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The' U. Ii. Mutual " "
Aid Society of Pennsylvania,
Present the following plan for consideration to
uch persona who wish to become members:
The payment of BIX TM)M,ABS on application,
KIVK IMJLLAKS annually for foijb teaks, and
thereafter TWO DOLLARS annually durliiK life,
with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death
of each member, which for the First Class Is as
follows:
""""l ment "H ment -""" ment I" ment
15
16
17
18
19
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22
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24
25
2
27
1 70
1 80
1 2
2 m
2 16
2 28
2 40
2 45
2 50
2 55
2 60
2 65
Will entitle a member to a certlllcate of ONE
THOUSAND DOLLAKS, to be paid at his death
to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death
may occur.
A memticr, or his heirs, may name a successors
but If notice of the death of a member U the Sec
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
the Society. . . , ,
Should the member die before his four pay
ments of dollar are mnde, the remaining un
paid part will be deducted from the one Thnumnd
VoUurt due his heirs: his successor will then pay
only tiPodoUnrs annually during his lifetime, and
the mortality assessments. , .
. Male and Female from fifteen to slxty-flve
years of age. of good moral habits, In good health,
bale, and sound of mind, Irrespective of creed, or
race, may become members. For further Infnma
tion, address L. W. C H A U M E K.
(Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society,)
LEBANON, I'A.
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31 8m pd Harrlsburg, Fa.
JT A TO MB fKKl)lTKl TO
ibtkAjyjSJ MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS.
The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company
having had but little loss during the past year, the
annual assessment on Mutual rolicynomers win
ti,,i mi iwr nont. mi 1 he usual one veur cash
rates, which would tie euiial to a dividend of 4U
per cent., as calculated In Stock Companies, or a
deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the
usual assessment; and as the Company has over
am.uou in premium notes, the whole amount cred
ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will
amount to si.oiiu. I mi l me same poncy-wim
ni-wi in n Ktitcic f'miiii.inv. at the usual rate, they
would have paid M.ono more than It has cost them
in this Company. Yet some of our neighbor
agents are running about crvlng Fraud I Fraud I
uiwl ilMflni't. thul. a mutual eollltillliv must fail.
Rut they don't say how many stock companies are
falling every year, or how many worthless stock
companies are represented in Perry County
to-day.
It is a well-known fact that a Miuual Company
cannot break. JAME8 . OKIEB
825tl . Sec'y of Penu'a Central Insurance Co.
It 13 31 0 V A. L !
Merchant Tailoring Establishment.
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that he has removed his MERCHANT TAIL
ORING KSTAHLIHIIMKNT from 'Little Store
in the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J.
G. Hliatto, Dentist, where may be found at all
limes, a varied assortment oi .
Cloths, Casslmcrs and Testings,
With a complete line of
TUlor' TiiiuniliiffM,
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Those deslrlntt to purchase
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GOOD
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PHILADELPHIA,
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Cotton. Yarn, Batting, Wadding, Twines. Wicks
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Wooden and Willow Ware,
HI TIIK UNITED STATUS.
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143, 145 & 147 East 23rd St., New York,
ESTABLISHED IN 1846.
responsible parties applying for agencies In
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"VTOTICE TO TRESSPASSERS. The under
signed residents of l'eiiu lowushlis forbid
all persons from coming on to their premises for
the purpose oi niiuuiut or nsiiing.
Jacob Weaver, P. J. Cornman,
Henderson Harris, C. Harris,
Socrates Green, David Cams,
,1. Mutzabaiigh, G. Bolhwcll,
J. B. Miller, Fred Feiiiiiger. ,
Oct. 15. 1872 il Jonathan Mlcliner.
itiitick Til TRKSSPAHHEltS The unilerslun
INI ,i residents of Centre township, forbids all
persons IIOIII I-IMIHIIK .mi ,w tuoia ivfiiiova iu. vuo
purpose of hunting or h-hliig.
1 Joseph Miller, Henry Ayle, ,
Frank Rulilii. Jacob Sudor, i
October 15 6t.
T"T" Town Lot for Sale.
TOO VTFD In Ickesl.urg, on West St. opioslle
j the itcloiii.cd chuiih. The Improvements
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A CHAPTER OX PARROTS !
T
1HEY tell a good story In Newgate st.,
London, of a parrot or of two par
rots, rather at gray and a greon one, be
longing to Morley, a tradesman in the Old
Bailey, just opposite the prison, which is
vouched for as true in the strictest sense.
The man had awondetful ' bird sense,'
and his power of training birds became fa-
meus throughout tlie metropolis. lie had
taught his green parrot to speak whenever
a knock was heard at his street-door ; but,
when the bell of the Bame door was rung,
he had taught the gray parrot to answer.
The house, still standing, has one of those
projecting porches that prevent the second
story from being seen from the pavement.
One day a person knocked. " Who s
there ?" asked the greon parrot.
" The man with the leather," was the
reply.
" All right 1" and then became silent.
After waiting some time, and not find
ing the door opened, tho man knocked
again.
WlTb's there? again asked the parrot.
Who's there?" cried the porter out
side. " It's I, tho man with the leather ;
why don't you open tho door?"
' All right 1" repeated the parrot, which
so enraged the man that ho rung the bell.
" Go to the gate !" shouted a new voice
which proceeded from the gray parrot.
" To tho gate," repeated the man, see
ing no gate ; " what gate?"
"Newgale! Newgate! responded the
gray parrot.
Tho porter was enraged, but stepping
across tho street, tho better to answer what
he supposed to bo the insolence of the
house maids, he saw that lie had been out
witted and .teased by a couple of parrots.
This same Morley had been employed by
a frontleman. who had heard of his knowl
edge of birds, to purchase for him a white
cockatoo. The price was of less impor
tance than the health, disposition and
brecdinc of tho bird. Sho was to use no
bad language, be subject to no (its of pas.
have been trained to be handled by
w onion and children, and be cleanly in her
habits. Morley took great pains to please
his employer, and at last sent him home
perhaps the most perfect specimen of the
breed ever seen in London. As I saw the
bird ten years ago, nothing in the way of
ornitholocical beauty could surpass it. Of
pure, snowy white from tip of crown to tip
of tail without a speck of lead, gray or
crimson on a single feather ; free from all
sign of cross with paroquet or macaw ; and
in shape, attitude, bearing and action as
distinguishable as a blooded horse. 'Beau
ty,' as she was called, stood unrivaled.
When she was sent home, there was perfect
satisfaction ; the employer was plcasod, as
well he might be the family of daughters
in ecstacies of admiration, and Morley
richly remunerated for his trouble. But
the bird would not talk. This was at
tributed at first to fear, then to change of
diet, and at last to absolute inability. Of
course, there was great disappointment.
Beauty's' cago hung at the dining-room
window. Every visitor was pleased with
her spotless plumage and faultess shape;
and, of course, everybody sympathized in
the disappointment at her irremediable
defect. i
" What a pity it is she does not talk 1"
remarked a person one day at dinnor.
" Bhe would be worth her weight in gold
"She almost cost it as it is," said pater
familias. " The creature is a cheat. Fine
feathers don't make fine birds, certainly
not fine parrots. I paid 10 guineas for her,
and she cannot say one word."
"Ah, but I think the more I What's
the uso of talking if you have nothing to
say," came in clear articulate sounds from
the cago, to the amazemont of the family
and cuests. That settled forever ' Beau
ty's' supremacy.
Happy at this rejoinder was, it by no
means gives a full idea of the intelligence
of the bird. She would not learn what you
tried to teach her, and she would learn
what she ought not. Her owner, Dr. Hall,
one day peremptorily discharged a servant,
After shutting the door of the study, tho
latter exclaimed in anger, " D n him
Dr. Hall is a great rascal !"
The bird heard and caught the words
and could never be made to unlearn them
Dr. Hamilton Hoe, waiting one morning in
Dr. Hall's ante-room, observed, ' Beauty,'
and Jocularly said : " Who are you ?"
" Beauty's Dr. Hall's trumpeter ; ro-to-
to-too !" replied tho bird. But immediate
ly becoming grave, and edging conflden.
tiully toward the side of the cago, she ad
ded, in a lower voice: "D n him! Dr,
Hull's a great rascal !"
Whether it Is possible to entirely cradi
cato bad habits in parrots is doubtful.
Captain Simpson, well known by trans.
Atlantic passengers, used to duck his paro
quet in the sea every time it swore an oath
This seemed to cure him of using profane
languago. The creature rapidly connected
an ontli with a dowse in the water, and
cave up swearing. Otio day, in a furious
storm, a man was washed overboard, an
with great difficulty was recovered. As
soon as he was drawn ou deck and effort
were beinir made to resuscitate him, ' Pol
ly' kept hopping around the circle, shakiii,
her head from side to Bido, saying, gravely.
"You've been swearing-you'vebom swear
ing !"
This reminds me of what occurred in a
clergyman's family in Exeter, England.
The bishop of the diocese had been holding
confirmation and was Junohing at the
rectory with several of his clergy. In the
midBt of the repast one of those dreadful
pauses in the conversation took place. No
one seemed able to break it, when, to the
astonishment and dismay of all present, a
most-borriblo-swoaring tongue poured forth
torrent of blasphemy and abuse upon the
assembled guests. Every one looked
ghast at these unusual sonnds, which for
moment or two continued uninterrupted.
The hostess, howover, hastily rising from
the table, drew aside a muslin curtain and
discovered the offender in the person of a
gray parrot, purchased that morning from
traveling bird dealer.
This habit of using profane and filthy
language is generally caught by parrots ou
their sea voyages from the sailors. When
good Queen Charlotte visited Admiral
Hawke's flag ship to congratulate him on
his great victory, she was attracted by a
gray parrot which hung in the forecastle.
Tlie bird was singing ' God save the King.'
Every note and word was given with such
perfect accuracy that her majesty, surpris
ed and delighted, requested a closer inter
view, and during lunch the parrot was
consequently swung in hor cage on the
quarter deck. No sooner had Bhe reached
her place of honor, howover, than sho for
got all her good manners. A torrent of
immodesty, unfit for royal, or even plebian
ears, was poured lortn, ana me creature,
unconscious of indecorum, was hurried
back to the sailors' quarters.
As a rule, parrots do not learn to speak
by rote. A phrase repeated a hundred
times will often never be learned, whereas
a sham word, an antrry expression or a
quick retort, is caught instantly.
It is said that macaws are the best talk
ers of the whole species, providing they are
reared from tho nest. And not only are
they ablo to talk, but they also sing in a
peculiar, soft voice. In sweetness, thouglv
not in compass of musical notes, they are,
however, excelled by the grass or green
paroquet. While the cockatoo is the har
diest of the parrot tribe, and the most
easily tamed, it is, at the same time, the
most difficult to teach to talk at all well.
Its disposition is more gentle, however, and
its obedience more implicit, than any of
tho other species. The gray African par
rot, from its docility and aptitudo ranks
everywhere first as a favorite, though of
late years the common green Amazon, from
tho little attention it requires and its quick
sagacity, is sharing the general favor.
A gentloman residing in Wilmington,
Deleware, owns one of these Amazon pat
rols. It possesses a fluency, and variety of
language rarely ever equaled by African
gray. As soon as his master returns from
the office for dinner, Polly begins to salute
him in fondest expressions: " Papa dear,
come and kiss your pretty green beauty !
Come in. Papa, come in, ana give us a
kiss and a thousand more !"
When the footman enters the room she
says to him, but never to any one else
"Fetch my dinner, James, I'm hungry
Stupid follow 1 1 can't eat my hend off !"
To a bachelor friend, who frequently
spends several weeks in the house, Polly
has but one question, never put to anyone
elso "Oh, you gay deceiver, why did you
promise to marry mo and didn't."
To a gontleman, a near neighbor, whom
she had once overheard saying, at the af
ter-dinner table "The bird's invaluable
five hundred dollars would not buy her if I
owned her, would it Polly ?" she always
addresses him the moment he appears
Five hundred dollars would - not buy
Polly if you owned her ! Five hundred
dollars ! Five hundred dollars I by, the
bird's invaluable !"
This Wilmington parrot certainly dis
criminates between the sexes and between
conditions in life. To a well-dressed young
sentleman the remark is, " What a get up I
What a swell you are !"
To a young lady, on the contrary, fond
ling and caressing, she says with deference
" Is she not nice ? so nice ! '
Whereas, to a clergyman, who is detec
ted by his dress, sho is exceedingly offun.
sive, perpetually calling out " Lot us
pray." " Glory be to God." " Amen."
Bhe was once lost, stayed out over night
and grief aud searches ruled tho disconso
late household. At day-break, however, a
workman, going to his job, was hailed by
Polly, from a pile of bricks with the call
Tako me home ! Take ine home !"
Whether the night chilled bird did or did
not attach meaning to the words, it is cor
tain that the workman did, and that be
made a good thing of bringing her homo I
But singing is below speaking as au ac
complishment in birds. There is hardly
songster of the wood that cannot be taugh
music, and the canary will give a descant
alove the reach of any parrot. But it is
only tho raveu, jackdaw aud magpie that
possess tho power of speech, even in a low
'degree.
As a frloud the parrot ranks low. Othor
animals ninny certainly, if not all will
stand by a friend in danger the , parrot
never. It is, besides, a bird of bad temper
irascible, revengeful, capricious ; admired
fur pocontriuities, but seldom winning lovo,
The sharp beuk uud Joulouseyes are always
on guard.
Adecdote of Chief Justice Marshall.
The following ancodote of Chief Justice
Marshall, illustrating his simple-mindedness
and easy good-nature, has never be
fore been in print. It is this : When Judge
Marshall lived in Richmond, his opposite
neighbor was Colonel Pickett, father of
the Confederate General George E. Picket,
of Gettysburg fame. Colonel Pickett was
man of wealth, lived well, and was not
content unless everything about his house
hold bore the marks of good living. His
horses were his pride, and were conspicu
ous everywhere for their splendid appear
ance, being as sleek, fat, and high-spirited
as abundant food and excellent grooming
could make them. Judge Marshall's hors
es, on the other hand, were notoriously
lean and unkempt. Everybody but the
Judge had remarked this. At last it was
brought to his notice, with the suggestion
that his carriage driver neglected the hors
es, sold much of their food, and appropria
ted the money to his own use, a good deal
of it going, no doubt, for liquor.
The Judge called him up without delay :
Dick, what is tho reason Colonel Pickett's
horses are in such splendid condition,
while mine are almost skeletons ? I am
afraid you neglect them, don't half curry
them, and don't half feed them."
Dick, not expecting the attack, was fairly
posed. He hemmed aud hawed awhile till
he could gather his negro wits about him,
and thensaid :
"Mars John, look at you is you fat?"
' No," Bald the Judge" decidedly not."
" Well, look at old miss," (Mrs. Marsh
all) "is she fat?" "No."
"Don look at me is I fat?" "No."
" Den look at yo' bosses is dey fat?"
No."
" Now den, you jes' look at Kunnle Pick
ett. Ho is fat, his cVidage-driver is fat,
hishosses fat, his dogs fat all fat. De troof
Mars John, fat ruu in de Pickett family,
and it don't run in our'n. Dat's all."
' Well," said the Judgo, after a littlo re
flection, " there is a good deal in that. It
never occurred to me before." Ho turned
back into his study, and Dick was never
troubled any more. .
What is Catgut!
Some inquiring mind has started the
question, " What is Catgut? The Shot
and Leatur Reporter thus answers:" For
many years the only article used under this
name consisted of the intestines of sheep,
cut and twisted. As the Italian sheep are
the leanest of those accessible to market,
and as the membranes of lean animals are
known to be tougher than those of animals
in high condition, the best catgut has come
from Naples and that vicinity.
There is no historical record concerning
the uso of the intestines of cats for strings
of this sort, but from the fact that the name
from earliest time has uniformly been ap
plied to this article, it would appear alto
gether probablo that the strings did first
come or wore supposed to come from that
Bource. The chief use of catgut for many
years was for the strings of harps and gui
tars ; it was manufactured from the vicera
of sheep. Tlie membranes of smaller ani
mals are sometimes used for the covering
of whips and such purposes, but sheep still
furuish the strings for musical instruments.
Tlie process of preparing is quite curious.
The membranes are ordinarily exposed to
the power of burning sulphur, and then
slit and twisted into cords of different sizes
as wanted. Musical strings, whip cords,
hatters' cords, strings of clocks, etc, are
the chief uses on the list. They are then
dyed, stretched on frames, and dried in a
very high temperature."
The Anatomy of Insects. -
" Man generally flatters himself that his
anatomy is about the highest effort of di
vine skill, yet that of the insect is far more
complicated. No portion of our organism
can compare with tho proboscis of the com.
mon fly. Man can boost of 270 muscles.
Lyonot, who spent his life iti watching a
sincle species of caterpillar, discovered in
it 4,000. The common fly has 8,000 eyes,
aud certain butterflies 25,000, M. Touchet
treats it as an established fact that so fine
are tho sensory organs of ants, that they
can converse by means of thoir attonuu).
Consequently the strength of the activity
of insects far surpass ours in proportion.
In tae whole field mt natural science, there
is nothing more astounding than the num
ber of times a fly can flap its wings in a
second ; it must in that point of time vi
brato its wings five or six hundred times.
But in rapid flights we are required to be
lievo that three thousand six hundred is a
moderate estimate."
XW The John O'Groat Journal says:
A clergyman resident in this county, while
on his pastoral rounds a few days ago, met
a tinker lad ploying on tho bag-pipes. Ho
listened with attention to the various airs
played, and expressed his admiration of the
excellent manner in which the music had
been performed, but being apprehensive
that tlie performer's n uslcal talent had
been cultivated at the expense of knowl-
J edgo of a more momentous character, he
asked film ir lie knew "wnat is man's
chief end ?" The musician, aftor a pause,
replied, "I dinna ken, I'm 'sure; but if
ye'll whistlo't, I'll play't I "' "
SUNDAY BEADING.
A Singular Story.
A singular story is told in a Sheffield pa
per of a burglary committed two or three
years ago at an old-fashioned house in a
southern county. The lady who ocoupied
the house retired to her reom shortly be
fore midnight, and found a man under her
bed. She feared to go to the door and un
lock it, lest the burglar should suspect that
she was about to summon' help, and should
intercept her. To gain time she sat down
and took her bible from her dressing-table.
Opening the sacred book at random, it so
happened that the chapter lighted on was
that containing the Parable of the Prodi
gal Son. Kneeling down when the chapter
was ended, she prayed aloud prayed
earnestly and fervently she besought safe
ty for herself during tho perils of the night,
and cast herself in supreme confidence on
the Divine protector. Then she prayed for
others who might have been tempted into
ill-doing that they might be led from evil,
and brought into the fold of Christ ; that
to such might be vouchsafed the tender
mercy and kindness promised to all who
truly repent of their sins. Lastly, she
prayed that, if He willed it, oven to-night,
somo such sinner might bo saved from the
wrath to come ; might, like the 1'rodigal,
be made to see that he had sinned, and
might so be welcomed back with tho joy
that awaits even one penitent. The lady
arose from her knees and went to bed. The
man got upas noiselessly as he could, and
said: "I mean you no harm niadauie-f I
am going to leave the house, and thank you
for your prayers." With difficulty he open
ed tho bedroom door, and presently she
heard him open a window in another part
of the house, and drop down into the gar
den. The lady was recently visiting at a
friend's bouse in the north of England, and
while there was asked to go to hear, in a
Dissenting place of worship, a minister
who was " a reformed character." In the
course of the sermon the preacher told all '
the incidents of this terrible night exactly
as they occurred. After the sermon she
went into the vestry, and asked him who
bad told him this story. After some hesi
tation he said that ho was the burglar, but
her earnest supplication and intercession
sank deep into his heart, and as he listened
he there and then resolved not only to give
up his guilty design, but to live a reformed
life altogether. To that resolution he had
adhered, and to her was owing whatever
good he had since been able to do as a min
ister of the Gospel.
Answers Expected.
Whon we write a letter to a friend, we
expect an answer. We wait for it. We
are disappointed if it does not come.
When we ask a favor from an intimate
friend, we expect to receive it. If we are
hungry, and go to the house of a friend and
ask for food, we wait with the expectation
of seoing it set before us. We do not ask '
for it, and then loavo tho house with: the
air of one who expected no favorable reply
to his request. , ,
How is it with respect to our prayers ?
Do we expect answers to them ? Are we
disappointed when they do not come 1 Or
do we go to tho throue of grace and make
our request, and then go away with the air
of one who has no expectation of receiving
that which he asked for?
How far are our prayers mere forms?
How far are they insulting to God ? for
what is it to ask Him for that which we do
not expect Him to bestow ?"
True prayer is a very serious matter. It
should not be offered without forethought
and preparation We should not be con
tent to utter a series of continuous peti
tions. That may be making a prayer, but
it is not praying.
In order that wo may offer true prayer,
we must have a definite object before our
mind, and must earnestly desire it, and
must be satisfied that it is in accordance
with the will of God. We may then ask
for it, and if we ask aright, we shall expect
an answer. Those who do not expect and
wait for auswers to their prayors, can not
be said to pray aright.
And when the answer is received, never
fail to give thanks. An old Christian said,
" Wheu you get anything from God, never
fail to write a receipt for it."
W " How long does it take to be con
verted ?" said a young man to his father.
" How long," asked his father "does it
take tho Judge to discharge the prisoner
when tho jury have brought him in not
guilty ?"
" Only a minute."
" When a sinnor is convinced that he is
a sinner, aim is sorry lor it: when be desires
forgiveness and deliverance from sin, and
believes that Christ is ablo and willing to
save him lie can be cotiverted as speedily
as the prisoner can be discharged by the
Judge. It does nut take God a long time
to discharge a penitent soul from tho con
demnation and power of sin."
12TK was my custom in my youth (says
a celebrated Persian writer) to rise from
my sleep to wutch, pray and read the Ko
ran. One night when I was thus engaged,
my father, a man of practical virtue, awoke.
'Behold,' said I to him, 'thy other chil
dren are lost in irreligious slumbers, while
I alopo wako to pruiho God.' ' Pou of my
soul,' said he, ' it were bettor for thee to
be engaged in irreligious sleep, thuu to
awake to tlnd fault with thy brethren. '
August , UK.