Rhyl Journal

A Night Fracas. 'I SMART SENTENCES FOR ASSAULTS ON POLICEMEN. Proceedings in Rhy! Police Court on Monday— before Dr WT Girdlestone (chairman) and 3Iessrs W Elwy Willianjp, Jno Foulkes, and G A Taverner-furn,Eihed the sequel to a very un- seemly ilistarbacce in Vale Road on Saturday night. Charges were preferrpd as follows:— Owen Jones, labourer, 4, Morfa Bach, drunkenness, and disorderly behaviour, and assaulting P.C. W. Davies while in the execution of his duty Isaac Jones, labourer, 54, Victoria Road, assaulting P.C. R 0 Williams; and William Jorw labourer, 6, Morfa Bach, assaulting P.C. Wm Davies. The cases attracted a large crowd into court. P.C. R 0 Williams stated that at 11.15 on Saturday night he found O;çen Jones very drunk and fIOi y in Vale Road. When asked to proceed quietly, he replied that he did not care for any policeman in Rhyl. Witness allowed him to go on, but a little later he found him in the middh of a crcwd. behaving more like a madman than anything else. P.C. Wm Davies said that on going to P.C. Williams' assistance Owen Jones resisted him in a very forcible manner, kicking and using his fists freely. 5 P.S. Roberts said he found the man in a terrible state, and it took him all his time to prevent him kicking P.C. Davies in the mouth. Witness had also to put up with kicks himself. He had never experienced such behaviour. Defendant expressed a hope that the Bench would be lenient with him fjr the sake of bis wife and five children, and added that, after this he would be "teetotal for everlasting." He pleaded guilty to all that he had been charged with, as he did not remember anything. He had Buffered from sunstroke in India, and whenever he took drink it laid hold of him. Inspector Pearson There is a list in this case, f am sorry to say. The man has previously been convicted of assaulting the police, besides other offences. Defendant: I have only been up twice in my life. In default of a fine of 5s and 7s costs for the drunkenness, defendant was sentenced to a week's hard labour, and for the assault he wis sentenced to a month's hard labour-the sentences to run concurrently. In the case against Isaac Jones, who pleaded not guilty. P.C. Williams stated that while taking Owen Jones into custody his brother, the defen- dant, came up and tried to pull Owen Jones away from him, and because witness would not let go he struck him in the face. Defendant was under the influence of drink. P.C.'s Foulkes and Owen corroborated. Defendant, who said he had never previously been before the magistrates, was sentenced to 14 days' bard labour. William Jones also pleaded not guilty, but three witnesses-one of them a young man named John Hughes—swore that he gave P.C. Davies a running kick, P C. Williams adding that if it had not been for two local men Davies would have been in the hasp: z\ that day. Inspector Peai ion saiJ that defendant had half a dozen times said he was very sony he kftked the policeman. His record was a very bad one, including six months' hard labour for house- breaking and carrying oil a quantity of jewellery U, of great value. Only in August last be got a month for breaking into a house and assaulting in old woman. The Chairman You have got a nice character. The Inspector This man was the lirst to interfere, and the policeman might have been killed. Defendant was sentenced to days' hard labour. killed. Defendant was sentenced to days' hard labour.

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A drunken brawl on Yale Road Bridge late on Monday night formed the subject of a magisterial enquiry on Tuesday, when a well-known local trio -J ohn Jones, labourer, Vale Rod, better known as Jack y Bala Robert Jones, labourer, 6 Morfa Bach and William Jones. labourer. Mill Bank- appeared before Messrs W Elwy Williams (chair- man), Jno Foulkes, and M A Ralli. to answer charges of drunkenness and disorderly behaviour. The first named defendant was further charged with having wilfally and maliciously damaged a cell N-, indow and a bucket at. the Police Station. Inspector Pearson stated that at abjut 11.10 the previous night he saw the three defendants on Vale Road Bridge, very drunk and disorderly, and usiug nioiit filthy language. They commenced r, Y lighting, and all three fell down. Ultimately three constables took them into custody. John Jones was very disorderly all the way to the Police Station, and continued that behaviour for some time afterwards- John Jones The police were simply waiting in ambush for us. Corroborative evidence wss given by P.S. Roberts and P.C. Rogers, both of whom stated that they had on separate occasions cautioned defendants before. William Jones: It so happen^, that a lot in John Jones said that was so, and added that he himself was gathering blackberries all day, and all he had to drink in the evening was four half pints of beer. On their way home they could see the police waiting in hiding tor them, and as they were passing they jumped upon them and marched them ii]. That is the truth, before God," he exclaimed. William Jones admitted bsing in drink, and denied that he was disorderly, and Robart Jones made a similar plea. William Jones, having been nine times pre- viously convicted, was now sentenced to a month's bard labour.—Inspector Pearson applied to have him bound over in addition, but this was not done. There was also a list against Robert Jones, but his case being considered not quite as bad as the other. he was let oil with 21 days' hard labour. Dealing with the second charge against John Jones, Inspector Pearson said that as soon as they 11 got him locked up he commenced kicking the door violently, and hit3 boots had to be taken off. lie then seized a bucket and smashed it and half-a- dozen panes of glass in the cell window. Defen- dant was very disorderly for two hours, and tried to incite the other prisoners to do the same. Defendant: I did it in my temper, because I was locked up when J was sober. Harry Evans, an employee of Mr Torkington, assessed the damage done at 9J. 6d. Inspector Pearson In this case I make a very stroog appeal to have defendant bound over in addition to what sentence he gets. He is a perfect nuisance to the town and neighbourhood. There are eighteen previous convictions agiinat him, three this year. Defendant was sentenced to a month's hard labour for the drunkenness, and was asked if he could find sureties fur his good behaviour for six months. Defendant: Oh, I don't want to bi) bound over. Pass another sentence upon me. You know very well I can't get sureties, so what is the use of making this fusi- The Chairman Please be respectful. In default of sureties you will have to remain in gaol another 2S days, without bard labour. Defendant I must have a change now and again. For the damage to the cell defendant was sentenced to H days' hard labour, that term to run concurrently with the other.

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Bishop Edwards and the Right of the Parent. A public meeting, held under the auspices of the Denbigh County Association of the National Union of Teachers at Denbigh on Saturday, was presided over by the Bishop of St. Asapb. who was suppoited by Mr. J Herbert Roberts, M.P., Mr. Clement Edwiird-, Mr. L J Roberts (His Majesty's Inspector), Mr. R Iihydderch (His Majesty's Inspector), Mr. John Roberts (chairman of the Denbighshire County Council), Mr. D S Davies (chairman of the Stair Com. mitee of the Denbighshire education utbority), and others. The audience was large and repre- seotative of the teachers of the county, and of others interested in educational matters. The Bishop of St. Asaph, in is address as chairman, said elementary edujation was not at present a dull subject, at any rate in Wales (laugh- ter. i It was to be hoped that the interest which now attached to the political aspect might not in- jure the efficiency of the practical bide of educa- tional work-(Applause.) It was obvious, but superficial, to bamoan this controversy, but it must not be forgotten that some people's feelings had first to be aroused before their minds could be educated, and the country was at present pass. I ing through that educational process. He awaited the result without fear. In this connection the importance of the declaration of Archbishop Bourne would not be lost sight of. His wise words upon the dangers of differential treatment and his generous recognition of co-workers who were not co-religionists helped to make clear and to strengthen the general position. The Arch- bishop's statement that the first principle to be re- cognised in this question was that of the duty and the rights of the parent touching the fnith of his child was, in his (Dr. Edwards's) opinion, the principle which was going to solve the diffi- culty. While the State and the denominations had been at issue as to the form of faith to be tanght the child. at last they were beginning to recognise that only one person bad the right to decide this question and that was the parent, and iu making this decision the parent must have freedom. Parental Freedom of Choice. If there was to be freedom, it must be freedom all round, legally sanctioned and secured. If the parents were to be free to provide religious in- struction for their own children at the cost of their own denomination/there must be freedom £, I the giving of that instruction. There was no such freedom if that instruction was given outside school hours, not even if by an accommodating legerdermain the school hoars were dodged about so as to make them look like school hours when they were not school hours.— (Applause.) It was pleasant to pass from these torrid zones to the cool and calm atmosphere of -1-1 1 4-1 years they might not have noticed the splendid work which bad been quietly but unostentatiounly done by the Bjard of Education. Far example, Mr. Morant h:id humanised the Code by first making it intelligible.—(Applause and laughter' The Code was no longer a bundle of dry and dark technicalities, but an educational guide-book which the parent of the child could read and understand. The best devised schemes in the world would remsin dry banes unless life was breathed into them. (Applause.) The dispenser of that life most be the teacher. Splendid oppor- tunities were given to the teacher. True, the children were under him for only a few short years, but they were years when impressions were made soon and deep, The character of the teacher set the tone for the whole school. Freedom and Fairplay for the Teacher. For the teacher there must hi fair play and freedom all round. Teachers must not be under- paid, and theie must be no differentiation between them. In Denbighshire there were 15 head masterg whose incomes were X95 or under and nine whose incomes were under £ 90, while there were 21 head mistresses whose incomes were LSO or under. It was a carious thing that the head teachers of non-provided schools in the whole county should be receiving salaries at the rate of YIif;, while the teachers in the provided schools received salaries at the rate of £ 127. He would like that to be explained on the basis of fair play. lie was not saying that in the inter- ests ot the non-provided schools. He had them to heart, but he bad the interests of education and of the children still more at heart.—(Applause.) At present the best teachers were being driven out of the schools in Wale-; and good teachers were prevented from coming into Wales. The last persons to suffer in the educational contro- versy should bo the teacher and the child. Let them fight their battles outside aa hard as they liked and he would join them, but he was not prepared to have anything to do with the policy which interfered with thfjust treatment of the teacher or with the due regard to the education of the child—(Applause). Polioemen Better Paid than Teaohers. Mr. George Sharpies, of Manchester, ex-presi- dent of the National Union of Teachers, followed with an interesting and entertaining address on the subject of teachers' salaries. He painted out that the City Council of Manchester, when the Education Act of 1902 came into operation, at once dealt with all the schools, whether provided or non-provided, on the same plan in regard to staff and equipment. This meant an addition of 92;5,000 to the rates, but it was simply an act of justice to the Voluntary school teachers.—(Ap- plause.) It was now better to be an assistant master in a Manchester school than a head teacher in a Denbighshire school, and yet the as- sistant masters of Manchester were not as well paid, on the average, as the rate collectors, the clerks of the education authority, or even the 'policemen of the city. Uniform Looal Rates Supplemented by Treasury Grants. Mr. J Herbert Roberts, M.P.. in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Stiarplei, said he measured the value of the teachers' profession in the way Mr. Sharpies did himself, and desired that the tachers should be adequately paid; but local circumstances must be recognised, and be had long come to the conclusion that the only satisfactory solution of the question in its financial aspeot would be that we should have a far larger pro- portion of the money expended on education from Imperial sources. The motion was seconded by Ir. Clement Edwards and carried. The Manchester Standard. Mr. D S Davies, who moved a vote of thanks to the Bishop, remarked that as a Manchester man he pail an education rate of Is. 8d. in the pound, and when the people of Denbighshire had been educated up to doing that he had no doubt that the condition of the schools and the remun- eration of the teachers would be advanced pro- portionately .-( Aplause,) Mr. L J Roberts seconded the motion in a racy speech, and it was carried. Logal and not Legal Tests. The Bishop, in reply, said Mr Sharpies brought home to the meeting the fact that teachers in that county were underpaid, aod thpt there was differentiation. As to that. the Bishop re- marked, "We mean business. and with the teach- ers at our back we shall win."—(Applause.) Alluding to Mr. D S Davies's observation as to there being seventy schools in the county where there were tests applied, the Bishop said There is a legal test and a; test which is not legal, but which is very rigidly exacted. No doubt there are denominational schools where there is a legal test. We will not discuss that further, though it may be desirable in the interests of education that that question should be faced.—(Applause.) But if you remove that legal teat to-morrow you do not remove all tests. In the intermediate schools have you not heard of one denomination getting a head master and seeing that everybody is of the same colour ? Is not that a test, and is it not applied rigidly by one denomination ?—(Cries of "No, no," "Question.") I know what my facts are. and there is a legal test and a test not legal which can be enforced most rigidly and often most unfairly. You must face the question of tests in a broad spirit and look at it all round.—(Applause.) The solution of the problem would have to be on a give-and-take basis, and the man who would not help to bring it about was the man who approached it in the spirit of the old Glamorganshire proverb, All for me and the rest for Johnny."—(.Applause and laughter).

[ALL RtGHTS KSSERYBD.J GOLDEN DEEDS, BY SIR LEWIS MORRIS I' {Author of A Fiaion cf Saints" The Epic of liades 4c.). IV. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. Some of us, a fast decreasing band, can re- member the outbreak of the Crimean War. It was the first recrudescence of the warlike spirit since the campaign of Waterloo forty yeairs be- fore. To us who were young that length of time represented an immeasurable antiquity, while to the same minds, grown oldsr and wiser, to-day it is a very brief interval indeed. Since then, the hopes of perpetual peace which had sprung up with the opening of the first Ex- hibition of Industry, and had withered already, have been constantly disappointed, and there is no great power in the East or the West which has not been immersed in long and exhausting war. It is difficult for us, with the constant din of terrible battles by land and sea ringing in our ears with the shock of enormous armies, more numerous, more determined, and armed with weapons more tremendous than ever be- fore, reported with almost every day that passes. to realise the futile hopes of our forefathers in '51, or the shock of surprise which assailed us when we were once more plunged into war. But it naturally followed from this that we were wholly unprepared for war when it came. Iu- credible stories are still told of our want of pre- paration. of the absolute incapacity of our ad- ministration and leaders for the great trial which they were called upon to face, and of the dread- ful hardships and ,-ufl'erings which were thus caused to the soldier, who alone came out of the ordeal with credit. It can hardly be said that the forty years which have again elapsed since then were turned to the best account, and indeed our recent story of the war in South Africa is strangely like that of the Crimea. Somehow, by the good fortune of the country, if nothing more, we emerged from that great struggle as successfully as we did before, and as it is to be hoped, when the time of trial comes, we shall, though probably not at the outset, emerge again. In one particular indeed, we have certainly im- proved. The terrible suffering of 1854. from sheer lack of organisation of the commissariat, of medical attendance, and of nursing the sick and wounded, can hardly recur, as before, until the name and the life-work of one noble Eng- lish wo aian are forgotten, and her efforts have ceased to bear fruit. MODERN SELF SACRIFICE. Florence Nightingale, born in 1829, like Elizabeth Fry, the daughter of a wealthy and distinguished county family, was possessed from an early age by the desire to be of practical USE to her fellow men and women. In no sense an ascetic, not possessed exclusively, like her prede- cessor, by an evangelical teaching which guided her whole being, she saw not less clearly than hot the need for devoted work for her fellows, anid the opportunity which then presented itself foj i t. The prisons had been cleansed already, but the hospitals and the charge of the sick left much to be desired. Thea-fore it wae that in 1 >5-18 she was induced to enrol herself for a time ziiiioii- the Protestant Deaconesses of Kaiser- werth, whose excellent founder, the Pastoi Theodore Fliedner, had received his first in- spiration from Elizabeth Fry herself. Com- mncing with work in aid of discharged female prisoners, he had soon gone on to theimportaiii project of founding a. hospital for the poor, and the training of nurses for their service. lut( this institution, occupied by deaconnesses of thf peasant classes, poor in dress, as in food anc surroundings, came the well-born English lady in the flower of her youthful womanhood. Tc their simple life of usefulness she settled dowr immediately without, a. murmur, and attracted to herself the love and admiration of her fellows To the life of ialiss Nightingale, by her friend, .Mrs. Tooley, recently published, the writer if indebted for these facts concerning her earlioi career. Also about this time she studied undei another creed and in another country, th system of nursing carried out by the Sisters ol S. Vincent de l'aul hI the hospitals of Paris, A little later on she had risen to great fame and honour, and her name was far and wid< 011 the lips of men. Everyone knows how tremendous the crisis was when war was sud- denly declared and troops were sent out hurriedly to face cholera at Varna, and thence with no preparation for the inevitable re verses of warfare or for the coming winter, tc tight at the Alma and Iiilcerrnaiiii. with terrible losses and doubtful success. Everyone knows, after how much hesitation it was determined by r. Sydney Herbert, the -then Secretary foi Wnr, to appeal to his friend, Florence Nigh tin- fjale, for assistance in our great need. She saiied on October 21, 1854, too late for Bala- clava, but fortunately in time for Inkermann, fought on November the 5tlu the very day she lauded. Words are powerless to indicate the mass of human suffering which confronted her, one ship load after another bringing in hun- of wounded, nlld dying, with ne beds to lie on, stretched in double rows down the long corridor, says her biographer, several miles in length of human suffering." In a short time it was estimated that she had at. least 10,000 patients under her super- intendence. Soon, owing to the efforts of these brave women, and her company of nursing sisters, Catholic and Protestant, the high death rate dwindled rapidly down from 42 per cent, to :!I, thence to 14. to 10, to 5, and thence to the average rate of the military hospitals at home. What a wonderful triumph for the devotion and skill of one woman. Often after a long day spent iu her immense labours, sometimes after 20 hours of work, enough to break down. the mlength of the strongest man, she was to be seen alone at dead ot night, lamp in lsand, bringing comfort and hope to the sick and wounded, to whom it was, as Longfellow said- "As of n door from Heaven should be (>p?ued and then closed suddenly." WHAT FLOUEXCF. NIGHTINGALE ACHIEVED, It was extraordinary how great a change Was wrought in these dreadful conditions, by the ac- tion of one woman, and her disciples. By Christ- mas Day, two months or less after her first ap- pearance at the Barrack Hospital at Scutari, the scene of so much misery, the patients were sup- plied, through her efforts, with comfortable surroundings and better food. To the letter of Miss Nightingale, quoted by her biographer, w hicli describes the men's work in the trenches with no food but raw pork sprinkled with sugar, rum and biscuit, the present writer can add the testimony of a great soldier, afterwards Chief, who told him that the de- votion of the private soldiers in the trenches was marvellous. They simply starved to death," he said, and their uncomplaining endurance idled one with wondering pity. Without fire to cook their scanty rations, they faded away, day by day, by slow starvation, or the terrible at- tacks of cholera or fever. It was indeed, as was well said in Parliament, horrible, and heart- rending." That as soon as she could be spared Florence Nightingale left Scutari tor the actual r-eatofwar, to ascertain what more might be done tor the suffering troops in the field, was only to be expected. Danger or death had no terrors for this brave striving soul, nor had pestilence or pain. Then at last the strain proved 'too great, Imd unscathed as she had been until then, the t'leat heat of Balaclava, during her visit, brought, on a violent attack of iever. When die was said to be dying, all her poor patients it Scutari were overcome by griejf, and as her biographer says, cried like children. But she tr.ippily recovered, and is with -it,, still in ex- uviae old age. When at Jast the close of the ierrible war came she returned to ElIglaud, to her oeloved home at Lea Ilurst, almost unrecognised, and by the ••backdoor," willing and hoping to •arry out the reforms in hospital management, .vhicli she so greatly desired. But the great abours through which she had passed had .vorked their will upon her, and it was more a jassive than an active Dart that she was able to take in the work which had attracted her all her life. A NOBLE OPFER. When the Indian Mutiny broke out she was atill sanguine of being able to do good work, and wrote to offer her services at twenty-four hours' notice. But her offer was wisely de- clined, as her strength was no longer sufficient for the task. The spirit," says her biogra- pher was willing and eager, but the flesh was weak." ISoon it became necessary to make ar- rangements for the administration of the great fund of X48,000, known as the Nightingale Fund, subscribed by high and low alike, to en- able her to carry oat her ideas of nursing. It was conveyed to a council, of which her friend, Mr. Sydney Herbert, was President, and all that she reserved to herself was the power of giving advice. The result was the establishment 01 the Training Institute for Nurses in con- nexion with St. Thomas's Hospital, which is still working with success. The Liverpool Home and Training School for Nurses of the Sick Poor was another of her schemes. An old story often told," she said of her book describing the institution, but this opens a new chapter of It." lint prevention interested her no less than cure, and the reduction of the annual death ys.ta among sojuiera tu inaia in ion YCVXUI IMUW -!W to 18 per 1000 was largely due to the aclminii- trative reforms which she brought about. Everywhere, both here and abroad, her advice was sought, and this recluse, withdrawn from the world by sickness and a positive dislike of publicity as thoroughly as any cloistered nun, be- came the great authority on the all important pur- suit to which she had sacrificed her bodily health: and was approached by foreign governments, notably those of Italy and Germany for assist- ance and advice. The National Association for providing Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor, sprung from her efforts, is still a great power, and is worked by one of her devoted friends. Greatest of all the lasting benefits conferred upon the country, and indeed upon the whole race by her example, is the recognition of the noble profession of nursing as a fit and proper employment for the great band of intelligent women of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest, to soothe the sufferings of the sick, both rich and poor. It is no longer thought to be an employment unworthy of the delicacy and re- finement of their sex. The Sister of Mercy, not bound by conventional rule, nor by any nar- rower creed than that of devotion to the service of suffering, is now as much a part of our daily life as is the doctor or the priest. And in this country it is due directly to the example which this well-born and refined woman set us half a century ago. Think of the idle, loveless lives made happy by useful duty, of the great mass of human pain alleviated, of the pillows smoothed, of the last, hopeless hours relieved, of the precious gift of health regained, as the result of her noble and unselfish service That there is much room for improvement, and of an- other great reformer like her, the history of the crowded fever camps at Bloemfontein, and throughout the Veldt may remind us with pro- fit. THE SL-NE OF A SAINTLY LIFE. Is not this verily a life of golden deeds, though it has had its crosses and disappoint- ments, its labours and hardships, its ruined bodily health Aye, and though it has put aside resolutely all the lower joys and refinements of life, to be, as a modern verse writer has said, of those Who love to minister, Spurning the weakness of their sex, the bloom Of delicate ease, and grace and luxury, And mid the teeming homes of healing, bend To succour bodily ill, while night by night The sick and maimed, in restless slumbers tost, Lie groaning till the dawn, and cries of pain Wring the soft hearts whose duty binds them fast While the gay festive hearts of friends or home Thrill with sweet music, and the rhythmic feet Of careless youth and joyance, and the rose And lily of their gentle girlhood wait Their coming but in vain, till youth is past, And with it earthly love. All these fair souls In one incessant effluence of light Soar from the earth, the army of the saints. Who in all time have set themselves to work The Eternal Will. That is indeed the modern form of the saint- ly life, and it is more blessed than that of old, 5 in modern eyes. Yet, there is room for both, L for the life of the cloister, as well as for the life of the hospital for the sick and poor, for the service of God and the service of man. Indeed these are only various forms of the same sacri- fice. All the churches have professed them, [ and praised them, the earlier it may be under- J. valuing the service of man, as the later do some- times the service of God. Many are the differ- L ences of speculative dogma, between St. Cathar- iue of Siena and Elizabeth Fry, and between the latter and her whose story we have just told. There are some who think that the progress of scientific knowledge, dealing with the great problems of Being and the Uni- 5 verse, may oblige us to recast our religious I ideas. On some minor points this may be true. But neither theoretical differences nor the decay | of religious dogma or feeling, will ever deprive L men of the sense that sell-surrender to a Perfect Will above, or self-sacrifice for our brothers and sisters here, brings its own exceeding great ) reward. The conscience! of the world was aroused j for the first time by this fragile woman's work. Since that period, in all the tremendous struggles which have been, the Red Cross flag has floated aloft over many a dreadful battle- I field, a little oasis of Light amid the immeasur- able horrors of war. And this great gift to the r race originated in the noble self-sacrifice, warm heart, and keen intelligence of this suffering daughter of England, without which it would [ never have been.

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless, and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever begarred of peace and joy. yet kept secret, by the sufferer, com- mitted to no sound except that of low moans in the night; seen in 110 writing except that made on the face by the slow of sup- pressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.—George Eliot. Many years ago, in walking among the graves Mount Auburn, I came, upon a plain white' marble slab which bore an epitaph of only four words, but to my mind they meant more than any of the laboured descriptions on other monu- ments: "She was so pleasant." That one nofe revealed the music of a life of which I knew nothing more. How much good can be done in church, home and society by just being pleasant; how many acerbities it will sweeten; how many obstacles it will brush away! All our virtues must not be of the heroic and strenuous type; we neel also the gentler, finer graces. The Bible has much to say in praise of pleasantness.—0. W. Holmes. To us it appears that where the capacity for generous devotion, for manly courage, for stead- tarri v«tth and love, exists, there exists the main element of romance; and that where the circum- stance's of life are most favourable for the de- velopment of there, qualities in action, they are romantic circumstances, whether the person dis- playing iII4-nl be. like Alton Locke, a tailor, or like King Arthur, a. man of stalwart arm and lordly presence. Nor do we see that the giants, dragons, and other monsters of the old romance, arc in il)emselve\s one whit more interesting than the obstacles that, beset the true modern knight in his .struggles to perform manfully the dutieU of life; and to carry out the. noble spirit of that vow which he has solemnly taken at the altar, to love, comfort, honour, and keep in sick- ness and in health, the woman who has put her youth, her beauty, her life and happinets into hie hands.—George Brimley. Modesty is to merit what shadows are to th'e figures in a picture. It gives her force and I'8I lief.—La Bruyere. ————— Count life a stage upon thy way, And follow conscience, rome what mav; A tike with heaven and earth sincere, Vith hand and brow and bosom clear; Fear Cod "—and know UI,) other fear.

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