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The Brussels Post, 1921-3-10, Page 7Tracing Noises in Motor Cars. Have you a motes mystery? Is there a knock, or click, or rattle, or squeak, as elusive as the fehost in no/ ancestral niansion? Something that you hunted far for weeks, and which, like Paddy"e flea, when you put your finger on it wasn't there? Nearly every automobile tins something of this nature, and usually the cause thereof is discovered only by aceident. Very rarely is the trouble fund' ah the place from which the sound seems to emanate. Of enures, a knock in the engine is readily traced to that source, because it will not be heard at all times, but only under certain engine conditions. However, even every knock which is known to come from some part of the engine is not always traceable to a distinct. cause, and automobile engineers are still try- ing to find out what a "gas •1 nock" is. When theelesock is caused by an ex- cess of carbon it stops when the car- bon is reinoved, and is not heard until there is a further aecumulation of carhop withtda the cylinder. If it comes from a loose bearing or a pis- ton side -slap or sortie other mechan- ical defect, correction of the trouble ends the knock. But many oars have a knock which cannot be located, and the engineers are mytatified. In a few oases of supposed gas knock it was found to be due to tool high compression. Most engines are' designed for a compression as high as the engine will stand without caus- ing pre-ignition, and a very thin de- posit of carbon in the combustion chamber raises the compression and produces a knock. Of course, the only remedy for this is to decrease the compression by increasing the dimen.- ;done of the combustion chamber, by using a thicker gasket under the eyl- irider block and adjusting the valve- push rods accordingly., More elusive, however, are the clicks and knocks and other noises which come from beneath the floor boards, Very often a noise of this sort starting in the rear wheel or in the differential, will sound so though it were directly beneath your feet, and it starts you looking over the change speed gear ease and clutch or forward universal. When you can find nothing the matter it really looks as if it were the work of spirits. One ear had a click, distinguishable when the car started or stopped, which after a long time was traced to the device by which the rear wheel was fastemsd to the axle. There had been wear so slight that it could not be seen and yet enough to produce a very decided clink, and the eauso was accidentally discovered by torching the part when theater was started. Another similar case was where the key fastening the hub to the axle had beeome Igose and racked Ile key- way until there was play enough to make a sound. Occasionally a poor adjustment of gees'; in the differential Cees will pro- duce a knack or click, and the sound is carried along the µtransmission shaft and seems to come from direct- ly beneath the floor boards. Sone-' times the torque tube will become loose on the differential end and make itself heerd. This also is a very elusive wound. Sounds produced by • wear in the brake rode generally may be traced directly to the cause, but they are very puzzling when they first become audible. Of course, there are a hundred and one varieties of squeaks and rattles which conte from loose parts of the .Massie, either from the bolts which fasten down elle-body becoming loose cr perhaps lost altogether, or from some mechanical defect or oversight which allows play between the parts when the ear is running. A very an- noying squeak in a taxicab recently was found to be due to the door catch. It had worm Piet enough so that the door was not held tight, and every trots the car found an uneven place on the road there was a shrill squeak. The driver had been trying to rem- edy it for some time, but had looked in the wrong plaeoe, until a passenger placed his hand on the dor as he learned forward to give directions and the squeak ceased until the hand was removed. Occasionally failure to pack the tool box properly will result in a mys- terious click. But this and other noises of s like nature are usually found quite readily A mystery in the ignition system of one car was traced to one of the battery terminals, where a slight shoulder in the terminal did not per- mit sufficient contact to carry enough current for ignition, lights and other uses. I•t took several examinabiona of this terminal to discover just what the trouble was. Ona may be sure, .however, that every mystery hays its solution, It only requires persistence and mechanical instinct to run down and solve the puzzle, ani usually it is a process of eliminating one _thing after another until the hunt has narrowed down to very small quarters and finally to the object itself. • A Cosmopolitan Churchyard Perhaps ons of the strangest war legacies left us is to be seen in the tiny God's Acre at ICirk Patrick, Isle of Man. Here tombstone inscriptions Tri German, Turkish, Manx, Latin, and Hebrew mingle with the more usual English tongue. This queer record is duo to the vast internment clamp which existed close by the small town during the war, All kinds and classes were confined there, and, unhappily, some never saw the peace liege ny.' One alien epitaph runs: "I have mused then to rest from all thine enemies," And another: "Let every man return to his own house in peace." Seven subjects of Turkey, whose resting -places aro side by side, aro grouped together under thein national emblem, the crescent and etar, and the • Inscriptions were carved by en Eng- lish mason. A lighter touch is exec -Med by the fallowing, adorning the grave gf an in- fant child: "When the archangel's trump shall sound, And souls to bodies join, There's million8 then will wish their lives Had been as short as mine," Giant Gas Tank Being Built. Tho second largest gas holder in. the world is under construction in Baltimore. When fully inflated the great tank will Stand 229 feet high, and will have a capacity of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas. ece Nota Sack of Flour Lost. In his report presented to the House of Commons, James- Stewart,; of the Canadiad Wheat Beard, stated that of more than 7,000,000bags of flour handled not a bog was lost through deterioration or not being accounted for. Not Fair. Dolly bad been taken to Church for the first tame. On returning home her mother asked her what she thought of a the HOLLOW PROMISES., I hired a dozen delegates, at divers unite, to prune my trees, mil do odd jobs on my estate, like washing dogs and hording bees; they vowed they'd come, these shiftless skates, with .Hounding oaths and bully epees, I had to do the work alone, for 110 000 came to glue me aid, though I was Axed with buck enc} boue, to, neo that 'laborers were paid; I had to lift a ton of atone and dig a pesthole with n spade. No fellow cares to ply a total, 110 toiler to the vineyard canes; there le more fun in playing, pool or'roiling bones down in the stunts; end this le wyh, when nighte are cool, tbo parks are full of busted bars.. We read about the unemployed; and o'er their 'sufferings leen sob; but all suchtalon are lull and void, the empty trothings of the mob, ani'I would be quite overjoyed to tied a nran who wants a job. I've tried so long to find a guy wbo'11 cone around end paint the Sow and make the rusty bucksaw fly; and all are ready with a vow, and every promise is a Its. Men break their pledges with a grin, when they should wring their halide and weep, and when they ought to toil and spin they calmly snuggle down to sleep; 'methinks that our besetting sin is malting vows we do not keep. Mr. Brown. We never knew a tiring of Mr. Brown He seemed to have no sign of kith or kin, But, wistful eyed and delicate and thin, He came one day and settled in our town, For weeks we met with acorn and baf- fled frown His shy 'Good morning;" then we took him in. Ferber:because he tried no friends to win, But just went, milting nothing, up and down. He did no end of little kindly deeds For children, and folk poorer than himself, He seemed to fathom all their simple needs And fill them, though he had slight worldly pelf; And when he died, he would have been aghast, To know we,hung the town hall nag halt mast. —Charlotte Becker. -Advertising New Style. A Iil London vicar •f/ letting the ad- vertising space on his private motor- car to tradesmen, says an. ngllsli newspaper. He has already received many excellent offersof "lets," and anticipates covering the car's running expenses. This should open out the way for other roadsters. Motor -Cyclists and motor -ear owners might easily pay for the upkeep of their vehicles in this fashion, besides providing some excel- lent publicity. Perhaps here some of the poetic ad- vertising stunts adopted in the flowery land of japan might' assist.. For in. stance:. "Goods despatched expeditiously as a cannon ball." "Parcels done up wkth such loving as a wife bestows on ner husband." "Customers are treated as politely as by rival steamship companies." "Our silks and satins are as smooth as a lady's cheek, and -colored like the rainbow." A Letter From London The Prince of Wales has just been appointed Colonel -in -Chief of the Sea - forth Highlanders. This makes the tenth regiment with his Royal High- ness at its head. The cost " of ten different uniforms is no small matter these days, and the amount paid by the Prince for kit alone must run well into four figures. * * * * I noticed the other afternoon when I saw Princess Mary at a charity function that she was not wearing a single jewel. When taking tea she took off her gloves, and not a ring was visible. I am told she considers jewels a little showy. She sometimes wears them at home, and they suit her admirably. * * * * Although the Prince of Wales has his business advisers he always has his own say, and is emphatic on the point that no one is to be incon- venienced in order that his posses- sions may return larger incomes. But his Royal Highness was never so in- dignant as when it was suggested that Kennington Oval might be sold for building purposes to yield an annual rental between three and four thou- sand a year instead of seven hundred pounds odd. "I will never consent to the people's pleasure being interfered with," he said. * * * * The Prince, I am told, has a very sweet teeth. Only the other day I saw hint come out of the Bath Club and pop a chocolate into his mouth as soon as he had told the chauffeur where he wanted to go. He inherits his love for sweetmeats from his grandmother, Queen Alexandra, who ]ways had /sexes of mixed sweets in every room she used at Sandringham, and still has special cream fondants made for her in the Royal kitchen. One member of the Royal Fancily regards the cinema not only as. a power but also as a real recreation. Queen Alexandra has private cinema shows at Marlborough House. Lists and descriptions of all the trade "I liked it very much," site replied. "But there was one thing I didn't think was fele" "What was that, dear?" asked her mother. "Why, one man did all the work, and then another man cane round and got all the money, shows are supplded to her, and if she takes a fancy tb a film she bas a private view of it at Marlborough House for herself and her friends. * * * * Not many people remember how the Duke of Connaught was in the 'sixties asked to accept the Throne of Greece. Had it not been for the opposition of the great Continental Powers at that time he might have been en the Throne of that troublous country at present, * * * * It is not generally known, I think, that the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's does not actually live at the Embassy in Grosvenor Gardens. He is forced to rent a pri- vate house somewhere in the vicinity, and it is there that his social recep- tions are held. A story is told of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who was Ambassador about ten years -ago. A police offreer late one evening found a man walking anxi- ously up and down the pavement in Grosvenor Gardens, The policeman said sharply, "Move on, my ratan. Haven't you got a home?" "No," came the simple reply, "I have no home. I am the American Ambas- sador." * * * * During the war the number of non- swimmers in the Navy, among both officers and men, was very noticeable. I am glad to see that the naval authorities have been makinginquir- les, with the result that it has been' decided to reintroduce the pre-war, swimming tests. To carry these out successfully a man must swim eighty yards suitably clothed for the exer-' cise, and then another forty yards: fully dressed. nqa; I the vital.prinolple of life he te greattest of al? imams anis Mappl- assetsam . I am that wlileb g1Yes the plus quality to buman beings. I put pep, gin ger, vim into Truman effort, , 1 alt the /entree et' physical and melte! power. I give the body vigor and buoynncy, the hraln vital energy and erigluallty. I am your hest friend --the friend of the high and lowly, the dell and the poor alike•ehut, be lie king or Wieser, who violates my laws must pay the penalty: I am often sought in wain by theman who tides In itis limousine,' but am generally found in the company of the man who walks to hiss work sill, takes plenty of exercise. I nm the great multiplier of ability, the buttress of ioitiative, of courage, of self-conildence, the beekbnno of enthusiasm, without which notlting worth, while was ever accenediehed. I are the greatest conett'uctive power in the life of men. Without me ale faith weakens, 1115 ambition sags, his ardor cotes out, lrid'courage faints, late /elt-eOIitldence departs, his aecomplishmellt is nil, Without me ambition ant wealth aro but a mockery, a palatial home and luxuries a bitter'elfeappointment, Next to life itself, I ani the greatest gift God has given to man; the Millionaire who has lost me in piling up hie fortune would give all his mil- lions to get me back, again; but I am beyond the reach of money. Ism that which gives buoyancy to Life,, which makes you magnetic, joy- ous,forceful, which brings out your resourcefulness and iwventivenese, that which raises efficiency to Its maximum and enables you to make the most of your ability, I inareaee every one of your forty or fifty mental faculties a hundred - told. I am the leader of the all, 'When I am present they are up, at their best; when I am ebsent,they are down, at their worst. 1 am the friend of progress, the Stimulator• of ambition, the encourager of effort, the great essential to efttcieecy, to success, the promoter of long life and happiness. I am :slay bringer. Where 1 go, good cheer goes. Where I am not, de- pression, the "blues," discouragement are present. My abeenee means de-. dining powers, often thwarted ambition, blighted hopes, mediocrity, failure, a shortened life. The wise man guarde.nee as the apple of his eye; thefool often abuses• and loses me through ignorance indifference or neglect. I AM GOOD H2IALTH, —O. S. Mardon The King Stole His Cook. The admiral of the British fleet once invited King Edward VII, to dine with him. King Edward admired the skill of his host's cook very much; and Adm. Fisher, in his reminiscences, tells the autusing result of the visit. One night at dinner, several days later', Adm Fisher complained of the soup and asked whether the cook was "No, Sir-ohn; Mrs. Baker isn't ill," 'replied, thenbutler•; "she lass been in- vited by Hie Majesty the Ring to stay at Buckingham Palace," "And that," says the admiral, with a trace of feeling, 'wee the first I had heard of it!" New Senator from Nova Scotia. John Stanfield, just appointed to the Senate. He entered the- House of Commons in 1907 and was chief whip of the Conservative party for about eight years. Perfume at $80 an Ounce. Last year's harvest of Bulgarian roses, on which the perfume manufac- turers depend for attar of roses, was one of the worst on record. Consequently the urice of the en sence has gone up - considerably, though it is not even now so high as during the last two years of the war, when the best attar sold in the Lon- don markets at from $25 to $26 an ounce. The wholesale price just now is round about 029 an ounce. Before the war it was $7.50. Contrary to popular rocas belief, however, attar of is by no means the moat expensive scent on the market, Civet Is worth wholesale hist now were, $26 an and musk $80; ambergls, which forms the basis for nearly all the beet quality scents, costs 060 an ounce. These prices refer'. in the case ; fo of perfumes, to the essential oils, one !1 or tvo drops of which will make quite a decent -sized bottle of stent. Only dealers in precious stones car • ry more valuable stock In a small! epee° than the dealers in these highly The first Fergon. Why should Mier man aliyo str1,10i and' Swell with setisfectioil because of i any doing of his own? lie cannot go many blocks along a street without passing or meeting his betters. Some' plain reran he would not took at—, simple, humble, reticent --has pers. formed deeds without a trumpet ands with no bruiting of his name, anti the deeds were more deserving of praise than anything the egoist narrates of himself. Familiarity, the adage tells us, breeds contempt. now is It, then, that we live in this close and cnidae-. aur society of ourselves and will find' oursetyee likeable characters? Know - Mg who we are, how can we pretend; to superior virtue? now can we hold our heads on high above our fellows and call ourselves holier than those who never advertise their merit? It a ratan tells 'the truth about him. self for the Bake of proving human fellowship In error, if he confesses his own mortal weakness for the com- fort of fallible others—if be sets forth' the circumstantial' biography to help and to lift those that are down, what he speaks or writes of himself does not incur the reproach of Immodest parade or fatuous exhibition. If he utters his story with the ptmpoee of an auto -coronation. 3n glory, he offers' "en odious spectacle, which the, root of us shun as we would the pastilence,. When two egotists meet the en- counter is comedy or tragedy, no It is viewed. Each wants to tall of him- self; each resents the role of listener-. The complete egotist thinks no con- versetion good unless it is virtually his monologue. He cannot bear to have his hearer disagree. No trait is more displeasing to him, however, than his mock -modesty. He wants, praise, greedily, but when you feed it to him he puts it by with a smirking self -depreciation that he does not for a moment mean, For he has a very pretty opinion of all hie fancied apti- tudes and accomplishments,and he does not intend to have the picture damaged in transit through a world of harsh and jarring contacts. If a man thinks in terms of the first person, he is forever putting him- self in the lead, not by merit, but by the angle of the elbow which is his habitual angle of approach. When he has violently broken into the place he chooses, he cares nothing for the rest. He does not ask what becomes of those who had not the strength nor the voice to assert themselves. If they perish, what is that to him? The fittest survive, and he represents the fittest. But it is not those who fight for their own promotion and care nothing r the racial advance who are the oved and honored of manl"r.d. -i Besides its human inhabitants, the I resources of any country consist j fundamentally in its farms, its for- ests, its mines, and its waters. 'lo show a little of what the University of Toronto is doing for the Province a selection has been made from the i long list of problems now under in- ! vestigation and those problems select- ed (less than ons -sixth of the cern- plete list) have been classified re- cording to the basic industries bene - 1 fited. The Parnl--Wheat rust; poisonous 1 seeds do feeds; character cf soils; oc- jeurrence of sand and gravel beds; purification of water supply; seed I germination. (All this is entirely I apart from the work being done at f the Ontario Agricultural College). The Forests—Needle blight in white pine; reforestration; increased uti;1- bation of timber; pulp and paper; timber diseases; canker on maple and poplar; wood preservation; plant breeding and improvement, The Mine —Ore deposits; manufacture of brick; smelting of iron; rust -proof coatings; mineral deposits; ore separation; paraffin oil. The Waters—Rateof growth of fish; the herring in Lake Erie; mayflies; breeding .of fish, Research benefits the basic retoure- es of the Province; but specialized in- dustry and the welfare of the people are not overlooked. Omitting,' again the more technical problems new under research and selecting only a few from the list, some additional ex- amples are given. Specialized Indus- try ---Growth of yeast cells; heating of liquids; rubber; concrete beans;; transformers; aeroplanes; electric eurrenta in arc lights; sugar, Educe- tion—Methods aR teaching; assimilae Cion and education of immigrants; re- tardation of pupils; elimination; in- telligence tests. Medicine—Whooping cough; rickets, diphtheria; influenza; pneumonia; electric currents 111 thera- peutics; blood supply and brain ac- tivity; bone formation; kidney dis- eases. Hoasehold Science—Misbrand- I g of textile ,fabrics in shops; adel- teration of silk fabrics; malnutrition in children; use and dietetic value of so-called egg substitutes. —0....----...- concentrated y concentrated essential oils. A,safe in the office of a flan of wholesale per - Tamers will frequently contain stock worth $126,000. Canada's Giant Parks. The Canadian Government has taken time by the forelock, and reserved for all time for the public enjoyment four national parks, which dwarf any other Parks in the whole world. They are in the Rocky Moontsiee„ and were all visited by the Prince of Wales during Ids recent tour of the Dominion. In teat, one of his official "stunts" was the opening of the latest addition. Revelstone Park, which over- looks the vast valley of the Columbia River. Each of these parks is as big as a good-sized country, with mighty pine - forests, waterfalls so high that they ono themselves in spray, and lakes of a flue which even Switzerland oeainot latch. The Government is building splen id roads of access, so that even the motor -car can get within touch et all ese famous beauty spots. Alto- gether there aceto -day 170 miles of the finest roads in the world, from. which branch off the old Indian trafls which reveal views a hundred miles in extent. Snow Blindness Permanent. William Beeoh, the first white man at Fort Churchill. termitms of the Hudson Bay Railway that is to be, has lost his sight as a sequel to snow blind nese. Mines Lk by Candles. . 1 The gold, diamond and other mines of .South Africa are enormous can- n isomers of candles. According to the d commercial year book for 1920 of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, these mines in the preceding twelve months used 9,917,716 pounds of par- raitn ten -ounce candles, The bulls of these, 8,218,367 pounds, was consumed In the gold mines of the Rand, In the coal mines of the United States, no enndbes 810 used, for fear of dust explosions; but a great many of them are burned' in -our petal mines. Even in the Iatter carbide lamps are preferred, and these have bean replaced to some extent by elec- tric lamps fed from small storage bat- teries, The battery is 'attached to the miner's back at the waist, the cord passing up behind and over hia head to the lamp fixed above his forehead, * * * * A naval friend was telling me something I did not know before,' which is that every ship carries a' horseshoe for luck. This has been al fetish with the Navy ever since the day when Nelson nailed a horseshoe to the mast of the Victory. BIG N. REGLAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes. 'SURE! ..t ie. N4 NAND 15 FORMINlts • AN' THE LIT71.e. 1-4AND IS roiz.'t'Hf=- HoUt.s 1 1 WoNbeR; WHY 'mi=l s CNLY 11r4tl.ve. House t $ `PFVE Clock,. Ai4! THEM 1 c ‘Ipt46 BAC.V& -tip ()Re. 1e6I*N / Oldest University. The oldest college is University' College, Oxford, fotmded In 1060. e Effect of Research on the Life of the Province. Some of the finest lace in the world is made by the women of the Philip- pine Islands from a strong, silky, fibre obtained from pineapple leaves. Canadais now the world's second largest pulp and paper prodnejng country and is rapidly overtaking the United States. Ninety tour plants have a capital of $241,000,000, em- ploying 26,000 in mills and o#flees and from 10,000 to 25,000 inwthe woods,. according to the teasel. 'Production value, 1018, $118,000,000, exports, *$0,000,000 ehietly to the United States..;...