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i: Pee southward into. : ra getting a close-up, i Sas tearing through other heavy labor--and so they let the . : way to nibble at the meat hadeny Td ' themselves caught : Found ti Bel yards over the line in' re that costs tenpence a "Belgium to a farmhouse a Frnt. where it can be sold for foar if iz Efe. iy The researches were made on small wl ou parts of the nerve and brain tissuds one the forbidden line SEL "woods with a ring of "his neck, a coat of armor made of sole leather, saddle- bags swung over his back, and all this paraphernalia. surmounted by a three or four-foot vertical pole, might im- agine that he had seen a spectre. The French Custon.s men know only | ¢on! too what it means. Teh pounds of tobacco have just whisked past under their very noses! A mere dog, || probabiy a half-breed sheepdog or Al- satian, has challenged the prestige and security of a monopoly that brings the French. Government an annual profit of £28,100 ,000, Now for an epic battle, fought out in the solitude of the dark forest. The 'Customs men unleash their dog, whom a to be a professional r, and he bounds after the smuy- with dripping fangs. .n several minutes the killer will catch up with Lis enemy, and become infuriated he smells the tobacco. It is then a fight to the death. When the Cus- toms men come running up at least on of them, and perhaps both, will he dead. But it is generally the pro- pas killer that wins these strug- eg: A famous dog called Gamin, belonz. 'si to the Valenciennes brigade of the service, was himself killed 10 | battle after he had finished off ninety- two smugglers durin his career, and Just three weeks a~o, Medor, a scarred Yatoram, was: killed n2ar the same The Customs men gat a bounty of sixpenc for the lest kind foot of every tobacco-runner killed. TRICKING THE TRAPPERS The guarding of this 200-mile fron- tier. that cuts through deep forests in many places is a tremendous problem for the French Government. Everyone in this country has a big Alsatian, dahl, or shepherd--in fact, es are used for drawing carts and dogs turn smugglers. At sunset the French smuggler saunters a half-mile or so to some wayside Belgian tasern, buys his to- bacco, sips a drink, ard cracks a few kes with his comrades about the Customs men. When darknesc has fallen he starts of two men who were killed by electric shock. One of them was elect £ ofthe cells were found to 'save forced out of position and changed somewhat in character, so that they absorbed more of the ayes Gov used to make them Nisible: when pre day pared on a side. = Some of the other The electric current entered be-' the case of the man who committed 'therefore, pass through the brain. But the cells of the brain were injured in the same manner as the cells in the criminal's brain, which was subjected 'seems to suggest that the nerve cells iro) Tuomas Sectrocytes suicide. In both cases the nerve cells of the medulla, 'that portion of the brain between the cerebrium and the spinal column, showed visible damage under a sensitive microscope. In each case ,the darker central 'of the medulla are in some way sensi tive to electric shock received in other parts of the nervous system, and can be damaged by surges of abnormal fected arc to the brain as the aormal A 'nerve impulses do. Eat More Seaweed The Plant of Life The inereasing prevalence of the condition called goitre is causing alarm n scientific crele. In numerous alarm in scientific circles. In numerous pi it " h most valuable. But the Xélps; vastly abundant, should yield valuable food products.. 'They contain all the worth- while minerals that the ocean holds in , solution, and may be régarded as mar- line vegetables noglected through ignor- ance. The absolute dependence of man and the lower mammals upon iodine ded as sup orting the theory most It attacks all kinds of farm animals. Pigs are born Cead. Calves, lambs, kids; and foals com: into the world poor and weak. Commonly they have enlarged necks; in calves the trouble is. called "big neck." Chickens suffer from the same complaint, and the lay- ing power of -hens is much reduced. Farmers' losses due to goitre have been enormous. The cause until re- cently was a mystrry. Now it is known that the lack of iodine is ac- countable for the mischief. Goitre is a disease of the thyroid gland, une of the important ductless glands in the thrca* and is due to lack of icdine. The gland becomes greatly enlarged, and presses upon the windpipe, interferirz with breathing. Wherever it most afflicts farmanimals, there also dees it most commonly at- tack human beings. An eminent medica authority says: "The thyroid gland 's to the body of man or animal what the draught is to the fire. Nay, more; its iodine is the match that kinliss the fire." For iodine, taken into the body with food, is stored in the thyroid gland. It is there held as a reserve, to he drawn upon only wien the body fe- quires more iodine than is supplied by the diet. Health dencnds largely upon | w this apparently insig: ificant store. The throat gland, in human beings, sometimes become enlarged to such an extent as to form a huge swelling at the base of the neck. But there are plenty of people with small goitrous swelling who fail to notice them par- ticularly. DOWN ON THE FARM To farmers the discovery of a sue- cessful iodine treatment for animals is of uimost importance. It works with certainty, the stuff being given medicinally in. the form of sodium jodide of potash. Dissolved in water, i of science that all animal life has its origin in the ocean. Their remote an- ancestors having become habituated to the p 'esence of iodine contained in sea water, animals even now cannot get along without it. BENEFIT TO THE WORLD The finest fleeces *. the world are grown in the Orkneys, where the sheep feed on seaweeds. Salt derived f:om sea water by evaporation con« tains much iodine, aid its jntroduction into general use for the table would be a great benefit to the human race, It would also be most" benefical for farm animals. Unfortunately, it is expensive; but it could be made com- raratively cheap if production were undertaken on : large scale at suit- able manufacturing plants along the coast. Observation has shown that occa- sional visits to the seashore render people practically immune from goitre Sea spray blown inland iedizes - the soil; the plants, and to some extent the air. Marine foods, such as oy. ters and fish, contain iodine in useful quanti- ties. Goitre prevails more or less in all parts of the world, and among all peoples. It is worst in Switzerland, re almost 1:0 per cent. of the in- habitants are affected. Formerly their affliction was aitributed to drinking water from melted s..ows, but now it is known to be due to lack of iodine. Swiss families that ¢:1 afford the ex- pense spend some weeks annually at the seashore for a cure. Agony of Neuritis A Story of Intense Suffering and Relief. "Do Ir d Dr, Williams' Pink In #0 get kis dog ready. He first puts on@One ounce to the gallon, a t a heavy collar studied with two rows, one pointing forward, the other back- ward, of three-inch spikes that have been Been sharpened to necdle poin.s. These eruel spikes are designed to protect the animal's throat when the killer 'attacks, They are terribly effective. The smuggler then straps a coat made of heavy sole leather around his dog. This is a veritable coat of mail that is tightly strapped under the body to protect the most tender parts from the killer's teeth. The tobacco is then swung over the back in saddlebags of various types. "To combat this illicit frontier run- ming, the French Customs men have resorted to the old Indian trick of bending over a young sapling and hanging a looped rope from it. A piece of meat suspended inside the loop 'serves as a bait and releases the trap n it is tou hed. Poorly-trained t are foolish enough to stop nec' or midriff and jerked air, Somewhat similar traps ed on the ground anchored to 'sand.' TRAINING ON SNUFF ensure. that their dogs head for home, the smugglers feed lome and not at all in EE quickly ge that he unders 8 al elm ful is administered daily to the cow, the sow, the ewe, or the mare during the gestation period. The same -- for all. For mares and cows it is sprinkled on the food. The treatment has proved no less ful with chick Pullets dosed with iodide lay more eggs, and their useful life is extended by one or two years. The yield of pullets went up from 107 eggs to 178, and the aggregate egg production of twelvé birds went up in three months from 139 eggs to 263. Cows yield more milk, and bring profit for a much longer period. Ewes supplied with iodine have more young lambs. Pigs gain weight faster. Calves reach marketable con- dition sooner. Lambkins, piglings, and calves require less food to show a given increase in weight. In a word, iodine makes farming pay much better; and the stuff, in the form of iodides, is inexpensive. Dairy cows are by this means quickly cured of goitre. But the main problem has to do with human beings. At the same time, experiments with the iodine treatment of human beings offer lessons to breeders and owners of livestock. FOOD VALUES. For the source of iodine supply, man must look to the sea. To extract it hg that a great rth Pills? You may believe I do," says Mr, John H. Jamieson, of Wallace burg, Ont. "For five years I suffered day and night from neuritis, The agony was ter- rible. I lost control of my arm and shoulder and my hand became shriv- eled. Nothing helped me till I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Even then the improvement was slow and I took ten uvoxes before I "was on the way to recovery. After that, though, relief was rapid. My hand gradually filled out; the pain left me and I could sleep in peace. That was two years| ago and I have not had. a twinge of! the trouble since." Sufferers from neuritis, neuralgia or rheumatism should try the common- sense method of banishing these trou- bles by enriching the blood and strengthening the nerves with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These Pills are sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville, Ont. ---- Germany to Use Loudspeaker As Advertising Medium Berlin--A great engineering firm in Germany is responsible for an inven- tion whose utility has at least two It is a gi a! 80 constructed that a mere whisper into a microphone can overwhelm a whole city with vocal tones of ex- treme clarity. The vibration cf the membranes is so intense that ig elec-| tric current of 200 'watts While hitierto a 00 watts current was the will hereby 'come into opera- fon, as a stationary oa equipped 1 boy irl fen re- | h time" ulated and re- 80 disturbing suicide, and the electricity did not, | directly to the electric current. This | nerve impulses traveling from the at The old-fashioned 'saying, 'Child should be seen and not heard," sho have passed forever from our presen d's growth' has displaced the, | meager insight of former days, A re- cent experience proved the injustice | tween the left arm and the left leg in 9 ting to hold to that worn-out po. saddle sprang the rider. "Let We were having a delightful ride in the country. At my suggestion, we, had turned from the much traveled ' highway to a road seldom used. bubbling over with enthusiasm about all the new things she was seeing and her questions came fast. What were those flowers? Could she pick some? What was a silo? What was it used for? Why? Did baby ducks come out of eggs like chickens? Why did the creek Tun only one way? Could cows swim? Was that why they went into the water? There seemed to be no 'end to her questions, Her mother be- came quite impatient and answered her shortly and indifferently, She was intent upon telling me about her new clothes, about a bridge luncheon that she had just given and about Grace Brown's trouble with her husband. As continuous as the stream of questions from the child was the mother's light chatter. 1 tried to answer some of the child's questions while attending po- litely to my hostess. Finally, how- ever, in exasperation Elizabeth's mother said, "You must keep still, I want to talk to Miss King and you dis- torb me." For a few moments there was sh lence and then the questions and com- ments began again until her mother sald, "Elizabeth, if you will keep still for half an hour I will give you fifty cents," To me she said, "That will hold her I think. The silly child has been try- ing to save enough to buy her father a birthday present.and my offer will be an inducement." And indeed the profMfise of the fifty cents did seem to produce the de- sired effect. Several times her face lighted up and she almost spoke only to remember in time. Twenty-five minutes paséd when suddenly, with her little face all aglow, she burst out, "Oh, Mother, what is-that beautiful red bird?" The mother without turning her head in the direction of the bird, ex- claimed, fifty cents! You cant' keep still for even half an hour!" Elizabeths' face fell and her eyes filled with tears, "Oh, I'm sorry. Now I can't buy Daddy's birthday present, want to know what that bird was." "That," I answered, "was a scarlet tanager. I have one in my garden. If Mother will let you come over after school to-morrow, perhaps we can see it and I will tell you about it." And at that moment I decided that I was much In need of a little errand girl for several nights so that Eliza- beth might earn the fifty cents for her father's birthday in a reasonable way. A child's education depends very much upon his awarenéss of things about him, so his questions regarding things that he sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels should be encouraged and he should be given as correct and careful replies as it is possible to give. --Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City. These articles are appear- ing weekly in our columns, *PRERI PRE Forgotten Garden Here marigolds and phlox hold their sway, And iyy steeped in memory drapes a wall, Where hollyhocks like dreaming can- dles tall Light this lost garden, crumbling and! gray. Phlox, white, like lovely ladies in their day, | Bend swiftly as if answering some |, call Where now alone forgotten pansies fall And faded moonbeams desolately stray, Clear as are morning trumpets, mari- golds Lift, rapturous, their faces to the sky 'Where tones of sweet birds vanish in the folds : Of rhytbm's far-forgotten gongs and die. And all the rose-gold swooning hour . holds Behogs the requiem of love's good-bye, --Allce Hunt Bartlett. -- meres ' The curate of a country church had preached a charity sermon, and after 'the service he,was told by one of the 'churchwardens that the eollection sud the to £20 bs. 4%d. "Well," the curate with. pride, at proves, uate think, that my sermon a yon, Cols lo doubt Ld. str" sir," replied the uire| putin a £20 1b. 2016; WoiE, sud» and he's deat." Granting that a FEE can do no. wrong it must be admited | a 1 A few mighty leaps to prove it. Then, was enjoying the wealth of beauty all' about me. Ten-year-old Elizabeth was | "There, you have lost your| but I did that horse, 8 his head out for the bit, ai in srry ow. It was re Exercise they 'meant to him ,and ac- tion, speed The one great end of 'his existence. | Aim go!" He pawed the air a moment. Was he free? he bounded to the race, With the mettle of his noble line of De od. und. ardeD sires, Stretched his limbs in rhythmic mo-' tion, Vital, joyous, fearless, free! For him, now, no rest or turning ba" It was speed he craved, and action! Indeed a thoroughbred, that horse, --Emerol Stacy, in the Christian Science Monitor. "| fh . Is Baby Teething? | ,Teething time 1s a time of worry to most mothers. The baby is nervous; fretful; feverish. His little gums are swollen and sore; diarrhoea, constipa- tion, colic and sometimes convulsions set in--neither baby nor mother can sleep. These troubles can be quickly ban- ished, however, through the use of Baby's Own Tablets, concerning which Mrs. Louis Grubb, Teeswater, Ont. says: --*"I have used the Taklets for all my babies while teething and have found them a splendid medicine." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockviile, Ont. ----i rt Milk Wisdom Milk shauld be scalded, not boiled. Heat until the surface of the milk | quivers. Milk boiled' loses most of its goodness, Before heating milk rinse the sauce- pan out with water, leaving just enough there to wet the bottom of the | pan. This is a great guard against' burning, Milk bottles and jugs are more easi- ly cleansed if rinsed out with cold water first. Milk should never be kept in leaden vessels, 1-r should it 1» giyen to children in metal cups of any d. Some people find hot milk indigest- ible. This may be because they drink it the wrong way. Hot milk should | be sipped slowly. For children, milk and water is lighter anl more easily digested. Sour milk need not be wasted. It makes excellent scones, and may be added to a stew with advantage. It may be used as a junket, Last, but not least, remember its beautifying proper- ties; as a skin softener it is unrival- led, TEESE Sk-- For Blisters -- Minard's Liniment. gt mn Our Tattooed Beauties Tattooing is sometimes resorted to by women in search of beauty. Rosy cheeks and ruby lips are thus acquired while noses of a too vivid hue are toned down, PRS RR Sophonisba--"What were the provi- sions of your uncles' will?" Theophil- us--*"That I should have all that was left after the payment of his Just | debts," Sophonisba--"How generous! : What did he leave?' Theophilus-- "Just debts." ee ei fipcnimimn "You people in Ameriea have no an- cestors.! "Oh, yes, we have," answer- ed the man whose daughter is engaged to a duke; "the best that money can buy." POULTRY BUTTER & EGGS et Our Quotations Before Shipping LINES LIMITED St. Lawrence Market, Toronto 2 'HER FAT IS MELTING | Tran vin, Sn aed. Xoo. Jo aneidee. a 3% vals To Snax, ahily, stron. ade ay poe A038, . EO ER Rep Rose Tea a qeed Wa," Too Quamies - - RED LABEL % Onance. Pexor Western Camda Coal With the exception of true anthra cite, practically every kind of coal i 'to be found in Alberta and British Co lumbia. The high grade lignite and | gub- bituminous coals of Alberta are designated by the provincial authori- ties as domestic coal to differentiate them from the ordinary lignites, --ee And of course the correct thing to do will be to drivi out to the miniature. golf course in one of the new bantam. site motorears, sp pond Visitor to 7 Northern Town: very here!" 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