3 The U. Ii Mutual ; Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Presort the following llan for consideration to vusb persona who wish to become members : , The payment of SIX DOLLARS on application. FIVK UOLLAUS annually (or rova ybahs, and thereafter TWO DOLLAlts annunlly during life, with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death of each member, which lor the Finst Class Is as ioiiows: 15 : 60 28 73 ,. 41 Vi M 1 70 10 61 29 74 42 M . 68 1 80 17 62 80 75 43 M M , 1 U2 18 m 31 77 ' 44 W t7 2 04 19 64 32 79 45 1 Oil 5H 2 10 20 65 33 81 40106 59 228 21 60 34 fW 47 1 12 60 2 40 22 67 35 M 44 1 IS 61 2 45 23 6S , 36 80 49 1 21 62 2 50 24 69 87 87 50 1 30 63 2 55 25 70 88 88 61 I 40 64 2 60 20 71 39 9 62 1 50 65 2 65 27 72 40 90 53 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 but if notice of the4eath of a member to the Sec retary is nut accompanied with the name of a suc cessor, then the Society will put In a successor and All the vacancy, according to the Constitution of the Society. Should the member die before his four pay ments of flue dotlnrt are inale, the remaining un paid part will be deducted from the one Thoiimnd JJollav due his heirs s his successor will then pay only two dollar annually during his lifetime, and the mortality assessments. . Male and Female from fifteen to sixty-live J 'ears of age. of good moral habits, in good health, lale, and sound of mind, irrespective of creed, or race, may become members. For further tnfoma tion, address L. W. CKAUMEH, (Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society,) LKBANON, FA. Agent Vrantel I Address I). 8. EARLY, 31 8m pd Harrlsburg, Fa. The Great Cause OF IIUMA.N MISERY! Just Published, In a Sealed Envelope. Frlce. 6cts. A LECTURE ON THE NATURE, TREATMENT. AND RADICAL CURE of all Diseases caused by excess, &o. Also, Nervousness, Consumption, Hp ilonsy, andElts, etc., etc. My ROllERT J. CUL VEHWKLL, M. D., author of the "Green Book," otc, etc. The World-renowned author. In this admirable Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience, that the awful consequences youthful Indiscretion may be effectually removed without medicine, mid without dangerous surgical operations, bougies. Instruments, rings, or cordials, pointing out a mode of cure at once oertaln and effectual, by which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically. THIS LECTURE WILL PROVE A BOON TO THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS. Sent, under seal, to any address, in plain sealed envelope, on the receipt of sik cents, or two )iost age stamps. Also, Dr. Culverwell's "Marriage iulde," price 25 cents. Addmss the Publishers, CH AS. J. C. KLINE CO., 6.5.1yP. 127 Bowery, New Yolk, F. O. Box, 4,586 Mrnn TO HE CBEmTEn TO .JJJ MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS. The, Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company Slaving had Dut little loss during the past year, the annual assessment on Mutual Policy-holders will not exceed 60 ner cent, on the usual one vear cash rates, which would be equal to a dividend of 40 per cent., as calculated in mock companies, or a deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the usual assessment; and as the Company has over $200,000 In premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rales, will amount to il.ouo. Had the same policy holders In sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they would have naid 8-1.000 inure than It has cost them In this Company. Yet some of our neighbor agents are running about crying Fraud 1 Fraud I and declare that a mutual company must fall. Hut they don't say how many slock companies are falling every year, or how many worthless stock companies are represented in Ferry County to-day. It is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company cannot break. JAMES II. CRIER, fl 25tf Scc'y of Feun'a Central Insurance Co. Tl 13 MO V AL1 Merchant Tailoring Establishment. THE subscriber respectfully Informs the nubile that he has removed Ills MERCHANT TAIL ORING ESTABLISHMENT from "Little Store In the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J. O. sliatto, Dentist, where may be found at all times, a varieu assortment oi Cloths, Cassimers and YcsUiirs, With a complete line of Tiiiloi-K rJFiImiiiliijj-w, Of the best quality. Those deslrlnir to nurchase GOOD U(N ODS. at Reasonable m )S. at Reasonable prices, and have them made in the LATEST STYLE, them m give us will please call. H. It. liKLK, Also, a good assortment of 81IIRTS, 8U8FENDERS, COLLARS, NECK-TIES, HOSIERY, &c.,to.. On hand at low prices. BANKING HOUSE -OF No. 30 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. The Business of this House Is In all respects the same as that of an Incorporated Bank, with tbe additional feature of Discounts upon Real Estate Collaterals. Interest at 4 per Ct per Annum ALLO (VED ON DAILY BALANCES OF Currency or Gold ! Drafts Collected FOB PUBLISHERS AND OTHERS, AND Remittances made ou day of . PAYMENT! 6 28 tf ' !ALL KINDS ot Printing neatly executed at the " BuxiMir.aU) TlMlM 1 iJttAM JOS Owe. Harnsson Ho A Woman's Dcrotion.. flMIE Governor of Missour', has recently JL pardoned an inmate of the Penitentiary under circumstances which furnish a re markable and touching instance of what a devoted, trusting, and energetic wife can do for an unfortunate husband. The lat er used Is Hve in Toledo, Ohio, and tho- faets of his ease are vouched for by re- pectablo journals of that place. Some time ago he removed to Missouri, with his wife, and early in 1870 the events fell out that proved so disastrous to him. It ap pears that he was not very prosperous, and had occasion to sell as nearly the last of his possessions a pai r of fine horses. For these he received 500 in clean, new na tional currency. The stock-dealer who bought the horses afterward disappeared. On tbe next day after the sale the vender paid out two bills of (10 each. It was dis covered that they wore counterfeit, and the uttorer was promptly arrested and lodged in prison. Ho, of courso, directly protest ed his innocence, and told how he got the money, and the remaining f 480 was found on his person. The horse-dealer was traced and brought forward, when, to the horror and nmazement of the accused man, ho stoutly denied all knowledge of the bad bills, and swore the money ho had paid for the horses was in bills on an Illinois bank. No confirmatory evidence of the prisoner's tale could be got, and as much counterfeit money had latoly been circulated in that egion, public feeling ran strongly against him. He was tried, and despite his earnest protestations, and his wife's determined truggles in his behalf, he was found guilty and sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Penitontiary. But the wife never for a moment believed him guilty ; and, with astonishing resolu tion and pertinacity she now bent herself to the task of proving his innocence and effecting his release. To the latter end she first sought and obtained interviews with the Goveuor of Missouri. To him she stated her case as she saw and believed it. But the Govornor, although kind was firm. The prisoner was shown to bo guilty. Coun terfeiting was greatly on the Increase. It was necessary to make examples, and there was every just reason why her husband should bo one of them. lie could hold out no hope, save in the conduinncd's restora tion to his family after five years. The wifo went home, converted all she had into cash, and thenceforward devoted her whole timo and brain to following the horse-dealer who had given her husband the spurious notes, with the hopo of convicting the really gnilty person of that ofi'onco. Pur suing him liko a shadow, but keeping out of his sight sho soon found that when ho went to a place counterfeit money was said to be in circulation Boon after. This hap pened at Ficcport, 111., and afterward at Fort Wayne, Iud. At the latter place she caused his arrest. But nothing could be proved against him, and he was set free. She then dogged him to Canton, Ohio, to Pittsburg, Altooua, Lancaster, Chnmbcrs burg, Philadelphia, Goshen, Bingbamtou, Oswego, Elmira, and other towus in New York, sometimes staying two or three mouths in each place. The man was, how ever, so guarded and ingenious as always to manage to cover his tracks in fact, ho never passed falso " paper" himself at all and his implacable pursuer was unable to bring him to an account. At lust, however he fell ill at Newton, Sussex Co., N. J., and she belioved and proved that her gold en opportunity was at last at hand. When the horse-dealer foil ill, the wife of his victim was at the same hotel. She found out the physician attending him and frank ly told her whole story. She described how bIio had tracked the cause of her hus band's misfortunes, and begged the doc tor for the sake of right aud justice to help her. The physician was moved by her tale and agreed to do what she asked, which was to give his patient some depressing, but sufo medicine, and adroitly to lead him to think that he was in a vory critical con dition. This was accordingly done, and worked to a charm. Tbe patient begged ut once for a clergyman, who, arriving, pointed out the necessity of full repentance and ut this juncture the w ifo entered tho room, and implored the supposed dying man to repair the great wrong he had done her husband. Tho result was that tho sufferer made a deposition before a Magis trate, confessing the five hundred dollars as described, and furthermore that lie was a member of an extensive gang of counter fetters, his special business being, not to utter bad money, but to spread it among confederates in different parts of the coun try, lie also said that ou the occasion of making the trade in question he happened to have no othor money, and greatly wan ted the horses. Armed with this document tho now happy woman hastened back to Missouri, laid her evidence before the Gov ernor, and had the satisfaction of carrying a full pardon to her husband almost im mediately after. The two are now living joyfully together on a farm in Southern Illinois, and their case is naturally attrac ting abundant comment and congratulation. l A boy, writing a composition on "Extremes," remarked that "we should endeavor to avoid extremes, especially those of wasps and boes." A rnenmatlo Tube. ,. " After repeated experiments, Mr. Albert Brisbane, some months ago, claimed that he could transmit package through a tube of any length by a hollow sphere travelling in the tube, simply by exhausting one slx hundreth part of the atmosphere in the tubes, thus creating a vacuum which wonld cause the atmospheric prossure at the other end to drive the hollow sphere through the tube with alightnlng rapidity. Upon an exhibition of his calculations and experiments to the House Committee on Appropriations, Congress, at its last ses sion, appropriated 15,000 to construct a pneumatic tube of Mr. B.'s invention from the Capitol to the Government printing of fice, the work to be done under the super vision of Mr. Edward Clark, architect of the Capitol. In accordance thorewith Mr. Clark has entered into contract with Mr. Brisbane for the construction of tho tube between the buildings above named, by way of North Capitol street, Brisbano to furnish all machinery, materials and labor necessary for its construction, and the prop er working of it. The tube is to be at least two feet in diameter (inner measurement,) to be laid under ground, and constructed of planks treated in boiling coal tar, or some equivalent method, to insure dura bility, and hooped with iron and screw clamps. Mr. Brisbane is to place in a proper con dition the streets through which the tube is to pass, and to supply all necessary ma chinery. Tho tubo, as above described, will have a hollow sphere of two fcot diameter fitted therein, the inventor claiming that by using a sphere instead of a railway carriage he avoids the loss by friction and increases the power. He then puts an exhausting fan in the Capitol and another in the printing office, and packages to be convoyed are placed in the hollow sphere ; the air is thou exhausted by tho fan at tbe other end of tho tube, and he claims, as above stated that as soon as one six-hundredth of it is out the atmospheric pressure at the other end will drive tho ball and contents through the tube. Mr. Brisbano is now in New York, to preparo the tube and machinery, and when it is once here but a short time will be re quired to put it in position. Watliington Republican. A Perilous Position. A Liverpool, England, paper describes the following curious accident which re cently be fid one of the roads in that city. It appears that tho inexplicable flooding of a cellar led to an examination by the bor ough engineer, who, in the course of his in vestigation, made the startling discovery that the main road was gradually disap pearing, it having already sunk to the depth of three inches. The street cars were nev ertheless running in their customarily com fortable manner, and the traffic generally was proceeding as if the road still stood where it did. Notice was given to cease working the street cars, and men were promptly sent to open the street, whon it was found that in taking up the sets the pick went through the shell of tho street into a hollow from which vapor of water pulled. A largo hole was then broken in, and a cavity was found about twenty-five feet long, eighteen feet wide, and twelve feet deep, full of water. The thickness Im mediately under the street which covered the opening, and which must have support ed the roadway and car track for consider able time, was about twelve inches at the thinnest part. It consisted of the pitching of the street, which was fortunately in re markablo good order, and had a compact ness and rigidity almost equal to concrete. It must bo admitted, however, that there is a degree of excitement to be found in trav cling in a car over a hole twenty-five foot long, eighteen feet wide, twelve feet deep, and full of water, with nothing but a shell of earth a foot in thickness between tho car and the water. A Puzzled Turnkey. A somewhat breezy individual, named James Kolly, was recently arrested and locked up lu a Baltimore station-house by himself ; but soon the turnkey was startled by a combinati ons of voices, as if the cell was filled with variegated humanity. The voice which first attractod his attention was that of a female, who, rich in Irish brogue, said, or rather screamed, " Oh, ye baste I would ye be aftor hugging me, a lone widow, with no one here to protect her ?" Tills was followed by a sound re sembling that of a person being slapped in the face, and thou with an apology: "Miss, I meant no offence, indeed. I beg your par don." The turnkey hastened to the cell from which the conversation proceeded, and was greatly astonished to find Kelly aeatud in the corner of the room apparently asleep, Puzzled at what he had heard, the turn key slowly walked away from the cell, and in five minutes afterwards he heard Gel man and negro in an altercation, each man taking turns in beaiting the other, After this had been kept up well througl) the night, the turnkey stole upon Kelly un awares and found him indulging in most extraordinary ventrlloqutstio performances, having evidently enjoyed LU confinement far better than hit captors did. Laughter Better than Physic i j "Laugh and grow fat,"; Is considered wholesome advice to the lean, and that it conducive' to the increase 'of adipose matter in the human species is generally admitted. But the latest form of putting the aphorism is " Laugh . and Live ;" in other words the Laughter Cure, "come this way." Invalids are admonished to " throw physio to the dogs," and take lib eral doses of laughter instead. One of our xchanges give a case in point in which tho efficacy of the now treatment is strikingly illustrated, and in this wise: Once on a timo", a priest, while passing along a road, was accosted by a woman, who said her cow was choking to death, and that the priest must save her. The priest, unwilling to shatter her faith walk ed slowly round the suffering bovine three times, repeating: " If she lives she lives, and if she dies she dies. Faith triumphed; the cow recovered, living for years as a milk dispensor. Not long after tho priost fell ill, his disease a sort of membranous croup, and the priost was In great danger. The grateful woman rushed to his bedside, shouting that she could curd hiru. As the physician could do nothing further, she was allowed to proceed. Ordering the bed to be placed in the middle of tho room, she seized the clorgyman'a cane, and flourish ing it frantioally, walked around the bed, shrieking: "If he lives he lives, and if he dies he dies." Three times she circled the choking priest, when suddenly an oxplosion of laughter broke the forming membrane, and the treatment of the cow was too much. Faith again triumphed ; the laugh ter cure proved as good for tbe clergy as it had for the cow. It is suggested that a new college be es tablished, provided with clowns to please, straws to tickle, jokers to tell laughable yarns, &o. Laughing is a good thing ; it's healthy. Who will open the cam paign ? Who will write " What I Know About Laughter?" A Ventriloquist's. Joke. We recently took a walk on to the wharf with a friend who is a good ventriloquist. The hands on one of our steamers wore engaged in rolling off a cask, when to the consternation and surpriso of the per boos engagod in poforming that operation, a voice was heard within the cask. " Roll it easy; these plaguoy nails hurt. I'd rather pay my passage than stand all this." Holding up their hands, their visuals ex panding to the size of two saucers, the two laborers exclaimed: "That beats the dickens !" The mute coming up at this moment, and unaware or the cause ot delay, com menced cursing them for their dilatoriuess, when from within tho ensk the voice cumo forth: ' You're nobody; let mo out of this cask." ' What's that ?" said the mate. ' Why, it's mo," said the voice; I want to get out; I won't stand this any longer," ' Up end the cask," said the mate. Oil, don't I You'll kill me," said the voice. " Oh, how these nails prick I Look out don't !" again said the cased-up indi vidual, as the mon were turning it over. 'Cooper," said tho mate, "head that cask and take out that man." As the adze sundered the hoops, and the head wus coming out, the voice again broke forth: " Bo easy now; is there any one about? I don't want to bo caught." Quite a crowd had now gathered around the seen of action, when a loud guttural laugh broke forth, which made our hair stand on end, and the cask was filled with bacon. " What does it mean," says one. " It beats my time," said the mate. We enjoyed tho joke too well to "blow" as we walked oft' arm in arm with the ven triloquist and magician. A Novel Pension. Among the peculiar institutions at West Point are two maiden ladies named Thomp son, who eujoy certain privileges not pos sessed by any other ladies in the land namely, the right to boaid twelve students of tho senior class of cadets. Their father Col. Thompson, performed some special service during tho Revolutionary War, for which a novel pen slon was settled on his widow viz, the use of a house at West Point during her life at an annual rent of six cents, to which was added the above boarding privilege. On the death of the widow the pension wits continued to her throe daughters, and fur sixty years the family have held the privilege, and maiu taiued themselves handsomely from it One of the daughters is dead, and the re maining two are very agod, one seventy two the other eighty. They are very ar iHtoeratlo and dignified, and if tbe cadets carry on" too much, they find a polite note under their plates intimating that they can depart. Thoy have their pick of cadets, and it is considered a great favor to get there. I3T A thing not generally know n that people who get to high woids often use low language. SUNDAY READING. "' ' rutting Pitch In their Bool. ' I have beard of a, company of hunters who caught a number of monkeys in the forests of Brazil in the following amus ing way: They bad a lot of little boots made just laigo enough to be drawn easily over a monkey's foot, and filled the bottom with pitch. With these they sot out for the woods, and soon fouud themselves under the trees, where the lively little follows were I leaping about among the branches, bunging by their tails, swinging themselves easily from one tree to another, and shat tering noisily together, as if 'making ob servations upon the strange visitors that had come into their quarters. The hunters were too wise to attempt to catch them by climbing the troos; they might as well have expected to Bnatch a flying bird as to lay bauds upon one of these nimble little fel lows. They had an easier way than this, and one much more effectual. They sim ply sat down under tho trees, while the lit tle chatterboxes were rattling on over their heads, but never for a moment removing their eyes from them. Then they placed the little boots where they could be seen, and commenced taking off their own boots. Having done this, they let them stand a while near the little boots. All this the monkeys very carefully noticed. The hun ters, now taking up their own boots, hav ing carefully looked over them drew them slowly, one after the other, upon their feet. Not a motion escaped the observation of the monkeys. Having replaced their boots they hurried away to the thicket of under growth not far off, where they were hidden from tho sight of the monkeys, but where they could see everything that happened under the tiecs. They left the small boots all standing in a row. They were no sooner out of Bight than down from tho branches dropped the mon keys. They looked at the boots, took them up, Binelt them, and finally seating them selves as the hunters had done, drew them on over their feet. As soon as they were fairly in the boots, out sprang the hunters from their hiding place, and rushed among them. The mon keys, affrighted, at once started for the trees, but only to find that thoy destroyed their power of climbing by putting on tbe boots. So they foil an easy prey to their cunning enemies. This is the way the monkeys' were caught. And how many I young persons are caught in the same way! In their desire to do what they sco other persons doing, they fall into serious trouble and often bring upon themselves ruinous habits that follow them to the grave. Zion'i Herald. Sunday a Day of Wlndness. God does not mean us always to bo som bor, least of all upon Sundya,tho glad feast of tho resurrection, a day whose atmos phere throughout should 'bo one of quiet, unworldy joy. Lot not boisterous merri ment disturb the calm; let hearty worship, and kindly intercourse, and refreshing rest rest of .tired mind from its dragging brood of week-day anxieties, rest of tired body from the round of week-day toil let this be tho employment, this the tone of the hallowed day. Religion, not in every word, act, look, obtruded with painful ef fort, but present in tho heart, should pre vade the day, its rest, its reading, its con versation. O ! never represent Sunday at any rate to tho young as a dull and gloomy day; nor dream that a heart devo ted to the kind God, need abjure all that is gonial and joyous, or that a subdued, spirit broken step is nosBesary to the child who has chosen to walk besido that tender Father, holding by bis hand. , Two Pictures. Pictures themsolves have sometimes a curious history. The story of the two pict ures at Florence is old, but not worn out. An artist at Rome Baw often, playing iu the street near his window, a child of ex quisite beauty, w ith golden hairaud cherub face. Struck with the loveliness of the boy, bo painted a picture of biin and hung it up in the studio. Iu the saddest hour that sweet, gentlo face looked down upon him like an angel of light. Its appearance filled the soul with gladness and longings tor heaven, which its purity symbolized. "If ever I find," said he, "a perfect con trast to this beautious face, I will paint thnt also, and hang it on the opposite wall, and the one I will call heaven and the oth er hell." Years passed. At length, in another part of Italy, in a prison he visited, looking lu through the grated door of a cell, he saw the most hideous object that ever met his sight a fierce, haggard fiend, with glaring eyes and cheeks deeply marked with the lines of lust and crime. The artist remem bered the promise he had made liimself,and Immediately painted a picture of this louth somo culpiit, to hang over against the por trait of the lovely boy. The contrast was perfect; the two poles of the moral universe was before him. Then the mystery of the human soul gained another illustration. He had two pictures, but they were like nesses of one and the same person. To his great surprise, on inquiring into the history of this horrid wretch, he learned that he was no other than the sweet child with golden ringlets whom he onoe knew so well and saw so often playing iu the streets of Rome.
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