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• sized rivets also for any make o£ car
ata supply house. Take off the brake
b band and either cut off or punch out
o_ all the rivets with a cold ehisel and
f i a punch. Lay the new lining care-
,' fully on the band and mark the rivet
• holes accurately, and then punch thein
1; out on a block, being careful not to
s I melte them larger than the rivets. A
p , little smaller is 'better, Then eountee-
j sink these boles for the rivet heads
s so that they are well below the sur -
,'face, Stretch the lining on the band
, and place the end rivets in position,
d They may be lightly tapped to hold
. thein in piece. Then clamp the lin-
t ing firmly in position at several
n points. The rivets may now be fas-
toned in one by one, taking pains to
fsee that the rivet is well set up, that
, i is, that it fills the hole An the band.
- To insure that it is properly counter-
sunk, the head should be placed upon
a rod just a little smaller than the
1 rivet head held in the vise. Care must
be taken to see that the lining is not
hunched up or wrinkled, :but when
all rivets are set it should be smooth
and regular, so that every portion
will touch the drum when the brake
is applied.
While lbrakee should be adjusted so
that they will slide the wheels, it is
riot intended that they should be ap-
plied eo strenuously, Sliding the
wheels wears the tires. The car
doesn't stop as quickly svhen the
wheels are sliding as when they are
turning. Just a little practice will
show the requisite amount of pres-
sure to use.
The driver has another brake on
the car which niay be used in an
emergency on a hill. Cut off the igni-
tion and close the throttle and the
compression in the cylinders will act
as a very efficient brake. If the hill
be long or steep it is well to put the
gear in second speed or even in first,
but this must be done at the top of
the hill and not when you find you
are •go•ing too fast.
Do not take chances on your
brakes, Know that they are ready to have reached bear out the idea of Dr.
serve you and you will avoid personal Oliver Wendell Holmes, who, in his
danger and damage to your car, novel "Elsie Venner;' says that each
_ _ { human being is in reality au omnibus,
Wool Fro -r: Waste, carrying through life a number of
personalities,
A process bas been discovered by One of your selves is the self that
wbich an artificial wool can be made does your 0002010115 thinking.
from cotton waste. It is expected to I The second 114 your subconscious
prove a groat industrial and con. self, which manages all the business
meretal value. ! of your everyday routine, from putting
The cotton waste is treated, to be- on your shoes and stockings to handl-
gin with, by saturating it with acetic ing your knife and fork at neat times.
acid, which enters into chemical coin- The third f5 your superself, which
bivatton with the cellulose of the cot- stands by and watches, often critielz-
ton. Further details are not yet made ing your actions unfavorably.
public; but it is stated that the wool The fourth is your dream self. which
wears well, can be dyed any color, and wanders abroad in the still hours of
is actually a better protection against the night.
cold than ordinary wool. The fifth Is your "genie" (as the
This nee material, woven into fab- French call it)- -a clover sprite which
oonoccasions suggests to your mind
bright ideas that seem to come, sudden
and full-fledged, from nowhere. It
furnishes the so-called "Inspirations"
of the poet, Ilia painter and the musi-
C11111.
The sixth le year brute self, which
Keep a Sharp Eye on Your Brake
There are just two kinds of brakes
good brakes and the other kind. Whic
do you have? Possibly you aro lik
e lot of drivers who are satlsfied 1
one set of brakes is working-. Brakes
however, are too important to neglect
They are more important even that
the motor, because while a motor' i
necessary to start, 4f you cannot sto
all sorts of dangers are before you.
Leery ear is provided with two set
of brakes, one •operated by the foot
commonly known as the serviee brake
the other operated by the hand an
often miscalled the emergency brake
Both these sets should be in perfee
condition if one eares for leis ow
safety,
The usual type of brake consists o
a drum mounted on each rear wheel
which serves for both sets. The ser
vice brake ordinarily consists of a
band operating on the outside of the
drum and comiectod to a foot peda
by a series of rods. Preseine the
pedal tightens the 'brake band upon
the drum and friction stops the car,
The hand brake consists of•a lover
which through another set of rods
connects with a band inside the drum,
which expands by a toggle joint or
other device producing the necessary
friction. There is nothing eomp,icat-
ed about either set of brakes. Any
driver of ordinary intelligence can
comprehend the action at a glance.
But knowing how they work will not
make them work, It takes a little
attention, regularly and often, to
make sure that they are in condition
to serve you when needed. The
troubles are not many and may be
briefly elassifled as those due to wear
in the linkage or the brake lining, or
due to poor adjustment. Forward of
the rear axle there is an equalizing
bar designed to help the brakes work
with equal pressure em each side, and
just in front of this bar is a turn-
buckle or other device for taking up
undue play. At each end of this
equalizing bar other rods go to each
brake, and just in front of the drum
there is .mother turnbuckle o» similar
device for further adjustment.
To Adjust the Brakes.
In adjustment of the brakes the
zear wheels should be jacked up and
the hand brake set just tight enough
so that one of the wheels will turn
by hand. if the other one does not
show an equal pressure when turned
by hand the adjusting device at the
wheels should be turned until the
pressure is equal upon each brake.
After this the turnbuckle forward of
the equalizing bar may be taken up
if necessary, The service brake is
similarly ndjusted, but it will be
necessary to bare some one lipid the
pedal down during the process,
Wear in the linkage is duo to a de-
fect or to lack of lubrication. The
construction is such that grease cups
cannot be used and it is merely a ease
of squirting oil on from a can.
Naturally this does not last long and
it accumulates road dust, and unless
the joints are properly cleaned and
oiled frequently, pins and clevises
will wear and may become so weak
that they will break tinder a sudden
strain in an emergeney. They may
be replaced, when badly worn, for a
few tents each and renewal is cheaper
than an accident.
The brake lining also wears, par-
ticularly where there ,are. many :hills.
If the lining de allowed to wear until
the rivets by which it is fastened vo
the brake bend rub against the dram,
the latter is likely to be scored and
it then becomes necessary to take the
drum off, have it put in a lathe and
turned true, where there is enough
metal to. do it. Sometimes it is
cheaper, particularly if the drum is
Ithin, to buy a new one: In that ease
be sure to buy all new bolts and nate..
It is wisdom, therefore, to renew
the brake inning before such a con-
dition is caused. Putting en the
brake lining is not difficult job, but
it is a particular one. The lining
must be put on so that it is smooth
and so that the rivet heads do not
protrude. This means counter sink-
ing the rivet Treads in the fabric, the
brako lining usually being a composi-
tion of asbestos and wire.
Renew the Lining.
It is possoble to buy the band of
proper size and to buy the p. roper
BUSY MEN.
Some of us are gifted speakers and we make the welkin
sound, fading all the lesser ahriekers wile may argue and ex-
pound; and our grace you'll he allowing whoa we come before
you bowing—but the farmer with his plowing makes the, old
world's wheels go round. Some of us are Sammie fighters, with
our guns and butcher knives; and tetra of tut, as writere, buy the
fodder for our wives; others on the stage are playing, through
the lines,of "Hamlet" straying—but the fanner with his haying
le the man who saves our lives. Some have 1111 their lives de-
voted to the well known public weal, and in Comments, silver -
throated, you may hear them ably spiel; and they have our
admiration, our applause and adulation but the farmer saves
the nation, when he feeds the calves their meal. Some are
painting gorgeous pictures destined to a deathless fame, and,
despite the critics' strictures, they will get there just the same;
801110 are preaching public morals, some are gaining singers'
laurels—but the farmer with lrts sorrels, or hie claybanke, playe
the game. And the farmer isn't yawping as he goes Isis dusty
way, and we do not see him stopping, yelping for a six -hour day;
when the early dawn is breaking he goes briskly to ills raking,
and his honest bones are aching when at night he hits the hay.
HOW MANY PERSONS
CONCEALED IN YOU?
YOU ARE 6 PERSONS, SAY
ADVANCED THINKERS.
Odd and 111 -Assorted Com-
pany Travel in Your Private
"Omnibus."
Recent study of the occult has lent
renewed interest to the problem of
multiple personality.
It has often occurred to you to im-
agine that you were more than one
person. But if so, how many?
Tlie most advanced thinkers on -this
subject would tell you that you are
six persons, The couclusions they
ries, has successfully undergone severe
tests in the textile department of the
University of Leeds, England. Cloth
made from a mixture of half natural
wool and half artificial wool bears a
close resemblance in texture and other
respects to tweed.
The artificial wool is comparatively
cheap. It is not expected to drive
natural wool out of themarket, how-
ever, but to supplement it, just as ar-
tificial silk supplements the real
article.
Barometer Brevities.
Comparatively few people can.read
a barometeracorrectly.
Perhaps it has rained after the glass
has gone up, or played other queer
tricks, and they have concluded that
the instrument 18 out of order.
If the mercury is high during wet
weather, and keeps there, flue weath-
er may be expected very soon. But
if the rise has been sudden the fine
spell will not last, Only a steady ris-
ing glass predicts a longfine spell.
In winter a sharp rise in the mer-
cury
emcury foretells frost. North and east-
erly winds aro also indicated by a
high level of the glass,
When. the mercury falls inwetweath-
er the out -look is poor. More rain ie
sure to follow. In very hot weather
a sudden fall denotes a gale or thund-
erstorm. In frosty weather It gives
warning of a thaw.
A sudden fall at any time foretells
wind, or wind with much rata; and
14 the wind. is already ht the west a
violent storm Is very probable.
mattes its appearance when you lose
your temper, causing you to say and
do insane tbiugs such as, in your
right mind, you would be incapable
of saying or doing.
Characteristics of Dream self.
Your dream self—the shadowy Im-
age of yourself which is sleep passes
through such strange scenes and does
so many extraordinary things -is
especially interesting because so pro-
foundly mysterious.
It is not at all like the self that
you know. Apparently it has no sense
at all of right and wrong. Let Mr.
Hyde let loose, it commits acts of
which you, in your waking moments,
could not possibly he guilty. Most of
its doings are as harmless as they
are purposeless add silly, but, if the
requisite suggestion offers, it behaves
with lack of either decency or scruple.
Your dream self is mentally as well
as morally defective. It lacks both
the faculty of Judgment and the sense
of humor. The stupidest absurdity it
accepts quite as a matter of fact. You
meet and talk with persons long dead,
and it does not strike you as strange
that they should have "come alive
again" and be walking around.
Manifestly there Is a part of your
are asleep. Its thoughts are your
brain that goes on thinking while you
dreams.
Mint part of the brain produces
this dream thinking?
'Nobody can say with certainty, but
psychologists are fairly well convinced
that It is the idle and uueducated half
of the brain.
The brain is a double structure. You
have really two brains, right and lett,
just as you have two eyes end two
ears. The motor centres of the right
brain govern the left half of the body,
and vice versa.
If you are right-handed, your left
brain has all the education. To prove
It, you have only to try to use a pen
or a pair of scissors with your left
hand, Your left hand cannot use tools
because your right brain does not
Three Million Years Old.
There has just been completed to Toronto the "anrocking" of an al-
most perfect skeleton of one of the Dinosaur family which need to gambol
in the valley of the Red River, Alta., some 3,000,000 years ago. The skele-
ton was found by Dr, W, A. Parks and staff of the Royal Ontario Museum,
whore it is now mounted as shown in the photograph. The sand along
the brackish shores of this great body of water formed a splendid preser-
vative for the huge reptiles then roaming the earth.
REGLAR
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Vastness of London Town
Greater London hold:: a million more among the many formidable items of
people than are to be found in the the bill would appear 4,000,000 sacks
whole:of Australia uud New Zealand,' of flour, 5,000,000 sacks of ungrounel
with an area almost as large as Eur- I wheal, 94,000,000 lbe. of butter, 450,-
ope, and its dwellers could replace 000 tons of .meat, 08,000,000 gallons of
every man, woman and child in all; milk, end 000,000,000 eggs.
Centralia or re -people Norway three Of London's thirst we get an iin-
times. pressive.soncept.on when we find that
They are, in feet, so many—a "ne- the water drunk in at single day would
tion" in themselves --that by joining fill a bath 200 feet long and 100 feet
hands they could link London with wide to a depth of 6 feet, and that a
the Cape sof Good Hope, or they could day's tea allowance (500,000 gallons)
form a column, three abreast, with a would fill a cup 60 feet in diameter
yard between euccessive ranks, long and 50 feet high.
enough to reach from Liverpool to So enormous is London's passenger
Vienna. The streets of Greater Lon- traffic that every twenty-four hours
don are Iong enough to stretch acmes two and a half million person travel
Europe and Asia at their widest, with on her amnibusses, 1,300,000 in her
1,000 miles to spare. underground trains alone, and 560,000
Every week, within its borders, ap- in her trams. Se many, in feet, are
proximately 4,000 children. are born, horday's passengers, that if they were
2,400 persons die, and 2,000 begin wed- formed into a column, four abreast, at
dod life. intervals of as yard, the head of the
London's streets, if placed end to column would be on the sea front of
end, would form a high -road Iong Brighton before the rear rank had left
enough to stretoh across Europe from John o' Groat's.
the North Cape to •Constantinople; and In a Single day London's trains
her buildings, if placed shoulder to travel a distance equal to nine circuits
shoulder, would make a continuous of the earth at the Equator; the age
row, sufficiently long to link Lisbon gregate day's journey of her basses
with Moscow. Her property has an is equal to a trip to the noon, with
insurance value of nearly $G,000,000, 70,000 miles to Spare, rind in twenty -
000. four hours London's trams arover 'a
So vast is London's population that distance equivalent to a dozen return
to pay the food bill for a year would journeys from London to Constantl-
call for a cheque for $625,000,000, and nopie.
know how. With a left-handed per-
son the case is exactly opposite.
Lives In the Right Brain.
This is "old stuff" and familiar
knowledge. But it has remalned for
the psychologists to point to the fact
(which they believe fairly demon-
strable) that the dream self makes its
home in the untutored brain—that is
to say, in the right brain, where right-
handed people are concerned.
What does this untutored brain do
with itself during your waking ileum?Is It active or busy, 'like the brain
that does your thinking?
By no means. It is virtually idle.
Therefore, it suffers no fatigue; It
does not get tired. You go to sleep to
rest your working brain, as well as
your body, but the idle brainis not
weary, it needs no Bleep, and it goes
right on thinking in its own foolish,
ill -regulated way.
Its thoughts are your dreams,
'One thing very noticeable about
your dream self is that it has almost
no memory. Occasionally it happens
that, in the midst of a wild mess of
phantasmagoric absurdities, the dream-
er awakes to laugh at the nonsense of
it all, and is eager to nx some of the
,stuff in his mind before it escapes
him. But even while he tries to do so
he loses nearly all of it,
The eccentricities of your dream self
are best studied in the hypnotic etate,
which is art artificially induced sleep,
One then sees how the strange crea-
ture, devoid of will -power and judg-
ment, obeys the most preposterous
suggestions and commits the wildest
follies.
Your subconscious self is closest to
you, though it cannot be said that you
are well acquainted with tt. It doss
at least 90 per cent, of your thinking
for you, relieving you of nearly all the
bother of atteudiug to the minor de-
tails of lite.
You tie your handkerchief in a 0er-
tain way It is an operation that you
repeat every day one or more times,
But when you perform it your atten-
tion is not fixed upon what you are
doing; the thing "does Itself," in
other words, your subconscious selt
arranges the knot. Tile performance
is so far automatic that you are liable
to find yourself confused and bungling
the job If you fix your mind upon 11.
Superself is Your Adviser.
Really the most interesting of all
your six personalities, because the
most remarkable, is your superself,
which stands by and watches what-
ever. you do, frequently offering ad-
vice
You have done on occasions a good
many foolisb things. In many In.
stances you knew they were foothill
when you did them. But how did you
know?
Your superself, who is wiser, told
you so, It warned you, but you would
not take the warning. Tee superself
could go no further, for it has no 1
power to control your actions. Its ,
function is purely advisory and crate
cal.
It does criticize freely, and often 1
with severity. When you have com-
mitted
oomitted en act of folly, it will Chide
you and make you feel very uncom-
fortable. "How could youhave been
each an idiot?" it says.
As you journed through Iife in your 1
private "omnibus" (to use again Doc-
tor Holmes's picturesque figure of
speech) you observe with curiosity j
your nye traveling companions. One
of them is a dignified individual who 1
glances at you gravely from time to I s
time over his newspaper. Another
seems to be halt -idiotic. A third, mis-
ehapeu and deformed, has a brutal and
unpleasant aspect. The fourth is a
business person, obviously capable,
but not gifted apparently with ideas
beyond the commonplace. The fifth
is half hidden in a corner, a strange,
elusive creature.
Reindeer are more numerous than
horses in Norway.
To the Unknown Dead.
The action of the British - Govern-
ment le giving an unknown soldier a
dust resting place in Westminster Abe
bey on Armistice Day, followed by the
action fef the French Government in
placing at west its unknown soldier,
typifying "Le Soldat Francais," in the
Pantheon in Peale, gives 1107105 wh0rp
honor is due and lifts the incidents
into those realms of national senti-
ment that have an ever -living and ha
creasing . effect.
Monuments to large groups of sol-
diers who were swept into the name-
less heaps of the common dead of
great battlefields have been orected
again and again. And the cairns and
the tumuli of the past dot many a
fold and are the objects of affection-
ate euriosity and religious mystery to
many a people the world over. But
this mutual agreement to recognize in
some way the youth that fought in ,its
almost abstract relationship of type
and symbol through the- selection of
one of those who fell with none to
record his heroism, or pass along ilia
actual memory to those who were of -
kith and kin and of his own familiar
circle in the flesh, is something differ-
ent from all the past honors to un-
known heroes who met their fate but
failed of individual fame. And not the
least significant phase of these solemn
exercises is that in this ease the
French, to whom the sentiments and
the saerifiees are always worth a beau-
tiful thought, or a beautiful gesture,
or a public ceremony, are not in ad-
vance of the supposedly more plegm-
atio and class-conscious Briton who,
as far as his general attitude goes,
has a profound respect for achieve-
ment and for that kind of achievement
that has readied place and knows bout
name and lame.
Each nation, however, as is right
and proper, expresses its public feel-
ings in its own way in harmony with
its cults and its traditions. But the
double ceremonies make noble prece-
dents for Armistice Day celebrations,
and both Westminster Abbey and the
Pantheon, with their long associations
with the puissance of kings and the
glorious memory of the great, are
newly consecrated by the presence of
these humble, unidentified reenalns
which. though unnamed, are not, like
the village Hampden, "unhonoxed and
unsung.'
Bees Were the First
Embalmers.
Few people are aware of the fact
that bees were the originators of em-
balming. It happens sometimes that
a stranger enters their hive, and often
the enemy Is loo large or Heavy to be
cast out.
A slug, for instance, might make
is way into the beehive. The bees
pounce upon the unwanted intruder,
and Proceed to sting him to death.
The problem now presents itself to
the intelligent bees as to the best
method of ridding the hive of the
leg's carcass. They evidently arem
aware that if left, the hive, would be -
✓ e Infected by the presence oI a
cl • body, so the embalming process
s commenced.
This is done by encasing the remains
f the slug in propolis, a substance
pectally collected by the bees from
he opening buds of poplar 'and other
rees. The propolis thus prevents the
lug's body decaying,
But if a snail sneaks into the hive,
he process is even simpler. As sora
s the snail receives a sting he re -
res into his shell. Then the artful
ees just wall him in with propolis,
nd without troubling to shift the
hell, securely cement it to the floor of
he hive. The tomb 01 the snail thus
eeomes part and parcel of the hive.
Northern Ontario's Gold Production
In the past ten years, official sta-
tistics indicate, the gold nines of
Northern Ontario have produced gold
to the value of $63,107,416. The in-
crease in this decade bas been a re-
markable one, rising from $35,539 in
1910 to approximately $10,000,000 .in
1919. The returns for 1020 would in-
dicate a greater output for this year
than last. Experts claim that there
is from $70,000,000 to $100,000,000
worth of ore in sight.
The outlook for future production in
this region is very promising.- At
Porcupine one mine alone, with an
ore reservation of $40,000,000 is eon-
sidered to be still in its infancy, At
Kirkland Lake one of the leading
minas is recovering 'en average of
nearly $25 a ton from ere treated. In
addition there are such other proper-
ties as Boston Creek, West Shining
Tree, Benverhonee Lake, Bourke's Sid-
ing, Lightning River, Fort Matachew-
an, Munro and others.
The gold production in the Parma
pine district since 1910 has been as
follows: -1910, 35,539; 1911, $15437;
1912, $1,730,628; .1913, $4,294,113;
1914, $5,190,794; 1915, 7,480,901; 1916,
89,397,586; 1917, 0,229,744; 1918, 87,-
I883,906; 1919, $9,941,803; 1920 (esti-
mated first six months), 0,000,000; toe
tel production, $59,610,46.1.
The Kirkland Lake production is as
follows: 1913, $36,232; 1914, $74,590;
1915, $555,539; 1916, $702,761; 1917,
$404,356; 1918,$636,067; 1919,8486,
800; 1920 (estimated first six months),
$570,000; total production, 83,456,055.
The dividends paid by ntines in
these two camps during the last eight
years total $16,816,585, divided into
totals as follows: Porcupine, $16,240,-
598; Kirkland Lake, $576,987.
All the producing minas have built
up large treasury reserves. Already
last year's figures of production have
been readied and a new record for
gold output will in all probability be
established by the end of the year iby
the gold mines of Northern Ontario.
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Sample of a Love -Letter.
"i1ost Amiable Madam—After a
long consideration, I have a great le
clination to become your relation, and
to give demonstration, to this, my es-
timation, without equivocation, I am
making preparation, by a speedy navi-
gation, to remove my habitation to a
nearer situation, and to pay you adora-
tion, and if this, my deels.ratio-u, may
meet your approbration, it wilt dis-
pose an obligation, without dissimule
tion, from generation to generation."
To this eloquent appeal the lady re
plied that she was fired with indigna-
tion at his fulsome adulation and de-
ceitful laudation, and that she bad a
great detestation of the constant tie -
imitation of the conjugal situation.
Korean Inventors,
The Koreans do not receive credit
for progressiveness, but a Itorean in-
vented the potter's wheel and a Ko-
rean potter discovered the art of un•
derglazing. It is also sold that they
Invented the movable type and made
general use of this art long before it
was known anywhere else.
bafoty First,
"Will you accept this portfolio?" in-
quired the Berlin cabinet maker.
"I don't know," replied the cautious
statesman, "Titres are uncertain;
maybe yott'd better maize it a suit-
case,"
When money talks we never )rause
to note if it should stammer, -nor if it
hollers al the laws of logic and of
mourner;
tkead this ,slowly: "Mrs. T3rowir had
fourteen ehix; she kept them in the
hen house—nix; they perched in trees,
till the dcy breeze froze them stiff as
stix." Brown soya there is a moral in
this. "(Ie ]snows,