» : . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE BUMPER PROBLEM Bumpers protect your car from parking bumps and misor collisions, but a bumper is not heavy emough to afford very much protection in a real crash. When a car 'weighing more than a ton is travelling 30 miles per hour and strikes a solid object your éar is going to suffer, re- gardless of the bumper. Bear this {n mind and do not take chances, with the idea that you are protected. There is one car which leaves the HOW HIGH ABOVE THE GROUND 13 YOUR BUMPESF EM, IT SEEMS. factory with the Bumpers set so high that they will pass over the top of even the wide double-bar type which is properly set. Drivers who buy bumpers and put them on themselves seem to have no idea of how high they should be. Unless some steps are taken to regulate their height these bumpers will con- tinue to get your fenders. Thess steps will not be taken unless some- one starts the movement. Let's go. $0 THE BUMPER SHOULD BE 16 INCHES ABOVE THE GROUND. - It you are ueing a single-bar bum- per you oan :get more protestion out 'of it by clamping vertical strips of steel, about the thickness of the bumper, on the bar in two or three places. Cut the strips long enough to extend about four inches anove and below the bar. Drill holes through them and bolt them on, one in front and ona _be- hind the bar. There should be a bolt above and below thé bar instead NOW, IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF AN AUTO CLUB=AND YOU SHOULD BE-LET'S START A of ome through it. Drilling the bar itself would weaken it. If you wint the bumper to look dressed up when you finish, you can have the strips of steel nickel plated at a small cost. : Park your ear nearest the inter- gection, fire plug or "No Parking" sigh and no one will back into it in parking. You can not always piok these places, but watch for them as you drive along. Al 'r DON'T BE 100 FUSSY ABOUT YOUR MOTOR Some Drivers Make Mountains Out of Molehills. old mechanic says: Whenever at that fellows car over there corner I think of old Doe and the advice he once gave I caine to him with the that 1 was goin' deaf. Doc "Maybe it's just a little your ear. Why don't you rest up for a day and keep a hot walber bottle om it when you go to bed?" | i Sounded llke quack advice to me, but I took his advice and it"worked. I was just makin' a mountain out of a molehill, J A lot of people do that with their car troubles, That car over there's supposed to have a piston slap, but I'll dot all I own that if I weds to tear #t down I wouldn't find any- thing of the sort. There's some sort of noise in the valve gear that 1 YOUR YET Te TT NON-FREEZING MIXTURE sounds like a slap, but I can't seem convince the owner that it.pays o take it easy and wait. He's let his imagination loose and if he doesn't take it easy this'll cost him a lot of money, Ous day he got a notion that a valve had bro- ken. I happened to be off oh & tow- in' job and when I got back here was my man takin' the head off the engine 'on a wild goose chase. All they found was everythin' in Al or- der. "1 imagine a valve stuck for a moment, but the owner 'wouldn't wait until the trouble remedied it- self. ' You can save a lot of money on repairs by lettin' things take care of themselves. Of course you've got to know what's what, but-a good rule to go by is to take things easy when a repairer fails to get excited af- ter you've told 'lm your tale of woe. Remember the old rule that things sometime improve with use. I've cleaned carbon out of many an engine only to have the owner com- plain, and imagine that I had spoil- ed it. A few weeks later--it he takes it easy--the chances are that he'll have the finest performance ever. Lubrication Time-Table. Every 100 miles--Use. oil can | treely; turn all grease cups down two or three turns. Be sure that these parts are well lubricated: Steering apparatus, clutch, spring-shackle bolts, erank handle, fan, valve-rocker whee] hubs. Every 250 miles--Give game care to braking apparatus, emergency brake and gear-shift levers, and rocker shafts, water pump, torsion and radips rods. Clean forced-feed oil system. ? Every 500 miles--Inspect trans- mission and differential cases and refill if mecessdry; pack steering worm housing; apply neatsfoot oil to cone clutch facing; clean gravity and circulating splash systems. Every 1,000 miles--Pack univer- sal joints, ball and socket boots, hub caps; oll magnéto, electric gemera- tor; clean dise¢ clutch; clean splash system; labricate leaves by jack- i up frame of car, spreading leaves apart, and putting graphite mixed with gasoline between leav- arms, es d very 5,000 miles--Drain trans- mission and differential cases and renew lubricant; clean wheel bear- ings and repack hubs with grease. * Give all bearings a careful inspec- tion and take up all play, TIRES DO NOT PIOK UP AIR PRESSURE Tires do not pick up air pressure in riding. What happens is this: A motorist inflates his tires at the ga- ragé before he starts out. There is no one in his car. Later on when the car is loaded with passengers and luggage he stops to' read the pressure, only to find it higher than it wag back at the garage. It figur- es that he has "picked up air" wheras it is simply .increased air pressure as a result of squeezing the tire by making it support more weight. A low speed engine can be made to wear out just as quickly as a high speed one. It depends upon the use to which the driver puts his car. If a lower speed motor is made to deliver a car speed of forty miles an hour too frequently there is every reason why it should wear out as quickly a high speed mo- tor that is cafled upon to deliver only thirty miles per hour as a steady diet, Pure Water. \ Even a novice knows that radia- tors, piping, jackets, etc, are in- jured and made inefficient through inerustations resulting from miner- al substances inherent in all of na- ture's equa pura products, save, perhaps, rain water. The only safe thing to use, therefore, is distilled water, This is not always obtain- able, but few indeed are places now- adays where artificial ice cannot be found. That's the answer; melt the fce and you have the purest water, Kingston Markets Friday, Dec. 28. Fra, Bananas, doz. . . Grapes, Cal, Ib... .. .. Oranges, dos... .. .. .. Lemons, dos. . Apricots, Cal, Ib .. .. Prunes, Cal, Ib. Peaches, Evap., Apples, peck... .. . Vegetables. Potatoes, bag.. .. .. Potatoes, peck .. Cabbage, 1b.... Carrots, peck .... ..26 to 40 .25 to 30 Turnips.... Unclassified. Sugar, granulated, Id Sugar, yellow, Id ,. .. ....Tto 8 Sugar, icing, Id .... eo sedi Flour, standard, cwt. ..$3.76 to $4 Rolled Oats Ib. .......000. Honey, b-1b. pail Honey, comb. . ..8t 9 Cod, Dd .... Fllets, Id v.v weve us Finnan Haddie, Ib.. Haddock fresh 1b. . Halibut, fresh, ™» .... ..27 to 82 Kippers, palc.... «+30 to 28 Perch, 1b. sueevnne carsnne 1898 Pike, 1b. Salmon, Id .. Fresh: Trout, salmon, 1b... ......18 to 25 White Fish ...... lie inise neavdl Lake trout... ov vs ++ s+ +, .,18 ss ~~ ..13% Dairy Produce. Butter, creamery, Id Butter, dairy, 1b, Cheese, new, I... .. .. .. Cheese, old, Ib 32c4 Dunlop Traction Cords . $1730" ff 31x4 Dunlop Ribbed Cords . $1495 Jf A few 303% Cords at . . $7.55 Attwood & Dine ACES IN VULCANIZING 277 Bagot Street. "Phone 902m. 3 BRICK, STONE, PLASTERING AND TILE SETTING DOUGLAS & McILQUHAM- CONTRACTORS Z JOBBING WORK A SPECIALTY. PHONES 2367F--928W, 400 ALBERT STREST 4 Buy Goods Made In Kingston 'Monarch Radio A Batteries will go with any set and have a greater capacity than any om + the market. For sale by all good dealers. The Monarch Battery Co. Limi 275 ONTARIO STREET, KINGSTON, ONT. PHONES 886-887. { STors Couch I Syrup oF TAR & Cop LIVEREX 4 k iy - by Neuralgia and Sold mn Bottles i er FOR SALE SOLID BRICK HOUSE--Stone foundation, 8 storey and ALBERT L.CLOUGH How Transmissions Wear Out Brutal Handling Hastens The Process IF ALWAYS KEPT WELL LUBRICATED and handled considerate- ly the transmission should give very little trouble and prove vie of the longest lived parts of a car. But carelessness in meshing gears will sooner or later seriously damage their tceth. The clashing that pecurs upon attempting to engage low, without fully throwing out the clutch, especially it the engine is running fast and that which takes Bgegs, new laid, dos.... attic, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, lights, gas, 8 plece bath, hot water heating, hardwood floors, nice verandah, hot and cold water in cellar, divided fruit cellar, good deep lot with a garage. This is a comparatively new house. Price $5,500.00. For information pleasp call at office. M. B. TRUMPOUR 'Phone 704 or 2078w ~ + 270 PRINCESS STRENT Meals an Poullry Beef: Steak, porterhouse, Ib .. .. Steak, round, 1b.... «+. .. Bolling cuts, Id ........, Stewing cuts, 1b... Beef, western Beet, local; 1b .. Pork: Loin, roasts, I . Shoulders, roasts,.. . Hogs, live weight, cwt. Chops, 1b. Hogs, dressed, ew. Bacon, breakfast, ... Ham, smoked, Lamb: Hinds, D.. 00 Fronts, I.. oo.c sv vv nu vs Watton, chops, 1b. ........30 to 28 Mutton, carcass ...iiivisaneis 16 Poultry POWL-ID. i La ea Goose. Jb .... 00 aii. ae Chickens, Iv.. .. v4 oi 4s THIROY + «csv vn eas Hay and Grains, LBarley .... +480 t0 85 Bran, ton .... +s +. «2332 to $33 Buckwheat, bus ,. ....80 to 85 Hay, baled, ton ... . ..:$11 to $12 Hay, loose, ton ....... Oats, local, bus . Middlings, ton .. Shorts, ton .. .. ., ..$31 to 333 Wheat, loeal .. .. ..$1.25 to $1.30 Corn, imported .... .. .. ..31.38 ete. oR not properly heat treated. If this destructive action goes far enough, the effective width of the teeth is uced, noisy operation results, demeshing and increased The great proportion of shifts being between these two speeds, their engaging members ususlly suffer most rapid deterigration, particularly as 50 few operators can change down from to second without scvere clashing or are cereful about throwing from second to high; .. the result often being that second speed early becomes very noisy. 'Worn Bearings And Noise ' shafts in théir bearings is essential howe ia cui on Ar da se .s