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THE LASS THAT LOVED A MINER.…
[.VOW JflBST PCELISH20. j THE LASS THAT LOVED A MINER. By J. MONK FOSTER, Affthor of "Slaves of Fate," "A Miner's Million," "The White Gipsy," "A Crimson Fortune," "A Pit Brow Lassie," &< &c. [ALL BIGHTS RESEEVEJ).] SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. CHAPTEE3 I. to III.—Shadrach Deane, a collier tt Amberswood, effects the rescue of a fellow- Workman named David Southworth, who was Utlwisoned by a fall of roof. Southworth's toother introduces him to a factory lassie, named Nannie Wilson, and an intimacy springs up which tipefts into affection. CHAPTERS IV. AND V.-Shadrach Deane's Mreetheart, Nannie Wilson, is also loved by David Sonthworth, who threatens Deane if he feohnea to give her up. As they are working in the pit a sound like a pistol shot is heard, the ropf falls, and Shadrach and another are im- prisoned. Southworth, who is heard near, is tailored to render assistance, but he replies that M would not lift a finger to save him, adding that be would have to give up Nannie Wilson BOW. CHAPTKBS VL AND VII.-Shadraeh Deane \I8d bioI drawer are ultimately rescued, and soon the whole village is ringing with the news of Stwrthworth's meanness and cruelty. He is publicly charged with it m a pubiic-honse in the village by a man named Alec Watson, and a dis- turbance ensues, a rough and tumble tight en- wung. In the meantime, Nannie and Shadrach agree to get married at once. .,L. j CHAPTER VIII. A Strange Letter. It was a quiet Sabbath morning, a. couple of feoprs before noon. The air was clear and frosty, the ground rang sonorously under the feet of the lew pedestrians who were about, and a wide halo 3f jfamt silvery haze hanging low iu the south- faskt< sky was all the evidence visible to the vulgar eye to denote the position of the dull Wmter sun. Here and there at the corners of the four thoroughfares abutting; upon the village green at Amberswood small knots of men wero lounging— jome of them resting their backs against the Wall*, while others were sitting in true collier fashion on their haunches and lazily discussing aome tcpio of local interest in and out of the ,,Iok opened doors of the cottages women and twfces passed occasionally, busy with some errand vt household import on the unpavi*! square a Itw lads of the rougher kind. who seldom entered lidaer a Sunday-school or a day one, were playing at.. stonies "-a Lancashire term for irarble-rnd Ware quarrelling noisily over the game, while .and again a villager of the more repectable tCtt might be seen wending his or her way towards the church or some of the other places of worship In the place. I reckon," quoth a grizzled old pitman fitting ou the flags at the corner of the Fox and Boose, as )ig thrust down with a hard, black fore- Snjrer the dust in his old clay, >4 that owd Nancy Wilson's dowter is gooin' to get wed." Which on 'em. Phil ?" another crony asked. Nannie, o' coorse," the first speaker replied. "But ah never heered that the wench were Wiortin' said a new voice. •" Tba' art alius th' last, Bendy," spoke out old PWT, in a sarcastic way. to heer owt. Why, J bin kpepin' company with that theer chap— Shadrach some'at, they ca' him-for months *<*w ?" An h«a th' axins bin put up yet ?" They're to be axed eawt fort' l ist tahme this flSornin'—so eawr Betty was telhn' me afoor ah am eawt. Well Nanny is a reg'iar pratty ■reach and Shadrach seems a gradelydacent scart 9* a felley." t Hello, look there lads, someone exclaimed at this point. Heap's Nannie Wilson an' that chap 5 ,■ >' her's comin up-tfr lone together. What's up I wonder." They're goin' to th' church ah'll bat to heer th' ax in*A nahc» pah? aren't they chaps ? It's agoodish bit neaw, Bendy, sin' we did eawr 4 eoortin' There was a general snigger at this sally of the old miner, and just then Shadraoh Deane and his sweetheart, attired in their Sunday clothes, passed by on the farther side of the village green. I Shrewd Phil MAlding had not made a bad guess when he ventured the remark that the lovers were an their way to the church standing over the way in order that they might heaL. their marriage bapas published for the third and final occasion. It was one of the unwritten laws of custom holding good in the hamlet that neither the man nor the woman who were about to contract a ■ matrimonial alliance should visit the sacred place during the first and second time of the publication of the banns. To do so was held, for some occult veaaon or other, immodest; yet to have been absent when the "axtns" were put up for the third time would have been considered dis- respectful, even indecent. And so Shadrach and Nannie were going to øbarcb on this wintry Sabbath morning and in dpflfcf to. avoid the prying eyes and inquisitive re- marks of the congregation they had decided to find a quiet corner in the sacred building ere the bulk of the worshippers made their appear- Wide. With light feet and light hearts they tripped i (aily along, feeling that they were objects of in- terest to everyone they met and passed. Their love filled them to the lips that morning the future appearing a long pathway strewn with tOWerøt joys, pleasures, and all manner of good thiags, and the grey old world wsis bright and beautiful from horizon to horizon—from Nadir to 2raith. They found the church completely unoccupied, ød selecting a quiet corner on the eastern side where the light trom a stained window dyed their iaees and figures with variegated glow, they waited patiently, exchanging scraps of conversation in osdertones. I Presently a measured footfall coming along the unearpeted aisle caught their ears, and on turning j they saw the elderly clerk, John Simmons, approaching. He nodded as he saw the lovers nach answered with a smile and all inclination of ththfitd. Then be passed the foot of the pulpit ad turned into the vestry to prepare for his tovotional duties. Presently one or two of the old people ambled !lito the church and seated themselves, with much puffing, coughing, and wneezing, in the places they were. wont to occupy. These were mostly special pensioners of the kindly old vicar's, and they :nade point of coming early in hope of getting r to see Mr Reade before the service began. When ihey did get to see him ou Sunday mornings it meant a douceur of not less than sixpence. "We're a lot too soon, Nannie," Shadrach said, with hi# eyes fixed lovingly on the flue profile of L, hrs affianced wife. We should have been soon fe Hteugh if we had gone through the field's and r some round by way of Alley Bury'* Lane." •4 But we might have been late, Shadracb," she TWponded with a curious puckering of her sweet hStlemouth, which spoke volumes, and then Sferybody would have been staring at and talk* ihf about us. I'd much rather be here, Shad, MO wait—wouldn't you ? f? Of course I would, you Jtttle silly, if you say r ? She had nestled against him, and his hand Might hers atffectioriately-biit WAS removed TOddenly as he noticed the old verger approach- The Vicar wishes to speak to you, Mr Bfee," be said. Will you step into the vestry, aii ?. 0M» «feh ta m N&n—Miss WrTstm— lkb ? Shadrach asked as he rose. Ob, no be wants to see you alone for a atoment or two, so he told me to say." t *>».be a minut* tear," the miner said to owsWMiheart, as he followed Simmons to the wastry, which was only half a dozen yards awav. As Deane entered the little room, the Rev. Mr Reads asked him to take a seat, while the verger I dosed the door and slipped away. | t- "Will you read this letter, Mr Deane," the dMvyman said, "and tell me what it means?" The miner took the sheet of paper the Vicar Wd out, and read as follows Liverpool, 29, Calliton-court. TO the Reade, Vicar of St. Cuth- bert's, Amberswood. Dear Sir,—This letter is to inform you that you must not on any account whatever marry Mr Shadrach Deane and Miss Nannie Wilson. In the first place, he is a married man, who is passing himself off as a single one; and secondly his real name is not Shadrach Deane at all, but William Worthington. The writer of this letter is pre. pared to prove all she says when the right time aomes. We were married nearly three years ago in Staffordshire. He's a real bad man, as full of deceit as a Jew. I never want to see him any more. but I don't want a respectable woman to fee ruined by a scamp like him. I shall never bother him unless he goes on with the wedding. If bo doee he will have to go to prison for bigamy. Tell him so, and mark my word he will give up hid dirty work at once. I' Yours Very Respectfully, 1" MARY WORTHINGTON." ••Well, Mr Deane," said the Vicar, as Shadrach faisbed the letter, and looked up, what does it ■lean ?" The minister's voicf was cold, his eyes had in Iktm a suspicious look but the young pitman'd them a suspicious look but the young pitman'd efee Were open and frank, his voice vibrated with [ dwp feeling as be answered. | Jt means, sir, one of two things." | Isdeed. Will you kindly explain, and be j brief, 11 for I have only a couple of minutes to spare." Well, this is either a dastardly scheme that is beinpr worked hy some scoundrel to part me and Miss Wilson, or it is a practical joke." Is there no truth in this letter ? Not a word, sir. It is absolutely untruthful from beginning to end, My real name, as I can pasily prove, is Shadrach Deane I never was in Staffordshire in my life and God above knows that I am not married. I think you speak the truth. Am I to publish the banns this morning ?" Certtin!v—I and Nannie are here on purpose to hear them called out for the last time. Not to go on with their publication now would fill everybody's month." "Soit would," said the cleric, gravely "Well, I will do as you wish. Good morning, Mr Deane. I am very sorry that this letter was ever written." Thank you. Good morning, sir. But would yoYi mind letting me have the letter? "Here it is—but if what you state be true I would not bother myself about it." Shadrach thrust the letter into his pocket, and returned to his sweetheart, who was eagerly watching for his coming. I suppose Mr Read's has been preaching a small sermon for our own special benefit, Shad- rach ? she whispered, jocosely. You've guessed it, dear, the first time," he whispered in answer, thinking it bette'r not to mention the strange letter at that moment. The service was beginning now, and the sweet- hearts tried to forget themselves and their, love, and to remember only their devotional duties. But the miner found such a task no easy matter to accomplish. Strive as he would to banish the letter from his thoughts the words he had so recently read roseup persistently before his mind's eye and claimed his attention to the exclusion of all other things. Judging from the handwriting the writer was a woman. What woman of his acquaintance either in Amberswood or elsewhere cculd desire to do him an 111 turn ? He reflected but failed to remem- ber anyone. Then there must have been someone behind the writer. Who could that one be ? Savo David Southworth he had not an enemy that he was aware of, and such a scheme seemed beyond the conception and execution of his rival. Per- haps after all it was only meant as a joke by some of the village wags. Suddenly Shadrach's thoughts were brought back to his surroundings. The visnr was about to publish the banns. He felt Nannie crouch a little nearer to him as if the critical moment had un- nerved her—saw the minister look around upon his congregation with a slow inquiring gaze, and then those vibrant tones were rising and falling on the ears of the worshippers. It was tha old formula which runneth — "I publish the banns of marriage between Shadrach Deane and Anne Wilson, both of this parish. If any of you know cause, or just im- pediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy matrimony, ye are to de- olare it. This is the third time of asking." The lovers felt that the eyes of all about them lought their faces while the metallic-sounding voice ef the parson was piping out the banns, and when the ordeal was past-when the moment cf silonce which followed the declaration had passed and there came no voicejof dissent -emeli.bremthed a email sigh of relief. Later, when Nannie and Shadrach stood in the porch, she said— How early it is—barely a quarter-past 12, Shadrach. Suppose we go round by Alley Bury's- Jane, noW ? Dinner won't be ready, you know, till 1 o'clock?" If you like, dear," he answered, with a graver countenance than she had expected to see. The miner was to have dinner that day with his sweetheart at her home, and turning to the left they made their way through the frozen fields, under the black !ean. s< trees and alongside the ragged brown hedgerows. Shadrach was momentarily expecting that his sweetheart would hark back to his interview with the vicar, and he had fully resolved now to keep the letter a secret. It was eminently probable, he thought, that nothing further would ever be heard of the matter, and it was useless to trouble her by talcing her into his confidence. And so he deter- mined to say nothing. CHAPTER IX. The Strange Woman. Three weeks ?ped away on flying feet and the day fixed ftJr the wedding of Shadrach and Nannie was less than a fortnight distant. During the last twenty-four hours the first snowfall of the winter had occurred, and coming late the fall had been a heavy one. Amberswood now appeared a btack sput in a great wilderness of white. But the inclement weather did not keep the happy lovers either ftpart or indoors, Nannie had said that she dearly loved to be out among the snow—it was so pretty to watch the great flakes swirling in the gaslight about one's bead, and pleasant to feel one's feet gliding over the white fleece. So they had wrapped themselves up wntmly, had borrowed Mrs Mason's stout ging- ham, and had struck along Hollmgford-lane at a rattling pace. Since that morning in the vestry Shadrach had never heard a syllable respecting either the letter or its writer. He had kept both his eyes and ears open in the anticipation of hearing some word fall from the lips of someone or another which would betray the knowledge of the epistle and its author. But no such word was ever spoken. No miner or villager asked him about the woman in Calli- fop-court, Liverpool, who bad written to the vicar claiming him as her absconding husband por had any one alluded even in jest to the allegation that he was a married man. He had killed the practical joke at the moment of its birth, and foiled the joker's pretty game by simply taking no notice of the matter. So Shad- rach thought whenever he considered the strange business, but to night, as he and his dearly beloved one tramped through the snow, both the missive and its writer faded out of his memory. There was only room at that time in his brain for thoughts of the happy future which was jnst beginning to unfold itself for Nannie and him- self. Next Sunday but one would witness the solemnisation of the ceremony which would bind him and Nannie to each other for all time, and it was joy enough for the moment to dream of that alone. For an hour or more the lovers strolled along the quiet lane and then back again talking of the sweet common-places sweethearts ever find so delightful. At length they came to the corner of the low stone wall topped by an iron rail-work surrounding the church of St. Cuthbert, and there came to a standstill before bidding each other good night. "Only a few days more. Nannie, only a few days more!" SI)Adrach whispered, tenderly. "After that we shall not have to say good night any more. I wish it was all over, and that we were man and wife.' How impatient you are, Shad," the sweot girl answered, her manner showing an affected petulance which her softly-breathed words dis- proved. It's just the other way with me now, dear. Now that the time is so dreadfully near, I wish it was a bit further away." Oh, Nannie How can you say that ?' the young fellow pleaded. It's not because I don't love you, Shad, for you know that I like you more and more every day. It's just because I feel so afraid of having to tace them all. I feel sure tbat tbe churcb will be filled with folk next Sunday but one." Of course, it will but that only shows," he said, proadly, that everyone in Amberswood thinks so much about you. And no wonder, Nannie, for you are the best and handsomest girl in all the world 011. Shad, what nonsense Still I'm glad you think so, dear and I do mean to be ever such a good and true wife to you." His arm stole around her slender figure, he drew her to him, and their lips met in a close, clinging kiss. Then he responded, Darling, you will never know what your love means to me, and I'm afraid that I shall never be able to put it into words. But I'll try to translate my love into acts, and with God's help and fortune will make you happy all your life." He spoke with a fervour that brought a sudden mist to her eyes her throat swelled with a spontaneous access of love and emotion, and for a little while she was quite unable to voice her thoughts. "There Don't give ma another word of praise, Shadrach," she said presently, if you don't want to spoil me altogether. I'm afraid, dear, that I'm not half so good-nor one quarter as pretty as you think I am." He broke out in a fresh torrent of laudatory terms, tnd ended by saying, "I shall be pleased, Nannie, if you will get away from the factory on Saturday as soon as you can, as I am thinking of going to Holling- ford." "Of course I will, Shadrach," Miss Wilson answered, pleasantly and readily. "Doyouwish me to go with you ?" Yes, I gave notice last night at the post-office in the town to withdraw my savings, and I intend that we shall go together on Saturday afternoon to buy the furniture and all the other things we shall need." How nioe, Shad, that will be," the girl res- ponded, all aglow with the thoughts his last statement had originated. Why it makes one feel like a real married woman to think of going about buying things for our own home." I suppose you have given in your notice to cease work at the factory, Nannie ?" Yes. You insisted that I should do so, you know." Of course. Bub I had quite iorgotten to ask if you had done as I wished you." I did, and I shall finish work this week end. Bnt I think, Shadraoh, that it would have been better had you permitted me to continue working. I am young ana strong and able, and wo conia have saved all my wages." The idea of your working after our marriage, is very distasteful to me, Nannie," was his loving answer. I always held that it was a man's business to work, and that it was wrong for to marry a woman unless he could keep her." But on the other hand, dear," she retorted with a playful and tender remonstrance. "You must admit that it is every woman's duty to help her husbnnd as much as she can, and in every way she can ? "Well-ves." He Admitted her contention with apparent reluctance, because he knew that such an ad- mission was against himself, and she was intelligent enough to see this. Well, then," Nannie ejaculated, if you believe that why do you object to me helping you? There! you must admit that I have the best of the argument ?" I supp ise I mnst, and I don't complain so long as you don't attempt to put your argument into practice. I care tor your love, companion- ship, and comfort much more than I oare for the few shillings a week you would earn by continu- ing to work in the mill when we are married." Perhaps I am wrong after all," sho said, with a pretty pensiveness. Why, I am quite sure I am wrong, dear Shad, now that I come to con- sider," she added, impulsively. "Fancy what it would mean to you if I kept on working at the factory. I should be away all day from home from six o'clock in the morning until six at night, and when you came home from the pit tired and hungry the fire would be out, and you would have to get your own dinner ready. That would be awful, wouldn't it ? It would and I believe I should miss you more than either the fire or my dinner. But there's no fear now of missing either of the three. Now I must be off. Just one before I go. There Good night, darling, and happy dreams/' They kissed and parted iu the best of spirits, and each hurried homeward, never dreaming that the blank shadow of a great trouble was hovering over them at that very moment. The future seemed to each a long unending way suffused with sunshine and bright with flowers. Tnppinttdaintily over the snow-covered ground, Nannie made her way across the village green, and past the corner of the Fox and Goose. There was not a solitary figure to be seen in the thoroughfare along which she was trudging. A faint hubbub of voices caught her ear as she passed the hostelry here and there the light streamed through drawn blinds but the great majority of the cottages were plunged in dark- ness. for it was between nine aud ten o'clock, and the slumberers had to rise early next morning. Just as Nannie Wilson was passing the cornar of the wall which bounded the backyard of the Fox and Goose, a tall, black-Cloaked figure stepped forward in front of her, and stopping right in her path said, I wish to speak to yon for a moment." The voice was that of a woman. What tha stranger's face was like Nannie could not tell for the closely drawn hood. The sudden and totally unexpected appearance of the unknown lady bad natually started the girl, whose thoughts were m the fairy land of love, and for an instant she was too much taken aback to speak. But she quickly mastered her temporary confusion, and Cried. "You wish to speak to me "I do." "What about ?' I will tell you in a moment," But I do not know you—who are you, Mid whatever can you wish to speak to me about I will soon let you know everything," said the stranger, speaking in clear, low, and well- modulated tones. But first of all I must know that you are the right woman. Is not your name Miss Wilson-Miss Nannie Wilson ? Yes, that is my name." Well, I have something to tell you of the utmost importance. But I do not wish anyone to see up together. Where can we go ?' Nannie hesitated. There was something about the woman she dtd not like, and the atmosphere of mystery surrounding her did not tend to dissipate Nannie's uneasiness. "You need have no fear of DiP, Miss Wilson, I assure yuu. I am here for your own sake as much as my own. I have come to speak to you cost and annoyance to myself, and if you are wise you will listen to me. Some day you will thank me and God that I came to yonr aid I do not understand what is it you Want to say ? Where shall we go ?" the girl exolaimed, a vague sense of impending disaster upon her now. Down this opening will do, I daresay, as well as elsewhere," the woman repiied. "Mpst of the people appear to be in bed, and I expect that no one will interrupt us. Come." The strange woman spoke imperatively, and ahe led the way while the factory lassie followed her along the white floored and silent alley. Fifty yards from the corner where they had first spoken the two women came to a stop and faced each pther. The snow had ceased falling half an hour ago, and the heavens were clearing. The moon, so long hidden, was pushing itself now from behind a shattered continent of blnck cloud, and was flooding the white roofs and deserted alley with -a clear light. As Nannie and her companion paased the latter threw back the dark folds of her hood, and for the first time revealed her face, which was that of a bold-looking, handsome-featured woman of thirty. Now I will tell you all 1" the lady cried. AH What does that mean ¥' Nannie de- manded. j. It means that the man you are about to marry is my husband (To be continued).
SEVERN AND WYE AND SEVERN…
SEVERN AND WYE AND SEVERN BRIDGE RAILWAY. The Proposed Sale. A correspondent-writes Public opinion in the Forest of Dean anent this move on the part cf the two great and powerful railway companies concerned is very considerably exercised, and there is by no means uniformity and agreement amongst freighters with regard to it. For years there was general agreement that the concern would have to be merged with some other organisation, and there was no veiled feeling that the Midland was the company that most people prayerfully trusted would become masters of the Forest line of railway. Nobody wanted the Great Western Railway Company to possess It, and nobody ever dreamt that the two companies would be the purchasers, or that it w^s desirable that they should do. Even now, much surprise is expressed at the fact, and in some circles it is felt that as both companies will have a voice in the management of the local line ot railway, neither will allow the other to make a forward movement. As is stands at present, however, charges are high, .facilities meagre, and accommodation miserable, and as regards the fitting in of the passenger service with the big company's trains, no possible design could mako it more inconvenient than it is now. In Lydney, for obvious reasons, the change is an unpopular topic, chiefly because it is feared that it will cease to be the headquarters and focus (from which the thing is worked) that it is now. It is stated that the colliery-owners are alarmed, and fear that, so far from the present rates being reduced, they may be raised, or, at any rate, that nothing will be done, thus disappointing their hopes that, when the change did come, it would be sura to work to their advantage. With regard to the opposition in Parliament to the sale of the railway to the mtending purchasers, so far as it is possible to elicit the feeling of the shareholders concerned, there is but one opinion on the sub- ject, and that is in favour of the completion of the transaction. If reduction in charges for coal and iron traffic should be made to any appreciable extent, it will be a blessing to the Forest of Dean mineral interests.
LYDNEY AND THE OHEPSTOW i…
LYDNEY AND THE OHEPSTOW i GUARDIANS. The Rev. J. E. C. Besant, vicar of the parish, presided on Friday evening at the Feathers Hotel, Lydney, at a meeting of ratepayers called to consider the advisability of petitioning the Local Government Board to give them power to elect an increased number of guardians to repre- sent the parish on the Chepstow Board of Guardians.—Mr B. Beaumont Thomas stated that there were now three guardians on the board for the parish, but according to ratable value and population, compared with the rest of the union. they were entitled to seven guardians. In 1887 they asked for two more seats, and got one more. Since then thbY had increased in ratable value by 10% per cent., and in population by 18% per cent. He urged the importance of preparing th3 way for the Parish Council Act. If they were entitled to sevon seats, as he thought they were, it was their duty to take means to obtain them. The spirit of Liberal legislation was to make governing bodies as representative as possible, and it was important for them in Lydney to possess themselves of uretf fosslbfe vote, so M to be able to cope with opposition lift thefr pro- posals that may arise from the other side of the water.—Resolutions were adopted to petition ths GhaVOTWrtiMit Board for ifc four extra scats, and a committee appointed to carry out the work, as follows:—Mossrs R. B. Thomas, J. Lander, and S. F. Barnard, with the overseers, A. E. Clarke and T. Scholes.
THE AFFAIRS OF A SWANSEA BUILDER.
THE AFFAIRS OF A SWANSEA BUILDER. At the Swansea Bankruptcy Court, on Satur- day-before Mr Deputy-Registrar Collingl5- Samuel Herbert Guppy, of 12, Clarence-street, Swansea, builder, underwent his publio examina- tion.-In answer to the Deputy-Official Receiver (Mr Hancock), the debtor said he commenced business as a builder in May, 1890, with a capital of J315, and he took building plots on which he erected houses as a speculative builder. The speculations, however, did not succeed,.and he had to transfer the houses in order to payoff the mortgages. Then a couple of houses in Norfolk- street were blown down, and he so lost £230. He struggled on till last May, when, creditors pressing him, he filed his petition with deficiency of JB720. He admitted that he had banded over the estate te two creditors, leaving practically nothing for the rest, and that two years ago he went to money lenders and paid from 20 to 30 per cent. for accommodation.—Mr Hancock How could you hope to carry on busin-ss successfully if you borrowed money at that rate?—Debtor: I was looking forward to better days, when the value of houses would increase.—Mr Hancock You must be a very sanguine man. ^Laughter.)—The examination was adjourned.
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Taoe editor of the Medical Annual after a care ful examination of Cadbury's Cocoa, pronounces it tob • "hot1a a food and a beverage of the highest quality "1.. >
THE ^OWXE OP LETTERS.
A patch on a boy's trousers is something new under the son. Whisky and the police get a good many men into trouble. There is no such thing as an imitation base-ball diamond. A buckwheat cake and a home ran depend largely on the batter. It is not impossible to meet with a plump refusal from a slender girl. The negro dude is not the only gentleman of colour. There is the painter. A man may not have a stitch to his back, but still have one in his side. It might reduce general expenses if the tolls of the bells could be collected. Time flies and stays for no man. The only fellow who can beat it is the musician. Most men go to the penitentiary as a result of their conviction and not merely from prejudice. In the West the ram-makers are busy, Their bombs and balloons will soon glide up Bat down in the South, they don't mind the drought, Since the Senate has finally dried up. You don't see much of him at this season of the year, but the grasshopper enjoys a beautiful spring. Herbert: Going to Boulonge dear bov?— George Ya.as. Herbert: How ?—George By watah. Take care of the pennies, and some one will come along and ask yon to put the dollars into a scheme. The U.S. Custom Houss inspector who allows a Chinaman to land, sometimes does it on the Queue Tea. He May I have the pleasure of sitting on your right hand ? -Hostess If you don't mind I Would rather you took a chair. He My lips never uttered a Tword of love to any woman before. She How dId you manage -spoke through your nose ? Smoking injurious ? Why, of course it is. We never knew a man who indulged in cheap cigars who didn't come to a bad end." Well, how did you put in your time at Chicago?"—"Sameold way—over the counter for 15 dols. and 15 per oent. a month." "Love makes the world go round." remarked the Divorce-court reporter; "and maybe that's the {-eaaon that it sometimes turns family rela- tions topsy-turvy." Member of audience fto dramatic author, after witnessing his play on the first night): WeU, old chap, I've stood you for three months what are you going to staad me ? NOT LIKE A DOUBTFUL VOTEH.—Gus De Smith History never repeats itself.—Pete Amsterdam Well, that shows history wasn't registered in de ate ward." A train moving at 35 miles an hour clears 50 feet in one secocd, or quicker than a man can jump across the track. Fools should paste this in their hats. Parkhvrst may be a. great reformer in his way, but there is still a large field open to the grate reformer who will prevent it from getting clogged with cinders. Metals are to be found in more or less abund- ance all ovjr America, but Washington- City contains the most brass, and strange to say the stiver men own most of i t. THAT IS FAMILIAR ENOUGH.—" I infer that Jaysmith is very familiar with history."—" How did you acquire that inference I heard bim speak of Charlemagne as Charlie." THE CHINA QUESTION. The Chinese must go." said a Harlem candidate to Pete Amsterdam. The chinas do go in my house. Our new ser- vant stumbled and broke a tray full last night." The gallantry of to-day is only an imitation article. The man who makes the most hurrah about giving up his seat to a lady in the crowded train does so just as it pulls into his station. THE ^OWXE OP LETTERS. That England's mistress of the Cs She often doth aver; But only think with how* muca ease The H's master her. PERHAPS m: HAD TO.—Miss Faith Cure Dear Mr Longacre, I wish you'd try divine healing for your lumbago.—Mr Longacre: Thanks, Miss Faith; but I think I'll stick to my porous- plaster. POLITICAL NOTE.—"Pa, when a politician goes into office does he have to take an oath V' Yes, my son." And when he goes out of office does be take an oath ?" Yes but there is nothing compulsory about it." A single word sometimes reveals aman's inmost thought. Who are those girls playing four- handed pieces on the piano ?' asked one man of another at an evening party. One of them is the daughter of the hostess," was the answer. "And who is her accomplice?" I thought you said you were going to bring a friend home to dinner with yon," said Mrs Chug- water. He oouldn't come, Samantha," replied Mr Cbugwater, as be sat down with great satis- faction to the first good dinner he had bad a chance to attack for a long time, Teacher With whom did Achilles fight nnder the walls of Troy ?—Pupil: With Pluto.— "That is not correct." No, with Nero." Wrong again." Ah, then it was Hector I knew it was one of the three dogs we keep at our house." FOItOB OF HABIT.—McSmith Reins has a queer habit. Whenever he is out driving, and he sees a man standing on a corner, he whips up his horae aud passes him in a hurry.—O'Jones It's force of habit; he used to be a street-car driver. What do you find so lovable in that little girl, Bertha?" "Nothing—absolutely nothing." Then why did you kiss her so affectionately V "Sh You ought to see her handsome brotber. Lilian THEY TooK NO CHANCES.—Two men at work sweeping and cleaning the street in the upper part of New York It McGinty, it looks loike ram."— Let's sit down, Moike, Be jabbers, it moighfe rain, and then we would be doing this worrick for nothing." MEBE FOBCE OP HABIT.—Judge Cowing You are charged with having knocked your wife down with a club. and then kicked her. Do you know of anv mitigating circumstance ?—" Well, yes, your Honour. You see, that's the way I always do when anybody annoys me." MITIGATING HIS GBIKF.—" What are you cry. ing for, Bobby ¥' said Willie Cawker to a little playmate. 10 I've lost a big silver dollar that Uncle Frank gave me. Boo-hoo II Pooh I wouldn't worry about that. There's only 55 cents' worth of silver in the coin anyhow." A GOOD-ENOUGH REASON.—"The doctor ex- amined me and reported that I was all right, but the company refused to issue a policy upon my life." What do the idiots object to ?" cried his wife indignantly. "They are not idiot. my dear. They have discovered that a trolley-car ine runs through our street." An elderly lady went to a country market one day to buy a goose. At the stall where she called two live geese were exposed for sale, both in cus- tody of a Cherry-cheeked counftyj^s. The little maid would not sell one goos# wi|hbut the o^jtigK Remembering that a friend had expressed a Wisli for a bird, the customer was easily prevailed on to take both. But as she was concluding the bar- gain it occurred to Ber to ask the maid why she had refused to sell the geese separately. If ydh please, ma'am," was the naive answer, mother said as how the geese had lived together 15 years, and it would be cruel to part them." One of the patients of a well-known physician in the South of France was a wealthy lady who recently died at the *ge of 83. In her will was a paragraph to this effect: In grateful recogni- tion of the intelligence and devoted care of Dr. X., who has enabled me to reach a ripe old age, I leave him the contents of my cabinet." The joy. ful doctor was piesent with the executor when the cabinet was unlocked. It contained unopened and intact, as they came from the druggist, all the pills, potions, and anodynes prescribed by the doctor during the previous ten yeats. THEM WORDS IS LATIN."—When Lord Cole- ridge visited America not many years ago, he stopped at one capital where he was given a dinner at the expense of the 8tMe, The feast was an abundant one? and all the great men from miles around were invited to it. to honour the Lord Chief Justice. His lordship bad the Governor on one side of him at the table, and the Lieutenant-Governor of the State on the other side. As the party sat down, the menu cards had already been laid beside their plates. These cards were very fine. They cost 25 dollars apiece, and they bore at thetrbeads the State coat-of-arms upon which was engraved a motto in Latin. As Lord Coleridge sat down, he took up his card, and, looking at the motto, said to the man oji his left, Very good, indeed, and very appropriate." What's good f asked the Lieutenant-Governor. I refer to these words," said Lettd Coleridge, as he pointed to the motto. "Yes," replied the Lieutenant- Governor. with a knowing look. Them words is Latin.1*
Y GOLOFN GYMREJG,,
Y GOLOFN GYMREJG,, c: Dymunir i'n gohebwyrCymreiggyfeifioeu Roheb- iaethau, llyfrau i'w hadolygu, &c., fel y canlyn: Dafydd Morganwg, MMrganwg House, Llantwit. ttreet, Cardif.
AT EIN QOHEBWYR.j
AT EIN QOHEBWYR. "Y Bel Droed. Englyoion priodol iawn. Clywais, pan yn blentyn, mai cicio pen loan Fedyddiwr roddodd gychwyniad t'r srferiad ynfyd, Ymddengys mai amcan gwreiddiol y "Fari Lwyd," hefyd, a fn mewn bri gynt, oedd gwawdio iselder genedigaeth Iachawdwr y byd. "Cwympiad y Dail."—Amserol, a chymmer- adwy iawn. Y Bywyd-fad."—Darn da. Os yw yn wreidd- iol, gellwoh fod yn falch o hono. "Marw Dr. Hughes."—Cymmeradwy. Y Draenog."—Yir.ddengys. "PriOOas Mr G. D. a Mtsa M. A. R."—Dylent gael y rhai hyn wedi eu hargraffu ar garden a'u fframio. "Bedd Robyn Ddu."—»Cyngbanedd gywir, ond lied aneglar yw'r ddwy linell olaf, o ran eu syn- jadau. Gresyn na ellid cael ychydig arian i dalu Am osod maen ar ei fedd. Y Ddeilen Syrthiedig,"—Cymmeradwy fel arfer. "Y B?1 Droed."—Da iawn pe gellid ei chann allan o'n gwlad. Gweddi." — Rhy emynol i newyddiadur; byddai yn taro yn well mewn eyhoeddiad misol crefyddol. Y Diogyn."—Nid yw yn ddigon cslfydd gyda golwg ar yr odlau. Nid yw bod dynion ereill yn gwneyd pennillion aunghelfydd yn ddigon o reswm dros efelychu'r cyfryw. Yr Oriawr."—Yr un fath efcto. Dylai'r linell gyntaf odli &'r drydedd, a'r burned 2'r seitbfed, yn ogystal 80'1' ail &'r bedwaredd. Treiwch etto, frawd. Y Gfiiliog."—Trwsiwyd peth ar ei bluf. M Yr Eiriolwr."—Cymmeradwy. Deled dy Doyrnas."—Astudiwch y gwahan- iaeth sydd rhwng barddoniaetlr a rbyddiaeth mydrog. Os gwnewob hyn, chwi lwyddwcb. Ymddengs y darn yn ei dro. Bara."—Daw i'r bwrdd yn ei bryd. Y Cenadwr."—Ymddengys. Y Gauaf.Prydlon a chymmeradwy. Y Dyn o Fudd."—Yu ei dro. "Y Gwely," "Yr Enfys," "YRhew.Ym- ddangosant yn eu tro. Duw mewn Cnawd," "Y Nadolig."—Cym- meradwy. "Yr Alarch," "Y Seinfforch," "Y Crydd," Y Diotwr."—Ymddangosanfc yn eu tro. Y Berdoneg."—Cymmeradwy. II Y Diogyn,"—Draan o hono-dyma ei ddar. lun. "Y Gwlithyn."—Eithaf oymmeradwy. Mae rhai o'n cyfeillion yn defnyddio "tlwa" a "tl05' fel pe na bae rhyw yn perthyn iddynt. Cofied y eyfryw mai y fenywaidd o tlwa" yw tlos'"
BARDDONIAETH.
BARDDONIAETH. Y NEFOBDD. Ardal anwyl, aur delynauswyttol Yw seiniau per donau Nwyf hedd glwys y nefoedd glau— Dwyf, odiaeth, diofidiau. Tref orris. TRETOBFAJS.
- Y FELLTEN.
Y FELLTEN. Y folltawg, eirias fellten,—yn arutht Rhuthra drwy'r ffurfafen; Och hi bair wewyr uwebbun, A dyrua'i dewr a wen. Gowerton. CBUGFBTN.
- Y DRAENOG.
Y DRAENOG. Un gerwin yw drill yw'r draenog,—un byr, Yn dwyn baich eithinog Er heb dy, yr hob diog, Etto'n glan hut wna 0') glog. ABOWAIN.
- Y BEL DROED.
Y BEL DROED. Y belen sydd yn enwog—drwy y byd Ydyw'r bel droed lledrog; Hobi ein lJu, heb un Hog,— Du elyn y Dihalog. O'i dilyn mae dialedd,—dyga'r oea Deg ei rbin i lygredd; A blodaû,u g\V.lad fad i fetid, Yn farw mewn oferedd. Treforris. TBBFOBFAB.
DYFED.
DYFED. Y bardd rhagora'n y byd—yw Dyfed, Dwyfol iawn ei ysbryd; Nod ei g £ n yw enaid i gyd, Clau feddwl yw mewn celfyddyd. Ei fawredd a glodforwn,—a diliau Ei dalent fawtygwn Pwy'n y byd &y' o hyd i hwn, Y gwir fardd a gur* fyrddiwn ? 1" Yn Chicago, yo beiddio byd—i sefyll, Safodd yno'n ddigryd; Tarawodd hwnt, torodd byd Gorn Ianci ar uo enoyd. Llanedeyrn. GOBSWG.
--DR. JOHN HUGHES, CAERNARFON.…
DR. JOHN HUGHES, CAERNARFON. Pa fodd y owympodd campwyr,—cedyra Ao odiaeth ddysgawdwyr ? Ai o flaen gwae diflana gwyc Anfarwol—nef lafurwyr? Ein Hughes anwylaf sy'n welw—'n y glyo, 1 Er ei glod, bu farw; Ond er hyn, ceidw'r enw—ennillodd Gan oes swynodd, mor gynbes yw hwsw. j Ei gu lais, a fu'n gogleisio—y dorf, Ow! darfu am dano; o oes o werth Kwnaeth syrthio 0 law graa i wely gro. Pregethwr diail fu'r gwron—am oes Yn mhyrth heirdd Merch Seion A duwinydd da, union R'odd ei oes yn werdd i hon. 0, Walia! dy Gymanfaoedd—rwygwyd, Mor wag yw'th brif leoedd; Ein hyder ni'n dy gedyrn oedd, A dorwyd, aeth braw drwy'th diroedd. Gowerton. CBDGmYN. ,I
MR. D. STEPHENS, MAER CYDWELIy
MR. D. STEPHENS, MAER CYDWELIy Stephens i urddas dyfodd,—o rengau Plant yr angen cododd I sedd maer; bid faer wrth fodd Y da weis all dewisiodd. Gweithiwr yw y gwr rhagorol,—o hei) Ardal iach "Pump Heol;" Y boneddwr beunyddiot • f Restra erch rwystrau o'i oL Codi hwyl yn nhref-Cydweli—wnela 'R anwyl wr wnawn boØi; I gyrhaedd nod, sef codi I gopa gwyn bryn hardd bri. Hir oes i'r Maer, a mawr roeso—i'w ledd. Mae yn sicr o foddio Y dref; un a fedr rwyfo Bad di-ail bywyd yw a Abercwmboy. ALAW SYLKN.
ALAWON GWLAD Y BRYNIAU.
ALAWON GWLAD Y BRYNIAU. Hen alawon Gwlad y Bryniau, O, mor felus ydynt! Byth ni thora hen linynau Serch fy nghalon atynt; En hadseimon mwynion, tyner, Gotir genym mewn anwylder, Nis gall gofid prudd nad amser Ddwyn y cof oddiwrtbynt. Nid oes wlad dan haul y nefoedd Gystal ei halawon; Llawn o fri a chlod trwy'r oesoedd Ydyw Cymru wiwlon: Fel preswylfa per Gerddoriaeth. Profoddhon ei rhin ):11 helaetb, Rhwng ei bryniau ca'dd feithriai^ekb Drwy yr oesau birion. Os difethodd yr estroniaid, Yn yr hen ganrifoedd, Eiddo cyfiawn ein heiiafiaid, A'u c&rcharu'n Huoedd, Byw, er gwaethaf eu dichellion, Ydyw'r hen alawon mwynion, Ac nis rhoddwyd hwy'n y cyffion-« Rhyddion y'nt trwy'r oesoedd. Cyssegredig yw pob dyffryn Sydd yn N gwlad y BryniM, Gan alawon per y delyn, All hamvyiaf eeiniau; Pob teimladau blin anhyfryd Oddiyma f Ant eu hymltd, Gwneyd ei drigfa nis gall goQd Gyda lion ganiadau. Enwog fydd Alawon Cymrq* Tra bo How a huan; Feg*r}jywtai eu difyru Gan eu peiniau dyddan; O! pan rewo gwaed fy nghalon, ¡ Claader fi yn Nghymru dirion, FaJ y treiddio 8u:'r awelon At fy nghudd orweddfan. MYFENTDD.
- CARTREF Y BARDD.
CARTREF Y BARDD. Ar lanerch ddymunol mae'r prydydd yn byw, Paradwys wir addien yr awen ber yw Gwel'd bronydd, a dolydd, a gweunydd a gaf Yn gwisgo prydferthwych aneityf yr haf. Caf syllu ar orwych arddunedd y wig, A gwrando per gathlau cerddorion ei brig Oaf wrando murmuron yr afon ar daith, Gwna sibrwd am gartref" Mor, mot 1" yw ei hiaith; Caf rodio ei glanau'n nhawelwoh yr hwyr, Yn rhydd o bob gofid a lludded yn lIwyr. C*f eiste'n hamddenol dan ddtrweTt fawr, werdd, I wrando ar nodau Handeliaid y gerdd Rhyw gyngherdd byfrydol sydd yma i'm elyw, Y rhai'n geir yn reddfol yn moli etn DuVl. Y mae anfeidroledd ein Duw heb bendraw. I'w wel'd In y blodau, a chwardd ar bob Uaw-j I loni ein henaid taleidton a wnaed, Rhyw fod anystyriol wna'u aatbru dan draed. Mae craig fawr, uchelgrib 'w gwelsd gerbron, A choedyda gwarchodol ar fronydd heirdd hon; Mae'r bwthyn gwyngalchog yn hardd ar y rhiw, Fan hyn mown tangnefedd duwiolion sy'n byw Mae yma'r dedwyddweh nielusa fu 'rioed, Na fedd y pendetig 1!y'n mhalas y coed. Gerllaw mae amacthdy bynatol ei wedd, Nad yr anifeihaid adYfæo ei bedd. Mae capel fan yma, ats eghvys fan draw, A chastell henafol, llyn bardd gerllaw; Gwyob yw'r golygfftoedd; ar fawredd fy Iør Ymlonj mae'r prydydd ger mynydd a mor. o Cnrvrxewfsox.
Off the Trail.
Off the Trail. Have you registered, Sam asked Simpson, as he climbed into the Chair to have bis shoes blacked. "No, sah," returned Sam. "I jes'pass de niokel ober de countah an' de bah.keepah he do de regist'rin' None Left. A seedy man .of letters dropped into a cheap restaurant in London recently and called for his British beef. It duly came, but had palpably passed its first youth. The man of letters called I the waiter and delivered himself freely of his feelings. "We never has no complaints, sir," said the waiter feebly defensive. "Very likely," t growled he of the meat, for that old cow had 'em all. Bring me some mutton and be some. thinged to you." A Valuable Man. What are your qualifications for the position of guard on the L ?'' "I can holler Thirty-fourth-street' so that people will think I said 'City Hall. But wha.t value has thaÚ" "Toeyget off at Thirty-fourth, thinking it's City Hall. They find out their mistake and have to pay another fare to rectify it." You can bsgin Monday." An Ungrateful Texan. Speaking of Thanksgiving some people never know when they ought to be grateful. Old Judge Peterby, a noted Texan, has been laid up for some time with the gout. His legs are swelled up to an enormous size. He is very impatient, and his doctor, who is also a church member, rebuked him, saying: "You should be grateful to tbe Almighty for His kindness." What kindness 2" His kindness in giving you only two legs to suffer with. Suppose you had as many legs as a centipede?' ,11' Hard to Please. •' Wife Ten me honestly, John. If I should die would you marry again ? John (desiring to please): Marry again ? Of course I wouldn't. Such anlldea would never enter my mind. Wife (angrily): Oh, you wouldn't ? You don't find marriage pleasant, I suppose. No doubt you are sorry you married me. Oh, you wretch John (still desiring to please): You don't under- stand, my dear. I was joking, of course. I meant tbat I wvuld marry again. Wife (roore angrily): You would, eh ? You are in an awful big hurry to get married again. Per- haps you wish I was out of the way. I know you would be glad if I died, you wretch The Defrauded Exoiseman. A countryman, wishing to convey a pig to town without paying the toll, put it into a cart and covered it with cabbages. On reaching the gafceJie said to the collector— "Look here, to-morrow I intend bringing a pig to town I ehall bring it in my cart and cover it up with cabbages. It you will just close one eye you shall have a handsome tip." AM right." said the collector. Next day the countryman drove up with his cart loaded with cabbages. The collector stepped up to him and whispered— x? y°u've got the pig with you to-day!" No, I broughb it yesterday," was the man's reply. The Burglar Came. It was an agent for a big manufacturing con cern who Was tailing the story. I once got out a poster," he said, which started in, Keep your eye on this; a burglar is Coming.' This I distributed broadcast in the towns in the northern part of the state. Among other places it was hung conspicuously in a small grocery store in one of the towns in that section. "One morning the proprietor, when he opened the shop, found that my notice had been amended to read, Keep your eye on this the burglar has come. The correction was made in pencil marks. Sure enough, the burglar had come; and he carried off about six hundred dollars in money and goods." Dearly-purohased Gllry. "Talkabout men sacrificin' themselves," said the old-soldier liar. I knowed a case that beats 'em aU. It was jest after the battle of the Wilder- ness, an' Grant hed all the able-bodied men drawn up in line fer review. As he rid along the column the gin'ral noticed one man in the rank that bed but one arm. Grant was sorter moved at the sight, and said,— My brave man. what are you doing in the ranks with one arm ?' "•Tiie loss o* one arm won't prevent me from detendib' my country, gin'ral,' replied the brave coldier. The gin'ral took one o' the medals off his awn,, breast an' put it on the soldier's, and then said,— There, my brave man, wear that, an' I'll see that you get a full pension for life. If you'd 'a' lost both arms you should '&' had a double pen- sion.' What did the soldior say ?" asked one of the listeners. Say ? He didn't say nothin', but the first chance he got he took a sabre an' cut off the other arm," Mr Goldgrabber Et Ar. Yes," said Mr Goldgrabber to the friendly cop as he wheeled a case of fifty-cent shirts on to the sidewalk in front of his store the other morn- ing yes, my vife she's god goin' again. Vot you dink she gif me for breagfasd ? Notting bud R cub ohf blag coffee. Dot's all since la?d nighd. Und she say she sig ohf de sigd ohf me round der shtore und vish I'd ged oud and leaf. I can'd stand id mudg longer. Eferybody likes me bud her. I go oud to pay a bill or order goots, or I go to my lodge, und eferypody shmiles, und eferypody shakes hands, und eferypody say Hullo, Mr Goldgrabber und How are you, Mr Goldgrabber und Haf a cigar, Mr Gold- f rabbet,' und I feel so gout as nefer vas und den I come home here und my vife she gifes me dy devil. Ach I vish I vas dead somedimes alreatty, und den she pe sorry. Bud mebbe not mebbe not. Mebbe she pe glad." And heaving a dismal sigh Mr Goldgrabber went inside and blew the dust off the neckties. Brought Him to Time. I.think the way Blanche Biggerstaff brought her young man to time was a little ahead of any- thing ever heard before," said Mamie Stivets to a bevyot girls. _Oh, has she landed him at last ?' asked one. ClTell us about it," demanded the rest. "You know he's been going to see her for years ?' Yes, ages." And they are dead in love with each other, are they not ?" No doubt about that." He was too bashful to propose, yet he was crazy to get married." Yes; go on with the story." "Well, the other evening be was at the Bigger- staffs', as usual, when Blanche remarked,— '"The girls are all wearing guards to their engagement rings now.' Indeed V replied Mr Linger. Yes, and you have never given me a guard for mine, Charlie,' says Blanche. Why,' stammered Charlie, 'I never gave you an engagement ring, you know.' Yes, I know,' replied Blanche, as meek as "Moses." "Well, what then?" demanded the girls, im- patiently. "Ob, netook ber an engagement^riogand a guard,.too, the very next evening." j The Bugs Were Too Much fonHlm. He stood in the vestibule of one of the jJrincipal hotels. He bad paid his bill and the |nanager bad sent for the stage that was to take him to thestation. We11, let's hop9 we shall see you down again next' year, sir," observed the obese landlord, robbing his hands as he approached the departing guest. "Very kind of you, no doubt, Mr Ragon- tompkins," replied the middle-aged bachelor, sadly, but I've done with your place after this- journey." Dear, dear! how's that V 'i mi tall you, air—truthfully and candidly. J'v, stayed at this hotel for the put thirteen years and, as you know, a person who can do that kind of thing here can't be easily troubled by tf in mr mr ?*periew>s, I never did come across suoh go-ahead bugs as you've got here this year! The first time I stopped here, sir — that was in August, 'SO-they nearly ate me up. Well, when I erot back, the doctor was very near running me into the fever hospital on suspicion that I had small-pox—they'd spotted me 80. The next trip I brought a hammock and swung it clean across the roofn but^hang me, if they didn't climb up the very walls and shuffled along the rope till they got to the coveted banquet! This put me on my mottle, so to speak, and I determined to master them. On the following August I swung I the hammock again, but tarred the rope and so thousands of the little devils got stuck and failed to reach their destination. But it was no go. Thoy crawled up the walls, and out on to the ceiling, till they got just over me—and then they dropped, When the first lot struck me J felt almost wild enough to get up and pull the house down. But the next night, when I turned in, I had an india- rubber suit on that covered everything but my mouth. You may not believe it, but it is a fact, sure as I stand here, that those enterprising little wretches crawled into my mouth, and out through my nostrils under the suit, and got in their terrible work—as usual. Now, I give it l1p. Such tact and enterprise as that can't be success-^ fully reckoned with—at least, not by an ordinary mcrtsl man. "2 "Oh! well, don't desert us, sir. Say that you'll not, discontinue year patronage, and against you come down here next summer I'll get a suit1 of tin underclothes to fit you, made with a helmet that will cover your face, and punoh very small holes over the mouth to breathe through. That'll settle 'em, I'll bet!" "No. Why, by the second night the darned schemers would be even with you, and every cussed bug in the house would be going for me with a ,.raine.tin opener."
African Monkeys. .
African Monkeys. PROFESSOR GARNER'S INVESTIGATIONS. Absolute success," replied Professor Garner to my question as to the issue of his expedition to Africa. Absolute success, considering the means I brought with me, and how sorely I was handicapped from the very start. To begin with, I had to go to Africa without a phono- graph, which was the appliance on which I had staked great hope. Edison had promised me the principal parts of one, but they never turned up, principal parts of one, but they never turned up, and no explanation as to why it never turned up ever reached me. I could have used it to the greatest possible advantage, and it would have enabled me to bring back a thousand curiosities, apart from the records for which it was specifically needed. I had to start with less than half the appliances which I had originally deemed necessary for such an expedition and as to funds, I was so ill-provided that having paid my passage from Liverpool, I sailed for Africa with just 912 In English gold in my pocket. How did I manage ? Well, I was very economical, and then I found friends and acquired credit, and so succeeded in doing what I had set out to do. My whole ex- pedition, covering over 11 months in Africa, cost me rather more than 2,000 dols. (j6400), a large part of which I had to find out there. And I may say that I found more interest in and sympathy with my work in Africa, amongst the natives as well as the Europeans, than in all England and Amtiica put together." PROFESSOR GARNER. I Professor Garner speaks vehemently, but with- out bitterness, about his trials. It is, indeed. rather with a tinge of humour that he relates how he was driven from pillar to post by the various societies which he sought to interest in his expedition. Th« geographical people said it was hardly in their scope, and suggested that the expedition was one rather of philological interest. The philo- logists were pleased with the idea, but thought that financial support should evidently be looked for from the anthropological societies. These did not deny that valuable contributions to anthropological science might be the result of such an expedition, but decidedly thought that it was clearly the duty of the ethnologists to pro- vide the necessary funds. Tho ethnologists, in their turn, addressed me to the geographical societies. All were interested, until it was a question of practical support. But half every victory," continued the Pro- fessor, depends upon a man's determination to succeed in spite of fate. I made such a deter- mination, and I succeeded. Perhaps the want of support that I had met with-the scepticism of some and the out;;poken ridicule of others- spurred me on. I know that I had one thing by in3—a fetish, I might almost c-ill it-which was a constant incentive. It was an envelope crammed full of torn-up paper, one of the envelopes I had sent out with my circulars when I was aoplyin" for subscriptions towards the cost of iny expedf- tion. It came from a well-known member of the Hamilton Club, of Brooklyn, and there was four centa postage to collect on it. The gentleman wanted to insult me, and sent me back my enve- lope full of scraps of paper. Wet!, when it came in, my wife took it and wrote the man's name on the back of it and put it into my trunk, and told me if ever I felt discouraged or doubtful out in Africa just to look at it and that it would be an incentive. Rarely a day passed during my long stay in Africa without my looking at it and determining to go on, no matter what my diffi- culties might be and I shall return this trophy to its pitiable author on my return to New York." And as to practical results ? I asked. We!'> Jo begin with, I think that I have suc- ceeded in locating the habitat of the gorilla. I travelled hundreds of miles on foot and in canoes to do this, and I have, I think, succeeded. I can definitely locate the eastern and southern boun- daries of gorilla land, which reaches south well down to the Congo, and to the north is limited by the Gaboon river, beyond which no gorilla is ever found. Indeed, I may say that it is only very rarely that the gorilla is found north of the Ogowe rivet. As to the eastern limit, it is where the hill' country begins. Gorillas are rarely met with after one leaves the low country. It is true that the natives all along the coast claim that gorillas are found In their country; but I havesatisfied my- self that, outside the territory which I have defined, the natives apply the name gorilla to the large baboons which abound on the African littoral, The natives of Esyira, where my principal in- vestigations were made, told mo of four distinct species of apes ;—1. Th« N'jina, or Gorilla, the native name for which is the same in seven differ- ent tribes. 2. The N'tyii, which is known only to the Esyira tribe, and which closely resembles the N'jina. 3: The N'tygo, or Chimpanzee, known to all the seven tribes by the same name. 4. The Kulu-Kamba, Which is a kind of chimpanzee, and which is known only to the Esyira people, but has been heard of by the -N'Kama tribe, who, how- ever, have not seen it. I may mention that I have brought back with me two kulu-kambas, a malo and a female. The native name means "Sayers of Kulu," kulu being the love sound of these apas. I was fortunate in securing speci- mens of three of these species, namely, of Nijina N'tygo, and Kulu-Kamba, and I believe that the N'tygo ape is the Soko which Stanley describes in his book. A fact to be noted is that three out of four specimens of gorilla which I have brought back with me differ entirely from the gorillas which one sees in the museums of Europe and America. One skull, that of a gorilla killed near Lake Izanga, exactly resembles the gorilla skulls in the museums, that is to say, it has th" highly-developed superciliary and mesiaii ridges which are characteristic featurfs of these skulls. The other three skulls which I possess, of which one is that of an adult i male, one that of a female of from three to flve- years old, and one that of a baby male-all having the same conformation of skull-are entirely I without this malformation. This fact contradicts the theory advanced by some naturalists that tho osseous development alluded to is a characteristic of females only, and would point to the necessity of a revision of the classification of this species of apes." "Tour primary object, was it not," I asked, was to study the vocalisations of gorillas and chimpanzees ?" Yes, and though, owing to my being without a phonograph, I was unable to do all I had hoped to do in this direction, I have learned several important facts. I have learned and can imitate the sound made by a mother chimpanzee in calling her young. It resembles the sound of eugh- eugh-eugh-eugh,' each note louter than the last, the sound rising to a climax and then stopping suddenly. I can distinguish their expression of affection, the love call, it it may be so styled, a kind of cooing sound. Another cry which I can distinguish is what I may style the plamtain cry; that is to say, the call that one gorilla makes to another to inform him of a tind of the favourite food. This cry is, of course, differently enunciated by males and females, and to call a male gorilla one would imitate the female cry, and "lice versa, or it would provoke hostilities. I am so far master of these sounds that I can tell when the Kulu-Kambas, which I have brought with me, want water, when they want food. &c. I can imitate their cry of warning and put them on their guard against danger. I could warn them against you, for instance, as an enemy, or recommend you to them as a friend. Beyond that I have not, so far, progressed. The natives say that they can dis. tinguish several other sounds in the ape utterance, but I do not know how far this is true. I also obtained, preserved, and have brought home the vocal organs both of gorillas and chim- panzees, and they are wonderfully like thoso of the human being; and the possession of such organs alone is some evidence of their power of spefoh. I held that speech is but a manifestation ot the thinking faoulty—a vent. The gorilla's roar," continued the Professor, i» unliko anything I ever beard or imagined. It is ond 6f the (host iiwfill sounds in £ h$ World. It chills one's blood to hear it. There are several notes in this crescendo roar which resemble Jho bray of a donkey, but incomparably harsher and louder. It can bo heard a vbry long way off, and Paul du Chaillu did not lie foot when he said that he had heard a gorilla roaring four miles off. The first time I heard it I was in my caare on-s dark night. It woke me up, and, not daring tp strike a light, I rose and touched th« nativo boy who was with me, but fast asleep, and said: "'Ojanga, N'jina' [Listen A gorilla !] "The boy jumped up, repeated in a stage whisper, N'jina, N'jina, N'jina,'trembling lik? an earthquake, and then said: 'Azuekenda go nago" [we must go for house], meaning the mission nbout mile and a half away. He was so terrified that the cage shook from his trembling till it rattled. I sat up ti!l daylight with my rifle, waiting for the gorilla to come, but it did not. The boy could not be induced to spend another night in the bush with mo." I suppose you saw plenty of gorillas during your stay in the cage ?" Yes, plenty. The nearest came within cloven feet of me (I afterwards measured the space). It was a female attracted by the presence of a dog, which had come to pay me visit. The dog was engrossed with a bona, and did not notice hor approach, which was of the ste<biest kind. I never saw stealth so strikingly personified. She would have seized him had I not frightened iief by cocking my rifle. The click of the spring scared her, no doubt, for she stopped short, and after a scrutinising stare, half ef surprise, half of curiosity at m;, she hurried off into the bush. Many more afterwards, during tho hundred and one days that I spent in my cage, came in sight, some 30, some 20, some 10 yards off. The natives told me that the apes worn afraid of my white face, and said that -if I blacked it thev would come much closer. I did think of doing so, but I didn't do it, because I had such poor means of washing myself properly in my cage, and I did did not like to remain black all the time." You were then 101 days in your cage ? Yes, but with frequent intervals. I slept several nights at the French Catholic Mission, which was close by, and spent several days out shooting in the bush No, I did not have as much sport as I had hoped for, for though I shot several alligators, I never even got sight of an elephant. I had a few shots at bush cows, as they call buffaloes out there, but never landed one they are very hard to kill. The first time I shot at one, I did not know that the beasts turn round and charge when attacked. They are considered much more dangerous than ele- phants in that respect. My first shot was at one in a herd, and only about 20 yards away and before the smoke of my rifle had cleared away, all the negroes with me had treed them- selves. One of them who knew a little English kept crying Ungh J ungh dem bad palaver too bad and a white man who afterwards heard of what I had done told me the chances of getting charged under such circumstances were about a thousand to one." How did you fare in your cage ?" Very well. I lived chiefly on canned meat and crackers, but I sometimes had a bit of alliga- tor, which tastes like eel, only tougher, or a hippopotamus steak, which some people think excellent, but which was very tough, the meat being red like horse meat, only of a. very fine texture. A treat was a pan of parrot soup, a real dainty. You can't eat parrot meat, at least I could not, though my boy did-I suppose his teeth were better than min"bnt the broth is most excellent. Then sometimes I dined off roast porcupine, which tastes somethingyoung venison. The Mission people, who were very liberal, often sent me bread and red wine, and some roast goat or fowl. I didn't care much for the wine though, and used water or coffee for my drink." Were you satisfied with this part of your experiences ? Yes. I did a thing which no man has ever done, or attempted before-lived in a. cage in the depths of the African bush, and saw Nature quite untrammelled, and the denizens of the forest off their guard. Things which I did not do, how- ever, and which I never claimed to have dons, were those related in a forged letter, purporting to be from me in Africa to my brother in Australia, which appeared in the papers, all over the world, during my absence. A letter which contained a lot of slush about my having hypnotised gorillas, having annotated two hundred different sounds of the gorilla's language, and so on. I want and I mean to find the man who penned that arrant, malicious, premeditated he, and I don't care what sort of kaife he carries, either." What opinion did you form about the natives?" Oh, the African negro has much the same qualities as the American negro. He is a dirty, shiftless fellow, a vagabond, a thief, and a liar. Still he has an excuse which the negro in America, who has had tho advantages of two centuries of civilisation, has not, and that is that he doesn't know any better. But perhaps about the worse man that I met out in Africa was a Jesuit priest, a Frenchman. He spoke the N Kon'i language well, and was anxious to ex- plore the Esyira country. He agreed with me to organise a caravan, and we would go together. As he wanted to take a great many things which I considered superfluous for an expedition of this kind, as involving the expense of carriers, he agreed to take 30 boys, including a guide and an interpreter, three of whom were to be assigned to me exclusively, and about eight were to be used between us in common. I furnished about half the cargo, including 16 pieces of cloth, fivo gal- lons of rum, all portable provisions, except tho plantains for the negroes, and these we could usually buy along the way at a trifling cost. A bunch of plantains, consisting of from 50 to 70 plaintains, costs about five cents in cash, or a franc in trade, and will feed from six to eight men for a day. The carriers were also provided with iguma, which is a kind of paste made from the cassava root, and which is a very good substi- tute for bread, but the dried root is tough and fibrous as wood. Well, we started on a journey together up the Rambo N'lvaumi, and after about three days in canoo we loft the river, and on the second day after this I fell sick of fever, that being one out of the twelve times that I had fever during my stay in Africa. Wo were then about forty miles south of the Rembo. I couldn't walk, and just lay down by the roadside. The old priest kept on, and if it hadn't been for one of three of our carriers who had fallen far behind. I might have died by the roadside. He carried me on his back a part of the way till we got up to where the Jesuit had pitched camp for a midday rest, and he really seemed none too pleased to see me. I was too ill to proceed, and don't know what would have become of me, but at this juncture an Esyira man came into camp and informed us that tnere was a camp of slaves on a. hill hard by where I could rest. These slaves were cutting rubber for the king of a towit about two days from there. I don't know how I got. to that rubber cailip, but when in the evening I recovered a bit I found that my reverend friend had deserted me for good, leaving me only one boy and my private belongings, which amounted to three men's cargo. He had left me almost no chop (chop being the name all over that country for food), notwithstanding I had furnished every ounce of it myself. He had even taken my inediciae belt away with him. I had to remain in this camp for three days, trading my spoons and some tin plates that I had in my kit for a few plantains and a little dried manioc. I nearly got murdered in that camp, for the slaves got up a conspiracy to rob me, which I managed to escape. Now, though I had little or no provisions, and had been deserted and left without even a guide or interpreter, I deter- mined to go on, and I did go on. I engaged two men and four small boys as carriers, agreeing to pay them two pieces of cloth and a dash each for a day's journey to the men, and one piece and a dash each to the boy- I walked thirty miles that day, and got to Milamba, where I was able to buy a fowl and two pieces of iguma, but I travelled all that day with nothing to eat but one ounce of dried soup and some of that wooden stuff-manioc. At Milamba a coloured Accra trader paid my men, against my book.' Any writing is a book in that part of the world. My book in this case was a promise to pay, at a factory in Ferman Vaz, so many dollars. Negroes will always give goods or service in exchange for a book''an no cash is used in this pait of Africa. No white man ever fails to redeem his book; but if he should do so and try to defraud his creditor, his debt would always be paid for him by the next white man that oomes that way, for of course it would not do to destroy the white man's credit in that country. Thanks to the Accra trader's confidence, I was able to get PROFESSOR GAKNBR IN HW OAUE. I | —— on to a place called Idumi, where I was very kindly treated by the natives. They gave mo a couple of fowls, and two bunches of plantains for my carriers. The chief man in the village gave me a palm-oil chop; that is to say, two of his wives cooked the fowls for me m palm-oil, and fine eating it was. It is the only dish that tho natives know how to cook, and it is splendid. I continued mv journey, and on the tenth day I reached the head of the N'dogo river at a place called N'tyminyoni, where I fcund a white man and heard of the great fetish or enchanted lake, which I visited and where a strange mirage is to b5 seen. I then made my way back again to- wards tho N'Knml country; in the tnumttme I fall in again with the priest, but we had a palaver before wo parted, which did not flatttjr hitp, I can assure you. I don't think that that white fettishman's credit stood As high with the natives when I had done With htm as it had before. I never got olio penny's value of my cargo from him, nor ever will. I left him at Fernon Vaz Lake, where my cargo was stored, and made my way thence by trade steamer to Cape Lopez. Here I got a pas- sage on board a French. gunboat and came to Gaboon, where I took passage for Liverpool on the English steamer Cameron, which landed mo in England after touching at about 30 ports cn the way, in 42 days." These are some of the extraordinary things that Professor Garner told me, during an interview I had with him in London on the morrow of his arrival in town. Professor Garner seems on the whole satisfied with the results of his expedition, although ho bitt?rly regrets that, owing to insufficiency of funds and want of applianccg, he wa. not able to effect all that he might have dono. He proposes to return to Africa, better equipped this time, at the earliest opportunity. KOBERT H. SHEHARD. Death of Professor Garner's Chimpanzee. Professor Garner brought back with him two very fine specimens of the chimpanzee, which he left in the keeping of Mr Wm. Cross, the naturalist, of Liverpool, since his arrival. The nameft given by the professor to his anthropoid friends were Aaron and Elishaba, and, much to his regret, Elishaba, last week fell a victim to the severe English weather. She had several previous attacks of cold, and got better. Death was attributed to a pulmonary affection, brought on by a severe chill. The brain of the little victim Jias been given to Pro- fessor Hevdman, of the Liverpool University College, while the body is to be preserved. The scene at the death-bed of Elishaba was one of a very distressing kind. She really died in the arms of poor Aaron,, who had been most assiduous 'n' his attelltiClll to his consort during the whole of her Professor Garner was present during the la?* moments of the chimpanzee, and when he pot hand to her heart to see if it had ceased to beat, Aaron put his hand there too, looking up in thø professor's eyes as if inquiring if that was all they could do fir her. Aaron would not suffer hi* departed love to be taken from him, aud clung ta her body with such tenacity that the professed was compelled to lay it down on its bed of stra*» when the distressed husband released his hold* The sadness depicted on Aaron's countenance could not have been more clearly portrayed on the face of any human being, and his grief \va6 unconsolable. When Professor Garner visited his protege on Wednesday a state of gloom still surrounded the cage, and poor Aaron was not con- soled until ho had his hand in that of the p|0* fessor's, and by signs and sounds was telling niØ1 of his distress. Both of the animals had becoin« greatly attached to Professor Garner, and from her value in support of his theory, the of Elishaba is keenly felt by him.—Leeds Mercury-
DISTRESS IN THE NORTH.
DISTRESS IN THE NORTH. Charitable:Movements in Cardiff. It will be remembered that some six weeks a. deputation of Rotherham miners waited upon the Cardiff Trades Council seeking financial help for the destitute wives and children of the miners then on strike in the North, and that in response to the appeal then n.ade the council communi- cated with the committees of the various trade organisations in the town, laying the appeal 1*' fore them. The result was that subscription were raised to a considerable amount, and the money was immediately forwarded to those engaged in relieving the prevailing distress. SeeiBjf that the strike continued,the council then decided to supplement their efforts in relieving the dis* tressed women and children by holding a chuicb parade, in which all the trade organisations in the town wero invited to join. The idea was taken up very readily^ and on Sunday a large procession was formed in Westgate-street, composed of masons ? carpenters', joiners', bricklayers', and labourers organisations, carrying with them tbpir society banners, and accompanied by the Mechanics Band Burns's, Heath-road the Railway Ser- vants' Band, and the Salvation Army Band- Heading the procession were several members of the trades' council, including Councillor Jenkins. Mr Richards, and others. Arrangements had, previously, been made for holding a service during the afternoon in Wood-street Chapel, the Rev. W. Spurgeon having consented to preach a special sermon for the occasion. There was a large muster of men in the proc- ssion, and collections were taken en route, the processionists traversing St. Mary-street, Bute-terrace, Clifton-street, and Newport-road prior to the service. There was a good attendance at the chapel, and, in addition to the preacher, the platform was occupied by Councillors Jenkins and Crossman, Mr Harbournc • president of the trades' council) and Mr J. Richards. Mr Spurgeon based his sermon on tb6 text, If a brother and sister be naked and destitude of daily food," taken from 2nd chap, James, 18th verse. He graphically illustrated the prolonged sufferings of the women and children whose husbands and fathers had been on strike so long, and while not desirous of entering into the merits of the dispute which had brought about so great a strike, expressed his entire sympathy with the miners' demand for a "living wage- He also pointed out the necessity of strong, practical sympathy with the distressed, calling upon the congregation to do something beyond mere tears or expressions of sympathy. They should, he contended, sacrifice something, say 1. pint of beer a day, a pipe of tobacco or cigar » day, and even those who did visit the places of entertainment and their ordinary visit to the Empire in order that they should the better be able to contribute their quoto to the distress fund. Though the strike was over, he pointed out that its effect would be felt for years to come, and would mean maimed manhood, weakened womanhood, and stinted childhood to those who had been "clem'd in the mining districts of the North. A collection was then taken, realising'' little over £7.
PROFESSOR JOWETT,
PROFESSOR JOWETT, Proposed Memorial. A large and influential meeting of ladies and gentlemen, former friends of the late Profess?' Jowett, and past 'and present members of BaHiOJ College, was held at the University of London to. day, for the purpose of raising a monuioec" memorial fund. The Speaker of the House ot Commons presided. A (resolution expressing regret at the loss which tho country and Oxf°r University had sustained in the death of the late Master of Balliol was proposed by Marquis of Salisbury, who testified to th* brilliant and lasting servicos Professor Jowet* bad rendered to academical generation* with whom his example was present so los £ The enormous and singular influence which b* possessed was duo to his own spscial and un- exampled character, which had conferred greate* moral and spiritual benefit on these generations than even the high intellectual gifts which be carried along with it. His memory would be" moral support and ennobling influence for many generations. The Lord Chancellor seconded theresolution,*n" said academic culture had sustained a serious los*' There was a blank which could not easily tilled.—Mr Asquith said they could not see again a counterpart of the rare and ,rof)D»' intellect that Professor Jowett resolution was adopted.—The Lord Chief Justice proposed that a fund ba raised to b« called' Jowett Memorial Fund," and to be applied to ) the strengthening and maintaining and extending of the educational work of B^liol was supported by Lord Bowen and Dr. Marti- neau, and carried.—Tho Bishop of London moved that a portion of the. fund be applied to the erection of a memorial to the late Master II] Balliol College Chapel or other convenient placet and that subscriptions might bo especially OOU" tributad for this object. This was seconded bY Professor Caird and carried. A general com* mi ttee was appointed to collect the funds and carry out these objects.
FEVER IN A MILK SHOP.
FEVER IN A MILK SHOP. At Worship-street Police-court on Fridll.11 Jacob Schuleberg, a boot hand and carrying 0" a shop business in general provisions and milk 37, Old Montague-street, Whitochapal, answered two summonses taken out by the London County Council, charging him with not ^iviui notice of an outbreak of contagious disease in tht building in which he kept milk for sale* and (2) that he did not remove all tnllll and all vessels containing milk from suon building.—Tho defendant,, a .Russo Polisfl Jew, for whom the evidence was interpreted in the "Yiddish" patois, called Mr Robert brose, M.D., of Mount-street, Bethnal-green, tt1 attend a sick child, his daughter, aged two and a half. The doctor found the girl suffering from scarlet fever, and accordingly gavn notice W the sanitary authority of the district, as reqnirec by law. The sanitary officer on visiting the plao. discovered that the child Jay in btld inaMOtC behind the shop. Milk was on sale, and th< defendant, it appeared from the statement of 1\1' Collmar., who prosecuted for the L.O.C., wa* registered ,as a milk seller under the Milkshop? Order, 1885. An inspector of the Council- was sent down, and notice was given to him ? discontinue the sale of milk, an interpreter being obtained to make the notice clear to the defen- dant. The defendant, however, continued toeell milk, and on feur occasions subsequently, when the local sanitary officer visited the place, milk was found exposed for sale. The defendant ad' mitted that he gave no notice of the illness of hjs child, and said that she slept with him and hi* wife. As for selling the milk, he said he 111118' live.—Mr Bushby said it was clear the defendant had infringed the two orders in council meP- tioned, And it was horrible to contemplate tht consequences which mighe follow the breach of such a law. He (defendant) said he must live. The necessity was not so apparent when it was sf the expense of killing other people. He fined d*. fendant £5, £226 of the amount being allotted tfr the London County Council as costs.—'Tb% defendant said he would pay the money.
A GANG OF BANK THIEVES. !
A GANG OF BANK THIEVES. The Liverpool police on Saturday evening mad« a clever arrest of two men in connection with the ■ theft of £225 from an office boy. The lad VI" sent to the North-Western Bank to cash a chea1?'" for the amount stated, and while returning to hi* master's office he missed the notes and bank boo« from his pocket. The police were informed, and Detective Holmes remembered seeing a frequent public-houses in tho outskirts of the c'ty who had been previously convicted of a 810..1Iaf offence. On going there the police arrested a named McHarvey in the kitchert, afterw £ i!rds ing a J6100 note concealed under a table. Another man, who gave the name of Edwards, Ie the kitchen when the officers entered, but was followed and arrested in a washhouse at the back, Wherfe the police found concealed 'u the root another £100 note, and three £5 notes, an being identified as part of the stolen property. Polic" inquiries show that Edwards' real name Wharmby, alias Day, who is wanted by th* Manchester police, for having, two years ago* stolen £2,000 worth of jewellery from a com* mercial traveller, who committed suicide in con- sequence. Wharmby afterwards went to York. Nothing is yet known of McHarvey.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT Al…
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT Al SWANSEA, On Saturday night an extraordinary aceid^ occurred near the halfpenny bridge, Swansea, risult being the smashing of a 'bus but, tunatelv, no serious injury was done to its to gers. It appears that at 9.15 a 'bus bplor>g,n»j Sir Chapmaa, and driven by a man n*' ,n Tomlinson, was convoying three passengers By St. Thomas to Swansea, when at the bridge, wheie the tram-lino crosses the TOii came in collision with one of the trucks of « » train on the low level railway. The roffn that the 'bus was smashod, the driver "get from his seat and somewhat injured, a {foe sitting by his side was cut on the head, w_n1 pC two insif\o passengers seem to have sustain injury, for they walked off beforo they cou interviewed by the police.
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