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*WWWNXWWWWWW’OO‘fié g Large Sales Small Profits g RIGHT. Can and get a bargain. ‘ ‘ I ,1‘ " .nfl.w4 V 3 \L, JI‘I d Eé ~‘c ‘O B I ~ ‘ I '- THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Better Kept Quiet. . Patient (angrilylâ€"The size of your bill makes my blood boil. Doctor- Then that will be $20 more for steriliz- ing your systemâ€"Boston Transcript. p0 all the good you can and no harm where you cannot do good. “Not until after I have eaten them.” wearily responds the unwilling victim. Judge’s Library. Cost of Revolutionary War. Justin Winsor in his “The West- ward Movement" quotes Thomas Jet ferson as his authority for the state- ment that the money cost or establish- ing American independence was. in round numbers. $140,000,000. Accord- ing to the same authority, the war of the Revolution cost England just about five times the above figureâ€"that is to say. about $700,000,000. Thus it will be seen that there are several present day -Americans any one oi whom is worth much more than it cost to establish the independence of this nation.-â€"-New York American. Taking His Meals Out. “And do you take your meals out?" asks the village probe, who is garner- ing information from the former resi. dent who is home from the city for a few daya Accidents at Home. A man who, despite the fact that he has several grandchildren, is still fond of his club and the pleasures which lie beyond the domestic circle said in defense of his weakness that he went out to prolong his life “and to avoid dangers.” “According to a table re- cently published by an accident insur- ance company,” he said. “more than one-quarter of the accidents ‘happen at home.’ ” and in proof of the state- ment he showed this statistical record of accidents: At home. 25.9 per cent: pedestrians. 18.2; automobiles. 11.1: recreation. 11.0; horses and vehicles. 9.9; on street cars 7.2; on railway trains. 4.3; bicycles. 1.2; steamship travel. 1.0; miscellaneous, 10.2.â€"New York Tribune. The Travels of 3 Jewel. Fanny Kemble when in the United States years ago was persecuted by the attentions of a wealthy lunatic. When finally rejected by her he flung a package upon the table, exclaiming. “Well, at least take this!” and disap- peared The parcel proved to contain a very beautiful jewel. The actress was not long permitted to retain it. She saw no more of her persecutor, but did not remain under any sense of obligation to him. The gem was stolen from her before she quit the United States. She forgot all about it in the course of the years that followed. A very long time afterward she was in Italy. A peddler displayed the con- tents of his pack before her at Sor~ rento. There lay the long lost jewel. Through whose hands it had passed there was nothing to show. ; The Difference Between the Arc Light ' and the Incandescent. It is a curious fact that while the average man knows that. roughly speaking. there are two kinds of “elec- tric light"-the are light and the in- icandesc'ent lightâ€" he has a hazy notion for the difference between the two. When China’s first railroad of twelve miles. from Wusung to Shanghai. was built in 1876 we all remember that a' native whose business of tug:- ging boats along the river was threat- ened by the new enterprise deliberate ly walked in front of the train. His death. of course. accomplished the purpose of the mandarins in starting an efiective boycott against the inno- vation. The repetitions of this sacri- fice on the national altar (as they see it) on the Yuethan. Peking-Hankow and other railways have been frequent. The Chinese method of suicide among unhappily betrothed girls is to take an overdose of opium. Among men the larynx is opened or the victim hangs himself, which last is the meth- od ofl‘icial Peking favors for the po- litical non gratas.â€"J. S. Thomson’s “The Chinese.” A Coolie Will Give His Life For $200 Paid to His Family. The most grewsome feature of the fatalistic Chinese and Japanese char- acter-the quality which makes them terrible as well led soldiersâ€".43 their stolid view' of death. In China a coolie anywhere can be bought for $200. paid to his family. to jump from behind a mound and take the place of the quail or pheasant when the authorities wish to cause a scandal and stop shooting by foreigners in the grave districts. Incandescent lights. on the contrary. are produced inside small glass globes of various shapes from which the air has been exhausted. These lights are caused by the passage of electricity through a fine resisting wire or thread. which is thereby raised into a white or incandescent light without being consumed on account of the. absence of air. If air leaks in the filament immediately burns up. and that is the end of it. The term “arc" is ab old one adopt- ed years ago. referring to the suppos- ed Shape of an elet-triv spark in pass- ing from one carbun point to the oth- er.â€"~Harper’s Weekly. The arc light and the incandescent light difl’er wholly in principle. in brflliancy. in appearance and in the mode of use. The distinguishing dif- ference to an ordinary observer be- tween arc and incandescent lights may be. briefly stated thus: Arc lights burn in the open air with carbon stick or pencils. the points or ends of which are heated to a white heat and grad- ually consumed. ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION. LIFE CHEAP IN CHINA. Gold Filled. A gold filled tooth and your gold fill- ed watch case may be said to be in. versely analogousâ€"that is to say. your gold filled tooth has more or less of the tooth structure of enamel on the out- side with gold on a core filling the cen- ter. Your gold filled watch case con- sists of two sheets of gold, having be- tween each sheet some baser metal to which the gold is soldered As to the gold in the case, it may be of any fine-‘ ness and any thickness commensurate with the term “gold filled.” A jeweler will tell you that 10 carat gold is noti gold, having too great an admixture of baser metals. Many persons have the idea that the gold filled case is an amalgam of the kind instead of a “sandwich” or gold treated in the in- side with the base metals. Whereupon he fell to and made a quick and satisfying meal of the un- happy creature.â€"Cleveland Plain Deal- “But I’m quite sure.” said the latter, “that I’vegdone your house no harm. Besides. I saw the elephant stop here only yesterday and scratch his back against your dwelling in a way that almost overturned‘ it. And you didn’t say a word to him. Why should there be any difference in your treatment of as?” The wolf licked his chops. “There is a marked difference,” be said. “even if it is only a simple one. I can eat a goat. but I can’t eat an ele- phant.” ‘vn \VI.\‘ .8; LILKV I‘L‘4KIKVI Moralâ€"Don’t Be a Goat. H '. 7‘ ‘ w " ‘ : . -. V ‘ . , mi :1. large fmmly of sons and daugh- The goat Wmle out browsing thought Len-s, all well 1.0 do and well comwcted. lessly stopped and rubbed hls beadâ€" beta-“nu mentally unbalanced on “'ed‘ in the “'33 that goats haveâ€"against nesday evening of last week and at- the side 0f the house 0f the W011,- Out LempLed to cut; his throat with a pen- rushed the tenant and fiercely upbraid- knife. The old gentleman had been ed the hairy butter. in p09? health for some mgntbs and “But I’m quite sure.” said the latter, he ezvmently lnwoded 0V6!" his troubles “that I’ve’done your house no harm. nut/ll he'losthls rensnn and was not Besides. I saw the elephant stop here responsmle for his acuons. The . wound made was not a serious one only yesterday and, scram“ ms bac“ habit is not likely that at his age he nans‘naf- nnnr Amolhno {n 0 mon fliol- _ The cable car. drawn by underground ' cable. was the next innovation. but this about 1880 to 1890 was supplanted by the electric trolley lines. and these again were supplemented in many citâ€" l ies by elevated and subway lines in; which the cars were propelled by elec-' tricity supplied by a third rail. This. latter device has already been applied to extended lines of railroads. and it is not unlikely that the present cen-} tury will witness the electrification of- most of the railroad lines in thickly settled countries-National Magazine. The extension of modern manufac-‘ turing towns and cities demanded still greater conveniences. which were supJ plied at first by the omnibus lines; which up to 1860 were the chief means of urban and interurban transporta- tion. To these succeeded the street! railroad, traversed by cars drawn by one or more horses. and these in turn became wholly inadequate to meet the demand of the suburban districts. From the Jaunting Car to the MM Electric Railway. The first janntlng car was estabnlfi: ed in Ireland in 1815 by a Mil Carlo Bianconl, who settled in D11 and drove every day to Caher back, charging twopence a mile. this small beginning in 1837 he ha: established sixty-seven conveyanca. drawn by 900 horses. With a cry of terror the beast drew frantically back. shook on“ the curtain and fled across the (-ountry. vanquish- ed by a single blow from an oil lamp. It was a fortunate act. for the animal was no doubt a "rogue” and would probably have killed one or more at the menâ€"Excha nge. At this the hunter <{rx'ang to his feet and. seizing: the lighted lamp from the table, hurled it with- all his strength against the animal's forehead. The glass broke at the blow. and the blaz- ing oil covered the :mlmal’s trunk with a sheet of flame. The men had no time to catch up their rifles. They knew by the ap« pearance of the animal that he meant mischief. Lifting up the roof of the tent with his head he threatendngny, swung out his. trmxic at the was heat- est him. To prevent the invasion of mosqui- toes and other Insects that would be attracted by the light in their quar- ters the heavy (-cttou curtain which formed the door of the tent was closed, and the three friends were chatting across the table when suddenly the Whole tent shook. and as they looked round to see the cause the heavy cur- tain was roughly snatched away, and in the open doorway appeared the head of a big elephant. A Bad Elephant. 3 Lighted Lamp and 1 Lucky Blow. An odd experience fell to the lot of three men who Were on a tiger bunt- ing expedition in India, ROUTED THE “ROGUE.” you to see these bargain hats. We have a number of stylish trimmed hats we are offering at. a very low price, almost all colors, in- cluding amunber of black velvet toques and hats. MODES 0F TRAVEL. Big Cleaning Sale of 7 All the trains were running late dur- i ing the cold weather. In conversation ; With an engineer a repeater was told rthat he would not attempt to make time in very cold weather, as it was more imporant to get there safely than to try speed and have a wreck. Coming from Toronto to Guelph on Friday, the engineer on a Grand Trunk train telegraphed back to the next station that he had passed over something. and asked the section me: to investigate. It was found that about two feet of rail had broken ofi short. Had the train been making up time, or even running on schedule time, there would have been a wreck. with probable loss of life. That ex- plains why almost every train was late last weekâ€"Ht. Forest Rep. l mu H. 15 mn- uxeiy that at his age he. 1 can recover from the shock to his sys- tem. His injuries were attended to by Drs. Thompson and Smith. and he was looked after since the affair by Messrs. J. J. Hall and Wm. Gamble. On Monday it was thought advisable to send him to the Orangeville jail and he was committed by Police Mag- istrate Rutherford and taken to the county town by Constable Hamilton and J. J. Hall. Any of his family would have taken charge of him but he refused to go with any of them. The old gentleman is very much run down in health and the chance of re- covery is extremely doubtful.-â€"Shel- burn Free Press. \Vm. Mam 80v of a he! February 29th, 1‘912. )DE ne of the pier Amaranth. wlu _. and is the fat;