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Is. extra for delivery on the Hill. [3673 ARTISTIC & USEFUL ARTICLES OF DECORATIVE FURNITURE, SUITABLE rOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. M. JACOBS & CO., COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS, PORTLAND BUILDINGS, HEATHFIELD STREET, SWANSEA. THE VKKY LATEST PRO- DUCTIONS IN OAiBOO FURNITURE, I LAMPS, PICTURES, COAL VASES. FANCY TABLES, AND CHAIRS, A Walk Through our Show-rooms will repay the trouble. AT PTT-LE-LIPSI REMNANT WAREHOUSE You will this Month meet with RARE BARGAINS in FLANNELS and FLANNELETTES, DRESS GOODS, SERGES, CALICOES, LINENS, VELVETS, PRINTS, and EVERY DESCRIPTION OF DR\ PERY Several Cheap Lots Bought to Clear ac Low Prices, SPECIAL BARGAINS in TWEEDS TROUSERINGS, OVERCOATINGS will bo Offered During the Month. 3932 DA VIES, PRACTICAL TAIL OR 2S, OXFORD-STREET, IS SHOWING NEW GOODS FOK WINTER WEAR FOR SUITINGS, OVERCOATS, &c. Moderate Prices. Style and Fit Guaranteed. Military Tailor to the 1st G.A.V. 3921 The "RIGHT-WRiTER" is the WTLLfAMS TIPEWRITEB a Machine of the Highest Standard, which is now taking a leading position wherever it is known. H.M. Government have adopted it, and »rsorder:n<j duplicates, for use in various Departments. Engineers and educated experts use bnfl recommend the Williams. It c possesses tiHc leading features of other writing machines, will do all that any of them claim to do, and v.th less trpuble and expense Tie iinns *.nd r/ords inffluding the last letter always in siVat. The IqBnp is direct from Pad3 without annoying a$l expensive ribbons \Y rite for Catalogue, f I WILLIAMS TYPEWRITES C8MPY, k. « FOR EUROPE, 21, C1IIAPSIBE, LONDON. | I I N A HYMAN FREEDMAN & SON, House Furnishers, NEW PREMISES. 28, Waterloo St., Swansea. Near New Temperance Hall, College Street. I Furniture of every description, our system being to ■Sell Best Quality Furniture at Lowest Cash Prices. Dining Room Suites from X4 10s., in Leather Cloth. A splendid Assortment of Brass Bedsteads, Fenders, and Fire Irons. Several Handsome Pieces of I ulaid Cabinet Work always in Stock. e e < =„ ,CHIPPENDALE B iT House Furnishers, NEW PREMISES. 28, Waterloo St., Swansea. Near New Temperance HaH, College Street. Bedroom Suites complete, £ 6 15s., consisting of Wardrobe, Dressing Chest Washstand, and Two Chairs. Carved Oak Furniture, Sideboards, Bookcases, Hall I Stands and Tables, I Louis IV, Cabinets, Carpet*, I Linoleums, Floor Clotns, I NOTE ADDHESS A CALL SOLICITED. HFMAN FREEDMAN & SON, 2S,' WATERLOO-STREET, SWANSEA. OURPMCES ARE MARKED AT NET CASH. WE DO NO HIRE SYSTEM. I ■ ■ ■ M II I. I 1"011 I F ^WEDDI&G- RINGSNk I GO I ( BROUGHTON'S. K- ■ THE HOTBD WKDDIXG R £ KQ SHOP, jg > Y Si op Hynod am Podrwyaa P?;oda#ol. g ■K 31, %IGH- STREET, S p*' SWANS £ A M t (Opposite D««rn and So" A Q! I MANSCHESTER'S I 1 V B 1 '3 a ? M N J <aJ STOCK-TAKING SALE OF HOSIERY k WATERPROOFS, iHff»aggaaBBBiiniiiBi"Hiwgaa—i■a—agM^wa—an— MANCHESTER, 6 AND 6A CASTLE-STKEET, SWANSEA. ■ ■Illl I 11 III II Mil I—III Mil II WWII II iBiPIIIIIIIII III Ml ■ III III ■ 111 II HW HBIH IH THE LARGEST SHOW OF INDIARURBEIL DOLLS IN THE TOWN. s ^:CV WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. y I THE LIVERPOOL CHINA. & INDIA TEA. CO I (LIMITED.) I 232, HIGH STREET. f FOR EXQUISITE FLAVOUR AND UNIFORMITY OF QUALITY, A b OUR TEAS A R E UNEX CE LLE D. PRICE LISTS AND SAMPLES ON APPLICATION. t OTICE OF R EMOVAL. ■I GEORGE BELLI ER, Hay and Corn Merchant, f TflE CENTRAL STORES, RICIIARD 3-PL ACE, SWANSEA, has REMOVED from I 29A to .'IS, ORCHARD-STREET. Dog Biscuits and all kinds of Poultry Food. English and Irish Hay and Straw of best quality. Daily Deliveries in Town and Neighbourhood. 4142 i JJL v OTP'S gOOTS. ENTIRE NEW STOCKS UP-TO-DATE PRICES. A "QUALITY UNSURPASSED, DRESS SIIOES IN GREAT VARIETY. 44. HIGH-STREET (CORNER OF ARCADE). MORGAN BEVAN ANt) SONS ARE NOW SHOWING LAMPS IN ENDLESS VARIETY OF QUALITY, STYLE, AND PRICE. ALL MAKKBD L" FIA1* FIGCRM. 24. CASTLE-STREET, SWANSEA. .:1:L; CHRISTMAS 1895.1 I Having already Sold Tons upon Tons- of our I' CHOICE SELECTED FRUIT, ) And having the pleasure or knowing the same gives entire sa.tis- faction, we shall continue to give our Customers and the Public generally the same value at the following Low Prices zn FINE BOLD CURRANTS AT lid. VERY FJNE QUALITY „ 2id- CGENEKALLY SOLD AT 4dj WONDERFUL VALUE IN RAISINS „ 3d. WONDERFUL VALUE IN SULTANAS ,,3d. TWO TONS OF LEMON PEEL ,,3d. THIS QUALITY SOLD AT OTIJErt STORES AT 3*d. AND 4d. ALL OTHER GOODS REQUIRED FOK CHRISTMAS USE CAN BE OBTAINED AT LOWER PRICES THAN ANY OTHER STORES IN TOWN. A CALL WILL CONVINCE YOU OF THIS. THE NATIONAL STORES SO, 1 i K ill STREET. Yours Faithfully, JONES & HOWELLS, 5695 r P. ITS UWN REWA RI). THE ESTABLISHMENT OF T. J PHILLIPS, 13, UNION-STREET, Still Mainlains its Reputation as being the CHEAPEST HOUSE IN SWANSEA FOR WATCHES. JEWELLERY, ELECTRO-PLATE, And a Multitude of .:7ANCY and ARTISTIC AliTICLLS. SUITABLE I v>-P 8 V p JSTMAS P R E S E N T S. BEN EVANS & CO., (LIMITED). SWANSEA; A CHOICE SELECTION" OF NOVEL AND USEFUL ARTICLES FUR NEW YEAR GIFTS. TO J L IT ALL AGES, AND AT ALL PRICES. NEW YIAR CARDS IN GREAT .VARIETY. In fact, the only place where the selectioo offered will be found to satisfy the requirements of every buyer. 0 i- (j JL7 A S T U D T' S 1 ANNUAL CARNIVAL. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAYS. GREATER ATTRACTIONS THAN EVER Everyone who wihes for Amusement should visit. the WORLD S CARNIVAL and FA i It on THE STRAND, SWANSEA. The Gondolas frtm Venice, Galloping Horses, Switchback llailwavs. Shows. C'oker- nut Bowling Saioons, Jc.nele Shootin; &3., &c Newman's Great West or England Cueus Company wiil also appear. NOTICE.—The Seiond Annual Gigantic CHRISTMAS TREE wiil talie place on NEW YEAR'S DAY, when the Thousands of Toys will be Distribuled Lo the POCir Children. The whole of tie Amusements will be Grandly llluminatec by Ele' trie Light, and a Grand Orehestron will discourse rich ntusic during t.be Enteriaiaments. 4197 W. F. BULL AM) Co., WINE. SPIRIT, AND CIGAR MERCHANT, &c. SINGLE BOTTLBS AT WHOLESALE PRICES. All Kinds of Helialile Qu'tlity. Any Quantity. BEER IN CASKS, 4t Gallons Up fronalOd per Galfbru BEER IN BOTTijE frum 2s. perdezen Pints. BEER ON DRAUGHT from Sid. par Quart. Call or Send for Price List,. Deliveries to All Parts oi tho Tewn. 10, UNION-STREET, SWANSEA. N.B.—Xmas Hampers of all Sizes and Priees. 4167 § "Yûu cannot use a better j| 3 g^arg'e than "CCS^DY." Sir Morel! Mackenzie, M.D. (Laie Physician, Threat Hospital), jjb SOLTl T-VK":t'WHi.HE. fej l^rCONDY'Sl £ REMEDIAL FLUID. „K ly-JAYPOLE J-JAIRY 0OMPAN Y MAYPOLE BUTTER Is. ID. PER LB. MAYPOLE BUTTER Is. ID. PER LB. HKLICIOUS, FIUSSH, PURB. CHOICEST BUTTER- IN THE WORLD MARGARINE 4td. per 111. MARGARINE 5d. nor lb.' Superior to that Boid elsewhere at 6d. and8d. per lb. MAYPOLE DAIRY CO., L07J.HIGH-STREET. SWANSKA. The Original Remedy for HEART DISEASE and all its weaknesses. The only Remedy which treats successfully <! CHANGE OF LIFE." IN MOREFS SOVRAN HAS THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY MEDICINE. It dissolves the food, thereby compelh Qg I digestion. It promotes circulation of the blood. it soothes and strengthens irritated nerves, [t giveg stamina to man, promoted muscle. It cleanses the Kidneys and the Liver of all ifupurilies. 2110 PHILLIPS' REMNANT WAREHOUSE, 15, UNION-STREET, SWANSEA JUST KKfJIIYiD, MAN UF ACT U HERS' SAMPLE STOCK OF APRONS & PINAFORES AT A, GREAT REDUCTION. FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. CHEAP LOT OF LACKS, llIBEONS. &c., &c. liKMNANTS—CUEAM, NAVY AND BLACK SKitGIiS- GifEAiLY ITELUCED, DIRECT FROM OCR OWN MILLS. FLEMING. [{KID. & CO-, SPINNERS A; MAN UFA CI URERS, 0 T 1, THE WORSTED MILLS. GREENOCK. Have opened a Branch of the SCOTCH WOOL AND HOSIERY STORES AT 7, OXFORD-STREET IS WAN SEA, For the sale of the Celebrated CKEENOCK WOOLS & KNITTED HOSIERY AND SUAWSWATER DRESS FABRICS. These (Joods arc well-known and largely used in every towu in Scotland and England. Patterns and l'rice Lisl supplied fr,e. Other 70 branches in the i>rin-;ipal Scotch and English towns. 3401 bOYAL WELSH TREOREY MALE li. VOICE PARTY. GRAND CONCERT AT THE ALBERT HALL, SWANSEA, IN FULL NUMBER, JANUARY 30TH, 1896. [4229 vrOTICE. — MERCANTILE MARINE N I^XAMINATIONS. — The ioiiowiny pcntlenieii from Captain Dixon's Nautical Academy, 9, hansel-street, were successful at the recent Bristol and hv/ansea txatnina- tions:—Air. A. N. Heatn, 2S, Benthall-place, St. Thomas, as second mute; Mr John 'Ihomas, 1, Coleburn-terrace, as first mate; Mr. William Brandt, 107, Pentre^uinea-road, and Mr. Hobert Dav,7, Church-street, St. Thomas, as masters, also obtaining Firsi-eiass Honours in Compass Deviation. 4481-4 £ 1 IS OD. HAMPERS OF WINES AND SPIRITS (Asserted according to directions). ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE BEST VALCE IN THE MARKET. MARGRAVE BROS., LLANELLY, SOLE PROPRIETORS:- EXCELSIOR WHISKY. Recommended fcr the Sick and Convalescent: by the Highest Medical Authorities and Journals in the Kingdom. 1643 WOOLS, WORSTEDS, AND KNITTED HOSIERY, ANNUAL SALE OF SECOND-HAND WATCHES. SECOND-HAND GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, BY P.ST MAKELIS, IN* GREAT VARIETY. I Gold E.i<;iish Levers from £ 4 10s. Silver Levers fron'30s. All equal to new at half I the usual cost. NEW METAL WATCHES in great variety, i in Aluminium, Steel, and Nickel, warranted to give satisfaction, 10s. 6d. each. T AY LOR 20., LTD. (Late B. R. HENNESSY), 5, WIND-STREET, SWANSEA. 2383 1_
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1895.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1895. NOTES & COMMENTS If the interests of education were less frequently subordinated to the interests of sect on our school boards it would be possible to predict with some degree of confidence that Mr. David Salmon, prinei- pal of the Training College, would be elected to-day to the seat made vacant: by the deatii of the late chairman. But, except a practical and intimate knowledge II of educational work, Principal Salmon has no qualification for the work calculated to win the support of the typical member who, owing his seat to a denominational vote, considers it his first duty to further I the interests of members of that denomi- nation. Nevertheless, we hope that for once good sense and a duty leys circumscribed in its scope will be respected by the selection of Principal Salmon. Ho is strong precisely where the Board is weak, and would bring to educational matters a ripened judg- ment and wide-experience bound to be of .incalcuta.ble value. We do not hnppen to kuow what religious body !*ts his supper, and in truth tho point is immaterial in his case, as a body constituted entirely of denomina- tional representatives will be all tha better J or one member free from sectarian bhaekles of any kind. The rapid subsidence of tVe war feeling in the United States brings h the fore- ground once more the still critics) situa- tion in the East. Far from benefitting by the lapse of time the latter gains in pern day by tiay. The capture of Zeitun, with the consequent great slaughter of the Armenians, tends to increase the difficulties of a paciiio settlement* Events cannot long pursue their present cour3e without provoking the interposition of the powers, and that would be not the end, but the beginning of things. 'i On Saturday we were ah:o to give a Crauliic description of the Loxtois por- I petrated in Armenia as seen by throe of I our own people--members of a ianiily long identified with Laudore. It helped us to realize at once the barbarism of the Turk when aroused, and the reality of the sufferings which remoteness in point of distance tends to make vague and im- personal. Voltaire once observed that if a man in Paris could, by touching a button, kill a mandarin in China, the temptation to do so often would be well nigh irresis- tible. The narrative of Mr Llewelyn Abraham and his sons brought the Armenian victims infinitely closer to us, and transformed them from abstractions to real men and women of flesh and blood like ourselves. The now scale of salaiies for teachers, which the sub-committee appointed will submit to-day to the School Board, is baso'.l on a sound principle. There probably will be differences of opinion, b jtli within and without the board, as to the adequacy or inadequacy of the salaries, but the ground work is at least solid. By recog- nising credentials and period of service as the determining factors in fixing remunera- tion, the board would lessen facilities for favouritism, and secure for the successful teacher the fruits of his industry and capacity. Occasionally it may be found necessary to depart from the strict letter of the scale—a cast iron scale would operate harshly now and then—but on the whole educational authorities will not go far wrong in distinguishing between the trained and tho non-trained teacher, and also between the teacher who has emerged from the recognized tests successfully, and he whose success has been moderate or infinitesimal. Some results of the voluntary system in the United States may be learnt from Dr. Strong's book, The New Era." He says that the) e are at least seventy towns in Maine in which no religious service is held, and, again, that along the Erie Canal for eight miles he found scattered hamlets, containing together a considerable popula- tion, where there were no religious services of any kind from one year to another. This ho attributes entirely to two things, viz., absence of endowments and poverty. Mr T. C. Horsfall has pointed out that the condition of the poorer districts of Chicago in respect of reiigious organisation is very instructive as to the power of Free Churchesto meet the needs of a city population. For Chicago has been of very rapid growth, and in 1871 an area of three and a third square miles, a large propor- tion of the city as it then existed, was destroyed by fire. It is a city which contains a very large number of extremely rich people, and to be members of a Church s one of the things expected of rich people in America, so that the districts inhabited by the rich contain a large number of churches yet, while in 1870 there was one church for 2,433 persons, in 1890 there was only one for every 3,001 and there are, he is told, large poor dis- tricts practically without churches. Of the cities of slower growth the same report is made. Archdeacon Mackay- Smith stated in 1890 that there was a district in New York containing a larger population than Detroit — i.e., over 205,000 persons — in which there were substantially lio Protestant churches, but only a ieh-" ch:tpels and three Roman Catholic churches. In the thirteenth ward of Boston, with upwards of :22,000 souls, there was not a single Protestant church, while in the eleventh —the Back Bay—with a smaller popula- tion, there were thirty.' The worst portions of the cities are fear- ully destitute of churches, and generally growing more so. It was stated by Dr. A. F. Schaufflcr, in 1888, that during the twenty years preceding nearly 200,000 people had moved in below Four- teenth-street, New York, and seventeen Protestant churches had moved out. One Jewish synagogue and tw Roman Catholic Churches had been added. So that, counting churches of every kind, there were fourteen less than there were twenty ye.rs before, when there were nearly 200,000 fewer people."
RE UNION OF CHRISTENDOM
RE UNION OF CHRISTENDOM OBSERVATIONS BY FATHER OHARK, LLANELLY. At the Roman Catholic Church, Llanellv, on Sunday evening the Rev. Father O'Haro delivered what he described as a few observations'' on the question of the re-union of Christendom, winch, lie said, was en»a<;ing at the present time the attention of the whole of Christendom. A letter had been addressed by His Holinoss the rope to Christian jeeople on tho question, in order to stop, as far as possible, the scandalous multiplication ot sects that wsis ,,oiiig on throughout the world. Ho had referred to that let er on a previous occasion. Thousands of people were absolutely shocked with t e new religious that were starting every day, and louging lor the time to coiwe when t'tefe n would he only one religion as there was in the time before the Reformation. Those tuUide the pale of Christianity were making fliu ttnd sport of this multiplication of the sects, .oincone in Llanelly had Laken objection tbiit he had said on the matter on a previous occasion, particularly to t wu points. Tiiir. individual in a iet; £ >- to ,c press had said that he (the rev. goutkmas;.) ought to know that there was more ui&i..«iwn in the Roman Catholic Church than anywhere else. He named such Orders as the Benedictans, the h ranciscans, and the Dominicans, That. statement was ridiculous, because these were all bodies which were approved by the 1'ope. That man knew no more Hbout the Catholic reiigion tliiiii the man in the moon knew how much each one in that congregation had put on the oilertorv plate that evening. His critic's next point was Lhaj he (the rev. father) had made a jjreat nuo.ake in btating the number of sects existing in the world, and that lIe had areatly exaggerated in saying that there were 3'JO different sects in England. Whiltaker's Almanac for 1896—which was Protestant— aaid that there were at present 295 registered Protestant sects in Ln^land. lie had given the number at 300, so that the exaggeration was not very great after all. The same almalmc said on page 217 ihat during the p.st 12 months 15 uew religions had been established. He would give the names a, a few of them: ''The King's Own Army," "ihe Army or the Lord," The Universal Shouters.1' "The Body of Chriat," "Church of England inuittaehed" (" that is tho queerest title 1 have heard lor a long vline," observed Father O'Hare), "Con- gregation of the Saints of the Covenant," "•the United Christian Army" (" Lh»tt is all we waul," said Father O'Hare in passing, "l but I am sure they would not join with the others"), ''The United EVan- gebcal Church of Germany,' and "iho! United Christians." A„ain, according; to I >' Lntl.aUcrX there are £ 00,000,01.0 Roman Cat. olios m the world to-dav- It was only in the C'ntholie Church they could possible have that. uniLy. Having given some further statistics, Father l/11 are con- eluded Ly expressing the hoije that very soon all the tiects would recognise the "ocessitv of corning buck to th-j old trunk, ;,ud noL tie as tranches cut off, but as brandies attaehed to tho liv ing trunk, v/hic'a WILli Jesus Christ, ::>
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FOOTBALL NOTES.I
FOOTBALL NOTES. I (BY II FREELANCE.") Hardly footbal1 weather on Saturday, was it ? All very well for grandstanders, but the sixpenny wallflower,; had to blossom under adverse circum- stances. They say that rain sharpens the wits; it seemed to on [Saturday, auywa,}-. I fore- gathered for some period with the sixpenny crowd—they are far more amusing companions than those in the stand. One hoary-headed aucient near me kept up a cantiuual fire of com- ment as delightful as it was spontaneous. Darn the rcfer"c," he kept saying (only he say dirnl,Swiiltoii g«in' to be beat, darn why give 'em another free?" Pre- sently the packg were scrimmaging in the open. "Look at 'em," pursued the ancient, see how they're smokin and steacnin, that's the Ciirismus puddn they've been 'av'in." And all the wlile the moisture was dripping from his hat eaves, irrigating his side whiskers and refresbin^ his nose tip. he stood undaunted and followed the game with the ardour and glee ot a man one-fourth his age. That's the sort of i-peetator i like to jostle elbows with Yes; most of the spectators at St. Helen's on Saturday were real enthusiasts. Luke-warm, h ilt-hearted people sulked at hume over the fire. Weil, let their consolation he that they missi-d about the finest game that it has been my lot to witne-s this season. The match between Swansea. and Swiutoa was a grand game-—the finest game, I t!:ink, I have ever seen under such depressing atmospheric conditions. Oh, yes, it was another draw, but we are used to them now. But the amusing ptirt oi the business is the very diverge calibre of the teams that we have drawn with. I should suggest that next year the Swansea committee advertise the Christmas week matches with a big placard bearing the superscription, "Come and see our Annual Christinas Dra.w i" I eallt say much tnore about the match than was said on Saturday. Everybody seems ugrced that Swansea had very h^rd ones in not winning, and everybody is equally unanimous as to the high standard of the Swansea forward play. We very nearly came up to the Newport standard, and gave the Swintou pack: a shoving areund that they haven't experienced of late. We cer- tainly ought to have scored, and 1 know full weil that if Swmton bad had hasf the chance that fell to the ioc of the All White backs they would have popped overtwoortblee times. Of the three crossings of the line by the Ail Whites, 1 have only to say that from what I can hear from those in the best position to judge, Messer's try was a fair one, and should have been allowed. Mr. A, J. Daviesdidn't think it was,and—coaseieutiousiy enough—c-uidn't sea his way to allowing Í1;. Let us not cavil about it. We can't always have the Iud<, but our day will come eventually It is all very well to curse the luck. but the remedy thereof in a large measure iies close to the hands of the Swansea Committee. Until backs have a chance of getting to know each other's style thoroughly their attack must remain weak. Wny should the Swansea team be chopped and changed about week after week in a manner unknown in other towns ? I am convinced that and changed about week after week in a manner unknown in other towns? I am convinced that the material for a tip-top team is here, but it does not have a chance of fusing together. With such a lot of forvvaida as tho All Whites can place in front they ceuld make things hum if the back contingent were nearly KF good. The Welsh game demands perfect understanding behind, back contingent were nearly KF good. The Welsh game demands perfect understanding behind, and when this has been secured even moderate individual talent goes a leng way. My Llauelly correspondent writesAfter witnessing a gsime like that played by the Scarlets 011 Saturday one seems tempted to sum up his afterthoughts in the mere expression, I- You ought to have seen the game for yourself." Before last Saturday I would have argued against all the football authorities iu the kingdom—no one would seriously argue against me—that correct, and unerring passing was impossible on such a miserably muddy ground as we saw at Gloucester on Saturday, and with a ball as heavy as a lump of lead, and as greasy as a melting bladder of lard. But it is quite a delusion. The "boys" can do it. They did it ca Saturday. Ask the Gloucester players or spectators and they will Touch for the truth of what I say. An easier matter still, and almost as convincing in the result, would be for anyone to look over the report of the game, in which it I will be seen that four tries out of the five were scored by the backs. The fifth was scored by Jack Evans, and was really the outcome of a hue individual effort on his part, and not a combined rush or anything of that sort by the forwards. So, vou fee, the good old game is passing through a stage of transition, and the Llanelly moil are teaching us that it is quite unnecessary lor any smart fifteen to go in for an exhibition of inud-larking because a ground happens to be soft anu muddy, aud that on such a ground it is possible to playa good passing game. I thoroughly believe that a. dry ground a.d a dry ball are conducive to a more faultless system of passing, but until Saturday I never thought it could be done so well on a gr,und which had feUueruti SJ much from ram. Those who saw the Penarth match at StnJey, which was played 011 a wet Saturday, will be able to appreciate the reastuabteMess of what 1 have just vvr'ttcn. Mr. Holmes, of the Midland counties, who ac'ed as referee, was simply astonished with the passing of the Llanelly backs, and confessed that he had never entertained the idea of the four- three-quarter system being so effective. It makes one feel sorry that such men as Mr. Holmes do.i't gee a little more of Welsh football <is it is now played by our leading teams. The more they would see of it the more they would like it. I never saw anything prettier than the way in which Davies ".nd Lloyd covered the ground along the touch line from the centre-flag right over the Gloucester line. Both kept runtime hi aline withench other as nearly as possible, the ball going backwards and forwards between them with sur-h a rapidity that one who bad never seen tho trick done before could mi'/e been pardoned for thinking that they were handling a h t cinder. It was lovely, I can tell you, but rough on poor Gloucester Although the journey was a rather long one, the plucky were not suffered to go ail alone, about half-a-dozen of their most loy d supporters going with them. The visitors to the sleepy old city were given a hearty reception, especially when they filed out into the field of play. 1 mast guy that the Gloucester spectators are about Lhe most fair, impartial, and yet enthusiastic hIt of I people I have ever come across. It was quite a refreshing novelty to be mixed up in such a crowd. The same* spirit was shown in the com- ments of the g"mc which appeared ill the Gloucester Citizen on Saturday evening. A few days a.zo a statement was made to me by a member of the Welsa Um«n Committee, which may or may not throw a light ou the incomprehensible severity of the English Union's treatment of the Jameses. Before the season commenced the Welsh Committee adopted a. resolution recommending the reinstatement, of tbe famous halves. No one present voted against the resolution, but several abstained from voting. After the meeemgoneor t«ve among the abstainers declared that though they had not opposed V-z recommeadatioa, still, personally, they woiA never reinstate them. It is quite possible, if not actually probable, that the English authorities are permitting themselves to be more influenced by non-officiai expressions of opinion from num- bers of the We.sh Union than by official recom- mendations. J n view of this the chanccs of a successful i effort being made on the eve of the match at Blac'iheath grow less hopeful. The members of the Welsh Union do not seem to have realized the indignity ianiettdupou th?m as a body m he disregard sh .wn for their recommendation. Already 16 matches have been arranged with English teams for next season by the Jdauell.y Chi). Rockclilfe, Swinton, Gloucester, Sc. Helen's Recreation, aed Leicester figure 911 the list, and negotiations are proceeding for one if not two fixtures with Blackheath.
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TILJT POST BAG- I.). j¡)_ --)0-' The turkey, Trhich is much sougbt xftar ILI this period of the year to face the roast boffl was imported into England in 15Z4. In future the windows of tbo Swansea Board Schools are to be cleaned every three months. This is a big step, for hitherto they have only gloried in a bi-annual wash A Llanelly enthusiast who was told that Gloucester had beaten the Scarlets by two tries to one, turned seven different shades before he reahsed that he was being got -it- That record has becomo the most valuablfl article in the tewn. The telephone has become an invaluable aily in newspaper work. On Saturday, fOL' example, every word of the football report of the match at Gloucester cittneby 'phone. Sill. gularly enough the private wire from the offie. to the St. Helen's Ground was unusab!* because of the weather. A tin-plate workman is said to be the author of the following puzzle — My de-if friend Is., please call at the 5s. 3rt at 7.30,- Yours truly, 10. 6d. The interpretation is as follows My deai fi ,end Bob, please call at the Crown X*r(* at half-past seven.—Yours truly, BOB TAX NEK. A man who called at a hay stores in High- street on Saturday left his horse and cart out- side. The norae, it appears, was very thils and poorly fed, and a little urchin who was viewing ttie horse suddenly took out of his pocket a piece of paper and pencil and wrote, Oats wanted. Inquire within," and pla.eeà it o. the horse's baek. Spinnaker Boom returned to an earli*' passion with happy results in his goose convention" of Friday last. The reported admission of "Zetus" because the geese considered him "quite one of themselves might, in other da.ys, have led to "pistols tot two, and coffee for one." "V The attendance at the Empire on Boxing Day was the best on record, and the week'* attendance also established a. new record Was this due to the recent attack on ap4 vindication of the Empire; to natural gro"'t* in its popularity; to increased prosperity 19 the district; or to the three causes combined ? A good idea of the material condition of a town may he gathered from the volume of business done in goods not absolute necessities. A butcher conducting one of the largest businesses in the berough sunmed np his Christmas experienee in the word., "Fewer people than usual came to see the show of meat, but I soli more than I did 06 any previous time for several yeara." Come, Welshmen, one and all rejoice, Christinas has come with all its joya Amongst us once again. Old fri, nds gladly each other meet, Some at their homes, some in tho street, In Christian land. To every reader of the Post, No Tllatterthongh they are a host, A hearty wish we send- A Happy New Year to you all. Which pleasant memories may recall As years on each descend. KOAMEB. Swansea. In the current number of the Britisf1 Weekly is a notiee that the report that the Rev. W. E. Shaw, of Swansea, had received call to Fairiieid Chureh, Liverpool, is in" correct. A fond parent sends us the following for publication from Llangenneeh. It may he due to the enervating influences of Yulatilic, but honestly we fail to locate the joke. Perhaps our readers will be marl) f.rtm::J' —" Whiie the mother was combing the; of her little girl, who dreads the comb, a! year-old bov, who was standing by, expl* that the brush was "Abel," and the com- Cain." A correspondent assures us that so con- fident were the worshippers at sa. chapel within eight miles of Swansea that Disestab- lishment was a certainty, and that a propor- tion of the tithes would be available for then* at onee, that a local mason was asked to tender for enlarging the ehapel. To ensure accuracy the latter took off the roof^f'XheO the Liberal eollapse happaned, and »ofv way* and means are being considered fer r<yjlaf'iD» the roof. A Pontardulais young man -.took his intended for a brief holiday up Rhondda way last week. When he returned he vkas aaked by a friend how he had enjeyedjbimself, ascl also about the wonders and curiosities he bad seen in that famous country. ,rOh," replied our Adonis, it is prand up there, man; yOIJ ought to see the gravestones—so nico 2-Iti bea.utifu' Subsaquentiy it transpired tba* his cup of pleasure had been distilled in the cemeteries of the district. Goose stories are now the rage; this is ene of them. A sea captain well-Jtnowc it' Swansea will swear to its veracity. "Give me a duck for dinner queth the said cantp-ill one day when they were rounding Cape liorr" The cook heard the order and took a live duck from the pens un deck. He screwed the n«ck of the bird, feathered it, placed it on the table, and then made the "stuffing." "The man went away (these are the raptain's divo words) to fetch tho pepper, ami when he returned, blow me if the duck had adjusted its neck and devoured the wkloJle Of the stuffing!" A local contemporary is responsible ice this. "It, is not an unusual thing to COSIO across grim humour in the "uncouth rhymes that deck the 'fraitmeutorinis of a Wel»h churchyard. Epitaphs are as a rule very flattering, but few can describe the final departure of a man following, put up lately III a churchyard 10 the neighbourhood of Swansea:— He left his home in perfect ktplltji. Little he thought of death One moment busv at his work, Tiic next he lost his breath," In the course of a lecture on The afilof- musician, a week since, in London, M, Auguste Van Biene, who only a few Wf'e:øt back was in Swansea, related the following:-— Moseagni was at work one day vrban h» "Intermexzo" from" Cavalleria. Knalio* Tho composer beckoned to the man and ¡,.Id. him that whilst he had no objection to b;U& being so near his bouse, he was annoyed 96 his grinding out the selection from his epcf* at so rapid a tempo, Forthwith Mascagf'1, turned the handle and showed him ho* il; should be played. The following the poor man returned, and on 1 bc compo*etr looking out of the window great was hi* astonishment at finding on the'organ a car-d bearing the words, "Signor Toronto, popli of Mascagni!" At a Swansea committee meeting the otill9e day a memteer from the upper part of tulS town popped in, put his name on the atlen" duVce book and (according to tm Mail, which. teils the tale) disappeared. Later on it ly-O hinted loacertaiu bL. Thomas member thftt he nover turned up unless he wanted sOlnc'" thing for his district. Well," said he in reply* "at any rite, we do sit the meetings aut, like your members-" A minute later ho put bi* hand in 1118 pocket and found lie had <«nlyhv<* minutes to spnre before keeping an importar.1i I appoilltmenL, His jaw dropped, but lie hltl not the courage to leave ::iter his speech o- few minutes before, and at the end of meeting another member for ins district and vigorously protested agaiust being sio*' I larlv imprisoned by 111a brag!