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1¡ I By Royal Letters latent. fESTANEASE VENTILATED!. W ATE K PROOFS. I SPEC;AI. AUVANTAGE.S.. A perfect veutilution. Does not differ in lppearan e .rom an ordinary tailor-made vipurcuent. Is not injurious to health, Suit- *ble for ai! elimate&. Applicable to all kinds j waterproof clothing. 1 C- A. ESQ., f P.. S.D* lcM writes: "Your <>IJ1aneSE-' patents I tbink a zacat exeelient one. The macintosh I have hud from you U by tar the u^st e .•infortahle aud pleasant to W«ar of any that i liweaerworu." | Ladies' V.'ate,proofs from 7,6 ¡ Gents' „ 2V- Pattarus. dc.igns, and price list, on I ] application. 0. mansThesie, WATERPROOF GARMENT M ANU- FACTCRER, 6, CASTLE STREET (Opposite General Post Ofhec). Swansea t TRY IT. TRY IT. I 1 WILLIAMS' I gEEl) AND SULTANA CAKE { .1.1 '). 4D. EKE LB. jfothiag in Town t,) this Cake at the jgrice, Sold elsewbei c :ll t).1. ¡::le! Sd,p, I", E. A. EVANS,. ) tTSTDr.UTAKlilH, FUNEKAL FUKXISHLC. 4c.. $2, ALFRED STREET, NEATH $2, ALFRED STREET, NEATH WfiDDING AND FUN JURAL COACHES, BUAK HAXSOH CAnS, I DOG-CAMS. WAGGONETTES, S.\ 15^ Ten-Stftli Stable and Lock up Yuni. I Po,ting ill all its Bran .-lies. Tslcgrauaic Address •• Koui, Alfred-street. 27 ¡ BOOK BARGAINS. I HOUK BARGAINS. GO TO I R. c. MOOKE- I 11, ALEXANDRA ARCADE, I'O'l i lAliGA IK3, admitted to be the Cheapes Too.seller in Sw»-,a-.ea. 0OOKS BOUGHT. BOOKS FOUND. THE LARGEST SELECTION OF j- OCAL pHOTOGliAPHS Tu bo obtained at ALFRED K. VV lY ASD C°" 4. WIND STiiE £ T, SWANSEA. The lUjttt Shilling Album of the District. [1735 "5IIR^7" TEETH /Mr. A. C. HOPSON SUUUKON I> -l.VTISr, /2, DYNEVOR PLACE, SWANSEA\ 'erfosnt: sjw moma: SRADE SCHOOI^N 25 Years' Experience — id as dentist wit KciiM. fewun.sea. Atmleis Eil.dcuioin wi.Li ani Ether Sprar. I &8t Wcri;:j«i::thip, M teriai, and Fit \« Ii \l.Hgl>-ciass V>r t'eem os. per Tooiii 1 ^iit.home l-lily from 10 uat'i | V At* wji^sidtat.ona Free. f BErn /<"KETH j J.K, A .( )1 S FAMILY AND COMMBKCIAL if THL, Close to tiie iiarkjrt. Oxfor.l-Mliset. Wilhin f.vc i i<!inu4e*ui'U>uC.W.K. mid L. £ N. W. Victors f»jgA;.n*a «iit ilnd ail Hume C^niiorta ht ic Q, lWoJ¡,ry, I' OYdituny Nne T. C. SMALL, .M.U.C.Y.S., Proprietor. S.B. —Carr!;i^<?», Cabs, V.*a«oi»etU*s, and Saddle Hbrs*:i en hit* «• t the tiu i' < noi: C«'nv»'»»ncet f.i; the Umv cr Oisst. 516 P;. iocs.: r. ,.r DC: Whia -1.°" I Excici.simi SCOTCH WHiSKY. "We ('h"r. aI1aittH.:¡¡J1\- • hi# bten.t Beotch »».>i }:ut1 it. t'.> umi^n itjy pui«, 0 ano «# IIU.t;1retl. ilet'on raended j .it.b CM.nK«ti3ii<.(- as a r*fe and (.cUaUil-ie the iick n,t c. !iv i!e:<f!il." tdiied by J S. LAUI i. OMJ'HI.S. RVL.N LL.U., XC. fsr-r.iv PUCi'I.I KTOlcS I MARGKAVE BROS., i LLA NELLY.. I for C.\R;HFF a.nd PENARTH— ¡ STKANACIHAN ANU i • J i EXCELSIOR .t. JL'" t. ,J: SCOTCH WHISKY. „ flow TO LIGHT A SHOP PROPERLY i- ■; SEE >V • V V ;v/l LEGG'S NEW OUTSIDE LAMP. ;OSTS AKorr FARTHING PER, HOUR FOR GAS. 17 & 18, NELSON-STREET. GEORGE HELLIER. HAY AND CORN MERCHANT, THE CENTRAL STORES, RICHARDS' PLACE," SWANSEA. Braneh-Zga, ORCHARD STREET.. JOG BISCUITS and all kinds of POULTRY FOOD. ENGLISH and IRISH HAY and STRA W of BEST QUALITY. Daily Delivery in Town and Neighbourhood, THE SOUTH WALES HOP BITTER ALE, MADOC STREET, SWANSEA. Npn-Intoxicating' Hop Bitters in Casks of ill si^es. and In Bottles. TELEPHONE No. 121. i^3 SWANSEA ÆRATED WATER COMPANY, I r- ORANGE S R E E T ".1 ,i v TJsJ^mms No, S W A N S E A I SWANSEA UNITED BREWERIES LIMITED BREWERS, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. ALE AND PORTER BOTTLJERS SWANSEA. I Tekj ho re No. 85. i IW" m IF THIS SHOULD CATCH YOUR EYE e- DO NOT FAIL TO BUY YOUR isT I Baskets. Presents. Toys. From MUSGRAVE & Co., the Direct Importer;, a?>d t? u, obrain best value for year money. ——— From MUSGRAVE & Co., whose contracts with the leading manufactories of l'ng- Lnd, America, and the Continent, enable them to offer tho b«ot barjj iins you are likely to sec. From MUSGRAVE & Co., the Mann f:>etureiv, and save the Middleman's Profit. Market Baskets, Clothes Baskets, Wicker Chairs, Flower-stands, &c., in great raHefrv. I MUSGRAVE & CO., ¡. BOTTOM OF HIGH STREET. SWANSEA. I CLEARANCE SALE I OF SUMMER GOODS roR JLj .21 DAYS ONLY. TROUSERS FROM 9/8. SUITS „ .;riff$.. Don't buy ReaJy-ilade Clothes while this Sale is 01'. CALL LARLY and secure some ti O O D B A K G A I N S. -W» J 0 ps. T A I L OR. 221 HIGH STREET, SWANSEA? 179S GROCEKY ) 1-f i) PROVISIONS I STREET. -AT POPULAR PRICES. C. ROSS AND COMPANY, I NOW -v;* OPEN 20, UNION NOW v J OPEN. MORGAN REYAN, & SONS, •- GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGERS 24, CASTLE STREET, Be;* t.> cull Pubic A tie tion to their LARGE AND VARIED Vrt>€K OF C LAIVIPS,, FROM L^s. to jd) 5b. EACH. 11794 SUPERIOK HALL LAMPS AT LOW PRICES. TO BUYERS OF WEDDING PRESENTS. T W. Cx it YD ON. SILVERSMITH, 237, HIGH STREET, SWANSEA, 'owin to tl:e REDUCTION in the Pri, e of SILVER, will OFFER for ONE il ONTfl the W HOLE of h's STOCK of SILVER AND ELECTROPLATE AT 3s. IN TriE £ DISCOUNT-FOR. CASH. > w FIUSfcH CONSIGNMENT OF THIS Champion Firelighter of the Universe. i 0 At certa: o' I tistorjr there wassa jpiJsnic in Fc%izi. it 1 all ta; tov.13 bit th, city of LlJ¡}¡. Th? ivu^iei all tha docto;3 and scientiiic men, an*! excitcl th»' desps3i int >ra»t. A mast s^arcaia^ ior/aiti^atiaa and efc imry was made, -vhert tc was discovered uiat ihaC rk-Cu ers jc Lyons barm their Cuttings and this hid puriasi iad dismiecte-J the a»r and saved the town, thus rendering the articls oi the UTMOST VALUE to the World. IT ANSWERS THREE MOST LMPORTANT PUiiPOSEa c-, ti e Fire ouickiy, Lisinfects the room, gives forth a most agreeable odpur, and does away with tie DANG Ell and DAMAGE of FLYING SPA RKS invariably preseat .when wood \h u$ed.- LAIiGEST SALE IN THE WORLD. To be had of all Grocdra la the town 1 3d. Packets of 48 Blocks. CNE uLUCK WILL LIGHT A EIRK IN FlVjE M-l.VDTSS. Wholesjde bv V" JACOB JENKINS. COAL MERCHANT. 1 10, ALEXANDRA ROAD, SWANSEA V Telephone 157, Telegrams "CwmgloYD." I JUST ARRIVED .£5,000 I TO BE GIVEN AWAY BY THE M Å y. P OL E J-J A 1 R Y QO ID. PER lb. GIVEN BACK I To t|U Customer v.-ho pur i-hase ill A RI N E. 5d, per J& I MAY POLK Bv,;T f K EDUCED TO ONE oliilXiNO EEii Eli. | 'xLLCI'HONE No. 15*1 | v "I A V POLE /^O. | H 1) v.' 1 Hititf 3TUEET SVYAM&E4 1 I GBOCKiiY I AN:1 PK0 VISIONS AT POPULAR PRICES. -< C. BOSS & CO.V 29, UNION-STREET; OPENING DAY FRIDAY NEXT. 1 OXFORD STREET, y\ t/ I f Close to National Sehoo^^r J* ST-yLISll MltLJNKRi' A5I> /Jf^y AUTCMM NOVELTIKS Sow Shawiag. OUR r n'»vrT /-C^yCOKSETS For Bfst.Valua m GBNERA^ DRAFKUY /<S^/ AJ I'llI AitT MUSLIN3 X2 LAVE CTJHTAIXsS /A>/ „ Ars Unrivalled. ^/<% Qualities m CHETON.NBS /v i SPRING COliSBTS. S /aTS/, Our KID GLuVES at (Unriva led) //» T/ Are Best Value ottaJbaitle, Vy TKy A I*AJR. ("1 OXFORD STREET, wl« ^ea.r National Schools. } CHOLERA & FEVERS PREVENTED I' ANITAS JQI SiJM F £ CT ANT3 Kill all Diasaa# Ge^oa?. t Fr .^ritht, Noj^oiso'-iou; >\ i .aid, Oii, EmaUion, Powder tinu So."«u» and Appiizsnce^ iui- all purposes. ) SJlBD 4Ott rAMTM1.2X. NEW GOODS. B. EVANS & -CO. INVITE INSPECTION OF ¡: EXTENSIVE RANGES IN I New Dress Materials, I ¡ I TAWE SERGES, I Ladies' & Children's I Golf & Holiday Capes. ALSO A SPLENDID SELECTION OF THE NEWEST SHAPES IN Ladies' & Gentlemen's Waterproofs. PRICES LADIES', 8/9. to 69/- GENTLEMEN'S, 21/- to 79/- V I ALL RELIABLE MAKES. TEMPLE STREET, SWANSEA. » I John S. Brown HAS NOW IN STOCK THE EST FOR AND Y/ ALL BEST SEL1°TED/^S^>/ TRADES fcjTOCK EVER SEEN j IN WALES. OF INSPECTION ■ /&S RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. /Oy/ |l JOHN S. BROWN, OXFORD STREET, SWANSEA. 1779 0'. FPOM CEYLON" "fr- WE 1: rORr THE SMALL SlFrED TEA triko Nt I TB' BEST i:.A GARDKNS IN THE WORLD. PRICE is. ID. PER POUND. I EVERYBODY SHOULD USE THIS TEA. > I TAYLOR & COMPANY LIMITED. I
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"POST" PRIZELETS. -+- HEADERS PLEASE NOTE. A GUINEA FOR A DRINK. The overwhelming majority of the actuit male population in the district covered hy the Post are employed in occupations entailing great bodily exertion in intense heat In the old expressive language they ara Gueithiotr tan. A want severely felt, especially in summer, is a ilrmk that quenches thirst, is agreeable to the taste, and is suatainiug and non injurious. With a view of ascertaining whether such a drink is obtainable, and, if so, uf making it widely known, we uÍfCl a prise of one guinea for information respecting the best drink kcown to our readers. We particu- larly invits workmen with practical y experience to let us know what b-average they find most satisfactory, Where herb beer is mentioned the herbs used should be stated. We purpose to aubmit the information thus collected to a doctor of position, and ask him as to v. hi;h drink, in his opinion, docs the bast harm and the most good. All that tha competi- j tor necjda do is to till in the coupon below and forward it to the Daily Post Ofcce, Swansea, marked "Competition." This competition closes on the 15th September, tnd the award will be announced on the L7th September. COUPON. IN MY OPIttlOiK FOR TIN PLATE WORKMEN, ISOW, SIBIL AJfD COPPi.lt SiJatXSRS. The best drink is w. (If a home-brewed beverage add" Made with (give in-gmdientsy" MaiiU Address .M A GUINEA FOR A LOCAL ALLUSION. Readers ui standard books frequently asight on allusions to places, persons, and tilings in this district. For example, we have recently published references to Swansea, Neath, and the Mumble?, by Cariyle, and Walter Savage Landor. A collection, of siieh allusions Would he exoeetlingly interesting, and to wacure tbo co-operatiotj of the seadsra of the PqU in securing it we bScr s. guinea for the most interesting local allusion sent to us on or before the -8th Sapt The award will be ^laiounced on Monday 10th Sept., „ -.NOTICB:-—Ai- letters in comieetiori-^rith shotdd hare the word "CornpctMon^ M^ftteft "on the ttavelope^
! |——;,I FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER…
— —; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7i 1694. NOTES & COMMENTS It is difficult, to. understand the position of the Swansea Harbour Trust Executive Committee. A mysterious secrecy sur- rounds its deliberations, as if it were a sc ri of local Star Chamber conducting business in which the public have no interest, and in a manner which cannot stand publicity. The members are regularly pledged to keep the secrets of the com- mittee locked up in their own bosoms, and quite as regularly thesq. secrets are allowed to leak out in a more or leas dis- torted form. Could the affairs of a great port be more childishly treated ? Could the ratepayers, whose material welfare depends upon the port, be subjected. to a more effective process of humiliation ? For weeks past business men have been eagerly expecting official information respecting the reduction of the coal rates, but though it is by this time indis- putable that such a reduction is about to be made, the Swansea Sphinx maintains its tantalising silence, and a hundred thousand people are left to- eoajecture in the best way they can the real value of the reports which the newspapers have been publishing. Whenever pressed to disclose the facts it is enstomary for the member of the Executive Committee to intimate that he I is pledged up to the lips to observe secrecy. and that infinite injury would be inflicted I on the pert if the facts were disclosed. Now is not this most excellent fooling ? The figures which have already appeared I in )he Cardiff dailies, and which we give to-day, are probably correct in sub- stance and in fact. What interest is hurt by their disclosure ? What interest Could have been iujured-if, instead of being given without authority, these figures had the sanction of an official re- port ? This argument, which has become I stale and ineffective by iteration, implies a I reflection on the intelligence of the people of Swansea —implies a beiirf on the part of t those who advance it that the public can be satisfied with any kind of buncuinbe. We protest against this idea, and against the proposition that secrecy is essential to administrative efficiency. Secrecy has not been found essential to the safe working of any public interest; in Car- diff secret committees were finally abolished years ago. Has Cardiff suffered thereby Not at all; on the con- trary, a more wholesome public feeling pre- vails in regard to the Corporation, and one by one ths old municipal privileges which were public wrongs' are being strangled by publicity. How long I is Swansea to tolerate secret l committees with their opportunities for jobbery and their inducements to the Dubiic to disbelieve in the bona fides of thmr rsproabbtatfves'? w a ^uesitioh which ought to be fairly faced at the f orth- C omiiur November election*. It seems extremely probable that the Seranton choir will appear at the Lianelly National Eisteddfod. The vastness of the enterprise is fully recognised, but our cousins across the Atlantic have a passion for big things, and the idea of equipping a choir to challenge the old land at its strongest point is peculiarly attractive. The choir has been formed, and conductor, secretary, and treasurer appointed, and this week an eisteddfod is being held in the American city, which it is expected will secure a substantial sum to form the nucleus of the choir funa. Some of the wealthiest people in the place are enthusiastically in favour of the plan, including Mr. William Connell, a rich colliery proprietor who is said to be determined that want of money shall not prove fatal to it, Scrantonhas a popula- tion of between 80,000 and 90,000, a large proportion of them Welsh. In so far as musical effort is concerned it is a sort of Merthyr and Dowlais combined, and at the recent Chicago Exhibition its choral society won the first prize. Mr. Davies, the ad- vance aget?. of a Scranton concert party which is about to make a tour of WaleE, talking to a Guardian reporter one day this week, described the people of Seranton as inspired with an intense desire to bring off the venture. We can promise the Cambro- Americans a rousing welcome if they come, especially at Lianelly, where thoy would powerfully contribute to ensure the success of next year's eisteddfod. "Mr. irneat Trvibshaw, of the Western Works, is a gentleman whose influence has bean sensibly growing for years. He has become, in the true sense of the term, one of the most influential public men in East Carmarthenshire. Success in this direction has come to him quite unsought, and the fact that it haa come at an is encouraging. since it indicates that deep down in the heart of wayward Demos, that creature of prejudice, there is. after all, a real respect for the man who expresses honest opinions, whether palatable or otherwise, and keeps straight to the course he has marked out tor himself. Mr. Trubshaw is a Conserva- tive who has never trimmed to the extent •tf a hairsbreadth, and yet in Radical Llanelly he fought and won a seat on the County Council agaiust the tr. sur •; of the Liberal Association. He is r em i >yer of labour, strong in any positi n hj takes up in respect of labour, and 1 s w rkmon rallied to him almost to a! n. There is a moral in all this which, iÎ, ht applied, might give public representatives as a class stiffer backbones and fewer adapted opinions. For the moment, however, we are not concerned with tho moral, but with the fact that the Llanelly people are just now engaged in saying to one another what a-fine fellow Mr. Trubshaw is. because they are keen on having a collegiate school, and Mr. Trubshaw has helped to reduce the size of the financial obstacle by offering for his tirm JE150 towards the fund if other works proprietors will co-operate to the same degree. The Industrial World remains of the ame opimon still that if exceptionally high prices are realized for tin-plates, ex- ceptional wages will be demanded by the workmen. Friendly and hostile critics declare this to be folly," it adds, and as ;ne of the crit cs which has consistently leplored the suggestion as unwise, and in t„j uljtim^te.results..bm^nd to be injurious to the. workmen. thejuselves we may be permitted to say a word in reply. One justifying cause urged by our contem- porary for the proposal that tho workmen "honldfight for exceptional wages in case of a boom is that while they did not open the wage question during the boom that preceded MsKinleyism the fact did not deter employers from attempting to reduce wages during the lean vears which followed. Possibly not. Gratitude is not the factor in commercial matters that it might and perhaps ought to be. But we exclude gratitude from our calculations altogether, and Ray that in all human probability, if the workmen had mat the boom" of 1891 with a successful demand for exceptional wages, they could scarcely have hoped to maintain the standard wage-rate when the period of exceptional depression set in. It is all very well to dismiss the suggestion that a cut into the standard for the benefit of one class must inevitably lead to other cuts into it to the abiding disadvantage of the workmen, by hinting that the standard wage should be treated as the minimum, and that all fluctuations should be upward and above it. There are two parties to the contract, and we repeat that the I workmen cannot assist their American rivals more effectively than by even talking of demanding higher wags*s. A boom" would be a modified evil in any event; if it produced a disturbance in respect of wages it would be a disaster to the Welsh trade. The last boom i3. supposed to have ¡ placed some £2,OOCI,000 in the pockets of the employers: tho workmen shared to some extent in the doubtful blessings of j the rush," But what proportion of the unwholesome profits would remain if a j balance were struck for the period it con- j tinued and the sad years of depression which followed ? ■
SHOCKING DEATH OF A! MUMBLES…
SHOCKING DEATH OF A MUMBLES SEAMAN. ¡ FALLS 150 FEET. I Mr. Ihomas Uavies, a retired mariner, residing at Norton. Mumbles hasjuit received a. latter from tbecuptsio oi the American ship I Hunnick. then lying in Shanghai Harbour, stath>gthat a fatal accident betel Mr. Davies' ,on Edwin on July 24th. It appears that Ii the unfortunate youth, who, though only 19 vears of age rated as an able bed ed seaman, fell from the mizzen royal yarJ, a distance of 150 feet; death being instantaneous. Deceased was a native of the Mumbles, and II was well-known in the parish. Mr. tivdney Burgess (of the firra Burgess aud Co., Swan- sea), with whom deceased's father sailed, bns communicated with the British Consul at Shanghai for further particulars.
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NEW "BUSINESS ENTEIt- II PRISE. By aa adveru.oment in another page, our I readers will see that a new grocery aud pro- vision business will be opened to-morrow I Mesiiri. C. Ross and Co., of London, iu the commodious premises lately built in Uinon- street. Tie stock will embrace all the sua- dries, as well as the staple articles usual to each depavtm«ot. Everything will be of the j best quality procurable, and the prices will be in every case as low as is consistent with saleable quality, Messrs. Ross and Co. bring with them plenty ofea-rgy, extensive expe- rience, and a pleasing manner, which combi- nation will doubtless ensure for them a large measure" of patronage, and lead to the building up of a successful business. I
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T OUR NOTEBOOK.
T OUR NOTEBOOK. DO SPIRITS WALK THE ¡ EARTH? The supernatural has ever an irresistible fascination for the human mind, and our folk- fascination for the human mind, and our folk- lore would indicate that the imaginative I C alt is exceptionally susceptible to tales of spooks" and sprites." At one time no home was complete without its ghost. Education, which has killed off batches of the shady population of Shadowland, has failed to quite exterminate them. Mr. J, C. Manning, formerly of Swansea, sends us one Kbost story which lias the rare merit of I being strictly trulS A GHOST STORY WITH A SEQCEL. Once, when in South Wales (ke writes), I I lodged with a widow,besides who* and myself a domestic, named Bridget, was the only occupant of the house. One day I missed my landip,dy from her household duties, and was told she was seriously ill. My business took me from home in the merning, and I did not I return till late at night. When I let myself in I saw a little scrap of paper on the hall table, on which, in Bridget's handwriting, were the words: Missis is dead." Next morning I ascertained from Bridget that her mistress had been seized with a paralytic stroke and died from the effects of it. As I was passing downstairs the girl came to the was passing downstairs the girl came to the death-room, and aothing would do but I must go in and sce" what a lovely corpse missis made !'f I hesitated. I have an aversien to I looking at the dead, lovely or otherwise. Howevers I braced myself to the ordeal, and entered the Chamber I cannot tell why it was, but as I stood gaziug for a few moments upon the plaeid features of the dead woman, I eouli have staked my life on the belief that I saw both eyelids move slightly, as though vibrating under the infngnce of gentlv-retarning life. I have looked at several dead persons since, and have always been overcome by the same strange fancy. When 1 earae Lome that night I mast con- j fess to a feeling of nervous trepidation at the j thought that there was death in the house, The passage was perfectly dark, except for such gloomy semblance of light as came through the fanlight over the door. I felt, as usual, for tne bed-room I candle and the matches that had ahvays been left for me on the hall table, but they were not there. I began ti ascend the stairs in the dark to go to my sitting-room; where I ¡ knew I could lay my hand on matches and taper. With a heart unaccountably tremu- lous from soiDe undefined sense of dread, I passed up the carpeted stairs, by a dark alcove th&t led to the chamber of death, and had turned to go up a shorter flight of steps to my own room, when an impulse—a sort of overpowering fascination—leu me Lo,turn and look along the short dark passage that led to where my dead landlady lay. To my utier consternation, and with a suddenness that made my heart throb, out from the dark alcove glided a. spectral figure, tall and gaunt, draped in white from head to foot, with a shroud over its forehead and face—-aucb I cerements as I had seen about the head and ¡ face of the corpse when I visited the chamber of death in the morning. I stood petrified I by the sudden and solemn strangeness of the visitation. At first I could only discern through the gloom the dread outline of a tall g08tlv figure, clothed in white, standing out from the dark background ot the alcove, from j which it had emerged with an indescribable I, gliding motion. At the entrance io the alcove there was a single siepon to the ianding, and here the figure paused as if in tho act of listening. By this time my vision had got I accustomed to the gloom. leouid dl#tii;<jtlv discern, U1 the paiiiU, sunken ici-.«iuiu» u, Ujc spirit-like visitant those of my dead landlady About this there could be no mistake. There was the white tepuichrai t& c. pinched and wan, and the sno\v\ sluouri encircling it— with the full blue eyes, that I knew were my landlady's, glistening in the gloom, snd look- ing wistfully and mournfully out into space. I The figure then stepped 011 to the landing, and began slowly to descend the carpeted stairs, tke noiseless footfall seeming, as it were, to keep time with the solemn throb of t1 the old grandfather's clock in the hall. The phantom stopped for a moment at the foot of the stairs, then, passing away with the same ghostly glide, lost itself in the darkness. The following morning Bridget told me that her late mistress's sister had arrived, in order to be present at the funeral, and it began to dawn upon me that this threw the ¡ requisite light OP the ghost affair. Does the lady feature her sister at all ? laf-ked Bridget. Sure, they are twin sifters,' replied the girl, and as like as two peas! I spoke to the lady shortly Afterwards. Bridget had made up a. temporary bed for her in the sitting-room below, and just before going to bed the new-comer had visited the chamber where her sister lay, having thrown a white shawl over her head to protect it from the draught. I am bound to record how 4Jj^i.he lady blushed when I told her the way in^which I had been made to enact the partof Peeping Tom of Coventry. A STUANUB tXPEKIKNCZ. Many years have gone by since then (writes "E. B."), but I remember the circumstances as distinctly as if the^ had only occurred yeitsrday. I was scai?eiy more than a child —between eight and niue years of age in fact, A sister three years older was an invalid. That scourge of humanity consumption was dragging-her Blowly into the grave. She lived with an aunt some distance off, and one morning I was sent to enquire aiter her condition. On my way to the house I met her in a narrow pathway. I can even t > this day recall how sbe was clothed, even to the coloured stockings she wore. The ex- pression of the face wis calm but sad. I into it; a.nd in boyish fashion went fey j without saying a word. A few minutes j after, upon returning home.I tehi my parents that shfl was so much better as to be able to walk about. They were'both pleased and surprised. I'hat afternoon they discovered tbufc she had sever left her bed, and was distinctly worse- [n a few weeks the grave closed over her poung life. I cannot explain the incident, and r:ierely state the facts as I recall them, that m full iigbt o £ day I saw outside tbe house, >vithin reach of my hands, the sister whose body was then lying stretched on a bed of weakness aad agony, It may have been an optical delusion, it may have been a trick of the senses, but there is the truth, and let the scientists who explain everything explain it if they can. THE SAILOR'S APPARITION. About 20 voars aco (the narrator is Breosa, a. lady resident of Swansea met with exceptional experience. One morp.in sitting at home thinking of her n m t> "-ss at sea, a sudden shock seized her, aia ? 't = of terrible oppression took posSeifj T, r brain. Instead of passing] awav wu. r., ting hours, this j cding deepened -»: and lasted for several days. At M Hit seven o'clock of a, summer's e. desire, irresistibly powerful, cu »*■■*■$■ ber to don her walking attire, out into the air. Then, as if guide i-turned mechaui- eallv towards Gors He • that time desti- tute of a great v the dwelling- houses that now line i;? <•. Pondering as f>Ue v. alked along, • oily remem- bered that a few \H < ■- bcr son's departure they bad stro. cr in Lie same direction she now p }id. At; tbe Tery instant that sbe res it "ell ¡ which all Swansea people will recollect, she was dumbfounded by the sudden apparition of I her absent darling. He hardly noticed her, but, Heating as it wú, e through the air. he approached the well, threw himself face downward by its bids, and drank deep draughts of the cool water. When he a.gain looked up he was smiling contentedly. Tke 1 poor mother rushed towards him with an exclamation of joy, only to see him. wi "h out- stretched hands, melt rapidly from her sight. Two months afterwards she earned that on the very day when first the sense of oppres- sion feU on her, her sailer lad was driven, by fire on board his ship, to take refuge, with others, in a boat. They drifted about for a long whilp, suffering all the tortures of ex- treme thirst, tittil on the evening when his mother saw the apparition at the well, the poor lad succumbed. A NICIHT WITH A GHOST. I could tell you a htory (observes « Old Sport ") scarcely on all fikurs with the usual tale of sprites and gol^-g but equally fsreign to any reasonable or natural explana- tion It was quite recently at a tima-H town in the hill districts of Wales, thftt a S pi ritual- istic demonstration at a working scan'* home set the whole neighbourhood iu an uproar. A girl, the daughter of a tenant, of the knpres- sionable age of 17, hai evidently meurrtj the displeasure of seme revengeful spirits,for they signified their wrath by breaking the crcvkerv and upsetting the utensils in whatever part 01 the dwelling she remainod. My suspicion was aroused when I learned that these friskv demonstrations of demoniacal anger—as the case might be--took place generally in the dark, and always when the girl was alone- The proof of their energy lay in the pile of broken cups arid saucers, which the proprietor or the house woefully exhibited to the wondering crowds. This stane of things had gone on for three nights, when I suddenly presented myself at the door, and, as a Pressman auxious to cover his journal with clory, demanded that I should be allowed to sit out the night in the haunted kitchen. The ghost, in the course of his antics, had broken the windows, and the crowd outside kept me company, and chattered through the broken panes. I sat there about two b.>r,i'>,aud at midnight, when only a straggler or two remained i:1 the street, and I was feeling a bit funky and a. trifle tired, WMB ——-bans—bang—bang went something in the small kitchen adjoining like someone rapping the table heavily. With the bravery of a foriorn-hope volun- teer, I rushed into the room, in time to see in the moonlight a plate falling from a small rough table to -he floor, where in the same moment it lay smashed to atomu. Nobody was there. I searched the room narrowly. I had come through the only door which led into the room, which was really a small wash-house. Not a sign was visible of anyone or anything to account lor the banging or the smasl ing. I confessed myself converted to a belief in the girl's story that she heard similar noises and saw similar things which she could not explain any better than I was able to do. The workman and his family left the house, and the demonstrations ceased. Now, can anybody give a reasonable key to the mystery ?
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NOTES FROM LONDON. -+- [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON. THURSDAY EVMISQ. THE FAT IN TUB FIP.JS. Mr. Healy ought to be happy. He has succeeded beyond ha anticipations, for all the fat is in the lire. The quarrd over Mr. G/s" cheque has done more harm to the Home Rule cause in this country than any- n thiq that hrj taken place iiuce the O'Shc-a divorce case. Some of the staunehest Radicals in the Metropolis now tell you without reserve or qualification that they are sick of the whole business. So Home Rule disappears to tha accompaniment of Mr. Healy's parting kick. JUDICIAL CHANGES. A. phenomenal amount of judicial patronage has failen to the Gladvtonians duriug their short, tenure of office. And there is i _ge 3 n.gain talk of fresh change3 and vacancies. The present idea is that the Attorney- General, Sir John Ttigby, will be raised to the Bench. In that case there will be several other n. taresting changes necessitated. Sir .iohn Rigby is one of the most singular- looidng men in the House of Commons. For all the world he looks and dresses like a successful tenant farmer. It is hard to realise that the strange figure, which lolia I ungracefully on the Treasury Bench, is that I of one of the greatest legal luminaries oi the day. Sir John Rigby has not been a success in Parliament. His brusque, ness and discourtesy haye irritated his opponents at the same time that they have not helped his friends. Although politically unsuccessful, there is no gain- saying his claim to be considered one of the greatest lawyers in England. Mr. Gladstone himself is reputed to have been awed into admiration by the philosophic breadth of his capacious mind. Sir John Rigby is wealthy and a bachelor. THE NEW AT'i'OP.NF, i'-GENBUAL. In the event of Sir J. Rigby becoming a Judge of the High Court S.r Robert Reid. the present Soiicuor-General, will succeed to the Attorney-Generalship. You cannot 1 iniagjfis á greater contrast than that pre- sented by Sir R. Reids-ud his present chief, ft :« 'positively sittapodal. The Solicitor- Geoenuis a haadso&S&a'ud refined-looking man t macuiateljP Pressed, and his clean, sha^e-i face heightens the contrast; for Sir John Rigby is Leatde.t like the para. In the recent banquet given in his honour by the Gladstonians the Chanchellor of the Ex- cueqner made a bon-moi at the expense of the law officers which set everybody laughing, Sir William Hai-eourt, surveying his achieve- ments w.th complacent vanity, compared them to an arch supported on the one side by the massive Norma.n column of the Attorney- General and on the etber by the delicate and i.iointed shaft of Sir Robert Keid. It was a clever paying, and everybody admired its felicity. You see Sir Wiliiaraf H&reourt, if not a statesman, is at least a wit. CARLILE'S HOCSK, To a. q niet by-street in Chelsea American pilgrims sometimes travel to look at the house in which Thomas Carlyic lived and wrote. It is a shabby little tenement, and has been iu singularly ba.d repair during most of the time which has elapsed since Cariyle died. Søme-I body again suggests this morning in the Standard that Use nation or some public body should buv it and keep it as a n emot tai j to the great writer. NcJouht the suggestion ¡ is rather agreeable at lirst sight to tbe ad- mirers of the great Victorian jrophst; but one hardly fancies Cariyle would care much about it himself, if he could be consulted. And what is a Cariyle "museum to contain ? Specimens nl the clay pipes Thomas used to smoke in the drawing-room, or examples o; the unpleasing ineecis Jeanie sometimes caught (add described) en the promises, or what? The best monument to Cariyle is his works—wluca thisgeiiendioa has somewhat «ot out of the habit of reading. Besides, it is worth remembering that the house in Chcyne- row u-a$purchased, soon after the Sage's death, by some frIcnds aaJ admirsrs nr.6 gicen to the surviving members ot !es faini! who promptlv leased it to some American plire- nOlOiJlte'-e.
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C ,«3Bciiif "'»Hopkins in Pr j- voim I'' flo thai ic-ioOK "in ll»» "p*,n2 Be b-i'e u coiisiag to •i/- -»xiUi s- 1- .iog ihfe pto-grt'ss of sens a* bea.d-a tbe psuse-covu-i, yesterdav. of ti. r'" "flt is eo«n WC;re ov*r sing fotto r" j .¡<oA.t Tricky C&— 1>;f.J" my — ■roSisiftg use <4 » reffi5.iV of a youthful „ te .J meat saloon of the »t«*» *is > night as he paid the ir to. was Basa's becindtha colter. tLcw rude thpg&se&. fois. are, ss, • Joacs as-hey botfc atcod the quay ing ne arrival «f thfe Brighten* 'j ask* i Jones- W«iV she r*} ied- they tnr<?-v ropas ai the p' -elf- r-r» it is alleged thai dcputetiei' Post Bag, waited apua Carry WiitJP-S-» Thursday cv«ciag, aod asked what • cerehtjib'tn. He tc.*i thexn -t ^as kel" lus hat; A >H&nsea «ounci)i»-».- gees about- in hi» confident at momcnU is determfeed to make a. n- '•& yet. His friends 3v.>eet toai-Ss- h*s on til*- position of druaimsr nt tt:d Ba »i'* hen ifst&rted. "Cbey oi *te' « Kidwoily. "Ciin of the GrW««^ Wovk« b-« ost! >:si.ured ay' letter accepts ci-dars foe b ack platen a be pur through !■;■! iu a<i. It Is -c have these Hltle coturfs -:ies s.jjvn 00*' :.{ „ ♦"arasarUieRsbire ccptairsd as lady ot ibi n,>r.IB ,«f Saka. One c-y ¡;her..t,: was in clw;it»i *« c-rsach*'? 5welt on v'\ )(e? Satan, Sutnivl-eries-. thou j as -.ee In 1"A t> From Liandu t sii. rycry s>epj' fOpliet' ihc w^njan W '"H key. An E-ii'>ii paper etaios that Pat'. trer,><t*ly p^ular in ooatb sv r.lrd, tli'' < Taffy j-. an»- regret is .tbst Sie cannot an > .;00 ui vein*. Thir *-r fI of "vet is by clsh A-b?*^ j,- dif.f:very that Einteaj' the We- al* eh a-r "•< n. ii> j. Scwessetahire rr .w :(>* '• tiov nnf<5r'nai« that tl.ev at ■ electric iight ■•• fc««rd vt- caiiiH! <r« a --wet.t ..ontrs.lto frorr a aa'- j or baard ths steaniship Biigkten -&»' '"Jj. %-» yo» was the .sjaa>ic> th*. re?olv:ng hgbt ya tha a<&ast 2< gi'e red and tucked -•■w^y. low many bvc ia ane- on ecves. sbi-iiars a to the evi.tenes -iv^n ie gd hf a- at toe Swaqw;- PoUts* T.: jrsd-iy, tnai fctta w- *u?por% a 310 jtjl-' fo^- dstigbleri.-—vcao: an ra jfeowr-and'm graa'creaJV i. Ti'a aL-o <irps2 exeetfdi,ngiy well. A ovelist 'r> ii:.i 100 mile raie co wr reached his S) ntile-j mark, to .Uifering froai aa ovr -d^e of g |m -.tr'W"! frr.ya a beitie handed hi; !*• .t presu.eri tiia ta .1 ftouiathin^ stronger tjian n>iHr. b^. p.'A IP ifitaa b, •• of" the -tiï8 tu^urh he fia-shed latt. Vr -on the ranriers ai the- T 1 t MI p fE tLe mark thai 5 dei i .^iad'mhig ."JEteW fM s. ( tl i *>1 1 {, idicap f asni&n. J s fc.- V: 3.1" foot. "I\.C' tba .o i** xy.: or.a.- ir,tc '■■AXKtsm of ifc.- p{* :o»*med ? ah the objeet o' <a*bc» ';5'1' '1" *• ichtiuci. of adatptiv^ness. vA, B • si" a* reproached with r. r.' nsj 5 oeem] feature of & ;u -g: mrdf ( .„ ™e « *t °ve y, jc and the o. C: • tb" e-uai«;n< prr Br *!«.« »ve. wifcn a*ivetvi.s».c" v best ;• soiu ai v n^os I'Otelt b' 'i i t- t-, « .i. a tleii* or i-Le To • i'.4V ^omaana.^o»r.fli^«f I it: or., wmg, >«i ou »b« -1 f I f, ;r- h •r-iad tba cau ol Ujb li jotiuii, waaaa« the .♦ Ve%e^- b M^tsisly OTfr- t. ,foiUici rbai; Ihar* xn* ae* t. aflitaiSteaa" to t'.» wil* J tloi. X>. d, A^en-trds. y a bit of » •'s»rfcr>e«si ,» 1-i Uu, the "'jot;s- I r'-m r e >•; r y#rri»X!)» Utis (&a"-i »i 1 ,4 -1*3 thv \V y* a# l' '-n rv' Y:.>gtt.'J, Hf little ihoe^fei.-t.t. .eRl?<uu was* >! (i!p of the old elerky cassock wiijch L* ministers have always worn. *{ Tbe witness in ths scaudn.lot s ca- j Swansea on Thursday who wth sOIJ1#<j0^i' .1 "1 curiously described by the jf plainant as tiie 'honourable father parent,' had no need to der,tf ^q'j ment, as the young woman evidestiy the slightest idea of she probably meant to eotitio hiwj or' log the part he took in the n-:f,\Ír, VI" honorary lather.' ei1 It is stated in town that the Traces COt1°tot intend applying to the borough magistrs an extension of hours fcrtbcBird-iu-Ha0 ",1"" lie-house, wherein they held their f°rtD.^f(tiy Hicetings. The delegates cannot conven assemble before half-past seveo, a"!| y,0ir naturally find it diificult to Ket through business in the three short hours left to y No doubt tbe Bench will grant thfc»ir cation.. News travels with deliberation Tbe Welshman annouuccs the seC of the dispute at Old Forge ,gt)^ Lianelly, and adds in a burst of coD that" work will be resume,! shortly- dispute happened about this lime and the Old Forge Wot'ks ha« been 'h1f. going for months. But tb«», -be has a special hon-or of premature an ments. A Frenchman who resides amang 'sS;o0|«^ eager to study cu. barbaric • has just got hold of a b jnte" # lation of Shakespeare, which he^ V uuttin-r back into English. £ succeeded with a ceruii! « eU-kna«-- after three attoinptr. He ur«!. »- ■cf ,s was or ii<» to am.* Then # to not.' And lastly, "To &<■«'* will." He declares that We w paia<« with tbo work of Wiliiaiiis 1 ;„