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Stop Those Squeaks.
•It may be taken for granted that
every ear which cot s $2,009,, more or
less, has a squeak, or a groan, or a
rattle Which offends the oar,; of driver,
paseenger, and pedeetrian as well. It
may be a tiny •semetik whore two un -
lubricated surfaces rub together from
the vibration of the ear, or it may
be the rattle-te-bang of loose brake
linkage or some other Icosie part, but the dieturoance. Mud guards work
It -goes to make up tile hubbub oe loose and rattle, hatches which fasten
every busy highway. In the higher the hood become loose and noise re-
' priced cars money has been sport to sults, the crank handle may vibrate, or
eliminate the causes of most of the the top fastenings rattle, and there
- noise, though occasionally One of the may be a squeak or groan where top
luxury cars will develop a squeak of
• prodigious proportions.
I am not sure that all the noises or
Often a myeterieus noise may be
tamed to the tool bex, where things
aro thrown in eareleeely. The license
plate braeket has a terderey to work
locee so that it vihrotes—the cep can
hear :33 Well ;33 tie& tho niath.
Worn gears: n either change- epeed
gear eaSe or differential crow may
make a hum, or grind, or kneck, and
broken pieces from the teeth add to
and windshield meet. Ties does not
exhaust the list of noises, but is suffi-
cient to indicate to the novice what to
the cheaper cars can lee eradicated. do when there is a noise which annoys.
Sometimes I am inclined to think that Neither does i refer to the knocks and
every car has its distinctive squeak, or ether /mien proceeding from the en -
grunt, which is as much a part of it giefe. For most of the =se there is
es the radiator and no Iesa easily dis- a -remedy, but as I said before, I am
pensed with. .Perhaps that might be almost persuaded that on the light
the surest way of Mortifying a stolen ears it is necessary to endure at least
car which has had number and paint one squeak, or rattle or hum.
and other .things so changed that the -
eye .cannot be sure; that distinctive
noise would remain and the driver Canada's Fire Losses.
Would know "his master's voice."
But while there may be some such
noises which are indigenous, the great january-May, 1920
majority of the hubbub of the auto- January -May, 1919
mobile can be prevented and overcome
by intelligent action. Riding in a taxi Increase in loss this year..$ 1,531,525
a few days ago an annoying squeak Canada's fire loss for the eurrent
jarred the nerves. I found that the year bids fair to exceed any thus far
vibration of the car and loose hinges recorded, with the exception of that
made the door shake. The catch rubbed of 1918, when heavy losses were en -
against the step and the squeak was tailed. through the destruction of mun-
the result. A drop or two of oil will ition plants. If the average of the
end such: a noise for a time.
This same vibration might cause
body and dash to rub and squeak if
not bolted tight, or if no felt strip be
interposed to prevent the noise. Nearly the consequent destruction of money
all of the lighter oars vibrate excess-
ively, partly because the frame isso
light that it is not perfectly rigid, as
are the frames of the heavier cars,
at least in theory, anct it. bends and
gives with the unevermeeses of the
highway and jolting•of car tracks and
other bumps. Where such is the case
it is almost impossible to prevent all
sorts of noises from developing.
If the body is not bolted tight to
the frame it will rub and squeak or damaged or destroyed. The serious
rattle. It used to be considered good shortage of houses is thus accentuated
form to put in a felt strip to overcome
this—a strip of cotton tape is used
in most cars to -day. But be sure to
keep thc nuts on the fastening bots
tight, with lock washers to keep them elompairies collected $40,000fe0Ce or
from sipping. over $22 for each family of five mem-
Anether elosine squeak was found hers. Had the Minister of Finance,
to come feom the speedometer shaft. Sir Henry Drayton, announced in his
Isiliete„tir,tt ia,1 'been :12,:71:..:te(1, and 1:ildegt speech that to replace the fire
where :Tma:eel inedet the clock laes, derect tax a $22 would be lev-
on the dal i there was enough friction ied upon each family there would have
to make a nese. Tasseling the nut) been a storm of protest from elm end
which holds the parts together eased it , of Canada to the other. We are, how -
until it was possible to put in grease 1 ever, silently paying this tax, which
at the garage. This is a reminder of includes the loss by fire, $15, and the
the necessity of thoroughneas M lubri-! charges of the insurance companies to
cation. cover business costs, dividends, etc.,
Another click, or knock, which is. $7. Everything we buy carries its
hard to locate C01/1123 from a loose keyelpercentage of this tax, and will con -
or work keyway, where the rear hubtime to do so as long as eve allow our
is fastened to the zhaft. It gives a! national wealth to be burned up at its
distinctive sound when starting up inpresent rate.
either direction. One case which eagle
to the school was on this order. The
hub was fastened to the floating type
axle by iltitings supposed to give a
tight fit; they had warn enough One of the most vanity witnessed of
make a slight play. It could not be 1 Ilatilral phenomena, but one that has
detected by the eye but the finger tip often been discussed in scientific
did find it. It happened that the
service station .fee that make car had
been hunting the same sort of a click
without success for some time, until
the owner who had come to us told
the agent of his find,
The torque rod gives forth strange
sounds when it becomes loose at the
forward end, or ef the . torque tube
'bearings are worn; and occasionally
the bolts fastening the torque rods to
the rear -axle wear and give a knock
going over bumps. Worn crevises and
: • pins on the brake linkage cause rat-
tling, which often inay Le overcome by
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putting in new parts at a cast of a
few cents, Where it cannot be done it
.common practice to use spiral
sliming% wired to linkage and frame
to hold the parts Met.
Worn spring shackle bolts give forth
noise when going over bump or holes
from rebound of the body and. worn
Steering lenuelcle pins and tie rod bolts
do the same thing on the front end,
$11,557,944
10,026,419
first five months of the -current year
is maintained our fire loss for 1920 will
reach almost $28,000,000.
Canada cannot afford this waste and
and effort. The Government es earn-
estly seeking new revenue•, there is
a shortage of help for building pur-
poses and many factories are hard
pressed to supply the market for
manufactured goods; yet we are burn-
ing up our capital at the rate of 2 1-8
million dollars per month.
According to the "Monetary Times,"
from which the above figures of fire
lessee axe taken, 108 residences were
by the fire Wage.
The toll being taken by fire is a
charge which must be met by the peo-
ple of Canada, In 1919, insurance
Green Flash of Sunset.
circles and that always awakens won
der when seen, is the so-called "green
flash" occasionally visible at the mo-
ment of the disappearance of the sun
behind a clear horizon.
The observer's eye ranst be fixed
upon the rim of the suit as it disap-
pears in order to catch the phenomen-
on. An omcer of the British Navy
says that he has seen the green flash,
although rarely, at the instant of set-
ting of a bright star. Among the ex.
nlanations offered is one based upon
the optical principle of complementary
colors. If one looks at the 41311 and
then closes the eyes a green disc will
be perceived. A sensitive eye might
be similarly affected by a brilliant
star.
It is proposed to establish a white-
fish canning industry in northern Al-
berta. It is said there is no finer fish
in fresh water than the whitefish of
the far north rivers and lakes.
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RECORD SALE OF CANADIAN SHORTHORNS
.A. new high price for Canadian Shorthorn (female) was set at the Dryden -Miter sale, July 21, at Broolelln,
Ont., when Sir Frank Bailey, Oakville, Ont., purchased the two-year-old Countess Selma the Fourth, with her calf,
for $0,200.00 The sale was the biggest ever held on the continent and was attended by cattle experts from all
parts of the United States and Canada. The auction realized $130,000,00 and 106 cows were sold at an average
price of $1,109,00,
How Boy Scouts Filmed Summer Cap
The enormous demand for paper -mak-
ing materials is causing a drain upon
the supply which threatens a very
rapid depletion of aur forest resources.
With all the newsprint mills miming
to full capacity, some of our Cana-
dian newspapers have had to suspend
publication. for lack of paper.
The Commission of Conservation
has corresponded with paper mills and
dealers and will gladly furnish infor-
mation to any locality respecting the
address of the nearest buyer of waste
paper.
What the Boy Scouts of Brockville
have done can be done by others.
When they required fands for their
summer outing, they undertook a
paper -collecting campaign to raise
the money.
Mr. A. J. Traill, Scoutmaster, Brock-
ville, states that notices in the local
Press informed householders that the
Boy Scouts would make a house-to-
house canvass for old newspapers and
magazineo, in order to raise funds for
the local branch and requested them
to telephone Mr, Traill when the
papers were ready for collection.
The collection was made during the
Easter holidays', Three senior ecouts
were sent out with a horse and wagon.
The papers were brought to Scout
headquarters and the magazines and
alt smooth paper were separated from
the newspapers. They were tied up in
neat bundles and weighed, 10 or 12
at a time, on a small platform stale.
As a Toronto waste paper dealer
quoted a satisfactoryprice, it was
loaded cm a car and shipped, collect
freight, to Toronto.
Mr. Traill says: "We shipped 9Se
thus of paper and received a cheque
for $325.44. Expense for twine,
notices in press and cartage, was
$36.35, giving to the Scout' treasury
net proceeds of $288.59.
"We were 4 days is collecting and
tying up paper and magazines, and
about 6 hours in loading car, We dl2
not bale any paper; the scrap paper
left over we sold to a local junk deal-
er, receiving $1.00 for it."
Simplicity.
Sing simple songs from your heart of
hearts,
Or friendship and love and rest.
Work not so much with thy thinking
mind,
Nor SAY that the brain sings hest.
Our heartfelt thoughts through a mist
of doubt
Shine clear as the lightning darts,
And, heads yearn not for the thoughts
of heads
As hearts for the beat of hearts.
Chinese Boil Bread.
The Chinese boil all their bread in-
stead of baking it—or, if baked at all,
it is browned after boiling.
The Decoy.
The pupils of various schools in
Blaakville were recently vaccinated,
and when each. boy had bean attended
to the doctor gave him a red ribbon
bearing the words, "I have been vac-
cinated" to wear on his coat sleeve.
One lad proceeded to adjust the rib-
bon to his arm,
"You're putting it on the wrong
arm," said the physician.
'No, I'm not" said the wise youth.
"You don't know the boys at our
school."
A. proposed Winnipeg factory will
manufacture boxes from a wood fibre.
The fibre will be made of pressed
waste paper and wood screening, re-
inforced with metal.
p4Rhqmos
WLt Mon
Vista.
Before I die I may win grace
To chant before the kings
Who reign la wonderlands of song
Where every Mose= sings;
I may put on a golden gown
And glow with sunny light,
Carrying in my hair, the day,
And in my eyes, the night.
It may be men will honor me
The wistful ones and wise,
Who know the truth of victory,
The joy of sacrifice;
I may be rich; I may be gay;
But all the crowns grow old—
The laurel withers and the bay
And dully rests the gold.
Before I die I may break bread
With many queens and kings—
Oh, take the golden gown away,
For there are dearer things!
And I shall miss the love of babes
With flesh of rose and pearl,
The dewy eyes, the budded lips,
A boy, a little girl,
Common Bluebottle Fly Possesses
5,000 Eyes.
Authorities state that the common
bluebottle fly possesses between 4,000
and 5,000 little eyes when viewed un-
der a good tnicro.scope, although to the
naked eye it appears to have only two.
They are six -sided, and fastened to-
gether like the cells in a honeycomb,
SUPERFLUITIES
I am always making payment on the things I do not need,
tubelows and gorgeous raiment, rubber tires on which to speed;
to the village shops Fin going, every day, with eager tread, use-
ful, shining kopecks blowing far all kinds of gingerbread. And
as round the town I'sa filvving, throwing money to the birds, I
denounce the cost of living in excoriating words. Nothing cheap
in price will suit mo, costly things I must demand, or I fear my
friends would hoot me, 05 they prance in garments grand. For
all kinds of gems and rubies they have blown, the minted bones,
and they look on folks as boobies who don't claisk milli precious
steno. We are all blamed fools together, buying junk whose
Price is high, lieedess of the rainy weather that will bit us by
and by. And while daily, hourly giving exhibitions of the kind,
I denounce the cost of living as a graft that's Most unkind.
When we all regain our senees and just buy the things we need,
simple duds and picket fences, hay and bread and nutmeg seed,
cutting out the pomp and splendor and the streets where "bar-
gaius'! bloom, salting down the legal tender—E, C. L. will see
its doom, Labor's busy making motors when It should be mak-
ing plows; let us soon, vh, men and voters, brash the cobwebs
from our brows.
ranm.AvecamariAr"vamscrs..rszcmv.7,Mmeitaa=aset"ematamalasm
Tramped 2,000 Mlles.
Sergeant W. 0. Botiglas of the Ttoyal
Canadian Mounted Police is here
shown as the hero of an exploit un-
equalled in the annals of • the cele-
brated body of thief -catchers of the
Northwest. Iie left Fullerton, Ont., on
Dec. 19, 1919, with a warrant, and af-
ter enduring all kinds of hardships in
the Canadian timber -land, arrested
Ou-Aug-Walc, an outlaw of the Padle-
mut tribe who half terrified the Baker
Lake region on Feb. 19th, 1 -lo lauded
1515 prisoner safety in Fullerton on
May 13th, 1920, having travelled 2,000
miles. He went over trackless wastes
and through. blinding snow storms
and gave seine or his supplies to Es-
kimos Ise found starving,
Some 100,000 articles of enemy
equipment have been distributed as
souvenirs in Great Britain and the
dominions overseas.
The Plight of Poland.
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The president of Poland, Gen. Pil-
sudski, might appropriately echo the
Wards of Marshal Haig at Amiens:
"We aro fight:ng with our backs to the
wall," Me ambitioue campaign to
wrest all southeeetern Russia from the
Boishevikl and te extend the influence
if not the intuit dominion of Pohlad
to the Black ;405 has broken down,
Oetilanbed and overwhelmed, hie arm-
ies are !mete within the narrow bourd-
aides of Poland iteelf and are in WI..
C011213A:Wil peril of erremediable defeat.
The. Poles are meeting the change
in their fortunes with the gallantry
that meeht have been expeeted. 0141
men, boy.; and even women are cad -
inn. fee service in the field. The •Sa-
Illarillortal Days.
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Some clays imperishably live in onr
memories; It is a great good fortune
for mankind that bitterness and hard
ness die first eat of our lives and the
'sweetness end cheer that have met
Mong bite's way remain, Our Wilde
affeetionately linger on "redeletber
clays" when with the Mende we want-
ed we did the things we liked to do.
IVe wish there happy there inight 2'0 -
turn, and eve have a mental picture -
book whose pages we con repeatedly.
Sometimes In a crowded street,.omee
times in the thick of our bueicet hours
or tur:d the huddle and pressure of
teeming appointment 3 the vision
noshes or those occaeicne in the peat
=lige, who oppoe-ea the invasion of that brought a gladeess which ie living
the Ukraine, tire up in arms for the still and never ,ie to fail.
an
thin that the Bolshevist armies w1111
defence of Omer own land, It is cer-t eioNnson ieeecriecike410
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iviyho7e ipoishe:
tniaeetpotfiiacTi,ebed of property and a dear ambition
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may be thwarted. We limy retie wealth,
at
thef
otexleartLetteiedi,.. wilt cheek the enemy! influence or even friends and still
times memories recur cf the tunes
impulsiveness that is perhap
isaeletteattent,-ponhigaezv,nitrhtlenrn. when aur lives were at their hest and
e gear -land stood upon a hill, and it seemed
tsflGeeenniheillrallni noblest; when they rue to an apex
acteristically Polish. It was from thel as though the dawn nenild last all day,
i'elgrus p hanrpnaLesibel tifacri nhliitninntao)m,r.atiotiethanisic113
strength by churning, over and over
The strong man does not sap Ills
of Bessie, He hoped to win the vie- his defeats, We mortification, hia
tory by &tell and superior fighting. ures. He dings these to the limbo of
But the Russians usually
enae weg irrevocable thinge and fronta the
when they are attacked, and the Red present and hails the future, The by -
army is no longer a restless mob, for genes and have-beens that were dis-
pleasing, have no hold on this next
Precious hour that he must fill with
its own conetructive task. Ire bas 00
room for what constricts and weakens;
he must not allow himself to count
for less then ibis full value because his
mind is absent from his work in quest
of things that deserve to be forgotten
Bat the blessed memory of the good
and great among people, the emotion
that inspired and the experience that
quickened, the incommunicable thrill,
the zest and the rapture of the best
that life brings us— these are the
real treasures that abide, the riches
that never take wing, the friends that
are leal and stanch in the days of
adversity.
None is so poor that he may not
have a -wealth of happy recollection to
enliven and comfort and fortify him
through the harder times. The pre-
cious treasure-trove of sweet and
pleasant recollection is deep -hid,
where none can break through to lay
violent hand upon it. Days of distinc-
tion are worth months and years of
drab, unbeautiful monotonies. They
account of the expense of another
shine like starry lamps when the night
campaign but mainly because the
has come, and evhen "rnemeey brings
working population ofeboth 'countries
the light of other days" we 'an n01 -
is not in a mood to consent to a war
cast down, but compensated and con-
soled.
et has been diemplmed and Instructed.
Hundeeds of German and Russian offi-
cers .of the old regime have taken
service under Trotsky; Gen. Brussileir
is said to be chief military advisee to
the Moscow government. Those men,
like the French soldiers who served
under the Revolutionary government,
believe ;n holding their country and its
army together in anticipation of a day
when both shall have different mes-
tere. They do not mean to let Russia
be destroyed by Poles or by Boishe-
viki.
Once in difficulty, Gen. Pilstulski has
no one on whom he can depend for
military steppe& France and England
will supply arms and ammunition and
will try to persuade or threaten the
Soviets into making peace. There is
some talk of eupporting the Poles with
an army, too, and in case the Bolehe-
viki seemed likely to overrun and de-
stroy Poland an army would have to
be sent to its defence. But the French
and British Governments are very
reluctant to take that step, partly on
against the Soviets. Germany is, of
course, no help; the Gernians are de-
lighted at any misfortune that over-
takes Poland, for they believe that Change Your Laugh!
Central Europe is net big enough for Wrinkles make us look old. Five
two great powers, and that if Poland wrinklos will put fifteen years on a
grows great Germany must dwindle. face, S0 -'ware wrinkles!
The chances are that by the inter- That, contrary to the general
vention of the Allies a peace will be ion, does not zo mucla menu avoiding
arranged that will restrict Poland to worry, the wrinkle-Droaucer, as being
its boundaries as recognized at Paris. careful how you laugh; Laughing
The dream of a Poland that will brings wrinkles as well as worry,
stretch unhindered from the Baltic to The worry -wrinkle is really due to
the Black Sea is for the present—and a leas of flesh. The cheeks fell in and
probably for all time—dissolved. The make lines. Cease to worry- -.it affecte
problem now is to keep the Reds from absolutely uothingd—and feed up, and
pushing through to the Baltic and the worry -lines will go.
getting into direct touch with Ger-
many—in other words, to keep Trotz-
ky from doing what he would most
like to do.
Origin of Artesian Wells.
Why do We speak of a well as an
artesian well? Because this particu-
lar kind of well was first used in Ar-
tois, M the northern part or France.
From Artois the word "artesian" is
derived, which we use to designate
any kind of small bored well, whether
11 10 overflowing or not. The first ar-
tesian well is said to 1131V0 boon bored
in the year 1840, but long before this
the ancients, dug artesian wells in
their rude way. Now, however, we see
artesian wells all over the country.
India and China contain approxi- necessary habit, and ought to bo core
irately one-half the total population
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oFtrheornw3o2rildit. tare of silver black foxes,
Mr. George Calbeck, af Summersicle,
one of the leading fax farmers of from the usual marke 01 11310. But if
Prince Edward. Island, seemed 156 you must have wrinkles, lot them
living pups, •The breading season has CO.C.14 from laughing,
been very satisfactory on the island.
A pulp and paper company will con- Gene's Of—Lre '.—in:117earist Cake.
,sviryoectod,ams and eliect mills at Tobique Dissolva BeraP at yeaet slake in
Narrows, NB. The company
has water; examine a drop under the mic
purchased 1,700,000 acres of timber -
roscope, and you will see fleeting in it
lands from the New Brunswick Rail.
thousands of semitransparent 05g' -
way
shaped bodie., Each ono of these is
o y,eaesya
t priten
it
lhso tiny
that 4,000 of them
placed in a single line would measure
only an inch. A three•cent yeast cake
ennsists of thousands of siabbliosii et
them pressed tOgethOr,
"Imagine a stack of hors' eggs 200.
feet heal) and 800 feet equaro," onYs
Dr. Ralph E. Lee, "and yen htrve it Plc,
into of 11 Yeast Cake oulnrgod to the
Mee of a city block."
Frtilll one oe these micro,
tempi c 1lnsit Vial be prod% ee_d in ten
(10114 by cultivetien in a premix
medium, eimugh ot 1 heni to amend, if
lii
tlls'Idetici(11e,14db
. (13. thn :ticil'
t°feii:nv3
i.1111h11211(1•llIes ti --1 •
a rate of groWth reprosei,tlog 00,9.)
miles 01 minute,
A cake of yeast is alive. lt 1,9 Mow-
Iy breathing fall the time. If allowed
to OOt wAria, lt will breat4 loo fast,
-and, fiO food being amizjaiiio, it will
Inc lip all its energy and become wen%
Therefore i should be kept cold until
wanted for nee, tut when put to work
'1 of bltgit nstlibosts. of Oggti become
active,
Laugh your usual laugh, and. in a
looking -glass observe yourself as you
do it All the wrinkles and lines will
show up—those that are made and
those in the making, And as "Don't
laugh" would bo wrong advice, laugh
difeerently.
When you are selecting a different
style of laughter, choose that which
will pull your face about least. For
-two or three years you need not
trouble about the new small lines,
Then you could hark back to your old
style of laughing, run that for a time,
and than change again. That, anit
steaming the face now and then, and
smoothing the lines out, will give you
an unlined countenance—from laugh-
ter.
Dut there are other wrinkle pro-
ducers. Thinking—the puckering of
the forehead—is one. That is an un-
quered. Dcomscored forehead lines
are not pretty.
Vary year facial eoutortions, there.
fare, if you wish to retain a face free
"REGLAR FELLER S"—By Gene Byrnes
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