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National Republican., 1883-01-02

49, Posr OFFICE NOTICE
Foreign mails for the week ending JANUARY 0
will close nt this Office follows:
TUISDAN.--At $50 q, m. for Europe per steamship
Wyoming, wa tlu2eu8toWn' ~ y. M lot NbutWsO
aud t.ieufuegus Cuba per steamship Satngo.
WEDNFSDA N.--At q. m. for furOpe per steam
ship Catalonia, VIA Queenstown Oeters iqr Hcni-
land Und FrdnCe must be directed per Catalonia y
at "a, M for France direct per steamship Labrador
ship Bolivia, via Glasgow; ~ llW a. IN. for the
Netherlands direct, per steamship Mas via Rot
terdam at 1880 y. m, for Venezuela and Curhcoa
pcr steamship CirucaH
THtRsDAY.-4Nt a. IN. for the West Indies, via ST.
Thomas; and Tor Brazil direct, per steamship led
dngtOn, via Newport News NJ 10 H. m. for B1rupe.
per scamship city Of New York via Queenstown
tlctters Tor Germany ana France must be directed
per CITY OF New York y; at II a. NJ. for Europe,
per steamship Sesia, Win Plymouth. Cherbourg,
Mexico, per steamship city OF Merida via Havana.
SAIURDAN.--At 10 u, m. for Port I,lnon AMI Grey
town. per steamship Clnudiugi at IL a. m. for Ger.
ninny Sc. per steamship ODER via southampton
and Bremen letters for Great Britain and other
European countries must he directed per " oder ~;
Ut 1880 A. M, for Europe per steamship Britanulc,
via Queenstown 0pttcrs for Germany. &c, must he
directed "per britannia ~ at p IN. for Belgium di.
roCt per STE mship aeslnnd, Win Antwerp: At 1870
y. M, for Cuba and Porto llcU, per steamship New
purt, via IInvuua,
Malls for China aud Japan. per steamship City OF
1ukiur vinSRu Francisco, close Jan iiry F2at y. NJ
Mails for Australia, New Zealand. Sandwich and
Fiji Islands. per sleamshp Australia. via san
Francisco. close January lat y, m, o-,,-, a
AThc schedule Of closes Of Trnus-pacihc mails is Az
ranged on the basis Of an unlnterrupted overland
transit to San Francisco. Mails nom the Eastnrriving
ON time ut san Francisco ON the dny of sailing OF
steamers are dispatched the same dnv
HENRY q. PEARSON, Postmaster.
~ a#r.r NastNH Hoo
National Republican., 1883-01-02
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

n15fsOFFlCE OF THE WASHINGTON MAR.
49, ket Company. December a. iss2-The Board
of Directors have this day declared dividend of
twenty-five cents share payable AZ the office of the
company, seventh street Wing, and after Tuesday
January . iS Trnnsfer books will be closed Decem-
SAMUEL W. CURRIDEN.
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Curious Criminal Romance.

A dispatch to the New York Times
from Cochecton. o., tells his curious
story: About thirty years ago man
came to the village who gave his name
as James Gardner. He was an English
man, and for some time worked as a
farm laborer, although he had an abund-
ance of money. One of the farmers by
whom he was employed was named
Mitchell, and this nj n had daughter
named Matilda. After short acquaint-
ence The couple were married, and
Gardner bought farm near the village
and settled down. This was in the year
1854. During their residence there the
couple were blessed with five children,
four of whom are known to be alive. In
the year 1867, accompanied by their
children, they sailed fer England. Ar
irving in the latter country Mrs. Gard
ner discovered that her husbands name
was not Gardner, but Isaac Poole. and
also that he had been forced to leave
England on account of crimes committed
there. After his wife made this discoy-
cry Gardner deserted her and she was
compelled to return to her old home on
the farm. This she did in the year 1871.
bringing all her children with her. Last
August Mrs. Gardner was accidentally
killed on the Erie Railroad; the four
children separated, and their where
abouts were unknown week ago, when
dispatch came from England, an
nouncing that Isaac Poole, known as
James Gardner, had diea in England,
leaving an estate at 81 ,000J LOO to his in
injured wife and children in America.
r. NJ. Moore, a lawyer Of Passaic,
n. j., is charged to find the missing
heirs.
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Farming Paragraphs.

A correspondent Of the Country Gen.
tleman reports new enemy to the POI
tato in the share of a weevil which
preys upon the stock, entering it near
the ground, consuming the pith aud
causing the stalk to dry up and die.
The editor advises burning the affected
vines and roots, as soon as the insects
work is noticed.
The New York Times reminds farmers
that smut is rapidly increasing, few
crops being free from it. A solution of
four ounces of blue vitrol-sulphate of
copper-dissolved in gallon of water
for each five bushels of seed, VIII CHI is
stepped i'll it until it is absorbed, has
been found the most effective TO destroy
the minute spores which produce the
fungus.
Provide variety of feed for the hogs.
Do not feed corn alone. Feed the
pumpkins that you raised among the
corn. Pick up the potatoes too small
for market and the fallen apples not
wanted for cider, and feed them to the
hogs. Swing your large iron kettle in
the hog lot and cook those turnips you
have raised on the early potato patch;
mix with turnips, bran, corn-meal, and
a very little salt, and feed in troughs.
See that the hogs get ashes, charcoal
and salt regularly. Save all vegetable
scraps and greasy water and refuse milk
for the slop barrel, which keep one
third full of bran and cOrn-meal. Begin
feeding the hogs three light meals per
day.
No farmer, says-the New York Times,
should omit to steep his seed wheat in
some caIstic solution that will destroy
the germs of rust and smut. A luton
of four ounces Of blue vitri0l-sulPhat
of copper-dissoved in gallon of water
for each five bushels of seed, viii h is
stepped in it till it is absorbed, has been
found the most effective. Strong lime
water, salt brine, and old chamber lye,
which contains large quantity of ana
monia, have all been used with benefit
Smut is rapidly increasing. Few grain
crops are free from it, and all we can do
to help ourselves to prevent it is to use
these precautions.
The Albany Evening Journal, in an
swer to the question, "What holidays a
farm hand that hires out by the year is
entitled to?" discourses pleasantly
about the duties and privileges of farm
service and closes as follows: "a farm
hand is entitled to as many holidays as
the season and the work can spare to
him without causing real loss; OF course
ne is supposed to Go the work involved
in caring for live stock seven days in the
week; and as for hours, he should be as
willing to work fifteen day in the stress
of harvest or shearing as he is TO work
three and hall in Idle winter weather.
But he can have better guarantee for
himself than most of the operatives
whose hours and holidays are fixed by
law or usage, by being contented and
cheerful about his work, BY watching
his employers interests, and by trying
to make himself the most valuable farm
hand in the section. They say that that
sort of man has grown scarce on
American farmsO
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Begging of the President.

Ina compartment of large walnut
bookcase at the White House, num-
Der OF large brown envelopes are piled,
marked eccentric" Their contents
are, in the main, begging letters from
all parts of the United States, addressed
10 the president for aid in carrying out
private enterprises. One is from lady
who signs herself music teacher, who
asks the president to purchase her a pi-
auo, in order that she may give music
lessons to support herself. Another,
from veteran of the late war, calls at
tentiOn to the iact that his pension has
been delayed too long to suit him, and
prompt action is urged in the matter
All sorts of schemes are proposed for the
distribution of the presidents salary.
but thus far he has declined to pay any
attention to the letters. A persistent
crank sends weekly communication in
relation to patent for perpetual motion.
with the suggestion that few thousand
dollars are alone needed to insure Its
success. but the brief eccentric" on the
package is the only consideration that
it obtains. Nearly all of these letters
are received and opened by the presi-
dent, who refers them to his secretary
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Willis and Heirs.

An action full of fine moral courage,
which vas brought before the English
courts lately, would have delighted the
soul OF Tdackeray. 1t might nave been
the deed of his own Henry Esmond.
A Colonel T. became twenty years ago
the heir to large estate, by the death
of his elder brother. In 1881 he re-
ceived the intimation that this brother
had been privately married, and that a
child, born of this marriage, mad been
left at nurse in a certain village of York
shire. Colonel T., who was with his
regiment in India, obtained furlough,
and set lawyers and detectives to work
to trace the lost child.
1t was found that it had been sent to
an almshouse, and there all trace Of il
was lost But the co onel was not sal
ished. He pursued his inquiries for a
year for this child, who, if discovered
would gispossess him of his inheritance.
The missing heir was found at last in
the person OF an educated seryant-maid
in farmers family Colonel L, as soon
as the legal proof of her identity was
established, went to her, told her OF
her good fortune, placed her in the care
of teachers and masters, ana made over
the property to her; and then having
thus performed his duty as an honOra-
bic English gentleman, returned to has
regiment poorer but nober man.
Another story equally true, and even
more dramatic, comes from the records
of the Marlborough Assizes. Robert
Baldwin made Will disnheyiting his
eldest son, George, and giving his estate
to his son John. Soon after he became
childish, and so continued until his
death; his son, George, having found
the WILL hid it, and entered into pos
session of the estate; which lie held for
twenty-one years.
At the end of that time he, in turn,
became inceused at his elder son, Rob-
ert, and made will in favor Of the sec
ond boy, Edwin. Edwin, however was
extremely fond of his brother, and in
order to prevent this injustice, by which
he was to benefit, he opened the secret
drawer of his fathers desk to destroy
the will. lie there found his grandfath-
er's will, by which the entire estate was
left to his Uncle John This document
he show ed to his brother, and the two
men resolved that justice should at last
be done, and carried it to their uncle,
who entered suit for his delayed rights.
1.-THE Jury" we are told. found yer
dict Tor the plaintiff; who was thus re-
stored to his estate after twenty. five
years"
Another anecdote narrated as a fact is
that of certain miser named Case in
Wool~ich, who collected all his kinsfolk,
and told them that if any Of them
crossed his threshold, he would not leave
them penny. When the cid man be-
came Ill, however, one of them, IA little
girl took pity on him; and in spite of
his incessant abuse and threats, nursed
and waited on him. 1t was found after
his dea L that he had made her his sole
heiTcss.
Fact IS not only sometim IS stranger
than fiction, but always more just in its
awards.-Youth's Companion.
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WHY Money is Like Powder

Henry W-rd Beecher,
The worst use men can make of wealth
is to hoard it. Riches that are simply
laid up, and that are never used, are
squandered. Money is like powder-no
good till It goes off. A man who has a
large amount Of property and does not
spend it, does not enjoy it. He is
nothing but a Waterman of his own
property Now, hold that man does
not speud his money selhshly who
makes himself an OBJECT of admiration
and affection in the community. | hold
that a man has a right to spend his
money on his house. But where q man
has acquired house he ought
to make his house beautl al
with books and ali the embeIlish-
msAts OF art. He ought to make it the
most beautiful place on earth to him and
his wife and children. But as man
who is a Christian, a right to spend go
much money on himself aud family
when there are SO many noble uses to
which it could be put? l think 1t is
grand thing for a man to spend money
m a professors hlp, build hospitals, erect
churches. But / declare that II man
= ho raises five or six sons and daugh-
ters 10 noble and intelligent manhood
and womanhood. to a IL OF integrity
and usefulness, has given to society the
noblest Institution this side of heaven
ITSELF
Well, next to that, of course, a man
must use his funds for The purpose Of
lettering the community in which he
lives: for its identification, publication
aud intelligence. The man who has
ha1. the protection of laws by which he
has gained his wealth and boards it all
up. is the mes. ungratefCl of beings
The rich men of community should
see to it that the community fares we'll;
that II has libraries, reading rooms,
with all the privileges of shade trees,
parks. fountans-tbese are the things
that rich men should do.
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REST FOR THE WEARY.
A Raornedy Recommended for Nerv-
GUS Preservation.

A Raemedy Recommended for Merry
GUS ProstTation.
FIR m the Providence Journal.
bare is an unusual amount of illness
III autumn of the type known as
"n srvous prostration." It is prevalent
an eng hardworked people WHO have
be a deprived of tie needed summer
rel and relaxation, men who carry
TIN II business home with them every
mis- ht, AID women who are worn out by
do aestic cares and worries. II is very
str ange how much we are told about
food, clothing, ventilation, drainage, ex.
ertise and other things which have an
influence on our health, and how very
seldom we think OF rest. And yet, as a
remedial and restorative measure, it is
of the first importance in many cases.
Most physicians know what 10 do and
when to do it, but 90 deal Of common
sense is required to discover how not to
do something and when to let the patient
alone. A combination Of drugging and
fretting kills more than half the sick
people in the world. A mans enemies
can rot do him near so much damage as
his friends The world Is possessed
With the notion that when man is TAX
q iii q terrible ito must be Kept up, n
alienation of nursing and iussing, WnI!e
preternaiurally wise and whispering
doctors, sympathizing friends, fearful
relatives and chatting nurses add their
contributions to the wrong side, and all
because somebody is Ill and needs chief
ly rest We have not yet, most of US,
gotten rid of the old notion of the an
clients that disease is personality, some
thing that is in the air, that travel 5aUout,
enters our dwellidg5, and finally selz-s
hold US; something akin, in the minds
Of the ignorant, 10 a goblin. ghost, iend,
demon or witch, which only pills
or potations can exercise, kill or
cure We are confident that
many a sensible physician will say, ii
the patient will let him, that twothirds
of all the maladies Of all the people in
the world would get well in few hours
or days, if left to themselves with no
other appliances than such as instinct
would suggest and common sense en-
ploy But the patients often estimate
the Doctors skill by the wonderfully
wise look which he assumes, and the
extent or variety of his pr"scri ptions;
an a sick mans riends hate to seem
unsymBathizing, and so are apt to be
offici0us 1t is to be understood, of
course, that We are not speaking of ex-
treme cases, but of the treatment Of
most of the ills which flesh is heir to-
the troubles which come upon over
worked men and women, SO many OF
whom We find all around us in this push
ing, competitive age. Their best rem
edy, if they can take it, is rest. If that
be impossible, we can only pity them.
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The Best Remedy.

The Providence Journal, in deep SYM
patty, is moved to remark: we are
confident that many asensible physician
will say, If thu patient will let him, that
two-thirds Of all the malades ofall the
people in the world would get well in a
few hours or days il left to themselves,
with no other appliances than such as
instinct would suggest and common
sense employ. But patients Of ten est =
mate the doctors skill by the wonderfully
wise look shich he assumes and the ex-
tent or variety OF his prescri otlons;
and a sick mans friends bate to seem
unsym pathizng, and SO are apt to be Of
ficious. 1t is to be understood. Of course,
that we are not speaking OF extreme
cases. but of the treatment OF most
of the ills which flesh is heir to-the
troubles which cocce upon overWorked
men and women, so many OF whom we
find all around us in this pushing. com
petive age. Their best remedy, II they
can take it, is resi-"
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Keep the Babies Warm

How to keep babies warm in winter is
always a problem. The best way is not
only to provide them with knitted or
merino underwear, but also with little
sacks to wear outside their white dress
IS. These can easily be made either in
fne-checked flannel or crocheted; they
need not be shaped at all, but simply cut
in plain, straight pieces for back and
front, space being left for sleeves, and
narrow hem at the neck, provided
with a fine ribbon string so that it can
be drawn to fit. The sleeves should be
made with hem at the wrist so that
they tan be tied in the same way, fitting
tightly to the little arm. Such little
acks add immensely to the warmth
and therefore to the comfort of the lit
tie one, and it is impossible to overesti-
mate the value of warmth in the health
of small children. Circulation is so fee
BILE with them that heat must be induced
by artificial means. Lace caps for out
door ear, even when lined, are scarcely
warm enough. Very pretty hoods can
be made by knitting in white wool and
trimming with sWansdoWn
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Warmth and pnre Air for Stock.

The loss from unnecessary exposure OF
stock in western la itudes amounts to
millions of dollars in this country every
winter, and the Importance of the ques
ton of shelter for stock needs to be adj
vocated. There is usually much less eX-
posure of horses than cattle, and the
former are better enabled to bear the
inclenency of weather If accustomed to
it. Cattle are naturally sensitive to cold,
and while with an abundance of hearty
food before them they are capable of en-
during much severe weather, yet econ
omy requires that due attention be Civ
en- to the subject, and suitable means
for shelter and comfort provided.
Many farmers allow their stock to be
unnecessarily exposed IN winter, from
mere Carelessness and ignorance OF the
laws pertaining to the health and COM
fort of all animals. They need to be re-
minded that the heat IN all warm
blOoded animals requires to be kept at
nearly the temperature, and that when
the weather becomes cold or stormy,
as in winter, some provision nj st be
made to keep up the animal heat 10
its normal degree. This may usually be
accomplished by feeding the animals
heavily of strong concentrated food. but
it can be done much cheaper by proyid-
ing suitable protection against the cut
ting winds and pelting storms. Fresh
air is the vital element of health, and on
the hills of our dairy counties the supply
from November TO MAY is ordinarily
ample for all demands; it is, up to the
present writing, not controlled by any
combinations, or likely to be locked up
by a ring, but in many and many q sta
bic (and house as Well it is as carefully
econom4zed as if there was a risk in
using it all ug with no chance of getting
and more. A COW cannot give whole
some milk without pure air as well as
pure water, but thons 1nds get little of
either on farms where free winds blow,
and bright springs bubble, simply be-
cause no thought IS given to ventilation,
and it is easier to let the herd drink
from yard pool than to conduct water
to them.-CoEutry Gentleman.
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Study Your Farms.

Rich or poor, humble or ambitious,
the farmer ought to study closely what
will best suit his farm, examining close
ly the points and qualities Of his own
cattle and those Of his neighbors. II
he determines dairying is best for him,
he must examine the question of guam
tity and quality of nils, and its value
for the production of butter and cheese;
the time that the cows continue in milk;
the character of the breed for gentle
ness, their predisposition to disease,
and the natural tendency to turn nutri-
ment to MIX; the ease with which she
is fattened and value as q beef when
she is given up as a mixer, the pro-
portion of food requisite to keep them
in full milk or to fatten when dry. II
grazing is decided to be the main bust
ness, then consider the kind of stock
which the farm will best be suited for,
the kind of meat most in demand at the
greatest profit in his neighborhood, the
early maturity, the quickness of tatten-
ing at any age, the quality OF the meat;
the part on which the flesh and fat are
principally laid, aud last of all, the
hardihood and adaptation TO the climate
and soil. When a farmer wisely settles
all of these questi )ns, he will find he
has but little time to loiter about neigh
boring street corners.-NorthWest
Farmer
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young lady IS nearly as friendly with the
princess as with her husband. The
prince admires Miss Chamberlayne i'm
mensely, and indeed appears to have
taken the whole family into lis affec-
tons. He declares that Miss Chamber
layne should have been born duchess
that her manner and bearing are per-
feet, while her beauty needs no praise
from him. Whenever he is in the same
place as the fair Americana (which is
pretty often) he dimes with the. family
nearly every day. The prince of Wales
is admittedly one of the most fascinat-
ing men in Europe. and the Chamber
laynes are evidently much fiattered by
his attentions. Miss Chamberlayne, how
ever, is much liked by other members of
the English royal family besides the
prince and princess of Wales. She has
just returned from long visit TO the
duke and duchess of Albany.
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A GIRLS a GIRL FOR A THAT

Is there lady in the land
That boasts her rank and a THAR
With scornful eye We pass her by,
And little Care for a that;
For Natures charIa shall bear the palm
girls girl for a that.
What though her neck vita gems she deck
With folly's gear and a that
And gsily ride in pomp and ride;
We can dispense with a'that.
An honest heart acts no such part
A girls girl for "a that.
The nebly born may proudly scorn
4 loviy lass and a that;
A pretty face has far more grace
Than haughty looks ana a that;
A b0nny maid needs 10 such aid
girls girl Tor a that.
And let ia trust that coma it must,
And re it will for a that,
When faith and love all arts above,
Shall reign supreme and a that
And every youth confess the truth
A girls girl for O. that.
Once Week.
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Orange Blossoms and InmOr-
HaIIos

From the st. Louis Il publican.
Last Wednesday morning at the
Church of St. John Nepomuk, on the
corner of Eleventh and Soulard streets,
there was an occurrence of singular and
to most people awful solemnity. At 5
o'clock there was high mss celebrated
at which were married young couple.
When the ceremony vas nearing It's
close, the bride and groom. with their
attending bridemaids and groomsmen
kneeling on the steps of the altar. and
he church crowded with their friends
and relatives, ths church bell pealed
forth, not the merry marriage chime,
bat the slow and dolorous toll for the
dead. To the door Of the church there
came a hearse, aud into the aisle. down
which the newly welded ones We're
compelled to pass, there was brought
The long bier with all its s0mbre display.
When they had received the blessing
Of the pr est the lrde and groom
turaed, and IN moving 70 the door oithe
church, had to separate and pass, one
on either side Of deaths pedestal. In
the choir toe organ tremnled with the