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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

Prentice came to me one day
Just after the beginning of the war.
said Robert Baird. a prominent citi-
zen of Louisville, to an interviewer,
''and asked me to go over to Walk
er's to take a drink. as he had
something of importance to tell me.
I went over with him and he said
"a few days ago | was waited upon
by committee OF Confederates who
made a proposition TO give me $3.50
600 for myself and paper The prop
osition staggered me it startled me.
| told them to wait and / would
consider it.. | went home to my
wife and told her. She listened to
me in silence. 1t means much To
us, said |, 1T means rest and aftlu.
ence the remainder of our days
with s250,000 we can go abroad and
enjoy life | shall never forget her
reply. She sprang into the middle
of the room, clinched her bands till
the finger-nails drew blood, and with
the look of a Pytheses Missed out
"EStick to your paper; stick to your
principles; stick to your country
don't let it go abroad that all the
wealth of the Indies could move
George ID. Prentice a hairs breadth.
Il nevc before, continued Mr.
Prentice to me, felt so proud of my
wife. To day / told the committee
| could not agree to the bargain. y
From Mc LOlisgIle Commercial.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
Remember This.

Ifyou are sick Hop Bitters will
surely aid Nature in making you
well when all else fails.
If you are costive or dyspeptic, OF
are suffering from any other of the
numerous diseases of the stomach
or bowels, it is your own faultif you
remain Ill, for Hop Bitters are asoy-
ereign remedy in all such COM
plants.
II you are wasting away with any
form of Kidney disease, stop tempt
ing Death this moment, and turn
for cure to Hop Bitters.
II you are sick with that terrible
sickness Nervousness, you will find
II Balm in Gilead" " in the use Of Hop
Bitters.
If you are a frequenter, or a resi-
dent of a miasmatic district, barri-
cade your system against the scourge
OF all countries-malarial, epidemic
bilious, and intermittent ievers-by
the use of Hop Bitiers.
If you have rough, pimply, OF
shallow skin, bad breath, pains and
aches, and feel miserable generally
Hop Bitters viii give you fair skin
rich blood, and sweetest breath
health and comfort.
In short they cure all Diseases OF
the Stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver
Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's Disease
500 viii be paid for case they
will not cure or help.
That poor, bedridden, invalic
wife, sister mother, or daughter, car
be made the picture Of health, by ;
few bottles OF Hop Bitters, costing
but Il trife. VIII you let them suf
fer
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
The Army Worm.

As a description Of the appearance
and habits of this worm, as well as
the methods of destroying it, will
undoubtedly be interesting to many
readers, we make a few extracts from
letter written by correspondent
IN tennessee for the Cultirotor and
Country Gentleman. He begins the
letter by saying that the prospects
tor good corn and wheat crops is
very fine, but that farmers are not
content, saying:
The army worm has come, and
We Will be ruined. The army-worm
originates in old meadow lands more
particularly, and where there are no
meadows in neighborhood | hear
OF no worms. They travel from the
to the wheat, oats, rye, bar
ley and corn. If the wheat. rye aid
barley are past the bloom, and max
ing the grain when attacked by the
worm, the grain is often benefited
by being stripped of the blades
than injured. Oats, if attacked. are
generally ruined-so is the corn
both being very tender plants, the
worms go for them heavily. | will
describe the worm for the benefit of
!! those who are unacqnainted with
him: He is bald-headed, well form.
ed, black, body, with two rather
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
yellow than white stripes from head

yellow than white stripes from head
TO tail. When full grown it is a
fourth less in size than common
pencil. and when ready 70 deposit
his cotton is rather yellow, and is
very clumsy or slow, but in almost
constant motion and very hungry,
eating rapidly until he disappears,
Where he goes | do not know; he
simply goes out of sight. | find no
holes that he goes into, and | do not
find him dead on the ground.
Where does he go to? / walked the
ditch two hours this evening and
the foregoing is the best description
| can give you.
He is, / might say, rather an in
nocent-iooking worm, and has not
the hldeous look of the cut and
measuring worms. The workmen
upon my farm have been giving him
battle for tour or five days. First
between my wheat field and mead
ows, and corn field and meadows,
we ditched, throwing the earth out
on the meadow side, and making
the side aext to the wheat or corn
slanting under, SO that when the
worms come into the ditch, which
they do by the thousands and mil
lions, they attempt to crawl out on
the corn and wheat side, and fall
back, and when collected in the
ditch we hitch mule or horse to
small log of wood and draw it up
and down the ditch and mash the
army to death. With little care
they never pass the ditch. As |
before stated, they never originate
in the wheat or corn field, unless
the wheat has been sown on an old
meadow. But if they do get into
the wheat then there is only one
mode of fighting them, and that is
by the old Virginia mode. The
worms crawl up the stalk and strip
the blades Off up to the head, if you
will stand idly By and let them to
do so. To oprevent this is almost too
cheap and simple 10 relate. The
worm is very clumsy: and the least
shock precipitates him to theground,
ana while there he does little or no
damage.
Take rope from 30 to 100 feet
in length and weight in the middle,
and put man or boy at each END
of it and let them pass the rope over
the field once a day so long as the
worms live, which is usually ten
days, and you will save the field
from injury The fat fellows are
never able 10 make a second trip up
the stalk one trip with the rope is
sufficient with that crop. A repeti-
ton of this operation once a day for
ten days will save the crop and il
is easier and cheaper than ditching.
/ have succeeded in keeping them
so far out of my wheat so | have
no occasion to use the rope practice,
but Others are using it every day,
including Sunday, and report sue
cess.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
MicroscopicaI Discovery.

The Washington Star SAYS that a
singular microscopical discovery,
which may prove highly important
in a sanitary point of view, has been
made by Thomas Taylor, NJ. d., OF
that city, microscopic of the De-
partment of Agriculture. About
one wear ago, while dissecting the
proboscis OF a common house fly,
Doctor Taylor discovered minute,
sDake-like animals moving quickly
from the proboscis. Continuing his
experiments from time to time since
then, he finds that house flies are
very frequently inhabited by these
animals. He has found them gem
orally in the proboscis of the fly,
although sometimes they are found
in the abdomen, and he thinks that
house flies are carriers of these min
ute, snake-like animals, they may in
like manner be conveyers of conta-
geous germs. These animals meas
ure about S-100 to 1-10 of an inch in
length, and about 2-1000 of an inch
in diameter. They are classed un-
der the NomatOidec, genus dnquiliu'a.
They are much larger than trichin9,
or so called vinegar eels.
I DIR. Taylor has found as many as
seven of these animals in the pro-
boscis CT one fly, and three more in
the abdomen, ten in all. Sometimes
none are discovered, sometimes only
one. But frequently four are seen.
Their presence is usually indicated
by rolling movement in the inter.
ior portion of the proboscis. When
this is observed, if a drop of water
be placed upon it the animals will
readily leave the proboscis and take
to the water. They are frequently
observed passing in and out of the
proboscis to and from the water, as
if the proboscis was their natural
home. A power of twenty-five di-
ameters is sufficient TO observe theiI
general movements, but for the ex-
aminations of their special move.
ments and structure, from two hun
dred and fifty TO five hundred diam,
eters is necessary. They are per-
ceptible to the naked eye in a certain
light. DR.. Taylor proposes to make
an experiment of feeding flies on
trichinosed meat to test the posi-.
bility of trichine, or eggs of trichina
being taken up by flies. The exper,
iments may lead to very useful re-
suits, in a sanitary point of view.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

Thousands have been cured OF
dumb ague, bilious disorders, iaun-
dice, dyspepsia and all diseases Of
liver, blood and stomach, when all
other remedies have failed by using
Prof. Guilmette's French Liver Pad, /,
which is q quick and permanent
cure for those disorders. Ask your
druggist for the great remedy. and
take no other, and if he does not
keep it, send S1.50 in a letter to the
French Pad Co.. Toledo, O., and re-
ceive one bv mail postpaid.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
The Man on the Verauda.

Up on Park street the other even
ing the boys fixed up Il straw man
in an old suit and placed him on Il
veranda in the melancholy twilight.
He hadn't been in position above
tell minutes when along tame a
specimen who had been blasted out
Of the lower stratum of life, and he
leaned his elbows on the fence and
called out:
Good evening, Mister. Is this
the place where they wanted the
back yard cleaned out ,"
The straw man made no reply.
Il think this is the place contin.
ued the other. Il was speaking to
the lady, and she said as how | was
to call this evening for ten cents,
being as she pitied my misfJrt.
unes.
The straw man was silent.
Which was very kind of her, in
deed, because | am powerfully brok-
en- down. / may be wrong, bat |
dunno. III be on hand early in the
morning. l allus likes to keep my
word, you know"
If the straw man knew, he didn't
let on.
"Yes, she said she felt for me, and
she said | must be sure TO call for
the ten cents. Being as you are her
husband presume you might hand
me the money YOURSELF"
Still no response.
''ln whish case my gratitude would
be eternal, you know? Cast thy
bread upon the waters and it shall
return fifty per cent, or some such
thing. You couldn't make it guar
ter, could you? That would be u
cast worth casting, you know. The
profit on that after many days would
be half a dollar, you see ?"
/ 1t is doubtful if the man saw.
Being as I'm in little hurry,
and being as | haven't had anything
to eat in several days, perhaps it
would be well to close this transac-
ton atonce. If you wanted to make
it half a dollar instead of a quarter,
why /"
Just then potatOe ticked the way
worn travler's ear, and another rails
ed his hat tseveralinches. He bound
ed TO the center of the street like a
cat, wheeled around, and peering
through the darkness he called out
Mister, three minutes ago | look
ed upon you as a great statesman,
but a man which will Eeave rocks
instead of arguing the question hain't
fit to run yaller dog convention
Good night, sir If you have that
ere back yard cleaned it'll be after
you have apologized for this uncall.
ed for attempted assassination "
Detroit Free Press.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
The Five Obcdient Husbands.

There Were five of them together,
and it was late. They had been
drinking. Finally one ofthem look
ed at the clock and said:
What will our wives say when we
get home >"
''Let them say what they want to.
Mine will tell me 10 go To the mis-
chief" responded No. ,.
"I'll tell YOU what well do let
us meet here again in the morning,
and tell our experiences Let the
one who has refused to do what his
wife told him to do when he got
home pay for the evenings entertain
ment
That's a good idea. We will all
agree to that" ST the party broke
up and went To their respective
homes.
Next morning they met at the
appointed place, and began to tell
their experiences.
Said No. l:
When | opened the door my wife
was awake. She said: "A pretty
time for YOU to be coming home.
You mad better 90 out and sleep in
the pig pen, for that's what you'll
come to sooner or later, anyhow
Rather thar pay for Ali we had drunk
last night, ! did what she told me to
do That lets me out"
/ Next
! No. 2cleared his throat, and said
! When | got home, | stumbled
over chair, and my wife called
There YOU are again, you old drunk
en- brute You had better wake up
the children, and stagger about for
while, so they can see what II drunk
en- brute OF father they are afflicted
with | thought the best thing to
do under the circumstances was TO
obey, so ! woke up the children.
and staggered around until my wife
limited Tor me to stop. That lets me
out
( Next
/ No. 3 spoke up, and said:
Il happened to stumble over a
pan of dough, and my wife said:
Drunk again Hadn't YOU better sit
down in that dough p Sol sat down
in it, and that lets me out
( Next
No. said:
i was humming tune, and my
wife called out: Hadn't YOU better
give us concert" | said certainly,
and began to sing as 10 udas could,
but she told me TO stop or shewould
throw something at me, so | stopped.
That lets me out"
Next
No. 5 looked very disconsolate.
He said:
Il reckon I'll have to pay. My
wife told me to do something none
of you would have done if you had
been in my place"
What is it?"
'She said SO you thought you
would come home at last. Now
hadn't you better go to the well and
drink couple of buckets of cold
water just to astonish your stomach?
That was more than bargained for,
so it's my funeral"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
Live Stock in MidsumIner.

The latter part of summer is often
very trying to live stock. Pastures
are short. old grain is high, the new
not vet fit to feed. Milk may be in
great demand and the farmer loath
to cut in upon his corn fodder, IN
tended for curing, to feed off the
aftermath he is lucky who can
turn his young stock of cattle and
horses into mountain or high wood
ed pastures. where they will have
water and may make at least half Ii
living upon underbrush. etc. Early
sowed fodder corn comes in well
now for mich cows, and there is
really no other good use for it. If
cut for curing it is hard to dry with
out molding and decaying, and if
left to stand until after the middle
of September, when it will cure well,
il will be as woody and tough as
corn stalks" When fed to mich
COWS, fodder corn ought to be cut
short and sprinkled with two to four
quarts of corn meal per cow each
day. There will then be no com
plaint of the quality or the quantity
of the milk. If these are fed with
out the meal, the milk viii surely be
thin, and the COWS are exhausted by
the increased flow, and soon fall off
in yield.
Horses in pasture are often eX-
tremely annoyed by flies. If they
can stand when not in use in dark,
sweet stables, by all means turn
them into the pasture only at night
Gnats and mosquitoes are of little
annoyance to horses, but the larger
day flies, and the Hst7ss, or Bot-hy
set them almost crazy.
Ewes and lambs are usually sepa-
rated in August, and while none OF
our domestic animals is more often
used as type of maternal affection
than the eve, yet the agony of sepa.
ration will be of short duration, and
not especially painful if TIE two
fiocks, dams and lambs, can be pas.
tured so far apart rs not to hear
each others calls. Ii is well to pu,
with lambs few wethers as flock
leaders, or ram or two if there is
danger of annoyance by passing
dogs. The ewes should be penned
and their milk drawn enough to re-
lieve their udders several evenings
IN succession after taking the lambs
away. Wounds on any kind of an
imals are liable to be hy-blown and
very annoying. The best treatment
that we know Of is an application OF
strong carbolic soap. That which
is sold as sheep dip is very good
but be careful not to use the arseni-
cal sheep dips or any thing of that
kind. Soft soap or semi-solid soap,
strongly impregnated with crude
carbolic acid is good, and any one
can make it. 1t will be found good
for all kinds of raw sores, gals, bites,
scratches and the like on man or
beast.
The place for pigs at this season
is IN the apple orchard; ; the falling
fruit is wormy, unless indeed gale
shakes off sound fruit, and the pigs
unconsciously slay thousands of in
FURIOUS insects.-Amric IN .Aqicul-
turfst for Auqust.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
The Republican Fiscal System.

/ With the final confirmation by
the Senate of the appointments for
members of the Tariff Commission,
and the passage py both Houses OF
Congress of the bill for the renewal
land extension of the charters of ex-
listing national hanks, the policy OF
the Republican party in q financial
point of view stands forth conspicu-
ously declared and pronounced by
the action OF the first Republican
Congress we have had since the
great treyulsion of1S73 and the Dem
ocratic reaction of 1874. The impor-
tance of this fact is too marked to
escape the attention of any sound
business man, and it may beconsid-
cred significant of what may be
expected from the party in power by
the masses of the people in case the
hands of that party shall be
strengthened by the ensuing State
and Congressional elections. The
action we refer TO is the work of a
session during the whole of which
all progress in favor of a protective
tariff and of the continuance of the
national bank system has been
desperately resisted by the main
body of the Democratic party 1t
might have been supposed that mas
much as the Democratic leaders of
Congress appeared to be, aware of
the overwhelming popularity both
of the protective policy and of the
national banking system, the Demo-
cratic members of the two houses of
Congress would have ceased an op-
position that could not possibly be
successful. For in three successive
Democratic Congresses that party
had entirely failed to pass n free
trade tariff or to mature any system
of banking or finance rs a substitute
for the fiscal policy so brilliantly
established and so successful under
Republican auspices. Nevertheless.
the whole session has been consumed
in what has literally been a Demo
cratic fight against time. Both par
ties have therefore placed themselves
conspicuously upon the record before
the whole country upon these two
great topics. The Republicans have
reafiirmed their tariff policy, and
have accented it by securing the
the appointment of a commission to
revise the whole revenue system, i'll
such way as to maintain the estab-
lished principles that operated 50
grandly for twenty-five years in
building up internal prosperity, do
mestic productions and foreign com
merce to unprecedented proportions,
and have carried much further the
remarkable financial system that
seems TO be inseparably blended with
the dominance of the Republican
party. On the other hand. the Dem
ocratic party has virtually affirmed
its invincible repugnance both to
the protective tariffpolicy and to the
financial system of the Republicans,
while at the sametime experience
has compelled them to acknowledge
their total inability to provide any
practical substitute for either system,
no matter how much the party
might be in power at Washington.
This, then, is the issue now present
ed TO the people of the whole country
for their consideration, in view of
the very important elections of the
pending campaign, with the possible
chance ola majority of incapables
being elected 10 the next Congress.
-Phiadelphia North american.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

SIR Henry Bessemer states that if
all the coal taken from the British
mines last year were formed into
cylindrical columns fifty feet in d.
ameter and five hundred feet in
height, and these were placed in a
row, their diameter apart. they
would make colonade elghty-fve
miles seven hundred and fifty yards
lonp
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

GALVESTON, July l9.-The follow
ing cable dispatch from the City OF
Mexico is Just received We have
had dry severe shock OF earthquake
here, lasting two minutes. People
were on their knees in the streets.
Not much damage was done, but
buildings could not have stood
much more shaking. The shock
was felt over nearly all the country y
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

In 1884 ell the table cutlery used
in the United States was imported
from England. To-day, of an an
nual consumption amounting to
s2,500,000 worth, not more than
eight per cent. comes from England.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
Hal, Storm in Dakota

DEADwooD Dak., July pa VI
olent rain and wind storm visited
the Belle Fourche, Big Bottom,
Spring Creek, and the lower White
Wood Valley last night, doing great
damage to the crops. During the
past week nearly half the crops in
the Black Hills have been destroy
od bv bail
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
Fears of Another Famine.

LoxDoy, July 1S.-A dispatch
from Dublin to the Times says: 1t
is feared that another crisis IS ap-
preaching. The weather threatens
utter destruction to what promised
to be one of the finest OF harvests
ever reaped in Ireland. The heavy
and almost incessant rain has land
low many fiourishing fields. Pota-
toes have suffered severely. If the
weather improves there would still
be hope of recovery.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

Arsenic poisoning is not always
to be traced TO green coloring. One
case was due TO red wall paper, and
the substance is found abundantlv
in white, gray, blue, mauve and
brown wall papers.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

He is great simpleton who inn
agines that the chief power of wealth
is to supply wants. In ninety cases
out OF a hundred it creates more
wants than itsupplies. Money and
.contentment do not always go hand
in hand.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

All plant organs swell and con-
tract odically every day. This
phenomenon IS due to variations IN
the amount OF water contained AZ
different periods during the twenty
four hours.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
A Child of Wealthy Parents kidnapp-
ed.

MONTREAL, July 1S.-l.ast night
a two year old child OF Melvin
Smith, a wealthy gentleman of this
city was abducted A note was left
on the child's pillow demanding
f10000 in gold as ransom, and
threateniEing the murder of the
child in case OF refusal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

Lydia f. Pinkbam's Vegetable
Compound ranks first as curative
Agent in all complaints peculiar TO
women. Cures Kidney troubles of
either sex.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02
Bright's Disease, Diabetes. Kidney
Liver or Urinary Diseases.

Have no fear of any of these dis
eases ifyou use Hop Bitters, as they
viii prevent and cure the worst
cases, even when you have heen
made worse by some great puffed
up pretended cure.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

The burlington Hawkeye gets of
this: The Pennsylvania greenback-
ers say they are hopeful So is a
man trying to cross the Atlantic on
plank"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

The first appearance of cotton as
an article of commerce was ship
ment of seven bales from Charles
ton, ). c., in l751.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

We cannot conquer fate and ne
cesslty, but we can yield to them in
SUCH way as to he greater than ii
we could.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

Seventy gold mines are AT work
IN Georgia. The belt in which the
mines are said to exist is expected
toproduce this year $4,000, 600 worth
of gold.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

Mississippi has 427, ,6S9 children
between the ages of six and twenty
years. There are 76, lS7 more blacks
than whites.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-02

A Canadian widow recently
achieved local notoriety by marry
ing her daughters widower eleven
weeks after the death of her hus-
band.