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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-03-25, Page 2r • CURRENT TOPICS. The conservation cause gains most when its need is brought home to particular interests. The re- commendation of a, committee of en association of railroad men is hound to carry weight. The in- creasing scarcity of ties is adding THORNS IN LIFE'S PATH Most of Us Know It, and Those That Do Not Will Some Day materially to the cost of railroad Humble yourselves therefore un-, mighty hand of God, that He Inas : casatia au. construction and maintenance. The der the mighty baud of God, that exalt you in duo time; g price is said to be rapidly ap- He may exalt you in duo time; your caro upon Him; fur tie careti, preaching a prohibitive figura. The casting all your care upon hint; for you." for He cartel for you.—I. Peter v. When once we have come to do that we will know that this is not s world of do one or ,f blis d chance, but teat in (cud wo iivo and mo“c end have our being; that "ile ur doreth a good man's goiag anti niaketh his way acceptable to Him- self"; that events du not happen at random; that there is a reason foi everythiug, even though we rias not be able to know what it is, aiia that that reason is without fault or flaw because the all -wise God ruleth over all. situation is ono with which railroad men have been familiar in recent years. But the engineers are not satisfied with knowing that a situ- ation exists. What can be done about it? The recommendation Feints the way. Each railroad must have a technical assistant who will make a study of the tie problem. What is the visible sup- ply? Wheuce is the supply obtain- able? How rapidly is the supply decreasing? What is being done toward regrowth of timber? What Purdens rest upon timber lands and timber cutting? What regula- tions are there or ehould there be about cutting timber for ties? Can any satisfactory substitutes for timber ties bo found? How can the railroads c*' -operate with the national government in its plans for conservation and forestation? Intelligent answers to such and similar questions would have great value. Tho combined judgment of a number of railroad exports of this type would bo potent. Keep- ing in mind primarily selfish inter- ests of an individual corporation, these students of a special problem would be able to contribute much 6, 7. St. Peter knew the value of his own prescription It had helped him and so he commended it to these round hien. It is a good pre- scription --as good for us now as for those of St. Peter's day. True, we do not live in such evil times as did those to whom the apostle wrote, and yet, let times be what they may or circumstances ever so favorable, our life must needs bo one of more or less continual strug- gle, and so sometimes one of "hope deferred that ma!teth the heart sick." Knowing that this is so, we should bear with a calm and sober heart alike the seeming good and the seeming ill that; life may bring, knowing that there aro THORNS IN EACH LIFE'S PATH ; real hardships to be endured; real temptations to be overcome; hopes that will he illusive, and sometimes crosses that aro heavy and hard to bear. Those are to be congratu- lated who have come to know that lia'ppiness merely is not blessed- ness and that "a man's life con- sisteth not in tho abundance of the things which ho forosoeth," for not till then can wo know what the apostle meant in saying, "Humble yourselves therefore under the MEANT FOR t- JR GOOD. Believeing this, we can believe that all things are within His know- ledge and Hui disposal, because Ile is Lord of all, and though they might perhaps have been ordered otherwise, we t elieve they were thus ordered by the merciful God and Father of all, and so are mea.lt for our greatest good now and here and forever. We may not always bo able to see why things are as they aro, but if we will stand steadfastly with God wo can con fidcntly commit the keeping of our souls unto Him as unto a faithful 'creator in •the certain assurance that Ho caroth for us, and that some day, if not now, we will see that all that He does or suffers to be done is for our final good. REV. R. W. SNYDEIt. to the welfare of a far wider con- stituency. Tho examp'e shows the THE SUNDAY SCHOOL commercial importance of the con- servation cause. There is far moro In it than mere sentiment. It is easy to picture the preservation of natural resources and the plans for renewal of forests as great nation- al enterprises which will redound to the benefit of the country as a whole. It is also possible to show that they have an immediate and vital relationship to more than one branch of industry. 4 The eteelcrete age is a -coming. Although we are accustomed to speak of prehistoric man as be- longing to the stone age, the real stone age is only dawning. Forestry has been declared a farce and fence posts are being grown by the farmers, not by planting acorns, but by pouring a mixture of ce- ment, sand, and stone into molds. Hollow telegraph poles of roin- ferced concrete are common in Franco, and concrete piles are find - Ing a wider field of usefulness every year. In Italy barges and scows of reinforced concrete are used. Fireproof buildings of the stone "lumber" are too plentiful to ex- cite coinment, and concrete cot- tages and residences bid fair to be equally numerous ere long. Enough has been accomplished with reinforced concrete to show that "forests will soon bo as little need- ed for building purposes as buffa- loes for carriage robes or deer for dinners." The wonderful artificial stone called reinforccel conereto is credited with all the essential pro- perties of lumber save combusti- bility. Aird the want of this pro- perty is an advantage. Fire does ttot burn it quickly, nor rot con- sume it steely. It has the strength of steel, the durability of granite and promises to surpass aft present attainments in the future when the wonders wrought to -day will be to- morrow's commonplaces with the Steel buried in stone. The ancient Itg s of stone and the present age of iron are uniting to produce tho Cooling ago of "steelcreto," as the reinforced concrete has been called. The real conquest of the air will be made by flying for fun. Popular for speed as the automobile is, there always are young men who are willing to try something else. Aeroplaning is exclusively a coun- try sport. For a young man of good physique and nerve, with fair athletic judgment and presence of mind, the aeroplane ofTers an opportunity for recreation that has just enough of the spice of dan- err and the maximum of the rap- turo of pursuing. A man who has nt his disposal a stretch of mea- dow with flat fields nearby can learn to fls in a short time and with ro great danger. Flying is called the king of sports. Even at the be- ginning the sense of resting on the air while you glide over it is with- out parallel. When little puffs of air tip the machine and you must balance on your wing there is an- other opportunity for exercising the faculties of tense muscle control that the athletes who have trained nerve and muscle together can ap- preciate to the full. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 2S. Temperance Lesson. Proverbs 23: 29-35. Golddn Text, Prov. 23: 32. Verse 1. The Improved Man, with an Improved Character, is tiro Essential Means to an Improved World.—We cannot have a heaven- ly city unless the inhabitants are of a heavenly character. IL There is Material Enough, Money Enough, Mind Enough, in This World, to Make It a Paradise. —The tnoney and talent in any civi- lized city is sufficient if properly used and distributed to make that city an Eden, an Hesperides Gar- den, or the realicatic•n of any dream, ancient or modern, of tho Golden Age. Ail would be edu- cated, all would partake of the best things; there would be no slums, wise man's questions b3long only to wickedness—a quarrelsome dis- position ---where strong drink in- flames the passions, and, at the sante time, removes tho restraint of conscience and will, first mad- dening and then unchaining the tiger, grumbling, foolish talking— where the drunkard's "tongue is sot on fire of hell ;" "wounds with- out. cause ;" "redness of eyes;" either (or both) the dimming of the sight, physical, mental, and spiri- tual, or the "copper nose" which makes "the drinker's nose blush for the sins of his mouth." IV. Another Obstacle Among the Boys—Cigarettes. V. The Means by Which These Great Evils Can bo Removed aro Precisely the Sain., as Those which Produced the Marvelous Transfor- mations of Character in the Early Christian Disciples, Which Wo Have Been Studying. 1. Christ, our Living Leader, the power of God for salvation. '2. The Holy Spirit, convincing nten of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to comp; awakening men's hearts, inspiring then to bettor things. 3. Tho religious life which these Everyone pr no abject poverty. etence. could have all the joy, the wealth, 4. The results as manifested in the comforts, the rights, the school the healing of the body, and the privileges which ho could use. The 'betterment of the outw .rd life and one thing needed is the Improved happiness, which were symbols and Man to snake the social transfor- means to a better spiritual life. mation of the world, tho eliminate 5. The banding together in an ing every evil from the character organization which created a help - of men, till they are restored to fill moral atmosphere. the moral imago of God, when each 6. The courage, wisdom, gene - one did all he wished, and wishes rosity, love, peace, joy, religious but what ho ought. spirit, righteo•tsness of life, pro- IiI. The Great Obstacle in the duces' in the disciples. Way is sin, bad character in some int7o Their blessings, s,andii to others [Tread of its many forms. The one of these forms, the great thee good newsgood example of the obstacle which most concerns us in this lesson, is Intemperance, the Christians. want of self-control over tho ap- petites and passions. The wise man of the Proverbs expresses the evils of intemper- ance by a series of questions. 29. Who hath woe? who hath sor- row?—The words corresponding to the two substantives are, strictly Then Luther, quick to act and speaking, interje^tions, es in tho think. margin, Who hath Oh 1 Who hath At once tock up his pot of ink Alas 1 The woes are ton great and And threw it at the devil. too many to nn me separately. They are woes of body and woes But Satan, not too old to learn, of mind; woes in one's self, woes Was not the one to quickly turn in his family; pains, diseases, And haste away in terror ; instead of that he seized with skill • That inkpet which he uses still In propagating error. T. Watson. Granthurst. Ont., leo. FASTING FOR imm:i it. LUTHER'S INKPOT. The tempter once to Luther came And sought to hide that work in Shaine In w 160 he loved to revel ; povert}• Note that other people have woes and sorrows. besides tho intemper- ate man. Apostles and martyrs have been imprisoned and tortured, have suffered hunger and thirst, endured poserty and sickness mei pain. 1Ve have studied some In- stances during the past quarter. A good thing to try when you aro Read the eleventh chapter of lie- out of "kilter" is to fast ; drink brews. Read the stories of the lots of water during the fast, but Huguenots in France, and of the remember when you aro fasting to martyrs and niisstonaries of every 11 f further fast. age. But the difference in the two kinds of suffering is heaven -wide. Tho woes and sorrows of Peter and John, Paul and Silas. in dungeons and chains, rejoicing that. they were eeunted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake, with of clear ear consciences. for the sake kingdom of God and salvation of men, listening to God's ")Well done, good and faithful," and see- ing the crown of righteousness arc almost infinitely removed from the woes and sorrows of thnse that tarry long at the wine, w hose suf ferings are the ft nit of their own sins. The ether enrews that flew from the wine clip montiencyl in the tlrf�4-i•1-t-�•♦-i-t+•i-i-�-i-f t+-ta-� �-".. )LONDON DOCKS WONDERS �'�1S�1 i0u test Yi 1 3-i i-1 3 Ji i -i 1-i- S •i -i -l -i FADS AND FANCIES. All parasols have long handles. It is undoubtedly a year of silks. Cli:iging guwus are still ttie rage. Velveteen toques are in great de - nand. Many guimees are being made without collars. Foulards and pongees aro the favorite fabrics. Taffeta silk .s the ruling favor- ite in sun -shades. Satin violets, in all shades, will figure on new hats. There is no end of border effects among the new cottons. Bodices are longer in front, but as High as ever at the back. Litacs, wistaria, and roses prom- ises to be favorite hat flowers. The juniper frock is back again Nlilts. VALUABLE CARGOES FROM Aid. PARTS 01' '1'IIE WORLD. 600,01)0 Bales of Shecps' Wool, and 56 Miles of Wine Cases Underground. In rho enormous storehouses which lie just below the Towel bridge in London, .englaud, 600,000 ba:es of wool are bandied in a year. Each weighs 40) pounds, and contains the fleeces of 60,000 sheep. The price of the wool aver- ages a shilling a pound. Therefore tiie value of a year's trade in wool at London docks reaches £12,000,- 000. And all this, or very nearly all, is a purely British trade. ))own at the Victoria and Albert Docks you see the ships which bring the wool froin Victoria, New Zealand, New South )Wales, South Australia, West Australia, the Cape and Natal. Over the side among the ready to wear models. go the bales into barges (or light - Much of the braiding now soon is ers, as they are more generally in distinctly medieval pattern. called), which carry theta up - Tho suede glove, because it clings river to the warehouses. Here the so closely, is having a great run. buyers come at sale times to sam- Soft, pliable yedda braids will pie the sacks, and the whole place probably be used again for sum- hums with activity. As many as leer hats. 1,200 men aro employed. A useful and becoming gown for Underneath the wool warehouses all occasions is of black meteor aro the vaults for the storage of crepe. wine. In all there aro 28 miles of Foulard silks promise to domin- ate among the fabrics of the early and withrounderground croads, ks. lined Even dthins easidedoch spring. The line is everything in fashion not include the rum vaults at the now ; the curve has not a single de- votee. The separate skirt and blouse are out of fashion except with a shirt- waist. There is a well defined effort un- der way to bring back pannier draperies. Great quantities of linen and coy ton suitings are beginning to flood the counters. Guitnpes and sleeves are trimmed abundantly with lace and tucks of all-over embroidery. It is believed that the low, round Dutch collar will be, worn on the spring and summer shirtwaists. The Mephistopheles quill is the most popular of the many weird decorations that figure on toques. Old-fashioned beadwork has been revived and promises to bo in high favor. It is especially popular for hand bags. The cartwheel hat is superseded in Paris by the busby, which takes up in height what the Merry Widow required ie width. In ready made petticoat models je sey cloth is most used for tops, since it gives ample warmth with- out objectionable bulkiness. Band bags are immense and many are tooled in elaborate designs to suit the fancy of the owner ; some of then have monograms burned in. Stripes of the new linens are of the herringbone style in white, with a color, and these stripes al- b'f tt West India Dock, where spirit is stored to the value of two and a half million sterling. Here in the London docks there aro four acres of brandy oellars, but most of the space is occupied by port, sherry, and Maderia. Every visitor must carry a little oil lamp on the end of a stick. Looking up ono can see the extraordinary etfocts of the thick black and white fungus on the vaulted roof, caused by the vinous atmosphere. It is a ghostly place, a wine - vault, dimly lighter by infrequent jets of gas, which you see glim- mering far away. One might easily get lost down here. Some people would, perhaps, rather like it! But the little lamps are precaution against that. Tho man in charge of them at the entrance keeps a strict account of the number lent out. If one were missing, the vaults would be searched at once. QUEEREST LIQUID IN THE WORLD. All sorts of things besides wines and spirits are stored in the vaults. There is one, for instance, filled with iron bottles of quicksilver. Have you ever seen a 56 -pound weight floating about in a pail of quicksilver? It is the most aston- ishing liquid in the world. Lift up a ladleful—you will be surprised at its heaviness. Try to press down the surface with your hand. It re- ternato with white ones o is same sists almost like a solid substance. width. Yet again there are vast under - at back, continue to be raised high ground chambers at St. Katharine havat e corne down bac d, but many ont, onne Dock, where £700,000 worth of rub - belt to a slightapot intf below ront, seine ber is stored. There are crates of belt line. it in its roughest state, mixed with Dainty butterfly bows for the bark and earth, just as it flowed neck are shown in two tones of soft from the tree. In this condition old blue suede. Tho upper row is it looks like mere rubbish. You embroidered in floss silk and in' would never think it was worth contrasting color. I £360 a ton. Other cases contain Ostrich feather neck collarettes, the rubber in a purer state, and wide and close of fit, conte in all: finally we come to boxes of "bis- cuits," which are round flat pieces of the rubber of commerce ns wo know it in bicycle tires. As you come up from these vaults, notice the marble strewn all about the handsome pillared quays, which remind one of the columned iir- Two to be Completed in Spring are e.idCs down 1 y the port of (:soon. of Dreadnought ('las,. i There is a showroom close by for A recent issue of Tho Nary the display of tornbcstnnes, grave - League Journal gives a good deal yard angels, and so on. They nre of information as to recent or con- shipped here from Italy. Would template(' additions to the Royal you like to choose a monument Navy. The contract for the bat- while you wait? tleship Lord Nelson was placed on LESIONS AND ORANGES. NOV. Orli, 1901, and the ship took her place in the Nose Division of Further on there is a fruit ship the Honie Fleet on Dec. 13th. She unloading ten thousand cases of was formally commissioned on oranges and lemons from sunny Dec. 1st. Contracts for the de- Sicily. It only came in this morn- stroyers Ghurka and Afridi were ing, and before to -morrow's day - placed in August and September, light it will be gone. There is an 1s0S. The Ghurka was ready for atmosphere of orderly quiet about servile early this month, and the these docks for the most part, but Afridi will not be ready until next they (WI "get a move on" when it month. The contracts for the in- is necessary•. Piled up near the after. vineiblo and Intlesihte were placed oranges arc eases of currants from There aster is room at the top on \uv. 21st, 141st,. The Intlexihlo Greece, and of dates from Tafilat for the man who thinks it was was complctcd on Use. 12th, and or llussorah. Here, too, are all the invincible will be completed sorts of spices—nutmegs, cloves this spring• from Dutch Sumatra or French The Twill nice, a new ))read- Mauritius, cinnamon from Ceylon. remove a reason or ur ter as . naught, will not be Completed un -__—,4 Having derided to fast, the faster til June. and tho Superb not until should stake up his mind to use March or April next. The Feud- TlfF: 1V11Of.E SECRET. discretion. He should not, be. toyant, }et another Dreadnought cause he else laid down at Portsmouth on "To what (10 you attrihute your efficacy he ff fasting, determineas come to believe tnigt`,n Jan. 1st. She will have a novel success?" a long fast for n beginning. ifs arrangement of her large guns. "To a great many failures, re must not let his enthusiasm for the The new cruisers, except second- plied the thoughtful Sian. new treatment carry away with it class, will be of about 4.500 tons his romnion sense. His first fast displaeemont. With 22:000 i.h.p., �� man seldom really ellj„\'A gond should cover two meals --breakfast they are to steam 2e knots, as de- Health until he loses it. and dinner. Signed : three more knots will bo aimed for. By the hyo• ask any officer which It's difficult for a stout woman are the fastest destrnrers — the to get a way from solid facts. :;(i knot type or the 25 -knot River ell -s' They will unanimously tell The vogue of the moment is f,.r \en that the Rivers can run away the classical tailorrrade suit with feen any but the new Tribals ex - the long train and the heaping e,�pt in a dead calm. and that is not folds of fab:ie at the foot. the usual state of the sea. colors and shades and are one of the lest liked neck finishes when fur is not used. NEW RRITISII BATTLESHIPS. 1 YOUNG FOLKS losess000essacsesoo A RAINY -DAY JOURNEY. "Why, dearies," said Aunt Ber- tha, as she came into the nursery and found the three children with solemn little faces pressed against the rain -spattered window -pane, "have you yet to learn that it can be sunny within if it is rainy out- side 1" "If this was the last day of your vacation, and it had rained most every day, 1 guess you wouldn't 4. say that, " said Bobby, the eldest cf the trio. "When I was ten years ld, I eresuuie I wouldn't have said so," replied Aunt Bertha, "but I have learned since that we can make the sun shine for us al.nost always if we aro only willing to try. How would you like to go on a pleasure trip?" She was smiling brightly. "In the rain?" asked the three, i-: surprise. "Why, Aunt Bertha' How could we go out?" "Oh, the rain won't affect us in tho least. We shall not even need rubbers or umbrellas," she an- swered, laughing. "You may put on your rubber boots, Bobby, and run over and ask your playmates to coni° and travel with you, if you wish," Bobby looked lather doubtful, but he went and soon five children were watching aunty stitch up four long strips of brown paper on the machine. This site divided into five booklets. Next sbe brought a pile of old magazines, several pairs of scissors, and some paste and brushes. "Now," she said, "you may all travel just where you wish. These magazines are full of pictures taken in interesting countries all over the world. Wherever you decide to visit, just find all the pictures you can that have any connection with the place, and paste them in your little books, and you will have much of the pleasure and excite- ment of a real journey, with none c•f its dangers and discomforts. I will leave you for a little while now, and when I come back I shall expect to find you all home again, safe and happy." How quickly the next two hours passed, and how busy the little brains and fingers were! Bobby went to California. His first picture was of the "Sunset Limited," the train in which he chose to cross the continent. There were views of Western cities that he passed through; and when he reached the sunn- land he filled his booklet with scenes in the great harbor on the Paeific coast, pie - lures of wonderful flowers and fruits that grow only under south- ern skies, photographs taken at an ostrich -farm, and many other things of interest, until the last leaf of the journey -book was cov- ered. Elsa went to Japan, and she col- lected pictures of bamboo houses and Japanese children with cherry - blossoms and butterflies. 'Everybody journeyed somewhere. When Aunt Bertha came in again, she brought a big plate of sugar jumbles, and the way the cookies disappeared proved that each little traveller had returned in good health with a good appetite. -- Youth's Companion. 4 SENTENCE SERMONS. Practice is the one preservative of religion. Austerity to a thief is no evidence of honesty. flitting still is always the tnost trying situation in life. When love lies it is better than when hatred tells all the truth. Love has a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can speak. The best evidence of a healthy soul is its hunger for work to do. Every man must hay the riches of experience with his own coin. No tnan can c,wn any more than he can carry in his °en heart. No man an take iniquity into his creed and t:c cp it out of his char- acter. bio prayer meeting is long enough that does not reach to the market place. Tho things you really stand for are revealed to those you run People waste a lot of time trying to obtain things they have no earthly use for. When a man makes a distinction between his creed and his conduct he will discover a breach between bis aspirations and his heaven. built onlyfor one. The man who hasn't the rigor to be vicious usually prides himself on his virtues. The welfare c 1 the world may de- pend partly on whether you can ahistic in the rain. Most users of sarcasm think more of its snund than of the sets ice it might render. Some of the virtues of our friends grow out of the graves where we have buried their faults. Too many when they attempt to leave their sins make the mistake of holding farewell meetings. Our example when we are on parade has no influence at all cern. pared to the effect of our everyday living. Son may have a right to your own sorrows; but you have no right to throw their shadows in another's way.