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Some of famous dressmaking houses of Paris stall complaining of the systematic theft of their fashions. Leaving out of consideration the moral aspect of the question from a trading point of view, it does seem a pity sometimes that someone docs not kidnap the fashion designers before they have time to perpetrate further offenxoa, instead of merely steel mg tbetr 'designs. According to estimates compiled by the National Company of New York, the amount of defalcations throughout the United States io 191S reached the enormous figure of £9.000.000. This is one of the records which other countries will certainly not envy the land of the Stars and Stripes, and one may venture to say that Americans will not shout the glad news from the housetops Our polo team has arrived, fit and woll, on the other side of the barring pond, and the members ore carefully preparing for the strenuous oootests which lie before them. One hopes chat the lossons of the laet visit bo the States will not be lost open ahem.

Flushed with an anticipated walk-over, tie last team como sadly bo earth when pitted against the Yankee experts, and great was our hurailiactioD. They took their bearing, however, like sportsmen, and on this occasion if the team is defeated it will certainly not bo a caee of pride goech before a The gentle game of Kill that fly has developed into a national and beneficent pastime. Now a big step forward in the campaign of destruction has been made in the issue of an order to the troops in the Aldershot command to scatter disinfectant in desirable places. The order, signed by the officer in charge of the administration, is given in great detail, and it dhonld lead to beneficial resalts. There is something comical, in the idea of our national fighting force being employed as a brigade of pest exterminators, but the step is dictated by aane and hygienic considerations.

from the immediate good in the neighbourliooQ of Aldershot, the experhnem have the effect of calling the attention of the whole country to the desirability of waging deliberate and concerted warfare against the pestilent housefly. A nation of spoon-fed prippeta iiwrtead of a nation of free and independent men and women" ia one of the results of obe Insurance Act, accord inpr to the Grandmaster of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. He even went so far as to declare that some of the approved societies adminiMered the Act as though it were inoeAdpd to relieve not only but a morbid disinclination to This morbid disinclinatjon," however. is not necessarily associated with the Act. There are a good many persons this world who were born with it and have never been able to overcome it.

The great army of loungers willing to be spoon-fed at the expense of the nation has naturally increased now that the Insurance Act places a premium on incapacity, but so long as they can manage to shirk work and ignore the ordinary obligations of healthy manhood they will do so. Insurance Act or no Insurance Act. Whether Bernard Shaw rely set out to shock the mind by the introduction of a sanguinary adjective rn his Pygmalion comedy, or he did it with a deHborate and serious intent, his action has had nnexpectedly farreaching effects. At Be non out on the Band, for example, where a woman was charged with using obscene language, the magistrate, quoting the precedent of the Shavian play as evidence of the offending word being used in society, held that the woman had committed no offence, though she might have shocked the detectives. Some dramatists, and not a few novelists, have been responsible for the introduction of new words into our.

language, but it is to be regretted that Ireakishness of this kind should be used bo the condoncmcirt and conseqaeiit enconragtsment of an ugly word winch, whatever its authority may be, has for centuries rightly been regarded with opprobrium. Commercial travellers from all parts of the country are assembled in Birmingham for tiheir annual conference this Whitsuntide. As tho Lord Mayor said in welcoming the delegates, this city is particularly dependent upon such men. it is engaged almost entirely in trade, and without Iba nbiquitoue bagman (using the term in no respectful sense) trade wookl not be eo active. Ip conference the commercial travellers find many useful topics to discuss.

As a class an observant body of men, they bare more opportunities than the average man of knowing what is going on and of appreciating the feeling of the people in different parts of the country and the world, for their market is a wide one, and their traffic far. Their agenda at tfixis conference is with varied subjects, from Insurance to Excess Luggage. When they nave digested them all they will have little appetite for fresh ideas for time a conference agenda always looks worse than it really is. AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. Tp-dat the starched collar and the black coat eonw into their own again.

The sudden bursting of the bonds of conventionality and custom which the Whitsuntide holiday brings is almost forgotten now; the old fetters are on neck and body, we are back in the old work-places, we are once again the slaves of routine and the servants of the need for an warned livelihood. A few lucky ones may be Able to stretch their period of freedom over another twenty-four hours, but they are comparatively a small minority, and, for most of ns. oar little time of exercise outside our cage has ended now. The skies themselves are ready to admit the reality of this uncalendered occasion, and to-day we work under grey, drifting elouds. while yesterday we found the sky a stretched awning of blue, across which little flakes of white drifted dreamily, a warm sun, and clean, inviting roads.

It has not been one of the very best of holidays, perhaps Saturday and Sunday were not all that one could have wished them to be, and even the refreshing brilliance of yesterday did not wholly compensate. Yet the Last day of the holiday was best, and we carry back with ns to our work the memory of a joyous break, a happy interlude without which we should be the poorer and more cheerless. Whitsuntide nowadays seems to be more justly viewable in that a secular interlude in the secular work of the year. To Easter and to Christmas something of the old religious spirit still clings, so that the festival is still the festival and the holiday a holy day. but since the Act of 1871 Whit-Monday has come to be much akin with the first Monday in August, a day chosen by lot from all the almanac, a short period of hours during which Parliament has decreed that the wheels of finance shall stand still.

Only as such we observe and enjoy it. Possibly, though, one is wrong in making the Lubbock legislation the sole cause of the change an holiday moods and habita. The fashions in holiday-making have changed appreciably orach more recently than forty years- agoindeed, they have changed, at least so far as the creat mass of the people is concerned, within the last ten The cause of the change one suspects, is the revolution in locomotionthe mere ability to get to somewhere else. It was the appreciation of this new power among the middle class and what we call the which was responsible very largely for the change in thought that produced the Bank Hodiday legislation of the last generation, and it has been the placing of this same command over locomotive power within the reach of all but the very poor which has altered the popular spirit of a Bank Holiday Bank Holiday used to be a day dreaded by all the timid old ladies and lonely students, as well as by all the respectable beads of households, a dozen years ago. It was a day when the country roads heard the noisy shouting and rough hilarity of wagonette and char-a-bancs parties, organised as much to investigate relative qualities of different brews of ale as to pass through rural scenery at night the streets of the town were equally unseemly, with drunken men and women sparring and shrieking on the pavement.

all that has gone; we no longer express surprise at hearing that yesterday was sober Bank and we find people enjoying their freedom in much less objectionable fashion. new opportunities for leaving the town are mainly, one believes, responsible; holidaymaking is decentralised, spread over a larger area, and no longer concentrated on one or two places not far from the centre of a city. Ihis year the motor omnibus has come to add its service to those of the cheap railway day trips and the long tram routes and nobody who saw anything of the Birmingham habits yesterday can doubt that in the Midlands is as welcome as it has been in London. It combines an agreeable leisureliness with something of the rollicking spirit of the old It avoids much of the dreariness and the grime of the train journey, yet it takes you to quite as lovely places, at no greater expense, and with a greater proportion of enjoyment. Seated on top in the stainless eminence of the holiday maker is sale from all the temptations of the old Bank Holiday, and happy in that both the end and the means his journey are enjoyable.

To those who meet the motor omnibus in a narrow, dusty country or to those who find it dwarfing the pretty little houses and shaking to their senile foundations the old buildings of some sleepy country town, we can believe that it is not a desired visitor but those are casual, individual disadvantages to a vehicle which has already done much to prove to the what Stevenson called tlie Great Theorem of the Essential Liveableness of It has brought the first fresh instalment of the summer within reach of those who bat for these holiday jaunts into the country, would find little of beauty and charm in their existence, and has spread, rather than spoiled, the Whitsuntide spirit of sport in the open air. Who knows but that in years to come the clumsy, lumbering motor omnibus may not appear as romantic as the Muggleton Coach taking the Pickwickians to their holiday in Dingley Dell, that future generations may not exclaim, thinking of onr motor omnibas, as Thackeray exclaimed, grieving dver the lost stage coach, we shall never bear the hom sing at A POPULAR ACTRESS. DEATH OF MISS LILY HALL CAINE HER SUCCESS AS Mias Lily Hall Caine (Mrs. George D. for many years a very popular and highly-esteemed actress, died yesterday at the residence of her sisterin-law.

Mrs. Edward Dean, at Aldershot. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, but she had never recovered from the grief of her death a little over two years ago. and she died, it may be said, of a broken heart. Mias Hall Caine, who was a sister of Mr.

Hall Caine, began her professional life under Mr. Wilson Barrett, but her first important appearance waa in Duchess of at the Opera Comique. Her earliest success was at the first performance of plays in this country, and one of her most notable impersonattons was that of Regina in producod under the auspices of Mr. Grcin. She played Desdemorm with much ability in Mr.

production of and other Shakespearean in Mr. Flanagan's revivals in Manchester. Later she sueeroded to Mrs. Campbells part in Mr. Henry Arthur and later stJI played Polly Lore in Mr production of "The at the Duke of Yorks Theatre.

For many years after that she toured the provinces (where she was perhaps one of the greatest favourites of her the part of Glory Quayle in the same drama. Her eaccess in the country (both artistic and financial) kept her out of London until 1905, when, at the invitation of Mr Arthur Collins, she took the role of the heroine at Drury Lane Theatre in her play, Prodigal This (which will be well remembered) waa the last of her parts, and for the past seven years she had not been seen on the stage. She was personally known to and beloved by a large circle, the late Chief Rabbi (Dr Adler), several members of his family, and many of their most prominent co-religionists, being among her warmest admirers. She brought Swinburne, with Mr Theodore Watts- Dunton, to the theatre after an absence of some twenty years, to witness the production of classic drama. As a child she manifested unique powers of observation and memory, and, living for a considerable period in the household of Rossetti, both at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, and liirchington-on-Soa, she "avo a vivid impression of the personality and surrbimdmgs of the poet-painter in A Recollections of Dante Gabriel Au even more tender and gracious note was touched by her pen in Remembrances of Christina Rossetti, which was.

as Mr. William Michael Rossetti has said, a vivid pen-picture of the pocteas seen through the eyes of a little girl. Miss Hall Caine, who was a ladv of very refined, highly-strung, and sensitive nature, lived a private life of the closest retirement; but many eminent members of both her own profession and that of literature knew her well, and will deeply regret her death. She leaves one son, seventeen yeans of age. KITCHEN BOILER EXPLOSION.

SEVEN MEN INJURED AT EOSVTH Seven men wore injured yesterday in a Rosytfc boarding-hone as the result of a boiler explosion, and two of them Smart, labourer, and John Martin, pedlar removed to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. A number of men who bad returned from the dockyard were preparing their meal on the hot-plate in the kitchen, when a boiler which was used for heating water buret with great violence. -jc explosion caused the whole building to vibrate, and about 50 lodgers in alarm rushed out of doors. men who wore near the experiencecKHhc full effects of the explosion, sod one of them was barled oat of a window into the courtyard. The two raco who were conveyed to the infirmary were severely injured about the face and head, and Martin had his nose blown off It is feared that one of the men will lose the sight of both eyes.

The back wall of a kitchen was rent, and the window of a grocer shop in the building was blown out. SALTLHY DEATH FROM POISONING. Late last night Kate Adie (50), of Great IVancis Street, Saltley, was found in tbe house in a serious condition suffering from tbe effects of turpentine poisoning. was promptly rendered, and tbe woman was taken to the General Hospital, but on arrival there life was extinct. LOST MEMORY CASE IN BIRMINGHAM.

Between nine and ten last ight a girl of sbout 16 years was found wandering in Birmingham suffering apparently from complete loss of memory. A constable saw her in Loved ay Street and took her to the General Hospital, where she was detained. The police are anxious to discover her identity and relatives. The deecnptkm they give is as IftVi lOin. high, fair complexion, wearing blue drees and black boots and stockings.

Patrick Hannon, a painter, who is out of work owing to the building trade dispute, was charged at Westminster Police Court, yesterday, with attempted suicide. It was stated that be had worked for tbe Office of Works, and bed been employed at Buckingham Palace. Mr Francis discharged him on an assurance that he would be looked aftor. THE BIRMINGHAM LOST LINER. ON THE STORSTAD AFTER THE COLLISION.

STORY OF CAPTAIN WIPE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR GOVERN- MENT ENQUIRY. ROYAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELIEF FUNDS. The official enquiry into the sinking of the Empress of Ireland will take place at Quebec on Jane 9th. It will bo conducted by a board composed of two judges of the Canadian Admiralty appointed by the Dominion Government, and a representative of the British Admiralty appointed by the Homo Government.

A Bill introduced in tbo Canadian House of Commons yesterday morning providing for the appointment of tho investigating Commission. Mr. Hazen, Minister of Marine, introducing the measure, said it was desirable to have a Commission, to tho finding of which more weight would attach than to the result of an enquiry under the present departmental machinery. The Government, therefore, had acceded at onoo to the suggestion of tho British Board of Trade. The Empress of Ireland was registered in Great Britain, and though Canadian jurisdiction was unquestioned ti was desirable to have the cooperation of the British auThorities.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, for the Opposition, approved tho proposal and promised to facilitate the passage of tho measure, which will be given a third reading tomorrow. Mr. Borden said the suggestion had been made to the Britiab Board of that a judge should be appointed. The Government is in communication with the British Board of Trade on the subject. The enquiry will be of great and painful interest in view of the conflicting stories of the disaster told by the captains of the two steamers.

The version of the accident as told by the Storstad officers ia markedly different from that of persons on the Bmpreaa of Ireland, and it will be the duty of the Commission of Enquiry to get ai the true facts and make them known to the world. The fund in aid of the sufferers from the disaster is growing rapidly, the donations sent yesterday tc the Lord Mayor of London iflcluding: From the King £5OO From the Queen £250 From Queen Alexandra £2OO From the Prince of Wales £250 The Royal gifts were accompanied by the following My have it in command from the King to inform your lordship that his Majesty subscribes the sum of £5OO to the fund your lordship is raising for the help of those stricken by loss of tht Empress of Ireland. For them in their overwhelm ing sorrow tho King feels most remain, William Oarbincton. My Lord hove received the Queen's commands to transmit to your lordship a cheque for £250 as a contribution from her Majesty to the Mansion House Fund which is being raised for the widows, orphans, and dependent of the crew and passengers who lost their in the recent appalling disaster to the Empress of Ireland. The Queen deeply sympathises with the poor bereaved relatives their overwhelming sorrow.

E. W. Waj-LIBCTon. My Lord am desired by Queen Alex andra to send yon a cheque for £2OO as a donation towards the fund which her Majesty is glad to see yon have opened at the Mansion House for the relief of the poor sufferers from the most appalling disasio to tha Empress of remain, D. M.

Pbobtn. The latest cablegrams relating to the ooiliajon ON THE STORSTAD. WIFE AND THE WORK OF RESCUE. DEADLY POSITION. Montubal, Monday An examination to-day of the Store shattered plates revealed that the anchor was jammed in a position where it could have ripped up the hull of the Dm press of Ireland like a great can-opener.

The anchor-point and portions of battered steel surrounding it boro stains of blood. One of the officers of the Store tad 44 At the time of the disaster I was lying in my bunk. I awakened by the shock. At first I thought the ship had struck a rock. I ran on deck and looked over the side.

The Storstad was going full speed astern. The water around was filled with struggling men and women shouting for help. The boats were immediately lowered. There was not a man of the Storstad who did not do his almost to aid in the work of Mrs. Andersen, wife of the captain of the Storstad.

told her story 10-day. She apologised for receiving the newspaper representatives in a blue cotton dress, explaining that she had given all her other clothes to survivors. She said that the captain was called from his bed on Friday morning by the mate because it was foggy. Her husband asked her to follow him on deck While she was dressing a collision took place. She ran to the bridge, where Captain Andersen was.

Everything was dark and quiet, and there was no excitement among the crew. She kept cool, and stayed on the bridge. WHAT THE CAPTATK BATD. She asked Captain Andersen whether the Storstod was going to sink. think he replied.

She could not cry. although she felt like doing eo. Captain Andersen told her he was trying to keep the Storstad in the hole she had made, and if the liner bad not been speeding they would have stopped together for a time, at least for a few She asked again whether the Steratad was sinking. tell yet," the captain replied. think it was five minutes ooncinned Mis.

Andersen, 44 that I heard and cries. I shouted to my husband, 4 Oh. they are At first it aeoroed as if the cries were coming from the shore. The captain gave orders to go in that direction, and proceeded very slowly. Everywhere around I could hear screams- My husband gave orders to send out all the lifoboate.

That oonld not have been ten minutes after the collision. first woman to come aboard was a Salvation Army lass, clad only in her nightdress. When she was brought to the cabin aho ran to me, putting her DAILY MAIL. TUESDAY. JUNE 2, 1914.

round my neck, and Mid, God bkoe jtm, my Angol! you had not been hare ire should hare gouo to the After the rescued bad been taken on board, Mrs. Andersen went among them with stimulants. All the cabins were packed with shivering survivors scantily attired. Many sought the engine-room for heat, and were so numbed by the icy water that they leaned against the cylinders of the engine till the flesh blistered. WHAT THE OFFICERS SAY.

the of the rescued crow coming on the Corsican. The Corsican, which belongs to Allan 'Line, is due to arrive aft Glasgow ca next. COVENTRY FATE. STRANGE STORY OF ANOTHER COLLIER CAPTAIN, Telegram, per Press Association.) Montreal, Monday. Conversations with several officers and members of the crew of the Storstad all bear out the story that the Storstad was going fall speed astern when the collision occurred.

Captain Hoi tang, of the Norwegian collier A Wen, has told a highly-responsible official what his second officer and pilot saw when they passed the Empress of Ireland some thirty sea miles from where the collision occurred, only a short time before the disaster. According to wbat the official toW the Montreal this is wbat took The AWon, chartered by the Dominion Coal Company, was on her way up the St. Lawrence only thirty miles from Father Point when the Empress of Ireland was sighted, steaming towards them. Both the pilot and second officer wore on duty on the bridge of the Alden, and are said to be willing to swear to the following: The Empress of Ireland was steaming down the St. Lawrence when they met with her.

Sho was loproacbing the collier in such an erratic manner that both the pilot and second officer became greatly concerned. So erratic, they are said to have declared, was the course, that at times her groen light could be seen, at ether times her red lantern would show. The course of the Empress of Ireland is described as MR. LAURENCE IRVING. BODY PICKED UP ON SUNDAY NIGHT.

HIS TRIBUTE. Qukbbc, Jane 1. The body of Mr. Irving was picked up last night on the west bank of the St. Lawreoco below Rimooski.

According to Canadian Pacific officials, the face is nnrecogmsable, and the body was identified by means of a signet ring bearing the initials L. One bond still clutched a piece of cambric, probably torn from the night attire of his wife, whom he was making desperate efforts to save when last seen. Router. ms. h.

b. this cm. Mr. H. B.

Irving, speailnng at end of the per. formance of "The Mask," tn which ho took a leading part, at the Oxford Opera House last night, said: should not have been bore to-night had I not felt that an actor is a servant of the public, and that even at a time like thus he has to think of has os well as inrnaelf. Of my personal loss by my dear death this is not the place to spook, but I may perhaps be permitted to say just a Tew brief words of the low to the stage, and to the sorrowing hearts of all those who kwed my I have appreciated in the few days bow many those were. ai least find some consolation in noble end, so characterjstic of the coon, and they must he proud at the universal tribute to the greatness of what he bad already achieved on our stage, and what he womki undoubtedly have achieved in still greater measure had he boon spared." A memorial service for the late Mr. Lourenoe Irving vas borvi arranged bo be held at St.

FicAde Church on Friday at twelve THIS CABLES. MORE NAMES OF MISSING OR EDENTrFTED PASSENGERS. PATHETIC Di Further cables received this morning at the London offices of the Canadian Pacific announce that J. McClcan, engineer, from the steamer Monteagle of the Canadian Pacific service, boarded the Empress of Ireland at tbe last moment, and is not reported among tbe survivors. Henry Lewis, a steward, is also not rescued.

Another cablegram says that tbe body of a little girl about seven years of age has been found at Little Mails with a piece of string tied round her wrist. The body of Mrs. Charles Bristow, of Leeds, baa been identified. Additional cables give the following names of bodies Mrs. Hart Bennett, of Nassau; Miss Maud Cullen and Maater Cullen, of Toronto; Mrs.

Dunievy, of Derwent; Mr. A. C. Maginnis, of London; and Mrs. Tytee, of Montreal.

Second-class: Adjutant Becks lead, of Winnipeg; and Mrs. Green, of Toronto. It is also stated that J. Lenina and O. Brown, both second-class passengers, are rescued.

FOUR SISTERS One of the most pathetic stories arising out of the loss of the Empress of Ireland is that associated with four young girls named Parr Kathleen, aged Nancy, Dorothy, and Bessie, all of whom are reported as drowned. They belonged to a family of eight, all girls. Their father, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Boston, Linoolnsbire, went out to Canada, and bis wife and children joined him there two years ago. He died eoon after, and tbe mother succumbed to typhoid fever last November. The four girls were being brought home to their uncle, Mr.

Harold Farr, at Hg-t ley-on-Thames. SURVIVOR BECOMES INSANE. Eimocski, Monday. A woman, apparently a Swede, was found to-day wandering near here naked and incoherent. It is believed she is a survivor from tbo Empress of Ireland who drifted ashore on a piece of wreckage, and that her mind has been deranged by her THIRD-CLASS PASSENGERS AND CREW COMING TO ENGLAND ON LINER CORSICAN.

'Hie Canadian Pacific Railway Company issued the fallowing statement from their -London office this Wo are informed by cable from Montreal that 01 rescued third class possengers have boon transferred to tbo Corsican, which sailed yesterday for Glasgow, together with 7A members of the rescued crew of the Empress of Ireland. An official of this company will moot the survivors on their arrival at Glasgow and provide them with necessary clothing and sufficient funds to carry them to their destinations. The names of iho 61 include the Martin, Belfast; Kirtley, Mrs. E. West, Hartlepool; S.

Liverpool; Bcrvan, Liverpool; Dransfield, George, Liverpool; Bristow, C-, Leeds; Bristow, C. H. Leeds. The company has not yet received a cable giving FEARED TO HAVE PERISHED IN THE DISASTER Grave fears are entertained that a Coventry young woman, named Mias Alice Duckhan, was a passenger on the Empress of Ireland. Miss Duckhan, whose parents live in Clarence Street, Coventry, went America as a ribbon weaver about two years ago, and recently her mother received a letter from her stating that she intended to oorae to England on a visit, booking by the Salvation Army excursion, which was coming by the Empress of Ireland.

Enquiries are being made to-day by the local shipping agents of the Canadian Pacific. Messrs. Ashley and Pugh, and this afternoon a telegram was received from Liverpool stating that up to the present Miss name cannot bo traced among the list of passengers who sailed on the Empress of Ireland Further enquiries are to be made. HOME RULE. POSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS AT DUBLIN THIS WEEK.

PARTY LEADERS IN IRELAND, A rumour is current in Dublin, says the Morning Post correspondent, that it is quite probable that 1 conversations on the Home Rule question between leader-; of both parties may take place in Ireland this wuch. The rumour appears to be based on the report that during the week several leaders of the Opposition and the Government will be in Ireland. At the moment two leading members of the Unionist Party, the Marquis of Lansdowne and Sir Edward Careon, are in the country. Mr. Birrell has either arrived or is due to arrive immediately.

There is a report that Mr, Lloyd George is to come in a day or two. and Mr. Asquith is staying across the Irish Sea on the Island of Anglesey at Lord piece near Holyhead. Whether it is by design or otherwise that so many leaders should make Ireland their holiday ground, tho fact is certainty not without interest. THIRD DEGREE DRAMA.

MR. ARTHUR BOURCHIER AND MISS V. VANBRUGH IN BIRMINGHAM. GOOD ACTING AT THE PRINCE OF WAIVES. A few years ago, in Arm of the which he bimseif adapted from famous drama, Mr.

Arthur Bourchier gave us a fine picture of the methods of the French examining magistrate, and incidentally helped himself to a part with splendid acting possibilities. Charles Third title infinitely preferable and more expressive than the modish the Woman which has been substituted for in a somewhat similar fashion with the torturous American police institution, known familiarly as the third degree examination. And again Mr. Bourchier has a fire vehicle for the display of his gifts, though this time in the comic vein. The piece is frank melodramamelodrama with a purpose in its original home.

New blended with comedy, much of which is, literally at any rate, of the cup and saucer type. Apart altogether from its prime intention, Find the Woman is a strongly knit play of emotional appeal, depending largely after the manner of its kind upon situation and heavily-drawn characterisation. Lately it has been revived in serial form at tho London Coliseum, and the same company, including three of those who took part in the original prod notion, are supporting Mr. Bourchier and Miss Violet Vanbrugh at the Prince of Wales Theatre this week. Last audience followed the unfolding of the drums and its developmenl through a series of tense scenes to a happy ending with evident relish.

As the play was given some time ago at a flying matinee in the same theatre, there is do occasion to cbacaee its plot in detail. It has to do mainly with the effort made by a New York police officer, Captain Cl in ton, by dint of a six buTlyrng, to extract a murder confession from a jaded man in respect of a crime he did not commit. Howard Jeffries has gone in a -state to the room of a rich wastrel, Robert Underwood, to borrow money, wnd while be is there Underwood commits suicide. Immediately Jeffries is submitted to tho fatiguing examination, and on the point of oolhipee. and in a condition of hypnotism, the desired confession is wrung from him.

Thereafter there is a battle on the part of wife to enlist the support of the family lawyer, and to win over the opposing members of the family. The situation is complicated by the fact that who visited flat is in reality the wife of the elder Jeffries. Confusion in the name throws suspicion on wife, and it is not until the last few minutes of tho play, even after has acquitted, that the other confession tho way to his domestic happiness. The play was well acted all round. Miss Violet Vanbrugh, substituting Boweiy twang for her own pure English, gave a eompefTing study of the young wife struggling for the life of the man who had married her against his wishes.

It was good, strong acting all through, relieved here and there with pleasant comedy. Mr. Bourchier once more gave convincing evidence of his possession of comedy gifts of an uncommon order. There was occasionally a little over-emphasis on the physical side, but he played roost of the time with engaging good nature and a delightfully light touch. Mr.

Ray Raymond made a genuine bully of Captain Clinton, and the scene wna strongly handled, Mr. A. E. Matthews, as the accused man, hero having his best opportunity. Miss Mary Dibley played the Mrs.

Jeffries, on pleasingly conventional melodramatic lines, and the several minor characters were well done. SUTTON PARK BY-LAWS. EXCEEDED. A fine of ICs. was this rooming inflicted by the Sutton Coldfield magistrates on a labourer named Samuel Davis, Northwick, Jockey Road, for a breach of the by-law which required residents availing themselves of the privilege of turning horses and cattle out to grass in the park to have them properly marked and registered on the Ist of May each year.

The defendant purchased the pony from another resident on the Ist March last, and allowed it to remain in the park without complying with the condition stated. CLERGYMAN FINED FOR DANGEROUS MOTORING. A Burslem motorist, Rev. William Browne, of St. Presbytery, Hall Street, Barslem, was fined £1 and costs at Cannock Police Court to-day for driving a motor cycle at a dangerous speed.

Police Superintendent Grove stated that he was driving a motor-car in Wailing Street, when a motor cyclist passed him going very fast. Witness increased the speed of bis oar to 25 miles in order to test the speed of the motorist. He then heard a born sounded behind, and defendant came up at a fast rate. Hra speed must have been 35 miles an hour. Binategtwm 'DmQj THE HOSSE SHOW AT HIGHETTRY YESTERDAY WAS A GREAT SDCCESS OtTE PHOTOS SHOW (ON LEFT) MS, AUSTEN CHAMBKSI4EN WITH ms LITTLE SON, AND SIGHT; THE SOSHS WH-OR THE TANDEM CLASS WAS BEING JODGED.

MR. C. A. DEATH. ROMANCE OF THE MISS WILL.

HEIR TO A GREAT FORTUNE. The deeth took place in London yesterday of Mr. Charles Alston Sniilh-Ryland. of Harford Hill, Warwickshire. Mr.

had for a long time been suffering from an internal complaint, and the cod came at 5.30 last evening. Mr. decease recalls an interesting chapter in the history of Birmingham. It will be remembered that he was the principail legatee under the w.ll of the late Miss Rylaud, to whose beneficence the inhabitants of the city are so greatly indebted. In 1873 she presented the cAy with Cannon 11 Pou and six yea--s later gave forty-two acres of land to the Corporation at Small Heath, and towards laying out the ground as a ptsbHc park.

Miss Hyland di-d. on the 2ffch of January. 18S9, and much mtcrc-jt was naturally centred in the terms of her will. An announcement was made public at Harford Hill after the funeral by her executors and trustor, Messrs. C.

Alston Smith, G. S. Mathews, and J. Barham Garji-ake. Miss Ryland gave her freehold ground rent estate at Easy Hill, Street Corner, Birmingham, to Mr.

Frederick Hyland absolutely, and, with this exception, the whole of her extensive freehold estates and ground rents in Warwickshire, Birmingham, and were settled on Mr. Mb. C. A. Shtth-Rtland.

C. Alston Smith for Life, and then on his heirs with vwriaoa limitations. Numerous peemrinxy legacies wore left to rehttivee and others, ead to ohAnties, bo a total amount exceeding £300.000, and the residuary personal estwbo (wtnoh it was understood would amounft to at least another £300,000, after providing the legacies) waseot4Jed tmeimllar Iruste to tho real estates and in favour of the same The furniture and effects at Barford Hill were to Mr. C. Alston Smith, as also the cash standing to the credit of the bank account of bbe tesoatmix, and he was ddrooled to lake the name and arms of Hyland in conjunction with his own.

It was rumoured at the rune of Miss Hyland's death that the value of the estate was about £2,000,000, but ke value has grown considerably since then, owing to building devefiopmente in the suburbs. Many houses, for instance, have been erected on tie Sparkhill estate, and various roads there have been named after Mr. Road, Ivor Road, Doris Road, and Bsme Bond may be mentioned as examples. One of the last roads peon been named after Me. mother.

The deceased gentleman was Che son of Mr. Henry Smith, who was Mayor of Birmingham in 1845 and again in 1851. He derived the name of Alston from he godfather, who was the father of Major W. C. Ahkon, of Blmdon Hall.

Born 1858, Mr. Smith- Ryland was educated at Leamington, and aftorwartte took up the profession of furveyor, tn which for some time he wee engaged in the Sou-oh of Lngiaad. Subsequently he was a meanher of the firm Hendricks and Smith, sod afterwards joined the firm of John Mathews and Son, of Waterloo Street. He was oonrvoctod with that firm wbeo MJas death occurred, nod was assocMwed with it for some time afterwards. MI6B BTLAMD'B was a rom-anoe attacbod bo has secession bo such TOsi estates and woaith.

It was stated that Mies Rylaod and the late Mr. Honrj Smith, tbo father of Mr. Smith-Upland, were lovers, but her father had hopes of her making an aristocratic muon, and vetoed her marriage with Mr. Henry Smith. That, it was stated, was the reason Mias Kyleaid never merried.

She always took a groat personal interest in the eon of her former lover, who was distantly connected with her by marriage, his mother being the sister of the wife of Mr. A. By land, a cousin of Miss By kind. Save to those who wore in the secret it was wed keptthe news of the terms of the will came as a great surprise. Mr.

Smibh-Ryland succeeded bo the estates in 1889. Before his accession bo the estates, and during the time ho was engaged ha burineaa in Bircningham, Mr. Snath-Ryiand was interested in several societies. For some years he was the hon. secretary of the District Nursing Society.

Of recent years Mr. Smrth- Ryland had taken a warm interest in the work of the Hospital at Spark hill, and bad a great deal to do with the establishment of the Convalescent Home. He gave the sum of £2,000 to the Birmingham Umversity, and at the October meeting of the Birmingham City GounoH a letter was read giving, on behalf of himself and has son, tho fee simple of the park at Babel 1 Heath, of which fcbe Corporation had previously held a lease. The gift, was in commemoration of the coming of age of his eldest son. the hedr to the estates, Mr.

Henry Dencis Samh-Ryland. The offer was gratefully accepted. Under the terms of Miss will the snm of £25,000 was left to the Birmingham General Hospital, conditionally on permanent accommodation for being provided on a new site within five years. The Committee of the General Hospital wore unable to comply with those terms, but Mr. Smith-Byiand.

to whom the money would have reverted, generously consented, wsth the compliance of 00-ex ecu tors, to extern! the time limit. Mr. Smith Ryland was married in 1887 to Miss Edith Richards, daughter of a well-known Birmingham merchant, residing at Solihull, and bis two sons end two daughters, with tihe mother, survive him. LIFE THE OOr.VTST Harford Hill 30 about two miles out of Warwick, a prooty house standing sn extensive grounds looking out over the Avon and a fine stretch of some of the best Warwickshire country. Here, when not travelling he and his wife were fond of vug a great part of the winter on the Rrvjena, where Mr.

Smith-Ryland had a villa at lived the life of a quiet country gentleman. Ho was a typical squire the village, and the vdlagers owed much to hom. Anything that was to thodr advantage had his support. He was abo one of the best landlords ki the daetriot. His popularity was testified to only last September, when his son Dennis came of age.

Presents poured in from all and sundry, and nearly a rejoicings were indulged in. Mr. -Ry 1 and was a J.P. for Warwickshire, and in 3396 fumilod the office of High Sheriff. He never entered Parliament, though no doubt ho might have had ho wished, but for one short week, years ago, he was prospective Conservative candidate for Stratford-on-Avon.

To be in the public glare never appealed to him. He liked to do his work quaetfly and unostentatiously. Ho was one of the visifcmg justices of the gaol, and was keenly interested reformatory institutions and hospitals. Lost summer Mrs. Smith-Ryland a noble and successful effort on behalf of the Training School at Kenilworth.

bazaar, which was such a great success, was mainly arranged by her. Mr. Scnith-Ry I and was very open-handed, and his generosity and pubho spirit were shown in many ways, not ouly in Birmingham, where he had important interests but throughout Warwickshire. He was interested sport, and at one time had several moohorsee in training, whilst he also supported the Warwickshire Hunt, and his coverts at Harford and Threbford generally provided a draw He was a lover of dogs, and a successful exhibitor of Scottish terriers, but gave up exhibiting when he joined the committee of the National Do" Show Society, of which he was a trustee at of his death. 1 SHOT NEAR A RIELE RANGE.

BBIDGBND WOMAN WOUNDED Mrs. Margaret Bishop, of Bridgend, was shot in right leg yesterday while strolling neau- Candtauon Glamorgan. rifle ranges are near the sondtiilla, and membera or the force wero firing at the tune, but thov the bulLtii oouid not have oomo from that White playing on t.he green at the fair on Sootbampton Common TOKlcrds. vSJ" named Doreen AWralge. of Southampton in the right leg.

It is believed the bullet 'cnJlf 8 01 a shooting bocth close by. let cam CLUB SOCIE Goss: KOTAL QUIET The Whitsuntide holiday for the King and the other mexnbcra of the Royal Family ingham Palace has been very quiet. Beyond over to Marlborough House on Sunday evening Queen Alexandra, their Majesties did nothing the Palace, and yesterday was spent in an i quiet manner. It is a most unusual thing King and Queen to be in town during a public the occasion being generally regarded as an tunity for spending a few days at one of the IL? 0 residences in the country. The absence of any engagement for holiday is, I am told, of consideration for the members of the hoitli, 0 and society generally, whoso usual arrangements King is reluctant to hamper isays the London 5 respondent of the Daily Post Yesterday only visitor to the Palace was the Marquis de Soy who remained to lunch, and in the afternoon the Rindulged in a game of rockets Apropos of exercise, it is stated that he refrained riding in the Park in the morning, as has wont most seasons, in order not to afford the Suit gettes any opportunity of advertisement at expense.

BY HIS TONGUE In a Kingston-on-Thames newspaper a offering a rewerd for the recovery of bis lomt bro Pomeranian dog, the animal as small piece missing from his THE BIRTHDAY, The Pope to-day celebrated his seventy-ninth birtK. day. His Holiness received congratulations from hi parts of the world. Special greetings, says Rome correspondent, were conveyed to him hi Cardinals Bourne, and Begin. The Pon? health is excellent.

KING OP WOLIO AND TIGRE At a banquet which he gave yesterday Has Michad father of Lidj Jassu, and chief of -he Wo.lo GaHv? was crowned King of Wollo and Tip re. iu deach of the Emperor Menelik, Lidj -lassu, sen cf late second daughter and Rat Michael tJ been the nominal ruler of the whole of under the direction of Regente. MR. BONAR LAWS HOLIDAY Mr. Bonar Law, M.P., who has been on a vijjt Ireland as a goeet of Mr.

J. H. Campbell. M.P., Kingstown last night by the mail boat for The right bon. gentlemen spent his time Ireland golfing at Greystooes, 00.

Wicklow. He stated Press repreaentative that he had thoroughly enjoyM his bobday, and had nothing to say about BALLOON IN A STREET Balloonists who left Alexandra Palaoe yesterdw had an exciting experience. The balloon, which in charge of Mr. D. W.

A. Barton and carrying three passengers, including a lady, had to make hurried descent at Greenwich and landed in a lane near tbt south entrance of BUdnrall Tunnel. Spectators that it only missed the chimneys of a house by ey feet. BIRTHDAYS. Falmouth.

Lord Garrogh, bora 1552. Visootmt bora 1873. Lord Berwick, bom 1877. the Hoc. Arthur Grenville born 1358.

Mildred Cocyngbam. Lord Guernsey, born 1833. SING FOB DINNER. The goldfish which thrive in the warm mberd water of the famous Roman baths at Bath learned to ring a bell for their dinner. A metal ball floats in the water with an inpenwa pivot attachment, from which strings hang down ld the water.

When the gcMfish puH the strings a bell fiouodj and a cup of eggs is turned smcmaucalh tato the water. The fish greedily enjoy the new game, which a watched daily by interested crowds. TOE OOOK AXD THE An amusing story is going the round of the ctobs just now. It seems that a well-known lady invited prominent politician to dine with her. When rooming of the dinner party arrived the cook sent word she felt too uzrweQ to cook the dinner.

Being a lady of rceouroe, the hostess at once set about getting in temporary oook, who did all that vai necessary. Next morning her own cook appeared for orders, well and hearty, with no trace of illness. On her health being enquired after, thl rephed quite calmly that she had never been ill at ah, but that haring been at ecbod with the politician in question and haring alwin thought him a detestable boy, she could not face ta prospect of cooking a dinner for his benefit. ST. LAWRJCfCE RIVER.

The St. Lawrence River owes its name to the ko dental conjunction of the Festival of Saint with tho day upon which the first explorer imagined ha had discovered the rivor. Jacques Cartier in 15SI heard from the natives of the Magdalen Islands of a mighty stream threading the continent to an unknown source, and rt was while testing this legend that he sailed up the gulf until he could see land on each side. In following year he made a bolder expedition with ships and the blessing of the Bishop of St. Male.

sailed past Roumisi and on to Quebec, then knora by tho Indians as Stadaoona. Here the fleet anchored. The French, however, failed in their efforts to oolonin the country until a century had passed, largelv to their high-handed treatment of the Indians' WEIGHT OF A PASSING SOUL," The weight of a human soul, according to a rainent Massachusetts physician, has been discovered (says the New York correspondent of the Dm.J Telegraph The human soul, says the doctor, weighs three-quarters of an ounce, and he thinks be proves his contention by a recent experiment oa dying man. The phyeician says: My subject was a man dying of consumption. He was under observation for three hours and fertf minutes before his death.

He was placed on a twd arranged on a light framework built upon a very delicately-balanced platform attached to beam He lost weight slowly at the rate of one ounce hour, due to evaporation or respiration. At the he ezpdred the beam-end dropped with an stroke. The immediate loss at the moment of tion was three-quarters of an weight ol his passing souL MARAUDING BAT AND THE NIGHTINGALE- There has been a little wagedy 5-n a rivers.de guixien near Suaburj, for the nightingale, whoso songs charmed so many the warm evomings, has been killed by a datory water-rat. cage was big wicker-work aSair the foliage of climbing roees. The bard, uncoaseoo of approaching death, was flooding tie garden his joyous song, when a waior-rat.

greatly daring. crept up from the river, climbed up a branch, forew an entry between the pliant bars of the cage. seized the songster. The nightingaJe gave a despairing shriek. brought his owner hurrying to the spot The was too late.

The dark, slinking form of the rst reached the bank and had sunk with his prize the water. Billy -was captured some months aco J1 near the river. He quickly becan and was a source of pride to his owner. are very rare in England. ENGAGEMENT OF BARONESS BEAUMONT Baroness Beaumont, one of the small nUQi ladies who are peerevses in their own right, has en "aged to the Hon.

Bernard Fitzalau-Howard son of Howard of Glossop. Lady Beaumont is in her twentieth year, aw 1 title was. called out of abeyance for her in IS9o, a. after the death of her father. The marriage will unite two of the oldest Catholic families in the kingdom, whoso faith the Reformation.

Lady ancestor. de Beaumont, who was summoned to baron of England in 1309, is supposed to have been grandson of no less a person than John do last King of Jerusalem. The Beaumont er been several times in abeyance, and the present is only the eleventh in a space of more than £OO Mr. Fitzalan-Howard is in his twenty-ninth 5 end was educated at the Oratory School, and at Cambridge. Hie father, who is a member of the family, ds a large landowner in 1 and the Highlands.

"POKEY ENGLISHMEN AND SLICK" AMEB A refined Engliehman is, my way ot the most refined individual whom ifc is rooet anywhere, combining refinement of of manner, refinement of character 1 Harold Susman in th hand, a vulgar American is, to my way of thi the most vulgar individual possible to meet, com vulgarity of appearance, vulgarity of vulgarity of character. A great advantage, possessed by English people is the English roice the English accent. A graceful American often damned by her nasal twang, but a English woman is often redeemed by her intonation. A slick American is blustering, while a Englishman ingly stodgy. In America I often find myself for thocalm deliberation of England, while to I often find myself longing for the stimulating ness of America.

The Americans could certain a lesson from the English in doing thing thoroughly, and the English should a lesson from the Americans in doing things i I sometimes believe that the incapablo of thinking quickly, just as I sO, j. 9 cl believe that the mind 15 DC3 thinking slowly. If an American is deliberate, he chafes and becomes impatient, Englishman is forced to hurry, he fumbles and 1 bewildered. The Enghsh mentality therefore, to be unimag nHive. irliile the mental! 'pi be instinctive, intniuve.

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