The Cardiff Times

EDINBURGH WELSH STUDENTS. Presentation to Dr Rhys Davies. The Edinburgh Welsh Students' Society held its second meeting this sessi,)n in the Royal Hotel, Princes-street. The chair was occupied by Dr Alfred Hughes, president of the society. The meeting was signalised by the presentation to Dr lihys Davies (of Llanwrtyd) of a beautiful surgical instrument case and an address, presented by the members of the society on the occasion of his leaving Edinburgh. Miss Eleanor Rees made the presentation to Dr Davies 011 behalf of the president. The following is a copy of the address :— To Rhys Davies, Esq., M.B., C.M., Ex-Vice-President of the Edinburgh Welsh Students' Society. Sir,-Oix behalf of the Edinburgh Welsh Students' Society, we, the nndersigneii. beg, oil the occasion of your leaving Edinburgh, to express to you the pro- found feeling of regret with which we view your departure from among us, and to convey to you our best and heartiest wishes for your happiness in life, and for the greatest success in your professional career. From the origin of the Edinburgh Welsh Students' Society you have been among us. You rapidly acquired an acknowledged position, and gained over your fellow-students a personal itifluencti which, we are giad to reflax, has been consistently and wholly for gooit. You nave shown how a student, taking a sober view of the responsibilities of life, and holding a hialt ideal steadfastly before him, may come tu Command the miqualitiei and affectionate respect of all who become acquainted with him and those who know you best. your felJovv-students and associates in the Edinburgh Welsh Stutle,its, Society, one and all hold you in the warmest personal regard. The Society lose in you one of its most active members. Youc keen and sympathetic interest in its success has contributed largely to its development and consolidation and the patriotic earnestness with which you have appreciated and laid hold of the possibilities of quickening the intellectual life of the Principality through the directed activities of its educated youth and manhood has resulted, on your initiative, iu the illter-colleiate organisation of the Welsh Students' Union, which will. we hope, prove a power for good in Wftlis and among Welshmen. We think you have deserved well of the Principality you have clone credit to Welshmen out of Wales and we trust and confidently hope that your assured merits and sterling qualities will rapidly earn for you the esteem and recognition which make for solid profes- sional succ..ss-(Sined) President, Alfred Hughes, M.B., M.K.C.S., F.H.C.S.K. vice-presidents, Kev Rowland Ellis, M.A. Alfred Daniell, M.A" D.Sc., 1,L.B., JK.li.s E. W. SVilliams, F. U.C.V.S., &c. Professor Masson, M.A., 1'.it.S K, LL,D. Professor Mackinnon, IIJA., F.K.S.E. Professor Oldene, M.l)., F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S.E. John D. Williams, M.B., B.Sc., F.K.O.S Peter Fraser, M.l)., B.Sc. followed by the names of the committee and members.

JOKING WITH THE CITY FATHERS. The youth of Lerwick have on several evenings lately taken it into their beads to playoff practical jokes. The latest one happened the other even- ing in the Council Chambers, after a meeting of Council had been held. About 11 o'clock in the evening, while the hallkeeper was closing up for the night, he observed that the lights were out of the Chambers. On striking a light he was amazed to see a large cow standing on the top of the table, quietly making her supper from a largo number of cabbages which had been laid before her. Around her were placed a large number of chairs, and she seemed very comfortably housed for the evening. On her horns was a label with the words "Guilty or not guilty." The animal was at once turned out by the hallkeeper. The police are anxiously trying to laarn who rut the cow there.

A DEFENDER OF CIVILISATION. MR O'KBAGAN Oi wish, Teddy, that instead av sittin' here in this Par-r-rk we was only on wan av tbim Sout' Sea Oislands, wbera there's nothin' to do but slape and ate fruit! MR CASEY Bedad, Oi'm ashamed to bear a I civilised man talk Ioike dat! Phwore could yez get any thing to dbrink, ye bay then

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A SOUTHERN FIRE- EATER. A curious volume of reminiscences, recently issued from the press, is entitled, Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians. By Reuben Davis." In a review, giving a number of extracts from the book, the Nation says: This titular characterization of Mr Davis is not intended to cast upon him an injurious reflection. It merely states a fact. In the course of his nar- j rative, Mr Davis speaks of himrelf as a repre- I' sentative of the class known as "tire-eaters," aud j it does not appear that he objects to being so named and known. He has given to the world a very interesting and valuable book, a memoir that I will serve the future historian of jinte-bellum j times to a remarkable degree, as revealing both a { type of character and a state of society which had j much significance among the proximate causes of I the pro-slavery rebellion. Except its personal I aspect, the book contains little which is new or f strange. Even such well-known lives as those of I Andrew Jackson, Thomas H. Benton, and Henry ( Clay bring us into the same circle of wild social ¡ lawlessness, into acquaintance with similar per- sonal traits. But if we had before an account of these from the inside, written with absolute sympathy aud complacency, it escapes our present recollection. The book is very readable. It is written in a fresh and vigorous style, and we may not object to its floridity. This is part of the self-revelation the style being, as we know, the man. A senti- mental strain recurs at least as often as the chapters eud. This in conection with the author's story of his bouts and brawls suggests the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cat a throat. The nsiveie of the story is its greatest charm. We must go to Benvenuto Cellini for an equally uncollscious mixture of murder and religion. The author has not a suspicion that he is not a strictly moral and religious man. He passes without violence from the most proper moral and religious generalizations to the MiOst astonishing recitals at bis own barbarities, or those of others which he heartily approves. The general type showed in him at its best. He was frank, generous, simple, straightforward, chivalric, honest, quick to sym- pathize with outraged feebleness or innocence pre- sented to him in a concrete way. In a different order of society one can imagine that he might have been a model citizen. The absence of dates from his narration is irritating to exasperation, and we must go else- where to find the year of Mr Davis's birth. He was born in 1813, in Tennessee, ot Virginian parents, who removed to Alabama when be was live years old. His father was a Baptist minister, who never doubted that it was bis duty to knock down any rascal who happened to deserve such discipline." At sixteen, he left home and crossed the near border into Mississippi to study medi- cine in Hamilton, then the county town of Monroe County. He writes of the Mississippians of that time, that Although a God-fearing people—for infidelity was unknown—there was nothing straight-laced about their religion. Their creed was generally simple A man ought to fear God and mind his business! He should be respectful and courteous to all women. He should love his friends and hate his enemies. He should eat when he was hungry,, drink when he was thirsty, danca when he was merry, vote for the candidate he liked best, and knock down any man who ques- tioned his right to these privileges." In 1832, he passed from medicine to law, and beg-au its practice at Athens, with a young wife and but three dollars in his pocket. What a passion there was in the community for litigation is shown by the fact that in four years he bad saved twenty thousand dollars. At the spring term of the county court in 1835, he brought four hundred and eighty suits. Made district attorney, a frequent source of embarrassment was that in criminal suits the murderer was a personal friend, "for whom he had respect and friendship," and whom he thought justifiable under the circum- stances of the killing." Once when ho had wit- nessed the murder, his embarrassment was so great that he went into court with live hundred dollars in his hand with which be asked the court to furnish counsel for the prosecution. When another friend, shortly after, killed his man, Davis resigned bis office and tendered his services in his defence. He pulled him through. "Since that day," he writes, I have defended over two hundred cases tried for murder, and never had the misfortune to have my man hung." Could any statement be more expressive of the quality of mercy in the administration of justice! It is very clear it was not strained. Davis himself bad never a doubt of a man's right to defend his parson or his "honour" at the risk of another's life. With him it was a word and a blow, and if the blow was not first, it was nearly simultaneous. He could not have been more than seventeen when he had his first personal encounter. There was a question of precedence of claim upon the attention of one of the ladies at a ball. "I no sooner withdrew my adversary from the ladies than I challenged him to defend himself, and assaulted him with my pocket-knife. This action I have never regretted, holding that a man bas a right to defend his honour whenever and by whomsoever assailed. Had I submitted tarndy to this insult, my whole future career would have been blighted by it, and I should have lost all claim to the reepect and good opinIOn of my In 1841, or thereabouts, he had a characteristic encounter with Judga Howry, U all able jurist and most accomplished gentleman." Some difference arising on a point of law, the judge, offeuded by bis pertinacity, fined him fifty dol- lars, whereupon in a perfect blnzt3 of sudden fury," he threw his pocket knife point foremost at the judge, to the end that he might order him to jail—for which insult he meant to shoot him down, The court was suddenly adjourned, and Davis and tha judge were dragged oif in different directions by their friends. Later in the day they met at the r hotel, and D:vvis asked an ex- planation, which was refused. Then Davis slapped the judge's face, aud the judge seizad a claw hammer and gave him three tremendous blows upon tha head, while he hacked away blindly at the judge's throat with his knife, which he had recovered. Again separated, Davis set the judge a warning not to appear unarmed, as he would attack him at sight. Ho, howover, con- cluded not to do RO. when reminded of a remark- able dream he had had the night before, which seemed a warning of bis death. The court met that evening. I bad put on a fur cap, with the back part before to conceal my wounds, and the judge wore his overcoat with the collar well drawn up, to hide the tokens of combat ou his person, I did not meet Judge Howry for seven years after this affair. I promptly replied (having been approwehed in a friendly manner) that I thought nothing of the affair; that Howry was a gentleman, and that our difficulty was casual and without malice. Although it had been a death struggle, it bad been about almost nothiug," The point of view and tha local colour come out strongly in the characterizations of Davis's contemporaries, which are very numerous. Davis was very soon "Old Reubo," and it isTom this and Charlie that, and Jim cr Jack another. "There was Joe Divis, eider brother of our revered ex-president, who was beloved by all who knew him. He was admitted arbiter of every question of honour, and his decision was always final." The mentions of Jefferson Davis are very slight, but always ardently enthusiastic. The impression given is not that which has been general at the North, where Davis has been thought of as the opposite of Lincoln, in bis cold- ness and his inability to make himself au object of wide popular affection. We are told that "there was something aoout Davis which captivated the imagination and exalted bim iuto a hero, dearer than all others to the popular heart." A very impressive account is given of the inauguration of D tVtf, following hard on tha surrender of Fort Donelson, in which the narrator saw the begiu- niug of tho end. "Irom that day of evil omen, he trod firmly and steadily the path which led him to his cell in Fortress Monroe, where, in his daunt- less captivity, lIe was crowned with the passionato love and reverence of millions who bad followed him to ruin and defeat." In the description of bis friends, the author's preliminary adjectives of copious praise are often in amusing coutrast with tha particulars which afterwards appear. He legrets bow little the real character of Colonel McClung, Jefferson Davis's lieutenant-colonel in the Mexican War, has been understood, and then he pictures him eating his solitary lunch at a restaurant, with a large duelling-pistol on either side of bio plate, a bottle of wine and a bowie-knife between them, in which attitude, and with a corresponding temper, he encountered him with two friends, and barely brought them off alive. Early in the war, Breckinridge was often at Davis's head-quarters at Bowling Green. "He was a goodly sight, sitting on a stool or table, with a glass of old shuck in his hand, and that grand voice vibrating through the tent lika a deap-toned bell." There is some general praise of temperance, but it is evident that none of Mr Davis's recollections make him happier than those of the five gallons of mint-julep at oue Bitting, and of many a night when be and others drank together till tbe morn- ing broke. What nights those were 1 How brave and generous, how gay and jovial; wbat wit and humour Bparkled with the wine 1" A drunkard's grave was the end of many a brilliant fellow. There is one lively picture of the Missis- sippi legislature, in a body, gloriously drunk, parading tho streets of the capital in the small hoursjof the morning, singing a jolly song. The hospitality was boundless as the drink. When Davis was m Congress, he invited the whole county to a party at his house. He spent as easily as he earned. He was always going security for a friend, until he reckoned that, be bad lost seventy-five thousand dollars by this genial disposition. In the Mexican War he received a colonelcy, but he speaks with bitterness of that experience. It" broke bis life in two," and be dates from it the misfortunes of his subsequent career, which consisted, so far as be reports, of political dis- appointments occasioned by the enmities which originated with his brief command. He bad had no military training his regiment was reduced by almost constant sickness and never got a chance to fight. And so it happened that where Jefferson Davis got so much glory, he got only curses for his pains. After many disappoint- ments he was fiually elected to the national legislature, and took his seat in the Thirty- Fifth Congress in December, 1857. He had no definite convictions, but he went with the tide, and this was setting strongly towards secession. Quitman said to him at once, "You must move up, Davis, or you will be left behind." He answered, "No, not left behind, because wher- ever Mississippi goes she takes me with ber." After that, he tells us, he kept pace with the rest, but be had the frankness to say everywhere that war was in sight. The policy of the loaders was to door, the chance of war, partly because they thought seces- sion could be accomplished without a fight, and partly because they thought secession without war would be more popular, Tbe impression is very strong, in general, that the popular feeling had to be much forced and juggled with in order to bring it into line with the. wishes of the chief conspirators. Mr Davis's account of his two Congressional terms and the course of secession and the war is much too brief. He characterises few of the men he met in Washington, but his account of Giddings is one of tbe most elaborate in his book, and is, despite its misconception and misrepresentation, a fine tribute to the" noblest Roman of them all." "I nevsr saw a more remarkable man, nor one who was inspired by a spirit of more concentrated bitterness. lie was very old and infirm, but his hatred for the South aud for slavery glowed like the hot fire of youth in bis Veins, and seemed potent enough to vivify with new energies his exhausted frame. The boarded hate of a life-time gleamed in the sunken eyes and gave ferocity to a voice that was lika the growl of a tiger about to spring upon his prey. I used to watch him with the sort of fascinated interest which the display of strong and sustained passion is sure to create, and I retaember how the alertness of his attitude and the suppressed passion of his face used to sUgest to me the idea of some fierce creature crouching fprja spring. To this day, I believe that it would have given him pleasure to behold the South desolated with the sword, and with famine, and with pastilcnce, until neither man, woman, ncr child lemained. He had poured out so much teadeeaesa upon the slaves that there was not a droD of pity in his heart for even the innocent bates of the slave- holders. Owing to the infirmities of his great age, he could not make a long speech without bringing on convulsions, but be was always in his place, suggesting and planning every movement and the soul of every aggressive measure. Instead of moderating the stormy passions of the younger men. the glare of his furious eyes woke up respon- sive fires in both friend and foe." > He contrasts Tom Corwin with Giddidgs, reatly to tbe latter's disadvantage. Corwin is that good man." He would gladly have saved the Union and avorted war by any possible con- cession." In 1859, when there was a long fight over the speakership, Davis spoke four hours in the fiercest manner of his set to kill time—a device necessary for the defeat of Sherman. Corwin replied to him in such a way that many a time afterward his words came back to him like a pro- phecy, especially in tbe dark days when defeat followed defeat and destruction was upon us." Davis's part was henceforth a leading one in the secession movement. Immediately after the elec- tion of Lincoln, it WM upon his motion that a convention was called to secede the State of Mississippi by separate action, such action to take effect co instanti. This was a special con- ference to which there came a telegram from South Carolina, askicg advice— whether it should secede at once, at the then im- minent secession convention, or make its ordi- nance inoperative till the foneth of March. Davis moved they be advised to seceie at once. Returning to Washington, I spent much of my time, be says, in consultation with Mr Floyd, becretary of War, who baa "been for twelve months, and still was, engaged in sending to the Southern arsenals all available arms under his control. As oue of the committee of thirty- three appointed December 10, 18^0, to consider the danger, serving againstthe wisUes of Jefferson Davis, he soon proved that be was actuated by no conciliatory spirit. Making himseft the mouth- piece of a wronged and outraged people," his tone was admirably calculated to put the Northern men upon their mettle. Later, he moved that the committeeadjourn »>nd report that no remedy remained but the final appeal to the God of battles." It was at bis rooins on the four- teenth that a manifesto was prepared and sent to all parts of the South, declaring that argument was exhausted, and that the whole action of the committee showed a determination to go to the extent of emancipation," tboucrh vnon-extension had been tbs boldest word. Ol the fifteenth, he proposed a resolution merely" to show the hopelessness of any agreement": Be it resolved, that the Constitution of the United States of America recognizes property in tpe slave, and that it is as much the duty of the general govern- ment to giTe protection to that species of property —both at sea and on land—as to any other species of property known to our institutions and laws." Corwin's vote as chairman dnfeated the resolu- tion, on which there was a tie—-15 to 15. This, it soems, was not a "possible concession." "Wïth a fierce paug of renunciation," as be crossed the Potomac on his way to Mississipi, January 5th, looking back on the eapitol, be saw the stars aud stripes drooping on tbe still, cold air. Appointed major-general in place of Jefferson Davis, who had resigned in order to preside over the Southern Constitutional Conven- tion, eighty companies were accepted and ordered into camp at his instigation. So little gen3ral apprehension was there of the task in hand that this measure was denounced as a piece of useless and wicked extravagance, but it was justified by the event. Aft6r a brief term in the field, he went to Richmond to represent his district in the Confederate Congress. Every step taken up to this time had been, I tUought, defeated by tardiness of move- ment and inadequate preparation, and I could discover no judications of au improved system for the future." He never could. He was all the way along entirely out of conceit with the Southern conduct of the war. On the Military Committee of the House, he urged the concentra- tion ot the whole available force of the South into two invading columns. Meeting with no response, he resigned from the committee and assumed the rdle of Achilles sulking in his tent. Atter a speech denouncing the whole military policy of the Government, which great offence to the administration, so that afterwards he had no influence and, indeed, no personal intercourse with the heads of Government, he felt himself a mere spectator in the final acts of our tragedy." Of the twenty-five years since the fulfiuneut of his prophecies there is no account-ouly a fure- gleam, in the course of the narrative, of a second marriage which brought children to a childless man, and of his separation from the Democratic party in 1878. His fiory blood was slow to cool, and in 1873 lie was shot down iu a court-room brawl. His impression of the new South would have beeu a welcome addition to his book, but we must not ask too much. Au excellent photograph, with eyes liko gleaming bayonets aud a mouth like an iron clamp, is an oxuet reflection of the man who reveals himself to us so frankly in the paes of his book.

MINISTERS STUDYING THE IRISH PROBLEM. Gigantic Schema of Land JPurchase. The Press Association understands that Lord balisbury took the opportunity afforded on Friday by the presence of several members of the Cabinet in town to bold two committee meetings of the Cabinet. At noon the Premier presided at the t oreign Office over a committee consisting of Mr Smitb, Mr Goscheo, and Mr Stanhope. It is understood this comimttoe had reference to army affairs. The consultation lasted nearly an hour. At 2.30 the special committee of the Cabinet engaged upou Irish matters assembled in Lord Salisbury's room at the Foreign Office. The members present besides Premier were L ird Ashbourne, Lord Cadogan, Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Mr Smith, Mr Goschen, and Mr Balfour. Lord Ashbourne and Mr Balfour, who have been engaged in framing a measure for land purchase in Ireland, ware enabled to lay be- fore the Committee an almost complete schemo, which will be further considered by the whole Cabinet at to-day's meeting. It is understood that the idea is to treat the dis- affected portions of.Ireland first,alld that seven to teu millions of money will be required for this purpose. Tbe Ministers remained in consultation until a quarter to 5 p.m., having been sitting two hours and a quarter,

TEETOTALERS ON THE SPREE Banquet to Welsh Temperance Mayors. Messrs E. Beavan, A. A. Bryan, and F. W. Brett. representing different temperance societies in South Wales, have issued a circular in which they announce that in celebration of such an interesting coincidence as the elec- tion of total abstainers to the civic chair of the three chief towns in South Wales—Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport—together with the ancient boroughs of Haverfordwest and Aberayron, it has been thought desirable to hold a banquet at Cardiff on Thursday evening, the Nth December. Their respective worships have consented to attend the gathering, over which Mr Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., M.P., wiil preside. Every care will be taken to make the gathering as influential and thoroughly representative as pos- sible, and the promoters express the opinion that it cannot fail to give an impetus to the temperance movement locally, and greatly influence public opinion. The banquet will be confined to total abstainers.

THE ARCHEHSHOP MAKES A MUS. DOC. The Archbishop of Canterbury, one of whose prerogatives is to make Doctor# of Music, bas bestowed the degree upon Mr E. H. Turpin, in recognition of his eminent services to the art as an organist, professor, and lecturer. We sincerely congratulate the new Mus. Doc., and no less the Archbishop, upon an act which Oxford or Cam- bridge, or both, should have performed long ago. Ihe recommendation of Mr Turpin to bis Grace was signed by, amongst many others, tha Pro- lessors of Music at Oxford, Cambridge, Edin- burgh, and Dublin, Sir A. SulUvan, SirG. Eivey, Dr Mackenzie, Dr Martin, Dr Bridge, Messrs 1^Pkens, W. H. Cummings, G. A, Osborne, aud T. L. Southgate.

HOME RULE FOR WALES, The usual meeting of the University College Debating Society was held at Cardiff on Friday night, there being a Welsh debate on Whether Wales should have Home Rule." The chair was occupied by Mr D. A. Davies, A most most instructive paper was' read by Mr T. Gwydrim Davies for the affirmative side, and be was seconded by Mr J. Jenkins, and supported by Messrs O. LI. Morris, D. A. Davies, D. B. Thomas, and J. A. Hugbeør The negative was opened by Mr J. R. Brans, vfbo was seconded by Mr Z. H. Lewis, aDd BttPPOrted by Messrs JroweiJ, Cadwaladr J on68, W, J. Davies, and Griffiths. Tbe motion was carried by two votes.

CHILDREN'S FOOD.—Brightest children fail to make the brightest men and women. Busiest men break down or end in lunacy. Beautiful lives are blibted bv drink-and why! Bad customs in diet and hygiene. Brain workers think less of feeding the brain than a huntsman of his horse. The best break. fast for little brain workers and busy men is Cook's Patent Meal Porridge. Perfectly genuine. "-Z7w hamct. —Manufactory. Salisbury. 13703

ER COF Am Morgan Griffith (Alaw Ffrwd), arweinydd y gaa yn Soar, Fr'rwdamos, Rhondda. Eiu Halaw Firwd, ddonioi a ffraeth-a geir Mewu gsveryd ysywaeth Am roi un mor gaetb-Yll Ffrwdamos, Y mae'n aros ugeiniau mewn biraeth, Alaw Firwd, byfrydawl ffrwytb-ei awen Ddiwyd roes i dylwyth Y g&n Jin, gogonawl Jwyth-o geinion, Daw i'w deflro ni fu yu frawd diffrwytb. Alaw Firwd, i'r nefoi lioff fro,— o'r llwch Oer, llaitb, a gaiff ddeffro; I dre engyl o dir augho', I wyiiau'r Oen y gelwir o. Alaw Ffrwd, emv da-iddo a lyn Ar hen-dd leuydd Rhondda: Mewu deigr heiiltion, anwylion wna Hir rudafan uwch ei orweudfa. CYNFFIGWrSOS,

MACHLUDIAD YR HAUL. Ar bahnant llyfndeg y gorliewin pall haul ya mlaeu i'w nosawl gell ç Trwy'r nef amgylchag rhed ei ddysgiaer lamp, x! el teithiwr dewr, inyn gyrhaedd pen y gamp. Dysgyna'n hoenus dros ei lwybr rhydd, Gan ymbeilhau 1 derfyn cylch y dydd Wrtb orphen dydd ar gylch yr olaf awr, Ymlawenha fel goresgynol gawr. A Rye yu mlaen ar byd ei yrfa faith, Gan edrycb dros ei ymestynol daith Yu ol o ganol cylch dysgleirwycb clir, Can daflu gwreichion I!,wawl dros Iwybrau hir. Ar esgyil esinwyth y tawelaf wynt Daw torf gymylog ar brydnawuol bynt, Gsr bron yr haul ar ei ddysglaerwen sedd, Pur wawl y nef wasgara dros eu gwedd. Fel claerwawi tanbaid fel!t fe drordia drwy Ell trymion biygion trwehus llaitbog nwy, Nes ydynt fel tryloewon leni gwych, I'r haul gael rhoddi iddynt swynol ddrycb. Galygfa 0 gymysg liwiau fyrdd, Yu uewld lliw a Uua mewn amryw ffyrdd bviuudol arddangosfa hardd ar daith, A'r haul, arlunydd aniau, wrth ei waitb. Cymylau dwfn a thrvvmagweddog sydd Yu gloewi dan ddysgieiiaeb lamp y dydd Ldrychaut fel goreurog wydrau gwycb, Amleidiog oIWK. eaboledig ddrych. Hylifol wawl, fel ffrydiau bywiol da i, pjylifa dros eu gwridog ruddiau g; £ u Tryioew gymyl gwawl, symudhw wedd, Arleidia r haui ar ei fachludol sedd. Dysgleiria lien y nef gan wawl a gwrea I el dalen lefn o gaboledig bres; Rtiyfeddol arddangosfa'r wybren hardd, Tuhwnt i allu destrrifiadol bardd. Ar ol haul oleuo'r dydd mor Hou, Yinguddia draw dan odrau'r wybren gron Mewn tyuer wawl rhydd wanaidd wfi i i'r nen Gan biygu'u wylaidd dan fachludollen. GLAXGWXNDRAKTH GEOBQK. Plasioari, Abertawe.

STICK TO YOUR LAST. Maximilian Joseph, the lata king of Bavaria, was one summer day sitting in plain, civil costume in the garden of his palace at Teeernsej The heat was indeed grent, and it was so very quiet in the garden that the king fell asleep over the book he was reading. He laid it down be- side him on the bench, and continued to slumber. When be awoke, he thought he would drive away his drowsiness by taking a walk. The road, which took him farther and farther away from his garden, brought him at last to the meadow, which extended on both sides frm the shores of the beautifnl Jake near which the pslitce stood. Here the king remembered his book, which he had left lying on the bench in the park. If any one passed by they might take the volume, which, being rather a rare one, the king did n-)t wish to lose. As he was unwilling to return the eacae way, he looked about for some one who would fetch the book for him but far and wide he did not see a single human being, except a boy who was watching a flock of geesq. The king went up to him, and said "Listen, my boy you can go and fetch me a bi0k which I have left lying on a bench in the park, and you shall have a florin for your trouble," The lad, who did not know tha king, looked at the gentleman with much mistrust. A florin for so small a service seemed to him so large an offer as to be a hoax. I am not tbe simpleton you take me for," said he, turning away. What makes you think that I take you for a simpleton r' asked the king, smiling, pleased with the open manner of the lad. 01 Because you offer me a florin for such a tri- fling sarvice," replied the boy; money is not earned so easily. The people down there," be added, pointing his finger to the distant palace, taka us all for fools, and I know you are one of then)." Well, what if I am?" said the king. Come, here's a half florin in advance 1 Now, go and fetch me the book." • The boy's eyos sparkled when he held the money in his band, for he did not get much more than that for looking after the geesa for the whole year; but still he hesitated. "Weil," said the king, "and why don't you go? The boy pushed his cap on one side and scratched himself behind the ear. Yes," said he, "I will-but-I dare not. If the farmers heard that I had left the geese they would dismiss me, and I should lose my daily bread. I will watch them till you come back agatn. You?" replied the boy, measuring the stranger from top to toe "you don't look to me liko one who can take care of geese. If they were to run away and get lost in these meadows I might have to pay more than I shouuld earn in a year. Look at that fellow with a black head, who belongs to the court gardener; he is an awful old bird, a deserter, a good-for-nothing, like all people who have to do with a court; he would play you fine tricks whilst I was away. No, no that would never do." But why should I not be able to keep these (reeso in order as well as I succeed in keeping men in order?" said tha king. You?" replied the lad, again eyeing the monarch, with a grin. They must be fellows in- deed Ah, now I have i t You are a schoolmas- ter. i tell you boys are much easier to manage than geese. ,Possibly > hut come, be quick. Will you fetch me the book? I will answer for any mis- chief that may happen." This decided the boy. He enjoined the king to keep a watchful eye over the goose which he called the court gander-a splendid gander, who might run ofl directly, leading the whole herd after him. Then the boy gave him the whip and ran off, but soon stood atill, and then came back again. What does this mean?" .cried the king to him. Crack it once ordered the boy. Tbe king tried it, but it would not crack at all. just what I thought exclaimed the boy. Ihe schoolmaster fancies he can take care of^ceese, and cannot even crack the whip Then he took the whip out of the king's hand, and showed him how to crack it. His majesty could scarcely repress his laughter: he tried all he could to learn how to crack it. and when he bad succseded, the boy enjoined him to use it at the right moment, and then ran away. Now the king could laugh as much as he liked. But, in fact, it seemed as if the geese observed at once that their young and severe master no longer held the reins of government. The gander which the boy had pointed out as the court gander raised his long neck, looked everywhere around him, uttered several "qiiieki ouacks!" and then all the geese raised their wings, screamed alcud, and, before the king could look around, rushed off to all points of the compass in the meadows around the lake. The king cried out; it was of no use he wanted to crack the whip, but the whip gave him no sound he ran to the right, he ran to the left—all of no use whatever. Out of breath with laughing, be sat down on the trunk of a tree, where the boy had been sitting, and let the geese go. "The boy was really right," be said to him- self, that it is easier to govern a couple of mil- lions of men than to manuge a herd of geese. Only it was that scoundrel, the court gauder, who was the cause of all this mischief." The boy meanwhile had found the book, and camo merrily back. Bu1^ when he saw what bad happened, he let the book fall out of his hand. "There we have it he cXolaimed, sobbing with anger aud griet. "n,du'L I say you under- stood nothing about it? Just look now; I can't collect them together by myself. Now you will have to help ma." After the boy had instructed tbe king bow be must lift up his arms, wave them about, and shout aloud, ho ran off to fetch tha most distant of the strayed flock. The king diu all that was within his power, and after great exertions the whole flock was at last assembled again then the boy began to scold the king for doing his duty so badly, concluding with the words: "Never in my life will I trust the whip out of my hands again. I wouldn't even trust it to the king himself if he tried to persuade me to leave my flock." You are right, my brave lad," said the king, bursting into a loud laugh; "b understands no more about it than I do, for I am the king my- self." b 1 "You? You may make a simpleton b9lieva that, but not me he exclaimed. Take your book, and make haste and go homa. To pretend, indeed, that you are tbe king, after showing your- self so clumsy Don't be out of temper," said the good- natured king, as be offered him another florin II I will pledge you my word never again to take charge of geese," Tha boy thanked him, thought for a little while, then said Whoever you are, you are a good gentleman but don't deceiva yourself that you are a goose-herder. Remember the proverb, shoemaker, stick to your last.

REPRESENTATION OF MON- MOUTH BOROUGHS. Mr Spicer's Candidature, Mr Albert Spicer, the adopted Liberal candi- date for the Monmouth Boroughs, on Friday evening completed a week's engagements amongst those who are to be his future constituents. The week of making troops of friends was fittingly concluded by a conversazione in the Temperance Memorial-hall, Newport. This was arranged by the Liberal Women'* Association of the distriet. Over 7CO invitations were issued, and the hail was crowded. liefreshments were supplied frcm a buffet, and the proceedings were cordial through- out, and indicative of the popularity Mr Spicer has already attained amongst the constituency. Mr Spicer has been accompanied throughout his week's visit by Mrs Spicbr. Dr Garrod Thomas presided over the pro- ceedings subsequently, and was supported by Mr John Cory, president of the Newport Liberal Association the Hon. A. T. Pelham, Alderman Jacob, Councillor T. Jones, Mr Cory juu., Councillors Bear, Sanders, Greenland, Parnall, and others. Mr Bumstead presided at the organ and piano, and Mr Raynolds, Mr E. Richards, and other amateurs saug seleotions.

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP SCHOOL BOARD OFFICES. On Friday morning, about 10 o'clock, the care- taker of the Rochdale School Board offices discovered, on one of the outside window sills of the basement storey, a tin canister of a very suspicious appearance. It was conveyed to tbe office of the chief constable, and was found to be composed of two meat tins, the open ends having been soldered together, and it contained about 12ib. of blasting gunpowder. At one end of the tm a hole the size of a half- penny had been cut out, and in it was placed a phial which had contained acid, and over the top of it au explosive mixture. The chief constable forwarded it to the borough analyst for examination, and he came to the con- clusion that the apparatus had been skilfully planned, and that it would have exploded within three minutes after the bottle had been inserted in the aperture, only that some slight mistake bad been made in the chemical ingredients. Up to yesterday evening no clue to the cowardly perpe- trator bad been discovered.

FIVE CENTS EXTRA.5 CCSTOMIB (in restaurant): Waiter, there is a fly in this tea. I WAITXB Thank you, sah, for caliin' Otentiog to -its Lay down anudder five cent*, plrnse* -4

FY GOLOFN GYMREIG. Dymunir i'n gohebwyr Cymreig gyfeiro eu gobeb- laethau, llyfrau i'w badolygu, &c., fel y canly Dafydd Morganwg, Morganwg House Llantwit- street, Cardiff.

DAU ENGLYN Ar bripdas Mr Lewis Beynou 4 Miss Margaret Jones, y ddau o Glanaman. Lewis bach, mae melus A B—hen lane Rby wael hyfforddi; Onid awr fu'th ie'ngctyd di, Y nil. wedyn priodi. Ond dyna, ti gefaist heini-wraig Ion, Oreu flwlad i'th loni; Gwiriod oes dy gariad di, Yn addas gydmar iddi. CKFNDEB,

CLOCH Y DIENYDDIAD. Fe nonui y wawr yn araf i'r lan Dros gymyl o uiwi wybren ban Dadebrai masnach 0'1 nosawl hun, Cyffroai'r olwynion un 'rol un, I Perseiniau llaiur a uchel lef, Wawdieut eu gilydd ar dyrau'r dref, iydyu lleadfwyd y twrw crosb Gan sain alarus dolef y gloch. Yo araf, yn brudd y cana hi Di halaw o dristwcL uwch y lIP, Ymwelwa y bobl, eu crechwen syrth, Cenad marwolaeth sydd yn y pyrth; Pariysir calon rhialtwih mil, calon mae y cnnl; ArafaV dditias thwrw crocu Yu swn ochneidiIU trust y gloch. Ceuad marwolaeth yw hon ar fin Dihyn bedd y llofrudd ddyn I Adrodd y maa fed ei oes yn awr I Yn cerdded yu mheil rr cbf awr; Rbybudd diwaddaf ei fywyd yw, Cyn pyrthlo drosodd i wyddfod Daw; Mae acen byd arall yn ei chib, xra n cnulio, cuulio o hyd yn Mewn ingoedd ofnadwy yu ei geil Mae'r llotrudd druan, lieb "obaith gwell Yn ysgwyd fel deileri aetbnen grin, swn angiaddol gloch ei huu. Pwy wyr ei deimlad y fynyd hon Grwydra yn scorpion drwy ei fron, Tra bloedd cydwybod ddeongla'n groeh Fod "gwaed y gwirion" yn nghnul y gloch. O! '1 ddrych ofnadwy yr adeg hon, gloch yn galw ei oes gerbron Daw tort o droseddau, fel bedd, I fyny i gyd o fhen ei wedd A'r trosedd olar-yr olat wnaed- Sy'n lliwio y cyfan yu goch â. gwaed, A swn tragwyddolaab glysv yn grocb Yn gwaaddi "Dial YI1 ngOnul y loclJ. Dystawodd y gloch,—aeth heibio'r awr, llofrudd mwy yo yr eilfyd mawr, ddiwedd enbyd dan sel a fydd I Hyd wawr dadguddiad yr o!af ddydd. Dystawodd y srloch! ac, O! na wnai Yu ei dystawrwydd byth barbau, A chrngi yn segur draw o hyd, Hab lofrudd i'w chytfro o fewti y byd. Coleg Caerdydd, G. AP LLEISION,

Y STORM. Ofnadwy storm J wyt anweledig ysbryd, Cyuhyrfydd erch pob elfen drwy'r cyfanfyd Dy faith lywodraeth sy'n ymdroi tnewn mawredd, A chedyru milwyr wyliant d'orsedd. Pan ruthra galyn i gyttiuiau'th dalaetb, 1 geisio dwyn oddiarnat dy lywodraeth Mae soriant dy fawrhydi yu ymlidio, A th fynwes gau ddigofaiut 8)"0 ymchwycldo O torn- ar dy heddweh wrth droed Etna Nau ar eiraog ban yr Himalaya, Dyrchefir ar dy gastell ffl tmgoch faner Yr hon drwy yr eangder, A chlywir swn rhyfeigyrch drwy'r peliderau Yo gwawdd 1 r F& i boll filwyr y taiaetbai:. Pen marchog dy fyddmoedd ydyw'r trydaD, 1<i fwy nid oes gael ond ti dy hunan; Ac ar ei 'egwyddau ef y mae dy byder Y cedwir dy frenbiniaeth yn at glcewder. u aCW eymyMyddin yn ymgasglu O bob cyfeiriad yn eu gwisgoadd pygddu • Heolydd nef sy'n llawn o'm tilwyr llidiog', Y It barod 1 ryfelgyrch marchog. Uw, lidiawg lu! mae'1' neu fel mur o A gwyneb natur welwa gan ei hagrweh. Ust! dyna gynhwrfl Ciywch! mae'r tanio'a decureu, Mae adswn dinystr yn erch ru'r magnelau Y trydan eerth, yn ei chwim garbyd tanllyd, Ohwyrnalla, yn fawreddog drwy'r wybrenfyd Oy ffyrdd a 1 oa:i-o!wynion a'r cymylau, A hwytbau ruthrant drwy y gwagle'n ffl*mtan; Mae byddiu ar ol byddin yu eu canlyn A r Jiwyor o'u hoi llawn o wae a dychryn: 0 u fllAm-fwaau gollyngauc dauliyd saethau. A u gwawl ofuadwy wrida'r boll ororau Ell chwim wibiadau rhemrau. A neidiaut on i danio eu maguelau noeth gleddyfac wedi eu diweinio A ffi imiau t&u dros eu gwefusau'n rholio; Swu y cyflagrau dychrynu'r nefoeddl Ac yu ei braw gollynga y llif-ddyfroedd Uedd ganddi'n nghadw yn ystenau'r cymyl 1 Kwynab pan d'ai'r haul i'w hymyi; Una uawr nylifant yn rhaiadrau gwyllcion, Yu boar llidiawgrwydd ceyrn y rhyterthwyon. Herfeiddiol deyrn! deyrnwialen 1oglais Hid a nwyáau Kwyllt pob elfen Nid digon yw i ti, ddinystriol antrel, 1 wel d yn tfiamiau dy gaddugawl orwelt A gweld y trydan yn ei arfog wisgoedd Ya Ilamu yn herfeiddiol drwy y gwylloedd, noeth gleddyfau yn ffi imgochi allan, A dychryn ar eu llymhn ot0h yu hongian. Oad rhaid i ti, 01 Stcrm, 1 roi eatynisid I th anwellaw er codi valves y cread A gollwng y llif-ddyfruedu yu rhaiadrau, 1 rwyga bronau'r creig a'r cain fyny ddau, A neidio wedyo yn dy lid drwy'r belynt, I agor doran celioedd cudd y corwynt; A hwnw pan ga'i ryddid ruthra'a nwydwyllt, Gan ysgwyd oi adenydj gylch y ffiUmfyllt, A'i cer wefusau, pan ddechreua chwibau, Rhyw arswyd daimlir drwy wersyiloedd anian. Dymcbwela'r pinacl bSk'i A'i anadl nerthol, Ar goedwig 'sgythrir gau ei nwyd aruthroL Ymafla a ngwaiit y wig, anurdda'i cheiuder, A'i heirdd gydynau lucbia i'r eangder; A'i hagrfiu dymchwel y gadarnbraff dderwen A ohtudo t changau ar ei nerthol aden; Y oenllysg fwria yn fin deilp o'i enau I bob cyfeiriad, gan twyhau mewn nwydau* Chwimlamu yn walli,ofu3 mae'r coroeotydd, Dros ochrau creig ac aehau gwyrdd pob mynydd, A rhychiant eu mynwesau wrtb raiadru A'u digter ar eu tonau yo crycbwynu Fel draig mewn gwewyi y gorlifa'r afon, A r melle yn marcbog ar ei thonau beilchio*; Oynbyrfir hitbau gan eu poetbgyrff fflxmawg, A phocra i llid dros duoedd b«irdd, blodeuaW; Y darau rna. yn ei chlustiau dyfrllyd, A'i thonau wynant an ei nwyd dychrynllyd • Ymehwydda t monwes, tor dros ei bechwynion, A lluobia ddinystr dros ei gwefusau creulon Chwyrndafla i tbonau dros y gwenitbfaes melyn, A pbyta r perlau sy'n nghoronau'r flwyddyn. Gwasgara i thonau ddychrynfeydd angeuol I bob cyfeiriad ar ei mwng dyferol; Dylama m6r a'i hysbail ganddi, Ac yn ei freichiau uthrol ymsoddo Mae yntau'n wyllt, ymgoda i'r uchelion, A'i erch gynddaredd yo dirwyno'i blyion; Mae'n chwydu allan o'i beichiog Boer dialeddawg yn wyllt donan cyrlioK Mae'r mellt o'i gylch fel seirph yo poeri fflamiaa A'a cylch olwynawg yn coch dODau; Mae'r daran groch yet gwatwar SWIl ei rualj, Ac yniau fel anghenfil rydd ysgydwad Gan daflu'r Ilongau sydd yn beichio'i ysgwydd Fel pelau i lid i froydd y wybronydd ol a blaen fel cawr cynhyrfna. nwyd dychrynllyd ya wefcw: Mae r net a r adaaar fel yn gwgu arnono. &r byay cofiwn fod ein Duw'o y storoni. J Mertbyr TydhL GwxDDOMratH.

FACT AND FANCY. In Unequal Proportions. Fare and false—A age on the train. Tbe great difficulty about advice is the pre* dominance of quantity over quality. No one is able to write so long a sentence in so few a words as the judge. There are some things a dwarf can't do, but he can catch just as big a cold as a giant. Letter carriers ought to make the best elocu- tionists they have such good ideas of delivery. Girls, like opportunities, are all the more to you after being embraced. A piano is about the only thing tbat can be up- right and flat at the same time. A New Definition of Matrimony.—A committee ot two with power to add to their number. Fizz There is one man with whom life is always spring. Qu zz And who's that ? An acrobat." To flatter a young woman ask her about her victims every girl likes to think she has vic- tims. The latest Parisian novelty in gloves has a small purse inserted in the palm, wherein women can carry their railway-tickets and small coins. A man (somewhat illiterate): I read something in a paper about idiots. Are they human beings? Frieni: Certainly; they are human beings I'm yourself. The tailor often sends home on Saturday the trousers be promised the Monday before, but, then, we are accustomed to these breechess of pro- mise. When a young woman tells a clerk in a shoe shop that she is not prepared to try ber shoes on be blushes at the thought of a hole in br stock- ing. There is a report that the principle of the new smokeless powder is to be applied to cigarettes— but as the smokeless powder is said to occasion no report this may not ba reliable. A POSER. There's a matter troubled us greatly. And it's never been settled as yet, We should like to have some on inform us Whether Kve was a blonde or brunette. Jones," eaid Smythe, as he watched a couple strolling near, that is a first-love affair." "How do you know ?" I just hoard her make him pro- mise no: to stiK>ke ot drink." Wife (at front door): Who's there? V.:ice I am—John—your husband. Wife: I dout believe you. It don't sound like John's voice. Blow your breath through the key-hola. HB SPOKE IT.—Jones: Can you speak French ? Brown: 188. Jones: Speak it. Brown: French. Jones: Yes, French. Brown: Well, I spoke it-French. Do you want me to sing it ? Mrs Bandbox: You said the train I should take leaves at ten-thirty, didn't you? Ticket-agent: Yes, madam and I think i ve told you that ten times already. Yos, I know you have, but my boy says be likes to hear you talk." MB HKNPKCK. Your wife, who's never been forstalled, Each year appears much frisker For when your head has grown quite bald She takes you by the whisker. Fond mother: What do you think, John? Aunt Hannah was here just a little while ago and gave our baby a five dollar gold piece 1 Happy father: Good enough Let me know as soon as the child wakes up and I'll see if I can't borrow it. Spectacled beggar: Will you please give me a dime ? I have bat one eye and that is glass. Benevolent man How couid you see that quarter I just threw at your feet: Spectacled beggar: My dear sir, do you suppose I would buy a glass eye that I could not see with ? AN ARABIAN NIGHT. Midnight—the song is dODe; lay down thy lute, Dark face, yet raptured from the music's clow, The lamp swings languidly— the soft light glows Around the, and thy passionate lips are mute, Too near to mine. Warm fragrances of fruit. Odours of musk and jessamine and rose Ifloat faiutly past u< some late reveler goes Homeward with far-off sound of fife and flute. The curtains drop their deep embroidery Behind thee, and the jewelled goblets gleam Thy hungry, yearning eyes are fixed on mine- As in the mazes of a wild lovedeeam. Slowly, by some magnetic law divine, We tremble toward each other silently. Boarder (just arrived): I noticed that we didn't have any butter at lunch to-day, Mr Sqaoggs. I thought yon always had such nice butter in the country. MrSquoRgs: Yaas, we do, but you Me Si Gaas, who brings it irom the city, hasn't got rouud tuis week, suioeiiow. ANGLOMANIA. The Prmce of Wales may will and dsure To some eccentric garmeut wear, A garment which of louduess smacks, But which the anglomaniacs Adopt with most complacent air. Tne royal manner debonair They copy hoping thus to share Tue homage which he never lacks— The Prince of Wales. So it be English, naught they care, From cut of coat to cut of bair Until in time upon their backs They'll spore the stripes that English Jacks As mutineers were wont to bear— Tbe prints uf whales. MISDIRECTED ENTHUSIASM.—A party bad gone 1 one week-day into a church to get a child baptized. While awaiting the arrival of tbe clergyman tbe sexton created no little consternation by chucking the infant under tbe chin and thus addressing the I person whom be took to be the autbor.of its being "You should consider yourself lucky, sir, in hav- ing a child that so closely resembles you." Tbe person addressed was the godfather. NOVEMBliB. No sun, no moon, No morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, No sky, no earthly view, Nodistancillookiu blue. No roads, no streets, no t'other side the way. No end to any row, No indication where the cresents gc, No top to any steeple, No recognition of familiar people, No courtesies for showing 'em, No knowing 'em No travelling at all—no locomotion, No inkling of tho way—no notion, No go by land or ocean, No mail, no post, • J No news from any foreign coast, No park, no ring, no afternoon gentility, No company no nobility, No waruith, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease. No comfortable feel in any member, N i shade, no shine, no butteiflies, no bees, No fruits, no fljwers, no leaves, no birdø- No-vomber. TOil HOOD. TIGER-LILIES. Sefi^rita, red thy bps As the roses in the South Is it yea or nay tha.t slips Bird-like from thy dimpled Captive to thy sorcery Cruel kindness thou dost show; Sweetheart if me, Break the spell and let me go. SAa<)rita, dark thy hair, Gleaming with imprisoned light Like a subtle shining snare Tangling fast my dreams by night. Sleep or waking stili to thee All my fevered thoughts do flow; Sweetheart, it thou not me, Break the spell and let me go. Sefiorita, soft thine eyes, 1 Lustrous, fair, and jetty-fringed, Like twin stars that gem tbe skies When the dawn is rosy-fringed. Cease, ah, cease thy coquetry, Teach their rays a warmer glow Sweetheart, if thou lov'st not me, Break the spell and let me go. BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. Before tbe open fireplace The happy children play, And in its lights and shadows trac9 Odd figures grave and gay. The goblins as they come and go, Within tbe flickering light, Are chased by fairies to and fro, Which fills them with delight. Bafore the open fireplace The maiden bright and fair Is happy in a smiling face Because ber lover's there. Yet as each ember fretting, Its dying shadow throws, She cannot help regretting Tbat ber lover dun't propose. Before the open fireplace, Tbe father worn and sad. Within the emblrs strives to trace The dollars once be had. His melancholy thoughts provoke An able-bodied sigh, As to himself be says: Great smoke! But coal is awful high 1"

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BEN TiLLETT AT CARDIFF, His Views on the Claims of the Labouring Classes. At a great demonstration of the strikers frois Spiller's Mills, on Friday night last. the chief speaker was Mr Beu Tillett, whose name was no prominently connected with the great Lrndon strike, MR BEX TILLL-ri. Mr BEN TILLETT, 10 the course of a lengthened address full of sallies of wit, "id the great ques. ticm of trades unIOn. i"m was practically only in its infancy. They were now ga- thering some ides of whal. it meant tc them. He was very orry to leacn about -,I,e millers. They ikoew there was an (old story about the t" j >lly millerg. j Weil, a man could I not be very Joliy on 13 bob a week. (Liughter.) What liiey were asking for was an increase of the necessaries of life. What they were asking for was not tbe lessening: of the capitalist's luxuries. They were only asking now for tbe right to live, and whether Englishmen, or Welshmen, or Irish- men, or Scotchmen they had got to realise this as workmen that there was not a willing borse in the whole of ISng.and that could not fetch his prica in the market; and there was not an owner of any of these horses who would not treat that horse well and feed him well to get good work out of him. (Cheers.) The owners knew very well that if the borse was illtreated or starved he would die, and he would have to put bis hands in his pocket to buy another. In London a horse cost usually from £ 30 to £ 40, but the employers would not give twopence for a "docker" even after his clothes were thrown in. (Laughter.) They had to do a great deal of fighting still. The battle was won while others were at work-it was not won simply by holding a public meeting. They must carry their convictious out with them, and act upon them in all the relations of life. Let the first man who spoke against unionism go to the wall. The man who raised his voice against unionism was an enemy to his class, unlit to rank with men, and unfit even for the sewers. (Applause.) Mt Tillett then gave a graphic account of the dock labourers' strike in London, and the complete success which attenQed it. Now, this firm of Spiller and C". reminded him of Mr Norwood, the secretary of the great dock company it London, with whom they had a protracted struggle. When they went before him he said, "I don't c.tre about your agitation. We havt got nine docks belonging to our company, add h you get the men out of one we shall put tna ships in another," but be (Mr TiiJet) replied, We have got the woikers of the whole of the L'itie docks, and we will not only stop the ships working, bu; we will stop even such a big hug as yourself trom going inside your own dock." (Laughter.) And they did do it, too. (Applause.) Why had the labourer been the despised among men? Becauss the labourer did not know be had the stuff in him that he has got. He had cot the sonst. of self- appreciation or conceit; be did not feel that in his labour was dignity; be did not fee! that he was one of the buildets of this country's wealth, the constructor of her railways and her snips. They never realised that. He sometimes thought they bad lest too much time in boosing and messing about when they should have been sitting down and thinking, when they should be looking after their homes, and respecting their wives and children, They knew how difficult it was for the old woman to make both ends meet ou email wages. The oankering care from uiglit till morning crushed the youth and strength out of the wives of tbeir youth, and instead of cheerful look-, the women arounj them had anxious, pinched faces. How were they to lift themselves out of thisBy getting a better wage. H,)w were they to get a batter wage 1 By uniting. (Loud cheers.) How was it the capitalist had got all the gold, aud they had got all the dirt V The capitalists were continually turning over some scheme in tbeir heads for eretting a little more oat of the workmen. While the capitalists bad been putting two and two together the workers bad been giving the two and two away. The workers must not be satisfied with auything, (No, no.) The capitalists were satisfied with nothing—they wanted more and more. (Hear.) If the workers were always discontented they would be as happy as sandboys. (Laughter.; There was a divinity in their discoutent. He hoped and trusted that the men of Cardiff woule not neglect the opportunity offered by this great upheaval of labour-,his great awakening of the democracy—of helping the shop girls, who are working excessive hours. (Cheers.) Kvery fine that was exacted from them for losing five or ten minutes, cr an hour, was so much stolen from them, and be would tell them tiiis-thit whoever did it were thteves of the most wretched description. (Hear, bear.) There is no law in our statute book that irives power to an employer to fine bis workmen or workwomen. And once they got a union, if there is any fining going on, there will be some law business going on also. (Hear, hear.) The worst of it was that nobody knew where those finee went to. They did not come back to the unfortuuate workpeople fcgaiu, but they go to buy good cigars, while the rightful owners of the money had to be satisfied with the little dhudeen, (Applause.) Mr Tillett referred at Jenwb to the cowardice of a certain class of em-)Ioyere-aud the worst class were those who sprang from the ranks of labourth-meelveg-fellc)wa who were insolent and overbearing to the very men who helped to make their wealth, who would not even recognise the worker in the street, but who shrank before the power of union even before that power manifested itself. He concluded ia elocuent language by appealing to them to make the way clear for future generations, and io old age their children would bless them for it. (Loud and pro- lougad applause.)

SWANSEA TRAINING COLLEGE. The annual meeting of the present and past students at the Swansea Training College was held on Friday evening. Mr Diliwya. M.P., presided, and he was supported by Sir Hussey Vivian, M.P., the mayor (Alderman Freeman), Councillor Tutton, Ilevs B. J. Binns, E. Clarke, F. Samuel, Messrs T. Phillips, W. Morgan, R. G. Cawker, E. Roberts, Ebenezar Pavies, the principal (Mr liavid Williams),tbe present pupils. and several of the past ones. The CHÄlRMANJ in opening the proceedings, said at the close of this present session there was nothing sensational to report, and this Lie thought the best evidence of a successful institution. A number of teachers would pass out of college at the end of this term, but there were far more than there was accommodation IT ready to take their place. He regretted that the pecuniary support of the institution, the only one of the kind in Wales, was oot greater so that rooms could be found for a greater number of students. The college was very highly spoken of in the Government reports, and he was glad to know that the advantages it offered were becoming more and more appreciated. Sir HussKY VIVIAN said the institution bad been in existence 17 years, and during this period bad sent out 500 trained teachers, who, supposing each had taken charge of schools of only 150 pupils, though this comparison would, by no means indicate the work doue,inuHthavetraAaed 75,000 scholars. This, however, would indicate the ncormuus value that had accrued from that institution. It was greatly to be regretted they could not extend its usefulness, tor the enormous population growing up rendered it absolutely necessary that the rising generation oil girls should be v-,I', .ind properly trained. Sir Hussey then impressed 00 the students present thi, serious responsibility which they incurred in undi-trts-king the training of the young, especially iro pressing on them the necessity of avoiding favouri tism, aod devotimt most attention to the dullest rather than to the sharpest. He went on to say that £1,774- of the money required to cawy on the institution was derived from Governnvjnc prants, L535 from fees paid by students, aLtJ only inS 10s trom subscriptions. He ventured to appeal, not only to the inhabitants of Glaimorganshire, but of South Wales generally, for more support to so deserving an institution. The MAYOR proposed, and Mr T. Piuum, pen., seconded, a hearty vote of thanks to Sir Hussey Vivian for his address. liav B. J. EINNS, in supporting, said he saw from the returns that the expense daring the past year bad been less than at any other college in the country, and be appealed far more liberal contributions to enable the expenditure of a little more on the comfort of the students and the efficiency of the training. qUIteere from the students.) The resolution having been adopted, hearty thanks were, on the motion of the PKKSIDKNT, accorded to the staff for tilfJ excellent work the' had done.

FEDERAL HOME RULE. A Political Hint to Wales. The Liberals of ScotLaud, under t he presidency of Lord llosebery, have given Wales a political bint which she will do wall to attend to..The number of Liberal 'M.P.'s in the House of Commons who expretis their adhesion to Federal Home Rule for eac'u of the four nationalities grows day by day, and Wales must lie prepared for this new aspect of party politics. It may turn out after all that, even before the Church is dill- established, Welshmen will be called upon to choose between two alternatives, both of which touch their vary existence as a distinct nation. Will Wales be content to jein her future with that of England, and thus form a part of England and Wales as one political unit, or will she strive to stand alone, and form one national factor in the united Statee of Great Britain and Ireland ? In deciding this questiou, considerations of principle and of policy arise, but upon the answer will depend the future of the Welsh people.— Liverpool Hftrcttry.

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