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USE DOGS AS SMUGGLERS ! Animals Aid Illicit Dealers in Bring- ; ing Liquor and Drugs Into the United States. Training dogs to smuggle liquor across the Rio Grande river is the latest device of ingenious minds of those who make a living by means of illicit importation to the United States of liquor and drugs. That innovation in line running came to light j at El Paso. Tex., recently when a Mexican river guard shot a "dog smuggler' in the act of swimming the j Rio Grande with four bottles of j tequila, a Mexican liquor of cactus j distillation, tied across his back. The dog, as the story of tne service to his master is told by United States customs men, had been making nightly trips between Juarez and j El Paso with contraband goods for several months. The strange, but regular, actions of the animal first j were noted by customs officers about i two months ago. Beginning at two j o'clock in the morning, the dog would j begin his operations. Signal lights ! flashed by confederates in the gang of j smugglers stationed on each side of ; the river always preceded the dog's j trip across stream. Dashing out of a cluster of squalid adobe houses along the Mexican side of the river, the animal would plunge into the Rio Grande with his load. Emerging on the American side, the "smuggler" always was successful in j eluding pursuers, who often sought to lasso the dog, being loath to shoot an unsuspecting law violator. FOUND NEW LAND OF GOLD j New York Mining Man Reports Rich j Discoveries Made in the Mines of Colombia. A new gold region has been discov- j ered in Colombia, according to J. V. Priest, a mining man, who arrived at New York from Santa Marta, Colombia. Mr. Priest said that some time ago he was told by a Frenchman, who said he was a government employee, of fabulous wealth that lay hidden in the j mines of Colombia. Mr. Priest, accompanied by his wife and C. L. Logue, a mining engineer, visited Colombia recently and spent his time in visiting various sections. After landing at Cartagna, Mr. Priest said, he and his companions went up the Magdalena river 250 miles and disembarked, going overland through a mountainous country for 65 miles. At the end of the journey, Mr. Priest said, they found vast gold fields which had never been actively developed machinery. He said this is accounted for by the lack of transit facilities, it being a most difficult matter to ship material of any kind to this point. / i I Peac* Hath Its Sorrows. A woman's society, whose principal activity during the war was providing entertainment for the soldiers, was about to give a dance. One of the women who had acted as chaperon meeting a demure miss who had earnestly and strenuously thrown herself into the party and dance game, asked: "Coming to the dance, Luella?" i "I think not," aswered Luella, with a -sigh. "Why. what's the reason ?" asked the ' surprised chaperon. "I would have no one to dance with," said Luella. j "All our boys are back," replied the chaperon. "There are as many men as : ever." "Well," said Luella, "we could always depend on the soldiers, but who's going to make those other men attend?" i Will Use Rifles of Veterans. t Rifles that were actually used by United States marines against the Huns in France at Belleau wood, j Soissons, St. Mihiel, Champagne or in the Argonne will be issued to recruits who never saw a fight when the big job just begun at the marine corps depot of supplies at Chicago is finished, j All the rifles used bv marines in i i France have been turned in at the depot to be refinished and repaired. So j well did their bearers care for them ; flint most of tlipm ran ho used iiffflin. When they come out of the gunshop j as good as new they will be issued to recruits, who will be inspired by the knowledge that they carry the same rifles that were used in the world war. Had the Wrong Page. A young miss of seven, who has j memorized from numerous readings to her portions of her Chatterbox, pre* tends to be able to read. One evening she was seated upon the lap of a guest affecting to read one of her favorite passages relating to dolls. She was proceeding with great enthusiasm ! for several moments when the guest j interrupted her by saying: "But my j dear child, I don't see anything about j dolls on that page." "I know it," she said promptly and i sheepishly. "I was reading on the j wrong page." Then, turning several j pages, "It's over here." Fine Results From Simple Dyes. A demonstration held in London by i the Knox Guild of Design and Crafts j 9howed the beautiful results produced ! by ordinary methods of dyeing. Some j woolen stuffs woven by members of i the guild with primitive apparatus were dyed with privet, bracken, gorse | and ether well-known plants and even' j with soot from the chimney, the last j yoducing a beautiful old gold tint, j PADEREWSKI AT THE PIANO ; j Description of Great Master's Playing Wei! Called a Gem of Humorous Composition. The death recently of Ed H. Smith recalled the humorous editorials which ! made his little newspaper, the Chuia s News, noted. The one which first j i drew attention to it follows: "We heard the Polander, Paderew- j ski, play the piano in Kansas City last j night. The fellow is deceitful. He j makes you think all the time that he j is going to play a tune, but he never does. lie flirts all around a tune, but never touches it. His hair looks like j a wig, but it isn't. He deceives you in a hundred ways. He makes the sweetest sounds you ever heard that were not a tune. He has his piano so trained that the doggone thing will keep right on playing when he is not touching it. He reaches out slowly | and strokes it, drawing back his el- j bows like a man brushing a girl's hair. You see the moonlight and you're there with your girl, but somehow she don't love you. We know the sorrowof that, and that's why we don't like Paderewski. There are troubles enough in the world without hearing Paderewski. A man don't want to feel like he had thrown the mutilated remains of his grandmother in the sewer. If this is Paderewski's last visit to America we're glad of it. But we wouldn't take $100 for what we heard." LOOKED AS IF HE KNEW Good Reason Why Soldiers Urged Lieutenant to Take Military Policeman's Word for It. A colored detachment under a white lieutenant was making its way through the shattered territory near Dun-surMeuse during the thick of the Argonne * ' J drive. At a crossroaus n eneuuiucicu > a traffic-directing M. P. who halted the column. "Sorry, sir," he said to the officer in charge. "You are not allowed up that road. We have information that it is about to be shelled by the enemy." The officer carefully examined his orders. "My instructions read differently," he declared. "I cannot believe that this is the road to be ! shelled. Have you any verification?" j At this moment a shell burst within | a hundred yards, tearing up the earth j and sending debris flying in every direction. The entire landscape was obliterated. and a dead silence, broken only by the crash of falling stones, en- | sued. Then, out of a cloud of set- ! j tling dust, arose one faint, terrified j voice: "Fo' Gawd's sake, lootenant, please j take do gemmun's word fo' it!"?The j Home Sector. i Business Welcomes Radio Circuits. With the new radio circuits in op- j eration between America and the far East, it is comforting to know, even ( if one has infrequent occasion to com- j municate with Japan, Hawaii and the j Philippines, that the no,v service Is : considered quite reasonably inexpen- j sive. One may communicate with Ma- J nila from the California stations for j 6 cents a word, and with Hawaii for 3. | Even if the rates were higher, how- j ever, the new circuits would be wel- J! corned by American business interests, ' for the development of trade, as well as the transmission of news, has been ! seriously handicapped by lack of facili- j ties for communication. The United j States will get a better news service | in consequence, do more business, and i may feel also, according to naval officers, that the national defense system has been strengthened at a weak point.?Christian Science Monitor. Airship Construction. Some interesting facts regarding the work required in building a large modern airship are given in a recent Issue of the Engineer, which states that the general problems of design are closely allied to those of naval architecture, although the airship designer must be a highly skilled mechanical engineer and also must have a knowledge of textile technology. For the work on construction, owing to the multiplicity of parts required, a very efficient shop organization Is necessary. In a rigid airship structure, excluding the machinery, there are 20,000 different parts, a total length of structural material of 20 miles, 60 miles of wire and more than 2,000,000 rivets. Ruskin's Birthplace for Sale. No. 54 Hunter street, Brunswick square, London, the birthplace of John Ruskin, is for sale by private treaty. In the early days of the nineteenth century, says the London Telegraph, John James Ruskin came to London from Edinburgh to enter the wine trade. In 1818 he manned his cousin, Margaret Cox, and February 8, 1819, the author of "Sesame and Lilies" was born. The house in Hunter street, which is now distinguished by a commemorative tablet, is of the substantial Georgian type so well known in j Bloomsbury and was erected at a! time when that district was particular- j ly in favor among city merchants. Suspicious. "As he came in, I noticed his face was lighted with a wonderful glow! and his eyes were shining." "Say, where could he get anything to make him all lit up that way 7" The Shorn Lamb. "Why did Wilkins decide to stay In; tbe army?" "He ?!dn't see any other way of get-! ting an overcoat this winter."?Thf Home Sector. /.!IUii !!"l!l!!l!t!IlUiilUII!iamjll!!illi?!l UmiUi:i!il!llilIiU!lllil3tiliBHIII3IIIII!llilllllRH;tlilllU!!mill!li;il! '?! l!H !H;iHUimii?lllini!IIHI!!ll' IIIIUIJI IliHIil! II!! liilillllilll 111% j MONEY TO LEND KEAIj ESTATE File Your Application Now. *r W m "a w %. I Home building & Loan Association j J. F. 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