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National Republican., 1883-06-25
CERTIEICATE.

CERTIFICATE.
WE no HEREBY CERTIFY that we supervise the
arrangements for all the monthly and semiannual
drawings Of the LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY Con-
PhHN, and In person manage ana control the draw.
lnES themselves, and that the same are conducted
with honesty, fairness, and In good faith toward all
parties We authorize the company to use this cer-
tihcate, with ncSimiles of our signatures attached
In Its advertsenienta
National Republican., 1883-06-25
THE BANK STATEMENT.

LONDON, 12:30.-Erie, lower New York
Central, lower; Reading lower, Ontario
and Western, lower; Pennsylvania Central,
lower; Illinois, higher.
National Republican., 1883-06-25

The market opened weaker and to
lower, the latter on Michigan Central and
there was quick decline of 4 TO {, the latter
In Michigan Central. This depression, how
ever, did not last, and it was followed by a
quick recovery, which brought prices to
about the opening figures. The most active
trading was in Delaware and Lackawanna,
the Vanderbilts and Jersey Central, Union
Pacific was very strong and unaffected by the
early decline. Western Union was freely sold
and declined point from the opening. The
other weak features were Denver, which sold
off from the opening, and Richmond and
Danville sold to 50 against 60s at yesterdays
closing. At noon the market was weak and
very dull. The general rate on stock loans
was 2 Jersey loaned at 1-32 for tho use
sterling unchanged. During the forenoon
Heath & Johnes bought Central and Brayton
& Ives bought the general Market and III. L.
Horton sold New York Central.
Gonld, before leaving for a trial trip on his
new yacht, predicted very lively operations
" elevated railway stocks next week, The
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Sanding Their Dead Back to China.

4 wong Foo. the editor of the Chinese
| American. published in New York, ex-
plains why Cinnamon wish to be
buried in their own country. He says:
'If any one going back to the old
country has dead friends here he takes
them alOng.s | do not believe that
more than five per cent of the China
men who die in the United States are
permanently buried here. Friendless
Celestials are left here, and no one
cares whether they go to heaven or
not Cannot one of your race get
INTO Paradise unless his bones rest in
Chinese soil?" "No, sir; Cinnamon
believe that the only road to heaven
lies through their country" But if a
good, yirtuous Chinaman who has
kept his pigtail and his conscience in
tact dies in strange land. will he be
excluded from heaven because he ia
poor and friendless?' That's the
doctrine, said Mr.. Wong. accord
ing to Christians no man can be saved
except through a certain belief no
matter how good he is; according 10
Cinnamon, there is no salvation outside
OF China One belief is about as
rational as the other" "When you,dio
up the remains of your countrymen do
you have any services at the graveP"
1--WE burn little incense-paper, maybe,
and take a drink, just as Americans do
on all occasions" "What does the
drink signify its what you would
call a toast. We drink peace to the
soul of the departed, and a prosperous
Journey to the body. We use any
liquor that comes handy. Sometimes
tea, or whisky, or in extreme cases
water" "IIow are the bodies pre-
pared for shipment?" "They are en-
oalmed if they are fresh enough. If
not the meat is scraped off and the
zones only are carried away"
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Harvesting Throughout the World,

That the harvest Of the world, or
the reaping of the cereal crops on the
earth, takes place in different periods
on account of the different latitudes
and consequent different seasons, is a
well known fact; that these periods
embrace altogether more than three
iourths Of the year might not be
known. In Australia, New Zealand
the greater part Of Chilli, and some dis
tricts of Argentine Republic, the har-
vest takes place in January; in the
month of February it commences in
East India, and progressing toward the
north, terminates in March-Mexico
Egypt, Persia and Syria harvest in
April; the north Asia Minor. China
Japan, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and
Texas in May. The following coun-
tries reap their haryests in June: Cali
fornla, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece
and the south Of France In the other
parts of France, in Austro-Hunga
ry, the south Of Russia, and the great
er part Of theUnited States the crop Il
gathered in July In the month of
August the following countries har-
vest: Belgium, Germany, England, the
Netherlands, and Denmark; in Sep
tember Scotland, sweden. Norway
anada, thenorth of Russia. the latter
continuing until in October.
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The SkeIn We Wind.

If you aud !, to-day
Should stop and lay
Our lfework down, and let our hands iaii
where they will
Fall down to lie quite still
And if some other hand should come anu
stoop to find
The threads we carried, so that il could wlnu,
Beginning where we stopped; if it should
come to keep
Our lilework going, seek
To carry out the good design,
Distinetively made yours or mIne'
What wo1ld il fnd?
Some work We must be doing, true or ialsei
Some threads we wind; some purpose SO
cxalts
Itself that we look mp 10 it, or down,
As to a crown
To bow before and we weave threads
OF different length and thickness-some mere
shreds-
And wind them round
Till oil the sken of life is bound,
Sometimes forgetting all the time
10 ask
rhe value OF the threads, or choo
Strong stuff to use.
No hand but winds some thread;
1t cannot stand quite still till it is dead
But what it spins aud winds little skein.
God made each hand for wolk-hot toil-stain
j. required but every hand
Spins, though but ropes of sand.
II love should come,
STOPPING above when we are done
10 find bright threads
That we have hell that it may spin then
longer--dnd but shreds
That break when touched-how cold,
sn5, shiveiing, portionlcss, the hand will hole
The broken shreds, and know
Fresh cause for more.
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81 Martha Jane, what on earth do
you meanY'
Ilitty's eyes expanded, and the pink
in her cheeks docpencd to a glowing
scarlet.
You know well enough what l
mean" sneered Martha. You
needn't to look so inherent, like butter
wouldn't melt in your mouth, an you
a-,trainin' every nerve to ketch Hiram
Iloncydew -a-caiolin' him to help you
milk, an drive up the cows, an the
like. It's Jest like your owdacious
doin's. an you kin pack up an leave
right away too"
"But l don't know where to gog'
Iittys heart beat like frightened
robins at the thought of being driven
friendlcss INTO the world, but Martha
Jane was implacabe
ITS nothin' to me where you so, 50
YOU leave here" she shifted, as she
Z tlounced angrily away.
Go with me, IIitty" said a tender
, voice. and Hiram Honeydew stepped
suddenly into the little kitchen. go
with me. llitty. and he my WIFE
4, Iittys checks grew redder than
before but She did not draw away
"a frou, his offered embrace
Not gone YETI" cried shrill voice.
d as the door was ierked yiciously open.
. "Didn't l tell you to pack up Oh
Mr.. Ioneydcw, you here? Come and
It have tea we're a-waitin' fur you"
n Excuse me-. was the cold reply.
' Al shall just have time to take my
d wife that is to be over to the par
ed sonage. Will you come to the wed
n ding"
ne But, with scornful sniff and tos
at Of her head, Martha Jane hounced OF
tn again
"
IN "An' so you didn't marry Mahala
he darter, after all" cried Aunt Pegg,
lir. who was waiting to receive them.
nat "N-no" stammered Hiram. Hit
sed kin learn to keep house, l reckin-"
ay Learn" cried IIitty. why, | d
any all the housekeeping at Aunt Mahala
md She is my aunt, though they wouldl
IN let me call her so. Marthy Jane neN
lew did lick Of work in her life
up And so Hiram Honeydew got W
tin. and housekeeper all in one, after
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= =
''Oh, deri'
Down through the long grass ant
crimson clover-bobs, under scrubb,
haWs and tall persimmon trees, went
Hltty Mavis, a deep-caped sunbonnet
shading her violet eyes and tangled
yellow curls.
She was after the cows, standing
knee-deep in the tall aftermath. whore
they had been turned for pasturage
after the meadow hay was cut.
"Oh, dear. sighed IIitty again, I'm
so tired, and here's the cows To- drive
home milking to do, sponge to set for
the baking tomorrow, and goodness
knows what else, and Oh"
Shes started back, with little scream
for seated on the fence. under the
SHADOW Of crimson-leafed sassafras-
tree, sat Hiram Honeydew, coolly
watching her.
llittys cheeks turned from pink to
scarlet as she met the admiring glances
of his frank, brown eyes, and her
heart beat fas er than common.
But Hitty was sensible Girl So
she said, Good evening, Mr.. Honey
dew" quite coolly, and began driving
home the cows.
But hiram sprang down from his
perch on the rail fence and followed
her
LET me help you, Miss Hittyr' he
begged 81 amt used to loalin,
around, dom nothin', like I've been
fur some days now; and it'l be treat
to drive home the cows, even
So they walked together through the
yelyety aftermath, dotted with scarlet
butterfy-weed, and crimson-petaled
"nigger-heads,' the lowing cows flino
slowly home lazily chewing their cuds,
and switching their tails at the flies.
Hiram let down the bars. and turn
ed the cows into the yard, while Hitty
brought out the nlilk-pails from under
bunch OF burdock-leaves, where she
had left them.
And somehow, in spite of the mill
ing and setting the sponge, and doing
up the chores, Hitty's heart beat more
lightly than it had for many a day.
And instead of one week Hiram
Honeydeg stayed two, but still Martha
Jane bal not been invited to chance
her name.
"she'' mighty good bousal,ooror >
thought Hiram, meditatjvely pG., aIf
little Iliity could only cook an bouse-
keep as good as her / da9,t
know
He ended BY building a castle n tho
,naa- MdFls, with her vio-
let eyes ,ra ana'g0ldy'colorod hair. was the
"IIitty Mayisr'
Martha James hard bloo,.
ed harder than ever. an1 yes look
features Seemed sbo, ''' ner sharp I
uh@re u1o, IIittv 4,uiiy .ul into the kitchen
''a1,aS |ny'g crar,..a sat Slicing bowl Of
'',,2 .You kin pael, d peaches ca, for supper. ,
-, yoa a.,a,,, rA up your duds and ,
-. :. f Hiram Hon. ',n up to ketch beau /
you. 'ooh al {
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in some Of the vide old farm-houses
dotting the fertile borders of Glover
Greek.
"He'll be q mighty good ketch fur
YOU an no mistake, Marthv Jane,
commented Mrs. Perky, when Aunt
Peggy's letter had been duly received
and read. "a mighty good kctch. am
YOU must do your best to ketch him
'Taint cften a gal has sech chance
throwed at her head. an il you've got
a mite o pluck about You. ,ou won't
let them stuck-up Briggscs gil ahead
Of you, Deliah Briggs would give
her ears tOgit ahead Of You. I'll bet a
buttonw
TO which bit Of logic Martha Jane
assented, with toss of her head. and
the assurance that Delilah Briggs, nor
no one else wasn't a-goin' to git ahead
of her.
Consequently when farmer Perky
drove his gray team to the gate, with
Hiram HOneydew on the seat besid,
him, the necessary Preparations had al
ready been made floors secured
baking done, md a substantial countr,
dinner. with dessert Of apple-dump
lings and sweet-cream sauce, ready t
be served.
While Martha Jane, in pink plai
frocb, with huted rulles. stood waitin
to welcome the expected guest
"she's mortal humly,' thougl
Hiram, as be sat smoking, after dill
ner, on the porch, and mentally review
ing Martha James narrow forehea
hard black eyes and high-colorO
cheeks "But, then, | amt a-looki
out fur beauty an if she suits Il
other ways, reckln faint no gre
matter how she looks. \ girl wi
them kind Of eyes an mahogaT
colored skin kin do the chores {
make butter, an sech, as good as if $
had blue eyes an goldy-lookin' h9
like that girl they call liitty, IL
brought in the dumplin's an pas.
round the dip fur 'em at dinner tod
She's the hired girl, reckin. 7
rate | amt got time to hunt rot
much, an Ireckin Marthy Jane We
mind changin' her name to Honeyt
afore long, an I've got to hurry
l amt got no time to waste a-cour
/ reclKin inothin happens we XII
marrieX a week, an git back nj
! don.I : 10 stay here a-settin re
; AZ, =, !. sgssD -. s.is tise fail
Yhind at the farm"
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WHY ETVVVF0N VWT u
Chrisuansburg, Va, 1881.
Suffering from kidney disease,
from which could get no relief, |
tired Browns lion Hittrrs, which
cured me completely. a child Of
mine, recovering from scarlet fever,
had no appetite and did not seem 10
be able to lat ALL lgave him Iron
Bltters with the happiest results.
KYLE MONTAGUE.
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atae co.'r 'ae.,ce q, N ihe Court of Appeal, am,
4' Amaf,i 81 Ch,srles, s.. Mays, Calvsg,
,brlt Ia III ,,,, a''d frn'e Georges cenntie.
aHt1- '''f'sr, Annapolis, Ma.
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manager compelled him to return. after
working about three weeks at White
River junction.
His duty at White Mver Junction was
to work the New York wire, upon which
is relayed all the through business for
the mountain hotels and places on tho
lno OF tho Pnssumpsic and Central Yer
mont railroads rs far rs Montpelier. He
can send with either hand and record the
time OF transmission with the hand thnt
may be idle equally well. He takes all
press reports, and II year since received
AL the election returns ut the Clarcmoni
oiiicc. 1t seems very peculiar to motto ,
nm leave his game of marbles and Tux.
ing his scat at the wire receive by sound
the fastest sending without a break
Levi Is small, and when pcrchcd upon
his stool one would little suspect him of
possessing such remarkable talent. Hc
Will ontor the Stevens High School, in
Clarenont, in September, to pursue a
scientific course of study.
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A Quaint Old Village.

A correspondent writing from York
IIarbor, Me-, speaks of the village,
where the storo, tho post office, the
blacksmith shop, the two churches.
Congregational and Methodist-stand
III closc proximity to guaintly-b built
20O-vcar old jail and cemetery equally
Old, "whcre the rude forefathers of the
hamlet sleep" There rest many whose
date of birth is we'll back in the sixteen
hundreds; one, mn LID, graduate of
Harvard, VIII $50 name is found in the
original charter of the colony, granted by
William and Mary. We see many quaint
and some absurd inscriptions craven in
tn" mossy slabs, all of which arc more
or l'ss illegiblo. An infant dead at ono
day old, 1705, has IN elaborate epitaph,
setting forth the belief of the sorrowing
Parents that "this infant would rise ut
the last day, IN immortal, corporeal,
spiritual body, like unto Christ and heir
of eternal life" Another, 1885, attracts
attention from being marked by huge
boulder, at least seven feet long, placed
directly upon the grave; the idea ire
sistibly conveyed to the rind of the be-
holder is that it was so placed to prevent
the occupant from getting up. This is
said to be the grave of reported witch,
which did not prevent the mourning
friends from putting up slab enumer-
ating the virtues of the dcparted-this
possibly to propitate the spirit of the
witch should it ever get out from under
the boulder.
Close by, upon n great rock, stands
the old Jail. Two hundred years, they
say, has it bravcd the storms of the New
England coast An old crone occupies
n few rooms in the building, and for
fee Of fifteen cents for two persons shows
it to visitors. We SEQ the deep, dark
dungeon with double oaken doors at
least a foot in thickness, where without
n ray of light or any ventilation, except
when twice each day the narrow iron
barred window was opened to pass in
fo"d, the murderer was confined, md
there must he often have expiated his
crime in this life. An iron ring in the
floor tells its own story. Above, with
the luxury of fire-places and windows,
heavily barred, it is true, the debtors
lnnguish out the weary days. All the
doors are of heavy oak, clampod with
iror, and tho bolts so massive that only
strong man could move them. Tho
visitor is especially desired to notice the
great stack of chimncys in the centre of
the buildinp
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HEAVY LIFE INSURANCE..
49, &. 90 ......
the Largo PoI'cIca that nro Carried n,
Somc Rich Men.

Not very long ago the British life In.
surnnce companies were called nron
within the short space Of one year. to pay
the enormous sum of SO, $50, 900 ON pol
lcles on the lives of three heavily insured
noblemen, viz. the Duke of Newcastle,
the Marquis Of Anglesea, and the Earl
OF Fife; and shortly afterward The same
companies paid 81, ,250,0 insurance on
the lives of two noblemen, making an
aggregate sum of $500, 900 insurance.
paid on five lives. About fifteen wears
ago the heirs of Sir Robert Clifton re-.
ceived from the life insurance companies
of Great Britain $1,25O, 900, that being
the amount of insurance which he car.
ried. King Umberto, of Italy, is maxi
ing efforts to obtain insurance On his own
life for $600,000. The Italian insurance
companies refused to take the risk, and
application was made to English COM
panies with no better success. King
Umberto has comparatively impovcr-
ished himself by paying his fathers debts.
Dom Pedro H., the Emperor of Brazil,
carries large life insurance in foreign
companies. Napoleon III. had an in
surance of 5000, 600 on his life, and this
was the chief reliance Of the Empress
Eugenie after his death. One English
Earl has his life insured for 81, ,OOO,O 900,
partly in American companies.
The largest life insurance written for
any American prince is that of w. X.
Anderson, tho coil prince. of Titusville,
"a, who is insured for $44O,OOO. The
late James Park, Jr., of Pittsburgh, had
his life insured for S35O,OOO. Among
Americans insured for $500, 900 or more
are Hamilton Disston, of philadelphia
John Howe, of st. Louis, w. III. Lang.
ley, OF Galleopolis, Ohio; and J. B.
sStettson, Of Philadelphia, Pa. Other
Large insurers are Pierre Lorillard, of
New York, 1856, 900; +. w. Devoe, New
York, $3.50, 900; Cyrus w. Field, New
York, $40, 900; Frank Jones, Ports
mouth, n. H., $2o5, 900; Amos Whitney,
o., 5000 OGO: B. r. Sturte,
want, Boston, 5000, 600; f. B. Roberts,
Now York, 5000, 900; T.. p. Allis. Mil
waukee, $l70, 900; John Gibh, New York.
$4,000; Charles Pratt, New York,
$165, 900; II. B. Hyde, New York, S1G5,.
600; e. A. Moen, New York, Sl5l 600:
e. ID. G. Mckay, Now York, S143, 900:
and w. P. Clyde, of New York, Sl43 600
j. B. Cornell, W. H. Bclknap and John
Sinclair, of New York, have policies of
$l25, 900 each; Dewitt @. Wheeler is
insured for $l1O. 900; Rufus Hatch, S76,-
0Os; William Fullerton, $75 200; and
81. 3. Claflin, $75, 1000.
The famous Col. Dwight, whose heirs
claimed 1868, 900 insurance on his life,
asserting that he died at Binghamton,
N. Y, in 1878, sought to obtain even a
larger amount. They got about $780,
600, and have lawsuits pending for the
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ONE OF THE MOST famous of English
hangmen has yielded up his breath to
tho great cxecutioncer. Marwood. has
died, however, in tho wane of his repu-
tation. He had lately been accused of
tippling, then of professional careless.
ness, and finally his ill-omencd visage
was found in the gallery of the House of
Commons, where he was complained of
as an impudent intruder. In England
the business of legal strangling is prose-
cuted moro d6ftly in general than here,
80 that one botch on Marwood's part.
which in America would have been con.
sidered trifling percentage of errors,
nearly ruined the reputation of life
time. Marwood and Calcraft, his pre-
decessor, have acquired celebrity
greater than that of many statesmen, or
philosophers, or poets.
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literature, pandcrng 10 inc worst pas
thousands who might otherwise become
choice ctizons. six hundred thousand
copies of trashy raprrs are published
weekly in this courtry, besides which
there are millions on "yellow covers"
floating about. Luther threw his ink
bottle at what he supposed to he the
devil. He missed his mark, but the
devil took the hint and is hurlng back
printers ink with dcadly effect.
The superintendent of the New York
Jewish Asylum says that scVcn-cigh of
the youths sent to that rcformatOry owe
their downfall to trashy novels. The
evil, too, often has its source in tho
house. The worst cheap "daily" is
taken into the family. to the exclusion
of sound litcratv' Few even of Chris
tian families try to have full fresh sup
ply of reading for the family circle.
Until there is regular crusade and ref
ormation in behalf Of our boys VIC must
not wonder if they are rough, tough and
reckless. As VIC mist remember that
they deserve from us more sympathy
than ccnsurc. Is it Their fault if through
lack of fit training they who are rcscr-
voirs of rapidly developing powers, with
lOngings to lead heroic lives, fall into
disorders? Without chart how can
they hope to steer their way safely
through tho tcmpestuous billows Of
life? Let us, then, sympathizc with
them and do our best to help them"
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| sweeping out, 'fyou have got oven with
/ Your pa before this. for his outrageous.
! treatment. That is, mind you, i don't
| suggest anything for you to play ON him. 3
| but from what know. Of you, fhe ao-
count is eyened up before now. Am I !.
| right" 80 E
"Wcll, should romark. Any person
who thinks cannot resent such an In
suit, makes n mistake as to the sort of s
prodigal son I am. We had company ~
dinner today, and pa is always in Ills
clement when we hSve company He y
prides himself ON his carving. We had
roast of beef, and before it went ON
the table took the steel that pa sharp
ems the carving knife on, and made two ;
holes right through the, roast, and then
took rawbide whip that pm basted me So
with once, cut it inftwo, and run pieces
of the rawhide in the holes of the beef. ~
Pa began carving with a smile, and ar
asked tho minister If he would have his
Eeef rare, or an outside piece. He was
bearing gently on the carving knife,
It wouldn't go any further. Pa smiled
and said he guessed he had struck
bHrbed wire fence, and he turned the .
roast around and cut again, and he struck
the rawhide. The minister drummed
with his fork and spoke TO ma and said
we had splendid meeting Wednesday
night and ma said 10 was perfectly
gorgeous, and pa began to perspire and
turn red In the face, and he said some
words that would sound better in o
brewery, and he tried to gouge off some
meat, but it wouldn't come. and the
minister said, Brother, you seem to be-
having monkey and parrot time with
that roast, and that made pa mad and
he said he could carve his own meat
without any sky pilots interference, and
ma said, Why, pa, you should not be
impudent, and pa said he could wbin
the butcher that sold him that piece OF
work OK, and no sent the beef ont to
the kitchen and tho company ate cold
liver. The girl set the meat in the ice
chest, and pretty soon / went down cell
lar, cause / didn't like cold liver. and
pulled out the rawhide, and I had all
the fatted calf wanted and / gave the
rest to that lame dog you SEQ me have
here spell ago. Oh, IL boy can got
enough to eat if he has got any origi-
nnhty about him. I think if pa would
show Christian spirit and wear slip
pcrS when he kicks me, would do any.
thing to make it pleasant for him, but
when man wears out hunting boots on
his own dear little prodgal, | think tho
prodigal is apt to get hard. Don't
yon ?"
Tho grocery man admitted that Dor
hnps the boy was right; and he raised -
such dust sweeping out that the boy
coughed, took few peaches off the top
OF basket and went out whistling, :
uome again, fiom foreign shore" y