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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-5-21, Page 6• s AutOmob. OVIRItAUL CAR AND SAVE TIME AND CASH. If the automobile that has been in this line he On take his nri Bine to a storage during the winter had itsl'reliab:e service stator: and let an ex - various parts pi perly protected, it! pert automotive mechanic thoroughly May need only a general chicking up i and scientifically check up on various such as might involve giving atten Farts of the cal:. Following the ex- tion to lubrication, battery, tires and pert's advice such repair work can be, A goad cleaning. It all depends en' done as will accomplish the best re- - what the condition of the car was kaults. Perhaps a more general and when it wasput away last fall. In logical procedure is for' the owner to any event, a good overhauling can be do some of the simper things that do calculated to insure a more satisface not require expert knowledge anal then tory use of the machine thee if it is let the service station finish the lob, taken for granted that everything is ENGINu NESDS A T NTION. in usable shape. There are a few items which can The running gear, for instance, Well: be given attention from the should be carefully looked after; espe•' standpoint of the engine. These in- tinily if the machine has been driven allude scraping carbon from the cyl- • over roads that are ver rutty. Such anders, .if necessary, grinding' and ad - roads increase the side thrust on the justing valves, cleaning and adjusting wheels and consequently are liable to spark plugs, testing vacuum tank, upset the steering apparatus, to wear Gleaning and refilling oil reservoir, the knuckles and the wheel bearings tightening engine in frame. Also the excessively, ignition instruments ehou'd be clean- EXAMINE THE WHEELS. ed, oiled and points dressed and ad - If the wheels are of wood, they may nstcd, starter brushes and commuta- tor should be smoothed ap, starter brush springs should be` examined for tension, :'carburetor float, float valve stem and float valve weights should be examined for wear, carburetor float valve and carburetor needle valve should be inspected for. proper seat- ing, ceaburetor • body : and strainer if If chamber should be cleaned :and spray on St, Georges he lacks confidence in his ability along nozzle should' be blown out. King Albert of Belgium need tightening' at the hubs. If the wheels have vire spokes some of these spokes may need taking up. • Spring clips should be inspected and tighten- ed if necessary and motor support. bolts should be looked after, If the' owner is mechanically inclin- ed and g he enjoys tinkering with his car he can do this work' himself. Soyas of the Soil. The Function of Music. Attention has recently been direct - .ed to, the fact that a family of small farmers, named Berton, have been cul- tivating the same land for a period of 253 years. The Berton farm is situ- ated at Mariaut, near the eastern limit of the Battle of the Marne. France could probably provide many pther examples of similar cultivation by successive generations. Her ions• have always been famous for their at tac'hment to the soil. In -1823, when it was decided that all French farmers whose families had been cultivating the same -land for over three hundred years should .be decorated with the Legion of Honor, seven hundred and fifty farmers were found eligible for the distinction. One of them, Jules La Sargue, -was able to establish that his family had been farmers in the village of La Coutie, Tarn-et-Garonne,since the year' 772. It •,is very doubtful --if this can be beaten .anywhere. But our own. Coun- ty Durham, England, has a right to be proud of the record of Belle Vue Farm, Stanhope. This farm has •been culti- vated by the same family fore over six hundred years. Flowers and Inspiration. I hate a hundred dollars invested in seeds, bulbs, roots and tubers in the ground. No kid waiting for Christmas, no small boy waiting, for a circus ever had any more thrills of impatience than those with which. I wait for Spring. Music must not be thought of priu- cipally as a mind 'traindr, as a there' pen'tic •agent, or, as a religious 'or socializing force. It's prime function is to arouse in a man a more highly spiritual attitude asthe result of a de- finitely esthetic reaction and because of the sensation afforded by such atti- tide when once roused, to raise the general level' of his whole life to a higher plane. All these Other things are valuable, but they must• be' con- sidered rather as by-products than as Principal ends„ The function of school music is to causethe rank and file of our aeye and girls to maintain, if possible;• to in- crease, ncrease, the interest which they _felt when they first heard and took part in music; and to give them suitable 'op- portunities for- growing' constantly more appreciative and; moreintelligent when listening to godd renderings of standard music. It<: also should . fit them to take such part in the -perform- ance of good music '-as •their- varied; capacities and inclinatione 'may: make possible and desirable:' Digging in a garden is better exer- cise than golf, better gambling than poker, better fun than a , circus and brings finer presents than Christmas. I have learned a lot in planting my Bawer garden; a lot about men and a little about God. I take a bulb, dull brown and seemingly lifeless and bury it in the earth to see it spring into life and bring forth a' thousand times its bulk in leaf and lovely flower.. How can I ever again.question the full truth of life beyond the' grave or fail to laugh at a preacher who -has to go to the Billie to prove it? .Dayunveiled a memorial in memory of the British naval feat of arms there. mole at Zeebrugge... _ _. • 4 Shot by :a Candle.- A remarkable inscription cut into the stone -wall .of the • lower -ramparts. of the Round Tower at Windsor Castle has excited the curiosity. of many visite ors. No date is attached, and there is no explanation of its meaning `be-_ yond the actual words: "C. Horne Shot by a Candle." Curiously ..enough, however, an old Windsor diary has -come to light which contains, under the date June 8th, 1833, this remarkable entry: "Chas. Horne, Clever Lane, was killed. by a man shooting a. rush -light at him fro? a gun. Buried at Eton, June 11th,,•" There is no evidence that the in- - scription on the",castie wall' . and, this entry in a diary refer to the same in- cident, n cident, but the probability is that they do. In reference to the' event itself, it was probably the tragic end of what was meant for a joke, the _ offender thinking a tallow candle' would merely flatten out against the poor fellow's body and do- him no injury, whereas it has been proved that a candle can be fired through an inch boar's. Bird Doctors itself. A famous Parisian surgeon -states he killed a bird whose broken leg, had been supported by a sort of sling made of feathers bound into position by the bird itself. - Stone of Many Colors.- . . Turaline, a ' stone - of many colors, was .discovered in 182.0 on Mount Mica, near Paris, Me. - Deep Spot . in Atlantic. Near the mouth of the Rio ,de la Plata the depth of the Atlantic ocean is more than eight miles'. Man's Speed Records. Men have been developing their ability to make speed records for some years, with'- the result that- human agility has set the following marks for one -mile distances: Skating, 2 --minutes 35 seconds; - swimming, 22 minutes 34 Seconds; running, 4 minutes' 10' 4-5 seconds; - bicycling, 1 minute 4 1-5 seconds. Against' these marks the horse has- set 1 minute 35.2-5 seconds for running and 1 minute 56 3-4 sec- onds for trotting. .a -a— Largest Meteorite. What was probably the largest me- teorite known to have struck the _-- ground fell in Alsace in 1492.. This Epsom salts, comparatively harm - gigantic lump of metal weighed. no Ies.s less iii the stomach, is a violent poison than 260 pounds. • j in the veins. MUTT AND J 'F --By Bud Fisher. sci sca ft0t•T -ANb n. ARc- GoNNA sup, :rheas' st AN Alfe RAID lesstalaTS AFta--R the ISteot A PeWkAStd cANS' t leP s Gain. ALMAzAm'i 1•feADi: P5kTsieS NG'LL SE GLAt -ro• ACCEPT- Cut's: 'reteast /V- uNtasse TIONAL surzireivoeckt CROSS -WORD PUZZLE Dearest Mother. When the rosy hues of sunset Melt in .golden elands away, And the azure slowly fading" Deepens into twilight F'raa, When the murmuring iviiils are sigh- ing • Low through every leafy tt:ee And melodious sounds are -dying; Dearest .bother_thiir!c of me! When the linsh of evening breezes Brings soft music to your ear, And the songs of happy childhood' - Gaily echo loud and clear e When the stars of Heaven are' gleam - lug Brightly on the moonlit sea; In these hcurs of peaceful gladness, Dearest Mother -think of .me! When the perfumed flowers are bend- ing ?Heath the silent falling dew, . . And 'a thousand sounds -are bringing Visions dim before your view; While yeti' heart is fondly turning - Back to one you may not see, And your soup is sadly yearning, Dearest Mother -thiel of me!' Bernard F. 1Vlaguire. Punctuation. The art of '.punctuation is simpler today than it used to be, but a comma or two ^ can -'still change the whole meaning, of a sentence, as, appears in the amusing interchange of telegrams that recently took place between_ two on the popular favorites of the stage.- The, W firsttelegram read: "Mrs- l:iske thinks Margaret Anglin is America's finest actress," The 'reply was' this: "Mrs.,. Fiske, thinks Margaret Anglin, is America's finest` actress. ..The result here was happier than'the effort et the man whose -wife cabled from Perla for advice about buying a pearl necklace for $10,000. His reply, was, "No. Price too high," but the operator left out the period..., Let's Win! — - L'et's• try again! We know there's hureand pain Sometimes to face In life's long race, But yet 'Os only cowards whe. give in: Let's try again -and win! CaTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE. SUGGESTIONSG' - -` FOR'SOLVIN"CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filiifig in the words of • which •you feel reasonably sure. These will- give you a clue to ether words, crossing there, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white - space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either .. horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1 -Sweetheart: S -Fishing implement 8-A crack ' 13 -Land surface 14-A Jewish festival 18 -Always 17 -Incomplete - 18 -Assemble - 19 -Otherwise 20 -Afflicted• with grave disease 22 -Reaches a finish 23-A street car • • 25 -Sour 28 -To move' back 8p -Explosive. machine 33 -Account, book 37-A variegated waxy quartz • 38• -Not fastened 39 -Hereditary - 42 -Colored, 43 -To replace - 45 -To throw 47 -Weapons 51 -To scorch 53 -subdued. '66 -Assistant to military 68 -Small dog 59 -Wishes 60 -Therefore - 61 -Firm ./33 -Tidy' 64 -To inundate 66-A speck- - , 66 -Disease 'of cals3on ,0r officer workers VERTICAL 1= -Part of a coat 2 -Verbal - 3 -Russian measure of distance 4 -Consumer 5 -Govern 6 -Correlative of "either" 7 -Cubes of chance 9 -Bar of metal 10-Rappe' ing.•- - 11 --To ward off ` 12-A` lock of -halr " 14 -Concealed In the hand + 15 -Subject to death 24-Amoun1-To•, peelt - overdue (pi:)- 2 26-A studio 27 -'-To ' commence 29 -To besiege` ' 30-A chum - 31-A color - 32 -Consumed 34 -To• put on, - 35 -Obtained • 36--•.A color .40--A communication - 41 -Newspaper paragraph -42-Exchanged -4.4--Performed ' 45- �A _ship's- freight - - 46-A missile 48 -Ah •eastern State of 49--A fabulous nymph 50 -Jokes 52-A form of address (Gem)54--Dry 55 -To prepare for publlcatior 57 -Deceased . • 62---Rrocee1d - U. a. • The road is shadow -filled.: - The song is stilled • Because 'we're ,: aired and footsore - weary, spent: Well, never mind'. Get up, press on to where_. the high •roads wind Up -to the summit of the soul's' con tent. Not easy -no, it needs A. courage -heart To do one's part. In this great school of Which try the - will! But sure and still We follow•on where the` Great Master leads! Lillian Gad. - =--o A Poem You Ought to Know. John Milton, who could -describe the war in- Heaven and the Beauties of Eden, could sing in softer tones the sweet delights of a lovely May morn- ing in his native England. SENSES YOU H."AYE LOST - •We often hear it said. that oer senses of touch, smell; sight, and hearing are inferior to' those of animals; .' We are told, too, that our remote an- castors had senses .infinitely more rr acute than Ou• own, and that in course of time they have become gradually duller atria duller. This is perfectly , true, and it ie a good thing for 'us that It is so. Civilization has dulled our hearing, reduced our Powers' of 'vision, limited our sense of smell, and with- drawn. to a great extent our ability to perceive by' touch. If these, things had alk s � v not happened -civilization cd not exist. could If ye were suddenly to receive back the keen senses possessed tens of thousands of, years agd by'th.ose ances- tor nces for of ours who :were neither quite brute beasts;•nor yet • quite huinan,4a state of chaos• would follow. The.Age re you think for a moment of our life'•to-day you will see that it entails an enormous amount . of noise. Trains thunder -along our railways; steam hisses from the boilers of factories; The Natural Resources. Intelligence buses:motors, and horse-drawu`vehic- Service of the .Dept: of, the Interior lee with iron tirestumble and rattle at Ottawa says :" h through our streets.' With the arrival of spring the fuel We cannot even move silently like situation is not such a serious prob- the animals when we walk we place lem in Canada as, at other 'times, but hard -soled shoes upon our feet; and in it is necessary for those who have to .stead okatoving over a silo t carpet of -provide the following' season's supply turf, moss, or leaves, we clatter as we to be alive .t'o the situation. • The Do- walk. upoh stone pavements oT maca- minion Fuel Board and the fuel tea-- damizad roads. We have groan so rug division of the Dept, of Mines are, used to all these things that -we scarce - and have been for some considerable ly notice them;' but .if we could *really time, carrying oil investigations andi hear, the noises of a city or even of a tests for various kinds:of,. -coal foh small village would be so appalling to their heating qualities and also'fori, our senses that we could not endure' their coking qualities. Canada, in the }hem: We should have to_ desert our twelve months ending February last,• towns and once niers take to life ; in - imported 3,912,129 titin of American the wilds. ' anthracite coal, valued at $35,029,'152. Our "Unset ing"-Eyes. This was used almost entirely for do- Suppose'foi^a.moment that we were:.. Irestic heating. Due to. periodical tri es and other disturbance- in' the given microscopic eyes: The eyes swe tpossess now can see nothing but. fairly anthracite "alining areas of 'the- Un- large objects: To the"'" a glass of iced States.this fuel supply is no longer absolutely dependable, and it is necessary therefore that Canada 'd herself with substitutes Basil Ball President of the British -Medical As- sociationt who addressed the Ontario Dedical Association ' at Toronto on "Gastric Surgery.'•' deeds - - Natural Resources Bulletin. • Now the bright morning -star, . day's harbinger, _ • Comes damping- from the -east, and leads with her - The flowery May,- who fromher green ,ap•-tbrows The yellow cowslip and the pale prim- rose. Hail, bounteous .May, that dost in- spire q Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Woods and 'groves are of thy'dreSi: tag,. , Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus .we salute thee- with our early song,.. And welcome thee; and wish thee long. Solution of last week's puzsle',` water from a. tap or a we._ _woks clear, fresh, and inviting. Could they -see it. properly, quenching one's thirst would provide be a ' process too horrible to conteixi• M The series of- tests are being -made Aron various types of fuels, . with a plate, for they would perceive millions; of living organisms in the glass, s view ate determining their relative some values when burned in standard types moving about rapidly,'others remain- of hot water• house -heating furnaces. ing at rest, but all repulsive. We may These tests which are still in _pro_ indeed be thankful that-aearenot Dos- gress are being made -upon the, Jar- sassed of "seeing eyes!" Next let us think of what would hap - Welsh of anthracite, American, Welsh and Scotch; various; types of Pen if 'our sense of -touch were perfect coke, gas coke and metallurgical coke, as that of some of the lower animals, coke made in by-product ovens, some such -as the tiny hydra which lives in Nigh gradek.low volatile bituiriinous or semi bitummous' coals; and a repre- sentative series of Alberta; coals. ' The; results of tests to date` have .•. SrNotz MutT�,YoV .CAN C3 sr+ "tttE Nc-W PRESFDeNT ear Ntexrco cost- s WANT' To De The N -W secttETh Y ot` i e TreerrsVSay' - -mttoc. care NANbLe Bo"fl4 c -tt&s GEC, WovLtsN'T lr Be- 'rE C2re tB t -c- t i= : ' late- WoRLh,:cAMe' -ro L'M Nor AN C alb WFlii,e 'ivc't<G r• wonR'1ING UP 1-tElac? s" ^Tr ,.. ,.!,:..,..i Aa okra tr, 5cNota :lace'. Yfi,�r BUT IT'S soi\*AST INC To woreRY PtEou-r: t. • l-fe` wOtaLD cAnnE To PN ENI WHc�� wpouLb U) 1..P NIN • q f1SVJ6I MC " I-Wr our ponds,. or the sea anemone we see in rocky. pools -T on'the shore- We should feel that our bodies were cov- .. ered with garments made not from - shown that the British anthracite, the soft wool but from the spines of the ,a.aana cokes and .certainof tithe high 'aarle} hedgehog or the quills of the perm. iow volatile bituminous coals, ir,clud- Pine. We could not endure our clothes it g the Alberta coals of the t3anrnore nor could we endure without them, un- ca.1 ss, appear to hacc a higher heatintg til perhaps twenty or thirty thousand value than the average Ameriga:ii an- years 'had made us used to these thracite sold at Ottawa, that is, it re- things, the biting winds, the - snow - quires a smaller .quantity of these stolons, or the,rain that Nature sends. fuels than it does of American an- Ours ` would indeed be a terrible thracite - to deliver a unit : quantity of plight. heat. It requires from one ten to Odors V1/e Don't Notice. three-quarters of a ton of these coalsastiy, picture to- yourself the dread - to deliver the, sante quantity of heat fill -consequences ‚which would follow ' if the powers of smell which once •be-; longed to the human race were '-•re- stored to us `now. Has it ever occur-, red to. you -that there can be no. civili- zation' without smells? 'To"warm .o,ur- selves we burn 'coal ;and other fuel, Fashionable Icelandic,. women have producing smells which wedo not no- had' few -new models from Paris this tine , nowadays, though. _if - our- noses. year, and: the modish young men will were perfect they would- be utterly not be able to import any : of the flap- .loathsome: In •our houses there must 'ping Oxford trousers,'so ranch coin- always be tiny' stapes- or,.gas, which ,meiited-on in England.. This because luckily our ,modern noses -do not de - for two years.' Iceland is -nettle bring tett. Nor are they offended by the in' any ready-made clothing. Shoes smell ° of •thew ool or cotton of which and all sorts of ,fabrics also are on clothes are made, or the le'ather,of our the prohibited list footwear and the thousand end one Practically all luxuries and ;n any necessary articles have been placed on the prohibited- 1iSt in an effort to stabilize the Icelandic crown. Bread, butter, margarine, cheese,: salt meat, pork sausage, eggs,' fruit, leather goods, oils, soap, furniture, films, watches, clocks, motorcycles, autome-. biles and scores of other articles may 'not"be brought ,into, the country. as one -ten- of the -average American anthracite sold in Ottawa. Iceland Limits Imports. What one wants is to be interested, and if ...one .isn't life is pretty much the same in" a surface gar, -as .in an automobile. -Ellen Glasgow. A. Mutt, President of Mexico; Little Jeff;' Sec. -of the St. 5 tw. y I' ea i iSS tt 4t 'ds a� a Sf- (f7 r ria 4r.,.sA.5r'.isN3�Was3 9 y • s - a a ses a a a, k•; lav, fi,i ! kr.$ 8 yitnf ! 4 alaiM a s (cr.ppk lal`2-i byitC - other odors 'which would 'become in- tolerable if we could notice them. George H. C: Smythe' Canadian canoeist, Tem paddled from Sydney, N S.; to New York, and from London to •f.orne, reaching tithe latter city on May 6. Little TThings.Cour,t. • There'S,a young iceman who makes little things count.” • "Slow does. she; do it:" "reaches arithmetit, 'ia a prinlsry School.", ..�. 'His Reason. ''Tommy.. -•"Mother, I \.i"shi I hail- a brother.", . -Mother---`•'You do, 'Bobby, Whyr"• -"Because— in Sundayeichooi ;you -get Sixpence if you bring t. r.ew s-cholar," When Weevil Lays Eggs. From 9 a.m. 'to G•.in the afternoon 65 per -cent. of the. eggs 'of the cotton bell weevil are laid. _ a Cost of Panama Canal The total cost of t1i;r, Panama Canai, • exciuslvc of forttiicakion;, was; apprent- mately -(350;000,00 ,