The Brussels Post, 1917-3-22, Page 6The Spring Overhaul,
Tires may be bruised or cut, h
which ease roper care should be giv
en them before it becomes too lake for
repairs, The smallest cut will allow
water to enter and rot the fabric, an i
if the cut is into the fabric, sand will
work under the rubber and loosen the
tread. The edges of small cuts should
be smoothed with a sharp knife, then
roughed with sandpaper, after which
the out should be thoroughly washed
out with gasoline and a patching
cement applied. After the cement
has dried, the hole should be filled
with a compound which the tire com-
panies furnish for this purpose. In
case of a large cut or blowout the
easing should be vulcanized,
Rust should not be allowed to accu-
mulate on the rims, and painting with
a preserver, such as ordinary stove
polish, will prevent that condition.
The front axle and steering as-
sembly should receive a careful inspec-
tion. Excessive play in the front axle
assembly can be easily detected by
gl'a.sping one of the wheels and jerk-
ing the axle back and forth. if play
has developed in any of the sockets
or connections, the turning of the
steering wheel will not have immedi-
ate effect. If there is play in the
radius rods the studs should be tight-
ened and the ball cap filed if neces-
sary.
If inspection shows that the bush-
ings, which constitute the bearing sur-
faces of the steering post bracket,
spindle arm, spindle'bodies, and spring
perches, are worn to such an extent
that play has developed, it is advis-
. able to replace them. If the steering
gear has become 'loose it can be tight-
ened by disconnecting the two halves
of the ball socket; which surround the
ball arm at the lower end of the imteer-
ing post and filing off their surfaces
until they fit snugly around the ball.
If the ball is badly worn it is beat to
replace it with a new one. The sockets
on the steering gear connecting rod
should also be filed down if it is found
that the ball has any play in the
socket. In replacing the nuts be sure
to put back the cotter pins, otherwise
the nuts may work off the bolts and
cause considerable trouble. It is ad-
visable to go over the chasis frequent-
ly in order to see that these adjust-
ments are maintained.
ped.
The wheels should be removed and
the balls and cones inspected. If the
bearing surfaces of the cones are
rough or considerably worn or if any
of the balls are chipped they should
be replaced, as the cast will be slight
compared to the possibility of trouble
developing on the road. The old
grease should be removed from the
hubs and replaced with new. In re-
placing the wheel see that it has no
side play whatsoever and tighten the
adjusting cone as much as possible
without causing the wheel to bind.
This can be determined by spining the
wheel, and if it comes to rest with the
tire valves directly underneath the
hub it is obvious that the ball bearings
are not binding. The rear wheels
should be tightened by setting up the
lock -nuts on the axle shafts as close
as possible without stripping the
I threads, so that the wheel hubs will b
tightly wedged on the tapered ends o
1' the axle shatter It is advisable to re
move the hub caps oecasionali
throughout the season to see the
these adjustments are maintained, 1
this is not done, play may develop
which will in time cause trouble.
It is well to pry the spring leave
apart near the ends with a screw
driver and force lubricating oil or
graphite between them. This has a
tendency to make the springs more
flexible, The nuts on the spring
clips, spring perches, spring tie bolts
spindle amts, and Spindle bolts should
be tightened and cotfer pins put in so
that the nuts cannot work loose. In
fact, it is a good idea that the entire
car be gone over at this season and all
bolts and nuts tightened.
The circulating system should be
flushed out by disconnecting the inlet
and outlet water connections and al-
lowing water under ordinary pressure
to enter the filler neck, flowing down
through the tubes into the bottom tank
and out of the radiator. The water
passages in the cylinder castings may
be cleaned out in like manner by a
' flow of water from the cylinder head
to the side inlet connection.
The carbon should be removed and
the calves ground, as after a season's
use there is no question but what the
efficiency of your engine can be im-
proved by cleaning the carbon and
grinding valves.
The dirty oil should be drained from
the crank case and the case cleaned by
the following operations: Remove plug
and drain off oil. Replace the plug
and pour in a gallon of kerosene oil
through the breather pipe. Turn the
engine over by hand fifteen or twenty
times so that the splash from the oil
will thoroughly cleanse the engine and
transmission parte. Remove the plug
and drain off the oil. In
order to get all the kerosene out ofd
the depressions in the crank case the;
car should be pushed up a little in -
cline about the height of an ordinary
street curbing. This operation should1
be repeated approximately every 1,000
miles.
The spark plugs should be removed
and the points cleaned with gasoline.'
After cleaning, the points should be
adjusted so that the gap between them
is one -thirty-second of an inch, that is,!
about the thickness of a smooth dime
Examine the commutator and re -1
place the case and fibre assembly if
the contacts do not appear in good
condition. If the railer is badly
worn, that part should also be replac-
ed. If the commutator is dirty, or if
there is congealed oil on the parts, it
may be cleaned with gasoline.
The wiring should be carefully in-
spected to see that insulation is not
badly worn and that there are good
connections at all the terminals. If
the wiring does not appear to be in
proper condition it is best to replace it.
The sediment bulb underneath the
gas tank should be drained to remove
any water or foreign platter that may
have accumulated.
If the engine is in such condition as
to require extensive adjustments it
will be advisable that such work be
left to an experienced mechanic.
CREAT MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
Among the Wonders of War Surgery
Is Method of Irrigating Wound,
There have been ninny surgieal tri-
umphs achieved MAIN." the outbreak of
war, especially in hospitals near to
the trenches in France, In The World's
Work several of these cures are dis-
cussed under a general title, "Won-
e ders of War Surgery." Perhaps tl
f most remarkable is the method for tl
- intermittent irrigation of wounds pe
Y feetecl by Dr. Carrel, the fano
t French surgeon, who formerly ea
f 1 Tied on his investigations at th
Rockefeller Institute in Now York,
Before going out to the Carrel. Hos pital behind the trenches, the writer
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was taken to see a cinema film show
ing the workings of the famous meth
od. As the clicking of the machin
began the picture of an operatin
, room appeared on the screen, or pe1'
haps it was only a bed in a hospititi
ward, I had no eyes or mind for any
thing but a great, raw, gaping woun
—literally a foot or more of churns
angry flesh --which covered the whom
side of one thigh of the inert body o
e plan, a soldier (as the caption in
'.formed us) who had been struck by
fragment of shell.
Presently two black -gloved hand
appeared—those swiftly deft ant
gently cruel hands that one who ha
even once had experience of them al
ways afterwards associates with sur
geons and surgical nurses—and begat
to thrust a wriggling sheaf of rubber
tubes into the wound, kneading an
manipulating the raw riven flesh as a
butcher skewers up a roast for the
oven.
"No nerves, no sense of feeling at
that depth, explained my companion,
in response to my involuntary start
and exclamation. "Although that an
poor chap has had no esthetic he
probably feels almost no pain at all."
Suddenly another pair of black -
gloved hands—hands which, in spite
` of the fact that the face of their own-
er was not visible, fairly radiated per-
sonality and force—flashed into view,
whereupon the first pair' instantly re-
linquished the leading role and "stood
by" as auxiliary.
"Dr. Carrel's hands!" exclaimed my
companion, leaning forward with
quickening attention. "There is not
another such a pair of hands in all
of France; perhaps in all the world."
Fairly twinkling in their swiftness,
the deft fingers distributed the little
tubes evenly through the soft mass of
the torn flesh. Then•a stop -cock was
turned which, releasing a flow of some
healing liquid to permeate every cor-
ner of the great wound, washed it
as one would wash a sponge by hold-
ing it under a tap of running water.
That was about all there was to the
main operation of "La Methode d'h
Irri-
gation Intermittents Carrel," peraps
the one most valuable discovery (from
the standpoint of humanity) that has
eventuated during, and incidentally as
a direct consequence of the war. Sev-
eral subsequent views merely showed
the astonishing progress in healing of
a wound which, under the most ap-
proved practice'of a year ago, if it
had not resulted fatally, would at
least have }eft the unfortunate sob
dier who received it a life-long cripple.
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NOT USED TO THE RAILWAY.
Curious Mistakes Made By Japanese
On First Train Ride.
Of course everyone rides on the
trains in Japan nowadays, for there
are seven thousand miles of railways
In the country, and every considerable
town is at least connected with the
railway by electric car or automobile.
Not so very long ago, however, the
train was a curiosity, and many lech-
erous incidents occurred with persons
taking their first rides.
On third-class cars in country dis-
tricts there is still a broad white line
painted across the middle of each
car window. That was done original-
ly to keep the country folk who had
never seen a glass window from bump-
ing their heads against the glass in
the effort to look out, In the early
days there were many serious acci-
dents from that cause; hence the
white lines.
A party of ladies who were taking
their first ride on the train once had
trouble with their shoes. A Japanese
on entering a house always leaves his
shoes at the door; so when these
ladies got aboard they politely left
their clogs on the station platform.
Great was their consternation later
to find that their shoes had been left
miles behind.
Life Preserver.
A new style of life preserver, re-
cently patented, s designed to keep the
wearer in an upright position in the
water under all circumstances. It
consists of an ordinary cork life belt,
to which is attached a combination,
breast piece and chin rest. These,
like the belt, are made of cork, in sec-
tions, covered and hinged by canvas.;
The chin piece is so attached to the
upper part of the breast piece that it
serves as a head rest and at the same
time allows the wearer to bend for-
ward or backward. It can be seen
that in cases of extreme exhaustion
such a life preserver would keep the
person wearing it in an erect position
without effort on his part.
Drink Hot Water
With. Meas To Stop
Stomach Disorders
A. Physician's Advice
Thousands of unfortunate people sunTer
almost daily from dyspepsia, indigestion,
fermentation, sour acid stomach, flatu-
lence, gases or distress after eating. If
they would only forth the agreeable habit
of slowly drinkhrg ntth each meal a
tlassful of hat water cnntalaing a half
easpoonful of pure bisurated magnesia
they would Soon find their stanch so
strengthened and Improved that they
could eat the richest and most satisfying
meals without the least symptom ut'In-
dtgestion.
Nearly all so called -digestive troubles
are, caused by ac ex^less of acid and an
insufflnient blond 005"1)' hh the stomach
causing fin food to ferment and sour ne-
t. rllgestlon can take place. .1 glass o1'
hot water will Aran' thn blood to the
stumaah and the blsurated magnesia will
neutra.11ze the' stornacic seas and make
to food contents bland nod street. fast',
a.tural digestion without distress of any
kind is the result. 131sui'ated Dtagnesia
to nota laxative, is hurmnose, obtase.nt
and easy to take and run be obtained
from any local druggist. 1)u not forms
of
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tnagneela^—milks, cttrat rs, err., but get
It In the pure bleurated form (powder or
lu Wets) especially prepared mol' this pin•- p
pose,
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faint light in its natural state,
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A ROYAL REGIMENT OF BOYS.
Incidents in Boyhood of a One Tim
Heir to British Throne.
In the great war in Europe boy
are playing an important part. Lads
in their•teens, often in their early
teens, are serving as soldiers in the
field; not a few as officers. Outside
the lighting lines in most of the belli-
gerent countries, the Boy Scouts are
giving valuable service of varied
kinds, often arduous and responsible.
They are a body of recent origin; but
more than two centuries ago there
was a drilled aand organized com-
pany of boys, less serviceable and
more military, who were taken seri—
ously by their commander and them-
selves, if not by the nation at large.
They were the boy soldiers of Prince
William, the little Duke of Gloucester.
He was the only one to survive
babyhood of the seventeen children of
Princess Anne—later Queen Anne—.
and her consort, Prince George of
Denmark, King William and Queen
Mary, having no children of their own,
coked on him from the first as the
I to the throne, and the greatest
sins were taken to educate him as
efltted a sovereign and commander.
Ile was a frail and sickly child, but he
was loyal, generous and spirited, and
very proud of his company of boy sol-
diers, organized for him as soon as he
was old enough to walk. Boy sentin-
e;els were posted at his door; tattoos
'beaten on the drum signalized the
summons to various drills and exer-
eises in the long court corridors; toy
i
fortifications were erected, stormed
and demolished,—sometimes even at
. his bedside,—and mock fights and
' mancnuvr'es occasionally became real
fisticuffs, in which his tutor had to
interfere. Once, when King William
paid a state flying visit to his young
namesake, he was amused and grati-
lied to be received with full military
honors,
Have you any horses yet 7" he in-
quired politely of the youthful com-
mander.
"Yes," replied the little duke
promptly, "I have one live one and
two dead ones." The dead horses
were, of course wooden ones,
"But soldiers always bury their
I dead horses out of sight," said King
William, laughing.
That was enough. No sooner had he
gone than a burying squad was order-
ed out to inter the "dead" wgpden
horses in the garden. They were
buried deep, and their bereaved little
:master only so far relented as to corn -
!pose for them a highly eulogistic epi-
, taph—which commanders in the field
usually do not pause to do. Some-
what later, when there were rumors
of a plot against King William's life,
young William sent him an address of
fealty, signed by himself and every
one of his boy soldiers. It began:
"We, Your Majesty's subjects, will
stand by you while we have a drop of
blood—"
Poor little duke! He died at eleven.
He had the spirit, if not the stamina,
that makes a good soldier; whether he
would have made a good king is less
easily guessed.`" But in the college
libraries at Oxford there exists a fad-
ed, yellowed, childish composition in
his careful handwriting, which at
least shows that he knew what a con-
stitutional monarch ought not to be.
It is on tyrants:
"A Tyrant is a savage hideous
beast. Imagine that you saw a cer-
tain monster armed on all sides with
500 horns on all sides dreadful) fatned
with humane intrails drunken with
humane blood this is the fatal mis-
chiefe whom they call a Tyrant,"
Ethel—I was taken in to dinner by
that western gentleman you intro-
duced to me. He was quite gallant
and remarked upon my birdlike ap-
petite, Her Friend—Well, he should
be a good judge on that point, dear;
he runs an ostrich farm in South
Africa,
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NEWS BY MAIL TROM IRELAND'S
GREEN SHUitES. .,
happenings in the Emerald Isle oe
Interest to Ali True Irish,
A motor ploughing demonstration
took place recently on a portion of the
Vernon Estate at Clontarf,
The Albert Medal of the second
class has been conferred on Joseph
Connolly, an engineer, for heroic con-
duct on board the Vaniilus when it
struck a mine in Havre Roads.
The amalgamation of the county
workhouses has been postponed for six
months by the Monaghan County
Council.
The last Munster sheep and cattle
fair was a record -breaker both in the
number offered for sale and the
prices paid.
There is -now quite an agitation on
in Ireland to make a great harbor at
Galway to deal with the Canadian and
American trade.
A large audience was present at a
concert, given in the Manion House,
for the benefit of the St. Lawrence
Home for Nurses.
A prominent Irish member of Par-
liament suggests that Ireland should
1 play a very prominent part in keeping
England supplied with food. -
Lady Clancarty has given birth to a
son. Lord Clancarty has now five
sons, of whom two are serving and a
third training for the navy.
The County Council has poem asked
by the Rural Council of Kelis to fi:!
the wages of all laborers at three
shillings and sixpence per day.
The clerk of the Cashel Workhous
has been instructed to inform th
Chief Secretary that the inmates hav
been 'without sugar for nearly e
month.
The Licensed Grocers and Vintners,
at their last meeting, held he Dublin,
protested strongly against the recent
order, restricting the output of beer.
There was a great demonstration at
Dublin University when nominations
were made for the representation of
the University in the Imperial Pm•lia-
m ent.
Joseph Burt, F.R.G.S., gave a very
interesting address at the Friends'
Meeting House, Dublin, on his experi-
ences in relief work among Polish re-
fugees.
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RULE BRITANNIA.
Heroic Seamen Who Count heath For
Countrya Supreme Privilege.
A message received by the London
rimes from a firm of shipowners who
have lost seven large vessels by tor-
pedoing comments enthusiastically
upon the attitude of their officers and
trews toward such marine disastersi
"The men seem to regard the ter-
"ible risks they are running as a mat-
ter of course, and their anxiety is to
get afloat again as soon as possible.
The last thing they dream of is recog-
nition for the bravery which they are
unconsciously showing."
hh one instance, the crew took to
the boats in the midst of shell fire,
which continued in spite of their sig•
waled acquiescence to the submarine's
intentions. It was 5.45 that the first
shot was fired. At ten the next morn-
ing a passing tug picked up the boat
loads of survivors, "the vaevrtled hav-
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awIng suffered severely during the
night," continues the report with cus-
tomary brevity. What a night that
must have been for those wounded
sailors! What unending dark hours
of tossing on the open ocean, now up
with the waves, now down in the
trough—and every motion of the light
boats a fresh agony to their injuries!
Many a man has lived out his allotted
threescore and ten without experienc-
ing anything in the least approaching
such unthinkable misery. Tho sub-
nmarine had approached the small
boats forty minutes after firing her
first shots. She made. a prisoner of
their captain, but offered neither as-
sistance nor solicitations as to the
condition of the helpless crew, leaving
them to face with straining eyes their
uncertain fate in the oncoming night.
The boatswain died of his wounds
some hours after nightfall; and the
omen huddled together for warmth as
they maintained with heroic stoicism
that fearful watch with the dead.
They must have seen the first pro-
mise of dawn spread wanly over the
wintry sett, and found hope and lost
it again, times unnumbered, Soy and
desperation hung in the balance, long
wavering, before the mon could make
sure that the tug had seen them, 1Iow
many times, as their uncertain boat
slid clown the waves, did they deepair
of ever seeing again their one chance
of life and rescue! Yet these aro the
man who willingly ited cheerfully sign
up for another and equally hazardous
voyage, merely tie a matter of com-
monplace cluty and patriotism, Their
country needs them; and with calm
fearlessness they enswdf the call, sub-
marines or no submarines—and fare
forth with their lives in their hands,
rf Britannia is to continue to "rule
time waves," her supremacy will be
founded on --not alone her brave naval
commanders, pot only her tall ships
but on the thousand of simple -boort -
eel scanieu who count hesoisltt a mate
ter of coursc3 and death for country a
privilege supreme.
'the Government maintahes ''7,340
miles of road in Spain, mid has more
tilrt,t 3,0(111 miles under conslruetten at
the ;;eestnt bane,
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