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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-11-27, Page 2Some Battery Pointers. A battery should be kept clean of dirt and moisture. It looks a great deal better to see the top and sides' clean; also, the battery is sure to work better. A battery that is damp all the time' from flooding (caused by adding too' much wester) can not be kept in al good charged state, for the moisture; on the outside creates a short circuit. The battery case should be wiped with a dry cloth .to absorb all the moisture.; and then the surface should be rubbed again with a cloth saturated with 'either ammonia or soda to neutralize the acid that is present on the ease. .After this treatment wipe the battery dry again. It es a common sight to see the posi-' tive pole of the battery covered with a greenish deposit which is caused by the battery solution creeping up the post and attacking the metal' bushing and cable ends which unite the positive pole of the battery to the' line. This deposit should be cleaned off carefully and the part should be brightened up to make a good firm' connection. Afterward. dress the pole with vaseline before tightening up again. If the battery post is loose in the cell cover, little can be done for it, unless you take it to some battery service station and have it tightened.' Never allow your battery to freeze.' Freezing will do serious damage to its vitality. If it is kept charged it' will take 40 deg, below zero, F., to I freeze it. If the gravity of the elecea trolyte drops to 1.150 it will freeze' at 10 deg. F. If you have decided to lay your car up during the void season, you must make some provision for your battery during that time. You will do well to take it to soma battery service sta- tion until you are ready for it again, When a battery is idle at such a time, at least one charge a month is needed to keep it healthy, and to prevent the battery disease known as sulphation from coming on. This sulphation is a serious complaint, but can be prevent- ed by keeping the battery charged and supplied with enough water at all tines to kep the plates. covered so that air will not strike them. When your battery begins to show - signs of failing, by such a thing as _ . short-circuits when the separators' are wearing through, it would be a good plan to have new separators put: in at the end of the eceon4 year or be-' ginning of the third year; that is, if you have taken the best care of it and feel reesonahly sure of its in- ternal condition -•-that the plates are in good shape, etc. • Fast driving kept up for hours will surely cause a battery to heat and warp its plates. The lower corners of warped plates will bite into the see-. arators, cut through and cause a snort-cir..nit. If you must drive in sach manner he sure to turn on all the lights for a reasonable time to cut ,'awn the (hanging rate and so shunt come of the current away from the 1 ettery. If you don't do tine, never' utter n complaint if your battery allows 'Agile of eelieriae. A battery that has received hard usage and neglect will likely not re- pay for being rebuilt. Only for those that here been kindly treated can this plan be recommen god. HER EP{DEri THE MIDST LESMI Edward, Prince of Wales. Welcome, thrice welcome, Royal guest! This, "the new nation of the West," Its stores of wealth fling wide to thee, Welcome, our King that is to be, • Hail Edward, Prince of Wales! Mines, rivers, forests, lakes, behold! ; .And widesproed prairies. weighed in gold, Sunlit, the snow-capped mountains • shine. Lift up thine eyes, for all is thine, Our Edward, Prince of Wales. entle boy, with AI, smiling face, A soldier, with true kingly grace; Eyes, from whose orb3 of tender blue A Britain's faith in man shines tree, • Loved Edward, Prince of Wales. Within thy person still must live High laws of liberty, which give To ell the freedom of the great. Do! How tremendous is thy State, Young Edward, Prince of Wales. Yet smile and wave that slender hand. And the whole Empire's thy command; Our Prince, our Soldier, Comrade, Friend, r God keep thee kingly to the end! - Hail Edward, Prince of Wales! Canada's Agricultural Position. The Hon. S. F. Tolsnie, Canada's new Minister of Agriculture, has sum- med up the outstanding facts of Cana- da's agricultural position in an article appearing in the November number of The Agricultural Gazette. He pre- sents statistics showing the growth of Canada's financial burden during the past five years and points out means by which our national debt will be re- duced. He says in part: • "I am confident that this Dominion, through the development of her natur- al resources, will in time wipe out her debt. Forests, fisheries, and mines all contribute their part of the revenue, but by far the greatest returns will be derived from agriculture, which in- dustry we must continue to establish in permanency and increase in magni- tude. One of the greatest responsi- bilities that falls on either the federal or provincial department of agricul- ture is the conservation of the great Wealth that lies in the virgin soil. In- numerable considerations are involved in this one problem, but the whole af- fair can be accomplished if we engage iu mixed farming with live stock as a basis. This is the fundamental prin- ciple underlying success in agricul- ture. "China's Sorrow." China's Sorrow Is a river. the Hoang. Ho, cr Yellow River, so called, doubt- less, because it brings down such vast quantities of nand that its waters are discolored. It has cost Chem. more Lives during the past century, to go no farther bark. than all the wars of all the world, for when the Yellow River takes a fit of flooding the country. it does it on a scale undreamt of by any other river, not even forgetting the Mississippi, its nearest competitor. It simply breaks all bounds, and starts out across the country to find or force a new chan- nel to the sea. Only a few weeks ago it flooded twenty thousand square1 unites of thickly populated country, with a loss of life which can only be guessed at, but more than once the loss has one into millions of human i beings. Il is the sift that is largely to blame. 'If u mighty river keeps filling tip its 1 own channel, and the people who are subject 00 ite floods keep piling up embankments till the sails of the boats on the Hoang -Ho are high above the fields through which It runs. Then comes a great flood which breaks down the embankment, and the waters pour across the country in a devas- tating flood, drowning tens of thous- ands before they can escape, No won- der, then, that the Yellow River is called "China's Sorrow," Fire Fighting or Prevention. Except London, Paris and Berlin, European cities have paid little atten- tion to modern fire protective equip- ment, They have directed their chief energies to fire preveution, Municl- pal expenditures bave been devoted to the control of building construction and maintenance. On the contrary, Canada lies developed very elaborate and efficient fire -fighting facilities. As regards appliances, methods and per- sonnel, the fire brigades of large Canadian and Atuerican cities are incomparably superior to those of other countries. in this course of ac- tion lies one of the essential differ- enees between the respective policies of Canadian municipalities and those of Europe. To prevent rather than to extinguish fires has not impressed public bodies in Canada as being a part of their functions. Consequently, the annual maintenance costs of city fire departments average $1,43 per capita, fire losses $2.96 per capita, and insurance rates $1,18 per capita in Canada as compared with 21 cents, 71 cents and 26 cents, respectively, to Europe. JOST LOOK DAUft11TER HAS PPC ED OUT THE. MOST STYLISH 41FeL HERE TO TALK IO' Testing Seeds for Farmers and Merchants. The Dominion Seed 13reneh with laboratories at Ottawa, Winnipeg and Calgary, reported over 30,000 seed, tests for the year ending June 30th. The growth of seed testing in Canada is indicated from the fact that only 5,775 samples were reported in 1909. The great bulls of the work in our seed laboratories is done between Sep- teml:er and June, when each labora- tory may handle up to 200 samples per day. Only ten samples are tested free of charge for farmer or seed mer- chant during the lesson, Over this number, the service is charged for at cost, Otlicial seed testing is the basis of Government seed control, which in older European countries is rated as a leading Government service to Agri- culture. Any country without an ef- ficient system of seed control soon be, crimes the dumping ground for inferior seeds from other countries, and low- grade homegrown seeds may be sold to unsuspecting fanners. Our system is frequently referred to in other coun- tries as being the most practical and efficient. Its importance is now being better appreciated when it is required that imported seeds are not released from bond until they are approved et the send laboratories, and when cereal grains, flax, corn, as well as clover and genes seeds, are marketed on the iasis of fixed quality seed grade standards. • A New Hulless Oat. The introduction of a good, new variety of hulless oats by the Experi- mental Farms Branch has not perhaps attracted as much attention as it should. Free samples of this variety are now being distributed by the Do. minion C'erealist at Ottawa, The stock on hand is not large, bit as long as it lasts samples will be gladly sent to farmers in almost any district of Cana- da, as it is believed that this oat will be widely useful. The full name of the variety is Liberty, Ottawa 480, It -is derived from a cross made in 1903 between the well-known variety, Swed- Ish Select, and a huliesa oat from China. The new variety is decidedly superior to the old Chinese sort, Threshing out free from hull, this type of oat furnishes a concentrated pro - i duct of extremely high value which has only to be ground in order to make most excellent feed, especially for young pigs and chickens. When care- fully enough cleaned for use as human food, it makes ureal of surprieingiy fine quality, The Liberty oat has very good 'field characters, being rather early in ripening and having reason- ably stiff straw, The yield (so far as kernel is concerned) is equal to about seven -eighths of that of Banner oats. Farmers who are interested in the raising of hogs and chickens are. strongly advised to give this new oat a trial. It has already proven extreme- ly satisfactory in some districts, ---C. E, Saunders, Dominion Cerealist, The. Hint Was Taken. On arriving at his office, the busy merchant--- in funny stories they are always "busy -found that he had left his pocket-knife at 'home. He asked his secretary, and the chief clerk, and one or two others for a knife, but no one had such a thing, ' At last he tried the office boy, who produced a battered affair, promptly. "Ilow is it, Jimmie," said the boss. -that you are the only member of the staff who has a pen -knife?" "Dunne, sir," replied the lad, "un- less it's because my wages are so low that 1 can only afford one pair of troueel•s ! " Facts. Girl babies are Bald to have more vitality than boy babies. Bamboo trees do not blossom 1111 they are thirty years old An ordinary snail travels at an aver - ago speed of one nine in fourteen days. 'fttu purest breeds of Arab horses have pedigrees gong back 000 yeare. Aeroplane engines have been adapt- ed for driving motor -boats and pump- ing machinery. Hares sleep wvith their eyes open, a thin membrane replacing the eyelid which is missing, Of the eight and kehalf million sol- diers who fought for the British Ent - Piro, 996,937 were lost in the field. German submarines take on an average ten weeks to reduce to "scrap," which has a value of about £ 2,600. Poison gas weighing fifteen thous- and tons was supplied to the British armies in the field in 1913. The Canadian Army will be the best paid in the world, privates receiving twelve shillings a day. Cancels are in for week at five years old; although they usually live forty years. nor strength begins to de- cline at twenty -live. Pigeons carried 709 messages for the 1LA,F. between April, 1918, and the Armistice, often saving human lives anti valuable aeroplanes. The Siamese Alava an aversion for odd numbers; in building their houses they strive to have an equal number of doors and Windows, The French mobilized nearly eight million white and half a 111111100 color- ed soldiers. Her losses were• ---kited 1,089,700, and, missing 265,300. Four hundred tanks were in action at one time, not counting "dummies," some of which induced large bodies of the enemy to surrender. The inhabitants of Heligoland make money by trapping larks while mi- grating for the winter; 15,000 of these birds having been caught in one night. Footprints and Faithfulness. A beautiful story has come down from the pioneer days of missionary adventures among tiro Indians of North America. A missionary left a few Pages of the gospel in an Indian vil- lage where he dill not stop long enough to preach or teach. In that settlement he was only a bird of pass- age, so to speak, but he did his best, and the pages came to an Indian in whose heart they struck fire, Meanwhile the missionary had travelled on some two hundred utiles; but the Indian measured the mission- ary's footprint, and in gratitude made hint a fine pair of moecasins,I,. He then tracked the missionary over hill and valley until he found him, and gave him the tokens of his thanksgiving, Men sometimes question the faith- fulness of God. The seed sown seems to come to naught and the price of the best work seems to be only heartache. But is He less faithful) titan man? Aro the promises dead or outworn? Are the old certificates re- voked? He has said, "Thou haat been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things." Is God not still taking the measure of his ser- vant's footprints, and will not the re- ward overtake him, if his faith fail not, as Francis Thompson, in his beautiful poen', The Hound of Heaven, represents the love of God faithfully tracking its object across the years un- til it overtakes him? - It is our lack of faith that baffles Him, The only element of hazard lies within our own power to cure. "In the morning sow tliy seed, --and in the evening withhold not thine hand." God is measuring your footprint. His re- ward will overtake., you sometime somewhere. Beyond Argument. Mr, Quicicrich, the profiteer, was very enthusiastic about his new coun- try mansion. He had altered the plans so often, that now the contractor did not dare to p oosed with a single thing until he had received a positive. ly flual order. The dining -room was a gorgeous af- fair, with "family portraits," in grand gilt frames, while the drawing -room was only to be described as dazzing, When it carne to the study, the con- tractor stuck. So he went to his client. "About the study?" he asked gently, "What scheme of decoration would you like there?" But for once Mr, Quickrich was very decided, "Brown!" tic yelled, "Don't it al. ways say in the papers as great think- ers are found in brown studies?" BRINGING UP FATHER SHE CER-c'AIryL`f KNOW How TO GE.T ley WITH SOCIETY FOLKS --see ,pl 4 ra Plants Have Senses of Sight, Torch and Taste Plants possess at lease; three senses —sight, touch and taste. Though their manner tie oxpreseing their emo- tions is very modest, they are fur front being inert. A very brief micro- scopic study of their life allows that they possess a sentient existence which, though less perfect than that of the higher animals, in some cases 1s equal to the sentient life of the polyps and sponges. Sight is the best developed of the vegetable senses. Bf this sense the plant perceives the light, though it does not distinguish objects. The earth worn, the coral insect and the oyster 0njoa about the same amount of sight; they have no localized visual organ, but they perceive the difference be- tween light and darkness. When a ray of light reaches them they con- tract under the atinlulas. The influence of light is clearly shown by the plant Rept bibs room where thele is only one window: the plant is so eager to get the light that it crosses its stems and turns its leaves broadside toward the window. This action has lea students of plants to say that the plant bends toward the light because the side in darkness grows faster than the other side. The simplest explanation is that the plant perceives the light anal. that it shows 'that it perceives it, The stent of the plant is perceptive; its sonsitivenese of perception goes as far as its root, but the root shows its perception in a different way. If the stem is hellio- tropic the root is negatively heliotro- pic, The stent shows that it perceives the light by turning toward it, the root shows that it perceives the light by turning from 'le just as persons with weak eyes turn from the light and seek the shadow when the light is too strong. A sense equally well developed in plants is that of touch. The sensitive plant is the exemplary case: the lightest touch causes it to furl its leaves and eventually it droops them toward the ground. Naturalists bave explained this action by saying that a touch so influences the leaf that it drives the water to the clepreselon 1n the stent and that the leaf immediately wile for leek of internal moisture. Even if that is true, the plant is in- fluenced by the contact of something outside itself. \Vhen an anintul is la, fluenced in the canto way the result 1s dna to the animal's sense of touch. The sense of taste le an endowment of plants of the lower orders, algia among others, When particles of dif- ferent kinds are thrown in the water among Ole alga:, the plants stake a choice at once and cling to the objects they can assimilate; and if they aro capable of perceiving the savor of their aliments and of choosing certain kinds out of a mass of different kinds, they- may be said to be endowed with the sense of taste, .toeing the higher planta the senee of taste is less com- mon and less easily distinguished, but in manly cases it is undeniably pre- sent, If an insect is set on the leaf of one of the drosera, the tentacles of the plant fall upon tho morsel at once. If a non-nutritive substance is set in tics 801110 place, the plant gives no sign of recognition. The microscope shows that the tentacles quiver as if with delight when they close on 011 agree- able morsel and that the insect se- cretes a special sap at that moment which it does not secrete at any other tinge. At such times the insect is coin - parable to the gourmand whose mouth "waters." Plants possess, Then, the senses of sight, touch and taste. They have given no evidence of other senses, but some branches of the algco 211011ly have two microscopic organa with many grenulations which move inces- santly. The two organs are remark- ably like the organs of hearing of mol- lusks, worms and other low forms of animal life. The creatures of the vegeabte world have a remarkable sense of direction in apace. If a root growing vertically is sot in the earth horizontally, it begins at once to turn the end of its root toward the centre of the earth. The National Oise of France The national dish of France is—pot- au-feu. Its origin dates far, far back, Henry IF., when he became Ming of France, had the words put into his mouth that he wanted everybody in his kingdom to have poule-au-feu (a fowl in the pot) every Sunday, and ever since the working classes and the people in the country districts look upon the pot-au-feu as the great Sun- day dish, In the time of Henry the 1V„ it is quite probable that fowls were more plentiful than beef, for now the pro- verbial fowl is replaced by beef,. though the people who can afford it use at least parts of the fowl with a Portion of beef. Properly, pot-au-feu means the bouillon and the boiled neat that is used to make it, whether it be beef or chicken, or both, and one understands in France that both will be served. Both are eaten, not as a matter of economy alone, but by pre- ference. This dish is made alike by bbth rich and poor. Of course, there are different prices for different pieces of meat, and to be sure the poor people take a inuclt cheaper cut, but their bouillon does not suffer unless they economize in the quantity of meat used for each quart of water. It is said that eating in France is a very serious function and surely the eating of pot-au-feu is that. Everyone knows that freehly killed meat is the best for making soup, as its juices have not been unpaired and partially lost by preservation in cold storage. The best cuts of beef for this aro the low and top rouuds, the neck and shinbone, and some like shoulder. The following are the necessary things to be used in making the na- tional dish of France; Two pounds of lean meat from the neck, a knuckle bone and pound of the lower round, or a medium sized chicken, three quarts of water, three teaspoonfuls of salt, a heart of celery, two large carrots, two medium sized turnips, three large leeks, two small onions, four sprigs of parsley, threefourths of a teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet and four cloves, And the soup It prepared in the fol- lowing manner; The carrots are scrapped and the- turnips peeled and cut in slices. The leeks are cleaned and tine white ends cut off. The green portion of the leeks and the parsley and the celery are tied together; the cloves are stuck into the peeled onions; the meat is put into 0 pot with cold water to extract the juice and the pot is then covered and set over a slow fire, Just as soon as the scuts begins to rise it is removed with a skimmer and it should not be allowed to boil until the scum is all removed and the broth 1s clear. If the scum is not removed it sinks to the bottom and makes the bouillon muddy. When the pot begins to boll, put in the onion with the cloves, the carrots 'the turnips and the bundle of green things, cover the pot again and simmer gently for three hours. At tate end of the three hours place the white portion of the leeks in the pot and boil one hour. About four minutes before the dish is to be served, put in the kitchen bouquet. The manner of serving the dish is quite as characteristic of France as anything could possibly be. Cut the slices of bread and then out then' in rounds with a biscuit cutter. Place them on a browning sheet in the oven and brown them through and through. Place them In a soup tureen and then set the soup pot on the stove and let it boil. Fill a ladle with the soup when it is boiling the hardest and pour it through a skimmer into the soup tur- een. A skimmer is used to take out the vegetables, which are served of a separate plate. When the bouillon is served in this manner it is called croute -an -pot, After the soup, the beef is served elaborately garnished with parsley. Tomato sauce, mush- room sauce or mustard is generally served with it. The French cook insists on having e special pot for this especial dish, Nothing else is cooked in it because if used promiscuously foe the cooking of various foods tate fine delicate flavor of the pot-au-feu is lost, This may seem considerable space to devote to the preparation of one dish, but to be less explicit would not bo doing justice, both to the nationel dish and the housekeeper in France, The automobile, the telephone, and the rural mail service have made the country more desirable than the city. WM`f IS iT `coy CAN'T i0ICk 01)11 CLAS$' ( MEN Icy 40 WITI'l - FIND 0(70' WHO THAT GIRL'S FATHER IS AM1CULTtVATFtia11j'HiS t" ACCJ,UAItaITANCE KNOW HER ATHERO' L One knock we all love to hear, and, that is the knock of a chance to do .better, IRELAND. A Derry throe•year-old boy died from the effects of drinking a half - teaspoonful of disinfecting fluid. A greet reception was tendered Sergi-Majos• Boyle, V,O., M,M., on his return to his hone in Now Rosa. singleton Goodwin, county survey- or, Kerry, has boon given a superan- nuation alluwauco of £600 per annum. Sir R. N. Anderson, Lord Mayor of Derry, has been appointed a member of the Royal Agricultural Society. The Chancery Division has issued an order for the administration of the late Teresa Hannuill, valued at £31,- 000. Tho Cork eteauter, Kilkenny, which ran ashore at Yougal, has been re- leased by lowithout sustaining serious damaage.w Two Carlingford farmers, McPart- land and Hanratty, were fined £ 10 each for removing potatoes out of a scheduled black scab area, William Monte, M.P„ occupied the chair at the half -yearly meeting of County Tyrone Grand Royal Mace Chapter, held at Dungannon, A claim has been made against the Athlone' District Council and the Ros- common and Westmeath Councils for £1,623 for military property destroy ed by fire. The Nonogh branch of the Dis- charged Soldiers' Federation hau asked the Government. to purchase the Lissenhall estate for -distribution among therm, The Beltu bort, County Cavan, Com- mittee, raised nearly £1,100 for the Irish prisoners of war, Red (Toss and comforts for the troops, The Leitrim County Council has re- ceived a cousctence cheque for £102 as full payment for the burning of a game heath at Klnlough. Reclaim the Wash. The news that the reclamation of the Zuycle]. Zee has begun is interest- ing, because it reminds us of the re- sourcefulness which the Dute;t have ideates Chown in making the most of their country, During the lean years to 00010, Eug- land must see that all her resources are tapped. One of the most serious questions Is that of the land. More land means venter breathing space. It also T11 01110 more food for the People. Why not, therefore, tithe a leaf out of the book of holland, and start reclaiming the Wash?' This is not a new proposition. It is estimated that 111 the seventeenth cen- tury 35,000 acres were reclaimed, This was increased by 19,000 acres in the eighteenth century, and 10,000 more were added during the last hundred years. In regard to the methods of reclaim, tion, I imagine they would be the same as those employed by the Dutch for the Zuyder Zee scllpnre. That is, the areas to be redeemed would first be surrounded by sea walls. Then the water would be poured out at ebb -tide. This is a proposition seriously to be considered. It would do something to relieve unemployment, and shonid be a profitable undertaking In more ways than one. It may even he that King John's Jewels, which are said to have been lost in tete Wash, will be found. Who knows? Fish That Cannot Swim! It sounds strange to say that. there are fish which cannot swim! Yet it is a fact, A. Brazilian fish called the maltila is one of these species of fish. It can only crawl or walls or hop. It Inas a long, upturned snout, and resembles, to an extent, a toad. The =teeter fins of the-ntaltha are quite smolt, -and are not able to act on the water. They only move backward and forward, and are, in reality, thin paws, which are of no service for swiumiing, as aro the. fins of other fishes. The star -fish, which can be seen at our seaside resorts among the rocks or of the shore, is another 1101 unable to perform the aquatic art. It can walk and crawl however, as you doubt- less have observed. Another fish, which, although unable to swim, does not get drowned, is the sea -horse, It is a most peculiar - shaped inhabitant of the sea, and, unlike most non -swimmers, loves the water! Tlten, although not strictly fish, it is interesting to note that such crus- tac0a as crabs, Minim0, erhyfleh, shrimps, etc„ which live in the sea, cannot swim. But the wonder is that they have not tried to emulate their briny brothers and sea -sisters which const tintly pass then by. A HigbeeStandard. The son of the family was home on his first vacation front college. He and his father were discussing antis of the day, and finally the boy re• marked: "I must 807, dad, I hope when I am as old as you are 1'11 know- more than you do." - "I'11 go one bettor my buy," the old man replied, "1 trope that when you are as old as I ata you will know as much as you think you do now," Sugar Beets In lrelaad, Experiments by Government experl have shown that sugar beets eau bo' successfully grown in Ireland, Tho fruits of economy taste ,geed, when the apples of pleasure pall, ✓I 4