The Brussels Post, 1920-12-2, Page 6Wood and Wire Wheels.
There is much difference of opin-
ion regarding the merits of both wood
and wire wheels. Each type has its
advantages and :failings, and so it is
for the buyer to decide which he shall
use, not forgetting the nature of the
work that such wheels are to under-
take. It seems from a glance over
present conditions that the heavier
types of cars would be too hard on
wire wheels, whereas the wooden ones
are needed `o give extra thickness
needed to stresses of all kinde, and
. also to bear the weight better.
Not long ago a young man who
was driving a light roadster with wire
wheels, was crowded against a bank
by another ear. Result, the axle
sprung. the spokes of the wheel, and
the felloe, were somewhat bent, but
the ear was still able to go, and got
hone "on its own legs." It seems
certain that if Wooden wheels had
been used the result would have been
n ca'.! for somebody to pull the ear in
after the accident.
Thti; e favoring wire wheels claim
the following advantages: Wire
wheels are abort one-third lighter
than v:ooden ones. More elasticity is
gained than is possible with wooden
wheels. Being lighter at their eir-
cum£ereeces , the fly -wheel effect
caused by revolution is over'nnwe to
greater extent than if wooden wheels
were used, thus diminishing the in-
tensiiy of hard blows caused by bad
road urface bumps. One special
point in favor of- the wire 'wheels is
that the weight is actually suspend-
ed at it great mat.y more points than
is true with wooden wheeis. It seems
likely that an accident will leave a
wire wheel capable of continuing to
travel, touch more than it would with
wood, the nature of the break of
course governing the condition. This
might be due to the greater flexibility
of tete wire wheels,
On the other hand, wire wheels
have their drawbacks. They are hard
to clean and keep clean, They look
'bad if not cleaned thoroughly round
the spokes, and also the metal parts
soon rust and the spokes are weak-
ened. Moreover, vibration will act
upon the spokes and adjacent metal
parts in a manlier similar to that
found in other parts of the car. This
results in a sudden snapping in two.
Obviously, wire wheels will need fre-
quent and careful examination to see
that all spokes are intact, and at the
first sigh of weakness the spokes
should be repaired by some one who
understands such things, else careless
tightening may cause too much
stretching of the wrong one. In such
an event this one spoke may have
the effect of throwing the wheel out
of alignment more or less, but is
more likely to cause the spoke to
break,
With wooden wheels, several con-
ditions are different. The spokes are
more easily kept clean, there is no
rust to weaken the spokes, and there
is greater strength for heavy loads.
Where the spokes enter the hub, a
treatment with water proofing liquid
is good to keep out the entrance of
moisture. Spokes for wooden wheels
are best if made of hickory, which
has the ability of withstanding both
heavy shocks and heavy loads. Of
course the wooden wheel looks clumsy
beside the wire types, but for all that
well -made wooden wheels on modern
cars are giving splendid satisfaction.
The difference of choice seems to
favor wooden wheels among car
owners, as well as makers of cars,
although the option is usually allow-
ed, either then or later, of getting the
wire wheel when desired.
A choice between the two types de-
pends en the conditions and circum-
stances under which the owner ex-
pects to use his car. This fact should
never be forgotten.
Fortunes Made by Accident.
if. was the burning et` a anu.ch fac-
tory that firs) reveal at the :elhe:ive
qualities of =r ril,a 1 ?t:,rcl: and in-
troduced c•lte•,n gam.
Tu the tweet: ,i:g of a too! -educt we
are in.ichted to :, . ; ru ce „lent. The
seer" i t.:: u r ld pLi,:!tna ,vith a
bott,:,1',, : hi:: broth-
er, n ewes n.. es e ,• • . ,,;n ,1 Argand,
idly 1.1-,< .:.1 a,v. lac d.':nC of his oil -
I l:o :1t-ettintt s.
N. , 1 . i, a :tired clysct-
rs:< see rtadc, a c.:.: fortune_ with
Khi 'a :,aril p`! th fie:,',1 lYt'ILCs.
a p re.,erv,ttive
red by a i.a iicr in Tel.
imnd the
b:+•.i: of horse wonderfully preserv-
etl. eee, iy;ug to t,0r,ax dust, and so
a 0 -.:every wiii;11 h,i< been of bound -
les.= t itultiltry was made.
:1 ba, of .tt.:en ntteuled a
",,it'iteseeeirg." seance, and found
tba:, il:e table str>o;l upon two brass
rai' u'uiming arrcas the stage. Ile
susl:ertc.d electricity'• 'raking a pieta
of iieu:,tte:I wire. the ends of which
wf"re n ar:;i. he laid it across the two
bre,: tits, ..rte the "spirit" ceased to
res. tee rs sflerwerde, title early- ex -
I> stack -circuiting came to
hie mind, and he invented the auto_
ma ti a y=.tem of signalling. Blotting-.,
puf•-� .•:e:uIted from a batch of paper
lie ;r ,:.ole ac:oidontally without size.1
a fortune for the lucky man.I
Rich Beyond Dreams.
col -
Now that (:.,rman East Africa is
purged cf the horfor of German col-�
conation, titre is talk of a systematic
si7n., t ane the real King Solomon's
1n toes, i
^.'be
pni.t.nge,3e believed that. Ophh', j
tram selects came the vast treasure of
gold for rite temple at Jerusalem, was
situated in this country, and it is a
fact that some years ago Dr. Carl.
Peters formed a company to finance
such a searr'b.
Ophit' lies been lost in the world
for thousands of years, but its mines'
were rich beyond dreams. In the
Bible we are told that there were'
'brought to Solomon from Ophir first
'420 and then 450 talents of gold, See
lag that a talent was worth $10,000,
here was a trifle of $20,000,000,
When Bones Are Broken.
Most people when asked what they
would do if anyone should break a
limb would answer•. Send for a doc-
tor," But it is also important that
step, should be taken to prevent fur-
ther injury.
It is most essential that, from the
moment of breakage, the parts should
be kept perfectly still until the sur-
geon comes to set the bones,
Any movement, and the jagged ends
of the bones will tear the muscles and
cats.e a fearful amount of damage.
Whether the breakage is in an arm
or a leg, put elle limb into a splint at
once. This splint may be formed of
a walking stick or any straight piece
of wood tied into place with handker-
chiefs.
The bandages should be tight, but
not sufficiently so to cause discomfort.
In this connection it is better to have
khalf -u -dozen moderately tight ban-
doges than three tied so that they
press too hard.
Even when the limb is actually ac-
commodated with a splint, the pa-
tient must not make the least attempt
to move 1t. However long one may
have to wait for the doctor, it is im-
portant to keep quiet until the pro-
fessional man can deal with the dam-
age.
Study of Moon by Earth..
Shine.
The effect of earthsilne upon the
moon is a familiar one to many per-
sons, though probably few of them
know the cause of the effect,
When the moon is in its first quar-
ter the dark portion of it is often
faintly visible. The bright quarter is,
of course, illuminated by the direct
sunlight, but the remainder is only
seen by virtue of the faint light re-
flected from the earth, This faintly
illuminated portion has been success-
fully studied by various astronomers.
The light from the earth naturally
fal,s at a different angle from that at
which light is received from the sun;
therefore it is reasonable to expect a
slightly different effect of lgiht and
shade on the irregularities of the
moon's surface.
There are 12,000,000 negroes in the
United States,
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE OPENS SCHOOL FOR St -IND SOLDIERS,
The annex to Pearson Hall, Toro nto, declared open by the Goxernor-
General, Nov. 10th. The building is for the vocational training of blind
soldiers.
Don't Delay.
If you have hard work to do,
Do it now,
To -clay the skies are clear and blue,
To -morrow clouds may come in view,
Yesterday is not for you;
Do it now.
If you have a song to sing,
Sing it now.
Let the notes of gladness ring
Clear as song of bird in spring,
Let every day some music bring;
Bing it now.
If you have kind words to say,
Say them now.
To -morrow may not come your way,
Do a kindness while you may,
Loved ones will not always stay;
Say them now.
If you have a smile to show,
Show it now.
Make hearts happy, roses grow,
Let the friends around you know
The love you have before they go;
Show it now,
The Snail and the Screw.
It is no doubt true that nearly all
human inventions have been suggest-
ed by natural objects. Fremont of the
Preach School of Mines points out an
eateresting example in tato case of the
screw, the fundamental idea of which
he believes, was suggested to primi-
tive man by the spiral shape of the
edible snail.
It was not the shape of the shell
that suggested the screw, but the spiv-
al motion which it is necessary to
give to the body o4 the emit in order
to withdraw it from the shell. This
at once showed that an object of a
screw shape embedded in a solid
powerfully resisted attempts to with-
draw it by a straight pull,
The bint was enough, and the screw
became one of the earliest of man's in-
ventions.
English interests have established
an aviation school on an island near
Rio Janeiro to train pilots for Brazil-
ian aerial mail and passenger service,
Ever Heard of Clock Stars?
The Astronomer -Royal, Sir Frank
Dyson, who has been elected senior
warden of the City Guild of Clock -
makers, is well qualified for the post.
He it is who is responsible for our
time, which is decided 11y the passage
of certain stars, known as "Clock
stars," over the incredibly thin spid-
er's thread which, flied in the focus
of the transit instrument at the Royal
Observatory, serves as the all-im-
portant Greenwich meridian.
By electricity the master -clock at
Greenwich automatically fires thne-
guns and drops time -balls in various
parts of the country every day, and
sends the hour of tea a,m, to all post -
offices and railway termini.
The Greenwich clock is one of the
meet accurate in the world, but it is
not quite perfect, and its "rate" is
daily corrected by the observations
trade the previous night of the "Clock
stars," unless clouds have hidden
them, But if clouds prevented the cor-
rection of the Greenwich clock for a
whole year, its error In that time
would be barely Ave seconds.
Debts of Honor.
most other countries have the
same practice with regard to gamb-
ling debts as ourselves. Venezuela
is one of the very few states in which
such debts are collectable by law,
In holland you cannot sue for a bet
made upon cards, but you can for one
on a horserace or any similar outdoor
sport.
In Sweden a physician cannot sue
for his fee, while in Belgium a solici-
tor is in a similar , position. By -
Chinese law, not only the doctor, but
also the priest, the fortune-teller and
clairvoyant are without legal remedy.
All these debts are, however, looked
upon as "debts of honor," and pay-
ment is rarely evaded.
A bottomless half -bushel measure
fits nicely Inside an ordinary grain
sack. Place sack and measure -on the
ground, fill the measure and, by lifting
it up, the contents are dropped into
sack. The process is repeated until
the sack is full of potatoes, walnuts,
or whatever is being pielted up.
• THE IRON DOLLAR.
In olden days, with one round dollar how much good fod-
der I could buy! And then I'd stand around and holler the
prices were so high! I used to seek the corner grocer, and
All my basket with his junk, and he would say, "I'd have you
know, sir, that all this ants, you but a plunk." And to the
butcher d would toddle, and buy a soupbone for a dime, and
merrily my wife would yodel as she brewed consomme sublime.
And at the urbane haberdasher's a dollar bought a gaudy shirt;
and I could buy potato mashers and other hardware cheap as
dirt. Olt, happy days, when one round dollar would buy a
wagonload of truck! And now I know of nothing smaller, when
I go shopping, than -a buck, And in those days that I'm regret-
ting, when dollars cut all kinds of ice, I knew the depths of
grief and fretting when I bought things and paid the price. I
often wring my hands and wonder what mado the rear and paw
and rear, when I could buy a ton of plunder for ninety cents,
or two Cents more. Such times, I fear, aro gone forever, but
if by luck they should come nigh, I'll surely make a brave
endeavor to bless tate merchant when I buy.
COR.RR.CT!
Nov./ I'LL G,IV$
`(ty�J HARD owed
How Animals Help Man The Will to Win.
It is not the teaching of human
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history that those who were most
There is a society for preventing
cruelty to animals and it'i work is,
unhappily, greatly needed, Possibly,
however, a society for discovering the
kindness of animals to men might be
Just as effective, perhaps more so, int
preventing cruelty, Certainly its task
of discovery would not be a ditilcult
one, leer the story of mankind from
earliest times teens with illustrations
of the ready way in which the "lower
creatures," as they are called, have
sacrificed their own comfort and life
for the benefit of their comrade, man.
The way in which the so-called dumb
creatures have spoken with dramatic
results upon the stage of history is
worth recalling.
The overthrow of the Roman empire
by its savage northern foes so we
were -taught at school, was effectively
delayed by the timely warning of a
surprise attack given to the Romans
in the capitol by the geese kept on
the premises. What an invaluable
"quack" was that for the great world
metropolis!
That glorious champion of religious
and civil liberty, William the Silent,
was once surprised in camp by a baud
of assassins, 000 strong, in the dead
of night, His sentries slept and so
did ho, but there was one wakeful
faithful guard—ea little spaniel. Ile
leaped upon the prince' sleeping form
and by the use of his claws and his
timely bark he wakened the prince
lust in time for him to effect his
escape.
To mention the dog is at once to
call up a long vista if heroic deeds
done by this noble species for the sake
of mankind. Charlotte Brenta has re-
corded the finding at Herculaneum of
the skeleton of the dog Delta, stretch-
ed over that of a boy of twelve, with
an inscription on hes collar, telling
how he had throe times saved his
master's life—from the sea, from rob-
bers, and from wolves, Evidently he
perished in a brave attempt to keep
the flow of molten lava from hes little
master.
The innumerable rescues effected in
tlut Alps by the St. Bernard dugs are
known to all, but less regarded Pos7
Ably ie the part played to polar sxpe-
dltlun and in life within the Arctic
zoites by the brave, patient sledge
dogs.
And what shall we say of that
plucky little ally of ours !n the Meat
'War, the inslguiflcant but invaluable
carrier pigeon? Many of thea bravo
birds: have given their lives in au at-
tempt to nutintain cotuutunicatiore
during this terrible struggle. Only
recently some Hngllelt airmen, whose
machine fell into the sea during a
Right, owed rho saving of their lives
to one of these birds which succeeded
in making the ntaininna with Its up -
pent for heap, only to yield up its life
un the threshold of the coastguard
station. Who can say how far the
success of crittoal operations at sea
and on shore has turned from time
t0 time upon the struggles of these
little creatures to do their appoleted
duty?
Perhaps the most surprising and in-
teresting story of all is one that oc-
curred in the writer's own town, in
England. One Sunday afternoon in
the August of 1017, a man proceeded
to his allotment for a few hours' work.
He took with hint, as usual, his dog,
a groat pet. Toward 5 o'clock the dog
grew very restive and kept trotting
excitedly toward home and back again.
Every whit as eloquently as Releain's
ass, he was speaking his mind and
saying with eyes and tail and voice
and action, "Please come home." The
men grew curious and consented. He
had scarcely reached the shelter of
his house when a number of giant
Gothas floated over the town, dropping
their ghastly messengers of death.
Afterward it was found that a bomb
heti exploded on hie allotment, smash-
ing to splinters the chair on which
he usually rested. -Does anyone think
that this man needs the recommenda-
tions of the S.P.C.A.? I think not.
Nor would the world at large it they
simply coesidered the amazing and
generous eervice which. animals ren-
der to men.
The Child Eternal.
I heard their prayers and kissed their
sleepy eyes,
And tucked them in all warm from
feet to heart,
To wake again with morning's glad
sunrise—
Then came where he lay dead;
On cold still mouth I laid tiny lips.
Asleep
He lay, to wake the other side of
God's door;
My other children mine to love and
keep,
But this one mitre no more.
These other children long to men have
grown—
Strange hurried men who give rue
passing thought,
Then go their ways; no longer now
my own,
Without me they have wrought.
So when night comes, and seeking
mother's knee,
Tired childish feet turn home at even.-
fold
venfold hint close—the child that's lett
to me,
141y little lad who died,
The Postscript,
"Well," cried 'Mrs. Henpeck, "our
son is engaged to be married. We will
write the dear boy and congratulate
him."
Mr. I•Ienpeck agreed (he dare not
do otberwise), and his wife picked up
her pets,
"My darling boy," eead the soh
when the letter arrived, "what glori-
ous news! "Your father and I rejoice
in your happiness. It has long been
our greatest wish that you should
marry some good woman. A. good wo-
man is heaven's most precious gift
to mat, She brings out all the hest
ir. hire and helps him to stl+press all
that .is evil."
Then there was a postscript in a
di0'eront handwriting:
"Your mother has gone for a atalup,.
Beep eirgie, you young n.otidlo,"
Of the many materials which Abys-
sinia is known to contain only potash
is being produced on a commercial
scale.
Finland bas 8,720 miles of telegraph
and 2,801 miles of telephoto lines and
one radio station with a 600 -mile
radia e.
REGL,AR FELLERS --By Germ Byrnes
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Improved His Memory.
A story told of the Rrsst Lord Lons-
dale, who died in 1844, illustrates how
servants were "taught a lesson" in
the old days. "'The Earl went to stay
for a week with a friend, whose house
was twenty miles distant from Low-
ther. On arriving his valet trembling-
ly told him he had omitted to put in
a supply 01 clean shirts. "Oh, no mat-
ter," said the Earl; with a benevolent
smile; "take a horse, ride back to
Lowther, and bring a shirt. But. mind,
bring only one.' '
"The unhappy than rode off on itis
long journey marvelling why his mas-
ter, w110121 he knew was going to stay
for a full week, should want only one
shirt, The secret was out next day,
when the Earl ordered him off to Low-
ther to bring back another shirt. So,
day by day, throughout the weep, the
wretched mau had to ride forty miles
through what chanced to be midsum-
mer weather. 'He never forgot my
shute again,' the Earl said."
Either Way,
Bishop Boyd Carpenter is one of
England's wittiest preachers, which
does not mean to say that he intro-
duces wit into his sermons. But even
reverend folk are heckled at times,
and on such accustom: a neat retort
is often justified. Iio was once ad-
dressing a meeting at which an atheist
made himself a nuisance, At lust the
athehal's interruptions became so
worrying that the bishop decided to
"tell the man off."
"Do you mean to say,- queried the
Atheist, "that Jonah was really swal-
lowed by a whale?"
"When I get to heaven I'll ask him,"
said the bishop.
"Ah," remarked the atheist sarcastt-
ca.i.ly, "but suppcse he isn't there?"
"'Then," replied the bishop, with a
twinkle, `you musk ask hi;tn"
Gold In the Arr.
There le gold in sea water, and not
many years ago great interest was. ex-
cited in a plant put up at South Ilay-
ling, for the recovery of sea gold.
Gold floats• in the alr. The meteoric
duet which is always drifting down
through our atmosphere contains gold.
Not nntch, certainly, but still cheml-
oal analysts -hes shown distinct traces
of gold, both in meteoric stonesand
meteoric dust,
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successful started with most, There
are plenty of examples of persona
who etartad with a great deal and
lost it and of others who began with
ono talent and multiplied it exceed-
ingly. Success or failure is largely
a matter of how much you wish to
get ahead and how much you are
willing to sacrifice. Some are quite
unwilling to practice the self-denial
needful to a conquest. Any one can
admire and envy success when it
comes to another and declare it down-
right luck. It is easy to ignore the
fact that the successful one had to
pay a big price. He had to work and
. worry a lot for all that has come to
him. The rewards that are his did not
fall like manta from the skies. He
. knows that the old rule holds and
that bread ,is earned by the sweat of
the brow., Those who are quite un-
willing to work as he has worked are
always ready to flock round him de-
manding it portion of his gain. 0f
profit-sharing we hear much and talk
n great deal, but labor -sharing is not
so popular an idea.
Look at the career -of him who wont
onward and upward and you will fled
that he arrived because he refused to
be answered with a "no"; he failed
only to fight harder; he was flung, but
he got up again. Other men decried his
plan, refused him aid, shut their ears
and doors to him, went back on a
pledged word, ignored a contract,
played him false, collapsed beneath
a trust they held from hizn. Yet he
did not grow bitter; he did not waste
an hour in bewailing the mischances;
he did not give up the fight and join
the army of vagrants and mendicants
who try to sandbag society into sup-
porting them.
No; he kept on; he held that we
aro "baffled to fight bettor." Such
a man must win in the long run,
Defeatsare the raw materials of his
achievements. He learns a lesson
from every adverse experience. An
Edison does not reach the goal of an
invention without indefatigable repe-
titions, each teaching him something
and each bringing him a little nearer
what he seeks. If you could see all
there is to see in the career of ono
who appears to be uniformly success-
ful you would learn how much has
gone awry, fallen short, tumbled in
ruin on the way to make the result
that now seems a "happy accident,"
Real genius 1s not granted to this
generality of Mankind. But a mea-
sure of persistence .is supplied to the
character of all normal persona, and
if we use what we have it will in-
crease by the using and the result -will
surprise us.
Teach Children To Save.
A committee of educational experts
recently passed a resolution in which
it is said:
"Instruction in the practical aspects
of thrift and economy, we think, is
the only means of stemming the tide
of waste and extravagance."
It was often said during the war that
our people, practicing habits of econ-
omy and purchasing Victory Bolds,
were learning a frugality that had'been
hitherto a somewhat unfamiliar virtue
among us. Under the stimulus of
our direct concern in the welfare of
those who stood for us on the firing
line, we simplified our diet and our
costume, we rationalized our whole
plan of living, We fondly believed.
that this regimen would persist.
But with the lifting of the pressure
of the war upon our lives and our
habits the pendulum swung back to
the opposite extreme. In the first glad
access of relief we allowed ourselves
extravagances and flung off restraint.
Joy had supplanted care and folly
reigned once more. There were mourn-
ers all over the land and in all the
earth who could net forget and have
not yet forgotten. But for the rest
of us the cry went up, "The war is
over!". and we returned to a feverish
exuberance of ways and means, which
ave ware pleased to style "Getting
back to normal,"
Thoughtful people are endeavoring
to encourage a durable impression of
the lessons the wax was supposed to
have taught at a cost so tremendous.
To do this it is wise to begin with
the children. There are many things
not in the books that it is good for
the young to learn. What is the
meaning of arithmetic if the arith-
metician never knows the difference
between savinga cent and spending
a dollar? What is the good of Latin
or chemistry or the spelling -book if
haractor is demoralized by vulgar
display, by cheap.antueement, by low
standards of thought and .of action?
Tho child who has too much to spend,
through parental indulgence, is a
child who enters the race of life nndet
a serious handicap.
The home influence may undo all
the good the school accomplishes if
the scholar goes from tits atmosphere
o:f serious work, economy of time and
simplicity of habit to a family life
that willfully disregards the value of
each day and of every dollar and mis-
spends them both,
Inventive Jape.
Using bean eblte as a basis, a con-
cern in Japan has begun the manufac-
ture of an imitation celluloid that also
cite be used ea a substitute for lac-
quer, artifielad leather and robber, and
as a water and heat resisting building
material,
In Germany taxer on 4OCObies ittr
crewed 1,370 per cent,. frena 1913 to
1920,