HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-08-11, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932
THE SEAFORTH NEWS,
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spread that the Fenialts had landed at
Bayfield, were marching on Bruce-
's field, en route for Scaforth, ,which
they meant to take at the point of the
bayonet, and that, after sacking the
town, they were to ravage the whole
co untryssde
Messengers were despatched to all
the schools, 1 shall never forget the.
one who came to the old lag schooll
where 1 taught that year• Ile was
covered with perstpira'bi'oni and his
horse wile foam, as he came gallop-
,ing up the road during the morning
intermission. I was, out with the pu=
pills, In a Ideal, .excited voice he ord-
ered- me to dismiss the pupils at once
and to instbruct thein to' tell all t'he.
Hien capable of bearing arnns to repah
to the village of Springhill, now -Stall-!
fa,
As the dread'mt'essemllger disappear
ed in a cloud of dust his orders were
promptly- e:eecuted,and hundeedis,
trout the cohtvnvundty,',nmytsebf among:
rhe number, hastened to the rendez-
vous,. where
endezvous,.where a company oif mil&iia a'n'd:
a body of Home Guards lead already
been organized/Near evening, as no
di) enemy appeared and we had not fur -
,J tther news of his approach, our war-
like ardor coaled We despatched two
of the 'ino''st sttwllweat yo -ung men to
Seafarth, or as near .as they dared ap-
proach the beleaguered town, withh
ins'tructi'ons to ;bring (nick ,a11: pdssitb!le
inform'a'tion fnobn.:the army of . de -
,About m'idn'ight tlhe two spies re-
turned, weary and forlorn, with .word,
that the whole scare was a hoax, that
Seafortbh was unharmed, avid that the
fair homes of Springhill were in no
peril,
Another incident of the Fenian
scare stirred the hamlet of Bruce-
field Ito its centre. About nine, one
Satufday night, without warning, the
Fenbans: were heard advancing with
terrific shouts to the shrill music of
the -fife and the loud,' measured tones
of the .big bass drum. To hear was to
tremble. Parents. looked into each
other's eyes, and the Face's of their
dear ones. In the twinkling of aa eye
every light went out. The whole vil-
lage was in darkness and every ci'ti-
zen fled to the particular nook or
cranny he deemed most secure. I,t
-seemed .as if each, in ,,vivid anticipa-
tion of this terrible moment, had pre=
',_a_j viously sele'oted his peculiar, hiding
place, and lenew je's't where to find it
in the pitch blackness of that awfnl
night. I do not vouch for the truth of
the tale, but it was said that a fine
old Presbyterian elder, who sante-
times visited a brother eider in the
village as moral support at that try-
ing time, had done so that very night,
and when a more courageous neigh-
bor, having discovered the hoax, had
gone to the house to relieve the fears
of the family he found, on striking a
light, the dear old visiting elder in a
posture of supplication tinder the.bed
while his hast and the latter's .wile
were in bed with their head's under
the 'bedclothes.
(Some remained in hiding all night
but many ventured out 'after a time
r when-, the shouts anal the music had
•ceased, They got in touoh with some
of the boy's, who, being either ring-
leaders or in league with them,
thought it well net to carry the joke
too far and revealed the truth,
•There was in the village a middle-
aged man who had been: a tailor and
. who loved a night out with the boys.
Engoiniug strict secrecy, he arranged
for all to meet him at Peter's Creek,
a quarter oaf a mile fr'oan the village.
He had provided fifes and drum, sel-
ected hismusicians, and, after silent
drill fora'night or two, had made
sure that each wa,s m'as'ter of his part.
Hence the Fenian raid on the peace-
ful little village of iBruce'fielci.
k by..ink the
chain is made"
— French Proverb.
AS the Ancient Romans used to say - "Step
by step, one goes to Rome." Everything
can be achieved by degrees if you set your face
clearly towards your objective and advance in a
straight line.'
"Dollar by dollar, your security is made more
certain." Apply this new proverb to your per-
sonal financing. Start a Savings Reserve — set.
an objective and see how quickly you will achieve
it, if you but add to deposits every week. Vitally
important is the beginning — start NOW:
Seventeen Branches. in Oncario
PROVINCE OF trA I AVINGS OFFICE
. EVERY DEPOS/PGSARANTEEdaYONT R1OGWWF LAMENT, .
HAD OFFICE B LDI N ST
SEAFORTH BRANCH—JJ. M. Mc'MILLAN, MANAGER;
'meant scarlet fever, with the usual re-
sult in such cases—a fatal termina-
tion. It was the doctor's first case
and, unjustly enough, his fast. If all
the records of medical nnen re malig-
nant' scattlet fever were as truthful as
those inscribed in (Genesis the records
would be as invariable as 'that con-
cerning the patriarchs; ;Methusaleh
and all the rest of them: 'And he
died,'—`and ,he died,' and the d'octor's
case was no exception, 'and he died.'
tied oat to the letter ,1 will go to see•
your daughter, tbutt Hat before."
;The old man did not come (back. 'I
did not visit the patient, the "steady
Stream of 'people -eolith -sued to pour
in every day, but the girl made a
good recovery and is naw- :wing in
Western 'Canada, hearty aird well,
never having :had a return of the
trouble.
u T'he next case 'h Shall describe IN51,5
not one of catalepsy, but no doubt
the same drug was:responsible for its
sytnptoans.
A ch'ild'less -Hatt 'and w'i'fe lived on
the outskirts of the village. :'I had
never done any !work 'for (these people
who, though 'Christian Scientists were
frequently attended by my vill'a'ge
confrere. But on this occasion the
was away 'from home and a 'doctor
from mane Miles away had been cal-
led in:- 'He had ileft the house only
a short time when, on ,account of ra-
ther alaren'ing symipltoims, I was cal-
led by .the woman's father, wilco was
greatly 'excited and who 'begged 'ens
"'for 'God's -Sake" leo hurry.
I evade due haste and found' the pa-
tient in great menital excitement. 'Site
said she was going t6 die and was
naw on 'her way to Heaven. She
was .flying :through the air, and no-
thing would convince 'her that site
was not at ithat moment en route. for
"the Happy Land, tar, 'far away," so
I'ceased all effort to arrest her flight.
I was satisfied khat the symptoms
had :been induced by a certain drug.
I as'ke'd whether she had taken med-
icine, and she -told nt,e she !had had
one dose of the remedy left her by the
doctor, who could not' yet be .hall-
way home.
•
A Trance and Some Adventures in
Aviation
In the year '36 1 :had a case a utile
s'outh ,of the village,—a young woiman
of twenty-ifive who usually entj'oyed
excellent health (but who had sudden-
ly 'fallen ill, and to whom I was not
called 'until a week or ten days after
the 'ontsett of the ,troibble, when she ap-
peared ,tq be sleepiibg soundly and
could not be roused, The 'pulse .was
very feeble; the heart action : weak,
the surface cool, temperature several
degrees 'below normal, and, according
to the account given 'by the family,
she took nitther food nor drink.
1 learned from her father that she
had been under ,treatment ,froman old
French doctor fifteen miles away, to
whose, office she had gone tor some
time; that he had visited her at her
home several times, at 'least ,twice af-
ter the strange symptoms appeared,
as whey had done 'after a visit. of the.
patient to his office when he had gi-
ven her a large pill to be taken at
ted=tinte.:Sthe 'took this and the sym-
ptoms appeared the next ,mornin'g. On
his last visit he'.had told the ,family
that he would not return, and advised
then. to •send for the 'local doctor:
hence my connection with the case.
I Was always able to get a response
frons the patient, as, -•I was informed,
ttgb'ody ,case had been able to do, On
each, visit I -noticed a contin:uois.
stream of, people conning and' going.
The case was regarded as/ a -'nine
days' wonder. The ;'family took de-
light in 'describing its peculiariti'e's
and in "admitting everyone that came
along,_even entire strangers,- No 'visit-
or departed Iwitheut making an effort
to secure a ,resiponse from the uncon-
scious gin::
judging that so Ifnequenit dennands
on ,the patient might retard recovery,
I ,forbade the admission of anyone to
tihe roam, 'but,voon''le'arned that great
numbers 'wen;t to see the girl ''daily
and that all :were :admitted. At len'gt'h,
as she fnia+d'e n'o p'rogre'ss toward. re -
&every, her father, a simple, 1s114 -
hearted old man, lbe'gan to ge't anx-
ious and ,c•anie to my office, :asking
me to dawn .to his p'l'ace. I asked if
they were keeping'sightseers away, as
I had ordered.
"09i, enol" the' said, "we ?cou'ldlia',t ,duo,
that. 'IThey'me (bound Ito see her.' I
asked thimn 'how (many iwere being ad-
mitted to her room each delay. Isle
could sot tell. 'As Many as ten?'
" 'Oh, a great many more than
that ' So I foillowed ,the reverse cor-
der 'otf that employed 'by iAlbrahant to
leading for 'Lot, proceeding frons, .tent
to twenty, thitlty, 'forty, 'till 'I reached
a !htun'dred, When he replied, `fees, I
guess 'about (that.'
"'Well,," I said "ivlhienever 'wiou :can
tell—me that my arcters ;ate being (car-
- Early Cases
My first practice in•a country vil-
lage began in the midst of an epicle-
fie af- scarlet fever ins the early goring
of 187ee.
I had at first ne opposition. The
cases were most of the benign type,,
though there • were a few of the angi-
nose for -in, and some complications,
such as entlanged glands, scarlatinal
rlfeumatisnn, nephritis ,and so on. But
ionturtately ell ehe e'as'es, of which
there were fifty or sixty, recovered
with each treatment we they received
from a young doctor, itt his first
year's practice,'
About a snontth atter my arrival,
another dtoctor, a l'i'ttle older, antiof a
more grave andmature mien, put up
his Shingle in, a bui'ld'ing near my of
flee. As we had been fellow-stud'enit's
far pant of our course in college, he
and. I were very .good 'friiends and
were disposed to Live in harmony.
As I had 'been successful with my
Scarlet fever cases the people of the
laoetl'ity were in'cli:tred to fiver me in
spite of my youthlbul aptpea'rance, and
my 'oonfrere 'brad nota been called, to a
single case until one day when I was
away a. on busines!s in a neighboring
town, In my absence the: father of_a
family, two members of which I head
attendled for the ;fever, called at ,my
office 'seeking my services ,doe a third
who ,was tilt, 'Alfie. waiting as 'long es
he dared he 'called tiny friend: to the
case, ,whish iproiveld to he tone of trial -
PAGE TI-IRED
onal
The band of Burn
TI -IR `
LAND' 01? THBI GAEL have fallen
from • ;no tants vbfcb
The Author vislited Dunkeld — With seem " to' have been cleft for its
now,"
its Ancient tCa.thedra1 _ Birnam course.J3ut we 'have teaelfeb
Duff's Gales and Other
Places :fau•iliar to the Iteaders of
Shakespeare's Play of lNIaciBe'th—
After Which He Inspected the
"Pass of Killiccrankne" and Gave
the battle field of Kilhecranlcae,. thith
was fought in 1689: A stone marks the
place where Mackay left his, baggage
on :the level ground Iby the hanks of
the Garry, and where the 'Hiighland
n e'rs seized it and full to plundering in -
the Rollowli g Description: stead of following up their victory by
After hawing a very good dinner at p'urstting the red !coats. llumudee was
a temperance ,hotelin, the village of 'lying,!by this tittie amongst the "thick-
Birump, from one -w'i'ndow of which est 0± the Stain," 'rat the result would
we could see,' Duff's oaks, and from an- have :been far otherwise; prolbab'Iy /if
other Blirnam Hill, we took, a tic'ke't he had been alive not a man of 'the
Royal army ;would have escaped, We
were somewthat disappointed by the
appearance of the hill down 'which the
Highlanders came, If has been 'badly
spoiled by cultivations, still .the ridge
is there, which no doubt gave Dun-
iec's army a great advantage: 'The
,broom amongst which the hardy
mountaineers lay concealed, .wltife
Mackay's army was slowly passing
through the ,dark defile is gone. It has
been replaced by some kind of grain
which th'ad just been sown. The river'
with its rapid's and thickly 'Wooded
hanks is .there pretty much . the same
as it was upon th•e morning of the
b'attlle two hundred ye'a'rs ago, for riv-
ers.
ivers• don't change touch, unless through
tthe.art o'f ratan, and that has not heten
tried on the Garry. As it leaps from
rock to rock and dashes over its peb-
'bay bottom, now 'fretting itself into
foams agalinst its rooky (banks anon
flowing in quiet, beautiful curves -t„E'.
.eddies, it seems to say to the • on-
l'ooker as it said on that .morning'a'f-
ter Dundee had been laid low, Mack-
ey and his army nearly annihilated,
its water crimsoned with the life
blood of many a 'brave mans—
"bleu
ans"bleu may come and men may go, .•
But ' -I flaw' on forever."
.How puny is man who lives out'his
little ' day, and is .gone, compared to
the works of nature, the rocks, the
hills, the rivers, and the mighty o-
cean, which are the 'Same yesterday,
to -day, and forever. It is 'easy for one
with a fertile, poetic imagination are
call up the ghosts of the oast add
peolple a plaits, a mountain or a ,vase
ivNowtook, with contending armies, especially It
fully for ourselves. we oa a you happen to be in a -country wheatview of Pitlochry, which is a favonitelis stern, romaitic, solemn, sublime,
resort of inval(ds,,on .account of the such as the one whose !heather nay
'beauty of She place and the hydro. feet are now pressing: This is what 1
pathic,institution, which ,cost £50, •did upon, the prssent occasion- I •hid
000. It was a beautiful evening, cold eead Macauley's description of the
eanough to be 'bracing, as with a light battle, had read Aytioun's poem de -
valise en hand ,we started' to walk scribing the fight, and while doing se
through the Pass of Ki'Ufieornnki!e, in- .could not help admiring the dashing
tendinge to •reach Blair A•thois by the bravery of the rude, fearless motan-
tinne the sunt, wh£ah Hwasighland
n shining glor- taineers, a •courage well worthy of a
ions:, in a -clear Hisihdand sky, had ,better fate, a better,hing, and a better
for IPlttloeh,ry, near the ,:''ass' of (Gonia;
c-ranki'e, which we wished to' examine
particularly, as it was here that the
famous 'battle was 'fought which Clav-
erhouse, alias Viscount Dundee, with
hits H'ighillanders, defeated Mackay,
one of tlreybest Generals of the day,
who was hi conmtnan'd of the ' Royal
army. As we moved on to'warde the
north we paslsed a station called Bial -
tinting, from which place there is a
branch railway nine miles 'long run-
ning up to .Ihiberfelely, which was the
scene o'f Burns' ,sang, "The barks of
Aberfeldy." We would fain have as-
cended this 'breach line, which we
were told 'passed along the banks of
the 'ray amidst beautiful scenery. We
would have liked also to have seen
t'hose birks which the poet has im-
mortalized in his beautiful and well-
known song. iWe were informed, haw -
ever 'by an old lady that there were
few birks at Alberfeldy now. They
have vanished like the (`'Bush Aboon
Traqualir"—lbefore the march of •civil-
ization, and the re-Ien,tlets hand of.pro-
gress. I saw sane very beautiful bilks,
or •bitches, as we 'would callthem in
Canada, on each side of the railway
track as we 'went north showing that
the !blirks •have not been entirely ex-
terminated. They look more like our
White barked poplar than the birches
wie have in aur forest land. After a
pleasant ride with air bracing and
'fresh, we arrived at ,Pitlochry with its
'hydropathic esta'blishmne n t , oval.
Strath ,tumina and its Druid circle of
six atones. This being the nearest
point to the 'celebrated Pass' we step
off here so that we may examiine the
scene of Dundees famous exploit cane -
I sent her home to bed, telling her
that while the symptoms might prove
=ream less disagreealble for a few
hams, she would Ibe, all right the next
day. 'I gave ;her a ,mixture of nux to
take regularly,
II learned later that her heavenly
flight had been a great benefit to her,
as the pain had not retureed far sev-
eral days, 'Whew it did, state :took an-
other pill and had an'oth:er i flight
through the ethereal :blue, which now
that she .could soar/ skyward without
leaving the earth—she was very fat --
did net alarm her, Indeed, it seethed
to me that at times she was pleased
to take these jaunts for their awn
sake, even 'when ,they were not nec-
essary for the remielf Of pain, so that
I was glad .when the 'pills were done,
-There cane the no :d'outbt that the
symptoms produced' by the drug are
greatly dependent on, the nervous
tem'pera'ment .of the individual, the
drug in one case having very little ef-
fect, in another producing alarming gilded Schechallion's lofty peak with
symptoms, and occasionally, ,but rare-
ly, inducing either catalepsy or sym-
ptoms' closely 'akin to it"
Still ,on Earth
iThe patient was greatly reassured
when I told her I tho•ught she 'would
be all right tihe next day, thoug'h pos-
sibly a little dull and, depressed, So
I put her on nux and lett her still fly-
iu'g. S'he has not reedited, Heaven.
yet, though she started 'nearly °twenty
.
years ago, She is very lean, tut .shill
tough and wiry, 'with reo appearance
of wings, and looks very :much a Beni
zest .of earth. -
IA good .many years later there
came to my office a case I had been
treating for some time for neuralgia,.
as a complication of a ,dhronic ,uterine
affections, the exact stature alt which.
I 'cannot now recall.
As the woman Was s'ul iferin'g._acute
Pain, 'before site started homme'I gave
her a pelil made',up according to a for-
mula of (Brown iSelquard''s, and con-,
tainitig, as far as ,I remember, about
three-eighths of a grain of the solid
extm,cts Of cannabis .Indica, combin-
ed' with awns Other drugs; also a
sena'ld, hox of the ,saline, and instructed
her to take cite ,three times a.'dlay, if
necessary 'florc, the pain,
She .selt out for her home 'about
two miles away, but retur'ned in hat/-
an-hour
alf-a -im ur much alarmeld by her Sy'mip
towns, ,which she attributed to the .pill
she had taker;,
lAs soon as she 'reached the office -
She :threw
fficeShe:threw herself into my armis,. Saye
ing She had Ibeen fleeing 'throaugh the
atir, touching a ihiltttop'bere and. (here,
and t'halt Sh'e•, seemed to have been half.
noutild the 'werld Since she had 'seen'
mo. Her pain was stomlpletely gone.
LOOK OUT FOR THE HFS.S'IAN
FLY THIS YEAR
The Hessia}t Fly is the' most des-
tructive insect attacking wheat in, On-
tario. Some years the insect is scarce
and hence very little damage is alone.
Other years it may destroy. 50' per
cent, or more of the grain in heavily
infected fields. Present indications are
that unless control measures are tak-
en this fall there will be a serious out-
break of the fly next year,
Control Measures Recommended:
Weather and parasites play a great
part in control, but man can do noth-
ing to better these two factors and
must rely on the 'following methods'
where the insect is abundant:
'I. So fat' as practica'bte, all wheat
stubble should be plowed under com-
pletely as ,soon as posisitle after the
wheat is put. Tdiis iburies all the in-
sects left in the field. The ground
Should he worked after plowing so as
to firma it. Plowing and firming pre -
yenta the flies from coming upas they
cannot gothrough even three inches
of well firmed soil.
2. '11 the plowing cannot he done
promptly it is a good plan to rust 'a
cultivator or disc over the field to
cause volunteer Wheat to come up.
Tlhliss will attract the flies in it and
iherelhy lessens the number of eggs
laid in the new wheat field's. Such
vo!lunteor wheat, however, must he
plowed under after about Sept, 20th
because if it were left unplowed ..it
Would Sianlp:ly b'r'ead flies for the next
spring.
3.,Prepare the seedbed, as well as
possible sto hat it will be in ercailent
condition. for rapid growth as well as
possible so that it will be in excellent
contcl ttiotit for rapid growth, and. sow
only good pin'mip seeid which will ger-
nnlinate quickly,
4. Saw just es' late as is safe
yO,Ur district t without running the risk
e
i
of having too short a growith'to win-
ter safely. Late sowing is tate most
tnrpartarit Of all the conttrott ,measures,
but if the wheat is sown ,120,0 haste it
geld. We were rather early, the were
told, to see the .Pass. in ,its surpassing
:beat -ay, but still the buds on some of
the trees had burst, and the' tender
leaves gave the woods a Hinge of liv-
ing green, white a species of wild
cherry was in bloom and scented the
ei'r with. the sweetest -perfume. As if
to make up for deficiency manifested
by other and more tender plants and
flowers,' the hardy, iriep,ressi',ble whin,
stern pointed, independent as the
Hi'gland character itself, bloomed in
deep yellow magnificence on every hill
and. brae, and last, but not least, the
sweet toned song of the i-Iighland
birds, as if proud of their own native
vale, were singing the praises, the
beauties, the grandeur, the native
sweetness of the finest, the nest i'o-
m-antic glen on the face of the earth,
The river Tuanmel, which tails into
the Tay in the vicinity of B,allinling,
issues front Latch Rannoch, rune east-
ward through Strathtummel and Loch
Tunnnnell,' makes its Famous ' fall east-
ward of the Loch, receives the Gea-
ry an its left bank at a point two
miles from Pi'ttocltry is everywhere a
grandly ;,im•press-ive steam, and has
been described by Mrs. Brunton, as
the 'stream of her afilectlion, of all
rivers the most truly Highland, itn-
peftuous, melancholy and romantic,
forming among 'the fragments that
cause: Though from our standpoiat
we -cannot admire eilther, the princi-
ples-of'Dundee or the cause for whieie
he.was contending, we must ,acknowl-
edge that he was following 'his owe
convictions, was in' red-hot :earnest
and moreover that he was one of the
bravest of., the brave. We felt 'happy
to think, however; that while :matt
proposes, 'God disposes, and that it is
better ,for-Scotlancl, for Britain and
for the world 'to -day that the sceptre
passed away from the ancient llama '
of Stuart. At the same time we cannot,
but admire the 'matchless courage and
dashing bravery of the man who. led
the 'brave clans' of the north to victory
at the Battle of Killiecratkie, and as
we stood by Dundee's grave, in Blair
Athol, we could not help humming -10
ourselves the concluding verses of
,Aytoun's paean conememorating the -
victory gained by the man whose
ashes lay beneath, the evening 'suu-5t
the sante time shining brightly .an
Schehallion's lofty brow as it shone
on the evening of the ever memorable
'battle. s
may do more damage than 'the fly. Ex-
perieyt'ce in each 'locality is tate best
guide as to haw' late s'owin'g of wheat
can he •delayed. The better the ground
is prepared and the better the seed
sample, the more rapid the growth,
andso the latter the crop can be sown
with safety. For 'best result's every-
body in the 1ieigthtbouhood shoal& co-
operate in the above control measures_
so far as p'oststilb'e. Safe dates 'for' saw-
ing wou!k1 probably be albout Sept, 5,
east . of Guelph. and about Sept, 201!13
to 25th in Essex and Kent, and albout
hall way 'betlweenthese two dates
should be suitable for the intervening
districts, :but as stated, each .Haan must
judge far himse!bf fJhe 'date.
The reason for these late seedlings
is that the flies have about 'coenpteted
their fedi egg laying in the different
distracts, before the daltes,.me'nitutoned
and thus the wiheat largely escapes
infestation.
"And the evening ;tar was ihmiiutn;g
On 'Schehallion's distant head,
When we w'i'ped our 'bloody !braid -
swords,
And returned to count the dead.
There we found him "gashed and'gory
'Stretched upon the cumbered plant.
As he told us where to sleek .lsini.
In the thickest of the slain.
And a smile .was on his visage,
For Within his dying ear
Pealed the joyful note of triumph,
And the clansmen's clamorous
cheert
Lo, amidst the battl'e's thunder,
(Shot, and steel, and scorching flame
In the glory of his manhood
!Planned the spirit of the Graeme.Y
Open wide the vaults of Atha!,
Where the bones of heroics rest,
Open wide the hallowed portals
ITd receive another gayest!
Sleep itt peace with kindred ashes
Of the noble and the true,
Hands that never failed their country,
Hearts th'alt never baseness knew,,
Sdrelpd—and till the latest trumpet
1Wiakes the dead from earth and• east
Scotland shall not boast a braver
'Chieftain than our own Dundee:"
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