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mcorporatrd by th dtrt of trnimm' Pltat, in
: OF
l the VegMahire, in 1871.
: f The lemujvaitla
Central :, Insurance':;' Company,
,or pottsville, pa. ,;: 1
.1 lt .... i 1 1 i i i ,. , . i i
Capital and 1 . Assets, $150,000. .
Premium Notes',.... ... ' 1 100,000 00
Promissory Note, , . t 50,000 0
Casta premiums due or rot- ' ; '
lected for the year 181. 12,028 00 1 ' , '
Cali premlnmi due or col- t
lected for the first three . , ' 1 '
months of 1873, 1,800 00 .
Cash from other sources
and ngents 1,200 00
Judgment Bonds Id Com
pany' office, 1,100 00
Total Cash, f 8,128 00
Total cosh and noto assets,
April 1st, 1872 :.. ' ! $166,188 00
.JAMES II. GRIER, JOIIN D. HADESTY,
,. , Secretary. President.
DIKECTOR8 :
John D. Tladesty, A. V, Helms, Bcnjnmla
Teter, A. Bntermelster, James 11. Grlcr, . F.
Tungkurt, Ellas Miller.
AGENTS i
II. H. Hill, Edward Fox, John A. Kable, Ed
ward Wesley, Charles F. Delbert, Wm. R.
OrifHth. E. F. Jungkurt, General Agent.
Arrangements have been made 'with other
first-class companses to re-Insure risks taken
vo the cash plan in such amounts as desired.
Liberal commission allowed aeent. and ex
clusive territory, if desired. This Company
onflnes Itself to fire insurance exclusively.
OFFICE:-. .
No. 181 CENTRE ST., POTTSVILLE, FA.
NOTICli
The Home Reserve force of The Penn
sylvania Central Insnrance Company of
Pottsville, Pa., will be in Perry county in
considerable force, and aot a the Com
pany's Agents until a full line of Local
Agents can be appointed when the reserve
force will be recalled.
JAMES II. GRIER,
Sec'y of Pa. Central Ins. Co.
Inemranco Notice.
On and after the tenth day of April,
.1872, The Home Reserve force of Insur
ance Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva
nia Central Insurance Company" will leave
Pottsvillo in heavy force, and occupy ton
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 be recalled.
As a body of men, I believe they are supe
rior Insurance Agents, and most of them
speak t'.ie English, French, Welsh and Ger
man Languages. The City Insurance
Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual
Companies, and continual cry of Fraud I
Fraud ! ! &c., cannot muster any better In
surance material ! Why don't the City In
surance papeis tell the public that no Mu
tual Company broke or failed during the
last ten years 1 Why don't they tell the
public that more than half the Stock Com
panies started within the last ten years
have? It is a well-known fact that Mutual
Companies cannot fail. r
JAMES II. GJUER,
Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur
ance Company. , , 0 10
riiititYcpiNTY '
Ileal Estate. Insurance,
AND
CLAIM AGKINCY.
LEWIS POTTEB & CO.,
It'ol Ktat llrokert, Inmrance, k Claim Agtnt
Kow J JIoomllell, Fa.
WE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell
ers to the advantage we oner them In pur.
chasing or disposing of real estate through our of.
Bee. ,
We have a very large list of deslrab property,
conslstliiK of farms, town properly, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estut of any descrip
tion which we are prepared to uller at great bar
gains. We advertise our property very extensive
ly, and use all our efforts, skill, and ullllgence t
effect a sale. We make no charge uuless the
property In sold while registered with us. We alsa
-draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, auditll legal pa
pers at moderate rates.
Home of the bent, cheapest, and most reliable
lire, life, and cattle Imuran companies In the
United Htntes are represented at Oils agency.
l'roerty Insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and peietually at H and 15 per thousand.
l'enslous, bounties, and all kinds of war claims
collected. There aro thousand of soldiers aud
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Hol
dlers, if you were wounded, ruptured, orcoutract
vd a disease in the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a pension.
When w idows of soldiers die or marry, the minor
-children are entitled to the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as
we are coullilent we can render satisfaction in any
branch of our business.
No charge for information.
4ioly -. UWIS PUTTER & CO.
Mew CUirrlage Manufactory,
'On II iiiii Stiif.kt, East or Carlisle t..
New Bloomflt'ld, I'enn'n.
TT1II1! subscriber lias built a large and coininodi
L ous Hhop on High Ml., Knst of Carlisle Htreet,
New liloonilleld. Pa., where he is prepared loinuu.
uinctiue to order
Oil, i r i 1 1 t' 5 w
of every description, out of the best material.
Sleighs of every Style,
built to order, sod llnlshed In the most artistic and
durable manner.
, Having superior workmen, he Is prepared
to furnish work that will compare favorably with
the best City Work, and miieh more durable, and
at much more reasonable rales. ,
M-HKlMlKINQof all kinds ueatlyaud prompt
ly done. A call Is solicited.
SAML'KL SMITH.
sw t ,
ri? NllOOllill .lstOf'M.
HE BiibwrllKTN keep fotiHtuntly on liand,
.iv I ' luJilll'l LilV I' ill
film A iw;it inn.
FRENCH CALF SKINS,
PINK LININGS,
R O A N S ,
MOROCCOS,
SHOE THREAD,
PEGS, A WLS,
and a general assortment of articles used by Shoe
iiuaksrs.
J. tnUtTIMEH.
Cash arid Credit.
GEORGE BROWN, at the age of twenty-three
took him wife, or, rather,
he and Hattie took one anotlier for better,
or for worse. But tbon they knew it was
going to be for bttttr always, and never for
worse.' How could It be otherwise, when
they understood each other o well ? ; They .
had married young, and they had but little
of this world's good to commence with ;
but they bad health and strength, and they
were going to work together and build them
up a home of their own in time.,
" We will be very saving," said Hattie,
"and in the end we may reach the goal."
The goal was the borne which they were to
own. "We shall not scrimp, nor deny our
selvea of necessary comforts ; .but we will
do without luxuries. But tints economis
ing in the morning, we may find a store to
spare in the evening. Money is like time.
An hour gained in tlio early day is a great
thing, while an hour lost may not be regain
ed, i
Goorge saw and understood, and he was
as eager as was his wife. He determined
to put all his energies into the work, and
in the future ho was foreshadowed promises
most bright. He had taken of his uncle a
small house which he was to pay for when
he could. He bad no doubt that he should
be able to pay two hundred dollars a year
on it, at which rate, his kind relative had
offered the bargain, the projierty would bo
his in six years.
"George," asked Hattie, one evening, at
the tea-table, " What did you pay for this
tea ?"
"I declare, Hattie, I don't know. I
don't believe I asked."
" What I Did not ask."
"No. I have every confidence in Mr.
Skidd. He is a perfectly honorable num."
" But did you not pay for it?"
" No. I have openod an account there.
Hattie shook her head disapprovingly. -George
saw the motion, and went on.
"You know I am paid monthly, and I
thought it would bo just as well to keep a
monthly account at the store. Mr. Skidd
himself, preferred that plan.
" I can nee very readily why Mr. Skidd
should prefer it," said his wife, with a sig
nificant smile. "In the llrst place, he
knows that you are a industriouH,steady,and
honorable man, and that whatever you owe
you will surely pay. Ho knows that."
George was llatteied, but he felt that his
wife had spoken no more thau the truth.
"And," pursued Hattie, "he knows one
thing. He knows that you will buy more
on credit than you would for cash."
George mado a deprecatory motion, but
his wife continued :
"Mr. Skidd knows. lie is old in the
business. Over his good customers, who
open monthly accounts upon his ledger, he
has decided advantages. He can persuade
them to buy what they would not buy if
they bad to pay tho cash down ; and, where
they are to have credit where a trader isto
have the extra labor and expense of enter
ing and posting each separate article, and,
in the end, of making a full bill of items
the buyer cannot with good conscience de
mand reduction from asked prices."
George smiled, and said ho thought his
wife was mistaken. He was suro he was
doing well, lt would lie inconvenient to
pay for each little artiolo as he ordered it.
Ami, furthermore, it would lie handier to
settle bis store bills when his employers
settled with him.
Hattie did not press the matter. She had
brought the subject upon the tapis, and
she was willing to await the development
of evonts. ' '
"By tho way, Mr. Brown, do you not
want a box of these figs 1 They are fresh,
I'll warrant them and by the box I will
put them cheap."
So spoke Mr. Skidd the store-keeper.
George knew that his wife was very fond
of figs; and be loved them himself. And
he finally consented that a box Klioiild bo
sent to him.
On another day Mr. Skidd said :
"Ah, Brown, my dear follow, have you
tried this golden syrup V
George had not tried the syrup. The
best quality of molasses hail hitherto an
swered him. But ho was pursuaded to try
it. ,
On another day :
"Look hero, Brown, shall I Msud you up
a dozen of these Messina oranges ? A new
cargo just in. You won't get 'cm so cheap
again. Only thirty cents."
Only thirty cents t And George knew
how foiid Hattie was of oranges. Of course
he would have them.
And so the day passed on, and the month
oatne to an end. ' George Brown was paid
by bis employers, and he set at once about
paying others. On his way home he stop
ped in and got Mr. Skidd' bill.
" You can take it and look it over," said
the trader, with a patronizing sniilej "You
Vill tlnd It all right."
George had intended to pay the bill then
and there; but when ho saw the long col
umn of figures, and glanced his eyo at the
sum total, hia heart leaped up . into his
mouth. He wa astounded. - 1 He had
thought to himself as he bad come along,
that Skidd' bill would be about twelve to
fifteen dollars. After paying everything
else he would have twenty dollar left,
which would satisfy ' this last demand and
leave, something over, , , .
He had Just commenced housekeeping,
and did not expect to save much at first.
But, mercy 1 how his anticipation were
knocked in pieces a he looked at this bill.
He tod Skidd he guessed he would look it
over; and on his way homeward he examin
ed it; but he could find nothing wrong
nothiag wrong in the items but the sum
total wa a poser: twenty-six dollars and
forty-two cents 1 '
For a long time after he had reached home
he tried to convince Hattie that nothing
was the matter with him; but at length he
plucked up courage, and drew forth Skidd's
bill. He had expected that his wife would
be paralyzed. But on the contrary, she
only smiled and said it was all right. 1
" All right !" echoed Georgo.
" All right," so far as Mr. Skidd is con
cerned," said Hattio, "You remember
what I told you once before, and new' let's
sit down and eat supper, and then we will
look the matter over." , " 1 . ,
And after supper they went at the work.'
Hattie took the bill, and and a piece of
blank papor, and followed the items down
with her pencil.
" First," Bhe said, " is a box of figs, at
fifteen cents a pound. It was very cheap
no doubt; but the eight pounds came to a
dollar and twenty-five cent. Had you
been required to pay cash, you would not
have bought them. You would, at least,
have asked mo if I liked them, and I should
have told you, no. Next we have a gallon
of golden syrup, which we did not need,
and for which you would not have paid cash
without consulting me."
And so she went on, and at the end she
had cut down the bill, by throwing out ar
ticles which they had not absolutely need
ed, to less than fifteen dollars.
A dollar here did not seem much to
George; and a dollar and a half there; and
then scventyiive cents; and then only fifty
cents; but there had been twenty visits to
the store during tho past month, and tho
aggregate of these trivial sums was consid
erable. George saw tho whole thing, and ho
knew that his wife had been right from the
first.
" Don t say a word, lie miuI. "1 see
the mist ake. But I'll have to work around
in the right track by degrees."
" How so, George ?" ,
" Why I haven't money enough left of
my month's wages to pay this bill; so I
shall bu -utterly uuablo to enter upon the
ciirIi principle at present. '
" There need be no dilliclty in that di
rection," said Hattio. "I have not spent
quite all my little capital. I had already
fixed it for a bit of nest ei'c; and I don't
know that it could lie put to a better use
than the laying of a foundation for cash
payments. At any rate, George, let us try
it for a while."
George kissed his wife and said she was
a blessing; and he promised that he would
follow her advice in the future. He took
the money which she had to give, and held
it as a loan, which he was to return at the
earliest possible moment: and ho felt an
ambition, too, to see how speedily he could
do it.' , ' " ...
And on Monday morning the new rule
of life went into operation. George paid
Mr. Skidd' bill, and told him that here
after ho should pay cash for everything he
bought. The store keeper pooh-poo'd, and
said there was no need of it.
" Bless you, my boy, I had as leavo trust
you as not."
" I do not doubt it, Mr. Skidd, but
prefer not to be trusted. I would rather
consume my own groceries than to consume
yours. A bill is au evil at best, and I don't
choose to have evils growing on my hands
if I can help it." .
Mr. Skidd saw very plainly that hi cus
tomer's vision was clear, and ho said no
more.
On tho evening of that very Monday, Mr,
bkuld exhibited to Ueoree Home extra nice
preserves, and the young man's first im
pulse was to order a pot of them; but tho
taking out of his wallet, and the breaking
of a five-dollar bill was a palpable reminder
and he concluded that he could get along
without them. Said he to himself:
"These seemingly tiivi.il sums, if I save
them, will, at the end of tho mouth, add
up as giently in my favor as they have
heretofore added against mo." ,
And ho found it so. And ho found one
thing more in bis favor from coh payments
which he had not particularly counted upon
As he hud the money in his hand to pay
for the articles ho had planned to purchase,
he could buy it where be could get it liest
and cheapest.. Trailers are not willing to
lose cash customers; and they do only the
fair and honest thing when they sell to such
customer cheaper than to others. Not only
is tho interest of the money on account mi
important item lu tho aggregate of many
accounts, but the keeping of that account
in the day-book and ledger was an expense.
George very soon lcamedu!l this; and he
found that even Mr. Skidd sold to him
during thi'nionth of cash payment cheaper
than he had sold during the previous
month.
And as the mouths rolled on, Georgo
Brown opened no more account with
traders. He found that in paying cash he
was constantly reminded of the value of
each separate ' sum ' as he counted it out,
and was hence not likely to purchase what
be did not need. And then he hod a goal
ahead which he had determined to reach as
speedily as possiblo; and by his system of
cash payment he could estimate at the
close of every day the gain ' he was making
toward the desired end. ' And . in two
months he paid what he had borrowed of
hi Wife, and she put it in the common
fund; and in five yoars his homo was his
own, and he owod no man anything but
love and good will. ' ,
K X t G M A 1) K P A It TMES T
Cross W ord Enigma.
My first Is In food, but not In meat )
My second in Rye, but not In wheat;
M v third In silver, but not In gold;
My fourth in new, but not in old;
My fifth In honey, but not In tweet;
My sixth la road, but not In street;
My seventh in hands, but not in feet;
My eighth In Josh, but not la Fete;
My ninth In child, but not In boy;
My tenth In hope, but not In Joy;
My whole 1 not free from alloy. ,
SUNDAY BEADING.
Hotr toilet the Best Place.
I saw a young man In the oflice of a
Western railway superintendent. He was
occupying a position that four hundred
boys in the city would have wished to get.
It was honorable and " it paid well,"
besides being in line ot promotion. How
did he get it? Not by having a rich father,
for he was the son of a laborer. The secret
was, bis beautiful accuracy. He began as
an errand boy and did his work accurately.
His leisure time was used in perfecting his
writing and arithmetic. After a while be
learned to telegraph. At each step his
employer commended his accuracy, and re
lied on what ho did ben use ho was suro it
was just right. And it is thus with every
occupation. The accurate boy is the favor
ed one. Those who employ men do not
wish to be on tho constant look-out, as
though they were rouges or fools. If a car
penter must stand at his journeyman's
elbow to be sure his work I right, or if
the cashier must run over the book-keep-
per's columns, he might as well do the work
himself as employ another to do it in that
way; it is very certain that an employer will
get rid of such an inaccurate workman a
soon as possible.
l Knew nucii a young man. lie liau a
good chance to do well, but he was so in.
accurate and unreliable tho'' people were
afraid to trust hiin. If he wrote a deed,
or a mortgage, or a contract, lie was sure
to leave o"t something or put in something
to make it an imperfect paper. He was a
lawyer without business, because he lacked
the noble quality ot accuracy, just across
the street from him was another young
lawyer, who was proverbial for accuracy
Ho was famous for searching titles, and
when ho wrote out the history of a title,
to a piece of property, it was takou for
granted it was just so. His aim was abso
lute accuracy in everything. If he copied
a conveyance, or cited a legal authority,
or mado a statement, ho aimed to do it ex.
actly. The consequence is, he is having a
valuable practice at'the bar, and is univers
ally esteemed.
" But," say some boy, "when I become
a man that is the way 1 shall do. ' I mean
to be very accurate."
Perhaps so. I could tell better if 1 know
just how you do your work now. There
are several ways of getting a lesson. One is
to get it "tolerably well," which does not
cost much labor; the other way is, to get
it faultlessly well, which cost a groat deal
oflobor. A boy can get a general idea of
his lesson "in u jiffy," but to get it withac.
curacy is very hard, and requires both time
and industry. If you, my boy, to-day are
getting your lesson in tho slipshod way,
you will grow up a slipshod man; but if to
day your habit is to get every lesson with
perfect accuracy, I will warrant you will do
that way when you become a man. How
Is it?
Beautiful Allegory.
Crittenden, oi jveniucKy, was at imo
timo engaged in defending a mail who had
been indicted for a capital oll'cnco. Afler
au elaborate oud powerful defence, he clos
ed his ell'ort witli the following striking
and beautiful allegory: When God in his
etemal council conceived the thought of
man's creation, he called to hint the threo
miuisters who wait constantly upon the
throne Justice, Truth and Mercy and
thus addressed them: "Shall we make
man?" Then said Justice: "Oh, God,
make him not, lor he will trample upon
the laws." Truth made answer also: ".Oh
God make him not, for ho will pollute thy
sunctuuiies." But Mercy dropping upon
her knees looking up through her tears,
exclaimed: "Oh, God, make hiui I will
watch over him with my care through all
the dark paths which he may have to
tread!" Then God made man, and said unto
him: "Oh, man thou art the child of mercy
go aud deal with thy brother.' " The jury,
when ho had finished, were drowned in
tears, and, against evidence and what must
have been against their own convictions.
brought In a verdict of not guilty. .
. The Two Arabian. , , . . , .
Tbd ne lived 1 1520 , B. C,;'owed 7,000
sheep, 8,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 600 '
she asses, and a very great household, and
was the greatest of all the men of the East.
He said: "My days are swifter than a post:
they flee away, they' see no good; they , are
passed away as tho swift ships, a the
eagle that hasteth away:, in whose hand i
the soul of every living v thing and the
breath of all mankind." : I
The other lived A. I). 750, and had" V00
eunuch, TOO doorkeepers, 38,000 pieces of
tapestry, 3,000 carjiets; 100 llonsy With a
keeper for each; a tree of gold spreading in
18 branches, on which sat a variety of bird
of gold, which machinery made to warble
their natural harmony; his seraglio contain
ed 6,300 persons, and hi body guard num
bered 12,000, whose belt and scimitars
were studded with gold. The last one said:
" I have now reigned 50 years in victory or
peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by
my enemies, and respected by my allies.
Riches and honors, power and pleasure,
have waited on my call, nor does any earth
ly blessing appear to have been 'wanting to
my felicity. I have diligently numbered
the days of pure and genuine happiness
which have fallen to my lot; they amount
to fourteen. O man, place not thy confi
dence in this world." '
Has time and human experience diminish
ed aught of those solemn truths uttered by
the Patriarch Job and the Caliph Abdal
rahman? t27 In the recent debate in the Massa
chusetts Legislature on the repeal of the
beer clause in the present Liquor Law, Mr.
John Newell of Boston, made a very con
vincing speech, in the course of which he
presented in a very striking light the fear
ful waste caused by the liquor trade. He
stated that the value of all the liquors sold
in Massachusetts during the past year was
nearly 132,000,000. The money thus worse
than sunk, producing no valuable return to
society would build and endow 00 colleges
at $100,000 each, establish 50 libraries of
5,000 volumes each at f 3 per volume, build
23 churches in the country at f 20,000
each, and 25 churches in the city at 40,
000 each, support 500 teachers at $1,500
each, build and eudow 23 charitable insti
tutions at $200,000 each, and distribute to
the poor 225,000 barrels of Hour at $10 a
barrel, aud 225,000 tons of coal at $10 a ton.
Two Awkward Mistakes."
A good story is told in Washington of a
genial young gentleman, unwilling to omit
recognition of an acquaintance, who ' at a
wedding reception lately caught sight of a
gray-whiskered and rather stately person,
and being satisfied by inquiring of his iden
tity, immediately edged along to his side.
"Good evening," said he extending his
hand with cordiality. " I'm delighted to
see you ! I believe wo haven't met since
we parted in Mexico. "s
"I really fear," said the gray-whiskered
magnate, " that you have me at an advan
tage." ' " Why, you don't rcecollect I But then
I was very much younger," said the other,
"when with my father in Mexico." ,
"And, to tell the truth," said the older
gentleman, " my remembrances of ever
having been iu Mexico are very indistinct."
" Kxcuse the question," said the young
man, rather desperately: " aro you not Sir
Edward Thornton ?"
" By no means. 1 um Judge Poland, of
Vermont."
" A thousand pardons!" aud the discom
fited youth moved away.
But a few nights afterward, at another
reception, his eye was similarly caught,
and the edge of his mortification having
been worn ofl', he could smile at his mis
take, and he accordingly made his way
once more to the'side of a gentleman with
gray mutton-chop whiskers, and after a
word or two'on the weather and the scene,
he suddenly said.
"That was an awkward thing of mo the
other night, when I took you for old Thorn
ton." "And who do you take me (or now, may
1 ask?" said his companion.
"Why why," said the embarrassed
young man of society "you told mo you
wero Judge Poland, of Vermont."
'On the contrary.niy name is Thornton.'
was the rather annihilating response; and
the young man at this day call it a couple
of very unpleasant mistakes.
Parted at the Altar.
Some time ago, after an acquaintance of
several years, a young lady named Ishor
was married ill Detroit to a young man
named Taylor, of Indianapolis. , The cere
mony was hardly over when Taylor receiv
ed a telegram from Lynn, Mass., that his
aged mother was dying, and in an hour ho
left Detroit, calculating to return withiu
ten days at tho furthest. Ho wrote one
letter back, and shortly after his bride, re
ceived news that mother and son wore both
dead. Ho was exposed to the small-pox
somewhuro on the route, took a severe cold,
and died the day before hi mother died.
The wifo fainted on reading tho sad news,
and the attending physician believe that
she will bo rendered a maniac by the blow.