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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 t th tt' t h' • 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 l izs 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 y ' l Keep the Ball 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 GEE!MA, I FORGOTTHE MATCHES yo -u77-7 FORGeT YOUR 1IEAO IF iT WASN'T t-\TIID ON re Qt-. crosb:r 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 e- 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. • 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, pia j sgha ' .,Wait Mason 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 "REG'LAR FELLER S" --By Gene Byrnes { DovJANNA MIND MRs. K ,LLYS 13AtB ( ALL ATTER-- NOON — 1 WANNA PLAV 15iNLL IP 1 NAFTA sPEPtiK To '•(on. ^watt -4 A58OUT' MINDING "MAT 6AgY s(oU'LL .GE.T "FINE 'T ORASWING No1H MAi1! ►,�,tit,t,li t1�(UH?tt1R gas is four times that, as may be judged 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," smaseasmomatelassmammeamorteasestunvemsolussormesi Ot-% MOI'\ ‘. 11-1e. OW(' • . Wt\1.1 oWEP -A i u-r-rcat i PNN' •1 LOO KED ALL OVER. Th4!E t' L0.S . ANIS 1 CAN'T FIND BUTTONIiO ti F 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.