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The Clinton News Record, 1915-08-05, Page 7aavaaaa PLANTS HAVE NglIVOUS SYSTEM allESPOND TO :EXTERNAL' FORCES LIKE HUMAN 'BEINGS: . Intoxiated by Alcohol, Stupified by • Chloroform, Degeneration; Through Laziness. A series of investigations made by 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. The bar- rier between the life -phenomena -of plants and animals is thrown down. Evep the commonest vegetable proves, to be sensitive. Professor Boes has shown that plants have what may truthfully be called a nervous sys- tem—of a simple type, to be sure, but still a nervous system. The dis- covery is of momentous interest. Psychology deals with consciousness; but without -nerves, without some means of receiving impressions of stcams and eunthine, heat and cold, there can be no- consciousness. Pro- . lessor Bose by no means holds that plants have anything like the intel- ligence of animals, but he has cer; thinly 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 benuinbed 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 the rain, 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. Although he is a native of India, there is not a trace of Oriental inys- stcim 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 imed 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 eoherer was needed —something that was self -recovering, like a human eye. To discover that something involved a sturdy of the whole theory of colierer action. Why was it necessary to tap the glass tube containing the iron particles? To answer that question Dr. Bose began a painstaking investigation. He found that the iron particles of the coherer grew weary; they were ac- tually fatigued because of overstrain; they had to be revived, and a tap (a. stimulus, in other words) revived them. That discovery prompted him to study over substances. Matter proved to strangely capricious. He -; examined it as a biologist examines a muscle or nerve—electrically. A piece of animal tissue that is dead reacts differently from a piece that is alive. There is an electric twitch when the living muscle 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 response. Tested thus, D. 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 theen and afterword revived thetn;"he' pinched them, and they responded electrically like living flesh; he sub- jected them .to ceaseless blows, and they grew tired and irAsponsive; he allowed thein to rest, and the ability to respond revived. He .performed hundreds 4 experiments which prov- ed inorganic matter is net dead. First of all, Dr. Bose, set about the ;invention of new insPruments—de- vices of' unprecedented sensitiveness. If plants are to lay bare their se- crets, they must be given the means of expreseing 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, hitherto mute, will whis- per its story. Plants Sensitive. Enabled to express itself, a plant is found responsive to all the stimuli that cause an animal muscle to con- tract. A• blow -will make a: muscle twitch; a plant will also twitch when struck. A 'prink or cut will cause both vegetal and animal tissue to give either a mechanical or an electrical twitch. Pinch a cauliflower stalk with tweezers, and a reflecting gal- vanometer—a detector ,• of currents which, in this instance, may be con- sidered an electrical substitute for a brain—can be made to move a beam of light many feet on a screen and thus to visualize the stalk's wincing and recovery. 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 more that he himself con- ceives. A heart is slowed down bY either, the biologists say '1"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 kpow. The doctor tests the plant. For a minute or two the leaf- lets waver uncertainly; then they stop —the plant is quite still. 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 arms- 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 cif 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, t is evidently •abitird to explain its apparent automotic action by means of an internal vital fora. Dr. Bose offer, a new and more plausible the- ory, one that accounts for all spon- taneous mamments 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 - ICE CREAM (Good Enough for Babies) Give the Oftldren all the Ice Cream they want. 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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 suirounded by men of military training and ability whose superior- ity in their own lines he is the first to recognize. . One cf his 'most important duties is to sit at general headquarters and keep order among his various 'gen- erals, whose views are often discord- ant, to see that plans determined upon by 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. The stern manner with which the grand duke treats officers of high standing, who have failed in their duty has en- deared him to the rank and file of the army, for the Russian soldier in this war has felt the heavy hand of his superiors and likes to know that these same men are subject to the same discipline. Severe on Vodka. • Many are the stories current about the grand duke's disciplinary methods He favored, at the beginning of the war, the prohibition of the sale of vodka, and he has been particularly severe with those officers who have broken the rule and preferred the pleasures of revelry to the harsh duties and dangers of the firing line. Nicholas frequently makes unex- pected visits to cities in Poland ne:ta the front. On one of these visits in Warsaw he is said to have gone to a restaurant whete vodka and wine were secretly sold. Here he found in a private room carousing several of- ficers who should have been at the front. He 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," lie 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 tom' off his shoulder straps. At the time the Germans started their now famous drive from Cracow, Gen. Radko Dimitrieff, the celebrated Bulgarian soldier, was in command of the Russian forces opposing this ad- vaace. It is said that to supply the troops in the Carpathians am- munition had been taken from the army of Dimitriefi, so that his troops had only forty rounds of small arm ammunition fcr each man. A gen- eral commanding an army corps re- fused to obey an order of Gen. Dim- itrieff en 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 liking 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. DueskY 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 said could not longer bear the great strain of his work. Gen. Russ- ky is said to be a scholar, lie is a small man, wears glasses, and cer- tainly looks 'more like a scholar than a soldier. --+ The Elderly Safety Phi. The ▪ safety pin and the hook and eye are generally supposed to be mod- ern inventions. The former, in fact, has been credited to Queen Vietoria. She may have improved upon it, but certainly she is not entitled to the dis- tinction of having invented it. Numer- ous specimens of the useful contriv- ance have been found in theruins of Cote. Both the safety pins and the hook and eye now in the museum were made at leastnine hundred years before Christ. Some are made of bronze, but amber or some other ma- terial was often used on the more, ela- borate pins. Some Were even made of finely wrought gold. Gans with a bore .of twelve inches Or more can only fire ninety full charges. They are then considered to be worn out, and have to be sent to the fou,ndry to have a new core in- serted. • • LIONELVALTER ROTHSCHILD PREFERS 200 TO MS,FATHER'S ' FORTUNE. New Baron Show'ed So Little Interest in Finance Was Left Only $25,000 a Year. Would you sacrifice an inheritance of $50,000,000 for the Imre of a few bugs and animals? Would you be chasing rare specimens of zebras and oStriches and fleas about the world when a few hours a day spent in chasing the elusive dollar in London would have assured you a fortune that would make all except a handful of men throughout the world jealous ? Of course, you wouldn't; yet there is a man in London who ha done all this and does not regret it. He is Lionel Walter Rothschild, the new Rothschild, and because he would not 'concern himself with exchange and finance and company promotion and the other pastimes of the financial world, but spent his waking hours among his unexcelled collection of animals at Tring, .in Hertfordshire, his late father has cut him off with a paltry $25,000 a year, leaving the rest of his gigantic fortune and th,e partnership in the immensely .power- ful House of Rothchild to his second son. ' It was the new baron whe acquired an island in the Pacific Ocean for the sole 'purpose oY breeding giant tor- toises of which the Tring zoo boasts some remarkable specimens. He it was who issued a wonderful book on extinct birds a few years ago, which it cost $100,000 and many years of labor to produce. • Enthesiast in Fleas. He it was who sent a scientist to the Cannibal Islands to ransack them at the risk of his life for rare sped - mens of beasts; birds, and bugs and wile offered $5,000 for a perfect sped - men of the Arctic flea and actually paid that sum for a rare butterfly from Eucador, and whose collection of such strange things as birds of para- dise, baboons, and, deep sea fishes is known to be unique. It has been common knowledge for years that the new head of the Rothchild family knew little and cared less about the ins and outs of the fam- ous banking business in New Square. It is hard, however, to im- agine a Rothchild without at least some aptitude for the business of money getting, and they were pro- bably wrong who fancied that when the Hon. Walter came to St. Swith- in's lane it was to buy a Himalayan bear, a wildcat or a rather expensive hawk eagle. But few persons outside of the Eothschilds family could have antici- pated the bombshell of the late Lord Rothschild's will, for out of his enor- mous fortune, the heir to the title received a legacy of only $25,000 a year, or exactly one-half of what be is said to spend yearly in the upkeep of his famous zoo (his mother receiv- ed $500,000 in a lump). Has Other Millions. Second thoughts, however, make it plain that this explanation of a truly amazing last will and testament will not hold water, for not only has the new head of the Rothschild bank shared to the full in the zoological en- thusiasm of his brother, but he has taken the lead in the queerest of all the Hon. Walter's naturalistic activi- ties—namely, the systematic collec- tion of every known kind of flea that vexes the animal kingdom—to the latter's benefit, as David Harum steadfastly believed. The 10,000 fleas of all forms and sizes in the museum at Tring Park are, in fact, the property of the Hon. Charles, but the fact remains that, unlike his eld- er brother, he had' not been obsessed by his devotion to natural history, but for years has been one of the most active and capable members of the firm of which he is now the head. The late Lord Rothschild took pains to explain in his will, moreover, that his legacy to his eldest son was so comparatively small for the reason the latter already had received annui- ties both by his great -great and his great-uncle—annuities that are be- lieved to have made him many times a millionaire. The new Lord Roths- child, at 46, M an apparently a con- firmed bachelor. Around the foundations of most of British forts are broad, circular gal- leries, well ventilated, and fitted with electric light. They are called "lis- tening galleries," because, in times of siege, they are guarded by relays of expert listeners, who keep their ears pricked up for the pick and shovel of the enemy. Nimmons Liniment Cures Garret in 00074 Do You Know This? The middle verse of the Bible is the eighth verse of the 118th Psalm. The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra contains all the let- ters in the alphabet except the letter "j." The longest verse is the ninth verse of the eighth chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the ninth verse of the eleventh chapter of St. John. Ell. 6. ISSUE 32—'15. MINIIIINInimmmommen. WEAK, TIRED, DEPRESSED - That is the Usual Condition of Per- sons Afflicted With Anaemia, Anaemia is the medical term, 'for poor watery," blood. It may arise from a variety Of causes, such as lack of exercise, hard study,' improperly ven- tilated rooms or workshops, poor digestion, etc. The, chief, symptoms are extreme pallor ,of the face and gums, rapid 'breathing and palpita- tion of the heart after slight exertion, headaches, dizziness and a tendency to hysteria, swelling of the feet and limbs and a distaste for food. All these symptoms may not be present, but any of them indicate anaemia which should be promptly treated with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These Pills make new, rich blood which stimulates and strengthens every or- gan and every part of the body. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have made them - ands of anaemic people bright, active and strong. The following is one of the many cures. Mrs. Phillips, wife of Rev. W. E. Phillips, Princeton, Ont., says: "Some years, ago, while living with my parents in England I fell yictim 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 sugiested; tonics Of variouk 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 cond dons would cure me. For a time did experience temporary benefit, bu was -soon as ill again as ever. I wa literally bloodless, and the extrem pallor and generally hopeless appea ance of my condition called fort many experiences of sympathy fro friends whom we made in our ne home in Acton, Ont. Later a frien urged me to try Dr. Williams' Pin Pills, and although in a conditio where life seemed to have little' t hope for I decided to do so. Afte using three boxes I began to mend Continuing I began to enjoy my food slept almost normally, and began t have a fresh interest in'llfe as I fel new blood once again running in in veins. Dr. Williams' Pink Pill brought about a' complete cure and am to -day in robust health. My Ions band is rector of this parish and have recommended the use of th Pilld to a great number of' people wit whom we have come into contact i the course of my husband's ministry for we both know what Dr. Williains Pink Pills can do."' These Pills may be had from an dealer in Medicine or by mail at 5 cents a box or six boxes for $2.5 front The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville, Ont. CANADA'S FIRE LOSS. In ExceSs of That of Any Country in the World. At a recent meeting of the Berlin, Ont., Board of Trade the following facts were brought' out in a resolu- tion Placed on recordie, The fire loss per capita in Canada is 'greatly in except of that of any other civilized country in the _world, and our constantlynatinalPIZ! inn gi inthis sere- gard in- steadtime ouro fCanadianbette fire e at the pi ur e s en pro- portion to population, are approxi- mately Six times greater than those of Great Britain, France, or Germany, With a correspondingly high rate of insurance premium; and in the past ten years the dverage annual loss in ten Canadian cities from Halifax to cents per head as against an aver- age annual loss of $3.55 per head in ten aCndian cities from Halifax to Vancouver, with an average rate of premium in the 'British cities of but 22 cents per $100 of insured value egainst an average of $1.46 in Can- adian cities. The fire losses of $14,000,000 paid by Canadian companies in 1913 would at the British rate of premium, be 'reduced to $2,300,000, thus bringing about an annual saving of nearly $12,00,000, which, in every, decade, would alnglint, with compound in- terst, to more than the Dominion GeV - comment's contribution thus far ,for war purposes; it being equally true that this huge sum represents per- haps less than half of the annual losses directly or indirectly resulting from fire, thus justly representing us in the eyes of European countries, on the one hand, as a nation of incen- diaries, and, on the other, is absolute incoMpetents, and fully authorizing the verdict that the result is not only t a national criminal waste, but also a s "burning shame." In the United States though their rate of loss is considerably lower h than Canada's, the National Fire Pro- tection Association of that country, d in a recent report, referred to their "reckless and unceasing waste" as an n "impoverishment of the nation." Our own losses are continually de - o plored and lamented, not only by our o insurance companies, but by the pub- lic generally, and remedial action is continually urged along Provincial o t lines, as yet without avail. The Canadian Commission of Con- • servation has achieved excellent re - suits in the conservation of our na- tional waterpowers in the great re- . r duction of forest fires along our e railways, has initiated a movement h for conservation on broad national xi lines for city planning, and has sought out and applied means to con- serve our national resources in other directions, thus making it inclispen- y sible that they have, the organization to take up this most important and directly beneficial feature of nation- al conservation with every prospect of ' success. The Berlin Board of Trade request- ed the Canadian Commission of Con- servation to take up this matter as a _ special department of its work with expert assistance for formulating re- commendations to' -the different 'Pro- vinces, and directing an effort in Canada to approximate gradually to the European standard; and concert, ed action in a movement of this kind is more likely to bring results. 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Bismarck declared on one occasion that if ha had been a non-smoker he would have quarrelled with the Ger- man Emperor every other day. When his feelinge were ruffled, he took a The German Emperor is an, ardent devotee tteeof 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 smoking 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." From what a man thinks he knows, subtract what his neighbors think he knows and the remainder will prob- ably be abeut, what he really does know. ifzinsrdis Llnllnsnt CILINIS Distemper. 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