The U. Ji. Mutual
Aid Society of Pennsylvania,
Present the following plan for consideration to
ch persons who wish to become members:
The payment of SIX DOLLARS on application.
FIVE DOLLARS annually for pour teaks, and
thereafter TWO DOLLARS annually during life,
with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death
of each member, which for the FutST Class Is as
follows:
Age
mem
1 70
1 80
1 1)2
2 04
2 16
2 28
2 40
2 45
2 50
2 65
2 60
2 65
15
18
17
lft
19
ft
22
23
24
25
20
27
60 2S 73 41 n 64
81 29 74 42 94 6
62 HO .75 43 t M
63 81 77 44 OS 7
64 32 79 4.r 1 00 68
65 33 81 46 1 06 69
6(1 34 83 47 1 12 60
67 85 85 48 1 18 61
68 36 86 49 1 24 62
69 37 87 60 1 30 63
70 38 88 61 1 40 64
71 39 89 62 1 60 65
72 40 90 63 1 60
Will entitle a member to a certificate of ONE
THOUSAND DOLLARS, to be paid at his death
to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death
Way occur.
A member, or his heirs, may name a successor)
but if 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 put in a successor and
fill the vacancy, according to the Constitution of
.the Society. . - . . . ,
Should the member die before Ills font pay
ments of five dollar are made, the remaining mi-
5 aid part will lie deducted from the one Thousand
Mian due his heirs j his successor will then pay
only tiro dollar annually during his lifetime, and
the mortality assessments.
V Male and Female from fifteen to slxty flvo
? 'oars of age. of Rood moral habits, In good health,
lale, and sound of mind, irrespective of creed, or
race, may become members. For further Infoma
tion, address L. W. CRAUMK.lt,
(Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society.)
LEBANON, PA.
'" ' Agenta Wanted I
Address
D. 8. EARLY,
31 8m pdj Harrlsburg, Ta.
Mfff TO HE C REDITED TO
,UUU MUTUAL POLICY UOLDKRS.
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 ier cent, on the usual one year cash
rates, which would lie equal to a 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 has over
20ii,ouo In premium notes, the whole amount cred
ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will
amount to Jl.ouo. Had the same policy holders in
sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rat, they
would have paid H.oui) more than It has cost them
In this Company. Yet some of our neighbor
agents are running about crying Fraud I Fraud I
ami Declare mat a inuiuai company immi. iu.
But they don't say how many stock companies are
failing every year, or how many worthless stock
companies are represented in l'erry County
t0jt'is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company
cannot break. JAMES H. ORIKR,
25 tt Sec'y of Penn'a Central Insurance Co.
It E MO 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.
U. shatto. Dentist, where may be found at all
times.a varied assortment of
Cloths, Cassimers and Testings,
With a complete line of
rruiloi-M Trlmmlnr;M,
Of the best quality. Those desiring to purchase
!OOD GOODS, at Reasonable prices, and have
them made In the LATEST STYLE, will please
give us a call. 8. II. BUCK.
Also, a good assortment of
SUIRTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS,
NECK-TIES, HOSIERY, ic.,&0.,
On hand at low prices.
A. H. FRANCISCUS & CO.,
No. 513 Market Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Have opened for the FALL TRADE, the
largest and best assorted Stock of
PHILADELPHIA CARPETS,
Table. Stair, and Floor Oil Cloths.
Window Shades and l'aiier. Carpet Chain,
Cotton. Yarn, Batting, Wadding, Twines. Wicks
Clocks, Looking Glasses, Fancy liaskets. Brooms,
Baskets, Buckets, Brushes, Clothes Wriugers,
Wooden and Willow Ware,
IN TUB UNITED STATES.
Our large increase In business enables us to sell
at low prices, and furnish the best quality of
Goods.
SOLI AGENTS -OK TUB
Celebrated American Washer,
Price' $5.50.
THE MOST PERFECT AND SUCCESSFUL
WASHER EVER MADE.
-AGENTS WANTED FOR THE AMERI
CAN WASHER 111 all parts of the State. 37 13t
Ferry County Bank!
Npoiiwler, Junkln & Co.
mil E undersign vl. havtm formed a BanklnsAs-
JL aoclutlou under the above name and style, are
now ready to do a General Banking business at
their new Banking House, on Centre Square,
v OPPOSITE TirB COURT II0U8K,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.
We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. . We discount notes for a period of not
over 60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
New York. i
On time Deposits, Ove per cent, forany time over
tour months i and for four months four per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
fordoing Banking Business t and knowing, and
for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un
der 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 i and this being
the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we
hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the
business men, farmers and mechanics.
This Bunking Association Is composed of the fol
lowing named partners: .
, W, A. Hponhi.eii, Bloomlleld, Perry county, Pa.
B. V. Junk in, " " "
Wm. 11. Miu.itu, Carlisle,
ovncKiis:
W. A. SrONSLKR, President.
Wuxiam Wiu.is, Cashier.
New Bloomneld,5 ly
(Stick Flannel. A lot of now and pretty
tyles of Hack Flannels, bave just been re
ceived by i . AlonTiufcit. 'I here are cheap
too.
ENIGMA DIFABTHlNIi
trAW contributions to this department must
be accompanied by the correct answer.
- -
' ' .ENIGMA." " ' ' ', ' ' '
I am composed of 24 letters t '
My 1, 20, 17, 4, and 6 Is a boy's name.
My 2, 8, 13, SI, 7, 17, and 8 is a country la Eu
rope. My 13, 4, 2, 17, 13, 9, and 8 Is a city In New
Jersey.
My 18, 4, 2, 20,22,7, 17 and 8 Is an Island In
the Atlantic Ocean.
My 8, 2, 21, 7, 6, 7, 4 and 20 is one of the Mid
dle States.
My 11, 12, 18, 7, and 17 It a musical Instru
ment. My 10, 7, 21, 13, 2, and 4 Is a boy's name.
My 14, 7, and 13 is an article of dress.
My 13,8, 15, 2, and 13 is the name of one of
the Presidents.
My 19, 16, and 20 Is an enemy.
My 24, 23, 14, and 19 Is a wild animal.
My whole Is one of the American Poets.
tST Answer to Cross-Word Enigma In last
week's Timks i " Vote down the Whlekcy."
The Brigadier and the Bull.
riIlERE was a Brigadier Ruggles, who
JI got made Brigadier iu the French
war, somehow. A sturdy old Tory he was,
and went over to Novia Scotia after our
war broke out. lie wouldn't light against
the colonies, but King George and the old
country bad the strongest pull on him, and
he couldn't live squarely under a new flag.
However, before '70, Brigadier Ruggles
kept a good house in Berkshire, Massa
chusetts, furnished pretty well all through
England. Half the chairs and tables had
a history ; but the piece be was proudest
of was a tall old mirror, beveled at the
edges of the glass, and set in a carved
ebony frame, which some of his wife's folks
Madam Ruggles they called her had
sent over as a present from old Berkshire.
Madam Ruggles' mirror was the finest
thing iusido any house in Massachusetts,
and stood in the hall right opposite the
front door, so that every one who came to
the house might see it at once. And Brig
adior Ruggles' English bull was a long way
the first beast in New Englaud, at least so
the Brigadier said, and the up-country far-
mors used to come miles out of their way
just to got a look at him. At last one of
them, after be had seen the Brigadier's
bull all around,guessed he knew a Vermon
ter who bad got a borne bred bull, along
silo of which the Brigadier's bull was of no
account. This made the Brigadier rile up;
but as they could not settle it by talk, and
the Vcrmouter was coming down to a fair
at Boston iu the fall, it was agreed he
should bring his bull along, and stop
night with the Brigadier. Well, according
ly, Saturday night before the Boston fair,
sure enough the Vermonter camo along
with bis bull. It was too dark to judge
much of the beasts that night, so the Ver
mont!' s bull was put in the next pen to
the Brigadier's bull, and they went in to
suppor. All night Brigadier Ruggles tossed
about, thinking about the Vermonter's
bull ; and the next morning he was that
bad with a fit of colic, that, though be was
an elder, Madam Ruggles thought it best
to lot him stop away from meeting. Ac
cordingly, she and the Vermonter went off
in the wagon with the farm-servants, and
left the Brigadier by the fire, with a book
of Cotton Mather's sormons, and a chalk
dr aught at Lis elbow. Somehow, tbey
hadn't been gone more than a quarter of
an hour, when the Brigadier began to fool
better. After reading awhile, be seemed
to think a little fresh air might set bim
right, so he gets on bis thick boots, just to
stroll out in the garden. Sure enough, the
air was just what be wanted, and presently
it camo into bis bead juBt to drop over to
the pens, and see if it was all right with
the bulls. Bo he opened the garden-gate
and stepped across, and looked eagorly into
the pens. There was his bull, all in
lather, marching up and down on one side
of the fence, aud the Vermonter's bull on
the other, both of them moaning to them
selves in a low tone, as if they were swear
ing, and nothing but a gate on the latch to
hinder them getting at one another. The
Brigadier took up a prong, and loaned over,
aud tried to coax bis bull, which was tame
enough to come to him, and be scratched
between the boms. But the bull took no
notice, but kept marching up and down.
So the Brigadier watched them botb, and
fell to comparing them and thinking
" Well, that Vermonter's bull ain't of any
account, after all, alongside of my bull
be ain't so straight iu the back, nor so
square in the barrel, nor so thick in th
neck he don't weigh, now, not, I should
say, within a hundred weight of my bull."
Somehow, as ho was going on thinking
of the bulls, the Brigadier kept on tip-tapping
at the hasp of the gate, and not mind
ing what he was at with bis prong, till all
of a sudden he just gave a tip too much at
the latch, and the gate between the pens
swung slowly open, just as the Vennonter'i
bull cume opposite it. Next minute the
bulls were together by the horns. The
Brigadier hallooed right out, though it was
Sabbath, but all the -men were away at
meeting.
Looking again, aid there was the Ver
montcr's bull driving bis bull back on bis
bauiicbt'H. Brigadier Ruggles was a brave
man, so be throws open the gate be was
leaning over, and (lays on to the Vermon
ter's bnll behind with the prong just as the
brute drives down his own bull, and breaks
his neck In the corner of the pen. Then
the Vermonter's bull turns around on the
Brigadier, and after one good look at bim,
puts down bis head with a sort of low
whistle, and scrapes with bis fore hoof,
meaning mischief. The Brigadier didn't
wait, but made off foi the bouse, slamming
the pen gate and the garden gate behind
him. But he hears two crashes, and then
the whistle of the Vermonter's bull coming
after bim, as be reaches bis open front
door, and bolts through tlio ball to the
kitchon, slamming the second door behind
him.
" Perhaps the cuss won't come into the
house," thought the Brigadier, as he stood
panting behind the kitchen door ; but next
moment be heard the Vermonter's bull
stalk into the hall. Then silence for a
minute, and then the whistle and scraping
again. " What's he up to now?" thought
the Brigndier, as ho just peeped through a
crack. There stood the bull, right op
posite his own image in Madam Ruggles'
mirror. A king's arm always hung on the
hooks, over the kitchen fireplace, loaded
with ball, and the Brigadior caught it
down, and made two steps across the floor,
and right out into the hall, just in time to
see the Vermonter's bull down his head
and go crash into the minor. The shock
seemed to stagger him, and before be could
turn around, the Brigadier that mad that
he would have faced all the bulls of Bashan
steps up to his side, and lets drive just
behind his shoulder. The Vermonter's
bull goes over among the broken glass, the
Brigadier stands over him, king's arm still
smoking, whon tlio wagon draws up, and
Madam Ruggles and the Vermonter walked
into tlio ball, fresh from meeting, with the
doctor from Cambridge.
One too Many There.
Our friend Parker knows a certain little
brother whom he would gladly waft at once
over to the thither shore, if society had not
such an absurd prejudice against premedi
tated murder. Young Parker loved Miss
Clamm, the sister of the said babe, and a
few evenings ago he called upon the lady
for the purpose of proposing to her. They
sat upon the sofa in the front parlor, alone.
As the evening wore on, Parker plucked
up courage, nudgod over to Miss Clamm's
sidoof the sofa, and began some prelimi
nary remarksabout bis "eternal happi
ness," bis "heart's longing," his "soul's
Idol," his " love's young dream," etc, etc.
Just as he had taken Ming Clamm's little
hand in his, and was about to explain him
self, a terrific sneeze was heard beneath
the sofa. Parker and Clamm both sprang
to their feet. Parker dragged the sofa
away from the wall, and there lay young
Clamm, snickering and chuckling as if ho
bad rich things stored away in his memory.
And when Miss Clamm flew at bim and
boxed his ears he remained silent ; but es
caping he ran to the door, and standing
there with his hand ou the knob, ho obser
ved; " Never you mind ! I'm a-goin' right
up stall's to tell ma that you and old Par
ker have bin a sittin' down yer kissin' each
odder, and squcezin' each odder's bands and
a-huggin' like mud; a-carryiu' on scand'-
lus 1 I'm going to tell ma certain. And
you jist wait till pap comes home, and If he
don't boot that Parker outen the front door
quicker'n lightnin', my name's not William
Henry Clamm. Oh 1 he'll go for you,
mister 1 He'll root around iu here like a
maniao when lie knows you've bin kissin'
sis I Never you miud !" And then W. II.
Clamm faded into the entry,
Paper Making.
The principle of paper making has been
the samo from time immemorial, tho only
change being the material used and the
machinery employed. The fibrous sub
stance la cut and bruised in water until it
becomes a fine, soft pulp. This is taken
up in a thin even layer upon a frame of fine
wire cloth that allows the moUturo to pass
through, when the pulp speedily coagu
lates into a shout of paper. The sheets are
first pressed between felt, which being re
moved, the paper is again subjected to a
pressure, and driod. It is in this state
bibulous, like blotting paper ; but the
sheets are now dipped in size, aud again
pressed and dried, ,
For printing paper, however, the size is
addod to the pulp in the engine. Some
idea may be formed of the improvement
effected by machinery in this manufacture
when it is stated that wheieas by the hand
process the paper took more than three
months to complete, the rags may now be
put into the mill one day, and the paper be
ready for delivery the next. Scarcely a
fibrous vegetable substance exists that may
not be turned to use in this manufacture.
Jacob Christian Schaffer, of Ratisbon,1703,
wrote a work on experiments in making
paper from other materials than rag,whivh
is printed on sixty varieties of paper, made
from as many difl'urent substancos. And
iu 1780 do Vilotto published iu London a
small book printed on paper made from
marsh mallow ; at the ends are loaves of
paper manufactured at Bruges from twenty
different pi ante, such as nettles, hops, reeds,
oto. But these, as well as straw, can only
be considered as substitutes to supply the
deficiency of rags, not as In any way super
seding that material.
A Dutch Patient.
ON a quiet morning in the latter part of
autumn, I was busy in my office pre
paring for an early drive. Suddenly a gen
tleman who was a stranger to me, stepped
into the office, and without speaking
sought a chair. At this apparently uncivil
intrusion I did not feel surprised, since it
is not unusual for persons, in this latitude
especially, to act as though they regarded
the " Doctor's office" as a kind of omnibus,
the entrance of which requires no cere
mony. Having finished my preparations, I
turned to him, when the following conver
sation txik place :
"Good morning, sir, how do you do?"
"Oh, I feel purdy well, I sank you I
don't feel zick."
" How is your family, sir ?"
"Oh, I dont know as any of dom is zick
shust now I ditend hear dem say any
ding."
Not knowing his place of residence and
anxious now to gather, at least, some items
by which I might guess at the object of his
visit, I said to him :
" How is the health of your neighbor
hood?" " Oh, I tond kuow of any one bein' zick
out dat vay shust now ; I sink efery bodty
is purdy veil."
Feeling myself " pretty well" cornpred
now, I said to him : " Well, sir, if I can
do anything for you I shall be glad to do
it my horses are waiting and I must go to
the country." '
Hesitating a few moments, he slowly
raised his arm, and showing his wrist cov
ered with rash, said : " Veil, Toctor, vat
you call dat?"
" You have the itch, sir ; how did you
come to get that ?" and now drawing
long and deep sigh such an one as the
purely innocent only can draw he said :
" Now, Toctor, I iu dell you how diR
vas."
" Dcro is a man he lifs up on do moun-
dain und I bin up dero more dimes, und
I alvays sot dem vas nice bcoplcs. Aboud
doo vecks ago, Bill Shones, he cum dore.
und he Bay, ' now, Shon, you bedtcr not go
on de moundain or you gid somcding,
Veil, I sot as Bill Shones vus shust goin'
to vool me, und on Zaturday I vas blough
in und 1 yusfc sot, now, Bill Shones, you
not vool me in dat vay anyhow. Den I on
hitched my orses, und rent home und vasli
ed me all ofer, und tressed me, und den I
vent up dare. Now, Toctor, 1 dell you
shust how dis vas. Veil, I been up dare
more dimes, and I alvays sot as dem beop
les vas nice und glean, and did'nt nefer sot
anyding else. De old man vas dare, und do
old voman,und de gals; und den aftera vile
dcy fetch some abbles und pies, und ve vas
eaden dere und den afder vile de old bcoblos
vent to bet. Don one of dem gals, she did go
toHict do now, Toctor, I shust doll you
how dis vas und dat odor vone und me
ve vas sidten dare, and I sot it vas gidten
golt; so I dook my gheor uud I vent up at
do site of dat gal now, Toctor, I shust doll
you und I pud my arm round her und zot
daro a vile.uud den den Iditschquese her;
und now, by tarn, shust lookrot I ditgot'
Justice In California. '
The first Alcalde, in 1851, in Yereka,
California, was known as " Cut-eye Fos
ter," but he left no docket, aud soon ran
away, and George C. Vail reigned in his
stead. No law book was ever used in his
court ; he decided each case ou its own
merits, writing out the full history, and
his docket is a curiosity. In one case
brought before bim, a boy had driven
team from Oregon, aud workod all winter
for a man, who declined to pay. He sold
out in the spring and was leaving suddenly
when, on com plaint of the boy, Vail and
two constables stopped him ou the road
It was proved that he had received throe
thousand dollars on his sale, but he de
clared himsolf unable to pay, though not
denying the boy's claim. Judge Vail de
cided in theso words: "Constable, stand
this man on bis head, shake him well, and
see if you can't bear something drop I'
No sooner said than done. A vigorous
shaking brought to light a wallet contain-
ing two thousand dollars in gold dust; the
boy received his claim of three hundred
dollars, the judgo and constables took an
ounce apiece for thoir troublo, and the
dofundent went his way a lighter man.
Justice like this was cheap at three ounces
A Hint to Girls.
Standing in a group of gentlemen the
other evening, whon a young lady passed,
one of the party remarked : " What
pity so fine a looking young lady
should make herself so ridiculous by such
an effected walk." Nature had made her
upright and womanly in form, but In her
zeal to emulate the Grecian bend or some
other outlandish folly she had contracted
tho habit of walking as if she had a contor
tion of the spino, and the Chineso shoes ou
hor feet. And she is a fair representative
of her class. Not satisfied with tbcniHulvos
as God made them, they constantly try in
to Improve on nature, and Invariably make
a botch of the business. If these effected
Misses only knew how much merriment
they excite among those whose admiration
they court, they would quickly " reform it
altogether." When a sensible man wants
a wife, bo sure be will not select her from
the artificial hunchbacks and pacing crys
tal toes of mock fashion.
A Powerful Argument.
A few day ago, a tall, rough-looking
mountaineer entered the Union Railroad
ticket office at Denver, and, through mis
take purchased a ticket for New York via
the Kansas Pacifio line, when be wanted to
go over the Union Pacific He did not dis
cover this fact until after tho ticket had
boon paid for, and on asking the agent to
change it, the latter refused to do so.
You wont change this ticket then,
wont you?"
" No, sir," replied the agent, "you have
your ticket and I have the money for It,
and if you want a ticket over the other
route you will have to pay for it."
Very quietly the stranger twisted his
ticket Into a small roll very serenely he
drew from under his coat-tail a six-shooter
about the dimensions of a mountain how
itzer ; coolly and deliberately he stuck the
ticket into the muzzle of that Blx-shooter,
and sticking the ugly looking thing
through the little square window of the
ticket office; and almost into the agent's
face, and speaking in the tone that left no
doubt of his detorminatation, said :
" Stranger, that's that ticket ; tako it
yourself and change it, or I'll blow it clean
through you !"
The ticket was changed immediately,
and without any more words from the
agent and the mountaineer walked away,
saying, " I just thought I could induce him
to change bis mind a lcotle."
An Affectionate Lion.
'The lion is strong and cruel, yet ho
will become attached to those who treat
him kindly. One waa brought from India,
and on the passage grew ve.iy fond of a
sailor who had chargo of him. His name
was Nero. On being shut up in a cage in
London ho grew sulky, and was very fierce
whon any one came near him.
"One day, a few weeks after Nero had
been shut up in his new prison, a party of
sailors visited tho menagerie, and were
warned by the keeper not to go too near
the lion who every now and then growled
savagely at those who were looking at him.
All at once one of these sailors ran up to
the cage and thrusting in his hand, cried
out, 'What, old shipmate? don't "you
know me? What cheer, old Nero, my
lad?'"
" Tho lion instantly left off feeding and
growling, sprang up on the bars of the
cage and put out his nose between thorn.
Jack patted him on the head, and the lion
rubbed his hand with bis whiskers like a
cut, showing evident signs of pleasure
" ' Ah 1" said Jack, turning to the keep
er and spectators, who stood frightened and
astonished, 'Nero and I wore once ship
mates and you see be isn't like some folks ;
ho don't forget an old friend.' "
Anecdote of Greeley.
The following anecdote is related of Mr.
Greeley, who is well known to have been
throughout lifo a stanch advocate cf tem
perance. Through all the campaign he sat
at publio dinners and suppers where wine
and spirit flowed freely, but he nevdr pass
ed tho bottle or touched the liquor himself.
The waiters who knew his temperance
principles were generally puzzled what to
do when they came to the row of glasses
fronting his place, as the fronted all others.
Usually they wore directed by a look or
gesture of the master of ceremonies to
pass him by In silence, but on one occa
sion an Iiish waiter would not abide such
an apparent breach of hospitality.
" Hadn't ye better take something, Sir,
to get up an appetite, like, after your long
rido, Sir ?" tho hospitable Hibernian whis
pered to the startled sage. " A little
brandy-and-water, now, would do ye good
it would, upon me soul, Sir."
The heartiness of the appeal touched the
philosopher. lie recognized the ring of
true hospitality in its tones, and his heart
relontcd at the idea of depressing such
sterling virtue by a continued refusal.
"Brandy-and-water?" suid he. "Well,
Pat, I'll take half that to oblige you. Give
me tho water, and let some ouo else have
the brandy."
Awkward Blunder of a New York Clergy
man.
The almost criminal blunder of a New
York clergyman brought a youthful pair
into an embarrassing predicament, in Prov
idence, R. I., a few days ago. He camo
there, and without consulting tho law gov
erning such Bolemn engagements, proceed
ed to perform tho ceremony that purported '
to unite the man and woman in the bonds
of matrimony. After the lapse of a littlo
time the deluded couple awoke to the con
sciousness that they were not legally man
and wife, the clergyman, who alone offici
ated, not being domiciled in that State. A
visit to the clergyman iu New York, and a
repetition of the ceremony there relieved
the dilemma ; but suppose either party in
the meantime had repented the choice,
would not a serious responsibility be cast
upon the negligent olorgy man?
"Purse proud individual. "Do you
kuow sir that I am worth a huudied thous
and dollars?" "Yes," was the reply, " I
d, and I know that it all iu art uorth." .
tar" A certain country squire, conceiving
that the word "clause" was In the plural
number, would often talk of a "claw" I"
inan Act of Congress.