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Zurich Herald, 1922-11-09, Page 3v tv comm Without Changing Gears. Fxien'ds Qften te':'1 you they made a .certain att't'onnobiie trip w'ith'out chang- ing gears. This 'eau, mean: one of three things: . The rcadrs were very good,: a hasty trip bad to ibe made regardless of reed 'oanrc:titionia, ger the person made a trip 'eves rough. made just to 'brag' about it. , , Manu f aetur exs have made a easy to �cli'ange aiubomoibile gear's fora put- 1 pose. One reason is that earns may, gent undier way without subjecting 'the motor to furl load at low spend. An- other and just as, im'por'tant raison 2s theft ears may be ia'-alowed to travel at vary'in'g •srpeedis to,.suit road ceeud'itione.. I have a friend who 'thinks gears should ibe changed only in getting. The appearance of a muddy place, rough sprat, or,steep 'hill (even thouigh ' welh'ed and reeky) is •a signal for hien 'to :speed , up that the oar may detain, , enough momentum to ,carry it over the c etru.cti'on in ":high;" But, near!'. The damage he ideas, do to his alai and the dt s,aomacet he causes him's'elf• and -atter +patseeeigers! No wonder, to rise his awn languiage, "the automobile le not suited for making long 'tripe.,' If he would but 'change to, seemed or low gear at the light time, how miuch more Pl'easan't riding with him would be, and how mu'c'h longer his car would, last. Practical Paragraphs. A small leak or crack in the water jacket, cylirtderr or •cylinder head of a gas -engine can often be remedied thus: Put a ohand'fu1 of saliamfnon':rac intotthe water. Run the engine trill. water 'boils, then drain. This will rust abut the leakage. Spare tutee should ,be a' efuilly xro':'led nip flat; the interior va'l've parts having ''been removed, sea that all the air may !be forced! out, The valve estate should then be replaced and the tube P+waked away in a grease-peoaf bag containing a t' o d se inati ing od French talc, Extra ca•sin e •shot•ld be kept in a good tire .oever, protected from light, sun and d'us't. New 'coiner the latest -have your farm name painted en'hhe farm mio'torr truck. Most every .city t'ruak ad'ver- tti.ses the owner's business., and why ri'at let thefarm truck do the same? That is What T. E. }I,artwick thought when he bought his truck, and he stipulated that the nvanufac'twrer paint "Linden Grove 'Stack Farm, T. E. Hartwick, Propeietoa," en the rear ens,. Never let meta 'dry on 'the ear if you can 'help it. Play a igerrtle•stream of water from a 'hose e:n the mud until it diene' away and Heaves the surface free. If a 'hose is net lavaiibabl'e, then use a small, compressed -air ".gayer cr, sponge. In using a hic'se, play the stream 'so :that it will not stxiloe the mud :Spots directly, 'bat from the aide.' In other word's, ibegin, say, sa the end of a fender and work ,toward the other. end. Thisplan' will remove the mud much more qu5cicl>y, A mighty. useful (addition to the tool box le a bar of ordinary laundry soap. This material can ibe is:hiaved off with: a penknife and the :salvers be anesded.i into a very fair putty bo be used in aiepavring Teaks in gasoline for oil lines. Obviously such a repair is only teen ponary and must be made permanent when this motorist gets back to his garage. • j. . L• Letty's Wife. Letty wan six feet tall, red-headed, bony and known as "a liard worker." Every woman in iih,e village begged for her services during spring and fall cleanings, but Letty nearly always re- fused. She did not mind the pesky chores that wem'en have to do, she said, but she could net stand them around the house. Letty would some- times agree to come if the house were left at her disposal. Even' then she had to be coaxed because her farm took most ol; her time. The farm was rock -cursed and belly. It would have seemed a pitiable;thing: to see a woman struggling up a hill behind a' plow if one didnot know how well fitted Lefty was to do it- Many a man would run if Lettyaleubled her list' or aimed 'a kick. Letty's sole in congruity was: her reluctance to part with her sleets. She pitched' hay in a ane -piece contraption made of black bridliantlae. Letty's husband appeared only on Sunday, when she drove the children to church. He usually sat in the back seat witch' the little girls, while Letty and he youngest boy sat in front. Once when •thee- horses were restive Letty sat in the wagon .during the service, while George occupied the pew. No one seemed at all surprised. But now that Letty's brawn and muscle leave been crowned with a moderately priced sedan she is afraid to ,drive it. She sits in the tonneau wearing a hat and veil and reminding me nota little in, appearance of a scarred and fringe -eared tomcat I know when he is forced to lie on a silk cushion. George, at the wheel, looks' as if the had at last come into his Diagonals. Now this its' the strangest thing since - the world began: .You tell me that you are .a bad and 'a violent man • But I see`only A child, little and lonely, Crying with fright in a desolate place apart. While I am known as chaste and rea- sonably good; But you are blind to my virtuous; wo- manhood; Sonehow you see, _ Dragged out of the depths' of me, The wanton that every woman hides in her heart. —Aline Kilmer. >.4 Fur Audion More Firmly Established The sevonth periodic Canadian fur seven sales at Montreal have laid the sale was held at Montreal in the mid- secure foundation of a permanent na- l die of September, at which half a mil; tional fur .aeotion which will progress lion. raw pelts were disposed of for an without fear or successful assailment amount totalling $1,500,000, making Whdlert it is recognized that, in -coni- the total receipts of the sales since mon with many other other Canadian their inauguration in 1920 in excess of enterprises, the Canadian sales may $13,000,000, In its, every trait this lack the unlimited finances • available last Canadian sale has given further to ebeilar°concerne elsewhere and this and more convincing evidence of the results in certain handicaps of a"minor definite and per�..2.uent estabifehment order, foreign buyers point out that of the national fur 'auctions, their Canada posisessee many varieties of ability to assemble what is undoubted- furs, whish are not procurable else- !), one of the fine§t' aggregations, of where, and as long rise she holds thein raw paltry in. the world, and power to within her confines she can draw the attract discriminating pitrehas'ers from world'» buyers;, who will come Where - :all over the world. In the opinion of ever they can secure what they want. those. best entitled to make forecasts These handicaps are not sufilcient to in an industry subject to the most in- appreciably draw away from the flow conaegttential vagaries, the national of raw peltry to Montreal. Compared Canadian fur auction is now perman- ently and securely established and a foundation has been laid sturdy enough to withstanl the tempester to witch the industry le frequently sub- ject. As at previous sales, the important status' of the Canadian auction welt widely recognized by both vendors and. buyers,. Furs for disposal came in in, creating volume from all couautries producing raw peltry, from all over the ,Canadian Dominion, • the 'United States, Rusaia, Siberia and other coup- • tries. The September sale saw the gathering at Montreal of the dampest number of fur buyera since dile incep• • inial of the Canadian market, itself sad. fleient indication of the growing inn,• partanvice of the seines•. Sonia three hundred were prevent, seventy-five per cent. being from New York, others. trout Canadian °entree, eta rep•re- tlives of it agllsh, French, German s is••h, latest= st= . sad Japanese hot**. Pais growing teadeney of foreign buyere to come to. Canadian sales is the best indication of their permanent • character • and . leanness of establiale went. American and other foreign buyers generally vole° complete eau - faction at the manner in which the Montreaei• sales are conducted, their s ulad businerro nieth,ode and satlsfac• pncmeval?" they t;oneltcet througlxout. Their opine- Paw --"A woods where there are rio on is fairly urinous that the pest initials cut on the beech trees." with the status. and operation of fur auctions elsewhere on the continent, foreign purchasers' of furs express the most entire satisfaction with'the Montreal sales. The tendency in the prices paid at the September auctions was. consider- ably higher than at the previous' May sales. Thin was due largely. to a matt- er volume of offerings' and the general.: belief that there were no a:ccnmular• tions of skins anywhere, The keen demand for peltry at the .present.tinle•. is evident in the fact-•thratninety;,per dent: of the skins offored for a al'9 were disposed of. In .the . opinion of the largest buyers the tendency to. •ri,9e will exist fee scute time, at least until. the' neat winter's catch comes,in. Regarding the winter's catch, it is -too early: in the season to make ana. predictions, as to volume or quality, wlbieh will not dis•cic }'themselves tin - til the fall of the first snow and the in e .atl r en of trapping o z oa s mmencem t t vo 1?p S p Irreepective of these two factors,. how- ever, it is apparent from. the foregoing that good figures will'be procurable for the winter's catch, and the season will undoubtedly be a profitable one for the trapper., beftiied at Lrsf. .Totimny--•"Paw, what is the forest ru„.miti tl", n .;n„ .fill Kings Out of Work. The latest king to lose his throne,' Constantine ("Tino") of Greece, has created a record by being driven from Wasting Time. The boy entered the office briskly, removed his hat, and . turned to tb'e manager. • power twice within five years. G• "I..understancl you require a boy, Greek mora clhe have always been sir?, he sea unlucky, but theroyalhouse of Spain. "What sort of a place do you want?" has suffered even more. ' asked the manager. Within the, last century and a half "One where there is' as little work four Spanish kings have had to fly for, and as much pay as th8 firm can their lives; a queen, .too, grandmother stand." of the present ruler, was forced to leave Spain. In Franee, during the hundred and fifty years, before the Republic was es- tablished, only one king w'as• still on the throne when he clued. Many other• countries have records almost as bad, and even a Pope -has been driven into exile before now. Many monarchs who have last their, thrones have suffered terrible hard'" ships not only during •their'escape, but sfnould have?" also for the rest of their lives. Most "Seven doilars a week." pathetic of MI was Ranavolo, Queen of ,.f'Th:e other boys have been paid only ' "Most boys who. ooan•e•lhere are will- ing to take all work and no pay," con- tinued el e manager. "I'm not like most bays, said the applicant. "Do you expect to get the kind of „deb you want?" ' "No, sir; nobody gets exactly what he wants, but it doesn't hurt him to ,expect a good deal." - "What wages do you think you Madagascar, exiled in 1391, who spurt her last years with one solitary at; tendant in a tiny room in a third -c hotel in Paris, Another queen, Adelaide of Italya ter her escape from the rebels, had. tramp through forests and over teed_ roads, begging bread from peasants t keep herself alive, before she arrived: in rags at the house of a loyal friend. ' dollars." se w many boys i ltd you have last h .ked flee appiieent. ;e er "ten.,, Ought •so,l'°saicl the boy. "That's 'of boy you get for five dol- m not that kind. I come, I g:' up my a hat, and stay." But 'siippo's.e we should dismiss you?" But if there is tragedy in banishment "I'd be glad of it, sir. If a fie m isn't there is also humor. One African -king satisfied with the right kind of boy it who was driven from home spent the ' rest of his life isn't the right dci>vd of firm for the quite happily. Wiben right kind of boy to be in. It's time I he was asked whether he regretted the 'pwas starting work if I'm going to loss of his throne., he replied: "Some- work, and if I'm not, it's time I left." times I miss the d'atly sacrifice of forty'Well,"'said the manager, "hang up mien and women in nay great temple. your ha:t , and consider yourself en - But really the sight got very dull—gaged. most of the victims, died so tamely! Now I am not troubled, and. live in peace" This monarch received a daily allowance• of ten shilling's with which to keep up his regal state! la It Slt fT 1 d e late u an o ur cey amuso himself while in exile by writing let- ters to the ruler who has succeeded him, •pointing out how likely it was that he (the new Sultan) would be as- asssinated. These cheerful prophecies worried their recipient, and the de- posed Sultan derived much pleasure from the fact. • Boy Scout (small, but polite)—May •I aocompany you across the street, madam?" Old Lady—"Certainly you may, my lad. How long have you been waiting here for somebody to take you across?" Think twice before ybu•speak. Even then, nine times out of ten; the world will not lose anything 'if youkeep and of a heron who easdly passed his quiet.. half century. Veterans of the Sky. From time to time startling ac- counts. are received of long-lived ani- mals ied men, but their feats are put fad into the shade by birds. An'ci'ent writers tell of rooks that survived until their seven hundredth, year, and : of ravens, that reached two hundred and forty yearn:. How far these statements are correct we can- not tell, but it is' certain the creatures c2 the air live much longer glean mam- mals.' Swans have been known •to. attain. their second century, and even in cap- tivity nightingales and chaffinches bane lived for more than forty years. Storks and herons can claim records in old age, for a famous naturalist hes ra•corced the cases of two et tee form- er creatures who built their nest in the same place regularly for forty years, Plants That "Murder• Men Fifty years utm cocaine was alneo'st unarn.eere. how it is recognised as a valuable drug, and as a preventive of pain when; used by "the surgeon for sneak operations on the nose, mouth, ears, teeth, and other surface parts. it Obviates the use of ether hr ebilor.o- form, deadening pain •and producing elation of spirits for a short time, Cocaine is made from the leaves :of the coca plant, which grows, in South America and is now cultivated in India and Ceylon. The leaves are soaked in water, and the resultant liquid, wile= . chemically treated,, yields the crystals of cocaine. These crystals have a bitter taste. The cocaine is converted foto a hydrochloride, and in thus form may be used as a powder for sprinkling on the parts tobe• operated upon, for sniff- ing into the nose, or for injection into the skin. Coes leaves are yellowish brown in I color, and from ane and a half to three inches long. The South Americans chew them mixed with lime and plant • art, a mixture which is claimed to Lave great sustaining powers both mentally and physically. A coca chewer rarely lives beyond thirty! Yet the leaves yield only five per cent. of cocaine. A few minutes after "doping" with cocaine the mind is happy, the body buoyant, and conversation voluble. When reaction sets in, a larger dose is required' to produce the first sense - tons. Then, as' the drug takes a hold, the pleasant dreams which were pro- s'efit at first change to night -mares of a terrifying nurture. At the end oe a =nee of daily cocaine -taking the vic- tim is a slave to the drug, and has no power to discontinue its use. me drug baba: is not coniizie.d to Cocaine. heard, People "lotirn,s of laudanum', Amiable,: opiu'zn, and bash- ish, whic@ti produce dangerous a'°ep. At least three of these drugs are obtained from the 'same plant- the sleep.bringing poppy, which is culti• vated in Turkey, Asia Minor,'Persia and India. Crude opium is the juice of tale unripe poppy capsule, and from It we get morphia and laudanum. The latter, by the way, is many times more Powerful than 'Omen, and used mainly fin the form of an Injection under the. akin. In India there are recognized fa•c tories for the manufaeture of opium and the British Government obtains as much as ave million dollars a year from taxation. The opium year opens in; September when the preparation of the land for the reception of the poppy seed begins. The soil is plougthed at Intervals of ten days until the middle of October; when sowing begins. The juice of the drug is obtained by scratching the green capsules with; a Pin. The juice is tfhten removed to the factories, where it is made into cakes. In certain districts the naives culti- vate opiune ulti-vate'opium• for their own use, and in malarial districts the drug le taken as preventive against the malady. Natives, of the East seem to be im- mune from the bad effects of the drug that are noticeable in Europeane. This is believed to be due to the fact that it has been in use for so many genera - tone that the native constitution has become inured to it. A parallel is to be found in alcohol, which, when given to races that have never tasted it be- fore, is far more deadly than when taken by Europeans. Made Fatuous by Phrases. A single phrase was partly respons- ible for the fame of the late Earl Spencer, He was well known in his day for his smartness in dress, and his collars were said to be the highest ever known. His famous remark occurred during his first speech in. the House of Com- mons. "Mr. Speaker," he said, in his well-known drawl, "I am not an agri- cultural laborer." Fellow -members gazed at his immaculate attire, and then burst into laughter. Another maiden speech that in- cluded a sentence destined to become famous was that of Dismal., after- wards Lord Beaconsfield. For some reason members in the House became angry and kept interrupting and shout- ing at, him. He found it impossible 'to make him- self heard, and at 'last sat down with a parting shot. "Some day," he shout- ed, houted, "yoir, will hear me!" •And it was not long before this prophecy was ful- filled. While Mr. Asquith was not made famous by a phrase, ane will always be connected with his career. "Wait and see" long since became historic. Mr. Gladstone's, most famous phrase isnow in genetral us,e, for the remark, "to advance by leaps and bounds," was originated by him. Another politieian to whom we owe a part of our language ie. Lord Rose- bery, who was responsible for the phrases "clean slate" and "lonely fur- row." Look Forward. It is not a pleasant subject to con- sider but if it should so happen that temptation came to you, and you fell, and your sentence was five years' pen- al servitude, do you know what would be th•e hardest part of your prison life? No, not the food, nor the discipline, but the inability, on account of the length of your sentence, to visualise mentally •the day when you would be free. It would be too far ahead for you to grasp. There would be nothing to which you could look forward. You would sink into a slough of mental apathy until, as the years passed, the day of your freedom came as a pin -prick of light at the end of a dark tunnel. Then you would revive. Hope would supplant hopelessness. Free- dom is in sight! The distanpe has been shortened, and your mind can leap it. You've something to which you can look forward. And that, exactly, is wihat thousands —you may be one—need in their or• dinary lives. The look forward! What you see, and press toward, may be something small, or something big. It may lie at the end of next week, next month, next yens, or further on still. But you must, if life is to be worth living, have something to which you can look forward, If you:fought in the Great War, don't you remember how eagerly you lookei forward to your next bit of leave? In all the mud and misery, that it was Which kept you going, wasn't it? What's your "look forward" to -day? "Boys will be boys" and "a leap in If you've noting, Heaven help you! the dark" are two more sentences in- ve'nted in the neighborhood of West- minster, one by Lord Palmerston and the other by Lord Derby; while a phrase that was much in us'e during the war carne, appropriately enough, from the ex -Kaiser, who coined the expression "the mailed fist." A. Last Chance. "Know anything about an automo- bile?' "Not a thing." "Just the man I want. Tell me what you think might be the matter with my car. The experts that have come along shave all guessed wrong, and I thought perhaps you might be able to gu esus right" Nail Dye Ts a Hobby. Finger tail dye is a •lc'bby of all the fastidious women of the better class in Turkey. Not just polish or pink paste is used, but actual reds and gilds and blues are applied Why are children so happy ? Simply because they are 1--ays looking for- ward to something --Christmas, their birthdays, the holidays, and so on. A hundred happpy visionings! Phat to which you should look for- ward, and fight to reach and grasp, you must settle for yourself. Be ambi- tious, but don't stretch beyond your strength. Remember, when work seems hard, and the days are long and dreary, that everything becomes easier, and can be borne if you have something to which you cast look for- ward. Why, even now, it helps you through the day and its worries to look forward to knocking -off time -- and home! Extend the principle, and life is transfigured. Look forward! A Banquet in Honduras. The proverb o•f the crown and the uneasy head migtt't well be twisted to _� .. apply to a Central American president, Certainly the president of the Hondur• as that Mr. J. H. Currie describes in This World of Ours could not have felt at his ease for very long; there was too much revolution and intrigue for that, - Once, says bit Curie, there was a banquet at Tegucigalpa, the capital, The man who happened to be presi- dent' on that day attended it and sat next to the consul of the United States. In the midst of the banquet the electric light failed, and the room was plunged into darkness,. Fearing a plot, the president sprat% to his feet, but the consul seised his, aria, "Sit down!" he whispered. "It is safer." The light. returned a few moments later. The consul was sitting calmly in his chair; beside him sat the presi- dent, wiping the sweat from his brow; VNP•ever other man in the room NN - os, on his feet, guarding himself with drawn revolver. 5r.:A WALL OF rOSSELL---"iE WARSHIPS A novel use for obselete warships has been discovered at Dartmouth, England, where they, are rangea side by side in the line al the flew sea wall, and' filled- with nibble, 'fhe old destroyer, "Jed;,, is here seen being Merged into the wail, _-._-- -4_-• ---- Quite True. Bobby --"What is that which' ocoutka once in a minute and twice in a mo- ment, but not onto in a hundred years?" Tommy—"l don't know. 1'll give it np o, Bobby.', -"The letter M."