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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-01-28, Page 6l;U'I2RL NT Topics. Probably the worst feature about the Italian calamity is the difficul- ty, if not impossibility, of the coun- try ever rocovoriug from it. Italy was once the richest country in the world, but that was long ago, and she Ls suffered incredibly from the competition of other and more vigorous peoples. Venice was ruined by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and of America. Prior to that time Venice was the great distributing point fur the goods of the East to Europe. Italy once led the world in manufactur- ing. Venice made the best grass, Milan the best steel and cloth, Florence the finest and richest wov- en stuffs. Milan armor was worn by the knights of Europe in the days of chivalry. From Milan comes our ward millinery, which harks back to the days when she led the world in beautiful and tasteful cre- ations for women's headgear. In the same way our mothers went to a "Mantua maker" to get their gowns, and this name reached back to Mantua in Italy, which excel- led in women's clothes. and parti- cularly in a rich, heavy silk. .\11 this has gone. Dutch, French, Spanish, English and American manufacturers are making better goods at less price than can be pro- duced in the old seats of the indus- tries. For a long time Italy, and especi- ally the aouthern part, believed it had monopolies of which it could not bo deprived, those of sulphur, oranges, olives, lemons and wines. Tho sulphur monopoly was seriously impaired by the use of pyrites in Various countries, and then it re- ceived its death blow by the de- velopment of the wonderful sulphur mines in Louisiana. Italian olives, grapes, lemons and oranges have come into sharp competition with those of Florida and California, and the value of the Italian orchards bas been steadily decreasing as ra- pidly as that of the American or- chards have rison. Italy has no coal and no nines of any conse- quence, and although she has an abundance of cheap labor there is mo way in which it seems hopeful it can be properly utilized. Conse- quently the more enterprising of the people aro leaving the country every year by the hundred thou- sand for lands which offer them better oppurtunities. Tho Italian, Government has been making hero -1 is efforts to carry the country along and develop it. It has done much more than could have been ex- pected with the means at its com- mand, but it is hard to see how it. can recover from this crushing blow. NEW METHOi) OF St• tt:EI{V which Reduces the Amount of Anaesthetic NeeesSar•y. Perhaps the greatest single fac- tor in diminishing the danger of MAKING OUR OWN CLIMATE A Man Is Happy With the Tiny Hut Because He Finds His Joy in High Thoughts "Light. is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart." --Psalm xcvii. 11. We talk about the "sunny south" and "runny Spain" ; arc not all lands sunny' Does not the Eskimo have his sunshine and en- joy it ! 1)o not the shores of New- foundland have their clear days' Are there not suuuy lives in the north and shadowy ones in the south'' The truth is we are seek- ing fur joys in circt:mstances that are found outs- in character. We talk of happy and favored lots; are not all lots happy acid all lives rich in favors? Those burd- ened ones, those who wages stead- ily the bitter fight with poverty, do they not talk of happy hours and have moments when the cup of joy is brimming fulll No life, at all normal or natural, is so con- stituted or circumstanced that hap- piness is impossible to it. Are there then no differences' Are all men equally happy and blest ? The differences are not where we are accustomed to look for them. This man is favored, not because he has a larger house than is yours, but because he opens his heart to happiness. This man is happy with the tiny hut because he finds his joy not in things but in high thoughts. The heart makes its own climate. The sun shines everywhere; some natures hide from it and some find its fleeting gleams on cloudy days rich with 'surmises and refreshing. You can wake up gloomy and carry a November's fog through a June day, if you will; or you may will genial warmth and cheer into JANUARY'S DREARY HOURS. 11'e all know people who seen) to be always cheerful, who fairly warm up our dull lives with the glow of their own. They have found the heart's clime where the days are al- ways bright. They are making a climate of their own. And the sec- ret of their cheer is that they seek out the hidden source of joy and strength. The outer life depends on this inner living. The surface of a life only reveals its sources. Tho sleep- er you strike in your hole{ on the great things of living the higher you may grow. Joy and strength are the fruitage borne where the life's roots go deep into greslt con- fidences and aspirations, great pas- sions, and ideals. Du we not often think of these cheery lives as possessed of some peculiar superficial geniality, as if they had somehow managed to ovoid the seriousness of life, to ig- nore the impost of its cares and fears' We speak of them perhaps as light hearted. But the truth may be the opposite of this; their lives are calm and cheerful because they strike deep, they go below the surface to secret sources. The riches of life depend on its resources. \Vhat you have for pub- lic living depends un what you lay up fur yourself in private. The at- mosphere and cliniate of your per- sonality is determined, not by the latitude of your residence, but by your habits in seeking out strength and cheer, in reaching out after high and noble thoughts. No platter how busy the life may be there are hours when one is, as i( were, turned in upon himself. To what do we look then, upon what do we dwell? Where do we spend such vacations? The climate of FOR THE LOVE OF LIBERTYis t ren guy gja`•ded MARVELLOUS FEATS OF Rl'S- SI.tN PIt11+ON•BItE:.1KE:R!1. .tn Interesting .recount of Some of Their Careers and Dariug Deeds. Nothing, perhaps, better illus- trates the indomitable courage of the risen and women who are light- ing to -day for the emancipation of the Russian peasant, and their un- swerving belief in the ultimate triumph of their cause, than the fact that, although many of thein have endured the horrors of !libell- ous imprisonment, Irony which they have either escaped or been re- leased, they still eontine their pro- paganda work. AN U2'YARALLELED ESCAPE. Gregory Gershuni, a revolution- ary who, in 1901, was sentenced to death, a sentence which was coni muted to one of penal servitude for life. Gershuni was first incarccr atod in the Schlussclburg Fortress:, from which no prisoner has ever yet escaped, and ultimately trans- ported to the Akatui Prison, East ern Siberia. From here he man• aged to escape in a pickled cab- bage barrel, and the plan adopted every hour is here given us; all the is unparalled in Russian history. way will be light if here we seek The favorite Russian national dish awayha light no sunny shire can chase IF the famous shtchi, consisting cf our gloom if hereepickled cabbage boiled into a thick , WE SEEK THE DARKNESS. soup with oil fat. With the assist - This is the value of reading the shun anceof someefdellow-prisonesecretrs m elf Bsr ible, it brings you into the pre- seises and atmosphere of great per- in a largo barrel containing pick) :1 sonalitios, their thinking leads you caotbbage' which as for placed winter with to visions of the light. that. lies sur sum tion in a cellar of the Gover- Air—"The Little Old Log Cabin in changing beyond our clouds and our Pthe Lane." alternating day and nicht. The nor's house outside the prison walls. When everything was quiet [Tho following was written by value is the same as in all cGershuni emerged from the barrelMr. Jas. Roy Hanna, of Traynor, !minion with great souls; new and,Sask., a former Smithfield bu high perennial_ springs of life are after being nearly suffocated, and, J'•) discovered. with the assistance of a comrade, In every direction great .lives are escaped from the cellar through a open to us. In every age and in all tunnel in the foundations. A lands there have been those who sledge and driver were in waiting found the essential verities that re- some distance from the prison, and main unchanged through all our ultimately, by roundabout ways, seasons and vicissitudes. Their Gershuni managed to roach a town way to light and truth is open to where friends kept him in hiding us; the way is barred only to the until the heat of the pursuit was selfish and the insincere. over. The police made frantic ef- Truly this is a simple message forts to trace the fugitive, but in that the heart. makes its own cli- mate; li- vain, and to -day Gershuni is more mato ; but what a difference it active in the revolutionary cause would make if we would but cher- than ever ho was before. ish in our hearts all the light and THREE TIMES IN SIBERIA. by military as !H -is i•11-1-i••1-i••1••i••t-i•3•-i-11-i••� carrying both swords and revolvers, while inter- ►iew•s between prisoners and their friends are only allowed under the most exceptional circumstances. And yet in 1906 ten important '•po- liticals" escaped from its walls. It was a revolutionary coup ►;hick still rankles in the minds of the Russian officials of the town. The prison administration was made to believe by telephonic mes- sage that the military governor of Warsaw desired the transfer of ten prisoners from the Paviak to the Citadel, the message further stat- ing that the prisoners were to be conveyed to the fortress under es- cort of an ollicer of gendarmes, who would bring his own guard. The gendarme officer arrived ac- companied by six policemen, and handed over to the officer what was apparently an official document ordering the transfer of the ten prisoners, each of whom vas cor- rectly mentioned and described in the missive. The prisoners were handed over to the officer, who gave a certificate stating that they had been delivered into his charge. THE RUSE SUCCESSFUL. Fastlion Hints. Next morning the prison van was found on the outskirts of the town, surrounded by prison clothing, uniforms and swords—all that re- mained of the ten prisoners and their escort; for the officer of the gendarmes and his police were friends of the prisoners, who had adopted this daring ruse to free their comrades. And the ruse was a complete success, for all the ef- forts of the authorities to discover the culprits proved unavailing.— London Tit -Bits. HOLD DOWN THE CI..\IM. truth and cheer we may, if we would The hero of Russian prison -break - share this inner summer tide, if we ers, however, is Leo Deutsch, who would gain the unchanging sunshine is also still engaged in revolution - even through our uniting experi- ary work, although ho has been enccs• sent to Siberia on three occasions, HENRY F. COPE. sent h.ss escaped each time. His last escape, in 1905, was perhaps the most audacious of all. He had ret.urnod to Russia after the C'zar's HEALTH ITCHING. Pruritus, or itching, is not a dis- ease in itself, but is a symptom of so many unhealthy states of the system, or merely of the skin, that it has given rise to a formidable list of prescriptions and suggestions for treatment. A great deal of itch- ing is caused by eczeiva--a disorder anaesthesia is the use of as little of the skin. There arc two kinds of anaesthetic as is necessary. The eczema. It is the kind that is administration of narcotics before called "dry.' or "scaly" eczema anaesthesia is one of the tnethuds w icich gives rise to a most disagree - adopted to reach this end. able and persistent form of itching, To this Klapp has recently ad -which sometimes does not stop even ded another nu shod, namely, the after the skin seems to have healed. artificial diminution of the (riven- Another furor, called "senile lasing blood during anaesthesia by pruritus,' attacks old people whose stopping the circulation in the ex circulation is defective and whose i i helpI skin has .. tendency to become thin tremintrnp ux d. n tuan► of t rase. these should be prescribed only by the physician ,who has ascertained the cause in each particular case.— Youth's Companion. HEALTH HINTS. Clinger Plaster—Ground ginger used _for plasters instead of mus- tard is just as good to "draw" and never blisters. When wanted to use as a disinfectant carbolic acid will mix readily with water, if the lat- ter is boiled. Useful Toothache Remedy.—Fill a small cup with boiling vinegar. Dip a puce of cotton -wool int„ •• and rub the gum; let the viie•rar I am looking rather shabby now while holding down the claim My victuals are not always served the best. Tho mice play shyly roun(j ms as I nestle down to rest In my little old sod shanty on the claim. Chorus: The hinges aro of leather, the win- dows have no glass, seen. And the board roof lets the howl' For the everyday suits of chil- 1 can hear the hungry coyote as he material than dark blue wool serge. sneaks up through the grass. There is now an absolute hen up Round my little old sod shanty on on loose and wrinkled gloves; they the claim. must be tight, neat, and closely buttoned. I rather like the novelty of living Bracelets are being worn again in this way, in quantities, and this year they. Though my bill of faro is always need not match in design, size, or rather tante, material. I'm as happy as can be in this hap- Old blue is one of the latest d.es L tl-:-i •i lhi i -Z i-l-•li- t -i -i-:-• 1 1-i-1 1 FADS AND FANCIES. Late tailored styles aro severe. Tailored blouses aro mannish. Crepe do chine is still quite mod - 1311. Gowns for walking were never shorter. Girls are fearfully addicted to IC hats. Nearly all hats fit closely to the hair. Paris is still holding out for the small hat. All dye of castor or near it are fashionable. Instead of a "V" the now decol- leto shape is square. Immense round snuffs are forcing their way to the fore. Turbans of fur should match the color of the furs worn. There never was before a winter with such a craze for furs. Parisian women are wearing huge shawls like those of sixty years ago. With the black tailored costumes gold embroidery is in great favor. Corded silks are slaking up waists fur street coat and skirt suits. Embroidery in heavy worsted or silk is employed on many new cloth gowns. The popularity of suede is waning and richer colors are in evidence. Jet butterfly buckles are the lat- est and daintiest thing for slippers. Women, young and old, are wear- ing jet jewelry with gowns black and white. It seems to be the airs this win- ter to have all clothes as dark as possible. The little girl of to -day may wear just as touch fur as her mother, in proportion to her size. Tho old-fashioned pruneile and prune colored cloth has made its appearance in directoire suits. Black hats are, as always, good style, and most striking and suc- cessful hats of black and white aro Constitutional manifesto, when the py land of liberty, for afternoon toilettes, and it is authorities practically guaranteed In my little old sod shanty on the made effective with black embroi- the safety of himself and other re- claim. clery. rolutionariea. But in spite of this It is a pretty fashion to add n solemn promise. Deutsch was re- And when I left sty w•estrrn home frill of soft satin or closely plait- arrostel and sent to Turukhansk, a bachelor young and gay, cd chiffon to the lower edge of far and his friends then gave up all To try and win my way to health iniiffs• hopes of rescue. and fame, While white fox is the especial On the road, however, Deutsch 1 little thought that I'd come down favorite of the winter, ih• black got the permission of the officer of to burning twisted hay and the pointed fox furs are also the escort to purchase some clothes In my little old sod shanty on the quite fashionable. and provisions while passing claim. One of the most popular colors through a little town on the road with fashionable women this winter to Turukhansk. Two guards ac- My clothes are plastered plowira, seems to be purple in its almost companied him on his slopping ex- i am an awful sight, innumerable shades. pedition, and while at the draper's And everything is scattered round bo as hot as you can endure. ,Stop, they began to ohat affably with the the room, 'i' the aching tooth with the same 'shopkecper, forgetting all about But I would not give the freedom 1rr'1'1'liOl:T 1tNC7Il. wool. In live minutes the pain will' the dangerous prisoner in their that 1 have out, in the West — have ceased. Sometimes, however, charge. For the bubble of the city's stylish A Story of the High Morality of two applications must be made. i)(nisch, noticing their attention homer. Disraeli. Treatment for Cut.—However was diverted, gently stepped into deep. if it only escapes an artery, a private room adjoining the shop, I wish that some kincl-hearted girl Disraeli's winning gentleness, shout straight and hard from the and bolted thence into the court- would pity on the take, his sympathies, so wide that ptin- point of a douche, hung high, water yard, where luckily. he found an And relieve nue of the mess that I cos and cottagers coveted and as hot. as can he borne directly into unfastened gate leading hits to lib- am in ; sought his counsel, his unselfish - as hes with the of c elite ind ' I •II the cut. The larger the cut the erty. He was fortunate enough to 0, the angel, how I'd bless her if ness, his pluck and his effrontery bandages. 1 c.,tses it will be found that there. is l:Onger it will take to close. The have some personal friends in the with ono her home she'd snake, have been the subject of many stor- Experimental work on animals little or noperspiration, nod this sets will close in jest the situation town. who hid him for some time, In the little old rod shanty on the ie . almost as mon., indeed, a1 has uniformly shown that such di- h w in hicthe flesh p' minution of the circulating blood fact has much to do with the conh grew naturally then helped d him to return to claim. those ..f his wit and [loner. It has enables the production of annesthe• I stem irritation of the skin that without leaving n scar. .After the St. Petersburg in disguise, when he been possible, however, for his Sia with a much smaller amount of soroe old people complain of so bit -flesh has closest fasten court ples- immediately took train for Finland And when we've made our fortune most recent biographer, Mr. Walt - the anaesthetic, while the awaken terly, and which is often so aggra- tens over the wound until there is and eventually arrived in England. i on the prairie of the West. er Sic•hel, to give fresi, instances of ing front unconsciousness very ra- vat ed as to threaten the general o danger of its being turn apart. THROiiGH A TUNNEL. { We're just n1 happy as a lover's the high morality of Disraeli, n(• pidly follows the admission of the health, if not life itself, by reason Sometimes it will take half or Another name held in reverence I dream. terward Earl of Beaconsfield. circulating [toed to the vessels ot, of the incessant nervous irritation three-quarters of an hour to heal by Russian rcvulutionists is that of i We'll forget the trials and troubles It is not generally known that en the extremeties. I and loss of rest. Anything that will n deep cut, hut then the work is i that we endured at first at least four occasions during the Dr. zur Verth had an nppnrt►i•, restore the lost function of p( r,pir- done and no suppuration to follow.' II!'P'�lyte Muishkin, •who was shot; In the little old sod shanty on the decade of the fifties 1)isrneli offmrd - in Iex5, and who first fell into the claim. nits to try this method in Bier's 1 ing will relieve the itching in ninny IIQT WATER.18 INV,11.C.\IILE, hands ef the police through trying clinic in Berlin, and reports verb of these easeserate from prison the famous favorably upon it, says %1e Medi-, A most intense nil horrible form Nothing is more easily procured novelist and • political .connnust, About cal Record. He administered of itching, is, as we all know, often than hot water : nothing for the toi- K•1 1 T i rr i } ► k► TI t known. anaesthetics in over 100 eases af- ter preliminary bandaging of the lower extremities; the arms were never cut off from the circulation because of the greater danger of injury to the nerves in the upper ext remities. The results fully bore out the data of experimental work : Less anaesthetic was used in all these cases than usually. strong indir•idut als being easily anaesthetized l,v the application of an alkali, such less. i seven means of the ether drop method; as househ�•ld ammonia, or, situp- Bothe the eyes with it when they steer priseleesa,Unfortunately,red to one liber - the recovery from) anaesthesia sol- lest of all, by rubbing the spot with are inflamed. of the men attracted the attention of one of the sentinels. who gave the alarm, and all the eight were ultimately recaptured. But it was not until Muishkin and a fel- low -prisoner had made a journey ac - no curatisc effect. Try a free sample from the fancily itf morreached e thnn t,00 sea coas0 miles, t (Ithat Persona with thin and irritable tea kettle. they were re arrested at Vladivo- akins, promo to itch easily, should ,1,--' stock, just when they were on the always wear silk or soft gauze un- dergarments, and if they wear HIS IDEA OF GETTING WORK. p shores. woolen underwear should take Bare Kind Md Lady—"Have you ever AIDED BY Tl:LI:P1fONB. that it dues net come next to tho made an effort to get work?" body. Ileggar—"Yes, ma'am. Last 1f ever there was a prison from There are as many lotions and m»nth I Rot work for two members which escape seeincd hopeless it is 10,000 varieties of fish to sacrifice his personal position to Graham. Palmerston and Gladstone are succesively for the interest of his country and his party. caused 1►y the bites of certain in- let is more valuable. Here are a re ' as c ce i s cc s - . sen LI 1 es and 1 t69 Disraeli defend - . People differ greatly in their few uses to which you may put it: tempt failed, and Muishkin was Norwegian rattle are, at times, ed Gladstone against the earners susceptibility to the bites of in- Drink aglass of it every night condemned to ten years' penal fed on powdered whale meat for among his suporters, indignantly p yser►itnde. Misfortune seemed to fattening purposes. rebuking the "frothy spouters of sedition,' as well as those who "preferred remembrance of acci- it�has been calculated that a per- dental errors to gratitude for suns eyelids open and shut 1,000,- splendid gifts and signal services." 000 tithes in a year. Gladstone wns a worthy foe. I)is- - — racii was as willing to give Iriin The world is growing neither bet - praise ns he ens unwilling to strike ter nor worse, but the people in it him to please the popular passion —well, that's another story. Iof the moment. and his 1naPnani- Jaspar—"i often w•nnd('r, why tnity was frankly acknowledged by Jenkins is not rnoro popular, for he is the most polite pian I know." Jumpuppe—"That is just the trou- ble. He is so confounded polite he leaves the impression that he want* Sir John noticed his gaze riveted to borrow money." on an engraving of the artists' fine portrait of the great leader of the Liberals. "Would you care to have it t" in- quired Sir John. "I was rather shy of offering it to you." `•1 would he delighted to have it," Disraeli replied. "Don't imagine that 1 hays, ever disliked Mr. Glad- stone; on the contrary, my only elifriieutty with him has been thnt I ccal'l never enderztend him." sects, but some are driven alrnost if you want a good digestion, a crazy by the bite of a mosquito. good sleep. and a clear complex - This itching is caused by the irri- ion. taring quality of the acid poison in- Put a rubber bottle of it to your dog him in his attempts to escape his punishment. Ile made a series of attempts. the melt aensatinal jectcd by the insect. and is best feet when you have a cold ; to yourfrom Pring that practically accomplished met. not b; yielding to the impel- back when you have a backache, Siberia. he Kara political prison in ling instinct to scratch, but by or at the nape of your neck when , quickly meeting the acid poison by you have a headache or feel sleep- By tunnelling under the walls of the ,rison Muishkin and lowed almost immediately the re- a Piece of ccmn,n soap. Soak the feet in it when they are move( of the bandages from the In nervous itching, where there tired. legs; no injurious after effects it no break in the skin. great relief Soak the hands in it before mnni- were noted. is often obtained by menthol, which curing. Besides these ,nanifest advent- relieves by substituting one senna- Steam the face with it once a nges of the new method one more tion fur another, but of course has week for your complexion. is mentioned by Zur Verth, the pos- sibility, namely, of performing avhat may be called autotransfu. Trion in ease of any accidents dur- ing anaesthesia ; in case of chloro- form especially the blood of the extremities rich in carbonic acid gas tnay act as a powerful physio- logical stimulus to the respiratory centres that are so powerfully de. (intmer'ts for the relief of this troll- ,;f my fancily, het neither of them Paviak, Warsaw. This prison is pre:r td by this narcotic. ble as there are causes for it, but would take it.'' encompassed by a very high wall, Mr. Uladstnne. When Disraeli stood for his last portrait—although suffering. he re- fused to sit to Sir John Millais— "I've walked many miles to see you, sir," Regan the tramp, "be- cause people told me you was very kind to poor chaps like me." "In- deed?" said the genial, white-hair- ed old man. "And you are going hack the same way?" "Yes, sir." "Ale Well, just contradict that rumor as you go, will you t (w d - morning."