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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-03-06, Page 3molasses the Trees We BY RUTH HARRISON Buddy and the Pr theer Were of lien - tree?"Huh, said 'Buddy, surprise ing baclt •through the p " d. "Hard - grain seeks !lung over their armee for ly any at all." they had been scattering corn and "What side of the tree is this?" wheat under t1ia• brush and in protect- asked the Professor, ed fence cornersfor the quail. They "A tree doesn't have sides; it's did this every winter and now the, round," answered Buddy. quail were numerous and almost "Yes," laughed the Professor, "it has friendlyat times. sides, Not right and left, of course, "Mechuckled the Professor. but north, south, east and west. That's „There they goo," as a oovey of dual!,, a what l mean." little startled, scurried udder . cover. "Oh," said Buddy, squinting at the 'They really aren't afraid of us, Bud- sky. "This is the south side." dy. CouIdn'•t be, but I suppose they "And the opposite side where the think it is just as well never to take lichens are growing is the north side," any chances." "Why do they grow more on the A long time ago the Professor taught north side than on the south?" asked botany in the university. • New he Buddy.. lived on the farm across the road from "That's just it. Why?" the rural school that Buddy went to. "You said the lichens grew better "Look, Buddy!." said the Professor, where it. was cool and damp. Isn't any 'stooping and brushing a little snow colder on one side of the tree than the from the bottom of a big white oak. other is It?" "Here is something that is always in- "Well, Bud, it is. The sun shines teresting to look at," and he pointed more on the east, south and wast sides to some grayish -green, fiat, leathorlike of a tree than on the north. Think of patches growing on the bark of the the windows on the north Side of your tree. .They were curly on the edges: house; there are only a few days in "Queer kind of a plant," said the Pro; the year that the sun shines through fessor, breaking off pieces of the thick- them. So there are many cracks and ly covered bark. crevices in the bark on the north side Seen lots of that," said Buddy, "on that are pretty couch shaded and pro - old fences and stumps and logs." tected from the heat and drying of the "I should say .so," smiled the Pro- sun and you can see that in winter the fessor: "Iinow what it is?" snow that lodges there stays longer." "No," said' Buddy. "Never thought "How did the plant know enough to about it." get on to the north side of the tree?" "Well, you should," said the Profes- "There we have it again," smiled the ser. "Why didn't you break off a piece Professor. "The plant doesn't know a ' and come and ask me about it? You thing about it. It just happens that do pretty well, Buddy, but,' do think way by chance. Most all plants have you boys ought to be more curious seeds of some kind, and the seeds • about what you see every day." Short- when they happen to fall in a favor- ly he continued: able place grow and form more plants.InsuUn in Diabetes. upper half of the volunteer's ear was "This is a lichen, Buddy, and see The lichens have spores instead of cut away, together with about four how close and tight it grows to the true seeds, very much like the spores The men who won the forty thou" inches of skin at the back o2 the ear, bark," and he lifted one edge of the that are formed by the moss I have and dollar, Nobel prize in 1923 for the and grafted on the millionaire's head, living in a modest apartment here lichen and peeled it back gently. told you about. Now suppose these ; greatest medical discovery of the year The two men had to 1#e practically with his wife and child, is nearly blind "There! See all'that black spongy- •spores, blown by the wind, happen to (were Doctors F. G. Beating and J. J. motionless until, after twelve days, the from a 1915 wound. Hie determiva- looking mass on the underside of the light on a tree trunk, some on the McLeod, of Toronto, for their wark: flesh had united, and the rest of the tin to suppress motor and propeller in the discovery of Insulin, Not. only ear was cut away and grafted. dates from 1916, which year he spent is this the most notable medical, andStill more wonderful was the case of vainly trying to design a turbine en - scientific achievement of the year :(ita Scottish lady who sustained shock- gine for war planes. was given to the public the year be• eenee A memorial service at which 12 submarines and three parent ships were' present took place over the spot where the submarine L.-24 was sunk in the English Channel, with 40 men aboard. Photograph shows the half -malting of the colors while passing the spot. New Airplane Travels 400 Rivera. of Ruin. Miles an Hour. We have recently been reminded II The'first of Engineer Melot's propel the floods in Prance of the ravages lerles•s and metorlese airplanes, send whish, even in modern times and In to be .capable of attaining a speed of highly developed countries, can bS 400 miles' en hour, has been received wrought when a great :river overfiewa by the Technical French Mr Ministry its banks: In Paris. But the :damage done by the Seine Twelve othera' are under eonstruc- and other ,great Z+'rench rivers on such tion hi, the suburb of Colombo and occasions is not very considerable as will be ready in two months' time. compared with the havoc caused by While the details of the freak ma- other streerds in similar circumstances, chine are zealously guarded, the prin. I The most tragical river in the world ciple appears to be as follows: le the Hoang -ho, or Yellow River, Compressed gas and air are fed by which is known throughout the Celes- two tubes into a combustion chamber tial Empire as China's Sorrow. Berth. where an explosion succeeds•. The quakes and eruptions claim their vie" burnt gases then escape violently time in tens of thousands occasionally, through a series of valves. They draw but this river thinks nothing of drown. air with them and this action projects ing several millions of human beluga the machine forward, When freed the in one fell flood. mixture of burnt gases• and air oomes Not many years ago, when the in contact with the open air, and this Hoang -Ho devastated an area as large shock also pushes the machine ahead: as England, vmwere esmated at ten millionitss.ictiIn Ilistoxics t#msstiit Originally a motor was necessary to compress the air and gas, but. two has changed its mouth eleven.times, months ago the inventor managed to and its present outlet is throe hundred effect the compression automatically, 'miles away from its former ons,' and this second discovery is kept most Another river of tragedy is the Mis- secret, It was because of it that the sisslppi, which also has a tendency to Air Minister accepted the machine and • alter its course and run amok across ordered twelve more. field and farm and city. Its great plain Melot, who was badly wounded in is very flat, anti when it overflows It the war, began his invention work in overflows a long way, carrying stock 1918 on Government funds, but these in vast numbers to feed the sharks in were stopped and only revived last the Gulf of Mexico. As time goes on, September, when the importance of its banks are being more and more his experiments were manifest. I strengthened; but when a big river Two great advantages would accrue takes matters into its own bands, if the -invention materializes, namely, human devices are apt to look foolish. the freeing the machine of the great The Nile is a river of blessing, and weight of the motor, and no more a river of blight. If it comes up to broken propellers. Elimination of pro- scratch and does its duty it is worth pellets would also greatly increase tens of millions to Egypt and man - speed. Melot's chief difficulty has kind; but if it fails—as it has many been to find material sufficiently light times done in history—that failure yet resistant to the enormous tempera- means famine. Since Britain has come ture caused by the cainbustion of air to the rescue, however, and built the and gas. Assuan Dan, to .conserve and regulate Melot, who is thirty yearn old, and the water, so that the river does not wash the land away one year and leave it barren the next, the Nile has done nothing to justify its former sin- ister reputation. But in the past its failure to function normally has cost millions of lives. lichen? Well, those are—" and he ,south side and some on the north. began to look a .round for something. ; Those on the north side may get "There! That will do." Walking over lodged iu a crevice where it is _ cool to a thorn -apple bush he broke off a and moist and start growing. Those long thin thorn. "Now look," and he on the south side fall where it is dry separated the spongy mass with the and warm and may stay there a long point of the thorn. i time in a dormant state or die. It "Huh," said Buddy. "Look like a simply is true that the conditions on lot of little tangled threads. I sup- the north side are such that the lich- pose they're the roots." ens can grow there; on the south side "Almost," said the Professor. "Not they die, so very few or none are found true roots but pretty much like them; there. So, in a way, lichens may be anyway they behave like roots and termed compasses that trees wear, for grow into the cracks and crevices of they indicate the north." the bark or wood and sometimes stone "And you know, Buddy, there is and hold the lichen firmly in place and something else about this plant. It take up water. The lichen grows bet- isn't just one wind of a plant, but two ter in cool damp places, though after kinds. The lichen itself is: grayish or it gets started it can stand a lot of dry- , whitish." ing without dying, and after a wetting 1 "rd say it was quite' a lot green." it revives very quickly and goes on 1 "yes, but. the green.is not the lichen, growing. What you hear called the 4 It is a tiny green plant that lives in reiirdeer• moss that grows, in such the whitish part of the lichen.' We call, masses up North is really a lichen and it a single -celled plant, and it Is one: of not a moss at all. Let's take a look the simplest and lowest forms of at that tree again where we found this. plants. There are a great many of "Notice anything?" said the Profen- these single cells living all through nor, walking all round the tree. "Not- the lichen . and we call them algae. ice anything about where these lichens ' They can do what the green cells in are growing?" the leaves do—thatis, with the air, "No," sold Buddy, walking round af- watergnd sunshine' they make starch ter him. and sugar and Pass some of It on to "Um -m," said the Professor, "Let's the lichen. The lichen alone cannot go round again. You see," ho said, do this but it does get water through poking the sndw away from the base its root's and passes some of it on to ef the tree, "lichens grow all around the algae. the tree down here near the earth, but what about farther up?" "Grow up the trunk, too," said. Bud- dy, "Only, not so many." "All right," smiled the Professor, "How about the other side of the "Hum," said Buddy, "some more partners like those little knobs on the bean roots you told me about." "Right you are," chuckled the Pro- fessor, pleased that Buddy had remem- bered. The Right Time to Sell Pigs. Yes, the old Irish peasant knew his pigs, knew them rather intimately as a matter of fact. When to sell them hard. At east he reluctantly asked Robert to ex -plain. "Sure, yer honor's letting on to be mighty ,simple too -day," said Robert. In order to get the best prices never "pateen has • the bed set so that when his pigs Is big enough to make bacon troubled him; he had his little rule for of it's how they'll be after rising the ;fudging But let Maj. A. W. Long, in Trish Sort of Yesterday, tell what that sills was. The major writes: Here in a straggling wood of stunt- ed oak and bitch trees was 'a low thatehed cottage where Robert told us river watcher called Pat Lydon lived, jryden met us at hie door, surrounded by barefooted children—the smallest In a dress. made of a flour sack and bearing the brand of the hour in large blue letters across his little ,oheet— hens, ducks and several dogs, and with the western peasant's usual courtesy ie insisted that we enter his cottage to rest. But Charles firmly declined. Seeing a look of pain and surprise in the man's eyes, 1 at once entered and open spaces because land is so costly, tried to make myself agreeable. but in the old days why was 11 thought While in the river watcher's house necessary to ni.ake thoroughfares so li heard the loud grunts of pigs, but exceesively narrow, and to build failed to eatoh a glimpse of them: On houses and shops over the City gates? the way back I asked Robert whether The last of these was the famous 'Leinple Bar, removed in ,Tuna, 1879. It stood where the Griffin stands now, op• peseta Child's Bank. When it was doomed to demolition, partly on account of its serious ob- struction to ever-growing street traffic and partly, because it was falling into a state of decay, many tons of ledgers and other records were removed from the room over the central arch, These were the aoeuuiulated archives of Child's Bank. To this day the cheques of this histerio house bear on their face a print of Temple Bar. • bad on him seratohing their backs— se they would, the crayturee—and when he can't sleep quiet and Way like ho knows it's time the pigs be gone." Living in Temple Bar. Several famous Landon arches .are inhabited. The Marble Arch, for in- stance, eon tains quiteroomy apart. ments,' and so does the arch which forme the entranbe to Constitution Hill, Our ancestors seem to have had a passion for saving •space. It is con- ceivable that the City of London can- not afford to widen its streets or leave tie knew whore the pigs were, "Indeed and I do well, yer honor," he answered with 11 laugh; "Sure, Pateen. always. kapes his pigs under bis bed," Charles shuddered, thankful that he ledd stayed outside, and remarked that it was an unusual place. "In troth yer eight, Master Charles," replied Robert, "but sure that same ratan has a fortune made oat of them 'shame pigs' and all through leaping them 'heath the bed." Per some trine Charles did not speak; bet at last his curiosity got the etter of his 'dignity, and he asked ebert how a inan could Aislass a fer- tune by keeping pigs under his bed. "I3egorra," replied Robert, laughing, 'Many tit, frau has wsked that same uestioii of Pateen and got no setts- ileetory answer, but sure I'll 'tell yer senor. it's easy •enrougb to mail a pig, but bad enough to know the right time tel soli that twine pig, end beet's 'where the bed conies in.' Agatiln Charles walked on, thinking ing ill file white variety. In the Way. Second Mate (pointing' to inscribed plate on deck)—"That is where our gallant oaptaizi fell: " Elderly Lady Visitor ---"No wonder;. 1 *nearly tripped ever it myself." Wholemeal bread is pleasing to the eye and the palate, and contains valu- able inieeral qualities which ore rniss- fore) but it is the most valuable die ing injuries in a runaway. accident. coven, of all time for people who have Her skull and both legs were frac- Promotions. tired; and her left arm and ono side of diabetes. It means for many of them her face badly lacerated. the difference between life and death` Her son, a young physician, aban- and every person afflicted with any dental his practice and met himself to degree of diabetic severity will profit endeavor to restore his mother's life. by this disoovery. ' Everyone else had given up her case Many readers have asked me to tell as hopeless. Day and night he de - how insulin cures diabetes: It does voted his whole time to her, and so in - not cure. It is a preparation made spired not'only her nurses, but the from certain parts of the pancreas. poor sufferer herself, that she sur - Administered to the diabetic patient it vived and began slowly to mend. makes up for the refleIencies of ills But the mutilation of the face caused own digestive organs•by helping k}m terrible disfigurement. The son there- to digest his sugars. With this help upon insisted upon the attendant he can eat more food and greater';va• physicians removing -skin enough from riety, and thus build up in. health and his own body to graft upon -the scars. strength. But, he is not cured; and One by one, no fewer than forty perhaps will have to take" Insultheea+e < laces of• skin were cut from his body 4 ¢i casionally`throughout his lifetime. and grafted upon his mother's face Insulin Is not a preparation. that can and arm. In then hie the lady' not only be taken by the mouth. If swallowed aompletely recovered from injuries the stomach digests it and spoils its •*hick -would:have killed ninety-nine aceti'on. So it has to be administered people out of a hundred, but also by the use of a hypodermic needle. " She was ,very literary, and from However, this difficulty may be over. showed very slight disfigurement: America. She had just been ""doing" collie by having some member of the• In this case, of course, filial love the home of Sir Walter Scott. family trained to make the injection• was the motive for the sacrifice, and The guide was a little bored. The material was very costly at first perhaps similar disinterested motives > "" 'Mention' is just too—"she but the price has now been reduced have operated at least as powerfully beamed: "And 'Ivanhoe,' why, that be - some fifty per cent. and may go lower, in cases of this kind as the hope of longs! 'Kenilworth,' now—isn't that Every persone who has diabetes should monetary gain. the real Murry- goods? And 'The Lady learn about -Insulin. It is well to know of the Lake'—but there, anything of that another name for the same pre- Makeshift Medicines. Scott's=' paratiou is Iletin.--Dr.'C. H. Lerrigo. It seems odd to call tooth powder a "And do you know his "Emulsion?' " medicine, yet •ordinary camphorated asked the guide. • re__chalk has been used before now when „ For goodness sake! Why, I think Buying Men in Bits. bicarbonate of soda was not available that's just the cutest thing he ever A very strange advertisement ap• : to check a violent attack of heartburn. wrote." peered In a London, England, daily re- Whena druggist's shop.is not with- cantly. A man offered himself as• will- in reach, rough and ready remedies The Irish of It. ing to undergo any operation where for many ailments are to be found in Kelly—"If yez force me to pay that there was -a "sporting outside chance the pantry. Mustard in poultice form note now, I can't pay IL" of recovery." is about the finest known remedy for O'Brieu—"But if I wait till yez pay No one seems to know exactly what . cold on 'the chest, while a little wenn- it, I'll niver git it!" Is the legal aspect of the case. If ars mustard rubbed behind the ear .► such an offer were accepted, and the will often ease toothache and neural- A Downright insult. man died under the operation, it gia:.. Mustard and hot water is a good Jake—"What made ye leave, Si?" seems possible that the operator alight emetic. Si—"It happened at breakfast this be indicted for manslaughter. Salt mixed with common washing men -nine Jake, and I'd do it ag'in If I It is, however a well-known fact soda is an excellent cure for stings, had it to do over. Mrs. Brown was that both urgeens and patients' are and warm brine has a wonderful ea busy bakin` Bakes, an' when I took sometimes willing to pay large sums feet in stopping the irritation of a chit• three or four, she stepped and looked for suitable human subjects for medi- blain. Warm brine, not too strong, is straight at me an' said, "Si Simpkins, cal experiment. The blind .A.mesican also a very good thing for sniffing up do you know that's the twenty-fifth Millionaire Mr, Charles Rouse once the nose' when one has a bad cold, and pancake yer eatin' ?" an' it made me so advertised for a man suffering from T` a gargle it will go far towards cur mad I jest got lip from the table an' eye trouble similar to his own who ing a wire throat. went off without my breakfast, would be wilding to undergo a some- While sugar has no disinfecting what. painful .operation which might qualities, it it is applied to a clean. result in mire. He finally obtained a wound It helps it to heal rapidly, subject, and retained him for some A poultice made of vinegar and stale years at a salary of $1,250 a year, bread applied nightly is one of the Several operations were performed best possible dressings for a painful upon the substitute, but all without corn. Olive oil is a good thing to put the desired effect. So the miblioaaire on a burn,.and if olive oil is not avail - at last gave tip hope and resigned flim- able a handful of flour keeps the air self to a life of darknaess, from the injured shot and cheeks the t Pave yeasr•a,go Mies Emma Gallag- pain- her, a wealthy young lady, was ter. A raw egg swallowed whole will ribly burned by the explosion of'' a carry down a fishbone which has stuck spirit' stove. Her chin, neck, and in the throat. re deft almost raw. To con- He Refused Answer• chest we coal the scars the doctors performed Aunt Jinny, used toins sweress, was twenty-three different operations in it groat advocate of the rod as a bels skin grafting, the skin being taken In gild -rearing. As a result of all un- fronl twenty:three different persons. merciful beating which she gave her The sums paid for other people's skin yourngest. and `orneriest," sho was worked' out at $1,000 per square foot, brought into colert one day by out - An advertisement once appeared iu raged neighbors, a New York .paper to the effect that a Tlie judge, after giving her a severe Western millionaire, who was about lecture, asked if site had au'ything to to be married, was prepared to pay say; fivethousand ciol:lairs for a right ear "Jest one thing, Jedge," she' replied. to be grafted upon . his own head, in ""I want to ax you a question. Was plaice of one which ha had'lost in. a soli ever the parent of a perfectly mining accldant. wethlees stilted child?" An immense nuiniber of applications. Ivory Raiders. Among the unpleasant habits of Af- rican tribesmen in the Karamoda coun- Pronlotrons usually come to those try is that of digging pits for ele- who deserve them most. rpid Persons who phants, and attacking the un'tortunate seem to advance most rapidly are animals thus imprisoned with their those who have really been preparing knives, literally carving them up while for many years for higher promotion. still alive, and eating the raw flesh as They are the ones who did the they do so. things far which they weren't paid; In his book, "The Ivory Raiders," who carried every task to a completeMajor Rayne describes how he saw finish; who built up a reputation for'tribesmen at work on dead elephants doing things in a superior way, thus whiele he had shot. They crawled proving to those higher up their ability to hanelle more responsible positions. , You are going to get out of your work just what you put into it. You are master of your destiny. Men us- ually get what they go after, if they go after it in earnest and work hard. Let every day be a big day and every op: portunity be a big' opportunity. His Cutest. • was received, and Dr. Nalden,who ea- Sarcaslm, dertook the eperatton, selected a suit- It,lleo for the first time saw a ca.t able candidate. A deed of agreement camtyini her kitten by tile tape of its was. drawit ' up, awl • the physician nook. agreed to keep the trainee ot both buts- "YOU ain't. At to be at MOtlier," she er mid seller seethe • Mod scathingly, "you alai Hardly fit, The operation was perforated. The to. be a father!" across one of the carcasses as thick as ants; they were even inside it, cut- ting utting and hacking with small axes and great knives. Ivory raiders Arabs, Abyssinians, and so on—who invade British terri- tory in an .illegal quest for .tusks find useful, if treacherous, allies• in'these tribesmen. Major Rayne once bluffed a force of two hundred raiders into surrender, and it was not until they had given up their arms that they discovered the force behind him consisted of only four policemen. He Who Knows. He who knows and knows that he knows, is master, He who knows and does not know that he knows, needs a teacher. Her who does not know and knowa that he does not know, needs love. He who does not know and does not know that he does not know, is lost.— Ancient Proverb. Gross Carelessness. The young wife sat plying the needle on a coat of her 11u.eband'a when the latter entered the room. "Its tea bad, the careless 'way the tailor sewed this button on," she burst out. 'T'his Is the fifth time i've had to put it back for you." A Hard Lot. Lady --"My good man, isn't begging, hard?" Beggar—"It Is, mum; very few peo- ple gimme fresh bread." The shipping tonnage actually under construction at the end of Sep- tember was only 1,020,000 tons, the lowest recorded for nearly fourteen years in Great Britain and Ireland, • a 1411110S Vititt Mason FEARFUL SYMPTOMS It was an evil day for me when I ,sat down to read the gluten - no for '23 sent out by 'old Doc Sneed. When 1 sat down I felt as line as ever in my life;"I wish such buoyant health were mine," declared my jealous wife, Then 1 enjoyed unblemished health, iso ache or pain I know; but' Old l)oc Sneed, ho canto 1)7 stealth, and knocked the works askew, Before I'd finished. Chapter Three of his vile almanae, 'I felt fierce tortures iu tiny knee and anguish In my back, "If you behold black specks," I road, "as floating in the air, it indicates you'll soon be dead, and should your house prepare; you harbor divers deadly ills, and soon their kick you'll feel, unless you take my concrete pillsfourteen' before each ideal" "If you are prone to dizzy spalls," the Old 1)oe made his wall, "the undertaker, wearing bells, will soon be on your trail.. is there a coating on your tongue, and does pour mouth taste green? It indicates a s pavin:ed lung, and ab Bees of the spleen.' Is there a ringing in your ears, are you antioyed by chills? You soon. will go to other spheres takes you .take nsy pills" blow •' I no longer dance and sing or chirp the joyous Wheeze; t° epee - toms count for anytltiug't"ve•cvery known disease.