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Must Have Room. MacFARLANM 00. Do your papering now when the men are not rushed . DURHAM CHRONICLE GIVE rs NEws. Isn’t it time that a lot of the small talk and nonsense was left out of print, some newspaper correspondents seem to have no higher conception of their duties than giving little jibes at sensi- tive members of the small circles in . which they move. \\'hat the public want is news, reliable news, and the “ what we would like to know” so . often tacked on the tail end of a news' budget is of no earthly use, and cause‘ the pious editor to feel like swearingl when he sees the stuff in print. Not one in a thousand of the readers of a paper cares a continental whether Jim drives along a certain sideroad fre- quently, or Mary Ann puts her hair in curls on Saturday night. because she1 expects somebody on Sunday. Our fathers and mothers had their court- ing days. and the sensible members of the present generation are going to have theirs. even should there be half- baked wind jammers to think them- selves cute by putting it in print. Give neWs to the public, and let them im- agine the small talk. Publishers them selves are largely to blame for allow- ing so much gossip to appear in their columns. Durham, March 12, 1903. PUBLISH \Vaoxonoixo. ' How anxious some people are to see the wrong doings of their neighbors put in print and told to the whole cir-I cle of readers : and on the other hand 3 how anxious they are that their own I dirty deeds may be hidden from pub. lic knowledge. \Vhats’ sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and as hundreds are paying a dollar a year| for a knowledge of the local happen-’ I ings. it seems to he the height of im- pertinence for any one to interfere. with the press. and assume a dictato-i rial attitude in trying togagthe editor- ' if a man is guilty of wrong the editor: himself should he the best judge as to; whether the matter he made public or: not. and no man should presume to' dictate. in fact the writer is very strongly of the opinion that the publi- cation of all wrong 'conduct would ' have a good effect in keeping straight a large portion of theconununity, who otherwise feel free to follow the evil, tener of their ways. knowing there’si very little likelihood of the press giv- ing it publicily. Yet the miscreant often escapes out of consideration for a number of respectable relatives. who have nothing to do with his mis-deeds. Brv Yoca wa BEER. In company with a gentleman a few days ago. the question of drinking came up incidentally, in fact the idea was forced upon us by the presence of a couple of young fellows who went too drinking room. evidently to wet their whistle-while the day was young. This led to a talk about the treating habit. and the evils that grow out of this portion of our modern society ideas. The gentleman in question, said he would never accept a treat nor give one, but would buy a drink and pay for it whenever he wanted it, and let the other fellow do the same. Now this does seem to he a sensible way of of oranges, he would never think of treating everyone he knew to another ponmflf tea or dozen of oranges as (Leonie may be, .and yet that. same Dnvomsrs AND BOOKSELLERS. IRWIN, Editor and Proprietor. SANCTUM SIFTIN GS. Let {is show you how cheeply your house may be brightened. (3 room font we are cut- ting prices down to the lowest notch. nigfit he possessed of all mod- ern ideas of sociability, and would in the world. ‘ Not much. we aint ago- think nothing of treating a dozen if in to chaing our wais now. We spent need be at the hotel bar. If the treat- to many hard days in lernin tospel co- ing system were only abolished it rekt and to speke corekt without bein seems to us it would go a long way switched of now by a freke way of towards breaking the back bone of in- spelin all the dikshonary words, We temperance in the use of intoxicants. no the dikshonary right thru from ‘ Seldom do we find a man so addicted Alfar to Omegar andwe aint goin now i to the use of intoxicating liquors that at the age of seventy-nine to tak on to 1 ’he will spend nickle after nickle till any nufangeld noshuns. Them fellows " he has to be carried out and sent home what want to spel rong and speke im- 1 bereft of his reason. proper can do so if they want to but MIND YOUR wa BUSINESS. they 80‘ enuf j‘Cks now in the gaim l I 1 l This expression may lackin euphony, without hastlin round printers’ ofises ‘ but it doesn’t lack in sense. It’s a i prescription one can recommend to i everybody, feeling confident that a I careful application will produce a good E diyidend. It is true the returns can- i not always be estimated in dollars and 1 cents as a per centage of profit on the V hut. the minding Of . U I vnnn “v I n rnehul toget nu men to jine the sho. We aint in it nohow and there aint no yuse in fad fools comin round here to knock out our eddicashun. \Ve’re one of the kultured kind who noes a thing or too and we just as soon stir hot cofiee with our finger as to spel or speke improper. MIND YOUR wa BUSINESS. This expression may lack in euphony, but it doesn’t lack in sense. It’s a prescription one can recommend to everybody, feeling confident that a careful application will produce a good diyidend. It is true the returns can- not always be estimated in dollars and cents as a per centage of profit on the money invested, but the minding of ones own business is a first essential to success. The man with too many irons in the fire is sure to get some of them burned, and the man who pre- tends to run a farm, and tries at the same time to do a thousand and one other things is sure to come to grief soon enough. The same principle holds good in any other line of action. and no one with his eyes open will wait long to ascertain the truth of this paragraph. The successful man in any line is the man who minds his own business. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. The municipal ownership of all pub- lic utilities is a question that is being Inore and more considered and even now the wave has struck Durham with { more or less force. The advisability of the town owing and ope 'ating its own electric light plant is an absorbing topic, and every little knot of rate- payers who have the welfare of the town at heart is now discussing the problem. Municipal ownership 18 not a new thing now by any means. In a number of instances the municipal- ities are buying over or instaling the light plants and the waterworks and in the majority, if not in all cases there seems to be satisfaction with the re.- sults. Even the Bell Telephone Oom- pany is now in danger of losing a mon- opoly, owing chiefly to the extortion- ate charges of a private concern. A meeting will be held here on Friday night next to discuss the electric light problem, and we hope sufficient inter- est will be taken by the citizens to en- able the council to act promptly. A Baum»; on No'r A BRIDGE. A By-law has been carried to build a bridge over the. river on Lambton street. One season has passed by with nothing being done, and rumor has it that some of the Council think the old bridge is good enough for a While long- er. It is certainly not an ornamental structure, and those who examined it last year felt it a duty to condemn it as unsafe, and consequently unfit for" travel. The construction was laid? over for a year, owing to difliculties of getting laborers and material. The public bore with the delay, but we think now the time has come when preparations should be made. The By-law is passed, and the Council is not. going beyond its prerogative in getting to work at once. Moreover, the present bridge is not suitable, and whether strong enough or not, the obstructing fixtures are liable at any time to cause accident which will per- haps involve the. town in a law suit. SILICATE BRICK, ET(‘. This issue contains an instructive letter to Mr. Neil McKechnie, on Sili- 3ate brick and other manufactures. For some tflne Mr. McKechnie has been giving thought to these matters, and unknown to the great majority of people, he is quietly working towards the accomplishment of some great end. The write - always looked upon him as father of the cement business, a posi- tion to which he came. up outof great tribulation. \Vhatever the opposition may have. been to what the. unschooled public looked upon as visionary fads, we have the cement plant here now, and there’s no telling what may next be developed. The fuel question at the present time is quite an important one. and a solution may be found in the development of our peat beds. CREAM Smemxroas. The town has heard of late, on the street and through the press, of a 1 move towards the erection of a Cream ; Separator Factory. This industry has a wide future before it and there’s no doubt such an industry will get lots of towns to receive them with open arms and at the same time foster them to a certain extent by way of tax exemp- tion and a limited loan. A Mr, Broomall, of Philadelphia, was here a few weeks ago, and gave a few hints regarding his plansand the proposition he intended making. He is now at Council Bluffs Ohio, but intends to start for Durham about the middle of the month, in order, if possible to ma- . ture his plans, and start a Joint Stock , Co. for the manufacture of separators. This is a fine centre, and as employ- ment would from the start be given to about thirty skilled mechanics, it is worth while to give the subject more than a passmg thought. PHONETIC SPELleo. A little paper comes to this oils evrey wens in a hwil givin us poynters on a nu tangled kind of spellin they want 65 to rite aboutoand tok about and advokate as the best kind of spellin [From issue of “Social J ustice” Nov. 15, 1902.] Any set-back that the cause of pub- lic ownership gets in the city of Glas- gow, or any developement ot the situ- ation there that can be twisted to make it appear that public ownership in that city is not fulfilling the hopes of its advocates, is eagerly siezed on by oppbnents of the cause and made the most of. It is natural enough that this should be so, because experiments made by Glasgow in the way of muni- cipal ownership bid fair to dispossess private owners of profitable privileges in other cities the world over. Against an increased city debt, Glas- gow has new assets of £17,388,5$X5, and in addition to that controls franchises for which private companies would pay millions of pounds. In view of the statement given to the Toronto public last Week to the effect that the street railway in Glasgow has been run by the municipality at a loss, we may quote the figures given by the lord provost, who says the total rev- enue for the year ending May last was £614,413, and the working expenses £293,147. The sum of £111,956 was set apart for depreciation, leaving a gross balance of £209,310, of which £96,315 was paid to account of interest and( sinking fund, £12.50) to the corpora-1 tion for general purposes, and £100, 495 added to the reserve. The amount provided for depreciation will keep the service renewed, and the sum put to interest and sinking fund will clear the property of all debt in thirty-one years. It will be dillicult for the champions of private ownership to so distort these figures as to discredit _ municipal ownership. Before the city {of (llasgmv went into the telephone business the company charged £10 to ,each subscriber : the municipality ,charges £5 5s., and the company has ‘met this by coming down to £3 105., for a limited service at one penny per ‘call. The gas and electricity depart- ment met the requirements of their sinking fund and laid aside £58,8SN5 for depreciation. Altogether, perhaps the safest course the opponents of public ownership can adopt is to argue that nowhere but in Glasgow, Scotland. 'an alderxnen be found competent to administer import- ant municipal properties. This argu- ment will at least hold good until other cities make hold to try similar experi- inents. Taking Great Britain and Ireland as a whole, there was invested in muni- cipal enterprise in 1875 the sum of £93, (XXLOOO sterling, while now the amount is £330,0(l),000 sterling. These figures tell eon vincingly of the success of and growing faith in municipal ownership in the United Kingdom. Nelson, B. (1., has expended $191,- 580.61 on its water works system, and collected $64,639.96 in water rates at a cost of $9,673.66 for operating and maintenance. The city paid $51”) for the system as it then existed in May, 1897. After providing for the interest and sinking fund charges on the deben- tures issued and paying the operating and maintenance expenses, the people of Nelson have made a profit of $18,- 966.96 from its ownership of the water- works system. Add the profit (35:..- ,- 676.25) made in operating the electric light system to the profit ($18,9(fl3.96) made in operating the waterworks system, gives the people of Nelson $42,- 643.21 to the good since they secured the towns incorporation in April, 1897. â€"-Nelson Tribune, Nov. 1902. Jewels. candy, flowers, man--that is the order of a woman’s preferences. Jewels form a magnet of mighty power to the average woman. Even that greatest of all jewels, health, is often ruined in the strenuous efiorts to make or save the money to pur- chase them. If a woman will risk her health to get a coveted gem, then let her fortify herself against the in- siduous consequences of coughscolds and bronchial afiections by the regu lar use of Dr. Boschee’s German Syrup. It will promptly arrest con- sumption in its early stages and heal the afiected lungs and bronchial tubes and drive the dread disease from the system. It is not a cure-all but it is ‘certain a cure for coughs. colds and all bronchial troubles. ‘ You can get this reliable remedy at Darlings Drug .Store. - tl PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IN GLASGOW. Women and J owols. The following letter to Mr. Neil McKeehnie needs no explenetion. The nemes are withheld for obvioul reasons. ‘ NEIL McKnounm, ESQ" Dummy, ONT. DEAR Sagâ€"Mr. G. H. Davey, of London. has asked me to write you re the manufacture of silicate brick, peat fuel and drain tile. Please allow me to say that I have been on the Continent, for four years, in Germany and in Russia. We, , have a factory in St. Peaersburg. Russia, where we manufacture brick and drain tile and roofing [tile ma- chinery and machinery for making lime sand brick. “ Silicate Brick,” and we also make peat fuel machin- ery. Germany is the home of the silicate brick process. I can furnish you with all the necessary machinery to make bricks by this process, and will install the plant and start it for you if you wish. This process of brick making is all right. Bricks made to-day, are laid on the wall to- morrow. in fact it takes only eight hours to harden them in the vulcan- izing chambers. They can be made more cheaply than clay bricks. There is no risk, or loss in the making, and their tensile strength is greater thanf clay brick. A factory working by‘ this process works as smoothly and; steadily as a flour mill, as there is Ino shrinkage to bricks made by this process. They are as square when finished as the dies of the machine are which press them. The process which I will give you is the latest and is used throughout Germany. If you wish I can make you a sample of these bricks out of your sand. There would be a small charge for this pro- viding we did no business, but no charge if we install you a plant for their manufacture. Let me know how many bricks you would require made per day, and then I will give you quotations for the necessary ma- chinery required. Now with regard to the manufac- ture of peat fuel, I will say that I am the inventor and have a machine pat- ented in EurOpe for making peat fuel and I am about getting it patented in this country. having made some minor changes in the machine to suit the conditions in this country. Un- til I have applied for the patent (which will be soon) I will not de- scribe the details of the process this machine works on, further than to say it will manufacture the fuel un- der normal conditions for one dollar per ton. It will probably interest you to know that the heating value of peat fuel as compared with good coal is 4 to 3. or 2000 of peat fuel will give out as much heat as 15001bs. of Newcastle coal, or comparing it with the German brown coal. it is of the same value. You asked, could peat fuel be used for the manufacture of cement at Durham and elsewhere. Why not ‘2 We installed our peat fuel machinery on the estate of General Tolstoi, (brother of Count Tolstoi. the great Russian author. and social reformer) near Moscow. He uses the fuel suc- cessfuliy in burning bricks upon his estate. These bricks are shipped into Moscow. Also at Bailey Ostrof on the line between Russia and Fin- land our turf machines are used. They make the peat there to burn their 10,000,000 output of brick per year. Also at Ironowka. we have installed our machines. This place il some thirty miles from the Russian capital. They ship two train loads of peat fuel into St. Petersburg evey day. They also make millions of brick which they burn with peat fuel. This firm also make 72.000 '- Vodky” whiskey bottles every 24 hours. The glass furnaces are heated with peat fuel as well as making steam with it in their various boilers upon this great plant. This firm own their own railroad. from their works into the Yes. Coke can be made and is made from Peat Fuel. After inspecting an installation of our machines at Veteps, in Russian Poland, I went to Tvar near Moscow, to look into the manufacture of coke from peat fuel. It is a government works. There they carbonize the peat fuel, and use it in making steam for the locomo- tives upon the Nicholas Railroad from Moscow to St. Petersburg. They formerly used oil upon this line for making steam. Foundry men tell me that this coke is all right for melting iron, but personally I have never seen it used for that purpose. Let me know the number of tons of peat fuel you would like to turn out per day, and I will with pleasure let you know the cost of the neces- sary machinery. With regard to the making of drain tile. we were the first to make them in Ontario. west of Toronto. havimfl made them here by machinery in 1860. I have given this business a life study. and can furnish you with ma- chinery that will make the best tiles. 'â€"- H...” Rev. Wm. Lochead, Presbyterian minister died at Brantford. in his 73rd year. A bulletin says that. five men were burned to death during a big fire at Dawson City. The body of Mr. John Baker, of Crumlin. was found in a creek. 'He had been missing {or over a week. SILICA“ BRICK. Import of Seeds from England early this month. GRANULATED Fifty Barrels of Redpath’ s Glanulated Sugar at $4 .20 per 100 pounds taken from the Car at station Thursady, March 12th. H. PARKER, In Fine Kid. buttoned or laced boots, regular $2.75, moving at . . . . . . $22.00 Women’s Kid, buttoned or laced boot, reg. $2.00 and $2.25 moving at $1.25 Women’s very fine Kid laced, American make. reg. $3 {)0 moving at .. $2.00 Fine Dongoln Kid, buttoned or laced boots. reg. $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 {or 31.00 Fine Box Calf and Vic; Kid, laced, regular 33.00 moving at ....... Men’s Vici Kid Gaiters, regular $2.50, muving at ................ The undersigned having been restored to health by simple means. after suffering for several years with a severe lung affection, and that dread disease Consumption. is anxious to make known to his fellow unfit-rem the means of Hire. ’l‘o thoae who desire it. he will cheerfully send (free ot charge) a copy of the peraeription need. which they will find a sure cure for Consumption. Asthma. Chourrh. Bronchitis and all throat and lung maladies. He hopes all auiferera willtry his remedy. as it is invaluable. Those desiring the perscridtion. which will cost. them nothing. and Illay‘Jll'OVB a hlessin V. will please address, Rev. ED ARD A. WI N Brooklyn New York. Strictly Cash System. BOOTS and Shoes repaired neatly and promptly. In Paszoe Saunders’ Harness Shop. next door to Chronicle Oflice. S. A. RIDSDALE. Don’t Juggle Your Money. Jan. 21,â€"2m The above bargains are very worthy of your notice and if you are not too slow you will be able to purchase one worth double the price T0 CONSUMPTIVES. Boot and Shoe Repairing. Leave Your Measure for Spring Wear. CW Seeds! Seeds! Order and Repairing Our Specialty. STYLES FOR LADIES. STYLES FOR MISSES. STYLES FOR MEN. SUGAR ! PEEL. We can assure you that shoes you buy at our store will be worth more than you are asked to pay. Dominent Shoe thought DRUGGIST, - DURHAM. SETTLERS’ ONE-WA Y EXCURSIONS To Manitobn and Canadian Karin-won win have Toronto every TUESDAY during Each and April. 1003, if auflicient busineu ofierc. Passengers travelâ€"[in with Live Smock should take the trein leaving omnto et 9.00 p. m. Colonist Sleeper will bentuchod tomb train. For full nrticulers and copy of “ Settlere' Guide." “ . oetem Canada " orn‘_‘_B_r_itisb Colum- 2., no n_-:n -, Pauongors travelling without Live Stock would take the train luring Toronto at L45 p. m. bis. " 7 'apply Agvut, or to A usisum (‘rcnenl Pumngor A gem 71 Yonge St. Toronto. THE SHOE MAN. ‘W' .0 v-â€"â€"â€"â€" ,,,,, to your nearest Canadian Pacific A. H. NOTMAN GRANULATED h‘hvoblyl.