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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-05-06, Page 6♦csoeo+o+o♦o+ot•o♦o+ +oOtdrawer, all the blood in his body if„r.cl of him that he betrayed me intofit is upon scientific principle. fer q seemed suddenly to turn to ire. while the water may be a•:ting t•, o ; Ella taas btaading in the doorway, some extent as a solvent, it carnes cooing one tory foolish thing." "What was that s' "It was his delirium, you know. In delirium you cannot tell whether a patient's rat ing., are founded on fact or not. He kept worrying about some letters. l)u you know how your mother toed,- by the way? "Yes. She was knocked down by a runaway horse, and her death broke pour father's heart," raid Ella, sadly. • -- :t hopeless drunkard, t hough ' ' softening of the brain, and that you Litt I um not n thief' didn't know ; and he wanted some letters burnt so that you should never find nut. It stag only delir- ium; but it seemed so sad, and got so upon my nerves, that, when eases are by this means washed everyone had gone to bed, I went out of the system before they ac - downstairs and opened the drawer cumulate in sufficient quantity to he said the letters were in. But, occasion trouble. of course, they were not. there; there was nothing in the drawer but a lot of money. It was just one of his sick fancies, poor ul l man." "It was very kind of you to seek to spare me," said Ella quietly. as the truth of Dick's sacrifice dawned upon her --"very kind!" Then she wired to Dick : "Come rotund to Inc at once."—London Answers. 1' a DICIS SCRWiCE. regarding hits with horrified, re- these harmful deposits to the Cari- ous outlets of the i , stem. proachful eyes. "Oh, Dick'." she murmured, w..n Similar beneficiate results follow in quivering lips, other organs when resort is had to quivering e. he was pulling him - the flushing with water. In c�c,�<'aoec�o�o+04♦0♦04o�'self tcgcther, racking his brats for• the liter, for instaece, where there some plausible explanation, and is liability to the f irritation of gall- 1."Ia Lick here et 1"' asked tho failing to aloe it. The circumstances stones the danger is held in cheek y'were too compromising; only the by free irrigations. Solid constitu- white-haired invalid anxiously. truth could explain them away—and eras of the bile are rendered fluid ";dot yet, father," Ella answer- that , e could not tell. by the diluent action of water, and ed; "but he won't be long. He's It looks bad I know, Ella," he 1h Well, h, was always rt they flow onwards t'ad sin the natural sure to come at once. ' She turned ng out that she had died in a burro course, instead of remainingsta- her' head awa • to hide the tears said lamely ; but you you must I have faith in me 1 may be poor tinnart to furs hard tisin discs. rho could not keep back. Gout and rheumatism, diseases practically unknown in Japan, are to a great extent preventable by an abundant use of water. The poisons that give rise to these dis- Old Mr. Jusland was toying. After a st renuous, successfullife, the time hail come W lay his riches down. .1ud all he wanted, now the "What were you doing, then 1" she demanded, in the despairing tone of one overwhelmed by Fate. This --this dreadful thing was more end was near, was to Fee Dick-- than she could hear. Dick Foster, whose engagement to „ his only child he had at first refused I—I only just opened the drawer," he stammered, being to sanction, en the grounds that forced to say sumetning. Dick as too poor, and could only he after her money. But Ella, with "Gentlemen don't 'just open' her quiet, womanly persistence, drawers in other .people's houses," had won him over. she said coldly. "I want to speak to him alone," To say anything about being he said faintly to o.s daughter, when asked to burn certain papers, even Lick came. She and the nurse stole though he declined to say what the quietly out of the room. papers were, must bring discredit The young man stepped to the on the dead man. To lie --as for a bedside and looked down upon the [[torrent, in desperation, he was drawn face of the man who had tempted to do—anu say that her once been so bitter and unrelenting father had given him the money, towards him. was impossible now. There seemed "It's something I want you to do to be nothing fur it but to let her for me—for her—that has made me think him a thief. send for you," muttered the old man For a long time, in a painful sil- slowly once, they stecel facing each other, "All my life I have tried to spare both busy with their thoughts; but my Ella pain," gasped the dying at haat Ella spoke. man. "The saddest thing in my life "Why did father send for you? I have kept from her, and 1 want it she asked. kept from her after 1 have gone. He saw at once what was coming, " It's —it's about her mother," and, for the dead man's sake, he went on, after a pause. "Years braced himself for the lie. ago, when Ella was a baby, my wife " To say good- -•e," he answers 1 met with an accident. A runaway calrnly. " To tell mo to take caro horse knocked her down and kicked of you." her head." "Was there anything in his life "Yes; I know. She never recov- ho didn't wish me to know t Any- e.rod," Dick said gently, with the thing ho was ashamei of 1 Did he idea of helping him out, as the old ask you to go to his desk to destroy man broke ori exhaustedly. "She—she did recover partially. Ella--everybody—thinks she died after a long illness. But she got better, though her brain was affect- ed by the kick, and she—she took to drink ANOTHER AILMENT common enough in this country, but surely heard of in Japan, Is con- stiputiun. In the majority of caves constipation rutty be avowed by a Wotan' use (It water. Copious and frequent draughts so alter the consistence of the contents of the stomach that progress is facilitated —4. and injurious obstructions are en- tirely obviated. 11 ater being so in- expensive, the idea of its use as a medicine is frequently disregarded, at least among ourselves, and the customary resort to drugs in this ailment only intensifies the evil. Whether we belong to a white or yellow race our tissues and organs crave for water; first, because it is an essential element of their com- position liable to daily waste; then because it renders all the assimila- tive changes more complete; and, finally, because it is necessary for proper removal of effete matter, which, remaining in the body, would give rise to disease. Consider next the advantages gained by the use of water extern - anything t" plies equally to their use of water ally. It is here that the Japanese "No," said Dick, his eves fixed on internally. Accepting their own rank ahead of all nations. They a photograph of Ella'a another, testimony of themselves, the Japan- bathe the entire hody once or more eso cannot find a more potent agent every clay. Their method of bath - young and beautiful, with a baby in her arms. "On your honor?" Ella de- manded. "On my honor !" he declared, JAPAN'S HEALTH SECRET A VALUABLE MEDICINE ABSO- L1i'1'ELY GRA'T'IS. Read This Article and Gine the Remedy a Fide Trial. The remarkable physicial super- iority of the Japanese is largely attributable to their liberal use of water. Not only is this true in re- gard to the daily each, but it ap- for health than the free use of this wholesome fluid. They con- tend that, if it be generously and "My poor wife—my poor, dear intelligently employed, water is an wife'" he sobbed. "it was that burning his boats—lying for poor infallible weapon against disease. brutal kick ; she was never herself old Josland's sake. Their athletes drink as much as a again. But what could I do ? I had ''That leaves me to alternative, the child to think of. So when all then, but to think—" our efforts to save her had failed, "I can't help what you think, 1 put her in a home." Ella. I can only assure you that "You want me to go to her—to 1 am not a thief." look after her 1" asked Dick, moved Yet once again a':ey stood look - almost to tears, man though he was. ing at each other in silence, Dick's "No; site is dead now. I am go- heart pounding with a great fear. ing home to her.' I brought my For her sake he had done his best-- ing differs ninterially from our own. The water of the bath is heated up to form 110 deg. to 120 deg. Fahr. After washing the body in a tub, using soap or not as may be neces- sary, the bather enters the large gallon a day; and the poorest of hot bath, and sits quietly in the hot their poor are scrupulously clean water until he is alnost parboiled. because they never neglected a daily And, hoast as we may about our bath. "cold tub," it is questionable Undoubtedly, water is a match- whether the Japanese do not sur - less cleansing agent, and at the pass us in healthy cleanliness of Paine time a valuai,Ie medicine; and the skin. what makes a visit to Japan so ex- Hot water effectually opens the trernely pleasant is not only the pores, while the application of cold Ella up to worship her—to think had lied "on my honor" to spas delicious bathing, Ina also the enures their instant contraction ; of her as the angel she was while her pain. "If her father had given inexpensive and agreeable character hence, for purposes of cleansing the she was herself. I don't want her me the key," he groaned inwardly, of their medicinal ...mode. ever to know." "She shall not!" cried Dick. "Tell me what you wish me to do." "Nobody knows. It was toy acc- ret, and I had money. But there are papers-- her letters to me frorn the !sone --pitiful letters, that broke my heart, but which I could not burn. I aid not guess death was crrr.ir,a tc rite so soon, or else Now sou •r.ust burn them, for fear my girl should ever see them. "They are in my desk--- in the library, top right-hand drawer. It's divided in two. In the front there that he had not meant to steal, she is my loose gelud ; in the back must naturally conclude that he had division you will find them ---a bun- gone to inc desk at her father's re - die, tied up. Don't let her know . quest ; and this must be avoided, at Don't let her know !" all costs. Ile bowed his head, The old man gasped. hick ran therefore, to Fate. to the door and called to Ella and For her sake, end her father's the nurse, who came hurrying in. sake, he determined on the sacrifice. A moment later the old elan died So long as she loved him, he cared in his daughter's arms. • far nothing else. Yet the suspicion cling to him for (ver. That was the easiest and the noblest way out of the impasse. "'Thank you, Ella'" he said gent- ly. " Let us forget to night. Henceforward, all my life shall be spent in tryinng to be worthy of you." Like a mother with an erring child, she put her arms around his neck and kissed him. "We will both forget, dear," she said tenderly. It was hard --it aswcruelly hard three pints of the fluid should en- _ but what else could he have done l ter the eys!em every twenty four ''1'11 bear it . I'll boar it :" he hex►rs. When this amount is not muttered. " .1nd she .hc is! too forthcoming the constituent ole - noble to remember. She will for menta of our etruet uree become get '� materially altered, their normal And as he pushed the key into the composition being so changed that door of his chambers he cried : snmething, somewhere, suffers. "I'm glad ' It isn't. touch 1 have Nor Is a sufficie,.t supply of water done in my life that 1 can be proud only required by the more solid of, but I am proud to think that I substance, : it is equally necessary wasn't weak enough to explain'" to maintain a due proportion of He took the letters from his fluids in the system. Therefore, a pocket. cast then) into the fire• and deprivation of water, or an in - waited till they were thoroughly adequate •apply, places the whole consumed before lie went to bed. of the tissues and fluids of the body in an abnormal condition, and thus predisposes them to the ONSLAUGIITF OF DISEASE. "this would never hese happened!" Used internally, water is chiefly "Ella," ho said gravely, "will beneficial as an irrigator of the sys- this make any deference to us? � Do tem, since it cleanses and purifies you wish me to release your the blood more effectually than any She came over to him, and took other agent. Its external uses are his hand. mainly confined to local artifice - "I love you, Dick, she ansewer- tions of various kinds, and its cel, "and nothing can make any cleansing properties when employed difference. Whatever you are, in the daily bath. thorough and frequent cleansing whatever you have done, or have t g Unlike the Japanese, we experi- cannot well be over-estimated. been tempted to do, I love you!" , He wanted to protest his innocence once an aversion to copious Phis may readily be realized if we now, but refrained, for it occurred draughts of water. A notion is pre- imagine a person's body- to be com- tn him that, (:id he convince akin, a hot bath is preferable to a cold one. We promote every facility for bathing daily, the Japanese are liberally supplied with public baths, the cost of which is but A FRACTION OF A PENNY. The better classes arc of course pro- vided for in their private dwcilings. The importance of such► a her valent among us that water drink- pletely covered with some itnper- ing is undesirable and frequently vious substance like gelatine. 11'hat FRAliGHT WITH HARM. would happen in such a case would be this : perspiration would be ar- This idea, hotce..er, is altogether rested; secretions which should es - erroneous, and basal upon want of cape by the bores would collect in knowledge or lack of reason. the body and poison the indisidurti. Water is Nature's special provi- This is universally admitted, since Bien of quenching thirst ; and while experiments have proved tont thus there are circumstances under which covering an animal's body intari- it may be prudent to delay the ably brings about its death. I'lain- draught, no sound reason can be ly there is beneficent wisdom in urged against its liberal use. Nature's provision of this cxten- 11 hat, then, are the benefits this sive drainage ; and if the excretion interesting people claim to desire of deleterious matter by this than - from the use of water as a midi- nel is thwarted, disaster will sooner eine 1 i)octors in ..span, as well as or later eliane. those of this country, have disci)... An off -hand assertion that the erect that the human hody is largely pores of our skin. .-ach measuring composed of water. Its presence is a quarter of an inch in length, total net permanent, for considerable up to something like twenty-eight quantities are h,uu•ls. lost by interns miles is certainly .( startling Mate - of the lungs, the Kidneys, and the meat ; nevertheless. in a human skin. To compensate thin loss about body of average hulk this would be 1I. Dick slipped quiet.• away. There were tears in his eyes as he walked into the library and switched on the electric light. The whole pitiful story wrung his heart —the devoted husband forced to shut up the wife, ' who was not her- self,' and determined that his daughter, both for her own and her mother's rake, should never know. In that murnert something of the old man's sufferer a, something of his innate nobility, became clear to Hick Foster. He grasped the knob of the top right• '.and drsteer of old Mr. Jos - land's desk, and pulled. It was locked ; and, with a such den shock of despair, be realized that the dying man had rot told hitt w hers the key was. LI a flash the difficulties of his task dae ncd upon him. It was prac- tically a ease of now or never. After to night the house would be full i'everishly he searched abe•ut the r ' m, kneeing les search hopeless; the key was sure to be upstairs upon the dead roan's dressing table. And Ella wnnid sue if he tried to take it. Something Lad to be none. He took his nen bunch of keys from Iris pocket, and tried them. but none Next morning the nurse and Ella sat down to breakfast together. sou.must eat, you know, or you'll he i1I,— said the nurse Take as an example of this the kidneys. hiving as a e do, these organs experience n tendency to the deposit of minute crystals of uric would fit ; then he opened the kindly. And then. being wise in acid ; if these are left to aecumu- •' horscpick " at the back of his pen.grief, instead of seeking t , cheer late in the tubules they ultimately knife, and sit to work to pick the her companion I,y talking of other become calculi or stones Sumer - lock. things. she began to speak of her ous specifics are widely adtertised At 1..•t the drawer opened. father's illness, knowing that only as remedies for the evil, but surely There were two divisions, and in the thus could she hold EIla's attention, "prevention is better than ( tire." front nae lay a little heap of gold and induce her to est. Any Japanese of average intelli- - perhaps thirty er forty sovereigns ••1 dn't know how I can ever Renee knows full well that ahstnin. kept there by Mr. Jusland for cur- thank you' Ella Paid presently. ing entirely from drug.. by Ire rent expenditure. ignoring this. he ''\I were so greet to hien quent flushing. of the kiei,eys f,�• seised the bundle of letters which ire ea. !Lich a dear, kind old means of copious draughts , 1 water, !se in the hart, di:•l ion, and flipped man." said the nurse smpetheti- these dangerous formations are en t',••m i:)to his pocket. And then, cally. "I would he's, done an}thing tircly obviated. This fact le a. ;Lar as was about to .hut the for lteim. Do you krow, t grew so soundly based on commou sense as fomentations, it is invaluable for BEEP ANSWERS TO DEEP What You Are and What You Make of Life Depends ou What You Are Within. "He l-cstorcth my soul."—Ps. xxiii., 3. Something within gives all with- out its meaning. To sen with the eyes only is to be blind and to bear y:ith the cars only to be pitiably deaf. The soul sits the interpreter of all and upon this Miler lite do - ponds the yaluo of alt to each of us; this inner -self make.: the crustby the wayside a feast to one while the richest bill of fare spells only famine to another. The spirit of life looks out through the eyes of our friends and gites love's fulness and beauty to their faces. We look not on their foiitures; somehow we see through them to the being himeelf. \1'e cannot, call up their precise forms when we are away, yet we beets to vision their Aot:la to our inner eyes. People are dear to us in the meas- ure that we thus come to know their personalities. In the past many were prone to err by too great emphasis on the soul as a separate entity, as some- thing within man, a separate per- sonality, as a divine life, which could go on loving the divine and being religious regardless of the habits and facts of THE REST OF THE PERSON. When we were children we were told that the soul was something which we were to save no matter what happened to the rest of us. That was a foolish perversion. It permitted one to perfect the hypothetical at the expense of the actual. It was a cheap way of be- ing good to keep indefinable and invisible soul theoretically clean and to be so busy doing this as to have neither time nor strength to keep the hands actually clean or to use them in the service of our fel- lows. So long as the soul was the real person, separate from and inde- pe-dent of "the vile hody," the one thing to be saved, men were so absorbed in getting this imaginary particle into heaven that they al- lowed the whole .t life, actual and real, to fall away in the ether direc- tion. If the soul was the only thing that could be sated it was a waste of time to speed effort seeking to redeem anything else. No wonder that men revolted from the faith that fixed its hopes wholly on the unseen and, selfishly dwelling ou Cult, degraded etery- thieg that ea, most her and le%ety and fuite of twee in the ti:,itIv voteId. if one has been brought up iu the atmosphere of emit phrases about the soul that has to be saved the natural reaction is to ask wlictIier this soul !nay Iwo be wholly a de- lusion. But the (Imager• is tot less in the other direction that tau shall heck to eliminate all except teat which our hands can feel and ear eyes caa see. It is easy to forgot teat there are facts that he beyond expreeiou in terms of figures, of inches or energies in pounds and ounces. The things that have mist to do with our own lit es are net, things at all, or they are really negligible as things. A BAN'S HAND may be migli ier than steel chains. A line or two in the trembling hand -writing of an aged mother will take a man where a regiment could not drive hies. As things those aro as nothing; as forces in our tires they may bo incalculable. Some- thing nes back of thein that appeals to and moves something that lies back in us. Aspiration, gratitude, love, sym- pathy, repentance, and conscious- ness of imperfection, these aro all facts in our lit ee. You may show that they trate no tangible basis; no scalpel may find thorn ; analysis may disprove them, but they siru- ply are and no life can ignore the inner lite in which they consist. The activities of this spirit with- in are to be reckoned w nth in the affairs of our lives. \1'c need to take account of them at least as much ae we take account of the forces and atoms of the outer uni- verse. The power within, the will of man, dominates the world with- out. The life needs to take deep draughts from the fountains that rise back in the ,uysterioua un- known, to touch the life that lies beyond our own, to feel the reality of thea nseen and intangible, to grasp the threads of the world that stretches beyond our dust and to make the real not only endurable but, even in its pain. glorious by the hopes that ere chrriehed within. HENRY F. COPE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL IN7'EitNA'I'1ONA1. i.ESSON, H.$ 1' 9. Leeason 1.1. Paul's i'irst "Heston- ary Journey. Golden Text, Acts 13: 49. Introduction.- The events we are to study are an illustration in ac- tual life of the parable of the sower --the good ground, tho stony and thorny ground. They show what is constantly occurring whenever Christ is urged upon men, the sep- aration of the hearers into accept- ers and rejecters. What Paul not at Antioch in Pisidia he met every- where he went. on his rnissionary journeys, and all missionaries, preachers, and Christian teachers IV. Rejecting the Truth.- Vs. have met the salve experience ever 45-52. But Antioch. it !Xenia, hard since. had ground hissers as well as I. Paul's Opportunity.- Vs. 13-10. good -ground hearers Paul's Whitt significant change shows Paul's prominence in the work 1 pr rinthng, as he told the people of l'orinth (2 l'or. E : 1G), was to romp Hitherto (nee :lira 13: 7, etc.) it ••a salur from life unto life," but had been "Barnabas and Saul" ; to others "a savor Froin death auto coat- it 'is "Paul and Barnabae" (vs. 43, 46), or Piaui and his con- death.'' What was the cause of tho hes- I'sa. 2: 7 in v. 33; Iia. 55: 3 in v. 34: and Hab. 1: 5 in v. 41. it was is Scriptural diaeourae. What was the course of its argu- ment ? He began as the marts!. Stephen had begun. in that ►speech that was imprinted on Paul's mem ory. IIi. Receiving the. Truth.- Vs. 42-44. What ireprtlaivu was made by Paula scrnn ;i 1 "After the ser- mon the preacher might he ques- tioned and a discussiol follow. But it is evident from the revised text. which is quite certain. that. the apostles did not stay for (iiA. Paul, we remember, was suffering from an infirmity. the sermon Inuit have been a great effort, and 'they went out' (v. 42) of tho synngugue at once." But even as they were passing throe$h the crowd, the congregation besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. pany, including Barnabes, John the extent of the tubing if every Mark, and perhaps others. Paul's tiny vessel were placed end to end. ability as a leader had heea prme.t Imagine .therefore, the effect pro- at Cyprus. and *as afterwards en queett,)ned. Illustration. Thus when Pizarro (Need when a large number of these pores are him ked. Though tility that arose against Paull Envy (jealous) ), when the Jews saw the multitudes (of Gentiles). The Jewish leaders were angry (1) be- cause others and strangore del not nctualls fatal, the re.rlt w ii!r! set forth en his second expcdttlen what they could not de themselves; closely resemble that of plastering to Peru, the governor, Pedrerias, 1(2) bccaus. they differed from t ons in other wNrds, tith thel)blockage oesu f any � er,'na sed Almaite against gto he aseat his euualer- in 'application of teaching, the Messianic hhie opes eoneiderable number spells binod- poisoning. And --although not one among us has the whole of hi• per• apiratery tubing completely choked up-- ihnueanda of people suffer daily from the ill effects of partial oh- etruction. Hence it is no matter for surprise that this cleanly people, the Japanese, speak of water as the most POTENT AGENT OF HEALTH. Nor is the use of water extern- ally limited to the aaily bath. Its beneficial effects are frequently exemplified when employed in the form of local applications for remed- ial purposes. It is thus used to re duce an inflammation, cold -water :.andages being of great sen ice. When frozen. it rs applied as ice to the chest in pneumonia or to check an unfortunate hemorrhage. As in the wet sheet -pack, it is again use- ful to induce perspiration, or fel bring down a too high temperature. To instance but one other example, when heated and applied locally as command ; tut e'ents speed:ly i to the condemned and cruritied proved who was the real conman- Jesus; (3) because' they thesnseltes ;der in -chief. felt condemned by such warnings 11. Paul's Te•timenv -V.. 17 39 as those 1n ts. 40, 41 ; (4) becauro, This addrees of Paul's is ane of the though they would be pleases! if the longest an.l must important record Gentiles would become Jewish pro - ed rpt, Miens of apostolic preach selytes by conformity to circumcis- ing. See lnductivo Study 3. \What ion ar)d other requirements, they we hate is doul,tlese a cundcn'a objected strenuous y to their ad tion of the full address.mission on easier terms. such as Paul proposed. V. What is My .Attitude Toward Truth 1 This question is of funda- mental importance. The lessee II - What was the Pubject of the ser- mon' Jesus is the Preini•.cl Mes- siah. What was its text 1 V 10 of I'sa. 16. 'which wits probably the Iustrates four ways of answering ficr*teral leason of the day." it : (1) John Mark's way, following Quoted in v. 86. He also quoted the truth while the road is easy, but deserting it when it becomes disagreeable and dangerous; (1) soothing pain and for the relief of Pauls way, following te truth at muscular spasms. all haeards, eagerly and joyously, Thus might inetaneee easily be wherever it lead.; (3) the way of multiplied, yet what has already the .lntioeh Jewish leader'', opteee been said will su®(•e to suggest that ing the truth when it offends the r a lest stinted nae of water, intern- pude and self esteem and prcju ally and externally, might to some dices; (4) the way of the (tont' o extent counteract the physical de- ' cen%erts, aceepting the truth lea I gcneratien this country deplores - i1t and hurnl,ly, and publishing it London Tit•lilits. ; abroad