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The V. B. Mutual .
Aid Society of Pennsylvania,
Present the following plan for consideration to
eh persona who wish to become members:
The payment of SIX TX)LLAtt8 on application.
FIVKlHiLLAlM nnnnaily for tovh tsars, and
-thereafter TWO IX H.LAKd annually during life,
with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death
of each member, which for the First Class Is as
follows:
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1 80
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2 04
2 16
2 28
2 40
2 45
2 60
2 55
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71 39 89 62 1 60 65
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Will entitle a member to a certificate of 0!E
THOUSAND DOLLAHS, to be paid at lilsdeatli
to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death
lay occur.
A member, or his heirs, may name a successor:
bnt It notice of the death of a member to the Sec
retary Is not accompanied with the name of a suo--oessor,
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 Jive foH(ir are made, the remalnliiK un
paid part will be deducted from the one l'hmuantl
JJoUart due his heirs: his successor will then pay
only tiro dollars annually during his lifetime, and
tbe mortality assessment.
. Wale and Female from fifteen to sixty-five
years of age, of good moral habits, In good health,
liale, nnd sound of mind, irrespective of creed, or
race, may become members. For further Infoma
ioa, address L. w. CHAUMKK,
(Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society,)
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Agents Wanted !
Address
D. B. EAHLY, '
4 31 8in pdl llarrlsburg, Pa.
$4,000 MUTUAL
POLICY HOLDEK8.
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 per cent, on the usual one year cash
rates, which would Ikj equal to a dividend of 40
Ser cent., as calculated In Mock Companies, or a
eduction of 2 er cent., on the notes below the
usual assessment! and as the Company has over
tiou.iHio iii premium notes, the whole amount cred
ited to mutual (olicy-liolders, over cash rates, will
.amount to 4,ouo. Had the same policy-holders In
sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they
would have paid M.Ouo more than It lias cost them
In this Company. Yet some of our neighbor
fmnittu ,- m n n Ui tr fllwnit rrvlnir Fraud I Fraud!
and declare that a mutual company must fall.
But thev don't say how many stock companies are
falling every year, or how many worthless stock
companies are represented lu Perry County
to-day.
It Is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company
.cannot break. . JAME9 , r,RIEUi
6 25tf Seo'y of Peim'a Central Insurance Co.
,. ,v . MO V Ali!
Merchant Tailoring Establishment.
THE subscriber respectfully Informs the public
that he has removed his MERCHANT TAIL
OKI NO ESTABLISHMENT from "Little Store
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Teiilor Trimmings,
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NECK-TIES, HOSIEHY, &C..&C,
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PHILADELPHIA, '
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uoous.
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Old Undo Joo.
BT MRS. O. A. VUNSOir.
A BOMINABLE 1 mother,
How can
XJl. we endure it?"
'It Is too bad, really, Lou" replied the
elegant lady, from her easy chair, "but
he's rich, you know, and I m his only
Niece ; and if we are not civil to blm, we
shall lose his money ; so we may do as well
as we can."
" What's the excitement now?" exclaim
ed Boll, as she entered the room.
1 Mamma has just recoived a letter from
her fussy old Undo Joe, tolling her he
is comlnc to snend the holidays with us 1
Only think of the audacity 1 Not waiting
to bo invited, or asking if it would be
agreeable, but just telling us he is coming."
" Who is Uncle Joe, anyhow ?" replied
Boll. "I hover heard of him."
" Yes you have hoard of him, Boll, he's
ich as Crojsus ; has lived the last hundred
years in the East Iudies, wish ho'd never
come back 1"
"Old and ugly, of course, we can't have
him mother."
"But we mvtt havo him, and treat him
well, too. Ho has a million at least, and he
may possibly be generous at Christmas,"
replied Mrs. Lansing ;
"Oh 1 That puts quito a different face on
the matter," exclaimed Nellie. "I say,
Bell, let's coax him well, and see what he
will do for us, since this infliction is Inev
itable. " That cashmere shawl, at Stowart's 1
Just the thing 1 Nellio, it takes you to
contrive. I ll have that, ana old u ncio
Joe shall pay for it, or I miss my calcula
tions." Well, girls I hope you'll succeed, but
he must have the blue room," said the
scheming mother.
"Oh ! no, no, the Herberts are to have
that room. Let old Joe have the back
room," said Bell.
" That room is not well warmed, and if
we decide to treat him well, he must havo
the best.
" Yes we'll give him the best, and wish
he was in Jericho all the time," exclaimed
Nellie.
" Well, don't lot him know you wish
him there, that's all I have to say," replied
the mother, as she settled bock to her read
ing.
There was a listener to this conversation,
in the sewing room which opened off the
back parlor, the door of which stood wide
open. Thoughtful Mary Lee, the new
seamstress, who had but just found this
"situation," dropped her work in aston
ishment. Were these the peoplo she had
eome to live with ? Bo heartless, so entirely
"unprincipled?"
She carried a shadow of sadness upon her
pretty face all day. In the evening as she
sat at her work in tlio same place, sho was
still more surprised to find that Mr. Lau
sing, not only approved the docoitful plans
of his wife and daughters, but assisted in
forming others.
"Give Uncle Joe a grand reception,"
said Mr. Lansing J arrange yourselves in
tableaux, and have your soft speeches
all concocted."
" Exccllont I Fathor, but what a farce I"
replied Boll.
" Never mind children, remember the
money and da your parts well," said the
mother. Mr. Lansing bit his lips and re
matneu snout. Let us nope that some
where hid away, he had the remuant of a
heart.
Alas for the hopes sweet Mary Lee had
dared to cuerisu, that In her lonely, or
phaned condition, she had found a home.
Now, ere one week was passed, the flimsy
veil was .lifted, and she saw how little
truth and sincerity existed hero,
Such a sad feeling of disappointment op
pressed her, that she slept little that night.
Where should she find the real in this de
lusive world?
About noon tho next day, Nellio who was
sitting with her embroidery, in one of the
bay windows, oxciaimca : "Hero comes
the old codjer 1"
"One of the Astor House carriages,"
said Bell, looking over her sister's shoulder
as she spoke.
ics, duiu c i ton you tuo letter came
from there?" said her mother.
" Why don't ho stay there !' said Bell,
petulantly. " But soo, mother, be is not
so old, nor bad looking either. Now for
your speech of welcome."
Mrs. Lansing stopped into the hall, and
embraced her relative as he entered, ex
claiming: "So delightful In you to give
this surprise. But why did you not come
to us tlie very hour you landed? We can
make you so much at home."
During this address the gontleman ro
plied not a word, but gazed steadily at her
face ; then raising his circular cloak, re
vealed an ear trumpet of unusual size,
wmcu ne deliberately piaoea to ins ear
saying: "What do you say, Augusta?'
Mrs. Lansing looked at her daughters in
pel foot dismay. So all this fine welcome
was lost, or must be shouted Into the trum
per. it was too much. Bue said s X am
glad to see you, am sorry you are doaf."
" I'm not deaf at all, madam, but I may
hear better with this."
"Not deaf at all, Nell! If that isu
killing," said Miss Bell aside, as slid arose,
hor mother shouting in the mean time,
"my daughter Bell." ".,
"How do you do Mrs. Bell," said the
old gentleman, bowing politely, "Some
lady visiting you I infer," said he.
"Oh 1 no Uncle Joe, you must own me
too. We are all so glad to seo you," re
plied Boll.
" What did you say, madam ?"
" Madam, indeed 1" exolaimed Boll, In a
tone of vexation. " We cannot get on at
all with such a pest."
" Porhaps you'll be ablo to make him
comprehend in time, about the Cashmere
shawl," said Nellio, coming forward to be
Introduced.
" There will bo one good sido to this
dreadful affair," said Bell, Jin no suppressed
voice, " we can express our minds as wo
please ; as a kind of safety valve, you see."
" Yes It's a wondrous help, when one s
Ire is at boiling point," replied Nellio.
Patient Mary Leo, sitting with open door
that hor room might receive a little warmth
from the parlor, heard much of this conver
sation and hor heart ached to soo one suffer
ing from the inflrmites of ago, so imposed
upon.
This was a pretty fair sample of matters
for several days. Christmas had' passed,
and the expected festivities. The house
was filled with company, and Uncle Joe
was treated with apparent civility, to his
face, while often the same moment, quite
near him too, the most ungracious things
were said.
It was the last day of the year, and Nellio
had just been saying, " How dreadful, to
have this old creature sitting here to-mor-ro
w, while we receive calls."
" Yes, indeed," Baid hor sister; "but
really, I havo some comfortable hopes of
getting the shawl."
" Ah ha 1 then I'll take courage, and
talk jowolry to him. I want those opals at
Tiffany's." But how did you manage it,
Bell?"
" Oh 1 1 told him how beautiful that shawl
is, and how much I set my heart on having
it for New Years, but that I was afraid it
cost too much for father to buy. But one
has to scream out so.it is almost more than
a thing is worth, even if you get it."
Yes : then it's bo ridiculous to have him
say bo's "not a bit doaf."
Yes, the old fool I but I'll go and talk
sweet to him, and perhaps he'll send and
an order for those opals."
" Possibly, for after I had talked myself
hoarse about that shawl, I saw him give
something to Mary Loo, which I am sure
was a check, and you know she had busi
ness at Stewart's".
Yes she did ; and I think it's time that
girl was back too I What if she should
Btealit?"
Towards evening "Undo Joe," or, more
properly Mr. Belden, left the house of his
relatives, saying: ho would como back next
day.
All were much dated, never doubting he
desired to make some costly purchases for
thom ; and much of the evening was spent
in discussing what each would probably
receive from Uncle Joo. Mary Lee had
not returned, nnd this disturbcd,somewhat,
the serenity of Miss Boll.
"Ob 1 1 don't believe she's run off with
the check," said Mrs. Lansing. Probably
Uncle Joe wishes to bring the present him
self, to-morrow."
"That's it, I'm suro, mother," exclaim
ed Bell ; and if he'd only come, while Rich
ardson is here."
"He'd see what a rich Uncle you've got
said Mr. Lansing.
" Yes, and what an old goose he is," ad
ded Nollie.
" I'm sure I hope Mary Lee will stay
away to-morrow," said Mrs. Lansing. "It
would be so awkward for her to have
calls ; and peoplo of her class are sure to
do so."
Twelve o'clock, New Years day, Mrs,
Lansing's parlors aro filled with talkative
gentlemen, whom the three young ladies
wero doing tbeir best to entertain, "Mr
Beldon" is announced, and lo 1 a lady on
his arm. "My wife, ladies," said he, in
troducing Mary Lee, who Bell saw at
glance, was wrapt in the costly coveted
shawl.
" Why Undo Joe," screamed Mrs. L
while the young ladies weut into a state
which is proper to call either distraction
or hysterics.
"I'm not at all doaf, as I always told
you, Mrs. Lansing," said Mr. Boldon ; and
at once, all discovered that he spoke the
truth. The ear trumpet was no longer
with him ; and in a moment, oonsternation
seized the members of the household. The
ruse was discovered. Undo Joe had
taken that method to discover whether
kindness existed in the hearts of his rela
tives. The result we need not explain,
" I have como, " said he, "with my wife.
to take what she has loft here, and to bid
you good bye."
"Oh I Uncle, stay with us," said Mrs,
Lansing.
"No, Augusta, I have stayed under your
roof long enough to see your true ouarao
tor. You and your family have insulted old
age, deridod its infirmities, and driven me
to do, as you see. iMary Lee by her manner,
showed from tbe first, ,'iow much she was
shocked by your attempted deception, and
her look of sympathy won my confidence to
tell her, that lonely as I was, I had hoped
to find true frionds where I had only dis
covered those false indeed. Then 1 learn
ed that she was the child of an old and val
ued friend, and my last disoovery was best
of all. She was willing to make an old
man happy."
" She's an Impudont thing, to come here
in this way," replied Mrs. Lansing.
Don't speak In that way of my wife,
madam. Goed-bye Where are the girls?"
They were not to be found. American
Publitheri.
A Curious Mnnla.
Tbe peculiar vagaries Into which tho lot
tery mania will lead people are often as in
teresting as they are pitiable for contem
plation. The intoxications of drink and
of hope are equally fatal to success in life
when too much indulged iu ; one will work
nearly as much damage as the other.
A singular instance of the destructive
tondoucy of the "policy" fever, and of its
tenacity, too, has latoly come to light in
Baltimore. A fow years ago a grocer died
there, leaving his wifo tbe store and prop
erty, worth $2,000, on which she managod
to live comfortably. One day a customer
mentioned to her that a friend had made
two hundred dollars on a lottery ticket, and
this so workod upon her mind that she be
gan investing in that way until, in a short
time, she had expendod all she owned and
had received nothing.
Since then sho has opened a lodging-room
for men aud boys, where a bed can be had
for fifteen cents, a bench for ten cents, and
an old blanket on tho floor for four cents.
The roem is well filled evory night, and, as
affording shelter, is the means of doing some
good; but that is not the motive for which
the establishment opened. The poor wo
man is as ardont as ever iu her belief that
she will some day draw a fortune, aud she
requires of every lodger that he will try to
dream of the lucky numbers and must toll
hor of thorn in the morning. Whenever
she draws anything on such information she
gives a part to the dreamer. In this way
she lives along from day to day, putting her
few cents of surplus into worthless paste
board tickets and receiving her dividends
of disappointment.
A Puzzled Judge.
" Judge Marshall's simplicity of charac
ter and absent-mindeduess have been the
theme of a number of anecdotes. Tho one
best known is about his puzzle over the
buggy and the sapling. Turning aside one
day to avoid ono of those awful mud holes
which abound in .Virginia country roads,
tbe axle of his buggy encountered a stout
sapling. The sapling was betwoen the
hub of tho wheel and the body of the bug.
gy. Too Big to bond down, and too sup
ple to break, this sapling secmod to the
judge to be wholly unconquerable. What
to do he know not. Ho got down out of
tho buggy the hotter to apply bis great in
tolled to the knotty subject, and to study
It thoroughly up. While pondering vainly,
a negro man camo along. " Undo," said
tho Chief-Justice, " I wish you would tell
me about this sapling. I can't get over it,
and I don't want to stay here all day and
miss court. What do you think I bad bet
tor do?" Tho negro could, not repress a
broad but silent grin.
"Why, ole marster," said he, "I 'spoo'
do dob' thing you kin do Is to back yo' bug-
gy 'twill you git clar uv de sapliu', den
turn de hado (head) uv yo' boss, and den
you kin 'void do sapliu' aud go to cote slick
as gooso-grease."
' " Thank you thank you kindly, uncle, I
should never have thought of that in the
world. You are a mau of superior mind
Thore's half a dollar for you." And the
judge drove joyfully off.
Metal Paper-llauglugg.
Paper-hangtngs for walls are known to
everybody. It is now proposed to use hang
ings made of metal ; aud an account of this
now invention, which comes to us from
Paris, bus been read bo fore the Sooiety of
Arts. Tho metal employed is tinfoil, in
shoots about sixteen feet long, and from
thirty to forty inches wide. The sheets
are painted, and dried at a high tempera
ture, and are then decorated with many
different patterns, such as foliage, flowers,
geomotrical figures, imitations of wood, or
landscapes. When decorated, the shoots
are varnished, and again dried, and are
thou ready for sale. Tinfoil is iu itself
naturally tough ; and tho.coats laid upon it
in preparing it for tho market increase the
toughness. The hanging of these metallio
sheets is similar to papor-hanging, except
that the wall is varnished with a weak kind
of varnish, and the shoets applied thereto,
Thus in this way a room or a house may be
newly painted, without any smell of paint
to annoy or harm the inmates. Moreover,
tbe tinfoil keeps out the damp; and as th
varnish is a damp-resistor, the protection
to the room is two fold. Experience has
shown, also, that cornices, tuouldiugs, und
Irregular surfaces may be covered with the
tinfoil as readily as a fiat surface I hence
there is no part of a dwvlliug-house or pub
lic building which may not be decorated
with these new shoets; and; as regards style
and finish, all who saw the specimens ex
hibited at the reading of the paper were
made aware that tbe highest artistio effects
could be achloved at pleasure.
, How She Did It. .
Some years ago a widow living on the
line of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
about one hundred miles from St. Louis,
owned a young cow, of which she was par
ticularly proud. As the woman was not
possessed of much of this worm's goods,
tbe eow was an Important source of in
come to her, as she made butter for sale
and also sold some milk in the neighbor
hood. One day the express train came
thundering along and struck and killed the
widow's oow as it stood ruminating on the
track.;
The widow applied to the station agont
for pay for the animal, and was told to send
in a bill to the general oflloer of the road.
She did so, but received no reply, and after
writing several times without effect, oalled
on the paymaster the next time he went
through the town to pay the section hands.
Tho paymaster was very busy, and ans
wered the old woman so abruptly that she
became offended and concluding that the
road did not intend to make good her loss,
swore vengeance. Little attention was
paid to her threats until about a week af
ter, when the morning passenger train,
beuud west, came along.
The station-house of Glora is situated at
the top of a gontlo slope, about half a mile
in length, and which the passenger trains
always ran up at tho regular speed of
twenty miles an hour. It was a fine,
frosty morning and the sun was just rising,
and tbe engineer noticed what he supposed
to bo frost glistening on the rails. He
soundod his whistle for tho station, aud,
putting on more steam, started up the
slope. The speed at which the train was
approaching carried it about half the way
up tho rise, but the driving-wheels of the
locomotive spun round on the rails without '
pulling an ounce.
The train came to a dead stop and then
began to slide backward. The engiueer
whistled "down brakes," and got off to in
spect the rails. He found, as he expected
that they were artistically covered with
soft soap, and as he had some previous ex
perience of that kind, knew exactly what '
to do. ,
He backed dowu the track about half a
mile, and putting the full head of steam
on, charged at the rise with full speed.
When he found tho speed slackening he
opened his sand-valves and allowed the
sand in the boxes to glide through the pipes
and on the rails in front of the driving
wheels. This, tosomo extent, counteract
ed the effect of tbe soap, and the train got
nearly fifty yards further than it did be
fore. It finally stopped again, and the engiueor
backed out and again charged the slope.
The process was repeated several times,
and would have finally been successful had
not tho sand given out. Tho soil iu the
neighborhood was a soft, dark loam, and
where the railroad cut was made, a stiff,
yellow clay was turned up.
No sand could be procured anywhere,
aud finally tho whole force of train meu
went to work to remove the soap. This
they succeeded in doiug after a half hour's
hard work, . and nearly au hour behind
time the train reached the station. A few
days after a similar difficulty was experien
ced, and the road officials began to get de
cidedly angry. ...
An attorney was sent out there to dis
cover and prosecute the perpetrator, but
soon after his arrival was confidentially in
formed that the road would have no trouble
in future if the widow was paid for her cow.
He took the bint, telegraphed to the presi
dent and receiving the necessary authority
paid for the animal and loft the place. The
track was never soaped afterward, and the
widow bought another cow.
Maduiuo's Petition.
One of the'celobrlties of tho Moscow bal
let lately called upon a local official with a
request that he would give her the usual
formal permission to take a month's tour
in the provinces for the benefit of her
health, retaining her salary during the time
of furlough. The man in the office re
ceived hor very politely, and asked for her
written potitlon.
"I have no written petition," answered
the artist ; " I bad no idea that such a thing
was necessary. "
" Not necessary, madam? Why, nothing
can be done without it."
" What am I to do, then ?"
" Hero are pens, ink and paper ; be so
good as to sit down and write while I dic
tate." Tho lady obeyed ; the petition was writ
ton signed and folded.
"Anduow," said the representative of
justice, " you have only to deliver it."
"To whom?"
" To whom?" repeated the official, with'
a slight smile at bor simplicity. " To mc,
of course 1"
And taking the petition which he had
himself dictated, he produced bis spectacles
wiped them carefully, adjusted them upon
his nose, read over the whole document, as
though it were perfectly new to him, dock,
eted and filed it iu due form, and then turn
ing to the Impatient danseuse, said, with
the utmost gravity:
" Madame, I have read your petition,
and regret extremely that I cannot grant
it I"