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Members Toronto : 71 Bay st., TORONTO. STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON ALL EXCHANGES "Nature Has Wakened Up!" Tuat's what we when we gu fer a walk in the Spring, and the very thought of out-of-doors is associated with' blovdroot, hepatic dandelions, -- marsh marigolds and hundreds of other t ities, The first growing we ar the saunk likely lo come across ibbage or as Thoreau called it "The Hermit of the bog". / Weill find it has been growing ath the snow long before was any indication of Thus teaching us a les- -, While the Spring son in trust and | boxey places w yet covered deeply with snow it grown in the certainty that Summer and sunshine were coming. Skunk cabbage should deserve a more poetie name as itis truly the har hinger of Spring. We often h it called bear-weed from the fact that the bears eal if with a relish | when it issyoung and fender. Ty alse has some strange uareotie | power. When a piece of the root is ehowed it causcs the eyesight to grow dims but the effect passes away ina short time leaving' nu evil result. It secins a pity that skunk cabbage being our earliest Spring flawer (as such it: un- dountedly is' should poss DYEING AND CLEANING Your Clothing will be properly cleaned inside and outside at W-: Firth's. The linings and inside of your clothing are as important as the outside. Why-.not have them done right when you are having them done? All kinds of Repairing done. We know how. Opp. Barrie Hotel, Barrie. Write us' when you have business in Bonds, or for : information. BROUSE, MITCHELL & CO. Gray DortT 'The blood-root is another. of our earliest. Spring, flowers; "Sanguinaria"' it is sometimes called. It belongs to the Poppy family. 'With its snowy petals -Jand (golden. centre," surely no flower can compare with it for spotless beauty. /Were-it not for the frailty'of the blood-root and its offensive red juice it would be one of thd favourite flowers of the woods.) Penhaps, this has saved it frpm extinction, The Indians used the red liquid from the stems of blood-root for dec- orating théir faces and colo baskets. jae te. Pl is official Stock Exchange R in medicjne; the Pharmacopial name beihg "Sanguinaria™. It is worth ten cents a pound to collec_ tors and is used as a tonic, alter- ative, stimulant, and emetic. janother of our well known Spring flowers, the Indian turnip or jJack-in-the-pulpit. It ix alsu an Arum, a first cousin to the skunk cabbage. In England and Ireland Twhere it grows plentifully they such an unpleasant odor, The all it Cuckuo Pint and at one bope ignored plant, like many tine it was greatly valued as it Mortals, is handicapped by alyjelded a starch of high quality bad name bad taste, a bad and during periods of searcily in breath and low environment. Yet jreland it was used to sume e it belongs to a good family, the jent as a food. The Indians of Arums, and has some high-class this country also knew ils food relations such as the Calla Lily. 'value, hence the name Indian lur- Skunk cabbage has well known|yip. "The underground portion of tnedicinal value and is used in af-4j_) js. known botanieally as the fections of the respiratory or-|-earm" and is shaped somewhat gans, also in nervous disorders, \)jxe a turnip. When boiled suf- rheumatism and dropsical com! siejentiy it loses its intense burn-- plaints. The root ig worth seven ing tasie and ts quite edible, The cents a pound. bright red berries were also eaten The next flower we are likely 'hy the Indians in the Autumn. 1 fo meet with in the early Spring! yamember well inthe eagly days is (pat charming, welcome, mod-! when the Indian turnip ®buld be est. little gem, the hepatica ®/ found in nee house, dried} » hepatica ix from the Greek, |nard as nul-meg and when gra- liver; no doubt, on ac--jteg was used as a cure for throat count of the leaves being liver | troubles. Indian tornip has a shaped or the name may have a-! commercial value al the present risen fromm the fact that the leaves tine in pharmacy and is. worth are used as u remedy for liver tan -conts a pound. It is used as complaints, "The Indians knew}, stimulant and igtitant also as its value for this purpose in the} ai expectarant and diaphoretic. past may have discovered | jaek_in-the-pulpil hax few ad tim their superstiGous belief [ijipers because of ils rough e& that providencwtas indicated Us frorior but if bxamined with a specific value;in the shape of the | jagnifying glass it will ever af- lvaf, Hepatic belongs to the or-| tap oeeupy a. plea sin der "Ranuneulacia" and, as ene | your memory might guess, this mystical name|" 1, gpeaking of early flowers I is from the Latin meaning med-|might make mention of many icinal plant, and we find many | with rare beauly and no mediai- plants of this order used in med-| ja} op odible value, such ax Spring icine, such as gold thread, 6range |yequtieg, violets and many others. rool, larkspur, baneberry and! py it is my intention to speak others only of those with known value It seems a marvelous thing |iither in this wrticle or any others that poor "Lo Indian" in bistiyat may fallow, as there are blindness was'able to discover the| hundred. of ur plants used in curative properties of So many|mudicine to-day thal the average plants thal are recognised as ; specifics by medical seience to- day. Hepatica leaves are worth violets unnoticed although they five cents a pound, this plant]. not recognised. in pharmacy heing used for its tonic properties|thar | know at. Boiled violet and for affections of the liver.|tanveg used asm poultiee are said But (For goodness Sake) let US li, have wrought many marvellous not get so commercial that We| Mores in canerr afd LumOrs will' overlook the beauty and) No doubt at all, the best known Neither fortune, nd learning, nor] of all cur flowers Ta eee aeeee te the | French '"Dent-de-lion" the lion's ic " i tooth, and I must confess I dont wild flowers. The first hepatica know why. We see the dandélion after the Winter has passed away growing Nestocin the Spring al: Fie Our Rearts wit delish! though the flower does not appear x "+ luntil some time later. The dan- delion with its coin of gold can be found growing in proftision from Newfoundland to California. No other flower 'has established itself more fully all over North America than the dandelion and it seems hard to realize that it is not a native plant bul wastintro- person knows nothing about Perhaps. | should not pass the i possesses such a. weapon, to-ruw »| While we are now presumably | Jout in the woods, let us look at|robbed th poultry house of ong jthat Jo the damage? Nine times Jlatter nearly always hunt = _ THE BARRIE EXAMINER 3 to the house for his *twenty-two;* a hawk that Hag*made its home near the farmhouse or town at once becomes the target of those in. that vicinity; the, Red-winged Blackbird is .blamed for the depredations of his relative the purple grackle; the robin, one of st wi ds a. man can have, is shot tom the cherry trees. Because some species of a family do occasional wrong, a great majority of people take it for granted that every bird of that particular order is like- wise harmful. It is not hard to find the reason for this upon questioning one of these cranks, as it soon becomes evident that they know little or nothing about the birds they shoot, except thar some hawk or owl may have or two of ils tenants; a flock of red-winged blackbirds had gorg- ed_on his ripening wheal, or the robin' devoured all his cherries-- about two quarts. 'The question is are the hawks or owls that are shol the birds out of ten, no. Of the dozen or more different species of hawks in Ontario only five are really killers on a large -- scale pigeon hawk, -- sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper's hawk, dyck hawk and goshawk, It would he use- less to describe the different colorings of these birds as they spend most of dheir time on the wing and are seldom found perching The best, way to tell the destructive hawks from the indestructive is by the means in which they hunt their prey. The food from a great height. ing leisurely around' in large. circles, with scarcely a flap of the wings, they watch with keen, eyes for the rodents--large and small-- upon which they feed When one of the hawks of this class sights his prey he drops from his dizzy height with great. ity: when a few feet from the vielim his wings are out, stretehed to stop the force of his downward rush so he himself will not be injured in the fall, but enough speed is maintained to enable him to cluteh the mouse or groundhog before it has time to dodge out of the way. Not so with the destructive hawks. Their favorite plan of attack is ta fly speedily along the edges of the woods, sweep around corners. storm small eopses; they aim to surprise their prey, drive it into the open and then utilize their tremendous speed to obtain a meal, The duck hawk and goshawk make terrible execution Continued on page 6 "The Real Truth A Series of Special Copyright Cable : Articles: by Acknowledged to have been the most out- spoken Editor in Imperial Germany. Herr Harden now, in his vivid forceful style, , undertakes to tell what is the matter with Germany of to-day. _ , About Germany" -- The Mail and Cmpire Has purchased the exclusive rights to publication of this wonderful series of articles, the first of which appeared on MONDAY, APRIL 14th. They will appear at intervals of a few days as received by cable, and only in The Mail and Empire. Order from your Newsdealer now so that . you may not miss any. A few copies of Monday, April 14th, are still to be had. Che Mail and Empire CABADA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER. E cannot 'build a'finer light car than the Gray-Dort. We will not byild-a poorer one. Some-carsjcost less than the Gray-Dort. Compare them--and 'you'll be astonished at how great the difference is, Some light cars / cost more than the Gray-Dort cars --but you cannot find wherein they give you: more. Ride in a Gray- Dort--and you will not be satisfied to own a car that gives you less. Nor will you wish to pay a high price--for nothing more. , 'The touring car is $1245; the Gray-Dort Special-- the car with added refinements and extraequip- ment, is $135 extra; there are also a coupe, and a sedan. All prices f.0.b. Chatham and are subject o to change without notice, GRAY-DORT MOTORS, LIMITED Chat » Ont. - In the U.S.--Dort Motor Car Co., Flint, Mich. AUTOMOBILE & SUPPLY LTD, - = Toronto, Ont. 2p eee = | 80me False Notions Concerning 4 Birds dueed from Europe. Tt has many uses in many parts of the civilized world. In parts of the Southern States we find the colored people collect it by the basketful and sell it in the city . markets for greens or salads. The Indians 'use it from Texas to British Columbia in prodigious quantities. as food, an acquired habit or taste as there was none lion root has been used for ages in European countries as a sub. stitute for coffee and in all those countries it bears the same namé "Lion's tooth": To give some idea of the imporfance of this plant, I might mgntion that the imports of dandelion root entered shoes. at the -port of New York from Europe for the six months pre- ceding the war were, forty-seven thousand pounds. Think of this and our country covered with it. is something 'Talk about carrying coal to New- castle! We might get busy and collect) those' things ourselves. The price 'of dandelion root ranges from four to ten cents a pound and is used as a tonic in diseases of the liver and in dys- pepsia, The'pharmacopial name is "Taraxcum":--W. D. HOBSON Our future as nearly make it--but we must st which will give you the' best Among the different members of our bird }ife are found some unfortunate species,of which the majority of 'people have 'been given an entirely wrong impres- ston. | The sight.-of: an .owl| ~ lanquidly moping on his perch is ample excuse for any boy who have no real interest in us. manufacturers de} upon just one thing: the satisfaction whith our satisfactory wear. product gives to you, the consumer. And your And so we speak to you through this advertising-- satisfaction depends to a large extent upon the the only method by which we can hope to reach attention which you yourself give to the buy'ng of you all. Our object is not merely to sell more of Oxfords for women will be very popular for Spring and Summer, 1919: Many stylish- ly dressed women prefer the graceful lines of this mocel with Louis heel and spray tip, in black leather or brown, 'Iothing could be farther from the truth that that. ids in thy end, and. width which alone can give you comfort end / our shoes. We seldom ask you to buy A. H. M. For, bear in mind this fact: no matter with what shoes. Our purpose is rather to'tell you how you care we select the materials which go into a thoe-- may obtain better comfort and better service from no matter how perfect the workmanship may be-- _ the shoes you buy. it will not give you, the full measure of satisigction unless it is correctly fitted to your foot. Andithat ' ing Which re cagaoteucien shoes, and we are confident that sooner or later We do insist that the materials which shoes shall be the best quality price: we do make sure that the workmanship is fect as-our humah organization can subject 'more fully than is possible in newspaper Of course we hope that you will buy A. H. M. ' . You will do'so. But we want to make sure that into our" when you do buy them you will get all the comfort le at the and satisfaction which we try to pe ild into them. ij Our booklet, "How to Buy Shoes' into the It_is sent on request to any address in there. We cannot insure ourselves that you will buy the type of shoe Camda, "May we scod'You e/cosy wih our service, or the size compliments? AMES, HOLDEN McCREADY « Shoemakers to. the Nation" LIMITED / WINNIPEG EDMONTON VANCOUVER Why Do We Advertise? originally "in this land. Dande- OU may think that because \'e are big manufacturers, and you are only one consumer out of several millon, we have no special interest in you, and you bist) | |