7] m SEA-HERO SPENT 20 When Storm Prevented Launching of 'Lite Boat, He bad it | Dragged Overland 1S DEAD IN ENGLAND With a meritorious life-saving record extending over 20 years, Thomas Langlands, late coxswaln of Whitby Lifgboat, has died at that historic seaport. The out- standing event of hls career was the rescue of 35 persons from the hospital ship Rohilla in 1914. Un- able to launch the lifeboat from the beach owing to tremendous seas, Langlands had her dragged | overland, and launched from the] Scaur. During a second hazardous journey the lifeboat was smashed on the rocks and rendered useless. The Rohilla, a Glasgow steamer of 5,000 tons, was used as a British hospital ship. She was on her way from Leith to Dunkirk to bring] back wounded soldiers, when, | | LIFE-SAVING QUEEN LOVES FLOWER PICTURES Her Majesty the Queen dur- ing her recent visit to the Gal- leries of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors, Pic- cadilly, purchased two charming drawings, 'Anemones; by Miss Elizabeth King, and "Tulips," by Miss Isabel Wrightson. The Queen is a great admirer of pic- tures of flowers, and has a small collection of them at Bucking- ham Palace. Exquisite Lace To Form Wedding Robe Lady Elizabeth's Gown Will Have | Foundation of Ivory Moire-- To Wear Tulle Veil So many yards of the finest shortly before dawn on Friday, Oc-| tober 30, 1914, in a furlous gale, | Malines lace, with a moss rose de- she ran on to the rocks between |sign on it, will be used for Lady Whitby and the High Light, south | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's wedding of the harbor. Out of 230 people | dress when she marries the Duke on board, 140 were drowned, for of York next month that if it had the work of rescue was perhaps the| been pillow-made, instead of ma- most dificult in sea hiatory. A | chine-made by the finest craftsmen tremendous gale had been raging in| in Nottingham, it would have taken the North Sea, and the night was one woman forty to fifty vears to pitch dark. At 3.30 on the Friday | finish it. morning a sentry on Whitby pier- Two insertions, two and six head was astonished to see the ves-|j ches wide, have been made to sel glide past, within a few feet of | patel it, and they hung recently him. A coastguard tried to attract| with the lace itself in the long the attention of those on board as| jrawing-room at Grosvenor the ship skirted the submerged|ggyare, lent by the Duchess of Port- rocks that stretch out their 1on€ | and. arms from the foot of the cliffs] Lady Elizabeth will wear a beau- south of Whitby. This he was Unf oy hifforn wiolre dress. of ol able to do, and the inevitable hap- | ivory and color and of a simple pened. Half a mile further south, dieval style, embroidered with and Within 8 few Bundred yards o! i sliver thread and pearls with lace valwie ab, | sleeves, reaching to the ground. The Rohilla Struck the Rocks, The train will be of beautiful old and with the seas pounding over lace mounted on tulle, the lace her, she gradually broke in-two.! graciously lent by the Queen. The It was impossible to launch either | bride will wear a tulle veil with a of the two Whitby lifeboats from | wreath of orange blossom. the harbor, with the gale blowing| Tne pridesmaids will wear cream | directly in. Tremendous efforts| chiffon dresses embroidered with | were made to reach the vessel by|gjjver Jame leaves with a trail of rocket apparatus and other devices, [ijy jeaf-green tulle caught at the! but without effect. _Coxswaln| gait with a white rose and silver | Langlands thereupon determined |tpistle. They will also wear head-| to try launching a lifeboat from | j..qces of silver leaves. { the most sheltered spot he could) find near where the Rohilla lay. | This {involved an unprecedented | overland journey for a lifeboat. With several horses harnessed to the carriage, and a crowd of towns- men to help, the John Fielden, the Mabogauy Bed Is { | The Eagle: do with it!" The Lion: "Begulled? thought I recognized a likeness,' Village Carpenter Plays Organ For Goldsborough Christening Perfect Spring Morning in Keeping with Simple Homliness of Ceremony --Royal Family Walks to Church and Viscount Lascelles Reads the Lessons In the presence of the King and! Queen, their first grandchild, | George Henry Hubert Lascelles, the | son of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, was christened by the Archbishop of York (Dr. Cosmo| Gordon Lang), in- St. Mary's, the| ancient parish church of Goldsbor-| ough. | Attend Morning Service | There is a private entrance to. the church from the grounds of] Goldsborough Hall, the Yorkshire! home of Princess Mary, and it was | by this means that the King and Queen, Prince George and the ro-| mainder of the house party entered to attend morning service before the christening. Viscount Lascelles and the Queen were the first to 'arrive. Then came the King---who wore a white buttonhole--with the 'Prin-| cess. She was dressed in a grey frock and grey lace hat, and was wear- ing a fur cloak. "Name this child." The words fell from the lips of | THE BRITISH THRUST "I'm not going to be beguiled irito having anything to Well, I've taken a liking to it--and 1 --The Weekly Westminster Gazette (London). ' smaller of the Whitby lifeboats, | was dragged by hilly paths to the | cliffs at Saltwick, and there low-| ered down the slope to a point] | aunted By Ghost Picturesque and sinister are the elements in a ghost story of a bed- stead, an old mahogany dne, found close to the Nab. There were mo-| a." yeans of lumber in an inn ments when, despite the most yard, and which now belongs to the white-haired Archbishop of York, and the crowded congrega- tion of villagers and tenants waited expectantly, Then the Queen, a stately figure in a grey velvet cloak, with mole~ skin bands, and wearing a fuchsia the baby, who was in long white silk®n robes and was crying lustily, and the Queen held out her arms and received him. 'George Henry Hubert," answer- ed her Majesty. Then she handed her grandson to the Archbishop, who, pouring water from the same font as that at which Viscount Las- celles himself was christened, made the sign of the cross on the in- fant's forehead. Deaf Mutes as Guards It was a beautiful spring morn- ing, and thousands of visitors flocked into the old-world village of Goldsborough, fully 2,000 cars and other vehicles being parked in a special enclosure. They lined both sides of the one long road that marks the beginning and end of Goldsborough--many being perched on walls, trees and house- tops--and the line immediately outside the church was kept by boy scouts, and girl guides, under the command of Lady Evelyn Collins, a sister of the Duke of Roxburghe. The members of ome tiny contin- gent of scouts were all deaf and dumb. Carpenter at the Organ To mark the occasion, the usual morning service, for which Mr. Mann, a local carpenter, presided | wool behind the glass of a show-| case at Christie's, London, recently, United States and made good. strenuous efforts of the crew, fit| t. Mel seemed that all this labor would Mrs. Feank Gray, Mill street, Mel bs Wasted, ut by clever seaman) Si ' ams, she asserts, come from ship Coxswain Langlands go | ere . : » » e got his the room in which it is kept, and boat afloat and out to the Rohilla.! He a able to take off +R ie] it is bloodstained and haunted by back to land 17 of the survivors, | stranger and a repelicnt creature These included the five women on! With candle and pistol. board--four nurses and a steward-| The mysterious, handsome stran- ess. Then a second trip was at-| ger (who has been seen, like the tempted, and again the Rohilla was | man with the candle, by several) reached, 18 survivors being taken | wears a long cloak lined with blue, approached her Majesty, carrying Flowered Silk and at the organ, opened with the sing- ing of two verses of the National Anthem, The lessons were read by. Lord Lascelles. Maundy Money Sells To Eager Tourists colored toque, with flowers, step- ped forward. At the same moment the nurse Lace Set New Style| off and safely landed, but the bat-| exhales a scent of violets and tering the lifeboats had received strangely perfumed cigarettes. and the grinding on the rocky iand- | ing, had made her unseaworthy, and another attempt could not be made. The fury of the storm last- ed all through the next night, and the lives of those on board the wreek hung by a thread. People ashore scarcely believed that any. one could remain alive. Then, on | Genuine Rembrandt Lost Half Centary A Malines cabinetmaker, named the Saturday afternoon, the motor | Calweari, visiting Paris, bought for lifeboat, Henry Vernon, from Tyne- | a small sum in an old clothes shop mouth, by spreading oil on the sea ' a picture representing the baptism as she drew near, was able to reach | of Jesus, in the Jordan (says the what remained of the vessel and; bring off the survivors. They num- bered 50. The case of the Rohilla Central News). On the advice of an artist friend he submitted it to M. Cockz, an may be regarded as a turning point| Antwerp expert, and after a deli- in lifeboat history. It showed what | cate washing process the painting efforts seafarers such as those of was revealed in all its beauty. The Whitby, under a man like Lang-| lands, were capable of in the at-| tempt to save life; but it also re-| vealed the motor-boat as the life-| saving vessel of the future. | expert brought to light the signa- ture of Rembrandt, and the date 1640, It is stated that this hitherto un- known masterpiece came from the ------------ ' collection of a rich English ship Coal has been reached in the new builder, who was compelled, about colliery workings of the Powell Duffryn Company at Llanharran, South Wales. fifty years ago, to sell it to pay his gambling debts, At the least the picture is worth £80,000. " in love with honald, and now -From London Opinion. Dame Fashion Approves Delicate' Beauty of Materials Reminiscent | of Statlier Days A "lace" Ascot is indicated this| year---if the weather be favorable. ! { {- Queen Mary has ordered from her dressmaker three afternoon frocks which are made of the love. liest lace from Nottingham. Two are of black silk Chantilly, and the third is beige-colored. | Another lovely gown on -whieh| lace figures largely has been made for Lady Henry Bentinck. This has a long-waisted crepe) georgette bodice, slightly shirred fn the centre, with the new loop| sleeves, and a three-tiered skirt of | point d'Alencon lace. A long cape collar hangs down below the waist. Not content with lace loveliness alone, the dress designers are in-| serting hand-painted medallions of silk into berthes and flounces. | Reversible cloaks of lace and be-| Specially Minted Money Distributed | in Accordance with Ancient Custom The distribution of Maundy money recently took place at West- minster Abbey when, according to the age-old custom, a number of persons who have fallen on evil times received alms, As the King is fifty-eight this year, so there will be fifty-eight men and fifty-eight women who benefited by it, Silver pennies, twopences and three- pences, specially made at. the Mint, will be given out In little white purses and sovereigns in red purses. It is not often that any of the recipients of Maundy money get much farther than the nearest exit with their alms. American visi-| tors, whose passion for relies of | past ages is world renowned, wait oytside and purchase the coins for | modern currency far above their! face value. One aged receiver of flowered silk are provided for wear t with these dainty gowns, the lace alms took £5 for a twopenny plece. | strengthened by bands of shirred i net or of pleated taffeta. . Little three-tiered capes of lace Merchant Left Big set into a pointed yoke of hand- painted taffeta are a quaint fancy for wear with a picture frock. Hats for Ascot will nearly all have silk or embroidery crowns and cleverly irregular brims of fine lace, or be entirely of lace, with long sashes twisted round the' crowns and hanging down behind. } Minister Preach Over 5,000 Sermons The Rev. Dr. Bruce, who has been honored by his friends on the occasion of his jublles as parish minister of Banff, Scotland, is one literary and ecclesiastical life of Glasgow. his the Auld Kirk at Banff he has over 5,000 sermons; and, in addition, has written one or two delightful books reminiscent of life {in the North-East of Scotland. of the most notable figures in the | been Fortune To Charity A large propcrtion of the £104,- 780 left by Mr. C. J. Byrne, a re- tired Liverpool shipbroker, will go to charities.' He left £2,600 to each of eight churches in Bootle and district for maintenance and general expenses, £2,000 to each of ceven charities, and £1,000 each to three others. To Bootle Corporation he left £300 for the erection of a flagstaff "in memory of a happy life" in Derby Park. After allowing for other charitable bequests he left the residue of his property for charities chosen by his trustees. The death duties amount to £24, 000, which would otherwise have available for charities, The new member for Mitcham, Mr. J. Chuter Ede, is one of the best-known men in Surrey. He lives at Epsom, and is an active member of the Surrey County Coun- cil, where he has done much good work of a practical kind. He is a Schoolmaster, and was formerly Jresident of the Surrey County hers' Association. 'had 24 bullet wounds before he fell. Mystery Pearl Sold For Small Fortune | DERBY PAYS HOMAGE TO MOTHER OF HERO Weighed One Hundred Grains and | Had Never Been Drilled or | Mounted by the Owner In a little box lined with cotton-! lay a mystery gem, described as "a magnificent large drop-pearl oa superb orient." Many people came to see this pearl--among those in the famous rooms while it was on view was the Duke of Marlborough--and EASTER DATES FIXED FOR NEXT 6,000 YEARS | \ Lord Desborough's attempt to get a "fixed" Easter is said Yo have met with encouraging sym- pathy at Rome. No such change, however, can have been ex- pected by the men who made |! the Book of Common Prayer, for || it provides the material for cal- ! culating the date of Easter in |! any year up to and including A.D. 8000. everyone who enjoyed the privilege of handling it for a minute asked, "Where did it come from?" The aniyer was a closely guarded sec- ret. The stome was undrilled and un- mounted, and it had never been used as an article of feminine ad- ornment. Apparently someone had been content to keep it in a box or a safe, although the interest at © per cent. per annum on its value amounts to nearly £1 per day. The only clue that could be ob- tained as to its former ownership was that it was stated to have ori- ginated in the oyster beds of North- East Australia, since when it had been "the property of a gentleman." An idea of the weight of the pearl---100 grains--can be obtain- ed from the fact that the ordinary machine used by the largest deal- ers for weighing pearls registers up to a maximum of 60 grains. In color it is a pure translucent white with the shade of flesh pink only to be found in the finest speci- mens. . The shape'is that of a pear with a topmost section of the neck cut off horizontally. At its sale bids of £200 were made by nods of the head until] £6,400 was reached, when the pearl was sold to a firm in Holborn Via-| duct. The firm were not bidding on behalf of a customer, so the future of the gem is uncertain. It will be placed in a setting of fitting | magnificence. Runaway Boy Has Won Huge Fortune How he ran away from his home | at Preston in 1892 with only a few pounds in his pocket and is now a multi-millionaire, was told by Dr. Seddon, who arrived at Liverpool recently, aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Montcalm on a visit to his boyhood's home. After working on a Canadian farm, young Seddon went to the He now owns estates in ten different States. While building up his huge for- tune Dr, Seddon graduated in both medical and veterinary sciences. He possesses eitates worth over £6,000,000. Gold Sovereigns To Return In England Sovereigns and half-sovereigns may shortly reappear again, as bankers and Treasury officials have recently been discussing the advis- ability of permitting a certain quan- tity of gold coinage to be circulated, It is the opinion of some authori- ties that, now that our indebtedness to America has been funded, a gradual "circulation of gold would enhance home credit and give a fillip to our trade with America. The only drawback is the un- settled condition of Europe. DREAMY ARITHMETIC I read that the winner of one of the big prizes in a Grand Na- |}! tional sweepstake, says a writer || in the Daily Mirror, was guided || in the choice of a number by a dream. I am reminded of the case of a lady who won a prize in a lottery with the number 23, which she had insisted upon having. Asked why she had de- manded it, she replied: 'Because I dreamt of the number seven three nights running, and three sevens is twenty-three." DEATH CLAIMS V, C. News has been received at Car- noustic, Forfarshire, of the death in the Bermudas, from double pneu- monia, of Seaman George Samson, V.C., who played a gallant part in the landing at Sidd el Bahr, in the Dardanelles. He was the first lower deck V.C. for fifty years. A petty officer who picked up Samson after he had been wounded, remarked that bis comrade did not risk his life once, but a thousand times. He fought till his clothes were torn off with bullets and he His action saved hundreds of lives. Afterwards famson carried 13] bullets or pieces of shrapnel about] in him. Sr i MAY BE A DUKE It is considered not unlikely that the King will raise the FEarl of Harewood, father of Viscount Las- celles, to a dukedom. If Lord Harewood became a duke his elder son would be a courtesy marquis or earl, and the infant son of Princess Mary and any brothers and sisters that may follow him, would take rank and have courtesy titles as "Lords" and "Ladies." | Keep What Nature Has Given To You Man of Eighty Tells Why He Has Luxuriant Locks and Few Grey Hairs The problem of combating grey hair has been successfully solved by Mr. F. A. Fairhall, of 4 Sandy- coombe road, Twickenham, who has celebrated his eightieth birth- | ay. ! Mr. Fairhall has & magnificent head of auburn hair marred by only 12 grey hairs. "When I found my first grey hair, about three years ago," said Mr, Fairhall to The Weekly Dis- patch recently, "I could hardly be- lieve my eves. What had caused it? I searched my brain to try to find some reason, but can only put it down to the approach of middle age. 'About six months elapsed. 1 was standing in front of the glass | combing my hair, when suddenly, to my great pain, I saw two other white hairs. They were close to- gether, and one was rather whiter than the other. "Nine other hairs followed in quick succession, until now I pos- sess twelve white hairs. And for two years no others have come. I sincerely Lope that I do not find another, because that would make thirteen, and I might be unlucky. "When I walk out in the street and see men young enough to be my grandsons bald or white I feel a great pity for them. Anybody would go white who leads the mod- ern life, "They live in a continual rush. | When they telephone they are help- ing white hairs to come. When they leap on to omnibuses they are inviting an attack of baldness. Why cannot they follow my example? "I never allow anything to worry me, for fear that the thirteenth grey hair should. arrive suddenly, like a thief in the night. If pco- ple ask me foolish questions 1 do not answer them. And if they per- sist In asking me I go out in the garden, forget it all, and keep my hair on." { "lI am afraid," he added with a shake of his curls, "that many mod- | ern young ople possess little | sense, I have éven heard that some | women have their hair bleached be- | cause they think it becoming. | '"Preposterous! Why not be con- | tent with what Nature has given you, and try to keep it?" Murderers Are Chea Sold As Wax Works Murderers are cheap when put! up for sale. Some of them went! at Liverpool for about 53d. each| when the Chamber of Horrors at| Reynolds' Waxworks came under the hammer. Charles Peace proved the best selier.. He sat dejectedly | in the condemned cell while bids were made for him, Ultimately he | fetched £2 4s, On the other hand,! | po one could be Induced to give! more than 16s, for Mrs. Maybrick. George Smith, the "brides in the bath" murderer, and Black, the, wife murderer, realized 22s. to- gether. Mrs. Flanagan and Mrs. Higgins, the notorious polsoners of 40 years ago, with Mrs. Berry thrown in, produced no more than 10s. The purchaser of the Burke! and Hare set paid 17s. for the plate-! glass window, and expressed indif- ference as to the fate of the models. | Duke {town's back streets. In Company with Earl Haig and Duke of Devonshire She is Given Freedom of City Derby accorded a unique honor to bereaved mothers and widows of the war when it conferred its honorary freedom upon Mrs. Ade line Rivers, the aged mother of its only V.C.,, in company with the of Devonshire and Field: Marshal Earl Haig, says the New: | of the World. Mrs. Rivers' son | Private Jacob Rivers, of the Sher wood Foresters, won the coveted cross at Neuve Chapelle by forcing | the enemy to retire in face of his intrepid bomb throwing. A second | time on the same day he went out to repeat his feat, and again suc- ceeded in forcing the Germans to withdraw, but this time was killed. Mrs. Rivers is a woman in very humble circumstances, is receiving an old age pension, and, in éom- nection with the presentation of the borough's freedom, an offer had been made to procure for her a corporation house for the rest of her life, but she prefers to remain in her old home in one of the She was the central figure in the ceremony, which took place before a large crowd in the drill hall. She was first driven through decorated streets, and entertained to lunch by the Mayoress. The Duke of Devonshire and Earl Haig were the guests at luncheon by the Mayor, who afterwards presented the three certificates of freedom. Mrs. Riv- ers was given precedence in the or- der of presentation, She was dressed plainly in black, and was evidently deeply moved 'by the tremendous ovation given her when the freedom was presented. The Duke of Devonshire,-who was ac- companied by the Duchess, was next to be honored, and Earl Haig followed. Earl Halg remarked that he was very proud to be associated with the revered mother of Derby's gallant V.C. "The ex-Service men of Derby," continued Earl Haig, 'are my introduction to you to- day. No man could have a better introduction. They are sponsros to be proud of." Mrs. Rivers also expressed her thanks, and, speak- ing in simple, homely terms, re- marked, 'I am very proud to re- ceive the honor of the freedom of Derby, and I only wish my poor son were here to receive it him- self. He died a true British soldier." Blew a Bubble That Lasted For 55 Days Sir James Dewar, the distin guished scientist, died recently at the Royal Institution, Albemarle street, W. He was in his eighty- first year. Honors were conferred on Sir James by learned societies all over the world for his scientific research. With Sir Frederick Abel he was the inventor of cordite, and his experi- ments with extreme heat and cold resulted in the production of the vacuum flasks, known to-day as Thermos flasks. No Arctic explorer knew mora about excessive cold than this scientific wizard. It was his ambi- tion to produce a temperature of absolute zero. "Think," he used to say, "of the hundreds of things that we could not do without extreme heat. Why should there not be hundreds of others, equally useful, which will be possible with extreme cold?" The unconventional methods sometimes adopted by Sir James were exemplified during the war. He blew a number of large soap bubbles, one of which maintained all its pristine beauties in a glass case for fifty-five "days. When it burst the whole scien. tific world mourned its loss as the end of the oldest bubble on record. What scientific problem Sir James had up his sleeve by these experiments was Most of the others were sold in lots | bubble-blowing of half a dozen or more. The ex-| Dever quite clear. Kaiser was represented by a figure! Sir James was born at Kincar- as a little boy with ringlets riding | dine-on-Forth, in Scotland, on Sep- a pony, and realized £4 6s. Henry |tember 20, 1842. When twenty- the Eighth, with his full comple- | nine years of age he married Helen ment of wives, was knocked down | Rose, daughter of Willlam Banks, for 23% guineas. J of Edinburgh. The reason Mrs. Montmorency is seeking a legal separation. ~~From the Passing Show.