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L MISSES EVANS and SMITH, 13, Jromfield;Place, Penarth. Lessons given-Violio, Piano, and Theory. Engagements Accepted, I

A Life-Boat Story. A dozen of hearts and a dozen of hands And the courage of death!—'lis a Yorkshire boast; It was all they asked one November noon When a hurricane, blew on the Whitby coast. For a cry came over the wailing sands, And spread through the village, and swept through the street, There'll be widows to-morrow, and fatherless bairns, For exposed to the storm is the fishermenls fleet. There was not a minute to dream or to think, It was Who's for the life-boat" ? and C., Who's for the shore ? Just a kissing of lips of the lasses they loved, Just a sigh, and a cheer, and a grasp of the oar. For the men out at sea weie exposjd to the storm, But were not forgotten by "pals on the land; Whilst there's life there is hope, whilst there's strength there is rope, The heart of a friend) and the grasp of a hand. Just picture the scene, 0 my brothers in town, With your petty annoyance and impotent strife, In the midst of our city it is Worship of Self— On the fishermen's coast it is rescue and Life But the morning breaks, and the storm is past, And over the village, and into the street, The sun is shedding its wintry rays On the scene where they fought for the fishermen's fleet; j And the sea is calm, and the sand is still, Where they manned the boat and they went to death. What'a that ?-out there in the steamer's wake- Here, give us your glass 1 Then they held their breath; And a beam of light shot out of the sky, And a cheer roared out of the Yorkshire throats, ks they saw the Life-boat making home, With the rescued crews from the fishermen's boats. say die is the motto of men, fight to conquer, and mean to win, well worth living to earn the tears wept them out and cheered them in. ile is told. But there's something more, can never be done by praise or pen, ;t think of the sea when the tempests roar, five of our gold to the Life-boat men.. 4

SB < Correspondence, ( To the Editor of the Penarth Chronicle. COGAN WOULD-BE ALLOTMENTS. DEAR SIR.—Quirquequip, in his notes of last week, accuses the would-be Allotment Holders of Cogan of ingratitude towards the Penarth District Council, of that they refused the offer of a piece that they, the Council, had been the means of obtaining from the Windsor Estate, for the purpose of Garden Allotments. Now Sir, by the time that I have finished this epistle, I may have proved that instead of ingratitude being levelled at the heads of the Inhabitants of Cogan, it may be applicable to another quarter- In the firstl place, Mr Editor, we will go back to five long weary months of waiting that have passed since the first application was made to the Council for land Now when the deputation made their first application to the Council for land, the certain piece of land that was desired by the people of Cogan was pointed out to them by the deputation, and which piece of land the deputation bt ited would be the piece suitable. Now, Sir, it would be an easy matter to offer an individual something which you knew he would not accept. Now Sir, it was an unsuitable offer that the Council made to the deputa- tion, and they, the Council, knew it when they made the offer. I think I am correct in stating that there was not a member of the Council who put, his shoulder out in the least in trying to get the land desired by the people of Cogan. They did about as much as a telegram boy could have done in conveying a telegram, on which were as meagre a number of words that could have been put on it, just sufficieat words to make it into a sentence, and then patiently and motionlessly waited the reply. Now Sir, is this the way that those persons should treat the Rate- payers after the Ratepayers took them into their confidence and placed them where they are. Surely it is on the Councils part that you must go for the ingratitude- The least that could have been expected from them was a little energy and perseverence on their part with the Bute Estate, but no, they were satisfied with the reply that came, My Lord says you cannot have the land," and they, the Council, were contented to leave it at that. Now Sir, it was stated in one of your issues of a few weeks ago, that the land offered by Lord Windsor was altogether un- suited for the people of Cogan, it being so far away, and also being a very hilly field. Now, I should like to ask Qnirquequip if he knows what it is to go out in the morning at six o'clock and do a hard days work in all kinds of weather and then come home and do a few more hours hard work in his garden. If be does, I think I would be safe in stating that the nearer he could get his garden to his house the better it would be for him. After a man has done a hard days work he does not want to walk half a mile and scale a bill into the bargain. Now Sir, there is credit due to Lord Windsor in his offer of the land, although is is unsuitable, because he has not another piece of land nearer to Cogan to offer, but then, it must be under- stood that Lord Windsor would lose nothing by letting his land for Allotment purposes, it would bring him in a great deal more money than what it is bringing him in at the present time, yet little acts of generosity, such as his offer is appreciated by the working classes, and if the Lords of the land only showed a little more of the generous spirit than what the majority of them do, a better feeling would exist toward them than what exists at the present time. Now, where you will find one Lord of the soil wi-,i a little of the generous spirit in him. you will find !en that is the other way, and I think I am safe in class- ing Lord Bute with the latter sort. These Lords seem to forget from what class comes the men who compose the Volunteer Soldiers and the men who make up the regular Army to defend this Country. Whose privileges do they defend, their own or the Lords of the soil 1 what privileges have the working classes got to defend ? a hand to mouth existence, an occasional snub, and also a blank refusal of some land applied for, and of which they are willing to r <y a fair price for. Do those Lords shew gratitude towards the working clasbes of this country in refusing to grant a few little privileges which may be the means of making the existence of the working classes a little more comfortable than what it is at present. I will finish up by saying these few words" Land is one of the elements necessary to man's ex:stence, and the ownership of it should not be the right of the few but the privilege of all." Yours truly, COGANITE. ■-==

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