Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

The Sun. The lord of life and lamp of day Fosterer of tender herbis green Quickener of flourish'd flowers sheen; Support of every root and vane; Comfort of all kind fruits and grain Welfare of husbands at the ploughs Repairer of woods, trees and coughs; DepAinter of the bloomlit meads The life of everything that spreads. GAVIN DOUGLAS.

Character of a Happy Life. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death. Not tied unto the world with care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise Or vice who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise Nor rules of state but rules of good: Who hath his life from rumours freed Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend And entertains the harmless day With a well chosen book or friend —This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not, of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR H. WOTTON

Nourishing the Soul. How incessant the attention given to the physical being and the animal wants, and how little atten- tion paid to the nourishment of the soul The Earthly needs of finite man are considered in all Ways, from making a tour round the world, to a pedestrian journey at home. Lofty mountains are scaled, lakes traversed' and the sea with its unrest haunted, so that animal pleasures and excitements may be enjoyed. And how little the soul is con- sidered The task is not a great one. Culture flowers. The eyes-eyelets of the soul—rest lovingly upon them with their varied hues; and ,softly falls upon the soul the gentlest of influences. 'The ear drinks in sweet music, and the soul is strengthened. Good deeds are done, and the soul is gladdened. Mercy, charity, goodwill to the humblest; and how keen the soul's delight. And all within the compass of the humblest. The bank of flowers may be no gorgeous gathering of exotics. It may be only "a bank where the wild thyme grows," or a great mass of heather, more purple than a thunder cloud, and lit with the glory of its companion gorse. vIhe soul drinks in its beauty and its fragrance. There is not a man or a Woman in the lowliest walks of life, who cannot, if it is only by the banishing of self for a moment, gratify the soul. The penny given in kindly -P,harity takes the same gladness with it as the full purse to indigence in higher walks of life Little ■acts of kindness, deeds of goodness done by stealth, living a life of purity and holiness, all gladden and nourish the sonl. These thoughts come to me in life's calm evening as I gaze lovingly upon the flowers. They surround IDe, and the sunshine of summer is with me yet a little while but the time is drawing near when the flowers will fade and the sunshine disappear: and it will be well, if. in the hours and days of the past, the soul has been made strong for the life that is to be. C. WILKINS, F.G.S. +

The Weaver of the Sky. Blue sky, blazing sun, and a glorious wind and lying here at rest on the open moor, this summer tnorning you feel you are riding on the upper deck oftheWerld; you can almost fancy you can feel it rock'under you in the gale as, like a mighty ship -under full press of canvas, the Earth drives and plunges through the blue ocean of infinite space. Away, boundless on all sides, the undulating moor- land stretches-here purple with sunlit ling, there golden with acres of bilberry, and swept all over by the pouring, heather-scented breeze. In the lulls of the gale you can hear the next gust gathering, long before it comes, in a far away hiss on the tnoors behind—coming nearer and nearer-singing louder and louder, till it bursts upon you, boister- ous and roaring, and wrestles with the roaring heath-tufts, tosses the bracken's plumes, presses the long grass down to the earth, and goes career- ing onward. Then it dies down for a minute to a soft, hushing whisper, and gently wuthers in the heather; and then rises again in soft blustering gusts, and rushes with open and boundless sweep and wild shouting away over moor and mountain top. Hurrah "it shouts, "Hurrah! for open eky and open moor I am free, I am free And ,everything, from sky above to heather beneath, seems to answer, Hurrah we are free, we are ■free." AN INFINITE AZURE EXPANSE. The sky is swept clean, and it is magnificent to lie back, with the wind brushing over one's face !and humming in one's ears, and gaze right up into the glowing blue, until it seems to grow deeper and -deeper, and yet more deep. and utterly fathomless, —till at last the brain reels at the sense of plum- ,metiess depth of that infinite aznre expanse. It is a vast monotony of living blue; it seems alive, and throbs and palpitates with light. It is so free and open as to be like liberty itself; and yet it is mystery too, for it hides by its very openness, and conceals its great secrets by its very light; so that ,-we can partly understand from it the Psalmist's beautiful figure—" Thou coverest thyself with light as with a garment!" A great shaggy mass of white, sunlit cloud sweeps majestic across the lustrous ocean like a -queenlv galleon of ancient days sailing to unknown seas. The whole fleecy mass is turning and twist- ing in itself with a slow, coiling motion that never pauses, and is never hurried and it is ever altering its whole shape as it careers across the blue. Its edges, especially, are never long the same, but are ever melting and re-forming, some parts slowly curling over like surges breaking on the shore, and others whisking off like scud before the wind. It sails away like a living thing gambolling in its joy. There, right overhead, a thin shred of cloud it has left behind is evaporating- before one's eyes; becoming more transparent, thinner and thinner- bluer and more blue-till. see it is gone-sucked in by the deep cerulean HENRI MARTIN, M.A.

Towyn Badges. BY "PHILIP SIDNEY." As signs are not wanting of a widespread inter- est in old days, and ways and customs as occasion- ally revealed in recent articles in this column, the writer feels he cannot do better than go on lifting the curtain, and so give his readers further peeps into the past, as unearthed in various registers, docu- ments and other unprinted manuscripts in the counties of Cardigan, Merioneth and Montgomery. Let him say how pleased he is whenever some reader in remote hamlet or busy town finds time to send him some bit of quaint news or .veil nigh for- gotten scrap of folk lore. With every communica- tion he tries to deal on its merits to the best of his ability. One correspondent asks when burial in woollen was enacted ? Three Acts of Parliament were passed in the reign of King Charles II, to encourage woollen manufactures, by preventing any person those dying of the plague only excepted being buried except in woollen. Let it however, be understood that these Acts did not provide against using coffins with the woollen shrouds. The first of these Acts was made in 1666—just four years after the memorable Black Bartholo- mew's Day of the 24th August 1662-but it was shortly afterwards repealed. Why? Because it, did not contain a sufficient, remedy for the dis- covery and prosecution of offences." The second Act was to be in force from and after" the 1st August, 1678, and the third Act be- came law in 1680, being an additional one having for its object the lessening of the disadvantages under which the parties interested laboured in making their affidavits. This subject of burying in the woollen shrouds led me to look up notes gleaned from the parish books of Towyn, where we get some particulars about burials:—In 1666, the year of the passing of the first Act, a winding sheet cost 6s, another 3s 6d, the year before the cost for a winding sheet was Is 4d, another cost 5s 7d. Law abiding Towyn, in 1678, found it necessary ,o levy fines 11 for not byrying in flanen," and the Lmount came to £2 10s; evidently some dwellers inder St Cadvan's tower tried to evade the law by lot wrapping their dead in woollen garments. Having once opened my notes about Towyn I may as well go on culling from the bundle such items as may be of general interest. In 1677 a chch Bible cost £4 5s; and, in 1666 a warden for uchbyga and vaenol made use of Lime belong- ing to vaenol was to be repaid by uchbya; "in 1678, a crown was paid for writing the Register Roll," and, in 1681, the scribe was paid 6s for similar work. The whole subject of relief to the poor, as treated of in records like these, is one of increasing interest, in these days when fierce light burns about Boards of Guardians and their doings, hence the reproduction of some items pertaining to Towyn's early methods of administrating its funds available for the relief of the poor in its midst. Here is an extract which preserves the fact that persons receiving relief had to be badged :July 11th, 1727. At a vestry then held it was voted and agreed that ye within poor shall wear a Badge at ye charge of ye Parish, as witness our hands, or not be entitled to ye within same. Edd Morgan, A. ONen, Edward Hughes." That these" badges" of poverty were really worn is evident from such entries as these after recipients' names: Ba(lgd jun 23," "Badg'd July 1st," Badgd Aug 2," Badgd July 29," &c. These badges were worn on the right shoulder:— We whose names hereunto subscribed at a Vestry held ye 27th day of May, 1729, have agreed yt ye poor shall wear Badges on ye right shoulder upon their upper garment visibly, or forfeit their allow- ances.—E.ld. Morgan, John Edwards, Humphrey Price, John Woodward, Edward Hughes. A few years later, under date 1734i 9 be, 1, [i.e., 1st November,] we read how The following Poor are to be badged according to law." The number is 15, who between them receive £12, or sixteen shillings apiece. One of the male recipients on this list is described as an li idiet," another-a woman—as a new comer." At the vestry holden and kept on the 25th Day of November, 1737. certain poor folks in "Isburga'" to the number of 14, are voted P,13 Is, which works out at 18s 6d a head. Four of these are described as ill Blind," one as Bedrid." Underneath the names on the list is written—"These to be badged according to law." So recently as the year 1777 mention is made of these badges, when at a vestry, summoned on the 20th July, to be held on the 26th, and adjourned to this 27th day of the same month, it is agreed upon by a Majority of Inhabitants present that a Rate not exceeding one shilling in the pound be assess'd and levy'd off and from the Several Occupiers of Lands in this parish, towards the relief of the. poor for the year ending at Easter, 1778 And it is further ordered that no person whatsoever shall have benefit of the said rate but such as wear badges on their outward garments." Evidently, however, and quite rightly, by this time, the wearing of these badges was falling out of practice, for on the 20th March, 1778, it was agreed that the Poor's rate. made on 27th July 1777, should not exceed one shilling per pound; and whereas the said rate is found to be, or least pre- tended to be. insufficient for the purposes intended, either thro The neglect or partiality of the Over- seers in not insisting upon the poor's wearing of badges, it is this day aggreed upon by Majority of 119 tho Inhabitants present that an Additional rate, not exceeding fourpence in the pound, be assessed, levied, and collected of," &c. But the custom was not allowed to pass away without further protest on the vestry's part. On Midsummer Day, presumably in 1783, the parish church was the scene of action for a vestry, at which it was ordered by the majority of the parishioners then present that the Overseers of the present year do provide cloth or flanel and em- ploy a Taylor to Badge the poor therein that are to have relief from the parish, as the law in that case directs, and that the said overseers do not presume to give relief to any poor whatsoever withi this parish not wearing such badge, in pain of their be- ing obliged to pay the penalties due 0: their dis- obedience therein." So much then for these Badges," evidently a source of no little trouble and anxiety to our Towyn forefathers. It would be of interest to know exactly what were the form, size and colour of them. Has one by any chance survived in any old press or wardrobe? Further information about the snbject would be welcome.

THE HAVAN RAILWAY. SIR,-Uunder the heading" Talybont" in your paper last week, there wasa reference to the above railway, and the advisability of the District Coun- cil taking steps to have it converted into a Light Railway. The suggestion is worthy of notice, and no doubt between the traffic to Talybont and the country around, and visitors in summer, it could be made a paying concern. But I think the first step ought to be taken by the landowners, farmers, merchants, and shopkeepers of the district. If the above persons would join and form themselves into a committee and make an application to the Dis- trict Council, no doubt the Council would do everything possible to help them in the matter. Who at Talybont has the enterprising spirit to move in the matter ?—Yours, etc., WELLWISHER.

THE PROPOSED ABERAYRON RAILWAY SIR,— The jealousy of neighbouring towns for each other is proverbial, but it is difficult to understand it when it is carried to the extent that it has been in the following instance: An individual, resident in a town mat IS AS lUU,U IUIUWIW u will be as greatly benefitted as Aberayron, jealous, we presume, that the railway, when it comes, should come through the latter town at all, has actually written to the Great Western Railway, to try and influence them to oppose the Government free grant to the Aberayron Railway. We have heard of dogs snarling in the manger, but this case of selfish jealousy, is, we hope, unexampled. GLANAERON.

Reviews. THE LLANDINAM MAGAZINE. We welcome the third number of this plucky venture, and are glad to find from the editorial notes that the circulation of the second number exceeded the most sanguine expectations," though el not from a financial aspect. The parish census is dealt with in an able article by D.D." With one exception-from 1861-71—there has been a steady decrease in population since 1841, when the popu- lation was 1,733, as against 1,209 this year, a de- crease of 524 in sixty years. Llandinam, however, is no exception to its neighbours, there having been a consistent decrease in the returns all round the district—Carno has decreased by 276, Trefeglwys by 605, Mojhdre by 235, whilst Newtown, which one would have expected to have shown an increase, has decreased by 72. The General Notes on Parish Affiars are varied and interesting, dealing wnh the various events which have happened since the last issue, and the Church and Chapel News well up to the mark. A portrait group of the local football team, and one of a native trooper just returned from South Africa are clear and distinct' A new and acceptable feature is a column of notes from Cakley Hall, May the editor and his co-workers have all the support they deserve. A USEFUL LOCAL GUIDE. Messrs Ward, Lock and Co. are again to be con- gratulated on the appearance of another of those handy guides, for which their name is a guarantee of good work well done. In -1 A new Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Aberystwyth, Barmouth, and other neighbouring places in the southern section of North Wales," we are given, in addition to a clear and readable text, no less than six maps and some sixty illustrations. The book, easily carried in the pocket, treats fully of the watering places scattered along the coast, from Pwllheli in the north to Aberystwyth in the south, and of the ex- cursions from everywhere, as well as the inland resorts to the Dee Valley. It also outlines the various centres, and gives a sufficient description of Chester and Shrewsbury for tourists who break their journey at either of those two interesting places Notes are freely given on the pronuncia- tion of Welsh names, mountaineering, accommoda- tion hotels and their tariffs, whilst books for holiday reading, of more or less local interest and merit, are not forgotten, A plan of Aberystwyth, by the well-known firm of George Philip and Son, is at once clear, accurate and up to date. No less than twelve short walks from Aberystwyth are outlined. Exception must De taken to the statement that it was while resident at Cwm Mansion, close to the church (Llangorwen) that Keble wrote the latter part of the Christian Year." Not more than two of the pieces are known to have been inspired by his visit to Cwm and Aberystwyth. No mention is made under Llanbadarn Church of its cbiefest treasures, to wit, the great archway, and the two stone crosses. Is it now possible to scramble up bhe Alltwen cliff from the beach ? Does not a liberal allowance of bArbed wire effectually block bhe tourist's progress ? But these are small matters, considering the varied and extensive matter, so ibly dealt with in the Guide. No visitor who de- sires to thoroughly explore and know the beautiful neighbourhood dealt with in these pages can afford ;o overlook this book as a part of the holiday outfit.

Cricket. MACHYNLLETH v: ABERDOVEY. • A serious mishap happened to the Maglonian battalion on Saturday, when it met with a slight reverse at the hands of that modest and despised team, which hails from Aberdovey, the port of Machynlleth. Aberdovey won the toss and decided to bat first. They were apparently very glad that the coin had turned its winning side to the sun, which was sluggishly* drawing the tail-end of the American heat wave from the west. Green, who was to face the first overture of the music, met with a slight accident, as he took his pre- liminary practice at the nets, so that R. Ll. Hughes' had to volunteer to take his place as first man in.' Runs came very quickly, and every one gave a sigh of relief when Rawlinson took up the attack, but what a disappointment 1 The home pom-pom could not find his range and Hughes scored heavily on the leg-side. That Rawlinson puzzled the batsmen was clear from the diverse curves they described between the block" and the wicket. Hughes was caught. Green deliberately put himself hors-de- combat. Mr Landuer was smartly run out, and Dr Davies was highly successful for a short time. The Rev Mr Gibbon who chaplained the plucky lads from the cockle-country, gave no end of trouble at the wickets with his straight bat, but Mr Jenkins beat him time after time and finally dismissed him. There were several new faces amongst the meteorological team, and two of these new faces played very good cricket. The Aber- dovey total reached fifty-nine and the crowd of spectators from under the seats on the path and from under the leafy trees felt quite at ease that eleven batsmen could easily beat that. Dick Hughes arrived just in time, and this was a hopeful sign, for it then seemed luck favoured the home team. Never did luck, if there is such a person, more miserably fail a team. One batsman after another walked to the slaughter, trembling like a winter pea-pod; each batsman's muscles seemed as unstrung as the arms of a jelly-fish and in spite of the goodly muster of white hats, the eye was not enough for the glare of the passing heat-wave, and the bowling of Green and Gibbon. As Mr Jenkins, the vice captain, walked to the wicket, there appeared on the unsteady telegraph board, which has a head disproportionately great for its base, a rusty seven, accompanied on its left side by a modest one; seventeen for six wickets read the miserable, tale, but Mr Jenkins came off, and without giving a single chance he quickly made a useful score of 20 runs, He was out to an unlucky tall, which cannoned from his chest to the wicket. Every one was delighted with his splendi, innings, and every one forgot his disappointmenffiat losing the match, and thought only of the pleasure Mr Jenkins' success gave to all. The Aberdovey fielding was superior to that of the home team, they even bowled only after careful scouting and precise measurement of the ground to be traversed and it was dangerous for albatsaian to place, the ball twice in the same place for a man was found there by his second stroke. Bravo Aterdyfi. The following are the scores:— ABERDOVEY. R. Ll. Hughes c Evans b Rowlandson. 16 F. A. Lindner run out 3 J. H. Green Ibw 2 Rev Gibbons b Jenkins 11 R. J. Davies b Davies 0 O. D. Davies b Davies 5 Thomas c Wilson b Davies 5 Idwal Davies not out 9 H. D. Humphreys b Davies 2 D. J. Jones c and b Jones 1 W. Williams b Davies 0 Extras 5 Total 59 MACHYNLLETH. R. Humphreys b Green 1 J. M. Wilson c O. Davies b Green 0 H. J. Evans b O. Davies 1 J. G. Jenkins b R. J. Davies 20 E. Jones c Green b Gibbons. 0 A. O. Davies b Green 6 Rowlandson b Green 1 R. Hughes b Gibbons. 8 M. Evans c Lindner b Gibbons. 0 D. E. R. Griffith not out 0 D. Ll. Jones c Williams b R. J. Davies 0 Extras 4 Total 41

The total number of lunatics in the inter-counties asylum atcarmarthen chargeable to Pembrokeshire is 248; to Cardiganshire, 249; and to Carmarthen- shire, 446. THE MOST NUTRITIOUS. EPPS'S GR ATEFUL-COM FORTING. COCOA BREAKFAST—SU PPER. Victoline is strongly recommended as an effective remedy for toothache, neuralgia, and headache Printing quickly and neatly done at thE Welsh Gazette" Printeries Bridge Street Business Notices. WILLIAM PROBIN RELIANCE HOUSE Opp-Site the X.t Market AND 15, PIER STREET, Working Watchmaker, Lapidary, and Jeweller. Purchaser of Brilliants, Old Gold and Silver Modern and Antique Plate. CASTLE HOUSE, ABERAYRON. John Hugh Jones, The oldest established Draper in Aberayron. LARGE STOCK OF DRAPERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. FOR WELSH MATERIALS 0 all description unsurpassed in the Town MODERN SHOWROOMS: Ladies and Gentlemen are respectfully requested to visit the above Establishment They will be surprised at the variety of the Stock. 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