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field while it was being plowed. The
fowls followed the pillow closely. picking
up every cut-worm exposed, and search
ing every furrow for more. There is no
other way of Kidding the fields of these
vermin but by encouraging their natural
enemies. These are crows and black
birds which devour the grubs, and
skunks and moles which devour both
the grubs and the beetles, of which
they are the larvae. While these crea-
lures are killed or driven of, we shall
suffer from the depredations of the in
sects which are their natural prey. To
prevent the destruction of the young
corn by the cut-worms to some extent,
the seed should be rolled in common
pine tar and then dried in plaster be-
fore it is Owl
SMUT IN GRAIN.-Smut is caused by
parasitic fungus long known to botanists
by the name of Ustilago Maids, and it
has frequently been described and
figured in botanical works. Its develop
ment for growth is also pretty well I'M
stood. The fungus grows from very
minute spores, which are produced by
millions, but exactly as to how these
spores react and infest the growing
corn, I can find nowhere any definite
information, nor have I seen any data
relativet to preventives. We are here left
to surmises and a~nalogies.
Smut in wheat is produced by a SINH
lar fungus, similar in its botanical
characters, in its results, and this wheat
smut fungus is much better known. 1t
is proved that this gains access to the
plant through the seed. The spores are
sticky and adhere to the sound grain at
harvest or thrashing, and are sown with
the seed wheat. As the new wheat
plant grows, the fungusdevelops in due
time with it, ripening its spores at
harvest. The spores may be killed and
the crop saved by soaking the seed
wheat in strong brine, or in a weak So
luton of sulphate of copper, commonly
known as the blue vitriol or blue stone.
CThe proportions used are two to five
ounces Of the crystals per bushel of
| wheat. 1t would be well to try the
same remedies with corn. 1 have seen
this recommended, but 1 have no infor-
nation whatever as to the results.
| Corn-smut is rarely abundant enough
to seriously affect the crop, and is prin-
| cipally dreaded because it is poisonous
to the cattle. PROF. Brewer.
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BILLINGS Il

1t liz so natral to SANDER people be-
hind their backs, that they hav thought
thare couldn't be much sin i'll it.
The only purely immodest and i'm
moral kreature that Providence haz ever
kreated liz man.
Thare IL n CRATE menny people IN this
world who are constitushionally oppozed
to gambling simply bekauze they kant
win.
Jealousy IL another name for self
love.
1t IL vary eazy to mistake invektive
for sarkasm, but thare liz az mulch diff
| ference az thare IL between the sting
ov a hornet and the sting ov con
shience.
Buty is a short-lived sukcess, and an
other name for effeminacy.
Politeness will win oftner than logick
| will.
A wize man sees out ov both eyes, a
cunning man only out ov II
1t il the prudes in this world that
need watching, coquets are too kareless
to be dangerous.
No man haz a right to be Disguised
with the world until he haz bekum
thoroly disguised with himself.
Figures are like fire, they are good
servants but bad masters, they hav
made and ruined the fortunes ov the
world.
l hav often known men to admit that
they waz loseing their memorys, but
never knu one think he waz loseing hiz
common sense.
Most people think they hav repented
ov their sins when they hav suckceeded
in forgetting them.
"Virtew il its own reward, and it
is a we'll known fakt that it liz too often
the only reward it gifts in this world.
Prosperity seldum makes heros.
Envy IL q pashun which every one
possesses, and one which every one IL
anxious to hide. o.
A truly humble and penitent person
never haz emmy time to hunt for faults
in others.
am alwuss more than half suspicious
ov them kind ov pholks who kant talk 5
minnitts with you, on emmy subject,
without expressing CRATE anxiety about
the salvation " your soul.
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at them. Such q scared looking cfoWd
was enough to amuse an owl, so L
laughed. 1 knew it vas unbecoming,
but 1 couldn't have helped it if they
had chucked me into my coffin-which
the undertaken was just then carrying
by the window-and buried me the next
minute. I laughed until I Jared the
chair out from under one end of the
board, and down I went with a crash.
Then the doctor ventured into the room,
saying rather obviously:
$50 you are not dead yet, Benz"
"Well, no, not exactly L replied;
"sorry to disappoint my friend about
the funeral, however"
"Yes,"h he said rather absently, "bad,
rather-that is-ahem"
Cooled out Of that snutf-colored
stripe!" 1 thought as 1 looked at Jeru-
sha.
$50 and speak with him." said her
father in a stage whisper. "He's got
the stamps, ard you had better marry
him after ALL"
They began to gather around me and
congratulate me on my escape. noticed
that they cried a great deal more now
than they did when was dead. Jeru-
sha came and hung around my neck,
sniveling desperately. l gave her a not
over-gentle push and told her to wait
next time until I was safely buried be-
fore she set her heart on my old
clothes.
"Oh, 1 am so glad y she said sweetly,
without appearing to notice what 1 said
about the clothes-"that yon are not
dead, Benny, dear. My heart seemed
| all withered and broken to see yon ly-
ing all cold and white. I wept bitterly
over your pale face, my beloved
"Yes,"I replied, "Iheard you and
Bob taking on terribly. 1t was a lucky
die for me-"
Gould you hear?' she gasped.
81 rather think could-some," Ire
piled. ..
She looked toward the door but 1t
was crowded full, so she made a dive
for the open window, and went through
it like a deer. She shut herself up l II
the smoke house, and would not come
| ont until after / had left the house.
Bob would not fulfill his promise OF
marriage with his cousin because she
tried to make up with me again so she
is living a life of single b~lesssdness.
While L am writing, my wife Is
cutting up my s~nuff-colored clothes to
make a stripe in a new carpet for our
| front room.
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HOODLAND IN ENGLAND.

Front the official agricultural statistics
of Great Britain, it seems that less than
4 per cent. of the whole surface of En-
gland and Wales-that is. 1,453,OOO
acres out of a total of 3~7,319,0OO acres
is occupied by woods. coppices, and
plantations. Sussex is the only county
that returns more than 100, 900 acres of
wood, nearly IL per cent. of its area be-
ing thus clothed. The woods of Hamp-
shire are next in magnitude, embracing
s. 1000 acres, or II per cent. of the area
of the county. Kent follows, with 49,
900 acres of woodland ; and then Sur
rey, with As, 900 acres. nearly one-tenth
of its area.
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THE SNU FF. COLORED SUIT.

LII DIV oCIl.
Iscarcely know how it happened, butts
timber must have fell and struck me on
the head.
The first thing that 1 realized after it
was that 1 was straight and still on
something hard, and when l tried to
move myself and speak. l found it i'm
possible to do SO. / concluded that l
must be in some very tight, dark place
for 1 could not see; intact soon learned
that, tho perfectly conscious, 1 could
do nothing but hear. A door opened
and footsteps approached; but 1 felt a
cloth taken from my face, and a voice
which Recognized as that of Mr.. Jones,
the father of my wife that was to be
said:
"He hasn't changed MUCH" and his
companion, whose, voice l knew to be
the village undertaken, Hopkinsbyname,
lightly:
Better looking dead than alive. How
does Jerusha feel about it? take ON
much?'
ooh, no, she had her eye on another
fellow anyhow, and a better match, too
excepting the money part. Though l
had nothing against Ben, only he didn't
know much, and was about the home
lest man I ever knew. Such a mouth;
why it really seemed as though he was
going to swallow knife, plate, and all,
when he opened it at dinner"
WELL" said the cheerful voice of
Hopkins, "he'n never open his mouth
again." and then he proceeded to meas
IRE me for my coffin, for it seemed
that 1 was dead, or they thought was,
which was all the same to the greedy
pocket of the undertaken. 1 had heard
of undertakers who always whistled
joyfully when they got a measure, but
[ never believed it before. But that
man actually whistled subdued dancing
tune while he measured me, and it
seemed to me that three or four icicles
were rolling down my back, to the music
of his whistle.
His duty done, they covered my face
again and left me to my W reflections,
which were not particularly comforting,
although I had often heard itremarked,
that meditation was good for the soul,
and this was the best chance l had ever
had of trying it.
An hour must have passed when the
door again opened, and two persons
came whispering along to where I lay,
and the voice of my promised wife fell
upon my ear
81 dread to look at him, Bob; he was
so mortal homely, alive, he must be
frightful, dead"
ground my teeth in Imagination, as
I remembered how often she had gone
into raptures, or pretended to, over my
noble brow, and expressive mouth; and
how she had often declared that if l
were taken away from her she would
surely pine away and die.
One of them raised the cloth, and /
knew they were looking at me. Bob
was her second cosin, and l knew he was
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EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

C~HARLEsrowS, Mass, March 10, 1853.
Mr.. II. RI STEVENS:
This is TO certify that I have used your Blood
Preparation" (v8aErINE) In my family for several
years, and think that for Scrofula or Cankeroua
Humors, or Rheumatic affections, IL cannot be ex-
celled and az q blood purifier and Spring medt-
cine It is the best thing l have ever used, and 1
have used almost everything. I can cheeIfuly
1t to any in need Of such q medicine.
Yours respectfully,
MRS. A. A. DINSM0RE,
10 Russell Street.
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A MILWAUKEE man has applied for a
patent on a fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb on a small rub
Der ball, projects a stream of ink
through the holder and into the face of
the fellow who is looking over your
shoulder while you are writing.
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"Truth is Mighty, and will Prevail"
VEGETINE
STORES THE HEALTH.
SEVENTY.ONE YEARS OF AGE.
sEVENTY.0NE YEARS OF AGE.
EAST MARsHFIxLp, Aug. %, 1870.

EAST MARsHFIELp, Aus. ., 1870.
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS:
Dear sir-I am seventy-one wears OF age; have
suffered many years with Kidney Complaint,
weakness in my back and stomach. i WAS induced
by friends to try your yKGEriSE, and l think it
the best medicine for weakness Il the Kidneys 1
ever used. l have tried many remedies for this
complaint, and never found so much relief as from
the vxGKTISE. 1t strengthens ana invieorates the
whole system. Many Of my acquain.ances have
taken II, and l believe IL to be good for all the COM
plants for which II Is recommended.
Yours truly,
Josiah II.
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NiGDALFN.

A mere girl:
One coarse curl
Falling on her shoulder;
Pale her cheek,
Her lips weak,
But her eyes were holder.
She no saint
Glaring paint
Daubed on every feature;
Gaudy dress
All could guess
poor fallen creature.
For no good
There she stood,
No = passing nesr her;
Space kept wide;
Dress aside,
Women seemed to fear her.
Carriage crashed,
Horses dashed.
There was valid confusion;
People cried,
Terrified
Al the mad intrusion.
Mid the crowd.
Shrieking loud
In a voice of terror.
mother wild,
A little child,
Lost by some strange error.
All! twas there!
lis head bare,
Mid those whirling forces.
In the street,
Meath the feet
OF the maddened horses.
Though all heard.
No one stirred
Death would be the winner
One brave eye;
One sharp cry;
Twas the painted sinner!
Quicker then
Than the pen
Conld tell OF half the danger,
She risked her life,
Mid that strife,
To save . little stranger.
And l thought,
AsI caught
4 glimpse of her pale features,
Mid the stains
Still remains
Some good i'll those poor creatures;
And that we
Should no. be
So eager aye 10 shun them,
If We can
Greet the man
Whose wrong hath ndone them.
IeT York Eyening Post.
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WHAT IS NEEDED.
Boston, Feb. IS, la1.

Mr.. II. r. STEVENS:
Dear one year since l found myselttn
q feeble condition from general debility. EEah,
TINE was strongly ed to me ny ailenu
who had been much benefited by its use. l pro-
cured the article, and, after using several bottIess
was restored to health, and discontinued IT'S use.
l feel quite confident that there IL no medicine
superior TO it for those complaints for which u IN
especially prepared, and would cheerfully recon-
mend IL to those who feel that they need some
thing to restore them to perfect health.
Respectfully yours
U. l.. ~PETTINGILL,
Firm of s. n. Pettingill & Co., 10 State ST., Boston
yEaErINE extends It's Influence into every par.
OF the human organism, commencing Win u.
foundation, correcting diseased action and restol,
ing vital mowers, creating q healthy formation ah1
publication of the blood, driving out dtsease; anu
leaving Nature 10 perform its aiiotteu TASK Wv"
ErIsR is sold by all druggists,
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Economy. comfort. looks. all combine to
make SILVER TIPPED Shoes indispensable
for children. Try them. Never wear through
at the toe.
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LICK, the California Peabody, is an
infidel.
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the benefit was still apparent after the
expiration of twenty years.
LEARNING FARMING.-The New York
World says: Again and again-and
especially at this season of the year-do
young men ask advice of agricultural
editors as to the best way to learn farm
ing. The answer in all cases is simple
and brief: GO to work on the best
farm and under the direction of the best
farmer you can find who will accept
your services. There is other way-no
schools nor system of study that will 30
quickly make a farmer of a young man ;
but he should not neglect to study.
Every agency that he can employ to
give him a better insight into the scien-
tiic features Of husbandry should be
employed even when his bones ache with
labor of the day, his mind may work ;
and two hours daily given to wise read
ing or study will enable him to accu-
mulate a vast amount of theoretical as
well as practical information from the
recorded experience of others.
CUT-WoRMs.-The New York Times
says: We have succeeded in greatly
reducing the number of this pest by
enticing a flock of poultry into the
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-03-20

The distribution will be in public. and will be
made under the same form ana regulations as the
San francisco and Louisville Library Hiit Con-
certs, under The supervision OF committee of
prominent Citizens selected by the iicke et holders.
Reference as to the integrity Of the enterprise
aud ofthe management is made to the following
well known citizens:
sam. l.. Tibbals a. Toponce. j. Malsh, j. II.
Gerrish-M embers Of City Council.
Judge !: }. Elack. Asst L. :. Assessor; Malsh
GTeenwald. PIdprietors No tropniitan Hotel; Eu-
sine Moore, City Marsha / !. "; ". Hui, Arch
tect; kehoe.. Constable; j. Kupfer. Jeweler ;
Capt: :. Howe, contraotor; Q; d; Richmond Co.
toE Of csntrsl Hotel; Singleton Creath. Pro-
prietors Pacific Stables; ). r. Hitch. Merchant
Dandy. Utah A. u. Garrison. Helena. Montana.
We will also announce that each aud every per
son buying ticket can at any and all times GxaIn-
Inc our books and all lsiness transactions con-
neeted with the enterpr Use and us the drawing Of
prizes will be placed in tho hands oil honest and
dlsinterested men. ii will insure a fair aud IN
partial distribution.
Good Responsible agents Wanted. Liber.
al COmmi ssiOn Allowed.
AS-Msney should be sent by Express or by Draft
on any solvent bank. by Post Office Money Order
or Registered Letter, at our risk. For particulars
address.
z. w. MORGAN, Manager.
jsn23-d3m Lock Box l5S. Corinne. Utah.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-03-20
100000 TlCkETS,
PRICE, Sl.OO EACH.
OR SIX FOR FIVE DOLLARS
82Q6,5OO in Gifts
AS FOLLOWS
ONE CHANCE IN EMERY NINE q

81 ,ss4 Cash Gifts amounting to........... $40.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24

DEATH OF A MEMBER OF THE LEE
FAM1LY.-The venerable Mrs. Ann NJ.
Fitzhugh died at her residence in Alexan-
dria, Va, on Friday night last, in the six
ty-seventh year Of her age. She was a
Miss Goldsborough, daughter of Governor
Goldsborough, of Maryland, and family
long distinguished in that State. Her
husband was William III. Fitzhugh, of
Ravensworth, Fairfax county, Va, a gen.
tleman of fine promise and rare accom-
plishments, but who died young. George
W. Parke GUSTS married his sister, and
thus came the connection of the Lee
and Fitzhugh families. The will of
MIS-: Fltzhugh, Which was opened to
see if she had left any orders concerning
the disposal OF her remains, bestows the
bulk of her property upon the children Of
the late General r. Z. Lee, relatives of
her husband, by whom it was bequeathed
to her. She was worth two hundred thou
sand dollars III bonds, stocks and money in
addition to her large landed estates. The
RavensWorth estate goes to General r. E.
Lees children. General Fitzhugh Lee
gets portion of Richland and $1,000
The rest of the Richland and Arkindale
estates is divided equally among General
Fitz. Lees four brothers, Henry, Smith,
John and Daniel, MI. R. G. Lee receiving
the late residence of Mrs. Fitzhugh, in
Alexandria, and $1,000, and an annuity of
$500, not, however, to come into possession
of the house until after the expiration of
five years, during which time his mother is
to occupy it. Mr.. Charles Carr and his
sister, Miss Eliza, each receive $40, O0O.-
The Goldsborough's of Maryland. are also
remembered, and William Burke, the din.
ing room Servant, gets the cottage in which
he lives and $4,000.
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Lynchburg, Va, is earning bad name
by dragging people. Lately a respectable
school teacher was drugged and died on
an old colored man from Charlotte county
was drugged and robbed there
twenty-five acres of land on the Valley
turnpike, near Winchester, va, We're sold
a few days ago for seventy two dollars
yer acre, said to be higher price than
land in that neighborhood has brought for
number of years.
Mrs. Hall, the s'young widow with two
children - whose deserving husband leaped
from the cars last week, has gone back to
settle in Charlottesville, Va. The truant
bridegroom has not yet reported for duty.
There is an active contest going on in
Fredericksburg for the mayoralty. Major
w: Roy Mason, and Capt. Hugh S. Dog
gett are so far announced, and other eandi
dates are spoken Of.
Whilst Mr.. G. Thompson, who lives near
Beaver Dam, in Louisa county, was alb
sent at church last Saturday evening, his
residence was destroyed by fire.
A New Hampshire town defrayed the
expense of providing municipal hearse nv
giving fancy dress ball.
Forty wagons loaded with tobacco, pass
ed through Christlansburg Monday. going
to Lynchburg.
An unavailable letter for c. H. Hunter,
of Staunton, is advertised in the LYNCH
burg papers.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24

A WOMAN AFTER ALL THAT 'SAYED
THE UNION. 1.-THE great western cam
paign of the Federal troops that split the
Confederacy, it appears now from the Of
fetal record, was planned by Miss Anna
Ella Carroll of Maryland. She asserts that
to her alone belongs the credit OF the
movement in the West by which Tennes-
see was made the base of operations for
the opening of the Mississippi river, and
in support of her claim produces very sub
stantial evidence Colonel Thomas A.
Scott, who was at the time Assistant Sec
rotary of War, gives Miss Carroll the fol-
lowing conclusive certificate
''On OF about the 30th of November,
1861, Miss Carroll, as stated IN her memo
rial, called on me, as assistant secretary OF
war, and suggested the propriety OF aban-
doning the expedition which was then pre-
pairing to descend the Mississippi river and
to adopt instead the Tennessee river, and
handed to me the plan of campaign, as APP
pended to her memorial, which plan I sub
mitted to the Secretary of War. and it's
general ideas were adopted. On my re-
turn from the southwest, in 1862, l inform
ed Miss Carroll, as she states in her memo
rial, that through the adoption of this plan
the country had been saved millions, and
that it entitled her to the kind considera-
ton of Congress-"
This is backed up by the testimony of
Hon. Ben. Wade, who says both Lincoln
and Stanton informed him that the credit
of the Tennessee campaign was due to
Miss Carroll. Reverdy johnson and human
Smith, also lend her their names, and even
the Senate Committee on Military Affairs
of the time, reported favorably on her
claim.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24

SAD EXPERIENCE IN GONG WEST
Quite number of the citizens OF this
county went on an emigrant excursion
train to Omaha some few weeks ago, with
the intention of finding homes and reap
ing the fortune which they supposed was
in store for every man who went vest
On Tuesday several of these returned, and
right glad were they to breathe again, their
native air, and behold once more the beau
tiful and productive Valley thanked on
either side by majestic mountains. They
report experiencing intensely cold 5 wealth
Ell. and seeing snow and ice all through the
West, beginning in Illinois. They could
get nothing to do, and returned home
with a poor opinion of the philosopher who
advised young men to go West, and with
a better appreciation of their native State.
Some of those who went from this county
could not get home again, though they
longed to, on account Of their funds run
ming short, but expect to do so at the ear
lest convenience.
This experience will go far toward Gu
ring the Western fever. Buckingham "a. J
Commonwealth.
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CHARITABLE BEoUEsr.-It has been
stated that VIM. SHAKESPEARE Caldwell, of
New York, carrying out the will of his sis
ter, Mrs. Herndon, formerly of Fredericks-
burg, Va, has given S25o,0o0 to establish
the s'St. Sophia's Home for Old People, y
at Richmond, under the care of the
Catholic order known as 'sThe Little Sis
tiers of the Poor Sister Sidonie Joseph
to be at its head. 1t is to be open to the white
poorpeople of all religions, who are Of good
moral character, the only provision be-
ing that aged poor from Fredericksburg
shall, to the number of twenty have tie
preference. The bill Incorporating the in
stitution passed the House and Senate, and
was approved by the Governor. just as
mis- noble work Of humanity was COLI
cluded, Mr.. Caldwell, who was stopping
at the st. James Hotel in Richmond, was
stricken by paralysis. He is a son of MALL
ager Caldwell who was the manager of the
Richmond Theatre in 1927, and is said to
be worth So, 100000.