6 BRITISH WHIC| cmARGE oF THE LiGAT ; BRIGADE. The recent London dispatch { porting thé death of a man suppos- | ed to have been the last survivor of | the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava has resulted in the diz- covery that there still lives a mem ber of that intrepid band. His name [is Ellis Cutting, he is | years old, and his home Rapids, Towa. . It is doubtful if at-any other per- fod in history there has lived a man who saw stranger or more revolu- tionary changes occur in the world than this veteran of the Crimean { war has observed THE 8 in Cedar JE nr |] were allied against Russia; sixty .| years later Russia, France and Great | " | Britain were allied against Turkey. and Semi-Weekly by : : ey Wii PUBL:sHING | This is not so extraordinary. History . - ©0,, LIMITED {is replete with similar cases. They fn Riot Fe 'ey parent | a8 A. Gul . or and | hin iy Managing-Directos | NE what international relationships " | may be, even a few years ahead. "ress 243 Somewhat stranger are the develop- | : [3 ments that have occurred in military LEPHONES Oftice . ..202 SUBSCRI1 ON RATES: (Daily itton) lon gas, aeroplanes and tanks have One year, in eit v «+ 86.00) revolutionized warfare. Owe year, if pald in advance One year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 esting of all has been the passing of One year, to United States $3.9 sbsolutism In government and the 4 (Semi-Weekly Kdition) i year, by mail, cash ... $150] rise of democracy. Sear, A aia in, adv Moe Even if no survivor of Balaklava REPRESENTATIVES, | til] lived, the charge of the Light Joh » -<2 100 King St. Ww, to, One OUT-OF. TOW F. Caulder, 22 8 » ten; for, apart from the facet that it of th: | it stands out as one of those great, heroic exploits which world loves to remember. all nations can take pride in the Fage--of the -dauntiess'shr-rris Letters to ORly over the writer. Attached 1s ome of the best Jo! orinting offices In Canada. ; don The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO "Tieirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." They typify discipline--- "the habit of instinctive and instant. Audit Bureau of Circulations The world is getting better all tney ! [cree ebediencg under any and ail | | | | circumstances." | while. Very few people now say "as it were." ------ a -- | The man who has nothing to re| THE IRISH ELECTIONS. gret probably has very little fun to | The returns which have been ro. remember, | ceived so far in the election in Sou'h And another reason why grocery bills remain unpaid is bdcause boot- {18 in favor of the treaty and which is loggers won't charge it. {headed jointly by Michael Collins Sth eh A tetem-- {and Arthur Griffiths. The de Valera If you are neither clever nor rich, pafty has won a number of seats in the hot beds of Republicanism, but has been defeated in same places where victory was expected, and it seems likely that the complete re- | turns will find the treaty supporters | vindicated "In their attitude by the The Melting pot Ts Ike hypnot. | Majority of the people of the three ism. It can't get results without southern provinces of .Ireland. This the consent of the other fellow. You can cultivate the same feeling of superiority by being good. It does our old heart good to see & newly married couple buying a seven-passenger touring car. | by the more moderate of the Irish- Business fs on a higher ethical | men, for they realized that the bulk plane, says Judge Garry, of the of the people affected were desirous Steel trust. It is higher all right, of one thing only, a renewal of 3 peaceful conditions in their country, When the loser smiles, it doesn't | 8nd they realized that the measuras - mean that he is a good loser. 1t|Of self government accorded them Means that he is a good actor. | within the new Irish Free State was |'a very generous one, and just as I cigarettes really - affect the | much as they could ever hope to se- brain, no one should be permitted to cure by any means whatsoever. To Smoke them except lounge lisgrds. [these people the Irish treaty was 1 eee safe means of securing what they ~The optimist: "I believe I can | desired, and they were not willing to eross in front of that car. The driver | support de Valera in a demand for n't watching whers he is going." [something which they realized was rt impossible of achievement, It Is a clever wife who lets her ! Busband imagine he is doing some- 'thing she knows nothing about. { The defeat of de Valera may mean a great deal to Ireland in her preseut., state, and it may mean very little, [The whole future situation depends on the way in which the defeated ~o- publican leader takes the result of the general vote. It he runs true to form in this matter, then Ireland's troubles are not yet over, for he still has a considerable following of ir. -------- An automobile is not a safe weap. OR In the hands of a man who Hoes 'Bot know whether he is coming or going. EE -------------- y __Lenine probably gets a little satis- faction in his illness from the fact re- | should make one cautious in predict. | | science, where high explosives, pois- | Most inter- | St, Montreal | Brigade would not soon be forgot- | the whole | Men of | £0 | j dred." They may well be held up as (a model for soldiers the world over. | result is just what has been expectad | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. | 8¢céne in which he has been a storm | centre, With the influence of de Valera re- {Moved as a factor { there would be a speedy ending of | the - troubles which have swept the | country for the last six years. Mich- [981 Collins and Arthur Griffiths have { #hown a spirit of conciliation whic eighty-five | is commendable, and which will go | | : 3 i farther than anything else in bufld- | as a free and self- | Eoverning nation The first and | Breatest efforts of these {should be centred on getting rid of | the disturber of tho peace, whose in- | fluence has shown a | ing up Ireland | people. '# "NITS" OF HISTORY 1 "WITS" 0 | By Mark Stuyvesant. a | How Rachel's Graceful Answers Won | Her Two Great Friends, In 1821 an Alsatian peddler and {bis wife were travelling from town | to town in Switzerland A baby girl was born to them. When this Ittle girl was 4 years |old she was collecting pennies for | her sister, who was singing in the | cheap cafes of Paris. | Twenty years from that time this | Little girl had risen to the greatest | ueights of art and prominence, Her snorted she cop. real name was Elizabeth Felix but een immortalized by Tennyson, | the Editor are published | has b yson {to the world she was "Rachel," the greatest actress of France, her ad- opted country, So famous was Rachel, great was Ber charm and hep..wits that"§he Tecelved homage from the most distinguished men of her day. ------ and so | | | | Iréland would seem to indicate a | | clear-cut victory for the party which | plo Neer 'There 'Are Some Who Never Die." . Every one wanted to meet Rachel! | She was the toast of Paris, and held an unquie place in her profession. Although Rachel's greatest roles Were tragic parts, she was, in priv- ata life, a fascinating, witty woman. Chateaubriand, the great French writer, was one of Rachel's warm- est admirers. He considered her a VOry great woman, so great that at one time in the deepest sincerity ne said: "How sad it is to think that you Should have beer" born as we are about to die!" In her very charming manner and with her voice blended with sweet- ness and fervor, she replied: "Sir, there are some who never die!" Rachel's answers webe often witty, She had the knack of giving fhe most tactful replies to people and making them feel at ease, Rachel's great rival on the stage Was a gifted actress by the name of Ristori. Ristori came to Paris and Played some of the roles which Raea- el played. \ Rachael went to the performances. Afterward the two actresses met. Ristori was Speaking to her manager in Racher's Presence. She was very much chag- witness some of responsibles, who are ready to go to any lengths to prevent the treaty be. ------------ ing given full effect. Post-election In a little while now 'the ladies | indications point to some kind of an will be studying wave lengths in or- outburst from de Valera, but it is der to avoid getting their bathing | hard to see what hé can hope to gain suits wet, ; " {by such a course, in view of the fact that the majority 1s against him. _ No wonder the bride's mother Majority must rule in all democ- 'Weeps. She, better than any other, racies, and the Irish Free State, if it a what is going to happen to the ; m. he is to be a true democracy, must be- ------------ Those collage graduates going out come a state governed by those sel- ected by the people, and therefore make the world a better place to in are not going to have any dull that it takes three men to fill his by the pro-treaty majority. If de Valera can be induced to accept this land are within sight of solution, EE and he can redeeni himself in the The less a man knows, the more eyes of the English speaking world ation he finds in the convie. |, Accepting the will of the people that he is a good judge of hu- | final 8 nature, as final, and taking his place in Ir. : ' ish politics as a minority leader who :% 2 ------ ee In the old days an ultimatum wag | I Willing to assist the government 4 In wiping out atsorder and strife in effort to start something; now it 8 desperate effort to avoid start. |th® country. tik anything. my "4 It is almost too much'te hope, ne SO however, that de Valera will do this, se of Remor: The quality that | He 18 100 fond of the limelight, he e8 you chuckle when something | lives too strongly on strife between to people you don't care the various factions, to take his de- about. feat without .a last effort to mullity vk ---------- its effects. While there was fighting 1 things go on at this rate, tha | in Ireland, fighting in which British \ system soon wil | troops participated, he could also fans 4 chance to work and | gain the ear of the rabid Sinn Fein- IE to eat. ~~ - lers by Appealing to 'them to rise : , "e * .|ugainst what he called the foreign ce the boardwalk at (he | lnvaders. Jt will be rather m and thinks of his hotel bit | ficult to induce the. ; ise i of pirates and those | against their own brethren, especial- ly as the majority 'ate opposed any such upr effort, if he' are gone forever, course would be. to a id and his the inevi- view point, then the troubles of Ire- S rined as she remarked: "Rachel never applauded me once!" Raquel replied Immediately: "Rachel's Jealousy wae the one | thing needed to confirm your fame." This graceful answer wag ginning of a very interesting friend- ship between these two ° great art- ists, -------- ing with his son-in-law, mith, near Collins Bay, Away on Thursda Ay at the house and ® placed in the Luth- eran burying ground. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ve returned home friends after visiting a strong's. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Milli- gan and little son, visiting at Oscar Amey's. Amey and son L. G. Gar- 3 . te t------ ' "The sale of individual tickets to 'the Chautauqua concert Relp the Daughters of the Empt Who are selling , rhe tickets will do you in Irish polities, | leaders | rapid decline | In that struggie, | within the last year, and who is los- | {Great Britain, France and Turkey | ing favor as a leader of thas Irish | ra | BIBLE THOUGHT FO2 TO-DAY { ABOUT THROWING STONES. --Master, this woman was taken in adultery. [Moses commanded us that such {should be stoned: but what sayest thou? "un. said unté them, | He that Is without sin among you, iE | {let him first cast a stone at her, -- John 8: 4, 5, 7 | ALONG LIFES DETOUR | i ! BY SAM HILL ttn Lucky Things, like to be a comb, | . For though its teeth may break, | No dentist does jt need. For they are not the kind that ache. | Observations of Oldest Inmabitant, i It is hard to realize the superstout of | 40 now trying so hard to reduce is | the same old gir! who used so much padding to bones. hide her Hod'd Ya Like to Listen in on Them? (Classified Ad. in Enquirer) For Sale--Talking polly, brass and springs. bed -- Keeps Him Guessing, "Doggone 1," growled the traffic cop. "What's the matter?" j ous pedestrian. | "Why, darn it, I can't tell whether | these blamed electrics are trying to | park in the middie of the crossing or actually trying to get Ho, Hum! What do the ladies talk about? Is often asked in prose and rhyme. 1 The answer tlways is the same = PRey ta ABOUT RI] of the time. Fool Questions. D. F. asks: 'Can a man be arrested | for breaking into a laugh?" "No, but he can get into trouble by stealing a glance." . Hot Weather Item. Dear Sank Stormy Blizzard lives around the corner from Pebble Stone at Dresden, Ohio. G. C. M.,, Newark, Ohio, Ambitions We Never Have Had. To beat the record of dropping over 21,000 feet in a parachute. -- A 1,000,000 To | Shot "An automobile hasn't much chance of winning an argument with kn ex- press train," remarked Brown. "No more'n a maf has of winning an argument with a tfaffic cop or his | wife," replied Black. Tough Luck. 1 have no coin to spend, Although I like to roam; So my vacation I Will have to spend at home, | "You used to be awfully sweet on that giddy Miss Peachley." ' I have soured on her had to start paying her tpn Often Happens. | | "Yes, but since I have alimony." -- Doctors Golag Play on His Organs? | (Lake Shore News, Chicago) Mr. Charles McCoy, 730 Ashland av. | enue, will be opened on Monday after- noon next for a concert to be given by the pupils of Pearl Barker, ---- . FCs a Great Life! It's'a crime to get it on the dry, dry | land. | But ocean. & privilege on the wet, wat We'd Rather He'd Overhaul den. (Classified Ad. in Hastings Wanted--Garden plowing ing. Phone 919J. -- Spoke by the Card. He swore she was his Queen and yet No tzace of Joy suffused: her face; She simply answered, "I regret To say I am another's ace." ~~Boston Transcript Our Gar- Tribune) and haul- Sometimes she will call him her Kin But oftén she finas good excuse To make him feel that life is h--1 By éalling him a "dirty deuce." 8, ---- Guess What It Is "There are nearly 20000 known 'medicinal remedies," re d the doctor'g wife. "Yes, and there's only one - these thirsty Americans care a darn about," replied the doctor, -- Daily Sentence Sermon. Tramping on the Other fellow's toes is not always the best way to get on your own feet. Se------ * News of the Names Club, Etta Crabb, of Detroit, may have eaten one, but she isn't one, anyway, Viola A. Fehr lives in St Louis, but we'll bet she's a brunette, at that. . ---- eee PRESENTATION AT Moscow, afternoon Wwas'spent at Moscow gn Thursday, June 8th, when the mem- bers of the Ladies' Ald, Colebrooke, Visited rMs. Charles Ward, home of her Toronto, are | fi tickets. Only the e 20 years ago] | $20.00 Sizes 34-46, asked the curi- | somewhere," | J - | pines } suns and fine Good for $1.25 $1.4 Short sleeves and 1 Men's and Young Men's Suits Palm Beach, pure Wool Home. quality Tweeds. SALE OF MEN'S UNDERWEAR Athletic style, Union suit. 2.00 per Suit ankle length. Long sleeves and ankle length. BIBBY'S Men's and Young Men's Straw Hats New English Sailors. 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