HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-11-6, Page 2Rear Axle Ntlises.
Have you a dug conceded some
where about the rear axle of your
car? 'That is, something which
growls? Same care o e1ent; without
a last of unwonted noiee, while others
have a distinct hum, me a growl, or
ever(, at high speed, a decided scream-
WIfieh is yours?
You don't think yon have anything
o1 the kind? Ask your r.: i Iter. for
sonirtir.tes persene en iele ethiewalk
wild hear it even the tae delver do -s •
not su epect it•
When a gree is •disecvcred in the
rear able ii: does not necessarily iaeli-
eate that the gears are not meshing
properly. It might mean a lark of
lulariratinn. vihic$ :nest be det0rinint ,
sy in9pectitn, The me:lefactutere cx-
ereisr1 gereme p ;ns to get the gears
so that time operate silently, and it
may be a-sumed that when a ear is
delivered the adjustment has been
made to the most silent peeitien. .(t
will stay right unless the a1jueement
work: loose or the 1,errings or geere.
become worn,
On each ar.le of the differential
(master) gear there k4 a thrust hear-
ing whirh thecae the side thrust &ani ed
by the operation of the gears. The
beerint a oometilnee wear and anew
the gear's to go deeper in mesh reel
make a hummiree sound, which is
noticeable only when gosng :ermine a
corner, being generally silent at othee.
Vines. This is because in furling thk
wheel slides the axle in for the penmen
of the play, meshing the gears deeper,'
Wear in the thrust hooting, on mei;
h
side of the master gear causes another,
trouble whch makes a clatee rather:
than a hum or growl when the weal 1
becomes excessive. Then it allows the
master gear to move away from the•
pinion for enough to skip teeth. There
will be ur.evemress of action in tills
ease. If the gears were permenentl;;
out or mesh the car would stop; but
the 'Motion of the•ear would slide the
axle in and out so that the gears would
meeh for a time and then ship, with:
eau,
ST FAN S N TEL
A TRAGIC T1 .
HOW TWO MEN OF HIS
PARTY WERE LOST.
resultant clash and noise. The :rime w--
1esult woul.l conte team uneven wear ,
of the ei.h. Story tory Illustrates the Value of
1' 21120121.1 l,e remmeeered that where Sugar in Diet of Arctic
is c!
aro rears n:•ll.thy there e lee wear.
Oe,a2ion e ly a set Will he merle just '. Dwellers.
the right totlp;hness and hardness, and "1\-e were vamped during the wilt -
will last for the lite of the ear. Others ter of Itt6•17 on Melvin' Isl:ul,1, scone
re too hard; if the: get a little out ,fro miles nsn'iheast of the eestern pot'-
ad•justlnelrt they w:11 chip off, the tem of -Alaska," sold Mr, Stefaeseme
&hies working ammo; the teeth break- '•\',o laid (enstructed our winter a me
int; off a teeth or chewing u n mum- t
P - t:'rs out of huge 42:.1.420 of lee, earl 1:2,1
Mee with coneequent noisy action. mule for oureelves five or six smell
'Where one tooth 1(3 h'eken there is a rand+lad fceheu,as. The wails of each
deeeded knock. li the 31eare are too melee, as. well as the floors. were raw
sof„ they wear rapidly anti rrailoolly mod with skins aneme, welch were
sense to a knife edge, There i$ then polar bears, coddle, and seal, elm -
of breaking off melee a little ketene, my first &1: t, coal I, with (11
1'0.. rO ;.1:.,230, a'.,:robin, : steep hill, or neon feeLimos, 1::x11 in t:;o of tlu',os
neon tee einteb ie let in with a je.l., 11,120es. Our doge and seele were in
'nee latter c. -. 1,' 211 may be ode`- the )there—alnl our food and eilnlp-
miuel by J olein' 1!1 one rear 1031! <'1 Went in tate last t,vo.
;.11 putting the oi•s in mesh. tool -The nearest island to ours 042,1
glen noel ing 2hv wheel lock :tea forth \'ices; la Island, some e:xty miles
to =ee if there ie emeesive play. In acmes freeee sea. Meet t1 butt mune
dc.log th.!s it i.; n; .. ...rt• to ace what stinks Lama. a distance of one hundred
play there it frosa other 1a:sea such miles teem our (:inter tweeters. On
as 111.:,:rers41 ,a',a „lay or from Ino=a Valeria (duel I had one of my ships,
hey in rem, 12 1)0, 1ie> r2' 'sine `r of the a Fee'd.l1 whirler, tile. Pola22' Dear, tvitlt
p1.1y is in 'h:1 differential. It should ol:ly one wdlite 111an in charge and
not be mere toren two 104215 of mo- twelve tfekitnos. The Polar Bear was
tion of the cuteele of the tire, well provisioned, but 11x21 very little
St+Ine fir.^ -e ago I ,lis,,uverecl another sugar. On the north west of Ranks'
cages et rear aisle noise wheel was die- Land I hail another ship, the North
ficult to :acute, where the key heeling Star, on which were several nem and
the wheel to the an:le had beeeme loose a large quantity of sugar, bread and
and 11ad reeked the keyway out of tobacco.
1, p5. -era .'le,. ca • in the floating Providing Neeecsary Seger.
5442rear axle, ecurec :d to the hub
by 2trt•n s t; 5it'1, entemeee pr5ie'tions "On the southeastern corner et
on the lienee, was a elite; wd1fdi defied Banks Land I had a third ship, the
detection . • the eye or ear, though Mary Sachs, commanded by Captain';
loud 2311001 011 to lie annoying. Fineers Bernard, with one other white man,
searehine 011 ,, 1 e,e par detcetel a Charlie Thompson, and. twenty Islei
eery s..g1.1 mann. arms .hee it was trios. The ship eras well pearlstoned.
feline thrt fiutinge and prejteeems She floated, 1Sltereasl the Norttt Star
had wean en: ugh to permit a slight rand Polar Bear were fast in the ice.
pity. P..,.. n,as :0 elle-cured that the When I left Canta'n elereard 1 hurl
service. 242011en experts had Leen mys- €Iven him word that should any ship
tlfIed. PereieLent scar's11 and eii,nina Piles by with mail or news for rue he
tion of one poseible cense after an -.was tmlceep it abetted the Sachs 1111111
other and a eurieoite wii1.l led one of he should hear from me. I firmly im-
nur men to use his fingers to supple- 11I•eesed upon hint that he must not un-
ment 11es -yes 10(11111 it, dertake to bring mail any further than
I his ship,
Soldier Settlements in B.C.
Three hundred °sheer's and men re-
turning far demobilization on the Em-
press of Asia evolved a scheme for co.
operative settlement on the lands of
British Columbia. They elaborated
their scheme and presented it to the i
authorities. For a time they recevied ;
little encouragement, but eventually
they found sympathy and encourage.
meet from the Government of British
Columbia. The Dominion authorities
agreed to endorse the project and now
tour soldier settlements In the pro-
vince of British Columbia are In
course of dere/opulent be- soldier
labor. In the development of the es-
tate(, 12Oturned Soldiers only are era.
prayed. Thus the problem of their 2
employntent Is settled at once. When !
the lands are cleared and ready for oe-;
cueation they will be sold to the sed- i
deers, who will receive a $500 rebate
on the purchase prlee. The Land Set-
tlement *Board leas provided the lauds.
Camp store; have been establisher)
by the Board find the profits of the
stores are to be divided among the
soldier settlers. When development,
Itas sufficiently proceeded, the stores
will be tlekem by the settlers and run
on co-operative principles.
Among the friends of the soldiers in
British Colttnible. the movement is
amusing the greatest interest. To the
soldiers themselves it has all the fas-
cination of creation. They have found
what William Jambe called "The
moral equivalent of war." There is
something to overcome --elle stern.
nese and strength of nature--surare
thing to civilize and, for their inspira-
tion, Rs fn tiie days of war, are the
strung human effe: tions — love of
neves and children and ' comrades.
They are delighted to work together
and congratulate themselves that they
have escaped tite d-olatiou of the old-
time settler,
Klondyke Gold,
During last year the gold output of
the Klondyke was some lour hundred
thousand pou'.lrls. Since this goldfield
wt1.5 first worked about forty million
peunee of the precious metal have
Veer. eceured. and it is believed that
there is reilI an equal amount waiting
to he worked out.
"During the years 191.1 and 1915 my
party and I were beliete>,.,.,
to have been
lost, anti it was not until early in 1916
the news reached home that we were
still alive. In the summer of 1916 a
: whaling schooner, the Herman, from
+ Sha Francisco, in charge of Captain
Pederson, called at the Mary Sac11s
and left four hundred pounds of mail
1 for 1110.
I '1leunwhile the same summer I had
gone from my w::.ter quarters on 421eI-
ville Island to see hew- lay sten were
faring on the North Star. Knowing
that the supply of sugar MIS very low
on the Polar Bear I ordered the Este
mos who were with 1ne to carry loads
of three hundred pounds each and
place them in caeile5 Meng the north-
ern portion of Banks Land for the pur-
pose of relaying them to tho Polar
Bear. After three of these caches had
been made and filled we had a very
bad storm and 11 was all we could do
to reach Melville Island ourselves, so
that the Polar Bear never received
her full complement of sugar,
A Fatal Decision.
"As the autumn came on Bermard
thought I should have my mall, and
thought he would ignore my 00111-
mands. He grew very restless, and in
October, 1916, could not restrain him-
self any longer. Ile and Charlie
Thompson set out with two sleds and
King Cud 's Exc q er
It Is 'well for the world that teen the
privations of war have no power to
bar the way to the altar, and that
Cupid is still as busy as ever he was
in the palmiest days of peace.
It is estimated that thisyear will
have seen no fewer than 2811,000
brides wearing the orange -blossom, or
its equivalent, in England and Wales
alone, says a London writer, with a
retinue of attendants so large that the
combined bridal procession would
stretch in unbroken line from Land's
End to John O'Groat's.
So many, in tact, will be the wedded
couples of 1919, that If tbey were all
by a strange coincidence, to elect to
start their housekeeping in Derby-
shire, they would replace everp pre-
sent inhabitant of that minty of more
than a thousand square miles,
If, however, as would only be ntatur-
al,"eaeo bride insisted on having a
home of her own, they would claim
Avery ,douse, not only in Derbyshire,
but every home in the whole of the
-tete.
county of Hampshire, with its more
than a million inhabitants, as well,
To furnish these houses would, at
present prices, require an expenditure
of at least :110,000,000, to which
foriniclabi0 41(111 we mast add another
:C10,000,000 for the east of trousseaux,
Presents, and weddings.
Thus we see that .Bing Cupid re-
quires a very substantial exchequer
front which to meet his expenditure
for a single year. In fact, if we were
to take 7.500 of our newly -wedded
couples, and balance then, with their
weight in sdetereigns, the aggregate
gold, weighing roughly 864 tons, would
hardly pay his annual bill.
Onr year's wedded couples in Eng-
land and Wales, if placed two by two
at intervals of a yard, would stretch
in a straight line from London to
Huddersfield; and for thirty-seven
utiles of this distance they tight walk
along a pathway, a yard wide, paved
with sovereigns, every one of which
they will require before they can set
up house together,
two Clog teams over the ice to try to
flint me.
"Now Bernard nar<t 11(1(1 '1'hinnee 21 were
both Alaskan golden and At 1'1'0 aeons•
homed to trate lliug With dog and sled
almost all the year over the frozen
1)11'111. Neither of 111111, however,
('eallw,1 the furl v:ehtn of food, and
neither of them had ever been Mit
lewder then a week at a time without.
Feeing :,0me etg15 of 11111111111115', :1t
this 111ue of year in thni region there
is no daylight, a •11,0..q.,1111. twilight
1.1( 10111, hat fr is never 11;,et enough
to read a neweplil'Or out of doors.
"Tle'y took with these peovia1o0s
for fifteen daee, end Benet 1.1(23 and
l int for tee dome bot o"gh•'12 1 10
Lim any 1,1..;:r, They tl+unnilt :regal
Was alt of 1,10 1021 ,,,, Salt mad t<r:
t 1.23
pet an i11'r weeds a 110es..11y for
Ma and eoffe'. They d1(( 1101 regard
it eta the 1121st us:lentlal nnurl•'l1.uent'
a Malt can h Vo in the North. it \vas
fuer hundred 1111142.3 to Melville Ithan,
rune in aask1 one teed l melte four ,
1111:drew 1111101 111 t• a day., over
the :month, enuwy t,:el o uvided into
had a goon team of doe,.
'en 1.' try 1 sflit v petty imeeee
the 1., 0011 <u oar eu;;at 0111'1 10 011
L1_;11th Lan•.l, 1?.Cil c:al12 f: protected
(rent 11)ti11(- atniIll'11R by it trap pit-
!
er t let-
- fai1, of 211112? sort or ether, Often we
torch I'ol.,r beers, se121 and ate:melun-
ally 1111111 me and sheer feeem 1Iy.
Forty was in charge of Sterlcoesen.
Tweeter milee fatal the Bey of Mercy
they fe unci the feast sled and :male
seem, -class elan --but they al .11 found
a piece- of paper which told the story.
Hurrying swiftly on thy reached the
last cache a weep later. They dare -
fully examined It, found a Feel just
recently caught in the trap, but the
sumer was untouched.
Most Terrible of Sights.
"Between this and the next cache
they found a deep Valley formed by
the snow slides, and all about it on
the top dried fragments of frozen
carlboo silm til lr:ce se is curiosity
w 1!. 11100011, so they commenced to
dig where they sal-' a halt, that l0ukead
as though it mulct be file winter guar.
tars of a silver fox. Alto) they had
dug Punt feet one ' f the E;ldmos per-
ceived sunl0thing white anti gd:etening
end eeelaimed with richt ea„erilees,
'Salt eerie' Solt park I nm1t add is
one of the grelitest luxuries in the
frozen north. Stent calm real up and
they dug mound a piece of glistening
white only to 111111 it was the shoulder
of a frozen.
man.
"et th ii'ourh discovery revealed the
rest of the body and they all recog•
sized Charlie Thompson. He had
evidently gone to sleep and frozen
while he sleet. He 0411 so thin that
every hone ltretruded above his skill,
and his eyes had 421'111:01 so far that it
11 doubtful whether he could see when
he died. It was, I believe, one of the
worst sights we had ever seen in any
of our expeditions,
"Tete search party kept 00 and late
in February, 11117, found at the second
cache a quarter of the last sled. It
was so chopped up that we believe
the man must have done it with his
hands in a vain endeavor to light a
flee, Although the cache was filled
with sugar, not a bag had been turned
over—not a sack examined. The
search continued ,until ltlay, but wo
never found a trace of Captain Ber-
nard's body, the dogs, nor the rest of
the sleds, nor nail, The lives of these
two men and dogs would have surely
been saved if they hall only known
that sugar was a foots and not a condi-
ment.
"Tho mail would have been the
most interesting mail I had mover re-
ceived had I been spared the tragedy
of receiving it, for it was the first
nail sent to me after it because known
that I was not lost and that I was stili
alive in the frozen north,"
Pa rio e Duty to Prevent Fires
If we were to consider that every
tiro is a crime in our country, as it is
in some countries of Europe; and if
those in whose homes, barns CO.' places
of business where fires originate
should be held respoesibie for their
acts when those acts result in injury
to their neighbors; or t11•e the result
of gross carelessness, culpable neglect
or mischievous intent, there would be
fewer fires. The Fire Tax would be
less, and Canada would bo richer to
the extent of Millions of dollars every
year,
Tile elementary principle of Justice
that an individual should be respons-
ible to others for his acts when those
acts result in injury to 1119 neighbor
is as old as the Mosaic Law, The lia-
bility for fire is recorded in Exodus
exit 6:
"Tf fire break out, and catch in
thorns, so that stacks of corn, or the
standing corn, , . , bo consumed
therewith; he that kiedled the fire
shall surely make restitution,"
The fire waste In Ontario, not in-
cluding forest fires, for 1310 year was:
±916 was $16,520,206, caused by 10,270
fires; 1017 was $10,385,530, caused by
9,681 liras; '1918 was $14,856,329,
caused by 9,588 fires.
T1118 means a tax of 96.00 per capi-
ta tor every man, woman, and child
in the Province; or $80.00 a year for
a family of five. It means that the
fire waste of Ontario exceeds $40,000
every day.
In normal titres the fire waste in
five of the principal countries of
Europe averaged 33c, per capita.
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UP FATHER
New Europe's Postage Stamps
The Lnndoa Tim , states that the 11(-llit") h1; been provident with lis-
. tinct vii peewee stamps, in supereeit-
slue of t1u:,e Inhumed with pole -mite
and enlbh'uls of tlio house of papa-
' burg.
A uniform postage statue eyries for
the nee:1y constituted kiuhdem of
Serbia-t'lnatio and Slit voala rill Short-
' ly replace the imp:trete iesime et prim -
till cllerellt in the verifies entice, 'fete
plain feature of •fhe design will be a
j 10,111ait vignette of the emeriti' Hitler
iPeter I., in a chala<to17atio setting.
New stamps are also id preparation 1n
which will Include the likeness of
Czeello-Slovaktu, the subject (hedges
of 1'rosideut R tearvlt,
As a tribute) to the <lefen<'0 or Liege
in the early clays of the war a special
25 centimes 12(101age 01:11(11) 1uloreed
with the city items has been placed on
sale there.
The Rumanian Postai 1142011031 in
C'unst<'ntlnuple, staving recently been
reopened, is provided with special
story of the New lsulepn eoltemee t.:a
write ]Leif in serial form on the
eerie; of the Meng) album, 1''ro431
genet of hieterirrl Intoned are 11030;
teldal almo:;t 4ally, t'olatues l:,test
ventt':Miltola 1,1 the recurs. f.- a Se'1•:0:1
e' :IX i1:r,t'1;:! vt111npa Cti/1/1111.111ttra.t0
of the comfy ), ation of the e:alone!
Diet, and iu(ludcs the fleet stamp por-
trait of 1,5114215 Ptulereweki •15 Preel-
tlt'Ilt or the )'epebl le. Tide femme, )Il
the 15 fe117543• rotate, lithographed In
0421(121421,
The delivery of Piga from the Bee
.111e1•ists has been marked, by the fe-
11ate of three postage sr:WIWI of species
tle;lgn by 01,1 1,ettt131 government,
showing two female fl50l•e9 (prestun-
ahly Riga and Lettonlal embracing be-
fore the walls of a city. In the fore-
ground are Seen a 111121::2, shall sled a
withered hush, and the :,icy is illumi-
nated by the aurora hole:,lis,
In the neighboring republic 1(t els-
thouia the seventh centenary of the
Ilion with Denmark lvea cdehltlde:l
by the ceeat1041 of Femme, of restrict.
ed val111117 111 a cleeign repreemitin;'
seagulls on a stormy :lea, inscribed
clash e'abar'lik (1:Rthonian Fret'. St•lte),
These Mumps were 1(21 sale for three
days only and the issue wilt limited to
3,500 specimens,
The residue of the former Austrian
leim he (now designated "thirteen
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HEN THUNDER
STORMS ROAR
HOW LIGHTNING FLAKES
ARE COLLECTED. r.
By K. Hedgs, Hon'A..Secretr.ty
of Lightning Research Coart-
rnittee of England.
Although a century has passed since
l:c1.jllulin Franklin originated the
lightning conductor, many people have
somewhat erruueon • idea.; of its fumee
Hens, and do not realize the ellorluotts
energy of a"Iiglrinhlg 111011.
Lig1111111tg is not eteclri1ity, but the
result of starred electrical elr'rf;y ('ud-
dettly relea:;2311 between two electrteal
bodies --the charged cloud and t1(0
earth Om Stir fa the intervening
space acting as an Insulator. The Sir
u (1 Nampa
tends to keep apart. the electricity 1n
1lat:l: the clouts; but the energy eaele5
The Greek oveuputfo" of Asia antler through, and thin is whet 0,,' leen-
• Is commemorated. in certain Turkish .
mitem" ennrhnt,,r ^5 to deal with.postage 5taps, overpriete1 in Cee c
clatu(1(10, "Ae112'ofc Ocou2+a1inn of 'ometin:es the upwards (11lrunt 11.01!1
Cydonia," and iscttrd in the San alt of the earth, which is :deo ehne'5ed with
J eleetrieity, neutrailze4 the C'•large true
Iv23'asai. the cloud, :tit that 11 11•,1 11tv115 t0
Armenia will shortly be repls-1nt'sl earth and there will 1:e no strep,-: but
by stamps letlued by the il.epublic of the climax is reached trhe'!> ,Ir, clot
Azerbajannn, whose carnal 1, teen id
port of Flakis filled to bursting point by other
clouds discharging into it. Then the
-.-. - --- --_ - — . resultant flash develops en,;•g,v which
CROSBY'S
KIDS Elephants as Swimmers. may split a massive oast tit fragments
•
WILLIE WANTED TO 13e A FLY
i3t.CAUSc" HE'D GET MORE.
i.e.Ct2GAh1 /1+ NICKEL
Treating Severed Nerves.
When a limb is amputated. speefol
attention has to be paid to the nerves.
Elephants de their hest work i11 and one] blocks of stuns to a consider.
floating streams, worsting the timber able distance.
with tete current, releasing logo from
Jams and rolling the stranded loge We see in the papers after a severs
had( into the wuter. The elephant storm that "a thunderbolt" has fallen,
drivel's have a special "elephant" long- This and another popnlnr superstition
nage which the animals uncleretand— - namely, that there is a protected
a special elephant vocabulary, with slihce under a lightning conductor --
such terms as "Push sideways,' were finally dielte11121 by the Light.
"Roll," "Pull out," "Stop," "Lift your ning Research Counuittee'l report.
• (bans," It. is very interesting and ex We Ile.: know that fee so-called
Mang to watch the elephants at work "thunderbolt" 15 a very powerful flash,
in high water, says a ruied traveller, which eietalh0 the grounee Iden It buret.
They are nlagniiioent swimmers. ilig shell, The Intent of a liodun)ng
When they 801111 from Mink to bank, - stroke on an insu1Ilcleutly protected
herding the logs that r': quire their 1 -building may he Cnnipare:1 to the et
special attention, you see nothing of i feet of a very heavy rainfall en a
them except the tips of their trunks,
through which they beer:the, and the
mahouts, or drivers, who are general-
ly in water up to their waists. if a
'An Exploded Myth.
big ::tack or Jam breaks suddenly
where elephants are working, they
know the danger of being overtaken.
They trumpet and clear off to either
bank or swim downstream as fast as
they can go: I once saw an elephsnt
working at the head of a Jam slip off
rt roclt into deep water and got swept
nder the stack, We all believed that
le was a goner, bet every now and
hen we were surprised to see his
rtlule come upcthrongh the logs, such
11 a long breath, and disappear, The
runk would reappear each time fur -
her downstream. He finally emerged
t the foot of the jam, very 10121')1
sewn, but otherwise none the worse
Lor his accident. But 11e would not go
oar It pile of timber in Niger water
01' a year afterwards. This partieu-
ar work is called "hounding,"
u
For these, as Dr. Edred 11, Corner 1
pointed out in Itis recent Iialvelan t
lecture in London, have the peculiar t
power of regenerating, 'Phey will in- a
rade all contiguous muscles, to a wild b
growth between the cells.
The pain consequent on an entente- 11
tion is due to the cutting of the L
nerves; It passes away Ina few days. I
But if the wound be infected the in-
fection spreads to the nerves and pro-
duces. neuritis. .
Dr. Corner said the divided Nerves
must be cut short, their months must
be closed and infection must be avoid-
ed by abstaining from handling and
manipulation.
The difference between a hog and a
profiteer ,is that a hog is satisfied
when he has enough,
Rod Rattles,
Brake Lode or outer Pods beneath tyle
carr sometimes slap against each other
or against other metal parts. To lo-
cate this trouble have one person
drive the car while another sits on
one of the forward fenders and listens
for the noises. If the horn is gripped
tightly and the rattles cease it is rea-
sonable to blame the horn,
Wealthy Fliers in Japan
Wealthy men in Japan have turned
to airplaining as a sport. Many of
those who made fortunes during the
war in manufacturing munitious and
building ships are neglecting their mo-
tor cars to devote time to skimming
through the air. The Japanes0 Gov-
ernment is encouraging the innova•
Lion In every way, for it is realized
that the more persons who indulge in
the pastime the greater will bo the
prospects of progress in aviation in
the Island Kingdom.
Japanese have a natural leaning to-
ward aviation, for, lilte the Chinese,
they are great kite fliers, young and
old indnlgiiig in the sport. Large kite -
flying tournaments are held and coin -
tests take place in which the fliers
compete for prizes awarded he Judges
by a point system that is ihard for an
Occidental to understand,
In aviation most of the machiIles
used havo been of foreign stake, but
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i> is eepected that the home produc-
tion will equal sono both the govern-
ment demand and that for recreational
purposes.
Tsunetaro Ogurf, a civil aviator, was
delegated by the Mitsubishi firm to
Dome to the United States to study the
latest military airplanes. The com-
pany is having an extensive aviation
factory designed funder the direction
of Dr, Ito and items bought 0 foreign
patent for flying motors. Twenty
operatives were sent to France and
Italy by the firm to look into all latest
Improvements in the aviation Rue,
The company expects to devote most
of its energies in supplying planes to
the Japanese army,
The Kawasaki Shipbuilding Pont.
patty will establish a factory for 11y-
ing machines near Robe, its output to
be designed mainly tot the Mikado's
navy, Lieut, klimesu was sent to
France to glean pointers for the pro-
ject,
a JOST c'1s wf ZACi<
2' TO ca FT MY
"1 dt talli�vSG. THAs' 311
YOU WERE. ('
51i'f11'4e1 Cyr(•
11011s0 wllicll has in: ufi'.eftut 1g,ltte 421
a11t1 rafh•water PIP1s. 1'1'-' 0 1(1', ha.
for' it eau escape, will la•e1nb;y flood
the building. A e(31421e 11512 !ling'0'od,
fired to the chunm.ey-0111(('. will do itv
part by receiving snore of the (lash:
but in the set of striking, thle tla:thes
are givens off, which may valise tire
and give a lot of trouble as they zig:
zag in all dit•ections.
Instead of relying on one or more
condurtorswitlt elaborate ments--often
stout se useful as a si^,l,h 42111 in
•
seethed with the lverde "Lightning
please stl'ilte 11'1'23"1—the whole of the
roof should be prepared to receive lite
stroke by connecting op all the metal.
work. Tents lead flats are joined to
railings and relit -water gutters, nue
every chimney and projecting 111111(1
should have its own conductor of shall
wire standing up a foot. 1(r so 11101'0,
P115 whole system Is Intelr'lmecteiI,
and the violence of a flash is thus di-
verted Into many c+hanuets. sly using
the rale -water Pipes as necessary
down -conductors, the flash will be
tamely led to earth by a number of
11111110,
\silos; a leave still to arrange for what
is perhaps the most important part or
tdle instailatlon - the eauth-connec•
tions. To simply bury the rod is 13140•
less, as in a few years the soil would
dry up and leave then( disconnected,
They are therefore connected to plates
buried in moist ground. These, how-
ever, are now being superseded by the
patent tubular earth -conductor. A.
small perforated pipe is driven into
the ground, and the conductor dropped
inside and surrounded with carbon.
It is astonishing to lend how this
part of the installation is often neg.
lected. In ono case the conductor was
found Just under the surface, stuck
into a bottle, When the writer was
examining the old conductors on st,
Paul's Cathedral he found many of
them inside some dry earthenware
9190s1 quite insulated from the earth
Rtissiart Crown Jewels
Stoles/.
Part of the crown jewels oL Russia
In possession of Prince Youssoupoff,
in whose palace In Russia the n0tol'1•
one stoner Ilaspntin was (tilled, have
been stolen from his flat in the west
end of London, says a 1055111 London
despatch, The theory le that the
theft was oho work of Bolshevists,
who traced the crown jewels to Eng-
land, robbed the fiat of their t0m90r'
sly possessor anti intend to send then
back to Russia tm swell the soviets'
depleted coffers. The Jewels are
valued -at $285,000,
Prince Yp 5501190ff, despite his loss-
es in Russia, Is one of the wealthiest
Rnsehlns in England, 11011 his flat is a
rallying place for dieting:0811yd Rue•
elane in exile,
A Natural Question.
Little ,\Tb1lie was on his first vielt to
the fade. I'Io was beim; ehmen about
the place when he emir a 0.I5V grazing
in the pasture, He was greatly excited
and asked;
"fib, uncle, what 18 that?"
"Pkat is only a cow," replied his
uncle,
"And what aro those deluge on hnr
head?"
'I•Iorlis;' he t111swo1a3,
They turned to go back when the
Cow mooed long end ions, Looking
Wok, he donralldetit
"Which horn did she blow?" •