The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

It is not true that a horse has six legs, I although it has four legs in front and two behind. Husband: "I don't see why it was necessary to call the doctor when the baby had only a I trifling cough." Wife: "W eH, dear, I asked the doctor, and he said I did quite right."

SOUTH WALES TEMPERANCE ASSOCIA- TION. HALF-YEARLY MEETINGS AT BARRY. On Tuesday the half-yearly meetings of the South Wales Temperance Association were held at the Tabernacle Chapel, Barry Dock. The Coun- cil met in the afternoon under the presidency of the Rev John Pugh, Cardiff, who occupied that position owing to the unavoidable absence of Al- derman Thomas Williams, J.P., Merthyr. The quarterly report stated that 57 meetings had been addressed by him du-ing the past twelve months, and JM1 had been received as contributions. Re- ference was made to the triumph of temperance in the Queen's Bench re South Shields licensing proceedings, and also the success of local veto candidates at the poll, both in Parliamentary and local elections. The next meeting of the executive was arranged to be held at Cwmbach about the end of June next, and the annual meetings at Brynmawr about the end of September. Mr J. Herbert Lewis. M.P., was appointed to give evi- dence before the Royal Commission on licensing laws. At a well-attended meeting ol the confer- ence which followed the Rev J. W. Price, Troed- yrhiw, presided, when an interesting debate on the subject of "Should Christians support men in- terested in liquor traffic" took place. In the evening a public meeting was held.

FOOTBALL. MOUNTAIN ASH v. PONTYMOILE. The return engagement between these teams was played at Mountain Ash on Saturday. On the initial meting Pontymoile won by one try to nothing. There was a number of absentees from both teams this time, the most important on the home side being Llew. Deere, who played for the Plymouth Uub, he having migrated to that town on Friday. The following took the neld Mountain Ash: Back, J. Andrews; three-quarter backss J. Deere, S. Muxworthy, E. Griffiths, and J. Muxworthy; half-backs, R.Hillman and W. Phillips; forwards, F. Millar, W. Osborn, A. Fryer, T. Perrott, S. Linton, J. Jones, Francis, and Mears. Pontymoile Back, J. Lloyd; three- quarter backs, T. Davies, C. Pritchard, B. Wil- li amis, and W). A. Parker; ><half-backis, E. Powell and J. Lloyd; forwards, E. W. Barrett, F. Stone, J. Groves, A. Sawtell, E. Taylor, H. Watson, S. Flint, and E. Bunney. Referee: Mr. M'Gregor, Pontypridd. Mountain Ash started play with the wind in their favour, and at once made an invasion to their opponents' ground, where a minor was nego- tiated. The re-start gave the Monmouthshire men no relief, and Osborn scored within five minutes to the start, Phillips converting. By some loose dribbling Pontmoile were inside the home 25, where Hillman saved. Shortly after Plumps romped over the line. Andrews converted. Two minutes later Perrott got another try. From a l throw outthe Monmouthshire forwards worked over and Williams scored the first try for Ponty- moile. The homesters added two more tries to their score before half-time was called. Half-time score Mountain Ash 2 goals, 3 tries, 4 minors; Pontymoile, 1 try. Re-starting with the wind in their favour the visitors at once made a rush for the home line, were two minors were recorded. Mountain Ash. however, got the better of this half early, and kept up a very aggressive attack. A couple of minors were negotiated, after which Phillips got another unconverted try for the homesters. Final score: Mountain Ash, 2 goals, 4 tries; Pontymoile, 1 try, 2 minors. I, TREORKY v. PONTYPRIDD. This league match was played at Treorky in fine weather, Mr Curnow, Mountain Ash acted as referee. Both teams were several men short. The visitors won the toss, and Rowley Thomas started. The return was a bad one, but Treorky gained ground through passing. The visitors through long kicking, pressed, but were repulsed. A bril- iant bout of passing by the homesters took play to the Pontypridd line. Chick punted down, and Birch brilliantly crossed with a try for the visitors which Rowley Thomas majorised. Play in neut- ral ground followed, Treorky retrieving a little of the lost ground. Good play by the home pack took play to the home quarters. Half-time score Pontypridd, 1 goal; Treorky, nil. Jack Thomas restarted for Treorky, but the ball was fielded and a good reply made to David Davies, who made a grand punt. Huge punts made by Jack Thomas and T. Jones further im- proved matters. The visitors were pulverised just now, and the homesters were continually getting away, and only cruel luck prevented a score. The game ended in a draw much in favour of Treorky. Final score Treorky 1 goal, 4 minors Pont- ypridd, 1 goal.

THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. TRACED BACK. A writer attempts to trace table utensils- most of them of recent introduction—to their origin. The Romans, he declares, took their meals lying upon very low couches, and it was not until about the time of Charlemagne that a stand was used round which guests were seated on cushions, while the table made its appearance in the Middle Ages, and with it came benches with backs. The Greeks and Romans ate from a kind of porringer, yet during a portion of the Middle Ages siices of bread cut round took the place of plates. The spoon is very ancient, and many tine specimens are in existence that were used by the Egyptians in the seventeenth century B.C. The klllfe, though very old, had not come into common use as a table utensil in the tenth century. The fork was absolutely unknown to the Greeks and Romans, appeared only as a curiosity in the Middle Ages, and was first used upon the table by Henry III. Drinking cups—in the Middle Ages made from metal more or less precious-naturally date from the remotest antiquity. The use of glasses from Venice began to be general in the fifteenth century. The salt-cellar appeared at a very early date, and occupied the place of honour at the banquets of the Greeks and Romans, many of them being made of gold and silver and richly chased. DO YOU WALK MUCH ? "Do you walk much?" said a well-known doctor. "No? I thought not. Well, then, you ought to. There is hardly anything so good for the system. If you walk prop erly, every nerve, muscle, and fibre is exercised at the same time, and all the senses are kept on the alert. Consequently the whole body is benefited; and since, as is well known, a man's physical condition influences his mental one, an immense all-round improvement takes place. "As to the effect on the body, only just con- sider the difference in appearance between sailors and hunters, both of whom are kept healthy by the continual open-air nature of their occupation. The former, who do little or no walking, are as a ruletis short and squat as the latter are tall and straight. "Yes/walking will do you good in every way." A (TRtOrS TEST FOR BEEH. At Munich, an ancient custom still obtains of the burgomasters and town councillors going annually to Sal vat or Cellar in order to test the quality of the beer consumed by the people. The test is a very primitive one. The officials attend in their leathern breeches, and beer having been poured over the wooden benches, the civic dignitaries plump down upon them. While there seated, they sing an ancient song, the same that their pre- decessors have sung for ages; and, in order to subject the beer to a fair test, they sit long enough to sing the song through three times. Then they essay to rise up. If, now, they find their breeches sticking to the benches, the beer is voted good and sound. Having stood this test, the beer goes through the formality of being tasted,and then its sale to the public is duly sanctioned. SAFE PLACES IN THUNDERSTORMS. I The safest of all places in a thunderstorm is an iron bedstead. Lying on this one is in a kind of metal cage, which acts as a lightning screen. This is contrary to a very generally accepted theory, as metal of all kinds and forms is generally avoided, under the belief that it" attracts the electric fluid. Trees, experience shows, are very dangerous places to shelter beneath in thunder- storms, and isolated trees more so than a clump, especially if near water. An oak tree by the side of a pond is considered by electri- cians as particularly unsafe but water and damp ground are to be avoided quite as much as trees. If the storm is directly overhead it would be safer to lie on the earth flat than to stand up. Indoors the safest place—next to the iron bed—is the middle of the room, and a room in the middle of the house is safer than one at the bottom or top. All draughts and air j currents should be avoided, and all bright I objects, such as mirrors and picture-frames, should be kept as clear of as possible. CHILDREN CHOOSING THEIR OWN NAMES. In New Zealand the Maori priest repeats to the infant a lengthy list of the names of its ancestors, fixing upon the one which the child by sneezing or crying when it is uttered, is considered to select for itself; while in Russia the Cheremiss shakes the baby till it cries, and then repeats a string of names to it till it chooses one itself by ceasing its tears. HENS HATCH THEM. The hens of China lead busy lives. When not engaged in hatching out a brood of their own kind they are put to the additional and novel task of hatching fish eggs. Chinese cheap labour collects the spawn of fish from the water's edge, puts it in an empty eggshell, which is then hermetically sealed with wax and placed under the unsuspecting sitting hen. After some days the eggshell is removed-and the spawn, which has been wanned into life is emptied into a shallow pool well warmed by the sun. Here the fish that soon develop are nursed until strong enough to be turned into a lake or stream. SNAKES IN WARFARE. The nursery marvel of putting salt on birds' tails is quite thrown in the shade by the following, extracted from a Canadian paper: "The Cuban rebels have adopted a novel way of setting fire to sugar-cane fields. A small piece of phosphorus coated with wax is fastened to a snake's tail, and the creature let fastened to a snake's tail, and the creature let loose to make its way among the cane. The I sun melts the wax and ignites the phos- phorus, and the business is done. Military | protection or other efforts are claimed to be unavailing in the face of such a formidable foe." SPIDERS THAT TROT LIKE A IIORSE. Asa rule,spiders are quite harmless toman, but one or two foreign species are capable of doing mischief. The great hairy spider of the Soutli American pampas, for instance, has long, black, sickle-shaped jaws, which inflict severe wounds, and the effects of the poison are some- times felt for many years after the bite is I given. But an even more objectionable spider is found on the same pampas. It is very large, very active, and of extraordinary bad temper. It not only resents any intrusion upon its domain. but objects even to anyone looking over the hedge. Men on horseback who ventured to approach within ten feet of it have been pursued for thirty yards, the spider keeping up with a trotting horse. This irritable individual is called the king of spiders.

WIT AND HUMOUR. Pater: "Did you notice how the lieutenant enjoyed our lunch ? He took a little of every- thing." Mater: Yes, but none of our daughters. "Most extraordinary man." "In what way!" I think he's the only man in the country who has a manufacturing plant of any description and hasn't begun to make bicycles." Marlow: "That maid of your wife's is a striking beauty, isn't she?" Barlow:" I should say so. Every time I kiss her by mis- take she strikes for an increase of wages." "Ellen,' said old Borderkeep, here comes them York folks. Give the children a little more snuff an' get em ter sneezin'. We've got to make 'em think it's cool here some- how." Salvation Army Apostle: "If you swear at those horses, my good man, you'll never go to heaven." Teamster (humbly): "I knows it, mum; but if I don't I'll never get to Tona- wanda." "You want a job in my warehouse, hey? Have you any recommendations from your last employer, my boy." Boy: "Nuthin', in writin'. But he said he was very glad to part with me." The Zulu lady wears her wedding ring in her nose. A double purpose is thus served. It dis- courages promiscuous kissing, andsheisinlittle danger of losing her ring. She always nose- where it is. Mrs. Earle: "Your daughter has been studying painting, has she not?" Mrs. Lamoye: "Yes. You should see some of the sunsets she paints. There never was anything like them!" Home Tooke was the son of a poulterer, which he alluded to when called upon by the- proud striplings of Eaton to describe himself: 1 am (said Home) the son of an eminent Turkey merchant. Georgy, dear," said the loving mother," I'ml very proud nothing has been brought up against you this term of school-" Georges So'm I! Wish't nuthin'd been brought down agin me I "Have you I A Heart that Aches' she asked of the young man behind the music- shop counter. No, madam," he responded, absently, but I've a hollow tooth that does something awful." Miss Point Breeze: I saw something very pretty in ladies' shoes to-day." Mr. Shady- Lane (with an admiring glance at her trim little foot): I see something very pretty in a lady's shoes now." Jack Bachelor (who had been rejected, soliloquising): "Bah! Women are deceitful creatures; you never know what they think of you." Bald-headed Stranger: "You were never married, were you ? "The general run of funny men," said the philosopher, are irresponsible in their utter- ances. They don't weigh their words." 11 1 suppose they don't like to find out how heavy their jokes are," said Explainitall. I cannot imagine," said a portly aldermanv "why my whiskers should turn grey so much sooner than the hair of my head." Because you have worked so much more with your jaws than your brains," observed a w ag. "Wllat is that ioud, jarring noise in the next room?" asked young Ferguson, with some uneasiness. "It's papa," answered the young woman. "1—I think he's changing his. mind about your coming here so often. Brown: "You look as if you had the blues ?"" Robinson: "So I have. I've lost my beautiful new silk umbrella." "Where did you leave it ?" "I didn't leave it anywhere. The owner met me and took it away from me." "I don't want'to catch you out so late again, young man," said the shortstop to his eldest. I don't see how you did it this time," answered the child. I never knew you to" catch anything out for a long time before." Little Ethel: Your sister is engaged, isn't she?" Playmate: "Who says so?" Little- Ethel: "Nobody." Playmate: "Then how do you know?" Little Ethel: "When the postman rings, she goes to the door herself." Mrs. Casey: "Harrigan's daughter is turnin' out for a medium. She do be hearin' voices in the upper air, they tell me." Casey: "I hear thim every day, meself. Sometimes they yells mortar,' and sometimes bricks.' Boss: "Waggins, what did you do with my pen ?" Clerk:" I put it on your desk, sir." Boss: "You did? Well, don't do it again,, please. Next time you take it just put it in. some place where I can find it when I want it." One of the hardest things in making a, speech," said the old campaigner, is to say just what you mean." Yes," was the replyr that's pretty hard. But once in a while, it's a good deal harder to mean just what you say." John," she said, rather sternly, the coal bin is empty." Yes," was the disconsolate- reply, it's that way most of the time. It's- never of use in an immediate emergency. I'm going to change its name and call it a coal-has- been." An old lady was telling her grandchildren about some trouble in Scotland, in the course of which the chief of her clan was beheaded. It was nae great thing of a head, to be sure," said the good old lady, but it was a sad los& to him." Mr. Figg: Young man, what sort of mis- chief have you been into?" Tommy: "Ain't been in none." Mr. Figg: "Oh, yes, you have. Didn't your mother just tell me that you were getting to be just like me in your ways ?" An eminent artist lately painted a snowstorm so naturally that he caught a bad cold by sitting near it with his coat off. He is cousins to the man who became hoarse on Christmas- day through meeting a man in the street dressed in nankin trousers! "Does your husband still call you pet names?" "Yes," said the wife of a year;. yes, he does. But he does so with a little- too much ease, I think. It sort of sounds as if it were more the result of practice than the- expression of undying affection." How do you pronounce f-i-a-n-c-e ? inquired the young man of his French teacher.. "If the young lady has plenty of money, then you caliber 'fe-ansay,'but if she be- very poor, then you make it' fie-an-say > nothing," replied the astute preceptor. « Really, Jane, dear," said Mr. Bobbeter to his wife, as they sat down in the theatre, "you hat is entirely too high. Take it off and put it in your lap." "Well, I like that t" snapped Mrs. Bobbeter. If I put that hat in my lap, how am I going to see over it ? The I Lte Lee Lewis, shooting on a field, the- proplietor attacked him violently. "I allow no ierion," said he,"to kill game on my manor but myself; and I'll shoot you if you enne here again." "What," said the other, do yon propose to make game of me ? A Pennsylvania paper has the following: "Judge Wilson sentenced a criminal, last week, at the Huntingdon county sessions, to five years' solitary confinement in the penitentiary,, for burglary and larceny. During the follow- ing night he broke gaol, went to the judge's lodgings, and stole the judge's hat and a pair of boots The great man of the village being at dinner,, allowed one of his tenants to stand while he conversed with him. "What news, my friend?" said the squire. "None that I know of," replied the farmer, "except that a sow of mine has had a litter of thirteen pigs, and she has only twelve teats." "What will the thirteenth do ? asked the landlord. Do as 1 do," returned Hodge; "it will stand and look on while others eat." At the Seaside.—Visitor: "And what sort of people do you get down here ?" Old Salt i Oh, all sorts, some of 'em very stylish folk and some not much better than yourself

Social Pi-oblems* j EQUITABLE LAND NATIONALISATION. By Joseph Hyder, General Secretary to the Land Nationalisation Society. ARTICLE XXI. "Time has ripened the doubt in the minds of -some of those who were responsible for the pro- posals of 1886 whether it would not have been wiser to carry this principle still further by levy- ) ing an annual payment due from the tenant to the State in perpetuity, and so reserving for the Irish State a perpetual advantage from the pre- «ent use of Imperial credit. That is to say the Irish State would become the landlord, and the tenant would acquire his holding, subject to a perpetual rent of not less than 4 per cento. on the purchase money."—Mr John Morley, "North American Reyiew," Oct. 1890. 1 "In the execution of some scheme which dis- places a large number of existing dwellings, if the municipality is to interfere in this matter it ought to acquire the land and retain the land for itself. It ought not to seek the creation of new interests which will make subsequent dealings "ith the Soil more difficult, and will put the un- earned increment into the pockets of the individual The municipality ought to acquire the land for itself, and then I agree it becomes its duty to let it out upon reasonableterms to persons who de- sire to use it.—Mr Asquith at Birmingham. Jan. 22nd. 1895." I think it has now been made clear tha tthe right to compulsorily dispossess landlords upon equitable terms is well established and universally recognised. Therefore land nationalisers have no need to fight for a principle. For it is conceded on all hands. Not even the reactionary Liberty and Property Defence league, whose president is the master of 62,000 broad acres, can deny its validity and justice. And, on the other hand, even Henry George, the apostle of confiscation, admits (vide the chapter on "Compensation" in "The Perplexed Philosopher") that it is just to compensate for land taken piecemeal for public purposes. As Mr Balfour said in one of the de- bates on the Parish Councils Bill, "We are all perfectly familiar with the practice and the policy of ei impelling the sale of land." During the same debate Sir Henry Fowler told the House that, in the city of London alone, land has been compulsorily acquired under Michael Angelo Tay- lor." Act for the widening of streets no less than a thousand separate times. Sir Robert T. Reid's Resolution. An d here I give the exact terms of a famous resolution which was introduced by Sir Robert T. Reid. the eminent and respected Radical Q.C., on May 6th, 1890 "That in the opinion of this House a measure ia earnestly needed enabling Town Councils and County Councils in England to acquire by agree- ment or compulsorily. on fair terms and by simple inexpensive machinery, such land within or ad- joining their several districts as may in their judgment be needed for the requirements of the inhabitants." Sir Robert Reid made an admirable and con- vincing speech which was a weighty indictment of the whole system of private property in land. Mr A. H. Dyke Acland seconded the motfon, and a long and spirited debate ensued, in the course of which Mr John Morley strongly support- ed the motion as "pointing to a solution of the land problem which was reasonable, moderate. and involved no breach of equity." The whole of the Liberal members present voted for it, and they were only beaten by the Ministerialists by narrow majority of 16. The exact numbers were 175 "Noes" and 159 "Ayes." Perhaps not many of the 159 realised that the logical outcome of the policy they supported is the nationalisation of the land through the agency and under the adminis- J tr.it ion of representative local authoirties. Y<tt so it was and it is the policy which tho Land Nationalisation Society have advocated for the last twelve years. Thus at least the firIrt part of the process of gradually extinguishing the private ownership of land by the method of compensation is seen to be "practical politics." Homestead Allotments. For let as imagine that the law was altered on the lines above suggested. And such alteration is onlv a question of time it is bound to come sooner or later. Let us imagine that local Coun- cils have the power to obtain and hold land ac- cording to the requirements of all classes of their constituents, as was put forward in the New- castle programme. The clerk, the artisan, the shopkeeper, the farmer, and the professional man, equally with the labourer, would have the right to apply direct to the Council for the land they needed. And the co-operative society would have as good a right as the individual. Moreover, there would not be the absurd and unjust restric- tions that no wapply. Hitherto public bodies have only been empowered to compulsorily pur- cha.se-Iand for cultivation. The utmost size of any one holding so ac acquired is at present one acre, and area which is not sufficient to render a man independent of wage service. Again, there is no right to build a home on the land. The new law would remedy all this. The miserable inade- quacy of mere "potato patches" has been abundant- ly demonstrated. Ihe next move must be the homestead allotment. And the establishment of the home on the land. so that every home has its garden, is the most important use to which the land can be put. Moreover, if the price paid for land be a reasonable one it will be possible for the Council to compete with private land monopo- lists in the most effective manner, and to offer advantages which they never now give to their tenants. A fair. revisable rent, and full security ( in the making of improvements, are not the least I of these advantages. In this way experiments in J public landownership would be in all parts of the country. The two systems would be seen at work side by side. They would compete for tenants. Competition would be called in to break up mon- opoly—competition between the public landlord, ftudying the public interest, and the private • landlord, whose first aim is to exact the highest I possible rent. Under such circumstances, given 1 a fair trial, I do not fear for the result. The better system would win. The law of Natural Selection would operate, and the fitter (the one | that better served the interests alike of the indi- vidual tenant and the community) would sur- vive. The Financial Soundness of Compensation. vive. 1 I The Financial Soundness of Compensation. But whether the !and be nationalised (under j municipal administration) bit by bit, as fast as I public opinion ripens in each district, or on a wholesale scale by a single Act of Parliament, there arises an objection which needs to be met j and answered. It crops up continually in all dis- cussions on the subject. It is said that it is im- possible to raise the vast amount of money whcih would be needed for the purpose of buying out the landlords. To many minds this is the pons asinorum of the whole problem. Yet. the diffi- culty which it represents is more apparent than real. It is based in the main upon two false assumptions—first that the State must pay the landlords in cash; second, that a vast addition would be made to the National Debt, which would have to be borne by the taxpayers of the country. Of course, it is obvious that if eithe- of thesa assumptions were correct, which is not the case, the scheme would be impracticable. As regards the objection that the State could never find suffi- cient money, it must be remembered that the amount of of actual cash in the country at any given time is never more than a small proportion of the business done or of the liabilities which are incurred in the course of business had t obe paid at once. they could certainly not be paid in cash. This is equally true of the enormous debts which have been incurred by the Imperial Government and by the various local governing bodies; debts which now exceed 9800,000,000 an dare constantly increasing. The whole of the metal money in the I country would not be nearly sufficient to meet these liabilities alone. Yet no one says that our I Government is insolvent because because the avail- I able cash is less than the total liability. The Government is able to pay the interest on the National Debt every year as it becomes due. And that is the essential condition of solvency. When- ever the holders of Government Stock want to convert their paper into cash they can easily do so in the open market. Similarly, in natoinalis- I iug the land the State could not if it would, and would not if it could, find cash equal to its liab- ility. It would issue Redeemable Land Bonds, not cash. But these Bonds could at any time be converted into cash, just as Consols are. And now as regards the second objection, that National Debt would be enormously increased. It takes no account at all of the corresponding in- crease which would be made in the national as. sets. This is the vital point. Every argument which omits it is obviously invalidated. No Increase to th eNational Debt. The National Debt has been incurred by wat j expenditure. But there is no comparison be. I tween money spent in that way and money spent in buying land. The one is unremunerative, the other is remunerative. However necessary a war- ship may be, it earns no money that can be placed as a set-off against its cost. That cost must inevitably be borne by the taxpayers. But I suppose the same sum were employed to acquire land. Then there would be an annual rent which i would not only suffice to pay the interest on the purchase money, but would also pay off the prin- cipal in a certain number of years. Thus, so far from there being any addition to the bfuden of taxation, there woul deven be obtained a consider- able addition to the national income, and conse- quently a proportionate diminution of that bur- den. In fact the surest way of diminishing taxa. tion is for the State to obtain its revenue from the rent of its own land. and the surest, cheapest, and justest way to secure that property is by the method of compensation. The rent Purchase System at Work. ( Fortunately this is not a question of mere guess- work. The Ashbourne Acts of 1885 and 1889, and the Land Purchase Act of 1891 have shown that the wholesale purchase of land by the State is perfectly practicable without calling upon the taxpayer for a single farthing. Under the Ash. bourne Acts the interest on the su madvanced is 3 per cent. The tenant pays 4 per cent., which is considerably less than his former rent, and the difference forms a singing fund which pays off the principal in 49 years. Here, then, we have the financial essentials of Land Nationalisation by Compensation. Of course we know the State will not, after all, obtain the land which it has bought. That is the absurd part of the business. It quix- otically intends to hand over the land to the ten- ants instead of retaining it as public property. But this does not alter the fact that the State has bought the land, and that the ten- ants' rents, even after being reduced, have repaid the whole of the principal. And what is there to prevent English and Scotch, and Welsh land being bought by the State in the same way, but retained for the good of all, instead of alienated for the benefit of a single class? There is no limit to the amount of land that could be thus nation- alised. It would be as easy, financially speaking, to acquire the whole 77,000,000 acres, worth (say) £ 3,000.000,000 and yielding an income of £ 150.000,000, as it would be to acquire a lesser area. For it is a questidn of credit not of cash; and British credit would be immeasurably strengthened if the rent of the British Isles were payable to the public exchequer instead of to "Sir John or His Grace."

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AFTER AN ATTACK. By common consent patients everywhere admit thai, they feel more depressed and miserable after an attack of Influenza than while under its in- ) fluence, and more than they feel after an attack of any other illness. There is a want of "Go," a lack of cheerfulness, depression of sp:rits, feeding of misery and helplessness, and such despondency as t:) be almost unbearable, the slightest exertion is fatiguing, what was considered a pleasure is a toil. the appetite had entirely gone, and to sum up "Life is a burden" to those who have not h:ther to experieneed for one day in their lives such, feel ings of misery and helplessness. The best way to banish these miserable feelings is to take nourish- ing food, and moderate exercie, to avoid solitude, and mix in cheerful company, and to take Gwil- ym Evans' Quinine Bitters. We can strongly and confidently recommend this preparation, as it has treated severe cases of influenza, extreme Weakness and Langour. with greater success than any other known remedy. A few doses taken in time will drive away the sense of extreme help- lessness and feelincr of misery ."nd weakness which afflicts patients after a severe attack. Owilrm Evans' Quinine. Bitters is sold J. bottles, 2s 9d and 43 6d each. Beware of Imitations. See the name "Gwilvm Evans" on Label. Stamp, and Bottle. Sole proprietors Quinine Bitters Manufarturias Company, Limited, Llanelly, South Wales.

Few people understand how to stop a run- away horse. The proper way is to run in the direction that the horse is taking, and as he catches up with you, jump for the bridle and hold on to it, running beside the aniniiil mean- while. The check will cause the animal to slacken his pace and stop. These directions form part of the first instructions given to the police, whose chief duties are the stoppage of runaways. If they were more generally understood by the public at large, fewer acci- dents would be recorded. Fishes that live in deep water, where much light does not penetrate, are mostly dull in colour, while those that inhabit shallow waters are generally of the brightest hues, due, it is said, to the light which reaches them through the water. John o' Groat's house is an old house in Caith- ness-shire; it is seated on Dungis bay or Duncan's bay-head. It is remarkable for being the most northerly point in Great Britain. Libel" once meant any little book; but as many small tracts in the early days of printing were personal and offensive in character, the word acquired its present-significance.