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p antv gotarC the < £ oat>t I NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. of Agriculture were instituted in England in 1838. "A RATEPAYER."—I am not going to take the risk, thank you. "M.P."—Mr. Ormsby Grore may not be a genius, but he will most likely be a member of the next Conservative Government. Wait and see. "T.F."—The case you refer to is one for trial in a court of law. This paper is not a place where caaes can be tried in the absence of the accused. "PADAR^—Your village is not worse than many others. You have reme- dies. Why do you not resort to them ? "THESPIAN STREET."—The work which is being done is in the right direction. Wait until it is finished. WHAT, N'EVER? In a South Wales affiliation case an •rder was made against a. man. He was asked if he had never kissed a girl, and he said, "No, I have never kissed a girl in my life." I see how it might have been. He probably let the girla kisa him. THOU AND I. RE. Tell me, my darling, why Thou dos't so sob and sigh. Thy eyes with tears are wet. What is thy grief, my pet? SHE: I grieve, and grieve, and grieve. Death does my life bereave. The hope I had is dead. No more need now be said. HB. Be brave. Try to take heart And play life's noble part. 'Tis sorrow such as thine That makes this life divine. SHE (still weeping). Go. Leave me here alone, There's nothing can atone For all that I have lost At more than this life's cost. HE. I go, and yet remain To share thy woe and pain. There are rifts in the gloom And in the ills that loom. iBe brave have faith be strong. Bliss is not won by wrong. What now is hard to bear May mean joy otherwhere. LIBERAL RASCALITY. I am distressed. Owing to circumstances ever which I had no control, I am a Lib- eral and a Nonconformist. This is sad enough, but to add to the trouble I believe in the honesty and ability and rightmind- edness of Mr. Lloyd George. I do not even think that the members of the Liberal Government are roguea and liars and thieves and betrayers of their country. I believe, of course, in Welsh Disestablish- ment, and am sorrowful to find that this is a sure sign of my incurable rascality. There is, apparently, no hope for me. I even believe in paid members of Parlia- ment and in a reformed House of Lords, although I shall never be a member. Death duties do not trouble me, because I am not well enough off to hive to pay them. I am sorry for this also. I am quite wil- ling to be a multi-millionaire, and a member of the House of Lords, but there are obstacles in the way. It is very sad to be charged with rascality by men who are breeding civil war in Ireland, but such is life. I wonder, 0, how I wonder, why this is thus. It is a very queer thing that only Liberals and Nonconformists are rascals, and that all Conformists and Conservatives are gentle- men and Christians, even if they are nursing civil war and accuse other people of crime and wickedness. I am very sorry for myself, but I do not want to be Carson- ated or Bonarlawed. I often wish I could have been a Con- formist and a Conservative, but I was not made that wny. and so I remain an object ef scorn and contempt in the eyes of thm:0 who have done what I woufel rather go to hell than do. ABOUT THE FOUR NATIONS. Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland. in a recent speech at Bristol, said that to him Ireland always was, and always must remain, a nation. No Englishman who had held the office be held could ever find himself in any part of Ireland and think he was in England. He felt himself not, indeed, in a foreign land, but in a country with a nationality of her own. What is trne of Ireland is true of Wales and of Scotland and, in some sort of way, of England also. England acts bump- tiously on the presumption that it is the cnly real nation, and thai; presumption was probably the str.te of mind of those who gave to the four nations the name "United Kingdom" instead of "United Kingdoms." Ireland is separated from the other three nations by tho sea, but that separa- tion is becoming lexs significant every year owing to increased facilities of transit. Wales has many counties on its extended border, and is becoming the health and pleasure resort of the people in centres of great population. The natural beauty of Wales is far greater than is yet realised, and the ability of the rural people to speak English is making Wales more popular every year. The nationality of Wales no more depends on the Welsh language than the nationality of Ireland or Scotland depends on the Irish or Scotch language. Scotland is a nation and, like Ireland and Wales, will remain for some time yet a nation. Anyone who presumed that the dying of the Scotch language is imperilling the nationalism of Scotland would be laughed at. England is the least distinctive, nation- ally, of the four nations. Dialects have died out or are dying. The centres of great population are being increased by the coming in of people from the other three nations, and from countries in every part aif the world, including India, China, Japan, and Africa. National, racial, and language changes are slow, so slow that a few centuries scarcely count. Esperanto may become the universal language of the world, but the chances are not great. The seven or eight hundred millions of India and China are going to exercise great world-wide in- fluences, but those influences will develop slowly. What I see, cr seem to see, is that science is going to change the conditions of human life by enabling food to be manufactured as other things are manufactured. Just think what would be meant if large areas of land were not required for the growth of grain or the rearing and feeding of live stock. The world might have a population of fifteen or twenty thousand millions of people when food is manufactured, as paper and clothe are manufactured. I see in the newspapers from time to time indications that the growth of food may become obsolete owing to scientific discoveries,, and that many of the parts of the body may consequently become un- necessary owing to the fact that the functions will cease and the parts will be- come atrophied. Nationalism is a queer thing, and so is individualism. What I want to make clear is the fact that nationalism, if it is dying, is dying very slowly, and that it does not depend on a distinct language, or else there would be no nationalism in the United States, where English is the national language, or in Ireland or Scot- land where the old languages are dead or dvinf. C ALWAYS THE SAME. The sorrows and troubles of life are much the same now as they were thou- sands of years ago. What can I say to you that might not have been wisely sr.id be- fore the lamentable expulsion from Para- dise? My advice, and I myself act on it. is to bear what there is to bear and to soy nothing about it unless you can see a sort of grim joke in it. SA VE YOFB BACON. People are being advised not to buy bacon, owing to its dearness. At a recent meeting of a Grocers' Association it was said that bacon is going to be dearer still. I am told'that cannibals say there is very little difference between the taste of bacon and human flesh. I never had an inter- view with a cannibal, or dined with one. The only advice I can give is to save your baoon. OBSERVATIONS. Most people envy other people because they do not know what the other people have to bear. I think that forgetfulness has been a far greater blessing to me than, memory. The wise spend far more time in trying to say what they think than in trying to think what they will say. Nothing, perhaps, is more terrible to the consequential individual than his first real, isation that he is of no more importance tlfan a speck of dust, or a drop of dew, or a blade of grass. There are, perhaps, no greater tragedies in women's lives than those entailed by personal ugliness. I have not attained too much honour or position in the world, but the clumsy, vulgar recognition by people of what I do possess makes me laugh in scorn. It often happens that nothing is more I surprising to individuals than to discover that they have broken laws, human or divine. All religions, whether called true or false, are based on imperfect knowledge of this world and on absolute ignorance of the next. POOR THING, BUT FLY. Here is an advertisement from a London daily paper:— YOUNG Gentlewoman, orphan, limited means, wishes Post DAILY COMPANION to Lady; town; fond of theatres; further particulars at interview.—Address— What will be the young gentlewoman's future ? MY FRIEND. The newspapers announce that Mi. Andrew Oarnegie will receive the honorary freedom of Coventry and Lincoln on June 4th. He has already received the honor- ary freedom of over fifty cities and towns in Great Britain. I wonder if I could get him to give me one of the silver caskets for use if ever I am made an honorary freeman. I also wonder why he does not send me that odd million which I have never asked him for. What a hard, cruel world this is. I would rather like to see Mr. Carnegie and, as was said in another case, if ever he comes within a few miles of my bit of a place on the coast, I hope he will stop there. MORE SIDES THAN ONE. A London magistrate, last week, described the Insurance Act as a capital Act for idle people when he ordered what was described as a labourer who had been disorderly* when he had been for his out-of work pay. Labourers who prefer out-of- work pay will be got rid of by employers, for it is possible for the employed to do very little work. There are many sides to the Insurance Act, as the chronic vagrant is discovering. VARIED. A girl employed in house work was very thin when she entered service, but on her first day off she was stouter. When she came back she was as thin as before. This puzzled the employer who, on investigat- ing her wardrobe, missed a lot of clothes. Then there was trouble. She had not been taking a quack medicine, but something I else. A BAD SHOT. A tramp wont to a lonely cottage in North Wales. The woman gave him some tea and went to get him some matches. He is said to have attacked her. She went upstairs for a loaded revolver, which was always kept ready for work of this sort, and fired at him three times, but did not hit him once. How fortunate, both for the woman and tramp. AN APPEAL. A woman with twelve children has made an appeal to the Queen and to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer in reference to the difficulty she and her husband had to get a house with sufficient accommodation for their large family. The Todmorden Co- operative Society have got the woman out of her difficulty by providing a suitable house. Just think of Mr. Lloyd George having to be a sort of house provider for large families in addition to his other duties. I TOLD YOU SO. Dr. S. D. Olippingdale read a paper last week before the Section of Balneology and Climatology of the Royal Society of Medicine on "London as a Health Resort." I have told my friends many times that unless seaside health and pleasure resorts improved their sanitary conditions London and other centre cf large population would become health resorts. It seems to be quite impossible to drive into local govern, ing bodies of small towns the fact that sanitary neglect is fatal to them. FEBRUARY. I been in the lanes and woods. February is a time when winter is at its. best. The bleached grasses are exception, ally thick in the hedgerows. At the roots of the trees there is life, but there are not many signs of it on the surface. Here and there is a twitter of birds, but the silence of winter prevails in the main. I gathered some curious growths which to me were beautiful. I cannot describe them, but they are really beautiful—at least so I think. In another month there will be signs of spring. Last year's autumn lasted until December, and even now, in February; there are growths that might have been killed by November: frosts. The silence of the lanes and woods is very pleasant to me, and means more to me than I can easily say. The rills are very vocal, and the songs of the trees are, as of old, full of music. The Co est. J.G.

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