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The Seaforth News, 1930-09-11, Page 7Canine Smugglers 1 Agony of Neuritis Defy Customs Men 'Story of Intense Suffering and Paris.-Time=midnight. Plaec— ectin of The Franco-Belgian frontier 'heavily 'wooded. 2'reuc+h tobacco smugglers, with (their dog couriers, gliding noiselessly from tree to tree on the Belgian side peering into the Narlcness to see if th way is clear. Pairs of French 'Customs men hid ging 'behind Iboshes .With 't-heh killer 'doge waiting for their Amey. 'Objedtive=To deliver sten pounds o cheap tdbacoo that costs tenpence a pound in 'Belgium to :a farmhouse.;a few 'hundred yards over the dine in France, Where it cnn be •sdld far four shillings and tenpence'a pound. Pro fit, two •pounlls for •several 'hours work. 'Mirk for 'the smuggler, nil:; lfor the .dog, death. Ala ET'1'C BATTLE a tdeJief. "Do l recommend Dr. Williams' Pink 4Q?ills? You may believe I••do," says Mr. John H. Jamieson, .of Wallace - burg Cat. "For 41v;e years I suffered -day and night from neuritis. The agony was ter- eible, I lost 'control of MY UM and shoulder and any hand became ehriv- sled. Nothing helped nee tilt' I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.' Even 'then the improvement was slow and I took ten "oxes before 1 was on the way to recovery. After that, though, relief was sapid. My hand gradually filled out; the pain left me and I could 'Suddenly "a gigantic, spectre -like canine'form crosses theforbidden line like .a streak,' heading southward into France. •A •stranger, getting a •closeeup glimpse tofthe aninta'1tearing through the mky-lilack 'woods 'with a ring of spikes :around- his neck, a 'Coat of armor 'made of .sale +leather, saddle- bags swung 'over 'hie 'back,and ail 'this paraphernalia 'surmounted `by 'a three or 'fourafoot vertical pole, might -inn- agine :that he `hail seen a -spectre. 'The Frendh'Customs men know only too .well ',What meane. 'Ten pounds of 'tobacco 'have '!just. 'whisked past under their very 'noses'! to .mere dog, (probably ta'hulf'breed sheepdog for A1- eetian,'hamdhallenged'the•prestige and securitiy,of'a monoptily'that ibrings the Frendh'Government stn .annual profit .of '£28, e0C,000. .Now for pan epic ,battle, 'fought out 'lathe solitude,of the dark forest. 'The 'Customs men unleash their dog, whom they have 'trained to he .a professional 'killer, 'anti the hounds after the smug_ gler'with •drippingfangs. m several .minutes the killer Will catch up with .his '•enemy, and 'become infuriated 'when ha -smells the tobacco. It is then :a light to 'the death. 'When the 'Ous- tonns,men come running up nt least on .of whom, and 'perhaps 'both, will he .dead. 'But it is ;generally the pro- fesetonal'killer that .wins these strug- ;gles. A'famous-dog called'Gamin, belong 'ing bo the Valenciennes :brigade .of the A, .Customs service, was himself 'killed in batt}e:atter 'he 'had 'fiuiehed off ninety- two'emngglers during his .career, sand ,dust three week n r. lleacer,.a scarred veteran wan 'killer! treat The same !place. The customs meal gat •a bounty of .sixpenc for thele t hind facet 'of every tobaceo-aanner 'k'illed. TRICKING THE 'TRAPPERS The guarding .of t'hie ;200 -mile fron- tier that Buts through deep forests in many plaices is a tremendous problem for the French Government, Everyone in this country has a big Alsatian, Groenendahl, or shepherd—in fart, they are used for :hawing carts and ether heavy labor—and so they let the dogs turn smugglers. At sunset the French smuggler saunters a half -mile or so to some wayside Belgian tatern, buys his to- bacco, sips a drink, and cracks a few jokes with his comrades about the Customs men. When darkness has fallen he starts to get his dog ready. He first puts on a heavy collar skidded with two rows, one pointing forward, the other back- ward, of three-inch spikes that have been sharpened to needle poin e. These cruel 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 thisillicit • frontier run- ning, 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 when it is tou hed. Poorly -trained dogs that are foolish enough to stop on their way to nibble at the meat' suddenly find themselves caught around the neca or midriff and jerked into the an, Somewhat similar traps are piaced on the ground anchored to a sack of sand, TRAINING ON SNUFF To ensure that their dogs head straight for home, the smugglers feed them well at -home and not at all in belgi im. This training is even inten- sified by taking the clog to Belgium for several' days and starving him. The animal quickly understands that he only eats well when he is at his mas- ter's home, and so a good dog will head straight for his destinaiton with- out being tempted by any. distractions along the way, The, Customs men depend chiefly, fibwever, on their own dogs, generally pure or half-breed Alsatians. When they are still, young they are given the ordinary police training, such as being taught to attack men and dum- my dogs. Every few, days the trainer will also toss them a package of snuff: or finely cut tobacco. The killers tear the pack -1 age open, get their eyes and nostrils fall of the snuff and become Infuriat- ed. As long as they live the odor ef- tobacco will affect them as a red flag I excites a bull.' sleep ,in: peace., That was two years ago and II have not had a twinge of the trouble since, Sufferers trona aietiritis, neuralgia ,or rheumatism should try the common- sense method of banishing these trou- bles by enriching the blood and sbrengthening the nerves with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These Pills are sold-Iby all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents .a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont.- Extreme nt.- Extreme Sunburn Should Be Avoided 'Washington. --Extreme sunburn, in- vestigatorsFof the Public Service warn, should be 'avoided just as ranch as the 'benefits sof exposure to -'sunlight should the sought. Prolonged 05' sud- den exposure may he Jnjuriou, where- aria here- asis few simple precautions may =make reasonable .exposure highly beneficial. For cases .of excessive 'sunburn they suggest a remedy •whidh .can be made .easily 'at 'home. "Take one-half pint of hot water and stir into ,a level tablespooneul of boric acid powder; then add twenty drops of carbolic acid and shake well. The solution should be dabbed on the 'inflamed skin with a small piece cf cottonlar sprayed on with an ;atomizer,. It should not ire lobbed into the akin. It can .be applied every half hour, if necessary, of 130 msaielne 15 able, cold .eontl:resees'will give relief :to betty .burned .areas." Fur giving sun he lis to children ..who receive even bn'eatcr beneilts than I: adults 'front sunlight, the following suggestions are made: "Exposure to the sin must be grad- ual or else the child may receive a =burn. ' At first give the baby direct sun- light for about ten minutes; increase this bath from three to five minutes daily until be receives exposure one hour it- the morning and one hour. in the afternoon. This will vary, de- pending CU how the skin reacts to the exposure. "Be sure that the exposure Is car- ried on in some spot sheltered from the wind. "Sun baths may be given on in- closed porches or in the house, pro- vided the sun can shine on the child unobstructed by glass. "Certain special kinds of glass have been devised which permit the pas- sage of the majority of the beneficial rays of the sun. Such glass may be used if desired." Adults, it was suggested, might pro- fitably observe similar precautions. Quality of Apples Essential to Trade "If you advertise and get people to ask for Canadian apples, and then when they ask for them they are shown scrubby, inferior fruit, that is absolutely .detrimental." Words of wisdom fell from the lips of Jr Forsyth Smith, Overseas Fruit 'Trade Commissioner for the Govern- ment of Canada, when he was con- sulted on the future of Canada's ap- ple trade, Mr. Smith speaks whereof he knows when he talks of selling apples, for he has watched over the interests of Canadian apple .shippers in Great Britain, and the Continent for fifteen years, "British to The Core." "Look For The Red Maple Leaf," and the other catch -phrases that advertise Canadian' apples in Great Britain has Supple merited the good work of the Empire Marketing Board in popularizing Can- adian apples, Mr. Smith said, At present 20,000 of the most enter- prising retail shops in Great Britain displayed ' the scrinison ' Maple Leaf sign that meant Canadian apples were for sale. But more than ad- vertlsing was needed to sell apples, the Fruit Commissioner recalled, Mr. Smith quoted' the words of a Scandinavian' apple buyer. "We oat apples with our eyes." There was a great truth in it, he said, a truth that could not be too much impressed on growers, packers and shippers of Canadian apples. Color. and quality were the essentials of a good selling apple; color to catch the buyer's eye, and quality to make, him come back for more, Courage Courage, activity and earnest per- severance are_indeed the secret of all success. No good endeavor strenuous- ly persisted in will fail; . it must sac- 1 Geed: at last. Powers of even the most mediocre kind, if energetically employ- t ed, will effectmuch: s Strange to say, the emptier the head : the less it takes to fill It. Prehistoric Man's Original Home 1 White Spruce Declared to Have Been in Africa Leading Our Beloit, Wis.—The theory that ""some Where in Africa will be found the centre.- of dispersal of the human species," is held to'by Prof. Alonzo W. Pond, of Logan Mueeum, at Beloit College here, as the result of evidence .collected during the last five years on archaeological expeditions sponsored by Dr, Frank G. Logan of Chicago, vice-president o fthe Chicago Art In- stitute'and founder of Logan Museum. Professor Pond recently, returned -from his 1930 expedition, on which he was accompanied by 14 students of Beloit College, University of Wiscon- sin, University of Minnestota and Northwestern University. Results were accomplished which would have taken 10 years by systems formerly used, and ata cost of but three times. that of previous expeditions, lie said, "The most convincin" proof that Africa may be known as the birth- place of man," Professor Pond said,"is the unlimited quantities of prehistoric tools found on the continent. Nowhere. Iei the world are such tremendous .quantities of prehistoric stone tools found. Stone tools ebaracteristic of the Chellean :and .Acheulian cultures, oldest evidence of ,man's .ability to make tools, are found is South Africa by the carload. Later cultures are also tound in tremendous.. quantities and in North Africa habitation sites 'occupied by men of the old stone age are counted by hundreds. All this must indicate a tremendous prehis- toricpopulation which, taken with other ,evidence, is strong proof that I persal will be discovered." I Professor Pond has formulated the theory that prehistoric man crossed the Sahara thousands of years ago I and on reaching the Sahara Atlas orI northern boundary, moved eastward and westward until Ile game to passes or openings in this range which led. to the high plateau of northern Africa, which was a land favorable to his de- velopment. "There are at present certain dry river valleys and challis of oases' which undoubtedly were very fertile, areas thousands of years ago. These areas were followed by prehistoric man in hie migration across the Sa- hara fortis near these present oases and river valleys that prehistoric' stone tools are collected. It is not pure hypothesis to say that these river valleys` and chains of oases were more fertile in prehistoric times." The expedition this year thoroughly explored four habitation sltes declared to be, 25,000 years old, sifting an aver- age of 2440 feet of prehistoric ashes per day. Of 360,000 fragments of fiatfound, 36,000 showed they had been. used by prehistoric . man. somewhere in Africa a Centre of clip- Com 1ercna.1 Trees "No implements of .warlike nature were found. This would indicate that these ancient inhabitants of the high plateau of North Africa were peace- ful nomad hunters, who lived largely on snails, and such animals as they. could catch with snares." All the material collected is divided equally between the Government Mu- seum at Algiers' .and the Logan Mu- seum. Babyg Is Tir 'thin ? ;Teething time is a time of worry to most mothers. The baby is nervous; fretful; feverish. Has little gums are .swollen .and sore; .diarrhoea, constipa- tion, 'colic and 'sometimes convulsions sat in—neither baby nor mother can sleep. ca These troubles n he -quickly ban- ished, however, through the use of Baby's Own Tablets, concerning which Mrs. Louis Grubb, Teeswater, Ont., says:—"I have used the Tatlets 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„ Brockville, Ont. The Peat Reeks (The British Pharmaceutical Confer- ence at Cardiff. has just been informed that the face powder of the future will be made from "diatomaceour earth," a peaty deposit which, as a basis for cosmetic preparations, will be "far superior to rice and starch,") Belinda, my dear, your complexion Has not been correctly bestowed— I cannot escape the reflection That somehow, you're not a la mode. You may think my query ungracious, But really you need some advice— My dear, are you diatomaceous, Or merely well powdered with rice? I beg you, in point of aesthetics, To keep yourself bang up-to-date; Avoid the old-fashioned cosmetics Affected by females of late. If the subsoil is freckled or sandy You need a top -dressing of peat— db ]seep a bucketful handy And dive in It daily, my sweet! 0 look upon peat as your passion, Apply it for all you are worth! Por cheeks that are truly in fashion Rely upon kind Mother Earth! Starch stifles and rice overreaches, Their day is now over and past: But Perkins' Pink Peat for Pale Peaches Will purchase perfection at last! —Manchester Guardian, Animals Grossly Libelled by uma.ns To attribute to animals all the worst qualities of human nature has long been one of our human customs. "Cross as a bear;" "deceitful as a cat;" "greedy as a pig;" "stubborn as a mule," leave long been comparisons on our lips, We might just as well say that a faithful wolf mate was as "unfaithful as a man;" that a generous dog had suddenly become as "greedy as a miser;" that a good-natured cat had acted as "spiteful as a jealous wo- man;" or that a horse had become as "stubborn as a fanatioi" that an ani- mal mother had become as "ruthless as a wild -cat stock salesman," Dean Ingo says on the subject: Why do we persist in likening evil and disagreeable people to animals who do not possess their undesirable Cooking Hints Soak fish for a short time before cooking in strong salted water to take away that "muddy" taste. 'When you need bread crumbs in a hurry cit the. soft part from a stale oaf, tie it in a clean cheesecloth or muslin bag and gently rub between he hands until the'bread is crushed. If you have no cherry pitter, use a teal pen—just stick the pen point into. the holder and scoop out pits with the. other end. Gazetted Commander Captain R. W. McMurray, for to past five years marine superintendent of the Canadian Pacific's British Col- umbia Coast Steamship service, sta- tioned at Vancouver, and prior to that a commander with the Canadian Pacific trans-Atlantic fleet, has been gazetted in the London Times of July 14 as a captain in the Royal Naval Reserve, having been promoted from the rank of commander R.N.R. His new rank is equivalent to that of brigadier -general in the army. 32e joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a midshipman in 1904 and saw war ser- vice on H.M.S. Victorian and on tor- pedo boats and destroyers, being men- tioned in despatches for his work on the latter. Rainbows ilio Not Have Seven Colors Rainbows ought to contain seven colors but it is doubtful, say weather experts of the Taylor Instrument Company of Rochester, New York, whether anyone ever saw all of them. The division into seven colors; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet;' is that proposed by Sir Issas Newton many years ago for the divi- sion of colors in the spectrum pro- duced when a beam of white light is. broken up by a glass prism. The falling raindrops responsible for the rainbow ought, in theory, to break up white sunlight in this same way, giving the full series of spectrum colors. In actual fact, however, the colors often overlap in rainbows, so that some of them cancel each other. It may happen that the cental part of the arched rainbow strip is almost Colorless because of this overlapping and cancelling of the colors. Two or more rainbows may be formed side by side, may overlap, and thus destroy still further the theoretical perfection of seven colors. Another cause of rainbow imperfection is that colors near the blue end of the spectrum frequently are faint in the bows, so that the ordinary eye misses them al- together or fails to separate the blue, indigo and violet as different tints. Meet actual rainbows impress the eye of the ordinary observer ar consist- ing of red, orange and yellow bands, sometimes with the addition of a rather faint and indefinite bluish green. It would be interesting to know whebher anybody ever has ob- eerved a full, perfect rainbow with all of the seven colors called for by phy- sical theory. •t�-- FELLOWS HIP Forsooth, . brothers, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellow- ship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon earth,, it is for fellowship's sage that ye do them.—Willi.tot Mor- ris, "Our children a le make O r ch d o what vo ma them by our care—or our neglect,"— Benito Mussolini, Have Minard's Liniment on your shalt. Most Important and Most Widely Distributed of Dominion's Commercial Species Whit spruce is the most important as well as one of the most widely dis-- t.ibuted commercial tree species in Canada. It is found from the Maritime Provinces to British Columbia, and as far north as the mouth of the Mack- enzie river within twenty Hailes of the Arctic ocean. It is one of the most northerly growing of Canadian trees. The white spruce is one of five native spruces.' It is estimates by the Forest Service of the Department of the In- terior that the total spruce stand, all species, in Canada is ab - it 60,000,- 000,000 cubic feet of timber, or about 36 per cent. of the total softwood stand. The estimate of white spruce is thou.. 20,000,000,000 cubic feet, or one-third of the total spruce timber standing. For its weight, white spruce is one of the strongest of •Canadian woods. It is stronger than woods approximately its own weight, such as the white pine, and it possesses nearly the same rela- tive strength, weight for weight, as the Douglas fir, one of the heaviest and strongest of Canada's woods. It has a fine, even grain, works easily under tools, is not prone to split, and has exceptional nail -holding qualities. In color the wood is white, odorless, and comparatively non -resinous, quali- ties which make it valuable for the manufacture of food containers, such as butter boxes. White spruce probably forms the greater part of the spruce lumber on the market, and its use has increased in recent years with the growing scar- city of white pine. It is used in great- est quantiles by the manufacturers of building materials. Large quantities are used for siding, flooring, and roof sheathing, as well as for he manu- facture of sash, door, and house trim- mings. It is one of the leading woods in millwork of all kieds. Up to 1926 spruce ranked first in the amount of lumber produced annually, and it now ranks second only to Douglas fir. The average annual cut of spruce lumber is approximately1,180,000,000 eget B. M. with a value of $32,000,000. The long, tough, almost eolorless fibres of white spruce may be easily separated because of the comparative- ly non -resinous nature of the wood. For this reason and because of its wide distribution, it has beccme the leading Canadian pulpwood. Some 3,499,651 cords, with a value of $43, 245,062, were used in manufacture of paper pulp in Canadian mills in 1923. Spruce comprises from 65 to 75 per cent. of the total pulpwood cur in Can- ada. The total value of the cut of spruce lumber and pulpwood in 1928 (latest figures available), was $71,- 296,384. This amounts to approxi- mately 35 per cent. of the estimated value resulting from forest products. The white spruce in our forests oc- curs in pure stands, but is often mixed with red and black sauce, tamarack,birch and poplar. It makes its best growth on well -drained, moist, gravel- ly soil, but is not exacting, for we find it in the forest, growing on rocky slopes, and on borders of lakes and streams. It reproduces itself well under favorable conditions, particu- lariy where the roil conditions are such that the seed can readily come in contact with it, and where the over- head shading is ,rot too intense. It is one of our most valuable trees and well worth any otforts we make to maintain it in our forests by protec- tion from fire, insects, decay, and wasteful cutting. "It's just the old problem of distri- bution. There's enough idleness for everybody, but the wrong people have pou has BUTTER C EGGS Get Our Quotations Before Shipping LINES LIMITED St, Lawrence Market, Toronto 2 :s'va m is -- By Force The caddie approached the gclfel he had been carrying for the preview day. "I've got the ball we 'lost voster. day," he said, "A small kid found it," The golfer instantly put his hand into his pocket, "I'll give you what you gave for it," he ventured. The caddie took a step blekward and an anxious look came over bis face. "No, thanks," he replied. "I gave him a black eye!"—Answers. A sociologist says that the girl of to- day has a great future. But moot of them prefer a little present. Advertising FOR SALE ASEA SLED FOR SALIM, MODEL 10, with new 22 ISP Elvinrude mo.. tor, all In perfect condition, very fast, absolutely safe, - splendid fishing boat, has special sedan top; owner getting larger model. Now 3oI. ed on Georgian Bay. Wilson Publishing Co„ 73 Adelaide W., T.rontu, Box 27 "Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling."— Albert Einstein, "When all other types of stories are out of fashion, we'll still have the wild west tales"—King Vidor. The Handy Bottle Minard's.is the sure relief in the Handy Bottle. 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