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Again, the peculiarity of Cansubless | "* CCC OS IOTE OE TCO Te t rese conditions creates the necessity for| XMOUunt spent in years, due to the in the maintenance of so many types of Clusion in the program of amounts fo roads to accommodate the various colonization roads into newly opened methods of travel Whilst the older| 20A# in Northern Quebee, settled cities and tawns and the areas | At the present time there are 18,00( about them are most modern in every | miles of main roads in the variou« respect and their lines of communiceâ€"} provinces and networks of communica tion as up to date as engineering can| tion branching off from them to serve effect, there are many areas that have the rural areas. In addition to the but recently emerged from the pionâ€"| maintenance of these, new roadg are sering stages, and still other districts | boing cofstrncted ouch seur . There that are only being opened up to colâ€"| serve to join up the provincial centres, enization and that must be served by and it is now the aim of the various reads of some kind. | governments to join up the provincial | systems and provide a main highway The Penetration of New Areas. / qorogg Canads from coast to coast, an The prime consideration in roadâ€"| undertaking not difficult of accompâ€" Hullding In Canada is possibly to enâ€" lishment and the accomplishment of whieo the farmer to reach the markets| which may be soqn expocted. with his product as conveniently andj Excellent motor roads join up all geonomically as possible, and this hu'tho principal civie cgentres and the Apgst consideration in the drawing up ) avenues to the international boundary & smutional programs. _A second re| are maintained at a fine standard. quirement is to maintain good means ! Last year half a m#lion motor tqurists 8 communicatioa between the larxerzv!suod Capada from the United beam‘wer end ic sdequately smyg and ‘alone, staying for various m rests (tle enormous responsibDilty ol building and maintaining one mile of roadway and upon five average famiâ€" Kes the construction ind maintenance of a mile of main market highway. qu @1 lem is TREMENDOUS AREA WITH SCATTERED POPULATION. At the Present Time 18,000 Milss of Main Roadsâ€"Highâ€" way From Coast to Coast. of r«iing, it is easy to stop the car so that the occopants can get out for a sevonthâ€"inning stretch. The eating problem is simpMfied when traveling by auto. If real good food is degired it can be takan alim» PROBLEM OF COOD ROADS N CANADA thve the tr +1 sta it T} to n rOOn matte @T th It is taken for gra person who expects to c via his motor car will p in good working order ne T W liference between national proâ€" nd retrogression may be pithily 1 up in facilities of travel and rtation, and the maintenance of ads is a matter which demands Vâ€"or compiete satisf n at any time. If th ff the main Hine of y link up the seitied area ry a network of roads is vich would be sufficient y of four persons in Canada enormous responsibility of id maintaining one mile of nd upon five average famiâ€" Dle, easily traveiled roads, try ranks among progresâ€" s according to its conveniâ€" cessibility and marketing. truction anpd maintenance Canada constitutes a probâ€" in _vo inspect, a turn of s of the car sends them off ired direction. If there ara art «_ I‘or one n #, to the exr at e members hree to five F4 wna tch e ular! more in any on _ aut to th ar air to can story as the law and viem is simpMfied auto. If real good can be taken along populatton. To settled areas of rt al 87 rte ‘ize could not afâ€" eels at all. 18@ n 14 en us tenult itings of the on wltd roads to > seats to sit breathe. at any point te and enjoy vfact.'mn, then ‘here are side ‘ the jJourney t o a turn of is 18 ar at as snan enance of demands a modern rection it minence. ie capacity adds little, : for gasoâ€" is always car! This remendous There the at w makes . destina rt. Whe t} m( motor to stena "ppy good |_ At the present time there are 18,000 | miles of main roads in the various | provinces and networks of communicaâ€" | tion branching off from them to serve ‘the rural areas. In addition to the | maintenance of these, new roadg are | being constructed each year. These serve to join up the provincial centres, ‘and it is now the aim of the various | governments to join up the provincial | systems and provide a main highway across Canada from coast to coast, an | undertaking not dificult of accompâ€" \lishment and the accomplishment of ‘ which may be soqn expocted. ‘ 0 be | 18,000 Miles of Main Roads. _ That the provinces are not limiting their expenditures to those amounts neceseary to obtain the Federal grants ks very apparent. In the fiveyear period after the passing of the Act, it was estimated that Ontario would spend $60,000,000 on its highways, and this sum will undoubtedly be reached. | Quebecs highwaye prior to 1912 had | cost $40,000,000 in the work done upon | them, and since that time $30,000,000 | has been expended. This year the proâ€" vince will spend $7,500,000 upon proâ€"| vincial roads, by far the hr‘ut? amount spent in years, due to the inâ€"‘ clusion in the program of amounts for colonization roads into newly opened areas in Northern Quebec. the basis of population, with the exâ€" penditure of proportionate amounts by these provinces to a total of $30,000, 000. good roads and elicited the coâ€"operaâ€" tion of all sections of the Dominion in maintaining a high standard. The bill made the sum of $20,000,000 avatlâ€" able during the following five years, to be divided among the provinces on C Canada is rapidly gaining a reputaâ€" tion abroad for good roads, consequent upon a Domin{onâ€"wide policy of coâ€"orâ€" dinated effort, due to the foresight of Dominion and provincial governments and their coâ€"operation in construction and maintenance. The Canada Highâ€" ways Act of 1919 was a regognition of the important part played in the deâ€" velopment of national prosperity by furthor encourage motor tourist trat fAc, which is rapidly increasing every year and bas become a not insignifiâ€" cant asset in Dominion revenue. Each year tha increase in the sottlement and cultivation of farm lands makes necessary the penotration of new colonization areas, which can only be effected by the construction of roads which will perimit new settiers to get into them with the least degree of trouble and inconvenience. An outing by auto does not necesâ€" sarily mean a touring car or sedan. A common sight along the country roads on a holiday is a huge truck loaded with & whole neighborhood of folks off on a picnic. Are they ever downhearted? _ So whether it‘s by truck or limousine, for allâ€"round enâ€" joyment no other travel vehicle has been found superior to the automobile. destiny which adds to his pleasure, and if the others who are along have confldence in his ability, to the hapâ€" piness of the rest of the company. Travel by auto makes for sociabilâ€" ity. In no way can a group of people become bettor acquainted and get more pure fun out of life than by b"i ing associated together on a vacation via motor. I in the car and cooked by the roadside | or in some cozy grove. In many places | there are public camping sites with »}stone fireplaces already built for the | convenience of automobilists. Or food ,ican be procured along the route for 4 'picnic lIunches Or desirable hotels |and restaurants can be found in the | villages or cities zlong the way. | , The matter of sleeping is quite as |easily handled. There are many con-" trivances which can be carried a}ongl ! so that the motorist can find comfortâ€". | able ropose at night. Tents can be | erected and patent cot beds unfolded,; | or some can sleep in the car or roll up‘ | in blankets and find out how the Inâ€"‘ ’ dians used to do it years ago. If more , conveniences are required, it is still : possible to find sweet dreams in some | hotel, inn or farmhouse. H & nave If a driver knows his business of driving and will use ordinary judgâ€" ment in manipulating his machine, the danger from accident is no greater than might be encountered on board a ship or train. Certainly they are not as great as travel by airplane! In spite of the startling casualties and lraveling by auto is one of the healthiest forms of recreation. There is always plenty of good clean air. A motor trip usually takes one out into the country, where the ozone is at its best. _ The danger of catching any contagious disease is practically enâ€" tirely eliminated. | f the reckless drivers that on the face of the earth, a vror is not at all likely to outing marred by serlous his business of ordinary judgâ€" his machine, the ; is no greater omobile usually tion and enjoyâ€" mimself the veâ€" iveling. He has control of his The process of islandâ€"building is still going on; for every one that is to be seen above the surface there are a dozen others which, though continual ly growing upwards, have not yet be come visible. In the course of cenâ€" turies the sea will deposit sand and mud amongst the thicklyâ€"studded coral pillars, and so eventually a new conâ€" tinent will be born, a continent built up by little beings no bisger than flles. Out in the Indian Ocean lies one of} the strangest archipelagoes in the| | world. Morse than fourteen thousand; | islands go to make it up. Most of| , them are quite tiny and few riso more ; | than five or six feet above the surface | | of the water. | These aro the Maldive Islands, which few people have ever seen, since the waters around them are terâ€" ribly dangerous for shippinz. Every one of them has been built up by tiny coral insects. The smallest island contains a coral population many times bigger than the entire human population of the world. ; from one day to six months, and it is ; stated that the number of visitors / staying one month has doubled within L;the past few years. In many cases j the upkeep of such highways as Toâ€" | ronto â€" Hamilton, Ottawa â€" Montreal, | Montrealâ€"Quebee is paid for by the â€" tourist trafe upon them, and the comâ€" _ pletion this year of the roadway of . the Grand Circle Motor Tour, running | from California in the south to Alberta in the north, linking ten national I’parks, and constituting the finest | seenic motor tour on the continent, is expected to bring the Dominion an unâ€" | precedented volume of motor traffic. i The Result of Good Highways. ‘ | _ The importance every section of the: Canadian people attach to the possea-! sion of good roads was evidenced at| the last good roads convention held | in Victoria, B.C., which drew from Atâ€" lantic to Pacific cabinet ministers, members of parliament, provincial and civic engineers and prominent bustâ€" ness men from all sections of the Doâ€"| minion, as well as attracting repre-' sentatives of many states of the Union | for the exchange of views and experl-‘ ences. It marked the halfâ€"way housel in the progress effected since the pass» | ing of the Canada Highways Act and | formed a point of retrospect as well as ‘ prospect. To date 204 agreements for ; Federal aid have been authorized for| 5,125 miles of provincial road at an es-f timated cost of $29,461,515. The :oâ€"| tal amount of provincial expendituros: audited with respect to this work is ; $15,974,591, and the total amounts ot[ payments made with raspect thereto is | $5,179,275. The total mileage of com-l pleted Federal aid work to the time| was 1,400 miles and the mileage imder‘ 3 construction 2397 miles. § Continent Made by Insects. ssâ€"=sinmnd the worst is CdkvGitin: AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER WAITING AT THAT ISOLATED STATION,. AN IMPORTANT PAssENGER WAITING AT THAT I80LATED STATION: sneeit sw â€"neugps~ < In London there diéjfiirty places of worship where the services are conâ€" ducted in the Welsh language. Bo, on the 2nd of January, 1785, a Royal decree went throughout France that "the length of handkerchiefs shall equal their breadth." And everybody still obeys that deâ€" cree without knowing it! All shapes and sizes were used, till one day in the last era of the glories of the old French Court Queen Marle Antoinette remarked how much neater it would be if only squareâ€"shaped handâ€" kerchiefs were made. Why Handkerchiefs Are Square. A handkerchief means literally a kerchief?f for the hand, the kerchief itâ€" self being a small sort of a shawl. Handkerchiefs originated â€" in Italy, whence they gradually sproad over Europe. + hours | ;.:;»::s them exactly twelive huur's= WOl'ld The flower of the common dundeliun] The world possesses a peculiar means of shelterâ€"‘ White Star | ing itself from the power of the sun.| tons. It closes its petals entirely when the| She carries heat becomes excessive. It has been | for 162 iiles observed to open in summer at halfâ€" viettes, 3,000 past five in the morning, and to colâ€" 000 pillowâ€"ca: lect its petals towards the centre at boisters, and about nine o‘clock at night. ‘The blankets In the Malay States there is a four o‘clock plant which opens its flowers at four o‘clock in the afternoon and The flowers of the goat‘s beard open every morning at dawn and close reâ€" gularly about noon. In addition to these there is a variety of flowers that close and open at certain hours with remarkable reâ€" gularity. The flowers of the alpine whitlowâ€" grass, the feverfew, and the winterâ€" green have a peculiar habit of hangâ€" ing down during the night as If they were asleep. This act serves to proâ€" tect the fertilizing dust from injury by moist air or rain. If by seven o‘clock in the morning the African marigold has not opened its petals, prenare for rain during the day. The scarlet pimpernel and the convolvulus always fold their leavos upon the approach of wet weather. When the flowors of the Siberian sowâ€"thistle remain open all night, it is a sign that rain will fall the following day. When the flowers of the common chickweed expand fully, no rain need be anticipated for four hours or more. But should its small flowers be haif concealed, it is advisable to prepare for rain. There are several varieties of plants which foretell changes in the weather, while not a few of them enable us to tell the time of day often with urerrâ€" ing accuracy. Flowers That Tell the Time vet to come TORONTO | _ More than 100,000 pieces of china and glassware are provided, and it is %estimated that if the crockery was | piled up it would form & column 1,200 feet high. If the washing and drying ! were done by hand, it would take five | months to accomplish the feat, "Teacher whipped me because I was the only one who could answer a quesâ€" tion she asked the class," he sobbed. His mother was indignant. "Why, I‘ll seo her about that! What was the question, Billy?" His eyes lighted reminiscently. "Bhe wanted to know who put the glue in her inkâ€"bottle!" Billy was in tears when he came home from school. Ten thousand knives and forks and 50,000 pieces of electroâ€"plate form part of the Majestic‘s equipment. she carries enou;! for 162 iniles. Ther viettes, 3,000 beds, : 000 pillowâ€"cases, 11 boisters, and thousan The blankets alone tons. The world‘s largest â€" White Star line Majestic tons. The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed . dream, And brooded the summer through, Over the forest, fleld and stream, And now His dream‘s come true! Its knotted warp in the ground below Holds close its shimmering pile, The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed it 80, And this is the Weaver‘s simile And a patch of blue reflecting The color of autumn skies; The pattern vague, but beyond comâ€" pare Are these clear, mysterious dyes,. He‘s spread a carpet over the hills; Soft is its silken sheen Of red and the color of daffodils, Of rose and orange and greon The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed a dream And brooded the summer through; With tender love he‘s ploited his theme And now the dream‘s come truo. Besides Farmer Georgo, Greek has givéen us Philip, the lover of horses, Alexandor, the helper of men, Timothy the godâ€"fearing, and Andrew, the manâ€" ly. Feminine appellations from the same source are Margaret, Marguorite, and Marjorieâ€"all three words are really the sameâ€"meaning pearl; Dorâ€" othy, the feminine form of Theodore; Katherine or Kathleen, the pure; Agâ€" nes, which has the same meaning; and Irene, signifying peace. Jacynth has Woman‘s debt to Rome is a larger one. BShe has borrowed Stella (star), Dulcle (sweet), Vera (truthful), as well as the names of months such as April and May, of goddesses like Diana and Juno, and a whole garden full of flowers such as Rose, Lily, and many others. Latin names are rather out of fasâ€" hion nowadays, for there are fashions in names just as there are in clothes. Rufusâ€"the ruddyâ€"faced oneâ€"is occaâ€" sionally met with, but Caesar, the boxes, is rare. We do, however, find Augustus (the majestic) and Paul (the little fellow) in fairly comon use. Our Christian names come to us mainly from the Hebrew and Greek of the Bible, from Latin, from French, and from the tongues of the East, as well as from Scandinavian and Old English. If, for example, we name a boy George, we may have no intention of making him a farmer; yet farmer is what the name means. Nor would we care for Priscilla to live up to her name, which means the little oldâ€"fasâ€" hioned woman, or for Leah to suffer always from the weariness that the old Hebrew word denotes! Few people nowadays know the meanings of their Christian names, and they are chosen as a rule because they sound nice. World‘s Largest Ship. The Weaver of Rugs. Easy to Answer. Can You Find Your Name Here? There .100 pillows, 13,â€" 600 s.sets, 1,500 is of other items. weigh seventeen linen to stretch ire !p News 000 ser is the 56.000 England‘s oldest road, which must have been made at least 2,000 years "Yes, when I was naughty." "And did her mamma whip her when she was little?" "Yes, Tommy." "And was she whippgd when she was little?" "Yeos, Tommy." "Well," asked the chiid, "who start ed it, anyway?" _"I don‘t know what his name is," said Sam, "but he certainly do recom men‘ hisself mos‘ highly." "Mamme," he sobbed, "did your mamma whip you when you were litâ€" Two darkeys came up to the outâ€" skirts if a crowd where a politician was making a campaign speech. Afâ€" ter listening to the speech for about ten minutes, one of them turned to his companion and asked, "Who is dat man, Bam?" [ Best of References. When the language of business is applied to the practices of politics, as in this case, the effect may be instrucâ€" tive as well as tartling. "The plates and all mum," she said, calmly There was a moment of deathly stillness, and then Mary appeared, reâ€" moving her apron as she emerged from the closet. That very night at dinner there came the sound of a fearful crash from the butler‘s pantry. "If you break auy more china o glass, Mary, I shall be obliged to dis miss you," she said, "for I cannot af ford to keep you." A Resignation. The clumsy girl, who had t ing as waitress for the Jonkin had broken dish after dish, an the mistress of the house spol decidedly. Iml the re will ach | learn how Give a : "Life is the Interval between one breath and anotherâ€"he who only half breathes only half lives, but he who uses Nature‘s rhythin in breathing has control over every fupction of his beâ€" ing." Every man works.â€"Cervi One of the God has mixed a feeling « with everything finished. As a ruie, what the heart the head and the hands may Josh Billings said: "W strike ile, quit boring. Som« until it all runs out on the ot A great many they‘re so dead s It would be a s them. "Life is the I A Grievance. Tomy head been punished It is the fearâ€"not, the worryâ€"not, 1 stewâ€"not, the fret not, that wins out Don‘t dally with your purpose. > many things indiffercatly, but o thing supremely is the demand of hour. Bucces is not s mept plan. You : part of it you take Ethel shovld be noble, Freda peace. ful, and Leonora lionâ€"hearted. Hilda is the wariormaiden, and if you add Mat to her name you give her strength, for Matilda, often shortened to Maud, means the maiden strong in battle. 2PNPCCNCG, 1IOF MIS NAIDOC means TWOT| less than the cost of of the home. But what is he to do Mlum ground. But if m his wife is called Harriet or Honfiebi tes for domesic consu ta, both of which have the same §igâ€"| he worth much more 1 nifleance? Leonerd must be as stroug! importantly help out as & lion; Richard must be strong, | supply. too, but he must rule as well. l Already four or fix Ralph, originally Radull or Rudolf, | anthracite region are is the red wolf, William means the | briquettos from this halmet of resolve. Edward is the nobleâ€" thing ought to be d« guardian, Frederick is the peavvful'sc-a:o. ruler. ty se ul ooo o y c i Then we come to the real old Engâ€" lish names. Henry should never be henpecked, for his name means ruler of the home. But what is he to do if his wife is called Harriet or Honrietâ€" ta, both of which have the same sigâ€" nifleance? Leonard must be as strong as a& lion; Richard must be strong, too, but he must rule as well. Many of the women‘s names lndl-l cate that their lot was no easy one in those early days when they were re% garded as vastly inforior to men. Mary | or Murie!l (they are the same lmme-‘ signifies bitterness, and Deborah 1s! the bee or the worker. In Aune, Anna, ' or Hannah, however, there is a more | cheerful note, for all these words mean grace. Adam and Eve are Babyâ€" lonian, not Hebrew words. They mean | simply man and breath. Isabel is a| Philistine word and the same as Jezeâ€". bel. | Most of the Hebrew men‘s names have pleasant meanings. â€" John, for instance, stands for the Lord‘s grace, whilst David is the beloved. Jacob, however, from which comes our James, means the supplanter, and it is curious that in our history a wouldâ€"be supplanter should have borne it in the person of the old Pretender who made a bid for the Throne in 1715. It rather a curious history. The word denotes a precious atone c blue color and in its proper form, Hyacinth, it was used as a man‘s name. W GH n Â¥ to m2al wUceess and bioctiing stuif that spc new h C ‘st lessons in life is to t viectory out of defeat. e alphabet and an iron ‘all place bounds to his tos t1 s Nuggets. said: "When you ring. Some keep on it on the other side." people fail because ire they are going to. hame to disappoint very nrow amd the if" go right alon ing the new wit In 1d ok God is in binder "and I‘m off! i1ad been actâ€" ukins family, h, and at last )n th 0 n th t} but â€" one nd of the longs for obtain. fo § own wh hly | av the } Up to the Doctor. s ’] Mrs. Potts‘ husband had boen quite H1, but finally there came a change. | When the doctor called and had a look at his patient he announced : "He is convalescen ." | Whereupon Mrs, Potts regarded the physician suspiciously; and her susâ€" picion increased when he made no fur t’ ther comment but prepared to go. | ‘"Well, youse a doctor, gin‘t you " _ she ~demanded. "Ain‘t yo‘ got ne l-ol'clno fo‘ din Sme4 convalesconre*" n i "Do you know, Miss Blank," he re ; marked, "I think there is a very intiâ€" ‘mate relation betweu. our food and |our character? 1 believe, don‘t you ;know, that we grow like what we are : most fond of." The fair girl smiled sweetly. "How interesting," she murmured. "May I offer you some more ham ?" Tempting the Pig. They were at supper. During the meal the young man with the hearty appetite talked eloquently on things in general. marks, have and for a futu we must lear bituminous ce will he t under ten n W pu poj} An: 000 underyre D or stove, owi or other stuff There were in the United 000 tons of a arger inous coal developed cheap. T tendency t original c the his‘\ f 1 Out of "sludge," for one thing. It | is the waste of the anthracite minesâ€" | coal in particles «o fine as to have no market â€" value. Production of it amounts to about 5,000,000 tons per annum. Mountains of it have accuâ€" | mulated all over the anthracite regions | of Pennsylvania. Immense quantities of it have been washed down fsom the 'oonl washers into low places, forming | extensive beds fifteen or twonty feet | deep,. pi tC labort Already four or five plants in the anthracite region are manufacturing briquettos from this material, _ The thing ought to be done on a groat geale. "binder Corn f! ployed {h1 411 Mos brigu« e m m Bo says George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological [parâ€" vey. But how is an artilcial a»rthraâ€" cite to be made? i ‘"We must have an artificial anthraâ€" cite; we must provide a substitute for that ‘luxury fuel‘ without delay." rgln tin ding U 17 yed 1( ich is ustiry the pt Iyv, a of five ND H e h it @Xxist quett An Artificial Anthrecite t? main hig s COg ry met it M 17 important in the ‘s is the use of to glue the tiny 1 ir or other starch r the purpose; or a byâ€"product of th nd int this «1 . Th & quai Al n ft U oY States thraci 1 s ylvat 1 it O xim ut 8 duxury fuel D the makinge of s tog woodâ€"pulp 14 81 81 eu nt M abl« it«