Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

NEW DAFFODILS. The daffodils are h.ere again, The daffodils. The daffodils; To-day I found them in the glen, Beside the rills Among the hills. The lowering sky was grey and dull. O'er field and fold The wind blew cold; The fiowers, so bright and beautiful, Were in the wold A blaze of gold. More fair to see they could not be One once beheld; Which so excelled, He sang how with their dancing glee His heart they thrilled, With pleasure filled. The daffodils, the daffodils They bloom and glow. Too soon to go; But when the hills the springtime thrills. And melts the snow, Again they blow. These flowerets gay, which pass away, Return each year, The spring to cheer; And flowers more exquisite than they Will in their sphere Yet reappear. H. In the Westminster Gazette." ♦

SPRINGTIME. .Earth is a wintry clod: But spring wind, like a dancing p6altress, passes Over its breast to waken it. rare verdure Buds tenderly upon rough banks, between The withered tree roots and the cracks of frøøt Like a smile striving with a wrinkled face; The grass grows bright, the boughs are swolu with blooms Like chrysalids impatient for the air; The shining dorrs are busy, beetles run Along the furrows, ants make their ;tlo; Above, birds fly in merry flocks, the lark Soars up and up. shivering for very joy: Afar the ocean sleeps; white fishing-gulls Flit where the strand is purple with its tribe Of nested limpets; savage creatures seek Their loves in wood and plain—and God renews uilw ancient rapture, —Robert Browning (Paraceleus). I —

THE COMING OF SPRING. He wakes the warm winds, and as he wakes them they waft him on, and. at hia coming th« wavside blossoms with its yearly miracle. H^se and heath, field aud forest, are re- dolent'with flowers, and as he moves across the world, laughter hails himon all sides. O the time of the singing birds is come, and the breath of the earth is warm and sweet. Spring lies among the bushes, and the young shoots of the trees, when they see kis bosom rise and fall to the beat of his keart, put out their amorous branch^ to touch his fair form. Along world strike his smiles, and with them, his sole weapon, he makes the whole world mad. The flash of his eye slays the winter, and at his glance the ■SSZ* are hn*he<l. Ail doors «ydgn to meet his coming, even, as the door of the house of hate opened just now of its own acoord, and spring is here.

TREND OF MODERN SECULARISM. To-day there is a new humanism dawning which as of old, seems for the moment to C awav from religion. It is abundantly evident that modern life is becoming, as the late Mr. Lecky said, increasingly secular. By this assertion the great plnlosophei and historian meant, no doubt, that interest in life as we actually know it is deepening and is arousing an unselfish communal enthus- iasm quite apart from conventional religious sanctions The tide of human interest," to quote another well-known writer, is steadily ebbing away from the shores of Inothe? life Men are not so much interest- £ d in a heaven beyond the grave, as they are to Stag!omethm|to make heaven here. It is a most remarkable sign of" this humanitarian impulse j h« able to eive any account of iteelx. ix is no monopoly of the ordinary religious mind it summons its heroes from the most unex- ijected quarters, and enlists them in tn6 jrreat union of service. Men seem to have forgotten that to our ancestors the very con- t ception of all attempt to save the world from -darkness and despair would have seemed sheer folly; now everybody takes it for granted that the attempt ought to be made. Bad as the world is at present, it is not the fashion to despair of it; much has been gain- ed in that society has come to realise its ob- ligation to succour the unfit: Here is a new humanism indeed, with a vision vaster than & old, and a strength greatorm ^portion because it has become cr^ered^roS as a whole; the creed which uttered fr^ ■every pulpit, platform, and P^ g^nkSd We 'believe in the deliverance of mankind and the coming of a better day. -Rev. R. J. Campbell, M.A., City Temple, in "London Opinion. .0.

IMPORTANCE OF METHOD. Dispatch is the soul of business; and .nothing contributes more to dispatch than method. Lay down a method for everything, and stick to it inviolably, as far as unexpect- ed incidents may allow. Fix one certain hour and day in the week for your accounts, and keep them together intheir proper order; bv which means they will require very little time, and you can never be much cheated. Whatever letters and papers you keep. docket and tie them up in their respective classes, -so that you may instantly have recourse to anv one Lay down a method also for your reeding,' for which you allot a certain share of your mornings; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that de- sultory and unmethodical maimer, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects. Keep a useful and short common-place book of what you read to help your memory only, and not for pedan- tic Quotations. Never read history 1 without having maps, and a chronological DOOK, or tables, lying by you, and constantly re- curred to; without which history is only a confused heap of facts. One method more I recommend to you, by which I have found great benefit, even inthe most dissipated part of my life; that is to rise early and at the same hour every morning, how late soever you may have sat up'the night before. You will say. it may be, as many young people wolild-, that all this order and method is very troublesome only fit for dull people, and a disagreeable restraint upon the noble spirit and fi>"0 of youth. I deny it; and assert, on the contrary, that it will procure y te for your

St Dogmael's and its Abbey. CHAPTER IV. BY "PHILIP SIDNEY." The founder's charter is, in parts given in English by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., and its opening clauses run so:— I Robert, son of Martin, with the aprobation, or rather exhortation of my wife Matilda, and through compassion for the poverty of the monks of Tyrone re- siding on my lands in Wales, have founded for them a monastery in honour of the BleesodVirgin Mary, and havef appointed an abbot to preside over it; and by the assistance of William, and by the gracious encouragement of Henry King of England, have obtained from them the grant of a free and undisturbed possession of all those lands and possessions which I have hitherto given, or may hereafter bestow upon the said monastery, so that no part thereof can, by any means, be alienated, even by the king himself, or by any of his successors. I have also given them the ancient church of St. Dogmael, with the adjoining territory of Landodog situated on the banks of the river Teivi, in the pro- vince of Kemes." Robert was the most generous of men, and seems to have stopped his hand at nothing which could promote the comfort and the welfare of the Abbey and its inmates. He allowed them the privilege of feeding their herds of swine in his own woods, and timber for their buildings, the fishery of St. Dog- mael's with the right of. erecting mills and weirs, wherever they pleased, on that part of the river which belonged to them: he also grants them the skins of all the deer killed in his chases, excepting those that were the perquisite of the hunters. So important was deemed the occasion of the instalment of Fulchardus as first Abbot, that William, Abbot of Tyrone, attended the ceremony in state, in the year 1126, the event being evidently one of such a nature, as to be mentioned in the founder's charter. The service was one of much solemnity; it was bublicly conducted by Bernard. Bishop of St. David's, who enthroned Fulchardus, and placed him in full profession, which had and placed him in full possession of all the grants and privileges which had been made to the Abbey, these being duly confirmed on that auspicious day. Abbots and priests, like all other mortals, had—they still have too—divers weaknesses and at such Giraldus never loses the chance of poking fun, especially if it gives him the opportunity of telling a good story, which, we may be certain, does not suffer at the hands of the Archdeacon and the Arch humourist. Listen to this. The Cister- cians were too luxurious in their living, so Gerald tells how Henry II. being benighted, when out hunting, and sought shelter of a Cistercian Abbey. He was hospitably re- ceived as a knight of the royal household. more especially as the Abbot, who knew the King was in the neighbourhood, proposed to visit him on the morrow on business connect- ed with his Order. The Abbot pledged his guest in many cups of strong wine, after the English fashion, but, instead of the usual salutation Weshiel,' it was the use of the Abbey to say 'Pril' (it took low time). The King did not know the responses, but was instruct- ed instead of Drincheil' to say 'Wril.' The King thought it excellent sport, and they played Pril ana Wril until the night was far spent. In the morning the King rode off to the town where the Court was, and putting on his royal robes received the Abbot (who did not recognise his late guest) with all state. After the business was con- cluded he bade the Abbot and his attendant monks to dinner, arid during the repast, turning to the Abbot, he 'raised a golden goblet to his lips and said, I Pril, Father Abbot, Pril' The Abbot, overcome with fear and confu- sion, begged to be excused, but the King swore by God's eyes (his favourite oath) that, as they had been good fellows last night at the convent, they would drink Pril and Wril to-day at the Court. So the Abbot and his merry men had to accept the King's challenge again and again, to the huge de- light of the courtiers who were in the secret. Giraldus has left one successor in the story telling line, and that is his own fellow coun- ty man. Dr. Henry Owen, whose version of this Priling and Wriling I have used. The last Abbot of St. Dogmael's was Wil- liam Hire, who, together with Hugh Eyno, and seven others subscribed to the suprem- acy, 30th July, 1534. and received a pension of £13 6s. 8d. per annum. Between 1126 when Fulchardus comes in with such state and ceremony, and 1534, when Hire goes forth on pension, many abbots held their sway; would that I could give my readers a list of their names How one longs to know exactly all that happened in those 408 years. But for pictures of some of the early years of this period we must again turn to the pages of Giraldus, nor shall we be disappoint- ed Hear him again. He was much dis- tressed over the iniquity of the two monks who, wearied with the yoke of Christ fled to the synagogue of Satan; that is to say they embraced the Jewish faith, whereupon Wal- ter Map wondered why they did not try real Christianity. The monks of Strata Florida, (of course Cistercians !) did Gerald once upon a time. He accused them of swindling him out of his books (which he had collected from his youth up. and which he had given in pledge to them before a iournev to Rome). the monks justifying their sticking to his books on the ground that their Book of Use' permitted them to BUT books, not- to LEND MONEY on them. He says that it was like having his entrails torn out to part with his books, but those Strata Florida monks were, writes Dr. Henry Owen too many for him." Gerald is fair enough to allow however that there were some honest and pious monks, even among those who were made bishops, and he reckons them up; the total is not large. Next week we will close with a few words about St. Dogmael's and its churches, and perhaps a parting story from Gerald, who by the grace of God, lashed the monks in a way few have equalled, and none have excelled.

THE WEEK AT WESTMINSTER. Ai El LORD MILNER ATTACKED. Lor Is and Commons alike were engaged on Mon- day in the discussion of that thorny problem, Ciiitwse; labour. In the Upper House the Bishop of Hereford resume tho debate on Lord Coleridge's motion. He declared emphatically against the. re-introduction of slavery into the Transvaal, r which he held would be the result of the Ordinance, and said Lord Milner had shewn his disqualification for the post of Governor by his temper and language. Lord Goschen warmly defended Lord Milner, and rebuked the Bishop for his references to the Governor, being supported in his protest by Lord Csmperdown and Earl Carrington. Eventually the motion was rejected by 97 to 25. SCENE IN THE COMMONS. Matters were more exciting in the House of Commons. Members had come down prepared for a full-dress debate on Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man's vote of censure on the Government in con- nection with the much-discussed Ordinance. They were not disappointed. The Opposition leader opened in good form. He laid it down at the outset that it was the duty of the Imperial Government to protect the people of the Transvaal, who had no self-government, and he called on the House to stop the policy of importing Chinese into the Trans- vaal for the purpose of benefiting a wealthy- industry and enriching speculators. His followers loudly cheered this challenge, and Sir Henry, thus encouraged, went on with his indictment of the Government, traversing the speeches made by Mr. Chamberlain and the despatches of Lord Milner. This part of the speech was rather dull, but an enlivening incident occurred before Sir Henry resumed his seat. He opposed the Ordinance, he said, on social, economic, and moral grounds. "Will you revoke it?" asked a Ministerialist. "As a Scotchman," replied Sir Henry, "I will answer by asking another question: Will you put me in power and set ? THE GOVERNMENT REPLY.—STORMY PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Lyttelton rose at once to reply, and asked Sir Henry whether he persisted in his charge that the Government were re-introducing slavery into the Transvaal. Sir Henry, after a little pause, replied that he did. At this point Mr. John Burns interposed with extraordinary excitement, shouting against the House, which would not hear him, and against the OSpeaker, who, through the uproar, vainly requested him to allow Mr. Lyttelton to con- tinue. The Colonial Secretary went over the old ground in his speech, maintaining that the necessity for labour was proved, and that no precaution to safeguard the Chinaman had been neglected. Later, Major Seely rose, but the Conservatives would not allow him to speak. After struggling vainly, he was obliged to sit down, after announcing that h was resigning his seat because of his disagreement with the Government. When Mr. Balfour rose to reply the Opposition and Irish, in revenge for the previous incident, shouted and yelled unil the Speaker appealed for order. The Prime Minister defended the Government, and Mr. A qu i th wound up for the Opposition, declaring that if Liberals came into power they wo ild revoke the Ordinance. The vote shewed a majority of 57 for thf Govern- ment—299 to 242. About a dozen Unionists voted with the OPPOSitiOIl, A PLAN THAT FAILED. Tuesday's proceedings in the House of Commons were dull. The Supplementary Vote for the Army gave the Opposition an opportunity to attempt, another "snap" vote, but the Ministerialists wcrn too sharp for tlcm. Mr. White Ridley, Colonel Legge, Sir John Col >inb. and Mr. Gibson Bowles averred the disaster, which a conspiracy of silence on the Liberal side was designed to hri!J;! about, hy talking until Sir A. Aoland-Hood had coll'"te,I .-uf.i- cieiit votes to carry the Government res llu'ion. In Committee of Ways and Means, Lord S'anli-y pave an account, of the progress of tho Telephone service. In explanation of the vote for .£3,000.000 asked for, he said the money would be spent ;tS follows: kl,300,000 on trunk lines, £ 1,500,COO on London exchanges, and Z200,000 on provincial exchanges. The sum would carry them on for about five years. The Post-Office was not competing with the National Telephone Company, and he said that before the end of the year the Post-Office were entitled to give notice to the company for the pur- chase of the company's undertaking by arbitration, unless an agreement were previously come to. He was much more inclined to accept the policv of coming to some amicable agreement, as proceeding by arbitration was very expensive. As negotiations were going on, he deprecated discussion all the subject, as it might be prejudicial to the interests of the Government. "A DIRTY TRICK." Sir Edward Strachey was betrayed into an un parliamentary expression on Wednesday when he described the action of another member of the House—whom he did not specify-in relation to the Outdoor Relief (Friendly Societies) Bill, as a "dirty trick." At the bidding of the Speaker lie, however, withdrew the expression. The Police (Superannuation) Bill wu th- at The "alter sitting. Mr. Caldwell attacked the j bill on the ground that it would entail a heavy burden on tke ratepayers. Mr. Cochrane, for the Home Office, contended that on the contrary the bill would save the rates, and would ensure a continuous supply of efficient officers serving after they had earned their pensions, and provide them with security of tenure. The bill was eventually read a second time without a division. ANOTHER GOVERNMENT ESCAPE. At the evening sitting a resolution was proposed by Mr. Shackleton to the effect that the wages paid to the unskilled workers in Government factories and shipyards should not be less than the standard rate of wages paid for similar work in other em- ployments in the respective districts. This very nearly led to Government disaster. Mr. Victor Cavendish accepted the resolution as expressing the policy of the various Government departments, Rud all seemed to bo going well when Mr. Burns moved an amendment in favour of the adoption of a Trade Union wage. This the Government would not accept. The closure was moved, and the Government, whose supporters had gone home in the belief that there would be no division, was in imminent danger, when the Speaker intervened, and refused to accept the closure. Colonel Pilkington then managed to talk the resolution out. LONG SPEECHES. Mr. Balfour, on Thursday, smilingly confessed to having spokeH for nearly an hour on Chinese labour on Monday last. But there were others. Sir Henry Campbell-liannerman spoke for seventy-eight minutes, and ir. Lyttelton for seventy-two, while the average of other speakers was half-an-hour each. The Premier sympathised with Sir Carne Rasch, who elicited these interesting particulars, but he did little else. Later, Mr. Balfour promised the House a IQ Easter holiday—probably from Wednesday next to Tuesday, April 12th-at which there was much cheering. LORD MILNER ATTACKED. The second reading of the Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Bill gave rise to a debate on the cutbre:k of plague in South Africa, which was made remarkable by an attack on Lord Milner, delivered by Mr. Lloyd-George and Sir Robert Reid. The member for Carnarvon reviewed the situation of the Transvaal from a financial point of view, rnd declared that Lord Milner had the greatest crpacity for making blunders and miscalculations of PDY mm who had ever represented the Crown. The language of the lion, member for Carnarvon brought out a somewhat passionate rebuke from Colonel Jv nyon-Slaney, who was so far carried away I- s to .it c"ri be Mr. Lloyd-George's remarks as disgrace- ful. He had, however, to withdraw the expression. ir Robert Reid expressed his opinion that Lord Milner's presence in South Africa was a national calamity. Mr. Lyttelton warmly defended the Governor General against these accusations. Thereafter matters Irish were discussed, and at the evening sitting the Metropolitan members had an innings on the London County Council Bill. A WELSH DAY. The Welsh members were engaged on Friday in an attempt to remodel the private legi-i atio-i procedure in Wales on the lines ot the Scottish frivate Legis- lation Procedure Act. Mr. PrYHm ir Jones, who iroved the second reading of the bill, claimed that 11 would relieve Wales i f the heavv burden imposed Vy the present cu'i.bei'some sys:. Jr.. Mr. H. obhouse moved the omission of Part Ill. of the hiii on the grow that it was an attempt to intro- duce Home Kul" f,!r V>'hU\ and tiie President of the i,.G.l«. also took that view. On the understanding hiii Part III. was wirhdrawn, the second rendii'g agreed to. The second reading of the Si; ;:•? in was moved by Sir Charles Dilke, but was talked out by Sir F. Banbury.

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Cymru Fu. ex. 358. CAERLLUGEST. The Rev. D. Stedman Davies, M.A., Rector of North Witham, and a native of the parish of Llangeitho, writes aa to the meaning Of this place name? Caerllegest (so spelt then) belonged in the 14th and 15th centuries to Llanllechan Abbey, in Carmarthenshire; and, as noted some time ago by Mr. J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr. there was then a chapel there, and a church at Brechfa, in the same parish. Caerllugest is not Caerlluest, for it has never been written so, except by a few fa modern times in Jgid fo Caafe. 359. DIARY OF REV. TIMOTHY DAVIES, CAERONEN. 1762. Jan. 1. David Jenkin Rees, Kellan. March 20. Sarah Davies my dau.; Mary Thomas, Tal-y-fedw; Ellen Saml., Hendre; Pencarregg. 1763. Feb. 25. Thos Jenkin and uxor Margaret Ann Davies; Martha David; Sarah Wm.; Betty Anthony; of Kellan- Mary Davies; Mary Samuel; Martha Thomas; Mary John. maidservant of Pencarregg. March 18. Evan John; Jane, uxor John Jenkin; Gwenn Evan; Betty and Rachel Simon, Kellan. May. 21. Evan John Morgan, Llanvayr; David Thos. W alter, and David Thomas, j Manservant at Ffpsyffiin: and Catherine John, my old servant-maid. 1766 (?) Dec. 28. My s. David Dare., and Mrs. Gwynn, at Caeronen, admitted. 1765. Sept. 22. Ann Thos. Wm. Evan, Caronen, from Crofft-y-cyff. Nov. 2. Joseph Dd. Morgan, and David Jn. Jack Francis. 1766. Jan. 20. Dorothy Evans, Pengraig. 360. LAMPETER REGISTERS (26.) BAPTISMS, 1709. Jan. 16. Jane, dau. Roger and Gwen Morgan. Jan 17. David, s. Lewis and Sarah Thos. Feb. 11. Gwen, dau, Howell Harris, of ye par, of Llandila Grasyni, co. of Monmouth. and Elenor his wife, Charby [?] of Llampr. Parish. [Information and further particulars of this family will be weloome.] Feb. 20. Jenkin. s. Thos. William, tucker, and Mary his wife. BURIALS. A. DNI. 1709. Jan. 13. Mary, a base child of Thomas Jen- kin and Margt. Thomas. Jan. 18. John, Hugh Pryse, of Trefilan par. who Dyed at Maesyfelin Feb. 14. Gwenllian John of Pantyrhwch, widow. April 10. John David James. April 22. Elenor Evan of Tynywern, widow. April 23. Margt.. wife of ffoulk Roberts, of ye town.

Among many new ana stnreiimg Tacts reipHfte t* the astounding tragedy at Kensal Rise it has been found that Crossman had eight wives. A tornado did damage to the amount of £1,000,000 and killed twelve people, in the neighbourhood of Chicago, in two minutes. Mr. Walter Long, in the House of Commons, has foreshadowed a scheme of devolution for purely local business throughout Great Britain. Richard Brusenbach, a jeweller, of Tiibingen, Germany, reported repeated burglaries to the police. Finally a detective was set to watch the shop. The thief was arrested, and proved to be Brusenbach himself, lie is a somnambulist. All of his loot was found hidden in a disused chimney. Lord Ashton has given to the town of Lancaster for use as a public park the Bullbanks, a valuable property lying to the north of the town. He has al.,o promised to li4nd over each year to a com- mit ee an adequate sum of money to relieve cases If need, so "that there may be no distress in Lancaster." While at a ball in Buda-Pesth, the wife of a lawyer suddenly discovered that she had lost one of her diamond earrings, worth over £60. As it could not. lie iound i.ywhese the host sent tor two plain clothes detectives, who shortly discovered the missing jewel hidden inside the violin of one of the v liii mlwr" pf the gipsy orchestra. AMIIO K!( isrhh.merl, the wife of a peasant living in Mardtscld-ig, l!j per Austria, was condemned to three iiiotitlis I imprisonment for having in the night sowed tares in the wheatfidd of a farmer with whom her husband had lost a law case. Tlu.'inas S jnit in, cashier at an alkali works at Wi Hies, was attacked by two men, and robbed of a htn; containing J-450, which he was conveying from Tan's hank to the works for workmen's wagt s.. Mr. Justice Kekewich in the Chancery Division has directed the rtlaSè of the defendant in the aeticn of Moore v. lie.'rdsall from Strangeways Gaol, ),1 iichi.ver, where lie had been confined for nearly iwelvc months for contempt in disobeying an order of the court to produce certain documents. A gontlonvm named Knowles, who admitted that he was paying me expenses of the Pollard divorce action,denied under cross-examination that he was in love with the lauy, and said he would do as much for any ill-used woman. A Hulme iiipn, named Oswin Rogers, has died of, literaliy, a troken heart. On returning home after visiting a friend Kogers expired suddenly, and a pust-mortem examination revealed the fact that he had ruptured his heart. j

CHIPS OF NEWS. Dr. Ilsley, Roman Catholic Bishop of Birming- ham, last week laid the foundation stone of a new church to be erected at the Edgbaston Oratory at a cost of between Z30,000 and E40,000, as a memorial to Cardinal Newman, the most distinguished of tne city's Cratorians. Gertrude Widdowson, a young married woman, at Ecclesfield, near Sheffield, was seized with a fit and fell in front of a steam roller, which terribly muti- lated her body, killing her instantly. A guarantee of an employee does not cover a theft by him, and at North London Police-court Charles Fill, who had misappropriated moneys in ignorance of this fact, was sentenced to three months. It was stated at an inquest on Walter Hyman, thirty-three, a metal merchant, of Westbourne- terrace, Paddington, that death was due to gas poisoning, the effect of a defective tap in his bed- room. Aubrey Fane, a widower, of Stokenchurch, Bucks, prosecuted at High Wycombe for neglecting his three children, was sentenced to four months' im- prisonment with hard labour. Alfred Lowe, traveller, of Lefevre-terrace, Bow, has been committed to the Old Bailey, charged with receiving leather, worth £395, stolen irom the London and North-Western Raiiway Company. A new lifeboat, mainly provided by a London lady, Mrs. Fawcett, and named the Ann Fawcett, has been placed on the Harwich station. There are twenty-five lifeboats on the dangerous stretch of the east coasc between Cromer and the Thames. W. K. Jackson, a Laisterdyke grocer, at Leeds Assizes recovered C200 from the Bradford Corpora- tion for injuries sustained in a tramway accident, when lie was jerked trom the platform of the car and sustained a fractured thigh. S;r William Harcourt, acknowledging a resolution of the Young Scots Society conyritulating hir.i oa hi.j sendees to Liberalism, says that he roj< ices to know that Scotland will take her share in the victory that awaits the Liberal cause when the a 1 lo the nation comes. A Glasgow messenger boy has obtained L270 ce. ]! nsaticn for the loss of the sight of his right cy, raused by the accidental bursting of a bottle of aii I'd water. Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill) has given evidence at Denver, Colorado, respecting his application for divorce. He said that Mrs. Cody tried to poison him tht< years ago. A British traveller, with an intimate knowledge of Thibet, declares that Thibet is destined to become the California ot the future. The region into which t!i ■ British Mission is now penetrating is one of the richest in the world. In fact, its mineral wealth is t imply fabulous. A Yarmouth Guardian stated at a public meeting that when he was elec'.ed he found the liberty of the eld men inmates restricted, as there were but three suits which could be worn, and they had to wait their turwt; borrowing the suits from one another. Mrs. Maria Bishop, who died at Crediton, Devon- shire, the other day, had reached the age of 103. Mr. Ivor Guest, M.P., has notified the Plymouth Conservative Association that he will not seek re-election. Lost dogs to the number of 24,153 were taken to the Battersea home during 1903, and homes were found for 3,969. Radium bromide in a small tube is being let out on hire to doctors for experimental purposes by a Clapham chemist. Two cycling postmen are to be provided with trailers for the conveyance of mails between Maidenhead and Burnham. Among the passive resisters of Anerley is an auctioneer, Mr. Walford, who had the curious experience the other day of selling his own goods. Built in 1232, and made famous by Burns, the old Bridge of Ayr has now been ordered to be closed, beitiff unsafe for traffic. The repairs will cost iE5, 000. While travelling in his van between Branston and Burton, on the Midland Railway, a goods guard named Jonathan Coy died suddenly. A domestic servant named Mary Smith has been remanded at Hastings charged with the wilful murder of her newly-born child, whose body was found on Bexhill beach. It is officially stated that one of the new com- pound bogie express locomotives of the Midland R ilway recently drew the Scotch express from Blea Moor to Hellifield at a speed of 79'9 miles per hour. From the official report of a French charity con- ducted by a retired Government official it is shewn that £ 179 10s. was distributed to the poor at a cost in office expenses of £ 2,158. John Payn, who is alleged to have gagged and robbed a booking-clerk at Whitechapel Station, has been committed for trial on charges of assault and robbery. Pneumonia has carried off at the age of seventy- five a Civil War veteran of Berryville, Virginia, who had slept in the open air, winter and summer alike, for the last thirty years. "In olden times I used to say I had no time to be ill; now I suppose I have no time to be well," wrote James Griffiths, a bookmaker, who, a Marylebone jury found shot himself while of unsound mind. On the motion of Sir A. Acland-Hood, the chief Conservative Whip, a new writ has been ordered in the House of Commons for the election of a member for the Isle of Wight in the room of Major Seely, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. T:Ire have be»nsix general elections in Malta in the course of nine months. Tile total number of visitors to the Royal Bokinic Gardens, Kew, last year was 1,352,548. There are 118 smallpox patients in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board at present. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has assured Mr. W. H. Plummer and Mr. G. Henwick. the two Parliamentary representatives for Newcastle, that it is not his intention in the coming Budget to increase the coal tax. The steerage rate war from New York to the Mediterranean ports has now been settled. A minimum rate has been established of £5 12s., and a maximum of JE7.

How Country People Read Ad vertisemen ts. The Pall Mall Gazette," in an article on Country Literature, some time back said :— For the most part readers in town (London) and the suburbs only glance at the exoiting portions of papers, and then cast them aside. Readers in the the villages read every line from the first column to the last, from the title to the printer's address. The local papers are ploughed steadily through, just as the horses plough the fields, and every Marrow of type conscientiously fcllowed from end to end, advertisements and all. The brewer's, the grocer's, the draper's, the ironmonger's advertise- ments (market-town tradesmen), which have been there month after month, are all read, and the slightest change immediately noted. If there were any advertisements of books suitable to their taste It would be read in exactly the same manner. So it would in a daily paper, whenever it got to them. But in advertising for country people one fact must be steadily borne in mind-that they are slow to act; that is, the advertisement to produce any result must be permanent. A few insertions are ) forgotten before those who have seen them have made up their minds to purchase. When an ad- vertisement is always there, by-and-by, the thought 1 suggested acts on the will rnd the stray coin is in. vested—it may be six months after the first inclina. tion arose. The procrastination of country people is inexplicable to hurrying London men. But it i& quite useless to advertise unless it is taken into ac- count. If permanent, on advertisement in thelocal nress will reach its mark »