The Lucknow Sentinel, 1920-08-26, Page 2of
When the Eng to Loaves Ita "Pep."
Whose acquainted with motoring
joys and sorrows know that a lose of
compression is nothing pleasant to
look forward to. Its causes are many
and sometimes hard to find and repair.
Try the compression of each cyl-
inder. If it is weak or if it varies in
the different cylinders repair the
trouble at once. It may leak in the
piston rings; it may escape through
a leaky valve or petcock or nose past
a spark plug. If the engine head is
detachable it may leak past the gas-
ket. Then again, you may have a
cracked cylinder, but this is another
problem.
Care must be taken to keep the cyl-
inder head tight, and in tightening it
evenly all around, for if the gaskedi
t
not he firmly at any point it
give way and leakage will result.
The piston rings may h
t
d
wil•1
ave turned
so that the openings are all in line or
you may be using such light oil that
the engine does not get a tight com-
pression seal. Oil when heated is very
thin. In same cases patented piston
singe will help .eliminate the leakage.
If the cylinder is worn oval there is
no remedy except that of reboring it.
Kerosene will help free the rings of
carbon, but it is best to use it when
you are ready to drain off the old
crankcase oil.
Make sure that the spark plugs fit
tightly and that they are provided
with good copper asbestos gaskets. A
cracked porcelain will allow compres-
sion to' escape. Look over the priming
cups and see that they all fit tightly
and stay closed.
During compression the valves
should be tightly closed. A broken
spring or faulty adjustment will pre-
vent their closing, and this will result
in no compression at all, or in the
case of incorrect timing the trouble
will be noticeable as a lack of power
in all cylinders. Carbon under the
valves will prevent them from seating
tightly. The remedy here Is to keep
the engine free from carbon, the
valves clean, and be sure that the tim-
ing of the valves and the tappet ad-
justment are as set down in your in-
struction book.
When an engine that is clean, prop-
erly lubricated and has. its valves
ground regularly shows a serious loss
of power the lank of proper compres-
sion may safely be ascribed to the
piston rings having- worked into line
or the cylinders having worn to a
point where the pistons are unduly
loose. With the modern type rings
the former is`:a rare fault nowadays,
so that the cause is narrowed down to
plain w
These are the chief causes of loss
of ccmnr•es3:on. The self-starter, the
boon of the preser•t-day motorist, is
accompanied by one very unfortunate
result. The operator who cranked his
engine by hand knew the feel of the
compression and was guided by it in
determining to a certain extent the
power of his engine. many persons
seldom crank their ene:ne3 by hand
and have no guide except the opera
Lion of the car to warn them com-
pression is fallir.g oft: Watch the com-
pression; it will save you money that t
otherwise you would give to the re-
pair man.
Keep An Eye on Auto Brakes.
The brakes on your car stand be-
tween you and danger—stand between
you and death to yourself or some
other person, perhaps. Therefore,
keep them in good shape. At the first
sign of looseness. have there tighten-
ed: replace linings when they are
worn.
When you are out on a good open
stretch of road, test your ' brakes.
Seed' up sour car and try hoth the
foot and emergency brakes. If the car
you will know that one brake fails to
take hold. Ure: enly .adjusted brakes
cause serious skids.
Brake -bands may . slip beteause
worn linings, improper adjustment, or
grease on the brake -bands. In tighten -1
ing brakes do not overdo it. A tight;
brake "drags" and wastes power: If i
the brakes are hot after a smart spirt,'
they are too tett.
Never apply brakes unless they are
really needed. Using the brakes to
check momentum kills power that it
has cost you good money to produce.'
Begin stopping ahead of Om... Shut'
off your motor and -tat to a stop
whenever possible. Jamming brakes
is not only hard on tires, but strains
the entire car mechanism.
In going down hills, brake linings
will be saved by leaving the clutch in,
retarding the spark, and thus allow-
ing the compression of the engine to
act as a break, adding slight pressure
from the foot brake as needed.
Fuel Stoppage.
When a motor car, after being
cranked, runs for a minute or two, and
then stops, the first place to look for
the cause of the tpouble is the gasoline
feed line. A partial stoppage in the
pipe will lessen the flow of fuel so that
the float chamber fills slowly. On be-
ing started the motor at once con-
sumes this gasoline and then has to
wait for more. There is another pos-
sible cause for this trouble and that is
the float of the carburetor sticking.
Of course, if the float sticks in a high
position the flow of fuel will begreat-
ly lessened or even stopped.
Use Plenty of Oil.
Watch the lubrication on your auto-
mobile and tractor if you would avoid
cost of repairs. It is cheaper to buy
oil than to buy machinery. Use only
lubricants of best quality. The manu-
facturer will advise you which brand
of oil is best for the •pkirticular ma-
chine. Carefully follow oiling chart
in lubricating your machine. A small
amount of oil at regular intervals
rather than an excess of oil occasion-
ally is best for all machinery.
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A New Irrigation ,Scheme.
farmer now regards irrigation in the
West, and another instance of the
general demand for etended schemes
comes from the south-western corner
of the Province of Saskatchewan,
where a petition has been prepared for
the launching of a new irrigation pro-
ject under the provisions of the newly
passed Irrigation Act. The scheme
is to cost approximately one /million
dollars, and will be easily the largest
project of its kind attempted in Sas-
katchewan, embracing 125,000 acres.
Furthermore, it is stated that it will
prove one of the cheapest irrigation
schemes on the American continent,
the estimated cost being less than $9
per acre, whereas others have cost as'
high aa $50 per acre.
The scheme involves the diversion
of the Battle and Boulanger Creeks
into'
Daws Lake, e, and the Coh3trutCtl4 .
of a dam four miles. west of the lake
across the White Mud Valley in the
vicinity of the Maple Creek trail south
into Montana. The natural topography
and geographical features of the
country make the project easy and
e;onomical from an engineering point
of view. The proposed dans across the
valley will be approximately 250 feet
in height, built of concrete and will
cross the full width of the valley.
Three channels are to be cut from
the south side of the lake, forming
main irrigation canals through the
country down to the Lethbridge -Wey-
burn line of the C.P.R., and providing
for watering the crops through the'
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CANADA'S STATELY PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
A splendid view of the new House ef Commons structure at Ottawa in course )f construction
Admiral Beatty Dwells Far
From Sea.
Is Your Boy a Swat
By Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Less than twelve years ago the Boy
_Scout movement was started with a
few members and a small committee
in London.
Today boy scouts are numbered by
the million in all parts of the world.
There is not a civilized country
which does nct possess its boy scou' ,.
Yon will find them in Siberia, Serbia,
Holland, Japan, Peru, Poland, and
Uruguay.
We are now holding a great rally—
known among the scouts as a "Jam-
boree"—to which we have invited
scouts from all countries.
We' shall remember with, special
pride -the heroism cf the Greek boy
scouts of okidin, in the province of
Smyrna. Turkish irregulars occupied
Aidln for two days, and arrested forty
native boy scouts who had rendered
services to the Greek troops. They
marched them out and asked one- of
them to insult Greece and M. Venize-
los. The brave boy made a playful
grimace, whereupon he was murder-
ed. The same request was made to a
second. with the same results. Then
the rest of the boys were asked to de-
nounce their own country, but aster
a brief and tragic_ silence they replied.
byzinging the Greek :lsat;ionalA,athe_m
and were promptly massacred.
We are prowl. too. of the war -record
of the 250,000 British boy scouts.
Twenty-three thcuse:nd acted as coast -
watchers for the Admiralty. One hun-
dred nsousand serv--,d as soldiers, and
nearly a dozen woe= V.C.'s.
Boy scouts are not soldiers except
where an emergency demands their
services. The boy . cout training leaves
soldiering alone. It begins at the
other end, and by developing charac-
ter. handcraft. service for others. and
physical health In a boy, seeks to
make him a good citizen.
When I was in the Array I learned
the futility of military drill in training
boys to be men. They were simply
drilled to become part of a machine.
and if they had not a foundation of
character -training first, this military
discipline was a mere veneer,, which
cracked when a strain was put upon
It,
The idea ef training boys :nscout-
ing dates back thirty-six year:`, when
I applied it to recruits in my regiment.
the 1.3th Hussars. and to young sol-
diers • in the 5th Dragoon Guards,
wh4ch I commanded later.
The principles given in my bock.
"Aid to Scouting."_were -so- much -ap-
preciated by schoolboys' brigades' and
various other. bodies. that we deter-
mined to establish the I3oy .Scout
It' you were `:ir.t: for an "Erg.
lish admiral. a re..! tlgi:ting admiral.
world your hunt. tase ,sit to
'spot in the .''t1g1.t Iitt'. i; le., furs;es•
from, the sea": Yet :t :e' there you
would find ail Bear;,.•. hts. •wise. and
their two sobs. David ant Pe:er. At
Brooksby Hall. I.eices:e r. tire, the Pea
lord a^d his varsity, live far from .the.
scowl of waves sur.ourded •by ore cf
the n:C•?t beautifill st:e:cies of enur-'
try in rural England. • The .,n? :r.or
house is charm rgly .beautiful 'in its.
cliiak of try, and a .lurch. •dating
• from the Norman ccr.quest. c:re•s the
touch cf :e necessary -o
f,acture L:•' E::gi nd all •Ver 1-.17e
admiral Beatty and l.ady'Pest:r rrn:p,
and....frolic with b.. . •he • eider
fourteen. and the ..ire. and
live 'the live='of a'ti ....' ,en:.mien
and the cha' .a -:e cf •.1-.
movement. • •
' Boys who have had 'good character- I
training will never lack a jet,
There is cnly one answer to,the
question, What shall I do with my
boy? Encourage him to become bcs
scout.
The time a boy devotes to play rues
to a pretty big amount when'one
comes to total it up. , ' '
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rictus per week: In school.' 40:
asleep, 70; feeding. S; pay ng, . %47'
In these hours he may b2 lear:.i::g
what. is good, but as often as net
becoming familiar with what is bad;
this depends on his surroundings and
companions. Whether he is wild it
slack, wayward or backward. he wail
no ddubt be glad to join the boy scout
brotherhood; and perhaps, will • have
the satisfaction of feeling that he is
no longer wasting his out-cf-schoo:
time; but is picking up practical know-
ledge and .gaining character that will
tend to make him a heathy. happy,
and successful man and -a good c`'• -
A New British Aerial [o
By means of an entirely ndv fl ty
of wing construction tete Comtgal
Aesopian• Wing 81tdkate hes a&
sinned the "Pelleau our- bf Lorry;'
a type of :uaohine which may revolu-
tionize aerial goods carrying, says
The Manchester Guardian. T'r,e pres-
ent intent:en of the Syndicate, which
is an of"shcct'cf the Blackburn Aero-
plane ('ctxrany, is to provide fur the
carriage cf s;ccoa 'cn;y, leaving pay_
scnger carryirg for later coi,i*idera-
tien. In many, ways the Pelican is
an entire!,' nevi( type of aircraft. Not
only does the new "gull',il wing" type
of construction enable a load of 18 the
per square foot to be,carried, but the
load of fo°.:r tons can he carried at
'the low rate of 50•cents per ton-ns.ile
at a st?ecei i f 72 .
The meitri:;e, a mmilesor:operplanehour, is fitted
with. two Napier engines of 450.h.p.
each, these '. cng'r.es ‘being normally'
run. on half -speed' for the sake of
et.laiinniy. 'in case of necessity the
engines rata Le. opctled out and a speed
t.ti• little lets than '100 miles per hour
ohtriined.. Also, should -one !engine
fail, not only can the machine fly ori
the reel:lin.ing motor, but it can actu-
ally ri at the rate of ,!0: feet per
rtit:ute. , These engines are fitted in
a stnn•it.l part of the fuselage behind!
,the wine_,, .the propellers being con-
r:erte'd by n:estns of •shaft, and clutches
after the manner of a:rship engines. •
The pilot sits in a cockpit in the very
nose of the machine,' his accomno •
-
tion swinging clear to enable gooaa
to be stowed away in the fuselage.
Shocker For Grain Fields
Saves Much Farm Labor.
A•:•uated by the growing dearth of
' i eld labor .in the great wheat • region
of western Canada, a farmer has de-
signed a machine which. attached to a
binder, :automatically forms and de-
posits Cerapact :hocks of grain in the
field. Sheaves from the binder pass
up a conveyer into a hopper, and then,
+'lead uown. into a conical basket with
spring arms that adjust themselvch to
• the rize cf, the shock.
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Br.tish ('olumbia and Alberta :vi:i
again lie among the provinces to hssve
ape ial' displays at the Canadian Na -
tonal, Exhibition this year.
A Letter From London
-..Q .- er` Ma- •s r•ak:r a le-etlon.
of ar.,: les w ii were once the pro-
perty cf Qjee!r ti.tc,ria. and h'..h i:cr
Majesty has _`:surd; w f:tl~st rL`^n:tigi"r
abcut }e : so.al ra:.a es. coy ne. of these
have :r.r:: . J:..:.i L at W::':C• r, ..ria
Qiecr 3- ::. _`over-
ies Y g^ -:a:+s ..ehin .:
t^e
rano.• - i.., -s- -iti^..:. � Li
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a a- by ,Queen
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I *:•t;; . i :ha: H.. M:, ' sty is agair.
Desi,. .....:.::vets. The rift
of ic.'..-- :_.._ w;.. real ei:sti^.,..i,-:n
is.t~ :o, to ever:,.'ne.•i':;t
Q_:re". :._,- :r, a ren•arkable
�egr r.er :o pe-*.e•tion'.,
M• -. i . f• ... -os• :C:Ce:$ are !;•'1': at
. Marky's Ro el; Charing rross, ton -
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don, which is to be converted' into a
business ntar.'s club. is said to be:the
manly pace .of its k:rd -that can boast
of hirairg turned an Empress front its
• doors. Mary },ars ago a gentleman
called.at t hotel saying he wished a
rcotn to be reserved for a lathy' Ana
himse:f to .hold a short d:acus: ion on
an iMpertant matter. The mar.-'fie-
n:ent ' viewed the application with •s:+=-
picion, and politely but firmly refuse!.
ae'ommodat:on.. The waiting carriage •
had hardly left the doors when a vis- •
itor, reeotnising the occupant, excited-
ly ••ran :o :he management wash the
news that they had turned away the
Ear ress Eugenie.
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zen. «'.. ..:c re 3 a ,venial The filming of "Lit:Ie Dorrit" is a
•- :ti:. ..:hey ere rinender that some of the London
country north of Consul, Vidora, : ad Making Bricks by Machine
Robeart. While this is the extent of
the scheme as at present outlined, it I
is stated that it would be possible to
extend it farther to provide for irri-1
ration of consi,lerable tracts of coun-
try farther so
u th.
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He Was No Poet.
The pass,zengers on the ploasure
steamer, having just finished dinner.
were enjoying the beauties 4 the
evening to the full.
A majest<_ Highland ravine came
into view. ail tender grey.s and shim-
mering browns and blues. " Mrs. de
Vere hold her- breath tlll they had
passed. "Oh. John!" rhe said, -what
a lovely gorge that was!"
-Yes. darling," • he said absently.*
quite the beat. feed we've had since
we left London."
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Eighty-eight 'British agar vessels
areshortly to be 'sold, including twat
light 'cruisers.
Butter-rrraking competitiors were
introduced at the Canadian. National,
Exhibition. in 1899 for the first tame
in America. They are sirvtlar to those
given at the dairy shows .in Great
Britain.
One serious obstacle to building r.t
the present time is the price of bricks,
which has trebled in the last ten years.
Increased cost of labor and fuel is the
reason for the rise.
Labor and fuel represent 70 per cent.
of the cost of making a brick. What
is needed to bring the price down is
automatic machinery.
In view of mechanical development,
brick making is away behind moat
other industries. The raw material 13
dug with --team shovel or planer and
ground a..d screened by machinery;
but from the 'cutting table to the tin-
tailed product the work of -manufac-
ture is done almost entirely by Land
labor. •
-The brick is •a very ancient inven-
tion. Its origin seeras to hare been
retuotely prehistoric. Babylon was a
brick city. We know from the Bible
that the Israelite captives in Egypt
were employed at brick -making on an
extensive scale..
But the brick has a future not less
important than'lts past. Pretaibly the
pressed brick "cif to -day is as good a
brick as will 'ever be made. To
cheapen !t. work is in progress to
manufacture it automatically, without
!being. touched by human hard-
hoped by machinery to cut the .c_t c:
production. '
Calling Back Birds.
In the devastate •i.:tress e,i ii• ....
and northern France the biris
as. the l;uman inhabitants los: :he
homes. Their nests and nesting plass-
'were destroyed.
t! Now • they are being l nv.ted
forthe matter. is not merely: or. • r•f
sentiment. inasmuch as the. b.ris are
needed' to eat the bugs that •:,
the farmer's craps.
. With this iohjert .n v:•w.
• woodland are• being 'Bot
i tide as nttreee!ve. ns• pods: :
feathered c; estur , I: it
that by such n: _..•+- . .,. will soon he estr b.: •I.e•.i
with pro,er p. •'o•
ply and beiasn:oeas r•i:r:
before tong,
The senor sn�aa•
Caradia;� War,. ^ria:1 F
wili fill the Art Gassy-' a- t - ,•
adian .Nat.onai Exhi!;.:. -•r
Painted in kngla-,d an: -,,
battlefronts, they a:a
='-,!a} at Torr,.1.y�
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rid '. - ...: i; ..-\V. .._', ol:a
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scenes of the novel still rernain intact.
The Iron Bridge—known to later gen',
erat'ons as Southwark Brieige-=-where
:he turnkey's son booed the Chili of
the liar inalea, is now being rebuilt,
a':l of the Marshalea:'tself only.a por-
tion of a wall remains abutting on the
tiny open apace known as "Little'Dor-
r:t's Playground." But St. George's
t•hur.:h.,where the heroine was chris-
tened. where she and Maggie found
refuge rat the right they were shut out
of the praon,'and where she was' h,+p-
P.iy united to Arthur Cier.nam, te-
trair.t very much as Dickens described
t. Few rrehabiy- cf the tens of. thou-
.;...;= �t'h•, pass i' daily en the way
L^"•irn Bridge knew anything .of
i cb:.rch`s romantic conne'tients.
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•:r',ear ef the Guj Djemai, i• r ..r
'"'r''y fi`r issue, wad arouse foe!, i •
• e..'.y a-m'ng many lets .for :.•••
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The err,•uar.aing offiocr, w 1,
the Victoria ('toss, can put
• seamen sbouhi have about
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