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"^^r SIX THE FLE8HERT0N ADVANCE. Thursday, May 6, 1920. BRAKES TEAT iiOLD MORE TO BE DESIRED THAN A GOOD ENGINE Because'lYou Can Start Some- thing That Perhaps You Can- not Finish if Your Car g*: [Won't Retard. Bettor have good brakes on yonr car than n lire originc, if yoii linve to choose l)et\veon the two. HrakcH are the l«est form of iieei.ient insurance you can )iuve. This imlicntcs tho rela- tive importance of the two car fea- tures. Von niifht have the hiuliest tvpc of i-nj;ine. with unliiniteil power n'nde^ the hooil, but if yon haven't also some means of curhinu yonr liiKh stepper ami tethering it at will, you are in for it. -'Whoa!" won't stop it, cither. Von might better be driving an nnt.imed bronco of the plains. The engine will get .von there, it is trne, but if there be no means of stopping you may go too eternally far. The averagi- car lias two sets of brakesâ€" emphasizing tin' importance- anil occasionally more. The euicr- gencv. or hand, brake consists of a brake bam! operating within a drum on eaoU rear wheel, eonnceted by rods and levers to the hand lever, which has a ratchet and pawl so that it may be locked in position. This brake pri- marily is to hold the car when stand- ing, and secondarily, to use in running if the other brake gives way, or for alternating '>n long hills. The Foot Brake. The foot brake, called running or service brake, is operated by a pedal, with a spring to release it when pres- sure on the pedal is removed, anil is connected by other rods and levers to brake bands operating on the outside of the rew wheel drums, or occasion- allv upon a separate drum on the pro- peller shaft. The latter gives greater braking power, because of the rear axle gearing leverage back of the brake, and the second drum helps pre- vent overheating on long lulls. Hut this type brake does put a severe strain ' on the rear axle gears, with wear. Both brakes should be kept in such condition that either will sto]) the car quieklv. Do not let one set renuiiu out of' order just because you know the other is all right. The other might go bail just when needed. The two brake bands in each set should hold with equal force, or one wheel will slip. To insure it, the ped- al or lever linkage perates an equaliz- ing bar, with other linkage to each band. With the bar straight across the car the braking force should be o<|ual on each band. Brake bands are lined with noii burning friction material, usually au asbestos fabric, fastened to the steel bands by copper rivets, the heads of which are countersunk deep into the lining to keep the heads from contact with the drum. If the lining is al- lowed to wear thin the copper rivet heads score the drum into shallow grooves, lessening the braking power. Such must be turned true on a lathe, if thev are to be worth much for brak ing purposes. Renew the Lining. Equally important is the renewal of the brake lining before it is worn thin enough to expose the rivets to friction. Better have this done at the service Btatiou. It is a particular and tedious job. it is jiossible, however, to get the right size lining and proper rivets at almost any supjdy house. Itemove the brake bands, ]iiinch out the old riv- ets, noticing how they were put in, and go to it. Kemember that the rivet heads must be countersunk deep into the lining ami every rivet set up tight. It requires jiatience, but can !)«• done by the novice. Many drivers do not understand the principle of alternnting brakes on long hills. It is simply that long eon tinued friction generates heat v.liicli will cause the lining to sinnke, char and become brittle, wearing away eas- ily. It doi'S not burn, but does de teriorate. Alternating keeps down the heat. Smoke from the brake is a warning to nitiriiate. As each ear has its own |ifiulinrities, study of brake action should be iiindi- to ascertain the best methoils of handling them on your car. Home cars have dilTiculty with oil 01. the brake bands, working from the differential brake through the axle bousing to the hub. It makes the brake slip. It comes from too much oil in the dilTerential or using ton light an oil. If it jiersists after these things are remedied, it may be ueees sary to imt a felt washer in the axle housing to stop the leak. A future ar tiele pridjably will cover thi# point. An oily brake lining must be cleaned. Remove it and wash thoroughly with gasoline. The garage man probably Lv£Nl^JG SkyA\ AP rcR May BY MAX PEMBERTON. )Author of " The Iron Pirate," ' Xavier," etc.) Dr. r*ci sojth «ni) VOUR HtAO ixt ^ NORTH AND TOO* iMtSTARSANOI'l JUSI »S iHtYAPOt** WTMl MCAV'NS Tt,rAiti)i>w Through , TWO STARS IN THE BO*LOr!H£ BIO OiPf-tR . ..NTS lOIHC NORTH STAR. THE 5TA0 AT Tnt END OF THE HANDLE OF TtlE LITTLE JlPPtR AT 9 P.M. MAY 1 : 8 P.M.. MAY 15; 7 P.M.. MAY 31. The Heavens in the Merry Month of May. I BY MARY A. PKA.SE. There is no doubt that the grouping <f the stars forming the constellations in the sky was tlie result of a delib- erate plan on the part of those who mapped them out and pictured them on the old sky maps as animals anil quaint figures, and were meant to give an imperishable record of some great event, series of events or .spiritii.il truths for all posterity to read. ^o far, no Hosetta stone has been foum.' to enable us to entirely disciplier thci;- meaning. It is most interesting to those w'o study the face of the sky at all to watch the sileut return to the sky of the constellations month by moutli ami of the year. The wonderful stany procession so regular and unfaltering announces the seasons, while below in unfailing answer we have Springtime and harvest, cold and heat, rain and ilrought. If we have eyes to see, we cannot fail to bo impressed by this majestic, order, so smooth in working, to magnificent iu scale and to feel an uplifting of spirit as we see the action of the ordinances of heaven and the evidences of the dominion thereof in the earth. It calls to mind that portion o the Lord's prayer which reads: "Thy will be done as in heaven so in earth." There is soinetbiiig about the May season that suggests dancing. It is said that our May pole dances come to us from the circular dances of the Greeks, and that these dances were suggested by the reeling about the pole of the Bears â€" Ursa Major and Ursa Minorâ€" the Big anil liittle Dip- pers. Their circumpolar dances have been poetically described as follows: Onward the kindred beiirs with foot- steps rude. Dance round the pole, pursuing and pursued, Virgo, the Virgin, the seventh con- stellation of the zodiac, with its beau- tiful first magnitude star Spica will be seen prominently displayed in our map. This lovely group softly fol- lowing in the wake of the more tem- pestuous lico, is suggestive of ])urity and spring flowers. This group of stars has been known as Virgo, among all peoples and in all parts of the world, oven in China, where it is com- monly called the Frigid Maiden. As generall.v drawn by the makers of constellation figures, Virgo carries a head of wheat in her left hand in which shines her brightest star Spica, which name signifies a wheat ear. The celebrated " Diamond of Virgo" is formed by Spica, Denebola in the Jjion 's Tail, Arc.tiirus in Hootes and Cor Caroli in (Janes Venetici. This geometrical figure, fifty degrees in its SHOULD COW W EAR AUTO TAIL LIGHT? Yes, Says Motorist Who Hit Animal at Night. greatest length, is most striking when once the eye has traced il out. These four stars are all suns of enormous magnitude. Beautiful myths are associated with Virgo, and they have all to do with production and growth. One of these is her identification -with the Egyptian Isis, and it was said that she made the Milky Way by droppinf; wheat heads. In Judea she was known as Bcthulah, and was regarded as the source of abundant harvests. Heligious writers very naturally iden- tifv her with the Virgin Mary. The celebrated "Field of the Neb- ulae" lies in Virgo. These number more than three hundred, and Virgo may therefore be regarded as one of the nurseries of the futur suns. This Field of the Nebulae again gives th« :issi)ciafioii of seedtime and harvest, of growth, life and development. Just north of Virgo lies a charming little group â€" Coma Berenices or Bere- nice 's Hair. This constellation is also an ancient one, although it is not very conspicuous, and a little atten- tion is required to separate the stars in the little glimmering group. The name is said to be that of Queen Bere- nice, of whom the legend is told that her husband started on a dangerous campaign, and that she vowed if he returned safely to give her wonderful hair to the Temple of Venus. He did return and the Queen kept her vow, so Jove translated the shining locks to the stars. For May therefore, we have two of the virtues clearly written In the skies â€" Virgo for Purity and Coma Berenices for Faithfulness. The two planets on view in May are Mars, visible in Virgo; Jupiter, in the western sky, and Saturn, near the bright star Kegulus in Leo. Two eclipses arc advertised for Ma.v, that of the moon on May 2iid anil that of the sun on May 18th. REPAIRING BROKEN CHINA When cliina is brnkcii do nut put it ill water. Tie firmly together, :iiid then put in a basin, containing enough skim milk to entirely cover the piece of china. Set on the iiiic-k of the stove !iu(l boil line hour. Let it stand in tlie milk until cold. It will never eiiiiH' apart. Boiled drinking water as u method of guarding against disease was prac- tiseil in olden times. Herodotus tells how Cyrus had his drinking water boiled and ciirrieil in silver vesscds, ami I'liiiy the Kliler relates that Nero had water boiled and afterwards cooled fur drinking purposes by placing it in glass flasks surrounded b.v snow. would bum it out with a torch; you might try it if .you have a torch, or by putting plenty of kerosene on the lining and letting it burn out. The brake lining is one place where Inbricntion is not desirable, but every other place on tlie brake iiiid liiiknge where there is motion should be lubri cated regularly aeeording to the iiianu- factitrer's lubrication chart, and be clcani'd likewise. There is consider- able wear to the clevises and pins; they may be renewed for a few cents and should not be allowed to wear to the danger point ; besides worn link age rut ties. To adjust the brakes, jack up the nar wheels and set the emergency brake at the point where it is just possible to tiiiii one of the wheels bv liaiid. Just in front of the brake baud there is a tnrnbuekle or other device for uiljustment; turn this on the other side of the car so that the other band holds its wheel with equal force, or, ill other words, until both hold alike. If there is J'lii.v in the linkage, take this uj) with the turnbuckle to be found just aheail of the equalizing bar. Soiiietinies there arc no turnbucklcs ami the ndjustment is made b.v remov- ing the clevis pin and turning the clevis, which is on a thread. Sometimes the pedal hits the floor board and does not give enough power to the brake. Take up the floor boards and adjustment will usually be found to I'lirrect this evil. Frequent ins|>ection and attention to lubrication requirements will insure ample brnkeage for all requirements aiiil ]>rove the best kind of accident in- surance, ('it.v driving, with frequent traffic stops, as they say of the or- ator, necessitates good terminal facili- ties. When the traffic cop says â- 'Stop" he means it. Brakes must execute his order. Billy Tupper took to flying as a duck to water. IIo was at the game shortly after the Wrights astonished tilt! world at I'uu, and when he fell into the Channel and did not win the big newspaper prize, he was (luite sure about his destiny. Now he is a great personage who flies the new planes from the neighbor- hood of Silasbury I'laius â€" and all the fljippers gaze on him with tender awe. He is the hero of a hundred conquests and of one adventure which might very well have cost him his liberty. So let us now talk about famous men. It was just about a month ago. Uill.y was out for a long dight upon a ma- chine I must not name; and in the ciiurse of that flight he found himself over an island which is also jiart of Kngland, and iiicidontall.v above a fa- mous convict prison, where the pris- oners are supposed to be so exclusive ill their tastes that nobody under the rank of Viscount has au.v chance of popularity among them. Billy knew nothing of this, for he .was a thousand feet uji iu the air, and the unhappy convicts below were but so many flies ujioii a great green carpet. Moreover, his petrol pipe was troublesome, hi' was really beginning to wonder wheth- er be would take lunch iu this world or the next. Tlie.v are amazing creatures these aviators, and the roit of us must con tiiiue to regard them with an admira- tion we cannot express iu words. Some of us are frightened out of our wits if we are asked to stand upon a ladder fift.v feet high, and look down upon the giddy throng below. Your flyer, on the other hand, clings to a flimsy kite at an altitude of five thousand feet and never turns a hair when the old girl begins to wobble. "Prodigi- ous,"' as the, great Dominie used to say. Billy Tupper was one of these. lie used very bad language upon occasion, but he never stopped to think what would happen to him if the "old girl" gave it up, and he went hurtling like a stone to the ground some thousands of feet below. Upon this particular day he had a scare beyond ordinary, for it really did seem as though the engine had had enough of it â€" and con- vinced that be really might lunch in Paradise, he made a mighty quick de- scent, and landed, as he put it, ab- solutely on the clock. .Now the scene of this descent was a wide field upon the edge of the downlaud. Iu this field were working some half-dozen highly distinguished gentlemen whom the King (God bless him) had stamped with a very broad arrow to show how fond he was of them. A very lusty fellow with a watchful eye and a rubicund joul su- perintended the labors of these aristo- crats, who appeared to be engaged in the childliku, occui>atioii of making ba.v while the sun shone. Naturally, the advent of Billy and his machine w:is a tremendous event in a society not given to excitements; and no sooti- er was the lad down than the convicts swarmed about him, and began to idy him with a hundred questions. He answered them all with his accustomed cheerfulness, and was about to distrib- ute a packet of "gaspers" among them when a shrill whistle from the warder recalled them to their duties, and the.v slunk otT sadl.v as lads who have heard a school bell ringing. Billy was ver.v sorry for these good fellows, and he did not offer his cig- arettes to the warder. That fellow- seemed chied.v interested in beer, his first remark eonccrned a jorum which l''light-Licutenant Tui)per had stowed awa.v in the observer's seat of his mumiplanc. " Thirst.v work .vours, " said the man. Hilly agreed that it was. In truth he was not thinking about the beer at all, but of the eyes of the un- happy prisoners, fixed upon him so wistfully that ho would never forget their gaze however long he might live. They were the eves of a handsome man in the prime of life, but they spoke with rare eloquence. Such an one, said Billy, was trying to look out to the world ho had left. He saw fig- ures there, but chiefly the face of a woman ho loved. Billy was quite sure of it. The man lived through a mad moment, and the eyes said "save u>e" as plain as anything ever was said in all this world. "Thirsty work," the warder re- peated. Billy agreed that it was. A ni,'W and wonderful idea had come into his madcap noddle and it excited liim strangely. "Like a drop of beerf" he asked. Now, what could the fellow sayf (Tp bo Continued.) Justice of the Peace Egbert I. 'Kcluse of Great .Veck, L.I., is face to face with this problem: "(.'an a cow moving along the high- way at night be considered such a mov- ing vehicle under the motor law as to be eomjielled to carry a red light in the rear?" "The facts in this case are un- usual," said Judge L'Ecluse. "One of our most influential residents was driving home the other evening in an automobile. Ahead of him was a man in a wagon who had a cow attached to the rear of the wagon. "The wagon, as required by law, had a red lantern at the rear. The cow had surreptitiously pulled loose aad proceeded t* select her own route over the highway. The motorist saw the red light at the rear of the wagon and shajied his course to avoid it. In doing 80 he ran into the cow, which had no red lights exposed. Quite a mix-up followed. "The driver of the automobile has requeftcd a warrant for the arrest of the owner of the cow on the grounds that the cow was moving on the high- way without the proper rear lights." The Quiet Observer A Great Irish Soldier. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson was recently given the freedom of the city of Belfast. The Dowager March- ioness of DufFerin, who was in Canada during her husband's term of office as Governor-General in the 'seventies, and the Marquis of Londonderry were similarly honoured at the same time. Sir Henry recalled having come over nineteen years ago <o Belfast "as aide-de-camp to one of the greatest soldiers, one of the greatest gentle- men, and one of the greatest Irish- men that ever lived â€" Lord Roberts. He remembered, when crossing be- tween Strausaer and Ireland, Lord Koberts throwing his cup of tea at a rat. It was the only thing in the world that the great Field Marshal was afraid of." Sir Henry is Hon- orary Colonel of the Koyal Irish Rifles, a distinction of which he says he is prouder than any other he has gained. The regiment raised twenty- one battalions during the war, and lost 22,000 men. Sir Henry prepared all the plans and superintended the landing of the first expeditionary force in Belgium, and Premier Lloyd George, at a Parliamentary dinner given in Sir Henry 's honor, declared that his fore- cast of the field operations of 1918 made in January of that year, was one of the most remarkable military pre- dictions on record. This was at the time when he became chief of the Im- perial staff. No Politics in Public Service. One of the results of the vote in Parliament endorsing the transfer of the Grand Trunk to the National Rail- ways appears to be a properly inde- pendent stand on the part of Presi- dent Hauna in the face of partisan charges against his management of the -National lines. His stated intention to bring action for libel where charges of favoritism h«ve beeu made will clear the air. The one thing ou which the success of public ownership depends is the absence of any kiud of deviation from the strictest fairness and impar- tiality of administration. It is a re- markable tribute to the high quality of public service that there has been almost no exception to the rule of the sinccrest probity and the most un- varying devotion to the public inter- est wherever public service has been established. The one essential, says Sir xVdam Beck, who has had fifteen .vears' experience of public ownership, is to keep it out of politics. If the National Railways are kept out or poli- tics and run iu the public interest there need be no fear of their success. The fullest possible publicity iu regard to their affairs will assist in bringing about this result. ly discussed in man.v official circles as the only solution for problems that are bound to arise. The failure of the United States to rise to a great occa- sion is largely responsible for this, but it is hoped by many excellent authori- ties that the League of Nations will be able to function even though fncle Sam stand aloof, and that through this agency general war may be avoided. To Consult the People. While somewhat belated, the decis- ion of the provincial Conservatives to call a convention of the party for next October is an excellent move for On- tario. There was nothing to be gain- ed for the party or the people by the autocratic policy followed prior to the recent election, which had been pur- sued since Sir James Whitney's death. Whatever merit may attach to the party system the advantages of com- petition must be reckoned among them. In the last election, however, the Con- servatives practically declined to compete, leaving the Liberals, the Farmers and the Labor party in the field, all with carefully constructed and not dissimilar platforms. The Conservatives merely asked the people to trust Sir WiUiam Hearst. It takes a very big man indeed to secure the confidence of the people to such an extent that they will give him carte blanche, and Sir William, whatever his merits, was certainly not as big a man as Sir James Whitne.v, who was elected on a new platform, and retained the confidence of the people by seeing it was carried out. Rearranging the Levant. It wiU comfort many students of his- tory to know that the mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine have fallen to Great Britain. France is to have the mandate for Syria and Armenia is to be an independent state. It is the general view that a grave mistake is being made in leaving Turkey with any influence in Furope. Out "bag and baggage" with the despots of Constantinople is the onlv one that commends itself to most. It may turn out that the case is not so bad as it seems. The Dardanelles and access to the Black Sea generally will be in- ternationalized, and if the Turk is un- able to behave himself deeentl.v under his new conditions, something more drastic will assuredly follow under the licngue of Nations. A mistake has evidently been made in the disposition of Albania. Italy is jealous of the increased importance in the Mediter- ranean attained by Greece, and all the Slav States, Jugo and northern, new and old, are an unknown quantity. Teutonism is being thrown into alliance with Slavdom, and future war is free- Postal War Tax Remains. There will be much complaint over the decision to continue the war tax on letters mailed in Canada, but as Great Britain has decided to double her postal war tax, making a four-«ent rate for letters, Canadians paying three cents have not much to complain about. At the same time the taxes on "Knowledge" are Becoming seri- ous. In France the rise in the cost of paper and printers' wages threaten to extinguish the publication business in certain directions. In England the .\thenaeum has published an article on he decline of book reviewing and the i consequent lowering of the public taste and standards. Space cannot be I afforded for reviewers. The amount of work available in consequence, and the low rates paid for reviewing make it impossible for skilled writers to de- vote themselves to this kind of work. The effect of a lowering of literary standards would probably not >e felt immediately, but it would be none tile less certain in the long run. Taxes on knowledge, however imposed, are not good for civilization. Saving Daylight. Daylight saving is not apparently in favor on the continent of America this year. In Europe, including the British Isles, they appreciate the im- mense advantage and economy of the measure. There is little use in trying to establish it in isolated cities or lo- calities, however. It is only when the whole business of the nation moves to- gether that it becomes practicable. When the railways in the United States failed to provide for it this year it became impossible for the Canadian railways to adopt it. With- out the railways,, the mails, the courts, the government offices, it is difficult to see how the rest of a com- munity can get satisfaction from it. It is said that the farmer objects to it, but this can only be in some locali- ties. The farmer, according to his longitude, is always more or less out of touch with the sun, and in any case he is master of his own conditions. He very rarely loses any daylight. ^^c iVJAlRTiN jot otTs His Het tLtPHMwr Aboard HEAH AM HIS TRUNK JOE- BUT HE'S DOME SKEAHEO TO COME UP DE GANG PLANK] WIF IT