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Culture in Dress combined with Economy in Price at I E.K. PARRY'S Ladies and Gentlemen's Tailor, Juvenile Clothier, Hatter and Outfitter, 39, CASTLE STREET, LLANGOLLEN. Perfection in Style and Fit. Ladies' Tailoring a SpecialjFeature ENDLESS CHOICE. LATEST NOVELTIES. EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE. A, BY APPOINTMENT. MORRIS & HUGHES, General & Fancy Drapers, Milliners, Costumiers & Tailors, STYLE & FIT GUARANTEED. Special—Ladies' Tailoring, Dressmaking & Millinery. MORRIS & HUGHES, 13, CASTLE STREET, LLANGOLLEN. BERWYN STORES, LLANGOLLEN. GROCERY & PROVISIONS OF THE FINEST QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES. NOTED for MILD CURED BAOON. EVANS Ie; EDWARDS. AGENTS FOR NECTAR TJBA. ESTABLISHED 1880, .1 MESSRS. JONES & SON (FKANCIS J. JONES—B. HUGH DODD), Agricultural & General Auctioneers, Valuers & Estate Agents. Sales of nil Drscripti>>nx Conducted, and Valuations for Tran-;k->\ Mortgage or Probate made. Duly Valuers by the Denbighshire G.O under the Finance Act. BAILIFFS ua-.L-i: the La-v of Distress Amendment Act Agents to the Alliance A surartco Life and Fire Co., and the Horse insnr-ince Company, London. SALES OF LIVE STOCK-.— Each MONDAY at WREXHAM SMITHFIELD, The First and Third WEDNESDAYS in each month at ROSSETT SMITHFIELD. The Seeond and Fourth TUESDAYS in each montn at LLANGOLLEN SMITHFIELD. 14 OVERTON ARCADE, WREXHAM. Oft ices C (J HA {'XL STREET, LLANGOLLEN. J 14918) LLANGOLLEN SMITHFIELD (THE NORTH WALES CENTRAL SHEEP MAlil). THE NEXT SALE will take place on TUESDAY, NO VEMBER, 13th, At 10 30. JONES & SON, AUCTIONEERS. On TUESDAY NEXT. OCT. 30th. SALE of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS at MINFJPOJRJJJJf ABBEY ROAD, LLANGOLLEN, MESSRS. JONES & SON have been favoured 1,1. with instructions from Dr. Williams (who is leaving the town), to Sell by Auction, on the above premises, the undermentioned HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE & EFFECTS, Viz., Handsome Walnut Drawing Room Suite uphol- stered in Plush, consisting of Couch, 2 Easy and ,1 Single Chairs; Full-compass Cottage Pianoforte in Walnut Case and Iron Frame, by Arthur Allinson and Co., London; Pretty Walnut China Cabinet with Display Shelves and Bevelled Mirrors; Mahogany Hat and Umbrella Stand with Marble Slab; Hand- some Pier Glass in Gilt Frame, Walnut Loo Table; Treadle Sewing Machine by Wheeler and Wilson, enclosed in Mahogany Case, nearly new, cost ±16; Ebonized Hall Chair, Side-table with 2 Drawers, Easy and other Chairs, Hall Lamp, Crockery, Glass, Oil Paintings, Pictures, Brussel and other Carpetting, Steel-rail Fender, Steel Fire Irons, Revolving Piano Stool Brackets, usual Quantity of Culinary Utensils, BEDROOM APPOINTMENTS. Brass-mounted and other Bedsteads aDd Mattresses, Birch Wardrobe with Mirror Door and Drawer below, Dressing Table (to match) with Swing Glass and Jewel Drawers, Washstand with Marble Top, Towel Rails, Toilet Ware, Linoleum, Window Poles, 14 Brass Stair Rods, Mantel Boards and Drapery. Also, about 90 Feet of Brass Case Tubing (in suit- able lengts), Wringing and Mangling Machine, Parrot Cage, about One Gross of Fairy Lamps, BanJo m Leather Case. OUT-DOOR EFFECTS. Light Gig (to suit Cob 12 to 15 hands), in excellent condition, with Cushions and Lamps complete; Pig- skin Saddle (nearly new), Bridle, Carriage Rug, Chaff- cutter, Handsome Ornamental Iron Vase, Iron Garden Cha.ir, Flower Vases, Garden Hose on stand, quantity of Garden Tools, Prnnner, Lawa Mower, Garden Netting, Strong Wheelbarrow, Corrugated Iron, Fowl House and Run, Fowl, Timber, Geat.'s Cycle, Corn Bin, and a large number of Plants, &c., &c. SALE AT ONE O'CLOCK PROMPT. Offices—Llangollen aud Wrexham. —am. T iœiI LA.3T SALES FOR 1 HE YEAR- 30 Gs, Prizes. 750 HORSES. NORTH WALES REPOSITORY, WREXHAM. 17^RANK LLOYD & SONS invite Entries A for November 27Hi—Huntera <*nd Harness Horses. November 28ih-Hackneys, Cobs and Ponies, November 29 th—Heavy, JLuir? and Young Horses. Entries close, Monday, November 19fch, NEXT CREWE SALES, NOV. 15th and 16th. (16775) JUST ARRIVED. NEW SEASONED man CHINA TEA. Recommended by Leading Medical j§ Men as the Best Tea for Drinking. 2s. per lb. ELLIS EVANS, VICTORIA STORES, LLANGOLLEN. Registry Office for Servants. rPHE above Business, carried on by Mrs. -L EVANS, 43, Castle Street, has been TRANSFERRED TO MONCRIEFF'S, 4, MARKET STREET. (16605) WANTED, OLD OAK DRESSERS, CABINETS and TRIDARNS, ANTIQUES MAHOGANY FUR- mTURE, OLD CHINA, PICTURES, PEWTER. S2.' H- KENTON, Antique Dealer, Bridge Strwt, Llangollen, and 0*wwtry (15191) Llangollen Pub- Newsroom and Library. T^AK E NOTICE, that the Newsroom is Open Daily to the Public, and that all Persons desir- ing to obtain Borrowers' Tickets to enable them to Borrow Books from the Lending Library should apply for forms, to bo filled up, to the Librarian (Miss BESSIE JCN'I^) The Hours for giving out books, on and from the 1st November next, shall be as followsEach day from 3 30 to 4 p.m., and 7 30 to 8 p.m., except on Saturdays, when the Library will be open from 3 30 to 4 p.m., and from 7 So to 8 30 p.m. R. DARLINGTON, R. H. JONES, Llangollen, Hon. Sees. October, .1906.

ELANdOLLEiV EISTEDDFOD. PRAISEWORTHY progress continues to be made with the preliminary work of organization for the National Eisteddfod of 1908. As will be seen from details printed in another column most of the Committees have already completed their numerical strength by the process of co- opting and we imagine that those who peruse the names outside of the Executive that have been added to the Sub-Committees will agree that this work has been well and wisely done. Then the success which attended the efforts of the deputation appointed by the Executive to approach Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, with a view to inducing him to accept the Chairman- ship of the Eisteddfod, supplies additional justi- fication for the prediction that the Eisteddfod of 1908 will be one of the most successful in the annals of the national institution. In various directions, perhaps it were too much to expect that it would be otherwise, the appointments and selections of those who will be the chief workers in making arrangements for the great event have come in for a considerable amount of adverse criticism. The names they have included that ought to have been omitted and the names they have omitted that ought to have been in- cluded, have been freely and forcibly pointed out. We do not think, so far, there has been much cause to complain of criticism because up to now it may have been possible for it to have achieved some good. We have now, however, reached a point when criticism of this kind can serve no good purpose at all but may do incal- culable harm. There must be unity of effort, men must be prepared to swallow fancied slights, to patch up their wounded vanity in private, and to place no obstacle in the way of that complete unity of effort which is essential to success. As we stated last week, a very wise choice has been made by "the selection of Mr. E. D. Jones as Eisteddfod Secretary but it must be constantly borne in mind by the Sub-Committees that they must each appoint a reliable hon. secretary, to act in unison with him, and to loyally discharge to the full the duties of the minor secretarial positions. Mr, Jones will ably hold the strings in his hands, but there must be willing workers at the ends of each prepared to render him that ldyal assistance without which it will be:a matter of physical impossibility for the secretarial- worfe-^be affectively carried through

mm m- THE COMING OF DYFED. TlfEHE will be au undoubted element of appro- priateness in thelisit of the Archdruid Dyfed to Llangollen next week. He comes at the right time—AT the psychological moment so to speak —and there is no doubt that his presence amongst and the advice which he will be able to give to those who are busily engaged in making Eisteddfodic arrangements will tend to stimulate Celtic fire in directions in which it has not, so far, been conspicuously M EVIDENCE. Dyfed is a worthy successor to H wfa. MSn, and Ilwfa Moa imparted more dignity and impressivetfess to his somewhat difficult office than the majority of his predecessors, and established a standard not easy for his successors, who live in more critical and censorious times, to live up to. The Archdruid is, so to speak, the personifica- tion of the spiritual, as distinct from the mere mundane, side of the Eisteddfod. V\ e hear it asserted, on some hands, that there is a danger of losing sight too largely of the educa- tional side of the institution in the desire to secure a huge commercial success, and there may be a large element of truth in this. By giving iience chief prominence to features that may be relied upon to briug most grist to the financial mill and by relegating, so to speak, to back seats other features that are not quite so popular with the masses although unquestionably soul inspir- ing, soul uplifting and of high educational value, we disregard, somewhat, the highest eisteddfodic ideals. This is not wise but neither would it be wise to rush hurriedly to the opposite ex- treme. The Eisteddfod must keep in touch with the spirit of the times and, like every other national organization, it must be gradually adjusted so as to be adaptable to altered condi- tions. What we require at Llangollen is a clearly defined middle course between sordid commercialism, on the one hand, and dreamy, sentimental, impracticability on the other. Perhaps Dyfed will help us to discover it.

THE FREE LIBRARY. WE notice by yesterday's papers that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given £ 1,500 to Llan- drindod Wells for the erection of a Free Library, the paragraph which contains the in- formation also stating that "it has been readily accepted by the inhabitants on the usual con- ditions." We should like to be able to record, as we trust we may be shortly, that Llan- gollen is in a similarly satisfactory position. The usual conditions," we presume, are the adop- tion of the Free Libraries Act and the readiness to give a guarantee that the millionaire's bounty will be utilised in the manner approved by the benefactor. The Free Libraries Act has already been adopted at Llangollen, a penny has been added to the urban rate in consequence, and there appears to be no obstacle in the way of MR. Carnegie coming over to help us. The gentleman from whom we anticipate so much is now en route from his native land to America, so that the wide-awake people who are looking after the interests of Llangollen in this parti- cular matter may experience some little delay in getting into touch with him; but the sooner they it ring him up and aaoertain hia intentions, in view of recent developments in the town, the better. On their, present basis we do not think ,¥. that the Library and Newsroom are by any means rendered more potent agencies for good because the doors are thrown open to all comers. Restrictions of some kind will have to be pro- vided, and already there is a good deal of grumbling on the part of ratepayer readers that their privileges have been interfered with by the change without any compensating advantages. When the new building is erected, it will be necessary to have a care- taker continually on the premises and to formulate a code of rules and regulations that, whilst rendering the institution free to be used by all as a Library and Newsroom, will effec- tually prevent its being freely used for any. other purposes. By the way we hope, now thit the eyes of Llangollen iu general are expectantly turned in the direction of Mr. Carnegie, the eyes of the Eisteddfod authorities in particular will be steadily fixed upon the Steel King. He was unable, through family reasons, to preside over one of the meetings he had arranged to attend at Carnarvon-Llangollen should strive to profit by Carnarvon's loss.

4 A PR A O TIG A L S UG GES11 ON. IT is sincerely to be hoped that the words of wisdom contained in the suggestions made by Sir Theodore Martin to a correspondent prior to leaving Llangollen, after his Summer sojourn at Bryatysilio, will be taken to heart in the right quarters. Sir Theodore points out, as he has pointed out repeatedly before, through the medium of our columns, the desirability of im- proving the approaches to what he rightly terms the loveliest walk in the kingdom, viz., that which stretches along the banks of the Shrop- shire Union Canal between Llangollen and Berwyn. There is no questioning the absolute loveliness of this walk or the complete accuracy of Sir Theodore's description any more than it is possible to question the appropriateness of the adjective disgraceful," as applied to the present condition of the pathway which, with the rugged approach by the Wharf Hill, constitute the only means of reaching the banks of the stream along which it is possible to enjoy so unique a ramble. Sir Theodore says he has himself seen elderly people stumbling and fall- ing in the endeavour to ascend the pathway, the surface of which is covered with loose stones, broken glass and other unsightly debris, and he very properly asks why these conditions should be permitted to continue when, for a com- paratively small expenditure, matters might be readily set to rights. The Urban Council may pay attention to the subject at their next meeting. We understand that the pathway alluded to is the private property of the Shrop- shire Union Canal Company and that this fact has, in the past, been a stumbling block in the way of the Urban Council taking action in the matter. We have good reason for thinking, however, that, if the Company were officially approached by the Urban Council, backed by the weight of Sir Theodore's repeated sug- gestions and complaints, a means might readily be discovered of effecting a very necessary im- provement.

» ■— GOLF LINKS FOR LLANGOLLEN. )r IT is highly gratifying to find that the movement to secure Golf Links for Llangollen has "caught on" so speedily and effectively. There can be little doubt, if we may^judge JFOM -die TONE" that pervaded the Influential meeting held on Wednesday night, that the project will materialise, and that at no distant date. The report of Jack Morris, who some weeks ago inspected a number of possible sites for the Links was considered and it appears therefrom that the one which, from all points of view, is the most desirable to adopt is at Maes-vr-chain and, in addition to possessing all the requisites for a full course of eighteen holes, it is easy of access to the town, and it possesses additional advan- tages over other sites viewed. The expert strongly recommends the promoters to start with a nine hole course, developing as resources and requirements demand, and it would appear that the outlay necessary in order to make a com- mencement will be something like ISOO. Of course the erection of a palatial" Club house, on the lines adopted at many golf centres, might increase this amount indefinitely but the gener- ally expressed view on Wednesday evening was that, although everything necessary should be done to start the Llangollen Links upon a scale worthy of the district, progress should be gradual, and that the Club should not attempt to run before it can walk. A very wise decision was arrived at to interview the tenants who will be affected by the creation of the Links as well as the landlords, and in every way to consult their wishes and interests before movin0, further and it is reassuring to hear that, on the part of tenants who have so far expressed an opinion, there is a disposition to do all they can to assist the venture. When the cloth" has been secured the services of "Jack" Morris are once more to be obtained to advise as to how the coat is to be cut—how the links are to be laid out. Then, as Mr. Richards suggests, the opportunity of the financier will arise to float the enterprise as a Limited Liability Company.

♦ CORRESPONDENTS PLEASE iVOTIl IT is always a matter of regret to have to exclude letters from the paper. There is no class of MATTER more helpful to the reading public or more TRULY interesting, than appears in the correspondence columns of the press. But a few wholesome should bo borne in mind by those who desire TO avail themselves of this method of" blowing off steam. Iu the first place it is not well, even I" the columns of a parish paper, to attempt to gET rid of personal animus under the cloak of a 710 deplume. There are, of course, occasions Whell anonymity may be necessary, and where ends may be best furthered by correspondent3 writing under a pen name. These, however, are by no means numerous; and it would conduce considerably to an all-round improvement IN tone of correspondence in many papers if writers of letters were required to append THETF correct names and addresses to their letters as t condition of publication. If a corresponded desires to run a-tilt at a particular grievance, THA5 is causing serious annoyance or injury to public why, in the name of common sense. should he be ashamed of coming out in his TR^0 colours and denouncing the practise above BLS own name. When he does so he may rely receiving the support of all right-thinki°» people and if he receives, as he may count receiving, opposition from those "whose ,NL J practises he attacks, if he be a honest-minde» man he should be prepared for this, it is BAR0 to sympathise with, iu fact it is difficult to &° otherwise than hold in contempt, the class 0 correspondent who will profit by the custom certain people, smile blandly to their faces ad eagerly pouch their shekels and, turning round, under the cloak of anomymity, stab them IN TTL back through the medium of an unsigned LETTE* in the paper. There is nothing manly, THEREA nothing British, about conduct of this and the pity is that it has become so co oll practise for newspapers to render ASSISTANT, people who have an insatiable desire for ing in it. Let correspondents come out into open, make an end of the practise of stal'. opponents from behind stone walls, and will assist the newspaper to perform a far T useful purpose than it can perform at PRE8LJE when intelligent and right-thinking P pj- steadiiy refuse to reply to anonymous cooloildelllr cations however boldly printed and circulated.

WALES AND AMERICA. 7^ AN esteemed correspondent forwards us A. "1 "f tha in1! ii f Muii&k Magazine, that admirable sixpenny worth American literature, which knocks"spots'; FR- AIL its contemporaries on this side of Altantic that are published at a similar p,rice. The article to which our attention is ESPECIALLY directed is entitled "the Welsh in America, and is one of a series which Herbert N. CASSOFF is writing under the generic title of "LEA"' ing Races that have contributed to the of the United States." We wonder how 0JAL S of those who are continually pluming in a restricted agricultural" environment REG^ ing the greatness of their race and whose ME°, I vision is bounded by the turnip patch, cabbage bed and the task of making suffiCle tt honestly if possible to enable them to DOO black go-to-meeting coat on Sunday, REAL^ realise the greatness of the potentialities TH^ have made the Welsh one of the LEADING elements in that marvellous ethnological AMA 3 gam upon which has been built the UnIte States of to-day. It is good and inspiring to read in this American magazine the high tributes of praise which the writer bestows upOll "the remarkable contribution which the LITTLE mountain land of Wales has made to our National life and the prominence of WELSHMEN in American history, from the of the Pilgrim Fathers to the present day." He shoW% us how, to every department of active public in the States, the Welshman has brought peculiar national qualities and improved it, AND brightened it, and uplifted it. The SCOTSMAN the Englishman, the Irishman, the German AND the Spaniard have, of course, each in their degree and in their own peculiar manner, done SIMILAR service, but they have not approached America11 problems in the same way; and though others may have shone with greater lustre, none have shone with precisely the same lustre as those who are able to claim that they have CYMRIC blood in their veins. "In arms, in arts and IV. song," in the senate, on the platform, in the pulpit, from the palatial palace of the multi; millionare and the vast hives of industry an0 commerce with which America staggers humanity)- the progressive Welshman send forth to HIS kinsmen elsewhere a message full of strength and full of truth. He sends to them the message from across the Atlantic which the young WELSH party, which include some of the brightest AND the keenest intellects in the world are continually urging on "this side," that the Welsh people arc never likely to rise to the fulness of the perfect- ion of their stature, until the quit parochia,isulf have done with the old, narrow contracting influences, and, by courting competition and striving for supremacy, demonstrate that they are that equal, in some things more than the equals, of the living races of the twentieth century. In this direction the Welsh in AMERICA have shown the way.

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