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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-10-14, Page 6AND COMMENTS and fertilizing as it falls. From .scope experiments conducted at Ottawa, it appears that there are some slight grounds for the widely ac- cepted opinion among agricultur- ists that snow is a direct fertiliz- er. It is found to contain nitro- gen equivalent in round numbers to about a pound per acre of land covered by an average winter snow- fall in that district. The amount of nitrogen as free ammonia was high, but fluctuated greatly, from .00.2 to 5'59 parts per million; the nitrogen as albuminoid ammonia ranging from .333 to .073 parts per million, and the nitrogen as nit- rites and nitrates ranged from .027 to .390 parts per million. The av- erage of twelve determinations from February 21, 1907, to May 4 w.as: Nitrogen as free ammonia, .256; as albuminoid ammonia, .052, and as nitrates and nitrites, .163 part per million. It is intended to continue the experiments, both in summer and winter to determine definitely tho fertilizing value of both snow and rain. 4, The ('c.ngo Free State has receiv- en most of the blame for inhuman- ity to African natives in the last decade. Whatever diplomatic ends were aimed at in the agitation against the Belgian government in this cennc,tirn seem now to have bc•eu ether at aieed or a' *taloned• for in the last year or tyo the quci tion has lest almost all its former ploiuinence. One result is that in formation as to conditions in Ceti tral Africa now comes with ',roe] er scope and more fairness. The London Times, for example, has recently printed an article on the Central African slave trade, in elli,h it is shown that this trade fcurishes not only in the southwest- ern portion of the Congo State, but in the adjui►:ing sections of Britis' Ahodesia and of Portuguese Gu• tea. That makes three nati ► a more or less responsible for it. Vie ttlegree of responsibility is made, however, to be considerably differ ent. The slaves, it is stated, go to the Portuguese islands of San Thorne and Principe, so that if the Portuguess gove-ament prevented their shipment from -ts p)rti the baffle would end. the stimulna tc the slave traders t'-emselves is their need of weesees partly f•.r use in a lung-o.,;,:lazed r•e'.elltort against the Congo goveriense : acd partly by natives who are not r►.b- els for protection ngai?est these very rebels. Great Britain ie giv en no responsibility save for iu- aufficient policing of those parts of lier domain in which slaves are 4 f - ten captured. If the account is as impartial as it seems to be, we have industrial exploitation responsible for a vast deal of suffering and abuse; on the one side the exploiters being Por- tuguese island planters, on the other side the Kasai trust. The abolition of the slave trade and accompanying reforms would re- duce profits somewhat in both places, but by all accounts the re- spective industries could easily stand the reduction. Unfortunate- ly neither government shows any sign as yet of compelling it. Arctic exploration has many mar- tyrs. Its annals abound in stories of intense suffering, of uncomplain- ing heroism and self-sacrifice. Lieut. Peary declares that the wind is never at rest on the Great Ice, and always it. carries an ice drift a foot or two in depth. In the sav- age blizzards of a frozen Sahara this drift becomes a roaring, hiss- ieg. blinding Niagara of snow, ris- ing hundreds of feet into the air, a drift which almost instantly buries any quiescent object, and in which it is almost impossible for the trav- eler to breathe. Even when the depth of the drift is not in excess of the height of the knee its sur- face is as tangible and almost as sharply defined as that of a sheet of water. and its incessant, dizzy rush ayd strident cibilation become when long continued, as maddening as the drop, drop. drop of water ont he v'ictim's head in the old tor- ture moms. In 1902 Mr. Dillon Wallace acid 1.1r. Leonidas Hubbard made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the huge barren peninsula of Labrador. Food ran short. there was no game and their sufferings became ter- rible. Their bones were sticking through their skim. They were like walking skeletons. Mr. Hub- bard grew se weak that he could 'fleeced re. farther. They left him wrapped in a blanket and pressed en in search of food. When they returned he was dead There is thought t. be no living explorer who has suffered more physical hardship than Dr. Sven Iledin, the Suede to a hom we owe nearly all cur knowledge of the geoprsphy of northern T bet. At the enormous altitudes when ho passed through valleys far higher than the summit of Meet Blanc, the mere act of breathing became a matter of such dttiriilty that four of his compan- ions died simply because they were 'triable to breathe. When they came to their camping ground one ev- ening two were found stark dead on their camel.. The others tied gra- dually from their feet upward re- taining their senses to the end. "Snow, sorer, heant.fu' snow, fil- ing the sky ural the earth below," TEMPEI{..\MENT AND DISEASE In a former article some facts were stated concerning the differ- ent temperaments or types of vital action into which mankind is di- vided. These are usually reckon - cd as five, although the classifica- tion is not very definitely fixed. Each of these types is distinguish- ed by a predisposition to certain maladies and by a special mode of reaction to the poison of the in- fectious diseases. Those of the lymphatic or phlegmatic tempera- ment are sluggish and disinclined to exercise, their muscles are solt and flabby, and there is a general absence of tone in tho system. The diseases from which they suffer are usually those marked by debil- ity, and they have often to be key - est up with tonics even when not really ill. Those of the nervous type are of small frame, active in mind and body, light paters and light sleep- ers. Their tendency is to diseases of the nervous system. They tiro easily after a spurt of work or play, but above all things should resist the temptation to resort to "pick- me-ups," which have a fatally good effect for the time being-. These people need sleep -but must not resort to drugs to get it -and rest- ful vacations. The jolly people of the sanguine temperament, with their florid com- plexions, their hearty appetites and good digestions, enjoy life as it comes. Tho diseases to which they are most liable are gout and premature hardening of the arter- ies, with its consequent heart and kidney troubles and apoplexy. The regimen best adapted to ward off these maladies is a restricted diet, especially as regards flesh food, avoidance of alcoholic bever- ages, and the drinking of plenty of pure water to wash away waste ma- terials. Persons of the bilious tempera- ment are prone to diseases of the livor, gall -stones. intestinal indi- gestion and constipation. They aro large consumers of food, but do - rive little enjoyment from eating. They are often much benefited by a course of dieting and consump- tion of mineral waters, after the plan developed to a high degree by the German watering -place physi- cians. The strumous type is loss dis- tinctly a temperament than an ac- tual tendency to disease. There i+ little reparative power hero; wounds heal sluggishly, the glands in different parts of the body of- ten swell and sometimes break down, the appetite is small and gcstion poor. Persons of this type do not bear confinement well, and are prone to become consumptive unless they live much in the open air. --Youth's Companion. ('IIICKENS iI.1VE MEMORY. SeientiMts Disco: er in Venn a Trait Belonging to Human Family. If the average man wete asked if hens had any merncry he would probably say '•No." But he would be wrong, according to the experi- ments of two German scientists. The plan they adopt was to gum twenty grains of rice on a piece of cardboard and between them to place ten genius of loose corn. At first the hens, ••f course, pecked at both rice and corn, but very soon they learned to leave the rice alone, thus very clearly showing that they remembered that the rice was stuck down. A very remarkable point about the experiment was that the longer the time betwen the trials, the bet- ter was the hens' memory. When the experiments were made conse- cutively it took thein six times to learn that the rice was not worth touching, but when the experi- ments were made at intervals of an hour they learned the lesson at the third try, thus showing not only that they had memories, but that they thought the matter over in the intervals. "I1id the widow who was after Sam marry himt" "No; he escap- ed her." "What did he die of 1" YOUNG FOLKS 1':.tI;s FOR EYES. Aunt Ruth, Bertha and Alice were on the piazza, busy wiittt eeedlework. Carl and Norton were lounging near. "Oh, put up your work -do! I Verse 1. After five days-Mean- tho I will life u ► fees want a guise of some sort," plead ing, probably, five days after tho hills from whenceeconteth1lins ed liThves; nlonworld sfull and women who la e ed Norton. Paul's arrival in Caesarea. "'1'uis mat never will be done help." -Psalms exxi., 1. competent in spots. as strong in I don't hurry up," replied :lice. With certain elders -Only the It is not so strange that many' borne things as they week in others, "Shut your eyes, Norton," said Sadducee members of the Senile - religion should say they have no need for brilliant as to some of their ways Aunt Ruth, "and tell us what you di in would be likely to come. religion in their lives. To :eine it and walking in darkness as to bear." Tertullus-If we judge by the seems rather a stark of weakness others; the man of Affairs loses vis - "Is it a game?" name, this man was a Roinan, cho- than of strength, a yielding 10 ion, the philosopher loses practical "I'll leave that for you to say, sen because of his acquaintance superstitious fear or to popular sense, tho scientist becomes an when we have all tried it," laugh- with the Itontan law, and because • custom or a sacrifti'e of the inde- animated, soulless scalpel, and all ingly said his aunt. of his ability to persuade Felix pendent judgment in favor of a for the want of an aim that would '•\\'ell," began Norton, as his that the apostle was a peril to the scheme which has been devised by l,reserya balance and harmony in the few for the deception of the the fico. many.i Aman can so give his hand to There is a good deal that goes business in that he becotaes no - under the name of religion that tiring blit a hand; another caa one ought to be ashamed not to ll te dis- give his mind to inectual prub- own ; there are types of piety that levee so that he telles only a are but confessions of poverty of e yet ihiianother becomes a atu- brbrain catrietl around en stilts, intclleet, and there are forms of w faith that are only evidences of whit t and no more. But religion cowardly and superstitious fear. seliubdues all to a purpose great Wherever religion means being less enough to entiet all the powers and knowledge allegiance to it. a man, means dwarfing, shrinking tt. bring them to the life, then one dare not ac HARMONIOUS FULLNESS.But there ars so many imitations, ,ion means livinglife for the F44 many pretensions of religion Religion simply because the thing itself is so essential to the life of man. So far from the religious life being one of lesser living, so far from relig- 5. We have found this man a pes- ion signifyi•tg the sacrifice of ieow•- ers, the denying of reason, judg- ment, and the will, the truth is that no life can be in any sense complete without its SPIRIT AND POWER. If there is one thing of which a man might well be ashamed it. is the loss of the spirit and ideals of religion in his life. Thos° charac- teristics ahich stark the trained, developed, ordered, educated life THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SECRET OF THE PERFECT LIFE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. OCT. 17. Ives on 111. Paull a Prisoner -- Ile- fot•e Felix. .icts 21. Golden Text, .tuts 21. 16. Religion Gives to All Lives the Spirit and Aim That Apportions to Every Part Its True Function eyes went together, "I think I hear wheels down the road. Yes, they are coming nearer• Shall I open niy eyes now?" "Wait a minute! Tell us what the wheels are on." "Why, a wagonof some sort. l guess it's a grocery tea -m -I don't hear it now." "Where has it stopped?" "Down the street somewhere -- maybe at the Braces'." The others laughed. "Oh, that's not fair ! I'm going to open my eyes -why, I thought it was nearer than that! And it go rerutnent. 2. By then we enjoy much peace -it is true that Felix deserved some credit for suppressing bri- gands and zealots when he first en- tered office, but it would be diffi- cult to find any other praiseworthy feature of his administration. By thy providence evils are eor- rected--By the exercise of an un- usual severity ho bad brought about temporary reforms, but they yielded worse fruit later. 4. Further tedious unto thee - This is a bit of flattery, implying, isn't a grocery wagon! It is Mrs. as it does. such a deep absorption Parker's father, with his double in his discharge of public duties carriage!" that he cannot waste many mo - "Let me try it!" cried Bertha. ments in hearing Tertullus. But she mistook a furniture van for an ice -cart, and there was a tilent fellow -He implies that a call for Aunt Ruth to play the part thorough investigation has been el guesser. made into the character of Paul, -She laid her embroidery in her and that he is a man of wicked life. lap, shut her eyes, and listened. A mover of insurrections -- Put - "Mr. Wilson's horse has just ting down uprisings was the special turned the corner of Hubbard business of Felix. Hence this plea Street," she presently announced. would appeal to hint. Probably these accusers had gained infor- mation at Jerusalem of the trou- bles in which Paul had been in- volved with the Jews at Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus, and other parts of the Roman world. Tho sect of the Nazarenes - A term of reproach, signifying• the followers of the man of Nazareth. 6. Assayed to profane the tem- ple -The charge that he actually did pollute the temple (Acts 21. 20 has'been abandoned. 8. From whom -This pronoun, as it stands, must refer to Paul. But it is strange that Tertullus should suggest the examination of Paul but as I heard only the horse's in order to find out the truth. In hoofs, 1 knew it must be a rubber- our version a verse has been omit - tired carriage, and I thought at ted which appears in the Author - once, of Doctor Post. He often iced Version. which makes the pro - comes about this time." noun "whom" refer to Lysias, and "I wish I had such ears, said this would be wholly in accord Bertha. with verse 22 of the lesson. The "You can train ycur ears, sod old manuscripts differ very much this good practise." at this point. "Oh, let me try it:" begged Carl. 10-21. Saint Paul's defense. In "I hear an auto down on Huf,bain reply to the threefold charge, that street' Now I'm going to guess. he had excited the people, had been It must bo Mr. Huntington's, he a leader of the sect of Nazarenes. cause Mr. Barry never comes home and had tried to pollute the tem - at this hour." plc, he declares that he had no "No !" ''Wrong!" chuckled Nor seditious intentions, for ho was ton and Bertha. found in the temple "with no "Oh, it's that friend of the Ship' crowd, nor yet with tumult" (verse mans' he went on, as the car 15); that the Way which ho follow - drew near. ed, and which was called n sect, "No, it's-'' "Don't tell!" Carl put in. "Wien was a Perfectly legitimate body of it is stopping heren' His eyes New Jews (14); and that they had open. "Uncle Stanley -1" he shout- brought no proof of ase intended e ed, jumping up and waving ti1 Profanation of the ten►plr (19). 10. Many years -Six or seven. arms• Cheerfully Make my defense --The "Who wants a ride?" callc<! ..at experienoe of Felix in the affairs of the m» n goggles. "I'"aiI r" •'I:" was answered the Jewish people would qualify from the piazza, while Carl said, him to make a fair decision. "We'll play that game again, or 12. A flat denial that, there had I'll play it by myself. till I can tell Uncle Stanley's auto when I hear it."Youth's Companion. 4. QUEER F1tE.►K O1•' NATURE. Mountain Near Pachuca. Mexico, Covered With Spikes. ."Why-ee! How could you tell?" gasped Norton. •"1 know his step," she replied. "I never thought anything about a horse's step," said Alice. "If you will listen to various horses, you will find that their steps differ as much as people's. But here comes a doctor's carriage !" said Aunt Ruth, her eyes still shut. "I think it must be Doctor Post, going to see the Higby baby - yes, be has stopped them Am I right In "Exactly!" responded Carl. "But how in the world do you do it?" "I wasn't sure until he stopped; One of the most remarkable geo- logical freaks in Mexico is a :noun- taiu situated on the outskirts of Pachuca which presents the appear- ance at a distance of being cover- ed with spikes. The sides of the mountain are closely atudded with stone columns or palisades. These columns are five to twelve feet long and as large around as an average man's body. It is a remarkable uplift of nature which has the ap- pearance, however, of being the handiwork of human beings. One side of the mountain is almost per- pendicular, and the stone columns pentude from the surface at right been the semblance of a disturb- ance originated by him in any part of the city. 14. All things . . . according to the law . . . in the prophets -This was an expression of loyalty to the crtire body of Jewish Scriptures. 15. Hoppec. . which thee ... look for -Paul's gesture must have swept beyond his Sadducee accus- ers to the Jews in the court. The Pharisees would be specially irri- tated by this inference that the general belief, in the nation, was in a resurrection both of the just and unjust. 16. Herein I exercise myself -Ho practiced the service, belief. and hope mentioned above (14 and 15). with the rceult that he had a clear conscience always, and would not, therefore, be likely to be a leader c f insurrections, nor a man of low character. 17. After sone years---Retwcen htc depnrtute for the third journey (.t. i). 63) and the arrest (A. 11. Saks of life itself ; it means find- ing a sufficient motive in living. it is the point of view and the spirit in life that sets things in right re- lations, heirs one to find truo values and to know the things that are worth living for, to set the tools of life and the products of life in right relations. Who is sufficient for living with- out this spirit ? He who live= the right life knows that he has struck time and tune with the eternal laws of the universe; ho who lives for love finds the real law of life. Seeking the gcod we fr•-d 'he infiinite goodness; the life and love that aro are the attributes of religion. Thero the heart. of all become 4 a certainty is no fullness of life, no mastery to all of those who follow the light of the spirit, no conquest of the they have, who do the will Of love. art of living without this. I The life of faith is living in 1oy- No man can be a gentleman by salty to faith in life's hest, in its the proeess of memorizing books of higher values. This is the faith etiquette any more than he can fird we need tc nourish, faith in the fullness of health by reading books rigSttecusness of the universe, faith on medicine and hygiene. The life ie goodness, `.ruth, honor, and of courtesy and the life of vigor right as over and against lust and and health have their hidden source meanness, falsehood. and coward - es. Every life that realizes fullness ice. He only has the truth who and beauty has its hidden sources dares be true to the vision he has, in the religious spirit. This is the at -ho lives in the freedom of his power and secret of the perfect light. lite. ' HENRY. F. C'Ol'E. IlhI-H-1--1.14+4 • 'l1l-1-•1-•1-f-1-11-14 1' 3 tf +1 -l -+i-1 11_l-•1.4 i- iF 4••1 + W Mi -i SEEN IN PARIS SHOPS. Wide velvet ribbon will decorate many of the best hats. Cords are to bo one of the chief novelties of the new gowns. - Colored embroidery will be much used in the newest neckwear. Ribbons hive been coming gradu- ally Fashion Hints. 1 its crown encircled with a wreath of brown leather leaves. One of the most p•,pular waists for dressy wear this season is the model with the bib effect. The star belt is made of dull gold covered with tiny silver sequins in the shape of stars. Velvet belts, cut in the design of flowers, each blossom holding a gem, will be a pretty fashion. The latest whim of the l'arisian is carrying the evening gloves in the hand instead of wearing them. The French tailors are making a great effort to give the back of the new coat a small contracted lecpk. For evening wear elaborate gold arc' silver belts. hand painted, into fashion again as trimming, jeweled or embroidered will be po- The, new coat collars are odd tuxl Pular• attractive and cut un decidedly \\Mlle the plain nets are popular, novel lines. those with the dot and the vermi- The most popular tunic is one celli design are more in first style. that is draped rather low. For evening wear there are hugs Linens and ginghims aro the most turbans of white marabout, trim - comfortable wear for little girls in school. The newest skirts have a deep hip -yoke effect that fits the figure closely. Large collars and deep cb-singe ore among the most tu•table fea- turee of autumn coats. The waist for afternoon wear can be made with Dutch round neck or pith the high collar. A hat of greenish blue moire has med with white aigrettes and a rhinestone buckle. Ha' pins 01 mammoth dragon dies, huge beetles, and other terrible things are reproduced in iridescent glass. Cloth of silver gives a most ef- fective touch to a turban of black velvet designed for a middle aged woman. Tulle is worn not only as a faun• dation material for many dresses, tut as the trimming aid decoration of many others. know something of the relations of Tho tothrent effects are in hell Judaism and Christianity, sway among the silks, gray over '24. Felix came with Urusilla , tattier blue, green or black over lovely. and heard him -Several eible. urrs The semi -princess dresses have a• to the reason are Iwu,sible. Per- Sevres blew being een in close competition with the pail Fe words about t he resuhaps Felix had been disturbed by b bnames= ii,oel+ since the'r first in- rrec- troduetinn, but so far neither has tion of the unjust. 1)rusilla was gained the upper hand ; both styles the daughter of Herod Agrippa, are perfectly suitable fur dressy mrtrtioned in Ants 12. and had heen g,,;t-uy wife to Azizus. King of Ernesa, angles, forming an inlpressiye plc 57; about fuer years had elapsed. from whom Felix had induced her turn..\lms to my nation, and offerings ! to separate. It would bo natural Pachuca is one of the nest not--'efancy collected in Macedonia f•,r her to have an interest in such ed mining districts in Me-' t o, and and Achaia, and sacrifices ter the 1 a man as Paul. it is said by geologists that this re- fulfillment of his vow. As the i Tho faith in Christ Jesus - The markable spiked mountain is out money was kr the nation. and not' belief th'tt Jesus of Nazareth was of keeping with the remainder e.f ,imply kr ('hristians, and the of - 'the Messiah expected by the Jews. the formation ^f the minora:iz'' !erings for a. religions purpose in 2.►. He reneened of righteousness, region. The stone is as hard 1as' the temple, how could he bo recalling to Felix his own extortion flint, and has withstood the eve- Ta a school the children wen, thought• a seditionist or a polluter and abuse of authority; of self- ask...ti to come prepared with the meets for ages. The spikes term m ,.. the temple? �e•,ntrol, which Iris relations with p p` ► a natural battlement that makes) 20. Or 'et these men ...say The f)rusilla proved he lacked; of the meaning of the word bachelor' the mountain appear from a dis- 1 .\'iatie ,ews not presenting them judgment to come, which would he for the next. ]ewes. Thi, aas ono tance like some ancient fort. 'rhe elves. three elders can say no without respe. t fer persons. little little girl's confident definition : A mines of the Pachuca district are tiling except that he had preached wonder that helix was terrified. l.aehelor is a vary happy man. • situated not far front this aoxl►r tie- re.urrection. ( A conseni'•nt season never cam... The teacher wanted to know rnere• fat, freak of nature. but the for -v .tst. This enc• voice I:xc'amat;on. .1: the and of two years E'cstns was How 'lid the child kr..•w that motion ene-c, tttered in their re•pee If. et• 2•'1. c, we read that Paul called to his place, and the only,' • Father told me so:" five underground workings is of and t ' r the council," when thing that saved Felix from pun- ~- -' entirely different kind from that cf the palisade outcropping. ••- --4,------•-- if the average man doesn t Vt. all that's coming to him M is !inky. through whom he would come to Fe',c. - --- -rF-- NO SE(�RET. ''What was the secret of his sue- t` 55 ' Xo ,e. -t et about it. He ju,f n,iiole,l his uw•n husiness." Cite 011 t. he cane to !speak of the resurrect- 1 iehment f.,r rreelty was t1:r influ- 1 \t 1f- " \m 1. th..n to hae,A my tion of the dead. cure whicit his brother i's31ss had , -t 1 ,-iv/11.4 in id-''('eriately, :2. Knowledge eonceroi.lg the v ith NO" r... in;:•. Whet w• are both Wn1-_Felix had a Jewish aife.I 97 Fes' es A better man than rcr-•ci ) 1i can hal your way. srd t s:1.•.1 we differ P11 hale nine.