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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-12-24, Page 2 (2)• RRUNT.TOPICS. Moot But •,, e J00014 *Mous ay* as * histori* i* toted to i;•frOX0r5 quite reted proPhet Re feiand * if eet t t e o le EI&Ios !itit e rtth Cil atiniurs pf &etc of iva though the profeseor mos evI deetly eigiecti, his Predieted pheno- Mena to sweep over the heavens far within the periokf of a thouland years. And that although they are • far stranger ad rarer than cornets. Indeed in his latest vision he for what never' has been. Audi that .is * world state, It world 114- 600. The Bible talks ef all people , dwelling together as one nation. outlined -the tort of governmen • that will rule ties world state. And es for the of - 1,4 executive, the liters/ king of the earth. And he believes there will be such a sovereign within the next eighty years. Ile finds the beginn- ingesofAiteesanststdir'-eabin--tise Hague tribunal and the outgrowths of The Hague peace conferences. Some international government of- rteicas _exist now, And they ha existed for years. Only they work BO silently and unobtrusively that no one knows about them. But the significanee of their position is not discounted by its quiet and non-iio- toriety. Rather, it is glorified They -these humble 'mad official -are the attaches of the internat- ional postal service with headquar- ters at Bern, Owitzerland. They supervise and negotiate many mo- mentous little matters which affect you and me and which we know nothing about. And they are -held bythe zealots of the world state to be the first forerunners of the world government departments. They are the first fruits of the world state idea which really was born before it was cenceived. It came with a spontaneous genera- tion and began to be ere any one realized what its coming pretend- ' 0 evons saw a understood; Ife interprets a good many things in the light of the nas- r"." cent world state. 'There are the ineehines of war. They are anni Nil:sting the war whieh they were, invented to abet. When airships artive they will be the twit pr- fj aecnuterreents ever dreamed. But they morel powerful in doing away with, milk fa -Ty ladies.- 'resides, Or -course, •••• people are growing more friend- lier. Good will on earth is realiz- ing as we all become more and rnore cosmopelitan. Overweening love of country is ceasing to be af virtue among the ethieally'modern, among the etbleal elite. They pre- fer worldism, cosinopolanism. They have evolved beyond the thought of the "bloody furriner." yor- eigner. and native alike are desir- able citizens- Somebody -h** -writ- . ten on patriotism - as a pritnitive ideal. The civilized and cultured prefer the world state. ." AR [SKIM TIME ,Irtote ANTrit* r , Playing et "Qed Save the Nine is . Altered: • ' The ,natipiiat anthem!by mpeiaT fdesire of the Xing:, is in futiire to be played more brelltly by all tary bands. An order of the British Arlie), Ottildi it4S- been issued instructing military bandmasters that the *Cli- p of the national anthem is to be Increased from crot•ehet equals 60 to crotchet equals 84. This means ,that the time value pi the crotchet will ,be an Sitth part of a minute in. stead Of i 40th. • , The order which cancels the re • gulation Axing the slower time was made it is understood, beeause his lifaje;ty and other members of the Royal 'family' have objected to a dirge =like tendering,' - T e national anthem has been lacd in the new way before the Ring, who was greatly pleascdwith the teration, and ex rested his kst it should be the per. 4, , 0 the t i ,t greatei nuukber , it 't1e•:lixneligh • • ' istPneassisliSe s flat,' nd tit n But ,W.e. are all too ready to ure living by its extiiinals rid, to ifeeide that the' life that neve er leaps into the public glare must be livestsui * pitiable Are there not for all Our lives, for these ordinary, simple Bees of elms,' high lights, flashee that re- deem the soul from eordid high levels to which we May rise in opirit at least and, save life from the dull level of mere existence? How MAY We find and know such casions. Are there not, too, what is of greater'importance, eplendid met v s Jetty__ aimsdr ins irin 'T I the dull va ley* of the lowliest life? May not even the mot com- monplace lot be transfused with the of a reat etterifirse Or a spiels. - V ;•,4 Vho'has u high minds, and noble souls that have never become known beyond their little circles, who have died, not unwept or unh000red, but uns entreesinieausestter 1 eir of the bards of the great, noisy world? ORDINARY PEOPLE may often be the best people. We end to -measure ayes by -their vie- issitudes rather than by their steady Airtnes. Those who make startling ascents and descents get themselves taUced about, but for the plain busi- Sleet, and meal work of the -world -the folks who stay on the ground are the ones we can eount on. It is a good thing to be able to pee the glory in the commonplace. We are so easily carried away at the sight of the ancient, tawdry trap- pings of mediocrity that when true worth appears' in homespun we re - lea it; it lacks epaulets and fea- thers. We complain of fortune be- cause it refuses to dress us in tin- sel array. • Ise in jeans or in khaki than in Modern heroes are more likely to crimson, and great lives are more likely to be found in kitchens and workshops than in the council chains ; • . *,0 ne s • Ca , 91' lepend4 ,0 4,40L *41 t OD the , Auee,4-1: io- eeognition Theworld needs 'not ,so M ' ct-t n.of startling 'p<wcra as til0fie of - sterling.quibties; net o much a fevkgiauts as inasselsof.,ni,a1h....giiiiils" A iress-Thii wei--'thsor our ctaY, uepenus esiire on what we are building into the everyday things"than on 'what some 104A may be owing or doing in the glare of publicity. Often it seem, a weary business to take up 'the daily task, the same old grind day after day. Many al - feet to devise the who tiosit, but the • pirits of eternity look down and ,AWARD THE CROWNS at. those who steadily face and fear not the awful foes of Monotopy and dulrplodding. Even seems is a matter of that steady grinding at one thing. ye-1MM 7 'YAWS • If monpaue love o other lives. ,‘ e need vis- ion to see how great is any Iife, how much of the real riches -of life there 'r, e -in -an - _ .5114 lowliest labors, loves is ?their of 706:4-°°t stesuishiPsi is the in°n” eer German trans-Atlantic line, or- ritotive; how the stains of toil be- ga,nized in 2847, Its employees- ome a.garment of praise when the i number nearly .4000. Its present, object is known. • fleet comprises 309 vessels, with a When we see the days as they come along,- not -mu so many hours t441"1- tonnage a 728,799 Unit' of dull tasks but 48 having so many The advances in steamship build- eportunities for self-discovery and l ing-in the number of the ships as well as their size -have been enor- mous in recent times. Lloyd's Reg- ister gives the following statistic:, concerning the fleets of the world: "Considerably the largest of these is the Ilamburg-American Corn- tIr mseirtao The ltiver InesiallY rich in salmon. h omit Of preserved Ash exported 6 in, Sibemoria gtorneawinfro4440!; tpttenhsi in gh c salt and tin plate and the lack o ekilled knowledge • re- tardingthe Sibe canned ib •• 414 tt• V*A t $iberimi, is„ yielding ver. ixwrezdnquaqtitiea of. tiinbe. On January 10 dvelopd Mining •; ee • g tutor. beri • placesduatry... old in at pesei• 4bc t 11;1'4104* ritatItetit (mut of gold produeed tin Siberia can be obtained; as the figure* are contained in the total otiput:df,the * -- The ave,rageliSsinual production of pig iron in 'the Ural and Siberia (separate statistics for Siberia not given) from 1902 to 1900, inelusive wasA57,440 tone. The Siberian out- put of coal, ehiefist from the prov- „Ince of Akinolinalts, rose from -6O,' 770 tens in 1902, to 1,23 tons in 1906. Copperis mined in small quantities. More and more foreign capital Is becoming interested in the nunerel wealth of Siberia and American partaof the rimorskaya, , and near Alaska. 1•44,440•4444,40,04,04,44%,44,4174.44,,, -440,4,4104.4 OPP051te WORLD'S TRA.DING Mgr. ale& -las -th Th mburg-American Lines *IditessaindzseSthemedsi wyPt-area_ • .0r- ••• - development, so many chancee to do good, to give love, 80 Many oc- asions for -the graces and virtues, and so many invitations to learrethe real worth of thingsthen the days afe transformed dem gloom to glory. pany, which owns • 134 vessels of We need new eyes and new hearts roe size, of an aggregate gross rather than new eircionstances. tonnage of 068,000 tons. The next Whether .we live in a prison or a largest is the North German Lloyd palace depends not on the walls Company, whose 120, vessels lig- about us but on the- wall within to gregate 556,000 , tons. The third be either slave or king, bound by company is the British Elder-Demp- our lot o efree in heart, Whether der Company; which owna.1e3 ves- we regerd hie as an imposition or Eels, aggregating 434000 tons. as an opportunity. The quiet parts' Then follow the British India \Stearn are- rich to the open heart, and no Navigation Company, with lee vets. way is so quiet that heaven may not. sels and 384,000 tons, andIthe United be there. • States Steel Corporation, with 113 vessels aggro atin 343 517 to HENRY F. COPE. 111441410.4040.10.01.040.9,0414.41 HEALTH ""IrrirlrienlireW110,0109,91,1"- READING IN BED. We used to-lietaugistthat reading in bed was wrong because it might set the house on fire. Though we sinned it was hardly with: the as- suranee of Macaulay that not even the sear of "itsiiiitilittitss inatrieide and patricide and fratricide re- strained him from taking a book and tho longest candle to bed: The -coming-of gem and -electricity. -has reuu,ed all these fears; _but no * --a German doctor appals us with new &tarsus; Ile finds that the eyes are imperilledbyreading in bed .in a host of ways. r4.• jight is bad, or it is placed. so that it daszieti. • In bed you ean never hold the book tio as to IMO both eyes, You hold it too close to the eyes, and make yourself short-sighted.' If • your eyes lasive atafurally any defect, short -sight, of inmibility tp read small print, or astigmatism, you will infallibly itieresee it. by read- ingsin beth The tortelueion- of the -whole .matter is 'that children uo- der Ot sihould -never bo *allowed to take books to bed With them, and adults ought not to do so, save for seriouit and weighty reason,. TO sTopnfcco11'catJ. Lhuis Rolipirtski reports the arrest of pe,rsistent hiccough by le - pressing the. tongue. '48:, patient was atteeked by. hiccough whic had persisted for four days before ing sten by the doetor. He com- plained of the fulness in his throat, a tendition. Which .he thought the result of the hiccough. • Ile was directed to sit up, And witha-large spoon handle the tongue was pressed down and back with steady forte to allow inspec- tion• of * tattoos. Firm pressure n the tongue 'with tiat hope of fur. her*. noting the action*of the Pei - tit 'muscles w***contirttnid, whirl to the dottoes surprise and the pa. font's astonishment andO3' th - ktough. ceased. „ 4be, otwtt returned the patient limit! Lopped it by 'iticisng the spat) 1 • , t*, rtd .r e, black pepper on a bit of cotton bat- ting, tie it up, dip in sweet oil and insert in the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it warm. • To kee petticoats is a risk of taking cold that is not -worth running. There are a few exceptional individualt; 11 1 g g ns. "In point of total number of ves- sels oWned and of their gross ton- nage, the fleets of the *United Stetes etand second among those of the world. Great Britain and her tot- onies, out of a total for the whOle world (including countries pessess- . ITO I 'I*1 ri US 0 6 113P10g o V9,091 ships, aggregating 20,000,810 gross tons, possesses 10,809, with a o , • total tonnage of 14,'709,203 tons 0 4°143,- one-seventh of which -is composed Of but the solo of the foot is one of the itiost sensitive parts of the body sailing ships. The United States and it should be protected accord- °Ives.3s2g6 'vessels, with a gross tonnage of 3,077,344 tons„ of which iniglY1.. 8 a °)0141°n °mallow 1°T,thert follow Germany., with 2,900,182 two-tiftlis are sailing vessels; and children to get beans, grains of tone, of which one-sixth are sailing vessels; Norway, WW1 1,627,220 tons, one-half of which are emit' r-rtance; with 1,4o;3 mg114-1s-vesstr,tr"nd Italy; with 1,117,- 438 tons, of which two-fifths are raihng vessels." , corn and foreign substanceup their noses. This simple remedy is worth tquieluhorlisig, Get_theschild o open its mouth,- apply. your mouth over it and blow hard. The offending substance will be expelled from its mouths • SplERIA-1118 GREAT runnE. .444.4444.14 Its Soil Rich and It Ras Vast Thu. her -And Mineral Resources., The vast area of Siberia is as. yet scarcely touched commereially, when We consider the richnessand eapability of production of its soill A 'man May be measured Iy the end-itrionstantly groWing, popu a tingS he seeks; •. tion You canot hoodwink heaven with In 1900 it was estimated.that out holy aspect. of a -total of 10,727,000 tierce of cu1.L 'soles gives no Howie to dispense tivated land .14025,000 acres were with eourteSys. * under Crops in. Siberia. 'Crops They who walk with God do not greatly fluctuate • 'Siberia; the walk sways from men. -Yield ea mi .podlyear istwoor three He can bear a -groat trust who time that :of a bad one, csn bear little .trials. Siberia's exports . of dairy Pros It is „bettr to lose your joys ,thait ducts are tepidly inereasint and ettcipe his sorrows. have,* Most 'proniising folio; Tit xt; slow *6* &tangy/44 4 'is. 4o000lbotkets of butter, tat grub *.t *00017 *.vrock. containing thirty.si* pen Sent as an eXperillient to the A. veneer of religiosity bat non the vIttliell 4)f "1184" don market; 30,000 buckets of hut' tor atweek were „sent thither in )n01'. The pasturage in this butter producing region, whielviiin chiefly in, the district of Tomsk, is so good that there fa per cent, Of Witter fait itt tbe nmilk.- Itt 100$ a Danish -firm*** the Ars to export., tatted beet riiutton and pork from Siberia to London. 'Its •uccess *hosted that Siberian mut- ton wa good ertougir to compote reetandie mutton and rnay in future become/in 'WI factor imi tit *est -Markets. ern itt 1P02 the first canning est* in Asiatic Itnesits'***, ii,XpotS$ of hid** and skin* front Ritteritt liseitaatsti _ 'SIENTENCE SERMONS. l'ractzceis prayeer. 1iety never parades- itself. ' iesself-satisfied need to be short sighted. There are 'no*wolves- in, the empty sheepfold. • iI ndo It take* less than two half tiutht to make a full.stred lie. Mtn are net drawn to the church by using the creed as * club. poor religion that lets tlie prayer meeting bide the poor. eaven,dOtoe not stop to consult the vogue before itpkka out * You esomot blame a bag of wind for steering clear of pointed tutor. Habit may be 'one of our boot at. Hot at wolf as one of' our wort enemies. # iquity thee the * t One* Tbe NU who IrtatONA) are soother poi is eert*imi'y WI from Clitth. Ishnoilf. r• 41' irril.a7IXIVAIESSE8844110104,,-„mvio. • aMtbortaltittli wiez re ", • .rois „ nu. a . " T. Thoi*of forgivene.0s.:P0a.n. , David grieves for Absalom; 9: Se ' Th. Theilsorel our Shepis_e_irel. Pia. 23. F. The birth of Christ. Luke 2: 8-20; S. SoloMon anointed *Ring, 1 Kings 1 :0240. Solomon ehooses wisdom. 1 Kings a :443; The lessons of the, quarter extend over a period of 31 ,yrsare. They are *11 concerned with the life and words of David and Solomon. A profitable r0140W telltla be conduct- stinirtea-c,I „ a out : Another' , would he to s etudy the teaching about ein,. its consequences and par- don. Material for *uch revieweean be .found in the. notes. Still an- other review would ,be„to get each member - „. tu ba fhc OK', it; so..Dmrrny'.114kndi witheut,. fear, ind fitialist pule Off itAsviirstiOit thus rendering it itt-ill mute help- less. He thought it 'great sport to see it eiawl cleeperatelY, iiret in one- -direetienrthen-sn cinothers-in-sirders to get away from its tormentors. harder it pulled *flies' string, the more it pleated Danny, who yanked the 'poor insect hero and there, leughing heartilte at it* ef*. forts to e8041301 After it,time the, bee's struggles became less violent it movements more feeble, until finally they ceas- ed altogether, and the little crea- ture lay, apparently lifeless, on the • 0 . - ,,-t •-J, M4,1. •-0 1 • auntookWYVin.Y.ru' e I Ni an -dangled it on the string. It hung there,. quite inert and, limp, so he, threw it into the long grass, de- elering that the fon, was over. It was too Waiel to hunt up some. * *,^ ber le,104,,Of of opinions will begivenalbo the teaching in each lesson. Th jollinr ven b 1JpTaD .51 irt 0 soft, green grabs, and blinked lazs :_icarmwilyaingAtilvadup.Trat::00;twar,:ihite clouds. - - one of there. Re was just_ 8 "mak- ing holieye” that 110 was king in, ,.4151,-4Arslup,44zhen-84(Idenly-le.-Mt..- a ,violent pull on his arm; - then another, and still another. He was about to protest against- beingseo rudely disturbed, when he saw something that made. him forget. everything ekes -- - A great -creature (if- seemed to him a giant), towered_above eas. raPelittrilw:bire gra° other et;;-d"end "4)lie'a. fast- ened to Danny's artn. Every .min- ute or tivo, the giant would give a, jeek to the roper_ond tae -poor boy was pulled hither and thither, with an abruptness that was anything but agreeable. Besides the rope hurt Danny cruelly,. The giant, however, was so big and strong, and Danny -ea email and helpless, he could do nothing but try out with pain and anger. The giant. only laughed at that, and pulled the harder. Poor Danny was yank- ed this way and that, until he was so dizzy and sore -it was misery to "W'veh'en he felt he 94thear no more, to his horror, the came quite close to him. "I think I will pull 'off your arms and legs,"r roar- ed be, in tonesofthunder. In an agony of fear, Danny burst. 111 o ears, tryiiipPlati-e-,-- Mr, Giant, do net kill me!" , "But you did not mini killing the poor bee," returned- the giant, doming still nearer,- SO close that. Danny could eees quite plainly, his dreadful, rolling eyes. "But never :do it again," wailed Danny; "I never once thought WAS 1.10.11ing it. It was only a bee." s "Well, you are 'oily ahoy, nnd rithave you to know that bees trve-feelinglisess-weilsate-boysimsre--- rtait4hes-Paz you will never be so cruel ag in, . will let you off this time," and the) giant turned assif ta''' depart. Be- fore he dropped the rope however, he gave a final jerk, *doh was so. violent that, Danny -awoke. It was only a dream, after all but dreams sometimes teach useful lessons, as this one did to Danny, for never again was he to• torture, for his own divertion, even such 411 hunible treature" as a- bees 'reiSon-r -141Te—neearibily-0f serv g God in the precise way Word instruct, Lesson IL Goes supera-bounding grace; David purposed to build 00d A, house and God covenanted_ build him a house and to establish • his houee and.his kingdom forever Lesson III. David's kinduess to Mophibosheth, .a type of our David's kindness to us: Lesson IV. If weileaLst tisseko our sins from Girdlie will uncove them and fill our hearts with heav- iness, but if we uncover our sins !before God with frank and fulLcon- fession God will cover them up and fill our hearts with praise and light. Lesson V. 'Whatsoever a man semeth that will he also reap: a sinful father will reap in his' way- ward children an awful harvest of the sins he has soivn ; the king who is disloyal to Clod will reap the dis- loyalty of his people. Lesson VI. The man who de- stroys the love and peace and joy of another's family will reap heart- breaking agony in his own house. Lesson. VII. Jehovah is the be liever'e• Shesiherd. Every want wit be met, every fear wi1 be vanished, every longing will be satisfied_ Leeson VIII: God keeps Hie promise in spite of all the schemes - of men to thwart it. 4.• so • er is u er rum for the individual, and for the na- tion, in the wine cup. Lesson X. We should desire wis- m-that-ii*--may berve -God effect -0. ively, more than we desire long life ordeath „ Lesson XL. "When a house is set apart for God in the way appointed Re will fill the house with His ,glory. RE 8OVERt16,1VS' AftgElq-K • Laws le Great Britain. 1 I According to the ancient British law the sovereign shall not leave the kingdom without the*conEent of both 'finites of Parliament. in ancient times the absence :of the Xing, was root by the appointment of an officer .caliedttlie "justiciar." This, talker was afterwards- supev. eded by -the appointment of lords ustieee under thi great seal, but one bas been commieeioned M1Oe fill.- In -1104 'when -queen- ie oria was about to visit Germany, Lord Campbell urged that the lords ustiees should be appointed /w- ording to constitutional praetice, ttt the Lord Chancellor (Lord yndhurst) convinced the House hat, this ;was no longer neeeSsitry, wing, to the 'Walern facilities of opreunititiens yllis has teriCii reeeVent ever' since, dPiliZTLY. . evident "that something rnorc *molt than usual was gbing on the smell hoy'S mind. , eC es he passed the door of houw and peered through the ow before he dared. to enter. n he made his appeatance with an air that dozens of brOken or 'bushelsof' stolen apples could not have given him. • s. Murphy, littl Mickey's new tin whhtle's all broke." t Railway Builders in Afriea Rare! , 0 Trout/10 With Tbent,, - tvery„ Month brings us nearer to, the realization of gr. Cecil Rhode's, dream of Pape -t4 -Cairo 'The rails have en laid for a dtss tance eft over 2,600 ?tales from the' Joe OuPotte, 043LoArde.f*, is not, ' 4 Milei oft • t;oni arki built of allianized iron, In t sparts e the ratiway ta. s while the telegraph -poles, "ties" into whirh the railj,,mirir - ielamped are of ateel. Even the, buts for tho railway workers littler or no wood is, used,. (m teeount or the tone upon tens of thouesnds of white ant 4 wind* .Infest, the regtons north Of the Zambesi. These voraciou* pests will destroy Anything fo, the nature of wood, zror their mound* are oetationally highheitsontitlyenvtaYlrft:tto'f the. se ants is hat their homes, form anattiral rea me4otietti7ethliog4'nh othft!'thltseitir Yltillits11.34tPntt0141* wooden uprights- like.ploster, it be. owes as hard ** stone, and stets ** ow did, that happen, c * ploing on it int over it." t perfect protection from the wee - titer. 4 ins about led sad,ly le *ever 6rgive except whea the et, take*, • .414. .444 Vt. , t histhr 11,