The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

THE HAULIERS^ STRIKE I REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. PARTIAL RESUMPTION OF WORK. This week will probably see the end of the ttrike which has so injuriously interfered with the coal trade of South Wales during the past few weeks, for on all hands signs are to be seen that the men have become tired of their own inactivity and have decided to return to work. The pits that were at work in the RhoDdda Valley and the district on Thursday morning were Penrhiwfer (Glamorgan Coal Company) Mardy (Locketts Merthyr Coal Company); Peudyris (A. Tylor and Company) the Glyn Colliery, Dinas Main Pit and Dinas Level, Dinas Isha (Ely Rhondda Coal Company), Naval Pits, Penvgraig Llwynpia (Glamorgan Coal Company"), Clydach Vale (Thomas Riches and Compaiy), Ferndale (D. Davies and Sons, Limited), Gilfach Goch, Tony- refail. Fernhill and Blaenycwm. Meetings have been held throughout the valley and on Monday the Cambrian Miners Association held their monthly meeting, when Mabon and otherp reviewed the situation, condemned the strikers and upheld the principles of the Sliding- scale. On the other hand, the strikers held a meeting on the Rocking Stone, which, owing to the strike, will make it perhaps more famous than even its old Druidic connections. Here the famous firebrand Alderman Ben Tillett addressed the men and, seeing that he had had little, if any, information of the subject, except from the strikers' point of view, and that he has never taken an interest in coal mining affairs, we cannot very well understand of what benefit his opinion or advice would be. Marches were made on Pentre and other parts of the district during the day, and unfortunately the strikers had a brush with the police and military at Porth, but after a little parley and much hooting, the men decided to take the advice of Inspector Davies and avoid a collision with the men at work at Penvgraig and the the house ooal pits. At Llantwit too there was a little dis- turbance which resulted in a case of intimidation being heard at the Pontypridd Police-court on Wednesday, when the intimidator, a man named Morgan was sentenced to a month's imprison- ment with bard labour. The men at Cilfynydd are as it were setting upon the fence, and it is as yet not known how soon they will return to work, while the collieries that have not yet taken any action towards resuming operations are Watts- town and Ynyshir, in the Rhondda Facb, Ocean Collieries, Abergorky, Pentre, Cymmer, Coedcae and Great Western in the Rhondda Vawr and Ynysybwl, which belongs to the Ocean Coal Com- pany. RHONDDA HOUSE COAL DISTRICT. In the Rhondda house coal colliery district, the resolution passed at Trebanog mass meeting on Thursday last to resume work on Monday morn- ing has been pre'ty generally acted upon So far work has not been resumed at the house coal pits at Penygraig, but hopes were entertained that very shortly operations will be in full swing. At Per- rhiwfer 210 men descended the shaft on Monday morning, leaving only 45 unaccounted for. The number workir.g, however, was stated to be fully I up to the average for a. Monday. Further up the valley it was found that work had been resumed also at Dinas Isha, at Collena, and at Cilely. The workmen of the Glyn Colliery, Tonyrefail, have net restarted work. A large number of them assembled at the pit top early in the morning with the intention of descending, when it was found that several workmen living in Llantrisant had not put in an appearance. A general meeting was thereon held in the colliery yard, when de- putations were appointed to visit the absentees and inform them that work would be proceeded with on Tuesday, at Glyn Colliery, come what may. The workmen of the Dinas Mai. Colliery were idle. They had resolved upon resuming on Monday morning, but it is reported that they refrained from doing so in consequence of certain threats which reached them on Sunday from the Garw. It is believed, however, that the men can be induced to descend. The house coal pits at Cymmer and Ynyshir still remain idle. RE STARTING THE PENYGRAIG COLLIERIES. On Monday a large number of people flockod to the immediate vicinity of the Naval pits, and when the men. attired in their working clothes approached the pits a. number of the spectators hooted and shouted vociferously. The miners were, however, heedless of explanations, and shortly after they had all been let down the pits the concourse of people gradually dispersed. About 350 miners, including hauliers, went down, and two hours later trams heavily laden with ooal were being raised quickly to the surface. About 150 repairers, labourers, hauliers, and other workmen had resumed operations in the mines at midnight to make preparations and to clear the falls to enable the miners to resume work in the morning. The miners protested against having any military or constabulary protection but nevertheless Sergt. Hoyie and a. number of police officers patrolled the neighbourhood during the night. The military have been daily parading the district from Forth so far as Trealaw, a locality adjoining Penygraig, but it is not pro- bable the soldiers will go near the Naval pits. Meetings have since been held at Llwynpia and Clydach Vale, where about 4,000 workmen are out of work. The streets presented an unusually quiet appearance. It is a common saying that the Ocean Collieries will be the last to re-start, be- -cause the hauliers of these pits were the first to come out on strike. COALOWNERS AND STRIKERS. AN IMPORTANT STEP CONTEMPLATED. We hear on exc-jl!biit anthority that although no resolution was passed on the subject, it was practi- cally agreed at the meeting of the Coalowners Emergency Committee i" Cariiff on Monday that if any workmen who have resumed work again come out, the owners of the pits will lock out the men and not allow them to resume work until the strike is over. This is so?erioas a step that it is to be sincerely hoped no occasion will arise for such drastic measures. ATTEMPT TO STOP A LLANTWIT COLLIERY. OIl Monday morrd^ an attempt was made by a number of strikers to stop the workmen employed at the LlantwitRe i A-h Colliery from proceeding to work. Mr Tom Taylor, the owner, who lives at Pontypridd. was communicated with and he at once drove over. aud found that the strikers had beaten a retreat and that the workmen had descended the pit as usual. Thera was not any disorder. ATTITUDE OF LLWYNYPIA WORKMEN IMPORTANT DECISION. Soon at'ter the procession passed through Tonypandy on Tuesday morning, a meeting of the steam coal workmen employe! at the Glamorgan Colliery, Llwynypia, was held upon the Athletic Ground, close to L!wn vp;a Station. It had been originally intended that the meeting should be held within the colliery yard, but at the last mo- ment this arrangement fell through. The band stand in the Athletic Ground was utilised as a platform, and fr.m -300 to GOO miners assembled. After a long discussion, in which the pros and cons of the situation were discussed, it was resolved with remarkable unanimity that work in the j steam coal collieries of the Glamorganshire Com- pany should be resumed Wednesday morning. 1 The news soon spread throughout the district, and I caused great rejoicing. It is beleived. however, that the men present at the meeting will take a further step in the direction of consulting with the workmen who were absent before any decisive step is taken. The workmen generally employed at these collieries number from 12,000 to 14,000 Mr W. H. Hood, the agent, is at present spending his holidays in Scotland but we understand that Mr Gilmour, who is in charge, will at once make arrangements for facilitating the resumption of work. THE RHONDDA FACH VALLEY. RESTARTING OF THE TYLORSTOWN COLLIERIES. Operations were resumed Tuesday morning at the Tylorstown Collieries, the property of Messrs Tylors and Co., about 300 miners, including hauliers and repairers and labourers, went down into the mines. The workings are in an exoellent condition, notwithstanding the stoppage of the three pits for nearly three weeks. About 1,000 workmen are employed at the works when the collieries are going in full swing. It is believed I that a large number of men will resume work. The news haA given great satisfaction to the men in the district, including the surface man. It is r> officially stated that about 300 workmen restarted Tuesday morning. The men were allowed to pro- ceed to the pita unmolested in any way. THE PROCESSION TO THE RHONDDA. INTERCEPTED BY THE POLICE AND MILITARY. The first seriras collision between the police and strikers in the Rhondda took place on Tuesday in connection with the demonstration of strikers who marched through the Rhondda to Pentre for the mass meeting. The procession started about nine o'clock from Pontypridd, a large number of men being present, the numbers increasing on the march from Pontypridd to Porth. At Porth a separate section had formed into processional order prior to the arrival of the other strikers. It having been rumoured the previous night that the men would march in two sections, one going to Trebanog where the house coal pits are at work, and another going through Penygraig and Llwynpia, the police, acting, ne doubt, ander instructions, determined to prevent the prOOfNJion from crossing Cymmer Bridge. When, there- fore, all was ready for a start Inspector Davies, of Porth, who waspressnt with three police-officers, backed up by a contingent of military stationed at Porth, had a lengthy parley with some of the leaders of the procession. He asked where they were going, and was told they intended going along Dinas-road, through Penygraig and Pandy to Pentre. He pointed out that the Llethrrfdu-road, past the cemetery was the high road and the shortest route to Pentre, and if, &s they said, they were a peaceful procession going to Pentre tha.t was the road for them. He asked who the leaders were or who was in charge of the procession, and first one and then another came forward, uutill there appeared to be about a duzen leaders, alt say ing they were in oharge. With these, therefore some further talk took place. The proeession tried to insist upon taking the road they had mapped out for themselves. Inspector Davies said he feared they wished to go through Peny- graig, where th- men were working, and Llwyn- ypia, where the men intended to hold a mass meeting that day, and as they were oarrying bludgeons the result might be a breach of the peace. The leaders of the procession declared that if they were not allowed to go over the bridge they would report the matter to the Home Secre- tary. Inspector Davies pointed oat that be waa not blocking the way of the processsion, bat simply preventing going along that particular road while the high road-the best road and shortest route—was open to them. One man came for ilranl and took up a fighting attitude, as if he wished to strike the Inspector. Others interfered, but threats were uttered by some amongst the crowd, and consequently, Inspector Davies called upon the military behind to be ready. The military immediately closed up, but neither the men nor officers did anything beyond that. The procession having hooted at the police and military, took the road suggested by the inspector. Thinking then that the procession migh march across Dinas Bridge, the police and military marched along the Dinas road in order to, if possible, interoept the procession again. Dinas Bridge, however, was avoided by the yrooession, but as the police and military had to go round a long curve through Penygraig and the procession turned along the shorter route, wlren Trealaw Bridge was reached the procession bad crossed the, Llwynypia side of river. Penygraig had been avoided, ut Llwynypia where the meeting was goirg to be held, would have to be passed through. The polioe and military soon overtook the procession, and follow- ed close behind them. When they reached Llwn- ypia the Glamorgan coal company's men were be- ginning to assemble for the mass meeting, but not maay had some together, and the strikers made no demonstration. The police and military then returnad to Porth, and the strikers went to Pentre to the mass meeting. About one o'clock, however, news reachtd Porth that at the close of the mass meeting it was in- tedend to march to ^reherbert in order to demon- strate before the Fernhill woskmen, who have been working for over a week. The soldiers d ¡ Porth were immediately brought together and sent op by the two o'clock train to Tranerbert. On their arrival there it was found that the strfker) had peacefully disbanded and were making the best of their various ways home—this time by the shortest routes. The military returned to Porth by the next train. ABANDONMENT OF A FERNDALE PIT. 800 WORKMEN AFFECTlID. We are authoritatively informed that at the meeting of the Coalowners' Emergency Com- mittee, held in Cardiff on Monday, Messrs D. Davis and Sons reported to their colleagues upon the committee that in consequence of the con- tinued losses suetained by them in carrying on No. 4 Pit, Ferndale, for some time past, and the serious expense which would be involved in its re- opening after the strike, the oompany have re- solved not to resume operrtions at thist pit. About 800 nen are thus deprived of employ- ment. WORK RESUMED AT SEVERAL COLLIERIES.^ Since last week work has been resumed at Fern- dale, Penygraig (steam and house coal), Llwynpia J (steam) Ciyrlsab VillI", Glyn, Dinig Isaf, Dinas Main, Penrhiwfer. Gilfach Gocn, Cilely, Collena, Fernhili, Graigwen, LJantwit Red Ash, THE OCEAN COLLIERIES. No start has yet been made at the OCEtiJI Collieries whare the strike oriijiuated 30 far aa the Rhoudd* ia concerned, for it was to the Park Valley tha.t it spread from the Garw and 0<mcre. The Ocean Colliers, being the first to go oat, are thoaght 6;> be the more determined to stand out. GELLI HOUSE COAL MEN. We are informed thttthehcnse sial workraan at Gelli are very sorry that tney were uot represented at the recent meeting of honaa ccal eollisrs. The blame, they My, is attached to the f'nV9!lN9 of tha meeting,and thatftbey were not informrd of the mass meeting at this place. ACUTE DISTRESS IN THE RHONDDA. EATING RAW MEAT. In the case of Messrs Cory Bros.' collieries no I movement has been made by the men to hold I meetings. They are in a dilemma, not knowing which way to turn. The distress in the district is aOute. An old workman of 47 years ntar.Jing was earnest in his appeal to the men to re start work as their position | wa.s ridiculous in the extreme, and stating that the men were continnally appealing to the leaders to convene meetings with a view to a settlement. The old collier recited a. case of want andprivaticn which will astonish our readers. CHIL93EM HATINO RAW MEAT. It seems, last Friday, a woman from Ton rushed into a butcher shop and stole a fry. The butcher was unable to stop her, and sent a policeman in search for the woman. The constable went to the woman's house, and there saw some little children in the act of ravenously devouring the fry, raw. He immediately returned to the butcher, not having the Leart to interrupt them in their meal, informed him of what he had seen, advising him at the same time to send a loaf of bread up to the house, advice upon which the butcher acted. This is one of many cases daily ooming before the authorises. A soup kitchen has been started by publio subscription at the Main Hall, Pentre. The question here is how does the people live. It was thought Tynybedw Colliery. Pentre, would have started, bat the oolliers, who had called a mee ing, allowed it to fall through.

Typhoid Fever in the Rhondda. DEATH AT THE COTTAGE HOSPITAL. On Sunday morning a man named Lewis Williams, suffering from typhoid fever, died at the contagious diseases hospital at Llwynypia. The deceased and his son, who is also infected with the same contagion, were removed to the hospital on Saturday morning from the cellar house, where they lived at Pentre. It is stated that 13 persons occupied the two-roomed cellar house, which is situated close by the river side. Dr Williams, rredical officer to the county, and Dr James, medical officer to the Ystrad Local Board, and Councillor Morris, Pentre, visited the hospital on Monday.

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LITERARY JOTTINGS. The Rev. James Wood, editor of "Nuttall'# Standard Cictionary," has just completed, after a labour of three years, an exhaustive "Dictionary of Quotations," containing 30,000 references and a classified index. It will be shortly pubblbed by Messrs. Frederick Warne and Co. Mr. H Johnson, editor of "On Sledge and Horse- back to Outcast S'berian Lepers," is preparing a short life of Miss Kat? Marsden in order, it is said, to correct inaccurate versions of some periods of Miss Marsaen's life that have gained currency. The Record Press, Limited, will be the publishers in this country. The English, Illustrated. Magazine has been pur- chased by the pr prietors of the Illustrated London jVrtvs, and the October number will be issued from the office of that journal. The magazine, which will be considerably enlarged, will be under the joint editorship of Sir William Ingrain, Bart and Mr. Clement Shorter, the editor of the Illmtrattd London News and the Sketch. Mr. James Murdoch, the author of "From Australia to Japan," is now in London. The ex- professor of history in the Koto Chugakko, Tokyo, is on his way to Paraguay to organise the schools for New Australia, the socialistic colony from the Antipodes that has lately obtained large concessions from the Paraguayan Government. An account of the new colony may be expected shortly from him. Mr.Fiaber Unwin is preparing to issue a collection of stories, entitled "The Heart of Montrose," by "Esther Carr." The author, Mrs. Hartopp, unfor- tunately died before the publication of her book. In the Pseudonym Series the "Sinner's Comedy" and "A Study in Temptations," both by "J oj I n Oliver Hobbes," have gone respectively into a fifth and fourth edition, whilst V. Schallenberger's "Green Tea" is about to enter its third. The volume entitled "Memorials of St. James's Palace," upon which the Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal has been engaged for several vg,,trs pa?t. and will be published in the autumn, ought to be very interesting, as all the private archives in the Lord Chamberlain's Office have been placed at Mr. Sheppard's disposal, as well as the Chapel Royal records, and he has, therefore, been privileged to overhaul a great mass of quasi-private papers con- taining much curious information.—Truth. Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh and London, will shortly publish a wcrk en "Ecclesias- tical Heraldry," containing numerous emblazoned and other plates, by the Rev, John Woodward, LL D., Montrose. This work will form a companicn volume to "Heraldry, British and Foreign," by the same author; which was published last year, and is now out of print. The same firm have in pre- r aration an Atlas of India, with accompanying letter- press, historical and statistical, l y Sir W. W. Hunter, K.C.S.I. It will contain 16 plates of maps and plans of cities,with an index of names, and will be sold at a popular price. Mr. W. H„ K. Wright, of the Plymouth Library, sends to the Literary World a curious story, which illustrates the determination to get a book pub- 1 shed at any ccst. The Rev. Will Davy, Vicar of Lustleigh. Devon, could not afford to have a 26- volume "History rf Divinity,in a course of sermons on the First Institutions of Religicn. published at his own risk. He consequently bought some old type, set it up himself,and pri; ted his volumes two pages at a time. Fourteen copies were printed altogether, and the task took 12 years (1795 1807). There is a copy in the Bodleian, de-cribed ia Macray's "Annals of the Bodleian," p. 259. "Contemporary Scottish Terse" is the title of the next rolume of Messrs. Scott's Canterbury Poets Series. Sir George Douglas, Bart., has selected the poems, and has also written the introduction. The poets whose works will appear in this edition include Lord Souchesk, Professor Blackie, R. L. Stevenson, Andrew Lang, George Mac Donald, John Davidson, and Hugh Haliburton. In the Con- temporary Science Series the following three a.re among forthcoming volumes: "Industries of Animals," by F. Houssay; "Factors of Evolution," by Professor E. D. Cope; and "Laws of Life in Language,' by Professor C. H. Htrford. The same firm are about to issue a Life of Whittier by Mr. W. J. Linton. Messrs. William Archer and Robert W. Lowe are editing for Messrs. Walter Scott three volumes of dramatic essays. The first series will contain selections from the criticisms of Leigh Hunt, both those issued in 1807, long out of print, and the ad- mirable articles contributed more than twenty years later to the Tatler and never republished. The second includes selections from the writings of William Hazlitt, whose essays on Kean and his contemporaries have been inaccessib le, save to collectors. Some hitherto uncollected criticisms by John Foster, George Henrv Lewes, and others, with selections from the writings of William Robson, the old playgoer, will appear in the third volume. The essays will be concisely but adequately an- notated, and each book will contain an introduction by Mr. Archer and an engraved portrait frontis- piece. Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Bowden publish "Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries." The county of Notting- ham, beautiful in forest scenery and full of historic interest, is comparatively little known to tourists, and until now there has been no guide-book to con- vey information respecting it. The present volume, however, does not confine itself to that county alone, but tells of Bflvoir Castle, in Leicf strrshire, reaches the boundary of Yorkshire at Siiireoaka.and includes Bolsover and Hard wick, which are both in the county of Derby. By those who decide to spend their holiday in an excursion through Robin Hood's Land this book, with its railway routes and fares, lists of betels and their tar and other intelligence, will be found most us«ful. In it is included "A Guide to the Town of Nottingham" and its railway communications. "W Iks in the Ardennes," published at 30, Fleet- street, by Mr. Perry Lindley, and illustrated by Mr. Julian F. Weedon in pen-and-ink sketches, ig. says the Morning Post, an admirable guide to the region that lies between Namur and Luxemburg. As it is on the direct road to Switzerland, and, with a. slight detour, to Li6ge and Spa, it may be taken as a part of a German tour, and should be a popular district in which to spend part of a holiday. in this book the author points out the places of interest to be seen. It is not only a country of great natural beautv, but rne still boasting of the old-fashioned and cheap hospitality of the village inn-kepper, whose primitive prices will be appreciated. Althe-jgh Mr. Lindley terms his book "Walks iu the Ardmnes," he lays down routes for cycling, driving, boating, and by rail; and. is addition, gives some notes on shooting and fishing. Same at least of our literary celebrities are r< st- ing during this hot month, says the Echt. Mr. Husk in, who is happily once more restored to health, is at Biantwood, his pretty country 3eat at Coni3ton, spendi: g his days in reading, talking, and sle piug, without a thought of composition. Mrs. Oliphsiit has lately repaired to the Riviera, which she seems likelv to make her home alto- gplLer, in place of Windsor. But like another clever woman novelist, Mrs. Riddell, who lives at Haif liiiOjton, she cannot with any pleasure remain long unoccupied, and both are deeply immersed in novels for the autumn season. Mr. Barrie is at his bfloved "Thrums," or rather Kin if muir, a little village in Forfarshire, noi so very far from Bal- moral, and Mr. Conan Doyle, his fast friend, has been in Switr.eilaml, at Luc me and other plac<8, where he could not retrain from lecturing on "Ei glish Novelists of the Day." A third edition of Dr. Norman Kerr's standard wo:k on Inebriety is now in the press, and a goad deal will probably be lieard of its'iool i the Govern- ment be able next Session to den; ■ h the subject of habitual drunkards, whose c r-.t- ry detention and medical treatment in hum, i inebriates has long been advocated by Dr. Ktrr. It may be re- muribered, says the Datl,?I Chronicle, that a Depart- mental Committee app^inte^ ty He late Home Secretary reported in favour d i-m h tiedtment, and that Mr. Asquith has intimated his intention cf giv- ing legislative effect to ti e G mmittee's recom- mendations, so that it will be no logger necessary to < btain the consent of the habitual drunkard him- self before subject ing him to curative treatment. That drunkenness is a disease rather than a vice, and that cur -tivo rather than punitive treatment is the tiue rem dy, has long been Dr. Kerr's conten- tion, and this view appears to bs generally accepted by most of those who have studiou the subject. Tbe Lady or the Tiger ? That is the question that has made calamity of many sleepless nights. Some time ago the problem was cartied a stage further in "The Discourag r of Hesitancy," but i 11- terest in it seems to be as great as ever in Am lica. Mr Gould Morris recently contributed a sketch to the Yale Courant in which Mr, Stockton is con- fronted after death with the awful choice between two doors-the one leading to eternal fire, the other to the souls of those whom he has tormented. Mr. Stockton himself corrects this story. A beauti- lul angel si ts his mind at rest by teding him whict came Forth, tho La- y or the 'liger; and as th happiness of knowledge was too great to enjoy to long, he had to be sent back to earth f r a time. The latter version must be true, f(,r he is still here; so wheu will he divulge the eecitt ?

CONTEMPORARY CHAT. It is well for the safety of Admiralty House, Sheerness, that the practice of military operations for the defence of the mouth of the Thames has concluded. The official residence of Vice-Admiral Sir Algernon Heneage. Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, according to the Daily Telegraph, always sutlers considerably when heavy ordnance is fired in its vicinity; but this year it has been specially unfortunate, Garrison Point Fort is armed with •juns varying in size from twelve to thirty-eight to S, and a result of their being brought into action is that over a hundred panes of glass have been smashed in this building alone, while the ceilings )f several of the rooms have fallen in. Fortunately or his peace of mind the Commander-in-Chief was absent from home, on board the flagship Wildfire, when the damage was being done, but returned on Saturday afternoon in time to see the ruins. At an expense of considerably over £ 100,000, the offices of the School Board for London on the Victoria Embankment are now being enlarged, and, indeed, reconstructed. The board-room, where the weekly meetings will be held, and where the mem- bers will assemble on September 28;h at the close of the vacation, is circular in form, a feature of the decoration being a number of stained glass windows containing portraits of Mr. J. R. Diggle (the chairman). Lord Lawrence, Mr. E. N. Buxton, Sir C. Reed (past chairmen), Dr. Glad- stone, Mr. F. Freeman, and General Moberley (vice- chairmen). Among other conveniences the board- room contains a spacious press gallery, and ad- joining it is a commodious press-room reserved specially for the use of mem bers of the press attend- ing the meetings of the Board. There is a hand- some reading-room and library, with other evidences of comfort and convenience, not forget- ting a refreshment-room. The architect who has been entrusted with the work is Colonel Edis -City Press. one eSect ot a long and hot summer has been the supersession of the bathing-machine at some of our watering-places. At the little town of Broadstairs, for instance, during the extremely hot days of late the bathing-machino accommodation was quite un- equal to the demand, and one or two of the local tradesmen, seeing their opportunity, hurried ia a supply of small tents, which they sold er let out at four or five shillings a week. "I found," said one family man, "that to say nothing about the bother of getting machines, bathing charges would amount to £ 4 while we were down here. For C2 15s. I have got a tent that serves for all my family, and which wiii, of coarse, serve for future use. No more bathing machines for me.* A good many other people appeared to have bit on the same idea, and, at all events for children, these little teats took the place of the unwieldy and inconvenient boxes to an extent quite unprecedented. At the same time the longer passage to the water naturally suggested rather more elaborate bathing dresses, and there has consequently this year been a very evident advance towards the fashion of French wa.tering-places. -Daily New;. Sir Arthur Sullivan, during his summer residence at Weybridge has progressed go satisfactorily with the new comic opera which he is composing for the Savoy that Mr. D'Oyly Carte proposes, as we learn, to distribute the parts and to put the work into choral rehearsal early next week. Towards the middle of September, says the Daily News, Sir Arthur will return to London, and the ordinary re- hearsals will thenceforward be held daily under the direction of the composer and Mr. W. S. Gilbert; so that the opera will, it is hoped, be ready for production in public very soon after the Norwich Festival in October. Two of the leading parts will, we understand, be filled by Mr. Rutland Barrington and Miss Nancy Mcintosh. The lady, who is new to the stage. has already gained success as a vocalist at the Monday Popular Concerts and elsewhere. She is an American, a native of Cleve- land, Ohio, and she studied singing first for three years under Mr. Errani at New York, and latterly under Mr. Henschel in London. "The Earl of Aberdeen, the new Gevernor- General of Canada, is a slim-built man of middling height and affable manner, with a full dark beard, and is rising six-and-forty," says Lippineott's Monthly Magaeim. "He is the head of the Gordons, who have been distinguishing themselves in Sccttish history ever sinoe the Flood, being the seventh earl of that ilk, and is the husband of a very charming and accomplished wife. His grand- father was twice Prime Minister of England. His eldest brother, who was hopelessly eccentric, shipped under an assumed name as a common sailor on a West Indian fruit ship, and was blown over- board during a gale off the coast of Georgia. This was in 1872, and as a result it cost the present peer a small fortune to establish his right to the title. But his lordship has other claims of distinction than those of pedigree. Though born in the purple, with the traditional silver spoon in his mouth, he is great enough to be a democrat, and as Lord-Lieuteaant of Ireland during Mr. Gladstone's third administration he fmpahasised this fact with splendid success. He very plainly shewed that he had no use for the con- temptible castle hacks who till then bad run the viceregal government, and altogether so endeared himself to the people that when he took his depar- ture from Dublin to give place to the descendant of carotid-cutting Castlefeagh they gave him an ovation of the good old Irish sort, such as had not been seen in Ireland since the days of O'Connell. And he deserved it." An article entitled "The First Engineer," in the Cornhill Magazine for September, contains the following description of the home of the mole: The central chamber or fort is floored and carpeted with dry leaves, but is comparatively seldom used in summer, being mainly reserved as a winter residence; for, active and voracious as he is, the mole is compelled perforce to hibernate underground while the frost binds the soil and the earthworms are snugly coiled up in their neat little bedcham- bers. To prevent waste of tissue and consequent starvation during this enforced fast, the frozen-out miner retires for a while to his fortress and sleeps away the winter in a torpid condition. While the cold weather lasts he becomes almost comatose his heart scarcely beats, his lungs scarcely act, and only so much loss of material goes on as enables the organs to keep just working at extremely low pres- sure. But as soon as thaw sets in, and the worms are once more on the move, you will see almost instantly numerous fresh hillocks thrown up in the meadows, which announce that the busy mole is fairly on his rounds again. He comes out ap -,e with the earliest celandine. The conspicuous little mole-hills, however, which often run in lines across a field in very close succession are not for the most part the work of the father of the family himself, but of his faithful helpmate. Even she only throws them up, as a rule, Just before the birth of her expected young, when her strength doesn't permit her to undertake anything more than the most superficial excavation. At other times, she digs deeper and lees obtrusively; while the male aeidom shews his handicraft at all on the surface. The mother always digs a nest for her young apart from the fortress, and lines it with moss or grass as a bed for her little ones. In their earliest stage, I believe, the young moles are vegetable feeders at least, in nests which I have opened I have found roots and tubers laid up, apparently, for the use of the babies. If this is so, it would seem to shew that moles were originally vegetarian; for the young always revert to the primitive food of the race, and only acquire the later tastes of their kin4 as they approach maturity. lfe». raagts: "How So you like mr new maid f Mrs. Jingle: "Ofc, she'd he all right If Khe were not so over refined." Mrs. Fangle: "In what way? Mrs. Jingle: "She never breaks anything b"i. \c most co*tiy Dresden china." j

i THE POLICE COURTS. I PONTYPRIDD. Wednesday—Before Messrs Ignatius Williams (stipendiary), L. G. Lenox, Dr L. W. Morgan. W. Merchant D. Llewellyn, T. P. Jenkins, Be H. N. Daviesjand G. T. Clarke. ASSAULTTNG YB8 POMCN.—A man named BIINL Jones was charged by P.O. Edward Williams. Navigation, with assault. The constable said he was going up along the bridge when the defendant and some others sneeringly asked him for protec- tion as there were 40 policemen coming apthi bank. The policeman refused the requests* protection and the defendant followed bim at the road and struck him in the eye and kiokea him in the face. He then left the spot and the constable went to seek assistance. Later in the evening he met P.C. Phillips, who helped him to arrest the prisoner, but even then defendant strnek him in the face. On being Dross-examined fey Mr James Phillips, the offioer said he had fceeai on the best of terms with the defendant ap to that evening. He did not push the dafaadaat with his elbow, and did net begin to spar with the defendant. Jones so far as the constable know was a respectable man. P.C Phillips oorrobor*ta4 The defendant expressed hia regret at what lie had done, but he had acted upon some provoe*- tion.- Owen Morgan, called for the defence, solid he was on the bridge with the defendant whom P.C. Williams came up, Jones asked Willianu it he had seen the policemen that had come up faad I the two men had then a set to, and were boxing for some time. Witness asked them to stop, bat they refused and eventually Jones fell on hia back and the constable took hold of Jones's throat and hands and put his knee on his stomaoh. §H< put his foot on the man's private parts and aid. "Now I have got you, you b- Then Edward Jones kicked and struck the policeman in the eye. The witness believed that both the man and the policeman were drunk. In cross-examination the witness said he was employed by the defendant'* father, who asked him (witness) to give evidenee. He had not been to a public house and was qoito sober.—The Bench considered that the defendant, under the influence of drink had begun in a jocular way. They did not look upon it as deliberate attack upen the policeman, but it was m case of interfering with a man in the execution of his duty. Defendant would be fined £2 including costs or a month's imprisonment. BACCHANALIANS.—Benjamin Larke, Ynysybwt. collier, for drunk and refusing to quit a paMht house on the 8th inst., was fined :.£1. There weN three previous convictions against him.lam.. Morris and John Hopkins, both of Pontypridd were sent to goal for 14 days each for being drunk on the 19th inst. while Edward Oldaore, ON fynydd, and Wm. Davies, Norton Bridge, wero each fined 5s for a similar offence. ASSAULT AT TM?OMST.—Thomas Merry, Tre- forest, for assaulting a man named ^Cornslivo I Collins, was fined 10s, including OQste. STEALING WOOD.—John MacCarthy, a boatma* on the Glamorganshire Canal, was charged by P.C. Williams, of the Dowlais pits, with stealing a pair of planks. Witness found the planks wer* missing, and on investigation was told that the planks had been stolen by the defendant. Wit- j ness thereupon followed the defendant who had gone down the canal and overtook him at Trallwn, where one of the planks was found in tho boat, Morgan Heywood, a labourer, was called to give evidence and he said be saw the plank being taken from the Dowlais Company's barge, but a witness named Isaac Miles, called for the swore that Macarthy found the planka in the. water. Defendant was Aned J61.

WISE AND OTHER WISST The sailor knows how to tighten a Hue. 111'. taut it. Young author: "Don't you like to see youraoM in print?" Debutante: "No, I prefer silk." Jei's: "Jack virtually told Maud that she Wti powder." Bess: "What did she say." Jew. "Simply exploded." 4, That motion is out of order," said the chairaoa of a political meeting as he saw a rowdy raisiag his arm to throw an egg. "Ah." said Jenokus, taking his friend's babyc "he has got his mother's eyes-and my hair," he added as the infant grabbed him by the feretop. She: Why do you get so angry when I am ex r.t loving to you?" He "Because I know whal it means. Come, bring out those confounded bUta Priest: Well, Biddy, so Pat has been fighting I see." Biddy Malone: "Begorra, yer river* t-uce, it's himself that's niver at pace widout he's IOl2htin' I When I am dead and gone," said she, Will you secure another wife P No, never, never," answered be, "While I recall our wedded life." "Papa, I guess there isn't any plumbers is iieavan," said a six year old youngster OM rainy iny. "Why not, my son?" "Because the sky etz) s to leak so easy." Clara: "I guess Mary Good's cat is dead. She hi. i't had a scratch on her face this inontkl. .Mamie: l'hat isn't the reason. Her intended ba^ c-ased wearing his scarf pin." Mistress: 1, Another soldier has called on you, Jane. 1 thought you had only one sweetheart?" Cook: No, mum, two. I has one on reserve,' an, thi-y says in the military." Jones: "I knew that man when he hadn't a shilling in his pocket." Smith: "Why, did he ask you to lend him one ? Jones: "No. I asked him to lend me one." Smith: "Oh!" "One of you boys has been stealing raisine again; I have fo nd the seeds on the floor. Which one of you was it ?" Tommy: "It wasn't me: I swallowed the seeds in mine." Pa, when they send letters to the dead letter office what is it that kills them ?" "They am stamped to death, I guess. Run along and play with your ball, and don't bother me." He doffed his tHe and locked thereat. And to himself he said: Yes. that is certainly my hat. But where did I get this head ? Tommy: "Say, Mr. Gull, do you like colir meat ? Gull: Why do you aak that, Tommy ? Tommy: "'Cos Maud said she was going to givo you the cold shoulder." [And Maud heard it.] "I can't understand what has happened to my watch. I think it must want cleann4g." "No. papa," chimes in little Fanny; "I am quite sure it ia clean, because baby and I washed it in the baaia his morning! Father: In commemoration of this happy eveot I have now to offer you some delicious port I bottled cn the day of my dear daughter's birth." Guest: "And splendid wine it is—40 years old if a da; "Hawker seem3 to have a bad cold." "He has, but he'll get out of it." "Why do you think so ? "His friends have recommended nearly 1,700 cures." "Oh, then he's safe." "Yes; he hasn't used one of them." Tommy: Did you do much fighting during the war, pt ?" t'a; "I did my share of it. Tommy." Tommy: "Did you make the enemy run ? Pat "You're right, I did, Tommy." Tommy: "Ditl they catch you. pa ?

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