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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-7-15, Page 3SELF DESTRUCTI. A Powerful and Appropriate Sermon on the Subject of Suicide. The Suicide Commits an Act of Treason to the Almighty—Enter Eternity Through God's Command—Suicide Among the Ancients --Evils of Unbelief. Washington, July 10.—This sermon of Ter. Talmage which wo• send out toolat means. staraithly appropriate to this Cathie when so many aro loaviug this life by thoir own band, an evil Octet which all reasoneble people are agreed; text, Acts att• aa, "Do thyself no harm." Here is a would-be suicide arrestea in his tleodly Attempt. Jele was a sheriff, and, accordioo to the Roman law, a bail- iff biraself mine suffer the punishment due an escaped pretence, mid if the pri- soner breaking jail wile senteuceci to be endungeonea for three or four years then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years, and if the prisoner breaking atil was to bave suffered eopital panislaneut tbeo the sheriff most suffer eapiMI punislunent. Tile sheriff liod re. ceived espeeial *harp to keep o sharp lookont for Paul and Silas. The govern- ment bad not much eonadenee in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergy - mem, about 'solemn there seemed to he ecometblog strange and supernatural. Sure onotagto by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound them awl supposingaliese theisters have run away 4134.1 knowing that they were to (lie for pre:tolling Christ and Mi- lting that he must therefore die, rather Mame go under the theeetioner's an: on the morrow and suffer math° diegrace resolves to preeipitate his own date. But before the ;sharp. keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could etrike his heart • one of the unloosened prisoners armies the blade by the command, "Do ehyself ao hartst." Suicide A.mang the Ancient& In olden times and where Chrlitianits bad not interfered with it suleide was eonsiderail honorable and a sign of eouri age. Demosthethe poietined himeelf when told that Alettaudees etubasetelor had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orator. "secretes killed bitoself rather than surrender to Philip of al.:teethe!). Cato, rather than subtult to Janne tag - sat, took hie own life, and three times cane his wounds bad been drama tore them open and perished. Mithridateg killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the Conqueror. Hannibal de stroyed his life by poison from hie ring, considering life unbearable. leyeurges a suicide, Brutus a suited% After the clis• • aster oloscow Napoleon always carried • with him a preparation of poison, end one night his servant beard the ex -em- peror arise, put something in a glass and drink it, sod soon after the groans aroused all the attendants, and it was only through utmost medical skill that he was resuscitated. Thoth have ohmaged, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned up on the subiect of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last mouth that did not announce the passage out of life by one's own holiest? Defaulters, fr alarmed at the idea of expeosure, quit life precipitately. Men losing largo fortunes go out a the world because they cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affeo tion, doroestio infelleity, dyspeptic: impa- Como, anger, renaorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for absconding from -Ole k life by paris green, by laudanum, by bella- donna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. More oases of folo de se in tho last two years than any two years of the world's existence, and more in the last month than in any 12 months. The evil le more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really any- thing wrong about quitting this life when it became disagreeable, and there aro found in respectable circles people apolo- getic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I ' get through tbat suicide is the worst of all (gimes, and I shall lift a warning un- ! mistakable. But in the early part of this ' sermon I with to admit that some of the ;best Christians that have ever lived have I committed self destruction, but always in I dementia and not responsible. I bave no snore doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in ibis bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shook of the catastrophe is very ' great, I charge all those who have had ' Christian friends under cerebral aberra- tion step off the boundaries of this life to • have no doubt about their happiness. The !dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect ,I safety. How Christ feels toward the in• sane you may know from the way he !treated the demoniac of Gadara and the • . child lunatic, and the potency with which • he hushed tempests either of sea or brain. 4 Merciful Allowance. Scotland, the land Nairn° of intellectual giants, had none grand'or than Hugh Miller, great for science and great for • God. He was in elder in St. John's !Presbyterian church. Be came of the ; best higbland blood and was a descendant • of Donald Roy, a man eminent for piety and the rare gift of second sight. His at- tainments, climbing up as he did from , the -quarry and the wall of the stone- mason, drew forth the astonished admire- ; Con of Buckland and Murchison, the scientis' t( and Dr. Chalmers, the theolo- ; • giante and held the universities spellbound while be told them the story of what he had seen of God in "The Old Red Sand- stone." The man did more than any other being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bibleand he struck his tuning fork on , the rook of Crorearty until he brought geology and theology accordant in 'divine worship. His two books, entitled "Foot- prints of the Creator" and "The Testi- mony of the Rooks," Proclaiming the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine Science and revelation. On this latter book be toiled day and oight, i through love of nature and love of God, 1 Until he could not eleep and Ms brain gave way, and he was found dead with a , revolver by his side, the cruel instrument : having had two bullets—one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the t coroner's inquest was examining it and • fell • dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Miller after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mighti- • est of heavela Ne eee doubted the piety of William Cowper, the author of those three great . hymns, "0 Por a Closer Walk. With God," "What Various Hindrances We Meet," "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood"—Williant Cowper, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the °Met honors of Caristian hymnology. In hypothontirie he reeolved to take his own life and rode to the river Tbaraes, but found a man seated on gene goods at that very paint from which be expected to spring and. rode back eothis home. and that night threw hieolf upon his own, knife, but the blade broke, and then he hanged himself to the Ceiling, bee the rope broke, No wonder that when God " mercifully delivered him from that awful dementia be sat down and wrote that ether bynto just as memorable: God moves in a mysterious way Ilis wonders to perrenu, He pleats bis footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan his work in vain. God is his own interpreter, And he will Initke ie plain. Treason to the .tataighte. Wight wo mate Shia merelful and righteous ailowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental ineoher- Once I deelaro that the man who in the use of Me mean, by bit own ace, snaps the bond between hie hotly anti hit soul, goes straight We perdition. Shall 1 prove it Revelation xxi, 8, "Murderers shall hove their pert in the lake WItrwli Iturneth with fire mid brittostone." Revelation xxii, la, "Without are doge tool sereerers and whoremongers and madman " Yon do not believe the New Teetamente 1. hen perhaps you believe the Ten Commend- inentg, "Thou halt not Mil," Da you ts-ty that all these pats refer to the taking of the life oi others -A' "then I ask you it you Atte not at reqrAnsilale for your own life tts for the life of others? Ood gave you it special tenet in life and oritie you the eusttelian of your life, anti he made you the etistodien of no other life. Ile gave you as weep tis4 with which 20 defend it two arms to strike; back 'eq. -an- ent% two 'eyes to watch for unfasten, and a nature' love of lite witieh ought ever to be on the alert. Aesaeeinetion of Where is a :Raid crime comparea with the aesetse- inetlon of yourself, because in the kater case it is tristehery to an especial trust. It is the surrender of a castle you Were espeelally appointed to keep. It is treason to natural law, and it Is treason to tied added to ordinery murder., To show bow God in the Bible looked upon this crime I point you to the rogues' picture guile** it some parts of the Bible, tho pictures of the people who have com- mitted this unnatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Here is a man who chased lit- tle David --10 feet in stature ohasieg 4. Here is a man who consulted a clairvoy- ant, witeh of Ender. !lore is a man who, whipped in battle, ineteed of surnonder- ing his sword with dignity, as many a man has donee ask,: his servant to slay ban, and when that servant declined, then the giant plants the hilt of Ms sword In the earth, the sharp point sticking up- ward, and he throws his body an it and expires—tho coward, the suicide! Here is Ahitophel, the Machiavelli of olden thnes, betraying his best friend, David, in order that he may become prinse minister of Absalom, and joining that fellow in his tatenapt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics he takes a short out out of a disgraceful life into the suicide's eternity. There he Is, the ingrate! Here is Abimelech, practically a sui- cide. He is with an army, bombarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes. a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his bead, and with what life he has left in his cracked skull he commands bis armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay ine, lest men say a woman slew Inc." There is his post-mortem photograph in the book of Santuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was a martyr, and we have in our day apologists for him. And what wonder, in this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and this day when we uncover a statue of George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are 'betrayals of Christ on the part of some of his pretended apostles—a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own band bung up for execration of all ages, Judas Iscariot. Increase of Self Murder. All the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job. wbo had a right to com- mit suicide if ano man ever had, what with his destroyed property and his body all aflame with insulerable carbuthles and everything gone from his Immo ex- cept the chief curse of it, a pestiferous wifeand four garrulous people pelting • him with comfortless talk while he site on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph, "All the days of my ap- pointed tinae will I wait till my change comes:" • Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those who have hurled thentselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. What is • the cause? I obarge upon infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter be bliss - fel without reference to how we live and how we die':why not move back the fold- ing doors between this world and the next? And, when our existence here be- comes troublesome why not pass right over into elysium? Put this down among your most *solemn reflections. There has never been a case of suicide where the operator was n,ot either demented and therefore irresponsible or an infidel. I challenge all the ages and I challenge the universe. There never has been a ease of, self destruction wbile in fell appreciation of his immortality and of the fare that that immorality would be glorious or Wretched according as he accepted Jestie Christ or rejected him. . You say it is a business trouble or you sav le is electricta currents or it is this or it is that or it is the other thing Why not go clear back. my friend, kind to: - knowledge that in every a se It is the ab- dication of reason or the melting of in- fidelity, which practically says, "If you don't aim tais life, get out of it, and you will land either in annihilation, where there are no Dotes to pay, no persecutions to staffer, Da gout to torment, (myth will land where there will be everything glori- ous and nothing to pay for it, . ' Infidelity has always been apologetic for self an molation. After Tom Faineee "Age of Reasoo" was nablithed and widely read there_ Wee a merged inereito] of •self slaugnter. Evils er veeelier. A man iying M London heard Mr. Owen deliver bis indei leeture on social. Ism and went home, sat down and wrote these words: "Jesus Christ is one of the weakest ehatacters in history, and the Bible is the greatest poesible deception' and Cam shot himself. Davit' Hume wrote these words: "It would be no crime for me to divert the Nile or the Danube from its mama bed. Where, then, eau be the crime in toy diverting At few drops of blood front their ordinary channel?" And, having written the essay, he loaned is to a friend, the friend read it, wrote a letter of thenks stud admira- tion and Abet those% •Appendix to the Woo book. lama:eau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, were apologetic for self immolation. in- fidelity puts up no bar to people rushing out from this world into the next. They teach tea it don not make any difference how you live or go eta of that world, You will land either in an oblivilets we - where or a glorithe somewhere. And iita- Utility holds the upper oral of the rope for the ftheide and aline the Wail with whieh a luau Main bit braine out and mixes the strychnine for the last --mal- low. If loildelity eould carry the day and persuade the majority of people in this country that it cage not inake any Wafer- onee how yon go out of this worhl you will lana safely, the Potent:le weual he so full of corpsee the Imam would lee impelled in their progreee, aud the craft ot the enicide"e pistol %yelled be no mere alarming than the rumbie of a tareet ear. I have sometimes beard it olgeogett whether the great dramatiet was a Chrie- tian ve not. tea.: a Christian. In his kiet, will end teetament be rammentie his seta to tied through the ate:naive of Jame Chriet. I know Cat he considered amine elation of a Moot exietenee the inightieet hindrance to self destruction: For who woulki bear the whip's and seem of time, The oppreesor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The oangs of despised love, tbe law's de- lay, The insolence of office and the spurns Thet patient merit of the unworthy takes When he himself might his quietus make With n bare bodkin? Who woold laterals To gbrenauri and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after The dueanttih— iscovered country from wiles° • bourne No traveler returns—puzzles the will? Would God that the coroners would be brave in rendering the right wraith, and when in it 0000 02 irresponsibility they say, "While this man was demented he took his life," in the other case say, "Havinsr road infidel books end attended infidel lectures, which obliterated from tbis man's mina all appreciation of future retribution. he committed self slaughter." Religion's Light. Have nothing to do with an infidelity so cruel, so debasing? Come out of that bad company into tho company of those who believe the Bible. Beojamin Frank- lin wrote, "Of this Jesus of Nazareth I have to say that the system of morals be lefe and the religion Ito has given us aro the best things the world has evor soon or is likely to see." Patrick Henry. the electric champion of liberty, says: "The book worth all other books put together Is tho Bible." Benjamin Rush, the lead- ing physiologist and anatomist of his day, the great medical scientist—what diti ho say) "The only true and perfect religion is Christianity." Isaac Newton, the lead- ing philosopher of his time—what did he say? "The sublimess philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the gospel." David Biewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over bows his head—David Brewster saying, "Oh, this religion has been a great light to me, a very great light all nay days." President Thiers, the great French states- man, acknowledging that he prayed when he said, "I invoke the Lord God, in whom I am glad to believe." David Livingston, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this reli- gion, so when they find him dead they find him on his knees. Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, ap- pointed by President Lincoln, will take the witness stand. "Chief Justice Chase, please state what you have to say about the book commonly called the Bible." The vvithess replies: "Tigre came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, pawl I resolved as a lawyer and judge I would try the book as I would try anything in the court room, taking evidence for and against. It was a long and serious and profound study, and, using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I al- ways do in secular Matters, 1 have come to the decision that the Bible is a super- natural book, that it has corae from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings," "Judge, that will do. Go back again to your pil- low of dust on the banks of the Ohio." Next put Ws= the witness stand a presi- dent of the United Suates—John Quincy AnainS. "President Adams, what have you to -say about the Bible and Chris- tianity?" The president replies: "I have for many years anade it a practice to read through the Bible onoe a year. My cus- tom is to read four or five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed.. tt employs about an hour of any time and seems to toe the most suitable manner of beginning the day. Itt what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history or te morality, it is an invaluable and in- exhaustible mine of knowledge and vir- tue." "Chancellor Kent, what do you think of the Bilele?" Answer: "No other book ever addressed itself so authorita- tively and so pathetioally to the judgment and moral sense of mankind." "Edmund Burke, what lo you think of the Bible?" Answer: "I have read the Bible, morn- ing, 110011 and night and have ever since been the happier rind better man for soh reading." Sentence of inildeiltro Young men of Anierlea, come out of the °inlet of infidels—mostly made rip ot cranks and imbeciles—into the compeny a Intellectual giants and turn your back on an infidelity evbich destroys Wale and soul. ith, infidelity, stand up and take thy seneence! In the presence of God, angels and men, stand up, thou monster! Thy Up blasted with feasphemy, thy cheek scarred with uncle mess, elly breath foul with the corruption of tbe ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of the centuries: Stand op, thou monster. infidelity! Pan math part penther, pars reptile, part dragon, stand up and take thy (sentence! Thy bands red with the blood in which thou least washed, thy feet crime:ea with the buman gore through which thou last waded, stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit aral sup on the sobs and groans of those thou bast de- stroyed and bet thy music; be the everlast- ing misorere of thoect whom thou haste damued 1 brand the forehead of infidel-, ity with all the crimes of self immolation for the lees =way on tae pare of those litho had their region. My friends, if ever your life, Through its abrations and its molestatione, should, seem to be unbearable. and you ate tempted to golf it by your own behest, do not consider yourself as worse then others. Owlet himself was teMpted cast himself from she root of the temple, but as he resisted SQ resiee ye. fibrin Me to inealeirle all wounds. In your trouble I preetalite life instead of • death. People who have bail it worse than yoia will ever have le bow goue sengfolly on their way. Remember that “Pil lieePS the chronology of your life with as reach proclaim as be keeps the chronology 02 amnions, your greve as well a; your credits, Why wee it that at mitihiglia just at Midnight. the de -timing angel struck the tl14w Ghat Res Chu• IstiteLle,i free from - boucle:go? Tee 430 yiiers were up at lit &cleft that night. Tim 420 years were not up at 11, and, at 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too IUD. The 430 years were up at la o'cloek, and the eestroyine angel etraelt the lesev, and Israel was ' free. awl Olod imowe just the bmir when it is time to feed you up from earthly bondage. lty his grace, make not the wore] et things, but tho beet et them There is 0 sorrawleee world, and it la so radient that the noonday sun is only the love,e-a tioarstep, end tho aurora that lightrip our northera heaveas.confouriti- in?, ea:anon:ere ee to what it ran be, le the weving of the leinners ot the proem - WW1 C,A3117, 20 Wile tise ronqUerers from chew triuntiliatit, and You mad bevel Wage retteone for viunting to go there, hue we will never got there either by self immolation es' impeniteney. All our ems slain by Christ who came te do that thing. we Want to go in at Net the time divinely arranaeci, and from a courdi divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepuiehral gates behied 115 will be overpowered by the clang ot the opening of the solid Marl 1840r0 IIS. 0 God, what- , ever °there may choose, glee me a Cbrisi thin's life, a Christian's Math, a Chris.; tian's burial, a Chrietian's immortelitti Maine ProltlhltIon. .A. good deal is being saki about the failure to enforce the Prohibition Law. As soon as Neal Dow was dead tho little dogs began to Wk. tit course, the law never bas been perfectly enforced, and. it has never been claimed that it was. The law against stealing Isn't perfectly enforced. Hero are same Diets About Maine: Before Prohibition there were in Maine SOTell distilleries ami two breweries. Now not ono of either in the State. Many cargoes of West India rum were imported every year. Now, not even one puncheon is roceiveti. Formerly, thmshops everywhere -' the in every bamlet. Now, in Mere than tbree-fourths of the State, having three- fourths of the population, the grogshop is unknown, An entire goner/Alen has grown up there raver having seen a saloon or the effects of one. The quantity of liquor now sold IS not one -twentieth of what it was before Pro- hibition and the city is twice as latge. The people used to spend every twenty years in strong think the entire valuation of the State. Now, one million dollars will more than pay for all the liquor smuggled into the t3tate and sold in via. lotion of law. Maine saves annually more than twenty million dollen, which but for Prohibition would be spent, lost, wasted in drinle. Maine is now one of the most prosperous States in the Union. Before it was tbe poorest. There was dissipation, un thrift and decay. Now everywhere is seen thrift, industry, prosperity. In 1884. after an experience of Prohi- bition for thirty-three years, that policy was put in the constitution by 77,045 majority. Bow to 2fake Fire Extinguishers. Take 20 pounds of common salt and 10 pounds of sal anunouiao (nitrate of am- monia), to be had of any druggist. and dissolve in 7 gallons of water. Procure quart bottles of thin glass, such as are ordinaally used by druggists, and fill with this, oorking tightly and sealing to pre- vent evaporation. In case of fire throw so to break in or near the flame. If the fire is in such a place as to prevent the bottle from break- ing as in wool or cotton, knock off the necks and scatter the contents. The breaking of the bottle liberates a certain amount ot gas, and tho heat of the fire generates more, thus working its own destruction. Above all, use enough. Have dozens on hand. Why Archie Got Mad. "Then nothing that 1 cart say, Archi- bald, will prevent you front going to this cruel war?" "Sorry, little one, but you know—" "And you've decided absolutely to join the navy?" "That's right." "Then, Archibald, you will xna.ke me a Solemn promise?" "Promise any old thing." "Well, I want you to promise MO that before you begin to fight the Spaniards you'll take all the navy buttons off your uniforms and neck them away, with directions that they be sent to me. Navy buttons make such lovely hatpins, Arobi- bald." The voice of Conscience. If the voice of oonscience still speaks to you, listen and heed it, for thciugh you may gag your moral sense, though - you may drown ail serious; thought until you are indifferent to Lim these things, there 'will come a ting when they will wake to oew life again. CONQUERED BY 'ME NEW INGREDIENT :VIOTORY FOR .RYCKIVIAN'ti KOO7ENAY..'opRg, I • r est ' eieiniotie in the 'world. Clergymen. Doctors. Judtoo. :worn ; estimainints. 4000 PooplO Cured In 4 Years, • CUR:S EVERY TIME, Price $1 00 per alto, or 6 Mies for $5,00, from your Druggist or direct frus The S. S. OYOKMAN filEr3GitiE CO, LimiTE0.5 HAMILTON. ONT8 geoTEN iteedaeb Charg Arttilv4 Frt.!, en Applicatfon. Pt " i1slch Os° esti sin the New ineiretifent, are a sire eor and Constipation. race2 Cente, mailed to any oddre ARSENITE OF SODA. A. Cheap Stolmt5tute ror Paris Graz"; iie Pst.43 With Garth -aux mixture. Bemis Arvin ie a peed Wei Mica:leo iui Is Foraewliut freed lioonaf tta use in liie edd fibril], as it dm s net dieeelve ri ade ly aud nectie COW -4411Z agitation to la it from setting. Ifxillowed to settle sit all, the distribution is not uniform, and iujury is likely to result to the foliagt of some plains, while the inevets on sth er plants escape. Moreover, it is uudiily expeneive whether used dry or in the form of a spray. White arsenic, in a soluble form, costs about one-third as much as paris green and gives no trouble in the way of settling. Dissolve two pounds of commercial white areeuio and four pounds of car, bonnte of soda (washing aide) in hot gallons of water and use 134 pints to a barrel of bordeaux mixture (50 gallons). The easiest way to make the solution is to put both the white arsenic and car, boxiate of soda in a gallon of boiling WA. ter and keep boiling about 15 minutes, or until n clear liquid is formed, and tben dilute to two gallons. 080 and one-half pints of this will tion to each barrel of bortleaux mixturt is sufficient to use when spraying foe, potato blightand potato bugs, for apple scab and apple worms, or for any other purpose where a combination mix tura for fungi and insects is required. The areenite of sada may be prepared in any quantity desired, but being al- most a clear liquid is somewhat danger- ous to keep on hand. The danger nuty be obviated to some extent by coloring the liquid with some theap aniline dye, using enough of the latter simply V' give sufficient color so that no one would mistake the saltation for an lama fensive drink. It takes but a short tilne, however, to prepare sufficient for a day': spraying, which is perhaps the hest dangerous roethod. It is a rank poisor and should be properly labeled and care fully guarded, the same as all other poi - SODS. A bulletin of the Ohio station states that the foregoing combination has been fully tested and found to be quite as ef- fective as the paris green and bordeaus mixture ccrobination and is preferred for the reasons given above. minieers and the ce Le they are eure to do seem. e ".]: tie y ;milli:Meet. in eti rem lext te, nettling will le to swarm, • Wien the el:ea:1144g fever gits atoild bete thsta *Lin s, 41VE,uiui.t FUitt, tc tether us vie uiug in the Mute' sea. •&era and tare always means heuey ereo. Man Leis iltiVP-...dust is, aret seteurriste—it tot st tatiro at tie in as 1/ 6 -Warts AanZ t be, tooial Matins r. Lea ertt4irnwin at this lieeit, it the rep is not to Lie eeriously concerning Cutworms. Some writers on this subject advise the cultivation of the ground, believing that the stirring of the soil and expo- sure of the cutvvorms to the sun will de- stroy them. While thorough cultivation is nudoubtedly of great benefit to the soil no amount of stirring and exposure to the rays of the sun will destroy cue worms, for when exposed it requires but a brief space of time for these pests to again secure coverings, and aftei ntany years' close observation of the habits of ontvvorms I doubt if a singl one can be destroyed by simply stirrir the soil. In my experience I have four two distinct species of cutworms, of cutting the corn on the surface of C. ground and being readily found an caught in the act of destruction. Th other is out of sight and cuts the we about an inch below the surface, an the mischief isnot detected till the coo begins to wilt. Corn out below the sue face ef the ground is irretrievably ruin ea, but when out above the ground, 'whet small, with the exception of beiog re tarded in growth it is seldom injured Corn planted on sod that has been pas tared the preceding year is more liable to be damaged by cutworms than if nc stock had been allowed upon the pound, says John Cownie in Iowa Homestead. • Storage Room For Bees. The importance of providing the proper ailment of storage room fce etrong colonies of bees is urged by A. H. Delft in Prairie Farmer. If this is not done, we shall have trouble to con- tend with. He says whea bees become Tillage In a- Dry SeatiOne For cultivated crevs tillage is rec, outuruclui in dry SEISKIII, bumC.rder that greatest ptbseible amount et neeheare may Lo retained where the fie ding ri its are loeated; the dry, pulverized Kill AM like a mulch and diverts more cif the 1330iSttire to the roots of the plante. Tal- mo also destroys weeds, which require for their growth quite as much plant food and moisture as cultivated plants. It should be remembered that too deep cultivatiou in dry seasons frequently does more harm than good, unless, in the preparation ot the seed bed, the soil bus !aim' thoroughly and deeply paver* ized.—E. B. Vothees. Sweet Cern aS a Money Crop., Sweet corn as a money crop is a preti ty sure thing, according to The Orange Judd Farmer, if it is situated where the ears can be marketed when in the roast. ing stage. What grain is not sold in this way Inakve good fted. 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