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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-8-19, Page 2Vil.'414Y'.4`-'•.•5rs''.:.;74'..:`:''''.`;-`4.4'd.'"e4...eace. ees.".a.: s • ei• "•„•,,t, 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 • 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. 'Seiehieee4e c• 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. • 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. • 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 31 veulst iviyho7e ipoishe: tniaeetpotfiiacTi,ebed of property and a dear ambition h 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 f 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 ' • 4-10\k? MANY 1Ae005? Jiytied frt fr.„„„. PfififfIF (HOP MAE.. HEADS fr:5 1'02. CiAICKL-114 ,SAL„,elt, 001 a V ...51-5\-11", • r•-• .0: ;1%4:lae, 71,g, t. :Lai fEr:,,