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A fresh lot of Salada Tea, “The Cup That Cheers.” MANTLES A fine stock to select from Made in the. newest styles, in the latest patterns of cloth. with Overcoats to suit the season. All sold ata. discount at 25 per cent. If you need an Overcoat. ‘ we cordially invite you to havea look through. Suits made to order on short notice, and agood flt guaranteed MEN’S CLOTHING PRODUCE Durham newest designs i, on which THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. ,' Stage Snow. Heâ€"There was nearly a bad fire at the theater. Sheâ€"How was that? He -'.l‘he villain lit a cigarette and toes- ‘ed the match into the snow. monds. Greatness. Greatness is self conscious. not in ,the ordinary sense of that phrase, but In the sense that denotes conscious- ness of its possession. â€"William E. 81- A Mean Jolt. Peckemâ€"So you want to marry my daughter, do you ? Youngâ€"Yes, sir. Peckem-7Hem! Are you aware that she strongly resembles her mother? Youngâ€"I am, sir. Peckemâ€"Then take her. young man, andâ€"erâ€"~be as happy as you canâ€"London Mail. dians, who 'seem to have inherited it from aboriginal sources. The belief is most prevalent in Cornwall and vari- ous parts of. Scotland. Superstition That Is Ancient. In many parts of Great Britain the superstition still survives that it is folly to save a drowning man, as he will sooner or later do an injury to the rescuer. The superstition comes down from our ancestors, yet traces of it exist among the Sioux and other In- Mesmerism. Frederick Anthony Mesmer. the founder of mesmerism. was a German physician of Merseberg. His thesis setting forth the science or mesmer- ism was published in 1766. Mesmer contended that the heavenly bodies dif- fused through the universe a subtle fluid. which acts on the nervous sys- tem of all animated beings and espe cially upon that of man. He gained a great number of followers and realized a splendid fortune. A committee or physicians and “philosophers” inves- tigated his pretensions, which were finally exposed in 1784. Notwithstand- ing this, however, Mesmer continued to have many friends and followers, so great was the personal “magnet- ism” of the man. Submarines at Sea. Equilibrium is almost as dificult to maintain for a submarine vessel as for an aeroplane. With modern large sub- marines the act of diving is performed when the vessels have headway. The bow is depressed by horizontal rud- ders. and the vessel moves obliquely downward. The desired depth having been attained. the steersman must. so manage the horizontal rudders that the vessel shall practically maintain its level; but. in fact. its course be- comes really an undulating one. There must be no movement of men or weights in the vessel without immedi- ate compensation to restore and main- tain the balance. else the submarine may dive to a disastrous depth. Man- ual control has been found better than automatic control. In a Japanese Sleeping Car. It was at night we had our first ex- perience in a Japanese sleeping car. The track is narrow gauge. and the standard sleeping cars have six seats running lengthwise, each seating two passengers. with a center aisle. The upper berth is the regular Pullman style, and a section will accommodate two passengers. The night was during the extreme heat of midsummer, the car was crowded, and in addition to the regular curtains each berth was provided with a mosquito bar, which added to the general discomfort. Pas- sengers were taken on and let down at all stops, so there was a constant pro- cession through the aisle all night. Part of the car was reserved for local accommodation, and those who sat up smoked incessantly, so that long before morning the atmosphere became in- tolerableâ€"Railway Age Gazette. "Long ago. But you don’t know a father’s troubles. My children are at the age where if I use slang my Wife says I’m setting a bad example. and if I speak correctly the kids think I’m a back number. Which would you do?” “Difficult? Why. they’ve all passed the measles and teething stage. have they not?” “How’s the family?” one inquired of a happily married west sider yes- terday. “Well, my children are at a diflicult age now.” Father’s Dilemma. A parent’s“ life is one long responsi- bility. It’s a wonder that so many 01' the genus discharge their duties so acceptably. A writer in the Cleve- land Plain Dealer has discovered an- other parental problem, or perhaps he merely calls attention to one which many fathers have discovered for themselves. “Well, as a rule I suppose it would not be taken more than once. You see. my mother and I are thinking of taking a trip to Japan, and she thought it would be nice if I could find some one who would be willing to go as a sort of traveling companion and maid to her in return for having her expenses paid.” “Oh! Well, you just tell your home- ly mother that when I wish to hire out I'll look for some other kind of a job.”-â€"Chicago Record-Herald. long journey with me?” “A very, very long journey, Fred?" “Yes, a very. very long journey.” “Yes, I will go with you. Of course I-I suppose it is the journey that a man and a woman take together only once ‘in a lifetime?” Not Going That Way. “"- “Miss Adkins. there is something I desire very much to ask you.” "Oh. M r. Willistonâ€"I mean Fred- I‘m sure I should be delighted to heat -that is, 1 mean what is there thafi You can possibly wish to ask me?” “Would you be Willing to go on a 22"» .-- ,_ $295234; Later I travelled on a local train be- tween VVatrous and Winnipeg, and I determined to watch if all “train agents” on the G. T. P. Were as polite as the first one I saw. I was not doomed to disappointment. He was even more courteous and consxderate of every passenger.â€"Va.nkleek Hill Review. I I I watched the first “train agent” I travelled with and he treated every passenger in the car m the some court- eous manner. It was pleasing to see it. and I tell you it pleased the tra- vellers a mighty sight better than the old time poke in the ribs. If you rre going far on his train he will tell you about the hour you will get to your journey’s end. If the trip is short he will tell you two, three or four stations as the case may be, _ and hand you a hat check. In the West to-day the "train agent steps up to you and makes a pleasant remark about the Weather, or bias you “the time of day” and concludes with, “Your ticket. please.” He waites patiently till he gets it, and then invariablv says, “thank you.” g The train conductor has nothing all: ; all to do Wlth the handling of tickets: ; or cash. His business 15 to manage! F his: train and all the officials who np-l‘ {ex-ate the train. His authority ,is at»; i solute on the train. 9 “I.“ him. I was more particularly interest- ed in him because uf hlS extreme po- liteness to. and consxderatlon for, his passengers. The whole duty of the “train agent” is to look after tickets and fares. and to keep a close record in this regard. He is an officialthat was new to me and I was particularly intgrested in The tickets and fares are all collect- ed by an official known as the “train agent”. The Grand Trunk Pacific has a new system of collecting t'ivkots and fares on the train. This “my $139111 :1 small afl ii). but 3011 have no idea how handsome :1 1111101 car looks \\ hon lighted up if there is nothing to distimwe the hwauty of the intmim. It 11 .13 :1 11-1.- elation to 1119, and I ((111113 not but ad- mit, rhat this V1 as :1 strikin" example of what, attention to small details meant. in the operation of a greab rail way. IlefL \Vinnipeg: at (‘3 p. m. I had myseut reserved in \Vinnipeg. and boarded the car at 5.45. I removed myeoat. and hat. and was about, to follmv my usual custom of. hanging them up when the train porter approached and Luuk them from me. I noticed he did the same with all the other passengers. I later made in- quirieszmd learned that the instruc- tions to the porters are that no cloth- ing. parcels, hats 01- baggage are to be permitted tn disfigm'e the “parlor" car. All that can he unmoved hy the porter he will Lake pharge of. Pass- enger-s may retain such as they wish in their sezitw, but, nmhing is to he hung up or placed in the aisles. It seems to me that, a few personal experiences on the Grand Trunk Paoific may nut be out of place here. These incidean will Pxplain what: 'I mean \\ hen I say that I was delighted with the. :e’u'vicv. From \Yinnippq \Vesn to Edmontun I travelled over the new line of the Grand Trunk Pacific. To my mind the Grand Trunk Pacific is the last word in the railway world. A finer roadbed, more luxuriant trains, or more courteous and efficient. employ- ees. I have newt-w seen on railways, either in this (minim-y or in the count- ry tn the south of us. On Monday night .Mr. James Matthews, of E-gr-emont, received a telegram from Saskatoon stating that his son. William E. had been accidentally killed at Merengo. Saskatchewan. The message was signed by Mr. C. .D. Fisher, Super- intendent of the Railroad on which the unfortunate man had been en- gaged. Mr. Matthews wired back to have the remains sent here for interment. The deceased went West seven or eight years ago and has not been home since. He was nearly thirty-two years of age. No panticulars other than those given above have been received by the family here. We sympa- t'hise very much with Mr. and Mrs. Mathews and family in their sad bereavement. The Christian Commercial Trav- ellers’ ASsociation have con- templated a good Work in Owen Sound. This Association has un- dertaken the work of placing a Bible in every hotel bed-room in the Dominion: Frank A. Douglas. General Secretary, Visited our town this week and obtained the consent of all the hotel proprie- t-ors placing? 23:2 Bibles. The As sociation organized in March, 1.011 and have placed to date over 9000 Bibles in Ontarioâ€"Owen 'S‘d, Sun. BIBLES IN AN EDITOR‘S EXPERIENCE We have a number of stylish trimmed hats we are offering at a very low price, almost all colors, in- cluding a number of black velvet toques and hats. you to see these bargain hats Every hat must go at this sale commencing SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd. It will. pay Big Clearing Sale of Mid-Winter Millinery HOTEL ROOMS. SPENDING OF THE INCOME ”’3 Left- over vegetables except potat- 39 I oes, if in small quantities. may be V- i added to the stock pot in cold weather d- f _or they may be made into a salad. To 19} make. the salad. cut the vegetables in- ,Is ,5 to dice, add nuts and salad dressing, il ,3 serve on lettuce. leaves or in hollowed I beets or tomatoes. Tumatoes are in- ? valuable for flavoring meat and fish, w s . . . is l sauces or soup or combined With rice i or potatoes. Lt! Cold fish. shredded and bone, to- ‘s E gether with bread crumbs, seasoning :e l and egg for binding, may he made into ')_ fish balls and served with sauce, )_ , crea mad and served on toast or bashed i with potatoes, fried brown underneath and turned out like an omelette. i v Edson, Alberta, the first divisional point on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway West of Edmonton, has be- come a busy point. Teams are leaving every day for the Grande Prairie country. Up in. the Peace River Dis- trict road houses have been erected and good accommodation is afiorded for travellers, and ample provision for the accommodation of horses is assured. This route is the favorable one to reach the Peace River country at this time, and it is surprising to see the num ber of people that are going in. And there are many other cooking economies.â€"Rose Rambler. Pieces of stale bread may be used for toast or cut into squares and dried in the oven for croutons for soup, or they may be dried and rolled into fine crumbs to be used for scallops. So boiled or poached eggs left over, may be cooked hard and added to hash or salad. Sour milk and cream may be used in making hosts of good things. One of the best salad dressings I know is made with sour cream. The water in which meet has been boiled should be Used for soup stock. Chicken bones may be boiled, the soup strained off and the meat put into it with apple. onion curry powder, salt. pepper. and a little flour and used as a. curry and served with boiled rice. Cel- ex-y should all be utilized, the leaves and rough parts for soup flavoring. the outside stalk cut into pieces and stew- ed for a vegetable. to be served with whit sauce, and the heart served raw with biscuits and cheese. The French are the greatest econo- mists of all in the kitchen and the best . buyers of foods. Not a flaw escapes them and not a son to much do they ‘ give. But then they go to market ;' and from store. to store examining and _‘ comparing, not depending on. the tele- ! phone. By the way. I have heard f two or three women complain this g week that when they rang up their :‘grocers they had difficulty in learn- ' ing the price of things untill they had i told their names. That looks very ; suspicious. The French, too, are :- depts at made-over dishes. One nev- er is quite sure what is in a French f salad, but the result is so satisfying ; that one does not care. If people are wasteful it is sometimes because their attention has never been called to the subject, and the womm Whose income is small and who is anx- ious to make the most of it will wel- come a few hints about using food that is to often wasted. '- The most nutritive part of the po- tato or carrot is next to the Skin, yet most often that peeled away in thick slices. Potatoes have by far the best flauor when they are boiled in their skins, and this nutritive part is saved. They should, of course, be peeled be- fore being sent to the table. Carrots may be boiled in their skins like beets and thrust in cold water and the skin rubbed off. Then they may be. re- heated. Left- over potatoes may he made into many different dishes, as potato cakes, creamed potatoes (cut in to dice and reheated with cream sauce; Delmonico potatoes (Alternate layers of potato and cheese. covered with crumbs and hakedh salted potatoes (sliced, seasoned and browned in fry- ing pan). good meal from raw materials, [but when it comes to any re-cboking in different; form or to using up odds and ends, they are nonpluwed and take the simplest; expedient. of not using them at all. A wise man said to his daughter on the eve of his marriage, “If 3 on will promise to spend five minutes each moring in your kitchen, inspecting your cupboards and seeing that noth- ing is wasted, I will give you a sub- stantial extra allowance for yourseif and your household expenses. Money can disappear with alarming rapidity tln-ongh the kitchen coffers. \Vaeiv is u prodigal ‘ Spender. The cake that ha: Dccu left on the shelf in- stead of being put in the cake hm. be- comes dried and is thrown away. the the toast left from breakfast, perhaps four or five pieces, is ”put away,” as a. German cook 1 once had to deal with used to say, and which I soon learned meant “thrown away,” the meat not used for so long that it must be thrown out: the. fruit and vegetables left carelessly .‘thUC in the heat: and the multitude of haltâ€"overs that in so many kitchens find their way to the garb'age can. all represent direct loss in money. Mns!‘ cooks can get up a. mu...) _,,., .1 February Ist, 191‘2.