&: rAGE EIGHY., | WE ARE [AFTER YOU ! Nts PP tt = ts Bt ASN tA a ANN PN 1 Mr Man, we want you for a customer, so we tempt you with a store full of uncommon. va- , " lues. Come and see then. Sooner or later you are going to find out the the advantages of (quality, service and price to- be obtained -exclusively here. "The soonge ] you do, the better it 'will be for you. ' Our. custémers are pleased customers, be- cause we really "stand back" of everything we sell. LIVINGSTON'S BROCK STREET DIVER'S TRAGIC WRECKED SCOW OVERTURNS) approval o { lage, to be i miraculous i scow 1 loaded RCOW tof Bavham Oct, agnificent Display Real Irish Crochet Collars We have made a special purchase of these goods at first-hand prices in Ireland, and now show many novel designs at prices much below the regular value. . Collars, $1.90 to 7.50. Berthas, $5 to $8.75. Dutch Frills, $6. $7, $8. - Irish Linen Laces In Cluny and Torchon Styles. All widths. Prices 10c to 60c Yard. Ready-Made Pillow ' Cottons Extra Heavy Cotton, Best English Makes. Sizes 40, 42, 44, 46. ~The material above is worth 30¢ per yard. Special price for these cases, : 25¢ Each, A pleasure to show our goods. \ R. : - ALDRON DEATH AT BOTTOM OF LAKE And Pioned ' Him Fast-- Another Diver Saved, Being Dragged by Ten Men From Under the Wreck. 1 Yug. 16.--Ed- met a . terrible' 9 diver had a. escape when a wrecked which they working overturned on them at the bottom of Lake Erie, four miles south-east of | Port" Burwell. "The { longed to the M. .J i Port Burwell, Ont, West, er, Port ward death and another under were sow, which be Hogan company, | sank May while with stope and in tow of the Lakeside. The Great Towing company, "of Cleveland, given the contract to salvage | and this in' pro- | Ihe air' whs being pumped into the sCow to raise it, last Burwell, steamer wrk on wus gress and the two div-1 down to ses the scow, | ers had gone how work v proceeding when the 150 tons, sudden ly heayed over on top of them. Ope diver s dragged out by the united efforts of. ten men and will recover; but the body of West is still at the of the lake Two other divers, one from Port Col and the Henry Olson "are being secured to re cover the West 'has a wile and family in Port Huron, Mich ated 10 weigh pottom hot ne, other, haoddy < STOCK MARKETS. ° F. B. McCurdy Co. Clarence Cham ers--il. W. Nelles, Manager Closing Prices, Aug. 16th Montresd, Canners Cem ont pid tar Power | R.O Rails Shaw SOO WP: Brick - Fuckets San Paolo New York. Copper smelters C.P.R. Gol. Reading {Union Sted krie Cotton Dee IRE PROTECTION. Uottage Owners Ralse Fund of $7, 100 for System. An adequate system of fire pre- woetion kas been aglecd upom wo thousand Island Park. The iustall. ing: of the system will begin at once, At a meeting last month a eom-| mittee consisting of F. T. Shephard, | of Oneida, B. L. Brown. of Svracuse, and J. A. Morris, of Pulasvi, was in- structd to solicit subscriptions to a fire protection fund, it being agreed that the Park Association would dup- licate any "sum raised by the cot tagers. 2 At a meeting held on Wednesday ev- ening the committed reported that it had secured the sum of $7,100. This, duplicated by the association, will, it is expected, provide an efficient sys tem. The cottagers designated Mr. Shep hard; My. Brown and Mr. Morris © to have charge of the fund and the in stalling 7of the system. DIED VERY SUDDENLY. Robert McKeever, of | odfrey. E. Walker, who has been in the aity relieving . Despatcher Frederick (Marke, of the Kingston & Pembroke railway, while the latter was on his holidays, was colldd to Godirey owing to the sudden death of his sister, Mrs. Ro- bert MoKeever. Deceased was twen- ty-three years of age and had only been ailing a few days. It was not thought that her illness was so se | rious and her death came as a great] shock to her relatives. Her husband | and little girls, the youngest | just two weeks old, survive. Decensed was formerly Miss Minnie Walker and a daughter. of John Walker. The fun eral took place at Godirey to-day. Death of Mrs. two PRO¥, BLEWETT DROWNED a + Av His Summer Cottage at Muskoka on Friday. ¢ Toronto, Aug. 16.--Word was receiv- ed here to-day of the drowning, at' his summer residence. at "Go-Home jay," Muskoka, of Professor George He was a post-gradu® Harvard university, of Oxford, and was for lege, Toronto, ale man of Germany and He leaves a wife and one son. TEN YOUNG WOMEN SAVED From Death in Burning Montreal] : Boarding House. Montreal, Aug. 16.--Ten yomng wo- men were caught on the third floor of a Brunswick avenue boarding-house, early this out in the cellar. and good work of the firemen, carried most of them down in night clothing, saved' their lives. body was hart. Nearly all had their clothing burved. The timely arrival Baskets of Murillo Cherries. Saguenay blueberries, Indiana wa- termelops, nutmeg melons, California coedless® grape fruit, ete, at Carnov- sky's. had sale advt. on The often-adjourned } Jae Lemercux, charged with keept 8 house of ill-fame, at Gananoque, h been finally disposed of, when a fin of $25 and eosts or six mouths in jai was imposed. *MeConkey's highyclass sweets." son's. Gib- ernment whar, i have been running to * adjoining stream. ie i 3! to market } Locomotive the | on the | range since that tin | hatter level was attained at .the { of the internal dissension &n the com- ton May , ner of the Jree-for-all pace, the J. Blewett. of Victoria Methodist Col: i record for the fastest merly of St. Thomas 'and Winnipeg. | the mare to overhaul Vernon McKin-| n Boy Begs for Death. morning, when fire broke| ged his father to kill him. He who! was entirely accidental he was receiv-| their | ed with tears rather than with harsh | No- | Read George Mills & Co's dollar] the voyage of 2 Bleville is to have a $50,000 gov. THE DATLY BRITISW WHIG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912, WATER SUPPLY FROM SPRINGS. | . pols NEWS OF THE WORLD Clayton Seek. Sentiment of Citizens i PS nal i . for Change. . Clayton, N.Y, Aug. 16 --With the t this vil} the citizens of sought by the town auth { election in the! future, Clayton. will have a new means of supplying its nhabitants | with. water. For some time the vil lage hoard: has been considering a | change in° thy water supply for the community and with this object in| view numerous: and ground | levels have been taken of . the avail | able spgngs in the vicinity Fhree within five this place; on | ties, ih a special near survevs springs situated miles to the south of | thennorth hank of French creek, have! been found and will be utilized They | are located on a bluff composed of | gravel and sand and for many years waste into the INJURED WHILE ASLEEP. Rolled Out of Bed, NeafFly Severed Ear on Cuspidor. Philadelphia, Aug. 16.--Rolling out of bed in his room in the Colonnade i Hotel early in the morning, Franklin 8. Beckley, of New a retired business man, Britain, Conn., almost, tore his ear from hie head by striking the | edge of a metal cuspidor, Mr. Beckley, daughter, City with his sister and came here from Atlantic on the way home The man's | groans wee beard by a belle boy who + Was passing in the corridor and he | was found. etunned and bleeding pro- | fuselv, umable. to tell what had hap pened. He was taken to the Hohne: mano hospital A New High Recora Toronto, Aug. 16.--Continued stren- gth in the specialties offered proved the outstanding features of the Toron- Thursday, with Cadadian| most prominent spot list. The common was not traded in, but the bid price was ad vanced to 474 at the close, a new high record vrice. The shares were listed in September, 1911,0 and the has been as fol- S911, high, 35, fow, 30%; 1W2 bid, low 21. The time lows : to date, high, 474 pany Canadian Locomotive pre- ferred rose to 93, about two points under its record quotation established 3st last Corsets in South Seas. Literary Notes James Francis Dwyer, author of the South Sea novel, "The White Waterfall," tells of a Samoan chiet who received a box af, clothes from the" agent of a Boston missionary association. "In the bundle," said | Mr. Dwyer, "" was a pair of corset: --the Lord only knows why corsets were sent to Samoa--but the chiet knew that his special tin god was wihtching over his interests He decreed. that any of his own wives or the wives of his followers who [4 misbehaved themselevs should be laced up in the corsets for a certain period, and the moral effect the village was wonderful. spectacle of a buxom wife squealing loudly as the corsets were drawn around her had such a good effect | upon scolds and lazy housewives | that headmen from othér villages sont special envoys asking for the | loan of the wonderful apparatus to by punish their own confirmed shrews.' Monagenarian Minneapolis, Minon., Aug. 16. Tired | of doing chores on a farm in Wis- | cousin for his board asd keep, John Olpen. ninety years old, told Judge Leary in munjcipal court that he left his home in search of work pitching | wheat in the harvest fields { Olsen was found wandering about | the streéts in a penitent mood, will-| ing to go back (uv the farm where he! got thre meals a day and a good | bed at night. | He was willing to tell in what town forgotten the name of the 'man gave him a home. Hq for harvest hands leave the farm. who | said the call | induced him to) | ---- Saw Wealth of Mines. | Schumacher, Ont., Aug. 16 bers of the of trade stood on barrels and boxes | in the "clean up" house of Hollin ger's this morning; and watched £18. 00% in molten gold poured into 'a The process of retorting happened to he in progress when they walked over to Hollinger. so they were able to see conercte proof of the wealth of the mine. Later, thev in-| spected a gold brick which represent ced the "clean up" of McIntyre mould Breaks World's Heat Record. Bufinlo, Aug. 16.--Eveltn W., win ing feature of the Grand Circuit, yes- terday, at Fort Erie, broke a world' two heats pac-| a race. Fvelyn W. won the 2.03 flat. In the second | urge | ed in first heat in heat Bert Shank was forced to ney, who got away flying, the time] of the mile showing 2.02}. New York, Aug. 16 --Eleven-vear- old George. Nagel, who shot and killed his little sister, Josephine, while playing with 'an old rifle, .came back home yesterday and sobbingly beg- had | the shooting | been in hiding. - As words. Memorial to Pilgrim Fathers. Southampton, Aug. 16. ---The foun dation stone of the memorial to the Pilgrim Fathers was laid yesterday af- ternoon. A lange crowd attended, in which were numbers of Americans. Re: sponding fo a {oast at the commem-| orative luncheon, J. H. Seaverns said the Mayflower was i perhaps the most momentous event in «| the world i Department Abolished. Montreal, Aug. 16.--An official ar cular, signed by President Chamber lain, has been issued stating that the department of master of transporta- tion, headed by W. G. Brownlee, hay : peers dhe away with. Mr. Brownhe ill take a jear's rest, ! were shipped { dred resorts ) advange in Canadian lof d gS and me upon | spirit The {tu { Drake Fights Fate. {those thmes was there a more extraor {the North in Wisconsin the farmer lived and had lc Ontario associated boards] clos |] | innings the. Wellington's had the bet- THE LATEST TINGS GIVEN IN} BRIEF FORM: br - The Whig's Copdensation of News of the Day From Telegraph Service and Newspaper changes. the i kx- 134c.; Alexandria, 13 1-166. The Bishop 'Strachan school 'pro- perty, Toronto, was sold for $400.1! 000. C. N. R. surveyors will soon have completed their work on the line | from Toronto to Detroit. | Assemblyman Thomas © A Brennan, | author of -the cold storage law, is| dead, at New York, of appendicitis | James Fardoe, ay C.P.R. mechanic, } was fatally burned at Brandon, Man A as the result af an explosion of gaso | line | During 'ths year ending April 30th, | 1,292 ¢ an-made automobiles | to New Zealand and! Nd | | Cheese sales : Brotkville, 13c tc | i | i } Australia | The province has been asked to | co-operats in the building of an in- ternational highway from Port Arthur to Duluth Col. F. A. Kerns. Burlington, for fer member of the legislature for Halton, has, it is understood. lwen appointed registrar for Halton The five-year-old son of John Helb- ing, .of Mandan, N.D.., was terribly in." jured, being caught' by the blades of a binder which his father wawp~driving The Niagara police are holding Jo hann Sala, with 2400 of pure silver in his possession, pending. (he receipt of | structions from the provincial atibr- | nev-general. A demand by Dr. F. A.- Rhodes. Pittsburgh. head of the morals com mission. that the police attack the so- cial 'evil. "resulted in closing one hum Charles W Murdock, of N.Y., committed shooting himself, having become despondent over a nervous ailment with which he was afflicted Returns to the bureau of. mines for the first three months of 1912 show the output of the metalliférous mines and works of Ontario were vahlued at 7.431 811. On Thursday touched 29 | Oswego, suicide bv Canadian 'Pacific stock a new high record. The Pacific was due to thacannouncement that the com pany had made application to issue pew stock, CONQUEST OF THE EARTH. Fee. Ye Been The Rast Twelve Years Have Full of Achievement. World's Work z Though 1 4 r man's conquest of and e¢ Isen's jou to th Peary's to the was made with only the Or previ generation discovered by thg er , spurred on by e old lust for diffi tasks that. stirred th another century 1 pole discoverers gineering Ar South' Pole, like ik ole North | app eS Were i 1 f adver and the and dang adventures of two the era of the wil! be hailed as the good old times whes men were still mer and civiliza- bad riot made the warld effete The twelve years ending with the dis ery of the South Pole are as full nf matic achievement as- the and Raleigh, for not days of even d nary series of discoveries,and an osts packed into a ddzen vears. In 1900 only man had been sth of Africa by land, and the to Cairo railroad was but Th was not .a railroad acre America. A gredt part of Sibe wv thont rail or road except the avan trails China was pr without railroads. Lhassa was u forbidden to the white men: During a century and -a half men fad tried to reach the South Pole and ed, and v 'ole had bafftéd the efforts one i 400 : Ww y years. white men have travelled over the great visited Lal Chad, made a protectorate over | I'imbuctoc The days of the Mahdi atl Khartum are ended and any tourist may | travel there comfortably by rail. The to Cairo railroad an assyeed | The heart of Afr 1s Fond gh | more remote from the por imagina | ti than Oklahoma City 1900 | South America the | road 18 in full operation across the | tinent I'ran-Siberian fs Asta. Even China has her rail-| } 5 | | | | i i desert, was m as the across roads. Lhassa has been visited by a British army and both poles are the common property of every boasts of books, papers. Such a record may le that the fireside that Magazmes or news justify a feeling pirit ot conguest i is as ah as. ever and d with all the courage ar d that blessed any earlier ger eration Boys' Basebiill Match. A livily game of ball was plaved at the cricket field on Friday morn ing, when the Young Ontario's won| from the Young Wellington's by a score of 21 to 9. 1p untal the sixth! ter of the play, but Stinson came up and the fireworks started, with the above reault. Wellington's put a numbre of pitchers in the box but they could not keep the other team from scoring freely. Egg Plant and Oyster Plant, Pie plant, erook-neck squash, sweet peppers, shelled sugar | peas, sweet green corn, young parsnips, and the best celery, Saturday, at Carnoveky's. "Imported cigars," at Gibson's. Sale men's $5 patent colt boots, goodvear welt, 83.55; patent Oxfords, |. £2.90. Dutton's, 209 Princess' St. hoard of works wad called 10 neet lat four o'clock regarding streeh paving. "Imported cigars," at Gibson's General Booth has been unconscious for twenty-four hours Constipation Is Cured by HOOD"S PILLS 28c. T'rans- Andean | . this afternoon | TO-MORROW. SATURDAY, at Nine O'clock, We will have ready 30 Ladies' Sample Dresses 14 only Ladies' White Dresses in French Mull, Marquisette and Embroidery, Embroidered or Trim- med with Cluny or Irish laces. They have three quarter length sleeves, and there is a choice of high or Jow neck. Regular $4, 4.50, 5.00, 5.50. 6.00. Your Choice To-Morrow $2.49 . * Roe #5 16 Ladies' Dresses In Pink, Light Blue, Mauve and White Mull, all nicely trimmed with rows of Val or Irish Insertion and Clusters of Pin Tucks or with Lace Medallions, three quarter length sleeves, Dresses that sell in the regu lar way at $8.50, 9.50, 10,00, 11.50, 12.50. Your Choice To-Morrow $4.95 Children's White Dresses, Children's Print Dresses, Children's Gingham Dresses. TO-MORROW ONE-THIRD OFF Sweater Coats for Wemen New Designs in Navy, Black, Cardinal, Fawn, White and other Wanted Colors. Military Collar or V Neck, y $2.00 up to $5.50. Butterick's Large Autumn Style Book ®Just ready. 'Price of this Large Quarterly Book is 25c, includ- ing any Butterick Pattern Free. A ttt a ti We have just received 'a large quantity of these light travelling cases. Two good styles 'in our window at | Cut Prices. 24inch - $1.60 24 inch - $2.00 These are brand new goods and nice. AR SPIRIT