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f SMOKE | I mOHOLLS' j UNION ] i J AC it I I I (SHAGS). 1 S(Bacco Goreu). il A perfect Smoke and Chew. I Manufactured by— I THOS. NICHOLLS & Co., 1 H Tobacco Manufacturers. CHESTER. |j THE VALE OF LLANGOLLEN. \A/UV IT 18 SQ popular? YV M I IT IS SO FAMOUS! Am ei fod yn "ddyffryn paradwysaidd." Y CYMRO." Because it is the Sweetest of Vales." —CHARLES MATTHEWS, Comedian. Because it is one of the loveliest places on earth. —"BLACKPOOL TIMES." Because it is the closest imitation of Paradise." WREXHAM ADVERTISER." Because it is the far-famed Vale of Llangollen." —"THE WORLD." Because it is The Valley of Jewels, the Jewel of Valleys." —" Oup OWN COUNTRY." Because it is a scenic fairyland of verdure and foliage." —"THE SKETCH." Because it is a quiet little place with lovely scenery." —"TO-DAY." Because of its "unrivalled scenery and pure air." -DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. Because it contains "some of the loveliest brook and glen scenery in the world." -Professor JOHN RUSKIN, Ll.D. Because therein is situated the picturesque little town of Llangollen." —"CENTURY MAGAZINE." Because her Majesty the Queen was much pleased with her visit to Llangollen."—HENRY PONSONBY. Because it is a delightful spot delicious prospect enchanted spot." —WILLIAM HAZLITT, the great critic. Because there is no doubt but that the Vale of Llangollen possesses all the accessories of a perfect landscape." -MURREY. Because Llangollen is a beautiful place, and can never be dull unless to very unreasonable people." —"BRITISH WEEKLY." Because you will find there the loveliest scenery in the Principality, and by consequence in the whole -world." —"DAILY NEWS." Because there is not a more charming or picturesque bit of seenery than the little town of Llangollen, in the Valley of the Dee." MORNING POST." Because "the scene from the [CastleJ ruins is a most glorious picture, hardly to be imagined even by those who rave of the beauties of the Rhine Valley." —" WiDNES WEEKLY NEWS." Because I have seen no scenery in Great Britain that can rival North Wales, and nothing in North Wales so attractive on the whole as the Valley of the Dee." -E. J. PHELPS, American Minister Because no one capable of appreciating the charnis of hill and valley, river and woodland, ever spent a week of sunshine in Llangollen and left it thinking. the famous Vale over praised." OSWESTRY ADVERTIZER." Because "the Vale of Llangollen is a true valley between ranges of grandly-formed hills, and be village of Llangollen one of the most beautiful and delightful in Wales, or anywhere else." -Professor JOHN RUSKIN, Ll.D. Because it is "the beautiful Vale of Llangollen," and we cannot suggest to intending holiday-makers any better method of spending a week or two than in exploring the beauties of the dearest of vales." LLANDUDNO ADVERTISER." Because "it is a distinguishing advantage of Llangollen that in all weathers it is beautiful, and most of its beauties are near enough to be seen under cioud or sun-in any condition of the atmosphere." —"OSWESTRY ADVERTIZER." Because than Wales no part of the kingdom is probably richer in archaeological remains, and no portion of Wales probably possesses more interesting relics of antiquity than the neighbourhood of Llan- gollen." —"LIVERPOOL MERCURY." Because, "along with Hanmer and Kinglake, I received an impression of the beauty around me which continued ineffaceable during all subsequent experience of varied foreign scenery-mountain, valley, and river." —ROBERT BROWNING. I IBecause it is Lovely Llangollen. The cyclist, the pedestrian, the artist, the archaiologist, the photo- grapher, the naturalist, and the boating man or woman may each and all pursue their favourite hobbies at Llangollen." —" THE LADY." Because for those who prefer a really restful holiday, removed from the hurry and dust and, let us add, the expensive lodgings of the modern watering- place, the dear little Vale of Llangollen may be safely and honestly recommended." "LLANDUDNO ADVERTISER." Because, though other regions may compard favourably with it, excel it they never will. The vale is always charming, always alluring, and for ever offering an invitation to quit the noisy bustle of town-life, and rest in peace amidst its manifold beauties." —"BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY MERCURY." Because "here are to be found some of the most delightful rambles imaginable; there are hills, if not mountains, of no inconsiderable height, which will tempt the climber, while the walks along the river- side, and through the greenest of green fields, make one long for a perennial summer." —"LLANDUDNO ADVERTISER." Because "I have ceased to seek my recreation in going abroad for many years, and when I do occasion- ally go abroad I always come back saying to myself, You had much better have stayed in your old home at Bryntysilio [Vale of Llangollen!, and have taken what you have got there without trouble and without expense.' P —SIR THEODORE MARTIN, K.C.B., K.C.V. Cawsom gipolwg, oddiar y rheilffordd," sylwai y bardd godidog Islwyn, tra yn desgrifio taith o'r Deheudir, trwy'r Amwythig a Chaer, i sir F6n, "ar fro Llangollen. Ymddangosai fel y fynedfa i Bara- dwys, gan decen oedd. Y fath dlysni! Y fath gein- der! Y fath amrywiaeth, ac eto y fath unoliaeth yn y cyfan! Nid oedd y cwbl a welem ni ond cwr o'r gogoniant-rhyw ymyl o'r fantell nefolaidd a wisgai Anian yno." Because "I only pity those who have not visited this beautiful Valley. It has been my fortune to travel over a good portion of Europe, but in all Europe I have never seen anything that had come home thoroughly to my heart for its exceeding beauty, for the home charm of the scenery, mingled with a taste of wildness-for that to a Scotchman, like myself, has a singular fascination—I have seen nothing I could place side by side with the Valley of the Dee." -Sir THEODORE MARTIN, K.C.B., K.C.V. Because "of all the beautiful spots in which Wales abounds, there is no more charming than the lovely Vale of Llangollen. It has long been justly famed as a health resort, and the exquisite beauty of its walks and drives, and the neatness, cleanliness, and pleasantness of the town of Llangollen renders it especially attractive even to ordinary visitors, but to the artist it offers endless subjects for study and treatment, whilst the student of science can always find there a great store of objects worthy of the most eareful attention." —" RESEARCH." Because of its kind there is nothing more charming in Great Britain, and one may wander far on the Continent, amidst the glories of Switzerland and Italy, to come back with appetite as keen as ever for these charms of form and colour, of wooded slopes and graceful sweep of green mountain sides, and purple patches of heather which Scotland herself might envy, and more bewitching still, patchworks of heath and gorse, of green, and purple, and gold, a livery of Nature which no painter would be bold enough to picture on his canvas in all its glowing colours. You pass from the sylvan beauty of long reaches of the Dee, climb the gently rising hills, the surprise of fresh oveliness at every turn, when, suddenly, before you lies the distant line of the Irish Sea; the yellow sand gleam in the sunshine; the light falls on white sails and perhaps the sunset floods the peaks and pinnacle of Snowdonia." —"OSWESTRY ADVERTIZER."
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CYMRU, CYMRO, a CHYMRAEG.
CYMRU, CYMRO, a CHYMRAEG. AMRYWIAETH. Yn ystod y deuddeng mis diweddaf. bu wyth a deugain feirw o newyn yn Llundain. Merehed oedd y nifer liosocaf o honynt. Rby feilchion i ofyn am gymmhorth y plwyf ydoedd y mwyafrif Mae yr ail ran 0 il Hanes Cymru" gan Mr. 0. M. Edwards, A.S., newydd ei gyhoeddi. Cynnwysa hanes cyfnod y Normaniaid. rhwng 1063 a 1137. yn yr hwn y mae Gruffydd ab Cynan yn brif gymmeriad. Y dydd o'r blaen, lladdwyd un o weÜion y ffordd haiarn yn ngorsaf Cannon-street, Llundain. Gwas- gwyd ef yn erbyn y llwyfan, a bu raid codi y cerbyd oddi ar y rheiliau cyn y gellid ei gael yn rhydd. Cymmerodd hyny hanner awr i'w wneyd, ac atto, drwy y cwbl, bu ef byw. Ond, bu farw yn fuan wedi hyny. Dranoeth yr oedd efe i fyned i'w briedi, a daethai ei ddyweddi i'r ddinas, gyda'r dillad priodasol, mewn pryd i weled ei gorph marw. Mae Cymdeithas yr Ymdrech Crefyddol wedi penderfynu cynnal eu cynbadledd gyffredinol y flwyddyn nesaf ar ffurf camp meeting, yn lie cynnal y cyrddau mewn gwahamol neuaddau ac addoldai yn Llundain. Mae pare prydferth sydd yn gorwedd o fewn taith ugain munyd i ganol y Brifddinas wedi ei ddewis, ac yma fe godir dros fil o bebyll, wl heblaw dwy babell cyfarfod enfawr, gyda seddau yn mhob un i ddeng mil o bobl eistedd. Bydd amrywo bebyll eraill yn cael eu gosod ifyny at wasanaeth y man gyfarfodydd, a, bydd y cyfan yn ffurfio Dinas Wen nas gwelwyd ei bath ynglyn a'r un oyfarfod crefyddol o'r blaen. Y PARCH. T. WITT TALMAGE, D.D., AMERICA. Y mae pregeth hynod a gyhoeddwyd 0 waith yr enwog Dr. Talmage, ar ddirwest, yn diweddu yn y dull tyner ac Efengylaidd a ganlyn Mae Duw eisieu i chwi ddyfod ato Ef yn ol, bob un o honoch chwi, a dyfod yn ol yn awr; ac yn fwy tyner a chariadlawn nagy gwna unryw fam byth gyfodi plentyn claf o'r crud, a'i gofleidio yn ei breichiau, gan suo hwian don drosdo, a'i siglo yn ol ac yn mlaen. Fe gymmer yr Arglwydd chwithau i fyny, gan eich cofleidio yn mreichiau anwyl ei drugaredd. Mae trugaredd Duw yn eang, Llawer mwy na lied y mor: Mae tynerwch annirnadwy, Oes yn marn yr Arglwydd lor." -(Efelychiad) C.E..
^ Y CEFN A'R CYMMYDOGAETHAU.
Y CEFN A'R CYMMYDOGAETHAU. Cynhaliwyd cyfarfod cenhadol neilltuol yn Nghapel M.C. Brynhyfryd, Garth, nos Fercher, Hydref lleg. Cymmerwyd y gadair lywyddol gan Mr. R. Cooper. Dechreuwyd drwy ganu, a darllen rhan e'r Ysgrythyr ac offryrnu gweddi, gan Mr. W. A. Roberts, Llangollen. Traddodwyd anerchiadau llawn 0 ddyddordeb, addysg, a gwres cenadol gan y llywydd, gan Mrs. Williams, cenhades fu yn India, a chan Miss Hughes, yr hon sydd ar fyned i'r maes cenhadol. Yr oedd y cynnulliad yn un lluosog, a'r gwrandawiad yn astud, er nad oedd y lie mor llawn ag y gallasai fod ar gyfarfod cenhadol, a merched yn siarad. Y mae yn bossibl, fel y sylwyd, nad ydyw y wlad yma yn cael digon o hanes y cenadaethau mewn gwledydd eraill, fel ag i enyn ynom ddyddordeb gwresog yn y cenhadon a'u gwaith, i gydymdeimlo a hwy, ac a'r cenedloedd a'r llwythau sydd eto yn byw mewn tywyllwch ysbrydol a thrueni amgyichiadol. Boneddiges 0 Ddinbych ydyw Mrs. Williams, ac un 9 Lanelwy ydyw Miss Hughes-unig ferch i'r Hybarch B. Hughes, yr hwn yn yr oedran teg 0 80 mlwydd sydd yn cael yr hyfrydwch 0 weled ei ferch yn ymroddi i'r un gwaith aruchel ag ef ei hun, sef ceisio goleuo y byd am y Ceidwad. Arfaethau gychwyn 0 Lerpwl Tachwedd lleg, ar y llpng City of Corinth, ar ol cyfarfod mawr ymadawol y noson cynt. YR UNDEB EFENGYLAIDD. Y mae yr Undeb Efengylaidd Eglwysi Rhyddion yn parhau i weithio a chynnal cyforfodydd. Cyn- naliasant restr o gyfarfodydd undebol yr wythnos ddiweddaf i ddiolch am y cynheuaf, a chafwyd cynraulliadau lluosog, ae arwyddion o foddlonrwydd y Nefoedd ar y gwasanaeth. Nid yn fynych y gwelwyd cymmaint o achos dioleh ag eleni, nac y gwelwyd "y dyffrynoedd wedi eu gorchuddio ag yd" yn llawnach, ac nid ag yd yn unig, ond a phob cynnyrch gwerthfawr. EGLWYS TREVOR. Eglwys Wladol ydyw hon mewn lie anamlwg yn nghwr deheuol y coed ar yr ochr isaf i'r ffordd sydd yn arwain at Blas-yn-Nhrevor, preswylfa teulu parchus y diweddar Mr. J. C. Edwards. Y mae yn hen adeilad. a'r eisteddleoedd yn yr arddul dwfn henafol, er fod cryn adgyweiriadau wedi cael eu gwneyd ar y lie yn ddiweddar, oddimewn ao oddi- allan. Ymddengys mai hwn oedd yr unig le yn y gymmydogaeth i bobl gydgasglu i addoli yn y ganrif o'r blaen, ac mai ychydig iawn oedd nifer y teuluoedd a breswylient yn y gymmydogaeth yn y cyfnod hwnw, mewn cydmariaeth i'r hyn ydynt yn niwedd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Mae yr addoldai yn ami erbyn hyn, a phersoniaid, pregeth- wyr, gweinidogion, a chiwradiaid yn lluogog; a phob manteision daionus yn cael eu dwyn i gyraedd pawb o bob gradd a dosbarth—goleuni gwybodaeth yn cael ei dwallt megys ar bob rhan o'n gwlad, ar hyd yr wythnosau. Er fod Eglwys Trevor mewn lie anamlwg, y mae llawer yn ymgynnull ynddi, yn enwedig ar adegau diolch am y cynauaf. Addurnir y lie a phobffrwytbau yn ofalus, a eheisir gwyr enwog a disuthr i wasanaethu. CYFLWYNO ANRHEG. Mae Ysgol Sul y Metbodistiaid Henaduriaethol, Vroncyssylltau, wedi cyflwyno un o'r fath oreu o lyfr emynau a thonau yr enwad yn anrheg i Mr. J. Jones, dyn ieuanc addawol, am ei ffyddlondeb yn dysgu y plant a'u harwain mewn canu. RHYFEL RHYFEL HEDDWCH HEDDWCH Y mae helynt a rhyfel y Transvaal wedi cynyrfu pawp drwy y wlad lonydd a heddychlawn hon. Pawb yn holi am hanes y rhyfel. Rhai yn sychedu am heddweh, a'r lleill yn yfed terfysg a dinystr fel llaeth newydd. Mae v ddadl fodd bynnag wedi ei phenderfynu mewn cyfarfoil Jadleuol yn v Yron, mai heddweh v maenthwy am duno, ac am ganu Cyfraith Iesu gadwant hwy, Ac ni ddysgant ryfel mwy." Cymmerwyd arweiisiad y ddadl o blaid rbyfel gan Mr. J. Delaney, a'r arweiniad yn erbyn rhyfel gan Mr. J. Roberts, C.D. Llywydd y eyfarfod oedd Mr. T. Morris, Swan-terrace. PLESERDAITH RAD. Dydd Llun aeth llawer gyda'r gerbydres rad i Manchester, fel bob blwyddyn, i weled rhyfedd- odau Bell-vue Gardens. Dychwelasant adref rhwng 12 ac 1 o'r gloch boreu dydd Mawrth. Yr oedd hyny oddeutu awr neu ragor yn gynt nac arferol. Dywedir iddynt gael taith a diwrnod cysurus, y tywydd yn hyfryd a'r haul yn bur gynes. COR UNDEBOL CEFN MAWR. Nos Fercher, am 7 o'r gloch, yn yr ysgoldy eyssylltiol a chapel yr Annibynwyr Seisnig, Hill- street, Cefn, cynnaliwyd gwledd de gymdeithasol (social tea) a chyfarfod i'r amcan 0 gyflwyBO oriawr aur ac anerchiad goreuredig i Mr. G. W. Hughes, G. & L., fel cydnabyddiaeth iddo am ei ffydd- londeb gyda'r cor, yr hwn a arweinir ganddo er's llawer o flynyddoedd. CWYNION TEITHWYR. Y mae y dull newydd o osod platforms hirion yn ngorsafoedd y reilffyrdd yn sicr o fod yn llawer o welliant, ond ewinir gan deithwyr eu bod hefyd yn bethau cas, gan fod y clarcod mewn rhai gorsafoedd yn oedi rhoddi tocynau hyd nes y bydd y trens ar ddyfod i mewn, ao felly yn eu gosod mewn perygl o groesi y llinell o flaen y tren neu o golli y tren. Pa fodd y mae hyny, tra y dywedir fod y tocynau i gael eu rhoddi allan 15 munyd cyn amser y tren? Na feddylied y darllenydd fod y sylw uchod yn cyfeirio at orsafoedd y eymmydogaethau.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
WORDS OF WISDOM. The sweetest songs of faith are sung in the dark. Our characters we make, our reputations are often made for us. The man who has a good deal to say always says it in a few words. No man can be a leader who has not the courage to sometimes stand alone. Thou art master of thine unspoken word, but thy spoken word is master of thee. The religion that would kill a smile on the face Df a child is not the religion of Christ. The supreme aim of every man's life should be to make the world a little better than he found it. The glory of love is that it delights in doing for nothing even what nobody else will do for money. It is the strongest possible argument for our im- mortality that nine of every L ten human beings believe in it. We shall not carry rruch treasure into the next world unless we have helped to bear other people's burdens in this world. Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts in this lower world. When a man measures his neighbour, he uses the best man he knows for a standard. When he measures himself, he chooses the worst. A long course of prosperity may be pleasant enough, but it will not bring out what is best in us. Only adversity, bravely met, can do that. In all things throughout the world the men who look for the crooked will see the crooked, and the men who look straight will see the straight. Every ladder has a top round to it, but the top round cannot be reached all at once. One round at a time is as great a step as most of us are equal to taking. We are poor not in proportion to our income, but in proportion to the things we want-or think we want—and cannot get. Poverty is more a question of temperament than of money. This world was not made for any one person in particular. The sooner we realise that it was not mace with a special view to our individual comfort, the better for ourselves and for other people. Many of our trials and troubles would be avoided if we could but learn how to stoop. The stubborn, Jo:ty tree falls before the hurricane; the sapling bends-the wind glides over it—and it rises again, unhurt. A good many of us are fond of taking a positive stand in arguments about little things, as if our opinion could not possibly be wrong. But half the things we know we guess at, and the other half somebody else has guessed at for us. If you prepare a dish of food carelessly, you do not expect Providence to make it palatable. Neither, if through years of folly you misguide your own life, need you expect Divine interference to bring round everything at the last for the best. We do not pray enough for the graces that we need. We are ready to cry out that we are miserable and mortified on account of sin com- mitted, but much less ready to undergo the mortifica- tion of omitting to commit favourite sins. a By contemplating our worries, investigating and analysing them, we add to them enormously. An unhappy humour can be intensified by brooding. The constant reiteration of our woes-which are, probably, more than half imaginary-makes them at once seem real. Everyone is ready to praise a success and criticise a failure. But who is to define success or failure ? Often and often what looks like failure paves the way for success that makes a nine days' wonder; and an apparent failure may represent better work, and more untiring energy, than an apparent success. The presence of one gloomy-minded person will darken the social atmosphere in a household for everybody. There are few households without one wet blanket, a most undesirable inmate who, by gloomy forebodings, the habit of seeing clouds, yet not peering far enough to see the silver lining, has done more to depress and make miserable her sur- roundings than all the real troubles that have ever assailed a household. The place we fill in the economy of this world is infinitely small. No living person, no one likely to arise, is or ever will be indispensable. We are but the veriest molecules in our relation to the world, insignificant in our departure, contributing during our life but an infinitesimal portion to the vast sea of vitality in which we live. The wisest is but ignorant when compared with the vast oceans of knowledge to be absorbed; the most powerful piti- fully weak in comparison with the forces which surround him; the most vigorous and energetic slothful by comparison with the energy expanded on every side; the moss astute, the wisest, the most far-sighted, but so very little in advance of the rest of his kind as to be able to keep his head above mediocrity but a few short years, then nothing but a memory, a crumbling tombstone, and the world rolls on. ——— WORRY, Worry is killing. It is bad management that kills people. Nature will let no man overwork himself unless he plays her false, unless he takes stimulants at irregular times, smokes much, or takes opium. If he is regular and obeys the laws of health and walks in the way of physiological righteousness, Nature will never allow him or any person to work too hard. I have never yet seen a case of breaking down from overwork alone, but I admit that it is necessary above all things to cultivate tranquillity of mind." Try to exercise your wills in regard to this, for will counts for something in securing tran- quillity-to accept things as they are and not to bother about yesterday, which is gone for ever; not to bother about to-morrow, which is not ours; but to take lie present day and make the best of it. Those persons who will continually peer into what lies beyond never have any present life at all; they are always grizzling over the past or prying into the future, and this blessed to-day, which is all that we are sure of, they never have.-SIR ANDREW CLARK. KEEP A LOFTY IDEAL. Shew those qualities which are altogether in thy power-sincerity, gravity, endurance of labour, aversion to luxury, benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom from trifling, magnanimity. Dost thou not see how many qualities thou art immediately able to exhibit, in which there is no excuse of natural incapacity and unfitness, and yet thou still remainest voluntarily below the mark ? Or art thou compelled, through being defectively furnished by Nature, to murmur, and be mean, and to flatter, and to find fault with thy poor body, and to try to please men, and to make great display, and to be restless in thy mind ? No, by the gods! but thou mightest have been delivered from these things long ago. Only, if in truth thou canst be charged with being rather slow and dull of compre- hension, thou must exert thyself about this also, not neglecting it, nor yet taking pleasure in thy dulness. -MARCUS AURELIUS. A SCEPTIC'S TRIBUTE. About the life and sayings of Jesus there is a stamp of personal originality combined with pro- I fundity of insight which, if we abandon the idle expectation of finding scientific precision where somethine verv different was aimed at. must place the Fropnet 01 rsazaretn, even in tne estimation 01 those who have no belief in His inspiration, in the very first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast. When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever exi-ted upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this Man il., the ideal representative and guide of humanity nor even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract to the concrete than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our Hie.—JOHN SrUART MILL. TRUE HEROISM. Many great deeds are heroic in the noblest sense of the term. They are done in the domain of noble moral principle and feeling-a domain far higher than the causation of mere animal instincts, mere excited passion, mere selfish good-nature. But a great deal of the manliness of life is obscure and undemonstrative. You do not appraise your Dictures by the square yard, nor your libraries by the length of the well-filled book-shelves. Physical magnitude is no measure of moral greatness. The greatest heroism of life is often exhibited in unknown homes, in obscure daily struggles, in silent patience and self-sacrifice. There are heroes in the nursery, the kitchen, the sick room, the hospital, the workshop; there are battle-fields of poverty, suffering, and self- sacrifice that will be illustrious in the annals of God's book of life. There is more demand for true manhood, and mora room for it, in the obscure oiaces of life than there is in its high places. It may be easier to do the work of a General Gordon than to live the life of a London seamstress. True eroism is oftenest found in the struggle, endurance, nd self-sacrifice of common life. -REV. DR. ALLON.
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