Barry Herald

RAILWAYMEN AND THE GOVERN- MENT. SOMETIMEs-especially at the times of Par- liamentary elections—our Tory acquaintances pose as the friend of the working man, and they grow quite pathetically affectionate over the railway employe. But they are very, very apt to be overborne by the railway directors when practicality has to replace mere cheap senti- ment. That is perhaps why the Government has dropped- for the Session "its Radia- tion of Railway's Bill; and so goes all hope of the compulsory requirement for automatic couplings for another indefinite period. It will only mean the lives of a few more shunters and porters, poor fellows never a highly salaried official or member of any wealthy board will be killed. No matter; a man in corduroy crushed out of all human shape now and then will not count in the tale of the year's working to those interested in dividends only. [A leader on the results of the recent elections and several special articles have been held over through pressure of news matters ED. B.B.]

SUCCESS OF LOCAL TEACHERS. RESULTS OF CHRISTMAS EXAMINA- TION. The list of candidates who have passed the examination for admission into training colleges and for the office of teacher, which took place at Christmas, 1898, has just been issued, and the successful local candidates are the follow- ing:- T FIRST CLASS (MEN).—Mr vv. 1. Meikle, Holton-road School. FIRST CLASS (WOMEN).-Miss A. Haines and Miss A. Morgan, HoltoD-road School. SECOND CLASS (MEN).—Mr H. McLeish, Holton-road School; Mr E. Rees, Barry School; and Mr E. B. Waite and Mr R. n. Cutler, Holton-road School. SECOND CLASS (WOMEN).-Miss J. Bassett and Miss E. M. Rees, Holton-road School; Miss L. G. Piuch, Romilly-road School; and Miss W. Morgan, Barry School.

DISTRICT NEWS. CADOXTON. EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS in Gardening Opera- tions follow the sowing of OWEN'S GARDEN SEEDS," which grow vigorously and produce abundant crops. Five Prizes, 60s, 30s, 20., 15s, and 10s, open to all Wales, England, and Ireland, given for the best five specimens of Onions grown from Seeds obtained from H. J. OWEN, Chemist, Cadoxton. THE BARRY DOCK AND DISTRICT STEAM LAUNDRY, GUY'S-ROAD, CADOXTON.—If you are not satisfied with your Laundress, we shall con- sider it a favour if you will give us a trial. Shirts got up equal to new, 3d each. Other articles correspondingly cheap. Purity of colour guaranteed without the use of injurious chemicals. The van will call at any address to collect work. Prices on application. BARRY DOCK. RECEIVING ORDER.—Tuesday night's Gazette published the receiving order of Alexander R. Lawson, grocer, Dock View-road, Barry Dock. FRENCH LEsgos. We desire to draw our readers' attention to an advertisement in another eolumn, announcing that Madame Goffin, of Car- diff, is prepared to receive pupils in the Barry district who desire to acquire a knowledge of French. Madame Goffin is a lady of rare abilities, being a Brevet Superieur of the University of France, and for six years assistant teacher at Winchester High School for Girls. TEMPERANCE IRONSIDES.—On Friday evening last a Gospel Temperance meeting in connection with the Barry circle of the Society of Temperance Ironsides, was held at the English Congregational Chapel, Tynewydd-road: Mr G. Rutter occupied the chair, and addresses were delivered by the Rev W. Williams, Mr S. Lavis, and others. A number of musical selections were also given by, amongst others, Mra Petty and Mrs Bumford. TABERNACLE SUNDAY SCHOOL.-Under the presi- dency of Mr Lewis Williams, the quarterly meeting of the above school took place last Sunday after- noon, when a good number attended besides the scholars. The proceedings mainly consisted of songs, recitations, and quartettes, the following taking part: Mrs Rees, Miss Havard, Miss Chubb, Messrs T. Davies, B. Perkins, G. Griffiths, and W. Morgan Miss Esther Rees, Master R. Chubb, &c. The juvenile choir, under the conductorship of Mr Perkins, also rendered several songs. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNCON.—The annual meeting of the Barry Sunday School Union was held on Thursday evening at the English Wesleyan Chapel, Barry Dock, when a representative audience of the schools in the Union met, uuder the presidency of Mr W J Flowers. The report of the Union for the year was read by the Rev J Mydyr Evans (sec- retary). Five schools were affiliated with the Union, thus making a total of 14 schools, with 283 teachers and officers, and 3,097 scholars. The officers elected for the eosuing year ara President, Mr W J Flowers; treasurer, Mr J Hayes secretary, Mr Kingstone, High-street, Barry. The Rev J Morris, Cardiff, then delivered an admirable address, full of wise, practical thought, and in- tensely earnest. A duett was also rendered by Mrs Petty and Mrs Bumford. FRENCH SEAMEN'S QUARREL.—At the Glamor- gan Assizes at Cardiff on Friday last (before Justice Channell) Paul Gross (34), sailor, was charged with unlawfully wounding Louis Legartt, at Barry Dock, on February 23rd, 1899. The parties were French shipmates, and went ashore and got drinking. The result was a quarrel, in which prosecutor was I stabbed in the leg, but not seriously, and the wound healed at once. Prisoner said he was writing to his mother when prosecutor got him ashore and induced him to drink. He did not use the knife, but prosecutor fell down. Mr Vaughan Williams interpreted the prisoner's statement and also the decision, which was one of a fortnight's hard labour, to date from the commencement of the Assizes. BARRY. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.—The pulpit next Sunday morning and evening will be occupied by the pastor, Rev Charles H. Shave. His subject for evening will be The Living Christ." "DESIRABLE MARRIAGES."—On Friday evening last the Rev W. Sarginson delivered an tdifying lecture on the above subject at the English Wesleyan Chapel. There was a large attendance. CONSERVATIVE LECTURE.Mr James Jeffrey, Pontypridd, delivered a lime-light lecture on Wed- nesday evening at Romilly Hall, Barry, on With Lord Kitchener from Cairo to Khartoum," under the auspices of the local Conservative Association. Mr R. Forrest, J.P., occupied the chair, and during the evening Major Wyndham-Quin, M.P., delivered an address. The proceedings were enlivened with music rendered by Mr Roberts' band, of Cardiff. GARDENERS AND ALLOTMENT-HOLDERS are re- commended to apply for my new Seed Catalogue for 1899. Speciality in Seeds always fresh. Cata- logues free.—W. R. HOPKINS, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 88, High-street, Barry. DiINAS POWIS. KITCHENER ECLIPSED—TREMENDOUS SLAUGHTER. -Millions of the Black Gang destroyed after one application of OWEN'S KILLEM (registered). Flies, Fleas, Nits, Beetles, Cockroaches, Crickets, &c., cannot exist whenever you use Oven's Killem." In boxes only at Id, 3d, and 6d.-Only Maker: H. J. OWEN, Chemist, Cadoxton, and sold by most Chemists and Stores.

[BY ATHLETE.] BARRY UNIONISTS V. PONTLOTTYN. The Unionists, anxious for a practice match, owing to the disarrangement of the fixture list, took on Pontlottyn last Saturday. A new man, named Dunn, was tried on the forward left wing with Thursby, and he proved himself a player with considerable experience. The match as a practice for goal-kicking was a good one, the Pontlottyn custodian being beaten no less than ten times. PENYGRAIG V. BARRY. This match was played at Penygraig. Barry were not fully represented. In the iuitial half Penygraig scored a try which was converted, but the second half had only been in progress a few minutes when the match was abandoned owing to the inclemency of the weather.

SATURDAY'S FIXTURES. I ASSOCIATION. ROGERSTONE v. BARRY UNIONIST.—To be played at Rogerstone. Barry team: Goal, Sutton backs, Green and Picken half-backs, Ramsda,le, J. Sheldon, and Callaghan; for- wards, 1. Sheldon, Thursby, King, Jones, aud Morgan, The above team will also repre- sent the Unionists against Liverpool Alliance on Monday kick off at 4 p.m. BARRY WEST END v. PENARTH.—To be played at Penarth. The following will repre- sent the West End:—Goal, Blainey; backs, Tolchard and Garrett; half-backs, David, Lougher, and Jones forwards, Rees, Travers, Williams, Waite, and another. Train leaves Barry 2.14. In their match against Hafod on Monday the End will be represented as above. GOOD FRIDAY FIXTURE. RUGBY. LLWYNYPIA v. BARRy.-At Llwynypia. Train leaves Barry Dock at 10.45 a.m. Barry team :—Back, Another; three-quarters, W. Gameson (capt.), W. Kinsley, T. Dowdeswell, and O. Thomas; half-backs, Sutton and Osborne; forwards, W. Yeo, F. Bartle, I. Lewis, W. Tame, J. Jones, W. Thomas, G. Jones, P. Cloke, and F. Dyer. The team starts on their tour on Saturday by the 8.40 a.m. train from Barry Dock via Cardiff, proceeding by boat for Devonport. ASSOCIATION. LADIES V. BARRY UNIONIST.—This grand match will be played at the Unionists Ground. Kick off at 11.30.

BARRY EASTER MONDAY ™ EISTEDDFOI). The Easter Monday Eisteddfod this year, to be held in a pavilion near the Gas Works, Barry Dock, promises to be a greater success than any of its predecessors. As will be seen from an adver- tisement in another column, four choirs have entered for the chief choral competition, and in the male voice competition eleven parties have signified rr their intention of competing. In all the minor competitions the total number of entries exceed those of any previous year. In the evening a grand concert will be held at the Welsh Congregational Chapel, Barry.

THE PEACE CRUSADE. AFTER THE CONVENTION 'I N "1 r: WHAT HAS BEEN DONB. — Jp „ BY W. T. STEAD, The National Convention and the huge culmina- ting meeting at the Queen's Hall are over, and are already but a memory—though a memory which most of those who were present will retain to the end of their lives. Never before has there been held a gathering similar to that in St. Martin's Town Hall, where congregated the delegates from two hundred town's meetings held throughout England, Scotland, and Wales. They were no more than some seven hundred strong-far fewer than at the initiation of this Crusade we had hoped they would be. "To carve thy fullest thought, what though Time was not granted ? Thy great design shall stand." The words of Lowell come so aptly and pointedly that they might have been written purposely for the encouragement of the workers of the Crusade, who have spent themselves without thought of their own convenience, and who at the end see unaccom- plished the aims with which they set forth on their three months of ceaseless toil. Pessimism has temporarily seized some of those who have striven hard during many weeks, and now see so little tangible result. Yet neither pessimism nor disappointment was the dominant note of the Convention, but rather a feeling of splendid hope- fulness. Perhaps that was, in some measure, due to the fact that the larger proportion of those present were from the provinces, where from the beginning the appreciation of what the Czar's Rescript may accomplish has been keener than in the metropolis, and where the enthusiasm for peace is far more real and earnest, and goes far deeper. From the opening to its close the Convention went with a swing. There was rather an embarrass- ment of riches in the way of speakers, and had it not been for the splendid tact and genial courtesy of the Earl of Aberdeen the Convention might have been prolonged to the evening. As it was, the Convention lasted exactly for the two hours and ten minutes which was fixed beforehand as its natural limit, and in that time the whole of the resolutions were enthusiastically agreed to. After leaving the arrangements for the presenta- tion of the national and international memorials in the hands of the General Committee of the Crusade, the most important resolution come to by the Con- vention was that proposed by Canon Rawnsley, in a speech poetical and fervid, as are all his public utterances. The motion was not on the programme as drafted. Here are its terms "That the local committees formed in various parts of the country in connection with this Crusade be urged to keep their organisation in existence, and that before the International Crusade of Peace is finally dissolved a special meeting of the General Committee should be convened to consider fr, Stead's proposal for an extended and permanent organisation." That motion is the bais for a fresh start. When acted upon, it will ensure that no tittle of the effort which has been made during three strenuous months will be wasted. In whatever the General Committee may decide to do for the future, there must be no interference with the existing peace and arbitration societies, which have from the beginning thrown themselves into the task of forwarding the Czar's efforts with commendable zeal and self-denial. Through many dark years, when the horizon has been unstreaked by one ray of light heralding the coming dawn, earnest and devoted men hare laboured on, hoping against, hope that sooner or later they will win the world to their views. They have been the evangelists of the Peace movement. By indomitable perseverance, they have smoothed the way over which the nations must eventually travel. It would be a thousand pities if anything which was now done should ignore the workers in the past, or should deprive them of one iota of the credit to which they are entitled. Jluch may De ncmcveu muiouc trespassing on the ground already covered. God knows there is sufficient of the barren, arid, and sun-dried desert to cultivate without our venturing into the few patches of green which dot the landscape. We must strive to gradually enlarge the area of the tilled ground. For that purpose, we have in our hands the strings of a rough-and-ready organisation. In almost every town where a meeting has been hdd a committee has been formed. That com- mittee, in each case, contains earnest believers in the new gospel of the Czar. About this nucleus may grow up a strong society, doing all in its power to spread the doctrine of international friendliness and the brotherhood of man. In this way, the existing organisations may be reinforced and aided without being interfered with. The General Committee has other work before it. The National Convention left to the members of that body the arrangements for the presentation of the two memorials. Even with that task out of the w?y, much remains to be done. The International Conference at The Hague does not assemble until May 18th. Between then and now, there must be the gathering of the harvest. We have, so far, accomplished little but the sowing of the seed. It remains to garner the abundant crop springing from the corn which fell upon fertile ground. A small deputation gathering at The Hague during the sittings of the Peace Congress might be able to accomplish much by judicious advice wisely tendered. The possibility of sending such a delegation of Peace experts will have to be con- sidered by the committee. Obviously, with so much work lying ready to its hand, the General Committee cannot think of dis- solving at the present time. The organisation of the opinion of this country may be complete, but much more than this is wanted. The committee will not disperse until after the Powers have assembled through their representatives and come to some decision, good or evil, upon the Czar's pro- posals. Before the final separation, the accounts of the Crusade will be carefully audited by profes- sional accountants, and every man or woman who has contributed so much as one penny to the Crusade will receive a full account of the expendi- ture of the whole of the money. The amount is not so great as it should have been. Probably never before has so much been accomplished witn resources so inadequate. Most of the newspapers spoke of the fine demon- stration at the Queen's Hall as the culminating gathering of the Crusade. I have mvself adopted the phrase in this letter. Nevertheless the Crusade is not at an end. Several meetings have been held this week. Others are arranged for. These, how- ever, have not been organised by the General Committee. They are running independently of the central organisation, and are in themselves an evidence of the depth to which the feeling in favour of Peace has penetrated, apart altogether from any exertions made by the Crusade itself. With the present week the organ of the Crusade comes to an end. War Against War has been an absolutely unique publication. Other movements have had their news-sheets, but in no previous instance has a fully organised weekly paper been started for so short a period. The contributors have been brilliant men in literature and art, and the whole series of twelve numbers forms a unique and complete record of what will be an historic effort. Now that the time has come to drop my pen it is well to ask, What has the Crusade accomplished ? All that we dreamt has not been realised. Even on the Continent, however, we have demonstrated that in every country where there is a public opinion at all voices raised in protest against the huge burden of militarism rouse a wide responsive echo. In England we have proved that wherever men and women can be got together to discuss the great issues which lie at the bottom of the Czar's Rescript they speak with one voice in behalf of a Peace between nations and a drawing closer of the bonds which unite all peoples, whatever their differences of tongue, of colour, or of blood. It may be that the movement thus inaugurated will have its set-backs and it At times its pulse may almost cease to beat; but sooner or later its principles will be the chief determining cause is khe policy of natiwuh