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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-12-06, Page 7For the - - Toys and Girls. " S ERENCE" The AueDhisagraphy of a Cocke Speinael, By F. M. Atwood "Yes, my name is Terrence; but I next block. You see I am very peace- able by nature, and not being very large feel I might getrhe-,worst of it in a fight, If any dog rune after or tries to bite me, I roll over on my back, wave my paws helplessly•in the air, crying piteously all the time. I am called Terry for short. I ant a black Cocker Spaniel, a very hand- some and a very clever dog. That's what my Mistress says, and she ought to know, for she knows most every- thing. To be sure she does make min= taker sometimes, for I have heard he say, I must noteat any more, that have had plenty, when truly Fant ver hungry. The first thing I can remember wa being taken away .from a nice warm bed, where I was sleeping. beside my mother. and three little brothers. shall newer forget that first night awnfrom m cold Y y mother..- I was ungry and miserable, and when I reel a great big tall man called m "little whelp of misery"; which only e me cry more, for his gruff voic ened me. And, Oh! I. did wan thee. The big man tried h uiet me; at last in despair down the leg of an old par re, first fastening tip the end e of his ties; after which I fe comfortable, and soon fell asleep he next morning, first giving me a drink of cold milk, he put me- in a horrid box and nailed slats .over it Then the box was lifted into a cart and I was driven to a noisy place (which I have since learned was called a -station) and put on .the train After a long and tedious day, for I was frightened and couldn't sleep, the rattle of thenars made my. .head ache I was taken off the train and again put in `a cart, After a few minutes ride I reached my. final destination. It was then I first met my Mistress. She took me out of the box, gave me nice, warm milk to drink, petted and cud- dled me in her arms, stroking my long silky ears, making me feel more com- fortable and, happy than I had' been since I. left my dear Mammy. Before many days had passed.I felt quite at home, and had' become the pet of the' whole household—with all ex- cept the old Collie dog Bounce. Ho tolerated me --that was all. To be sure, as titin went on I did worry him a good deal—tumbling over him, pull- ing his whiskers, and. biting his tail— and often just' when he had settled down, hoping to have a nice quiet nap. My Mistress commenced my educa- tion at once. I soon. knew each mem- ber of the family by name, and every night, before I was put to bed, I was told to say goodnight, which meant I had to go to each person and hold up my paw—my right paw, I never for- got that— to shake hands. I would do t as quickly rekly as possible, knowing full well that as soon as I had finished my Mistress would give me some nice little: "tid bit." You. have really no idea how clever I soon became. I will tell you soma of the things I learned to do. To beg and trust; that is, I would balance a piece of cake or pudding on my nose, while any Mistress counted ten,'then I would toss it up in the air by giv- ing my nose a sudden jerk, and catch it in my mouth as' it came down. When she counted slowly I found it hard to wait for it smelt so very good; that for some reason my nose would go higher and higher,' so that often be- fore she came to the ten the cake would roll orf. Ansi theft my Mistress was hard-hearted enough to make me • start all over again, I could shut the door, salute just like a 'soldier; my mistress made nue a pretty cap, which T would run and :bring to her when told to do so. Then, when she put it on my head, with the elastic under. ' my chin, I would stand up on my hind legs 'and touch it with. my. paw. I learned to dance on my hind legs, I. have quite an ear for music, and can' keep time very nicely. I could put out a lighted match by jumping on it. When asked what other dogs do when 4 they are tired, T would yawn. I learn- ed to say please, to give three cheera, foe the Icing, and to carry a news-' pa1er or basket home from tlre'Post' Ofie e in my mouth. Smoke a pipe- Ler rather' I held' a pipe in my mouth and pretended to smoke, To jump over a' stick, to know not only my right: band from my left, but also to know; which was my Mistress's right hand, and would not take anything out. of iter left one. She reed to try hard to puzzle me by crossing thein, by put- ting then. behind' her back, etc,, but I. always knew and •never• touched any thing, even if told I night, till she, offered it to me in her rightlutud. Indeed, my accomplishments be- came so numerous that it might tiro 1 you if I told you of them alt And as my paws were not made for hold- r Ing a pen very handily, I wish to, tell a my story' as briefly as possitio. I always loved. to go for a walk 1 with nip Mistress, ante do even :tow, although I have, grown old and stiff, and spend most of my tine sleeping in the sunshine, or by the warm kit- c Mimi fire, dreaming of the good tines t I have had in my life. Yes, and the bad "ones, too 1 Thore is one hoose wo have s to pass to get to the village, where a big o black and white dog lives, of which I s ant vert' much afraid, and to my mot- to not to has ever been "discretion is the t better part ae valor," when I get near a this place I trot off down a side street, send meet my Mistress again. at the p ✓ find this :tit excellent plant, and can I truthfully say that I never had a Y fight in my life. One bad time -1 had was when T got s my feet cut in a mowing machine. I was hunting for field mice in the long grass, -so didn't notice how near the I machine was, and the.hay being very thick the man didn't see me in time , to stop the horses.` I really don't see how I escaped being killed. The middle e toe on one of my front paws was only hanging by the skin, and the tips cut e cit the toes' on either side of it. Then t both my hind feet were badly cut --I the tops ofl' three of the tool on one foot, and all the cushions off the other.' r I was indeed a sorry looking creature, when my master rescued- and carried • It me to the house. •I My Mistress and another lady bound up my feet, putting my toe back! in place. You will be surprised to" . hear that in a few days the bone .mit' , together, and though it was a long time before I could walk about much,'' and I had to wear stockings for a few • weeks, still I did get better, and in a couple of months was not even lame, I had still another rather unpleas- ant experience, when I was quite a Puppy, too, I found some bread dough,; which had been put on a low box near the stove to rise. It smelt rather good, so I' tasted it, and it tasted so good thatI ate a whole lot of it, thinking as there was so much it would never be missed,' But, alas! soon the dough began to rise and I to feel very un- -k , comfortable. I grew fatter and fat- ter, till I looked more like a big round loaf of bread than anything else. You could just see my nose and feet—all the rest was body. My Mistress was. much 'distressed, and as I was very feverish, gave me a drink of water, which only made matters worse, for I I swelled still more. They really thought I was going to burst. After , a while I began to subside, however, greatly to the. relief of my feelings. While I: was so ill my Mistress was, very good to me, petting and calling me "Poor little dog,", etc. But .when I got better she was everlastingly lec- turing me about overeating and would quote good Doctor Arnold. Exceed- ingly bad taste I think, not to let the matter drop (besides, when Dr, Arn- old talked about "making gods of their insides," he was alluding to little boys who are always' greedy, and not to, little dogs at all). I have heard the family say I was a very destructive puppy, but all pup- pies love to tear up things. Of course, if I found rubbers left in the porch, naturally I would run off with them; they are, such nice things to shake, and when they dap against• your ears, why you feel you must tear them up, ff only to punish them. There` were ;soma peculiar black. creatures, that the young ladies of the house some, times took out with them, 'called um- brellas, which when lying quiet were very harmless looking, but when they took them up and gave them a"shake; they swelled out in a' most extra- ' ordinary manner I could not under- stand, an 1 d I had agreat desire i - to n vestigate'tlrem. But when not in use, they were always put up on the rack, for my Mistress said, "It was as well not to put temptation in my way." So I had to wait a long time before I had an opportunity,. but at 'last it came, One day I was passing the open porch, and on glancing' in saw to my joy an umbrella leaning against the door.. With 'a growl of delight I pounced on it, and dragged it out on the lawn, ' Very soon it was in shreds —nothing but its bones left.- I tried to eat them, but they were too hard for even my sharp teeth. I was hav- ing, aw ing, a thoroughly happy time, when 'I heard the front door open, and for some. reason when I heard that sound a very guilty. feeling crept over me. Just as I was disappearing rapidly round the corner I heard a strange voice say, "I wonder what can have become of' my umbrella; I ant sure I left it here in the porch." I didn't wait to hear more, but shortly after- wards my Mistress came round the house with a switch in her hand, and —well, I don't care to talk about it, but for a while I didn't feel very com- fortable1 I never look at umbrellas now. When I was about two years old I was taken to the Bench Show. I was away from home two whole days. I don't think I was ever so unhappy in my life. I was kept tied up all the time, and the dogs were howling and crying all round me. I took the sec- ond prize, which was quite an honor, and was told I would have taken first if I had not been so fat. I was over- weight—my Mistress's fault for gin ing. me so much porridge. The dog who took the first prize was one they were sending all over the country, and I believe he took the prizes every- where. I have had'my photograph taken Many times, but they never do me justice, so now when T see them pre- paring to take a picture of me I usual- ly turn my back, There is tine, how- ever', which Is not so bad. I have on my forager cap and am smoking' a pipe, It was taken the day after we —Bounce and myself—went up to Stony Lake by ourselves. I must tell you about that trip. It happened this way; One morning we had been out hunt- ing groundhogs in a field a short dis- tance from the house, and on our re- turn, imagine our dismay on finding that the whole family had gone from ' home. We have an Island up an Stony Lake, where we sometimes go camp- ing. We thought most probably they had gone there, and feeling very in- dignant at having been left behind, raced down the hot dusty road to the wharf, which is about a mile away, The steamer m wasu just leaving the shore, but we managed to jump ors. To our. great disappointment we found none of our "Ain folic" on board; still, we 'made up ow minds to have a good tiino anyway. Every time the steam- er stopped, we rushed to see if it was at Fairhaven (our island) but, no! ! We were suri'h annoyed that the boat did not tali: ns titer Must have known that was where we wished to go. What fun we would have had, chasing the squirrels and chipmunks and bunting the ground- hogs, when there was no one there to forbid us. We got home date in the afternoon, very hot, very tired and hungry, and a trifle' out of humor, but were glad to find that the family had. returned, and from their conversation I.gathered that they had driven into Peterborough, a town some miles dis- tant. They were very curious to know where we had been, and I overheard Mistress say, "I would not be surpris- ed if these dogs have been up to Stony Lake on' the steamboat. I shall make inquiries of the Captain," which I be - dead now, but they have got another upstart of a collie, who worries my life out -always wanting to play when o, znougn,tney lieve she did. Poor old Bounce, he is AN AIR FORCE ROMANCE Hon. Monica Grenfell, the lovely and vivacious daughter of Lord .Des- borough, es- borou h the s ort; earl, g> n r is P g to marrySir John h most Salmond one of the distinguished men in the Royal Air Force. The marriage is a surprise as Sir John, though both handsome and charming, was believed to..be wholely wedded to his career. He is a widower and in command 01 Bietish forces in Bagdad and 'the Valley of the Euphrates. Lord Desborough at one time swam the Niagara River just below the Falls. away over to the adjacent island. I like to be in the water all the time, hunting frogs, mud turtles, etc. And, oil it is such fun to jump in after the float, when anyone is fishing. The trouble is, I get scolded when I do; but, after all, what is a bit of scolding anyway. No dog with any spirit could resist a float bobbing 'up and down as though laughing at him. He,would simply have to go and catch it, no matter what were the consequences. Sometimes I get rheumatism, and then I ani tied up so that I can't go into the water at all, which makes me feel very sad and sorry for myself. There is much more I could tell, you, but since I got hurt by the mower I find writing rather difficult, my toes never having quite regained their old suppleness, and as T ant rather tired and very sleepy -I think I will bid you all' good-bye. Not What She Meant. Ata party the husband of one of the CANADA AIDS REFORESTATION s After a period of inactivity extend Mg over 'a period of twelve months the seed extraction plant of the For entry Branch of the Department has recommenced, operations, and settlers lumbermen and others are now busily engaged in the gathering of fir cones at many points in the Fraser Valley, from New Westminster to North Bend, While the quantity of cones to be gathered this year is somewhat small- er than that of 1321, it is estimated that some 3,000 socks will be secured, from `which approximately 5,000 pounds of first-class seed will be re- covered. T am tired. Mistress ..e.. says it is a pun_ Douglas lir canes will be col- i ishment to me for having teased guests arrived very late. le Only tufa year in the Fraser Valley, Bounce so much. I wonder if he mind -"I have only mime to takeAll of the seed to be collected. C on my wife the order of the British Forestry Com- es as much as I did. I'm so sorryI home;' he explained. mission of London, with the exception bothered him. "oh, my dear Mr. Blank,". olid the' of 200 pounds of Douglas fir seed, The Island is a lively place; has gushing hostess, "why didn't you come water all round it you - know. I love sooner?" water; Bounce hated it. The only time 1' he would go into the water was if Oatmeal is responsible for more de - anyone fired off a gun, when he would festive teeth than either white flour be so frightened that he would swim or rice. Curing 11 The relation of light to health has engaged attention since long before the Biblical philosopher wrote: "Truly the light Is sweet, and. a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." From the days when our first fore- fatllere, noted the difference in a plant set in shadow from the same plant set in sunshine, knowledge of the virtue in.light has progressed, until nosy it is generally conceded by science that light is as important an element of life as 2000, In medicine light has been used from earliest times; the therapeutic application of sunlight is a mode of treatment handed down through gene rations. Sunlight came into use as a general tonic, and as a special tonic to the shin, while as a disinfectant'its powers are systematically`applied. And now comes Dr, Dinshah P. Gha- diatf, widely known scientist, and pre- sents to the world the crowning achievement of his thirty years' re- search—spectre-chrome therapy,form- erly, called the attuned color wave therapy, a system of diagnosis and treatment of diseases and derange- ments brought to an almost unbelieve- able perfection. In the course of experiment Dr, Ghee diati evorved a theory that all drugs and chemicals act in the human sys- tem through disengagement of color waves;` that every element known ex- hibits a preponderance of one or more of the colors of the spectrum, and that the potence, of an element depends on the potency of its color waves. Aa the stn, the soutceof all life and energy, imparts life to the world by wales of light (whichlightis white and is composed of seven colors—red, orange, �yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), it is plain, argues the doctor, that ultimately our bodies are also built of these elements—colors. In health, the bodily elements (col - ore) are proportionately balanced. In llness, tlhie balance is disturbed. Sup- plying the colors that are lacking, or educing 'the supernormal ones, re- tores the perfect. balance—or' health. This is the rational system employed n speetrochrome therapy, Olio of its strongest advocates is Dr. Date ,Baldwin, of Philadelphia, -whose- apparatus for .treating disease with otot'ed rays has attracted wide atten- lore Blue peres Burns. Explaining.. how:caters' operate in re- toeing health, Dr. Baldwin took one tbee recent cases, that of a child so everely burned in 0 bonfire that whert he was laic. on her hospital cot the tie eirdants hail to rest hereon her face nd one hip. "Iced," explained the doctor, '4s fire. ohm and contains a great proportion pan Ills With of hydrogen. In order to counteract red, wo apply bine, which has a large proportion of oxygen.By the use of spectro-chrome, this child was relieved of the frightful pain usually attending burn cases and has made remarkable progress." Every drug or chemical, when ana- lyzed, will tune up in its proper color, in the spectro'eltrome, say proponents of the school; there is never an in- stance where a color does not tune up always in the same place, so there Is never any doubt as to what color should be applied to achieve the same (or better) result as would be attained. if the patient were given the drug. A Yvan suffering from malarial fever might, for instance, take quinine. The blue wave, of which quinine is com- posed, would therefore be used by Dr. Baldwin in driving out the fever and curing the patient. In Dr. Ghadiati's theory, .red repre- sents anger; yellow, mentality; green, inbow Trots cotics; violet and purple are depres- sants, and magenta and scarlet are the emotionala. In treating e, case, Dr. Baldwin made it clear that 'careful study of the pa- tient and 'his malady shows to the ex- perienced spectro-chrome operator just what .color or colors are leaking or excessive, and relief is then ap- plied. The spectro-chrome is used to equal- ize' circulation, to lower high blood pressure or to raise low blood pres- sure. Indigo may be used in place of morphine. Turquoise is a remarkable skin builder. Magenta, the color ob- tained by combining. red and violet, the highest and lowest colors, is used for nervous people and for irritable hearts. Heart lesions have been cured by the use of this "emotional" color. Magic Lantern. The apparatus used, in small ma- chines, has the appearance of a cam MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF COLORS In the following table are shown the medicinal pro- perties which it is asserted colors possess, and some of the maladies for which they are prescribed: Color Symbol Effect Remedy for Red Anger Stimulant Anemia Orange Jealousy Stimulant Low vitality Yellow Mentality Nervine Nerves Lemon Pride Nutrient Exhaustion Green Humility Germicide Poisons Turquoise Dignity Germicide Skin diseases Blue Intuition Sedative $urns Indigo Benevolence Narcotic Spasms Violet Spirituality Depressant Fevers Purple Veneration Depressant Blood pressure Magenta Love' Emotional I3eart Scarlet Lust Emotional Senility 1umility; blue, intuition; violet, epituality; magenta, love; lepton, slide; orange, jealousy; turquoise, dignity; indigo, benevolence; purple, veneration; scarlet, lust, The attuned color wave system pre- sents all tho seven colors of white light from the lowest, red, to the high- est, violet, and also five other colors' containednot , in the solar epeetrnrn-- two uper•coders. (lemon and t r- duoise) and three lower' colors (scar- let, purple and magenta) -completing the tuning of the system just like a musical instrument intoseven major and five minor keys. The therapeutic, properties of the colors are given as follows: Red and! orange arestimulants; yellow and'+ lepton are nervines or nutrients; green i end turquoise are the g'ornlicidee; blue and indigo are sedatives and nat.., possible to get in order that no yellow may tint the slides. The concentrated rays of the largo machines are lased in the treatment of cancer. Smaller machines are fre- quently installed in the home of the Patient being treated in order that daily applications of life-giving light of the required color may be made. A baste theory of the new therapeu- tics is that the radio -emanating forces Of the body, radiating as they do from a foot to eighteen inches, are the agents that pick up the calors as they are applied. Dr. Baldwin, mentioned the cure of a case of hiccups which had lasted with- out intermission for ten days before the wife of the victim heard of the work performed by the spectre -chrome device and called in Dr, Baldwin, Carbuncles large and small, says Dr Baldwin, yield to the spectro-chrom without the need of incision, and th beauty of the new treatment Is' tha it is entirely free.from pain. Flooding the carbuncle with indigo averts th usual agony accompanying the growth Neuritis, that most painful of ai meuts, Di'. Bald -win asserts, succumbs readily to the beneficent blue rays; adhesions of the intestines are broken up when the wonder-working light ap pears; even smallpox, that dread scourge of the ages, could be cured in six or seven days if the patient were placed under green light all the time, Dr, Baldwin believes. And she adds that there 'lvould be no disfiguring scars, A Striking Cure. The most spectacular case that has ever come under the doctor's observa- tion occurred not long ago, when a. women was brought into the Women's Hospital in such a condition that an ,immediate,;operation was necessary. The woman was prepared at once for the operating table, but through some welch has been ordered by the Gov- ernment of New Zealand. The British Forestry Commission also has order- ed a quantity of red cedar seed. As a rule, red cedar is scarce and difficult to obtain. This year, however, it .is very plentiful. In 1021, the first year the plant was operated, somewhat over 12,000 pounds of tree seed wase secured, 4,000 pounds of which was Sitka spruce, 6,000 pounds at Douglas fir, 700 pounds of Western hemlock, and the balance miscellaneous, Of this amount, about 7,000 pounds was shipped to the For- estry Commission of Great Britain. In addition shipments were made from the New Westminster plant to New Zealand, Tasmania, to the different provinces of Canada, as well as to as- sociations or individuals in the United States, Belgium, France, Sweden, Nor- way, Finland and Peru. Discussed at Empire Forestry Conference. The need of greater attention being paid to reforestation was fully em- phasized at the recent Empire Forest- ry Conference, held in Canada. While this country has immense tintber re- serves, consumption has been increas• Ing rapidly, and many_ pulp. and paps • and lumber companies, as well as th e provincial and federal governments e have begun an active campaign of re t forestation which will undoubtedly re act beneficently to all concerned. In e Great Britain, the British Forestry •' Commission is actively engaged in 4I seeding land cut over during the war and planting such other areas ea. a survey of the British Isles has shown can be more profitably devoted to •i treesthanto any other crop. It is anticipated that the demand for seed will continue unabated, and orders will be received not only from England and the D•omfnions but other • countries as well, Tests have shown g'� that a number of Canadian trees, es- pecially Douglas fir and Sitka spruce, do well in Great Britatn and European countries, and Canada's activities in the production of tree seed should be a benefit to both Canada and the Em• pire as a whole, and, give: a decided im- petus to reforestation in all parte of the world. -ap- 1923 RECORD WHEAT CROP INALBERT' AVERAGE PRODUCTION 25.50 BUS. PER ACRE. Wonderful Fertility of West- ern Canada Aided by Favor- able Growing Conditions. rn a year that has been outstanding from an agricultural point of view, in that the Dominion with a smaller sown acreage than that of the previous year has produced a uniformly greater crop than even the record of 1022, the: most. signal and noteworthy feature would seem to be the phenomenal grafi duction of the Province of This province, which stakes of prosperity rather In di farming than in grain grow achieved feats 10 grain pr that will doubtless be set do all time in the cereal productio toryof the American ca ntine ri a nt, The wheat yield of this province estimated to be 157,467,000 bushels by the Dominion Government as against 84,973,000 bushels last year; though local authorities are inclined to place it even higher. This would give the province for the season an average production of 26.50 bushels to the acre as against 11.25 last year. The Gov- ernment estimate of the production of oats is 90,005,000 bushels as against 36,519,000 In 1922, an averago 2o. the present' year of 48.75 bushels to the acre.• The barley yield is estimated to be.13,423,000 bushels as against 6,- 238,000 bushels, an average this year of 85 Unseals to the acre. Since the publication of the Govern• ment's •figures, estimates of Alberta's wheat crop have taken a jump as threshing returns continued to Pour in. George Lane, one of the most cxtetr- sive farmers in the province, who gave a preliminary estimate of 1'00,000,000 bushels, has now increased his figures to 200,000,000. John I. McFarland, president and general manager of the Alberta Pacific Grain Company, esti- mates the total at between 175,009,000 and 200,000,000 bushels. Both Mr. Lane and Mr, McFarland figure that tete average wheat yield will be at least 35 bushels:to the acre as against the .previous . best average of 31.30 bushels in 1916, which set a world's record which has endured to this year, The Alberta Government also an. nouncea that its early estimates were too conservative. It is particularly certain that coarse grains will also set new world figures for average produc- tion. Some Record Yields. There is no doubt that this year, in all respects, Alberta has achieved not only a record yield for the province. but a remarkable one in agricultural annals, this not alone in the aggregate crop, but in tho acreage average and general uniformity. Wheat weighing over 60 pounds to the bushel has been reported from all parts of the pro- vince, ''whilst there are frequent oc- currences of oats' weighing more than 40 pounds to the bushel, and barley 50 pounds to the bushel. The few follow» Ing cases, taken from .different see, tions of Alberta, will give indication of the phenomenal yield.. At Lacombe, a wheat yield of 63 bushels to the acre is recorded, grain weighing 64 pounds to the bushel and grading Number• One Northern, At High River, 300 acres of wheat yielded 55 bushels to the acre, weigh- ed 66 pounds' to the bushel and graded Number One Northern. r ' At Nanton, a yield of 40 bushels of e wheat to the acre is recorded, grain weighing 65 pounds to the bushel and grading •Number One Northern. At Claresholrtt, a field of 80 acres yielded .87 bushels to the acre,'weigh- ed 64 pounds to the bushel and graded. Number One Northern. At Vulcan, over the entire district, he average wheat yield runs from 86 o.51. bushels to the acre, weighs on the average 62 pounds and grades Number One Northern. G. G. Coote, M.P. for Macleod, re- cords a yield of 73 bushels of wheat to the acre from a field on his farm near Nanton. Sid Coehlan, of Shively, has 68 1/3 bushels per acre. P. T.'Gibbie, oe Clareshohn, .has an average of 53. bushels an acre from 820 acres, O. L. McPherson, Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, has 40 'bushels an acre from 500 acres at Vulcan, T. C, Milnes,. M.L,A„ has 57 bushels per acre from 640 acres at Claresltoim.' Fred New- ton, at Blackie, has 45 be6heis per acre from 300 acres. Bowerstock and Feilger have 53 bushels. to the acre ram 280 acres at 6lagratih. Thos, A. Flocking has 52% bushels to the acre rom 240 acres at Magrath, t misunderstanding theme nets a delay. So customary is it to regard such a era or an old-fashioned "magic lan- J tern" in wllich, five slides are inserted, combinations of which form the twelve necessary colors of the spectro ; chrome, This small machine has a shutter which may be operated to in-' crease or decrease the opening, and! it may be used on ordinary house cur- rent. The larger, .more complicated' machine has a thousand -watt electric • lamp and Ova' or six lenses, one of which collects the rays so that they 1 may be concentrated on the desired object, This machine can be ntanipu-f 'listed tip or down, turned easily, slant- ed In the direction desired,its light - opening widened or closed as that operator may wish either to flush- the whole body with light or to 'concen- trate on a felon on a patient's finger. Thelamps used in the machines throw a light as near white as it is else as a surgical one that. Dr, Bald- Illi 11 1'%..l 11111 11 itbllillillll' f win almost forgot' the spectra -chrome until she saw the excruciating torture being: undergone by the patient and the impossibility of administering Ina mediate' relief. Even then she thought only of numbing' the pain until the operation might be ,performed, She ordered the patient carried into the .dark room, covered all but the af- fected spot 'and turned on the Indigo, light. In twenty minutes all pain left the sufferer and an operation was found to be unnecessary. In order to make sure that,'the cure was lasting, the patient was 'kept at the'hospital fortwo days, during which time spec tro-chronic was applied twice a day, and she was then permitted. to return to her hone, One Acre Yields 105 Bushels. In the Brant district there is a farm 111111 ;i.> i'll►l<'9tyY:llllit of 1,800 acres, which rias not yet been threshed, on whish the wheat is ex peeted to yield 60 bushels to the acre and the oats from 126 to 130 bushels to the acre. Most extraordinary yields of grain are ' reported from the Provincial School of Agriculture at Olds. On re ono -acre patch, 105 bushels of Mar - 'guts wheat were threshed, which Is believed to be a record for title crop, 1 " exceeding the yield of Seager Wheeler which was previously "considered OA being unsurpassable. From an aero seeded to oats, 205 bushels were threshed. Barley similarly yielded ex- cept enaily. On a field of 27 acres, an average' of 70 bushels to the acre wait secured, whilst on another, 70 acres o4 ns a different variety, a yield of 80 best able for n oth f 11 b s for the acre was recorded, How He'd Work It. "See ,here ;Joe' Smith! Why don't you stake a new man out of yourself and pay nie that pew, rent long over Treatments are usually of about half ino7" an ]tour's duration, unless for somee ' "Your R veranco, !t I d become a reason the pr•cacrlhing, phy*siciau in. different man I wouldn't be resuo creases the tinic to an hour. •