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Solomon, Tan- nery Chambers, Gower- stuiet. n Mr, Tracers Walters. Messrs. H. 0. Higman h Co., 1, Northanmpton- place. t- Masars. H. J. Crom aad Co., 50-60, Wind-strcat Mr. J. A. Bishop, Union Chambers, Union-sfc. ABERAVON Mr. David E. Jones. BRITON FERRY JVtr. H n. Hunter. MDMBLES Mrs. Alice Orrin. PONTARDAWE. Mr. David Smith. PCM TALBOT. Mr. Enoch Thomas. Mg U. G. Wosist, 3, .Ynis-etreot. I GRAND THEATRE, SWANSEA. 1 MONDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 1904, For Six Nights Only. HARDIE & VON LEER'S ORIGINAL COMPANY, In the Celebrated Play- TWO LITTLE VAGABONDS. 1. Monday, October 24th-"SAPHO." Box Office, open 10 to 6, at Gwynno H. i £ i3«er.,s, 17, Hearthfield-street. Telephone No.. 291, National. ■ NEW STAR THEATRE, SWANSEA MONDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 1904, A SOLDIER AND A MAN. Next. Week Monday, October 24th- "A P.OGUE'S DAUGHTER." ACADEMY OF At OSLO. 100, WALTER- ROAD. MRS EDWARD FP.ICKER, MISS FLORENCE FBICXER, A.R.A M and MISS MINNIE FRICKER, LJR.aIm. Piano, Haip, Violin, Voice Training and i Solo Singing, Harmony, Sight-Singing, Theory of Music, Lessons resumed on 19th September. MRS. BARNjtS, o3, "Watcrloo-strest, Swansea. Ladies, Gents, and Children's Wardrobe buyer. Ladies waited on by appointment only, Town ox- Country. Parcels receive prompt atfcenti-on. Establ iehed 40 yctiTr-, FURS. FURS. FURS. New Bear Skin Plush Stole, 72 inches ''>nS, Silver Grey and White Oxocliwcl Silver C ^sp. 8s. lid. Money returned if unsatis- :tactcry. CHARLES SEYMOUR & CO. .^CHAPEL WALKS, MANCHESTER SOLID GOLD WjiT"CH- PUZZLE. GREAT GFIER BY A RESPONSIBLE FIRM. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING TO TRY. W E give oelrAv some of tho letters in a well-known Proverb. To any person who can supply the missing letters itil- fiis conditiors below, we offer a LADY'S SOLID GOLD GOVERNMENT STAMPED WATCH, fully jeivielled, price Lo-, as a FREE GIFT, (Silver Watches are presented to A ST H IN T. E S. V. S N NE Send your attempt on a sheet of paper, to- gether with stamped addressed envelope for reply to FELLOWS & CO., 10, Grosvenor Buildings, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. The winner is required to purchase a Chain from us to wear with Watch. The name of this paper must be mentioned. Prize-winruirs of last Competition were:—Miss M. J. Evans, Rhinaedrog Farm, nr. Bala; Mr. B. Phillips, Llwyngarreg, Cwmbach, St. Clears )1r.I. Llewellyn, Ccwdkeraew, nr. New- port, Mon. 666a!0-21 OLD FALSE TEETH. E give highefit possible Price for above. Offers made, and, if not ac- cepted, Teeth returned. Dealers in old gold or slwr in any form. Bankers' references. Woo!fall and Co., Birkdale, Southport, 665a Cam. 1-8 lj t0u £ ^ai Advanced on note of J- \s hand alone, without bonds, pub- uCity, or charges of any description what- ever unless; business is done. No bills of saie, and the strictest privacy guaranteed, Un receipt of application representative will wait upon you by appointment and ^crranca vou the amount required, repayable by '8Y instalments to suit__ your own c: .■ .'i-nce. .Special rates for cocv* jmriogy..—r. "te (i». ceniidence) to actc ■ .TV>.H- ^-rri- dor Chambers, Ms _c7^ntT: ^7 V- in E-nglacd. Support Heme Irxde. Goldsxai-fhe. Ltd., ATtii!<?ry and Al- bion Brand, best London Portland Cement. Works, GTeeErhitbe, Ke,11t. Guaranteed the bosfc. (jaality En^ii^h Cement in the Market. Vessel expected next week. Special terms I for carting direct from ship, in lots of TVo TmtS and ni>Mtards. Stock always kept at Ijcad/CBi and 2iorth Western Wa/rahouse^SoutJi Docds, Swaoaea. A^ent-; J.. Prcibert^ ia Quay Pamode, Swaosea. 6&WD-21 GLA-XTDW, LLiAN!DOY5IRY, fc Wi thin easy distance of the Town and Ball- way Station. MESSRS. MORGAN, REES,.& DA VIES have received itustrnctiDns from Mr. fTrra. H. Perkins (who is giving up farm- ing), to SSELL boy PTTBLTO ADCTION, tte place, on MONcDAi, OfTrOKKB 2-1-tti, 1 <>34, the whole of the J-ivo and Dead Consisting of: FARMING STOCK, CROPS, IMPLE- MENTS, etc., STOCK.—6 Milking Ccr-vs in full profit, of '-the -noted Jersey breed) (four of which are to Calve early;, 2 Heifer Calves from grand -milking strain. Bull Calf, 2 Pigs. CItOiJ.—About 20 TolLS of well-harvested in excellent condition. (.s. CASTS, HARNESS, elc.-Gove-nesg Car, Pony Cart, Harness for same; also P«np and Sthaft Harness (all in very good -condition). Wheelbarrow, ffuantity of Wire- net'thig, Poultry Coops and Enns, the whole of t he DAIRY UTE?ii;<ILS, etc., comprising 2 l Chums, MHk Pa.ns, Cans, etc., quantity of I ^3.rd)&n Tools, Hay Forks, Babes, 2 Chaff- cutters, Grin-dst«n«, Crose-cnt &W6, about 2 Tons of Potatoes in Sacks, Oak Coffer, 3 RMyclcs. Fender. Cow Ties, Boiler, etc., «tc., also the following modern AGitlCULITJRAJj IMPLrSaTENTS —Mowing Machine, Ch-eeee Press, Separator, Sheep Hack, etc. Raio to eaumen-oe at o'clock sharp. Credit on approved security for all sums over £ 2. Tiss Auctioneers beg to call special atten- tion of Dairymen, Farmers and others to the Cattle, which have been bred especially ICT milking. I Datedj: Auction, Estate and Insurance Agency OfSoea, Market-street, Llandovery, 13th October, 1904. 923
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«" l lle Cambrian. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1904 NOTES ON MEN & THINGS I I Five years ago cn Sunday the British Government received the ultimatum which was the immediate cause of the Boer war. If the present water scheme is forced on the parish—with its consequent, effect on the iocal rates—the book of the exodus of the inhabitants of Pontardulais will have to be inhabitants of Pontardulais will have to be written. I At-one time tho enggestion of ejecting Sir Griffith Thomas an alderman on the- Swansea Council met oonsidorable favour, but. the chances of this being done have appreoiab-iy diminished eince. For one thing, me elec- tion wcHiid deprive one of too seirior mem- ¡ bers of the promciLon erned hy long service., and anothar, the Mayor doss not nüvv occupy quite the same position as he did with his colleagues in the Comn-cil. At the recent Lacii Government Board 7 I innniry into the application of the Corpoia- ticm for smction to borrow £ 2,000 to extend the telephone eyftam, Mr. Benson, speaking for the opposition, laid special emphasis on tlie circun'istanoo that the rates were very high at. Swansea. He said more than once that they had reached & 4d. in the L. If his knowledge had been more coon-plete, the point might have been more forcibly put, for as a matter of fact, the rates for this year amount- to not less than 3s. lOd. in the k A well-known Swansea street character has been removed from the reach of petty pesnsect)ik>n, in the shape of Wm. layleure, bett-ea- known as "Jampot. The bource of his mental .kïK-&S ocald be traced back, as is'the case with many another, to the effect üE a eoiourn in the trop:-a?I snbshire of India. The of the streets has been unquestionably purified by his de- parture for Bridgend, and the torrent of foul epit hets, with which he replied to the sallies to his tormentors, had frequently embroiled him iii trouble at the police court. But. tha fact that such persecution as acted CG a provocation was poissibie at all is a serious reflection upon the insignificant value of the B-oard School as a disciplinary and refining factor. Aid. Spring is the favourite as next veer's mayor, though it is only right to add that a section sat least, of the members of the Council will not- regard his selection with enthusiasm, but- it happens, thai on the Gce-re of weniorit-T, h;5 claims are as good, if not a lit-tle better than those of Mr. Gwilym Morgan, his rival. Probably the de. termining factor in the election, when it takes place, is the advanced age of Mr. Spring, and the •consequent unreasonableness cf ask- ing him tn stand aside for a younger man. By the way, the chatting and goasippirsg, which appear inseparable from competition, have already been responsible for cne un- toward upeat. It &eems that. Mr. Morgan £ aid something to a fellow councillor whidi, having been conveyed to Aid. Kprilog, re- sulted in a -rx>rTespt ndence, in which solici- wxg. tooi,- part, and ultimately in a. written apology, riot for publication, but for the purpose of correcting any wrong imp-rassaone wliicli may have arisen from tiie original remark. 'I'his incident has not sweetened mtercouree between the two randidates. .+ The anntjoncament made in one of the evening papers a few days ago that. the Swansea Corpo<i»a.tion. woaid prv&ently be invited to consider a proposal for the estab- lishment, of a savings bank, .gave rk-e to eome misappireheaison. For this the misleading ds&criiption given the scheme was mainly ac- countable. Tniere is no idea of competing with the existing banks. It is merely a i in a fcomewliait imclifrad form by aai arraDgffiTIeut which Co-unt-Jlor E. W. Jones ,s wae i rcs.tr ujnssital in iaitroducing, and. which so far has not been very productive in rt suits. T'hs Corporation invited residents of the dustnot with mcnev to inrvest or deposit, to take advaniteige of the higher rate of interest offeced by the Corporation for loans. The security of course is excelkut, and in one bense equal to that of consols. It is a misnosner to describe this, however, as the est a trlishr ien t of the Savings Bank for the proposal means no more than that the Corporation is opeai to ve loans on the seciiTit-y of the borough estate audth-e rates. When the cammOTcial poisfihilities of the electric ligM, had been demonstrated, some- thing like a panic sciztd hoiders of Gas Company shares. It lasted only a short tinaa, however, and this form of investment quickly rallied in th3 money market. Ab the present moment gfte shares stand prac- tically as. high as ever they did. It is really astonishing how, in spite of the speedy cx- tensiaa in the uco of electricity, both as an illuminant, and for purposes of power, gas companies continue, to prosper as they do. At the last meeting of the Swansea Company, hcld. a week ago, tho-maximum- dividend was declared and £ 10,000 carried forward to the already ampler pmpoj?iiorLs of the reserve tund. Compebiiiion in tliia instance has evidently had only an invigorating effect. Incidentally, it may be observed that the seat-oil the Brrard of Direct,,rsrt, i -der,? d iot. by the death of Mr. Wim. Williams, of Maesygwernen„_has- been. JSIled by the- efec^ ti-cll-of Mr. W. JL.Rees, unqtiesfcroiiaWy. one I Imc, of the- aifeet- meirin the boTOngh, t'I! Dr. Gomer Lewis sat in a new chair at the Swansea Guardians' meeting. And ho looked well, too, in his white spotted fancy waistcoat. Who says the summer has gone? The locaJ Nom oniormisi petard-manufac- turer is experiencing a bit cf hoisting. Just at present the Mroiicipal politics in Landore Ward and in Brymnelin Ward are two en- tirely different things! Mr. Littlejohns quoted Keats at Landore on Monday evening. If the example is con- tagious we shall be having candidatoes and the-IT supporters invoking "Frinds, Ro- mans, countrymen!" before the eventful first. The chairman at the Swansea Free Library lecture suggested that Prof. Korth should acknowledge the v )te of thanks in Esperanto. But the audience hadn't "arrived" that far and the lecturer responded in rounded Saxon periods. -0- There is a diverting feature in the argu- ments put forward for one and the other of the two candidates for the Swaneea mayoralitv. "Tlie old man is 79 yea<rs oi age, aad cannot aiford to wait," declares one side, and this argument is countered by the other with a statement, "Gwilym Morgan has been offered the secre- taryship of his society—the offer is only open for a year, and once tliat period ex- pires he cannot act-as mayor." So we have urgency pleaded in both instances. The in- tensity of the competition: is such that there are member.s oi the Council who are- tempted to cry out pla.gue on both your houses," and wish a third man were in the field to end the differences. Just 64 years ago a well-organised at- tempt was executed. by the "Rel>ZCŒ" rioters to wreck the Carmarthen Workiyjuse. The military were successful in rebelling the invadere. Those who took a leading part were thus described at the time: "Tltey were nearly all dressed in women s clot-has, and Rebecca was on horseback, elegantly at- tired in a white muslin dress, blue bilk scarf thrown over her shoulder, white turban on her head, and long flowing locks that reached! down to her waist. Tho horse she xode was milk white, and in her right-hand she boae a, battle-axe covered with gold. She also wore dippers and sandals." Three years after this Rebecca—who was a young farmer—together with some of her "daugh- were tried at the Glamorgan November Assize, and the ringleader of the famous band of rioters was benterroed to 21 years penal o&rvitude, and his leading fellow eVil spiraters to varying terms. ■*> go Giees against "tho trade" have latterly been marked in the Swaneea court, by a I' display of zeal in exoes; of discretion by the prosecution. A case against a, Ponterdulais landlord wa<s dismisged last week; and .at. the Quarter Sessions an appeal by an East Side landiord was successfuL In this case the police undertook the prosecution on the evidence of a man who was himself the sub- ject of the gentle attentions. In the cross-ex- amination at the appeal he returned a long string denials to a sories of attempts to implicate him of striking and displaying enmity toward,* the landlord, and causing a fracas because he had been refused more beer. "But methinks the lady doth protest too much," and in the end the police lest their case through the medium of the same witness by whom they had previously won it. The incident illustrates tha.t the ex- amixtaiion into the merits o{ a case for pro- secatisn is not always ae searching by the jolioe as in fairness to the landlord it ;-ihculd be. It appear, (says th? "Pail Mall Gazette") that the disaster to the Great- Western ex- press at Lüughæ-, happen-?d at the very spot where, years ago, an attempt was made to derail the train from London. The mis- creant, whoso principal object was to ob- tain a large reward from the railway com- pany, had endeavoured to inveigle a tipsy collier from the village on to the line, where obstructions had been carefully piled cu the rails. The plot, happily, failed, and the cul- prit, bungling further over his dastardly business, fired his gun, ran aicross Loughoi Bridge to the platform where the train hfd been signalled to start from, and, excitedly reported that he had seen a man place stones on the rails, and then ran away across the marsh, where the present wreck new lies. But the story did rot stand investiga- tion, and the culprit's reward proved to be a term of imprisonment instead of a bag -.f gold. So far the Swansea Educxtioij Committee has given no public indication of the policy it purposes to pursue in relation to the voluntary schools, but having regard to the circumstance that the leading spirits, who have an obedient majority at their backs, are in close touch with Mr. Lloyd George and his colleagues, it is reasonable to infer that every poseible means will be adopted to prevent- Swansea being brought within the j-cope of the'Defaulticig Authorities' Act. In all probability the plan adopted will- be to call upon the voJuntaa-y school managers to incur heavy expenditure in altering, and enlarging the school buildings, and that after this has been done the pledge given not- to grant rate aid to the schools will be kept by pooling all tlie grants given by the voicntary schools, and drawing upon the special grant, which atmoimts to' about £4,000 a yeaT, for any farther financial outlay re- quired in connection thc5rewith. Assuming this to be done, neither side will have serious cause to coenplain; the Liberals will be able tossy that no raiet? have been.applied to the voluntary schools, and v-oluntarv schools will have the benefit- of the financial support which is legally theirs. The local Parliamentary representative is the customary medium through which po.hlic bodies wit-h grievance tOo i-ad-ross approach Ministers; but there is much to be saad for the. suggestion that this go-between should, the instance of Swansea's case for a modification of the coal tax, be abolished, a.nd that, a- depatetion of the Harbour Trust and prominent local colliery manager and shipping officials should go direct to the Chancellor to urge their pleas. Such action would he a departure from tradition, and if generally imitated would weaken in no small degree the status and value -of the M.P. to his coostifcTtency. But it would entirely ex- clude the political element that would obtrude itself in the last deputation. The Chancellor would confront- a body of simple merchants and tradesmen without a lurking g.11wn that a subterranean attempt was being made to convict himself by the con- fession. of hie own action of having blun- dered by the introduction of a, tax that materially and gravely handicapped QThO of the couiitry s chief industries. • JEfe under- Kta-nda perfectly well that such confession would be an invahttblje argtnment in the mouths of oppoeitid.li candidates in th# CQlliry districts of Sooth Wales and the North at the election, who could maintain with same specioasaass that the impoet res mowd convinci-ng -evidaiiioerof tho, GiW!mment^- teoder-oare"fJJr tho ,welfare-M>f the-ooiHttiy'e trade. The editor of the "London Welshman" throws out this suggestion for a. national motto: "Saint George for England and Lloyd-George lor Wales." It. Two Roman Catholic priests and one Unitarian minister comprise the onlv "re- verends" among the list of lecturers at Swan- sea Free Library on Saturdays. Among local members of the British Iron and Steel Institute who have been invited by Mr. Carnegie to visit the St. Louis Ex- hibition is Mr. David Rees, proprietor of the Cape Colliery, Fforestfach. Mr. Rees is un- able to acoept the invitation. The Rev. Meredith Morris, B.A., of Maes- teg, whose election as F.R.Hist.S. was an- nornced the other day, is justly famous for his standard work on the violin. There is no greater authority in his line living. His well-known work is published by Chatte and Windus, and is the sine qua non of violi nsts. "Uplands" writes:—"Messrs. Dick, Kerr, and Company (Limited), in connection with the Birmingham Corporation Tramways, have completed a task of 10,000 yards of tramway track and numerous difficult junctions in twelve weeks in the most crowded thorough- fare of the city."—That's all he says. Perhaps comment isn't needed. The fire at Dunraven Castle has brought back an interesting reminiscence to a Llan- eily schoolmaster who has a. penchant for travelling. Not long ago he was sitting in a New York hotel when he overheard two Yankees disputing over a pen and ink draw- ing of Lord Dunraven's Glamorganshire home. One of them would have it that the pic- ture represented Blarney Castle, and the other was-quite as wide of the mark. In the end a bet was made, and the Llaneilyite acted as stakeholder. He was -able-to satisfy them that both were wrong. The meet serious railway accident in the last decade, a correspondent is reminded, was on the Taff Vale Line between Ponty- pridd and Walnut Tree Bridge. On a Sat- urday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, just at the points where branch trains are divided, a heavily-laden passenger train left the metals, and the engine, keeping on the track, three of the carriages became discon- nected and fell over a steep embankment. There were about fifteen deaths and abo-tt 40 seriously injured in this accident. The work of extricating the-deed from under the platforms of the carriages was one of tha -most painful of sights. & In an article on "Books that Killed their Writers," a, London paper cites the-sorry f?„ts that betel a, certain John. W illiams, who foolishly sent, two samples of spring poetry to King Jamas 1. For safety the unhappy poet enclosed the verses in an iron box, and Jamee, !,¿vb.o always feared assassination, jumped to the conclusion that the latter oo-n- tainjadi some sort of an • infernal machine. When the rea.l nature of the contents came to light, the timorous monarch and his coun- sellors became the laughing stock of England, and Jaulle8, in revenge, caueod the unfortu- nate Williams to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. 1 • <t • There were further prosecutieIJs and oon- victions of members of the betting fraternity at Swansea on Tuesday. The "offence" is flagrant and notorious, but no amount of police prosecutions can exercise any apnre-, d.abl3 deterring effect upon it. Like cancar, checked in one place it breaks out hi another. The law in its struggles, is simply imwiEely f reating a. national weakness that is incurable by punitive, an apart from reformatory methodci. The sole alternative to a oontinu- ance of these occasional sporadic out- bursts of energy, in which the iraes ad. as a mere drop in the bucket when subtracted from the aggregate profits of the offenders, is that of. as in .France, boldly grasping-tlie nettle and legateng the habit. From one cause or another the play of the Swansea team has been disappointing throughout the eeason, though the player are identica.1 with those of last- year's bril- liant exploits, and tho fiasco on Saturday puts the climax on a record of second-rate and amateurish displays. The deterioration is probably only menta!, and due to a com- placent belief thai the disorganisation cf all other Welsh teams this year- rendered any effort upon their part superfluous, beyond giving a pe-mmictory and mechanical execu- tion of the various manoeuvres necessary to score. An unbroken story of exceptional skill is in the end calculated to breed a, self deitekm aiid-deccption that blindis.-the- plavers to the real quality of the form they are. showing; and their deterioration passes un- noticed in their eyes al.3o a ooaisequenae. Newport, as a team, have perhaps an esprit de corps which is of finer and more exalted quality. They are certainly less guilty of lapses into indifferent football, despite a much larger share of the buffets of adverse fortune, in the shape of straying players and defeats. Whenever information- of an encouraging character is discLcsied regarding t.he Munici- pal Telephone Exchanges at Swansea-, we have a mysterious "correspondent" writing to a. Cardiff paper, predicting its failure and misrepresenting the facta generally. The mystery is not as to the source of the lucubrations, but as to the absence of common sense in the company, which thinks its monopoiy interests can be furthered by such transparent devices. At the recent Local Government Board inquiry the counsel for the opposition extracted nothing from the witnesosfs which was otner than credit- able to the-enterprise; coneequisatlv we have the inevitable letter in the Cardiff daily. In it tho writer, either from ignorance, or with the wilful intention to mislead, assumes that in March loust, of £3, 100 due, less than £1,000 had been paid, and that t.he additional loan of is required to carry out the incomplete parts of the original scheme. In those assumptions be is all at f),sa.. In ?lilatrch the Borough Accountant wns in. order to enabie the members of tho Council to. as- certain liow the exchange was progressing, to prepare an estimate of the -probable, revenue during the year ending with Nov. let, 1904, and he placed the amount at abrrat Of course, a. considerable prapofrtkm of this had not been received, because it had not even been earned. The CorssspooKience sug- gests, however, that the differeaioe. b^-ween the actual receipts in March and the pro- bable revenues earned by next Nov. rcDic- sented amounts which dissatisfied subecribeis refused to pay because the National Tele- phone Co. has hitherto baffled, the Cxirpora-1 t-ian in its efforts to secure the rights con- ferred uposn it by law. The utter worth- lessness of this writer's information may bo guaged' by the fact that on the 30th Sept., practically £3,000 bad been actetdly paid bv telephone snhecribers, leaving unooillect<»d only about £800, which sum is being dimin- ifhed day by day, and by tlie further fact that the- total number of eubacribers, who for any reasons whatever abject to pay the I tun amount due from them, scarcely exceeds a. score. It is difficult to understand; pcGsibie good the National Tale phone Co.. hopes to derive fcom tbesiec attempts to inis- leadtlre press- -and pofofacy reg^iding truths, fro easy to-dflarwiistTjFtjei, t There was a dramatic scene outside the Park Hall. Adversity brought together in a group Mr Alfred Davies, lLP., Mr. D. James Davies and Mr. William David. Not a word was said. But the stony silence v/as impressive. The annual report of the Local Govern- ment Board was presented to the Swansea Guardians. It wa,s two inches thick. One member quaintly suggested the clerk should read it. was a sigh of relief from the press table when the next business was pro- ceeded with. There is prospective fun up the Valley. A correspondent w-ites:— Mr. John Wil- liams, when he appears at Pontardawe on" Saturday, will be subjected to a great amount of questioning ad to his conduct at the last general election in opposing Mr. John Hodge's candidature. Miss Elsie Wakefield, who is bagging all the scholarships, went to Oxford for Res- pensions, and so well was her Greek done < in the short period she had had to study it, that Miss Maitland, of Somerville College, was loud in her praise of student nd teacher. A Swansea man (states a contemporary) who was hurrying to the f;cene of the rail- way accident at Loughor last Monday even- iug booked' at High-street Station at eight o'clock, and at 9.30 was calmly surveying Wind-street from the Wind-street Bridge, where his train had slowly meandered. He got to Loughor two hours later. T. Rev. Mark Guy Pearse nearly put hisloot into it badly at Swansea Wresley Chapel on Sunday night. He started speaking of s. street row which he wished his congregation to believe happened in Swansea. Happily he pulled himself up in time, begged pardon heartily—and requested the audience to think of it happening in Cardiff! v The outstanding peculiarity of tho sup- porters of Mr. Miles, a.t Thursday's Landore meeting, was that so many had never seen or heard of the candidate before. "I have never heard Mr. Miles before," said Rev. R. Thomas, of New Siloh, "but I think I have seen him about the town Everybody said that it wasn't the-man, but the measure they I were after, the inference being the not very flattering one to the postman candidate—■ that the man didn't matter. Rev. R. ¡ Thomas, however, ventured the assertion ¡ that, after hearing Mr. Miles, he thought he was a man! It was admitted that every one in Landore knew and respected Mr. Drydcn. THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY TH-EDIJTTRYN CROSSING ACCIDENT. So fleet, so swift, so strong so gay. Tho train went speeding on its way, When all at o-nce, a soun-d was heard, Collapse appeared, a wreck occurred. 0, Gçd, how horrible the sigh", Weil might it anyone affright, And yet, most quickly, human aid Was asked for, and the call obeyed. Cfti, ministrs-nts to hnman woe, To all in pain, both high and low, How dieep the debt we all should fee!, And though the doctors' books reveal That unpaid bills are plentiful, I Yet many people send in full, And on the whole, the doctor's curse Of unpaid bills might p'haps be worse, But for their skill and kindly aid My admiration n-e'er will fade. M. ROWED. Neyland, Oct. 8th, 1.45 a.m. Whenever the Municipality appeals for ) sanction to borrow money to develop its scr- 1 vices, opposition is invariably offered when ( the customary inquiry is held. At Swansea, last week, the opposition was represented to II be that of the proprietors of the various dry dock proprietors at Swansea. Their sudden interest collectively in the telephone system was as remarkable as the?:r unanimity. Of course the National Telephone Company did course the National Telephone Company did not oppose, it seldom does, but the fccts and arguments submitted at each inquiry look un- commonly as if they had a common source, It is true that-ihe opposition was not serious in the sense that it could reasonably be expected to produce a refusal of sanction frcm the Local Government Board. Nevertheless, opposition was offered, and the spirit was that yvhich has animated the opposition at every Government inquiry concerned with telephones, ever since muncipalities took to this line of enterprise. If one might judge bv the statements made at the inquiry, there can bo no doubt as to the result. .tt The Local Government Board is already • convening a congress of Guardians and other local bodies, to discuss relief measures, this winter promising to be- an exceptionally hard one, in London, at least. The amount of distress in Swansea is difficult to estimate. ( There was an ominously large number of ] applicants for a small post in connection with j the work on the dust destructor, which v'as not particularly remunerative, and the bulk of the applicants were men of some standing. But on tho other hand trade has been u^i- formily good in local industries. It is useless to quote the fact that returns published on Tuesday show there is something like a third of a million deposited in local savings banks. Depositors in these concerns are certainly not the cMronic out-of-work and floating element | who constitute the more or less extensive element of superfiuousness. On the whole, ] indications point to Swansea being compara- trvely well off. This will not necessarily cause an influx of the unemployed. Ex- pcrienco shows that it is an even chance that work is more likely to be discovered at a place where the distress is well known, and strong efforts are being made to find relief measure,), than in a well-to-do district which is already employing a full complement of hands, and is not disposed to go out of its way to find more work for the benefit of strangers. Swansea trade, as revealed in the statistics for the port for the ninth month ending the 30th September, has been highly satisfac- tory; the ona weakness was in the exporta- tion of coal, the decreased «hipmenit of which aggregate 56,000 tons. During the same period, however, the patent fuel exports had increased to 98,000. So that putting the t,wo together, the- exports stand higher than last year or the year before. It is a wdl- understocxl and reasonable rule tliat no polÏ- tical or controversial matters should bo in. trodrsaeid at the meetings of the Trust, where politician^ of every shadie of opinion are 1 represented. This rule would not of cooinse exclude the coal tax in re- j latioiiB to the export of local coal. Latterly, however, Sir John Jones J-oekins- Iras -made it a practice at tho meetings of the Trust to put forward his views on the Fiscal question with MBch direatnefB as to constitute a dis- tinct breach of the understanding. We owe ( it only to the accident that on the Trtst < there is no Tariff Reformer equally ôliSardeni ] for l faath as Sir Joim Jones Jenkins is I for Free Trade, that-the discussions do not r degenerate into political debates. "When the trade statistics handled by partisans at j min-politi-cal gatherings, the element of un- i fairness is introduced, which we are sure j Sir John would be the first to cojKteann in another trustee. For example, if Col. Wright, were a member of the Trust, ajxl < utilised tiie position to dwell upon the effect £ i-of the free importation of American and < Geitroan steel bans upon the steel "trade of Wales, his remarks would probably be con- ,1 sideredJby Fnee Trade mranbers of tho Trust 1 as tjoiaeiwchat out of pLace.. But-the-same < rule -cute bofb a -N A gem of oratory from the chairman of Mr. Miles's meeting at Brynhyfryd: "Do the working men realise their importance, their strength? I think not. I don't think we should have a gang of adventurers trail- ing the fair fame and honour of England in the mud if the working men had been alive to their own interests." (Sensation.) A teacher in a. valley school, in the course of a lesson on citizenship, had occasion to asl: for the name of the present member of the constituency (Gower). A budding young politician immediately replied, "Mr. Aeron Thomas, sir" (and then, volunteering fur- ther information), "and they do say that he has done nothing but point out a crack in the Parliament window." t How these railway disasters do make the travelling public cautious. Three persons in succession took insurance tickets at the Cardiff G.W.R. booking-office on Friday, and since Monday last about 100 tickets have been issued. There is, indeed, quite a run on insurance tickets now that the acci- dent is over. Woll, the pennies make up the pounds, and the company will want a few of the latter. Two new editions of the poems of Dafydd ab Gwilym are announced. One is the edi- tion for which Mr. Gwenogfrvn Evans has "been collecting materials during some years past, and which is already in the press. The other edition is by Mr. Isaac Foulkes, who was responsible, for an earlier edition, now out of print. The text he offers is that due to a pioneer in the collector's field who worked with many advantages and disad- vantages as compared with the editors of to- day—Lewis Morris ("Lewis Moras o Fon"). Inquiries made in Swansea High-street show that the tradesmen there are not very excited over the Lloyd George Education scheme; nor yet on whether prospective candidates for the Swansea County Council are Liberal, Conservative, or Labour. What they desire is a man who will be instrumental in pulling down the ratesfrom 8s. lOd. in the £ to a more reason- able figure! Where is he? Ono of the good stories told among the audience during the dull moments at the revolters' conference on Wednesday related to the t wo- Alfreds in the Vv-elsh party. Sir Alfred Thomas on one occasion thought it desirable to chid-3 Mr. Alfred Davies on the ultra-exuberance of his humour in the House of Commons. Mr. Davies did not take the remonstrance at all kindly. "Look here4," he said to his chairman, "if you don't appre- ciate-my efforts I shall join D. A. Thomas!" The story should end there, but there is really another climax. Sir Alfred Thomas burst upon his colleagues with the frightened exclamation: "We must leave him alone, or wo-shall lose him" The Morriston Horticultural Society ap- plied to Wednesday's Council meeting for the usual donation of ten guineas. This gives all kindred societies a similar claim, if conceded, and tho aggregate amount would represent no inconsiderable burden. Another thing that went against the society was its very prosperity—a balance of JS87 being in hand. These considerations natur- ally operated to its detriment, as the voting showed, though an amendment reducing the donation to five guineas was only defeated by the casting vote of the chairman. But there would be no objection towards the gift of a smaller sum, if only half a, guinea, as a mark of official approval and sympathy. Garning Ït5 th best of all hobbies for wotk- men, the most profitable, pleasant, and edu- cative. Mr. John Williams, miners' agent, is some- what unfortunate in his,statements regard- ing- his political prospects in the Gower divi- sion. Almost invariably, when he l as given the public assurance that there i3 no reality in the opposition cf his candidature amc ng the working classes, we have one district organisation after another passing resolutions expressive of their dissatisfaction. When a report appeared in the press that au,ther Mr. John WiUiams, a native of Clydach, pur- posed appealing for the suffrages of the elec- tors of the Gower Division, the miners' agent dismissed the report with a remark that, so far from being a likely opponent, Mr. J. J. Williams was pledged to support him. This has elicited from the chief person concerned a letter, which is partly an explanation, and partly a firm declaration that he intends to contest the seat in the Liberal interest. The conditions of Mr. Glynn Vivian's gift of £10,000 and the nucleus of a fine art gal- lery to Swansea were produced at the meet' ing of the Swansea Property Committee (Ii Wednesday, and somewhat took the gilt off the gingerbread. The Corporation has to contribute an equal amount—no inconsider- able one, inasmuch as it is equivalent to a rate of about sixpence, in the How- ever, some f-acrifice for the Eake of art materially enhances the civic reputation in the eyes of stran- gers, however profouuoi- inartistic the worthy burgesses, councillors, and alder- men may be personally. One things the Cor- poration should not neglect when the build- ing has been erected the immediate collection of as complete a collection of old Swansea chinaware as can be obtained. At Wednesday's Sanitary Committee meet- ing, the borough medical officer and veterin- ary inspector were instructed to report upon the proposal to in- augurate a municipal sterilised milk dairy at Swansea. The medical officer's rc- port disclosed the same sad story of the "massacre of the innocents"—-the rate this time was,, placed a-t one in every five per quarter. No fewer than 45 out of 48 had been fed on artificial foods. Neither lli. O'Suflivan nor the medical officer appeared very sanguinû of the good results from 1.h;13 step, but it- will be a thousand pities if the movement fails because of lukewarmnoss from the medical element. They should, whatever views they hold, at least keep ad- verse opinions to themselves and give the scheme a fair and the fullest trial. The. clubs of the Northern Union are singu- larly inept in their advances towards Welsh players. There are many thousands of foot- ball enthusiasts in South Wales who could tell off at a moment's notice a complete list of promising junior players in their district. Yet the emissaries from the North in five cases out of six secure the services of mere second-rate footballers of no marked ability or promise. It is announced, for example, that-Saiford has secured a Swansea lad named Russell, who played for a junior local team, which is not even in the District League. There appears to be no system pursued at all, I and the poachers exhibit an infinite capacity for having Their "leg pulled." No attempt I is made, for instance, to capture likely young players of the type of Rhys Rees, Lanc-jy, cr Paddison, who have all, at one time cr another done.-creditably in the ranks c f the Swansea Firsts. Efforts -are concentrated either-on- well-known players, who are far too old birds to be readily caught-, and one cr two of them oould not sign on if tloey wished, having already subscrid to the. contracts of oilier professional teams, or absolute nonectiti&v The L'aneily tramcars want a new coat of paint. It is not expected, however, that the company will oblige, as any extra weight j will have the effect of diminishing the al- ready tortoise-like speed. What upsets ail Rev. R. J. Campbell's in- fluence makes a real knowledge of the work- ing man, as well as any effective protest against working man vices quite impossible for him, is the simple fact, as stated in the papers, that ha is in receipt of a salary of £3,000 a U' ,4 j Scene: Education Authority: Mr. Mar- tin (question under consideration the cook- cry one): "I think that, besides the making cf the dishes, the teachers should also go into the details of cost." The genera! chorus of "Hear hear," which arose was suggestive, indeed, of extravagantly-run households; there seemed to be so much pathos in those "Hear, hears!" It trans- pirtd, however, that Mr. Martin's point was already being looked after by the cookery instructors. Lucky Benedicts of the next generation I Comparisons are being fraciy made at Swansea this week between the respective merits of Ellen Terry and Irving. The ver diet that is widely upheld is that of the two the lady is the better "actor"—is the more readily identified with her part, the more pliable and superior at self-adaptation thai her individuality is far less pronounced than that of Irving. In a word, they stand for two diverse schools if acting, and it is a vexed question which is superior—the actor who creates new parts or t.he player who makes old ones live. So the Mamiesroann Arch is to come down in a fortnight's time. No overtures for pur- chase having been made, the company is fol- lowing the logical course, 6ince tiie consti- tution of a public memorial of the Royal visit is no more its business than it is that of any other corporation or individual, with, perhaps, one exception. It is undeniable there exists surprise and disappointment in the town that no attempt was made from one well-defined source to buy it and pre sent it to the town as a- souvenir—a source from which such an act, or some similar commemorative step might have been reason- ably anticipated. r ö Mr David Griffiths is appealing to the elec- tors of Brynmelin Ward for his return to the Council Chamber on, the plea that he has faithfully served the district and ha.s procured improvements for the ward. For this reason he deprecates opposition. For the same reason Mr. Dryclen argues that he has done the work for which he was sent to the Council and that therefore there can be no sincere opposition on these grounds. It is a suggestive situation, and must be pro- lific of food for refkction to those who like politics in their municipal affairs-when it suits their views. The throwing open of the Swansea public parks after dark for sweethearting couples might be justified on sentimental grccr-ds, and sentimental in truth was the discussion relating to the point at the last meeting of the Parks Committee. But there is another aspect of the matter, which suggests that if the feelings of those who so use the open spaces are to be sympathetically considered, something also is due to the general public who pass through the pa.rks, especially ladies. The love-making is almost wholly defective in the quality of modesty,, and gives point to the remark of a Colonial i. ito/ 1 tQ this "Ce1.f tttft t wti1 tl"Âb he bad observed during his visit was the shameless way in which sweethearting was carried on in public.
SWANSEA'S TRAMWAYS.
SWANSEA'S TRAMWAYS. The information conveyed by paragraphs in the daily press that in Birmingham Messrs. Dick, Kerr and Co. have laid down tramways- with astonishing rapidity, will hardly be appreciated at Swansea, where the same contractors have displayed a tardi- ness hardly less astonishing. It is poor com- fort for the tradesmen in Oxford-street, where the road has been up for nearly two months, and is still in an incomplete condi- tion,to know that in the Midland city greater consideration has been shown for the convenience and material interests of their class. Apparently Messrs. Dick, Kerr and Co. have thought mere of their reputation at Birmingham tlu-n atSwansca. Here they have established no special claim to preferential treatment in any new tramway work which may have to be given out in the future, nor even to the testimonial which contractors are supposed to regard as an asset cf value. For the various sections have been con structed in a manner difficult to reconcile with the reputation of the firm, and the maximum, rather than the rnin-mum amount of inconvenience has been suffered by the, community. But to the longest lane there is a turning, and we may hope that open trenches will presently disappear from the centre of the town. It is onlv at the extrem- ities that they will remain for a few months longer a source of danger and discomfort to the inhabitants. At Brynhyfryd the dis- covery that the level of the road could not be lowered without shifting the watermains was responsible for some weeks of delay; difficulties encountered in connection with the purchase of certain road widenings may still impede progress here as on the Sketty extension, where Mr. Graham Vivian, and the Corporation, after apparently agreeing upon terms, now iind themselves in disagree- ment. On the East Side an attempt at the eleventh hour to secure wood paving for Fabian-street has involved the loss of some time, but there is no longer any excuse for delaying the work of construction. The Morriston exte.nsion is ready for traffic, and in a week or two that from Bryn-road to Wind-street Bridge will be in a. like condi- tion. The Tramways Committee-, at its last meeting, prepared the way for the prompt and practical 1150 of these bv autliorising the chairman and vice-chairman to arrange with the Tramways Company the term." upon which these can betaken over by the latter. The only difficulty is that of apportioning the capital cost upon which the rental cf the company is based. This would be absent if the extensions were kept idle until all could be used together. But the interests of the public as passengers, and as rate- payers whose credit has been employed in obtaining the necessary capital, require that the money invested in the tramways should as sooa as possible uegin to earn, interest, etc. There are certain "oneral expenses which will have to be apportioned between the various sections, and the constructional cost of each of the latter will have to be as- certained as a, condition precedent to a.start. But this is surely within the competence of the respective accountants of the Corpora- tion and the company, and it should be pos- sible, without prejudice to either interest, to utilise each section as completed. The company has already secured additional cars, and others are about to arrive; the contrac- tors have, in respect of the Bryn-road and Sketty eections -exceeded the time allowance specified in the contracts. In these circum- stances the public may reasonably expect to see one-»if .not twef -of- the-tramway exten- sions in actuad* usci early in November,
l---IN LIGHTER VEIN.
l- IN LIGHTER VEIN. Whatever opinion Mr. Lloyd George anaf entertain of the pugnacity of the Welsh teaching fraternity, he will speedily find that he has a hard N.U.T to crack: Somebody lit a. cigar near fr. Alfred Davies, M.P., at the Cardiff Convent-ion. All the same, "Pickwick" obstinately de- clined to turn a hair. Punch, of 1870, contained the following atrocious joke—"A Welsh cad is worse than any other cad, because he has a. Cad-waHadi and a Cad-wa.Hon amongst his aJkcestors." A Gent was playing at half-back for Glou- ceste against Swansea last Saturday. It is not surprising therefore to be told that the game was contested in a most sportsmanlike and gentlemanly spirit. Told of the late Sir Wis. Harcourt:—■ "That relative of yours, Knightly, is rather proud of his pedigree, Harcourt." "Yes, so, like the man in Addison's poem a/nd nightly to the listening earth, repeats the story of his birth One Shepherd was sentenced at Swansea Quarter Sessions on Saturday another is auder remand at Cardiff charged with a more, serious offence. When the shepherds go astray however, it is usually the "sheep" who suffer. The commercial supplement ot the "Times" declares that the Scotch whisky trade is suf- lering from "over-production" (Shades of Macbeth! Stands Scotland where it did?) and is in a, very depressed state benerally. This latter is not remarkable whisky, as a rule, is always being "iowered." The Berlin Municipality is just at present head over heels in a controversy with the Kaiser, who to its Radical and Socialist tendencies. If they ever feel worsted in the duel, they have only to wire over to Brvnmelyn to find a match for the versatile William. General Kuropatkin cries: "The hour has come to strike!" "And GO say all of us," reply the malcontents amtmgsft his soldiery, who a.ro getting a. little bit tired of the whole business, and' think it time that tlie last arbitrament of the Trades Union wera resorted to. Swansea Vicar and t.he Current Contro- versy," eo runs the sub-head in a. corbtempor- ary. All the same the accompanying letter- press doesn't give one the ghest or a hint as to whether the worthy Vicar thinks the Brynmiil sewerage will be cast up on the foreshore or at the pierhead. A late Swansea barber had a taste in his lifetime for poetical quotations, to the in finite misery of unpoetical customers. Tho ruling passion was strong in death, for his tombstone at the present moment bears the legend "Oft did the stubble to his sickle yield." There is not much humour connected with the Loughor railway disaster but the party who awoke from forty winks to find his bead in the lamp and a hobnailed boot on top of it (vide Prem, interviews with survivors) may be excused a temporary delusion that he was engaged in a free fight- on the merits of Bancroft v. W infield. .ca. There is glee in Aberavon circles. On Sat urda y Glasgow Academy defeated Spere ^Schools bv.lQl aaintfa to nil. The Acud-t-my scored 8 goals .nd 4 tries m the first half, and 5 goals and 8 tries in the second half. At last it appeatB that the local fixture list arrangers have discovered a team the sturdy can rout; -+- A telegram referring to the Doctor's C'ongre.ss in London received in Swansea on Monday referred to "dLscipkj^of Aeskiopius." Shades of Galen! 'Tis many a long vear since the-reverend father of aJl quacks ea^ik to his long, long nest, and followed on the hee's of his patients. But 'twould mske his venerable bones wriggle in their final tene- ment wens his deaf ears to hear the above awe-infipi.ring mutilation. We expect that this will be a sample of what will be heard before November the first:—Lady (after doing a little canvassing): "You know you are entitled to a vote. Ara you on the register?"—John Jones "I am si-re I don't know, Miss."—Lady "Have you ever given your name in then?"—John Jones "I have never given my name to no ono except to the schoolmaster, and that was when the Coronation treat was on." o mi The recent girdings of Swansea Corpora- tion, press and public against the dilatory character and method of the work on the Swansea tramways extensions are at last reaping fruit in a visible and substantial ac- celeration of the late of progress. A month ago it required nineteen minutes for one of the horny-handed to imbibe a. pint of "four an "al£"; but increased assiduity and con- stant daily practice this period has now been decreased te eighteen minutes and fifty- nine seconds, timed by a stop-watch. "It's dogged as docs it." -+- Here, in all its virgin and pristine unsnb- edited purity is a facsimile reproduction of a junior football enthusiasts attempt at chron- iding the doughty deeds cf his team :—"A spiendid game was witnessed this evening be- tween tho Tinshcd Rovers and the Boy's Brigade near the Fish Wharf.St. Thomas, which ended in a win for the former by 1 goal 2 tries to 1 try. Jackko B—— scored for the Till Shed, Dai postponed converting for the Brigade, Tom G played a dash- ing game scoring a. try with three men hang- ing to his back." Sandow must look to his laurels. He has never, as a rule, supported more than ix men on his chest in weight- carrying exhibitins but here we have a St. Thomas amateur romping across the field with off-hand ease with three meu clinging nffecticnatcly to his neck.
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A gratifying tribute has been paid to British industrial art at the. St. Louis World's Fair by the award to Waring and Giliow, Ltd., in connection with their fine exhibit of Decorative Interiors of the Irghest honours obtn-inable, namely two grand prizes and two gold medals—the former L-eing fcr furniture and decoration, and the latter for upholstery and sanitation. One of the most interesting sights of Lon- don is the "Hippodrome," and no visitur can truly say thit he has seen London if he has not been to this unique entertainment. The building itself stands alone among the many of interest to be seen in the Metropolis. It is not only one of the prettiest, but its ar- rangement nermits of a splendid view fiom any part of the house, while its magni- ficently decorated dome adds to tho attrac- tion. But the stranger's attention 's naturally riyetted on the stage, which is lowered and raised at will, and more particularly on the arena, which, on being lowered, permits a flood of water to turn the centre into a lake, where all kinds of aquatic performances take place. The programme, constantly varied, includes the most novel attractions eclleeted from all parts of the world. Altogether it is a unique affair, the like of which is to be found nowhere in (fee world, and one cf fie attractions- that- no visitor to LoEdea akoaid piissi