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No matter how busy she is, she can always find time t6 make Edwards' Soup, All that's nice and nourishing in "mother's home-made soup" is in Edwards' Soup; all that's a trouble for her to do is ready done, E Lge Si Edwards' Soup is from specially selected beef | and fresh garden-grown _ vegetables. Its manufactu- rers are soup-makers and nothing else. By specialis- ing for over 25 years they have been able to produce an assortment of soups of ° the highest merit at a price within the reach of all. | stance, | transmission three times a day, re- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1912. VAGARIES OF WIRELESS CANADIAN GOVERNMENT STA. TIONS SHOW CAPRICE. Empress of Ireland's New Record For Distance. Shows That Many Things Are Yet to Be Learned--Range of Western Stations' Increases 300 to 600 Per Cent. After the Sun Goes Down In Winter--Some Rescues. The annound®ment of 8 new wireless record by the. C.P.R. Atlantic liner Empress of Ireland recently" when she sent a8 message to Montreal from & point 614 miles east of Cape Race, the southeastern corner of Newfound- land--a most unusual distance for a sea message to be transmitted--illus- trates anew that there is yet much to learn about wireless te'egraphy. It cannot be trusted to do thy expected thing at all times. The Canadian Government main. tains a number of wireless stations on the Pacific Coast, in the Province of British Columbia, and during the past year peculiar phenomena affecting the system were noted. It was observed at between sunset and sunrise dur- ing the fall, winter and spring months, the range of the stations, both for transmitting and receiving, was increased from 800 to 500 per cent. The phenomena were somewhat erra- tic. On some mights it was continu. ous, and constant communication could be maintained with another sta- tion within the zone, but on other nights it would be intermittent and communication might be excellent for an hour. when the signals would sud- denly fade away and then after a short period come on again. This might occur several times during the transmission of one message. The greatest distance over which communication has been established under these conditions is between Triangle Island, northwest of Vancou- ver Island, and Honolulu, a distance of approximately 2,500 miles. The day light range of the Triangle is 40 miles. ' Another peculiar feature in this con- nection is that while the Victoria sta- tion is in communication practically every night with Ikeda Head, 400 miles north, 250 of which are over high land. and with the stations along the west coast as far down as San Diego, Cal., 1,000 miles south of Vie- toria, all of which is over high land, including the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada, rising to a height of 15,000 feet, no improvement has ever been noticed in the communication between Pachena Point, B.C., and Victoria, B.C., 76 miles apart. No reasonable explanation for the pecul- iar action has yet been discovered. The Canadian Government wireless service, which now comprises thirty. two stations, covering the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, hesides doing consid- erable commercial business, is made valuable to shipping interests. On the British Columbia coast, for in- each station prepares for orts containing information as to rometer reading, temperature, strength and direction of wind, gen- eral weather conditions, shipping sighted and at What time, and ship- ing spoken by wireless, together with location times. Bhips equipped with wireless are thus enable to keep constantly informed of weather con- ditions, and of the location of other vessels, and their owners tre enabled to keep closely in touch with them. On numerous occasions, too, the wireless service has been able to ren. der valuable assistance to ships in distress. On Jan. 27, last year, the steamer Cottage City ran ashore on Cape Madge, B.C., in a blinding snow- storm. Bhe sent out distress signals and her owners were communicated with by the Canadian Government wireless station at Cape Lazo. The vessel was abandoned half an hour after striking. On the same day the steamer Tees, owned by the C.P.R.,.grounded in Berkley Bound. Communication was established with Pachens and twenty (minutes after the stranding the own- ers were notified and assistance was despatched from Victoria and the United States life-saving station at Tatoosh. The vessel was floated next morning. On Feb. 3, the steamer Victoria ran ashore on Cape Madge. Communica- tion was immediately established with Cape Lazo station. On the same day the steamer Titan- fa ran ashore on Btuart Island. She was not equipped with wireless, but sent a boat 10 the mearest wireless station, which conveyed the news to Victoria, and the desired assistance was obtained. Another interesting case was in the rescue of the men of the steamer West Point which foufidered at sea. : On Aug. 21, 1910, a boat was sigh ed off the port bow of the Devonian, which proved to be a lifeboat from the steamer West Point, of Liverpool; the ship was Stopped and sixteen men taken out of the t. The boat was pulled up in the davits, stimulants Supplied to the men and they were taken care of. Chief Officer Meckle, one of the rescued, reported that the West Point had foundered on August 28. They last saw the eaplain's boat © ng the remainder of the crew, in all sixteen men, on mornp- ing in about 47.8 N., 3223 W. The captain let them know he intended ing to the east bound ocean track. p the other bost might be in the Pica and the weather thick vonian was stopped two dist bombs at inter Replies by had picked up that all was The Canadian Government now has under consideration a scheme for the establishment of a wireless te ph system on the Great Lakes, which wiil include & chain of stations, approxi. Arthu Kingaton, a station Kingston of sufficient to com- Lines on Headstones In Canada | Change With the Years. It may Shrphise some 40 know, but} it is nevertheless true, that there is a | fashion in epitaphs, changing not so! quickly igdeed as in woman's dress, but still changing in the century or] "more of our Ontario history, following | certain, it seems, fixed laws. Thus at| one time Beripture texts abounded | and Scripture names, then a period when a verse from a hymn was used, | or one of doggerel rhyme composed by a friend, then the stately inserip- | tion almost in Johnsonese, then 'in| Mennonite or Quaker graveyards sim. | ply name and' age--"merely that and | nothing more"--on low stones not more than a foot in height, apparent. | ly expressing humility, but perhaps representing as much pride in their own way as the stately column. Bome. times a pathetic quotation from a real poet, or, again, something original, according to individual idosyncrasies, The present fashion avoids the fulsome praise, the elaborate, carefully propor- tiened periods. | even the Scriptural text, and generally gives name, age and birthplace. In the Niagara Peninsula may be found all varieties, often alas in some neglected spot on the farm, which perhaps, has changed owners, and now briars and weods abound or cat- tle roam at large. Is it not time that in every early-settled county these inscriptions, fast becoming wundeci- pherable and the stones chipped and marred by the hand of time, should be copied? asks Janet Camochan in a recent article in The Toronto Globe. There is so much of history in them --~the date when the Loyalists came from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, or the pioneer from distant mother country. In the case of the latter how fondly is it mentioned, "a native of Inverness, Scotland," or "Devonshire, England"; in the case of the clergyman, his long years of ser- vice in what to him must havg appear- ed a wilderness; the military n, his regiment, the battles which he fought. Some altar tombs have long inscrip- tions, which must have added greatly to the cost, notably that to Mrs. Schoolcraft, Ancaster; Thomas Dick. son, in the Hamilton Graveyard, Queenston; Thomas Clark, Chippawa. Nor are there lacking inscriptions in other linguages--French, German and even the more stately Latin--and we find curious traces of death: in An- dergonville Prison; of a young Cana- dian's death in the Boer war, and of our Northwest rebellion in the death of Mr. Gowanlock, a prisoner with Big Bear; of a "victim to Canadian mis- rule" before the rebellion of 1837; of the war of 1812, and even of the revo- lution and of prisoners with the In- dians. Here is an inscription evidently be. fore the schoolmaster was abroad, pe- | culiar in punctuation and ortho- { graphy: Deborah Freel died 1816 aged 70. My dere children: Think on God: And { his commandments: An he will think | on yo: Observ your youth: don't lose | no time. Least God should take yo {in your prime: Serve God abov: and { on this world: fix not your lov. In the same family burying-place (Butler's Graveyard) is an example of { the high-sounding, carefully-balanced periods of those days. In a country churchyard in Scotland I copied one of a divine with whose name I was familiar, in much the same style of carefully proportioned descriptive phrases :-- Here reposes Maria Caroline, the generous-hearted, high-souled, talented and deeply-lamented wife of Major Richardson of the Military Order of Saint Ferdinand of the First Class and Superintendent of Police on the Wel- land Canal during the Administration of Lord Metcalfe. This matchless wo- man died of apoplexy and to the ex- ceeding grief of her faithfully attach- ed husband, after a few days' illness in St. Catharines and on the 10th day | of August, 1845, at the age of 37 years. It is remarkable how in telling the ood qualities of the wife the hus. md wanders off to tell of his own dignities. The Smooth Robert. They are telling a story at Ottawa which may throw some light on Hon. Robert Rogers' success as a politician. Mr. Rogers was born in Argenteuill County, Quebec, now the particular stamping ground of Hon. George H. Perley. However, Mr. Rogers left the district when he was very young, &nd his recollections of his boyhood days are rather hazy. A banquet was given recently to Mr. Perley by his constituents, and Mr. Rogers was invited. Before he was called upon to speak, so the story goes, he got a local politician to point out to him the old-timers who were boys in the neighborhood when he was one himself. hen Mr. Rogers arose and made sentimental references to the delight of revisiting old scenes and meeting the friends of his youth, He continued something like. this: I see at the head of the table my old friend, John ; down at the right I notice my former chum Tom 3 to my left I gee Dick ; and so on. Af mention of each name there was wild applause, and Mr. Rogers can have anything he wants down in Argenteuill. Off to Athabasca. Way up at Athabasca Landing, thers has been an important appointment. The town in the Arctic has a new ha%y 'Wiough name w ton, and he succeeds Sl. Sanders, noo, who is now police m trate at Calgary. r Wroughton has had a long strenuous career in the R.N.W, pH He as etn 3 rider ou the ns for twe ears. In ¢ old fever days of the' Yukon he pa- froliea 'in Déwaon. uring the t years een loca at Regina. ' Now Western Towns. During the year 19811 the C. P. R. established new towns in the three 41 Provinges of Manitoba, Suskatchewdn This year, with the large number of new St ig and ex. contemplated. it is probable the the railway will establish more new municipal a some woman a virtoe-and virtue is "EPITAPH FASHIONS. § | old bachelor to ac-| Strike a man for $10 if you be had to do is pose to borrow $5. THE SIKH AT HOME. Muh Discussed People Come of 2 Race of Warriors. At the present time, when the question of Hindu immigration is oc cupying So, prominent a place in the consideration of Canadians, it is not amiss to remark that, outside of In dis, very little is known by the aver age reader of the character, history and religion of the Sikhs who, of all the races of India, are the most desir able, 'people to whom the rights and privileges of citizenship in the var ious British dominions may be ex- tended. . The Sikhs are member of a religious community domiciled in the Punjab, e "Land of the Five Rivers," so famed in Indian history, and all who have so far emigrated come from a district immediately surrounding the city of Lahore. Their position as the most enlightened race in India is largely due to the character of their religion, which in its spiritual influ. ence, is no wise inferior to Christian. |- ity, and, in its lack of ritual and ob-|- fuscating ceremony, gains by compar- ison with the formality of Ogcidental churchdom. The founder of this re. ligion was Guru Nanak, who was born in the year 14689, near Lahore. He preached a nometheistic doctrine, maintaining that there was ome God and that the true worship of the Deity was to serve one's fellow-man. The name Sikh originated with this first teacher, whose followers were thus called, the term Bikh being Ban- scrit for disciple. Guru Nanak trav. eled far and wide in his own country, as well as in lands outside of India, preaching his gospel of fraternity and humanitarianism, at a time when the East was surcharged with ritual. istic faiths in which spiritual develop. ment was always subservient to mere form. As the Moslem faithful have their salutation, meaning "there is only one God and Mohammed is His Pro- phet,"" so the Sikhs have a greeting which is literally interpreted, "Vie- tory to God, to Whom the Khalsa belongs." Govind Bingh gave to all the Bikhs the name of Singh, which means Lion, and the name was well merited, for, in the years that inter- vened between the passing of this teacher and the establishment of Brit ish rule in India, thousands of Sikhs were martyred for their convictions. The organzation of the Khalsa by Govind Singh so strengthened the Sikhs that, after his death, the Pun- jab came into their hands. The king was then Ranjit Singh, 'the Lion of the Punjab." Ranjit Singh was one of the most remarkable of the Hindu rulers with whose lives history makes us familiar. His friendship was court. ed by the British, whose diplomacy was exerted, at all times, to avoid conflict with the Khalsa. Historians differ in theif summing up of the per- sonal qualities, but this much can be stated with Huth; that he was re- spected and loved by his people, and that he kept faith with the British. After his death had removed restraint from the Bikhs, they were intrigued into war with the British troops and eventually the Punjab passed under British rule. During the last decade the Bikh has found his way to many places outside of his native land. He is to be found in the Federated Malay States; he is the policeman of Hong Kong. Australia, Canada and the Brit- ish territories of East, West and South Africa have become familiar with his bearded face and his picturesque turban. Lewis W. Clemens. Mr. Lewis Clemens, president of the Canadian Travel Club, who has recently been honored by election as a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Insti- tute, London, Eng., left Jan. 20, with a number of members of the Travel club, to make a study of the Island of Jamaica. This club was organized two years ago, and now has six chap- ters--at Toronto, Montreal, London, Ottawa, Mount Forest, and Moose Jaw. It is making rapid progress in scoumulating travel lore, and the president has been very active in this work. Mr. Clemens is a native Canadian, an artist, and writer, whose work has been appreciated in Canada and abroad. A typical example of his work as a decorator may be seen in the old County Court building, To- ronto, part of which were recently beautified by landscape friezes by this artist. In December last Mr. Clemens' Imperialistic essay on Jamaica, B.W.I.,, won for him first place in the list of awards, The Canadian Travel Club co-oper- ates with the Royal Geographical Club, the Royal Colonial Institute, and other leading British educational bodies. . Gold vs. Turkey. A discovery of gold in the Swan River district was made through tur- keys. Just before Christmas a farmer named Murphy sold some turkeys. Several flakes of gold were noticed in their crops, and when the contents were properly examined s number of nuggets ranging in weight up to three ounces were found. Murphy heard of it and staked claims along a ridge of black sand where the turkeys had run during the summer and fall. This destroys the value of the fable about the goose that laid the golden us To get turkey gold you must kill the turkey. In a few years it will not matter, for the difference between the value of turkey and the value of gold will not be appréciable, Doing It Thoroughly. Arthur Heming, a Toronto artist, recently overheard, in front of the National Club, Toronto, a conversa tion that startled him. While passing two of the business men who belong to that prominent club, he heard the word "art" men- tioned. He slackened his pace en- ough to catch a few sentences, and discovered that the two were talking about art in Europe. ; "That isn't the way to go about it," sald one, in answer to the other's statement about how to a Shas art "I you want to get th bak oat uropean art, you oug go at b seriously. 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