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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-07-30, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS. • ► i 1 • • 1 1 During the last three or four years the cult of the monster war ship in all the great maritime coun- tries has effected a new era in naval construction. Is this big -ship idea altogether scientific and sane or is it a kind cf temporary internation- al craze' It is predicted that, fol- lowing the lines of btructure now in vogue, vessels will be built that will make the war ships of to -day seem puny and futile. A few of these monster Goliaths of the sea, it is claimed, will be able to sweep the ocean and defy the world. It was in 1905 that the new spasm for the bigger ships began. It was started by the British war ship the Dreadnought, an fncrease at one step of nearly 4,000 tone in displace- ment, or total weight. The chal- lenge was, of course, accepted by the other great navies of the world. The United States navy, the French, the German, the Japanese, have since then in each case been build- ing ships decidedly larger than the Dreadnought, and some 4,000 tons displacement larger than any of their own previously built vessels. While the largest previously built Japanese battle ships had normal normal displacement of 19,000 tons, the Aki class of ships now have a normal isplacement of 19,000 tons, and later boats are to be about 21,- 000 tons. Brazil, struggling to fall into line, has three vessels under construction of 19,000 tons. The in- oreased cost of individual war ships during the last three years is no less remarkable. The cost of the Dread- nought, ready for service, is said to have been about $10,000,000. The now German ships aro to cost about $9,000,000. The new French ships of the Liberte class about $10,500,- 000. Tho two new United States ships the Delaware and the North Dakota, will cost, when armed and ready for service, about $10,000,- 000 each. Sir Wililare H. White, late naval dire^tor under the British Govern- ment, in an article in the June Nineteenth Century, discusses the whole platter in a way that cannot fail to command w,tention. A good nay things,ne—says, have to be taken into account besides mere comparatives bigness. Is there to . be no limit to the proigious costs of our modern navies? And ships have to be manned and maintained as well as built. Besides, there is the question as to the "Goliath policy" of concentrating so large a part of the naval force on a few individual ships, however stupendous in size and power. As Sir William says, other and formidable risks besides those incidental to artillery- attack attack have to be encountered in modern warfare. Under -water at- tacks—by submarine mines and tor- pedoes --cannot be regarded as un- iu.portant, considering what hap- pened in the Russo-Japanese war. The larger the ship the larger the area exposed to under -water at- tacks. Remembering the fact that on one day the Japanese lost two out of their six battle ships by the explosion of submarine mines, it cannot be disputed, says Sir Willi- am, that an extreme concentra- tion of fighting power in single ships of enormous size and cost may be accompanied by large relative loss. "The march of invention is increas- ing." That is another fact that has to be borne in mind. There may yet be hit upon some comparatively inexpensive contrivance that will make the biggest "monster" seem ridiculous. f BET(' ER STILL, h s life her her he wouldn't give, But this is what he gave her— An insurance policy on his Ile, MaJe out In his wife's favor. MENACING. An. ther corn ,r' of the warm n ghls t+ that you may forget to go to bort ',rill the early morning tight wakes you u,• ut the h.4mul e.; 4 it Ibe front parch. Just he happy on the way; Trouble—don't you greet it. Set your hopes on the brighter day, But. walk along an' meet it Mla•emi —"nos; e. 1 Ih ught t t.pld yen ret to eat your candy till rafter din - in,. • \larg e --"l r., n.,t eating it, mam- lra; lin on'y suet, : t the juice. , Mrs. Eli• ks : ,1;;a think, Mary, hoe- le. r,h!, • The p,.,.r man pas f , e limb frow. limb'" Mary.: '•l,nr' uhf, n :rin• and men so EQUALITY IN CAPACITY All Service Ranks the Same With God, and With Him There is Neither Last Nor First Tho parable of the talents—Matt. xxv. 14-30. The question of rank has been the perpetual heartache of human society. The Orient has solved the puzzle of caste. The West has solved it by democracy. The West with its democracy has a part of the truth. A man's chance in lite must nut be determined by where he was born or by his in- heritance, but by his personal worth. Every man must have a full chance to ho all the man there ra in him to be. But the East, with its clumsy caste system, also has a part of the tiuth. Inequality is a fact among men. When the West, as it has sometimes done, interpreted demo- cracy to mean equality among all men, it has fallen into grievous er- ror. Equally in opportunity, vari- ety in ability is God's law. Jesus spoke the truth, There is the five -talented man. Homer saw him and named him Ulysses—there was found none who could bend his bow. Scotland found him at the plow and his name was Burns. There is the man to whom God has intrusted two talents. We know him better. He lives in our block. His name is legion. HE IS THE AVERAGE MAN. He has a chance in the world. For of him is humanity principally made up. He makes up the armies that fight. He makes up the force of men that till soil, hold the levers of commerce, boar the burdens of trade, fill the churches, crowd the schools, build the home.; of men when the great children are to be born and will make up the vast multitude in heaven. God has a great need of him, and, as Lincoln said, "God best loves the common people because He has made so many of them." There stands sullen and despair- ing the man to whom God has giv- en but a single talent. I have met him in college. He traded all his patrimony to get there—he would be a scholar. Now the tra- gedy begins. Trios he ever so hard, he is always at the bottom of the class. Ho goes into a profession and he is a failure in the eyes of men. In business he never gets ahead and constantly the tempta- tion is with him not to use the tal- cnt he has. And yet somehow he must not fail in his place. The heroes have done almost all they can for the world ; the future wel- fare of the world as in the past hangs on the one and two talented nien doing their beat. That is a photograph of the world and note, Jesus drew it—I did not. Ho saw and called attention to the fact of inequality in this world. Moreover; he gave no hint of con- demning it; HE PROPOSED NO LEVELING. There is no such thing as equality in capacity between roan and roan. No law of larger liberty, no eco- nomic or socialistic scheme, no state of lawless anarchy can ever make men equal—God made them other- wise, and unequal they will be to the end. Christ says the station in life is not the real difference in men, but the way they fill their station. Re- ward is based on faithfulness. You are paid not for what you do, but how you do. This truth is the one needed in our time. The truth of the parable is with your talent be content. Use it well and God will pay thee full wage. The ten -talent man can have nu higher crown. In his small church the country minister may hawcan you expect the water to carry work miracles. In your handicraft it J you may do great things. GettingAfter this lecture I take the pupil un is not getting on. Tho coming man is the becoming one. Hero lies the hope for the man of medi- ocrity or one talent. Greatness de- pends on service. REV. N. McGEE WATERS. text it would read "a lad of fair eyes." 13. The Spirit of Jehovah came Mightily upon David—This was con- sidered as the direct result of the official anointing. It began at once es en though the ceremony was in secret, and in contrast to Saul's temporary and intermittent faith- fulness was from that day forward. Ranhah—It will be remembered that this city was Samuel's home. LEARNING TO SWIM. Danish Expert says it can be Done In Fifteen Minutes. When I was a life-saver, says Rolf Wisby, I started to teach swimming on a system based on what I had learned as a cadet in the Royal Dan- ish navy. Eliminating the conven- tional rules, and simply working on the basic laws of nature, any person can learn to swim in fifteen minutes. This is my method : You are my pupil now, and we are standing on the beach facing the sea. First of all, the ocean is your friend. It wants to carry you if you will but give it a chance. If you want to "live" in the water you must Re down to your work ; you must straighten out your body full length. Look at the fishes. Have you ever seen a fish making a knot of itself ? The water will not support you if you tie yourself into a knot. Lie down on your back here on the sand ; straighten your body like an arrow ; raise your chin as high as possible. In this position the ocean will float any human body almost any length of time. Why? Because every square inch of your body sur- face is "spread" upon the water, so to speak, giving it a chance to support you properly. Your head weighs about twenty-five pounds. Now, the minute you raise your head—and every beginner does that instinctively to see where he is— you go down. You are simply try- ing to break a natural law that re- fuses to be broken. As soon as you raise that twenty-five pound lump of bone from contact with the water, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERY ATIO AUG. Lesson V. David Anointed at Bethlehem. 1 Sam. 16. 7. Verse 1. How long wilt thou mourn for Saul—See 1 Sarn. 15. 35. Samuel's life had been thrown in mail that of ,Saul by n long line of circumstances through many years. Saul's downfall was a personal grief to him. But he was still God's prophet, and as his agent any indulgence in an individual sorrow would be wrong. He must now take his part in God's selection of Saul's successor. I have rejected him—The sen- tence has been passed, though Saul is still recognized as king. Fill thy horn with oil—Oil press- ed from the olive was one of the staple products among the He - brows. Its uses were so constant and varied that it may possibly have been commonly carried about on the person, and an ordinary horn was a most convenient recep- tacle. It is probable, however, that the use of specially prepared oil (Exod. 10. '23-25) in the anoint- ing of the kings was already the custom. in that case the oil would be holy vii. and the horn a sacred vessel used by Samuel only on cere- monial occasions. Jesse—A descendant of Ruth, the Moahites, and Boaz of Judah (Ruth 1. 17). Bethlehernite—One who lived in Bethlehem. This is one of the ear- liest references to the town endear- ed to all Christians as the birth- place of Jesus. It was situated on a hill about six miles south of Je- rusalem. It had a fairly import- ant part in Hebrew history and especially since the time of Christ has been a centre of interest. The Crusaders took great care to $ive it. protection. It is still inhabited by Christians. 2. How can I go t—This is not the only instance of the loss of courner on the part of one of Je- hovah's servants (compare Elijah 1 Kings 19. 2ff.). but it is hardly becoming to the brave prophet of 1 Sarn. 15. 1411. And Jehovah said . . . . say 1 em come to sacrifice—It. was not inconsistent. with the laws of truth for Samuel to say that he eame to sacrifice, for it was true, and God tells hint that on his doing so, he will then show him what else he shall do. it is sometimes agreed that anything short of the whole truth is of necessity deception, but Chat in his w isdom leads us but day by day, step by step, and well it is for es that we are not called upon to bear the burden of the fu- ture. We are under obligation to tell the exact truth even to our enemies, but we are not under ob- ligation to tell then everything out into the water as far as his chest. Then I fling him on his back and tell him to do exactly as he did on the sand—chin up, body straight, no motion. Every time a wave threatens to break over him I warn him to close his mouth. In a few Iwe know. Samuel's fears wore ig- minutes he realizes that the ocean, nored God tells him again to go which he feared, is really carrying and that as he obeys he will give him without the slighest effort on him further instructions as to what his cart. he shall do. - _. - Now extend your arms sideways 4. Elders of the city—They were and sweep them slowly through the responsible for its welfare. Soine water until hands touch hips again. of thein, at least, sat in the gate You must turn the palms so as to as judges, and from here they came get a purchase on the water. Sim - to meet him. ultaneously, you must raise your Tretn'Aing—The unusual sight of knees, not out of the water, but the old "man of God" indicated an spreading them as far apart as pos- errand of great importance and Bible while raising them almost flush perhaps of disaster to the city. with the hips. Now give a long, 5. Sanctify yourselves—By meet- striding kick so that your heels, inp the requirements of ceremonial and not your toes. get a purchase on "cleanliness" with such washings the water. The kick propels your and abstinence as the lew demand- body forward. cd (Exod. 19. 10, etc.). Of course When n man has learned to float this would be accompanied by an and to swim on his back ho has inward preparatic•n of heart for the learned enough to practise on for . is the sum of knowledge possessed act of worship. some time. As soon as he is pro- by seventy-five per cent. of the And he sanctified—Samuel him- ficient at swimming on his back I 'country's cooks. This is regret - self superintended the preparation begin to teach him the side strokes, ( table, because books have been of this family, thus gaining the Op- then the English over -arm stroke, written about eggs, and only and when he has mastered these the trudgeon and the breast stroke. BEES MASTER 04' THE ROAD. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS !3Y RAIL l'80111 1 IIRE1.AND'S Si1OIt}}, IlappeutfUs in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish - meat. A telephone system is soon to be established in Enniskillen. During the past month there was a considerable increase in linen yarn exports of the country. It has been decided unsminously to confer the freedom of the city of Belfast upon Sir Robert Hart. In the Belfast Custot Court it was recently stated that Belfast was the most honest city in the United Kingdom. A further reduction of hours of work in the various spinning mills of Belfast has recently come into operation. Three armored cruisers, the Drake Devonshire and Carnarvon, recently dropped anchor for a short time in Belfast Lough, Bangor Bay. while entering his dome at Athenry, a man who had refused to give up a small holding he bad purchased was shot at and seriously injured. Mrs. Margaret Clearywasrecently remanded at Claremorria Pett; Ses- sion Court on the charge of murder- ing her husband, Thomas Cleary at Mayfield. A report from Buncrana states that swarms of caterpillars are appearing in the gardens there, stripping the fruit trees entirely of leaves, and attacking the berries. At Mullingar Quarter Sessions, the local council sought to evict some laborers from their cottages because they worked for a man who had fallen under the ban of the United Irish League. A revenue cutter on the Irish const seized a Dutch sailing vessel, on which were found 3,577 pounds of tobacco, 50 pounds of cigars, and $1,020 in Irish banknotes humus the names of Cork traders. Ald. R. J. Shilleday, a County Down man and a former assistant overseer with the Bessbrook Spin- ning Co., has just been elected mayor of Warwick, Australia. A wedding party on its way home from Middletown to Derrynoose, near Keady, recently, were pitched over a ditch as a result of the horse attached to a cart on which they were driving taking head and cap- sizing the vehicle. The occupants escaped without serious injury. 4, --- DON'T BOIL YOUII EGGS. Illinois Experts bare Better way of Cooking them. The average housewife knows less about eggs than about any other article of food of animal origin. This information, with other glimmerings as to how to fry, poach or boil then, portunity for a private selection from among the sons. 0. Eliab—Probably the same bro- ther who is mentioned as Ellin' in 1 ('hron. 27. 18. Jehovah's anointed—That is, the c'ne who is to be Jehovah's anoin- ted. 7. But Jehovah said—Not by lot, nor in any other external way, but roved it. There they put the egg by an inward impression. St. Prieure, near Chambery, His countenance --This was no- France, where two colonies of bees into a pan of water that had boiled nothing +against him, for David in a state of insurrection have and then shut off the heat. The pan was "goodly to look upon" (verse routed everybody from the neighbor- was closely covered and the egg was 12), but it was not to he allowed hood and are still masters of the l allowed to remain in the water six to weigh against the fact that Je- road. minutes. By that time it was soft hovah had rejected hint. The cure of n neighboring place, foiled. Tests showed that when the Height of his stature—This was accompanied by a farmer, came to egg was put into the water tem - one of the determining facts in the take possession of two beehives, perature fell from 185 degrees people's choice of Saul who in ser- which the farmer loaded on a cart Fahrenheit to 170 degrees. II the eras external traits clearly was of drawn by .two oxen. Hai( way egg remained in the water eight superior mould for the high office of horse one of the hives fell off the minutes it was medium cooked and king. Now Jehovah proposes to cart and was broken up. The bees +the `valor temperature had fallen to use another and higher standard. on being liberated attacked the far- 162 degrees. If more time lie allow- s. Then Jesse called—He was co- mer with fury and stung him ao ed the egg may be hard cooked. operating with Samuel. From this violently that the poor man fainted The value of this process, more and from verse 10 it appears that and fell on the road. The euro lengthy than the customary one, is Samuel took Jesse into his confi- came to his rescue, but in his harry found in the flavor imparted, or deuce. The brothers, however, did upset the other hive, from which the i rather retained, in the egg, as corn - not later accord favid the re'er bees also escaped and attacked him spared with the egg that has received encs and honor which was doe the' in turn. lonly a hasty dab into any water Lord's anointed (i Sam. 17. :34), Workmen from the fields round i coffee that chances to be hot at theor nor did he ever claim it during the about heard the cries and rescued m meat. years which followed before gaol's both men, who had to be carried iso°s' w it es ordinarily pass neer death. The true meaningof his to a house and atended by a doctor. I the pages in good cook hooks that anointing, therefore. was probably MCBnwhile the bees attacked the refer to eggs, and yet the many not realized by either himor his oxen and stung them so fiercely that !varied forms of preparation and the 11. brothers. T_ the two beasts started on a mad great value n the food and its ft' be tlaken e ►intostNotaccount. ld enough pace down the road and were finally chigh, heaprice is ness, ess,reo� dor when 1� ng the subject etc,ppecl by a woman, who in turn He is keeping the sheep — Al- was aurnundcd not only by the! , close attention. though this was boy's work and un- bees of the first. two Nivea but ap 1 Eggs at twenty-five, cent(' a dozen der some circumstances very easy, arentl by aall the bees in the neighare cheaper than meat. not. of it was likely at any time to require 1 orhood, and had herself to be , course, as some suppose, that the cc.usage and action (1 Sarn. 17. 34). rescued by the villagers. total amount of nutrients obtained It Ras a splendid training in self- is equal, but because leas money is c• rcl'ane by which David later pro- fie savage have the be" berme Farmer's Mishap That Slopped Travel on a French Highway. A curious incident is reported from recently Dr. C. H. Langworthy, Ph. D., of the Department of Agricul- ture, has prepared a valuable paper on the subject. Two or three minutes. women and men cooks will tell you, is the time required to boil eggs. 'Plata'Platawrong, and the experts in the laboratory of the University of Illinois have that the highway 1(' ('tell SRA t h to e needed to furnish the meal. That f.ted. Sit down -- The sacrifice was fol- lowed by e Meal. more or less re- ligious in character. ]St. Ruddy—It is not clear whe- ther this means weather-beaten or having red hair. :1t any rate, it was deemed A mark of beauty. Withal of a beautiful countenance —There is difficulty in the tran- lation of this phrase. By the addi- tion of one letter in the Hebrew luxes ttcw it lives. in their possession and the inhahi- is to say. the expert figure that ante have to he well protected to i whereas erre pound and a quarter of t tan s he out in the fields. ibeefsteak, costing twenty five cents, ve —_4,I at twenty cents a pound. would he necessary to serve five grown per- she—"I sonde" Rhy they call it n'a'sons. in many families five egg, honcy•,on2" Ile -"Beene <e many folia costing ten cents. at twenty-five ge'nq to it for the saeete of Lie get,cents a dozen. would serve the same stuns;. ! number and satisfy them as welt. 11 11 It a fortunate thing ter une.hs't !the appetites demand twit eggs each, .hr w'•rht t!I'i t the other hail doesn t , doubling the cost. it still is twenty Iper cent, loss than the steak. 011144+111-1144+.41.41 Fashion Hints. GLOVE STYLES. Gloves are a very i'portenu'fao- tor of every costume, because it is unavoidable that they should be in plain view all the time. Many a pretty dress ihas been ruined by the gloves worn with it, all because the wearer did not know the eti- quette, as it wore, of glove wear- ing. If a few simple rules are learned the rest Domes easily. In the first place, colored gloves should be es- chewed, the term colored meant gloves of pink, blue, green and red- dish tints. Red -brown is allowable, especial- ly in winter ; brown and black and Fray are always good ; while white is seldom out of place and this year yellowish and pinkish yellow gloved are considered stylish. There is striotlx no occasion and no tiro when it is strictly good form and good taste to wear gloves of any color save those mentioned. If the dress is in a dark shade— green, navy blue, crimson—wear black, dark gray or brown gloves 0 1 all ordinary occasions; if the dress is in white or some light color, wear white or yellowish gloves. Brown gloves are good for all tailored sults, but they are not con- sidered dressy unless the whole cos- tume b3 of the saine shade. White gloves are always popular and absolutely necessary with full dress—except on rare occasions, when the costume is all black. Black gloves are good style but rather sombre for evening dress. It is not good taste to wear black gloves with white or very light dresses, ?articularly in summer. Yellowish and pinkish yellow gloves aro much worn, but only with colored dresses, and not in the evening. Of course, white dresses demand white gloves. Gray gloves at the moment are not much in favor, but when they are worn they usually accompany black tailored suits or gray cos- tumes, either tailored or dressy. Not only must the color be cor- rect and appropriate, but the ma- terial must also be taken into con- sideration. Silk and cotton gloves are at no time dressy. If they are worn it should be in the morning with a gingham dress or linen suit. They are allowable on a shopping tour; for calling nothing less than cha- mois is proper. Silk and cotton gloves should be chosen only in white, black or tan. Chamois gloves are rather infor- mal, though they are co for sum- mer. Besides that, they may be washed at home. They come only in two shades—the natural and the white, and the former is more po- pular this year. ('hamois gloves are worn with strictly tailored suits whether of cloth of linea, morning frocks or pongees. Suede gloves may be worn at any time except for full dress. In sun- nier they may even serve for dres- sy occasions, as they are so touch cooler than glace. Glace kid gloves are imperative for full dress—except in very hot weather—and may be worn with al- most any costume. Glace kid is expensive, but it wears and cleans well. lots of proud men lake off their hats when a man means busincs . \\'h^re n we man tors only n beauti- ful lawn. a man sees only trouble with it lawn Mower. Note the ev`I sults c.1 smok nu as i'.!ustrutod by th • ve'cano; it consl•int'y setters trcn crupt:whs -- Belisha Castle, the Irish resic:ence of General Sir \%•:Iliam Butler, which has been visited by burglars, is picturesquely situated in the county of Tipperary, in that Aber - low Glen in which the famous "Shamus O'Brien" took refuge on his escape from Ow gallows. Jame: Moore. a respected young farmer of Calverstov n, County Kil- dare, died recently in terrible agony owing to having eaten a lozenge taken nut of one of his pockets in which he had placed some arsenic he had bought to exterminate rats. Wise : "I'oor Buroughs ! ,it's worrying a great deal about debts " Newitt : "Nonsense! You'll never catch him worrying because he can't pay his debts." Wise: "He's not worying about old debts he can't pay, but about new ones he can't contract." That was an awful threat of a pugilist to his antagonist . "I'll twist you round your own throat un- til there's nothing left of you but the ends of your shirt -collar stick- ing out of your eyes." A lady asked the a('tronomcr if the moon was inhabited. "Madan?.'' he replied, "1 know of one moon in which there is always a man arid a woman." 'Which is that 1'1 ''The honeymoon."