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Exeter Advocate, 1908-10-08, Page 2CURRENT Toms- I !FRE pARAmotNT coNcERN Tho European countries which' export timber are Russia, Sweden, Austria Hungary, Finland, Norway Without a Definite Port at the End and Bosnia-Herzegovina. They send out considerable quantities Is the Veriest Failure annually, Russia leading with 9,- 500,000 cubic yards, but the demand of the continent as a whole exceeds its supply, so that it imports bear- ily . The imports of England, Ger- many and France are greater by home twelve million cubic yards than the exports of Russia, Sweden and Austria-Hungary. England alone imports muro than sixteen million cubic yards, and a writer turn to his native shore. fie The Contemporary Review But in our day all is changed. An Shows that in spite of the beauti- ocean voyage, instead of being an ful forest preserves which tourists epoch in life, is scarcely an event. admire she is almost a treeless Travelers counttheir voyages as a country. Only 4 per cent. of her commercial man )tight reclon his total land area is covered with trips. One's chief anxiety now -a - day's is concerning the size and lo - trees, against Russia's 61 per cent., cation of his stateroom and the ex - Germany's 33 per cent. and cellence of the chef. Few ocean France's 12 per cent. The same travelers wake in the morning with writer speaks of the diminishing a sort of wonder at being alive so sit l •and the far from shore, but rather specu- PP 3 in North America lating as to whether the coffee will he better than yesterday a. Nevertheless, the voyage itself is the real thing. What matters any- thing or everything else as compar- ed with the safety of the voyagel Who cared afterward that the sa- loon was luxurious and the cuisine escellont when the ill-fated Bour- gogne lurched to her frightful doom? It needs only the jar and Is not tho life more than meat 1-- considerations that rouse us. It Matthew vi. 25. might almost bo said that we gauge the values of lite in restos of the Time was when a trans-Atlantic trip made the event of a lifetime. stomach. People prepared for it with all but "What do I think of your cities 1" fasting and prayer. When an out- said a much -traveled man, in my gr•ing passenger wont up the gang- presence. "1 do not think of them. plank his friends had good reason 1 care nothing about them. I do to fear and his enemies just ground not want to bub your famous build - for hoping that he would never re- logs or your historic sights. If you cat' recommend ole to a luxurieua hotel I shall call your city good and remember it with pleasure. It is not sentiment, but beefsteak that couuts with me." Not twenty hours later I heard a prominent )tan just so describe his visit to Nuremburg. He went int., raptur- ous reminiscences over that portion of his trip. Yet the object of his rapture was not, the historic walls of the city nor its great 4iapters of action, nor the shrine of its fam- ous church, but rather a little res- taurant where he procured prospects of a timber famine in this part of the world, and adds: "But the worst is that there are no really valuable forests to fall hack upon, for although large areas of wood- land are to be found in Ohina, Ko- rea and South America, their tim- ber is, on the whole, unsuitable to our requirements. Australia, shudder of steel to declare that the China and Japan do not produce c voyage itself is sufficient timber • for their own TRE ILEAL THING. wants." Nothing really counts as against However, there is hope even for thattips, but the crew deserve them. . The stewards may gather the England, where the conditions are So in life, the voyage ought to be so bad, if the country would only the paramount concern. The real take up the question of afforesting business of manhood and woman - intelligently. It is. shown that much hood is to make port at length. Yet waste land, land that now counts what preponderance of emphasis we put upon things which do not real - for nothing, might be made produc- ly matter twenty-four hours after- tive by the planting of trees, and ward. What we shall eat, what we the purchase of such land and the shall drink and wherewithal wo planting are urged upon the govern- shall be clothed. These are the l GEORGE.. CL ARKE PECK. ment. That there would be no risk in the undertaking is indicated by references to the gratifying returns that have been received from vari- ous plantations in recent years and to the success of such enterprises in Germany and Belgium. THE DANGER IN WATER. So much hes been eril.ten on the danger of iu .pure drinking -water, and su ninny epidemics of typhoid fever have been trace,{ to this source, that it seems almost need- less to utter a warning against the use of "raw" water when there is the slightest suspicion that such water may not be absolutely pure. I et so strong is the force of conser- vatism and no inpatient are many with the seeming overcautiousness of ►ender►► sanitary teaching that the warning, and the reasons for it, cannot bo too often repeated. If such warning is heeded by only one family, and a visitation of typhoid fever is thereby averted, it will have been iv ell worth while. Tho water -supply of every large city, taken from a river, a lake, or a number of streams, unless there is a systemof sand filteration at the reservoir, is never absolutely safe. A single case of typhoid fever cn the hanks of the river, or of any e f the small streams which cuntri- bute to the supply, may contamin- ate the water and give rise, to other eases lower down on the stream; and the aggregate of pollution in the water may soon render dangor- c •us the city supply to which it con- tributes. The course of the underground water -flow is so orratie that the e untry dweller can never be sure that his well, however securely si- tuated it may seem to be, may not L'eCOme fouled with seepings from his own or his neighbor's cesspool. Typhoid fever, not to mention other diseases which may be spread by means of the water -supply, is, it should bo remembered, a coun- try disease. It seems to be a city disease, but this is only because there aro more people in a city, and so the number of eases is larger, and the number attracts attention. 1u almost every case, the excep- tions being 140 rare that they need not bo considered, the infection ;is brought from the country, either in the water -supply or in the bodice 11. Thy seed . . . who shall be of , f those who got it while staying thy sons -The simple promise of the ie the country by quenching their preceding verse is here expanded. thirst from "the old oaken bucket" of sentimental farce. There are, it is true, other means by which the, infection 's reread --flies, for example, which THE BEST SAUSAGE AND REEF he had ever tasted. Indeed, he might, have forgotten the church al- tegether save that it served to lo- calize the place where he Nought the sausage and beer. "Is not the life more than meat 1" It would not seem so; not much more at any rate. At least, it is difficult to raise life above that level. Such is the condition we are sot to fight. Not in the interest of as- ceticism, but of manhood, with a generous thought for every crea- ture comfort, but with supreme concern for character we may need to ask oursel%es, very frequently: "Is not the life much more than meat 1" Then how much more 1 Life with- out a definite port at the end ; life unthrilled and unfed by the Father ; life unsanctified, however sleek, is the veriest failure. Estimates rscently embodied in reports from abroad indicate that the United States is the chief ex- porting country, and put the valu- ation of the annual importations of lumber by the nations of the world at $285,600,000 annually. We pro - sent a suinntery that contains also percentages on standing timber which differ somewhat from those first quoted: Only four per cent. of the terri- tory of (creat Britain is covered with forests, and during the year 1906 that country imported lumber of the value of $135,561,750. Ger- many still has 28 per cent. of its territory covered by forests, but imported in 1906 lumber valued at $01,2se,000. Belgium and the Neth- erlands, that have but 8 per cent. forest lands, Denmark that has 7 per cent, France and Switzerland, with a small percentage, are all compelled to import lumber. The reports chow also that im- ports are necessary. in Asia, Africa and South America and emphasize the need of preservation and new planting. That we should give heed tc these lessons from Europe is clear. Waste should be avoided and the subject of afforesting should receive close attention. -ss HEALTH HINTS. Home Remedy. -For canker or sere mouth burn a corncob and ap- ply the aches two or three times a day. Ammonia applied to the bites of insects, such as fleas, mosquitoes, ole., will stop the itching at once. Never forget to put a pinch of salt into every bottle of food baby takes ; it is most necessary for its health. :1n Old Cure for Stiff Joints. - Although this cure is a very old one it has been successfully used in a cae where the tendons attached to the knee were drawn so badly that it WAS feared that the knee joint would always remain inflexible. This patient's knee was left in told condition AS the effects of the white swelling in that linib when he wa; a boy. The remedy was this: Pet ['e.rmanency of the dynasty which angle iv time into a bottle and hake nae been established in David. or hang them iu the hot sun, and Sheepcote Or "pasture x. 1 will make thee a Want" - they will become o ; u this nil on Anton future generations the king the party effected as you would use himself is to hao.• recognition and any liniment Neuss. 9. The children of wickedness The enemies of Israel. the idola• trios mitten" round ah•,nt . 10. Will subdue --O• , ' •ba► a sub- dued." throat." Irrepressible Traveller-- iehovah will build thee a house- ":\h, now, sir, we shall do a bit This premise of Jehovah to ])avid of business. In addition to other stands in clear contrast to David's things, 1 represent a fir.lt class firm own purpose to build a house for of eutlers. Let Ise show you sant. Jehovah. pies of my ra:ors." • THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL i,jsSSON, OCT. 11. Lesson II. God's Promise to David. (.olden Text, I. Kings 8. 5lt. Verse 1. David dwelt in his house -The house built for hint at. Jerusalem by Hiram, king of Tyro (2 Sam. 5. 11). Nathan the prophet -Tho princi- pal adviser and counselor of King David during a largo portion of his reign. The relation of Nathan to David was in many respects skin - to that which Samuel bore to Saul. A house of cedar --Cedars of dis- tant Lebanon had been furnished by Hiram for the royal mansion of his friend, King David. Under curtains -In a temporary tents -compare Word Studies fur 17, 18. This passage in Second Sunday, October 4. Samuel (7. 19, 20) reads: "And this 2. All that is in thy heart -- Ap-was yet a small thing in thine oyes, parently David had nut yet ex- 0 Lord Jehovah; but thou hast pressed his desire in words, hut spoken also of thy servant's house Nathan rightly guessed what it was' for a great while to come; and this his heart's purpose and desire to too after the planner of men. 0 do Lord Jehovah' And what call 1)a- 3. It came to pass -The prophet's yid say more unto thee? for fiefs first approval of David's sugges- knowest thy servant. 0 Lord .te- hovah. '21. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel? --- Or, "And who is like thy people Israel, a nation that is alone in the earth 1" 22. Thou. J ihovah, hecamest their God --"The peculiar distinction be- teecn Israel and other surrounrliwg nations was to bo found in the Cov- enant relationship between Jehovah and his people. 23. Let the word that thou hast spoken . . . he established forever -David gratefully ae•rp(s the terms en which Jehovah's promise, to him and his house have been given. 24. Anil tet 'hy name he estab- lished a;ld magnified forever -- Or. "Yea, let it be established. and let thy name be magnified." etc. Da- vid was permitted during his life- time to gather together the materi- als with which later his son Solo - straw or with hay. Cattle are very seer0000 etipoes fund •,f it. Tens of thousands of tons of cot- ton coed are sent all over the world from the United States and Egypt to he made into cake for cattle, and about tau pounds a day given 'nix- ed with maize or harley increases tilt' yield of milk, and keeps cows ut condition. By-products from breweries play a largo part in the bill -of -fare of tendon) live stock. "Malt c YOUNO pa0po000000000 .'t FLOWER GAM/FN. Peter 0'13rien was .spi+y. Ile was a ten -year-old 1 w, with a ouib freckled face and patche t`iothes. Hi, ieet were bare, his cap was i►►gs" are very good for sheep, and torn ; but the sun was warm, the for mileb cows. These are chiefly sky was bin°, and he wasgay a • as K � composed of malted barley, and the robin singing in the w►uplr.-neo across the street. Peter W3'1 dig- g;ng with a stick in the bare, brown earth by the side of the little board walk that led to his front -yard gate. He was pretending to make a Hower Led. FOLKS fetch a very good price. "Brewers d name, cause town dairymene got ause thou to get a big yield of very poor milk. Yet n+ixrd in a proper proportion with other food, they are quite wholesome and very useful. BRUSSELS SI']tOGTS. It. is often a difficult matter to find a sufficient. variety of foods during late winter and early spring fur sheep and their lambkins, and it• is mu unusual thing to find a flock of sheep and Iambs feeding content- edly on bushels of Brussels sprouts which have been given thein by the fat )tor by way of a chauge. In some parts of the country fern is still used as feed. It is boiled for the use of pigs. But it has no great feeding value, and though vast quantities of bracken are cut and dried nearly all of it is used as bedding. Another queer cattle food is sea- weed. Several of the algae or 12. Ho shall build me a house -- David's son and successor was to { t f the fir Down the street came Miss Rey, aj Peter's teacher when school kept. - P. was the spring vacation now. 3-1 "Good morning Peter !" she said. '•What are you planting?" `Roses," said Peter, ''and pan- sies. This stick is a rose -bush -- red roses. These stones in a row are pansies." ''Why don't you plant some seeds 3" "'I haven't. any money to buy thein," said Peter. "You may come over this aim - noon for an hour to clear up my yard, and l'11 pay you ton cents, " slid Miss Ray. "Then you can huy a package of mixed flower seeds -- 'Wild Garden Seeds,' they aro sometimes called. I'll show you green scawceds are eaten, and evt- how to fix the ground and plant the dently liked by cattle. You may seeds. You can't get roses and lilies that way, hut you can get pan- sies and ever so many other kinds of flowers." Peter's whole face smiled as he said, "Thank you, Mise Ray." 'Phew !-e looked doubtfully at the slick he was digging with. "1t won't make see the animals browsing on them at low tide on the West Coast of Ireland and on some parts of the Scottish coasts. Cows are said to eat fish, but this story should be taken with a grain of salt. Very many different }dente are a very big holo," he said. now grgwn to furnish fodder for live "It doesn't take a big hole to stock. One of the latest is the plant seeds in," said Miss Ray, prickly comfrey, an English wild “but the ground has to hr dug up plant till lately looked on as a weed. first to make it loose end soft, so It grows to a height of four feet, the tiny rootlets can push through and has given the gigantic yield of iS. I'll let you take my spade and forty tuna of green feed to the acre. rake this afternoon, and we'll see Prickly as the leaves are, all horses what you can du." eat it. greedily, and it makes their Every day after that Peter sur coats beautifully glossy. ed iu his garden, and every da Miss Ray came to see how he tots getting along. First. he spaded up every bit of the garden so it was Icose and soft as far down as his spade could reach. Next, he sprinkled on some plant -food which Miss Ray let him pay ter by work- ' i for her . Then he raked his THE HORSE CHESTNUT. is not no called because it is used as horse feed. The name is sup- posed to ho derived from the beef - like shape of the end of the twig when the leaves fall. Yet the nuts he a man a peace, because u have been crushed and used to feed 1 h h horses, though only small quatiti flower bed until it. was and he in established fished kfather. which y ties can he given at n time. u it smooth readyfor he inherited from his Hence may carr the germs from the sick In one cast pigs were ted on hut- fine. Then, 0 joy! he, rather than David who had been room to the kitchen or dining -room. house peaches. This was in the the seed. a man of many wars., was the more This is probably the most effective. Ouseth peof Ireland. Tho owner of .The seeds "esu of all shapes and suitable person to build a temple means for the spread of typhoid in the animals was wealthy and can- sizes. There were more than tweu- for Jehovah. y P ty different kinds. ',lis Ray - 14. Forever -We note that the to a timorous, and Peer sorted them by their size, chronicler uses the words of final ►n separated thou Cult' had rit:thr houses he fed th pigs with It n n kind. Ther Were a great many assurance in Messianic se to David's mann u California, that seed in a Mcsfnanlc sense, whereas gr rt►►ti rtiay kinds which neither Miss Ray nor the author of Sei'ond Samuel refers s•ommnn for pigs any of the neighbors know. f it first of rho Peter planted the big far them directly r David himself elvers t ] - t t I 11 T] latter apart along byto the fence; seeds plant - (compare the parallel ad thy in 2 f 1 ] {; yes the pork a n st doL"ate es; the middle -the f ones in r,ws Sam. 7). "Thy house and t.hy king- mu►t I t tl nt frtchey a high e r clusters through the middle s dem shall .7. be made sure forever Of hph s ) y high- er price than 1 ) P k the bed ; the flue, tiny seeds he f (l Sam. 7. 16). II will vat 10. Sat before Jehovah--ln pro- i th 1 f planted near the walk. For the big bowed communion and utedit..tion. 1 t (Ir larger variety ) seeds he made a hole one or two ])onsite an , P inches deep, and dropped one seed II hear 'nudity and gratitude fill the In Australia, in each hole. The middle-sized ones heart of the king as he premise tsof tip- front drought, the u t P h • put in little holes near togetner on the marvelous promise of Je- _ {, rutty cut down 1 I ill t Id frurn i one-eighth tquarter f hovah to himself and his poster..}•. split the an inch d p militar • can, s. Salads or vege- tables, eaten raw, may be co,itarn- at.ed either from water or from r used as fertilizer ; and the sometimes be found in oysters fattened at the mouths .,f or bays into which cl y 'e'w • ors discharge.. Nevertheless, the common Mode u the spread typhoid and dysentery is through the mediutn of water; and the wise roan willavoid o danger byriot ' of plants than any bod- ing eery drop ofwater usedt animal, except the goat. drinking and for cooking purposes. t whengrasst runs ot. -Youth's Companion.owners of sheep - runs the bottle tree, ► r to ono uar er u wood. The sheep eat both er Tho tiny uncij� • the foliage and wood, and on this mixed wttl► a ha1'11C in earth a4" curious diet some at least are tided sprinkled en the ground. then cov- ered them with a newspaper held down with stones until the sprouts appeared. Over the big seeds Peter pressed the ground with his foot, to mase it firm on top. so the air could not get in to dry the seeds. Over the middle-sized seeds be firmed the earth with a little board like a shingle. Over the tiny seeds he pat- ted the ground gently vita his sooner than set or give away the overplus of his hot- houses, land of fruit, it is to bo fed on the over -ripe or spoiltfruit, prune plum especially. The : , most fla- vor, 80 that to tnc• ordinary pork. 'Thee , as is weknown, tion was due to a natural sympathy with the king's piety and zeal. But uuring the night's communion with God he carne to look upon the mat• ter in another light, and recogniz- ed that the building of a temple 'n which to house the ark would bo too radical a break with the simpli- city of past usage in Israel. The change, indeed, should come about, but not abruptly. 6. Brought up Israel -Referring to the exodus from Egypt. From one tabernacle to another -- During the long period of several centuries which had intervened since the departure of Israel from Egypt and the giving of the law at Sinai, many tents and tahernaeles, together with parts of their fur- nishing, must have worn out and ' bean successively replaced by others. 6. The judges of Israel ]'roil Joshua to Samuel. 7. Now therefore •-That the lack neon built the temple which he )11m- cf precedent was not the sole rea- telt had nut been permitted by Jo - eon why Da+:d's wish could not he I r.vah to build. The parallel pate granted at this time. we learn from sage in 2 Sam. 7 should he careful - the narrative of Samuel ar..1 Kings. 1p compared verse by verse throurh- Thus saith Jehovah -Jehovah's out this study message reminds the king of former -- --t -^- mercies. declares God's pre+ent and "Now. John," said an Irate wife continued favor, and foretells the t( her husband. "i thought you said you had boon duck -shooting.' Yes, dear --been cluck -shooting.' ''But these you've brought home arc tame ducks." "Yes, dear ; 1 tamed •em after r shot 'em." TIlE P0011 MILKMAN AGAIN. The milkman was boiling over with indignation. 'And you mean to say my milk (ion't look right he snapped. "Why, lady the can of milk is a picture." ,h. yes," laughed the keen housewife, "a fine water color." Tradesman ( :earicd b) the im- portunity of cornrnercial traveler) -- 'For nodness' sake take yourself off ' Your everlasting persistence is e bough to make a fellow ent his QUEER FOOD FOR STOCK DIETS N(IH1: 't 11111:11 'I.1)-1) 1Y '1'H t' FORM I:R1,Y. Ilnr a are Particular a•+ le What co to better t11111314.-- ---4--- --- COUNTESS GIVES FP FORTUNE Es:Apey From a Convent to Marry Peasant Youth. x y They Eat -Coate Will Ifo - The romantic marriage o a young Hungarian countess of ancient line- vour .Anything. age with a peasant youth Way cele- brated in the Seventh District rict Reg - in days when fewer turnips were ivtry office at Budapest recently. hands. 'town and when oats cost a geed ']'his marriage is the climax to a One of the neighbors, seeing how deal more than they do now -a -days' sensational struggle between the hard he was working, gave him a farmers often found it difficult to peasant lover and the Hungarian small watering -pot, and Miss Ray winter their stock. On sonic Scot- ,,,,arts fur the custody of the girl. explained t'cit he nowt sprinkle the tish farms you may still see an old' and the romance, which extended ground night and wiornir:g, enough "whin -mill," which was used fur over several months, has excited to keep it damp, until the plants crushing "whins" or furze for eat- tlr, greatest, interest thruughuutthe were up, :lion water it every day tie fond, says Pcarson's \V.t'kly. country. vides.; it rattled.The furse was cut green, and tile, This love affair organ last spring, When the fluter plants spri•nt- shnrp needles crushed by passing when le -year Countess Henriet- tat. weeds came 11V- t••'.. and tur'o them through the )rill. The latter' to pc,l►grncz formed it violent at Peter had to pt•Ii upu,thnnt dis was mode tit stupes, very heavy taehnrent for Dopenu Opn-,asik, s turbii►g the flowers. Miss Raycanes, and the result was feed which if not nourishing. at any rate, kept peasant lad working in the fields shuacd himwhich wc•t• weeds ,•r, her father'. estate. chickweed, pigweed, sorrel, dar►dn- the animals aline until the spring Her father, Count Edward Pon - grass. Plantain. clover and witch- graos began to shout. ! gracz, was furious when he diiseov. grass. "These are the roost e0111To-da} the choice u( food for live. ered that his daughter loved the mon... she said, "but there are stock of all descriptions is far more. {,tem letterer, and promp!I)" placed, t there that will show they aro vArird than beer 11 was, yet their' her in a reinvent. The Countess needs as they grow. We ean't he are plenty of hill ponies, wintering! escaped soon afterward and joined sure at first which are wards shone MIL 011 the wwurs of Wales and lie- poorher lover. The couple mads their mixedas seeds � tel planted." to pull up vonshire, which are only too glad __ home in n miserable hut just telt- y,. it of the hal on Ifs, t:,o, but Mktg creatures! -to graze on the side. the gates of fount Edward's stay of the se that the o, but row furze shunts which push their prick -cost].•. + l rust be thinned out to IIS "inch n• 13 beads above the snow. The infuriated father then ap Horses are more particular a•+ to pealed to the Hungarian ('Dort of, three inches apart, to sire exch what they eat than are cattle, xnd i , it ronin to grew hay. grain, hent►, and banns re-' Guardians s exercise iasis rtuthnrs I, T : But ity over his dloughter, as she was j All summer long the srcdli gf main their staple feods. a minor, and the judge ordered the! (rust trew un,'idrirlwossomed, and near Miss Ito} help - in Countess to he arres.ted and placed tr Pete, dig up a dozen builder) - in a rr '.t't etas in lawyer, plants, put them in pots, and carry Her lover retained a lawyer, who hem to the schoolroom, where they fought the order and appealed to bloomed nearly all winter long "I didn't suppose you could huy a whole flower -garden for en cents." said Peter. "Yon rant, " laughed Miss has. "hut ten cents' worth of seed, a hit et land, anti a boy who is willing are MANY PATENT 1:1)01'S, small amounts of ehi,•t► are eery useful to keep horses and other ani- th•, inislr'4 of the Interior. mals in good condition..One of Meanwhile Count Elle ard died, these is composed of a nixlore. of 1, AA+ing his daughter unforgiven peciway and and practically penniless, the bulk peat prepared in a al molasses. On the face of it. an as- ,•f lits fortune fining to his Peen, (Dunt Johann Pongrncz tonishing mixture, and yet a eery good one, as many farriers have tl pi oved. The oily seeds of certain plants are used in enormous quantities to fatten st• k for market, and also for the feeding of milch cows. Lin- seed, which contains about 35 per cent. of oil, is used, muted with oat 100 dise.tsos. The ('onntees rno ler, a woman to work, all together, can )take a et middle-class }firth, At Inst }told garden that is fit fora king " ed to her daughter's entreati. + toouth s Companion. consent to the marriage. which was accordingly celebrated - #-- - 1 "r: 1,e, the loafer thinks bis is The ,i':: wutm Ili liable to over ' the • , y ,maple life. I t :