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—-——"——— i m NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS AT WARD & CO- _t Never a better opportunity to PICK from the Crystallised Cream of every Land. EVER SPARKLING WITH NOVELTY. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON. THE ABERYSTWYTH IteawmBAZAAR World's Fair, and Children's PALACE OF DELIGHT WITH AN ENTIRE NEW AND ORIGINAL STOCK OF ALL THAT IS BRIGHTEST AND BEST Gathered from every part of the GLOBE. So Wonderful and Life-like is our Collection of Toys and Dolls that it makes young and old EXCLAIM It is indeed a veritable Fairy Land of Delightful Things 1 Come for the Christmas Things to-day. Disappointment often meets latecomers. We pack the Bazaar Store Room willingly and free of costs. Present day purchasers for later delivery. FANCY GOODS Of all kinds in perfection and completeness of stock are always in mind here, and we offer many lines in Christmas and New Year Souvenirs at such low prices as are hardly realized. Whatever the age, station or sentiment, they must find what will suit their taste in this hoyse of merchandise. TOYS! TOYS!! TOYS! Instructive! Amusing!! Entertaining! Our Mechanical Models are not only in perfect working order, but can be seen working any day in the World's Fa.r at the BaZaar. Welsh and English-made Toys spt=i,l Feature „ Jo, s«» £ h ,nd lability .,e DOLLS! OOLLS! DOLLS! OUR DOLL SHOW IS MORE VARIED THAN EVER. ALL GEMS OF PERFECTION. The BAZAAR DOLL'S PALACE is the great attraction. How delighted the girls are. How the gleam of admiration brightens up their happy faces as they go tripping about the myriads of dainty dressed, rosy- cheeked and cherry-lipped, Dolls of all ages. INFANT TOYS, soft, strong* and durable. FUR ANIMALS. With what glee our Little Dots and their elders admire a Lovely Doll; the Working Models or a Miniature Train as tt steams through tunnels and round curves at Express Speed. COME EARLY BEFORE THE BLOOM IS OFF. And avoid thewrush. See the Good Things provided leisurely and with comfort YOU'LL LIKE THIS EXHIBITION ABOVE ALL OTHERS BECAUSE THERE IS RIGHT HERE. EVer^hd?rfg.0f At ChrisTmaft.SmeC°moCre pe^pk Than usjSVomt'in '^Aberystwyth Bazaar. We could not afford to disappoint them at the most popular resort in Wales. CRACKERS AND BON-BONS To ensure a merry evening party get a good supply of the mirth-inspiring Crackers from WARD & Co. World's Fair. PARENTS ARE INVITED to bring their Children to see the Toys and Working Models. PRIVATE CHRISTMAS CARDS. TABLE TENNIS. LEATHER AND CABINET GOODS. PLUSH GOODS. PHOTO FRAMES. LARGEST STOCK OF PIPES IN WALES. IN FACT EVERY NOVELTY OF THE SEASON. 1 I BAZAA( 0 0 0 '*I GR-EAT J),ARKG-AT-B ST.9 w Door to New Post Offic & co R I (Next Door to New Post Office). ABERYSTWYTH. I Business Notices NEW YEAR PRESENTS. THE ORIENTAL BAZAAF & CAFE Coy. 16, Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, Are prepared to take orders for Christmas Puddiigs, Cakes, Mince Pies, Mince- meat, Jellies, Pine Apple, and other Creams all made on the premises. Chocolates, Bon-Bon, Deserts, Crackers, imported from the Contineit specially for these festivities. They are also prepared to take orders for At Homes, Vedding, Reception, Dejeuners, 1 Dinners, Ball, Suppers and Entertainments. Supplied vith every requisites and carried out in FIRST-CLASS STYLE. WATERLOO HOTEL. MARINE TERRACE. ABERYSTWYTH. CHAR-A-BANCS leave the Hotel DAILY for Devil's Bridge, Plynlimmon, and Llyfnant VaHey; 31so for Afternoon Drives, to the var- ious Places of Interest in the Neighhourhood. Å large variety of Horses and CarriagQs for Hire. Terms Moderate. The Favourite '4-HORSE COACH" leaves the Hotel DAILY for Devil's Bridge at 10 a.m. Seats booked at Hotel Office. T. & E. MORRIS, Proprietors. R. SA YCELL, FISH, CvkME, AND POULTRY DEALER, GREAT DARKGATE STREET, ABERYSTWYTH • HORNER'S CLOTTED CREAM AND CREAM <HEESE, FRESH DAILY. SOLE AGENT FOR PalethorrJs celebrated Cambridge Siusages in the district TELBG)tAPHIc AiDioREss:SAYCELL, ADERrbTWYTII." TELEPHONE :-No. 6. The Standard of Highest Parity.'—The .ancet. (Eadbury's DELICIOUS AND UNADULTERATED. NO KOL., MALT, OR HOPS. ECIALLY RICH IN FLESH-FORMING AND HEALTH SUSTAINING PRINCIPLES. ABSOLUTELY PURE, THE1EFORE BEST. MILD & BITTER BEEIS OF THE FINEST QUAITY ARE SUPPLIED BY Daoid Roberts$Sons, LIMITED, THE BFEWERY, ABERYSTWYTH. Price List on Application. The Brewing Waters are of exceptional ptrity, and only the Finest Materials obtainable are used. DA VID JONES. Tailor, Habit Breeches Vlaker, AND LADIES' COSTUMIER, 5, CHALYBEATE STRET, possibl DA VID JONES. a s eate I ABERYSTWYTH. Has now returned to the above Premies, which have been enlarged and appointed in bet Modern Style for the requirements of the trade. I D. J. in thanking his numerous cust)mers for their past support, respectfully solicit a con" tinuance of same. Hotels. ABERYSTWYTH IIOLYROOD HOTIL AND CAFE, TERRACE ROAD. L. G. PARKY & CO., HIGH CLASS TEA AND LUNCHEON ROOMS. EVERYTHING SfcVED OF FINEST QUALITY GWALIA HOTEL9 Ltd., LLANDRINDOD WELIS. THE origin of the Llandrindod "GWALIA" is the well-known "GWALL" OF UPPER WOBURN PLACE LONDON. It was started 1889; by the season of the following yeai extensive additions had to be made to meet a rapid increasing business; these extensions have culminate in tho NEW PREMISES, whioh was opened last year (July 27th, 1898,) The situation of the "GWALIA" is unrivalled. Beautiful outlook commanding the finest view possible, perfect South-West aspect, close to Park and Mineral Springs-S* ne, Sulphure, and Chalybeate Heating apparatus good supply of Radiators on balconies and corridors. ELECTRIC LIGHT. PASSENGERS' LIFT. BILLIARD TABLE. EDWARD JEHKINS, Manager. AND "GWALIA" UPPER WOBURN PLACE, DNDON. THE QUEEN'S HCTEL, ABERYSTWYTH. Table D'Hote, 7.30. Boarding Terms from 3 Guineas per Wek, or 12s. 6d, per day. THIS Hotel is replete with every modem appliance, an<l contains Ctfee and Dining Rooms, Ladie Drawing Room, Recreation Room, Library, Billiard, and Smoking Roms, and about one hundred Bedrooms. Having a frontage of 150 feet, all the Public and Private Sittog Rooms face the sea and are Lighted by Electricity. W. H. )ALMER, Proprietor. BELLE VUE HOTEL ABERYSTWYTII. (Facing the Sea and close to the Pier.) Is one of the most reasonable and comfortable Family and Commercial Hotels in Wales. TABLE D'Hote, 6-30. Boarding Terms from 2i Guineas per week, or 9s. pe day. 'Bus meets all Train Tariff on Application to the Manageress. W. H. FiLMER, Proprietor. ¿ NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. ST. DOGMELL'S.—Thanks. Will insert in next issue.. CONSTANTREADER.—The extract from the writings of Charles Lamb which appear in our Leisure Hour column this week will give you just what you want. THE "WELSH GAZETTE." Has a larger circulation than any other weekly paper in Cardiganshire.
THE HARVEST OF 1902.
THE HARVEST OF 1902. THE record of the past year will leave but a few who will be loth to welcome the coming and speed the parting guest"; for 1903 may be very easily a much happier year to the nation than 1902 has been. To the friends of peace and progress the past year will for long stand out in melancholy prominence as a year of political reaction. No one at the present day can forsee what future years will have to reap the harvest of 1902. Preaching on this subject at Liver- pool last Sunday, the Rev John Thomas, M.A., said that it was difficult to calculate the harvest of the past year in the products of human life forsowing and reaping times are not so distinguishable in life as in the fruits ot the soil. The complete harvest of the dead year can not be known until many days to come, when causes shall have had time to develope their effects to the full. Yet it is possible to take a useful survey of facts accomplished, and of tendencies that already indicate the manner of their future accomplishment. It is a fact of no little consequence that, though the long and grevious war in South Africa has been, happily, brought to a close the idea of Imperialism still injuriously overshadows the national iaterest in domestic and social reforms. Vital ideas of social and religious freedom have been relegated to a position of secondary im- portance to be considered only after the demands of an Imperialistic patriotism had been complied with. The one bright spot in social progress was that marked in the universal purpose to curb increasingly the pernicious traffic in strong drink. Referring to the international outlook, the reverend gentleman said that the greatest peril to the peace of the nations lay in the present ambition of each of the chief European Powers to become the paramount Power of the world. While social and international interests were trembling in the balance, it was a matter for deep regret that the very foundations of all stability had been menaced at home by a determined attack made by Anglicans and Roman Catholics upon the elementary rights of British parents and children in relation to a national system of education. Education had been maimed at a time when the national interest urgently called for efficiency. Concluding his eloquent sermon, the preacher said :-The modern advance of a paralysing priest- system had been artificially aided by unjust legislation. Religious justice and liberty had been violated in the interests of a dominant sect. But injustice could not triumph, and the year closed on the eve of a holy war. There was no help for it. True men must fight for truth. The first and chief posession which it behoved a nation to guard was its conscience. Then all the rest would be added to it.
ABERYSTWYTH FIRE BRIGADE.
ABERYSTWYTH FIRE BRIGADE. THE alarming fire which broke out at Aberystwyth on Friday morning drove home two simple facts to all who saw it. These simple facts were that the value of a fire brigade cannot be ever-estimated and that such a brigade can never be too highly organized nor too well and fully equipped. It is patent to all who saw the fire raging in all its fierceness, or who contemplate the havoc it made by the ruins which remain that the consequences might have been fearful in the extreme but for the agency of the Fire Brigade. Whether this agency applied its energies as swiftly and as effec- tively as it should is not for us to decide. Those responsible will, no doubt, report in due time to the proper authority. A catastrophe of this kind always begets a crop of critics and meddlesome faultfinders. But we think .that every fair-minded man will admit that the splendid services rendered by the Fire Brigade on this occasion is in every way deserving of public confidence. An explanation will, no doubt, be forthcoming with regard to the failure of the hooter to give the alarm; but the members of the Brigade should not be held accountable for that; nor for the fact that the improved means of summoning by electric bells-decided upon some months ago by the Town Council —is not yet in operation. Those good people who are so ready to impute tardiness on the part of the Brigade last Friday should first give an account of their own indifference in not giving the alarm in the proper quarters at an earlier moment. Realizing the fact that a Fire Brigade is indispensable to the safety of life and property in an urban community like that of Aberystwyth, we would impress upon the ratepayers the importance of I Z!) Kbstrtining from indulging in reckless and 1 impertinent criticism on every occasion it is called into active service. A fully equipped Brigade of well-trained and experienced j hands can iaever be got by exasperating the ¥ members and driving them to resign after [ every fire. I
NOTES AND COMMENTS. I
NOTES AND COMMENTS. I — An interesting record of the past year is given in another part of the paper. Welsh industries would soon revive and flourish if the practical suggestion made by Mr. Harford at the last meeting of the Lampeter Board of Guardians were generally adopted. 1 A mass meeting of Penrhyn quarrymen was held at Bethesda on Boxing night. Abeut 400 men who had secured work out- side the district were amongst those present. Mr. Pickersgill, ex-M.P. for Bethnal Green and chairman of the London Penrhyn Defence Fund, was the chief speaker. A resolution to continue the strike was unani- mously carried. j The joint committee of coalowners and mires' representatives met on Tuesday at i Cardiff to continue the negotiotions for a f new wage-regulating agreement, when the owners submitted a draft agreement, which the men asked for time to consider, which concedes the main principles the workmen have contended for, but contains details with respect to the fixing of a minimum and maximum, and the granting of an immediate reduction of wages which the men are likely to strenuously oppose. A short while ago Mr. Bircham, in his address to the Cardigan Board of Guardians, speaking of the condition of the buildings remarked that he thought that he was right in saying that one half of the members would be glad to see the House burnt down. At a meeting of the Board last week a member asked whether the House had been insured. We wonder whether this question was prompted by the mysterious workings Of what the learned call "association of ideas." The answer was satisfactory. But Mr. Bircham, perhaps, and many others, will be sorry to learn that the old House has planted such a terrible fixed foot," as the gentle Elia would say, in the economies of the ratepayers. Dr. Coward, the Sheffield conductor, speaking at Chester Christmas Eisteddfod, on the decline of Welsh choral singing, said they must look facts in the face. The material, he said, in the Principality was as good as could be found elsewhere, if not better, but was not displayed to the best advantage. A choir could not possibly rise above the level of its conductor. Natural talent for music was all very well, but if that talent was not backed up with technical skill and knowledge, it was quite useless. They (the Welsh choirs) must go to the vwitderness for five years, and learn to possess themselves in patience. Nothing in the artistic line was got except by hard and strenuous labour. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman addressed meetings of his constituents last week, and in referring to the housing question, spoke of the difficulty of securing sites in certain districts, and advised that municipalities ( should have greater powers of acquiring land for public purposes. He also expressed the opinion that it would be equitable to ) put a tax on sites, whether they were occu- -1 pied or not. It would be a good thing, he said, if for the next half-dozen years Par- liament would apply its wisdom to such subjects as the healthy housing of the people, the sobriety of the people, and the development of the intelligence of the people, instead of paying so much attention as it had done of late to foreign complica- tions. The New Licensing Act which comes into force to-day is the most creditable measure which the conservative Government has passed since it came into power. One oP the most important provisions of the Act is that by which a person convicted of drunken- ness four times within a year, and tbus: placed on the list of habitual drunkards, is prohibited under penalties from attempting to purchase intoxicating liquor for three years, heavy penalties being also inflicted upon the licensed victualler or club manager who knowingly supplies liquor to any such person. We wish it had been possible to extend the provision to any person who knowingly offered drink as a gift to an habitual drunkard. It is to be hoped that magistrates and police will so work the new measure that it may materially assist in reducing the appalling evil and misery of excessive drinking. The close of 1.902, says the Daily News," leaves the Liberal party in a stronger position than it has ever occupied since the retirement of Mr. Gladstone. But there is some reason to suspect that. revival of r Liberalism is due rather to the errors of the Tories than to a fresh grasp or a fresh treat- ment on the part of prominent Liberals of those principles which must be never for- sworn, bufalways adapted to the needs of the day. Our opportunity stares us in the face. At the next General Election it would be difficult for us not to obtain a majority. If we manage to achieve failure, it will only be by a signal display of incom- petence on the part of those who are chiefly responsible for putting our case to the country. We have what in chess is called ■" a winning position, but in chess no position is safe unless the player with the advantage knows how to make use of it. The oratory of Liberals too often consists of an apology for convictions which only need to be stoutly maintained in order to win enthusiastic approval. Canon Hensley Henson, at Westminster Abbey on Sunday afternoon, made an im- passioned appeal to Nonconformists to set consideration of party and denomination aside and to co-operate with Chnrchmen in consideration of party and denomination aside and to co-operate with Chnrchmen in the endeavour to give effect to the proposals of the new Education Act towards the realisation of the ideal of a Christian train- ing for the children in the State schools. The religious question, lie reiterated, was of I supreme importance, and a matter of national gravity and in his remarks he deprecated any partisan feeling. Addressing his re- marks more particularly to the NonconJ formists in the audience, he said that upon them now mairly depended the issue whether the new Act was to be the beginning of the I work of the reorganisation of education on ) a basis of definite Christian teaching; and « to them they must look for assistance in combating the wave of secularism. This Aet, said Canon Henson, was not a final settlement. It was but a transitional measure. Was Christianity to be the basis of national education ? The decision was in the hands of the Nonconformists, tor with- out their aid they of the Church of England were not strong enough to resist the advance of, secularism