Llangollen Advertiser Denbighshire Merionethshire and North Wales Journal

CHURCH AND CHAPEL. BSTABLIBHBD CHURCH. Llangollen Parish Church: Holy Corumunion every Sunday and Saint's Day lit 8 a.m. MatiDs and holy communion on first fuli choral and third Sundays in ttie month at 11 a.m.; matins and litany on the second and fourth Sundays; matins only on the fifth Sunday. School at 2 30; children's service and cat. chising at 3 30 p.m., and also baptisms (if any); Evensong and sermon at 6 p m.-St. David's Chapel, Vron, matins and sermon at 11 a.m., school at 2 p.m. and evensong and sermon at 6 p.m. Holy communion on tbe second Sunday in the month.—St. Mary's Chapel; Eglwyesg; Evensong and sermon at 2 30 p.m., excepi the last Sunday in the month, when it is in Welsh, holy communion the second Sunday.—Vicar, Rev. L. D. Jenkins, :M.A.: curates, Revs, Llewelyn Jenkins, J. E. Hughes, an'1 J. Rowlands (Vroncysyiliau). LJantJsiJio Chunk: English tar vice at 11 15 a.m.; also during August and beptember, at 6 p.m., a English service with short addiess; Holy communion on 1st Sunday in the month, bev. J. b. Jones, B.A. (Cantab) vicar. Qlyndyt'rdwy, St. Thomas's Church: Snglisb aerv>r*e on tie second and fourth Sunday in the month at 10 30 a.m., and in summer ai 11 16 a.m. Holy Communion second (at 1030a.m.) and fouith (ttSa.m.) Sunday in the mpntb. ttev. H. Trevor Hughes, M.A., vicar. Trevor Ohuj ch: Holy Communion Oll Sunday in ths month: English services at 11 and 6. Rev. H. T. Owen incumbent nasBYiniAxs. Ohnrch Street Mission (Llangollen): Services at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Trevor • Sermons at 10 30 and 6 30. Acrefair BAPTISTS. Llangollen (Dr. Prichard's Memorial Church, kbbev- road): Sermons at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., by the Rev. John G. Reed, pastor. WBSLBTANS. Llangollen (Victorian Promenaded: Services at 11 a.m. by Mr. Murg&troyd, Rawtenstall; and at 6 p.m. by Mr. li Darlington, F.R.G.S. f

THE HEALTH OF DENBIGHSHIRE. INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES. Dr. R. Stenhouse Williams, of Liverpool Univer- sity, in his seventh annual summary of the vital statistics and health returns for the couaty of Denbigh, states that the estimated population of the country at the middle of 1908 was 144.811, of which over two-thirds resided in the rural distticts. but although there was an increase of population, in both rural and urban districts, the increase in the urban districts was confined to those of Wrexham and Chirk, leaving a deciease in the really rural parts of the country, the Wrexham and Chirk rural districts being practically urban in character. This showed that the continuous inflow of the population to the urban area, and consequent re- duction in the strictly rural localities, was still going on. The number of births registered during the year 1908 was 3,722, a slight increase on the previous year. The rate per thousand was 25.7, or 8 per thousand less than the late for England and Wales. The illegitmate children born numbered 14!), the proportion of deaths among legitimate children per thousand legitimate births (under one year) was 123 7, and the proportion in the case of illegitimate children was 214.7 The number of deaths registered was 2,150, against 5,138 the previous year. The corrected figures, however, gave a death rate of 1424, which was below that of England and Wales. The number of deaths of Infants under one year of age was 471, compared with 407 in 1907 and 583 in 1906. This gave a rate of 126.5, which was slightly above the rate for the whole country. Wrexham Borough had the highest rate under this head, and Ruthin Boroughs the lowest. The deaths from all tubercular diseases gave a rate of 1.22 per thousand of the population, which was almosu identical with the rate for 1907. The figures, Dr. Williams remarks, seem to speak elo- quently for themselves, and to point out a direction m which their energies might with great advantage be used. The fact that a sanatorium was refused when opportunity offered must be a matter for sincere regret; but other'methods remained. The education of the people—to wake them up from the somewhat fatalistic attitude which was common in Wales, the more effective use of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, the more extensive use of notification and disinfection, and, perhaps the most important of all, the efficient supervision of the milk supplj—all these remained to be done to stamp out a disease which could surely be destroyed. »

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JOlllNGH <& GLEANINGS. LEARN CHRIST. (SEE EPH. 4th and 20th v.) Oh what a school for to be in To learn Christ and Him to win; Oh what a task you have to learn, But in the end it's Christ you earn. Learn Christ, and yourself control, Try to be on Christ's life roll; Surrender unto Him your soul, Let Him possess your life, your whole. Learn Christ, in sorrow and joy, His life was real, and not a toy; He came to shed the light of love, For this He left the court above. Learn Christ, in the bloom of youth, Get from Him the purest truth, And then upon it build your life, Aud cling to Him and shun all strife. Learn Christ, amid life's rush, And listen to that holy hush That speaks ft a life that's calm, And hid with Christ, free from harm. Learn Christ, if rich, or yet poor, For your reward is full and sure; Let your life be clean and pure, Eternal life, through Christ, is sure. GER Wrexham SPAIN'S CRIMINAL BLUNDER. Ferrer should have been imprisoned, or ban- isbed to one of Spain's few remaining colonies. Only fools shoot philosophers. Wise Govern ments know that such men are far more dangerous dead than alive. The thud of their fall echoes over the whole world, and millions of men who would otherwise be in dense ignorance of their doctrines are thereby inspired to study them.- 2he Bystander. PARLIAMENT AND THE BUDGET. The "People's Budget!" A lot the People have had to do with it, forsooth! For nobody knows, from one week to another, what's in it, who's to pay what, where, or when. Whether we are economically justified in smoking a cigar or a cigarette, drinking champagne or burgundy, buying a stall or a mere seat in the circle, Asquith on)y knows. Are we rich, or are we poor? Do we order Christmas presents? Do we contribute to the Poor Children's Gratuitous Guild ? The Radicals might at least wait until we know what we have to do with it before saddling us with the propietorship of the nonde- script monster they have loosened upon us.-The Bystander. MEMORIAL AGAINST FLOGGING. A memorial has been presented by the Crimin- al Law and Prison Reform Committee of the Humanitarian League to the Prime Minister submitting that the time has come when the punishment of adult offenders by flogging might be abolished with safety and advantage in all por- tions of the United Kingdom. Among the signatories to the Memorial are Mr. William Archer, Mr. Richard Whiting, Mr. Jerome, K. Jerome, Mr. Tighe Hopkins, Canon Baruett, Rev. Stop ford A. Brooke, Rev. John Clifford, theidean of Durham, Sir. J.Crichton-Browne, M.D., Sir W. J. Collins, M.D., M.P., Sir Walter Foster, M.D., M.P., Sir John T. Brun- ner, M.P., Arthur Henderson, M.P., Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, Sir William Wedderburn, His Honour Judge Willis, Sir John Gorst, Lord touLherland Gower, Edward Carpenter, Dr. Havelock Ellis, Rev. W. Douglas Morrison, Robert Blatchford, Henry Broadhurst, Walter Crane, Dr. Thomas Bety and Mrs. Mona Caird. AN INDIAN FLYING MACHINE. The extraordinary hold that the art of flying has got on the mind of the modern world has been shown by the holding of two aviation meetings in England at the same time, but even more vividly by the publication in Bombay of a pamphlet on the Principals of a really useful Method of Aerial Navigation," by K. S Sanghani, L.C.E. He has devised a machine which is to "scotJp the air from above into a hollow by means of a system of gyroscopic fans." In the preface to the pamphlet which he sends us he naively tells us: 411 request you to subscribe towards this fund as you may think proper. After success, a limited company will be floated to construct the machines, and all subscriptions shall be doubly repaid to the subscribers either in cash or in shares of such a company." As the Rev. J. A. Sbarroch, late principal of the S.P.G. College at Trichinopoly has been telling readers of the Nineteenth Century, Mathew Arnold's hackneyed lines about the East letting the legions of the West pass and plunging in thought again are completely out of date. 2 he Graphic. CANADIAN NEWS ITEMS. Education for apprentices.-The unsatisfactory and uncertain relations of apprenticeship in Canada are forcing the large industrial organisa- tions to consider the practicability of educating and training their own skilled labour. The Canadian Pacific Railway has made this import- ant departure by establishing a specially organised system of apprenticeship of the various trades connected with the equipment and maintenance of their line. The regulations require applicants to be not under 15 or over 20 years of age. There is a year's probation and an examination in reading, dictation, freehand drawing, Canadian history and geography. The term of apprentice- ship runs from three to five years in the various trades. The scheme makes apprenticeship a technical education, and its adoption is highly signifieant, as it shows that the Company appre- ciates the need of scientific instruction, and that it is determined that its employees shall have a clear understanding of the scientific principles involvad in their work. THINGS YOU MUST NOT DO IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. There are some things that you may do and others that you must not do—in the House of Commons. For instance, when you have crossed the Bar, you must bow respectfully to the Speaker. But the same reverential inclination of the head must be made even if he is not there. Why is this? The reason is not very clear, but it has something to do with the fact that the House is supposed to be built on the site of an ancient chapel, and tbat reverence must be made accordingly. When you rise up to speak you must be ucovered, but after a division is called, and you wish to raise a point of order, you must do it with your hat on your head, and this gives rise sometimes to amusing incidents. Those who saw it can never forget the occasion when Gladstone, who never wore a hat in the House, had to surmount his mighty cranium with a topper hastily snatched from the head of his neighbour Herachell. The forbidden things are numerous. It is a serious Parliamentary crime to pass between a speaker and the chair, and loud cries of order greatly confuse the neophyte who makes this mistake for the first time. A front bench man may loll on the small of his back and plant his boots on the table without remonstrance, but his humble satellites are sharply pulled up by the Sergeant-at-Arms if they venture to follow his example. You must not ostentatiously read a book or a newspaper— I once saw Mr. Chamberlain pulled up fo quot- ing from a file of The Times-or open letters in the House, nor read your speech and if you indulge in tedious repetition you may be admon- ished by the Speaker, if any common informer puts the law in motion. Nor are you allowed to eat anything from your place on the green benches. I remember once, during one of the all-night sittings, the late A. M. Sullivan, to- wards the small hours of the morning, produced a paper bag and proceeded to fed himself with jam puffs and, when his attention was directed to this irregularity by the Chairman, he rep'ied, I thought, Mr. Playfuir, that we were in Com- mittee of Supply."—From "The House of Com- mons from the Inside as I knew it," by the Right Hon. Robert Farquharson, in Blackwood's Maga- zine for October, 1909. RUABON PETTY SESSIONS. Friday.—Before Mr. R. R. Jones. LACK OF MAGISTRATES. Owing to the quarter sessions being held at Wrexham, and to Oiher causes, only one magistrate attended and, with the consent of the defendan t, he adjudicated in nearly all the cases down for hearing. LICENSING. A protection order wish respect of the Oddfellows' Arms, Rhosymedre. was granted Cfcanes Joseph Gorst, late of the Bridge House, Wrexham, with the consent of Thomas Edwards. DKUNKEXNESS. P.S. F(,x summoned Frederick Reid, Rrynfitlds, Ruabon, for being drunk and disoiderly on Oct. 9th. Fined 2s. 6d. and costs.—Acting Sergeant Edwards summoned Taomas Jones, Butcher-street Rhos, for being drunk and disorderly at Rho:" on Oct. 9 th. Fined 5s. and costs.—P.O. Harris summoned Ellis Smith, Pearson-street, Rho; for being drunk and disorderly at Rhos, on Oct. 9th. F-ned 7s. 6;1. and cos;s. Thomas Roberts, Pool- mouth Vallt y, Summerhill, summoned P.O. Harris for beiug drunk in nill. streeLRhcs, oc Ocf.lOih. and was fined 5s. and costs.—William Price. Penybrjn Hail, Ruabon, was summoned by P.C. Harris for being drunk in charge of a horse and float in High- street, Rhos, on Oct. lIlh. Defendaat did not appear. He was represented ly his son-in-Iaw.- Mr. R. R. Jones s; id it was a very dangerous thing to be found drunk in charge of a horse. Defendant was fitied £ 1 and costs. ADJOURNED. On a charge of using indecent language, at Tai- nant, Mr. Jones said as there w&s a dispute between the parties he would prefer not to adjudicate. The charge would be adjourned. A SCHOOL CASE. David Pritchard, 26, High-street, Oefn, was summoned by John Evans, school attendance cfficer, for neglecting to send his child regular:y to school. This was an sojourned case, defendant beicg required to produce a certificate from a doctor. Derendant's wife attended, but failed to produce a certificate. Shs, however, promised to send the chiid more regularly, and the magistrate adjourned the case for a month. » NORTH WALES WOMEN'S TEMPER- ANCE UNION, CONFERENCE AT OSWESTRY, Lady Hejbers Roberts attended a conference of the local branches of the North Wales Women's Temperence Union, at Os westry, on Monday, snd addressing a public meeting, presided over by the Mayor (Mr. D. Jones) at niguc, Said their lemper- ence effort was divided into two kind. The first was in the nature of a direct attack, which thev had in the Licening Bill of two years ago. ThaJ attack, unfortunately, failed, and it was a great disappointment to all temperance workers that that great measure should have beten thrown out by an irresponsible House. Nevetheless, it would be brought in again, and then it would not be a failure.—(Applause.) That mode of warfare having failed for the time being, they had to direct their attention to the other mode of attack—the indirect one. They had to thank this Parliament for v. > measures which came in that line of indirect attacks. First of all, there was the Children Act, for which all temperance and social reformers were grateful.—(Hear, hear.) I- was, however, a sad thing that in a Christian country like ours such an Act should be necessary at all. The other thing the Government had done was to include the teaching of temperence and hygiene in the Code subjects for all elementary Bchools.-(Applauee.) It was well that the children should be taught in this way, because later on they would be able to bring before them the social, religious, and national aspects of the question more easily than they could at present.—(Hear, hear.) She sometimes doubted, however, whether all this care for the children by the State was not doing harm in another direction. She was afraid there was a danger—and they paw signs of that danger around them—of parents letting go their responsibility in regard to their children, while the thought had also occurred to her th&t they were making things more difficult for the children of the future. They were giving them a divided ideal if they had one thiug taught to them in school by the law of the land and another thing taught them by example in the home. The line of action most necessary at the present day, therefore, wns to try and deal with the home life of the people. This was a work which women especially could undertake.—(Hear, hear.) Speeches were also made by the Mayor and Dr. Beresford, both of whom regretted the increasing intemperance among women so noticeable at the present day; by the Vicar (Rev. M. B. Lutener). the Revs. J. J. Poynter, fcl. Cadvan Davies, and H.* Harris Hughes, as rf-prdlenting the Free Oàarches and by Mr. E. Compcon, as representing the teach- ing profession.

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