VIE an : : 5 s 2 \ PAGE TEN..« : ' : a . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 bE ------ ---- : ---- r -- - i & ' ee " BOARDED AN ICEBERG | MAGNIFIED HER WEALTH. | ~ COURT OF ST. JAMES. | EE ---------- « £3 * i . e 7 . % » : w---- | Southern B. C. 1s Being Worked on JA Five Dollar Bill That Seemed to Be | What a Presentation to English Royal. | : the Intensive Plan. : | x a Small Fortune. : 'ty Means Sqoiaily, The scarcity of cheap labor, which || The woman banded ber friend a 8ve | There is no need for jealousy and ex- en I em in every line 1 doliar bill, "See the namber of small citement about presentations at court n British Columbia' is | tives engraved, on LY" sbe asked. | Any respectable American girt cap be bout & remarkable change! "When | was in Denmark a few years | presented at the court of St. James If ricuitural sections of the | ago such a bill as that cansed me a | she have sufficient influence willti some g but particularly in the low- | great deal of ammsement; and 1 had | lady who 1s even nilidly persona grata er Fraser Valley, A - -- en MORE SMALL FARMS. $00 y10ATING ISLAND | WRECKED) Lh 4 i tECKY Dj i SHIP, BUT SAVED CREW, © | 2 2 . Ihe German Ship Hansa the Vietim ~The Berg Held Together Fight * Months and Carried the Crew. . 2 ss : . Curious lodeed was the experience of says The Toronts | to surrender one before I could prove | at court. AGG when a girl or 8 @watron | | - : (] . vy . Globe. The large farms are giving. ¢ . | has esefited 'then the matte a tiny Goan sip Susan : Y Thee i ater | Sul oar of 4 Tate belief S5gary, | fap Seep Prussited shes the Sariee EXT time you step into the corner store, 4X take a look around. 'Of all the articles place to the small, and there is aris. endency to look upon inten. an ice island In latitude 02 degrees a vs.4 3 dene? Jo Jos i, 1 fab Ap aunt whom I was visiting saw in | So to ap abeagt end nt fo. pa little before midnight In 4 freezing | method. Ages ago, when the, world | 07 purse ove day a number of fhesp | e- socla : cachet gmonr kale. The impact carried ber bow far | was young, what is now one of the | DIlls, and. she asked to examine one, . more thao this--that tHe iora chamber. up on the berg and imbedded it firmly | most fertile- and desirable agricultur-| #8 it-was so different from any of the | lain has made an inquiry lato your an- in the ice. Her back was broken by | al regions in all Canada was an arm | Danish money. Sbe studied it atten | tecedents and found ooihiug In their the fofce of the collision and before | of the sea stretching a hundred miles | tively a few minutes and then asked | history to cause comthent, [op the case | yy - Di i El 3 1, pod served as such for sixteen years. worning was wrenched away from the forward part by the battering seas and sank, ' When the Hansa struck thé boats | were lowered, but ouly one escaped | being swaniped after pulling away | from the doomed . It was soon 1 found, however, this boat was | leaking and that | hfifsount of baling | would keep It aficat than a few hours, so the mate Is command of It | made for the berg and succeeded In cilinbing op on it to a place of tem- | porary safety. From the broken tim- | bers of the Hansa's bow thie castaways | bullt a rude sheiter and snared sea | birds to eke out the scanty supplies they had been able to save from the ship, I As the ice. island drifted farther | u into warmer. waters and began perceptibly to shrink the shipwrecked | men were a prey to constant fear that | the melting mass might turn turtle any | time and precipitate them all to the | sea, from which It bad so providential "1 Jy saved them. Also they feared it might "calve" dnd the part breaking away from the main bulk might carry them with It to destruction. The con- stant grinding and groaning of the great ice mft filled their hearts with constant teiror, and the deserted seas added to their despair. But the berg held together for eight mouths, and the Hansa's men traveled 700 miles before they were tinally pick- od up In iatitnde 41 degrees, suffering from frostbites and hunger, but other Wise no worse for their long exposure ~New Xork Press WEST POINT CADETS. Thelr Education Costs the Government - About $3,500 Each. The seléction of West Point as the place for the National Military acade- my was due to Its advantages from a military viewpoint, for its rugged beauty and its severe climate were calculated to be beneticlal in the foun- dation of that port of character so essential to a successful officer, The academy was formally opened on July 4, 1802, with ten cadets and five officers as Instructors. Its success is sald to be due to the administrative ability of General Sylvanus Thayer, who became its superintendent in 1817 This officer Is known as the "father of West Point." : A cadet's education costs the govern- ment about $3,600. All eadets are on the same footing. The pay of a cadet is $600 per year and one ration per day or commutation thereof at 80 cents per day. The total is about $700.50, to commence with his admission to the academy. Immediately after his ad- mission the young man must spend $160 for uniforms. : : After graduation the cadet is eligible to the rank of second Heutenant and is appointed to whatever branch of the service his record entitles him. Those who are highest in class honors are generally appointed to the engl neer corps.~--Leslie's, ---- \ Polite and Tactful, The mayor of a French town bad, in accordance with the regulations, to make out a passport for a rich and highly respectable lady of his acquaint. ance, who, in spite of a slight dis figurement, was very valn of her per sonal appearance. His native polite 'ness prompted him to gloss over the defect, and after a moment's reflec tion he wrote among the items of per sonal description, "Eyes dark, beautl ful, tender, expressive, but one of them missing." A Scotch "Bull" is General Wade constructed military roads in the highlands of Scotland. An obelisk was constructed to combemo- rate his achievements on which was inscribed the following "ball" Intend: od to distinguish between natural tracks and made roads: Had you. seen these roads before they were made "fF © ®eu would lift up your hands and bless re General Wade Bhe "Hoped™ For Their Happiness. The Newly Wed--Edith did the bate inland beyond where the city of New | me bow much it was. 1 told ber it | of Americans the inquiry cannot Le Westminster now stands.: Gradually this arm was filled in with dark brown silt washed down by the river from the mountains far to the north, The result is a wide alluvial plain, almost perfectly level and very rich. Several factors contributed =~ to was $5, and, to my surprise, 1 saw she did pot belleve me. 'If it is only that amount,' she said. 'why has it 0 many. | little figures on it? . "1 tried to explain, but I made little impression on ber. Later I beard she make this valley one of 'the first of | bad told our relatives that | was the agricultural regions of the pro. | vince to be settled. It was, fertile. It was less densely' wooded, and therefore more easily cleared than other tempting districts, and it was close to the market provided by the cities on the coast. Land was of lit tle valde, comparativtly speaking. when the first settlers came, and large farms or ranches were taken up. Many of these have been culti- vated and have yielded bountifully. On others---many others--only a few acres have been cleared. They stand, for the most part, as they stood a century ago. Meanwhile the, province has developed with wonderful rapid. | ity. The price of land has increased | five or ten fold. The ranches are too valuable to be allowed-4o stand fallow or to be covered with alder. brush. They would pay richly if they could be cultivated, as some of them have been paying richly for years But cultivation requires labor, and labor, even the Oriental variety, is scarce and high. Many of the farms, cleared and uncléared, have there- fore found their way into the hands! of the subdivider, and more are fol. lowing every week. The change which this new order of things is bringing: about in the landscape is remarkable, and it pro- mises remarkable things for the econ- omié¢ future of the Fraser Valley and the cities growing up in it. Where two or three years ago one would see a house or two to the mile, and a few. flelds of grain or grass or pas- ture, one now meets with a series of little communities of farming people settled on five ur ten acre lots. On the dyked lands of the delta the dairy ranches are giving place to poultry farms, and in an afternoon's walk one may see scores of these tiny homesteads, the house and gar den. in front, the chicken runs and their white-winged inmates behind. ! Farther up the river, while poultry. raising is still a favorite industry, more attention is devoted to the rais- ing of vegetables ande rhubarb ang small fruits, From Mission, the cen- tre of a rich district, 42 miles from { 'worth thousands and thousands of dollars' and was trying to conceal the fact from the family lest they should expect some things of we that they would not otherwise. "When 1 beard'that 1 was visiting in another part of the country sand could not very well defend myself, so 1 bit on the expedient of sending my aunt a present of a five dollar bill When she went to have It changed into the money of the country she was at last convinced, though at the price of having ber 'dream of wealth rudely shattered."--New "York Press, A FAMOUS BEACON. = The Navesink Light, Near Sandy Hook, is &@ Wonder. ; The most powerful light in America Is housed on a promontary near Sandy Hook, 250 feet above the beach, where it acts as a safeguard to ait ships en- tering or leaving the harbor of New York, It is called Navesink light and Is of 85,000,000 candle power. At fif- teen or twenty miles Its flash is as pointed and brilliant as a star. On a perfectly clear night its shaft of light can be seen 100 wiles at sea. When it was erected it was operated at twice its present candle power. But ocean pllots obj to its strength, saying that so amazing an electric flash ac- tually blinded them and interfered with their work. Uncle Sam heard the prayer of the pilots and turned down his pet lamp to 95,000,000 candle power. . The amount of ofl consnmed by the engine that provides the power for the light is only one gallon and -seven- elghths an bonr. That is the astonish- log thing to the unscientific visitor-- the comparatively small expense and effort required to malontain so great a Hight. There are two fair sized dyna- mos And two oll engines. One set is always kept in reserve. Of course the tremendous candle power Is devel: Vancouver, two carloads of rhubarb oped by means of a great lens, made have been shipped to the coast week- ly since the season opened. These new settlers are mostly from the old land, though mot a jew are from the American States. They are active people, and as they are here y Yo make their living from the soil they are losing no time. As a result of their coming, clearings are grow- ing, and there is easily twice as much land under cultivation in the valley this summet as there was a year ago. Heretofore, * truck-farming or market-gardening Las been mostly in the hands of Chinamen, and large quantities of vegetables have had to be imported. With the development of the Fraser Valley lands a new era seems to be opening for the house- holder in the coast cities, and the vision of fresher vegetables at more reasonable prices seems to be nearer fulfillment. Bad Name For Doctor. Medical men are frequently the sub- jects for humorous remarks, grim and otherwise, regarding the success of their medical efforts. In a High Court case in Welland just recently, over which Chancellor Boyd was presiding, W. M. German, K.C., M.P., unintentially by mispro- nouncing the name of a medical man, a witness, placed that person in a very embarrassing position and caus. ed a smile that might easily be called ill-concealed laughter to pass around the court-room. An aged woman was conducting an action against a merchant for dam- ages for injuries sustained by falling ver a rope which the defendant had attached to his horse and tied to a stake across the sidewalk. Dr. T. E. Kellam, of 'Niagara Falls, was giving evidence regarding the ex- tent of the woman's injuries. It was when Mr. German called him to the witness pox that the break was made. "Dr. Kifl'em," he called in loud tones not even smiling at his own "break." Dr. Kellam, it may be -sure, arose from his seat under the gaze of every in France. The lens weighs seven tons and a half, is seven Inches thick and rests In mercury, It is revolved with ease.~Saturday Evening Post. Purely Mental. Mrs. Holden had been blessed with remarkable eyesight all her life. It was a great trial to her when at the age of seventy-two she was obliged to put on "reading glasses." "But they are really becoming to yon, Aunt Hil da," said a gentle niece by way of con- solation. "No, they aren't," sald Mrs. Holden, with her usual scorn for compliment "Anybody"s eyes look better without a glass In front of 'em, and you know it." "But you couldn't read without them," ventured the niece, "and you love" --~ "1 could, too, read without "em," said the old lady, refusing to be soothed. "I could read most as well as ever, but I couldn't sense It all--that's the only trouble."~--Youth's Companion. England's Largest House. The proud distinction of being the largest house in Eogland is generally accorded to Lord Fitzwilllam's York- shire seat, Wentworth Woodhouse, Of this house it is said that the three prin- cipal entrances are so far distant from bring three hats with them, one to be kept at each point of egress. A house which is 600 feet long, has a hall in which two average suburban vilias could be comfortably placed and boasts a room for every two days of the year Is certainly large enough to satisfy any reasonable ambition.--Kxchange Handy Shakespeare. "Can you loan me four volumes of your Shakespeare set? 5 "Certainly. Which volumes do you wish? "it makes no particular difference. We're to play bridge tonight, and our each other that visitors are advised to. anything bat perfunctory. Sdme people unagive thats presenta- | tion -at court js followed tmmediately | . by an invitation to the next state din ner or the next state couvert or the next state tea abd mutlios." Nothing of the kind. You must attaly or loberit great social importance or be repre sentative in some way before the king and queen ask you to dine with them. Prebentation is a pretty laborious | and expensive ceremony, signifyiug to | any one who is not in the Inner social ring in London nothing.®- New York Telegraph. . 'A COLOSSAL HARP. Veritan's Aeclian Giant Had Strings 320 Feet In Length, The largest harp ever made, so far as is known, was that invented and constructed by M. Veritan, provoét of Burkli, near Basel. It was known as | the gigantic meteorological aeolian harp. It was 820 feet in length and was | erected In the garden of its inventor in 1787. This harp consisted of fifteen iron wires, 820 feet in length, stretched be- | tween two poles. The wires were from two to three inches apart, the largést being one-sixth of an inch in thickness and the smallest ope-twelfth of an och They were placed in the direction of north and south and inclined in such a manner as to form an angle of from | twenty to thirty-degrees'with the hori- zon, being stretched by means of roll ers properly disposed for the purpose. Whenever the weather changed the wires sounded with such loudness that it was impossible to go on with a con- cert In the bouse. The sound sometimes represented the hissing noise of water in rapid ebullition, sometimes that of a harmonicon and sometimes that of dis- tant chimes or an organ.--Exchange Paul Revers, Dentist. Was Paul Revere a dentist? The following advertisement published in | the Boston Gazette and Country Jour nal of Revere's time is believed to prove that he was: "Whereas, many persons are so unfortunate as to lose their Fore-teeth by Accident and oth- erways, to their great Detriment, not only In Looks. but speaking both in Public and Private:~This is to inform | all such that they may have them re placed 'with artificial ones, that looks as well as the Natural & answers the end of Speaking to all Intents, by Paul Revere, Goldsmith, near the bead of Dr. Clarke's Wharf, Boston. All Persons who have had false Teeth fixt by Mr. John Baker, Surgeon Den- tist, and they have got loose (as they will In time), may have them fastened by the above who learnt the Method of fixing them from Mr. Baker." Honey Bread, In Europe, where the food value of honey seems to be much better under stood than in the United States, enor< mous quantities are vsed. Of late | years we seem to be waking to the realization of the value of honey as a wholesome and delicious article of food and also as to its preservative qualities. Cakes and sweetbreads made with sugar soon become dry and crumbly and to get the good of them must be eaten when fresh, but where they are made up with honey they seem to retain their woilst freshness indefinitely. In- France honey bread a year or eighteen months old is pre ferred to that just made. "They say, "It has ripened." It is the preserva- tive, or rather the unchanging quality of honey, that makes It so popular with the best confectioners.~Christian Herald. rt] Spiders. { Spiders are not insects, as most peo, ple think. The spider has eight legs, whereas an insect cannet have more thao six, The nervous system is con- structed on a totally different basis, and so are the circulation and respira. tion. The eyes are different, the io- sects having many compound eyes and the spider never baiviog more than eight and all of them simple. Then a spider has no separate head, the bead | YFP EEEEEREER | on the shelves, how many were on your. shopping list five years ago? - Make it ten years, and you will find that most of the things you buy to-day--and could not do without--were not even made then ¥ You men and women who buy things, let this sink in.. You are better men and women because of advertising: You eat more whole- some food. You wear better clothes. Your home is better furnished. You have cleaner and more sanitary houses. You read better books and magazines. You seek more health- ful amusements. " Your whole standard of living has been raised --and why? Because the men who make these better things are telling you that yo® will be more comfortable, happier and healthier if you use these higher grade goods. It is advertising .that makes it possible for you to buy "the best" right at your corner store. It is advertising that encourages. the 'inventor to make new comforts and new utilities and enables you to buy costs more, True for J. J.--but . wg them almost immediately after they are pegfected. : METS ' a Af * J. J. Hill says this "high living" Leei[eh) it is worth more. And leaving the cost aside, do you want to go back to buying jam out of a pail, catmeal out of a barrel, raisins out of sticky boxes, or tea expobed in an open chest? EEE INES ee) NIT r= = I Do you regret the money you paid for a Player Piano? v Would you forego the new style razor? Isn't a Tungsten worth a thousand candles? Would you now be enjoying these if enterprising manufacturers had not told you about them in their advertisements? Isn't life brighter because we have new and higher standards of living? Let us thank advertising for it. iQ Ne Advice regarding your advertising problems is available throu th any good adver- © ©) ©) tising agency or the Secretary of the Canadian Press Association, Room 503, @) Lumsden Building, Cores Enguiry involves no obligation on your part-- 30 write if interested. * lielE] @ El (El @ © FER EREREEEE EEE Lager. Its rich "Yes, I now drink Suis > ONNOISSEURS prefer SW delicate flavor is equaled only by expensive imported brands. QUEEN'S CAFE « Lunches served om the shortest notice. REGULAR DINNER, 285¢. NM, PAFPAS & hd Princess S¢ MOTOR CAR TROUBLES BRING THEM TO US. No Cure, No Pay. VULCANIZING. BIBBY'S GARAGE Brock Street. 'Phone 201-917. Motor Boat Supplies Sais has all the merits of imported beer--and costs about half as much. JOHN LABATT, LIMITED LONDON, CANADA. : a ir . Tungsten Lamps, for sig- nal lights - 50c. each Best Spark Plugs made one in the court room. ~gtar Weekly. ~4uxl fulest thing at our reception, and I'll : esp: Hohk-Why, it's simply awful, young _ he's a relative of mive, and-- Browp-- , Wes, yes, I know, but what other rea Bazar, : Dever forgive her, Cousin Jane--Why, what could it be? The Newly Wed- - She addressed Charjes in the most manner atid said, *1 bope you'll happy" The way sbe uttered that word "hope" was positively unbear , lo pd gagged? Victim (of burglarions visita. For more than half an bour 1 Blank? Smith--Well, you see, "Pro" Boys. Mr. W. A. Boys, who 1s the new M.P. in the Canadian House for South Simcoe--"Pro" Boys, they call him--is a pretty good type of young Canadian. He is forty-three now, but he will seein a young man ten years hence. In his twenties and early thir- ties he was one of the best athletes in the country. He was a rattling good hockey player, a speedy skater, and could take held and play any game well. For three years in succes- sion he wen the Victoria Cup, em- blematic 'of the lawn tennis cham- pionship of Ontario. He also won the championship of Quebec, and was probably the best tennis player in anada. Later on the: Barrie crack took to golf and curling. is short and sturdy, and as active as a cat even now, X Publicly Owned. German Selephiotie lines are' owned and operated by the Government. Try ordinary methods first--then the extraordinary, il necessary. The true friend proves his friend ship; he does not talk about it. - The biggest fish is sull Keeping up the reputation of getting away. | card table isn't quite high enough.-- Louisville Courier-Journal. cat -- y ¥ Irresistible. "However did _you reconcile Adele and Mary? "1 gave them a choice bit of gossip and asked them not 10 repeat it to each other.,"~Fliegende Blatter. Unly One Exception. cher--How 18 it that yon don't Roow your lesson? Hoy--I1 ean't learn i. Teacher (angrily)--If it were not for me you'd be the biggest blockhead on earth.-- Exchange. . } Money In Her Own Name, Hewitt -- He married a girl with money In her own name. Jewett--is that so? Hewitt--Yes; ber name was Cash.~New York Press Your mistake in life Is that you do Bot look forward far enough.~Dickens, As a rale trath is lost sight of in the average street gossip. Many a man has suffered harm from jumping at conclusions. _ Many tie to the idea that economy 1s getting something for nothing. : Christan and the thorax being fused together. i ; Longest Cough on Record, i The tiger came toward me, bellow ing and grunting, and when be got opposite the screen he gave one of those fearful coughs which only a, man who has been close to such a beast can appreciate. It was eleven feet long.~Loundop Standard. ' A Jollier. "She's an economical little woman." | 4 "Which means, | suppose, that every time her husband bas bis suit of clothes pressed she tells him that it looks joss as good as new."-- Detroit Free Press, 5 Quite Solid, = "Let me see a plain wedding ring" "Bolla gaged more™n a month." "You bet I'm solid. We've been en | Love keeps no ledger of its services-- Heraia trian Industry is a sort of magnet that forces things eur way Don't make your pathway crooked if |- others are to follow Fhe genuine love of the Lord ought to east out fear of Him. REID James McParland Agent, 339-341 King St., Bast There is no article of footwear so cool as a pair of : ; WHITE CANVAS SHOES Try a pair and you will like them. For Men, Women and Children & CHARLES Columbia Ignitors - - =.=. = 8p each Multiple Batteries $6.00 Storage Batteries $10.00 Best place in thé [City for Motor Boat supplies and repairs Haliday Electric Co. Symington's Packet Soups and Gravies Get Them at D. 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