Denbighshire Free Press

RUTHIN. MUSICAL SUCCESS. Miss Ethel Batten Jones, daughter of Mr B James Jones, Cynlao, was the winner of the firgb prize for a pianoforte solo at the C.M. Chapel Eisteddfod at Bryneglwys on Thursday, the 19th Match. [MOTORS COLLIDE. Two motor cars collided near the bridge in Oiwyd-streeb on Monday afternoon. Fortun- ately there was very little damage done, but the occupants of the cars received a rather severe shaking. MARKET PRICES. The following were the prices at the marked on MondayFowls, 5s 6d to 63 per couple; ducks, 78 per oouple; eges, 15 and 16 for Is; fresh butter, Is 2d and Is 3d per lb; small iiibt-, OjOdper lb fat pigs, ttzi per lb; rabbits, li 6d per couple. ELECTRIC LIGHT. As will be seen from our advertising columns the Board of Trade have granted a provisional order under the Electric L:ght,ing Aet, 1882 to 1909, to James Herbert Edwards, of Bristol, authorising him to supply eleotrio lighb within the Borough ot Ruthin. Copies of the order can be seen at the County Ofiioes or at the Town Clerk's Office. MOTOR BUS SERVICE. We are given to understand that a com- munication has been received from the Railway Company intimating thkb there ia every probabi ity of a motor bus service to Cairigj- drudion which will run nob only from Euthin but right through from Mold. No doubt some information on this matter will be forthcoming at the Council meeting on Monday evening. SMART CAPTURE. A smart capture was effected by Inspector Harvey and P.C. Ellis on Tuesday last, when they arretted a tioket-of-leave man named William John Roberts who was wanted for a burglary committed at GarSton, Liverpool, in Septembar last. He was looked up cno night, and handed over to Deteotive-Sergb Wynne Jones, of Liverpool Constabulary, the following morning. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. A well attended meeting was held iu the Elinor Roberts Memorial Buildings on Tuesday afternoon in aid of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. The chair was occupied by Mr H H Springmann, and an excellent address dealing with the work of the Society was delivered by the Rev W Hughes, Wrexham Those present at the meebing were afterwards entertained to tea at the Cloisters by the kind Invitation of the Rev the Warden. RUTHIN WATERWORKS. The Directors of Ruthin Water Companv are carrying out work that will effect a groat improvement in the water supply cf the town. They are laying down a line of pipes to convey the Plasynanb stream from its source to the reservoir. This will prevenb the possibility of the pollution of the stHnm, which previously occurred when passing in its course over farm lands, and will do away with ona of th9 chief causes of complaint mentioned by the Couoby Medioal Officer when he reported on the Ruthin water supply in September last. 8T PETER'S CHURCH. The sermons preached by the Rev The Warden each Sunday evening during Lent on the subject ''Lor# are greatly appreciated by the large congregation, and mary non- conformists have been attracted to the services and have paid a warm tribute of appreciation of the sermon?, The discourse lasb Sunday was on Love of Ourselves."—On Wedneediy the special Welsh preacher was the RJV R Jonnings, Rector of Gjffyllicg, and the Rev Aurelius Jones, resfcor of Newmukor, preached at the English service on Thursday on Life,"

Agricultural Hall. A RECORD CLEARANCE OF FAT STOCK. Oa Monday last Messrs T and W Leather conducted their annual Easter prize show and sale of fat cattle and sheep, rhese sales hate created considerable interest amongst the agriculturalists and )there, ever since they were established )y the proprietors of this DH\!h some twelve ,eara ago There was an exceptional ooci attendance of local and distant buyers, and prices all round were wall maintained. Oat of an entry of 78 fat beasts, remarkable to state only one re- mained unsold. The judging was carried sub in the usual straightforward manner by an efficient staff of distant butchers, who discharged their duties to the general tatiefaetion of all. I The following were the prfzi-wiancre — Bast pair ot fat beaste, tir J Killett. Piasnswjdd, Rlg 12a 61, RIS 17 J 6i; sold to Messrs R Roberts (Trefnant) «n < James (Ssuthporfc). Best fat beast, Mr J KiWect, I L21 sold to Mr John Lane, cattle dealer, Ruthin. Best fat heifer, Mr H H SprtrA&menn, Bryn Mair, zCi9 5a, to Mr E P Rjbsrta, Rbyle Bast fat co, M D Jones, Rhewbebyll, 4:21 2i 6j, to Mr E Robsits. Bel ffefc bull, Mr R Morris, Pare, Clooaenog. Beet pair of fceaate under two ears old, Mr Edwards, Bryndu, L'anelidaBs £ 18 and £ 17 17j 6 i; both to Mr James, Scutbpert. Other beasts froa; Mr H Williams, P;asyward, £ 18 to R20 7s 6.i. Mr J Jones, Bron y Pare, £18 12s 6i and £16 7. 61. Mr J Jone:?, Glauhespirj, 1 £18 10i. Mr Jonee, Nant Mostyn, zeis 2; 6J. Mr Jas Vsughan, R16 to £ 18= b-,r Wm Pritohsrd, 216 17 6J. Mr J JLuefi. Vrongannol 416 53 and zCI6 10 i. Mr T 0 JoLe, Penyparc, two ab R15 103 Mr Clarke, EyartU, 215 2j 6j and £16 12 6d. Mr H Hughes, Penycoed, £ 18 5J and R17 23 6 i. Mr)6 Davies, Cefn, CI9. Mr E V* Jones, Plas dcuiben. £ 17 17a 6J acd £ 17 15). Mr J Fculkes, Oaerneddau, 918 7 63. Messrs Jortea, Ty mawr, £21 15a and X19 loj. Mr R Mom^ Pare. X17. Mfa Davies, Cefngardy, two at £ 15 10-. Mr Ham^brejs, R16 121 61. Llybfasi Manor Farm, iCli5 51 to C17 10j. Mr Joues, Ty draw, two at .£16 2i 61. Mr John Roberts, Pollioaid, £ 16 178 OJ and zCI6 53 There were larger entries of &heep than have been seen for many weekj, and prices remain onehar., el. B3Lt pin of Welsh eheep, Mr Hagh Jones, Cffia, 35 i eacb, to Mesara Jones and Sin, Ltd., Llandudno. Best pen of Welsh yearlings, Mr R E Roberts, TIne-.vydd. Ltacfair, 28 33, to Mt Hose, Rhos on Saa. Mr Snith, Bi-Ii- erieg, 24 yearlings, 23so Mr Hughes, Ilencoe.ds 27s. Mr R Jones, Derwen, 30j (H. Messrs Jones, Maeatnnod, 27s Mr J Jones, Glanhespin (creaf-bted), 48; 6i. Mra Roberts, Pigeons, iOs. Mt T Leathas, 48j to 57a. Mr T O Jones, 27s 6 5. Mr Davies, Cefngurdy, 30 j 6d. Miss Djmes, Penybryn. Llanynys (cross-bred ye>rlinge), 35a to 42i. Mr J Roberts, Pwllnaid, 33j to 41s 6d. As will bo seen in our adrertising oolnmns, prizes will be olerai for (atll lambs, pigs and oalvrs on Tuesday next, fair day.

Death of Professor Hepkomer. ASSOCIATED WITH RUTHIN. A NOTABLE CAREER. I We regrafc to announce the death of Sir Hubert- Ton Herkoossr, who pawed away at Badlsigh Salterton, Devon, en Tueidny e?er.-itg. Sir Hubert was secJt to Badisigh Sj.ltertoa by his London medical adviser, on Monday, sofieiiug from asthma, which was followed by pneumonia. Oa Monday be becaoae unconscious, and so recnaine^ until his death. Professor Sir Hubert von Herkoaaer, the distinguished arbist, wan born on 26h Mav 1849. is the village of Wait!] B.varia. Ij his early life he was handicapped by eiroamstauces, but his undoubted genius enabled him to surmount an difficnltie <, and M* career is a record of successful achievement and the attainment of the greatest honours open to men of his pro- fession. In 1879 he was elected an asso- elate of the Rojal Academy, and in 1890 sccceecfd to full membership. Ha wa3 C.V.O. in 1900, 8Dd ssven years later ho achieved tbe hononr of knighthood. Ho wai a member of the Royal Society oi Painters in Witter Colours and the Royal Society of Britiih Artists, and was an honary member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and the Royal Saotisfa Society of Water Colour. Painters, foreign Govern- Bients and artistic bott-.s have also recognised his genius, for in 1878 he received the Grand MerJaiiie d'Hanneur in Paris; he was an efficer of the Lggioi. I of Honour, a Foreign Kuight of tha Prussian Order pour Ja Merite, and also held the Maxmiiian Otder pour la Meiite. From 1885 to 1891 he was Slada Profeepor cf Fine Arts at Ottord, He held a life professorship at Munich, and in 1889 was presented with the insignia of the Knight Cross of the Order of Merit of Bavaria. He was also an honorary member ct the Association de Ksjnnolee of Madrid, and a honorary compcnding member of the Assooiacion des Artistss Francais. Sir Hubert married in 1870 Anna Weise, of B-Irlic, who died in 1883, and In the following year Le married Lulu, a daught3t of Mr T Griffiths, tf Stanley House, Rathin, tho wedding taking place at Raihin, where her father was well known and highly esteemed as one of Ruthin's eldest residents. Mrs Herkomer, un- happily, died suddenly of heart disease the folhming ear. In 1888 he married fgaili bis wife being Margaret, another daughter of Mr Griffiths, a lady who had greatly assisted him in connection with hia famous school as Bashey, at which picturesque place he resided at a mansion kùon as Lululaad. He had four children, two eons and two daughters. We are confident that the deep sympathy of Rath!n residents will go out to Lid- Herkomer and her f/mily in tbeir great sori o v. Tae 14te Professor first exhibited at the Royal; Academy in 1869, and from that time he has with few exceptions fceen represented fally both as regards the number and artistic quality of his contri- butienr. The Hat of hb exhibits is far too lengthy to b6 recited here. la addition to the srany sui j rot plcnre8 th&t have made him famous L is to be credited with lu- numerable portraits of distinction, snd I among his sitters are many ot the men who < during the last century have achieved fame in varioR3 capacities. The pictures, how- Bvert that will live longest in the public memory are « The Last Muster Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea"; EVEntide' a scene in the Westminster Union, which is now a valued unit of the permanent collection at the Walker Art Gallery, I Liverpcol; Pressing to the West.' a scene at the Ellis Island Emigration Station; I Found,' suzi I The Caapel of the Charter- I house' (both purchased by the Caantrey < Trustees); 5 Oa Strike/ his first diploma picture 1 The Burgeruasister of Lansbarg, r, Bvarla, with hie Town Council' (presented jj by the artist to the town of Lsndsberg); f 1 The Guard's Cheer,' Cr'mean veterans of the Guards oheerlng her Majesty tlui-,g tt Diamond J nbiUe Procefeei.-n, 1897;* 'The Coondl cf the Royal Academy'; and reference -tray be tnads to the portrait; of the artist: and his wile exhibited in Liverpool, under tho tW IS Jcial Duties,' and to the portrait of Sir J T Bi'ntnsr also tlown at one of the Autumn Exhibitions.

Ruthin Police Court. ^MONDAY.— B fore Capt Jenkins, Col Bromheid, Messrs H H Springmann, Gerner Roberta, C C Molt, and the Mayor (Councillor T J Roberts), MAGISTERIAL SYMPATHY. Tha Chairman, bSlore proceeding with tha business of the court, said ha had received a letter from Mr Lloyd, of Rhagait, apologising for his tb;er,C3, and stating that he was still too indispoead to dttend to Us public duuts. Mr Lloyd," remarked tha Chairman, hid been serious- ly ill for soma time, and be moved a vote of sympathy whh him, end au rxpreesion of hope that he would soon be re stored to his normal health. Mr Guraer Roberts secondtd, and the j mo,ion was carried. IMPROVEMENTS TO THE i CASTLE HOTEL. Mr Tegid Offea, of the Casils Hotel ] Ruthin, produced plaua of proposed site-.o,- (ions in the Vaults attached to the hotel premises, and &pp!19d for the approval oi the Bench to c*rry out the alterations which he said consisted of tho removal ot the bar into a portion of the billiard room. There would ba no further f ciiities for drinking. The plans were pass5d. L I C ENSIN G. A jro'ection ord¡¡r was granted in repec of the Cross Foxes Ion, Llanbed' to Thomas Roberts, son of the present licensee, and who is taking over the business.—Mr 0 C tdott did not adjudi- cate iu this matter, he being a close neighbour of tho parties. A PROTEST AGAINST SUNDAY PIOIURES. Messra Maull laB & 8m applied for a cir-eoia liceaca. Iq epec'.O" Harvey aiii Saperiutendent Woi'llam had no obj ctioa providing i Sundays, Christmas Days and Good Fridays were excepted. The Cierk produced a petition from the Rutbin Free Church Council against Sunday periormancfs, and the Rev Thoms. Pritcaard, rec'.or of LUafwrog, algo oij cced. The Rev W G Williams, Wetlevan minister, also otj cted on behalf of the Free Church Council, and said thero was a strong feeling in the town against it. The Bench granted s fcix day's only, and exemp-ed Christmas Day tild Good Friday.

Vale of Clwyd Auction Mart, Messrs Ciough and oJ, auctioneers, Ruthin, held their gpeei>.i Easier show sni sale on Monday. There was ii record entry of prime fed cattle, sheep, Jamba aud pige. 0 i?.f! 50 head of oattio were entered, and an excellent clearance was effected. The prizes were awar ltd as 'n11a IVI 'TO « Ci&ra 1—Pair of .^At beiate, any age, Mr John Morris, Gartbgynoan subsequently j Bold tor £ 21 I7i 6 i and £ 19 7s 6d 1 Class 2-Mr John Wtillamt-, L'ewesog Class 3-:Ft bullock, Mies Jones, Maee- llan gold to Mr John Lne, zC25 59 Class 4—F^t heifer, Mr J Morris, Garth- i gyiiu,%n sola to Messrs Jones and Son, I Llindudcoj 219 C;a:i 5—F^j c'jw, Mr Jjhu Morriij sold to Mr Charles Sawbridge, Wigan, for £16 lOa Cia&s 7—Fat buP, Mrs J()ne, Maesllan, to Mr Joha L-.cr, tv:: 226 2j 61 Sheop and laraba :— Ten fat Welsh wethers, Mr dir sold fo? 30J Ten fat Welsh yearlings, Mr J Morris, Gartbgynnan sold for 31a 61 Tec. fit isfceep (any large breed), sold to Mr Sswbridge, Wigar, for 38s 3d each Ba-it fat lamb, Mr HagheSi Berth Bsrii sold to Mr Henry Haiiay, S5 Aiapb, fur £ 2 Is 6 I 2ad beat lamb, Mr Johi Morris, Garth- gynnan Pair fat lambs, Mr R)bart Hashes BarthbwrU Pigh-An entry of about 35 effected a good clearance. Tae two prizos were captured by Mr John Morris, Garfch- gyncan Judges of cattle, Mesers Charles Stw- bridge, Wigaa, and Bower, Warrington. Sheep and la-.nbR, Messrs Win Roberts, Denbigh, and Hilley, St Asaph. Their next sa'e on Taasday next. A good eatry expected.

Have you a good appatite P Good appetite maang more than the were desire for focd. Gsueraily speaking, it may be taken as a sign that you are in a slate of good heakh, with your digestive sys, em in good tone, active, and doing its daõly work of extracting nourishment ircm the food you eat. If you can't eat, or don's want to eat, ten to one something is amiss with the stomach, liver or bowels. Try the iffjet of taking Mother S-sigel'a Syrup alter your maala for a time. Then watch how this L--plerdid harbal remedy sharpens the appetite, aiid tones op the digel- tive ^stsm, I) enab'es you to eat with a relish, aad when you havo eaten, the food enriches your blood and inoreaees your streugth and vitality. Tens of thousands have proved this to be true.

Everybody who lias lived at an knows that love is the very heart of life, tho pivot upon f which *ho -vvhole machinery turn*; without which no human existence can be complete, and with which, however broken and won) in part, it can still go on working somehow, and work- ing to a comparatively useful and cheerful end,

-c.====-==-===-== RATS.—A Ratcatcher killed 435 Rats with Rodine Rat Poison. A farmer gob 315. A gamekeeper gob thousands. Certain death. No eecape. A ohemiclAl marvel. 63., Is., 2s., 5a.; post 2d. HARLEY, Chemist, Perth, Agent: R. D. Hughes, Chemist, Denbigh, a APEWQR&iS expelled in a f jw hours Particulars froo. Higson, 215, N, Churob Stsrefr, Notpin ghaw, • GENUINE SPARE TIME EMPLOYMENT II In yvur spare time, you caji f amily work a practical I money-makir.g scheme to Great advantage. You incur ■ no expense whatever yo necti no expcriencc and can |c.rn at loast 10/- a week..Write for particulars to g WINOX LIMITED. 65, London Wall, London. K.C. TIES FOR GEKTLiWJINll^ WWH 1/1 Mil fffe-

History and Antiquities I OF THE f Parish of Liantair D.C. 4 [By E. POWELL ] I The village of Llanfair is situated about ( two milea from the town of Ruthin, on the nr io r,)d from tbia town to Wrexham and Llaogolien. The polish has an a^ea of 7,480 seres, of which aboub 5,000 are subjfict to tithes, slid extends from C fu Coch in the north eni to Tar.y&ftig in the south; and from Fron in the east to Pwllcallod in the wear. It has a langtli ot 6 miles, breath miles, and a boundary measurement of abou': 15 miles. The population. Accordiug to the number of ratepayers, the population of the parish in 1766 would be about 800 in 1801 was 1.049 in 1831, 1,238 1851, ljV.79 1861, 1,263; tond in 1911, about 900 a decrease of between three I and four hundred in GO years iha chief causes bdog the introduction of implements nd machinery on the farma, and therefore reducing the amount of labour; the neglect- of attention given io emsll holdings, of which a great number have been de- j molishtd, and the land been rui to the larger farms adjoining, and the intro- duction of artificial manure inslead of lime, therefore doing awsy wi h the burning of lime which gave I employment to a good portion of the I population. Before the opaning of the railway through the parish in 1864, all the cjal and favm produce had to be conveyed on the road. During the seventeenth, eighteenth, and part of t b,? nineteenth centurics oxsn were used for conveying coals agriculturcl produce, etc., and for ploughing purpcsas and some- time is the early part of the last cantury I the practice was done away with and this of course maant exira hsn's, and added to the population. The number of iuhsbited houses in 1831 was 247 at present they number about 2 -? 0. The rateable value of tha parish in 1815 was X5,580, now it is neaily £ 8,000. Agriculture being the chief industry, it is naturally a healthy1 spot, anl is well wooded, the most fl uriahing trees are oak, ash, sycamore, chestnut, and the elm there are a few popUr, ;bol1t 20 in number. The annual rainfa'l in the parish n about 26 inches. rrbe parish formerly contained a great numbar of ancient family mnnsions cceu- pied by opulent and highly respectable families and upon one occasion the grand jury for the great sessions of the County of Denbigh cjnsisted entirely of pfiifs.;m chosen from &nd resident in the parish. Bat by far the greater number have been converted into firm houses and none of them are now occupied by the old families that at one timo were residents ia the parish. The following bsquesta are appropriated to the psrish :—Mr Rioa Williams, of Ey-irih Uoha, buih Jeius Chapel, and left X4 te the poor of the parish Mr WiiHnm Ffoulkes, of Bwlch-y-liyn, left bi3 ttueoKnt to the po :r of the pirish ia 1713 a bequ-st of XIOO by Mrs Catherine Wynne £100 by Mr J hn Jones, of Chester; Mr Robert Pritchard, Fitnol, zC60 Mr Willinm Parry, Ll.<?yn- ynn, £ 20 Mis Grac3 P^rry, Llanrhvdd; £ 10 Mr Wiliitm Jonep, Faenol, £ 10 ilr Tuelwall, Cefn Coch, E;51 was hh for the poor, and a part of which waa used in buying a tenement in Lhnarmon-j n- Y Ie, iu 1756 Mrs Lloyd, Phs Euion, Itft £40) ftuu X10 was given by Mr J Williams, Rutbin, for the poor of the parish, f: J Roberis, Plas Newydd, gave a silver bowl. Mrs Lloyd, Piss Enion, gave a large silver flagon for tbe Communion service. Mrs Drelincourfc gave Cae Eithin towards tha living r.f the parish. L^dy Pfim'os? went io a grc-ft expanse to rtpair tnd d.curate the Parish Cburob, and left £,10 for the poor. The amount left for the relitf of the poor and the produce thereof ia annually distributed cmong them at Chridtons, tacco,din,y to the intentions of the several benefactors. David Shuckfortb, E-q., Plas Newydd, gsve a beautiful cloth orna- mented with gold for the Communi JD table and the weather vane, on the steeple, 1792. With two sums — £ 180 (after ths payment of 10 per cent legacy duty), and likewise C60, being rents of the tenements belonging to the poor of the parish, was built in the yau 1831, upon the south wall of the Churchyard, a Vestry I Room with four rooms underneath, for the use of the parish. The ground upon which it stands having been fredy given to the parish by Richard Parry, Eeq., of Llwyn 5Tsn. Oa a stone in the wail of the vestry, facing the churcb, ia the following j inscription :—Jonathan -beaver, q.; John Evans, John Roberts, and John Wynne, Churchwardens, 1831. "Na werth y nef er benthyg y byd (fell not Hesvm f"o- the loan ot the world). The boundary of the parirh i- as fixed by custom the memory whereof was formerly k'pt alive by an annual or periodical perambulatio J. The last per.imbula'ion of the parsh boundaries of LUnfair took place in 1810, in Rogation week, and was of a vary ancient origin. Oa Holy Thursday, or Aecension Day, the clergymen with the parccMal officers and other parishion >rs followed by boye, used to go in precession to the different parish boundaries, which boun- daries the boys struck with peeled willow wands that they carried in their hands. Sometimes the boys were whipped at important points to m ke them re- member." After completing the peram- bulation they wfnt to Church to give God thanks in the beholding ci God's benefits for the increase and abundance of the fi uits of the earth, with the saying of tha 101th Padfp. Tha narieh was at one tims divided into four townshipp, for the convenience of parish legielation, with respect to the roadn, re li. f of the poor, tithings, etc., and in each township was a penfold or Ffolt for the purpose of keeping str yed animals until the owner came for them, and which was under the control of a constable, there bring one for each township the names of the townships being Garfhgynan,Eyartb, Faencl, and Dtrwen Llannercb. It is not exactly known when this part of the Vale was first inhabited, but according to its Roman antiquities it was inhabited at a very early period. About the middle of list century a j u containing Roman coius was found while digging operations were made on Cricor mountain and while felling timber by Llwyn Ynn aboat the S9-me time a bottle of wins \8B found embedded in the trunk of a tree, evidently hidden at the time of the Civil wars, when tho bark gradually over grew and buried it. In different parts of the parish we find Reman anfciquHiae, in the øhaps of reads, monnds, and entrenchment?. Oa the easiern f.>!t:e of the pari&h, on mountainous are several dykea or entrenchments. used for military purposes during the Civil Wa-f. Thele dykelJ are very marked on parts near Nimor and B-yn h':>-On the summit of moansa land me-j dug Chf3 Gwyn is a itoad, aad under- ceath, aeocrdiagf to tradition, is buried a giant who was killed daring the same wars, 0.,2 the summit of Graid-adwy-wynt, on the western side of the padsh, are some aucxenii Roman entreaohtneaig extending in a form of a orescer.% and terminating at each estremeity in au abrupt preoipice the area of the oamp which is oalled Y Caeran, 15 the fortifloations ccmprisea about seven acres, and defended by huge masses of nnbe n stone, radely put tvgets^r withont oensent* These anti- auitiea prove that the Rotsana in their time were a distinguished race in the part wjuah we now call the pariah of Llanfair D.C. The cultivating of the land, creating farms, enclosing fields and wood, fixing boundaries, p anting hedges, dykea and ditoheg, select- ing spots for gardens and orchards, making rod8 and paths, and having the village and hamlets with appropriate names that marked the limits of each property cr the cooree of each way, are probably the work of out ancestors s me'iae in the middle aires Tte introduction o( th. severe gnty 7Lirsed a complete revolution in the government, manners, language, and literature of the country and by the 13th century trade materially increaeed. The baronn and loiaa of manora had frequently large establishments, consisting, besicleil their household servants, of carters, plough. men who were aleo diggers aad delvers and sowera of corp, shepherds, swine herds, cattle keepers acd labourers. The corn was then groand by hand or water; the oleest corn mill in the parish ie evidently a4; Gyt^gynanj a* it ia mentioned in the Ruthin Court Rolls, 1295, The houses in the thirteenth and t fourteenth century were built low, the windows were narrow, with wooden ùhuttera opening from the bottom, and supported by an upright, and glass was not genet-ally used.. The grouping ot bouses into villages and hamlets became general aa tbe country becawe more eiviiizsd. The village of Lhnfair waa undoubtedly a.-at bails about the 13bh century when Christianity was gtftjUiiJy taking hold of the inhabitants of the Pxineipaliby. The spirit oi the gospel began to be infused in the minds of the I psopje, in an era better adapted to develope the intellectual energies of the Welsh, and prepared the social mind for souse higher and more advanced state of civilization; Tao k cf Graigfechsn, on the eatlteru tilde of ibe psrlsb, waa undoubtedly forsjou In a later period. Tnis hamlet Jeilvos its nataa from a person natned Vycaan, or Viughan who is supposed to aave first befit soma bouses on this spot, hence was called Graig Vichan, bat whioa gradually became to be called Graigfechsn. This hamlet was at one time a placs of if-aportance, as H stood on the old tnrupik-j road from Ruthin to W rexaam aud Llangollen and which road wa much used in the old coaching days of yore. Now it is getting gradually modern- izod, and a very few of tha old cottages are now to be seen. The other hamlets are Pentre Celyn (which was originally called Pentre Caa- henlyn), Graigadwywynt, and Pentre Coch, but none of these are of any great import. iacce, The coal had to be conveyed to the parish from the eastern end of the county by means of ru,e conveyances, drawn either by horses or oxen, or a smaller quantity could be had by tb9 way of being carried cn the backs of donkeys or mules. Coming now to the Seventeenth or eighteenth century we fiad ag.eat change introduced in the manners aud customs of tha people. |'J\bont 17-10 the prices of previsions and usceaSHii.ea iu the Principality vrere as follows Butter 5!1 per lb-, quarter of beef aCi OJ 6i, loin of veal lid, roast beef 2 2jl per ib, quarter of mutton Ii til, cheese 3i 1 per lb. tea 74 per lb chickens It 81 per couple, daokrw per couple, wheat 5j per measure, barley 53 7 1 per h;bbet, oats 24 6i per hobbet, peas 48 per bobbed, candles 6J 61 per dczan, brer 5j 10i per barrel, load of coal 5) 61, liiue 7 J per hobbet, hay 243 per acre. Daring the 19th century the working men and all other classes appear to have enpyed an increase of the comforts of life. When conclusion h drawn from the great and progressive increase in the consumption of thode articles of nutriment which were used in every family. The demand for bread, meat, tea, coffee, cocoa, and sugar increased in a larger proporticn than the augmentation in the numbers of the people therefore the masses were capable of pro* oaring more adequate supplies for their families than they could in the century bafore.

4 — Chemists Know the Value of Kimoc. If anyone should know the valui cf a medicine, it is the retail chemist who sells ib. Thsiefore, when one of the beat) retail ctumiats in Lancashire says the Kimoc Biood Tonic and other Kioaoc Medicines give his customers satisfaction, ib vaust indicate the valae of KimJo. Wecou'd publish coiumiauf such testimony as the foil3 -jviog: M Healy and Bigelow. Gentlemen, r I beg to enclose you another order for Kioaoo Blood Tonic and Kimoo Medicines. You will be pleased to hear that the Kitnoc Medicines ate selling mell, and my oustomers speak weli of their curative powerp, which is very satisfacbory to both of U3 -Yours truly, O. HUNTER. Family Chemist, 44, Market Phce, Wigan." We ask any person feeling run down, 61 tar- ing from lack of appetite, loss of sleep, bad taete in the mouth, furred tongue, who is troub!ed with piins in the back, sides, shoulders and stomach, U constipated, bilioup, has no energy, always feels tired and eick. dcea not digest iood in fact, does not want to eab at all, to take Kimoo Blood Tonic. Kimoc Blocd Tonic will act on the stomach and liyer. restoring them to a state of perfect heahh. If these organs are in good condition you need have no fear of suAiring frcm such diseases as Rheumatism, Uyepeptia, Nervous Breakdown, Scrofula, Erysipelas and poverty of the blood. Your money will be returned if Kimoo Medicines do not do what we claim. Healy & Bigelow, 27, Co!quitt-!treeb, Liver. pool.

Local Lighting Table. FOR CYCLISTS AND DRIVERS, morning evening Saturday, April 4th 4 52.7 55 Sunday, April 5th 4 50. 7 £ <; Monday, April 6:h 4 18 .7 58 Tuesday, April 7th 4 45 „7 6'J Wednesday, April 8th 4 43 8 1 Thursday, April 9 h 4 41 8 3 Friday, Aprii 10th i 39.8 4