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Zurich Herald, 1921-07-14, Page 7sommeiolgtmand tip .a:worst is yet to 0111e Care During. Summer. With the steamier i ptoeing sea on !here and the call of the osiexi road at hand the time of year when owners use their cars more than at any other 'season they are naturally more eager itlran usual to so operate their cars lthat they will get the maximum efa- tciency. As, an aid in this direction, 'timely advice is given to 'owners by an 'expert. He says: "In general, motor ear 'owners 'should bear in mind that the heat of ,sunrnler, combined with the harder and more constant use to which they ;put their cars .at this season of the ;year, causes neore evaporation than at other times. This •appliee not only to water in the radiator, but also: to =roil: "During the hot weather months at- tention should be given frequently to the radiator; the owner should see that it is kept filled and at intervals it should be flushed out and filled with clean water. In eonneetion with effi- cient operation of the cooling sys- 'tem, .fan belt adjustment .•should. be not sufficient to set the emergency' made, foe the: fan is needed in sum—,(brake, particularly if the car is a 'mere The position of the ;spark lever heavy one. . Crarnp .the front wheel's should be watched to see that it is so that one of them rests against the curb or a rock.' Use front of front wheel if car point down the hill and rear' of rear • wheel if the ear points up. Then if the emergency brake slips, or some misehievous boy disen- gage it the ear will not start. In ceder to become familiar with the location and "feeP' of the lever it in the best possible condition during the summer menthe, for itis then he. uses his automobile met. To get this maximum efficiency he must exercise greater care in going over the car," Hints to Motorists. After adjusting ;brakes be sure to spin the wheels to make sure that brakes clo not bird. It is extremely important to have brakes release properly, "otherwise they bind and lass of power results. Some time, while .exploring the low- er regions of the chaleis, see that the brake rods have pull springs to insure full release when intended.' A hot brake will be avoided, Remember always to apply the brakes gently. When brakes are jam- med hard it puts' a severe strain on the tires and may cause one wheel to leek and slide, wearing, the tread at that point. Judge your distance.and- momentum and stop by using brakes as little as p'os'sible. If you stop the car on a hill it is 'sept in an advanced position, thus as- suring 'butter cooling of the. motor. "Minor parts, such as wheel bear- ings, ear-ings,. piing shackles, steering connec- tions and universal joints, require oil- ing more often in summer. It is well that a heavier grade of lubricating oil be used in the motor than is used in colder weather and oil should be is advisable formotorists to use the drained from the motor at intervals emergency brake occasionally in Oren - net to exceed every one thousand nary work. This is suggested so that miles. Better pee-forme/sae will result in the event of an emergency there When this is done.,will be no fumbling in using it.- Also, "Careful attention .should be diect- this occasional use will reveal when eel to thebrakes to see that they are the birake is out of order. kept in as nearly perfect condition as Cheap tubus, patched tubes and old possible, for during the summer worn tubes let out inflation. Low in - 'months they get greater Usage, : with nation •causes stone bruises, ma'i'n 'and more traffic to contend with and' more tacks to be pickedat p, and worst of all, cars on the road. broken fabric walls, loose treads, "Tire pressure should be watched blow -outs and road cuts from soft • more closely on tires' that have been • tires and friction. in use for a long period, because tires You can dodge thousands of rocks expand more in hot weather. The in the road by •a slight turn of your owner should have a tire gauge and steering wheel. Of course you can .use it in inflating. In taking long not dodge then' all, but if you' are. trips the owner should be provided really sincere in trying to save your. with a good spare tire and should go tires you. can avoid most of them. over all tires during the trip to see Small rocks' in the road often conceal that they have no defects.: sharp edges that play havoc with tire "Every owner wants to have his car. treads. 1 ThIE.. �?RICE OF. SILENCE By . FItEDERIC BOUTET ' His midday meal over, M. Buchene was in the'habit of .snvoking, a cigar before returning to his office. While. he puffed peacefully he talked matters over with his wife. In the early days of his marriage he had found this intermissionhour delightful.: Mme. Duchene, quitting_: her place opposite him, used to come and sit beside him. The cigar went out. They kissed each other fervently. These ardors had abated in time, and now storm clouds sometimes threatened the seren- • ity of their conversation. This day, after lighting his cigar, exaggeration.. Suppose he pIays now and.,&eel. there s .ne s hemm would `play myself, for amusement, if I had a 'chance. We•aren't like -you, ponderous,; solemn, doing everything by *eight and remeasure. We are im- aginative magiinu,tive and avervous. • We are alive. Besides, 1VIaxime would :probably be a little more interested in your buusiness. if you had 'encouia:ged him • by show- ing complete c'onfidensie in him and making hint your second in 'command•, instead of treating him. like a 'boy, a person of no consequenoe. He is• con- scious of his growth and his feelings have been hurt. I know that" M. Buchene shrugged his shoulders. "Mon Dieu! • My dear child, Maxime isa delightful 'fellow.,; a perfect dan- cer, an accomplished man of the world. I don't dispute it. 'But to trust him with my business! . Pretty soon you °wouldn't be able to pay your M. Buchene said: dressmaker's bills. He would ruin us "My dear Suzanne, I 'have some- with the best intentions in the world: thing to say to you about your beother He is as fantastic as you are. You Maxime." both take after your father, who has Mme. Buchene stiffened up. But he been mixed u'p in his lifetime in a took no notice of that and oontinued hundred foolish enterprises. • In fact, in his grave, precise and gentle man- I still wonder why he has lost only net, which now irritated Suzanne, al half of his fortune. though she had formerly been greatly Suzanne was red with anger. impressed by it. • "Papa is a superior man, whom you "Yes, he makes 'me uneasy. You, aren't capable, of understanding." know with what pleasure I took him She looked her husband full in the Into my office •six months ago. I want- face and added, emphasizing her ed to oblige you and your parents." words: "It was perfectly natural," Suzanne "In •amy case, you oughtn't to perm'i't interrupted. "Maxime had just finish- yourself to criticize another family d his law course and there was every when you leave in your own family an Chance that a young ,nasi,, intelligent, Unele Arsene, a bankrupt." distinguished and ofgood family- M. Buchene now grew red. your 'brother-in-law, in the bargain,— "What? What are you saying?" w'ou,id give you better service and he stammered.. • command your confidence more read= "I am telling the truth. I also know ily than some 'outsider, even though something. I refrained out of polite - the latter night be older and more nese from alluding to this before, but serious:'. since you force me to it, I repeat: "Serious! That's just what Maxime When one has in his family a bank- fi.sn't. That's what worries me. Let rupt like Uncle Ars'ene'he avoids cniti- him be frivolous, neglectful, inexact. cizing 'a family as honorable and end - Mon Dieu! I didn't expect anything nent as mine. I will remind you of else, Bat for some time past he has that fact again, if it is necessary," been running wild. I don't mean dove She went out' and slammed the doer. affairs. At his age that would be ex- M. Buchene was crushed. Uncle ',A.r- cusable. I't's something else. He serve was the Buchene black •sheep. H•e gambles He spends his nights; atthe had sprung, some fifty-five years be - poker table. He comes` in in the morn- fore, from the loins of that economic ing pale, restless, overstrained. When and virtuous family, a 'troublemaker he sits down he can hardly keep his from his 'boyhood, showing as a young ' eyes open. This morning I asked hint lean an aumatural taste for prodigals for a letter. He started suddenly out ity •and debauchery. He 'made two of a doze end answered `I have a king marriages -cone of them s•cancielous full:' And he plays for big stakes. and then failed disastrously in a busi- I've found that out. Now, gambling nese venture, undertaken in the hope. is a dangerous thing, my dear Su- of recovering the fortune he had dissi- zanne. I don't know whether you rated. They knew that he had settled realize that or not. I wish you would down somewhere in the -country and give hint •a word of caution, for he was rnan,aging a disreputable cafe. loves you and ,aspects you. Or your M. Buchene let his burned' -out cigar ' parents might ,clo it. I shall not inter- drop. The revamping of this old' story vete unless he persists in taking such filled his mind with bitterness. He was' chances." dumbfounded that his wife 'knew all "Don't get excited, please," said Su- the details. It was a powerful weapon eating, mockingly.' "It 'sounds like a f'or her, and she would use it nrerci- speech out of •a melodrama. And I;.Iesgiy. He had no doubt about that. an sure the information your spies What kind of life would he lead hence beetigmt you about Maximo is mostly forth, if whenever a disagreement, this morning." arose the seandalous doings of ;Un•ce Arsene were to be thrown :at.his bead.. But he judged Mme. Buchene by himself. She didn't• de as be ''voila have done. She didn't employthe di- rect method of attack and: never Men- tioned the naive which her cowed.hus- band expected to have spruiig'on him at any moment. She contented her- self, when she was annoYed (and that was frequently), with praising her own family, whose healer had never been tarnished within the memory of men. She abounded in exaniples of worthiness which she had drawn from MARBLE RESOURCES OF THEMINION • EXPORT TRADE MIGHT BE BUILT UP. Vast Deposits of Ornamental Marble in Hastings and Other Ontario Counties. the lives of her parents, her <grand- parents and her •remoter ancestors. Cauda has large resources of orna- Family tradition had preserved these mental building stone er marble which noble memories. so far have been largely neglected, Mme. Buchene thustormented M. and the announcement that thecoun- Buc�hene. He felt hiseli�gnityasi°a'man try is on the verge of a tremendous and .'a husband tern to shreds. He suf- building, boom, when building material fered iii silence. Perhaps ,to "soften of all kinds will be ealled into regnisi- Mine.: tuc'hene, who showed a tendency tion on a large scale, .draws attention to abuse her 'victory, he beclariie ex- once more. to these' hidden stares and tremely considerate to Maxirne. He the opportunities awaiting their de - initiated him into the secrets, of: the Velopment. As, pointed out by W H. business, gave him the keirieto his Matthews; Manager- of the Canadian desk,absolved him fro a' at Marble Company at Toronto, the prime '� xn, ,.2?' a 3:iys���• -,.. the—ooffi+Ge' n�`tiie i oriiiii��':'an ,'like: an riedessity"i eapitar, wli ch will; P'r`o- elder,brother, advised hini to take his per co-operation and management on fling. Some weeks passed. One evening, :as M. and Mine. Buchene had just fin- eshed dinner, a . servant announced Maxime. "Mon Dieu, what's. the matter?" cried Mme. Buchene, aLa med:'jiy het; brother's pallor and air of suppressed excitement. He waited until the servant had its' equal in every way, and in many gone, closed the door tbehind her, and cases its superior, resting at home not then turned toward his brother -in- quarried. It is not generally known law. that Canada has, in Hastings County, "I have something to tell yen," he Ontario, vast deposits of ornamental said breathlessly, "something fright -.stone or marble, whioh have been pro- ful! I am—I am a scoundrel.. No, nounced as second to none of the best Suzanne, keep gmniet. I have betrayed offerings of the world's ornamental his confidence. I have committed—I stone markets' by experts who have have 'committed'a forgery. I inii�tated .seen and examined them. From these his signature on a draft, whicli,I had deposits replicas of moat af the Cashed I had lost. It was a delkit of _foreign marbles can be obtained, dup- honor. I hoped to win sonnethingg;back Heating, in every way, the quality, —to take up the draft. SinceI en texture and strength. have been'in despair. I have t e'e to Many Varieties and Colors. raise money. I have failed. , . To- The strata from which the Hastings morrow the draft will be presearted. marbles are taken are compactly That's all. How did I do 'such' a grouped inda wonderful assortment of thing?" varieties, white, *colored, bread and He crumpled up, sobbing, at'„ his butter, monotone, and variegated. An brother-in-law's feet. M. Budhene other location of fine marbleelie in Peel lifted him up calinly, without any County, which supplied the stone en - show of anger. tering into the construction of the fa - "Gambling is very 'dangerous, as I cade of the Ontario Parliament build- ings . and which is acknowledged to be "Here is the draft. Its genuineness at the very top of its own classifica- w'as -called iri ,questiom. They asked tion. Other locations of marble de- me if it was my- 'signature. I owlet yes posits in Ontario are in the counties and I paid it" of Lanark, Frontenac, Leeds, Halibur- He stopped, relighted his cigar ':arid ton, Renfrew, Peterborough and Vic - with the same match burned the draft taria. There are in all, four quarries to a cinder..operating 'In the Hastings area and "Let us wipe it 'out," he restuned, two in other parts of Ontario', namely, not noticing that his metaplhors Were Lanark and Stormont. In Quebec, mixed. "Your despair, my boy, praxes .?Marble is known to exist in quantities your repentance. Calm yourself. I in the districts of Phillipsburg, South pardon you and I will keep the secret Stukeley, St. Theele, and Portage du Fort, whilst quarries' exist of your wouthful fault. What family, and are for that 'natter has nothing with operated at Beauce, Champlain, Mis which to r roach itself? But when one has true consideration he never advertises' the dishonor of those who are near to him," he •coneludecl, giv- ing Mme. Buchene, now livid, a .look charged with assuranee and triumph. Tested. Mr. Biggs was planning to build a motor -shed in his 'garden, so he bought an expensive saw. He left his office early the meltt af'tern'oon, with the intention of start- ing the job. Putting on a pair of overalls, he went out into the garden. An hour or so later he 'came into the dining -room and hung himself down into a 'chair in disgust: "That new saw I :bought isn't worth twopence!" he ate rni'ed. "Why, the thing wouldn't cut butter!" His small son, Harry, looked up in surprise. " , "Oh, ;yes, it would, daddy," h- ex- claimed earnestly. "Why, Ted and I sawed a whole brick in two ivilh it the part of those concerned already in ;the field, will result in the develop- • ment of the industry so far as to elimi- nate the necessity of importation. As Mr. Matthews, points out, in the past . most of the store entering into the construction of manyof the larger and more important buildings- through- out the Dominion was imported, with sieuoi, Pontiac and Shefford. On the other side of the continent, marble has been found at Kootenay Lake, Texada Island and in the Nootka Sound region of British Columbia, with operations under way at Vancouver Island and two quarries in the Lards) district. Not only is Canada able to supply her own needs• in this respect from her tremendous stores of -suoh high quail- ty, but In the opinion of authorities on the question, her wealth of possession justifies the building up of the indus- try in architectural and ornamental stone to develop it tinder good man- agement to engage in a considerable export trade. Not a Stranger. A private soldien. walking arm -in - arm with lis sweetheart met hisser- geant when-ubeat to enter an eating house. He respectfully introduced her to him: "Sergeant, my ester," "Yes, yes," was the reply, "I !mow; She was mine once." rain oan of Arc There was recently in Ukrainna, says a despatob from, Paris, a strong detachment of cavalry 'swaging YOU against the Bolshevik!. Fine Aileen they were, more than two thousand of them, armed to the teeth and ' ridin;g. like •Centaurs. At every meeting iu the open field they ennilxllated their. foes: Behind every thicket they form- ed an ambush; sca•reely a night passed whet' they did not sally forth and des- troy same of the Rede, Their col'on'el was a woman, Marie Nikoforava, the widow of en officer who had been captured by the Russian renegades and basely murdered. The daughter et a noble family and edu- cated at an aristocratic college at Petrograd, her thirst for vengeance up- on her husband's murderers overcame all other impulses. She plaoed herself M the saddle at the head of her late husband's troopsand exacted fearful recompeos'e from her floes. The men adored her. Her valor and daring were indescribable. She un - I hesitatingly exposed her owe life at the head of the regixneirt with the saxir, froid ;of en apostle and martyr and with utter contempt of death. At feet the Isolsbevilii. In a desper- ete effort:. to get rid of this deadly foe,' sent against her four regiments and eotoL letely eu.rrounded her and her troops, A part of her detachment fought their way out: l3ut'she chose to stead her ground to the end, shoot- ing and sh'ooties without a pause until at last she fell to the ground through • sheer exhaustion and was captured, ' The Bolshegiki condemned her to death, But three" times the tiring squad before whom she was placed discharged their rifles into bee empty air, so • greatly had her berois}h, aroused even their admiration. Finale ly the brave Bo1aheviki had to place machine guns behind their own mein to force them to shoott, a woman. She tell, her eyes umbandaged, neck- ing her slayers in the face wite a smile of proud defiance, Bridget's Strategy. Bridget was an Irishwoman—that was +by. 'birth. She was also general maid of all 'work to Mrs. Dawson-- that .awson-tthat was by necessity. Bridget had a reputation for not liking work. Give a. dog a bad name,. and it'll never get a reputation for be- ing a saint. It was one of Bridget'setasks to r elean the windows one morning. After a certain number of hours had passed her mistress saw Bridget emptying e, pail of dirty water. "Have you cleaned • the windows, Bridget?" asked Mrs. Dawsons "Yes, ma'am." "Come upstairs with me, and I will inspect then',," said the lady. Bridget had no alternative .but to fellow her mistress, but she haus 'a foreboding of misfortune. "Bridget," demanded Mrs. Dawson, "•surely you don't consider 'hese win- dows &lean?" "'Shure, I washed them nicely on the Things Worth While. Not what you get, But what you give; Not what yon say, But how you live; Giving the world the love it needs,, Living a life of noble deeds. Nct whence you came, But whither bound; Not what you have, But whether found Strong for the right, The good, the true; These ate the things' Worth while to you. - Fate: in Gloves. There are superstitious as . well al buttons attached' to gloves. The girl who puts on her right-hand glove first is doomed to everlasting spinstersliip; while losing a button within twenty-four hours of purchas- ing a new pair of gloves is translated inside, ma'am,' asserted Bridget, "so into the -probability of losing a lover in twenty-four days. Wearing one glove and carrying . the- e • other issaid to denote a man of fein nine temperament and tastes; and the person who leaves_ a glove behind in a public vehicle must throw its fellow away, or be for ever under the threat of dire financial lose. (key's Bright Idea. When their father (Ueda -limy, Abe, and Benjamin, found that he hat lett each of them. $2,500; uenjaniln de- cidedto open a tailor's shop; the others thought they 'Would Wait_a lxit r and see how he got on. ,As:HHe did-gititeir;ea eill Abe .-;t-ook�-.the '-.., shop two doors away, and, thinking to profit by Benjamin's success, had it .'. decorated in exactly the same style; Each bore 'th'e sign "Mosenstein, the Famous Tailor." . After a few months., the cautious Ike, decided that he too would become a tailor. He took the shop betweeu those of his brothers; and consulted the same decorator. "I suppose you want something striking and original?", said the decor , ator. "Yes," said Ikey, "I-vant a shop:.vitit von great big door. Over it you can write. `Mosenstein, Tailor. Main En- trance.' ntrance., „ ye can look out, but I intentioriafly left them a little dirty on the onside so them, aignoo.ant Jones' 'children next door 'couldn't book in." Catering for All. "Ladies and gentlemen," shouted the loud -voiced cheap -jack at the cone. - try market to the little crowd which had gathered., "this IS the book for everyone, the book for everywhere, the book—the book!" He tossed it up and caught it as it fell. Then he went on: "The book for everybody, see? Encyclopedia of eighty pages, recipes for every dish that was. ever cooked all the new dish- es that never were"oaoked,' formula for the toothache, agreeable stories for old, women, treatise for young women on the art of getting husbands, how to cure bunions, without amputation, how to plant cabbages when the moon is not full, how to breed rabbits, how to interpret dreams, how to tell fortunes, how to get a divorce, how to reckon up the. Interest on a mortgage. The book for everybody!" But the audiencewas unapprevia- tive and he failed to dispose of a single copy. The cheap -Jack looked over the crowd with a disgust that could not be disguised. "Ladies and gentlemen," he remark- ed, "I forgot to mention that in. this in- comparablle book there is a blank page —for those who cannot read." Deeds. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, riot breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a diad. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best Liles but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things -God. I. Avauntt Maud (who has answered the door - ben herself)—"George, you must not come into this house to -night. If you love me, darling, ily at once, and do not let my father disoover your pres- ence." George (tragically)—"Oh, Maud, my darling, what serpent has entered our Eden to wreck our happiness? Speak, girl, speak." Maud (tearfully)—"Father has just had the gas bill." Cattle in Spain.. This is a true story of an adventure of two lady artists in sunny Spain: They were walking, and, arrived' et a Tattle country inn, hot, dusty and thirsty, They 'couldn't talk Spanish, but wanted sonic milk badly, so one el them drew a moot beautiful, high -arty cow, while the other jingled' 'somecoins. The Spaniards looked, and a 'boy was sent off post -baste. In half an hour the boy returned,. hot end triurnpliant—with two tickets for a bull -fig'h't. No Chaffee. Returning home front the dentist's., where he head' gone to have a loose. tooth drama little Raymond reported as follows: "The dotter told me'fore he began that if I •cried on 'screamed it would cost me u• dollar; but if I was a geed boy it would be onlay' fifty cents." "Didy au scream?" his mother ,ye when. Oi've (shipped some gold off asked, "How could I?:'r answered the pavements drown on your map!" ". And he speedily disappeared among i�yanand. Yost only gave me fifty p y 1 i? � of g cents." the crowd: The Reason Why. At an examination et a public school the examiner was questioning a class of boys. He wandered through dif- ferent s'ubjects, and at last came to. speak about measles, when a small boy jumped up and exclaimed: "Please, sir, will you whip me if I ask you a question.?" "No," said the inspector. "Will you let the master whip me?" asked the boy. "No," said the inspector. Then came the question: "Why did Eve never catch the measles?" This the inspector could not solve. So he gave it up. "Because she's Adam," exclaimed the small boy. � His Breaks Would Not Work. Just before the battle of St. Mihiol the Germans blew up an ammunition dump near a company of Yanks. It was ,reported that there was a large quantity of gas shells- in the dump, and as, soon as the explosions began the Americans immediately: vacated the neighbor -head. When the danger had passed all except one man returned. Ile did not appear until the next day. • "Well, where have yea been?" de. mended the first sergeant, eyeing him coldly. "Sergsant," repliedthe other earn estly, "I don't know where I've been,' but I give you my word I've been all day gettin' back." Payment byResults. Y One day in Cheapside a hawker was selling street maps of London. An' Irishman, who looked rather ",green," came by, and the hawker, thinking,, to be smart, cried: "Ere ye are street -maps' o' Lee- don! ondon! Shows ter which • Streets are 'raved with gold!" The Irishman stoliped, took one • of the maps, anti was walking off, when the hawker called out: " 'Ere, mate, where's yer money?" "Begorra!" replied Pat. "Oi'l.l pay