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FACTS ABOUT CARBURET0R
One Point 10 That Too Many Drivers Tinker Too Much With the
 Machine.

Nine-tenths of all the pecuIi.rities of the gas eniine are attributed to tne carburetor. some men have the habit oi tink..ing with it all the time.
 The moocrn automatic carburetor is a very reliable and accurate machine. and when correctly adjusted to meet certain conditions it should operate in a satisfactory manner.
 Most carburetors have an adjust. ment for low speeds and starting. and another adjustment for high speeds.
 Too thin a mixture causes the en- zine to pop and miss. while too thick a mixture will cause black at the muf- fire. Blue smoke is due to oil.
 First adjust the engine for low speed so that it will start easily and pull strongly. Then run the motor at a medium to high speed under same load and adjust the lair" or high speed adjustment.
 In an auto this may be done by run ming the machine up a long, regular grade on which it can make about twenty-five to thirty miles per hour, finding the adjustment which will give a certain speed with least throt- tle In a tractor the carburetor should always be adjusted under load so that 1t pulls a given load the easiest. After the proper adjustment has been found. leave 1t alone.-Henry L. Thomson Department of Farm Engineering Oklahoma A and NJ. College.
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Knew His Father.

A school inspector asked a class of small children: If had three glasses of beer on the table, and your father came in and drank one, how many would be leftT"
 None. sir." answered a very small boy.
 But you don't understand my Ques- tion." said the inspector, and he TO peated 1t again.
 Still the boy gave the same reply.
 "Ah, my boy" exclaimed the inspec- tor at last, fit is clear you don't know mental arithmetic"
 But I know my father" said the boy. promptly.
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you go along. The herd is divided. % that the COWS do not all try to crowd ;E one door at the same time. The outtake fiues for ventilation are not in the way, but are along the wall where the space is not needed. The COWS heads are away from the bright light of the sun. as they would be in the pasture. The gutters are well dis infected by the action of the suns rays Sunlight is furnished for milk ing at night and in the morning.
 The design shown here has the oth- CT method of arranging the COWS that is. they are faced out, and the following advantages have been list cd by the admirers of this style:
 Most of the work is done behind the COWS, the milking and cleaning, and therefore is much easier to handle in one alley. The danger of having the COWS face the light is not as impor- tant as keeping the COWS from blow ing their exhaled breath in each oth- CTS faces. The disinfecting value of the sunlight is applied to the man. gers, where it is needed more than it is in the gutters. Much shorter in take fiues are needed than when the COWS face in. There is no danger of . COW getting in on the wrong side. as they all use the same door. The appearance of the COWS is better from the back. as that is where they are
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men stable used to mean . bank barn with the accompanying dampness aad dinginess that is so unhealthful for any kind of stock. The barn shown here is dry, well ventilated and warm and suited to raising the best kind of stock. If bank barn is built against . side hill the hill should be cut away and the entrance to the threshing floor maintained by a bridge.
 Threshing floors are not generally provided in barns made in the mod ern way. It is Q waste of space to set aside valuable storage room in . barn when it is only to be used for . few days each year. It is better to do the threshing outside and use all the space in the barn the year round.
 The intake hues for the ventilating system come into the barn at the top of the concrete wall and are dis charged near the ceiling over the heads of the stock. The outtake fiues start in back of the stalls and are carried up to the ventiiators on the roof. A pure and plentiful supply of air is assured by this system.
 
 The feed for the COWS and horses kept in this barn is taken care Of by a feed carrier running on tracks along each side wall in front of the man gers. The track also runs along the back of the barn so as to connect up the feed alleys with the silo. The lit- ter carrier track runs straight through the center alley through the back door to the dump or the manure spreader.
 A large space is provided for the storage of hay in the haynow. This haymow is unobstructed, as no col. umns are necessary to support the roof. which is of the gambrel type. The truss framing provides stiff and strong support for the roof against the snow. wind. etc.
 Room is furnished to comfortably house eight horses and sixteen COWS. The part of the barn devoted to the
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MAKE OWN TROUBLE.
Motorists in Country Frequently Have Themselves to
 Blame.
NEGLECT CARE OF THE TIRE
Driving on Roads That Are Cut Up by Ruts 10 Rulnous-Some Thinps That Must Be Remembered
 When Winter 10
 Here.

Tire troubles fill the country auto .nobilist with a lot of unnecessary dreaS On ordinary country roads, where there are no shelving rock lodges on rough hillsides. no sharp stones along the wheel-tracks and
 where the bridges and culverts are in fairly decent shape. the tires should not be a source of constant worry if they are given commonsense care by the tire owner.
 Of course his air pressure must be looked after. That is one of the com honest of all causes of tire failure. There is but one way to get at that
 and that is to test them frequently. You can't tell by looking at a tire or pressing down on 1t with the heel of your hand. whether 1t has enough
 pressure. Rely on the test. Remember. too, that when you clap
 the brakes on an auto you are not let
 ling the brake grasp a steel band as
 on a wagon. Rubber will not stand up
 under skidding, sliding and the habit
 of brake locking. It will stand a tre-
 mendous lot of wear over a rough sur
 face if it is rolled ever the surface
 and not rubbed across it. It is elas- tic and gives to a rolling pressure
 but direct friction in one spot will
 wear it away. Therefore. skidding. l locking the brakes and sliding are to
 be avoided if you would save tire money.
 Frozen roads, those that are par
 tially crusted over and on which the
 wheels break through. are very hard
 on the tires and should be avoided 1 whenever it is possible to do so. The
 car in passing over the surface of the
 road will break through here and
 there. The sharp edges of the broken ice are like a thousand knife-blades. | :. Jew hours of driving over such a highway will show that the side walls 1 of the tires will be considerably mutt
 lated After a rain followed by a slight freeze it is best to keep the car
 off the roads.
 In freezing weather in winter don't put the auto on the roads until tte
 wheel track has been smoothed down I o <Ch shVd hooAS anu bActi III NS break the way and your tires will last longer. Keep out of car tracks. for
 there is nothing that will whittle the
 life out of tire quicker than the edge of a steel rail
 Keep the wheels as nearly in per feet line as possible. Wheels running | out Of true" are destructive to cas- ings. A minor accident. such as pumping an obstruction at an angle, a
 slight bending of an axle or defective steering gear may cause the wheels to
 get out of line. A wheel that runs in- ward or outward ever so little will
 wear away the rubber and soon render the tire worthless. This condition of
 the wheels causes the wear to attack i the wheel at such an angle that the 1 friction is much greater than it should be.
 Have the wheels straightened if
 they are out of true" It will not be
 necessary to keep the car out of service for any length of time in hay ing this done. as the garage man in your nearest town ought to be able to
 true" them up.-C. G. T.. in Rural l Farmer.
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Testino . Tire Valve.

After you have finished blowing up the tire, drop a film of moisture on the valve outlet. If this moisture stays there. obviously there is a leakage of air. In putting on the valve cap, after 1t has been screwed tight, loosen it a little and listen to see if there is any lSak. If there is, then the cap has pushed the plunger down. and the thing to do is to adjust the washer in the cap so that it does not touch the plunger, or else get a new cap.
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Waterproof for Auto Tops.

One of the first parts of an automo- bile to show wear is the top. If it holds it's shape it fades. and sometimes 1t both fades and becomes unshapely. The Scientific American suggests that the fading could be prevented by a suitable waterproofing dye that would not only renew the color but also re- store the waterproof property. impair ment of whicn usually accompanies the change of color.
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5udged from. and they can all be seen from the central alley. All the ma nure is handled in one alley. and the walls are protected from the manure that always splas5es on them unless the barn is made very wide.
 Such arc the many reasons given for the two arrangements Many high grade successful dairy barns have been modelled after each of these plans-
 The concrete foundation for the eombiPation barn shown here is car r3cd dSvn below the front line to the footings, and the concrete walls gre buiit above grade to the cell ing over the COW ard horse stable. Thts really gives . basement stable buf not one of the kind that former H vas called by this name A base
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Iiohten the aeit.

Don't forget to tighten up your fan belt and see to 1t that your water pump is working properly. A radia- tor that didn't boil in the winter will be troublesome unless your fan is working and the water circulation good. If the radiator shows small leaks, a handful of ground fiaxseed poured in will usually stop them. Don't use too much fiaxseed. however. as it will stop up the small openings and shut oil some of the radiation.
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Matter Of Cylinders.

The eight and twelve-cylinder cars have attracted a good deal of atten- tion this year, but manufacturers an nounce, notwithstanding, that at least S5 per cent of the 1916 machines will be of the four-cylinder Lhead or T. head type. The advantages of the multiple cylinder are undoubted, but the four cylinders are cheaper to buy and more economical to operate. A good four-cylinder machine satisfies most of us
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tool to help the long-su1ering auto owner in his chain troubles. It is adapted to be inserted between the chain and the tire of a wheel fer stretching the chain upon the tire. A double rack bar with a hook on one end and extending laterally there from and a lever having . pair Of pawls adapted to cooperate with the rack bar. make the main features of the tool. The handle is then worked backward and forward, something on the style of a wire stretcher
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HOLDS CAR ON TRACK
DEVICE WILL BE APPRECIATED
 BY RAILROAD MEN.
Assertion Made That it VIII Keep Machine From Leaving the Rails In Case of Ae-
 c.dent.

To prevent the injury of operator or passenger when a motor car such as is used on railroads for inspection purposes jumps the track. an attach ment has been devised for keeping the car from leaving the rails and for holding the derailed wheels of the ties. This device consists simply of horizontal guard for each wheel placed a few inches above the rail and designed to slide on the rail and sup
 port the car in case the wheels are de
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1Iuer, Need Freouent InsoeetIon.

Where a combination timer and dis tributer is psed few people think to lu- bricate the working parts, comments a garage manager. In this timing de vice the circuit breaker should be ire quently cleaned and adjusted; also . smsr amount of fresh oil used. If neglected for too great time the parts will rust and stick If this takes place, misfiring is bound to result
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FOREIGN

OR6xuN
 All Greek reservists te Canada have been ordered home.
 Greece and Bulgaria have called for their reservtsts in the United States.
 Artillery pits have been dug on the hills back of Fl Paso. fronting Juarez.
 Earthquakes caused panics among the people of Messina and Rome, but no serious damage has been reported.
 Koreans in Hawaii are training with wooden guns in the hope of being able to free Korea from Japan. is a late report.
 Tre Toyo Risen Kaisha Steamship Company. Japanese. will add three new steamers to its fleet plying the Pacific.
 Vice Admiral Leone via,s. Italian minister of marine. has resigned. and will be succeeded by Premier Salan- dra provisionally.
 England will require every German. Turk and Austrian of military age in London who has not been granted ex- emption. to surrender to the police.
 The Cuban Secretary of Govern. ment has given out a statement set ting at rest rumors of projected negro uprisings in various parts of the isl. and.
 Russian representatives of com. merce and industry have elected NJ Weinstein a member of the council of the empire. He is the first Jew to sit in the council.
 Two hospitals for cholera patients have been established by the Red Cross Society of China in Shanghai to take care of the large number of Chinese affected by cholera.
 General Funston has ordered a bat tery of mountain artillery to the Mexi. can border near Progreso. Tex. Five hundred MeSicans are massing near that point on their side.
 Nvb:r Pasha. diplomatic representa- tive in Paris Of the Katholikos, or head of the Armenian church. has written Dr. NJ. Symbad Gabriel. presi dent of the Armenian General Pro gressive Association in the United States, that he estimated that i5O, ,0OO Armenians had been put to death in Turkey and sO0.000 rendered horne less. out of population of l.5Oo. .n00.
 The Association of German Trades unions publishes statistics showing that from the outbreak of the war un til Oct 3l of last year 12. 700, 900 marks ts3.l75.09o). was paid for the .elief of inc upaunlovab
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Should Know Starting System.

Moss self-starting systems have a fuse box installed at an accessible point. The purchaser of a new car should acquainf himself with this as quickly as possible. Very often con siderable trouble can be eliminated by replacing a burned out fuse with a new one. This Is simple matter. but If not known may cause lot of trou- ble ard unnecessary expense.
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PLACING COWS
 N THE STABLE
Some Difference of Opinion as to Whether It Is Best to Face
 Out or In.
EACH PLAN HAS ADVANTAGES

Illustrations here Show Stock Barn With Concrete Basement Stable Where the Cows Face the
 WalI-pry, We'll venti-
 lated and Warm.
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SPORTING NEWS

Eastern wagers on the worlds cham pionship series are to , on the Red Sox.
 The Langford and Mcyea bout in Denver was a draw after twenty rounds.
 Star players of the Federal league have arranged for a post-season tour of the country.
 Denver will offer a good card of trotting ard pacing races at Overland Park. Oct. 6 to g.
 The decision in the Waugh -Wolgast bout at Shreveport, La, was given to Waugh on foul in the sixth round
 The American Association mag mates in session at Chicago decided upon a l54-game schedule for next year and player limit of sixteen. Hoyle. black gelding. broke the state record for five-eighths of mile. running. at the Las Animas county fair at Trinidad. by going 1t in 1:02 flat.
 Tine Boston Red Sox won the American championship by the defeat in the final game between Detroit and St. Louis of the former by a score of to 2.
 Art Smith, who entertained San season with aviation exploits, sur passed his record at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield by making seven teen perpendicular loops. GENERAL
 John w. Bookwalter. philanthropist. v, of Springfield, O., is dead. As a result of the slide last week, forty-three ships are tied up at the anna canal Fifty persons killed and 200 oth- CTS injured is the report from Ard more, Okla. as the result of the ex- plosion of a car of gasoline.
 Pittsburgh payroll for October will approximate s32O.O0o,O00. exceeding that of any month for several years by at least fifteen per cent.
 Late figures from the West India hurricane which struck New Orleans are that the property damage will reach s2,000.000 and that the casual ties would number 15o. Scores of persons were arrested in the Chicago Garment Workers strike when a mob collected in the clothing district and tried to persuade workers to join the strikers. A lad of ten was killed while trying to escape shoot ing scrape-
 A Philadelphia & Reading passen- ger train ran into two gangs of work men in a tunnel near PhoeDixville. Pa. with the result that six were killed outright and eight others were so se- riously injured that they died in a hos pitai
 Eleven mine workers wee en- tombed at the Coaldale colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company at Coaldale. Pa, as the result of fall of rock.
 Another subway cave-in in New York City. in Broadway near Thirty eighth street, resulted in the death of one and the severe injury of three others.
 Three persons were killed and four injured when Missouri Pacific passenger and freight trains collided head-on near Oreapolis, Neb.. Friday morning.
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CO0l0 0OS 8SAkso - my feet Ny hstsr- in-law wished me to try Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound end my nerves became firm,
 appetite good, step elastic, and I lost that weak, tired feeling. That was six years ago and !
 have had three 6ns
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HOLDS THE CHAINS FIRMLY
Tool That Seems Adapted to Save the Autoist From a Great Deal
 of Trouble.

Chains. especially when full of mud or fee. are hard to handle. and unless adjusted properly will lose of. A New Mexico genius has patented a
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The Jackdaw and the Doves.
 A jackdaw seeing some doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painting himself white. joined himself to them, that he might share theiy
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sr,oo,&ao, ,o saorn>,.
Grass Criticism.

Hubby. dear. is my gown comme il faut?" asked Mrs. Gadders.
 How do l know?" growled Mir. Cad ders. If you mean is 1t the kind of dress it ought to be against the law to wear, why, yes"
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The Horizontal Guards Prevent the
 Car From Leaving the Track When
 the Wheels Are Oerailed. rai,cd. The ends of each guard are provided with downward projections that prevent its sliding of the rail. The device can be applied to hand cars as well as to motor cars.-Popu- lar Mechanics.
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Arguments are still going on as to the relative advantages of facing cows In or out in a barn. Many champions of each style have shown points in which their fayorite arrangement has an advantage over the ether. The sup porters of the facing-in arrangement present the following advantages for this method of construction:
 The feeding is all carried on in one alley and is made very easy. as the feed is spread from right to left as
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WAS MISERABLE
 COULDN'T STkND
Testifies She Was Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
 Compound.
Compound

Lackawanna, N. Y.-"Aftsr my 6rse ehih was born felt very misersh's cd
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Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue; much better than liquid blue. Delights the lLnndress. All grocers. Adv.
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plentiful maintenance. The doves as long as he was silent. supposing him to be one of themselves. admitted him to their cote; but when. one day forgetting himself. he began to chat. ter, they. discovering his true char acter. drove him forth. pecking him with their beaks- Failing to obtain food among the doves, he betook him. self again to the jackdaws. They too, not recognizing him on account of his color. expelled him from living with them. So desiring two objects, he ob. tained neither.-From Aesop's Fables.
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By WILLIAM A. RApFoRp.

Mr William A Radford will answer eue~tions and give advice FREE OF SOST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm. for the readers of this paper. On account Of his wide experience as Editor. Author end Manufacturer he is. without doubt. the Address all Inquiries 10 William A Rad lord. No 1sz7 Prairie avenue, Chicago. ui. and only inciose two-cent stamp for repiy.
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Fame is a bubble, but IL Is just as we'll to allow someone else to blow yours for you
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Gone for Good,

Gone for Good.
 Six months ago lent you $i0. l don't suppose III ever see it again" T know just how you feel. ] don't suppose I'll ever see i again, either
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NEWS TO DATE
 IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western N.~Spap~r Unlon News Service.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-09
JAPAN's DARING WHALEPs
they RISK Drown 'ng to Escape the In.
fuTiated Animals Toll

Many of the japanese whalcmen are
most expert and daring men. After a
whale has bee" cornered. harpooncl
and is slowly giving out from exhaus
tlon, the nimb.e expert of the whaling
crew must prove his mettle.
The skilled Jan. after jumping upon
the animal 5 back aad cutting two
gashes In the head. one on each side.
through which rope must be run and
tied, cannot always perform his work
In one trial. Often the anima! makes
deep dive. But the little Jap must
hold fast to his quarry and dive also.
trusting to bis fates that his own air
supply in his lungs will last as LONG as
the whale IS.
The Jap is far safer from being
drowned than from being crushed by
the infuirated animals tail. If the
little Jap let go it usually means
death, so he hangs on to the diving
quarry. Frequently these whalemen
lose their lives from drowning, but the
members of their crew look upon this
misfortune with something of fatalist-
ic regard.
But the main business IN hand is the
capture of the whale. As the fight
progresses and the maddened, fright
ened animal grows weaker and finally
is dying the boat crews row closer to
the body and pray for the ease of the
departing spirit. Members of the crew
will call out the words, Joraku. Jora-
ku, Joraku!' an! ~, the third day aft
or the animal has been hauled ashore
service is held and prayers offered for
the animals future cOntpntment in
spirit.
AS soon as the animal has been
towed to the storc line he is cut up,
the Japs making huge excavations and
penetrating inside the ANIMALS body as
though entering mine shaft or gallery
and eventually making their exit, all
covered with blood. 1t is a grewsome
sight, but is looked Upon purely as a
matter of course among the Jap whale
men.-Exchange
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-09
Bans TRACKLESS TROLLEY
Public Service Commission Turns Down
Application For Charter For
Company Proposing 1t

The application of the Perkiomen
Electric Transit Company for authority
to establish trackless trolley system
in this State, was denied yesterday by
the Public Service Commission. The
applicant is Delaware corporation and
is registered to do business in Pennsyl-
vania.
cit appears, said the Commission s
ruling, "that the applicant desires to
obtain from this Commission the right
to engage in business of character
which the laws of Pennsylvania do not
as yet authorize our own corporations
to carry on.
"The Commission declares that the
exercise in this State by corporation
of another State of rights in which the
public is so vitally interested should
be undertaken if and when those rights
have been considered and defined by
the lawmaking body of the Common
wealth. "