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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-09-10, Page 2CUkkt:NT TOPICS. The doctors as well as the Iaymcu 'GOD IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE?OLD "`t Y`°"°" "CT notoriously disagree as to the of-) foots of tobacco, q, inon, moderation, on ke The Higher the Forms of Life the health. The question, 'To smoke er not to smoke?" remains unset- tled, and every man is free to do what is right in his own eyes. Ber- --------- -- nerd Shaw, with his habitual vio- lence, regards it as an insult to be asked whether he smokes, but the at'urdity of that is manifest. Shaw calls smoking a filthy and disgusting habit, but there are scholars, poets, artists and gentle- men quite as refined as he is who find the pipe er cigar a solace, a companion, a joy. As to the pure• ly- medical verdict, Owe simply isn't any, as yet. Dependent They Become But apparently the question of inhaling is less difficult. The Lan- cet, in discussing the toxicity of tobacco smoke, says that such smoke contains a large proportion of carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas. In the air anything above 0.15 per cent. of this gas is regarded as distinctly dangerous, and, there- fore, says the medical organ, "it is obviously within the bounds of probability that tobacco smoke can be very harmful on account of this gaseous constituent." But the harm as a rule, is in the inhaling rather than in the smoking, for the for- mer practice introduces the gas di- rectly into the circulatory system. It is suggested in passing that the cigarette is more injurious than the pipe or cigar because it its with the first that the inhaling habit is gen- erally indulged in. Above all, says this authority, avoid the associa- tion of stnoke and drink, as both conspire to bring about toxic ef- fects, and do not linger in the smok- ing car or in other smoking -rooms, if they aro poorly ventilated. It is the poisonous gas in the smoke that causes the headache and that "drowsy and stupid fooling" that so many complain of when too long exposed to its insidious influence. Patron saint of the garden is the toad, which is quiet and unobtru- sive in his habits and docs bis work This removed the danger to David's so silently that it is only after a • person and also left vacant the throne. There was no reason for remaining longer in exile. David inquired of Jehovah -By means of the mysterious "Ephod" wlhich Abiathar the priest had How can the flag grow without water ;--Job viii., 11. Life in its simplest furies is a mystery, and ever present miracle that has become cuutouutplace, and 1n this ultra practical ago, if wo stop to look beneath the surface of things, it is more often to estimate in terms of dollars and cents. But e► en at the risk of becoming vis- ionary let us view for 8 moment the modest, fragile life 1: the flag. If we could but understand the bow and why of its existence, we would have solved the problem of the life of nature, man and God. Life, whatever its external expres- sion, is a part of the great riddle ',f the universe. We know that life has its origin in life. It is not an accident, it is not self-created. We call the source of life God, but that is not a solution of the problem. It is but a confession that we can- not understand; it still remains THE ETERNAL MYSTERY. Life having been started, is not even self-sustaining. There is no ferns of life that is independent of all other life. 'I'Ito flag needs only a little earth, a little sunshine, a little moisture, and it comes into perfection. But the higher the forms of life. the Inure complex, the more dependent they become. When we roach man, "made in the imago of God," in whom w•o find the high- est expressions of life, we find him making demands upon all other forms. The physical. mental and spiritual must contribute to the needs of his triune nature. The elements of the mineral, vegetable, More animal and spiritual kingdoms go into the texture of his soul, and as the flag cannot grow if one element necessary to its life bo missing, su 111811 cannot cones into his best per- fection if the demands of his whole I(an aro not met. The physical is but the soil in which is to grow his best self. A1)I AND COST OF Al S'fRA- LI.It' S NEW Lt 11. How the Money Wilt be noised --- '1'heae Qualified to Receive the Feneral scheme is set down at 2 per cent., which on pensions vari- ously reckoned at from 21,550,000 to £1,'300,000, means a cost of be- tweeu £30,000 AND £33,000 A YEAR. It is of course possible that the scheme may be run for that amount, but when the scattered population so Australia is considered it does not seem iery probable that the ex - a Pension. penso rate will equal that of New Muth Australia and New Zealand country. Zealand, a much closer populated have led the way fur the mother The point of economy is trifling country on old age pensions. 't ho cu Federal Parliament's old age and passing with the improvidence of iuvaiiu pensions act, recently pass- passing a measure without having cd, is based on the recuinmenda- the funds available for its will not- tiwls of a royal cummis8iou appoint- motion. Certainly the act will be enforced for a year, and the So it is possibtc for a Haul to give ecu 10 1110, to inquire into the sub Federal Treasurer has hopes of his time and energy and talent to sect. The act will not come into the needs of the dwellingwhile nc, force until July 1, 1909, fur the saving enough out of the coming g Commonwealth has not at present year's £750,000 hasrevenue to ncbeenet tnp},rm},ri- Icctng enough money in hand to pay the THE y sued, but that amount has et to DWELLER WITHIN. first years outlay. The cost ie be saved. The surplus revenue act Man may grow into a perfect ani- variously estimated at from £1,- fust passed provides that only the mal, possess a cultivated brain, be- 500,000 to £1,800,000 a year. To b come carefully religious and yet meet this sum the Federal Troasur- and exciaro 75 se revenues f the shall customsbeo- carry in his bosom a starved, atru er has instituted a trust fund, to turned to the States, the Comtnon- phied soul. The flag cannot grow which will be placed from time to wealth retainingthe balance of S5 without water ; the mind will not time appropriations out of reven- per cent. But so many are the pre - develop without, thought and know- ilex, says the London Daily Chroni- sent calls on that balance that there ledge, and there can be no soul ole. A sum of £750,000 was so ap seems very little chance of them all growth without God. Man docs Tropriated shortly after the act was being satisfied. However, if the not develop in the highest sense un -passed. Tho surplus revenue act money is not available, it is open til he comes into a conscious need will also assist the Treasury. to the Federal Parliament to nn - of spiritual attaintnent-until there The act provides that every per- pose direct taxation to raise the it a hungering and thirsting after son of 65 who is pormanently Inca- necessary amount. Further, it is the fruits of the spirit gentleness, pacitat•ed for work will be qualifies I to receive a pension. Byproclama- quite probable that the Labor Party long suffering, goodness, temper that has now tion women of 60years ma be Tut- got this plank , its once, lu.•o• y q platform on the statutes honk, will God has made provision for man's lifted. In assessing the pension use every means to make it effective every need, but he has made it irn- payable the royal commission was and will not stop at direct taxation perative that he put. forth effort 'f to 801110 extent guided by the :f there are no other means of ob- he would attain it. And the strug schemes in force in Victoria, which taining the money. Its power with gle to fill the hungry 'notate sleet. pays tis. a week, and in New Souththe present. Government is strong. the needs of the inquiring mind and '«ales and New 7.eal±tad, which pay It proved sufficient to rush this nice - quiet the insistent soul is what we 10s. a week. The latter figure was call life. The measure of its sue- adopted by the act (the instalment cess, the degree of its fulness. will to bo paid fortnightly). A pension - largely depend uponthe strenuous- er with other income cannot- receive ness of the individual's efforts more than £25 a year, and in no REV. G.:1. JAMIESON. ease more than would bring his to- tal income up to £52 a year. No tine with accumulated property THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, . SEPT. 13. Lesson CI. David Made King Over Judah and Israel. (:olden Text, 2 Maul. 5. 10. Verso 1. After this -That is, after the death of Saul and his sons. post-mortem examination that he gets full credit for his worthy la- bor. His value as an insecticide is detrated by the following ty- plea result of 1.49 postmortems hronght with hint when he joined among toads: Six cutworms, five David's band in the wilderness (1 thousand legged worms, six sow ham. 23. 6). The Ephod may have ono been similar to the Urim and Thum - bugs, nine ants, one weevil, mirn, or sacred lot which was cast The men of Jabosh-gilead-For an worth £310 or more can reeeivo a account of this exploit see last week's lesson (1 Sant. 31. 10-13). 5. David sent messengers -A sin- cere expression of appreciation on the part of David and also a most stagacious, political act of concilia- tion. Kindness -Respect. 6. I also will requite you -A quiet be for capital over £100. assumption that his rule extends 10 reality they are in the very In ardor to qualify for a pension far enough to include their city. the applicant must have been twenty-five years continuous resi- heart of Ish-bosheth's rival king- donee in Australia. Aliens cannot cions with its capital the nearby get pensions unless naturalized for aro Immune person -one w4 h.,d Lew') of Iifanhani►im (2 Sam. 2. 8). three years or over. Asiatics aro Ing off the Portuguese coast recent- had mune andrrecover el spon- be7. Let your hands be strongand barred, as also aro Aboriginal na- ly, damaged some nets belonging to d a cancer ancerd then vtpars fives of Australia, Africa, the 1 a- t, the Povoa fishermen, and there ye valiant Phis is the invoking cific Islands and New Zealand. But has been ill -feeling uade since in con -I him to give his blood for the pati• f a blessin it is not a disqualification for a wo- sequence of this. The other day man to have married such person. the British fishermen landed at The pensioner rho wastes his fovea to buy food and they were money or misspends it or lessens the value of any part of his estate, if lie has one, will not receive a pension in cash at all. It will be paid to some other person on his behalf. The same course will he adopted if his health becomes in- jured through him own fault, if be endangers or interrupts the peace and happiness of his family, and generally if he proves unfit to be trusted with money. The act provides for invalid pen - whore he had been living. later refer to David's tribe as "our 'ions as well as those for old age. Hebron -A place "twenty-two brethren the neon of Judah" (3 The conditions aro in the main the milds south of Jerusalem and twen-l1Sam 19 41) same, but a difference lies in the ty miles north of Beersheba," `` 2. it was thou -A compliment to special qualifications for an invalid. which was admirably suited to bo i their new ehieftain which served a Ile must be over 16 years of age the capital of Judah. it was com-,double purpose. lit settled any and permanently incapacitated for ►nandingly situate,) on the highest! misgivings as to their loyalty to work by reason of an accident or level of the Judean ridge. and from Raul; even when he was their king by reason of being an invalid. Ho tho earliest tines had been 8 con- they had served under David as must have been in "continuous re - ter of historic and religious inter- est. The patriarchs from Abram on lived and some of them died there, before Israel entered the land the Canaanites revered it as 8 shrine, it became one of the cities of re- fuge, and being on one of the trunk roads of Palestine it was always a thriving market city. From now on it figures largely in the fortunes of the Hebrew kingdom. As verse 3 pension nor will he benefit himself if he tries to rid himself of it IN ORDER TO GAIN RELIEF. Holders of property of lower value than £310 may receive a pension less deductions of £1 for every £10, unless the property includes a home, when the deduction will only sero, to spend money not yet in sight, through both houses with in- credible speed. The only States to receive any relief under the act will be Victoria and Now South Wales, whose annual pension bills aro about £187,000 and £490,000, re- spectively. The other States not hriving introduced any pension scheme will now be required indi- rectly to provide for their aged poor. BRITISH FIGHT FOR LIFE. Attacked by Fishermen on Street of Portuguese Town. Several British fishermen recently had a fierce fight for their lives in the little Portuguese fishing Town c•f Fovea. Tho British trawlers, while fish - IMMUNITY FROM CANCER. There is probably no other dis- ease, not even except'n tuborcu- lusis, the study of wI is being more actively pursued by the brightest minds in the medical i•tufossion todaythan is that of cancer. This terrible scourge of the hu- man race has been known for ages, but its true nature and its cause are still wrapped in the deepest mystery. Hoene believe it is duo to the action of a germ; others, that it is a growth of embryonal cells which were forgotten, as it were, and loft behind when the i body was originally built, and which have been stimulated to overgrowth by the injury of a blow er by the poisonous action of waste products of the body not promptly eliminated. Sonic believe that it is a purely local disease; others, that it is due to a constitutional taint, the local ization of the tumor in one or an- other part being determined by an irritation or injury. Lt spite, hoz ever, of all this uncertainty tuna seeming confusion, progress is real- ly being made in the direction of a solution of the enigma. One of the things that have been learned recently, as a result of the study of cancerous growths in mice, is that some animals aro im- mune to the disease, this immun- ity being either natural or acquired In consequence of recovery from e previous tumor. Certain dogs also have been found to enjoy an immunity of the slime sort, and it has been learned that by means of transfusion of blood this immunity can be transmitted to others -a fact of very great import- ance. The experiment has boon made of bleeding a dog with cancer and then replacing the lust, blood by transfusion from an immuno dog, and 11) some instances the re- sult has been an apparent cure of the disease. The same thing has even been tried in mean with seem- ing benefit, hut the eases are too re recent to enable one to say posi- tively that a definite cure has been obta•ned. Even if successful, this would be a difficult mode of treatment., fd.r it would be necessary to 'l ss ever • g suitable to warLke times. Strength and valor were a most desired gift from Je114va1e The words of Layid imply, too, that he hopes for their support. 1. Then -After seven and a half years of successful rale at Hebron. Came -David did not force his authority on the other tribes but ground beetle. Aside from the fact fel an expression of tho divine will. waited till they sought him. that so large a part of the toad's David's dependence upon Jehovah All the tribes of Israel -By their diet consists of noxious insects, ho is seen in his waiting for his ap- representatives the elders (verso i6 valuable for his onormous cepa- prnval before ho takes the first step 3). toward the kingship. Thybone and th city. Dr. A. H. Kirkland fed more y flesh- -:1 rens. Shall I go up7-From the hill twos introduction to their address. than twenty-four medium-sized gyp• country, directly south of Judah, Really frac, too; the men of Israel ay moth caterpillars to a toad be- fore satisfying its appetite. Dr. C. I'. Hodge has seen a toed strap up thirty-six house flies in loss than ten minutes. Miss Ellen M. Fos - kelt fed ninety rose bugs to a toad, which was still hungry when 8113 stopped. It is argued that the toad's personal work among tent caterpillars never has been proper- ly appreciated. The tent caterpil- lar, a well known pest on apple trees, occasionally working destruc- tion in plum and peach and cherry, is destroyed to a great extent by the oriole and cuckoo. A black billed cuckoo 119 heen known to est thirty-five cnterpil• tars at a meal. Yet when the cater- pillars descend from the trees to find suitable places for peaking their cocoons the toed, ever on the watch for an opportunity of doing good, adds them to his larder. From thirteen to twenty have been found hie general Leddest out and broughtest in - A terra for military leadermhip. Shepherd of my people -This is the first use of "shepherd" in n figurative sense in the Bible. it fault. If he has any claim on his became very eummon with the later employer or on any one or on any prophets. There may be A delicate institute fur compensation allusion to David's shepherd duties as a lad. shows, Hebron was a district ft,", 3. Made a covenant -With mute- , al duties and rights. Called "the well as a city. The word citymanner of the kingdom" (1 Sam. usually meant the town with its 10. 25). This, like David's other outlying country. nets. woe done before Jehovah, '2. His two wives The two whom with him ns witness. he took to !diesel( during his yearn 4, 5 1 brief ante surmmnrizing of exile Before (his be had mar- all of David's puhlic life it anti. ried Michel, Saul's daughter, but eipates his eapture of .Teru.nle,n, had been deprived of her by the establishment of the T'nited Kirlq- ktng's command. She it returned diem with Ile capital there. and the h yeast of rule which are narrated in the chapters( following. nidenco" in Australia for five years. The a: eident or the loss of health meet have happened in Australia. He roust prove that his ill health not due to fraud or to his own thim later (2 Sain. 3. 13). For in his stomach. Among the miecol- a more complete list of the wives laneous caterpillars consumed by David had at Hebron see 2 Sam. the toad aro the gypsy' moth, sixty- 3. 2-5. Some of these represented • rolitical alliances. These elygn- 'eS infer CaltmRtl David five gypsy caterpillars fennel inn mous tendencies - +- - toad, and the vanessa ci►terpillnr, FATHER'S ('OJ1i'I..\1\T. and his sons touch trouble and sof- it had been. so far as the whose protective armor ought to fering• Browns' household was concerned, cause discomfort to the stoutest 1 Jezroelitnsn . . . Carmelite -Not a good season for the family doctor. stomach. But the disinterested zeal h'"m the famnils valley of .Tercel livery member of the family had e► the toad is proof against petty and Mount Carmel to the north. been, or was. ailing. and little Tont- inconveniences. For all this wor- thy work little compensation is arkrct. A shallow holo dug in the garden, covered partly by a board or flat stone, suffices for shelter. During the busy summer time the Visas live in solitude for the most part, although sometimes sharing a feast. But in winter a dozen or so hibernate cozily together for the winter sleep. p - WHO'D A THUNK IT? The rose is red, The violet blue. Oak't a tree And so is yew. but from two small towns. Jezreel and Cermet in the southern country over which David had been rang- ing. The Story ie exquisitely told) in 1 Ram 25 3. Every men with his household -. David avoided any apnearanee of n warlike purpose. He and his ent. But the discovery of t' a fact of inmitinity is in itself most signifi- cant. and raises the hope that, a immediately attacked by the Portu-1 feasible way will ere long bo fount guose, who were armed with revel_ to prevent, or cure lis leve ILL ar, vers and knives. The Englishmen disease. -Youth's e,tpant , 1 were surrounded, and although they fought stoutly, they would cer- tainly have all been killed had not the commander of a Portuguese gunboat, which was lying off Fovea, noticed what was going on and landed a party to rescue the Eng- lishmen. The Portuguese bluejackets form- ed a square about the Englishmen and conducted there to their bunts, but the fighting did not cense until the last Englishman was aboard. Several persons wore injured on both sides. FINDING A HORSESHOE. There is a man who has a very poor idea of the horseshoe as a bringer of good luck. "1 found one iii the road some time ago," ho remarked. "As a platter of fact, another old gentle- man found it also about the same time. Wo both wanted it, and there was a tussle for it. HE WILL GI'.'I No PENSION. was got the shoo, a black eye, aof property to qualify. If his re- shoe, and a summens fur assault Draughts are what should be avoid Ho must not have deprived himself torn finger from a rusty nail in the ed. If you fool that you no taking cold take a hot foot bath. drink a CO'.DA ANI) COli.;Ifs. 1f our living rooms were better ventilated and less intensely heat - cu, if w•u breathed more of the out- door air and Tess of the poisonous indoor atmosphere, colds, which so often lead to catarrh and consump- tion, would be less universal than now. Fresh air, exercise and ab- stinence are excellent presenti%es :•f this disease, and, remember, an ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure.+ A young lady took a severe cold which settled on her lungs. She Hari fast going into consumption, began spitting blood, but refused to sco a doctor, feeling he could do her no good. She concluded to try the fresh air plan, and practised deep breathing, took exercise in the open air every clay, and slept with a window up every t ight, even in the coldest of weather. She is as well now as ever she was, and s enthusiastic over her remedy. latives maintain hire, severally or collectively, he is disqualified. When all these special qualifications and the general ones also have been complied with 11 Deputy Com- missioner or Registrar of Pensions will annually assesm the pension to be paid to the applicant. Tho administrahnn of the net will necessitate the creation of a new public service (lepertrnent. This department will be under a commis- sioner, who will have a deputy in each State. The whole of the Com- monwealth will be divided into dim. trict s with a registrar for each. Would-be pensioners must fill in a 1c rrn before a postmaster, a pust- mistress. a 11ngnstrate, a lawyer, a school teacher. a customs officer, rohiecman, a dialer, or any aft - my, the younge.I olive branch, waspointed person. The registrar on "Not a bit of it," sighed the un - apparently proud of. the fact, for teceiving the form investigates, lecky one. "It missed hire by a it was in a jubilant, tone that he and the 11,001 Magistrate sits in fief." informed a visitor of the general open court in the locality and ad- + f•rostration. judieates on the claim. In certain The right kind .,f n sleet• r leaves "Oh, yes, 0%eryhodv's ill ill our cases an appeal will lie. will enough Alone house. i've get mumps, brother The creation of a new department end sister's just getting nv, r the does not appear to be justified, for measles, a - nother's hn(1 with lotto -the (h'vernlnent has a ready made erganizatinn to its h:lnd its the pest e lices throughout Au- stialin, Victoria, by using them, pays about £147.000 a year in pen- sions at an annual coat of 21,800. New Zealand. through the same channel. distributes over .Cesto,000, at a east of £l.000 s year, less than o per cent. New South 1Vales, on the other heed. pays its pensions through 8 hank. and it costs £21,• olio annually to disburse about and battery. "It wasn't a very good start, but cup of hot lemonade, or water with 1 thought I'd give it n fair trial. Of arivhlf-t in it, and then siag mt(artarldt,. ed course, in nait:;;g the shoe up above ff you perspire, 8u touch the bet - the front deur I managed to smash ter. my thumb and fall from the step- ladder. Isere is a valuable recipe for thou cure of n cold already contracted. "Thor I sat (Inwn and waited for it will usually cure, oven if the cold the luck to begin That shoe 30001 -is deep seated : Take a handful of ell to be endoeed with the power ►. ildcherry bark. put it in two toy attract trouble in every form. quarts of water, let it boil Inn Duns, bailiff, the landlord, hour, then strain it and add ane measles, and po►erty wore rarely stick licorice, let it boil down to cut of the house, Inc) my faith was one quart. then Add one-half ounce shaken. 'filen one day, when the tax -col- Oil tar. one -holt ounce oil anise, me cones laudanum. and one andleetor was standing on the top step, that shoe came down with a a half pounds of loaf sugar. \e crash adults oulc take thrid,-fourtl, . f a ":1h "' interrupted s sympnthiz teeepnonful of this fret three to or "Luck at last'" five tim t a day. ('hilen should be given proportienatCly less. men went, nn as peaceable colon- enza. granddad m mad with gout, iftt with their families. and granny's bent in tw•e with the t Thev anninte,l David king - r1n,,n,etr;dtics." Remeel's private anointing at an "But what about your father 1" earlier time did t''t interfere with asked the visitor ; "you haven't this formal puhlic ceremony: it a •ns mentioned him." nrnhahle not known he Inv tut "Oh, lather." replied Tommy, David himself and members of his h.,,king for a moment dubious. but ewe family. directly afterwards reminiscent --- House of !edit,- T)nvi,l's own "oh, yes, i remember new what's "hee,se" or trite,. Said crime fr. m the matter with him. i hoard him 11•e rivet tribe f Benjamin adjoin- tell Mr. ,Tours. Father-- he's got inn en tho north. ti ( hump. Omnibuses in Nollen,l are fitted with letter -boxes. The world spends about $1s7.000, • 000 ammially in snatches. Crocodiles, like ostriches, awal- Iow small pebbles, for the purpose ,f grinding their food. The 01811 who marries a viers oils woman semi discovers what nerve £49),o00 the estimated cost of force really is. A Ma Dutleley-"I rend in the financial 1•ais•rs this morning that 'money is .:1•i••r' now. What on earth clues that meant" l'upley---"i'robably o means that it geese easier. Al MIN rate, I don't find that it cornea any easier." Evelyn --"You've been courting inn now for a number of yearn, George, and 1 want to snake n lit. tic Leap Year proposal." George -- "i--i 8n1 not in a position to m -- marry pie yet, hitt-- - " Evelyn (interrupting) ---"Who said anything about marriage 1 I was going to repose that you stay away flora here and gi'•e somebody else a chance." �I