HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-09-16, Page 2.MEDICINAL MARS OF CANADA.
The gathering of medicinal plants, back snakeroot which yield Medi -
the bark and leaves of trees, does not
appeal to the :average Canadian farm-
er perhaps because of lack of knowl-
edge .of the varieties and parts which
may readily be converted into cash.
.eines; and,the well known Canada
Balsam conies from the resinoips exu-
Carloads of Cascara.
dation of the Balsam Al',
It is, perhaps, not well known that
And yet, in many districts, this would carloads of the bark of the cascara
prove to be profitable employment far tree are shipped annuel:y from Brit
spare time and certain medicinal , ish .Columbia to firms which manufae,
plants could be cultivated with profit. ; ture the well known cascara sagrada
The ,ginseng plant found in the; medicine from it. The cascara tree
woodq of Ontario has for many years r belongs to the northwest coast of Am-
been much sought after because of the erica, and British Columbia has the
high value of seven dollars or more distinction of being the only portion
per pond which the roots command. of the British Empire in which, it is
It has been largely exported to China a native. Owing to its rapid deple-
where it is prized as a tonic and , tion in the States of Oregon and
stimulant by the Chinese. Ginseng ; Washington, manufacturing druggists
and mandrake (the May apple or wild are looking to British Columbia for
mandrake is a native of the woods of ! further supplies of the bark, but the
Ontario and Quebec) are regarded tree is so little known that ih land
with much superstition by the Chinese,l 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 mandrake shrieks when pulled ! profitable crops. Prof. John Davidson
from the ground. The resemblance of of the University of British Columbia
its commonly forked root to the hu- says that on one lot 140 by 110 feat
man body, a resemblanoe also shared by (one-third acre) which came under his
the ginseng, is probably the ground of notice, 94 cascara trees were burned.
this superstition. .The mandrake has The immediate value of the bark on
been regarded as an anthrodisiac, and I these trees he estimated to be worth
used in amorous incantations, as a • about $80. A piece of waste land in
love amulet; etc. C. Elton, in "Origins cascara trees may be managed to yield
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 became a fami:y spirit speaking in
oracles if properly consulted, and
bringing good luck to the house in
which it was enshrined.
Cure Mankind's ills.
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 rcnsiderable 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
Oita category are white and black mus-,/
tard, horehound, a rmun• ,
spearmint, thornapple, and even the
dandelion. foregoing ;
plaits can be cultivated as well as
other varieties of medicinal plants
such as coriander, dill, fennel, thyme, j
deadly nightshade or belladonna, gar -1
den chamomile, etc.
Among the trees or shrubs from
which bark is gathered for medicinal!
pnrposes are the cascara tree, slippery 1
elm, witch haze, wild black cherry cal
rum cherry, prickly ash or toothache
tree, burning bush or wahoo. Then*
there .is the fruit of the juniper and i
Mexican tea, the flowers of the hop 1
and the small roots or rhizomes of ,
ferns, couch grass, white helebore and
TWEel,TY-SEVEN, FOOT BOAT
In which six Canadian se�ascouts satied from Montreal to Now York. The oldest is 18. They had some
adventures andthey are seen• after arriving at New York.
thrllli�ng
Mystery.:. The "Golden Step," I : Ascension Island Turtles.
The wonderful thing about man is
a perpetual crop and new trees may the way he builds his lite on mystery,1
draw& ails inspirations out of mystery,
hopes where he does. not know, dreams,
where he does not see and believes
where he cannot' prove.. Knowledge is i
no more than an island here and there,
which lifts itself a little way above
the waves while the • great ocean of
mystery round about lisps 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 clearly understand, while
the world within, also is without the
power to utter its .hidden meanings;
and both fade away into dim frontiers
where mystery sits in voiceless silence
with. her fingers on her lips.
Religion, of course, has been man's
greatest adventure in_ mystery. But
philosophy has followed close behind,
while all the arts have found in it
their fruitful source and inspiration.
Music, 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, beyond 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
be easily started from seed. Cascara
grows both in tree form and as spread-
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
Professcrs J. Davidson and R. H.
Clark, of the University of British
Columbia, have been making an in-
vestigation, with financial assistance
granted by the National Research
Council, to determine whether or not
other trees, herbs and plants' can be
grown to advantage. The results 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 foxglove has been
h found
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 home-grown
plants?
to y, p ppe t
All of thesef r g
found to be equal or superior in con-
tent of the drug digitalin tot at oun
elsewhere, while for the production of
Kind But Firm Discipline.
Not all parents or guardians are
able to manage or control a vigorous,
self-willed chi! d from nine or ten
years upwards, writes J. J. Kelso. It
happens frequently that boys and
girle are sent to Reformatories simply
for the -lack of firm discipline in their
own homes. 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
as being "firm 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 guiding care the necessity
for commitment to a Reformatory ,has
apparently disappeared.
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
the training of a boy or girl who
otherwise might be sent off in disgrace
to a public institution.
The Christian name of Isabel is a
corruption of Elizabeth. It was first
corrupted as a compliment to Queen
Elizabeth who was cal'ea aEdizabeala.
Afterward
Use for Slag.
Even slag from the steel furnaces
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.
of life root themselves defiy in the
same world of mystery. How is all
this enchantment of weaving and sew
I can hear.the stalwart sailors singing
chanties
As they weigh the dripping anchors
at your bow.
The tropic suu's aglare upon your
mainsail
And the spray is flashing up betbsre
•:tbe prow.
Ascension see in t
'Atlantic and is supposed to have taken
its name from' the suddenness of its
Iarrival on this planet. It was said to
have shot up in a night. It wart used
he middle of th
as•'a naval depot, and here we came
for stores.
IA peculiar thing oboist this island
was that the people didn't refer to the
Historical Sites Bowl
Reports Progress;
At the annual meet ug of the Ffife
toric Sites and 1Vfonuznents Board cif
Oanada, held. recently in Ottawa, it was
reported that 180 styes. hag been re
eloWed 'during the' year anti, hat"iniael
dit1'ori to the s�evera<'1 sites previo{zsrly
reoommonded for commemoration U
others were selected as being of »
tional importance. The Board, which
is an honorary body comprised of re.
cogarizeci historianau, acts in an advisory
capacity, to th.o Dominion Government
on historic cites matters, The admin..
istration of` historic sites set aside on
the recommendation of the Board is
carried out.by the Department of the
Interior through its Canadian National
Parks Branch;
Brigadier -General E. A, Crulekshauk
presided at the meeting and the other
members in attendance were: Dr. J. C.
Webster, representing New Bruns-
-wick; Dr. 3. H. Coyne, representing
Ontario; His Honor Judge F. W. Ho -
way, representing Western Canada;
Mr. J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of
Canadian National Parks, representing
the Department' of the Interior; and
Major A. A. Pinard, secretary.
The more important of'the places
and events selected for commemora>
tign at this year's meeting of the
Board include, Louisburg, 1 .S.; the
naval battle of the Shannon and
Chesapeake at Halifax, N.S.; the York-
shire settlement, Chighecto, N.S.; Port
Lennox on Ile -aux -Noll, near St. Johns,
Que.; Fort Three Rivers,' at Three
Rivers, Que.; Fort Frontenac, King-
ston., Ont.; the embarkation point of
Brock's troops to capture Detroit in
1812, near Sandwich, Ont.; the west-
ern terminus of Sir .Alexander Mac.
There's a pungent smell of tar upon' seasons as Spring, Suminer,- Autumn kenzie's farthest .point west, near Bella
your rigging I and Winter as we do, but as the Egg, Goole.; B.C.; and the old Hudson's Bay
And elle salt of seven seas—if all the `.Curt1•e, the Fish and the Vege- company's posts of Fort Augustus and
were.tald— 1 table seasous. Great flights of Wide -Fort Edmonton, near Edmonton, Al -
While the air is heavy -sweet above the • awakes, a bird about the size of a sea.- berta. In addition to' the above sites,
hatches gull, came to lay their eggs in such it was also decided that the eminent
With the perfume of the spices in droves that sometimes they actually public services of the fallowing out -
the hold. . hid the sun,. while the air was raucous standing personages in Canadian his-
• with their cries. They dropped their ' tory ghouid be ouitably "coznmemor-
'Tis thus I see you sailing out of Malta eggs on a 'wide plain called Wldaawak® aced; Nicholas. Denys, at Bathurst,
With your black hull eager for the Fair, which in the -season looked like N.B.; Joseph Wallet des. Barres, at
spray. a field of snow Huge marine tor- Sydney, N.S.; Sir Howafd Douglas, at
How can it be you're just a dusty toia•es,cam,e in swarms to lay their Fredericton, NB.; Bishop Alexander
model eggs. 1 MacDonell, at St, Raphael, Ont.; and
In an antique shop, I saw the other Mother turtle would waddle up the Sir Charles Begot and Lord Sydeuliam,
day? beach, her faithful mate failowieg,' at Kingston, Ont,
—Anne Robinson, in "The Singing scrape a hole in the sand, deposit her'. The work of selecting for commem-
trecruces, cover them up ill 3.little oration historic sii9s of national ire-
unoand, and then rraake for the water portance is steadily growing and, as the
again. Tire beach would be lined recommendations are approved the
with th a •egg -mounds, and it was sites are being acquired by the De -
fascinating to watch the little turtle i partment of the Interior. Eventually
appear when" the sun had hatched i it is 'repot! that every historic site of
hire. If you had the time and the Ph- ' national importance and interest in
tience to wait, or better st U the soled `the
Dominion will be marked to be
fortune to be en the spot at the right , handed clown to future generations
moment to witness that sight -then you , and keep green the stirring romance
i_�"� , considered.yourself lucky! Tire mound : of Canadian history.
would seem to enlarge, the, sand slip, ! --- - +r� --
anrl. the first layer of eggs come ' to
i
Blue.
Why He Looked Stuck Up.
light.
Suddenly out would ,pop- a' small
ung and dressing and decoration which TV11y are you looking so- stuck sip black head from a shell, a wee neck
makes all the business in the world to , vouud crane, and you would see the
be accounted for except by some mys- tc«I've a right to. Don't you see those head elow•ly rotate, taking a first, long,.1
terious elements of desire and delight, 1 two pretty girls kava tlr•eir eyes glued wondering view of its new surround -1
within which sdience so far has been on me?" Inge, A short pause would ensue.
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.
Wasn't Ambitious.
"How high are we now?" asked the
timid aeroplane passenger.
"About four thousand feet," said the
pilot, "I haven't started to climb yet."
"I don't know whether I mentioned
it before we started," quavered the pas=
senger, "but I'm not at all ambitious.
When washing flannels, never let
them lie long in' the water. They
s the first syllable was should be washed and hung out to dry
dropped.as •.. .
This Tickled Jeff's Funny Bone.
quickly as possible
Iris.
• Then you 'would see a convulsive •
h,.ave, a wriggle, and out from the egg 1
would flop master turtle, sit upon the ;
Now iris, like a flock of birds, • 1 sand for a minute, as if taking the ale!
Down to the pool's green water flies, and then make a bee -line for the water.
Sunning small, lovely, curving wings As you saw the little creature breast:
. And radiant, scented dyes. the first wavelet licking the shore, yeti'
As in a mirror, on the poo
The gold and purple lies.
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Classified.
said to yourself in the words of the The Ot'J Crow --"You don't look like :
psalmist, "Bow Wonderful are Thy much of a mime"
I waited, hoping for a song, works, 0 Lord!" 1 The Scareeraw---"I':m not, I'm juut ?�
I saw the tall leaves bend and swing, 1 liked coming to Ascension, there the common or garden variety."
A 1 t It seemed to me some violet throat 'were sof many interesting things about
PP a Ex art
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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
Germany, 4 ears to Newfoundland, 18
cars to South Africa, 42 cars to- New
Zealand, 55 cars to the United States
and 405 cars to Great Britain. In. ad-
dition, 108 cars were shipped to On-
tario and Quebec, which :lire often con-.
sidered as export markets. Distance
is apparently no handicap, when high
-class products are for sale:
Might open presently and sing, 1 it -the "blow holes" out of which, far -
But they were still as b
Each with his bead beneath his wing. j fountains twenty feet high or so and
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break lute spray; then the most beenti-
Iris at night, 1 inland, the sea _water would spout like
Profitable Side Line. ful "rainbows" you could imagine
would form amid the spray, hang in
It is estimated that less than half • the air a ,minute or so, then vanish:;
ofour maple 'trees are tapped each : the strange rock -formations, and crab.'
year. The menufactaire of maple pro -1 err ful of dark, motionless water.
ducts is olio of the most profutalrle side It wet-. like a trip to the moon.—From
m Noble, able Beaman," an Auto -
lines a farmer can develop when one "Sa
considers the shortness of the season . lrrc';;u'aphy
required and the fact that trees may
be used as fug when they pass ma- An Education Thrown Ip.
ri V Th f ma :e rodnets "Can you read that bottom line?"
Winter Field.
Sorrow on the acres,
'Wind in the thorn,
An old man plowing
Through the frosty morn.
A flock of dark birds,
Rooks and' their wives,
Follow the�plow team
The old man drives;
end troops of starlings,
A tittle -tat and prim,
Fo.lcw the rooks
That follow him,
is much less than the demand and this "leo, suh," ---A. E. Coppard.
is a situation that will become
iuucreas- 1 "These glasses will fix your so tbat
Polite. zngly apparent when the people of you can read it," declared the opU lan
Little Emily had been to church for
the first time, On her •rettirn her
grandmother asked if she hads been a
good` little girl.
"Yes, Grandma," she said. "A man
even offered me a plate full of money,
and I. said, `No, thank you.' "
, other countries '.earn of the delicious co
flavor of maple syrup. er brightened up
1 +2
[The negro custom
at this.
• Before you use a new toothbrush, ! 'Days =reel what 1 expected,
soak it in hot salt water. This not boss," said he. "An eddication and a•
only nleansas it, but makes it last pair ob glasses, all for five ailing. I
ice as ion: nelber learned to read."
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Wife --"I want you to tell me, Harold,
Why, when T start to sing, you always
go out into the garden. Don't you care
to hear me?
t-iushand--"It isn't that I don't
want the neighbors to think. I am
beating you."
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