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THE REV. KILSBY JONKS.

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THE REV. KILSBY JONKS. TEE last occasion on which I saw the Rev Kilsby Jones he ftood bareheaded on the Builth platform as the train which conveyed Mr Gladstone to South Wales slowly steamed in. No more venerable head, with its wealth of grey locks, was ever the model for an artist. It had size and dignity, and may be honestly described as realising our idea of the patriarchal. He looked a noble old man, and it seemed as if the central figure of t hat celebrated picture," Jeremiah Lamenting over Jerusalem," bad walked down from the canvas into the every-day life of the nineteenth century. And his seriousness heightened this impression. There was the gravity of the East about his mien, and his commanding physique imparted to his presence, that solemnity which one only associates with the prophets of Israel. There was a touch of melancholy about bis features—features whose breadth and massiveness told of the wideness of his views and the strength of his convictions, and which a Greek sculptor would have loved to have transferred to marble. There he stood in the bright sunshine of a Juaa afternoon impassive to the casual glance — a veritable headland among the waves of an excited humanity. He was an elder amongst the people, and, true to his character, exhibited perhaps the sternness, yet the calm and quietude of religion; as well as the elevation which the Mind always produces. Far away from the madding crowd is the little Northamptonshire village of Kilsby, from which he derived bis name. The celebrated tunnel on the London and North-Western Railway, and which is nearly three mileslong, passes under part of this parish. Close ,by is Ashby St. Ledgers —the house in which Catesby, Guy Fawkes, and the other conspirators hatched the details of the plot. From the hill above the village he could look across the valley, aud see the residence where Addison lived and wrote. The place is little changed since ho was there the bullocks still graze in the big pastures, for the hand of man has not violated its rural attributes,

CRADDOCK WELLS CHARITY SCHEME.

FISH, ALL ALIVB, 0 !

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THE HEALTH OF CARDIFF. ---

LLANELLY LOCAL BOARD ELECTION."

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