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transmission Of plant stimuli is funda-
mentally similar to that Of the nerve
impulse in animals. He claims having
definitely disproyed the old hydro
mechanical theory Of the plant impulse
by showing that the physiological changes
cause the rate Of Transmission to vary,
that the impulse is arrested by the same
things that arrest the nerve currents in
animals and finally that stimulation can
be effected in plants without any mechan-
icaI disturbances whatever. These points
could not have been proved without the
ability to record extremely rapid vibra-
tions furnished by Professor Bosses new
instrument.
Professor Bose. who Is recognized as
India's greatest scientist, was born in
Bengal nearly fifty years ago. After a
brilliant career ct Calcutta University. he
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able on account Of the great heat they
produce in their flower buds at the time
OF opening. The Brazilian Monstera de-
liciosa has developed a temperature Of
100 degrees Fair. while the air outside
was IS degrees. Even more remarkable
is the case Of the Mediterranean Arum
italicum which has produced a tempers-
ture of 10 degrees when the air outside
was 90 degrees.
Experiments have shown that plants
keep a fairly stable temperature within
themselves no matter what outside con-
ditions are. Roots of trees have cool sap
In them no matter how high the out
side temperature Is. Melons and gourda
have astonishing powers Of keeping cool
no matter how hot the sun~is But the
coolness Of gourds and melons is MAIN
tanned only so long as they are attached
TO thar plAatA
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pulsation Of plants. and the pulsation
when narcotics and stimulants are ap-
piled. Chloroform. for instance, produces
a slower and more sluggish pulsatlon..
A temperance lecturer could build a
series Of talks around the effects Of
slchohol on various plant organisms. The
pulsation Immediately becomes irregular
and wabbly. And It is demonstrated so
irrefutably on Professor Bosses charts
that the most hardened drinker must be
impressed.
Cold and heat have characteristic ef-
fects on plant life. Their life lines, as
Professor Bosses dotted charts may be
called. respond at once. Heat, OF course.
stimulates the plants activity: cold de-
presses IT,
But while, from a scientific viewpoint.
the most interesting results have been
attained with such phlsEmGtie plants q
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The wires Of an electric battery pass
through two glass tubes full of white
substance; they are like two legs whose
feet are buried in the flesh of the carrot.
When the vegetable is pinched with a
pair of forceps it winces 1t is so
strapped that its shudder of pain pulls
an electric recorder, to which is attached
q tiny mirror. This casts a beam Of light
on ceiling at the other end of the room,
and thus enormously exaggerates the
tremor of the carrot. A pinch near the
right hand tube sends the beam seven
TO eight feet to the right, a pinch near
The other wire sends 1t as far to the left
Thus Professor Bose reveals the feelings
Of even so stolid vegetable as the carrot
Another device Of the Hindu wizard
records the degree of pulsstion of plants
and vegetables by means Of white dots
set down by an electric needle. BY this
device he has ascsrtained the ordinary
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between and a. m. that the shock
does not actuate the depressor muscle.
1t has been known that the breathing Of
vegetables was at the lowest in the early
morning, and the sleeping period" Of
plant is term often used before. but
there>is something in this nerve test with
'its self drawn graph that wakes up
Western science. and makes 1t wonder
whether it has been as imaginative as it
ought to have been.
The nature of the'remarkable machine
by which Professor Bose has accom-
plished his epoch making revolution in
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the realms Of botany is best described
by the inventor himself:
The principle of my Resonant Re
corder' depends on the phenomenon
known in music as resonance or sympa-
thetic vibration" he wrote in the Mod
ern Review. I'VE may be so tuned as
to thrill to certain notes and not to
others. An artificial plant can be con-
structed to resonate to a sound Of
definite pitch. The drum Of an artificial
ear may be made of q thin sosp-hlm;
beam Of light reflected from It's surface
forms characteristic patterns OF color on.
a screen. To various cries this ear re-
mains deaf. but the apathy disappears
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migrated to Christ's College, Cambridge
where he gained a scholarship and sub
sequently graduated in natural science,
taking the degree of A. NJ. from Cam
bridge University and later that of d. Sc.
from London.
He has lectured before the universities
Of Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin and
Vienna, as we'll as in America and India
The British government has recognized
his work by admitting him as Companion
to both the Indian orders of knighthood,
the Indian Empire and the Star of India
Scientists have known for some time
that plants are queer things as far as
their temperature is concerned. AS they
breathe they Iiberate a considerable
amount of heat. 1t is easy enough to
discover this for yourself by placing a
thermometer among such terminating
seeds as sweet peas while they are start
ing into life. A distinct rise of tempera-
ture. about 2 degrees Fahr,,<win be dis
covered.
But the respiration of seedlings Ii
trifling as compared to that Of plants.
Alpine sOldanellas are remarkable in this
respect They start active growth early
in spring long before the frozen crust Of
snow has disappeared. But owing to the
large amount of heat liberated by the
shooting flower stocks these are able to
bore their way up through the snow az
If they were so many hot wires. The
flower stalks are exceedingly slender so
it is only because of the heat they Iberate
that they can break through the SHOWS
crust. Sometimes if the snow is very
deep the soldanellas do not reach the
surface at all but melt out little cavity
for themselves.
Certain species of Aroids are remark
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now 1ar they Will spread.
Plants have feelings, they respond to
narcotics. to stimulants and to food in
much the same manner as animals; they
are susceptible to pain and to pleasure.
This is the astounding news brought
out OF India to astonish the scientific
world of the West Dr. Jagidis Chandra
Bose is the man who has setstopsy-turvy
the scientific minds of Europe{ With his
terribly ingenious machines and his queer
looking apparatus he has recorded the
pains and pangs of the turnip, he has
intoxicated the carrot and has hsd the
potato record its own death agonfes.
And It is all done so scientifically that
none may doubt. Formidable looking
electro-apparatus sets down in black and
white the pulsation of the ivy leaf, the
growth Of the violet and the shudders Of
the rose when subjected. to cold draft
So ingenious is Professor Bosses con-
trivance that the best of a plant-pulse
is recorded in such minute figures as one
thousandth of a minute.
In a room near Mazda Vale, London,
there is an unfortunate carrot, strapped
TO the table of an unlicensed viVisector.
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.QeVcd1inp the Illness Of teWO1et
-And AIzo and the SthddcrS ofheQOSe!

as soon as the note to which the ear Is
tuned is sounded at a distance. On ac-
count Of sympathetic vibration the arti-
hcial eardrum is thrown into widest
commotion, and the hitherto quiescent
color pattern on the screen is now con-
verted into whirlpool of indescribably
gorgeous colors of peacock green and
molten gold.
In the same manner, If the strings
Of different violins are exactly tuned to-
gether, then the note sounded on one will
cause the others to vibrate in sympathy
We may likewise tune a vibrating writer
with musical reed. Suppose the reed
and the writer had both been tuned to
Vibrate hundred times a second When
the reed is sounded, the writer will also
begin to Vibrate in sympathy. In conse-
quence Of this, the writer will no longer
remain in continuous contact with the
recording plate, but will deliver a sue
cession Of taps, hundred times second.
The record will therefore consist of
a series of dots, the dista4ce between one
dot and the next representing one hum
dredth part Of a second. With other
recorders It is possible to measure still
shorter intervals. II will now be under
stood how, by the Resonant Recorder
We not only get rid of the error due to
friction, but make the record itself
measure time, in as short periods as may
be desired. The instrument is so delicate
that it may record a time interval as
short as the thousandth part of a single
beat of the heart.
THE plant has been thus made to ex-
hibit many of the activities which we
have been accustomed to associate only
with animal life. In the one case, as in
the other, stimulus of any kind will
produce a responsive thrill. There are
rhythmic tissues in the plant which, like
those IN the animal. go on throbbing
ceaselessly. These spontaneous pulsa-
tiOns in one case, as in the other, are
affected by various drugs in an identical
manner. And in one case, as in the
other, the tremor Of excitatiOn is trans
mitted with a definite and measured
speed from point to point along fiber
like channels.
I'VE have now before our minds eye
the whole organism of the moving, per-
ceiving and responding plant-a complex
unity and not a congeries of unrelated
parts. The barriers which separate kin
dred phenomena are thus thrown down.
and the animal and the plant are seen
to be a multiform unity in a single ocean
0f being.
Professor Bose's principal contribution
to plant physiology is his demonstration,
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the carrot and turnip. the most marvellous
experiments have been conducted with
Mimosa-the varieties of plant life that
have tropical or sub-tropical origin and
which are most frequently found in hot
houses. These plants, naturally, are the
most susceptible to .outside influence.
their nerves are most pronounced and the
most startling results are therefore OBJ
tained with them.
The effects of heat and cold. narcotics
and stimulants on these plants have DEM
onstrated beyond peradventure of doubt
that plants have organisms similar in
many respects to those of animals. The
relative functions of organs in plants and
animals has not been determined; that
lies for the scientist of the future. But
Dr. Bose has opened an entirely new field
Of science: he has shown the scientist
and botanist of Europe that the Western
mind has been lacking in imagination
and resource. With his electrical instru-
ments, and his painstaking appliances for
recording the shortest, slightest move
ments OF plants, ne mas openeu ne"
field Of speculation and experimentation.
Professor Bose finds the chors tele-
graphic Of the plants feeling. A sensitive
Mimosa haruessed to a needle defects 1t
when an electric shock has been applied.
Another ingenious contriyance slides a
smoked glass plate past the needle at
given rate per second, and It is found the
response follows the shock at about six
hundredths of a second. II the plant is
tired or I'll. having been subjected to such
conditions as make human beings tired
or Ill, response may be twice as slow.
The apparatus can be set to give .
shock al every hour. the needle milking
an indeiible record of each. and then It
y found fhat tbs plant is so fast ssleep
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-
lntOXiCatiOn
of the Carrot
and Death
Agonies of.
the Potato.

a PSYCHIC stone has been flung
into the pool of physical botany;
"a the ripples are spreading and
1 no scientist can foretell just
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Allies to Buy Munitions
Part Of q. s. Loan. Il

New York, Sept. 20. Having
settled the chief details of the ar
rangements under which great
American syndicate will under.
write a loan of several million
dollars in this country for the
Allies, members of the Anglo,
French Financial Commission t.
day undertook another task with
which they have been intrusted
by their respective governments.
namely, the purchase of ammuni.
ton.
From information believed "a
have been inspired by the Allies J
commission it had been deduced
that the great loan to be secured
in the United States would be
used to purchase only the neces-
stiles of life-meat, corn, cloth
ing, etc.-and that the funds so
derived should not be used to paw
for munitions of war. But con.
ferences held by the commission
ers at the Baltimore Hotel today
indicated that this impression
vas erroneous.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Notice

Butler, Mo-, Sept: 2lst, 1909.
10 the exhibitor at the, Bates
County Fair:
The committee having charge
OF the horticulture exhibit at the
fair, failed to mark down the win
ners in the committee book. so
the secretary has no record of
who won.
All parties holding entry tags
with ribbons attached will please
mail them to the secretary, with
ribbons attached, or call in per-
son at the office over the Ameri-
can Clothing House, Friday or
Saturday, Sept. Oath or 25th as
we are anxious to close the books.
All parties holding bills
against the Association please
hand in same this week.
Respectfully,
c. E. Robbins, Sec. |
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Missouri w. G. T. U. Elects

Sikeston, Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE
thirty-third annual convention Of
the Missouri w. C. r. u. closed
tonight. Officers elected for
1916 follow:
President, Mrs. Nellie G. Bur
ger, Clark, Mo-; vice president at
large, Miss Roena Shaner, Jack
son, Mo-; corresponding secre-
tary.. Mrs. Lettie Hill May. St.
Louis; treasurer, Mrs. Neya
Thomas, Springfield, Mo-; secre-
tary Young Peoples branch, Miss
Anna MacXentemeyer, Higgins
vile, Mo-; general secretary, L.
T. t.. Mrs. Mollie Blount, Rich
mond, Mo.
The next convention will be
held at Moberly. Mo.
Dallas Beanchamp of Dallas
won the diamond medal contest
last night.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Mt. Carmel News.

Miss Burdie Wolfe of the Vir.
ginia neighborhood spent from
Wednesday till Saturday with
her sister, Mrs. Lee NJ. Hardinger,
Born to Mr.. and. Mrs. Albert
Leonard on Friday. Sept. II, a
nine annd one-half pound boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard formerly
lived in this neighborhood but are
now living in Butler.
Mrs. Lee NJ. Hardinger re-
ceived word Saturday that her
brother, Dow Wolfe, of Kansas
City was married Wednesday.
Sept. Is, to Miss Jessie E. Ford.
of that city.
Miss Edna Dillon of south of
Butler has been visiting her cous-
in, Mrs. Guy Thomas, the past
week.
Miss Louise Simpson of near
CORTLAND, who has been visiting
at the home of her sister, Mrs. w.
II. Osborne, returned home Sat-
urday..
Norman and Amy Eggleson
and Elmer Hardinger, who are
attending high school, in Butler,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
home folks.
Mr.. Geo. Sedwick and son,
returned several days
ago from Lamar, Colorado, where
they each have taken up a home
stead. They expect to move there
soon.
M. |. Hurley vaccinated hogs
for Everett Drysdale and Emmett |
Burk Saturday.
Powell! Englehardt has blood |
poison in his hand.
The young peoples branch of |
the W. C. T.: U. will meet at Mt.
Carmel church Friday night,
Sept. "a, at eight O'Clock. All /
Young people are cordially invit-
ed to attend.
UNCLE HENRY.
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Litter Mates.

A southern sow had eight pigs
and could only nourish seven Of
them at a time. Rather han lei
the odd pig starve, it was giver
to a little girl, who raised it by
hand. She Joined the Decatur
County Pig Club as a ham and
bacon member, and kept sclose
record OF the feed given and
weights of her pig, which was not
a pure bred.
When the pig was 10 months
Ola, 1T was killed according to the
instructions sent her. It weighed
225 pounds net when dressed as
meat and yielded also 5O-pound
can of lard. The pig cost less
than 8 bushels Of corn to produce
as it was raised on kitchen waste
in addition to the corn.
y The other seven pigs raised by
the mother and left to rustic with
her were killed at the same time
and averaged only 81 pounds
net when dressed as meat.
The instance shows, how liber-
ally the pig will repay proper
care and feed by gaining rapidly
in weight.
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Honor Medal for Missouri.

San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 15.-
rhe general exhibit of Missouri
IN the Palace of Mines and Met.
allurgy at the Panama Pacific
Exposition has been awarded the
Medal OF Honor, the second high
est prize given any State exhibit,
and Collaboration Otto Ruhl oh.
tanned gold medal.
This result is particularly sat
lsfactory to AIissourians and the
managers of the exhibit. as onlv
$6,oO0 was expended on the dis
play.
Other states spending as much
as $4,000 on their mining exhib-
It's merely received bronz med
ais, and the booth which was
awarded the grand prize contain
ed $4,000 worth of gold on dis
play.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Foster News.

Mrs. G. G. Swarrens and Mrs
E. L. Thomas went to Kansas City
last Tuesday. eNIrs. Swarrens re-
turned last Saturday but Mrs
Thomas stayed to consult a
specialist in regard to her health.
On account of the river being
out the mai! carrier from Hume
failed to make it in to town the
latter part of last week, the mail
had to be sent out by the way Of
Rich Hill.
\ The train service on the Inter-
state has been out of commission
for the last few days. They got
d train through last Saturday.
Quite number Of the Foster
people attended the stock show
at Hume last Friday. All report
ed a fine time.
Mr. Thomas Meas of Lincoln,
Mo-, is here visiting his brother,
William Meas, of this place.
Mr.. NJ. l.. Shields of Rosemont,
w. Va, was with us for few
days last week. He owns sever
al hundred acres of land here in
Walnut township. He says that
crops are much better back home
than they are here this season.
Honey MULES and family are
here from across the river visit
ing with relatives.
Joe Anderson of Rich Hill was
out to Joe McCall's one day last
week and tried to sell Joe a Max
we'll car. Joe had the same plea
hat he was broke.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
'hurch gave an ice cream supper 4
asst Saturday night. The pro- t
leeds will be used to buy a piano /
or their church. :
Mrs. JAS. Treasure is here Wis., I
ting with relatives. II
Shirley Treasure left last Sat- :,
rday for Nevada where he has
]oh on the Mo. Pac. Ry., as :,
rakeman. "
Mrs. Grant and son, Luther,
1T last week for Cozad, Neb.,
here they will visit with rela-
YES and Luther intends to work
whiIc-this fall.
SLIM. 4
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
ANOTHER INTO
AUDITOR RACE
John Jalnison, Rich Hill Banker,
Will Enter; Say Friends.

/ 3t-. ft d ~
jefferson City, Sept. H.
Friends Of John Jamison, Rich
Hill banker, announced here to-
day that he will enter the race
for the Democratic nomination
for state auditor. For many
years he has been a factor in the
Democratic politics of the South
west. This makes field Of four
announced candidates for state
auditor on the Democratic side
Other active Democratic candi-
dates are: John P. Gordon, pres
ent incumbent; w. A. Norman, Of
Oregon county, and John L.
Bradley, deputy labor conmis-
sioner. Another probable can
didate is William Taylor of Gala
way county.
Two Republicans are in the
field for the same place. They
are: Henry Andrae, former STATE
penitentiary warden, and George
7. Kelley of Moberly.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Mrs. E. P. Lamkin Succumbs.

- Clinton, Mo-, Sept. 16.-Mrs.
l. +. Lamkin, sister of Dean Wal
ter Williams Of the University of
Missouri School Of Journalism.
and for many yeas prominent
club woman in Missouri died here
today. Mrs. Lamkin was IS
years old. w. N. Williams of
Boonville, Mo-, formerly a SUI
preme court judge, also is a
brother of Mrs. Lamkin.
Two sons, U. w. Lamkin of
Clinton and Charles F. Lamkin
OF keytesville, Mo-, also survive.
Mrs. Lamkin was a Sunday
school teacher fifty-nine years.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Summit Happenings.

Mrs. Gus Writ and two littl
sons returned to Harrisonvill'
Sunday after several days Wis
it with home folks.
Mr.. Rankin will ship in this
week from st. Joe to the w. B
Tyler farm. Mr.. Tyler will move
to Butler soon.
Mrs. Elmer Sturgeon, Mrs. Gus
Writ and Mrs. R, Sturgeon spent
Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Newton and daughters.
Lewis Culbertson and family
were Spruce visitors Sunday.
Mrs. Ora Butler returned home
with them.
Mrs. John Hines has been very
poorly for some time. Her many
friends hope for her early recov-
cry.
Mrs. Lacy, Mrs. Tyler and Mil
dred Haskins Were callers at r.
Surgeons Saturday evening.
Mrs. Alice Haskins is home
from Kansas City to help her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ". b. Ty-
Ter, move to Butler.
Mrs. Frank .Jewett and little
daughter are in Kansas City for
a few days visit with relatives.
Clarence Bolin and family and
Miss Reva Thomas spent Sunday
with J. r. Thomas and family.
Mrs. Roy IIerren has been Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. John Coli
day. She will go to Joplin soon
to join her husband, who has
position there.
Mrs. John Hyatt is enjoying a
visit in the west and taking in
the exposition. She is expect
ed home in few days.
Farming is at standstill as it
is too wet to do anything. The
outlook for wheat seeding is not
good, also poor weather to ripen
corn but every cloud has sill
Yer lining and we will look for it. )
John. Venerable and family
spent Sunday at A. M. Cummins.
Mr.. and Mrs. John .Golliday en-
tertained j. r. Welsh, Miss Lizzie
Duke and Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Sturgeon at their home Sunday.
SUNSHINE.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Annual Report Of Bates County
Flower Mission superin-
tendent, 1014-1016.

Visits to the sick and shut ms
in the county, 645.
Boquets, 1872.
Garments, 218.
Quarts fruit, Is.
Glasses jelly, 10.
Text cards and white ribbon.
$50.
Flower slips given out, ia.
Temperance cards written to
shut ms, %.
Letters to shut ins, I.
Pages Flower Mission litera-
ture, 366. 8
Money expended, $22.82.
Names Of Flower Mission sup-
erintendents in the county, Mrs
Katie TuttIe, frankie Utley.
Monroe Burk, Jennie Pfost. Ar
manda Evan, Anna Fulls, j. r.
Hele, Charlie Cough.
Go. Supt. Flower Missions. /
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-09-23
Syndicate to Place Big Loan for
Allies.

New York, Sept. l9.-The pro-
posed mammoth credit loan to
Great Britain and France, it was
reported tonight is to be under
written by a large syndicate of
American financiers and bankers,
who are to receive commission
for their services.
The securities offered, it was
said, We're British and French 5
per cent Government bonds and
the price to the investor is to be
par
The amount Of the loan, it was
rcrorted, is as yet undetermined,
hut will be between $6OO,OOO,OOO
AMI $8OO,00O,OOO.
Whether munitions of war will
b" included within the scope of
the proposed credit, so far ash
could be learned tonight has not |
been decided.
The underwriting syndicate, it
was reported, will be the largest
OF It's kind ever established in the
lnlted States and probably will
be open to nearly all national
'snks. trust companies and State
banks that may care to partici-
'"te., While the amount of com
nlSslon.to be paid these banks
vas not expressed in percentag gees
t is understood that the profit
will be a small one, possibly 1-2
o I per cent.
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John Hussey has rented the
Steward farm IL mile east of
Merwin. He has gang pillow
annd four good horses. He says
walking is thing of the past.