The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-29


an article in newspaper describing some
er he could name more than four or Ave
English statesmen. But that is the case
in all countries in relation to the poll
tics of other lands. The other day was
at booksellers shop in Bale and man
was showing me group of the leading
politicians of Germany. He was sur
prlsed to fnd that many were quite un-
familiar to me. Tell me- said, how
many English politicians do you know
Well he said, there is Mr.. Gladstone
and Lord Salisbury. and-and, well, sure
ly, there is a Joseph something Now,
90 you KNOW continued Mr.. Bevan,
that that mans position is not so en-
tirely different from ours in Victoria.
Mr. E. Lort Phillips and his party have
returned home from their travels in
Somanland. 1t may be remembered that
two ladies accompanied the expedition,
which went out for the purpose of collec-
ting natural history specimens. A very
fine collection, especially of birds and
plants has been brought home. As re-
CARDS Lord Delemere's expedition, little
has been heard of it for some months.
Several cases containing specimens and
trophies of big game have been received
from him at the Natural History Mu-
scum, South Kensington, and as the par
ty intended to push on into the interior,
and have sent to the coast for further
supplies and more camels it is not un-
likely that they mean to remain out for
another year, perhaps with the idea of
making for Lake Rudolph. An interest
ing experiment is being tried In the way
of using dogs in African travel Lord
Delamere having sent for several bull
terriers, hich were duly shipped to Ber-
bera and forwarded on.
| How is it that little Brecon so easily
beats the rest of Wales in getting up
| really interesting eisteddfod? Glamor-
ganshire and North Wales have tried
| hard to popularize choral competitions
| for ladies, but only once did they sue
| ceed in bringing together what may be
| called fair muster of competing choirs.
Glamorgan has also attempted to run an
| eisteddfod for two days, but the second
| day has always discounted the success of
| the first. Brecon, however knows how
| to do those things. No fewer than six
| ladies' choirs will compete at the forth
coming eisteddfod. Moreover, the guar
antors can enjoy their cigars in the alb
solute certainty that their undertaking
| is going to be great success The pres
| entation of the freedom of the borough
| to Madame Patti will in itself serve to
| pack the Market hall on the first day,
while all the more exciting choral COM
petitions will be reserved for the Tuesday
| when, Of course another enormous atten-
dance is assured.
In an appreciative article on Mr. Ed
mund Pritchard Martin, the president of
| the Institute of Engineers, a writer in
| the Shipping World" refers to another
| distinguished son of Dowlais. Thus: 81
| heard the voice of my friend, Edward
Williams, of Middlesborough for the last
nj la mn nah
| generations of poets is all that my fam
| lily can stand he said; "a third must in
| evitably land them in the poor house.
| This lion-hearted, tender-hearted IRON
| master was the son of Jasehm, and the
| son Of Iolo Morganwg.' Two generations
| of poets. To avoid the portal provided
| by the state he broke the entail, and
became an engineer Edward Williams
| graduated at Dowlais, a storm-beaten
| town of the topmost inhabitable peak
| where weaklings perish and giants are
nurtured. In the Cleveland hills, on the
Alleghenies, on Lake Superior, every
where where iron and coal are rich and
smoke-stacks rise, you may find the man
at the top nearing 'Dowlais Works cred
| entails. This little series of matchless
| singers and poets of melody is not over
shadowed by Elswick or Essen. 1t is
| much older than they as the birthplace
| of ironmasters; 1t marches abreast of this
victorian age OF kllllnS pace, IL furnishes
more than its quota of men of the first
rank to be presidents of the Iron and
| Steel Irstitute-among them Edward
| Williams, Meneanus, and, In this jubilee
year of the Qneen, Martin Of Dowlais. -"
A remarkable climbing feat was per-
! formed recently in North Wales, in the
| first successful accent of the famous
"slanting" Gully of Llewidd, on the east
ern side of Snowden. This was the gully
In which young Mr.. Mitchell, of oxford,
| lost his life few years ago. The pres
| ent climbers are two brothers, named
Abraham, natives of Keswick, in the
Lake district, where they have acquired
their experience. The interest of the
| climb began at the famous "cave-pitch," ="
where Mr.. Mitchell fell. and where all
previous climbers have been turned back
The pitch" is eighty feet or ninety feet
high, and consists of a cave surmounted
by chimney, gradually narrowing and
overhanging at the top, where II is
blocked by some rocks which have fallen
from above. 1t took the two climbers
whole hour to surmount this. on the
overhanging rock they found scratches
and a climbing iron inside tho chimney.
1t was probably from this pc, N that
poor Michael fell. The rest OF 'he tssmb
was comparatively safe-".h-2s ICY IN
teresting and by no means sasy pitches"