The Aberdare Leader

.:fd n :Z1' 'V | BONGOLA TEK1 Exquisite Flavour and Quality. .i t ;r i' .t ('; ft ,v1, ■■ t; .> i,i Sole Agent: j' V" '> ¡. F. W. Mander, Aberdare. New Market Hall, Aberdape. THE SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS, AND OTHER FLOWERS, WILL BE HELD AT THE ABOVE HALL, ON Monday, November 20,1905. o Refreshments will be Provided on the Grounds- CATERER, MR. F. W. CAUNT. O AN EFFICIENT BAND WIlJ. BE 1 ATTEPDANCE. Admission I to 3.30, 2s; 3.30 to 5.30, Is; 5.30 to 9, 6d. RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. HANNAH ESCHLE, 13, VICTORIA SQUARE, Begs to announce to the Public of Aberdare, Mountain Ash, and surrounding districts, that prior to transferring to her son, LEONARD E. ESCHLE the business of Watchmaker- Jeweller, Silvsmith, Optitian, Dealer in Best Leather Goods, Worcester and other rare and fancy porcelains, she is offering the Whole of her Large, Varied and Well-Selected Stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. In order to secure some of the many Bargains intending purchasers would do well to pay an early visit during the Sale. All Repairs will receive the most prompt and careful attention and will be ex ecuted at most Reasonable Prices. NOTE THE ADDRESS:— 13, Victoria Square, Aberdare. PUBLIC INSTITUTE Mountain Ash. FOR THREE NIGHTS ONLY. ft|(PW TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 14 and 15. Special and Important Engagement cf the Celebrated Actor M r J. H. CLYNDES, from the Adelphi, Princess's, and Drury j Lane Theatres,' London. Miss MAUD GARTH, MISS AIMEE GRATTAN and his Entire Company. Presenting with New and Splendid Scenery, Costumes, etc., the new High- Class, Human, Romantic Play, in a Prologue and Three Acts, entitled— 'A fyOYAL REVENGE.' The Original Music composed expressly for this play by Louis LA RONDELLE, TIME AND PRICES AS USUAL. I n_ PRINTING. PRINTING of every description neatly and promptly executed at the Leader Office, Market-street, Aberdare. 1 Mountain Ash Education Committee. WANTED, an intelligent Junior Clerk for the Education Office. Salary 15s a week. Applicants must be residents within the Mountain Ash Urban area, and will be expected to learn Shorthand and Tyywriting, if not already profieient in them. Applications stating age, qualifications and experience, with two recent testimonials, must reach me by Tuesday morning, Nov. 21, 1905. A. MORGAN, Director of Education. Town Hall, Mountain Ash. Nov. 8th, 1905. J. MAURICE, PIANOFORTE TUNER AND REPAIRER. American Organs ad Harmoniums TUNED AND R EFAIR t I Lessons given in Pianoforte Playing and Singing. Solo Pianist and Accompanist fcr Concerts, Dances, &c. ) Humorous Sketch Artiste. MODERATE CHARGES AND SATISFACTION GUAR AS TEED. FOR Tuams APPLY— 47, Dean St., Aberdare. I WM. USHER & Co., ORIGINAL FINANCIERS, 14. Commercial. Street. ABERDARE. (Over Mr Lloyd's, Grocer). 410 LENT. miklU No Fees. Personal attendance on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 to 7 p.m. Or please write to Head Office: 14, Picton Place, SWANSEA. Prepaid Small Advertisements. Inserted at the following specially low rates. One week 4'wks. 13 wks. s. d. s. d. s. d. 20 words X) 6 1 6 3 6 28 0 9 2 3 5 3 36 „ 1 0 3 0 7 0 Remittances may be made by Postal Orders or half-penny stamps. If not prepaid double rate will be charged. Advertisement and Publishing Offices, 33,"Dean Street, & Market Street, Aberdare. WANTED. -4 WANTED, respectable girl, 17 or tv 18, for general house work.- Apply, Mrs Brown, 24, Cardiff-street, Aberdare. WANTED, a warehouse in Aberdare, tr ground floor preferred.-A, pply, Thompson, Bazaar, Cardiff-street. WANTED immediately two smart TV business men. Salary and Com- mission. Apply, M., LEADER, Aberdare. WANTED, a boy as improver to the Butchering trade. Age from 16 to 18.-Apply, T., LEADER Office. WANTED, a Junior Clerk.—Apply, George Brewery, Aberdare. WANTED, a Shop in Mountain Ash. Must be best position. State measurements, rent, &c., to J.M., 203, Old Street, London, E.C. — ——— ————— TO LET. COMFORTABLE Lodgings for one or two working men.—Apply, 49, Glamorgan-street, Aberaman. COMFORTABLE Lodgings for res- pectable men.—Apply, 13, Tany- bryn-street, Aberdare. HOUSE &STABLE,58, Tudor terrace, Aberdare.—Apply, James Voyle, 23, Glassbrook terrace, Penrhiwceiber. — —■ MISCELLANEOUS. DUCATIONAL. Colliery officials J i J and Miners. Qualify yourselves /1 for promotion. Lessons by post. The 1 surest road to success. Of lifelong value. Write for Syllabus.—T. A. Southern, 281, t The U.M.S., Cardiff. FREE.-Your future career foretold J- by lady astrologer. Send birth date and stamped envelope, Madam Gordon, 5, Edina-street, Edinburgh. THE BEST SELECTION OF Private Greeting Christmas Cards in Wales. The following Collections in stock Our Queen Series." Friend to Friend Series." "Artistic Series." Royal Banner Series." Forget-me-not Series." "London and Counties' Series." Friendship Series." Brittanic Series." Relief Series." • Greetings in English or Welsh. A postcard will bring the books to your door. Njiss E. J. Thomas, Wholesale Confectioner & Stationer 1, Market Street, Aberdare. 4BERDARE AND ABERAMAN. Sale of Desirable LEASEHOLD DWELLING HOUSES. Mr. James H. James Has received Instructions to offer for SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION AT THE Castle Hotel, Aberdare, ON Tuesday Evening, te 14th day of November, 1905, At 7.30 o'clock sharp (subject to such Con- ditions of Sale as shall be then read), the following VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PREMISES. LOT i.-All that very desirable Dwelling House and Premises known as Llwyn yr Eos situate and being No. 69, Bute Street, Aberdare And now in the occupation of the owner, Mr. William Thomas (Eos Wenallt.) This House is very commodious and substantial- ly built, is situate in the centre of the Town of Aberdare, within a few minutes walk of the Railway Stations, and is in splendid repair. It is (with the adjoining House) held under an Indenture of Lease dated the loth day of April, 1877, for a term of 99 years from the 2nd day of August, 1840, subject to the low Annual Ground Rent of £I os 6d which will be apportioned at the time of the Sale. LOT 2.-All that Messuage or Dwelling House known as No. 47, Cardiff Rd., Aberaman, Aberdare, and now in the occupation of Mr Abraham Williams, and producing the yearly rent of f 15 12S. These premises are held for, an estate for three lives, and to complete a term of 99 years from the ist day of May, 1892, at the apportioned yearly rent of £ 1 4s. For further Particulars, application may oe made as follows, as to Lot i, to VIr. T. W. GRIFFITHS, Solicitor, 2, 3ardiff-st., Aberdare. As to Lot 2, to :— VIr. GWILYM JONES, Solicitor, Moun- :ain Ash. As to both Lotsv to the Auctio- leer at his Office, Weatheral-st., Aberdare. HALL AND SONS, The Leading House:Furnishers, 0 9, Cardiff St., Aberdare. SOME OF OUR BARGAINS. Spring Seat Couch, button or plain, spring seats, covered in Crockett's leather, polished frame @ 21/- Rocking Chair, covered in Pile Carpets, on Copper springs, Walnut and polished frames @ 10/6. Parlor Tables, fancy shape, solid Walnut @ 18/6. Sideboard, very massive, bow front, 8ft high, Walnut, handsomely carved @ £7 19s. 6d. NOTICE. Î HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I JL shall not be responsible for any debt oridebts contracted by my wife: Elizabeth Wood, No. 1, Jenkin-street, Abercwmboi, on and after this date, Signed, THOMAS WOOD. November 2nd, 1, Jenkin-street, 1905. Abercwmboi.

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COMPENSATION AND THRIFT. IN his address to the Merthyr Guar- dians on Saturday, Mr Bircham, the Poor Law Inspector, dwelling on the increase of poverty and pauperism, remarked that fewer young men were members of provident societies now than was the case some years ago. He thought that the antici- pation of receiving compensation in respect of injuries sustained in work made man less thoughtful about the future, and consequently less provident.' But the prospect of securing compensation in the event of an accident does not in the least lessen a man's obligation to take thought for the morrow, and to be thrifty and provident. Apart from such a contingent as a sudden and prolonged illness, there is the growth of the unemployed evil and the lowering of the age which, in the eye of employers, limits a work- man's capacity for employment. All these considerations should con- vince the yonng workers of the pre- sent day that it is as essential now as ever to cultivate thrift and to exercise habits of providence.

A DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ECONOMICAL ILLS. Shakespeare says, "If to do were as easy a to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is the easiest thing in the world to draw out a, long catalogue of our social ailments, and also to prescribe for them, but it is the most difficult thing in the world to apply a practical and effectual remedy that will permanently remove the evil. For that reason the. housing evil remains, and the poor man's cottage, far from evolving into a prince's palace, is in grave peril of devolving into a hovel. Dr Datta, the eminent physician from Fern- dale, has been at Cwmaman, and he has given us a very complete list of the poli- tical and economical ills that the Welsh collier is heir to. The Doctor was as scathing in the denunciation of our social evils as he was eloquent in the proclam- ation of prescriptions therefor. The re- port of Dr. Datta's lecture reads too much like the advertisement of a patent medicine. The evil is so glaring, the re- medy so simple. We would not suggest for a moment that the Dr. is a mere the- orist or an economical quack. But while we marvel at and admire hie power of diagnosis we must differ with him regard- ing the effectualness of some of his un- failing remedies. We doubt whether it would be within the province of the Federation to support young men, at the Universities, and the practicability of his contention that the opening of Co- operative coal-mines would be an un- doubted success, may well be questioned. At any rate, the opening of co-operative quarries ini North Wales has not been an unqualified success. The co-operative principle is an excellent one, but there is a judicious limit to the application of it. It is encouraging and hopeful to see a gentleman of the standing of Dr. Datta taking such a keen and enthusiastic in- terest in the welfare of the working classes. Dr. Datta is a genuine reformer, but of the rash and sweeping type-the type that usually go to Utopia for the materials of their reforms, and must con- sequently wait till the millennium for the consummation of their schemes.

SCRAPS. BY '"THE SCRIBE." The refreshment bar at Abercynon. Station affords a splendid opportunity for a great many to evade the Sunday Closing Act and slake their Sabbath thirst. They willingly pay a trivial railway fare, and they trouble not about the exorbitant price charged for the cup that cheers and inebriates. And, of course, they care not two straws about breaking one of the ten commandments, and with regard to the law of England, they only drive their coach and horses through the proverb- ial gap. The T.V.R. Co. make no effort to dis- courage attendance at the station bar, for while that place is cheerfully lighted and warmed, the waiting room is dark and dismal. Ah! it is enough to drive one to drink. Heated places of worship is a modern luxury of doubtfuU futility, if viewed from the standpoint of health and hygiene. At any rate there is no need to heat a chapel when crowded revival meetings are held therein. During the whole course of last winter's numerous revival services I never noticed a chapel; artificially heated. But a chapel in Aberdare last week was ren- dered uncomfortably hot by the combined heating power of the apparatus and a large assembly. What a contrast between the new City of Cardiff and the new Borough of Mer- thyr in their attitude towards Labour! Cardiff's action has been described as an "insult to Labour," while Merthyr's first Council actually attains the ideal of a Labour Parliament. At the time of writ- ing I am assured that Mr. Enoch Morrell will be made, a Labour Mayor. A no dis- tant general election will, perhaps, give us a Labour Parliament in Westminster, with Mr. Keir Hardie as Prime Minister. Then, heaven help the other House! At Trinity Chapel, Aberdare, last Sun- day, the Rev. J. J. Morgan, Mold, related a story of a, man who had suddenly found himself in the whirlpool of financial diffi- ] culties He was fished out by a benevo- lent Christian, who accompanied his act of benevolence with an appeal to the rescued one to consider another liability —his indebtedness to the Lord Jesus Christ. "Ah," said the debt-dodger, with light-hearted indifference, "but He doesn't press- me like the other fellow." That Mr. Evan Roberts is a mesmerist has now been placed beyond all doubt. The latest witness to this fact is not the maligned correspondent of the "Aberdare Leader," or the famous professional hyp- c notist, Dr. Bodie, but no other than Mr. j Roberts's most intimate friend and most loyal colleague, his fidus, Achetes, the 1 Rev. Jchn Williams, Liverpool. { L After making mention of his friend's mysteriousness, cheerfulness, sanity, and brilliancy, he writes: -"This does not ex- plain all. He has something. We do not know what to call it, occultism is- its nickname, it is called spiritualism in other circles, its scientific name is mes- merism. This is very strong in Evan Roberts." To borrow a secular phrase, Mr. Wil- liams has "given the show away." The secret is out. The "Leader" "Expert" may now derive the solace of compan-- ionship. The Rev. John Wjlliams will share with him the awfull penalty of the' unpardonable sin. How many "little SwitzerIands" are- there is "poor little Wales?" The latest Welsh Switzerland discovered is in the neighbourhood of Alteryn, in Mon- mouthshire. Referring to the Welsh National' Museum, Sir Marchant Williams saye- that personally he does not want to see a museum for curiosities; he saw plenty of them every day. No doubt Sir Mar- chant had in his, mind the curios of the police court, but did he mean those in the dock, in the pressmen's pew, in the well. of the court, or where? Apropos of the Aberdare mountain rob- bery, the S.W.D.N. "Welsh Gossip" re- corder relates an incident in the life of an Aberdare gentleman who had been to a Merthyr gunsmith to have his revolver repaired. He was walking home to Aber- dare over the mountain, and when in a place where a murder might be com- mitted, a workman's wife, with a basket on her arm, came towards him, running from a tramp, and asked for protection and to be allowed to walk by his side into Aberdare. By that time the tramp had come up, and wanted to know what the gentleman wanted with his wife. "I am not his wife," she exclaimed; "he is a thorough stranger to me," and gave her name and address, afterwards verified. The gentleman was impressed with the- woman's evident sincerity and agitation, and, producing the revolver, sent the- tramp flying for his life, only anxious to, put a good distance between himself andi a bullet. ¡

Aberdare Ladies' Hockey Club. A FASHIONABLE DANCE. On Friday, at the Boot Hotel, Aber- dare, a successful dlc1e was given in con- nection with the 100"6 club. The bail. room had been? ta'e1 hllly decoratea by 3' the staff of the BOll\ Hotel, under the direction of Mrs. J. D. Hughes, who also- catered in excellent fashion. The committee comprised of the Misses Davies, Ynyslwyd; Miss Pritchard Evans, Mountain Ash; and Miss Annie Thomas!- Oakhill, who discharged the secretarial duties. The stewards were Messrs. P. T. Rhys, G. T. Davies, and LI: Jones. Mr. Fred Roberts' orchestra from Cardiff pro- vided the music. There were present:- Miss M. Williams and Messrs. E. and R. Williams, Caecoed. Misses Hetty and Jessie Sarvis and Mr. Fred Sarvis. Mr. J. EL Thomas, and Miss Thomas,. Clifton-street. Mr. W. John, Aberaman. Mr. Trevor Flooks. Capt. and Mrs. W. D. Phillips. Mr. M. Wayne Morgan, Pontypridd.. Miss Davies, Pontypridd. Dr. Martin Jones and Miss Jones. Mr. Blake.. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jones. Dr. and Mrs. W. LJ. Rhys. Miss Dorothy Thomas. Miss Bevan, Gadlys House. Mr. S. Mansell Jones and Miss jonesi, Swansea. Mr. P. T. Rhys. Miss N. Lewis, Park Lane. Mr. Jacob, Newport. Mr. EL Thomas, Bargoed. Mr. Rolfe, Pontypridd. Miss Deacon, Abermellte. Miss Charles. Mr. W. Thomas, Pontypridd. Mr. Hetrelli. Mr. C. E. Edwards. Mr. D. M. Davies. Miss Hannah and Miss E. Hannah,. Ferndale. Miss Llewelyn, Bwllfa House. Mr. Edwards, Mr. Hallmark, and Mr. Parker Thomas, Cardiff. Mr. R. Dowdeswell, Treharris. Mr. Windsor Evans and Miss Pritchard Evans, Mountain Ash. Miss Bissit. Mr. Ll. Jones and Miss Mary Jones. Dr. T. Owen Jones, Mr. E. Roberts, Pontypridd. Miss Jones. Misses Davies and Mr. G. T. Davies, Ynyslwyd. Mr. Hepburn and Miss Golds worthy, Newport. Miss A. Thomas and Miss E. H. Thomas Mr. Farr, Aberaman. Mr. J. E. Lewis, Lloyd's Bank. Mr. E. John. -m_ -+-

South Wales Coal Trade Local Stagnation. Owing to a dearth of wagons, work was at a standstill on Monday at all the collieries of the Powell Duffryn Company in the upper part of the Aberdare Valley. For the same reason the Bwllfa and Nantmelyn collieries, Cwmdare, were also idle.