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2e V. li. Mutual
Aid Society of Pennsylvania,
Present the following plan for consideration to
noli persons who wish to become members:
The payment of SIX TWIXAItd on application,
FIVE miLLAHH annually for folb ykaks, anil
thereafter TWO DOLLAKS annually durliiK life,
with pro-rata mortality assessment at the (loath
of each member, which for the First Class Is as
follows:
1 70
80
1 H2
2 04
2 111
2 28
2 40
2 45
2 00 '
2 65
2 60
2 65
Will entitle a member to a certltlcate 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 successor!
but it notice of the death of a niemlier to 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 Ills four pay
ments of five dollars are made, the remaining un
paid part will be deducted from the one Thmtmml
Dollar due his heirs; his successor w ill then pay
only (tea dollart annually during his lifetime, and
the mortality assessments.
Male and Female from fifteen to sixty-five
years of nge. of good moral habits, in good health,
Iiale, and sound of mind. Irrespective of creed, or
race, may become members. For further Infoina
tlon, address L. W. CHADMKIt,
(.Sec'y V. B. Mutual Aid Society,)
LE11AKON, l'A.
Agents Wanted !
Address
1). a EARLY,
Ilaiilsburg, Pa.
6 31 3m pd
SA 1rf TO 1K HE11TK1 TO
OttjUUU MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS.
The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company
JiavlliK hadbut Utile loss during the past year, the
Annual assessment on Mutual Tol Icy-holders will
not exceed 60 per cent, on the usual one year cash
rates, which would bo equal to a dividend of 40
jier cent,, as calculated In Stock Companies, or a
deduction of 2 percent., 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 rates, w ill
Amount to 81,000. Had the same policy-holders in
sured in a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they
would have paid 4,ouo more than It has cost them
In this Company. Vet some of our neighbor
oiKents are running about crying Fraud 1 Fraud!
and declare that a mutual company must fail.
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 Ik a well-known fact that a Mutual Company
cannot break.
JAMES II. C.niElt,
45 25tf Sec'y of I'enn a Central Insurance Co.
Xfc IS 3IO VAL!
Merchant Tailoring Establishment.
THE subscriber respectfully Informs the public
that he has removed his MERCHANT TAIL
ORING ESTABLISHMENT from "Little Store
In the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J.
). Sliutto, Dentist, where may be found at all
times, a varied assortment of
Cloths, Cassimcrs and Testings,
With a complete line of
Tnlloi'H Ti'lniininKH,
Of the best quality. Those desiring to purchase
;OOD GOODS, at Iteasonable prices, and have
them made In the LATEST STYLE, will please
give us a call. H. II. MKCK.
Also, a good assortment of
SHIRTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS,
, . NECK-TIES, IIOSIEUY, &C..&C.,
On hand at low prices.
A. H. FRANCISCUS & CO.,
JVo. 313 Market Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Have opened for the FALL TItADI!, the
largest and best assorted Stock of
.PHILADELPHIA CARPETS,
Table. Stair, and Floor Oil Cloths,
Window Shades and I'ajwr, Carpet Chain,
Cotton. Yam, Hatting, Waddlnit, Twines. Wicks
Clocks, Looking Glasses, Fancy Haskets, llrooms.
Baskets, Duckets, ".rushes, clothes Wringers,
Wooden and Willow Ware,
IN THE UNITED STATES.
Our large increase In business enables us to sel
at low prices, and furnish the best quality o
Goods.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE
Celebrated American Washer,
Price $5.50.
THE MOST PERFECT AND SUCCESSFUL
WASHKlt EVEtt MADE.
M- AGENTS WANTED FOR THE AMERI
CAN WASHKH In all pans of the Suite. 37 lit
Perry County Bank !
ftponsiler, Junkin & Co.
THE undersigned, having formed a Hanking As
sociation under the above name and style, are
now ready to do a General Banking business at
their new Baukiug House, ou Centre Square,
OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE,
NEW BLOOMFIELD. PA.
We recolve money on deposit and pay back on
domand. We discount notes for a period of not
overftO days, and sell Drafts ou Philadelphia and
New York.
On time Deposits, five per cent forany time over
four months: and for four months four per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
for doing a Banking Business i and knowing, and
for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un-
ler which the people of this County labored for the
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supply the want ind this being
the first Bank ever established In ferry county, we
nppe we will be sustained In our efforts, by all th
business men, farmers and mechanics.
This Banking Association Is composed of the fol
lowing named partners:
W. A. HpfVNsi.BR, Bloomneld, Terry county, Pa.
V. V. Junkin, " " - "
Wm. 11, Miller, Carlisle,
officers:
. W. A. il'ONBLEH, Prertdtnt,
WlIAIAM WILLIS, Owiter. .
New Bloomneld, J 5 ly ,
Hack FlituneU. A lot of new and pretty
tyles of Hack Flannels, have just bm re
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A NARROW ESCAPE,
, A M gilt's Adventure. , ! .
fcX7'OU raustcoine to Woodbridge's
JL supper," said 'O'Scardon, a six
foot Irishman In the Austrian sorvlce, and
an old friend of mine " you must come
to Woodbridge's suppor, for of all the dev
ils you ever saw, lie tops 'em all. We
can't make out what be is. He's heaps of
money, but no one knows bow he gets it or
who be is. lie collects a wonderful lot of
pooplo round him, some of the fastest and
most riotous of tho students hero, and bo's
always got a Polish count with him a
good-looking, impertinent scoundrel who is
so dreadfully offensive that my longing to
kick him is growing into a positive disease,
Woodbridge, though ho has only been do
mesticated her a few months, has already
had several rows with tho police and gov
ernment; and as they say to-uight's supper
is to be the boldest thing ho has yet at
tempted, I advise you by all means to
come."
After having been talked to in this strain
I need scarcely say that I looked forward
to my suppor at Woodbritlgo's with mu ch
curiosity. The remainder of tho day was
spent in lounging about and in a very
noisy dinner with the students, and at
about eight in the evening I found myself
at Woodbridge's lodgings.
He occupied handsomo apartments over
the shop of tho principal saddler of the
town; ami when I arrived, there were some
ten or n dozen young men seated about,
somoof whom I know. Scarcely, howovcr,
had my niinio bcon announced before a tall,
elegant-looking man of about thirty years
of ago stepped forward, and addressing me,
apologized for Woodbridge's temporary
absenco, introduced himself as Count Zin
torski, and begged mo to take a cigar and
make myself at home. There was a frank
ness in the fellow's address which corres
ponded but badly with a look of subdued
distrust and shiftiness in his eyes, and I
felt I could not reciprocate bis apparent
warmth. Our host soon after arrived, and
the party being vory shortly completed,
we sat down to a game of vingt-et-un to
pass the time until Bupper arrived. Now,
hating cards with all my heart, and never
playing except when politeness compels
ne, I happen always to enjoy wonderful
luck ; and accordingly, on - this occasion,
when I was dealing, I doubled the stakes
at every hand, and won a considerable sum.
Sly greatest opponent, and consequently
the largest losor, was Count Zintorski; and
though he tried every mauouver.of which
the gamo is suscoptiblo, my luck still stood
by me, and I rose from tho table, having
cleaned hi in out of his last Friederich d'or.
He was perfectly calm, congratulated me
on my luck, and took the foot of the supper-table,
opposite to Woodbridgo, with
the air of a man who felt himself thorough
ly at homo.
Reader, wero you ever present at a Gor
man students' supper-party? If not, you
have no idea of noise, of wild, mud fun, of
practical jests pushed to their utmost ex
tout. My experience in these scenes has
not been small, but never was I present at
such a scene of riot as was enacted at
Woodbridge's that night. Englishmen and
Germans tried to outdo each other in noise;
song followed song; the health of each
member of the party was drunk in rapid
succession, and each member of tho party
was drunk himself. Illy ill-hoalth preven
ted me from joining to much extent in the
dissipation, and I sat looking on and won
dering whether I had ever found real
amusement in such a pandemonium. At
last, while O'Scardou was telling a won
derful story of a run with the Ballybothor
uu hounds, half iu English and half in
German, the laudlord entered the room
and declared that if the noise was persisted
in be should be compelled to call in the
gens d'arines. This announcement was
received with yells;' ho was told to fotch
whom he liked. Woodbridge muttered
some vaguo seuteuco about "Euglishn's
house's cassia," and the lundlord retired
amidst a storm of groans. The uproar was
renewed, but five minutes after, we heard
the heavy tramp of tho gens d'armes as
cending the staircase, and all of us deter
mined to resist the invasion by force. Borne
seized sticks, some laid bold of pieces of
furniture to hurl at the intruders, and I
grasped an empty champagne bottle by
the neck and slipped it into my ooat pocket
keeping my band upon it the while. The
door was flung open ayd the chief of the
police entered, loaving two of his meu out
side tho door.
" Gentlemen," said be, in an authorita
tive voice, " in the uume of his Majesty I
command you to quit this bouse at once."
A roar of derision was the reply.
"Bupposo wo don't intend to go?" said
a student with a red beard, tastefully deco
rated with scraps of salad, shreds of tobac
co, etc.
" Then 1 shall proceed to execute my
duties and turn you at once into the street."
A second derisive roar much louder than
tho first. ' s . 1 : i
" By the holy Malone " said O'Boardon,
rising slowly before the astouisbed gen d'-
armo, and pulling himself up to bis full
height, " I've a mind to fling you out of
this window- And 1 11 do it, too, before
you can say ' knife."' ' lie made two steps
forward and seemed about to execute his
threat, when Zintorski interposed. i
"One minute," be said, "Gend'arme,
where is your permit?" ;
The gond'armo looked astonished, but
did not reply. 1
"Your permit?" repeated Zintorski.
" You are aware that after midnight no
gen d'ainie can enter a private residence
without a special permit from the burgo
master?" 'Herr Graf," stuttered the wrotchod
functionary, edging toward tho door, " I
I regret that "
His courage failed him; he said no more,
but rushed down the stairs, followed by his
men, and in a minute wo beard the door
close behind them.
Immediately upon their departure fresh
wino was brought in, and the orgies con
tinued until about two o'clock, when tho
party broke up. I bad secured a bod at a
house where. 1 had lodged in my student
-days, and it so happened that my way lay
in a different direction from that of my
companions; I therefore bado them good
night, and started off alone. It was a dull
murky night, with a sharp sleet driving
from the north; the only light shed upon
the wretched streets was from the oil-lamps
swung at intervals across the road. On I
bastoned, wrapping myself up in my large
coat, and meeting no ono. Not a sound
did I hear until, just as I was reaching the
street where my lodging was situated,
which turned up out of ono of the principal
alect of tho town, I thought I distinguished
the sound of advancing footsteps. I lis
tened, and was convinced that my surmise
was correct ; but thinking nothing of it; I
proceeded up tho Btreot. I had reachod
my door, and was endeavoring to turn the
rusty piece of Gorman mechanism sup
posed to bo a key and mentally contrasting
it with my own neat Chubb at home, when
two mon advanced toward mo, followed at
somo distance by a third. This I could
just distinguish by tho light of a neighbor
ing lamp. As tho two men camo up to mo
one of them said, " Good-night !" " Good
night !" I replied; " or rather Good-morning
! for it must bo almost that by this
time." The words had scarcely escaped
my lips when the foremost man bit mo a
tremendous blow between tho eyes which
lit up a thousand candles before me and
knocked mo violently backward. As my
back dashed against tho door I heard some
thing crash. Iu a second I recollected
myself; it was tho champagne bottle I had
placed in my pocket when the gens d'armes
entered. Iu a second I grasped it by tho
neck, withdrew it frqm my pocket, and
whirling it in the air, brought it down
with my full force on tho head of my as
sailant. Ho gave one groan and fell heavily
to the grouud, while the blood spurted
from the wound like a fountain. His com
panion turned and fled, while tli9 third
man, who nil this titno had remained at a
distance, also immediately made off. My
Btato of horror can scarcely be imagined,
I knelt down by tho man's side, I bathed
his head with water, which I was fortunate
enough to procure; I strove to stanch tho
blood which was pouring from the wound.
I spoke to him I offered him all my mon
ey if be would only look up. I was iu mo
mentary dread of the arrival of the gen d'
armes, and of being convoyed to prison as
a murderer. For more than an hour did I
remain in this fearful state. The man nev
er opened bis eyes, but lay apparently in a
lethargic stupor. No one came near me,
and my excitement wast its height, when
by the dawning light I perceived a figure
approaching. It neared me, and in it I
thought I recognized tho companion of the
robber, Not a word was spoken, and with
my assistance he raised his friend, twined
his arms around him and half carried, half
dragged him out of sight.
I need scarcely suy that I did not go to
bod that night. I went in, struck a light,
collected the few tilings I had unpacked
from my carpet bag, and, heedless of my
friends and intended pleasure, hurried off
by the first train and returned at once to
England, so apprehensive was I of the
consequences
.Two years passed, and I heard no more
of my nocturnal adventure. I had letters
from O'Bcardon and from some German
friends, full of wonder at my sudden de
parture, but giving no hint as to its cause,
and the circumstance had almost faded
from my recollection. Last autumn, how
ever, I was again in Germany; and hearing
that an old tutor of mine had become Pro
testant chaplain at the gaol of Verdun a
place a few miles from Dussolberg I went
over to see him. He acted as my cicerone
round the prison, and while going through
one of the wards I caught sight of a face
that turned mo faint. This faco belonged
to a convict, a short, thick-set man, who
was sitting apart from the rest, I recog
nized him in an instant as the man whom I
bad nearly murdored. I approached: he
raised bis head, started, and then grinned
calmly.
" Do you know me ?" I asked '
" I do," he answered. "I only saw you
once, as you came out of the saddler's door,
but you saw me after' that, and gave me
Out."
Ho rained his matted hair as he spoke,
and showed mo a red scar on his temple
about throe Inches long. I shuddered at
the recolloctiou. -
" And why did you attack me ?"
'.'Why?" be replied; "beoauso I was
paid for it, as I had been for many more,
Thnt Polish count was my master and
partner; we wore one firm all that winter,
and shared alike. He pointed you out to
us, told us you had won immensely at
cards, and had the money about you. Il
was close behind us at the time, and if it
hadn't boon for that infernal bottle" I
"Whatthon?"
" Why, if you'd given much trouble, we
should have pitched you into the canal t" .
And this was tho explanation of my
Christmas Night's Adventure.
Peculiarities of the Arabs.
No Arab is ever curious. Curiosity with
all Eastern nations is considered unmanly.
No Arab will stop in the street, or turn bis
head to listen to the talking of bystanders.
No Arab will dance, play on an instrument,
or indulge in cards or any game of chance,
since games of chance are forbidden by the
Koran. Never, moreover, invite an Arab
to take a walk with 'you for pleasure.
Although the Arabs are on occasion good
walkers, they have no notion of walking
for amusement. They only walk as n
matter of business. Their temperance,
their constant out-door habits, rendor all
out-door exercise for exercises sako unne
cessary ; they cannot, therefore, understand
the pleasure of walking for walking's sake:
What Arabs like best is to sit still, and
when they see Europeans walking lup and
down in a public place in Algeria they say,
"Look! look! the Christians aro going
mad !" The Arab does not even mount on
horseback, except on a matter of business
or for bis public fetes and carousals. And
when you do walk, you should not walk
quickly, just as in speaking you should not
talk fast or loud, for the Koran tells you,
" Endoavor to moderate the step, and to
speak in a low tone, for tho'most disagreea
ble of voices is the voice of the ass."
Indeed, it was observed by a famous
Arab, " Countless are the vices of men,
but ono thing will redeem them all pro
priety of speech." again ; And "Of the
word which was not spoken, I nm the
slave, but silenco is of gold." is a motto of
Arabic origin.
A silent, grave people aro tho Arabs, and
a pale one ; too vory much given, nevertho-
les, to highway robbery on a large scale ;
but tho Arabs tent is always open to you,
and you can get any anion nt of camel's
milk, or even roasted mutton, if he has it.
You will be treated as a guest from God as
long as you aro under his roof, after which
your happiness is in your own hands, which
moans that your host who had fed you in
the evening may, at a decent distance
from his tent, rille your saddle-bag iu the
morning, and let the powder speak to you
if you object ; after which, Allah bo merci
ful to you.
rinylng Indinu.
A Now York man is very much annoyed
because his two boys have read so many
Indian stories that they bav3 gone wild
with anxiety to play Indinn, to go out on
the prairies hunting for tho real noblo red
men. Tho man was taking a nap, after
dinner iu his easy chair, when he was wak
ened by an alarming noise and a strango
sensation in his head. He jumped up sud
denly and found that one of his boys, dress
ed in a red table-cloth, and with his nose
decorated with bluo paint, was trying to
scalp his fathor with a carving knife, while
the other boy, attired in a blanket shawl
and a rooster foather, flourished a hatchet
and emitted war whoops from behind a
thicket composed of two chairs and a card
table. The man decided to put a slop to
this kind of thing.
Bo next day, while the boys were playing
with bows and arrows in tho garden, ho
dressed himself in Indian costume, and
jumped over the fence with a wild, un
earthly yell; for the purpose of frighten
ing those children. The oldest boy, bow.
ever, stood bis ground, and drawing an
arrow to the head, in which was inserted
a tonpenny nail, he buried it in the chief
tain's leg before he took to flight. That
night the father walked up stairs on a
crutch and flogged the family all around
before be sent them to bed. He is think
ing now of somo other way to effect a cure
of the sanguinary disposition of his olT
spiiug. tWThe sharpest so fur this month is
tho Troy girl, who makes her unsuspecting
daddy the daily bearer of sweet missives
to a clerk in his office, who has been forbid
den to visit his employer's house. She
pins the letter in tho old man's cloak, aud
when he roaches tho office and throws oil'
the garments, theclork gets it and responds
by tho samo carrier.
3y "Ono good mother," said Goorge
Herbert, "is worth a hundred school
masters. In the home she Is 'loadstone to
all hearts, and loadstar to all eyes.' Imita
tion of her is constant imitation, which
llacon likens to a globe of precept.' But
example is fur more than precept. It is in
st ruction in action, ...
13S It ocourred to a Danbury scholar,
while writing a composition lost week, to
make tho remarkable statement that "an
ox does not taste as good as an oyster, but
it can run faster."
Danger ! Danger ! t Danger ! 1 !
' ' BT EDWARD ABOTT.
Four young men of Yonkcrs went out
into the field the other day, gunning. Pres
ently they camo to a board fhclosure, ou
which was a sign with the above startling
words upon it. In addition tho sign gave
notice that within the inclosure were several
cans of uitro-glycerine, perhaps the most
terribly destructive explosive agent now
known. And the purport of tho whole
was to turn people out of the way. See
how the young meu mind the warning.
Two of thorn, more cautious than their
companions, hid behind some trees at a
little distance, to look on. The other two
went noar, and will the reader bolieve it
threw a stone or two at tho cans. The
explosion which followed blew them to at
oms, and badly, if not fatally hurt the
others. Aud now they know how it is
themselves.
This is a sort of , thing young men are
doing vory often. They go into business,
and come face to face with temptations to
Bpecuiutions, fraud. Tlia signal is Danger!
danger ! ! danger ! ! ! But this only Berves
to whet their curiosity, and they try their
hand with the same result that has over
whelmed so many others. They go into
society. Tho wine-cup is handed them.
Danger I Danger ! I Danger ! ! 1 is written
all over it. " It biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder." Nevertheless
they think it wont hurt them, pd take it,
with the almost invariable result ruin.
We aro coming every day to the placos
where these morally destructive agents
have boon left in our way. We may won
der at the Providence which leaves them,
but we cannot be blind to the warnings
which accompany them. We meddlo with
them at our peril. When will young men
and old learn wisdom, admit that caution
is better than temerity, nnd bo willing to
be guided by the examples and experience
which tho past affords ?
There aro things more deadly than nitro
glycerine. A Penitentiary Romance.
Thore is now in tho State Penitentiary
at Fort Madison nn agod oouple who aro
serving out a term for the crime of incest
they being brother and sister. The story
is this: At tho age of twelve years, the
male left his father's house to seek his for
tune and no more return. He in time,
went West, grew to manhood and married,
raised a family of children, and Anally his
wife died. His sister grew to womanhood,
was married, and with her husband went
West, and to Iowa. ' Her husband died,
and in timo she received an otter of mar
riago from a man who was a widower. She
accepted the oiler and they were married.
Her husband was wealthy, nnd after a
time one of the sons wished to have tho
father give him somo proporty, but the
father refused to grant his demands. The
son one day whilo looking over the family
record of the stepmother, which had been
laid asido and forgotten, discovered that
there was kinship between the families,
and a further investigation proved that his
father nnd stepmother were own brother
and sister. To avenge himself of his fath
er's refusal to give him the bulk of his
proporty, he brought suit against them
both for incest. They wero tried and con
victed and sent to the penitentiary for one
year. They aro both over sixty years of
nge, and as innocent of intent to commit
crime as the now-born bubo.
(W If you should see a man digging a
snow drift with the expectation of finding
valuable ore, or planting seeds on the roll
ing billow, you would say at once that he
was beside himself; but in what respect
does this man ditfer from you while you
sow the seeds of dissipation iu your youth,
nnd expect the fruits of age will be a good
constitution, elevated affections and holy
principles ?
The Beauty or Virtue. ,
The following flue reflection is to be
found in tho life of Lord, Herbert, of Cher
bourg : " Everybody loves the ; virtuous,
whereas the vicious do scarcely love one
auothor." Upon the same subject au Ara
bian happily observed that be learned
virtue from the bad, for their wickeduess
inspired him with a distaste of vice, v
CgThere is dow in one flower and not
in another, because one opens its cup and
takes it, whilo tho other closes itself and
the drop runs olf. So God rains goodness
and mercy as wido as the dew, aud if we
lack them it is because we will not open
our hearts to receive them. 1
tW There are iu the German luuatio
asylum forty-one persons who believe they,
are tho Emperor William, and nearly
twice as many who think they ai Bis
mark, t3FJ" Drink nothing without, seeing it J
sign nothing without reading it, and mako
sure it means uo more than what it says.
td9D not go to law unless you have
nothing to lose ; lawyers houses are built
on fools' heads, ' ' : ; '
Don't believe tha man who talks
the most, for mewing cat are very seldom
mouse rs. "r ,