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* ' Treasure Hunters Of Agriculture Knowles A. Ryerson as told to Obd Btearns, In "Country Home," Sept, '31. Hen always have wanted more plants than they already had, and they never have been satisfied to* raise only those plants which they found growing in their particular pat- ches of soil. Thus they have picked up seeds or lifted up plants by the roots whever they have found them in their wanderings, and tried grow- ing them whever they settled down. Consider what would be the state of agriculture in America today if men had been content to grow only native plants. The only major crops would be corn, tobacco and possib- ly cotton; In the way of vegetables, nothing except sweet corn, squashes and beans. Some inferior varieties of rye and rice, a few berries, some native grapes, crab apples, native plums, pecans would be raised. Little else. No wheat: that was brought In from the Old World. No potatoes: those came from South America by way of Europe. Although the Department of Agri- culture had no explorers of It own until 1898, American In foreign lands, whether officials or private citizens, had their eyes open for possible plant introductions long before that time. In 1870, for Instance, an American mis- sionary in Brazil wrote to the depart- ment extolling the delicious oranges being grown In that country. A first shipment of trees was made, but they all died because of Improper packing. They tried again, and at last got 12 trees in good condition, replanted them and thereby started the Wash- ington naval orange industry. The av- erage annual value of this crop now la $35.000.000. la order to understand what is now a regular system of exploration, let us suppose that you looked out In your back yard and saw^a stranger, In. queer foreign garb, down on his haunches, studying, with apparently fascinated Interest, your radish plants. Just so strange and incomprehensible does the plant explorer often seem to the people In whose back yards he must seek out new plants for you to irow. For frequently he is likely to bring back a plant that Is as common to those who are growing it as the radish is to you. For example, in what remote wilder- ness do you think the late Frank N. Meyer discovered the wild Chinese peach tree? He found it in the garden of the German legation in Peking! It waa so commonplace that nobody had erer thought of it before as being worth a second glance. Meyer was perhaps the most color- ful and certainly one of the most use- ful explorers who ever served the United States government. The great- er part of his adult life was spent prowling around in the far, wild cor- ners of the earth, seeking rare and strange plants. His first work of importance was the Introduction of Chinese persim- mons in 1905. Studying them, he ex- plored the provinces of Shantung, Shensi, Honan and Chekiang, finally succeeding in importing live scions from the Ming Tombs region north- west of Peking. If you are one of those persons who turn up their noses at Persimmons, you should try a Tam- opan persimmon with a little cream for breakfast some day. This Is the Tariety that Meyer brought in. The Service Must Not Suffer "Whew! What a gale. There will be trouble on the line tonight!" Lineman Taylor of the Bell Telephone staff was right there was trouble and plenty of it, especially up around Pembroke when the icy blast from the Laurentians swept down across the Ottawa Valley giving warning to all that King Winter was again holding court. All through the night and during the next day the forces of the Bell Telephone Com- pany battled the storm which had covered the wires with ice and snapped telephone poles like pipe stems. True, by the following night many of the poles were still down but the service continued practically without interruption by means of emergency cable and the tangled wires and broken poles were rapidly being restored to their usual trim, service- able appearance. Thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment, and scores of skilled workmen, must be kept constantly available for just such emergencies in order that the universal service of the Bell Telephone Company may be available to all at all times. Come! Claim these books . . They're dedicated to you . . . They are yours for the asking. . . Simply All out the coupon below. Here are maps that intrigue youj pictures that entrance you,- descrip- tion that lifts you Into that warm, sunny region of California and Southern Ariiona. Here are chapters on California seashore, desert and mountains on Death Valley on Southern Arizona and Dude Ranches on prehistoric cliff cities on ancient Indian pueblos on Indian cere- monials on Grand Canyon. All your* for the asking. jsrMAiL:opgH * Turning next to peaches, Meyer here encountered his first real trouble, his first duel of wits with the Chinese. Up In the little village of Fei, In Shan- tung province, they grew an extreme- 17 large and luscious peach, often weighing as much as a pound. But Fel was the only place where these peaches grew, and the Inhabitants therefore had a very comfortable and profitable mouopoly in the Shantung market. So they didn't take at all kindly to Meyer's attempts to buy a few trees to take away with him. He argued and pleaded. Finally a native grower offered to sell him his orchard. There seemed no other way to get trees. But when they reached this country, and were replanted and developed it was found that they were not the true Fei peaches after all! The natives won that skirmish, but the government is still ' after Fei peaches and will get them In the end. Such a casual discovery, for instance as a type of disease-resistant spinach, the seed of which Meyer picked up In Llaoyang, has repaid America many times over for sending him on his various expeditions. This spinach was crossed with another variety and the resulting type saved the disease- threatened spinach industry ot Vir- ginia and Maryland. One could go on listing Meyer's Introductions: the Chinese pistachio, which now grows luxuriantly in Cali- fornia; the Rosa xanthina, that hardy yellow bush rose which keeps many a New England garden gay when all else fails; the Jujube, which gives far- mers In the dry sections of the South- west a fruit crop; and the Chinese chestnut, which is blight-resistant and glvea promise of saving our chestnut industry from extinction. Three times Meyer went out into the Orient. Twice he returned. On his third trip he had a nervous prostra- tion. Although after a time he was able to go on with the search the only thing In life that mattered health had definitely gone out of him. Soon it would be time to go back to civilization, and the chances of his ever being able to return to his work were practically nil. He never came back. On the night of June 2, 1918, be disappeared from a little steamer on the Yangtze River. Others carried on. Durum wheat ranks high In their list of introduc- tions: several million acres are plant- ed annually in different varieties; barleys, from Asiatic Turkey and from Egypt are now grown to the extent of about 750,000 acres in regions where 'rainfall is low; from Hussion comes j the Swedish Select and Sixty-Day Oats now being grown to the extent of 4,- 1 000,000 and 5,000,000 acres, respec- tively. Acaia cotton, found in Mexico, has been developed into a variety ! which Is the foundation of the cotton industry of the Southwest; Its annual I production reaches a value of $50,000,- 000. Of all the plants which reach this country comparatively few prove good enough, after thorough tests, to go to the trade. And the stories of the 1 explorers who found them somewhere across the globe are, In all probability, ' lost. But the explorer who achieves honor ! in the eyes of his fellow plantsmen is well rewarded, for he receives the Frank N. Meyer Medal, which Is 'given for distinguished foreign-plant I introduction work. One side of the medal Is a reproduction of the white- barked Chinese pine and the jujube, two of Meyer's many introductions. On the other side Is a reproduction of the bas-relief which Queen Hat- shepset carved on the Temple of Luxor. Whoever receives that medal !has, like Queen Hatshepset, given his country something more precious | than gold and ebony: the lasting wealth of living plants. A Mender and . . T. ire VDRY. General Aitat SANTA FK KY. MX TruuporUtion BIdg. I DETKU1T. MICH. I Pbone: KAndolph 8748 | Pt mul folders crwcktdbtlow: D Clirorti, Piciurc Book D Doth Vl1c J II Onnd Cuiyon Ouumji D Arizona Winter . II All Expeme Toun D The Indiuvdnoun , D CiJil'ocni*. Aii:on Hold RUM 'M i You came to me world-worn weary, Rumpled and tattered ot feather, j Whimpering and broken of spirit. Crying to be put together. I mended the place that was broken, I smoothed you, and soothed you, and kissed you, 1 And when you were gone I was fran- tic. Oh, Lad, If you knew how I missed you. j It seems I'm a fixer, a mender, And when my poor patients are done , They flutter their wings at my win- dow And I give them back to the sun. P. S. McDonald, in the Chicago i Tribune. MAC DONALD Fine Cu* Qa-nado^ ^ime&t Ovjatetta tyofa with Z I G-ZAG papers attached In 10*, I5<%and 20^ Package^ <' , ' ' T- Owl Laff s Daddy "Young lady, do you mean to tell me you've been carrying that money around In your stocking?" Daughter "Why, daddy, you told me to put It where It would draw In- terest." Classified Advertising Wife "How do you like me in my new gown? I got It for a ridiculous price." | Hubhy "You mean you got it for an absurd figure." A N OFFER TO EVERY lNVE.vn.dV. A. List of wanted Inventions and full :ni.irmatlon sent free. The Rainaay Com- my, A'jirld Patent Attorneys. 273 ,ia<ik Street- Ottawa Canada. FEMAI.E HELP WANTED LADIES WANTED TO DO LUiHT sewins at home good pay WorU sent, charges paid. Stamp for partl'-u- Inra. National Manufacturing Co. Mon- treal. REMNANTS Photographs were recently taken : at a depth of 900 feet below sea level by a research expedition work ing near Genoa. Hospital for Sick Children 1 COLLEGE ST., TORONTO S (Mothercraft Centre. Toronto) (Country Branch. Thlstletown) December. 1931. Dear Mr. Editor: Last year tHe Hospital (or sick Children. Toronto, through the gener- osity ol friends In ever; Un at publicity, was enabled to Impress upon the parents of Ontario that any crippled or ailing child was equally entitled to the unexcelled service (or which this Hospital Is world famous. It was also mentioned that If Uu "Sick Kids" as the Institution Is affectionately called were to look alter more youngsters, it would need more money for their maintenance. What happened In 1931 was that more children cam* to the Hospital, out also a/bout 110.000 less money to maintain them 1 spare you the statistics; but 1 cannot alter the fact that. If the Hospital for Sick Children were not a provincial charity, its debts would not oe as burdensome as those under which :r vi-ms fated to enter 19.12 The Hospital's immediate neighbor- hood (Toronto and York County) has Kept up close to its average subscrip- tion per patient. But outside that area there nas Decn a sad drop. What should be done? The Hospital for Sick Children a not a local concern. Its aim J that no Ontario youngster shall go handi- capped through life either because ol deformity or disease. That cannot be accomplished with a casli-boi full ot overdrafts. Vet that is the position to-day and It Is not one which con everlastingly continue So. Mr Bdl- tor, will you not Invoke your reader* to icnd us a helping hand? Not one of chem. 1 venture, could care to see the "Sick Kids" with a mortgage over their heads. Faithfully yours. IRVING E. RO3ERT3ON. Chairman of the Board of Trustee* Threescore Years and Ten Quick, Sir, help me up and bring my cane! Tis cold tonight, but then I like it so. I beard a sudden tapping on the) pane; Grey Winter's here again, and to I go To meet him by some gaunt and leafless tree Where we can whisper underneath our breath, And once more jest at that pale Enemy Whom you may know by sight I speak of death. Tonight the Jaded year grow* old with me; I hoar the fierce Hounds of the Wind give tongue Not as In Spring when Zephyr's melody Recalls those far-off days when I was young But loud and wrathful, harbingers ol snow, And though 'tis cold tonight I like it so. Dallas Bache Pratt (From Horae Scliolasticae, St. Paul's School) Ain't science wonderful? One manu- facturer asserts that his cigarette is the best because it's toasted and "heat purifies." Another manufacturer who makes a cigar claims It Is the best because it has been given a "cold treatment." There you have it, and the public may take Its choice and blow smoke either hot or cold. New Lodger "Can I have a private bath?" Landlady "Yes, sir. We have only one bath tub in the house, but every- one here takes his bath privately." Willie "Pop, do angels have jocketa in their wings?" Pop "No, certainly thev do not." Willie ""Then where will I put my hanky?" He "What are all those men doing ,n a circle with their heads together? Is It a football team?" She "No, my deal, just a bunch of Scotchmen lighting a cigarette." Old Stuff Brown "Why do you keep going to the doctor? He aid it was no longer necessary." Jessup "I'm reading a continued story in one of his waiting room maga- zines." . LBS. PRINTS SILK OR VELVET. O $1.00. A. McCreery. Co., Chatham, Ontario. WANTED STANDING HOCK ELM TlilBKR, hardwood lumber and slab woi.d, white ash and walnut. Box 713, Toronto, Ont. _ SHIP US YOUR POULTRY .'..\T eggs. Absolutely highest market prices paid. Cheques remitted Immedi- ately. Crates loaned. Write for quota- tions and give us a trial. ROSEN'FK'.U POULTRY AND EGG COMPANY LIM- ITED. MONTREAL. Rangoon's New Airport The new Mingaladon airport In the suburbs of Rangoon is nearly com- pleted. It has been designed a cus- toms airport and is Intended as a station on the Imperial Airways line between London and Australia. A brick-and-steel hangar measuring 130 feet in length, 100 feet in width and 24 feet in height is in course of erec- tion. A second airport, at Bas^'in, will have a hangar. Landing ttoliis are to be made available at Tavoy, Mergui and Victoria Point. A field at Akyab is available and has \x-nu used by Australian-bound fliers, the Department of Commerce report.. Once there waa a group of girls and the teacher told them t draw what they were goins to be. One was go- ing to be a milliner so she drew some hats; another was going to be a dress- maker so she drew some dresses, and the other did 1:0 draw anything The teacher asked her why she did not drav,- anything, to which she replied: "I'm gcing to get married and I don't know how to draw that." HIDES- FURS HIGHEST PRICES PAID TRY US William Stone Sons Limited Ingersoll, Ont. We always class the salesman who tries to sell 'lock that will make you rich, along with the bald headed drug- gist who sells hair tonic. We can't make ourselves happy b> making others unhappy. Some men can't be kept down in the business world and some are like the flapper's stocking they don't get very high. Courteous people usually are treated courteously. It's easy to make a husband good- tempered, unselfish, and polite. You do It by spanking him regularly, be- ' ginning at the age of three. Thrift Is like spinach, good for you, but you must cultivate a taste for It. As Every Mother Knows A growing girl has a real need of i SCOTT'S EMULSION . of Norwegian ' Cod Liver Oil - .Rich in Vitamins A and D Stranger "Why aren't you in school, my little man?" Child "Hell, lady, I'm only four." Unpaid Ad If the person who stole the Jar of alcohol out of my celler will keep same and return grandma's appendix, no questions will be asked. Joe Bung- starter. The Soap Tfiat'g Known and Sold The World Around in lie* urn Nothing Better for Daily Use Prirp 2!ic. t.W. .---J Montreal Miss Florence 9tcey, ROT. Edward Hancox and Mrs. Hancox, three missionaries from the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec, who sailed on "Ascanla" recent- ly to take uj> mtartonMy wee* fa Liberia. A Whistle to Call the Child A mother who had difficulty in making her little son hear her when 1 she called him, while he was playing out of doors, now uses a whistle for the purpose. She finds thai, it Is j much easier to use the -whistle than to shout at the top of her voice, also that it la far more effective. The sound carries further and the little chap enjoys being called In that novel way, and it is lees per soul. I ISSUE No. 5031 I Common-Sense and Cleverness. C. E. Lawrence In the Quarterly Review (London) The Inordinate confusion of affairs everywhere now manifest over the wide earth Is the result of civilized man's passion for improving and arranging and of his infinite capacity for mismanagement, helped by the narrow rules, conven- tions, and fashions by which he lives, and his Illimitable vanities, greeds, suspicions, frequent unscrupulousnesa and unspeakably silly ambitions. The mere cleverness, which, after mater- ial success. Is the foremost Idol wor- shipped In our temples of progress proves often a mere stupidity, and, being at best but shallow, Is apt to leave consequences far worse than honest and simple common-sense would have brought. Be the causes what they may for the havoc of blun- ' ders In which civilization at present Is lost, the world Is In a mess so In- volved and sad that statesmen and so- called practical men, men of the world, are looking with strained attention and anxious eyes to a very doubtful horizon. For tomorrow there may be ruin, and the civilized world may have to re-mako itself on simpler, nobler lines. "I'm afraid there are fiery days j ahead, but no people ever won Us ' freedom with suffering." Mahatma Gandl. NEURITIS HAS GONE! Banished by Kruschen " I had acute ncuri! is in the shoulder and left firm, due to exposure in bad weather," writes the Rev. II. E. T. ** It was impossible to lift the arm to dress or to use it in any way, and, of course, the pain was dreadful. All external applications were useless. I got it completely normal again by keep- ing the parts affected warm and taking daily, eurly in the morning, Knischcn Salts in a tumbler of hot walcr. It took nearly a month, but every vertigo of neuritis has gone." Neuritis is typical of a dozen oilier complaints some minor, some very serious which all result from impurities in the Wood. And it is impure blood, rireululing all over the system and selling up inllnmniiition in the tissues, that causes those excruciating pains. Kruschen Salts can be safely trusted to set Hie matter right. Because Knischcn contains just, what -Vilure needs to persuade your internal organs bock into a healthy, normal r.-m' -,i. Try Lydia E. Pinkham'S Vegetable Compound Terribly Embarrassed ShccoiJiln't go ... and shccouldn't tell him "why". Don't let headaches and cramps spoil your fun. Take Lydia E. Pinkham'l Vegetable Compound for Monthly Pain