54rch is come with her clamour of rooks, ^ting of sheep and lowing of herds, of the raven and twitter of birds; ^ut mellower far over lake, over lea, 1 the flute of the throstle come back from 5 the sea. i i sweet, sweet! how her melody thrills i nhere the sun looks over the snow-crowned kills, -fc^eet, sweet, sweet! how her voice prevails the sun dies out of the purple dales. Sweet!" when the star hangs bright in the tree, the song of the throstle come back from weet! when the star hangs bright in the tree, the song of the throstle come back from the sea. Oft :rb are the whispers of the shore-ward dunes j here the thrush in the winter nursed her tunes, 's the chanting of wave and wind | ocean-harmonies left behind. v^Ut dearer than all is the music for me, Spring and the Throstle come back front the sea. -H. D. Rawnsley. • » » » 11: THE PEOPLE. 1, ken the people complain," said a wise the people are alw.ays right." The long- (0 ering of the poor under the inequalities of is a phenomenon which, as long as it W v shows that the spring of all the virtues tj, l.ck at any time done honour to humani- ty,18 Btill flowing among us. Cold, hunger, tIt ^oess—thejl hear them all with preter- ral patience. Even injustice they endure becomes insolent. So long as masters 'Oo be courteous, the drudges of accept their inferiority, and honour and ^P^ct those whom Providence seems to have L°Ver them. Only when the human rela- are at an end, when they find themselves If 35 they were made of other clay, as ey were machines to extract wealth from Sll, and were rewarded sufficiently in being tt to exist—only then they begin to Ha meaning of the word gentleman, and for Purpose the lord and lady are robed in and housed in palaces, while the peasant \:f}. the work, shivers in soiled fustian, and is lodged than his employer's cattle. —Frouod#. I—

Bugles and Drums in Cardi- ganshire. BY PHILIP SIDNEY. Of all time honoured customs at Aberystwyth, the one not deserving of least respect, is that of the nightly bugle warning," sounded at different stations in the town, during the early months of spring, when the Militia. men are in yearly training in our midst. The shrill, and generally well-played bugle calls seem to suggest the question:—" What do we know about our Cardiganshire Militia ? To answer such natural enquiry is my present attempt; but first let me ask another question what means the word Militia It is, broadly speaking a word signifying a body of armed citizens regularly trained, though not in constant service in time of peace, and therefore not to be confounded with the words standing armies. A militia is also distinguished from volunteers in consisting of local corps raised by requisition of the State. At present the militia of Great Britain is generally raised by voluntary enlistment, but the contingent of every county is prescribed by statute, and must be raised either by enlistment or by ballot. The raising of militia—a Latin word, meaning military service "—seems first to have been en- trusted to the lords-lieutenant of counties by an Act of Parliament passed in 1558, the year in which Queen Mary died, and Elizabeth came to the throne. Though at present the militia is composed of voluntary jecruits, it is well to remember that the ballot can still be enforced but, by the Army Regulation Act of 1871, tke jurisdiction of the lords-lieutenant has been vested immediately in the Crown. The most characteristic features of the militia used to be that a number of persons in every county were drawn by lot for five years (liable to be pro- longed by the circumstance of the militia being called out and embodied), and efficered by the lords-lieutenant of the Counties, and those appoint- ed by them. And these methods brought into existence Substitution Clubs, i.e. men who were drawn and did not want to serve, went to these clubs, of which the members were men who were j willing to serve for them, at a price, and made the necessary arrangements. Many of our Cardigan- shire Church Registers have entries referring to this custom, e.g. at Llanilar in 1797—that memor- able year of the Irish rebellion—we get this entry: Paid Supplementary Militia Man's Wife 3s." and in 1805, Paid for going to Aberystwyth, for Volun- teer's money Is 3d." Our Cardiganshire Militia is generally said, and probably with truth, to have first been raised by Colonel John Jones, of Nanteos, in or about the year 1644. It was raised for King Charles I, and was known as a Regiment of Foot. Here let me say a word about its first Colonel. As our young recruits of to-day occasionally march past the old church at Llanbadarn. they may like to know and to remember that within its walls he was buried in 1666, just seventeen years after Charles had his head chopped off on the block outside White Hall Palace. Colonel Jones, de- scribed as one true to the King in the time of Rebellion," suffered much for it. He assisted, however, on 14 October, 1646, at the reducing of Aberystwyth Castle, a garrison then holden for the King, it was thought upon. a personall injury offered him his principles beiag, without ques- tion, steadfastly fixed for monarchy." Be that as it may, the fact remains that Colonel Jones and his Militia were no small factors in compelling Colonel Whiteley to deliver the Castle to the be- siegers. He married Anne, daughter of Cornelius Le Brun, Esq.; and both of their portraits hang on the walls at Nanteos. where the features of the first Colonel of our Militia recall those of a lov- ing Husband, a tender Father, and a faithful Friend." After the fall of Aberystwyth Castle the Militia was disbanded by a County Committee held at Lampeter;" and we do not seem to hear of it again till the 12th July, 1764, when the Quarter Sessions were hold at Tregaron, in the house of one Richard Evans. The magistrates then Ordered that the Treasurer of the County Stock pay to Thomas Lloyd, Esq., adjutant of the Militia, the sum of five pounds, being money by him paid to the private men of the Militia for their mainten- ance for four days in saving the goods of a ship stranded on the coast, in the parish of Llanrhysted, in pursuance of an order of three Deputy Lieu- tenants of this county." What shipwreck this was I cannot at present tell, but it is good reading and better knowledge that the Militia were not found wanting, when their services were in request for such a purpose. About this time a change took place in the loca- tion of the Militia, and a move was made from Cardigan to Aberystwyth Lewis Gwynne, Esq. being ordered by the magistrates at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions, held in Aberystwyth Guild Hall, in 1766 to be paid by the Treasurer of the County Stock, the sum of £4, for the carriage of arms, amunition, fcc., belonging to Militia, from Cardigan to Aberystwyth." Three years afterwards, in October, 1769, the County Treasurer was again ordered to pay to Thos Lloyd, Esq.; one of the captains of the Militia, the sum of P.5, for removing the arms and clothing from Aberystwyth to Cardigan." Here, in all probability we get first referred to any uni- form, worn by the Militia—"cloathing"—what was it like, can any one point me to a contemporary picture of it ? Once more there is a reference in the Quarter Sessions Minutes to this "Cloathing." In September 1777 our Militia was at Carmarthen, possibly for annual training, and it was necessary to get the baggage on to Cardigan what was done is best told by quoting the entry itself, written, be it re- membered, at the time :—" Ordered that the Treasurer of this County do forthwith contract with some Person or Persons for the carriage of the Arms and Cloathing of the Militia of this County from Carmarthen to the Town of Cardigan, who is hereby directed to pay out of the County Stock in his hand such Sum of Money as shall be due to such Person or Persons for the carriage of the same, together with such Sum of Money as shall be for the Store house wherein the said goods are to be kept." So much theq for references to Cloathing," and removals there are other entries to the same effect which could be quoted. Our Cardiganshire Militia figured largely at Fishguard in 1797, when, under the command of Lord Cawdor, the French invaders were repulsed. Listen to what Malkin says, and he toured the Principality in 1803, hardly six years after the event: Fishguard Fort was built by the late Sir Hugh Owen, in consequence of frequent alarms from pirates in the American war and the landing of the French in the late war in some measure justifies their habitual jealousy. The number of the invaders amounted to fourteen hundred the whole force that Lord Cawdor could collect, horse and: foot, did not reach seven hundred men." Barber writes also in 1803 of the late descent of 1,400 French invaders, who, after a few days po- ssession of the neighbourhood, surrendered to the Welch peasantry headed by Lord Cawdor." The coveted honour of retaining the word ROYAL in the title was permitted to our Militia, in com- mon with 26 other regiments, by circular of the Commander in Chief in 1804, and from this year must be dated the ROYAL CARDIGANSHIRE MILITIA, and to this period belongs the wearing of the gor- get and high stock; as also the drum major's staff, still to be seen in the Barracks at Aberystwyth. Although the Militia like the Volunteers can- not be called on for service beyond the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the credit of our Militia be it recorded that without exception, —the men volunteered to serve under Wellington in Spain, if under their own officers. In 1809 permission was granted by the Aberyst- wyth Court Leet to the officers of Militia of this County to make use of the Shire Hall for the purpose of keeping their clothes, arms, &c. and here I think they stayed till the Hall was pulled down in 1855, when the depot was changed to the Gogerddan town house in Bridge-street, then vacant by the death of Miss Loveden, the last resident in Aberystwyth to use a sedan chair. Here as Councillor T 0 Morgan tell us were kept the arms, amunition, and clothing of the regi- ment, the house being inhabited only by the Sergeant Major and his family." The present Barracks were designed by Sir J W Szlumper, and built at a cost of £ 4000,|during the height of the Fenian ferment in Ireland, and immediately after the suspected attack upon Chester Castle." From 1811 to 1813 the Militia served in Ireland, under Colonel T.P. Chichester, and Major W E Powell, M.P. who, on 15th November 1823 became Colonel of it. The head quarters during this Irish period were at Loughrea. In 1814 the regiment was disbanded. Headquarters then were at Aber- ystwyth and trainings were apparently inter- mittent." In 1861 the Militia, numbering 141, assembled at Aberystwyth for training, under Lieutenant-Colonel W T R Powell, and has since met yearly, in vary- ing cumbers, for training. Lieut- Colonel E L Pryse was in command from 1866 to 1877, when he resigned and was succeeded by Lieutenant- Colonel J A Lloyd-Phillips. He died at Aberyst- wyth in 1884. and was Miceeeded by Lieutenant- Colonel G G Williams who hela command till 1887 when Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lloyd, CB. the present popular Commandant took charge of the historic regiment. With him to-day the officers are Major and Lieutenant-Colonel G S Jones Captain and Hon Majors J W Cunliffe, M B Castle. J B Taunton, H J Jenks, and E W D Evans, M H Cazalet, G H Oughterson, F H Berryman, and R J K Potter 2nd Lieutenants H F Davies and J G Gossett-Owen Captain and Adjutant W McGild- owny R.G.A. and Captain and Quartermaster W Stephens R.G.A. A word as to uniforms in 1814 it was green. In 1877 the uniform resembled that of the Royal Artillery, except white lace and silver buttons, instead of yellow lace and brass buttons so says Mr Horsfall Turner, B.A. in his" Wanderings in Cardiganshire," where also may be found other interesting parti ular respecting our Militia. In 1895 the Aberystwyth Corporation, to mark appreciation of the excellent behaviour of the men presented a silver cup for competition; and those who have watched the general behaviour of the men in recent years express their conviction that the exemplary conduct which called forth such a token from our Town Council, has been and still happily is a marked feature under Colonel Lloyd's rule. It is to be regretted that, many years ago, fire destroyed most of our Militia records. It cannot be expected anything I have here written can supply their place, and I can only express my hope that the interesting history of the Royal Cardiganshire Militia may yet be told, and another page thus be added to the slow but sure growth of our county's history.

Cymru Fu. LXIV. 214. THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE.—WTilliam Hutton, F.S.A. the historian of Birmingham, tells us that he travelled no less than sixteen times through the principality." This is what be says of the Devil's Bridge in his 11 Remarks upon North Wales," 1803 p.p. 8-11:—" Said to have been erected by the monks in 1087. A bridge placed so much below the road must have been inconvenient to the pas- sengers however, during that dull period of 666 years, it could not be inconvenient to many. As time, peace, population, and property increased, the evil was more felt, another bridge therefore was erected exactly over this, in 1753. I descended the bank and entered upon the under bridge, standing upon one bridge and under the other, about six feet asunder. Perhaps it acquired the name of Devil'sBridgc from being what the modern beau would call a devilish inconvenient one." 215. Aberystwyth. Of our town Mr Hutton thus writes :—" Perhaps the sea gains upon theland for I was shewn a spot, now covered, six or eight feet at high water, where I was told a church had stood, which is probably true, for I observed in the remainder of the steep bank, variety of human bones, under sailing orders at a high flood. My eye was particularly attracted by a small double tooth, which stuck in the soil four feet below the surface, which I saw again in my next visit to Aberistwith." Domestic affairs not allowing me to continue at Aberistwith, and there being only one chaise between that and Welch Pool, and that chaise twenty miles off I determined to hire a horse and meet the stage at Shrewsbury, about eighty miles; but finding I must hire two, and a man, which would be still more expensive, and not being furnished with conveniences for equestrian convey. ance, I resolved to walk it with my great coat over my arm. A Welch tour is surprisingly grand." The date of the visit here alluded to was July 1787. G. E. E. 216. ABERYSTWYTH THEATRE.—In Cambrian Notes and Queries," part IV., are some interesting references to events in Aberystwyth,being "extracts from Contemporary Records." In November 1805 the first stone of a new theatre at Aberystwyth was laid by the Hon Mrs George Sedley, daughter of Sir John Borlase Warren Bart." This is the building, still partly standing at the Bridge End, now occupied by Mr Mcllquham. 217. ABERYSTWYTH AND TRAFALGAR VICTORY. —From the same source, and in the same month we read how, in honour of the victory of Trafalgar, At Aberystwyth many of the candles were orna- mented with bay leaves and black ribbons." 218. ABERAYRON. Here too, is also reproduced, from The British Press," No 919, Friday, 6 December, 1805, price sixpence, the account, as recently read from the original paper by Philip Sidney to an Aberayron audience, of the death of Lewis Gwynne Esq, of Monachty On the 25tb ult in the 78th year of his age, Lewis Gwynne, Esq., ot Monachty, in the county of Cardigan. He lived very private, though possessed of an extensive estate, and accumulated an immense fortune, the bulk of which he has left to the Rev Alban Thomas Jones, of Tulgyn [Tyglyn], together with his real estate, except a small part, which he bequeathed to Mr Edwards, youngest son of D. J. Edwards, Esq., of Job's Well, near Carmarthen. He had in his house, when he died, such a quantity of gold that a horse could not carry the weight, to convey it to Tuglyn, about a mile off, and when put on a sledge, it was with difficulty he could draw it there. The amount in gold is One Hundred Thousand Pounds, besides Fifty Thousand Pounds in the Stocks. His other legacies are but few, and of no great amount. He was generous to the poor, always a friend to the necessitous, and an upright gentleman." G. E. E.

DRIVEN MAD BY SPIRITUALISM. The study of Spiritualism has led to deplorable consequences in the case of a gardener named Claude Jacquet, employed by a gentleman living in the Rue la Bruyere, Paris. Hearing shrieks for help from his youngest son, the gentleman ran into the garden and found Jacquet about to hang the lad to a tree. The rope was already fastened to a branch and the man was trying to fasten the noose round the boy's neck. It was the work of a moment to rescue the lad from the cardener. who made no resistance, but remarked "All right, it does not matter. The end of the world will come in five minutes. I thought I had Imtter bang the boy to eave him future misery. The spirits warned me 1&8t night of what was coming." The man, who was an ardent believer in Spiritualism, was evidently mad, and the police, on being sent for, removed him to i-ht- rl<>i 6t infirmary.

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A SCIENTIFIC MARVEL. A paper of the highest interest by Sir William Crookes on The Emanations of Radium" was down for reading at last week's meeting of the Royal Society, but had unfortunately to be taken as read owing to the precedence given to a long address on barrier-reef formation by Professor^ Alexander Agassiz, a foreign member of the Society. It is permissible, however, says the Westminster Gaittti, with the printed abstract before one, to relate the subject of Sir William Crookes's researches, which have been described by more than one Fellow as amongst the most wonderful things ever seen. "Radium" is an element akin to "Uranium," and Was discovered in association with it in bitumen by M. and Madame Curie. It is an astonishing example of radiant matter. Brought near a screen of sympathetic structure and material—Sidot's hexa- gonal blende (zinc sulphide) is used—it causes phosphorescence in the screen, which increases and diminishes as the radium is brought nearer or withdrawn further away. It is so energetic that anything which has been in contact with it-Clasa vessels, platinum wire, or the human finger- becomes radio-active in its turn, and will Qua. phosphorescence in the blende screen. If the minutest invisible particle of radium, or its nitrate, falls upon the screen it becomes brilliant speck of green light; and the marvel of Sir William Crookes's discovery becomes manifest when these little specks of phosphorescent light are examined beneath a microscope. The appearance of the speck is then changed to a meteor-shower of tiny sparks. Also, when a piece of radium is brought close to the screen,and the phosphorescence is examined under the microscope, the surface of the screen is seen to be sparkling with innumw- able bright scintillations, twinkling in and out liM stars upon a black sky. And these scintillations, it is reasonable to suppose, are due to the bombard- ment of "ions," the ultimate finest particles 01 emanations of matter; so impalpable that molecule, which is itself unrealisably small, stands to it in the relation of St. Paul's Cathedral to a billiard-ball; travelling with a verity of the order of that of light; and each "in," as it is hurled on on to the screen, causing by its disturbance f, the ether a luminous splash, large enough to be visible under a microscope.. Sir William Crookes exhibited this beautiful ex* periment at the private reception of the Royal Society, complete darkness being necessary in order to perceive the green phosphorescence nd it* resolution under the lens into a tiny geyte* of AliM atom splashing into < sea eC hniiw t8Mr.