Welsh Journals

The salutary effects of pit-head bathing have appealed strongly to some members of the party, one of whom states that in the Collard Pit. Liege "seventy five per cent of the miners suffered from Ankylos- tomiasis (a kind of tape-worm disease which effects miners) before the introduction of the baths in 1904, but now it is down to two and a half per cent," while the hitherto large percentage of sufferers in the Shamrock Pit Herne, has been reduced to three per cent." The extracts we have culled for this and for our first article are indicative of the trend of the reports, all of which attest the efficacy of the schemes oper- To a play dealing with the Jacquerie (see Froissart.) When Justice stays so long away from men, Letting her enemy bind as he may please, Who shall blame Vengeance, if she leaps at last To rage against what Justice should undo Sternly, with magic hands-the forgery Of wrong riveted now on men? — And this Vengeance seizes and shakes, and thinks to snap With tugging anger, or melt its steel with torches. As good as when a burst of flaring flame Quarrels with darkness; and when the fury is out, The dark hour presses down blacker than ever. Now Justice has come back to earth; and finds Her work in the crazy hands of shouting Vengeance. Ay, and Vengeance clutches hold of Justice, Hales her along, astounded with the fires And the hallooing riot trooping with her; And drags her feet and the skirts of her garments through Clinging mire of blood, and her unnerv'd wings To know the sooty touch of smoke that reeks From monstrous wanton burnings. I am the man to rescue helpless justice From the arrest of frenzy, and so exalt her That what she means will rule these outrages, Her light is captive now to clouds of hate; The unjust wind, that has made the whole world fast Frozen to stone, will not turn kind for them. But she must be the sun that walks among them, Filling them with her glory, forcing them Draw back, while she looks golden down on earth And changes all the iron season there. To-night the thing I have from God begins. ative in the collieries visited. There is complete unanimity in expressing the desirability of the adop- tion of similar arrangements in the Welsh coalfield. No attempt was made to bias the minds of the repre- sentatives. From the reports we gather that the tour of inspection succeeded in dissipating many fantastic notions with which these colliers were obsessed. We fear that there are many of their fellow workers in South Wales who are similarly afflicted, and it is to be hoped that the publication of the above testimonies will help to clear up some of the misunderstandings which at present exist. PROLOGUE Jacques Goodman. Yet it may be Løsctlla Abercrombic