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Your Life Depends Upon Millions of Tiny Boats Travelling Along Your Blood Stream Loading and Unloading Cargoes

NATURE operates a marvellous A transportation system along the many miles of arteries, veins and capillaries forming the blood stream. Along thin stream millions upon millions of tiny boats hurry, loading and unload- ing cargoes without ever stopping at a whart.

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cargoen are far proclous than diamonds or rubies, or gold or silver, They contain the elements that keep you alive.

Here In What They Carry. One of these cargoes in oxygen which the tiny boats load in with when they are passing, through the lungs. They carry this oxygen to all the eclls everywhero in your. body. If these tiny bosts went on strike and refused to carry oxygen for even a few seconds, you would perish for lack of this vital element.

Another cargo these boats carry In nutriment from the food you cat. Your digestive organs load up these tiny bents with nutri- ment, which is carried to all your body cells to repair the wear nad tear that is always going on.

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ปny boats carry in gna polaona which are constantly being generated in the body cells. These polsons are carried to the lungs where they are unloaded breathed out into the open air.

Weakness Devolops When Blond Count Fall.

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A person in normal health has a fleet of about 25 million milion of these Butle boats, which are, In reality, the Red Corpuscles. When the number of these boats falls below normal, the person naturally falls below normal, In health, too, beenuse there are fewer boats to bring vitally- necessary oxygen and strength. building nutriment to the body cells. A low number of Red Corpuscles

to the known medical profession as a law blood The lower the blond count. count the more serious the condi tion. If your blood count is only 10% below normal it means that you have actually lost more than Lwo million million of there cargo-carriers.

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A microscopic blood tent show whether your blood count is below normal. But you can tell without that, by the way you feel. There are symptoms, that are associated with a blood count below normal, such, for example, as indigestion, constipation, ner- Vousness, general weakness, pale

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lips, poor complexion. A run

chronically- down, throd-ul, fatigued person nearly always has a blood count below normal.

If you have these symptoms of a below-normal blood count it would be advisable to take for a while a prepartion that has been proven effective in increasing the blood count. In a tont held recently by a pathologist at a leading hospita! In Cantula a number of men and women, whose bload was micros copically axamined And blood count found below normal, were given Dr. Williama' Pink Pilla for a period of four to five weeks to determine the value of thin preparation,

Here Are Some Typical Results

'One woman's blood, count in- creased from 3,609,000 to 5,300, 900 red corpuscles in the cubic millimetre of blood. A second woman from 4,100,000 to 5,200,- 000. A third woman from 4,000,- 000 to 6,500,000.

One man's blood count increased A from 4,700,000 to 6.200,000. second man's from 4,900,000 to 5.200,000. A third man's from 5,000,000 to 6,400,000.

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in every ense where the blood was below normal. Dr. count Williams Pink Pilis increased it. Naturally the patients in all these enses reported that they very much benefitted:-vigor and increased, strength

appetite keener, nerves better. digestion improved, a kerner desire to work and to do things.

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You may not need to take thin remedy for more than 30 days.

In any event you'll feel so much poppier, stronger, more vigorous at the end of that time that you'll need no urging to continur the treatment until the number of hunts In your Ited Carpuscle fleet

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Popular Bird BLACK AND WHITE Canadian

Fallacies Coat Frock Of Faille

ELECTROCUTION "VICTIMS"!

ABSURD STORIES

By Angus MacVicar

Only the other day I read in a popular magazine a rather hyster- ical article making the accusation that migrating swallows are killed by certain firms of tinned-food packers in France and Italy, by moana of electrically charged wires, which are erected in the pathway of the birds so that they may congregate upon them.

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therefore, Apparently, amazingly childish notion, which has been repented time and again during the last decade, has not

out, yet completely died under the influence of modern scientific knowledge.

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And Pique

WINTER STYLES

Just how n reating bird manages to direct the current through its body, when it is perched on a better conductor than itself and is not in contact with any other conductor, is not explained. And just how much profit could bo secured from the corpaes of many hundreds of swallows, after the expense of erecting and charging the wires, is diflcult to under; AN APPLE A DAY Island, even if the 'bodles were not

"funed."

A smart black-and-white scheme. Coal-frock of black faille, with white silk pique re- verac, vest and button-hole. Black faille hat, with stiffened nct brim.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

One of the first distinct stepa to- wards recovery, followed the sign-! ing of the Ottawa agroements in between 1932. Theno treaties Great Britain and the Dominions provided for freer trade within the Empire, and involved in some enses tariffs and quotas upon goods from foreign countries. As n result Canadian products found "AN apple a day keeps the doc- broader and readier markets with- a wine old in the empire, and while she in tor away," is Swallows and house-martins. rest on telephone wires in Scot-ndage, but to eat the apple without turn imported more from the other half Dominion colonies, a favourable washing It

take land and do not show much dis-

Was maintained, comfort.

measures only. Generally, it trade balance not known where it comes from, Considerable trade with United Another popular bird fallacy is and how many unclean hands have Statea markets was transferred to no telling England and the dominions over- connected with

In touched ft. There is the swift, some parts of the country the how long it tas lain expoard to the awift, or devil-bird, is still counted dust and dirt of the street. To The Federal government ameli- as foretelling bad weather when rinse it in water is not sufficient; orated the condition of the West- It appears; but the fact that the it should be washed thoroughlyern farmer by the formation of a swift is n rapidly Increasing with soap and water so that all central wheat agency at Winnipeg, species is overlooked.

the dirt is removed, and, If it is to maintain a fair price for Canada's well rinsed the soapy taste will basic export and to prevent bearish Probably when the swift was a not remain.

raids by speculators and hasty raro bird, many years

ago, ita

selling by frightened or hard- appearance in cortala localities

producers. While this pressed was followed by rain, If the winds Townsfolk often fail to recognise move has, until now, greatly cur- which drifted it over were from the difference between the sexes of tailed the wheat export from this a wet quarter. But nowadays if the blackbird, and claim that they country, it has given Canadian rain was to be expected every time have found a blackbird and a thrush farmers a better price, and greatly a swift appeared there would be interbreeding. The male, it should increased the buying power of the a continual downpour.

be noted, is always the "black" weat. Wheat prices aro

100% 11 Does a hen ponder over hers? bird, while the hens vary consider better than at the lowest level, 12 Drop in such a way as to push. ably in the depth of the brown and with the United States supply 10 Dismay. To matty people in the West of plumage and in the distinctness of insufficient to meet domestic de

17 Lengthen. Scotland a seagull dying inland the spots upon the breast. If such manda Canada has found a new Certain crossing has ever occurred under market for both hard and soft implies a coming storm. gulls and other marine birds, may, natural conditions the proof atill grains, and at a high price level, indeed, be wind-drifted inland, lacking.

in spite of tariff barriers. and their appearance in unexpect-

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unfortunates appear,

An often repeated fallacy is that

Even this does not apply to all

As a matter of fact, however, inį gulis, for the block-headed gull has increased enormously during museums all over the country nests the last forty years or so, and is have been successfully mounted. now an island as well as a coastal species. The bird has simply!

Of every 100 Canadians, 20 get

the

soll.

Across

1 This web is made by one. 3 Anxiety is shown on these, many,

be on the stroke.

8 Show the means of egress out-

side,

10 The girl joins them magnani- D A greedy animal, but not a pig.

mously.

bed.

18 Fruit. Note the writer by the 21 Refuse it's comical fashions 23 List, if ye will, to the burden of

the river.

24 When this crowd is stirred more

than one 28 may be seen. 25 Prickly seed-cake.

28 Tip case (anag).

20 Just the garment for an anaemic child, though not in the latest fashion- You must admit that the bird couldn't be nearer the edge. The fisherman's distance.

ed places may be the result. But the trustees of the British Muscum their presence merely indicates offer a fabulous price for the nest strong winds at sea; for it is dur- of a kingfisher, the idea being that their livelihood from ing or after n storm that these it is impossible to move the litter Throughout the depression years of-fish-bonce upon which the egga farm products decreased-sharply lie

in value, while production main-30 tained a fairly even keel. At the present time the value of the Cana-31 dian dollar in terms of foreign currencies is now at a higher level than for

many years, and gilt established itself where food is almost 10% of her population, on edged Canadian bonds are bring- plentiful, nesting og hills and relief. This is a weary burden, ing higher prices than at any moorland far from the const, and¦ but borne philosophically, because time since 1911. The interest feeding with the crows in the cul- the need is so obvious and because saving from the new oversubscrib- tivated felids.

| the average Canadian is sure that ed Dominion conversion loan, continuing Improvement will lift which sold st. an interest rate the load.

ranging from 2 to 3 will | amount to $14,000,000 yearly.

THE BLACKBIRD'S MATE

It is not surprising that myth connected with the migration of birds still remain, for many prob- The railway problem is not so fems baffle even the experts. Butiroxily fneed.. "In spite of improved Due to such savings and other the astonishing belief clinging to revenues and drastic Economics, drastic economies, together with the euckoo, which some game the National railway is still cost-considerable rise in customs and keepers declare turns into a sparing Canada, largely in interest, other returns, the Dominion gove row-hawk in winter, must surely over $75,000,000 per year. Those ernment revenue this year so far, Hoon die out.

who advocate amalgamation with has exceeded ordinary expenditure the Canadian Pacife, belleve that by over $14,000,000. amount can be saved in annual

The are some shadows on the economles.

face of the waters ahead of course. the cuckoo is a migrant is all the

But without such amalgamation, Chief among these are the vast mare extraordinary since the bird or a more effective co-ordinaiton, humanitarian expenditures, neces- has enjoyed so much publicity. or a wrent and early increase in altated by Unemployment, and the Paragrapha and columns have been population, the Canadian peoples heavy deficit from the Canadian written regarding the socalled dis-even with the better times in pros- National railways. covery of the "cuckoo's secret" by pect, must face the alternative of men who certainly would not know

an intercasing tax bill and in ne- the bird if they saw it, and prob- ably know less about the cuckoo than the boy who described it as a bird that did not lay its own eggs.'

That anyone should doubt that

SALESMAN SAM

cumulating national debt, a debt which already amounts to about $4,500 for each Canadian family United Press.

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Canada still has a million people, In spite of recent improvement, (Continued on Previous Column.)

MistakenIdentity!

Down

1 There is old fashioned advice In

such introductions. 2 The land of freedom.

These are kept on things as a cheal.

4 Lifelike; though sometimes not

all there.

Draught: the fisherman may make a good one when there's n 24 about.

The province of any oration,

Io follows 25 in due course. 9/Frequently arranged in camera.

13 Bank lower, and, in fact, flushed

up with a deserter in want,

14 Generally associated with

span, but you have a choice.

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15 An artist in a box, of great

interest to the chemist. 10 Take a piece of hread and bo merry (Jam to-morrow, presumi- ably).

20 I give thee a letter to make thee

titter.

21 As a loss to her lover may be, so her belt to the lass, may be. 22 Say to end disturbance. 26 Ring: knock won't do. 27 Sheltered at 28 this.

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