ad All makes of pho cleaned, repaired, adjusted. Rast for Sil makes expert wo charges, quick ik tere. J. M. PATRICK ini i McNa & Slack the. With doing ha Kelly shop, }§ Queen street. Repairing |i Aone properly and prompely, i Light wagons of various kinds Ji for sale. We can build that | track body for you 'quickly. Horse OR. DV. -- PILLS Aes $6 & box of Suelo for Be dn paled amy L FOR MEN. Vive 5 Sh Ey td io at drug stores, "gold at Mahood's Drug mi " Hn al. he, » Fama Sr hy BAS On recelnt We have a supply of cut hard wood and |} J. Sowards Coal Co. P | | ago there ap) i ; Fruits £ and a -- Cooked and Uncooked Meats, "LEWIS ORR or ie arriving dally, Tomatoes; Cucumbers, rb always on an 1 Siriis had a much better ------_ TE -- GPP ole noir pips on Making Trips % Acrdss Atlantic GON rir lp DO ON0d pher, with his threc little ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, ventured forth from Palos into the "Sea of Darkness' on the voyage which was to end in the discovery of the New World, navi gators have been striving to shorten the time of getting across. It took the admiral himself considerably more than two months to make the passage, and, great seaman that he was, he shortened it all he could. y INCE that day, August 3, 1498, on whieh the great Christo ii! Some hundred and thirty years later, il! the Mayflower did not greatly ime prove on this time, but as the years {| went by, and the lanes became better known; and the demand for speed increased, the shipbuilder built his ships 'more and more for speed, un: til, in the days of the third George, the transports could make their way across, with a fair wind, inside of a il month. So matters stood at the time of that great revolution in the way il} of the sea, the introduction of steam. It was not a complete revolution, | of course, for not only did the salle i ing ship valiantly hold her own, even in the matter of speed, for the first few years, but such famous clippers a8 the Dreadnought and the Red Jacket rivaled, in their day, the fast- est steamer afloat, Built for speed, with an almost unbelievable spread of canvas, they could and did make the voyage between New York and Liverpool in little over thirteen days. Indeed; in the early days, the steams er never ventured to sea in its own strength alone. Steam engines it had, and the best that could be devised, but it was always a full-rigged ship as well, Thus the Savannah, which is generally recorded as the Sat steamship to cross the Atlantic, used steam only eighteen days out of the twenty-five occupied in the voyage. That was in 1818, and if was not until fourteen years later that a steamship, the Royal William, eross- ed the Atlantic' entirely under her own steam. She salled from Quebec, and reached London 'in seventeen days. a although this 18 a hed and a tablet recording thi is to be found in th his crossing Library | at Ottawa, the place of honor as the first vessel to cross the Atlantic un- der her own steam is frequently given to the Sirius. To be sure, the at the time than the Royal William. Even in those days the inspired paragraph was not utterly unknown, 'And so in the London Times eighty-one Years s & kin ot ee ow "the from New York for the réturn voy- age on rede May. Bhe i out from on twenty-two class this num will be considerably augmented at Cork. She does not fake out any Boods, being intended for a passen ger ship only." AS & WIRttar Of fact, tho Rood ality actually sailed from Cork with a complement of only six first-class passengers. All the others were ren~ dered so doubtful as to the ex- ed to the United States after an al : as v We Drink It But Are Not Authorities on Flavor, In part the high price of coffee is attributed to a frost in parts of Bra- zl, but various causes have contri- buted. Puerto Rico, for example, which never is toliched by frost, had Inst year a small erop, and the price of eoffee in the island has increased 100 per cent. This has been ascrib- od sometimes to proh:bition, but it Is doubtful whether Puerto. Rico could drink much more coffee than it was drinking before prohibition went into efféct; its consumption of aleohol was extremely moderate and its SOusump tion of coffee large, aa is apt to be the case inthe tropics. 'Jt is noteworthy in this country that many of the plans for a subs stitute for the saloon call for the provision of coffee as a substitute for alcoholic drinks. In the cafes of Europe the two go side by side, on an 'equal footing; at the same table one person may be drinking coftée and another It might almost be said that European drink wine or beer with their meals and take thetr coffee in. public, while Cana diang drink coffee with their meals and take their alcohol in secret. This materially affects the position of cof- foe as a substitute. It the coffee house is to be re- stored to the position it once had, considerable changes will need to be made in national habits and tastes, Used in moderation coffee is a rela- tively harmless stimulant, but it can- not be consumed so freely as beer, and most coffee drinkers take already quite as much as is good for them. | To make ¢offee available as a social | substitute for alcohol, therefore, the Canadian public would need to cut down iis home drinking, so that the proposed establishment of coffee houses might not involve so great an increase in national consumption as has been predicted. | It ls perhaps a more serious diffi- eulty that the Canadian public, de spite iis enormous consumption of it, has not an educated taste in cof- fee. The market in Canada for the higher grades is relatively small, and there has been little appreciation for : the excellent and full-flavored pro duet. To the average Canadian co fee is a pale decoction used to wash down griddle-cakes, crullers and ple; | it would never occur to him to take ' it as'a separate luxury, por as served would it be a luxury. Premier Cle- mencean is said to have abandoned America because the people of the United States had no general ideas and no good coffee." It is to be tear od he would like our coffee no better, It the reformers can bring coffee hd to the standard of countries where t is sipped as a delectable luxury, pit can persuade people to lke it, they will have accomplished a great deal, but neither undertaking is very easy. To be good, coffee must be made with great pains, and multe freshly: the arom guickly goes an mess is fatal. Our long-estab- - 3 negligence in such matters tory not be easily overcome. an interesting beverage, too; on | node wa xen Tou Which: aL ot like, they learn to relish {herve to latin Burope. It remains to whether the numerous projects for : oe a8 8 su Tate ar alkohol wil fare notte at all evetits thé experiments be of interest. Chilkat. cs Sena or fo da & 43d folk » songs of, the ChiIbat Indias Louls Shotridge, a mem- ber of that tribe, has recently Nua. of four years in Alaska, of 'the University Museum he jwas down at ¥ HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, Trouble In Winnipeg Recalls Fort Garry In 1869. How history repeats itself! Just about fifty years ago Winnipeg, as it then existed, was in the throes of civil strife, and the powers that were, had throttled its press, gquelched its pioneer newspaper, the "Norwester," There was then no Thief River Falls within train ride of the stricken town, where reporters could file tele- graph copy. Yet two. enterprising Toronto papers sent representatives hundreds of miles across the winter prairie, braving the dangers of eold and leaden bullets to get the news-- and they got it. Hall 'a cenfilry ago Torontonians were anxiously seanning the for news of the troubles in Win nipeg. Greybeards remember wave = xeienon ht Jaith passed over. the Toronto 55,000 inhabi- tants, when in December, 1869, word came through that Louis Riel, chief of the rebels, had taken Fort imprisoned $- tative and the Hu 'Bay Co.'s offi ¢ials and set vp his own government in the Northwest Territories. It was a far ery from Toronto to the Winnipeg of 18369---Fort Garry, the little outpost of civilization away off in the Great Lone Land. The C.P.R. was then Jcareely 3 thought of and spoken of by sou 'business men as a "mad and Twelve hundred miles of ness stretch ed between T and the prairie trading post. The most fegaible route to the west in those via Minnesota. And it was this way that the late John Ross Robertson, afterwards proprietor of the Even ing Telegram, TOronte, amd at that time on the staff of the now long- detunct Daily Telegraph, of Toronto, set out to visit the scene of the trou- bles on behalf of his paper. The Globe sent the late Mr. Robert Cun- ningham, and the two rival news- papermen travelled together into the wild west. Mr. Robertson got only . an hour's warning. The city editor called him ip, notified him of the assignment apd handed him a roll of one thousand dollars for expenses on the long journey. Within the hour he old Great West- ern Railway statios, boarding the train for Detroit. The travellers eventually reached the little frontier town of St. Cloud; Minnesota~--the end of the steel and prepared to start off on the 400- mile trail acroas the prairies to Fort Carry. While waiting there, John Ross Robertson got an Important story of what was happeming in iso- lated Fort Garry, from. the officer commanding the American troops at St. Cloud. The Toronto Telegraph's representative sat id i night, wrap- ped in a buffalo writing the story which his Tival' nea not secured and ere dawn sume the despatch was Reg States Gov- ng over gh eastward. t for his paper t the ti 3 folioming tha THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919. A PLUCKY off ' He Prevented of Coal Reach ing German Ship. Behind the curt references, made in legal formality, in the British law courts recently lies 4 story of the sea that would have fired the imag- ination and speeded the pen of Jules Verne or Clark Russell. The central figure is a 'young Englishman. From the first there must have been something sinister attaching to the fate of the American steamship Edna, also known at times as Jason and Magellan. On a certaln voyage she was fitted with a wireless installation, and car- ried as operator a young Britisher, Guy Duncan Smith, who was in the employ of the American Marconi Co. of New York. . In the guise of a Mexican vessel the ship, just after war had been declared between Russia and Ger many, made San Fran and took on board a great cargo of coal. Young PaTIDE port SAmaroron that the tost ea¥ing pol aboard the Ge sel was intended for the German cor salir Leipeig. Smith was astounded to learn that 4 German wireless operator was to be taken' on board, and was informed that if he refused duty the Teuton would tike his place! It was then || that Smith found that the German did not understand the Marconi sys- tem, buf was acquainted only with || thé German "Telefunken" brand. At once Smith decided that no (| messages of his should assist his |i} country's enemies. He Shortened || the length of the sound waves and "hocussed the enemy into the belief |} that he was sending out calls for the Leipzig when he was doing actually |} «nothing at all." But one day the captain ordered i him to get to direct touch with the {| raider and gave him the code word "Dans." Smith knew that to refuse |' might bring the reward of a bullet, Nevertheless he refused. The Ger- man operator was sent for, but be- fors he could arrive Smith short-eir- cuited the "tone" of the wireless and the wave-l was altered. Sparks were seen in the wireless room but nothing radiated from the serial! The Telefunken operator but in vain. The captain was com- pelled to reinstate Smith, apd at was then that the Marconi operator gave his final display of 'courageous cleverness. With shrewd foresight he made a great show of calling up the Leipzig. He called her for hours on end, but he took equal cure to get his messages "cross purposed." a was only when the vessel reach. ed Le Paz that Smith found he could use the instrument. Some Odd Postage Stumps. Imagine, a postage stamp though ily used for. franking letters, was yet never sold! This is the curious story. aitdched to the | original . Egyptian A (Sxpeditionary Foree (comnionly called stamp. unique produc was "issed" papermen the British Civil Adminstration west, uis (gd i venture into 0 Howerer' 18 rikated 10 on; ; out daily tor exer- breed with a big rifie they ¥ lowed to' 149. about the to friends, Smyrpa, during its. ogcupation dence of bcos ty the could n rman-Mexican ves- | Charm 'Black Tea Sold in Packages Only GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, Limited Cor: Gore and Wellington Sts. On Sale All This Week BROOMS BROOMS Good, stron Brooms----reguiar $6¢. On sale . . 200 tiny PORK & BEANS---reghlar 123c. On 200 tins PUMPKIN FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES PHONE 248 : i 2 3 PROMPT DELIVERY SATISFACTION GUARANTEED On sepaie work of Wiakuetos of all kinds, including marine, aatlonary Wotor cars, starting and generating wystems of all diakes, ra ghting, start! Inquire shout the sew threaded hide dry buttery before purchasiag. = » WILLARD SERVICE STATION 19 Brock St. ). LESSES, Prop. 'hone 1340 : was |! pusaled. For three days and three |: nights he tried to call the Leipsaig, | When wanting anything in LUMBER try 'Allan's Lumber Yard Victoria Street Phone 1042 whieh | EO RELIABILITY, On schedule to the minute, on: the job all the time and at a low cost of operation. VER HEAR OF A REO stopping save on the initiative of the driv- er? The Reo is as reliable as the sun in its orbit. VER SIZE BEARINGS. Which means being capable on occasion, of carrying twice, yes, three times its rated load, without danger of a breakdown.