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Cutting Down Fuel Requirements.
The recent reduotiofls. in the Price
of motor fuels tare nib excuse for care -
lever -less in the utilization of such
fuels. The desirability andl necessity
of maintaining good fuel economy is
just as great as ,ever.
Ainong the important things affect-
' ing fuel economy inay be mentioned
proper adjustment of the carburetor.
At the earbureting aecessories ,such
as air meters, fuel vaporizers, etc.,
'should be in firselass working order.
The ca.riburetor jets should be clean
and la fuel passages must be clear
and free of leaks. Leakage of ale
through faulty gaskets, badly fitted
valves or oth ee Places, sometimes
causes faults in operation -which are
imiproperly ascribed to the carburetor.
Usingethe Chelke excessively is Ciao
productive of mudh trouble in. causing
carbon deposits and in clogging muf-
flers. This results in a sluggish en-
gine, reduction of power, and, eon -
sequently, more fuel. A vicious cycle
is thus established.
Valves should be carefully fitted
arircl properly timed F,ac.tory timing
is rarely incorrect ,and when, law re-
pairs are made, or any overhauling of
the motor is done, care should be
taken to check the time raccunateilly,'
The 'cooling system has, some effect
on fuel consumption. Generally speak -
ling, the hotter an engine runs the less
fuel 'will be used, but this has, some
exceptions,. Cool .operation results in
fuel condensation in the oonebusOon
chamber and .c ors equ en.tl y carbon
f ormation.
Adequate lubrication is also essen-
tial. Bearings that are too tight ale -
'sorb power an it takes fuel to pro-
duce power.
Practical Paragraphs.
Relieving seized piston—A seized
piston is neurally considereda pretty
serious matter, but it is not necessar-
ily so. It is sometimes possible to
'remedy this trouble if it is not the
Woxst type of a case., Try this. Open
the compression cocks or take out the
spark plugs and pour in a liberal &rise
of kerosene. Let this stay in for fif-
teen minutes or so and give it a
chance to .soak in thoroughly. Try to
turn over the engine. If the kerosene
has not loosened things up so that yea
can turn it over put the car into low
aver, 'with the clutch left in, end get
as many people as possillele to help
push the car. Generally this will have
the desired effect and the pistons will
begin to move again.
Cleaning sight feed glasses—An ex-
cellent way of cleaning the glIa.saes of
eight feed lubricatoes without dis-
mounting is to take a red h,ot poker
and hold it near the. glasees. This
will melt the solidified oil on the'
glasses ancl,permit the oil drip to be
eeen again. Another way to have
.a piece of twisted wire connected on
the end of the drip nozzle inside the
glass of the lulericatoe. The oil runs
slowly down the spiral path and is
prevented from slashing over the
glass and obscuring the view,
Rapid fire grease gun—Here is a
method of putting lubricant into the
rear laxle in double quick time. Put
a common furniel in the filler hole of
the axle. Remove the nap and nozzle
from the end af the grease gun, open-
ing the whole front end of tbe gun.
Put the end of the grease gun in the
wide end of the funnel and hold it
firmly while screwing up the handle
in the ordinary way. The grease will
'gloat into the axle in jig time, and a
rinsing with kerosene iand wiping with
a bit of waste will remove all traces
of the operation from the funned.
Creeping rims—When the shoulders
on the wheel designed to hold the de-
mountable rim become worn the rim
and its 'tire will creep on the wheel.
Naturally this makes the valve stem
project at an lacute:angle .and if eon-
tinued, tong enougi,h may .cut it off. If
the valve stern is held firmly by means
of a crap the !strain falls upon the
lowernp.ortion of the stem and that
part of iihe inner tube which sur-
rounds, it. In this connection it is well
to 'call attention to the need for
tightening the rim lugs by. degrees.
If they are fully tightene:d one after
the other and all the way around
the wheel there is apt to be toe much
space on one side of the wheel and too
little on the other. The proper way
is to tighten one lug and then the
one nearly opposite it and so on.
THE WORLD IN
THE MELTING POT
PROTECT MANKIND
FROM HORRORS.
Advice. and Warning by Sir
Leo Chiozza Money, Famous
Expert on Economics.
Addressing the officers of the United
States Army War College, President
Harding said the hope of entirely
abolishing wars was "perfectly futile,"
Armies and navies would probably al-
t ways be necessary.
There had never been so much kill-
ing done in the world before as oc-
curred between August, 1914, and No-
vember, 1918. Already we see re-
ferences to the "next war," but it is
difficult to believe that those who ut-
ter the words realize what a "next
war" of the great nations would mean
to the world.
Deadly Weapons of War.
If two things are realized as cer-
tainties of a "next waa," it will never
occur If they are not realized, the
world may rush unthinkingly to its
doom.
The first of these things is that the
war of the future will be fought by
the engineer and the chemist, armed
with weapons beside which those we
kriew, even in 1918, are toys.
The second is that a "next war" will
not be fOught by combatant forces
raised either voluntarily or by con-
scription. It will be a war to the
death between peoples, in which old
and young, men, women, and children,
the strong and the weak, will be In-
volved in a common holocaust
As the late war progressed, it be-
came lacreaeingly horrible. Its early
period knew nothing of flame project-
ors, or of poison gas; of thnks or of
merciless attacks without warning up-
on seamen; of squadrons , of aero -
planet bombing the sleeping.lnhabit-
ants of a great city.
To read an account of the sufferings
Inflicted upon soldiers by poison gas
as used in the closing stages of the
war la to be nauseated. Never before
in the world's history—not even in the
annals of savagery—were more sick-
ening tortures inflicted upon man by
men.
To the mercilessness of ancient
days was added the Intowledge of the
stientist Where the barbarian slew
his huiadreds, the modern soldier, arm-
ed with the weapons of science, slew
his tens of thousands, and where Ile
did not slay heoften ruined men for
life, Europe is producing less por
man than before the war for many
reasons, but not the least of those res -
is that in every country them are
Men who will teller again be able to
do a decent day's work—whose bodies
and minds Will never recover train
their terrible experientes.
The next war, if the folly of man
allows it to happen, will be a struggle
between hosts armed with such ma-
chines and explosives, and sucb death -
dealing chemicals as will destroy the
hope of mankind far generations, if
not for ever. We shall begin atethe
dreadful point at which the last war
ended.
Poison gas and liquid fire will be de-
veloped into weapons capable of des-
troyingten or twenty times as many
men as died on the battlefields of Eur-
ope between 1914 and 1918. And in
all probability- new and more deadly
weapons, Will be forged.
New Mystery Power.
The world of science is on the verge
of a great discovery—how to utilize
the potent forces which are locked to
the atoms of which matter is cern-
posed.The discovery of radium has
revealed to us the possibility of the
transmutation of the elements, and, in
their transmutation, the setting free
of such gigantic powers as have never
before been wielded by man. If ever
such forces becorae usable, they will
be used in war, and in such a manner
as to make it possible to destroy an
army corps at a stroke.
Now let us come to the second point,
which is -that wars of the future will
be fought by helpless non-combatants
as well as by fighting forces.
Although the late war began only
five years after the English Channel
had been flown for th.e first time by an
aeroplane, as many as 1,413 persons
were killed and 3,407 people wounded
in the 'United Kingdom by German
airmen before the conflict ended.
Most of these victims were non-com-
batants, many of them women and
ehildren. The next war in the air
necessarily means war upon non-com-
batants.
As soon as war is declared ewer=
of aeroplanes will fly to the enemy's
capital and other greet centres of popu-
lation They will have bombs at their
disposal infinitely more effective than
those used by the Germane upon Lon-
don. The air bombs. of 1918 were ele-
ro.entaxy essays in the foul art of mur-
dering from the air
Shelters for Millions.
It is idle to suppose that the "next
War" will be a thing confined to spe-
cific armies, navies, and air fleets. It
will have to be endured by all. The
victims probably will be more largely
non-combatants than combatants.
Either that, or a nation must con-
struct perfect underground shelters
for the whole of its population, which
is obviously impossible.
Thew, therefore, who talk of a "next
war" are talking of war upon civilize -
tion. The are persons either without
imagination or without conecience.
We must protect the world from the
horrors which threaten it,
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Sill's Vocabulary,
"Say, pa," Harry demanded, "what
part of the body is the .Vocabulary?"
"Why, Henry?"
"Oh, teacher said Bill Smith had al
large vocabulary for his age."..
s.and the. worst is yet to come
THE CRUISE OF THE
who know the Antarctic ot old.
and scientists five at least are men
A Sturdy Crew.
GALLANT " UEST" , There is the second-irecommand, the
Q bold Frank Wild, with his unequalled
. record in the Far South, who was with
Captain Scott in the Discovery, with
SIR ERNEST SHACKLE- Shackleton, *valet he first failed to
TON SOUTHBOUND. reach the Pole, with Mawson in the
great Australian expedition, and again
:with Shackleton in the Endurance.
To know Frank Wild is to love him,
Small but sturdy, he is a man of iron
nerve and infinite resource, an end-
less stock of cheerfulness, indomitable,
tireless, brave as a lion—the man to
The other day a trim little steam- have beside one in a tight corner.
ship, half -schooner, half -yacht, with a Prank is the life and soul of any
company in which he finds himself. A
robust vocalist, he can sing sea chan-
ties by the yard, and spin yarns when
everyone else has told his best and
last.
Shackleton has with him others who
have been his companions on earlier
ventures. Commander Frank Wors-
With a Crew of Heroes to
Sweep Unknown Seas and
Probe Hidden Secrets.
-white crow's nest above the foremast
spars, sailed proudly down the Thames
and out to sea.
She looked not much bigger than a
tug -boat, but her bows were sheathed
with steel,and her sides had a thick
overcoating of the toughest tit:leper.
On the bridge, as she dropped deism
the river, stood Sir Ernest Shaelelepeon, ley, D.S.Oe the navigating officer of
waving his farewells to ship and -shore the Quest, served as captain of the En-
-for this. was the Quest—outward durance, and came through all the
bound on his fourth expedition to the trials and tribulations that beset the
Antarctic, and on a voyage that may doomed ship before she foundered in.
prove one of -the most thrilling and ro- the ice of Weddell Sea.' • ""'
ma.ntic in the long story of British ex-
ploration,
A Man of Nerve.
It all goes well, by. the time the
Quest drops anchor again in the Chan-
nel of Old England she will have cir-
cumnavigated the South Polar Conti- supplied with seal -pie and limpet soup,
nett, visited many of the "last islands" 'ehould other dainties begin to run
short.
To the two lucky Boy Sebuts who;
of all but unknown coastline in the were chosen as cabin -boys one may of -
Antarctic region. ter enngratulations . on the great
It requires a man of Shackleton's chance that has come their way of see -
nerve and daring to plan and lead so ing the distant isles of the Southern
Seas and the wonderland of magnifi-
cent desolation.
The Quest has therefore a happy
He served his Antarctic apprentice- company as she rolls leer way down
ship twenty years ago with Captain south Life on board will not be quite
Scott, and was with him and Dr. Wil-
son on 'the sledge journey of 1902,
which paved the way to the conquest
of the South Pole. That glittering
prize all but, fell to him seven years
later, when he scaled the Beardmore
Glacier to the lofty plateau that holds
the Pole and was compelled by sheer
exhaustion to retreat when only a hun-
dred miles from success.
The Mysterious South.
More daring still was the'plan of his
third expedition, for, had he succeeded'
he would have marched across the
southern continent from shore to
shore, and settled once and for all
many of, the problems of the still mys-
terious South.
Ill -fortune dogged him again, but the
splendid failure of the Endurance ex-
pedition is illumined by the uncot-
querable spirit he displayed in the
drift down the iee-iloes of Weddell
Sea, and his -heroic voyage of eight
hundred miles in a email boat through
the wildest seas in, the world in search
of relief for the party left behind on
Elephant Island.
A man capable of deeds like these
takes rank with the greatest of Eng-
lish sailers and pioneers. And with
all that wealth of experience behind
him, who will say that his latest and
perhaps his last Antarctic venture—
for he is approaching lifty—may not
be crowned by a glorious triumph?
And what of the men who are with
him? Of the ship's company of sailors
Major Macklin. was surgeon and
biologist in the Endurance, and Cap-
tain Hussey the meteorologist; and
Green, the -cook of the same expedi-
tion, is going out again to keep the
mess table of the Quest abundantly
that . stud these turbulent seas, and
mapped in some three thousand miles
hazardous a venture. But all through
his career, Sir Ernest has gone for the
big thing.
that of an ocean liner. The little ship
—She is only 111 feet long and 23 feet
beam—is so packed full of tores and
equipment—an aeroplane that may do
great things in fine weather, up-to-date
apparatus for sounding. the ocean
depths to 30,000 feet, dredging appli-
ances, scientific instruments, and so
on—that personal comfort must be a
Secondary consideration.
Every Man a Sportsman.
But explorers do not expect state-
rooms and velvet cushions, and when
the men of the Quest have settled
down to their quarters they should
have a Much better time than many a
good old salt in days of yore.
One feature of life on board the ship
is worth noting. There will be no dis-
tinction of class or rank. Officers,
scientists, seamen, and cabin -boys will
take their meals together in the one
mess -room, which is closely lined with
sleeping quarters. It is a democratic
arrangement unknown on the regular
trader Or in any navy; but on a vessel
Where good -fellowship and sporteman-
ship count for so much in the success
that all are striving for, it meats a
very great deal that the whole party,
from the leader downwards, should
know each other and be on the best
possible terms .
One can picture the scene in that
little saloon, with its skylights and
Swinging lamp, when Shackleton pre-
sides at the Christmas dinner to all
hands, while outside, in the perpetual
it Is the Harvest Moon!
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
Deserted, ort the curtained windovir Panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
And harvest fields, its in3rstic splendor rests 1
Gone are the birdS that were our summer guests;
With the last sheaves returnihe laboring wains!
The songbirds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the ,sheaves.
—Longfellow,
Mother is The Only One
After all le said and done,
Mother is the only one,—
'rhe only one in all th' lend
To give a chap a helpin' hand,
Tp cheer him in the deilY work
Thatehe's a-dyla' just t' shirk',
Who eaye, whenever things go wrong,
"Keep up, boy, 't will he done lore
long,"
Sometimes, when crops ream() to grow,
No matter how I hoe ei hoe;
'N plow, 'n rake, 'n BOW, 'a weed,
Jeet so's th' stock ken hev some feed,
Well, pa wines rou.n' an' says, "Say,
Si,
I reek' thet crop's, 'bout t' diel"
An' brother Jim, Who's citified,
Says, "Really, has the fodder died?"
An' Sue, who reads them romance
things,
Says, '"Back to earth what old earth
brings,"
And then sae hofs her hands 'n looks
Jes like the gals in novel books.
But ma! Ah, mother comes along
Softly hummin' an of sweet song.
drop th' hoe, I mop eny brow,—
Ain't got no use for sueshine, now.—
An' life is filled with sudden bliss,
Fer ma has asked me for a kiss,—
An' after thet—well I jest swear
I wouldn't change with a millionairel
Some time ago, when Higgins' gal
Was lookin' for a lifetime pal,
An' when I went to church, why she
Wuz there, to, an' she winked at me.
An' at one meetine by her side,
I says, "Liz, will yer be my bride?"
'Pore I had time to make a guess,
She squeezed my hand an' whispered,
"Yes."
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We talked 'bent flower's an' eveddin°
rings,
'N cottage' love, 'a all MOM tiring%
'N how we'd live on honey drops
On a farm that didn't need to crape,—
But,—something neath my Sunday
vest
Told me that I loved Mother beat
But mother's gettire old and gray;
Sortie day ehe'll be laid away
Down in th' field by th' old mill
stream,
Where the roses love to dream.
And when thet happens, like 'es not,
The old farrell jest 'bout go to pot
We'd lose all hope, ef ma was gone,
Fer she most runs the farm alone,
Up with the sparrers every morn,
Callin' the thickens to tb.eir corn;
She woks a meal I wouldiret trade-
Fer the finest farmhouse ever made;
She cleans th' house an' sets the hen,
An' shoos the pigs back to their pen;
She feeds, the cow, an' then she goes
Inter th' house, on! sew% an' sews,
An' bakes a calseaan' runs th' churn,
An' gathers in th' wood t' burn;
An' of you say, "Ma, rest a while!"
She'll answer, with her old sweet
smile,
"Child, I ain't tired a bit. Are you?
Weecan't rest when there's work to
do."
An', supper o'er, the chores all done,
She hears our lessons, one by one,
An' then she sees th' cat is fed,
An' puts the children all t' bed,
An' when th' family's tucked, away,
Then she, alone, kneels down to pray.
After all is said and done,
Mother is the only one.
daylight of the Polar summer, lie the
glistening ice -fields and the massive
1 tabular icebergs that make the won-
t drous scenery of the Far South.
Into the Unknown.
The Quest has a splendid mission.
It is a mission that recalls the great
voyages of the early pioneers, full of
peril and uncertainty, but with that
inexpressible magnetism that conies of
the danger accompanying the penetra-
tion of the unknown. Who knows
what stories of heroism ,she may bring
back, wliat news of lands seen for the
first time by the eyes of men, what
tales of the misty, ice -clad islets of the
Southern Seas, the only remaining re-
lics of an earlier world?
Trade and commerce may gain little
or nothing from the labors of Shackle-
ton and his comrades, but we shall
know a great deal more of the earth's
history when the results of their work
have been. translated into terms of
modern science.
Village That Floats.
-Inetheinterionof Frenrch•IncleeChina
there is a village whose location is a
source of worry to. captains of pass-
ing steamers. They are never cer-
tain where they will find it.
Its name Is Snok-Trou, and its loca-
tion is somewhere on the Mekong
River. The village consists of forty
or fifty little huts built on rafts and
lashed together with rattan ropes.
Here dwell about two hundred people,
whose chief occupation is fishing.
The rear of the village is lashed to
half -submerged trees, but the whole
town changes its position from time
to time, according to the vagaries of
the river or the whims of its inhabi-
tants. Steamboats passing. up the
river will find it at one spot, and on
the return journey discover that it
has moved elsewhere.
First Post.
Most people regard the post as a
modern institution; yet this. is not so,
for regular postal services have exist-
ed for more than two thousand yeare.
One of the earliest systems for the
delivery of letters was established by
Persia more than five centuries be-
fore the Christian era.
In those days letters were not writ-
ten on paper. They took the form of
short sticks, on which a message was
inscribed either by means of paints,
or by burning it on with a kind of
primitive poker -work outfit. These
letters were delivered by regular re-
lays of postmen over thousands of
miles, of cauntry.
Even the telegraph was in use in a
crude form. Messages could be sent
in an hour or two over distances of
hundreds of miles by means of a sys-
tem of shouters, who passed them on,
from one to the other.
Growing Fuel on the Prairies. •
As a general rule the prairie set-
tler requires first a shelter -belt or .
wind -break around hie buildings.. The
establishment of a plantation to pro-
duce fuel and fencing material is
either of secondary consideration or is
not given a moment's thought, the
Popular idea being that is takes trees
too long to grow, and that it is not
much use doing work the benefits of
which will be reaped by some one else.
This, hewever, is •a mistake, as' has
been clearly Shown by actual planta -
Mote see out on the western experi-
mental farm,s, on the Dominion Forest.
ry Branch Nursery Station at Indian
Head and by private individuals scat-
tered tb rotigh out the West,
-Order is, a lovely nymph the child
of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants
are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity;
her abode is the valley of halarliesel
elle is always to be found when sought
for, and never appears so lovely as
When contrasted with her ,imponent,
Dieorder,---Johnsou.
The Diamonds in Your Ring.
There is a tremendous amount of de-
tailed work in setting presious stones.
After an apprenticeship of six years
a setter has still a long period of trete,-
ing to undergo before he can attain
the experienceof a first-class crafts-
man. Concentration and meticulous
care are essential.
Very often impaired eyesight is the
fate af the diamond -setter, unless he
is careful to obtain a good light. This
can be readily understood when we
learn that a. single ring contains some-
times as many as two hundred small
states, each hardly bigger than a pin's
head.
Specially shaped holes have to be
cut, aud the adjustment of a stone in
its setting is a fine art in itself. The
hole is so cut that the stone is slipped
in with a little pressure, and in such
a way that it cermet possibly fall out.
In old-fashioned rings silver takes
the place of the more modern plati-
num, which is used in the better
grades of rings. Silver has the dim&
vantage of tarnishing and softness,
and will not stand the necessary heat
of soldering so well.
People are often confused about dia-
monds, rose diamonds, and brilliants.
They are all three "diamonds," but a.
rose diamond has a flat bottom, with
only the upper half cut and polished.
A brilliant is a completely cut stone.
Rose diamonds are not as valuable as
brilliants.
A diaraend-setter's workshop collies
In for a good deal of spring-cleaning.
The floor is regularly swept, and the
dust burnt in a special furnace. From
the residue is recovered a valuable de-
posit of gold and platinum dust. This
residue is called "lemel," and gives a
handsome return when sold.
The setter must also wash his hands
before leaving the workshop, for gold.
dust has a trick of creeping into the
pores of the skin and beneath the fine
gennails.
The water is drained off into a tank
fitted with an outlet tap halfway down
the side. The lemel Finks to the bot-
tom, and once a month is collected and
melted down into a very substantial
ingot.
We're All Lopsided
There is scarcely a man or woman
who has. not one shoulder a little low-
er than the other The low shoulder
is generally the right, for the droop
is caused by using one hand and arm
more than the other. Usually the
muscles of the right side, of the body
are better developed than those of the
left; but, curiously enough, the left
foot Is often larger than the right.
As a rule, the tight eye is better
than the left, whilst if we, wish to
catch an indistinct sound, it is always
the right ear that we turn towards it.
This neglect of the left side has
made it lese robust than the right.
Diseases which affect the ears., eyes,
nose, or legs -occur far more frequent-
ly on the weak left side than on the
more developed right,
Origin of Influenza,
. The word "influence" appeared first
in medioeval Latin under the form in-
fluentia. It was used to denote the
manner in which stars and planets
were supposed to exert a guiding di-
rection Over the affairs. of men.
Little by little the original meaning
of the word was lost in a moregenea
al application of the term, until it
reached its final significance of any
power exerted front the outside—a
power 'ranging from "influence at
court" to the "influenee of liquer.".
It is from the astronomical applica-
tion, however. that WE secure the
word "iefluenza"--the Italian name
for a malady caused either by Mellen
planetary ineeence or . atmospherie
eonditions which were' none too well
andeestood even by the moil of ailed',
eine who gave the di eese it