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For sale at all druggists or dealers, Tae T. Mzsurx Co., LIMITED, Tozoxto. DFT Rubber Talk Are you in need of a family Syringe. We have them from 50c. to $1.50, guaranteed quality. Good Hot Water Bottles, $1 to $2, according to size and quality. : from Hot Water Bottle combinations from $1.50 to $2.25 each. When you think of purchasing anything in the Rubber Line con- sult ww HOAG \¢ The Up=town Druggist, Oppos- ite Y. M. C. A. SPECIAL SALE OF Watches, Jewellery and Clocks, Sterling Silver Novelties and Ebony Goods, Pearl Crescents, Pearl and Diamond Pen- dants, all newest and lat- est designs, also French Perfume. I have a few of those special Silver Case Watches, with El- gin and Waltham move- ments, at $8, also Gold Filled Cases, with Elgin and Waltham movements at $12. ASHLEY, JEWELER & OPTICIAN, 165 PRINCESS ST. SPECIALTIES FOR CHRISTMAS Saguenay Salmon. Chinook Salmon. Malpecque Shell Oysters. Blue Point Shell Oysters. Lill Clams. Fresh Lobsters. Turkeys. Geese. Canned" Oysters and Bulk oye ters of all varieties. DOMINION FISH €0., 63 BROCK STREET. 'Phone 520. CHRISTMAS GIFTS, The best Christmas Gift to buy something useful. We have them :--Decorated Agate Tea and Coffee Pots, Cream Jugs, Butter Dishes, Cuspadores, and many things too numerous to mention. Give us a call--no trouble~to show goods. Taylor & Hamilton Tinsmithing, Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Hot Water Heating promptly attended to. 'Phone 418. Why Not Get . Something Useful ? We are selling and putting away for delivery a number 'of Club Bags, Solid Leather Suit Cases, Chatelaines, etc., Wrist Bags, Seal 18 Purses, Card Cases, etc. f RUDD HARNESS CO, 143 PRINCESS STREET. "Phone, 402. NOTICE Is hereby given the publie that I purpose making it warm for all persons using my coal next win- ter. Your order is solicited. P. WALSH 55-57 Barrack St. THIRTY DEAD. As a Result of the Terrible "Accident. MANY INJURED. BADLY MANGLED AND SOME WILL LIKELY DIE. Coaches Telescope One Another and Pullman Becomes a Bat- tering Ram--One of the Worst Disasters in the History of Canadian Railways--Fighting the Fire. London, Ont., Dec. 29.--Thirty per sons are dead as a result of the G.T. R. collision near Wanstead on Friday night. The injured number consider ably more. These latter include many "who may die from their injuries. They sustained all manner of hurts, and when they reached the hospital at London were so covered with blood that 'they could not he recognized. Their appearance simply beggars de- scription. Many of the dead had sufiered fright- ful hurts, heads were cut ofi, legs were wrenched from the bodies, blood flowing like water and the scene of the carn became more like the floor of a sinuvhter house than a mere stretch of snow-covered level highway in the midst oi a sleeping farmland. was not a house to be through the storm, and when davlicht came, was none within a distance too the maimed. Most for- tunately, the two Pullman cars on the train did not sustain any damage. Thev were warm and comiortable, and what were before pala tial sleej for of weary tempor ary hospital. They in the | and what wa to the bleeding which + sustained hy nearly everyone was seen it that There anywhere proved, there far to. carry a few moments ompartments ellers Hine « sCores hecame \ OT trav a placed Po. = as wounds little; there to he had. in in the endeavor however, lv was bre This was, very arc any waler Snow wiurht to quench the terrible thirst of the suffering. A few of the passengers chanced to have whiskey in their and this proved a fortunate The liquor credited with the lives of number of the injured, who had given up the stimulating effects of Was pos session, thing. saving terribly hope hut for the whiskey. a Saved From Added Horror. The fear breaking out led to a determined being institu ted; but, lanes, the wreck was tire that would have ror. Une mol that knew ized a mitting the five was kept damagt The of the of a fire watch of this vi from a untold hor in spite scarcely saved addled, who was no fellows, only of mind and to work, organ their unre fact that did no the a hero he had the better v snow brigade. lo "trugoles the and of passengers, than his presence is due in cheek midst and, to hroke out in the ver - occasion, as there nothing with which Guench it but the snow the extent of the battle which these n imacined than de «raped the snow the tracks, and in handiuls tracks and the railway. With the snow they fell up on the flames, literally smothering them with their hands and their coats which they had ilune from their shoul ders. The tiny fire agvain, fanned and acain the struggle, and hut the fire kept sisting in other in thi of the imprisoned people. wreck Pon one in hierées odd can better he i hey oli from they between side of the scribed. the side hrought adjoining it from broke out avain, and by the winds. Again brigade returned to the they finally noblé men from gs work relieving succeeded; Head-On Collision. add-on collision between express for Chicago and an eastbound freight. The express was nearly two hours late and making fast time. The freight endeavoring to, make a siding have the track clear for the express and failed by a couple of minutes, The It was a he the Pacific Vas was lo ITS BUY THE GENUINE --MANTFD BY af sy ad er ey | results, "miles east this 2 THE DAILY WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29. engires: came together near the it end of the switch with a fearful crash and overturned into the ditch. The baggage and the express cars teles- coped into the smoker with appalling while the other passenger cars were piled upon each other in a fear- ful wreck. There was an awful crash, motive reared up and fell ditch, the baggage -car of the express telescoped the smoker, and the shrieks and cries of the wounded and dving filled the air. Wan :tead, the scene of the disaster, is on the Sarnia Beach of the G.T.R., in Lambton county. It iy forty-two miles west of London, and seventeen of Sarnia, between King's Court and Wyoming. It is a village of 200 inhabitants. It is twelve miles from Petrolea. Wanstead a sta- tion where no operator is maintained over night. There is very little busi- ness picked up, and only the accom- modation trains stop there. They run in the hours of daylight, and so the railway company do not see the neces- sity of keeping a telegrapher. In this instance, the fact "was very unfortun- ate, and, because of it, news of the catastrophe did not reach London in time for a wrecking crew to leave here much before 12:30 o'clock. Agent A. Carson, at Watford, failed to deliver his orders for train No. 5. The Pacific express was running two hours late. The freight tried to » a siding, and failed by a min- Then death came. * the loco- into the shen, VEXED QUESTIONS. Marriage Prospects Discussed by Rachel Challice. ARTICLE 1V, "Why don't they marry ?" I am asked by readers of my recent remarks on the "sufferings of girls in the arena of work, "and "there would not be so many modern martyrs," "Because," 1 reply, 'although marriage has been often termed the proper profession for women, there no profession to which the paths are so closed for the middle-class girl." The girls of the so-called thousand," and those of the "lower have both ample opportuni- tos of consorting with the opposite sex; the former, because they con- stantly meet at all the festivities and entertainments of their exclusive sets, besides heing invited to = join large house parties of the same county fa- milies, and the latter because they are thrown together in the work of markets, factories, and other fields of labor. But the daughters of the middle class, which comprises all our professional" and business men, are al most\as much shut off from any pros- pect of marriage as if they lived in convents, and numbers of them so down to the grave in spinsterhood. "We are selfish men," wrote Words- worth, and this, indecd, may be said by the fathers who, unlike French par ents, provide no dot nor wedding por- tion for the daughters, and by the brothers who take no pains to intro duce possible adinirers to their sis- ters. It was otherwvisé # olden days, when a present of sheep ev cattle from the bridegroom made the men members ot the family anxious to promote mar- wwe. The question of the Sussex lab- r, quoted in the admirable "How to be happy though married,' "Why should 1 give 4 woman hali my victuals for cooking the other half?" is an unvarnished way of putting the of the case, which is still. more difficult when there is not provision enough for two, and when objection t be taken to the wife's culinary efforts. The French dot or dowry pre- vents a self-respecting girl being at such a premium, and enables her to add to her husband's means, which is surely better than a father refusing to permit a marriage on account of the smallness of the income, which he will not increase even to the amount his aauchter costs him at home. When one finds the serious step of marriage treated merely as a profit- able market transaction by the par ents, it is pleasant to see a girl dare to sink her happiness in what may be below par (excuse unexpected pun) as a monetary investment, but bevond price as a share in the mine of affection. Bevond the ditliculty of want of dowry for our middle-class girls, the absence of men is a serious draw- back to spinsters. In the country they are conspicuous by their absence through their migr tion to cities on business and professional calls; gnd in the city they are too busy until the evening to think of. social gatherings. Thus spinsters gssemhle in numbers on their afternoon 'At Home days, sip strong tea, and chat commonplaces, with no man 40 their charming costumes, or better still, to-talk on topics congenial to both, And then, when evening comes, I have often no- ticed that the friends of the brothers of these difierent spinsters will arrive and play whist in the smoking room downstairs, while the dis creetly shut in the drawino-room, and rarely, if eer, meet their brothers' friends. To judge from count in "The Yorbid len the half savage villages in the far north of India have a better idea of a social basis on which marriages can be arranged for he tells us of the Rambang, or Club, at which younc men and maidens meet and make each other's acquaintance during the diver sions of chatting, singing, and spiny ning. And in our civilized cities it reat. pity that men. who are day, cannot feel themselves in the evening by their parents, and ir the simple life of the home circle, perhaps discover her who might prove 'the inspirer of all that is best in his work," as John Stuart Mill said of his wife. But "we men." manv might again this matter. For the ma of a crack regi great camps said several smart offi- passed by, me here, all these their one is "upper ten classes," SO book precious see sisters are Savage Landor' s de- Land," even SUCIS Dr all welcomed friends' busy in fol A lor ment at one of our to me, when 1 saw cers 7 ther, Oh | girls envy hut quaintance with men and ends with lute father never brings to the house, : e says he ha h of them "What do von mt me to to that al officer, | as we nany |a 8S enouy 1nv " take for? id a know. to sister, with him, : who naturally wis to atte ry th tivity, "I don't want to co myself, as 1 hate dancing, so, as vou will have at home, what re do vou wan And, although brother always thus deckmed to on vi vou nav ball voung stavin who was \ had me Made to the Clerk of the Peace, Frontenac, for the quarter - RETURN OF CONVICTIONS ending the gth day of December, A.D., 1902. Name of the Prose-| cutor. ts Name of the Defendant. | Nature of Charge. William Bell .|John Madden...... Charles Joseph..... | C harles Lewis. +. W. MoGuire...... ..|William Osbourne... |Geargo Parks... ... .| Michael Tetro.. James Halpin... Robert Wilson. | Robert Holding Henry Brouse ...... Michael McNally. . ames Tyo License Inspector. Police . . . {John McC ullough. ..|James Burns hei Joseph McDonald. . John Maloney... . .. [William Campbell .. ..|Robert Coleman. . {Andrew Murphy. ..{Andrew Murphy. .{Ihomas Neil Annie Hamilton. . .. | harles Burtman .|L. A. Roys Chomas McClymont "« [Thomas McClymont srenaiditnn. [Charles Driscoll . .. . ..|Henry Christmas "John MeMahon.. Thomas Ryan Patrick Gilrory.. ../Daniel Keenan... {William Whitehead William Sweetman.. Police. « The Ring Police. ..., William Cliff. Patrick Purcell. Henry Irwin. {Daniel Gallivan .. {Elijah Veale. . James McIlroy Sinha [James E. Mullen John Appleton.... amuel S. Corbett. [Soan.P, Treneer Ww, Richard McLaren .|Bernard Hartley.. tomer O'Rourke. R. G. Moor.. {William MacF License Inspector. Police i " John Pay. . IMac. Genovitch Chas. Wartman. {John Hogan W. D. Bartels..... F Villiam Cutick. ... .. -.Malcolm McMillan. ...... Cornelius McMahon > .{David H. Mc¢Rae...... i -....| Michael Devine.......... Charles Bogardis. ..... {John MacFarland ... 0... Wm. McNess...... "| Airlie Van Rodenstine... Ee .. Fighting. . " .. " ; . Drunk . Obscene and Grossly Insulting Language) . {Infraction of Liquor License Act. . {Drunk ii {intimidating by Picotto. i" 1 Drank Theft. ... " : Drank... ~iTheft... .'Drunk.. " | reach of Steamboat Inspection Theft Drunk and 1 Malicious Injury to Property Drunk. Assault Loitering on Princess Street "= « Malicious Injury to Property. . Fighting " " " "« " " " " " "« .. Infraction of Liquor License Act . Indecent public exposure of his person . Infraction of City By-Law.. Practising medicine without license. . Assault " .Peddling without license. Assault Conviction. Date of Con Name of | victing | Justice. | Amount of Penalty, Fine paid or| {Towhom paid) | When NT | 020k pai, w aud 0! fe ifany. | to be | over by said | | or Damage. paid to] 'Justice, P| 3, 1902 Joha. w | " " 1% iy I Duff. . Je > or 1 month in gaol . 181 or 14 days in gaol.. ldustice| Treasurer... 1 ' .'#1 or 14 days in gaol.. ..|1$10 or 1 month mn gaol .. #5 or 14 days in gaol ./310 or 1 month in gaol... ..... , . #10 or 10 days in gaol. $3 or 1 month in gaol. 325 or 15 days in gaol. .'33 or 1 month in gaol... . Treasurer License on T . Treasurer. $30 or 1 mouth in gaol.. 350 or 1 month in gaol. a3ids cerns vnn acini hi. as £30 or 1 month in gaol £10 or 3 months in gaol. . "ICommitted. 1yr.& 360 daysinCent'l Pr 1 yr. &360 days in Cent'l Pr 1&5 or 14 days in gaol... .... . ./810 or 3 months in gaol... . £10 or 1 month in gaol..... .|85 or 1 month in guol..... . {$3 or 1 month in gaol. ....I... {33 or 1 month in gaol . 6 months in Central Prison... 6 mouths in Central Prison .|210 or 3 months in gaol. . : [820 or 3 months in gaol. . : |§2 2 or 14 days in gaol . Treasurer .. | I'reasurer . $100 or 1 month in gaol.. |. Ww allem) \ J. M. Shaw | Walkem! \ M. Shaw| | 6 months in gaol 6 months in gaol. -B. Walkem $2.or I month in gel... Yeas | " " " " " " " " " " " John " " " {$2 or 10 days in gaol. . 1 month in gaol.. 1 month in foul sens i "arrell 10 days in gaol. . 120 days in gaol.. sevibes 31 or lo days i in 'gol. . hse 3 f 3 or !or 2 months in gaol. . 1 mouth in gaol. . [32 or 10 days in gaol. ln 'month in gaol lenter into er recog: | |nizance to keep the peace in' ......[T {sum of $100 for 6 months or fin default 1 month iu fol, ) 133 or 20 days in gaol.. $3 or 20 days in gaol £5 or 2 months in gaol $5 or 2 months in gaol.... $1 Sl 81 $1 8 31 #1 Duff. . 1901! " 1902 " "Jno. « " Peter White McNeel " or or 5 days in gaol. 3 days in gaol 5 days in gaol 5 days in gaol + 5 Jays in gaol. or or [240 orl month i in gaol, Dated at Kingston, gth day of December, A.D., 1902. 5 days in gaol. 5 days in gaol .s Ie 5 days in gaol. sess ' ol .h {Licenselnsp'r| {Treasurer cored " Dr. Pryne. . {Tp. Treasurer |. f ly to Informa't "1 {4 to Co. Att'y Co. Attorney td |. . (Tp Treasure ar]. JOHN L. WHITING, Clerk of the Peace, Frontenac. AR his sister out, he now looks as the years leave their mark on face, and says in a reproachiul "Why .ever are you not mar- take her, her tone : ried *" Of course tions to the t of never » profession, their sisters; show the to Prince pecting him there are pleasant excep- selfish mn who even introducing a iriend of business, or club to and those exceptions of opening the door Charming, instead of ex to appear, as in fairy tal through closed windows and barred doors. Six sisters I know, nei ther rich, beautiful, very clever, have all found suitable husbands am ong their brothers' friends, whom the parents, albeit at some inconvenience to themselves, constantly welcomed in a homely, friendly w whereas six others of my acquaintance, although better off, better looking, and more talented, are still spinsters, and likely to be so, as men are only asked to the house on the occasion of a formal dinner or dance, after which their mo ther, sisters, leave their - paste boards on the family. . Then, would not girls be less at a discount ii people, like the founder of the British Women's Emigration As sociation, had less reason for com- plaint at the lack of women in the colonies 2 When a" son of a family emigrates, why should not funds be forthcoming for a sister to accompany him--not as a hanger-on, but as a help-meet ? And the value of her ser ices in the domestic line should, as a colonist recently said at the Women's Institute, entitle such a sister to be & partner in the profits of ranch, sheep farm, or orange For it, is not good for a woman to be treated as a mere dependent, with no real hold on the home in which she works. 1 won der if those who bemoan the increas ing number of spinsters will think with me that the promise of a dowry, albeit small, pleasant, social, hamely evenings, and the emigration of sis ters te brothers who need them in the would very much add to the plentifulness, and possi girls' marriage pros sucee or or grove colonies, pleasantness, bilities of our pects ? Girl's Terrible Death. Vienna, Dee. 29--At Qedenburg, in Hungary, the belle the town, a girl of eighteen, complained of illness the other day and became insensible A doctor ided that she was dead and the girl was placed in a coffin, which. was carried to an unheated room. Next day a Sister of Merey, who came to prepare the body burial, was horrified to find that it haa mo Led. A medical examination proved Lthat the girl, who was undoct edly "lead, had only been in a trance, and after récainin@ consciousness for a short time had succumbed to the in tense cold of the room. An official in quiry is to 'be held. of , dec for Weds Army Lieutenant. 1 20. --Thye « Lie ut dding Oh in Christ Refqrine of a brilliant assemblage The bride belongs to one inent families of Chica day pre of sence ruests, Op tt { 1.. Spauldir uss1st |feCTe + of the treasurv, and at present is stationed at Fort Monroe. at A PIGEON FROM ANDRE. Officer finds Bird on the Height of Land. Montreal, Dec. 29.--Charles A. Bram- ble, of the Canadian Pacific railway, has received word from an old Hudson Bay officer living near the height of land, that two or three years ago an Indian woman living in the district immediately south of James Bay, though at a considerable distance from it, killed a strange bird with a piece of tin tied to its leg. The cor respondent thinks it may have been one of Andre's prreons. 1 i | | Now It's All Off. thought ing off .during New "It was, but her off during Christmas marriaoe was com Year's week ? engagement came her week," The Church's Leanness. Churchman, of W. D. Gwynne; onto, of the ablest and hardest working of laymen, shows a lament- able lack of numbers, to say the least of it, among the clergy in the home dioceses of Ontario. What the rea- son of this ¥ Have we no veung men for the home mission field ? There is a movement among divinity students to devote their means, their energy, their lives, 'in foreign mission work, g feel ing at its best, when unaccompanied with 'a very special necessity or apti- tude, of romantic sentimentalism. The voung clergyman and student who de- the home mission work for a m field at the present Crisis, is the soldier who leaves the ranks time of dancer. Thére i3 ne for- Jd wher much Canadian life an! piety i< needed UE OWN Country. No 'anadian church with a patriotic | would desert Canadian : The letter of Tor- one 18 erts foreiy like in the den fle md enerpy than those son the ( of YW. park her ne The Pastor's. Pity. i pastor of a suffer | in I pity da Bot ale 1 ne ich and cel like proclaiming it Gor m a house-tops."" Sold by Henry Wade and | H, B. Taylor.--133, "Highly Satisfactory. Our Christmas trade has been highly satisfactory, .and in thanking onr customers for their liberal pa- tronage we beg to announce that we have replenished all lines, in anticipation of an equally satisfactory business next week for New Year's. We are still offering a very handsome line of FUR GOODS at remarkably low prices. We intend to clear the stock and some great bargains will be going. "H Happy New Year Go HAN" 00000000000 ..J0S. ABRAMSON-... Clothier, Furrier and Gents' Furnisher, a 180 Princess Streef, Beiween Redden's and Crawford's. Jeee FEELS REC SEB EE RES eecen 20% OFF ALL. GOODS During Our Big Stock-Taking Sale. We Handle+ These goods are the best to be found anywhere. STOVES, RANGES, TINWARE, WASHBOARDS HARDWARE, KITCHEN AGATEWARE, UTENSILS, :. CUTLERY, PAINTS, Etec., Etc. WE MEAN BUSINESS! This BIG REDUCTION is being given so as to reduce our stock before we begin the hard task of stock- taking. NOW is your time to buy. LEMMON, CLAXTON & LAWRENSON, KING ST. Wishing You a Merry Christmas CHOCOLATES Durham, | Superior quality, assorted flavors, 20c. - per pound or 3 ' pounds for matty rtheuma- | oiouth Ameri- | Our joc. 50c. line is a winner. Three pounds fot 75¢. tA. J. REES, Princess St. "0%. "~