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> e---- THE BUMPER PROBLEM ©. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG - \ DOC, I'M USUALLY AS HAPPY AS A HYENA WITH A SNOOT FULL OF LAUGHIN' GAS, BUT Bumpers protect your car from parking bumps and minor collisions, but a bumper is not héavy enough to afford very much protection in a real crash, When a car 'weighing more than a ton 1s travelling 30 miles per hour and strikes a solid object your car is going to suffer, re- gardless of the bumper. ,Bear this fn wind and &o not take chances, with the idea that you are protected. There is one car which leaves the HOW MibH ABOVE THE GROUND 13 YOUR BUMPES 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. These steps will not be taken unless some- one starts the movement. Let's go. BEST PROTECTION, A BUMPER SHOULD BE nd HUB CAP. THE AVERAGE - If you are using a single-bar bum- per yom oan get more proteétion out of it by clamping vertical strips of steel, about the thickness of the bumper, on the bar in tWe or three places. Cut the strips long enough to extend about four inches above and below the bar. Drill holes through them and bolt them on, one in front and ome be- hind the bar. There should be a bolt above and below the bar instead NOW, IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF AN AUTO CLUB~AND YOU SHOULD BE-LET'S START A FIGHT FOR A LAW THAT WILL REGULATE THE AS A MEASURE FOR PROPERTY R PROTECTION of one through it. Drilling the bar itself would weaken it, If you wiint the bumper to look-Grassed up when you finish, you can have the strips of steel nickél plated at. a small cost. Park your car nearest the finter- géction, fire plug or "No Parking" sigh and no one will back into it in rking. You can not always pick these places, but watch for them as you drive along. rn DON'T BE 00 FUSSY ; ABOUT YOUR MOTOR tat ol Some Drivers Make Mountains Out of Molehills. The old mechanic says: Whenever look at that fellow's car over there the corner I think of old Doo and the advice he once gave en I came to him with the int that 1 was goin' deaf. Doc me, "Maybe it's just a little your ear. Why don't you rest up for a day and keep a hot waber bottle on it when you go to bed?" Sounded like quack advice to me, but I took his advice and it worked. I was just makin' a mountain out of a molehill, A lot of people do that with their car troubles, That car over there's supposed to have a piston slap, but I'll bot all I own that it I was to tear it down I wouldn't find any- thing of the sort, There's some sort of noise in the valve gear that YOUR I NON-FREEZING MIXTURE A CAR-WRECKER ? ' vis The maker of your car alivises against careless ingredients. Thy sounds like a slap, but I can't seem to convince the owner that it pays to 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, One day he got a notion that a valve hags bro- ken. I happened to be off of a 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. I imagine a valve stuck for a moment, but the owmer wouldn't wait until the trouble remedied it- self. . You can save a lot of money on _| zepairs 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 fake things easy when a repairer fails to get excited af- ter you've told 'im 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- piain, and imagine that I had spoil- ed t. 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--Uss. oil can | freely; turn all grease cups down two or three turns. Be sure that these parts are well lubricated: Steering apparatus; handle, fan, valve-rocker arms, whee] hubs. . Every 260 miles--Give game care to braking apparatus, emergency brake and gear-ghift levers, and rocker shafts, water pump, torsion and radips rods. Clean forced-feed oil systém. Every" 500 miles--Inspect trans- mission and differential cases and refill if necessary; pack steering worm housing; apply neatsfoot oll 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 magneto, electric gemera- tor; clean dise clutch; clean splash system; lubri¢ate leaves by jack- ing up frame of car, spreading leaves apart, and putting graphite mixed with gasoline between leav- es. . BEvery- 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 thie: A motorist inflites his tires at the ga- Tage before he starts out. There {s no one in his car. Later on when the car is loaded with passengers and luggage he stops to read the clutch, spring-shackle bolts, crank 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 suppert 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 gpeed motor is made to deliver a car speed of forty miles an hout too frequently there is every reason why it should wear out as quickly as a high speed mo- tor that is called upon t0 deliver only thirty miles per hour as a steady diet, Pure Water. \ Bven a novice knows that radia- tors, piping, jackets, etc., are in- jured and made inefficient through inorustations resulting from miner- al substances inherent in all of na- ture's aqua pura products, save, perhaps, rain water. The only safe thing to use, therefore, is distilled water, This is not always obiain- able, but few indeed are places now- adays where artificial ice cannot be found. That's the answer; melt the ice and you have the purest water. Kingston Markets Friday, Dec. 26. Fru, Bananas, doz. .. Grapes, Cal, 1b... .. .. Oranges, dos.. .. .. .. Lemons, dos. . Apricots, Cal, Ib .. Prunes, Cal, ib. Peaches, Bvap., Apples; peck... .. .. .. ..26 to 40 .25 to 30 ..26 to 60 ...80 ..18 ..40 to 90 pa ---- Sys Potatoes, bak.. .. .. .. Potatoes, peck .. Cabbage, 1b.... Carrots, peck .... Parsnips Turnip8.... ..90 Unclussified. Sugar, granulated, Id Sugar, yellow, Ib .. Sugar, icing, Id or +e18% Flour, standard, cwt. ..$3.756 to $4 Rolled Oats Ib. ......... oon Honey, b-ib. pail Honey, comb. . ..8 to 9 «vesT to 8 Cod, Id Ce mmen. se Fillets, Id. tovo cass: ne Finnan Haddie, Idb.. Haddock fresh 1b. ... Halibut, fresh, ™» .... Kippers, pair. ... +s os Perch, Ib. +veenvs PIS, Mn viva is ane conan Salmon, Id ., .. sass 31 10. 3G Fresh: ' Trout, salmon, 1b... ......18 to 26 White Fish .quvenvnes waesness30 Lake trout... ., .. ..18 Ssh ~~ Dairy Produce. Butter, creamery, Id Butter, dairy, 1b, Cheese, new, .., 1. .. .. Cheese, old, h ,. ... Eggs, new laid, doz.... A few 30x32 Cords at . . $7.55 ¥ 277 Bagot Street. 'Phone- 902m. pes ~ BRICK, STONE, PLASTERING AND TILE SETTING DOUGLAS & McILQUHAM- _ CONTRACTORS JOBBING WORK A SPECIALTY. PHONES 2267F--028W. 400 ALBERT STREET . ---- ee It helps to keep men in employment. spent in Kingston. . Their wages will be the market. For sale by all good dealers. 2758 ONTARIO STREET, KINGSTON, ONT, " PHONES 830-887. § BE ---- fathieu's I Syrup oF TAR & Cop LIVER Ex {Stops CoucH Toe ry bkAEAGORe. vg ; RE - hg Makers also of M, Nervine Powders A. 'or Headaches, Neuralgia and FOR SALE SOLID BRICK HOUSE--Stone foundation, 2 storey ma Bip Goods Madeln Kingston 3254 Dunlop Traction Cords. $17.30" | 3134 Dunlop Ribbed Cords. $1495 | Attwood & Dine | ACES IN VULCANIZING i 'Monarch Radio A Batteries will go with any set and have a greater capacity than any on . i] The Monarch Battery Co. Limited ] 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 one of the longest lived parts of a car. But carelessness in meshing gears will sooner or later seriously damage their teeth. The clashing that occurs upon attempting to engage low, without fully throwing out the clutch, especially if the engine is runting fast and that which takes place when reverse gears are jammed together with the car moving forward being almost certain to break chips off the teeth, if the gears are of very hafd steel or to round off and deform them if they are not properly heat treated. If this destructive action goes far enough, the effective width of the teeth is reduced, noisy operation results, and there is a tendency unintended toward demeshing and increased Hability of stripping. Habitual heavy clashing is very likely to make premature replacement necessary. > » Second And High Speeds : The great proportion of shifts being between these two speeds, their 1g members usually suffer most rapid deterioration, particularly dperators ean change down third to second without severe clashing or are careful about throwing from second to high; the result often being that second speed early mes very noisy. 'Worn Bearings And Noise . of shafts in théir bearings is essential at suis | gan the correct depth aud it . no longer engags properly an nd douse tt cotntershaft usually being located housing, its earings are rather more copiously than are the others, but the besring of hat that of the final drive shaft ts be inadequately lubricated if the lubricant attic, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, lights, gas, 8 plece bath, hot watee heating, hardwood floors, nice verandah, hot and cold water in * cellar; divided fruft cellar, good deep lot with a garage. This is a comparatively new house. Price $5,500.00. For information please call at office. Ri M. B. TRUMPOUR 'Phone 704 or 2078w » Meals ana Poultry Beef: Steak, porterhouse, Ib .. ..22 to 30 Steak, round, 1b... Bolling cits, I Stewing cuts, 1b. . Beef, western Beef, local, 1b Pork: Loin, roasts, Ib Shoulders, roasts,.. Hogs, live weight, ewt. .. Chops; 1b. ..... Hogs, dressed, ¢wh. Bacon, breakfast, ... Ham, smoked, ... Lamb: . Hinds, ™.. Fronts, Ib... .... Mutton, chops, 1b. .. Mutton, arcade .... sseveneis 16 Poultry rowl,-16 .. Goose, ™ .... Chickens, b.. .. . TUrkey: .«.... « . Hay and Grains, Barley .... .% «: «. +44.80 to 88 Bran, ton .... «+ +. ..932 to $33 Buckwheat, bus .. .%..80 to 86 Hay, baled, ton ... . ...811 to $12 Hay, loose, ton ........$10 to $i1 Oats, local, DUS .. jc... «:. .+++88 Middlings, ton .. 4. ..340 to $41 Shorts, ton .. .. ., ..331 to $33 'Wheat, local .. .. ..$1.25 to $1.80 Corn, imported .... .. .. ..51.36 etc. L v.40 :.80 to $1 270 PRINCESS STRENT case 38 to 32 35 cassia siemas HomeNe¢dsasPractical Gifts bers es Accursey of fit to keep the teeth