The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

moved further inland, and it has been
found that an adequate successor to him
at Dale college cannot be obtained.
Writes R,L.:-"1 am glad that Dr.
James Williams, of Brecon, has. In his
son o the To PATTI aften
applied to the railway station near Craig.
y-nos. Crig-y-nos signifies the '.Rock Of
Night, and Penwyll, as. it is and has al
Pen top, and Gwyll, shades-the hill above
the shaded valley where Craigy-nos
stands; The railway authorities are re-
the natives will have none Of it,
a gratifying indication of the vitality Of
the Welsh language is furnished by the
remarkably hourishing state of Welsh
periodical literature. Recent years have
witnessed an unparalleled revival in this
in the tide Mr. % M is eW NO ven
While Mr.. = n: Evans. ansut Of Il Hoiywel. Pi one
OF the Leading Welsh publishers. promises
Of "Y Teulu," weekly unsectarian maga-
zine.
the city of I.landovery, has given to the
world not a few successful men, and most
Of them are Eyanses! 1t was in that pic
Swansea draper. first saw light. and also
Mr.. David Evans. J. F.. of Llanelly, now
l.langennech Park. Another Llansadwrn
man is Mr.. d. Evans John James & Co...
head of the large new firm of drapers in
queen street, Cardiff: and whose brother.
Mr.. w; Lemuel Evans. NJ. A., of New
York, Is author of q well-known work
edge
John Evans. of Pandy, was an enter,
prising tradesman of a somewhat original
and ingenious turn of mind. In setting up
q new sign over the door of his shop he
had the following engraved upon 1t:
John Evans, o Bant-y-cna.
Hn gwerthur blawd a dafedd dda,
Ac hefyd wlanen a CHG moch;
Jack yn ddu, "A Shani'n goch.
Shani was probably his wife. and was
blessed with crop of red hair.
version of Lord Butte to Roman Catholic
ism. and the portrait of him in ''Lothair
We're the talk Of London. Saturday of
Vast as was his landed property when
he succeeded to ii in 1913, when still n baby,
he has added to 1t very largely during
ter of Lord and Lady Howadr, of Glassop,
who entertains largely at st. Johns
Lodge. Regents Park. He is the patron
Of nine livings in the Church of England,
though as Romanist, he can make no
presentation: hut his charities and his
gifts to his own church are on scale Of
high muniitcence.
In Merionethshire the term used to de-
note the act of washing and preparing q
dead body for the coffin is "diweddu" (end-
ingo; The eqnhiyiaien1,t hyi term In Montgom NJ
:tfoi W e hei5io" Quitting him hin b by); in Den.
bighshire, "dywarthu,,,; and IN Carnarvon-
ago the 'Gwylnos" "a prayer meeting In
the house of mourning on the night before
buriaD was IN vogue throughout the, the
greater part of Wales. but 1t Is gradually
dvin" out, and is now only held In parts or
the Principality.
A proposal which emanated from Elyet
Lewis is now being very favorably dis
cussed in Congregational circles, namely,
that a. Welsh Congregational quarterly
magazine should be established. In re-
cent address, Elvet outlined u years pro-
gramme for such Il quarterly, giving Il list
of subjects and alIocating the subjects 10
certain writers whom he named. winding
up with the statement that were those
writer's to write on those subjects the four
numbers would contain excellent matter.
The "Celt supports the PROPOSAL and
instances the quarterlies published under
the auspices of other denominations. Many
people. however, will desire to know why
the Celt should class the Traethodydd as
a Methodist. This quarterly claims to be
undenominatienal and has always been
so regarded.
A Welsh weekly. published in Liverpool,
referred in the following terms to the
Cardiff exhibition in Il recent issue: In
spite of the low condition of trade and
general poverty, all the people In the Vale
of Glamorgan go to Cardiff to get n
glimpse at the exhibition. The trains ey-
cry Saturday are full. There is no scarci-
ty of money 10 get pleasure, and if there Is
a scarcity of 1t to pay the grocer and the
draper, and the congregations in some
churches on Sunday morning present a
rather thin and meagre appearances; in
fact, the faithful ones are wanting. but
they are too tired to hear the good word.
Saturdays trip explains everything!'
The Welsh word gwerin is often used In
Welsh for the English words democracy,
community, masses, and people. In let
ter addressed by him to owen Jones in
June, 1S00 IOlo Morganwg explains the
meaning OF the word, and refers to the
Importance of proverbs as n means of
calculating the language of a country. u
think" he writes, the old proverbs OF
very important use in calculating the Ian
guage. and will also very frequently help
as to the true sense and etymology of a
word. For instance, Swerin Is by DR.. Da-
vies and Others said to be the plural of
gwr, but this cannot possibly be on any
principle of etymology-any rule of gram
mar-any analogy of the language:
Md gwlad ond gwerin, mid gwerin
ond brodordde.'
Md hawdd gwerinaw' diriaid.'
Whence I conclude that gwerin signifled
people that are civilised or formed into
regular communities, having regular gov
ernment and fixed habitations: from gwar,
civil or tanned. so that gwerin appears TO
me to signify civilised people in opposition
to gwyddelod (Sylvaticos), woodmen. wild
men" After this, the term 'Gwerin Gym
ru," so often met with in our periodicals,
ought to be thoroughly understood by
every Welshman.