The Aberdare Leader

Mr. Tennyson Smith at Cwmbach. The series of meetings held by the Cromwell of the Temperance Movement and his Ironsides, ended on Monday even- ing. Mr. Tennyson Smith had held meet- ings during the week, in addition to those reported in our last issue. Very successful meetings were held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, and thrice on Sunday. Enthusiastic and attentive audiences were secured in each. The cul- minating point, however, was reached on Monday, when a special farewell meeting was held at Ebenezer Chapel, the Rev. D. M. Davies in the chair. After the singing of the hymn-tune "Diadem," and the offer- ing of a prayer, Miss Annie Williams sang "We want a million more"; then Mr. Tennyson Smith recited in a most thrilling manner, The road to Heaven." After- wards Mr. Evan Evans sang Ora pro Nobis" by special request. The next item was a dramatic recital of The Fireman's Wedding," by lVIr. Tennyson Smith. Then Miss Maggie Daniel sang Some glad day," the whole of the children joining in the chorus. A humorous sketch of personal ex- perience at a concert was next given by the hero of the evening, Mr. Smith's imitation of the chairman's speech and the young man who always kept his engagements being most realistic. After a most powerful rendering of The Pitch In," by the same reciter, there was a brief interval, during which Mr. Smith remarked that the cry at J the Victoria, Hotel, was We want a million more customers, and also at the grocer's on the hill, who held a license to sell drink, (a voice I beg your pardon sir, he don't.") Poor Little Joe by Mr. Smith, was the next recital. Now caine the chief feature of the entertainment, namely, the children's -performance of Shadow and Sunshine." Mr. J. Lloyd sang the solo, and the children sang the chorus, meanwhile marching from the vestry along the aisles of the chapel, each clad in white with a blue sash, and bearing a blue ribbon banner. They had been trained by Messrs. D. Roes, and Gomer James, who were instructed by u Mr. Tennyson Smith. A humorous recital by Mr. Tennyson Smith, "Nothing towear" followed. Next came a song" The Wreck" by Mr. Davies, Aberaman. The final itoms were" Sliamus O'Brien, The Vagabonds" and the vivid representation of a Tug of War, between abstainers and the traffic by Mr. Smith. A cordial vote of thanks to him was proposed by the Rev. R. Roborts, and seconded by Mr. Roberts, Gosen. Mr. Smith responded and proposed a vote of thanks to his host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Pugh, also to Messrs. Rees and James, who had trained the children, to Messrs. D. T. Williams and T. Daniels, the secretaries of the mission, Messrs. D. Walters, treasurer, and D. Owen, chairman of committee. Messrs. Gomer James, Herbert Davies, and D. R. Davies, A.C., accompanied during the meeting.

-L THE BEEHIVE, ABERDARE.! PRICHARD AND POWELL'S ANNUAL SUMMER SALE OF GR GENERAL AND FANCY DRAPERY Will commence 011 Saturday Next, July 19th, 1902, AND WILL CONTINUE FOR 28 DAYS. Special Bargains in every Department. UNRESERVED SALE. To Cycle Makers, Dealers, Private Buyers, and others. COURT ROOM, ABERDARE. AUCTION SALE OF 70 Second-Hand Safety Bicycles, Various Makers, and all Pneumatie Tyres. Mr. W. T. MORGAN has received instructions to Sell by Public Auction at the above place on SATURDAY, AUG. 2nd, 1902, at 5 p.m. May be viewed morning of Sale. Auctioneer's Office, 30, Weatheral Street, Aberdare. VISIT THE (CEPTURY9 FURBISHING STORES, And see one of the Largest Stocks in Aberdare of Bedroom, Dining) Drawing, Breakfast Room, and Kitchen Furniture, IN THE VERY LATEST STYLES. CALL AND INSPECT OUR GOODS. NO PERSONS ARE PRESSED TO BUY. fin /fruHUffi street. ABFRDAOE. u. HARRY REED, PROPRIETOR. Commerce House, Aberdare THE WELL-KNOWN HOUSE FOR ALL KINDS OF GENERAL DRAPERY. I All the Newest Shades in Dress Materials. The most Up-to-date Styles in Millinery and Mantles. Hosiery of every Description. J. DAVIES & Co. P. HALEWOOD, Wholesale Boot Manufacturer, CAJNON STREET, ABERDARE. RETAIL BLANCHES; ABERDARE 31 & 32, Canon Street- MERTHYR: High Street. PONTYPRIDD 59, Taff Street. MOUNTAIN ASH: Market Square. YSTRAD Station Row. AND MARDY. AGEXT FOR THE K." THE PROGRESSIVE." THE OBE, & OTHER FIRST CLASS MAKES OF BOOTS. Home-made Men's Working Boots 6s 11d., are noted. A lot of Clearing lines at very low pi ice?, LLOYD & CO. EMPORIUM, TREORKY. j FOR GENERAL OUTFITTING, DRAPERY, LADIES' COSTUMES. AND MILLINERY. Cheapest House in South Wales & West of England. Try our Noted Men's Summer Suits, all sizes, 12s. 6d. HIGH-CLASS GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES. Smart Styles make Smart Men and Boys. All the Newest Styles & Shapes of the Season. W. H. FLOOKS, Outfitter, 13a and 13b, CANON STREET, ABERDARE. Worth more than Gold. Testimonials from all parts prove that MARVELlO OINTMENT Stands unrivalled for its virtues as a MIGHTY HEALER and PAIN KILLER, SKIN DISEASES, OLD WOUNDS, and PILES, are Comforted, Relieved, and Cured by its soothing virtues. Sufferers from BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, and CHEST COMPLAINTS generally will obtain immediate relief and permanent Cure by reasonable perseverance with its use. One Box will convince you of the truth of these statements. TRY IT. Price Is. lid. Sold by Medicine Vendors generally. Wholesale A-eiit,, BARCLAY & SONS, London. Post free for price from the Sole Maker and Proprietor- B. E. Beard) Treharris, Glam. Mr W. BRACE, Miners' Agent, writes:- Dear Sir,—My family having used your Marvello Ointment for burns, also bron- chitis, desire me to say they found great relief after applying it. SOLD BY Abercynon—W. G. Williams, Chemist. Mountain Ash—D. Williams, Chemist. Mountain Ash Co-operative Society. Duffryn Co-operative Society. Peilrliiwcoiber-IB. Jones, Grocer. Aberaman Co-operative Society. Aberdare Co-operative Society. Aberdare—Emrys Evans, Chemist. Gadlys Co-operative Society. Cwmbach Co-operative Society. Miskin (Mountain Ash) Co-operative Society, Ask for "Marvello" and insist upon having it. The ABERDARE LEADER may be had in Hirwain of Mr. R. H. Morris, High Street, and Mrs. Nicholas (by Station) after the arrival of the 7.40 train, every Thursday evening. Down the Valley it may be had of all Newsagents after the arrival of the 7.20 T.V.R. train from Aberdare on Thurs- day evenings. FOR THE Newest Designs IN Eftrrr FURNITURrE GO TO Hal I v /4 v, QV f-A I t I- H rectJ, ABERDALIE. Largest Showrooms. Lowest Prices. Buy Direct from the Makers. ABERDARE PUBLIC PARK SWIM- MING BATHS. THE ABERDARE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL are prepared to receive -1 -N I -y- T E N D E R S for the letting of the above Baths from 26tli July, to 31st October, 1902. Rent to be payable on signing of Contract. Copies of proposed Bye-Laws can be in- spected at my Office. Charges for Bath not to exceed Id. each. Towels, Drawers and Bathing Drcssess, if found by Tenant, to be charged at not ex- ceeding Id. for each article. Half a day once a week (Wednesday) must be set apart for Females, and a Female Attendant must be provided. Tenders to be sent in to me not later than Wednesday. 23rd July, inst., marked Swimming Baths." The Council does not bind itself to accept the highest or any Tender. THOS. PHILLIPS, Town Hall, Aberdare, Clerk. July 15th, 1902. McEwen & Sons, Aberdare Mineral Water Works FOR DRINKS AND REFRESHING BEVERAGES of all kinds made from BEST AND FINEST SELECTED FRUITS, and all kinds of MINERAL WATERS, TONIC HOP BITTERS, and STONE GINGER. The Pioneer Life Office Offers the best possible advantages to Policy Holders in all Branches of LIFE & ACCIDENT ASSURANCES. HOUSE PURCHASE A SPECIALITY. INDUSTRIAL TABLES UNEQUALLED. ADDITIONAL AGENTS REQUIRED. Apply, D. Davies, (South Wales Inspector,) Dewi Villa, Stuart St., Aberdare. Special Bargains in' PHONOGRAPHS & ,„BHOPH £ sNES .,a¡, A No (iieat Reductions in the price of RECORDS, BLANKS. AND ALL ACCESSORIES. New Moulded Records in Stock. Have your Machines fitted with the Patent unbreakable SANOPRE DIAPHRAGMS, giving natural re-production. Sole agent for Wales, H. McLAREN, I Windsor St., & Llewellyn St., TRECYNON.

To oup, Corriespondents. Au article on the 11 Free Church Council" will appear in our next issue, from the pen of the Rev. J. Morgan Jones, B.A., Taber- nacle. 0 We are holding over the report of the presentation meeting to Mr. Luck, and the Cwmaman Wedding until next week.

Aberdare Free Library. The article which appeared in Y Geninen" from the pen of the late Mr. Jenkin Howell, Aberdare, is both amusing and interesting. Under the heading A ber- dare Public Library" he writes as follows:— The reader who knows anything of the town will naturally laugh when he reads the about heading, because at present there is no public library here at all. There are three clubs with a variety of books, but no- thing public in the form of a library. When the Temperance Hall was opened 43 or 44 years ago, a convenient room in the south- west portion of it was rented and a library opened therein. The gentry of the locality took a great interest in the movement. We had gentry in Aberdare then, but alas the Limited Liability Companies have driven the gentry from Aberdare. The proprietors of our coal mines now live in almost all parts of the kingdom. With the exception of Lord Aberdare and Sir W. T. Lewis we have no one that can lay claim to the name. Each of these gentlemen sent a gift ofjbooks to the new library, and one of them gave a ;• complete edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Half a crown per quarter was the membership fee of that library. I paid my half crown, and I had the great pleasure of seeing for the first time all the volumes of the most wonderful work in the age it was published. The Aberdare new library was one of my air-built castles, and I re- solved to eat (in the sense of the Revelation) all the books in the building. I read there wit and Wisdom of Queen Elizabeth," and some of the novels of Scott and Dickens. But quite unexpectedly—to me at least- the library vanished like Jonah's gourd, and nevermore was found in Aberdare. The earth must have swallowed it. But what evil? I know not. What became of the books? Neither do I know that." The writer goes on to say that at a later period an attempt was made to bring the Free Libraries Act into operation at Aber- dare, but that was also an abortive effort. For this failure the writer blames the out- lying districts, the "suburbs" of Aberdare, such as Trecynon, Hirwain, Llwydcoed, Cwmdare, Cwmbach, Aberaman, Cwmaman, and Abercwmboy, who watched with jealous eyes the development and improvement of tlie "city." Recently, however, things have changed, and brighter days arc dawning, and it is probable that the" City of the hills will ere long be actually possessed of a Free Library. The District Council have arranged with the Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners to utilise the Memorial Hall for that, purpose, and at the last meeting of the Council a draft of the lease was presented. Now we have no doubt that the aspiration of half a century will become a. realisation and once the seal of the Council is attached to the project, it will doubtless be vested with the qualities that were lacking in pre- vious schemes, namely, stability and per- manency.

\C!];¡" Funeral of Councillor William Hodges. The funeral of Mr. William Hodges, who died oil Wednesday night last week, took place on Monday afternoon, when a large and representative number of. persons came to pay their last tribute of respect to one whom they had known and loved for so long a time. The funeral procession was headed by Mr. Edward Morgan and Col. Phillips, chairman aud clerk respectively of the Aberdare District Council of which de- ceased was a member. Other members and officials that followed were Alderman J. W. Evans, Councillors L. N. Williams, W. T. Morgan, Thomas Lewis, John Bucknell, Mr. Owen Williams, surveyor; Messrs. James and Lewis, sanitary inspectors. Councillors David Hughes, Tydraw, and D. Thomas, Ferndalc, represented the County Council. Aberdare School Board was represented by Messrs. W. J. Heppell and John Morris, chairman and clerk respectively of the Aberdare School Board. Among others present were the Rev. J. Robertston, Drs. YV. LI. Rhys, E. J. Trevor Jones, T. W. Parry, J.P. Messrs. Griffith George, ,J.P.; Major Morgan, J.P.; C. Ken- shole, P. T. Rhys, W. D. Phillips, M. R. David. T. Lloyd, J. W. Harries, W. Sarvis, T. Lines Jones, D. M. Richards, J. Griffiths, Park School, J. E. Morgan, A. Keast, Cwmbach, John Prowle, David Hughes (Boot), W. R. Hay lings (Leader Works), 11, H. Miles, W. J. Evans, R L. Berry, Richard Lewis. The bearers were the managers of the various branches of Messrs. Hodges and Sons, viz.:—Messrs. E. Morris, J. C, Morgan, L. O. Morris, G. Saxon, T. Errieker, T. Johns, R. Gunter and W. Davies. The whole of the employees of the branches attended, the establishments having been closed for the day. Wreaths were received from Mr. D. A.' Thomas, M.P.; Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas, J.P., Ferndale; Mrs. Edwin Hodges, Ramsey Mr. John Hodges and family, Preston; Mr. and Mrs. °J. Hodges,Newport; EuglishWesleyan Church; Aberdare Liberal Club; Mrs. Hannah, Ferndale. Mr. Hodges' family; from the employees of each of the branches Aber- dare, Ferndale, Swansea, Pontypridd, Pont- ycymmer, Porth, Newport andPentre Mr. T. Bevan, Ferndale; Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Davies, Ferndale; Mr. Walter Jones and family, Ferndale; Mr. Alex. S. Cameron, Aberdare Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis Cardiff (late Aberdare) Messrs. Buckley and Sons Leeds; R. H. Miles; Mr. C. Heed and family; Messrs. Wallace and Linnell, Ket- tering: Mr. and Mrs. F. Pardoe, Aberdare. The chief mourners were Messrs. Edwin, Gilbert, James, and Frank Hodges (sons); Mr. p, Hannah, Ferndale (son-in-law); and Messrs, FraIlk and Walter Hannah (grand- sons). The Revs. J. Simpson, Milligan. and YVade, officiated, Rock of Ages cleft for 1110" being sung by the graveside. After the funeral the whole of the em- ployees of Messrs. Hodges and Sons met at the Cardiff Castle Coffee Tavern, where they passed a vote of condolence with the bereaved sons and daughters of the de- ceased. The funeral arrangements were in the capable hands of Mr. F. D. E. George.

Highland Place Unitarian Church. What may be termed the iuaugurativc meetings of the Rev. Fisher Short's pastor. ate at Highland Place were held last Sun- day. At the morning meeting the topic of Mr. Short's sermon ivas 61 Why a Church?" He said that some people contended that n'n v.-o.q nini,if>pcL.ai.y, ilioy could worship better in the solitude of Nature's haunts, than in fellowship with their brethren in the church, Some again regarded the church as a social club, a school of ethics, or a school of philosophy, but its ideal was higher than that. Jesus not only countenanced public worship, but demonstrated the necessity of it in a very practical manner. During the service Mr. Short said that he was entering into his ministry cheerfully and heartily, and lie trusted that his work would be prosperous, and that they would aid him with their sympathy. In the evening Mr. Short preached from St. Luke, xv. 17, on the words" He caine to himself," to an attentive congregation. The anthem Thine O Lord is tho°great- ness," was beautifully rendered, Miss S. George, discharging her duties as organist, most satisfactorily. We hope and trust that the alliance between the church at Highland Place and its new pastor will be cemented by the Divine Spirit and that mutual goodwill and harmony will prevail.

Abercynon Police Court. -iV-1 'dnesuay. before Mr. T, Marchant \V llhanis (stipendiary). DISORDERLY, Edward Jones, Abercynon, for being dis- orderly at Ynysnieurig-road, Abercynon, was fined 2s. 6d. aud costs. CHIMNEY ON FIRE. Charles Wall, Abercynon, for allowing his chimney to go on fire, was ordered to pay 2s. 6d. including costs. ST OHM IN A TEA-CUP. Mary Ann Garland summoned William Milliner for assault. There was also a eross- smmmmses. Mr. W. Griffiths represented Garland. Garland said Malliner had struck her twice on the chest. She nearly fainted and her husband was obliged to support her to the house. Defendant and other witnesses were called for the defence and denied the as- sault. The Stipendiary characterised the case as a storm in a tea-cup, and dismissed both summonses. William Ralph for assaulting Lewis Rogers at the Junction Hotel was ordered to pay 40s. and costs. SHOP BREAKING. William Henry Gibbons was charged with having broken an entry into the "shop of Mr. Callaway, outfitter, Ferry Bank, Moun- tain Ash. Mr. Gwilym Jones appealed for prosecution. Mr. Callaway said he kept a locked-un shop at Oxford-street. Mountain Ash. The front dooi was locked in the ordinary way with also a staple and padlock. The entry was forced throug a bad. window, between i nfi and two p.m., tlio /J id Tlie valuc of goods stolen was cto lbs. fcjd, P.S. Gill said there was at the back of premises a wall slanting up from the si<uial box to within 4} feet of the window which was found open. The articles were found at the prisoner's lodgings in Tanyyrai"- street, Alotiiitaiii Asli. Prisoner said that all lie wished to say was that lie took the things. He was committed to take his trial at the Assizes, bail being allowed in two sureties of X40 each.