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TO OUR READERS AND CONTRIBUTORS. OWING to the great demand made upon* OUT space by OhrÏisrnmas and other advertisements, we are compelled to hold over a number of intetesting articles, letters, and .news items._ The "Weekly News" is becoming more and more widely re- cognised as the most popular newspaper, and therefore- the best adtveitising medium, in North Wales; and we are continually receiving letters iffrom advertisers telling us how greafly they /appreciate the artistic and effective manner in which their ta/nnouncemenits are displayed in thtesei columns and what satisfactory results accrue therefrom. We do our utmost to keep the "Weekly News" ahead of all our rival's in every respect, and iit is a matter of much satis- faction to us that oug- eniterprise is meeting with such general recognition.

"THE CONQUEST OF CANCER." DR. C. W. SALEEBY, It he etninent, medical journalist and writer on 'hygienic subjecitsj has written a 'book which affords gome degree of hope that a cure has at last been found for cancer. We earnestly trust that this remedy is more effective than some we have heard of in North Wales in reeerut months. Dr. Saleeby pirns his faith to the injection of trypsin, and declares that very oonsidieraible success in the treatment of cancer with trypsin has been achieved dn Ger. many and America. It has, been proved, he says, that trypsin has a decided effect in reduc- inlg sysitem-poisoniing as the result of cancer arnd in improving fthe general health, while in many instances, even; in severe cancer, by its use the disease has been hroughit Itoa halit, so to speak, even if the patients do not eventually recover. Not only has Dr. Saleeby grloat faith in. the efficacy of this treatment, but he asserts that surgical treatment has failed, and more than tfawled it has hastened the inevitable. Hie adds: From surgery and the surgeons as itihey have hitherto worked at the problem ,there is no- thing more to be hoped. They have pursued one line of inquiry only—the making of their operations extensive enough to effect an extir- pation of the disease 'these operations have now reached the point at which, they kill out- right. Surgery, is, literally, "manual labour," and manual labour will not solve the problem of cancer. We -do not claim to know anything about the subject from the medical point of view. But we are only too well aware of the terrible na- ture of the ravages of cancer in this country, and call attention to Dr. Saleeby's book (pub- lished by 'Chapman & Hall) in the hope that patients in Norith Wales may be given the ad- vantage of the results of the very latest re- searches into the important subject. Cancer its a disease more to be dreaded than consumption, and we earnestly pray ithat the time is not far distant when the means- of conquering it may be .found. Our medical readers will, we fleel sure, forgive us for intruding into a domain peculiiarly their own. In, so doing, we are anxious not to raise, false hopes in the minds of sufferers or their friends. All we ask is that no possible remedy that may be suggested shall be ignored because so many recent discoveries have led to no practical results.

CONWAY GUARDIANS AND THE GOVERNMENT. MRS. LLOYD, of Colwyn Bay, who is the em- bodiment of genial optimism, is to be con- gratulated upon .her courage. One advantage enjoy ed by a lady member of a public authority is that she is allowed a. wider latitude than a meine- male member would dare to expect; she may with impunity defy the rules and traditions and red tape which -men- find restricting their efforts in the direction of reform. It is useless 10 have privileges placed within your reach unless you grasp them, and Mrs. Lloyd is not backward in seizing any advantage, such as that of sex superiority or the characteristic leniency of mien where the ladies are' concerned, if by so doing 'she can further the interests of a cause which she has very much at heart, thiat of temperance reform. What Mrs. Lloyd -achieved at Friday's meeting of :the Conway I Guardians was something which few if any of the gentlemen present would have attempted— she actually induced the Board to pass a re- solution upon such a controversial maitteir as I 'the Government's proposed Licensing Bill. It did not matter that the resolution as passed was somewhat diffeIelnt in form from that which she introduced what did matter was that in spirit it was precisely the same, and that iltr was passed by a public authority represeniting two distinctly opposite political opinions. The very fact that the resolution was passed by a body not of one shade of political opinion., but one that is representative of all political creeds in the Union, makes it all the more valuable in the eyas- of the Government, whom it must encourage to go forward with their efforts to .solv'e an inltrircat-e and delicate problem.

CIVILIZED SAVAGES. INSPECTOR EAKINS, of the R.S.P.C.A., brought two eases of cruelty to hOIrses bafore the notice of the Abergele Justices on Saturday, and in each ca.se the charge was clearly proved and a fine was inflicted. Cases of this descrip- tion are continually being adjudicated upon by the- magistrates in North Wales, but the number off prosecutions gives but a very faint index of the splendid work on behalf of our dumb friends which is being done- by such truly humane men as Iinpector Eakins. The prevention of cruelty, not the puniishmerit of the cruel, is the great dbject of the existence of the R.S.P.C.A., and we believe that all the officers of the Society carry on their work in that spirit. And it is the right spirit. A fine:, light or heavy as the circum- SltallicCIS demand, may have a deterrent effect upon a horse-driver for the future, but from the point of the horse it is better that its ill-treat- ment should be, prevctnted than avenged. The ipifty is that more of this preventive work cannot he carried out, because the funds of the Society are so limited that each inspector has to be responsible 'for a very large district, and there- fore is greatly hampered in his efforts to ensure humane treatment of animals. It is a curious commentary upon the boasted civilization of Christian England that such a Society should be necessary in (this twentieth century, but the fact remains that many men are so selfish and brutal that the animals under their charge have actu. ally to be protected from the cruelty of those who should be- the first to treat them with kind- ness. Convincing illustrations of the need of the Society's endeavours were given by Inspector Eakins in his annual report, which he read the other day at the annual meeting of the Colwyn Bay branch. After relating how he had regular- ly visited all markets and cattle sales held in Ms district, the inspector showed how necessary it was to watch the (transport of cattle and poultry by rail, and to' caution the drivers of coaches, char-a-bamcs and others forms of vehicular traffic for minor acts of cruelty." The .seaside donkey and pony has also found in him a friend, several cautions being adminis- tered for the cruel use of the stick." The telJ1ed "fOT the cIuel us.e of the ,g¡írÍ>ck." The 'VEld Birds ír?rterc:tli?n l110t had beenSltrilotly en- fmc£rd,al1id V'lSlIWS paid {IO fie-l,ds and other plaoes, frequently on Sundays, in order to prevent orueHy to, birds. At the slaughterhouses and the premises of poulterers we are glad to learn that the inspector "found things satisfactory." Our remark about the heavy duties assigned to cfac-li resident officer could not be more strongly supported than by the following paragraph in the .inspector's report: —■ An,a,d:ditional illnspector did duty at Rhyl and district dui7in), the: s,u!n-bmer months, wh,kh cobvi,ate,d the necessity of my i,isi,tin,?, Rhyl, A-ID?ergel,e, St. As:aph, and Prestatyn and en- sio-a o be ajbl,in?g a better and ?clois?-?r superii exercised in all parts of the district. It is also worth noting, as ind,i'catinig how the Society conducts iits work that In addition to a number of cautions in writing sent direct to offenders from Londoll1 head office, 31 persons have been convicted by the Justices for viarious acts of severe cruelty, and three cases are at present pending. While it is gratifying to find that tlbe nuimfbe'r of convictions is slightly less than 'that recorded for the previous year, the number of cases actu- ally reported is "about ;the same." When may we expect evidence of a real improvement? Evidently there is little if any dimunition in adts of wanton cruelty in our midlst, and upon this subject the inspector has something to say which is well worth, reading. "While," hie siatys, .the number of convictions its less than in the previous year, I -do not think we can take that as signifying a corresponding decrease,, in acts of cruelty in the district generally. I rather ,attribute it to three causes working together; and first of these I place the bicycle, the use of which has recently 'belen initroduced, with our service, enabling your officer to inspect the coach and .other horses at differenit parts of their routes, and also to visit remote places quite unlaw-aire to offenders, which must have a deferring effect on those disposed to be cruel. Secondly, I place the abnormally wet and coild season we have had, which lessened the number of our visitors; and thirdly, the motor char-a-bancs of Llandudno and Colwyn Bay, Whiich unquestionably have done away with the employment of a number of horsed ■vehicles. The analysis of convictions miakes truly appall- ing reading, when we find that ten horsefii were worked in an unfiit state, 'three were cruelly beaten, and one was actually ridden at a show in an unfit comdiition, whilst four donkeys werte beiaten. a cow was cruelly kicked, a diqg was so badly beaten as to cause concussion of the bnaiin and another dog had an eye knocked out with a stone. In addition, ten horses and two donkeys have been destroyed by ponsent of owners, be- ing found to be completely worn out and quite unfit for any other work. Turning from this revolting record we find that the convictions took place at the fcillo,wing Courts:—Llandud- no, 9; Conway, 8; Oerrigydruidion, 4; Colwyn Bay, 3; Rhyl, 2; Llianirwst, 2; St. Asaph, i Abergele, i and Towyn, 1. It is all too evi- dent that the ameliorative iand humanising ac- tivities of sudh a society are greatly needed in Norith Wales. In this connection we can only say that we deeply regret that the district is about to lose the services of such an intelligent, active, efficient, and humane officer as Inspector Erakinrs. Before coming to North Wales the inspector was stationed at SOUlthrpoptr, and so valuable were his services in that town that the inhabitants have unceasingly agitated for his return, until at Last the Society have given way and acceded to their wishes. In.Te- turning to SourthlPortt, Inspector Bakirns will be returning to old and valued friends. But he will also be leaving behind him in North Wales many scores of true friends who appreciate his work and worth. We are very glad to find that he has already been made the recipient of very handsome fiarowell gifts, which in some measure represent the widespread regard in which he is held in a district where he has won such well- ■mieritiad respect. The Society is not without its sympathisers in North Wales, as the various in- ispectors, past and present, can testify. This circumstance makes it all the more difficult to understand the attitude of the Cecnritgydi-uidiofn Justices towards an Inspector who, following ithe generally recognised practice, attended to conduct a oaSie on behalf of the R.S.P.C.A. We hope that the public will not have to wait lorfig for a definite pronouncement as to the Society's legal status in a court of law.

MR. LLOYD-GEORGE'S LATEST TRIUMPH. MR. LLOYD-GEORGE, leaving the graveside of his beloved daughter in .the peaceful Cricciieth I Ce.matery, proceeded at once to Manchester, the scene of a serious labour war, in the hope that his pacific mediation would prove as successful as it did :in the railway dispute. That desirable result was happily brought about. It came as a bit of a shock to many of us to read, in Mr. Lloyd-George's speech of congratularLon to the reconciled disputants, that bie described himself as t:a. Lancashire lad." The President of the Board of Trade, although a thorough We] shin an, is none the less entitled to the proud -distinction which he thus claimed, having been born in the great city of Manchester. By effecting ithe settlement of the cotton, dispute Mir Lloyd-George has rendered invaluable service to both his native city and "his native land "■—to Man- ebeigter and to Wales. Manchester and the North Wales regottis have their foundations laid in cotton.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Mr. J. R. Davies, of Ceris, Menai Bridge, has promised ^'r,ooo towards the' Bala College special fund. On Saturday morning the death took place of the Rev. Hugh Pugh, Calvinistic Methodist minister, Dyffryn, Merioneth, late of Groes, Denbigh, from heart disease. The deceased, who was seventy-three years of age, was about as usual on Friday. He was well known throughout North -and South Wales as one of the most popular preachers of the connexion, and was soften, called to serve the Welsh churches of his denomination in London, Liverpool, and other English towns. The Rev. Griffith Hughes, a retired Weltsh missionary, died at ^PVIllheli on Friday, at the age off 68. He was a native of Penygroes, worked as a printer at Bangor for some years, and afterwards was selit out by the Calvinistic Methodists ias a missionary to the Khassia Hills, India. Since his return from India he had been in receipt of a pension from the Cal- vinistic Methodist Missionary Society. The "Times" is requested to state that the marriage arranged between Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bart., and Lady Violet Anson will not take place. Sir Foster, as our readers are aware, has a residence near Wrexham, is a member of the Denbighshire County Council, and is also the adopted Conservative candidate for East Denbighshire. Sir Foster is a Fellow of All Souls' College, a position requiring consider- able. attention. He is great on history, and his book, "The History of the Boer War," is one of the most interesting of its sort that has been written. The late Mr. John James Lewis, of Tanilan, Bath-street, Rhyl, a prominent Freemason and a P.M. of the Sir Watkin Lodge, left estate of the gross value of ^8,084, with net personalty nil. The testator left £ roo to Mr. Alfred Wil- liam Lewis, -f 50 to his servant, Elmima Williams, and all other property to his wife, subject to certain charges and to the payment of 645o due to Mary Lilian Lewis. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lloyd Williams, of Bodgwilym, Denbigh, formerly county sur- veyor of Denbigh, and a .well-known architect, the oldest Associate .of the Royal Association of Architects, left £9,66r gross, and probate of his will has been granted to his sons, Mr. John Richard Lloyd Williams, of 9 & ro, Liverpool and London-chambers, Liverpool, stockbroker, Mr. Rowland Venables Lloyd \Villiams, ,of San- don, and Mr. Edgar John Swayne, of Denbigh, solicitor.

WEEK BY WEEK. It has been decided to form a North Wales branch of the Mathematical Association. This is a step in the right direction. The secretary is Mr. G. Creak, of Llanberis. A young Welshman, Mr. E. Crawshay-WIL- Itiaims, a former officer in the Royal Field Ar- tillery in India, recently made a plucky journey across Persia, and has published a fascinating volume of his experiences in the country of the Shah. » » Mr. Lloyd-George is not the only statesman who has received an, injured eye. Just before a general election, an old woman threw a ginger- bread nut at Mr. Gladstone, which caught the Grand Old Man in the optic and hurt him very much. But he won the election. A party of commercial travellers in a Man- chester hotel were one day boasting of the bus- iness done by -their respective firms, when one of the travellers said, "No house in the country, I am proud to say, has more men and women pushing its line of goods than mine." "WThat do you stall?" he was asked. "Perambulators." shouted the traveller, as he fled from- the room. < < < Disraeli, it may not be generally known, mar. ried a Welsh wife. The Countess of Beacons- field was formerly Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, whom he wooed and won in the neighibourhood of Cardiff. When "Dizzy" went a-courting, he usually put up at a village inn near Llandaff Catfuedtral bearing the curious name of "The Cow and Snuffers. Nobody has yet suggested a crusade for the resuscitation of Welsh signboards. In Brittany there are many sh ? -sign?s in th?. Breton ]an- C)P guage, but in Wales there are very few in Welsh. One of the few (remarks the "Western Mail'') is to be seen at the little village of Pontsiticill, in the parish of Vaynor. It runs:- Maelfa'r Garn S. A. H. Chwegydd. Captain J. B. Watt, .the skipper of the leviathan Lusitania, is nearly sixty-five years of age. His first command in the Cunard Line was the British Queen, in 1884. Since then he has been captain of twenty-four Cunarders., and is commodore of ithe fleet. Cajpitain Watt has four daughters and two -sons, one of the latter being part proprietor of the little fleet of summer steamers which sail from Rhos-on-Sea pier. Canon Horsley thinks it a wicked waste to see "great big snails crawling about unmolested and uneaten." Snails, he told the Conchol'og- ical Society, are very nutritious, as- they con- tain a large amount of albumen. Having caught your snails they should be prepared for the table thus: "Throw a pinch of salt over them cover them with warm: bilge water; strain off; serve on a dish with cut brown bread and butter, slices of lemon, and pins." The lady had been appointed a manager oi a non-provided school, which was scarcely ifi- ciient," and on her first visit she bro'igat w.-tn her a parcel. "Here are some mottoes suitable for decorating the rather bare walls," she =aid to the headmaster. "This, now, should "be put up over your desk—'Knowledge is ;-Ve-dlh. "I don't think so," said the headmaster, rather sadly "you see the local papers have been full OIf the discussions on my salary, and all the children know how little it is." » <~ The portrait, in oils, of Viscount Fielding, eldest son and heir of the Earl of Denbigh, which has been painted by Mr. John Collier, has just been completed, and it will be on view at Holywell before it is placed in the collection of family portraits at Newnham Paddox, Lord Denbigh's Warwickshire seat. Viscount Fielding is now serving in Egypt with his regiment, the 3rd Coldstream Guards, in which his cousin, Major Jeoffrey Fielding, also holds a commis- sion. The portrait is the gift of Lord Denbigh's Downing tenantry. According to the London "Welshman," there are at present three distinct parties in Welsh politics. These are, it declares, the party led by Mr. D. A. Thomas, M.P., and consisting of himself alone; the party led by Mr. Ellis Jones Griffith, M.P., and consisting of himself and Mr. John Hugh Edwards and the ith-ir-7 led by Sir Alfred Thomas, and consisting of all the rest. The first twp parties—or, at any rate, the first- one—can certainly claim a virtue that is assuredly foreign, to Sir. Alfred's party--ilhat of unity.—(" Western Mail.") Two ambitious but inexperienced golfers were recently battling over a course not a hundred miles from Ltiverpool. All went fairly well, al. tho-Lio,,h bo? remain?ed practically i-itacrL. un-,Idl 'ey they reached a tee overlooking a pond. Each drove furiously, then cautiously, a half-dozen balls into the murky depths of that pool. Stand- ing near by was a little girl, stupid, but curious. After the twelfth ball had plunged to rise no more she queried blankly but sincerely of the golfer: "Say, mister, what is the fun in this ?ame?'! < Many livings in North Wales are in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff. One of these—the rectory of Halkvn—has just been offered by the Bishop of Llandaff to the Rev. J. F. Rees, Rec- tor of Ca-erwys. Mr. Rees, who is a native of Carmarthenshire, was educated at Llandovery and Lampeter. Before going North to Caerwys (which, too. is in the g,ift of the Bishop of Llan- dlaff) Mr. Rees was Vicar of Abertillery. He i..s not to be confounded with the Rev. J. F. Reece, also a Lampeter graduate, who also has just had promotion from Llanfwrofg, near Ruthin, to Llanrhos, by Llandudno. < There are other sure ways of bringing a man to mind besides mentioning his name. Among a an a rie-r- t,?lie c? nd?;.id?aite;s who ivere sent to p,,each tain church was one young man whose language was of the sort which dazzles and delights the younger members of a congregation, and some. times pleases the elders as well. In this case the officials were besieged to ask for the young man again, and they consented but, unfo-rtun. ately, the man who had to write bad forgotten the" candidate's name. Nothing daunted, he wrote to one of the college professors: -"Please send us that floweret, streamlet, rivulet, cloud. let, starlight, and moonbeam young man again. We've forgotten his name, but no dofbt you'll recognise him." "We do," wrote the professor in answer. And the desired candidate was sent and subsequently called to the parish. < A very angry Welshman burst into this office the other night flourishing a copy of a London illustrated paper and s'weiaring vengeance for ■another insult to' our nationality. After we had ,a,d,e to c?ool him called out the office fire 'en?,g down!a. little, he, read us out, this -?itory: -"Some years ago, in a sfmiall Welsh town, a lake was frozen over for the first time in many years, and quite a number of people came to sfcate upon it. Other visitors went to a small tradesman in the district to' purchase skates, but, incredible as it may appear, the shopkeeper had never heard of such articles. After several applications had beten made, however, he said to his wife, cMary, we. must lay in a stock of these skates if theine's such a demand1 for them now, what will at be in summer when the tourists come?' Now," said our angry visitor, "do you believe there is any town in Wales containing such an ignorant tradesman? We said we didn't, and gave him the address of the editor of our London con- temporary. He has now gone off to .settle the Londoner. —(" Western Mail.") The Socialists can boast of having within their ranks a millionaire who is not ashamed of his association with the "red-tie brigade." Mr. James A. Allan, a member of the well-known firm which owns the Allan Line of steamers, and a reputed millionaire, belongs to the Fabian Soc- iety the I.L.P., and the Clarion Scouts. As Ialn- ponent of Socialism' of the most advanced type he contested one of the divisions of Glas- ,oow at the recernt municipal election, but was badly beaten. One 'peculiarity of his candida- iÍure was that it was blessed by the Rev. Dr. John Hunter, the eminent Congregational divine, formerly of Weigh House Square^ Mr. Allan learned his first lesson in Socialism from the works of Henry George but what brought him in touch with the active Socialist movement was Mr. Blatchford's "Britain for the BritWsh. (" P.T.O.")

The Bishop of St. Asaph and Socialism. The following letters are quoted from the "Manchester Guardian" gjr —Mr. Nunn did not in his last letter make any attempt at. explaining away or at weaken- ing .the significance of the passage which I quoted from Mr. Blachford's writings, and which Mr. Blachford describes himself as ",art- ing relicriously." This is only to make out Mr. Bl,a;tchford to be acting inconsistently. The statement of the "Methodist Times" to which Mr. Nunn refers can only be intended to mean that Mr. Blatchford has a capacity for religion, and in this I would heartilj7 agree with the°"Meth'odi-st Times." It is only a few months ago that some religious denominations in London made a combined effort of prayer to convert Mr. Blatchford to religion. I am asked by Mr. Nunn to join him in writ- ing to Sir Oliver Lodge for his opinion on this question. I believe the natural course for Mr. Nunn -to take is to write alone to Sir Oliver for his verdict,, and then it will remain, for me either to accept that verdict or to. disapprove of it, and give my reasons for disapproving.— Yours. &c., D. C. OWEN. St. Asaph, December 5-th. Sir.—The Rev. D. C. Owen now admits that Mr. Blatchford has a "capacity for religion. For this, thanks. I would add that his capa- city is immense. What about that of the Estab- lished religion,? Is the capacity which it once had all .exhausted in, mere routine, automatic performances? This, was the criticism levelled by Chrisit at the religion of His day; they had performances in plenty, but lacked the creative capacity. Capacity for religion, according to St. John the Divine, is the power to Tove man. ,r.. BlatchrfoTd offers Socialism as the remedy for the poverty, degradation, and tendency to suicide so prevalent in our day. That is his capacity to love man. Has the Established reli- gion any remedy, any scheme, any constructive deliverance to offer? Mr. Blatchford attacks, of course, the religion of his day not religion itself. In this he fol- lows the example of Christ, who whipped men out Off the temple for making religion a trade. Savonarola, HuslS, Wycliffe, Luther, the Welsh Nonconformists, and a host of others attacked, rightly or wrongly, the religion of their dlay." Mr. Owen doeis not quote from "Britain"Tor the British," where Mr. Blatchford quoted a prayer from the Common Prayer of the Church of Eng- land and describes it: "These words of broad charity and sweet kindliness." Is that hatred of religion ? I pity the blindness of the religious denominations who prayed for Mr. Blatchford —Weep not for me, ye daughters of Jerusalem, &c.—Yours, &c., Carnarvon, J. R. JONES. December oth.