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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-4-15, Page 6Agtonaobile.. t1 OF +` t7 TO Bx AZISS, Gxd.ITSFX1'.13Y Autonsobiles do not cateh on fire thet,:there is no overflow coming from nowadays us Irequcutly as they used 1 carburetor clue to poor 'seating of tits fioat valve. to. Manufacturers Iva% ntad e them( Operating a ear at high spend for about a$ nearly firepreaf as possih..h a long distance ,nay cause the exhaust Brick houses are also consideree: quite r pipe tobecome hot. If it is next to fireproof. Yet the average honk; own-: any wood, this may cause a fire, espe- er doesn't care to take a ehattee on ciaily if there is an accumulation o insurance protection, He knaves. that grease and oil in the wodwork.. To. such houses do sometimes burn. The minimize this danger do not drive cora- wise automobile owner realizes that tinuous.y et top speed and keep the there is a possibility of his car burn-; woodwork free from grease and oil. ing up and gets insurance protection,! The exhaust pito also heats up when For when a ear does burn the ciestruc-' the 'engine is ran with a greatly re. tion is apt to be complete. Yet motor , tarded spark. Sometimes it will he - ear fire insurance is inexpensive, loins red hot and set the woodwork on However, when a brick hoose burnsfire. Fires have also been known to down the owner receives the full ant-' catch by opening the muffler "Cut-out" ount for which it was insured. This in the starting up. This danger is is not true -of the automobile. The greater inside the -garage than out of ' ., owner of a ear destroyed by flamee doors, since there is usually more or gets a sum which reprecnts the actual less spilled grease and gasoline on the market value of the machine at the garage floor. time the loss took place. Such an ar- PS= IN SHORT CIRCUIT. raneement is really fair, for on any Another cause of fire conies from • other basis, whenever the owner of an !t short-circuiting of the ignition or insured ear got tired of it and found lighting systems when a storage bat- he could not possibly sell at 'rheprice i tery is used. A short circuit may heat he paid for the machine, all he had, one of the wires red hot and burn off to do Was to stimulate a convenient i the insulation.. If there is any accu- fire. This would enable him to reenp- mulation of grease or oil or gasoline erate whatever loss he had sustained through depreciation. Karp nRIP PAN CI.LAN. The most general cause of- an auto- mobile flre comes from back -firing. And the principal reason for back- firing is too lean a mixture fedto the cylinders. When there is a back -fire a sheet of flame comes from the air intake of the carburetor. I.f there .is anything inflammable nearby it is very apt to catch on fire. Gasoline vaporizes so quickly that if there is gasoline in the drip pan there is apt to be a sufficient mixture around the carburetor to make trouble. The idea is to keep the drip pan free from gasoline. See that there is no leak in the supply pipe or in the con- nection to the carburetor. Also see near by a fire is liable to start. Another form of fire insurance pro- tection which ought to be a part of the equipment of every car, is one or two fire extinguishers. Some fire in- surance concerns give a reduced rate to cars thus equipped. ' After having taken every precau- tion, possib_e• to prevent your automo- bile from catching on fire, it may some day nevertheless be found in frames. It is worth while to have in mind what to do on finding your car on fire. The time required to figure this out after a fire has started may mean a heap s'of -twisted ruins instead of an auto- ' mobile. ' First grab your fire extinguisher. j Locate the position of the fire and work the extinguisher to the limit. "Nobody Wanted Me." "Going through the Reformatory one day," said J. J. Kelso, "I stopped to speak with a lad who was standing listlessly at a window. He had a sullen manner when first spoken to, but brightened up eonsiderabiy and after a friendly conversation he was asked the question: 'Now, tell me hon- estly, just what it was that brought you to this institution?' He was silent for two or three minutes as if review- ing his past life. His whole manner changed and tears gathered in his eyes. `Nobody wanted me at home,' he replied. `After mother died nay fatIiie`r did not care much Flow things went, then he married again, and al- though they did not exactly turn me out I knew I had no place there any more. I got to staying out at nights with other boys like myself and we had to steal things to get along. I was up In court a lot of times but they did Me no good and then I was sent here.' The sadness of his words, especially the misery and heart -hunger revealed in his manner of speaking, was most touching. With the co-operation of the officials a home was found for him with people to whom his friendless condition was explained. They prom- ised to do their part, andthat they succeeded was shown in the fact that. the boy willingly remained with them for several years, and at latest reports was doing well." Gave Up the Job. About the year 1500, during a battle between tate Swedes and Danes, Bich. 'op Be1denack, in charge of the Danes, began thinkiug how hard the Swedes fought- • He had with him a guide who had been living in Sweden and he asked his man "What foods do these Swedes live our "Well," said the guide, '"They live meetly on bread and water, but when the corn crop falls they mix their water with ground bark, nor do they care much for cold or heat or hanger or thirst." "Alia," said the Bishop, "A people who live on wood and who drink water the devil himself, far less pian, will not be able to overcome. We wi11 go home." Green's Folly. We put up a prize for the largest fish, and the trip was over and done, And the money we'd paid when the fish was weighed, for Green's was the largest one. And the rods were packed and the goods were stacked, an we'd only an hour to wait, When Green said: "Oh, I would like to go for a few more casts with fate. "Wild one of you men 'come out with mel" But each of them shook his head. "Welve-packed our. eatandwa'ee had, enough, and the time's too short," they said. Said. Green:_'Take note, I will row the boat for the one who is game to go." Then Chappy rose, and he said: ".Here goes. Get out in the boat and row." Let Green now tell what next took place with. the beset cast Chap- man made,. He hooked a trout that was just about three times what his own catch weighed, And those minutes flew -on the waters blare, which he's coaxed his friend to share, Cost. the fifty beans which were in his l'eane for the prize changed hands right there. Oh, the moral's plain. When the prize is yours, though you've still an hour to wait; • When the contest's. done and men say you've won, don't further risk with fate. Don't coax men out on the stream for trout. Hang on to the joy you own. Sit down content in your shack or tent and Iet well enopgh alone! Early Maple Sugar. Early colonists in America learned from the Indians a crude way of col- lecting sugar from msaple trees. Wide=Spreading Oak. The great Hooker oak it. California can sehelter 8,000 persons under its branches. • MR. ,JUSTICE THE HONORABLE JAMES MAGEE Who celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday on March 26. On April 9 he com- pleted 16 years upon the bench of the Supreme Court of Ontario. Spring Fever. When, as a child, I had a "lever," mother gave me deliclous cooling drinks, laid heavenly teaches of ice on head and hands, told me quieting tales and kept away from all that could fret or affright, To -day, I have searing fever! The dootors have no cure for it. The nurses rather view it with contempt. But "Mother" understands — the Great Mother whose other name is Nature: To her I turn in my captivating dis- tress. What a Mother she Is! Never a rebuke glimmers in her great Wise eyes; never a doubt mars the wonder of her grave smile. She just beckons to ate and, knon-ieg her high raisdn- trations these many yEars, I follow. Upon my hot brow her breeze's lay their fluttering fingers ---fingers that feel as Iaughter sounds, the sweet laughter of innocent children Upon my lipe, athirst for drink that shall bless soul as well as body, fall the sparkling fluids of her skies. I am given ineffable: incense to inhale—the Mother's own Breath—essence of all her new-born flowers. Fer my tired eyes,. her sunshine and quiet shade. For my restless feet, her green -brown earth., paths. For my yearning ears, her bird -song and wind voices. My fever is cured!—Ada Melville Shaw. Natural Resources Bulletin. Of the many nature] products which the world has learned to think of as Canadian, none is more interesting than asbestos, .according to a report recently published by the Natural Re- sources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior. This strange mineral, of which Canada now pro- duces some 80 per cent. of the world's supply, has been known since the time of the early Romans. It is mentioned 'by Marco Polo in the thirteenth cen- tury, and even Charlemagne is sup- posed to have entertained and mysti- fied his guests by committing his table covers of "asbestos" to the flames. The first modern attempt to exploit asbestos deposithwas made during the year 1862 in the Aosta valley of the Italian Alps; and almost simultan- eously with the exploitation in Italy asbestos was -discovered in the Pro- vince of Quebec. In 1878 mining op- erations commenced;a email scale. The total length of the productive belt which is situated in the hills of the so- called Eastern townships of Quebec, is about twenty-three miles, with 'a width varying from 100 to 6,000 feet in the Black Lake area, and to 3% miles in Coleraine Township. The formation occurs in'knolls and ridges from a few hundred to a thousand feet in height above the surrounding country. An- other deposit of less magnitude has been found in Deloro township, Ont. The commercial value of asbestos depends chiefly on tensile strength, flexibility, fineness or fibre, dehydra- tion temperature and temperature of fusion. The long fibres, i/4 inch or more in length, possessing these quart: ties, are used for spinning and weav- ing•into fabrics, and are by far the most valuable. The short fibres, less than inch in length, are used in the manufacture of asbestos, cement, shingles, etc. Canadian asbestos is of the finest quality, and, on account of its softness, silkiness and tensile strength, is in great demand for all kinds of -asbestos products, particularly for asbestos textiles. Although deposits of asbestiform minerals are widely distributed over the world, there are but few localities in which high-grade spinning .fibres are found in important commercial quantities. Before the world war Canada (Quebec) and Russia furnish- ed most of the world's supply of high grade asbestos. At present Russian -production is small and South. Africa (including Rhodesia) is the only other large source besides Canada. Other countries which are small producers include the United States,, Australia, Cyprus, Italy, China and India. He—"Personally, I think the rising generation is going mad." She—"They have nothing to get mad about. It's the older generation that's ,mad." Oil Aids X -Ray. Dr. j. E. Forestier a French sur- geon,`is;tite inventorof a new method of diagnosis with the X-ray through use of iodized oil., The :oil, it is said, furnishes a background for an X-ray photograph.., - ada from Coast to Coast The' Waiting Treea Atter an their buffeifts+ •the:Y stead Sumnereide, P.E.I.—In order to there were tee new machines started a ithatdtltewle tarn e ttubfrtaaknedn st1hiWatt* the growth f the fox faUT •with. ace aeit , of " 890 totes deity. lewilnocire, heat/en .down by ih , iltdustry; a{anir :tines 04;011440d to With the exeeptiOn:of One 'ntaiebine o£ 003006, The dried. n L t ; bleeolt d - i acrd' broken, brit sire better ensure. the•fliiaitexal ;and con- 10(1,'.togis c,aPacity,, tll•t;to new ma- .iertteses att;ri bout•• • . omit future of''the industry, the Gan chtnea slated for,1926 will Reinstalled trees aro eucot, fih etr t'eave:e ltuv'e: adian National . Silver Pea: Breeders' Association has established ti modern ranoh at Suntniexside, where the -var- ious. problems connected with the in- dustry Will be studied. This experi- mental ranch i$ equipped with. 70 breeding pens and there still remains adequate space for further expansion. The ranch has been stocked with high- elasia animals, registered and pedi- geeed, supplied by breeders m the vicinity of Siunuuerside, • Halifax, N.S.—The Provincial Mins aster of Minos,., in a statement to the Legislative Assembly, said that an ex- pert had been surveying gold pros- pects in'the province for sometime, and the report was that large gold de- positswere yet untapped, comparing, favorably with those. in. Ontario and other places where gold mining was being carried on successfully, Many Years ago this. province was a success- ful uccessful gold .producer, yet the industry has dropped off- in recent years and the annual production .now amounts to about 750 to 1,000 ounces. It is con- sidered more than likely that at a future date operators vvill give serious ,consideration to ways :and means exploiting the gold resources' of this province. Saint John, ,N.B.-=Orders for three carloads of sped potatoes have been placed with the New Brunswick Seed Potato Growers' Association by par- ties in the State of Massachusetts; ac- cording to the secretary of the Asso- eiation. Inquiries have also been re- ceived from Newfoundland, New Jer- katchewan has an average of about sey and Ontario, and the outlook for eight horses per farm. general business this year is consider- Vancouver, B.C.—Construction of ed good. the first units in connection with the Montreal, Quebec.—The program •of buildings required for the new bop new newsprint machines in Canada yards located in the Sumas reclaimed and Newfoundland for 1926 includes lands has commenced-, Several thou - eighteen machines with a combined sand pieces of special lumber will be rated capacity of 1,715 tons a day, ac- required for the teeilises. Five.hun cording to a report issued' by the deed acres are being planted into hops Newsprint Service Bureaus In 1925 this year. — Average Span of Human Life on the Increase in Canadiso milts. boon stripped, twigs' trod I-Tantilton, Ont,- 1', V, Byrnes, pros- st"ai!1 brafl hs !!pave bee71"":11:441. idem 'of the• . Itantilton By-P'roduets eIve lY the winds, but'the trees,t em- Coke' Ovens, has announced that con- isebil rise i un nnlve in their. dis!elle lined u pis tandiu;;auris•. ,, tracts have been; signed for a battery ,1'ltey' ate those• in staked iudivititiai- o£ 35 ovens and that work will be Com-. ity, oalc and ask, birch and beeecsh, menced at once. It Is a little over a syeanror a' and elm, One ewes them year since the production of coke iu alis Macre d elm,oaled ckaractthem under the by-products process was 1•kvDe !a,ttd 4i+atiah, of twig aitd bud, started in Hami ton, The popularity Eve".apercies felon its own charaoter-- of this fuel has been` sufficiently de- isttcform Nor are trees of the casae nionstrated, said M. Byrnes, to war- species eevor guise alllee. Rotes of the rant the company spending $1,500,000 silver birch,: for distance; are all 611- and the increasing of, the capacity of ferentiy marked.' Washed by the rants the ,plant to 1,000 tons. daily, they look in .early spring sunlight ea .Winnipeg, Man.—Begriming on ,though the fairies• had scrubbed 'them. June 1, a corps of enumerators, 2,500. Whatcharacter titei:e IS in the waiting atrotig, will begin a ten-day drive to buds—the "black beds Of the ash that determine the population of the three resemble apeaka of soot, the brown Prairie Provinces: This census is buds( of ,the heeds, the thick, gummy taken under the authority of the fed- buds of the horse•ohestnut, the lima eral statutes which provide for a cen- pinbead boas of the oak. sus every five years, to fall each time Yet au, (their patient waiting the midway between the decennial'Domin- trees aro one • They. 'stead ata;tten- • ion census. Thus a census is taken on tion in the year's early days: Behind the Prairies every five years,while In .their pass+ive. egteriors there aro the the other provinces it is taken every stirrings of vitality. Long before the ten years: - buds begin to open the sap begins, to Saskatoon, Sask. — Saskatchewan ries. It is wonderful how early it now owns 'approximately one-third of starts, preceding the Rest swelling of - the horses in Canada, having 1,169,953 the buds. In winter the flow of sap in a total :of .3,554,041. Alberta comes` stops+and the tree: sleeps. Then -the next with 849,929, while . Ontario is trea "awakens,',.-ar d•:long Wore there third with 644,138, Manitoba, has 858; is any outward sign, within it begins 839, 'so that the tluee Prairie Pro- to emir. There are mere happenings vines have altogether 2,249,730 head behind the greet lxgles than appear to of horses, almost two-thirds of the the eye on a February day. What total number Cin' the Dominion. 'Sas- mighty" forces begin to stir in those apparently sleeping tree giants, forces wonderfully garret, and yet in any single tree nig tiler than a thunder - serene forces that will prosently open two or three or ten thousand hermeti- cally seabed doors, and set free the contained' leaves. Foresight ie one 01 the firstt eseen- tiais of wise living. What foresight there 'le in trees, every bud a'marvel- ous example. Long berat=e., the old, year causes, to an end, trees prepare for the year- that shall ate, _nt•e new leaves are .there; before the• old leavers see fan. If we started am. year as fuilY -seef prepared as Itreess to respond to the 4,,•' challenges awl opportunities of exist +»'g"' r enoe, chew wise would our lives be! s , Trees are wiser than we. They have x• l no need to Bustle, for ,they took time -vsl lU -:_tirl by the forelock: So they patiently stand- and tai's ' greatly' in . t i'es sive in n the sett light of an early spring day. Lowell in a poem called "The Beg- gar" pictures one who goes to the trees and streams, asking for an alias; of the brook he asks for a 'portion of its mera'iment, of the oaie he asks: for !its girt of sitren•gth- go one might pay a pilgrimage in the early year to the ,- trees of the field, and ask for some- thing of their -spirit of. wisdom, that eine only be prepared aiethey are for spring, with all its lovely challenges. - When Magellan sailed around the globe in the sixteenth century; the average length of human lire was thirty years. But in this year, the average length of life in the United States' and Canadian registrati 14 area is 54-5 years. 'But ,the century .mark is not yet reached hy any considerable numl•ee. However,. centenarians. ere ..not scare. The automobile is one of the biggest factors in pi ornoting longevity Year car takes 'you out in the open, into the air and the sunlight. These aro nature's greatest curative forces. Also, •according to the viral statis- ticians human life has been lengthened in the last decade in America hy ap- proximately 10 per cent. The increase is reflected in all agesfront 10 to 80 according to recent, insurance figures. Civilization has greatly increased the life span. Medical and other sciences have done much to prevent a high end early death rate. Some prophets have decare'i that in the year 2,000 the average life span. will bo more than 100 years. - Decline in Tonnage at U.S. Ports. Improved methods in handling grain at Canacli"an Atlantic ports and the opening, of largecoal fields in Nova Scotia, the Shipping Board's Bureau of Resarcb declares, have altered the position of United States North At- lantic and Great Lakes .Ports, ",which have heretofore participated largely in these movements." The result, it is said, hae;.been the tsstablisshment of a "balanced traffic in eastbound grain .and westbound coal" for the railroads of the Canadian territory. Discovery by women scientists of Fluctuationsin foreign conimerce'1 short electro -magnetic waves 'which it Helping Him Enjoy Himself. grain,, petroleum and. coal, through is claimed will revolutionize radio- The fisthermen !had had hard luck all • North Atlantic ports the Bureau tooled, telephony, raidio-telegraphy-and photo- day, says the Argonaut,' but, as the af=• "More than offset the general increase graphy, is announced by Prof. Weiir= ternoon was waning he landed a"Lwo, in hundreds of 'other commodities berg, of Leningrad University. pound beauty, w e.. handled during the fiscal year 1925.» Maria 'Levitslkaya, a physicist, (ifs- four-tenths 'Che village idiot, w•lio happened to covered waves measuring less then• be pa sine, stopped as iii looleed ai it. four -tenths of , a millimetre (.0157 .of "Is that there. fish for e'al e, mister?" an Irick), ;While similar waves, esti- be asked. mated to be only the 100th part 'of a "No, sir," said. the fisherman- "1'm millimetre in Length, were discovered a sportsman, not a ;huckster, t fish by Glagoiieva Aroadieva. solely for the pleasure of catching 1 • And Several Who Can Do Otherwise. "A beautifui and loving woman can bring down heaven." "True—and 1' know several who can raise hell." Low Infant Mortality. Install Radio Phones on Trains. Telephone subscribers throughout Germany soon wilt be able to get into From New Zealand comes the .re- ( prompt comms .iication with friends port that a new low world -record for traveling on any one of the thirty-six births was established .there for the express trains orisss crossing the mun- biths was established there for the year 1924, for which complete statis- tics have been compiled. Encourage- ment is felt particularly in ' a ..reduc- tion of deaths of infants under one month from 29 to 24 per 1,000. • This gain is attributed to the fact that pub- lic heath nurses are supplied with the names and addresses of mothers with- in a Yew days of childbirth, so that of- fers of aid may be extended immedi- ately. Dr. Truby King, founder of the Royal New Zealand Society, is quoted by the report as placing the irreduc- ible infant mortality:at 30.. Great Benefit to Radio. The wireless telephone equipment installed three months ago on the Berlin -Hamburg line, while not pro- fitable, has been so successful that the Railway Administration and the Minis- try of Posts' and Telegraphs hes d•e tided to extend the service& to nearly all express trains. The system will be installed immediately on the Beeline Munich expreess• in au, expei•unent which will be closely watched by ex- perts, sdn•ce it is; feared that the high tension electric power cables which parallel the tracks for miles may in- terfere with radio reception and transmission. The Shouting Star. Shooting 'stars are- really meteors, or small bits of stars. MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. 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Try this: Stick the tads t'btsough. s'Ltd peper or'light cardboard, -,then 'hold the it:apei tart the`,tlesireci position. Thus yon -teat' bang away at Mr. Tack until he is subdued. , Vitamins for Arlin -leis. It Is found that Animals tut have had a liberal diet store up in their, bodies enough vitamin' A'to last a long time if they are deprived of It. Mask. Makes Own Oxygen., A gas mask has been developed in Australia that produces• its own oxy gen. The Young; in a Pouch. Tho mother opossum, like the kxta- garoo, carries its young in a poach.