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Her Pa's Consent. Young, brave, intelligent, Ferreol lacked for nothing, was well off in the goods of the world, burned his candles from start to finish, joked at the past, laughed at the futnre. At Paris he encountered Angele. Charming Angel?! He loved her, and told her so. She listened. He pressed her. She resisted. He insisted. She mentioned marriage. Logical even with himself, he was not astonished. Angele was good as pretty. Why not marriage ? Have you a family ?" said Ferreol to her. A father, yes." Where is he ?" Brest." What doing ?" Re-fitting vessels." I go at once, then." said Ferreol, calmly. Wherefore ?" lo demand your hand of monsieur your father. It is thus with me always. For to- morrow, nothing. Consider, buy. I love you, you love me. You do love me ?" "Yes." Good The train leaves at eight this evening. At eleven to-morrow I land at Brest. Thirty minutes later arrive at the dock. Seeyourfatber. Ask him the ques- tion, receive consent, at three p.m. resume the train, and day after to-morrow, at seven in the evening, say to you, Angele, thou art mine!" She blushed, smiled coyly, and softly mur- mured— Go then Ferreol took a fiacre to more quickly reach the station. The driver was drunk. It did not astonish him. In the waiting-room his valis, was stolen. Nothing astonishing in that. • In the wagon of the train one Englishman alone occupied all the four corners-the first with his person, the second with his glass, the third with his umbrella, the fourth with his Baedeker. Ferreol was not astonished at this, either. Then the train ran off the track. Pooh child's play. Ferreol had his nose half broken. Ridiculous obstacle! Briefly, with missed connections and many hours' delay, it was not till the third day after his departure from Paris that Ferreol debarked at Brest, and, swift as a startled zebra, threaded his way through the Rue de Siam. The ship refitting shops ?'' Kue de Penfeld, third buildinfe to the left." Ferreol was totally ignorant of the geogra- phical identity of the Penfeld, but a man like him makes no demand for explanations. Straight before him he plunged, as if he knew it like ABC, turned towards Saint Sauveur, struck the Gabon Gate, rebounded upon the Madeleine, cannoned against the Chateau, saw on a street lamp Qoai de la Penfeld," and divining that he was on the right road at last took it. Yes, took it at top speed to make up for lost time, scraping his shins on chains and tarred ropes, tripping himself up with links and anchors, receiving thumps and bumps from bales and boxes-to presently halt before a building on which, in black letters on a tobacco ground, was the magic word :— REFITTERS. This chance astonished him no more than all the rest. Before him was a door. He knocked, entered, perceived a gloomy hall, a dingy camp bed, on that camp bed a sailor smoking a cob pipe. Hairy, tarry, weather- beaten—a type of the old sea wolf. M. Kenezek P" said Ferreol, civily. « Not in." Where is he, then ?" At work, of course." Where, I say ?" Yonder, or maybe below." And the sailor designated with his thumb a vague topogra^-Ly some distance away. "Ah, well! then I'll go and find him at work." Thou, my chicken ?" Why not ?" It would be Bah! no phrases Speak to M. Kenezek I must, on business that admits of no delay, and I will speak to him at once if 1 have to go to the bottom to do it." The sailor rose instantly, shifted pipe and quid from right to left, and cried out ad- miringly "Thou., too, then, art of the oraft, my chicken P" Ferreol comprehended nothing, but his principles dictated his answer. Parbleu yes," said he) turning with de- cision. "Come on, then; I'll show you myself. Two steps away only, but you'll dress yourself here." Dress myself, and here ? A nyone but Fer- reol would have let escape him at least a gesture of surprise. But he—never! After all, to present himself to a future father-in- law perhaps it was more expedient to assume a black coat. So be it!" replied he. The sailor moved a step to the door, but stopped thoughfullv, turned, unhooked from the wall a greasy placard, and with a mumbled "No humlug this, you see?" began to read and to questidtt Ferreol is fol- lows: You are not in a state of intoxication. you ?" I I" said¡F erreol indignantly; then restrain- ing himself. No, not even a glass of water in the stomach." "And more than an hour since you've ^aten ?" Three hours precisely." You are not in a perspiration P Dry as a fish bone." "And your health is good ?" Sound as cast iron." Nerve and temper calm and equable ?" ffAs a calm at high water." Good All as it should be." And replacing the placard on its nail, the sailor wheeled and threw open the door of a cell to the left. "Hurry!" said he; "begin; undress your- self!" Ferreol, up to this date, had asked no one in marriage, but sharp as be was, he had never supposed that this act—important, it was true—would be accompanied by such for- malities. One of those, however, whom nothing amazed, he did not flinch, but pro- ceeded to strip himself. Decidedly obscure in this closet, Ferreol was reduced to conjectures, smell, and feeling; still, it was distinctly an undervest, drawers, and shoes that the sailor drew from a locker and laid before him. With these," said he, "you can defy the perspiration." in truth I can!" said Ferreol, covering himself with the articles, which exhaled a singular odour of mingled tar and salty grass wreck. Upon which the other added to the costume a vest and breeches with feet and jacket of thick waterproof stuff, and bidding him be seated, assisted him with the skill of a retired valet de cbambre to face the great shoes, put on the breeches, thrust his arms one after the othfcr into the sleeves of the jacket, and to slip his neck into a leathern collarette that exactly adapted itself to his shoulders. Oh his bank then he placed a eashion, and on that a metal pelerine that resembled a Muiraas, reoiting by rote meanwhile after the fashion of the corporal's manual: Posh each button of the pelerine into the "orrespondmg hole of the collarette. Adjust the copper valves and turn the screw nuts. Close the latter till the joining of garments, pelerine," &c. It was long, but Ferreol was patient and jMid oply: Iron are Bare I shall find M. Kenezek xhvfef in jrar^jretpesaed the sailor with a grin; he can't get away." Adding, con- tentedly, Nothing but the helmet lacking now; that we'll put on yonder." And, followed by Ferreol, he tucked under his arm a sort of elongated ball in a leather envelope, and took up the march for the front. Ferreol's costume reminded him as he scanned it of the striped cloths used upon criminals. Never before, he told himself, had a condemned seen the headsman bearing his head under bis arm while leading a victim to the scaffold. A strange lover's travesty, which he must bear with patience. Presently, turning to right and left, they reached a jetty advancing into the bay some ten to twenty metres. At the end of it the round crown of a building, from which, at a shout from his conductor, came running a second sailor, who placed himself without a word behind Ferreol's back. "All ready ?" said the first. "All ready," responded Ferreol. You see the slate and the penoil hung to your side ?" queried the other again. Slate and pencil both," assented Ferreol amiably. It was the last word he spoke. Click clack! rattle! The helmet was over his head, bolted to his shoulders, the screw nuts hard and fast. Parbleau At last a flash of enlighten- ment. Blinded, stifled, one single instant nature rebelled against his principles. Too late, however, and protestations inopportune. For now he felt himself lifted, oarried a pace, suspended in space; then a strange sen- sation of cold mounting from feet to waist and from waist to shoulders. He opened wide his eyes, and through the helmet's peepers saw a fish flit past him. Preliminaries decidedly not common-place. He continued to descend with relative rapidity. Soon the sandy bottom was under- foot, and there before him a monster with huge head and enormous eyes, who advanced to meet him, seized the slate at his belt and began to scratch upon it. Ferreol, whose head buzzed like a sawmill, stopped and read— I am Kenezek; who are you ?" The moment was solemn. Ferreol drew a long breath, to which the complaisant pump above him lent itself willingly, then with full lungs and grateful soul reflected- This was Kenezek This toiler of th« sea, upon whom depended the happiness of his life. They must come to an understanding somehow. A sea diver as a father-in-law was not inadmissible. The situation had grown unique. He seized the pencil and took his turn at the slate, awkwardly at first, but still suc- cinctly. "I am Ferreol," responded he; "live at Paris; income, 10,000 livres; love Angele, your daughter, and have the honour to ask of you her hand in marriage!" There was a growl under the father's helmet, and he wrote on the slate anew: Marry her if you like. I"— Consent ?" cried Ferreol ardently, at once ravished and uneasy at the reply. Consent ? Yes," pencilled Kene2ek; "good riddance, too. But quick, begone, begone, I say; I've work to finish." Ferrol delightedly sought to kneel before the paternal scapbandrier, but his inflated clothes held him erect. That act of respect- ful homage was forbidden him. I Meanwhile, seeing him hesitate, Angele's father repeated his order, but Ferreol, not knowing what to do in order to mount, and not hurrying enough to suit his temper, he pulled five times, according to the rules, the cord of re-call, and Ferreol shot aloft like a rocket through a company of scuttling dorades. If I'd been you," said the sailor who re- ceived him and to whom he benevolently proffered a glass of rum, I'd have waited ten minutes. Kenezek quits work, you know, every day at five o'clock." Ferreol looked at his watch. Ten minutes to five. No," said he, a man like me never waits a minute." And he promptly returned to Paris ■ To marry the charming Angele ?" No. Fifty odd hours late in returning, the charming but impatient Angele had married the other fellow. And Ferreol was not surprised at that.— Translated from the French.

VARIETIES. An aged Baptist elder, who was noted for his intellectual vigour, was conversing one evening with a number of the brethren when the subject of old age was touched upon- One of his friends ventured to ask if he found that his increasing years bad in any way itn- paired his memory. The good old man pon- dered for a while, and then replied, Well, I cannot at the present moment remember anything that I have ever forgotten." Professor This eccentricity you speak of iu your daughter, isn't it, after all, a matter of heredity? Mother (severely): No, sir; I'd have you to know, sir, there never was any heredity in our family Mr. Gowit: I am going to join the Society for the Prevention of Crime. Reggy River- side: Great Cresar What for? Mr. Go- wit So that 1 can paint the town and have my expenses paid. I wonder how Hawkins got his invitation to the Van Steenburgs's reception ?" Robbed the mails, I guess." They are talking of running Parker for Mayor of Morriston." "Parker! Why, he's deaf and dumb." That's just it. He'll be be an ideal candidate." u The trouble with Tompy is that he is shallow." Tompv? Nonsense. If you had ever tried to fill Tompy with champagne you'd have changed your mind about that." Jobson: What did Hobson say about my play ? Dobson He said he certainly felt that he had gotten the worth of his money. Jobson: Anything else? Dobson: Oh, yes he asked me to thank you for the complimen- tary ticket you sent him. First Boy: Didn't your mother tell you to get nutmegs ? Second Boy: Yep. Then what did ye get cloves for ?" 'Cause she'll want me to go back an' tell 'em I made a mis- take an, want nutmegs. Then I'll say I'm orful tired an' don't wanter go back, an' then she'll give me five cents to buy candy." The local singer was resenting mildly to the hostess the large amount of praise which she was bestowing upon the visiting vocalist. They didn't applaud me that way," he com- plained. Oh, well, you know," she said apologetically and sympathetically, he is a visitor whom we don't hear often, while we think of you, as the Bible says,' The poor we have with us always. Then she was very much hurt because he refused to accept her apology and left the house in a huff. Helen: Just listen to that soprano What good would the wings of a dove" do her ? She must weigh 200 pounds. Jack Probably she wants them to trim a hat with. Stranger: I beliete, sir, that every man who was in the Army ought to have a pen- sion, whether he was injured or not. Citizen Are you a soldier ? Stranger No, sir; I am a pension attorney. Farmer's Boy: Kin I go fishin', dad ? Farmer: Is th' parstur' fence all laid up ? Farmer's Boy Yes, dad; every panel of it. Kin I go? Farmer: Isth' seed corn shelled? Farmer's Boy: Ev'ry ear of it. Kin t go ? Farmer (reluctantly;: Yes dig yer bait in th'garden n' throw th' stones up side o' th' fence. By Jove said the burglar, as he looked about him in the house of the merchant he had come to rob. This is elegant. I've half a mind to give up burgling and become a lawyer. Then I can steal the house if I have luck." Doctor, I wish you would examine me and tell me what you think about my mental balance." "It's all right," "Ain't there a little something wrong-just enough to put me down as a crank, you know ?" Abso- lnte. nothing." Well, good-by," he said in a disappointed tone. What did you want to know all this for I felt a strong, abnormal impulse to rob somebody, and I wanted to find out whether I was crazy enough to make it safl if I got into courts" •

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—pare—— MR. GWILYM EVANS AND THE IRISH PARTY. No Foundation for the Rumour. The statement published on Thursday to the effect that Mr. Gwilym Evans, chairman of the Carmarthenshire County Council, is to contest a seat in the anti-Parnellite interest in Ireland at the general election is incorrect. Our Llanelly correspondent called upon Mr. Gwilym Evans on Thursday, and was assured by him that there was not the slightest foundation for the statement. It was true he had spent a week in Ireland—in fact, he returned only on Wednesday,4>ut his visit to Ireland had no political purport. Mr. Evans crossed the Channel solely on business, and that busioes* transacted, he returned home. He has had no communication with any of the Irish members, nor did he see one of them. Mr. Evans is at a loss to understand how the rumour should be circulated.

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Cuttings and Comments. Princess May was 25 yesterday. I During last year 61,434 persons presented them- "elves as recruits for the Army; 30,918 were accepted. ] Why are the Obstructives like last season's wikinuts ? Because, says Mr. "Punch," they are troublesome to Peel. One hundred and fifty municipal officials have been expelled from Tokio in connection with the recent election disturbances there. Colonel Lucy Booth J; turns to India in August. She still shows traced of the intense sorrow i caused her by the breaking of her mtiiriage engagement. The only pretty women I saw in Russia," says Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistliDg woman, were in the ballet in St. Petersburg, and they were Poles." The yacht Psyche was at Cowes the other day. Well, said a dock lounger, as he spied the name on the stern, that's the blankest way of spelling fish that I ever saw." What's in a name? In Queen-street, City, there is a gentleman who has displayed on a brass tablet outside a suite of offices the following :— Jolly Death, Enquiry Agent." An American journal assures us that a case is now proceeding in the Chinese Courts in which the accused is the ghost of a woman who com- mitted suicide some years back. The famous pamphlet, entitled "Jew Rifles," is still creating a sensation in Berlin. The police have confiscated it because of the contents of a chapter headed, How the State is Defrauded." As ladies do not care to avail themselves of the notice on carriages, Ladies only," a corre- spondent, for a very obvious reason, suggests that the railway companies should try a notice, Men only." The renowned" Ginx's Baby" visited the House of Commons on Wednesday. Mr. Jenkins talks about returning to the Parliamentary fold. In his day he was regarded as one of the wittiest and not the least clever men in the House. The Rev. Charles A. Berry says that during his trip round the world nothing impressed him more than the fact that in a journey of 40,000 miles it was only at two points that he passed, as he ex- presses it, from beneath our national ensign. Spain has lost three eminent men within 24 hours—Senor Manuel Silvela, formerly Spanish .Ambassador in Paris; the Duke of Fernan inunez, 'also formerly Spanish Ambassador in Paris; and General Bonanza, who died suddenly of apoplexy lin a cab in the streets of Madrid. M. Zola. has just completed bis great war novel, La debacle." He wrote the first page exactly fifteen Mionths ago, and has worked steadily at it for some hours every day. The manuscript is composed of 1,030 pages of close-wriiten para- graphs. with scarce an erasure or addition. Marriage in Montana:—Timid Young Lady:" I saw an advertisement for a wife in your paper this morning." Editor: "Too late. The adver- tiser secured a wife early this morning, and took a bridal trip at once to the suburbs and back. He is now suing for divorce, and you may catch him to-morrow if you look sharp." News has been received in this country of the death, in Australia, of Mr. Corpelius Kane, formerly Fenian organiser for Skibbereen district. For his connection with Fenian ism he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, and after some years spenttn Portland and Millbank was transported to Western Australia. At the time of his death he held the position of registrar of gold mines. During the rehearsal at a Paris theatre bf a comic opera, which was to have been produced on Wednesday night, while M. Gerald, the tenor, was going through his part, his wife, who also had a role in the piece, suddenly left the stage and fell down dead just as she reached her husband's dressing-room. On the fatal news being broken to M. Gerard he fainted, and was only with difficulty restored to consciousness. The deceased artist6 was 30 years of age. Princess Louise is working steadily at a sculp- ture of the Queen, which she intends to send to the Chicago Exhibition, and for which her Majesty has already given several sittings. Prin- cess Louise is the most artistic of the Queen's daughters. She studied sculpture under the late Sir Edgar Boehm, who regarded her as a very promising pupil. She is also devoted to music, IlDd her performances have earned the applause of the leading musicians of the day. A brave curate has made friends of all the London police. Some time back the curate (the RHV. F. W. Douglas) rescued a policeman who as being badly attacked by a furious mob, and wimbled the officer, not only to re-capture his prisoner, but to capture another man. The officers and men of the E Division have shown their appreciation by subscribing money to buy a large 18-carat gold cross, which lias now been presented to the courageous curate of St. Pancras. King Christian I. of Denmark, whose golden wedding was celebrated yesterday, is a well- preserved, handsome man of 74. It is from the Queen of Denmark that her three daughters—the Princess of Wales, the Empress of Russia, and the Duchess of Cumberland—derive their beauty and their perennial youth. Queen Marie, at the age of three score years and ten, is still a very hand- some woman, with flashing eyes and lively manners, which cause her to look at least fifteen years younger than her actual age. Count Tolstoi said to an interviewer that Ruskin is one of the greatest men of the age, and it pains me to notice that English people generally are of a different opinion. When Ruskin," continued the count, began to write on philosophy and on'moraHty be was ignored by every- body, especially by the English press, which has a [peculiar way of ignoring anybody it does not like. <1 am not astonished that people speak so little of Ruskin in comparison with Gladstone. When the latter makes a speech the papers are loud with their praises, but when Ruskin-whom I believe to be a greater man-talks they say nothing." Mr. Balfour's extreme activity during the last few weeks has been much noted in the House of Commons, and is (says the Pall Mall Gazette) in striking contrast to his apparent indolence at the beginning of the session. Mr. Smith, when leading the House, was accustomed to leave 'other members of the Government to act as spokesmen on the various measures and resolu- tions proposed from the other side of the House. HMr. Balfour does it all himself. On Tuesday, for instance. not only did he reply for the Govern- ent on the Irish Local Government Bill-a. task which would ordinarily fall to the lot of the Irish Chief Secretary—but at the evening sitting he again acted as spokesman for the Governmant a, the Scotch Disestablishment Bill, and yesterday he was once more to the fore on Mr. Stansfeld's Bill. Mr. G. P. Sanderson, who has just died, was the most successful elephant hunter in India. When wild elephants became very numerous^ Mysore it was decided that an effort should be made to reduce them by capture. The first attempt was at Mr. Sanderson's suggestion, and under his superintendence, in 1874, and 55 were captured in one drive. Mr. Sanderson was subsequently transferred to Bengal as Superintendent of Keddaha —thai is, elephant traps-to the Government, and after eleven years again returned to Mysore. When the Duke of Clarence visited India Mr. Sanderson was selected to get up an elephant drive for hit Royal Highness's amusement, and some 37 of the huge animals were captured. Mr. Sanderson has written a book entitled "Twelve Years Among the Wild Beasts of India." The elevation of Sir Evelyn Baring to the peerage makes the fourth title vested in a member of the House of Baring. The Earl of Northbrook, Lord Ashburton, Lord Revelstoke, and the new peer are all descended from that Francis Baring, the son of a Lutheran pastor at Bremen, who went into the woollen tfdo at Exeter early in the last century. But tiiu real founder of the family fortunes was his grandson Alexander—the first Lord Ashburton—who was the first Englishman to marry an American heiress, which he did in 1798, and brought her back and a million of her money to the family concern in Bishopsgate-street. The huge sca:e on which he carried on business eained for him the name of Alexander the Great." He. it was that lent France, at the time of her occupation by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, over a million of money, and with reference to this enterprise; one of Napoleon's marshals is said to have remarked that there were six great Powers in Europe, England, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Baring Brothers.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH MONMOUTHSHIRE. Baron Profumo at Tydu. The Revelations df the Western Mail." Baron Profumo," the Liberal and labour candi* date for South Monmouthshire, addressed a meet- ing at the schoolroom, Tydu, on Thursday evening. Mr. Dardis presided, and was supported by the baron and baiones. Mr. Togarmah Llewellyn, Mr. J. Green. &c. The CHAIHMAN, in opening the proceedings, said there were many good hnne-t Conservatives whom they respected as men. The names of Lord Tredegar and Colonel Morgan were held in the highest respect, and deservedly so, as large- hearted, benevolent English gentlemen, but because they were the representatives of the expo- nents of Tory principles they (the Liberals) found it was their duty to fight them. (Hear, bear.) Mr. JOHN RODWAY proposed a vote of confidence in Mi-. Gladstone and the Liberal p irty. This was seconded by Mr. THOS. ORCJIB, and supported by Mr. TOGARMAH LLEWELLYN. An amendment; of No confidence," proposed by Mr. WM. HOWELLS (Risca), and seconded by Mr. AUSTIN THUHSTON, was defeated. The CHAIKMAN, before calling upon the next speaker, referred to the articles in the Western Mail with reference to the Provident Association of London. He believed it was a grave breach of honour, because a public debate had been arranged to take place between Mr. Lascelles Carr an-I Baron Profumo, and, that being so, he con- sidered it was a grave breach of bonour te attempt to prejudice the minds of the electors in the way that the Western Mail was doing. Speak- ing for himself as a Liberal, he declared that if it were shown that the accusations made against Baron Profumo were true he would stop at home and not vote at all when the polling day came; but he felt sure that the baron would disprove what had been said against him. Baron PKOFOMO, who was next called upon, remarked that if Mr. Lascelles Carr had no sense of honour, he (the speaker) had. Mr. Carr was a journalist, and he knew as well as any journalist that if a mattei had to be decided by the verdict of a jury-Ftnd, this matter was to be decided by the verdict of a jury of the people of South Monmouthshire-it was contrary to every sense of decency to attempt to prejudice the public mind beforehand. Mr. Lascelles Carr knew that perfectly well, but, un- fortunately, his dear friends the Tories had got into such straits that they did not know what to do for their lives. The writer of the articles in the Western Mail knew perfectly well that what he was wi lling was a tissue of lalsehoods, and knew perfectly well that the matters had been gone into by the highest firms of accountants in London years ago, and also that the asso- ciation had vindicated itself to the ut- most. He knew that very well, and yet the Western Mail went behind all that and at- tempted to make political capital for his oppo- nents. An investigation had also been innfde by the heads of Mr. Gladstone's par'-v. The Central Liberal Association knew very well that the charges were false, and the South Monmouthshire Liberal Association had gone i.ito them before ha was selected as the Liberal candidate. The debate would take place, and he would meet the accusa- tions again there. He had that day sent to Mr. Lascelles Carr and the Western Mail tho names of the three gentlemen who would act as his (the baron's) committee, and they would be glad to hear, no doubt, that one of those three was Alder- man Jacob. (He&r, hear.) That would show them that he had not been deserted by the lenders oi the Liberal party in the division. A vote of confidence in Barou Profumo was car- ried.

Truth Rays :_u A epeech delivered by the Roman Catholic Hishop of Salford at a tempotance meeting at Ashton-under-Lyne was so sensiblo and moderate that it deservse notice. The Bishop suggested that, whilst strong heers should he taxed, the sale of light beers not above a certain minimum strength should be encouraged by being freed from duty. This is a doctrine that 1 have always preached. It is, indeed, a pity that "more temperance reformers are not as reasonable and as practical as the Bishop of Salfoid." A large measure of the success of the Golden Sunlight Ale may be attributed to the fact that it is brewed on these lines, and will compare favourably with the ordinary high- coloured, strong, heady ales. It is brewed from malt prepared from the finest Herefordshire bar- ley, and most delicately flavoured with hops, called Wor'sters," but really grown in toe rich, fertile valleys of Herefordshire. Messrs. Watkins anil Son, of the Hereford Brewery, are the only brewers of this famous Ale, and it is sold by over 200 Agents of the North, South, East, and West of the British Isles, Souih Wales Office: 94, St. Mary-st.rect, Stores: Westsrate-street. Cardiff. 797E9 THE GHKAT CUllE FOK CORNS. — Munday's V;riditie.—Still further testimony. A Chemist writes:—" Wiil you send me a bottle of your Viridine? It is for my own use. I get. plenty of corn cures of the same colour, hut none of them appear to equal yours." No one ought to say his corns are incurable until he has used "Viridine." Thousands have been cured, some of whom had suffered for over 50 years. Beware of imitations. Sold in bottles, Is. by post, by the Proprietor, J. Munday, Chemist, 1, High-street, and all Chemists IC2623 A FAIR, BEAUTIFUL SKIN.—Sulpbolina Soap gives the natural tint and peach-liko Bloom of a perfect complexion, makes the Skin smooth supple, healthy, comfortable.—6d. Tablets. Every* where. 1324 KERNICK'S VEGETABLE PILLS Cleanse the Bload and Strengthen the System,—7 £ d„ 13 £ d., and 2s. 9d. Boxes Printed and Published for the Proprietors bv DANIEL OWEN AND Co. (LIXITICD) at the "Western Mail" Offices, St. Mary-street. Cardiff in the County of Glamorumj. FRIDAY, MAY 27. 1892,