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Remedy Tor Cabbage worms

Hellebore, line, salt aud similar
substances have been used with
varied success for the destruction Of
cabbage worms. 1t is now stated
that bran and buckwheat answer
the purpose better than any other
remedies that have been tried. The
bran is simply busted over the infest-
ed cabbage as soon as the worms
make their appearance. If the
worms are very thick, about q hand
ful of bran is required to each cab
bage head and sometimes it is nee
essary to 60 over the plants the sec
ond time. A hundred weight Of
bran is sufficient for an acre. 1t
must be applied when the worms are
young. When they are full grown
or very strong, it does not appear to
affect them. The buckwheat -four is
sifted upon them by means of a sieve.
10 the evening or in the morning
when the dew is on the plants. If
enc application does not destroy the
worms a second should be made. 1t
is palpable tha: wheat -four, fine In
dian meal or any other puIserulent
Iarinaceous substance would have
he same effect
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Preparation of Corn Land.

Corn is the king of American
crops, and claims royal precedence in
the work 81 preparation. For no
CROP IS preparation more needfuls IN
none does thorough preparation pay
better. But how to prepare? What
is thorough?
The prime object aimed at IN all
the work of preparation is the pull
~verization of the ssil-the disinte-
grafton Of its particles. The further
this process is carried the better will
be the seed-bed. The means used to
accomplish this object are various,
but chief and most important Of all
is blowing. Deep, thorough and re-
peated blowing is, therefore, the one
great law Of all preparation of the
soil, and the few cases that furnish
exceptions do but confirm the rule.
But blowing is by no mean the
simple and easy process which it
seems to many. When to plow and
how to plow are often difficult ques-
tons to settle, and upon their right
or wrong settlement the condition of
a soil for D or more seasons NAV Of
ten depend. A soil plowed when too
wet will often be out Of condition for
all the year following, while a furrow
run the wrong way or set toe shallow
may open the way for the washing of
q large portion of the soil. 1t may
not be out Of place, therefore, to say
a word or two as to the breaking up
OF cor ground.
1t is desirable TO get as deep and
frisblc a seed-bed as the character Of
the soil will admit of. In any but
land of sandy subsoil, therefore, two
plows should be used in braking up.
First, a turning pillow running as deep
as the surface soil or capacity of the
team win admit. Immediately in
the furrow of this turning pillow
should follow a subsoil plow, kept
down to the beam. The work of
this plow is to lift and loosen but nOt
to turn over the sUbsoil. The pur-
pose aimed at are two-fold and opp0-
site. When the surface soil is over
charged with water a loose subsoil
"opens the way for the escape of it ;
and when the surface soil is dried
by a drouth a loose subsoil allows
the moisture to pass up for capillarity
and respond to the demand of the
thirsty soil above.
BY these means the soil not only
admits but invites and compels the
entrance of the air and water. In
other words, the soil is enabled to
breathe and imbibe air and water
the two all-powerful agents in soil
digestion. Withouta certain amount
Of free air and water all the fcrtilizing
elements known to the soil would be
utterly useless for plant growth. But
whenever and wherever the soil is
rightly prepared these great natural
agents viii surely enter and do their
work willingly and well. But in or
der that they may do their work the
farmer must dc his, and bis work is
/. to brake up, crush, grind, divide, pull
! yerize and snbdivide the soil. Plow
and cross pillow, harrow and roll, and
repeat each operation until the work
t is thoroughly done. This is to pre-
!. pare for the corn crop as far as the
natural soil goes.
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BackThcat.


The cultivation of buekwheat seems
to be on an increase among the far
mers Of the United States. This is
good economy, for buckwheat will
grow well on rugged or billy land,
where scarcely anything else Will
grow. On steep side bills, on thin
soil, on stony ground, on land full Of
noxious weeds, it will do well and
have good effect in e~radicatiug weeds
and ameliorating the soil. 1t is next
to clover-the best grain crop to pillow
under as o manure, and often gives
a good crop of wheat. Buckwheat
is raised throughout Europe and
Asia, and has been known for eentu-
ries. 1t should form q crop on every
farm, either for domestic consump-
ton or market, or both. 1t is valu-
able for family use, for chicken feed
and pig feed when mixed With other
grain and scalded with hot water.
The crop should'be sown, in this lat
itude, the last7of June or the first of
July. The reason for late sewing is
to avoid the heat of the sun and
the great risk of the early frosts be-
fore it is fully ripe, at which time it
IS easily injured.
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Largo Hunting Party.

Learning that Col. W. c. M'Carty,
the gentleman experimenting the
contemplated grand hunt by a num-
Der of English and American gentle
men, was in the city, the reporter
visited him ct his rooms at San Jan
cinto last evening. The Colonel has
been a resident Of Texas for tweaty-
five years. During the past seven
years he has resided in London, and
1t was there that the scheme entered
bis mind Of organizing a hunting
party.
After . grea. deal Of time, trouble
and expense be has partially succeed
ed, aud the party viii commence
operations about the 1st of July. IL
viii consist OF some twelve or fifteen
American and l39 English gentle
men, most Of whom are nObiemen,
who will bring with them their own
servants, guns aad dogs. The hors-
es are being purchased from among
the bsst blooded stock in the famous
blue grass region Of Kentucky. The
party will rendezvous either At Deni.
son or Dallas.
Accompanying The colonel are half
a dozen English gentlemen, WAC
come as a committee TO investigate
for the party. As many false rumors
and reports have been circulated to
the detriment Of the enterprise, a
committee was appointed to go for
ward and report. Ia company with
Col M'Carly, they left London three
weeks ago, and express themselves
delighted with The "trip so far. The
party leave here for Gainesville /;
from that place they go to the head
of Salt Greek, where they will es-
tablish a permanent camp and report
to the main party.
The steamship Nevada has been
eharted to bring the party to New
York, and they viii proceed direct to
the camp, should the report Of the
committee be favorable which it un-
doubtedly will be. The hunt is de-
signed to last seven months, of which
about three viii be spent in Texas.
They will hunt and scout up the Rio
Grande to Pueblo, thence to Denver,
and on to California, and return down
through Kansas. The party will be
orgafized according to army regula-
tions, and be provided with a commits
safY, quartermaster, surgeon, brass
band, &c. A skilled photographer
will accompany them prepared to
take views Of all interesting views,
scenery, &c. The whole party will
unmber something I'VE 200 men
Dallas (Te.raS) Herald.
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The Sicily Islands form a group
about thirty miles west southwest Of
the Lands End, Cornwall, England.
They consist of about one hundred
and forty islets and rocks. St. Agnes
is the so%uthernmost group, and st.
Mary's, to which the Survivors have
been taken, is the largest Of the
islands Hugh Town, the capital Of
the Sicily Islands, is upon st Mary's,
and Is the seat Of government.
Packets run regularly between St
Mary's and Penzance, and II is thus
that communication with the main
land IS preserved
In Bldc5soood's Magazine for
August. 1878, the following brief
description is given Of them:
The Scilly Isles lie comparatively
so low-the highest land in them not
exceeding two hundred feet-that
although, when the distance is clear.
they may be always seen from the
high ground about the Lands End.
they are nOt visible when approach
ed from the east until you are half
way over. Their FIRST appearance is
very irregular. The easterumost
-namely st. Mary's and ST. Mar
tins, which happen also 10 be the
two largest-are Of course the most
conspicuous, but as they are sepa-
rated from each other by a consider
able sound, several others. and msny
rocks, T seen through them, and
I'll Up the background. 1t should be
observed that those only are consid-
cred islands on which there is any
greensward; the rest are rocks, and
that Of the Isles, though they are on
~ forty in number. only six are in
habited. The rocks sre almost innu-
merable, and often of the most fan
taste shapes, and the whole group,
scattered as they arc over maav
miles Of water in detached and irrec-
uiar shapes, form q complete archi-
pelago, resembling the lagcoas Of
\ enice of the coast ofNorwav. or re-
minding \ Of the line Of the ianer
hebrides which one threads between
'he Caledonian Canal and Oban.
as one neaTs St Msry's Bryber and
sampson disclose themselves on the
right, and as you round the noint
and stand for theharbor, St Agnes.
with its church, village ond beacon !
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opens out on the left, behind which
again, but seven miles further west.
the Bishops Rock Lighthouse "a
lofty and conspicuous object, Of late
years constructed and reconstructed
on the dangerous reef Of that pame)
and Scilly, not any land, but q rock,
and vet giving the name to the whole,
form, as il were, the rearguard OF the
off islands, on the extreme west and
northwr-t The wrecks on these
dops' # Seilly. as they have been
well caIl.d. have been at all times
numerous and b~eartrending. The
LIS Of the steamer Thames on her
passage from Dublin TO London,
when only four out Of sixty-fve were
saved. AID oftbe Duro, with all hands,
have been the MOST conspicuous Of
late years: but it is well known that
10 1907 Sir Cloudesley Shovel's
squadron returning from Toulon,
with several distinguished personages
on board. went to pieces here on the
.Gilstone' roca, with a loss Of two
thousnd lives, including the admiral
There were miraculous escapes in
that catastrophe. Sir George Byng
in the rovsl Anne was so near the
rTrenemer' rock, that he had 1t IN
der his main chains, and as the ship
nossod II knocked of the larboard
quarter gallery. The St. George,
commanded by Lord Dursley, es-
esped as narrow ly. She struck on
the same rock with the flagship; but
the very waves which beat cut the
lights of. the latter liised the 81
George from the rocks aud set her
aaoat again.
Dangerous, however, to the out
side world as these shores have ever
been. Providence has made them
singularly liyable for their OWN small
population. Not only are several
I Of The islands accessible to each 9th.
or at low water, and, from the mntu'
al attraction they afford, capable Of
supplying many safe anchorage, but
from the frequent eneroach nents O.
the sea. many isthmIses hrve beer
formed. of which one side or the 9th.
er is always in smooth water. Thi;
is especially the Gaze with St. Mary's
where the New Town extends literal
Nv from The one sea to the other,
and has consequently q double be&cE
and a two fold scene Of maritime
operations. Hugh Town-a few
| ~schoolboys know it as the capital 0.
/ Scilly-is a very tidy little place.
having a population of sixteen hun.
dred, with q principal street lying
north and south, q good roadstead, q
modern Gothic church, two very tol
cradle inns, an ugly dwarf windmill
perched on the hill Immediately
above the church, and spelling both
it and a general view of the town.
a fDe Elizbethan fortress, which.
though ungarrisoned now, would
make quarters that any regiment
might covet; some excellent photo.
graphic shops and a few smart pri.
vste residences"
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Nep Advertisements.
Miscellaneous
JOHN f. BLYMYER
DEAlERIN
Iron, Nails, Glass, Paints.
OILS. &c, &c

The following is a partial LIST of goods in Stock: Cnpenters Tools
Planes, Saws, Hatehets, Hammers, Chises, Plane Irons 4 DIES, &c, Black
smiths Goods, Bellows, Anvns, Vices, Files, Hammers, &c Saddlery
Hardware, Tab Trees, Gig Saddles. Hames, Buckles, Rings, Bits and Tools
Table Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Spoons and Razors the
largest stock in Somerset County. Painters Goods, a full stock White
Lead, Colored Paints for inside and outside painting, Paints in oil, all coms
Varnish, Turpenine, Flaxseed Oil, Brushes, Japan Dryer, Walnut Stains
&c Window Glass of all sizes and glass cut to any shape. The best Coal
Oil always on hand. Our stock of Coal Oil Lamps is large and comprises
very elegant styles. Dhstons Circular, MGlev and Cross Cut Saws. Mil
Saw Files ofthebest quality: Porcelain-ined Kettles Handles of ali kinds
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19

Mattocks, Grub Hoes, Picks, Scythes, Sneaths, Sledges, Mason Hammers,
Cast Steel, Step Ladders, Carriage and Tire Bolts Of all sizes. Looking
Glasses, Wash Boards, Clothes Wringers, Meal Stoves, Door Mats, Baskets,
Tubs, Wooden Buckets, Irvine, Rope all sizes, Hay PuIeys, Butter Prints,
Mop Sticks, Traps Steelyards, Meat Cutters and Suffers, Traces, Cow
Chains, Halter Chains, Shoe, Dust and Scrub Brushes, Horse Brushes. Cur
in the Builders line. Gaps, Lead, Shot, Powder and Safety Fuse, &c, &c,
The fact is, keep everything that belongs to the Hardware trade. l deal
exclusively in this kind of goods and give my whole attention to it. Per-
sons who ire building. or any one in need of anything in my line, viii find
it to their advantage to give me a call 1 will always give a reasonable
credit to responsible persons. / thank my old customers for their patronage,
and hope this season Ito make many new ones. Don't forget the place
No, BLAZERS BLOCK
April 8 IA. JOHN f. BLYMYER.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19

Every year increases the pOpulari-
ty ofthis valuable Hair Preparation
which is due to merit alone. We
can assure our old patrons that it Is
kept fally up to its high standard;
audit is the only reliable and perfect
ed preparation for restoring GRAY
OF FADED HAIR to its youthful color,
making it soft, ~lustrous, and silken.
The scalp, by its use, becomes white
and clean. 1t removes all eruptions
and dandruff, and, by its tonic prop
critics, prevents the hair from falling
out, az it stimulates and nourishes
the hair-glands. BY its use, the hair
grows thicker and stronger. Ia
badness, it restores the capillary
glands to their normal vigor, and
viii create a new growth, except in
extreme old age. It is the most eco
nomical HAZE DRESSING ever used,
as it requires fewer applications,
and gives the hair a splendid, glossy
appearance. A. A. Hayes, MD,
State Assayer of Massachusetts,, says,
"The constituents are pure, and care
fully selected for excellent quality;
and / consider it the BEST PREPA-
RATION for its intended purposes"
SoLTJy all Druggists. and Dealers in MFd,csass,
Prfca Opa nOYr-
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Buckingham's Dye.
nnn mr- -H-nurnn

AS our Remover in many cases
requires too long n time, and too
much care, TO restore gray or faded
Whiskers, we have prepared this
dye, in one preparation which wall
quickly aud effectually accomplish
this result. 1t is easily applied,
and produces a color which viii
neither rub nor wash of. Sold by
all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents.
Manufactured by r. P. HAIL & CO.,
NASHUA. Nh.
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The home circle-walking around
with the baby at night.
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In what ship have the greatest num-
Der Of People been wrecked2 Court
shin.
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Something about ~dogs-feas.
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A FEARFUL DISASTER

loss OF THE
SCHILLER.
WRECKED or THE SClLi-a
ISLES.
SHOCKING SACRIFICE OF LIFE
OVER THREE HUNDRED lAoEkEl
ONLY ONE wowAN SAVED.
INCIDENTS OF TIE WRECK
FOG THE FATAL CAUSE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19

SHOCKING SACRIFICE OF LIFE
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19
INCIDENTS OF TIE WRECK

Zoo THE FATAL CAUSE.
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ONLY ONE u SAVED.
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The properties Of DE-. WALKER's

VISEGARBITrERs arc Aperieat. D!apaogedc,
C~arminative, Nutritious. Laxative. Dluredc,
Sedative. Countc--Ir1itaut Sudorihc, AlteTa
tive. ard Auti-Baious-
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Gratefnl Thonsands proelaIm u
No Person can take these Bitiers

EGAR BITTEES the most WOnderiuI ~
vigorant that ever sustained III" sinking
areFnwn
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OVER THREE HUNDRED DROWNED
Middletown transcript., 1875-09-11
The Power. of Of Truth.

| In q history Of Persia is related thi
beautiful and impressive story:
Abdool Kader of Ghilam had. whel
a child vision which impressed hin
with the feeling that be must devot
himself to God. So hesswRsent to hi
mother in the morning, and told be-
about it. ~
She wept,' he said. when I informed
her what / had seen. Then, taking
out eighty dinars, she told me, that
as ! had a brother. half Of that was al
my inheritance. She made me pro-
mise, whom she gave it to me. never to
tell a lie. and then bade me farewell,
exclailning: Go my son l trust thee
to God; we shall not meet again until
the day Of Judgement f
I Went on we'll. he adds, until |
came near to Hamadam, when our
ka6llah was plundered by sixty horse
men. One fellow asked me what ] had
got. s,.s s. a5,;;s
Forty diners, said /. ARE sewn nm
der my garments ~ 4ess5lsssl
The fellow laughed, thinking, i was
joking with him. 'esy e55 s, sl5s,iis4s
on What have you lgotl' said another.
II gave him the same answer. 'noss.
When they were dividing the spoils,
/ was called to . mound where the chief
stood What property have you got,
my little fellow 2 said be. sI.,ms saass
,,:I I have told two Of your men already
! replied 4 have forty diuars sewed
up iu my clothes. os enc s..iasg
He ordered them to be ripped open,
and found my money si I'd
And how came you,' said he. with
surprise. TO declare 50 openly what has
been SO carefully hidden :. ?.s sci.
4 Because he replied, 4 will not be
false to my mother, to whom Ihavs
promised I willnsyer tell = lie.' 49ae d
"a Child said the. robber, hast thou
such q sense Of duty to thy mother at
thy age, and am I insensible at my age
Of the duty I owe my God2 Give me thy
bang. innocent boy the robber con-
tiinnued. inn that ! may swear repentance
upon, it., ,ss, s7as ..sf II tIss asa
He did SO, his followers all alike
struck with the scene. .,s5.q ssisas
lyon hayeibeenI ourg leader in guilt, |
said they to their chiefs l.be now our
eader in the path of viftue;;' and they
at his order, made restitution
# their spoils. and vowed repentance
IN my hand Book Of Stories
q
Middletown transcript., 1875-09-11

A GooD REToRr,-A better retort is
rarely heard than one made by Andrew
johnson. in speech delivered from the
steps of the White House when be was
President Some one in the audience
interrupted him with the remark: You
used to make clothesp ~
Well, if l did, responded Mr.. John
son, with the coolest self-possession,
didn't I nsake them aoeU? Can any
body say that when I was tailor |
didn't make good clothes, and make
them to fitf'a
There is volume Of instruction in
this little anecdote. 1t does not follow
that every young man who makes it
rule to do well whatever he undertakes
will one day be President of the United
States; but it is very certain that with
out that rule no person can attain to
great success in any walk Of life. s.@A
Middletown transcript., 1875-09-11
Josephine Mansfield dand Her Jewels


Olive Logan writes very bright let
ters from Long Branch. Speaking Of
diamonds in one, Of them, she iinduffges
in some slight "reminiscences: az
/ Il am less impressed with the ifnan-
/ cial Importance Of those persons wear
ing gems than I was before + heard Of
Josephine Mansfeld's solitaires. Re-.
member them 2 l never Ienvied her.
them, to be sure, because. unfortunate4
~ for myself, perhaps, my illusions
are past about such magnifcence.
When diamonds arc family jewels, and
form part of the decoration Of q great
ancestral name, then I grant their pos
session carries weight But in this
country diamonds merely mean money
and it is q just question whether you
will put your money aina diamonds Of
something else. Some dpeople think.
that diamonds are good investments.
i don't. = I've seen diamond ornaments
that cost thousands Of dollars sold for .,
few hundred to the very jeweler who
sold them in the first, place But /
was speaking Of Josephine's solitaires.
How brilliant they we're ! AS, she sat
in her box at the Grand Opera House.
with. Fisk on one eide and Stokes on the
other, her coal-black eyes sparkling
with merriment, her coral lips smiling,
there was something almost barbaric in
. her beauty I don't suppose those
solitaires were larger than an Englishl
walnut, be3the same more or less; but
when the waves of light
played upon them in certain way, the |
looked bigger than the chan
delier. When her trouble eventuated,
and the poor woman was left in SO des-
titute condition that heard a variety,
hall songstress had taken pity on her
and supplied her with funds, / said to
one / knew: Why does not Mans
field sell those EARRINGS Fisk gave herr?
He didn't give her those earrings |
They weren't his to give--he hired
them.' Thus it seems that it Is not
even necessary to own these jewels.
You can hire them. le} Aaa asiaDEsl
Middletown transcript., 1875-09-11
fgs $500 ~ a4e s -
The Toothache.;'

A gentleman says after suffering ex,
cruciating pain from toothacbe, and
having tried in vain to obtain relief,
Betty told me gentleman had been
waiting some time in the parlor, who
said he would not detain me one min
ute. He came-a friend / had not seen
for years. He sympathized with me
while / briefly told him how sadly
was afflicted. 5ss's'.t,.,l -, ~, = ,@.
My dear friend, exclaimed he, i
can cure you in ten minutes.
How? how 2 inquired 1 !; do it in
pity. si. '5 s's
Instantly said he. Betty, have
you any alum 2 e
Yes
Bring it, and some common SALT
They we're produced; my friend pull
verized them, mixed in equal quanti-
ties then wet small piece of cotton,
causing the. mixed powders to adhere,
and placed it in my hollow tooth.
There said he, if that does not
cure you I will forfeit my head. You
may tell this in Gath. and publish it in
Askelon; the remedy is infallible.''
1t was go. | experienced assensa-
tion Of GOODNESS on applying it, which
gradually subsided, and with it the tor
ment Of the toothache. 'e :,