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Ont., Monday, Wedneaday.
and qday, f Bono to
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MIL F. J. *. FORAM
Has, Nae and Throat
In Medicine, University of
Assistant New York Opkthal-
aad Aural Institute,'lfoorefeld'a
and Golden Square Throat Hos-
, Landon. Eng. At Mr. J. Ran- '
Ogles, Seaforth, third Wednss-
fa'each month from 11 e,m. to
pat. 68 Waterloo Street, South,
ofd. Phone 267, Stratford.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
i• James, Proctor & Redfern, Ltd.
E. M. Proctor, B:A.,Sc., Manager
Ji Toronto St., Toronto, Can.
laiessi, Pay.m.ate, w.te..ork ...wsr-
ass 8,.t sw, Iaslwratoer. eaanoL.
nabs Hallo. lane. Fanto:iest+/
. Ar-
LESealgac-
Our neo:—Usually paid sat of.
the awns, w. own..ur sii.a .
MERCHANTS CASUALTY CO.
Specialists in Health and Accident
Insurance.
Policies liberal and unrestricted.
Over $1,000,000 paid in losses.
Exceptional opportunitiea for local
Agents.
904 ROYAL BANK BLDG.,
11778-50 Tomato, Ont.
LEGAL
11. S. BAYS.
Barrister Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do-
teinion Bank. Otfiee in rear of the Do-
minion Bank. Seaforth. Money to
less
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J. M. BEST
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer
Md Notary Public. Office upstairs
lacer Walker's Furniture Store, Main
Sbeet. Seafore,.
PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND
HOLMES
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub -
Os, etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
en Monday of each week. Once in
Kidd Block. W. Proudfoot, K.C., J.
L. Killoran, B. E. Holmes.
VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
alt domestic animate by the most mod-
e rn principles. Dentistry and Milk
Fever a specialty. Office opposite
Lick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth.
All orders- left at the hotel will re-
lieve prompt attention. Night calls
Paired at the office
JOHN GRIEVE, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
1, treated. Calls promptly at -
bladed to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderich street, one
doer east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
MEDICAL
DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN.
Osteophatic Physician of Goderich.
Specialist in Women's and Children's
diseases. reheumatism, acute, chronic
and nervous disorders; eye, ear, nose
and throat. Consolation free. Office
above Umback's Drug store, Seaforth,
Tuesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m
C. J. W. HARN. M.D.C.M.
425 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
Specialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin-
ary diseases of men and women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
McGill University, Montreal; member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
o f Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Conn -
dl of Canada;"Post-Graduate Member
of Resident Medical staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 56.
Hensell, Ontario.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England; Unit/entity Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office—Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5,
Night calls answered from residence,
Vittoria street, Seafortb.
AUCTIONEER
THOMAS BROWN
±Ckeensed'auctioneer for the counties
et Huron and Perth. Correspondence
Attlengements for sale dates can be
nude
ebyE alcsittgrup phone 97, Seaforth
TitsCharges mod.
taste and satisfaction Oflieguaranteed.
R. T.LUS.LR
Ideeneed auctioneer for the qty
W Huron. Sala attended to in all
t.als of the scanty. Soveeffsars• au-
Joialeacs in Manitoba and Easkatelr.
Terms reasonable. Mona No.
1, 11, lkoster, Contralla P. uRap
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MAN l EWAS COSTLY
Losses Run Into Minions of Dol-
lars Annually.
Waste Hegtns In the 048612=1"""
Should Be Put on shed Ed Early
--Chemtcat Value of Barnyard
Manure — Wood tor Fetal In
Terms of Coal.
<Contributed by Ontario Department ot
Agriculture, Toronto.)
On 'many farms animal manures
CCumulate about the buildings and
re permitted to waste. The average
Farmer appreciates the value of the
;arm manures, but be dislikes the
'ask of giving these materials the
•. tteu.lon that their value Inkeeping
up soil fertility warrants. The hand
-
liug of animal manures is not a
pleasant task at tiny time, but the
following of a proper system would
rodnee the disagreeableness of the
.e ork and at the same time prevent
waste. The average farmer of Ontario
wastes the fertility value of the ma-
nure by at least one-third Just
through neglect in mattageuieut.
Loss Kwta luta Millions of Uuttara.
With the ordinary one hundred
_•ere tarot producing two hundred
tens of manure each year, and valu-
ing this at 12.50 per load, then figur-
ing on one-third waste through
u!•glect, we have an annual loss in
soil fertility through failure to r•. i
turn alt value to tete lands of 0,,
lario the' aggregates many ntltlioes
of dollars. We owe to the soils of
our tarns all the fertility that it is
possible to return to thew. The taa-
nore waste of the past fifty years on
the farms of Ontario would aggre-
gate a colossal sum. This waste n
be appreciated more by the future
tillers of the soli than by those who
have permitted the was.e. When
then is an abundance, wastes are not
enticed, but when soils fail to pro-
duce abundantly some attention is
gt•ven to those factors that will main- ,
fain or increase soli fertility.
The Waste Begins In the Stable.
Waste of manure usually begins in
the stable, leaky gutters, or no ab-
sorbing material to hold the liquid
portion of the manure. From the
stable it is thrown out, sometimes
piled but more frequently not, and
left exposed to the weather to lie
around for months. Manure incor-
porated with the soil as soon as made
sustains the minimum loss. It is im-
possible of course to incorporate ma-
nure with the soil during the winter,
but frequent opportunities occur
when manure may be applied to the
land. Accumulations during the
periods when it is dlfHcult to team
the manure on to the land occur in
the spring and autumn. These ac-
cumulations are best taken care of
within the shelter of a manure shed,
or if such is not available. then by
piling in such a way as to reduce
waste to a minimum.
Get Manure on the Lae.: t
The most successful of our farm-
ers alai to get the manure on the
land as soon as possible. When con-
ditions on the land are not favor-
able to the application of manure t'
they take care of this by-product by
first providing sufficient absorbent
material to hold all the liquids, pil-
ing the manure in a manure shed,
keeping it sufficiently moist and
flrm enough to prevent heating untll
it is desired to apply it to the land.
Many of the Old Country farmers
store the manure in water tight pits,
pack it by tramping sufficiently tight I °
to exclude all the air possible, and s
then turn on the hose as frequently
as necessary to prevent heating. The U
same system would do as much. for
the Ontario farmer as it is doing
for the Scotch farmer. { i
The Chemical value of Manure. 1 ,
If we had to buy manures at prices d
equal to the retail commercial ter- I y
tilizer prices better care would be ,
taken of this soil fertility material. I a
Few farmers realize that the manure f
from a horse weighing 1,000 pounds
is worth at chemical fertilizer prices a
$42.15 per annum. A dairy cow I i
weighing 1,000 pounds will produce c
manure to a value of ;39 per annum. i
A farm carrying four horses, ten a
cows and ten pigs of average weight o
produces, if valued at retail prices ! c
for commercial fertilizers, 1640
worth of manure in a year. The un- a
fortunate part of it is that from ;100. 9
to ;300 worth of soil fertility ele- t
menta are permitted to waste on too !"a
Many farms each year. The
time you travel by auto or railroad
Just take note while passing farm
barns how much waste is going on
through the careless handling or no
attention being given to the animal
manure.—L. Stevenson, Secretary,
Department of Agriculture, Toronto.
USING a ON TOE FARM
flelp:ni A':vi as to Storing of
a Good Supply.
Dairy Products Muat-Be Kept
A Variety of Plans for Haudltag
ice Good Drainage In the lee
House Necessary.
(Contributed by Ontario Department of
Agriculture, Toronto.)
It Is a very rare occurrence to
°uteric that the winter weather is
not cold enough to make pleaty of
lee on our lakes,. rivers, small
atreams, and ponds. We can, there-
fore, feel pretty sure of a good crop
of ice this winter.
Ice Is the only other means of
cooling on 'farms, except in the case
of very large dairies where the use
of a mechanical system may be war-
ranted. The one chief obstacle to
proper cooling of milk and cream by
ice that many farmers meet is the
lack of a convenient supply in their
Immediate vicinities. This may not
be an iesurmountable difficulty, how-
ever, as there is always the possibil-
ity -of ice being shipped in during the
winter and stored for use In the
summer.
Dalry Products Must Be Kept Cool.
If the quality of our dairy products
is ever to become supreme in the
world it will be necessary for the
producers of milk to get the natural
hea: out of the milk as quickly us
euseibie atter it is ubstractod trim
the cows. This will mean more effi-
cient methods of cooling than most
farmers have to -day. Then would ice
be regtitred by all dairy farmers, and
they would have to secure it either
from nearby bodies of water, if pres-
ent, or through some suitable organ-
ization shipping it in as referred to
before. The superior article selling
at better prices would likely pay the
producers to ship in ice it it were
necessary. Many farmers now have
a household refrigerator or small
cold storage plant for keeping the
daily food for the table pure, sweet,
and fresh, and never fall to store ice
for this purpose alone whether need-
ed for other purposes or not. They
find by experience that this practice
is worth while. If much milk is pro-
duced on the Pana. so much greater
the need for storing some Ice.
The Problem Deserves Consideration.
The problem of storage should be
considered carefully and plans decid-
ed upon well in adeance of the har-
vesting of the ice, as it may be neces-
sary to make repairs to the present
storage I•ouse, or a new one may be
needed.• Construction work on the
farm is more easily and cheaply done
In good weather, so It is desirable
to get the Ice storage ready for the
next crop of ice before the wintry
weather begins, or just as soot as
the fall work will permit. It may
be necessary to do some of the work
right away, e.g . concrete work, and
leave the rest until later, in all prob-
ability until the freeze-up drives men
and teams off the land.
Plans of Storage Vary.
The kind of storage for the lee
crop will vary with the conditions on
the farm, and the ideals and tastes
,! the farmer himself. One thing is
certainly true, namely, that the stor-
age need not be elaborate in con-
struction and costly In order to be
'ffictent. Many farmers have used
for years such inexpensive and sim-
ple storages as a large bin made of
old boards and planks and located in
some well sheltered place, such as
inder an open shed, in mow of barn,
r In corner of woodshed, a simple
ingle wall lean-to on the shady side
if a building. an old abandoned silo,
r any convenient enclosure well pro-
ected from the sun's direct rays. The
orm and style of the storage ler the
ce does not natter materially pro-
ided the to}lowingnamed conditions
ire faithfully fulfilled. These con-
itions apply to any kind of ice
torage house, and require special
emphasis, as usually some of them
re frequently overlooked. Note care-
ully what they are: Protection from
un's rays, plenty of some material
poor conductor of heat about the
ce on all sides, top and bottom, good
lrculatlon of air over the ice bin,
.e., between the top ot the ice and
ny roof that may be above it. In
ther words religiouslyavoid the
losed attic or loft condition in hot
weather because stagnant air under
closed roof becomes very hot, and
o heat will naturally pass down
hrough the covering over the ice
nd melt It very fast.
ood Drainage a Necessity.
Another condition is good drain-
age, either natural or artificial, un-
der the ice pit, as water backing up
or failing to get away rapidl3' from
the ice melts it quickly. Another, air
should be kept from getting in at
the bottom. Still another, cakes of
ice should be packed in the house on
a cold frosty day and no sawdust
should be put between them, only
around the outsides next -the walls,
but small openinge between cakes
should be filled as well as possible
with dry snow or fine pieces of ice.
The idea of this is to get rid of the
air spaces and secure as tar as pos-
sible a solid block condition of the
lee. Do not freeze 'blocks together
with water. Whenever any ice is re-
moved during the euminer dry saw-
dust, or whatever covering is used,
should be at once put back over the
ice. It these conditions are well pro-
vided for there will be very tittle loss
of lee by meltage within the bin or
storage.
Plans for more elaborate and cost-
ly forms of ice -houses, and also plans
' and specifications toe email tee cold
storages, may be secured free of
charge by wridiag the Department of
Pbysies, O. A. C. Guelph. — R. R.
Graham, 0. A. College, Guelph.
Many herbs, sung as sage and
Chime, may be easily grown in the
home garden,
Wood for Fuel in Terms of Coal.
In heating value one standard
cord of well seasoned hickory, oak,
beech, birch, hard maple, ash, elm•
locust or che•ry wood 1s approximate-
ly equal to one ton (2,000 pounds)
of anthracite coal, according to esti-
mates by the forest service, United
States Department of Agriculture.
However, a cord' and a half of soft
maple and two cordo of cedar, poplar
or basswood are required to give the
same amount of heat.
One cord of mixed wood, well sea-
soned, equals In heating value at
least one ton of average grade bitu-
minous coal.
Timely Banta.
Store all harvesting tools and
machinery.
Remove binder canvases and store
in a dry place.
Make note of broken parts and or-
der them.
Attend to the safety levers on
cutting box and silo fillers. Sharpen
the knives and oil working parts.
Children Ory
Ole 01
c2&RIA
CIA( ops
opsI♦
ad:'flume aro
lithe wxiaticctotCapsules
Sold them all other Rheumatic
Reraedilts. combined for Shen.
madam, Neuritis, Neuralgia,
scuffs*, Lumbago, etc.
Maay doctors prescribe them,
anent druggists sell them. Write
for free triato Templeton, Toronto.
Sold by E. Umbach.
In Walton by W. G. Neal.
It is expected that women will
shortly be appointed to foreign mis-
sions by the Czechoslovakia gov-
ernment.
According to the 1920 census figures
there are more than 51,000,000 females
in the United States.
A surprisingly large number of
women of ,high social standing in
Great Britain have recently applied
for positions.
airs. Mary Moses conducts an ex-
tensive dog farm at Skagway, Alaska,
where she breeds and trains the ani-
mals for the market.
CURRENT WIT AND WISDOM
A man seldamt gees to the dogs
until he learn, to whine.—Kitchener
Record.
The proper length of a skirt ie :mat
above reproach. in some fentitte cir-
cies this is meant to mean the knee.—
Guelph Herald.
There is something wrong about
that German mark at three for a
cent. They can't print theta at that
price—Manitoba Free Press.
Some young men are naturally odd
and others part their hair in the ceti-
tre.—Manitoba Free Press.
Jazz was the music; used in ancient
Babylonian worship, it has been learn-
ed. And just see what happened to
the Babylonian,..—Rochester Herald.
The industrial unrest doesn't im-
pede our progress nearly so much as
the industrial rest.—Columbia Record,
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'Soldiers are . verywhere in the Balk-
ans ready for artion. That section is
normal, if riot stable.—Pittsburg
Gazette -Times.
It is estimated that there . is enough
coal in discovered fields to keep min-
ers striking for 3,276 years.—Fresno
Republican.
Young man, you will never be called
in as a pinch hitter until you learn
to strike out for yourself.—Boston
Telegram.
Suggestion for morning prayer for
all of us who dilly-dally: Give us
this day enough energy and persever-
ance to.do,daily the things we are
inclined to put off until tty-morrow.
—Toledo Blade.
Will the stockings the girls hang up
for Santa Claus be rolled at the knee?
—Life.
It isn't what a man stands for as
much as what he falls for.—Bay City
Times.
Many a ntan who thinks he knows
enough to tell the government how
to run the country doesn't know
enough to move up to the front of a
street car.—Manitoba Free Press.
Welcome again to the grapefruit,
our famous combined edible and eye-
wash.—Boston Transcript.
The planet 'Mercury - has a year 88
days long, making Thanksgiving
come every three months.—Bay City
Times.
Henry Ford says that history is
bunk, but what will history•say about
Henry Ford?—Life.
"Did she accept all your presents?"
"Everything I offered her until it
came to my name." ---Boston Tran-
script.
'Because a Mississippi newspaper ad-
vertises a "house convenient to the
cemetery" the humorists are poking
fun at it. Our own idea is that it is
a grave subject. ---Kingston Standard.
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Some of the belt judges of char-
acter in this world are men who have
no character of their own. — Corra
Harris.
A New York woman knocked a man'
down, blacked both his eyes, and split
his lips for trying to flirt with her. '
She must have been a striking beauty.
—Kingston Standard.
CANADA'S NEW COAT OF ARMS
Every home in Canada, every Can-
adian school boy and girl should know
the new Canadian Coat of Arms.
It is a most beautiful plate and should
occupy a prominent place in all true
Canadian homes. The people of Can-
ada are indebted to the 'Family Herald
and Weekly Star of Montreal for re-
producing the new Coat of Arms in
all itt true heraldic colors and pre-
senting a copy, 14 x 17 inohee, to all
readers of that great paper.
The Family Herald and Weekly
Star is Canada's greatest family and
farm paper and ie imlown throughout
the whole Dominion. It is wonderful
value and provides every member of
the family with clean, wholesome, in-
structive reading. It is great money
saver for the farmers of Canada and
repays the subscription price one hun-
dred fold each year. Canada is proud
of the big weekly. It has no superior
the world over nod is improving year
after year. It costs only two dollar,
a year and each leader for 1922 will
eve free a copy of the "Cosf
RTtr CarRISIO
SIS881AES. AND RISBIAN:
Remis an .poor a OMIT s olst
bind oar us visitor of
the weeko before tbo war he
visited Aroma*" the great Rusiden
stronghold, at the bead. of the first
cruiser squadroand 'While there
won the admiration. and good -will of
the,, p�eeooppIe of Petrograd. During the
•bospitalitiea he was presented by the
mayor of Petrograd with a silver -gilt
beaker enameled in uolore—a perfect
specimen, indeed, of the Russian gold-
smith's art.
The beaker was banded to Beatty
at the close of the mayor's speech,
full to the brim with champagne.
Rising to reply, he rained the goblet
to 'his lip, and drained it to the
health of the city of Petrograd at a
single draught, a feat which stag-
gered even the most famous Russian
topers present—and the Muscovite
capacity for champagne in the old
days was something phenomenal.
Beatty then went on to return thanks
in a fashion both eloquent and calm.
Throughout he maintained perfect
self-possession. '
A curious story is told by Beatty
himself of a visit he paid to Kiel, at
the head of the British squadron, in
the summer of 1913, during the
Kaiser's stay there. He had excited•
amazement by bringing his squadron
into Kiel at night, in a dense fog
and without any assistance of the
German pilots. When the Kaiser and
the German authorities rose in the
morning they were not altogether
agreeably surprised to find, as the
fog cleared, that the British squadron
was lying at anchor in port.
While there Beatty, with a number
of officers, was invited to dine with
the Kaiser on board his yacht. After
dinner the order was given that the
tables should be cleared and that beer
and fifteen boxes of matches should
be brought in.
The Kaiser, emptying the matches
on the mahogany, proceeded to ex-
plain to his audience that he was
about to illustrate to them •how a
naval battle should be fought under
modern conditions—an engagement
which, by aid of the matches, he
fought, to a glorious victory of the
Gentian navy and to his own undis-
guised satisfaction.
Beatty, being subsequently asked
for his opinion of the Kaiser's naval
strength, remarked briefly: "Extra-
ordinary clever for an amateur, but
hopelessly futile in real warfare."
A Hindoo girl is considered an old
staid if she is not married before she
is twenty years of age.
The Ohio Federation of Women's
Clubs has begun a determined fight
against unsightly billboards.
The majority of the women engi-
neering students in the Kansas univer-
sity are taking up courses in archi-
tectural engineering.
SURGICAL WONDERS AS RESULT
OF WAR.
Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the famous Auk-
trian bloodless surgeon, is again in
'he United States. His visit is due
he explains to the debt of gratitude
every Austrian feels toward the
United States in helping the starv-
ing Austrian children. Dr. Lorenz
comes to try cures that other prac-
titioners have not dared to attempt.
Some years ago the paid a visit to
this continent, where he was sum-
moned to operate upon little .Lolita
Armour, who was crippled. He also
treated numerous other patients, and
did them a great deal of good at the
time, though whether his cures
were permanent has not been dis-
closed. In those days he was a
man of tremendous physical power,
and broke bones and corrected
faulty articulations by the strength
of his hands. To -day much of his
physical strength has departed, but
a greater wisdom has succeeded it,
and the medical profession is keenly
interested in the operations which
he alone seems competent to under-
take.
Probably the war has ripened the
art of Dr. Lorenz, as it has ad-
vanced medical science in several
important direction. Absolutely new
or revolutionary medical discoveries
'have not been numerous in the past
seven years, but .methods have been
improved in many -directions, and in
some respects the science has ad.
vanced as much as might be expected
in a century of peace. After every
great war an improvement in surgery
has been noted, due to the vastly
greater experience afforded 'the prac-
titioners. One important gain is as-
sociated with the names of Dr. Car-
rel and Dr. Dakin, and that con-
cerns the healing of wounds. Under
their system, which has 'had remark-
able results, the wound is kept open
and unbound, while upon it drips an
antiseptic fluid. By this means grave
wounds were much more quickly
healed than if they had been band-
aged.
Much .greater surfaces oan be
treated. It is said that in one
case an amputation, .together with
burns, left an area of more than
three square feet devoid of skin or
any other protection. It was per-
fectly 'healed, and in half the time
that might be expected had the old
system been used. The Carrel -
Dakin treatment ought to prove e-
specially valuable in treating burns
which, merely because of the large
area of burnt skin, often prove fatal.
From Italy comes the news that arti-
ficial limbo far superior to those in-
vented elsewhere have been tried and
have given wonderful satisfaction.
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Is in its unique flavour of rich delicacy. ' And. It
never varies. All grocers sell "Salads"\ fa
. sealed metal packets only. asst
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Of course, the marking of artificial
limbs everywhere has advanced as e
result of the war, but the Italian in-
ventor seems to have devised a scheme
whereby fingers, and even toes, can be
ni �vel separately, and in some cases
as deftly as though they were living
tissue.
' At the time of the amputation a
special operation is made for the
purpose of leaving the muscles
which operate the fingers pro -
trading from the stump. They
are formed into loops, and as the
wound heals these muscles become
hardened, but remain sensitive. The
artificial arm ' is supplied with
fingers and thumb, independent of
each other, and these are 'hooked
to the loop muscles. The wearer,
it is said, has then only to exercise
his will and the old muscles will
operate the artificial thumbs and
ifingers almost as easily .as they did
the thumbs and fingers of flesh
and bone. Even more amazing,
though, is the prospect that is held
forth to the blind, as a result of a
long series of experiments carried
out by Dr.• M. Koppavni, an Aus-
trian distinguished for his treatment
of injuries to the eye. In the war
he had a tremendous field for his
observations, and since then has
been conducting experiments.
We are told by a writer for the Ed -
Edward Marshall Syndicate in Paris
that Dr. Koppavni expects to be able
to graft eyes. Already he is said to
have grafted eyes to the sockets of
blind fish and reptiles so that their
sight was restored and, continuing
his daring experiments, succeeded in
restoring sight to a blind rat. In the
case of the rat, the sensitiveness of I
the foreign eye to touch is said to '
have returned after 'a week, and
sensitiveness to light after eight
weeks. Soon after this vision was
restored. We mention the claims put
forward on behalf of this surgeon
with the utmost caution, for it would
be cruel to rouse hopes in the blind
that may never be .fulfilled. It
seems certain that even if Dr.
Koppavni has succeeded in the case
of the rat, long steps remain to be
taken before operations of the kind
can be successfully performed upon
human beings. In the case of the
rat, even, there were,many failures
before the first and only success.
with Billy Turnbull, the closest and
truest friend I everhad, and with
myself as lead, was wont, on the
Seventeenth of Ireland, to chasten
the pround spirit of any Scottish rik
that ventured to meet us on the ic4.
Year after year we stained the pre
of their glory and hailed the sham-
rock to the mast, the dejected thistle
,tottering in embarrassment from a
lower place.
e . .
I heard their shouts again in that
twlight hour. I caught again the or-
ders flung from one end of the rink
to the other. Again, amid the shad-
ows, I heard the low rumble of the
or. -coming stone, the swish of
brooms upon the ice, wielded so
cheerfully by sten whose groans
would have distressed their house-
holds had they been asked to sweaji
a dusty floor or a snow. besprinkled
pavement. The shouts of 'applause
and the cheers of victory rolled once
more about me as I stood -in the sil-
ent, deserted, darkening rink. I re-
called the afternoon Jock Snedden'a
stone, colliding with another, smash-
ed in two; find how, beginning to take
off his sweater where he stood, Jock
said sadly: "I'11 curl nae mair," only
to find, a few mornings later, a splen-
did newpair upon his doorstep, gift
of .his fellowsports, for Jock was as
popular es poor. I recalled Archie
Mc-Auslan's story, told tq me with
bated breath and pain, of how the
old guard, most of whotn are alreatjy
, named, drove out to an adjoi?ti tg vil-
lage and administered" suck a drub-
bing to the curlers there that the
latter actually sent them back with-
out the "beef and greens" which are
the curlers' staple. I heard again
John Cherry's plaintive tale of a night
'spent in Woodstock, when, after cer-
tain liquidations ceremonies had
marked the close of a perfect day, he
was rudely called from sleep at two
in the morning by one of the party,
who, after insisting that John should
light the lamp, crawled to the edge
of the •bed, extended one unwashed
foot over the edge and directed:
"Jock, gie me the in -turn to that."
I again beheld William Cowan, long-
est and loveablest of men, hopping up
and down upon the ice, his coat-tails
flapping in sympathetic -rhythm while
he pecked at the ice with a broom
too short for ,him, or shrilly calling
attention when the end was over to
the fact that one of his rocks lay shot,
forgetful of the other fact that at
least a dozen friendly bumps had
helped it on its way. I thought of
Morrow, classical master in the G.
C. I., who, on arriving to fill his new
poet, sought me out as a member of
the board. And, after a brief pre-
liminary interview, the same disclos-
ing that we both were curlers, the
following dialogue ensued:
R, E. K.: "Where did you last
teach classics 1"
A. E. 'M.: '(In Arnprior. Do you
play with irons here, or the 'gran-
ites?",
R. E. $.: "With granites. Do you
adopt the ancient pronunciation of
Latin or the .modern?"
A. E. M.: "The Modern. Do you
play on a ground floor here or a ce-
ment one?" '
R. E. K.: "Ground floor. -Are you
in favor of classics being made com-
pulsory?"
A. E. IL: "Yes. Do you play the
knock genie here or the draw game?"
—and taus the sadly diluted colloquy
went on.
They are almost all gone now. I -
'have seen most of them weaken to
a close. "Surely t hat stone has
caught a broom," -the ageing veteran
would say, "or perhaps a bit of dust
—or did it lose its turn?" when now
and again the etone be had just
despatched would falter and die far
this side its goal. We all knew what
was the real cause—and so did 1te-.•
but 'Scotchmen are grim losers, and
masters of deception, too, in a sad
and sanctified sort of way. There are
new faces there now, and the old
rink will soon re-echo with the shouts
of eager men. But the players look
younger, feebler, more superficial
than of old. The Majesty of yore;
the dignity, intensity, seriousness—
these seem lacking npvr. More so-
prano but less base; more hysteria
but less achievement; more suds but
less washing. And if anyone should
ask me whether or no the sport is
just as keen, the game as grand, the
ptaye'rs as skilful and picturesque, as
in the days of those old Scotch
worthies, I fear R would have to
answer: "No' She noel"
"SOOP'ER UP!"
I walked into the curling rink some
time ago, just as the evening shad-
ows were wrapping its vast area in
gloom. This rink is of solid stone
and stands in the very heart of the
Scotchest town in Canada, where it
has stood for seventy years or more.
And surely no other such memory -
provoking spot could be found in all
the town. I stood and gazed about
me amid the encircling gloom. Here
I began my curling back in the days
when the nineteenth century had yet
some years to run. Here I was first
instructed by dear old Tom Alison
as to the mysteries of the "in -turn"
and "the outturn", placidly informed
that the first five years would deter-
mine the fateful question as to whe-
ther or not I would ever make a
curler, and given to understand that
my clerical standing depended to a
considerable degree on whether or
not I proved a success wi' "the beeom
an' stane." Tom always ended his
exhortations and instructions by box-
ing the compass with the remark that
all you needed, in order to be a good
curler, was to "get the broom and
get the weight"; which was another
way of saying: "Don't be too wide
and don't be too narrow—don't 'be too
strong and don't be too short"; a
programme abbut as inclusive, in the
words of curling, as it would be, in
the world of morals, to say: "Don't
do anything you ought not to do, and
don't fail to do anything you ought
to do, and you will be alright."
There, in those dear dead days, there
was old John McAuslan, prince a-
mong curlers and king among .men,
always ready to help a tyro, always
trying to master the 'fine points of
the great game, though he had won
the Ontario Tankard more than once.
And there was James Mackendrick,
as keen at eeventy"five as at seven-
teen, lovable and beloved, whose well
known athletic doctor son has been
on the verge of the 'glory -land of
Tankardom 'himaelf several times',
though never privileged to enter in.
Tom MacDougall, too, the•unconquer-
able curler of the town, who should
have been made an elder long ties?
for this prowess in skipping the Knox
Church rink to victory over the es-
ter cht.h across the square. And
Rob Vetch, noble veteran, whose
voice alwaw. lowered as his score
ascended, and'who took his triumphs
more sadly than any other mean I
have ever known. And Robert Mac-
Gregor, manufacturer and distin-
guished citizen of Canada, who would
sooner lase a contract than a game,
who played with passionate intensity
and who was the moat cheerful wino
ser I have encountered on the dee.
And Robert Webster and Jim MIe-
Teague, enthusiasts of ,half a cen-
tury of ourling; and Johnny Turnbull,
one of the moat perfect gentlemen
and the most graceful curler I ever
knew; and John Who, awn
my kinsman Charlie Knowles, and
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