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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
Green Food for Mich Cows.

In all dairying sections it is often
a question how and where to obtain
sufficient suitable food for producing
and prolonging the greatest possible
quantity and quality of milk. Pas
lures usually run short in August or
later, and then something must be
fed to keep the cows from shrinking
their milk. The comparative ease
with which fodder corn is grown
makes that the more general crop
for the purpose. Most crops have
some objections against them, but /
think fewer practical men can be
found objecting to green corn fodder
than any other crop equally econ
omical. So far as experience and
testimony go, green corn fodder,
properly grown and fed, yields the
greatest amount of milk and flesh,
for the same expenditure, of any
crop that has yet been grown for the
purpose. Corn is peculiarly suited
to our climate, thriving generally in
all parts of our country, and al
though accurate experiments have
not substantiated its claim as the
best, public opinion and practice
would seem to decide that way.
Since this crop can be preserved
so cheaply Gas claimed) in silos, in
all its succulence, we may look for
its more general and abundant pro-
duction. Could we only credit the
half that its most enthusiastic advo-
Gates claim, all farmers should keep
double the present amount of stock
on this plan, at very much less cost.
But | am afraid that the majority
viii be doomed to disappointment
or failure, as too many factors enter
into the successful issue Of the ex-
pertinent.
The crop, however, is q good and
economical one to feed green during
the last of the summer and early
fall, and dried for winter it is scarce
ly less valuable than the best of hay.
The culture of fodder corn requires
Judgment and skill as well as any
other crop. To develop the greatest
amount Of nutriment, the corn must
not be grown so thick that the whole
stock and plant cannot be exposed
to light and air, as these are essen
tial to the proper elaboration of the
Juices of the plant.
The fodder grown from sweet corn !
seems to be preferred by all animals !
to that from other varieties of field |
corn. / have noticed that the cows
eat the whole stalks and butts Of
sweet corn, while much of smaller
growth of other varieties was reject
ed. Before being gathered for feed
ing, corn should be tasseled out and |
the ears formed, for until this stage |
its full nutriment is undeveloped.-I
Cor Country Gentlemen.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
The Tobacco Crop a Failure.

LANCASTER, Pa, August 31-The
unprecedented drouth in this eoun-
ty has resulted in the failure of two
thirds of the tobacco crop, eItailing
a loss in thecounty of over a million
dollars. In neighboring counties,
where the same atmospheric condi-
ton existed, the loss viii be as
much more. Some of the early
planted tobacco escaped the dry
spell and matured well, but this has
already been purchased by New
York buyers, most of it while still
growing in the fields. Larger prices
have ruled this year than have ever
before been paid. It is believed
that the remainder of the crop will
only be available for filters.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

children cry, the men and womer
groan.n
| The house and shops and goods
OF them be all burnt, said Fritz
Our money is saved
Early the next morning there
came to the strange encampmen.
bakers wagons, provision carts, milk
carts, water carts. Fritz buying his
breakfast and Thekla's saw nursing
mother and two little children turn
cd from the carts. They had no
money to buy.
He told this to Thekla, then the
square German face, weary, begrim-
ed, lined by her hard life, suddenly
shone. In the same moment it
kindled with enthusiasm and soften
ed with compassion.
Now, my Fritz, now is your
time. Go buy bread and drink for
poor women and little children. Buy,
buy, buy, SO long as there be any
hungry, so long as your money hold
OUT
Fritz cast down his eyes irreso-
lutte.
"Ahl my poor Fritz" she said
sadly, yet with faith in her voice.
you are not so hard when you
was little boy and was little girl,
you gave me of your faggots often,
and of your grass. Think you if the
Lord Christ was here this day with
much money, He would feed YOU
not? He would give you not drink :?
All ! my Fritz, we know now where
we can put our much money there
be many holes to pour it in" she
said, with a little fearful laugh, "the
hungry mouths Of many poor peo-
pie, come let us buy for them, my
Fritz"
So SOL" he said, looking up
with a tear in his blue eye. "We
will buy some cart loads for hungry
people, the last dollar may go before
anybody must starve; no differ
ence ii we be not acquainted to-
gether."
1t was not necessary for Fritz to
spend his last dollar, for million
hearts were even then planning to
help and millions of hands were
working the relief was swiftly COM
ing.
Fritz and Thekla are now re-estab-
lished in Nauvoo on a iifty-acre
farm. They have an adopted girl
whom they brought from Chicago.
In her rearing and education they
find drain for any surplus money.
A distressing accumulation is not
likely again to occur.-Sdrah Winter
Kellogg, IN Chicago Adrancc.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
Horseback Riuing.

Harper's Bazaar gives this advice
to ladies in regard to horseback rid
ing, which is now becoming very
fashionable
"A young lady should sit square
upon the saddle, and to ride with a
light hand upon the rein /; she
should also learn to be independent
of the stirrup-never to be depend
ent upon her foot. Her light touch
on the mouth of q thoroughbred
controls him better than force. The
modern habit is made very short,
Just to cover the foot. As all young
ladies now wear neat boot and
pantaloons un1er the habit, there
is no fear of any expose, and the
terrible danger of the long habit is
avoided. The catching of the hab-
it in passing wheel has led to
dreadful accidents. No young Ia
DIV without excellent nerve should
try to ride, nervousness, scream, or
loss of self-possession is almost
sure to frighten the horse, and to
lead to accidents. The curb-bit, the
pommels, the stirrup, are but adj
iuncts to safety the principal reli-
ance must be on the riders own
calf
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
~rhc Christian CITIZEN. =


The amphisheatre at Chautauau7
sas filed with an eager throng sev-
eral davs ago which had gathered
to listen 70 an address by Judge
Toureee on THE Christian Citizen.
For an hour he talked in an enter
tanning way Of the responsibilities
and privileges OF the Christian Citi-
zen. The term citizen. he eeaid, sig
mites co-ordiate element in self
goyernable community, and he de
fined Christian az q term including
every man who believes in the
teaching of Jesus of Nazareth,
or is imbued with his teachings, or,
if not, knows that he ought to be.
In the course of his address he said
in substance Christianity is not
like the dreamy religions of the
drowsy East. 1t is a positive, ac-
tive, aggressive faith. 1t has no
passive voice" The Christian is
sent out into the world as q bomb
is hurled from a mortar-to hit
somebody, and to hurt somebody
and il he doesn 3 do it, it isn't the
fault OF the powder behind him
Christianity is the mother Of the
Republican idea. A popular notion
prevails that the nearer 4 man
would keep to God, the further he
must keep away from politics. This
is criminally fallacious notion.
What is political government 1t
is the big human end of religion.
The responsibility of a country's
future rests upon its people. A ma
ton is not good by accident. But
the chronic grumbler says that the
political life of to-day is so corrupt.
/ don't believe it. / believe in pub
lie purity of to-day. | believe that
our moral ethics, as a Nation, is at
its highest mark to-day. i have no
sympathy with that class of people
who keep eliminating our politi-
cal life, and whose only mission
seems to be the praise of God and
find fault We only see the bright
side of the past. We forget the in
fuence of the past A few years
ago a crime could be forgotten be-
fore it reached the State line. To-
day deed of shame is read on three
continents before the blood Of the
assassin's knife is dried. IL these
charges are true, whoes fault is it ?
l say emphatically, the fault of
those Christians who won't do their
political duty. Prayer and voting
once a year aren't enough. We are
not to stand on the pinnacle Of our
own purity. and seold at evil We
must meet our own personal duty,
by putting our shoulder to the
wheel of government. Oh, these
cowardly Christians who wrap
in the mantle of their
own righteousness, and will not en-
ter the great battle. A christian, cit
izen ought not to allow any political
question in which he is interested
to be decided without active woIk
on his part. Every man mnst do
his duty before he grumbles at the
of politics and this
means that he must give all the
lime he reasonably can to the solu-
ion Of the State problems"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
How sal ~Dissraeed the Family

A traveller in the State of Illinois
some years ago came to a log hut on
the prairie near Cairo, and there
halted. He went into the house.
1t was wretched afiair-an empty
| packing box for q table, while two
or three chairs and disagreeabIe
stools graced the reception room,
the dark walls of which were orna-
mented by q display OF tin-ware
and broken shelf article or two.
The woman was crying in one cor
ner, and the man, with tears in his
eyes and pipe in his mouth, on a
stool, with his sorrowful looking
head supported by the palms of his
hands. Not word greeted the in
terloper.
"Well, " said he, "you seem to be
in awful trouble here. What's up ?"
All, we are almost crazed neigh
Dor" said the woman ''and we
hain't got the patience to see folks
now"
That's all right, said the stran-
ger, not much taken back by polite
rebuff "but can | be of any SER
vice to you in all this trouble ?"
"Well, we've lost our gal : our
SAILS gone off and left u.s." said the
old man in tones Of deep despair.
"Ah, do you know what induced
her to leave you ?" remarked the
new arrival.
"Well, we can't say, neighbor, as
how she's so far lost as to be in
duced, but then she's gone and dis
graced us" remarked the afflicted
father.
"Yes, stranger, and-not as
should say it as is her mother-but
there warn't peotier gal in all the
west than our Sal. She's gone and
brought ruin on her own head now"
followed the stricken mother.
who has gone off with her p in
quired the visitor.
"Well, there's the trouble. The
gal could have done well, and might
have married Martin Kehoe, a cap
Ital shoemaker, who although he
has but one eye, he plays the flute
IN a lively manner, and earns a |
good living-Then, look, what life
she has deserted she was here sur
rounded by all the luxury in the
country" said the father,
Yes who knows what poor Sal
viii have to eat, drink and wear
now," groaned the old woman.
And who is the fellow who has
taken her into such misery ~
Why, she's gone offand got mar
ried to critter called aa editor. as
lives in village, and Lord only |
knows how he's to airn a living
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
The Magnitude orthc rag Trade.

Few persons have al adequate
conception of the magnitude and
Importance of the rag trade in this
country. Rags seem to be cheap
and insignificant commodity that
it IS surprising to learn that, with
the exception of the staple products
of the West, they are more largely
transported by railroads than any
other article of merchandise. At
Chicago the Michigan Central Rail-
road has erected a special building
for this kind of freight, and it IS es-
timated that not less than one hun
dred car loads Of rags leave and en-
ter Chicago daily. A good idea of
the extent of the trade was recently
given Chicago TIibuns reporter by
a wholesale rag dealer. Said the
latter There are fifty millions Of
people III the United States, and it
is safe to presume that every one of
them discards on an average, five
pounds of clothing every year.
That gives US 250,000,000 pounds of
rags to start with. Then there are
the tailoring establishments, big and
little, whose cuttings are not much
less in quantity in the aggregate
than the cast-oif clothes of the na-
ton at large, while their quality, as
rags, is greatly superior. Then
there are the carpets, and bedding,
and curtains, and other domestic
articles of cloth of some kind, which
make up q goodly bulk in the course
of a year. The different articles
combined make up another 250,O00,
900 pounds of cloth material which
has been discarded from use and
which eventually finds its way into
the ragman's bale"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
WHAT is THE GAIN

What is the gain
If one should run noble race,
And at last, with weary pace,
Win to the goal, and find his years
4 harves; field Of waste and tears.
OF turmoil and of buried trust,
Rich with dead hopes and bitter dust,
And strife and sneer and ceasele's pain
What is lie gain
What is the gain
When having reached a sunlit height,
Through barren sweeps of gloofnful night
Hoping to see beyond the crest
Fair lands of beauty and of rest,
There lies far before, stretched Ear away
Unto the confines of the day
1 desolate and shadeless plain.
What is the gain
W hat is the gain
To sail for months of cold and toll
Across wide seas, where winds reeoii,
Only to gather strength and roar
4 louder challenge than before,
And find, when through iogs thick and dur
Tn e'roclly coast at last is won,
No haven for the s.oun-yeSed main.
What is the gain.
What IS the gain
The race is won, we see the light
We conquer where the storm winds fight
We shoS the way to those who wait
With fam; hearts by the walls of fate
Our banners futter in the van
OF battles fought for thought and man,
And ignorance and darkness wane,
rhat i the gain.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
Desperate Suicide.

SCRANTON, August 31.-S. G. Col
lins, supposed to be a salesman from
Wickersham & Co., of 800 Race
street, Philadelphia, committed sui
eide at an early hour yesterday
morning by throwing himself in
front of a freight train at a point
one mile west of Bloomsbury, on the
Lackawanna and Bloomsbury rail-
road. The body was found at Espy
this morning.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
A Wretch Going to Prison.

LOUISVILLE, KY, August 81
DIR. Aust, who during last fall cool
ly and without provocation shot and
killed his brother-in-law near Jas
per, Indiana, was yesterday taken
to Jeifersonvillc prison for ninety
nine years. On the way he mani
tested the greatest cruelty of pur-
pose and gloried in his crime.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Do not think of knocking out
another mans brains because he diff.
fers in opinion from you. 1t would
be as rational to knock yourself on
the head because you differed from
yourself ten years ago.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is richer, or
happier, or wiser for it. 1t COM
mends no one to society it is dis
susting to the refined and abomnia-
BILE to the good.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Men are naturally charitable, but
they have bad habit Of feeling
everywhere for .he poor except IN
their rocket books.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

When a man regards himself all
sufficient, the world is apt to think
! of him as insufficient.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Pain is frequently more terrible
to the imagination than to the phys
ical BODY.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Men dread what can be realized
II is the unknown that is feared.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Honesty is the best policy bui
policy is not always honesty.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

The brightest hour in the day is
that one in which all our desires are
gratified.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

Noman can be successful Athe-
ist until he is able to re-create HIM
self.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

No peach tastes so sweet as be
fore it is eaten.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
NEW BANK.
Somerset County Bank,
CHARLES j. HARRISON.

Cashier and Manager.
Collections made in all parts of the United States.
Charges moderate Butter and other checks col
lected and cashed. Eastern and Western exchange
always on hand. Remittances made with prompt
ness Accounts solicited.
Parties desiring 20 purchase q. S- PER
CENT. FUNDED LOAN, can be accomno-
dated at this Bank. The coupons are prepaid in
denominations Of 50, l0o 800 and 1000
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14
DENSION AGENCY.

$ p SEeitzer Of Sand Patch, Somerset county,
Pa Justice Of the Peace, surveyor and claim
ageni-will promptly collect all Bounty and Pen
t1n claims entrusted TO him. Persons wishing
any Information will address him ut the above
mined place, enclosing discharge and postage
Ganp ior reply.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-17
The Interstate Debate.

The Chester papers all give very biased
reports of the inter State debate at Chi
chester school house, Delaware county,
last Tuesday night. They declared that
the Delawareans were clearly whipped
at every point and had not single
point left, after the argument had been
concluded This clearly shows the lit
tlenesS Of ftheDelaware corntiaQs toward
the Wilmington gentlemen, who have
been taking part in their debates. 1t is
only one of many evidences OF that ma
ture however.
The fact of the matter is that the
Delawareans completely vanquished
the other side 1T the debate, and the
audience expressed great surprise when
three of the Judges decided in favor OF
the gentlemen from Media and Chester.
The Wilmington folks had the weak side
of the question, it is true, to which they
were very cleverly and kindly assigned
Wv the Delaware county folks, and they
had TO contest against body of judges,
who, while being fair minded mer, Were,
of course, not entirely proof against
local prejudice. The Wilmington gen
t.emen do not object to being given the
weak side every time, where common
courtesy should give them the choice,
ind do not complain at having Pennsyl.
vania judges, but when the papers mis-
represent them it could not lie wonder.
ID at ii they lost their temper. Bu
they do not seem to wu@ry even at this
rs they are not after glory bur amusc
mont, and th r is an almost unlimi
ied quantity OF that iu the cro,s-road
debates of Delaware county.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-17
Local Linklpts.

Thomas Cottingham, the lad who
died from the effects Of being kicked by
horse, was buried in the Catholic
cemetery yesterday.
The erratic Barney RosenbIatt, bar
her, who defaulted, is in Baltimore ad-
vcrti,ing for two BARRIERS.
The picnic given along Shellpot
creek, yesterday, by the Miller family,
was pleasant affair
The Thomas Clyde resumes her sun
day trips on the Delaware next Sunday.
The German Lutheran church gave a
picnic upon the Brandywne yesterday.
The annual examination in the pub
lie schools will he held next week.
Two druuks We're tried al police
court this morning.
Woodland Beach will formally open
on Monday next.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-17
EAR DISCHARGES.

The disgusting and very preva. ent idea that
it is dang rOus 10 stop ear discharges hap
pily owing out but sull 1t Is by no means an
untreQuent question addressed 10 meulcal
men whether 1t is not very Injurious to q
child's health to attempt To cure TINS l0ath-
some disease. These groundlcss fears often
condemn child to suffer for life, without any
ATTEMPT 10 cure until II becomes an lltoler-
able nuisance To me friends and parents, or
its continued neglect has caused destruction
10 portions Of the aural structure
lhls absurd idea with regard to ear dis.
charges is not confined 10 the poor and ignOr-
ant. The question is often asked by persons
in a superior position in life, who at last,
when it becomes insupp0rtable, seek the sur
peoa's aid. often contrary tV the advice OF the
iamiIv phS sician, who advises, Let II al0ne,'
with the deluslye hope that the child will out.
grow it, NO possible condition Can render 1t
desirable to allow an ear discharge 10 con-
tinue. 1t is a positive evidence of disease in
the ear, arising there or IN soihe other portion
Ear discharge. or OtorrhTa, cannot exist
without Inflammation the discharge Is caus-
ed by it. The sooner the Inflammation Is al
layeu and lhe cause removed the sooner the
prtient Nill be restored to health and the dam
ger of permanently injuring the hearing re-
moved The first duty Of physician in all
diseases Is TO discover ana remove the cause.
Ear d lseases are no exception TO this rule OF
surgical practice. Inc ear is often regarded
ms beneath the attention OF physicians IN gen.
eral practice, and Swinging the external ear
passage is too often ind sclIminately advised.
Ia all discharges of the ear no opinion should
oe given without making a thorough eXami-
nation of the external ear passage. membrane
of the drum, nose and throat. Neglect OF TINS
rule has thrown undeserved reprOach upon
tins branch of surgery, ana has lett the unfOr-
innate sufferers from DEAFNESS and ear dis
eases IN the hands of unscrupuIous quacks.
DIR. hARTLEY h devoted his entire atten-
tion 10 the cure of fCArARRBAL ana EAR u.s.
EAREs during thp last 81 years in this city,
using the most improved European metht ds
NJ treatment, and makes no charge Whatever
for II thUrC ugh examination and a candid
,plnlon Of whether the case can be cured.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-17
Singular Law Suit.

Twelve yeas ago George Smith, of
Columbia county, in New York, mar
ried pretty girl named Carrie Miller
After several years of welded life a
wealthy bachelor fell. in love with
Carrie, and George consented to sell all
right, title and interest in her for the
sum of 5000. The money WAS paid,
George resigned his wife, and lent the
S2, 900 to his brother Ahner, Of Duchess
county, to be invested i'll improve
ments upon farm. Now he wants
the money back, and sues for it, and II
is in the prosecution Of this suit that
Georges marital history is bro ighJ to
light. Abner sets up a counter claim
tor board, washing, clothes and sup
plies, and threatens George with a crimi.
nal prosecution for theft.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-17
A Ram RetaIIates ON q Farmer.

A farmer, residing in Berks county,
amused himself great deal by taking
his neighbors nd-friends out into his
barn yard to see his stock. While
they were looking around, an old ram
generally came laundering along and
gave them good shake up. Quite a
Joke. Last week Mr.. Farmer, losing
his presence of mind, went into the
yard to hunt eggs. On his way to the
house with a well filed basket of eggs,
the old ram espied him, and coming up
behind him gave him such a tremen-
deus battering that the eggs flew in
every direction. After hard fight
the ram reJreated to a distant corner
in the barn yard, but only to make
another attack on his master. A fence
rail was brought into reqrisition and
with an oath, the farmer tried to dis
patch the buck, who made good his es-
cape. The farmers son seeing the
whole performance related the matter
TO number of the farmers friends.