Merthyr Times and Dowlais Times and Aberdare Echo

->On -81" Temperance Hall, Merthyr. TWO NIGHTS ONLY, WEDNESDA V AND THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH AND lam. ) FAREWELL VISIT OF j MISS MAGGIE NORTON S renowned Company in the latest success OUR NATIVE HOME, The Great I)re(lf,-er Sensation equals the Steim Roller, which created such excitement with the same company in "IS LIFE WORTH LIVING. FULL COMPANY NEW SCENERY Doors open 7.30, commence 8 o'clock. [3018 PRICKS: 2^ h. and 6d. NOTE THE DATE! fpHEATRE JJOYAL, QARDIFF. LESSEE K MAXAUKK, MR. EDWARD FLETCHER. LAST FEW NIGHTS OF Mrs. ENXIS LA\VSON'S Company, by arrangement, for the production of Miss GHACK HAWTHORNE S "SIBERIA." The original Company, from the Princes*' Thcatie, London. The favourite Hebrew Comedian, Mr. John Lawson, will appear as Trol-ky, the timid waiter. Prices 6d. to JB2 2: Doors open at 7 commence at 7.30. Half-price at 9 o'clock. GIGANTIC ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Harrington Reynolds (Miss Nellie Fletcher), in the Sensational Drama. The Hand of Justice." GRAXD rjlHEATRE, CARDIFF. Lessee and MANAGER M il. CLAKEXCE SOI XES. Last Two Nights of the enormously-successful Musical Comedy, "Done AS,•• THE VILLAGE BELLE. GOOD FRIDAY EVENING, at 8, GRAND SACRED CONCERT, by Members of the above Company. EASTER MONDAY, at 2.30 and 7.30 llardie and Yon Leer's Great American Company in O N THE FRONTIER." Seats booked at Messrs. Heath's Music Warehou.-e, Queens-street. Doois open at 7 o'clock, commence at 7.30. J'rices, 6d. to J31 Is. Trains leaving Cardiff for Tatf and Rhymney lines yueen-street (Taff) 10.55 p.m. Rhymney Station 9.45 p.m. BRISTOL CHANNEL PASSENIJEK SEE VICE (LIMITED). IJAILY SERVICE BETWEENCARD1) i' AND ^V'ESTON 1 iv the Saloon Steamers BONNIE DOOX," "SCOTIA," or "LADY MARGARET" (Weather and Circumstances permitting). EASTER HOLIDAYS. EXCURSIONS TO ILFRACOMBE, Calling at LYNMOUTH to and fro, by the favourite Saloon Steamer, "LORNA DOONE. Leave Leave Ilfra- Datc. Cardiff. ennbe. Thursday, April 11.. 9.45 a.m. 3.15 p.m. >ood Fridav, 12. 9.50 3.30 •Saturday, 13. 10.0 3.40 Laster Mondav, 15. 10.30 5.0 Kaster Tuesday, „ 16 11.0 5.30 „ Eor full particulars see Bills, or apply to EDWARDS, ROBERTSON and CO., Managers, 105, Bute Docks, Cardiff. LONDON MISSION A I; V SOCIETV. SALE OF WORK. (Luder the auspices of the Y.P.S.C.E.. Maiket- squai'e), at the MARKET SQUARE SCHOOLROOM. ON THURSDAY, APRIL 18tii, 1895, commence at 2 o'clock. Tickets, 6d. each, to be opened by MISS JAMES, GWAELODYGARTH. ^"treshments provided, and the following attractions: Musical Programme, Waxwork Exhibition, Mission- ary Curios, Magic Lantern V iews, illustrating Missionary Labour, &c., &e. [3026 Market Square Chambers, Merthyr Tydfil. G. ALEC LEWIS, (un: UEXKY LEWIS), AUCTIONEER, VALUER ACCOUN- TANT, SL RA EYOR, LAND AND ESTATE AGENT. SALES OF FREEHOLD, LEASEHOLD, AND COPYHOLD PROPERTY, TIMBER, MACHINERY, FURNITURE, STOCKS, &C. V.VLVATIOXS FOH I'LTOKATK, TRAN-SKKI!, MORT<iA».H, SlTCCKiiSlOX Dl TV, &c. Estates managed. Rents collected. Mortgages arranged. [2905 Merthyr Tydfll Urban District Council. SURVEYORS CLERK. \\r ANTED, a good CLEft", uic accustomed to W Time Sheets and Wages Account- and reliable at figures and general office work. SALARY 30s. N:I; WEFK. \nplications, accompanied by not more than three testimonials, to be submitted to me befure noon on the 17tit iiist. GWILYM 0. JAMES, Urban District ('ouncil Offices, Clerk. 10th April, 1895. Merthyr Tydfil Urban District Council. SCAVENGING. mm; c ouncil hereby invite 'IENDEUS for the 1 Supplv of Horses and Driver.- for the SCAVENGING of the various Districts, viz. 1. Merthyr Town District. 2. Brecon-road and Georgetown. 3. l'enydarren. 4. Dowlais. 5. Abercanaid, Pentrebach, and Dutfryn. 6. Troedyrhiw. 7. Merthyr Yale and Aberfan. rC. Treharris and Hanfabon. 'The Contract is to be for a term of one year, eom- ^neneii\g from the 1st day of May, 1895. A specification of the work to be performed may be f'Ben at the office of the Surveyor to the Council, and forms of Tender obtained, The contractor will be required to pay JEl Is., being costs of stam). and pre- paration of contract. TENDERS may be sent in for either of the districts enumerated, or for more than one district, and are to be left {under seal) at the Office of the Clerk, 71, High-street, Merthyr, on or before 12 o clock noon, the 17th DAY or AIM;IL, 1895. The lowest or any Tender will net necessarily be accepted. GWILYM C..1 AMES, Clerk. Merthyr Tydfil, April 10th, 1895. RECOGNITION SERVICES TNVYNYRODYN UNITARIAN CHAPEL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21ST. REV. PRINCIPAL GORDON, M.A., 01 Manchester, will prca<h morning and evening. ON MONDAY, APRIL 22xn, THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THI; SOUTH-EAST WALES UNITARIAN SOCIETV WILL HE HELD IX THE AliOVK CHAPEL. PUBLIC SERVICE AT 2.30. Sermon by Rev. HITWKI; 11 n;i-:roi;i>, D.D., London. PUBLIC MEETING AT 7.30, At which the Res. BBOOWS HEMP D.D., London"; Principal Gounox, M. V., Manchestd jEtFERY WOKTHIXI/VOX, B A.. IrtUllto'l, LUld 1.,).1 Ministers will i<i>t»nk. '<JH.\IEMAX—GEOI;<;K CAUSLAKK. 'lHoursoN, Eq., Barristcr-at Law, Cardiff. j. ■ I. J1 .-LULUiL. 4. auctions. I llOPKJNSTOWN, PONTYPRIDD. SALE OF VALUABLE LEASEHOLD DWELL- ING HOUSES. MESSRS. GEORGE ABRAHAM AND co. have received instructions from Mr. A. Pollard to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, at the COLLIERS' ARMS HOTEL, PONTYPRIDD, on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24TH, 1895, at 7 for 7.30 o'clock p.m. (subject to such conditions as shall then be read, and in such lots ae may be then be deter- mined), the following HOUSE PROPERTY Recently built in blocks of two semi-detached. 1.—All that Least-hold Dwelling-house, situate in Pantygraigwen-road, Hopkinstown, let at 25s. per lunar month. 2.—All that Leasehold Dwelling-house adjoining, let at 25s. per lunar month. The above premises are held for a term of 99 years from 1st May, 1894, subject to an annual ground rent of £3 18s. 8d., which will be apportioned at the time of sale. 3. — All that Leasehold Dwelling-house, situate in Pantygraigwen-road, Hopkinstown, let at 25s. per lunar month. 4. —All that Leasehold Dwelling-house adjoining, let at 25s. per Innar month. The above premises are held for a term of 99 years from 1st May, 1894, subject to an annual ground rent of jS2 17s. 8d., which will also be apportioned. The property is opposite to Mr. Pyrn's grocer's shop and next to Mr. John Bevan's house, is exceedingly- well situated, being conveniently near the Great Western Colliery, is connected with the main sewers, and is thoroughly well built, with a frontage of 20 feet to each house. For further particulars apply to JONES & BEDDOE, Solicitors, Pontypridd and Merthyr Tydfil, or to the Auctioneer, at their Offices, 3 and 4, Market-square, Pontypridd. public announcements. EASTER HOLIDAYS. BENTLEY'S CENTRAL RESTAURANT AND HOTEL. SOUP ALWAYS READY. HOT JOINTS DAILY, FISH, CHOPS AND STEAKS, CUTLETS, POULTRY, &C. LUNCHEONS, DINNERS, TEAS, &r.. KKUVED IX "UIYATE KOOMX IK DESIRED. Thomas Bentley, PROI'KIETOK. [3015

NOTES AND COMMENTS. ALL good citizens, all lovers of the quiet Welsh Sunday, will regret that the Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of our learned Stipendiary, Mr. North, in the Merthy Sunday trading case. Mr. North's decision, if poor law, was very good sense, and harmonised with the sentiments of the general public. We had thought it was sound law as well, but there is no murmuring against the Court of Appeal. The Sunday trading will now go on from one end of the High-street to the other unchecked, as far as the police are concerned. This is to be deplored for several reasons. In the tirst place, there is 110 need for it. There may be need for it in such places as Cardiff awl Barry, which have a large number of sailors with no homes hut their forecastles. In Merthyr we have none of that class of visitors. Here the sliops are patronised solely by crowds of town lads. In the second place, nothing can be worse for the consti- tution of these lads than to stutf themselves with ice cream and cheap pastry. The medical pro- fession ought to speak out against such silly and mischievous practices. In the third place, we arc very much afraid that the money spent by these fatuous lads is not always obtained in an houest way. Cases of petty thefts are frequent. Some of "them have been brought to our knowledge. There is an ice-cream mania abroad, and many lads arc prepared to gratify the whim by fair means or foul. Of course, we attach no blame to the shopkeepers, as they cannot be expected to inquire how their hordes' of youthful customers have obtained the money they" tender. But is it not a pity that this desecration of the Sunday should go on ? The initiative has been taken by foreigners, who have no svnipathy with our ideas about the Day of Rest. The attempt on the part of a few Continental Jews to undermine our Sunday, and to introduce European customs to our country, should certainly not be permitted to go on without protest from those who care for the religious and moral welfare of the young. These foreigners should have the courtesy not to outrage the feelings of those in whose land they sojourn. In Wales they should do as the Welsh do.

WE be«' to invite our readers' attention to all inter- view with Mr. Charles Wilkins, published in another column. The learned Merthyr Postmaster was asked his opinion concerning the advisability of JIlOlkillg an endeavour to secure for the town the National Eistethlfml for 1807. He makes ont a verv strong case, and proves conclusively that the matter is one that should at any rate be carefully considered. It is full time Merthyr should have the When 1807 comes round 1(5 years will have passed since we had it here before. Durin" that period all the more important towns iu South Wales have had their turn, and Merthyr s claims cannot justly be resisted. \N e hope the subject will receive the attention which it cteserves, and shall be glad to open our columns to the dis- cussion thereof.

THE central classes for pupil teachers at Merthyr were started as an experiment, but the results obtained at the last examination are so gratifying that the success of the undertaking may be looked upon as assured. In July, IH\J4, after four months working, the number of those who passed in Class J. was nine per cent., the number for the whole of England and Wales being 18 per cent. In Decem- ber^ 18!t4, the work of a year, or rather 10 months, was put to the test, when 44 per cent, stood in Class 1. Of the eighteen candidates who sat, eight c/ot first class, four second, and three third, the remaining trio having been ploughed." Nor are these the best results that are possible. Two or three years hence, when the classes have got into perfect working order, and when, let us hope, proper and sufficient accommodation will have been provided, far better results may be expected. Mr. Kcmp, the energetic teacher, is at present sadly handicapped for want of etlicient equipments. He has, for instance, to teach chemistry from a raised platform in a room that is otherwise level, thus rendering it impossible for the students to see the experiments performed to elucidate the lessons. That such grand results have been obtained in spite of this and other drawbacks, speaks volumes of the energy Mr. KemV an<l his assistants have thrown into their work.

,Mi:. I). AS ti'iC(I to stone on the allocation of tithes question. But the Grand Old Man has refused to lie drawn. He says he is practically out of politics now, and he leaves questions of details to those responsible for the bills involved. But lie is not going to escape as r easily as that. It happens that he has committed himself beyond hope of retreat to the national prin- ciple of allocation. This was the basis and keynote of his own Irish Bill, ami lie canHot refuse to applv the same, methods to Wales. I lie Senior Member has only to hunt up Mr. Gladstones Irish speeches to get any amount of arguments 111 sup- port of the position he now takes up, and with Mr. Gladstone at his bact. he ought to be able to make a very good tight for the populous industrial centres of South Wales. As we said some time ago, the Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire mem- bers must side with him, sooner or later, and the iigurc cut by the other Welsh members will indeed .¡. ø_- be. a sorry 011c. will not ha ve a leg to stand upon. Their action in subordinating the general good of the country to their own personal, local, political exigencies, is not a thing calculated to reflect much credit 011 their native land. '11

IT the Merthyr ratepayers are wise they will demand the entire abolition of the Water Rents. That is tlie best solution of the present difficulty. It is the only solution that harmonises with the laws of political economy. Let the cost of the water supply come altogether from the District Bate. Let every house he provided with pure water at the general expense of the whole com- munity. Such a course would greatly simplify municipal finance, and reduce the cost of adminis- tration. It is only the companies that would grumble. But why should they grumble ? They pay the education rate, the roads rate, the sewage rate, the street-lighting rate. These things benefit the community, and are consequently an advantage to the companies. But so does water benefit the community, and the companies should contribute to its cost not as consumers, but as owners of property. Indeed, water benefits them far more than elementary schools or street lamps. The community would be an impossibility without water, and all their workmen would die of filth. Water is a necessity, and the burden of its supply should be borne hy the strongest shoulders. To shift. £ 2,000 a year from those strongest shoulders, and place it on the weakest shoulders, is dastardly, cowardly, selfishness. The ratepayers cannot do better than stick to logic and go the whole hog." They h ve equity on their side. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. It is admitted that some readjustment is desirable, and the best thing is to readjust- the Water Rents out of existence, and charge the whole expenditure to the District Rate, The companies could well afford to pay the increased rate, for they are not assessed for any rate as high as they ought to be. Clearly the wisest course is to be found not in any new scales of charges or :20th Clauses, but in absolute abolition.

MERTHYR AND THE LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. A TALK WITH THE ORGANISING SECRETARY. This year there will be a new feature in the Merthyr May Day Procession. One of the boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution will be exhibited, and the general public will no doubt give it a hearty welcome. Of the good work done by this noble institution it would be superfluous to speak. Everybody knows how the lifeboats are the means of saving hundreds of lives every year, and the perils of our shores have been greatly reduced by their efforts. Hitherto Merthyr has taken no active part in supporting the good work, but at last a start is being made. Mr. Hinde, the organising secretary of the Lifeboat Institution, came into the town on Tuesday night, and called on several leading people. A Times man had a chat with Jlim on Wednesday morning, and reports as follows :— "I suppose, Mr. Hinde, that the Institution derives much support from inland as well as sea- port towns" Strange to say, some of our best supporters are inland towns. The work done by the Lifeboat Insti- tution affects the whole nation, and we s?et the acti ve sympathy of people from all parts of the couutry ?" What means do you propose adopting in Merthyr "First of all, we shall ask the High Constable, Mr. Jenkins, to call a public meeting, where the objects and operations of the Institution can be explained. At that meeting an executive committee will be appointed, and also a ladies' committee. These committees will t^en carry on the work in the way they think most advantageous. But 1 should suggest that a Lifeboat Saturday be established, which might very well be held in connection with the annual May Day Show. I feel confident that that course wo ild answer the purpose admirably." "l suppose your Lifeboat Saturday is a great success, Mr. Hinde?" Wonderful. In 1894 it added over £ 21,000 to our receipts, and enabled us to develop the work in many directions. The history of this Saturday movement is very interesting. Three years ago we found ourselves face to face with an annual deficit of something like £ 30,000. It then occurred to a Manchester merchant, Mr. Macara, that the best way to meet the difficulty would be by initiating a Lifeboat Saturday. A start was made in Manchester, where the magnificent sum tributions from that city have averaged over £ 4,000. of B5,000 was collected. Since then the annual con- Other towns took the matter up, especially in Lan- cashire and Yorkshire, and by this the movement has spread over the whole of the Kingdom. The lite of those who go down into the sea in ships is full of perils and dangers, and any movement tending to enhance their safety cannot fail to commend itself to the sympathy of thepublic. Perhaps this is most noticeable in inrllhtrial centres, for working men on land naturally feel a keen interest in the welfare of their fellows who are tossed on the restless and treacherous ocean. Thousands <~i people will throw their pennies and their sixpences" into the collecting boxes on a Lifeboat Saturday, who would never dream of forwarding subscriptions to the head- quarters of the institution m London. "The Lifeboat Saturday, then, is an appeal to the masses: "Yes, and the masses have given us noble and loyal support. There can be no two opinions about the worthiness of the cause. It is admitted by all that the Lifeboat Institution is doing work of the Very- highest kind that human effort can ever undertake. No duty can be more sacred than the saving of our fellowmen's lives. And so when we appeal for help there is really no need to plead for the object we have in view. It would 1>3 superfluous to do so. And I think I can go further, and say that our institution does the work in the besfand most effective manner. The results abundantly prove that our methods are efficient, at least as far as our funds allow. We can- not do anything without money, but we do the best that can be done with the money given us by the generous and the philanthropic thousands who sym- pathise with the poor sailors. Lord Tweedmouth said, at our annual meeting a fortnight ago, that the "Life- boat Institution was practically above criticism." Such a testimonial from so eminent an authority as the late Liberal Whip is exceedingly gratifying, and his tordshipwas, 1 believe, only echoing the opinion of the public in all parts of the country." As will be seen from our advertising columns, a meeting has been convened by the High-Constable fer Wednesday evening at the Ante-room of the Temper- ance Hall. Mr. Hinde will be present to address the meeting, and to give every information and assistance that may be desirable. We trust there will be a large attendance, and that this good work will be taken up with enthusiasm.

SHOCKING FATALITY AT ABERDARE. A shocking accident has befallen a young man named Havelock Williams, aged 22, residing with his sister, Mrs. Green, in Bond-street, Aber- dare. It appears that the poor fellow had occasion to descend the No. 9 Pit owned by the Powell Dyffryn Company at Aberaman. He went down the shaft in company with a hostler named Thomas Davies. They were going down without any light, when about six yards from the bottom Williams, under the evident impression that they were landed, stepped out of the cage and was precipitated to the bottom. The carriage was too close to hope of bsing stopped although every endeavour was exercised to do so, and the poor fellow got badly bruised. He was conveyed to his home suffering most terribly from external and internal injuries. For several days he laid in this critical state, and on Thursday morning he died. On Friday evening, Mr. Rhys, the district coroner, opened the inquest at the Courtroom. Mr. T. Lloyd was appointed foreman of the jury.—Thomas Green, of 18, Bond-street, deposed that he knew deceased for 15 years. He died at 1.50 on Thursday morning. -Thomas Davies, a collier, working at the No. 9 Pit, stated he was in company with Havelock Williams descending the pit last Sunday fortnight. The two men had lamps hut no light in them. They were talking together on the way down, and Williams said I think we are on the bottom, but there is no light here," and then stepped out. He went on to the stables under the impression that deceased might have gone on. Not finding him there He went back and ascended the pitl" against YV il- liams.—John Thomas, engine-driver at the colliery, saw the men leave the top, and as the carriage did not "o properly to the bottom he sent his mate down to see what was the matter. The cage wa-^ descending very ea:-ily. Benjamin Williams, the engine-driver who went to the bottom of the pit, found deceased lying upon the planks of the sump." He carried him from this position, and went up again for help. After giving him some warm tea he spoke, and was after- wards carried home.—Mr. Davies, the manager, said the men were going down to pump water. In a con- versation with Williams, after the accident had occurred, he told him that he stepped out of the carriage too soon. Ihey thought of o\ei taking the colliery fireman to have light from him. —l)r. Jones stated'that he had attended deceased from Sunday morning to the time of his death. lie suffered from rup on of the urett) Jt injuries to the abdomen, and fractured ribs and had suffered from severe injuries to the internal organs. — A verdict of Accidental Death was returned.

GLAMORGAN QUARTER SESSIONS. The Glamorgan Quarter Sessions opened at Swan- sea 011 Tuesday, His Honour Judge Gwilym illiams presiding". The following weic tlip local <;ase.> Daniel Lynch, Merthyr, chained witl^ criminally assaulting an old woman named "Mc( uiwan, was liberated.—John Lewis, Penrhiwceiber, indicted on a charge of assaulting and wounding Thomas Williams on the 27th of March, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and advised not to get drunk again. John McCarthy, Dowlais, 011 bad, was charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Catherine Keefe, and sentenced to two months noprt-ontnent. —"For stealing a coat belonging to John Tieharne, Merthyr, Joseph Jones (27), a collier, was sent to prison" for six months. JVliehael looney (38), a labourer, was charged with unlawfully wounding Daniel O'Connell in March, lie was found guilty, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, Thomas Kennedy, on bail, pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding Ellen Kennedy at Merthyr, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Nicholas Cahill (22), labourer, was charged with stealing it piecc of beef from James Thomas at Merthyr, and sentenced to si\ months' imprisonment. David Williams, who was charged with stealing ;£;1 from Thomas Davies at Merthyr, was found not guilty, and dismissed.

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I SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL. BY JOE IIAMMEHSMITH. Kiel iards, Penyweru," is no longer with us. He has bidden good-bye to his native land, and is now steaming aeioss the broad and blue Atlantic. May he be happy and useful in his new home May he have plenty to do, <nd plenty of strength, mental and physical, to tio it I am sorry he is going. In these days we can ill spare men of sturdy souls and unwavering courage* Perhaps we shall" want them more in the future than in the past. Mr. Richards is going to a great and an interesting country, tlie country of Washington and Lincoln, of John Biown .and Grant, of Brigham Young and Barnum, of Artenuis Ward and Mark Twain, of Fennimore Cooper, and Bret Harte, of Whittier and Longfellow, above all of Washington Irving, Haw- thorne, Poe, Emerson, Sidney Lanier, and Holmes. It is a great country. More, it is a growing country. Its sons and daughters are tilled with the ennobling inspiration of hope, s imulating thein to noble endeavour. Mr. Richards is scarcely young enough to become a thorough-going Yankee; but in the land whither he is going, integrity and strength of character will carry a man pretty far. At his farewell meeting on Thursday evening, Mr David Morgan, miner*' agent, who is Mr. Richard's cousin, made some excellent remarks about ministers. We should give our ministers, Mr. Morgan said, every fair play. It is wrong to worship them. They are not superior to ordinary human beings, and cannot claim, in any degree, that which was due to tke Divine. But to the fullest measure of fair play they were clearly entitled, Their positim was not an easy one. It was a difficult and an awful thing to preach the Gospel Sunday after Sunday for many years to people who refused to give ear to the Divine Message. The heart of the strongest could not but sink within him at such a sight as this. The Rev. John Thomas, Zoar, dwelt on one of the characteristics of the Nonconformist ministry in Wales. It was said of Mr. Richards that, apart from his pulpit labours, he had worked diligently in four directions education, Sunday School, polities, and Temperance. The same thing might be -aid of the bulk of the Nonconformist- ministers of ourcountry. They have been pioneers in the cause of Temperance and educa- tion, and have done their pait in the enlightenment of the people in the principles of government. May the day never come when they will cease to concern themselves with these matters Politics? Oh yes, provided they do it in the way they have done it in the past. No bogus petitions, please: no wheedling, cajoling, or coercing the ignorant and the foolish to betray their principles. But open and public expounding of the great, fundamental truths of liberty, equality, and progress, before the face of all men, yn ngwyneb haul, llygad goleuni." That is what the ministers have done, and that is what they should continue to do to the ages of the ages. The Established clerics have never identified them- selves with the cause of Temperance. In the old days the parson, when the service was over in the church, repaired to the tavern which always stood at the churchyard gate. There he spent the rest of the day swilling beer and carousing with his pals. It is not such a very long time back since this was the general rule, and perhaps it is as yet too soon to expect the successors of those alcohol parsons to take up an enlightened or advanced position in the matter of public sobriety. A generation or two hence, especially if we get Disestablishment, they may attain to the idea that a religious minister ought to give forth no uncertain sound on the question of Temperance. A man told me the other day that he found himself, last summer, at table in a dean's house with a company of some two dozen clerics, comprising a dean, a couple of archdeacons, rural deans, rectors, and curates. My friend was the only layman present, and the only abstainer. Total abstinence is not essential to the salvation of a man's soul, but without it no man can stand up in the pulpit and boldly exhort his hearers to avoid the snares of drink. Not one of those clergy- men in the dean's house could have performed that very important part of their duty. The Temperance folks nowadays appear to be play- ing a waiting game. They are resting on their oars, expecting Local Option to become law. My friends, you'll have to wait a precious long time. You are not going to get. Local Option this year, nor next year, nor the year after next. I question very much whether yuirllevergetit. True, the Bill was introduced last Mon- day. But that means nothing. As at present constituted the Liberal Party is uot strong enough to carry the measure. Public opinion is rather setting in against the central idea of the Bill, and the compensation difficulty will wreck the ship whenever it puts out to sea. Like your_vigorous correspondent, "Maenbir," I am all abstainer but, aho like him, 1 am pro- foundly dissatisfied with the present do-nothing atti- tude of the Temperance Party. In Merthyr, for instance, cannot something be done to disestablish the alcoholic long room The way to disestablish it would be by opening "long roMiis" on Temperance principles. It is a grand institution, this iong room." Our young men repair thither to spend their evenings, and to exercise their musical talents. They are attracted there by music, not by alcohol. If you watch them coming out at eleven o'clock, after patriotically singing Hen Wlad fy Nhadau as a wind-up, you will find them, as a rule, as sober as judges, though they have been there for hours. Do I blame them for going there? Certainly not. We have no right to blame them unless and until we provide other places for them to spend their leisure hours. If 1 were a rich man, Mr. Editor, and if I made hundreds of thousands a year from coal, iron, or steel,! would la ,t Temperance "lotigrooiiis" all over the parish. I would make those rooms cosy, comfortable and attractive as I possibly could. I would have no committee of ministers or deacons, wealthy trades- men, or gentlemen with luxurious homes of their own, to govern them. The control would be handed over to the young men themselves, stipulating only that no pettifogging rules or vexations regulations of any kind should be enforced. The frequenters would be as free and untrammelled as the birds of the air. I would trust to their honour and self-respect that the institutions would be in no way abused. They would be at perfect liberty to do what they liked; they could read, play, sing, dance, jump, run, draw, carve in fact they could do anything and everything they liked. They would not be hampered or hedged in roundabout with autocratic rules. Every institu- tion would be conducted 011 republican lines. Horace tells of a peasant taking a. journey for the first time from home. In the course of his travels he came to a river which he failed to cross. Noticing, however, that the water flowed all the time in the same direction, the peasant thought the best thing he A] could do was to wait on the bank until the water had run dry. That was about two thousand years ago, and the water is still n'nningtn that river. The Temperance Party may be likened unto that silly peasant. They are waiting for the ever-promised, never-coming Local "Veto Bill. I think I would chuck the waiting business. As I have said, I would pa<s a Local Yetp Bill of my own. and I would beat the aleoholists with their own weapons. If I were rich, of course. Hutlamnotatallsure in my mind that I want to be rich. VV hat I fear is that I might perhaps become as mean and stingy and good-for-nothing as the other rich people we have here around us. We have many of them, and they take jolly good care to keep all their money to and for themselves. It is quite possible I would be just as bad as they are. If I gathered in millions on millions from coal and steel, and grew wealthy even beyond the dreams of avarice from the bones and the tissue and the marrow of the poor toilers, from their very life and their very soul, perhaps—who knowsP-1 would turn my back on Merthyr, never set foot in the place, enjoy myself to mv own selfish heart's content far away elsewhere, and take away with me every blessed penny I could grab into my maw. Perhaps I would try to sneak out of my just liability as ratepayer, and slip some £2,000 a year from off my shoulder and put it on the shoulders of those who, hy incessant toil in the bowels of the earth, gather in the shekels into my coffers. The possibilities of wealth are appalling. Heaven only knows what enormities 1 might not perpetrate. It is a terrible thing to grow rich in the Merthyr Valley. It materialises a man's soul and destroys his usefulness. Lord Swansea's will was proved the other day for £ 215,160. The Cinaro finds fault with the deceased nobleman because he did not leave anything for charitable or philanthropic purposes. The Cmuro ought to give the Merthyr Valley a look in. Lord Swansea's £ 215,160 is but a mere fleabite compared with the fortunes made here. This £ 215,160, as the C,ti,ii-o very truly remarks, smells of the sweat of the toilers, and some of it ought to have been left for public institutions. The day will come when the accumula- tion of huge fortunes out of the labour of others will be considered a disgrace and a crime, and when men will regard wealth, not as absolutely their own property to be spent on their own luxuries, but as a trust to be used for the good of the community. Yes, that day is coming, but it will not arrive yet. awhile.

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-==-" BY THE WAY. The l'/lst spells the Home Secretary's name in a new- style—" Asq7uith." That cannot lie phonetic spell- ing. It is a figurative way of putting it. Mr. Asquith is strong in figures. The story is going round that a collier in the Tre- harris Pit, the deepest in South Wales, is telling his friends that on a recent Sunday morning he distinctly heard a peal of bells ringing away right merrily in Australia. Nobody believes him. The British Weekly is in raptures Ijecause Mr. Chamberlain voted for the second reading of the Disestablishment Bill When Joey does something which is consistent with the principles of which he was once so eloquent an advocate all the world is sur- prised. How funny it must feel to be a Liberal Unionist We are pleased to hear that the favourable opinion expressed of Kilsanos" in the Time* has been vigorously endorsed by the public, and though large numbers have been published, it promises soon to be out of print. In general instances the approval of the reader has been shown practically by the purchase of quantities for free distribution. An ancestor of General Garfield on the father's side, it is stated, emigrated to America from a place near Troedyrhiw, Merthyr, and some believers in the story support it by the Garfield Arms, opened some years ago at Troedyrhiw. As the ancient Garfield emigrated in 1636—before coal and iron—he must have been a farmer. There is philosophy sometimes in the antics of the printcl"" .Mephistopheles. Thus the [)frily Neo,-t, to\ ing commissioner in Wales "In Bala there are eight chapels, and from 600 to 700 actual communicants, to say nothing of apparents and congregations." The commissioner probably meant to say But let apparents stand. We have many of that tribe. Some man has been going round Cardiff (says that wicked HViffo-n Mail) for some days saying he is the brother of Mr. Allen Upward. It is not stated whether he makes the statement in a boastful spirit, but Mr. Allen Upward retorts by announcing that lie has no brother alive. He is absolutely alone, and his hopes are bound up in Merthyr and Mr. Pritchard Morgan's shoes. Just fancy the chairman of the Crickhowell Guardians does not know what saltpetre is used for. The matron of the workhouse had to explain it was required for pickling meat and other purposes Is a man who knows nothing abont saltpetre a fit and proper person to transact poor law business Here's a good argument for electing lady guardians. They at least know what saltpetre is good for. The Satin-day Rcrktc sneered at Tom Ellis when he was appointed Chief Whip. Last week it spoke of him as follows Tom Ellis is a good fellow, and an excellent Whip. "here was some prejudice against him at first, because he was only a farmer's son but even Radical members had to admit that theie is nothing vulgar or provincial about Mr. Ellis, and now they are beginning to ascribe his unfailing urbanity to his Oxford education." Friendly advice is sometimes worth taking after all. Mr. Matt Keating, our popular local comedian, did not like to give his sketch, The Irish Wedding and some of the Characters thereat," at the Dowlais minstrel entertainment last Thursday, but at ih« urgent request of a friend lie gave it. And it was the biggest success of the evening. The quaint old song, "Ye'll always have tobaccy in yer ole tobaccy box" kept the audience roaring, and Mr. Keating secured that rare mark of popular favour, a double encore. The Tyst says that Mr. D. A. Thomas is one of the ablest of the Welsh members, a generous and an honourable man. But he is hopelessly wiong, our contemporary opines, in the stand he takes on the allocation of tithes question. Did the 1'( ever raise a protesting \oice against the doctrine taught by all Liberationists from the beginning that the tithe was national property, and ought to be used for national purposes V Will the editor say that the tithe belongs only to the agricultural part of the community ? 11 A man who had spoken in the great railway debate at the last meeting of the Dowlais Chamber of Trade was seen on Tuesday morning tarrying a newspaper parcel that must have weighed something more than half a hundred-weight. "Ah," said a wag who was on his way to the Dowlais Office, "no wonder you want the North Western trains to run into the Tip Station." And everybody admitted that the evidence in favour of the new movement was overwhelming. A man from Pontsticill came into the office the other day and said that the opposition at Cefn to the water supply, when first laid down, was so strong that the people refused for a long time to take the water from the pipes, and continued to carry it from the wells. We looked that man from Pontsticill j straight in the face, and told him, more ill sorrow 1 than in anger, that we could not believe his story. We could believe almost anything of the conservatism (small c," Mr. Printer) of the Cefn people, but felt the line must be drawn somewhere. It is only 15 years since the Pull Mall t'<i-.eUr said that a "mild Bedlamite tintgeneratedby the eistedd- fod, suffused everything in the Principality," and only reluctantly admitted that it was certainly better for a Welsh miner to spend his spare time in writing thousands of verses than in drinking gin and beating his wife." Fuller knowledge gleaned by the wandering Bohemian has led to more just criticism, and the era of smart and superficial writing 011 Welsh matters seems to be. passing away. The irrepressible Dan Kennedy startled the audience at the Dowlais Minstrel entertainment on Thursday night by demanding of the interlocutor, "Say, Mr. Johnson, yo' hab jest told us dat Corbett am de greatest fightin' man ob de day. But Thomas Williams, Gwaelodygarth, hab done a bigger ting dan Corbett nebber did in his life. Kin ye tole me what it am?' "No, I'm sure I can't," answered the inter- locutor. Well, yo' see, it am dis way. He stood in Jerusalem, and he knocked out Dan Thomas all de way from Penydarren. Y alt." Wre tender our best thanks to Brudder Kennelly" for advertising this journal so much at the minstrel entertainment at Dowlais last week. "Blow that Water Bill," said Mr. Kennedy, "it is causing nu end of mischief. Not only is it likely to raise our taxes, but for the last three weeks it has washed out the 'Chronicles' from the Met'thyr Ti-*i< This was but one out of some half-dozen references to this journal and our Book of Days.' Let the Greatest of Stump Speeehists rejoice again, for he will iind the Chronicles in another column. We could see the office boy looked wonderfully elated. There was joy in the twinkle of his eye, and merriment lurked in the corners of his mouth. "Our 'chapel' has new rules," he said, with triumphant pride "cyfreithiau Hywel Dda ain't in it; sir." We hope these rules will he faithfully observed, and the fines strictly enforced. One of the says that a tine of Is. will be inflicted on any member of the "chapel" found guilty of slandering the "father." That's right. A "comp. who neglects to turn out his jjas when leaving work is to be fined 6d. In our opinion that fine is too low, very much too low. Kyhan Meredith has an article in Wedes of a snobbish character. He [>okes fun at our village bards and rural literati. That sort of thing is easily done. Our village bards tie not Miltons and Shakesperes but that they are bards at all argues a certain amount of intellectual fetinement. In Eng- land they would think only of beer and football and horse-racing. May the day never dawn when Welsh- men will abandon the eisteddfod for the racecourse, or take to gambling instead of making englynion By the way, kan anybody explain why the writer should not be kontent with the usual Cynan, but is konstrained to kail himself Kynan 7 Forward" ought to be happy. He Ita; succeeded in popularising the word, Yahoo." A would-be sage, who was present at the Dowlais minstrel enter- tainment on Thursday, notwithstanding his assump- tion of Puritanical austerity, said, as he left the hall, Well, and that was Harry Evans' arrangement of Excelsior' was it 7 I don't think much of the arrangement; the whole thing even now is like the original." "You thundering yahoo," said a man who was near, I suppose you expected to hear it resemble Little Drops of Water or How doth the Little Busy Bee," or something of that sort that you could understand." And then everybody owned that "Yahoo" was a splendid word with which to knock a man down.

THE MEKTHYE MAY DAY SHOW, HEIGHT OF BUTCHERS' COBS. We have been requested to bring before the rot-ice of the May Day Show Committee, a matter which in previous years created some amount of dissatisfaction among some of the competitors in the class for butchers' cobs. What we ask the committee, on behalf of many of our readers, is the question, "What is the minimum height of butcheis' cobs, and the maximum height 7" It is contended by those who ought to know that a butchers' cob should not exceed 14 hands. In fact," say our informants, you can not call any ai)imal a cob which is c.ver 14 bands high." It has been alleged that in previous years butchers entered animals 111 the class for butchers' cobs wlrch stood more than 15 hands high, which, it is said, is not just and fair. If this is so, some pro- lection should be afford«d butchers who pride them- selves upon having in their possession cobs which should not fail to give satisfaction to the judge", and which are used daily in the trade. We invite the committee to use our columns for the puriK'se of explaining matters, and for the benefit of those of our readers who take an active interest in the May Day Show.

r THE u, MERTHYR WATER BILL. There has been a slight lull in the water commotion during the last five or six days. The interest taken in the subject, however, shows nu decline. The disma! science" of Political Economy has never before been so much in vogue in the Merthyr Parish, j and the principles of Individualism and Collectivism have bewu studied with keen zest. Meetings have been held in every part of the parish, and the unmis- takable tendency of public opinion has been made abundantly apparent. The next move is to lie taken in the Council, and the proceedings of yesterday's meeting will be studied with great interest. Before coming to the Council, however, there arc one or two points requiring attention. There can be no doubt at all that opinion is very rapidly growing in favour of abolishing the water rents altogether, and charging the whole of the water exjienditure to the District Rate. As we have repeatedly pointed out, that is the logical conclusion which sound reasoning compels us to arrive at. Water being a commodity wanted by all, it is only right that the community as a whole should pay for it. The individualistic view of the matter, according to which each person, or each household, pay-, for the water it uses, is hopelessly illogical and unsound, and we do not think that anyone adheivs to it now, unless it be the large capitalists who put it forward as & pretext Mo cover their selfish designs..Justice declares em- phatieally that every house should have a plentiful supply of pure water at the general expense of the I community. In other words, the methods adopted with leirard to education, roads, sewage, street- I lighting, iVc., should be applied also to tin* watei I tupply. Were th:tt dune we would be rid of the present bother. The burden would fall on the shoulders best | able to bear it. Municipal ifnance would be simplified, j as there would be only one rate, and only one set of books, instead of two. To a certain extent the expense of collection would 1." reduced. These, of course, are only incidental advantages. The great and fundamental argument in favour of the change is that it would l>e in harmony with the highest and soundest principles of municipal economy. It may be argued that the change would inflict a hardship on the owners of such properly as do not use public water. There are the farmers, for instance • also there are houses in such districts as Penywern which are not supplied and there are a few house- holds who get their water from their own private springs. It would not lie fair to levy a rate on these in respectof water. In reply we would say it would i be the simplest and the ea-iest thing in the woild to make reductions in the District Rate of these cases, though it might be argued that they indirectly benefit from the water system iu the same way as childless parents benefit from the education system. Public opinion does undoubtedly tend in thi* direc- tion, and sooner or later our legislators, Imperial and i local, will have to bring their law into line with this jopinion. At present such a demand is not made specifically. If it were made it would be .supported with enthusiasm by the mass of ratepayers. Strange to say, there are tnembere. of the Merthyr Council who are to-day favourable to the 20th Clause of the Water Bill, but who would ardently support a motion merg- ing the water rents in the. District Rate. They would support such a motion in preference to a return to the scale of charges now in force. The 20th Clause goes in a diametrically opposite direction to thi- principle it is indiv idualistic with a vengeance. It is based on the hopele sly erroneous I principle that each iudividual should pay for the water he uses. This is the reason why it is so uncom- j promisingly opposed by the public. It is founded on an entirely wrong basis, and its operation would result j in grave injustice all round. „ The clause introduced into the Bill on the applica- tion of the Cvfarthfa Company is looked upon with pronounced disfavour by all. The result of this clause is to take the Jcontrol of the finances from the hands of the Council, who \\i)In<i]ongerbeina position to adjust the water rents and the District Rate accord- ing to their ideas of what is necesstnyand just. They are given no option in the matter, but will be com- pelled to enforce the maximum scale of charges. Mr. Bailey's letter in our last is.-ue is a diplomatic document, and may mislead the unwary. Mr. Arthur Daniel's reply ap)>ears ill another column, and aome of the figures have been altered from what they were in the letter as published ill our contemporary last week. This retort issimp:y crushing. The-tatistics given by Mr. Bailey are coru-ct, but he ùmits to give other statistics which are essentially important, and which throw a deal of light Oil the question. Mr. Bailey says that the Plymouth Company are now paying a water rent and District Kate the sum otJE2,559, while the payable under the new scale of water charge- and a District Rate after obtaining the new loans will be £ 2,459. Quite ";0. But what we want to know is how much the com- pany would have to pay after obtaining new loans, supposing the present scale of water charges is left undisturbed. From a leport drawn out by Mr. Rowland Harris we find that that sum would be £ 2,655. !So the substitution of the new for the pre- sent scale means a saving to the company of J3196 a year. Why did not Mr. Bailey give us these very interesting figures 7 Take the Dowlais Company. At present they pay £4,121. After acquiring loans they would have to pay (1) -under, the present scale of water charges jB4,655 (2) under new scale, £ 4,261. So the 20th Clause puts the tidy sum of JE592 a year in their coffers. The Cyfarthfa Company are now paying £3,627. After acquiring loans they would have to pay (1) under present scale, £ 4,475 (2) under new ^.•ale, £ 4,111; or a saving of £ 364 a year. Add up the figures for all the companies and you will Lret the following totals: Paid at present £19.266: after acquiring loans (1) under present scale. £ 21,760 (2) under new scale, £ 20,048. Total saving, £1,712 a year. Says Mr. Bailey, "It is evident that, instead of relief after the borrowing powers we are seeking shall have boen put in force, the large companies will find their yeailv payments considerably augmented." Quite right. Nothing could I)e more correct. Mr. Bailey counts it a great virtue in the companies to contribute even a little to the additional expenditure now incuri ed. He 3."stlllles a tone of marvellous self- sacrifice and generosity, as if we should be eternally grateful to the companies for bearing even a very small part of the burden. But in order precisely to gauge the generosity of the companies, we require to knuw, Hot only what additional rates they pay under the new Bill, but what they would have to pay sup- i posing the 20th Clause were expunged. Their I "yearly paymenh" are "augmented," it is true; but not to the same extent as they would tje had it not been for the 20th Ciau-e. Another way of getting at the t.-ue facts is by i taking the additional expense that will have to be met every year, and finding out what proportion of this sum is paid by the companies and by the rate- payers respectively. As Mr. Daniel deals with this aspect of the case very ably and very fully in his letter, we need not go into it here. Much capital is made out of the fact that the coinpani.s are very good landlords. They own a considerable number of houses in the parish, and their rents, in many instances, are only about one-half of those exacted by some of tie property-owning Shy- locks we have in our midst. In this respect the companies are entitled to the deepest gratitude of the public, though some even of the companies are re- ported to have fallen in love recently with the cruel methods oftheShytock-i. However, this water question must be taken 011 its merits If we go after the thousand and one other considerations which may be dragged into the con- troversy, the result will be a ho]>e!es- entanglement. We should take th's water question as if it stood alone, and settle it in a just and equitable way, what- ever other adjustments may or may not ultimately follow. The plain fact we have to consider is that the 20th Clause disturbs the state of things which lias heen in existence for many years, and that it relieves the companies of £ 1,800 a year, and puts an extra burden of JBl.SOO on the weaker shoulders of the mass of ratepayers. 11 is an unjust ana uncalled-for tran sactioil, wrong in principle and oppressive ill opera- tion. It is a change to lie resisted with all the vigoui and all the influence at the community's command. Nothing need be said about the proceedings of yesteiday's Council. Several resolution* were proposed. Mr. D. W. Jones moved that the Cravvshay Clause be expunged. Mr. Dan Thomas and Mr. Wills proposed that the 20th Clause lie revised. None of tlie.se resolutions were passed, the Chairmait ruling them out of order. Next Wednes- day the buttle will be fought over again. We are afraid the public will ere long get tired of this endless and futile palaver. It is gratifying to see that the Companists do not get their own way now quite as easily as they used to in the old days. If they carry through the Bill in its present form it will l>e in the teeth of very strong opposition. And though they have in their ranks very clever men and wirepullers of marvellous adroitness, the victory will eo-t them a resolute | effort. The Ci awshay Clause will be defeated. That j is certain. The 20th Clause will also be considerably modified. Even Mr. Wills wants a rev ision. Really the easiest solution out of the difficulty, and the solution most is harmony with justice as well as with expediency, is to merge the water rents ill the District Rate. If our municipal legislators would ontyseetit: By the way. the 20th Clause is now numbered 24th.

HOW TO SETTLE ROWS. t the Meithyr Police-court on Monday, Mrs. Ellell noltulI was charged with assaulting Mary I Cochrane on the 26th of March la-1. Mr. Bedd' • j i defeud'-d There wa> a cross -uuiuiont issued, and | Mr. Bvddoc suggested that both prisoners be lxnmd over to keep the peace for six mouths. Both parties were accordingly l.iouud over.

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PUTTING MUSTARD OX A CHILD'S TONGUE. j At the Meithyr Police-court, ouMondav, William Price, assistant to Messrs. 1) Jones & Co., Dowlais, was summoned on a charge of "assaulting a little child named Gwendoline Morgan, three years old, 011 the 26th of March. It appears that the little girl went to the shop, and the defendant put some mustard on her tongue. A little girl named Sophia Thomas gave evidence. Lucy Morgan, the yiother of the little child, said the little girl came,hume with her tongue covered with mustard. On the following morning the child's tongue was blistered, and the witness had to take the child to a chemist. The defendant made a statement in defence, and said the girl camc to the shop, and made use of the word d- He told her she should not say sliell words, but she repeated it. He then told his assistant to fetch him a pinch ot mus- tard, which he place i on the child's tongue. A witness was called to verify this statement, and the case was dismissed.