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St. Asaph Board or Guardians FORTNIGHTLY MEETINC. THE WORKHOUSE NURSING STAFF. :FRIDA Y.-Present Mr JGO Frimston (chairman), Mr Wm Jones (vice-chairman), Mrs DaRance, Mrs Mary Jones, Mrs Gee, Rev Canon C F Roberts, a.nd Messrs S Perks, LI B Evans, G F Gunner, T Pennant Williams, J Ellis Jones, Hugh Edwards, Isaac Battio, Jao Lothian, Jno Pierce, Jno Morris, R A Jones, J Roberts Jones, Rt Jones (Prestatyn), Frank Bibby, George Williams, W Conwy Bell, John Roberts, Edward Williams, Jno Jones (Aber- gele), Wm Morris, and Edwin Morgan, with the Clerk (Mr Chas Grimaley), Master (Mr Rt Jones), and other officials. Residents and Visitors. According to the Master's journal, the pauper population of the Workhouse that day was 132, a decrease of 39 on the population a year ago, and the vagrants relieved during the past fortnight numbered 227, a decroase of 84 on the number a year ago. The Chairman said he considered the figures very satisfactory. Mr Perks said it looked as though there was now more work in the country than had been the case recently. To Save Light and Fuel. The Master asked the Board to sanction an arrangement with regird to the administration of the Workhouse whereby he hoped to save the Board at least 6/- per week in the cost of lighting and at the same time a considerable amount in the cost of fuel. The Chairman said he did not think there could be any objection to the Master's proposal, especially as it meant a cutting down of expenditure (hear, hear.) Mr Gunner proposed that the arrangement be sanctioned, and it was aere ed to. A Trip to Llandudno. The Master reported that through the thought- ful kindness of the otfijers of the :t Asaph Church of England Sunday School many of the inmates of the Workhouse participated in a trip to Llandudno the previous day, and that prior to their departure each of them received a timely gift of 6d from Mr Grimeley. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded both to he Sunday School officers and Mr Grimsley, on he motion of the Chairman. The Workhouse Nursing Arrangements. Mr Batho, on behalf of the Visiting Committee, reported that the Medical Officer hsd attended a meeting that morning and stated that Nurse Hughes had recovered from her illness and was now attending to her duties. He considered that the nursing staff as a whole was inadequate for the work that had to be attended to, and that an additional nurse should be appointed. The com- mittee were not prepared to accept that report as it stood that day, and as they were of opinion that farther inquiry should be made iato the matter, they had asked the Medical Officer to submit a written report upon the nursing arrangements in all their phases to the next meeting of the committee. The Detention of Children of Bad Parents. Mr Batho said the Visiting Committee had also had under consideration the question of the detention in the Workhouae of ohild- ren of bad parents. In the case of a woman named Jamts they recommended that in the event of her return to the Workhouse with her children the latter should be detained. The woman had been deserted by her husband, and there had been many complaints as to the way in which she dragged the children about the country. Some time ago, Mr Batho added, they took similar action with regard to the children of a man named Turley, and those children were still in the Workhouse, the father, of course, having to contribute to their maintenance. Mr J Ellis Jones supported the recommendation of the committee, and said that if they had not come to that decision he would have had some very hard words to say (laughter and a voice: Brave man !) The recommendation was agreed to, after it had been pcinted cut that it could cnly bo put into operation in the event of the woman in question bringing her children to the Workhouse of her own accord. The Twins. "The case of the Workhouse twins whom the Board recently decided to send to the Royal Alex- andra Hospital, Rbyl, for a course of treatment for consumption was again mentioned. Mrs DeRance, who has actively interested heiself in the children, reported that they were getting on very satisfactorily so far as the consumption was coocerned, and it was advisable that they should remain in the hospivii for two more months as consumptive patients. At the end of that time one of them would be quite fit to return to the Workhouse and take his place with the other children. The other child, however, was euffericg from curvature of the spine, and would have to lie for two years. Miss Anson,the lady superintendent of the hospital, had deeply interested herself in the children, and would do her best for them and the Board. Con- cluding, Mrs DeRance moved that the children be allowed to remain in the hospital for further treat- ment. She thought the case of curvature of the spine could be dealt with quite as cheaply in the hospital as in the Workhouse. Mr Hugh Edwards seconded the motion, and at the same time remarked that the Board ought to be very thankful to Mrs D?Rance for all that she had done in the matter. The Chairman and Mr Pierce endorsed Mr Edward tribute to Mrs DeR»nce*'s services, and the motion was agreed to. The twins, it was stated, are five years of age., The Representation of Wales on the Royal Arms and Coinage. The Clerk submitted a draft resolution which, on the instructions of the Board, he had prepared in support of the agitation throughout the princi- pality for its representation on the Royal arms and coinage. At the mention of "Y Ddraig Goch" Canon Roberta questioned whether the red dragon was, after all, the right emblem of Wales. Mr J Roberts Jones—If we squabble amongst ourselves on that point we shall probably get nf). thing. Therefore W3 had better not go into that subject (laughter). The drafc was approved withcub further com- ment. An Asylum Patient's Hoard. ¡ The Clerk reported that a sum Of Z72 Jos lld had been found <u tho box:i c;,f A woman who waa recently removed to Denbigh Asylum. Thinking it inadrisable so 14ave tud money locfcei up in the house during the woman's detention in the Asylum, 1 he had had it deposited in a bank in the names of the Relieving Officer and himself. Ha understood that it was likely that the woman might he released from the Asylum in about a month's time. The action of the Clerk in the matter was approved. Cone where he was not known. A letter was read from a man named Jarvis enclosing a contribution of 9a towards the main- tenance of his children, whom the Board have allowed to remain in the Workhouse till the man can find a suitable home for them, Much amusement was occasioned by the man's statement that he had removed out oi the Union to a place where he was not known and where he hoped that he might be able to start life afresh. Another man named Jones, whosa children are also in the Workhouse, wrote stating that he, too, had settled down outside the Union, and hoped soon to be in a position to take charge of his children again. Re-Appointed. Dr Wm Thomas, Rhyl, was re-appointed medical attendant to the pauper patients admitted from Rhyl to the isolation hospital at Towyn, on the same terms as before, namely £ 12 per annum fcr three yeare.

Rhyl Ratepayers' Association. THE TOWN BAND AND STREET PERFORMANCES. A meeting of the above was held on Friday evening at the Town Hall, Councillor F Phillips presiding. The Tramway Question. It was reported that the Secretary (Mr W I Rowland) had written to the promoters of the tramway scheme pointing out that the poll which the Association took on the question resulted in an expenditure of about fl3, and asking the pro- moters to contribute towards that sum. In reply, Mr Ivey wrote that he would lay the latter before Mr Sellon on hia return. At the same time he pointed out that the syndicate which had pro. moted the scheme had been the means of bringing about a more satisfactory condition of the electricity works and the general life of the town. He asked whether the Association and townspeople were prepared to assist the syndicate in again bringing forward a tramway scheme for Rhyl. The Chairman said he thought that was rather a wide question for the Association. Whether they would assist any such scheme was a matter which would have to be discussed. Mr Evans, River Street, proposed that the matter be deferred to a future meeting. Mr Asher seconded, and it was carried. Hour of Council Meetings. Reference was made to a proposal by Councillor E George Evans that the hour of the meeting of the Council be altered from 3 p.m. to 6 p m. Mr Asher said he was pleased to find that such a notice would come bsfore the Council meeting on Monday, &nd he hoped it would be passed. They all knew that lately there had been an attack on one member of the Council, who hid been elected by the ratepayers. That attack was a very unfair one, as attempts were made to prevent his attend- ing tha meetings at three o'clock. He felt that if the Council met in the evening many ratepayers would attend, acd more would be inclined to offer themselves as candidates for municipal honours. The present members of the Council were always ready to meet the convenience of one another as to the times of committee meetings, and why should they not meet the convenience of members and of the public by meeting in the evening ? He moved that the Association send a resolution to the Council in support of tho proposed change. Mr Wm Pickersgill seconded. The Chairman said he believed that Rhyl was the only Council in North Wales which met in the afternoon. Meetings of the committee? had been altered to suit some members, but he was not sure that these very members were the most regular at the hour they fixed. The Water Committee always met in the evening, and that was the best attended committee. The resolution was carried. Suggested Coaching Kioske on the Front." Mr Brereton asked whether anything further had been done ia the matter of fixing kiosks on the front" for the coaching arm". He felt sure that they would remove a great nuisance, and be a source of revenue to the town. The Chairman replied that the matter had been mentioned in the Council, but nothing had beeu done, Mr J Williams hoped the tima wa3 not far distant when a stop would be put to the coaches and char-a-bancs parading the streets as at present. In other townq they had to stand in a certain place, and Rhyl should adopt the same course. The Town Band and Street Performances. Attention was called to a report that the Council had refused the Rhyl Town Band permission to play in the streets and to collect funds for the pur- chase of uniforms. Mr Asher said he was surprised to hear that such a thing had been done. Why should the town band be refused permission ? The members were residents and ratepayers, but perhaps that was the reason why permission was refused. In the past the Council readily granted permission to German bsnds to play in the streets and to collect, and yet they refused the request of a local band for a like privilege. He proposed that a letter be sent to the Council urging them to grant to the Town Band the same facilities for playing in the streets and collecting as had been granted to the German bands in the past. Mr B Williams remarked that in his opinioa the way in which thinga were being managed in the town was not improving it. Compared with 30 years ago, Rhyl was behind in its band arrange- mants. The motion was carried. Other matters were discussed, and the Chairman was asked to mention them at the meetings of the Council committees.

Ffynnoogroew. A Sailor n Trouble. At Rhyl Police Court on Monday a sailor named Tromas Hayes, whose address was given as 29 M- czies Street, Dingle, Liverpool, appeared before Messrs J H Ellis and J Frimston on charges of t, i!ig drunk and diaort-erly and assaulting P.C. J W Evans at Ffynnocgroew 03 Saturday riwht.- Defendant admitted being drunk, but said he did not emcmber much about the a^ault.—The cooBtable tated tnafc after being ejected from the shop of a greengrocer named Miss Evans on acoount of his drunken condition and beastly behaviour defendant commenced kicking the shop door. Witness then tried to get him to his ship, whereupon he tried to clout him and also butted him in the chin with his head. Witness at length closed with defendant, and after a great deal of trouble got him to Mostyn. But for the help of two or three residents of the village, who prevented another sailor from siding with defendant, the affair might have been a much more serious one. Witness had been told that every time defendant came to the village he fidgett6d for a bother.—Corroborative evidence was given by a collier named William Jones, who stated that as a result of his intervention on the constable's behalf he had his watch chain broken. —On defendant begging for leniency Mr Ellis said that when he spent money recklessly on drink he must be prepared to pay for the consequences. Defendant then said that it was not his own money that he got drank on, but that of his chums.-For the drunkenness and disorderly behaviour defend- ant was fined 2s 6d and 10s 5d coats, and for the assault 103 and 15s 2d costs, the alternative being three weeks' hard labour.

Sensible Holiday Makers Do not merely enjoy tho sea air and exerase. They use judgment in their selection of food. You cannot be too careful how to appease the sharp and welcome appetite engendered by the fresh pure air of the sea. You must not give way to gross feoding and expect your 3tomach and diges- tive organs to respond to the call of overwork. Select foods which nourish and are easily digested. Nothing is more suitable to satiate hunger than the inexpensive yet extremely valuable currant. As huliday diet currants in any form are un- equalled—Currant Bread, Currant Sconos, Currant Biscuits, or any of the numerous confections of currants are not only palatible, but nutritious, easily digested and thoroughly beneficial to the system. Currants contain grape sugar, the most valuable form of diet, and are recommended by the highest authorities on medicine and science. Cur- rants are 80 per cent. nutriment and 99 per cent. soluble matter. Eaten by Royalty on the advioe of Royal physicians.

Coiwyn Bay. The Railway Station. The two island platforms of the Colwyn Bay railway station bave jess been lengthened some forty yards. The station was only completed a few years ago, and that longer platforme should be found necessary so soon is an indication of the great development which has taken place within the last few years in the length of the trains to North Wales. The Summer Sohool. The Summer School of Temperance, Hygiene, and Physical Training, organised by the North Wales Temperance Federation, will begin at Colwyn Bay on the 25th instant. The opening lecture will be given by Professor Sims Woodhead, M.D., of Cambridge, the subject being entitled "For and Against Alcohol: What do we Know? What should we Teach?" Sir Herbert Roberts, M.P., the president of the Federation, will take the chair at half-past seven o'clock in the Central Hall of the Higher Grade Schools, Colwyn Bay.

Ceiriog." At a farmhouse known as Penbryn, in the Vale of Ceiriog, in the south-east of Denbighshire, John Hughes, the son of Richard and Phcebe Hughes, afterwards known by hia bardic name of "Ceiriog," was born on September 25, 1832. His birthplace is exceedingly beautiful and full of historical and literary associations. Here the battle of Crogen was fought, in 1165, between the forces of Henry II and Owen Gwynedd; here, too, between the years 1622 and 1709 lived Huw Morys, the famous Cavalier poet. "Ceiriog" went to work on the farm, but as he soon showed a preference for books he was sent as a printer's apprentice to Oswestry. Thence he passed to Manchester, where he got employment first as a railway clerk and afterwards as shipping agent in the London Road Station of Cottonopolis. During the sixteen years thus spent in Man- chester he educated and trained his mind and discovered his poetical self, and two facts are of special import in relation to tho lyrical work thus begun. On the one hand it is to be noticed that his most charming pictures of nature and rural life were painted beneath the murky pall of Man- chester oa the other, that much of this beautiful artistry was created undafrthe influence of various eisteddfodic competition*. In 1858 was held the Eisteddfod at Llangollen, which may well be oalled "'Ceiriog's' Eisteddfod," for his prize love-poem "Myfanwy" was there given to his country, and charmed the whole Welsh nation by its natural diction, its ingenious versification, its pure and elevated tone, and its patriotic references to Welsh customs and traditions. In 1860 "Ceiriog" published his first book, "Evening Hours" ("Oriau'r Hwyr"). These poems took his countrymen's hearts by storm. Not only was the book eoon to be found on the shelves of the peasant, but its beautiful lyrics were recited and quoted and sung through the length and breadth of the land. Musicians were quick to see the merits of I I Ceiriog's lyrics. Owea Alaw, in his Gems of Welsh Melody," made use of a large number of the songs, and later on about fifty were written for Brinley Richards' "Songs of Wales." After the National Eisteddfod held at Carnarvon Castle in 1862, Brinley Richards and Ceiriog" collaborated in producing the song "God bless the Prince of Wales." The original version was in Welsh, but it was afterwards sung in English to George Linley's words. Ceiriog's second book, Morning Hours," appeared in 1862. It contains 1 Alun Mabon," regarded by many competent critics as h Ceiriog's masterpiece. The Hundred Songs was published ia 1863. In 1865, after a life of nearly twenty years "in the metropolis of rain and cotbon," he yearned to return to Wales, and had his desire granted by his appointment as stationmaster at Llanidloes but this change was unfortunate for his poetic output. When he began to write again he showed a strange predilection for alliterative verse. In 1868 his Oth3r Hours" was published, which contained much less of nature and much more of the study of man than his Manchester books. In 1870 he published his last volume "Summer Hours 11 his fifty lyrics in "The Songs of Wales," already referred to, appeared in 1873. From Llanidloes he w-nt to Towyn, where he held the post of stationmaster for some little time. Upon his ap- pointment as manager of the Van Railway he moved to Caerswa, where his later years were spent, and where, after a long and painful illness, he died on April 23rd, 1887. Here is one of the writer's translations from hia songs to Welsh airs THE VALE OF CLWYD (Yn Nyffryn Clwyd). By Clwyd, all hoar with moss, Lies a storm-shattered cross That guarded once a hero's grave; Around from wood to steep The shepherd calls hiq sheep, Below in centuried sleep Great Einion grasps his glaive. But though his shape is dust, Though his dread sword is rust, To memory's light they leap forth anew Till, Clwyd, with prouder swell, Our hearts thy praises tell, For their stern sakes who fell To Gwalia's standard, true. If black Oblivion's pall On their bright fame must fall, I It first shall quench the stUB keen fires J For O from hills to waves, While holy Freedom paves Our footsteps with their graves, We'll celebrate our Sires ALFRED ARCHIBALD GRAVES. (In "T.P.'s Weekly.")

John Bull's Daughters. There is always a good deal of amusement, and often some profit, food for reflection and self criti- cism, in reading and knowing what others say about us, especially if thoae others be foreigners. That very interesting book, "The Daughters of John Bull" (Le3 filles de Jean Bull), by Max O'Rell, is a pleasant volume to read by the fireside over a pipe. Only it should ba read in the original French to catch the full flavour of it. The author has a great admiration for Englishwomen, for the wives and daughters of this island, but he does not spare their little faults and peculiarities, and is frank in his remarks. His comparison of the women of his own land is worthy of cogitation. For instance, as to courtship, he points out that in England marriage is not settled in a few dayr or months. A young man here, if twenty years of age, engages himself to a girl of eighteen, and the two remain lovers for two, three, or four years. It is a good time for the girl, and she likes it to last. She prefers to murmur words of love with her fiance to being shut up with him in a semi-detaohed villa, there to murmur over the price of butter and of coal. In France the wife is the oonfidant and often the mistress of her husband. In England she is the mistress of the house. In France, in business circles, it is she, for the most part, who keeps the books and the cash of the concern, and never is the cash in greater safety than in the hands of that goddess of order and economy who is called la Francaise." If her husband dies she is well able to carry on the business. This is inde. pendenco. In England the wife knows nothing about her husband's business. The husband gives her so much a month to keep the house going. It is her wages. She Is not astonished if one fine day he places her in a sumptuous house, or if he departs from it in secret (without drum or trumpet). She follows the furniture The Frenchman has one main idea, i.e., to put by his savings and plant his cabbages. The English workman lives from hand to mouth if he gains fifty franci a day (£2) his only consolation is the dream of dying in aa alms- house. The English house shows that one has no thought of providing for the future. In an English house, even of £ 100 a year rent, the Englishman gets a dozen bottles of wine, which he puts in the buffet. In the French gentleman's house there is a store of old wine in the cellar, to be used when one is sick, or when an old friend cumea in. Ho says he hears people engaged in agricultural affairs in England grumble at the state of things, and affirm that they are no longer able to live on British soil. There is the class of gentlemen far- mers. Why are they not prosperous ? He Boes why. In old days the farmer's wife was a brave woman who looked after the farm, got up at five in the morning, looked after the labourers, saw to her own butter and cream, and went herself to feed the pigs. To-day often the English farmer's wife is a lady, who gets up at nine o'clock, or has her breakfast in bed. She dispenses hospitality worthy of an English castle, has horaes and carriages, ponies for the children, wagonettes for pleasure parties. Her life is passed in picnics, in promenades, in visits and receptions. She is the equal of the Bquire's wife, with this difference, that the squire lepa the farm to the gentleman farmer, who has to pay the rent, whether he has had a good year or a bad one.

Y Geoinen, Mae rhifyn Gorphenaf o'n blaen, a'r wythnos ddiweddaf ccdasom ddernya o honi-o erthygl Deon Bangor ar R\go!ygon Undob Cristionogol." Cyhoeddir y drydedd o erthyglau Mr L J Roberts ar adfywiad mâa-geuhedloedd Ewrop yn y gaarif d iiweddaf, A Finland yr ymdrinir ynddi, a thar- awiadol y ffiith fod yr Arth o Rwasia ar yr adeg yme6 yn bwrw ewinedd ei chrvfangau yn ddyfnaoh i mewn at galon y genedl fechan ddewr ym&, aydd wedi bod yn ymwingo ynddynt er'a llawer blwydd. yo. Mae'r ymdrech bresenol a wneir i lethu gwladgarwch y bobl hyn yn ofidus o beth i'r eithaf. Ceir lliaws o ffeithiau dyddorol ar "Godiad a Chynydd yr Eawad Annibynol yngNghymru "gan y Prifatbraw Thomas Rees. Cyhoeddwyd dwy ysgrif yn flaenorol, ao y mac ychwaneg i ddyfod. Sonid un amser, ond nid cymaint yn awr, am ddwy fil o weinidegion wedi eu troi allan o'r Eglwys yng Nghymru ar adferiad Siarl yr Ail. Oad dywed Mr Kecs nis gellir cyfrif llawer mwy na hanner cant o glerigwvr a ddaethant allan yn 1662." Rhaid mai y cryddion a'r gwehyddion anwybodus, y cyfeiria attynt, oedd y lleill, y rhai nid oeddynt erioed wedi c&el eu dcrbyn i urddau yr Eglwye. Traws-feddianwyr haerllug oeddynt. Yroedd un o'r cryddion yma, Rice Williams wrth ei enw, wedi cael ei osod yn Eglwys Dyserth Tra dydd- orol ydy w I I Hanee ac Adgofion" y Parch Daniel Rowlands, Bangor, a "Hunangofiantau" Mr Eleazer Roberts a'r Parch Richard Morgan (W). Mae lliawa 0 bethau eraill d, a dyddorol yn y cyboeddiad cenedlaethol.

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