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MEDICINAL PLANTS OF CANADA anakeroot which yield medi- and the well known Canada Balsam comes from th«< reainouK exu- Carload* of Catcara. dation of the Balsam fir. It iH, perhaps, not wi-ll known that Th* gatherini; of medicinal plants, , b.ack th« bark aud Uaves of tiivK, doos notj cincs; appeal to tho average Canadian farm- er perhaps because of lack of knowl- edge of the varieties and parts vshichj may readily be converted into cash. And yet. In many districts, this w'^uld >,r oad/ of the' bark of the cascara prove to be piofitable employment for tree are shipped annua:: . from Brit- spare time and certain inodiclnal jah C...umbia t.. firms which manufac- p:ants could bo cultivated with profit, tun- the well known ca.scara sa^iada The (flnsent: i>'ant found in the me<i>ine from it. The cascara tree woods of Ontario has for many years belonKs to the northwest coast of Am- been mu h soujfht after because of the Pi-ica. and BritiBli Columbia has the high vn ill- of siven dollars or more distinction of beinij the only portion per poi; 'I which the root.i command, of the British Empire in which it is It ha.s b -n larfiply exported to ("hinn ,i naf-ve. Owing to its rapid deple- where ( is prized an a tonic and tjon in the SUtes of Oregon and stimulant by the- Chinese. Gin.«eng Washington, manufacturing druggLsta and nrnidrake | th« May apple or wild are looking to British Columbia for mandnike is a native of the woods of further pupplie.s of the bark, but the Ontario and Quebec) are regarded tree is so little known that in land with much superstition by the Chinese, clearing operations it is ruthlessly who ascribe to them almost miraculous slaughtered when patches of it might powers. According to an old fancy be left to yield from time to time the mandmke shrieks when puUed profitable crop.s. Prof. John Davidson from the ground. The re.semb"ance of .of the University of British Columbia us commonly forked root to the hu- says that on one lot 140 by 110 feat man body, a resemblance aUo shared by | (one-third acre) which came under his the gin.seng, is probably the ground of i notice. 94 cascara trees were burned, this superstition. The mandrake has , The immediato value of the bark on been regarded ns an anthrodisiac, and ^ the.se trees ho estimated to be worth used in amorous incantations, as a 1 about $80. A piece of waste land in, love amulet, etc. C. Elton, In "Origins ! cascara trees may be managed to yield I of Ene'ish History," says that the » perpetual crop and new trees rnayl mandrake was found beneath the pub- 1 be easily .started from seed. Ca.scara ' lis gallows and was dragged from thejg^ows both in tree form and as spread TWENTY-SEVEN FOOT BOAT In which six Canadian stdscouts sai^ed from Montreal to New York. The ol;ljsf is 18. Tliey had son-.n thrilling adventureo and they are seen after arriving at New York. grouri :ind carried home with many rellgHou.s ocreraonies. When secured It becfin.e a family spirit speaking In oracies if properly ronsulted, and bringing irood luck to the house In which it was en.shrinod. Cure Mankind's Ilia Mystery. j The "Golden Step." The wonderful thing about man la i can hear the stalwart sailors singing the way he builds his lifo on mystery. ' chanties draws his Inspirations out of mystery,' As they weigh the dripping anchors Ing shrubs, and harvesting of l)ark may begin when the trees are eight or ten years old. Th,. climate of many parts of Brit- ish Columbia, as the Natural Re-| sources Intelligence Service points out,! is particularly favorable to the growth at your bow. tropic sun's aglare upon your mainsail And the spray Is (lashing up before the prow. Ginseng and mandrake aro only two; of drug yielding plants, but one drug! ^liores of thought of the many native roots from which i ig not sufficient for the establishment ir.edicines having well understood ef- : of a manufacturing industry and so fects are prepared for modern JFe in Prr>fesscrs J. Davidson and R. H th<> treatments of the ills of man Among the medicinal plnrrts wh grow wild in Can.-\da and for which , vestigation, with financial assistance kind.; Clark, of the University of British "-^ *°''''' *''''""' ,^P«''':-' "" '""^'uT 'hich! Columbia, have been making an )„. J that man c<m clearly undorstund, while ^hich, vestigation, with financial assistance! ^"^ ^""''''^ ""^"^ '"^'fy, '« ^'^'''"' '*>* tht-re i.s a considerable demand is gol- granted by the National Research P"'''"'" '" "'^*''" ""'"'''*"" '"^""'"^^^ 1 den seal, seneci; simkerrxjt or mountain ! Council to determine wh-ther or not '"''' *"'^^ ^"''® "^"â- ^' '"'° '*'"' ''â- â- Â°"''"»'"» flajc and wintergreen. Many other ; other trees, herbs and plants can be>"'^'"« "'J'^'^'"*' '^'"' '" ^'»''^^'^'«^ ^''^'^'^^ : plants of medicinal value native to ; prown to advantage. The results have j ^â- '''',^" ""«^'"=* """" ""1 , 1„ Europe, but which have escaped from been very encouraging It has been l^^elielon, of course, has been man 8 How can it bo you're just ii dusty hopes whore he does not know, dreama where he does not see and believes The where he cannot prove. Knowledge l&j no more than an Island here and there, which lifts itself a little way above the waves while the great ocean of mjatery round about laps all the There's a pungent smell of tar upon I your rigging Mute and mum and mystery are . And the salt of seven seas -If ull companion words, grown out of thej were told â€" same ancient root and signifying that. While the nlr is heavy-sweet above the hatches With 111!' jiorfume of the. splce.s in the hold. 'TiM thus 1 see you sailing out of .Malta With your black hull eager for the spray. But I model cu-.tiva'lon. now occur ns more or less! found that not only the bark of the ^f*^"'*"", ""venture in my^teiT commo: weeds in Canada, particularly ' cascara tree but also its wood posses-' I>'»"'^»oP"y ''»3 followed cose beblnd, ] In an antique shop. I saw the oilier in the eastern provinces. Included in Res active medicinal properties. The^ . ,'" "'" ? found In it, thi.. category are vvhiU- and black mus- British Columbia foxglove has been! "'*'"â-  f""'"' ^"'"''^ "'"' '"splratlon. fard, cnraw.iy, horebound, peppermint, f„und to be equal or superior in con-! ""'-''=• architecture, poetry and palnt- soearmint, fhornapple, and even the tent of the drug digitalin to that found , *"»^ ^^'^'"' ''" ''"'"^ ^•""' ""'' ramve dandelion. All of these foregoing elsewhere, while for the production of ^""\''>'» '^"''^'^'â- â€¢":''"^l';"""'/T®^ plants can l-e cultivated as well as of the drug stramonium similarly "''"'"'' '""^'' '"vlsil'Iy behind the face other varieties of medicinal plants ! ^.^.d results have been obtained f rom "^ ^'""«f' ^*'^"'"' ""^ reach of sense, such as coriander, dill, fennel, thyme,, the thornapple which grows wild in^"^ '""'^ "'«"' "'oe'c "P°" the spirits, deadly nightsh'ule or belladonna, gar- i many parts of British Columbia. Thej "V"'^"- , „ , ,, I den chamomile, etc. [spotted hemlock w.is found to contain! .""^' «'ranKor than all these exploits i Among the trees or .shrubs f rom ! „ higher percentage of alkaloid than i "''""'«'':""•'" â- ""• Ireatn and love. which bark is (fathered for medicinal; tho average found elsewhere I'""' '"""^ '" "'" ""*â-  """ ""'"' "'"' "â- â- "*^' ! purposes are the cascara tree, slippery; The investigations commenced in '!"'' ''"/'^â- '"'r'^ra of business and poll- ! elm. witch hazt.', wild black cherry oriRriti.sh Columbia might well be car-: "'"^ ''"^ ''" "'« Purely physical labors rum cherry, prickly ash or toothache riod on in ether parts of Canada. The i '"" '"^'^ '""^ ihem.selves deeply In tho , tree, burning bush or wahoo. Then n.edicine-man's drug che.st must con-l"'""" ^"''" °^ "'yfery. How Is a.l - ' there is the fruit of the juniper and tinuously have its stock replenished' ^•"•'' «"'^"'"""»'"' "f weaving and sew- *• ' ...La-... - r ' Ing and dri's.sing una (U'coration which makes all the business In the world to ' be accounted for e.xeept by .some mys- terious e'enients of desire and delight, ' withiu which science .so far has been totally unable to detine or oven to say where tliey reside or how they go day? -.'\nn6 Hobluson, Blue." In "Tho Singing Mexican tea. the flowers of the hop and tho small roots or rhizomes of ferns, couch t'rass. white helebore and Kind But Firm Discipline. Not all parents or guardians are and why not with medicines made in i Canadian factories from home-grown plants? Uses for Slag. Why He Looked Stuck Up. "Why are you looking so stuck up lc-:!;iy?" "I've a right to. Don't you s.se tho.se two preWy girls have their eyee glued on me?" Even slag from the steel furnaces I and whence they come? â- / '?.."\""='^ •"• '^"""â- ol a vigorous, ha.s many economic uses. Two of iti j And here is the mjstery within tho «e.f-wi..ed chi.d from nine or ten ^^j^^ uses are as a basis for cement I mystery: Man lives far more by what years upwords. writes J. J. Ke.so. It and as a fertilizer. Soil requiring he doesn't know than by what hi- does happens fre.pient.y that boys arid , H^e and phosphoric acid are improv- i know. The known grows stale and gir.« ai-esenl to !l«formatories shnplyjed by the addition of crushed oricomn for the lack of firm di.icipline in their, gc^eened slag and some 15.000 000 own homes. Recently an urgent re- , barrels of Portland cement aro being quest was made to have a young girl | ^ade each year in tho United .States sent to a Reform School owing to herj^ith a'.ag as an ingredient. In Nova .Scotia slag is used in rond construc- wilfu layed conduct, until at The matter was de- ength a homo was tio^ and as railway ballast. Just as found for her with people st)oken of as being "ftnn and exacting but just In their demands and ready to show appreciation when it is deserved." The girl was placed with them and under their guiiiinij care the rKJcessity for commitment to a Reformatory has apparently {h.^appeared. It is homes of this description that many of our wayward and homeless young people re<iuire, and when par- ents fail we should make every pos- sible effort to find people who wlH rocogniTe this opportunity to help In the training of a \wy or girl who otherwi.se might lie .s^nt off in disgrace to a public institution. the presence of certain base metals in ore used to make the ore undesirable to handle, but now through new pro- cea.ses of recovery represent values sufficient to provide a profit, so, too, some day, the slag may prove a source of additional revenue to Canadian steel companies. moupluce. It Is the unknown that lures and bock(Mia. Apple Export. Iris. Now Iris, like a flock of birds. Down to the pool's grer'U water fUes, .Sunning small, lovely, curvUiK wings .And radiant, scented dyes. .\3 In a mirror, on the pool The gold and purple lies. Wasn't Ambitious. "How high are we now?" asked the timid aeroplane passenger. "About four thousand feet." said tho pilot. "1 haven't started to climb yot." "1 don't know whether I mentioned It beforo wo started," quavered the pas- senger, "but I'm not at all nmbitlous." 1 waited, hoping for a song. I saw the tall leaves bend and swing. It seemed to me some violet throat MlRht oi)en presently and sing. Export shipments of apples from But they were still as birds al night, the Okanagan Valley, British Colum- Each with his head beneatli bis wing. bia for the past .season, included the; • • following: 65 cars to Scandinavian ' Profitable Side Line. countries, 8 cars to China, '39 cars to • â€" Germany, 4 cars to Newfound:and, 18 It is estimated that lo-; than half cars to South Africa, 4'2 cars to New of our maple trees are tapped each Zealand, 55 cars to the United .States year. The manufacture of maple pro- and 405 cars to Great Britain. In ad- ducts is one of thi< most profitable side dltion, 108 cars were shipped to On- lines a farmer can develop when one tario and Quebec, which are often con-; considers the shortne.s? of the <e«ison sidered as export markets. Distance required and the fact that trees may is apparently no handicap when high I be used as fuel when they pass ma- class products are for sale. I turity. The supply of maple products is much less than the demand and this is a situation that will become increas- ^°"**' ' ingly apparent when the jieople of Little Knilly had been to church for other countries learn i;f the delicious ihe llrst lime. On her return her flavor of" maple syrup. j â€" * I grandmother asked I-' she had been a' . ♦ When washing flannels, never lot 'good little girl. j Beforo you u.se a new to<ithlirush. them lie long in the water. They | "Yes. CJrandma." she said. "A man , soak it in hot salt water. Th's not it Isst The Christian name of Isal>el Is a corruption of E:izal.<'th. It was first corrupted as a comp.iment to Queen Elizabeth, who wa.4 cal ed Eliziil>ol'la. Afterwards the first syllable was I should be washed and hung out to dry , oven t)ffered ine a plate full of money, i orvly c>arv«es it. but nialu'.-t dropped. I aa quickly as possible. and I said. "No. thank you.' twice as long. Ascension Island Turtles. Abctnslon liis in the middle of the Atlantic and Is supposed to have taken Its name from the suddenaesu of its anlval on this planet. It was said to have shot up lu a night. U was used as a naval depot, and here we came for stores. A peculiar thing sbout this island was that the i>eopl6 didn't refer to the seasons as Spring. Summer. Autumn and Winter as wo do, but. as the Kgg, the "Turtle, the Kish and the Vege- table seasons. Great flighta of Wide- av. akes, a bird about the size of a sea^ ; gull, came to lay their eggs in such t drovts that sometimes they actually I hid the sun, while the air was raucous with their cries. They dropped their eggs on .1 wide plain called Wl.ieawak* Fair, v.bicli lu the season lotiked like a field of unow. . . . Huge marine tor- to;.';e3 cama in swarms to lay their eggs. \ Mother turtle would waddle up the beufh. Jier faithful mate following, scrape a hole in the s.Tud, deposit her; treasure*, cover them up In a little mound, and then make for the water again. . . . The beach would be Uued with th?se egg-mounds, and It was ta.scinating to watch the little turtle api-fsr when the sun had h^itched . hlin. If you bad rUe time and the pa- | tience to wait, or better still the good fortune to be on the spot at the right moment to wltiiRts that sight â€"than you cou.side'-ed yourself lucky I Th^< mouii'd would aeem to eularge. the sand slip, I aiul the first layer of eggs couw to j light. I Suddenly out would pop a small ' black luad from a shell, a wee neck _ wound crane, .'-.nd you would see the bead slowly rotate, taking a first, long, i wou.IsriuK view of its new surround- ings. .\ short pause would ensue. , Then .vou would se« a convulsive luav?. a wriggle, .-md out from the egg woiiiil flop iuast--'r turtle. n\t upon the sand for a minute, as If taking the air. ' and then make a bee-line for th? water. As yi'.u saw the little cre.aturo breast the fiif.t wavelet licking the shore, you said to yourself In tlie words of the psalmist. "How wonderful are Thy works, O Un'd!" I liked coining to .A6censii>a. there were .'« uiany iuteresliiiB things about It the "blow holes" out of which, far. Inland. ^Oie sea water would siH>ut like' fountains twenty feet high or s*) and break into spray; tht?n the most beauti- ful "rainbows" you could Imagine would f irui amid the spmy, hang In Ihe air a minute or so. then vanish;' the stiange rock-forinatloi>8. end crat-i ers ful of dark, ntoffonless water. . . ' It ',\as like a trip to Ihe moon.- From, "Sam N'ohle, Able Seaman." an Auto- biography. .* An Education Thrown In. "Can .vou read that bottom line?" "No. Buh. " "These glasses will lit y<yu so that you can read II." declared Ihe optician! ceeftdenlly. ; rhe negro -iistomer brightened up III this. ! "Dat'H niorp'n what I expectivl. botH." said he. ".-Vn eddlcatlon and a P'lr cb ghssrs. all for Ave shillin'. I ns'lilvr learned to read." Historical Sites Boairtl Reports Progress. XI the annual meetlnc ot the HI*- toric SitfB aivd Monuments Board of C-anada. held recently in Ottawa, It wa» reported that 130 ahes had been re- vl-awed during (he year and that In art- ditioa to the aereral sltens prevlou'^l]' recommended for oommf'moratlon IJ others were selected aa being of iM« llonsl Importance. The Hoard, whlct Is an honorary body comprised of ve- cognized hltO-orlane, acta In an advisory capacity to the Dominion GoTemmem on hisloric sites matters. The admin- lutratlon ot historic sites set aside on the recinmendatlon of the Board Is carried out by the Department of the Interior through Its Canadian National Parks Hranch. Brigadier-General E. A. Cnilckahank presided at the meeting and the other members In attendance were: Dr. J. C. Weboter, representing New Bruns- wick; Dr. J. H. Coyne, representing OhUrio; Hia Honor Judge F. W. Ho- way, representing West-ern Canada; Mr. J. B. Harkln, Commissioner ot Canadian National Parka, representing the Department of the Interior; and Major .\. A. Plnard, secretary. The more Important of the places and events selected for commemora- tion at this, year's meetinft of the Board Include, Loulsburg. N.3.; the naval battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake at Halifax. N.S.: the York- shire settlement. Chlgnecto. N.S.; Fort Lennox on Ile-aux-Noix. near St. Johns, Que.; Fort Three Rivers, at "Hiree Rivers, Que.: Port Frontenac, King- ston. Out.: the e:nbarkation point of Brock's troops to capture Detroit in 1812. near Sandwich. Ont.; the west- ern terminus of Sir Alexrnrter Mac- kenzie's farthest iJOlnt west, lj|ar "Bella Coola, B.C.; and tho old Hudson's Bay Company's posts of Fort Augustus and Port Edmonton, near Edmonton. Al- b-erui. In addition to the above sites, it was also decided that the eminent public services of the following out- standing personages in Canadiiin his- tory should l>6 suitably commemor- -ited: Nicholas Denys, at Bathurst, N.B.; Joseph Wallet dea Barres. at Sydney, N.S.; Sir Howard Douglas, at Fredericton, N.B.: Bishop Alexander MaeDouell, at St. Raphael, Ont.; and Sir Charles B;-.got and Lord Sydenham, at Kingston. Unt. The work of sele;'ting for commem- oration historic sites of national im- portance Is .s!"adily .i5rowIng and as the racomineudiuions are approvM the sites are being aii|itired by the De- partment ot the Interior. Eveuiually It is hoped that every historic site of national importance and interc.'^t in the Doiiiiniou will bo marked t;i be handed down to future generations und keep green the stirring rcraaiice of Canadian history. Classified. The Old Crow "You uon't look like much of a maji." The Scarecrow -"I'm not. I'm just the common or garden variety." Winti FieW. Sorrow on the acres. Wind In the thorn. An old man plowing TUrough the frosty mom. .\ flock of dark birds. Rooks and their wives, Fiillow the plow team The old man drlvea; And tro.ips of starlings. .'V tlttle-tat and prim. Folic w the rooks 'Ihat follow him. -A. E. Coppard. His Reason. Wlfe"I want you to tell mo. Harold, why. wben I start to sing, you always go out into the Kardeii. Don't you care to hear me?" Husb-.tnd- "It isn't that â€" I doa't want the neighbot^ to think I am hvating you." k â-  u^, MUTT AND JEFFâ€" By Bud Fisher. This Ti(jc!ed Jeff's Funnv Bone.