THE SCRASTOIT TBIBITSEWZDSESDAT .MOEKISO, . MAT 6, .1888.
The (Glest sf tie Wil
ier Mace.
Author of "Secrets of
rrryritht. W6L ly Eacbellor,
"Check!" proclaimed the ambassador
with a threatening air. aa he advanced
his king's . bishop to the one square I
had omitted to guard And he leant
back In hla seat and smiled as if he
considered the game already won.
I sat silently studying the position.
But my opponent was not a man who
played chess merely hy movlnff the
pieces on the board. He did not neg
lect the opportunity to distract my at
tention by conversation.
"The came of chess la an admirable
one for men -of my calling," he ob
served. ' "There Is something truly in
structive In the lessons which it con
veys. . Look, for Instance, at the pawn,
a piece which in its earlier carper
scarcely repays the trouble of capture,
but to which, later on, even the queen
may be sacrificed."
Unconsciously swayed, perhaps, by
these remarks, I pushed forward a
pawn between my kir.g and the attack
ing piece. The ambassador affected to
hardly notice the move.
"Consider naaln how delicately the
king's' dignity is preserved." he went
on, taking -two, knight with elaborate
carelessness, and setting It down dan
gerously near my pawn. "You advance
upon htm, you threaten him, you pre
pare for him the certainty of capture,
but you never remove him from the
board."
, "And the moral of this?" I suggested,
aa I vainly sought a way out of the dif
ficulties In which my own king was in
volved. "And moral Is perhnpa contained In
a story which I would relate to you If
I were not certain that you would re
fuse to believe it."
"nut why?" I remonstrated. "Do
you mean that It requires one to credit
the existence of the supernatural, for
example?"
A look of the deepest, the most pained
disgust overspread his . excellency's
face.
"My friend, have 1 by any chance led
you to mistake me for a romancer, a
poet? Reft assured that the facts I
Bhall narrate to you are perfectly au
thentic and are known to several per
sons in the Inner circle of the Russian
court.' I merely observe to you that my
Btory Is Incredible. I do not say that it
Is absurd."
I resigned myself to the prospect of
losing the game, and prepared to listen.
"The peoples of western Kuropo do
not understand TUissio. It is, of course,
of official Kussla. the Russia of the
government, that I speak. During the
whole time that I spent at the embassy
In St. Petersburg I could always per
ceive that I was a mere spectator, al
lowed to see no more of the true con
dition of a'alrs than it suited the pur
pose of the ofllolnls to display to me.
Nevertheless, I Hatter myself that I
penetrated farther behind the scenes
than they were aware.
'Outwardly, as everybody knows, the
government of this empire Is an autoo
racy.the absolute power being vested In
the hands of the czar. But the true
government of Russia Is a secret so
ciety, the mysterious Tchln,' which in
' eludes the whole of the offlclul class,
and In whose hands the czar is often no
more than a puppet, powerless to exert
ids own will. How burdensome this po
sition Is may be estimated from the fact
that only sixty years ago (irand Duke
Constantino deliberately refused to as
cend the throne, which passed to his
younger brother, Kmperor Nicholas I.
Nor has the 'Tchln' ever shrunk from
asserting its supremacy by the most de
plorable deeds. It Is not the nihilists
who have set the fashion of assassinat
ing czars. It Is by the hands of their
own ministers and courtiers that the
monarehs of Russia have most often
perished.
"It is necessary to bear these facts In
mind in order to understand the Inci
dent I am about to relate.
"It Is not long since the attention of
Europe was concentrated upon the
death of Alexander III. Occurring, as it
did in a remote corner of his dominions
on the shores of the Dlack sea, the ac
counts supplied by the newspaper cor
respondents who flocked like vultures
to the spot were as circumstantial as If
each one had been admitted to the bed
side of the dying monarch. The interest
taken in this event was moreover en
hanced by the romantic circumstances
of the marriage of the present czar,
Nicholas II. It was natural that the
press, ever ready to give Itself up to
transports over those Incidents in which
royalty is concerned, should have lav
ished Its powers of description upon the
sudden summons to Princess Allx of
Hesse, her hurried and desolate jour
ney across the frozen continent, her
marriage with the czarewitch, celebrat
ed, as it were, in the very death cham
ber, and then the grand passing away
of the emperor, consoled in the happi
ness of his son and fortified by all the
rites of his church.
"Shortly after these events the new
czar returned to St. Petersburg with
his bride, and took up his quarters In
the Winter palace. As is usual on the
accession of a new monarch to the
throne of Russia, hopes of a reform In
A GHOST HAD BERN SEEN WALK
ING. the government were extensively en
tertained. The progressive party
talked with confidence of the mild and
enlightened temper of the young czar,
and augured much from the way In
which he had formerly held himself
aloof from the repressive measures of
his father's ministers. Fools! As If
the 'Tchln' ever died, or Us policy could
be changed by the mere replacing of
one royal figurehead by another.
. "However, the result of all this was
that the nihilists relaxed their activity,
and for a time there was absolute re
pose In the Russian capital. This re
pose was broken by a strange and dis
turbing rumor, which circulated, ob
serve, merely among the exclusive cir
cles of the court. This rumor was to
the effect that the Winter palace had
become haunted.
"It was stated that a ghost had been
seen walking in one of the corridors at
m'dnlght. And there were those who
asserted that the spirit In question was
that of the dead czar.
"As you may Imaginesuch a report
lould hot be long In attracting the at
tention of the secret police. The result
vas very soon apparent. The rumor
itself had hardly been abroad a few
days when It became silently under
stood in the society of the Russian cap
'
the Courts of Europe."
Jobnaonanl BMln
ital that any allusion to It would be In
discreet, and might in fact subject the
person making It to an unpleasant jour
ney across the Ural mountains.
"Never was the marvelous power of
the police exerted with more crushing
effect. The rumor died out as swiftly
and suddenly as it had arisen. It never
penetrated beyond the inner circle of
society, and, above all. never reached
the ears of a single correspondent of
any Journal outside the Russian em
pire. In the Russian press, of course,
it was impossible for anything to pass
the stein scrutiny of Hie censorship.
"It Is for this reason that the public
if Europe has never had even an Ink
ling of a secret of which, outside the
Immediate court circle, I mn perhaps
the sole possessor. That mere curios
ity is not one of my failings, you have
doubtless long ago observed. But in
the Interests of France I deemed it
necessary to penetrate to the bottom
of this extraordinary affair, and cir
cumstances fortunately put it in my
power to do so,"
"Then you were In St. Petersburg nt
this time?" I remarked. In a tone mid
way between that of an assertion unit a
question.
"Did I not say bo?" returned my
friend. "I was not there In any po
litical capacity. The president had re
quested me to be tho bearer of his per
sonal congratulations to Nicholas, and
I prolonged iny visit at the request of
some of those friends whom I had left
behind me after my former residence In
Russia.
I apologized for the Interruption.
"Rut you are quite right to Interro
gate me," snid the ambassador, bland
ly. I should otherwise fear that my
story did not Interest you. As I was
about to tell you, I was favored In my
"HAVK YOU HEARD AHOl'T THE
EVENT OF LAST NIGHT?"
investigation by the accident of my
friendship with a very charming wo
man. Princes Nestlkoff, whose son.
Prince Boris Nestlkoff, was an imperial
page, at that time on duty in the Win
ter palace.
"I had formed the acquaintance of
the princess during my former official
residence at the embassy, and, though
some years hail elapsed since I had
seen her, she received me with una
bated friendliness on my return. Do
not. I beg of you. allow yourself to put
a false interpretation on the senti
ments which subsisted between this
lady and myself. The princess, al
though left a widow ut an early age,
was u woman of the most delicate pro
priety, and my attentions to her par
took of an almost paternal character.
"I chanced to be dining ut her man
sion on the Nevsky prospect, on the
day after the royal apparition wus said
to have made its appearance. We were
enjoying a tete-a-tete after-dinner, be
fore proceeding to a ball given that
night at the palace, when we were in
terrupted by the arrival of the young
Boris, dressed In the imposing uniform
of his office. He was quite a lad; In
deed, when I had formerly known him
he was a mere child, and had been ac
customed to consider me In the light of
a father.
"He entered the room In which we
were seated, more abruptly than was
perhaps consistent with his filial re
spect: but the agitation under which
he evidently labored furnished some
excuse.
" 'Mother,' ho cried out as soon as he
was Inside the door, 'have you heard
about the event of last night?'
"The princess, with a gesture full of
dignity, drew his attention to my pres
ence. " 'Doris.' she exclaimed, in a voice of
reproof, 'you have omitted to pay your
respects to the baron.'
"The young prince blushed, and has
tened to make his apologies, with that
grace which he inherits from his par
ent. "'Say no more,' I commanded; 'It Is
easy to see that you have something of
Importance which you wish to com
municate to your mother. With
madam's permission I will withdraw.'
"Hut this neither of them would hear
of. both mother and son assuring me
that there was no secret which they
would not trust to my discretion.
I know not how it Is," pursued the am
bassador, extending his hands with an
air of the most touching humility, "but
there appears to be something in iny
character which Inspires confidence, In
all those with whom I come in contact,
and Induces them to entrust me with
their most delicate nffairs, in which I
have really no desire to participate."
To such an observation it was ob
viously my duty to moke one reply.
"The fact Is, my dear ambassador,
that they do right. It is the strictness
with which you guard these confidences
of which you complain, that leads peo
ple to presume upon your amiability."
Having said this. I took advantage of
the Interruption to make a desperate
move on the chessboard. His excel
lency, affecting not to note what I had
done, continued his revelations.
"It was then that my young friend
proceeded to disclose the reason for his
sudden appearance, and to astound us
with the intelligence that he was him
self the author of the rumor which had
so perturbed the society of St. Peters
burg. It will, perhaps, save time If I
repeat the substance of his story In my
own words."
PART II.
"You must know," the ambassador
continued, "that the Winter palace Is
one of the most colossal buildings In
the world. Whole suites of apartments
In It are never used, even, but, In order
to guard against all danger from the
odious attempts of the nihilists, a cer
tain watch is maintained even In the
most ' deserted quarters of the palace.
In these portions which are given up to
the members of the imperial household
this duty is performed by sentinels
selected from the Imperial guard, but In
the neighborhood of the czar's own
apartments the tnsk of keeping guard
is undertaken by the corps of pages, of
whom Doris was one. The Imperial
suite, comprising eight principal rooms,
Is traversed throughout its length by a
corridor which opens at one end on to
the first landing of . the grand stair
case, at which point two of the pages
are always on duty, day and night. At
the other end the corridor is closed bv
door which is always kept locked. On
the further side of this door is a disused
gallery overlooking a garden in the rear
of the palace and leading to a suite of
rooms which has not been used for
very many years. Nevertheless, in ac
cordance with the' strict ule already
mentioned, an imperial page has always
been stationed in this gallery to pre
vent the possibility of access to the
locked door. It waa at this spot that
the young prince had been on duty the
preceding night.
"You will understand that the task of
keeping guard at night In a deserted
gallery was by no means a pleasant
one, although no page was required to
be there for more than three hours in
the twenty-four. Moreover, a small
room 0!enipg out of the gallery had
been suitably furnished for the lads
to relay themselves in during their rol
Itary watch. In spite of this, the duty
had remained an unpopular one, so
much so that the new czar, on taking up
his quarters In the palace, had earned
the c-ratttude of the rsges' corps hy
decreeing that from the hour of mid
night to six in the morning the watch
in the gallery should no longer be kept
up.
"On the night in question Roris had
repaired to the gallery to relieve his
comrade at nine o'clock. He had simply
to remain there till twelve, and then,
ns soon as the clock struck, he wa3 at
liberty to retire to his own quarters.
"It wanted very few minutes to the
hour, and he was pacing the gallery,
impatiently waiting for his release,
when he happened to stop opposite one
of the windows and look out into the
grounds. It was a blight moonlight
night, and every tree and shrub in the
garden stood out In startling distinct
ness. He gazed Idly, letting his eye
roam over the expanse, when all at
or.ee his attention was arrested by a
sight calculated to disturb anyone llv
l g in the alarmist atmosphere of the
Russian court. This was a tall and
closely-muffled flirure stealing along in
the broken shadows of the trees and
making Its way towards the nearest
corner of the building.
"It was inevitable that the startled
page should at once connect this figure
with the audacious Intrigues of the
dreaded secret society whose plots con
stitute a perpetual menace to the im
perial throne. His Impression that he
was watching a nihilist emissary was
confirmed when he spw him confldert
ly approaching a door In the wall of the
palace which was never used, and was
supposed to be securely fastened
against ingrtss and egress. This door,
on the contrary, appeared to yield to a
touch of the mysterious visitor's, who
disappeared from sight beneath Its
arch.
"Greatly disturbed by what he had
seen, lloris kept his station In the gal
lery, considering what it was advisable
for him to do. The clock struck the
hour for his release, but he paid no at
tention, absorbed In the thought of
how to deal with the dangerous In
truder." "I should have thought It a simple
matter to give the alarm," I ventured
to murmur.
His excellency regarded me with a
look in which pity and rebuke strove
for the mastery.
"My friend, it Is evident that you do
not know Russia. To have given this
alarm of which you speak might have
been of the utmost danger to the prince.
The first person whom he approached
with the news might have been a secret
nihilist and have repaid such a com
munication with a knife thrust. The
whole court Is honeycombed. Even if
lloris had succeeded in bringing about
the arrest of the person whose move
ments had roused his attention, this
might have turned out to be some high
functionary, pprhaps a general or a
chamberlain, who, ufter easily explain
ing away his mysterious proceedings,
would have privately exerted his Influ
ence to have my young friend removed
to Tobolsk or Tlills. Relieve me, In
Russia lo be a too zealous courtier Is
hardly less dangerous than to be an
actual conspirator, as you will perhaps
realize when you have heard my story.
"While our prince was still hesitat
ing, he suddenly became aware of an
unusual sound, coming from the far
end of the gnllery, where it ended in
the disused apartments I have de
scribed. The sound appeared , to be
that of n door slowly turning on its
hinges. In an instant Boris realized,
or thought he realized, the situation.
The personage of the garden had ar
rived in the vacant suite by means of
a secret stairway from the garden door,
and was now about to pass through
into tho gallery, with the object, no
doubt, of making his way finally into
the imperial corridor.
"There was not a moment to lose.
Unarmed, as he stood there, Boris for
tunately recollected that In the little
chamber which I had spoken of as set
apart for the use of the pages, there
was a pair of loaded pistols and a
sword. He darted In through the open
A MUFFLED FIGURE STEALING
ALONG.
door of the room, snatched up the sword
and one of the pistols, and had got
back nearlv so fnr as the threshold
when he was arrested, and his very
limbs were rooted to the ground by the
sight of the figure which passed noise
lessly along tho corridor outside.
"Imagine a tall and somber appari
tion, with long black robes sweeping
the door, the head shrouded In a deep
cowl, from whose recesses gleamed out,
pallid and spectral in the light of the
room, the features of the dead mon
arch, Alexander III.!"
At this point his excellency pretend
ed to perceive for the first time the
change which had' taken place in the
position of the chessmen.
"Ah! You have moved your king,"
he exclaimed, and promptly shifted his
attacking bishop so as to give me a
fresh check. Then he returned to the
narrative.
"A moment passed. The first shock
of terror over, the awe-struck page
ventured to the door nf the chamber
and glonced out Into the gnllery, The
ghost had disappeared ns suddenly
and as mysteriously as It had come."
"Were there no other rooms off the
gallery into which it might have
passed?" I demanded, not to appear too
credulous.
"There were none. The only other
door In this part of the gallery was
that which I have already described
as closing oT the Imperial corridor.
"Be sure that I put the same question
myself when my young friend told me
the story. His manner convinced me
that he was not lylng.and that ho really
believed himself to . have seen the
specter he described.
"As you know, I am not a believer In
the supernatural. I sought to shnke
the boy's superstitious state of mind. ,
"'What you saw was some Illusion,
some trick of the imagination,' I said
to him. . ,.
"He Bhook his head mournfully, .
" 'I am as certain of what I saw as If
It were before me now,' he replied. 'My
hiother will tell you that I am not, sub
ject to Idle fancies.'
"The princess confirmed this state
ment with a nod of her head.
"'I am sure that my son must have
seen something like what he describes,'
she said to me. 'although It Is evident
to me that It must have been some liv
ing person, masquerading as the ghost
of the czar. The question Is for what
purpose such a disguise could have
been assumed, and on this point I con
fess ? feel uneasy. What do you say,
my friend V
"1 shook my head
" 'I fear that the first suspicions of
Boris were correct I replied, 'and that
the enemies of his majesty have re
sumed their Infernal schemes. It ap
pears that they have obtained a key to
the garden door, and who knows that
they have not secured another to the
door of the Imperial apartments, that
door from which the guard was to have
been removed last night for the first
time? Surely It is not by a mere coln
""c trnt this strange figure presents
itself in the corridor immediately after
i,.iun;ri t, that Is to say. at the hour
when the conspirators had every rea
son to expect that the page on guard
won'd have just quitted his post?'
"Foth mother and son aopeared
struck by this view of the circum
stances. But Boris was by no means
prepared to abandon his belief in the
supernatural character of what he had
seen.
" 'I can understand that it Is diffi
cult for my mother and you to share
my opinion,' he remarked, "'but I can
not believe that any conspirator could
have succeeded in assuming so close a
THE GHOST HAD DISAPPEARED.
resemblance to Alexander III., with
whose features I was so well acquaint
ed. Besides, if your theory were cor
rect, and he had disappeared through
the Imperial corridor, why It is that
nothing has happened, and that no one
seems to have seen or heard anything
of the intrusion?'
"It was of course difficult to answer
this objection but I reiterated my de
termination to take a common-sense
view of the occurrence.
" 'It may very well be that this was
merely a first visit,' I added; 'a recon
naissance to discover the nature of the
ground, before Introducing some ex
plosive machine or other, and the vil
lain may easily have kept himself out
of sight for a few minutes. Doubtless
he returned immediately, only you had
then left the gallery. But there is an
easy way of putting the matter to the
proof. If I am right in my suspicions,
this creature, whoever he may be, will
Infallibly return at the same hour an
other night. Tonight, on account of
the presence of everybody at this ball,
will be his most favorable opportunity,
as he may confidently expect to lind
the imperial suite deserted. I propose
to you that we repair to this little room
of yours together at the moment when
the page who has replaced you tonight
conies off duty, and if this mysterious
personage again presents himself I will
compel him to disclose his identity.'
"Boris welcomed this idea. I could
see that he was secretly ashamed of tho
ridicule which attached to him for his
story of ghostseeing, and that he was
anxious to re-establish his character.
The princess was good enough to ex
press her opinion of my courage and de
votion in terms which It would not be
come me to repeat to you. In the end we
arrived at an understanding and de
parted to the palace together.
"Throughout the progress of the ball
during which Grand Duchess Olga
condescended to become my partner In
a waltz I kept my eyes and ears open
and observed that Boris' adventure of
the night before was a general topic of
conversation. The more highly-placed
officials were evidently In a conspiracy
to treat it as a. mere boyish delusion,
but among the general body of the
guests I found there were not a few
who shared my suspicions. I ventured
to approach the czar's confidential
chamberlain at nn interval between tho
dances and to sound him delicately on
the subject-. His reply was character
istic of his nation and government.
"'My dear baron," he said, sharply,
'there Is nothing so detestable ns court
gossip. It Is most annoying to his
majesty to have his late father's name
connected with the wanderings of a
moonstruck boy. Take my advice, and
dismiss the affair from your mind."
"His manner convinced me that more
importance was attached to the inci
dent than he pretended. However, I
feigned to be perfectly satisfied, and
returned to ' the grand duchess, who
was anxious to know whether her robe
would have been approved In Paris.
Put tho hour agreed on for the rendez
vous was approaching, and I had to
make the best excuse I could think of
to tear myself away from the imperial
lady. You are, of course, familiar with
her portraits."
I was obliged to confess my Ignor
ance of the features of tho Grand Duch
ess Olpa, of whom I had never previ
ously heard, though, of course, I did
not say this.
The ambassador glanced r.t the chess
board for a moment, as If meditating a
move, before he resumed.
"Ah! Well, I will not attempt to de.
Bcrlhe her to you. Boris met mo as
we had arranged. In a small passage
leading out of the anteroom, and we
made our way unobserved up a back
staircase Into the famous haunted gal
lery. The page on duty was Just leav
ing as we arrived. He grinned when he
saw Boris, who explained to him that
he had brought me to see the pages'
room. Fortunately the other lad was
Impatient to get down and take part
In the dancing. No sooner had the great
ctock of the palace commenced to boom
forth the strokes of midnight than he
hastily departed, and Boris and I were
left In possession of the gallery." . ,
(To Be Continued Saturday.)
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MB. OF LUHB30TO
A Great Welsh Reformer of the
Past.
HE PRECEDED HOWELL HARRIS
'Choose Year Casltal aa J I Will GIt Ita
Mnseam" is What sir Job Gorst
Told tha Wjlik Members
Recently.
The Rev. Griffith Jones, of Llan
ddowror, was the most practical, if not
the preatefrt. re,.glous reformer Wal.s
ever produced. He preceded th re
nowned Harris, of Tiefeeca and Row
lands, of Llangeilho, and may be cnlled
their forerunner In the Welsh revival
of the last century. The great and
and glorious work for which Wales Is
chiefly Indebted to this extraordinary
man. was the founding of the Wei h
Charity schools. In 17: 0. which, for 170
years, proved of the greatest benefit to
the Welsh peasantry, who, until then,
had no means of education, and their
condition was that "they werj in utter
darkness." Not only children, but
adults were Instructed In these schools
after the toil of the day. It Is recorde-i
that before the death of Mr. Jones there
were established In North and South
Wales no less than 218 tclrol. and It
has been esttmr tfid that the number of
persons who had been taught to read
amounted to over 10.000 i:i a si -gle
year, and 150,212 In twenty-fcur yvara
were taueht In theso S'hoo a rl n to
road the Bible. He was greatly aided
by the liberality of Mad m BrlCgit
Pevon, of Langharne, widow of Ar
thur Bevan, who was recorder of Ca " -arthen,
and for some years i e.ve -em d
that borough in parliament. N t only
was this good r an enabled ry his own
self-denial and the charity cf others to
achieve such a large amount of work
during his lifetime, b-1 at his ceath hli
love for and his de? Ire that the g d
work he had thi-s commercel should bi
continued is proved by his will, for he
left In the ham's of his pious frlond.
Madam Bevan, upward of 7,000 to be
applied by her for the same purpose.
That lady, again at her denth left th?
estate of the Rev. G. Jones and the resi
due of her own estate for the use of
the Welsh Circuhvl: g Charity rc vols,
so long as the tame should co-.tl- ue,
and for the Increase and Imp oven e t
of Chi is Ian knew e ge. Plal wev.o?.
der at the fervor of his elegit, Panty
celyn, after enumerating h s literary
and ministerial labors, retiring to his
entering his eternal rest as he did:
'Rocddem osw, ebe Uriel, '
Angel cadarn yn y fan,
JCI ganaaom ganlad newydd.
Pan y daeth e' gynta'r lan;
Pan y cafodd wiRgoedd euraldd,
Pan y cafodd delyn lan,
XI bu mwy llawenydd, groesaw,,
I un Cymro 'rioed o'r blaen!"
There we stood said mighty Uriel
With a myriad angels more,
A now song, we sang delighted
When he reached, the heavenly shore.
When he gained the bright new garments,
And the golden harp of heaven,
To a soul from Cambria's mountains
Warmer welcome ne'er was given,
The reverend gentleman was Instru
mental In having two editions of the
Bible printed In Welsh, besides writing,
translating, and publishing about elev
en different theological and devotional
works In Welsh and English, most of
which have gone through several edi
tions. "His Exposition of th Church
Catechism," divided Into five parts, was
much used in Welsh schools and proved
exceedingly useful. The book itself Is
a complete body of divinity.
A BATTLE OF TOWNS,
"Choose your capital," said Sir John
Gorst to the Welsh members of parlia
ment recently, " and 1 wilt give you a
museum." Curiously enough some
thing like a battle of towns has been
raging in Wales over the installation
of the prince of Wales as chancellor of
the National university. Aberystwlth,
Bangor and Cardiff, the three constitu
ent colleges, have been contesting the
honor with much liveliness; and the
decision of the University court In fav
or of the Aberystwlth seems to have
caused some heart-burning In South
Wales, the rather as the North Wallana,
seeing their own Bangor out of it, evi
dently compromised In favor of the
mid-Wales college. The claims of Car
diff industrially and politically, no one
of course would wish to deny. If
Shrewsbury Is the Welsh Jerusalem,
Cardiff is the Tyre and Sidon in one.
But the very cosmopolitan to which It
was laying claim the other day is rath
er agninst it, we should say, as a native
Welsh town, and as a seat of Celtic cul
ture. Aberystwlth Is a more charac
teristic place, and It Is certainly better
adapted on picturesque grounds for the
function In question. Its college stands
on a most original site on the very
brink of the sea, so that the spray on
occasions spots Its lecture room win
dows. Its castle, which owes its disin
tegration partly to time and partly to
Oliver Cromwell, makes a very good
historical reminder of the older Wales,
whose history some Aberystwlth pro
fessor ought to write. On the other
hand, the professors and others of this
"Little Academy" from Principal Rob
erts (who is not yet. 40) down, must be
the youngest on record, and there Is a
vitality about the college which prom
ises well for the Wales that Is to hp
Cymru Fydd in other than political
ways. This energy is due partly per
haps to tho air of the place, which la
singularly bracing; so that the men
who go on to Oxford from its college
complain that they cannot work In the
relaxing climate of the English mid
lands. If the prince of Wales is to vis
it bis own principality, as the fitness
of things fairly demands, indeed he
might go to a worse place than Ab
erystwlth. A MAGNIFICENT BASSO.
Jtr. Gwllym Thomas, the great basso
of the Rhondda male party, Is In this
country. Mr. Thomas visited this
country on two former occasions, and
his excellently cultivated voice charmed
large audiences. It Is very rarely we
hear such resonant voices. He Is ac
companied by his accomplished daugh
ter, a vocalist of superior voice and
merits. She has been trained and edu
cated In the highest school of music and
vocalism In the metropolis of England,
and she occupies first place In the con
cert halls of her native country. She
should be heard In Scranton, and It is
to be hoped that the wide-awake musi
cians of the West Side will take advan
tage of the opportunity. They are the
people that could give the affair the
proper impetus, and success would be
the inevitable result.
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and Scotland very largely, and is recognized as the best Hour in tho
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