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| HEROIC STRUGGLE Dioneer Research Worker in Radiography Down to Last $2 CHICKEN FARMING Small Pension ion From Came: gie Fund Sole Income of Couple at od! A shi 2% e _ Louth, Lincs, Aug. 20.--Two dot lars carefully Stored in a little wood- .en box on the mantel-shelf, is the sole monetary wealth for the remain- "der of this present month of a man * who has forfeited his life to medical . seience. ' This martyr is Alfred Smith, one of the first X-ray operators in this " country and a member of that band of early research workers in radio- graphy who have been stricken with that slow life-eating disease--X-ray rmatitis. Eighteen pioneers in English hos- pitals who served to help their fel- lows went down under this affliction and thirteen are dead. Alfred Smith is one of the "survivors". He "sur- ' vives" at the age of 59 with one leg amputated, with his sight failing in- to blindness, his hands and arms af- . fected to such an extent that he can scarcely use them, and always un- ending pain coupled with fiery irri- tation. All the regular income that Alfred Smith has on which to keep himself and his wife is $7 a week--a pension from the Carnegie hero fund granted In 1924, Army Hut They live torather in The Bunga- low, Chapel-lane, Legbourne, a vil- lage three miles from Louth, It is an old war-time Army hut bought in sections for $100, pulled down and put together again in a rough field with a chicken run at the back and a tangled path to the front, with no water, one living-room, and two tiny bedrooms, and a stove. Here Mr. and Mrs. Smith are try- ing to keep their heads above water and found a chicken farm on $7 a week paid monthly in advance. The chickens, however, do not yet earn any revenue--indeed, they absorb a substantial part of the weekly $7. That is why there is only $2 in the family purse until Sept. 1. Alfred Smith, however, does not complain. He smiles in a pathetic kind of way and says, "Well, it might be worse"--and when she hears her husband say that Mrs. Smith goes quietly away to see if the chickens are "quite all right." 'When a reporter met Alfred Smith he apologized because he could not shake hands in welcome. "I am awfully sorry," he said, "but I cannot grip. Although for the time being I am hand-whole, I have no power there, and soon I shall have to 'lose my fingers. "I am sorry, too, that T cannot see you properly. I look through a mist which grows blacker each week, We who were the first X-ray operators did not know that the ray would re- venge itself on us like this. "I do not think we can very well clai mto be heroes, because we did not know, We worked in ignorance, and we suffered for it." Mr. Smith's Record Here is Mr. Smith's record as a radiographist: He received his hos- pital training at Grimsby, his native town. Then he went to London and took up X-ray work about 1897. He had appointments at a number of . London hospitals, and was in private practice as an X-ray operator. In 1906 he was appointed radio- grapher and chief dispenser at the Coventry General Hospital, and he + 'wag there until 1913, when X-ray der- matitis began to show on the body and hands. _ During his term at Coventry he took X-ray photographs in thousands of cases, and when he was forced to leave, a testimonial of $750 and an iuminaied address were given to m. "After that," said Mr. Smith,' "I had four and a half years in hospi' tal, of and on--mostly on--and underwent 17 different operations. My right leg was amputated because of the X-ray disease on Armistice Day. "All my savings went during these OF X-RAY MARTYR! THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929 PAGE SEVEN" C. ALFRED MAGUIRE Or Toronto first = vice-president, who is slated to succeed Wil- liam G. Bruce as president of .The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Harbor Association. years, At one time I earned easily $150 a week, and hada beautiful home, but it all had to go. Why,, for a while I was living in one room in a workmen's lodging-house. I had to seil up everything---our furniture, even my X-ray apparatus. "It was heart-breaking, really, kucwing always that the disease had me in its grip, and was sure to win gnoner or later, "Last March T came down to my native country with the assistance of some friends, and got together a new little home in this bungalow, and we are trying -- at least my wife is trying -- for I eannot do any- thing with crutches, one leg, and no useful hands -- to build up a busi- ness from our chickens. "Unfortunately, the chickens don't lay any eggs yet; they are too young but they will about October, if we can only carry on until then." Women would cry if they saw "this new little home." There is no com: fort, only the barest of necessities, and not much of those--not even a comfortable armchair for the crippled X-ray martyr. He and his wife are wearing clothes that were bought ten years ago, yet this bungalow, with its hard wooden furniture and its smoky oil lamp, is a "new little home," where a brave man and his wife are trying to forget that death may be a next month visitor, FEWSPECTRES WALK IN WINDSOR CASTLE Famous Hunter Who Hanged Himself Still Sounds His Horn London.- The "thousands of Amer- ican and aCnadian visitors who are now invading the Thames Valley are a little disappointed at the scarcity of ghost stories told about Windsor Castle, They seem to feel that every old chamber, every shadowy passage, and every quiet cloister should be alive with rattling chains, phosphor- escent lights, and death rattles -- clanging bels at the midnioght hour and a procession of spectra figures, carrying their skulls under their arms. But Windsor Castle is curi- ously free of ghosts, although the three or four which it can claim are active fellows, enlivening the ife of the people who live there and giving the visitor something to make his hair stand on end. A caste in which princesses have been walled up, where ' kings have been imprisoned where Henry the Eighth tried his wives, when they tried him --a vault in which Anne Boleyn was imprisoned, and a uark in which Herne the Hunter hanged himself from a tree should produce an orgy of ghost stories. But the authentic ones are few. The most ex- citing and the most persistent of the Windsor Castle ghosts is that of Herne the Hunter, made immortal by Shakespeare in "The Merry Wives of Windsor." . Meeting the Hunter Not so very long ago he was heard crossing the park with his ghostly pack -- his horn sounding, his horse's hoofs padding the ground. Herne Liculnt Robert ny pining | carehs ww at St. Margaret's, Westmin= y rocon'ly, The photograph bridal couple leaving the the. Hunter was seen in Elizabethan times, and the Earl of Surrey himself walked out into the uark one night and saw a "blue phosphorescent, light streaming through the bushes." He looked up and saw "a wald, spectral- looking object, possessing some slight resemblance to humanity and habited so far as it could be determined, in the skins of deer. The ghost was Herne the Hunter, who had hanged himself from an oak because of some crime he had com- mitted. The Earl of Surrey saw Herne: the Hunter's head, surmount- ed, by the skull of a stag with ant- lers and with the link of the chains on his arm alive with phosphorescent fire. Herne the Hunter gave forth a "horrible burst of laughter," then a fearful wail," and then disappeared. Other people saw Herne in the park in those carly days, blowing flames and 'smoke out of his horn, and when the Earl of Surrey was im prisoned in the Norman Tower -- the tower under which people still walk when they go to Windsor -- 'Herne the Hunter appearcd to him in his prison and presented him with a vi- sion of the "fair Geraldine." Herne is the most romantic and the most famous of Windsor's ghosts. He 'himself has seen to it that he is not forgotten, for almost every year of Windsor's history has brought forwird somebody who vows that they have seen or heard him, In the park at Windsor you still may see the oak growing in the same place as that upon which Herne hanged himself. You may sce, too, the chalk pit beside the oag -- the pit in which Shakespeare makes Fal- staff sleep. when he takes on the guise of Herne. The open green country across which the ghost still rides stretches in front of the castle at the feet of the terrace, upon which the visitors walk every Sun- day to hear the band playing. Just as the Elizabethans discover- ed ghosts of the past at Windsor, so they also left a magnificent ghost be- hind them -- that of Queen Eliza- beth herself. An officers of the Guard, who was in the library at Windsér one day, saw her crossing the great room =- an unmistakable Elizabeth, with her collar and clothes and hair as we know them to have been, Bnt the ghosts in the upper part of the Castle, where the king and queen live, are few, Most of them seem to have chosen the lower ward. The only two accredited ghosts in the royal apartments are those of Queen Elizabeth and George the Third. The queen herself has been seen several times in the library, but George the Third has appeared only twice, as far as is known. In his later years, when he was ill and more or less a prisoner in his rooms, he would walk to a window above the terrace and salute the sentry as he went past. Some time after he died, the sentry on duty saw the dead king's ghost at the window, and is said to have fled. Now we must move to the lower part of the castle in omr hunt for spectres, The houses of the Military Knights are dominated by the aGr- ter Tower, which is passed by every- body who goes into the castle thru the Henry the Eighth gates. Here, too, is an Elizabethan ghost, A ser- vant of the time is said to have killed his sweetheart, who was a maid in the tower, She had been heard walk ing in the rooms and passages of this part of the castle. But the ghost which pleases us most in the lower ward is that of Henry the Eighth, who is heard in the Dean's Cloisters, There could be no more suitable setting for the much-married monarch. Two meagre gas lamps, four high walls of dark stone, and the chapel rising to the sky, surmounted by grim heraldic beasts. Here Henry the Eighth moans at night -- under the window where he first saw Anne Boleyn sitting, when she was staying with Canon Samson who was her relative. You may still sce this window in the cloisters, al- though it is long after the tourists have passed out of the gates that Henry the Eighth wanders -- per- haps in search of Anne -- perhaps secking for new conquests, new scalps for his already well-loaded Lord Headley, once : offered throne of Albania, who embraced Moslem faith in 1918 now presi- dent of British Moslem Society, has remarried a third time. He is shown here with his bride, form- erly the widow of Major Lindsay Bashford. Lord Headley's Moslem name is Saitaraaman Sheik Rham- vatulla Farooq. in Windsor herself. Her ghost lives belt. But Anne Boleyn does not walk many mies way, at Blickling, the beautiful Tudor house in Norfolk, built on the site of her own birth- place. At the last meeting of the Wick-]| low county council a draft scheme the colony submitted adopted. was Medical Aid and at Has- of the Printers' Sanatorium association tings. for the treatment of tuberculosis in' and A bed was formally endowed by the Printing Machine Managers" association at the Hermitage Home' REWARD OF GENIUS There was a story from the Mid- dle West the other day about a poet who was washing dishes in a res- taurant while awaiting the publica- tion of a book of his poems. After it comes out, of course, he will pro- bably be washing dishes in a' res- taurant.-- Boston Herald, Mr. F. Huh Fox, head of the woollen industry in Wellington, has handed to the governors of Well- ington school, Somerset, he has for many years been chair- man, the sum of £1,000 for the of which GERMAN PLAN FOR INGREASING GRASS Pastures Fenced Off Into Small Lots and Heavily Fertilized , Toronto, Aug. 20.--Experiments are being conducted at four American stations to determine the value of the Hohenheim system of pasture management, a system that has been very successful in obtaining greater yiclds of better grass in European sections. The Hohenheim system is a method for securing greatest possible yields by fertilization and controlled graz- ing of permanent pasture lands, ex- plains George B. Mortimer, agronu- mist at Wisconsin' university. It re- ceived the name because it was first employed at Hohenheim, Germany, during the war, when it' originated as a result of the necessity of main- taining the dairy industry in the face of feed shortage. Popular in Europe ' 'German 'scientists believe that the discovery will be 'of more value to European agriculture than any other development of the past 40 years. The system is becoming rather generally used in Central Europe and England. It has been found, Mortimer says that the protein content of grass can he increased 6 to 8 per cent. by fer- tilizing 'with available nitrogen. This fertilization together with controlled grazing are the principal factors in- volved in the Hohenheim system. "To operate a pasture according to the Hohenheim method, it must first be fenced into smaller areas in order to control the grazing. Each arca must be given an initial application of phosphorus and potash and lime if necessary. Successive applications of nitrogen are then made through foundation of a leaving scholar ship. | he grazing season," Mortimer points out, By grazing each area intensively for a few days, then letting the herd 80 on to the next field, spring grass 1s available during the entire "season because the rapid gr stimlates a growth of new grass, The herd is usually divided so the highest pro- ducing group of dairy animals re- main on a plot but five or six days when the grass is at its best. They are then moved to the next plot and followed by a group next highest in production. A third group, often known as the "cleaners," may follow the second. In this way each area is closely grazed, then given a rest tin- til the grass reaches a height of four to five inches. This growth is ready by the time the first group has gone through all the plots, Mortimer says. Grasses feed very heavily on nitro- gen, so from two to four applications of fertilizer are necessary during the season. 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