3 , NEW YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, S Til ICILY MVTVAL ! IBSUE8 all the new forms f Policies, unci pre. entu as favorable terms as any company lu the United States. The Company will make temporary loans on Its Policies.., .. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are iina-forfeit-ure. . , , No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice in the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. . i-.. ,1 JUSTUS LAWRENCE. Pres't". I'll ' , M. 11. Wvnkoop, Vice I'res'L J.P.KooEKS.Sec'y. j, EATON. . Ueuerat Agent, No. 6 North Third Street, 4.29 yl College Block, Harrisburg, Pa. Incorporated bit the Court of Common rieas, in 1S69; by the Levirtalun, in 1871. , I The Pennsylvania , Central Insurance Company, ' OF POTTSVILLE, PA. Capital and Assets, $156,000. Premium Notes, 1100,000 00 Promissory Notos 50,000 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for the year 1871, 2,028 00 , . , - Cash premiums due or col- -lected for the first three months of 1872,.. 1,800 00 Cash from other sources and agents 1,800 00 Judgment Bonds In Com pany's office,.. 1,100 00 ' Total Cash,...:.' ?6,138 00 Total cash and note assets, April 1st, 1873 $156,128 00 JAMEB H. GRIER, JOHN D. HADE8TT, Secretary. President, i DIRECTORS : John D. Hadesty, A. P. Helms, Benjamin Tetor, A. Bntermcister, James H. Grlor, E. F. Jungkurt, Ellas Miller. . ; .'.' - . AGENTS: ' H. H. Hill, Edward Fox, John A. Kable, Ed ward Wesley. Charles F. Delbcrt, Win. R. Griffith. , E. F. Jungkurt, General Agont, ' Arrangements kava been made with other first-class companies to 're-lnsurs risks taken n the cash plan in such amount as desired. Liberal commission, allowed agents, and ex--eluslve territory, If desired. . This Company confines Itself to Are Insurance exclusively. ---' orFibKi--' '- No. 101 CENTRE ST., rOTTBVILLE. PA. .:' NOTICE. - The Home Reserve force of The Penn sylvania Central Insurance - Company of Pottsville, Pa., will be in Perry county in considerable force, and act aa the Com pany's Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed when the reserve tforce will be recalled. ,- . . .,. - JAMES H. GRIER, , Seo'y of Pa. Central Ins. Co. , Insurance N otlco. On and after the tenth day of April, 1872. The Home Reserve force of Inaur- -auoe 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 Agonts 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 the English, French, Wehth and Gor man Languages. The City Insurance Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual Companies, and continual cry of Fraud I Fraud I ! &c, cannot muster any better In iBurance material t Why don't the City In surance papeis 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 naif trie Block voir- uanies started within the last ten years have? It is a well-known fact that Mutual Companies cannot fail. ' JAMES II. GRIER, Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur ance Company, 0 18 New Carriage Manufactory, Ox Bioa Sthbit, East or Cakusls Bt., I '; i 1 Hew Bloomfleld, Peon's. . suhserlber hu built a lares and eommodi, A, ous Hhop on High Ht., East of Carlisle Htreet, Kew tuooiuneid, ra., where us is prepareu to man- uiacture to oraer , Ca r r i in. fir o ' Of every description, out of the best material. M Sleighs of eyerj, Style, . : - 'built to order, and finished in tht most artistic and durable manner. 4 Having superior workmen, he Is prepared to furnish work that will compare favorably with 'the beat City Work, and much more durable, and b mucn snore reasonable rates. -JtEPAlKINa of all kinds neatly and prompt ay cods. A sail Is sousltsd. SAMUEL 8MITH. 1M Taming a Ruffian. An Editor's Experience IMS scene was in Sacramento struct, in twenty-two years ago, and Ban Frnuclsco was in her Infancy. , . ., , , , . . Quite a crowd had gathered on the streot, and the centre of attraction was a big fol low, who stood with a newspaper in his linntl, raving and cursing. " What's the matter, Wolf?" asked a new-comer, who was cviilontly familiar witli the irate man. , "Matter?" returned Wolf, for that was his name, "matter enough, an' rough enough it'll bo for some folks. . Thorn young whelps that prints this paper has gone and published something about me. (), I'll fix 'em I They'd better never ha' been born ! They'd better go and kill them selves after ten minutes; it'll be an easier death fur 'om.V -. , Wolf was a noted desperado, . who, it was Raid, had killed more than twenty men, and but few knew him who did not fear him. lie was at that time chief of a gang of loaf ers and gamblers that were nearly always to be found lounging in the vicinity alluded to, and disturbing tho pence of the whole neighborhood daily with riotous conduct. If there was any law in thoso days it was seldom executed against such characters, and in the full , consciousness that they were feared they did pretty . much as they ploased. The newspaper which had given deadly offense to Wolf was a little weekly joumal and its office was in the second story of a building on the same streot with tho hotel I have mentioned, and only a few rods dis tant. It was published by two young men or, I might say, boys, for they wore only eighteen and twenty years old, respectively named Darrell and Kaynes. , The paper and its youthful proprietors were already well known in the city of San Francisco, The article which had excited the wrath of the ruffian Wolf was a bold denunciation of himself and his crowd for their lawless conduct, and it particularly mentioned him by name, characterizing him aa a "bluster ing bully." It was the work of young Darrell, a fearless boy hailing from Ohio, Before leaving bis home he had acquired a fair education, , so that he could at least edit a newspaper in those early days; and he possessed, besides, that courage and daring which may be natural in the first place, and which are more thoroughly developed by exposure to dangers and hard- ships. Young Kaynes was quite a differ ent kind of person in point of courage, being of an unusually timorous nature. To return to the scene on Sacramento street. Working himself up into his very worst mood and his best was bad enough, heaven knows Wolf tore tho papers to at oms and started for the publication office Be was followed by a curious rabble, most of whom were elated with the prospect of a murder, though there were some present who would have remonstrated with the evil-hearted man, had they dared. ''Jest you watch,';' said Wolf, as he reached the door, " if ye want to see their bloody carcasses tumble out of the winder! It won't be long. I don't spend much time on sich fellers." It was the intention of the cruel-hearted man actually to cut the the throats of the two boyish journalists and throw' tholr ' bodies out at the window, for the gratification of the crowd and the' further exaltation of his already fearful name. So, the mob on the street awaited the issue with feverish expectation, as Wolf, flourishing his knife and revolver, entered the rude frame building and rushed up stairs. All unconscious of their danger,, the two young editors were busily pursuing their usual work in their primitive office. If they had heard the noise without, they had paid no attention to it, supposing it was merely a street row such as they were accustomed to bearing every day. Darrell was sitting at a rude table writing, and Kaynes was at the counter arranging some papers for the mall. They heard the clatter of heavy boots on the stairs, but supposed it was some rough miner coming up to subscribe for the paper, or, perhaps, to see a lawyer who occupied a couple of rooms on the same floorjfor the building was only two-story one, and the second floor was occupied exclusively by them and an attorney their rooms being separated from his by a narrow hall-way that was reached by the flight of stairs al- luded to. " Ah-ba I I've got ye, my young imps !" exclaimed the desperado, bursting in. Kaynes recognized him and turned pale, Being at the counter, which faced the door and extended across the room, he was nat urally the first mark for Wolfs vengeance, " Ye young devils 1" he hissed, scowling like a roadman, "Ye'll never write nor print nothing more about me 1" Here he flourished his knife and revolver about his head. " I've got a sure thing on both of ye I" Baying this he looked about him. with a careful scrutiny, to see that there was no means of escape for the quiet youth at the tables who, of coarse, would not daro to jump over the counter and try to pass him, but would cower down In a corner and take hi turn at being killed; then ha reached across the counter .and seized Kaynes' by the hair, which was unfortunate ly very long.' "' ''! " Colling the terrified young man's locks around the" great coarse Angers' of the left hand, Wolf laid his revolver upon the coun ter without the slightest apprehension' that his youthful adversary Would snatch it up and use It on him, as he might' have done had he possessed the nerve; then' flourished his big gloaming knife, deliberately,' with pure dovilishncss prolonging Kayne'B terror and pain. ; "' Now1 Bay yer prayers, d -ri yer," ho hissed, "you've got a couple of seconds or so loft just whilo I'm clippin' yer ears off. '11 take 'em first, clean and smooth; then '11 cut yer throat an' throw yer out of the winder. D'ye hear that?"1' ' ' " Such was Wolfs reliance upon the terror bis name everywhere inspired that he never dreamed of resistance. Ho simply inten- dod to butcher the two young men, and such a thing as an obstacle to his will was not to be thought of. Had Darrell possess ed no more nerve than Kaynes there can be no doubt they would both have been mur dered then and there, ill exact accordance with Wolf s programme. ' l: ' ' 1 "Time 1" he said, grinding his teeth in anecstacy of rage, nnd drawing Kiiyne's white face closer to his own repulsive coun tenance. ; "They're a waitin' to see your carcass drop down into the street." Here he flourished his knife and selected his mark." "The right ear first. ' Watch how clean and smooth I'll take it off. I wont even touch a hair." ' ; Kaynes bawled for mercy. "O O don't!" the poor fellow shrieked, trembling with terror. "Oh don't, Mr. Wolf. I didn't write that, upon my soul 1" and he whinod like a Bchool boy. 1 "None of yer lyin'!" said Wolf, fe rociousiy. Ye botn wrote it a n ye; and yo 11 botn pay for it." Here lie execu ted decided circles with his Hashing knife, having apparently prolonged the torture as much as he desired. "Here goes; look out when I count three 1" The knife was was ready to descend. ' " One two" He stopped and stared. He had not ob served the movements of Darrell during the last few seconds, and Just as be was upon the point of clipping off Kayne's ear in the polished manner he bad descanted upon, he found the muzzle of a rifle thrust almost into his face. . ,, It was a loaded rifle which, luckily, friend of Darrel's had left in his keeping that very morning, while he went out to make some purchases. It had stood in a corner of the room near his table, and Dar rell had seized it, cocked it and leveled . it with such dexterity that he bad Wolf cov ered before he had observed his movements; and he stood motionless as a statute his cool eyes glancing over the sights, and steady finger on the trigger, . ; . ' , " You great bully," he said, " drop that knife instantly. Mind, . I come from country where .they shoot squirrels only through the eye. I can hit any hair of your big head that you will mention, at hundred yards. Drop that knife !" The ruffian was fairly paralyzed. . He re leased his grip on Poor Kaynes, who sank fainting upon the floor, and his murderous knife fell on the counter. So unexpected was the bold attitude of Darrell that Wolf was more startled than ho would have been if a dozen of the roughest men , in Califor nia had assailed him. , , There stood the boyish editor, motionless as the wall, and the muzzle of the rifle did not move the breadth of a hair. Darrell held the desperado's life in his hands. You cowardly bully 1" he repeated con temptuously. " Don't you dare to move: I can send a bullet through your : eye-ball ithout touching the . white. Don't move an eighth of an inch or I'll do It, and throw your filthy carcass out of the window. Wolf glanced at his revolver, lying upon the counter within two feet of his eyes, but he did not venture to reach for it. , " Dare to touch that revolver, or so much as look at it again," said Darrell, "and I'll make a red picture upon the wall there be hind you. ' You came up here to murdor two boys, because you thought it an easy task, and now you are pale and trembling with fear. I would kill you in your tracks, but that I don't want your dirty blood on my hands. Go now. Turn . instantly. Leave your kuife and revolver where they are.- I'll keep them. Go down to "your friends on the street and tell them that boy whipped you disarmed you, and then kloked you down stairs." Do as I tell you If you hesitate you will never see the set. Wolf, trembling from head to foot, glan ced once more at his revolver, but did not dare raise his hand. , His face was pale and bis lips were dry. ' .,. Do you hear me?'? demanded Darrell, sternly. "Yes, yes, don't shoot," said Wolf, turn imr about, as commanded. He was thor oughly cowed. "Do not turn your ugly faoe this way again," said DarrolL "or you will pay for it with your life.' Move!"' i Y Tamer than a whipped cur, the ruffian walked toward ' the door, and Darrell, springing over the counter, was at his heels In an instant. ' I 11 ' , - Don't look back, or I'll kill you." Meekly obeying the imperative order of the youth, Wolf moved slowly out of tht room into the corridor. '. . "Bo careful; don't don't let that gun i off," Wolf 'stammerbd, as; he reached the head of the stairs. . , , , , , At this moment the clamors of the impa- tiout crowd below arose with terrible dis tinctness, and one shrill voice was heard to say, ., i , , - ... ,!; ni I' a- ' f " Hurry up, Wolf, why don't you throw thorn fellers out?" . :' Exasporated beyond measure, he was ion the point of turning back, at the risk of his life; for after all his braggadocio how could he face those below, disarmed and chased out of the ' building by one of the puny boys he had intended so terribly to chastise?." But Darrell was after him, and with one vigorous kick sent liiinj bounding down the wooden stairs, with a thundering clatter, and rolling over the doorsill, the de feated bully actually tumbled out upon the street before he could recover his equilibria urn. ..',,. " Hollo 1 how's this? What's up?" asked dozen voices at once, as the dreaded man re-appeared In this imlignifled shape, with out having sent any corpses down from the window. : ' .: 1 "Why, I simply kicked him down stairs that's what's the matter," responded the boyish voice of Darrell at the top; " and if he comes up here again I won't let him off so easy. . Do not be afraid of him; I took all his weapons from him.", Wolf struggled to his feet, and prosont- such a ludicrous appearanco that he was greet with loud Jeers and bursts of laugh ter. , So completely had ho tumbled from his lofty eminence in the eyes of those who either admired or feared a bold murdorer. that they who au hour ago would have dreaded to offend him by word or look, now regarded him only with contempt laugh ed at and derided him. , , , . , Never before had the rough crowd seen a man with an established reputation like Mr. Wolf thus suddenly fall to such a depth of degradation. All his name, fame and prestige, melted away like a mist, and he was no longer feared-no longer respect ed by the low thieves and cut-throats around him only despised. Yes, despised by the meanest of creatures, whom lie had oftentimes bullied as though they had been hounds. ,.,(' The dread which had surrounded his name seemed to vanish liko a mist. " Lick ed by a boy !" " Kicked down stairs 1" "Got his barkers took from him!" were the murmurs of the crowd. At length a voice boldly taunted him with ."Whore's your knife ?" and another proposed V Three cheers for the boy that licked him." Looking very little and pusillanimous, he slunk away toward Montgomery Htreet. Such was Wolf's mortification, when he came fully to realize what a pitiable figure he had cut, that he loft San Francisco and was seen in her streets no more. The fatal ity which had apparently thus far shlolded and assisted him in his murderous deeds suddenly deserted him. . He was destined never to commit another murdor, but was himself shot dead in Sac ramento within but three weeks after the events narrated. I do not know what became of Kaynes, or whether he is still alive; but I know that Darrell, the brave boy whose coolness and courage saved them both,ls to-day a gentle man of position, residing in a flourishing city of Nevada. -, : Origin of Foolscap Paper. The term foolscap, to designate a certain kind of paper, no doubt has puzzled many an inquirer.' The origin is not only amus ing, but historical. Charles 1. of England, granted numerous monopolies for the sup port of the Government. ' Among others was tho manufacture of paper. ' The water mark or the finest sort was the royal arms of England. The consumption of this article was' great, and large fortunes were made by those who had purchased the ex- elusive right to vend it. This, among other monopolies, was set aside by the Parliament that brought Charles 1. to the scaffold; and, by way of showing contempt for the King, they ordored the royal arms ' to be taken from the paper, and a fool, with his cap and bells, to be substituted.' It is now over two hundred years since the fool's cap was taken from the paper, but still the paper of the size which the Rump Parliament ordered for their ' journals, bears the name of the water-mark placed there as an In dignity to Charles. ' - '. i' u i ' 1,1 ' , , 1 - , , - PfTbere is a lady residlug in Baucon, a mile below South Bethulom, Northampton county, whose husband (now dead) wound and presented . ber with . a ball of white stocking yarn fourteen years ago, . telling ber to lay it away and see how long she could keep it. The other day one of her now grown-up daughters happened to come across the yarn, unwound it, and, ' to her great astonishment, found it to be a mln iature bank, for it contained fifty dollars in gold two twenty dollar and two five-dollar gold pieces., As the . widow is in affluent circumstances, itbss been laid aside as a memento of the klnduess and love of the departed consort.. , , .-,. ' tlTIt was brilliant Fond du Lao boy who seeing a dog with a muzzle on for the first time, exclaimed : "Mamma, mamma, I bet five cents the dogs art golug to wear hoop-skirts; there goes a aog with one on bUnose, now." .. i , .;, SUNDAY BEADING. r I ! ! Appearance of Christ. At Washington, a short time since Rov. Doctor Newman delivered a discourse upon the humanity of Jesus Christ, In which he stated that nothing had been handed down to us in regard to His personal appearance, many different views . being entertained on that subject. But we find a letter . written by Publius Lentulits, president of Judoa, and sent by him to the Senate of Rome, when the fame of Jesus twgari to be spread abroad ht tlie world. . Thcso are his words:'- ' - . .' . '"There' lives at this time In Judea a man of singular virtue, whose name is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem a prophet, but His own followers adore Him as the offspring of the immortal God. Ho calls back the dead from their graves, and heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch. He is tall and well shaped ; of au amicable, reverend aspect. His hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling into graceful curls below His ears, and very agreeably touching on His shoulders, par ted on the crown of the head, like the Nazarite. His forehead is smooth and large ; His cheeks without other spot, save that of a lovely red ; His nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry ; His beard thi ck, and of a color suitable to the hair of His head, reaching an inch below His chin and parting in the middle like a fork ; His eyes bright, clear and serene. He rebukes with majesty, oounsels with mildness ; His wholo address, whether in word or deed, being elegant and grave. No man has seen Him laugh, but He has wept frequently. He is very temperate, modest and wise ; a man, for His excellent beauty and divine perfection, surpassing the children of men.'' Useless Treasure. A Rich nobleman was once showing a friend a great collection of precious stones whoso value was almost beyond counting. There were diamonds, and pearls, and ru bies, and gems from almost every country, which had been gathered by their possessor with the greatest labor and expense. ' 1 And yet," ho remarked, " they yield me no in come." , His friend replied that he bad two stones which cost him about ten florins each, yet they yielded him an Income of two hundred florins a year. In much surprise the nobleman desired to see the wonderful stones, when the man led him to his mill and pointed to the two toiling gray millstones. They were labor iously crushing the grain into snowy flour for the use of hundreds who depend on this work for their daily bread. Those two dull homely stones did more good in the world, and yielded a larger income, than the noble man's jewels. ' 1 So It is with idle treasure everywhere. It is doing nobody any good. It is right to be prudent and saving of our money when It is for a good fixed purpose, but to hoard It up for its own sake is more than a folly it is sin ; and even when we save for a good purpose, it is all the Lord's. It is not ours.- we cannot spend all upon ourselves and yet have God's favor, without which we are poor indeed. , Be Not Weary In Well-Doing. , An - old story contains a lesson wh ich many married couples have not yet learned. When Jonathan Trumble was Governor or Connecticut a gentleman called at his house one day requesting a private interview. He said : " I have called upon a very un pleasant errand, sir, and want your advice. My wife and I do not live happily together, and I am thinking of getting a divorce. What do yoii advise, sir?" ' The Governor sat a few moments in thought ; then turning to his visitor said, " How did you treat Mrs. L when you was courting her? and how did you feel to wards ber at the time of your marriage?" Squire L replied, "I treated her as kindly as I could, for J loved her dearly a that time." "Well, sir," said the Governor, "go home and court ber now just as you did then, and love her as when you married her. . Do this in the fear of God, for one year, and then toll me the result.',' When a year passed away Squire L called again to see the Governor, and said, "I have called again to thank you Car the good advice you gave me, and to tell you that my wife and I are as when first mar ried. I cannot be grateful enough for your good counsel." . i "I am glad to hear it, Mr. L ," said the Governor, 41 and I hope you will con tinue to court your wife as long as you live." ' i , i He Was Jesui Poor. . Very humble and quiet and poor was my life, but so was bis, the carpenter's son. If the Bible did not tell us Jesus was poor, I should have known it from his own words. Who would have talked about putting new pieces upon old garments, or about sweep ing the house diligently, if he had not seen his mother doing so f So while I was busy over these things and a hundred household works like them, I knew that He knew si actly all about them and that made then sweet te m,Btdt't Charity. ' .
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