The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-08-12
HOW TO START A CAR.

A Mino. attorney whose car is hard
to start, gives this suggestion relative
to starting a car:
"Now that the fall is approaching
with its usual cool mornings, 1t is not
out of place to suggest means Of start
ing motors. l have always had more
or less trouble with mine, but / found
that the use of ether is the best and
quickest remedy for q cold car. Get
quarters worth of ether at the drug
store and pour few drops on piece
Of cheese cloth and spread it over the
intake or pour few drops inside the
intake, by means of common oil can,
and turn the engine over and she will
start like dog with a few drops of
turpentine on his back. The turpen-
tine runs down under his armpits, ETC.,
and annoys him.
maybe you never saw dog with
q few drops Of turpentine on his back.
When I was kid had dog named
Frank that was given to wandering.
That is how he happened to be mine.
He wandered into our yard and be-
came mine. l had sister who was
going with the foreman of a carriage
making shop located few blocks
away and one day the dog wandered
over that way.
81 never knew for long time just
what happened. l was out in the
yard and heard my dog coming. ran
out into the street and opened my
arms and tried to console him but he
lodged me and after circling the
house three times ran under it and in
spite of the fact that l stood at the
side of the house with various choice
bits of eating for him, he refused to
be comforted.
~ wondered what had happened. A
friend of mine-a boy of my own age
said he had been at the carriage
shop and that the whole force, from
the manager down, had come out and
was leaning on the hitch rail in front
Of the shop to see the dog make the
start. Afterwards, when my sister
and the foreman had married, he ask
ed if there was anything had been
wrong about that time and mentioned
something about the peculiar effects
of turpentine and l asked the boy
who had seen the dog start and to-
gether we figured out just what had
Of course the dog got over
time he sat down he would get up
hurriedly and walk around as if nerv-
Gus about something.
"Shortly after that my father went
west to live and l found myself trans
ferred from small eastern village to
a farm on the prairies. We had a
few sheep and one day when l was
picking potatoes one of the sheep
one that really belonged to a neigh
Dor and that l wasn't used to-came
up behind me and l picked myself up
and went back to the house. l didn't
know anything about animals either
tame or wild but l remembered about
the dog. I found we had some tur-
pentine and went out with it and coax
ed the sheep into the stable and when
he wasn't looking l poured some of it
on his back and then climbed into
safe place.
ut happened that just when the
stuff commenced to work my father
came to the stable for something and
opened the door. My father had lost
one eye but the one that was left was
a good one and it took him just the
fraction of second to see what the
sheep would do and he slammed the
door shut. Then he watched the sheep
cutting the figure eight for few Sec
onds thru the crack of the door and
offered to- fan me, but the sheep was
between us and he couldn't make good.
don't remember just how we separat-
ed.
II don't know whether it makes the
car mad or not but it certainly acts
just like turpentine."