The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-09

I Alas, Wales is taking to fiction! The
Calvinistic Methodist weekly has. in ad-
| dition to a temperance novel, a short
idyllic serial story treating of life at a
Welsh theological college.
The recent issue of a biography of the
| immortal Welsh preacher, Williams or
| Wern, reminds us of the fact that the
biography of Mr.. Williams, issued by the
late DR.. w. Rees was translated into Eng
lish by "Kilsb" in 1915. Several Scranton
ians can boast of the possession of the
| book.
The oldest Congregational minister in
the principality is Rev. Richard Parry,
Llandudno, who attained his ninety-first
birthday last week. Gwalchmai as he
| Is known to Welshmen. was ordained in
1882, and is descended from Hwfa alb
| Cynddlew, one of the founders of the four
teen Royal tribes of Wales. Gwalchmai
is well known to several resident of Hyde
Park, who had the honor Of meeting him
at the eisteddfodau.
A reporter is the last person one would
expect to be able to inspire a bard. But
everything is possible in America, and an
Ohio poet thusly sings Of the man of the
pen:
Gwyl awdwr a gwyliedydd-dawn wasg,
| Dyna WV gohebydd;
| Noes arwr a mesurydd
| Hawliau'r oes al feddwl rhydd.
Several Scrantonians will recollect
Thomas Darlington, who was introduced
| by Judge II. NJ. Edwards In neat Welsh
speech, at the Laurel Hill Park Musical
festival in September last. Mr.. Darling
| ton Is delivering lecture at Wales on his
American experiences and at Void last
week declared that he had met several
| Welsh people in America who did nit
know single word of English. Herbert
Lewis, NJ p, who presided, told similar
experience in Wisconsin, where he met
several of his fellow countrymen who
could not understand English.
With respect to the Armenian question,
some of the remarks of Samuel Evans, of
the Ottoman bank, Constantinople, who
contributes the most interesting of the
| four articles of the first number of the
| llenor, are important. especially as Mr..
Evans is an ardent Welsh Nationalist.
After contrasting the lot Of the Welsh
farmer with that of the Armenian peas
ant, he says: II am perfectly certain
that not one farmer In Armenia wears
himself out and slaves, like many Welsh
men, in order to make both ends meet"
AS compared with land tenure In Wales,
he thinks the agrarian systems of the
Turks, Persians and Afghans perfection.
Mr.. Williams, the recently appointed
auditor for South Wales under the local
government board. has had an adventur-
Gus career. He was at one time clerk at
| Smiths bookstall in Denbigh, and while
| there fell in love with and married q
daughter of Thomas Gee, the editor of the
Baner. Subsequently he emgrated to
America, but returned two or three years
later So great was his popularity at Den
bigh that the whole town turned out to
welcome him and his wife's return. He
has gradually worked his way up till
now he is in receipt of a salary of $4,000 a
year. He has been engaged as auditor to
the Flintshire county council, and for
some years as sub-auditor in the Midland
counties under the local government
board.
The Welsh members are not untrav-
eled. Palestina Lewis. as his name de-
| notes, has been a traveller In the Holy
| Land Herbert Roberts has been round
| the world, and there are few countries
| which Herbert Lewis has not visited, and
lived for some time in Montreal. In Can
ada Prltchard Morgan and Brynnior
Jones know the extremist ends of Aus
tralla, and Tom Ellis visited many cities
in the east and in South Africa in his
quest after health. Samuel Smith was
in the east when he was selected for Flint
shire. Frank Edwards spends a great
portion of his time abroad, Major Jones
has lived in the United States, ID. A.
Thomas is at present on the way to AL
giers, and Lloyd George knows France
and Switzerland exceedingly well.
An explanation is given by the Carnar-
Won and Denbigh Herald Of Saturday as