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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-08-20, Page 7i CURRENT TOPICS. A physician who has been attend- ing the in!^rnatiunal medical c.'n gress in Vienna says that he has determined that in many cases the breaking down of the nervti is really caused by the presence of large quantities of oxalic acid in the sys1u►. He calls the disease exalut'ta, a name that is nut nee, it the profession, and expresses the opinion that the rest cure will soon be a thing of ti past as a treat- ment of nervous e::haustion. In- stead of rest a stimulation of the muscular energies is needed. Probably a combination of the two treatments is what most of the sufferers should receive. They aro infinitely tired and incapable of prolonged effort of any sort. Com- plete rolaxetion helps them im- mensely, but, when it has brought sumo return of strength muscular exertion is highly beneficial. What special attention oxaluria may re- quire we do not know, but most men who have had an experience cf nervous exhaustion realize with - kelt the advice of physicians that they need rest, air and sleep. If they go into the country they are likely to supplement the rest with slight exertion, to get refreshing sleep because of the air and the ex- ercise, and subsequently to gain strength rapidly and exert them- selves more and more for the plea - .sure of using their muscles. They .are working all the time toward the normal condition of the healthy man. It needs no physician, the high- 4est product of the schools, to write the prescription, but a physician 1111000000000000000000004 YOUNG FOLKS THE LOST BIG BROTHER. From tho very first hour in their new house Albert Randolph was more interested in the speaking - tube than in anything else. When one is five years old, and has lived all one's life in the country, it is a great change to move into city apartments; and every one of the Randolph children, oven Leon, the big brother that Albert lost, was full of excited interest. Albert moved a chair into the hall and spent most of his time standing on it, talking down the tube. When the boll rang, he was always the first to call down, "Who is it, please?" Listening at the ' h.,e, he could hear a voice answer, "Express," or, "Is your mother at home t" The day after they moved, Lcon invited Albert to go to walk with him. In the park the boys satin came tc the borders of a large pond, where ducks and geese were eating Mead -crumbs thrown out by two girls standing on a little rustic bridge. Loon sat down on a set- tee close by, pulled a book from his pocket, and began to read. "I want to go home," he said, at last. "Let's go back and call up the tube." "Oh, no, not yet. Why, we want to go on and see more of the park. "I don't," said Albert. "I want to go home and ring the bell. Let mc, go alone. I know the way. You go right down to the end of this path, then rightwards till you come to the arch ; then you go out, and you can see the electrics on the avenue, and our house is right by the corner." That sounded right, but. Leon, reading, did not see that when Al - 1. ext said " 'gl t d " he waved in there. W'e'll find him all right, don't v:orry.'. They had not been standing on the corner lung when the policeman saw a big boy hurrying toward them, smiling joyously as he recog- nized the little one. Albert did not see Leon until the policeman said, "Here, who's this coming now 1" Albert turned, then dashed out into the street toward Leon, right in front of an automobile. Leon and the policeman both rushed d- irt, him, and met so squarely that all three narrowly escaped being run over. The auto swerved sharp- ly and just l)arely missed them, then sped on its way, tooting furiously. ' `O, Leon, Leon!" shouted Al- bert. "I'm so glad we've found you! But you'lhave to be more carefel next time you go anywhere, for if you got lost when I wasn't with you, there wouldn't be any one to tell the policeman, and it might be pretty serious, Leon !"-- Youth's Companion. CASE OF DOUBLE LIVES TIIE CONFESSIONS Oil!' A FRENCH DETECTIVE. The Good -Looking Young Specula- tor—Betrayed by a Picture Post -Card. "Probably one of the most curi- ous cases of double life," said a detective friend of mine, as we sat together in a Parisian cafe, "was discovered quite accidentally about twelve years ago. Among the most successful and lucky speculators in South American Stock at the time of one of the periodical booms was n good-looking young fellow of about four -and -twenty, who was al- ways immaculately dressed, who came to the Bourse almost daily, and lead a small office in a neigh- boring street. So immaculately who should showjust how it was rn h wears dressed was he,indeed, and so his left hand. "Be careful when gentle were his manners that. ho possible to take this cure when busi- • von cross the street," said Leon, soon obtaine ness was pressing or funds were low "and don't get run over." 'Mademoiselle.' the sobriquet of would soon be proclaimed a public "Course not—I'm big enough:" „Very few people, even in those said Albert. days, when fortunes were frequent - When When the boys had been out q lv made in the South Americanabout an hour, the door -bell rang market, had more luck that 'Made - A foreign wheat from Algeria, again. Mrs. Randolph listened. "Hello!" called Leon. "What is Russia, and ('pilo is a novelty to Albert doing?" our bakers and millers, who call it "He has gone out to walk with macaroni or durum wheat. The hir big brother. I expect him back durum wheathas the advantage of soon," called mamma. She laughed, being comparatively pest and insect lei she thought that Albert was proof, although black stern rust at- tacks it badly at times. Their only undesirable feature is a tendency t', deteriorate rapidly when grown under unfavorable circumstances. flourishes best in setni-arid soils. t also is distir tly desirable on ac- count of its -high gluten content, the basis upon which the relative etherts are founded. Good bread cannot be made in the absence of gluten. In Russia the durum wheat yields 13 per cert of gluten, in this country 18 and 20 per cent of glu- ten with prospects of reaching as thigh as 25 per cent. The ono pos- sible objection to this drought re- sisting wheat is the color and that bas been overcome by the introduc- tion of kneading machinery that bleaches the dough by means of air. The air is an effective and harin- kss bleaching agent and renders the bread much lighter and far store wholesome than bread that trCgs. quarter, where she changed her at - Oh, no, hut in a city they al- tire morning and evening. She had !tela not ben so treated. Durum 1 ways send lost children to a politer bad her hair cut off and made into , , his name bcir-g Adolphe Flocquet. This went on for more than fifteen months, when one day, as M. Floc- quet was crossing from the Place de la Bourse into the Rue Vivi- enne, he was knocked down by an down there, listening. omnibus and seriously injured. Af- About fifteen minutes later the ter having been taken to the nearest tell rang again. "Has Albert conic hospital it was discovered that this yet?" called Leon. j good-looking young speculator was "Not yet. You might come up and wait for hint," said mamma.A CHARMING LAD!', h•d I ntoiselle, as e •wns calle Some time later when Leon called well known in certain circles of up the third time, mamma thought•Parisian society, though not in fin - his voice sounded as if he were antisl circles. frightened, and she called, "Why, Leon, isn't Albert with Y°11.1 I And thus it was that she had thought you were playing. ome father aned dtmother tection f were undeor so r Her up." eon camp runtime up, and ox- impression, when she left home !Leon adding that he had been each morning, that she was employ - P ':d as secretary to the manager of tack to the park three times, and a well-known American commercial tip and clown the avenue both ways, undertaking, the business premises but that he could not. find Albert of which mere situated on the Bou - anywhere. letard des Italiens. It was discov- "Yon go down street and I'll go eyed that she had withdrawn a con- hind are more or less recumbent. up," said mamma, hastily putting siderable amount of money, part of There is never any difficulty in idea - on her hat. ''Ask tho first police- a legacy 1 man you meet where the nearestwhi h had been left her tifying a shark's tooth. just before she took her supposed Rays, or skates, have their mouths police -station is, and go there to situation, and it was with this lined with a sort of pavement of look for Albert. I'll do the same, money she had started speculations bony matter, quite unmistakable. , find hint one and we'll probably bl • u � which had been so remarkably sue- The wolf -fish has pointed teeth in side or the other." cesaful. She had taken a small the front of its jaws, and strong "Why, mamma, Albert wouldn't room in n street within half a mile crushing teeth in the roof of the get arrested!" cried Leon, in dis- of her home, in the Parc Monceau mouth. that, whereas the tnttlinery show -1 rooms were closed at half -past six or seven, the florist's shop at which Ole was employed did not close till almost midnight - "Often Gime. & -- urged upon her daughter to seek some employ- ment which would enable her to re- turn home much earlier. But she always said. 'Good situations aro not easy to find in l'aris, and I had better try and keep the one I havo got.' "One day Mme. 5—, who was rather an invalid and did not often go far afield, happened to be pass- ing along the colonnade of the Rue ds Ilivuli when her attention was attracted by sonic picture post- cards. Stopping to scrutinize them, whet was her surprise to trace AN ASTONISHING LIKENESS between a Mlle Vijlette, who ap- peared on several of the picture Fort -cards is very startling cos- tumes, and her older daughter. So strong was the likeness, indeed. that she bought ono• or two of the post -cards and took them home that she might show thein to her daugh- ters. When her eldest daughter saw them she gave expression to a sudden exclamation which caused her mother to glance up; and then from the girl's face she became sud- denly certain that the Mlle. Violette of the picture post -card and her eldest daught;• were one and the same person. "Back to her memory came the proposal site had made sonie years before regarding going on the stage. In the and the secret came out. Mlle. B. S—, as a matter of fact, was not employed at the florist's shop. She had been for a few weeks two or three years be- fore, but although her younger Sis- ter sometimes went as far as the shop with her, Mlle. B. 8— said good-bye and turned into the court- yard as though to enter the shop be the side entrance, but in reality slipped out through a passage and made her way to the studio of an artist, whose acquaintance she had made, where she very frequently filled in her time by posing, or in the summer not infrequently went oft for a day's excursion by herself. In the evening she sang for many weeks together at a certain cafe in the Champs Elysees, and, as a u matter of fact, earned a very hand- THE SUNDA 1v some salary by so doing, amounting to certainly ten or a dozen times l what she could earn as a florist's assistant. "Of course, her mother was very upset, but became reconciled to her daughter's mode of life, and nov- a -days is living in comfort in a pretty little house that they have purchased in St. Cloud."—London Tit -Bits. TEETH OF FISII. REAVEN'S LAW OF GRACE There Is Strength Out of Weakness and Help for M1 in God The one hundred thousand spec- tators witnessing the Olympiad at London were filled with wonder when they saw a mere boy, the smallest of the fifty-five competi- tors, win the great Marathon race Littleness was better than big- ness; quality than quantity. That the unseen forces of the will, pur- pose and faith aro mightier than visible powers was proven when I►avid niet Goliath, when the Jap- anese defeated the Russians and when John Hayes won the twenty• six mile race. Consciousness of weakness moans preparation, dis- cipline, progress and development and these mean victory. Necessity is called the mother of invention, therefore it the young man of wealth feels no necessity he will fail of the greatest achievement. Dante, Ruskin and Carlyle fought against the weakness of bodily ills till they attained the climax of in- tellectual greatness. The handicap cf blindness enabled Milton of Eng- land, Milburn and Mathewson of Scotland to behold visions of thought and beauty BEYOND THEIR FELLOWS. Prisons have palaces proved to minds like Paul and Bunyan, where they were inspired to produce pen pictures that havo delighted and blessed mankind in every land. Is tt not a sublime truth that there is a pathway upward for every one? No wonder that Paul glorified in hie infirmities, persecutions and distresses, for ho exclaimed : "When I am weak, then am 1 strong, for the power of Christ will rest upon me." Tho little child becomes strong because it stretches out its hand to the parent. The father is nobler when he bears his child out of dart ger into safety. So the sinful and troubled soul that stretches out its hands of faith to the Heavenly Fa- ther feels underneath the everlast ing arms and nestles in th^ boson& of forgiveness and fatherhood, and who shall say Clod is not happier and mightier because of his em- brace of helplessness? Do you feel crushed by the law .,f "the survival of the fittest" or that ''tine weakest go to the wall" t Heaven's law of grace creato3 fit- ness and ineetness for the highest inheritance. I)o you agonize in the convulsions of pain ? It is the divine hand lead- ing you to greater riches as earth- quakes reveal the GOLD IN THE TRENDED ROCKS. If God in nature can produce the diamond from the black carbon, the white lily from the black earth and bulb, the great tree from the tiny seed. He can bring purity out 01 sinfulness, strength out of weakness and heaven oua of hell. His power will enable the soul that trusts in Him to overcome dangerous here- ditary tendencies, untoward envir- onments, unspeakable difficulties. le that you may become the author of opportunities and the creator of circumstances, and, though, ab last you go down to ignominous death, your liberty -loving soul will go "marching on" through all mil- lenniums, in blessed companionship with Him who arose from the weak- ness of the manger, the cross and the sepulchre to become conqueror and ruler of all words. If we put our little crosses at the foot of His great cross, He will lift theta up until they become trans- figured into crowus of glory forev- ermore. EDWIN 1VII iTTI E11. CASW ELL. Vary 310re Greatly Titan Those of Any Other Known Creature. The teeth of fish vary more greatly than those of any other known crea- tures. 'Their teeth are not divided into incisors, canines, and molars, as in mammals, but almost every different kind of fish has differently - shaped teeth. Sharks for instance, have several rows of teeth, all ex- tremely sharp pointed. Tho front row stands up erect, but those be - wheat grows rather tall and has broad, smooth leaves of a peculiar whitish green, with a hard cuticle. The heads are comparatively slen- der, compactly formed, sometimes abort with the longest beards known among wheats. The spike - bets are two to four grained. The grains are hard. glassy. and of a translucent yellowish white color. /flies• are large and look much like barley. although many marked points of difference also are easy tr. detect. • +! - TREE THAT WON " l' i. \'I'c'If F11(E On the wast plains of Columbia and north of South America called savannas, which are parched with beat, except during the rainy sea- son, '.hero is one of the greatest of sst.ural cur'^sities—a tree called the "chap • ,," which is fireproof. It is the et stem of the Columbian berdsm: n to clear the ground by Paeans of fire for the new vegetation, which spring$ up so luxuriantly in if {twee regions after the rainy season. lit not even the intense. heat of a prairie fire affects the chaparro tree it survives the flames to 8001,1 a welcome shade in an other- wise t reeks. country. It is a small tree. seldom growing to more than twenty feet in height, with a girth Wabout three feet. it owes its curi- os& in•ilunity from fire to the nature d its hard, thick bark. The bark lir!► en the trunk in loose layers, which do not readily conduct heat to the more delicate parts of the struc- ture The natives believe that this tire grnwe only where gold is ahnn- dent in the soil below, and it ter• Minty is common in auriferous dis- kticta. station," explained mamma. a w•ig, whish she wore when at When Albert reached the end of !wine. the path, he looked back and waved "She apparently had a great gift his hand toward Leon. who w•as for figures and speculation," con- rsadiug, then turned confidently in tinned the detective, "and even - the wrong direction. The path was Nally Harried and became an no winding, there were several forks tive partner in a well-known firm he did not remember, and the arch of stock -brokers. But whether her was not to be found. At last he phenomenal luck or intuition, which decided to go back to Leon, turned ever one may choose to call it. has completely round, and started. He fs•llowed her in married life I am soon found a pond. a little bridge. unable to say. and ducks and geese ; there was a "Another instance of a double settee. too, but no big brother. A lift led by a visna& ens investigat- great lump swelled in Albert's ed and elucidated by inc some few threat. Leon must be lost' What would mamma say ? 0 dear, 0 dear ! Down the nath Albert hurried, this way aid that way, until he two daughters, the former of whom came out where he could see elec. was the widow of a Government of- trics on a busy street. He walked ficial who had died without leaving touch provision for his wife and children, beyond the very INCONSIDLR.11;LE PENSION to which he was entitled. The lady was a member of an English family of high social position, sone yr ars ago. in the very respectable quarter e' the invalides there lived in one of the newer houses a lady and her up and do•., n, but cooled not find any row of 'muses w it!luut stores. and, oh, what was the right num- ber t Th're acre not nearly right, he was sure. Some time later n policeman found a tearful small boy rubbing his eyes s.nd looking .about in won- members of which had slightly wa- der and despair. "\1hat's the mat- sisted her from time to time. ter he asked. '`Are you lost "As the eldest girl grew up she "Oh, no!" answerers Albert. try- determined to try and add to the ir.g not to cry. "i'm right here. I family resource* to some way. As but my big bret!.cr's lost. He was she was quite a good musician and sang well, her first idea was sing- ing at one or ether of the concerts attached to the cafes or places of amusement ; but so opposed was her mother to this that she appar- ently abandoned the idea and rurnher. and I --1'm afraid the setight a situation in a florist's on h, use is lo•t. too. for i can't fel , r•• of the (hands Boulevards. Foe it " .:'; her mother knew she and her -Ws!!, corse up here to P, ter y.•nnger sister. who was apprentic- Street• and we'll stand on the cox- ed to a fashionable milliner's in tho ncr. and see if vee can't fin(} the' .Avenue de l'Opera, left home daily lest hr,•th.'re and perhaps he can i f, r business. and. although the el - on a settee in t!, • park. and i went back and he vas gone." "Whew do you live t" "Bight by a corner, where there's nn ele: t rie bell and a speaking-, th.he. but 1 don't. reme•nhcr the Most fish have a greet number of teeth. The dolphin, for instance, possesses two hundred, but there are others --like the sturgeon-- wno teeth 1 which have i th at all. Almost all fish—sharks, especially ---shod their teeth frequently, and grow new ones to replace them. Se hate it 1111111 w'h„ is always praising hi►nself when he might be praising us. USUALLY. The tro ible with experience as an edneater is that it grade. tes its pupils at the brink of the grave. It is always easier to promise but- ter than it is to provide bread. The life of a saint is a living ser- mon. The Elder Matron — "Volt ehouldn t mind the baby crying a little. It strengthens his lungs." The lounger Matron - - "Oh, no doubt; but it weakens his father's religion so." '•Now." sr.id the physician, "you will have to eat plain food and not stay out late at night." "Yes," re- plied the patient, "that is what I have been thinking evsr since you sent in your hill." Little Girl—"lf I was a teacher, I'd make everybody behave." Auntie ---"How would you accomp- lish that Little Girl — "Very easy. When girls was bad I'd tell them they didn't look pretty ; and when little boys were bad I'd make find the hoese If he doesn't come der one. Mlle. It. 8—, sometimes them sit wan the girls, and when along pretty soon. we'll go into the r turned home very late at night, big boys was had I wouldn't Int them station and see if he's been brought it ea seasily explained from the fact sit vita tho girls.'' SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 23. Lesson %"iII. Friendship 01 !)avid and Jonathan. Cnlden Text. Prov. 17. 17. Verse 30. Then—For connecting facts read verses 4-30. David is in- tentionally absent from the new - moon feast at the court of Saul and sends Jonal,han to bear his ex- cuse and to watch the conduct of the king, and bring hint word. 1'c awaits in a field the return of his ft iend who is to signal him by means of arrows shot in a way agreed upon!. Jonathan offers David's apology and the scene of ligious meal. This celebration la it ea two days. David was absent on the first, but no comment was made till the second when Saul inquire] of Jonathan as to the reason. Had done him shame -That IP, David. Saul's spasmodic attempt. or. David's life has now osea con- firmed by a grim determinati )n publicly announced. 35. At the time appointed — Or, rather, at. the place appointed. 38. As the lad ran—Jonathan first shot some arrows and sent his page tc find them ; then as he ran shot one over Lis head as a signal to David. 37. Cried after the lad — Rut meant the word for David who was within earshot. Is not the arrow beyond thee?— Again meant for i)avid. The three- fold emphasis of the words may have been intentional. 39. The arrows—Three signal ar- rows were a -treed upon but the nar- the lesson ensues. rotor only sees fit to mention ono. Against Jonathan --Because he 40. Oo—Since the lad was entire - thought Jonathan was not only lv unsuspecting he could bo sent shielding David but had Made a hack alone, and thus an oportun- conspiracy to set hint upon the ity would he given David and Jon - throne. Athan to talk together. 41 David arose out, of a place to- ward the South—The old Greek text is probably the correct one. . It reads: 'David arose from beside the mound." This was the agreei place of n•eeting according to 1 Sam. 20. 19, of the same text. Fell on his face to the ground -- Tho courtesy and politeness of t•le Finn is inbred. It is never laid c: ide So here David, notwith- standing his intimacy with Jona• than, docs not fail to salute him as a subject would his prince. It was the custom to kneel and bow till the forehead touched the ground. David did this three times. They kissed one another—A com- mon salutation among men in the Orient. And wept—The He')rews were ac- customed to give open expression to their emotions. 42 Jehovah shall he between me and thee forever—He was taken as witness and was thought c•f as holding together the two par- ties to the covenant. MORi: DIGNIFIED. Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman—This was a far more sting- ing insult than any words which might have been aimed directly at Jonathan. An affront to One's mo- ther added intensely to the insult. Not only so, Saul's omission of hiftiself in the curse was an insinu- ation that he disclaimed Jonathan as a son. Son of Jesse --A common Orien- tal way of naming a man by ref- erence to his father. Thine own shame ... nakedness -- According to Saul, Jonathan's friendship for an aspirant t•, the throne not only dishonors him by setting his aside, but is a treason- able act against the chances of fam- ily succession. Such an act would make his mother ashamed of his birth. 31. Thou shalt not be established --The hope of every f.raelitc was to see his family line established in a position of honor ; his highest glory lay in a complete and honor- able line of descendants who should carry the family name and tradi- tions. Saul hoped to be seccceded be his son, but this was nut at all certain. There was no law of pri mogeniterc in these first days of the kingdom. It required no revo lotion to place David on the throne, for that office was still in the choice of the people under the direction of Jehovah. Fetch him --Saul assumes that Jonathan knows 1)as id's where- abouts. Shall surely die -- Lit.. "is a son of death"- an idic,m Of greet em- phasis. 33. Knew—Before he had tried not to believe it. and had denied it to David (1 Sam. 20. 2). Determined- it is now more than a passing whim on the part of Said. 34. In fierce anger—All the more intense because of its generosity. Not the coarse insults hurled at him but the shame done his friend was the cause of his anrer. Second day of the nr,nth -- The first day, or new moon. its the be- ginning of a festival which corre- sponded to the Rahbat.h festival and included n reunion of the differ^n. clans and fanlilis, and a scrrire "Good night, yor precious -Iamb !" said the &►other, with the liberty one sometimes takes, even with o ue's son, at bedtime. "Mother," said the small boy, be- seechingly. "if yon must call me something, wouldn't you just as soon call inc a billy•goat?" "Can any little boy," asked the new teacher, "tell me the diffe renee bet•.vicen a lake and an ocean 1"' "I can." replied Edward, whose ver- sion bad been learned from cxperi- cnce. "I.akes are much pleasanter to swalh.w when you fall in." Every man ought to he willing to leave the world a few unsolved prob- lems when he is gone. There are few Lniiptations that continue 10 allure when you get heaven's clear sunshine on them. Many a roan who says ho has ra- tion't difficulties in religion orcan• flint he has difficulty in 5ci.ig ra- tional in !eligion.