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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-09-23, Page 6NOTES AND COMMENTSV11 TQ - flies month the ancient city of 11111") NO GRACE IN &LOO1 Lichfield, is England, is to cele - trate the 200th anniversary of the birth of its most distinguished sora, Dr. Samuel Juhnsou, compiler of the immortal "dixonary," a pros- er,tation copy of which, it will be remembered, Miss Sharp tutgreto- fully threw out of the carriage win- dow on tl c• occasion of her leaving the justly famed educational in- stitution of the Misses Pinkerton. Jut Lichfield cannot confine tho celebration of his birthday to its municipal limits, for the whole Eng- lish speaking world will insist on recognizing the anniversary and taking some part in its celebration; yes, even Americans, whose insur- geut ancestors he pronounced worthy to be hanged, will on that occasion take notice of the natal day of a Duan who stamped his in- dividuality and influence upuu the mother tongue. Like a great many authors, wo read about him, but not his works. The real Johnson ii not in any- thing he wreto, however, but in Boswell's ''Life." In that, biogra- phy, the greatest ever written, wo find the man we want to know. It its there we learn who he was, what he said and what he thought, and how he influenced his contemporar- ies and those who catne after them. I: is there we find him sitting as the literary arbiter of his time, rolling out his ponderous judgments upon men and affairs, browbeating Gar- rick and Goldsmith, Reynolds and Piozzi, insulting Boswell and guz- rling with ft i fitful noise and facial contortions innumerable cups of tea. JOYFUL IN THEIR GOD. This Is Always Who Turns a Sad World to the Man His Back on Its Sun When this life is seen in the per- spective of a Iargor one if any sad thoughts are ours the saddest will rise from our review, not of the pain we have borne, but of the joy ws have missed. We shall see how much of life hos Leen spent in em- bracing foes and fleeting friends, in picking weeds and passing heed- lessly by the fairest flowers and fruits. Religion ought to he the means by which one feuds all the real good those is in life. On the contrary, through the centuries its leaders have seemed to exhaust themselves in endeavors to keep man and his .greatest joy and blessing far apart, for they have pictured his Clod— surely his highest good—as remote from him, a being sitting in awful, unapproachable, dread -inspiring splendor. They who should have glorified the most high, setting him as the sun in the heaven of man's mind and ideals, have made him an ob- ject of gloom and fear; the name of the Deity has produced dread in childish minds and n feeling of re- bellion in the hearts of men. We have shut our Eyes to the light, and Jove infinite, bending before an aw- ful creation of the darkened imag- ination. Not so the ancient Hebrew seers and singers; they called men to bo His knowledge has been pro- nounced to be all -embracing, yet even the proverbial school boy of to -day can catch him tripping every pow and again; his judgment was biased by petty prejudices; ho was d Tory, dearly loving a lord, yet who can forget his rebuke to Ches- terfield in remembrance of the af- front about the dictionary 1 Who can forget the helping hand he lent to Goldsmith in his distress, his kindness to younger brothers in let- ters, his hatred of shams and pre- tense? If he was ungrateful to Mrs. Thrale because she married without his consent, do not forget his household of queer dependents whom he never deserted, or his loyalty to Savage, his companion in days of poverty. It is to Johnson's credit that he made English conversation a fine art, for it waft in his dub that Eng- lish speech first dealt with things at.ove fox hinting and the gaming tablo. But of all this bow much would we know were it not for the despised Hemel!. He has been held up to ridicule for more than a cen- tury for the undignified methods he used to get his material, yet his work stands to -day the most living of all biographies, and without it Johnson would be to us nothing n:ore than a name. \'.'ender is often expressed at the great distances covered in tho mi- grations of birds. Among the little warblers that cross this continent is one called the blaekpoll, whose range is from Brazil to :Alaska. 1t is said that the shortest ournoy per- formed by niemLers of the species is 3,300 miles, while those that go to the limit snake 7,0;10 miles. Of course, the flight is not continuous, DUI' is tate rate of progress very great. si•,, ills birds feed by the way. But f••r part of the trip they cover 200 miles in as day. A bird of a different kind, the godwit, goes a touch longer dis- tance than these warblers in cer- tain parts of the world. It is rep- resented in this country, but the emigrations to which we refer aro from north-eastern Siberia to New calaud• The flight Pnitthward is made after a nesting season in the North that lasts pretty well through our summer months. The birds pass down the eastern Asiatic coast, then by the islands of Oreanien to New Zealand. It is calculated that the total distance of the migration is 10,000 miles, and during the last stretch of 1.000 miles there is no land ter n resting place. in this cnnneetinn it should be noted that, though the l,irds seek their f...,d in mud hanks Io the sea. thoN .1.• not. Mettle en the water like ,.ea herds, so that the flight for that lit thou- sand miles roust be continuous. A writer fur a London paper points out that the godwits are not to rejoice in hint, to think of Bion as one who made the hills to skip liko Iambs and the trees of the woods to shout with joy, and the morning stars to sing together. True, they worshiped ono who spoke also in the thunder and the whirl- wind, but oven this was but love expressing itself in swift opposition to evil and wrong. The greatest mistake that any life can snake is to attempt to flee from the infinite life and love. Joy lies not that way. Seeking tho shadows is not the way of finding light and warmth. How much hot- ter is it to think of a love from .which we cannot. flee, of a life in ,which wo live and move and have ,our being. Why should we worry over defi- nitions of the divine? Why not take the goodness and the joy, the blessedness, that comes through human love, and the peace that comes through pain and see in all can fall by following the example el one stronger. Paul's argument there i.t substantially as follows: If a roan who thinks he cannot, as a Christian, est meat used in sacri- fice, i:ees you doing sot he may be emboldened to do the aame, al- though his conscience, which is not so enlightened as yours, assures him he is doing wrong ; thus he is influenced to stifle his conscience and is brought to moral ruin by the breathings and power of that your bravado. This is possible in life and love for which all hearts different ways, whether the weaker Christians be Jews, or Creeks, or members of the church of God at large. 33. As I also please all men --Il- lustrating by his own example the truth set forth in verse 21. Com- pare Rom. 13. 1, 2. Paul's declara- tion that, rather than do the we.ak- -esit of his brethren a spiritual wrong, he would eat no meat as long as he lived, was supported by a life that was made all things to all teen, that they may be saved. aro hungry and toward which the spirit of man ever has turned 1 A godless lifo is as cheerless as a sunless world would be. Tho darkened lives are not so much those that sit in the shadows of fear, daring not so much as to smile Jest they offend their Deity; they are those that seek pleasure by for- getting the eternal goodness, who Jiopo to find happiness in ways hero the darkness is relieved only t'y the fitful flame of lust. The people who with cynicism in- dict the universe are those who have spent their powers fighting its beneficent laws. who now complain because the lifo they have elected to live in the damp cellars bears no glowing flowers. Tho right life, the happy life, is the sane. heal- thy eal- th ono that lives itself out in the open and seeks the goodness that everywhere abounds. No matter what professions of ,piety one may snake, if you see that. he takes life as A DOSE OF MEDICINE. and intn'-pret.s it in torahs of misery you may be sure he has faith only in the absolute wrongness of the universe and believes in a god who has made a miserable busineos of handling the affairs of the human race. Tho world as heaven has made it is wondrous fair; the days dawn with new brightness and glory; the flowers answer back to the sun in poems of beauty; the great book of nature lies open and every page is written largo with light and love. Blessed are they of the open heart and undimmed eye who read the message and see the hand that writes it all. The meaning of life to every one depends on whether we will put ourselves into tune with the good- ness and love that springs from the great source of all being; whether we will take this not only as a good work but as a world where good- ness and truth and love are the only good for us all ; whether we will take all life's lessons as part of the learning of the taus of the good; whether, with our faces set to the light, we shall mere and more leave the darkness behind and onter in- to the full day. HENRY F. COPE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL iNTEIINATiON.AL i.ESSON. SEPT. 26. Lesson XIII. Temperance Lela -ton. I. ('or. 10. 23-33. (:olden Text. Rom. 13.2. Verse 23. All things are lawful -- This is Paul's broad, general prin- ciple of Christian liberty, with re- gard to things considered indiffer- ent, especially the use of certain kinds of food, such as meat offered t . idols. A Christian man, how- ever, cannot shield himself behind this principle. as if it stood unre- lated to other facts. When the question is asked as to what are the limits within which Christian liberty may be exercised, account must be taken as to whether thngs which are permissible are also ex- pedient, and whether they edify. If they work harm to others, they are unwise. If they do not build up Christian diameter, it counts for nothing that they are permis- sible according te, a bare legality. Tato general principle. therefore, is not absolute, but relative. 24. Christian ethics, demands that a man sh..uld ask himself, not mere- ly, "Will this course of conduct injure mei" but also, ''Will it be profltahle to my neighbor 1" 23. Sold in the shambles — The reference here is iu accordance with the original use of the word, the meat market. `•Shambles" meal's "slaughterhouse." Asking no questions for consci- ence' sake ---Not stopping to consult cnnscicncc at all. Paul is anxious not to encourage needless and un- w•lole osiie scruples. At the sham. Wes, no doubt. meat would be of- fered for sale which bad been of- fered in sacrifice; but it would be ovetfinicky •o ask in each en!e. It it true the council of Jerusalem had forced to make the great migra- directed Gentile converts to ale tion hecaitse of the need of f. -...I, stain from things sacrificed to idols, and he says that the best explana- and Paul himself had published the tion of their course is that it is due decrees in Syria; but he does not to an instinct derived from n time alien there was land on the route to New Zealand that has .ince dis- appeared. The birds keep up the btshits of their reunite ancestors echo were f tiered with those lost land ridges Their instinct seems to he valuable now chiefly for the (halters it offers tor the New Zea- lander with n gun. At times the godsits gather in great numbers on the shores. and as many as nine- 43-saven have been killed by the dis- c charge bora two barrels of a shot- gun. s ifice—Sacrifices were offered by the Gentiles upon many occasions, their entire worship Laing sacri- ficial. Only n part of the animal was offered to be burned on the al- tar. ()f what remained part went to the priest and tho restwas re- turned to the worshiper, commonly te.• form the centre of a feast for himself and friends. So it would often happen that a Christian, at the house of a heathen friend, would have such meat set before him. Tho Corinthian ('hristians had been couch perplexed by this problem, and had sought the advice of Paul. In chapters H, 9, and 10, we have his answer. Eat not, for his sake that showed it—Ahstinence, in this case, would be prompted entirely by the Chris- tian man's regard for the scruples of his informant. 29. Conscience, I say. not thine r.wn, but the other's ---The Chris- tian may cat with perfect freedom lei conscience stent sacrificed . to idols, but when This neighbor rais- es a question it is time fur him to abdicate his rights. in order teat his neighbor's conscience may not t.e scandalized. Why is sly- liberty judged by an- other conscience 1 -Abstractly con- sidered, a man's liberty is to be de- termined by his own conscience. But if I eat. when my weak and serupulous neighbor asks questions, then I pass the judgment of my liberty over to my neighbor. 30. 1 partake with thankfulness— Reference to 1 ('or. 8. 4-7, will will show the general feeling of the Corinthian Christians on the ques- tion under discussion, and the rea- son why any question was raised at all. They knew that, as there was one true (sod, an idol repre- sents no real deity, and focal could r.ot, therefore. be polluted by being offered to It. But there were Chris- tians, not so well instructed, who Mill thought of an idol acid stand- ing for an actual deity. and who were shocked at the idea of eat- ing meat sacrificed to it. Hence, while the nature Christian might cat with grateful heart what he ac• 1 i -t 4-1-f H -•f• -i +-1'•i•d••i••1••i + 1-1-t •N4 HATS COVERED wait SILK. \While some of the latest official utterances of the heads of the im- portant houses savor of Delphic vagueness with regard to autocra- tic fashions for the winter, there is a decided note which is being sounded in the millinery world of Paris, says a Paris letter. 16 is noticeable that covered hats are gaining favor. The covering can lc confined to the crown, in crush- ed silk or velvet. Entire large hats with high crowns aro beauti- fully covered with moire and topped with an immense bow of wide moire ribbon. Just at the juncture of the crown and briin a narrow fold c f the silk is placed. This style is most convenient, because any shade cf a costume can bo well matched for the hat. Unusual, this, for the Parisienne loves her contrast. On the turbans there is a backward tendency of tho bulk of the trint,ning. Most of the folds of material are drawn from the front and project at the hack beyond the line of the hair• Velvet in black and colors figures conspicuously in autumn millinery. Coque feathers are extensively used. Metallic figures in guntnetal tone are conspicuous. There is a renewed vogue of jet, which ap- pears in combination with crystal. silver and gold. It is also intro- duced in beautiful embroidery de- signs. I-1-1-ar 1-i 41-1-1-11-1-4-11 -++4-14 Fashion Hints. 7 In some new models the waist line is again normal. Tho French woman clings to the high lino for evening, and her demand for this is answered by the upper line of a high girdle. Although the polon- aise draperies are featured, the long, clinging lines and the varia- tions of the tunic will not be coni- pletely surrendered. The fulness of the sleeves appears at the elbow ('1 below, rather than at the top of the arm. Huge unstiffened re- vers and large pockets are conces- sions to the liking for Louis X1II. styles. Skirts of street gowns are gener- r.11y devoid of trimming, a la Ain- ( ricaine. Designers are relying up - .11 clever introductions of pleating to givo decorative effects. On the bodices ranch braiding is used in rattail and fancy designs. The emphasis in street costumes is laid on the line rather than the trimming. Th;s deserves careful study, but when mastered it can be incorporated in many new gowns. A raised line is (he last innovation. It appears in the upward tendency • f tunics, in the line of trimming .•n the bodice and in the intder- r.rrn scare that curves upward from the hip to the bus.. The bride who wishes to depart from the conventional pink or yel- low wedding can now have a com- bination of two colors, a hich gives originality and a rest froin the one - color scheme. One delightful idea is worked out in soft, shining silk, with the over- stress of chiffon. The pale shell -pink silk of ono dress has the soft over - drapery of grayish sea green. The iridescence of the sea at sunset is caught in the shimmering effect pro- duced by the two materials. The other gown has the reversed colors. Over 11►e green silk falls the pink chiffon in the same design as that of the first. Both of the dresses are held in the same color picture by tho ever - efficient touch of black. At the Vidal. the blind s••ulptor. went fah its next living lead• hack of the gowns. holding the ends into a lion's den with a trainer For these maims' mongrels are ..f the crossed folds. are large. flat and with his sensitive fingers not- greatly beloved by the lower or - bows of black tulle with Inapt flow- est the conformation of the fierce dere of Constantinople. who glad. IN SPITE OF BEING BLIND MANY PERSONS A111: Sl ('CESS - 1'1'1, IN BUSINESS. The Proportion of Siehllesa l'roplo 11 ho Win Out is .al:ute the average. It is a curious fact that the ratio of really gifted blind people is out of all proportion to their total num- ber alien compared with those who have full power to see. The cases of Helen Keller and of Senator (}ore are familiar to every one. The middle %Vest has produc- ed mother remarkable blind roan in "Blind Kelley," the -St. Louis Sherlock Holmes," as lie has been called, a lawyer- practising at the liar. According to Van Nordeu's ?Magazine, his powers of deductive reasoning are almost uncanny. He can tell on entering a room how many persons are there as- sembled. He can give you the di- mensions of the room without walk- ing around it. Almost, it appears, 1.e has solved the mystery of the fourth dimension, and has appar- ently developed a sixth sense. In challenging jurors this blind attorney displays a judgment of diameter that is miraculous to the man gifted with sight. There aro honest and dishonest voices, he says, and Ito slakes astonishingly ., ACCURATE DECISIONS. flWalter A. Kelly lost his sight when 11 years old. He is only 29 now. He was educated at a school for the blind, and then took a course at the St. Louis Law School and was graduated with honors in 1901. Ho explains his professional suc- cesses by pointing out that tho hu- man memory eau be so cultivated that anything read aloud can be en- graved upon the mind to be called upon at will. The list of tho blind who have achieved a success at least equal to that of seeing men of their own standing in education and intelli- gence might be continued in defi- nitely. There are Gen. Brayton, tho blind Koss of Rhode Island ; Chris Buckley, the blind boss of San Francisco; I)r. William Moon, who invented a new system of read- ing for old and insensitive fingers, and whose son, Robert Moon, is secretary of tho Pennsylvania Hotne Teaching Society and Circulating Library for the Blind. There is the Rev. William Beres- ford of England, who lost Isis sight while playing with his little bro- ther. 1)r. Morrison Heady of Nor- mandy, who losthis sight and hear- ing when a boy, but who wrote verses of NO MEAN CALIBRE. Thera is Prof. E. D. Campbell, 4 H•o••o•<w<o so•O4t••O•• HEALTH LEPROSY. There is possibly no disease the presence of which inspires 'greater fear in the public mind than does leprosy. This is perhaps in a mea- sure due to the Loathsomeness of the disease in its later stages, but it is to most cases simply fear of a name. The disease, or diseases, spoken 4•f as leprosy in tho Bible arc po- pularly supposed to be the samo es the leprosy of to -day, and rho evident fear the leper inspired in tho people of old is held to justify the dread with nhieh ho is still re- garded. The Biblical descriptions do net, however, fit modern lep- rosy ; so that, whether the fear of the "leper" of olden times was or was not justified, it should not be allowed to color the view with w•ihicl► the leper of to -day is regard- ed. Leprosy is, indeed, an infectious disease ; that is to say, it is duo to the presence in the tissues of a bacillus, known generally as Han- sen's bacillus, after the Norwegian physician who discovered it. But whether it is contagious, under the ordinary conditions of rncxlern life, in temperate climates, at least, is held by specialists in diseases of the skin to be very doubtful. Of the few lepers known to the physicians in all the larger cities, some aro cared fur in hospitals, others live at home and visit the clinics of the <lector's office from time to time ; yet an instance in which another person has acquired the disease from any of these lep- ers is unknown. There are many diseases more to be dreaded than leprosy, because more rapidly fatal, more painful, or mote contagious; yet, none of them, except 1-erhaps smallpox, is more feared. The illogical terror of leprosy may- be the cause of great cruelty to those afflicted. 'There are thou- sands of people who show culpable indifference to the enforcement of the laws against spitting in public places, although they know tuber- culosis hinges largely upon care in this regard. Yet these same per- sons would fly in horror from any place that had harbored a leper.— Youth's Companion. IN THE SICK ROOM. Flaxseed Lemonade.—Over four tablespoonfuls flaxseed poor one quart boiling water, let steep four hours, strain through piece of lin- en, and add sugar and lemon juice t., taste. This is soothing for colds. Slippery Elm Tea.—Pour one cup- ful of boiling water over one tea- spoonful of elm bark. When cold strain and add lemon juice and sugar to taste. Good in case of in- tho holds the chair of chemistry at (lamination of the mucous mem- Ann Arbor, and another blind than of the same name is lir. F. J. camp. bell, Li.. D., who holds the posi- tion of head at the Normal Col - !sae in England. Blind as he is, Dr. Campbell climbed Mont Blanc. Prof. Edward Crowell taught Isatin at Amherst for fifty years, during twenty of which he was quite sightless. Prescott, the his- torian. was nearly- blind. Nichul:as Sannderson, who was blind from childhood, was profes- sor of mathematics at. the Uuiver- aily of Cambridge in the first part of the eighteenth century. Curious- ly enough he lectured on optics and the theory of vision. Queen ('aro:cn Sylvia .;f Rou- mania has a blind secretary. who i; also the inventor of a writing machine for the blind. Roumania Inas 6,000,000 inhabitants, of whom :4,000 are blind. Of these, 18,000 are married. In one year 10,000 1eeame blind from tracona. tlohn B. Curtiss, who superin- tends the teaching of the blind in the public schools of Chicago, is hitnself ABLIND M\N. There aro 1,200 sightless persons in New York city. Blind telephone operators are now growing in num- ber. The first way a blind girl who was in a New York hospital. A brassie of the throat. .1. -- PASSING OF 'rH 1: 1'.1111.111. Doge Will -Not Run Loose In Con- stantinople. One of the oldest institutions in Constantinople is to be swept away by the reforming real of the Young Turks. After the end of the pre- sent month no more pariah doge aro to he allowed to run loose ahuut its streets. For centuries these animals have acted as the scavengers of the city, and what will happen if they aro cleared off without proper provis- ion being made for doing the work that they have hitherto accom- plished remains to be seen. Certain it is that other experi- ments in this direction have result- ed more or less disastrously. Thus Alxlul .lfedjid, the reforming Sultan of the nineteenth century, nearly provoked a revolution by banish- ing the dogs --they were found t•► number over righty thousand at that time—to the i -land in the Hen ,f Marmera. Plague followed hard upon their removal. and the Com- mander of rho Faithful was only too glad to bow to public opin:on, and have them back again. On another occasion a certain switchboard was installed at tho Chief ..f Police started emigrating Association for the Blind in New them in hatches across to Asia Mi - York. nor ; nr at least he said that that mat - One of the New York newspapers was their dcstinat:on. Aa a mot now has a blind telephone opera tor, and in spite of prejudice, other blind are being enwaged by com- mercial euncerns. :\ blind roan in Brooklyn has a profitable coffee ins en, tore him limb front limb, business. He blends the coffee and and set fire t► and burnt to the delivers it. There are blind steno water's edge, the dog transport ship gsaphers and typewriters, that was lying at the quay waiting tet of fact. he had the pear brutes secretly- and quietly drowned in the middle of the Black Sea, and the populace. fleshes/ not what was go- ccpts as (cod's good gift. he might mg ends. It is a chic relief from &trimers body. The result is a ly share with thein their scanty still, in the very act of returning the sameness of most bridesmaids' model of a magnifiernt lion in angry tt esh. besides improvising for them menti•=n them here, though he says thanks, he evil spoken of. innsnnlchRow ns, and offers an opportunity tcbell inn . 1enncl4 out of old barrels. boxes, nothing inconsistent with them. r.s his weaker hrothrr would think for using two favorite and harmuu- ,H and so forth. Violation of the law would result it offensively inconsistent to thank izing colers• TO B1: ENVIED.The dogs, in return, act as guards only from a man's knowingly eating God for food offered to idols. For the older woman, painted t� their patrons' property, aura the pruhihited food. For, in itself 31. Un all to the glory of 13•x1.-- and printed nluusselines and the ''I can't understand my husband, ing nil all strangers in a manner this kind of food was as g..od as What Paul has said applies net spangled and jetted nets are most doctor. i am afraid there is some- norle can gainsay or fail to under - any other, since (2tt) the earth is only to the matter of c•atinf+, but ftegneetly represented in the early thing terrible the smatter with him.'' stand the Lord's and the fullness there- t•. the entire sphere of conclnet• importations. importers are also "What are his symptoms'" And their adaptability is marvel. of '10 the Christina r,.• net is jestifiahle showing robes of printed mousse- "Well, 1 often talk to him for half tus. The coming of the railway 27. This verse emphasizes the which subtracts fr'nn the glory of line. in the piece. as the most novel an hour at a time, and when 1 get affected them net at all. Ta: y gest truth. illustrate.) in a different God. ..f their wares. through he hasn't the lents idea meal fit the eteetrie tram. h:•..► 't way by verse 26, that everything 32. like no ()erasion of stumbling ssIiat i yn Leen iAying." tii^ Striven,' ..f 5'r 11)&40* "1,:t: ;,l thr is lawful which dors not awaken a in the tenth And eIeseuth verses "" "i)on't worry ally chlor ahr;st t•strr,,:s, creeek •.L i'I tete 1 Ai rots natural antagonism of con'eienee . of the eiabth ehapte r of this letter He who makes no friends has his your husband. 1 wish i had his ;;n= t',.t a-.•st! .:,-;ash .1 f', -1,- 2s. This hath been offered in sac it is shies how a weak brother greatest foe in himself. gift." e.I uani , i:s.