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SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS. The following persona will, on calling a.t the Evening Express Office, 56, St. Mary -3tree Cardiff, receive the gift for which they applied. If messengers are sent they must be provided with written authority to receive the gift. The full name and address 6f the 1I,pplicant must in all cases be given. Successful applicants residing at a distance must forward 3d. in stamps te cover cost of f¡0Bta¡;e- All gifts must be claimed within Three Days of announcement or they will be forfeited. Buckingham, H., 11, Tuberville-piace, Canton, Joaty, Clara, 148, Craddock-stpeet, Riverside, Cardiff. Cardiff. Bryant, Joseph, 8, Tresillian-terrace, Cardiff. Lloyd, Edward H., 2, Howard-terrace, Cardiff.. Chamberlain, 117, Cy far thf a- street, Roath, street, Cardiff. Cardiff. !May, Geo. J., Tvneside, Penaxth. Collins, Miss," 16, Ellen-street, Newtown, Minor, C., 26, Castle-road, Cardiff. Cardiff. Morris, J., 13, Tudor-road, Cardiff. Clark, A. J.. 6, Northcote-street, Cardiff. Nioholl, David, 177, New Railway-st., South Daley, Joseph, 1, Rosemary-street, Newtown, Splotlands, Cardiff. Cardiff. Parnall, Alice, 22, Lower Cathedral-road, Date, L. H., 29, Howard-gardens, Roath, i Cardiff. Cardiff. Povall, Frank Wm., 20, Diana-street, Roath, Derrick, Mrs., 117. King's-road, Canton, Car-. Cardiff. dhT. Roe. F. W., 13, Newport-road, Cardiff. Edge, Alfred, Llanfoist, Abergavenny. Robinson, M. A., 17, Beresford-road, Roath, Finn,' Henry A., 70, Raglan-street, Newport, Cardiff. Mon. Robins, Rachael, 93, Severn-road, Canton, Car- STullerton, Emily, 90, Crwys-road, Cathays,. diff. Cardiff. Rodd, W., 33, Planet-street, Cardiff. Forster, Edwin, 10, Wyndham-road, Canton. Soandrett, Daniel, 10, Windsor-esplanade, FreekB, L. E., 60, Mackintosh-place, Roath, Bute Docks. Cardiff. Cardiff. Sherwood, Fred, 2, Church-road, Canton, Gibbs. P. W., Iddlesleigh, Ruthin gardens, Cardiff. Godfrev, Thos., 10, Tresiiliao-terrace, Cardiff. Stewart, W. A., 32, Tudor-road, Riverside. Halke, A., 51, Neville-street, Canton, Cardiff. Strawbridge, Mrs. A.. 58, Severn-road, Canton. Hill, George, The Heath, Cardiff. Squire, Stephen, Myrtle Cottage, Plantagenet- Hitchm&n, Mary, 60a, Upper George-street, i streeet, Cardiff. Cathays, Cardiff. Vickers. Geo. A., 35, Meteor-street, Adamsdown, Howell, Norman W., Holton-road, Barry Dock. Cardiff. Isaac, Henry, 6, Cottrell-road, Roath, Cardiff.! Williams, John H., 6, Hannah-street, Bute John, Daniel, 23, Isilcatten-street, East Moors, Docks, Cardiff. Cardiff. iWood, L. M., Trevordene, 63, Oakfield-street, Johnson. T.. 19, Redlave-r-street, Grangetown, Cardiff. Cardiff. Williams, John F., 30, Saltmead-road, Salt- Jones, Gertie, 43, Strathnairn-street, Cardiff. mead, Cardiff. Jones, N.. 32, Tatororth-gtreet. Roath, Cardiff. I Williams, George, 365, Cowbridge-road, Car- Jones, G. T.. 47, Cornwall-road, Cardiff. diff. Sf you do not see your Name To-day, look To-morrow.

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I | Mr. Maclean at Cardiff. i — o HE ADDRESSES THE SOUTH! WARD TORIES. Talks of the Government's Desperate Efforts to Hold Seats and the i Folitical Outlook, The thirteenth annual dinner in connection j with the Cardiff South Ward Working Men's Conservative Sick Benefit Club took place on Wednesday night at the Bnte Dock Hotel, Car- diff. An excellent dinner was laid upon the tables by Host Dunn. Mr. F. Ward (chair- man of the club) occupied the chair, supported j by Mr. Richard Roberts (secretary), Councillors 'I Herbert J. Cory, R. Johnston, J. Tucker, and R. Hughes, Captain Pomeroy, Lieutenant- colonel Guthrie, the Rev. A. G. Russell, Mr. H. J. Thatcher, Mr. W. Bradley (auctioneer), j and Mr. Robert Bridcut. Mr. J. M. Maclean (Unionist candidate for Cardiff) was unable to be present at the dinner, but he turned up shortly afterwards, and was accorded an enthu- siastic reception.—The preliminary toasts having been disposed of, Mr. H. J. Thatcher proposed "The Forces, Temporal and Spiritual." —The Rev. A. G. Russell, in responding, denied I that the Church in Wales was an alien Church. She outnumbered any one of the Nonconformist bodies, and he suggested that before the Welsh disestablishment motion was brought forward a religious census should be taken. (Applause.) —Lieutenant-colonel Guthrie also replied.—Mr. Roberts at this stage read letters of apology for non-attendance from numerous gentlemen. The first was from the mayor (Mr. W. J. Trounce), and the second from Sir W. T. Lewis, who wrote that he would like to be present to show his respect for Mr. Maclean. (Applause.) Letters were also read from Mr. Herbert C. Lewis (son of Sir William), Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn, Bart., Sir Morgan Morgan, Mr. John Gunn, Dr. Wallace, the Rev. G. A. Jones, Colonel Sir E. Hill, K.C.B., Mr. G. Carslake Thompson, Mr. Marcus Gunn,. Councillor J- M. Gerhold, Mr. J. Cory, Mr. George David, and others.—Mr. Councillor Hughes, in proposing "The Unionist Cause," expressed the opinion that a great, change had recently come over the views of the masses of the electors, and that the prospects of the cause in Cardiff were never brighter than at present. (Applause.) Mr. Maclean, whom they liked as they knew him more and more, was a man with fixed principles. (Ap- plause.) He did not sit on the fence to see on which side he should jump down. (Applause and laughter.) His opponent (Sir Edward Reed), he fancied, had several times sat on the fence lately, btit it seemed that each time he jumped down on the wrong side. (Laughter.) Mr. Maclean, who was warmly received, re- marked that some time ago the member for Cardiff sneered at him for having made one of his speeches at a meeting of a sick benefit society, but. the member for Cardiff ■sneered 'rf. iSSfc, everybody and everything; but, fortunately, nobody took much notice of his sneers. (Hear, hear.) Siek benefit societies were very useful. They were in reality friendly societies, and nothing could be better than that men, bound together in political sympathy, should form ties of this kind to bind themselves still more closely to- gether. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Maclean then alluded to the desperate efforts made by the Government to hold the seats vacated by those appointed to new political positions since the retirement of Mr. Gladstone. Not only did Lord Roseberv violate an old convention that peers should not take part in a contested elec- tion, but Mr. Asquith went down to Berwick- shire to support Mr. Tennant. notwithstanding the fact that it was understood that Ministers should not take part in contested elections. These things showed how extremely anxious the Government was to retain the seats. The result of Lord Rosebery's interference was that his particular friend, Mr. Munro Ferguson, was returned by a, greatly diminished majority. This was rather a slap in the face for the Pre- mier. He deserved nothing better, because his speech at Edinburgh must have lowered him very much in the opinion of the people of this country. There was a time when Lord Rose- berv was respected as a man who was devoted to the honour of his country above everything else: but now he would have recourse to any words to keep himself in power. He (Mr. Maclean) had always spoken of Mr. Gladstone, not as a red-hot Radical, but as a restraining force upon the men gathered together under his banner. There was one distinguishing feature about him, that, whether he was wrong or right, he wa-s, at all events, sustained by a great moral conviction, that he was doing what was good for the country, and the intensity of that moral conviction gave energy to all his actions and helped him to the influence he enjoyed amongst the classes of the country. But the present Prime Minister had no convictions at all. (Cheers.) A man who spoke of Home Rule as a doubtful experiment—who did not know what would be the issue of it-—was as sincere and as com meed a Home Ruler as the member for Cardiff himself. (Laughter and cheers.) They had in Lord Rosebery a gentleman who said he personally thought that the State had just as much right to maintain an Established Church as an Established Army, and yet Lord Rose- bery had placed himself at the head of people who were steeped to the lips in speeches to do away with everything in the shape of an Established Church. (Hear, hear.) Again, they found Lord Rosebery proclaiming himself as a Second Chamber man, and yet he was at the head of a party which adopted as its watch- word the cry that the House of Lords should be abolished. (Laughter.) It was not a com- pliment to Lord Rosebery that his friend Mr. Ferguson should attribute his decreased majority to the opposition offered to the Estab- lished Church of hear, hear)—but it showed what effect the Church question will have on the next election in Scotland. Lord Rosebery gave a justification for his attack upon the Established Church of Scotland. He said that every manse in the country had be- come a Tory agency, but he neglected to observe that the advocates of disestablishment used Dissenting chapels as agencies for the advancing of the Radical cause in the Principality of Wales. They only had to look at what was taking place in Montgomeryshire. Chapels were used as political clubs for the Radical party, not only on six days in the week, but on Sundays also. ("Shame.") There were Dissenting ministers in that district who stuck at nothing in order to defeat the candidate who had undertaken to protect the Established Church in Wales. (Cheers.) That was an example of the way in which the supporters of the Government hoped to compase their ends, and there were various other ways in which they tried to do injury to the Unionist cause. He did not know whether they still proposed to proceed with the Local Veto Bill, which was proceed with the Local Veto Bill, which was another favourite project to injure one I of the interests strongly opposed to them, but it was significant that Lord Rosebery had taken no notice' whatever of the Local Veto Bill in his recent address, and it was extremely unlikely that that measure would be before the House of Commons this session. But, still, he thought they should noisice the designs of the Radical party to carry the Bill whenever they had the power. They had only dropped it for the moment to suit their purpose, and would bring it forward whenever they had a decent opportunity, in spite of the fact made known to them by an absolutely impartial and official report, presented by a member of the British Embassy at Washington, on the effects of prohibition in the United States. That report was the more remarkable because it did not proceed from anyone interested 011 one side or the other. It was a careful and neutral report "o upon the exact effect of prohibition laws in many of the American States. Well, prohibi- tion was condemned there as a distinct failure —it could not be enforced because of the great expense of maintaining large bodies of police, who acted as spies, and even that did not prevent people using all kinds of illicit means to obtain the liquor which they were denied the power of purchasing in public. In fact, it might be said that those drink now who never drank before, and those who drank at first now drink more. (Laughter and applause.) Prohibition instead of pro- moting temperance in the States really in- Oieased the consumption of alcoholic liquor, and he predicted that that would always be the result of opposing the common, sense of the community. (Applause.) He thought they would find that this example of the States wculd produce a great effect m this tioui :;ry. (Applause.) He was sure they had a ic-cal illustration of the effects of prohibition on one day in the week, which must have gone home to the minds of every honest IIIM. (Applar.se.) He failed to see how anyone (no matter i-hat his private opinions might LM) couiu honestly maintain that the Sunday Closing P. d had not done far more harm than good. (Applause.) It was an instrument of demoralisation m this town instead of doing anything to promote the cause of temperance-(applause)-and one of the great reproaches against the present member for Cardiff was tbat, knowing, as he had confessed, that the Act could not be suc- cessfully worked in Cardiff, he had not used all his efforts before now to exempt Oarmff from the operations of the Sunday Closing Act. (Applause.) He gave these us illustra- tions of the tendency of most of the political measures promoted by the present Government. They had every prospect of a nice little quarrel aimongst the various sections of what was once the great Parnellite party. The action of Mr. Jjabouchere, and the discontent in Ireland, were indications that the. present. Government could not continue very lonw in power. There were questions that must come up for discussion in the House of Com- mons upon any one of which it was possible the Government might be beaten. Conserva- tives throughout the country should be on the alert. The present state of feeling in political circles was one of high tension, and it was neces- sary to be prepared for the election, which might come at any moment. That was the feeling in London, and upon the result of the appeal from headquarters would depend the future of the United Kingdom for many gene- rations to come. The last seven or eight years had gone far towards breaking down the revo- lutionary spirit in England. The secession from. Mr. Gladstone of so many distinguished Liberals, who would not follow him further in his attacks upon the institutions of the country, had created a great body of public opinion which was distinctly Conservative in its ten- dency. He believed that Great Britain was mainly Conservative. If they could ascer- tain the real opinions of all classes they would find them opposed to violent changes of any kind, and in favour of steady and progressive reform. (Applause.) If they followed up this feeling and defeated the Government, they would hear the last of these projects of separation. (Applause.) Mr. James Tucker, in giving the toast of "The Marquess of Bute and his Family," re- ferred to the benefits which his lordship had conferred upon Cardiff. Captain Pomeroy responded. Mr. J. H. Cory gave "The Town and Trade of Cardiff," referring principally to the progress in shipping. Mr. Johnston, in responding, referred to the harbour trust scheme, which, he said, was one of the most, important that had ever been brought before the town. Mr. Lewellen Wood, as chairman of the Cardiff Chamber of Com- merce, had done his utmost to cement the feeling between the Docks and the town, and he hoped that Mr. Wood's successor in the chairmanship would follow his example. Mr. H. Cory proposed "The South Ward Conservative Working Men's Club," to which Mr. R. Roberts and Mr. Tucker responded. .^111 mill, iflimiwiiifiii 1 iHWHI

SECTARIAN TEACHING. "Godless Education" and its Effect Upon Children. Upon Children. The Education Department having again asked the Barry District School Board to ex- press its opinion with regard to another appli- cation made by the managers of the Roman Catholic School, Barry Dock, to be recognised under the provisions of the Education Act as a public elementary school, and, consequently, entitled to the Government grant, the mem- bers of the school board have just held a special meeting to further consider the question.—Dr. O'Donnell, the Roman Catholic member, main- tained that the Catholic School was entitled to recognition, especially on the ground that the school board were taking steps to enlarge all their schools in order to provide increased accommodation for the children of the district. -After a brief discussion (which was conducted in private), all the members present, with the exception of Dr. O'Donnell, supported a reso- lution, moved by the chairman (Mr. J. Low- don, J.P.), that, inasmuch as the school board were prepared to make adequate provision for the educational requirements of the district, it was inexpedient to admit the Roman Catholio School into the category of a public elementary school.—Dr. O'Donnell strongly protested against the action of the board, and described the conduct of his brother-members as merely one of religious persecution. It had been ad- mitted, he added, by the Nonconformist minis- ters and others who composed a deputation which waited upon the school board at the last meeting that the present system of Godless education seriously affected the morals of the children; yet, with character stic narrowness and bigotry, they again flouted the -olication of the managers of the Catholic School. -<I ..w

NOTTS COALFIELDS. Development by the Hucknafl Colliery Company. The New Hucknall Colliery Company have entered upon a further development of the coal on the Duke of Portland's Notts Estate. An area, of 7,000 acres has been leased by the com- pany, in which are situated several of the best Nottinghamshire seams. Plant is being- put down to raise 3,000 tons per day with two shafts. The coal lies at a depth of nearly 500 yarda. W'ii> i'ihwiii tiniTi—miwiiiinm~niiwiiiB

At Pontypridd Police-court on Wednesday Thomas Bartlett, a sinker, for selling beer at I Norton Bridge, near Pontypridd, without a licence, was finefl £ 5.

Not Required. |i Packman A GLAND.—"This is disheartening. Your people told me this thing was in demand in Wales, and here I've been in every parish, and only laughed at for my trouble. Dame WALES.—" My people! No; you have been fooled by faddists. You ought not to listen to Tailors of Tooley-street.'

BARRY RAILWAY BILL. Board of Trade and the Free Harbour Refuge Purposes. The Board of Trade in its report on the Barry Railway Bill says:—By Clause 5 of this Bill it is proposed to empower the Barry Rail- way Company to construct a railway (Railway iNo. 2), cutting off more than one-half or about 50 acres of the most sheltered part of Barry Harbour, and to make an embankment or breakwater in that harbour at a point about 2b chains below the site of the proposed cross- ing. By Clause 14 the company seek power to 611 up and deal with, for the purposes of their undertaking, the area of Barry Harbour which will be cut off by the proposed railway. By Cituse 15 it is proposed that, as from -he completion of the proposed embankment or breakwater, Section 25 of the Barry Dock and Railways Act, 1834 (which provides for the maintenance by the company of the depth of Barry Harbour), shall be repealed. In the year 1883, when the Barry Docks scheme first came before Parliament, the Board of Trade required the insertion in the Bill of that year of a clause to provide for the. maintenance by the company, in its then existing condition and depth of water, of the portion of the water- way of Barry Harbour useful for refuge pur- poses, and the board presented to Parliament a report, copy of which is printed in the appen- dix. The Bill, however, did not pass. In the following session the Barry Dock and Rail- ways Act, 1884, was passed, and contained, in Section 25, the provisions for the protection of Barry Harbour which were required by the board in the Bill of the previous year. The board are advised that the present free harbour of Barry is still valuable, both for refuge purposes and also a.s a pilot and tug- boat station, and is the only natural free harbour in the neighbourhood in which small vessels can safely take shelter. The boaid are further advised that, ever, if the works cor tunplated by the Bill should be authcrist-r. by Parliament, the company should not be relieved of the obligations imposed upon them by Section 25 of their Act of 1884, but that they should remain bound to maintain in an efficient condition the harbour of Barry and the entrance thereto. In the:'8 circumstances, the Board of Trade submit for the considera- tion of Parliament whether the proposals of the company with respect to Barry Harbour sNluld remain in the Bill ;J;¡-

GLAD TIDINGS. Yes..Each day is a parable of life. Morning represents youth; noon is middle life; evening is ripe and sober age. "Its rounded at either end by sleep; unconsciousness at the outset, and oblivion at the end. And the lesson is this: Occupy the time. No matter about yes- terday; that is gone. No matter about to- morrow; it may never come to us. To-day, only, is ours. This we can make what we will. Let others' experience judiciously guide our present actions. Major M'Murray, of Spring- field House, Killuney, Armagh, in June, 1890, writes:—"I was a martyr to rheumatic gout from 1865 until April, 1888; being laid up with it regularly every six months; sometimes for weeks and sometimes for months. In April, 1888, I commenced to take Warner, s Safe Cure. I found relief after the fourth bottle. I took twenty-one bottles. Since I stopped taking the medicine, in July, 1888, I have not had the slightest indication of rheumatic gout." In August, 1893, he again writes:—"I have pleasure in confirming above statement, made three years ago, and adding: my old enemy has not visited me since." Lc212 llllil 1" "awig-raa uii.

At Pontypridd Police-court on Wednesday John Lewis, labourer, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for assaulting Catherine Miles, a woman of ill-fame, who had lived with im at Trallwn-gardens for the last tea monthe

PORT YARROCK LOSS. "Times" Says it is a Clear Case of Undermanning. Describing the terrible voyage of the Port Yarrock, which sailed from Cardiff for Santa Rosalio, Mexico, on October 27, 1892, and was lost with all hands in Brandon Bay, the "Times" says:—"To readers of the narrative and of the proceedings a.t the inquiry, it is obvious that undermanning of the ship lay at the root of the disaster. They will further be tempted to ask why the vital precaution of seeing that a ship has her complement of crew does not form one of the multifarious duties of the Board of Trade. There are inspectors to look after a ship's load-line, equipment, stores, and every- thing belonging to her except the human agents who are to navigate her, and upon whose suffi- ciency a number of valuable lives depend. This does not seem common sense. It is seldom that a case of insufficient manning has been so clearly established, and the responsibility so clearly brought home to the shipowner. We are confident that such criminal indifference is a rarity among owners. But it can hardly be wondered at if the case of the Port Yarrock is made a text for the harangues of the leaders of seamen's unions."

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ra:.Oii 1 The "St. James's Gazette" says:—The court has certainly not overstated the charge of undermanning, as anyone may judge who has pr read the letters from the apprentice Barnes. A more heartrending story of overwork, bad feeding, and sickness than that revealed in this poor boy's dying letters has not been told. And any one of us can form our own conclusions from the fact that a vessel like the Port Yarrock was sent from Cardiff to Mexico, and from Mexico to Cardiff, with a crew of 22 hands all told, six being apprentices, of whom five appren- tices and one so-called seaman had never been to sea before. From that state of things the court rightly holds Mr. Rowat responsible. And what does Mr. Rowat suffer in conse- quence ? 'The court found the managing owner, Mr. Robert John Rowat, liable to the Board of Trade in £ 75 towards the expenses of the inquiry." And idle vagabonds are still sent to prison for stealing pocket-handkerchiefs. Be it noted that the value of the Port Yarrock was JE11,000 and the value of her freight £3,250, and that both were fully insured.

Ordination services in connection with the I pastorate of Mr. S. J. Robins, late of Penarth, at Mount Pleasant English Baptist Church, Cadoxton-Barry, were held on Wednesday, and were largely attended.

Cardiff Tradesmen's Hop FANCY DRESS COSTUMES ARE WORN BY GUESTS. A Young Lady goes as the Pink Un Wearing a Satin Dress stamped with the Evening Express. Amid every indication of success, the annual Cardiff Tradesmen's Ball was given in the Town-hall on Wednesday evening. The Assem- bly-room had undergone elaborate and artistic treatment, producing an exceedingly happy effect, About 100 couples, for the most part attired in fancy dress costume, responded to invitations, and went through a pro- The "Evening Express" Costume. (Miss Cooper.) gramme of dances to the strains of Johnson's Professional String Band. The stewards, who worked indefatigably throughout, where Baron Berndt, Messrs. G. A. Seccombe, A. J. Beer, H. B. Crouch, F. Morgan, J. Munday, E. Giles Caines, R. J. HiUier, Bailey H. Stockdale, J. Sheridan, J. Shaw, A. Carpenter, Tainsh, and H. Mills. Mr. R. G. David (Exchange Club) supplied the refreshments, the arrangements giving the highest satisfaction on every hand. English Lady, 1820. (Mrs. Hillier.) The proceeds will, we understand, be divided between the Cardiff Infirmary and Nazareth House. [BY OUR LADY CORRESPONDENT.] Who to begin with among the many dresses and quaint fancies is the question. Place aux dames. The" Pink 'un" had, of course, my first attention, representing so prettily the .Evening Express. The skirt was in printed panels of the paper, and the bodice bore the large headline to be seen at the top of the first page of our issues. The Misses Mabel and Mary Manders. cartoon underneath is that showing Mr. Harpur, the borough engineer, seated in his chair dis- tracted by the deluge of letters sent in as a response to his request that residents should inform him by postcard of street lamps not lit. Miss Mabel

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Ancestral Home [ It was a, nippingly cold night in an otherwise tepid January when my wife, Elizabeth, before I could get out of my ulster, asked me if "I would get her a, tree?" Now, to be empty and cold and tired, and to be asked on the threshold of one's door and dinner in midwinter for a tree" even by the being whom one adores is a trifle irritating. I am amiable as a rule and a ruler, but the tone in which I said "a what!" was not up to the marital mark. But my own Elizabeth knew too well to be deterred. "Why, dear, Mrs. Makehay Higginson was here this afternoon, and she said I ought to me too well to be deterred. "Why, dear, Mrs. Makehay Higginson was here this afternoon, and she said I ought to be a Colonial Dame, and I can't be one she says, unless I have a 'tree,' which the Colonial I says, unless I have a 'tree,' which the Colonial Dames are to sit upon at their meeting, and if it's all right, they will take me in." Humph I don't doubt they will." "She says that everybody that is anybody is doing all they can to get up a tree, and, dear, she said that you were so awfully ole-ser that you could get me up a tree in no time." "Mrs. Higginson is a woman of more pene- tration than I gave her credit for if she said that," said I. "But, seriously, dear, if your happiness hang upon a tree, you shall have one." It was between the soup and the fish, for Elizabeth and I by this time were seated at our dinner table, which, bless her, she likes to make bright and sweet against my home -coming, that I committed myself "to do," as the Vaudty ville bills would say, a family tree for her. For the first time I noticed in my wife a strange change, a sort of suppressed superiority. It made her broaden all her a's when she spoke to me, and her dear, sweet American voice came down from her nose into her throat when she talked about being a "Colonial Dame," so that my wife really became quite English in her discussion of the subject, which I had supposed to be thoroughly American. Mrs. Higginson had left her, it seemed, with an awful sense of all that it meant to be a Colonial Dame, of the "great works," as the reformers say, to be done when everybody had a "tree." "How?" I asked, for the mutton had made! me monosyllable, but neither inelegant nor aboriginal in my vocabulary, as Elizabeth seemed, to think from the horrified way in whioh she looked at ma before she went on. I "In the first place, you know, dear, that society in Old Haven is neither so gay nor so general as it might be if we weren 't all the time on pins and needles for we' might know somebody who wasn't, well, quite "so nice as ourselves, anidi Mrs. Higginson says (that the Society C. D. c-aj^tai wa»e far —— I some of them,' I said in parentheses) will do away will all that sort of thing. There are going to be meetings—lots of them— and »vhen they have had enough meetings to fnd out that everybody has an ancestor as aristocratic as anybody else, then they are going to unbend and be nice to one another, and the swellest of the lot are going to give dinners and balls, and it's going to be awfully exclusive and ,4 English, you know; if any woman's name is put up for membership that the other women don't like, she's going to be blackballed unless she has a great deal of money. And I am sure, dear, it's going to make a lovely feeling all throughout society, and it's just what this stupid old stuck-up town needs. Not being able to grasp the cogency of my loved one's reasoning, I took refuge in a chair, whilo( Elizabeth sipped her coffee and went on with her pra.ttle. "Alfred, dear, you know Mrs. Belfry Bun- combe ? She's the Regent. She is more swell than anyone in town. Mrs. Higginson says that for years she has kept herself shut up from common people. She has never spoken to or come in contact with a trades-person in her life, except once, when she had to order a herring, but she kept him at a distance through the telephone." ""vfho, the herring "How stupid you are. No, the trades-per- son." These transcendent qualifications of Mrs. Buncombe for her high office so impressed me that I straightway made for my study, fol- lowed by Elizabeth, and we lost no time in looking in the family Bible. After a still hunt of an hour or more this venerable tome was unearthed, lymg in com- pany with one or two Rollo books and a volume of "Pride and Prejudice," in a cob-webbed corner of the closet where I kept my odds and ends, boots principally. After we had re- moved the dust from the book, which no well- regulated family should be without, Elizabeth opened it and turned to the family register, when, as if by inspiration, her well-manicured finger lit upon the name Penelope Shaw. P. Shaw," I exclaimed, but not in a tone of mocker v-far from it—for in that name I be- held the very root and source of my Elizabeth's tree—the name of my wife's great-great-great- grandmother. That was enough. We went from Shaw to Shaw until the clock struck midnight. The next day I went. to the rooms of the Histori- cal Society, the College Library and the Free Library on the scent of dead Shaws. I be- cauiej, as it werg, aa aiwsggigjl hotuid, of course, mean't a neglect, of several million issues of a business nature in which several thousands of dollars were involved. I opened up a correspondence which incapacitated our postman for active service for a week. Gentle- men rose up all over the country who offered to supply me with ancestors at so much a head. One generous soul offered to get me up a tree for the modest sum of 100 dollars. I spurned his tempting offer. It was I who had under- taken to get Elizabeth up that tree, and it was I alone who would do it. Well, in a month's time I had bagged all the game I thought necessary in the way of great, greater, greatest grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, &c. -and, really a most respectable showing they made, the ancestors of my wife, Elizabeth, God-fearing, fennel-eating, church- going, uninteresting, law-abiding, representa- tive New Englanders all of them. If butchers and bakers, spinners and tanners preponderated in the list, what of that? Was not that the keynote of the Mayflower emigration, to bake and butcher, spin and tan, in a colony of their own, unobstructed by the snobbery of Eng- land? P. Shaw had a son, a butcher. To him I gave an honourable perch on the topmost bough of my Elizabeth's tree. His son, a baker, took a lower twig, and, in due course of events his daughter was delivered of seven sons, all of whom walked in a, straight line- one was a tailor and went into the clothes line- of virtue; all save one, who took to politics as naturally as he did to his neighbours' wives. It is ohroaiioled of him "that he did swear great oaths, drink strong potations of punch, play at the tavern for high stakes, and did so thoroughly and mightily debauch himself into the likings of the people that with one acclaim they made him Governor of the State of Connecticut." In short, this roistering rake flourished as only the wicked can. I turned from his mon- strosities with a shudder. This one blot on the escutcheon of my loved one should be for- ever hidden; never should she know that in her Presbyterian veins coursed blood so riotous. I suppressed the srreat-great-grandfather with Comstockian zeal—shut him up between the leaves of the book that told the story of his shame. Well, by this, March had blown itself in upon us and Elizabeth and I had spent many a cheerful evening in my study before the log fire, getting her tree in proper trim. It was to be submitted on the Saturday of that week to a committee of Colonial dames, consisting of Mrs. Bellfry Buncombe, Mrs. Makehay Hig- ginson, Mrs. Gaunt de Tompkins—nee Chappy —Mrs. J. Squirts, Mrs. Van Grumble of Grumble-street, Mrs. Liudsyy Wool soy, and Mrs Isarofia Chippendale Huxier. What with the eminent respectability of Elizabeth's ancestors, together with my timely suppressing of that uusjAYQiuy the GoyjiHWMV was bound to be a Colonial Dame--would be I received with open arms by the Dames in con- ference. Of that we were sure, so sure that in the pride of a virtuous pedigree and its oertain reward we asked Mr. and Mrs. Makehay Hig- ginson to dine with us on that very Saturday evening). Against the congratulatory order of the dinner I ordered my best brand of wine to be put on ice. Fatnlous folly of two simple souls, who thought in this nineteenth century of sham the good old homespun of our forefathers would en- dure. A frigidly formal note in a large English hand on English crested paper, bearing the name of a London stationer (everything that Mrs. Buncombe buys comes from England- no one would know she was an American if it didn't) "begged to inform" my poor love that the ladies on the committee of the Society of Colonial Dames had carefully gone over the genealogy submitted them, but, in- asmuch as none of the ancestors of Mrs.— well, never mind who she is now (she was a Shaw)—had held office in the colony, it was with regret that Mrs. Buncombe, as Regent of the Society of Colonial Dames, found Mrs. ineligible as a member of that society. I burst forth in an exclamation which I explained to Elizabeth was the way "dame" is pronounced in French. It had the effect of stopping my sweet one's tears, which that cnjel note had caused to flow. I had forgot- ten to say that the note was delivered by Mrs. Buncombe's Buttons, while Elizabeth and I were getting ourselves up to receive our gueste, who now were ringing our door- bell, just, as I had told Elizabeth for the twentieth time that she was sweeter to me than all the Colonial Dames in a bunch. The Higginsons were our salvation, that night. The dinner was capital. Elizabeth braced up visibly, and when the champagne had given us both courage we told the story of Elizabeth's tree. Mrs. Makehay Higginson is a woman of re- sources. She rose to the occasion. "If you haven't an ancestor who held office or served in the colony make up one. Go back far enough and no one will ever find you out." I went back four generations and rooted out an old taxgatherer. He was a bachelor, but never mind—I got in on him all the same. The ethics of the society became clear to me as they never had before. "By Jove, Elizabeth, you shall go in, and on the shoulders of a Governor, too." Then and there I owned up to the deceit I had practised. I made a clean breast of the Governor. It was my first and last secret from my superior one. She forgave me, and we added one more glass of wine all round to his memory. i We ail wemfa aw sfcujiy and we oui> out ita.. yellow page from the history of the colony in which he had served and sinned, and we called a messenger boy and we sent the his- tory of my Elizabeth's great-great-great- grandfather off to Mrs. Belfry Buncombe, and to the history went an addendum in the form of a note, in which I gave all the glory of this important discovery to that wonderful geneologieal excavator, Mrs. Makehay Hig- ginson. That settled it. Elizabeth went in and with flying colours at that, on the back of her gre;tt-great-great-grandfather, the Governor.— Sunday Post Dispatch.

BIRD SHOW AT NEWPORT. The monthly meeting of the Newport and Mon- mouthshire Poultry, Pigeon, Rabbit, a,nd Cage- bird Society was held on Tuesday evening at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Cardiff-road, Newport, when a good show took place. There were 90 entries, and the awards were as follow :— Poultry, any variety game, cock or hen: 1st and 2nd, E. T. Rees; 3rd, Adams; v h c, Bees; h c, Adams. Bantams, any variety, cocks: 1st, Houghton; 2nd, Heybyrne; 3rd, Baker and Young. Bantams, any variety, hens: 1st, Houghton; 2nd, Baker and Young; 3rd, Heybyme. Pigeons, any other variety, cooks 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and v h c, Banks and Dauncey. Pigeons, any other variety, hens: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and h c, Banks and Dauncey. Magpies: 1st, Weston and Brownsoombe 2nd, Baker and Young; 3rd and vh c, Weston and Brownscombe h c and c. Baker and Young. Show homer cocks 1st, J. Webb; 2nd and 3rd, Baker and Young v h c, Webb; h c, Baker and Young. Show homer hens: 1st and v h c, Baker and Young; 2nd, 3rd, and h c, Webb. Any other colour homers, cock or hen: 1st, 2nd, and v h c, Baker and Young 3rd, J. Webb. Working homers, any colour chequer, cocks 1st, Hockey and Foster 2nd, Moore 3rd and c, Purnell; v h c, Hockey and Foster, and Webb. Working homers, any other colour, hens: 1st and 3rd, Moore 2nd, Baker and Young; vh c aud h c, Hockey and Foster; c, Purnell. Homers, anj' colour, cock or hen: 1st, Moore; 2nd. v h c, and h c, Purnell; 3rd, Vile; c, Hockey and Foster. Selling class 1st, 2nd, and The, Baker and Young 3rd, W. Hill.

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SWANSEA SCHOOL BOARD. f Proposed Amalgamation at Higher I Grade Schools. I The monthly meeting- of the Swansea U.D. School Board was held at the board's offices on Wednesday, Dr. W. Morgan presid D. Harris moved the following recommendations of the schools management committee :— That the third and fourth standard classes in the girls' department and the fourth, standard class in the boys' department be discontinued from and after her Majesty's Inspector's annual examination in July next; and that from and after her Majesty's Inspec- tor's annual examination in July next the boys' and the girls' departments be amalgamated and place:! in charge of the headmaster of the boys' department as principal of the school, and that admission to the school be only through a competitive entrance exami- nation, preference for vacancies in the school to be given to those who take the highest places in such examinations, and to children of parents who reside in this board's school district or contribute to the hoard's school mtes. -The Rev. Dyfodwg Davies seconded.— An amendment deferring consideration of the matter was put and carried.

Neath Fair. I There wa,s a very large influx of people at Neath, on Wednesday on the occasion of the Spring Horse and Cattle and Flannel Fair. There was but a poor show of horses and cattle, the number being comparatively small and the quality very ordinary. Business was corre- spondingly dull. Trade in flannel was fairly brisk, the prices per yard ranging from 10d. to Is. 7d.

Complimentary Concert at Cardiff. The Cardiff Blue Ribbon Choir will on April 21 give Miss Morfydd Williams, their accom- panist, a complimentary conceit on the occa- sion of her leaving for the Royal College of Music. Miss Williams, it will be remem- bered, is a sister of the late Miss Annie Williams. -A

At Merthyr Police court on Wednesday Taliesin Williams, an elderly collier, was fined 30s. and costs for uni-amming a charge which had missed fire in South Pit, Ply- mouth. But for the good character received by the defendant, the Stipendiary intimated that. the punishment would have been heavier, because the Bench regarded the offence us one 'ajtM.Ca<S!<<M.

LEWIS'S ENDOWMENT. A Public Meeting Will be He'd at Pont- lottyn. One of a series of meetine;s Umt will be held during- this week through* u 'no parish of Gelli- gaer took place on Tuesday evening at Zoar Chapel, Pontlottyn.—Mr. G. C. James (Merthyr) presided, and lucidly explained the present posi- tion of the endowment.—The following resotu- tion, proposed by Mr. A. Phillips, ai-ici, seconled by Mr. G. C. James, was unanimously agreed to That this meeting of the inhabitants of Pontlottyn and district, in the parish of Gelligaer, in the county of Glamorgan, in public meeting assembled, do hereby testify our approbation of the alternative scheme oi the governors of Lewis's Endowed School, and our disapproval of the scheme of the Charity Commis- sioners.

t hirffc #/ I j By feeding vour horses on GOODBODY'S « CHOP Yon s.i.ve z5 Per Cent. It is a specially prepared HOB^E FOOD, of Chopped Hay and Crushed Gram. It is cleane thoroughly by the most modern Machinery, ana jut mitted by all who are risiiisr it to he the most stistaiii ing and economical HOKSE FOOD ever introduced No time lost in attending hay and corn markets, No I, hay or corn loft required. A trial solicited. AalysiS sfUS-XEbnteed.* GOODBODY BROS. Forage Mills, Tullamore, Ireland, Agency 5 Castle-street, Cardiff. County of Monmouth: and at me snop &1 iur w I DAVIES, JvianeUv, in the Cormty ot oai XHU&S&4.X MARCH 29, m

Manders looked charming in a pink Watteau costume and a picture hat. Mrs. Hilliers wore I Mr. Sidney Lewis and Mr. F. H. Standen. not only a dress of 1820. but the veritable dress and lace shawl which was worn at that time by a relative of her family, and which looked a; a relative of her family, and which looked" a; good as new and was very becoming. Miss Ethel Standen made a pretty village girl. i.xis Cherton, in a red dress covered wrth flowers, well portrayed a flower girl. Her sister, as "the Order of the Bath, wore 80 dress composed of striped Bath towelling, trimmed with soap tablets and sponges. MisS Rose Perry, as a white witch, was quite the belle of the room. Her dress of silver gauze waS admirable. She had cats, mice, bats, and the snake of witch lore, and she brought her broorn en which to fly home. Miss B. Yorath made a» excellent Charlotte Cordey." lirs. B. Jones, as "Minnie Palmer," was quite a success. Mrs. Burridfe was very elaborately and acca^ rateiy got up as Mary, Queen of Scots" in a State dress. A gipsy girl and a Spring Flowers" must not be omitted, the former having had the pluck to stain her hands and face to suit her part. Mr. Hillier, as Joseph Surface, Mr. Hitchings, "Clown," and Mr. Lewis aS "Paul Jones," were admirably got up. Here we have a naval officer, but why does he wear his cap to dance in ? Mr. Ruddock as Henry VIII." must develop on all sides before he can fill those portly robes. His dress was, how- ever, well designed. "Folly" shook his bells and his curly hair, and made a pretty bit of colour in his pale blue tailed coat. Young' Mr. Burridge came in a Louis XVI. costume- j I liked a brawny Scot from the Hie'lants very much, and a King of Clubs j seemed familiar. The good old 3rd Welsh showed up well in their red and white bravery, and adorned the room not a little. Mrs. Guy made an admirable "Night" with black and gold stars and crescent moon. Mr. Caine as Major Domo looked very well indeed in his quasi-military dress. Time and space forbid my chronicling a,ll the costumes it was a bright J and varied scene, and mest enjoyable as a 3 dance.