The IX. H. Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Present the following plan for consideration to isuoh persons who wish to become members: The payment of BIX DOLLARS on application, FIVE lHlLLAKH nnnually for rouB tsahs, and thereafter TWO DOLLAKH annually during life, with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death of each member, which for the Finst Class Is as iouows: Age merit AgeY Age Ankim-mert IS 60 2S 73 41 93 64 1 70 1 l 29 74 42 94 M 1 80 17 62 SO 75 43 9rt M 1 92 18 63 Rl 77 44 98 H 2 04 19 64 82 79 45 1 00 58 2 W 2Q 65 33 81 48 1 00 59 2 28 21 66 at 83 47 1 12 60 2 40 22 67 35 85 48 1 18 61 2 45 28 68 36 86 49 1 24 62 2 50 24 69 37 87 50 1 30 63 2 55 25 70 38 ' 88 61 ' I 40 64 2 60 2H 71 39 , 89 62 1 50 65 2 65 27 72 40 90 63 1 60 "Will entitle a member to a certificate of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, to be paid at his death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death may occur. A member, or his heirs, may name a successors mil li nonce oi tne anatn oi a memoer io trie nee- retary Is not accompanied with the name of a suc cessor, then the Society will put In a successor and fill the vacancy, according to the Constitution of 'tliA Hnclntv Should the member die before his fmir nay. .ments of Jive dollar are made, the remaining un- Mollari due his heirs t his successor will then pay only (tco dollari annually during Ills lifetime, and the mortality assessments. W9. Male and Female from fifteen to sixty-five J 'ear. of age, of good moral habits, In good health, lale, and sound of mind, Irrespective of creed, or race, may become members. For further Infoma itlon, addross L. W. CHAUMKK, (Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society,) LEBANON, P A. Agents Wanted I Address D. & EAHLY, '6 31 8m pd liarrlsburg. Pa. The Great Cause OP iruaxA.iv MISERY! Just Published, In a sealed Envelope. .Price. 6cts. A LECTTJKE ON THE NATURE, TREATMENT, AN D It AD1CAL CUKE of all Diseases caused by excess, &c. Also, Nervousness, Consumption. Ep ilepsy, and Eits, etc., etc. By ROHKHT J. CUL VEUWELL, M. D., author of the Green Book," 'CtC etc. The World-renowned author, In this admirable Xecture, clearly proves from his own experience, .that the awful consequences youthful Indiscretion may be elfectually removed without medicine.and without dangerous suinical oneratlons. bougies. Instruments, rings, or cordials, pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may oe, may cure iiimscii cueapiy, uriviueiy, ami rail callv. THIS LKCTUKH Wll.l, rilliv. IS LECTURE PROVE A BOON TO THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS. Sent, under seal, to any address. In plain scaled envelope, on the receipt of six cents, or two post age stamps. Also, Dr. Culverwell's "Marriage Guide," price 25 cents. Address the Publishers, CHAR. J. C. KLINE 4i CO., e.S.lyP.) 127 Bowery, New Yoik.P. O. Box, 4,588 Ol fff TO BE CREDITED TO t!l,UJv MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS. The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company having had but little loss during the past year, the annual assessment on Mutual Policy-holders will .not exceed 60 er cent, on the usual one year casn rates, which would be equal to tier cent, as calculated ill Stoc a oiviuenu oi w deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the usual assessment; and as the Company has over fam.OOO in premium notes, tne wnoie amount creu ted to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will .amount to M.0U0. Had the same policy-holders In sured in a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they would have paid $4,000 more than It has cost them in this Company. Yet some of our neighbor .agents are running about crying Fraud I Fraud I mud declare that a mutual company must fall. But they don't say how many stock companies are falling every year, or how many worthless stock comiuinles are represented lu Perry County to-day. It Is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company cannot break. JAMES H. GRIER, 6 25tf Bec'y ot Penn'a Central Insurance Co. It E MO VALI Merchant Tailoring Establishment. THE subscriber respectfully Informs the public that he has removed his MERCHANT TAIL OniNO ESTABLISHMENT from "Little Store In the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J. O. Shatto, 'Dentist, where may be found at all times, a varied assortment of Cloths, Cassiniers and Testings, , , With a oomplete line of TnilorH' Trimming's, Of the best quality. GOOD GOODS, at Those desiring to Durchase Reasonable prices, and have them made In the LATEST STYLE, will please give us a call. u li li ire ' is ' Also, a good assortment of SHIRTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS, - NECK-TIES, HOSIERY, &C..&0., On hand -at low prices. BANKING HOUSE OF,- JVo. 530 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. The Business of this House Is In all respects the same as that of an Incorporated ,. Bank, with tlio additional feature of Discounts upon Roal Estate Collaterals. Interest at 4 per Ctper Annum ALLOWED ON DAILY BALANCES OF Currency or Gold ! Drafts Collected TOR PUBLISHERS AND OTHERS, AND Remittances made on day of PAYMENT! 28 tf ( ALL KINDS of Printing neatly RINTINQI tenecuted at the " HLoomriELD ( TlMJM" DTK AM JOB VWIlg. Hamssf tak ENIGMA. DEPARTMENT., tv All contributions to this department must be accompanied by the correct auswer. , Enigma No 1. .' My first Is possessed Of a magical charm, But so changeful In hue, so capricious In form, 80 strong and so feeble, so dull and so bright, 'TIs a difficult task to portray It aright. At timet, to Its cavernous depths It retires, Emitting Us baloful, though luminous Area, Again full, resplendent, and clear It Is seen Now, threatening and angry then, clear and ' serene. ' It sometimes Is silent, Impassive, and cold, Refusing the coveted tale to nnfold 1 Then, again, It will go and perversely reveal , The secrets which many would gladly conceal. My next Is a means', placed In cruelty's hand, To relieve the poof and oppress'd of the land But from which, the benevolent " powers that be," Have rescued their brave, hardy sons of the ea. '. , . My all, adds a modest and delicate grace, ' To an otherwise plain and expressionless face, And shading my first like a beautiful haze, -Veils its joy and grief from unscrupulous gaze. Enigma No. 2. I am composed of nineteen letters 1 ; My 8, 1, 7 ,11 and 8 Is the name of a Heathen Goddess. My 8, 17, 9, 10 and 4 Is the name of a town In this State, having a Revolutionary history. My 8, 0 and 6 Is he name of a river in Europe. My 12, 8, 7, 11 and 2 It the name of a country in Europe. My 8, 16 and 14 Is of small value, yet of great use. My 13, 18, 15, 11, and 10 Is the name of a coun try In Asia. My whole Is the name of a city and the State In which It Is located. Uncle George's Courtship. THE old man's story as told by himself is as follows : I was cap'n of tlio skuner Abbey Brown In them days, boys, and I was just a trifle proud of mysolf, for raythcr fow young mon of twenty-three years old gets a chance to a vessel of their own at that timo of their lifo. Besidos bein' cap'n, I was a very good-lookin' young foller what are you all grinnin like so many sculpins about? D' you think 'cause a man gots gray and battored by fifty years' seafarln' that he mayn't not have been good lookin' in his younger days? Well, novtr mind, if no offence is mcnt none is took. I say I was good lookiu' nnd I mean it, and what with that, and bein' cap'n of the Abbey Brown, and bavin' besides some dollars stuck away in bank, I might a' had pretty much my chice of any girl atween Bquam and Gloucester. But as is the way with most young fellers, I'd got ono of my eyes gouged out with a particular bUo Deacon Hndwin's daughter Mary, it was, and I jist thought all creation was tied around by ber apron strings, and outside of 'em thero wasn't a woman that was 'worth a spiled mack'rol. I sood a good deal of Mary, one way or another, for the Abbey Brown run out of Gloucester, where she was owned, and Deacon Hadwin he lived jist tother side the half-way cross roads atween Gloucester and Bquam. So all the time I was into port there was seldom a day I didn't feel called on to come ' oyer home, here, to see my old people; at least, so I give out. But it wan't more'n two days in the seven I'd get beyond them tai nal crossroads. She was a mighty trim little craft, was Mary! Full in the 'bows, well-balanced aft, all hor ribbons and, sich hauled taut, and coiled a board neat and reg'lar; face always lookin' as if had jist had a fresh coat of red paint; eyes blue and sparklin'; teeth white, and generally show in' by reason of hor smilin' in short, boys, she was one of the kind that is only found one at a time; and, bein' of that sort, you may bet your best boots thero was no end of fellers bankerin' round hor, promiscuous- like, all the time. I wern't much afraid of auy of the other chaps gottin' Mary, 'less it was Abab Corbin. Ho was a likely. sort of young man, whose father had jist set him up in the ship-chandlorin' line at Gloucester; and thorn was the days when ehlp-chandlerin' paid, for ten vessels came into the port tlieu for one that comes in now. Abab had the weather-gauge on me In pint of h6ight; but then I was stouter built than him, and had powerful long arms, so that if it ever kira to fight atween us I had calculated on boiu' able to make him smell gravel. But it won't writ in tho books thut that fight was ever to bo. Thore s no uso givin' a long description of our courtin'. As I say, whon ever I was in port I kep runnln' down to Mary's crusin' ground pretty reg'larly, and all tho time I was at sea I kep' wUhin' I was ashore at the cross-roads. But somohow I couldn't nevor git my courage up to ask her, plump and plain, tho question I want ed answered. ' Ahab, I see'd, was in pretty much the same kind of a fix, so I didn't worry gre'tly about it, known, as I did, that thero wan't anybody else likely to take tho wind out of 'my sails. Howsomcdover, this kind of thing couldn't bo kep up al ways, and one afternoon, after I'd seen things made snug aboard tho skuner, which bad just come up from Fernandiny, I got about a tumblerful of old Nowburyport ruin' and Uutod for the Deacon's, my mind made up to bring Mary to or blow J her out of tho water, r ,- When I got down to the oross-roaits, thore was Mary, her chores all done up, a settin' on the Deacon's front steps, lookin' as peart and chipper as a Portcgee man-o'-war. She somehow seemed to be expeetin' somebody, and when she caught sight of me comin' in the gate she give a little jump and sort of squealed like, so that my heart went bump agin the roof of my mouth, for I thought somobody'd told her that'the Abbey Brown was hum, and that she had got herself up to meet me. " Well, Mary," says I, ktndor settin' down and snuglin' up to her, " I've got back." . . ' - " So I see," says she, mighty short like, and hitchln' herself off. "Ain't you glad to see me, Mary?" says I, and I sort of looked at her out of one eye, toudor and beseechin' like. "1 don't know, Mr. Davis," says she, "that it makes any partie'lar difference 'to me whether you're at home or at sea. Did you come down to see Sally Ann? 'CauBe if you did She's gone home." - Sally Ann was Mary's cousin' and who had about as much good looks as a clam, and the temper of a crab. "No, Mary," says I, " I didn't come down to see Sally Ann, and that you know. I come down to see you, Mary, and Mary, you know Mary, you know that for years and years" " What are you tryln' to git round tu ?" says she, as short as pio-crust. "Mary," says I, and I give a great gulp, like as if I was bringin' up my dinner, " Mary, will you be Mrs. Cap'n Davis?" Thon, bavin' got it out, I kinder kerilum ixed around and tried to get hold of ono of ber hands like. Sho riz up just if thero'd been a pin whore sho was sittin',and gittin' as rod as a biled lobster, sho says: " You slab-sided booby 1 ain't you heard tho news ? I'm married 1" If Mary'd jumped as if a pin had gone in hor, I went up like as if the pint of a mar liu' spike had como up through tho steps. "Married !" says I. " Married, Mary ? Do you moan that you have over been and gone and hitched yourself fast to that scupper-mouthed, blear-eyed, chuckle-headed owl of Ahab Corbin ?" She got pretty mad while I was bringin' out the compliments, but when I finished with Ahab's name sho bust out laughiu.' " Ahab Corbin 1" says she, "why you don't think I'd over a married Aim, do you ? If it had been either of you two, George, that I'd be compelled to jino tu, it wouldn't have been Abab, I can toll you. I'm mar ried to Nehemiah Lane." If ever I had the wind taken clean out of my sails, it was just at that particular time and place. Kohemiah Lano, I heard, just more i startea lor f ernandiny, was expected home from a throe years' whailin cruise. But tho thought of his stoppin' into my boots so sudden as this had never crossed my mind. I blowed my nose a little, thlnkin' the thing over, thon I says : " If so be you two's made fast tu each other, it aint no good talkin' about it." " Not a bit," soys Mary, interrupting " the sooner you git tho better, for I ex pect Nehomiah hum every minute." "Goodbye, Mary," says I, holdin' out my hand. '. "Goodbye," says she, takin' it, "and next time you want a girl, George, don't fool around hor like a sick clam, but just tell her what you're after and have done with it" Then come away. .. '.!.-. " It was an orful blow tu . mo," said Uncle George as he conolnded and ' gazed sadly out to sea. ,!' -i-;v .. .li ! " And so you have remained true to her all these years, and never got married Uncle George?" . Well, no," replied tho auciont mariner rather sheepishly, " I bur- iod my third pardner last spring," The Dream of a Railroad Engineer.' "Ed," is a brakoman employed on' tho Chicago, Alton and St. Louis railroad. lie was married only a fow woeks ago. Ills wlfo has been wearing a red flannel around her neck for the last ton days aud complain ing of a wry neck. Tho St. Louis Demo crat says that this is how it came to pass: "Ed," had Just boon doing extra duty, taking a sick friond's train in 'addition to his own, aud so had not - been in bed for forty-eight hours. As a matter of course he was nearly worn out, and as soon as his supper was eaten, he wont to bed. He was Boon locked in the arms of Morphous and dreaming. Again his foot was on his na tivo platform, and ho heard the wanting toot of the whistle for breaks. The shad. owy train bore him swiftly on ; the tolo graph posts flitted past quicker and quicker tho whole country fled like a panorama mounted on sheet lightning rollers. In his dream he heard fur off another roar, and swinging out by the railings ho saw auother train coming at lightning speed around tho curvo, both trains were crow ded with passengers , in auother moment they would rush together, and from the piles of ruin a cry of agony would shiver to the stars from tho lips of the malmod and dying. With the strength of despe ration he gripped the brake aud turned it down. There was a yell of pain, and "Ed." woke to find himself sitting up iu bed and holding his wife by the ears having almost twisted off her head. That's how " Ed's" wife came to wear a ploce of red flannel around her throat and I complain of a wry neck. Old Adam's Mistakes. Old Adam C , a residont of Berks county, had a queer habit of making cor rect mistakes. When about to sell rather an antiquated horse, he was interrogated as to the ago of the beast. "Veil," he replies, "I guess about nine oeer ten." In a short time the purchaser discovered the fraud returned with the animal, and said ."Mr. C -, what made you cheat me in selling me this horse? Didn't you tell me he was nine or ten ? and here he is twenty." . - . " No, no, I sheats nobody. I say he is nine over ten, and he is all of dat." At another time, whon soiling a balky horse, he was asked if the horse was true to pull and good to drive. Old Adam says: ' I tells you, in the morning you gets your wagon out, and puts de harness on de horse good ; hitch him fore de wagon, good ; tako up de lines and vlp, and tell him to go. ' I tell you he is right dalr eve ry time." Tho buyer departed satisfied ; but after following directions, he found him " right dair every timo," and not any amount of persuasion could induce him to change his position. Buyer of course returns the horse ; but old Adam " sheats no body. He told him shuBt as it was." Having a quantity of wood that hod been exposed to the weather till it had become spoiled, he wishod to dispose of it. Tak ing a load to market, customer inquires " Is it good wood ? Will it split good ?" " Sphlit? Yaw I Like a candle." Any one who has split candles can judge how the wood split. The next time Old Adam came to town he was reproached with selling rotten wood ; but Old Adam " sheats nobody ; he tell him sliust as it was." we fear thore ore several persons in this vicinity whose natures are made up largely ot tlio same kind ot material as that exhibited by " Old Adam." A Bad Memory. Thore was once a goo d old lady whose great age had affected her in litUo loss than her momory. She had forgotten nearly all her past lifo and could not re member the names of her nearest relation But sho nevor forgot how liablo she was to forgot, and being very sensitive on the point, Bhe endeavored in all sorts of crafty ways to concoal her weakness in this re spect. Ono day an old friend called on her and in the course of conversation a Mr, Jacob Fetors was mentioned. The old lady pricked up her ears and tried to look knowing. To save, hor lifo she could not remember who Mr. Petors was. "Yes, yos," said sho cunningly, Jacob Peters ! Cortainly, certainly, I remember him. But just lot's understand each other, People do mako such mistakes, you know whon they don't fix things all straight at first. Now tell me exactly which Jacob Peters you mean. " Why don't you remember Jacob ? crl ed the visitor." "Jacob i'eters was your first husband." The old lady mused. "Jacob Peters,' said she. " Why, yes, I believo ho was my husband, or something of that kind, I Tobacco aud Swine. ' A writer In Our Monthly for September tells a story ot ' two well-known Southern clorgymen, one of whom undortook to re buke tho other for using the weed, ' "Brother G.," he exclaimed, without stopping to ask auy other question, "is it possible that yon chew tobacco?" " I niUBt confess I do," tho other quiotly replied. " Then I would quit it sir 1" the old gentleman energetically continued, " It is a very unclerical practice, aud I must say a vory uncleanly one. Tobacco I Why sir, even a hog would not chew it " "Father C," responded his amused listoner, "doyott chew tobacco?" " I ? No, sir 1" he answered, gruffly with much indignation. . ,- "Then pray, which is mott like thehog, you or IT' Tho old doctor s fat sides shook with laughter as be said, " Well, I havo been caught this timo." S37As Deacon Adams, on an extromely cold morning in tho olden times, was ri ding by tho bouse of noighbor Pottor, the latter was engaged in chopping wood. The usual salutations wero exchanged, the severity of tho weather briefly discussed and the horseman made demonstrations of passing on, when his neighbor Interrupted him with: " Don't be in a hurry, deacon. Would you like a glass of old Jamaica this morn. ing?" " Thank you kindly," said the old gen tleman, at the same time boginniug to dismount, with all tho deliberation bo- coming a doncon, " I don't care if I do," " Ah, don't troublo yoursolf to get off, deacon," said the neighbor, "I merely in quired for information. We haveu't drop in the house." The deacon sighod. mounted his horse, and rode off. , t3Tli is calculated that there 10,000 wo men named " Mario" lu Paris. SUNDAY HEADING. A New Light on Things. " Halloa, young follow 1" said the cock to the shepherd's dog, eyeing him very fierce- as ho ran by, , " I've a word to say to you." "Say on," said Shag ; "I am in a hur ry." " I wish to remark," said the oock, "that there has been a great mistake made in the stackyard ; and you can toll your master that he and the other man, instead of turn- ng the corn-end of the sheaves into the stack, and leaving the stubbles outside, should have done it the other way. How are my hens and I, do you think, to got at the grain under the circumstances ?" 'Oh ho 1" said Shag, "you fancy that farmyards were made for fowls ; but the truth is, fowls were made for farmyards. Get that into your head, and you wont meddle with arrangements which you can't understand and in which you have no con cern." My child, remember that God did not make the world for you ; that your interests aud pleasures are not the only things to be consulted. Beware either of pleasing self or pitying self. He that does either will be neither useful nor happy ; and he will be very unlike Him who " pleased not him self." The Earlier the Easier. An old man one day took a child on his knee, and talked to him about Jesus, and told him to seek the Saviour now, and pray to him and love him. The child knew that the old man himself was not a Chris tian, and felt surprised. Thon ho looked up into the old man's face, and said, " But why don't you seek God ?" The old man was affected by the question and replied, " Ah, my dear child, I neg lected to do so whon I was young, aud now my heart is so bard that I fear I shall never be able. Ah 1 my reader bolievo him I " To-day, if ye will hear his voico, harden not your hearts." It will be moro difficult to hear to-morrow. And woeks, and months, and years hence, even could you be sure of them, how high and strong a barrier will gradually be rising between you aud Christ! " They that seek me early shall find me." Deadening Influence of-f ashlon. It is among the children of light enjoy ment and unscttlod life that we must look for stony-heartedness not in the world of businoss ; not among the poor, crushed to the earth by privations and suffering. That hardens the character, but often loaves the heart soft. If you wish to know what hollowness and heartlessness are, you must seok for them in the world of light olegaut, superficial fashion, where frivolity has turned the heart into a rock-bed of selfishness. Say what man will of the lioartlossnees of trade, it is nothing com pared with the heartlessness of fashion. Say what they will of the atheism of sci ence, it is nothing to tho atheism of that round of pleasure in which the heart lives dead, while it lives. Iiev. F. W. Robert- ton. t3PHow hard it is to feel that the power of life is to be found inside, not outside ; in the heart and thoughts, not in the visi ble actions and show ; in the living seed, not in the plact which has no root I . How often do men cultivate the garden of their souls . just the othor way 1 How often do we try and persevere in trying to make a sort of neat show of outer good qualities, without anything within to correspond, just, like children who plant blossoms without any roots in the ground to make a pretty show for.the hour I Wo find fault in our lives and- we cut off the weed, but wo ' do not root it up ; we find something wanting in ourselves, and we supply it not by sowing the divine seed of a heaveuly principle, but by copying the deeds that the principle ought to produce. Temple. E3r?We want religion that goes into the family and keeps the husbaud from being spiteful when dinner is late, and keeps the dinner from being late keeps the wife from fretting when he tracks the newly washed floor with his muddy boots, , and makes the husband miudful of the scraper aud the door-mat ; keeps the mother pa tiout when the baby is cross, and keeps the baby pleasant, amuses the children as well as instructs them ; wins as well as governs ; projects the honeymoon into the harvest moon, and makes the happy hours like tho Eastern fig tree, bearing iu its bosom at once the beauty of the tender blossom aud the glory of the ripeniug fruit. A Cheerful View of Things. " How dismal you look 1" said a bucket to his companion, as they were going to the well. "Ah 1" replied the other, " I was reflect ing on the usolessness of our being filled ; for, let us go away over so full, we always come back empty." " Dear me 1 How strange to look at it in that way I" said the othor buckot. "Now I eujoy the thought that, however empty wo come, we always go away full. . Ouly look ut it in that light, and you'll be as cheerful as I am." 7Grace thrives by frequent meditation on portions of God's word: " Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly."
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