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Exeter Advocate, 1909-09-02, Page 2CURRENT TOPICS. A magazine editor c,.rnnu•nts re- gretfully on our failure to utilize slang, which he d.s=rrtscs as an "overlooked Louver sstieust asset..' He points out; as others have done before him, that the tendency 4.f speech is toward for:uatay a•ul stiff- ness, and that 1aa (''.spa is curt: nc•d by the lower, busy. un•..luc ated "If a man will do his will he shall difficulty is we aro nut convinced of world that cares nuts ag shout pie- kt ow the doctrine."—Johu vii. 17. them and wo dare not profess to of the body, what diseases it is sub- The German Navy, whose t.rcmen- cisiou and much fu• raciness, pie- Aro there any certainties in re- believe where we remain uncunvict- jest to, and what are the symptoms 00118 exl,a.►siun is worrying us s0. turesyucness, hrevit;, tome in ex legion ? Is it not all either mere ed which these diseases cause and by deeply is the direct descendant of pression. He note-., nos wru�e ut speculation or a matter of feeling? Nevertheless certainties aro ours; • which they may be diagnosed. In- : the 0141 Yrassiau Navy. And we, surprise, that much of unr 50"14 Is anythin susceptible of absolute they have an authority far greater deed, even yet the subject of its the British nation, are dire,•.tly re - 1 is distinctly "elegant'' and mere root Sole an ser that the re- than those of past days; they spca.c, diseases is one of the vexatious sponsib!o for the fact that Prussia genuinely literary thzi its creators ]igloos life dues nut need to con -not from without, but from within. problems of medical study, and the started a :cavy, says Pearsott's or colliers are ever 1 1 sly t.) ruspoct, cern itself with certainties in any- Childhood listens for the word from part it plays in the great chemical' Weekly. In shun, he thinks that slant; is a thing like the scientific sense, while the skies or the a essage gravest on laboratory which we call the dige3- 1 If only our Lathers could have joy and a perpetual, fresh stream others say that any kind of cer- whence language, ,po`se'r ;,r writ- tainty is impossible in that which i„ ten, derives vitaety, color ane has to de with things so intangible the external phenomena of religion! The pancreas, or sweetbread,—In fooltstriess ! Prussia, wi.h her Leauty. as the life of faith. might be discredited, but the fact the calf it is called by butchers the wretched sandy coast, her almost of religion in the heart of titan abdominal sweetbread or stomach entire lack of hart ors, and her would remain. !sweetbread to distinguish it from shallow, almost lined-haked sea, Wo are sure of ourselves as moral the throat sweetbread or thymus had no nal .41 ambitions. Then what beings, as those who are capable giand,—is a long, narrow gland, ly- must we do but make Prussia the of self-examination, of choice be- ' lug behind the stomach and part of rresent of a warship. She was the tweet)acts, of determination and the liver, haeing somewhat the shape Thetis, a fine old craft if somewhat responsibility. More, we know 1 cf a nail, the head or expanded , out of date. ourselves as born for hi her things. portion being at the liver end, wheel That started the trouble. Prussia The great prophets o the race creak first in our own breasts. OUR ASPIRATIONS are due not so much to invitations from above as to propulsions from within. Even though all scriptures and re- cords should he blotted out, all ex- ternal authority vanish, all the history of religion be lost to us, yet there would remain the exter- nal trend of our lives, the longing for fuller, better life, and the pas- sion for perfection; there would re- main the sense of harmony with i good and the doubt as to evil, while the stomach has finished with it and the record of what we are reveals passed it on into the intestine for the power that has brought us from further elaboration. This panere,t- that .ve were. tic juice has many properties; it The essential things are written supplements the action of tile •eali where they cannot be erased save %a by converting the indigesti'•,e Ly our neglect or denial of them, starch into readily absorbable so that it is better being good than gar, and that of the stomaea by bad, that we know the good from peptonizing the albuminous sub - the evil, that life was made to stances. It also shares ,iter the climb from level to level, that love bile the property of emulsifyiu.t'.it- is fairer than hate, that self -seek- t;• natter, that is, of dived: ,g t ing is the denial of the best we into tiny droplets in the form in know. which it exists in milk. The uncertainties are in the past, In addition to these fuetctiorlr, matters of yesterday's records ; the which supplement those of tete etner certainties are for the life of to- digestive fluids, it has ane peculiar day. Let a man answer the best in himself with affirmative action, let him give freedom to his own soul and he shall know of the truth. Do the right and the right will be increasingly clear. Look within for your certainties. Debate not with the voice that bids you rise. HENRY F. COPE. OERTAINTIES IN RELIGION' The Evidence For Any Revelation Is That Our Hearts Answer to It .......... THE PAA.:REAS. It is only within a comparatively recent period that anything definite has been known of the pancreas, what its uses are in the economy NATIONS NOT GRATEFUL HOW BRITAIN iIAS BEEN TREATLD FOR FAVORS. Germany, India, Egypt and Holland Rave all Shown Their Ingratitude. stone, the marl hears the voice with- l tree tract is rather guessed at than looked forward one short half Gon- d obeys the inner witness. ..tt 4 really comprehended. tury, and realized their colossal Significantly enough, however, nearly all the illustrations given by the editor in his urti :lo in I raise sf slang militate against his view. Not one of the expressions he rejoices in is now current; they nave 4anl- plctely passed out of cirCUtltroe ; they aro "have -beets' and "lack numbers." Language, clearly. is taut "enriched" by phrases and idi- oms, turns and terms, that are as ruddenly and capriciu•lsly dropped as they are caught un attd given vogue. Frequently slang inaeees for poverty of expression and for wea•- iuess of soul rather than for joy. An overworked slang phrase is more unpleasant than an overworked pharse of the ordinary and correct kind. The truth of course, is that there slang and slang. The old-tashion- ed purists have long since surren- dered to the liberal and rational school, which cheerfully welcomes the co-operation of the "lower, un- educated world" in fashioning and quickening language. Few nove- lists, essayists and orators now ta- boo slang; the asset, in a word, is not overlooked by anybody. But astonishingly little slang survives as a matter of fact and gets itself incorporated into language. Thus the very tost to which the appeal tc made—popular usage—condemns nine -tenths or more of the slang that we busily manufacture, and we therefore need other means of pre- venting stagnation and decline of language. Fortunately, science, art, inter- national intercourse, interaction of various tongues, the advance of civ- ilization by means of conflict, ex- perience, contrast and selection provide such means continually and without conscious effort. Where life is rich and full, where thought is active, language will be strong and fresh and colorful. Progressive peoples have progressive, evolving tongues, and the dead or dying languages are languages in which no emotions, moods, impulses, ideas are pressing for expression. One of the most remarkable strikes on record is now under way in Cologne. It is a strike of the physicians who aro in the service of the "sick clubs," membership in which is compulsory under Prus- sian law to all workingmen who earn less than *500 a year. It has already lasted five months. A similar strike five years ago was successful, but the present strike has been made thus far unavailing by a full supply of strike -breaking doctors, and unless these latter can be driven out by shame—for they are ostracised by the whole medical profession—the strike will ulti- mately fail entirely. The "Leipziger Verband," the name by which the German doc- tors' union is commonly known, has 23.000 nienlbers, and as there aro about 30.000 medical men in the German i;rnpire. of ahem many aro in the army or in professional schools, it is estimated that not more than two to three thousand siorntnion doctors can be found. One object of the union is to crush out voluntary "sick clubs" among the middle classes—that is, clubs which hire doctors nn yearly salaries, re- gardless of the number of calls they make. Another object is to prevent axed salaries in the working men's clubs and to secure some flexibil- ity in the application of the fee sys- tem. The Cologne strike-breakers, for instance. are being paid from $1,300 to $2,600 a year apiece. The workingman pays about $1.25 a year for medical service, or about $4 a year for a family. and with a limitation of 2,000 names to any d..cter's list it takes from 80 to 100 de,ctors to do the work in Cologne. Yet neither scepticism on one side nor blind indifference to facts on the other will keep than from keen- ly desiring to bo surd of the things which seem to him to constitute his religious life. Who can blame the passion found in all fur some glimpse of the facts of life beyond, and what. more natural than that WO should want to know whether ali the time and thought invested in religion are wasted, spent on a delusion or not? Then come the real questions of life: What makes right 1 What de- termines ultimately tho higher values in existence? What solution is there to this mystery of exist- ence, to the proble.:, of pain, to the shadow of death? Why does ini- quity seem to prosper? What be- comes of eternal justice under our modern conditions of living? To many it seems as if there is no lodger anything clearly, definite - i., settled. Once we were quite sure of the statearents of the creeds and the church ap ke with A VOICE OF AUTHORITY. Now the plain fact is that for many the old compulsions and the old im- peratives have lost their author- ity. What is there to take their place The fear of hell persuades few, if any, to -day ; the hope of heaven seems too indefinite, too uncertain to act as a motive, even if the se- curing of goodness by the promise of a moral process. Now when a man holds in the balance questions of conduct, motives of fear and re- ward being absent, what is there to govern his decision? It is not necessary to deny the validity of old beliefs in order to assert the imperative of newer con- ceptions. Many things we doubt may be just as true as those of which we aro most certain. The Fashion Hints. !•i t t t -H 1 11 t /•t -t 4 ice• 6-14-44 FADS AND FANCIES. Fashionable fans are small. Must of the new coats show ad- ded fullness. Some of the smartest hats are cinnamon tone. Many summer parasols are wade of 1'.uglish chintz. Shadow striped mohair, aro ex- ceileut for traveling wear. All the pretty, faded. washed-out dyes continue to be modish. Birds perched on top of parasol handles aro seen everywhere. New turbans are all largo and generally aro simply triinnied. Oriental designs and colorings have a great vogue among parasols. High waisted, one piece frocks are quaint, :eel charming for children. Narrow embroidered silk ties are worked in colors on white or a col - the long. tapering body, called the' sent a number of naval cadets over or. tail, runs behind the stomach to the . here to be trained, and began build- "Middy" blouses for young girls left side of the abdomen. some- I heard was that a Prussian squad- ing for herself. The next thing we are popular for out of door spurts. ThereIt secretes a digestive fluid is a rumor that jackets will not figure in the autumn styles. A number of the straw hats are e,f the color 'if corn ripe from the fields. Black sashes accompany many cc:loved gowns, and are even worn with white. Rciumauian embroidery appears or many hats, blouses, frocks, and coat suits. Mtessaliric silks in exquisite Dres- den pattern make the daintiest of under wear. Gold and silver threads and col- ored silks are much used to orna- ment filet net lace. Skirtings are nearly all striped, which adds to the long lined effects of the season. Cross stitch embroidery has a re- vival. It is used on cushion cov- ers, table covers, bags. etc. Filet lace- or embroidery on net- ting is one of the most fashionable trimmings of the hour. Bronze pumps. finished with t what similar in appearance to the ion with the Thetis as flagship, and saliva, which is poured out through commanded by a British tial ie'd of- aspecial duct, or sometimes two ficer, had started on an ocean-going ducts, into the upper portion of the cruise. intestine. In illustration of nature's truly wonderful economy, wo find JAPAN SHOWED GRATITUDE. that this secretion is not poured cut I The squadron went to Japan, and continuously, but is excited by tee Japan was so greatly interested taking of food, and evert then is that she kirself at, once called on rot called out at once, but beg ns British seamen for in .truction. an hour or two after eating, fust in time to act upon the food after Japan has shown gratitude for our help. Germany, on the other hand, seems bent upon for. ing upon us a ruinous competition in the building of Dreadnoughts. We have for a hundred years been seeding our best !nen to India, not to merely live in the country, but to work in it. Wo have irrigated huge tracts and so saved them from famine. We have instituted a splen- did system of education. India to -day is more populous, richer, happier in every way than ever at any previous epoch, and by nay of showing their gratit::de single strap and large rosette or Bengali Students at British-insti- buckle, are in great favor. tutod colleges have been shooting Sashes aro used wherever a line t itself, namely, it apont'ie.: the defenceless women through train needs lengthening or floating ends fat of the food—that is, .t Je-'oni- windows, and hurling bombs at will enhance an effect. poses it into fatty acrd and gyres British officials. There is a fad for scenting fans by keeping sandalwood in the fan box or by the use of sachet. Net overskirts are seen on many of the summer dresses, and are par- ticularly pretty over colors. A mass of mixed blossoms that eclipse the crown of the hat is the milliner's favorite trimming. One of the late season fads is the the enormous taxes exacted from linen coat of pale color with a long him. To -day he works eight, and . roll collar of black satin. spends his spare time in plotting I Shaded chiffon in two colors is to be worn extensively this fall over silk shaded in the same colors. A few gathers have crept in as a relief from the tight skirt. and even plaits are once more employed. Everyone knows that, were it not The black ribbed silks make ef- for Britain, Germany would long fective facings for the large hats ago have swallowed up Holland of white and light colored straws. with its coveted ports. Yet how much gratitude have the Dutch Fans of spangled gauze are num- erous, each with a chain to match the design of the fan in color. Silk covered hairpins are a rec- ent invention. They are said to stay in the hair longer than the old kind. Leaves and scrolls are seen in abundance in new laces, and de- signs which savor of heraldic devic- eAare popular. Irl direct oontrast to the season's fashion of buttoning the long coats with two or three buttons just be - Americans proceededto institute low tho collars a new mode has come every kind of useful reform, and in of fastening the three-quarter promised the Filipinos that, when length with three buttons just above they were fit, they should have self the lower horn. government. Were the Filipinos grateful? So deeply that they turned on their benefactors, and under Aguinaldo fought there for three years. The rebellion coat the lives of nearly three thousand American., and an expenditure e'f o:rr 150.000,000. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 5. Lesson Ii. Paul's Third Missionary Journey. (:olden Text, P1111. 4 : 13. I. Paul's Journeyings Among the European Churches.—Vs. 1.6. We learn from 2 Cor. 1: 8-10, written not a great while after Paul left Ephesus he took a trading vessel to Troas on his way to Philippi. II. Paul's Experience at Troas.— Vs. 6-12. Paul and his company re- mained a week at Troas, a seaport on the Aegean Sea, a number of miles south of Horner's Troy. They reached Troas five days after the Passover, which in A. D. 67 was celebrated April 7-14. Paul, on tho evening of the Lord's day, held a rreaching service and holy commun- ion in an upper chamber. As Paul was to sail the next morning the service lasted till midnight. A young man teems! l:utyrhns was sitting in the latticed window of the third story. The place was crowded and hot, the hour ass late, and the young roan was weary, so he was overpowered by sleep and fell down three stories to the England's Tall Maa Visits the ('ait- ground and was taken up for dead. a ed States.Paul immediately went down by the outside stairs e,,nmon in Oriental When George Dulling, an Eng - houses. and fell on hint, embracing lishman, 7 feet 2 inches in height, him, as Elijah in the ease of the landed from the Ellis Island ferry son of the widow of Zarephath (1 at the barge office, New York, the Kings 17: 21), and Elisha, in that other day, his appearance created c.! the Shunanlmite's son. Doubtless something of a sensation. Paul prayed as earnestly as those The giant smiled good-naturedly prc,phets, "and the close contact, down on the crowd that surround - the clasp of warns affection gave eel him, and after shaking hands new intensity to the prayer of with his brother-in•law•, Benjamin faith." His prayer as answered, Corday, n stripling of 6 feet s and the young man was restored. inches, told interviewers how tall The whole incident was very int• he was and said that he weighed pressive and also e.+mforting. it 275 pounds. Ile is 23 years old eec•ea1ed the love. the faith and the and wears a No. 17 shoe. He ad - power of Paul and the religion he dere that he has a brother in Eng - The Cologne doctors wish the represented. )anti who is just 7 feet in height. , 1f 11, Paul 's Review of His Life at Mr. Dolling --- everybody was work distributed ninon R perhaps E ,hesus —V e. 13.27. careful to call him mister—walked 300 physicians of the city. each The change of pre'nouns to "we across to the food wagon at the workingman to have the right to in v. 13 'hews that Luke had now edge of Battery Park, and, stoop - choose his own physician, and each j.,ined the party. and he continues ing, poked his head in at the win- i+hysician to get the annual fres v.ith thein till they reach Jernsa dew and asked for a sandwich. •.1 his own clients hal the offi leen (Acts 2) : 171 "Hey, you'" called out the res. curs of the "sick clubs" prefer the l'rorn Trees to Asses. one day's tatirant man. -Come down off that ,}stem of fixed salary and limited sail. there mere two routes. The wheel and Come in and order what timelier of physicians. Its n tingle delegation went by vessel the lung you want.'' e•"ty the doctors' union seems to he, t.ay- Around the promontory of Lec- Dolling acne around to the door, beaten. Should the issue be extend- tion. and on aeeonnt of the pecu• and a much subdued waiter served ell otrr a large territory, however. j liarity of the winds at that season hint the sandwich. the ••r►io'r is .o strong that it could they Ft start sery early, "soon Thc giant said he had been with d .i.l"'ens win oat. And )list tills after midnight." A show In England, but was here 's 1 :.cl:. ;ed for the future. Paul decided to wait a little while to tisit his sister. longer at Troas and take the short- er land route, twenty miles across the promontory, and join the com- pany at Asses. It is probable that he wanted to remain longer on ac- count of Eutychus, and to complete his address which was interrupted by the accident. On the fourth day they reached Miletus beyond Ephesus. The ves- sel was detained here for an un- certain length of time, and Paul sent for the Ephesian elders to come to Miletus and meet him, for it would not be safe for him not to he ready to embark at short no- tice. Luke was probably present at the meeting, so that he was able to re- port what Paul said. Those present knew that he was speaking the truth. What he had done and taught was an example for them to follow, and on inspira- tion to faithfulness. TV. Farewell Counsels to tho Ephesians.—Vs. 28-35. 1 V. 28. Take heed . . . unto yourselves. See that you are fit instruments for the work God has given you to do, and set an example that aids your work. Take heed to your intellec- tual life, to your spiritual life, and to your bodily life that your body may be the most perfect instrument of the spirit. OVER SEVEN FEET T.ILI.. in, just as happens to fat in s"ap• The same accusation applies to making. In this way slier otherwise Egypt, the people of which country useless material is made c.spable of Lord Cromer and his predecessors absorption into the systene i have raised from a miserable slav- Besides all this, it i- believed that ' ery to a prosperous farming com- the pancreas, like thethyroid and enmity, Formerly, the Egyptian several other glands, secretes n 1 fellah had to work fourteen to fif- material which is taken up at onto + teen hours a day to earn enough by the blood, and used in soros a. ; food to keep hint alive and to pay yet undetermined way iv favorng the assimilation of nutritive neterr- als by the body cella.—Youth's Companion. —____,p LORI) ROSEBERY'S DUEL. Fought With Former Butler, Set- tled Annuity Upon Him. Sixty years ago the Lord Rose- bery of that time was in Paris, and, in paying a call ono day, he was received so rudely by the butler that he complained to his friend of the servant's conduct. The but- ler was immediately dismissed. But be had been a non-commissioned officer in the French army, and as such he challenged Lord Rosebery to a duel. Tho earl accepted, and two shuts were exchanged without result. But Lord Rosebery was angered at his own condescension and afraid Ills antagonist might lay aside his `military rank and resume his du- ties as a servant, thus exposing an earl to the reproach of having fought with a butler. So he settled an annuity of $1,2b0 on the man on condition he did not return to domestic service. The condition was faithfully oh - served on both sides, and when the ex -butler soldier died, about twenty years ago, the story was told in the French papers. ROUGH ON THE BOYS. A father and his two sons, who had been out of work for a consid- erable time, went on travel in search of employment. After trav- elling about for a week one of the stress found herself seated beside Government can place in the field sons obtained a job at a timber a quiet, plainly dressed woman, nine companies, comprising 950 yard. Ile worked on until about who way also sewing. They fell ire- men and 38 offt'•ers, commanded by dinner -time the first day, then to conversation about domestic al- a marshal. On "peace footing,'' went up to the foreman and asked fairs, telling each other how they this Republic can place only one company of G„ men on the parade - ground. An winning feature of the military organ'xation in Liberia is e roortion oo' to p vathtesp, thpere beingf sofiimecis 800 of thri- e former, and only 000 of the lat- ter: f sedition against Itis best friends. AMERICA, TOO. SUFFERED. Talk about "man's ingratitude" 1 It is nothing to that of a nation. ever exhibited? I wring our revers- es in South Africa every ihttch paper fairly shrieked with jubila- tion. We are not the only country to suffer in like fashion. Was ever a more glaring instance of thankless- ness than was exhibited by the Philippine Islanders? In November, 1899, the United States, after beating Spain, paid her $20,000,000 for the islands. The MICROS('OPIC ARMIES. One hears a geese deal now -a -days f the enormous military forces of Germany. France and Russia, gen- erally accompanied by some depre- ciatory remark about the British army. But what of the smallest BOTH WiTH GOOD HUSBANDS. of the world 1 At least the British arrnv is better thee that of Mona - Story of Archduchess Gisela, carabineers, and 20 firemen. This Daughter of Austrian Emperor. is the smallest army in the world. Next comes Luxembourg, with 13b A short time ago in one of the gendarmes, 170 volunteers, and 39 public gardens in Vienna a seam - musicians. in San Marino the hien if he wanted any more rnen, as his brother was out of work. "Is he strong?" inquired the foreman. "Yes," was the reply; "he is a lot stronger than I.'' "Ail right," said the foreman. 'Toll him to start in the morning." The two brothers went to work !WC( day. and at knceking-oft time the same night the son thought he might work his father into a job also, and asked tho foreman if he could start his father. who was wanting work. "Is he strong 1" ejaculated foreman. 'Strong''' said the son 'Why Ire is an strung as my brother and 1 together " "Very well. then." said the fore man, "tell him to start in the morning, ace! you and your hrothe• can finish tonight Male their own frocks, and those e.f their children. "i like to occupy myself with this sort of work." said the seamstress. "So do 1," repli- ed the other woman. "It is one of my greatest pleasures." Then, as further eonfidence seemed in or- der, "My husband is a good man," the little seamstress continued. ''Flo i.t mine,'' admitted the other wo- man. ''Mine works in a railway station. as did his father before him," said the seamstress, eneour- aged to go still deeper into her his- tory by her listeners interest. "eft own father was it woodcarver. What was yours'" After a moment's he- sitation the other oe•nan said sim ply, "My father i. Francis Joseph. And, in fact, it was the daughter of the Austrian F:rnpere+r. the Arch- duchess Oisela, wife of the regent c Batatie, who wa• sewing in the public garden in Vienna. Three witnesses -a Frenchman. a Dutchman, and an Irishman- were asked for their definitions a. to what constituted a gentleman. "A gentleman," said the Frenchman, "i. a man that hat five counts in his family." ' No," said the 1)utch- n.an ''.\ gentleman i• n man that never give. pain to his fellow crea- ture. " ".1 gintleinsn." s 4 Pat. "i' n nevi that asks soli to come in. that cm. 4.0 the v hisky and tells you t•, help yourself, and aolks n:vay to the window %bile eu're d•,ing it:"