1907-02-15 - Northern New York Historical Newspapers

£ The Brewster Standard, .Friday, February 15,1907
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
Darisoa
PITCH I SO TOWAKD SODOM.
Fob. 17, '07—(Gen. 13:1-13.)
Abraham and Lot were the cattle
ktagH or ancient history. It is said
r them that they were "very rich"
utfd "had flocks and herds and
tents." Their herdsman and shepherds
were the original cow boys,
and they apparently had the same
troubles that their successors experience.
While Abraham seemed
to be contented with the natural increase
of hlB r-rnapurlty, hlB nephew
Lot hnd been bitten with the getrich-quick
lmraslte, nnd his whole
aim In life seemed to have been how
to beat hfs old uticle lu the rtoek
raising business.
loot's cow 1)03*8 soon caught tli«
Spirit of their employer i>nd began
to crowd Abraham's herdsmen off
the earth. They picked quarrels with
them on the slightest provocation.
They stole their calves and branded
them with Lot's tag. They drove
them off the fat pastures to the
deary harrcns, nud the count of the
herds of A lint Inn i never would coma
rlu'it. And then, one day when the
old trau co:t!d en 1 ire the noise no
longer, he culled lot nnd said In effect,
"We ht:d b?tlr>r dissolve partners'-"
in. It is ovIJoui your Ideas and
infill' no Idriger agree. So you sell tt
the mew thai UIIMM* satisfactory to
yon and take it and I will i.-1u• • what
is left, If you choose the right. I
Will go to the-left; If you take the
valley I will go l»» tin* hills." A magnificent
example of the Golden Hole
In a heart anil an age, where we
should lensl expect It.
Hut Lot was not built on that
pliin. The schemer laughed In his
sleeve at what he tho'ight the unbusinesslike
principles of his uncle.
And with the straiKhtest face he
cftuld manage he said,""! will take
the plain of Jordan," and then he
said to himself. "It's an 111 wind
that blows nobody any good," and he
w**tit out from the Interview feeling
liK«* a stock broker who has jus:
cleaned up a million by a corner In
cattle.
• "And he pitched his tent toward
Sodom." Abraham went back to the
bills to continuo a simple life, and
Lot set his face toward the ciiies of
the Main. Cities of luxury! Cities
Of Abomination! Cities of Crime!
Tii'-.v were such bot-ueds of Iniquity
•audi sinks of depravity, such putrid
can-asses of llceiiiii.n-ii.---s, that
their names si a ml lu history the'
s> miiii) ins for the very limit of evlldoiug.
Yet for the sake of the Almighty
Dollar Lot deliberately pitched his
tent towward Kodom. What difference
did it make to him that he had
a wife and children to look out
for? Did lie Mop to consider that
Sodom meant Sodomlc business, Sodomic
society* Sodomlc pleasure?
Did he Investigate as to,the church
privileges, school privileges, neighborhood,
privileges? Not a bit of it.
He aaw in Sodom coiner Iota, great
markets for beef and mutton, intere.-i
on money to let, chances to increase
his fort am*, an opportunity
to become a political bo»s. And he
pitched his lent toward Sodom.
And thut is Just what the men of
the world are doing every day. la selecting
a house ihe question is not,
What sort of a reputation has the
place? Hut, Can I make u dollar
there? It la not a question of
Churches and schools, nud libraries
and art galleries, aud intellectual
and moral advantages or all sorts. It
is a question of money ai 6 per cent,
a -oo'i puyiug position for the boys,
a matrimonial market for the girls.
No matter if the young people are
bombarded with temptation from
suuriae lo sunset, aud from sunset
to sunrise,UO matter If they are compelled
to associate with money
grubbers or virtue hunters ffoui
week's end to week's end. there is
money in it for Lui. so good-by to
the old fogy Abraham, out on the
hillside farm, 1'urle baa such queer,
o)-i tush inn.-ii Ideas, you know!
Mark you. Lot did not jump right
into Sodom, all at one-. He only
pitched bis tent toward it at first.
Perhaps if Abraham hud mid him he
would lu time become a Sodoinic alderman,
he would have flushed will
indignation. Bui be got there just
the same. So, now. there are plenty
of men and women in Sodom who
never meant lo go there. They turned
very gradually aside. They stood
a long time looking at its distant alliiieineiiis
before they pitched th.'ir
tents lu that direction. They said.
A\ e in.- not obliged lo participate in
the sins of Sodom just because we
happen lo live there. We can do
business in (own and no) pailake 01
the town's sins. Aud they really
thought lhe\ could. Hill Ul0J moved
luo.u s s m or ^v^(^r"•lu..p^ l oo,,^L^e
the miM d.ai.ee. jUdUes •!.«», Mil OruygJaU.
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES.
Made by Greeks of Greek Tobacco and
Due to a Government Monopoly.
A controversy which has been going
on in Europe, and especially In
England, as to the rival merits of
Turkish and Egyptian cigarettes fwtiui
likely to he settled by a retain, or a
disinterested but observant American
Comnl.
Though the United States Is the
great cigarette producing nation of
the world there are Imported into
this country every .year more than
$3,000,000 worth of foreign made
cigarettes, some Turkish and some
Egyptian.
Turkey Is a large tobacco producing
country, yielding 50,000 tons of tobacco
every year, and the Turks. It Is
VM.'H known, are a nation of smokers.
The amount of tobacco raised in Kg} pt
Is considerable, and yet Egyptian
cigarettes are Imported Into this
country In considerable amounts every
year.
The explanatldil*Of the: mailer. as
offered by the American Consul in
Athens is simple. It nei-ins that the
flreek tobacco crop last year was the
largest Greece ever harvested—about
300,000,000 pounds. A brand of Greek
tobacco Is used for Egyptian cigar*
CttCH.
Why, It Is asked. Egyptian? The
answer Is that Egyptian cigarettns are
made by Oreeks. because t-iaarette
paper is too exnensive in Greece,
where It is a Government mouopoly.
Thus the business has gone over to
Egypt. The most famous cigarette
makers of Efeypt are Greens. •
A very large ..business In cigarette
making has been established in Alexandria,
and it Is in the bonds of
Oreeks. who Import their tobacco
from their own country and In turn
ship it to foreign countries, England
and the United Httfles being the chief
market for Egyptian cigarettes, which
are, in fact. Greek cigarettes, those
bearing the title Tnrlili being iihV
ported from. Turkey, direct.
"Mocha and Java" Coffee.
1 Tlie> United States imports about
Ii000,000.000 pound* of coffee yearly.
Some eight-tenths of tbe supply
conies from Jlraail.. about one-tenth
from other South- American countries
and one-renth >om< eJentral America
and Mexico.
The Importations* of Mbcaai coffee,
which take* its name rroiu the town
Mocha, at the southern extremity of
Arabia, are* only ulioat l^OO.DOO',
pounds annually, a«d> or Java coftea'
only about 10,000,000 pounds.
These quantities are so small as t»
constitute only an infinitesimal proportion
of the vast eonsumptleu of
coffee in the United States. The average
import value-of South America*
coffee is about eight cents per pound,,
compared with J4J. and 1C cents lor
coffee from Arabiai and: the-Kast Lu~
dies.
Turkish and Egyptian traders i?o to
Arabia before the' harvest and bay
the Mocha crop ou> the tree. They
make sure that it is noi picked Insfore
it Is perfectly ripe, »nd they attend
to Its preparation,themselves.
Such choice Mocha-, is marketed
largely through Cairo, or Alexandria^
and "the coffee that reaches Mocha
and is exported from- Aoen is only
what these merchants UuiughL toopoor
to buy."
In view of the fact that tbe best
Mocha never reaches this market at
all, aud the notorious fact that for
years only an infinitesimal proportion,,of
United States imports have
been from Arabia and Java, the official
statement sent out by Use United
Stales Government is doubtless true
in declaring that "the terms Java and
Mocha have now become mere characteristics
oi quality aud blend." But
It would be difficult to ftame any description
of the characteristics of
quaniy und bleud which tuese terms
j are supposed to represent.
As matter of tact, therefore, the
words Java and Mocha uu. a brand of
coffee may usually be accepted as
equivalent to the words "fln«8t" or
•fcesi." or similar adjectives. Only on
coffee which is positively known to
be the pure product from Japanese
plsniatious or from Amman plantations
«io these terms have auy significance.
There are only a few disinterested
coffee lovers who prefer . ue
of ihe standard brands of Bra.-, .an
coffees (which constitute the g eat
bulk consumgd in this country) to
genuine Java or Mocha, A. hi. Gans.
who has given much attention to this
subject, ma in i a his that most of the
coffee consumed in the United Stales
is taken by the consumeb in tbe belief
that it is genuine Mocha or Java.
If his si at in. ui la true, declare Good '
Housekeeping, such fraud and graft
is of the largest dimension*.
Thunder in England.
An early KUKHBII author writes:
'•Thuudcrs in the inoruiag siguifia
wj-nde: about uooiie. ra.vne; in lh«
eveniUK great leuiiiest .
• Soiuiue wryle (their ground 1 se«
not) that Sonduyes thnndre sliould
bryngS 'he denlh ol Jearned neu,
judges, and other.--; Mondayeu uiun*
dre. ilie tleuth of women: Tucsdsyes
thundre. plentle of graine: Wednes>
dayes thundre. much bloodahede;
Tbursdayes thundre. plentie of ahene
and rnd reported whu». tbe other said.
The former gave a tremendous aad
most significant wink and whispered—
"He's ns lame as' a two-legged
atool. I hnd him badly shod on purpose
to make people believe that
that wus the cause or his limping."
When this wus communicated to
the Pole he seemed for the moment
taken iihuck, and bung his head;
then, wirh a little sigh and.a shrass
of his shoulders, lie said, quietly—
"Ah. well it's all tight; it. was *
bad ten-rouble uoteT" !
Olil.M Secret TmoV**
The two oldest secret trade- protae*!»eH
now in existence are said iobe
the manufacture of Cbisege red,
or vermilliou, and tbe method of i'ntayinK
tin- hardest steel wit.li gald
and silver, wlu-h Heeuis to huve been
practiced at Damascus UKOH ago. aud
Is known only to tihe Kyran. smiths.
and their pupils-even to this *mr.
Judge Uses forceful Language
Judge W. if. Simmons, of Fineast
l«\ Va., told the reporter thai
L. & M. Puiut wu« II.M-J on his residence
in 18H2 and held its color well
for 21 years; he f onlierm^re KUHI thut
:j years ago lie was iudueed; to use
another paint aud is sorry he did, be
euiise the other {mint didn't make
good. The Judge wilt uow alwuys
use L. & M., because ho knows if any
defect exists in L. Si M. faint the
house will be repaiuted for nothing.
The L. at M. Zinc hardens the
L. & M. White Lead aud makes
L. & M. i'uint wear like iron for 10 to
15 years.
Actual cost of L. A: M, about $1.20
per gallon.
Pollutions of L. & M. made to
churches.
Sold by J. H. Motjuay, Hrewwter;
£. Fowler, L'urmel; M. Westoott
il Bro., Mahopue.
CANCER^ ReD
lay Cured
wiUwMt pain, luoooveousnce, or I twins houtu.
MO KNirE-NO M U KlUOU, FLA8TUU—MO i uiluriwd «t II.. luU.rim- I'AJN
Tto» ilOouai
0
1 "— fnd pitmuuucmd bj pruuiimml
ork pliyniniwiii to b»ibm unit twiniuimut cum.
lor tnm bouktaC IUVMIIMUI to-iUj. C«uo. t
iluo IMS watt. " ti * i «u pro v f» id lurra.
Hasan Cancer Institute, Broadway cor. 64th St.. N.Y.
Can
Make SIS
to $ 20 a Week
1 v • :in- i ni. trior our famuli*
I «•-. CwlkBM,Uakinx Powder, fcxlr*k
» . I..J ; pice*, llaudaoiue prci<
uitior «'iiupooN »'lUi every pur-
< Ii.ikv ; etiawee j*ld. Forlull tiaiii.
uiiii*->U>'Jtthuj"ad"addreaii
I lie ureat Awrku T«a Co..
S-it Vcary St.. Now Vork. N. V.
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Storm & Lewis
DEALERS IN
Horses, Ponies . to $3,0*.
New York Store,
Fowler Bluett, - Brewster, N. Y.
'Owing, to- continued calls for his services-,
MR. JAMES K. SMITH
Has connected himself again with- Che
The Knox & Smith Undertaking Co.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
CaJla a*»wered night or day. Telephone 4JL.
JOHN T. TOOUMEY,
Licensed Pharmacist.
Baceessor to W. T. (ianuuK, The Pioneer Druggist.
Oldest, Lamest and Best Epippefl Droi HODSB io Pitnu Co.
Sole Agency for Devoe
and other Standard
Paints and Varnishes.
Perfumes, Soaps and
Toilet Articles. Patent
Medicines, Etc.
Prewa-iption Department Unsurpassed. Ferasulas Famous ntd
Faultless for 50 Years duplicates. Pure Liquors tor Medicinal Use.
Main Street, Brewster, N. Y.
A. P. BUDD,
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE,
Brewster. N. Y.
Twenty Fire Insurance Companies. I
Life, Accident, Burglary, Wind and Plate Glass|
1 nsurance also affected.
Farm and Village Property for sale in Putnam and|
Westchester Counties.
Money Loaned on Bond and Mortgage.