The Exeter Advocate, 1898-4-1, Page 3GOB'S JUST MEASURE.
W.L.L. BE THE MEASURE YOU APPLY
TO OTHERS..
'The Her, Dr, Talmage's Sermon on the
Sin of -Unfairness- ',With What Mew-.
*We Too Mete lt Shall Be, Measured to
Toe Again" Xs His Text.
(Copyright lses, by ernerieen press Associse
Washington, March 27. --If 'tbe spirit
of this sermon ot Da 'ealmage were car-
eital out, the worla wortld be a better
piece to live in, awl the fallen would find
it easier co recover themselves; text,
'Matthew yii, 2, "'With what measure you
mete it sball be measured to you again."
In the greatest sernien ever Preached—
sermon about 15 minutes long accord-
ing to tile ordinary rate a speech -4 ser.
mon on the Mount of Olives, thepreacher
sitting wage be spoke, wording to the
ancient ,le of oratory, tbe people were
given to understate:I thet tbe same yard.
anele thin del employed upon Others
woelti be employed upon themselves.
Ille,asure others by A has rule, and you
will be measured by a harsh role. Meas-
ur‘ others by a ,hatable rule, and you
will be measured by a charitable rale,
(ante no mercy to others, and no mercy
will be giyee te yap, "With what meas.
ure you mete it shell be rso5ured to you
again.,'
There is a great deal of unfairness in
criticism in human conduct. It was to
Sillite that nearness that Christ uttered
the words of the text, and my sermon
'will be a re-eeho of the divine sentiment,
In estimating the misbehavior a ethers
Ire must take Mt* consideration the pres-
sure of cireumstances.• It is never right
to do wroug, but there are degrees of
culpability. When men imisbehave or
counnit some atroolons wielteduess, we
are disposed indiscriminately to tumble
them all over the bank of condemnation.
Buffer they ought, and suffer they must,
but in a difference of degree.
Tee Bereditary Tendency.
In the first place, in animating the
Vaisdoing of others en must take into
celculatien tbe hertelitaq tentlene.y.
There le such a thing as awe blood, and
there le such a tbiug es b'ned blood. There
ere ennilies that have bad a moral twist
in them for a holland years back. They
have not been careful to keep the family
record in that regard. There have been
escapaties end, murtudinge ana scoandren
Isms un' moral deficit.; all the way back',
whether you call it kleptomania or pyres
mania or dipsotnartia or whether It be a
otilder form and amount to no iin
all. 'rbe strong, arta:ability is that the
present erintlnal storted life with nerve,
•
innocence looking down upon pooh moral
preeipitation. You had better get down
en your knees, and first pray Almighty
God for their rescue, and next thank the
Lord that yen have not been thrown
under the wbeels of that Juggernaut.
nreat )3ritain and , in the United
States in every generation there are tens
et thousands of persons who are fully
developed eriminels and atoarcereted. I
say in every generation. -r.Chen I suppose
there are tens of thousands of persons not
found out M their criminality. In addi-
tiOn to these there are tens a thousands
of persons who not positively beemeing
crimiaals nevertheless bave a orimival
tendency. Any Dee of all those tlaousands,
by the grace of God, may become Chris-
Oau and resist the ancestral influence
and open a new chapter of behavier, but
the vast majority of them will not, and
it becomes all men, professional, unpro-
fessioual, ininisters ot religion, judges of
courts, philanthropists and Christian
workers, to reeognize the fact that them
are these Atlantic and Paola° surges of
heredity evil rolling on through the cen-
turies. I say, of course, a man eau resist
this tendency, just as la theancestralline
mentioned in the first chapter of Mat-
thew. You see in the same line in which
there was a Wicked Rehehorian and a des-
perate Manasses there afterward came a
pietut desieh and a glorieue Cheats But,
my friends, yen must recognize the fact
that these influences go Me from genera-
tion to generation. I am glad to know,
however, that a river which has produced
nothing lint miasma for a hundred miles
may after awhile turn the wheel% of
feeteriea and help support„lodustrious
and virtuous pepulatioes, aud there are
family lines which were poisoned that
aro a benediction now. At the last day it
will be found out that there are men who
have gone Clear over into all the forms a
luiquity apti pluttged into utter abandon-
ment who before they yielded to the Arst
temptotion resisted more eyil than many
a Man WhO bee been moral and Upright
all his nee,
The Best Mae Cetera God.
But supposing now that In this age,
when there are so mossy good people, that
I come down into t'4;,s audienee and se -
lent the very best num in it. X do not
1110311 the man who world style himself
the best, for probably he is a bypocrite,
but I =MI the mau who before God is
Teally the best, I will take you out from
all your Christian eurrountlings. I will
take you hook to boyhood. I will put you
in a depraved /Wine. I will put you in a
cradle of iniquity. Who is bending over
that cradle? An intoxicated mother. Who
Is that swearing in the Belt room? Your
father. The neighbors come in to talk
and their jokes aro unclean. There is
not to the house a Bible or a moral tree.
Ise, but only a few straps of an old pie-
torial.
After awhile you aro old, enough to
get out of the cradle. and you are struck
muscle and hone contaminated. As some ares the bead for sumghtitoess, butuever
snort life with a natural tendency to in any lellitilettnanner reprimanded. After
nobility and genereeitv and altuluess and Awhile you aro old enough to go abroad,
trnthfulneee, there aro others Who Start
life with just the opposite tendency, mai
they are born liars or burn itudeontents
or born outlaws or Imre swindlers,
Tbere is in lenglend a eeltota that is
eelled the Princess Mary seitool. AU the whleis seems to rare no morn for you
children in that tehnol aro the (+Mittel of thee the net that has died et a las under
(smokes. `The scheel is under high patron. the feline 'You are Molten and tattled
ago. I had the pleasure of being mantel; and buffeted. ;Flow day, rallying your
at ono of their anniversaries, prodded courage. yen resent SOMA wrour,. A man
over by the Earl of Kilgore. By a wise says: Who aro you I know who you
law in England after parents have emu- re. Your father had free lodgings at
mitted a certain number of crimes and Sing Sing. Your mother, RIM was up fee
thereby shown themselves incompetent drunkenness at the criminal court. tet
rightly to briug up their children the 011t Of my way, you low lived wretch l”
little ones are taken from under per:ilea My brother, suppose that bad beou the
ous influences* and put in reformatory history of your advent and the history of
schools, wbere aU graelous and kindly your earlier surroundings. Would you
Influences shall be brought upon them. have boon the Christina twin you are to -
Of course the experiment is young, anct day, seated In this Christian aesembly? l-
it bas got to be demonstrated how largo tell you nay. You would have beep' is
a percentage of the ohlidron of convicts vagabond, an mauve a nurdorer oa the
may be brought up to respeetability and scaffold atoning for your Clime. All those
usefulness. But we all know thee it Is cousiderations ought to mite ue isierelfei
more difficult for children of bad parent in our dealings with the Wa;ederIng and
age to do right than for children of good the lost.
parentage. Swayed by Cirennietances,
All Born Equal. Again, I have tes"thivark that in our
In this country NVO aro taugbt by the estimation the misdoing of people wbo
Deolaratioa of American Independence have fallen from high respectability and
that all people are born equal. There usefulness we mast take into considera--
never was a greater misrepresentation tioten'ae conjunction of circumstances.
put in one sentence than in that sentence in nine oases out of ten a man Who goes
which implies that we are all borne-4dd. astray does not Intend any positivewrong.
You may as well say, ttat'llowers are He has trust funds. He risks a part of
born equal or tars aro born equal or these funds in investment. He says:
animals are born equal.. Why does one "Now, if I should lose that investment I
horse cost $100 and another horse cost have of my own property five times as
$6,000? Why does one sheep cost $10 and muoh, and if this investment should go
another shee cost $500? Difference in wrong I could easily make it up. I could
blood. We aro wises enough to recognize five times make it up." With that wrong
It in horses, in cattle, in sheep, but we reasoning he goes on and enetlies the in.
are not wise enough to make allowance vestment, and it ctoes not turn out quite
for the difference in the human blood. as well as he expected, and he makes an -
Now, I demand by the law of eternal other inyestment, and strange to say at
fairness that you. be illOre lenient in your the same time all his other affairs get en -
criticism of those who were born weong, tangled, and all his other iesqurces ffall,
In whose ancestral line there was a hang. and his hands are tied. Now he wants to
man's knot, or who came from a tree extricate himself. He goes a little further
the fruit of Which for centuries has been on in the wrong investment. He takes a
gnarled and worm eaten. plunge further ahead, for he wants to
Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave some mar- save his wife and children, he wants to
velous statistics in his story of a woman save his home, he wants to save his
he called "Margaret, the mother of °rim- membership in the church. He takes one
Inals." Ninety years ago she lived in a more plunge, and all is lost.
village in upper New York state. She Some morning at 10 o'clock the bank
was not only poor, but she was ViOIOUS. door is not opened, and there is a card on
She was not well provided for. There the door signed by an officer of the bank,
Were no almshouses there. The public, indicating there is trouble, and the name
however, somewhat looked after her, but of the defaulter or the defrauder heads
chiefly scoffed at her and derided her 'and the newspaper column, and hundreds of
pushed her further down in her crime. men say, "I'm glad he's found out at
That was 90 years ago. There have been last." Hundreds of other men eay, "Just
628 persons in that ancestral line, 200 of as I told you." Hundreds of other men
them criminals. In one branch of that say, "We couldn't possibly have been
family there were 20, and nine of them tempted to do that—no conjunction of
have been in state prison and nearly all circumstances could ever have overthrown
'of the others have turned out badly. It is me." And there is a superabundance of
estimated that that family cost the county indignation, but no pity. The heavens
• and state $100,000, to say nothing of the full of lightning, but not one drop of dew.
property they destroyed. Are you, not If God treated us as society treats that
willing, •as sensible, fair people, to nsan, We would all have been inhell long
acknowledge that it is a fearful disaster ago.
to be born in such an anceetralline? Does , Temper Wrath With Mercy.
It not make a great differenoe whether Wait for the alleviating circumstances.
one descends from Margaret, the mother perhaps he may baye been the dupe of
•of criminals, or from some mother in others, Before 'you let all the hounds out.
Israel; whetber you are the son of Ahab from their kennel to maul and tearthat
or the son of Joshua? man find out if he has not been brought
Against the Current. up in a commercial establishment where
It is a very different thing to swine there was a wrong system • of ethics
with the current from what it is to swim taught; find out whether that man has
against the current, as some of you have not an extravagant wife who is not
no doubt found in your summer recrea,- satisfied with his honest earnings and in
tion. If a man find himself in an anoes• the temptation to please her he bas gone
tral current where there is good blood into that ruin into which enough men
nowing smoothly from generation to have fallen; and by the same temptation,
generation, it is pot a very great credit to to melte a procession of many miles. Per -
him if he turn out good and honest and haps, some sudden sickness may have
pure and noble. He could hardly help it. touched his.brain and his judgment may
„ But suppose he is born in an ancestral be unbalanced. He inevrong, he is awfully
line, in a hereditary line, where the in- wrang and he must be condemned, but
nuances have been bed and there has there may be mitigating circumstances.
been a coming down over a moral deoliv- Perhaps under the same teniptation you• .
ity, if the reannurrentler to the influences might have fallen. The reason some men
he will go down under the overmastering do not steal $200,000 is because they do
gravitation..unloss some Supernatural aid not get a chance. Have righteous in -
be afforded him. Now, such a person de- dignation you must about that man 't
Servos not your excoriation, but your conduct, ,but temper it with mercy: '
pity. Do not sit with the hp curled in But you say, "I am sorry that the
ecorn and with all assumed air of angelic)
and you are scut out with a bash% to
steal. If you come home without any
spoil, you are whipasti until the blood
comes. At lii years sr age you go out to
hght your own battles in this world,
sorry for the widows and orphans who
lest their all by that defaloation. I ism
sorry for the venerable batik presieent to
whom the credit of thet bank wall a
matter of pride. 'Yes I am sorry also for
that man who brought all the distress—
sorry that he sacrificed body, mind, own,
reputation, heaven, and wet into tbe
blackness of darkness forever,
you defiantly say, "1 could not be
tempted in that way." Perhaps you may
be tested efter Awhile. God has a very
geed memory, and he sometimes seems.,
to say: "This Mall feels so strong in his
innate power and goodness he shall be
tested. He is so full of bitter invective
against that unfortunate it shall be
Shown now whether he has the Power to
stand." Fifteen years go by. The wheel
of fortune tures several times, and you
are in a crisis that yea never anted bave
anticipated. Now all tbe powers of dark-
ness teeny around, and they ebuokle and
they chatter and they say; "Aha, here is
the old fellow litho was ea proud of his
integrity and who bragged he couldn't he.
overthrown by temptation and was SO
uproarious in kis demonstrations of
indignation at the defalcation 16 years
ago! Let us Nese
A Glance Backward.,
God lets the MAO go. God, who hid
kept that Man Wider his proteeting eare,
lets the man go and try for himself the
majesty of his integrity. God letting the
man go, the powers of darkness potpie0
upon him. I see you some day in Tour
office in great exeltement. One of two
Mingo yeti eall do—be boeest ad Int
pauperized and hayes•onr thildren brought
home from Khoo), your family dethrOtied
In soeial influence; the other thing IS SQ11
catt step a little aside front that which, is
right, you cart only just go hag an ineh
out of the proper path, you Oen only take
a little risk, and then you have all your
finances fair end right. 'roll Will hate A
large preperty. You eau lealrei a fortune
for yourchildren and endow a college and.
build a public library in your native
town. You holt and Walt and halt and
wait until your lips get white. You
deeide to risk it, Only a few strokes of
the pen DOM But, oh how your hand
tremble; hew dreadful 'it teemblesi The
(lie is cast. By the strangest anti most
awful co»junction of circumstauces any
one could have imagined you are pros-
trated. Bankruptcy, comineroial annthila-
ton, exposure, crime. aged men mourn,
and devils hold carnivals:tad you see your
own name at tbe heed of the newspaper
sonsum in a whole congress a exelmna-
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client perishei, If he have eloquence
enougit in that hour, his client is limed.
Be stimulates.
That journalist has had exhausting
midnight work. Ile bas bad to report
epeeehes teed orations thee kept him up
till a very late hour. He nes gone with
mutt expeeure workitre up some ease of
Oen points, and while yea ere reading crime in company t act
one st.i.to earthenwa
ellWar0 or giant,
in itervioihsally
etealee vales, if en-rget A HaARTY MEAL, IIE WAI
Fraite
no
p ee, or into a dish that fadeof web,- A GREAT RAT KILLER
properly Preleirvd, gewrata no poison. As
seen as opened the astion of the ated in linADY TO BEGIN WORK.
the tin, with tha aid of the aturesp4ere,
begins. and ID a ele2,Dr: time tito result 2he aureate:am rateateter Was
a dearille polamt, :erne traitereat of
h •estion ehould s• lamb(
Pleased, end Par a Tana tips Neigle
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the anathema, in the reportorial and. sits dean at midnight to write Oat hiS oviTY one. and ingsosterious fencenet, Thome-la it "Merry fie Tamed 'Wee
editorial paragrapb it (recurs to you how awe trete a memorandum serawlea on a Pena): Stis'nre' Ntn.'n'• . laPeretion en The Premises,
much this story is like Oat of the pati under unfaibroldu circumstances., ,
defoleation le years ago, and a clap 0± Ilis statenetb, is gone. Fidelity to the
thunder shakes the window sill, saying, puMie intelligence, fidelity to his own In the
"With what measure you mete it sball be lLTtsilhouiL demean; that he leap up. Ho AtIventurere were
measured to you imain."
You look In anther direction, There
Is nothing like eleillitions of temper to
pur n nem to disadvantage. You, a Mall
h ealin pubeetaitel a lino digestion and
Vhrglnla vaxa tbe 107.Zwn5tizoin mtv'arroz:
aissus Min es to rs eisri fi si;-sa- shy
1/4/3/1/4"474'''tt g""1 etent t F^;'• t:t-• re ,z r24 r.sr." 1.e K15d.
Mailt keep up. lie stumulatee Again is wasmed M --.4 e
and again doss that, and be gave wcniten ,r,J•4 MIR PrPVailit'd ?Wm to "
Tr1'41 011.t 1 rn tq,ura.lr.
down. You may critieise bie alinement lam. England at whet for the piano ts.„ "';'111tv iri/'ir " *
Irt the matter, but have nonnye A lett. r aectepeanyient wee ef eite eagle., rot 11•0 :*"ivy ±rCOsir ste;:n ger r
Remember the proeene Ito not be hard.
--e-Sal Ante. Louden, In '114t'''' ;' FP 14" r 413•ct'
161:1 Sa YS: 4 Vat, en it'17, finlg
pert', it lunale nettea understand bow Se4/141 Levi awl Pray more,
T
- 4 e•.-7.:,-erixere cf Lie
nyliedy similld he capiived teutpcv by en. friemis ten text leen comas to"We fend Ton in the shill; nno VitloW 1sz;',1 Tote Lows"' Se said Sbcrt
au inaniteshual annoyance. You say, "I neeninene in seine meta in tele man and paean netele, as a:neeiN T:7 t ;4;Fee tlesr. ere
for the. pea-
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Perhaps Yon smile a provocation that sane eneeen per,ant, Twenty Teazt care taien tiss 4114.4e0 thinn,
ekes anotber men ewear. You pride area tee son 04 tee huntsman tel
,as in e thee om
re bath 1191 onf the. les% reeelved laws or,1
yourself on your imperturbability. You sann. feast, and bit, „,,,,inentany ,alsn., a but mewl goon reeeellmettletiloan Tbeee tree .n F4-4,4 you a issral, twin te
Ray with your mannea thettelt you lute° nen and an man in eyelet, said; "me are fifty uutre, atio reedy to ga. rot' tin wr „4„.1, nne .ent entente
couldn't be unletiancea in am& way." The huntsman In leirmetten sbot Pie af Vireinie; thero h3lzh tOzt`n ciroid
tet ertelt geed teete 1 see it with Your le just. I , emir father just bere ei) the re111110m°1n
wortle: "I have a gran more ems° yeant mtee1"C 4"h'ilv,"'• 15 07aerol freen
that every malt that marrie them ;sive •-Ti nt's n4.1ieti'" intsrrot tcsl the ern
, shot
than that nem Ina 1. neve n enen net 1 A li/S1101) Rad to Louis XI, of France, one hundred veinal of the bat lietf te• ; reeten mut sees a eaeet, te bit
exhibition a uneeelf, eeee. thee painesette. •tehiet else e•kntiv.q on neither lie down'
ee bacee for caeh of team,'"
'scene that rC411.4 t-trantzer
more equipoise of temper than that Mari 'Make an iron eage for all those who if
has. I never could make sten
Inacie."
uot think as we do—an iron cage bit
s
no settal straight up." It was fashioned ;
,natitt ut Last. —the awful Metre:tient of neennelintent.
Lee ma -tenet: Did you not say that you After awhile the biehop offenden lettile
could not be tempted to an ebullition 0±1 XI., ,and for 14 years be was in dal:
teMper? Soule September you oome home same cage and could neither lie down
Iiioni your summer watering pilule, and nor stand up, It is a poor rule that will
you have inside away back in your liver 1 not 'work both WaR "With what
or spleen what we call in our day
malaria, but what tho old folks called
chills and fever, Y'ou take quinine until
your ears are first buzziug beehives aud
then roaring Nittgaras. You take roots
and Nabs; you take everything. You get
well. But the mixt day you feel uncom-
fortable, und you yawn, and you stretch,
and you heaver, and you consume, and
you suffer. 'Vexed more than you can toll,
you cannot sleep, you cannot eat, you
cannot bear to see anything that looks
happy. You go out to kick the cat that is
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth
was once MUSIC to you. Now it is deafen-
ing. You say, "Boys, stop that racket!"
You. turn back from .lune to March. In
the family and in the neighborhood your
popularity is 95 per cent. off. The world
says: "What is the matter with that dis-
agreeable man? What a woebegone coun-
tenance! I can't bear the sight of him."
You have got your pay at last—got your
pay. You feel just as the man felt, that
man for whom you hid no meron and
my text comes in with marvelous appos-
iteness, "With what tneasure you. mete it
shall be measured to you again."
In the study of society I have come to
this conclusion—that the most of the
people want to be good, but they do not
exactly know how to make it out. They
naake enough good resolutions to lift
them into angelhood. The vast majority
of people who fall are the viotims of
circumstances. They are captured by
ambuscade. If their temptations should
come out in a regiment and fight them
in a fair field, they would go out in the
strength and the triumph of David
aaainst Goliath. But they do not see the
giants, and they do not see the regiment.
Temptation comes and says, "Take these
bitters, take this nervine, take this aid
to digestion, take this nightoap." The
vast majority of men and women who
aro destroyed- by opium and by rum first
take them as medicines. In making up
your dish or criticism in regard to them
take from the caster and the cruet of
• sweet oil and not the cruet of cayenne
pepper.
Remember the Process.
Do you know how that physician, that
lawyer, that ;journalist beeante the
victim of dissipation? Why, the physician
Was kept up nigat by night on profes-
sional duty. Life and death hovered in
the balance. His nervous system was
exhausted. There came a time of
epidemic, and whole families were pros-
trated, a,nd his nervous strength was
gone. He was all worn out in the service
of the public. Now he must brace himself
Now he stimulates The life of this
up.
mother, the life of this cheild the life of
this father, the life of this whole family
must be saved and of all these families
must be saved, and he stimalates, and he
does it again and again. You may
criticise his judgment, but remember the
process. It was not a selfish process by
which he went down It was magnifintat
generosity through whioh he fell.
irbat attorney at the bar for weeks has
been standing in a poorly ventilated
courtroom, liatening td the testimony and
contesting in the dry teohnicalities of the
law, and now the time has come for him
to wind up, and he niust plead for the
lunocent hould suffer." Yes I am too
life of bis client and his nervous system
s
y.
Measure ye mote it shall be measured to
you again."
011, my friends, lot as be resolved to
scold loss aud pray morel
What headway will NVO make in the
judgment if in this world we have been
hard on those who have gone astray?
What headway will you end I make In
She last great judgnient, when we must
have mercy or perish? The Bible says,
"They shall have judgment without
mercy tbat showed no merey."
I see the scribes of heaven looking up
into the face of such a man, saying,:
"What! You plead for mercy, you whom
in all your life never had any mercy on
your fellows! Don't you remember how
bard you were in your opinions of those
etho were astray? Don't you remember
when you °neat to have given a helping
band you employed a hard heel? Mercy!
You must misspeak yourself when you
plead for mercy here. Mercy for others,
but no mercy for you. Look," say the
scribes of heaven, "look at that inscrip-
tion over the throne of judgment, the
throne of God's judgment." See it
coining out letter by letter, word by
word, sentence by sentence, tuitil your
startled vision reads it and your remorse-
ful spirit appropriates it: "With what
measure ye mete it shall be measured to
you again. Depart, yo cursed!"
Eating His 'Words.
".A great book, is a great evil," is an
ancient axiom which an unfortunate
Russian author felt to his cost.,
"While I was in Moscow," writes s
traveler, "a volume was published in
favor of the liberty of the people; in this
book, the iniquitous conduct of thepublie
thnetionaries and even of the sovereign
were censured severely. The book tweeted
great indignation, and the offender was
at once taken into custody. After being
tried in a summary way, he was con-
demned to eat his own words. A scaffold
was erected in a public square, the ire.
penial provost, the magistrates and the
physicians of the Czar attending; the
book was separated from the binding
and the margin cut off. The author was
then served leaf by leaf by the provost
and was obliged to swallow this unpala-
table stuff on pain of the knout, more
feared in Russia than death. As soon as
the medical gentlemen were of the opin-
ion that he had eaten as much as he
could with safety, the transgressor was
returned to prison. This punishment was
renewed the following days until, after
several hearty meals, every leaf of the
book was actually. swallowed."
Banger in Tin Cans.
Open a can of peaches, apricots, cher-
ries or the fruit—Toe all fruit is acidul-
ous—let it stand for some time, and the
fruit acids and the tin are ready to do
their work of poisoning. A chemical
knowledge that toile just how the dan-
gerous compound is created is unnecessary
to an avoidanee of the peril. The rule to
follow is never to make lemonade or
'other acidulated drinks in a tin bucket,
nor allow them to stand in a vessel of
tin; and in ease of eanned fruits or fish,
immediately upon opening the ean, turn
Potato seat,.
In nearby all potato eeetions the fieab
was especially hall the past season, in
some places causing the ruin of theentire
crop. This disc:tee is confined almost
'entirely, in Its worst forms, to soils in
eehich lime or ashes have been used ex-
teasively, or where nein, tei eensiderable
deetiteelltr,e,tAa'Vlo Inattes in thelfga.-E;1-
pert growers BOW Ilud that the best way'
to combat the disease is to treat the p0 -
tato before plantiug. The cut seed potato
Is placed for a moment In bot wenn or
a bath of diluted corrosive sublimate. In
the potato sootions of Now Jersey, 'Mier°
She crop the past summer was large and
the tubers line, those methods have been
abandoned anct the out potato Is rolled In
sulphur before planting. This method is
cheaper, more rapidly performed and quite
AS effective.
A Story of Daniel Webster.
During one of their collego 'vacations,
Daniel Webster and his brother eeturned
to his father's in ett16bury. Thinking be
had a right 50 00010 return for the money
he bad expended on their education, the
father gave them scythes and requested
them to MOW. Daniel made a few sweeps
and then stopped to wipe his brosv and rest.
"What's the matter, Dan?" asked his
father.
"My scythe doesn't hang right, sir."
His father fixed it, Ind Dan went to
work again, but with no better sueeess.
Something was wrong with the imple-
ment, and it was not long before it needed
fixing again, and his father said impa-
tiently:
"Well, hang it to suit yourself."
Daniel, with great composure, hung it
on a near tree and retired from the field. -
A Pew Prison Notes.
THO utrsto CLASS nt SING SING.
--New York Journal.
By His Own Paertions.
"At all events," remarked the caller,
trying to say something cheering to the ex-
pert penman whose too free use of his tal-
ents had brought him to jail, "they have
given You one of the best cells in tho build.
Mg. It's riglit over the portico and faces
the public) street." ,
"Yes," gloomily replied the prieoner.
"I seem to have forged my way to the
front."—Chicago Tribune.
The Alternative.
Can you not learn to love met" he
pleaded. His beautiful stenographer shook
her head sadly. Upon the instant he was
transformed. "Then," he exclaimed, be
-
coining now as cold as marble, "you will
kindly learn to spell! ' She could not belp
aut shiver, looking out upon the future. --
Alie•he bi4smittil lie I ;pi ::ad at • La.
"Teere's neer." went en the teat
beltheal tbe dent, peintiug teward thet
aitertnre.
°emelt, 1 mu nt Meaty to ate; n chi)
nuetion." re:ear/tee tias etrangt a In az-
„Injured tam n I merely it anted to knew
the price of a square nivel.”
"Twenty-five cents, and in advance!'
snapped the proprietor.
The stranger sighed and store) been a
P0' "'Unfortunately for nip at One ems.
Opt 3fleotrA, 15,1!vo tIty.44f. delhir to
a poor lean lii`st uigi LA'S in search
of a lodging; bot, gentlemen to the man-
ner born though lam, Icon work. Isn't
tbere sonietbiug I cat do to earn a meal?"
"I think I showed, you the door once,"
said the proprietor, bounclog up from his
seat.
"One moment." said the strange; edg-
ing regretfully toward the door. "I notice
tbat your place is in one of theolder build -
Inge in the city, aud it occurs to me that
perhaps the rats are a source of annoyance
to you."
"Well, Ithat if they are?" asked the pro-
prietor, 'pausing abruptly.
A new light shone in the stranger's
eyes, and the gentleman to the manner
born instinct showed itself in tho graceful
bow he made.
"Because I tun a greatrat exterroinater.
Give :no a square meal, and lam ready to
kill the vermin—wipe them out."
The proprietor seemed impressed. He
besitated only a moment and then bade
the stranger to be seated, An hour after.
ward the stranger sat back in les chair
with a sigh of contentment as he finished
bit dessert.
"Here is 10 cents," he said to tbe tvalte
er, "but I am a gentleman to the manner
born and spurn the thought of giving you
SO small a sum." And he returned the
dime to his pocket.
"Now for the rat killing," be muttered,
rising from bis seat.
"lam going to ask you for a biscuit
roller," be said suavely to the proprietor.
When that implement was brought, be
rolled up bis sleeves in a businesslike
manner, and, looking at those wbo were
crowded around him, "Are you ready to
go ahead?" be asked.
"Certainly," said the proprietor, a little
puzzled.
"'Well, I'm ready too. Just waltz out
your rats and I'll kill them according to
the letter of my coritract."
The neighbors didn't know just wild
was happening, but it seemed like a merry
go round was in operation within the
restaurant. nalf an hour later the pro-
prietor was caressing his eye with a piece
of raw beefsteak and a tall, soldierly man
was walking down the street. Part of his
coattail was gone and he kicked awn be
might bave been used temporarily as a
patent floor scrubber, but bis face was 11-
IurnInated with a seraphic smile, such as
arises only from a clear emasoience and a
full stemach.—Washington Star.
Time For All Things.
Miss Upton—Ma, Miss Flighty and Mr.
Saphead are to be married today. Sball I
take some xioe along to theow after them/
Practical Mother—No, my dear. Wait
until they have rue through wbat little
money they baye tied then give it t� them.
—New York Weekly.
Knew Ito Business.
Howsoe—The Oh Hush quartet sang a
very appropriate byeuit at the roilkroanei
funeral.
Conisoe—What was it?
Ilowsoe--° Shall We Gather at the Rte.
er?"—Town Topice.