The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
Ca, Running Industry.


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 Gun Running Industry.
 Many adventurous Americans are en- gaged in tho business of gun-running. which is perhaps the most pront- able and the most risky of all indus tries. It has lately had a considerable boom in connection with the rising in Morocco, where a demand for modern rifles has arisen. The North coast Of Africa is one of the chief centres Of the trade, the other importane arears Tor Run-running being the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The last-named is tho scene of the largest trade in fire arms, as 1t is almost the only avenue of sup pIy for Central Asia. as well as for the Indian frontier, where the warliko Afridis and other hill-tribes are in . perpetual state of unrest. English Martini rifles are the usual kind dealt in by the gun-runners who make handsome profit, selling them to tho tribesmen at about $60 each. The rines are specially made, with an Arabic ln- scription to disguise their origin. Dur ing the fighting in somaliland. the na- tives fighting against the British troops received large consignments of rifles from England itself. These were first shipped to Marseilles, where, they were transshipped to French vessels, which carried them to Jboutil on the Red Sea. AS the French Customs de- rive Q big revenue from the traffc. It became a delicate diplomatic matter Tor the British Government to attempt to interfere with the gun-running trade, with the Somalis.
 Young Field popular.
 Mrs. Marshall Field was one of the the cricket match played between Fathers and sons at Eyelyn's School In Buckinghamshire the Fashionable pre- paratory school for Eton. Mrs. Field Is known as the Spartan Mother. She does not believe in coddling or spoil ing her son and the boys allowance Of pocket money is exactly the same as that of the poorest boy in the school. Young Field ts . very manly self-re- liant boy with absolutely no airs or eraces and he is by far the most popu- lar boy in school. A very striking con- trast was the way in which Mrs. A. J. Drexel of Philadephia. managed her or spring. When little Drexel had tooth- ache Mre. Drexel came down at once 10 the school and whisked him away from the school. Later on the boy had a cold Down came Mrs. Drexe1 again and whisked him off to the Sunny South. The other boys of course drew unfav- orable comparisons between Drexel and Field and accused the former of suf- a was so fond of talking about Royalty. Young Drexel has now been whisked away from Evelyn's for good. Mrs. Marshall Field has taken a very large and beautiful house in Hertfordshirs on a long lease. It Is an old house known as Danesbury and Mrs. Field is spending a very large sum of ale terations.
 0ld Men Nursemsids.
 In busy Blackburn, 6 Lancashire cotton centre. they have partically solved the domestic help by employing old men from the poorhouse as nurse maids" It is quite impossible to get girls to mind the kiddies" because the cotton mills absorb all the young fe- male labor in the town. As many mothers work in the mills themselves. the demand for nursemaids Is very high. The pauper veterans are glad to take care of the little ones, take them for airings and superintend their games, for a remuneration that keeps them in beer and tobacco. Meanwhile all the girls who might be fulfilling these duties are working in the mills, which they prefer because 1t gives them more freedom and more money.
 Medicine For All Ills.
 A natural medicine for all diseases. which would SupeTSeue uTuSs, was uiS- cussed at the Public Health Congress meeting in the Isle of Man. Professor J. Sims Woodhead of Cambridge Uni versity, who introduced the subject, explained the theory of curing by "an- tibodies." "Antibodies'' he said are the substances formed by the bane or toxin at the point where the poison IS introduced. Every poison produces its own antibodies; in fact it is due to these antibodies that there is ever any recover from disease at all. TT we could only find how to produce the im- portant curative antibodies-and there seems every possibility that in time this can be done-under sufficiently favorable conditions that they might be transferred from one patient to an other then We might arrive at a peri cd when ordinary drugs would scarce ly ever be utilized at all except for the alleviation of symptoms. The real work or curing would. as at present, be carried out by nature. which would be SO much under control that diseases now thought to be unpreventable and incurable would be prevented and cur ed"
 D6ped>Auto Races.
 Although automobile racing has only inst been established as regular sport in England at the Brocklands permanent racing track. questionable practices have already been discovered in the running of the machines. Charles