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PLANTS HAVE NERVOUS SYSTEM From what a man thinks he knows, subtract what his neighbors think he knows, and the remainder will prob- ably be about what he really does know. RESPOND TO EXTERNAL FORCES LIKE HUMAN BEINGS. Intoxiated by Alcohol, Stupified by Chloroform, Degeneration Through Laziness. A series of investigations made by Professor Jagadis Chunderf Bose, an Indian scientist, of Calcutta, has re- sulted in revelations of such far- reaching scientific importance that it may be doubted whether even this distinction now holds good. The bar- rier between the life-phenomena of plants and animals is thrown down. Even the commonest vegetable proves to be sensitive. Professor Bees has shown that plants have what may truthfully be called a nervous sys- tero â€" of a simple type, to be sure, [ hut still a nervous system. The dis- ! covery is of momentous interest. Psychology deals with consciousness; j but without nerves, without some means of receiving impressions of ! stoi ms and >unrhine, heat and cold, there can be no consciousness. Pro- i fessor Bose by no means holds that plants have anything like the intel- â-  ligence of animals, but he has cer- tainly demonstrated that they re- I spend to external forces, not as so many living machines, but as sen- tient organisms. By his extraordin- |ary methods of enquiry he proves that they are affected in a very hu- j man way when stimulated from with- ; out. TTiey are benumbed by cold in- j toxicated by alcohol, suffocated by i foul air, wearied by excessive work, stupified by anaesthetics, excited by I electric currents, stung by physical blows, exhilarated in sunshine, de- pressed in the rain, and killed by pois- ons or violence. In a word, they are responsive or irresponsive under the same conditions and in the same man- ner as a human being, sometimes to a greater and sometimes to a lesser de- gree. No Dead Matter. Although he is a native of India, there is not a trace of Oriental mys- sticim in Dr. Bose, nor of that curious mixture of occultism and metaphysics which we associate with the East. It was soon after his ^aduation from Cambridge that Dr. Bose began the researches which have resultetl in giving an entirely new aspect to various phenomena associated with life. At first he was concerned, not with living things, but with inorganic matter â€" groas, dead, brute matter, as it used to be called. That was in the days when wireless telegraphy was still a dream, when Marconi was just beginning to experiment. If wireless telegraphy was to be- come a commercial reality, something better than this coherer was needed â€" something that was self-recovering, like a human eye. To discover that something involved a sturdy of the whole theory of coherer action. Why ICE CREAM (Good Enough for Babies) Give the chUdren all the Ice Cream they want. It is just the l(ind of nourishment they need during warm weather. It is much better than pastries and candies â€" if it's Ice Cream made as pure and in a sanitary plant like the City Dairy. We ship thousands of Ice Cream Bricks for con- sumption in the home and thousands of gallons of Bulk Ice Cream for consumption in the shops of discriminating dealers everywhere in Ontario. was it necessary to tap the glass tube containing the iron particles? To answer that question Dr. Bose began a painstaking investigation. He found that the iron particles of the coherer grew weary; they were ac- tually fatigued because of overstrain; they had to be revived, and a tap (a stimulus, in other words) revived them. That discovery prompted him to study over substances. Matter proved to strangely capricious. He examined it as a biologist examines a muscle or nerve â€" electrically. A piece of animal tissue that is dead reacts differently from a piece that is alive. There is an electric twitch when the living muscle or nerve is 1 excited, a twitch that can be seen ' with the aid of a galvanometer â€" a delicate detector of electric currents. A dead tissue, on the other hand, gives no response. Tested thus. Dr. Bose ; found matter curiously alive in a real i and not in a figurative sense. He froze metals, and they became torpid like an icy muscle; he poisoned them ' and then cured them; he narcotized I them and afterword revived them; he I pinched them, and they responded ; electrically like living flesh ; he sub- I jected them to ceaseless blows, and they grevt tired and irresponsive; he , allowed them to rest, and the ability ! to respond revived. He performed , hundreds of experiments which prov- ed inorganic matter is not dead. • First of all, Dr. Bose set about the J invention of new instrumentsâ€" de- \ vices of unprecedented sensitiveness. ; If plants are to lay bare their se- crets, they must be given the means ' of expressing themselves. In a broad sense, that is what Dr. Bose has done. His ingenious recorders are pens of : incredible lightness with which lilies i or cabbages may write down their im- i pressions of the outer world in a ; script that we can understand. Use i these instruments intelligently, and i vegetation, hitherto mute, will whis- ' per its story. Plants Sensitive. I Enabled to express itself, a plant is : found responsive to all the stimuli ' I that cause an animal muscle to con- i \ tract. A blow will make a muscle j I twitch; a plant will also twitch when | I struck. A prick or a cut will cause both vegetal and animal tissue to give , I either a mechanical or an electrical I I twitch. Pinch a cauliflower stalk I with tweezers, and a reflecting gal- ! , vanometer â€" a detector of currents ' ' which, in this instance, may be con- â-  j sidered an electrical substitute for a brain â€" can be made to move a beam of light many feet on a screen and thus to visualize the stalk's wincing 1 and recovery. j In order to show that there is a perfect analogy between beating ani- mal and beating plant tissues, Dr. I Bose subjects his plants to all the 'â- â-  test that biologists apply to animals, and few more that he himself con- ceives. A heart is slowed down by either, the biologists say ? "I, too, ; I must experiment with either," de- ' cides the doctor. He places his plant | in a chamber, and blows in some ether vapor mixed with air. The plant re- cords its exaltation. It has been af- fected just as if it were human. Stronger ether vapor is admitted. The leaflets slow down just as does a heart under the influence of an an- esthetic. Will the leaflets stop alto- gether if too much ether vapor is poured into its chamber ? The heart will, we know. The doctor tests the plant. For a minute or two the leaf- lets waver uncertainly; then they stop â€" the plant is quite still. Fresh air is blown into the chamber, and the effect is magical. Very slowly I the leaflet begins to move, and once more the record is traced on the glass plate, weakly and uncertain at first, but gathering strength as the plant drinks in each new whiff of armos- pheric oxygen. Chloroform has an even more pro- nounced effect than either. If a slight excess is administered, the leaflets stop altogether. The leaflet may ! even be killed. Sometimes it takes I as long as half an hour to revive a telegraph-plant that has been thor- oughly chloroformed. Think for a moment of the signifi- cance of these experiments. We have been taught to believe that automat- ically pulsating tissues draw their energy from within, and to call this energy "vital force." If a beating leaf can be arrested amf^ started again simply by controlling external forces, it is evidently absurd to explain its apparent automotic action by mean? of an internal vital force. Dr. Bose offers a new and more plausible the- ory, one that accounts for all spon- taneous movements by the action of external forces only. .\ plant is the plaything of light, electricity, wind, and rain â€" of all nature's forces. Like the currents, drugs, and gases em- ployed in Dr. Bose's experimeats these natural forces act as stimuli. We must imagine the little mole- cules of which plants are constructed, Wot only storing" up all this energy as if it were water received by a vessel, but as receiving much more than they can store. "Like water, the e.x- cess energy bubbles over, as it were, and produces the pulsations that hav« seemed so inexplicable. No. 8965. line and to be gathered at the waist- line on cords. Sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20 ' years. 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On one of these visits in Warsaw he is said to have gone to a restaurant where vodka and wine were secretly sold. Here he found in a private room carousing several of- ficers who should have been at the front. He ordered their arrest, and that night presided over a court- martial which condemned them to die on the morrow. With his own hands he tore their shoulder straps from their uniforms. "You have disgraced your uni- forms ; prepare to die," he said. On the following morning he sent for them. "I have suspended your sentence," he said. "Go to your positions at the front and each of you return with the cross of St. George, or do not re- turn at all." Punishes by Death. When the 10th army corps was cut up on the Grodno front in East Prus- sia the grand duke sent for the gen- eral in command, and is said to have struck him across his face and torn off his shoulder straps. At the time the Germans started their now famous drive from Cracow, Gen. Radko Dimitrieff, the celebrated Bulgarian soldier, was in command of the Russian forces opposing this ad- vance. It is said that to supply the troops in the Carpathians am- munition had been taken from the army of Dimitrieff, so that his troops had only forty rounds of small arm ammunition for each man. A gen- eral commanding an army corps re- fused to obey an order of Gen. Dim- itrieff on the ground that he did not have enough ammunition. The re- sult was the capture of 75,000 Rus- sian soldiers. Immediately the grand duke went to Galicia to preside over the court-martial which tried and condemned to death the general who had disobeyed orders. While the imperial leader does not actually work out the war plans of the Russian army he does influence the general ideas that control Rus- | sian strategy. It is even said that the ultra-conservative and defensive ! tendencies of Gen. 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