j UNIQUE METHOD OF TESTING AUTO TIRES . IHRmb trap *. * :-/M : : A novel method of testing automobile tires, employed by a Denver manu facturing concern, is shown in the photograph. The track, one-half mile in circumference, presents every feature of good and bad roads. An ingenious ruacMne. wirh its lore arm tc which the tire is attached, propels the tire around the track. A weight equivalent to that of a heavily loaded automobile is suspended over the tire in such a way that the tire itself carries the load. Once started on its journey the tire continues until it has given its maximum of mileage. FUSE PRINCIPAL DANSEB TO fiUTO Owner Should Have Extinguisher Hanrly and Keep Close Watch on Electrical System. SWEEP 6AR4GE FLOOR OrTEii Gasoline Tank Should Never Be Filled If There is Open Flame Near— Go Over Connections to Dis cover Any Leak. Fire is really the greatest danger With which the motorist has to cope. Uot that automobiles are in the habit of catching fire regularly, but the fire, •when it does come, is sudden and un heralded. Furthermore the everyday handling of gasoline makes one care less, a warning in itself that is seldom ■heeded. There are so many ways in which a car can catch fire that it is the dtity of every motorist to see that all possible steps are taken to prevent such accidents. A few suggestions follow that may assist in warding off the danger. Keep Fire Extinguisher Ready. First of all have a fire extinguisher and keep it ready at all times for use. Many motorists carry them on their cars and thus reduce their insurance rates. This is the best practice, but an extra extinguisher in the garage is never out of place. The small, com pact pump type is advised, sis it is the best for fighting gasoline or oil fires and can be used safely around elec trical apparatus. Some owners have an idea that the solution used in these extinguishers can be used for clean ing purposes, but its use for this pur pose, even if practicable, is hardly -wise. The extra few drops may mean a lot should the car catch fire on the road. Do not let oily rags or w T aste lie around the garage. Keep them in a metal container and sweep the floor ■often. It prevents the spread of fire. Keep the engine clean, especially the sod pan. See that there is a small hole in it under the carburetor drip. If there is none by all means make one. Keep Flame From Tank. Never fill the gasoline tank with an open flame near. Likewise see that the funnel used makes metallic con tact with the tank. It has happened that static electricity generated by the gasoline flowing through the fun nel has sparked the tank and cailsed a serious explosion. Make sure that the tank does not leak, particularly when the tank is located under the cowl. It is well to go over all gaso line connections occasionally to detect any leaks. Install a gasoline shut-off where it <?an be readily reached. Some cars have them in an out-of-the-way place that is difficult to reach in an emer gency. Always shut off the gasoline when leaving the car in the garage. This is even more important when an open-type coal stove is used for heat ing the building. A strainer should also be installed in the feed pipe if there is none on the car, and sediment should be removed once a month. The electrical system should also be watched and the connections kept tight, for a loose or grounded wire may start a fire. When cleaning the engine with a brush use one with no metal parts; a short circuit caused by the metal on the bifish may ignite the gasoline used in cleaning. Should a fire start in the carbureter shut off the gasoline and start the en gine, as racing it will soon draw all the gasoline from the carburetor. Sand can be thrown at the base of the flame, and when using the extinguisher squirt it through the radiator without raising the hood. The last suggestion is not the least important—read this again. ADJUSTMENT OF FOOT BRAKE Fosition Shown in Illustration That Jgck Should Have—Work Can Be Done Single-Handed. To adjust automobile foot brakes single-handed j?ck tip the rear wheels, one side fit a time, while setting the band on each wheel; then, with a block against the scit panel and a jack placed in as shown to farce the pedal down, turn the wheel and the screws on the brake band, adjusting it to the proper tension. Make both brake tensions equal. Take un ensily I J M WOOO BU3CK^ The Position That the Jack Should Have for Proper Brake Adjustment. one brake band at a time. By turning the wheel over with the hands the proper brake adjustments are easily made. Count the number of clicks in the jack as it is operated for each wheel, and compare then!. The wheel requir ing the most clicks on the jack until the wheel cannot be turned by hand must have its brake bands tightened to equalize them.—P. P. Avery, in Popular Science Monthly Magazine. ENAMELING TO PREVENT RUST Ordinary Material Which Dries Quick ly Is of Little Use, as It Chips Off Rapidly. In order to do away with rusting of parts beiumth the hood black enamel ing may be resorted to with good ef fect. It is possible to get black enamel today which when properly applied looks little inferior to the baked-on variety. Ordinary enamels which dry quickly are of little use, as they chip and flake off quickly. Parts to be enameled should, if possible, be taken off and cleaned with a stiff wire brush. The enamel should be applied with a stiff varnish brush. The enamel may take as long as a week to dry and care must be used to have an atmos phere free from excessive dust; that means not to dry it in the upper story of a hay barn. Parts that may be enameled to advantage Include steel fan blades, pulley arms, brackets and elbows, nuts that are not often dis turbed, exposed pieces of shafting, pinion-wheel operating rods, collars, etc. Even a cylinder casting may be so treated, as a good enamel will stand heat without blistering. FITTING A NEW CARBURETOR Care Should Be Taken That There Is No Looseness to Cause Vibra tion and Broken Flange. In fitting a new r«arburetor be sure that there is no looseness to cause vi bration, because if there is a broken flange will be the inevitable result. If vibration is present a small iron bracket should be installed from a nut on the engine frame to the instrument to steady it, also taking the strain off the intake pipe. SMALL BRUSH IS HANDY TOOL Easy to Get at Spring Leaves and Other Inaccessible Parts of Automobile. A small brush, say five inches long, with stiff bristles, may be 'made into an exceedingly useful tool by screw ing it on the end of a handle perhaps a foot and a half long. With this brush it is easy to clean off spring leaves and to get at other parts that are located in inaccessible positions. j| jmk will last much ;! j| |jjj longer than the ;! I (> riginal. J J, aVe ** iem | GEM STUDIO | | 730 Phlla. Street, - - Indiana, Pa. I Opposite Moore Hotel ? Sunday--'Noikin' to In Stevenson's Opinion. Stevenson—that most heroic of in valids—would have agreed with Dr. McWalter of Dublin that it is better to enjoy a short and merry life than to be a helpless centenarian. "To forego all the issues of living, in a parlor with a regulated temperature," he writes, scornfully, "as if that were not to die a hundred times over, and for ten yeare at a stretch! As if it were not to die in one's own lifetime, and without even the sad immunities of death! As if it were not to die, and yet be the patient spectators of our own pitiable change! The per manent possibility is preserved, but the sensations carefully held at arm's length, as if one kept a photographic plate in a dark chamber. It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." I Test Your Tea. A remarkably simple method of testing the purity of tea for coloring matter is to use an ordinary table knife and a sheet of white paper, upon which a small quantity of the tea to be tested is placed. The tea is then rubbed in with the knife. When the leaves have been reduced to a pow der the paper is dusted clean with a brush made of common bristles and its surface examined with the naked eye or a microscope. If the tea is artificially colored little spots or streaks of vivid Prussian blue will appear in the fiber of the paper. These stains are so distinct«in their coloring that they cannot possibly be confused with any other stain that may be in the paper. Reading Between the Lines. To get the good of the library in the school of life you must bring into it something better than a mere book ish taste. You must bring the power to read between the lines, behind the words, beyond the horizon of the printed page. Philip's question to the chamberlain of Ethiopia was crucial: "Understandest thou what thou read est?" I want books not to pass the time, but to fill it with beautiful' thoughts and images, to enlarge my world, to give me new friends in the spirit, to purify my ideals and make them clear, to show me the local color of unknown regions and the bright stars of universal truth. —Henry Van Dyke. • Why He Quit. The after-dinner talk had turned to will power and they were discussing heroes who had given up smoking. "Why," said one of the group, "I knew a chap in Nevada who smoked fifty pipefuls of tobacco a day. And one day when he was lighting up some thing came to him and he quit—just like that!" "Extraordinary strength of mind!" murmured a listener. "No, it was extraordinary strength of some thing else," corrected the narrator. "You see, he dropped the match, still lighted, in the bunghole of a keg of giant powder." AH Pardoned. Gipsy Smith, the famous evangelist, tells this story: Jack had been con verted at a revival meeting, and upon meeting an old friend later, was asked if it were true. "Oh, yes," said Jack. "I am really going to live a new life." "Well," said his friend, "I suppose you will begin by settling up all your old debts; for instance, I presume you will now pay me the sovereign you have owed me so long." "Oh, no." re plied Jack. "That is one of my old transgressions and the Lord has par doned them ail." Good Drinker. Si Perkins had tilled the soil for a great many years and had accumu lated enough money to live in comfort the rest of his days. Some time ago he joined a temperance society and one evening during a meeting he was asked to deliver an address. In his straightforward, genial way, he arose and clea?ly expounded the cause of temperance. He confessed that at one time he had been a drinker. "But, my friends," said he in conclusion, "I never drank to success." ! ■ ■ , Hobby of a King. Th« hobby of the late king of Greece was door handles, ordinary and other. He boasted of having a sample of every make known to civili sation. When he visited England last b*» left behind him a trail of handle le*js doors. He Had Nothing on Burns. There is a story of a gentleman when advocating the utility of public schools, who said: "Byron was a Harrnw boy." "What of that?" said at orpoaaJii, "Burns was a plow boy." Longest In the WoHd. What is said to be the largest bas-< cule bridge in the world has just been completed at Portland, Ore. This new bridge, which is 4,800 feet long, cross es the Willamette river, connecting Broadway street on the west side with Broadway on the east side. It pro i rides an easy grade thoroughfare from the business district to the large residence district on the west side. This type of bridge allows prac tically unobstructed water traffic up and down the river. It was built by the city at a cost of about $1,300,000. The bridge is lighted at night by 250 five-light and two-light fixtures, to gether with an outline scheme of 7,000 lamps spaced 18 inches apart. One hundred-watt tungstens are used in the pole fixtures and 32-candlepower lamps on the outline system. Cur rent is supplied to the lamps over more than 12 miles of wiring. Playground Progress. The playground movement contin ues to make rapid progress. Forty cit ies operated supervised playgrounds j last year for the first time. During the year the number of cities having playground commissioners increased from 24 to 37. Reports have been re ceived from 257 cities which are main taining playgrounds, and the num- I ber is not complete. Forty-eight cit ies are using their school houses as , recreation centers. Nineteen cities au | thorized bond issues for recreation i purposes last year amounting to $4,- 445,000. Among these cities were Cleveland, Atlanta, Milwaukee, San Diego, Tacoma, Oakland, Cal., aud Portland, Ore. It is estimated that nearly $3,000,000 was spent during the year in the administration of play grounds. The University of California had more than 1,000 students in its summer playground course last year. ■ Brains Will Succeed. And the fellow with brains, and with energy to direct them, is pretty likely to succeed, no matter what's pulling him down. If you're not suc ceeding, have a heart to heart talk with yourself. Maybe you haven't so many brains as you have been giv ing yourself credit for, or maybe you don't know how to use them to get results. Have a 10-minute talk with yourself every nteht, and do it in the coldest blooded way you possibly can. Every little failure of the day should be analyzed—every opportuni ty you have let pass you uncaught should be used as a club on your brain. Then avoid those errors to morrow.—Leslie's Weekly. Carthage Had Paved Streets. The Carthaginians are said to have been the first who paved their towns. The Romans, In the time of Augustus, had pavements in many of their streets. The Appian Way, a paved road, was constructed in 312 B. C. The streets of ancient Pompeii were paved with great blocks of lava. Deep ruts can be seen in them today which were worn by the heavy chariots of the people of the destroyed city. Her culaneum also was paved with these lava blocks. Roads built of heavy flags of freestone, of unknown age, exist in Peru, 2,000 miles in extent. In Mexico, among the ruins of Pal enque, are found pavements of large square blocks of stone. To Restore Old Wayside Inns. Restoration to things as they were long ago is planned by the Ohio Good Roads federation. The organization figures on bringing back the old way side inn with its grate fire at many points along the main roads between Ohio cities. Hostelries that were practically abandoned are to be re stored and made fit for occupancy. In addition, the old milestones are to be put into shape again and guide the traveler, this time in a high-powered motor car and not in a stagecoach or on horseback, to his destination. — Cincinnati Enquirer. Sure Sign. An elderly laborer was in ill health and despite his wife's cautionigjgs per sisted in going daily to his work. One day his foreman, who prided himself on being a man of charming tact, dropped in to see the good wife. "Mrs. Jones," he said after passing the time of day, "I'm afraid your husband isn't going to live very much longer." "Lands' sakes!" exclaimed the woman in alarm, "what makes you think that?" "Well, ma'am, you see," the foreman replied thoughtfully, "about an hour ago he dropped dead." ' Unfinished Story. i "Why, when we was up the Ama zon," said the loquacious sailor, "the •mosquitoes was terrible. They used to roost on the leaves and bark —" "Come, come," remonstrated one of his audience, "you can't expect us to believe that, you know. Mosquitoes don't bark." "Whatja butt in for be fore I finished?" queried the sailor in dignantly. "What I was goin' to say was that they'd roost on the leaves and bark of the trees—" But he found himself addressing space. Woman's Position in the State. Seventy thousand men were in the German army maneuvers on the plains of Silesia on the 150 th anni-i versary of the conquering glory of Frederick the Great And 70,000 Ger man women are doing men's work to balance up the losses to the people. In the days of the ancient Frederick the women were not thus employed. That is one of the differences which men neglected to take note of In this age.—Worcester Telegram. Proof to the Contrary. If there is as much easy money as some people say, Link Preston wouldn't be wearing a straw hat at this time of the year.—Atchison Globe. Eve's Costume for Women. The Sandwich Island costume fbr street wear for women in Chicago is advocated by Alexander A. McCor mick, president of the county board, who believes that the entire aboli tion of clothes would greatly better the morals of the community. "Imag ination and curiosity," he says, "ao count for much vicious thought Clothes are designed to exclt* the imagination, rather than to subd>u» it. If clothes were abolished there would be no such stimulus to the imagina tion. Morals could not be much worse, so almost anything in the way of dress changes would have to work an improvement. Muddy street cross ings and bathing beaches are exciters of the imagination. Much better than the gaping crowds would be absolute nudity everywhere." Decided Venus Had Adenoids. The extent to which the modern child is educated in matters of hy giene appears from a recent episode in a Boston school: The class had visited the art mu seum and the teacher wished to learn what the children had observed and how they were impressed. The subject of the moment was the ex quisite head of Aphordite, one of the chief t >asures of the museum. A lit tle boy, who frantically waved his hand, was called upon. He announced triumphantly: "I noticed she had ad enoids!" "Why, Peter," exclaimed the slocked teacher, "what do you mean?" "She keeps her mouth open all the time." was the reply.—Youth's Companion. Good Name. A rather young, Episcopal minister had en appoir'nl tea cor -lin est ern locality as he was considered by his bishop to be sufficiently able to successfully establish a church, even in that rather sparsely settled com munity. Later, in talking to a freind the clergyman remarked: "I was obliged to go from one house to an other and borrow from each the dif ferent articles that were needed." The sympathizing friend suggested that he should call the church "St. Charles the Martyr." The minister smiled in his characteristic way and quickly re* sponded: "No. San Carlo Borromeo would be more appropriate." To Number Football Players. Some of the football coaches will have numbers put on the backs of men playing the game so that specta tors by referring to a card on which the name of the player appears with his corresponding number may be able to follow the men In scrimmages a good deal better. Every player on both the Barringer and East Orange High elevens In New, Jersey will be supplied with an 18-inch number to carry through the season and the managements of the two teams have agreed to have cards printed bearing the names of the players, their num bers and positions for the benefit of the spectators. No More "Lagnlappe." New Orleans women have organ ized to abolish tie "lagniappe" prac tice that has prevailed In the Louisi ana metropolis since the time of the Spanish domination. With every pur chase, particularly in drug stores and grocery stores, long-established cus tom has required the dealer to give away half a dozen candies or a piece of gum, even though the customers bought only five cents' worth of mer chandise. This practice, originally an expression of good nature on the part of the dealer, is now systematic extortion on the part of the custom ers. How It Originated. We are so used to having the handy pin around while sewing and dress ing, that we can scarcely imagine how the ancients ever got along without this article. Yet they did, for it was only at the end of the seventeenth century that the modern pin was in vented. After that time the pin maker was allowed to sell them open ly only on January 1 and 2, so that court ladles and fashionable dames alike were obliged to buy a large store on those days. Keep Tennis Balls Dry. Tennis balls can be preserved in usable shape for an indefinite length of time if they are kept absolutely dry. They lose their resiliency and become "dead" before they are worn out, because dampness decomposes the rubber. An air-tight box contain ing a substance that will absorb mois ture and prevent decomposition has recently been patented, as well as a similar air-tight case for protecting tennis rackets from moisture. —Pop- ular Mechanics. Instinctive. In a certain' school a teacher was giving his class reading. It came to a part about a woman drowning her self. The teacher asked a boy to read again. He began: "'She threw her self into the river. Her husband, hor ror-stricken, rushed to the bank'" — The teacher said: "Now, tell me why the husband rushed to the bank?" Quick and sharp came his answer: "Please, sir, to get the insurance money." One on the Assistant The telephone bell rang in the con sulting room of a doctor who was an enthusiastic motorist. In his absence the assistant answered It and said the doctor was out "Will you tell him," the voice asked, "that Mrs. Thompson has a gymkhana coming on and wants to know if he can do anything for it?" I will tell him the moment he comes in," the assistant answered. "Mean while put a bread poultice on it and renew it every tiro houra."
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