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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-8-12, Page 7Little Mr. Inch, Once upon a time there lived a little green inchworm; He lived in a flower bud that grew on a flower stem in a garden bed, All day long he went about measuring things, From pink -gold sunrise to ssurple-gold sun- set little Mr, Inch went about among the flower stalks and the green leaves, measuring everything. He measured everything by himself. Now, as you know, there are many ways of measuring things in this sunny, big world; an inch is one mea- eurement and a yard is another; but for little Mr, Inch there was only one measurement—himself. He would crawl out long, and then he would crawl up short, and so he would mea- sure everything that wee to bo mea- eured. Things never came out even. They never fitted the exact size of Mr. Inch, "Everything is wrong! Every- thing is wrong!" declared little Mr. Inch. "There is nothing that mea- sures right. Everything, everything is wrong!" He bad just come to the edge of a great green leaf that he had been measuring, and as he stood up and looked about to see where he sholald go next, he saw a fuzzy-wuzzy,.cheer- ful caterpillar .coming along the branch. "Nice day!" said the fuzzy caterpil- lar. "Bad day!" returned little Mr. Inch. "Everything is wrong. There is no- thing that fits my size." Indeed, now that the inchworm felt that someone was listening, ho made a great fuss. "Nothing, nothing,no- thing is right!" he declared. He made such a fuss that a little bird sitting on a twig near by imme- diately saw him; he caught little Mr. Inch in his bill and bore him away. But the fuzzy-wuzzy caterpillar turned and curled himself up on the great green leaf in the sunshine of the garden; he was larger than little Mr. Inch, but somewhere he had learned never to measure things by - the himself, and so he was happy n garden, sunning himself on the great green leaf.—Youth's. Companion. 3 TOBACCO'S POWER. 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E, Phillipa, Princeton, Ont., says: "Some years ago, while living with my parents in England I fell a victim of anaemia. The usual compli- cations set in and soon I became but a shadow of my former self, .MY mother, who had been a former nurse of many years experience, tried all that her knowledge suggested; tonics of various kinds were. tried, and three doctors did their best for me, but without avail, and a continued, gradual decline and death was look- ed for. "Later my parents decided to join my brothers in Canada, and it was confidently expected that the ocean voyage, new climate and new condi- tions would cure me. For a time I did experience temporary benefit, but was soon as ill again as ever. I was literally bloodless, and the extreme pallor and generally hopeless appear- ance of my condition called forth many experiences of sympathy from, friends whom we made in our new home in Acton, Ont. Later a friend urged me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and although in a condition where life seemed to have little to hope for I decided to do so: After using three boxes I began to mend. Continuing I began to enjoy my food, slept almost normally, and began to have a fresh interest in life as I felt new blood once again running in my veins. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills brought about a complete cure and I am to -day in robust health. My hus- band is rector of this parish and I 'have recommended the use of the Pills to a great number of people with whom we have come into contact in the course of my husband's ministry, for we both know what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can do." These Pills may be had from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for., $2.60 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. PLANTS HAVE NERVOUS SYSTEM RESPOND TO EXTERNAL FORCES LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, Intoxiated by Alcohol, Stupifled by Chloroform, Degeneration Through Laziness: • A series of investigations made by ccontaining th M iron part oleo lass tube To answer that question Dr. Bose began.a painstaking investigation. He Round' that the iron particles .of the coherer grew ;weary; they were ae tually fatigued because of overstrain; they had to be revived, and a tap (a stimulus, in other words) revived thein, That discovery prompted him to, study over substances. Matter proved to strangely capricious. Ile examined it as a biologist examines a muscle or nerve ---electrically. A piece of animal tissue that is dead reacts differently from a piecethat is alive. There is an eleett'ie twitch when the living xnusele or nerve is excited, a twitch that can be seen with the aid of a galvanometer—a delicate detector of electric currents. A. dead tissue, on the other hand, gives no responee. Tested thus, Dr. Bose found matter curiously alive in a real and not in a figurative Sense, He froze metals, and they became torpid like an icy muscle; he poisoned them and then cured them; he narcotized them and afterword revived themd h ;e pinched them, and they resp d electrically like living flesh; he sub- jected them to ceaseless blows, and they grew tired and irresponsive; he allowed them to rest, and the ability to respond revived. He performed hundreds of experiments which prov- ed inorganic matter is not dead, First of all, Dr. Bose set about the )Invention of new instruments—de- vices of unprecedented sensitiveness. If plants are to lay bare their se- crets, they must be given the means of expressing themselves. In a broad sense, that is what Dr. Bose has done. His ingenious recorders are pens of incredible lightness with which lilies or cabbages may write down their im- pressions of the outer world in a script that we can understand. Use these instruments intelligently, and vegetation, hithertd mute, will whis- per its story. Professor 'Jagadis Chunderf Bose, an Indian scientist, of Calcutta, has re- sulted in revelations of such far- reaching scientific importance that it may be doubted whether even this distinction now holds good. Tho bar- rier between the life -phenomena of plants and animals is thrown down. Even the commonest vegetable proves to be sensitive. Professor Boes has shown that plants have what may truthfully be called a nervous as- torn—o$ a simple type, to be sure, but still a nervous system. The die- covery is of momentous interest. Psychology deals with consciousness; but without nerves, without some means of receiving impressions of storms and sunshine, heat and cold, there can be 110 000SC1OUSflCSS Pro- fessor Bose by no means holds that plants have anything like the intel- ligence of animals, but he has der-' tainly demonstrated that they• re- spond to external forces, not as so many living machines, but as sen- tient organisms. By his extraordin- ary methods of enquiry he proves that they are affected in a very hu- man way when stimulated from with- out.' They are benumbed by cold in- toxicated by alcohol, suffocated by foul air, wearied by excessive work, stupified by anaesthetics, excited by electric currents, stung by physical blows, exhilarated in sunshine, de- pressed in therain, and killed by pois- ons or violence. In a word, they are responsive or irresponsive under the same conditions and in the same man- ner as a human being, sometimes to a greater and sometimes to a lesser de- gree. No Dead Matter. "whim" The German Emperor is an ardent devotee of the weed, and he smokes cigars, cigarettes, and' a pipe. He generally uses a mixed tobacco for his pipe, and his cigars—which are specially made for him in Cuba—cost about fifty cents each. The War Lord, although he is a great smoker, holds certain queer ideas on the matter of smoking, and the other year he forbade e>,noking in military and naval schools, and also ordered that "military and naval men should not smoke in the streets of Berlin through which members of the Court are accustomed to drive." For Mothers and Fathers. • Mothers, fathers, teach your chil- dren stability, the value of sticking to it. From their early years instill into them how important it is that they should learn patience and thor- oeghness. Teach then, to be thor- ough at their games, at their home lessons, and, above'all, let them learn that to succeed in anything they must first plod patiently through drudgery. Those who want to skip drudgery and leap at once into doing • mora important things should be checked in early life. The worker in real life who hes won a good posi- tion has generally done so by first passing through a lot of irksome tasks. So teach your children when they are young the importance of do- ing little things well, and tell them that in time this will lead them to ac- complish_ big things. Children, as a rule, are impatient, and do not like drudgery. But if they are taught' that insignificant things well done may lead to much bigger things later on they will be learning a lesson which will one day bo of great value to them, The Elderly Safety Pin. The safety pin and the hook and eye are generally supposed to be mod- .ern inventions. The former, in feet, has been credited to Queen Victoria. She niay have improved upon it, but ^certainly she is not entitled to the dis- tinction of having invented it. Numer- ous'spocimens of the useful contriv- ance 'have ontrivance'have been found in the ruins of Crete. Both the safety pins and the took and eye now in the museum 'were made at least nine hundred years before Christ. Some are made of bronze, but amber or some other ma- terial was often used on the more ala- lrotato pins. Some were even made Id finely wrotfaht gold, w From what a man thinks he knows, subtract what his neighbors think he knows, and the remainder will prob- ably be about what he really does know. the front, On one of these vislts in Warsaw he is said to have gone to restaurant where vodka and wine. were secretly sold, Here he found in a private room carousing several of- ficers who should' have been at the front, Ho ordered their arrest, and that night presided over a court - Martial. which condemned them to die on the morrow. With his own hands he tore their shoulder straps from their uniforms. "You have disgraced your uni- forms; prepare to die," he said, On the following morning he sent for them. "I have suspended your sentence," he said. "Go to your positions at the front and each of you return with the cross of St. George, or do not re- turn at all." Punishes by Death. When the 10th army corps was cut up on the Grodno front in East Prus- sia the grand duke sent for the gen- eral in command, and is said to have struck him across his face and torn off his shoulder straps. At the time the Germane started their now famous drive from Cracow, Gen. Radko Dimitrieff, the celebrated Bulgarian soldier, was in command of the Russian forces opposing this ad- vance. It is said that to supply the troops in the Carpathians am- munition had been taken from the army of Dimitrieff, so that his troops had only forty rounds of small arm ammunition for each man. A gen- eral commanding an army corps re- fused to obey an order of Gen. Dim- itrieff on the ground that he did not have enough ammunition. The re- sult was the capture of 75,000 Rus- sian soldiers. Immediately the grand duke went to Galicia to preside over the court-martial which tried and condemned to death the general who had disobeyed orders. While the imperial leader does not actually work out the war plans of the Russian army he does influence the general ideas that control Rus- sian strategy. It is even said that the ultra -conservative and defensive tendencies of Gen. Dussky led finally to a breach between him and the grand duke which caused the general's re- tirement from the command of the armies in Poland. This story is merely a rumor. The official statement is that Gen. Russ- ky was suffering from an incurable disease and could not longer bear the great strain of his work. Gen. Russ- ky is said to be a scholar. He is a small man, wears glasses, and cer- tainly looks more like a scholar than a soldier. 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In order to show that there is a perfect analogy between beating ani- mal and beating plant tissues, Dr. Bose subjects his plants to all the test that biologists apply to animals, and few mole that he himself con- ceives. A heart is slowed down by either, the biologists say ? "I, too, must experiment with either," de- cides the doctor. He places his plant in a chamber, and blows in some ether vapor mixed with air. The plant re- cords its exaltation. It has been af- fected just as if it were human. Stronger ether vapor is admitted. The leaflets slow down just as does a heart under the influence of an an- esthetic. Will the leaflets stop alto- gether if too much ether vapor is poured into its chamber ? The heart will, we know. The doctor tests the plant. For a minute or two the leaf- lets waver uncertainly; then they stop —the plant is quite stills Fresh air is blown into the chamber, and the effect is magical. Very slowly the leaflet begins to move, and once more the record is traced on the glass plate, weakly and uncertain at first, but gathering strength as the plant drinks in each new whiff of armos- pheric oxygen. Chloroform has an even more pro- nounced effect than either. If a slight excess is administered, the leaflets stop altogether. The leaflet may, even be killed. Sometimes it takes as long as half an hour to revive a telegraph -plant that has been thor- oughly chloroformed. Think for a moment of the signifi- cance of these experiments. We have been taught to believe that automat- ically pulsating tissues draw their energy from within, and to call this energy "vital force." If a beating leaf can be arrested and started again simply by controlling external forces, it is evidently absurd to explain its apparent automotic action by means of an internal vital force. Dr. Bose offers a new and more plausible the- ory, one that accounts for all spon- taneous movements by the action of external forces only. A plant is the plaything of light, electricity, wind, and rain—of all nature's forces. Like the currents, drugs, and gases em- ployed in Dr. Bose's experiments. these natural forces act as stimuli. We must imagine . the little moles miles of which plants are constructed, not only storing up all this energy ae if it were water received by a vessel, but as receiving much more than they can store. Like water, the ex- cess energy bubbles over, as it were, and produces the pulsations that have seemed so inexplicable. Although he is a native of India, there is not a trace of Oriental mys- sticim in Dr. Bose, nor of that curious mixture of occultism and metaphysics which we associate with the East. It was soon after his graduation from Cambridge that Dr. Bose began the researches which have resulted in giving an entirely new aspect to various phenomena associated -with life. At first he was concerned, not with living things, but with inorganic matter—gross, dead, brute matter, as it used to be called. That was in the days when wireless telegraphy was still a dream, when Marconi -was just beginning to experiment. If wireless telegraphy was to be- come a commercial reality, something better than this coherer was needed something that was self -recovering, like a•human eye. To discover that something involved a sturdy of the whole theory of coherer action. Why ICE C!EA (Good Enough for Babies) Give the children all the Ice Cream they want. It is just - the kind of nourishment they need during warm weather. It is much better than pastries and candies—if it's Ice 'Cream made as pure and in a sanitary plant like the City Dairy. 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The Grand Duke Nicholas is the most powerful and beloved figure in Russia to -day. Strong of will, determined of pur- pose, the grand duke has not the re- putation of being a man of enormous intellectual ability; nor does he pre- tend to make the plans that govern the movements of Russian armies. He is surrounded by men of military training and ability whose superior- ' ity in their own lines he is the first to recognize. One of his most important duties is to sit at general headquarter§ and keep order among his various gen- erals, whose views are often discord- ant, to see that plans determined upon bx the general staff are carried out, even by those who oppose them. His high position in the imperial family enables him to treat even gen- erals with rough military discipline which alone can maintain order among the temperamental Slays. 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