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CORWEN BOARD OF GUARDIANS.
CORWEN BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The usual fortnightly meeting of this Board was held in the Board Room, Workhouse, Corwen, on Friday last. There were present Dr. D. R. Jones (in the chair), Messrs. G. Parry, J. Hughes, W. E. Williams, 0. Evans, J. Hughes. E. P. Jones, G. F. C. Yale, J. Richards, T. Jones, S. Davies, J. Williams, J. Nanson, J. D. Jones, Col. Parr-Lynes, Revs. 1. T. Davies, and J. S. Jones, Mesdames L. Hughes, M. M. Richards, S. Roberts, and E. Barker, Mr. E. 0. V. Lloyd (co-optative member), Mr. F. T. Bircham (inspector from the Local Government Board), and Mr. T. Hughes (clerk). The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. TRAMPS. The question of habitual tramps was brought under notice, and it was generally agreed that the two nights system should be discouraged. LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. A letter was received from the Local Government Board sanctioning the re-appointment, until 31st March, 1899, of Mr. E. Darbyshire ?s school attendance-officer. Also, a letter with reference to the proposal of the guardians to borrow £376 for the purpose of defraying the expense of providing improved laundry accommodation, the term of loan extending over twenty years, the longest term per- missible for such purpose. MR. GLADSTONE. A letter, dated 15th June, was received from Mr. H. Gladstone, on behalf of himself, mother, and family, thanking the Board for their kindly letter of sympathy on the death of Mr. W. E. Gladstone. DENBIGH ASYLUM. Two notices of discharge were reported from this institution. One was a patient named Hannah Hughes, received on the 17th December, 1897, dis- charged June 20th, 1898, and now living with her sister. The second was John Thomas Edwards, Corwen, received May 2nd, 1898, discharged June 23rd. He is an old watchmaker, and was con- signed to the Workhouse. THE CHILDREN OF TRAMPS. A circular letter was received from London, though the clerk could not definitely state whence its issue, on the subject of Children of tramps." The circular was signed by a very large committee, including eeven or eight ladies, and the clerk reminded the Board that such children were an extremely difficult body to deal with. Estimates had been made of the number of these children, and the kind of education they were receiving. The co-operation of Boards of Guardians was earnestly desired principally on the following points :—1st, What number passed through from January to December ? 2nd, Give returns for certain dates. Does the number appreciably vary ? Have the police in the neighbourhood taken any steps to control the .movement of these tramps? It was further pointed out that from 9,000 to 10,000 children were on the canal boats there were some 30,000 gipsy or van children. It was estimated that in Scotland there were 130,000 paupers, of whom 12,000 were children on the tramp.-The chairman did not think that this particular question affected them very much, as this class of pauper was not very prevalent there.—Mr. Nanson moved, and the Rev. I. T. Davies seconded, that any information which it was possible to give on the subject should be conveyed to the authorities seeking it. Carried. MR. DERBYSHIRE'S SALARY. The application of Mr. E. Derbyshire, relieving and school attendance officer, for an increase of £ 15 to his salary was renewed, so, it was urged, to bring it into line with that of his predecessor.-In reply to Mr. Williams the clerk said Mr. Derbyshire was appointed in 1894, at a salary of £ 55, and in 1895 he got an increase, making it, he believed, into £ 60.—Mr. Derbyshire, who was called in, said he was appointed at a salary of £,30, which was advanced at the end of the first year by £ 10, his whole salary, inclnding school attendance and other sources, amounting to about P,106 per annum.- Mr. Williams Why do you ask for so much higher a rate than Mr. Foulkes ?—Mr. Derbyshire said his application was based upon the registration of the district, there were more cases of registration.— Dr. Jones You keep a horse. Can you do without one ?-Mr. Derbyshire I can't work without one. —Mr. Williams Horses and the food of horses have not increased in value.—Mr. Derbyshire I have to go about for long distances, and I may add that the registration of Llangollen district is very much more than the Corwen district.—Mr. Derbyshire having withdrawn, Mr. Williams said he was agreeable to support an application for some increase, but not £ 15. He admitted that Mr. Derbyshire was a very good officer, but he contended that Mr. Foulkes had equally as difficult a district to work. He thongh^ a salary of £65 as relieving officer and school attendance officer should be sufficient. Dr. Jones The work with that of Mr. Foulkes is not identical.—Mr. Williams remarked that Mr. Foulkes was an older offioer than Mr. Derbyshire, and perhaps on that score was entitled to more. but he would not object to Mr. Derbyshire's salary being increased by £ 5.—Mr. J. S. Jones seconded.—Rev. 1. T. Davies was satisfied that Mr. Derbyshire did his work well, and their officers ought to be well paid when it was found that they consistently did their work well, as in the end it was a great saving to the Union. Mr. Foulkes received j615 in excess of Mr. Derbyshire, and yet the latter had a larger area to get over. He should support the motion to increase the salary of Mr. Derbyshire, so as to bring it up to that of Mr. Foulkes.—Mr. E. 0. V. Lloyd seconded the motion, being assured that Mr. Derbyshire was a very efficient officer, and ought not to be treated in niggardly fashion. Ultimately, there were three propositions before the Board, viz., an increase of £10, £15, and 45. On being put to the vote, nine voted in favour of £ 10; seven for £ 15 and seven for £ 5 so that the salary of Mr. Derbyshire was raised by £ 10.—Mr. Williams I hope you will tell him not to come every year for an increase (laughter).—The chairman to Mr. Derbyshire, who was re-called It's my pleasant duty to inform you that your salary has been increased by £10, and in addition, to express to you the wish from one quarter that you will not apply for an advance again (laughter).—Mr. Williams You have im- proved on what I said (great laughter).—Mr. Derby- shire to the Board Thank you ladies andgentlemen. BOARD ALLOWANCES. Mr. Derbyshire applied for zC60, and Mr. Foulkes X-55, for purposes connected with the administra- tion of their respective duties. Granted. A DISGRACE. It was reported that there was an able-bodied man who was spending all his money in idleness and drink, though he had a wife and two children in the Workhouse, and Mr. Foulkes was directed to bring him before the magistrates or deal with him as best he could in the interests of the Board.— INFANT LIFE PROTECTION ACT. Mr. Foulkes asked for an additional £1 a quarter for extra work imposed upon him under the Infant Life Protect'on Act. He bad done the work now for three months without remuneration, and it was an entirely new duty. The question was adjourned. HARMLESS LUNATICS. It was reported that John Thomas Edwards had been discharged from Denbigh Asylum. He was not recovered, but was a harmless lunatic.-In reply to the Rev. I. Davies the clerk said this man was allowed to mix with the other inmates of the house simply because there was no special place for harmless lunatics.—Mr. Davies Then it is high time we should have a place. It is nothing less than a crime to have a man in his state moving about and living with men, many of them very intelligent, though poor.-The clerk having briefly stated that there were two children in the house suffering from measles, precautions were resolved upon, and this being all the business, the Board adjourned. ASSESSMENT. The monthly meeting of the Assessment Com- mittee was subsequently held. There were present Mr. W. E. Williams (Gwerclas) in the chair. Col. Parr-Lynes, the Rev. J. S. Jones, Dr. D. R. Jones, Messrs. J. Williams and J. Nanson. Mr. C. W. Richards appealed on behalf of Major Tottenham for farms in his holding in Llangollen parish. He explained that they were reduced in value from what they were asses,ed at 33 years ago, and pro- duced figures in answer to the questions put to him showing the rents in 1880. The question was ultimately adjourned.— Mr. James Darlington appealed on his own behalf for reduction of assess- ment on his house, and he agreed to a reduction of £ 5, which was assented to.—The Rev. Clement Evans. Llangollen, appealed against thj assessment on his house, but members being obliged to catch the train the question was left over to the next meeting. +
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HARROW ESCAPES IN REAL LIFE.
HARROW ESCAPES IN REAL LIFE. Told by those who experienced them, I.-A TbffESSEG BGSEGP ExpSasEons* A MARVELLOUS escape fell to the lot of Miss White, now residing with her parents at Ormesby," F3,we-park-road, Putney. On a Sunday morning three year's ago -viz., February lOtli, 1805 (to quote from the Putney and Wandsworth Burottyh News) —" a loud explosion occurred in the kitchen of Ashwell-villa, St. John's-road East. A constable at once proceeded to the aid of those in the house. Upon entering the kitchen it was found that, owiii,, to the prevalent frost, the boiler had exploded, wrecking the room and its Scene ajter the Explosion. contents, damaging the ceiling and walls. On the stairs near by, Miss White, aged twenty four years (who was alone in the house, Mr. and Mrs. White having gone to chapel), was found iying in an exhausted and insensible condition. Dr. Wyman was called, and ordered her removal to the Westminster Hospital, where she was conveyed in a cab. She was admitted by the house surgeon, and was found to be Buffering from severe contusions and burns i'n the head and elsewhere, and from shock to the system. She was detained in the hospital." The explosion had, apparently, been one of exceptional severity. The wall which backed the stove was blown clean into the {.'urden the ceiling of the kitchen was st'ipped. In the scullery and larder the ceiii. g was alto partially destroyed, the doors driven in, mantelpiece, shelves, chairs, table, crockery—in fact, everything in the room utterly wrecked, and the walls blackened with soot, steam and fire. The large kitchen table, which was over- turned on Miss White, had one leg wrenched off and another leg broken. A cat sleeping in a chair was instantly killed. Miss White's escape from death certainly appears miraculous. This explosion is stiil talked of in Putney. A few days ago Miss White was pointed out to a newspaper man, to whom the account of her remarkable escape, with some very intereStiDg after-develop-, men s, was related. The reporter sub- seqnent'ly filled and saw the young lady and her father. Mr. White is a pensioned 1 o'I;;o < l?,o jr, and the family is both well kno.vn ttwl highly lespeoted in the locality. After I left the hospital," volunteered Miss White, I was prostrated with the shock to the system. In faet, I lay for weeks between life and death." What particular form did the illness take? asked the reporter. She lias always been more or less ill since she was a child," answered the mother. "And as the result of this nccid iit and tin accompanying shock, she rapidly grew weaker and weaker. She was utterly depressed and so debilitated that !-he ha I to be assisted when she attempted to wilk." '1 lie doctor was never out of the house, Mr. White said. "She was distressed by fearful iudige-ition after eating, had acute pains in the arms, legs, and hack, and often fainted. It was a tenible time for me, I can tell you," continued the daughter. The doctor* said 1 was anaemic and I got so whIte I WitS almost afraid to look ir, my face in the glas*. My mother and lather and friends who came to see me said I should never be the same girl aeain, but you see they were happily mistaken." And the pressman found this to be true as lie turned his eyes to the bright animated t'sce of the speaker. And to what do you attribute so complete a recovery?" lie asked. Well, I will tell you in my own way. I was sitting Iln ill in bed one morning reading the I,' itish Weekly, and I saw an account of the case of a young lady some- where iu the country, whose sufferings seemed just like mine. I showed the paper to motht r, aud we decided to try the medicine that cured her-, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.' We got a box and I tried them. Graiu- ally I got better, giving up the doctor's medicine. We soon found that the Pills were d(!)il,g me gco 1. After taking the Pills I teit like another being. The pains begin to be le*s severe, I was less irritable. Palpitation of the heart, which had been a very troublesome and alarming con- comitant of the illness, ceased. The change was siniplv wonderful, and I thank God I had noticed the advertisement in tcie JiritiiK Weekly. To make a long story short, I got well, and now I am as strong and healthy as ever I was in my life." I have often told her," interposed Mrs. WThite, "that she should write a testimonial to Dr. Williams. I take the Pills myself." And so do I," said the father. "Since I got well," said Miss White, scores of my friends have taken them on my recommendation. I think it only right to let everybody know how much I owe to the Pills, and I don't mind if you put my experience in the papers, that other people who suffer as I have may know of their great value." The above statement can easily be verified. The Whites have resided in the neighbourhood of Putney over thirty years and are known as highly trust- worthy and respectable people, and although hav-ingthestrongest belief in tilU sincerity of the account given huu, the reporter, by questioning a number of their friends and neighbours, received ample verification of the facts and statements made by Miss White and her parents. 11111-A, IfJefPo of Suakin and Mi&xaniEpimm IT is true of many of our English villages that, though comparatively unknown in themselves, their products and manu- factures are used and appreciated in all parts of the world. Such a place is Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton—a densely populated,straggling village, urban and smoky enough on the Wolverhamp- ton side, but on the other stretching away to the fiinge of some very pretty green borderland. Its staple industry is "steel- trap making—the rabbit pest in Australia providing a good market for this article. To trap making must be added key making as one of the industries that hely to support the population of Wednesfield. I could not help remarking the number of wearers of while aprons about the main street of the village (writes a Midland Weekly News reporter) as I strolled Alexandria—the Bom- bardment." through it the o t h e.r evening. Not a few of the wage-earners were to be seen at the doors of their cottages get- ting a breath of fresh air af t er tho labours of the day. My d'est iuation was the Pylo I,- 1 Cock Inn, one nf the oldest public-houses in Wednesfield, which, as the genial landlord (Mr. John Willcox) informed me, had been in possession of the same family for over half a century. I in- quired for Mr Henry Peers, whom I had been told might be found there. Mr. Peers, however, was temporarily absent from the village, he having gone for a drive. In reply to an inquiring look I told the landlord that I had been informed that Mr. Peers had been ill. The landlord replied that Mr. Peers had been very ill, and said be looked like a dead man walking about the house. I gathered that Mr. Peers was an old pensioner, and, being determined to see him, revisited the inn on another evening, when he was sent for, and we were introduced to each other. Mr. Peers, with his bronzed, healthy- looking face, grey moustache and imperial, and decidedly soldierly appearance, was ready enough to chat. I first made him sketch his history and fight his battlea over again. He is now fifty-three years of age, and has served twenty-three aud (II half years in the Royal Navy. He is & native of Wednesfield, having lived there all his lifetime, and worked at his trade as a keysmith, except when serving his Queen aud country. He enlisted in the Royal Navy or the Marines in 1663 lie served on H.M.S. Penelope, under Admiral Seymour, at the bombardment of Alexandria, and in 1885 and 1886 was in Egypt fighting at Suakin against Osman Digna. He made no boa.t of it, but modestly told me when questioned that he holds a medal and bar for the bom- bardment of Alexandria and a bar for Suakin. At the close of the campaign he came home invalided, left the service, and returned to Wednesfield, to take up his trade again. Three or four years ago he broke down in health, went into a. hospital, and underwent an operation. His health, however, was not restored, and a doctor whom he consulted said he was suffering from a diseased stomach. I vomited everything I ate,said Mr. Peers, and lost weight, until I became like a shadow." He used to frighten me when he came into the house," remarked one of the persons who was listening to our con- versation. Mr. Peers, continuing his story, said :— I had had two doctors treating me when my brother first told me about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peapl-e. 1 bought a box at once, and commenced to take them. From that time I began to get better. Before I could not eat auv solid food, but after taking the Pills I began to eat and enjoy food." He added, with good humour, "I can haidly satisfy my appetite now." 1* Do you attribute your recoverv entirely to Dr. Williams' Pills, Mr. Peers ? D..ked the reporter. "Yes," he answered with confidence. I can now eat anything that is put before me. It used to make me gloo nv when I saw other peotl i eating and I could not. I never tasted a bit of bread for a month or five weeks." Mr. Peers, continuing to chat on, said thai several villagers to whom he had recommended the Piils had taken them and been much benelited. While we were t tlking, a young Black Country lass parsed the open window aud was pointed to as one who had suffered and been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Dr. YVilliams' Pmk Pills are obtainable of all chemists, and of Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, 46, Hoi born-viaduct, London, at 2s. 9d. a box, or six boxes for lbs. 9d., but are genuine onlv with the fall, name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printed in red 011 the pink wrapper. They are not like other rntdi cines, for their effects are permanent They act directly on the blood, and thus it is that they are so famous for the cure of indigestion, ancemia, consumption, rheumatism, scrofula, chronic erysipelas general weakness, and to restore paie and sallow complexions to the gJow of health They are also a splendid nerveaud spinal tonic, and thus have cured many cases of paralysis, locomotor ataxy, neuralgia. St Vitus' dance, aud nervous headache. Have YOU had a Narrow Escape? Readers, write a Letter I IF you are ill, and the doctor cannot cure you; if you have beeu pronounced incur- able at the hospital: or if you have some ailment, small or great, that gives you trouble, write to us, and receive honest vice free. It is no trouble to answer your letter, and we, shall answer it honestly. We will not sell pills to people whom we do not think they will cure. Address, Dr. Williams' Medicine Com- pany, 46, Holborn-viaduct, London, E.G. Suffering men and women, please write to us.
JOTTINGS & GLEAXIXGS.
JOTTINGS & GLEAXIXGS. THEN AND NOW, IN olden times it doth appear The maid of high degree Whilst men went out with sword and spear, At home did sit from year to year, -And little fun had she. The live-long day her wheel went round, Sped by her nimble foot, With such a whirring, cooing sound, That I'd have sunk in slumber sound Amongst my maidens mute. I have a wheel--the modern maid Treads hers as much as she, Who, 'midst the stir of siege and raid, Sat in her bower, fair but staid, And hear sweet minstrelsie. Ah, nowadays 'tis different quite < My wheel takes me afar, I have no steel-clad, plumed knight For me, his "ladye fayre," to fight- Tweed-clad my escorts are. I sit not with my wheel at home And spin the linen fair, Through pleasant lanes and woods I roam, Along the sands where breakers foam- It takes me everywhere. 'Tis true the woollen gown I wear Was bought, not spun by me; I'm sure I am not half as fair As she of old-times-I don't care: Her spinning-wheel I would not change For my dear wheel, on which I range The roads. Don't you agree? BELLA SIDNEY WOOLF. IS RAPID MASTICATION INJURIOUS '? The Journal of Mental Diseases says that there is a prevalent idea that slow eating is very favourable to digestion, but this is largely fallacious. The important point is not that we eat alowly or fast, but that when we do eat we chew with energy. Of course, where the haste is due to some mental anxiety, this may injur- iously inhabit the secretions. Slow eating begets a habit of simply mumbling the food without really masticating it, whilst the hurried eater is inclined. to swallow his food without proper mastication. Hence hurried eating is bad, but rapid mastication is advantageous. It concent- rates our energies on the act in question, and hence more thoroughly accomplishes it. More- over, energetic chewing stimulates the secretion saliva in the most favourable manner. These various points are so commonly misunderstood; y a 1 1, at least by the laity, that they demand our fre- quent attention. STARLINGS AS HONEY-SUCKERS. Starlings (says Leisure Hour) are well-known, not only as first-class mimics, but also as adepts in accommodating themselves to the food which happens to be most available in their neighbour- hood, in consequence of which adaptability to circumstances the bird is steadily increasing in numbers and range. Of late years it has shown a fondness for ripe pears and apples, and has become a nuisance to fruit-growers. Now comes news that in New Zealand starlings are develop- ing a taste for honey and, like the parson bird, frequent the flax-flats, and suck the honey from the richly mellifluous flowers. The Starling has thus joined the interesting group of birds which subsist upon honey extracted from the flowers of various plants. How it acquired this taste for honey is difficult to understand, but a plausible explanation is that while engaged in killing humble-bees—starlings have been observed catching humble-bees and conveying them to their nests to feed their young—they discovered the honey-sac, and were afterwards led by scent or accident to the flowers from which the honey was obtained. AIDS TO BEAUTY. An offensive breath will spoil the prettiest girl. When it arises from the teeth the dentist alone can permanently remove the cause, but when trouble arises from a disordered stomach. dissolve a teaspoonful of crystal of permanganate of potash in two ounces of water, and put enough of it in water to rinse the mouth to make it pink do not swallow the water, but rinse the mouth and cleanse the teeth. This, like the bichloride of mercury lotion, is a poison and should be kept out of the reach of children, and where it will not be mistaken for medicine. When the teeth are discoloured, finely pulverised pumice stone is preferable to charcoal powder for removing the discolouration. If the gums are tender a few drops of tincture of myrrh dropped into th& water with which the mouth is rinsed will be found excellent. The chalk and myrrh dentifrice to be procured at almost auy drug store is delightful and very beneficial, which cannot be ,aid of all dentifrices; many of them contain icid, which in time destroys the enamel. The- teeth should receive attention after each meal, ind the last thing before retiring. A thread of white saddler's silk, of coarse twist, is excellent to remove food from between close teeth. THE BACTERIOLOGY OF CLOTHES. Carlyle gave us the philosophy of clothes; now Dr. Seitz, of Munich, gives us their bacteriology. On examining a worsted stocking he found 956 thriving colonies, while on a cotton sock there were 712. Both these articles had been worn, but no information is vouchsafed as to the personal habits of the wearer. Thirty- three colonies were found on a glove, twenty on a piece of woollen stuff and nine on a piece of cloth none of these articles had been worn. On a piece of cloth from a garment which had been worn a week there were twenty-three colonies. Of the micro-organisms found on articles of clothing relatively few were capable of causing disease the pathogenic species were were almost without exception staphylococci. In one case, however, Dr. Seitz found the typhoid bacillus in articles of clothing from twenty-one to twenty-seven days, and the staphylococcus pyogenes albus ninteen days after they had been worn. The anthrax bacillus found in clothes was still virulent after a year. The microbe of erysipelas, on the other hand, could not be found after eighteen hours, nor the cholera vibrio after three days. Dr. Seitz studied with special care the question whether in tuberculous subjects who, sweated profusely the bacillus was conveyed by the perspiration to a piece of linen worn for some time next the skin of the chest. The inoculation of two guinea-pigs, however, gave negative results.