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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-1-27, Page 3Wante .10 We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed r ssels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited ,M1•••••.• 1 ! The Car Owner's Scrap -Book 1•11110111•1••••••••=1 By W. L. Gordon Cleaning Commutator When the commutator becomes worn and dirty, it may be smoothed by taking a strip of fine sand cloth, same width as the commutator. Place this strip directly under the brush (not to one side), make it encircle the commutator as far as possible, and then pull it back and forth unti the commutator is clean and smooth. It must be held firmly. Don't try to hold the sand cloth with finger or with a block of wood while the arm- ature is rotated; this would cause an uneven surface, and the brushes will not lit properly. After sanding, carefully clean off all grit and dust, being sure to clean very thoroughly between he copper segments, then drop a small quantity of oil on a cheese cloth and Preventing Carbon mixture of 85 per Cent kero- sene and 15 per cent denatured al- cohol, if used regularly, will keep the cyinders clean. Warm the en- gine and pour a few tablespoonfuls"' of the mixture into eath cylinder.' Turn the engine over a few times by hand and then allow it to stand over Hight. The next morning Start tne engine in the usual manner. The above method is not effective unless A is begun with a clean en - gin,: and repeated at frequent inter - vale, accorcling to condition of en- gine. 11W•••••*e Definition of "Half People" - IS headline reads "statistics show an automobile for every four and one half people in this city." Probably the "half people" are the pedestrians who have been rua over. How to Make a Gasoline Measur- ing Gauge It is diffteult to make a measur- ing gauge fee a round or oval gaso- line tank. But a very easy method is to empty the tank, then pour in two gallons of gasoline at a time, moasuigng and marking the stick for each two gallons. This requires but little trouble and is worth the effort. From the "Pumpkinville Times" Reports from our county seat state that "Safety First Week" passed off in nice fashion, there being no more accidents than usual, STATES WHICH HAVE THE largest per capita amount of motor transportation also lead in percent- age of homes owned, and in expen- diture for education pee capita. How to Make a Long Spout Oil Can Take an ordinary oil can, fasten a cork over end of spout, not to ob- struct the opening, then stick a wire of desired length into the cork direct- ly below the spout opening,. The oil will flow along the wire to the •far- ther end. • Grease the Headlight Rims Quito often a headlight lens is broken. or a cold ehisel and hammer hisaome necessary to remove the rust- • ed headlight rim, when necessary to replace a lamp or clean a reflector. This cell be avoided easily if a little grease is rubbed on the 1:inis the next time they are removed. An Improvised Fuse Tf a fuse is burned out and no spare ones on hand, wrap a piece of tinfoil around the old fuie and re- place it. 13,-, sure, however, thet there is no short circuit to drain the battery or do other serious 'damage. Drawing Gasoline from the Tank It a gasoline tank is ifot equip- ped with a drain cock, the following idea is of valuo when gasoline is wanted for priming or other pur- poses. Get a piece of metal tubing a few inches longer than the diamet- er of the tank. Insert the tube in the tank with thumb held sectively over the outer end of tube. With- draw the tube and the gas which has catered it will be withdrawn. mofflr.. 11 hit is the ADVERTISING space en terpris ing merchants use in THE POST to tell the good 'folks of this community about their stores and their goods. Good ADVERTISING is moving eloquence, too. It brings new customers to your store. It builds good will. It creates new business, moves goods and makes bigger profits possible. ADVERTISING is a hard-working ally that 'should be co-operating with every merchant, Why not investigate its merits, Ask us about it. PROGRESSIVE MERCHANTS ;ADVERTISE Issued by Oen:Wien tVeekly Ne;vepapere Aegoniation THE How to Make a Practical Oil Funnel Select round - quart bottle ()I' (dear glass. Saturate a piece of eurd in karoeene or turpentine, tie it tightly about the bottle about one ineh from bottom and ignite the cord. As theflame dile; out tap the bottom of the bottle sharply. The bottom will break oft where the cord was tied. Result is a practical famed for pour- ing en IMO a breather pipe. A NEW DEVICE FOR 'TRAFFIC officers to use in signalling to ;tight traffic is a phosphorescent arro v strapped to the wrist. Who will be the first offended motorist to shout "glow-worm" as he ruehes by? Here and There II Southern holiday resorts received n setback when the Quarter 'Million Dollar ChM of the Canada Life As- surance Company, of Toronto, de- cided to substituteQuebec City for Miami as the place of meeting of their Convention this winter. Ice statues have been erected in many of the quaint old streets of Quebec. A huge dog, carved out of ice, with a stick of candy in his mouth, is one of the sights in front of a confectioner's, while another is an immense polar bear, in life -like form, .Abont 130.000 young apple trees will be planted in the famous Anna- polis Valley, Nova Scotia. next spring, it is expected. Good com- mercial varieties of apples will in- clude Ganes. BaldwIns, Spys, Kings, Wagners and Genvemiteins. According to tiut provincial apiar- ist, the value of honey, .wax and other preducts of the- hive in Que- bec in 1925 amounted to $2,393,500. More than 1,100 new aviculturiets were registered during the year, bringing the total to 7,729, possess- ing 100,155 colonies of hue. • In recognition of his heroic ftetioe when he rescued a led' erom being eruehed ander a tramcar, Joseph. , Tammaro, clerk and stenographer in the Investigation Depertment of the Caned Pe elf ie RaliWay, has been preeented with a certificate of the Royal Canadian. Hemane Associa- tion, A DM' record wee creaasi at the port a Mrratrart in 1025, bath in the arrival of trane-Atlartie vessels and in the anurent of tennege. Last sea - eon. 1,040 vessels. representing it net toannge of 4.711,793 entered the port. To 1124 there were 088 ves- sels with .net tone:nee of 11,507,147. - • - A magnificent eilver dish, twenty inehes hi dinmeter, swesented by King Esereemod of Port:eel to the fnmous explorer Vaeca da Game in Me,. in revognition of the latter's a:•-eovery of the sea mate to India, nttrateed re aeh eetention while on ie the downtown of flees of Cnnedien Paelfic Rahway in lontrea On the night of January 14 the olOeet wing of the Chateen Fron- t -ems Q1!. 1)13 was destreyed by flee. and wishin 21 hours a Y'xr1 bed been merle on the work ef ieg. President Beatty, of the Cenas &en Pecifie, says the pew wing will still furl 113,0 enhnece the' beauty of the': famous etrueture ami that it be 101) per cent. fireproof. Teachers and ,oduentionn'ists from all parts of the old Country Rath. ered Londoe recently ts dissuee methods of teaching and. suggested improvements ef bringing up young- sters the way they should go. Amote, those who spoke were Sir Gilbert Parker, the famous Canadiar writer; Sir Sydney Low, Inmerial and Dr. Stevens, President of the Head Masters' Association, As a tribate to • over forty-eix. years of serviee with the Cemad'an Pacific Railway, George Rollin, who retired on New Year's Day under pension arrangements Oleg holding the position of. yard ne..ent at the Plate Vigor Station since May, 1900, was presented with a parse a god. The presentation wes made at e dinner at the Windsor Station res - tamest. Mr. John Leslie has been appoint- ed vice-president cold comptroller of the Cell:alien Pacifia Railway. The new vice-president joined the Torotito, Gray gild 'truce nailw.ay in 1877 as ft junior clerk attached to the auditor's offke. When the road was taken over by the (1.P•R. he was Made chief. clerk and by 1914 hmi advenced to the position ef comps' troller. Slime ltlerch, 1018. he ban been in inItire, charge ref the seem- atecinntieg departmente. •. The Lentea seasen epos .4S11 Wednesday, 17t5 of Velettlaty, :end Good Friday fails 011 .April BRUSSELS POST 1.1.11110.1 LONDON'S OLD SHOPS The Meteor ot Italy CARRY ON BUSINESS SUCH AS VD, UNOtS 010. Firm of Grocers Started Buelneem In 1600—Another Firm Has Been Making Printers' Ink Since 1754-- 1'amous Snati"fubs. Although many long.eetablished and independent businesees aye been swallowed up hi preseut-day anatIgainations, and combines, there aro still left In London, Englautl, and its suburbs old Arras that carry on their business such as the lotus - dors did, over a century and a half ago. Blackwell & Co., Lor instance, have been making printers' ink stem?. '1764, and the firm of Lewis Berger & Sons have been paint and color merchants since 1760. One sees 'their colors In the Turner rooms at the Tate Gallery, for the great land- scape painter bought his pigments from the Arm. Twinings, the tea merchants. have served tea to nine British sovereigns in succession. Thomas Twining start- ed to sell tea In Devereaux Court, opposite the Law Courts, In 1706. Tom's Ceffee House it was common- ly called, and to -day his descendants carry on the business on the same site. Davison, Newman & Co. started as grocers in the City of London in 1660. The firm's original sign of a crown and three sugar loaves hangs outside their present premises in Creechurch Lane. In their shop one may see the very counter over which the first pound of tea was sold to the public in England, and the old slave register of their coffee planta- tion in Jamaica. This arm despatched part of the tea that was sunk in Boston harbor, an act that led to the revolution which founded the United States. The oldest "Sega)" eels in London is said to be 146 Fleet Street. The house was built 611 1667, the year after the Fire of London, but the tobacco and snuff business was not estabLished until 1700 by Mr. Hoare. Since then it has changed hands only twice; tho present owners are P. & S. Radford. In this shop are snuff tubs polish- ed, by the clothes of many old cus- tomers who sat on them while their snuff was being mixed, Dr. Johnson used to call here on his way to the Cheshire Cheese. The tub on which he sat is pointed out to visitors. Then there is Fribourg and Trey- er's old shop in the Haymarket, where Georgian bucks and beaux bought their snuff. The . Century Shop, at 100 Knightsbridge, another tobacconist's, is said to be the oldeet shop in this part of London. It wee originally a farmhouse, and still pos- sesses a garden. Messrs. Pores, at the corner of Sackville Street, and Piccadilly. claims to be the oldest print shop In London. It has always been in the same family and was founded in 1788. The present proprietor's great- grandfather was a personal friend of Nelson, who often used to -deft the shop. Hatehard's book shop on the other side of piccadilly is older still. In the shop hangs an oil painting of the founder, who established the business in the eighteenth ecietury. It is prob- able that more dietinguished and his- torical folk have foregathered in Hatehard's than in any other shop In London. Then in Si. James' street among the great clubs still steads the quaint bow -fronted shop of Locke, the Hatter. In the firm's old books are the names of half the aristocracy. Another long-established bookshop .25 Spencer's in New Oxford Street. Here, too, many famous men and 'wo- men 'MVO called to inspect the stock. At MacMaster's print shop in Pax- ton Street the enstomer may see the yery table at which poor Francis Thompson, who had been reduced to selling matches in the gutter, sat when writing his great ode, "The Hound of Heaven." .e.s wine merchants, Hedges and Butter !lave existed since 1667. Thus this business has been in the same family for .258 years. neve is a Clause in their lease forbidding snipe -shooting on Sundays. Another niemory-heanted shop is Berry' s In St. James' street. In this house, it is said, Sir 'Walter Raleigh stored his !lest consignment of tobaceo. Parts of the building go back to Tudor times. Barry's patrons in the old clays ased to have themselves weighed in the great scales originally used for coffee bags, a.nd there are carefully preserved reemels in many heavy vol- umes. The list covers princes, noblemen, aoldiers, literary enen—a vast variety, Charles Lamb's weight was recorded in 1814 as 1281/0. pounds. Mr, Methuen now keeps an an- tinque shop in the stableyard of the ancient George Inn in Church Street, RenEdngton. There one may see Diek Turpin's hiding -place behind oue of the old hong; stalls. You can buy a piece of Jacobean furniture to -dal' `where Blaek Bess munched core. Iferrey's Is one of the <Acted res- taurauts In London, but is now re- hullt a few doors away from its old home at 229 Regent street.Here tieltens and Thackeray might' often have 13000 seen, and Alfred Tennyson had hie favorite chair in whieh he sat smoklng a icing ehureftwardee pipe. Tito Irish of It. Two Irishmen, on their way home from a funeral, were talking about tile uncertainty of life. Said Pat:— 'Sere and I'd give all I've got, Mike, if I knew th' place where / was goin' to die." "Faith, Pnt, and pliwat good evotild that de yea?" 'Ileporra, I'd never go near th' place at an, at all." Aradenly 1 Attg. The Royal Canadian Academy ot ow was fieunded by the late Mar- auella of Lorlee la 1880. l'aseor fs.,•reaee er 1!s1e rad winae: mane let; lesei "wet/edit prominently to th.. eaely er.r,i,;r1 i(sli 1011 . tle• tbrilvtliort •1 (111,1,, c'1! 1)1131-: of t•Cl'y 1%, top of .1 Mho). e, 1.. leivert.y, aedii ,41 with lioomiett; whtel o 3/011(.i• to pay o•i• ••es et, Witlt. -1 oloa smithy 011)1 c; t • Sseaes as. !••• ,turli, 1vtrd wla•um‘ 10; lia. 1 Ile '..asieel 1, writ,,, 11)191 bit'!)' bectuno con.), 11i111 11,rw5ioltn1rs, and irt 11)19, when 1)1, tirati bilitOr n Milan paper "Popolo Italia" • W EDNESDA Y, AN. 27, 1020, feelee e44,44444.0144$014444.110+44.1•40+4;ee 4eFeeleeelee**401141.4( The Sea,forth Creamery 411., Send your Cream In the Creamery thoroughly established and that gives you .Prompt Service and. Satisfactory Results. We solicit your patronage knowing that we can give you thorough satisfaction. We will gather your Cream, Weigh, sample and test it honestly, using the scale test to weigh Cream sam- ples and pay you the highest market prices every MO weeks. Cheques payable at par at Bank of Nova Scotia, For further particulars see our Agent, MR, T. C. McCALL, Phone 2310, Brussels, or write to The Seaf rth Creaniery Co. SEAFORTH, ONT. NS*444.4.4aibteee+eleteeece+4e4.04.04.L..eaa.e.e.a*ane.^.1.4eelaee0+04410+0 Wd PLAYED SINISTER PARTS --- TRAGIC ERRORS BY DE.SIGNERS OF POSTAGE STAMPS. Chinese Emperor Condemned Official to Living Death—"Little Father's" Face Would Be Besmirched— Elephant Looked Like Pig. Premier Mussolini ("People of Italy"), he with some comrades organized ail association— known as the "Fascisti"—to oppose the Italian Socialists who, after' the World War, ss-ero being greatly in- fluenced by the ideas of the Bolshe- viks. The Socialists in 1020 took such steps as that of seizing large indus- trial concerns in the north of Italy; the Fasciati, meeting force with fierce (a measure which the Italian Govern- ment hesitated to take), came ire- quently into conflict with the social- ists, and .soon becanie the dominnnt power in Italy. Mussolini and other Fascist' lead- ers were elected to the Chamber ef Deputies in the general election of 1922. Mussolini, as Premier •of Italy, exerted (and still exerts) a p0weraul4 but benificient influence on the cal.:i- talics of his .country. The consolida- tion of the Faecisti movemeat 10 Pay - Bement was &Totted by Mussolini in 1923, and the newspaper, "Il Sec- olo" ("The Centnry") Was acquired. In September, 1923, he took clostie measures against Greece. The Italian Premier was erected it Knight Grand Cross of the Bath King George V. When the King was in Rome in May, 1923. In March, 1024, the decoration of the -Order of An- nuziata was conferred on him. Though he hoo "icon to be one of the world's outstanding figures. Mue- solini• has never lost sight of his hum- ble beginnings. Calling at a village smithy, he himself took rharge of the forge' and, without further ado, be: into shape the piece of metal need- ed for the repairs. The feat gave hini more satisfaction, he declared than all his Achievements in national at - fairs! A GUESSING CONTEST FOR Se HOUSE. PARTY A guessing match • about cats is entertaining. Write oat the follow- ing list for each competitor without giving the answera, which are have printed in parentheses, and the 013.1 guessing the biggest number wire An aspirieg cat (catamount). A cat that can swim (catfish). ea cat that can ily (catbird). A cat that will be a butterfly (caterpillar). A cat's near relation (catskin). A 'aimed cat (cattle). A cat •Ihat throws stones (cata- pult), A tree cat (catalpa). .A seam. cat (cataract). A cat that flavors the grapes (Cat- awba). A cat that covers acres of ground (catae)ysin). A subterranean cat (catacomb). A eat that, living, appears dead (catalepsY). A cat prized as a gem (eat' s eye). A eat with a cold (catarrh). A cat that is good to eat (catchup; A cat that asks questions (cate- chis)11). A library cat (catalogue). A, dangerous cat (catastroPhei. Squeaky Wheels Squeaky wheels are 'often ca)leed by the drying out of the wooden spokes, If a few drops of kerosene are allowea to work into the spoke joints, it will tighten the spokes. Although postage stamps are us- ually regarded as harbingers of peace and friendliness, they have often played sinister parts. That one of these "scraps of paper" could cloak an innocent man with the shadow of a dreadful death may seem incredible, yet it actually oc- curred in the case of Mr. R. A. de Villard, of the Imperial Customs at Shanghai. Towards the end of the last cen- tury this luckless man svas instruct- ed to design a new Chinese stamp of unsurpassed beauty, the special issue being in celebration of the sixtieth. birthday of the Dowager Empress. Ile:wittingly the artist committed O heinous blunder In Chinese eyes, for he employed the Imperial purple In his design and made the further mistake of abbreviating the words "Imperial Post" to "Imp. Post." Sorely °Fended, the Emperor sum- moned Mr. de Villard, who apologized Profusely, But the unrelenting mon- arch condemned the unfortunate of- ficial to what in effect, was a living death. Banished to a wild and little- knoym part of Tibet, ostensibly on a Government expedition, Mr. de Vil- lard had small hope of ever return- ing from the mysterioug laud that few Europeans have visited. Totally blind, and collapsing from extreme weakness, he was rescued some years later, but helping hands were too late and he died ahnost Immediately. Terrible trouble was predicted hy Russian peasants when a nen- postal issue was prepared a dozen ye are aeo In honor of the Rom:eller elYnastm. With charatteristie supeeet It ion they pointed out that PV01,` time e ssei was used tho faro of the "Itttlo leather," which had not hecore hem, printed on a %tamp. would be be- ,a:inrctslied. In this fact tine prophets discerned the 31)1)201' of netedistent Some of Ile, eleentee had a inree terculatee n, 'ant hrier 231 01o33e14 rotor - /gm, to 111,, Ones abdtc-tt,./, were added to the fatal nertreit. In othor 00103 tho Ileisherths ob?1:,r4 2311 (bo face on tho memo be peens of a rough dosIgn renreseming ;he rod cc p and ti -+ming sword of revolution. Wavy linos enn bo seen on a ern,- stqiiip of British Honduras foiree in ninny albums. but few col- laanes anew whet 11 grim souvenir they peseeses. It was during the war. t wheel lee Wirden was raiding, the seee. teat 3 heel, supply a new seonns even relesed Honduras. Ttm was used in order the p113011,3 r.,,1d be demonetized if the eneeee tried to convert them into menet% A 1110.11 ter" rine to a faulty post:nee steer) wee narrowly averted ir the Sendan abent twenty years ago, when the religious scruples of rte. nettve tribes were thmightlesely offendel. Stamps weve minted eoninine;e: cruciform design that ,,,as cororlarl to 10 a barbarous 103n11 pre/ irmg treiihie wee es-rale:I onlv whee 1".1.; issue •was wit drawn a1),1 0)10? 1100 eraseent and stern saber urea for the ern;'41.int mieht have been tho ar,atast calamity the llr"Ich 8tom1Yr bee r known was romr+.11 10 1imile 10 1011 1. 1111 2 14 11710113 starms vmq torn ptit into rtreiSation and contained. witi:e:btra t 0fnn01lni;: 7.7'7"3 .(feeevereth,17-01eae4- heinph-ne, and igb- tal13 r So imperfectly defirsensad was the elephant on the new Mem) that the natives thneett It reprenented a pig, e mistake that amused religions ens tagonisms of tt dangerrene kind. Need- less to seas a fresh dPSigIl 'WM p01'- 1 01 vr,rr Aort - • - BIBLES IN CHINA In spite of all the turmoil in China last year, tberb WE1$ 0, reraarkable itt- (00010 in the sale of the Scriptures there, Thr e Bible Societies--AMeri• can, British and Scottish—togethor placed in the bands of the Chinese nearly 9,500,000 copies, chiefly of the Gospels. This is an increase of 1,000,000 as compared with the total Per 1923, 9111:43521.11MiNiII Warmer in North Cooler in South Records of 150 Years Indicate Corn- ing of Beneficial Change in Clim. atic Conditions ls the climate of North America gradually becoming warmer at the north end cooler at the south? An , affirmative answer would seem to be justified by a survey of records go- ing back over 100 to 150 years. , In parts of New England tempera- ture records have been kept since - around 1778,80 and these show a mean annual temperature materially higher in the last fifty years than in the first fifty of the period covered. The mean temperature of the ten years ending with 1925 is two and sixtenths warmer than the Mean of the ten years ending with 1821. If January and July are considered sep- l'arately, it is found that the mean of . the past ten Januarys has averaged Ifour degrees warraet than the mean of the ten from 1812 to 1821, and the mean of the past ten Julys has av- eraged 1.7 degrees warmer. This progressive rise of tempera- ture is indicated by oeeervations tak- en all over the northern pert of the United States. In St. Paul, Minne- sota, the temperature el' the decade ending with 1925 averages two nd eight -tenths degrees Warmer than that of the first decade of observe - Hoes from 115139 to 1885. In Canada the rise has been even . more pronounced. At Winnipeg, for the ten years ending with 1925, the 204-1015e yearly tomperature is four ckgrecs higher than that of the first asr, years of eliservation ending with • istal. The rise at other Canadian siatiors like Poet Arthur and Dawson le ,•ven .:neater. hi Alaska the period - - ece -red by the observations is coin- ' peratively short, but even these shot! a progressive advance in the moan t,i',IpbrattIM taken in ten-year aver - am. ilut the existence Of milder venclitione in Alaska is best told by • the retreat of the glaciers ever eince 1 thoy were first observed, this retreat i indtaling the reported opening; of a ; nem channel by which the Klondiko I can be reached without paseing i through American territory. I This elimatic vintage le all the . 1 mere remarkable because in the sdath. ere part of the United States the trend is the other way. At Charles - 1 ton, South 'Carolina, the 11111.10 temp- erature of the ten years ending with 1020 is nearly two decades colder than that of the first tea years of observatim from 1823 to 1832, end there lute been it distinct trend (1OW)), ward. At San Diego, California, at El Paso, Texee, and Key West, Mori- • da, the trends are ale° downward. These Inds etre taken te indicate that the contrast in temperatnre between the Northeea States and the Sordthera • ii; diminishing. AT END OF TETHER. —_ An old Scotswoman was told that her minister used notes, but silo P0012 not believe it JSaid one: "Gang into the gallety are see." s 1 She did so, and saw the writtell sermon. After tho pre:teller bad corichtded his reading at the last pc:age, he said: "But T will not enlarge." The old womaa earliest out indig- nantly from her lofty position: "Ye ,canna, ye canna, for your paper's 'give oot!" • U. S. coal miners and operators say they will fight to 0 finish. Con- sumers may hope that both will bo ilniolicd.