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FIRST TRIP OVER NEW CANADIAN HIGHWAY. The service of the improved road in’ nOtario, let me express a hope that facilitating intercourse between the it m; m.‘ln somethilng mor;othan ; different provinces of the Dominion !me!'o ormal letter. Let us hope an and so v::n the::n the bond ofn na:'beheve that as this transâ€"Canada Tiunut brotherhood which unites thens,! h?““""i““'l“’c‘.' the Atlantic proâ€" was Interestingly recognized recently| vinces with the mtariorf ~of our comâ€" in the letter which Dr. Perry E. Dooâ€"| mos country and fM‘htat-e' ’lnter- little, president of the Canadian Autoâ€"| course, it may be lzut.a beginnink of‘ mobile Association, carried from Preâ€"| more cordial, more intimate, and more ies g ”' Arm;;‘r'nng of Nova Scofm frequent relations between the various‘ to Premier G. H. Ferguson of Ontario,, r:zvl:lces, which hadve C mal'ni prob}-“ when he made the first through jour-} P bsin ooo ie ce ies C rew ngl ney over the eastern section of the| to' ring about greater reclpro?Ity, and | ‘Transâ€"Canade Highway, from Halifax still further cement the sentiment of | to the Soo. Hon. Mr. Armstrong‘ | unity that must and should prevail| ons Pibiranalifienhinng e« hiols ONC 5) between all the provinces." ie little, president of the Canadian Autoâ€" mobile Association, carried from Preâ€" mier E. H. Armstrong of Nova Scotia to Premier G. H. Ferguson of Ontario, when he made the first through jourâ€" ney over the eastern section of the Transâ€"Canada Highway, from Halifax to the Soo. Hon. Mr. Armstrong‘s anticip ized, a feat t signific matter 8OT been ma the Day But t! Baid W Tha on t Hir tEY But e S00. _ Hot read in part am advised b pects to ac < a period o pations in th and 1 think that should leance. It h r â€" of â€" bigh No Pain is Past Time‘s Mending. Intelligence Service for Readers Is and waterâ€"powers. Raw terials and power supply are first necessity of industry, 1 the Department of the Inâ€" ior at Ottawa, through its tural Resources Intelligence vice, reports an increasing mber of requests regarding se. This branch, fortunately, in a positlion to answer such jiries, and has also issued series of resource maps and er literature of value to the nmercial interests. These are ailable on application, and It suggested that our readers ke themselves familiar with > services which the Natural sources Intelligence Service n itei nformation as to the loâ€" ite information as to the loâ€" yress in development of e resources, especially as ; pertain to our forests, minâ€" Protected ad a little lamb, soon It grew to mutton; of the kind that dsarly loved mething hard to butt on. arvc "When I go to school bod y Ivised by Dr. Doolittle that : _to accomplish this trip eriod of ten days. If his ns in this respect are realâ€" think they will be, it is a should be of some public . _ It indicates that in this _ highway transportation satisfactory progress has _during recent years. Your nd all the intervening proâ€" luding our own, are mutuâ€" st truth of all: but has its ending; s past Time‘s mending. â€"â€"Mary Carolyn Davies. pas LP incial and commercial are demanding the getic development of al resources to assist uidation of our war is recognition of the wur national heritage d and intensified the from â€"Canadian and anufacturers for acâ€" a V wWay nd little griefs al PAHM » to be borna if we recall ts ending; me‘s mending ittleo griefs er‘ll h: eck on n ive to find \ _ In reply to this communication Preâ€" \ mier Ferguson wrote: _ _"You will be interested to know that | Dr. Doolittle accomplished his feat . and reached the Soo in nine days and four hours. He reports that the trip \ might easily have been accomplished | in nine days if they had not been held | up on a portion of the road on account | of blockade. "I greatly appreciate the expression of goodâ€"will from yourself and the citizens of the Province of Nova Scoâ€" tia to me and to my fellowâ€"citizens in Ontario. There can be no doubt in the world that the development of a modern system of highway transporâ€" tation will do as much, if not more, than anything else to bring our people closer together and promote the feelâ€" ing of good will that will be to our mutual advantage." | Miners fear fire damp probably moro‘ | than any other menace of their callâ€" 'mg. Its presence leads to explosions, breathing it is dangerous and its apâ€" proach is so insidious that the damage may be done before it is discovered. Safety lamps have been in common | use for many years to prevent fire ldamp explosions, the famous Davies lamp being the one best known. Now | comes an improvement on the Davies . lamp and also the invention of a Briâ€" | ton. bands Over its gables and through its trees, Stirred by a wandering wraith of A little back from the street it stands Where the sunlight flashes in shining breeze; Laughter echoes along its hall, Love has walked by its garden wall Where the hydrangea blossoms blow In summer white as the winter‘s snow thereâ€"â€" No more. To us it is ever fair, For all in life we have counted dear Its heart was sheltered many a year; Beneath its roof hide the glints and gleams Of those frail, intangible things called dreams. Many the folk who ge by its door, Many the folk that have paseed of yore Who saw just a plain house standing And though in the days that are to be Wa may only walk there in memory, On the road that runs beyond the skies Another House of Dreams will riseâ€" The counterpart of this house on earthâ€" To holid new jJoy and to harbor mirth Where the love we dreamed of yet never knew Will bloom in our House of Dreams come true. Singing Lamp Warns Miners. This new lamp not only is a safety lamp from the egplostve side of minâ€" ing and a real illuminating lamp, but it is also a fire damp protector. Its poculiar frame resembles a bunch of tuning forks and they are made so sensitive that the presence of even so small an amount of fire damp in the air as two per cont. will cause the lamp to sing, or vibrate a musical note. As the fire damp increases in the air, the lamp sings more loudly and more shrilly, affording ample warning to the underground worker of the deadly menace. The Dreamer. He caught the rainbow‘s gleams And wove tham into dreams; He dared to die, or do, And all his dreams came true â€"â€"Eliot Ka: The House of Dreams. BIjG Elizabeth Scollard Kays Stone. "He is the most stupid boy in school. I can‘t drive anything into his head," said the teacher of an English lad to a visitor to the school the lad was atâ€" tending. _ The visitor made a little talk to the scholors and then passed into another room. In leaving the school, however, he made an opporâ€" tunity to speak to the soâ€"called stupid boy. Patting him on the head, he said, "Never mind, my boy, you may be a great scholar some day. Do not be discouraged, but try bard, and keep on trying." The boy had been told so often that he was a stupid goodâ€"forâ€"nothing that he had begun to think it true. But the words of the great man who had spoken so encouragingly to him set his ambition aflame and filled him with a new hope. They kept ringing in his ears, and he said to himself, "I will show my teacher and others who have so long regarded me as a stupid goodâ€"forâ€"nothing that there is someâ€" thing in me." The boy became the famous Dr. Adam Clark, author of the groat "Commentary on the Holy Bible" and other important works. A momentary, casual word of enâ€" couragement by a passing stranger was more than enough to overcome years of disparagement and ridicule. The Easiest Way Out. Very Young Policeman (who has broken up a fight between foreign seaâ€" men at docks)â€"*"Where do you live?" Lascarâ€""Calcutta." Policemanâ€""And where do you live?" Chinamanâ€""Shanghat." Policeman â€" "Um â€" well, the best thing you two can do is to pop off home to bed." A million pounds of copper was used in the construction of New York‘s tallest skyscraper. The Little Kindness That â€"Made a Great Man. ".â€"(Zl):"\_ W# 7 Jy!")":.";} m oora arde 9MA cesapeny : s ‘.mr\a\i \1” * * "1.543 h. ie 4 { xi * x.«< v yomr 1x & * d // d > i\ héz‘ a # s U " Oy* Ffi 1 {/ ";J //// a(e * + "l‘\y'li\\\l; ('&3 bhi L/’/ /,” . . 11/2 _ * ‘\ntn;‘m :é P :1 W# â€"" RZ YyA| {~ I often talk with downâ€"andâ€"cuters, when I behold them in the glen, and they are always ardent spouters of perfidy in other men. They‘re not to blame if they are busted, and lacking beds and clothes and prunes; in false and fickle friends they trusted, and found themselves betrayed eftsoons. I‘d give ten cents to meet a dead one, who‘d say, "My life‘s a bonhead play; I‘m short of teare, or I would shed one, for aill my chances fooled away, My friends were kind and tried to aid me, I‘ve often had a goodly berth, and my employers often paid me more coin than I was truly worth. I wasn‘t born to be a winner, and so you see me down and out, and if you‘ll stake me for a dinner, I‘ll fill my empty works with kraut." I‘d think it fine to hand a peuny to one who‘d thus confess his shame; but, woe is me, there isn‘t any who will admit he is to blame. "The world is cold and fierce and heartless," the "outers" say, "and so we weep; for we are bedless, breadless, tartless, and have no hay in which to sleep. Men‘s hearts are cold as is the granite of which New England hills are made, and so we‘ll drift around the planet until the sexton plies his spade." Men‘s hearts are warm and kind and tender, we give, and give, and give some more; toâ€"night I gave a pink suspender to Richard Roe, who sought my door. Plenty of Copper. Rippli on n e . WHEN THE WORM TURNED! IN RABBIFIBORO DOWN AND OUT The summer long, the tall trees prayed In all the speech they knew, Uplifting tremulous hands of green To Heaven‘s eternal blue. God heard, and on the waiting wood His sudden glory came. The trees in buff and crimson, stood And spoke with tongues of flame. â€"Claribel Weeks Avery. An English woman recently wrote to a newspaper, saying that she was born A. Mann (Alice Mann.) She married a Mr. Husband, and so beâ€" came A. Husband. He died, and she married again, this time to a Mr. Maiden. Becoming a widow for a second time, she concludes that though born A. Mann, she will die A. Maiden. * Ceilings which have become blackâ€" ened with smoke may be cleaned with a cloth damped in warm water and soda. & Things that are 'easy to do are selâ€" dom worth the effort. "You say he‘s a forger?" ‘l"ep." "Then why isn‘t he working in the "Bocause he works in the foundry." 9n What‘s in a Name? is UNlAR'@ Ar(g,rnvr_a TORONTO Pentecost. The Forger From London Opinion. * =o * * sz by All coasons have their beauties. It is a sad mistake to neglect or to un: dervalue any one of them. Even the bleak sincerity of winter is redeemed by the overwhelming splendor of unâ€" velled, urbroken light. Spring is the time of turbulence, of fresh, exhaustless, youthful ardor. Grext fertilizing rains stir the richâ€" ness of the abundant earth. Then the clear, bright north winds, harsh with the last touch of the melting ice fields, fil young veins and young hearts with stimulusâ€" and energy. Summer is the time of ripeness, when the incredible wealth of nature‘s production matches, teases and inâ€" spires every resource of the matured, balanced, perfect human body and But autumn is mellow and fruitful, full of suggestion and reflection for nature and humanity alike, At its best autumn does not mean decay or senâ€" ility, but just the faintly melanchoiy sense of life long lived, of rich stored beauty past, of memory with all its depths of desire and regret. Autumn has its winds and storms, great aweepâ€" ing gusts that shatter the summer world with bursts of rain and swift, compelling tempest. But its typical days are those of midâ€"October,â€" "dream days" Longfellow delighted to call them in his diary,â€"days when the low &un cannot quite dispel the creepâ€" ing, tender grace of mists that are scarcely more than~an entrancing haze. Quiet, windless quiet, and tranâ€" quility, those are the words of autumn â€"not perhaps the words for eager } youth, but of a curious and satisfying icharm for softly settling age. ‘ We have in mind a broad, open hillâ€" |\side on an October afternoon. _ The ;oloud shadows drift gently over the . peaceful landscape. In the foreground | is a wilderness of red clover and snapâ€" dragon, ond swarms of pale yellow | butterflies float and waver and quiver [ over it, like slow, clinging dGelicate | thoughts That have kept watch o‘er man‘s morâ€" l tality. Quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close, contented so to look On mists in idlenessâ€"to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. There could be no more restful image of heaven for a weary heart.â€" Youths‘ Companion. More than a thousand lighthouses and lightships guard the coasts of the British Isles, and all are under the control, direct or indirect, of Trinity House. For the purpose of coutrol the coast is divided into districts, of which the London District is the most imâ€" portant. It extends from Southwold in Suffolk to the North Foreland in Kent. The stores for this district are kept at Trinity Wharf, at Blackwell, and here are to be seen casks of oil, anâ€" chors, mooring chains, complete lanâ€" terus, and machinery of many sorts, as well as quantities of buoys of different sizes, shapes, and colors. The anchors used for mooring lightâ€" ships are huge implements of iron shaped like great umbrellas, and as for the mooring chains, these are tested by hbhydraulic power up to 300 tous. Can buoys, spherical buoys, wreck buoys, beli and gas buoys are here by the score. Some are new; others are old and battered, and have been brought in for painting and repair. Since accidents sometimes happen to lightships, a reliefâ€"ship is always kept moored at the wharft ready to start at a moment‘s notice to replace any vessel which has drifted from her moorings or been sumnk in collision. Painting bwoye goes on all the year round, and the work is done by the men who are ashore from lightships or lighthouses. Life on a lightshtp is no joke, especially in bad weather, and each man after two months afloat gets & month ashore. Perseverance is the road to success. Patience is powerful, Look before you leap. Life is short, so improve each minute. Practice makes perfect. Who never tries will never win, All‘s well that ends well. Speak only the truth. Make hay while the sun shines, Constant occupation prevents temptaâ€" tion. A poor workman quarrels with his tools. One cannot make all shoes over the same last. m Youth should be a savings bank. Youth is life‘s seed time. Watchmen of the Sea. shall never be younger. Schoolroom Mottoes. Autumn Mist. |1 14 B 44 40 3 3. 211 40 2 .1 d13 oi mss lioidntattad ERmome s ns en cetee is m“f‘d up and sold for pouâ€" ||| "Tut, tut!" snorted the man from try grit, for which it is adâ€" || B.C. "We can grow wheat right up to mirably adapted. f the Arctic Circle The name sounds icolder than it is. Ever hear of the new development in the Peace River wacgamefgcan Valley, top side of Alberta? That‘s w“& WQ Wlnt. hundreds of miles north of the southâ€" Every now and then a prize is pf | eorn prairie wheat district, and they fered for a new word to describe , | grow wheat up there without ever a new invention. Quite recently a Lonâ€"| frost. Chinook wind gives ‘em a ml}d don paper had such a competition for | climate, same as in southern B.C. Milâ€" the purpose of finding a name for the | lions of virgin acres that will yield new motorglider. But words of this thirtyâ€"five bushels to the acre. A great sort have a way of supplying them.| COUNUY for cattle too." selves. _ What Briton, for instance,| , "You said a bigger population than thinks of calling an automobile anyâ€"| the United States," reminded the Misâ€" thing but a "car" or a heavierâ€"thanair | sourian. "Maybe you can grow enough fiying machine by any other name than wheat to feed them bread. But how "plane?" ‘ about meat* Those cattle of yours Yet, while English is the most proâ€" have to be fattened in our Corn Belt." lific language in existence, there are | _"No, they don‘t," asserted the other. still a few words which are badly| "We‘re developing a shortâ€"season cornm. 'wnnted.' and which would be vastly apâ€" Already grow about 15,000,000 bushâ€" preciated by everyone who wields a \els a year, and a lot of fodder in adâ€" | pen. \ dition. And there are other feeds . One crying need is for a pronoun‘ besides corn to finish cattle Take 00e e e n mner on sehs » Leunflower, onts and barley." Yet, while English ts the most proâ€" lific language in existence, there are still a few words which are badly wanted, and which would be vastly apâ€" preciated by everyone who wields a pen. One crying need is for & pronoun which will mean equally "be" or "she." Take an example in point. A doctor is writing directions as to the use of a liniment. "The patient must apply the liniment wherever he (or she) is in pain; but at the same time, it is necessary to caution Mim (or her), Such a pronoun would save the writâ€" ing of millions of unnecessary words in the course of a year. Will some kindly philogist oblige? Other languages are less wellfound than our own, and have absolutely no equivalent for many words which we use every day of our lives. "Upstairs" and "downstairs" are words which have no direct equivaâ€" lents in French, nor is there any French word for "comfort." The verb "to kick" has to be paraphrased, if you wish to put it into French, and exâ€" pressed as "to strike with the foot." Before the war the Gormans had adopted bodily a number of English words for which they had no equivaâ€" lents in their own cumbersome tongue. "Tailorâ€"made," "l@&wnâ€"tennis," and "sport" are among the terms which were thus appropriated. It would have been pathetio, if it had not been comic, to see their struggles in the early part of the war to find German substitutes of less than seven syllables for these The Germans have always used subâ€" stitutes for the names of a good many articles in everyday use. A glove is in German a "handshoe," a thimble a "fAingerâ€"hat," while a grasshopper is a "hayâ€"horse," and chickens are foatherâ€" cattle. The Natural Resources Intelâ€" ligence Service of the Departâ€" ment of the Interior at Ottawa says: e Ontario has a natural reâ€" source of which little is known. In many of the inland streams large quantities of clam shells may be found. From the Grand River, in southwestern Ont ario, many tons of there shells have been taken. .\ use has been found for these shells in the manufacture of â€" freshâ€"water pearl buttons. For this purâ€" A Useful Device. Slamming and rattling doors are simply eliminated by means of a small pneumatic cushion, described and ilâ€" lustrated in Popular Mechanines. The device consists of an angular plece of metal with a hollow bemisphere of rubber inserted in the larger side lyâ€" ing against the door jamb and a small er @imilarly shaped piece in the other side which projects at right angles to the jamb, The air inside the spherical rubber pieces deadons the force of the impact. pose iwo or three hundred tons are used annually, a larg» porâ€" tion of which comes from the United States. The buttons are cut in discs from the shell hy rotary cutters, some of the discs being almost oneâ€"half inch thick. They are afterwards split to the thickness required for buttons. After the discs are cut from the shell the wastc is ground up and sold for pou!â€" try grit, for which it is adâ€" mirably adapted. Great Discovery Prof. Bugâ€"*"I must be in Egypt, here‘s a sphinx! "Yes, we want settlers," said the redâ€"faced man from Britisch Columbia in the smoker of the westbound limitâ€" ed. "And we have something to offer them. Canada is able to support and is going to have a bigger population than the United States." _"Isn‘t that statement a little strong?" asked the man from Misâ€" sourl. "NMo, sir," was the confident reply. "Look at our size in the first place. The area of Canada is larger by over a hundred thousand square miles than the United States and Alaska put toâ€" gether." "Didn‘t know that, but I‘ll take your word for it," said the Missourian. "But a lot of your acreage is round the Arctic Circle. Climate is against you. Why, you sometimes have Augâ€" ust frosts in the southern part of your prairie wheat belt." "“M'aybo so. But when Canada gets too hot in summer, account of that Chinook wind," grinned the American, “you“!eel like ;lting a watermelon. Where do you get it?" "We grow watermelons along the southern border, east and west. Muskâ€" melons too. Also plenty of all the small fruits and over 3,000,000 barrels of apples." "Well," said the native of Missouri, after pondering awhile, "a large popuâ€" lation like you‘re going to have is bound to have some personal habits, unless stopped by the constitution, I mean tobacco. You‘ll have to come to us for your chewing and smoking." "I guess we could get along if we had to," replied the Canadian, "seeing that we now grow towards £0,000,000 pounds of tobacco in Ontario and Quebec." ; "You don‘t say! Well, well! The climate must be diferent in some parts from what they taught me. But look here, friend. You say Canada has about everything we have. Now I‘ll bet we have a livestock animal in Texas and Florida that you can‘t match." "What is it?" "It‘s a weatherproof and tickproof cowâ€"a cross between our native stock and a sacred Hindu cow." "Huh!" sniffed the Canadian, "We have a better mix than that in Alâ€" berta. Its name is cattalo. It is a cross between a regular cow and a bison. Stand any kind of weather up to the North Pole. Ought to make a great beef animal." â€" "Are you kidding me?" asked the Amer‘can. 5 Since the invention of high exploâ€" sives the world has sufered from many dangerous explosions, One of the worst was the blowing up of an ammunition ship in Halitax harbor. The sound was heard nearly two hunâ€" dred and filty miles away, while the shock was felt at an even greater disâ€" tance. 1 Some years ago a barg | gunpowder was gliding le i the Regent‘s Canal, near | Zoo, when, . wi \blown skyâ€"high. Another colossal bi sulting from the exple of dynamite at Johan plosive was loaded railway siding and through carcless bhan Two thousand people thousand injured, and ts @nd rendered homeless y total of this great disaste In less than a secoul damage was éone to the tune of more than a imiiâ€" Hon pounds, while some scores of lives were lost. The bang was heard eighty miles away. Explosions That Shock the World. vast amount of damage wrs done to property in the naighborhood, while some of the Zoo animails were literally frightened to death. ‘Hlo lonnd of this explosion was heard far beyond the iimits of London, The man who has co faith in human nuture is not to be trusted. E ing" the Man From ago a barge laden with as gliding leisurely clong Canal, near the London without warning, it was lives were lost, but & explocion of fifty tons »hannesburg. The exâ€" ided in trucks in a and was detonated was Ual I i of fifty to AS ty little h $3 SUn five 118