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# â-  The Automobile RATTLK IN CAR OFTEN MKANS TKOUBJ.E NEAU. The number of locks which are to l>« I would prevent them from falling off found on the modern automobile .stems the bolt. to be increaaitiK as the years k" ^y. Oh nome cars, instead of usini? two| and tho total valut- of cars and accc's-L,uts, a single nut with notches in the" CROSS-WORD PUZZLE Bories stolen runs up into even larKcrj figures. Thert- arc locks on thu steer- jnK whtel, tho moto'neter, the trans- head of it, call**! a castellated nut, was employed. When lh»s nut was inj place a hole was drilled through the mi^!iioll, th© doors (of closed cars), j holt and the colter pin was inserted the trunk* carried on the rear and j j,, „ pair of notches in the nut, so that tho spare tire. j it could not back off and become loos- ened. However, lock washers are now used more often in place of lock nuts. The lock washer is made of hardened steel Whilo these might l>e considered as locking devices, they are not exactly what the automotive engineer means when he uses this teiTti. He means the various devic««i which keep the different parts of the car iti place and â- working effectively so that important boltM will not Ih! loosened by nbration. It is the ideal of every manufactur with two comparatively fharp project- lions cau.sing by the splitting on the washer. When the nut is turned down on such a washer the sharp edges dig into the nut and the part which is er to have cvtry nut set up snugly and j ,^i„g ^eld into place. A.s a result, the nut is prevented from working loose. Theso washers are sometimes called split washers. In other places the head of the bolt is drilled and a wire is passed through it and made fast in such a way that the bolt cannot turn. It is of extreme importance that the wheels of a car be securely locked on Nobody wants a wheel to leave his machine when touring along a country jdoporly locked in place. It should be the ideal of every driver of a car to pft- to it that they .sta^' in this desir- pble condition. No motorist cares to liave his car .so con.spieuously noisy from numerous rattles that everybody can recognize when ho is driving by the sundry sounds his machine makes. CHECK IP FOR DEVICKS. Th<Te is just one possible advfintage that attaches itself to the clattering,! road. Each front wheel is usually namely, that no thief would ever con- secured by two nuts. One acts as a aider stealing it. The noise of such a lock nut and a cotter pin is added to car would readily be recognized by the prevent the wheel from. coming loose lo»al iwlioe. However, the thief "vi- jn case the nuts should loosen up by bration" may steal many of the parts.' any chance. Tho new owner of a car after driving| ^^^ y,^^^^ faotenings The rear wheels, which are fastened It for a few days should go over it] carefully him.«elf to check up on the! ..„,., • , . ,,. • „ ^ locking devic«es or take i- to a service '-Pd'y^^ the axle shaft in all types station for this purpose. ''''<^P' ^he full floatmg sometimes em- When a person buys a new automo-' P'"^ "JJP^'f' *^^ '^f'^^^r «*"** */'".«'! bile he ought not to take too much fori ""^». ^*"t '*^v '^'"'^^^^ â- '' constructed granted as to the snugne.s of nut« and! ««, ^]^ *''«" 'V P'^'f T'''" VI he ought not to condemn the maker, »' ^he shaft it cannot turn on the of tho car too severely if he finds a ^l^^"" ^^ ^."^^^l' "^^''^ ""/^ *^,^f"* few of them becoming kwse after a «""K'y agamst the flat surface of the few hund.-ed miles' run. This is apt'""' }," Prevent turmng on the shaft, to happen in the U-st curs. It should," the "-ear axle is the full floatmg be .said that the manufacturers have type. the wheels are held on by two gone to great lengths to equip cars ! ""'s. the conditions being the same as with such locking devices for parts as the front wheels. will insure the greatest possible safety! I" the engine the wrist pin, which to yutomobile owners. travels up and down the cylinder at Many parts of a car are made fast' the rate of about two thousand times through the use of bolts with the' a minute, is likely to work loose. If threads on them and nuts that turn | this happens it may come in contact on the threads and make the parts ' with the cylinder wall. Since the wrist tight. In the past, more than at pre»-i pi" is made of hard steel and the cyl- ent, it was the practice to have the indcr wall is composed of soft cast bolts long enough so that two nuts 'iron, the cylinder may be scored. As could l>e put on. One was jammed » result grooves may be cut in it so against another in order to lock them that there is no possibility of keeping in such a way that it would be impos-Kood compression in the cylinder, sible for them to come off. Then, to, Ix)cking devices, like most other make doubly sure the nuts would not; parts of in automobile, while reliable fall off, a hole was drilled into the bolt j in the main, are not infallible and and n split s.leel pin called a cotter should be gi%-en the once over once in was inserted. Thus even though theia while to insure the best motoring nuts became loosened the cotter pin 'results. Freaks of the Famous. KccentrlclHes of famous people pro- vide a strange and surprising study, for many celebrities of the past haT« been obsessed with remarkable no- tloiiB, and have engaged in freak hob- bles aQid queer pastiraes. It Is recorded of Daniel Webster that he had a peculiar fancy for painting th* facfts of his cattle, and he changed his color scheme frequently. One day the neighbors would see Webster's cows grazing In tlie park with their faces iialnted blue, and the following week the animals would appear with red-palntod facos. Webster, it is said, delighted to mark tho look of surprise with wliich his friends regarded the result of his strange hobby. The ruling passion of I'etar the Great was to ride about In a wheelbar- row, and many of his State visits to cities and towns over which he ruled were made in thi« fashion, the mon- arch being wheeled along In lile home- ly conveyance pushed by a pempiriug manservant. One of tlie favorite entertainments of William the Conqueror was watch- ing a dog tight. His subjects, knowing this, used to send his dog.s, and the king wouH select from these the big- gest and tlercesl types. Then he set them to light in pairs, and would sit all day watching the combats. Of a very different nature wan George Washington, for, though he love<l fox-hunting, his main idea of the chase was always to try to capture alive a young fox cub, which he would take home with him. Then, patiently and with much per-severunce. he would teach his captive trlckn, which the cub later performed for the amusement of Washington's friends. A Poem You Ought to Know. In March. William Woi^sworth baa made the English Lakes famous all over the world, and visitors from many lands visit Dove Cottage on the shores of Grasmere, and Rydal Mount, his later and larger house on Hydal Water. The cock is crowing. The .stream is flowing,. The small birds twitte«.. The lake doth glitter, Tho green lleUls sleep In the sun. The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing. Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, .And now doth fare ill On the top of tho bare hill; Tlie ploughboy Is whooping anon â€" anon: There's Joy in the niounlains, There's life in tho fountains; Small clouds are sailing. Blue sky prevatliug; The rain Is over and gone. o City Under Sahara Sands. A Swiss traveller recently paid a visit to the underground Town of Oliarlan (or .'\.«siil)at), constructed un- iler the sands of tho Sahara Desert, in Tripoli, not far from the .Mediterran- ean coast. It has a .Mohammedan po|)iilnti<in of .â- 10,000. On tliu surface tho only iMiildIng visible Is a small Italian military out- post, and Iho town, built several cen- 1 turiej ago, lies .several hundred yards, below. A winding narrow path leads \ down to the piincipal s(|uare. wiiich is F.urroiinded by houses resembling cata- combs cut Into sandslonn and clay. There are flats several stories high. In which goats, chiclicns. etc., share ' the rooms with llieir owners. i The sublwriMieaii city has two great' â-  advantages a cool temperature all ' ilio year rounil and fr.'eloni from sand-; i slorn-i. Il.'« Kreat drawback is a la<'k I of light, iiong b<>fore the sun sets it Is , dark there, and primitive nil lamps are i I lighted. • I j The Bft-alest sufferers are the harem ! . women, wlio must be in their rooms at ' j sunset, and are not permitted to have lampA. Kxcellent water is obtained ! from wells, and ventilation. It is stated Is good. TWO INDIANS AND THEIR OHLOREN "Him ray brother. Hlack Beaver!" I E«ld tho Indian. "I, Joe Heaver. Black, Tired and cold and hungry, Mr. Vin- cent and his compiinion, who were canoeing in tho Oreut Slave Lake dU-. he no iike the misslonarie-.; trict, were glad to fee an lii'ilan wig- ; '•iiow often do you see missiouaries wain; It promised rest and food. Whei^j up here?" asked Mr. Vincent, their canoe slid up the bank several ' "One, two, sometimes three times a - children, near'.y nakeii, t\eil and hid li. year, but not for long," said Joe. "They the woods. Mr. Vincent wen' toward.i come Ifnig way and slay so IHtle, but the wigwam, and a tali, surly Icoking ' we learn all we can while they are Indian rose from a fallen tree and here." slouched toward him. Mr. Vincent pointed to hi.s mouth and asked for food, but the Indian Joe smiled on bin wife and boys, ar.,d their dark eyas glls'tened. Ho invited his guests to stay over- }THt INTCMNATIONM •VNCICATC. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably •ure. These will give you • clue to other worda croning them, and they In turn to itlU otheii. A letter beloace in etch whit* â- pace, words startii^ at the numbered •quaret ora running eitfaer horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1â€" Familiar fruit Sâ€" Hostler 11 â€" To ring muelcally 12â€" To thwart 14 â€" Suffix to form plural 16 â€" Part of • prieat's dree* 17 â€" A law school degree (abbr.) ISâ€" Joint account (abbr.) 19 â€" A serpent 21 â€" Grand Lodge (abbr.-pl.) 22 â€" Man's name 23â€" An obttcuction 24â€" Entice 26â€" Forward 26 â€" Forming an Image of 29 â€" Girl's name 31 â€" Man's name (famlllsr) 33 â€" Suffix mesnlnfl "of the nature of" 89 â€" Secretary (abbr.) 41â€" Tell, relate 44â€" To win 46â€" Mistakes 48 â€" Numbers (abbr.) 49â€" Insuns 60â€" To go wrong 51 â€" In no msnner 62 â€" Latin word meaning "In the same place" (abbr.) 63 â€" Small compact mats of soft matter 64 â€" Torn plecs of cloth 66 â€" A college degree (abbr.) 67â€" Satiates 68 â€" A prescribed place 60â€" Seraglio eiâ€" Royal VERTICAL society for the relief of ^ekj and wounded (abbr.) 3 â€" Interjection 4â€" Wanderer or wayfarer •6â€" Symbol , 6 â€" A measure of cspaolty 7 â€" Decisions, as of a Judge 8 â€" Aged 9â€" Meaning "all correct" (abbr.) 10 â€" Allow as a deduction 13 â€" Forgive 18 â€" ^The sun 18 â€" A container 20 â€" Province of Canada (abbr.) 23 â€" Poet 27â€" Indefinite article 28 â€" Preposition 30 â€" A noblsman (abbr.) 32â€" Part of vsrb "to be" S3 â€" Covertly sarcastle 34 â€" Blows 3&â€" To make alive 36â€" Physlolan's title (abbr.) 37â€" A South Atlantlo State (abbr.); 38 â€" A raised level space 39 â€" Presently 40 â€" Pertaining to a rib 42 â€" A wreath for the head (rars) 43â€" Crest, fright 46â€" To move with a Jerky motion 47 â€" To take away from wrongfully 63 â€" Conflict 6S^To sllsnes 67 â€" A continent (abbr.) 89 â€" Southern State (abbr.) s-hook hUi head. The visitor then held night, but they said they had to hurry out his bauds and said he should like | uu. to warm them at a (Ire. but the Indian j 'Hear him boys sing," said Joe again shook his head. Mr. Vincent prcudly. looked round for the children who ran ! Mr. Vincent looked Into the fat and from hira; he saw a tousled head here I smiling faces of the boys; then he and there and Inquiring, frightaned 1 thought of niack Beaver's children, eyes and sunken cheeks. Then he he- and he wondered. eyes and sunken cheeks. Then he re- 1 Joe's boys fang a Christian hymn A little further down the river ou for him, and he praised them and gave the opposite bank he came upon an- . each one a coin. other wigwam. The barking dogs When Mr. Vincent returned ii> his brougiht out a big Indian and four coin- home he did what he had never done fortably dressed boys. The Indian before; he gave his pastor a generous greeted the stranger hartUy and In- , subscription for the missionary fund, vlted hira Into his home. "What does this new interest in mU- "Plenty flsh," said the Indian, wav- ' sions mean?" asked the delighted mlu- ing aside the money that the visitor ister. offered him. "Him cheap." , "It means," replied Mr. Vineenit, Mr. Vincent spoke of the Indian en j "that I have looked into the faces of the opposite bank. I the children of a Christian Indian." The River's Vindication. It's' true I've gone on the war path, I've smitten your cities and homes. I've cracked tho walls ef your stately halls, I've threatened your spires and domes. I've spoiled your gardens and orchards, I've carried your bridges away, The loss Is told In millions of gold; The Indemnity you must pay. But had I not cause for anger? Was it not time to rebel? Go, ask of the springs that feed me; Their rock ribbed heights can tell. Go to my mountain cradle. Go to my home and see. Look on my ruined forests And note what ye did to me. These were my silven bowers, My beds of bracken and fern. The spots where I He and rest me E'er to your valleys I turn. These you have plundered and wasted. You've chopped and burned and scar- rod, Till my home is left of verdure bereft, Bare and lifeless and charred. So I have gone on the war path; I've harried your lands with glee. Forestry and Water-Power De- velopments Provide Cheap Newspapers. Don't Do It. The way some people neglect their health Is summed up by John Kend- rlck In the following verses: You know the nio(!el of your car. You know Just what it's powers are. You treat it with n deal of care Nor tax it more than it will hear. But a.s for self -that'y different; Your niechani.sTO may be bent, Your cahburetor gone to grass. Your engine" Just a rusty mas«. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs. And you skip and skid and slide Without a thought of things Inside. What fools. Indeed, wo mortals be To lavish caro niioii a car With ne'er u lilt of time to see About our own machinery: Elngland's Short Parliaments. The shortest rarllument in English history was summoned on September 30, 139!), for tho piirpcie of deposing Uidiard II.. and was dissolved the iaino (lay after fiillilling this task. Tho ParliuniPiil which Charles I. summoned in 1625 failed to please that exacting monarch and wa3 dismissed after live months, whilst the Bare- bones Parliament, named after one of its menibcrs, lasted a similar period. The Parliament of 1701 lasted a month longer. Solution of 1 ast week' s puzzle. f^ A 5 I P E 1 |g |h T R 1 s o|h||o E V\ 1 ^ R cHu 1 T 1 E 6 O r o R S C h|o1l A R R TTJ â- JB O s s y^|w| L O TT oM S L 1 c E P E K P E C PS M Y £â-  L O^ T 1 H â-  o 1 3^ ECO hFT ^ c H ? is S T T R O c iT DOT r E IS C E â- b A s|, £HkH s E R V eM B 1 T 1 ft Y E R UlDjI T z 1 1 M W A T E Q U nMc O T € M Flo D i i S H ofuis E s 1 While many means are used for the dissemination of news, the te!ephoaei;-;» telegraph and radio, we cannot over- look the fact that the great distribu- tor of news is the newspaper, says the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior. Back of the newspaper stands Can- ada's natural resources of forest and â- water powers. Newsprint is compos- ed wholly of woodpulp, certain othei; chemicals lieing used only in the pre- paration of tho pulp. In order to make the woodpuip a large amount of pov/er is used. This power must be supplisd at very low cost, for the reason that the product i.s a very low priced ma- terial, newsprint being sold to-day by the mills at a little over three and one- half cents per pound. It is estimated that a paper mill requires 100 horse- power for every ton of .daily capacity â€" that is, a one-hundred-ton mill re- quires 10,000 horsepower. This power is supplied largely through the devel- opment of some of our magnificent water powers. Not many people realize the spceif I with which nev,-sprint is made. Ma- I chines have been installed withiij the n.^of«„„ „i.i J, , ,. ' past few years thafwill tnake a sheet Am, rn TJ . ,? 7 '^oodlands fair ^f paper 234 Inches wide, and they And in peacefully flow to the sea. are running at the rate ofSOO feet of â€"h. W. Nash In Canadian Life and Hesources. The Mud and the Sunset. One autumn evening at sunset two paper per minute. Taking the wood-; pulp in solution on the screen at one end of the machine, it is being wound, on the roll at the otlu'r end in about, one minute. This width of jj uper Wâ€" men were loitering on the picturesque divided into rolls ot JlS !(?1igth re- old bridge at Battersea, England. One j I'^'^'^d by the diff^Went .^izes of news-' ot them was a writer, hard-working ; papers. but unsuccessful. | Whwi we can put in an enjoyable.. I The river was at a low atage, at ' ^'°''''.-'>'* niore reading our newspaper. j least three-quarters ebb, and on each , "* ^ f^o^t of two or throe cents, let as I side of it there were patches of shin- j ""* forget that back of the paper, and ' ing mud that reflected the glorious providing tho raw materials for its western sky. which turned the ooze in- ; manufacture, are the forests and to a -mass of wonderful colors. 'water-powers of Canada. Fyr the Though the writer >'as hungry, ho '^"^'^*® ^^"^^ ^^^ forests. confer- upon forgot h!.s hunger as he stood there "^ ^'^^ "^ reciproaate by guarding them ! watching. He was pleased to see the ! »&«"''♦* fire. " - • I other man, also watching. i *-' Presently the other man edged a llt- Merely a'Test. Patrick McCorthy was being shaved by a very careless barber. He took the j ,ie closer to the writerand" remarked! i "" ' '"" "*â- 'â- "' '" '"â- * "Throws up a 'eap of mud, don't she? U.S. Leads In Insurance. The L'liiled .States carries more life insuranci- thun all the rest of the world < onibined. numerous gashes In stolc.il silence, but when the shave was over he gravely walked over to tho barbers water bot- tle, took a mouthful, and with tightly compressed lii^s proceeded to shake his head from side to side. "What's the matter?" demanded the barber. "Vou nlii't got a toothache, have you?" - • "Toothache, the devil!" said Pat. "No! I was only trying to see U me face would hold water without l^nkin'." Warning. It was not the sunset he was seeing, but tfie mud. The glory that wa,s thrilling one was lost on tho other. ] The world is there in those two men. i They are representative; the whole world might be ranged behind one or the otherâ€" those wjio see the mud and those who 5,ee the glory. In life every- thing depends on the eyes we look 'â-  with, and it Is worth while to sacrifice ! almcflt all else It we inav only get the right sort of eyes. Modern realism, so called. Is often the ability to see only | Prison Chaplain (to prisoner about ' mud. It is also a form ot blindness, the to be diachargerl)â€" "Now. my man. try i Inability to see the finer, purer aspects â-  to remember what I said In my ser- [ ot life. j mon last Sunday, and make up your mind never to return to thi.^ place." f^rd Casli. Prisoner (deeply niove.i)â€" "Guv'nor. no man who ever 'eard you preach would want to come back 'ere again. He â€" "My Urn wife inarned me tor my money." She "How'd she make out?" An Epitaph. "He ditfii't have tim« to stop at the crossing, be bas plenty ot leisure now." If a candle is too large for the candle-stick, the and should be held in hot water until it is soft. It can then bo pressed into shape to fit the hole, and there will Imj no wa.ite of wax, as in the case of shaving slices off the end. Cave drnwina, 9n nf^^TTr >â- ', '-'<. . ' *"'"' CUt^fiS^'jljapi â- /.(,. o nu.do niueb I- a\e drawings. 20,000 years o.d aYid money In tBe TceTFeani bu-iuess-*" Sn Zr"""" ,d«"-r%f^""'' i" - The-Othw-^6y-:"He's m« I a cfi hpanish cave are dsscnbe^ a& ihs old- .million "-- i yj Cft fashion plates in the. w'or'.d. j â- yi^.^^l Triab. of an Editor. Typographical errors and mistakes ; often L-eem cxtraordinaril.r fun^y to j the reading p«l>l:c, but in tho office where they occur they seem more like I lrage:lles. i In an elaborate report ot a Jewish : wedding, the "Ohio State Journal"- ' once said that the happy pair were followed closely down the aivle by the oBlciating rabbit. That .'.oemed very funny to the light-minded, but It dill ; not seem funny to the tvlitor, especial- ly when the bride's father called to see him about it. Here are some ot the houses eraclM by the British Bed Cross Society at Norwich for disabled soldiers. Thoy contain every labor-saving device kno«n to modern science. She Wouldn't Go. - A captain and his chief engineer, tired of endless debating on which one of them the ship could more easily dis- pense with, decided to chauge places for a day. The chief ascended to the bridge and the skipper dived into the engine-room. After a coup'.e of hours the capUtn appeared on deck covered with oil and soot. "Chief!" he called, "you will have to coino down here at once. \ can't rnike her go." "Of course you can't," -;id the chief. "Shea ashore."