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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND THE EVIL OF PROFESSIONALISM. A correspondent writes to the Times :-There are signs in the football world of a crisis. It is, of course, a pecuniary crisis, and, equally of course, the outcome—the inevitable outcome-of the growth of professionalism. With club competing against club for the possession of the best players, these last are the only persons concerned who profit. The clubs that, being outbidden, lose the men who have brought them fame, and therefore gate- money, suffer in their receipts when their prime attractions are removed. It is oil record that a Scotch half-back was lured into England on a two years' lease for £500. For this sum he was expected bo play matches of course only during 16 months. Assuming his station in life was that of a mechanic, he did pretty well for himself. Only the other day again, a member of the Blackburn Rovers caused aome trouble by his hesitancy to sign on with his 3ld team. He was negotiating in other directions, and now he plays with Everton for, it is said on 3xcellent authority, the substantial emolument of £ 250 down and £ 5 per week. The secretary of the famous Sunderland team (which heads the league) tells a story that is on a par with these proof of the iesirability of a talent at football. A Scotchman af repute as a player wished to join the Sunderland men. Asked as to his terms he replied, £ 150 iown, £ 150 a year, and a situation of £ 70 per annum in a shipbuilding yard." Tales like these, which are moreover true, make the ordinary layman wish that he had had the control of his education in early youth. The balance-sheet of the Everton Club is interesting as an illustration of the grip professional football has got upon the people. Its gate receipts during the season 1892-3 were 4881.5 19s. 4d., and its gross receipts £10,892 13s. lOd. Of this noble income £ 3539 Is. Gd. was paid in wages to players and £1593 Is. 2d. to visiting teams. No club has so numerous and consistent a crowd of patrons as this of Everton. Hence the actual balance in hand of £ 1267 9s. lid. With such a purse, the Everton committee can offer fat baits to players in other parts of the kingdom. Aston Villa, Bolton, and another club or two succeed in keeping on the right side. All the other great clubs are struggling with deficits which threaten to choke them out of the first rank. Blackburn Rovers owe the bank £ 1275 Notts Forest have a deficiency of £ 429 their humbled rivals of Notts County owe more than £ 1000 the West Bromwich Albion are to the bad £1014 19s. 3d.; Sheffield United, just admitted to the league, begin their more dignified career with a debt of about £ 900 Newton Heath have liabilities £ 314 7s. 6d.; and the present cup- holders, the Wolverhampton Wanderers, in spite of the hundreds of pounds their cup matches alone earned for them. are about £ 500 in arrears. Well may those who do not love professional football point the finger of ridicule at our leading league clubs. From this year there will be increased receipts for clubs which run ta the semi-finals and the final of the English Cup competition. The Football Association has a nest-egg of Y,6000, and wants no more. Speaking roughly, that leaves another £ 2000 available for the league teams—and a most desirable tit-bit the half of it will be for the teams left in the final. But it is just this nauseous and obtrusive ques- tion of pounds, shillings, and pence that is so afflicting a complement of the growth of profes- sionalism. There is less of it in Bugby Union foot- ball-at least, it is less evident. But even here it is possible to finesse through the regulations that at present are opposed to paid players. This season will be, as has been said, a most critical one in Association league football. The tens of thousands of spectators who assemble week after week at the league contests know little about the canker that is menacing their darling- pastime. It is possible, just possible, that in a few months ciation football, will be Men qg, {^5^ ,-IT TOUCHES THE wOi. Aye, that is what "HOMOCEA" does. And does it quick, too-whether it's a toothache or neuralgia, with all their shooting pains, or eczema with its painful and distressing irritation-or piles that make thousands of lives wretched. Rheumatism in the joints or muscles has been cured even of years standing-while for cuts, burns, and bruises it's far, very far ahead of any ointment that has ever been put before the public. LORD CARRICK says HOMOCEA cured him of bleeding piles, when all else failed; that he gave some to a labourer who was lamed by a stone falling upon him, whom it cured. A woman had a pain in the elbow and could not bend it for a year, and it cured her. 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FEGAN, The Boys' Home, South- wark, writes "HOMOCEA" does all it's guaranteed to do, and is not only a wonderful lubricant, but strongly antiseptic, and relieves inflammation and pain almost instantaneously. Forstiffnsss,.sprains, muscular rheumatism, sore throat, mosquito bites, &c., it is a real boon, and no praise can be too high for it. Remember that "HOMOCEA" subdues inflamma- tion and allays irritation almost as soon as applied. 2 Sold by dealers in medicine at Is. ii-d and 2s. 9d. per box, or can be had direct from the HOMOCEA Company, 21, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead. [3987] A MENAGERIE OWNER'S LOSSES.—At the London Court of Bankruptcy on Friday, a first meeting of creditors was held under the failure of J. W. Bostock, formerly the proprietor of the Edmund a (late Wombwell's) Royal Windsor Menagerie. The liabilities are returned at £ 5497, and the assets at £ 3. Being asked what had become of the menagerie, the debtor stated that it was covered by a bill of sale to his mother for £ 5000, and the whole of the property had been sold. He had incurred heavy losses while travelling in Belgium, where he had lost .two elephants and three camels by [spooning. One elephant was the finest in the world, and a good performer and worker. He had also lost two valuable horses, and a lion which was worth £ 400. It cost him a60 to bury the animals, the Belgian authorities insisting upon a very deep grave. An epidemic of cholera followed, and the show had to be closed. The case went into bankruptcy, the official receiver acting as trustee. BEATTY S PIANOS AND ORGANS. Hon. Daniel F. Beatty, the great Organ and Piano manu- facturer, is building and shipping more Organs and Pianos than ever. 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DENBIGHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. A special meeting of the Council was held at the County Hall, Wrexham, on Thursday, when Mr. A. Samuel Moss presided, and among those present were :—Messrs. Simon Jones, Thomas Parry, John Porter, W. G. Dodd, Owen Williams, Roger Jones, John David Jones, Wm. Davies, Edward Roberts, R. H. V. Kyrke, Benjamin Harrison, J. C. Edwards, Joseph Wm. Evans, Edwin Bellis, Thomas Ingham, Edward Hooson, Christmas Jones, Henry Dennis, John Parry, David Jones, Isgoed Jones, &c. Among those who were unable to be present, Col. Barnes telegraphed that he was ill. THE LATE AIR. JOHN THOMAS. The chairman said before they proceeded with the business of the council, he thought it was his duty to say a word or two in reference to the sad and somewhat sudden death of one of their numbers, Mr. John Thomas. No one on the council had been more appreciated for his valuable services, industry, and zeal in the discharge of his duties than the late Mr. John Thomas. Personally, he should mies his agreeable companionship and his witty observations, and also his genuine true disinterestedness, very much, and he was sure that was the feeling of them all. He therefore begg-rd to move, "That this council has heard with deep regret of the sad and sudden death of Mr. John Thomas, of Chirk, and begs to tender to his window and family an expression of their sympathy with them in their great bereavement, and further, this council begs to place on record its appreciation of his great usefulness and value during the time he was a member of this council." Mr. J. Coster Eiwards seconded the resolution. He had known Mr. Thomas for many years, and he had always observed this great and grand feature about the late Mr. Thomas-he always desired to do the right thing.—The resolution was carried unanimously. NEW POLLING PLACE. Mr. Thomas Parry proposed That Colwyn Bay be named as one of the polling places for the county of Denbigh at which the revising barrister is to hold a court to revise the lists of parliamentary voters and county electors.This was seconded by Mr. John Porter, and agreed to. WELSH AT THE CORONERS' COURTS. Mr. Thomas Parry next proposed That in the opinion of this council it is of the utmost im- portance that the proceedings at the coroners' courts held within this county should be conducted in such a language as all the jurors are conversant with, and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to the two coroners for the county." Mr. Hooson seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. THE COUNCIL AND THE WOOD AND FORESTS DEPARTMENT. In reply to a resolution of the council asking for certain information from Woods Department of the Government, Mr. Culley wrote referring the council to the reports and evidence given before the committee of the House of Commons which recently inquired into the administration of the office of Woods Department.—Mr. Edward Roberts moved That this council, representing the ratepayers of the county of Denbigh, hears with regret that the information it required with reference to Crown property in Wales has not been granted, and begs to ask the two members for the county, the Right Hon. George Osborne Morgan, Bart., and Mr. J. Herbert Lewis, and the member for the borough, the Hon. George T. Kenyon, if they will be kind enough to ask for the necessary information in the House of Commons."—Mr. Edward Hooson seconded the resolution, which was carried. PURE BEER. Mr. John Prichard proposed, Mr. W. J. Evans seconded, and it was resolved That in the opinion of this council it is desirable that all vendors of beer which contains ingredients used in substitution for malt or hops should be reauired h"1 — T"' to ftffaoeA, aisuncuy ana legibly written or printed, beer purchased, to the effect that the same if a mixture." A LAND BILL tUK YYAJLUS. Mr. Owen Williams proposed, and Mr. Henry Dennis seconded, that in the opinion of this council ;he present condition of agriculture, especially in Wales and Monmouthshire, calls for a Land Bill which would include fixity of tenure, fair rents, lestruction of game, compensation foi improvements, and a Land Court.—Mr. Kyrke proposed, as an amendment, that the consideration of this subject be adjourned till the report of the Land Commission now sitting is received.—Mr. J. C. Edwards seconded the amendment.-There were 19 for the resolution and five for the amendment. PUBLIC HEALTH. Mr. Christmas Jones moved That in the opinion of this council it is desirable that county councils should, in cases of default by local authorities, have full powers to enforce all statutory provisions for the preservation of public health and the prevention of disease in urban (other than borough) and rural sanitary districts, and to charge the cost thereof to the defaulting authority, and that the president of the Local Government Board be requested to introduce a clause in the Local Government (England and Wales) Bill of the present session with a view to giving effect thereto."—Mr. Edward Roberts seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION. The council then proceeded to consider the amended scheme, framed and approved of by the Charity Commissioners, for the intermediate and technical education of the inhabitants of the county. Mr. J. E. Powell explained that the Charity Commissioners had agreed to put the Wrexham school on the same footing as Ruthin, and to reduce the head master's capitation fee to £1 when his receipts exceeded £600 a year. The Commissioners had also agreed that the appointment of the assistant masters at the Wrexham and Ruthin schools should, as at the other schools, rest with the governors and not with the head masters, after the present head masters of the Wrexham and Ruthin schools ceased to hold their present positions. Several very important suggestions of the joint education committee had, however, not been adopted by the Charity Commissioners. These included the pay- ment of railway fares to the school governors, the safeguards against doctrinal teaching, and the opposition to the permanent appointment of the Bishop of St. Asaph as a governor of the Ruthin school. He very much regretteci ums, as trie committee had spent 33 days in formulating their scheme, and he hoped that the council would yet endeavour to obtain the incorporation in the scheme of the committee's suggestions that had not already been adopted by the Charity Commissioners.—A resolution to this effect was agreed. EXTRAORDINARY TRAFFIC. It was proposed by Mr. Dennis that, as a test case, the clerk should be instructed to take proceedings against Mr. David Jones for the recovery of £ 260 5s. 4d., damages caused to the highways in the Denbigh district by extraordinary traffic.-Mr. Christmas Jones seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. THE LLAY HALL COLLIERY RIOT. With reference to the claim of £ 44 lis. lOd. made by Mr. Edwin S. Clark, of Llay Hall Colliery, Cefnybedd, for damages done to his property on the occasion of a riot on the night of August 11th, Mr. Hooson proposed that the following be appointed a committee to inquire into the claim :-The chair- man, Messrs. Henry Dennis, Trevor Parkins, James Sparrow, J. E. Powell, Ed. Roberts, and Simon Jones.—Mr. Isgoed Jones seconded the resolution, which was carried. + WARNING.-When you ask for RECKITT'S BLUE see that you get it. The Manufacturer begs to caution the public against imitation square Blue of very inferior quality. The Paris Blue in squares is sold in wrappers bearing their name and Trade Mark. Refuse all others. For SPECTACLES, EYEGLASSES, &c. to suit all sights, go to H. Joxics's "Advertiser Office, Llangollen.

SIR G. OSBORNE MORGAN ON THE POLITICAL CRISIS. Sir Georg- O-borne Morgan. M.P., addressing a meeting of Liberals and Radicals at Shrewsbury last week, said there was one question at the pre- sent time which overrides and overshadows every other, and it was -are we a self-governing country? They used to be told that they were he used to think that they were, but be was really beginning to doubt it. (Laughter and applause.) There were 419 irresponsible gentlemen — daughter) — who represented nothing but themselves, who in four short days scattered to the wind the work which the representatives of the country had laboured over for eighty-three düys. Nox, who wera theæ men? He granted that t-ome nineteen or twenty, or perhaps even thirty, were as able men as could be found anywhere. But what could they say about the rest ? He ventured to say that nine-tenths of them were far better known to the cours--keeper at Newmarket than to anyone else. (Laughter and applause.) As to others, were not their deeds written down in the chronicles cf the Divorce Court? There was one. however, who hai been placed in an asylum, and his doctors actually sent him up to the House of Lords to vote against the Home Rule Bill in order to calm his mind. (Laughter.) These were the men who derided the wishes of the people. Sit George then quoted some remarks of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain with reference to the House of Lords, which he described as the picture of a master hand. (This seemed to arouse the ire of a gentleman present-a Mr. Makepeace— and he exclaimed I- It's a lie.") Sir George, continuing, said he had quoted Mr. Chamberlain's own words. (Mr. Makepeace On behalf of my relative, I s-iy it is a lie!") Sir George said he hoped the interrupter would not get excited- (laughter)-or else he would have to send him to the House of Lords to calm his mind. (Applause.) He might explain that Mr. Chamberlain had made the remarks quoted before he was in the running for the peership of Birmingham. (Laughter.) How were the mighty fallen! The author of the unauthorised programme! The hero of three acres and a cow The people's Joey—(laughter)— hob-nobbing with the gentlemen of England, who toil not, neither do they spin." (Applause.) Proceeding, Sir George said that beside having their Bills rejected by the House of Lords, they had obstruction in the other House, and in proof of this he pointed out that in four days the opposition in their voting on the 9th clause of the Home Rule Bill showed five different changes of front. Before he referred to the work for the autumn session he would deal with the all-important question. What were they to do with the Hun-e of Lords ? Two plans had been suggest d. mending or ending it. (Loud applause.) He did Dot think that the axe of their Grand Old Man could be better employed than in cutting it down. (Applause.) They had before them much work in the autumn session. They had two measures of the greatest importance to the country, the Employers' Liability Bill and the Parish Councils Bill. (Applause.) He regarded the latter as one of the most important measures in its way which had ever been brought before Parliament. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Asquith had said he considered that this Bill would be the first step towards the d sestablishment of the Church of England. (Applause.) He believed that to be true. (Hear. hear.) With regard to the Welsh Disestablishment question, he hoped and trusted the Bill would be carried. (Hear, hear.) They would have to be patient, but the Liberal party, after the pledges they had given, would be unworthy of their position if they did not press forward this important question. (Applause.) There was a great work to be done. and to enable them to carry ¿_ 1 mL them to see.tnat the mandate was carried out. The conduct of the House of Lords would cause it to be decided in the course of the next few weeks whether England was to be a free, progres-ive, and self-governing country —whether, in fact, they were to hand down to posterity the work which their ancestors bequeathed to them, and to ma' themselves worthy of the traditions of the past and the hopes of the future. (Loud applause.) + THE li FREELAND EXPEDITION TO THE UPPER TANA, CENTRAL EAST AFFRICA.—Dr. Theodor Hertzka, the well-known political economist of Vienna, writing for the Freeland Executive Committee, says The delegate who was sent to London by the Free- land Executive Committee at the latter end of May has succeeded in eliciting from the British Govern- ment the assurance that the Freeland scheme of founding a commonwealth on the highlands of Central Africa would be met by no opposition, but on the contrary, would receive moral and diplomatic support. The Freeland Executive Committee intends, therefore, before the end of the present year, to send out a search expedition with the object of establishing a station on the Upper Tana, which shall act as the base from which small "flying columns may be sent into the mountainous region which commences at that point, in order to discover the shortest and best route to the Kenia Mountains, those giants topped by everlasting snow and ice, in whose proximity-in the finest climate in the world-the future" Freeland" is to arise. On this preliminary expedition the Freelanders will send out fifty carefully-selected members, who will be required to pay the cost of their own outfit and passage, amounting to about Mo0. The regular expenses of the equipment of the expedition with provisions, cattle, objects of barter, implements, tools, arms, and some two hundred black porters, will be defrayed by the committee out of the funds already at their disposal. The expedition is to start from Lamu, on the East Coast of Africa, north of Zanzibar, and will follow the course of the Tana, as far as it is navigable, namely, some two hundred miles. In addition to these regular members it is intended to allow additional (non-Freeland) members to join the expedition. Such person would enjoy exceptionally favourable opportunities for sport and travel, as the Kenia region is unquestionably among the most interesting in the world to explorers and hunters. The forests and prairie lands teem with game of all kinds, more especially gazelle, giraffe, ostrich, buffaloe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephants, and lions. These members will be perfectly in- dependent and unrestricted, and will receive every possible assistance from the association. They will have to pay for their journey both ways and six months' maintenance, and will be at liberty to take riding horses, whose keep will be undertaken by the association, but for each animal taken an extra payment be made. In case they should desire to make small independent excursions from the Freeland depot, additional black porterage, whether Pagazzi or Askari (bearers or warriors) could be engaged. The address of the British Freeland Association is, 70, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, W., to whom aplications should be made before the 15th of October, 1893. INDUSTRIAL USES OF DOGS.—Mr. Smith, the American Consul at Liege, throws out a suggestion about dogs which is, perhaps, worth considering. During the last 30 years, he says, the industrial uses of dogs in Belgium has ssumed vast propor- tions. They have proved to be especially valuable as draught animals. They are quicker and more intelligent than the horse, and can carry a much larger load in proportion to their size. The undoubted success of the Belgian experiment, which, indeed, is no longer an experiment, leads the consul to make the following calculations in his last cousular report Without having the census at hand, I assume that there is a general average of one dog to two electors in the United States, giving us in round numbers a canine popula- tion of 7,000,000. Estimating the strength of a dog at 5001bs.—and it is a low estimate-we have an idle force in America of 3,500,000,0001bs.'