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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-9-10, Page 6k. es •:.Auf,Q.4*..10 Ile • STUDY OF ENGINE IIE There" is no factor in motoring more important than that piece of niechan- Ip ism directly, under the hood and known aa the engine. It the engine does not V the „car, .is quite useless. Consee quently, it is important to sa..ect, in buying a car, a vehicle that is equip- ped with an efficient motet. While it to no deep secret that there are various types of engines used to create power, it is safe to guess that just what these different types are is usually= a rather hazy idea in the minds of most motorists. Yet it is well for automobilists to have some definite information which will lead to an understanding of this matter. To begin with, it should be known that engine types divide themselves along the following lines, arrange- ment and number of cylinders, ars rangexnent of varves and method of cooling. Most owners of cars will recognize where their own automobile engines come in for classification. FUEL TYPE .I?E,BORIBED. Considerably over 90 per cent, of automobiles are propelled by the gas- oline engine. There are a few that carry storage batteries and use elec- tric fi otors for inotive powers, There is a still smaller number that use a steam engine, the steam being gener- ated in a boiler which is heated by burning .gasoline or kerosene. The gasoline engine is made in a number .of forms, ranging from the engine with four cylinders in a line to the twelve -cylinder, which is the V-shaped arrangement with six cyl- inders on .each side of the "V." Be- tween these two extremes there is the engine with six cylinders in a line, the eight -cylinder with blocks of four placed in the V-shaped and eight cylinders in a straight line. As to the arrangement of the valves of an engine, some types have both valves arranged on one side of the l.PS IN DRIVING CAR. cylinder, Sonne have one: in, .t e top of the eywinder and one is the side, some have both valves In the top and a few have the inlet valve on one side and the exhaust: .on the ,'othwr. The ar- rangement "ofy the vaeVes has consid ei'abte o .do *With the efficiency of the engine, that is, the amount of power which is extracted from the gasoline used. ii0W HEAT Is AISSPRBEA. Much of the heat generated by. burning the gasoline is necessarily absorbed through the water 'jacket which surrounds the cylinders. The engines with the valves in the head have a regular shaped combustion chamber which reduces the water jacketed surface to a minimum. .En- gines with valves on the side of the cylinders have pockets that are offset from the cylinder proper, which must be water jacketed. The great majority of the engines use valves of the "poppet" type, that is, valves that are shaped like mush- rooms, are pushed open by a cam and are returned to their seat by a spring., A large percentage of • automobile motors are cooled by water, the cyliin- ders being surrounded by a jacket of water which absorbs the excess heat. The hot water is pun ped,to a radiator placed on the front of a car, which provides for the heat being carried off by the air. In the air-cooled motor provision is made for bringing sufficient quanti- ties of air directly into contact with the outside of the cylinders. In this way the excess heat is carried off directly by the air. Every year finds a tendency toward standardization in automobile design. Still there is enough of a variety of types to ,select from to suit the indi- vidual's needs and tastes. The pros- pective automobile owner will find all types of •engines well developed and. effective in operation. Dangerous Carbon Monoxide. The gasoline engine is a useful in- vention, which has, through its service- ableness to the automobile, gone far to revolutionize our habits and modes of. life. But it has one drawback. In the course of combustion --especially when the combustion is not complete—the exploding gasoline produces a gas which, under certain conditions, is dan- gerous, to health and even to life. That gas is carbon.monoxide; it is• one of the most deadly of gases, and it is dis- charged from the exhaust of every car whose engine is running, whether the ca*' is moving' or net. We have several tizzies spoken of the danger of starting an automobile engine in a closed gar- age, and, though the warning against this practice has been widely spread by newspapers and health, lecturers there are a great many deaths, caused by it every winter. Carbon monoxide Is the poisonous constituent of illuminating gas, es- pecially water gas, and it is also pro- duced in large quantities by burning coal. The air of stove -heated and fur- nace -heated houses is contamin- ated o i - often n e ntam n ated to a dangerous extent with this gas, 'which escapes when the draft is poor. It may even pass through the wall of the stove if the iron gets red hot, and poison the air of the room suf- ficiently to give the occupants head- ache, nausea, lose of appetite, vertigo and a constantly -irritable condition of the mucous membranes of the air pass- ages. When the gas escapes continu- ously, it seriously affects the general health, for it lowers the powers of re- sistance and causes susceptibility to colds, grip, and. pneumonia. The gases from automobiles: contain from four to eight per cent. of carbon monoxide; but as little as one per cent. is enough to produce serious, if not fatal, consequences. Of course this is still further diluted by the atmos- phere in the street, but if there are thirty or forty cars crowded into a small area the dilution is not enough to make it harmless. Those who must continually breathe' the air in the midst of automobile traffic that is much concentrated are likelyto find themselves vulnerable to the attacks of common diseasegermsi which they could easily resist if the air they took into their lungs were pure. • The site of the Mansion House, Lon- don's official residence for its Lord Mayor, was formerly a fruit and vege- table garden. . Peculiar Facts and Figures. The amount of pressare applied by a pianist to the keys in one minute is often anything upto a ton and a halt In that some minute the eye has to read about one thousand bye' hundred signs and the fingers make about two thousand movements. At the top of Shooter's Hill, Black- heath, England, there stands a mile- stone inside the church railings: On one hide it marks "8 miles to London." On the other, "130 miles to Ypres. Diamond is a corruption of the Greek word adamant, meaning untam- able or refractory. The Greeks called the diamond adamant because of its excessive hardness. A crane is called a derrick from the name of Derrick, the Tyburn hangman, 'who made gibbets in the seventeenth century. . An artificial wool made from pine trees has been developed in Germany. Only one variety of bird is known to "shingle" itsown feathers. This is a native of South America, which nib- bles away each side of the tail -feather r to reduce a curious rookie racket p g ack t ef- fect. Fifty oxen, 70 Iambs, 200 sheep, and sometimes as much as 10,000 head of game, 70,000 eggs, 300 barrels of flour, and 15,000lb. of fish are some of the items in. the stores of a Cunard liner. It takes a healthy man four mouths to eat his own weight in food. Salmon, pike, and goldfish are said to be the only fish that never sleep. About twice as much power is re- quired to stop an express train as to start one. An explorer, travelling In the Malay Peninsula, .has, discovered some pe- culiar •creatures. There are fish that climb trees, monkeys that brush their teeth after meals, and birds that sleek upside down. Lions and tigers are too weak in. lung power to run more than half a mile. The Bank of England was founded by a Scotsman who died in poverty. Dover's historic building,' Maison' Dieu Hall, dates' back over seven cen- turies. It was built in 1203 as a rest- i house for pilgrims on their way to' CROSS -WORD PUZZLE QSNC INT.tftNAT10NAL aVNp1CATC: SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES , Start out byfilling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will giveyou a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, wordsstarting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or. vertically or both, HORIZONTAL VERTICAL 2—vpeclmen 3 -Poem 4 -Allowance In weight (pt.) 6—Utters low murmuring sounds 6—Inspector (abbr.) 7—Divided 8—Floating structures tc 10 -Shelf 11—To make more profound 12—A duct 14—Basis 16 ---To cook In liquid 18—Carrled as bodily covering 2d -Ousted 25 -01d -time dance (p1.) • .27 -Ventures 29—Philippine natives 31—Protected side 33—Night bird 87—A fish 38-111 temper 39—Somethdn"g abnormal 40—Religious period 41—To make beloved 43• -Relative 45—Dried grape 46—Ancient Peruvian ruler 47—Looks slyly 49—Sudden, sharp noise (p141. 50—African •cattle -pen 56—To place • 57a -Alkaline solution 1—A necktie 6—To nip e --An obstruction. 11—To demand payment 13—To fortify 15 --Obliterating Implements 17—To be under obligation 19—A dandy • 20—Penetrate 21—An oath 22—Informed 24—Measures 25—Simples 26—Horse 28—Female sheep 29s --Underground Worker 30—To make Insipid 32—Midday 34—Mlnute organism 35—Twisted 36—To filter through 38—Batter plum 89—Runs away 42—One length of a course 44—Long, narrow piece 48—To tear • 49—To drive oakum into seams 51 --Mentally sound 62 --Finish 53—Big steamship, 54—To refrigera! 55—Eroded 66—LIke milk 58—To weaken 69—To Imitate 60—Negative 61—Quarrels ea—Inclined 1 Natural. Resources Bulletin. THIS PJCE OF PAPER! It Was Once It Is a big jump, from a pieoe of wood tea sbeet of paper, but this pege prob- abiy started its, journey paperwl rds ail. the trunk 'of a tree in some northern forest. You see, to -day, the forests of Nor- way, Sweden, Canada, and the 'United' States furnish the bulk of the world's paper-naakng material. A sheet of paper is a,sheet of vege- table fibres matted together, dyed, and sarfaced according to requirements. And it is from wood that the fibrous part of the paper is obtained. The wood -pulp, a ' it is called, Is made in this manner. The trees are cut into logs, about two feet long, split and the bark and • knots carei'ully re- moved. The logs are ground up.bY revolving stone wheels, water being supplied to keep them cool, and to mix with the wood to form the pulp. This pulp contains all the impurities after the firatgrinding, so it is strained through a wire sieve, which allows the liner pulp to pass. * * * • The good pulp, still containing im- purities, is now subjected to a refining process in a machine resembling two huge grindstones placed one on top of the :other. The top stone revolves, and the pulp is fed through whole in this, being fine- ly ground between the two stones. Our "tree" is now ready to take on its first appearance in the form of a "sheet." The refined pulp is passed over a wire gauze cylinder on to a,felt •con- veyor which passes it to a pair of steel rollers, the top one taking- up the and of the web of pulp and gradually wind- ing it upon itself. When the' necessary thickness has been.attained, the pulp is taken off the roller, opened out and dried. In this state it is termed "half stuff boards." a large surp_us for export, while the greater portion, cf the product of her, factories find a market outside Can The Natural Resources Intelligence ada. • The: quality of her products is interest Service of the Dept. of . the Interior q y at _Ottawa says: ing world consumers,'and.it s]. Canada has' many admirers outside but natural that the thoughts of these of her borders, largely due to the effi- county thatuis cs sbleh of suchi to a tient work of her energetic trade com- missioners. They are putting Canada' Canadiansfullyapprcci- inDo ere as the forefront as a commercial ate what we have, and are we doing world power. Even in far-off Straits I Settlements, A. B. Muddiman is work- ing in the interests of Canada, and no doubt as the result of his efforts the Singapore Free Press has the follow- ing to say of this country: Canada is a land of vast grain Coors have different effects upon' growing areas and a wide diversity us. Red and orange are stimulating, of other vegetable resources. Canada yelio v is cheering, green neutral,' is rich in minerals, her animal indus- ' purple subg' _ subduing, and violet depress-[ tries are a leadinsource,of national ing. Canterbury from the Continent. our part in making them known? Nasty, Nasty. Man. With tears on her baby cheeks little Winnie ran up to the policeman. "Please, sir," she Sobbed, "will you "At present Canada's industrial conte and lock a nasty man up?" future has hardly begun. Great "What's he been doing?" asked the. towns do exist and some big Indus man in blue kindly. tries, but for the present and for "Oh," wailed the child, "he's broken many years to come her energies will sip my hoop with his nasty bicycle." I be absorbed by the conquest of the ',leas he?" Laid the constable, pre--` land and the bringin of -it into culti- paringto go to the scene .of the erime. 1 beinging vation. Looking at the spirit of her "Well, where is he?" people and the past history of the r'"Oh, you'll 'easily catch him!" ex- United States, there can be no hesi- plained Winnie triumphantly. They've tation in recognizing ,in. Canada .one just carried him into that; drug store." of the greatest world powers of the future, an achievement in colonize- His Error. tion of which the British people can "Clarence," said his wife, "the maid be immeasurably proud." has given notice because of the rude G. G. Van der ICop, editor of the way you spoke to her over the 'phone "Interocean," the only magazine pub- yesterday, fished in the "Middle East," and who "My dear, I'm so sorry. I thought I once visited this country, has had was speaking to you."- many times a good word to say for Canada. Thecan water buffalo ofth e Orient' draw a load weighing more than a ton. The prisons of En ;laird and Wales now number only about forty in all. More than tvl'enty prisons have been G wealth, her forests products pr wide . closed 'since 19141 Part o a Tree. Beepaper made solely from this me-• elestnical wood-plelleeeto u,se its trade name --would. be too coerso. and pure, and would ~quickly discolor azid turn brittle, It is tlierefere invarlably, mixed with a liner grade of pulp which. lags been chemically prepared, The better duality, instead of being ground, is cut' into small pieces, and boiled in. a solution of sulphite of soda, in Huge vats. • The boiling process. extracts. the ieh purities of the wood, and breaks it'up' into pulp which is then drained off; washed and made into "halt stuff boards" as already descx`ibed,. To produce an,even.surfaoe the cor- rect proportions of the ".half stuff boards" are loaded with china claie.and so on; and. to ensure a white -color a solution of blue is introduced into the maclYine. Sizing material is also add- ed. This prbvents the oil in the print- ing ink running when ,.the paper is printed on. We are well on our way ndw to the finished sheet of paper. The pulp is strained carefully and. coiveye l to the papermaking, • Ina- chine, rurtnin,g on -to an endless belt of wire mesh, about forty feet long by eight feet wife. • This belt, note coated with a wet shee"t of pulp, is supported by brass rollers, moisture being extracted from the pulp •by suction. The pulp sheet next passes under a roller which ren der , tho surface smooth. At this point the wire belt makes its return journey under the rollers and further moisture' still is extracted from the damp sheet of pulp as it passes over some steam- -heated cylinders. • "'.-:4s the paper comes from the last drying cylinder,it is wound upon reels, which contain in some cases; miles and miles of paper. In this reeled Condition It is cut to a' -required, width ready for use. Business changes. Never has there been a time when it was so necessary for the industrial executive to exercise -vision. We have come to a daywhen a business can be mad or ruined over night. " The announcement in the morning paper of the discovery of a new ma- terial or the unexpected development of an ingenious device may change the nitre outlook not only for a- few cor- porations,, but for an entire industry. In ten years from now our per capita consumption of certain articles• will be double what it is to -day, while the con- sumption of other commodities will •be no more than half of what .it is at pre- sent. ' In this present era, the foundation of success is ohiefly judgment and vision. Labc- does' notcrate; nordoes capital. It is mind that creates. The real wealth of our country does not lie in our laboring class, but in our thinking class. The worth -while executive is the fel- low who can ask brass -tack questions, each one of which leads to darkened. corners where the unassembled facts are hidden. It is not a question of brains, for the average person has more than - he knows what 'to do with. ' Not -one person fn a hundred .uses the brains he has to as much as half capacity. •R re need research. We also need to keep an eye to the future. The airplane will be discarded as soon as a practical helicopter is devel- oped; gas has supplanted coal in many industries because it is -cleaner and does better work. We mist look to the future, or we are liable to find our business a "has been" a' decade or so from pow, Answer to last week'[ p :rule; FLY ; A M ' A C M I E VIEIS ._ •ADA E EssR1P.?i ( e: L AC lleAG R0 -r ATE' EM{ A —. POP e.AR l sE ERA i.. AP - ES, ODE54' leENT.Eetey ..p .ER Diet L S# 8 0.:' '• o , R I S E` P ,hT tN A 8 i=.. ORA' , 1 5 E ME:R .:;T U 11.'I C" f•=. 5 ,S,,, LOU . ' 'HEMiaA; P 41 E ;;ESI.SR E A ce,•; I R Es 1 • �� .- RE� TOt MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. ' [1:JE•FARE u Gof G Nry 'Co ScNocee. AGAIN?' No; t WAS OMLY • VISITING, MUTT `fou sec Gorr M's NG -Pete -es) e? GoL.U$Gt2G.? Ye ---a, t 'Aw"iinat' THAT .BO'S as r3?iruT -•Ai ,t\ 13 ^vL L Arc, rno: r4' Tic TgACHerc Asi' b- Fr - G NE w'elle Kcv 1 H k,Daeleareses. es STOIC AND 'CYNIC' AND (1{EY SAID HE„b b, Ssla VoaD 'IiM / ,cNooi IC Something Going ,On. . There is •a febrile temperament, not unfamiliar in domestic life and the social circle, which demands that there shall always be something going on. There is no rest. or peace with such a spirit. If the talk slackens or ,seems to approach a lull, the res- tive one feels that it must be replen- ished as fuel is thrown to a wood fire on a •winter night. If a guest is en- tertained, it is thought that his every moment must have an occupation found for it: Whatever the place, whenever the time, the' tongue, the mind, the feet and lianas must never be still. The beauty and the blessedness of quiet— aye, and the vital necessity, too -are never recognized and conceded. Life must be fr.Tever a rush and a sti•, a fret and a fever. In contact with such 'a'` disturbing incen diary spirit, one longs for a presence whose com- ing is tranquility, whose tacit sym- pathy is a benison, who can afford to trust to silences more than is in the power of words to convey. Nature did not intend that we should 'forever be on the go. Sleep, solitude and relaxation are of 'her ordainment as certainly as vigilance, associative toil : and strenuous effort. They who know how to rest and when to be still are the ones whose accom- plishment excels the frantic gyration of those who hustle without a pian, save to keep on hustling. Those who mak e a great show of business with- out getting -much done are impatient with those who take time to think and who believe in circumspection before. they ..leap, . The hasty pluck at the sleeves of the deliberate and want to know when they may expect to see results. They pretend to put a premium on quick decision; but, as a matterof fact, they never learned the virtues of pa- tience and precaution, and others sometimes must pay for their head- long rashness. It is right that those who get things done should be extolled when the achievements • are worth while, but it does net mean much to set in motion any process of produc- tion without• prefiguring the cost and trying to ascertain the outcome. The gregariousness of •Inen is their nio"st contemptible and' discouraging aspect. See how they follow each other like sheep, not i.nowing wny. —Thoreau. - Little Ikey Golcierg Shows Off for Jeff's Benefit. e CLCgRC-D 'I4 S THROfhT AND } PRocccbcD: rtc >A(D' °THIS STGty iS Tttc 5ottt vuHAi Bre INGS t' ANb-ThE CYNIC IS - vARE MY MAMMA riAilc S G(�„ 111 • f F WINNIPEG—THE NEW FUR CENTRE The 'largest prlmtiry receiving point for 'funs .in Canada, is the •olaim now being put forward by Winnipeg as a result of the .outsthuding position that ' city leas recently acquired as a shipper of firma. Fifty years ago the trade of Winnipeg was largely in tura, but with , the gradual settlement of the Brairies and the enoroachnient of eivilizatt on •the haunts of•wtld fur -bearing ani' znais, agriculture .and manufacturing became of more importance.. Of recent. years, however, Winnipeg has again beconie a prominent fur -receiving point and tris'establishnient of the Winnipeg Fur Audtion Sales, Company two or three years ago definitely placed that city in a position of some consequence insofar as the fur trade is concerned'. One of the most important contribut- ing factors to the gro*ing importance of Winnipeg's fur trade is the marls pronouneei'i 'activity' of the trappers. The rapid expansion of the Aur -farming industry of Canada in reGentyears has tended.' to overshaivoil the value of this source .of' raw fur peltry. In the north- ern areas of 'the Dominion trapping is largely the chief means 01 subsistence„ of the inhabitants, and as the catch is • marketed • through ';trading companies or commission agents, its importance perhaps is not generally fully appreci- ated. ; The Settler -Trapper Increasing., Since the -earlier days of settlement fur trapping has formed no insignifi- cant share of the revenue of the set- tler, and at present, in some'districts away 'from large communities, .it Is still the practice . of the fanner, after he has, garnered his crops, to go into. the bush and set out his line of traps. Quite frequently the trapping grounds are a considerable distance away, and it is not unusual for the settler to be gone all winter 4nd return with his catch only 'when the spring thaws have set in. . •The settler trapper Is to be found in larger numbers :in Western Canada than in the 'older established farming districts•' of the East. This is probably due to the fact that many, large lum- bering camps in the East, operating throughoutthe•winter months, absorb' the surplus „farm labor. Onthe other hand, the industrial activities, of the West have not yet .reached a point where they are capable et offering em-' ployment,: to the, farmer during the slack period of farming ' operations. ,. Therefore it is essential to; the active farmer, who is desirous of increasing his income, to look to other means of employment, and in trapping he finds work which, . in good seasons, often returns him considerable profit. With this large and ever-growing set- tler; trapper and Indian population in the West, it is not surprising that Win- nipeg has again come to the fore as a fur 'centre. Many large fur companies of international Scope have their head= quarters there and also have tra r posts established throughout the north- land. These companies handle the raw product direct from the .trapper to their retail stores in the more import- ant British, Continental and American cities. Last year it is estimated that over $5,000,000 worth of furs, $2,000,000 of which represents the value of pelts sold through the fur auction and the balance private sales, were liandled Iu Winnipeg. While the fur sales held in Winnipeg are not in the same class with those of Montreal, New York or London, for the reason' that the selec- tion of furs put up for sale . is some- -what limited as they are largely made up .of the natural production of the country, the collections offered aro • ' purely_ Northwestern furs and are not mixed with inferior 'grades. This im- portant feature of the sales is becom- ing more widely recognized and is re- acting most beneficially tb the 'fur trade of Western Canada. For Drees Doesn't Clothe. • "Your wife must Spend a terrible amount of: money on her cloth:nng. "Yolfre wholly wrong—she spends it all on her dress." • l3oorned by •Books. A holiday resort, can have no batter advereiesmeret;titan .a •widely,rend' bock written bye pepuiar authos•. lia,ll” Caine's novel, "The 3aeemstel•," sent term of thousands of peeple Rock- ing to the Isis of Man, where.the.scene is laid. - Holiday • makersfollowed `Lori, Doane" to Esinoor•end-Ilfraconibe,•an'' Combe Martin in the.same district rose ` to fans as the scene of Marie Corelli's "Mighty Atom," Yarmouth ihas benefited greatly ow- ing to Dickens's "David Copporfeld.". Next to a popular novel, a popular song is probably about the best freer advertisement for a hoiidayr. resort. The' adjective "glorious," for example, will probably be associated i'i people's minds with "Deyen" for malty 'ears to coni on sid'Gott*t•. of the., Is11t1d; NO