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The Brussels Post, 1920-1-8, Page 6eree Make Old Tires Pay You. If you are accustomed •to sell old • tires to the junkman for a few cents you will be interested in the way that one man makes them pay him big mileage. The average fabric tire consists of four ply of fabric covered with the body of rubber. Oftentimes the £abrie of the tire is but slightly injured when the shoe is discarded. This man cuts the beading from the old tires, and then with a vise and pliers he removes the three inside ply of fabric, alter the edge is beveled with a knife it make=s a serviceable, reliner which will add several hundred mites to the service .f another tire. If the fabric .is bad in places it can be cut lute sections for blowout patohes. The only part of the tire of value to the junkman, tee rubber sure • face, can ;:ill be soli. 03D1 To Dust and Polish the Car. A serviceable liquid for polishing and dusting the car is easily made thus: Add a half pint of turpentine to a pint and a half of lubricating oil. The best way to wee this is with a ' hand spray such as is used for spriq - ing cows. First spray the mixture on the body of the ear; then wipe it off with a piece of cheesecloth. The result is a polish which is very satis- factory in appearance and quite last- ing in eifeet. Like other liquid polish- es the spray must be used to get the best results. Cut Slots for Cotter -Pins. When overhauling an automobile or tractor—or any farm machine for that matter—there are always a great many bolts that have castellated nuts to be held in place by cotter -pins. When these are replaced, there is n?ie mud, difficulty in inserting the eatter-pins because it is impossible to tell just where the cotter -pin hole in the eon es. Tl:e work will be favili- t tated a great deal if a slot is made o the end of the bolt with a file or haek-saw. Dave the slot running i the same direction as the cotter -pi hole. Then it will be easy to te when the castellations of the nuts a en the right place for easily insertin tate cotter -pin, Cheap Casings Are -Expensive. There are' a lot of points to Lear in buying automobile tire casings. On is not to buy a cheap casing, and ex pect your money's worth, One of the valuable things we hay learned in our eleven .years with motor car, has been to buy a nenw inner tube to install into every ne easing that is purchased. The bette and heavier this tube the more wea in miles we can figure from a tire For this reason, a good new inn tube will keep up the proper amount of inflation, because it holds the air pressure required, and because the tire is not running half flat or poorly inflated, breaking the side walls down and causing friction in the fabric of the tread. This is the most valuable thing we have learned in tire buying and serv- ice, and we have learned many. This alone will more than save you the price of the best inner tube in course of your wear on casings. Cleansing Cooling System. To give a thorough cleaning to the cooling system disconnect the short piece of hose between radiator and cylinders. Connect the garage hose with the radiator. Connect a piece of hose five or six feet long with the discharge pipe of the cylinders, so that it will carry the water away from the truck. Start the motor and the water will be pumped through the entire system, The treatment should be continued until the water comes through clear. It may be necessary to flush the system out with a solu- tion oi' hot water and washing soda. 11 a 0 11 11 re g WIRELESS WONDERS ONDERS YET TO COME BRITISH NAVY WRITER FORETELLS FUTURE, When Battleships Will Never See Each Other and Aero- planes Direct Gun -fire, The British Navy is so secretive that very few people have any idea of the rapid strides it made in many techni- cal matters during the war, eays a British naval expert, in torpedoes alone our oxperhuent- sierr have introduced small changes since the bettle•of Jutland that praeti- e' tally make the torpedo a new weapon. al It is much the same with wireless, ,.both Inc telegraphy and telephony. Most people imagine that the Navy's wireless is the same as Marconi. It r ` is not. ,, The basis le ' ne same, but r warlike requirements aro so different ' from those of commerce, that the gear er used in the Navy now has been de- veloped iii matters of detail on lines Mat are poles away from the Marconi system. The fundamental difference is this — that commercial wireless seeks to stake communication general, while naval wireless seeks aecrece. in the early months of the war our skilled operators found that they could deduce from certain factors in Ger- man wireless signals, not only what class of ship they were overhearing, but actually which ship of the class was sending the message. Answered in Three Minutes, ASbastos Production. The nre rinse:. of Uuebee fs lite vicecide chic' seure0 of asbeetos, The I Catlarlian nrovinee is producing 00. per cent, cI' titr. tet 11 output of this miner• al Rimer:& le the eaIef produeet out- side farads, the ziebestoe being mined in the Vend dietrites. Before the pre. sect 'oni,1,( in most of the'. eapee. of teat country v:etit to Ger-' ma.;' incl hit 0 very email portion reeeltee tis eozeinent. _tents ie e IUuuus etaiety of the : t neeeseleerpen.me, and tic varieties are met with. e,mphibole and chryso-i lite, The former is ankh the inferior, 1 haelim nein! of the (!nines, of fibre„ 8 ems I 1e mammoth or the flexibility oft;, , miar:;cete The Canadian de. I wit- e of tie. variety chrysolite, and it .tcc•tlrs unit in serpentine rock. ti1(1 ,.1 it ie esseutiel 111 chemical composition. The present workable' :deposits in Canada are, with the ex- ceptiee of the Danville quarries, con tined to file townships of Bronghtolh,'s Tien i'ti. and Coleraine in East Que- bee. '1'i-:• toes length of this prodnc- i tee , re-et:;mane belt is 23 miles, with a Wi,iM varying from 10t) feet in the: p er;renc: easterly part to 6,0(10 feet in' c the Meek Lake area, Actual mining j began :Mont 1880. The deposits are't worked by open quarrying, the long -'ti -t „ry Berne a,...iu, being readily separ-' w ated, whilst the entailer material is nareltilly- robbed. This operation was at first accomplished entirely by hand, but mechanical treatment has beeu gradually introduced and perfec{ed un• til large mills are in operation in which the rock is broken and crushed in various ways, and the ilberized as- bestos taken up from screens by suc- tion fans, and blown iuto collectors or settling chambers. The demand for asbestos is greater has the supply. Varying with the grade the prices range widely, As high as $300 is paid for No, 1 crude per short ton, Canada's total produc- ion in 1917, the last year for which gores are available. was 153,781 tons, If. a total value of 87,234, Egg -eating Snakes, A queer African species of snak which lives on eggs, has a toothlike pike projecting downward from .its backbone, just behind the head, which i I s tipped with enamel, When it swallows an egg the latter asses down the gullet until it en- ounters the spike, which breaks the hell. Thus no part of the fluid con- ents is lost, as would be the ease iii le snake were obliged to bite the egg ith its muuth-fangs. Canada's Water Power Figures published by the Dolninion that the provinces of Quebec, Ontario Water Power Branch indicate that the and Manitoba obtain 95 per cent, of total water -power available through- their central station power from the out the Canadian provinces is morel same source, Norway mote of the than 18,000,000 horse power, and the countries of the world exceeds Canada name table illnstrates the fact that in per capita water -power develop. l not ten per cent, of this hes been de- meat: veloped thvonght the Dominion. Not- Greet ,is is the pre --eat use if watet•- vrithstauding this, the principal cities power le Cnenea the hoover developed a d a h That was all very well from our point of view, but if we could do that to the Germans, it stood to reason that they might be doing the same thing to us. And straightway we had to bend all our energies to the evolving of wireless systems that were proof against eavesdropping. It was done, but the method must remain, for the present, a secret. Wireless replaced flag and search- light signalling to a great extent in the Grand Deet, It had to, because a vast concourse of ships like that could never all be within visual range of the i flagship at one time. 1 On a sweep through the North Sea, i for example, Admiral Jelifcoe's ships would be spread out over a front of 104 miles. So his orders had to be transmitted by wireless if he was com- pelled to make any change in his original plane for the sweep. These orders had to be transmitted with all I possible secrecy, and at great speed. I When the war began, our wireless staffs were not sufficiently trained in "team Work" The Commander -in - , Chief found that it took nearly a quar- ter of an hour for an order issued by i him through wireless to be aehnow- ledged by every ship in the Fleet. And in a quarter of an hour a great deal can happen in an action afloat, with ships moving at nearly 25 miles au hour. So intensive training had to he in- troduced just for that one detail, the acknowledging of orders, with the re- sult that soon any orders sent out from the flagship could be answered by the entire fleet in a little less than three minutes. When one remembers there were 161 British ships at Jut- land, it is clear hat the feat was no easy one. How U -Boats Were Trapped. Wireless telephony afloat made great strides, too, The American ships which operated with ours, and particu- larly the submarine chasers that work- ed from Queenstown, made consider- able use of it. 'The telephone was fitted in the chart-hou_ e of the chasers with a loud speaking -t empet, The captain therefore did not have to watt for an operator to send him the nh:i-sage after it had been written doe te it was spoken right into his 1-.0. Ile could carry out, Without an instant's loss of time, any change of hearing that was necessary to bring 1101 and This cargo of depth charges on the track of the submarine. I heard these telephones at work on more then one occasion. Their range was abort, it is true, but that was of no consequence with a flotilla of hasers all concentrated in a small roc, and it was uncanny to hear a vMee Suddenly bellowing out of the !stance news of a periscope on such nd such a bearing, with another voice ollowing a couple of seconds later frem another direction, giving another caring, A great dial in front of the compass enabled the captain at once to "plot" le two bearings, and where they in- rsected was approximately the Post- on of the submarine that we could tend emetically all the smaller towns represents hu+ it :nihil proportion of teed vitt ,e.:, are supplied with hydro- the [011(1ahh- :legatee. As ]las been electric energy, and the snrphle pro- shown, howevee. thio development has duction allover, of exportation from the increased 1114110 11151 propOrtinnetely Canadian l,revinees to adjoining to the clennuul in Canada, to the ex - states acmes: the border tent of being able to supply some of The extent to which water power en- the northern states. 'Phe develop- ters into the ordinary life of Cana- treat of urhw electro -chemical and duns is strikingly illustrated by the electro -metallurgical processes has figures given. The census shows that more than 1,700,000 horsepower was derived from water -power, whilst steam provided barely 180,000 Ihorse- power, and other sources less than lately increased the demand, and its growth will, no doubt, be further ac- celerated as the increasing cost of fuel causes railways end manufacturers to substitute Hydro for fuel power where - 12,000 horse power. It is also shown ever possible, FOW ARE THE. nJOLOs Ilisli YOU ARE'TAKING GARtE pg p'OR,r-)E•41:T'riN' DEAUTi K't)t Lee - MY til)°„,enee4in15 4l1ARtJ1N4 TI-l6{y NOW... I'LL M , 4ET THEM• tl te ti not see, but towards which we Im- mediately swung, This natter of bearings was of in1- lnenss value to us in tracking the U- boats. They used their wireless to communicate with each other, and nearly even' message was caught by tate special listening -posts that we es- tablished all round the coast. Shell -fire of the Future. Each post reported to a central sta- tion the bearfug from which it heard the message, A line drawn on the chart frown the post la the given direc. tion would cut across another lines drawn from another poet which had reported the same message; the Paint of intersection was the position of the U-boat, I have seen In the Base Intelligence Offices of one of our principal naval bases great charts covering a whole wall of the room, on which the move- ment of every Getman submarine at sea during the ween was plotted. It was all clone by intelligence helped by wireless. There was no need of paid spies to give us that information. Another great development is the reporting of movements by scouting aeroplanes. In the great "Spider's Web" patrol, which the Felixstowe flying men carried out in the North Sea, wireless reports were continually sent regarding suspicious sights in the sea. In the future, this aspect of wire- less is going to be more imporemit still, because it will be used in eon. junction with long-range guns. The time is coming when our war- ships will fire shells so far that the nfen in the spotting -tower on the mast will not be able to see the fall of the shells, or the splash they make. An aeroplane observer will do it from his moving perch in the air, and on his in- formation the gunnery officer will make the necessary corrections In de- flection and elevation of his guns. Dug Rubies Most Expensive. Many people will be surprised to know that even during the war deal- ers in precious stones did quite good business. The reason for this .is that while ordinary investments may, in times of stress, decrease in value, the purchaser of jewels has a fairly secure method of hoarding up his wealth. The diamond merchant's art re- quires more knowledge and skill than any other profession, and even the most cunning dealer is sometimes liable to be caught napping, You can take two rubies that are the same in every respect—weight, cutting and lustre—to a dealer to be valued, and after a few minutes with a lens or microscope, he may tell you that one is worth practically nothing and the other a fortune. If you looked at them under the glass you would see that both have minute air bubbles in then., but in one stone these bubbles will be dis- torted and will seem to flow along de- finite' lines; while in the other they will be spherical, and will, perhaps, be arranged about the centre. This is just the all-important difference; the former was mined in Burma, while the latter was made in the laboratory. The Burma ruby may be inferior to the manufactured one, which has been produced by artificial heat. in .a blow- pipe; yet you will have to pay ten tines the price for it, simply because it was dug from the earth. Paste stones are readily distinguish- able from the genuine by the fact that all spunious gems of this sort are soft; they can be scratched by a piece of quartz, and no real gem of the trans- parent sort can. Since the earliest tines twenty-nine tons of diamonds have been taken from the earth, After being cut and polished their weight is, of course, considerably reduced, A box three feet high, six feet wide and eight long, would hold the world's total output of these genas in their finished condition, and would have a market value of about $5,000,000,000. New Fountain Brush, lilany are the uses of n new foam taln brush with a hollow handle from which any liquid or paste can bo fed to the bristles by utanipulatiug a valve with a thumb, Alberta creameries continue to re- ceive large 'orders for butter from Owned, one firm recently shipping four carloads from Edmonton to .BeI- gium, The consignment was made up of 200,000 fifty-six pound tboxes. 'Phe same firm 'shipped four hundred thou- sand boxes to Belgium. With steady outside demand for butter, Alberta farmers are being kept very busy, In addition to the shipments for Europe and the .East, big shipments are being made weekly to -the Western Coast, both to the Canadian and 'United States cities, BRINGING UP FATHER J1445 -.DEAR* MERE `SOU vat. "(Go AREtaMA44igZRIN4 DOWN 'THE 4eLn t POOL. • i tiNID 401.0 -Fitt- New Meat Pr educing Area • ' The reeominendatfona of the ocu1' mission headed by Dr, J. G. Rather - ford, of which Vilhjamur Stefansson, the noted Aretio explorer, was 11, men1, her, who were appointed to invest!, gate the Canadian north as a meat.producing area, may open up for Canada it new industry (almost limit- less in extent—the raising of reindeer for meat, There has been a good deal of ate tontion directed lately to the poten- tiatitles of do Arctic and sub -Arctic regions of Canada as a grazing coun- try, and the report of the members of the commission is that these areas are thickly covered with an abundant growth of vegetation in the slimmer, which forms nutritious fodder for grazing animals during both seasons. In the north of Canada there is at least a million £421,111 1'0 miles of such laud, where the husk ox and the rein- deer graze in the open the year round, The dimensions of the reindeer indus- try 10 Lapland and Siberia, and es- pecially the great development of the herds of Alaska, are sufficient to urge the government aid private enterprise into utilizing these fruitful grazing vasts. There are from twenty to thirty million caribou living on these north- ern barrens, and biologically the rein. deer is practically identical with this animal. Stotansson, who probably knows northern Canada better than any other milli, is an ardent advocate of the reindeer industry, and in els lectures relates stories of fabulous wealth made by Alaskan ranchers, The development of the reindeer in - (Justly in nortllcrn Canada would re- present a very important addition to the meat production of tile D0111111 1011 021d of the whole world. The yahoo end palatablonees of reindeer flesh for food purposes 18 well established, and it is highly nutritious- With the de- pletion of graaing lands the world over, and the gradual exclusion in Canada of the randier to make way for the farmer, the sub -Arctic, which can never be suitable for the growth of cereals, offers opportunities for a new and permanent industry. CROSBY'S KIDS Tallest Structures in the World. Feet Colossus Of :Modes 105 100 365 450 400 490 510 55 Pantheon. Ile me St. Isauc's, Lit. Petersburg Great Pyremi11 of Cheops St, Peter's, Ronne Rouen Cathedral Cologne Cathedral ashington Monument Metropolitan Tower, Now York„ 700 Woolworth Building, New York . • 750 Eiffel Tower 984 World's Biggest Cheese. A cheese weighing 31,964 pounds was manufactured at Appletop, Nis„ June 17, This enormous product re- quired the milk of 12,000 cows, lo- cated on 1,800 farms, Seventy -threw cheese -makers, representing fifty fac- tories, took part in making the cheese, Tltje container weighed 8,000 pounds, and when the top was forced down an ice -house was built around the cheese. After aging in the ice -house the cheese was shipped to Chicago, where it was exhibited at the National Dairy Show. The Molmaison carnation is Queen Alexandra's favorite flower. Industrial Investigation. While the Canadian Reconstruction Association has been conducting gen- eral campaigns for the development of domestic and foreign markets, and for scientific investigation and utiliza- tion of natural resources, it has also been active in stimulating public in- terest In the national value of endue - trial development. To this end it has made extensive use of motion pic- tures, and it now has half a dozen films in the picture houses of the Do. minion. The pictures deal with vari- ous industries and illustrate not only Baal processes of manufacture, but al- so stages of progress from. the em- ployment of raw materials to the finished products. The variety of sub- jects is illustrated by the titles, which include the iron and steel, woolen, ag- ricultural implements, pulp and paper, sugar, and cocoa and chocolate indus- tries, The pictures are being shown in seventy -flue per ceut. of the cities, towns 'and villages throughout the Dc - minion which have motion picture theatres, and it is estimated that they are seen by over three-quarters of a million people weekly. The character of these indoetrinl films has made theta acceptable to moving picture houses throughout the country. Being only a thousand feet in length, they eau be shown without any pronounced interruption in the general programmes, and they Have been so tvell received by the public that they are in great demand by film exchanges, For Muscle Measurement, !'rippled soldiers of France draw pensions varying according to dile ex- tent to which they are incapacitated for work, and a machine has been de- vised which is said to indicate this. It measures the mustyfatigue. Mother Remembered. Father (very severely): "Now, look here, Jenny, you must not encourage that young man to stay so late every night. It is simply disgraceful, What does your mother say about it?" Jenny: "She says men have not al- tered a bit, dada' Fashions in ladies' dress in ,Japan have remained practically the same for 2,500 years. Oil Development in Canada Since the termination of the war, resumption of interest and activity in oil discovery and development through- out Western Canada has been very keen. Oil was first struck in Alberta at Okotoks, near Calgary, October 7th, 1910. In the Tlberta fields, particular- ly in the Calgary-Okotoks sector, where for some years there have been paying wells, there has been persis- tent and continuous progress in de- velopment during the summer, which recently bore fruit in the striking of oil in a new well on the Alberta -Illin- ois holdings near Nanton. This well is modeling from 40 to 60 barrels per day and increasing rapidly iu capacity. The Imperial Oil. Company, which for the past few ,Years .has had the best geologists and oil experts procurable investigating prospects in Alberta, bee been induced, as tiro result of these experts' reports, to invest $2,000,000 in the introduction of drilling outfits, and commencing on twelve wells covering various sections of the coun- try from the Okotoks field to Peace River. On the top of this prairie develop- ment comes the news that a large ;company, known as the Amalgamated Oil Company, Ltd., of Canadian capi- talists, has been organized to develop the Kootenay field Of British Columbia which has bean so favorably reported on My government and other geo- 1ogists. This compeer has acquired a large area in the Kootenay district, including a government lease et 30,- 000 acres, ,,and is already drilling through two leases to American com- panies, Indicatimis of ell anti gas, so far, have been reported as eminently satisfactory, and the analysis of the oil shows it to be of high grade and of greater oche than the average. This -extensive scope of develop. ment tends to show the prospective area the western oil fields occupy, and that there is a, tremendous region only awaiting proper development in order to determine its possibilities, WrL,L.TT.ME'I,OL}-FltH ARZ.ttl HERE ne COAL RESOURCES OF R. COLUMBIA RANKS SECOND ONLY TO ALBERTA. Most Productive Mines Have Advantageous Location on Pacific Seaboard. The province of British Columbia, so weathy jn its minerals, ranks', second only to Alberta among the pre-. vines of Canada in its possession of coal resources. Generally, however,; the mineral le of a finer quality than in the prairie province, and the deposite. consist of a greater percentage of high grade coal. British Columbia's re- source of this mineral 11 one sixteenth of the Dominion's total suptly and re - 1 presents 1,028 of the total estimated resource of the globe. The total tone tage of the deposits underlying Br1t(8b „ Colun.bia foveete is 3.0,521 minion tons, which is made up of 670 million tone of anthracite, 77,290 of bituminous, and 5,868 of lignite. The actual and probable re,erves in the province are semi -anthracite, 1.9 per cent.; bitu- minous, 85.4 per cent„ law -carbon bltuminoni, 3.3 per rent.; cannel, 2.4 per cent.; llgnitio, 7 per cent. At present there are three main districts where mining operations are being actively pursued. These are the Crows Nast Pass region, in the south- eastern part of the province: the Ni- cola Valley district in the central part, and the eastern side of 'Vancouver 18. land. Besides these. other coal basalts are known and more or 1448 prospect- ed, but the lack of transport and com- munication has hampered any exten- sive development yet, though they constitute a reserve of great possibili- ty. The Crows Nest Field. The Crows Nest coal field is the most Ilnportaut body of coal being mined iu British Columbia, and in- cludes an area of 250 square miles, The coal is high grade bituminous, oc- casionally running into anthracite, averaging (14 1ler eent. fixed carbon. There are workable ;cams with a total tteknese of 21') feet, 110 feet of which ie estimated -s workable, le addition to titin there are other roan bearing areas In etinthern British Co- lumbia, eatable. at Princeton; where thele le a field of 50 equate utiles. and at Nicola, where :teams from 6 to 111 feet have beet, mined. The Nicole coal is sulebitennin. 10 and elialyees ah;lut 47 per cent. fixed car1ou. 30 per Nett. volatile. and 4 per cunt, nee:;ture, Vancouver Island and Other Fields. Thetotal in Vel,cou r Island un- derlain by coal .;'am to :,boot G00 square miles, and there coal iields con- tain _eliteeof the beer eteana coal on the Pacific coast. The real of the Co- mex field is coking hituminous, and contains 57.2 per cent fixed c•arboth„ the highest carbon content of all the Vancouver Island coals. The Nanaimu field has a productive area of 65 equare miles, though the area underlain by coal seams is larger than this. The coal fields of tate Queen Charlotte Islands . rang" from semi - anthracite to low•carbon bituminous in their deposits, whilst lignite is also found. 50 Central British Columbia lignite is fouud at Alexandria, Qaesnol, and Prince George on the Fraser, on the Nano river, Nechako river, Dean river and Lightning creek, Three rich Baring 80000o exist on the Marko iver, and three on Goat river, In the northern part of the province he most important curds thus far dis- overed are the semnanthracite and the anthracites of the Groundhog Maintain area. Rare, an area of 170 quare miles Is assumed to be coal - oaring, and contains eight 800111s with aggregate thickness of 30 feet, The location of' -the British Colim- a coal fields has a great bearing oa oft' inpOrtanco• Oue of the most reductive mines of the Dominion in Mated on the seaboard of the .PaciRo art, which Is of the highest impor- nce from an industrial and Imperial • endpoint. The thine has a consider - le submarine extenelou, and is for - nate in possessing n tine natural, rbor. Another fine field, also, .is ad - trebly located in the proeimlty of a metal reining i (10501y and within sy reach of the copper and lead tent:1g contras of both the southern rt of the Province and the sdjolu- g states to the south. Why Rings Lose Settings. 'Why is it that W0tnen'8 rings lose, elr st0nea eo mach more frequently 411 men's, ovsu 11 1110 settlu$ is elan - alit Asa man's ring usually re-: Ives rougher treatment to the oeurse' his went than does a woman's, thq poeito would a,ppaar logioai, 'rho ptam(tioli tie that welbmade rings ldotu Lose sets even usder rough age unless the` tittle po1ntt t4ott1i id the steres aro work, a1l(1 thoSq o om011'4 flags Woa' tebter, !1ii1n` Ater wear is due too the tett ei data, we en wean 61eves 00 Milch more' endo, and it is tate easetanl frit tine the 010y9 wish weAra itwjV htf:�i tura ,-Fifa tlf tall c visit{lit; palttts 11 1'1111 8 '01' , c atlafwant1' wo p114 { oved they 3 torrid.i4 Kvibt g j vfaxer out`t y tion an4,proba 1h i9'.reptivi se the Ioair•of tlto stones ni4y4 I oin\ the Worn colidltioh 'Orthe "rot' b 1 t c le a b an bi th P si eo to st ab to Ila n th ea 50 pa In th th tic of rap cx 0e tis ho w to 111 lu su { 0 13014 ,4, ,Ail singiq itpin q dye. l alaittifa ttut f 4atok C¢4vNi,`�� t'e Awit rsst•.,..pi-. .e,r.,1040a,aaa,,.....,tat* �J,;,tael ,1(fletee