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Exeter Advocate, 1909-05-27, Page 2 (2)"1. 0 fe , •1, n iit fftdsweli didn't wait for her tG e little, anular eYea n*sl vet the neat s. aid dinner -table, and with the apt per- ception born of emistant Practice better -field -to giving vent to his disgutt with the whole world in general. „ "What g to interrupted, with a, snarl, "mut- ton again. , Susidey mutton, Wed- nesdak mutton,. always mutton! X wonder if I ever shall get a. change of diet? No wonder I'm ill. I sheuld like to tinew -what s-ou've done with, that cookery book I bought sisou," Mrs., nedswell discreetly ignored th queetion. "I'm afraid you'ro toot quite yeurself to-niabt," , 'Atithing the puny -looking man; "anything happened ? Rave yeti ever known Sday go by when X haven't been ntet and humbugged in some way :or other Everybody and *evety- ithing seem to co:tibiae to plague ...meand wreck my- welfare. X shall -:-.1tIsa11-treer:TCron—fro !hive dropped .another sixteenth thila Morning," . "I wouldn't let that wool me if I were you, dears" said his wife, coneelingly; "they may to up *gain te-morrow, you knew. ',Chen, after ,coneidering a moment: "Besides, teeing you have only ISO invested The next evening,' while in the in them, it means but a, lose of middle of his dinner, Ifedswell re - 111,4d." ceteed the following 'telegram: "Onbi 7Ysd., indeed! Only! I "Must tee you immediately. Int - would have you know, Gertrude, perative—Ganttett." that 7,14.4. TYsel., and we can't As iledswell read it he came over afford to fool money away, a fact quite pallid, and all kinds of vis - you might well bear in Mind more. ions flitted across his mind. "What Awl as for Consols going up again can Dr. Gannett want with me.1" 'to -morrows you know very well he muttered, huskily.. He had met that's,. ridiculette; they'll never „go the (teeter 'before, and the frank, tqi again tin I sell out. Ana what earnest manner of the physician do you krette about such thin had made the niess of meeting him anyway? It's * pity you can't learn # again distaateful "What do you „ think he wawa, eh, Gettrudej" "I haven't the 1044 idea, Gil- bert. Why, how pale you are look- ing" 44Patel----Nessrlistittslooking pa, , Why should Xi What have -I done that the thought of meeting, Gan- nett should nmke me pelet" snarled the husband. "Fetch my coat and tery to me. These confounded, hat." drapers' things won't keep done! The willing wife did Ita she was „bid, and within few momenta Ifedswell was tubbing it to the doctor's residence. On arriving thero, he was at once shown into the....prisatessiaidyssi_vhere: hewia ieited by Dr, Gannett • "AM Good evening, Mr. Sects - well," he began. • "I hope you're feeling better to -night. Sorry to hear you haven't been up to the mark lately," the little man reopowl- ed, "I certainly have felt.* bit off calor, though I seem better this ES -vetting. But, dotter, thet remit. • or ••••,, °kat. P1 • , the. p annottneed -Dr.11ivanett 0 'IWO 0110), fir iiu p• ersonal friend" of het'pa • ith„ rapt attention he list • -ung wile"assOsty of her hua a ztectd Mime* and disgreek; uithreatte ‘Witati'zii•afra• sh*--COnglii(104) the from e pretty, k es-.esswith• 0.Lngkor. 4f:t4 that ° am , .of any ram treiibls with 41.1..ffear ere °U, lar$40 of liver) I date, eay. But, iny dear Mrs. Ileclowell, don't take nim toe. seriously; * person . who 'would talk like be does it to great coward to carry out, his threats. I have Ind the right thing for him; excute me a moment." .r. :tune t,--41-14-gon-e- only a. few minutes, and he returned with a ngedicine bottle wrapped in paper "There; Mrs. Iledswell," he said, cheerily, "get your husband to drink all that before going to bed, end he'll soon pull round •all right." With many expresitions of grati- tudes the unhappy woman departs She returncd to find Iledswell sitting beside „a blazing fire, smok- ing. his pipe. "I've heen to Dr. -Gannett o 'mt. It S i77121115aerir-R re ve .s or week ulY hic I ut the *tone. bottle iu myI*bui 'rid 100 you...have taken Ift ret ooiupouiidof !Ten •.-Y 0 e 0 t Ctellar a • unique. .teSi houi, to be e t expect • to enjoy exeptionaI spirits:At the 109th hour, however,, there „come violent „internal ee, plicatioes, the velvets of the *bee contract and cease their- funetionis ut uu t 0 42, ---its ifour-thero-ta Solutely.rio euffering, and from suicides point of view a, more eirable end would be impossible. I• have experimented on ate* se that no failure need - be feared. There 'WAS O'nOtigh of the drug .in the, bottle you took. last night :to kill * *more of cattle. , Why, hew ill you are looking!" Ffedswell Wahaking violently from head to foot, and his face was "Heavens!" he whin fe given me this mcdicines which h says will have you right zit no time. You have to take the whole bets tleful to -night beforo going to bed." • "It won't de me any good," grunted itedswell, in reply; "no- thing elict will. linekessend a cure idgcid Willi, too." But—in common with all such shallow -minded men—be rather liked the idea of being considered ill, and lie took themedicine with the air of an invalid in the last stages of some fatal disease. * * at St* tongue makes a wise . Plead." • . Mrs.. Rode -well essayed ix' reply, and the little man went on: "Just as -going- tlaistiresestt& morning my bootlace ,eitnie 'undone and dragged in the filthy mkt Why eu can't get. me, mohair lacee, as. continually ask yen to, le a mya- ••• f hose are mohair laces; I put them in new last week., You Must have done them 'up hurriedly this morning" on mean to say I can't do up a bootlace.' I've been at it twenty- nine years - „`1,Seareely twenty:4:in*, is it, Gil. Bert?' seeing you are only just twenty -snits:, years of age," "Oh, you're awfully emart; *pity yeu don't exercise such brit - 1400 to keep the expenses down. And I would have you to know that • I get enough worry all day without eine you tent me in made me pretty bad in the night; didn't get *wink of sleep." ‘111„.'m ThaVa ss-pits4.-hutt you won't And further. bad effects, I think I tam; promise you, for at tithing rather important to eak to you about.' girst, ,h0 "Now as to my telegram. I have tr, it is understood, that tido is init twit by you as soort as 1, the threshold. nearly train to -night; only to jump nit° * dirty, ,cro cat as the train WU ite lucky." "Lucky? .14 rather - have bet fifty train*. Oinking into the only vit,,nt seat, X was startled by theq 11 rie o some ow weinsat on, octly between ourselves, and wAl - whose piteket of eggs I had sat. Not never be mentioned to s' a, third ,o did I rdin this suitsejust _ - idieinitide'ili6 pity "If you Wish it, ccrtzinly." twiitienee ,etie" it—for the eggs, Ie "Good. " Well', " Mr, she didn't- mike * profit eu 'esit4 lame asked you to tome here,. to nAr 'Vatting you that,. by; an error vt/40111 nothing \but the 'worst Auck comes \can never cease to regret, I hale Ey 'way; I'm sick ;of :it Nell, and," done you 4 great laver—a fiver, in thr eewardlit went on, gloat- feet, whish I would beet done 'for .1 ,over.the startled look his peer no man living under any consider. "wife gas*, "the sooner 'tie 'over, ation..". .00 better, *ay."' meld feel highly honied, "Oh...mt dear :Gilbert don't t ri. But, heyeitid that, 'is all: i001411 " pleaded the unluippy *toy to me,', • s WOM411* • y .you try hesti let' explain. ' As you frighten me sot Only.tbis incitzi..1141 )-'otar wife tame to me last you *er6 playing carelessly with, `eveiting„ telling 'me that on plea 14, a the • es wba losti can 3011 Ni0tlit You Were eletenmn- ed on self-deetruction. "No'no; I was & fool. I should never have done it. I don't want to die. You must save me. They'll find out at the inquest that you have murdered me."- "Donk---talk...likessassmischnare Didn't I tell take? Besides, when the postmor- tem its held" (Ifedtwell shuddered). "the only possible decision that can be arrived at is heart failure. As a matter of fact, 'tit more than T SUNDAY $0110 likely I myself shall becafle.duponl to hole -the It Wa3 t00 ratteli for Redswell. Ho buret into testa and greens. "Can't you give me something to wive me?" he pleaded; "remember, my life will at least be on your con- science." Lesson IX. Believing and Doing. .011 editnAre.Cidaeannt:ert4illuthitiaPeeng up, hriirreurnn; James 2: 14S26.. Golden Text, "and, though 1 fear -there it no James s-: 20s hope new, I'll -do -my best for your wife's sake. One thing is certain, however—a great deal depends up- 4Oin 'When w bow PPY4your er ide her, eone e 1 raethiug were ne 4001;4; t worty ea, •u fin:t she me seniethin i a *a, the's ti" e to ing 10 enjoy Uie s ence r ' ,.• tome to and— 70"ung, .*I Life i too rt, stedeirell, f Vevey by.. Making, oneeelf , rsonevelse miserable. lint ne ban* I have etc eel my righ ough.lsele....begAit t 4".o14.,will let the lesson he in vain. • "Tilt," asked the myetitted 11 well, "What was the drug" "Nothing more than salt waster, with little harmless lii tenie;"4, was the ,decter'it cont ziop. • To Dr. Gannett's surprise, lied wells instead of flying into a tag heldsout his hand. "I have*, gre deal to thank you for, doctor," said, with, deep feeling,'toqu' thank. you froiu tlie ot f • ir ,• e re 1 e •r#pn he im*PlY l' u te".1t1 ee in . scien .. ' study, ' • watt tpiritual Q° 'sensibility, 1 , iettieji ,to t6 *Ply the • tOr A" judge the relatioxie niligion ewl knewledgia ts intelligentesirmisminitible With 44) al 4404'21- Vills-tlie-strowth-__of eds.. %Lion of religion'? 14% t life of knowledge bring aboutrocr , religious aspirations a, feelings 11/44 out of date in scientific age such wo are constantly reminded that this one is tealay'l Science ,has overcome superstition; is faith se .bound up with superstition that it, es, toes muat get at With boneat people the inquiry' ne. frO important that they can af- a° lord to negleet the) E.4meuthitt 'ergo 3131 r • use 'a: thin ittissUtt.s perfieial u nee with science es an - CXOUSO for -divorce front all mend obligationssillt as it also permits one to ignore those who continue to confound faith with willful blindness. We eau be tures, of one thing, at least; that, no matter what our teelingsestheidealssimitsbe, we cannot „turn our backs on iuvo IrAL it it is laid before us. The faith that fights facts is committing sui- cide. Appeals to our fears cannot to -day make; the factitless real to uts and v—i-Tie (now that by them we will have to atand or fall. If you stop to think about it there h a striking significance in the fact that this qeeation has arisen, Is there a religion for tile intelligent, educated, zcientifie mind'? •It sug- gests another question: Can any other mind fully comprehend the richee and meaning of religion The, unthinking cling to *totems, traditions And fermis. that are the vestiges of truth. The'. trained mind distinguishes. between the gar - menta of truth and truth itself. Every life will have its religion according to its development. It is fay to look for uniformity in faith anal you have uniformity in the faithful, until. all min& are alikestbit things thew urinds-can world h opened eyes and made a man rne. bat a- fool X have beenl is tode first weeksI have known what life is, how precious it is, and—and— what a dear wife I am blessed with. If I ever treat her inestusiderately avant, doctorj shall idwrve_tio_he the victim of a; al- blunder next INTERNATION.AL LESSON, MAY 30., introduction. In the famous definition of faith, "'Faith is the on yourself. You must be careful substance 'assurance) of to live AVOW luxury, 00141)things hoped for, the evidence leave alcotadic drinks alone. But (RN's, . 'proving') of things not above ell, keep- your spirite' up, It en"' (Het). 1), two seeraingl he cheerful,s. goodstsemPeredt tuicl to 0 site elemertts of , life are se contented. _ tra „......se°sees.sinestensis endshepe,sor evis meody tlioughts, and not ssing Can 1. deuce and invisibility, or actualit salqr---Y011-4 Sorry though --litna ideality. So ranch in the wort *met help thinking. this tnisfititune ss. and the univetse it mysteriou ian a' Pumahnlent ti°111Y%Ift)r trylit'h and Incomprehensible that - belief sl ,4r4zis,°11r ywile so bsLduirle: is. It trusting faith, it called for at ever sse some; ; sesTus win, it iins turn; and yet that belief must !ea 0 seet pins, • , inau q . olt ft* ' 1 tnt..'fro . thes ..litio . •or 11 1 on hut i • . , e e' o lt I o t . on ' l t i io i ourselves our • - • eths:h"inaitl- a faith ivill be mins ed by his vision -and ledge; every, individual v win he -conditioned -by- 410-individuars -- ---- ,stage of cultaris ' It is telly for the trained niixl te seek satisfaction in the_iii I whose bounds are tot by the un- trained ininel just as it equay US 'Eolith for him to Awls at the vis- ion _ii,iel,tAhactoexhmeeoraN vthietwiorwoliieNtTlife. itN:tteelYnalsicitslineeeettiLilledlidgauelt‘istkic4 Dat from the attemptste Wee to , s rest of their,, thinking. The avenue* to the, 1foot High are many. There is a way some- where from every life, and never reeisely the same way ,for any two lives. The way begins at just the level on which the life is found. Because religion is the way from siur-present-setveie-te iirstskleat e mplote social telt in every iifo grow depends, after -al!, on the twit, 0ne'e faith is not a set of formal statements; unchangeable and sub- isecirtittowitbiechshieauittestedtht, bylite.thforewv:rois in life, & habit and trend of the ficatiou Of new facts; It is -a -spirt t rough every -reitim of feet.. It 4 not an outer garment ; is an in- ner spirit which- .guides, onward, though the developing life mity'esatt aside its outgrown garment.. .,Seience is our reading of the re- lations-ef the bets of life; religion it, the ennfidenee and longing that reads all. in the light of life's en- larging *ode and increasing Your religion cannot be testesi by the tots_ of science; it is tted by its Iralite7 forcein--your-lito, - A worthy faith feara 110 knowledge; it rejoices in all, that enriches and enlarges life. It welcomea iicie3co as the servant of the growing tout. - - —HENRY F. 31 perfectly plain that he considers , both to es, necessary (see also v. X. 24). Se does Paul. There is no a coutritClictionsbetween-th red; I swear it. Oh, whits is ;to pe5it-1Ni *. to things ,tba t r, a difference of emphasis. " DO WIIAT YOU BEssiEVE- 1. The- Powessef ,Faith, Faith it AttirairtCei-ai t tit science,' commerce, tovernment, a civilization. It is the drawing of tthe *unseen ideal that allure* men from the beaten paths out into new and better ways. Without faith, :the World of human activity would come to standstill. 1 t. The necessity of Works. We --Lare-vonstantly in gangers even in this practical age, of relying on words, which are the mete express 'Sion a faith and belief, end Oiling .„., ,put----thoses-worde into-inutioe. We needs, as much at the men of latmees day, to 'learn that ouch faith, or, flair, such an exprea- *ion and pretense of faith, is a dead Milt! fool I've been!" eau be teen and handled, or life fruitless and vain. - ' * * „. ,oelIed-in" tirthaule-yon, awes .and Ifis Epistle 'het -iliteiplets ;named -Janie's- -at sisms, esstsindsi found in. the New Teetament It, was Mrs. Iletisivell- who spoke. There are three: & changed man ever since; L 34104 the 400. et" Zebedee there Couldn't be a. kinder, inere4 sometimes called- the Great. 110 .considerate husband. Ile rieliculeslwassthe brother of John, was very the idea of 'being ill—says he never:close to Jestist, at the crisis of his felt happier or better in his Brest:, life, and was the first of the twelve and, instead eompl %Juin g his to slitter martyrdom (Acts 12: 2).." meals, he is eente'usted with every- 2. ilimeithe-son of Alphaeus, one 'thing; inilee4,- hes sinsist"K- of the twelve apostles probably a lahluteaf. spf,'"danikis*.essBustssibs' 434sErk)pietellis,, brother of Matthew, ihe Also is ehs.nge it seems aklitiC4V-Iteird* cC411. and price or twice Gilbert hits start- with 4"miles tha led 'nes at night by iniganing in ess Little (or the Less), and nothin goodsleep". inatta' red / phyti;iitl iz it-riltanwiletatbfliegerifoethet of our Lord, rietledoiN,IYhaott:r ithtuaitandhaptwi,14 said 11 1!*ith ,"ckftit?wesottitttlitete..prob. ;ern' cheerily. "Don't : worry athoutlStat0..-.Y.14. now tlota the' pa* , yy_ dear Mrs. . Bedswell. sio we are to study spring from the cooks in to See me every night, so preceding parts • of the tipistie k thou' bet; going on lames 'bits been 'speaking of these No.'nei • won't thetition Oultke; that lake credit, to themtelves for tainly not!" • 'hearing the law and 'ehterving the * , ;outward forma of religion, .",The at the:sante time they \b"ow down R.044110 I tOore the*ri0 and stern the poor; "the xicie ,`TIie\ g In this passage he goes ',On to in- el4t(111.0i'veir yob:gloat:4m: .doctorLa, Mere PrOfetti(iii. tgat alt .such religion is empty, offaitl Oh, do SO you have SIM kilt the deeds that prove it, :the thought of it off my mind fair y roth erithoot yotkita, or, for the .g your ni-ethciie well during the day, hut at nights vs. 1547. now ,aoes sasssi aims .4.4e the dreaming and nig'btmares trio the etopooese of 04e...format Lot' tie* I thel'imeil wiliPilretigion Christians, mUsie-hall, arid greet poste** were te,444 ni.e. me. ;men, or wilmen, wee lire destitute -* t "cornato our 04ors. There are then tidiltitied of lif nd Isr worm thaw we, dept."! !ling away with youroilt--,playedmith •fri htful -ult-uhutth-h-hi'" ielethieg. Titer are fellow Chrit. . eetttemp elo- ireiative the, last night it witt'si 't4 .6464 Aln4 'Belt! I'm not- talking feelitlis' one telked of *nil ozi. enssree sessicss, *pilaus, with thit eltiints of brother. the bully reined. I ta in„Thitt *or ,•Ltettoti earnest. Everibody's against,/ "Well, doctor, true from the wctftehe4 iinp or an "Ohs 'don't think for ar too ee-boy to the ticket.tolketor, limught you 'here to eondeM tupbeirel, from schieP, 'Ate bottle. Pouring the mote -late i lies, he quietly, "Drip he matte rite ,sbow my seisoont,such * decision; thou it I: mai" be, 1aerIy Heswell to. "Wbyioi cry time Preloaded tip with parsipardoned for saying itt, it ;terra*, doetor, he exclaime.d sit he aetiw - I tell !von," lie tcutiutted„ Ito me '1„,cowardly thin to frighten'down the glass, te4 just like in "" ing the . few heirs of his meas. ione's wittrto death be °related. ,A0 the 'other drug. Are you ' sure', Jy you've not re r;iietsitet.- 41Att * Metter Of „,nWa4 't ,taebe tenderly with his ,sersiefte 4"1 am in the ..qtay in the weild; Ini on too many. .I shall do \Or with 'myself one ef these, elaye, 'poi Melee* it will be to etrissints. Is' Mts. Ifedswell 'burst into a flood Lear'. "Olt, Gi/berter stro *ob. , "it is sery, wrong' and unman. y‘iii to say ouch cruel thilags, know 1 went you, aod that I tdift 1ie %itlanitlott, eithetigh so neintive as4 61N:ore .114 * a 4 told tier, / don.% believe -you'd er ham, the pluelt to take YOUr wn lite." - The insioustion titing the tOtt* itt4 little man to /the quick. are atl-A iberty0 helisve what & he retorted, gh ne It01114 think you woukt Ikad the good Stitte to niofi to i-eurself. uc ay, your will think in ckad tlifritt baps 0 , 111 quicklwationee, "it is preciscly t 4E116 dole, and lye not made any ins , militate at RISE OF NEW PROFES$1ON ArtioN . or oniLottos s CT IN • A1414 ridille HowMfailers... reituipters Left Ositaide Vitae . Partats pilak. Some remarkable, effects hey de- i'ehiped under the operation o -.the 1 forceEl d A *II t i 1ldrienn'spsAactositionnee, pit icitineinto t. p It ally# out of that pert wiiieli exclude* chddrea item .batic, and sisterhood in Christ thsit; ettid move s;ll .elturch vembers. to ip them. And here cornea one of empty "professors' andgraei- r 1,011,S atTad in peace, 6 ye , and Ailed, but does noth- or tbemart' is plain. * the In pea&` iiife.tIyi t. -FaithVii, 15... inia- oming irito the diaeussion sin who iees the fofly f the "ot made any intske:44 Claimed with ion ;"what do yr mean 1.4 melt,* this. answered ismo tod s lie, 0hoping it would isa meaiA Of briagsrig 3011to so*, r. Any 'A* * KIDDIES tiliTSIDE.. The spectacle throughout London, 01 eras of little, thildren left .in groups on the pavement in chzrge 01 one eat whit* the others * f* skis gorgeously Illuminated ba food for very iittious re he niitvpsittiholietsi, c the cir- cle Ott „both ugbt pence tttretzirred6' ir tots 'ilia -aiparativ. of rinUsa he lad seen half adddeten children being pushed up an own the road in the vicinity of public - bows by who had heen„paidstwopeace----- a head to look after them. - In another case an enterprising hostler had cleared out a water-, trought, lined it with hay, arid WAX usiflgjt AS 4_2140'i...tot _children_ Whose pareets were away drinking. From the day the act came into "minding kids at a penny • a thoeraace.,a, ban, d of Abigitte boys have been experiencing a right royal time In yet another ease, cabman on his rank, eager not to 0336$ A "go!. den" opportunity furnished by * sudden downpour of talt4,- the offer of a. petty of holiday- makrs and turned his -vehicle into te_ miniature's cieeluis- while the -pi ents -passe a convivial 'onr in t nearest, tavern. HOTEL "MINDEItS. At :01. large public -house St Gun- nerabury recently, two nurses attended to the children of custom- ers throughout the do. Voting_ the forenoon the two nurses were n charge of over twenty small boy*. and Oils. The innovation of largo public-houttes suppWrig their s own 'mindere" seems, likely to beetnne general. -* skublieityt theS under the new act the . sale of . takes and pastries usually displayed on bar counters is.now prattically extinct. ri who value arCCOMPAtiiNt by children uaed to buy eseb *cake, firtit of caterers who have made * specialty of supplying* coasts .to publieshouset 'reported that their• *Islets had declined Sys00. a week' sines the act. came into force. I THE b,ttratjArGE1,1 OF. I�WL8. ten& savant lia* bee ea- vineed thitt, barnyard fowls have re'zI lilingutiget *nil that. the curious nod* they are contintaidly uttering' e rfectl 'understood by ,erte another. eittutaliet *hes for, sorne time t a phenegreph hunt up hi a coop in which ittivend reek* ris are . maned, He bas as it were, the :1'014 to out all **eta of Wings by in Owes in one .way an by leging thezi'bemste nd then f**diag *mist tbs others " y ways h. 144 WS of hioh they ,•