ith eile ott mt et ee a tenor _moloist is ill, Brockville drowned -------------- DARING MOTOR RACES AT TORONTO ON HAROLD COLE KEPT THE. DARING TURNS. PLACE IN THE THIRD RACE, P HAD SOME DIFFICULTY IN MILES BEHIND NOTES ABOUT LABOR United Switzerland, A new weekly Jabor paper. will soon be issued in Toromto, In New York eighty per cent. of the factory girls get less than $6 a week. The cigar-makers' blue label was the firat trade label ever used by any la- bor organization, ; The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen recently issued gu charter for a local union at Sarnia. Next year the Scottish trade union congress will 'be held at Dumfries, and Bn large attendance is expected, The hedeacriers and building labor ors of Woodstock, organized recently nnd obtained & two and a half cents an hour increase, The National Brotherhood of Opera- tive Potters will hold itsgahnual con- vention at Atlantic City, W.J., during this month. The State Federation of Labor of Losisiana. will shortly be organized, and affiliated with the American Fed eration of Labor, The Canadian™ government by-law Proposes Lo restrict the working hours of the street railway men to. six days of ten hours each. Plans have been started by farmers throughout Kentucky to form a co- operative chain of stores for the pur- pose of reducing the high cost of liv- In Canada, States ing. : Sheep Herders' Union, of Butte, Mont., is sending out an appeal for moral and financial assistance in the work of organizing the sheop herders of the country, : The two factions of the Internation- al Brotherhood of Electric Workers are considering a proposition which,- it is believed, will bring them together un- der one head. | : A 'state federation of labor has been organized in Louisiana with a mem- ip. of twenty-seyen unions, Ac tion was taken applving for a charter Jom the American Federation of La- r, A recommendation that the universal eight-hour workday at a minimum wage of 84 a day be established in Massachusetts will be made to the council of stationary firemen's unions, which meets in' Brockton in July, The paper manufacturers of Holyoke, Mass., recently voluntarily granted an eight-hour day with no cut in wages. The majority of the emplovées in the paper, mills formerly worked éloven to thirteen hours per day. Under the name "Canton Bern'er Frauenverein," a Swiss society of wo men, representing all parts of the canton of Rerne, has just been formed in the Swiss capital to carry out a somewhat original scheme on behalf of girls and women. The object of the society is to prevent girls entering fac- tories, cafes apd trades which are al- ready overcrowded with women work ers, and where the wages are, there fore, cut down to the lowest limit. Berner society wishes girls to fearn men's trades and to hecome bookhbinders, carpenters, sign painters, Shamists, farmers, masseurs, tray ellers, o. S-------------- Taking His "Bass." Two o'dock/ a.m., and a fine, dris sling rain, the village constable eyed suspicious loiterer. For hall an hour had the shabby stranger parad ed stealthily about the quiet road under the dripping trees. At last the officer felt he must act, "Here, my man," he said, coming on the suspect, unawares, '"what are ¥ou doing loitering about here 1" "Nothing at all, officer," was the reply, which failed to appease the constable, ei "he asked, sarcasti "Then 'why have you been around here for the best part "ye Ri 2 ion g, I 3 othi a assure Said the stranger. "You see, in our church, and the bo cally. on," sing bass "But what's that got to do: with you being here ?" interrupted the con- stable. > "Quite & lof. 1've got to take the bass solo to-morrow night, and I'm bangwg round here trying to cated , cold to lower my voice." The little son. Willis, of W. 8 who recently removed from to Davis, Sask, was last week, and the 'body was not recovered for twenty-four CROWD GASPING WiTH HIS JOB BARIBEAL. COULDN'T. GET AWAY FROM tS LITTLE HARD LUCK JINX IN "THE STRUGGLE FOR SECOND ILLIPS AVING > dERisE ome talk of seeuring the interferenceof the police in such future contests. races. . RANDOM THOUGHTS | { From "A" te YZ.» | ' A Carlo. fe 1s i | TO RUN 1560 MILES AN HOUR, A Monorail Line Between Nice and Monte Adam's ale, Rowell's nectar, before Baal, hrother.s 100,000,000 Bend not English railway' enginéers are f« CoChinese lowing with keen interest thy develop- | people. ment of the plans for the * I-Dreaning not railway which is to link Monte "Carlo, with tions at Beaulien," Fze and Cap d'Ail, and on which it is expected passe will be able to travel at the rate o 150 miles an hour, It will provide a useful test oi the practicability of the Isearney system, in which the car run om a single ruil and in a vertical position by rail or guide bar. J--Jack Johnson and Jim ¥lynn had Should the system prove as success lit in black and white. ful in actual practice as with the mod- | K--Knowledge is king. | | poken by high speed' : EO good a per with Nice forming Extinguishers think they are distinguishing themselves. FeFur-farming the latest; ones, beware G cheerfully or not at all. H--Human speech oft the vehicle of are divine inspiration. {Tee in &f foxy ngers {ive intermediate sta | I | | | i | i | maintained cream, yes, yes, with lots of an overhead 1c el, it is proposed to construct we L---Live and let live high speed tubes for London, one trom | M--Milhionaires and the Crystal Palace to the Strand and return do dust the other from the Oval, at Kensing N--No pleasure ap on the South Side, to Crickle othars. : wood, on the north-west. The sta oC Old boys and girls a tions will be just below the surince of tities welcome the ground, and by such a railroad, P Portsmouth's big hoarding house where, lifts and escalators are unneces- | fou ishing sary and. running speeds fur greater " on than on the existing systems, it is' al on > leged that travelling in the metropolis R. Rough-rider will be revolutionized ei th 1 =At a Hemonstration in London two goesy thou ia believ : S--Seeing is believing. model cars attained a speed of nine i Dreaduoughi hould miles an hour, a speed stated to hel ttescnoughia shoul many times in excess of that able' by "models of "ordinary railroads constructed to the same scale Not only did the cars respond to every de site of the inventor, but one actually jumped en route a. timber equivalent in size sized sleeper. Many individual menials alike equal to obliging thousand congress an object les- Roosevelt, wither Those miles cool hot obtain: Tears may speak of joy as well ag f sorrow. ' Unique method, killing one to teach him how to live, V--Vive la Canadienne ! W-Will Woodrow Wilson win ? X---Xtremely attentive is Phebus Y- Yuan Shi Kai, a peach to bor row, piece of to a full performances of high speed have been reported upon experimental tracks on the continent, but few systems have hitherto entered on the commercial stage. With {he construction of the new line from Nice to Monte Carlo it is asserted that the high speed age will have dawned ton, em i hiog So Careless of Auntie. The observant housewife descended to the kitchen, with shining in her eyes cook, she remarked : "Did you have a visitor last night while T was at the theatre, Mary ? The cook turued red Of course | Mr. Ryan?" it was the heat of the stove that did What great trial it. "Why, that going on "Yea, ma'am," she replied. stam. | Hall" , mering. "A--an aunt of mioe, ma' "What trial is going on at the City am." Hall #"" The mistress' face looked cold and "Why, the Gamey trial. of course. ; hard as she held two objects in her "The ney trial, the Gamey trial ? hand. : What tal is that" "Mary," she said, quietly, "please "Bless my soul, don't you read the toll vour apnt next time she a» not to leave her pipe and pouch on the drawing-room piece." ZACCHEUS, Ryan's Wit. When the life of our respecled ve gistrar, Peter Ryan, comes. to be writ- as it surely will some day, few raphies will bristle with moro interesting and variegated incidenta. hat episode of the Gamey trig, determination' though still within the memory of Seeking out the | most of us, deserves veproduction in : the Loronto Star Weekly, if only for thé purpose of presentation » "What think you of the great trial, at the City papers . "What.? In lent? No, sir, nothing church notices." comes tobacco mantel- {but the Told All About Him. Chirago News John J. Lentz, of Ohio, is celebra- teed as a long-distance orator, but, for all that, they thought out in Colum- bus that the editor of a morning paper rather rubbed it in in a short account of a political meeting {at which John was the speaker. This was the paragraph : "John J. Lentz addressed a meet- Mrs. David Imrie, a former highly estoemid t of Brockville for many. years, tied at Rochester, N.Y., on Tuesday, aged eighty years. She & survived by two sons and two danghters. y ee Lott has been appointed as- mistant superinlendent of the Sal's Falls division of the C.p. The death occurred in Almonte, {ing of the democratic voters of the on Friday last, of Mrs, William ninth ward last night and this morn- sheddab, aged seventy-eight years. ing !* THE DAILY -- NE ------ iN THE SIDE CHAIR EVENT THE PASSENGERS SHOWED GONIIDERARLE ACROBATIC IT LOOKED LIKE A SURIOUS Acc WHEN BARIBEAU ANDREWS / WENT 'DOWN (HA BUNCH AT (1 TURN OF THE 20 MILE. RACE Artist's sketeh of terrific smash which may bring death to motor cycling racing in Ontario. There is s 11 mean to sell to the highest « BRITISH WHIG. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1015. SATURDAY - } ABILITY Fifteen thousand people saw the "SOLD WIVES IN ENGLAND. Public Auction W as Legal as ' Divorce, It was long a popular belief among the ignorant in Laogland that if a man sold his "wife at puble acution, | such a sale bad all the legality of a | regular divoree, The latest cnse of | the kind on record oecurred in 1832 | The name Guarantee of John Thompson, a farmer, had been | married for three and | LEVER on Purity and vears, and he the very essence of their cleanliness to Sunlight Soap. cake of Sunlight is easily equal to half of a woman's labor at the wash-tub, saves all the rub and wear and not the slightest injury to hands or The Acme of Purity in Eaundry _ Soaps. "Those white fleecy garments, those dazzling white linens, owe One fabric. Just try Sunlight. «Se. a bar. Soap 1s a Excellence. 24 his wife agreed 'to separat¢. Thomp { \ son brought his wife into the town of -- <r Carlisle and 'by the bellnian i wt to sell her, ! fhompson placed ; on a 'large oak chair with al halter of straw about hér | { | announc- | ed hip was about Al twelve o'clock his wife rope or neck. He then made this announce | ment : 'Gentlemen; 1 have to ofier to | your notice my wile, Mary Anne | | hompson, otherwise Williams, whom and fair est adder. It 18 her wish as well as mine to part forever. She has been to me only a born serpent. | took her for | my comfort, but she became my mest ic a night invasion, and g | daily devil. 1 speak truth "from my | heart when 1 say God deliver us | from troublesome and frolick some women! Avoid them as yon would a mad ddy, a roaring lion, a loaded pistol, morbus, Mount | Etna, -or any other pestilential thing in nature, Now | have shown vou the | dark side of my wife, and told yon oi her faults and failings I will intro duce the bricht and sunny side of her, and explain her qualtheations and can read novels and | laugh weeps | that when the good of my home, | tormentor, a do- curse, may wives cholera goodness. She milk with the same ease glass of ale gentlemen, she and vou could | thirsty. In reminds me of | cows, she can take n deed, what the ral : Heaven gave to poet says ol women in gene women the péculiar To laugh, to weep, to cheat the hu- man race, "She can make butter and seold the maid, she Moore's melodies and plait her tolds and caps; she can | not make rum, whiskey, but | she 18 a good judge of the quality of | each from long tasting | | | | | | ean sing gin, 'or experience an Led All the Liars. | I "Years ago we had an Aommias Chal | The woman was finally sold to one li Philadelphis," say Binghiam, th Henry Mears for the sum of twenty | American humarist, "and | wa its shillings and a Newfoundland dog. | first president. At the Man and wife parted in perfect good] bahguet, it ; temper, Mears and the woman going one way, Thompson and the dog ild be chosen for the other. I told a. true-story | nel whose regiment was afraid | the retreat was sounded his men wan' {ed to run, but he rode {head of the them, i thesfore,, offer her, with all her perfections' and ier fections, Aor the sum ol hlty stullings, hrst meetin was decided that the i | who told the most preposterous an- | 8 ensuing year about a colo Can't Money With Buzz-Saw." made dor case ad IF One J ITom a rout An amusing remark was ing the hearing of A the court house, the other day. of those who had been summoned fail Ce v column, Kk A cannon ball wok the colonel"s bead off. But he was quick ed to put in an and : the | Witted. He knew it he showed any sign presiding magistrate, enquired, if there | of 'weakness the men behind him would i was an explanation of this. "Well," (8% Pamcstricken, so he sat he said, "We'll issue a warrant' for and Fode 'slowly. on. him. He must léarn he $an't monkey | then. the tide of with 2 buzzsgw." ' | and the command was safe. I he 4 j colonel sent a private back pick -------- sa ---- wip i a . 3 . W : Matthew Reister had a nazrow sa up his head. Ihe private went back a miles, found a head in the 4 + | couple of 5 fr " : andr baw. 1 cape from death, at Alexandria Bay. jditeh, and brought it to the colonel N.Y.. on Saturday, when the sides of " "I'hat's + 4 ¢ LL That's not my head !' roared the a gravel pit, in which he was work- colonel > ing, caved in and he was buried "vit certainly is, sir," appearance, erect | battle turned, replied the et camp in history of cadet move jo buffer, and through theo trunks re Workmen near by rushed to the spot private. and dug him out. |." '} guess 1 ought to know my own se { head, said the colonel. : |" 'Maybe 80, but 1 ve seen it oftenc: | than you have,' retorted the private "Youre a har, sir!' yelled the colonel. "Whereupon the private temper and threw the in the colonel's lace "lhey clevied me at oncd,"' -------------- "Baggage Smashing" Abolished. i Taking a thit the managers reeted with general rland Valiey Railroad company ha brushed aside all precedent, revolu- tioned ""Daggape smashing" and i saving thousands of dollars a year 1 its patrons by originating 4 mew phase of conservation the sas mgs of trunks. "in place of handling baggage with the roughness for whieh railroads ¥ gouverally are bitiged, the rule has gone forth on the Cumberland Valley bine 1g no piece of baggage shall be dropped from a car unless under it is placed an "air-hose mat." The air hose wat is a deviee constructed of wir-hose in three-foot lengths, parallel {to each other apd separated by a few 'finches. They are designed to act as Jost his colonel 8 nend and will Te favor, the Cum proneer step one believe eeive practically wo jury. 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