The North Wales Weekly News

SA YINGS OF THE WEEK. DR. INGRAM. Men ought not to leave the observance of re- ligion to their women folk .alone.—At Notting- ham. < MR. ERNEST TROWER. 'I Sunday would not be such a dull day if we English were not such dull people.—At Bourne- mouth. FATHER VAUGHAN. SieJLf-rerverence and self-control are being re- garded as the of a bygone day.- At Farm-atreet Chapel. PROF G. I. 5i. LLOYD. Germany has found out that it is cheaper to keep men alive amd well than to allow them to die or be ill.—Ait Sheffi eld. PRINCIPAL GRAHAM. All the wans in our time could have been avoided. We want to behave like gentlemen among gentlemen among the nations of the ea-t,h.-At Manchester. CANON MASTERMAN. 'If it is desired that men should live for some- timing beyond the football match and the public- house, their imaginations must be stirred.—Ait Coventry. < PROF. HUGH WALKER. E-.itheir we may make the comfort of the poor o-'ur principal aim or we may aim at their etm- a-ncipatdon. The lOT-mer is a quack remedy, the other is not.—At Birmingham. DOROTHY DIX." d The same old dreary round of the same old jieary foods, cooked in the same old dreary -fanner, is what borne cooking iepresents to go per cent, of the people who. keep house.—In the York Americain."

WEEK BY rVEEK. One of the finest shops, in Egypt is that at Alexandria owruedby Mlt. Bryan, who is a Walsh-speaking Welshman, born in Carnarvon, and married to an Aberystwyth lady. Mr. Bryan also owns shops at Cairo and Khartoum. Mir. Bryan's daughters, are at present being educated at Aberystwyth. it it it Jiane had had a strenuous day in the nuraery, and there had been more than one pointed re- ference to the possible absence of Santa Claus. When she went to bed, her mother, as usual, heard her say her prayers. To the uSlual formula Please make me a good girl" an unexpected .rider was added, And make, daddy and mammy better, tooif you possibly can." •* Two men on the tram top were talking about house-hunting in Manchester suburbs, and this was a scrap of their conversation — Why not come and join us in —— Park? Impossible! It is all clay there." But we don't have to. eat clay." No, it's worse than that." How worse? You have to live on it." It is not always easy to decide how to act in such moments as this of which Sir Edward Blount once tald. He was riding on the tender of an engine during a railway journey in France. Not far ahead a child stepped on the line, walking 1eisurlly across. The driver seized his whistle, ajnd Sir Edward BloUTllt stopped his arm. Should he whistle or not? Would-"Utae sound startle the child and cause her to, stop? Tihere was a momeinlt only 'to. act, :and the whistle was not blown. The child walked on, and the engine touched her frock. When it had passed, the driver fainted, and there are not many men who would not give a fortune to be saved from such a moment as that. The following is a description of a woman's smile culled from a Hawaiian romance, and it is, perhaps, almost superfluous to add tihat the writer is an American:—"Her rich red lips parted, and there flashed upon the landscape two rows of beautiful white, teeith. Slowly her mouth opened wider and wider. Deeper grew 't.JJe diirples on 'her bronze cheeks. Brighter danced the sunbeams in her eyes, until a stray ray, darting through the foliage of an over- hanging bough, illuminated the deep c,averrn of her mouth, bringing into view the back of her head. Then, seeing us gaze intently upon her, she shot her jaw.s, and darkness, fell upon the scene." No merely English writer could rise to that height in descriptive power. A young Oxford man went into a POSit office and inquired if they sold stamps there. The clerk admitted that they did. What sort do you keep?" inquired the customer. "All the values, sir, that are issued, from a halfpen,ny to a pound." Tlhe man, a well-set-up young athlete, shyly intimated that he would like to look at some about a penny. The clerk pro.. duceid a whole sheet, and, laying it on the counter, said, indulgently, There you are, six. It you want penny stamps, there are some." The customer appeared dazzled aiÍ the display, and seemed unable to taloo his eyes away. Pre- sently he diffidently placed his finger on a stamp in the middle of the sheet and said, I think I'll have that one, please' He is now a distinguished cleric in the Church of England. There is a lot of human nature in human nature. For instance: "George," said his friend Jack, I want to ask your advice. I have a chance to marry a poor girl whom I love or a rich woman whom. I don't love. What would you advise? "Jiackl my boy," replied his friend, there is no choice. Where love and money are conoernedthere is no comparison; there is only contrast. Love is the sweetness of OUT laves, old man. Without it life is, not lif'e; it is mere existence. On the other hand, with it poverty becomes wealth, pain becomes joy, and earth heaven." Enough," said Jack. I will manry the poor girl wibom I love." Bravely resolved, and bravely spoken," replied George. By the w.ay, old chap, would you imiind introducing me to the rich woman whom you don't love? « I have at last solved a little problem which has long concerned me (writes a correspondent) —'What the small, boys do with the tram tickets which they beg from disembarking passengers. At my terminus the other, day a grubby little fellow asked me wimningly, Give us ye ticket, mister--fo;r this lic1," he added, pointing to a little tot whose chubby hands held a full packet of tickets. (I thought of one morning on the Island of Manken and a child who followed me with a baby crying, Money for this baby.") What do you do with them? I asked. We plays with them in the 'ouse.. One puts 'is thumb over the first number (he obligingly showed me how), and the other guesses what the number is. If 'e guesses right, you 'as to give 'im as many tickets as the number is. If not, 'e give.s you alr'is tickets. It's who gets the most tickets." There is a great joy," said the philosopher, in having one's hair cut. The barber is the one remaining functionary who. does not an- nounce himself as certificated.' We have cer- tificated chemists, and certificated piano-tuners, wo have certificated nurses and certificated plumbers. The barber stands on his, merits alone. He may be a member of his society, but he dees not thrust a diploma under your nose. He prospers because men go. to him a second and a third time, not because he is graded at this or that on the scale of technical qualification. He is the one remaining crafts- man who is dependent on the good will of his clients alone. To his profession, there is no back door. He wields the shears and razor suc- cessfully, and all goes well with" him. No crammer can make a barber no board of ex- aminers can unmake him. To. his strictly pro- fessional equipment he may add a few fringes, such, for example, as the capacity for gentle and genial converse. But it is on his success as a cutter of hairs that he is judged."

Royal Cambrian Academy. The annual meeting of the Royal Cambrian Academy was held on Saturday, at Plas Mawr, ■Conway. The President, Mir. Clarence H. Whaite, .who occupied the chaiir, was re-elected. Mr. Cuthbert Grundy was re-elected vice-presi- dent, 'Mr. F. W. I.,ongshaw bom. treasurer, and Mr. W. J. Slater bon. secretary. The following were appointed members of the Council for the current yeélJr :-Meslslrs. T. dough, G. Cockram, T..Ellison, B. Fiisber, B. Fowler, Andersoiil Hague, Julius Hare, G. Harrison, Harold Hughes, J. Clinton Jones, A. F. Perrin, J. C. Salmon, R. Gay Somerset, and W. Stephenson. Messrs. Owen Rowland and Arthur Netherwood were appointed auditors. The Hanging Com- mittee for the next exhibition were chosen as f,oll,o,ws:-Mes,srs. T. Clough, G. Harrison, A. Hague, and J. Hare. From the list of candi- dates for the Associ.ateship of the Academy the following were elected :-Mr. L. Burleigh Bruh.1, R.B.A. (President of the Dudley Gallery), Mir. John Cassidy (sculptor), Mr. II. B. Guest (archi- tect), Mir. Harold Harvey, My. J. W. Stampson, and Mr. H. P. Weaver. From the list of Associ- ates the following were elected full members — Mr. Arthur Netherwood and Mr. W. Follen Bishop. It was decided that the receiving days for non-members of works submitted for the next exhibition should be April 29th. and M'ay 1st; and for members May ,10th and nth. May 25th was fixed as the varnishing day, and May 2q.th for the private view. The exhibition wiU open on June rsft and close on September 25th.

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Conway Horse Show. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Conway Horse Show Society was held in the Guild Hall, Con- way, on Friday afternoon, presided over by Mlr. flames Porter. Amongst oltruer's prlesenit wetre Dr. Cawthorne., Dr. J R. Williams, Messrs. James Pollitt, Charles Lees, A. G. Rogers, J. T. Jones, J. Herbert Jones, E. Norbury, W. J. Roberts, Elias Davaes, D. Cunningham, Joseph Taylor, Thomas John Jones, T. Elias Davies, Owen Rowland, J.P., Thomas Parry, and David Foulkes; with the Secretary (Mr. T. O. (Morgan). THE BALANCE-SHEET AND REPORT. The Secretary presented a balance-sheet show- ing the receipts to amount to £ 550 7s. 4d., in- cluding a, sum of £ 20S 4s. iod. which was in the bank. The gate money amounted to £153 SS. od., and the subscriptions realised ^117. The heavy item on the expenditure side was the prize money, which amounted to. ^165 16s. od. The total balance in the bank amounted to 1,257 9s- 2d. The statement was adopted. RECORD-BREAKING. The Secretary (Mr. T. O. Morgan), in pre- senting his report, said it afforded him great pleasure to be able to report a continuance of the record-breaking inaugurated three years ago. viz., 16 more entries., £3 ISS. 6d. more gate re- ceipts, £ 2 os. 6d. more for advertising, and 15s. Sd. on the sale of catalogues. He wished to draw the attention of the Committee to the fact that though the subscriptions showed an in- crease of Zio 4s. 6d. on the previous year, it was not so satisfactory as it appeared. In the following districts there was a decrease in the subscriptions :—Conwajr, Gyffin, Llangelynin, Deganw-y and Junction, and Llanrwst. The other districts had increased their amounts. The .total amount subscrioed was £ 11 J, and of this £55 is. 6d. was brought in by the appointed collectors, Mr. Thomas Parry and others of the Conway district alone having collected £24 2S., whilst £3° only was received from all the other collectors. The prize money was increased to /165 16s., or ZiS 10s. more than the previous year. The entries in the heavy classes were 71, a decrease of 8, and in. the light section 180, an increase of 33. In the jumping and racing classes there was a decrease of 9. After deduct- ing the amount of entrance fees from the amount of prizes offered it worked out that 12s. 7d. was offered for each entry in the heavy horse classes, against 6s. 2?,id. to each light horse entered. Ibur members of the Committee had not subscribed to the funds, whilst three others subscribed only 2s. 6d. each. In conclusion, he wished to. tender his heartiest thanks to the C,hadr,main (Mar. Porter) whose never failing in- terest, untiring energy, and able management had greatly contributed to the success of the show. To the stewards also, his heartiest thanks were due. The show day, the success of which surpassed all preceding ones,, was mainly ow- ing to the zeal and skill they exhibited. On the motion of Mr. A. G. Rogers, seconded by Mr. Herbert Jones, the report was adopted. APPOINT M L XT OF CHAIRMAN. Mr. Porter said that he had held the office of )Chairman for four _years, and he had decided not to. allow his name to staind this year. The Secretary said that for him to carry on the show without Mir. Porter was like a duck without a pond. He sincerely hoped Mr. Porter would re-consider his decision. Dr. Cawthomne propoised a very cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Porter for his services in the chair, and he also moved that he be asked to re-consider' his decision. jMir. A. G. Rogers seconded, and it was car- ried, the question of the appointment of a chair- man being left over until the next meeting. Mr. Porter briefly returned thanks. VOTES OF THANKS. On the proposition of the Chairman, hearty votes of thanks for their services at last year's show were accorded Colonel Thomas Gee, the President; Mr. Robert. Williams., Meddiant, the Vice-President, and to Mr. J. C. Griffiths, the honorary auditor. Mr. Owen Rowland, J.P., was re-appointed Treasurer, and on the motion of Mr. Rogers, v seconded by Mr. David Foulkes, Mr. T. O. Morgan was unanimously re-elected secretary.

Llanrwst Board of Guardians. The monthly meeting was heild on Tuesday, Mir. John Roberts, J.P., Pentrevoe-las, presiding. 1 bare were also present Mr. D. G. Jones (Vice- Chainman), the Revs. John Gower, J. LI. Rich- ards, Henry Jones, and II. Rawson Messrs. J. Lloyd Morris, John Berry, John Wil- lllam, John Hughes, J. Liloyd Jones, David Lewis, Roland Hughes," W. G. JOines; Edward Mulls;, and T. T. Roberts with the Clerk (Mr. R. R. Owen), the Reflieving Officers (Messrs. O. L'vans-Joines and T. (C Roberts,), and the Master (Mr. Ed-waird Hughes). PAUPERISM. The Clerk reported that ithe number of pau- peris in the house was 35, as compared with 39 ror the same period last year. The number of outdoor paupers was 287, as compared with 307 ior the same month .last year, a decrease of 20. The money spent in. relief amounted to £ l75 33. 2d., compa ed with .£186 3s. iod., a decrease -71 J1 ,?S' The number of vagrants who visiied 'the house was 73, as compared with 97 for the corresponding period of last war, a de- crease of 24. VOTE. OF SYMPATHY. The, Ch-,iirntan, aefeiring to. the resignation of Mir. Willaam Livan^ ia respected, member of the Guardians ,wbo had been compelled to. take this ac-non. owing to ill-health, said be bad been most faithful tun ihtis attendance, and was very popular. He was one of unbiassed mind, and bis resignation was a great loss to the Guards lans.. IHe moved that the Clerk should write, .conveying their sympathy-with him in his ill- ness. The iRevs. John [Gower and H. Rawson Wil- bams and the Clerk (Mr. R. R. Owen) supported the Chairman s remarks

A Welsh Minister's Brilliant Success. THE REV. H. MALDWYN HUGHES, B.A., D.D. Wesleyan Methodist.s throughout the country rejoiced to read in the University columns of The \Times newspaper last Thursday the foil.lowd;ng: At a meeting of the Senate of the London University held yesterday, January 27th, the Vice-Cbancelloir in, the chair, the following doctorate was oonfirmed :-D.D., IMir. H. M. Hughes, an external student, for Thesis entitled The Ethics of Jewish, Apocryphal and Apocal- yptic Literature.' The ineuvs of Dr. Maldwyn Hughes's success will be warmly welcomed by the readers of the Weekly News," to whom, he is well known as a preacher of great pc.wer and a keen advocate of Temperance and Christian Socialism. Dr. Maldwyn Hughes is the son. of the late Rev. John Hughes, D.D. (" Glanyst.wyth "), who was one of the most powerful preachers, and beat-loved men in the Wesleyan ministry, and his mother (who now resides in Conway) is the daughter of the late. Rev. Henry Wilcox, Wes- leyan m:iniist,er. Dr. Hughes was born just thirty-three years ago at Tref Eglwys., near Llanidloes. He re- ceived his early education at the elementary schools of Llanrhaiadr ym Moehnant and Car- narvon (OIll which circuits his late father laboured with great acceptance), subsequently spetiding five years at the Wesleyan School for ministers' sons aft Kingswcod, .Bath. On leaving Kingswood he entered the University College of Wtailes, Aberystwyth, where he had a successful career Whilst at Aberystwyth he commenced to .preach, and was urged to become a candidate for the ministry, .accepted by the, Con- ference of 1895 He was allocated to Did.-sbuiry College, and during his term of residence at that institution.! obtained the degree of 'B.A., at the London University. On leaving College he was appointed to Bromyard, and subsequently to Saltney, Birmingham, Southport, and Seacombe, where he now resides. During his stay at South- port he obtained the degree of B.D., at the ■London Universiity. He is a born preacher, con- secrated from birth to the high vocation of Lead- ing men to the light of Christ's Go.spel. This is the one great bobby of his life. As a tem- perance advocate he lis well known, and one of themo;t popularr speakers on the platforms, of the campaign in support of the Government s. Licensing Bill in. the towns and cities of Lanca- shire. He is, morcovej-, a wholehearted sup- porter of Christian Socialism, being an active member of the Council of the Wesleyan Me,tbo>- diSit Union for Social Service." A brother of wide culture and high attainments, he is withal one of the least ostentatious and most modest of men. We believe that he is the youngest to obtain this much-coveted distinction, which he shares :Íii1 .Methodism with the first to secure the degree -in connection with this University, viz., Dr. Frank Ballard. May he long be spared to further the interests of the Kingdom which is not of this world. J. W. H.

Hammerman Poet: A Genius of Welsh Extraction. The South Wales Daily News of Saturday 'Says Mir. Alfred Owen Williams, the Wiltshire hammerman-poet, is not, as his name suggests, a native of the Principality, for he was born 31 years iago at the little village of South Mars- ton", some five miles from Swindon, where he still resides. But Mr. Williams bas. Welsh blood in his veins, for his father went from Colwyn Bay to Wiltshire, and members of the family live there now. IMrr. Williams' father, by the way, died at Colwyi Bay about ten years ago. There is no question about Mr. Williams be- ing la remarkable man. He left school when he was but I I years old, worked on a farm till he was 14, and then entered the G.W.R. works at Swindon. In his spare time he acquired a knowledge of shorthand, and also taught him- oSu JO SIBd.{ or S-DAK OPT •S^IO urc ^JUTE-CI OH JTdIS when he first turned his attention to literature, and tlience forwards his progress was rapid. He took up a four years' course of literature at Rjuskin Hall, Oxford, and as some of the books which he had to. study contained many Latin quotations he determined to learn that langu- age. He was in no way discouraged by the difficulty arising from an imperfect acquaint- ance with Einglishgraniriar, and, beginning with the books of Caesar, be passed on to the works of Cicero, Ovid, Sallust, Horace, and Virgil. Subsequently, he devoted him-seli to the study of Greek, French, higber English, and mathe- matics, his idea being to try for the London matriculation. But in the end he .abandoned this idea. He is now engaged in studying the New Testament in Grook. Mr. Williams has written a .poetical play which he hopes may some day be considered worthy of attention, and two. of his poiems have just been published in a volume entitled Garliered Grain," which is a work devoted to the representative products of known and unknown contemporary poets. At present Mr. Williams is content to rank among the unknown," believing that by and byie he will reap the reward of hard work. He journeys from \S01uth Miarston to Swindon daily, and labours all day in. the workshop. In the meal hour intervals he continues his studies, and also •devotes several hofurs in the evening to reading and writing. tHe has no. great .ambition to fame, but it is hard to believe that his special qualities will be long allowed to. remain un- recognised. Accompanying the foregoing article is given a portrait of Mr. Alfred Williams, photographed at his work at the Great Western Railway Com- pany's Works at Swindon.

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The Life and Works of Mendelssohn. (BY F. GURNEY BARNETT, L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M.) This, year being the centenary of the birth of Mendelssohn, I thought an article on his life and works might be interesting to readers of The Weekly News"; but as the genial Editor has, of necessity, limited me to a certain space, I can only mention a few of the composer's works, and touch on some incidents in his life. Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born on Friday, February 3rd, 1809, in a house now numbered 54 in the thoroughfare known as the Grosse Michaelesstrasse, Ham- burg. The, original name of the family was Mendel, but Moses, the grandfather of the famous com- poser, took the name Mendelssohn, i.e., Son of Mendel, which is the ordinary Jewish, Ori- ental way of forming a name. Abraham (Felix's father) was a banker in Hamburg, and it was he who. added his wife's family name Bortholdy," to his own, to dis- tinguish his branch from other branches of the family. When Felix was about three years old the family moved to Berlin, where he was taught the pianoforte by Ludwig Berger, and composi- 60111 by Zelter. By the time he was twelve years of age he had written a large number of works for strings, piano, organ, and voices. In 1821, he met, for the first time, the poet Goethe, at Weimar, where he went for a fort- night, but at the invitation, of the poet, he stayed a month, the latter portion of which was spent in Goethe's own house, as he was so delighted with the youthful composer. Thus began a friendship which lasted until Goethe's death. During 1822 and 1823, Felix visited numerous towns in Switzerland and elsewhere, and com- posed the Quartets Op. 1 in C. minor, and Op 2 in F. minor, for piano, and strings. It was in 1S24 that he wrote his first big work-the, Sym- phony in C. minor, now known as No. i and in the same year he met Moscheles, who formed a very high opinion of the youth's piano play- ing, and said that he was already a mature. artist. The following year he went to Paris, and there met Cherubim—a man who. very rarely praised anyone, but who, alter hearing a work by the young composer, said he would do well. An opera, The Wedding of Camacho," and an Octet in E. flat, Op. 20, for strings, were among the works of 1825, and the next year he composed the Overture to. A Midsummer Night's Dream (which, by the Way, we should not confound with the incidental music to the same play which was composed 17 years later), and it is hardly too much to say that in many points, he never wrote anything liner. It was played lor the first time public at Stettin, in February, 1827, and The Wedding of Camacho" was heard for the first time at Ber- lin in April the same year. In 1829 Mendelssohn visited England, and made his first public appearance at one of the 'Philharmonic Society's concerts (which were held at that time in the Argyll Rooms, Regent- street), on May 25th, conducting his C. minor Symphony with great success. He also appeared at several concerts as a pianist, and was again well received. After staying in London for some time, he visited Edinburgh, and went over Holyrood Palace, where, he said he received his first in- spirations of the Scotch Symphony. From Edinburgh he went to. several other towns and villages, including Tobermory—a place which has evidently found favour with more than one prcminent personage. He also visited Fingal's Cave, and the scenery there Siuggested- to him the music known as the Hebrides or Fingars Cave Overture He next came to Wales, as the guest of Mir. John Taylor, at Coed-Du, Flintshire, where he composed the first and third of his three Fan- tasies numbered Op 16. Towards the end of the year he returned to London, and after a short time, started for home, much to the regret of the many friends, he bad made in this country. He remained at home during the winter, and then started for Italy, calling to, see Goethe at Weimar on his way. This was in the spring of 1830, and while in Italy he composed the music to Goethe's First WTalpargis Night finished the Hebrides Overture^ wrote much of the Italian Symphony," and also started the Scotch Symphony." In April, 1832, he was back in London— which, in a letter, he describes as That smoky nest." which is fated to be now and every my favourite reside,-i.e,-pi,ayiiig at concerts, also the organ in St. Paul's Cathedral, and al- together leading a busy life until July, when he returned home and finished the Italian Sym- phony," which was performed for the first time at a Philharmonic concert in London, on May 13th, 1833, the composer again visiting this country for a short time in order to conduct the performance. Immediately after he went to Diisseldorf to conduct the festival there. In the early part of 1835 he was appointed con- ductor of the Gewandhaus Concerts at Leipzig, and in the same year he conducted the Lower Rhine festival at Cologne with great success. He took up his residence at Leipzig, and finished St. Paul," which was performed at Diisseldorf on Mey 22nd, 1836. In March, 1837, he married Miss Ceci16 Jean- renaud, at Frankfort, and during the. honey- moon he wrote several works, among them the 62nd Psalm, and the Pianoforte Concerto" in D. minor. September found him in Birming- ham, where he conducted a. performance of St. Paul," played the organ, and also his new Piano Concerto," at the festival of that year. During the next few years he devoted much time to the Gewandhaus concerts in Leopzig, and also wrote a number of works, which in- clude the 114th Psalm, and the Overture to Ruy Bias," in 1839; Festgesang and I" Lobgesaiilig (" Hymin of Praiste "), written for the Gutenburg festival, held at Leipzig in 1S40, in commemoration of the invention of printing. In the same town, two years later, the Scotch Symphony was heard for the first time. This work was repeated in London a few weeks later, the composer conducting; and dur- ing this visit he went twice to Buckingham Palace, with the result that the Scotch Sym- phony was dedicated to the late Queen Vic- toria. Mendelssohn was the founder and first direc- tor off the Leipzig Conservlatorium of Music, which was opened on April 3rd, 1S43 i and the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61, was finished in July of the same year. "Elijah" was completed in 1846, and pro- duced for the first time at the Birmingham fes- tival of that year. The composer, who. con- ducted the work, was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the chorus, orchestra, and audi- ence. He had been working hard for a long time, and it began to tell on him, for on his return to Germany, he had to rest three times before leaching Leipzig. There was, however, much tK). be done when he did reach home, and he soon began to work as hard as ever, though the strain was getting too much for him. He was at this time- busy writing a new Oratorio, "Chrisws," which, alas, he never finished. In 1847 he visited England for the last time, conducting performances of Elijah and other works in various pLaces. He returned to GeT- many in May, and at Frankfort received the news that his sister Fanny had died on the 14th. In his state- of health this greatly upset him, (and he became so ill that he was taken to Switzerland for a rest, and change of scene and u, I I thought. In September, he returned to Leipzig, but avoided public performances, and in Octo- ber he again broke down. Once more he got c,; littls better, but on November 3rd he lost con- sciousness, and died on November 4th, 1847, at the early age of 38. The body was removed to Berlin, and buried there, near to, the grave of his sister Fanny. Mendelssohn was of medium height, dark complexion, and had black hair. He had a most winning manner, was always full of fun ajid the life and soul of the house. And is there not a good deal of humour in his music? Surely, some of his Scherzos reflect the high spirits of the' composer. He was fond of playing chess, and also of dancing; whilst his drawingls (which were many) were lemarkably good. He was also a voluminous letter writer, and a grert lover of nature. Let us revere the memory of one, who has left us so many beautiful works— the outcome of a short but strenuous life.

British Rule in India. BIBLE AND DRINK. Md. Frederick Grubb, the able secretary to Sir J. Herbert Roberts, ,Eart., M.P., visited Coiwyn Bay on Friday evening to deliver his eagerlv awaited lecture on his Indian tour. The lecture, which was under the auspices of the Colwyn Bay and District Liberal Association, was de- 1-vered in the English Presbyterian Schoolroom, to an overflowing audience, presided over by the Rev. John Edwards. The Chairman explained that Sir Herbert Ro- berts is. the Hon. Secretary and M.r. Grubb the Secretary of the. Anglo-Inidian Temperance As- sociation, toundea by the late Mr. W. S. Came, M.P., father of Lady Roberts. The lecture proved remarkably interesting from start to finish, and the numerous illustra"- tions were shown to. the best advantage by Mr. Chaplin, who was deservedly complimented by MIL Grubb at the close. Mr. Gvuhb mentioned that India had a popu- lation of 300 millions, or nearly one-fifth of the human race. It must not be supposed that India was a land of wild savages .or ignorant heathen. There was no doubt much superstition and ignorance (as there was, in all countries), but there was also a great and growing body of intellectual men and women, the product of the colleges and universities of India. Mia-nv of these had completed their education in our own Universities, and could compete on equal terms with the ablest intellects of the West. Some of the Indians who had risen to. great in- tellectual heights had identified themselves with temperance work. The audience need not be re- minded that Indians could excel in athletic pur- suits as well as in the achievements of the mind. A notable instance was the Jam of Nawanagar, better known as Ranji," who became so famous on the cricket fields of England, and who, by the way, strongly advised all young men who wanted to be good cricketers never to touch intoxicating liquors. A knowledge of the English language was becoming general among the richer and middle classes, and there were millions in India to-day who had received a fair vernacular education. In most of the largest cities of India it was easy to get an audience of one thousand men who understood English quite well. Mr. Grubb explained that the primary object of his visit to India was to inspect the leading branches of the Anglo- Indian Temperance Association, of which there were nearly three hundred. For centuries India had been to a large extent a teetotal country, but among many great blessings British rule had established one unmistakable curse, na.mely, a legalised liquor traffic, which was not only di- rected by the State, but often, he was alraid, had been officially encouraged. A considerable por- tion of the Indian revenue was drawn from the Government opium monopoly, by means of which the people of India were depraved, while a still larger share was obtained from the liquor monopoly, which had produced the moral de- gradation of great numbers of our fellow-sub- jects in India. Proceeding, Mr. Grubb described the work done by the various temperance so- cieties in the towns and villages, and it ap- peared that the Order of Rechabites had estab- lished a good hold. At the garrison at Delhi there was a strong branch of the Royal Army Temperance Association among the soldiers. Ibis Asjociation had done splendid work for the Army in India, no less than one-third of the rank and file being enrolled. To have 35,000 teetotal soldiers in India was something to be proud of. Referring to the concluding illustration, which was a portrait of the Hon. Baronet who. represents West Denbighshire in Parbament, the lecturer remarked that the name of Sir Herbert Roberts was almost as well known in India as it was in Wales. (Cheers.) As Hon. Secretary of the Anglo-Indian Tem- perance Association, and of the Indian Parlia- mentary Committee, Sir Herbert had done much to advance the moral welfare and political in- terests of the people of India. The educated classes in that country looked to the electors of the United Kingdom to return such members to the House of Commons in increasing num- bers in order that the welfare of the Indian Em- pire might be still further promoted. (Cheers.) A vote of thanks to the lecturer and the chair- man was proposed by Mr. C. E. El-cock and seconded by Mr. Fred Griffiths.

A Memory." 'Tis sweet, dear, when I sit alone And daylight passed away, To think of all the joys we knew In some fair by-gone day. 'Tis sweet, dear, when I sit alone, With shadows- all around, To think I see the face of love- That long ago I found. 'Tis sweet., dear, when I sit alone, Beneath the moonlight gleam, To thinK of happy moments that Have vanished like a dream. 'Tis sweet, dear, when, I sit alone, And perfect peace doth reign, To listen silently and think I hear you speak again. 'Tis sweet, dear, when I lt alone, From all the world apart, To think in this great world of strife There, is one loving heart. 'Tis glorious, a.s I sit and gaze At all the stars above, To know that we shall find up there The ones we' oSJe and love. Ibere: is no "wasted love on earth, We cannot love in vain; For all the ones we dearly love, In Heaven shall meet again. GWYNNETH IRELAND FURNISS.

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