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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10
''By ana By

Somewhere down the stream of
Time on which we are floating, is o
beautiful island called the "By aud
By" 1t may be just before US, be-
yond the next turn of the river, OF
we way not find it until the stream
disembogues into the stream of eter-
nitv. But we all look for it from in.
fancy to old age, aud dream that al
evil will be banished when we arrive
of that beautiful standby and BY
All day we float down the turbu'
lent stream the blue color of heaven
burns above US; the mysteries O.
God and Immortality stream upon
US with awful s~plendors and truth:
that have COMPOUNDED the Hottest in
tellects-truths that in all ages have
reused up the soul fIom its founda
ton, baptized it with reverence, kin
died it with love-environ it with
intensity, and all the thoughts OF the
island are banished from the mind
But when the solemn gray Of twi
light falls around our bark. in fancy
we see our magical shores, green
with the trees of beauty, fitting be
fore US like stars over the broad shad
ows of years, and our longings all re.
turn to wander on its fairy banks
and listen to the silver voices of its
inhabitants. And as the rosy tints
of day fade in the west. and the
watching stars open n after anoth-
er, their holy eyes, we go to rest in
the happy belief that the morning
sunrise will gid this immortal island,
full in our vision-this cline we have
sought so long and vainly, and with
err have Fed al, the summer of our
youth, that we ~besoqgLt with tears
10 stay.
A land Of promise is that BY and
By. In it we ell have possession,
the anticipated enjoyment of which
alone renders life tolerable. The
past has proven a weary way the
present full of danger, but ia the
golden BY and by there Is recon-
pense for ali. There the broken heart
shall be healed ana SIC weary spirit
end rest.
Who shall sell his birthright In
this land Though poverty, gloom
and desolation environ rs here, we
have wealth and loving friends il that
fair cline.
How eagerly we look for that as
landl If it were laid dowG CD any
chart, nc matter how distant, SO that
we knew that it would surely come,
we a5ould he satisfied 10 the pros
pect. But 70 Ariadne comes to re-
veal its labyrinthiGe secrets, and we
must be content in its anticipation,
and We possess i only in our
l-oams
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10
what 10 Cost 10 Conquer CuSs.

NEW YGRx. June ga letter
from Havana says the campaign of
tho spaniards against the Cubans,
without any battles. cost the former
$4,000 men and the Isl nd is O vast
cemetery. Five steamers are repor.
ted on the way from Spain to carry
home the troops. Martinez Campos
has begun 8 reduction of the Govern
ment expenses on the Island by
giving up bis own salary as Captain
General.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10
The Great Bell Of Moscow.


At the base OF the tower of Ivan
writes o traveller, we paused to ez
anime .he great bell Of Moscow.
which is surmounted with O globe
end o cross. What a history hal
this BELL Cast in the reign of Bori:
Godumof, it fell and was broken in
The reign OF Alexis. 1t was reeast
in 1854, and weighed two hundred
and lightweight thousand pounds.
Twenty years later it was suspended
from @ wooden beam, where it re.
NAMED for eighty years, when it
again fell, and its fragments lay on
the ground for thirty-three years,
when by order of the Empress Anne
it was recast. Daring the FIRE which
occurred four years later, it bad
another fall, when its side was knock
ed out, and it remained buried in the
earth till 1886 when the Emperor
Nicholas had il placed upon its pres
ent pedestal. It's present weight is
is four hundred and forty-four thous-
and pounds, and its circumference is
sixty feet nine inches. 1t is two feet
thick and the weight Of tie broken
pieces is about eleven tons. The ex-
ter;or is ornamented in relief by rep
reservations OF the Emperor Alexis,
the Empress Anne and religious char
ac,ers.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10
aForgive mo. oDbelia.u be whisr

"Forgive me, Ophelia," be whis'
pered, 'forgive me and come"
Gam / more beautiful than your
Fernando ? Speak, speak instantly,
or | viii go and seat myself on the
prompter's box"
eyes, yes,n exclaimed Patrakof,
wildly you are q thousand times
more beautiful"
Am /, truly 2"
"You are, indeed, my queen, my
darling. / love you beyond all things
on earth. Only come, come"
"You are hurried ?"
"Yes, for / have so much to tell
you"
IF / go at once, will you promise
to obey me ?"
ain everything"
Fifteen days after this singular and
somewhat adventurous undertaking,
g dark gondola of carved wood,
adorned with crimson curtains, was
seen on the bay of Naples. The sun
was setting, and the golden and
purple rays enriched the fleecy clouds
that loat on and on into the dim dis
lance. A man and woman were
seated in the interior of the gondola,
and as the bark foated on silently a
small ieweled hand caressed the
ripping waves, and a pair of lustrous
ewes were raised to the bright glcriea
shed by the dying day.
"Patrakof," said a sweet voice,
81 think since your deception that ]
am more in love with you than
ever"
Surely you are jesting, my sweet
0phelia."
"No; but remember, you have
promised to be faithful for the
future.n
ayes, nv darling" replied the
Prince. "What man would refuse
to give that promise ?"
"But you have promised to keel
it,"
eyes, | have promised"
"For once powder and paint wor
more than nature"
"True / never knew how beauti
ful you were"
until others told you" respond
ed the Princess applauding.
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About Seed Corn.

In shelling corn for seed discard
the butts and tips, using only the
central portion Of each ear, a. The
early blade and root are in size ia
proportion to the kernel used. and q
plant from the large grsins Of the
centre OF The ear will get the start
and keep ahead Of the smaller ones
from The tip This is o all theory.
but the result OF nv experiments
with seed from the different portions
Of the ear-,ips producing as a rule
much smaller eers than butts or CEN
trail ones, butts producing many one
sided, deformed ears. and not filing
ont well. Ny opinion is, if every
farmer would be more careful about
his seed corn, the corn crop would
amount to manv thousands of bush
els more in the United states.-Cor.
Practical Farmer.
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Historical.

The Prince Imperial of France
was born on the 10th day of March,
1856.
The first iron furnace erected in
North America was by Gov. Spots
weod, in 1880, in Spottsylvania coun-
ty, Va.
The Great Eastern steamship was
launched on the 3Ist o. January,
1855, after four fruitless attempts.
The cost of the launch was between
f60,00G and $4,000.
The great FIRE of London originated
in November, 1866. in the une o.
Charles III. The great plague &C.
cured in the previous year Q665),
when 6S,596 persons are sad 10 bave
persisted.
Dat of2,540 EmpeFors, Kings aud
royal rulers over Ga nations, 293
were dethroned, 81 abdicated, IS
committed suicide, ii went mad, loo
died or the battle field, l23 were
made prisoners ia battle, % were
pronounced martyrs end saints, Isl
were assassinated, 81 were poisoned,
and los were sentenced 10 death.
Babylon was q celebrated city on
the banks Of the Euphrates, the CAPT
tai OF the kssyrian empire. 1t was
anciently the most magnificent city
in the world, aud became farous for
the death of Alexander the Great and
for the new empire, which was after
ward there under The Seleucidg.
Its greatness was so reduced 10 sue
ceeding ages that in the time Of Pliny
it was but q desolate wilderness f;
and at present the place where it
stood is unknown TO travellers. lis
inhabitants, called Babyionii, we're
early acquainted with as~,rology.
Henry Jenkins, q reputed centenn-
Fisn, vas On inhabitant of the parish
of Bolton, in Yorkshire, Eng. Tho
story is that be was born about 1901,
was - years old at the battle of
Flodden Field, which be could remem
Der, and lived l69 years, dying at
Ellerton on Swale, Dec. 8, 1910. He
was o poor man, and could neither
reed cor write. He swore, once, on
On assise trisl, TO a right of way ex-
listing for l+e years, aud be retained
his faculties to the las The hard
struggle and anxious occupations OF
modern life. superinduced chiefly by
a redundant population and a conse-
quent infinite competition, render the
attainment Of extreme old age con-
stantly more unlikely.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10

Mr.. \. S. Frost, of Frostburg, Md.
sends the following as the result Of one
weeks butter making from ono COW
and challenges anyone to produce its
equal: In seven days. fourteen
milkings, the COW Lilly Of the valley
gave an average Of q gallons of milk
daily, oat of which vas churned in
the seven days IS pounds Of butter.
The butter was made 10 a cellar. not
in a spring house, and wa not the
-esnlt Of any sort Of preparation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10

Another MoIIie Arressey

PITrSaURGU, June 26.-Henry
Devlin, another member Of The Mol
lie Mcguire gang, which committed
so many d%spredations al Irwin, West
moreland county, wss arrested al
OIL City yesterday by one of finker
toms detectives, ard il DOW III a
Greensburg. lie fed when tho par
ties recently arrested made confession
and detectives have been in search
him eyer SINCE. He is charged with
compiled J In the murder Of Josept
Carol 10 1876 Detectives are !,
active pursuit of TWO others concern
ed IN tie ssme crime.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


As the cattle Of the country in
crease in number it is evident that
the quantity of winter feed must al
SO increase, and also as the quality
Of our live stock is improved SO must
our winter prOvender increase 10
quantity, a well as improve in quail
ity. Well-bred stock must be well
fed to be profitable. If We have not
q certainty that u hay crop viii be
amply sufficient Tor cur winter stock
We should prepare to add to it at
once. Those who have not grown
Hungarian grass can have no idea
bow much fodder can be grown to
the acre from this very valuable
crop. No farmer should be without
it or its kindred millet, Of which it is
q variety. For soiling it will, in the
short seaso of its growth, yield two
or even three heavy cuttings. For
hay it should be cut just before the
seeds begin to form If left later it
will become dry and hard, and have
lost much of its nutrition in quality,
but if cut green the hay is eaten
greedily by farm stock. The pres
ent month (June) is the best time
to sow il, though it is sometimes
sown as late as the middle of July.
The ground for it should be well cul-
tivated and the richer the soil the
heavier the crop. From two pecks to
q bushel of seed is usually sown.
Sow evenly, harrow it in well and
roll it. Rolling is the more necessary
as it is sown in the dry eason In
two months from the time it is sown
you may have il saved as hay-in
less time often. 1t may succeed al
early soiling crcp-fall rye, or oats
and peas. So that there may be two
well paying crops in the same sea-
SOD. Hungarian grass may be suf-
fered to mature 50 that the seed may
be saved, but by SO doing the fodder
is 80 much deteriorated as to be
more worthless than ordinary straw,
and if the farmers object be to have
fodder for his cattle, his aim should
be to have it in good quality regard
less of the seed. Hungarian grass,
and all the cultivated varieties OF
millet, bears seed that, if saved for
the purpose, would make a very
nice flour, and for this it Is used in
some countries but the object Of the
grower is the flour, not the fodder,
and the nutrition that would be had
in well saved hay has been taken
from it by the maturing aud ripening
OF the seed.
Though the crop seemed from its
great bulk impoverishing, the soil is
not as much impoverished by 1t as
might be supposed. Any crop, Ger
cal or other, does not, when cut be.
fore being matured, scourge the land
as il would if permitted to ripen the
seed.-Farmers' Aduocote.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10
A Certain Remedy for the Curcuito.

As soon as the plums are OF the
size of a hazal-nut, Cor just before the
curculio commences to attack procure
several gallons Of coal or gas tar put
about a quart into a long-handled
stew pan, and with a match end
shaving you will soon have a blaze
the better the blaze the denser the
smoke. Carry under the trees 50 as
to completely smoke every part of
the tree top. Repeat three or four
times a week until the plums begin
to ripen, or until all danger Of dam
age By curculio is over. The smoke
Is very offensive to breathe, and the
smell remains several days in the
foliage, or until washed of by rains,
when the smoking must be repeated.
Some may ask,.how long does it take
to smoke a tree each time ? No longer
than to get the smoke into all parts
of the tree. 1t usually takes about
half an hour to smoke forty trees.
Now for the codliug moth. A. G..
futile, for several years president Of
Wisconsin State Agricultural Society,
and perhaps he leading Iurseryman
Of the State The is now testing yer
one hundred varieties of Russian ap-
ples). tells me be has discovered q
remedy, or rather trap for the moth,
thai he's proved to be q complete sue
cess. Take shallow pans or saucers,
and place some strong apple vinegar
in them and hang among the branch
es Of the trees. The smell Of the
vinegar attracts the m0.b, and they
are caught and drowned IN the same.
Mr.. futile told me he has captured
over forty codling moths in one of
these pans in a single light. and so
great was his success tia; be notified
Charles Downing, the leading au-
thority on fruit in this country. 1
sew a letter from tha.S gentleman ex-
pressing his qualification at Mr.. Us
success, and adyisinG him TO dissent
nate the remedy through thc medium
of the press, So it would be Of i'm
mense benefit to the fruit growers of
the country.-Sam S. Crab, IN Ger
m1ptoun telegraph.
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G0OD NIGHT.


g,d keep you safe, my little love-
An through the night;
Rest close in his circling arms
Untl the light
NJ heart is with you as / kncel &c pray,
q oi.night. God keep you 10 his care Away
Thick shadows creep, like silent ghosts
About my head;
lose myself in tender dreams
while overhead
The moon comes stealing through the window
bars,
A silver sickle cleaning mia the stars.
for I. though ] am tar away,
Feel cafe and strong;
To trus, YOU thus, dear loyc-and yet
The night Is long
1 say with sobbing breath the old fond prayer
Goodnight. Sweet dreams, God keep yo'
everywhere,
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5I~ndiana's Great Crops.

lEpIAsAPoLIs. Ind June 2S-Re-
ports from all parts of the State show
tnat the immense wheat crop is being
rapidly harvested. South Of this point
the grain is nearly all III the shock.
Corn is a little backward, but is
making rapid growth 10 the present
hot weather. The hay crop is unus-
ually heavy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10

An Albany woman woke her bus-
band during a storm, the other night,
and said II do wish you would
stop snoring, for | want to hear the
thunder"
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Death Prem I'M Boiler Exp,o.,on

HARRISBURG. June 26.-John Het
rick and John w. Hess, two victims
of the Chesapeake mill boiler explo-
sion, died to-day. being three deaths
caused by tits accident.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10

The most highly insulted fellow in
town is the n who lately received
from his girl a pair Of slippers with
q clean pair Of socks stuffed into
them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-10

An editor offers q reward CT S. for
the best treatise on "How to make
outdoor life attractive 10 the mosqui-
to.u
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SHOVELs. FORKS, SPADES. a ES.

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 Sleeves, Door Mats, Baskets,
Tubs, Wooden Buckets, Irvine, Rope all sizes, Hay PuIeys, Butter Prints,
Mop Sticks, Traps, Steeyards, Meat Cutters and Suffers, Traces, Cow
Chains, Halter Chains, Shoe, Dust and Scrub Brushes, Horse Brushes, Cur
ry Combs and Cards, Door Locks, Hinges, Screws, Laches and everything
in the Builders line. Caps, Lead, Shot, Powder aud Safety Fuse, &c, &c,
The fact is, keep everything thatbelongs to the Hardware trade. deal
exclusively in this kind of goods and give my whole attention to it. Per-
sons who are building, n any one in need of anything in my line, viii find
it to their advantage to give me a call. will always give a reasonable
credit to responsible persons l thank my old customers for their patronage,
and hope this season to make many new ones. Don't forget the place
No, 3, "BAER'S BLOCK
Apri. 8 IA. JOHN +. BLYMYER
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JOHN f. Nj
DEALERN
Hardware, Iron, Nails, Glass, Paints
OIL &c. SC.

The following is a partial LIST of goods in Stock: Carpenters Tools,
Planes, Saws, Hatchets, Hammers, Chisels, Plane Irons Dies, &c, Black
smiths Goods, Bellows, Anvils, Vices, Files, Hammers, &c. Saddery
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 coors,
Varnish, Tupentine, Flaxseed Oil, Brushes, Japan Dryer, Walnut Stains
&c Window Glass Of all sizes and glass cut to any shape. Thebest Coal
Oil always on hand. Our stock of Coal Oil Lamps is large and comprise,
very elegant styles. Ditstons Circular, Muley and Cross Cut Saws. Mil
Saw Files Of thebest quality. Porcelainlined Kettles. Handles Of all kindss
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1t is good to be deaf when the sian.
derer begins to talk.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22
Beautiful Things in London.

ICincinnati Enquirer, London Letter.
But attend a queens drawing room once;
there you'll see dress, and above all, dla-
monds that will astonish you. Perhaps it is
not generally known that the wonderful
necklace of Marie Antoinette. that unsur-
passed historic mass of glittering splendor,
which was so costly that it brought about
the overthrow of a dynasty, sent Marie
Antoinette and the king, as well as count
less others, TO the scaffOld, and let loose q
revolution, with all its horrors, is now in
the possession of two or three great English
families, the gems unset and remounted into
necklaces and bracelets and tiaras which
figure now at the generality of the queens
drawing rooms. The bulk of the Empress
Eugenie's gorgeous jewels were bought by
English women; so will be those of the Queen
Dowager, of Spain, when the sale of her
gems in Paris takes place next month. The
other night Lady Cork gave fancy dress
ball-a calico ball, as they call this kind
now, and Miss Stevens, of New York, ap-
peared as an Indian squaw, her dress,
though composed of calico, being decorated
with hundreds of feathers of the costliest
kind procurable. Lady Vaudeville, formerly
of fifth avenue, went as an Italian girl,
anything but a simple costume, and wore
her fine long hair hanging straight down
her back The Princess OF Wales was a
Pompadour IN calico, but was resplendent
with thousands and thousands of pounds
worth OF diamonds and pearls. The town is
full just now of lovely things, which will be
on exhibition here till Easter Monday, when
they must be sent TO Paris for the opening
day. Among Others is a complete set of
China-dinner, dessert, tea and breakfast
the finest ever made in England. The best
judges declare the clothing to be indistin-
guishable from Sevres blue, while the land
scape on the dessert plates are perfection. Let
the cost of the whole tell the rest The ser
vice is worth $50 OOO-more than that really
the figure is 1000 guineas. 1t is for an
Australian millionaire; one who was left
81, OOO, 900 by his father. The tea service so
charmed the queen that she ordered a
duplcare
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22

There is an advertisement in our columns
to which we take much pleasure In referring
our readers, because we believe in 1t and can
conscientiously and heartily recommend it.
We refer To Halls Hair Remover We re-
member many cases in our midst of old and
middle aged people who formerly wore grey
hair, or whose locks where thin and faded,
but who now have presentable head pieces
and with no little pride announce to their
friends that they haven't grey hair In their
beads. 1t is pardonable pride, and the
world would be better off if there was more
of it, for when the aged make themselves
attractive to others they are more certain To
win aud retain the esteem and respect to
which a buIthen of well spent years en-
titles them. Try Halls Hair Remover if
age or disease has thinned or whitened your
locks and you will thank US for our ADVICE
-Pan-Handle News, Wellsburg, w. Va.
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Evidences of +" CIucha.o
New York Times,

What an extraordinary people we are for
big names Our signs show it everywhere
One can not walk up Broadway OF even the
Bowery, without observing that BARRIERS have
become tonsorIal artists; gin shops, sample
rooms; corn cutters. chiropO5ists; billiard
rooms. billiard parlors drug stores pharma-
cies; dress makers, mod'stes; eating houses,
refactories; fencing rooms, sales d'armes;
hair dreSserS, perruquiers; undertakes,
managers of funerals, and so on to the end
a small musical entertainment is a grand
concert, a formal dinner is banquet an
out of-town cottage is a villa or a country
seat, gown is robe; a hall, corridor; a
theater, particularly small one, an opera
house or an academy of music. Every once
in while we read in the telegraphic dis
patches that an opera house or an academy
Of music has been burned in some town OF
less than 10000 lnabitants. Only the other
day we were startled by the intelligence that
the opera house at IllOn, Herkimer county
had been destroyed by fire. But the greater
part OF lion must have been its opera house
La Scala, San Carlo, the Nouvel Opera or ouI
academy of music could have been nothing
to IT, Ilion' census would include some
hundreds, and if its opera house had ever
been full the village would have been depop
ulafed
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Virginia in October, 1878, for representatives
in the Forty sixth congress.

Virginia in October, 1878, for representatives
in the Forty.sixth congress.
Subscriptions to the A per cent loan at
Washington to-day aggregated S274, 500.
The amount of bullion gone into the bank
of England on balance to-day is f172, 600
Mrs. Leon Lewis, the novelist, died at the
Osborn house. Rochester, n. Y. to-day.
An agency of the Nevada Bank of San
Francisco was opened at New York to-day.
The upper house of the Hungarian diet
has adopted bill for credit of 60, 200 900
florins.
An attache of the British consulate at New
York was making inquiries to>dsy concern
ing the steamer Columbus.
The schedule and assignment of Lawrence
Bros rope makers of New York, show the
liabilities to be $lS2,34l; nominal assets,
s239, 500; real assets. S6s, $50.
An adverse report to Representative Cut
lers cattle transportation bill was submitted
to the house to-day, bearing the signatures
of the following members OF the committee
on agriculture: Messrs. Covert Aiken,
Pridemore, Steele and CalKins. The last
named recommends the appointment of a
commission to investigate the whole ques-