I)c imc0, New Bloomfiel JJa. Incorporated by the Court o Cbrnmnn i'Iea, 1SC9; ay the Isgtalatwre, in lHTlt . The leiiufylvaiila '. Central.' Insurance Company, OF POTTS VI LLE, PA. Capital nnd Assets, $15G,000. Premlnra Note, 1100,000 00 Promissory Notes 50,000 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for tli year 1871, T3,028 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for tlie Brst three months of lSTC, 1,800 00 Cash from other sources and agents, 1,200 00 Judgment Monds In Com pany's office 1,100 00 . Total Cash,... 10,128 00 - Total cash and note assets, April 1st, 1878, 150,128 00 JAMES H. GHIER, JOHN D. HADE8TT, . becretary. President. DIRECTORS: John D. Hadctty, A. P. Helms, Benjamin Tetcr, A. Siitermelntcr, James H. Orlcr, E. F. Jungkurt, Ellas Miller. , AGENTS! H. H. 11111, Edward Fox, John A. Knble, Ed ward Wesley, Charles F. Dcibcrt, Wm. R. GriflUh. E. F. Juiifrkurt, General A (rent. Arrangements have been made with other first-class companses to re-lnsnre risks taken on the ensh plan in such amounts as desired. Liberal commission allowed agents, and ex clusive territory, if desired. This Company confines Itself to fire Insurance exclusively. OFFICE! No. 101 CENTRE 8T., POTT8VILLE, PA. NOTICK. The Home Reserve force of The Penn sylvania Central Insnranco Company of Pottsville, Pa., will be in Perry county in considerable force, and act as the Com pany's Agents until a full lino of Local Agents can bo appointed when the i-chci vo force will bo recalled. JAMES II. GWER, Hcc'y of Pa. Central Ins. Co. IiiMiirnncc Notie. On nnd after the tenth day of April, i 1 872, The Home Reserve force of Insur ance Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva nia.Central Insurance Company" will leave Pottsville in heavy force, and occupy ten different counties of the State, where they will continue -to act as the Company's Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed, when they will bo recalled. As a body of men, I believe they are supe rior Insurance Agents, and most .of thorn speak the English, French, Welsh and Gor man Languages. The City Insurance Journals, witli all their sneers at Mutual Companies, and continual cry of Fraud ! Fraud 1 1 &c, cannot muster any better In surance material I Why don't the City In surance papers tell the publio that no Mu tual Company broke or failed during the last ten years? Why don't they tell the public that more than half the Block Com panies started within the last ten years have? It is a well-known fact that Mutual Companies cannot fail. JAMES II. GRIEK, Socrctary of Pennsylvania Central Insur ance Company. 0 10 3SJTB"W YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICT I j Y MUTUAL ! AhmcIm, M ,000,000 ! T8SEE8 alt the new forms of Folicle. and nre- L sent a favorable terms as any company in the United Ktat . The Company will make temporary loans on Its roiiuie. Thirty days' frraee allowed on each payment, and Uie po.fcy held good during that time. I'olicies bus lied by this Company are Don-forfeiture. No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holder share In the annual pronto of the Company, and have a voice lu the elections and management of theU.nipany. No policy or medical feecharged. Justus Liwhenck, J'res't. M. It. WtNuoof, Vice Pres't, J. P.Koouts, Bec'y. J. F. EATON. General Agent, No. North Third Street, 4. yl College Bloek, Harrisburg, Pa. Slew Carriage manufactory. Om Hies BTEErr, East or Carmslb St., Kew BUomOeld, Penn'n. . inmiKsuhaerlberhaabulltalaree and com mod I JL oils Hhop on High Ht., East of Carlisle Htreet, New Hlonmnnlil, I'a., where he Is prepared to man- nuuiture to oruer On, r r i a (f H Of every description, out of the best material. Sleighs of eery Style, built to order, and finished In the most artistic and durable manner. x Having superior workmen, he Is prepared to furnish work that will compare favorably with the bent City Work, and much more durable, and muen more raaaouauie raw. ' r REPAIRING of allkindsneatlyand prompt ly done. A call Is solicited. SAMUEL SMITH. l!tl MRS. GILES' INVESTMENT. ' A GOOD STOUT FOB EVKIlT DAT tlFK. MRS. GILES stood in the front yard, hanging up her Monday's washing the last piece had found its place upon the line. "Done at last," said Mrs. Giles, speaking to herself, a habit which she fre quently indulged. " Now, if dinner was out of tho way, I might find time to finish Leonard's Buit, this after neon; I'vo had it u round bo long. If I only had a sewing machine, how much I would accomplish," and picking up her basket, she weut into the houso. The prospect within was not very cheering; tho wash tub to clear away, and dinner to place upon the table. Just as she had tergun to lay the table, Mr. Giles appeared at tho door,and said: " Put on an extra plate; that man will take dinner with us." Dinner was soon ready, and as soon dispatched, for ceremony was one of the unknown things of the Giles family, Mr. Giles and tho stranger retired to the sitting room to discuss tho merits of a new reaper and mower, while Mrs. Giles remained and cleared away the dinner table. When she finished and made herself ready for the afternoon, she went into tho sitting room. Tho stranger was about taking his leave. Mr. Giles was saying to him: "If you have any new thing, anything better, any thing that will make work ea sier, and do more of it, I am your man ! I am in favor of nil machinery that will work for man," emphasizing tho word man. " Why, bless you, just look around my farm. It's run mostly by machinery." "Profitable? certain'.y," replied he to an interrogation from the stranger. "More than pays expenses. Money in tho bank," he added, never omitting an occasion of ment ioning a small deposit ho had made in the city bank. The stranger was gono at last, and Mrs. Giles sat clown with weary limdsand aching shoulders, to finish a suit of clothes for her oldest son, a lad of fif teen. Slowly and wearily the necdlo went in and out; stitch after stitch was taken, but to very littlo purpose; it did seem as if she would never come to the last. Rut, if stitches progressed slowly, her thoughts flew fast enough. The last words of her husband lingered in her mind, and again they recurred to her. "Yes," said she, at last, breaking forth into soliloquy, her us ual habit when much disturbed in mind. " Yes, men can have thoir burdens lighten ed, but poor woman can drudge. Every year, Giles has added something new to his (arm implements, when I have to plod along with hardly suflicient utensils to cook a decent dinner; an old stove, ' without a whole griddle, and cracked door. No won der I cannot bake a loaf of bread decently." Then hero I have to sit, and stitch for a week at this suit, when two hours on a machine would completo the whole." It is needless to record all of Mrs. Giles' thoughts and words, as she sat stitching the hours away. A dim consciousness of wrongs and a faint determination to assert her rights, was entering her mind. She had so !ong given up her opinions, set aside her needs, and fostered the sclflshness of her husband, that it was hard to break through the meshes of habit which his stern will had woven around her. The afternoon wore away, and Mrs. Giles laid aside tho unlinished garment to prepare the evoning meal. Tho next morning at breakfast, she remarked to her husband that an agent for a sewing machine had called the day previous, and wished her to try one of his machines. .. " I told him," she said, " ho might leave one when he came next week." Mr, Giles laid down his knife and fork, and sat with utter amaze ment depicted on his countenance. " A sewing machine I" he gasped, when ho had recovered himself. "He need not leave any of his new-fangled humbugs here, I've no use for them." " But I have," inter rupted the wife. " You !" interrupted he, " I don't see what use you have for a ma chine. You could never learn to use it, or if you did what bavn you to sew ? Only my clothes and the boys. Women, now-a- days are getting mighty independent, want ing machines to do their work; too lazy to do it themselves. Suppose they want time to gad about and gossip about their neighbors." " Why, Philip" " Woman's work is nothing," continued Mr. Giles, not heeding the interruption. " My mother had not as many conveniences for doing her work as you have, yet she always had her meals regular, and that is mora than I can say for you. No, I don't want any sewing machine about my house. God made as good a sewing machine as I want when he made womiyi." With this ultiniutusa he loft the table, and taking his hat he mounted his horse to ride away to look at the nCw reaper he contemplated buying. One by one the members of the family finished their breakfast, and passed out leaving Mrs. Giles alone. She sat with her head resting upon her band; ' her thoughts wandered back to the days when in the freshness of her youth, she gave her heart's deepest and best affections to Phil ip Giles. Blinded by her great love for biin,she saw not the extreme selfishness and coarsness of his nature. She implicitly be lieved all his promises, and heeded not the warning of her frionds. It seemed along time since then, so many shadows had darkened her pathway; darker yet seemed to grow life's rugged journey. ' She ' saw her six sons growing tip around her, amidst rough and evil influences; without the ability wholly to counteract them. Mm. Giles remained a long time bowed on that breakfast table, praying with a sense .of helplessness and a feeling of need, such as she had never before expei ienccd. A loud rap at the door startled her. . Ou opening it she found Mr. Harris had called to pay off a note which had long been due;, a note Mr. Giles had often doclarcd he would not be ablo to collect. "Tho poor wretch," he insisted, " will never bo ablo to Bave enough to pay his honest debts, while his wifo spends all his earnings on such foolish things as patent washing machines." Mrs. Giles informed Mr. Harris of her husband's absence, but said sho would at tend to the business. Well all was satis factory Bottled, and Mr. Harris had gone, Mrs. Giles sat for somo time looking at the roll of money in her hand. 1 At length a new thought came into her mind. Care fully placing tho bills in her pocket, she went into tho kitchen, and hurriedly finish ing the morning's work, and then dressing herself she walked down to the railroad station, which was but a quarter of a miie distant. Sho was in time for the morning train for the city, somo ten miles away. (It was nearly 4 o'clock in the afternoon when she returned homo. Mr. Giles was still absent; Leonard, the eldest son, stood iu the yard with the team. 'lleigho, mother,' said she, "I was just going to look for you. I thought it was too bad fur you always to walk," " Well, my son," she replied, "you would not have found me; I've been to tho city." "The city I gec whitakcr," and Leonard gave a prolonged whistle. "Yes," said Mrs. Giles getting Into tho wagon, "and now I wish you to go to the station with mo, and bring homo my purchases." Leonard mounted beside her saying: "And so tho old man did shell out for once in his life, and give you a little money did he?" Mrs. Giles reproved Leonard for speaking thus of his father, but ho contin ued: " Well, I can't help it; I think it a mean shame; he never gives you a cent to spend, but sends you to the store at the station, with the same old order: " Please let tho bearer havo what she needs." I'd make it convenient to need a great many things, if I were you." It was late when Mr. Giles returned. He hastily dismounted and gave his horse to one of the boys. Entering the house, he called for his sup per in no gentle tones. Fortunately sup per was just ready. Having satisfied his ravenous appetite, ho rose from the table saying. " Come, boys it's time you weie in bed; I'll want you up by daybreak in in the morning," and setting the example, he went to bed and was soon a sleep. About 11 o'clock Mrs. Giles having finished her work, and preparations for an early breakfast, retired to rest. Being very much fatigued by the day's excitement, she soon slept heavily. After the first nap Mr. Giles was restless and uneasy; he tossed and turned from side to side, but no more sleep for him. He concluded to get up. Having dressed himself he took the candle and proceed to the kitchen. The slender tallow dip threw a lurid light around the kitchen. There stood a new stove, with its black and pol ished face, smiling upon him, a row of bright and shining tiuware was neatly ar ranged on the shelf behind it. Turning, his eyes fell upon a washing machine with a wringer attached; taking hold of the crank, and giving it a turn or two, lie said: "A sewing machine, by thunder; but bow in the name of common sense they sew ou it is more than I can toll." Placing the candle on the tablo,he came in contact with a patent churn. " What, another blasted concern I Polly 1 Polly I" he exclaimed, seizing the candle and hurrying back into the sleeping room. In his haste, his foot caught on the frame work of tho sewing machine, and he fell full length into the middlo of the lloor, while the candle found a resting place on the opposite side of the room. Mrs. Giles suddenly roused from a sound sleep, started up in a bewildered manner, saying: "What is it, Philip?" What's tho matter?" " Matter enough," growled he, picking himself up and rescuing tho candle from the close proximity to the bed clothes "Who has been filling up the house with all that trumpery, and who do you tli ink is going to pay for it? If you think I am you are much mistaken." Mrs. Giles sprang from the bed and assumed an air of dignity. "Philip Giles," said she, " I have always faithfully, endeavored to perform my pait as a wife and mother. I have patiently borne my privations, think them necessary to husbandour mean, while you have used money without stint, to purchase machinery to lighten your work. Now I have resolved upon a change. What modern improvements there are to facilitate woman's work I intend to have. Nay, do not interrupt me," she continued as Mr. Giles made an attempt to speak "Those things are paid for,' with the money dear old grandfather loft me in his will. You loaned it to Mr. Harris, doing me neither the honor nor the justice to have the notes drawn in my name. Yester day ho paid it, and I went to the city and made these purchases; they cost less than alio mower you have just bought. The rest of the money was placed in the Savings Bank." . . " In your name, I suppose?'! said Mr. Giles. " Yes In my name," oontinued Mrs. Giles, "that I might have the use of it when I wished. This farm was purcha sed with a part of that legacy, and here after I intend to see that my rights are re spected, and my legal claims rightly adjust ed." And she did. 1! S I (I M A JHP AllTMKNT. Answers to Enigmas, &c, In last week's TIMES! Answer to Poetical Riddle the letter "II." Answer to Geographical Enigma " tVll- Ilumsport." SCIENTIFIC HEADING. ' The Poison Valley. 1 1 1I1K( traveler Loudon gives tho follow J lug interesting account of tho famous poisonous valley in tho island of Java. " We took with us Borne dogs and fowls to try experiments in this poisonous hollow. When within a few yards of the alley we experienced a strong nauseous smell, but in coming close to its edge this disagreeable odor left us. The valley ap peared to bo about half a milo in circum ference, oval, and the depth from thirty to thirty-five feet ; tho bottom quite Hat ; no vegetation ; and the whole covered with tho skeletons of human beings, tigers, pigs, deer, peacocks, and all sorts of birds. We now fastened a dog to the end of a bamboo, eighteen feet long, and sent him in we had our watches in our hands, and in fourteen seconds ho fell on his back, did not move his limbs or look around, but con tinued to bieatho ten minutes. Wo then sent in another, or rather Jio got loose and walked into where the other dog was lying. He then stood quite still, and in ten minutes fell on his face nnd never afterward moved his limbs. Ho continued to breathe seven minutes. We now tried a fowl which died in a minute and a half. We threw in an other, which died before reaching the ground. On the opposite side of the valley, near a large stone, was the skcl eton of a human being, who must have perished on his back, with his right hand under his head. From being exposed to the weather, tho bones were bleached as white as ivory. I was anxious to procure this skeleton, but any attempt to get it would have been madness." The old legend in regard this valloy was that a poisonous tree grew hero named the Upas, and if any one approached it, the re suit was sure death. Subsequent invest!' gat ion, however, proved the incorrectness of the legend in regard to the tree, but not, as it seems, in regard to the deadliness of of the place. Nor was this latter exagger ated ; but its cause, examination proved to be merely the overloading of the air with carbonic acid gas. The origin of the gas has not been so clearly ascertained, but has been supposed to be from some vent in the earth supplying the gas faster than it can be dissipated in the air, though the traveler just quoted says, "we could not perceive any vapor, or any opening in the ground." Nevertheless this gas is known to bo an abundant product of volcanie action, and from some such interior source it may bo conveyed to this spot faster than it is con veyed away. TIN PLATE. The production of tin plate and of arti cles made from it is a very important de partment of hardware manufacture. It is divisible into two parts tho formation of the tin plate from iron and tin, and the working up of this material into , vessels, The iron for this purpose is, after being puddled, passed through the rolling mills till it is compressed into It sheet of several feet in length. While still red hot, it is dexterously doubled or folded over, like a sheet of paper again and passed into the furnace, and again under the roller and so on, by successive repetitions of the process, until the original sheet has been eight times folded and rolled. It is then cut into squares or blocks by steam shears; and when sufficiently cooled, the blocks which are about a third of an Inch in thick' ncss, are bent at the corners, and then rap idly split or separated into tho eight thinner sheets of which they are composed. The next operation is that of pickling the plates in vitriol diluted with hot water, to take the scale off aud whiten them. But even after this has been done, the iron sheets are far from being ready to receive the thin coating of the more precious metal which gives them their name and usefulness. After being rubbed slightly with sand and then dipped in cold water to remove all traces of vitriol, the plates are placed in a furnace for eight or nine hours to be ait ncaled; but as the annealing dulls the brightness which the vitriol gave them, they Buffet the process of cold rolling, to give them, once more, the necessary polish. It is then softened by annealing and the plate is roauy to receive its coating or tin. It Is first placed in what is called a pick le a dilute solution of sulphuric acid and is afterward plunged into a solution of boiling oil, whore it is allowed to remain for a qnartor of ah honr. Close byhli cauldron is another, partly filled with melt ed tin, on the surface of ' which a layer of oil floats. The iron plate is dipped into the fluid metal, and left there for ten or twelve minutes, at tho end of whioh' time it adheres, and it is drawn out covered with a brilliant coating of the tin. The surface of the plate is then brushed, so as to.re- move the superfluous tin, then rubbed with bran, and polished with sheepskin with the wool on. . . ' - ' THE WATCH. , t Tho watch was originally, wo find, a comparatively huge and "bungling" thing, and was moved by weights in short, it was only a "littlo clock," a " pocket edition" thereof, as it were. Its case was at first made of iron, and on account of the weights it had to be homo about iu a suspended position, as by a cord about the neck, hang ing down ou the breast. It was only a lit tlo over three centuries ago, about the year 1555, that the spring was devised, doing away with weights, and rendering the instrument more readily and safely portable. These springs were then only straight pieces of steel, not coiled as now, and occupying more space. The watch of those days had but one index or hand, and required to be wound often, two or three times a day. The faces or dials were of metal, brass usually, and the cases were without crystals, but opened in front and at the back, not unlike the "hunting-watch" case of to-day. The case was from five to six inches in diameter a fashion which modern indisposition to " bear about large weights" would hardly tolerate. As may be readily conjectured, the watch in those times was a very costly affair, worth more than many a New England farm now is, and requiring a long time in its construc tion. It is computed that the average val ue of the watches of those days was equiva lent to fifteen hundred dollars of our cur rency. Who Soaped That Horn! ri HIE story runs that when a certain re- JL vivalist celebrity took up the horn, to summon tho worshipors to service after dinner one day, ho blew a strong blast of soap all over the astonished brothcrn. It is also said by the chronicler of this 'ytem," that he cried out aloud: " Brethren, I have passed through many tribulations and trials, but nothing like this. I have served the ministry for thirty -years, and in that time never uttered a pro fane word, but I'll be if I can't whip the man that soaped that horn I" Well this is a strong story; but we have from a reliable authority, something a little stronger in the sequel to the same incident. This is given as follow: Somo two days after the horn soaping a tall, swarthy, villianous-looking desperado strolled on the ground and leaned against a tree, listened to the eloquent exhortation to repent which was made by the preacher. After a while he became interested, finally affected, and commenced groaning in the " very bitterness of his Borrow. The cler gyman walked down and endeavored to console him. No consolation he was too great a sinner he said.. Oh, no there was pardon for the vilest. No, he was too wicked there was nd hope for him. " Why, what crime have you committed? said the preacher, " have you stolen ?" "Oh worse than that 1" " What 1 have you by violence robbed fomalo innocence of its virtue ?" " Worse than that oh, worse than that!" " Murder is it ? gasped the now horrified preacher. " Worse than that 1" groaned the srait- ten sinner. The excited preacher commenced " peel ing off" his outer garments. Here, brother Cole 1" he shouted, ' hold my coat. I've found the fellow that soaped that horn." 3T An Irish counselor having lost his cause, which had been tried by three Judges, one of whom was esteemed a very able lawyer, though tho other two wore in different, some ef the other barristers were merry on the occasions, "Well, now," said he, " who could help it, when there are a hundred Judges on the bench?" "A hundred ?" said a bystander; " thore were but three." " By St. Patrick I" replied be, "there were one and two ciphers." 1ST One pound of gold may be drawn into a wire that would extend around the globle. So one good di ed may be felt through all time, and cast its influence into eternity. Though doua iu the first flush of youth, it may gladdou the last of a long lifo; and form the brightest aud most gloriou spot on it. ' tST" Intoxicated rats are frequently seen in the vicinity of the breweries of Cleve land, and an effort is being made among the old settlers to organize a society to prevent the young rats from falling into dissolute habits that will ultimately bring them Into a trap.
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