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Zurich Herald, 1925-05-21, Page 6The Auto mobile OVERHAUL CAR AND SAVE T1M1 AND CASH. If the automobile that has been ir1 this line he can tale his machine to a storage during the winter had its I reliable service station and let an ex- various parts properly protected, RI pert automotive mechanic thoroughly may need only 'a general clicking up and scientifically check up on various. such as might involve giving atten-I parts of the car. Following the- ex - tion to lubrication, battery, tires and' pert's advice such repair work can be a good cleaning. It all depends on'; done as will accomplish the best re what the condition of the car was: suits. Perhaps a more general and when it was put away last fall. In logical procedure is for the owner to any event, a good overhauling canbe do some of the simpler things that do calculated to insure a more eatr,fac-: not require expert, knowledge and then ' tory use of the machine than if it is' let the service station finish the job. taken for granted that everything is, ENGINE. NEEDS AfrENTION, in usable shape. 1' Thera area few items which eau The running gear, for instance, well be given attention from the should be carefully looi.ed after, espe-'standpoint of the engine. These in- cially if the machine has been driven' elude scraping carbon from the cyl- over roads that are very rutty. Such' iuders, if necessary, grinding and ad roads increase the side thrust on the jesting valves, cleaning and adjusting wheels and consequently are liable to spark •plugs, testing vacuum tank, upset the steering apparatus, to wear' ckanirrg and refilling oil reservoir, the knuckles and the wheel bearingstiglrtening engine in frame. Also the excessively, i ignition instruments should be -d an- EXAMINB THE WHEELS. ( ed, oiled and,epoints dressed and ad _ If the wheels are of wood, they may.! justed, starter brushes and commute - need tightening at the hubs. If -the tor should be smoothed up, starter wheels have wire spokes some of these brush springs should be examined for spokes may need taking up. Spring. tension, carburetor float, float valve clips should be inspected and tighten-T,stem and float valve weights should ed . if necessary and motor support' be examined for wear, carburetor bolts should be looked after. float valve and carburetor needle valve If the owner is tnecliaelcally inclin should be inspected nor 'proper seat-. ed and if he enjoys tinkering with his ing, craburetor body and strainer car he can do this work himself. If chamber should be cleaned and spray he lacks confidence in his ability along nozzle shoteld be blown out. Sons of the Soil. Attention has recently beery direct- ed to the fact that a family of small farmers, named Berton, have been cul- tivating the same land for a period of 258 years. The Berton farm is situ- ated at Merlaut, near the eastern limit of the Battle of the Marne. Prance could probably provide many other examples of similar cultivation by successive generations. Her sons have always been famous for their at- tachment to the soil. In 1823, when it was decided that all French farmers whose families. had been cultivating the sante land for over three hundred years 'should be decorated with the Legion of Honor, Seven hundred and fifty farmers wer,,e found eligible for the distinction. -One of them, Jules La Sargue, was able to establish that his family had been farmers in the village of La Coutie, Tarn -et -Garonne, since the year 772. It is very doubtful if this can be beaten .anywhere. But our own Coun- ty Durham, England, has a right to be. proud of the record of Belle Vue Farm, Stanhope. This farm has been culti- vated by the same fancily for over six hundred years. Flowers and Inspiration. I have a hundred dollars invested in seeds, bulbs,. roots and tubers in the ground. No kid waiting for Christmas, no small boy waiting for a. circus ever had any more thrills of impatience than those with which I wait for Spring. DIgging in a garden is better exer- cise than golf, better gambling than poker, better fun than a circus and brings finer presents than Christmas. I have learned a lot in planting my flower garden; a lot about men and a little about God. I take a bulb, dull brown and seemingly lifeless and bury it in the earth to see it spring into life and bring forth a thousand times its bulk in leaf and lovely flower. How can I ever again question the full truth of life beyond the grave or fail to laugh at a preacher who has to go to the Bible to prove it? Man's Speed Records. Men have been deboloping their ability to retake speed records for some years, with the result that human agility has set the following marks for one -mile distances: Skating, 2 minutes 35 seconds; swimming, 22 minutes 34 seconds; running, 4 minutes 10 4-5 seconds; bicycling, 1 minute 4 1-5 seconds. Against these marks the horse has set 1 minute 35 2-5 seconds for running and 1 minute 56 3-4 sec- .- ends for trotting, LargestMeteorite. What was prebabiy the largest' me;: teorite known to have struck the ground" fell in Alsace in 1492. This gigantic lump of metal weighed no less than 260 pounds. The Function of Music. Music must not be thought of prin cipaliy as a mind trainer,. as a there; peutic agent, or, as a religious or socializing force. It's prime function is to arouse in a man a more highly spiritual attitude as the result of a de- finitely esthetic reaction and because of the sensation afforded by such atti- tude when once roused, to raise the general level of his whole life to a higher plane. All these other things' are valuable, but they must be con- sidered onsidered rather as by-products than as principal ends. The function of school music is to cause the rank and file of our boys and girls to maintain, if possible, to in- crease, the interest which they felt when they first heard and took part in music; and to give them suitable op- portunities for growing constantly more appreciative and more intelligent when listening to good renderings of standard nusdc. It also should fit them to take such part in. the perform- ance of good -music as their varied capacities and inclinations may make possible and desirable. Shot by a Candle. A remarkable inscription cut into the stone wall of the lower ramparts of the Round Tower at Windsor Castle has excited the curiosity of many visit' ors. No date is attached, and there is no explanation of, its meaning be- yond the actual words: "C. Horne— Shot by a Candle." Curiously enough, however, an old Windsor diary has come to light which contains, under the- date June 8th, 1833, this remarkable entry: "Chas. Horne, Clever Lane, was killed by a man shooting a rush -light at him from a..gun. Buried at Eton, June 11th." There is no evidence that the in- scription on .the castle wall and this entry in a diary refer to --the same in- cident, but the probability is that they do. In reference to the event itself, it was probably the tragic end of what was meant for a joke, the offender thinking a tallow candle would merely flatten out against the poor fellow's body and do hint no injury, whereas it has been proved that a candle can be fired through an inch board. Bird Doctors Itself, A famous Parisian surgeon states he killed a bird whose brol1en leg had been supported by a sort of 'sling made of feathers bound into position by the bird itself. - 4 _ Stone of Many Colors. Turaline, a stone of many colors, was discovered in 1820 on Mount Mica, near Paris, Me. Deep Spot in Atlantic. Near the mouth of the Rio de- la Plata the depth,'of the Atlantic ocean is more than eight miles. Epson salts, comparatively harm- less in the stomach, is a violent poison in the veins. gra King Albert of Belgium on St: George's Day unveiled a .memorial on the prole at Zeebrugge in memory of the British naval feat of arms there. CROSS -WORD PUZZLE 1111111111111111 x-- ®®111 THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.' ,o SUGGESTIONS' FOR SOLVING CROSS -WOR D PUZZLES • Start out by filling in the words of which you feel -reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to -still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1—Sweetheart 5—Fishing Implement 8—A crack ' 18—Land surface 14—A Jewish festival 16—Always 17—incomplete 18—Assemble 19—Otherwise 20—Afflicted with grave disease 22—Reaches a finish 23—A street car 25—Sour 28—To move back 30—Explosive machine 33 -Account book 37,—A variegated waxy quartz 38—Not fastened 39 --Hereditary _. ,42—Colored 43—To replace 45—To throw 47—Weapons 61—To scorch 53 --Subdued. 56—Assistant to military officer 58—Small dog 59—Wishes 60—Therefore 61—Firm 63—Tidy 64—To Inundate 65—A speck 66 --Disease of caisson workers VERTICAL 1—Part of a coat ,2 -Verbal 3—Russian measure of distance 4—Consumer 6 -Govern 6—Correlative of "either" 7—Cubes of chance 9 ---Bar of metal 10 -Happening 11—To ward off 12-=A_ lock of hair 14 -Concealed in the hand 154—Subject to death ' 21—To peel 24—Amount overdue (pi,) 26—A studio 27=To commence 29—To besiege 80=A chum. 31—A color 32—Consumed 34 -To put on 35 --Obtained 36--A color 40—A communication 41—Newspaper paragraph 42—Exchanged 44—Performed 45—A ship's freight 46—A missile 48—An eastern State of U. S. 49—A fabulous nymph fro -,cokes 52—A form of address (Ger.) 64—Dry 55 ---To prepar''e far pUblicatior .57 ---Deceased 62—Proceed Dearest Mother.' WTlTllen tate rosy Buds of sunset Melt in golden clouds away, And the azure slowly fading Deepens into twilight gray; When the murmuring winds are sigh- ing Low through every leafy tree AO melodious so undo are dying, Dearest Mother—think of ine! When the hush of evening in-oezes Brings raft music to your ear; And the songs of happy childhood Gaily echo loud and clear; When the stars of Heaven are gleam- ing. Brightly on the moonlit -sea; there hours of peaceful gladness, Dearest Mother—think of me! When the perfumed flowers are bend= ing N.eath the silent falling dew, And a thousand sounds are bringing Visions dim before your view; V(Thile your heart is fondly turning Back to one you may not see, And your soul is sadly 'earning, Dearest Mother—think of me! —Bernard F. Maguire. 5 . . Punctuation. The art of punctuation is simpler to -day than it used to be, but a comma or two can still change the whole meaning of a sentence, as appears in the amu:siii:g interchange of telegrams that recently took place between two popular favorites of the stage. The firsttelegramread;, "Mrs. Fiske thinks Margaret 'Anglin is America's finest actress." The reply was this: "Mrs. - Fiske, thinks Margaret Anglin, is America's finest actress. The result Here was happier than the effort of the roan whose wife gabled from Paris for advice about buying a pearl necklace is or $10,000. His reply was, "No. Price too high," but the operator left out the period. -Let's Win! Let's try again! We know there's hurt and pain Sometimes to face -_ In life's long race, But yet 'tis only cowards who give in:: Let's try again: -and The road is shadow -Ailed: The song is stilled Because we're tired and footsore— weary, spent: Well, never mind!_ Get up, press on to where the high • roads wind Up to the summit of the soul's con- tent! Not easy-n.o, it needs A. courage -heart To do one's part In this great -school of deeds Which try the will! But sure and still We follow on where the Great Master leads! Lillian Gard. A Poem You :Ought to Know. John Milton,, who conal describe the wain in Heaven and the Beauties of Eden, could sing in softer tones the sweet delights of a lovely May morn- ing in his native England. Now the bright morning -star, day's harbinger, Conies dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, whp front her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale prim- rose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost in- spire Mirth, and youth, and warn: desire; Woods and groves are of thy dress- ing Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we—Salute lute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. Sotution of last week's puzzle... ego®®®®2a®rave: MIC11:1 121F281 }':QOIM 1.3®®o_ aa rear'©o®o IRE G10 ®: D© :.6i1q 1213181:1111111U13611 Wil ® ®Ii3®11:10©ilEl®WWI] MIR . 121;111i1 ®� 1213E3111 00L7®{a,1411111;1U1 ek. N r r { Yr , { , Basil Hall 'President of the British Me4lcal As. sociation, who addressed the Ontario Dedical Association- at 'Toronto on "Gastric Surgery:" Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior at Ottawa says: With the arrival of spring the fuel situation is not such . a serious "prob Tern in Canada as at other- times, hitt. it is necessary for those who have to provide the following season's supply to be alive to the situation. The Do- minion Fuel Board and the fuel tee- ing division of the Dept. 0'! Mines aro, and have been for some considerable time, carrying on investigations and tests for various „kinds of coal for theirr heating qualities and also for their coking qualities: Canada, in the twelvemonths ending February last, imported 3,912,129 taps of. American anthracite coal, valued :it 335,029,152. This was used almost entirely for do- mestic heating: Due- to periodical strikes and other disturbances in the anthracite mining areas of the Un-, ited States this fuel supply is no longer absolutely dependable, and it is necessary therefore that Cianada', provide herself with substitutes. The series of tests ire being made upon various tyles of fuels; with a view to determining their relative; values when burned in standard types Of hot water house-heating^-furnnc-es,1 These tests, which are still in pro- gress are being made upon the ear- ious types of anthracite, American, Welsh and Scotch; various typos of coke, gas coke and metallurgical coke,1 coke made in -by-product ovens, somehigh grade, low volatile bituminous or _semi -bituminous coals; and a repre- sentative series of :Alberta coals. The, results of tests to date have shown that the British anthracite, the cokes and certain of the high grade low volatile bituminous coals, in clad-' irg the Alberta coals of the Cainuore Claes, appear to have a higher heating veins than the average American an- thracite sold at Ottawa, that is, it re- quires a smaller quantity of these fuels,. than it does of American an- 'ihracite to deliver a unit quantity of heat. It i'dquires from one,• ten to three-quarters of a ton of these coals to deliver the same quantity of heat as one ton of the average American anthracite sold in Ottawa. Iceland Limits Imports. Fashionable Icelandic women nave had few new models from Paris this year, and the modish young men will not be able tq import any of the, flap- ping Oxford trousers, $.4:a much -conr- mented on in' England. This because for two years Iceland is not to bring in any ready-made clothing. Shoes - and all sorts of fabrics also are on the prohibited list. Practically all luxuries and many, necessary articles have been placed oil the prohibited list in an effort to' Amid,' stabilize the Icelandic crown. read,' butter, margarine, cheese, salt meat; pork sausage, eggs, fruit, leather goods, oils, soap, furniture, flims; watches, clocks, motorcycles, automo, biles and scores of other articles may not be brought into the country. What one Wants is to be interested, and if one isn't life is pretty much the sante in a surface car, as in an EIQ U I$ automobile. -Ellen Glasgow. �. lV MUTT AND JEFF -By Bud Fisher. II 'SENct. fkAyTT AND Z AR G GONNA. SLIP ' E ENEMY AN AIR t2Aib TbINA6HT: AFTER wE UR'* A. FeuufaASH CANS" NCA4a GGN, ALMAzAN'S He AD CZ. Be GLAD T!.' AccEIrr- oud2 Tt-ems c)UNCONbrrIoNRL SulezeNDel SENOR (Awl' `toV c;qN Dt-:\'' The Neuf PceesIDe NT CF MC -ilea isur :L LvAN'r lDF°pC ThE Ni° W SecceeTntrY OThe t(2cASv12Y' r -MINI+. Z CAN afi"`;`n.aiau NANbLC (3O-rh1 of 111E Joss•.! WOULDN'T 'iT BE te lBLE The ouoRL'p cAM6 Tb iiN END WHILE U1-1-(2C.?UP gut .IT'S sOMGTi-1ING• To wo((Ry Ni3ou'r I r- Tli'ti wdfeLD cAN.N le AN G(ND (Alt -lc -Re wouLD WE' LANb ANswcfa' Mz i`t{AT! A. Mutt, President of Mexico; Little Jeff, Sec. of the. 5 ekf • wf -(CM/d:'. !ra tl:r PlAi'r),