HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-5-27, Page 2Shall I Buy a Used Car?
"Buy a new automobile," is the ad-
vice offered by the veteran ear owner
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Tropical Lands in the
Arctic.
Seresat tittles during the past de -
cede the men et the Royal Nortliweet
Mounted Police have investigated
what are known as "ma::tedcu finds"
in vnriens parts of the frozen north.
The remains et Srvera1 of the animals
At the end of the year it will be ltmn'o been remit' se perfectly pre'
'glued at 60 per eent. of its original served that the flesh bus been fresh
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lot price, or thereabouts. During this - enough to eat, and in the stomachs of
'ear, however, you have bad the at least two of them there have boon
found the undigested tropical foods Me
o e prosper ve mo orw e r0
contemplating the purchase of a used
ear. Every year thousands of per-
sons join the army of motor -ear
owners over the used -ear route; and
while many have been perfectly sat-
isfied with the experience gained at
the wheel of a car that has had its
"breaking in," there are a great many
who have a different tale to tell.
Assuming that you do purchase a
used car, you have but one important
Factor in your favor; that is, low de- should be in better mechanical condi-
preciation. If you buy a car that is tion than when in the first flush of its
two year old, it has already lost youth,
about 60 per cent. of its market value; To the man who is determined to •
that is, if it originall • listed at $1,000 made an amazing discovery north of
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service facilities of the manufacturer
and dealer at your call—a generous
portion of it without cost; you have
had the maker's guaranty for ninety
days at least; you have had a car
completely equipped with new acces-
on which they fed.
Supt. A. P. Snyder, comnatuling the
Royal Mounted at Whitehorse, Yukon
Territory, reported to the commission-
er in 1909 that from north of the Por-
cupine River there had come repeated
series and attachments; and your tire rumors of the existence of a wonder -
the
has been proportionate with ful tropical region that was still in -
the use of your car, In addition to 6ul ted by mastodons "Tile Indians,"
these taMeyou have a car that continued Supt. Snyder, "report hav-
neseretains ndan aa, with
appearance af new ing seen the gigantic tracks of these
tress, and one that, with due care, animals."
Little attention was paid to these
stories until in November of 1912 Mr.
C. J. Melnty're and two companions
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it should now be worth in the neigh-
berhood of $400. After a third year
its rate of depreciation is rot so great,
and you may take this two-year-old
ear, run it for another year, and then
sell it for 20 per cent. under what it
cost you, In other words, you could
have the use of the car for one year
for about e80 under normal condition..
Ie. you ',aught 0 neve car in the
same pr class, it would have de-
preciated
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preci ;te i snout X10 per cent., or $400.
at the end of the first year's service.
That $80 against $400 is the hig thing
in the favor of the used -car buyer.
But --
During the year that you have had
become a motorist, andwho is notthe Porcupitre River. They were
limited in his finances, an analysis of travelling by dog sledge, with the ther-
the new and used car problem em- iometer at forty below zero, when to
phoeiz the wisdom of the' eeno- their astonishment the temperature
ed owner's advice: "Buy a new
w crauto- began to rise so rapidly that within a
mobile."space of two hours they had thrown
Tile Question of Speed. - off their warm garments and"the snow
The automobile owwas sett underfoot.ner talks a lot "It seemed," said McIntyre, "as
ahem speed and hears a lot about though we were suddenly passing
speed, but after all just how much from winter to spring:' They soon
speed is necessary or desirable in a came upon the first of numberless hot
car? Unless it is a properly balanced springs. The snow disappeared en -
machine, a speed as high as forty tirely, and dense vegetation took the
utiles an hour is discomfortngto those place of the stunted bush and timber
who are rding. Of course, there are of the plaius. Because of necessarily
some automobiles, either very large slow travel an foot, the explorers were
and long, or else well balanced, in unable to determine the extent of the
wonderful oasis in the midst of arctic
desolation, but they found several
good-sized rivers, flawing with warm
that iiefe ur blase were not me ex- speeds ars not alone disturbing, but water and teeming with fish; the
at its pttrchate have become ex- dangerous, and, although many a man country was alive with bear, caribou,
pensively t;bvious after the first few likes to brag about how fast his car duck, pheasant, wild geese and other
meazrs of service. Used ears rarely ren go, except in an emergency, he game, and they found gold in a num-
carry t1 plete equipment, and to get doesn't go anywhere near the limit bar of the creeks.
the teal ,io;: e. of mete:r'.ng it is neees- I of its capabilities. The chances are McIntyre was to have made a second
the used car • you have had no guar- which one niay ride at express train
ant;,. tram the seller that it would' speed in express train comfort
stand up. and it is more than likely -Normally, however, very high
nary the:: ti::: etc: be fitted with thosethat most of us in driving rarely do
de.lece teat add in your comfort and better than thirty miles an hour, ex-
ecr.:'t'','eree. Man;: of these are in rept for brief flashes or when trying
clueed ,tendard• c isipiaent with to show off, or else in passing some
the new cit.. bur the u ed car buyer other automobile.
of'tn nes ?t• acrd them. It is surprising how little speed is
Ueed-tete . dvertneinents calling at-{ neves: ary, after all, to provide rapid
tear cn to .he";gime" cmditi;,n of the enough progress. It is the driver who
tics ate ceci:r- 1 . but one :elaone sees can rate along at twenty-two to
"all neve i:ir. c" meatione 1. "Good" in twenty-five miles an hour, and holds
the lire : !a ceeee, :: rariety of to a speed in that neighborhood, who
qua'iti m' 1 meaeured in: devours more mileage in a day than
milemee, eaa, ranee:f.,111 tO 1,000 the fellow who is constantly spurting
n lcs. Si trip 1 ,ti ntnee each,' and letting down. There is a premium
and the e .l• ear eeen•ermy have to: on steady driving rather than on
buy agni+ . speedy driving, and then, again, it
pew rut. i;: driven' should always be remembered that
melee from •he !rater',' asle.eroom by; speed is expense because it hastens
the tench:seer, it L:. cc:.es a used ear,: the wearing out of tires - and
and , eere_e..tc' ee eee tana in value. mechanism.
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T. Fi..T1 S •hisisrine. - Winged Veterans.
,ue !me of ihu i.rigint.i 'submarine Sparrows have been known to live
wee Mat fug ested ley a British sen- for forty years, so no wonder some of
ae Irl Errs:, but it iii aine:l for a Dutch- our sparrows are knowing little Pe-
wee nata'::i Von Drebbel to build a lows, because they are quite "grown
boat that actually would travel under
time triter for a short distance.
V'.us Drebbel built two submarines
Mem the Feet. 1020. which were
lautthed cu time Thames. They were
of wee 1, strengthened inside with iron
band" and covered outside with tightly
stretched hides soaked in grease.
Time larger shipped twelve oars,
which passed through holes in her :been proved, though certainly they live
sides. The hole, were made water- to a great age,
tight by leather sleeves attached both) Both an eagle and a crow have been
to tee oars and to the side of the ver -1 known to live to be 100, but the little
wren only lives about three years.
An elephant's lifetime lasts' about
100 years, and he isn't considered
grown-up until he is about twenty-flve
years old.
up..,
A horse does not live much more
than twenty-seven years, and if hard.
worked would probably not live as
long as that.
The tortoise is supposed to live to
be anything between 300 and 400 years
old. Some people say toads can live
for ever, but, of course, that has not
sol. According to one account the
balance between floating and submerg.
ing was so delicate that the submarine
could be kept below the water by the
oars alone. proaumably used like the
diving firs of a modern submarine.
Van Drebbel also invented what he
called a "certain Quintessence," or
chemical litiuor, by which he was en-
abled to efew the air in his boat
when it had become vitiated. It is
even said that Icing James I., cautious
as he wee, ventured on a submarine
trip in Van Drebbet'e underwater
boat
No Right Ones Left,
Little Mollie was crying bitterly.
"What's the matter, dear?" asked her
mother.
"Boohoo! My new shoes hurt me!"
sniffed the child, rubbing her eyes,
"Well, no wonder! You've got them
on the wrong foet!" But Molly wept
and would not be comforted,
"I haven't any other feet" she
sobbed.•
. Words of Wisdom.
Never put off until to -morrow what
you can do to -day.
Never trouble another for what you
tan do yourself.
Never spend your mouey before you
have earned it.
Never buy what you don't want be-
cause it is- cheap.
Pride costs more than huuger, thtrst
and cold,
We seldom repent of having eaten
too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
How much pain theevils have cost
us that have never happened.
Take things always by the smooth
handle.
When angry, count ten before you
speak.
trip into the mysterious country, but
the outbreak et the war prevented
him. Now that the force has been in-
creased in numbers, exploration is -to
be resumed. For five hundred miles
east and west of the Porcupine River
and from two to three hundred miles
north of it there is a vast unexplored
region as little known as the planet
Mars,
As you struggle and strive
In the world's busy hive,
If ev'rything seems to go wrong;
Though badly you're faring,
It's no use despairing,
Just keep the ball rolling along.
When black clouds are sighted
And hopes appear blighted,
Strive hard to keep up with the throng.
There's some silver lining,
So cease your repining
And keep the ball rolling along.
Then be up and doing, •
Your object pursuing.
Euae your burden with laughter and
song.
Though to -day may bring sorrow,
There's a brighter to -morrow,
So keep the ball rolling along.
.Moved the Town.
It is not unusual to move hooses a
considerable distance, but the three
hundred inhabitants of Ochil -see,
Texas, showed originality and initia-
tive when with tractors they lauded
every building in town across the
prairie to a new site beside the rail-
way. They first tried to bring th raiI-
way to the town, but, having failed fn
that, they remembered Mohammed and
took the town to the railway,
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Shoes.
IPRICED a pair of shoes today; I nsked the price, and wont
away. The dealer begged, iu frenzied tones, that I would
hand 111m twenty bones, and clothe my boots in shining kid,
as other gorgeous spendthrifts did, "Nay, nay," I said; "again,
nay, nay, I'll fall for no such graft to -day, I will not pamper my
old feet, and make them think they're cute and sweet, I reared
them in a frugal way, and I won't let them get too gay, If they
wore sloes at such a price they'd soon be feeling too blamed
nice, and they would look with high disdain on feet attired in
leather plain." Then I went home and climbed the stair that
leads up to the attic bare, where all the household junk's been
thrown, for years whose number• is not known. And there I
found odd shoes galore; a dozen pairs were on the floor, all
lying in a straggling heap, tln'own there in times when shoes
were cheap. I had the cobbler fix the soles and sew a few un-
sightly holes, and now I've shoes enough, I wot, to last me till
at last I'm shot. You see the moral very well: One way to
beat the H. C. L.
Room and Air.
A quite common. idea is that it a
room be large little or no ventilation
is necessary, amt that if the room be
very large—as,• for instance, a hall of
church—there will be plenty of air for
all who may choose to come without
any ventilation at all.
There should be 1,000 cubic feet of
apace for each individual in a room,
and in addition 3,000 cubic feet of
fresh air should be introduced into
the room per hour for each person.
For example, if the room is ten feet
long, ten feet wide and ten feet high
it contains 1,000 cubic feet of air, or
enough for one person, provided 3,000
cubic feet of fresh air enter and a like
number, of course, of cubic feet of
foul air pass out. A room ten by
twenty feet, ten feet high, ie. suitable
for two persons, if 6,000 cubic feet of
trash air is admitted each hour, If
the cubic spaco for each individual is
less than 1,000 feet the air should be
admitted in a greater volume than
above indicated, but to change the ah'
oftener than five times in an hour
would probably create a draft.
Tornado: One of Nature's Terrible Powers
Excepting a volcanic explosion of
magnitude, the tornado is the most
appalling of natural phenomena. No
structure erected by human hands can
resist it, and the only safeguard
against it is a mountain range.
A tornado presents to the eye the
appearance of a mass of vapor from
which is extended toward the ground
a whirling appendage like an enor-
mously magnified elephant's trunk.
The latter, perhaps 1,000 feet in dia-
meter, rotates with a motion contrary
to the hands of a clock, travelling
along at a rate of about thirty miles
an hour, with a roaring noise that
deafens, and sucking up everything in
its path,
The noise it makes is a combined
"woo-oo-oo" anti "whir -r -r -r," and has
been compared to that of 1,000 express
trains passing over a bridge, With a
llttlatg, sucking movement the cloud
draws things upward; its whirling mo-
tion tears them to little bite, and
grinds tb.em as if in a mill, Houses
are lifted bodily off their foundations,
and while in the air are torn to pieces.
The track devastated by a tornado
may be a few hundred feet to a mile
wide. It is not necessarily continuous,
for the funnel cloud may lift itself
clear of the ground at intervals, then
dip, and again rebound. Its arrival
is accompanied by frightful crashes of
thunder and lightning that set the
whole sky aflame. Its departure Is
immediately followed by a deluge of
ramp.
There is no safe refuge to bo found
in the strongest building of brick or
stone. On the contrary, such a strum
tura, easily destroyed by the swoop of
the tornado, le liable to bury people
beneath its ruins, In the Louisville
tornado (March 27, 1890) forty-four
persons were killed by the collapse of
the City Hall, On that occasion huge
bails, of fire rolled about the streets as'
a teature of the electrical display.
The funnel cloud is no longer a mys-
tery, though its terrors have been no
whit diminished by knowledge of its
significance as a phenomenon. It is
nothing in the world but an exagger-
ated thunderstorm, engendered under
like conditions, but owing its develop-
ment to at 'least one feature that is
happily exceptional.
011. a warm day the air near the sur-
face of the ground has a relatively
high temperature. A flood of cold air,
let us eay, Bows in above, occupying a
highet''level. This is an unstable ar-
rangement, because the warm air, be-
ing lighter, would naturally be on top.
An atmospheric fuss results, and we
have what is called a thunderstorm,
the warm air and cold air gradually
commingling,
But occasionally It happens that the
cold flood above finds a weak spot,
where the upward pressure of warm
air from beneath is less than else-
where, This offers a hole through
which the cold air can descend, and it
Pours through exactly as the contents
of an unstopped basin of water -escap-
ing through the vent hole. You have
noticed the violent whirling motion of
water escaping in this way; the same
thing happens to the cold flood of air
streaming down front above.
The cold, descending, condenses the
moisture in the lower stratum, and
thus is formed a mass of vaporous air
whirls assumes the shape of a mon-
strous balloon with a long neck ex.
tending toward the earth. This Is the
funnel cloud, which the vapor makes
visible, The sudden condensation of
moisture causes electrical discharges
of appalling violence, hence the thun-
der and lightning.
The neck of the aloud is a hollow
tube, inside, of which is a high vacuum.
Thus it sucks up whatever it comes
across, emptying wells and ponds, and
Picking up houses and people. Revolv-
ing at a speed of at least 500 miles an
hour, its destructive force is irresist-
ible, More likely its speed of rotation
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from the fact that it will drive straws
through inch planks, which would re-
quire the velocity of a rifle bullet.
The tornado's freaks are of endless
variety. During the recent tornado
that struck near Chicago a baby was
carried out of a house by the funnel
cloud and deposited unharmed across
the street, It will twist iron girders
and railroad rails into corkscrews; it
has been known to pinch chickens
without hurting then, to strip the
trimming off a lady's dress as neatly
as if done by hand, eo drive a piece of
scantling six inches square lengthwise
through a ltbg, to (tang buggies np in
tall trees, to toss three -tan blocks of
granite about as if they were pebbles,
to transport a cow half a mile and set
it down unhurt, and to take up a se-
curely tacked carpet and carry it out
of the house without tearing it.
The devilish monster will tear a
house savagely to pleas, reducing the
furniture to chip, and leave one room
untouched. With all its horrible haste,
it will stop long enough to pull all the
nails out of a lot of clapboards and
shingles. It. has been known to re-
move from a dwelling all the outer
layer of bricks, leaving those of the
inner layer unscratched. A wagon, in
the St. Louis tornado, was not upset,
but the horses atta.ehed to it were
blown away. At Sherman, Tex., a
farmer was milking in his barnyard
when a "cyclone twister" came along,
His pail was not overturned, but the
cove was, and a Litter of stall pigs
went whizzing and squealing through
the air dike a flock oI birds.
Disastrous tornadoes are much more
frequent than they used to be, not be.
cease the phenomenon occurs oftener,
but for the reason that there are many
more towns to be struck, To escape
ono, the proper thing to do is to run
•north or south, never east or north.
east, because that is the direction in
which the funnel cloud is travelling.
Husband Rides, Wife Walks.
An Arab, on entering a house, re-
moves his shoes, but not Ills hat. He
mounts his horse upon the right side,
while his wife milks the cow on the
left side.
la writing a letter he puts nearly all
his compliments on the outside. IIts
head must be wrapped up warm, even
in summer, while his feet may go
naked even in whiter. Every article
of merchandise which is Liquid he
weighs, but he measures wheat, bar-
ley, and a few other articles. -
Ho reads and writes from right to
left. Ile eats scarcely anything for
breakfast, about as much for dinner,
but, after tate work of the day is done,
he sits down to a hot meal swimming
in oil or boiled butter. His sone eat
with him, but the females of his louse
wait till ltls lordship is done,
He rides a donkey when travelling,
his wife walking behind. He -laughs
at the idea of walking in time street
with leis wife, or of ever vacating his
seat for a woman. He knows no use
for chairs, tables, knives, forks, or
even spoons, unless they are wooden
ones.- Bedsteads, bureaus, and fire-
places may be placed in the samo
category.
Finny Monsters.
The United States claims to have
caught the largest fish on record—an
enormnoiis ray harpooned off New ,Jer-
sey, weighing four tons, and needing
six oxen and twenty-two men to drag
it ashore.. The battle with the fish
lasted nine hours, and it lashed up
spray to alteight of over 30 feet.
Allowance must be made far some
exaggeration, but there are on record
other cases where gigantic rays, or
devil -fish, have been harpooned.
One taken off Jamaica was so big
that it tool: forty men to drag it along
the beach. Even rays caught in Bri-
tish waters are sometimes of great
,size, like one that was sold in the fish
market at Cambridge. It weighed 224
pounds and when cooked and served
at St. John's College was sufficient to
make a meal for 120 persona.
A ray 18 feet long and - 60 feet
round was trapped In Table Bay, while
oft the Bahama Islands the natives
once harpooned a gigantic skate'
measuring something like 1611, across
the flappers.
Getting Into It Gradually. -
"George," said a Florida man not
long ago to an old negro in his em-
ploy, "I understand that you intend to
give your son an. education?"
"Dat's my intention, sur," remarked
George, "I know myself what 'tie to
struggle along without learnin', an' I
has determined my son ain't goiu' to
have no sich trouble as I'se had."
"Is your son learning rapidly?"
"He shore is, suit. Las' week he
done wrote a tettah to his aunt what
lives more'n twenty miles from sere,
an' atta while • lie's. goin' to write to
his aunt - dat lives 'bout fifty miles
from yere."
"Why d'oesn't he write to that aunt
now?" smilingly asked his, employer.
"He kain't write so fur yit, satlt., He
kin write, twenty miles fust rate, but
I tole Trim not to try fifty miles till he
gets •stronger wit his pen,"
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Bits of Information.
Hazy fovea is caused by the wind.
borne pollen -of plants(
Forty per cent, of blindness ie said
to Occur atter time age of forty-five.
There are three lar'ge sunken shipe
still waiting removal in Dover harbor,
In the closing three months of the
last year, the births exceeded the
deaths by 108,809 in England and
%'Vales.
Japan 36 years ago had 200 factories
employing 15,000 people; now there
are 26,000 factories, employing 2,000,-
000 people, of whom 850,000 are wee
men.
There were 2,628 fatal street acci-
dents in the Unitett Kingdom last
year.
Some of the blind tnaesemts trained
at St. Dunstan's are earning $75 a
week.
There are estimated to be 30,000 de-
pendent blind persons in Englund.
The British Army Estimates this
year are $2.000,000,000 lower than
those of last year.
Among )3ritain's smatter. war ma-
terial were about 10,000 aeroplanes
and 36,000 new aeroplane engines.
The number of officers and men in
the British Navy to -day is 130,000, cont.
Pared with 161,000 in 1914.1916.
Down to March net, 1919, 24,177
permanent pensions had been awarded
to N.C,O.'s and then of the British
Army.
operfluous war-vesse's�, filled with
Srsnh
concrete, are being offered by the
British Government. t0 (:Oast -towns for
use as breakwaters•.
There are thirty-eight 13ritteh Gov-
ernment instructional factories, far
training of disabled men, either in
aperation Or being equipped.
Certain people are Liable t0 attacks
of asthma when brought into ci:ntact
with eats, dogs, goats, sheep, twice, etc.
This is due to an emanation from the
skin or fur ot the animal.
Love a Disease.
"In the spring a young man's fancy"
—.and so forth.
But what is title thing calleJ "love"
which upsets folks, so?
It has nothing to do with the affec-
tions, in the ordinary sense of the
term. Psychologists are inclined to
regard it as a nervous disorder.
Two young People meet. If total
strangers, or only slightly acquainted,
they are mach more likely to "fall in
love" than if long and intimately as-
sociated. If they do so, the affoctlons
are not concerned; it is simply an at-
tack
ttack of the mating fever.
When once love is recognized as a
psychic phenomenon affecting tike
whole nervous system, the cbief centra
of which is the brain, it possible to
understand the aberrations of intelli-
gence shown by sufferers and the ab-
surd pe1'tormances inwhich they in-
dulge.
ndulge.
A petsou in love 1s a victim of hal-
lucivations, He (or she) sees the ob.
ject of regard in a distorted aspect.
Explorers in early times were al-
ways an the eager lookout for curiosi-
ties., such as giants, pygmies and
people with tails. Above all, they were
anxious to discover the fabled andro-
gyns, which were said to combine both
sexes in one individual.
The real androgyne are everyday
boys and girls, who up to the ago of
eleven or twelve are much alike
physically and in effect neuters. A
boy ot nine or ten does not throw a
ball well; inatead of striking out with
his fists he pounds his adversary or
pulls hair; his voice is like that of a
girl.
Soon afterward there are striking
transformations, differentiating the
sexes, which begin almost suddenly to
look upon one another from a new
angle. With sox differentiations
comes sex attraction and before long
symptoms of the mating fever are
liable to manifest themselves.
An essential element of a passion is
transitoriness. It passes, Thus two
people who tall desperately in love
may find themselves desperately un-
happy in, marriage. In selecting a
mate they have used emotion in place
at judgment.
Petty Pa• ins. -
A severe headache can, be cured by
squeezing the juice of a lemon on to a
bandage, and applying it to the fore
head,
Burns are eased if a raw potato la
scraped and placed on the affected
part.
Petty slttn complaints can some.
time be made eo disappear by putting
some oatmeal powder into your wash-
ing water,
Scalds: are often relieved by mixing
a paste of bicarbonate of soda and
spreading it on the affected parte.
Only a little water should be added to
the bicarbonate of soda, so that a firm
paste is produced,
Biliousness usually becomes lase
troublesome 12 hot letdou-water is
sipped,
,Styes invariably disappear after a
lotion et warm water, into which some
ordinal table salt has been dropped,
has been used tor bathing the eye,
Neuralgia is.often eased by miffing
salt into the nostrils,
A Comparison.
Apple blossoms look like show;
They're :different, though.
Snow falls Softly, but' it brings
Noisy tlsluga;
Sioighs anal smells, torts and flghte,
Cosy nights.
But apple blossoms when they go,
White and slow,
Quiet all the orchard space
T111 the place
Hushed with falling sweetness, 1160110
Filled with dl'eanle.