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THE BRILLIANT HISTORY OF THE
ROYAL NORTH-WEST EST M0 NTED
O POLICE
PART THREE
As pioneers of road -making
pollee are of the greatest value, their
atest wor
k lethis respect being
the construction of a trawl from Ed-
snonton to Dawson City, a distance of
nearly 2,000 miles, through the Peace
River country. The difficulty of con-
structing this trail may he understood
when itis stated that three years were
occupied in making it. Its principal
use for some time to come will be as
a road for the conveyance of prison-
ers from Dawson City to Edmonton,
without passing through the Unit
States. territory. Yet the greate
tragedy in the history of the metal
police occurred on this trail.
While passing overland from Fort
McPherson to Dawson •City a pats
under Inspector Fitzgerald got lost
a blizzard. They wandered about u
til they died from starvation and
haustion. One man committed
ede. The relief expedition wh'
found the remains also recovered
diary of the leader in which th
story of how they ate their dogs a
then the leather of their moceasi
was told. The annals of Arctic and
Antarctic exploration es not cont
a more thrilling narrative of a brave
man's fight against the forces of na-
ture than Fitzgerald's little diary.
In carrying out their ordinary
police work these daring men, in mak-
ing their way across the trackless
wilds of the Northland, return
valuable information as to the e
istence of rivers, lakes, mountai
and creeks, which enables the ma
maker to fill in the blank spaces.
Patrols covering a thousand miles and
more have frequently to be rnede.
The Coppermine River Crime
recent striking example of hunts
for murderers ,inn the far north is
here described. Some five years ago
two Roman Catholic missionaries were
murdered at the head of Great Bear
Lake. It took some time for the news
to reach the police headquarters, but
early in .June; 1915, Inspector La-
Aiauze, a.
twenty-seven-yeor-old offic-
er, was despatched to arrest two Es-
kimos who were suspected of the
crime. Taking two constables with
him, he left Regina and proceeded to
Peace River Landing, Alberta, by
train. From there they went down
the Peace River to Lake Athabasea,
then down the Slave River to Great
Slave Lake which they crossed to the of the Mackenzie River. Down
that stream they went to Fort Nor-
man, at the mouth of the Bear River.
Following the Bear River to Great
Bear Lake, they crossed it to Dense
Bay, where the party wintered in the cabin wt:ere the priests had
Jived.
Early in the spring of 1916 the pa-
trol again took up the trail and
crossed over the Divide to the Cop-
per's -sine River, thence down that
streams to Gornation Gulf on the Arc-
tic, Here they were fortunate in fal
ling in with Corporal Brwce, one o
West Mounted Police was dispatched
the to secure, if possible, the two Eskimos
who had committed the crime.
Inspector W . J. Beyte was in charge
of the party, with Sergeant Oalkin
and two others. From Regina they
went by train to Halufax, a distance
of over two thousand miles, where
they took the schooner Village Belle,
especially chartered to take then into
the wilderness.
The schooner sailed for Hudson Bay,
and on the trip had numerous mirac-
ulous escapes from icebergs and ice
ed floes, and was nearly wrecked several
st times. Finally Chesterfield inlet was
ted reached. The party pressed inland,
and for three years scoured a vast
land some half a million square miles
ore in area in a vain search for the Esu
in kiln° murderers, They did, however,
n- find the last hut in which the ex-
e
sui-
lch
ied
Hudson Bay Railroad leads to civa-
do
piorers had lived, and a diary be-
longing to Radford. In the late sum-
mer of 1916, the patrol's three years
of duty being up, they started back
f,or civilization, coming overland to
Le Pas Mieion, where the Government
ization. On January 28th they ar-
ia rived back at Regina.
Inspector French then set out, but
he has returned after an unsuccessful
seorch of three years. The fact is the
police have only the vaguest clues and
no accurate description to work upon.
Furthermore a good deal of sympathy
nth is felt for the unmown murderers, as
,C_ according to rumor among the native
ns < people (and rumor is all powerful in
p the Northland) the white men were to
blame.
It is expected that the hunt will be
abandoned,. but it has already cost the
Canadian 'Government $150,000 and en-
tailed
journeys of many thousand
miles into unknown territory: It has
resulted in filling in many blank spaces
on the nags, and for that reason
alone cannot be described, as altogeth-
er a. failure. Scores of unknown Es-
kimo settlements were discovered and
much valuable data regarding their
life and habits secured. Indeed, the
Canadian Government are now arrang-
ing to send reindeer to these people
as they were found to be very short ant
food through the disappearance of the
whale and the seal. And it is the
Mounted Police who will transport the
reindeer tp their countrry and teach
them how to look after them and
rear them -
To -day the Mounted Police have
strong bodies, ranging from a hundred
to one hundred and seventy-five men,
posted in the principal cities of West-
ern Canada. The conservative ele-
ment of the population speak of them
as Canada's bulwark against-Bolshev-
�d,l. The radicals call them an entire-
ly erent name. In the great labor
crises in Winnipeg in the summer of
1919 the Mounted Police and striking
laborers fought a pitched battle on the
main street of that city, when several
men were killed, and dozens wounded.
i' The past history of the Mounted
Police has been a brilliant one. Prob-
ably the principal secret of the red -
coated riders' success was the fact
that they always recognized the In-
dians' rights when adjusting difficult-
ies that arose in the early days. The
Indians knew they would get a square
deal.
Thus the massacres an both sides
tvhvch marked the whites' dealings
with the Indians in Eastern Canada
and the United States in the early
drays kvere avoided. Nb doubt the
force's future record -will be a worthy
one, and through them we sball learn
something of the :secrets of the yet
untrodden wilderness of the Far North.
In this work alone they have proved
themselves equal to the great explor- t
ers of the past.
The End. p
the members of Stefan�sson',s expedit-
ion. Although he bad heard nothing
of the murdered priests, he had sac-
eeeded in becoming well acquainted
with the natives, and it was through
he good offices that track was event-
ually found of the men who had one
the deed. One was discovered on
South Victoria Island, while the other
was arrested on an iceburg out in
Coronation Gulf.
All told Inspector LaNanze travel-
led close upon three thousand males
to secure these men, the journey oc-
cupying over a year. With the two
prisoners he proceeded to the post at
Herschel, where a constable was dis-
patched home with the reports.
From Herschel the prisoners were
brought to Edmonton, a distance of
over 2,500 miles. According to the
story they told they met the mission-
aries on their way up the Copper -
mine River. A storm was raging at
the time, and the missionaries pre-
vailed upon them to assist the dogs
dragging the sledges. As the storm
grew worse, the Eskimos became
scared that they would be overwhelmed
tend sought to turn back for shelter.
The priests, however, were determined
to go forward- Angry words follow-
ed, to be succeeded by'-- the blind-
ing storm kindly draws the veil upon
the scene.
Cruel, raw, elemental, like the
Iron t oentr which witnessed it, the
quarrel could have but one condusrion,
Had it not been that the murderers
appropriated and wore the garments
o their victims, the fate of the mission-
Aries might have remained a mystery
forever, as these garments afforded
the only clue. Whether this was ac-,
Wally the case or 'not will never be
known. Anyhow public •sympathy was
with the Eskimos; they 'were found
net g inty, and went back to the Arctic
ggrreatly pleased with seeing the won-
ders of the white man's land
Six years
S on the
Track
of
Justice
A ill more remarkable st o kalrte patrol was
that for the murderers of Harry Bad-
ord, the famous Arctic explorer of
ew York,' and his companion Street,
Who were speared to death by Eskimos
in, the Bear Lake region of Hudson
Bay in 1911. News travels slowly in
these desolate regions, and it was not
entll 1918 that a patrols of the North
The Boon df Curiosity
Nature has filled the child wi
curiosity for a purpose, It is ju
as essential to the growing mind as
hunger to" the sturdiness of the bo
Parents who would not think of
fusing food to the hungry youngest
often thoughtlessly deny to the dev
oping intellect the very element up
which it thrives,
The young mind demands its right
to grow into a knowledge and training
that will make life worth while. This
ever-present demand is in the form of
curiosity; and because of its persist-.
ence, parents, burdened with other
cares, are many times harrassed into
denying it,
It is the parents whose child lack
this natural tendency, who should wo
• If theeir child possesses not th
eager, questioning voice, tremblin
forever on the brink of some great
unknown mystery, as thrilling to him
as are some of the big unsolved ques-
tions that perplex and lure us grown-
ups; if this be true, then these parents
have cause for real alarm. A child
without curiosity is mentally sick;
and should he grow up without gain-
ing this gift to pry, he is doomed to a
life of inferiority.
Happily most children are supplied
with an abundance of this quality.
Scarcely two months of their life has
passed before this trait is reflected in
the gleans of intelligence that posses -
es the baby eye. From then an till
maturity it assumes a multitude of
shifting, tantalizing fornix that have
hidden beneath a system which, puzz-
ling as it may seem, will if encourag-
ed, work marvelous results when the
child reaches adulthood.
Nor need parents have a knowledge
of the by -ways of child psychology in
order to bestow the greatest benefits
on their children. They have only to
follow the course: that nature has viv-
idly marked out. 'Whatever the child's
curiosity leads'let the parent follow;
and if that curiosity be running in
wholesome channels, supply the
craved for information, or if unat-
tainable frankly tell him so.
True, ..this requires an expenditure
of patience; but parents will be re-
paid, knowing that they are rapidly.
building a foundation which is stable
because of sound training and correct
information.
Nature has not intended that a child
shall always exercise curiosity solely
for the knowledge of the moment. No
sprinkle with grated cheese, co ,'rr
th whole. with milk ,and bake in a modes -
st ate oven for an hour and a 'half.
is Serve with corn bread and. eabbage
d *, salad.
r ' '2.`�ahy people have the habit of tell-
ars Ing and re -telling the snishaps of the
el- past.:They seem never to be able to
on
s
or-
at Have y thrived on them? Wouldn't
g you feel more content and less selfish
as you sit down to your good hot
dinner at noon if you. knew your boys
and girls were also getting soinething
hot to' eat? Not only would yen -be
happier, bitt your clti9.dren would do
better school work, would grow eturd•-
ier and .have fewer colds and spells of
sickness if yogi Wilke the little effort
which is necessary to get a hot school
lunch started.. The children will like
it not only becauee their noon lundh
will taste better, but also because
they can forma school lunch club and
take turns in cooking the hot dish.
It does not require much money and.
if there is a will there will always be
a way to get the little equipment that
is needed.
let bygones be bygones. Long stories
of struggle and ,sickness roll off their
tongues as though they enjoyed the
thought of unpleasant experiences.
When we learn clearly the old, "Suffic-
ient unto the day is the evil thereof,"
we will be prepared 'to do our life
work sweetly and to some fine liur-
pose.
How have your children liked' their
cold, sometimes frozen,and usually un-
appetizing school lunches this *inter?
matter how trivial and useless the i
formation. sought may seem, the par-
ent has but to remember that the
youngster is keeping bright' for future
use that tool-curiosity—which is the
only instrument that will open an av-
enue to hits brain. It is through this
trait alone that he learns, and. this is
the only means by which he will ever
learn; consequently the effort he puts
forth is worth far more in training for
later life than in the small amount of
knowledge he might gain.
There comes a time in every child's
life, about the age of three or four,
when nothing but question marks fall
from the lips. All their sentences
seem to be equipped with an initial
"why." " Many of them are unanswer-
able and appear to be asked just for
the pleasure of asking. Parents are
often puzzled as to just what attitude
to assume. The writer has known
parents to become humiliated at the'
inquisitiveness of their child. Instead
they should have been proud. These
questions were but the sign of a bril-
liant mind in the making. They had
behind them the driving power of• nen-
tal growth. The child was utterly
unable to restrain them.
This probing trait is found in the
youngster at every turn. The child
that begs to help at grown-up work,
even for a moment, is longing to sat-
isfy that subtle power. They have a
curiosity to know how it goes:to peel
potatoes, pick eherries, or cook a cake.
It is work of nature etoring up for
hem. rich experiences,
The child that has the fortitude to
eel• into silent recesses , explore a
cave, or climb the highest tree is so
urged by nature that he might develop
a courage to do the big things of
later life.
Because of the varying succession
of outlets that curiosity employs, par-
ents are apt to slight this important,
trait and think it but a passing whim.
It is natural that the activity of yes-
terday should be discarded for the one
of to -day; for the small mind has ab-
sorbed all that is new and moves on
to some fresh object. In time, how-
ever, after it has grown by further
experience, it will return to.the old
and will then ,comprehend features it
could not grasp before,
A Ribbon. So Gay
It was only a bright gay ribbon the
new teacher revealed when she took
off her coat that rainy morning in the
dingy little, schoolroom, but it seemed
to scatter gathered rays of sunshine
among the assembly of county child-
ren clad in. typical rainy -day gar-
ments. Because of the :rain it, would
seem that each mother had dressed
her child' in his oldest, darkest, least
becoming clothes, with the result that
a gloom seemed east on. the school-
room from within as well as from
without.
But the new teacher was pleasant
to' look upon. Her • :black skirt and
white Waist ' were relieved by the
bright red -ribbon tied at her throat,
and the children, noting the addition,
smiled and forgot the rain. Perhaps
the teacher, too, felt the• effect of•the
bit of:colors at any rate,• becheery air
n- was even more pleasant that morning.
- Now, rainy days must come -occas-
ionally everywhere, but they need not
be days of gloom. Why . send yopr
children to school in their drabbest
"!duds"? If ever cheerful hues are
needed it is on sunless days. Think of
that when you awake to the patter of
raindrops' on your roof. Dress a bit
more carefully yourself that morning,
think up some ;.,especially well, liked
dessert for dinner, don't clutter the
house with disagreeable odd jobs, but
endeavor to snake the least cheery
day out of doors the cheeriest of them
all within. And help the district
teacher keep the little minds under
her alert by dressing your children in
sunny colors, to make up for the ab-
sense of the sun's rays.
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The Direction Book with each packs
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color.
To match any material, have dealer
show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card,
Why, indeed?
A boy of eight was dining with his
father at an hotel where the manners
of the guests
were not rem
ark ble for
their elegance.
Soon after they lead seated them-
selves at the' table, the youngster
piped up with:
"Daddy,. why do all the men say
'whoop' to their soup?"
*sap rain atc.'e abetment ifn the lionise:
Concerning Domestic Affairs
Bail- celery stalks with your cab-
bage. Two or three will be sufficient
for a head of cabbage. The celery
improves the flavor of the cabbage
and lessens its odor.
Maple sugar sauce is timely. It
requires one-third of a cupful Of
butter end one cu
1 of maple aple sugar.
Cream the butter and gradually add
the maple sugar. Form into balls
and chill . thoroughly.' Serve over
steamed rice for dessert,
A whole meal in One dish: Fry
slightly a thick slice of ham, cover
thickly with raw potatoes, sliced thin;
season with a little salt and pepper,
The Troublesome Ground-
- Hog.
Nearly everybody has heard of the
ground -hog. It is too bad this ,mar-
mot has to be mentioned as 'a farm
foe, - because farmers have always
placed absolute 'confidence in his
ability as a weather prophet—so much
so that they almost sacredly looked
for his appearance February 2 each
year. •
-Unfortunately, as is sometimes the
case with peo-ale, unlimitedconfidence
has made this friend presumptuous:'
He Is taking far more than just com-
pensation for his services as a weath-
er expert. His inroads upon garden
and truck crops are devastating. The
damage due to his burrowing in mea-
dows and cultivated fields• is enorm-
ous, for:' the burrows hinder farming
operations and often start gullies
down the hillsides,
.After pillaging gardens and feasting
indiscriminately on beans, peas, cu-
cumbers, cabbage, forage 'crops. and
other tender plants during the sum-
mer, it is not surprising that the.
ground -hog is able to put on a thick
layer of fat to keep him warm while
he sleeps through the winter- until
Candlemas day, His long sleep af-
fords an opportunity to make crops
and fields safe for next year. Take a
piece of cotton or moss, saturate it
with carbon -bisulphide, place" it down
in the burrow and close the openings.
The groundhog will not see his shad-
ow on Candlemas day, and according
to the old proverb, which says that Ili
such cases "Winter is gone for all the
year," there will be an early spring.
Then the burrows can be filled with
the assurance that they will not be
dug out again.
Her Army.
"There's • one thing I've always want.
ed to ask you about your life in
France," she said.
"Yea?" prompted the ex -buck tremu-
lously.
"What did you and the colonel usuals.
ly talk.about at meal tine?"
Kicking Over the Traces.
A man may feel that he is merely
jogging along day after n
shafts, held up by the harness•day--i�'etthe to
I.3 a faithful tractor, A'lene or as a
a ritefellow, Is meritorious, andthe ad-
j3ctive "tractable" Is not the worst
that can be bestowed, The tractor
pulls, and the tractable is passive and
nonresistant; but whether one leads
er
Is led, if the going is in the right
direction, all is well,
Theworld is not so usefully served
by thesuddenly eccentric persons as
by the safe and sane majority. In-
spiratious and surprising inventions
are not to be decried, tihough comment-
ly those who have thought out new
things have been pilloried and mock-
ed. We need those who dare to' tell
usnwelcome truth, who possess and ea-
press their •goals, who speak out with
neither fear nor favor when the 'cru-
cial hour strikes.
But those who, do the .extravagant
and 'spectacular sort of •thing merely
to advertise themselves be <'thu noble
noise they: make" are a, different breed.
The great, humane works of relief per
formed in wax -time have, by no Weans
been free from those whieras'enerad-
ed in the splendid game for the' sake.
of headlines and man'sprise, •.
Before .we kick oyer' the traces, be-
fore we abandon he careful• routine.
wherein . we motive, let its be circum-
epect and make very sura of what we
are doing,
You da not like the work you have,
perhaps. you think it engages the
least part of you. You,belteve your
employer has: a blind eye on the side
toward your; merith The lament of
being misplaced or not appre,' _ated is
as old as human toil Vont look about
and the labor maeket semis toibristle
with opportunities,„ and everywhere
are hands thatitbeekon. erAtadesplace
looks good io;;ya n but taelloneniehere
you happen to be standing, The dis-
tance lends enchantment, andtlie em-
ployment and employers . seem: -con-
genial becatiee you do notrviewlthein
at close range.
But before you ping yeerself, out
-of your post in 'a springtime sgirit of
Insurrection it is well to,befeainr and
consider. Not every change ist,for the
best. The development of our, abili-
ties to their highest and finest'restate
comes by steady -toil is sti poised tran-
quility and not by restlessness. -.
C$hnese:Buglers
The rank and' file rot the •Chinese
army can outbugle an;.,y�army of the
world. Nathaniel Peffner, in writing
of the two buglers to every squad
system of China's doughty fighters,
says:
"One thing the Chinese soldier does
do. He bugles. The one great, in-
satiable, unconquerable passion of
the Chinese army is bugling. I have
never investigated, but I venture that
ane out of every three -'hien has a
bugle, that one out of every two hours
he blows it, and that not one time in
three thousand does he blow it to the.
resemblance of any recognizable call
or tune.
"He begins at 3.30 am., he being
now used collectively. He plays the
same note, he now being used in
dlvidually and each he playing a dif-
ferent note, till 6 a.m. Then he switch-
es to another. He stops for meals and
for few hours of sleep—that is all.
. "When a regiment moves into a
town foreigners living 'In it resign
themselves to insomnia, The Chinese
don't. Noise to them is one of the
normal and pleasurable phenomena of
existence, the more deafening ° the
siore,pleasurable.
A Smooth skim
an any weather.'-
Wash well in warm water
using absolutely pure soap t
Baby's Own
Soap
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In the interest of
your akin, use
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"Basi for Baby and.
,best for You."
Sold everywwere.
Albert afoap. Limited,
ilea,, 3toutreat.
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"But don't jump to conclusion*, The
Chinese Is n� coward. He has proved
again and' again in his Iong history
that.he eau fight, and be will so prove
again. Even the professional soldiers
are ,not cowards. They are only the.
victims of a rotten system, a system
that ,has .°irrupted the whole army
down to the lowest private, exactly
as it has the rest of the Chinese goy-
ernnxent, and everything else it- has
touched. Of some units this is not
truer these are the 'show' units sta-
tioned in Peking and other big pities
where foreigners can see them."
3rifiard'e rainiment used br Physioians.
, From Salt to Vinegar.
It Is a rule with the Mohammedans
to begin• a•,';nieal with salt and finish
with vinegar. If they begin with salt
they thunk :they will escape the con-
tagie 'of' -70 diseases. If they finish
with.''Vinegar, thein: worldly prosperity
will 'continue to Increase.
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Women administering property in
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DANGEROUS RAT
VARIOUS neons ,aa
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Very Effective in Conjunction'
When Concerted Comps ign
h Launched.
Tice rat is a great nuisance, brut >soG> id•
a necessary one. He can be got
of by concerted -,notion, and can, bn•
fought and kept within limits even
by individual action. If means for
the control of the pest are not takenv
the rat's fecundity, combined with an,
increase of his food supply and hiding
planes' as population becomes denser,
will' most certainly result in his . be -
corning nothing less than a national
menace. Indeed, he is that already
and rats do an incalaulable amount of
damage wherever food, is produced,,
stored or transported.
The various means at man's dispos-
al for combatting this cunning and
prolific rodent are:
A. The encouragement of the rat's
natural enemies. '
(1) Domestic animals, e.g., cats,
terriers and ferrets, -
(2) Wild animals, e.g., owls, hawks`
snakes, weasels, etc.
.As to cats, the ordinary pampered
house pet is useless as a rat catcher,
while a semi -wild cat is liable to be
dangerous to game, poultry and small
Insectivorous birds. Nevertheless,.
the fact that the cat has been associa-
ted with man since the days of ancient
Egypt shows that, on the whole, it
has been found more beneficial than
harmful. Terriers are commonly used
by professional rat catchers and can
be trained to be exceedingly, expert.
Female ferrets are used—the males
being too large—to enter the holes
of rats and either dive them forth
or destroy them there.
Farmers' Friends.
It is strange that, though man har-
bors the cat, he should generally show
such an antipathy to -small wild came..
vora. Few creatures are more bene-
ficial to man, than the owl. He preys
principally on rats, mice, gophers,
squirrels and ..other noxious rodents.
The damage he does to poultry is
negligible. Even the hawk, though
he does take a chicken occasionally,
does infinitely more good than harm. ,. `, r
Only the Sharp -skinned and Cooper's fid
hawks and -the Goshawk are excep-
tions to this rule. The weasel and his
congeners may indeed work sad hayed -
in a poultry house, yet, if proper pre.
cautions are taken, they can be ex-
cluded and their bloodthirsty incline-
tions turned against vermin. As to.
snakes, the common species found in
Canada are all 'non poisonous. They .
certainly destroy many field mice and,
if given a chance, there is no reason
why they should not be valuable allies
against rats.
B. Traps.
..Rats are exceedingly cunning crea-
tures and no trap has yet been de-
vised which has been more than tem-
porarily successful in any one locality. .
No doubt many rats can be caught
with them by a skilful man, but, as a
means of extermination, they are not
to be seriously depended on.
C. Poisons, e.g., arsenic, strych-
nine, squills, etc.
Mr. E. G. Boulenger, Curator of
Reptiles, Zoological Gardens, London,
states that, to kill rats, ho has obtain-
ed the most satisfactory results with
squill poison, which, in the small
quantities• necessary for rat extermina-
tion, is harmless . to domestic_animais.
It is best used by soaking bread in a.
solution of the poison mixed with
milk. Barium carbonate, of which 11,x•
to 2 grains kill a rat, though 10 to 15.
grains are harmless to a chicken and
100 grains to a dog, is next best. It
should be mixed with tallow atnd
smearedon bread as it makes the rats
thirsty. It can be used effectively- -
with squills. After it has been 'put
down, bowls with squills and milk
hould be placed where the rat will
o to drink.
Other Means of Extermination.
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Strychnine is too dangerous for
general use. Phosphorus and arsenie
are also very dangerous, and are less
successful than squills and barium car-
bonate. ' • = -
Since the war, the suggestion has.
been made that poison gas should be
employed against rats. No doubt this,
would -prove very effective in confined
spaces, such as cellars and the holds
of ships.
D. Bacterial cultures.
In Denmark, where a vigorous, na-
tional caimiaign has been waged
against rats, a virus discos*eyed
by Dr. Neumann, of Aalborg, has been.
found very efficacious. Cultures of
Neumann•'s bacillus are put up in tins.
under the name of "retina' It is.
simple to use and has been found to
be an, attractive bait. Its harmless
ness to domestic animals hes been
demonst:•ated. Among rats, however,
except in isolated instances,'it pro-
duces a. virulent epidemic, with a very
high mortality. plxperiments with
this culture in Scotland, Germany, and
India are also reported to have proved
satisfactory,
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Britain exports anoint two million,
pounds words of furs each year.
A single female potato beetle is
capable of producing between .1,800
and 1,900 eggs during its buring
midsummer it takes e little over a
ttionth for these to develop into adult
beetles, Hence if kriny are unmolested
they ineree,;e-in nvieberti ennorniously,