- ; ; ‘ ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUT NEWS. Ancient Rock Carvings On Vancouver Island Are Puzzle To Archaeologists Mystery shrouding the origin of two ancient petroglyphs 15 miles west of Victoria, B.C., still continues to baffle archaeologists. One is in the form of a whale, the other re- sembles some strange monster of the deep, not unlike descriptions given of Amy Cadborosaurus, the sportive Bea serpent so often “seen” around the end of Vancouver Island. Large numbers of yachtsmen visited the strange carvings this year; just be- eause of rough water and poor anchorage, few got close enough to examine them thoroughly. . The petrolglyphs are located at the northern extremity of Becher bay, named by Capt. Henry Kellett, R.N., of H.M.S. Herald, when surveying the coast in 1846. Indians long ago named the bay Chuchwaetsin, liter- ally meaning “calm water.” Wolf, Lamb and Cub Islands in Becher Bay carry many traces of a _large Indian population in the vicin- ity long before Spaniards first land- ed on Vancouver Island at Nootka. Above the beach are eight strokes on a protected concave surface of rock, done in some red substance resembling Indian dye. They are six inches long and half an inch apart. Natives believe them to be extremely ancient. Secrets of many dyes that kept their brightness for centuries were lost long ago. According to legends handed down to present-day Indians, their fore- fathers always considered the petro- glyphs a deep mystery. They were . also puzzled by finding exquisitely made arrow heads of a variety of stone not native to Vancouver Island. The whole vicinity is dotted with square blocks of basaltic rock with pitted surfaces giving it the appearance of one having boiled in some vast volcanic upheaval. z On a bold-faced bluff of black rock there is a weathered representation of a whale six feet long, and two and one-half feet wide at the middle. Close examination shows its outline at one time had been carved deeply into the rock, but sea, wind and Wave wore away the surface until nothing but a faint trace was left. Before being able to photograph the whale it was necessary to reinforce the lines carefully with white chalk. Experts who have visited the cary- ings are unanimous in their opinion that they are undoubtedly centuries old, after calculating the length of time necessary to wear down the hard rock. What happened to the race believed to have left similar carvings at a few other spots on Vancouver Island will perhaps re- main a mystery forever. Visitors from famous museums who viewed the Mitchell and Hep- burn stones unearthed many feet un- derground on the island, are sure the ancient craftsmen who fashioned them also chiselled out the Becher bay petroglyphs. The two stones are well executed human faces showing a distinctly Asiatic cast. Two faint diagonal lines evenly spaced are carved across the middle of the whale, A deep S-shaped gash shows chisel marks in the middle portion. From the hardness of the rock it seems impossible the carving was made with stone implements, and it is a well known fact the Island Indians used no metal before the coming of Quadra, Vancouver and Cook. The whale has no sign of an eye. Three hundred feet from the whale on a huge round boulder is a strange carving that reminds one of a sea serpent. It is 12 feet long from nose to tip of its tail, The monster has four bands around its neck, a pend- ant jaw with large teeth, a large eye and two strange protruberances upon its head. Indians encountered by Capt. George Vancouver in 1792 had a weird legend about Iakim, a sea monster believed to have existed long before their forefathers. The cary- ing may be some ancient artisan’s idea of Iakim. Both the whale and the serpent are protected by a His-| toric Objects Preservation Act brass plate. Phrenologist Picks Good Cooks Phrenology was used to select chefs for a boarding house near Syd- ney, Australia. The proprietess call- ed in a phrenologist to read the “pump of cooking” of 50 applicants and report on their character. The scientist selected two and the pro- prietress declares the selections have proved most satisfactory and the method is the only one to use in choosing help. Igloo, constant companion of Ad- miral Byrd, was the only dog that ever travelled to both of the earth’s poles. Weed Seed Collections Hints For Laboratory Workers And Others Interested In This Study Students of agriculture and botany, laboratory workers, and others who make collections of weed seeds in the course of their work or studies have been busy making preparations at this time when plants are mature and the seeds ripe. However, the in- terest in this work extends to many individuals who make a hobby of weed seed collections, and for those who are not at the moment in close touch with the latest developments in the art, B. F. Forward of the Cal- gary Seed Laboratory, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, offers a few interesting hints. Small cotton sacks or paper sacks may be used to collect the seed in the field. Seed may be pulled direct- ly from the plant or the entire plant may be collected to avoid any loss of seed. When plants are procured, they should be allowed to dry thor- oughly so as to make threshing as easy as possible. To thresh the seed, place the plant in a factory cotton sack. Flay with a round stick on a hard surface, pre- ferably bricks, to remove the hulls. Thin hulls on seeds like Wild Oats are bestyremoved by rubbing between the hands. Seeds of the Compositae like Dandelion do not require thresh- ing. Hand seed sieves or the small clipper machines are yery satisfac- tory for removing hulls and chaff after the seed has been flayed. The size of the mesh will depend on the size of the seed. For collections, seed should be placed in small bottles or vials four drams in size. Label each vial with the common and the scientific name. For mountings, specially prepared boxes with brass clasps may be ob- tained. However, a homemade box could he made very simply. Secure a thick cardboard box. Space vials in box half inch apart. Rows of vials may be one inch apart. The vials are fastened to the box with thread or strips of adhesive paper. Arrange the vials in collection according to families, Liked Chinese Dish Present King Once Complimented Cook On Chop Suey Working as a rush-hour cook in a downtown Toronto restaurant, where meals start at 25 cents, is a Chinese chef whose chop suey King Edward, then Prince of Wales, pronounced “lovely, wonderful.” “Prince like my chop suey so well he ask Lady Lougheed to call me into conservatory—very magnificent place, all beautiful flowers and gold- fish—and say: ‘Chin, that was a wonderful dish. Please have it next time I come.’ “He not act like prince at all. He talk quick, he act quick, but he talk to everyone, just like plain man,” was Chin Ping Yen's description of King Edward, whose dinner he pre- pared when the then Prince of Wales was luncheon guest at the home of Sir James and Lady Lougheed of Calgary in 1922: Lady Lougheed had asked him not to serve turkey or some item of food which was placed before the prince everywhere he went. “Her ladyship tell me to serve something different, so I make chop suey of chicken and mushroom sliced very fine. I make it to suit my own fancy, with maybe 20 different Chin- ese stuff. I can’t remember now all I put in but prince like it much,” said Chin Ping. Yen, who said he was 38 “counted Chinese’, but 37 accord- ing to English reckoning. Bright Future For West Western Canada’s progress toward complete economic recovery was far from being retarded by the recent drought, J. M. Davidson, of Winni- peg, secretary of the Industrial De- velopment Board of Winnipeg, said in an interview at Montreal. The west, he predicted, was slated for a period of growth that will surpass anything it has experienced in the last 10 years, * Would Draw Heavy Fine Boys and girls under 18 have been forbidden to smoke in restaurants, cafes, parks, streets and other pub- lic places in Mecklenberg, Germany. The police decree ordering the ban declares that offenders are liable to be sent to prison for two weeks or fined $62.50. world runs from Leningrad to ° the frontier of China, ,a distance of 4,500 miles. 2173 “Well, that’s the last time SHE puts the car away!” —Der Lustige Sachse, Leipzig. Railways Increase Business Gratifying Increase In Passenger Traffic Is Seen The importance of the sleeping and dining car services of the rail- ways of today was the subject of an address by A. A. Gardiner, assistant general traffic manager, of the Cana- dian National Railways, delivered be- fore the annual convention of the American Association of Superin- tendents of Dining Cars at Toronto. The speaker stressed the fact that with the gratifying increase in pas- senger traffic the problem of numer- ous travellers who were not accus- tomed to train travel had assumed an entirely new significance and that it lay within the power of the sleep- ing and dining car staffs either to promote or discourage this new type of business. Drawing attention to the fact that recent passenger fare legislation, both in Canada and the United States, had not only popularized rail travel but had emphasized the super- jority of the accommodation offered, Mr. Gardiner intimated that the rail- way’s campaign to make travellers “train-conscious’’ was increasingly successful and that he was proud to say the train crew were putting forth every effort to assist the pas- senger departments retain the new traffic secured. Noisy People Classified Doctor Claims They Are Imbeciles Of First Order The auto driver who toots his horn unnecessarily to show his displeasure when delayed in traffic is an imbecile of the first order, Dr. Clarence A. Neymann, professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University, told the City Club. Declaring noise is produced un- necessarily only by morons, imbeciles and idiots, he proposed a new medical campaign slogan: “Be an imbecile and you can be noisy’. Many per- sons of low intellect are purposely noisy, he said, so that they may im- press their presence on those whom they deem their superiors and thus irritate them. This helps them feel important and aids them in over- coming their inferiority feeling. A Modern World Pestilence Death Toll On Highways Not Re- celving Much Attention The plagues and pestilences that harried the world’s population in otHer centuries have disappeared be- fore the advance ef medical science and sanitation. Unfortunately in the first third of this century their places have been taken by a new form of mortality—death on the highway. There is even less reason for this than there was for the old diseases which once decimated cities. When nations were faced with typhoid fever and diphtheria scourges, scien- tists and municipal authorities joined hands to drive them out and so de- termined was the campaign that to- day the number of cases and deaths from either cause is negligible. Why cannot the same forces, aid- ed by public opinion, put an end to the terrible death toll from automo- bile accidents?—Toronto Telegram. Defies All Scourges U.S. Men Claim They Have Developed New Forage Crop Ellsbery O'Hair, employee in the Illinois State Department of Agri- culture, claimed that he and his father, H. Z. OHair of Bushton, IIl., had succeeded in growing a grain and forage crop which defies drought, heat, grasshoppers and chinchbugs. He said it was the first time that the crop, a hybrid of three cross pollenations of varieties of kaffir corn and ribbon cane, had been grown in the midwestern corn belt. The test was conducted in co-oper- ation with Fred Groff, Oklahoma ex- perimental farmer, The two outermost moons of the planet Jupiter do not move around it from east to west, as do its other mons, but from north to south, and south to north. Horses are the cheapest form of transportation over distances up to three miles, a British expert calcu- lates. There are eight thousand milk de- livery routes in New York City. An feninive ey PA rug. Ali ce TTERN 5699 Just a simple square, repeated and joined together forms this smart You'll love doing the colorful squares in varied colors, and, in no time at all, you'll have enough completed to make this stunning rug. Here's one} | way to turn useless rags into something worthwhile, Brooks Design Quickly Crocheted Squares Make a Handsome Rug though rug wool or| | candlewicking may also be used. Done in Germantown the squares would | make a handsome cushion or chair set. a | plete instructions and charts for making One of the longest canals in the| Of it and of the stitches needed; material In pattern 5699 you will find com- the square shown; an illustration requirements. To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in stamps or coin (coin preferred) to Household Arts Dept., | E., Winnipeg. Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. Indian Lore That Created A Name For The Key Province Of Canadian West A Stubborn Enemy Work And Patience Required To Get Rid Of Mustard Owing to the great vitality of the seed, mustard is a very hard weed to eradicate. The seeds, once in the ground, live for years. Hence it takes patience, a great deal of labor, and a long time to get rid of the weed when it once gets possession of the land. When present only in small amounts, hand-pulling is the best method, providing the pulling is done before seeds have formed and as persons pulling in a hurry cannot wait to examine for seed, it is best to put the weeds, as they are pulled, in bundles where they can be burned when dry. Iron sulphate or copperas can be successfully used to destroy mustard in standing grain without injury to the crop. A 20 per cent. solution should be applied. This can be pre- pared by dissolving eighty pounds’ of iron sulphate in 40 gallons of water. Tron sulphate is dissolved quite read- ily in cold water. The solution should be strained through a cheese cloth, as it is put into the spray pump tank. This will remove dirt and small particles that are apt to clog the nozzles. i Apply on a calm, clear day, just as soon as the first few plants in the fields show flowers. It is very important to spray early. If the plants are left too long the treat- ment is not nearly as effective. If a heavy rain comes within twenty- four hours after the solution is ap- plied, it will be necessary to spray again. An ordinary hand pump bar- rel sprayer, such as is employed to spray fruit trees, may be used, or a potato sprayer can be rigged up to to do the work. Many of the up-to- date sprayers have a special broad- cast attachment for spraying weeds. These are excellent for large areds, as they cover a wide strip at each round. Care must be taken to see that every mustard plant is covered with the solution in the form of a fine spray. Cooking Must Be Done | People Will Never Live On Con- | centrated Food Pills Alack and alas, the hard-working housewife must give up her dream of dispensing with a four-course meal by simply feeding hubby a concen- trated food pill—it can’t be done, an authority said. The calory factor will necessitate continued operation of kitchen, ex- plained Dr. Milton A. Bridges, assist- ant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University and dietics authority. “Human beings never are going to eat pills for meals,” said Dr. Bridges, emphatically. “Pills can never be made to contain sufficient caloric volume.” It is preferably plausible to supply all the vitamins and minerals needed for a meal in pill form. But you can't get calories except by eating foods. Scourge Of Nagging Wears Down The Nerves And Is A Menace To Health Husbands with nagging wives should call the latter's attention to the comment by the Manchester Sun- day Chronicle on the report of the Medical Research Council which would indicate that persons can be literally nagged to death. The Sun- day Chronicle observes: “Resistance to disease sinks when nagging wears down the nerves. This is news to the unfortunate people| who have suffered under the scourge of a nagging tongue. An intelligent argument is a stimulant. But the senseless wrangling that is all too frequently a part of our private lives is a menace that spares neither the a@rguer nor the’ arguee.—Kitchener Waters still ebb and flow in the straits off Manitoba Island, 15 miles | north of The Narrows. Lake Mani- | toba’s sacred temple of Indian tradi- | tion is now a quiet rural community but when black shadows fall in the forests the island again becomes the haunt of Manitou. The march of civilization has not removed it from the place of Indian mythology that created a name for the key province of the western prairies. Virgin woodlands and streams that border the lake have changed little since Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Verandrye and hig son first glimpsed them 146 years ago. Indian tribes crossed the half-mile strip of water at this point centuries ago to make raids on more peaceful bands. Here, also, they met to smoke the pipe of peace and pay tri- bute to the Great Spirit. Tribes of Crees, Ojibways and Saulteaux be- lieved their Manitou lived on the island to the north. They called the place Manitowapah —a contraction of Manitou, from the island-dwelling place of their spirit, and Wapah, meaning Narrows (the spirit of the Narrows). Because of conflicting sound the white man, ac- cording to early authorities, curtailed it to Manitoba. History of the name dates back centuries when only the Red Man roamed the lake shores. It was be- lieved a weird sound caused by the rapid current passing over the shing- ly, limestone rocks on the shore of the island was the voice of the Great Spirit. When the south wind blows waters in the Narrows rise more than four feet. The receding tide makes a rush- ing noise which can be heard for long distances. The district came to be @ sacred place for various tribes who gathered there for ancient cere- monies, war dances and feasts. Present-day Indians have already embraced the Christian faith but pagan beliefs and superstitions die hard. Older natives have been seen to throw pieces of tobacco into the water while passing the island as an offering to the Great Spirit. An example of the extent to which “superstition clings “fs furnished by Hebron Moar, pioneer postmaster of The Narrows’ community. When a Hudson's Bay steamer travelling down the northern shore of the lake was becalmed at the entrance to the straits, Alexis, old Indian member of the crew, was asked to appeal to Manitou for a fair wind. The native did so in a dramatic manner, Mr. Moar relates, throwing the usual offering on the waters. Im- mediately the surface rippled.