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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

EXPERIENCE IN pLowING.-l give In a
few words the results of my experience
in plowir e. Pillow only when the
ground is dry enough to leave it mellow.
Pillow so as to leave the upper or richer
element still, as nature does, at the top.
How can deep burrows be made without
leaving the upper surface at the bottom ?
Use the subsoil pillow, and you are all
right; when the soil is deep, deep plow-
ing will do, and it will do with heavy
understanding. The nearer the sur
face the fertilizers are, the better the
crops will be. l have had good crops
of corn with late fall blowing, and, in
spring, just spread and harrow in the
manure. This | do, say from the mid
die of May to June l. The ground is
warm and dry, and the soil retains the
open and light condition the winter
frests bequeath better than plows can
do Many farmers think that manure
is lost by evaporation unless 1t is pretty
well buried, but, if too deep, nothing
but a miracle will raise it. 1t will be
found that quite strawy manure will
work well on dry ground, applied on
surface, 1t is well to pillow just as you
plant, If this is done in the spring; If
green sod, let the grass get a good start;
il stubble, the weeds turned under will
make manure.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

The protective value of trees in thunder
storms was considered by NJ. du Moncel
in a paper lately communicated to the
Paris Academy of Sciences. Trees, he
said, were all conductors of electricity,
their cOnductivity increasing with the
quantity of liquid they contained. An
ordinary house, however, offered from
sixteen to twenty times as much resist
ance to the transmission of electricity
as an ordinary tree, and therefore the
tree might be considered a protection to
the house if it equalled or exceeded the
house in height. On the other hand,
when a house is wet by rain, its cleo
trical cOnductivity is so much aug
mented that the author thought the
protective value of the tree might then
depend solely upon its excess in eleva-
ton over the housetop. Although trees
may thus shelter houses to some extent,
it is very dangerous for individuals to
take refuge under a tree in a thunder
shower, as has been repeatedly demon
strated by many of the numerous light
ming accidents last summer.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
AGRICULTURE.

PROTECTING TREES AGAINST WORMS.
The bandage system, is the only effec-
tual protection we have yet seen against
the operations of the worm in fruit
trees. We repeat again that In not a
single instance have we eve bad a
worm In our dwarf pear trees where
this was properly attended to. Ii Is
simply 10 bandage the bottom Of the
tree with any kind of muslin or cloth
and tie it, letting the bandage be about
six inches above ground and two inches
below. 1t should be applied as o o as
the ground Is in a fit condition TO go
upon. These bandages should be re-
moved at the eud of October, but IL will
do no harm to let them alone, only that
they remain in good condition for
another season.. AS long Is this is con-
tinued we defy the worm. The beetle
lays its eggs an inch or two above the
ground early in the spring, that Is as
soon as the warm days in March will
admit of its coming forth from its win
ter quarters; the eggs are soon Matched
by the sun, being laid on the sun-side
of the trunk, and the young grub finds
its way down TO the soft bark beneath
the soil, where 1t gradually works its
way in. The bandage prevents both
the laying of the egg and the descent OF
the grub. Let doubters try it. One
man will bandage two hundred trees in
a day. 1t may also protect the peach
tree in the same way.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

THE COMMON SYMPTOMS Of Liver Complaint
are sallow skin, coat d tongue, costivenes,
offensive breath, drowsiness, headache. Per-
sons thus affected may be speedily cured by a
few doses Of schenck's Mandrake Pills. They
are applicable in all diseases where mercury is
usually prescribed, whilh they possess this ad-
vantage over mercury they are purely vege-
able and perfectly harmless.
All D.uggists sell them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
Skin Diseases.

All those troublesome scaly, itching, pimply,
blotchy, humid eruptions of the skin, d nom
mated letter, ErySipeLas, Acne, etc., that are
30 uRsightly and annoying, are quickly and
effectually cured by the simple application of
HieSkeUs letter Ointment, a remedy that has
proved itself to possess wonderful healing
powers, curing hundreds of cases that had re-
sisted all other treatment, even that Of the
best professional talent Of the country. 1t
only needs a trial to prove it's virtues. Sold 80
cents per box sent by mail for 60 cts.
JOHNSTON. HoLLowAY& Co.. 602 Arch ST., Phila.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
Summer Fashions.

the new and beautiful Summer fabric known
as Bunting, or 'Sea-Side Cloth" 1t is all
wool, and will not damage from dampness or
sa water, drapes easily, does not crease, is
light, cool, durable, inexpensive, and very
fashionable. Price 81 cents. The same shades
are made, two thirds ~ oil, at 20 cents. Sam
p es Of these goods in ali desirable shades, or
Of dry goods of any lind, sent free on appli-
cation to Is. i. Devices, 725 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

UNTIL farmers, as a rule, learn what
their products cost, they cannot know
how to economic, either in capital or
in labor. All is confusion or doubt; as
well might a country trader receive his
goods from a wholesale dealer without
bargain or invoice, and sell the same for
the most he could get, as for the farmer
to produce milk, meat and grain for
sale, without any knowledge of its cost.
An account book and a pencil, with a
determination to use them i~ntelligently
would soon determine which part of
the business supported the establish
ment,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
FARMERS in Ireland consider barley

FARMERS in Ireland con slider barley
the best grain crop with which to SOW
grasses; oats next, while wheat is the
least suitable of the three. In laying
land of good average quality down to
permanent pasture, the following mix
ture Of seed is sown there with a grain
crop: Italian rye grass, 8 pounds; per-
ennial rye grass, o pounds; cocks foot,
8 pounds; timothy, three pounds;
rough-stalked meadow grass, 8 pounds;
meadow fox-tail, 2 pounds; common
fescue, 4pounds; hard fescue, 4pounds;
red clover, 4 pounds; yellow clover, l
pound, and white clover, 2 pounds.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
How a Story Grows by the Telling.

AS / write, an old lady in the opposite
seat interrupts me to ask me II L am
'going fur"
Iam. l blushingly tell her, awful
"fur."
Where did | come fromf
Black Hills.
No? well / didn't look like 1t.
| explain that / have not been out
there mining or roughing it, but went
out to get the body Of my brother, who
was a miner, and had been shot by the
Indians.
Oh.h-hl with a wailing infection OF
sympathy that makes me ashamed OF
myself. But curiosity soon conquers
pity, and the old lady goes on probing
my lacerated heart.
"Did / git him2"
"Yes ma'am," very solemnly. 81
have him In the baggage car"
A long pause, for mournful reflection,
/ suppose, and TO give me a chance to
nerve up and prepare for the next CUES
ton.
"Was he sc~alpedr"
eyes," / said, with a sigh, "scalped,
shot through the body with arrows, all
his fingers chopped of, his eyes gOuged
out and his ears bored"
The old girls cup Of horrors is full.
She leans back in her seat with a sigh OF
grim satisfaction and questions me nc
more
Was II wrong to lie to the old lady in
this heartless manner? Yes, l think il
was not. In thus innocently stufang
my travelling acquaintance with a fable
about a country l had never seen, a
brother / had never had, and Indians
that never were, l wrote for the old lady
a thrilling chapter in her quiet life.
She would 60 to her quiet little home
and brighten its humbrum life by tel.
ling her people how she met and talked
with a mar who was going home with
the body of his brother, mahgled in the
manner described.
Then, in the course of time, after
many repetitious of this narrative, she
would involuntarily and innOcently
glide into the statement that she went
into the baggage car with me and |
showed her the mangled tortured body
and she would mangle it more and more
as the narrative grew upon her. Then
she would, after a little while, declare
and in all innocence, and ~truthfulness
and belief in her own statement, that
she was on the train when it came
through the Black Hills, and, from the
car window, saw the Indians chasing
the doomed man and perforating his
body with arrows, and dancing around
him in flendish glee, while she begged
the conductor to get off and stop them,
and how he declined ON the flimsy
ground that he had a wife and nine
children to support, and no insurance
either on the top Of his head or his
life.
Then, after a few more rehearsals,
arrows would fly right in at the window
where she was sitting, and one or more
passengers would be killed. One arrow
would pass through her bonnet. The
train would be the scene of the widest
confusion aud carnage.
And, at last, after the old lady had
been gathered to her mothers, her grand
children would tell their grandchildren
about their noble old grandmother and
their brave, gallant grandfather who
both fell by the hand of outnumbering
savages, while defending a railway train
from the attack of a band of Sioux
Indians under the command of Sitting
Bull, whom their grandfather, just
before he died, killed with his own
hand,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

The latest novelty in advertising is a
gratuitous barometer. 1t consists of a
portrait of an old topper with an enor-
nous proboscis, which by an ingenious
chemical application turns blue when
dry weather is approaching, lilac when
the prospects are for cloudy weather,
and pink when moisture is imminent.
1t is irreverently named cold Proba
b%ilities," or ''the spirit barometer"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
The Tower OF Babel.

Babel, or Babel, was a lofty temple
built at Babylon, by Belus, both as an
observatory and a temple of the Sun.
1t remains still in existence under the
name of Birs Nimrod, andhas been am
ply described by Rich and Porter. 1t
was formed of eight square towers, one
on the other, six hundred and sixty
feet high, and the same at each side of
its base. Lately its height was one
hundred and sixty feet, and the reeds,
between every three or four layers of
brick, were perfectly fresh, while the
brick seems to have been calcined by
fire. Babylon continued, for two thou
sand years after, to be the most splen-
did city in the world, and so AleXan-
der found it as late as 1926 b. c. 1t de-
cayed on the building of Bagdad by the
Caliphs, as better situated for inter-
course, in 200 A. ID. According to the
Jewish annals, it was built 2233 b. c.,
beautifed and enlarged in 2250, by
Scmiramis, who led from it her armies
of all nations. The Euphrates passed
through it. 1t was q square, fifteen
miles on each side, with one hundred
brass gates. 1t was composed Of TWEEN
ty-five streets each way, fifteen miles
long, and one hundred and fifty feet
broad, crossing each other at right an
giles, besides four half streets, two hun
dred feet wide, facing the walls, in de-
tached houses, with gardens and plea
sure grounds. The walls were eighty
seven feet thick, and three hundred and
seventy high.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

ALL fruit trees like a rather dry, rich
soil. On a cold clayey bottom, diseases
are very frequent. Do not plant deep
cut off tap-roots, and encourage surface
ibres. Surface manuring is the best
mode of doing this after the tree is
planted. Do not allow anything to
grow vigorously around your trees the
first year eff planting, nor allow the soil
to become hard or dry.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

HUsK MATs.-These convenient, eco
nolnical articles are very useful, es-
peclally for those who live where mud
abounds. They are easily made, and do
a great amount Of service. Sort the
corn husks, selecting the longest for
braiding. Take nine husks and tie the
butt ends with a piece Of Irvine; then
divide them equally in three parts for
braiding; as each strand is laid over,
have three more husks ready TO put In,
leaving about an inch and a half of the
butt ends out. The under side of the
braid will be smooth, while the upper
side will be rough as possible. 1t takes
from six to ten yards of braid for a mat,
according to the size which you wish to
make it. If the husks are very dry, it
is easier to dip them in water as you
braid. The braid must be wet when
you sew it, which must be done with
stout Irvine and a very long needle,
fastening the ends well.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

WARTS are very troublesome and dis
figuring. The following is a perfect
cure, wen of the largest, without leav-
ing any scar. 1t is a F~renchman's pre-
scription, and has been tested by the
writer: Take a small piece of raw beef,
steep it all night in vinegar, cut as much
from it as will cover the wart, and put
it on; if the excrescence is on the fore
head, fasten it on with strips of sticking
plaster. 1t may be removed in the day
and put on every night. In M fort
night the wart will die and peel off.
The same prescription will cure corns.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

THE farmer who crawls out of bed a
s O'Clock, eats a poor breakfast and then
goes fishing or hunting, or to the
village corner to talk politics, drink
whisky, ahd rail against the State as ne
farming country, who takes no papers.
and condemns book farming, ant
threatens to move to Texas or Califor.
mia to get revenge on the State that will
not give him a good living without
work is a dead weight upon the farming
interests of any country.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

pa OBSERVED a email boy to his
father, what do Mr.. Pitkins and Julia
find to talk about in the parlOr by them
selves four hours a night every night
in the week?'
The old gentleman pulled out a split
from the broom, and slowly prodding
his teeth with it, replied:
Il got a hunk of meat yesterday, and
had it boiled for dinner, didn't wer
Yes
'And had it cold for SUPERB
Yes
An your ma hashed 1t up for break.
fast this morning, didn't sheS'
Yes
well, that's the way with Pitkins
and your sister julia
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
DOMESTIC.

LEAVE THE NECK BARE.-EVery one
must remark that a favOrite article OF
winter clothing for children is a COM
forter swathed around the neck. This
is a great error; the feet and the wrists
are the proper members TO keep warm ;
the face and the throat will harden into
healthy indifference to cold; but that
muller, exchanged for an extra pair Of
thick socks and knitted gloves, would
preserve a boy or girl really warm and
well. Bronchitis and sore throat have
declined fifty per cent. since the absurd
use of high collars and twice round
neckerchiefs went out of fashions; and
il the poor would take better care OF
their children's feet half the infantile
mortality would disappear. IL only
costs a trife to put a piece Of thick felt
or cork into the bottom of a boot or
shoe, but the difference is often con
siderable between that and q Doctors
bill, with, perhaps, the undertaker's
beside.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
SCIENTIFIC.

Hydraulics IN Wdrfdre.-At a recent
trial OF the 25-ton barbette guns of the
British wal ship Temeraire four rounds
we're fired against time from the after
gun for the purpose Of testing the
rapidity with which the gun could be
loaded, laid, and discharged, and also Of
proving the stability Of the hydraulic
gear. From fire 10 fire the times were
2 minutes, IL minutes, and IL minutes,
the four rounds being fired ia 3 minutes
aud rs seconds, including 20 seconds for
a miss fire. The above times, short as
they are, afford no conclusive test of
what the mechanism Is capable OF ae-
complishing in the way Of rapidity.
The gun was worked entirely by sea-
men gunners, no other person, save a
Lieutenant, being allowed within the
tuTret while the firing was I'm process.
No. / laid and fired the gun electrically
two men attended TO the elevating gear,
one man took charge of the levers for
lifting the gun and rotating the plat
form, aud a fifth managed the rammer
and shot-hOist. These composed the
whole of the gun company. They had
had little experience Of the new drill,
and with a more familiar acquaintance
with the machinery greater rapidity Of
practice will result. With skill, two
MISUNDERSTANDING and raising-can
be made TO occur simultaneously, the
same as with a hydraulic crane; and,
as the gun can be laid while it is being
loaded, the number of rounds that can
be discharged within a given time may
no nRaaflu fnnrnaunn II nautgf hon
ever, be remembered that mere rapidity
of fire is not what is wanted with guns
of high natures. Considering the
weight of the prOJectiles which they
throw, accuracy is everything, a few
good hits being probably all that will
be required to disable an enemy.
Eleven rounds were subsequently hred
from the forward barbette gun, and in
this case, in consequence Of the inferior
training OF the men, the practice was
not so good. Seven rounds were first
fired at the target deliberately, and the
concluding four rounds were fired for
rapidity, the times being / minute 30
seconds, 2 minutes AZ seconds, and i
minute &c seconds, the whole occupying
10 minutes, including 20 seconds for a
hitch in connection with the rammer.
Although the recoil of the gun amounts
to SO foot tons, this enormous force was
SO completely absorbed by the springs
and water-presses that the recoil upon
the cylinders did not exceed an average
of y inches. After the trials of the
barbette guns had finished, the broad
side batteries which consist of two %
ton guns and four Is ton guns, were
fired separately, and also simultaneous
ly, by electricity from the counting
tower. The firing was somewhat wild.
Worked by hand gear, each gun COM
pany consisted of l6 men; and the
necessity of turning, tripping, and rum
ming in before the guns could be loaded,
c~ontrasted strikingly with the silence,
ease, and regularity with which the
turret guns had been worked. TO OBJ
tain oblique fire, too, the ports have
been made so very large that with
breach-loading rifles it would be easy
to pick of the gunners when loading at
the muZzle.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

FILL THE LUNGs.-Persons who take
but little exercise neglect to draw the
air into the lungs. This should be ac-
complished by taking long and full in
SEPARATIONS for a short time. every day,
while in the open air. This practice
would get the lungs into the habit of
Opening to the air quite down to their
base, and would make the breathing
much more natural as well as affectual
at all times. In the case of young per-
sons, it would enlarge the capacity of
the chest, and add to the brief years of
life.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

THAT was a confused little boy in a
Philadelphia Sunday school, last Sun
day, who was asked by his teacher:
"Now, Sammy, can you tell me how
long did Hesekiah reign?" Sammy
promptly replied, "Forty days and forty
nights!" We're afraid Sammy was
thinking of Noah.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

WHILE a prisoner was being searched
at a police station he suddenly blurted
out: "I'll never believe in old sayings
again !" "What's wrong with old say
ings?" asked the captain. "Why,
there's one that says, Heaven helps
those that helps Themselves helped
myself to a pair of pants, and now
where am |? Where is heaven? Where
is the help to get out o. this?" They
couldn't tell kim.
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Why Will You Suffer

the tortures OF Rheumatism, when the great in
lately introduced in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington, acting through the blood, drives
that malady promptly from the system and re-
establishes complete health? One bottle suf1-
Client. Send for q circular to ]. j. Grtndall, Pro-
prietor, Box $40. ?. o., Baltimore, Md.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

DID you do anything to resuscitate
the body?" was recently asked of a
witness at a %coroner's inquest. Eyes
sir. We searched The pocketsv" was
the reply.
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Mothers. Mothers. Mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRS. WINSLOW'E
SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases o: teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels
and by giving relief and health to the child
gives rest to the mother.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

'Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
Of rheumatism on the face Of the earth. Price
81 a bottle, six bottles IS. Sold by all Drug
gists. Send for circular q Helpenstine &
Bentley, Druggists, Washington, D. @.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

WEAK LUNGS AND sENslTiyE THRnATs are So
veroly tried ly sudden chan es OF temperature,
and those possessing them should prudenlly
treat the very first symptoms Of u cold. DR..
NEEDS. as n certain remedy for coughs, besides
being especially useful for ~ healing ana
strengthening effect on the Pulmu nary and
Bronchial organs.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

"YoU WILL OBSERVE" said the host,
as he showed a visitor through the
house-''you will observe that we have
two halls"
EYES," said the guest-he was a book
keeper-"l am glad to see you live on
the double-entry plan."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

according to no less a botanical au-
thOrity than Professor Asa Gray the
closed gentian opens for a brief time in
brief sunshine, and he believes it may
sometimes be cross fertilized by bees
forcing their way into the flower.
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WHEN ought mariners to have fruit
at sea p-When they stem the currents.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25

WORKING for bare life.-Making skirts
for babies.
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Up H T H T RIA

Johnson's Anodyne Eminent will positively pre-.
vent this terrible disease, and will positively cure
nine cases in ten. Information that will save many
lives sent free by mail. Don't delay a moment.
Prevention 10 better than cure. L. y. JOHNSON
d CO., Bangor, Maine.