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opog-* EN EVANS & Co.— 1 FOR i Reliable Harness, Saddles, Rngs, Horse Clothing j AND STABLE REQUISITES OF ALL KINDS. I Btx. EvAyg & Co., LT", SWANSEA. I j L. C. ROWLAND, CONTRACTOR TO THE SWANSEA HARBOUR TRUSTEES RATLr'WAY SAULIER AND SHTPPEVG CONTRACTOR TO THE BgtBnWH SWANSEA BAY BAILWAY CO., and RAILWAY HAULIER TO TTTE MIBLAHD AND LONDON AND NORTH: WESTERN RAILWAY OMfPAJOES. 9. FISHER STREET. mmam| FFFirSt t818 l I First Manufactured in 1818 [ In the reign of King George IlL j T STIFFS ] I [ STARCH -$ .J Only one -quality a THE BEST, j 1 ST I FF & Co., LTD., j I 29, REDCUFF STREET. BRISTOL j I !P LAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The Committee invite APPLICATIONS fnr the following frosts:— Salary Scbooi. Post. per I Annum j- Bryncoch National Certificated Infant ISo School, atii Neath1 Miscress Neatli Higher Nat. Uncertificated Wo- ET5 jonal School, Imams'i man Assistant or ¡ Class Supplementary Teacher AHeraroTi National i Supplementary E35 School Teacher Laleston National Do, £35 School, near Bridg-, end an Lower Do. £25 NV'onai School, KeyuoWston Fenytai National j Do. rzo l. school," ,ibr Bridgend I _i Applications (which roast be made on Forms, to be obtained from the undersigned 00 receipt of a stamped addressed foolscap envelope) should reach me at the earliest possible date, and in any case before March 4th, 1905. Applications are also invited for the post m PUPIL TEACHER (MALE) in PEN- MARK NATIONAL SCHOOL, near Cardiff. Salary: £10 first year, £ 12 second year, £ 14 third year. Applications (made on fools- ,asp paper) should be sent in immediately. JOHN JAMES, M.A., Ph.D., Chief Education Official. Chief Education Official. Education Department, Westgate-street, Cardiff. 15th February, 1905. 14483 LAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The Committee invite Applications for the following posts :— SCHOOL. j POST. Sabry per annum. j annnm. Oystermoatb MrxedCerti ficated Assist-t £ 05 Conncil ant Master Oyster month MrsediCertjfieated Assist-; £75 I Council ant Mistress Gowerton Girls' Certificated Assist-j £ 70 ¡ Cooncil ant Mistress j Owatirvcae-tfurwen Certificated Assist-) S-ry Mixed, Council ant Mistress Tyocwydd MiredCertificated Assist-j £ 00 each Council ant Masters Applications should be made immediately, «*n Forms which can be obtained by sending to the undersigned a st-air,pod, addressed foolscap envelope. JOHN JAMES, M.A., Ph.D., Chief Education Official, Education Department, Westgate-street, Cardiff. 21st. February, 1905. 14486 R OY AI. LIVER FRIENDLY SOCIETY. ¡ Chief Offices-Prmcot Street, Liverpool, A MEETING of the Members of this II Society will be held on WEDNESDAY, 8th March. 19C5, at 3 p.m., at the HOLY TRINITY SCHOOLROOM, Alexandra-road, Swansea, for the purpose of electing a Dele- gate. to the. Annual Meeting at Blackpool on the 10th May next. By Order of the Committee of Manage- ment. J FRANK H. TALTNITON., j t__ BATH & WEST .t SOUTHERN COUN- TIES SOCIETY. Patron—His Majesty the King. President, 19û5- TI]C Dnke of Portland, K.O. GREAT SHOW AT NOTTINGHAM, MAY 30, 31, JUNE 1, 2. and 3. 1905. ENTRIES CLOSE as follows:- j Implement s Art-Manufactures, &c., March j 21. Live Stock, Produce, Butter-Making, Milk- ing, Shoeing, &e., April 7. Poultry, May 5: Jumping <i Driving, M;tv 11. j TIIOS. Y. PLOWMAN, Secr.?tary. ) 3, Pi*»rrepont Street Bnth. j AUSTRALIA. 1 RISNT -PACIFIC r.rNii: EXPRESS SERVICE From LONDON, PLYMOUTH, { SEILLE3 and NAPLES to EGYPT, CJSY I LON, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND. and TASMANIA. Tons, London. Marseilles. Naples I 5857. Mar. 10 Mar. 17 Mar. z<> Onuu* •■• r-8/ April 7 April 14 Apr. 10 Managers r F. GREEN & Co., ANOfckSON ANDERSON & Co., j BfrjwJ Offices: i' snchnrch Avenue, London. Fof PaMaage, apply to the latter firm id 5, P-neburch Avenue, E.C.; or to West. End; Jfcaacfc Offoom, 28, Cockapor Street, S. W. 8*1 ^EW STAR THEATRE, SWANSEA. MONDAi, FEBRUARY 27th, And During the Week at 7.30— GIPSY JACK. Friday Nig'rrt—"MAFEKING." Next Week "A MARRIAGE OF VENGEANCE." sea. Amended Advertisement. E A T H UNION. NURSE. The GUARDIANS will, at their Meeting, to be held on TUESDAY, the 18th day of MARCH, 1905. proceed to the appointment of a NURSE (Wolsh-speaking preferred). Salary at the rate of JS22 per annnm, with board, apartments, washing, and Is. a week in, lieu of beer. ■•■•vr- The appointment will be subject to the provisions of the Poor Law Officers' Serper- annuation Act, 1896, and to the approval of the Local Government Board. Applications, stating age, and experience, accompanied by two recent testimonials, to be sent to me on or before Monday, the 6th day of March. 1905. If the applicants hold any certificates of proficiency, copies of the same should accom- nanv the application. HOWEL CUTHBERTSON, Clerk to the GoarcLiaass. Water-street. Neath. Feb. 16th, 1905. ALLANLINE. To Canada, United States, River Plate and India, SAILINGS FROM LIVERPOOL. March 2.—Ionian, Halifax and St. John, N.B March 7.—City of Lucknow, Bombay and Karachi. March 9.—Tunisian, Halifax and St. John, N.B. March. 11.—Eden Hall, Monte Video, Buenos 1 Ayres and Rosario. March 14.—Pretorian, Halifax and Phila- delphia. OCEAN RATES TO CANADA.—Saloon from £ 10 St. John s, N.F. £ 11 Halifax and St. John. N.B. Second Cabin, £ 7 10s. Third Class, P-5 10s. To India, JB57 10s. and £ 27 10s. For full particulars, apply to ALLANS, 103, I^eadenhall-street, London, E.C., and 19, Jamesr-st.Teet, Liverpool 988 WHEELER'S UNRIVALLED SEEDS I are of HIGH-CLASS QUALITY and are offered at the VEPY LOWEST PRICES. SPECIAL CHEAP ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO AMATEURS AND THOSE WITH LIMITED GARDENS. I Send for Priced List. Gratis and Post Free WHEELER & SON, LIMITED. SEED GROWERS, &c., GLOUCESTER Cupiss Constitution Bans TT /v UAI For Grease, Swelled TfcvrnicM* HjinQAn Legs. Cracked Haels, „ lXVi UvD Coughs, Coids, Sore Burgh-by-Sanus, Throat. disordered Carlisle. Liver, Broken Wind, lnfli:enza, Having used Cu- Loss of Appetite &e.. Sec. 1 Viis' Constitution n i, Al For Hide bound, .Star- J Balls for over -f QT| fO ins; Coat. Hove or I years, I hare a!J (n I LlU 'own.Distr.njper, Epi- ways found them dtnuic, Snrteit, Con. exceedingly use- ditionine, Prtservini; Health, fal lor yurit'ying Scouring in Calves, &c! the blood andfl 1 F°r Rot or Flake, and kreping in excel-Vn/JAT| tor keeping in li^aitli, lent condition. IJ sbistmg to get into Titos. CARRIK, X Condition, Sconrio^ in Horse Breaker. Lambs, &c. Prepared upwards of 50 years, by the late Francis Cupiss, M. R. C. V.S., Diss,Norfolk Sold in packets T O and 3/6 each, 7 small packets 10.6 or 7 large zir, by Chemists and Medicine Vendors, or trom Francis Cupiss, Ltd., THE WlI-CHEJtNESS, •OISS, oa reoe^t«f aoaoont. A
rTHE NEW BATTLE OFTKE SITES.
r THE NEW BATTLE OFTKE SITES. In the figtAt fer the University CoUep-ô: Sonth Wales, Swansea was worsted by Car. diff to a gerat extent beeaose of gmmnHUi offers made on behalf of the Latter, which have never becQ redeemed. It might appre- (isHy wrw Swansea when the case for the town ohtamirr- either tbe National Library of tho Ntitional Museum, is argued, to pat before Lords Balfour and Jersey and Lord Justice Hardy a statement showing what C ardiff, by its Corporation and by private irt- dividuals promi sed in donations, etc., if granted the College, and what Cardiff in the same comprehensive sense did, or failed to do, after t.he College had been established on the banks of the Taff. For years the re- fusal of the Corporation to provide a site for the College, or pay the interest due on the c-qnivalenfc of the capital value, of a site pro- vided the County Borough Council with an annual discussion more or less acrimonious. And a comparison of the promised gifts as compared with the gifts actually received, would probably be somewhat disturbing in its effect to our Cardiff friends. At ail events, such a comparison would be helpful to the Commissioners in gauging the market V)1ue of similarly gorgeous promises which iria^ be submitted "Vi them on behalf of Cardiff. It is now authoritatively stated that; the Commission will not visit the Princi- pality, bat. wiil hear the case for each claim- ant town in London. This is not unreason- able. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, as the chair- ma.n of the Royal Commission on Sundav Closing, which spent weeks in Wales, has a tolerable knowledge of the chief towns of ftte Principality Lord Jersey's knowledge covers a longer period, and is more intimate, and Lord Justice C-osens Hardy has been on cir- cniti in both North and South Wales. So that to not, one of the Commissioners is the country wholly unknown. Swansea, there- fotv, may prepare its case confident of a patient, not to say sympathetic hearing. But a. satisfactory outcome of the balancing of rival claims in so far as this town is con- cerned, is much more likely to be secured if the responsible parlies enter upon their task convinced that it is a stiff one. Cardiff pos- seses certain superficial advantages, which we believe with time will disappear, and has at its command the support of influential noblemen and others whose weight it would be fatno-iis to ignore. It is certain, that the spokesmen for Swansea will be seriously handicapped in their mission, unless in a position to give not only assurances of sub- stantial financial support from the class cap- able of yielding it, but also of a self-sacri- ficing spirit in the community generaliy. At the proper time an official appeal will doubt- less he made for promises of substantial gifts should either of the two national institutions be established at Swansea, but it Is unques- tionably depressing that the offer of £ 1,000 from Sir John Llewelyn and of a similar sum from Sir Griffith Thomas has not elicited a more spontaneous and general response. And beyond the dona-tions of individuals, we may rest assured that the Commissioners to be impressed, will requii-e evidence of a readi- ness on the part of the burgesses generally to contribute towards the up-keep of either Library or Museum. In the present mood of the ratepayers it will require tact to secure this evidence. With regard to tVwg proposal to turn the Royal Institute build- ing and site, into money available, for either of the national institutions sought consider- able misapprehension exists, which it is de- sirable should be cleared away. The site was, and many years ago, givsn by the Corporation for the nominal rent of 5s. a. year so long as used for the present pur- pose. The members of the Royal Institution cannot sell or lea.se the site for any other purpose without, forfeiting the lease no long as they use it for the present purpose and pa.y the five shillings a year, the Corporation cannot touch the site. But if too Council and tho Royal Institute were of one mind, the site and building could be sold, and the £20,000 or 225,000, which Col. Morgan esti- mates as the market value, realized and devoted to the purposes of a National Mnseum or National Library. This is unquestion- ably an asset of value. But the most im- portant, because the more telling in the argu- ment for and against the selection of Swansea is that represented by the willingness of the ratepayers to make sacrifices in order to im- prove the status of the town.
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ji 1.. —a Closing: of the old Hafod Schools That "ihe old order changeth, giving place to the, new," is strikingly demonstrat- ed by the erection of the new Hafod Council Schools. The old Hafod Copper 'Vorks School is now about to end its career, and Miss Finlay, the head mistress of the in- fante' department, is about to retire. Miss Finlay has been associated with the Hafod Iniant Seliools since 1848,, when her mother became the first mistress. Mrs. Fin- lay died in 1860, and sinoe July, 1865, Misa Finlay has been head-mistress; Bo.) that tIp to her retirement she has been engaged is the Hafod Schools 13 yearo as an assistant and 42 years as head-mist ress—a total d 51. years. This is a truly noble record, ar.d the Board oi Education, recognising her ex- cellent services two yea-r.s ago, granted t< her the especial privilege of prolonging Lff service, so that now she is in the unique position of closing the scbooi which her mother led 57 years. During that period no less than 19,590 children have passed through the school, al,d men and women in all parts of the world must look back fondly to the kindly work of so noble a lady. Old Hafod scholars in Swansea intend marking Miss Finlay's retirement in a befit- ting manner, and already a public subscrip- tion has been opened, with Mr. Ivor .1. Howell, of Hafod-terrace, Neath-road, Swansea, as the hon. secretary. Old Hafod boys and girls in Canada, Australia, Africa, and elsewhere have been communicated with in connection with the appeal.
SWANSEA CHARGE OF THEFT DISMISSED.
SWANSEA CHARGE OF THEFT DISMISSED. At Swansea on Thursday, Harold Brian Baker, Gladstone-road, Liverpool, steward, was charged with stealing a coat, value 10s. 6d., from s.s. Rosneath, the property of John Slight., .steward. When complainant miseed the coat, and Dock-constable Roberts was sent for, defen- dant told the constable to "go to and that he had "seen no coat. The coat wan found in defendant's cabin. Defendant pleaded DO: gailty. saying ho was packing up his clothes, and nrust have put in the coat by r.jvrt-s,ke. He had been on the ship for six years.
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PLEASING SEQUEL TO A KLULAV ACCIDENT. Mrs. Jones, widow of the lute J. Jones* who was killed in the lamentable railway accident at KUlay about two months "go, has just received compensation to the ex- tent of 1;900 irom the L. and N.W. RaS"*ay Company. Much credit is dne to Mr. A. B. Williams, of Kill ay House, for his services in effecting an amicable .set-tiement without the heavy costs of litigation.
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1 CQ[he Cambrian. i FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905. ) NOTES ON MEN & THINGS —— J According to Prophet Baxter at the King's Hall, the world will cease to exist about 1924. Those •vho think of taking np leases should bear this in mind. j The word "'assault" is wrongly used by peopie, so Mr. Levi told hE Swansea aadi- ence, for if a man simpiy points a pistol to another that is an- assault. BarUery is quite I! another thing. I Primroses are now in full bloom' i" tbe i open air iu the garden of Captain NicboUe, Overton, Gowcr. The writer paw a sample with his own eyes, it not. being possible for him to do so with anybody else's. '"What denomination do you preach with?" asked Judge Williams, of a votuble Swansea woman. The "shy lady smiled and started off afresh. "Marvellous', won- deriul 1" exclaimed his Honour. "You anght to go on the stage." The woman left the Court with the certainty of having to pay hali-a-crow-n a month. It has been generally assuirfcsd of late in CardiflE that King Edward would this t»um- moc pav a visit to that town to open the [new lavr courts. But the statement, made bv Lord Knollys indicates that the assump- tion i.s not well grounded. His Lordship told the Ix>ndon correspondent of a ontempor- ary that it is practically cert:vui tliat- t-he- King will not visit Cardiff t-his year. The Swansea Amateur Operatic Society are to be congratulated on. t-he great sue cetis, artistic, and we hope material, at- 'ending their ambitious effort m producing "Les OloChes de Corneville." There ^ems to be on'y one verdict respecting the merits of the performance, splendidly staged, well acted, and, above all tilings, wen sung. The old opera, which has survived ?o many yean;, has been drawing large avxliences ntghtly this week. Serioas trouble seems to be brewing }.e- tween the G.W.R. directors and their gonds- men. The latter aro dis*?»tisfied with the conditions of their service, and have. Iwn holding meetings at varions poirrte in the district served by the cotnpaiiy. Now a mass meeting of delegates hafi been conwned to take place at Newport next Sunday, dnd it is not improbable that resolutions will be adopted to bring matters to a head. We are liopiug that an amiiable compromise will be arranged, since a strike of this huge system would be a national misfortune, with ¡ peculiar hardships upon South Wales. Such excellent service is being rendered to t've community, the poor especially, by the Swansea District Nursing Association that ;t Ls gratifying to find that the new .scheme introduced by the Ladies Com- mittee for increasing the income is meeting with great success. The idea of the la-t-ter is, by means of volunteer collectors, to obtain a penny per month iron; every home in the borough. Put into operation for the first time in January thss booee to house collection produced no less a sum tha.n £30. The ladies who keep this association in vigorous and useful existence deserve well of the community. Toe JE70 or j690 which it costs t-he rate- payers annually for an audit of t-he muni- cipal accounts by two elective auditors V. for all practical purposes money thrown away. Beyond the production of a read- able report, ujterest in which passes away in a day, the audit is not materially ai- fected, for the body which should be in- fluenced by the reports and recommenda- tions of the auditors practically leavea them unnoticed. That the ratepayers, as a body, have little interest in the election may be gathered from the fact that no one, appar- ant 1 y, except the candidates themselves, knew the elect-ion was taking place on Tuesday last,. The first intimation re- ceived by the public of an election was T.he announcementsc the result. The- announcement-that Mr. Lloyd-George was about to appear in the Carmarthen Bor- oughs to promote the candidature of his friend, Mr. Llewellyn Williams proved to be at least premature. Mr. Lloyd- George no doabt finds hrmseii -n a difficult position. It is scarcely political etiquette for a member of the same party to visit a constituency of a. coileagne for the purpose of assisting to eject him, especially as in the present instance, the offences committed by the sitting member that led him to the withdrawal of the sup- port of the Partiamentary Association were not gjolitical in character. An impartial j survey of tIw. situation in the Carmarthen- sirire Boroughs swgests the conclnsion that the official Liberals are not at the end of their difficn ties, but merely beginning a fresh series. Hospitals were established and are being maintained ostensibly for the benefit of the poor, who in their absence would be de- prived of medical and surgical assistance. It is an old grievance that hospitals ate in a large measure bemg used by classes that were never intended to be served by them. This is the case in Swansea, as it is in Lon- don and other places, and will probably con- tinue under a. system which gives subscribers the right to nominate patients as a sort oi recognition of their generosity, AM. sub- scribers cannot be expected to investigate applications made to them, or to discriminate between deserving and undeserving. On the other hand, hospitals cannot lie maintained without subscribers, and the withdrawal of this privilege would oertainlv involve a dim- inished income. This is the reason why it is that, while the abuse is flagrant and exten- sive, there appears to be no-effective pofnedv which can be applied. Places of public worship occupy- parti- cularly privileged position in Swansea. They are legally ratable property; if at anY time used for the holding of meetings, concerts, etc., if a charge is made for admission, but with tbe exception of St. Gabriel's Parish Hall, it is doubtful whetber any place of worship in the borough contributes to the I rates. And this is not all. By the flaw in an Act of Parliament, p1^ of worahip can- not. be compelled to pay for the kerb- mg and channelling of their frontage, as is the case with other buildings, but on the other band the Corpora* JOB TS not under compulsion to carry out the work at the axpense of the ratepayers. The practice hati been a sort of rough compromise, the chapel org<uaisatioi> contributing a proportion of the-oost. By n. lieving places of worships of the duty < paying rates, and by offering public money to the improvement of their front-ages, we have really created a form of indirect en- dowment of religious bodies, neaily irregular dowment of religious bodies, neaily irregular and illegal, but forobttbfy iruocooiri infeh tie T 1 ¡ Thirty years ago a. confectwnerv shop ic Cattle-st.ro&t was re-built as the (then un- derstood) start of and in the expectation the widening o* that- famous thorough?- the widening o* that famous thorough?- Thirty years ago, gentienien "Trespassers will be prosecuted. is a falsehood, declared Mr. Levi at the Swansea Public Library, as no rran caa be prosecut- ed for such ai offence. He would be heM civilly liable for any damage done. The clerks m a Swansea works were some- what surprised when they received tho fol- lowing requisition from one of the foremen: "Plees far a. black Lad." Needless to say, the article required was not a. nigger boy, but a. black lead. They say abroad that we have no climate, only samples of one. It is 2 too true. On Sunday, for example, the sunshine of a. warm spring day was alternated with showers of hail, and shortly after midnight there was quite a respectable fall of -now. Apropos of Sunday's eclipse., the moon is an almost perfect sphere of Z,160 miles in riiarrtefter. It revolves at a mean distance from the earth's centre of 258,835 miles. The moon weighs 78,000,000.000,000,000,000 tons —or that is ac. near as we -can get to it with our office scales. Dr. Willie Davies (the son of Swansea's medical officer of health), who has been elected the first president of the Transvaal Medical Conncil, rot only went through the whole of the late Boer war, but for the sig- nal services that he rendered he received the D.S.O. Two prominent Swansea players vålo par- ticipated m tb0 Scotch match were standing outeide the Royal Hotel in Edinburgh after the match, when a, beggar went up to them and said that he had been -on the road for six months." '"Gevon the -footpath," waø the cruel reply. No little chagrin has been caused m Swansea, and, indeed, throughout South Wales, by the announcement that all t<e reserve-1 tickete for the Irish match have been sold. To many the announcement conveyed the first intimation that tickets were on sale. Whether or not specu- lators have bought up the tickets to aeM again at enhanced prices, there is no dis- puting the tact tickets are unobtainable, and no one seems to know where exactly they have gons. It does not seem reas- onable to conclude that so many people spontaneously awoke eo early to the ne- cessity of an early application for tickets. Dunne; the last four years the number of public-bouses in Swansea has been re- duced by 28, irrespective of 16 licenses either refused or deferred by the magis- trates during the recent Licensing Sessions. The Tempcrance party express themselves highly pleased with this diminution, but it their object be to reduce drunkenness, and not merely to penalise publicans and brew- ers, their gratification should be chastened by the depressing fadfc that concurrently with the reduction in th^ number of the li- censed bouses there has been .no correspond- in- facing off in the number of persons con- victed of drunkenness; on the contrary, the tendency has been steadily upwards. The Swansea, football team has-once more got well into the fifth month of the season with a. clean record. Danger to the latter is apprehended chiefly from the Devonport Albions and Cardiff, and of the two com- binations, the, more dangerous is the former because the Devonshire men come to Swan- sea when the local team is disorganised b)- reason of the number of disabled absontees- With Arnold, R. Jones, Trew and J. Da, vies "crocked,' the struggle which would not have been unequal in any case threatens to impose upon too local fifteen a tatlk that will severely tax them. The Swansea spec- tators will heaT the whistle blow "no sides" with a, sense of perfect relief on Saturday afternoon if, at that stage, the record stall remains intact. An arbitrator in a Labour dispute has seldom tho pleasure granted him of knowing that his award has given substantial satis- faction to the two sides. Mr. Richard Martin, who acted in this capacity in a dis- pute between the t-inpiate manufacturers and certain of their workmen in the sheet mills by deciding in favour of the contention of the employers, has apparently produced a perfect ferment among the workmen, who, if their leadens faithfully represent them in the matter, are bitterly hostile to the decision and strongly indisposed to accept it. This is the weakness of arbitration, by consent. Much good might be obtained by the application of the principle of arbitira- tion to Labour disputes, but the maximum benefit cannot lie hoped for without, as in New Zealand, legal machinery to enforce the award against employers and employed alike. One hundred and sixty applications have been received for the post-ion of education director under the Swansea Corporation, and the task of reducing the number so as to admit of a decisive vote by the members of the Education Committee is a. formidable one to the few to whom the task has been entroeted. ''a.nvas&mg is, of course, in full swing, and every kindjof pressure, fair and unfair, is being brought to bear upon the appointing body. As the day for the crucial division approaches, we may expect the local newspapers to be inundated by letters which, by direct or oblique reference, are intended to serve the interests of par- ticular candidates. As such communica- tions are raasely instigated by the desire to promote pwbJic interests, would it be too mnch to expect the newspaper conductors to insist, upon each letter carrying the pro- per name and address of the writer, so as to enable people to judge of the weight to be attached to the opinions expressed. After two years patient, if not titramioua effort to establish himself with trie working class electors of the Swansea District, Mr. J. LifcUejohns has now announced the with- drawal of his candidature. In doing go, be has frankly disclosed the reason, which sh-ows that the I.L.P. cupboard is more I twwte than people had imagined. It venxi that certain assurance were given Mr. Little johns regarding finaiK:al sopport, which have not been justified in the result. In fact. the ^unply of money came to a snd- den stop at, the end of the year, and cun- gequpmJy having been deprived of the lie. cessary a .-munition, he feels be can main- tatn tbo Mght no kmger. it. is suggestive erf the position that Mr. Brytmior Jones OCCIJ- pifl -^u the minds of the organised working wtirn n tiie rorototowiwy Oat the reading of ] l« £ tk»jobri's letter was followed by u. uanimo'is resolution to seek Mother La I boor candidate. Mr. Jones has some reason to oomp1 m of ibis persistence in opposing him who i Liberal members in neighbour- ing oor 4ifcw>nc<«R, without anything Tike has record f?wu e^«i the 3>abwnr standpoint «e permitted ondis Principal Salmon referred to Mr. H. Gold- bsrg at Swa-usea Hospital meeting a.s ""Father" Goldberg. The Principal corrected himself by explaining that he had in min-d Father Gwydr; never mind, he said, they are both fathers. It was not everyone who saw the joke. In a. small town in West Wales, a school- master sent a parent the usual printed form requesting an explanation as to a small boy's absence from school. And the reply was: "The Head of Simon was ill." The form of the reply seems to suggest the use- lessness, under tho circumstances, of sending the healthy part of Simon to school. "Crawshay Bailey bad an engine." Who doesn't remember the sweet lines. WeU, although his engine isn't going to puff at Swansea., the famous Cyfartbfa Band, which he founded in 1840, are going to blow to pur- pose on the night of the Irish international match at Swansea. They are booked to appear at the Albert. HaU, on March lith. e t t There was a sequel to the Oxrmcil dis- cussion of the Graigola Yard lease that was at; promptly reveaLed as it occurred. A Corporation official, it seems, was sent, al- most at the sa-me boar HI which the chair- man of the (sub-Property Committee was laboriously defending the abandonment of n gobiaiions, to the company to cfter the same ternts as those on which the ground has been held hitherto. Further, ± £ 00 com- n- -nation for the inconvenience and ex- I pense of rentoving plant incurred by the companv a* a oonseraienoo wars also offerted by the official. The old story of Sihyi- books over again, one would have thought, but. even had the complete set of nine been offered at the same terras, as, to continue the allegory, they were on this occa<si3(n-—the company tvould have had nothing toO do with them. Meanwhile, if the Harbcrar Trust mdirntes for last, week's meeting are turned up there will be found there 9-Ti dry concerning the lease of land near the new dock to Mr. Olin. Cory. It is absurd to pretend thai the two incidents have no mutual relation. Lhe Cray cement contract, with the cowt- platsjtpce exhibited by the Corporation to wards tbe German contractors, has caused a correspondent to resurrect another queer story with a rather similar theme at, bot- tom. A committee of tinplate works owners approached the Market Committee in 1898 to roof the t-heo new market with terne plates. They received permission to do so. and were then. informed they were to reconp themselves, for the expense—a. sum of £ 233—with the old slates removed in the process. True, it was an experiment upon the part. of, tinplato makers, and one the success of which would mean a good ad- vertisea'cni for the new nse to which terne plates were being put, and no specific agree- ment had been entered into. But the com- mittee loft- the makers to share amongst themselves a net low of nearly JE300. It is the business of a, Corporation to foster and aasist local industries at all fosts apart from the neglected opportunity of dokig so in this instance, what opinions would be expressed of a pnivate individual who got. his work done in such a. manner, free of charge through such abuse' of a. palpable oversight? A draw in football is art eowsperating thing at the best of times and a pointless draw is in sotfe roepecis worse than a, d9- feat. Swansea at. Leicester on Saturday failed to make amends for the result of their last inconclusive fixture with the Midland team, and had to TetLr? with honours even so far as scoring M'36 concerned. As a. re- sult, to the ood of the season and beyond it English critics at least will depreciate and discount an unsmirched fixture liat be- canse of this failure to pull off the matches and that with Devon Albions. Swansea seem to have tbeir faciure at Leicester to the disturbing effect of the railway journey and the re-arrangement, or rather disarrange- ment of the team, whereby a quarter of the plavers are playing out of their position- which may work well enough against the ordinary type "i adversary, but fanl to work smoothly against teams that, like Leicester and the Albions, a-re r-ble to tise to the occasion and put forth desperate efforts to cope with their invincible visitors. As to Leicester's merits otherwise, compared with Swansea, the mere fact that they have lost five matches this season is auffioont to check undue eulogy :loD.d self-congratulation on the part of their English supporters. Mr. Little*jobns retirement from the La- bour candid at ore of Swansea DLsfSfct en- ables local Trades UniC^m to select a iresh 1 candidate. There ren 18, however, the financial obstacles that- Tposed Mr. Lrttle- jobns. Local Liberalism is already im- proving the occasion to appeal pathetically to Labour thai these causes are really ce- mented in a "unity one and indivisible,' and that there prevails between the twain a Gallic fraternity. These appeals will not interfere with the attempt to discover an- other candidate who should be readily forth- coming, but whether such will be the case with the necessary funds, is nnobtematical. Mr. Erynnaor Jones is probably not much upset with the hidings possibly be may be thankful that the discovery coooenrng the finances were postponed until almost the last moment by Mr. Littlejohns, the com- mon belief bemg that a General Election will be held Tt the close of the present ses- sion. It is a. wise general, by the way, who knows exactly when to retreat; the last prospective Labour candidate for Swansea District has shown wise gsoeralship en a certainty by "banging on*' to a position that confers publicity and. consequence at any rate until the very last moment. -c +- The case of a Swansea boy named Galli- van, who shipped on board a Russian tra- der to Swansea, and subsequently wrote home declaring that he was brutally ill- treated on board, and would take the first opportunity to desert, excited some com- ment at Swansea last week. The boy was subsequently washed overboard, it is stated, and there was a disposition to accept his statements unquestiomingly, and without al- lowing for the cnovitablo exaggeration of the youngster, who exoh&nge-s the free and easy life of the streets on land for the hardships, discomforts and arduous labour of life at &ea, and on a. sa-i'i-g ship. Frank T. Ballen remarks that, wl^n he went to I sea twenty or twenty-five years ago otcIi ill-treatnoct was common, and that lie per- sonally sobered a great cic&l of wanton ill- ive. But he also remarks that the times have changed vastly sii;. e then, and hi these days of -hort voyages and a vigilant Board of Tra'te and Seamen s Union, n-. captain has the temeriiy, if he had the.l- ciinatteon, to adopt "Captain Keta^e's" methods with has boys. tOOugh AmericJins have; still an indiffereDt reputation in this respect. It woakl be more seonsibJe to con- clude that the lad wrus to differen tiate betw- the ordinary rongh nsage and discnplir.e of the sea, and a«tna5 brutality. Boyá of his class to duy.^w last to^ I>ady Grenfoll was presented at Court on !• ;;day by the Du-choss of BTTCCICVJCIL. Ink .>IKI tobacco juice are remedies, Father Gwydr told the Swansea Nursing Association meeting, that are seriously applied by the ignorant poor m cases of certain ailments of children. More than Iralf the books in the Lbutclly Free Library have, been presented to the institution by Sir Arthur Stepney. They make the institution, by the way, so far as quafity goes, one of the finest- in the King- oom. Mr. Levi was showing at Swansea tree Library where a man may persuade without being legally liable for the consequences, and referred to a person opposing the mar- riage of another. "The dergy naai asks tbe c question," he said, and then added, amid much laughter, "I don't know how it goes." Why are the Carmarthenshire revoliers so shy of accepting Professor Jones' challenge? The professor contends that the rates are now used for supporting the voluntary schools; he wants a Government auditor to go through the books, a.nd if the audit does not prove his contention the professor will pay all the oosts. Refusal to accept such a fair challenge can only mean one thing, and that one thing is that the no-rate policy is an utter farce. The Swansea-Leicester match provided a .surprise—nearly a very painful one. It is indisputable t'hat, a win wavs confidently I expended for the Swansea, team, after diff had beaten the on their own ground by 16 points to eight. Trew'.s unfortunate accident no doubt- contributed materia,^y to the restrt, especially as the back arrangement, even before he was dis- abled, had been upset by the absence of Jones and J. Davies. Then the bome-st-era had undergone ispecia.l preparations for the contest, and were cheered bv a, record crowd for Leicester. The sense of dissatisfaction with the rosedt must be tempered however by the refteetkm that it m"gh1 have been wroe. .+- The temporary break down which has com- pelled Mr. Evan Roberts to abandon, for a week his contemplated services a.t Briton Ferry and Neath is no surprise in the least. The Revivalist-, if we may judge by the pre- cedent of others, is apt to carry the exalta- tion of the spirit and the mortification of the body to extremes that threaten a dissolu- tion of the partnership between both. His latest meetings in the Avon Valky have been marked by an increasing incoherence and abandonment to a delirium of emotion, which emotion, characteristic of many meetings, has caused a painful impression even amongst those hardened to the excessive diKpia-y-, of If he is well-advised he would devote at least a fortnight to recuperation and "feeding op." » » -♦ .» Fifty odd cottages about to be constructed at, t-ha King's Dock will go a long way to- wards relieving the congestion in the matter of accommodation that, will presently be still more keenly accentuated when the numbers employed swell from five hundred to as many thousands. But it will still prove inade- quate, and some enterprising builder—though there appears to be. none such at Swansea- might embark upon a riskier speculation than running up a hundred or so cottage tene- ments, in the vicinity of Port Tennant, whih is "the" growing industrial residential dis- trict in Swansea of the future. Investiga- tions into t-he problem reveal the fact. that. thé two classes of houses in demand at Swan- sea, are from 5s. to 8s. rental, and 8s. to 10s. 6d., the two being tenanted by the working- class and lower middle-class sect-ion which predominate. It is usually always possible to secure a bouse in the Walter-road Tegion, bat by paying the price that few of the possible tenants can afford. The coal tax deputation is finding Mr. Austin Chamberlain about as "tough a subject to tackle as unbending Sir Michael himself. They received nothing but the calm assurance that all that they had said would be carefully attended to, and possibly, I as especial mention was made of the Swansea and the Llanelly districts, the local case will receive a little more prolonged and deeper in- vestigation. But the Chancellor resolved ve to disclose nothing until the Budget was again affirmed, and he confessed with refresh- ing frankness thai he had broken the rule of sphinx-like impossibility on the occasion of his first reoeption of a. deputation, and had spoken rather more than was quite discreet for a Cabinet Minister with a Budget state- ment to make. So South WaJes must possess its soul in patience until that fateful night, and be not wholly unprepared for another rebuff. Trew, Arnold, BTIBh, Auckland—there is a long list- of injured half-backs this season already. Swansea are more apt to suffer in this vay from tbe fact that in the heat of the game the attempts made to bre-vk their record, or keep their score down, upon' the part of the other side, a.re usn ally rather more strenuous than is quite necessary. The record may not get broken, but its defen- ders m-a-y- In most cases injured players can either afford the disablement through the nature of their employment, or rely upon the indulgence and sporting spirit of their employers. But it would be an inter- esting point if a man who was disabled for six or eight consecutive weeks were to be- come destitute thereby—interesting because of the almost impossibility of substantial compensation being granted, t-hacks to the multitude of Medic and Persian laws and bve-laws against "profeasMnatism." In- societies have come to the aid of the club in rendering the contingency 1m- possible. The struggle between the Daviesites and Wiltiamsiies :-n the Carmarthenshire Bor- ollghB is becoming more desperate daily. The Parliamentary "Pickwick," realising that the seat once lost to him will mean perpetual banishment from the House of Commons, is sparing no efforts to win owr supporters. And it must be admitted that a. considerable measure of success is at- ) tending his labours. At one time, the hope was widely entertained among the official Liberals that the adverse vote against, him by its decisivsivess, wouJd induce Mr. Al- fred Davies to withdraw. At tho present moment, however, the boot appears to be on the other leg. It is much more probable that, notwithstanding the endorsement of his candidature by the party organisation, Mr. Llewellyn Williams will be the one to retiro. He is comparatively yewug, and, consequently, cannot afford to be even irT)- directly the cawe of tbe loss of a, Liberal ,<vrtHt. He has his fntnre to think of. On the other hand, Mr. Davies' only hope of continuing in Parliament lies in a refusal to withdraw on the off-chance of holding tbe seat against alL comers. The worst thai can happen to him is to be beaten at the poll, whereas withdrawal invofvm practic- ally the same effect, with /the difference that rfc offers no prospect whatever of continosHK'e ia. the- Homie -oi OoamanoB^ f Madame Adelina Patti tells a. good wtnry in "T.A.T." about a. little girl who was j I learning musk. Madame Patti had explain- I ed the meaning of the signs F and F F. "Now," said t-hs great songstreses, desiring to go over the ground again, 'if F means forte, what doe. F F mMn?" "Eighty," replied the cherub. The best way t."I solve the housing question. The Swansea County Council passed on Wed- nesda.y plans for the re-buikling of ten booses at Evans-terrace, Pfasmari. We understand that they a.re to be four-roomed cottages with a. bath, etc., and —ill be- let xt. os. 6d. to 3s. 9d. per week. This seems to be the very sort wanted at present. 1"' +- The very oldest, of Swansea's inhabitants, when they wanted to go "to Lramon," booked a passage on a. packet steamer to Bristol, then took the stage coach to the Metropolis—a means of locomotion that occupied several day?. Compare that with the six-shilling excursion to London and back on Tbursiay afternoon lact 1 At the Swansea Licensing Sessions, Mr. R. Wat-kins, speaking of one house, thought the. premises inside showed there was little trade. Mr. Leyson took him up on this, and cited the ^Cheshire Cheese" in Fleet-street, and asked if the witness thought t-Bey did a poor trade there. Mr. Watkins replied, "I will enquire when I go next." -+- This record surely stands alone, -^r. Walter R. Pitt, a Pontardulais sculptor, and a. former forward in the Llanelly team, has succeeded in getting nineteen threads from a No. 36 reel of cotton through the eye of a _vo. t needle. Mr. Pitt challenges South Wales to beat his feat. It. looks as if He is practising to get the camel through. practising to get the camel through. The eclipse of the moon was seen under fairly favourable conditions at, Swansea on Sunday evening. As a spectacle it did not vield universal satisfaction. One critic, aged five, was emphatic in expressing her disipp-o "That's only half a moon," she said, "and I don't, see any shadows." The tore of voice, suggested that she wanted her money back. Th-re were few in the Swansea Licensing I Court, who could appreciate Captain Colqu- honn's objection to an entrance by the side 7 ed of a public-house. It was explained t.ha. there would bo some difficulty m controlling this, as the property adjacent was held un- der another lease. Captain Colquhoun then said that if a, drunlcen man was found in this passage, was he on licenser! premises. It was left an open question. The Glamorgan Education Cornmrtiee de- mand, in their absentee forms, a reply stat- ing the reason for absence of child, and when he. or sbe will return. Tbe following is one out of many humorous replies whi h a, Vocal pedagogue has received:—Sir,—I don't suppose that -——— will return newr no more, as she do intend getting married. She is going to have an interview with the Bducation Committee as to her relief, and j,, also with you so as to have her name mark- ed off the register, and alfo with the attend- ance'officer. Yon know, she require a .ifcfcle exercise in washing and mangling, sowing, and so on.—SifpJ«l ————. MT. John Davies, the Swansea chemist,, who has occupied premises in High-street since 1872, gives an interesting history of the site on which the offices of the "Daily Post." now stands. When the. Strand was a line business thoroughfare, and High-street the popular residential quarter, he says the site of the "Post" was occupied by the house of Mr. Dd. Evans, proprietor of the Cambrian Potterv, which stood where the Graigola Fuel Works are now. Mr. Evans was Mr. John Da-viec, I father-in-law. So lie remem- bers. The house wa-s afterwards taken by Messrs. J. Taylor and Co., and turned into a. grocer's shop, under the headline, "Tea Exchange." Messrs. Taylor and Co. sold the premises to Mr. Jones, who also ran a grocer's shop there for many years. Then it was sold to tbe newspaper proprietors, who preceded ourselves, EJid we practically r, built it a. few years ago, making it what it proudly rom a ins to-day-—The "South Wales Daily Post" Offices. GKEATKE TILAN THE GREAT. Athens, thou liast waited long- Wottd'rous city of the past; But at length thou'rt going strong: See thy daw-n hath come at laot! Plato, sirre, and Socrates Trod thy streets full many a time; Ariirtotie—truch as these Filled thy oourts with things sublime. In a later day came Paul. Preaching with Revival power; But before, beyond them 9A! Shines the hero of the hour. Brush the mighty aU aside. 'Neath their tombstones let 'em rwt. Athens, now tbou rt eatigfie-d- Davies GaÆe Ut thy gues*t! M. The int imation that he AbeTa-msti Silver Band had been engaged by the Welsh Rug- by Union to play at the Swansea Football Field on the occasional of the jitternatioual match on March lltli, recalls a humorous incident on the occasion of a -\isit by the band to Swansea some months back. They started to play selections from High-street Station on their way to their headquarters in College-street. Tliere chanced to be ex- ceptionally heavy traffic in Swansea's chid thoroughfare on that particular day, and at a point near the Royal Hotel the instru- mentalists got separated in t.he middle ;-f a fine march. The spectacle was then wit- nessed of a coroetiset blowing away behind a baker's cart, a trombonist endeavouring to negotiate sharps and flate alongside a snorting motor-car. a. euphonium player booming sonorously ten yards away, and other members scattered all over the road in positions of varying peril. The "Sect was quaint and charming. Wednesday last's Council meeting was sug- gestive as to the loose way the Corporation business is oouducted. Tenders actually opened were not referred to in the minutes —a pardonable oversight—and it transpired that t-he subject matter of the tenders bad not even received the authority of the CouoeH. A horse had been purchased and no sanction given. The cement question at the Cray was almost pass-ad by, as the com- mittee -)iliv met the previous day, and the minutes had to be asked for. And. iastiy, the Council was not vouchsafed the i!ight;>t 11 information a.s to what the Parliamenti/y Comrnittee had done during the three or four times it rrtet since the last Conncil meet- ing. To show how the absence of these minutes affected the general business before the Council, it may be said tlia4 the Pro- perfcy Committee's minutes contained one in which the Parliamentary Committee was instructed to "if necessary, petition against the Great Western Railway Bill." Now., tbe Parliamentary Committee subsequently met and decided, in effect, not to lodge a petition because the company had agreed to insert protective clauses m tho BiH. As a matter of courtesy, the Council might have been tobi tins. Wo do txjfc suggest the ntfe- ptQMtnr-Wted-be* informed, vi | The Swansea snperrofeeodeiifc of a wpO- known insurance company walked into a W alter-road chapel ihz other evening when! a revival meeting was in progress. He was I followed by about a dozen of his ageuis. After sitting down for a few minutes the superintendent, unthinkingly, struck up the well-known hymn, "Blessed Assurance. I "H F." writes:—"On the occasion of the Royal procession to open Parliament. Mr. John Williams, miners' agent, and Mr. J. Aerott Thomas, M.P., found themselves fa:e to face on the. opposite side of the street-. Tha candidate-elect went, over and shcMk hands with the present representative. Well, didld. they do it at. the last- Gocser election ? t t t t Dr. Lancaster, at Swansea Royal Institu- tion, got into his lecture on "Supernormal Sensory Phenomena" a cut at those "whom we may suppose to have especially trained to be accurate, s-uch as newspaper reporters and politicians, who yet ca.n present such amazingly unlike aspects of the same sab- jects." The different opinions of any two doctors on any average case is proverbial. Lord Balfour of Bctrieigh, the chairman oi the Commission which is to decide what town or towns are to provide a local habitation and a home for the Welsh National Mnseum and the Welsh National Libr ry, is no stranger to Wales. As chairman of the Royal Commission on the Welsh Sunday Closing Act this Scotch Presbyterian noble- man spent many weeks in the Principality. He possesses in an eminent degree the judi- cial mind. Clever F. V. St. Clair at the Swansea Em- pire trolls of the Wdsh National Mu- scum and Swansea's claim? -— "I saw the rival towns of WaJes in fine die- plity arrayed; They said to mc, 'Now, have you seen the laims that we have made' I said unto the lender, 'Opinion I withhold. But- if 1 give my vote at all 'twill go to Swansea bold I see Sir John Llewelyn has pot his money down, And Sir Griffith Thomas has barked bis native town And would that every citizen would come thus to the fore, And push old Swansea forward at the odd st.a.ge-door. Swansea own may be found in overy quar- ter of the globe, adding to the commercial growth of the particular place in which they happen to bp, living. Sonth African mails to hand contain newspaper cuttings about very fine, building opera- tions t.hat have been going on in Capetown, a.nd of which Mr. Wm. Williams, an old Swansea boy comes in for warm prausc as clerk of the works. The building in question has been le-'wvd to the. Government in con- nection with the remodelling of the Public Works Department. Mr. Williams has been about two years in South Africa, and for- merly lived at Fairftekl-terrace, Mount.^lea- sant. -+-- "Look 4ftcr No. 1" is the general advice. It certainly does not. pay Mr. Lleufer Thomas to be unesolfish, for on Saturday his case was third in tbe list- at the Swansea Brewster Sessions, but in order to give way to Mr. Francis Williams, who wanted to get back to Cardiff, he consented to have his case taken last. When the cruse was reached the Bench had had enough, and, in the words of the chairman, "struck work." Nor could the justices adjourn to a day suitable to meet the engagements of the Swansea barrister, with the result that the brief may I have to be transferred at the adjourned ses- sions. J Madatiie P»tfci, in one el the "New York Tribune" publications, makes this state- ment The old melodies ara the ones that find their way meet surely to the heart. Even in lands where English is a foreign tongae their charm holds their own, and I ]L I' have sung them in nearly every civilised country in tha worid. The appealing qual- ity of 'Home, Sweet Home' is the same m South Aoieriea as it is in New York, and in Berlin that it is in London. K the old songs are sung with heart and beauty of tone they meet with a welcome that is beyond that of all others." It i." however, she says, nlolre difficult to sing "Home, Sweet lbme" than ail elaborate Italian aria. I jjine. Patti, who celebrated her sixty- isecond birthday on Sunday, may be said to have discovered the secret of eternal youth. "I will be young as long as I live," she is said to have declared as a child, and few have kept a vow with more fidelity than she has. Perhaps the secret of her youthful appearance and unimpaired vitality is her iove of fresh air and her careful dieting. In winter and summer she is always out fer three hours daily, and the elements possess no terrors for her. Mme. Adelina Patti is a great admirer of the Jewish people, i:nd always wears what is known as a eah, a Jewish medal which bears the Ten Commandments in Hebrew characters, awl was giv.m to her by Diaz de Saria.. 91 A local gentleman writes:- The following interesting paragraph I came across to-day in "Macpherson: Annals of Commerce (1801.)" Thinking perhaps you might be interested in it, I made the subjoined copy. The book is to be found in the British Mu- esenm :—"Swansey (Glam. W.).—A thriving town, situated on the river Tawey, which, with the flood-tide, carroes vessels of two hundred tuns two miles above the town. has a very considerable trade in coal, lime, iron, clay and flagstones, which are carried to London, Bristol, Cornwall and Ireland. There are seven copper works, an iron foun- dry, a brass house, a spelter manufactory, h pottery, two considerable breweries, several yards for shipbuilding, and a wet and dry dock. As trade and manufactures beget more trado. the merchants of Swansey have lately extended their commerce to the Baltic and the West Indies, and it appears irom the Custom House books that their shipping trade ha. increased to about five times the amount of what it was about thirty years ago, an increase of prosper ty comparable to that of Liverpool. In the spirit of Liver- pool, the merchants here have erected piers for improving and deepening their harbour, and the neighbouring coumrv is improved by a canal. In the year 1799 there were shipped here-tor London—6 chaldrons of coal, and to all other parte 159.486 chaldrons of coal, 13,519 of stone coal and 19.255 of I culm." eu
Cancer Ravages at Swansea
Cancer Ravages at Swansea The terrible disease of cancer is on the in- crease in Swansea, as elsewhere in the coun- try. Here are the returns of the Borough Medical Officer of Health. 1866—75.—.150 deaths, or a rale of 2.88] per 10,000 oi the population. 1876-—85.—285 deaths, or a rate of 4.50 per 10,000. 1886—95.—497 deaths, or a rare of 6.50 per per 10,000. 1886—95.—497 deaths, or a rare of 6.50 per 10.000. 1895—1904.—656 deaths, or 7-3 per 10,000. J >T. t.beneKer L»avier. thinks this progres- sive increase very startling, unless it, is due to the more exact diagnosis of Tecent years, which, has resulted probably in the classify- ing of deaths^ which now come nnder the brad of "malignant disease" wiwdwwr the o*5paa.or structure -aflwted.