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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-2-19, Page 2The Autornobile TAKE CARE OF AUTO FENDERS. An auto with shabby fenders looks like a mart -with worn -Out shoes, dirty and unpressed clothing, or without a collar and tie. Auto fenders become ugly through ' neglect. They receive scratches and bumps, get out of shepe, and become felt of holes bemuse of rust: It is next unusual to see auto fenders rusted through, Rust usually begins its work under nea'th, Flying stone and gravel, caked mud and vibration all serve to remove the paint or enamel, The oxidization of the metal, or rust, sets in at once. The unobserving man does not know about this destructive workuntil all of the metal is eaten away from the film of paint or enamel on top. Automobile fenders should be care- fully washed occasionally and all spots from which -the original paint or enamel has been removed, painted. If yo;i have a collision and damage a fender, hammer out the dents and paint the scratched places as soon as pcssible.- The fender will look better and at the same time rust will be prevented. OILING THE SPRINGS. It is only recently that the necessity for oiling automobile and truck • sprints has become kne en, The dif- ference in riding on oiled and ou rusty springs is very pronounced tride. tI. In oiling syringe, however, on ilifli- eulty is enceuntered.'Dust will adhere to the sides of oiled spring's and final- ly work between the leaves themselves.. Also, when muddy road;r•',are. encettntw ered, mud willbe thrown on the springs; it will dry, and then absorb all the oil on springs; To overcome this difficulty; wrap the springs of the ear with adhesive tape. The springs are first thoroat;h. ly washed and dried, 'Mien the jack is placed under the frame of the car and the body is raised This allows the weight of the axles ,and wheels to pull down on the springs gs ani thus separate the leaves so' that grease can easily be inserted with a putty knife. After the springs are greased, the weight of the car should be placed on the wheels again. The leaves of the springs will come together and push out surplus gre'tse. This should be wiped off, after which the springs may be wrapped with the tape, Wrap carefully, allowing'pieuty of lap. If the tape will not stick well at the be- ginning or at the end, use shellac to hold the ends in place Coat the en- tire wrapping with shellac after the job is. finished. Building Raised from Com- mon Clay.. Brickmaking was one of man's earn Shoulder Blades Hold Secret of Longevity. Your chances of a. long life may rest est pursuits. Babylon was acquainted on your shoulder blades. Dr. William with the art; and •it is recorded that W. Graves of the St. Louis University the Israelites baked bricks from clay . sonata of medicine in an address be - mixed with chopped straw. # fore the American Association far the Nowadays, for ordinary building pur• ; Advancement of Science in Washing poses, red bricks are in greatest de-, ton_ recentlydeclared that long-Iived mand. These are produced from many People most often have convex shaped kinds of clay: t shoulder blades, while the: shorter - in the first place, the rough clay is lived most frequeutly have shoulder sent from the "pit" to the top of ;the blades of the straight or concave type. plant. Here it is ground to powder, Describing the proper use' of the and passes through a fine sieve to the X-ray and other method's. of •classify- floor below. The powdered clay Is ing these bones, he .pointed out that no then fed into the brick -press, where it natural process or -circumstances is watered to a workable plasticity,. changes one type into another during emerging eventually pressed to a per -1 the.]ifetime of an individual, and that fectly formed, solid brick, I in no feature do members of a family The color is now dark grey. Not more closely and more frequently re until after heating does the brick be- semble each other and at the same come red• Redness is due to the pre time one or both parents than they do sence of iron. compounds in the clay, in the type of their shoulder blades. which when burned transform to free Each of the three types of shoulder ferric oxide. . blades is fouled in varying degrees and The bricks are placed in the kiln percentage in all human types regard - chamber, which is then built up. Hot less of race stock, sex, age. oecupa- air is allowed to enter so that a thor- tion, social level and environment: ough drying is. effected. After drying, Examination of large numbers of liv- the hot air is withdrawn. • . ; ing persons and skeletons of known Fire is next introduced. Burning age, however, show that the propor- usually takes a week. During that time of convex shaped blades increases time firing is maintained day and ,with the age of the persons examined, night through feed -holes in the kiln Dr. Graves said. The inference he top. drew from this was that the shorter ler-0 2..niiztoriele however, can be - lived pee"isle; those nit likely to` be= treated in this simple. Fashion. Highiy come sick, are most likely to Iiave the plastic clays require i i ha,t , and straight: or concave type of shoulder many elaborate preparations a. ate -bane than the -convex. necessary. Among these are "weath- = I caring, and the addition of non-piasttie Sums at Li 'lafiil 2>,p I er to .: reduce shrinkage. Crush-' ` e4 T Crush - Ing, r A French lightning calculator, M.: g, grinding and pugging are also es- ; InTaudi,. was recently sentiai preliminaries. r Pitted against PUZZLE ©THC INT6RNATIDNAr. 9YNDICATL.� SUGGESTIONS`' FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling, in the words of which youfel :reasonably sure. These will give you a clpe to other words crossing thein, and they in turn to still others. ' A letter belongs .in each white spew, .words starting at the numbered squares and `running either horizontally or vertically er both. ' HORIZONTAL 1—A dolt: 4—To take oath 9 --•;article 12—In the past •13—Handle of an axe 14—An element. 15—A water -sprite 17—A feast day 19—To drink with the tongue 21—A division, of land 22 -To surfeit 24—A cleaning. Implement 26—Curved 29—Not elevated 30—Bravery 32—Fish eggs 3—Friendly 34—To plant 37 --:To twist violently 38—An animal 40—A fish 42 -=-still 43—The two 44—Tear 46-A plane to sleep 47—A mark 50—Warmed 3—Rage 4 -Soothed 8--Metal-bearing rock 67 Writing implement 58 -=Lying flat 59 ---Novel • VERTICAL I 1-A tree 2 hlumher of years Leg -For . 5 6 5 brick's quality should be. such tha it will not, succumb to the vagaries of our climate. The faces will be free from the -slightest crack, and the edges square. twelve of the latest type of calculating t machines: The human machine car- ried off all but one of the honors. M. Inlaudi easity beat his meohani- cal- competitors in the speed with which he solved problems in addition, F subtraction, division and findingth e Taking Every Precaution, On going into the playground one day, the schoolmaster found one of his small pupils sitting on another, who . was lying prostrate on the ground: "0 Billie," he said, "haven't I al- ways told'you to count a -hundred be- fore . you give way to• temper. And here I find you sitting on T`ommie's head. What have you to say?" The child looked solemnly up at him. . "Im counting the'hundred, sir," he said: "I really am, but. I'm sitting on his head, so that he'll be here when I'ye done counting." square or the cube, but in the first round—extracting the square root of a number—a machine came out first. In the third round, which consisted of complicated problems, the man won easily.• { I never knew a night so black light failed to follow in its track; I never knew •a storm so gray it failed to have' its clearing day; I never knew such bleak despair that there was not a • rift somewhere; I never knew an hour so drear love could not fill it full of 1 cheer!—John Kendrick Bangs. A Sale. Yn a Iively book of.reminiscences, Thirty Years at Bow Street, Mr. Wil- liam T. Evens tells an amusing story that he heard- from an old man who lived in Bow Street in the -rear of the police courts,.with whom the author baton, had a bit of conversation. "Wheraise a young fellow," said i the old man, "1 std to i a.a era - from Covent Garden to the Angel at'leiiag- ton.' There were fields in.those days where you now see nothing except shops, and,I enjoyed the walk im-' mensely. I could run and jump at that time • 3—To pursue 4—Large boat 6 --Tiny 6=A •letter 7—Hal l 8 ---Genuine 9Loose hanging rag 10—Hasten ti—To ?Hake a mistake 16 -Compensation 18—Convulsive cry 20-A defender 22—Group; of pupils 23—An exclamation 24 -To Join 25—The' end 27—Negative 28 -Used for. chewing 80--A pledge 31—A bit of. cloth 35—An exclamation 36 --Home of an animal 38 -Agricultural product •39 --Close by 41—To excavate' 43—A serpent 45—To look slyly 46—To grant 47—A gratuity 48—Existing 49—Material for calking 60--A 'fowl 51—Beforehand 62—Precipitation- 65-ln this manner i is as well as anyone ih London, and so when I carne to a stile I did'n trouble to climb over. In trying to jump it, however, I miscalculated the distance and cavae an awful cropper. Who picked '; me' tip ; I Idon't know, Whee I regained consciousness I found myself in a hospital. 'I was in awful pain for I had hurt niy leg bad- in a ospital for weeks. '"During that time I was visited by some of the most fa. mous .surgeons in London. My case puzzled then con siderably, and I heard them say that there had been nothing like it before 1 Plant That•:, Madders. • • : • attempt has ever been made at exca- terly, destroyed, and upward of five people were Avalanches in Switzcrland By, .Joliet A. Cass, The Swisc people call them "lou- "Eastern Switzerland, we find anoth wide," and they .are sometimes so case quite, unlike any that .have y called in Iinglish; as when in one of beeu•ntentioned. his 'poems Lord Byron spoke of the 1 ', Many years age, what was know mountains a.s place, " Where roar the ns. the Forcola Pass, the little town thundering lauwine," though he prob- Le .Bovine •stood at the 'foot- of tl ably meant no more than the show towering naountaln; • It contain avalanches .which are frequently seen about three hundred 'inhabitants, wb in summer by the traveler;. • I were ocanpied aa:' cattle -herders an The word: has a broader• meaning, f far.niers, becides :carrying. on quite however, and includes those enormous business iu the way of entertaiiin masses of .earth and. rack which not people who were obliged to 'pass tla infrequently become' loosened from way. They had, "However, come t the cliffs and descend into the valleys, have a:. bad reputation, and were sul carrying death and destruction far Posed to be capable of almost :an and wide, I crime, T•raveiers� who were obliged t In loin e ate p r oP the country aval-� spend tire night .here 'were provir)o anches of either sort are' so likely to with only the. meanest food, bait wer occur at any time that the ;people' compelled to pay forsit the most' e guard against then by planting exten- orbitant prices: si ve-for gists on . the h illsides, erne iu Indeed; the catalogue of evil deed some cases strong bulwarks of nia- I of which the people of the town wer sonry have been erected between the guilty was a long one; and it is sal towns and the mountains, that they were frequently warned the Despite all precautions, however it •some terrible judgment would lie sen Natural Resources �3ulletin. The Natural Resources Inteilige Hoe Service ofthe Delft. of the Interior at Ottawa says;— Canada's total imports from : the el, United States last year amounted to et "$524,611,087, of whir=h mincrai •pro- ducts, including: the three olassifrca- n tions, iron and its products, non- ef ferrous metals, and non-metallic min - to oral's, were valued at $26'7,719,854. ed This was Made up largely of•eoal and o oil, with their products, which were d valued at .$183;739,970, coal being re a sponsib;e for. $66,909,h58 of this total,: g The exports o f these three classes of at mineral products to the United. States o amounted to $74407,767, which is i..made up practicaliy of raw materials, y or on which. but comparatively little ma r na faetur'i ai has e o g b en cone. d The forests of Canada, however,• e '. have made up for .the deficiency. of the x_ 1 mineral trade, Imports of wood and , paper from "•the United States last s' year amounted to $33,305,792, while e exports were valued at $220,087,616. d is Of the latter newsprint paper was. t i valued at $90,990,711, and unrnanu' t 1. factured woods, .including logs, laths, planks and boards, shingles, square t timber, railroad Mies,. spoo.ivood and pulpwood ..amounted to, $112.,836,017. Pulpwood exports alone were• 1;380,- 200 cords, -valued at $18,586;058. Canada's forests are more. than carrying their share 'of her foreign trade on .the credit side.. The strain is telling, However,: and, with the tre- mendous :toll being taken by fres, our timber reserves ars being depleted; More thought is being given to forest fire• dangers, and it is necessary if we n- are to :save this valuable 'asset: Palaces of P>rlinces and Nobles in India iced far Irlectxieit y Electricity has become so°popular in India, particularly among the rulers and State officials, that eontracting companies there are hiring scores of electrical -workers in England and placing huge' orders for goods with English manufacturers.' Most of` the palaces of Indian . princes : and nobles , are entirely lighted by e'ectricityr ind many villages, even in the remote parts of the country, have electric street lights and 'some of the stores are lighted by the same method. Native leaders who have visited European states are largely respon- •sible for- this, wide introduction of electricity. A plant has recently been establish ed ,at Chamba, 10,000 feet up in the Hirrralayas, which supplies 'power to some 250 towns in the vicinity and is entirely operated by a • native staff". • The Raj . Sahib of Wanlcaner em- ployed English engineers `to outline,.. his palace with electric"lights and the' hundreds of lights may uow'be' seen at night for several Hailes. This ruler also has placed :on the roof of his pal ace a powerful `searchlight, with which he can illuminate the surrounding hilt sides. - Electric fans, as may be supposed, are being rapidly introduced among the natives. Paris Laborer .' "Y 9 Hidden in Old -Stove Pierre Damet, a day laborer, notic- ed one day in a small shop an old, broken iron stove, says a Paris; de- spatch. Perhaps it was cold on that particular morning, but at a.ny event Pierre had the idea that he could buy that stove for very little, fx it up and be suitably'. prepared to withstand the -rigors of. a hard winter. He went into the shop, and for •10 francs, which is something more than .fifty cents, made his purchase, ` • But as he was about to lift the' stove into a wagon, with the he:a of the shopkeeper, something soled frorn out the stove and with 'a met rllic ring fell on the sidewalk. TIe hurriedly picked it up. It was an old, encrusted gold 'coin. After a moment's hesita- tion he dove into the -stove, 4 nd to his. delighted surprise found hidden away. a bag filmed with similar coins which, on analysis, were found to bo ancient French' pieces of gold amounting to the cornfortabie°tots} of 50,000 francs, perhaps $2,500. • y Naturally there was quite a; discus • cion as to ownership, both 'Pierre anti the shopkeeper claiming title •to the discovered treastire, but French law •settled the argument' in favor of the' pian who owned the stove by` right of. purchase. And so to d;ry.` Pierre is richer by 50,000 fetinca because of that moment's inspiration which: led him to buy an old, broka:i stove. Romance.. Pweiliors near •Shert?ciod ]?orest,',in ottinghamshire, are aroused to mill-. nt, protest by the schr .arc to ptd a aiiway. through the• g.aclos and 1enes r• e Robin II'ood and ms mer melt fled, the law. Rural E ns land ei- rifling his fame in soarg artd dtory,- s bestowed on Robin an affection enied to circumspect' and smug res stability, by the sain , instinct that led us in America t mate heroes bold, bad'lnen•of th;� West• Robin ade.hts place inlege•nd..�and••romanes cause he was an epic iigur.,e of the uggle between optir t:ssed and op- essor, between the -• ohrn mcm roan d the vested interest. The hoot of locomotives and clank ' cd :real of ,;cars alon steer rails uta g a poor exchange fez• ,t} t vely, ghostly retii'tue that still fol» s in tiro rnobnlight Rol -hi .hood's rnattor•tal chivalry; is not unusual for lives to be lost and upon them 'unless they reformed. single houses to be destroyed, and Be that as it may it is' certain the there are cases - on record where en- on June 13, 1486, ani earthquake s. ool tire villages have been buried beyond the mountains violently and a tear all possibility_ of excavation. LUl avalanche buried the town, -with On the' Bernina Pass, a great high- way which leads from "Switzerland to Italy, the traveler still has• his .atten- tion directed to the'apot where, many of. such disasters yet remains to be '..years ago, a village named Mille Morti spoken of: was .buried by an, evalanche of earth and rock from the slope of a neighbor- ing mountain. Very little is known concerning the disaster, for it is one of those sad cases where neither man, woman nor child escaped to tell the' ail its inhabitants, in ono conunon grave. But the roost remarkable instance In the very centre of 4witzerland not far from the famous city of Lu carne, is• a tract of country bearing the general. name of Goldau. It i eluded several villages, whose situs tions were of extreme beauty, for in story, front' of them lay the charming little On the road from the . Italian lakes into Switzerland by the great Maloja Pass oiae sees the.site of a catastrophe even more appalling than that already. mentioned; more appalling because more extensive. Lake , of Lowertz,. and behind tiem rose the Roasberg Mountain to` a height of more than five : thousand feet: This mountain consists of layers of conglomerate rock, made up of round - The. village of Plurs 'must have ed limestones mixed with flinty peb- been very pleasant for situation, for bles imbedded in a . sort of calacreous in front of it a mountain torrent kept cement, alternating with layers of up its unceasing roar, while at a`Iit sand three or tour feet` in thickness tie distance in the background : rose the high cliffs of Monte Conto. ' It must have: been a •prosperous.town Not. infrequently these sand -beds be- come disintegrated ..by., the action of water percolating through them,' and•. too, -for early in the seventeenth cen masses of rock deprived'of their: sup tury it sheltered a population of twen port in -this wap, are occasionally pre- ty-foar hundred and thirty souls. In cipitated into the valley It was this: the autumn of 1618 it. was noticed that on a large scale that caused the dis- masses� of earth and rock fell with un aster. usual frequency, and a number of fis• i The summer of -1806 had been an ex - sures `were seen to form and widen in ceptionally rainy one, and on the sec- tlle mountain... But the people, disre- end of September, a stratum of rock garding these admonitions, •continued measuring more than two xiriles in their' usual pursuits till one night a length, three thousand feet in width terrific landslide': buried them and and one hundred feet in thickness; be - their possessions _ .beneath a pile of came Ioosened, and fell upon the debris more than sixty feet deep. doomed villages from a height or three So utter was the destruction that no thoffaanj feet. .Four -villages were ut Among the curious plants • of Queens- land is the "stinging tree," a luxurious shrub, pleasing to the eye, but- dan- gerous to : the touch. It grows from two or three inches to ten or fifteen feet in height, and emits a disagree- able odor. vation, and the spot is now covered with a beautiful grove of chestnut the ruins. trees, among whose branches the Ma did the destruction end there hundred 1 buried beneath nimble squirrels play, ,and at the foot for the avalanche swept resistlessly in till it re of which boys and girls' now search ached the lake, one-fourth for nuts. of the bed of which was filled up by Speaking. of its effects, a naturalist -t. says: "One often forgets the danger,. of the tree until warned by its smell. j 1ts -effects.. are curious. It Ieaves no mark, but the pain is maddening, and for months afterwards the .affected part is tender when. touched in rainy weather or when it gets wet in wash • of ing. the debris; tiv t 'lif • totally sub d Another example, hot so . destruct- while the islands- were e o d property but more g i e an mere , and a wave eighty striking, from its having, twice hap- feet in height broke upon and des- pened in the same place, -may-,be no- positd all the buildings on the:op- need in the valley which leads to the polite shore. • village of Zermatt. Hem, in 1737, a'. in These are but a few of the instances. little town of .one: hundred and forty which the mountains have sent houses was completely destroyed by dawn ruin upon the peaceful valleys Among the people interested in my .� r,�.• _. -._ • leg was an old doctor who hada good practice in the region Of „the Strand. On one of his visits he said, 'I. shuld like to have' your leg.' `Qh, 'would you:?' said I. `I want it myself if you have no objection.' • I " 'I understand that,' said the doc- tor, 'but I should like to have your leg when you have ":clone- with it. There has been nothing like it before, and I don't think you will want it for very long:' • an avalanche of snow from the Weis-• °f thi hot country is a p 1 s lovely land-. But, notwithstanding all this - t n Mountain. , the.. Years passed, and the snow h prosperous one. The eo= melted; the, debris had been cleared p e possess an energy which does not away, and, another h and larger village quail readily in the face of difficulties. pa - was built on thesame spot. Here the After the avalanche -comes thetient. hand of man and ere long he people liven in peace and safety, and had perhaps :quite forgotten the first scenes of such terrible disasters again p g become the 'abode of an.industrious disaster, when suddenly, one afternus ,: ' noon; m 3.819, another avalanche of ice • Even Gol and snow Prom the . seine mountain Blau .itself has been rebuilt: • "I. have seen men who treated or- dinary pain lightly roll on the ground ' i in agony after being stung, and I Have known a horse so completely mad of-; ter getting into a grove- of thetrees that he rushed open-mouthed at every - 1 one who approached him. ; r �•, ; " 'Thank you for nothing,' said I.- `Im going to get better, and the very! She—I leee to take a tramp over .day I leave this place III Walk you to the, frozen snow." •Ludgate Hill for anything you like, I He-"1Vleaning whom?" "The old doctor did not take me on, ad all • but he •pestered ine to or three tunes a -week - to sign a paper' authorizing hii}t to have my injured :leg on my death. 1 --le even offered to give me twenty pounce if I would sign. I pon- dered long over his proposal. • You see I had uothilig.,else to do, and, as It was -evident that my, leg wouid'be no use. to me after my death, I finally con- sented to his terms. The doctor brought ine a paper one morning, and I signed. it. He gave me ten pounds down, and T was- tb'have the balance ' in due time, From that inonlent I began to mend and soon afterwards' lett the hospital in comparatively good health, though I was -slightly lame and always shall be. • p vo tis li'.1.,. Iliwhiardr;nn who' tit was in char e of the aerial b a a, phoCct:rriiih.• u!iit, the 'dlrf.ibleale n el'e t' g s,.c climbs down from fhe greaf gar:4 crag: to erre of the w eegiire.:ca'bins from which he took picturesr ' l • se of ,•1i,, eclipse, A Warn ing. lsvliint Visitor---"The..patieut in the added cell has a most remarkable cabnlary. 'Most of the wards he es are market' rare or obsolete in o d ictioziaries." Doctor—"Poor f'eIlow l , lx! got that ay trying to solve cross g t r word pur'• I ries- One Hundred Years: Old, 86 Years in French Family community. !came down upon them" 'i ,... .., one Anew church . stand's on nearly the g en houses, to- as buried Hundred and eighteen exact site of the one that was hundr with many a and the only reminders of ' y pop% The house the with an i of the. village pastor stood a little inscription, °f 1806 are a "tablet, with. - apart from the others, and so. escaped inscription, set in the wail of -the pre- "destruction; but such an enormous- sent building, a deligious service held quantity of snow was lodged in his once' each year in commemoration of ce- the event; .and tli garden that it did not entirely disap-. a deep and ineff t pear till two years later, able scars which'show the track of the Returning now to the regfor of avalanche down the Rossberg's stony side. Eighty -silt years of service"iii the I same family is the record which Vic toire- Desrumeaux, a wdon1 stic;' cele- orated on • the occasion-. of her `100th birthday, • say a Paris despatch: The French papers are losing 'no oppor- i tunity to continent. -on this remarkable example of. fidelity •in view of the mod- ern custom of maids and cooks chai'g • ing. their positions almost monthly-- often onthly— often mere:y for the sake or the t change. lairds' Eggsias Jewelry. Necklaces of wild birds' eggs are. now being. inacie. The .eggs are paired for size, and after blowing' are treated , by a cliealical process and the indides filled with a light.weighted composi- tion to give them solidity, -As the shells all Have different markings, novel effects are prodeced. The prices vary from $2,5 to $5000 and more. ,ta ra de sh 1ha d pe has I of m the r sir• i Pr nn The r'anai i r i ,, l ? r �.ustraliari Biter "Itoraligi, inaking its maiden voyage arx from EOngland, to Australia, via California British y ge in through � , Cplanbia, is shavrn. pass- v`O g ugh the I ananaa Canal, She broke all time records on the first part to of the journey.. low - {z