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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-9-16, Page 6I INAL PLANTS OF CANADA. • The gathering of Medietnel plants,. the hark and deavee tree, does not •appeal to the average Canedian farm- er perhaps becadee of lack a knotvl- edge of the variedies and it which zesty readily be 'converted into cash. And yet, in many fliatrieta, this would prove to be profitable employment for spare time and certain medicinal plants could be cultivated with profit. The ginseng; plant found in the woods of Ontario has for many years bees much sought after because of the high va`e > of seven dollars or more per pou whleh the roots command. It has Iron largely exported to China where it is prized as a tonic and stimulant by the Chinese. Ginseng and mandrake, (the May apple or wild mandrake is a native of the woods a Ontario and Quebec) are regarded with much superstition by the Chinese, who ascribe to them almost miraculous powers. According to an old fancy the mandrake ehrieks when pullet' from the ground. The resemblance of its commonly forked root to the hu- man body, a resemblance also shared by the ginseng-, is probably the ground of this superstition. The mandrake has been regarded as an arithrodisiae, and used in amorous incantations, as a love amulet, etc. C. Elton, in "Origins of English History," says that the Mandrake was found beneath the pub- lic gallows and was dragged from the ground and carried home with many religious ceremonies. When secured it becarne a family spirit speaking in exudes if properly consulted, and bringing good hick to the house in which it was enshrined. Gure Mankind's Ins. Ginseng and mandrake are only two of the many native roots from which medicines having well -understood ef- fects are prepared for modern use in the treatments of the ills of mankind. Among the medicinal plants which grow -wild in Canada and for which there is a considerable demand is gol- den seal, seneca snakeroot or mountain flax and wintergreen. Many other plants of medicinal value native to Europe, but which have escaped from cultivation, now occur as more or less common weeds in Canada, particularly in the eastern provinces. Included in this category are white and black mus- tard, caraway, horehound, peppermint, spearmint, thornapple, and even the dandelion. • Ail of these foregoing plants can be cultivated as well as other varieties of medicinal plants such as coriander, din, fennel, thyme, deadly nightshade or belladonna, gar- den chamomile, etc_ Among the trees or shrubs from which bark is gathered .for medicinal purposes are the cascara tree, slippery elm, witch hazel, wird black cherry or ruin ,eherry, prickly ash or toothache tree, burning bush or wahop. Then there is the fruit of the juniper and Mexican tea, the flowers of, the hop and the small roots or rhizomes of ferns, couch grass, white helebore and black snakeroot which yield meat clues; and the well known Canada Balsam conies from the resinous eau - Carloads of Cascara. •dation of the Balsam fir. It is, perhaps, not well known that car.oads of the bark of the cascara tree are shipped annually from Brit- ish Columbia to firms which manufac- ture the well known cascara sagrada medicine from it. The easeara tree belongs to the northwest coast of Am- erica, and British Columbia has the distinction of being the only portion of the British Empire in which it is a native. Owing to its rapid deple- tion in the States of Oregon and Washington, manufacturing druggists are looking to British Columbia for further supplies of the bark, but the tree is so little known that in land clearing operations It is ruthlessly slaughtered when patches of it might be left to yield from time to time profitable crops. Prof. John Davidson of the University of British Columbia Says that on one lot 140 by 110 feet (one-third acre) which came under his notice 94 cascara trees were burned. The immediate value of the bark on these trees he estimated to be worth about pa. A piece of waste land in cascara trees may be managed to yield a perpetu.al crop and new trees mey be easily started from eed. Cascua grows both in tree form and as spreads ing shrubs, and harvesting of bark may begin when the trees are eight or ten years old. The climate of many parts of Brit- ish Columbia, as the Natural Re- sources Intelligence Service points out, is particularly favorable to the growth of drug yielding plants, but one drug is not sufficient for the establishment of a manufacturing industry and so Professors J. Dttvidson and R. R. Clark, of the University of British Columbia, have been making an in- vestigation, with =nein. assistance granted by the National Research Council, „ta determine whether or not other trees, herbs and plants can be grown to advantage. The resutts have been very encouraging. It has been found that not only the bark of the cascara tree but also its wood posses- ses active medicinal properties. The British Columbia foxgleve has been touncl to be equal Pe tent of the drug digitalin to that found !elsewhere, while for the production of of the drug stramonium similarly good results have been obtained from the thornapple which grows wild in many parts of British Columbia. The spotted hemlock was found to contain a higher percentage of alkaloid than the average found elsewhere. _The investigations commenced in British Columbia might well be car- ried on. in other parts of Canada. The 'medicine -man's drug chest must con- tinuously have its - stock replenished •and why not with medicines made in Canadian factories from borne -grown plants? Kind But Finn Discipline. Not all parents or guardians are able to manage ter control a vigorous, sett -wined chitd from nine or ten years upwords, writes J. J. Kelso. It ha.ppens frequently that boys and girds are sent to Reformatories simply for the lack of firm discipline in their own bomes. Recently an urgent re- quest was made to have a young girl sent to a Reform School owing to her wilful conduct. The matter was de- layed until at length a home was found for her with people spoken of eta being "firm and exacting but twit in their demands and ready to Show appreciation when it is deserved." The girl was placed with them and under their guiding care the necessity for commitment to a Reformatory has apparently clisapptt.ared. It is homes of this description that many of our wayward and homeless young people require, and when par- ents fail we should make every pos- sible effort to find people who will recognize this opportunity to help in Uses for Slag. Even slag from the steel furnace -e has many economic uses. Two of its major uses are as a basis for cement and as a fertilizer. Soil requiring lime and phosphoric acid are improv- ed by the - addition of crushed or screened slag and some 15,000,000 barrels of Portland cement are being made each year in the United States with slag as an ingredient. In Nova Scotia slag is used in road construc- tion and as railway ballast. Just as the presence of certain base metals in ore used to make the ore undesirable to handle, but now through new pro- cesses 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. Wasn't Ambitious. "How high are we now?" asked the timid aeroplane passenger. "About four thousand feet," said the the training of a boy or girl who pilot. "i haven't started to climb yet." etherwise niight be sent af in disgrace "I don't know whether I mentioned to a public institution. it before we started," quavered the pas - The Christian name of Isabel, is a corruption of Elizabeth. It was first I corrupted as a compliment to Queen Wheu, 'Washing flannels, never let • Elizabeth, who was called Elizabealaa thane lie long in the water. They Afte ards the first syllable w,aal should be washod and hung out to dry dropped., •, • as quickly as possible. -.. -Pateteseratrates'a- 27statsperea senger, "but I'm not at all ambit-' AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. 'aelt!Inae ..••••Sr4 leeiratnittit.tariSt iivaN.Tv-savaN FOOT BOAT In which six Canadian seascouts sailed from Montreal to New York. The oldest is 18. They had some thrilling adventures and they are seen after arriving at New York. apagamparamicamssok Mystery. The wonderful thing about man is the way he builds his life on mystery, draws his inspirations out of mystery, hopes where he does not know, dreams where he does not see and believes where he cannot prove, Knowledge is, no more than an island here and there, whleh lifts itself a little way above the waves while the great ocean of mystery round. about . laps all the Shores of thought. Mute and mum and mystery are companion words, grown out of the same ancient root and signifying that the world without speaks no language that man can •olearly uuders teed, while the world withiu also is, without .the; power totutter its hidden meanings; and both fade away into dim frontiers -where mystery sits in voiceless silence with her fingers- on her lips. Religion, af course, has been. man's greatest adventure in mystery. But philosophy has followed close behind, while all the arts have found itt it their fruitful source and inspiration. Muslc, architecture, poetry and paint- ing derive all their glow and rapture from the subtle and mysterious forces which move invisibly behind the face of things, beyoud the reach of sense, and work their magic upon the spirits of men. But, stranger than all these exploits of imagination and dream and. love and hope is the way the solid and prac- tical adventurers of business and poli- tics and all the purely physical labors of life root themselves deeply in the same world of mystery. How is all this enchantment of weaving and sew- ing and. dressing and decoration which. makes all the business. in the world to be accounted for except by some mys- terious f•oements of desire and delight, within which science so far has been totally unable to define or even to say where they reside or how they go and whence they come? And here is the -mystery within the mystery: Man lives far more by what he doesn't know than by what he does know. The known grows stale and commonplace. It is the unknown that lures and beckons: Apple Export. Export shipments of apples from the Okanagan Valley, British Colum- bia for the past season, included the following: 65 cars to Scandinavian countries, 8 cars to China, 29 cars to Germariy, 4 cars to New-founcEand, 18 cars to South Africa, 42 cars to New Zealand, 55 ears to the United States and 405 cars to Great 'Britain. In ad- dition, 108 card were shipped to On- tario and Quebec, which are often con- tsidered as export markets. Distance is apparently no handicap when high] class products are for sale. The "Golden Step." Ascension Island Turtles. I can hear the stalwart sailors singing . chanties As they weigh the dripping anchors at your bow. , The tropic sun's aglare upou your mainsail And the spray is flashing up befoee., There's a pungent smell of tar upon your rigging . And the salt of seven seas -if all were told- • While the airis heavy -sweet above the hatches With the perfume of the spices in the hold. 'Tis thus I see you sailing out of Malta 1 latithyour black hall eager for the spray. How can it be you're just a dusty model In an antique shop, I saw the other day? ---Anne Robinson, in„ "The Singing Blue." Whv He Lorked Stuck U Ascension lies in the middle, of the Atlantic and is supposed, to have taken its name front the suddenness of its arrival &nthist planet. It was said to have shot up iu a night. It was used as a naval depot, and here we came for stores, A peoulfar thing bOnthis Wand was that the people didn't refer to the seasons as Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as we do, het as the -Egg, the Turtle, the Pleh and the Vege- table seasons. Great flights of Wide - awakes, a bird about the size of a. sea - 1 "Why are you looking so stuck up Ito -day?" • "I've a right to. Don't you see those two reeky girls have their eyes glued • Petite. Little' 'Emily had been to church for the first time. On her return her grandmother asked ir she lied been a good little girl. "Yes, Grandma," she said. "A man even offered me a plate full of money, I • Iris. . Now iris, like a flock of birds, Down to the pool's green water files, Sunning small, lovely, curving wings And radiant, scented dyes. As in a mireonton the pool The gold and purple lies. I waited, hoping for a song, I saw the tall leaves bend and swing, It seemed to me some violet throat Might open presently and sing, But they were still as birds at night, Each with his head beneath his wing. Profitable Side Line. It is estimated. that less than half of our maple trees are tapped each year. The manufacture of maple pro- ducts is one of the most profitable side lines a farmer can develop when one considers the shortners of the sea.sonv- required" and the fact that trees may be used as fee: when they pass ma- turity. The supply of maple products is much less than the demand and this is a satiation that will become increas- ingly apparent when the people of other countries learn of the delicious flavor of maple syrup. • Before you use a new toothbrush, soak it in hot Salt water. This not only cleanees it, but makes it last and I said, 'No, thank you' " twice as lone nebber. learned to read." Historical Sites Board Saskatchewan Ceramic Reports Progress* • Development. At the, auntiel meet -bag of the Rio- torie Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, held recently iu Ottawa, it was reported that 130 its liad beea re - 'dewed during the year and that in ad- dittont to the several sitess previously' recommended far oominemeretion 12 others wero seleoted, as being at na- tional importatioe. The Board, which le an honorary body comprised of re. Cognized historiane, acts, ia a advisory capacity to the Dominion Government oa historic sites matters. The admin- istration of historic sites set aside on the recommendation of the Board is carried out by the Department of tho interior through its Canadian National Parks Branch, Brigadier -General E. A. Cruickshank Presided at the meeting and, the, other members in attendance were: Dr. S. Cl. Webster, representing New Brans - wick; Dr, 3. H. Coyne, represeistbag Ontario; His Honor Judge F. NV, Ilo- way, representing •Western Canada; Mr. 3. B. Harkin., Commissioner of Canadian National Parke, representing the Depertment of the Interion; and Major A. A, Pinard, secretary. 1 The more important of the places and events selected for commemora- tion at this, year's meeting of the Board include, Louisburg, N.S.; the naval battle ot the Shannon and Chesapeake at Halifax, N.S.; the York- shire settlement, Chignecte, N.S.; Fort Lennox on Ile-aux-Notx, near St. Johns,' Que.; Fort Three Rivers, at Three. Rivers, Que.; Fort Prontenao, King- ston, Ont; the embarkation point et Brock's troops to canters Detroit in 1312, near Sandwich, Ont.; the west- ern terminus. of Sir. Alexander Mac- kenzie's farthest point west? near Bella Ooola, B.C.; and the old Hudson's Bay Company's posts of Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton, near lildmouton, Al- berta. In addition to -the above sites, gull, came to lay their eggs in such it was also decided that the eminent droves that sometimes they actually i hid the sun, while the air was raucous sandingnes e rpveirosenao n ng% t hef personages oliwolngout- bid hi e. with their cries. They dropped their tory should he suitably camrnemon Fair, which wonhiaehwildnettaineeceaelelnWideawakeieeedltmkeN at.e33d, Soseph Wallet dee Darras, at Nicholas Denys, at Bathurst, a field of snow, . . , Huge marine tor- ayameat N.S.; Sir Howard Douglas, at -Wises oame in swarms to lay their Frederieton, NB .• Bishop Alexander eggs. 1MacDonell, at St. ataphael, Ont.; and Mother 'natio would. -waddle up the Sir Charley and Lord Sydenham, 1:0eranephe, semnadt,ed, eflolnlleoilvihnear, a hole itt the . The work .of selectiug for commem- ' Kingstoa, Ont. treasures, .covet, them up in a little oration historic sites of national again, . . The beach would be lined. recommendations are approved the im- mound, and then melte for the watee, portance is steadily growing and as the with these egg -mounds, and it wes. sites are being acquired by the 13e- faristei.aurwhenating to thewasun badtchthelihnttlel:tieihrtelde pertinent of the Interior. Eventually e is hoPed tbat every histeric site of him. If you had the time and the Pa- national importance and interest itt tience to wait, or better still the good the Domini= will be markea to be fortune to be on the spot at the right handed aawa to future generations moment to witness that sight-thenyou and. keep green, the stirring romance considered yourself lucky! The mound of Canadian history. would seem' to enlarge, the sand slip, and the first- layer of • eggs conte to light • Suddenly out would pop a small black head from a shell, a wee neck wouud crane, and you would see the head slowly rotate, taking a first, long, wondering view of its- new surround- ings. A short passe would, ensue. Then you would see a convulsive heave, a wriggle; and out from' the egg would flop master turtle, sit upon the sand for a Minute, as if taking the air, and thee make a bee -line for the water. As you saw the little creature, breast the first wavelet licking the shore, you said to yourself in the words of the psalmist, "How wonderful aae Thy works, 0 Lord!" I liked corning to Ascension, there were SO mans' interesting thinge about t --the "blow holes"out of whicb, far inland, the sea water would,spout like - fountains twenty feet high or so and break into spray; then the most beauti- ful "rainbaws" you could imagine would form amid the spray, bang in the air a minute or so, then 'eaten; the strange rociefaernations, and crat- ers ful of dark, motionless water. . It was like a trip to the ramene---Prorn "Sam Noble, Able Seaman," an Auto- biography. • An Education -Thrown in. "Can you aead that bottom line?" "No, suit." "These glasses will fix you so that you can read it," declared the optician confidently. The Immo customer brightened up at this. "Dads =ten what la expected, boss," said he. "An eddication and a pair ob glasses, all for five santlin'r I ta• Claesified. The Old 'Crow -"You don't look like much of a man," The Scarecrow -"I'm not, I'm just the common 6r garden vartety." ' Winter Field. Sorrow on the acres, • Wind in the thorn, An old man plowing Through the frosty morn. A flock of dark birds, ttoeks,and their wives, Follow the plow team The old man drives.; And troops of starlings, A tittle -tat and prida • Follow the rooks That follow him. -A. E. Coppard. His Reason. Wife -"1 want you to tell me, Harold, why, when I start to sing, you always go out into the garden_ Don't you care to hear me?" Httiband-"1r isn't that - 1 don't want the neighbors to think I ant beating you." • This TicIded Jeff's Funny Bone. In the embitioxie tovards inditetrIal denetopmeat wirte4 Saskateb.ewau Imo shown itt the yeao laxe the end of the war a coneidettable, share of atten- tion has coiner to be tievc4a to one of the, province's greatest potential re. sea/Tea-Its (nay, It was belieTed that the nature, ,extent and. the een- veeieeoe to transportation of these de- posits pustified aspirations, towards a position of some moment in the cera- mic industry. Acoordinglar Private pros,peoting was anginented by the ad- dition of a Department of Cerantlaa to the provincial university and an ex- pert in both practical and theoretical lines appointed to foster its develop- ment In all Ways and prepare engin- eers for the future industry. In the past few years e great deal of progres- sive work has been accomptished. Fruits of such efforts are evidettoed. In the establislament at Estevan, Sus- Itatchewasa of the International Clay Products, Ltd.., which is planning on Production on a large scale and which anticipates a wide demand -for its pro- ducts on the prairies and beyond. The company owns extensive clay- deposite tita WilIows and Knellye in Southern Sastatehewan oit the Canadiaa Pacifier ReilwaY, and experiments at the UM, vereity have shown these to be equal to the best English and. Austrian. de- posits. The plant has five kilns and is capable of producing 34,000 bricks at one burning. When the plant 'is completely organized it ds stated that it will be ie. a position to produce brick • of all kinds as well as sanitary ware, ! hotel ware, electric porcelain, terra cotta, floor and wall tile, and clay Yes- sels of various kinds, imports and Exports. The total value of clay products pro. duced in Canada itt 1925 from domestiii raw materials was $9,503,575, an in- crease of 3.1 per cent. over the 1924 total of $9,215,077. To this total On- tario contributed $5,164,845; Quebec - $2,424,923; Alberta $626598; . British. Collumbia $502,790; Nova Scotia $422,- 690; Manitoba $176,194; Saskatchewan $118,841; New Brunewtck $08,774; and Prince Edward Island $3,020. The lines of manufacture were brick, fire- clay, structural tile, drain tile, sewer pipe, and glazed and unglazed pottery. • The year recorded an inerease in im- ports from $7,158,371 to $7,478,084, and a decline in exports from $543,572 to $220,818. Imports covered. a very wide range, the outstanding item, be- lts earthenware and chinaware, ac- counting for atevalue of $4,555,194. In exports building brick accounted for $22,027; unmanufactured clay fox 8,496; manufactures of clay for $85,- 383; earthenware for $16,879; and por-' celain ineulators for $88,033. The new industry in Saskatchewan should- fill a long felt want and be merely the forerunner of other indus- trial enterprises exploiting and utiliz- ing the large ,and valuable clay re- sources of the province. There is, a. constantly growing market not. only en the prairies but throughout Canada for building material such as brick, tile, terra-cotta, as well -ea stoneware and tableware. The existing industry in 'Canada is totally Inadequate to sup- plying domestic requirements and the substantial import is necessary, With the resources of Saskatchewan, as well as other parts of the Dominion, there is excellent opportunity.for industrial establishment to meet this need. Happiness of...Life. Not a little- of our vaunted sensitive- • ness is really vanity. It oocupies so much space -that it is continually lasing Jostled. and hurt. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions; the little sem-for- gotten charities of a kiss,. a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt, compliment in the disg-uise of playful raillery, and the countless other inflnitesimals of plea- suthought and genial feeling.-- Coleridge. Behind the Styles-. Ilublii-"He is always hitting behind his wife's skirts.'t Wille --"Yea. that woman Is tv'unty years behind the styles." __- • Golf in Canada. In proportion to population Canada, with an 464 golf courees, has 11101-0 that the United States, so that S11111. mer visitors from other conntrie4 noet1 net worry about having ta nlipts their game. The. province ofe Ontario Isans with 160; Quebec, 70; Alberta, 60; tiss, Retells -Nan, 53; Manitoba, 51; IttiLi Columbia, 89;. Nova Scotia. 1T; New BrunSwick, 11; Prince Edward Isiond, a Several new courses' will be com- pleted this year, - A census of the Buffalo herds in the various national • parks of Canada taken on December 81, 1925, shows that in BufWe park, Wainwright, there were 8,873 buSalo; in Elk Igand park, 446; and in Banff park, 23, Little Dotis had sust heard her gralichnother speak of curing lnni. "Oh, Grandma,""sha exclaimed, "what tithe thing it mast be to see ;all the little hams sitting around getting bet - 'tar!" , - - en-- tierce! t eecc SORRY . FOR. Puulcus: 1'1- L.: d TA ge- -rtke CAT CFF tits HANDS:, non a/ --e.-' -.eat p ' 4.---'4-' • .teatte6 or Recta. (t- - '' e J A cAr werti c 1-(612RY CoLotscC.-Tip Futt vattc_ NcT me Pk FoRTUNE. AS A eR6Atc..' 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In the embitioxie tovards inditetrIal denetopmeat wirte4 Saskateb.ewau Imo shown itt the yeao laxe the end of the war a coneidettable, share of atten- tion has coiner to be tievc4a to one of the, province's greatest potential re. sea/Tea-Its (nay, It was belieTed that the nature, ,extent and. the een- veeieeoe to transportation of these de- posits pustified aspirations, towards a position of some moment in the cera- mic industry. Acoordinglar Private pros,peoting was anginented by the ad- dition of a Department of Cerantlaa to the provincial university and an ex- pert in both practical and theoretical lines appointed to foster its develop- ment In all Ways and prepare engin- eers for the future industry. In the past few years e great deal of progres- sive work has been accomptished. Fruits of such efforts are evidettoed. In the establislament at Estevan, Sus- Itatchewasa of the International Clay Products, Ltd.., which is planning on Production on a large scale and which anticipates a wide demand -for its pro- ducts on the prairies and beyond. The company owns extensive clay- deposite tita WilIows and Knellye in Southern Sastatehewan oit the Canadiaa Pacifier ReilwaY, and experiments at the UM, vereity have shown these to be equal to the best English and. Austrian. de- posits. The plant has five kilns and is capable of producing 34,000 bricks at one burning. When the plant 'is completely organized it ds stated that it will be ie. a position to produce brick • of all kinds as well as sanitary ware, ! hotel ware, electric porcelain, terra cotta, floor and wall tile, and clay Yes- sels of various kinds, imports and Exports. The total value of clay products pro. duced in Canada itt 1925 from domestiii raw materials was $9,503,575, an in- crease of 3.1 per cent. over the 1924 total of $9,215,077. To this total On- tario contributed $5,164,845; Quebec - $2,424,923; Alberta $626598; . British. Collumbia $502,790; Nova Scotia $422,- 690; Manitoba $176,194; Saskatchewan $118,841; New Brunewtck $08,774; and Prince Edward Island $3,020. The lines of manufacture were brick, fire- clay, structural tile, drain tile, sewer pipe, and glazed and unglazed pottery. • The year recorded an inerease in im- ports from $7,158,371 to $7,478,084, and a decline in exports from $543,572 to $220,818. Imports covered. a very wide range, the outstanding item, be- lts earthenware and chinaware, ac- counting for atevalue of $4,555,194. In exports building brick accounted for $22,027; unmanufactured clay fox 8,496; manufactures of clay for $85,- 383; earthenware for $16,879; and por-' celain ineulators for $88,033. The new industry in Saskatchewan should- fill a long felt want and be merely the forerunner of other indus- trial enterprises exploiting and utiliz- ing the large ,and valuable clay re- sources of the province. There is, a. constantly growing market not. only en the prairies but throughout Canada for building material such as brick, tile, terra-cotta, as well -ea stoneware and tableware. The existing industry in 'Canada is totally Inadequate to sup- plying domestic requirements and the substantial import is necessary, With the resources of Saskatchewan, as well as other parts of the Dominion, there is excellent opportunity.for industrial establishment to meet this need. Happiness of...Life. Not a little- of our vaunted sensitive- • ness is really vanity. It oocupies so much space -that it is continually lasing Jostled. and hurt. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions; the little sem-for- gotten charities of a kiss,. a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt, compliment in the disg-uise of playful raillery, and the countless other inflnitesimals of plea- suthought and genial feeling.-- Coleridge. Behind the Styles-. Ilublii-"He is always hitting behind his wife's skirts.'t Wille --"Yea. that woman Is tv'unty years behind the styles." __- • Golf in Canada. In proportion to population Canada, with an 464 golf courees, has 11101-0 that the United States, so that S11111. mer visitors from other conntrie4 noet1 net worry about having ta nlipts their game. The. province ofe Ontario Isans with 160; Quebec, 70; Alberta, 60; tiss, Retells -Nan, 53; Manitoba, 51; IttiLi Columbia, 89;. Nova Scotia. 1T; New BrunSwick, 11; Prince Edward Isiond, a Several new courses' will be com- pleted this year, - A census of the Buffalo herds in the various national • parks of Canada taken on December 81, 1925, shows that in BufWe park, Wainwright, there were 8,873 buSalo; in Elk Igand park, 446; and in Banff park, 23, Little Dotis had sust heard her gralichnother speak of curing lnni. "Oh, Grandma,""sha exclaimed, "what tithe thing it mast be to see ;all the little hams sitting around getting bet - 'tar!"