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II3 AKC £)Txa Py WoTto an I gcatiia. NNO CSCEMEST will accepted acthxnticatcd by the nauz OF Tat SENDER. iIAIUiE THE INSERTION OF XOTICEE IHETUS EAEEIAOES ABD DEATHS IS iti uiv roa 20 asd esehv 7 WoaDA OS EXTBA. IT IS PEEBAID THE CUABOE IS EXTBA IJ.tXJLEVCK SOTICI4 WILE BE CHABCZO JVfOR births. r.bfosrr U- st 12.

Bslfrave-strstc, of Jsaws V. Alias PrlscllU 10. to Sir and Mrs Waiter Greoaroed. AiaUee, a daothUr r-oraary 11, at 374. dailtbdowo-road.

wK T. Owen a sob, i-S-ni-r 13, at Wirral Point. Uoylake. to tteatraa Wood Jooas. a daughter c.

traarr 13, at 23. Bosk imoo street, to Ud 9. A. Mailer, a son February at Alaicy Hall. tbo reside are ol n.r (Wiaar.

I Bancs tbe wifa of J. A. Hiwpsoo. of Calcutta. Febmarr 13.

at S3. Cartarfield-road. SgS; to Mr aad Mr. IBM Mmni tgCT daughter (both domx -narT 14. at Hamlet-road.

Wallaoey. to kogiaaid A. Webb, a daugbUr. MARRIAGES. EVAMS-Fbhtwanr 10.

at St MarrWbay Hr the tWaoo Axmowf. Dr MrwriauD. wi tor jfS. Uowaid Hao.rtar. M.A.

irhapUin ol os bool, Uaham.NorfoU r. Baairtar 14 Hyde Park Maiu-orif. to Jmo. jSirr of Liverpool 11 V'botaa'a Church. WblUmt, braak Barrels mb Mr, aad totlrrll.

of to lara of iy-tA taoiuby apaddtax aad of 5. i-f) MVINS-PEAai-r-r-hmMT I L. at St irtonh road hr the Blaarbard mo of and lato Joarpb of Si.MM. oof ton Park, to Ss -r of Ptarca aad lata Prank Uoom. Beftou Park, -rtLSC IXJRIMER-Fbbraary IS.

at St. UMMMM R. W. Horkiar. k.N Jt youofwt lata Haarv Socktaa.

Faq ol Swaosva. to (iordoe. dauebter of tba lata Robert C. aod Loruaer, of Oztoo. IS.

at Ik ct Watarloo. by tba Dr Kane Janwa Mat ana of J. Muraay. to Allca. of Mr.

aad Arthur Laaab ggV SILVER WEDDINGS. IACaaOJf-rehrasrr 15. st Christ T'- BmodMbarr. by tbs JUt. fc.

Dote WimasM. F. OosMjp. of Luce of Caasp Hdl. WooUoo, to £aulr Un of Willimb Jackaos.

fan chief hanwod Mernssthe Baak of lodlo, UaSa. China. 15. 1550. by of the Mr.

Bdwd Pir-y. James rooojreal of Uanpr Koshee to of WtUiam Kaovlea (all of tj -Salowe. Broadyrreo DEATHS. 11. at her reskfesce.

34. Brook- Sarah, wulow uf the late Jamee uciti I.P February 13, after a eeddea lOmm, at the Haaoital. Edvard Bethel I. ol I. Comberlatenneat at West Derby Cemetery, on at 4 p.m.

l2. at 14. Weat Book Marr the balovcd vtfa of (be lata Carr, of Lj.npool, lauraeot at ot. Jmvi -Liverpool, to-day (Mondarl. JU pm.

-Friecda kindly accept tbia-tba only OTIXTr February U. at Lesayre Boone. ared 77 ream. let I Interment Veeuan-la-WiUoen to-dar (Monday), at pa ptoaao incept OUJTuN Febmarv Ig, at US. Crown at met, Ellen.

Men of tbs lots Martin Cull I ton S.I P. February 11. Wylen-road. An field. --pool.

Richard, eldest ana of Into David Bsna. LlancolVn. Main-February Joseph Harold, the of Ellaabetb M. late lu kriutb-road. Oesaington.

ItsTHL-Pebraarr 13. Elisabeth Hope, the daasbter of Mona and the late Edvard Intennont at A afield Owetery. to-morrow at 9JO a.B. IFt mode kindly accept ntuaatioo.) BL'AN-At the Tozirtb Infirmary. Marsarei or brlored wife of Ru hard Keenan and dearie mr.

tnotner of Mary Talbot, lolermeat at Cemotrry. today (Moodarl at 11 90 a h'N 14. at her restdeaoe. 6. mad.

Watnrfoo. axed 44 Harah Juw the beloved wife of Waltrr John Uannafotd. wttho at St. Faith Church. Waterloo, on Veas'-ktar ocit.

at 2 interment at ft Chatvh, Great Oaaby. about 3 SO p.m. bundle accept 12. eoddenly. at residence, Aitou-rond.

Ttsebiueh. 7 yearv John Hardnan, teamonner. of cup 'lata of Thatto Bentb). beloved bnataand of Jessie Hardman, ton at Toe brook Wesleyan Chapel, on Wednesday Et. at 1.45 p.m.

prior to interment at Weel be Cemetery at 245 pm. I Friends please accept the I 11. wry suddenlT. Thomas, the beloved husband of Winifred Israon (nee Andereoni (chief engineer for 37 rears mu. Haws, shipowner.

Liverpool! RIP B. L. me kiln-lane. PoaJten. liVEy-February 13.

euddenty, at Crosveror Park City-rood. Chester. John, the deorb loved knaond of Emmie Interment at Chester Ometerr inew portion), on Wednendny nett, at 2 pienee accept only-mli- BOON -February 10. at Livye-yr-Eoa, Svanasa, the md'n'W of 73 rears. Ealber.

fc of William Hibson. Avoodale. laurrad at Seathyort Cemetery oa her rteideace. 50. Oombey-ctreet Margaret, tbe beloved vita of William 15.

at 59, Beasdlctetreet James Hollinraka. coal nwronant the Vwlo'wl jMszd of aarab Holliarake. Fuaeral at Kirkdale Omcvt? oa Wedomdav Best, at 5 pm, IOCCHTON February 12. after a lose 111 new oorae. at Vo.

cat Mt Hunan Fra an. tba dearly beloved buabaad Lcu.sa Hoatbtoo. and foorth sun el tbs late orhtoa Interred at Farnwcrth, Widaea. aa iuadav BTCRte- 12. Terr at his realaoviv -'taflord Houtv.

A bergele. ajvsd 99 Ttort, nd Mtu'bm is.St. Psui'a tc-ouMrow iTuetdayl. at 250 p.a.; fooersl at JOSL- 13. at bu Tfudeaco, Led ora.

Ctaw-rcwd. Wallaavr. Wili am Usrbert Jooea (for Maaan lay aad Abraham. fornxrlv sub Msmrs tiIKH. t-v iha baafaaad of Sarah Tba fiioara, tomre will taka pUcr at fburrn Waltaaay.

to-morrow aad tho intrrtceol at Wsat Darby at a.30 pm. 11. seed Maryaret Jaoe. baloved wife of William 145. Clraat Id tarred at C'amctary on 13.

40. K.l.ia-rroT.. ia h.r S4sh widow of the Itavid Uoyd. later No by rvowest. acopt thiv-lbo Fehramj 12, at Plata.

W.tbmm-laao, the beloved I I Turner UooOrr Interment Ao3r.d Cemetery to-morrow rTaesdjv if- nenda eecepl tbia-tbe i 13 at Woa.irton. jvwr. Vk "liam Ciappeehain ff' Windermere Fnneral at Grappenk to-roo-row 'Tneadayl, at 345 pm at Ca.anitl John voa of the (are eed ot Huvaa 36 Hano.o iDtem.rnt at dmithdowD-road Ho- toAay iMondtj at 12 rkenhead. A.ed 46 UrCaUt oved bus band ef Teroaa McCabe. Rip i Ty 14 thv muJenpe of her Gamett-aveoue.

Rirkdaie. after a lone and Med 78 Mary Jaoe. widow ot a 1 MrGaw Gatebouae Fleet. Interment Cemetery 1 iathe. oo Wednea rtimltiowi cc -tbe -Pebmary 13.

at 53. AalUbory-road. Waver-, 4 Kale, the daatly beloved wife of Dnaaiao a Church, al 12.50 p.m interment at fj at i p.m it-February 12, Formby 80 yeari. w-a of the laU Edward MBaker, of Interment at Walton Parub Vvmorrow (Toeadarl- iFVmads please aroept kVfp' auw 15 at FairtUld." Sikrroft. 82 yean.

John Fortieth mu ta Mrcn. February 15 at Ire-' I 7 R.I.F (Funera! arranfel nj Tnnbridao Italpmne late Poet, of mretber ot A Marbe a mb wood-road, St. "'-S'- JW3r ii iJTTSf OW4WT, oo l3. at Wart Kirbe. tbroub a lotv cr 4 7 rmn.

riwh nlrold Vie- 00 aad Fraaem Whim atraapemania later 5 Orrvll rneMwee of bie rraaddaasbmr. aced are kte of Formhv dor ever employ at the Allan I.iwwl I-Wr Cemetery to-morrow (Tam. (Wwod. Show Kvrw Itw-SS. tresfe 55.

52 flUtO IN ACTION. Vre.tf-'wre'J It Ko BminUl 'tlk Co.it, of TrTl TJVERPQOI, DATI.Y -POST AND MERCURY, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1915 LUSITANIA SAILS CHAMPIONS. GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN THE DOOMED TO SURE Tho Vital is a bright little journal packed with delightful reading.

Bold at five cents a copy, it is one of the Teutonic testaments of truthfulness published in America, and its purpose is to propagate in that heathen land tho Gospel of Kultur. Tho German contributors would doubtless grimly renounce its claims to deligbtfulness. When they confess that the prejudice they have to combat it intense, and that they have to fight with their backs to tho wall against the hordes of obstinate unbelief, it cannot much of a joke. For them, tho vital iaaue is to expose the wickedness of Britain. John Bull is not much better than the gentleman with the red cloak and the pitchfork.

Sometimes the wickedness does seem rather thin, but these indomitable pamphleteers have a cubpoardful of wooden dummies of their own, and it is quite jolly to watch them prop these up and smash them to splintars. they are at pains to say on almost every page, but when they stpvo thus to make their own views seem to bo the views of the native Americans, it is a pity that the phrases of the articles are not always in the most felicitous English. Canada at Oar Just at nrcscnl the main effort is to persuade America to adopt an honest It rneADs that country, with strict impar tia.ity to oil the belligcrcnta, should supply no more munitions of war to fhe Allies. Still rooro ingenious is the attempt to picture tht Grated States a victim in the toik of the tortuous diplomacy of perfidious Albion. England, tho bloated tyrant of the seas, has tbo scant respect for tbo sliips of neutral countries, end still respect for their flags.

Why docs America, the land of the freest of the free, submit with all humility to tho dictates of the octopus of the ocean, with its tentacles stretched out all over tho world? Look at this remedy to bring the naval autocrat to its senses nuffht be prectloel, and for inatdtous ways very efficient, to remind her that wo liave 3,000 of Canadian frontier to the north of us. We should not allow thorn to worry us about the Philippines. If Japan, as a 00-nlottcr of England, should them, wo should be ready to imme malely seua Canada, and we will make much by the bargain. have Canada at our Groat Britain knows that. If told England a few thinga along these diplomatic linos.

Great Britain would let our snips 3 and not only let them pass, but would ulute our flsg with some show of respect, ror the sake of American manhood, which ones out against so much degradation of our country, is there no American in the Government at Washington to assert at least the doctrines of Jefferson and Washington? Has England got the United States bluffed? Elsewhere in the journal one notices the comment Disprove British falsehoods; they are an insult to American Undo Sam's intelligence would seem from this quotation to be badly insulted from another quarter. Fit companion for this statement is the further maxim We most not be accomplices in the crime of sonihilaling a Germany is the nation that is not to be annihilated. Only simpletons would think that the reference was to Belgium. 111-starred Isle In the German Channel." The Fatherland is another organ of light and Kultur. a oopy of which haa strayed across to Liverpool.

Like its vital brother, it foments on every page with hatred of England, and has noticeably little to say about either France or Russia. One interesting piece of there is concerning our western ally. The French realise that they are doomed. Joffro is antagonised by his generals, and one important check would bring about bis retirement from tho oommand at the Army, which is in a desperate All this is said to be on tho authority of a prominent wounded Belgian. But the com of the number before us is a wondrous plan for the dissolution of the British Empire.

Even the United Kingdom itself is to tumble asunder. Listen to this extract from an article headed For English with First and foromoat among England's victims, and the nearest, lies unhappy Ireland, la it not the duty oi Tmh- Americans who have escaped the tyranny of their ancient master to warn their kinsfolk at home of the fate that awaita them? Let Dublin be the first to bold out an olive branch to a friendly conqueror. This way lies their long-eought-for independence. It is. perhaps, too soon for even an hereditary enemy like the Soot to turn against the Briton.

Ho is so highly-placed that ho comes but seldom in contact with his southern subordinates. But Canada should not hesitate. It is not fitting that she should send her host blood to fertilise the doserts of a foreign land. How often has she poured root rrrrot upon the human remnants that the Motherland sent to her Let Canada declare herself free -of the warring of Europe. With the United States she will find an alliance more in keeping with the high character of her institutions.

Australia and New Zealand, jewels set in the Pacific, what unhappy fortune may be yours after the late of the seas has surrendered her trident. In some near time you must fall a prey to the little men of Nippon, like those Iwser isiew out there. Is it not better now to yield to the inevitable? declare yourselves. like Canada, no longer associated with that other ill-starred iale in the German Channel? The honours of naval war are yours. TTic capture of the Emdcn looms large and bnght in a long series of allied disasters.

It wrill not be held against you in the final reckon- ing with a generous England is doomed to sure defeat" ia the opening phrase of this literary herald of tho friendly conqueror. Whatever the delusions of the Germans at home, ono would have thought that there would bo a glimmer of realities amongst tho Germans of tho Sutes. But what a ahrewd stroke it was to fill the poor Scotchman's mind with notions of intellectual superiority over the subordinate Southerner. Small wonder would it be if this flattery caused the Scot to turn against the Briton. Yet how he ie to turn himself is not at all cloar.

NEW BORROWING POWERS. LESS LIGHT. LIVERPOOL'S PARTIAL FAMISHED PEOPLE OF BELGIUM. DAY TO DAY IN LIVERPOOL Liverpool people did not take kindly to the reduced lighting order which came into force on Saturday evening. To city-bred people the gloom was roost depressing, and it will take them some time to get accustomed to the conditions, almost rural as regards illumination, under which business and traffic were conducted.

A big saving will be effected in the cost of public lighting. The Corporation it in the curious position of benehting financially by the reduced street consumption of gas. for which they pay the Gas Company, and, on the other Hand, of losing by the diminished use of electricity, which they themselves supply. Among the inconveniences to be borne as patiently as possible is the darkening of the dials of public clocks. Motorists are considerably affected by the prohibition of strong headlights, and if accidents are to be avoided, vehicular traffic generally must be carefully regulated as regards speed.

A merry scene was enacted at the Exchange Station, on Saturday. In order to witness tho departure of a contingent of Naval Reservists, a largo company of wives, sisters, coosins. and aunts had assembled. The time spent in waiting for the eastward or northward bound train was whiled away in dancing before an admiring circle. of the bluejackets were capital dancers, and they found expert partners among their female relatives and friends.

Owing to the limited space available, only three or four couples could dance at a tilne, but the short spoils were so animated that not a few ordinary passengers missed their own trains in order to enjoy the spectacle. Certainly tho sailor seemed to occupy his period of waiting and leavetaking more agreeably than does the average traveller, who is apt either to moon about among the mural advertisements, stare vacantly at the bookstall, consume unnecessary refreshment, or listen to and repeat a tedious series of farewells. was in high spirits, and be let the public know it by harmonious movements. Numerous merely sightseeing women of the shawl-on-bead classes, who had followed the nautical crowd into the station, might have taken pattern from in the smartness of his personal appearance. The Head notice to citizens to furnish him with particulars of all firearms and ammunition in their possession will probably lead to much searching of memories as well as of armouries.

If the letter of the order be observed, the police will have a rare inventory not only of modern guns and Sistols which might be of use against the ermans, but also of ancient weapons whose only value to-day is historical There are trophies of war and other heirlooms galore in the private mansions of the city, whose histories, if obtainable. would fill volumes of romance. One citizen, for instance, possesses a shotgun formerly the property of a notorious poacher who turned burglar, and was hanged at York for murder. The gun was sold by his relatives to raise money for his defence, but on account of its terrible "kicking" propensity it has ever since been allowed to lie, like the prisoner of Chillon, rusted with a vile repose." Mr. Henrj Gut ridge, who died on Thursday at tho advanced ago df eightyone years, succeeded Mr.

Peter Wright as clerk of tho peace for the city of Liverpool in 1877, and held the position until 1900, when illbealth compelled him to retire. Mr. Gutridge, who was a bachelor, took no prominent part in the public life of tho city. He was succeeded by Mr. R.

D. Crippa, who is the present holder of the office. The other day a Liverpool solicitor received a letter from an inmate of a German camp, in Kent, tequesting him to commence proceedings cu his behalf for false imprisonment, and recalling in a tone of appreciation and confidence a previous effort of the legal gentleman in his interests Cariositv led to a search of records, and it was found that the case referred to was one of burglary, and that the now aggrieved prisoner of war was then, despite the best that could be said for him, sentenced to six hard labour! The minor inconveniences ot life are often harder to bear than more serious grievances. In the former category must bo placed the breakdown of the facilities at the Central Post Office, in Victoria-street, for writing the teat of telegrams. The ledges provided tor the purposes have become so rough and rutty by the pressure of innumerable pencil-points that it is now impossible to write upon them eacept by the imposition of a pad.

a book, a newspaper, or something else of the kind, which may, or may not, be handy. The hoards need replaning, and the present wastage of stationery alone would fully warrant the expense of renovation. G.KS POISONING TRAGEDY. Mr. Harry Reynolds (51).

of Cau nee-street. Blackpool, did not answer when called oy bis sister on Saturday. On entering the bedroom she found him dead. It wat found later, upon turning down the bedclothes, that the bed waa full of gas. and in it waa a tubing, the other end of which was attached to a gas bracket.

Sirtlis, and Remits. IN MEMORIAM. BJ.EVIN—Ia ssemerv ef mf lovad cousin Katy. who paared away February 15. 1914.

Tby will be 4ooe Mam Lixzw Johnson. momory of oar dear mother. Elisabeth Edwards who pasasd away February 15. RWp 00. dour mother, and taka thy mt.

The, you asoat who loved you b.w» Oscar aad Arthur. HrGHEA- Ja km ns aenorr of our daar mother, who pasrtd away February 16 1914. From mrmorr the will never lade.i.—Joe. George, Alice, and Ted. Montreal.

Canada. MACKEk-la loving meu.uty ol tttidgvt lour Bawyi. tho belovaU joeer Mackes, who departed life February 14. 19i4. Was Interrsd in ForJ Crmetny Rip Wo have not forcottaa roo.

dear, not ever wBl your memory fade. Our will always linger around tbo Where too are laid. Anne, aad Daniel. Birkeobead levins memory of oar dear mother, Mary Jane MoC'ann. who fell Lleep Febraarr 13.

1912. iEver remembered by bw Hmband and Children.) kmag memory of VioleS. the dearlytoted wife of Thomos H. MoOillagh. who paaaed February 15, 1914.

(Ewer remembered by her Uiuband.) 11 msmory of John Edward KaFUasM (Ted), who pamed away rehrnsry 9. 1911. (Not forgotten by Wife aad Children.) CONDOLENCE. AHrel Coowr to tkiok BDd rS kind flt in their sad bereevwmeet. of lots f' II DECORATION'.

JOHN gTUBBS gON'S, 272, UVERPOOI. ALL-BRITISH FLAGS. PASSENOEIiS' VIEWS, A ooW ram pelting nit flew! from sullen skies when the Lusiums cast her moorings steamed sway down the Mersey on Saturday afternoon. A searching, raw wind blew from the east with such force that it was difb cult to stand up on the topmost deck of the mighty liiper. The passengers, muffled in ho ivy overcoats, shivered under their dripping umbrellas as they waited their turn at tho gangway.

Every now and then they directed curious looks at the foremast, from which the Blue Fetcr bravely fluttered; all of were wondering whether the Stars snd Stripes would bo hoisted, and whether the waspish submarines were waiting for her out in the grey waters of the Irish Sea. They were not alarmed, they were not even apprehensive; they were just curious, wondering what was going to happen. The Americans, with their soft hats of Yankee shape and their domecapped boots, discussed the situation quietly' a perfectly detached sort of way. They all seemed satisfied that there was nothing to bo uneasy about. They had faith in the ability to avoid cubmariues even if she were attacked, snd they had faith in her sturdy romminder.

Captain Dow. All tbo same, they washed tho (orepcak closely. But the Blue fluttered on. and from the miuenmast thp house flag of the Cunard Company with its golden lion eternally rampant on a oloodrrd held, streamed proudly in the icy breexe. Over the vessel's stern drooped the red ensign of tbo British mercantile marine.

Hho had no other decoration. When she left the Stage she was all-British from stem to stern, from: stokehold to masthead. Flying the Red Ensign. The red ensign at her stern was a new departure. As a rule she flies the blue flag of the Royal Naval Reserve, a distinction to which her commander's position in the Reserve entitles her.

Why the change was made was not apparent, but she psssed down the river with the red ensign of the merchant service trailing from her stern. Among her passengers was Major Morton J. Henry. Attache to the American Embassy in Paris. He and his wife were unperturbed by possibilities of submarine danger, and, while the Major quietly insisted that bis position as a Government official debarred him from discussing the flag question, be emphatically asserted his belief that there was no need for anxiety in regard to the Lusitania.

I think there it any he said. and I am quite sure that the British Admiralty will take adequate precautions to ensure the Lusitania a safe None of the American passengers were disposed to take the possibility of danger seriously. Even if eubmar nes were waiting for her," said one, they would not End ft an easy task to harm her. She is so fast that she could easily outpace them, and. even if they bobbed uo fairly close, as in the case of the Blue Funnel liner, the Cunardcr ought to find it easy to dodge them, because her engines are so powerful that for all her great size she can bo manoeuvred rapidly and as easily and readily as a tug boat.

Guess there is not much danger this Unnecessary Ruse. Another American said he thought it was a Pity the Stars and Stripee had been used in toe last voyage home because be did not think the danger justified it at that time, and it had merely served to put the Germans to tho ruse, and thus lessoned its efficacy for the future, when it was possible the vessel might find itself in more dangerous But on the wbolc the passengers. British and American alike, wore far more concerned about tho immediate discomforts of the weather than the possibility of tho vessel being sunk by cncniv craft. There was not a dicker of the Stars and about the liner when sho ahecred off from the Liverpool Stage. Off Now Brighton tho dropped anchor again to wait for tide, find later on sho slipped quietly down the river on her way to New York.

The Lumtania'a saloon passengers included Mr. W. Brodrick-Cloete. Mr. A.

J. Drexrl, Mrs. C. P. Radclyffe-Dugmore.

Lord Castlemainr, Mr. L. J. Firth. Coratesso L.

do Hemptinne. Major Morton J. Henrv (attache to American Embaasr. Paria), iiajor the Rev. Father Jolkoeur, Mrs.

W. B. Leeds. Mr. F.

O. Lewis. Dean M'Clenahan. Mr H. Mrs.

Mr. J. W. Paton Mrs. W.

S. Patten, Mr. F. W. Rathbone.

Mr! M. Robinson. Baron Ungern. Mr. M.

Spitzel, Lady William o-Taylor, and Mrs. 11. B. Squiers. Tho American liner St.

Paul, with prominent Americans on board, also sailed for New York, while tho Canadian left the Mersey for Boston. LIVERPOOL TRIO CONCERT. Chilly Saturday evenings are not a good time for chamber concerts. The Liverpool Trio may have invited some criticism in this respect, but ono felt bound to withhold it when, as the chief number in their programme at the Yamen Rooms, they gave Tschaikowski's Opus 50. Summonses from the week end fireside could be answered more cheerfully when the magnet was this groat work, inscribed by tbo composer to the memory of a great artist, bis friend Nicholas Rubinstein.

For the first movement one bad not over much interest, and it must always bo a matter of personal whim whether or not one likes its mournful and ponderous setring, in its own way an elegy without an instrumental equal. It was tho variations of the second movement that gave an immense distinction to the performance. The Russian melody that is its foundation is embellished by the pianoforte, the violin, and the in turn with a quite singular effect, and its many and ingenious garbs make the hand of Tscbalkowski. What, for example, could bo more typical of him then tho fifth variation, with the pianoforte a sort of tinkling musical-box to the droning bagpipelike accompaniment of the strings? Catching an intimate sense of each number, the players i invested the entire series with a zestful amnia Uon and lavish tonal splendour, with the best feature of all the full-coloured variation in the form of a waltz. Even more striking Ihe handling of the final variation and coda.

lengthy enough to form a movement themse.vea and of a weight and sonority which seems, indeed, almost orchestral. Not often do three instrumentalists give so grand an ensemble, and there was the manifestation j. 7 when the enormous phrases diminished to nothingness, and the work ended dull chords of gloom. Each member 1 ty individual numbers to offer. tton a Marcello sonata for the encore he gave was a particularly for bis violin John P.

Sheridan took Wicmawski familiar Scherzo-Tarentelle. Mr. rr 9 od to over-senti-sS i I ot bOH of OPERA AT KBELTS THEATRE. The Moody-Manners Company gave another performance of on Satordav afternoon. sparkling work has been seen a good many times during the successful season which is now drawing to a close, but it again drew a crowded house, who showed the utmost appreciation of iho efforts of both onncipak and chorus.

Miss Phyllis Archibald has made an enviable reputation by her representation of the fascinating gipsy air) which revives the best traditions of the part, and her admirable performance on Saturday won her many now admirers. Since the opening of the season Mr. Seth conception of Don Jos4 has ripened considerably, and the greater animation which be now diaplays much improves bis reading of the part. Eftcamillo was well taken bv My. Flintoff Moore, whose dramatic rendering of tho Toreador song evoked the usual encore Mr.

Davies and Mr. Cliffo again represented the picturesque ruffians II Remaodado and II Dancairo. In the evening, the ever-popular "Lily of Rillarney delighted an overflowing house. To-night. Mantana." THE LATE MRS.

T. PORTER. In the report of the funeral of Mrs. T. Porter, which appeared in our columns on Saturday, the names of Mr.

R. H. Lecbin and Mr. John Scott should have been mentioned as representing Messrs. R.

and and not Messrs. John Waugh tod Bona, as was stated. HALF A MILLION BY BILLS. The Corporation of Birkenhead having applied to the Loral Government Board toe a Provisional Order to enlarge their powers to borrow money by the issue of bills, the Board have decided to grant an order increasing the amount which the Corporation mav borrow by means of bilk from £150,000 to £500.000. This order will require confirmation by Parliament before it can be put into operation.

FRENCH RED CROSS SOCIETY. An in of tho French Red Cross SociMy, which of fimds, will be held nt the University Union. Bedford street, or. Friday next, at a qilarter paet As all ukinjr pert in the entertainment.which remprisea a French play, music, and tablcux vivants, are giving their services, it ia confidently hopea that the poor sufferers will bo substantially benefited. Miss Marguerite Stillwell.

Mesdamca Bazin, Crawford, Garstang. Hsighe, Frank Jeans, Moffatt, Stagg, have kindly offered their services. Tne tabWux vivants are arranged by Madame Norecn Kirby, with tho kind assistance of the Rev. C. Trietsrbel.

Mr. W. E- WiUink. J.P.. haa consented to be chairman of the pictures, and Mr.

W. E. Roberta will arrange the music. The following ladies have again consented to Syc their services in the beautiful tableaux Uses Wilkie, Willi nk. J.

Springmann. Martin. Harrington. Shend, Marten Bing ham. N.

Taverner. Storey. Hunter. Crawford, Bailey. and others.

Captain will the and God sive the ECLIPSE. FIRST NIGHT'S EXPERIENCE, Liverpool has now been brought into line with the metropolis and a number of the larger cities and towns of country in the matter of public night lighting restrictions. Tho local erherae of reduction, carried out by order of the- General Officer Commanding the Mersey Fortress, was inaugurated on Saturday evFbmg. The effect of the curtailment ol illumination in the public thoroughfares was very although, save in respoct of tbo absence of the usual facilities for soccriaining the time by means of the large clocks on public buildings and churches, the dials of which were not lighted, the public suffered no deprivation of comfort or convenience. For the present, at any rate, the diminution of light will be limited to the central areas of the city.

The municipal lighting department, controlled by Mr. A. G. Smith, the engineer, has devised a reduction scheme ahich meeto all the demands of the military order. All the clocks for the illumination of which the municipal authorities are responsible remained unlighted.

These embrace clocks in the of the Town Hall and the Municipal Offices, Dale-street, and in the towers of the following churches. Ac.St. Church-street; St. Pierhead; St. St.

Junes St. Scot land-road; Holy Trinity, St. Anpe Holy Trinity, Breck road; St. Nathaniel's. Emmanuel, West Derby-road; the North Haymarket.

and the Picton Clock, Wavertrec. That great landmark at night, tho Liver clock at the Pierhead, was also in darkness. No Arc Lamp IHumiaatfoa. The most important phase of the reduction of lighting was in respect of the atreet illumination. All the Urge electric arc Umps in the main thoroughfares from Prescot-street westwards on one side of the city, and from Renshaw-atrcet westwards on the other side, wore not lighted, but instead of these the small metallic fiUments half-way up tho standards provided illumination.

The are lamps have each an illuminating power equal to 2,000 candles, whereas the smaller lights half-way up the columns have a joint candlepower equal to 100 candles. The subatitution of tho smaller for the larger lights made a tremendous difference in the sky-gUre. The thoroughfares thus affected were London-read, Lime-streol. RaneUgh-plaoe. Ranelagb-strcet, Krnshaw-itrcct, Church-street, Lord-street.

James-street, Pierhead, Water-street, Dalestreet. Brumwick-street, CastU street. Elliotstreet, Parkcr-strcet. Whitechapel. St.

John's- lane. Old Manchestor-street. William Brown-stroet. In the meantime the gas lamps on the footpaths arc not brought within the scheme of redoetion. Many of the large lamps outside licensed premises were tfot lighted on Saturday customary flaring electric illuminations in front of the picture halls and at some of the theatrical bouses were also by their absence on Saturday.

Aggressive Effulgence. The injunction of the military order prohibiting the use of powerful headlights on motor-cars met with literal and universal compliance, the car de luxe and the modest less Costly automobile alike contenting themselves with tho side lamps of the non-glare type. The tramcars were shorn of none of their glittering brightness, net even the lustrous headlights veiling or dimming their aggressive effulgence in the surrounding gloom. As far as shop-window illumination, and external, was concerned, there was hardly any perceptible change from the normal: here and there a few of exceptional potential brillianco were unlighted, but otherwise tradesmen apparently did not recognise any need on their part to take practical cognisance of the order in eo far as it might relate to retail business establishments. All sky of which, however, there are not many in Liverpool, were without illumination.

The Streets Seemed Longer. Describing a tour of the city, one of our representatives says that the first impression one got was so enduring one, but not easily definable. To say that these streets, usually brilliant and full of the rattle of brisk traffic, looked elderly and tired, and even blasl, goes tome way to describe one's feeling, but not the whole way. Besides this suggestion of physical weariness, there was a strange air of mystery clinging to familiar objects, and oven the most casual passer by looked as if he had some sad, uneasy secret locked up within him. Moreover, the streets seemed longer and the traffic slower.

You knew perfectly well that these things were not so, but somehow yon kept on thinking they were. Lord-stroet and Church-street, thronged as they always are on Saturday night with armiinked promenaders and people hurrying to and from the theatres, had sn sir of unwonted glumness. The big arc lamps were out. as they were everywhere, and the only lights in use were those in the small coupled globes half-way up the standards. The modest ray they threw down seemed an absurdly small thing for such iron giants to offer; and the shades over the globes gave the light a curiously confidential character, like a remark whispered behind the hand.

Taxicabs fluttered about fussily as ever, but without their customary debonairness. Instead of brilliant headlights they carried only drdinary carriage lamps. Even the Royal mail vans sported nothing brighter than an old-fashioned oil lamp. The change made the taxicabs appear slightly ridiculous. It gave them an injured, apologetic all the world like that of a would-be-smart person who has just been sharply snubbed.

But they made up for their dimness in noise. They hank-honked about twice as much as usual. It was the only way in which they could crow over the dingy Limc-fctropt took on an eerre character in the partial eclipse. The North-Western Hotel, with all its windows curtained, was a gaunt spectre, and St. Hall, aoen from the opposite side of tho street, was a sombre and mysterious, and terribly forbidding.

The Art Gallery and the Library and the Museum, viewed from the Wellington Monument, wero ambiguous without definite form. The cinema houses were the worst sufferers. Shorn of their alluring frontispiece of dculing electric fire, they were all grotoequely plain, and tho people coming out looked dismal and disappointed in the gloom, aa if they bad just been sentenced rather than On the river there not much apparent change. Tho lamps on the Wallasey Esplanade were working on their lower gear, but the lights along the Stage and the Birkenhead docks, although there may have been some reductions, seemed to show slight change. Altogether, the new order will make very little difference to the way Merseyside goes about its business and its pleaauree after nightfall, and what email difference there is we will soon get used to.

Liverpool is not going to be "a city of dreadful Mersey Defence Area. The order in regard to the reduction of the lights has now been extended to Wallasey ond Birkenhead, tho authorities of both boroughs having on Saturday received a message to that from tho Genera! Commanding the Mcrsev tress and Defences. The official instruction is in precisely the same terms as that issued in regard to Liverpool, and all lights in the borough wero lowered on Saturday night and again last night. Besides the above immediate localities, the order also applies to Litherland, Waterloo, and Crosby, right on to Altcar and Formby, and then, taking ad eastward direction, mbraces Pamh; Ditton, Halewood, Speke. Ac.

AMERICAN FOOD SUPPLY DRAMATIC MEETING WITH CARDINAL MERCIER. HELP BELGIUM traa the first American to cross in one of the American relief ships. I saw the food collected at home, I saw it go into the steamship Lynorta, a Liverpool steamer owned by Messrs. Johnston, Soroule, snd I saw her loaded at the wharf in Norfolk, Virgihia, and rodo her for twenty-one days to Rotterdam 1 saw her unloaded there, 1 saw food go into Belgium, I saw the wheat made into bread, and I saw the Belgian people eat it in their In this graphic manner Mr. Jamea M.

Bennett, member of the Virginia Belgian Rtlief Commisaion, introduced himself to representative who waited upon him on Saturday at the Adelpht Hotel to gain some account of the distribution of food send over to the starving Belgians from the State of Virginia, U.S.A. Mr. Bennett bails from Roanoke. Virginia, I and ho ran up to Liverpool for a brief rest offer the arduous labours he had Undergone in Belgium, and in the hope, also, of escaping from the memory of scenes which had greatly distressed him, reducing to some extent his capicity for sleep. He ia a tvokal American, facile of speech, snd imbued with the milk of human kindness which Amerigans have in various ways exhibited towards an afflicted, once happy, and prosperous country.

Tour Throutb Bclulum. The value o( the gooda taken acroea the Mr. Bennett atated in ropl? to a nuemon. about and tangtd from food to clorbinff, and tockraed all of from a box of randy to a bag of flour. Tho acre unloaded at Rotterdam under the direction of Mr.

C. A. Young, and there is a full staff of there working out the distribution of tho relief scheme. Ihe manifesto of our ship a contents had been received by mail, and everything was marked out for the cargo was to go end how much of it for the various provinces. It was an easy matter then to proceed with our wor The food was loaded into barges, sealed with the seals of the Dutch Government.

the same process being observed with regard to forwarded by tram to various places. went from Rotterdam by tram, accompanied by Colonel Amencan Consul-General in Rotterdam. Colonel Lutoe has an estate in the State ol Virginia, where the relief cargo from, and consequently be was very much interested in the operation. He went with me a matter of courtesy, and without him I could never have got through so well. At Eoscndall wo were met by an automobile from the American Commission for Riiinf in Belgium.

Wo into Belgium from Hollond EsK-hcm, our passport enabling us to ride in a motor-car. Continuing. Mr. Bennett said they drove tho motor-car to Malincs, Brussels. Dinant, Namur, Litee, Louvain, and other in Belgium, where be personally saw the distribution made among the distressed Belgium people.

were terrible scenes wherever we ho proceeded. 1 saw long of famiahed people waiting for bread. Thdywere literacy starving, and holding out their bands in a suppliant manner lor bread. Many of thorn were well dressed, and this made the sight ail the more pitiable, for everything but their clothes defining respectability were absent. They had once been in good fact, there thev were without food to put in their mouths.

Their faces lined with despair. Some of them wondered how long the Americana would bo able to keep up the flow of these very acceptable supplies, and they expressed the conviction that if the food which came in this kindly way to thorn ceased then absolute starvation stared them in the face. The aspect of things in Malines struck them with terror; the place was devastated, ruined, churned into debns by shells. Cardinal Mcrcler. I met Cardinal Merrier in duties forbid mo to indicate more, but I shall never forgot as long as I live that face.

It burned its image into my soul. The cardinal is a tall, man, and as ho fixed bis eyes upon me a silent tear fell down cheek. I can never obliterate the memory of that courageous, noble figure, unconqucr'od by misfortune. yet crushed as it were with a sense of overwhelming grief, end it will remain with mo to my dying moment. With sin effort, holding down emotion, the cardinal remarked: America? Oh, America! he said clearly, yet with throbbing emphasis, 'you have done If you stop your relief my people will die; they roust starve to the burden of a tale all oyer.

Everywhere there were indications, vivid and undeniable, that more and still more relief was required. At the pitiful appearance of a place once so grand I de Becker, the chief of the American CoUeao. said, with tears standing in his eyes. we get more supplies we surely The Bc'gians were not fclow to exhibit their gratitude. The motor relief.

car was flying the and Stripes, and many approached and stroked the emblem with Mr. Bennett added, saw a trainload of aeventcen cara bringing in relief supplies from Virginia, sad as I stood and watched the bread being diatribdted to the hungry erowd I said. I am proud and glad to be a Box after box under my notice at he went on. pathetic letters from Belgian children for the Christmas presents sent by the Jason. An artistic card, printed for the occasion, boro the words With the cordial thanks of the poor children of Antweip to their kind-hearted comrades of the United States for their nice Christmas Many youthful siarnatures were attached, but the generous children of the United States will probably never see many of Mr.

Bennolt has quite a collection of deeplyinteresting souvenirs, and is the possessor of a vast amount of information whicn ho cannot divulge. A hint, however, may be given, and that is victis to the vanquished and Cod help Belgium if the Germans have to retreat! KILLED IN ACTION. LIVERPOOL BANK LAST LETTER. Mr. Frank Vernon, who was wounded whilst serving with the 9th County of London Territorial Regiment (Queen Rifles) and died later in hospital, was the eldest son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Vernon. SO. Grcv-road, Walton. Liverpool.

He was employed by the London City and Midland Bank, and was a Naval Volunteer. Failing to pass the colour test and being in London, he joined the 9th County of London Teritorials. who went to the front last October. In his last letter home, dated be wrote: being wet and cold in the trenches is not pleasant, the risk and certain excitement have a charm which counteract the evil effects. We be glad, however, of warmer weather, because one cannot get frostbite in summer.

It seems a fairly well-known fact here that if the Bavarians are in the firing line very few shots are fired from the German lines and rumour states that when the relievo tbe Bavarians the latter put up a signal so that the Prussians can be shelled. Of course I giro this to you for what it is worth, but I do know that tbe Bavarians ip front of us have been quiet enough up to PROPERTY AND WOMEN DRUNKARDS. At the usual weekly meeting ef the liverpool Property Association, under the chairmanship of Alderman Taggart, it was reported that tho Town Hall Committee for the Relief of Distress had signified their intention to insist on tenants, before receiving relief at their hands, producing evidence by their rent books of having paid their weekly rentals to the landlords. Evidence was produced of gross extravagancy, in the way of treating on tho port of women on receipt of their separation allowance, and of this being done in a wholesale fashion where they drew arrears due them. Other business before the meeting the wholesale issue of coupons for unlimited periods to children not at all necessitous, and of the growing extravagance of the Education Committee, who, starting with a rate of id.

now demanded one of 2d in tho for at a time when the ratepayers, aa well as property owners, were subject in addition to war taxes and burdens, and when there was little or no unemployment. Emphasis was laid on the neoesaity of the Prinoe of Fund being so administerrH that on the conclusion of the war it might give substantial help to the crippled who would then be unable to earn decent "aod WALLASEY MISCELLANY CDBBKNT EVENTS AND GOSSIP. our that ac enaounoement in rcirard to the formation of the longpromised Borough Bench and the appointtncnt of new magistrates maj shortly be expected. This announcement has been expected for eleven months past, and people sorm to be tired of thinking of the subject. Probably the latest rumour that something ia at last about to happen haa been caused by the recent appointment of a batch of Lancashire magistrates.

Let It not be forgotten, however, that these appointments come through the (Thancellor of the Duchy, and not through the Lord Chancellor. The Town Hall roll of honour now contains the names of 2.750 Wallasey soldiers and sailors, and the Mayor (Alderman Swanwick) espressos the belief that there are yet several hundred names to be added if tboso concerned will but supply them. The Mayor baa declined to join the London Committee which has been organised to influence public opinion with a view to bringing about the suppression of football until the conclusion of the war. Hie Worship demonstrates bis view of the matter by giving official countenance to the game by as regular attendance as possible, juat as before ho became Mayor, at the Harrowby games in the Tower grounds. The Now Brighton Rugby Club sent a hundred members to the ranks, and the other cluba have made proportionately large contributions.

In the course of a debate at the last meeting of the Council, Alderman Woodroffe stated that the Corporation was paying over £6.000 a year in pensions. As a matter of fact, the total annual contribution under this head is slightly over £7,000, but whilst £2,500 a is being paid to old servants for past a sum of £4,500 a year is being pkid into the superannuation fund under the arrangement by which tho of the men themselves are doubled. The superannuation fund now amounts to nearly £50.000. although it was established only seven years ago. The £2,500 referred to is the amount being paid to employees for which no provision was made during the period of their service, while £4,500 a year is now being added to the fund by the employees themselves.

the Corporation contributing a like amount. The superannuation scheme was formuiatod by Alderman Dawson seven years ago, and when the Insurance Act came into force he interviewed the Insurance Commissioners and obtained exemption for the Wallasey Corporation employees on condition that the scheme was made compulsory. There are now about 1,600 men contributing to the fund. Passengers by the Scacombe ferryboats will have noticed with relief that trucks laden with pasaengers luggage and merchandise are no longer a Ho wed on the vessels. The new rule came into force at the beginning of the year, and there are now no more complaints as to bruised limbs and damaged clothes caused by contact with the clumsy vehicles with their greasy and dirty wheels.

There is no prohibition so far as the luggage itself is concerned, but it must bg carried either by tho passengers themeelves or the porters they employ. An exception is made in the case of the mails, but for these special baskets on wheels have been provided, eo that there is practically no inconvenience to passengers. It may bo urged that luggage trucks are allowed on the Birkenhead boats, but the answer to that is that the Seaoombc boats, during the busy hours of the day. carry a thousand passengers compared with Birkenhead's three hundred, and that until recently even motor-oars were allowed on the boats plying between the Landing-stage and Woodsidc. A meins of tvoidisg the crash at the Seacombe toll ie provided, but passengers do not avail themselves thereof to any great extent, possibly because they are unaware of tbo facility afforded.

Everyone knows of the existence of the sutomatio machines from which children's half fare return tickets arc obtained. Adults can obtain tickets from the automatic on the boats, and pass through one of the four gates instead of crowding through the turnstiles. Two penny tickets aro accepted at Egremont, and three at New Brighton. All library frequenters in the district will be sorry to lose Mr. E.

A- Savage, who is leaving his present posi.ion chief librarian in Wallasey io take up similar duties in Coventry. sole reason for leaving is to find greater scope for his energies, the ancient Midland town having a larger library rate than Wallasey, and so being able to spend more upon book purchases. Its library volumes already number double Wallasey's 35,000. Probably when the next Parliamentary bill is prepared provision will be made for an increase of Wallasey's penny rate for library purposes. A highly-useful work is being done by the Juvenile Employment Sub-Committee of the Wallasey Education Committee under the guidance of Alderman Dr.

Oldershaw, the chairman, and Mr. T. Samuel, the director of education. the course of a report recently issued, the latter gentleman points to the improvement effected through the formation a year ago of the Caddies' Association in connection with the Wallasey Golf Club. Formerly tbe lads wsre employed as casual workers, with no training in habits of industry and discipline, and with little or no prospects for the future.

Now. however, they are given regular employment, filling up their spare time by gardening and fence-making under a qualified instructor, and receiving a fixed weekly wage. The echemc is beneficial alike to boys who desire to become apprenticed to trades and to those who are not very strong and will benefit by outdoor employment for a year or two. Not only does the subcommittee arrange for the employment as caddies of boys on leaving school, hot it sees to their attending evening classes during the winter months, and to tbetr obtaining situations when old enough- The employment bureau which has been set up does valuable work in finding situations of all descriptions for boys and girls on leaving school. The Poulton Ward Conservatives meet to-night to select a candidate for the Council vacancy caused by the death of Mr.

J. R. Lloyd. As already mentioned, their choice is expected to fall upon Mr. A.

Tomlinson, licensee of the Pool Inn. It is understood that in any case there will be a contest, for though tho Liberals will observe the party compact by refraining from nominating a candidate, Mr. E. G. Weale intends to come out" as an Independent Conservative.

PRESS CLUB Under the presidency of Mr. J. M. a bighly-enjoyable smoking concert was given at the Liverpool Press Club on Friday night. As in fonaer years a large number of occupying the boards of tho city theatres co-operated in tho programme.

As representing the Moody-Minners Opera Company wera Mr. Charles Manners, whose songs evoked great applause. Mr. Flintoff Moore. Mr.

Seth Hugh os. and Mr. Hariaon Cooke, who also contributed highly acceptable items. From the Royal Court Panto, were that Merry old soul King Cdo (Mr. John Humphries), together with hit worthy dame.

Mother Cole (Mr. Ralph Roberts) and Mr. Lan Tho breezy comedian Mr. W. Spray, of the Shakespeare Panto, alio entertained-the company.

The other anistes. whose were all warmly appreciated, included Mesa John Matvey and Holton Morris (tenors Robert Gray and Ernest Williams W. Swectman and J. C. Brien (baas).

Ro Brown, A. Frame, and Tom Darbyshire (bur. J. A. Berry (olocu tionist).

and lx. Feiler The were Messrs. G. J. Freeman and Stanley Prescott.

LENTEN OBSERVANCE. UKBCUB WORK IN LIVERPOOL. ARCHBISHOP WHITESIDE'S pastoral The Uw of fatting unchanged. But as far as the law of abstaining from flesh-most and from different kinds of food is concerned, wo have decided that for the faithful of this diocese, until further the only obligation is to abstain from meat on all. Fridays and on Ash Wednesday, In these words Archbishop Whiteside indicates to Roman Catholics in the Liverpool archdiocese the extent to which they will observe the season of Lent, so far as it aifccta the question of fasting and abstinence.

Tho effect of the action is to dispense the faithful" from abstaining fruui meat on the Wednesdays and Saturdays of Lent. In this his Grace has not gone as as the bishops of Several other and ing dioceses, where Catholics, presumably owing to the difficulty experienced in obtaining supplies of Ssb. have been dispensed from abstinence altogether. Fridays included, the only exceptions during Lent being Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, which are still to be observed as flsh A COMMON PRAYER FOR PEACE. The announcement quoted above was made in Archbishop Lenten pastoral, road ib the churches yesterday.

Grace recalled the unusual spectacle witnessed on the previous Sunday, when in hundreds of thousands of churches throughout the length and breadth of the European continent, in obedience to the behest of the Sovereign Pontiff, millions upon millions of Catholics knelt before tbe Blessed Sacrament exposed, and from the lips of that vast multitude there rose one common prayer. uttered in different tongues, but pleading do tho-same words the same favour. Tbe favour asked for was that an 011-morciful and all-powerful God would oast an eye of pity on the sufferings of the and would bring to a speedy and peaceful termination the cruel war now devastating Europe. But, said tbe archbuhop. tho Holy who was tbs instigator of this groat religious act, was not content with securing a day of united prayer.

Looking out from his exalted position over the world, ho saw rising up like a dark cloud before the Throne of God from the different countries the sins of many peoples, tbs repeated rebellion of against their Maker. know that God was likely to turn a deaf ear to the prayer of sinners unless they repented of their sins and took eieps to appease His anger. And therefore it was that tho Roman Pontiff exhorted the of the whole clergy and to betake themselves, as he expressed it, to of mortification and piety, in expiation of tho sins by which wo have called down upon ourselves the just wrath of Oommg as this exhortation did on the eve oi the of Lent, it provided a fresh motive for their devoting themselves to the.Denitentia! exercises which were ever associated with this season. tho dtaij-tbUity of Iroqucnl at Mace on as- well aj on Sundays, works of mortification, and alma. during Lent.

RESCUE WORK AMONG CHILDREN. Ain devoted to CatboUo Children Aid Committee. Thera were, said the Archbishop, few in -the dioccsa who knew the extent of the good that Being done under what was compendiously called rescue work for those boys and whose faith or might otherwise be in First and most important of aIL they had no fewer than eighteen institutions which were supported in the main by State grants. These comprised six poor-law schools, maintaining some 1,198 children, who would otherwise be in workhouses. Next, there were industrial schools, maintaining I.CBS children who had been removed from bad or dangerous surroundings.

There were three reformatory schools, with 375 boys and who needed reformation; and, finally two special schools with 217 children were either physically or mentally defective. Alto, gather, theec eighteen institutions the tim were maintaining 2,879 boys and But, besides these eighteen there were others for the upkeep of which thee had to rely upon the charity of the public, in different parts of the diocese there were eight of these or rather, it should bo some cases groups of homes, which altogether maintained nearly 1,000 children, ther re some 200 girls who, in the first instance, oamo under the notico of the clergy in different and the responsibility for whom had been transferred by them to the Children's Aid Committee. Altogether, the clergy and faithful of tha diocese had the satisfaction of knowing tho moment the different rescue agencies were providing for the spiritual and temporal intcreets of no fewei tnsn 4,079 Catholic children. Of these resent tho most needy waa the Aid Committee. HIGHER FREIGHT RATEa RISE BETWEEN SCOTTISH PORTS ANE IRELAND.

On Saturday the Scottish known that between Scottish ports and Ireland will be further substantially advanced from Match 1, The rise a due to increaaed expenditure consequent upon the war. and to steamship owners havintt raised their freight The fresh advances range up to hali-a-crowp per ton. REAL TURTLE SOUP. Turtle Soup: for flth, Game, or any other trould, give all for one ttco only of beautiful So wrote Lewis Carroll, but only recently haa it been possible to get two-pennyworta of Turtle Soup. Formerly a probib.tiva luxury reserved for Mayoral banquets, real Turtle Soup can now be enjoyed at the modest cost of 2d to Turtle Cubes, which contain the concentrated goodness of West Indian turtle.

By adding coiling water to a cube, you get in a minute the most nourishing and debcious soup you have ever tasted; ideal for dinner or suppec. Tho Cubes are excellent, too, for improving gravies, enriching stock, Ac. Ask your grocer' to-day for Freeman's Turtle Cubes. If out of send Is for a carton of 6 (poet free) to Freeman's Table Delicacies, Tbe Watford I Mfg. Watford.

(Advt.) LIGHT. BILLS, JU EUctritml nfifh Huts LmmH. IIH I SAVE MONEY I I and get better light 1 I by the exclusive use I of ohAwwi'' I WIRE I Bkitub Made in Rugby. Ebolamb BETTER IT LIGHTER.