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The Brussels Post, 1921-4-7, Page 3The Engine Power Plant, 1. Defects in the power plan: erre sr+ldom cowtrdbuteng settees of acci- dents, but there acre a nurieber of things about the power leant Wuut the avorage dulvem adiv'ti1d ]chew. The prineipal portsof the power pleat are engine, ela'rleare'tor, ignite/ion Wig`' tem and cooling systeen. Powell is der- ived from the explosion in the engine eybindere of a gas composed parley of air and partly of gement vapor; the carburetor vaporizer, the • 1asoline and mixes it with air in certain peepers Lions to form an ex) eoedve gas; the ignit ort syetetn generates e,'•ecteleity 'ani ignites the expletive bre art the proper time; the cooling sy"_tem ab - moths and radiates the excees heat. Tkv'.a article is devoted to the engines 2. Bleck exhaust from engine cates that tee mixture is too .niers in grasolne, 8. Grey exhaust indicates that these is too much oi1 in the eye:niers. 4. To lec'ate a'"dead" eylblcicr-run the engine and open, the cyl'ind'er pet pocks one at a tarn. If the cerinder. is dead the ea a evil crit he exploded in the ey:ind'el, aln. there will he no loud report heard c.reing frc;n the open pee emit. If there are to cylin- der pet c,e1oe, tough the end of et emrew drives* (one welt qac eleettiical'ly lneulated• handl) to to eyllrrler east- . ing and the sidle of dm es ere ver,ver to the top of e spark p'.ug, If spark- ing between screw driver ane the en- gine testing at on cyl.near does not din:tin:l1 the epcei of the running meter (deternerel by earefwi liaten- irig), that cylinder is the ane which to dead. It may teen he mem-eery to eeplaee the spark plug wish a naw one. 5. BG.k firing is c:iu=_rsd by; 1 a. A mixtun-e tea.. lean in gasoline, b. No gasoline cr defect in gaso- line syszteen. c. Engine inlet vavo not seating properly. d. Weer in carburetor (due to con- densation in gasoline tank). 6. Engine may start or refuse to start at all' becau a cf: a. Defection in igreticn circuit. b. Dirty spank plugs. e. iercdoen porcelain in spark plug. d. Flooded carburebar. e. Water in gasoline (dere to con- diensation in gaso3iere tank). f. Points of spark plug too *lose or too far apart, g. Improper timing of electric spark. h. Cold engine, i. Improper mixture of ga:olinre and air. j. lack ef gasoline, k. Excessive anecaion on battery terminate. 1. Ignittan stiretch not on. 7. Engine may miss because of: • Imetroper adjustment of carbur- etor. b. BraI.en perse'. lin or improper astjeseemet of feast plug points. v. Carbonized teak penes. d. Teo much ceetbon in en' ine or in valves;,. e. Cold engine Only at etarttin'g,) f. Defect in ignition circuit, g, Improper orlduei neve of valves, h. Weare eoiirpreeecm (clue to iseuky valves or ine`en rings, scc'reel" cylinder, or loose opark pugs valve ceps or prunang cups). 8. Ermine may luck power In.:muse of: e. Carbonized engine cr valves.. b. Improper adjus'tnlent ef velem c. Improper tiering, d. Ineuf(cienk lebrication, e Overheated engine. f, -Defect in ignition etheirit. g. Dragging brakes. h. Arr leakage in can:•vezb ons, be- tween aarbure'ter, manifold or cylin- der blocks. 1 Eazcereiivg friction in taarloonis- sien or differential. j, Lack of traction (caused by wet roads or roads with loose surface). k, Weak eorngreasion. Rules for Safe Driving, Approximately 28 per cent. of all polecats Riad by automobiles are children ureter fifteen years of age. Many drivers are careful on con- gested business streets, best careless in residential end ether districts where children ere numerous, In epee of lee danger many chil- dren make the street their p':ay- grour:.t, or in chasing each other or a ball they suddenly dash into the street right in frea of a moving ve- dette. Drivers e- uc e - Drivers /Should assume that every And on or near the street is going to dash sudfenly in front of their ears. You egannot tell by leoldng at a child What it is going to do. You should, therefore, drive eiwly and have ab- selute control of your ear: a. Not only when children ere play- ing in the street but also when they. are playing. near the curb, or en the sidewalk. b. When passing schools or play- ground's. c, When approaching persons on bicycles, tricycles, roller sleates, kiddie care, este. d. When al:proacbing youngsters who are "hitching a ride" on the ve- hicle ahead: e. When passing ice wagons and street sprinklers. Drivers should remember the fol- lowing: a. Oauticn your own anti other peo- ple's clile:een abcwt the dangers ce the ctreat. b. Do not allow any one to ride on the running board, rear tire or bumper of your car. The Finest Things. There is not room in crowded life for everything, and one must choose. Harder than the distinction between bad and good is the differentiation between the good and better, or the better and best. When one has seen and known the best, one is less likely to be tempted into accepting the second-rate. What are the finest things?' Cer- tainly not those that any one can buy for •money. You cannot buy a friend, You cannel buy the goodness and greatness of human fellowship and the inspiring social contacts. A. rich man purchases food and flowers -and the service of en orchestra —he purchases the presence of others at lits feasts and donees—but he can- not purchase society, for society. is not a platter of gorgeous and costly entertainment; it is an affair' of con- genial and cordial affiliation. You may have far better society at a fire- side in a woodland camp or among primitive nomads than in the sophisti- cated air of a rich mast's palace. Personality is one of the treasures of life that are worth erose than ropes of pearls. We are so constituted that we look to others for the lift we do not find within ourselves. We take heart again from the shining face as from, the glowing word of the preach. er, We read of Sonne one who bore up and struggled on in the face of all hard conditions and we say, "If lie did that, I can!" First among the finest things of life let us set down the good inJfuence one human being may have upon another. That, is fundamental to all else. The things that' are enjoyable—lit- erature, at, music; horses and dogs, golf and baseball; the sheer delight in a day of a glorious sky and a beauti- ful earth—all these things are twice as much to us when we divide them with another. The first instinct of the soul in the presence of delight is to share it, and by the sharing to enhance it. A pic- ture or a book, a sermon or a play, or a symphony, is Jess to us in the absorption than in the communication to a kindred spirit. If you do not feel like sharing it at oree, the thing you have is less precious to you. The first inspiration of`a; true professor of religion is the feeling that what he has is so precious that he must not hug it to himself, but pass it on. The finest things of life are those we want to give away. Reminiscence. "0 used to be able to take a dollar anti 1111 a market basket" "It's different now." "Very. To start with, It costs me the dollar to buy the basket. Barley gave much better results than oats as a sheep fattening food in tests conducted by English farmers, 1't( Bio eleertieQ FRANK OT- A Meesett` roe. BRAVERY I T}'tth1iL NE Whs "nit VERY BRAVEST SoLplell. IN' g'l'ee, WAR 2 tee fa 85SOfERB can see but little need of a technical y edinar` They aro he••e seen gettingto farm' for tho famous Oxford-Cambrlalge annual races, an am .o y eanploy>xrresrt, With education that will teach them the 02137 Certain ab1olutely inddspensa+hle Rostering Farm Machinery, I'armera who are !merited 111 keep- ing their boys and girls en the farm u'aule do well to give more study and A Startling Innovation, Wherever, in slaty park of Cheerio, twenty or mere persona wish to pre. teed to a Unlvorsity degree without attention to the use of bettor form dleeontinuing 4helr e1nployinellt, fthehl- machinery and the letr+aduetian of ides tq aecomplish their ambition are n1^alern 0onvenienees ' in the home, ateereci lly the Provincial Unit t xsity Thele are too Manly lieopl0 who seem. se far es its finances said the size} Of to think that education is the sou. its stale will permit, Hoe of the protegee and they have in E'er: years the University of Toe (mind 1n elevation that will terry 11121 ionto hos had spacial .arrangements boy ani girl to that agricultural col-�to ettahlo teachers to seapre bighor dei e and then hack to the'old faxen, acodemie qualifications and the degree canis 1st 1 fol' the reit of tizeir lives. of B.A. without giving up their teach - le ss and girls who are brought up ing positions, At the March meeting on it farm where most of the hard' of the University Senate these art, walk is alone by hand and where but rangements were extended and adapts few modern conveniences are in use, e(1 t0 meet the needs of poople engaged Rural Electric Supply Should be Extended. The supply of electrical energy to the smaller villages and to farmer's has recently heau commanding special study. Such questions as adequate charged nail other details relating to the construction and upkeep of the special transmission lines necesary, have been given (112181' study with very satisfat:tory results. In most cases, it has been found that to sup- ple only one or two consumers, rela- tively long lines and individual trans- formers are required. In urban centres, these are made to supply hundreds of householders, This dif- ficulty has been everconle in various ways, such as the farmer paying for the portion of the line used for him- self alone, cr paying a special fixed charge covering the cost of same. Where water -powers are abundant, rapid progress along the above lines is to be noted, but extensions could also be provided on systems suppled from largo steam power plants. The greater portion of the prosperous farming conlmunitieS of the Prairie Provinces requires to be supplied with electro energy derived from large steam power plants, and rural linea there would prove a great boon, both for convenience and increased pro- duction. The experience of a steam plant in England may be .cited in this con- nection. The plant had never been successful financially until its actfvi• ties were extended to rural distribu- tion, This greatly increased its out- put, the plant was pieced on a sound basis, and its lines now cover a -radius of from 12 to 15 miles in all directions. The load is reported to be steadily in- creasing in lighting, appliances and small motors for fame use. It is in- teres•ting to note that under some. what unfavorable circumstances elec- trical service has been extended to cover a large Germing community and that the enterprise has succeeded. Luckily There Were Two. A young matron, says llarper's Magazine, was the defendant in a case tried in a Pennsylvania court. "It is understood," said the district attorney, "that -Taring the absence of your husband you shot a burglar," -I did," the young woman admitted, "What liecante of him?" "The other burglar took hien away." The other burglar?" "1'G-, sir; the ane I shot ate Ct nadt alis. AolneneeJ and this work covered social service work. un:ongA the poor of the city. Canar:)ans are cspe:Jnlly in :eade:l Leaving Pittsburg, she spent three in their own t erkcrs in the. dirsine 01 sears )u the Baptist Sanitarium, Dais area of the Cries Roads' of the Nom* : les, Texas, This experience was fol - East, The following has been rcc1 ! lowed by a year tat New York City, ed at the headqurtxteis of Arnrcllian whose She took re course at Columbia Relief:- ; University, and at the sante time "(hey thequice work of Mier Em torr! to the nurses in Bellevue Iles - elle Wool and Miss Frames eleQarade,: pitel, where she resided, its managers, savecl from toter des-' In the fall of 1917 she entered the tr•lletieu the Canadian 1ioopital for`: War Demorletratciou Hospital, New Tubercular chiliren at Ycdi Enure : Yeti: City, which at that time was a Constantinople, b ,it by caneeina': branch of the Rookerfeller Founea- funds, when the hoot seg was reeeni-1 tion, At this hospital she was for- ly damaged by fire. I lunate in becoming familiar with the "The wort,els wore amens! cerly Carrell -Dakin method of wound in the morning l•y the smolt of smoke, r treatment, Dr. Carrell, himself, being d Miss Wo.gave the alarm alar the' in the hospital, MissWood remained Piro 112 finally healed let the le :.'ilh this hospital until elarch, 1918, room, Courageously entering„ when she sailed for Palestine with room, the workers removed six tails the American Reel Cross Commission 1 to Palestine, which was sent out under Colonel Jolm Finley. Her duty to the Commission was that of surgi- cal nurse, and she acted in this capa- city in the American Red Cross Hos- pital at Jerusalem. She remained in the East until the spring of 1919, when elle sailed for Paris. InFranee a couple of months was spent in Red Cross duties, and then Miss Wood, with other nurses left t Miss Emma ef. Wood of Sarnia, Ontaado, Superintendent Canadian. Hospital for Tubercular Children, Constantinople - of gasoline. The blaze was finally ex- tinguished after it had caused a loss of two, hundred dollars." Miss Wood's home is at 221 College. Avenue, Sarnia, Ontario, Miss Mc- Quade is a native of Charleston, West Virginia. Miss Wood is a graduate of the tris; Hopkins Idospite', Baltimore, Md. Since graduating she has had quite a varied eeperient'e. A year was spent in Pittsburg, Pa., in connection with Dr. White's Tubercular Sanitarium, THE PEST. When winter's done its dirty worst, and vernal breezes slow, the dandelion is the first of blooming things to grow; it calmly rears its yellow head as soon -es there's a thaw, and it has often- • times been said there ought to be a laay. The grass that cost • such toil and care grows not, at spring's behest, and many ghastly spots are bare save for the yellow Hest_ And man sur- Veys his freckled Lawn, and heaves a string of sighs, and mut- ters low, "So help me, John, whatever's lovely dies; the costly plants I bought last year, were killed by frost and scow, but all around me, far and near, the dandelions grow. The daisies were too geed to cast, that were my hope and pride: me rose trees perished in the blast, my pink viotrolas died; they withered in the storm king's breath, they could not keep alive. but where my tulips dtee the death the dandelions tltrive. Alt, woe is me" says Mr klan, "this life is full of stint's; it seems to be Dante Nature's plan to swat the lovely things. The goad sett 1180(111 maul will die, and leave the town in tears and sane all cheap and noxious guy will live e hundred years. to 1002) au life, as all my lawn, the lovely things must gag and where the grass is dead and gone the dandelions grow." for Poland to help in the fight against typhus in that country. She remain- ed in Poland five months and during this time had a very harrowing ex- perience ht the Polish town of Biola. At the end of the five months she re- turned to France, sailed for America, and arrived back in 'Sarnia in the middle of December, 1919. After a rest of three months, she engaged with the Near East for ser- vice in the Caucasus and, with others, sailed for Constantinople in March, 1320. The journey was made into the Caucasus, but on account of con- ditions there, the nurses were taken back to Constantinople last summer. At this time, arrangements were be- ing made to open up the Canadian) Hospital for Tubercular Children at Yedi Koule, and Miss Wood was ap-1 pointed Superintendent of the hospital and delegated to oversee the renova- tion and equipment of the hospital, t She is stilt the acting Superintendent at Yedi I(oule, and from the tone of a her letters, one would infer that she;e is very much in love with her work. Send contributions to Mr. D. A.I Cameron, Manager, Toronto Branch, Canadian Batik of Commerce, King Street West, Toronto. great theme to be done on the farm regulations as to size of orrises, east' and ,•bst , yr'tel2, quipment for 218(1 gistshqr from suctodoh farmsthemthSendroughbothes stcienottifiofcssubjects,suitable and witheonly ordd- public sehool, on through high school, nary university fees presellbed, 4120 and then to the agricultural college, oPportlulit7 is eft14 ed foe the ostab- 1 cr1 they will ie all probability prepare ldehment of what may be virtuoliy lo- thcnuelves for some other profession oat colleges af$liated 1,vith`tl1•8Provin than that of farming ar agriculture �ial Uaivorelty. The eounse thus olYer- in its true sense. On the other hand c:(1 is the `"pass" ex "general" course bays and girls whose impressions in the subjects of the first year being early life were gained on a farm well- Engilsh, Latin, French, algebra : and equipped with labor-saving machinery geometry (one paper),t.rigonanietry, and in a 110(180 where modern conv8n- and selehee, and those of ,the second, fences erose urej will toile an active third, and fourth years being English, jaunt in a technical traieeag., in ma- French, science and any two of his- ch Itery they can control and become tens', Psyelrology, and political supreme master of; so'nething which economy.holds their interest in the mysteries This This is in accord with the of construriicn aicng with the power well -]mown democrat e paljey of 011- of accomplishment, It is the satirise- taxies University. Its design is to tion that tames from driving a truck wake the advantag ss of higher edema - or txaetor for work, or from doing tion available throughout the Univer- some particularly fins, piece of tee- ''lty's entire constituency. This 18 ori chanical work in the tool shop that "cheapening" of unlveesity education, sends a thrill of power through the {or university teaching and exaniina- nervous system of the most phlegm- :ons will he maintained at the trade atic boy. If hydro power or small pow tional high standee!, but it does bring er plants are at the disposal cf farm higher education to the people's doers Montes the girls would find more in- —especially to the doors of those terest in staying at home and attach- adults who have, for mer reason, fail- ing the motor to the sewing machine ed to avail themselves of youth's ep- ee churn than they do in the hone portunity for learning. To obtain a where these conveniences are not in B.A., degree will involve jest as much use. Both boys and bills take an inter- est in doing good work and after they have acquired an education and train- ing they find it more difficult than ever to return to the farm and take up the old order of things. work as it ever did, but the extraneous obstacles have been removed. It is such innavatiees 1121 this, alone with the notable work: that has been and is being done in tee regular way, that entitle the University of Toronto Farmers who are complaining about to the meet generous support of the their boys and girls leaving the farm Provincial Government., can do much to improve conditions by introducing labor-saving machinery Foresf Revenues. for the farm and modern conveniences Revenues from Crown forests are for the home. If they can have these Playing an increasingly Important things right at home the boys and part in the several provinces. In New girls are net going to the city to look Eruuswick, for the fiscal year ending for them. The strongest factor in the October 81. 1920, the forest revenues life of a boy or girt is the things theymto the provincial treasury aggregated do because they have an education or $1,887,005, or more than double those the power at their command, The boy of the previous year. This increase eor girl en the farm given the mastery was due partly to an increased cut, of machinery and modern commiepertly to increased stumpage dues, ences, trained to efficiency in their and partly to a closer scale. management and use, made to feel In Quebec, for ie: r ending Jure 30, hat every operation in the Conduct 1020, the fared 00renhle Urltunnis 1.) of the farm is something to cell for 22.604,456.20, or 2S.6 per emit. greater he best technical ani intellectual than during the previous year. It is treatment of which they are capable, estimated that during the current re going to feel that a kingdom lies liscai year the forest revenue to the t their feet waiting for its ruler, , provincial weasels w 11 aggregate around $3,0twee° t hien may be In- creased to 18,500,0110 burin.;: the fistal Wldd Life, Destroyed, Cannot real' following. be Replaced. In Ontario. for fiscal ye...1* ending October 31. Me, the eeest revenue No natural resource needs the ale meta $2 C14 S43. an iner:,qt,'',e cf 1 early plication of greater foresight for its 50 per rent. ever th,. 1.a,1 year, conservation titan our wild life, It During 1117 calendar ye2r 1901:, the nnot be replaced once it is des- British Columbia 4,,ver1 1 tt ;t re - roved, and its destruction can only ceived in forest lomat...! .1 cast: of e avoided by wise provision. In the 22.7512-738. past It has been an almost invariable The bnpertanr. of pet•l�eiiaal)iig ole to wait unlit serieus depletion these retellnrs, to £ay nta11185 cf )n - f wild life has taken place before creasing them, is cb,11:11 2),so great onsidering its protection. The Mt- that all of tlic p114iace$ would be rainy Bird Treaty, the Northwest amply justified in expending larger ante Act, and the more stringent pro- sums than at p182101it upon the pre- natal game acts, together with the tection of the forests from lire, Needs rioter enforcement of hese regula- and disease, upon reforestation, and ons by game guardians with an ap- upon an administration (1111(1110(1 to vciation of the value of wild life are ensure cut -over areas being left in the vidences of a more sympathetic pub- best condition to pretime cmttinned c interest in what is one of Canada's crops of the mere valuable tree alualile and most interesting natural °peeks, so far as that may be eon- esources. sistent with the tecrarnlicr et the situation. New Concrete Mixer. The moving element of a new con- crete mixer is a heavy metal tub welch revolves horizontally, carrying the material with it. The tub is sup- ported on a circular ball race. Fixed to the bottom of a large bevel -ring gear which ineehes with a bevel pinion at- tached to the horizontal drive -shaft. A discharge hole through the bottom of the tub is closed by a cover having a cone-shaped top, which, projecting upward on the inside, prevents the mixture from accumulating in the centre of the apparatus. To dump the mixed contents, the cover can be raised by a lever without interrupting the continuous working of the ma- chine. Four stationary scoops, spaced about the interior of the tub, are so arranged that two of them constantly shovel the mixture toward the out- side and the other two push it bake. Canada has nearly 1,000 moving pie - tare theatres. Causes of Forest Fires. Why the Prairies Are Canlpors, prospectors, surveyors, Treeless. rtveretrivers, and others who use the Ina recant issue of 1110 Canadian woods, cauee thousands of conflagra• forestry ;Magazine, lir, lig Ii, 12111Ca/mi- ttens in valuable timber by drepping boil biret:tor of Forestry. estry. Ottawa, dis- matches or pipe ashes I do the very beat I know holy-- its the very beat I can and I mon 40 fir keep Being so until the end. If the er end brings me out all right what is to said against 111e won't amount to any t11 thing; if the end brings mc: out. wrong Le ten:mgels swearing I was right evould melee no difference, ---Abraham Lin- ' cten• duff, or ]caving their camp cusses the gllestion \Wthe the Prairies Ute dryAre Treeless." Ile reviows e varl- es half due, ulsalein dry wean.- floorof a forest ]s like the fuse ous theories which boll that the a powder barrel. A ruoluent's prairies always were treeless, and sets oughtlessness rule cert a fortune, forth different facts to show that the t all canadines who go into the prairies must have been covered with forest show that they are both good woodsmen and good citizens by being careful with tire. REGLAR FELLERS—. He's 1 o -r ADaUT' M}Ll:Iot-4 voLU STRins f3N t'}is PiRM SEt_ 'I M Gene Byrnes } it Wets it4 NINE EkcSANae me.Nrs trees in pest ages, On broad lines he agrees wlh the late Prof, H. V. Bind, and the late Prof, John 81ac0un, that the prairies were once covered with trees, and were reduced to their pre- sent condition mainly by fires. Like these authorities, too. he believes that tree -growth can be restored to most of the prairie area when the fire 17401141.c0 has been removed. Paderewskl's Pun, The world-famous pianist -politician possesses a ready wit. He was once Present at a dinner, also attended by, a well•knawn English polo piayer.? After dinner 3d. Padorewski, turning to em polo player, asked:— "9)o you know the difference bes tweon us?" "No, I am afraid 2 don't " anewered;_ the Englishmen, after a few momenta) thought. " ell,' "replied 3d. Paderewsid9., "You're a soul that plays polo; 1 ant a Pole that plays sola" The River St. John, in New Remise wile, 400 melee long, is called the Ilutl,.on e:2 inline of Canaria because of its 2(7(1,1' 1oony.