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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932,

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THE HERO

STORY OF A YOUTH WHO FEARED

THE SEA.

In Its Call He Heard the Voice of Death. By P. Hoole Jackson.

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The official summary issued by

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LONG LIFE FOR ALL

YOU ARE A POTENTIAL CENTENARIAN.

New Medical Discovery.

VIT - ALEXIN.

the Stock Exchange to-day states:- Every man and woman may the windlass began to revolve, and the opening session this morning tenarian, and some

There was no material change at have a chance of becoming a cen- of the most the boat slid down the slip and took business being still on a restricted intractable of modern diseases the was with a bounce that sent scale.

may be cured by means of a new her wallowing and rocking over the

Sales.

medical discovery, water,

As the lifeboat turned her nose to the open sea John caught sight of the clustered, huddled ships shelter- ing in the fold of the bay, riding safely at anchor under the lee of the land. The 'cox'n, cool and quiet, issued orders; John bogan to obey, but at each engulfing wave that sent green water swimming over the boat he felt his heurt quiver and tremble.

The lights of the safe ships were! asteen, the bout was alone amongst the great, grey rollers that sunk her into deep wells of darkness, only to lift her again to crests that were slathered with foam, like marbling on stone; he saw the lights of Ennis

Long ago, when he was a little, boy, he had ben tipped overboard and fished to safely like many an- other Ennis Loy with a bout-hook through the sat of his pants, but, unlike the other boys, he had re- mained afraid of the sea after that, Water that cleked and frightened him haunted hs dreams; he picked up'a living alagshore, and thoughį all his relative were fishermen he could not be persuaded to leave the quay. not even to go out after ling or lock in tir off-shore boats. He enly hung his head a little when they tackled his, refusing stubborn. ky, and gradully they left him alone. The deth of his fear none knew; when the waves sucked and smashed at the liff foot or flung Up great whirls spray he shrank back from the sight of them; they seemed like whte, clawing fingers reaching for hin. In the call of the sea be heard the voice of death, and yet he could not leave the grey villand as near as he dared, sheltering: lage and the ife he had known his boat, only turning her out since boyhood.

sea to avoid the hidden ledges of! rock with their knife-like edges.

John began to breathe more easily, the cox'n had called him to a post astern; be fighting his fear, and, suddenly, his fear left him. Somewhere in thes darkness men and women were wait- ing for the lifeboat, that lone, brave speck that seemed the only thing afloat in all the grey waste of angry water. John found himself praying, that they might reach the wreck in time, and forgot all else.

He had only aved one mald, and she refused him: yet he felt that if he had been as the other young men there would not have been a "no" on the lips of Mary Penolver; he brooded over it. She had told him, net unkindly, that a shore loafer

Was no

husband for her. Some times he saw her looking at him when he earned a little money con- ducting visitors to places of interest in the village; the look haunt- et him; it began to be

greet 11 fear in its

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Buyera.

Benguets, $11.25. Hotels (old), $15.15. Ewos, Tle. 16.

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Dairy Farms, $29.60.

Constructions (new), $1.80. Hong Kong Government Loan,

Sellers.

to sta bord, the rocks of the Point $24% premium. reaching out with frothing water over them; the cox'n hugged the

to

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SIR H. POLLOCK.

Re-Election to the Council.

mal in two days,

High Blood Pressure.-A woman, of sixty-five with a blood pressure! of 222 had it reduced to 150 after twelve injections. It has remained; at that point for six months.. Details of this are revealed for

A man of sixty-four, whose blood; the first time to the whole medi-pressure was 240, had it reduced to cal profession by Major Vincent 150, Nesfield, F.R.C.S. (Eng.). the eminent Harley Street surgeon, in the current number of the "Medi- cal World,"

weeks.

Epilepsy youth of twenty, who in March. 1931 had as many as twelve epileptic fits every day, is still under treatment, but the fits A new substance, named Vit-have been reduced to one in Ave Alexin, has been separated from the embryonic tissues of the body. This substance, it is claimed, will rejuvenate human glands, and stimulate them to maintain the balance of the secretions which are necessary for the maintenance of ihealth.

Hypodermic Injection. The new treatment, which is ad- ministered by hypodermic injection, and can only be given by a doctor, has been in the hands of a limited number of practitioners for more than a year, and it is the results of their experiments which Major Nesfield summarises.

Stripped of technical language, the underlying principle of the new treatment is that it stimulates the glands to do their job, and thereby increases the resistance of the blood and tissues to disease and old age.

Mental Incapacity.--An eighteen- year-old servant girl who could do nothing in sequence, and was, therefore, useless in service, is! now perfectly rational, and healthy.

Neurasthenian,-A

woman aged sixty-seven, who was afraid to cross a street or take any initiative since her son was killed in the War, has completely recovered her self- confidence.

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General Debility.-A powerful man of fifty-two, suffering from physical and mental breakdown.) had fifteen injections. "His skin looked younger, and became pliable. He grew young-coloured hair. The stature increased by one and a half inches. The abdominal fullness disappeared. His mental quick- neas, perception, and capacity in creased enormously."

The "Medical World," summaris-1 Case quoted by the "Medical ing the evidence of these and other! World". in which complete Caree, cases, says: "A great deal of ill- after the now treatment, are claim-health is undoubtedly due to a ed include:-

break in the hormone balance.

"Due consideration of the symp-) body slowly loses a vital substance toms of old age suggests that the

through which controls ita mechanism the hormone-producing glands.

"Vit-Alexin is not a specialised hormone like insulin, but a com- mon factor of all hormone-produc- ing glands. It appears to be very potent in creating a proper balance of the hormones."

Diabetes-A man of sixty-four When the rocket carrying the line own

Sir Henry soured over the doomed ship he was LL.D., whose term of office as re were cured after six doses, and Pollock Kt., K.C., and a woman of sixty-five who ready to leap overboard to save sur, presentative on vivors, but the line brought one Council of the Justices of the Peace symptoms since the conclusion of the Legislative have remained free of diabetic after another to safety, and John

the treatment. helper women and children down to

Pneumonia.-A woman weighing the little cabin in the fore, where,

17 st. and nged sixty-four who was when the last man was saved, they

so "desperately " that her re were all battened town, a huddled

latives were summoned, passed the mass of frightened folk, but trying

crisia without collapse, and was out out with thankfulness and relief.

of bed within three weeks of the attack.

way as his fear of the seat he avoided meeting her, dedging up the tiny alley-ways: le lingered in the Anchor Inn when he had coppers to spare. Once he encountered her when he was counting the money given him as a tip by the last group of visitors he had shown round the queer. Hittle town, and she stopped, smiling scornfully, "A muld could earn money that way. John Trevose," she said. "You did ought to ding it in the harbour: dirty

money 'tis. Why for don't you

work like a man?”

She left him; his face turned red and his eyes dawneast; he fingered the money uneasily and glanced at the water of the harbour; hesitated, then entered the inn and drank deep. He was almost alone; the fishermen were away for the herring senson; only the old ones and a few men from the smaller boats remained. He tramped home and pulled off his boots; his mother looked at him uneasily. "There's a letter from dad." she said. "There be room in the boat for 'ee: Dick Sennor's taken sick."

"You know I can't, mother," he said. "It do be more than can He thrust his chin between face." his big hands and gazed into the fire. His mother shook her head He had and resumed her task. been her favourite son in boyhood; sturdy, full of promise; she could not understand his fear.

He awoke a little before midnight, staring and startled; a few bright sparks fell past his window in a shower, followed by the boom of a gun. Again the rocket soared up and flashed in the darkness; wind and rain were beating against the pane of his window. He heard his mother stirring. pulled on his boots, trousers, and jersey, and clumped downstairs. The wind almost tore the door out of his grasp as he went Into the street; above were low, tagged clouds driving fast; the rain was rushing down the centre "gutter in the Atreet; he heard the sound. of feet running and began to run him- self. Women appeared at doors; one grabbed his elbow, "Where's the wreck to? Doree know? Then she stopped, peering closely at him "That you, John Trevose? Goin' watchin' better men, I reckon Short-handed they'll be w all the Then away: Reckon tis no use man who won't put to son in dead calm will be a night like this

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"Why. John," said the cox'n, as they chugged hu. eward, "you be a MAD after all." He patted the young man's shoulder. "You'll be all right now, boy," he said. "Time was when I was afraid of the sea, too. We all be someways afraid of her; she do be almost as grand us the Almighty, as strong and fear- soine, but she works towards u well as agen, and amen to that."

Many hours afterwards, John. weary, but with his soul singing. tramped back from the Sailors" Home, where the survivors had been cheered and warmed with hot coffee: he had carried a child in his arms to. the big room, and child and; mother had thanked him with a look of hero-worship in their eyes.

down

has

been

Major Neafield, seen by a Daily: A farmer aged thirty-four, a Express representative, said he had heavy drinker, "whose recovery ap nothing to add to the account of peared hopeless," began to recover the discovery in the "Medical on the tenth day after the attack. World."

Blood-poisoning.---A girl of Another Harley Street specialist eighteen developed septicaemia said that Vit-Alexin represented af after a mastoid operation. Hor great advance on the researches of temperature rose to 107. After Dr. Voronoff and others

on the Vit-Alexin Injections she was nor ductless glands.

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A window opened above the alley; the gust of wind blew out the candle, but not before John had seen the face and the long tresses of dark hair that framed it. "That you, John," called the voice.

"Yes, Mary."

expired to-day, "There be an amazin' good con-elected unopposed and will resume Un Paris-tr cert at the Hall to-morrow, John, if his seat without an election. On demand you be minded to take me

Sir Henry was proposed by Sir Credits, $ months' Shou-son Chow, and seconded by sight along."

John fung up his dripping cap, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.

On Berlin→→→ "Put a kiss to un, Mary, 'till to

On demand Sir Henry Pollock has been more morrow," he said, "I be goin' along than 40 years in Hong Kong, and to Plymouth to join dad the day since 1903 has been a member, of On demand:

the Legislative Council, either after."

The cap came back, and he unofficial member or ar acting At- clutched it tightly; he did not know torney General. that there were tears on it as well Sir Henry a public activities are as a kiss.---Manchester Guardian.

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