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The Automobile m m TAKE CAu£ OF AUTO FENDERS. 1 An u'ito v/.th shabby fenders looks ; like a ma-i. 'V..ii worn-out ahoes, dirty^ and unpr«.-: d clothing, or without a I collar sna .id. Auto fenders become ugly throUjifh neglect. They receive i Bcratcht:a a.U bumps, get out of shape,] and becomii full of holes because ofi rust. It is not unusual to sea auto fenders rusted through. Rust usu.illy begins its work under- neath. Flying stone and grravel, caked mud and vibration all serve to remove the paint or enamel. The oxidization of the metal, or rust, sets in at once. The unobserving man does not know about this destructive work until all of tlie metal is eaten away from the film of paint or enamel on top. Automobile fenders should be care- fully washed occasionally and all spots from which the original paint or enamel has been removed, painted. If; you have a collision and damage a! fender, hammer out the dents and. paint the scratched places as soon as possible. The fender will look better and at the same time rust will be prevented. CROSS.'WORD PUZZLE for OILING THE SPRINGS. It is only recently that tbn necessity oiling automobile and truck springs lias become known. Tlij dif ference in riding on oiled and on rusty springs is very pronounced indeoil. In oiling springs, however, on,; difli- culty is encountered. D*st will adhere to the sides of oiled springs and final ly work between the leaves themselves .Vlso, when muddy roads are encount- ered, mud will be thrown on the springs; it will dry, and then absorb all the oil on springs. To overcome this difficulty, wrap the springs of the car with adhesive tape. The springs are first thorou^ih- ly washed and dried. Then the jack is placed under ♦l:e frame of the car and the body is raised This allows the weight of the axles and wheels to pull down on the springs' and thus separate the leaves so that greai^e can easily be inserted with a putty knife. After the spring? are greased, the weight of the car should be placed on the wheels again. The leaves of the springs will come together and push out surplus grease. This should bo wiped off, after which the springs may be wrapped with the tape. Wrap carefully, allowing plenty of Inp. If the tape will not stick well at the be- ginning or at the end, use shellac to hold the ends In place. Coat the en- tire wrapping with shellac after the job is finished. Building Raised from Com- mon Clay. Briclunaklng was one of man's earli- est pursuits. Babylon was acquainted with the art; and It is recorded that the Israelites baked bricks from clay mixed with chopped straw. Nowadays, for ordinary building pur- poses, red bricks are In greatest de- mand. These are produced from many kinds of clay. In the first place, the rough clay is sent from the "pit" to the top of the plant. Here it ',s ground to powder, and passes through a fine sieve to the floor below. The powdered clay Is then fed into the brick-press, where It is watered to a workable plasticity, emerging eventually pressed to a per- fectly formed, solid brick. The color it now dark grey. Not until after beating does the brick be- come red. Redness is due to the pre- sence of iron compounds in the clay, which when burned transform to free ferric oxide . The bricks are placed in the kiln chamber, which is then built up. Hot air is allowed to enter so that a thor- ough drying is effected. After drying, the hot air ia withdrawn. Pire is next introduced. Burning usually takes a week. During that time firing is maintained day and night through feed-holes in the kiln top. Not all materials, however, can be treated in this simple fashion. Highly plastic clays require molding, and many elaborate preparation's are nece.ssary. Among these are "weath- ering." and the addition of non-plasttie matter to reduce shrinkage. Crush- ing, grinding and pugging are'also es- sential preliminaries. A brick's quality should be such that it will not succumb to the vagaries of our climate. The faces will be free from the slightest crack, and the edges square. . ..f â€" Taking Every Precaution. On going into the playground one day, the schoolmaster found one of his «mall pupils sitting on another, who was lying prostrate on the ground. "O Billle," he said, "haven't I al- ways told you- to count a hundred be- fore you give way to temper. And here I find you sitting on Tommle's head. What have you to say?" The child looked solemnly up at him. "Im counting the hundred, sir," he said. "I really am, but I'm sitting on his head, so that he'll be here when I've done counting." Shoulder Blades Hold Secret of Longevity. Your chances of a long life may rest on your shoulder blades. Dr. William W. Oraves of the St. Louis University , school of medicine in an address be- I fore the American Association Car the I Advancement of Science in Washing- : ton recently declared that long-lived people most often have convex shaped ! shoulder blades, while the shorter- lived mo»t frequently have shoulder blades of the straight or concave type. Describing the proper use* of the X-ray and other methods ol classify- ing these bones, he pointed out that no natural process or circumstances : changes one type Into another during i the lifetime of an individual, and that In no feature do members of a family more closely and more frequently re- semble each other and at the same ' time one or both parents than they do In the type of their shoulder blades. Each of the three types of shoulder I blades is found in varying degrees and percentage in all human types regard- 1 less of race stock, sex, age, occupa- tion, social level > and environment. Examination of large numbers of llv-j ' ing persons and skeletons of known age, however, show that the propor- tion of convex shaped blades increases | with the age of the persons examined, | Dr. Graves said. The inference he i 1 drew from this was that the shorter ] lived people, those moat likely to be-' come sick, are most likely to have the ' straight or concave type of .shoulder bone than tlie convex. T ^ 1" 1 H ^ 7 r- 1 <) 10 11 il 13 P 14 15 I Z4 17 â- â-  19 P P Xi â-  I^H 11 21 i I HI lb 21 2.6 Z9' P ?1 â-  3Z I _iH i^ 3^ i7 â-  45 â-  38 J9 '10 41 â-  49 â-  p iin WM l+H P IBil 47 48 1 50 51 52 5i 5H 1 rCRNAI 5*. 5-7 se 59 _.. ®THC 'M lONkl tVHOICATt. Avalanches in Switzerland 'By John A. Otisa. The Swiss people call them "lou- wine," and they are someiimes so called in Bugliiih: as whun iu one of his poems Lord Byron spuke of the mountains as place, "Where roar the thundering laiiwlne." thuugb ho prob- ably meant no more than the snow Eastern Swltserland. we find another cas« Quitf unlike any that have yet been meniiuued. Many .vearii ago, what waa known us the Korcolu Pass, the little town of Le Rovine blood at the foot of the towering inouutain. It contained avalanches which are frequently seen about throe hundred Inhabitants, who In summer by the traveler. were occupied as cattle-herders and The word has a broader meaning, farmers, besiiies carrying on quite a however, and Includes those enormous business iu thn way of entertaining masses of earth and rock which not people who were obliged to pass that infrequently become loosened from way- They had. however, come to SUGGESTIONS FO.R SOLVING CROSS-WORU PUZZLES Start out by filling In the words of whiiJi you feel reasonably sure. These will give you • clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to atUl others. A letter belongs in each white spaci!, words starting at "the numbered squares and running either - horizontally or vertically er both. the cliffs and d^ccnd Into the valleys, carrying death and destruction far and wide. In some parts of the country aval- anches of either sort are ao likely to occur at any lime that the people ! guard against them by planting exten- I Hive forests on the hillsides, and in some cases strong bulwarks of ma- I Houry have been erected between the towuB and the mountains. Despite all precautions, however, it is not unusual (or lives to be lost and single houses to be destroyed, and there are cases on record where en- tire villages have been buried beyond all possibility of excavation. On the Bemiua Pass, a great high- way which leads from Switzerland to Italy, the traveler still has his atten- tion directed to the spot where, many HORIZONTAL 1â€" A dolt 4â€" To take oath frâ€"Artlole 12 â€" in the past 13 â€" Handle of an axe 14 â€" An element IB â€" A water- eprlte 17 â€" A feast day 19 â€" ^To drink with the tongue 21 â€" A division of land 22â€" To turfalt 24 â€" A cleanina Implement 26 â€" Curved 29 â€" Not elevated 30â€" Bravery 32 â€" Floh egga 33â€" Friendly 34 â€" To plant 87 â€" To twiat violently 38 â€" An animal 40â€" A fleh 42â€" Still 43â€" The two 44 â€" Tear 46 â€" A plaeo to elaep 47 â€" ^A mark BOâ€" Warmed 8Sâ€" Rago 84 â€" Soothed 86â€" Motal-bearing rock 87â€" Writing Implement 88 â€" Lying flat SSâ€" Novel VERTICAL 1 â€" A tree aâ€" Number of year* 3 â€" To pursue 4 â€" Large boat Bâ€" Tiny 6â€" A, letter 7â€" Hall 8 â€" Genuine 9 â€" Loose hanging rag 10â€" Hasten 11 â€" To make a mlatako 16â€" Corppensatlon 18â€" Convulsive cry 20 â€" A defender 22 â€" Group of pupils 23 â€" An exclamation 24 â€" To Join 2Sâ€" The end 27 â€" Negative 28 â€" Used for chewing 30 â€" A pledge 31 â€" A bit of cloth SSâ€" An exclamation 36 â€" Home of an animal 38 â€" Agricultural product 39 â€" Close by 41 â€" To excavate 43 â€" A serpent 48 â€" To look eiyly 46 â€" To grant 47 â€" A gratuity 48â€" Existing 49 â€" Material for ealking' 80â€" A fowl 81 â€" Beforehand 82 â€" Precipitation 86 â€" In thie manner have a bad reputation, and were sup- posed to be capable of aliuoet any crime. Travelers wlio were obliged to spend the night here were provided with only the meanest food, but were compelled to pay for it the most ex- orbitant prices. Indeed, the catalogue of evil deeds of which liie people of the town were guilty was a long one. and it is said that they were frequently warned that some terrible judgment would be sent upon them unless they reformed. Be that as it may, it is certain that on June 13, 1486, uu earthquake shook the mountains violently, and a feai* ful avalanche burled the town, with all its inhabitants, in one common grave. But the most remarkable instance of such disasters yet remaln.s to be years ago, a village named Mille Morti 1 si'ol'en of- was buried by an evalanche of earth I '° "*® ^^^y centre of Switzerland, and rock from the slope of a neighbor- ' ""' f*"" '""om the famous city of Lu- ing mountain. Very little la known i *=«â- â- "*»• '» " t™« o' country bearing concerning the disaster, for it is one ! '"" general name of Goldau. It in- ot those .sad cases where neither man, ' '''"<^'"' several villages, whose situ*, woman nor child escaped to tell the ' '.'°°^ "'.^â- "^ °^ extreme beauty, for In story. • On the road from the Italian lakes Into Switzerland by the great Maloja Pasa oue sees the site of a catastrophe even more appalling than that already mentioned; more appalling because more extensive. The village of Plurs must have front of them lay the charming little Lake of Lowertz, and behind them rose the Rossberg Mountain to a height of more than Ave thousand feet. This mountain consists of layers of conglomerate rock, made up of round- ed limestones mixed with flinty peb- been very pfeasant for situation, for '''"^ Imbedded In a sort of calacreoua in front of It a mountain torrent kept up Its unceasing roar, while at a lit- tle distance in the background rose the high cliffs of Monte Ck>nto. It must have been a prosperous town, too, tor early in the seventeenth cen- tury it sheltered a population of twen cement, alternating with layers of sand three or four feet In thickness. Not infrequently these sand-beds be- come disintegrated by the action of water percolating through them, and masses of rock deprived of their sup- port in this way, are occasionally pre- Sums at Lightning Speed. I A French lightning calculator. M. , Inlaudl, was recently pitted against ' twelve of the latest type of calculating machines. The liuman machine car- ried off all but one of the honors. M. Inlaudl easily beat his mechani- cal competitors In the speed with which he solved problems in addition, subtraction, division and finding the square or the cube, but In the first roundâ€" extracting the square root of a numberâ€" a machine came out first. In the third round, which consisted of complicated problems, the man won easily. A Leg For Sale. PUmt That Maddens. In a lively book of reminiscences, .-i-mong the curious plants of Queens- Thirty Years at Bow Street, Mr. Wll- ; land is the "stinging tree," a luxurious Ham T. Ewens tells an amusing story \ shrub, pleasing to tlie eye, but dan- that he heard from an old man who ' gerous to the touch. It grows from lived in Bow Street in the rear of the | two or three inches to ten or fifteen police courts, with whom the author feet In height, and emits a disagree- often had a bit of conversation. , able odor. "Wlien I waa a young fellow." said I Speaking of its effects, a naturalist the old man, "I started to walk from says: "One often forgets the danger Covent Garden to the Angel at Isling- of the tree until warned by its smell, ton. There were fields in those days Its effects are curious. It leaves no where you now see nothing except mark, but the pain is maddening, and shops, and I enjoyed the walk im-ifor months afterwards the affected mensely. I could run and Jump at that Part 's tender when touched In rainy time as well as anyone In London, ' weather or when it gets wet In wash- and so when I came to a stile I did not 'ng. trouble to climb over. In trying to "â-  have seen men who treated or- ty-four hundred and thirty souls. In clpitated into the valley. It was thia the autumn of 1618 it was noticed that °° * 'a^ge scale that caused the dls- maases of earth and rock fell with un- *8ter. usual frequency, and a number of fls- 1 "^^^ summer of 1806 had been an ex- sures were seen to form and widen In ceptionally rainy one, and on the see- the mountain. But the people, dlare- ""'' °^ September, a stratum of rock garding these admonitions, continued meaBurlng- more than two miles in their usual pursuits till one night a length, three thousand feet In width terrific landslide burled them and ^â- "^ ""^ hundred feet in thickness, be- their possessions beneath a pile of ^""^ loosened, and fell upon tha doomed villages from a height of three thousand feet. Four villages were ut- terly destroyed, and upward of five hundred people were buried beneath the ruins. Nor did the destruction end there, for the avalanche swept reslstlessly in till It reached the lake, one-fourth of the bed of which was fllled up by the debris, while the Islands were totally submerged, and a wave eighty feet In height broke upon and des- troyed all the buildings on the op- posite shore. These are but a few of the instance* in which the mountains have sent waa completerv'**dMtroyed"*by 'T". ''""' "P"" '*>« peaceful valleys of this lovely land. debris more than sixty feet deep. So utter was the destruction that jdo attempt has ever been made at exca- vation, and the spot is now covered with a beautiful grove of chestnut trees, among whose branches the nimble squirrels play, and at the foot of which boys and girls now search for nuts. Another example, not so destruc- tive to life and property, but more striking, from it.s having twice hap- pened In the same place, may be no- ticed in the valley which leads to the village of Zermatt. Here, iu 1737, a little town of one hundred and forty houses an avalanche of snow from the Wels- horn Mountain. Years passed, and the snow had all melted, the debris had been cleared ] I never knew a night so black light j failed to follow in its track; I never knew a atoi-m so gray it failed to have ' I its clearing day; I never knew such j bleak despair that there was not a ' rift somewhere; I never knew an hour so drear love could not fill it full of I cheer!â€" John Kendrick Bangs. ; Jump it, however, I miscalculated the dlnary pain lightly roll on the ground distance and came an awful cropper. In agony after being stung, and I have away, and another and larger village Who picked me up I Idou't know. ' known a horse so completely mad af- ! "^^ built on the same spot. Here the When I regained consciousneBs I ter getting into a grove of the trees i people lived in peace and safety, and found myself In a hospital. I was In that he rushed open-mouthed at every- [ 1}*^ perhaps quite forgotten the first awful pain, tor I had hurt my leg bad- one who approached hira. ly. I was in the hospital for weeks. "During that time I was visdted by ' some of the most famous surgeons in ' Loudon. My case puzzled them con- siderably, and 1 heard them say that { there had been nothing like It before. ] .^mong the people Interested In my ! leg was an old doctor who had a good I practice in the region of the Strand. ] On one of his visits he said, 'I shuld j like to have your leg.' ! " 'Oh, would you?' said I. 'I want it myself If you have no objection.' | " 'I understand that,' said the doc- ' tor, 'but T should like to have your leg when you have done with it. There has been nothing like It before, and I don't think you will want It for very , long." . I " "Thank you for nothing.' said I. ' im going to get better, and the very disaster, when suddenly, one after- I noon. In 1819, another avalanche of ice i and anow from the same mountain ] came down upon them, burying one hundred and eighteen houses, to- gether with many people. The house , of the village pastor stood a little apart from the others, and so escaped destruction; but such un enormous quantity of snow was lodged In hla garden that It did not entirely disap- pear till two years later. Returning now to the region of But. notwithstanding all this, the country is a prosperous one. The peo. pie possess an energy which does not quail readily in the face of difficulties. After the avalanche comes the pa- tient hand of man, and ore long the scenes of such terrible disasters again become the abode of an Industrious community. Even Goldau itself has been rebuilt. A new church stands on nearly the exact site of the one that was burled, and the only reminders of the catas- tropho of 1806 are a tablet, with an inscription, .set In the wall of the pre- sent building, a dellglous service held once each year in commemoration of the event, and the deep and inefface- able scars which show the track of the avalanche down the Rossberg's stony side. tramp over She I !i:vf to take day 1 leave this place 111 walk you to the frozen suow. ' Ludgate Hill tor anything you like. He "Meaning whom?" j "The old doctor did not take me on. o- but he pestered me to or three times a week to sign a paper authorizing One Hundred Years Old, 86 Years in French Family him lo have my injured leg on my death. He even offered lo give me ] twenty pounds if I would sign. I pon- dered long over his proposal. You see' I had nothing else to do. and, as II. was evident that my leg would be no use; to me after my death. 1 finally con-' sented to his terms. The docfxir ' brought me a paper one morning, and I Aigned It. He gave me ten pounds down, and I was to have the balanoe In due lime. From that moment I began to mend and soon afterwards left the hospital in comparatively good i health, though I was slightly lame ; and alway^4 shall be. Kighty-six years of .snvice in the same family is the i-ecord which Vic- toire Desrumeaux, a doinestic, cele-; brated on the occasion of her 100th ' birthday, says a Paris despatch. The ; French paper.s are losing no oppor- tunity to comment on this remarkable example of fide'ity in view of the mod- ern custom of maidx and cooks chang- ] ing their positions almost monthly â€" often merely for the sake of the] change. I \\ L. Kichardsou. who was In charge of the at-nal photography unit on ' ^e dirigible Los Angelea, climbs down from the great gas hag to one of the engine cabiag from which he took pictun>s of the eclipee. I Birds' Egg* aa Jewelry. { Necklaces of wild birds' eggs are now being made. The egjrs are pairwl has a moat remarkable f""" »'"»• *"<' »'"''' blawing are treated Most of the words he , by a chemical procn^and the Insldes filled with a light- weighted oompogi- . lion to givi" I hem «oIHity. .\s Uie Doctor "Poor fellow: Up got that j ""ells all have diffprent markings, way tiylng to solve cross word pua- noY«\ effects are prodi cod. The prices lies." I vary from |2n to $5000 and more. A Warning. .\8yIuDi Visitor 'The iwticni in the ; padded cell vocabulary, uses are marked rare or obsolete ir | the dictionaries." The C«nndian-.\u?tralion liner ".Xorangi." making its maid<-n v^iyage from ISngland to .\uslralla. via (iRlifornia. British Columbia, i." .shown pp»9- ing thro\igh the Panama (.'anal. She broke aU time records on the first v«rt of the Journey.