PAGE SIX. Holiday Rates FOR Christmas & New Year's Round Trip Tickets will be Issued as follows: SINGLE FARE, Good going Dec. 24th and 25th and, returning on or before" Dec. 26th, 1912, Also good golng Dec. 31st 1912 And Jan, 1st, 1913, and returning on or before Jan. 2nd 18183. SINGLE FIRST CLASS FARE AND ONE-THIRD, Good going Dec. 21st, Jan, lst, 1613, inclusive, and re- turning on or before Jan. 3rd, 1913 Tickets issued to intermedinte points between Montreal and Toronto will not be valid on trains 1 and 4. For tull particulars, apply to . J. P. HANLEY, Agent. Corner Johnson=and Ontario Sts 1612 to "IN CONNRCTION WiTH CANADIAN PACIFICO RAILWAY, "CHRISTMAS AND 'NEW YEAR'S EXCURSION FARES SINGLE FARE AND ONE-THIRD, . Also going Dee, 21st to Jan 1. Return limit, Wed,, Jan, 3, Jan, 2, 1913. 1913. Full particalars at K, and P. and * CPR. Ticket Office, Ontario Street. F. CONWAY, Gen, Pass. Agent. "Billy" Green, who planpéd one of the most sucoessful jail deliveries ever accomplished at Sing Sing prison, has been captured at Los Angeles. sy boy ging him to perform the last slmple | \ i : A PATHET! Ic REQUEST, A CAPTAIN BURIES A CROSS SEA ¥ As Asked by the Parents of a Titan Victim--The Ceremony Was Per- formed at Night. i There all Pa 8, December 27 pothing more touch'ug in ro stories regar ed ng the of the Titaw'c than the one just comes to lght, told by a voya ger who recntly retusged. to Paris on the French Line Three or four days before parture pf one of the steawers ol the Compagnie Generale Tiapsal lantighe the caplain found in mall a letter and a package, both pestmarked from a small YR in the Indre et Loire departmént, package contained a rude weoden crosse the letter a prayer from aj humble laborer and his wife telling the captain of the in the Titanic disaster and beg throwing rites over the dead by the cross ovegboard when passed the A where the went down The letter told poor themselves where their boy, fated monster put' their request tain asking bim to perform 'this service for 'them. The cross evi dently had been made by the father himself. It was about fourteen inches long by eight inches wide The ship's bell had just .struck midnight when the liner, rushing through the rough seas on her way to New York, entered the region where the most terrible disaster of modern times occurred Without other witnesses than the stars above and the raging billows below the captain stole from his cabin up to the bridge Then without telling the officer on watch of his inteation he walked to the side and gently dropped the cross over the side We'ghted with lead at its longest end, the cross remained in sight but a minute, then sank, perhaps fo find its resting place on the of the tomb of some 1 women. Waves in their unceasing restless. ness wil wash over the tomb and ships laden with gay pleasure seek- how, bei to go to the sot a cook on the ijl lost his life, they before the cap ng 560 brave men amd ers will pass near by and all but Our Gaiters and Leggings ------ Ladies' Leggings in Long Jersey $1.28 and $1.50 * Ladies' Black Beaver Gaiters, Thirteen Buttons + Other Black Gaitors $1.00 80c and T75c - Men's Black Beaver Gaiters 50c 75c and $1.00 | Children' 8 Corduroy Leggins 85cs and $1.00 ew Year's s is just round the Corner | ed Nothing i in the gift line could he more * suitable than King St. + Methodist AT! the de | his The | lows of their only! his ship Titanic { tik deck | pride of the seas to-day, the | "Winer spent , Bugcess. i THE Dar. PRIVSH WHIG, _FREAY, THE WORLD'S NEWS, Culled From All} World. asd agmnst the in the hands of the jur Very Latest Over the » labor FROW XY ARK 'al stertainment Hq the Holiday. BULGED ¥ ai Ind anapolhis The Ri pected back week Lew le ees inl E Visitors Ove r Yarks } en the nt Guo i tae ree ant Mrs to Dunnvill Mra, MoGuire one off & trip cnnual tea o embers of ? 48 given on Mor The absence of 5 He Hon. R. | Borden the FT n Ottawa at end Dec church are *o Reman Catholic for missionaries London. On charges have been made Gnelph against the police chief and other ciflzens The Toronto bias y wi dan Manufaciurers went The jin. favor of tax reform aid} Serous complaint against the ch | treatment of miners at Porcupine (was lal 4 before the atiormey-gener- al. Peter J} det of =tl {the county Wednesday, Militant jwreck trains at {lying sigual lines with a rope. i {. WW. Rowell, K.C., M.P.P., ad jdricsed a meeting Ayr at the jnasniweus request of the local up- tion committee. * : Miss Frances Barnes, a strikingly handome young {known figure in | rézorted to tha tot $10,806 Jewe's The ka sér's Ath grandson was boin on Thursday afternoon, Frin cess Augu Wilhelm giving birtn wo a boy her on Wilheim- strasse, Berlin. The special fund { Hgtnezs has been ra &i able the Vietcrian Ord. to extend its activiti sg to $220,000 Mss Evangeline der of the Salvation the United States America, vigit Torento on January 19th, ant address two weetings in the Masse; hall After years. tegally bingor Court Camden iption ine to proarcute sellers of i In of loeal by on racocd ents t. Anthony's «chu 1 made | country d wif ¢ Wrenpan, a life-long tharines, and brother of attorney, died, on Sixt years attempted London; Eng., Dus ness qu in i crown aged ~ » sulirageties ny [oT -- to in i i palac which her Royal tg to en of Nurses MS ZrOVy comman- forces in Booth, Army of having been missing twelve luring wh'ch «time he was declared dead, Charles walked into th Alle house at Pitts byreh, Pa. shursday Sop At Winsted, Conn, a sum money exceding $80 000, notes, 8 reported to have found in an old su tease among the effects of Mis. Emmeline who died December 21st ninety-fourth year. ESTABLISHED, Human Descent From Provey by Skull of the "Sussex Man." London, Dec. 27.7 aud speechless ol Tw THEORY Apes race of ape-like men, inhabiting Eng land hundreds of thousands years agq, when they had for their neigh bos the mastodon and other animal now extinct, is the missing link in the chain in maa's evolution, which lead , ing scientists say they have discovers wed in what is generally described as the Sassex skull." To this Dr. Wood ward proposes to give the name of "eothropus," or "man of dawn." Prof. Arthur Keith says that discovery marks by far the most re markfble advance in the knowledge of { the ancestry of man¥ever made in England, and supports the view that man was derived not from u single species, hut from several genera. He goes on: us a stage in the evolu which we have only im Darwin propounded th ol the distin finished or since Is Sus Ste, "i ronto, at ix nage | Rin Wheat shipments amounted to 114, 000.000 bushels, an increase 17, HD.000 bushels over 1911 Other grains show increases' of from twen iy five to fifty per cent. i This tonnage was Hargest on record ol | INOON TOILETTE { On simple Hoes Phe rict own. of} the veivet harmonizes ¥ m | shade of the fur, and ¥ of soft satin adds a ah The long sleeves are with far cuffs Tem wo Se onus ing the hol'day season preced ng 8 hh i ed : different Christmas. Yarker will. receive | 0.0 three brides /n a few days. 'Mr. aud §,. ~~ Mrs. Dr. Galbraith; Mr. and Mrs Lagined M. lrish, and Mr. and Mrs. I Lear Silver. The employees of the Beld | poi' Kaith's view that the jamin Mfg. company. Yarker re- | pal Lae 4 Nye : a sex man was a man "still in the sim ceived fine Christmas presents on |; ' yr 4 . \ {ian stage of evolution," and he holds Tuesday morning. Each man re- | (h h 3 : - . at the skull supports the conclu ceived a check, representing a per-' i centage of I's carnings for the yOht. sions which the anthropologists of to B . BE fo 'day have reached that in Some of tnose who spent Christ... } dred Has at Yarker were: sir afd Ms. | MT" many hundreds of thousands of nu ; . . * iyears ago, there were geveral quite dif I. Franklin, of Galt, at E. Walk- |. O ¢ | er's: J. D. Shibley and family at Ln pecies of mankind existing at A» ' * 4 « mame 1 . 8. White's; Mr. amd. Mis, W. ® © "smetune. Burpee at J. C. Connolly's; R, Gor- | $00 CANAL TRAFFIC n a] v0 4 ; . don, of Toronto, at Jas. Gordon's; | ---- C. Comming. of Gananoque at W. | BE : Cum ng's; Fred beare at Geo, ! Annual Report Shana Morris Wallace and wife "BETeases. th Bay, at W. H. Wood. ! Sault Marie, Mich., De H. Good and wfe, of Toe«'An increase in nearly overy branch H. Good's: Leonard Gar- [the trafic through the Soo locks and Christmas at Duga- canal is shown by the annual report ville, Ont. Passenger trate has of lake commerce given out at th besa very heavy oh B. of Q during [canal office to-day An increase of the holidays. All transferring of 13,000,000 (ons of registered freight express 's now done al* Yarker The and nearly 20000000 tons of unre church Sunday school, gistered freight is shown as compared Christmas tree gptertainment was @ with lust year. : y ; : , | Passenger trafic was smaller than he -townghip 'elections for Cami- lin (011, thy total being 66,000, as den are always held earlier than |, ajnst 79.000 last vear A slight mani¢'pal elections in other town- | 4 rease also shown in the ton- h { f CT % ! Snipa. hain Ponday re oHowiDg | of flour, irom ore and building rel el pled? eevee, J deputy reeve, HH. Armsirong, coun- | cllors, W. J. Haggert Herbed Wagar and Chas. Lotkhead Mr. and Mra. George Walker of Lindsay were visitors at KE. Walker's. vear's cereal the WN HITTIER RELIUS DESTROYED. } in Building Where Poet's ! Manuscripts Were Stofgd. Amesbury, Mass, Dec. 27. Relics of {ihe Poet John Greenleaf Whittier, Lincluding autograph letters from {notables all over the world, and {manuse ripts, were burned or seriously ldamaged hy smoke and water in a | fire which partly consumed the build: ling occupied by the Whittier House | Assovigtion.. The five is wapposed to 'have started from the furnace. | When discovered by the = caretakes lit had wade such progress that only a «mall, part of the llvotiwu ol rolies with i= the house was filled H Rvs saved. ei i i } This year, and we also wish you would come in and one of the new | shi is 'of gas globes and lights which we have | just rectived from Fall and. Winter Importations. Brock street. has received all his fall Importations for us iB! tailoring department, consisting of I} | suiting and overcoating in great va- Biriety of patterns to choose from, Also large stock of ready-made cloth 9 ing and gents' furnishings. ' Biwi ham, of London, ng. A [tevin to get capitalists ntirartel in Bb cstablishing a line of airships betwen this city and Victoria, B.C. Sor ite DEC EMBER ------ -- leadors | bh of the Cana-| resi by | will | of | all in bank | been | G. Mills. | her | the early ! Enormous | of | Dd 1912. HOR3ORS oF WAR. | Never Have They Been More Terrible hap Among the Turks. jean RB i *Wipaper { correspondent wh ed Cone stautinopl i e cf the hoe rors the pr Turkey "We have witn ad t ial of the Turk as a soldier ve seen him dying of hunger, w fatigue, wrecked y rann after having aband 18 piace 10 the colndat "I have never deen a mote x picture of human distress than presented these unhappy i thrown into one of the most wars in history, without food medical attention, alinost chiefs, almost without arms dler I saw a soldier, hand had been severed, hola out ng for medical help, amp around which he of twine. sdes, a 'F¥ suffering, IE away ignant + men, terrible by the whose right | to that | wi thout i had | lines of famished mén | rumbr 'of bread and staggering away 1 who came to our tent begging for a; withont a murmur of complaint when | | told that we had none to give. I saw thousand wounded leaving a tral | of blood as they dragged themselves | toward Tehorlu. Saw others fall*by the wounds and fatigue "At Tehorlu a column of soldiers, { terrible in appearance, through the | and wind storm. tention to them. They had no shelter, nothing to eat. From a nearby bakery an officer threw out handfuls of bread, hundreds. of wayside dying frm | staggered | streets in a driving rain | No one paid any at- | { and the soldiers fought ior possession | of the loaves. More than half of them got nothing, and turned away, | ragged, pallid and weak | "All the houses were closed, Prac. tically all the population had fled, and those: who remained, themselves within, trembling fear. The the barred doors. Groups shivering in the eold tried the doors of stables, to seek refuge; the stables re mained inhospitable. Refugees smash into even IT Way vege- sucked piece "l never saw such an image ferno. One of the most miserable « the wanderers succeeded in into the house where we were stay ing, drenched to the skin | chattering, 'Take all my money { ray elothing, if will,' he { 'but I beg of you to give me bread "1 questioned him | from Asia Minor and had | for eight days. I gave Bim a slice of bread and a chocolate tablet, hé went away to join the remnants of the retreating army, was the end, "Thus did pear to me of in- f some the Turkish He seemed to have soldier ap- no which he was participating. But this infinite misery and his horrible aui- mal distress were enough to break one's heart. "I do not know whether the ations of massacres are exact, aoccus- but so that not only have the Turks commit- ted no excesses, but 1 believe that no army in the world under such fright | ful circumstances would have been mare moderate, more doeile." Lending Umbrellas. + One of the handiest things world must pe the umbrella lending system in oberatbn in Belgium. It costs $1 a year to be x member of the organization, each | a check. When it rains he hands in | his check at the nearest cigar store and get? an umbrella. When he turns the umbrella he gets another check, good for another umbrela when he needs it. One of the great advantages of the system that it avoids the necessity of carrying umbrella around to fool the weather with the. chance being about times to one that the weather fool you and that by the time get home you will have forge where it was you left the umbrella Anything that will keep the umbrella question® straight will be by the average man, i- it if the Belgian scheme «ul in that respect, Not Needed. While a travel in the you OOKS As help- alk would be bought a couple of nightshirts. After- ward a long, lank lumberman, s trousers stuffed in his boots, said to the merchant "What was them bot?" "Nightshirts. or two?" "Naup, | reckon not," #aid the lum. berman. "lI don't set arcund much o' nights." 'ere that Can 1 sell you one Absentminded. Benson--1 have a literary friend who is absentminded that when he went to Lond graphed himsell ahead to himself at a certain piace. Smith--Did the telegram have the desired result? Benson--No; he got it all right, but he had forgotten to sigh his name, and, not knowing who it was from, he paid no-attention to it.--Pearson's Weekly. y 80 wait for A Fine Distincti n. He had had bad luck fishing, and on hit way home he entered the bute het shop apd said to the dealer, "Just stand over there and throw me five of the biggest g { those trout! "Throw 'em' What for?" the dealer in amazement. "80 I can tell the family I caught 'em. I may be a poor fisherman, but I'm no liar." A Prank of Memory. Why have we memory. sufficient to retain the minutest circumstances that have happened to as and yet not enough to remember how often we have related them to the same person? «La Bochefoucauld. asked . ---- When it's failure, marriage alvnss shops and devoured | ¢ at | barricaded | with | soldiers knocked vainly at | | | | getting | and teeth | , take | cried, | He said he came | not eaten | and | of which this understanding of the great drama in | far as I have observed I can affirm | i member receiving | re- | an | ine nine | will | tten | welcomed | ng man was waiting | for an opportunity to show his sam- | ples to a merchant in a little back- | woods town a customer came in and | with | feller | on recently he tele } TT; 0 1 ~ Noa the TRE fl A Test of Merit. What jes of thir Why do we 1 electric irons and toasters, and red and one ali, of at reason one Their advantages have been so og réwsive have been adver is ght attention have believe s to us if we did not through § wdvertising that bo our ome to We were missing some uch ot them we pOTsess as our yal of had they but frat fon had men yn of ther mer {ised persistent they 'must have have kno and in Orns wed tver which on the omen] thmng " proved of ni riigements eveat them we le our Com which ythe education. Ti fort, pleasure ugh wind profit, TW is nothing of adverts week; behind it article or a store thst is steadily month, must An and month after have merit And this "The British Whig" Eastern Ontario's Greatest Newspaper in infallible test E. BLAKE THOMPSON, Real Estate, l.oans and Fire Insurance --- Agent for -- Union Assurance Soc'y & Liverpool-Manitoba Assurance (o'y. OVER NORTHERN OROWN BANK. MARKET SQUAKE, 'Phones 188 WINGSTON, ONT. pak Princess St. MENDELS SATURDAY sdd Jota odd lots We will place on sale the following and broken sizes after the heavy Christmas selling at bess than of the prices in many cases the cost material 40 only Ladies' Dresses 40 8% to 40 ranging Mostly every shade In He and Panamas, sized different $18.04 Res Every and in the season3 newest tyles dress in price pri 1p to SATURDAY, $7.50 FOR YOUR CHOICE, oo a nt et ath a ach ae tl 200 Ladies' Fine Skirts 200 newest ideas mak- range Panamasys Volles, #t« th Serges duced Skirts ers Every skirt printed guarsa: 1 to $1R.00 each Tweeds, intr ese made 1 kirt are has a Prices from $3 SATURDAY, 1-3 OFF Ri GULAR PRICES, a ot . a0 Boys' Overcoat a0 I'weeds gt vies ! eng with alue at § 6 and $6.08 SATURDAY, $3.5 POR YOUR (HOCH 30 dozen Men's Winter Caps with prices of Dark and medium colored Tweeds latest winte gtyles ine side bands of fur to pull over the ears caps afe and Regular i 50¢ 75 SATURDAY, FOR YOUR CHOWE. Bw A sss ssi ro ot nts FANCY SUSPENDER SETTS AT HALF PRICE, BALANCE OF OUR - A A AAA NR INA A At This is the place to shop Ssiurday i you want to do double duty. MENDELS The Store That's Different Jour money