The Rhondda Leader

Ton-Pentre Police Court. Monday.—Before the Stipendiary (Mr. J. Ignatius Williams), Aldermen Richard Lewis, Wm. Morgan, E. H. Davies, Coun- cillors D. W. Davies and J. D. Williams. A Tylorstown Desperado. The conduct of James Reardon, a man of short stature, of Tylorstown, appeared on Saturday night to. be that of a, des- perado of the worst type. He was seen by Sergt. Bowen in Queen's Square, Tylorstown, in a very drunken condition and cursing and swearing. A friend was trying to take him home. After a little while he went, but shortly returned, drunker than before. The officer again requested him to go away quietly, but he declined, and consequently P.S. Bowen proceeded to arrest him. Prisoner threw himself on the ground, his feet in the air, and kicked him on the chest and afterwards on the shin. Prisoner then seized the sergeant's fingers in his teeth, biting them so severely that he had not been able to sleep since with the intense pain. P.C. Williams came to his assist- ance, and he also was bitten on the thigh. So severe was the struggle that all pri- soner's clothing—except his trousers—was torn off. He had ultimately to be con- veyed to the police station in a grocer's cart. Prisoner alleged that he didn't bite the officers. The injuries on Bowen's hand were caused by that officer striking him in the mouth, knocking out a couple of his teeth. For the assault upon P.S. Bowen, pri- soner, against whom there were two pre- vious convictions for assaults, was sent to prison for two months, with an addi- tional month for the assault upon P.C. Williams. Police Assistant Assaulted. Hugh Thomas, Pontypridd, was fined 10s. for being drunk and disorderly at Pontypridd on Saturday night. Thomas was so violent that the assistance of a civilian named Schofield had to be ob- tained. A young one-armed man named Frank Gees interfered and struck Schofield in the mouth. This defendant, who had no fixed abode, and who obtained his living by singing in the streets, was fined t2, or a month's imprisonment. Hat Pin as a Weapon. Margaret Ann Probert, a married woman, of no fixed abode, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting P.C. Davies. The evidence showed that on Saturday night he found prisoner in Pontypridd in a drunken and disorderly state. When spoken to by the officer, she kicked and struck him and attempted to stick him with a hatpin. P.C. Phillips said he arrived on the scene just in time to prevent prisoner stabbing the last witness with a hatpin. She had to be taken to the police station on an ambulance. Forty-two previous convictions were recorded against prisoner, who was now sent to prison for two months. Telling a Dog's Age. Mrs. Clayfield, the wife of a Cwm- clydach collier, answered a charge of keeping a dog without a license. P.C. Hawkins spoke to seeing the dog, and said Mrs. Clayfield told him it was not six months old. He requested her to bring it to court. A friend of Mrs. Clayfield now appeared in court with the dog, which was sub- jected to an examination by Mr. J. D. Williams, who said that in his opinion it was more than six months old. When asked how she remembered the age of the dog, Mrs. Clayfield said i j was born two days before her baby (laughter). Defendant was fined 7s. 6d. and costs. Fred Martin, Cwmclydach, was also fined 7s. 6d. and costs for a similar offence. Publican Prosecuted. Wm. James, landlord of the New Inn Hotel, Clydach, V e, wa sufsr permitting drunkenness and supplying a a, an Ken person. Mr. James Phillips defended, and said that defendant only held the temporary transfer of the hotel, and he contended that until the license had been perma- nently granted to him at the annual Licensing Sessions he was not a licensed person under the Act, and therefore not responsible. The Stipendiary thought otherwise, but offered to state a case, which Mr. Phillips declined. The evidence of P.C.'s Thomas and Sellers was to the effect that an overman named John Bowen was found on the premises in a speechless drunken con- dition, with a glass of beer in front of him. When the question was asked who had supplied Bowen, no one replied, but when the landlord was told he would be reported, he said, He has not been sup- plied here." In cross-examination. the witnesses could not say how long Bowen had been in the house, nor did they see him drink or pay for the beer. The case was dismissed, without calling upon the defence. Theft of Clothing. A charge of stealing a parcel contain- ing clothing, value 10s., the property of Thomas Elias, haulier, 12, River View, Tonypandy, was preferred against Fred- erick Ball, a Pontypridd coster. It was stated that prosecutor deposited a parcel on the platform of Pontypridd Station on Saturday night, and defendant, on leaving for Cardiff by the last train, took the parcel with him. Defendant said the parcel got mixed up with his goods. He was fined E2, or a month's im- prisonment. False Pretences. A lo-year-old lad named John Emms, Rhys Street, Trealaw, appeared on a charge of obtaining a pay-ticket from the Cambrian Collieries by false pretences. Defendant, by telling a lie, obtained a collier's pay-ticket, No. 249, the amount on which was tl, and presented it at the pay office. Here, however, the ticket had been stopped, and payment was conse- quently refused. The Bench threatened defendant that next time he appeared in court he would be sent to a reformatory. He would now be fined Pl, or fourteen days. Was She Wrong P Mary Ann Lock, a married woman, of Treorcliy, was charged with stealing two counterpanes from outside the shop of Wm. Evans, draper, Temple of Fashion, Treorchy, and a pair of boots from John Palmer, boot dealer. Defendant said her husband had been idle for six weeks. She had no money, and as she did not know the minute she would be confined, and had no clothes, she took the counterpanes. On the husband undertaking to pay the value of the boots (which defendant had worn) to Mr. Palmer and returning the counterpanes to Mr. Evans, defendant was dealt with under the First Offenders' Act. A Violent Prisoner. Alfred Allsop, timbcrman, Gelli, was charged with assaulting the police. According to the evidence of Inspector Williams and P.S. Rees, defendant was in I a terrible state of drunkenness, and when ejected, he became very violent and assaulted the sergeant. There was a struggle, and Inspector Williams had diffi- culty in holding him while the sergeant handcuffed him. Prisons had to be con- veyed to the police station in a brake, and, the Inspector added, he was fairly mad, and didn't come round until mid- day the following day. The Bench took a lenient, view of the case, as prisoner bore the effects of a fight in which he had taken part prior to his arrest. He was fined 10s. for the assault, and 10s. for being drunk and dis- orderly. Brutal Conduct. Albert Suter, a milk vendor, of Pentre, was summoned at the instance of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cruelty to a dog. Mrs. Ball, Woodbine Cottage, Pentre, said defendant was in the habit of carry- ing milk to her house, and every time he did so he worried her dog. On the 20th ult. she saw him teasing the animal, which ran after him. She saw a stone thrown after the dog, which ran into the house with its eye protruding, and which appeared to have been knocked out with a. stone. Her husband said that in con- sequence of the injury, the dog had to be destroyed the following day. P.S. Rees spoke to examining the dog, whose eye was protruding and the ball smashed. The animal appeared to be dazed and suffering great pain. Inspector Johnson, of the N.S.P.C.A., corroborated. Defendant admitted kicking the dog and also throwing a stone at it. He did so to defend himself. The Bench characterised the defendant's conduct as very cruel, and fined him £1 and costs.

Forth Police Court. Thursday.—Before the Stipendiary (Mr. Ignatius Williams), Mr. Thos. Jones and Dr. E. N. Davies. Boy Birched. Two lads named Jeremiah Condon and Thomas Livingstone, Ferndale, were charged with stealing 14s., the property of John Davies, baker, Fern da] a. Davies had 14s. in coppers in his van, and whilst delivering bread the money dis- appeared. A little later, Iivingstone ran after him and handed him 7s. 10,ld., say- ing a boy had given them to him. Condon admitted taking the money and handing it over to Livingstone. The case against the latter was dis- missed, while Condon was ordered to re- ceive four strokes with the birch. Hard Lines. Wm. John Price, Blaenycwm, was charged with deserting from the 41st Welsh Regiment. Defendant said he came home on fur- lough, and finding his parents were starv- ing, he remained home to look after them. He was remanded to await an escort. Alleged Pocketpicking. Elizabeth Morgan, a respectably-dressed married woman, of Troedyrhiw, was charged with stealing a purse containing money from the person of Emily Pennenn, Nantgarw. The evidence of the prosecution was to the effect that at Pontypridd Market, Mrs. Pinnenn lost her purse, and found her pocket turned inside out. Later, she saw the defendant with. the purse in her hand, and the money found in her bag closely corresponded with the coins lost by the prosecutrix. Defendant alleged that she picked up the purse, which only contained a half- penny, from the ground. The money in her bag was her own. The case was dismissed. Child Neglect. Margaret Leaty, a married woman, of no fixed abode, was summoned by the J^tffruai •■StecjeJge. Js>r-tft.?- Prcsestion jjf Cruelty to Children for neglecting her child. Defendant was seen several times by Inspector Thomas under the influence of drink, with her child in a pitiable state, insufficiently clad, and covered with vermin and rash. He had seen her sing- ing in the street with the child hanging on her arm, with a pitiable expression on its face, which he thought the mother had taught it to assume. Defendant was bound over to come up for judgment when called upon, the Bench advising her to go to the Work- house, when efforts would be made to find her husband and send her to him. Insulting Langnage. Robert Vaughan, Pontygwaith, was summoned under the Glamorgan County Council bye-laws for using insulting lan- guage towards Emily Armes, barmaid at the Penrhys Hotel, Pontygwaith. Mr. Wayne Morgan prosecuted, and defendant, who did not appear, was fined £ 1 and costs. Hullo, Whiskers! Edward Edwards, Martly, was summoned for assaulting Dd. Lewis. Complainant's story was that he was in an hotel, when defendant came in wearing false whiskers. He ejaculated, Hullo, Whiskers and Edwards' hirsute adornment then fell off. Edwards, be- coming exasperated, struck Lewis with his stick, knocking three of his teeth out. He was fined R2. Porth Hippodrome. Mr. Chas. Mathews again made appli- cation for the grant of a music and dancing license for Porth Hippodrome, and stated that the whole of the magis- trates' requirements had been carried out. The Bench requested Mr. Mathews to make his application nexit week.

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The Revival. Appreciation by Mr. W. T. Stead Mr. W. T. Stead, editor of the Review of Reviews," writing in the Daily Chronicle," says: As spring-time precedes summer and seed-time harvest, so every great onward step in the social and political progress of Ureat Britain has ever been preceded by a national revival of religion. The sequence is as unmistakable as it is in- variable. it was as constant when Eng- land was Catholic as it has been after the Reformation. Hence it is not necessary to be Evan- gelical, Christian, or even religious to re- gard Mth keen interest every stirring of popular enthusiasm that takes the familiar rorm of a revival. Men may despise it, hate it, or fear it, but there is no mis- taking its significance. It is the precursor of progress, the herald of advance. It may be as evanescent as the blossom of the orchard, but without it there would be no fruit. The question, therefore, which I set out to South Wales to discuss with those who are in the midst of what is called the Welsh revival was whether this popu- lar stir and widespread awakening might be regarded as the forerunner of a great national—nay, possibly of a still wider- movement, which might bring in its wake social and political changes profoundly improving the condition of tne human race. The net conclusion at which I have arrived after twenty-four hours spent in the heart of it is that, while no one can dogmatise and no one can prophesy, it would be advisable for the wide-awake journalists to drop the newspaper head- line The Welsh Revival,' and inscribe it in future as The Rising Revival in the West.' Nor would I like to venture to predict how long or how short a time it will be before that heading in its turn will have to give way to the simple title of The Revival,' which will be neither in the west alone, nor in the east, but which will spread over the whole land as the waters cover the face of the' mighty deep. Of course, the signs of the times may be mis- leading, and that which seems most pro- bable may never happen. But writing to-day in the midst of it all, I would say with all earnestness, Look out!' The British Empire,' as Admiral Fisher is never tired of repeating, 'floats upon the British Navy.' But the British Navy steams on Welsh coal. The driving force of all our battleships is hewn from the mines of these Welsh valleys, by the men amongst whom this remarkable reli- gious awakening has taken place. On Sunday morning, as the slow train crawled down the gloomy valleys-for there was the mirk of coming snow in the air, and there was no sun in the sky-I could not avoid the obvious and insistent suggestion of the thought that Welsh religious en- thusiasm may be destined to impart as compelling an impulse to the Churches of the world as Welsh coal supplies to its navies. "A SMOKELESS FLAME. Nor was the force of the suggestion weakened when, after attending three prolonged services at Mardy, a village of 6,000 inhabitants lying on the other side of Pontypridd, I found the flame of Welsh religious enthusiasm as smokeless as its coal. There are no advertisements, no brass bands, no posters, no huge tents. All the paraphernalia of the got-up job are conspicuous by their absence. "Neither is there' any organisation, nor is there a director, at least none that is visible to human eye. In the crowded chapels, they even dispense with instru- mental music. On Sunday night no note issued from the organ pipes. There was no need of instruments, for in and around and above and beneath surged the all- pervading thrill and throb of a multitude praying, and singin, as they prayed. The ntçongregations were as soberly sane, as orderly, and at feast as reverent as any congregation I ever saw beneath the dome of St. Paul's, when I used to go to hear Canon Liddon, the Chrysostom of the English pulpit. But it was aflame with a passionate religious enthusiasm, the like of which I have never seen in St. Paul's. Tier above tier from the crowded aisles to-the loftiest gallery sat or stood, as necessity dictated, eager hun- dreds of serious men and thoughtful women, their eyes riveted upon the plat- form or upon whatever other part of the building was the storm centre of the meeting. There was absolutely nothing wild, violent, hysterical, unless it be hysterical for the labouring breast, to heave with sobbing that cannot be repressed and the throat to choke with emotion as a, sense of the awful horror and shame of a wasted life suddenly bursts upon the soul. On all sides there was the solemn glad- ness of men and women upon whose eyes had dawned the splendour of a new day, the foretaste of whose gjories they are enjoying in the quickened sense- of human fellowship and a keen glad zest added to their own lives. The most thorough going materialist who resolutely and for ever rejects as in- conceivable the existence of the soul in man, and to whom 'the universe is but the infinite empty eye-socket of a dead God,' could not fail to be impressed by the pathetic sincerity of these men; nor, if he were just, could he refuse to recog- nise that out of their faith in the creed which he has rejected, they have drawn and are drawing a motive power that makes For righteousness, and not only for righteousness, but for the joy of living, that he would be powerless to give them. Employers tell me that the quality of the work the miners are putting in has improved. Waste is less, men go to their daily toil with a new spirit of gladness in their labour. In the long dim galleries of the mine, where once the hauliers swore at their ponies in Welshified Eng- lish terms of blasphemy, there is now but to be heard the haunting melody of the revival music. The pit ponies, like the American mules, having been driven by oaths and curses since they first bore the yoke, are being retrained to do their work without the incentive of profanity. There is less drinking, less idleness, less gambling. Men record with almost incredulous amazement, how one football player after another has forsworn cards and drink, and the gladiatorial games, and is living a sober and godly life, put- ting his energy into the revival. More wonderful still, and almost incredible to those who know how journalism lives and thrives upon gambling, and how Toryism is broad-based upon the drinking habits of the people, the T'ory daily paper of South Wales has devoted its columns day after day to reporting and defending the movement which declares war to the death against both gambling and drink. "THE FIRST SIGN. How came this strange uplift of the earnestness of a whole community? Who, can say? The wind bloweth where it listeth. Some tell you one thing, some another. All agree that it began some few months ago in Cardiganshire, eddied hither and thither, spreading like fire from valley to valley, until, as one ob- I *1. server said to me, 'Wherever goUtb from, or however it began, Wales to-day is in a flame. oUtward One report says that the 11 new and visible sign that there e was power and spirit among the P country witnessed at a meeting 1I1rriie chapel in Cardiganshire. x unco»' after an earnest appeal to ^eare1'8 verted, besought those 01 then1 whose hearts were moved w'i ,je- testify before the congregati and cision to serve the Lord. cajne t^e painful pause followed. A;Sa 1 rrassing solemn appeal. Again the embarr silence. nause, But it was broken aftei -^els*1 the rising of a girl, a yo tg gpoke woman, who with trembling -n the11 up and said, If no one e s jeSlJs must I sav that I do love my Lor vas Christ with all my heart. up and broken. One after another stcc" ars and made public confessions wi thanksgiving. -n0 on- "So it began. So it is g -g <Here 110 one else, then I mus't. celf-coDse, am I, send me!' This :ve av°w?, cration, this definite and de ier tbell of a determination to put gin feet their dead past of vice toWards & indifference, and to reach 0 js goiD,f higher ideal of human existence, lt on everywhere in South a the we think of it sanely ancl loo r gpec- right perspective, is there a th tacle appealing more direc J gee» highest instincts of our natui in all the world to-day. ONS. VILLAGE OF 500 CONVERSIONShe At Mardy, where I spent ^eInsel?e? miners are voluntarily taxing p0ll!id <? this year three-halfpence in ^Qiiey r.v their express' request t public hall, library, and i'C £ ^oney their express resuest tne pay-d^n deducted from their wages on 2>(W They have created a. libra .v use C, books, capitally s,elected hapels They have about half a doze} alJ(j th churches, a co-operative society, hanle, usual appliances of ciyilisatio • every outward and visible si« vill^^ trial prosperity. It is a pure and simple, industrial its nakedest primitive form.. piee In this village I attenc'eC, if ho^e ings on Sunday—two and a jn the morning, two and a hair ,j afternoon, and two hours M I had to leave to catch the th1 these meetings the .same .greg^e went on. the same kind of assembled, the same strai >eg emotion was manifest. „n- crowded. Pulpit stairs were P c —mirabile dictu !—two-thirds g^ 0lle-h gregation were men. ancl at 1 young men.. "There,' said one, 'is jnt jjere a'ty the glory of the moTemen there is a grey heard. J>UI, art J cpx- of the congregation were sta^ miners, who gave the meetiti^ 0f « vour and swing and enthusia j The revival had been going irCJieS for a fortnight. All the ch^ been holding services every ^i^-ch great results. At the Baptist arly had to report the addition 0 b^P.^ J. members, fifty were waiting reclal t,ad thirty-five backsliders had h^e rices In Mardy the fortnight s 1 this' resulted in 500 conversions. w0rsbiP it noted, when each place ot Of j going 'on it. own.' Mr. E«ge ,-en''h the so-called boy preacher ot n0t. 1 and his singing sisterhood g0. Mardy until the Sunday or ^tv^her "I have called Evan '^ce- cal led boy preacher, because e^y- a boy nor a preacher. He is 0f t^ ful, good-looking young Inall most V;Ilj- six, with a pleading eye and js a agt some smile. If he is a boy gtjally f 0y. foot boy, and six-footers ar? -j0t their boyhood. As he 1 neither is he a preacher. aI1d unaffectedly, earnestly, no pi'e1a-a 1*e' but he makes no sermons, th1 is emphatically not the n(> n vival in he West. If it ha» if foolishness of preaching lIleIl A,$ saved heretofore, that agencYback sela," it were destined to take a ,-j^v" the present movement. uV°n nthel The revival is bore a^°n^ is t° tbe ing waves of sacred song. is t revivals what the Italian Ope inging, c)1t ordinary theatre. It is th insti'1^ ^0 the preaching, that is tn sei" which is most efficacious 1 L hearts of men. In this rf'^P verai^ef gel" vices in the Welsh chapel .fgica gt. strangely of the beautiful taj,ly 1 „ vices of the Greek Church, -ciaSter Isaac of St. Petersburg on pilgrl and in the receptions of ]y[oSc<> UQW the Troitski Monastery, 11 e the The most extraordinary the meetings which I a ,.P '^°s>Lnfiel" extent to which they. or,1? tl>e without any human direct ^it, •„ 3s ship. 'We must obey the sp" dbe I$ rs. watchword of Evan Robert' foil 0\ obedient as the humblest anl° rtx^' The meetings open—after the cf/of preliminary singing, rea^1 o tion is assembling—by tn go- chapter or a psalm. 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