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.
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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.