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ARTHUR'S ILLUSTRATED
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FOR 1875.

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The Life Insurance Agent.

About the best abused individual
OF modern times, we should say at
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agent. Like the apostle Paul,
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reviling, and their realized as
sets are more frequently curses
than currency; hence we transfer,
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"The knight-errant of MEDIEVAL
romance was the prototype of the
modern life insurance agent. The
true knight of oldcn times found
his glory in tile succor and protec-
ton he afforded the weak and de-
fenseless, the widow and the or
phan. 1t was the joy of his heart
to combat and destroy their cap
tors and tyrants, however mighty
and terrible. He was bound by
oath to do this whenever summon
ed to the rescue, but he was look
ed upon as faineant if he did not
voluntarily sally forth in search Of
opportunities to render service TO
the oppressed. He earned his re-
nown by enduring every kind of
hardship and facing every danger,
natural and supernatural, for the
sake of doing good to those who
needed and deserved it. But the
day has gone by in Christendom
for wrestling fair ladies and little
ones from the clutches of giants,
dwarfs, magicians, demons, drag
ons, and other monsters III human
and inhuman shapes. The strong,
brave, noble and kind-hearted are
no longer required to don their
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lron-bound gates, to penetrate
their noisome and black sub
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and liberty.
"There is, however q work
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comparison with those of the Cid,
or the most famous knight of the
Round Table. Hedpes more for
widows and orphans, for the help
less and dependent, in one year,
than ever did any dozen of the
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whole lives. For he is sustained
by grand and benefcent system
which magnifes his work hum
dred fold. He is the life insurance
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The Crops.
From the Courier-JournaI.l

From the Coarier-JOunal.l
The cotton area under cultiva-
ton at present is reported by the
various cotton exchanges and by
the Department of Agriculture in
percentages which would amount
to about 100000 to S,975,000
acres, against 9.250,000 acres in
1875. The crop was planted few
days later than the last, and there
has also been more rain in some
sections than was needed. The
condition Of the crop is conse-
qucntly reported less favorable
than at the corresponding date of
last year.
The food crops we're probably
never more promising, and the
present prospects are that the
yield Of all the earlier cereals will
be the largest known. OF the late
cereals, such as corn, it can be
only known that the acreage is of
the largest breadth. There are
hazards surrounding them all, but
the situation was never more
gratifying. The California wheat
exports will be about 200, 900 tons
larger than last year, a gain of
nearly fifty per cent.
So far. there is no crop of which
We have knowledge, reported or
otherwise, than favorable, with
the exception of leaf tobacco. The
latter has been recently coming
out" to q surprising degree, and
with as good weather conditions
as the present there will be proba-
bly, good average acreage
planted after all.
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