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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-12-18, Page 2Lydia Et NON''s . Vegetable - Gompo nd t. (.51a E Ptnkham Mrd q.- . Ind 11,1L'ohouri.OilletliCtstuda. _. Nh1SAAX, 'D'V£3, I1 t11, X11 The Car Owner's Scrap -Boo, (By the Left Mand Monkey Wrench) WHele E%1'AND . not been severe enough to 'burst The leve] of a glycerine solution the radiator or cylinder jackets or should be kept three inches be, shear oft Pin in the ptlmlt vane, no law the top of the over -flow pipe !tarn has been dorso. Suer a solution expends when SUGGESTION FOR SPARK Warm. 1 PI.UGS RELATIVE TO SAFETY If the insulator ai° a spark plug Allow a greaten distance between to covered with dry, black soot. arse's own cur tone that of the man ' len plug ; check carburetor set' ahead. Whena car starts to skid , ting fit' being ,l:oo rich ; us choke release the brakes and turn in the sparingly. If sooting of insulator IS direction of the skid, habitual, change 'to hotter plug. If insulator is covered with wet, soft MAKES SAFE BRAKE carbon, clean or replace plug ; Engines with good compression cheek oil level for being too high •always are good brakes. They the or for oil dilution ; pistons end especially good when pavements l rings may need attention. slippery boeause they give equaliz-( IT IS MORE INVOLVED ed broking under nearly all circum- Even in the days when carbure- atances. tors were comparatively simple -- FORCE CAN BE FOLLY 1 and crude— mechanisms, the car Force will remove the drain plug owner was warned against trying to in the bottom of the crankcase of adjust them unless he knew pre - almost any car. Unfortunately, how-! cicely what he was about. To -day's ever, it removes the threads at the' carburetor is just that much more same time. Then the thing has to beyond the range of the avenge be re -drilled, ! motorists ability to adjust it. The RESULT OF LOW TIRE ithought is a good one to beer in PRESSURE j mind especially since $o many of the ills laid to the carburetor are • Low pressure in the rear tires; mused by something else. may make easier riding, but low; TO GET DENTS OUT OF FENDERS pressure in the front tires makes it harder steering —and low 'pres-; A slight dent in a fender may be sure in any tire: is expensive darn- remedied without damage to the age to the side walls. l paint with a little rare. Two hard - SOME W .NTER WISDOM t wood block should he obtained, one shaped to the curve of the un - A positive step on the starter der part of the fender at the dent beats a halting or a quick, vigor- and the other curved to the con- ous one for easy starting. If broke tour of the upper surface of the and clutch pedals are worn smooth,' fender. While one block is held un - traction can be improved by fitting der the dent, the other is held al). them with rubber coverings. Thor -1 eve it, and hit with a hammer tin- ough lubrication of the radiator til the dent is smooth out. It will shutter et the start of the season be well to heat the underside et pays. ' the fender with a blow torch to MORE GASOLINE NEEDED ' prevent the paint cracking. The Anticipating the same gasoline' peat should not be too great or the paint will be burned. performance in Bummer as in warmer ,canon s responsible for BATTERY IN COLD WEATHER many motorises ginning out of gas Durine the cold menthe a store at this time. Ga'o ine economy is age betters- should have plenty of not so geed and •rute the car owner water, he fully charged and the ]earns about how much more is be char ine rate of the ginner tor• in - in:.; used he woei•1 do well to keep erea:mid. .e storage hattery ie lees ce close eye an the gauge. ,.tfeient in cold we -ether. more en - COLD WEATHER NOISES ergy is u=erl in etartiieg the engine Many r tho•e nebee which d c ,h time, the drives are :shorter, velop suddenly and ne b•r lou=h in and the lige is are used more in the car when the m, reury drops are winter teen in summer. Thr' !gni- due to the contraction of wood and tion should be timed er=.''tly ri_ht, metal. Having different degrees of for the power of the engine by a expeneion, then tv:o substances. lete •epan•k Tf the consumption of h- h th r engin • runt are likely to develop looseness be- 0;11'(?I-ne L 1g , tiveen th^nl. The noises diminish !rot, and the car is alugge-11 ; tee from the cars behind. with a more normal temperature. ignition may he the cause of tine e trouble. Headlights should be ad- -- EASY START FOR COLD ju;«ed to protect the driver and to ENGINE give him the meet possible 1F_ht. An easy way to evert a tubeorn r engine in cold weather ,= to pull WHY ENGINE OVVERIiEATS out the choke and ere—e—. the soot Water w::l not circulate proper - on the_ fur _ :y :n tee. cooling system if the without turning or. er -• •• --J'1Thii pump is nut ;n good working order forces rev- ga- me., tete erendere. er e pipes ew become clogged. Lith Then turf= a .. --errs me .::rew tee filer cap and see if the the startee set 1 e leie _ -:. o. w :?r ss.r1= about just under the ope ntng when the engine is run - MAY BE THE. BUSHINGS r Si ser will not cool properly .o >i hen if (ere i- Iime eeale on the radia- n f ,._ ar- wobb c ._. _ . ter wee, or the fan belt Alps Te Trig 3f. -y„,a„;,,.. u ak w. use r;.:nov.. the 1'1(10 s4 sle drain the king r:: :_ ay have r= :aa•.em then pour in , beck,-: of been r::3ted• we er :n torsed a lame handful of have tsr,*,. iz c .- . a ” :oda i a. been di olve 1 ani fel quite expe_ed .o ~tat ter r, see r ata-nr. \ow ren the en- nil love them freely.— Hosea up b5 ti(•. s:.-_ . sr 'neve e `tor 1 tenet le =r;inutes and 11 : 4 been alht:t7 uura:.tet ••d•t-41' ;:,4-n et•::t; Ten w•,_e: the •nes A''• THURSDAY I©AZ' the ntotor<. toss confident other- x filling end refining with rre:n Bu•t will God in very deed dwell wise. t•- e - grapy of times. Imprope with men on the earth:' —Tl Chron. lab(:e tie•: wi:1 can: e overheat -Nee KEEP WINDOW OPEN 6:1R, In even' of an accident, many Remember that en engine w eds _ are inclined to accept 05 obviously c s n 1 that the oil being ue 4 FRIDAY. guilty the car owner whose wind- z ti c r and over gasp ma ;,' The angel of Jehovah encampetb aws were closed in such a manner ,.rained of: about every 1000 miles round about them that fear him, es do prevent the giving of a sig• and fresh oil used in piaee of it. and dellvereth them.—Psa. 34 : 7. nal. It is a point to be kept in mind Running too long on retarded eeeric SATURDAY, during cold meather when the' tend- or on low ;ear will also cause over C- ency is to keep the windows closed. heating. But be ye doers of the word, and If comfort does seem to demand , not hearers only.—James 1 : 22. such a thing, it is better to be con- Clogged mufflers can create hack SUNDAY. fortable— and safe— especially ; pressure and loss of power to the Nation shall not lift up Byword when driving on congested areas. 'engine. �___.. against nation, neither shall they FILTER HAS LIMITWheel :Alignment is important +o learn war any more,—lea. 2 :4. There is one thing about the oil easy steerin's and reduced wear an filter that every ear owner should, the tires. Cocoanuts are thechief money bear in mind in winter ; namely, crop of the people of Guan. that it is a device for keeping so - impurities air hose or reversed cite+rum About 18 per cent, of the entire lid. impurities out cf the oil. (dealer:. is beet for removing lust population of Norway earn their the weather is cold, most of thee in - ire from the brakes, living directly 01' indirectly by the purities ere liquids ---gasoline from __ sea. the cornbdetion chamber e and water Smoother operation of an teem:_ ,, : __,- —_ _ _,_ from condensation. The latter, of is hail it :' touch of oil is plate d en — course, has been much reduced by foot aeeelerator connections. crankcase ventilation. Oil chances, "I think Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable. Compound Is wonderful! 1 have had six children of which four are living and my youngest is a bon- nie baby boy now eight months old who weighs 23 pounds.1 have taken your medicine before each of them was born and have certainly re- ceived great beneet from it. I urge my friends to take it as 1 am sure they will receive the same help I did." —Mrs. Milton McMullen, Vanessa, Ontario. Approximately one-half of all ae• (idents occurring on heavily traf- ficked highways are due to antiqu- ated cars with neglected engines, defective brakes or broken steering a pptratu :. Operating a car with only one headlight burning is a serious source of danger to other automo- bile drivers, as the lights ere the only way to judge the position of a car at night. an air ]lose or reversed vacuum tic smutrol of the cooling system should have the lower third or hall of the frtnt of the radiator cm -me ed with card board or an adjust- able front installed as the colt: :varctber 'rt mes on. Grade crossing smash-ups are a &tied by good drivers by 7101 trying to beat a train across and by never merrily sailing around the car ahead, -which had the good vense to stop when it saw an ap- proaching train which was hidden BIBLE THOUGHTS ....For This Week. Bible Tho,Rhta mmm�rOod. win prove pnne(es5 hentoga in 8iter•Years. a RUSSEk.S. PO Dramatic Milestones in Canadian History WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED ,tlY C, W. JEFFERYS 0.4"4" i v r i. i v�ry� le., ✓ y: t tow }(Y iA : gVa .r' ' t.•,• .n, is, tes; F +,! ` r' lir • ,.,Y rte'• d L. teem., . � ia� � i /r � i ii n 1 //�%/ „ ere-. x.. � �2 e e '�,'la YI. N WeT • nee •'0 ,._ ice" t ~! _,✓= s reel e L C.4lej,effeRefe maty- te{ewneeite .On December Gth, 1678, is litt;n party of Frenchmen were toitin;i i ` though the snow -clad forest thud f crowned the cliffs of Niagara Gorge. Far below, the tossing ra- pids raced towards the whirlpoull around which the travellers hat circled. Ahead of them, up the river was the great fall, Indian storrea had told them of it, and years ago it had bee narked on Champlain's map ; but as fee as they knew no white man as yet had seen it. In the stillnes of the winter woods they could hear its: MONDAY. Thou art good and doeth good ; teach me thy statutes.— Fsa. 117:118, t== TUESDAY. And God shell wipe away alt tear.e from their eyes.—Rev. 21 :4. • t WEDNESDAY. i will heal their hlackslidina. i -skk Hennepin at Niagara Falls diens and coureui's de bois in the 'forests and on the plains and riv ers and the great lakes. In the spring of 1681 he was again at the falls of Niagara, on his way oad to Mont'rea1, where he arrived. bronzed, and sun -burnt and 1001,, and with his robe in tatters, and patched with pieces of buffalo -shin, and told his !amazing' tale to flaunt Frontenac. Soon afterwards be weal to Europe and published the account of his travels. In his book cowers distant roar, sand es they advanceel sometimes they eould see between the bare branches the column o• mist that rose from the falling wa tors in the still air. At last tecy came out upon the brink of the cliff, and great semi -circle of the cataract lay before them. Perhaps some unknown scene, but this tt the first visit of which we have any record. We know of it from the ac• count written by one of those -vim stood and gazed at the falling wa tors on that wintry day in 1678 ; a bearded man dressed in the brown -grey robe of a Francisan friar, with the knotted cord of he, order girt about his waist, and his pointed hood palled over his head to shield it from the cold. He wan heather Louis Hennepin missionary priest and explorer, whose book of travels is a wonderful story of ae-; venture and peril. We cannot. be • , Ileve all that he tells us bur ine spite of many lies land exaggerations about his own exploits much of hie story hes been proved to be true.. lie had always longed to visit , strange lands, and he says that in ' France, he used to listen behind the doors of traverns to the stories which the sailors told of their voy- age. At lest his desire was gratifi- ed. In 1675 he was sent as a 'mei- • sionary to Canada. On the ship in which he sailed he met LaSalle. who was returning to take Fort Frontenac which had been granted to him• Hennepin was stationed dt this post as priest, and when La- Salle, in 1678, set out on his ex- peditions to explore the West, the missionary was permitted to go with him. Date in the year the ad 'ranee party, which included Hen tiepin left Fort Frontenac in a lit• Ile vessel of ten tons for the NiO gara River. Stormy weather forced them to keep close to the north shore or Lake Ontario and drove them for shelter into the mouth o; the Humber. Here they were frozen in and had to cut their way out through the ice with axes. Thew reached the Niagara on the 6th of December and landed on the east ern side, where now stands h,} American fort. Hennepin with sone, of the party paddled up the rivet in a canoe as far es the Queenstol, of to -day, where the rapids pro vented them from going farther by water, They went ashore and made the rest of their way to the fall. on foot. Then went on to Chipliewn ereek, where they camped in the show for the night, returning the next morning to their companions at the mouth of the river, P111 was the beginning of over two yeers' wandering among the In , even in cars which have filters, • NEURITIS? should be more frequent. Do not coca. a thecoil or distrih Neuralgia? Rheumatism? uter in rubber or any other mater- T-lt•C's irsrve hrouxlrt Pafo, s)zecdy relief 1 ( re roe -e WHEN RADIATOR FREEZES fal to keep them cry. M o1,n-r( to many sufferers from Neuritis, among Asteaming radiator is due to ]Certs inside the rubber eria does not' them "tie, 11. H. Stoner, Arkona, Ont. He, „tit.: "I lead been so bad I could harlly bear to get into bed at night. k matic. under the circumstances is to have f l cm leton's Ttheu Taut 8 boxes o p The strain caused by rough spnis Capsules made me entirely better." the car towed to a warm place in the street uneven car tracks and Equallygood orieNtur i ne Mourne - Where it can thaw out at leisure, or other obstruction can be avoided( iern, Lumbago, where hot wt.tam can be 'obtainer] fry releasing the clutch and allow dings' SOcandSlatyourdealer's. 153 for applying heat to the outside of roar the ear to coast over these) ,w 98 ypreMMEUMAtIC the radiater. 11 the freezing has places. CAPSiII:8S freezing water which clogs the evaporate readily. cooting system. The best precedttre an engraving of the Falls of Niag- ara on which the present picture it based. This engraving toes made, possible from a• drawing by Benne• pin himseli, or efrom his own descrip- tion; and under his own supervis- ion. It is out of proportion bo` its general. features give an accurate idea of the appearance of the Falls, at the Blame time. It is the first picture of the Falls ever pvir.'ed and it is valuable because 't shows the changes that have taken place r'14/,'"(A 1 _ in their shape since he saw teem. 'On the right of the picture, le front of the western and of the Horse Shoe Fall, is 'seen a small fall which plunges over an over- hanging projecting from the edge of the cliff. This fall no longer' ex- ists, for the rock, later known a,e Table Rock, split off and fell some years ego, and the course of the river has altered considerably ow ing to the gradual wearing :may of the crest of the falls. Fording the American Boundary Twice Longest Suspension Bridge In World Opened. p+,B01'E and below, the interna- tional boundary between Can- ada and the United States Is being spanned where the Detroit River separates Ontario and Mich- igan. Already the two-mile Ambassador Bridge is linaing the people and interests of the two countries. Fol- lowing a dedicatory ceremony on Armistice Day, the span was thrown' open for public use on November 15. For three years, It will enjoy the eistinetton of being the longest sespensinn bridge in the world. Be 1933, however, its stretch of 1,850, fret between the two sky -scraping towers will be forced to take eec- cad pram because of the longer Fein re the Thirteen River bridge Mating uptown New Yor'lt and ,Ter- sey, nail the building of .the Aur h"ssador bridge, world distinction f the leogest suspension span was t -,nye:rl by the Philadelphia -Cam - 1 bridge over the Delaware P' -e -r, its suspended length being 1, eo feet. in the meantime, dredging and evan•at'ng are being rushed en the 'Windsor Detroit. tunnel, It Is ex- p 'ted that, before another year hats 1 ed, this internntional thornugh- f 0 ;:Iso can be in use. .9:r example of the manner in which 11111 work Is being expedited 1 !vers 11;' the venom acanmpitshed 1,t. Peril trucks in removing 40,000 stele yards of wet clay from the Windsor eniraece,In the short pe- • Below—Curve of the huge span of Ambassador Bridge, opened between Windsor and Detroit November 15, Is shown by the tower legal of the further cable tower, vislble through the rear window of the Ford sedan. Above—Work on Windsor -Detroit tunnel Is being speeded since opening of international bridge, Photo shows truck removing clay from Windsor entranoe. riod of two weeks, This record a distance of three miles' each trip achievement required that the with a load of two ynree of wet trucks make 35 round trips daily, (clay.