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When the Engine Lone Its "Pep."
Those acquainted with motoring
joys and soma's know that a loss of
compression is nothing pleasant to
look forward to. Its causes are many
a -semi -Mies hard to find and repair,
Try the compression of each eyle
leder. If it is weak or If it varies in
the different cylinders repair the
trouble at once. It may leak in the
piston rings; it may escape through
a leaky valve or petcock or men past
a spark plug. If the engine head is
detachable it may leak past the gas-
ket. Then again, you may have a
cracked cylinder, but this is another
problem.
Care must be taken to keep the cyl- the float chamber fits slowly" On be-
inder head tight, and in tightening it ing started the motor nt once con -
evenly all around, for if the gasket is mimes this gaeoline and then has to
whenever possible. :lamming brakes
is not only hard on tires, but strains
the entire car mechttnIsna
In going down hills, brake linings
will be saved by leaving the clutch in,
retarding the spark, and thus allow,
ing the eompreesion of the engine to
act as a break, editing slight pressure
from the foot brake as needed.
Fuel Stoppage.
When a motor ear, after being
cranked', runs for o minute or two, and
then stops, the first place to look for
the cause of the trouble is the gasoline
feed line. A partial stoppage in the
pipe will lessen the flow of fuel so that
not held firmly at any point it wilt
give way and leakage will result.
The piston rine may have turned
so that the openings are all in line or Of eouree, if the float sticks in a high
You may he using such light cal that i position the flow of fuel will be great -
the engine does not get a tight coing ly lessened or even stopped.
wait for more. There is another pos-
sible cause for this trouble and that is
the float of the carburetor sticking.
pression seal. Oil when heated le very
thin. In same cases patented piston
rings will helm eliminate the leakage.
If the cyliader is worn oval there is
no remedy except that of reboring it.
'-- laeroemee -will help free the rings of
carbon, but it is best to use it when
you are ready to drain off the old facturet will advise you wnich brand,
crankcase oil. of oil is best for the particular Ina-
Make aure that the spark plugs fit chine. Carefully follow oiling chart
tightly and that they are Praviaea in lubricaeing your maclane. A small,
with geed copper aabestos gaskets. A amount of oil at regular intervals
cracked porcelain will allow compres- rather than an means of oil °neaten -
sten to escape. Look over the priming ally is best far all machinery.
cups and see that they all fit -tightly
and stay •closed.
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During compression- the valves A New IreigatiCrt Stheerea.
should be tightly closed, A broken
farmer now regards irrigation in the
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spring or faulty ad1ustrnent will pre -
Weer, and anther inztance of the
vent their closirem and this willresult
gmeral demand for etended schemes
in no compression at all, or in the
(mines from the south-western corner
case of incorrect timieg the trouble _
f the Pro -ewe of Seskatehowan
will be noticeable as a 'ack of power •
where a petitien has been prepared for
in all cylinders. Carbon under the
the launehince of a new irrigation pro -
valves will prevent them from Entine
ject under the provisions of the newly,
tightly. The remedy here is to keep
.h. passed Ireigation Act, The :scheme
the engine free from earbon, ti e
is to eest epproximately one millioni
valves clean, and be sure that the tin.-
tiaras's, and will be easily the largest!
ing of the valves and the tappet ad -
project of its kind attempted in Sas-i
jmetment are at set dawn M your in-
katchewaa, embracing 125,000 acres.1
struction beak. i F e' - • , it isstated that it will
When an engine that is clean, prop- -
prove one of the cheapest inegation
erly lubricated and has its valves
schmnes on the American cc-ntin.ent,
• ground regularly shows a. serious loss
the estimated cost beaeg less than $0
of power the lack of properP per acre, whereas others have cost as
sion may safely be emeribed to the
high as $50 per acre,
piston rings leaving worked into line
The scheme involves the diversion
or the Cylinders having worn to a
of the Battle and Boulanger Creeks
point where, the pistons are unduly
into Davis Lake, and .the construction
loose. With the medern type rings
of a dam four miles west of the lake
the former is a rare *Mit nowadaye,
across the Whin Mud Valley in the
go that the cause is ens -sowed down to
vicinity of the Maple Creek trail smith
plain .rear.into Montana. The natural topogrepby
Than nye the, chief causes ef less
and geographical features of the
of cempte.ez'on. The self-starter, the .
le make the project easy and
been of the preseet-day nutterett, is ' mintsi
econemical from an engineering point
accompanied by one very enfortenate
of view. The proposed dam across the
result. The operator who cranked his
valley will be aapeceeireately 250 feet
engine by hand knew the feel of the
in height, built of -concrete and will
con:arcs:lion and was guided, by it in
cross the full width of the valley.
determining to a certain extent the
Three channels are to be cut from
power of his engine. Many persons
the south side of the lake, forming
seldom crank their engines by hand
main irrigation canals through tee
and have no guide except the opera-
cotintry down to the Lethbriage-Wey-
tion of the car to warn them cotn- burn line of the C.P.R., and eroviaing
pression is falling off. 'Watch the '001.' for warming the crops through the
preselon; it will save you money that
country north of Coiesul, Vidora, and
otherwise you would give to the re-
Betheart. While this is the extent of
pair man.
Use Plenty of 011.
Watch the lubricaticm on your auto-
mobile mut tractor if you would avoid
cost of repairs. It is cheaper to buy
oil than to buy machatery. Use only
lubricants of beet quality. The manta
the scheme as at present outlined, it
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Keep An Eye or, Auto Drakes.
The brakes on your oar stand be-
tween you and danger—.etand between
you and death to yourself or some
other person, perhaps. Therefore,
keep them in good shape. At the first
sigu of looseness, have them tighten-
ed; replace lirange when they axe
When you are out on a good open evening to the full. ,
stretch of road, test your brakes. A. majestic Highland ravine came
Speed up your car and try both the into view, all tender greys and shim -
foot and emergency brakes. If the car mewing browns and blues. Mrs, de
you will know that one brake fails to Vere held her breath till they had
take hold. Unevenly adjuated brakes paased. "Oh, John!" she said, "what
cause serious ekirle. a lovely gorge that was!"
Beake-banda may slip because of "Yes, darling," he said absentia,
worn 1,inings, improper adjustment, or "quite the best feed we've had since
grease on the brake -bands. In tighten-
ing brakes do not overdo it. A. tight
brake "drags" and wastes power, If
the brakes are hot after a smart spin,
they are too tight.
Never apply brakes unless they are
really needed. Using the brakes to
check momentum kills power that it
has east you good money to produce.
Begin stopping ahead, of time. Shut
CANADA'S STATELY PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
A splendid view of the new House ef Commons structure at Ottawa in course of construction.
Is Your By a Smolt?
13y Sir Robert
Lees. than twelve years ego the Boy
Scout movement was started with a
few members and a small committee
in London.
To -day boy eccuts are numbered by
the million in all parte of the world.
There Is not a civilized country
which docs not posseee its bay scouts.
You will find them in Siberia, Serbia,
-Holland, Japan, Peru, Poland, and
Uruguay.
We are now bolding a great rally—
known among the SOMAS NS a "Jam-
boree"—to which we have invited
scouts from all countrieo,
We shall remember with special
pride the herolem of the Greek boy
scouts of in the province of
Smyrna. Turkish irregulars occupied
Aidin for two days, and arrested forty
native boy scouts who had rendered
services to the Greek troops, They
marched them cut and asked one of 't
them to insult Greece and M. enize-
los, The brave boy made a playful
grimace, whereupon he was murder-
ed. The same request was made to a
second, with the same results. Then
the rest of the boys were asked to de-
nounce their own country, but after
a brief and tragic silence they replied
by singing the Greek National Anthem
and were promptly untesacree,
Wo are proud, too, of the war -record
of the 250,000 British boy scouts.
Twenty-three thousand acted as coast -
watchers for the Admirelty. One hun-
dred thousand served as aoldiers, and
nearly a dozen won V.C.'s.
Boy scouts are not soldiers except
where an emergency demands their
services, The boy snout training leaves
soldiering alone. It begins at the
other end, and by developing charac-
ter, handcraft service for others, and
physical health In a boy, seeks to
make him a good citizen,
Baden-Powell
When I was In the Army I learned
the futility of military drill In training
boys to be men, They were simply
drilled to become part of a machine,
end if they had not a foundation of
charm -ter -training first, this military
discipline, was a mere veneer, which
cracked when a strain yam put upon
It'
Tho idea, of training boys in scout-
ing, dates back thirty-six year, when
I applied it to recruits in my regiment,
the 13th Huesars, and to young sol-
diers in the 5th Dragoon Guards,
which I commanded later.
The principles given in ray book,
"Aid to Scouting." were so much ap-
preciated by echoolboyei brigades and.
various other bodies that we deter-
mined to establish the Boy Scout
movement.
Boys who have had good character.
training will never lack a job.
There is only one answer to the
cmeetion, What shall I do with my
buy? Encourage him to become a boy
scout.
The time a boy devotes to play runs
to a pretty big emount when 0310
comes. to total it up.
. Hours per week: In school, 40;
asleep, 70; feeding, 3; playing, 50.
in these hours ho may be learning
whet. le good, but as often as not he is
bumming familiar with what is bad;
thie depends on his surroundings and
companions. Whether he is wild or
slae.k, wayward or backward, he will
no doubt be glad to join the boy scout
brotherhood; and perhaps will have
the satisfaction of feeling that he is
no longer wasting his out-of-school
time; but is picking up practical know-
ledge and gaining character ,that will
tend to make him a healthy, happy,
and successful man and a good citi-
zen.
Making Bricks by Machinery. beteg touched by human hand. It is
hoped by machinery to cut the cost of
Ono serious obstacle to building at production.
is stated that it would be possible to
the present time is the price of bricks,
extend it farther to provide for irwhich has trebled in the last on years.
gation of considerable tracts of coma ri-
Increased cost of labor and fuel Is the
try farther south.
reason for the rite.
Labor and fuel represent 70 per cent.
of the cost of making a brick. What
He Was No Poet. is needed to bring the price down is
The passengers on the pleasure automatic machinery.
steamer, having Just finished dinner, M view of mechanical development,
were enjoying the beauties of the brick malting is away behind most
other industries. The raw material is
dug with steam shovel or planer a.ia
ground and screened by machinery;
but from the cutting table to the fin-
ished product the work of manufac-
ture is done almost entirely by hand
labor.
The brick is a very ancient inven-
tion. Its origin seems to have been
remotely prehistorlo. Babylon was a
brick city. 'We lcnow from the Bible
that the Israelite captives in Egypt
were employed at brickeno,king on au
extensive scale,
But the brick has a future not legs
important than its past. Probably the
pressed brick of to -day is as good a
brick as will ever be made. To
cheapen, it, work is in progress to
manufacture it automatically, without
WO left London."
Eighty-eight British war vessels
are shortly to be sold, including two
light cruisers,
Butter -making competitions were
introduced at the Canadian National
Exhibition in 1899 for the first time
hi America. They are similar to those
given at the dairy shows in Great
off your motor and coast to a stop Britain.
Calling Back Birds.
In the devastated areas of Belgitun
and northern France the birds as well
an. the human inhabitants lost their
homes. Their none and nesting places
were destroyed.
Now they are being invited back;
for the matter is not merely ono of
sentiment, inasmuch as the birds are
needed to eat the bugs that devour
the farmera crops.
With this object in view, areas of
woodland are being set eside and
merle as attractive as possible to the
feathered creatures. it 15 expected
that by such means colonies of birds
wilt soon be established, and that,
with proper pretection, they will multi-
ply and become as numerous as ever
before loeg.
Admiral Beatty Dwells Far
From Sea.
If you Wan searching seching for an Eng-
lish admiral, a real fighting admiral;
would your hunt take you to the one
spat in tho "tight little isle" furthest
from the eea7 Yat it is there you
would find Earl Beatty, his wife, and
their two sons, David and Peter. At
Brooksby Hall, Leicestershire, the sea
lerd and his family live far from the
boom of waves, surrounded by one of
the meet beautiful stretches ot coun-
try in rural England. Tho manor
house Is charmingly beautiful ie. its
cloak of ivy, and a church, dating
from the Norman cenquest, gives the
touch of age necessary to make the
picture Old England ail over. Here
Admiral Beatty and Lady Beatty romp
and frolic with their boys, the elder
fourteen and the younger nine, and
live the lives of a country gentleman
and the chatelaine of the manor.
The second and. last inetalment of
Canadian War Memorials Paintings
will fill the Art Gallery at the Can-
adian National Exhibition this year.
Painted in England and on the various
battlefronts, they will have their first
public display at Toronto.
A New British Aerial Lorry.
By means of an entirely novel typo
of wing cenetruction the Commercial
Amplene Wing Syndicate has de-
signed the "Pelican Four -ton Lorry!'
typo of machine which may reveln-
tionize aerial goods carrying, says
The Manclmeter Cutmdlnn, The pees-.
met intention of the Syndic:an, which
is an offehoot of the Blackburn Acre -
plane Company, Is to provide for tee
carriage of goods masa leaving
(i
senger carrying for later nsider:a
then. In many ways the Pelican is
an entirely new type of aircraft. Not
only don the new "gull's !wing" type
of construction eneble 0 load of 13 lb.
per square foot to be carried, but the
load of four tons can be carried at,
the low rate ef 50 cents per ton -mile
ata speed or 12.miles per hour.
The machine, a monoplane, -is fitted
with two Napier engines of 450-hm,
each, these engines being- normally!
run on hall-eaced for the sake of
eneerny. In ease of necessity the
enginee can be opened ma and a speed
of little lees than 100 miles per hour
obtained. Also, should one engine
fail, net cnly can tho machine fly on:
the remaining motor, but it can actu-
ally rise at the rate of 40 feet per,
minute. Thee engines ere fitted in
a special pee, of the fuselage behind
the wings,• the Taletellers being con-
nected by means of shafts and clutches
after the manner of airship engines.
The pilot sits in a cockpit in the very
nose of the machine, his seaman:glee
tion swinging clear to enable goede
to be stowed away - in the fuselege.
Shocker Fra Grain Fields
Saves Mt.xch Farm Labor.
Xctnatea by the growing dearth of
field labor In the gnat wheat region
of western Canada, a farmer has de-
signed a machine which, attached to a
binder, automatically forms and de-
posits eempact ehocte of grain in thefIeld,
field. Sheaves from the binder pass
up 0 conveyor into a hopper, and then,
bend down, into a conical basket with
spring arms that adjust themselves to
the On et the shads.
Brtieh Columbia and Albeata will
again be among the provinces to have
special displeys nt the Canadian No-
tional Exhibition this year.
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FRENCH BACHELORS
MUST AID NATION
REPAIR HEAVY DRAM
CAUSED BY WAR.
Government Amends Mar-
riage Laws—Plea to Patriot-- /"
ilin Only Real Remedy.
size
- Prance's greatest rectal arable le
not prohibition but hose to find It '76'
itande for a surplus of 4,000,000 wore aa
evIth a view to insuring more rapid rIA
population ot the war stricken are;
and the whole future prosperity 01 Gm
catuary.
When the question of produe ,ag
more children was first broached i'aa
press took it up humorously, bel, a
study of the (loveimmentel otati!,"a•
brought a more serious vein or , nil"
ment and fears were elven expres'id
that rrance May be unable to ret"r
from this decadence. est
Marc than a million. and a quarter,
Pretichmen between the eges of 20
and 25 years were killed and 305,000
were so badly wounded. that they een-
not ever.hope to Rename femlly dulloe.
These, with the oraluary million and a
half bachelors, provide Franee with
, her immediate task unless violent re-
percussion in the social and economic
life of tho nation, as well as morals, is
to result.
Women Forced to Work.
It if; a fact that the Frenchmen's
lack of tendency to emigrate. compli-
Nitta the situation and it is haally
likely that even 0 million men ,e01115
he willing to leave their homes and
came to Prance even to taste ihs
luxuries of La Bello I,ranyo and to
woo her henuties. in 0:scrosin, the
situation a member of the :,,i.thlry of
1 Hygiene said:
"The e.millbrinin which V.-.) .3 wn_111.
Mined heretofote in the malar niter -
nation of birC,(1, mita end tee:else hal
been romeletely ovrrihrown by the
war. For the last three yeave ;eiiIikee;
of Feenth. girls have levit um,hle to
found homes and. have boon cornoelled
to work for their livtog. Itiverywlwre
they are in comption with mile
labor and the women are holaMg their
own only through ti,air intellience
and tenaefty, Wliiell V.0.3 Iligcli'FOP11.
The result is that Frames LI threaten-
ed with hemming a netlen of unmet,
ried women and berhelor mm.
"There is no eacation of thadri.r. M.
A Luer 1"21.111
Queen Mary is making a collection
of articles which were ones the pro-
perty of Queen Victoria, and which her
Majesty has found whilst rummaging
about the royal palaces. Some of these
have bent found at Windsor, and
Queen Mary has made many discover-
Morley's Hotel, Charing CraS2, Lon-
don, which is to be converted into a this problern. Even SImuld.
business man's club, is said to be the mate allianeee be formed, reeords
only place of its kind that !can boast peeve thut less than half of the off-
spring would survive the first attar.
of having tamed an Empress fora its
dears. Many years ago a gentleman Appeal to Patrloticm.
called at the hotel saying he wished a
les at Balmoral. Nightcaps rich fina room to be !reserved for a lady incl
needlework have been found, as well hitnself to hold a short discussion on
as patchwork quilt made by .Queen an important matter, The manege-
ment.viewed the application with sus-
picion, and politely but firstly refund
accommodation. -The waitin-g carriage
I am told that Her Majesty is again had hardly left the doors when a vis -
wearing her beautiful jewels. The gilt itor, recognizing the occupant, excited -
of donning gems with real distinction ly ran to the management with the
is by no means given to everyone, but news that they had turned away the
Queen Mary has it in a remarkable Empress Eugenie.
degree. They suit her to perfection.
Most of the finest jewels are kept at
i 1 The filming
of "Little Dorrit" is a
Victoria to while away the tem= o
her declining years,
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'Windsor, where there is a spec a.
strong 10001 in which they are placed reminder that some of the London
in safes. Three people are always scenes of the novel still remain intattt.
present when these are opened, the The Iron Bridge—known to later gen-
08 Southwark Bridge—where
the turnleey's son wooed. the Child of
trio including a Lady -en -Waiting, who
is responsible for the keys.
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'Moreover, the cost of living now
prohibits ingle womea (Idler front
founding the:17 own homea nr ahlleg
in the upkeep' of the family heerths.
The war and celibacy fan t11.1 melte
population has turned both ;texas to -
alma a natural destination—the ab-
horrence of married lite. They will
never wed and will navcr have child-
ren except through some aystom of
free love which. will not benefit the
State or society."
Asked what remedy far this would
be possible, he said: "There is none.
It is impossible le bring back the dead
or to take couples forcibly to the mar-
riage altar. Prance's salvation depends
entirely upon the men and women
realizing personally the danger in
which their preference for single
the Marahalea, is now ibeing reoullt bleasednews places the country."
Meanwhile officials aro doing every -
Some women are of opinion that it and of the Marshalea 'itself only a por-'
thing In their power to overcome the
is hopelessly bad style to kiss in pub- tion of a wall remains abutting on the
lie. If they had seen Queen Mary em- tiny open space known as "Litele Dor-
bracing her relations they world know rit's Playground." But St. George's
that Her Majesty does not agree with Mural, where the Heroine was chris-
them. The Queen kissed Princess tened, whom she and Maggie found
Parents have been divoroed. This was
Christian, Princen Arthur of Con- refuge on the night they were shut out amended last week and the law naw
naught, Lady Hillington's children, of the prison, and where she was hap- provides that consent is only neces-
and any intend who came along. pily united to Artbur Clennam, re- .
* 4, mains very much as Dickens described tsi ahnxy from the parent charged as geard-
little difficulties in the routine of mar-
riage. The French law hes always de-
manded the consent of both parents of
the bride, even in eases where these
The census is to be taken next year
and we shall be hearing all about it
ere long, In the remoter parts of the
Empire curtain expedients have some-
times to be adopted by census officials.
During the 1881 census several tribes articles -01` booklets against maternity,
The district officer interviewed the money for the submarine E14, for the er
exti
or oven advertleing in news -
in India took fright and ran away. The announcement that the prize -
placing on sale medical prepare -
headmen and gravely informed them sinking of the Guj Djeaual, is now t1(111'/'
anything that might prevent a
that the Queen of England and the ready f or issue, will arouse feelings 1111"1:8 an
restoration. of France's diminishing
Empress of Russia had made a bet of envy among many lees fortunate
it, Few probably of the tens of thou- Another step toward increasing! the
sands who nass it daily on the way population was taken when the Chant -
to London Bridge know anything of
the old churdhee romantic connections.
ber of Dept -dice approved a law which
imposes heavy prison terms and lines
on auy person writing or publiehing
population,
as to which ruled over most subjecke. naval mon. Ma's little account is fox
The census, he explained, was being
token in order to settle the wager, and
he appealed to them to help the Queen
181,000, the greatest sum awarded to
any one ship for priee-bonnty in the
war. The commending officer, who
to win. This appeal to each. sporting bolds the Victoria Grose, am put nbout,
Frenchman Sends Photos
by Phone.
instincts sue,ceeded: the tribes came able seamen should ho.ve about £700 The French Government Is hateeii-
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Experiments eoecluetea wben 51 Pe-
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roprodectlenti tmf deciamente from
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10 Lyons, with remarkable nc-
curacy resulted In the Minister of
Foots and Telephones ordarina two
trials 01 the niaohlnea
The flatlet Government lees aleced
an order for ,E4g1119. of tho machines,
but M. S:11(.1 be would not let -0
faroign Mak it have priority in tee
general application of his isvention.
The maritime, it was
V: a Cirniar diaphragm 0.111111;1g a
luminous screen, against which et pia-
jected a reflection of tho photograph,
thus, sattlug up varying vibrations.
Tlie machine weighs fifteen pounds
wad tan bo attached instantly to any
telephone,
Cola, allehop and Barter will erode
have caorge of the 1020 aeroplane
fliehts a the Canadian National alae