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. JOTTINGS <« GLEANINGS.
JOTTINGS <« GLEANINGS. THE WHISTLE. When straying along in the twilight I meet Oft many a friend in deep trouble;. Some gobg on careiess, and others sigh deep Through paying tooSmuch for their whistle. Then comes a young maiden who swiftly goes by, And dashing a( ong on her cycle And thinking herself the belle of the day, But paying too mnch for her whistle. Soon follows a swelling young gent in her train, Who squanders his fortune to wrangle; Not thinking one moment he's going to ruin By paying too much for his whistle. I met them again one eve on the road, Both looking so haggered and feeble Their fortune had gome—been blown by the wind Through paying too much for their whistle. Llangollen. H.R. A SWINDLE. This item has been going the rounds of the Australian press:—"A. Swindle" is the name that appears over the door of a strugliug lawyer in an up-country town in New South Wales. A friend of the unfortunate gentleman suggested the advisability of his writing out his name in full, thinking that Arthur, or Andrew Swindle, as the case might be, would look better and sound better than the significant A. Swindle." When the lawyer, with tears in his eyes, whispered to him that his name was A-dam, the friend under- stood, and was silent.-Inland Printer. 3VIAJUBA HILL. It is the custom to speak of the battle of Majuba as a disgrace to British arms. There are many millitary critics who take, on the contrary, a favourable- view of General Colley's action on that fatal day. Major Arthur Griffiths, for instance, in his introduction to Battles of the Nineteenth Century (now being reissued in monthly parts, price 7d.), makes references as follows to the ill-starred general The fate of the general, whose name will always be associated with the Boar war, was its saddest episode. Misfortune pur- sued Sir George Colley; he was one of the "unlucky." Opinions differ concerning his latest failure, but there are many who hold that the story of imajuba-of the craggy and, seem- ingly, inaccessible hill climbed by Colley aud his devoted band, only to find death and defeat on the top-onght, with hetter fortune, to have ranked with Wolfe's scaling of the Heights of Abraham, or Charles Napier's desert march on Emaum Ghur. AN OLD CHESTNUT. A good joke, relating the experience of a modest young Dakota newspaper man, is going the rounds. It is to the effect that the pusher of the pencil went out to report a party the other evening, where the home had been recently blessed with a new baby. Accompanied by his best girl, he met the hostess at the door, and after the usual salutations, asked after the new baby's health. The lady, who was quite deaf, and suffering with the grip, thought he was asking about her cold, and told him that though she usually had one every winter, that was the worst one she ever had it kept her awake at night, and confined her to her bed. Then, noticing that the scribe was getting quite pale and nervous, she said that she could tell by his looks that he was going to have one just like hers, and asked him to go in and sit down. The paper was out as usual the next week, but the local editor has quit enquiring about babies. CARMEN SYLVA AT HOME. Tis said that" uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," but those happy mortals who have been privileged to see the Queen of lioumania, "Carmen Sylva," at home among her birds and flowers know of at least one exception. She is so passionately fond of flowers that she is posit- ively unable to rest happily in a room where there are no blossoms. As to writing without the neighbourhood of flowers, that she has declared to be quite out of the question. Nearly all her literary works have been composed out of doors, in a roofless room, built of reeds and surrounded by a hedge of rose bushes, in the hollows of which are cunningly concealed cages full of singing birds. The floor is of mossy turf. In one corner a tiny fountain pours forth perfumed waters in another swings a luxurious silken hammock, in which the Queen can rest and dream. Her seat is a mossy bank, her desk a lichened stone, carved into the shape of a writing table. WHO IS TO BLAME ? A military expert, in the course of a trenchant article in the current issue of To-Day, in defence of Sir George White, does not hesitate to lay the blame on other shoulders. He writes: "The whole course of this Natal campaign has been in the nature of a forlorn hope; a gallant effort made by a small devoted band to cope with tremendous, almost overwhelming odds. We should not repine at indecisive actions and ghastly butchers' bills, but rejoice that worse has not befallen. But we must not for one moment forget—and we have long memories—how and why these woes have overtaken us. The blame must be visited on the chief offenders. Nothing can excuse the British Government, which must, and will, be yet arraigned at the bar of public opinion, charged with the endangerment of the national prestige, held solemnly to account for the death of so many brave men. It is perfectly clear that Ministers were asleep in a fool's paradise, deaf to reiterated warnings, blindly, obstinately, stupidly indifferent to the dread consequences of their supineness. When they did move, at the eleventh hour, it was in a sluggish, half-hearted way, that showed their inability to grapple with the situation. Allowed an effete department to charter crazy troopships and commit field batteries to an end- less voyage, and when every day, every hour saved was of vital consequence, still hesitated about indispensable expenditure. We have not done with the ineptitude, the gross carelessness of the Government. It is as well to prepare the public for further disappointments. Buller's Army Corps is, thank God! nearing the Cape of Good Hope, but it can hardly hope to move forward for some time to come. It will not have the necessary transport. The vast trains needed to give it due mobility cannot be organised until the mules and horses arrive, which are still on the sea, many indeed not even embarked at the distant ports where they were purchased. The Government could not harden its heart to give the order. Still more, gulled by vain hopes of peace, in their continual reluctance to spend money, a thousand or more mules were secured by the enemy in the very teeth of our buyers. We might have held our peace for the present on this shameful story of wasted opportunities, this neglect of the true functions of Government, but it is right that at such a great crisis as this its true causes should be fully set forth and explained, otherwise the pregnant lesson might be lost by the nation."
WELSH COUNTY SCHOOLS.
WELSH COUNTY SCHOOLS. MEETING AT CHESTER. A meeting of the head masters and head mistresses of Welsh county schools was held on Saturday at Chester. A preliminary meeting was held on Friday evening, under the presidency of Mr. W. J. Russell, of Wrexham, the chairman for the year, when the Association was welcomed by the ex- Mayor of Chester, Dr. Stolterfoth, who spoke of the great need of a registration system among county school head teachers, as the Duke of Devonshire's bill did not for enough to be of any use.—The chairman, in thanking the ex-Mayor, said he thought Englishmen should use Wales as a kind of object lesson, for they had made a great experiment) in educational matters. They had been of late very much misrepresented by interested parties, but he eould say that they had 93 secondary schools, with 7,000 pupils, in Wales, and they were really secondary schools, for 3 per cent of their pupils were under the age of twelve. Interested parties had represented them as dragging pupils from the elementary schools at the age of ten. They had, however, 16 per cent of their pupils over the age of sixteen, so that he thought as regarded age it must be admitted that their schools were secondary.- (Hear, hear.)-A recommendation from the Execut- ive Committee that it is desirable that an official school organ should be established was adopted, it being recommended that the organ should be published monthly. Further recommendations of the Committee were also adopted requesting the University of Wales to recognise physics or elementary science of the senior certificates stage as equivalent to the science subject in the Welsh matriculation, and that a senior candidate who has passed in theoretical chemistry but failed in practical chemistry should be exempted from chemistry in the Welsh matriculation examination. —Mr. Phillips, of Newport, Mon., spoke strongly on the disgraceful questions set in the University matriculation examination in history, and it was decided that representations be made to the University of Wales as to the unsatisfactory nature.—It was decided, after a long dsscugsion, to hold the annual meeting in future in Shrewsbury.- A letter ftom the Central Welsh Board dealing with science and art grants to County Schools was, after discussion, referred to the Executive Commit- tee.—The retiring President (Mr. R. W. Jones) delivered an address on vacating the chair. He said they certainly could not complain of any lack of sympathy or interest in their novel experiment of establishing a complete system of secondary education, for lavish praise, no6 undeserved he thought, was bestowed by observers across the borders on the enthusiasm of the Welsh people for education as shown in their readiness to tax themselves for the support of the new schools and in their eagerness to avail themselves of the advantages thus provided. They had no traditions except what they c@uld make for themselves, but it should be their care to see that the tradition when formed should be a high and worthy one.— (Applause.) They had no proof on their work in the certificates list; no less than 295 pupils had passed the senior certificate examination and 690 the junior. Mr. Jones, in conclusion, spoke warmly of the advantages offered in the County Schools for the training of pupil teachers. CRITICISM BY ELEMENTARY TEACHERS AN APPEAL TO THE WELSH CENTRAL BOARD. At a special meeting of the Holywell and Rhyl Association of Teachers held on Saturday, the President (Miss Gittins, of Abergele) delivered an address on the question ef the children in Welsh intermediate schools whose education is deficient. She said that the subject was one which was raising a great deal of discussion and needed explanation, as there was a feeling abroad that the elementary schools were somewhat to blame in the matter. This was a great injustice to them.- (Hear, hear.)-That the results in the intermediate schools were not what they should be was not the fault of the elementary teachers, but ef those who did not insist on getting the best pupils and who admitted children who were not fit. In fact, they admitted any child who offered himself for admission, asking no questions as to bis fitness from his former teacher.—(Hear, hear.)—The teachers of the primary schools were seldom consulted as to a child's fitness to enter a secondary school. In Denbighshire the average attendance in the elementary school was only 72 per cent. Such children had no right in an intermediate school, and public money was being wasted in trying to impart an education to them for which they were not prepared. The sooner that fact was understood the better it would be for both sets of schools.— (Applause.)—In the discussion which followed, Mr. Jones (Ffynnongroew) said he knew of one instance in which a little girl who had not passed Standard 11. was admitted into the Holywell Intermediate School, and in another instance a boy who had not passed Standard III. was admitted. It was a shame that publie money should be wasted on educating such children in intermediate schools.—Mr. H. A. Tilby (Rhyl) said that one of the inducements held out to head masters of intermediate schools to get unqualified pupils was the payment of the capit- ation grant.-(Hear, hear.)-Payment of results on suoh a basis was now unknown in elementary schools. He denied that there was not material in the elementary schools to fill the intermediate schools, as recent examinations had shown that the winners of two scholarships at Oxford were boys who had been educated in Wrexham and Featiniog elementary schools.— (Applause.) -The great mistake the intermediate schools made was in o keeping to the schemes, which required that the pupils seeking admission should either have passed a certain ôstaBdard orelse sucoessfully undergone an admission examination.—(Hear, hear.)--So long as the intermediate schools were tempted to build the second storey before the foundation was set so surely would they have failures. The public had a right to demand that the schemes should be carried oat, and lae proposed that the Welsh Central Board be informed that the intermediate schemes were not being arriad out in North Wales, and that they take immediate steps to enforce them.- (Applause.)—Mr. H. Bedford (Abergele) seconded, and said that the Welsh Central Board had already fined counties in which the schemes were not carried out. He knew of cases where the local governors had begged parents to send their children who had entered the intermediate school were not under fifteen years of age, but he had failed to find any who had reached that age when they left the elementary school.-The resolution was unanimously carried, and it was decided to inform the County Governing Bodies that children were being admitted into intermediate schools without Tiaving first passed successfully the examinations required by the schemes. It was decided to nominate Mr. H. A. Tilby (Rhyl) for a seat on the Executive of the National Union of Teachers for the Welsh district, and to nominate Mr. Tom John (Rhondda) for the vice presidency of the N.U.T. Mr. 0. Roberts (Holyhead) was also nominated for the vice presidency of the North Wales district of the Teachers' Union.
GET WHAT YOU WANT.
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a INDIGESTIOPJ AND PALPITATION.
a INDIGESTIOPJ AND PALPITATION. MR. EDWARD MINOR, of Firvale, inter- viewed by a Sheffield Independent reporter, stated Last year I used to have spells of indigestion which rendered me almost useless. I felt so 'laggard' and heavy that I was ready to drop. It was a torture to me to get through my work. I was so weak that I could hardly walk. My daughter was also ill with indiges- tion and palpitation, and both of us sat about the house unable to do anything Nothing seemed to do us m'dch good. If my daughter hadn't seen an account of a cure by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I should be very different now. She said, 'Father, we'll have a h0X,' The effect was wonderful. We both derived such benefit that we had another box of the pills and were soon quite well. I never worked better rhaii to-day. I feel as strong again as I did before I was ill."
A " DRU;D,S " MARTYRDOM TO…
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NEURALGIA AND PLEURISY.
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