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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-12-24, Page 2t CURRENT TOPICS. important. The River Amur is{ especially rich in salmon. The 1 ' amount of preserved fish exported Prof. Stanley Jccons has Leen from Siberia grew from 640 tons in 1``90 to '2,000 tons in 190.2. The high most famous perhaps as a historian. price of salt and tin plate and the But he is fat. d t.. become quite as Nor j` lack of skilled knowledge are re- celebrated as a prophet. Ile founds Greatness Is Not in Circumstance, of turtling the Siberian canned fish in - his prophecies on his history, and dustry. The vast coniferous forest zone of in that tray deduces them as logical Condition, But ofCharacter Siberia is yielding ever iucreasiug I'c''on X111' l2uarfrii} Review. • and natural and inevitable sequin- quantities of timber. On January Read Prose 4. golden • ces from his premises. They are elle leadeth nie beside the still hers of kings. ht's a cheap and fu- 1, 1906, the State forests of Russia Text. Prov. 4. 23. 1 greatness,p in Asia covered 650,887,407 acres. the answers to puzzles, the answers waters."—I'salni xxiii., 2. lite way to this tau of — to problems in arithmetic. They By far the greater number of us buying its uniform when you lack The timber industry has scarcely 1its heart. begun to be developed in Siberia. HOME 1{EADIKCS. are the calculations of an astrou- must live quiet, eiu,ple lives. To The size and worth of your life Mining has the greatest future ► Disci aha fres the course of comets the low who live in the limelight de ends on its aims and motives of anySiberian industry. Gold in , the existence of the many' may seem P is M. God's promise to David. 1 i thousands of years before the des- to be humdrum, m, flat, and ay seeunin r and not on the measure of its po places the chief mineral product (.pion. 17 :1 15. 1 tined date of their visible arrival, eating. But we are all too ready pular recognition The world needs at present. No statistics as to the T. Tho joy of forgiveness. Psa. 32. although the professor most evi- to measure living by its extcrnala to -day nut so much men and hose amount of gold produced in Siberia W. David grieves for Absalom. 2 P p P and to decide that the life that nev men of startling powers as those can be obtained, as the figures are Sam. 18:24-33. I dently expects his predicted keno er leaps into the public glare must of sterling qualities; not so much contained in the total output of the Th. The Lord our Shepherd. Psa. i mens to sweep over the heavens far be lived in a pitiable gluon. a few giants as n►any ut plain good Russian Empire. within t•he period of a thousand nesse The worth of our day depends The average annual production of 23'F'. The birth of Christ. Luke 2: iAre there not for all our lives, more on what we are building tutu pig iron in the Ural and Siberia o0 •years. And that althcmgh they are for these ordinary, simple lives of the everyday things than on what (separate statistics for Siberia not b S Solomon anointed Kind. 1 given) from 1902 to 1906, inclusive, • far stranger and rarer than comets. curs, high lights, flashes that re -some man may be saying or doingKings 1 :32-40. Indeed in his latest vision he for- doom the soul from sordid living, in the glare of publicity. was 657,440 tons. The Siberian out- $u. Solomon chooses wisdom. • sees what never has been. And high levels to which we may rise Often it seems a weary business put of coal, chiefig from the Prov pings 3:4 15. • , in spirit at least and save life from to take up the daily task, the same ince of Akmolinsk, rose from -660,- The lessons of the quarter extend • that is a world state, a world na the dull level of mere existence? old grind day after day. Many of 770 tons in 1902 to 1,325 tons in 1905. ever a period of 31 years. They are tion. How may we find and know such feet to despise those who do it, but Copper is mined in small quantities. all conerned with the and 1• occasions. the pirits of eternity look down More and more foreign capital is words of David and the life A • Are there not, too, what is of and Lecoming interested in the mineral rufitablc review could be c onduct- •The Bible talks of all people greater`importance, splendid mo- AWARD THE CROWNS wealth of Siberia, and American P dwelling together as one nation. tives, lofty aims, and inspiring miners are prospecting in those ed along the line of what the les - ane are Prospecting opposite Prof. Jevons believes it. Ho has ideals that may enter into and fill to those whose toil costs most, to sons teach about God. Another all the dull valleys of the lowliest those who steadily face and fear not and near Alaska. would be to _ study the teaching outlined hat oil the sort of government y that wilt rule the world state. And life? May not even the most con the awful foes of monotony and about sin, its consequences and par - those lot be transfused with the dull plodding. Even genius is a d• don. Material for such reviews can he has found the names for the of -glory of a great sacrift a or a splen- matter of that steady grinding at RORLD'S TI{ADING FLF.I:TS. otherbe 11revicw nd in teuuld be to gete notes. tan- each 6cials, and be has predicted a world did aim? one thing. Who has nut known great hearts, We ought not to despise our corn - Some of the Great Companies la member of the class to give the ten earth. vee the literal king of the earth. And he believes there will high minds, and noble souls that monplaee lots or the apparently dull the Passenger Trade. tial teaching of the lesson. num - i have never become known beyond level of other lives. We need vis- bei of opinions will be given about ► be such a sovereign within the nexttheir little circles, who have died, ion to see how great is any life, how The Hamburg -American Lino, the teaching in each lesson. The reighty years. He finds the beginn- not unwept or unhonored, but un- much of the real riches of life there which is building and will employ following are given simply as sug- r Ings of hint and his cabinet in the sung because the sounds of their may ere the meanest gloriously any lot, how the two latest additions to the list gestions: living have never reached the ears grandthe Lesson I. The necessity of sere- ► ett • officials connected with The of 700 -foot steamships, is the pion petty of the bards of tho great, noisy lowliest labors, when love is their ser German trans-Atlantic line, or- ing God in the precise way His ` Hague tribunal and the outgrowths world? motive; how the stains of toil be ganized in 1847. Its employees Word instructs. one a garment of praise when the Lesson II. Gods superabounding of Tlut>a Hague peace conferences. ORDINARY PEOPLF, number nearly 1,000. its prevent grace; David purposed to build Some international government of- object is known. fleet comprixes 309 vessels, with a may often be the best people. We When we see the days as they total tonnage of 728,799 tons. burl a house and God covenanted to firiajs exist now. And they have tend to measure lives by their vie- come along, not as so many Hours The advances in steamship build - his him a house and to establish 1 existed for years. Only they work issitudes rather than by their steady of dull tasks but as having so many ing—in the number of the ships as his house and Itis kingdom forever. o so silently and unobtrusively that virtues. Those who make startling oportunitics for self-discovery and well as their sire—have been suer LessonpIII. David's kindness to 1 no one knows about them. But the ascents and descents get themselves develop;nent, so many chances to mous in recent times. Lloyd's Re Mephibosheth, a type of our David's significance of their position is not talked about, but for the plain busi- do good, to give love, so many oc- tater ilea the following statistics kindness to ne. ness and teal work of the world the casions for the graces and virtues, interthe fleets of the world: Lesson IV. If we seek to cover discounted by its quiet and non no- folks who stay on the ground are and so many invitations to learn the"concerningrust the largest of these our sins from God He will uncover toriety. Rather, it is glorified. the ones we can count on. real worth of things, then the days y' g. them and fill our hearts with hear They—these humble world officials It is a good thing to be able to are transfortned from gloom to is the Hamburg -American Com- iness, but if we uncover our sins pang, which owns 134 vessels of before God with frank and full con - Ree the glory in the commonplace. glory. g fesorcsion God icover hem up and —are the attaches of the interna- We are so easily carried away at the We need new eyes and new hearts large size, of an aggregate rose tonal postal service with headquar- sight of the ancient, tawdry trap- rather than new circumstances. tonnage of 668,000 tons. The next fill our hearts with praise and light. ters at Bern, Switzerland. They pings of mediocrity that when true Whether we live in a prison or a largest is the North German Lloyd Lesson V. Whatsoever a man supervise and negotiate many mo- worth appears in homespun we re- palace depends not on the walls' Company, whose 120 vessels ag- sowethif that.thewill heap e lin so reap: �p : a mentous little matters which affect ject it ; it lacks epaulets and fea- about tis but on the wall within to. gregato 550,000 tons. The third theta. We complain of fortune be- bo Dither slave or king, bound by company is the British Elder -Damp- ward children an awful harvest of infulyou and Inc and which we know cause it refuses to dress us in tin- our lot o rfrce in heart, whether'ster Company, which owns 153 ves- the sins he has sown ; the king who nothing about. And they are held sal array. we regl►rd life as an irnposition or' sets, aggregating 431,000 tons. is disloyal to God will reap the dis- hy the zealots of the world state to Modern heroes are more likely to as an opportunity. The quiet parts Then follow the British India Steam loyalty of his people. be the first forerunners of the be in jeans or in khaki than in are rich to the open heart, and no Navigation Company, with 122 vev- Lesson VI. The man who de - world government departments. crimson, and great lives are more way is so quiet that heaven may not sets and 384,000 tons, and the United slroys the love and peace and joy likely to be found in kitchens and be there. States Steel Corporation, with 113 of another's family will reap heart- worksheps than in the council chain -HENRY F. COPE. vessels aggregating :343,517 tons. breaking agony in his own house. They are the first fruits of the __ __ _. __ —.— --- - - __ __ "In point of total number of ves- Lesson VII. Jehovah is the be- world acts owned and of their gross ton- liever's Shepherd. Every want will world state idea which really was ROp0�npOersee e-Oti0O40004.0• black pepper on a bit of cotton bat nage, the fleets of the United States bo met, every fear will be vanished, ' ting, tie it up dire in sweet oil and stand second among those of the every longing will be satisfied. born before it was conceived. It insert in the eat. I'ut a flannel world. Great Britain and her col- Lesson VIII. Gaul keeps His • came with a spontaneous genera- IIEALTII bands a oer the head to kec it romise in R ite of all the schemes 8 p onies, out of a total for the whole P p tion and began to bo ere any one warm. world (including countries possess- of men to thwart it. r realized what its coming pretend- To keep on (lamp shoes or wet ing 1,000,000 torts of shipping) of Lesson IX. There is utter ruin t ed. Unless Prof. Jevons saw and petticoats is a risk of taking cold 20,001 ships, aggregating 30,600,510 for the individual, and for the na that is not worth running.'['heretion, in the cup. .gross tons,possesses 10,869, with a understood. Ile interprets a good PLesson X. wine should desire wig- / IN BED. are a few exceptional individuate total tonnage of 14,70 ,203 tons, many things in the light of the Has- to whom wet feet do not rnenn cold, dam that we may servo Cud effect one-seventh of which is composed States icily, more than we desire long life cent world state. There are the 11'e used to betnught that reading but the sole of the foot is one of on sailing ships. The United F machines of war. They are anni in lied was wrong because it might the most aensitice parts of the body owns 3,2:6 vessels, with a gross O1• death. r set the house on fire. Though we and it should be protected accord- Lesson 7([. When a house is set hilating the war which they were two- igc of 3,077,3•in loos„ of which apart for God in the way appointed invented to abet. When airships sinned it was hardly with the as- ingly• two ftflhs aro sailing vessels; and P surance of Macaulay that not even it• is a common occurrence tor Be will arrive the will be the most pewee- •i t s e• then follow Germany, with 2,903 789 glory. P t t, .i Ar 8. .ou►n�....1g lnntricicic children to get beans, grains of tong, of which one-sixth are sailing fol military accouterments ever and patricide and fratricide" re- corn and foreign substances up vessels; Noruay, with 1,627,220 • ' d• reamed. But they will ie more strained him from taking a booktheir noses. This simple remedy is fetus, one-half of which are sailing powerful in doing away with milt- and tl►o longest caudle to bed. The worth remembering. (.et the child vessels; France, with 1,4011,833 coming of gas and electricity has to open its mouth, apply your tons, a quarter of which are sail - people tactics. Besides, ef course, removed all these fears; but now a mouth over it and blow hard. The people arc growing more blend- German doctor appals us with new ing vessels; and Italy, with 1,117,- offending substance will be expelled ,y3H tons, of which two-fifths are tier. Good will on earth is realiz- alarms. Ile finds that the eyes are from its mouth. vessels.'' sailing ing as we all become more and imperilled by reading in bed in n O more cosmopolitan. Overweening host of way's. file light is bad, or 'F it is placed so that it dalxzlos. Iii SIBERIA IIA 3 GREAT FUTURE. SENTI',NCE SERMONS. lace of country is ceasing to be a bed you can never hold the book -� virtue amongthe ethical) modern, ao as to neo both eyes.' You hold Practice is prayer. y I1� Soil Mich and It Has Vast Tim- Piety never parades itself. among the ethical elite. They pre- it too close to the eyes, and make her and Mineral Ileseurcee. The self-satisfied need to be short fer wurldism, cosmopolanism. They yourself short-sighted. If your hale evolved beyond the thought eyes have naturally any defect, The cast area of Siberia is as yet sighted. aided by the appointment of lords short night, or inability to read when touched commercially, There are no wolves in the empty justices wider the great Teal, but c•f the "bloody fnrriner." For- small print. or Astigmatism, you when we consider the richness unci sheepfold• none has been commissioned since eigner and native alike are desirewill infallibly increase it liy rend- capability of production of its soil A roan may be measured by the 1h21. In isis, when Queen Vic able citizens. Somebody has writ- ing in bed. The conclusion of the and its constantly growing popula- things he seeks. loris was about to visit Germany, Len en patriotism as a primitive whole rustler is that children un tion You vaunt hoodwink heaven with }.ord ('amptell urged that the lords der lA should never be allowed to In 1900 it was estimated that out a holy aspect. justices should be appointed ac ideal. The civilized and cultured take books to ped with them, And cif a total of 19.727.000 acres of cul- Luce gives es no license to dispense cording to eonstitutiopnl practice, prefer the werkt state. adults ought not to do so, save for ticnt..'d land 11,ti1S,00t) acres were. with courtesy. but the Lord ('hnneehlor (Lord – +------ serious and weighty reasons. under crops in Siberia. Crops i They who walk with God do not i,cndhural) convinced ibe house greatly fluctuate in Siberia; the' walk away from men. that this ons longer necessary, 111{Ishl:l{ TIME FOR ANTHEM. yield in a good year is two or three' Ile can bear :► great trust who owing to the no )nun fne•ilitirs of times that of n bad one. }inn bear lints trines. can t) then. This hna served el Siberia's exports of dairy pro-� it, is better to lose your joys than a precec'ent seer since. as ducts are rapidly increasing and to escape his sorrows. haven most promising future. In It is slow work getting rich in ___-4.___ 1898 •t,0xx) buckets of butter, each' grace at a penny n week. containing thirty-six pounds, were A veneer of religiosity has none BREAKING IT C:1'.\'TI.1'. scut as an experiment to the Lon-ic,f the virtues of religion. It was evident that something of marc moment than usual was weighing en the small boy's mind. Three tunes he passed the door of THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERN 1.1'1O!�.t1. J.XSMON, OEC. 27. 1111.0000•00004941000000000114 YOUNG FOLKS DANNY'S DREAM. Danny was having great fu He had tied a long thread rt•awn tightly, so it wouldn't slip), around a pour, unoffending bee, and was delightedly watching its struggles, as it feebly fluttered one nay and another in its vain endeavors to be free. The bee was the stingless kind, so Danny handled it without fear, and finally pulled off its wings, thus rendering it stilt more help- less. Be thought it great sport to see it crawl desperately, first in ono direction, then in another, in order to get away from its tormentor. The harder it pulled at the string, the more it pleased Danny, who yanked the poor insect here and there, laughing heartily at its ef, forts to escape. After a time the bee's struggles became less violent, As movements more feeble, until finally they ceas- ed altogether, and the little crea- ture lay, apparently lifeless, on the ground. Danny took it up in his hand and dangled it on the string. It hung there, quite inert and limp, so he threw it into the long grass, de- claring that the fun was over. It was too warm to hunt up some- thiug else interesting to do just then, so Danny lay dozen on the soft, green gram, and blinked laz- ily up at the tiny, white clouds sailing about in the clear, blue sky, wishing be could have a ride on one of them. He was just "mak- ing believe" that he was flying in an airship, when suddenly he felt a violent pull on his arm; then another, and still another. lie was about to protest against being so rudely disturbed, when he saw something that made him forget everything eke. A great creature (it seemed to him a giant), towered above him. In his hand he held one end of a rope, while the other end he fast- ened to Danny's arm. Every min- ute or two, the giant would give a jerk to the rope, and tae poor boy was pulled hither and thither, with an abruptness that was anything but agreeable. Besides the rope hurt Danny cruelly. The giant, however, was so big and strong, and Danny so small and helpless, he could do nothing but cry out with pain and anger. The giant only laughed at that. and pulled the harder. hoor Danny was yank- ed this way and that, until be was so dizzy and sore it was misery to move. \Vhen he felt ho c Id bear no more, to his horror, the came quite close to him. "1 think 1 will pull off your arms and legs," roar- ed he. in tones of thunder. In an agony of fear, Danny burst• into tears, crying out, "Please, Mr. Giant, do not kill me:" , "But you did not mini killing the poor bee," returned the giant, corning still nearer, so close that Danny could see. quite plainly, his dreadful, rolling eyes. "But i'll never do it again," wailed Manny ; "I never once fill the house with Isis thought I was hurting it. It was only a bca" "Well, you are only a boy, and THE SOVEREIG\'S ABSLN('E. I'll have you to know that bees have feelings as well ns boys," re - Royally fledged About with Many torted the giant. But as you say you will never be so cruel again. I Laws in Great Britain. will let you off this time." and tho According to the ancient British giant turned as, if to depart. Pe - law the so%ereign shall not leave fore ho dropped the rope, however, the kingdom without the•consent of he gave a final jerk, which was so both Ilourrs of Parliament. In violent that Danny --awoke. it was only a dream, after All ancient times the absence of tho but dreams sometimes teach useful King wag met by the a tntcnt lessons, as this one did to Danny, of an officer called the "jusustieiar. for never again was he known t0 This officer was afterwards super torture, for his own diversion, even such an humble creature as a bet. TO STOI' 1IICCOUGilS. 1'111 ing of "Cod Sate (tie King'• is Dr. Louis Kolipinski reports the Altered. r. of persistent hiccough by le - The national anthem, by special pressing the tongue. .\ patient was desire 4.1 t he King, is in future to attacked by hiccough which had be played more briskly by all milt- persisted for four days before be- tary bands. ing seen by the doctor. He corn - An order of the British .\rtny plained of the fulness in his throat, 1 eeincil has been issued instructing a condition which he thought the military bandmasters that the tem- revilt of the hiccough. ,,o of the national anthem is to be Ile was directed to sit up, and increased from crotchet equals 60 with a large spoon handle the t( crotchet equals tet. This means tongue was prrssed down and back that the time, value of the crotchet with steady force to allow inspec- witl he an $41h part of a minute in- tion of the fanees. First pressure Arad '1 a �Ath. ort the tongue uith the hope of fur - Th' order which eancela the re- flier noting the action of the pal - made, fixing the slower time WAS alar notinmusclg a act,ntirnted, when made. it is other tnod, because he to the doctor's surprise and the pa - Majesty and other members of the lient's astonishment and joy the Royal family herr objected t a hiccough ceased. When the hie - dirge like rendering. cough returned the patient himself Thr national anthem has been the soon 1lated in the new way before the p King. who was greatly pleased with hstopprd it by using andle. 1he alteration, and expressed his THI' Ht1ME DO( TOR. desire that it should be the per- manent tune. T•. remove foreign bodies from the eye, put a grain of flax seed %cot, lene-gas is now used on under the lower lid and close the t...a 1•rrt►eh railways for iliumin• eye. t.1 rlg earrix' s. For i:ara, he -- Put a pinch of don market ; 30.000 buckets of but- ter at week were sent thither in 1901. The pasturage in this butter producing region, which lies chiefly in the district of Tomsk, is so good that there is 7 per cent. of butter fat in the milk. in 100.2 a Danish firm was the first to export salted beef, mutton and pork from Siberia to London. Its success showed that Siberian mut- ton was good enough to compete with the best Icelandic mutton and may in future become an important factor in the meat markets of west- ern Europe. In 1902 the first canning estab- lishment in Asiatic Russia was opened at Omsk. Exports of hides it himself. and skins from Siberia increased ing from 2,800 tons in ie99 to 5.200 tons It may be a greater thing to lift in 1902. More than 1,600 tons of Siberian eggs are exported annu- ally. many of them finding their aay to the London market It takes leas than two half truths to make a full-sized lie. • Men are not drawn to the church by using the creed as a club. It's a poor religion that lets the prayer meeting hide the poor. Heaven does not stop to consult the vogue before it picks out a man. You cannot blame a Fong of wind for steering clear of pointed facts. Habit may be one of our best al- lies as well as one of our worst enemies. Half an evil eye can see more in- iquity than the whole of an inns cent one. The man who bates to see another happy i• certain'y safe from catch- up another's heart than it would he to carry his load. The men who have turned the world have never been too great to The fisheries of Siberia are very to,ich it with their bands. THE wIiI_i'1'. AX'I'. Railway Builder' in Africa ilate Trouble With Them. Every month brings us nearer to the realization of Mr. Cecil Rhode's dream of a Cape to-('airo railway. The rails have been laid for a dis- tance of over 2,000 miles from the Cape, and Tanganyika is now note much more than 400 miles off. In there parts the railway sta- tions are built of galvanized iron, while the telegraph -poles, and the "tics" into which the rail. are clamped are of steel. Evert i' the buts for the railway workers little or no wood is used, on account of the tens upon 1c`115 of thoue.tnds of the house and peered through the white ants which infest the regions window 1,014re he dared to enter. north of the Zambesi. Then he made his appearance with These vorarioos pests will destroy an air that dozens of broken win- anothing 1.. the nature of wood. and doss or bushels of stolen apples their mounds are occasionally as could net have given him.high as t%enty feet. ".Mrs. Murphy. little �ficl.cy's The only calor of these ants is nrw tin whistle's all broke." that t heir homes form a natural re• And flow did that hafpen• went. which the natives use in the drat''' construction of their huts. Put on "11. e11, Mickey was phasing on it wooden uprights like plaster. it be - when the itcam-rc ller wins over it." comes as hard us stunt, and a is its .__-. _ a perfect protection from the ...ea - "De you know anything about then. When the history of this flirting!' "No.'- he replied sadly. t;ig ntir, `'f thought did. hat when f tried eed undertaking comes to be written, it the tori married Inc. ' not the least inlerestint will be the account of the engineers' fight v. ea `" the white ant. 11 the latter ever Some people never pray "fa rgi.e learns to dine off steel, the cork 3t5 our de•6ts." except when the '11 1 8 .1 t ea, • o i;t he undone in as many Tering Lein gtaken. weeks.