HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-12-3, Page 6"rho,A.uoYtioble
WHY' BATTERIES FREEZE.
Willi the arrival of real cold wee-
cher it is doubly important that the
storage batiierea one car be kept as
nearly fully charged as possible, else'
it may freeze. This means that its
hydrometer reading should be kept as
close to the .1280 mark as is practical.
However, aster a battery has been in
use ,sir; mouths or a year this may
be impossible, because part of the
electrolyte or liquid contents may
have been spilled and replaced with
water, or some of the active material
has 'dropped of the plates and lies in
the jar as sediment where it holds a
part of the acid so it cannot be re- '
turned to the electrolyte when the
battery is recharged.
Comsequenttly, if a battery has been
charged until it gases freely for two
or three hours and the electrolyte re-
fuses to come up to .1280, it is well
to add sufficient acid so that as the
battery is used its epecifie gravity will
not dropp low enough to allow it to
freeze.
This can be done by removing some
of the electrolyte and adding suffi-
cient sulphuric acid to bring it up to
the, required strength, or by mixing
the acid with die'tiiled water, a mix-
ture
read'in about .1400, and using
this instead of distilled: water when
the electrolyte becomes low.nt s
l i'g, always add or pour slowly the
add into the water -never the water
into the acid or
to result,
an explosion is likely
CINDER AND CEMENT .FLOORS.
For my cellar and garage I have
laid a good dry floes 'Which ought to.
serve equally well :fora henhouse or
other farzii bui:tiing.
Excavates ten to: twelve inehas be
low the top of the finished floor, level
of and tamp.
If the house sets so that the ground
slopes away from it, slept the oxcave-
tion to a low point and from this. lay
a drain a short distance from- the
house, terminating in a pit filled with
broken atone. Put a strainer over the
pipe and a few broken stones on the
inlet end. Fill in 'six to eight inches
with engine cinders and tamp. For
the top four inches mix six parts of.
engine cinders andone part of cement,'
add water and turn again until the
mass is thorough8y wet but not sloppy.
Then spread over the cinders and
tamp, A good way is to place screeds
and level with a straight edge, draw-'
ing the straight edge over the screeds,'
This must be tamped until solid but
not iso hard as to cause the concrete'
to disintegrate.
Finish the. top. with onepart ce-
ment and two parts clean, sharp sand,
working � the mixture under the trowel
until the top surface is smooth and the
moisture has been brought to the
surface. -R. C. N,
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How Long is a Day?
If you met a man, and be casually
remarked that he ate 315 meals yes•
terdy, you ou would either be amazed at
his appetite ortake him for a hartl:en
ed omancist. But .the man may be
front Spitzber`gen, where they have a
day three and a half months, in Length.
And on the whole it would be wise
if one should undertake to do certain
work to receive so much a €lay in pay-
mena to understand just where the
work, is to be done, or one might have
to labor eighteen and a half hours' at
Stockholm, if it happened to- : be the
le -,pest day of the year, or all the . time
from May 21st to July 22nd if in some
parts of Norwayri
In Petrograd the longest day le nine-
teen hours and the shortest five hours:
In Finland there is a twenty -two-hour
day. In London and at Bremee the
longest day is sixteen- and a half
hours; at Hamburg and Dantzig seven-
teen hours, .and at. Washington about
fifteen boor=.
Too Much Economy.
Tom. 'You got engaged last week,
old chap, didn't you?"
Fredr-04
-es'y bu% that's •an o now."
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"Why -incom'patibili'ty of tempera"
"Not at ail, rather the reverse. She
suggested my practicing economy, and.
I started by getting her an imitation
gold ring."
Free Verse.
"He's a writer of free verse, you
say?"
"Yes, he's never been paid for a
poem yet."
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PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS
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madame ion (Appalachian) '
S4 Lawrenca ion (S!lawrence Lowland orfastem Plainsi
CanadiartShield (Laurentian Plateau)
Interior Plains (Great orWeetern mince
secifie Coast on (Coreilie -an Mainein ):,
aw AreticArdipet o and Hudson. Bay l owlar -._.
Studying Canada Geo-
graphically.
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��silly.
Unfortunately, to most readers the
term "geography" has but an acade-
mie meaning. • . As a Matter of cold
reality, . however, ` our national geogra-
phy is the largest single factor affect-
ing Canadian development. - It is
about as little academic as a mortgage.
It is a bigger and more important busi-
ness fact than the public debt. It is
a permanent, fundamental factor
touching our national-development,at
every turn. To study and make known
the physical property which the "Capa
dian people own and have to develop
lathe general object of the Natural. Re-
sources Intelligence Service of the De-
partment of the Interior.
Great credit is due the Geological
Survey Branch of the Department of
Mines for the work it has pursued in
studying the physical geography of
the Dominion.` The accompanying
the Dominions oe a national property
as our means of national support and
growth. And the intelligentdevelop-,
ment of the countryrequires- above
everything else a clear, broad grasp
of its geography, of ,its' ° physical na-
ture and layout.
. Canadian development has 'been and
will continue to be greatly advanced
by dozens • 'of. different forms of con-
structive public action. Railway
building, immigration, industrial re-
search, technical education, the collec-
tion .. of adequate data -these . and
rcountlees other Iines• of public activity
enter into. the work of widening,
strengthening, guiding or illuminating
the course of national growth.. But
underlying all such coustruetive enter-
prise is the one basic fact that our na- r
tionaL progrsa' rests 'finally and always
upon the geography of our national
property. A thorough knowledge oft
the geography of the country is the
cornerstone of any true appreciation '
map 'is a product of that work. It of Canada's 'development possibilities
shows, Canada in the light of its Basic and problems, and of any broad -vision -
physical divisions -the only light inked development policy for the Do -
which one
o-which'one can intelligently .study our minion; as a whole.
economic., geography or make any Yet it is a, fact that geography, as
sound appraisal of the physical value it' affects the -business life of the Do -1
and commercial possibilities of our minion, is about the only feature of
national property. - Canada which hap not been studied in
The geography of Canada is the bed- a broad -gauge way. Not one Canadian
rook factor which fixes the value of out of a hundred has anything More
WORD' PUZZLE
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Every number in the form represents the .beginning of a word, reading
ether horizontally or vertically. If there is a black square to the left of the -
number, the word is horizontal; if above it, the word is vertical. The same
number may of course begin both a horizontal and a vertical. The definitions•
tor the correct words to fill the form are found below, with numbers corres-
ponding to those on the;. form. Run through the definitions till you find one
that you recognize, and put it in its proper place: on the form, one letter for
each white square. This will furnish several ,c;ross-ciues� to the words linking
with it at right angles. Gontinne in this manner till the form is completely
filled. If you have solved the puzzle correctly it should read both horizontally
and vertically wit`s words corresponding to the definitions'.
Hendzontal.
Vertical.
L To cultivate, as 'land -1.
5. A pet name for "Margaret"
7, Dream
11. Place where bees are. kept
18. The East
15. To raise or move with a lever, •
16. A period of existence
17. Credit (abbr.)
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21. Sped 12.
22. An exeia.ination of trium:pi 14,.
23. ' o tilting forth 18.
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wilderness 27.
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2. A lace f eno a for a certain 24.
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wazaxrl (b''a41ry story).
$0. A. ligh.i carriage with one 1)alr of _27.
Wheels 20.
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a.,container. -
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A girl's name
Belonging to me
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Half the width of an era
Strips of leather used as handles.
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Actual -
An ancient suis. god of Egypt
Pressure as of necessity
Properly
A ery of surprise
A negative
A �three�toed sloth.
Street (abbr.)
A. sudden sharp hiseing or sibilant
sound sttoh as that of „ a fiying
bullet
To increase
A writing securing to an inventor
.Ijie sone right to use hi' invention
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than a bodge -Dodge ilea' of the true
character and real developmeat value
of Canada ae a .national property.
Canadian geography has: been studied
along narrow, superficial lines. The
study has been too much confined- to
shelving just the artificial or the moat.
obvious natural features of the coon-•
try -the locations of 'railwaye, : cities
and to*rls, politicalboundaries, lakes,
rivers, . mountains and so on.. This is,.
of .Course, one necessary phase of geo-
graphic work. • But it does not teach
the supremely important work of por-
traying the economic ,geography; of
Canada- the fundamental physical
features which control the productive.
capacity of the property.
The narrow lines which th&sttudy of
economic geography has followed' in
Canada has succeeded in giving almost
everyone' a 'fair superficial Ads*. of the
Dominion. Probably nine educated
Canadians. out of ten could sketch a
fairly' good; rough map showing the
political divisions of the,;country by
provinces and territories Few Cana -
diens, however, would ever recognize
a map showing the great .gieographio
regions which not only shape the
wirole.•coi rse and character of the Do-
minion's economic .developmieut' but
actually create :our transportation,
C( &riff and • most of our other major:
!political questions.
New Dictator of Persia Was
Unlettered Private.
Reza Shan,, Pablevi has been called';
the Mussolini of Persia, but in ambi I
time he apparently overleaps even the 1
Italian daetator for he is said not to '
be content to' remain as "prime minis -1
ter but to cherish. hopes' of founding
a dynasty of his own to supplant that
03 the deposed shale'{
Reza is th'b son of a peasant`farmer
and it is even now a debatable point
as to whether the prime minitster's'
straightforward brutality which is 1
the privilege of the incor)rupt egotist.
He is fighting for a centralized Persia
because the expansive power. of bis
ruling ambition •demands the widening
of his field of action. It is only inci-
dental that walla he is eetisfying his
primitively savage• hunger for power'
he accomplishes the unification a9
the unruly tribes in :a e•ingie national
entity.
Reza Khan has an army such as Per-
sia. has not •had for a. long time. It
I'•consisits of 40,000 soldiers,. Reza pays
HAVE AN IDEAL
An ides•1 in life is aewowderful ,asset
to succc+sci. yIt is quite believable that
a man wl ti always ,thanks, great
thoughts about hie life's work to al-
most beyond the possibility of failure.
The people; wito never seem to
make goad are thane who try to get
through ince slipshod fashion, Any-
thing slipshod IS, an impediment and
'woad us -back. Tll,e• people who have
won: through are- those wb,o. have de-
eided on the tlling. for wliloh they will
flue and work; and, having decided,•
never permit that; goal to be far :ant of
sight.
A boy;. determines, be *111 pursue a
certain oauree in life, and he begins,
say, to study for engineering. He will
have to face manly a setback; but if lie
is wise he . will plod on, determined
than, oonne what may, he will allow
nothing to discourage alrini. ;.Ile will
study everything possible about his
ohosen profession wind go forward with
enthusiasm towards, -the prize he hae
in view. To such a youth there ,can
he no failure; he will face the ,mtiele;
come what. tna,y. This is eoethrou h -
•out the whole world. The men who
count are, those wyb'b are wedded to
their ideals and leave nothing undone.
that will help to gain their end.
Have you ever thought what it. ha-
cost to .produce the world as w•e...see
it?,„What:liurtlings and earthquakes
and •'eatatttrophes and elvocks have
beeii experienc=ed- in order to'make
this world so beautiful?, ,And we are
gaiven. to understand_ that even in this
matter the beet is "yet to be! The finale
of Nature's wonderer is not yet. She
sill.°he'lds
inher secret sway the won-
ders
onders < our eohildren .will come ,to look'
upon: as' oomuionpiaco,
And• sein nioralls. ever believe that
the world -of men is getting worse: Let
others, 'speak oft "the good old days"
as 'they mai,- it still remains:7a fact
that the best days any of us know' are
those that nia.ke-up'our lives,. to -day.
If past days were good, let use rejoice
with those, who lived in then; but -Ivo
must never believe it is true that
1 there were better •dayls than our own.
Better people than ourselves may have,
lived, but the best, even in this mat-
ter, is yet to be.
Sonic people refer to the newspapers
and sii'ggee,t by the contents that mea
are no better than before. But ret
member, the papens' record, the um
naile•1 and ..extraordinary and that
which is newsy and out- of the way.
People a ensbetter in living
than fo
rm-
rly,
and every discovery :and effort to
men is aniotli:er ai t h•
one
upliftd o the
inoreasing purpose that flows through
all things.
In the walk of lite we are ealled to
do our best towards furthering' the.
cause of a...perfect and wholesome
world; and the bent way :,to do deo is
ealmly _ and patiently to . follow, the
gleam from the ideal that we have set
for ourselive s or others have set for
use. Character is the factor - that
counts most in life.
We are here to laugh and be jolly!
So long as we have the joy of life in
us,-. we shall plod our way and every
Not There Yet. step "'will dead forward.; The fluetuat-
them-: regularly, feeds and ' clothes -f " "There's a_ man I'd like to one in tag life: is dangerous. Te be eeee
them, thereby assuring for himself jail!" medic is to degenerate. Disoove e
`. __ W_ "Wh don't you go see, him then?'' r t I
y right road; ,then keep on keeping on"I
"He hasn't done anything he could
be jailed €ele yet."
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academic achievements extend beyond
the ability -to' welt° his 'own name.
His career he commenced as a pre
vete in a Russian Cossack regin9•ent,.
'Yet Reza Khan must have shown ex
eeptional abilities since lie rose con-
tinually
on.tinually in the esteem both of his
superiors and his comrades. That was
+the reason why he succeeded in keep-
ing tog6ther• a handful of men after
imperial Russia collapsed anddins regi-
men•t was, disbanded.
In• February, • 1021, °Reza, Moan to-,
;gather with his soldiers, overthrew
the government, appb acing a prime
mainister, and selected .himself se the
rtitiatea' of war of Persia. in October,
f• dalsea'rdvd the Civilian cabinet
ala . with the aid of a attend coup
4'e s�u1lieF1. the •prep iership. Since
he has been Persia •
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Ito*Trlsi 7ossasN
es much
of that
their loyalty and fitn•eee for military
action. '
Hie personal Courage; which is ex-
traordinary, has helped him in retain-
ing hie hold over the troops,
In 1921 the KharaSsOn tribe rebelled;;
Reza Khan. . wont into thea. enemy's
camp, ki11er1, heir deader arid crushed
the rebellion,::; r
After deep hen "two other recall -
trent cliiefst, eza suepressed discon-
tent among the- Turii;onians by turning
loose upon them his regular army,
,equipped with, tanks; flying =whines,
wireless, stationer and the ''other ef-
ticiemey devisee of modern' military
craft; '
Our twin brother came :to visit us.
this week. He lives clear across the
continent. Goodness) how ol4 the
poor fellow's getting)
Keep Tab on Fish.
'he bapartmnnt of Marine arid...
Fisheries heel marked a "considerable.
number of Atlantic salmon,' by attach=
file sill; oar tags to their dorsal fins, for
the purpose of tracing the movements•
of these fish. A salmon that was
marked and liberated off Burns, point,
Port Maitland, Yarmouth county, Nova
Scotia, on June Y1: of this year was
killed in the Moiee, river, Quebec, in
the early part of July. if title fish
took the nmostt direct route It travelled
about 800 inilee, but if it followed the
large': indentations of the shoreline it
travelled over 1,200 miles.
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Natural Resources J3til tin,
The Natural .Resources Intelligence
Service of the Dept. of the Interior
at Ottawa says;
In the Province. of Quebec the past
eeason reports say that only 22,000
acres of forest land was burned- OY,r.
This is but one-tenth -of whfe•`;s.
burned over -in 1924, Tliefact that this
season the fire area was so much
smaller than usual is surely matter
for congratulation and speaks well
for the forest protective associations
responsible, although they were favor-
ed
avored with weather that was not con-
ducive to forest fires.."... -
But even 22,000 acres ` of, . fei'est
land is a large area, when compared
with agricultural land, --If 220 farri-
ers were to lose their entire crops in
one year each from his 100 -acre farm,
there would be no congratulation, al-
though the farmer could look forward -
to another crop next year, while it
will be many years before a crop,
even of pulpwood,, can be ,taken from
the burned -over area, -
What' this loss of timber means to
industry' can hardly be estimated. In
the first place,. jt would require labor
to cut it, to it
'it to the mill or
stream for floating t� the mill, to
manufacture it into lumber orwood-
pulp and; a -succession of operations
until it filially reached a • finished
form. To enable this labor to live,,
food product's are necessary, and here:
the agricultural interests enter into
the output of forest, products.
Practically every line ofbusiness.
enters, directly or indirectly into the
'utilization of our forests. Whether:
the areas burned over by forest fire's'
be great or small, they represent one
of the costs 'of d'oinig business. which
Canada as a nation has to provide for
when`ji»n8 wrig on the value,of her na-
tural resources' as a basis for national
wealth
Missionaries of ; the Air.
On November 12 last Jack Miner,
the Canadian naturalist, author and
lecturer, caught and tagged one hun-
dred and thirty-two wild Canada.
geese. Jack Miner is said tto be the
only man to •catch• these birds, and
liberate,them with an Aluminum tag
wrapped -loosely around, a leg of each
bird, ," On one side of, the tag is sten-
ci'iled Jack Miner's name and address,
while on the opposite side ia,. printed a
verse from the Bible, such as "Have,
faith in -God," and "No good thing will
He withhoid.from them that walk up--
rightly.,,
Jack Miner is, no religious fanatic,
but believes" in the simple teachings'
-of God, and in this. way he is probably
the first pian to use the fowl -of the -
air as� missionaries carrying God's
wore to the Eskimos in the Far North
and to the colored people of •the ex-
treme Southern Stater- a plan
has caused many hunters to startrd
ing their Bible. Not only ,has, he be-
come the first pian to use the fowl as
missionaries, but'he has advertised hi 5
little home town of Kingsville all over
the world, so it is beter known than
several small cities of the Dominion.
Jack Miner keeps a register of all
the birds he has tagged, and will now
watch his mail each day and see when
his birds are reported killed, which in-
fotination as to their. -migration is
valuable to both the United Stoles and
Canadian Governments: and also what
the person who kills, birds thinks- of
the verse of Scripture.
No natter how long Jack • Miner may
live, there will be several of the birds
ion the''continemt carrying. his °name
and address an& a verse of Scripture
well after afire let gone, as it is estimated
the life, of a wild goose is seventy-five
yeiars.
6 I-leavenly" Twins.
Among certain savage tribes in
South -Eastern Africa, twins are re-
garded `as the Children of Heaven,• and
are believed to passeas the power of
controlling .the eiensente.
In •times of &might the people 'will
dig a hole • in the ground, put the
mother of ,twins Malt, and pour some
of, their precious water upon her. They
believe that this will cause rain to fall.
When a thun;de'rs'tcrm occurs'tbe peo-
ple appeal to a twin to "talk to Heav-
en" on their behalf. Iii, many cases
the mediator is a mere child, but the
natives . have implicit faith in his
'power- to persuade the thunder and
lightning to go sway and•Leave them
-in peace. . Ate soon as the storm has
abated the youngster mitis reverently
thanled for his.
intervention.
He Got One.
Fishing Is always an in.ter^e,sting pas-
time for bore',' and it is supposed to'
conduce to a phiiasopl`iic frame of
mind, but net always. The other day
a small `boy sat on the edge of the
wharf, intently watching hiss line. A
bsnevolefit old' gentleman regarded
the boy.ntonttly. fora long time, anal
tiles asked: 'What are you fishing fat
my boy?" "Bites," replied the he
snappishly, at, the same time-lool;:i
armada, with an impudent grin. At
1 r'� that instant a big fish gave a tr•emeud-
r ous. tug at -the lino ,ant. over went the
boy. He was fished out, but his mouth
and ears were full of mud and his,-frale
ing tackle wao.,lost, and the old gentle-
iran beamed placidly on the dripping
��• 1 •� �� ' boy.
1 yz Saving Requires Pluck,
Moat men who have succeeded have
` iend to daos1P at great oddts;
' Saving money on a limited:: income
does require Ittelc. i3ut because of
th h•o • i
id t ssv n s tfak o •
' g e n additional
value. It is 'not the amount of money'
tha coffins in the b
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11 :8 a E;trt o s.igtt tlr r t tviri ter is cr}+ iini; ivlic:ii yiifi sec 'LYollry tilting the cloth na rurr; .it is the
balls from 1• it Ur' #nitfbs�. Ibis lluppur�•s are very seneitiee tri the frost and his amount of eharactr Y; ueeoeSsiy to pro-
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is „notirunune. (dt0e the abingsr ltllxlft Mflgtiizine,.,;.