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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-10-21, Page 2Nc�� ►a ANI) commi:NTs j FoR A leading British medical organ wares the young men in the sea,n- dary schools and colleges to avoid medicine as a career. In spite of all recent restrictions and efforts t•' raise the standard of admissions te ne•clieal et.hoola, i:► • pitc 4,f long t, et •e• and additional 1eaining in leespitale, the profo'-i , i is so "congested" that the average prac- titioner finds it hard to make a de- cent living. The spread of mental healing and the improved sanitary conditions of our cities and towns are among the causes of the decline of medical incomes. In short, young men are urged to shun medicine unless they are devoted to tho sci- ence of health, take an intellectual and humanitarian interest in it and expect to practice at a sacrifice. It may be observed that there is scarcely a profession which does not complain of oversupply of prac- titioners and decreasing demand for their services or falling returns. It would not bo a bad thing if thou- sands of young men "intended" for law, medicine, engineering, teaching wero induced to take up farming aid gardening and see what brains, education, industry and efficiency can do by way of increasing the yield of land. The English brewers have unwise- ly sought to stem the rising tem- perance tide in their country by THE GOOD OF 0 ,iah Should come ; (2) that he sh•na!d .uffer ; (3) that he should rise again from the dead; (4) that he should be preached to the Gentiles. 24. Much learning -The many Writings, literally. Referring to Paul's conversance with the legal and prophetic literature of his tui- tion. 25. Note the good-natured and euurteeus tutu' of Paul's reply. In the Greek, soberness is the exact opposite of Madness. 28. \Tithe but little persuasion thou wouldest fain snake me a Christian -This is preferable to the old translation. "Almost thou persuadest toe" is hardly a possible rendering. The idea is, that the apostle is foolish to supe use ho can with so little trouble win the king o'er to the side of the despised Nazarene. 29. !Amity's paraphrase : "I may have seemed to use little persua- sien, and suddenly to have jumped at the conclusion that you accept the teaching of the prophets as 1 myself receive it; but whether it treed little or much persuasion, or little or much time, u►y prayer to God is, for you and for all who lis- ten to roe, that they may become such as I aro," ere 32. Might have been set at. liberty -Agrippa accepts Paul's version of the Jewish Scriptures as true, and as a Jew acquits him. This con- firmed the view of Festus (Acts 25. 26). If he had not appealed - This appeal made impossible either con- demnation or acquittal by a lower court. 4.- The World's Ideal Life Is Symbolized by a Cross of Self -Sacrifice "By- love serve one another•" -- Gal. y. 13. One of the wisest of the ancient Greeks declared that the free man was he who existed for himself and .not., like a slave, for the sake of another. How sharply this con- trasts with the ess.entia! teaching of the world's greatest religious leader, and they who find the full and free life must learn to live, not for themselves, but fur others. Wo have been fur centuries bury- ing the simple teueltings of the pro- phet of Nazareth under survivals of ancient superstitious and mass- es of philosophical subtlety and {speculation. Now when his real message is spoken it sounds so !strange we call it a new religion. Tho doctrine that the greatest .raced of the universe is, that men should love ono another and live. for one another, has been ueglccted m, long that it. appears to be whol- ly new. Your historians point to this and your philosophers to that as the es- sential article of Christian faith, but it is neither in historical re- cords nor in theological formulas. The one thing that marks and makes the true man in religion is that he lass learned that life is just alleging the old fallacies about the the chance to love and to give life nutritive qualities of beer. This away. His faith is right who is has attracted the medical and other right with his fellows. papers irto liberal expositions of THE MOST IMPORTANT HOUR the scientific proof of the matter, which is highly detrimental to the claims of the brewers. It is point- ed out that in order to get as much true value as there is in a glass of milk a man would have to drink so much Leer that the alcohol in it would make hint stupidly drunk, 11 it clid not bring him to the verge of delirium tremens. The state- ment of Baron von Liebig, the great German chemist, is recalled that there is more nutritive value in the flour that one can hold on the point of a table knife than in 40 quarts of the best Bavarian boor. Gautier, the great French chemist and authority on foods, points out that beer contains an immense pro- r.,rtaon oflhe salts that work so disastrously upon the body, and arc one of t`no causes for the ening of the arteries and a ten- dency to apoplexy, which proves so fatal to beer drinkers. Sir Willi- e!, Roberts, in England. and a oust her of eminent Gennan physio- legees have carried on patient and lung experime its upon dogs and human bangs which have proven that beer is highly detrimental to digestion, interfering to a very marked degree with the digestion of starch, which is the largest com- ponent in everybody's food. + A Pittsburg millionaire, whose game is not to be made known, but who is not Andrew Carnegie, has given to the city Teachers' as- sneistiun $250,000 as the substan- tial foundation for a pension fund for those who devote the best years e,r their life to work in the public schools. The exir nple i a one worth study. "What shall 1 do u ith my money?" is a question often asked by pee,ple of wealth else have no immediate 1 in with claims upon their bounty as well as by those t.s whom great fortunes hive come. the responsibility for distributing which is keenly felt. Recent years have witnessed the establishment of a well endowed foundation for retiring alleaa',ce5 for college and university teachers, a foundation fn' carseing <,fl reasnrch in ale Wine and difficult lines where the lsroppect of financial returns is re- mote, ore for investigating prob- lems of present day society, one for earnest search into the causes 4 infectious diseases. All these are good. But the pro vision for the veterans of the pub. lie school service has not yet been made. in a country where the schools are counted the bulwark of the nation this is n strange si- tuatieu. I' ,, ` .e as a rule. are peer`s, ; ,.d t'.ey have little chance te sive f r the rainy day. Rfany of then gi.s' their lives with nnsparine energy to shaping the character of their youthful charges. It is a prof '«ion lacking sumo of the compensations which the col- lege and university teacher have. Rut its fundamental impertanee P. ,. e vier doubts. The Pitt -burg begetting may reii►n1n an i'••da,• of all living, when surto measure of a pasriuir of humanity begins to motes hint. Life tele rs on now sig- nificance'. 'u that hour the pout s vision and the youth's ambition glow and burn within. To live fur others is to widen the bounds of life. Our sympathies make the 'noes ire of our souls. No man is any bigger than his heart. You are great, not according to the number of servants you have, but according to the number whom you freely serve in love. Your hold o'► life depends on your self -investment in it. Your roots in society, in the universe, strike deep as you are investing yourself in it. So many lives have uo root Location they are afraid to strike down out of sight, to lose themselves. Sinking nothing in sacrifice, they soon dry up and ARE BLOWN AWAY. Our modern problems of indi- vidual and social suffering, wrong and inj•tstice, are marks of an age that has not learned to live by this law of self -giving. We still believe, whatever creeds our lips 'nay utter, that every man trust look out for himself ; we reject the law that reigns universal through all the rest. e t nature that only in sacrifice and service is fullness and perpetu- ity of life found. This is the faith most of all need- ed by our faith, faith so fully to in any life is that in which it be- believe in the law of love, of ser - comes conScioua of the fact of vice, of sacrifice, that we will seek other lives pressing 01 it, consti- first of all the good of others, bear toting society about it, and making ono another's louden', lite to make imperative demandti upon it. The lives sweeter, happier, to servo re - hour of real conversion is when one the' than to he served, to line tho re- turns from living inward to living sweet joy of kindness and count it outward, from selfis)s ess to roast living. when the life begins to take the more than any other gain. e law of love as its guiding star. This is the law of all life. All Some livor never go through that nature is ever giving, losieg, sacri- g ,icing• What higher, wider, deep• change ; they maintain to death (ho er faith do we need than this, just selfishness with which they were to go our simple ways, in home, on born, which is perfectly normal l in street, in story and shop, in fancily the child, the selfishness of the life .and human fellowship, taking life unconscious of the duties iy owes a -s (•he chan.to find fullness of to all other lives. They ruay pass living soc as t0co !rave the more life, through emotional religious ecstas- the richer and more a fieient life, les, but their souls, their host with which to servo ono another, aches, remain bound in the bond -giving life in the common things ago of self. of living, in the kindly word, the Every roan begins a new life sympathetic act, the courteous when ho becomes conscious of the decd, the Christly spirit 1 fact of social living, when lie is touched with a feeling of the unity HENRY F. COPE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON. 0 ("1. 24. Leeeort I1'. i'aul a i'rikoner. Acts _':►. 6-12. Golden "teat. 2 Tim. 1. 12. THE LESSON WOR() STUDIES. 11. I appeal unto ('aesar-To this Paul was forced, because (1) he was certain of being condemned by the Sanhedrin, end e2). since Festus was kali just and timid, lie could expect nothing front hire. 12. The enuneil-The assessors, who acted as the govcrwsr's legal advisers. Chapter 20. verse 1. Agrippa - Hr was the son of that Herod Agrippa whose tragic death is de- seribcd in Acts 12. and became ru- ler over several Jewish cities. He was instrumental in evunploting the Time: Summer of :1. f ). 59. Place: temple, and was deeply interested C'acsn'ea• !'ciao •o : Paul; hestus, in all Jewish questions. He was the new gurer•v,r; Her..d Agrippa last of the Iteruds. With his sis- I1., great-grandson of Herod the ter Bernice, who bora a most un - Great•; Bernice, his sister, a notori enviable reputation in the Roman ells character; Jews from Jerrsu world, he had cone to pay his re - r. lein. Links: Festus gave prompt 1pcstntost! e sir. the a new to the case of the Jeµs tune time to bring forward his dis- versus Paul (Acts 25. 1, 6, 13, 23). tinguished prisoner. The hearing The ho:etile Jews attempted to have was hckl in rho presence of Aerie - the case tried in Jet -wedeln, that pa. Bernice, hestus, and the chief they might carry out their plan w Wren of the city. kill Paul, but Festus insisted upon 3 Expert in all custos their carrying their charges to among the Jews-Nmo idle compli- Caesarea, where Felix had left. Paul men!. Jewish customs were !u in bonds. Point of the Narrative: gl1ec,ialty. Festive in order W please the .lees' •t-27. Paul's defense. The main invites Paul to bo judged at. Jeru- p►., -27 are : (1) that all lees know salem, but he appeals to Caesar, cif his strict training in the belief in knowing alemhere is no justice for him a ce•n►ing Messiah and the resurrec- in Jerusalem. Before Agrippa, tion.; (2) that he.had had his div' who appears in Caesarea to pay Isis courier in accepting Jesus as the respects to Festus, Paul ot,tnplete• fulfillment of promise, until his ly clears himself. miraculous conversion and commis - Chapter 25, verse 6. When he had sion to the Gentiles; (3) that the tarried among them-Festus, the hostility of the Jews grew out of successor of Felix, at Jerusalem. his real for w' at Moss and the Went down unto ('aesarea-Ae- prophets had distinctly taught companied probably by the Jewish ('23). elders (verse 5). 0. The hope of the promise -- 1n- 7. Bringing against ltitn many eluding the resurrection of all Jews and grievoun charges-Theso they 14. share in the Messianic kingdom, had doubtless accumulated from n' well as the coming of the Mes- every source through the two years sigh. of his imprisonment. R. The question is equvalent to, 8. Paul said in his defense --The “Why net believe that Jews was three headings of his statement raised from the 414.1(11" cover the same ground as his de- 9. Contrary to the name of J0sns fonse before Felix (Acts 21. 11-21). -In order to stifle confusion of it. 9. Desiring to gain favor -- Pro- 10. (late my vote against them- sineial governors were really an- Establishing the fact that Paul was snerable to their Subjects, since a meniher of the Sanhedrin. Use latter might bring complaints 11. Punishing thein ... in all the against them at the close of their synagogues --in various places in the Gospels we find references to the synagogues as places in which men were accused and punished (compare Matt. 10. 17). To make them blaspheme - To Rlobbs---"\Vhy don't you consult deny the name of Jesus. a doctor about your insomnia' 10-18. Paul here summarizes '0v• Ftlobbs-"\Vhnt: And run up more eral revelations. The command to hills'! Why, it's because .•f what preach to the Gentiles ens gives I owe him now that I can't sleep.' later (compare Acts 22. 15 and 21). 22. To small and great --The feed had slid tiros he she,►!d bear his When e.►nne5 to tetil..ig up the r:n'r.c bcforc king. (.lets 0. I5). score llr're is notating n.. r,' e psn- 23. 1:3 The teething of the pro- site thin the wedding pre..cats you phets and Muses was : (1) that Mes- received. tern of efliee, cafe. On the other hard the gift, Wilt thou go up to Jertu'alem .. . to the leachers of that city may! before me? --This is a violated ito- lca•I fn similar one; elscu here. It !man law. Festus therefore pro• may c von inspire stone one ff largo pose• that the other offenses be rese•'rces to endow a gereral fund heard before the Sanhedrin with for the country at large, which, ad-' himself present to insure fair play. ministered uiscly, would prove al 10. I ala standing before Caesar's boson to many who look forward i judgment scat -The verb means he tearfully to the days of retirement i is now, and has been, standing end close calculation when they there. For two years he has been should be happy in the gratitude • in custody of the Romans. and he and care of those who realize what {{a declines to be bonded over to men they have accomplished for souee ! frotn whom he can expect tt•, jus• We and charact' r. STERN MEASURES FOR INDIA. Seditionists There Not Popular. Says Under Secretary. The strong hand with which the .Government of Great. Britain is going to put down sedition-►non- .gering in India was the main fea- ture of an address of the Master of Elibank when introducing the Indian Budget the other day in the d',nglish House of Commons. Tito main points of the Under - Secretary's speech were as follows: The financial year closed with a deficit of 3% millions. A serious falling off in the gross ,receipts from the Indian railways. owing to restricted trade. Lord Kit.chener's great work in remodelling the Indian Army. Tho ruined harvests of a year or two ago 'have resulted in the loss of 7,000.000 tons of food grain. valued at £28,000,003. 'Che authorities have been able d,ring and military go ins. Is there to close the relief works slice, and any authority for the legends of Viking bands wholly feminine? Tho old Irish "Book of Lecan'' says casually "for men and women went alike to battle in those days" ; and the record of tribal obi gationa called "Hosting" reckoned women among THE FIGHTING STRENGTH. MAIDENS AS SOLDIERS 111:iu: ONCE RECKONED .t F'1t;III! NG STRENGTH. In the Early Ages Women Fought and Died on the field of (tattle. From the nature of things wo- men soldiers can only be found as a class among barbarians -up to this time at any rate. The Daho- mey Amazons made a poor show against the French, but Burton had been 'Huth impressed won thein forty years earlier -and Ito wars a judge. The discipline was terribly severe in his tune; he clan not doubt they were very formid- able troops. Relaxation of disci- pline ruined them, says the Pail Mall Gazette. The mythical Amazons claim a word, since Prof. Sayco adduced such striking evidence to suggest that they were the warrior priest- esses of the Hittite invaders. Of the American Amazons it may be recalled that Humboldt thought the legend not impossible; and he hire studied the original records. Very tow whip have written on the sub- ject are thus qualified probably, but. Mr. Alfred %Vallaco has shown us lately that Spruce, the great botanist, looked Into the evidence carefully and formed a strong opin- ion that it was trustworthy. THE VIKINGS. Fash ion Hints. 1111 b -i -I hi 1 i 1 1 1414 11+1.6 SEEN IN I'AItiS SNOl's. Shawl's may he wern thii u inter. The shephcrde•.s shape hat 11 stern. Black satin revers and cuffs are to remain in style. The all black hat still retains touch of its popularity. Zibeline, serge, and the cheviots are popular for coasts. The so popular empire green has found its way into footwear. Nothing masculine is now fash- iunable in the feminine outfit. Toque and turbans are to be worts Ly young and old this fall. There is an over increasing ten- dency toward the skirt that is draped. Street suits are to continue much as they have been in general de- sign. Long quills are much used to trim walking hats. Shimmering silk stuffs in two- tone effects will be much seen through the winter. An interesting revival i•+ the cross-over bolero, made of silk and bordered with fringe. The crop of buckram hat shapes would indicate that the covered hat has cone once more. Much more interesting are the There is au increased popularity shield maidens of the Vikings. of the skirt with the deep hip ,uko, Would that we knew more about Joined to a plaited flounce. them personally. 'Cho historical 'frim, high stocks are taking the sagas allude to them, but always, place of Dutch and Eton collars in sc. far as I remember, in a matter popular favor fur the autumn. o: fact way, as to male personages. The turban thorn by young wo- Ouo of the very grandest poetic Hien is much larger affair than Maiden intended for snore. elderly sagas is that of the Shield H ervor, but even this takes for ones• granted s:ear'.y everythin; we parte- blouses has been a revival of shirt •aulnrly want to know. She dressed blouses which the short waisted as a man, and joined the Vikings. gown put in the background. 'Presently she gained the command The tucked sleeve is sutal'er than the one which et her party -and the story opens, is plain, and either true in the main probably. may be made in the full or shorter length. The circumstantial account of the There is no trimming on a waist Battle of Bravoll between Sigurd which gives it so niueli ntdiv du •1.,y of Denmark and Harald Hilditoun its a touch of hand embroidered of Norway mentions several shie work or braiding. maidens who commanded troops. The beautiful willow plumes are Ono even bore Harald's standard. coming into their own again after All fought like heroes, or remoras, the rage for fruit trimmings on and 1 think all died on the field; late season hats. but it seems that t.hcv wero only For dressing sacks flannels and women who rose to command by albatross are apprupriste, as well as cotton crepe and other wash ma- terials. Dutch Dollars will he worn in the hcuse because of their comfort, but for modish street wear they wet be less seen. Favorite materials for school coats for the little ones are the heavy tweeds, plain or with douole face, and wool serges. There is something so distinctive llloroover, the life of Abbot Adam- and smart about the Gibson waist Ilan, of Iona. tells how he, hearing i that its popularity has inereaeed of this dreadful practice. went to ever sin'•e the first appearance. trete-id. called an assemblage of crow's on late autumn (sat= gait the chiefs and hishops and perste rrobably be lower and a less itn- aded thein to pass a law, still ox- portant part of the hat the" they tent, entitled. "Lex innoccn,lum,' have been for some time past. which forbade this summoning of Green is being pressed as a color women to war. It seotns likely, for autumn, the olive and solo howover, that they still turned out shades for street wear. and the pale of their own free will -indeed, the green fur evening gowns. there is no general distress now. The Under-Secretary gracefully I zpressed the sympathy of the House with Lady Wyllie, and its indebtedness to the Indian gentle man who gave his life at the Im- perial Institute in the attempt to Rave Sir Curzon. "The crimp was at. isolated act and not connected with any general aide -spread cor- .spiracy against British power," said. "A committee," he went on, "his been set up under Lord Ampthie to introdnee friend'inees young In- dian students in this country to families with wham they may live and see real British life -a heifer type than can be seen in Blooms - tire hoarding houses." "There are in India." said the Master Of Eli'snnk. "9 few sedi- tionists, and they are held in eon- fe'nnt by the mass of the people of India . "This country will mai'ttei'r or- der. and the stirrers -up c.f sedP'ion ,will be removed from the snhere of a misehevinns aetivity. There will he no supineness of vaeilla- ti•,n in dealin'r with anarchial out- rage and sedition." ----- .t,-- ---- 1'1:1 SI:1) 'I'(1 It 1:.1'1'11. Ilazers Indicted fur Manslaughter in Bat aria. In Erlangen, Bavaria. Professor of Mathe►tuttics I)r. Bohn was teasel to death by his class. and a number of the student havers are under indictment for mauslaugis- ter. Dr. Bohn uas a very nerv- ous man, and a practical joker in his class discovering the fact, stir- red up the other scholars to play tricks on hits and make his life a misery. The professor implored his pupils to lease him alone, explain- ing this Isis health was at stake, but the practical jokers, so -Callen, would have their way, and continu- ed to annoy him. Finally the pro- fessor's wife and daughters called together the leading boys of the class, asking them to put a stop to the persecution. They respond- ed nobly, and put up a 5ig,s say- ing: "Whoever annoys Professor Bohn will he seuu dly thrnshed. The threat worked to perfection, but it came too late to save the professor. Soon after the sign was put up Dr. Bohn took to his bed, never to rise again. practice is not yet extinct, by all accounts. At the present day, in Enrop s, the Montet:egrins and their hered'- tary foes of Albania ine.ludi tho women among their fighting force -or did, at any rate, a veru few ,years ago -before Prince Nicholas had organized his array. All de- partmenet of supply were !eft to the wives and daughters; also the re- covery and transport of the wound - (41. But when the fighting line was cerior.sly preasNl tho women rein- forced it. Assuredly they wou'd have followed the old custom, in spite of the Prince's reforms, had Austria advanced into the illaek Mountain the other day. Sl'('VESs('BOW'N' 1:1'1'0111' !lustier Getteraally Gets 1\ttatt He 11 orlsed I'or. Perhaps you have Heard the story of tliv young fellow in a big office who was laughed at by his asso elates for working harder t'sa:n seemed necessary. They asked him one day what good it o.d him a.al what he expected to get. "The big desk in the corner," said the lust• kr. And there was much laughter, because the big desk in the corner was the manager's. But the Jay came when the young man w.t.. liked work sat there and gave or dors. Some men. it is tree. have nc big desk, no pleasanter or lee. ter petition in sight. But those who have not are fewer in number than any near-sighted medalist thinks. The great thing to d<, 15 1,5)1 (4) kr.<'.k" the matt ahead of you alit! snake yourself sons by cot - eting hie job, but to leek for his :drone p..ints, the points at ehieh lie outweighs you 8114 dcvelup then' yo.lrrelf And ne free can decrier in himself any quality he el In.. lei re fir•et to admire in some ore else. A natural successor to the fea- ther bon. which, while still worn, 13 MA so popular as it used t., bo, is the marabout neekpiece. Patent leather slippers are al- e Alva suit is le to go with anything, turd may be varied by diflereet col- ored hose worn with different frocks. Some of the new lints have be- coming brines turned back sharply et the side, something after the style of the slimmer hat, while others aro in tri -corner shape. This year the use of the button has becomes a fine ort. I'or coats the buttons are almost always large and comparatively few of them are used. A silk shirt waist to match the skirt with which it is worn always looks well, Seel it brighte ied up by linen turnovers is especially at- tractive. The new raw silks aro woven with a rough finish that makes them leek at first glaree like some new genre of evrepe de chine. They are beautiful and will be effective in reception goads and theatre d re.sejs. Tedford c'trd in the silk or wool weave and the silk scrges ie used for nsakinr the dressier models, whir mohair ant serge% are prefer- red for ere 3503 whic:► will receive hard wear. The semi -princess dresse" are so popular that many- women are se- leeting separate waists n•ul skirts ,,ref t.ininK them effectively in se:n1- p,rieeess style, thus giving individu- al effects. Many of the Reas':n'5 girdles are high in front, tL-uigh they nc•ttaal- lv encircle the anistline 02100 rror0. A white satin model of this typo shows a riehiy embroidered and braided girdle. +-- Ile-"nit feline- over there cheated me out of a teed ten thou- s50d." She - "How ceeild he 1'' Ile-"1%•sasldn't let me marry his daugliter." if we were Ali n•i, d readers there She (i sdswi i stivl "Von feel no %'coif! he no such thee; as fr.,':id 1 .!yin,••- to k'•' ur " lie -"Bast it. ship aa, a'i 3'' iness: it was pleasure.,,