cause it is so little it is hardly worth while to do anything else with it.— Selected.

WHAT WORSHIP ISN'T.

It isn't going to church to criticise or admire other women's bonnets.

It isn't getting down on the knees or looking solemn.

It isn't going to church and looking meek on Sunday, and cheating a man out of his eye teeth on Monday.

It isn't praising God in public, and bringing dishonor upon His name in private.

It isn't praying with the voice, and doing nothing with the hands and feet to help bring about what you ask for.

It isn't singing hymns and psalms in public, and talking about your neighbors in private.

It isn't to be finding fault with the way your neighbor serves the Lord, and being highly satisfied with your own doings.

It isn't to shut your eyes, and tie up your pocket-book whenever you see the cause of God coming your way in search of money.

It isn't stepping over all kinds of crosses, trying to find one to suit you. –Robert Burdette.

HOW TO SAVE DOCTOR'S
BILLS.

Never go to bed with damp or cold feet.

Never lean with the back upon anything that is cold.

Never begin a journey until the breakfast has been eaten.

Never take warm drinks and then immediately go out in the cold.

After exercise of any kind, never ride in an open carriage or near the window of a car for a moment; it is dangerous to health, and even life.

Never omit regular bathing, for unless the skin is in good condition the cold will close the pores and favor congestion or other diseases.

Never stand still in cold weather, especially after having taken a slight degree of exercise, and always avoid standing on ice or snow where the person is exposed to the wind.

When going from a warm atmosphere into a colder one, always keep the mouth closed, so that the air may be warmed by its passage through the nose ere it reaches the lungs.

Keep the back, especially between the shoulder blades, well covered; also the chest well protected. In sleeping in a cold room, establish the habit of breathing through the nose, and never with the mouth open.

LITERARY NOTES.

A CORRECTION.

In the translation of the hymn, "Cof am y cyfiawn Iesu," &c., by Mr. D. E. Davies, Philadelphia, which appeared in the September CAMBRIAN, some typographical errors

appeared in the last four lines of the first stanza. They should read as follows:

"The crimson drops succeeding
Each other to the ground-
For this, with songs of praises,
Eternity will sound."

THE Presbyterians of Wales have a Sunday School Union of their own. To them, with their adult classes and their deep affection for theology in its philosophical aspects. the methods of the International seem superficial, and they prefer to cater for themselves. The president of the Welsh Union is Dr. Charles Edwards, Bala. With him are associated the Revs T. Levi, G. Parry D. D, and others, together with a representative from each Presbytery. This committee prescribes portions of Scripture for study, formulates lesson books, and prepares commentaries in the form of cheap handbooks. During the last two years the senior classes have been studying the Epistle to the Hebrews.

THE new Sunday School year commenced with the beginning of April. For the senior classes the portion of scripture to be studied is the Epistle to the Galatians. At the request of the Union, Professor Hugh Williams, M. A., Bala, has written a very able commentary upon the Epistle, and other commentaries by eminent men are announced, amongst which we notice a handbook by the Rev. Evan Davies, Trefriw. For the junior classes the field of labor is Exodus, upon which the Rev. W. Lewis, Pontypridd, has written the lesson book, and the Rev. R. Humphreys, Carnarvon, the commentary,

(From the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald.) WHY is it that the French and Germans are so much ahead of us Britons in the study of the Celtic languages? That we are behind them is undeniable, notwithstanding the immense work accomplished by Prof. Rhys and others in recent years. One of the latest evidences of interest taken by French scholars in Celtic researches is a work entitled "Les Mots Latin dans les Langues Brittaniques," by M. J. Loth, and published in Paris by M. Emile Bouillion. The author is favorably known for his interest in Celtic studies, and especially for a translation of the Mabinogion into the French language. The most interestingin the sense of being the most readableportion of the book is an introduction upon the Romanisation of Britain and its consequences. The general conclusion of the author upon this much debated question is that Roman influence, and its highest manifestation-the use of the Latin language disappeared from Britain when the legions

left. His chief reason for that conclusion is that whereas the letters ti followed by a Vowel acquired in Latin a sibilant sound in the fifth century if not earlier, practically

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none of the 600 or 700 words borrowed from Latin by the Welsh and Cornish languages present a trace of such assibilation. This is not the place to discuss philological theories; otherwise something might be said to show that the author is scarcely justified in assuming with so much nonchalance that a Celtic word, evidently related to a Latin word, must have been borrowed by the Celtic from the Latin. Is it not evident that both Celtic and Latin may have inherited the word from the mother-tongue of the Aryan race? Be that as it may, we thank M. Loth for his book; and cordially commend it to all students of the ancient language of Wales.

NOTES OF THE WELSH IN
AMERICA.

FUNERAL OF PROF. L. J. EVANS.The funeral of Rev. Llewelyn J. Evans, D.D., who died at Bala, Wales, on the 25th of July last, took place from the chapel at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O., on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 10th. The chapel was illed with friends of the distinguished theologian.

The exercises were in charge of Rev. Henry Preserved Smith, D. D., which were opened with prayer by Rev. George H. Maxwell, D.D.

Then came the reading of the Scriptures, a part of the tenth chapter of John, by Rev. Mr. Jones, pastor of the Welsh Congregational Church of Cincinnati.

Following Rev. Dr. Dudley, of the Cincinnati Presbytery, a friend of the deceased for years, read a touching tribute to his many virtues and good qualities.

Rev. Dr. Morris, as representative of the Faculty and Trustees of Lane Seminary, spoke in fitting terms of the loss felt by them in the death of Prof. Evans.

A brief and feeling address was delivered by Dr. Smith and then the benediction was pronounced.

The interment took place in the lot of George Fox, Esq., a portion of

which was kindly given Mrs. Evans as a last resting place of her husband, herself and son, should she so desire it.

Mrs. Evans, we learn, will make her home at Oberlin, where her son will enter College. She needs no assurance that all hearts and homes will be open to her, and that thousands who knew and loved her husband, will show to her the utmost tenderness and respect, both for the sake of him whose name she bears, and for her own.-Ex.

THE death is announced of the Hon. T. C Jones of Delaware, Ohio, a well known breeder of Shorthorns, at the age of 76. Mr. Jones was a native of Montgomeryshire, and was taken out to the States by his father when he was six years old. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar, where his industry and ability obtained for him a prominent place in his profession, and he represented for one term in the State Senate the counties of Delaware and Licking. About 1861 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in which capacity he served for ten years, and when he retired from this post he served for eight years on the State Board of Agriculture, a portion of the time as its President.

CHICAGO EISTEDDFOD.-It is rumored that the Carnarvon Male Voice Choir (Mr. John Williams, organist of Christ Church, conductor), the choir which took first prize in the recent male voice competition at the Rhyl National Eisteddfod, intend to attend the great Eisteddfod at Chicago, if the necessary funds can be obtained.

THE State of New York celebrated the fourth centenary of the discovery of America on Oct. 12th, while the national celebration was appointed for Oct. 21st. Imposing ceremonies connected with the dedication of the

World's Fair buildings emphasized the day at Chicago. Columbus first set foot on American soil on Oct. 12th, 1492, according to the Julien calendar, but that date corresponds to the 21st in the present one.

NOTES FROM WALES.

It is stated that the profits of the Rhyl Eisteddfod will probably amount to beween £300 and £400.

BAPTISTS.-The Welsh Baptists have arranged to send two of their leading men out to South Africa, in order to make arrangements for establisning a college for the training of native preachers.

SEVERAL additional tinplate works have ceased to work in South Wales in consequence of the McKinley Tariff. Upwards of a thousand workingmen have emigrated to the United States, where mills have been erected by Welsh capitalists.

THE Chair of the Welsh Professorship at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. Edward Anwyl, B. A., of Oriel College, Oxford. Mr. Edward Edwards, of St. John's College Cambridge, has received the appointment at the same university of Lecturer in History and Economics.

In his speech at Barmouth. Mr. Gladstone humorously referred to a "Welsh damsel" who had entered his father's house as housemaid about the year 1815, and who declared to the children in the nursery that Sir Watkin Williams Wynn had sent millions of men to face the war. We learn that that damsel became the mother of the wellknown Baptist minister, the Rev. A. J. Parry, of Ruabon. She is now alive, being 86 years of age, and resides with her son.

THE Lord Mayor of London is to be presented with a picture of the guests at the recent Welsh National Banquet at the Mansion House, as a souvenir of the occasion. The suggestion is a happy one.

MR. T. E. ELLIS, M. P., writing in reply to a request from the editor of the Montgomeryshire Express, says he is "not without hope that a Welsh Land Commission may soon be appointed to inquire and report upon the agrarian condition of Wales."

THE Rev. Dr. Cynhafal Jones will shortly remove from Llanidloes to Rhyl, in connection with his work as editor of The Drysarfa.

TWENTY-TWO of the candidates for entrance into the Theological College, Bala, have been admitted on examinanation. There are now thirty six students at the college, being double the number present last session.

A BENGALESE young lady-Miss Dass-having been converted to Christianity through the instrumentality of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist missionaries, has decided on coming over to England to undergo a course of medical training, after which she intends returning to India to labor among her people.

WELSHMEN Occupy an unusually large number of prominent positions in England at the present moment. Mr. David Evans is Lord Mayor of London, Mr. David Powell is Governor of the Bank of England, the chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales is Dr. Heber Evans, the chairman of the Baptist Union is the Rev. James Owen, and the new Archbishop of Westminster is a descendant of the Vaughans of Glamorganshire.

JUBILEE meetings in connection with Trevecca College were held lately at Trevecca, S. W. Hundreds of people traveled by trains from all parts to Talgarth, where the College is situated. The College was first established by Lady Huntington and Howell Harris, and was restarted in 1842. On Wednesday morning a sermon was preached by Principal Edwards, D.D., of Bala College. In the afternoon a public meeting was held at the Howell Harris Memorial Chapel, presided over by the High Sheriff of Montgomery, Mr. E. Davies. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. John Hughes, M. A., Liverpool, Thos.

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Rees, Merthyr, Principal Edwards, D.D., Principal Prys, M.A., Thomas Levi, William James, and J. Wyndham Lewis. An effort is being made to increase the College fund, and a sum of £10,000 is asked for.

PERSONAL NOTES.

MR. DAVID R. ROBERTS, AUDENRIED PA.

We congratulate Mr. Roberts on his promotion since January, 1892, to the highly responsible position of Assistant General Superintendent_of the Honeybrook Division of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company. Mr. Roberts, by training and experience, is well qualified for the position, and on account of his excellent

personal qualities, is highly esteemed is a native of Cwm-Glo, Llanberis, by all who know him. Mr. Roberts N. W., and came to America in 1868. For four years and six months Mr. Wanamie, and for eight years and six Roberts had charge of the mines at months afterward he had charge of for five years he was inside Superinthe mines at Ashley, Pa., and then tendent of the mines at Audenried, Pa., and in each position he discharged his duties with credit to him

self and with satisfaction to all connected with him. Mr. Roberts is a thorough Welsh-American, and takes a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the advancement of his own nationality in various ways.

Mr. Roberts is supported by an excellent staff of Welshmen holding subordinate positions under him. One of these is Mr. Griffith G. Roberts, the Inside Superintendent of the Honeybrook Division, who is in every respect a most capable and worthy gentleman. He is a native of Dolyddelen, N. W., and came to America in 1870, settling at Slatington, Bangor and Audenried.

Mr. David Rees also is inside fore

man of one of the mines. Mr. Rees is the son of Mr. Jonah Rees, a wellknown pioneer of the coal region of Beaver Meadow and vicinity. He also served in the army in the 81st Pennsylvania regiment.

Mr. Evan R. Williams also is inside foreman, and Mr. Jacob R. Evans outside foreman.

MR. John L. Williams, formerly of Shenandoah, Pa., has resigned his position as District Superintendent under the Philadelphia and Reading Company at Shenandoah, and has accepted the position of General Superintendent of the Union Coal Company of Shamokin, Pa. Mr. Williams is considered one of the most successful superintendents in the coal region.

MR. HUGH H. OWEN, formerly of New Windsor College, Md., is now pursuing a collegiate course at Collegeville, Montgomery Co., Pa., with a view of entering the ministry.

ONE of the most successful WelshAmericans in Pittsburgh and vicinity is John Henry, Esq., Chartiers, Pa. Mr. Henry is manager and a large shareholder in the Chartiers Iron and Steel Company. The mill was built and the Company organized chiefly by him, and the business has been financially and otherwise managed very successfully. Mr. Henry is a native of Wales, from near Swansea. He came to America in 1866, and settled in Ironton, Cleveland, whence he

came to Mansfield.

REV. J. HUGHES GRIFFITHS, Cincinnati, has been called to take charge of the church at Plymouth, Pa.

MANY friends were glad to see Revs. William A. Jones, Ottawa, Minn., and H. F. Williams, West Bangor, Pa., on their visit to Oneida Co., Ñ. Y.

We are sorry to learn of the death at seven years of age, of Willie, the bright and promising little boy of Mr. Ebenezer Bowen, Cincinnati, O.

REV. HUGH DAVIES, Wilkesbarre, Pa., has been called to take charge of the C. M. church of Hyde Park, Scranton, Pa. Mr. Davies is undoubtedly one of the strongest preachers in the Welsh pulpit.

MR. JOHN RUSKIN JONES, Walnutport, Pa., having completed his course at the Allentown Commercial College, has accepted a position as clerk for the Ellis Slate Company. The firm consists of Messrs. Griffith Ellis, Morgan B. Williams and Thos. E. Jones, Wilkesbarre, Pa.

We are glad to learn that our enterprising young friends Messrs. John O. Hughes, formerly of Slatington, Pa., and R. D. Williams, have commenced business in the line of FINE SHOES, &c. Their store is located on 529 Second Ave, between 29th and 30th Sts., New York City. We wish them every success.

MANY friends will be glad to learn that Mr. Edward Edwards, Cincinnati, O., is a member and the Secretary of the Russell Printing Company. The firm consists of parties formerly connected with the Russell Morgan Company. The Russell Morgan Company is engaged in printing catalogues and artistic color printing in general. The office is located at 88 East 8th St., Cincinnati, O. Mr. Edwards is a native of Aberystwyth, S. W. We wish the Company every success in their new enterprise.