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Here and There. Rebels threaten to advance upon the Corean capital The strike of coal porteis at Port Said is increafing. The anti-foreign movement in Japan is still very strone. The thousand years of Roman civilisation pro. duced no great dramatist. The phonograph is now used in American schools for teaching purposes. The Law Times calls attention to the fact that peers cannot practise at the Btr. In 1861 there were 14,557 barristers and solici- tors in 1891 there weie 19,978. It is rather curious that as Napoleon's health ran down his handwriting improved. The army of Bolivia costs the people of that impoverished country £ 360,000 a year. Mr Havelock Wilsou and the Hun. Mark Napier arc among the who ride a bicycle. The experiment of lighting St. Paul's Cathedral with electricity has, so tar, pioved a failure. The sheeting weavers at Heywood came out on strike on Thursday br an advance of wages. In London the telephones and the boy messen- gers have diminished the demand for hansoms. The Daily Telegraph discusses whether bonret pin" should be suppressed by Act of Parliament. The latnwt idea 111 America for the employment of women is that of founding a veterinary college. The list of the world's battles comprises 1.527 regular engagements whose names are worthy of record. Lundy cable, it is stated, is rapinly wearing at the island end, and will soon part, like its pindecessor. Husbands bring unsuccessful divorce suits against wives more frequently than wives against husbands. The other day a youn lady calmly staked. and los at the roulette tables of Monte Carlo £5,000 within one hour. Under the signature of "Dri Ví" Forward," a lady writes suggesting the establisblwntof county cricket for ladies. It is said that Mr Newnes (the proprietor of "Tit Bttq and the Wcslmvaster Gazette) is to be made a baronet. Mr William Womersiey, of Ovt-nden, a veteran Ctiartist, diod 0:1 Monday evening last, after a short illness. The Premier of Servia, in canversation with an Austrian journalist, has asserted that the Radicals are "crushed." The new Welsh P,.rty," said Mr John Burns, are for contracting themselves out of Welsh Disfcsti'.bliahment. At Duver a stockbroker named Tupholm., was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for stealing a pair of glasses. The fruu-growers m East Corn wall are troubled by the presence of a peculiar insect, locally known by the name of "Touchup." Ot the registered Chinese population in the United States, California, and Nevada have nearly two-thirds of the total number. It is stated that as the result of a Roman Catholic mission ill tho diocese of Westminster during Lent 500 Protestants became perverts. "The least satisfactory part of tho miners' conference nt, Berlin," says Mr Woods, M.P., was the wasta of time in translation." The horse nail trade in Staffordshire and Worcestershire has been ruined by the serious competition of German manufacturers. Mr Rudyard Kipling's latest contribution to story-telling is called The Jungle Book." It is an excellent collection of vigorous stones. Lord Coleridge, who is progressing favourably, has beeivadvised by Sir William Broad bent to leave London soon as he is wet! enough. A L:oyds' Valparaiso message states that the British ship Hengi-t has gone ashore in Magellan Straits, and will probably be a total wreck. Among the rising authors of the day who are creating a marked impression is Mr Anthony Hope. his lateist book is The Prisoner oi Z-nda." "Aunt Martha,"the old negro woman who two years ago travelled about 4,000 miles to see the Queen, is still alive, although now nearly 30 years of age. In Berlin every cab has a registering machine that tells the fare exactly what he has to pay, and tells the owner of the ab what has been earned by the driver. Mr Pickard, M. P., will preside at tho meeting of the Miners' Federation to be held at Carlisle next Tuesday. It is expected that the proceed- ings will be private. A singular double wedding has taken plaoe at Harlow, Essex. In gieli case the bridsgioou, had not reached 25 years of age and each bride had aoon between 60 and 70 snmnvrs. P.-ince Bismarck once congratulated an English statesman on the fact that England had no sclioolboys with spectacles in her playgrounds, and no professors in her Parliament. It was Gibbon who said all religions were equally true in the eyes of the people, equally false in 1 he eyes of the philosopher, and equally useful in the eyes of the magistrate. More than 41 per cent. of the English people could not write their names when the Queen ascended the throne. The proportion in that con- dition has now been reduced to 7 per cent. A telegram from Forest City, in Arkansas, says that William UrosNks, a negro, employed as a labourer on the farm of \V. A. Taylor, a white settler, iias been shot dead by a mob for proposing to marry Taylor's daughter. In the Grand Duchy ot Luxemburg, persons desiring work or help have only to send a postal card to the director of the postal administration in order to have their wants advertised in every post-ofiicc in the Grand Duchy. The Queen makes no secret of the fact that she deplores the marriage of her granddaughter, Princess A'.ix, to the Czarewitcb, on account ot the change in her naum which her obligatory conversion to the Greek faith entails. The American millionaire deerstalker will lie again to the fore this season. Mr Vanderbilt has become a brief tenant of Lord Lo vat's deer forest of Brauieit, which includes the wild upper l'caches of Gleustrathfarrar, in Invernoss-siure. A fashion leader the other day, in reply to a question as to how she acquired and kept her straight figure and square shoulders, said that it was eutiroly (itio to her never sleeping with liur head on jnl'onrss- She even discarded the bolster. A perfect reign of terror prevails in Sarvia. No expression of political opinion is allowed to be ntter<?d either in the Press or in public places. Arrests have been ml1de upon a wholesale scale, and amongst those thrown into prison are many Radical Deputies. One of tho wealthiest and most prosperous tradesmen of Loudon to-day can neither read nor write, and his wife is ill the same box. Tho flourishing cenditiou of his business is apparent from the stetement that he has recently been defrauded of £ 100,000 without knowing it. One of the Queen's favourite fruits is the goose- berry—another instance of her homely, simple taster. Ou Whit-Sunday, Whit-Monday, and Whit-Tuesday, gooseberry tarts and puddings, gooseberry custards, gooseberry fool, and stewed gooseberries are always to be found on the Royal dinner-tables. It is noticeable that with the pneumatic tyros tho brake is being abandoned (says Truth), lb is always said that it is 110 good, and that back- treauling answers all purposes. If riders are wise they will retain the brake, .should it only be for appearance' sake. Wero a brakoless rider to run anyone down it would be very unpleasant for him if he found himself m a court of law. SoBie time ago the plans of a large cruiser being constructed for the British Government; by a northern shipbuilding company disappeared. It is reported that they have turned up in possession of the Naval -Intelligence Department of the United States. A question on tho subject will be nddrassed to Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuotleworth, with the object of clearing up the mystery that surrounds the incident. Are curls coming in again ? That is just now a momentous question for women. There are signs (says a woman) in the most likely quarters that wo shall once more adorn—or otherwise—our heads with tho long-despised ringlet. At both the. receut Drawing Rooms it was noticed that the style of hairdressing recently in vogue has undergone a considerable change, and curls have certainly been seen 011 more thn ono fashionable head at no theatre of late. Ot course, we ail hope the alarm is a false one. This promises to be a really well-dressed s,-a;on. Never were fashions more graceful and becoming, or materials prettier than they are this year. There is no positively deforming style such as the abnormally arised shoulders which ruled Jat year. Thn form of dress is essentially feminine; laces a.nd flowers, old-fashioned silks and bro- pelerines and capes—old-fashioned, too- reign supreme, and there is nothing aggressive in the newest colours on the contrary, they are Roft and delicate rather than liaraii and obtrusive. Among efttaiii physical statistics just pnb. lished, it is interesting to note the difference in the heights of women in various countries. Th« average lias been taken freuj no fewer than 10,000 Jadies in England, France, and the United States, the selection being made at haphazard by tha medical men of each nation. The result is flat- tering to our national vanity, as Great Britain heads the trio by half an incb, American women coming n.xt, and the French being beaten off a "bad third with two inches le33 than their trans- atlantic sisters.

The Cardiff Muddle. TRADES COUNCIL TO THE RESCUE. I ) There is reason to believe that Cardiff Trades Council (whose nominees have done so much good work in the corporation) will take up the question of the obnoxious Pier-head toll, now that it has been shown that the Town Council are powerless to remedy the mischief occasioned by theic ill-advised agree- ment. The Trades Council, it will be remembered, is an organisation composed of representatives from each Trade Union in the locality, and it therefore speaks with authority in the name of the most intelligent of the workin;r classes. From time to time it has taken action in regard to local matters and on the comparatively rare occasions when it has stepped outside purely Tiade-union limits, its actions have been timely and serviceable to the community. Iu the present instance, it would deal with a subject which would affect the intarests of the particulaI class in whose name it acts and would admirably Supplement the action of the great town's meeting which so strongly condemned tiie new tax. Fortunately, moreover, the Trades Council would deal with the matter more effec- tively tlMIl the meeting couid possibly do, for the council is it, permanent organisation, to whoso representations no smalt weight would be attached in the minds of members of Parliament. A resolu- tion desiring Sir Edward Reed to oppose in every possible way the imposition of the toll would command the attention of the member for Cardiff; and, if the council chose so to do, they could also, no doubt, enlist the sympathy of labour M. P.'s, and bring a strong combination of influence to bear against the particular clause in the Bnte Bill. It would be 'm extraordinary feature in munici- pal experience if the much-decried Trade-unionists have to come to the aid of the town, and to lift Cardiff out of the hole into which the duly- e.ected and experienced municipal administrators have dropped the ratepayers. Such an mciden would not be without its value—aud very great value—to all concerned.

THE RECENT SPORTS AT I CARMARTHEN, I Protest from the Committee. I I Messrs E. II. Morris and C. H. Williams, the secretaries of the Carmarthen Sports Committee, have addressed a lengthy letter to the editor of a local papey in reference to the attitude displayed by some religionists towards the Whitsuntide rmusements that were provided tor the above We were agreeably surprised," they say. to see the circus which recently paid us a visit so well patronised by respectable church and chapel folks. At both performances we saw a few clergymen and ministers, several students from the Presbyterian College, a fair sprinkling of oimrchwardens and chapel deacons, and a very I large number of members of all ects and de- nominations, both from the town and country. At the same time, we have to utter a word of complaint and protest with regard to the conduct of some religionists of the town in connection with our local sports. At the close of the United Temperance meeting, held in the schoolroom of the Tabernacle Chapel, on Sunday evening last, R v. D. S. Daviei', of Union-street, called special attention to the Whit Monday sports, which were to be held 011 the Mansel Giounds, and in the name of all the great powers of IJ011.ven and the grim jxiwers of hell entreated the people who were present at that meeting, and all the religious people of the town, to keep away from the sp rfs for three reasons (1) Ffair y Diafol, Campau'r Cythraul y dynt,' which, being interpreted, ig. 'Theyare the Devil's Fair, the Demon's Sports.' (2) Irreligious people should pay for their own game and (3) tha superfluous cash of all Christians is sorely needed just now to convert the heathen, the Congrega- tional Missionary Society hHII1 230, 000, and the Baptist debt last year. Wo are very sorry that the missionary socipties mentioned liy Mr Davies have tailed to "tiCll an enormous extern to pay for their own amp.' Possibiy, a few bazaars, art draw digs, raffles, tea parties, subscription lists, & &e., forced on the irreligious portion of the community would, as usual, rescue these and kindred religious eooieties from ultimate wreck and ruin. Why did not 'D. 8.' go, like a Christian hero, to the circus and "purt<, and take bis hat round for the relief of starving missionaries and the salvation of perish- ing heathens ? Charity and nobility of mind and heart have not quite abandoned the irreligiotii as tliev seem to have done in the of some religionists of our town and generation." -a

THE CHURCH IN WALES. The Rev H. C, Fillinghi'lD, in the CCour"Ð of It letter to the Westminster Gazette, from Hexton Vicarage, An-.pt\¡il1, on the subject of the Bishops' manifesto on Disestablishmeet, says :— As you allowed me last year to protest against the profanation of our Metropolitan Cathedral by the public worship of Mammon arranged by the Pocket Defence Pirtv (who call tbemsel ve advocates of Church Defence "), so I hope you will allow me this year to utter n:y protest against the manifesto of the prelates who object to religious equality iu Wales. The great test-question has once again been presented to the Anjpio-an Communion Do you believe that Citrisc or Mammon is the Head of the Church ? Do you think the essence of the Church is her spiritual gifts or tho nionoy ehe possesses ? D" yon serve God for the sake of God and His people, or fur the sake of the loaves and a li-hes? And, with one noble and grand excep- tion, all the 'prelates of our poor Church reply, We are the servants of Mammon, not of Christ And then they talk of "alienating ancient gifts for secular purposes What a conception of Christianity must they have who think that to provide for the sick toiler is a "secular purpose I Ah, sir, it is far less a "secular purpose" that; to employ the money of the Church in buying Z piano for the parson's daughters or a new bonnet for the parson's wife, as is done at present. No, sir this time they have gone too far and I am convinced that Christian England will express the shame and disgust it feels at this travesty o) Christianity.

LARGE ORDERS FOR WELSH TIN-PLATES. It was announced on the Birmingham Exchange en Thursday that, during the past week, excep- tionally large orders have been placed by American merchants for tin-plates for immediate delivery out of stock. Consumers in America anticipates a gref1t l',1'1!J for Welsh plateson th, pas- sing of the Tariff Bill, and prices for delivery after July have already advanced 3d to 6 i per box. Oll order is for no less than 24.000 boxes of plates, valued at £12,000, and it is understood that the same purchaser lik placed a contract fop 50,000 boxRK.

NEATH BUILDING STRIKE, The only new feature observable in the dispute in the budding trade at Neath is that expressions of feel ins: are on both sides becoming decidedly acrimonious. A great deal was made of the offer of a number of workmen, and there have been various conjectures as to the -sourc" of the offer. It came from the Master BnilnerV Central Association. London. I,y t))- DUNCAN & SONS, at 105, S. M^-v-si-re an;i Westsate-slreet in ths t.wu of.Cai Jitf. m the county of Glamorgan

FIFTY SHORT STORIES BY WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS. Mona. By T. FEATHER. Author of Tom Sawyer's Dray," &-c. A cold and dark night, windy and wet. All those who had w.irm clothes wero shivering therein as they hurried off t,-) their firesides. Even they felt the need of warmth how much more those who had no such comforts to look fo ward to A tow, a ♦ery few, lingered awhile, studying what they might purchase for their families in order that, once at home, they should no more th;>.t night require to turn out into the damn nd unpleasant streets. Of those who were hurrying the most to reach their dwellings was a handsome rn-ui of about 29 years of age, who looked as if he were somewhat tired of existence m this world, although it appeared to have dealt very kindly with him. He seemed in the most robust health, and from his dress it might be thought t hat he never knew what it wt-, to want a single thing on which he had set his heart. He was clad in a warm, frir overcoat, through which it was impossible for either the keen, cutting wind which blew along the Btreet, or tho heavy rain which foil to make the slightest impression. Its thici" folds kept out hot!; wind and rain, and neither the one nor the other aLected him in the smallest degree, Notwithstanding this, Hubert Mac Lean travelled rapidly along the pavement. He did this not because lie was afraid of baing wet or because jof the warm reception he would meet when once he reached his dwelling. Hubert MacLean was one of the most promising, indeed we might say the most promising painter of his day. More ia request than any two of his compeers he bade fair to outshine even the most brilliant of the present members of the Iloyal Academy. Handsome and fascinating, it was a wonder to his friends that he had no been made a happy Benedict years ago. H t was flattered and caressed by society, whichs always does flatter those who are successful, whilst those who are merely clever may go their own way in the world without it taking the least notice of them beyond spurning their advances. But few. if any, guessed what had effectually prevented him from falling a prey to the machinations of match- making mothers and fascinating daughters. It was only the day before that, he arriv d in London from a long tour in the Colonies, where he had been seeking inspiration for his work, and he was hurrying along to his hotel when he suddenly stopped to look at and speak to a very beautiful buc meanly- clad child on the footpath. She had in her hands a small bouquet of flowers. He bought the bouquet, and no sooner had he done so than the child made off. after thanking him in ;& curiously-sweet voice, towards her own home. Something in that voice seemed to strike MacLean, for he glanced at her and half made up his mind to follow her. She made off as rapidly as she was able o. and she had very nearly got out of sight among the crowd when the young man did ultimately make up his mind to follow her. As she made her way along the footpath she glanced longingly into the windows she passed, and especially into the windows which were now covered over with steam from the heated and steaming edibles on view therein. tit ill on she went, followed now by the painter. Not far had they gone ere they turned down a road at the end of which was a large block of houses, which it was evident were occupied by very poor people indeed- people who never knew where their next meal was to come from. The child paused at the bottom of the stairs of one of these houses and then turned as if she had forgotten something or other. A moment she stood considering, and then she made off again to a little shop at the corner of the street. Slu entered and purchased a small loaf, one which appeared to be about large enough to serve a little baby of two years old for half a meal, or which a healthy girl of the size of the child might eat at a mouthful. She paid her penny for it, one she had drawn out of hex- drtss, and then tripped off almost as lightly as if she had been able to spend a guinea on a meal. back again to her home. MacLean followed her, and this time she did not quite reach the step of the door leading to the house where she had stopped previously, when she paused, and giving a startled cry dropped the loaf she had in her hand, and knelt down near something which lay at the roadside. One glance was sufficient for her to see what it was. As soon as she saw it sbecriedoutinlow,wailing tones Oli, mother, mother." The young painter, ever ready to help a feliow mortal in distress, went up to the little mite, and found her on the ground beside a woman's form. Quite unconscious ther,) she 1,ty. A lovely woman she had evidently been, and still lovely she might be but for the pale, haggaru look which had settled down I upon her features. That look was not accounted for solely by the dead faint i"to which she had fallen. From her swoon she would, no doubt, quickly recover, but she was suffering from a disease from which so many die that it might, with advantage, perhaps, be included in those most fatal diseases—those which can be cured, but which are not for lack of means. He took the woman in his arms, and telling the little child to lead the way he ascended the stairs of the huge and comfort- less house where the two resided up the garret, and there entered a room which told A tale in the most pitiful language. It was a tale which would make the sympathetic heart well nigh break with its pathos. It was a tale of the deepest poverty and want. On a few rags which served for a bed he laid the inanimate form he held in his arms. His heart was sore within him as he beheld the sight around him, and sending the child for some food and coai he set about his task of restoring to life the unfortunate being he held in his arms. The process was a long and tedious one. and it was some time before he could restore animation. Ultimately he succeeded, and he found a pair of eyes which seemed familiar to him g'incing vacantly up at him. Slowly they appeared In begin to understand what was going ou vacantly up at him. Slowly they appeared In bein to understand what was going ou about. Then, nil at once as it seemed, the woman gave a little gasp, and started up from her rough couch with a cry. Hubert she whispered. The artist glanced quickly at her. He had been too much occupied before to pay too ilose attention to her features, though they had appeared far. iliar to him. Now he was in turn start'ed. He breathed a name, the name of a woman he had loved years ago— Mona. Now he knew why he had been so struck by the child's looks. She was the child of the darling of his heart—of her whom he had not seen since that dark and dreary day, eight years before, when he had seen her married to another after promising to love only him. I In those early days Hubert had been a great sufferer. Then he was a poor smug- gler unknown to fame. He had already hone some clever things but nobody knew about them. Now all was different. Then about them. Now all was different. Then he could scarcely make an existence at all now he had more than enough to suffice for all h is not very extravagant, though enl- tured, tastes. Then, however, love was his and he was content to wait now he had j lived for years without love, but as love left him, fortune, that fickle jade, smiled upon him. I VV hat if it did ? He cared not. It was all as dross. He had lost all interest in the I world life was to him, if not exactly a miserable existence, yet a thankless one. IiAve had now vanished, and with it all chat makes life valuable. Then he loved, but his fair one had proved false. A suitor with less merit, but more wealth, had come forward, and his qualifications had proved too strong to be withstood. IS is betrothed married his rival with scarcely a struggle— at least, so he thought. ¡ Hera efortn all was dark and sdoomy. He struggled on because he could not help himself. The only solace that remained to him was hard work, and like many another discarded lover he sought to kill his love and to wipe her image from his heart by hard toil. At last he felt he had almost succeeded when he met her again in such a condition as this. Hi* heart awoke again at the sound of her voice; it thrilled him through *nd through. Hubert, fogive ine, it cried. The words jame to him as an appeal from the dead. f IV* < v ->on dead to him now f0 Iviy lo 1 you," he cried. His love, fv 'en underneath, welled up af- d strength, and he would h. in hitf arms ■— those arms in 'have given anything u ■; r. Bub a thought stil Me- Your h He is dc ,1, reoiv-J Te died long ago." "I might h, I "yon would not: have I- ins suV- it 1. had I liv^'d. How it coi you »rt here nc even, I cannot imag h;i ■' oito your own, darling, ha V: Father failed ant. ic,:iptt My husband at this bee, "J angry with me and turned me out ] ev-ghfc have r;;>• red for an he ,n,. ■- -=ry nearly did. I could not L it hotiic, where. I had no money, a-.id my moti. who had been the sole cause of me marryii v the man i loathed and detested from the very bottom of my heart, was also penniiess. We made or home together for some time, but she could not stand the privations we were obliged to o through and she died too. xhe'1 I bad nothing but iny little Mona. I sold ;n' my jewellery, but 1 had not enough to support me. We gradually sank lower and. lower, until we came to live here. I obtained some sewing, but I was badly paid, and I could scarce keep the wolf from the j door." But your husband you could have com- 11 polled him to f-.tipoor: von." liava Ciie(i fii:.st. I almost did, but. God has giv;5n me a love for my little one which has preserved me through all. How I have lived I do not know. All can say is that I havo. Forgive rae, Hubert, I say is that I havo. Forgive rie, Ilubert., I have been severely punished. My darling It, was enough she knew that she had no more to fear. In a few days a spacial licence was ob- tained, and the two were wedded, never more to part. After the honeymoon the fashionable world was astonished to find that a lovely dwelling in Survey had been tit ted up for the poptilay- artist and his wife, who were spoken of as the handsome Mr "tild There was one thing they did not learn, and that was how ubert found his wife. The loving couple care 1 little for the world, and went on their way rejoicing and happy in each other's iove. They life's pathway in a thankful spirit to the Great Father for all his gifts to them. THE END.

Miners' Eight Hours Day. REPLY TO MR DAVID MORGAN. TO THK FDITOR. &IR,—1 see in your paper a rather lengthy epistle from our friend, Mr David Moigan, pouring (jut his anathema upon all those who happen not, to be of the same opinion as himself on the above question. I would not trouble you with a reply had it not been that Mr Morgan has thought fit to mention my name in connection with a certain conference held in Cardiff three ye.ftrs ag(" wl)f-n this question was brought forward, he (Mr Morgan) having proposed a ballot on that occasion. True, Mr Morgan did propose a, ballot and spoke against the eight hours for fear of the double shift, and then stated that he wanted a measure stating the actual hours of wosk at the face, and stated that the time should not be counted from bank to bank only as actually worked. Now, sir, Mr Morgan says that I opposed the taking of a ballot on that occasion. That I totally deny j but what I did when Mr Morgan proposed hi* oriinna! motion re the hours of working at the filc, was to mow, as an amendment, the adoption of the Bill as it then stood. I then gave my reasons, as I have on several occasions since. One of them was that, as a matter of fact, any artisan who walks in through the gatc) when the bell rings at any yard or workshop is considered to be at his work. Why should not a collier who descends the pit ? And, as I stated then, they are very often laden with a toad of u)aiidril,-3-perl)api two, three, or four, and sometimes more than that, particularly in the house-coal seams, and have to walk a distance of half a inile or even a mile, or, as I have seen myself and hundreds more of the old house-coal workmen, having to walk even two miles under circumstances similar to those above mentioned, until we should b" by the time Y,-a reached the face of our working almost dropping and in a bath of perspiration. Therefore, 1 contend that walking to and from the working fan to the pit-bottom under those conditions ii not easy work, and surely worthy of some con- sideration. Therefore, I was not opposing the ballot on that occasion. I have often suggested tffat the bal.'ot should have been taken. Further, I may assure you that we have taken a bailot hero some time sme, with the result that the majority went for the Bill from bank to bank, titli kikh srjme collieries voted to a man against, the ts: Air Morgan says tnat he was scoffed at on that occasion, viz.. the conffrence of May, 1891, held at the Cyiomro- dorion-hall, Cardiff. Now. sir, I again deny that (-ver tt 'Ale or any other individual, however much I may be opposed to him ou any question. Then, as to taking the ballot, I say again, as I said in my previous letter, which appeared in your paper of the 7rh inst., that it would be folly at this time of day to do anything of the kind, and i would be showing great weakness on our part whatever the result might be. I say again, if a ballot were to be taken that she ballot should be a general ballot for the whole of Great Biitain, and not for a section, as we are in South Wales. And even then I say that it is now after date, as if a ballot were to be taken at all it should b before this Bin was into Parlia- ment. Further, I wish to point- out that it is on'y very recently tb,t Mr 11oran hr,s made np Ins mind as to what it is that he really sug- gests, even if he is altogether clear now, for some time ago ho was found advocating so many hours of actual work then he advocated from some particular pass. Now he advocates the return to the pit-bottom by his letter to-day. Hitherto Mr Morgan has been merely an opponent to the Bill fo-- fe:ir or the big itogcv double shift," or a large reduction of wages, viz., 20 or 25 per cent., merely because of the extra cost. 0f production. It is very gall- iug- indeed to think that any labour representa- tive should always be harping upon the string of expenditure ? Is it not a filet that the same arguments worc raised by employers and officials before the Act of 1872 came into operation, when the winding hours were from ten to eleven hours per clay.Ailt, was said then bi -it the trade was goine ro be driven from the country, and that the hlood of tho innocents would be upon the heads of the promoters of that alteration. And it is I the same to-day, and I --aiapose always will ti,- hat those that sper k first for any improvement I have to speak twice, and have to bear the taunts of their opponents as though they were the greatest hypocrites and destrmtioo'sfes that; ever lived. Again, I would say that tho of tite E'ght Hours' Bill are so numerous, and they differ so much in tfe;r reasons for opposing, that although the question has been before Siuth Wales for the last seven yea-s, yet they have not yet drafted any finite men'-aire to propose instead of it. In conclusion, I say again that to me it is a day after date to take a ba'lot.—I am, &e Bkewen, May 22nd, 1894. WAAO EVAJvS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir.,—Please permit mo briefly to reply to Mr I David Morgan, who accord mo of coupling his r.arne with that of Mr W. Thoti-ap, Brynawei. j pxpectinsr the workmen to accept their word as law. My friend has no need to blame tha reporter, because nothing of the kind was ever reported. The composer and publisher of the words is none other than D. Morgan. With regard to Mr Morgan's informant, I must say that he is undoubtedly a pet of his, who he—Mr Morgan—undoubtedly find3 vt-ry useful for tale- bearing purposes, Ishonld like very much for my old and Jovng fripnd to bear this in mind—that I do not think it worth going to a court of Jaw to find out who his informant is, because I know \-jiy well that the informant aud Mr D. Morgan are one, and the same person this is ro new work for fi I iii. He started it during the last strike, I when he d<»«crib d tho hauliers as an idle, reck- less, drunken lot. I expected at one time to hear and see something' better than this kind of | child's piny from a man who boasts of his 23 "¡¡r. of service. All I have to say is, if the; next > 28 years w.U prove as fruitful as the last they will undoubtedly cai:e many a monument to be erected m loving memory to many a leader by our workhouse doors. Let him briug his informaii' hfpest'v into the pages of tha South Wiles Dailp Neics, and let the mining community of feouf.h Wales and Monmouthshire <-ee that he is m no way playing any game apart from the truth. Until the same be done I am hound n adhere to mv f rmec opinion* of him.— I a-ri, Tze., T.eorky, May 22nd. MORGAN THOMAS. MORGA 1'HOMA I

NEATH CORPORATION AND THE I, TRAMWAYS, There appears to bo a d'fficuHy in many quarters to treat seriously the suggestion that the Neath and Tramway Company's under- taking Thall be purchased by the corporation. G 'eat efforts are being made by the members of I the town council to kesp the matter a secret, and it is only by means of what may metaphorically be termed a surgical operation that any frag- ment of information can be obtained. It has been ascertained that of the council denounce the proposal as preposterous. Their reasons for taking this view could be- stated. On Thursday a deputation, consisting of the ex- j mnyor (Councillor E. Evans Ihvan), Councillor W. B. Trick, and the borough surveyor (Mr D. M. Jenkins) travelled to Newport to inspect the Newport tramways and equipment.

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I YANKEE YARNS. Evidence Complete. Col. Roundup What was the verdict of the coroner's jury ? Major Lo?,ehorn That the man came to his death from sunstroke, superinduced by over-in- duigence in alcoholic stimulants. Were there any signs of excessive use of liquor about his person ? "Nothing except a i-usiness card that gave his address as Lexington, Kentucky." The Best Precaution. Pete Amsterdam (vis'ting a friend and sur- prised to find him with his head tied up and his arm in a sling) Why, what in the world is the latter with you, Gus ? "-i- Do Smith Run over by a cab while I was I ■.on ng home from a dinner party. say, old boy, you ought not to drink so mini 's nob it, Pite. There's no harm in but I ought to stay indoors when I am On the Train. I coking man and a handsomely- dre~ just in front of a plainly- dr» lady of perhaps seventy yea; -pretty often—the man turn* Hi.ue remark to the olderly womai. vitOm ha "ailed ther, and whose eyes showed and fond of her son. The youi fe, seemed some what less cord; ice in a while turned and dr;>pp By-and-b/ »oed that dinner was rt-ady in tho young mHO said,— Well, moth will go now and get a dinner. iJou eeds something warm. You have ur luncheon, I send ti- tpa." A"ter tife cotii,)Io had look. ing out of the v ind jw in deep entlv, and perhaps not altogether "6 reached under tho seat and < worn, black basket, and b ribbon with which it was tied/ Just then the train stopped i? door was flung oiK-n, md a c-. v stepped inside. lie looked e^geri •> \.»j down the cur, and his glance fell upon th- y- lother he cried. '0 John, ir.y J..lw an,qwered th L twu Wt-rf clasped in a loving embrace. "Wiiere are Frank and Emma mandf'd. ') Tiiey have gone into the dining-car. isn't strong, you know, and has to have „ h<> dinner." This last remark she repeated in answer look in John's eyas. "And you didn't want any dinner, I su pr),e ? His eyes fell upon the basket. He mustn't hurt his mother's feelings, and he checked himself. Aren't you glad to see m.) T he said. "Aren't yon surprised ? I found I could meet you here instead of waiting rill yuti reached Chicago. And say, mother, that the same basket that Frank and I used to carry to school ? Yes I thought so." By this time there was a smile on the mother's -3w, f:ce. \Yell," !;aid John, "I'm pretty hungry. suppose we keep this for supper, and you TO me wiUi me and get a good hot dinner. No • no ex- cuses." As they left, the car they met the other couple. riuilo, John Where did you come from "How do you do, Emma? Mother and I are going in to dinner." At Chicago the people who had seen all this s:uv a handsoms young man, with a little black baket on hI" ann, tenderly assisting a sveet- taced old lady through the crowd to a carriage. As for the other couplo nobody seemed to have any eyes for them. W

LORD WINDSOR A MODERN I MON I E CRISTO. j Lord Windsor, who is to be Lord Cadogan's I host next week at Hewell Grange, near Broms- giove, when tho lord of goes to attend the Unionist meeting at Proitwich, is under forty (siiys the London Star), and though rich enough now for an ordinary Monte Cristo, will in a few years more be one of the richest men in England. Like the Marquis of Bute, Lord Wimborne, and Lord Swansea, he owes his im- mense wealth to the miners of Glamorganshire, and the development of Cardiff and Swansea. In Glamorganshire alone his property is worth over fifty thousand a year, and its value is increasing. His residence in that county, St. Pagan's Castle, is a magnificent palace. His estates It) Worcestershire and Shropshire bring in some twenty thousand a year as well, and Hewell Grange is one of the finest seats in that part of the world. Lord Windsor is devoted to sport, is a skill-d amateur at Jawn tennis, and is the prop of several Tory newspapers.

DEAN VAUGHAN & THE TEMPLE,I, Dean Vanglian's resignation of the Mastership of the Temple will be much regretted (says the Pall Mall Gaz'tU). Ho has held that ancient office since 1.s69. preaching his first sermon on November 7, 1869. He is the first Master who has officiated in a whitp, surphee, and in the last words ot his sermon he referred to the fact: — "I have come direct from the Table iu the dress in which I am straightway to return thither, that I which I am straightway to return thither, that I nrght express, even to the eye, the hops that ani- mates me." According to Mr Baylis, Q.C. ("The 1.emplo Church ") the Templars w-T' 'v iiiptofl by a Papal bull from episcopal jurisdiction, and tiiis exemption has continued (so far 11> the I Temple Church is concerned) uninterruptedly to the present time. The Master -t;li taxes his place in the Temp-e Church (without institution or induction) on the strength uf his letters patent alone. The appointment of Canon Ainger, a former reader, to the vacant post would be most popular.

A GLASGOW MiNiSTER UNDER SUSPENSION. The case of the Rev. Mr Skerret, minister of the Cathedral-square Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, against whom the charge was made of Glasgow, against whom the charge was made of walking with a female member of his church III I places and under circumstances excising suspicion, was decided on Thursday afternoon in Glasgow hy a svnodical commission. After de- liberating one hour in private, the commission suspended Mr Skerret from the office of the ministry sine die, and from the privilege of full communion as a member of the church, dissolved b)s connection with the Cathedral-square Chuich, aud declared the churoh vacant. I

BANKRUPTCY OF JEM MACE. At the Brighton Bankruptcy-court on T'nurs- dey, Jem Mace, the former-time champion of tho prir.e ring, was publicly examined. His liabilities prir.e ring, was publicly examined. His liabilities a: £ 1,112, and assets, jBolO. During examination Mace stated he had fought over 100 fights. Whilst keeping an hotel at Melbourne he woa £ 12.000 by racing and boxing. He ki p6 race-horses, and betted iieavily, losing 000 in one year. He had been borrowing money for four years, and owed money-lenders £ 300. The I examination was clo;3cd. I

BIG FAILURE AT BRADFORD. I The suspension of Wm. McDonnell, topmaker, f Aldeiaide-building- Bradford, was announced on Thursday, the liabilities being stated at £ 30.000. Of this sum nearly £13,000 is owing to one firm without security. The books are now in the hands of the accountants, It is also reported in the local Press that a iarge firm of spinners is in difficulties, and that the preliminary examination of ttie books shows a deficiency amounting to £ 30,000. Continued bad trade is assigned as the cause in both cases.

I AN ECCENTRIC LADY'S DEATH.! The Dublin police made a shocking discovery on Wednesday. Having recently seen nothing of an eccentric lady named Miss Mary O'Brien, they forced the door of her residence, "Fan-view," and discovered her dead in front of the fireplace. Medical evidence showed that death had taken place three wee. o, probably of heart disoase. Tho deceased, who had lived alone, was of independent means, and ww accustomed to give numerous and curious exhibitions of her eccyntrioites.

SOLICITOR'S ALLEGED BIGAMY. At Crewe, on Thursday, John Davies, solioifcor, practising at Crewe, was remanded on a charge of bigamy. The police stated that in 1879 he married at Oldham Fanny Hanz, who is still ■ liviag, and that in 1891, at Nantwich, he went through the form of marriage with Annie Haines.

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FACTS AND FANCIES. What is bred in the bone must come out of the flesh. If a lover had left undiscovered an -endearing term a mother's tongue would find it. It is sometimes necessary to sacrifice the indi- vidual in order to reversa opinion and vindicate the race. The reformer's chosen p'ot of ground lieth in the midst of thistles and burrs, and tbe w incs Are irresponsible and the scil is indifferent and ready. Like flower, sprung from decay are prec. pos and iidmonitions on the lips of the unvvorthv but while no sense is offended by the beauty of the first oeing linked to such origin the potency of the others is destroyed by knowledge of the character of their source. Mips Gold pen: How can you tell, Mr Blackink, who I you have written something worthv of yourself and your ambition ?—Mr PI-ipkink By the letter whch thp editor writes me. if he encloses my manuscript I despair; if a cheque, I am aware that I am up to my usual mark. Not long ago a couple of pitmen were waiting to f £ o down the pit, when one of them exclaimed, '"bonder's the muin aw wonder it she's in- habited T !Yy fyul," said the other, "if onny- body had lived theer we should 'a known long sin the menagerie meu 'ud hev had 'cm long ago." She Do you make any reduction to clergy- men ?—Gallant old confecrionet Always; re yon a clergyman's wife ?—She (biushing) Oh, no I'm not married yar.— G. O. U. (becoming interest-dt: Daughter, than ?—She (blushing deeper) No but I-I am engaged to a theo- logical sludent. Elderly gentleman, to a little boy who is buy- in toffee My young friend, don't you think that instead of .sp»nding all the pennies you get it would be bettor to put soir,e of them away for a rainv day ?—Little boy Oil, no What's the good of money OIl n, rainy day ? Ma never lets ie stir out of the house. Failing In Love. 0 it ever there was a yuutif-, man with whom f ;r in love amounted to a di^ase, that vourtg -.is e»y friend Ali, ,T; you know what it is to be in love 1 ,it down to the bank IIf a, morning, I murmur i--«tyy to myself. 4 Mr hert is sair, I ytiurna U-M Alt the cash—in C"A of making mis- l' evening, when I mount the two- Rt passes the end of our street, I '■ Soil in the cauld hlat"8d 'bus, J' "h ilay ulster, and illy 11;1¡hre!la, >' hair is j-Uy black and long, lilting hue which changes at I' frolll brown to gu-y, from git-. ah-m 1 —from my latest. U'1" IS .SUSAN. There's V. Conversation with iu;v < was ? i-.i sing to my intellect „o loosen something in the insia hca hat went spinning round for u' so. lionr wards. Tho next Met lk.Li, ti" Ani to pi, nr. £ — think I'm as good as accepted. b'h goluck." I wished him it, and t!' i ;j* Lursu v m a Kind of rap- ture—" Ch, C opp'ti *>«{, I 1 •' you could sen my Angelina .light it w»t>» Susan her name was," r itwSf-rp. ale was momen- tarily einbarraCN'-d, (-l,mt I had tnade a an(I I, Two minutes laser he c, (. was another girl, and that be had K'.owu n overboard. Couldn't get ..a ,t; ,t g.tl black hair. Angelina's is gov: Life* tin i suds of the sunset when ev If Angy's soft -]. Bye. by, niy i. v. -k v,k later I encountomd him -ny I said to him, in a whisper—1 -tccepted est Iqc drew himself" up proudly. I y IY IJoy Arabella is mine for ever 1' that whirling in my head c<»nmenoing. a ■« (.n-' Lovely Arabella Snvth, sho wid I) d,v me I svlced h«r did she love in >»n»wered— Fi-nzir 44 But I say, 'U r-;w rated, tiit, gir, Y(Ill > ro was c-tll(-rl A?tg.iiiit ?" Mao loo. at »»;o "h the cold light of refl, c-t.ou in hix vr v. Thf o. all at once he snapped his fingers I'pIv;; dv and Ra.d- Oil, yon mean Angebnn WiV.-nson?" Probably." Well, I d lLr v letter with the same post as I add res MY LOVELY ARABRJ "Great goodness! And did th t accept) you?" No, sir Angelina rejet k. '"But what would you have dune if accepted you V Mac said (I think n inj» the tailor) —44 Let roe hve thO"f, vonr earliest conveniencp. You were » "C would I have done ? Easily answer' r have fallen in love with another girl

ALLEGED A TTEMPTED r. ■ i AT SEA. Amongthepassenger.} by the Whiter -rn-'n*' Majestic, wli;ch reteli d Liverpotit on from New York; was F edericlr coloured seaman, who had been giver, t custody of Capt. Parsoll, under .lifcjVnv warrant, on a charge of having at "pled So murder a coloured fel'ow-sailor nar j Pl.-i! ;• Child*. The allegation was that whii < thej»{!<C Clan Maefarlane, of Glasgow, was on a boim Java to Barbadoes, a quarrel took ph. ■ • b'tween the prisoner, who sailed in the capacity iumt.- i swain, and the other man, who was a oy man on board. The quarrel was believ j terminated in a resort to fisticuff", but i.n,er i th ) day, accordin to the evidence, the pvis to prosecutor's bunk Ind attacked him a voiver,shootingintoh•«body.and limbs tin -.■■•dir t?, of which one is said to be stilt un .{tu.¡'1. The prosecutor was also one of the passengers, the M-jestio.—At the City Polioe-conrt—before L' Stnwart-oll Thursday morn.'ng, Lloyd ws charged with attemped murder, and remandeu for seven days.

SYMPATHY WITH MR MUNDELLA Sir James Whitehead presided on Thursday at a meeting of the executive commit tee of tho Man- sion House Association, when tha following reso- lutions were passed unanimously That the executive committee of the Mansion House A ssociation on Kail way and Canal Traffic, wish to place on record their deep regret at th(, retire;- me.it cf Mr Mundella as President of the Bpard of Trade. Having on many (..ceasionsbeen brought into contact with the right hon. gentleman, on matters of vast importance to the country I they hiive been enabled to observe his abilities, his complete mastery of the various complex subjects connected with his D parb- ment and the perfect impartiality with which he has always acted. They further desire to express the hope that ho may soon be restored to a posi- tion of public usefulness."

MURDERED BY A MOTHER. The News Skipton correspondent says The Central News Skipton correspondent says that Mr Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, a quarry- man, living at Higher Vargis Earm, near E irby, was arrested on Thursday on the charge of having murdered her infant, agt d three weeks, by cutting its throat with a table knife. The husband wa3 away at work at the timo the crime is alleged to have been committed. The woman is believed to be suffering from homicidal mania.

A MILITARY CADET DROWNED. J A fatal accident occurred on Thursday on the lake at the Royal M iiUry College, Sandhurst. Goutleman Cadet C. \Y. Dalley was in a sailing boat when it capsized owing to a squall, and its occupant was thrown into the water. He became entangled in weeds, pnd on his body being recovered life was found to be extinct.

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Houses of the People. HOW DEMAND IS MET IN THE RH0NDDA. Building Clubs & theip Methods. I ARTICLE VI. ) I (BY SPFCIAL I I In my last article I spoke of building clubs, and referred to the hundreds of cottage.* that had been erected in and around Pontypridd, along tlw hiils of thp Rhondda., and in other mining centres by the wcrkmen themselves through the assist- ance of these clubs. A building club is not a building society. It is vary necessary that this distinction should be borne in mind. A Building Society is a .-pecula- tiva concern formed to advance money, usually on property already partly or fu!!y erected. These societies are very careful never to advance money witl-j(IUL a good tuargi.i of security and the borrower who would as ail himself of the assistance they offer must needs have himself a small amount of capital te constitute the required margin of security. The working man, auxious to become the owner of his own house, but who has no nest-egg, has little to hope for from building societies. Even, however, assuming he had 220 or £ 30 of his own, the interest exacted "ft^n acts as a deterrent to those anxious to borrow. The building society process is undoubtedly easy, but it has disadvantages from which the building club is free. j TERMINABLE BUILDING SOCIETIES. There are also the "tertr.inabtf" budding f J societies, as distinguished front the permanent societies referred to above. These include the Starr-Bowkett, Perfect Thrift, and similar organisations, which at one time were so popular. But; although there are a large number of them in the Rhondda and elsewhere fifty are too slow in operation. A man must need* have a double portion of Job's inexhaustible patience to exp-ct to become the owner of his dwelling with the assistance of those societies. The very faot that a member may go on paying his monthly con- tributions for 10 or 12 years before securing an appropriation is enough to daunt the stoutest heart. Of oourse, there are many lucky indi- viduals who have, by the fortunes of t'.e ballot, drawn out their lot at an early period in the history of a society; they thereby get an advance of £ 100 or P,200, as the case may be, free of interest for 12 or 16 years, but they must meanwhile pay in their share contribution all tho same to the end of the chapter. But such a system as this, which necessarily favours one member at the expense of another, does not meet with the workman's notiou of the eternal fitness of things; and the thrifty householder, who would like to become his own landlord, has to seek other less costly inetnod* if he would gain his ends while yet in the prime of life. I THE BUILDING GL- B METHOD. It is the buildintrclub system that meets hiscase. Tii' se vary so much in their methods that it would to filict even two clill), working on identical Thoir methods are fashioned by the circim.-s anets of the men that form thorn, and herein lies the seoret ot their popularity. But in one respect they are all are illvarahly founded on the golden priliciple of co cpeiation and the results that have been attained are lC05t satisfactory. Let us take as an illustration the commonest method adopted. Sixty men, say., in a new I colliery district, where cottage* are scarce and I rents are high, form thetnsel ves into a club, appointing as thir officers men drawn from their own ranks. They secure :t site for the erection of 60 houses. Each member takes one Larp, and one share reprtt-sonts one house. The cUllt¡-ih1- tions are fix..d at £ 1 per share pet' lunar mouth, with an addition of 3d per share to meet such miscellaneous expanses as stationery and rent of room. The receipts will thus be £ 60 a month; in year i capital of £ 7d0 wili have been got together. With this capital the club will probably proceed to build 20 houses at a cost, say, of J3140 per house—a total oe £ 2.800. A further say of six I months, will have elapsed before the houses are completed, and InpanwhiifJ the capital will have increased from L780 to £1170. The difference between this and the £ 2.<;00 contract price is rai.sed.by mortgage on the security of the house* either with a bank, a building society, or a private capitalist, the money being obtained at i; erest varying from 4to 5% per cent. 2 j HOW IT WORKS OUT. nnen tho 20 houses are let at, say, 22s per t.i,month, and they produce an annual rov- «»• of £ 284, which, added to the contri- of thf) increase the totai rover i; of tho club from £ 730 to £ 964 per aiH.nm. In three years or so, at this rate, the ) w'v ije of tI 60 houses will have been erected, rtnd, by "Pi ying members' contributions, plus this rehto, u the liquidation of the mortgages I-ii ti eci of the 60 houses is wiped off in, *iy, seysn^or grit year. the ground rents, rates I and X, a.nd other incidentals having also in ty Ll!t- club. I have .^jiisidf-i .ibiy inder-timated tho receipts, for outages vorit £HG let as a rule at 24s, or 26".uio:: h. When tho club has thus cleared otj->-hc debt, general meeting of the members i- hi-bn' is taken for the houses, one or d\(Jn: of whir falis to the lot of each member t, t, number of his shares, and tb8:' a g.Vneral si ke hands all round. The leases t tt." dvveltr. are then made out in duo form to j;r r%KV=e:.i- owners. The ultimata remit of sit: > '>'d i- hat with a month'y contribution I "gf,.y r en yoa.*s, or a total contribution ijOj a )Ti can become poss&jsed of a house ,.Vh 'it •^>sr J to build. i; ¡' X iEIl OF CLUBS AT WORK. ) of thtse clubs in existence now? ii', :tnd many scf>res more iiavo II lions and have been dissolved, fav »s the Pontypridd and v licl the A.«jrd»r>» for the matter of that, woidd be I t" fi-d .¡ &lo;.{k vii!»ge or hamlet which has not {! t-ww» or "b-ee building clubs. Take, for instance.' tlie (.. owing list of clubs iu Ys trady- fo/.v/c •; -rish alcti > vTo. o £ j ousej. Lit- «K> Vii) •• M I irtr 'r 38 i 22 Tv i.. Y»u W Uflli. M :ldKL.11 20 .\3" "i!t: 11 Mr 31 bó D ) fcl Maine of No. of Club. Houses. Oddfellows' 12 Geliid.-uvel 30 Tylorstown 31 v* rfryu 25 Gobaith 25 Upper Gwernllwyn.. 29 Penrhys 10 Ouffryu 20 Feintlale 31 Feintlale 31 Maruy 28 564 I j i, we find 23 clubs now running, 'o |)(T.,w many as 564 cottages, winch R-P: .^Otuailv y ,t and tenanted » And this bv no n-.< f«i.v 4- the number, for in addition to ib;; abvvf we f £ j)e B^yoiiyfryd, the Beach- stiCet. an$V' <? "street Clubs, ad iu Fe;n- de :e Ibu'? Yyxrdwp/, tho Gray, and the Bryn- |i, ii.V Cl(',5)"> al; i: 'fylorstown; th* Wattstown K ..JIll: 01 :11, houses the Mardy New of 'i.cjsns and the Mardy Cottage Co.n- p ,y, ofhoustv In and about Pontypridd town wea'-so ^'r: '■— T'iame i J o. of Ch; t>. u-ses. K.vtiHt fSs-"«.r 46 C; ú f 37 .1 64 61 f ¡ N-inie of No. of Club. heusea. Wood-street 54 Cilfynydd 53 Albion 41 cdwenarth 32 i 40J vfiORIfi r V SUABLE PLANS. <• ^jaiembers of a club a,re able <\ subst n d sum at the start. Capital vui f "the work of the building is F.- nee, the life of the club is r sucr, d, and the members rAap a I :or«-esp.i,n-iing ntaga in decreased expenses, cevern; ■ amples of this method are found K'-t -Y»:» A club, formed entirely of n;), 1891 Jive houses at a cost of J members each contri- -Art a capital of about ider was borrowed at 4^ par e the houses, as soon as ihey ro oc-tlpi,-(] by the ineillb,,r., aid to the club a subscription th, an:} al»o a rent of 23s per id in three to four years the .o off, and the tenants became .tiding the rent, for in return for #as given in the form of occupation, s of the members would be— oital invented £ 50 Q o r-ntribr.tion 30s for o'/a 68 5 0 I Total 118 5 0 I- ••.r t Zlid Di u-ile impnib(irs in uhe owners of cottages of the value at JO. In this case no limit was placed giual capital to be invested per member the monthly 8llbscription. Tho larger :ents the earlier the redemption, and as a :ants thp a. •f fact some of too members exceeded the shown in the calculation and redeemed ■jses at an earlier period. The £ 118 5s ted per house in 314 years, added to ■id for the same period, furnished a 2169 11s 6d, winch just sufficed to clear r, together wllh the g-ronnd t, outgoings during the life vT HOUSES ERECTED. id of houses are these?" I asked who gave 1110 these particulars, llent oottag,S)» replied he, the j oeing 18ft- frontage by 25ft., com- ■nt rof>m, a larpe kitchen, and a j back kitchen, with airy bedrooms e are large 'ron grates In the 1;1 all. wronght-iron grates and a j room behind. Yes, there are 'die front,doors to the kitchen, so ti rooin is private. The collier j lilt Bathrooms, did you say t No. more's the pity-at any rate not at present—but I find there is a demand by colliers for such con- veniences, but the difficulty is that of cost. A good sufcg^stion would be this, and it is gaining favour in many clubs, that the front room, or the parlour, of the collier should be done away with, and an open kitchen substituted, so as to afford space for a big room behind in which a proper bathroom, with hot water service, could be pro- vided Of course, a bathroom upstairs in a collier's cottage is nut of the question, for what housewife having any regard for cleanliness would like the male members of tho family to proceed in their wot, dusty clothes direct from the coal-pit to their bedrooms No. a collier's bath, to be of I any us•}, must be on the ground floor." | OTHER EXAMPLES. I The Wind sor Workmen's Bunding Club is also one of the flourishing institutions of Ynysybwl. A little over 12 months ago the club, consislinpr of 30 member?, erected 30 house* at a ost of £ 155 each, of wh:ch £ 100 only was borrowed on mort- gage. The member's subscription here ia 25s a month per share, with a rent of 24s per month per house, making a total pev member of 49., per I month. The gross receipt are nearly £ 80 per month, and as the interest on the borrowed capital is only 4% per cent., and the capital is being paid tr- montaly instalments, the given ordi- nary good fortune, will clear itself within a very few years. In some cases the promoters of a club are men of means drawn from the middle classes and, their personal credit beoig good, no difficulty is lomid in getting a local bank to finance them, so that the work of toe budding can be commenced at once even before any capital has accumulated. With a club composed entireiy or working- men, whose personal capital is represented only by their weekly savings, such a procedure is, of course, not always possible, and consequently building is deferred for a year or two while capital accumulates. An interesting illustration is that of the Tymawr (Jluli, Hopkinatown, Pontypridd, which was thus finaoced ov a local bank. This club has 64 mem- her. and 64 houses will eventually be blllit. As a natter of fact, this club commenced to build within thrn. nJOnths of its formation, and when the accumulated .subscriptions amounted only to £ 192. The first contract was for a biock of 16 houses, and the contractor was paid his first in- Rfcahnent five months after the ciub was started. A diffk-ulty is experienced to get workmen to join c.'iibs when the building is deferred once, however, the foundations are cut and the club houses begin to run up, members flock in. This was the case with the Tyin.iwr Cub. It was started by men in good positions in life, but it i* worthy of note that out of the 64 members of which it now consists, 50 are bosia- fide working men. The Tymawr houses are to cost £ 160 esch. so that the total contract price is £ 10,240. When this comes to be p- iJ, a mortgage will be found for £ 8 000, and a balance will have been obtained irom members' subscrip- tions and^ rents of houses already built and occupied. These houses let ;>t 25s pex iunarmorith, and it is estimated that the chib willl run out in Ii )r 8 ve,,r6. %V;tii t[i 7/2 °r 8 years. With these data, the reader can figure 01U the sum and Hud how much each house will cost a member. COLD WATER BATHS NO GOOD. f What kind of bouses tin you build?'' I asked a lytiiawr chihiiifui. Well," he replied, we p 1 y toe builder £ 160 each for them, and that shows they :i>e of substantial quality." Bathrooms?"—"No, none. There is no de- mand for them. I know of one ca^e m the Rhondda ace where a large number of houses were built with a bath attached to each house; ■ >Qm not five per cent. of tha baths are used for til" purposes they u.-io intended. Yon run up and have a look at them." I did, and to my regret found, his description t' ue. The houses r ^-rred to are those erected by the Wattst own ColJiety Comp.uiy. The baths ale elected on the* ground floor, it: the back kito.nei), and there is no hot water soivice. t n> reaie wash. Iviiieisetose at hand, which might well be used for heating the water for the baths. Th;.s, of course, would involve the lighting of a lire uaiiy under the boiier—evidently a serious drawback from the house-wife's point of view.

_3Iio. A CARDIFF CAPTAIN'S PRESENT.! Singular Action. On Thursday, at Bristol County-court—before his Honour Judge Austin—an action ww; brought respecting a bear which h id been presented by Captain W. Ii. Corfield, of Cnrdiff, to the Clifton Zoological Society, and had been removed by the late superintendent. The plaintiffs, for whom Mr Robinson (Wainsbrough and Robinson) appeared, were Viliiers and others, the Zoo- Si,ei(-ty, at-,d t-lia defendant, who did not appear, was Mr Collier.—Mr Waiiifibroiigh said that J.i,. C,!ÎJ"r WM sU¡.>t"rintpntJ<mt of the Ciifton Zoological Gardens from January, 1891, to February, 1893. and when be went away he took a bear belonging to the society, which had been presented by O.iptain O01 field," of Cardiff, repre- sentmg that Captain Corfield had presented the animal to him. Upon that representation he was allowed to take away the bear. Some time after MY Collier had left Captain Corneld came to B'-iatol, and went to the Zoological Gardens in order to see the bear. Ho natur- ally inquired where it was, and then ne learned that it had been token away by tha defendant;, who .^aid that it was givtu to him. Captain Corfield was indignant, alid wrote to the secretary of the gardens, saying lie had never presented the beitr to the de'ft.jK|ju;t, and had no intention of fnch n, thing.-His Honour Tiie only question is whether the bear is in the flesh, and it so, whether it is in possession of the defendant, and if not. what was its value 1. -Mr Robinson He says that he will return the bear if we admit it was his.—Mr Wright (registrar) II-* has written to say he ha< not got it.—His Honour gave judgment for the plaintiffs for £ 15, to be reduced to is on the return of the bear in a fortnight. The plaintiffs had claimed jS25 as the value of the bear. -=

THE WELSH TITHE WAR. An Griffith Boscawejj has on Monday he will ask the Secretary of State for tbo Homo Department whether, at the meeting of the Cardiganshire Joint Standing Committee on the 10th May last, when it appears that a report was received from the chief-constable that Robert Lewis, county-court baiiilF, \i. while levying tithes, assaulted, in the presence of tha police, bv two persons who were well known to tho police, but that no proceedings had been taken by the police, it v/as proposed by the Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and seconded by tho Lord- Lieutenant, that proceedings should be taken for assault; but this proposal was thrown out by the county council members of the joint e-jintrit-tef-, and that'it v/as further proposed by tho Lord-L: en tenant that in all future cases when assaults are committed in the presenca of the police, the chief constable bo instructed to take proceedings, but this proposal was opposed as being out of order by the county council mem- bers, and no decision arrived at; and whether in view of the condition of affairs in Cardi- ganshire and the refusal of the joint standing committee to net, he will give direct orders to the chief constable from the Homo omce to take proceeding; in such cases or to take other steps necessary to ensure the carrying out of the law ?

ANARCHY ON THE CONTINENT, j Onr Brussels correspondent, telegraphing on Thursday nays that an alarming discovery ha.s been made m 111011". It; appears th.;t in the old sugar ri-fir.ory of Hornu the son of a workman dis- covered concealed under a heap of rub. bish a large quantity of dynamite cart- ridges and othor explosives. Many of the cartridges hnd been opened, and the dynamite wrapped togother in large packets, while those intact resemble sou a that were stolen recently from 020 of the mines in the vicinity. The amount of explosives discovered is stated to weigh 2 cwt. One angular incident in connection with this disclosure is that between the time that the lad came across the cartridges and the time the police searched the place, five of them wero abstracted by some unknown person. The police ara now actively inquiring into tho matter, and several wei;-known detective officers have left Brussels for Mons. It is believed that from this secret store the Anarchists obtained lh;) dynamite with which they have committed many outrages of late in various parts of Belgium,— Globe.

PRINCESS OF WALES AMD A WELSH CENTENARIAN. The case of Mrs Sarah Thomas, who has at- tamed tho extraordinary ago of 106 years, having been brought under the notice of the Princess of Wales by Mr Thomas, Giynivor House, Burry Port, South Wtlos, tho following reply has just been received Sandringham, Norfolk, 1\Iny 19'h, 189,. Sir,-Yoiir letter to Sir Diguton Probyn, and the photographs of Mrs Sarah Thomas, have been submitted to tho Princess of Wales, and I am desired by her IJoy vl Highness to thank you for drawine her attention to the extraordinary age of thold lady, and for sending her likeness. Her Royal Highness is much in- terested to hear of this very old subject of her ) Majesty the Queen, and wishes to make her a little present of 106 siiillir.,gs-aiie for each birth- ) day she has ptssed- and will be much obliged to you to expend it in the way you think most advisable for her comfort and pleasure. A 'I cheque for 25 6.3 is herewith enclosed.—I remain, you:s faithfully, S. Dic A. U. CLAliKE, C ']one! i

THE FATAL GLOVE FIGHT AT ABEfiDARE. Feeling in the district is still very strong that some official steps should bs at once taken to put down these glove contests, and arrangements have been made to hold a conference of the representa- tives of all the clitireiiez, in tho Aberdare Valley. As our readers will recollect there was found on Thomas Robert Edwards, tlio principal in this prize fight, a paper containing the names of his backers, and the amount contributed by each. Tins paper was referred to at the proceedings before the magistrates, but the names were nü made public. Mr D. E. Williams, one of the justices, suggested at the tmw that those persons named thereon should be proceeded against for aiding and abetting, but it was stated that no addresses giveii thereon, and that there was therefore no means of identifying them and proving their complicity. It was, however, on Thin s lay currently reported at- Aber-nran that, the police had obtained such information as to enable them to identify several of the parries, aud it is expected that several further arrests mny be made in a day or so.     

I r_ (' A L D F I C. U [- f I EDUCATIONAL DIFFICULTY IN I I MONMOUTHSHIKE, In the House of Commons, 011 Thnrsday, Mr STANLEY Leiohton asked tho Vice- President of the Committee of Council 011 I Education whether the cloak-room erected in 1891 at Cocd-y-Pnin, Monmouthshire, on the rect n,mendation of her Majesty's inspector, and I verbally approved of by him, had now been cou- demned, and whether under the circumstances lie iyoitd reconsider the case ? I Air Aclaxd replied that her Majesty's in- spector stated tha cloak-room at Coed-y-Pain was only accepted by him in 1831 as a temporary expedient, and some improvement; on a bad state of tllfig". This was made abundantly clear at the time, and 110 (Mr A eland) did not s^e at I present any sufficient reason for reconsidering the I case.

I I IMMORALITY IN THE RHONDDA. j Oil Thursday, at the Cyminer (Porth) Police- eourt, a bifchcr IIrtr:10d Charles Note, living at Ferndale, was charged with having criminally assaulted a little girl named Mary Ann Mai pas, at Ferndale, 011 Saturday last.—The girl, it was alleged, wns proceeding to a. bakehouse shortly after 10 o'clock, when she was dragged by the accused to a. lane, w¡',ro he assaulteo her. Tho girl screamed and ran away.—Defendant nd- mitted tiie offencM, and was committed to the I quarter sessioDf, bail -A lal)t)iirer named Edward Davies, described as of 110 fixed v abode, was brought up in custody, at the Cymmer Police-court on Thursday, chaiged with an un- natural offence.—Evidence was given by Dr. H. Nauiiton Davies, J.P., and the prisoner was com- untied for trial at the assizes. ) "H"I'aIQI8LJMI:

TRADE MARK IMITATED. The Sheffield stipendiary, on Thursday, im- posed e penalty of £ 5 and costs upon Messrs .Henry Eades and Co., merchants, Moss-lane, Birmingham, for breach °f the Merchandise Marks Act. They were summoned at hE, in- stance of Messrs AUen and Sons, rasor manufac- turers', Sheffield, who complained that defendants (md placed upon the market a razor bearing a mark which wns a colourable imitation of their mark, and which was well known in Austria and Hungary.

I PRIZE-FIGHT AT FERNDALE. Three collier'ads from Ferndal'3, named Wm. Jones, Thomas Jone.s, and John Evans, were brought up ot the Cymmer (Portli) Police-court en Thursday—before Mr Ignatius Williams (stipendiary), Dr. Parry, and Dr. Lewis—chaiged with being implicated in a priz! fight which took placo on the Ferndale mountain, May 7th. De- fendants, it was alleged, acted as seconds and referee. The principal • were before the court u fortnight ago. P.O. 279 having given evidenc1, the lads were bound over in £ 5 each for six J vc [ months, aud ordered to pay tho ctfets.

KILLED AT CLYDACH VALE I KILLED AT CLYDACH VALE COLLIERY. At the Iloyal Hotel, Blaenclydacli, on Thurs- day, Mr Roys, coroner, held an inquest upon the i body of Edmund Jones, who we. killed by a journey of tpll." running over hiiu 011 Tuesday j last at the Clydach Vale Colliery, Tile jury [ returned a verdict of Accidental death." _o:¡o

Mr Shrm.aup, of 4, High-sU-eer, Cardiif (close to Castle), can be consulted daily free. Artiflsia Teeth of the highest ss at lowest fees. 948 Important Notice.—We will undertake to disinfect, clean u repaint, and paper private houses, We. keep first-class upimlsiereis and cabinet-ninkfis.— Perk s Bros, and Co., 55, St. Mary street, Ca (lift' 62

WELSH COAL TRADE. Meeting of Cardiff District Coalownera. A meeting of the Cardiff District Board oC the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal. owners' Association was held at the offices ot tha Coalowners' Association, Park-place, on Thursday, Mr T. H. Bailey, Plymouth Col- heries, presiding. There were also present Messrs Walter Bel!, H. W. Martin, R. Bed- hngton, Thomas Wilson, E. 1ST. Hann, W. Blaki more, W. Smith, Thomas Evans, Graeme Ogilvie, T. J. Masters, II. Wallace, Ithet Rees, T. T.unblyn, V'zie Simons, solicitor of the association, and Mr W. Gascoyne Da! si el, SAcretary. The board di-cussed tho subjects of dispute at the following collieries :—Caerac Pit (Messrs North's Navigation Company) re six-foot prices Voc-hriw and Tunnel Pit. Dowlais, re stokers Rbymney Iron Company's Collieries, re engineman and stokprs and other matters, and gave instructions to the companies of the several pits. Tiie Ncxl Audit, It is intended to call a meeting of the sliding scale joint committee for Thursday next, the 31st inst., at twelve o'clock noon, for the receipt of the accountant's report on the result of the audit on the sliding-scale priccs for the two months ending the 30rli of April last, governing wages as from the 1st of June next. f|Tho New Special Rules. The arbitration on the Home Secretary's pn* posed new special rules for the collieries ia, Eastern Glamorganshire, under the Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1887. will be resumed at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Monday next, at 11 a.m. The inquiry will be continued on tbe subject of the rules applying to safety lamps and naked lights, and the witnesses attending on behalf of the coalowners will be Messrs W. Jenkins, of the Ocean Collieries; Thomas Griffiths, Cymnier Colliery D. Hannah, Fern- (late Cillieries H. E. Gray, Messrs Nixon's Navigation Collieries, and Thomas Evens (Messrs Thomas Evens and Co.), Werfa Colliery,

MATABELELAND AND MASHONALAND. The Central News says that Pti-liamentarr papjrs issued ou Thursday relating to tin administration of Matabeleland and Mashon land contain the t.x: of the charter of tht British South Africa Com pan v, followed by tb, Order in Council dated Miy 9th, and an agree- tnent between her Majesty's Government and the British South Africa Company, which wa." executed on May 23rd. In the Order in C, itincil thf territories of South Africa situate within th,. limits of the order are distinguished as being the parts bounded by British Bechuanaland, the German protectorate, the rivers Chobe and Zambesi, the Portuguese possessions of the South African Republic. It ib declared that the High Commissioner may, on her Majesty's behalf, exercise all powers and jurisdiction which her Majesty h»s or may have, and that he may appoint; as many persons as lie may think necessary to be deputy-commissioners, or resident commissioners, or assistant-commis- sioners, or judges, or magistrates. The High Commissioner is directed to respect any native laws or customs. The agreement between the Government and the British South Africa Co-,d. pany provides for the administration of Mata beleland and Mashonaland by the company in accordance with its charter under an administratoi and council composed of a judge and three other m.inbers. The administrator is to be appointed for three years by the company, with the approval of the Secretary of State, and may be removed either by the last-named or by the company. Tile j!1:1g-e and members of the coun- cil are to be appointed by the company, with the approval of the Secretary of State, but the former is removable only by the Secjetary of State. Aland commission is to be appointed for the purpose of assigning land to the Mat?bale "sufficient and suitable for agricultural and grazing requirements, and oattle sufficient for their needs." Fmaliy, it is directed that the armed forces of the company shall not, without permission of her Majesty's Government, act outside the limits defined bjj the memorandum.

..t.c'IJo THE BUILDING SOCIETIES ACTS, Proceedings in Parliament. The Standing Committee on Law of the House of Commons met on Thursday to proceed with the Building Societies (No. 2) Bill. It is a Bill to amend the Building Societies Acts, prepared and brjught in by Mr Herbert Gladstone, Mr Asquith, and Mr George Russell. Mr Arthur O'Connor was chairman. The proceedings began an hour late, owing to the presence of an insufficient number of memberi to form a quorum.—The Chairman ex- plained that there wore two Bills referred to the Committee-the Building Societies Bill (No. 2). and the Building Societies Bill (No. 3). Ht; observed that tho terms of the provisions of No. 3 were either textually or substantially in No. 2. —Air Herbert Gladstone moved that Bill No, c be proceeded with, and the motion was agreed to. —In discussion on clause 2, dealing with annual accounts and statements. Sir John Lubbock said he had the honour of bsmg president of the Building Societies Association, and it was in their name thnt certain amendments had beet. put down. The societies represented 25rrillionsof capital, and the suggested amendments had been adopted at a conference held a few days ago. The societies were anxious to assist the Government in putting tile law on a satisfactory footing. Having thus explained his posit:on, he moved th6 omission of certain words from Clause 2, which Would have the effect of depriving- the registrar of power to vary the foim in which aunual state- ments should be prepared.—Mi- John Ellis said this Bill had coma before them in consequence of grievous irregularities, and be held in his hand a blue book containing the unanimous recommenda- tions of the committee appointed last year. Thtt Bill, in its present form, was the outcome of the labours of that committee, and he unhesitatingly, on behalf of Ins constituents, opposed any amend- ments which would weaken its provisions.—Mr H. Gladstone opposed th" amendment on behalf of the Government, an:1 Mr Bartlev strongly sup- ported the Bill as it stood.—The clause wait ordered to stand part of the Bill.