timcif,'1 to Bioomficlu-, fo TIi U. Ii. Mutual ' Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Present the following plan lor consideration to oh persons who wish to become members: The payment of BIX DOLLAK9 on application. MVKIM.M.LAKS annually Tor roiJH ykaks, and thereafter TWUDOLLAHrt annually during life', with pro rata mortality assessment at the dealh of each nicmber, which for the fr'nwr Class Is as follows: I meiU A0ti went A went Aot went 60 "2s" . 73 41 W M J 70 ttl 29 74 42 04 65 I R 2 .10 75 4') 90 W 1M fi3 31 77 44 OS 07 2 04 64 M 79 45 1 00 68 2 10 05 33 81 46 1 06 !') 2 2li (K) 84 83 47 1 12 60 2 40 67 .15 85 . 4H 1 IS U 2 4o 08 36 86 40 1 24 62 2 50 60 37 87 50 1 30 (13 2 65 70 3H 88 61 1 40 2 00 71 80 89 62 1 60 05 2 05 72 40 90 63 1 60 15 18 17 M 10 a :s 34 25 28 27 Will entitle a member to a certlllcate of ONE THOUSAND 1MJLLAKS, to be paid at III death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death nay occur. A member, or his heirs, may name a successor; but It notice of the death of a member to the .sec retary Is not accompanied with the name of a suc cessor, then the Society will putlu a successor and tlil the vacancy, according to the Constitution of he Society. . . , . . Should the member die before his our pay menu of fee rtoUtirf are made, the remaining un paid part will be deducted from the one Tlwimtml IxMtif due his heirs; bis successor will then pay only firo dnllart annually during his lifetime, and the mortality assessments. Male and female from firteen to sixty-five years of age. of good moral habits, in good health, nale, and sound of mind, irrespective of creed, or race, may become members, tor further Infoituv ion, address 1- W. CKAUMKK, (.Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society.) LEBANON. PA. Agent Wanted I Address D.8.EAUI.Y. llarrlsburg, Ta. e 31 8m pd MfCf TO HE :meimtei to ,UUU MUTUAL POLICY HOLDIiUS. The rennsylvanla Central Insurance Company having bad but little loss during the past year, the .annual assessment on Mutual Policy holders will not exceed 60 per cent, on the usual one year cash rates, which would be eiiual to u dividend of 40 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 bus over 200,0(10 In premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual pulley-holders, over cash rates, will amount to Sl.ono. II ad the same policy-holders In sured in a Slock Company, at the usual rate, they would have paid M.ouo more than It has cosf them in this Company. Yet some of our neighbor agents are running about crvlnn Fraud I Fraud I and declare that a mutual company must fail. But they don't say how many stock companies are failing every year, or bow many wort bless stock companies are represented lu Terry County to-day. It is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company cannot break. JAMES II. 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CHARLK . PETERSON, - 80o Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PI fjf (poclmens scut gratis If written for. OUTWITTING A BACHELOR. T MBS. rLOR A. HiLLT. WE wore up to our earn house-cleaning, and amidst the noise and diu we felt almost as if it were necessary to hold on to our heads, lest we lose them, as we seemed to be losing everything else. There were masons and carpenters down stairs, and up-Btairs wore paper-hangers and painters, whilo Bridget aud her as sistants were present hero and there, and ovorywhore. I remember 1 had on a faded calico and a huge gingham apron, and, with a cloth in my hand, was engaged in the laudable pur suit of rubbing a window cleau, when I saw John coming up the street with my brother. Nothing very serious in that, I hoar some one say. . Well, porhaps not, to you J but my broth er was tho most fastidious of mortals, and abhorred house-cleaning above all tilings else. He kept his suite of rooms in a cer tain hotel in a city East, and, whon it be came an absolute necessity that they should be cleaned, ho packed his valise and took a little pleasure-trip, coming back in time to find everything the perfection of good order and neatness. . Dut ho was a handsome, broad-shoul dered fellow, cheerful aud good natured, and I was proud of him as 1 well could be -and mourned very much because ho was so wedded to his bachelor's life. You soo, John and I were very happy to gether, and my pet dream bad been that brother Will would see me, and envy us enough to go and do likewise ; but he hadn't quite gotten over his idea that wives and house-cleaning invariably go together, and this visit in the muss that we were now would effectually put an end to all dream ing, and strengthen his prejudice tenfold. Nevertheless, I tried to seo only the best side of the matter, and gave him a true sisterly hugging, that he returned with iu- t crest, and for a minute or so, in our delight at seeing each other, I doubt if ho noticed the carpetless floor, the cheerless walls, or tho board that hold mortar, and the sha vings and tools that always accompany a carpenter. '! Not five minutes after however, while I was reading a letter John had brought me from one of my school girl friends I hadn't been married long enough to have forgotten them I heard Will say, in that positive manner of his: "It is all very well, John, for you to talk, now that you are married and can't help a yourself ; but, as for nie, I would be strung up, head downwards, and fed on bread and water, before I would marry tho best woman that evor wore petticoats." " It would make a difference if she wore pants, I suppose?" " Your letter can't be very interesting, my lady, or you would not find time to in terrupt us," he returned loftily. " A I was saying, John, if I really eould make up my mind to marry any one, it would cer tainly be the inevitable Bridget, who could do her own work, attend to her house- cleaning without any of my assistance, and never question my doings or my goings, let them be what or where they would." "We can't forget, brother Will, that you do not speak from experience. Look out that we don't cry 'sour grapes,' with some reason," said John, with a laugh. " Sour grapes, indeed ! Well, say as you please, my shoulders are broad enough to bear it ; but truth, you as well as I know that there is not one household out of a hundred but what have their skeleton hid away in the ' form of troublo that tho world wots not of." ' " Possibly ; but Lizzie and I haven't found our skeleton yot." "Only two years named! Wait until you can talk of ten or fifteen, and then see if you can't find a skeleton to disturb the quiet of your conjugal felicity. " You are a skeptic, brother, and don't deserve a wife, anyway. I prophesy for you a long walk through the swamp, aud a crooked stick after all." He laughed merrily, as I started off to seo if at loast one room could not be made comfortable, for his lordship. After tea, which was served in tolorablo good order, considering the general state of tilings, and John and Will had gone down Btreet, as men always will of an eve ning, I fell to cogitating on a vory per plexing subject. ' ' ', ' . My letter that afternoon announced the coming of my intimate friend, Jenny Jaui son ; anu, anxious as pou always uceu to have her visit me, and especially to meet my brother! I was in dismay at the thought of her coming now ; but a moment later I concluded that it would be wiser to accept the Inevitable with as much' grace as pos sible. ; : ;; ; There was sigh or two smothered, for, like all young housekeepers,' I was desirous of having my home the perfection of good order and neatness, with no jarring in the domcstio machinery ; but sturdy common sense told me that everybody had to endure house-cleaning at one time or another,' and if my friend cboso to come at such' a time, they must accept the ' situation as best suited them. , "" ' ' f ','!'. '' 1 "' ' " I had 'scarcely Bottled the matte; iu my own mind when' a cab droTe up to the door, and Jenny fresh and blooming as when we parted two years ago came run ning up the steps. i was quite as giaa to see net- as tnotign she had been' a sister, and told her so over and over again, while she pinched my cheeks and assured me I was as rosy as a girl, tlieugh I was an old married woman. But all this school girl gushing could not make me long forget my carpetless and dismantled home, and sitting down on a Mt-a-Mt, that was carefully covered with a sheet, to protect it from the dust and dirt, I told her all about it, a little dolefully it may be. 1 You silly goose, you, as if I would caro.Why, Lizzie, we'll have some fun out of this, albeit they say 1 fun' Is a low word. That brother of yours deserves to be taken down a peg in his skeptical no tions, aud I imagine that we know how to do it. You see, I will be mald-of-all-work, and your right hand woman in general, and we will make order come out of this confusion in little less than no time. 'You!" and I looked as tho elegant gray poplin, that was ruffled and be-pan- iercd enoughto drive a modiste mad, theu at tho nicely-fitting gray walking-boots, the beautiful auburn hair with its curls and its frizzes, the sweet piquant face, and the red ripo lips and laughed immoder ately. "Laugh, if you will, Lizzie Bicrmorlon ; you aught to remember school days enough to know that what I begin l ean accom plish. Sot your fears at rest, too, little woman. Will Ilcidburg shall never guess that I am your beloved friend. Dress is a mctamorphoKcr, remembor, and when a woman will, sho will." Tho merry girl danced out of tho room singing, and what could I do with such a witch, only to wait and bide the conse quences? If I had intimated that my greatest dc- siro was to see her and Will marriod, she would have found, it convenient to take herself home again immediately, and Will wouldn't havo stayed in tho house a min ute. As to this plan I was very doubtful, but 1 was forced to accept it. "An it please you, ma'am, will I be after suiting the likes of ye?" Jenny Btood before mo metamorphosed, indeed. Her curls and frizzes were comb ed straight back and twisted in a little knot behind, and she had purloined one of my cast-off calicoes aud an apron, two thirds as large as herself; her sleeves were rolled above her elbows, and a pair of Bridget's leather shoes completed the picture. "Bureau will yeos give me an answer, ma'am, or I'll be after goin," she said a little sharply, as I persisted in laughing at her droll appearance. " Yes, I think you may stay." " Suro then, ma'am, what shall I do for ye!" She had scarcely said it, when I heard John and Will coming, and with a quick "Remember, I am the new girl, Jane Cleary, and don't spoil this fun for any politeness to Jenny Jauison," she was out in the kitchen entertaining Bridget bofore Johu and Will bad got fairly into the house. The next morning, the new girl, Jane, in clean white apron waited on tho. table, and I saw, with secret delight, that my brother's eye kept following her as she went to and from the kitchen. "That is a deuced fine-looking girl of yours, Lizzie 1 Look out or she will rival your roses I have been trying all the morn ing to find out which is the prettiest, mis tress or maid," he said, at length, during one of her absence from the room. John ofj course, bad been let into the secret, but he kept his face admirably grave, and I tried to pucker up a frown, and assured him that I thought he had better things to do than to come here and admire my sorvaut girls. . As the week wore away, I began to see Jenny's bright eyes were not used without effect, and, in her new character, she was quite determined to win my brother in spite of himself. I was doubtful still, for, despito his many words to the contrary,' I knew htm to be full of family pride ; but when the masons and carpenters had left the house, and the pnper-hangers wore quite through, he surprised mo by volunteering to stay home and help Jenny and I put down car. pets, as John could not leave the store. Jenny gave me a triumphant look, which I dared not return, for Will was looking straight Into my face ; but every part of my body was aching to laugh at the sight of her comically droll face. . ' 1 I tried to look severe, and kept scowling at Will but all to no purpose. Jenny had been quiet, and inclined to be reserved be- fore, but had lain it all aside now, and re turned Will's sallies With interest. ' ' 'In truth though I knew her' to be full of life and mischief I had never seen her so bright and witty ' before, and could not wonder that Will admired her straight hair, faded calico aud all. ' ' We boasted of a little library In this new home of ours,' and Jenny took it upon her self to put this room to rights j "but it be ing very high,' we Were forced to Improvise some steps id 1 order to reaeb the top' shelf and "we did to by putting an old fashioned stand on top' of a table,' and climbing to It by the aid of a chair and another stand.' I had use for the other' stand, and took it away, promising to bring it back in good time ; but, being busy, I forgot about it, and Will found her puzzling over the mode of doscent. - . 1 " I will help you down, if yea will prom iso to listen to a story I have to tell you." "Thank ye, I'll not make promises. Mrs. Bicmerton herself will come for ma after a bit." 'But Jenny, Jenny Cleary, don't you know that I love you" (he had known her three weeks then,) "and want you to be my wifo I" "Suro an' I don't think Mr. Heldburg wants an Irish girl for his wife ; he's jok ing." " I am not joking ' I do not care wheth er you are Irish, Dutch, or Danish, I love you for yourself, and I want you to be my wife." I was just bringing the stand, and heard so much, and I didn't think it quito right to listen for her answer ; but an hour after wards, when I went to call them for tea, I heard a sound something like a kiss only I wouldn't daro to say it was one, but his lips were suspiciously near her own, and I was told that Jonnie Jauison would be my sister by-and-by, Bridget, or not, as the case might be. So I knew the secret was out, and Jen ny, with blushing cheeks, came down to tea, in her own dress, to receive my con gratulations ; and about Chriatmas time I had a mauve silk, and John got white kids you can guess for what. That was five years ago. Will and Jouny keep house, and have two babies now and when we laugh at him for being outwitted, he turns around and says Jenny was caught at her owu game. But oue thing is certain he can tend babies splendidly, and bears houso-cleaning like a martyr ; but he insists that his wife knows how to clean house better than any one else, for she made hiin love hor while she was doing the very thing he hated ; but I notice that some days in May be eats without grumbling iu almost any convenient place. A Brisk Business. w E could not have asked a better be- cinuing. Our customers were at our very door, and came without iuvita-' tion. We needed no drummers or trav elers ; no advertising or expensive ways of drawing attention to our wares. Men's appetite were all on our side and brought us into favor. For the first two or three months scarce ly a day went over that I was not surprised at the eharacterof some of our customers. Men from all grades of life came in to drink; among them citizens of high social and even religious standing. Old gray- headed men and youngsters in their teens often stood side by side at the bar drinking, The father would .come in, get his glass and go, and soon after the son would stand in his place, just missing each other. Now and then a fatbor and his son would come face to face, each surprised maybe pained and shocked at the encounterl Clerks and employers would have like meetings, often to the chagrin and uneasiness of the fonner. "That isu't the place for you," I have heard said a hundred times by the old to the young; by the merchant to his clerk by the father to his son; by the old tippler to some junior friend mot unexpectedly in our bar-room. I could not help noting it as remarkable that, with few exceptions, the old warned the young, and tho toper the moderate man, to keop away from bar rooms and let drink alone. . . ' 1 "If you don't look out it will catch you I" "I don't like to see you here so often, my young friend!" "Tis'nt safe, John "Take care, my boy!" "You'll go to the devil faster than a horse can carry you if you don't keep out of these places!" Words of warning like these, spoken in all seriousness by men who were free drinkers themselves, but saw and feared tho danger to others. How many of them havo I seen pass the line of self-control and become the slaves of appetite! I soon came to understand that, with few exceptions, our business was not regarded as good for the people; that it was attended with evils of the worst kind, and that our best customers were often strongest in reprobation and warning. ' A few weak young men who were flat tered by our familiarity and pleased with our attentions Idle young men of loose principles professed to think it all right. But,' somehow, J never had any real re spect for them, 7 hero was another class, regular bard cases, bold and bad, who never talked anything but obscenity and coarse blackguardism tavord loungers by day aud by night, except when engaged iu schemes of money-getting, understood only by themselves. ' These were out and out on our side." ' " ' ' ' ' " ' " There was ' no ' getting away from 'this fact. ' It became more and more apparent every day'. "' Our business was hurtful, ' and in low esteem by all, for whose good opinion any oue cared, 1 -. 1. . - 1 ' But I gradually became hardened and in different to what others,, might say and tbink,ir-rw, Thru Ytart i.t'n , Man Trap. 1 n'. . i -,- :.-. ...t , t3FThe, difference between October and November ' is, that while with ' October, leaves fall, with November, Fall leaves. ,, . Uncle. Hodgepodge's Adrlcc. , J J; 'St- i .v j . . ".1 ' Uncle Hodgopodgo gives the ' following advice against calling a man a liar : Never tell a man that he is a liar unless you are certain that you nan whip him, for, as a general rule, when you say that it moans fight. I have arrived at this conclusion through sad experience. I know that it is not safo to give the lie to a muscular Christian. ., I did once. I am sorry for it now, as I never grieved for anything else in the whole course of my life. We were standing on the side walk in front of the club, when I made a statement. We had been talking politics, and men who talk politics and got hot over it, are to put it mildly lunatics, or else want of fice ; or have some friend who wants an of fice. This man made an assertion, touch ing the fair fame of my favorite candidate, which I believed to be untrue. It is prob able if it had been as true as it was false, I should have taken the same course, because, you understand, a man has no sonso who talks politics, anyhow. I think I said so bofore, but it is all the same. I want to make it strong, and get you to understand how I got my ornamental eye. I mildly suggested that a man who would make such a statement as that was lost to all sense of shame, and would be guilty of any base crime. IIo disagreed with me on that point. As for himself he never made a statement ex cept upou the most ample proof. My can didate was the moanest villain unhung. - I told him he lied 1 I have been kicked by a mule ; have fal len out of a second-story window on a hard pavement ; eaten green persimmons ; heard Miss Blow read poetry for two hours and a half; skated ; hunted ; ' rode sharp-backed horses of mustang parentage, an adept in the art of "buokling;" suffered grief of various kinds, and still clung to life but all theso are feathers in the balance, as compared with the result of that little word liar. ' ' ' Immediately after saying it I sat down- not in the way people usually sit down. I sat on the rim of my right ear, about ten feet from the spot where I had been standing whon I made use of the expression quoted above. I am not used to sitting in tiiat position, and do not think it agrees with me. , , I have heard of peoplo who " got up on their ear," and walked off. I wished I know how to do it, and would havo , pro pelled myself away from tho spot immedi ately if I hod possessed that happy faculty. I proceeded to bring mysolf to a perpendic ular, fully intending to use the means of locomotion which nature had, given me; but when I came right sido up, something heavy run against my nose, and as I felt very tired, I sat down on my other ear. I like a change. It is too monotonous deing the same the thing over and over again. Somebody took my large friend away, and I was quito pleased when he was gone. I have concluded to look twice at a man before I give him the lie again. My eye' is in mourning, my nose swelled to the size of a citron with the color of a blush rose, and my store clothes look as if they had been run through a patent sausage machine. I would not have that man's temper for anything in the world. , . ' 1 . An Astonished Elder. The State of Ohio used to be famous for its camp meetings and revivals ; but an Ironton paper tells of a circumstance ' which lately occurred in 'that locality,' which is a strong indication that there is now something wrong either, about tho preachers or the people. A revival preacher who bad achieved a considerable reputation as to his powers in the pulpit, went to Ironton for a week, to "start a revival." He showed great zeal, preached every night during his stay, got a double row of "mourners benches" ready, and called upon his congregation to come forward. Tbo last night there was an immense gathering, and the preacher fairly outdid himself. Ho exhorted, and pleaded, and waited, but all in vain. Not a soul arose. Finally, discouraged beyond measure, he ' sat down. At that juncture a long-faced, anxious looking man got up and said that the Elder had been working hard, and la bored faithfully with them, aud as a token ' of their appreciation, he moved that the congregation give him three cheers. It was done with a heartiness which mode tlip pews tremble, and the people went home satisfied that they bad fully and faithfully ' performed their . duty. The preacher has ever since been waiting to see Ironton destroyed by fire. ' A Peaceable Life. - Said a very old man, "Soma folks are always complaining about the weather, but lam always thankful when I wake np in the morning and find any weather at all."" We may smile at the simplicity of the old man, but still his language Indicates a spirit that contribute much ' to a calm peaceable life. 'It is bettor and 'wiser to!, cultivate that spirit than to be continually complaining of things as they are. Be thankful for such mercies as you have, aud ' if Heaven sees it will be tor your' good and his glory, It will give you many more. .' At least do not make yourself and others un happy by your ingratitude aud complaint
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