It n
f
IHE NATIONAL
EISTEDDFOD
Chant tt Pagailsa Mitfe Agaiut the
lutitatiML
JUDAISM AND MAH0MMEDAN1SM
There Still Cliags to the EistetMfo
Basse Pagan Rile Which ShoaU
Be AholihedIIow Ca a Chris
tian Minister Accept Eisteadfodic
IIoaortT
Mr. John Jones, chairman, presided
recently over a meeting of the Llandud
no eisteddfod commttte. when Mr. John
Littler moved that the chairing; cere
mony be reformed or amended ao as to
be up to date with modern civilisation.
He said some would reform anything
but the eisteddfod, but It was a human
Institution and founded in Pagan times,
and was, therefore, open to improve
ment. The principle of change had al
ready been acted upon. For example,
human sacrifices had been discontinued
(loud laughter), but there still clings to
the eisteddfod some Pagan rites which
should be abolished. The Uorsedd
cresses reprcseniea uoctrines quue con
trary to Christianity. Would any one
tolerate Judlasm or Mohammedanism?
(Great laughter.) How could a Chris
tian minister accept the chair prise with
heathen rites? (Renewed laughter.)
The Uorsedd was opened dally with
an Invocation to a heathen trinity
(Plenydd, Alawn. and Gwron for which
trlnltv he would substitute the Chris
tian lllllll . I IIK-M! VVJIH-CI,.
higher state of civilization, namely, the
millenlum. (Loud laughter.) Would
such proceeding be tolerated thc-n? He
further objected to the length of time
taken by the ceremony of chairing the
bard (Hear, hear). His remarks also ap
plied to the Gorsodd prayer, which upon
examination would be found to be anti
Christian, being founded on the doctrine
of the agnostics, which was essentially
Greek and oriental philosophy. (Loud
laughter.) Tha was to be a
record eisteddfod. He begged of
them to make it bo and sweep
away all the heathenism In
connection with the eisteddfod. Then It
would live forever and ever and be the
guide of the people of Wales for all
time. Let no one who called himself
a christian dvfend any practice opposed
to his profession. (Loud luughter.) Ap
Clwydfardd rose to order. The Qorsedd
prayer question had been settled and
quite thrashed out, Mr. Littler said he
would merely move his resolution, Mr.
J. H. Roberts seconded. The chairman
aid the resolution was vague. (Laugh
ter.) The Rev. Peris Williams said they
had no business to interfere with the
chairing ceremony. The ceremony at
Llandudno would eclipse all elstedd
fodau. He moved an amendment that
things remain as they were, Ap Clwyd
fardd seconded. They had been in hot
water ali atly with the bards and did
not want a repetition of it. The amend
ment was carried. On the motion of
Ap Clwydfardd It was agreed to recom
mend the Gorsedd committee to hold a
Uorsedd every morning.
WELSH MEMBERS IX PARLIA
MENT. The members und the magnitude of
the divisions that have taken place up
to Whitsuntide wMch is exactly the
middle of an ordinary session has sur
passed all previous years. There have
been already as many as 195 divisions,
so that the minority in opposition do not
by any means allow the majority to
work Its way quietly and unmolested.
There are very few members who now
care to get Into the house simply for
the pleasure of adding "M. P." to their
names and doing no work. The closure
has been enforced the extraordinary
number of 47 times. At two divisions
the surprising number of G35 and C81
voted almost the largest ever known
and on these occasions the "pairs"
numbered 30, and there were two va
cant seats it follows that only 54 mem
bers failed to take part In them. The
excessively large attendance have been
Very frequent, as at no fewer than 98
there were more than 300, above 350 at
48, exceeding 400 at 9 and above 450 at
eight, and at three above 600. As the
names of the "ayes" were not taken
down on these occasions, we have In the
following analysis treated the number
of divisions as 194. Mr. Anstrather and
Mr. W. II. Fisher (government whip).
Mr. Daniel Sullivan, Mr. Macalee and
Mr. Calwell voted every time. Wales:
Abraham, W, Rhoiulda 74
I'avies, M. Vatighnn, Cardiganshire.... 230
Davles, W. Roes, Pembrokshlre D5
Ellis, T. E., Aterlonetshlre 1(13
Evans, 8. T., Glamorganshire, Mid .... 47
Griffith, E. J Anglesey oj
Howell, IV. T., Denbigh District 159
Humphreys, Owen A. C, Montgomery. 43
Jenkins, Hir J. J., Carmarthen District W
Jones, D. Brynmor, Swansea District.. 56
Jones, W., Carnarvonshire, Arfon 139
Laurie, Genera), Pembroke District .. R6
Lewis, J. II., Flint District i5
Llewelyn, Sir J. T. D., Bt.. Swansea
Town Wi
Lloyd, George D., Carnarvon District.. Ki
Maclean, J. M., Cardiff so
Milbank, P. C, Radnorshire jib
Morgan, Sir O. Osborne, Bt., Denbigh
shire, Bromfleld 100
Morgan, J. Lloyd, Carmarthenshire,
W 75
Morgan, W. Prltchard, Merthyr Tydlll. 17
Morley, C, Breconshire 73
Fryce-Jones, Major, Montgomery Dis
trict 173
Randell, D., Glamorganshire, Gower ., i!4
Roberts, J. B Carnarvonshire, Eiflon. 51
Roberts, J. H Denbighshire, West .... 8
Smith, Samuel, Flintshire 94
Thomas, Abel, Carmarthenshire 45
Thomas, Alfred, Glamorganshire, E... is
Thomas, D. A., Merthyr Tydfil- tK)
Wyndham-Quln. Major W, H Gla
morganshire, S ilS
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
Harcourt, Right Hon. Sir V West .... 76
McKenna, R., North 134
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WELSH PREACHERS IN ENGLAND.
A Welshman, in speaking of Welsh
preachers, has the following to say:
Travelling in Yorkshire the other day
we were amused and our Welsh blood
began kindling; w ithin us we listened
to an eloquent Scotchman eulogising
our kith and kin: "These Welsh preach
ers," said the canny Northman, "carry
everything before them. They are
really invading the British Isles. Tears
ago we Scotchmen used to have It our
own-way. Now. we are nowhere Goto
London, Liverpool, and you will find
that a large proportion of the best pul
pits are filled by Welshmen. I have
Just heard of another Welshman who Is
having very much his own way in
Yorkshire. A friend of mine in Scar
borough put this paper in my hand and
said that the sermon which It reports
was one of the best he had heard for a
long time." The sermon was fully re
ported, and the preacher was the Rev.
David Young, formerly of Cardiff, who
preached the official sermon of the York
District Synod.
WELSH NOTES.
We hear 10 much of sectarian Jealous
ies in Wales that It is a delightful pleas
ure to And that among some of the de
nominations at least there Is a desire for
closer union and co-operation. A grati
fying proof of this Is to be found In the
action of the Calvanlstic Methodists at the
(Liverpool assembly last week in ap
pointing a committee to consider how
best to bring about such a stato of affairs
between themselves and the Welsh Con
gregutlonalists. Another step in the same
direction was the appointment for the
first time of a deputation to convey thu
greetings of tho assembly to the Congre
gational union, which meets this year tt
Brldxcnd. This is but a prelude to a sim
ilar interchange of compliments between
the Corph and ull other Welsh denomina
tions. The suggestion throughout by the
retiring moderator for the establishment
of one united Theological college for tho
Noneotnfoi mists of W'ulcs Is still another
Indication that a better spirit prevails and
that better days are near at hand.
A North Wales paper Is responsible for
a story respecting a well-known South
Wales cantatrice which deserves a wider
circulation. Tho lady In question, gifted
with a glorious contralto voice, and Just
emerging from the chrysalis state of
musical studentship, was engaged at a
Handel concert, under the conriuctorship
of the lute Sir Joseph Uamby. In the
course of the final rehearsal, at the end of
the solo she had to render, the lady put
In a light note Instead of the more easy,
but less effective, not on her score. This
Innovutlon on the part of a novice shocked
Sir Joseph, and he Immediately asked her
whether she thought she could Improve
upon Handel. "Well, Sir Juseph," she '.'e
plied, "I've got an E and 1 don't see why
I shouldn't show it oft." "My dear young
lady," came the crushing rejoinder, "i be
lieve you have two knees, but I hope you
won't show them off here." And she
didn't.
If the policeman's lot is not a happy
one He has his compensations. R. G.
Brander, M. A., Southborough, Tun
bridge Wells, Is well known throughout
the principality as the "policeman's
friend," and at present the reverend gen
tleman Is spending a brief holldy at
LIundridod Wells. He Is seldom without a
member of the police force, and three or
four constables are his guests at the same
time. Last week police-constables from
Shrewsbury, Ammanford and Llandlio
were staying with him, and when their
week's holiay cume to a close on Saturday
they were replaced by other officers from
various parts of Wales.
The majority of the Llunelly and other
members of the Carmarthenshire police
have at one time or another enjoyed a
"seven days' leave" In Brighton, London,
Tunbridge Wells. North Wales -ana other
places; and what makes the holiday the
more enjoyable is the fact that Mr. Bran,
der bears the entire cost of railway and
other expenses incurred by his guests.
Tho reverend gentleman has acquired a
thorough knowledge of the Welsh lan
guage, and Is a member of th'e Cymmro
dorlon society.
Princes-road chapel, Liverpool, in which
the general assembly of the Welsh Calvin
lstlc Methodists met recently, is one of the
most handsome structures in the king
dom, and Its spire is regarded as one of
the sights of the second city in the em
pire. The lowest tender for Its erection
amounted to 32,000, but as the contract
was let in sections to members of the
church, the cost was reuced to B4,W.
.Many thousands more have since been
spent upon schoolrooms, ante-rooms, par.
lors und class rooms, an further addi
tions ure yet in progress. It was here that
the late Dr. Saunders ministered for many
years after he left Aberdare, and upon
his removal to Swansea ho was succeeded
by the late Dr. Owen Thomas. The pres
ent pastor is the Rev. John Williams, late
of Brynslencyn, who Is one of the most
powerful nnd eloquent of Welsh preachers
now living.
In the days of Rhys Goch of Eryrl, pea.
cocks were fashionable love gifts. Rhys
sent a beautiful peacock to fair Gwen of
Dol, and a rival bard adressed a poem to
a fox, begging thut animal to kill the
bird, whereupon the offended lover retort
ed In stinging verse. In It he designated
the wretched fox as a "glutton of the
night," "a land lobster," "a mountain croc
odile," and a "thief" with "brass-hued
breast an tattered locks."
Tho weakness for high-sounding noms
de plume Is not confined to Welsh bards.
Mr. Harold Bouton, M. A., of London, for
Instance who judging from his name and
description Is an Englishman sports the
ambitious Welsh title of "Prydydd Cem
hedloedd Prydaln!" (The bard of the na
tions of Britain). That Mr. Prydydd, etc.,
etc., is really and truly Interested in bari.
Ism Is shown by the fact that the other
day he forwarded a check for the substan
tial sum of 30 in aid of the prize fund of
the Llandudno eisteddfod.
Many curious epitaphs are to be seen In
the churchyard at Llandyble, and ono of
them on the grave of J R , who died
at the uge of 71, leaving behind to mourn
his loss t widow of 80. However, he was
afraid that his spouse would seek another
husband, and ho desired a local poet to
write his epitaph, which was Inscribed on
his tombstone:
"My love for thee long time did last,
My life for ever now is past;
But after me don't sorrow take,
Remain a widow for my sake."
She compiled w)th his request, and died
at the age of 91.
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That Stephen Crane has great posst-'
bilitlea Is quite generally admitted. It
must also In sadness be said that Just
now he Is engaged in squandering
them. The Crane novelettes that ap
pear from day to day In the syndicated
newspapers are for the most part poor
tuff mere pot boilers thrown off be
cause at the moment there happens to
be a market for them. But worst of
all, our young friend has deliberately
resurrected that bedraggled girl of the
streets, "Maggie," and with the co-operation
of the Messrs. Appleton, put
her before the public on an equality of
dressing with the "Red Badge." Now
we don't want to say that In this "real
andstrenuous"taleof New York low life
there are not touches of genius and
flashes of the artist's power. But it Is
a pale exhalation contrasted with the
"Budge," and it will do Mr. Crane's
fame no good.
"Maggie" Is a girl of a tenements,
who between the drunken sprees of her
mother and father and thi eye-black-enings
of a scrappy brother works In a
collar factory and learns to view life
as a continuous misery. But Pete, a
"barkeep," dawns at length upon her
perspective, takes her occasionally to
Coney island, the park and the show,
and soon the poor girl, from sheer lack
of moral perseptlveness, becomes the
"bnrktep's" mistress. The story of her
fall, desertion and final death Is told
with realistic although unobtruded
pat he 1. She really loves the tough
who Is her betrayer, and he after a
time coolly shakes her for a finer
looking "lady" of the town. The book's
sketches of tenement life are all vivid
and tense. But we cannot forget, while
reading "Maggie." that the author of
"Chlmmle Fadden" pre-empted the first
claim to this particular dominion, and
has developed It with a kindly play of
humor which we much prefer to Mr.
Crane's somewhat monotonous strenu
ousness. c. J " 11
Mrs. Stannard, or, as she still signs
herself, John Strange Winter, has writ
ten, In "The Turth-tellers" (Philadel-
Dhia: J. n. Uitnlmtntt frt a ,Ju.odnt
and humorous story of the complications
wnicn oerell the live children of a Fyn
land squire who, having been reared
Into the habit of always telling the liter
al and exact truth under any and all
circumstances, are by the death of their
parents put under the care of a wealthy
aunt, who Is prominent In London so
ciety, and who is thereafter often morti
fied by the blunt way in which her
young charges brush aside the conven
tional fictions which do such excellent
service In social intercourse. In favor of
the crude truth. These complications
are many and awkward, but in the
end they are smoothed out and the
young folks each and severally find their
due share of happiness.
II II II
Although Justin McCarthy cannot
manage the Irish parliamentary party,
he can and does write charming novels.
The latest of these, "The Puzzle Ring"
(New York: D. Appleton A Co.) gives
us an Interesting study of the modern
woman, who while persistently talk
ing down love and marriage, herself
precipitately falls in love and because
she does not succeed in eliciting favor
able respnoses from the male object of
her adoration (who. It may be Interest
ing to remark, hi at that moment him
self madly in love with a married wo
man), goes to America and becomes a
noted woman's rights advocate. This
humorous but more or less truthful pic
ture is only a side scene, however. The
main portion of Mr. McCarthy's novel
Is devoted to chronicling the agonies of
the man and the married woman, who
are mutually In love, but who are too
moral to violate the decalogue and too
scrupulous to seek relief from the di
vorce courts, although the woman had
Scriptural cause. A variety of incidents
befall during this Interval of seemingly
hopeless passion, Including the entry of
the woman's husband on the scene (he
had previously cast her off) with the
consequence that he again falls in love
with her. At the last, however, the su
perfluous husband is opportunely killed
off, and the freed lovers, after due
mourning, wed and we suppose are
happy ever afterward.
P0ETRV.
Miss Florence ' L. Snow, a Kansas
lady, who is, we believe, the profesor
of literature and belles letters in one
of the educational Institutions of that
state, offers through Messrs. Way &
Williams, Chicago, a poem of merit en
titled "The Lamp of God." It Is cast
in the Iambic pentameter form, with
alternating rhymes, and is an evolution
of the following theme;
The life that holdeth love a thing apart
From any slightest labor must disclose
The utter weakness of the rarest art
Its dearest aspirations ever knows,
Who does not give In constant sacrifice
The buoyant blood that courses through
ills veins
Has less than naught for all his best em
prise In righteous ruling of his utmost pains.
For without love no worthy work may be,
And without death creative power were
done;
Herein there lie all happy victory,
And here all growth and gladness are
begun.
Cast In a mould beyond a fleck or flaw
'Tls only love that can fulfill the law.
The book Is handsomely printed by
DeVInne on Marias hand-made paper
and has an attractive title page de
signed by Edmund H. Garrett. ,
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The mask which Stephen Crane has se
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Times, that of a daring colotist. Since
the stories about life in the alleys are pop
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Mother" that the subject Is unpleasant.
It Is a story of a young workman whose
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environment made him a rowdy and of the
devotion of his poor old mother. It is
told with penetration and precision. The
character of this single- member of the
mob Is well Imagined, with dramatic force
and some power of pathos, and the spoken
dialect Is certainly painstaking and pre.
sumably accurate. Mr. Crane's own dla.
lect Is less convincing. This George was
a brown young man who went home
through a blue street illuminated with
crimson patches. Within the red and
black tenement bis mother, who had a
gray face, had placed a lamp on the brown
desert of the table, which its yellow glare
converted Into a white garden. Unfor
tunately George did not stop at home. He
went to a saloon, color not specified,
where he drank brown liquor In company
with red-faced men, and in consequence
"fell In a yellow spasm" and saw all sorts
of colors. Red crabs and green dragons
and other brilliant animals course through
the book and the only disappointment 'a
that we never see a purple cow. If we
ever hope to see one. Mr. Crane Is the
artist to produo it. That there Is method
In this chromatic madness may be be
lieved. It has served to attract an un
usual share of attention to Mr. Crane. And
yet his stories seem strong enough to hold
their own without such variegated affecta
tion. Says the Sun: When a publisher of long
experience one who was. In fact, born
into the business was asked what were
the most striking peculiarities of the mar
ket for literary wares in recent times, he
replied that at present the most marked
feature was the dull sale for books, but
that If the market for tho last twelve
or fifteen months were considered Its most
Interesting feature would be found in the
enormous offerings of fiction from both
known and unknown authors. Beginning
lute In 1894 there was a flood tide of novels
at various lengths and of an infinite vari
ety of subjects, and the tide continued to
swell for at least twelve months and only
within the last few weeks has the number
cf manuscripts offered returned to the
proportions known before the tide set In.
While no census of writers could very well
be made even by an association of pub
lishers, It Is reasonable to suppose that
some tens of thousands of Americans were
In some way Infected with a deBire to
write stories, and did write them, to the
advantage of dealers In paper, pens, and
Ink, and to the advantage of no one else,
unless, Indeed, some specially favored pub
lisher had to hire additional readers to
consider the offerings. An Inquiry as to
the cause of this sudden Increase in the
number of would-be story writers could
not be answered, either by this publisher
or by others with whom the reporter
talked, In an altogether conclusive man.
ner, but It was supposed to be due In part,
at least, to the stories of the large sums of
money realized by certain popular writ
ers from the sales of their works stories
which were printed In about every news
paper of the land. It appeared that the
scribblers, as the publishers called them,
suddenly concluded that novel writing had
money In it, and so, since novel writing
was easier (physically, at least) than
digging clams or harvesting wheat or bal
lasting railroads moreover, because it
would -"sure get a fellow's name Into the
papers," a great mob dropped their ac
customed tools for the unfamiliar pen end
went to work. It Is on interesting fact
that out of the host many did really suc
ceed so far as to get printed and a few
did something more. Nor was the increase
In the number of novel writers confined
to America. Indeed, of the total number
of offerings, if relative population be con
sidered, the far greater proportion came
from the English.
But there was one cause for the flood of
novels that was entirely aside from the de
sire for either money or notoriety, and
that was the wide Interest aroused in a
considerable class of readers by the suc
cess, of the stories "which obtained an
ephemeral success chiefly through their
audacity." Reading novels of any sort, it
Is said, Incites to the writing of slmllur
stories, but apparently those who read
the amorous rot of the "daring" writers
became straightway bursting with pent
up feelings that had to find vent between
paper covers, whlcih were thereafter put
on sale at the news stands with stunning
success. The extent of this outpouring
was accurately staled In the annual sum
mary number of the Publishers' Weekly
covering 1895. The classified table of book
production for this country printed there
in shows that 1,050 new books of fiction
were printed In 1S96, against 673 printed In
1894. Just wluvt proportion of thee novels
were of the erotic class la not stated, but
the erudite editor of the Weekly says that
"the poor quality of the novels of the year
was generally noticeable." I t Is an Inter
esting and at' the same time a
somewhat startling fact that a part of the
extra flood of novels was made up of Ju
veniles, as the trade styles the books writ,
ten for children and young people, and
that out of "the overwhelming numbers"
offered for sale, "scarcely a dozen will be
remembered another year."
"How does the demand for light fiction
compare with that for books of solid
worth?" was asked at the headquarters
from which the various railroad and other
news and book stalls obtain their supplies.
"We sell about 2,000 volumes of trash to
one of real educational value. You 'can
see what the people want If you will look
over 'the displays on the elevated railroad
or any other railroad book stalls' about
the city. People who patronize us don't
care for anything solid, except as they get
It In the magazines." If this were all that
could be said of the demand for printed
books the taste of the Yankee reader
would seem to be In a very bad state. B it
the truth Is that only the worst that may
be said has been given so far. To give a
fairer view of the matter one need only
refer once more to the statistics furnished
by 'the Publishers' Weekly. In the table
referred to It appears that the total num
ber of new books. Including new editions,
printed in 1895, was 5,469, of which 36$ were
new editions. Of fiction, including 04 new
editions, there were 1,114 books, to Which
must be added 38 books of sports and
amusements, 32 of humor and satire, .173
of Juveniles, and 309 books of poetry
1 to complete the list of lighter literature.
Of course, many of the Juveniles were
educational histories, works of religious
Instruction, etc. and so anything but
light reading, but allowing them ull to be
classed as light, it appears that the whole
light list numbers but 1,868. There were
3,601 books that were devoted to law, theo
logy, literary history, political and social
science, history and biography, medicine,
useful arts, travel, nnd all the other de
partments of the book-makers' ware
houses. And that Is to say that when
American taste is judged by the com
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Ounator A Forsyth. 127 Penn,
Instead of by the display on the counters
of the news stands patronised by people
bound on Journeys, it Is bound to demand
more than twice as many books of the ed
ucational clue as of the right or amusing
class.
However, the man behind the booksell
er's counter says that the list of books In
the catalogue gives a view of American
taste that is altogether flattering. He
says that there Is a demand for the solid
books which warrants a publisher In is
suing twice as many different works of
that class aa.of the light class, but that to
accurately gauge the taste of the people
the number of coplesold of each work
must he considered. Just how many co
plea of any class of works are sold it a
matter no one can learn by fair means,
because publishers are justified In refusing
to make publio such matters. Neverthe
less, It is a matter of common knowledge
that the books of greatest circulation are
usually novels and works of real humor.
"Trilby," and "Chlmmle Fadden," and
"June the Obscure," were circulated by
tens of thousands. On the other hand it
should not be forgotten that such biogra
phies as those of Lincoln and Grant have
had a very great sale. Kane's story of his
Arctic explorations netted 1100,000 each
for author and publisher. Henry George's
"Progress .and Poverty'' was in every
hand. '"Coin's Financial School" had cir
culation among those who favor a silver
basis for the currency that was enor
mous. Henry Holt. In a leoture at Yale,
said that the average sale of books was
less than a thousand each. But in recent
years the buyers have had a- fad every
few months, and somebody sold his books
by ten thousand In consequence. And it
was not always a novelist thoit became
the ashlon.
muirtERLESS INSTITUTIONS.
Published by request of the American
Woman Suffruge Association.
In most states in this Union women can.
not be appointed trustees of public insti
tutions, because such trustees must be
electors. There have been men, who kept
house for themselves or had only men ser
vants In their bachelor quarters, and yet
neither they, nor their friends ever
thought of these houses or flats as homes;
men have kept house but they never have
made homes. Women are the home
makers and home-keepers. Tlds charac
teristic of woman Is Just as Important in
the state as In the family. Men would
think it a grave error If no one but women
served on the board of trustees of soldiers'
homes, if only women were physicians In,
and superintendents of Buch homes. The
writer smiles as she imagines what a fu
rore would be created If all public insti
tutions should suddenly be taken out (t
men's hands and put ln'women's. No wo
man would want such a thing to happen.
II II II
The writer believes that all public insti
tutions, schifols, libraries, lunatic asylums,
soldiers' homes, etc., should have women
trustees, directors, or whatever the term
may be for such officers, 'but she 1b a
little more radical than many women.
However she cannot see how any woman
can cease from making effort to have wo
men trustees on boards of all public Insti
tutions, where women and children live
whether It Is a lunutlo asylum or a chil
dren's home, A most pitiable sight Is a
number of mo'therless children, whoje
father alone Is trying to plan for their fu.
ture. Yet Just such a man who knows
that some woman must help him out with
his family cares, does not seem to think
that the principle applies as well to the
state.
II II II '
In many states women have besieged leg
islatures until boards of visitors huve been
appointed. These boards, however, have
neither responsibility nor authority. They
visit the Institutions when they are ex
pected and must report or muke sugges
tions In writing to the trustees. The trus
tees need take no notice of such report.
They occupy ubout such a position as u
formal caller would to the motherless fam
ily above mentioned. Such a caller might
be sympathetic and Interested, but her
help would be of little value because of the
relation she bore to the fumlly. The
writer doubts If a board of visitors does
any good except to accustom men to see
ing women about such Institutions and to
accustom women to serve on such boards.
II II II
The time Is surely coming when women
and men will serve together as trustees,
then will all the details of the home be un
derstood by all the members of the board.
Then will woman's tenderness, her mother
heart be felt, then will many unfortunate
women and children be happier and
healthier. Then will the state And that
the small economies which women prac
tice In the home will be practiced In the
state. Harrie Taylor Upon.
Steve O'Donnell writes to a friend in
New York that he will not return to Amcr-,
lea for some time. It Is his Intention to
take a trip to Australia,
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WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
Rogers, A. E., 215 Lackawanna.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Goodman's Shoe Store, 432 Lackawanna.
FURNITURE.
Barbour's Home Credit House, 425 Lacks.
CARPETS AND WALL PAPER.
Inglls, J. Scott, 419 Lackawanna.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Osterhout, N. P., 110 W. Market.
Jordan, James, Olyphant.
Barthold, E. J., Olyphant.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Bnook, S. M,, Olyphant.
PAINTS AND WALL PAPER,
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TEA, COFFEE AND SPICB.
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The Strange Affliction of Little
Wilbur Robinson.
He Stopped Growing-Limbs Became Useless and
He was Unable to Walk His Cure Brought
About in a Singular Manner.
' Fromlht Obtervtr, Charlotte, X. C
ITesrinff that a child near Iron Station,
Lincoln County, had been greatly benefited
by the use of Dr. William.' Pink Pills for
Pale People, a representative of the Observer
went thither to see and ascertain the extent
of the benefit the child had received.
Riding out on December 5, 1U95, to a little
country cottage in the pine woods, a mile
distant from Iron Station, the reporter saw
a bright-faced, young; woman, a pure anglo
saxon type with light hair and blue eyes,
standing in the doorway with two plump,
rosy-cheeked children half hiding behind
her dress. Mentioning that he was looking
for a family of itobinsons, the woman
seemed at tirst a little suspicious.
" You're a stranger iu my eye," she said.
" 1 am trying to find a child named Wil
bur Kobinson, who was greatly benefited by
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People."
The young mother smiled and a pleased
look came into her eyes as shcsnitl "come in,"
and added, "I guess that's the one," pointing
to the younger of the two little boys.
It was an humble home, the family being
composed of that sturdy farming class that
goes to make tin one of the strongest and
truest types of North Carolina's good people.
The husband, Robert O. Robinson, runs the
farm of 200 acres, but was oil' to the mill ut
the time.
The mother, Carrie L. Robinson, told a
remarkable story of the cure of her little
boy from the effects of In grippe. Her aged,
white-haired mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Bandy,
sat near and empliasiited every word
of the daughter. The little boy, Wilbur,
who owed his recovery to Dr. Williams'
effective remedy, played about the house
and yard, and was Into every conceivable
kind of mischief. It really seemed that he
must hnvn tuken too many of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills so great was the energy with
which he prosecuted his prauka. Three
times his mother had to stop her conversa
tion snd rush out to rescue the reporter's
bicycle, which was leaning aguinst tha house
outside, and with which Wilbur woe be
coming almost too fainiliur.
This is the story the mother told :
"Wilbur was born August 8, 1893. He
was a stout, healthy boy till he was nearly
five months old. Between Christmas and
New Year's he took the grippe. A physician
at Iron Station attended lilui, and he was
supposed to have recovered. Cut the after
effects of the malady lingered with disas
trous results. In March, lbDI, Ms parents
noticed that he could not stand upon his
feet, although before his taking the grippe
he could do so easily. lie could not bear
the weight of his body on his feet; his lees
were not growing uny nor the muscle in
them developing. Ho was not treated, how
ever, till in the fall, about the last of Octo
ber. When Mr. Robinson took his cotton to
Lincolnfon, the county seat, he also carried
his buby along, and a Lincolnton physician
prescribed for nim. recommending a lotion
for rubbing his limbs. This helped the
child only temporarily. Twice afterward
this physician was consulted. He told the
parents that the child might some day be
able to walk and again he might not. They
would just have to let him "grow along,"
as the mother expressed it, and see what
developed. At this period the child's legs
appeared to be shrunken. As his mother
says they were "as soft as cotton." Here
was a boy fourteen months old, who not only
could not walk, but could not bear his weight
on his feet.
In some way Ihey do not know how a
fmmplilct found its way to the Robinson
ainily. Old Mrs. Bandy fished it out of a
bureau drawer. It had the picture of two
dogs peeping over a fence on one cover, and
on the other a herd of cows drinking in a
cool streutu near a bridge. Both on the
fence and on the bridge, on the respective
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Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Shafts, Poles, Bows, etc.
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SCRAN TON. PA.
FLORAL DESIGNB.
Clark, O. R. A Co.,. 201 Washington.
CATERER.
Huntington, J. C, 808 N. Washington.
GROCERIES.
Plrle, J. J., 427 Lackawanna.
UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY,
Raub, A. R-, 425 Spruce.
DRUGGISTS.
McGarrah A Thomas, 209 Lackawanna.
Lorentz, C, 418 Lacka;. Linden & Wash.
Davis, a W Main and Market.
Bloes, W. S., Peckvlllo.
Davles, John J., 100 S. Main.
CARRIAGES AND HARNESS.
Bimwoll, V. A . 515 Linden.
PAWNBROKER.
Green, Joseph, 107 Lackawanna.
CROCKERY AND OLAS8WARB.
HardlAg, J. JU, Ut Lackawanna.
covers, was this lines "Dr.'WilliBins' Pink
Pills fur Pale People."
"When 1 read that those pills would build
np the bone. 1 felt thnt they were the things
fur Wilbur," said his mother. a
" Old Mrs. Bandy sat up nearly all of one
night reading this pamphlet, with all the
testimonials it contaiued. A few days after
they sent to cue of the two village stores
and got two boxes of tNe pills. This was
about the lust of November, 1894. Before
he had finished taking the first box, the
little fellow was able to War his weight on
his feet, and before the second box was all
gone, he could hold a chair before him and
push it auross the floor.
"We begnn by giving him a third of a pill
at a time, afterward increasing the dose to
a half, so tliey held out a long time," said
his mother. 'HVo commenced the second
box in January, this year. We had to send
to Lincolnton, eight miles away, to get the
next boxes. After biking the third box, in
March, the child begun to go a few steps at
a time, but he didn't walk by himself till
in September. The fourth box, or part of it,
was administered in August."
The testimony of the mother was that the
child's unpetite und, indeed, his whole sys
tem was helped by the use of the pills.
Mrs. Bandy, who had been looking over
a sort of diary she keeps, at this point In the
conversation, read this entry: "Sept. the 25th.
Wilbur begins to walk alone by himself."
"After he once learned to walk' said his
mother, "we could hardly keep him in sight
of the house, and he was cuim! by four boxes,
lacking ten pills. Mother says, and always
has said, the Lord directed somebody to
send us that pamphlet of Dr. Williams."
"You really believe the child's cure it
due to Dr. Williams' Pills ? " was asked.
"I am really convinced the pills cured
Mm," the mother answered. "I haveu't
tho slightest doubt about it."
And the boy's grandmother chimed int
"I'm just as sure of it as I am of living.
I'll take an oath on tho Bible that that is
what did it."
The neighbors In all the section around
the little villuge of Iron Station know and
talk about the remarkable cure of this baby,
who might bave been a cripple for life, hud
he not, even ut. the age ot two years, one
month and seventeen days, been enabled to
wulk for tho first timo by the use of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
This story may seem to the reader like a
fabrication, but is told as the child's mother
told it to the reporter. In order to show
their appreciation, Mrs. Robinson furnished
the following testimonial and signed it. (She
says she is willing at any time to make
sworn affidavit to her statements):
Ibon Station, Lincoln Co., N. C,
December 6, 1SU5.
My infant son, Wilbur Lee, rendered un
able to learn to walk, by the effects of the
frippe. when lie was about five months old,
hereby testify thut he was entirely cured,
and the muscles in his legs developed by
the use of less than four boxes of Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, so that he
is now a hale and hearty child. I am en
tirely convinced that his cure is due to these
pills. 1 also state that the above statements
made to the reporter of the Charlotte Obser
ver are true. j. L,. tiouiNsON.
Harau A. Bandy,
DY,)
it. U. KOUKKTSON,
"Unestei.
II. A. HANKS, I
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
are now given to the publio as au unfailing
blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all
forms of weukness arising from a watery con
dition of the blood or shuttered nerves. The
pUls are sold by ail dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, SO cents a box,
or six boxes for $2.50 (tliey are never sold in
bulk or by the 100),' by addressing Dr. Wil
liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y,
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CREAMERY
Stone Bros., 308 Spruce.
BICYCLES. OUNS, ETC
Parker, E. R-, 821 Spruce.
DINING ROOMS.
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TRUSSES, BATTERIES AND RUBBESJ
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