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Drama Gymreig.

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NODIONI Llywarch Hen.

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Abergele Sparks.

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Abergele Sparks. THE COUNTY SCHOOL QUESTION. The days of miracles are not over by any means. For instance, I know a cabby who ha-s been given a silver medal by a commercial traveller for being a teetotaller for five weeks. You can decide for yourselves which is the miracle—the cabby being a T.T. or the other gent giving away a medal. Both events border on the phenomenal. Here's another miracle. Llanddulas can boast of men, women, and children constitutionally hardy enough to be able to play the hide-and- seek game with death itself, though dwelling in houses" absolutely and hopelessly unfit for human habitation. Forgive me for desig- nating death-traps as houses. Some of these dens should be bodily transplanted to the nearest lime quarry and thtn blasted into infinitesimal particles of dust and blown away by the winds of heaven to tickle the crests of the waves of the restless Atlantic Ocean. Yet another miracle. A certain widow and her five little children, the eldest of whom is not 14, and the youngest a mere baby in arms, are apparently going to work a miracle by living on the princely sum of 8s. per week,. generously granted them by the angelic St. Asaph Guardians, who will try and save their faces by saying that they will also find boots for the children. But boots or no boots, is it humanly possible to feed a family of six, buy coal, and pay rent with eight shillings a week ? And you must remember that a woman with a baby in her arms cannot go out to do any work. it But when you buttonhole some Guardians and bring a case like this to their notice, the only answer you get from them is the RATES They say 4i Rates" far more enthusiastically than they say their prayers. Hates is the Alpha and the Omega of their miserable exist- ence and some of them shout it out with vehemence enough to knock down a bronze statue of Bumble. Of course, there are a lot of splendid men and women Guardians of even the St. Asaph Union. But there are others Last Sunday was observed as "Temperance Sunday throughout the country. And let me say right here that I can eljjoya temperance sermon as well as any man, from Ned Llwyd down to the printer's devil. Put this is what I cannot quite understand. Why is it that we don't have a Misers' Sunday" occasionally ? If brass is the root of all evil, then, logically, it should be oftener exposed as such from every pulpit in Christendom. •X « Colwyn Bay bus shot its bolt, end the stag- nant (?) little lown of Abergele has emerged triumphantly from she County School conflict. The decisive action of the County Cou;.cii on Friday has set all doubts at rest. Colwyn Bay cannot have a County School 1 hue is no desire to crow over the County Council's ver- dict at Atergele, and I hope the Colwyn Bay champions will take their defeat like true sportsmen. ï he fight waged on behalf of the Ahergele County School has been entirely in the educational interests of the district as a whole. Abergele people have realised all along that one strong, efficient County School would, in the long run, be far better for Colwyn Bay and Abergele than two insignificant schools, one in each town. The general feeling in Abergele is one of expectancy that the educational leaders of Colwyn Bay, now that it is settled there cannot be two County Schools in the district, will join hands with the Abergele governors in making the Abergele County School, or, as I should like to call it, "The Abergele and Colwyn Bay County School," the best in Denbighshire. With a little co-operation there is no reason why the Abergele and Colwyn Bay County School should not wrest the supremacy from the Wrexham County School. Mr. J. T. Millward, as the Abergele repre- sentative on the County Council, Messrs. H. E. Pritchard and E. H. Millward. on the Colwyn BayfDistrict Education Committee, and .Messrs. J. Inglis and E. A. Crabbe, as chairman and clerk of the Abergele Governors, have done yeoman service in the fight which has just terniiiiated while Mr. Jeremiah Williams and his first lieutenant, Mr. \V. J. Evans, have worked like Trojans in defence of the school where they have laboured together for nearly ten years. It is to the special efforts of the gentlemen I have named, and the general sup- port extended to them by friends throughout the district, that Abergele is indebted for last Friday's brilliant victory. SEAl CHUGHT.

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