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TOn-pentre.Police Court T lqollda,y n r —— i ^latfurwfir'6 t^e AStiPendiaiT (Mr- ^avies Ttr. ii am.s), Aldermen E. H. v°uflcill0r(! ^-organ and Richd. Lewis, liams. u- w. Davies and J. D. Wil-

^rga^°then'3 Offence. j y in hp,. usinsj who appeared with a Unk in f,],111118' was charged with being a nBr 1§e of a, child and with steal- ;"e oftiee » ^ntaining 8s. She entered ^'actor, 1,1. Davies, hauling con- whioli Wonn° Road, and took the ^1'ched if Was 011 tlle ^ble. When °^ei''s stoofWas ^ound concealed in pri- (1 ^revijus lng" !runkemless convictions for theft and as no\v Spri+. ^'ere proved, and prisoner Ut to Prison for 14 days.

)l' "il\t .l'G\1tjlllll Ja. nance Orde. „ Jte> a married woman of S\0tV „an.ce applied for a main- Xv gai"st her husband, John Vk Ynyshir. ha'ik^Tbo was represented by Vd M ],ij.>,11t.Vpri(ld, said that her tiu,. ^Vp^j'ovifi, her for a month, and Hi hi- n with a home and /°^e ? m°nc.y- When she asked 3^' fin? So boots for her, he ''t-pH earn them. J,Sai(l she had heard de- r) K. wiHing to go back to S 'Wc ston .J, w'll use her and dii1,1.mei so long." She i lotIT,Ji hls Wlfe was true to like hers^6 was' call Ot. lik roplied that she was, but I lil a f??^ainant said her husband C fe-oM c^ight St H an?ldered that the case had I I <5 a made an order for the >A, Tek aild COfits'

kAcN shp y Threats- ''l KK Would beat me until I h|0nH°,,and would wash her said Mrs. Elizabeth a n ■' who summoned Mrs. jdjjt SaiJeighbour; for threats. aid e dld n'°t see '(i ft 0r l y of thei alleged offence. ;er?d defendant to pay y. ffvi? bound her over to snSicl „ A Slx months.

ifault' li^lbM^ia^1' °* Treorchy, was Si^Ha^' of Tltm £ Mrs- Margaret [ L.^ R "t treorchy. Said R 21.st ees visited her Ki H iH8Wd i and began cursing Tr in i'l"1 to desist, and he k^d 6r a ^acG with his fist jy^oS-^id^d the house, H t you catch hold of hVI 11 tU !m th<) fac('? Didn't k'i Vr 'Hi^ °P °f the head with W«N: It ■ 7'n}) ti led to scratch you 1V?,'S;- Williams com- co,,duct' ine °f £ 2> Alf of a, month. the endant volunteered it th tfine, and Mr. Stock- 1114 'I> a defendant asked for

"ta.:I\. lit IV r Vila at'r Father. 44, li 4tc3 ike Its George Urch, of fHl been in so,- Kk^W V l Had Where she y x with SKK b??^is- °n tie ist > V^d!ather %to, a child> and A W ,He had sent her and inS' e.aclx since' the X^t J: S" smce sum- IJ. OtJ\J.ght tb. :hla.gisltl'ates' clerk, V I Id had eyes like its I' 313 1- a was made.

ur- r^l'T stealS; 1>0lltrhon«da, l> W 6s- 6d fi,a bridle and V1' k 5 Tonvn' IU' Property of c11 thSi, 0?andy-

fv i ^re imposed ChSu. • r^lli in e-^ Ystrad, i irS 'pi0,8' Rich- ^'■<5 ? nfble'n Gelli, 15s.; lot aVC i aud Enoch In trad • Lm' 5 Henry s £ i Joh»Tl¥Sthy V ^ficlvfir Thomas and V«>; 5t>Wy«ci' ,}?a- *&>■ i g 'JJ?-; Evan Tni ?J> 10?' Williams,, and Qh>i d. ji' a°h; Benjamin Q 1:> vns, Treher bert, VJ.s and John Wil- k. liams, Fernhill, 10s. each; John Wm. Lind, Pentre, 10s. Thomas Evans, Tre- orchy, 15s. Wm. Davey, Robt. Leaker, and Ivor Richards, Cwmparc, 10s. each; James Curtis, Trealaw, 15s. Benjamin Goodwin, Clydach Vale, 15s. John Gwilym, Penygraig, 10s. Thomas Carey, Gilfach, Goch, 15s. John John, Ystrad, 25s. Wm. Jones, collier, Gelli, 25s. Ed. Phillips and Thos. Blake, Treorchy, 10s. and 15s. respectively; Dd. Williams, Tre- orchy, 10s. Thos. Thomas, Clydach Vale, 10s. Philip Griffiths, Ton, 10s.; Samuel Davies, Treherbert, 10s. Dd. Griffiths, Ton, zCl; Alf. Bird, Pentre, 10s.

A Good Square Meal. This, like many another expressive if not very elegant phrase, we suspect came first from America. Everybody knows what a good meal is, but what is a good square meal? Why not a round meal or a "triangular" meal? A good square meal is usually under- stood to mean a full and hearty meal, including numerous articles of food. To eat such a meal, being keen set and free from care, is one of the few perfect plea- sures, while to digest it is to have one's strength renewed for the battle of life. The man who can eat a good square meal and get nothing but good from it is a man to be envied. That, however, is just what Mr. R. W. New, of 248, Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, could not accomplish. He ate the meal, and then-well, please read a few words from a letter written by Mr. New so long as January 6th, 1900. For a long time," says Mr. New, I suffered greatly from chronic indigestion. Nothing that I ate agreed with me, and on the rare occasions when I did venture to take a good square meal it seemed to lie like a lump on my chest and caused me much difficulty in breathing. Indeed, my entire system was thrown out of gear, and I feared that it would become neces- sary for me to give up work entirely. But that calamity was averted by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. It han-ened this way. One day I was describing my case to a gentleman, who said, bluntly: Try Mother Seigel's Syrup, and lose no time about it.' "I accepted this advice, and after the first few doses of the medicine was so much relieved that I needed no persuasion to continue its use. But it was not neces- sary to do so for long, for I was soon completely cured. Considering how long I had suffered, and how bad I was, I think that comes pretty close to being a miracle. I can now eat a square meal against any man, and get the good of it." Surely this is a remarkable and convinc- ing statement, but if any further proof is needed it is here. "I have no longer any trouble with my stomach," writes Mr. New, under date April 22nd, 1904. I eat just what I hke and as much as I like, and nothing hurts me. Dyspepsia is for me a thing of the past. I am well and strong as ever T was in my life: and my cure, so thorough and permanent, is, I know, en- tirely due to Mother Seigel's Syrup." The man who can always obtain a "good square meal" is to be congratulated, but the man who can always digest it is to be envied.

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Mine Winding Accident. Three Collier's Injured at Nantymeel. At the Western Colliery (Ocean Com- pany), Nantymoel, a carriage which con- tained eight men was ready to be lowered. W. Lewis, the banksman, gave the signal to the engine-driver, and the descent com- menced, but by some means, when the top of the carriage got on a level with the bank, it was caught by the fangs. These in a few moments gave way. In the meantime the rope had been unwound about 30 yards, and the carriage, with its occupants, was precinitated that distance. The men in the descent were tumbled on each other, as one of them said, "like sacks," and it is miraculous that none of them was jerked out of the cage into the pit. The carriage was at once brought to the bank, and it was found three men were hurt, viz.o William Francis, 20, Blaenogwr Terrace, broken leg. John Francis, 20, Blaenogwr Terrace, badly bruised; and John Morris, 32, Llewellyn Street, bruised leg. The others escaped with a severe shaking.

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The Bible: Its Character- istics and Claims. Paper4 by Mr. John Samuel at Treorchy. When Mr. John Samuel, M.E., under- took to accede to the request of the liliondda Baptist Union to read a paper at their last meeting, few expected the remarkable treatise he gave on the Bible and its characteristics and claims. Mr. Samuel's position as scholar, thinker and Biblarian has always been conceded as exemplary; his latest exposition has more than enhanced it, and he is loudly wel- comed. as the probable precursor of a notable change in the attitude of people generally towards the Book of books. But let the paper speak for itself. At the express wish of Dr. Morris, F.R.G.S. (pastor), Mr. Samuel read his paper from the Noddfa pulpit to a, large and appre- ciative audience on Sunday morning last. We append a few extracts from what was considered on all hands as a masterly composition abounding with literary gems and a stream of logical and convincing facts. The all important truths concern- ing the inspiration of the Holy Word, and the sequence of ideas and unity of pur- pose, were dealt with with that peculiar minuteness that made its authorship an undisputable fact. The characteristics were many and varied, all culminating in the revelation and realisation of a Divine Will. The opening sentence struck the keynote to the situation, and offered the only explanation for that which had sug- gested the subject matter There was a time in the history of Wales when it was unnecessary to call attention to the ques- tion now under treatment; a time when the Bible was the ruling power in the home circle, the guiding and deciding fac- tor in life, the only means of ensuring the mental and moral progress of the nation and the reflection of its spirit and conscience. But thev had to lament the big difference displayed in the present- day attitude towards the position and authority which the Holy Book main- tained in former days. Cymry sydd' bore a very unfavourable and unworthy comparison to Cymru fydd. This, therefore, had prompted Mr. Samuel to emerge from his shell with a timely utter- ance on a question that is near and dear to his heart—and many others. The mat- ter was too important and the responsibili- ties and results too far-reaching to allow anything but a searching investigation into the mode of securing a revival in this direction, and that revival was to take place in the church in particular." He feared that church members displayed a strange indifference to the claims of the Bible and their duty to it. Few, com- raratively, were they who exhorted, ad- vised and encouraged a regular and per- manent reading of it. The effectiveness of the reading consisted in the observance of a system whereby the relationship and bearing of passages and the trend of thought maintained. Sectional and dis- connected reading was to be discounten- anced. The glory and beauty was conse- quently lost, and it was more difficult to discern the oneness of thought and pur- pose that pervaded the whole Book. Mr. Samuel dealt pointedly with the Divine authorship of the Bible. Higher criticism and every other criticism would receive no favour at his hands. The whole argu- ment was emphatic in the rejection of such proposals. Again, not a little harm was caused by the acceptance of second- hand information concerning the Bible. A prayerful and first hand study of its contents was avoided, and observations and comments found in other books were accepted as authoritative. This was detri- mental to and harmful to the very funda- mental truths upon which the Divinity of the Word was based; the inspired thought was ignored." The speaker nest referred to the exacting virtues and demands of the Inspired Word, together with its kindly exhortations. The Bible, was the text book for all subjects. Through it we had come to know of the creation of the heavens and earth; the order of events; the creation of man after the image of God," and not as some- tried to teach them, as being the evolution of the animal and the survival of the fittest. In the Bible also they got the history of the downfall of man, and again, thank God, his redemp- tion. The revelation of God, apart from that parti- discerned in the magnificence of His creation, was to be found in His Word. His redeeming graces were ex- tolled His personality revealed through the love of Christ. Again, the Bible was unchangeable. It met all the arguments of Atheists and Agnostics; it refuted all incredulity and unbelief; Next came the placing of the Bible in its rightful place as the pre-eminent feature of literature of all ages, and a comparison with the pro- ducts of men shewed the excellence of the Bible as a book with a, definiteness of pur- pose. In other books, unity of purpose was a failure. Mr. Samuel exhorted a searching study of the Word as an effec- tive antidote to the misleading doctrines of false prophets and teachers. It made them witnesses of the truth. The prophets read it carefully, minutely and studiously. The tendency of the age was to run after and pander after worldly matters. It was to be feared that there were inside the church many wolves in sheep's clothing, and who reduced the Bible to the standard of commonplace literature. There were some who occu- pied the pulpit not to preach Christ as the Redeemer of mankind, but to adver- tise celebrities and to animadvert on mat- ters political and historical and scientific, and in consequence to lose sight of the really spiritual for the material. Mr. Samuel next went on to show how the division of books into sections did not belie the assertion that in it were corro- borative statements and truths shewing completeness and infallibility of Divine mind and Divine action, and how such divisions dealt with God as a Being in flesh and in spirit, but all the books and authors had one objective. Yet each book had its particular uniqueness, and was an indispensable part of a magnificent whole. Many other relative points too numerous and wide a compass to be touched upon within the limits of this short resume were dealt with by Mr. Samuel, whose paper deserves a verbatim translation and publication in English. He wound up, with a fine peroration, a remarkable composition brimming to the full with theology, logic, science and philo- sophy, and in character just the neces- sary stimulus to a much-neede'd revival in the matter of reading, studying and carrying into effect the principles of the Book which we have been taught to love and cherish.

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New Workmen's Hall, Ton. After the opening ceremony on Thurs- day, a series of concerts were held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at the above place. It seems quite appro- priate that this new building should be engaged for the first three nights by the workmen to give the district a musical treat of the first rate, when it will be re- membered that the workmen, who have been the means of raising this hall, are of a high musical talent themselves, many of them having been famous in Wales as leaders and vocalists. On Thursday even- ing, there was a very large audience. Mr. Jacob Ray, M.E., Treharris, was supposed to take the chair, but he had to leave by 2tJ early train, and Mr. E. Edwards, Maindy Colliery, was chairman instead. The artistes who took part were Madame Bertha Rossow, the Australian soprano, London; Miss Gwladys Roberts, R.A.M., London; Mr. Evan Williams, an Ameri- can tenor vocalist; and Mr. Emlyn Davies, A.R.C.M. Mr. W. J. Watkins, F.R.C.O., Dowlais, acted as accompanist. A first-class programme was gone through. Messrs. Evan Williams and Emlyn Davies opening with The Ballard Singers." Miss Gwladys Roberts then rendered Abide with Me." Mr. Evan Williams sang" Twixt you and me." Madame Bertha Rossow brought tEe house down through her accomplishment of that most difficult solo. "Ah! Fors 'e Lui" (Verdi). Duet," Over the Hawthorn Hedge," Madame Rossow and Miss Roberts. Mr. Evan Williams' rendering of Lend me your aid disclosed a most refined and cultivated tenor voice of great force such as is very rarely heard in the Principality. He was encored, and sang the old favourite Welsh air, Mentra Gwen," which again showed that he was one of Wales's natural artistes. The quartet, Brightly dawns our Wedding Day," brought an end to the first part of the programme. The second part was opened by a masterly execution of Bach's "Fugue"; "The Veteran Song," Mr. Emlyn Davies Tad yr Amddifad," Miss Roberts operatic duet, Crudel Perche (Mozart)—Le Nozzedi Figaro—Madame Rossow and Mr. Emlyn Davies; "From Boyhood Trained" (Weber), Mr. Evan Williams. A rendering of Sullivan's quar- tet, A Regular Royal Queen" (from The Gondoliers "). by Madame Rossow, Miss Roberts, Messrs. Evan Williams and Emlyn Davies terminated the first con- cert. On Friday evening the chair was occu- pied by Dr. Hughes, Gelli. The artistes who took part were the same as the pre- vious evening; but the programme was varied. Mr. Evan Williams and Mr. Emlyn Davies took the lead in their 'ex- cellent rendering of the duet, entitled Tenor and Baritone," which was loudly applauded. Solos from the works of the masters, Gounod, Pinsuti, and Randegger, were sung and appreciated. The Saturday evening concert was pre- sided over by Mr. W. D. Wight, Rhondda Rise, Ystrad. The famous Welsh tenor, Mr. Maldwyn Humphreys, appeared this evening, with the soprano, tenor and bass who appeared the two previous nights. The people in the locality feel greatly obliged to the committee of workmen for introducing to them some of the finest and most cultivated artistes of the day. They also feel glad that, at last, many meetings of different kinds may now be held at Ton, whereas before they had to convene meetings at the upper part of Pentre, or be without such at all. We are proud of the Library, Institute and Hall at Ton, and we trust that the young men of the locality will rise to take a more active part in the different move- ments which have their aims towards up- lifting them in particular.

Politics in the Rhondda. A public meeting under the auspices of the Rhondda Labour and Liberal Associa- tion will be held at the Theatre, Treher- bert, on Tuesday, when addresses will be delivered by Mr. T. Richards, M.P., and Mr. D. A. Thomas, M.P. Mr. Rufus Isaacs, M.P., and Mr. Tom Richards, MP., will address a meeting at Porth, on Saturday night, December 10th, in support of the candidature of Mr. W. Brace for South Glamorgan.

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Bavid n Bputal Collier. k?1 c°Uier, Tonypandy, was §""h b £ Charles Smith for aisault. timber ^aridy Field on Saturday, onr^^ess) a'skSe" wefendant cam(Lup- vf, wW » ,Kea, How are you getting him n;ef^dant jumped at him and refen,jailJ 1 the face. about a),ege^ that Smith had been atVwW f-i. place challenging him, «o h,?y.nmy met, Smith hit out afta ?ink:, ./f1'110 'w self-defence, hp L^he assm u saw complainant soon lonl- a Vii i' anc* told the magistrates Sf Pale ?ye- Complainant also >ft» £ ert"ibad' A man named sWa°k «ve k t°° bad been given said e? ivith y7 ^bomas. When remon- A' dicln-f • e constable, defendant tk ^revioii« tbe b enough." Was ^°^ce w COnviction for an assault on r\ to r> recoi'ded, and defendant ^ict 1S°n ^°r a montb-