- THE SCRAKTON TRlBtmE- SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3,'. 1890.
CLOUDLAND IN THE
QUEEN'S DOMINION
The Great Divide as It Is Seen in British
Columbia. '
SCENES OP GRANDEUR UNSPEAKABLE
Crossing the Summit of the llange of
Ureat Mountains Which Parts the
Waters of the North American Con
tinentVVhut the Traveler Sees Just
Before Entering ltocky Mountain
Park.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
Banff Hot Springs, In the Rocky
Mountains, Auk. 31. "Tomorrow will
be the culmination of the beautiful and
grand In the mountain scenery found
on the Canadian Paelllv, as you cross
the Great Divide and enter Kocky
Mountain Park at Banff, fifty miles
distant," says our famous Encllsh
traveler, who had been not only a
If r eat educator and guide, but an In
spiring companion thus far on our
Canadian Journey. From Field to the
Summit Is nine miles, through the
Canon of the Kicking Horse River, one
of the wildest and grandest In all this
mighty range. The scenery is not only
sublime hut terrible. In the nine miles
the road rises l.OfiO feet arid In some
places the grade Is 225 feet to the mile.
Here three locomotives are required.
On the broad front of Mount Stephen,
some 2,.'00 feet above, vertically, we
trace the zig-zag lines of a tramway
coming down from the Monarch Silver
mine, somewhere among the clouds.
This mine Is owned by Knglish capital
ists and after being successfully
worked for seven years, was lately
closed on account of the depreciation
of silver as an article of merchandise.
The ore mined here yielded $45 per ton.
As we proceed to the summit, the dark
angular peak of Mount Field Is Been
on the left rising 8.5j,"i feet, while, the
spires of Cathedral Mountain occa
sionally appear over the tree-tops,
10,285 feet high.
Here for a mile Is a series of water
falls and Immense trees on the right,
while to the left, northward, Is a great
mountain valiey, with great white glacier-bound
peaks, and between them
are mirror-like sheets of water, which
retlect each peak and precipice with
startling clearness, even down to the
river valley below.
TAVO CHANT MOUNTAINS.
We pass from Kicking Horse Canon
between the two giant mountains,
Stephen and Field. The former is
named in honor of one of the projectors
of the Canadian Pacific and Its first
president, while the latter bears the
name of his friend and one of the most
illustrious of American citizens. Cyrus
W, Field, the projector of the Atlantic,
cable, that has probably done more
tthan any other one agency to unite
the Old and New Worlds, Kngland and
America, In both business and social
intercourse.,
As we passed between these two Al
pine heights, standing facing each
other, worthily named In honor of these
illustrious men. as perpetual memorials
of their great work In promoting the
interests of mankind, the words of the
famous traveler and living illustrious
brother. JSev. Dr. II. M. Field, of the
Evangelist, who . traveled over this
great railway in 1S3, came aptly to
mind. He says: "As I sat in the
twilight looking up to that snow clad
peak (Mt. Field) on which the sunset
lingered, comfort came to my sad heart.
In the thought that though my brother
had passed out of my sight. In that new
empire which Is rising on the Pacific
coast, one of the most commanding
summits in nil Its great ranges would
preserve to future generations that be
loved name."
The mind of the traveler at this point
is taken up with wonder at the enormi
ty of the great work, the colossal en
terprise, perseverance, and pluck of the
company which brought these rocky
passes and towering mountains Into
subjection to its will.
THE GREAT DIVIDE.
We cross the deep gorge of the Wa '
ta and soon reached Wnpta Lake CJ
Hector, at an elevation of B.190 feet, a &
In two miles Stephen station, the sc ,1
mit of the Rocky mountains the "bvk
bone of the Continent," or the "Giat
Divide." Jt is the summit only In an
engineering sense, for while the road
Is hero a mile above either the Atlantic
or Pacific, the mountains still rear their
white heads over another mile above
and stretch away to the north, west
and to the southward, like a great back
bone, as indeed they are, the back bone
of the continent. We can hardly real
ize that these are the same "Rockies"
we crossed In Colorado In 1892, and
through, whosp portals we entered the
far-famed Yellowstone Park at Living
stone In ISM, and whose spurs we
crossed at Bozeman and again at Hel
ena in the United States. Yet, now,
on this glorious summit, on Canadian
soil, they appear to us again In Inde
scribable grandeur. This elevation
forms the watershed for the rivers that
on the western side How by the Colum
bia Into the Pacific Ocean and on fie
other by the Saskatchewan into Hud
son's Bay.
Stepping upon the track in front of
the great rustic sign-post, or arch, upon
which appear the words (0,296 feet)
'The Great Divide,' we behold the great
glacier which supplies the sparkling
ice stream which here separates Into
two parts and with swift currents,
within a few hundred feet of each oth
er. Hows each way to its destination.
Imagine the situation. One can almost
stand with one foot In British Columbia
and the other in the Northwest terri
tory, and see the waters start on their
course of wandering to either ocean.
THREE INTERESTING LAKES.
.The summit of the pass Is an almost
level space about four miles long, with
three . lakes, the largest of which Is
the source of the Kicking Horse river,
along which the railway has just as
cended. - It is here a rapid and Impet
uous stream which starts with a width
of fifty feet, flowing down into the Co
lumbia. The second one Is "Link Lake," which
seemingly has no Inlet or outlet, but
whose waters, fed by the great glaciers,
are carried to the Atlantic or Pacific.
The third Is called "Summit Lake," the
source of Summit Creek, whose waters
flow eastward down the eastern slope
of the Rockies, which we are to follow.
At the summit we pass from the
Province of British Columbia Into Al
berta, anotherProvlnce of the Domin
ion, 2,387 miles from Montreal. Thus
far we have traveled 619 miles since we
left the Western sea and crossed three
ranges of mountains, comprising the
longest, continuous, unbroken line of
the grandest scenery found on the
American Continent.- Nearly all this
chaos of mountains and canons Is as
wild as It was when first the eyes of the
white man were startled by their over
powering grandeur In 1883, and among;
these marvels are the favorite haunts
of every "man-fearlngorman-skeering"
brute known to the whole country.
Think of It! the stately elk: the fierce
black, cinnamon and grizzly bear; the
sneaky panther; the big-horned sheep;
the snowy goat, and also the cariboo,
the deer, the wolf, the lynx, etc., all are
found here In great numbers for our
sport; providing we are gamey enough
to follow our guide, tracker, or helper
Into their various haunts. Naturally,
the construction of the railway haa
driven the game a short distance from
the track, but the "Stony Indians" are
the tribe that can guide us quickly and
with certainty td their hiding places.
DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
'A1 Moullarttr of the ascent of the
Rsstiss Mm the Plctflo slope is, that
In forty-seven miles the road over
comes an elevation of 2,800 feet, while
the descent to the Atlantic Slope, from
the highest elevation above sea level to
the plains -eastward. Is almost im
perceptible, being continued over hun
dreds of miles at an average grade of
not more than fifteen feet to the mile.
Leaving the summit, the next station
reached Is Laggan, at the foot of Le
froy Mountain, the station for the
"Lakes In the Clouds." We descend In
seven miles 366 feet, to an altitude of
4,930 feet. We leave behind now the
serrated rocky peaks which seem like
turrets ascending to the sky and fol
low the Bow Valley a gap In the Bow
range. Within these seven miles are
three remarkable lakes, and no more
delightful spot is imaginable than these
lovely stretches of water In "Cloud
land." First, is Lake Agnes. 6,730 feet,
then Mirror, the latter reached by a
bridle path on the mountain side. 6,400
feet, and perched amidst the most ro
mnntic environments. About three
miles from the station Is Lake Louise,
6,800 feet, truly a lake In the clouds,
and on its margin is another Chalet
hotel, where parties can secure lunch
eon or remain over night In the wilder
ness. No tourist should fall to visit
these lakes, which are of singular
beauty. I.ako Louise with Its tremen
dous peaks and precipices, Its glaciers
and snow fields, its stretch of mirror
water, depth of color, amid the slender
tapering spruces, and meadows of wild
llowers, calls forth all the adjectives
Its visitors can command. It Is one of
the favorite resorts of Invalid visitors
to the famous "Banff Hot Springs," of
which I will speak later on.
NO MORE GLACIERS.
We now bid adieu to glaciers, the last
being on the shoulder of Mt. Hector,
a broad crescent-shaped river of Ice,
1,300 feet above the railway and a
dozen miles away, partially concealed
behind the lofty yellow cliffs that hem
It In, and almost Inaccessible by reason
of the ravines, rocky precipices and
forests which Intervene.
From Laggan to Bnnff is thirty-four
miles and we descended 4110 feet. As
we proceed the scenery on all sides Is
most grand. The Rockies here exceed
our expectations. The scenic effects
are such as no mortal man can con
ceive of until he has witnessed them.
It takes' more than two looks to meas
ure the mountains left behind, or the
valley that confronts us below, for
both mountains and valley play fantas
tic tricks with the eye as the train
moves along, first bounding behind
ridges then around curves and mndly
racing into the depths below. Ahead
through the trees to the left, we get
enchanting glimpses of the lofty Bow
Range; on the right appears the bare,
rugged, shapely serrated sub-range,
called the "Sawback," the central and
loftiest mountain in which is Pilot
Mountain, which looms up 9.1H0 feet
high, like a leaning pyramid; also, the
Imposing cone of Copper mountain,
X.f.00 feet high, while to the left Is the
gap of Vermillion Pass through which
are seen distant lofty snow peaks along
the Continental watershed, from whose
glaciers and snow fields the Vermillion
river flows. Westward of the entrance
Into the pass stretches the long, rugged,
and wall-like front of Mt. Temple, while
directly in front is the loftiest and
grandest of this whole punornuia,
Mount Lefroy, ll.fifiO feet, a prodigious,
isolated, helmet-shaped mountain,
which stands supreme over the whole
range.
PEAKS IN ABUNDANCE.
This mountain comes prominently
Into view at Cascade Station. Castle
Mountain station is at the liase of the
great peak whose name It takes. Here
was once a mining camp called Silver
City, but now there are more dwellings
than inhabitants. To suy that the
scenery with all these peaks promin
ent. Is exceedingly grand, docs not ex
press It or do justice to the truth.
Cnstle mountain here looms up on the
left, S.SfiO feet, n sheer precipice of
6,000 feet with turrets, bastions, nnd
battlements complete as If thrown up
by engineers at the proper angle of
forty-live degrees to the main line of
fortification. As we skirt the Vermil
lion Lakes, we get a fine view of Mount
Massive and the snow peaks far to the
west, enclosing Simpson's Pass and al
so the snow ledges forming the eastern
crest of Pilot Mountain; liesld'S "Hole
In the wall" mountain upon the left,
7,fp00 feet. Let the reader if he can
imagine such a combination of moun
tainous scenery as that by which we are
encircled, rising in mighty grandeur
from eight to eleven thousand feet,
their white peaks regions of eternal
snow towering up above the misty
clouds, while the marvelous clearness
of the atmosphere of this section brings
out their sculpture minutely.
Six miles from the noted Banff Hot
Springs, we enter the western confines
of the "Rocky Mountain," or "Canadian
National Park," where a half dozen
ranges of tlieso snow-tipped mountains
center, each differing from the. oth
ers In form and color, and the con
verging valleys separating them afford
matchless views In any direction we
may look. Right here In the heart of
this grand and Impressive scenery the
Dominion government has made a res
ervation of a tract twenty-six miles
long and ten miles wide, which in
cludes a remarkable group of Hot Sul
phur Springs, as a Natlonnl Park,
analagous to our own Yellowstone
Park. An account of this great health
resort and "Canadian Wonderland"
will appear next week.
J. E. Richmond.
TARGETS FOR HEAVY GI XS.
The Immensely Heavy, Tongh Plates
Are Subjected to Crucial Pounding.
Targets at the new range. Shoebury
ness, are not so much marks as speci
mens of armor plates and other protec
tions, says a writer In Chambers' Jour
nal. Some of these are built up with
a strength which, to the uninitiated,
appears to be proof against any at
tack. Here, for instance, we find a
steel plate of eiKhteen Inches In thick
ness, and behind this six Inches of
Iron, the whole backed up by huge
balks of timber. But, notwithstand
ing Its depth, the enormous moss has
been dented and cracked and in places
pierced. When we look at the plates
whlc are not quite so thick we see
that the shells have formed what are
pretty and regular patterns, for "mall
triangles of metal have been splintered
off and turned back, so that the aper
ture is decorated with a circle of
leaves, and resembles a rose with the
center cut out. Where the shell has
entered the plate before it bursts the
pattern remains very perfect, but when
it explodes as It touches the surface
some of the encircling leaves are en
tirely cut off.
One target Is pointed out to us.whlch
represents the Iron casing of the vul
nerable portions of a torpedo bont, con
sisting of engine-room, boilers and
coal bunkers. Tliese compartments
have been riddled again and again.
Even a service ride bullet can pene
trate one Bide, and a shell of the small
est size will go through both, for tor
pedo boats are not very heavily built.
He Didn't Mind Which.
"How much for a protograf?" he
queried as he entered the room at the
head of the stairs.
"My dear, sir, you have made a mis
take," replied the occupant of the of
fice. "This Is a dental office, while the
photographer Is. next door."
"Oh, you pull teeth?"
"Yes, sir."
"How much?"
"Fifty cents apiece."
Well, go ahead and yank out one or
two. Its about the same to me." De
troit Free Press.
Uncle Allen's View of It.
"What I blame Spain for," said Uncle
Allen Sparks, "is that It got Its back
up on account f e speeches In the
senate and ons of those Prince
ton co" uents. The senate ' an
lire-. iilbl gang of cranks, and New
jersey isn't la the United atates."
Chlcato Tribune.
PETER WILLIAMS,
BIBLE ANNOTATOR
Expelled from the State Church on Ac
count of His Methodism.
CAST INTO SIR WATCYN'S KENNEL
Mr. nnd Mrs. Gladstone Take Ten nr
a Welsh Village Inn and Shake
Hands wirh the Country Maidens
Notes of Interest.
Recently, at Fendlne, Carmarthen
shire, great services were held at the
church erected to the memory of the
Rev. Peter Williams, the famous Welsh
Bible nnnotator nnd preacher. When
the geographical history of Welsh non
conformity comes to be written It will
be found that Carmarthenshire occu
pies a conspicuous and important place
In the earlier chapters. To get a few
steps further back than the rise of
Calvinistio Methodism, It was Carmar
thenshire that gave birth to Vleaf
Prlchard. the greatest religious factor
In Wales In the seventeenth century.
There lived nnd labored Stephen
Hughes, the vicar's "pallbearer," and
compiler and editor of "Canwyll y
Cyniry." The same county witnessed
the patriotic labors of Griffith Jones,
of I.landdowror, the Initiator of the
movement for populnr education In
Wales, und the man who made the
Sunday school movement possible.
From the neighborhood of Llundovery
came Williams, of I'untycelyn; from
Cayo, David Jones, the translator of
Watts' hymns; John Evans, of Llwyn
fforten; Thomas Charles, of Bala, the
organizer and consolida"tor of the
Corph, and Rhys Hugh. Charles's ear
ly Instructor In Methodism. An equal
ly prominent name In those
Btlrrlng times the middle of the
last century was Peter Williams,
also n native of Carmarthen
shire, born in the parish of Llan
sadwrn, In 1722, educated for the
church at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar
school, Carmarthen, ordained deacon
by the Bishop of St. David's, served
as curate at Eglwys Cwmmln, his first
and only licensed charge; then be
came a free lance, now undertaking
duties at Swansea, then at Llangranog,
and again at Llandyssllio, In Cardigan
shire, until he finally was cast adrift
and forced to join the band of young
Methodist enthusiasts who were then
turning the Welsh world upside down
nnd setting established ecclesiastical
authority at nought. Griffith Jones,
"the Apostle of Wales," Howell Harris,
the Brecknockshire visionary, and
Dnniel Rowlands, the Prophet of Llan
geitho, had done the work of pioneers
before Pctor Williams entered the field,
but Wel'5 Methodism was still young
and opiiositton as strong as ever. His
parents died his mother when he was
nine years old, and his father three
years later and he was adopted by a
maternal uncle, who had little sym
pathy with the visions and dreams
which then filled the air, but seemed
to have exerted n strong Inlluence over
Peter Williams' fervid imagination
and turned his thoughts to the minis
try. When at school at Carmarthen
came a crisis In his history. George
Whitfield was announced to preach In
the town, ami. in Bplte of the school
master's warning, young Peter went
to hear the great preacher, and felt
the potency ot his eloquence.
"Conversions" were not respectable
In those days; Peter's relatives were
horrified and the hapless youth, whose
religious fervor, mistaken for Intellec
tual weakness, was reckoned a dis
grace to the school and a slur on the
family, was taken home and again
yoked to his uncle's plough. Back,
however, he went and applied himself
to his studies with commendable dili
gence. At 21 he left Queen Elizabeth's
school and opened a school on his own
account on Conwil Elfed, the old neigh
borhood of the Howells, relative of
James Howells, ambassador under
James I., and author of "Eplstolae
Hoelianae." At 22 he enters, with fear
and trembling, the Episcopal Palace, a
candidate for deacon's orders, which
the bishop conferred after having sat
isfied himself that Peter had been com
pletely cured of his mania. The epis
copal license pointed to Eglwys Cumin,
as outlandish a spot as the civilized
universe could show, where a congre
gation, except of seagulls and lap
wings, was an Impossibility. Here
Peter Williams commenced his mis
sion, receiving In return such pittance
us did not suffice for his horse, and
compelled to eke out a "living wage"
by keeping school. Thus was he
cooped up, shackled, and manacled by
ecclesiastical restrictions, while his
eagle soul yearned, like John Wesley's,
tor a whole world for a parish. Is It
to be wondered nt that It burst Its
narrow bounds and sought neighboring
fields? The end was not far. The rec
tor's wife discovered traces of Method
Ism In his sermons, his ministry was
tainted, the bishop Intervened. Will
lams' license was cancelled, and thus
his official connection with the church
he loved so well, and could serve so
eminently, ceased at a single stroke.
The rector and the rector's wife, the
rural dean and the arch-deacon, and
even the Hon. Richard Trevor himself,
who then filled the throne of St. Da
vid's, have long passed from memory,
but Peter Williams, the inhibited cur
ate, remains a living memory In Pen
dine church, and will remain while the
Cowyn seeks the sea and Rugwen
Point looks upon the waters.
Peter Williams' stay In the church
was not of long duration, and he was
induced to cast his lot among the re
vivalists, and It is as a preacher with
the Methodists we see him henceforth.
In that capacity he endured much
obloquy and persecution. At Kidwelly,
within a short distance of his home at
Gellilednais, In the parish of Llandy
fellog, on his attempting to hold a ser
vice in the open air one Sunday after
noon, he was set upon by a number of
roughs and savagely beaten. When he
mounted his horse they led the animal
to the neighboring marsh and com
pelled him to leap across the ditches
which abound In that spot, promising
themselves splendid fun to see the
preacher wallow In the mire. But be
ing a good horseman Williams escaped
accident. He was afterwards dragged
into the public house, where the mob
tried to make him drunk. This at
tempt also proved fruitless, for he
poured the beer into his riding boots.
At length he was rescued from his tor
mentors by his own servnnts, whom his
wife sent In quest of him. While at
Wrexham he was arrested by order of
a local magistrate (one of the Wynns,
of Wynnstay). and brought Into the
great mans presence. The proceedings
of that famous meeting are not report
ed, but the Interview ended in Peter
Williams being cast Into the lion's den
to wit, the dog kennel where he
spent the night. In the morning he
gained his freedom, and was followed
by the constables who had arrested
him the previous day to the house of
one Moses Williams. The constables'
object, probably, was robbery, and
Moses Williams, on seeing them com
ing, took from Peter Williams his
watch, and all the rascals could find
on the preacher's person was three
shillings and six pence and a snuff
box. Peter, though a saint, was fond
of a pinch of snuff, and nt his earnest
entreaty the box was returned, an act
of kindness which they would not hove
done had they known that at the bot
tom lny half a guinea. At Trefrlw,
near Llanrwst, he suffered martyrdom
at the hands of "two gentlemen," who
dragged him Into a tavern, made a
butt to the gibes and ridicule of the
mob, and subjected to the most dis
graceful Indignation. At Owydderln,
In Denbighshire, he nearly became the
victim of "gunpowder plot," by which
It was Intended to blow him, into
"smithereens." In fine, the opposition,
absurd and often cruel, which he met
was a matter of frequent occurrence,
and helps us to realize the state of re
ligious and civil liberties In those days.
But It is not as a preacher Peter Will
lams will be longest remembered, but
as the editor and annotator of the
Welsh Bible and the author of a valu
able Welsh concordance, works both of
which were the labors of many years.
He produced his first edition of the
Bible in 1770. It was a quarto edition
of 8,600. This was disposed of In a
few years' time, and was followed by
another edition of 6.400. The work con
tained marginal references and ex
planatory observations on the text, the
first attempt of its kind that was ever
made In Welsh.
"Peter Williams' Bible" Is still a book
that is fiworn by Welshmen, several
editions of It having appeared In recent
times. Some years ago few entered
the married state without a copy of
Peter Williams' Bible to place on the
parlor table or on the top of the chest of
draweif?, though (innumerable copies
have found their way to the pawnshop
from time to time. Unhappily, the ap
pearance of "Peter Williams' Bible"
was the means of embittering his old
age and a source of contention between
him and his brethren, who accused him
of entertaining heretical views In some
of his comments. He was branded as
a Sabellian, one thnt entertains errone
ous views on the Trinity nnd the wor
ship of Christ, nnd the doors of the
Methodist persuasion wns closed to him
in . future. Other denominations also
looked upon him with a suspicious eye,
and thus1 this truly great and good man
was "boycotted" by those who strained
nt a gnat and swallowed a camel. Peter
Williams lived In nn age when an Ig
noble effort was made by the church
and the state to crush Welsh nation
ality and the Welsh language. With
such a demoralising policy Williams
had no sympathy, and It was partly
with a view to oppose it he published
his works in the vernacular. He also
took a prondnent part In establishing
the "Greal," a Welsh monthly, which
wns edited by his son, the Rev. Eliezer
Williams, of -Lampeter, assisted by
"Dafydd Ddu Eryrl" and "Ieuan Bryd
ydd Hlr."
MR. GLADSTONE AND WELSH INN.
The inhabitants of Caergwrlo, In
North Wales, enjoyed a novel sensa
tion recently. Mr. nnd Mrs. Gladstone
drove out from Hnwarden to this pic
turesque village, which nestles at the
foot of a mountainous range which
stretches between Hawarden and
Wrexham. Some six or seven ladles
and gentlemen accompanied the car
riage on their bicycles, among them
being Mrs. Drew, Miss Helen Gladstone
and Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M. P. for
Leeds. On their arrival at Caergwrle
Mr. Gladstone was persuaded to alight
and take tea at the Castle Inn, which
Is a humble hostelry of the most un
pretending order. The excitement of
the white-headed comfortable landlady
at being suddenly called upon to pro
vide tea for so distinguished a purty
In her brick-floored back parlor may be
easily Imagined. But the time occu
pied In her preparations was beguiled
by the right honorable gentleman in
examining with much Interest two or
three pieces of china which at once at
tracted his attention. During the pro
gress of the meal news of what was
going on flew like wildfire through the
village, and in an Incredibly short
space of time between two and three
hutxli-il villagers were gathered In the
road outside the Inn. When Mr. Glad
stone camo out he wns greeted with
vociferous cheers, eager hands were
thrust out to be shaken, blessings were
Invoked by fervent Welsh villagers on
the venerable statesman's head, and
the carriage was driven off the scene
nnild a sensation which, though grati
fying as a spontaneous testimony of
affectionate respect, was almost pain
ful In Its Intensity. The few persons
who succeeded in gaining a handshake
will probubly be permanent heroes
among their neighbors. One vilfage
dame. Indeed, with a face blanched by
suppressed excitement, was observed
to push her way to the front to ask
and to obtain the coveted hnnd-grafp.
Altogether the scene was likely to be
for a long time to come the chief vil
lage tradition, and, Indeed, It Is often
thut the back parlor of a village ale
house enjoys the honor of entertaining
at tea so celebrated a statesman as the
ex-premier.
NOTE8.
The Vale of Neath Brewery, near Neath,
now owned by Councillor K. Evans ltevun,
was otinlnully erectml by a stock com
pany at u coat of f:iuv,uuo.
Should Mrs. John Thomns, of Llanelly,
decide to accept the offer of a South Af cl
ean vocal tour the decision is yet to
come she will leave for the South In May
next. .
There are this year seventy-nine candi
dates for the various scholarships con
nected with the University college of
South Wales end Monmonthxhlne, which
will bo offered for competition In the near
future.
In William Balesbury's dictionary, "Im-
Jirynted at Ixindon In Foster Lune by me,
lohn Waley, (I."p47) occur the following
quaint definition of onion: A plant which
wives use to Induce tears at the death of
their husbands."
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Intend leaving
Hu warden Custle about the first of Octo
ber for l'enmocnmawr. This quiet, pleas
ant spot Is a favorite one wltth the ex
Premier, and he has more than once ac
knowledged the debt he owes, in the mat
ter of health, to the bracing Influences of
Welsh air.
Gwalla, the Welsh conservative weekly,
of Bangor, has evidently no sympathy
with the attempt of "t'athollrus Cum
breusls" to defame the Welsh people, in
the opinion of Gwalla, this scurrilois
scribe Is a "parson," and, further, that
in besmirching others he is merely de
scribing his own character.'
People who say thnt Welsh seaside
boarding houses and shopkeepers are not
sufficiently up to date evidently know
nothing about the subject. At Ilnrmnutli
recently some visitors bought some pretty
shells to take home. They were labelled
as usual "a present from Barmouth," but
what the dismay of the purchasers to find
later on on close Inspection the words ln
Bide the shell "Made In Germany.'
Aberystwlth Is about to lose the Rev.
Llewelyn Edwards, M. A., who for many
years has conducted the Ardvn Urnmmnr
school In that favorite resort. Mr Ed
wards, who is a brother to the well-known
principal of Ilfiln. hns, it Is definitely an
nounced, accepted the call to the i 'top
hum Junction Cahinlstle Methodht
church, and hns disposed of the Ardwyn
school buildings to the Cardiganshire In
termediate school authorities.
Major Pryce-.Tones, the Conservative
member for the Montgomery HuroiiKhs, is
talking of having an annlysls taken of all
the well-known mineral waters sold at
Llnndrinriod, Llanwrtyd, Bullth, and otlir
Welsh resorts, with the view of having
their properties compared with those of
celebrated watering pluces. such as Carls
bad, or the continent. He believes that
with management and advertising th-se
Welsh resorts may be developed on u very
big and fashionable scale.
Miss Ethel Mud-lark, the populnr In
structures of English at the Training Col
lege for Teachers. London, hus Just ob
tained nt Paris (where she passed with
distinction through the course of lecture
for foreigners given by the French All
cancel the diploma of professor of the
French langiiuge. This shows her to be
fully quality to teach the French lnmnine-
In Wales. The young tody Is the daugh
ter of Mr. James -Mad. lock, of Newport.
Mr. O. IT. Hnvard. who Inst week headed
the list of thirty-two candidates for the
ministry In the examination of the South
Wales Cnlvlnlstlc Methodists, Is the eldest
son of Mr. William llnvanl. Llnndoverv
House. Treherbnrt. As a student he Is es
tablishing a creditable record. From Ll-in.
dovery school he won an I8n scholar
ship, tennble for four years at Jesus col
lege, Oxford. He will tnke his llnnl It. A.
examination In June next. Wvr William
Havard, y crydd, o Lsnymddyfrl.
Mr. Tom Jones, son of Mr. Jones, of the
Bird In Hand hotel, Neath, whose schol
astic career In London save abundant
promise of success, has, since he left the
native shores of his native Innd. achieved
distinction at King Viilllamstown, In
South Africa, Where, at Dale college, he
was an Instructor In manual exercises
and In music. Mr. Jones has recently it-
moved further Inland, nnd It has been
found thut an adequate successor to him
at Dale college cannot be obtained.
Writes R.L.: "I am glad that Dr.
James Williams, of Brecon, has. In his
address to Madame Pattl, called atten
tion to the barbarism, of 'Penwyllf us
applied to the railway stntlon near Cralg-y-nus.
Crig-y-nos slgnltles the "Rock of
Night,' and Penwyll, us It Is and has nl
ways been called by the natives, means
Pen top, nnd Gwyll, shades the hill above
the-shuiled valley where C'ralg-y-nos
stands. The railway authorities are re
sponsible for the barbarism of Penwyll
the natives will have none of It."
A gratifying Indication of the vitality of
the Welsh lunguage is furnished by the
remarkably flourishing state of Welsh
periodical literature. Keren t years have
witnessed an unparalleled revival In this
direction. And there is apparently no ebb
In the tide. Mr. u. M. Howards' new ven
ture, "Hedilyw." Is nhout to ho launched,
while Mr. P. M. Evans, of Holywell, ono
of tho lending Welsh publishers, promises
for the first of the year, the first number
of "Y Teulu," a weekly unsectariun maga
zine. Llansadwrn, a small country town near
the city of Llandovery, has given to the
world not a few successful men. and most
of them are Evanses! It was In that pic
turesque parish thnt Mr. Hen Evans, the
Swansea draper, first suw light, nnd also
Mr. David Evans, J. I., of Llanelly, now
Llangennech Park. Another Llansadwrn
man Is Mr. D. Evans (John James & Co.),
head of the large new tlrm of drapers in
Queen-street, Cardiff; and whose brother,
Mr. W, Lemuel Evans, M. A., of New
York, Is author of a well-known work
entitle "Memory as a Power of Knowl
edge.'1 John Evans, of Pamly, wnB an enter
prising tradesman of a somewhat original
ami Ingenious turn of mind. In setting up
a new sign over the door of bis shop he
had the following engraved upon It:
John Evans, o Runt-y-cnn,
Yn gwerthur bhiwd n dufeild dda,
Ac hefyd wlnnen a clilg moeh;
Jack yn ddu, a Shnni'n goch.
Shanl was probably his wife, and was
blessed with a crop of red hair.
It Is a good mnny years since the con
version of Lord Bute to Unman Catholic
Ism, and the portrait of 1dm in "I.othair"
were the talk of London. Saturday of
last week was his forty-ninth birthday.
Vast ns Was his landed property when
he succeeded to it In IMS, when still a baby,
he has added to It very largely during
the last few years. Be married a daugh
ter of Lord and Lady llowndr, of Glassop,
who entertains largely at St. Johns
Lodge. Regent's Park. Be Is tbe patron
of nlno livings In the Church of Knglnnd,
though as a Romanist, he can make no
presentation; but his charities anil his
gifts to bis own church are on a, scale of
high munificence.
In Merionethshire the term used to de
note the act of washing and preparing a
dead body fur the coflln is "diwedilu" (end
ing). The equivalent term In Montgom
eryshire is i-hol allan' (laying outl; In
Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire,
"tiol e helblo" (putting him by); In Den
bighshire, "dywarthu"; and In Carnarvon
shire, "tlolehl'r corph" (washing). Years
ngo the 'Uwylnos" (a prayer meeting In
tlie house of mourning on the night before
burial) wns lu vogue throughout the
greater part of Wales, but It Is gradually
ilvhi" out. and Is now only held In parts of
the Principality.
A proposal which emanated from Klvet
Lewis Is now being very favorably dis
cussed in Congregational circles, namely,
that a Welsh Congregational quarterly
magazine should lie established. In a re
cent address, Elvet outlined a year's pro
gramme for such a. quarterly, giving a lUt
of subjects and allocating the subjects to
certain writers whom he named, winding
up with tho statement that were those
writers to write on those subjects the four
numbers would contain excellent mutter.
The "Cell" supports the proposal, and
Instnnces the quarterlies published tinder
the auspices of other denominations. Many
people, however, will desire to know why
the Celt should das the Truethortydd us
a Methodist. This quarterly claims) to be
undenonilnatlunul, and bus always beeu
so regarded.
A Welsh weekly, published In Liverpool,
referred in the following terms to the
Cardiff exhibition In a recent Issue: "In
spite of the low condition of trade and
general poverty, nil the people In the Vale
of Glamorgan go to Curd iff to get a
glimpse nt the exhibition. Tho trains ev
ery Saturday are full. There Is no scarci
ty of money to get pleasure, and if there Is
a. scarcity of It to pay the grocer ami the
draper, and the congregations in some
churches on Sunday morning present a
rather thin and meagre appearance; in
fact, tho faithful ones are wanting, but
they are too tired to hear the good word.
Saturday's trip explains everything!"
The Welsh word gwerln Is often used In
Welsh for the English words democracy,
community, masses, and people. In a let
ter addressed by him to Owen Jones In
June, ISWI. lolo Morganwg explains the
meaning of the word, ami refers to the
Importance of proverbs ns a means of
elucidating the language of a count ry. "I
think," he writes, "the old proverbs of
very important use In elucldntlnvr the lan
guage, and will also very frequently help
as to the true sense and etymology of a
word. For Instance, gwerln Is by Ir. Da
vies nnd others said to be the plural of
gwr, but this cannot possibly be on any
principle of etymology any rule of gram
marany unulogy of the lunguage:
' Nld gwlad ond gwerln, nid gwerln
ond brodurdde;'
and
'Nld hawdd gwerinaw' ilirlaid.
Whence 1 conclude that gwerln signified
people thnt are civilised or formed Into
regular communities, having regular gov
ernment and fixed habitations; from gwar,
civil or tnmed, so that gwerln appears lo
me to signify civilised people In opposition
to gwyddelod (Sylvatlcos), woodmen, wild
men," After this, the term 'Gwerln Cym
ru," so often met with In our periodicals,
ought to be thoroughly understood 'by
every Welshman.
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
' Mrs. Abbey is to star.
Mansfield is rehearsing "Hamlet."
Actor Vroom will make McKlnley
speeches.
The "Irish Greenhorn" 13 Dan McCar
thy's new piny.
Belasco is at work on two totally dif
ferent kinds of plays.
"The .Merry Tramps" Is the title of the
Lilliputians' new play.
Annie Ward Tiffany hns Joined the
"Strange Adventures of Miss Brown."
Henry E. Dixey closed his starring
tour In "His Absent Boy" at Boston last
night.
Julia Marlowe Tabor has made a hit
In the drnmutizatiou of George Eliot's
"Romola."
A choico of a successor to the lute
Frunk Mayo In "Pudd'nlitad Wilson" hus
at length settled down upon Theodore
Hamilton.
Any circus manager In Ttnly who does
not carry out his advertised programme,
or misleads the public by means of posters,
is lined $SU0.
The cast of Rice's revival of "Kvango
llne" Includes Theresa Vaughn, Charles
Hlgelow and Mile, Yvonno La Guerre, the
Parisian harpist.
Henry Trving's revival of "Cymbeline"
calls up the fact that since Shakespeare's
tlme'there have been twenty-four produc
tions of thnt piny.
Robert Mantel Is the first actor to turn
the klnetoscope's moving pictures) to ad
vertising account. He shows scenes from
"The Corslcan Brothers" outside the thea
tres. Charles H. Hnyt's next farce will lllus.
trute the misadventures of a non-resident
debtor under .Massachusetts law. and
Hirry Conor Is to have the principal role.
When Nut Goodwin returns from Austra
lia nbout the hist of October he will pro
duce In San Francisco a new play by
Madeline Lticette Riley, entitled "An
American Cousin." It is siiid to afford
admirable opportunity for thut form of
humorous expression in which he is quite
inimitable.
Charles H. Hoyt Is telling thl story of
one of the young women In ' The Black
Sheep." This young lady, who is still
shrouded In anonymity, wns an artist's
model before she went on the staKe. Once
she culled on a prominent painter and of
fered him her services. "Hut, mv dear."
explained the urtlst gravely, "I only paint
fruit pictures, nnd ." "Then." Inter
rupted the applicant, "paint me. I'm a
peach."
'in Ony New York" furnishes an oppo
site Illustration of the Ingenuity photvn by
writers of huiicsoue nnil extravaganza in
the llim of stage nomenclature. In this
burlesque Mrs. Ie Siiysler Van Shoddle is
one of the pnrvenu rich; Mint IVroxld" Mr.
Tnshtush Is a lending l.i.lv; Knlrv Fnll
mensure Is nn nctrcss Inclined to "embon
point; Franklin Wlegehts Is a Teutonic
soubrette; Yvctte Gnllbert's sisters are
known as Yonbette. Gewette, Dontfrette,
Toletto and Mypette.
On the Rolling Wave.
She "Take care, Alfred! That Isn't
the remedy for sea sickness. Ix.n't you
see the bottle Is marked 'poison V "
He "That's the one I want." Truth.
Two Exceptions.
Quiz "So you believe In the green
every time?"
Pat "Yin, sor: Ixclpt whin It's the
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