' The U. It. Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Present the following plan for conspiration to uob persons who wish to become members: The payment of BIX DOLLARS on application, FIVE DOLLARS annually lor roua teahs, and thereafter TWO DOLLARS annually dniliiK life, with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death of each member, which for the First Class Is as follows: 15 60 28 73 41 M M 1 70 10 61 29 74 42 04 M 1 80 17 62 SO 75 43 i M 1 2 1H 6:1 81 77 44 t 67 2 04 19 64 32 79 45 1 00 58 2 lfl 20 6.5 83 M 4fl 1 (W 59 2 28 21 66 84 83 47 1 12 60 2 40 22 67 85 85 48 1 18 61 2 45 23 68 36 86 49 1 24 62 2 50 24 69 37 87 50 1 30 63 2 55 25 70 38 88 61 1 40 64 2 60 26 71 39 89 62 1 60 65 2 65 . 27 72 40 90 63 1 60 Will entitle a member to a certlllcate of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, to be paid at his death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death uiay 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 All the vacancy, according to the Constitution of the Society. . . , Should the member die before his four pay ments of J! re dollars are made, the remaining un paid part will be deducted from the one. Thousand Hollars due his heirs; his successor will then pay only tico dollars annually during his lifetime, and the mortality assessments. M. Male and Female from II f teen to sixty-live J rears of ago. of good moral habits, In good health, lale, and sound of mind, Irrespective of creed, or race, may become members. For farther Infoma tlon, address I- W. CJRAUMKR, (Scc'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society.) LEBANON, l'A. Agents Wanted! Address D. 8. EARLY, 31 8m pd Harrlsburg, To. 4&4 riiTri TO UK CREDITED TO tfcjUUU MUTUAL l'OLICY HOLDERS. The I'eiinsylvaiila Central Insurance Company having had but Utile los during the past year, the annual assessment on Mutual l'olicy-holders will not exceed 60 per cent, on the usual one year cash rates, which would bo equal to a dividend of 40 per cent,, as calculated In Slock Companies, or a deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the usual assessment; and as the Company has over taio.Ouu In premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will amount to Sl.ouo. Had the same policy-holders In sured in a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they would have paid $1,U(H more than It has cost them In this Company. Yet some of our neighbor agents arc running about crying Fraud I Fraud I and declare that a mutual company must fail. Hut they don't say how many slock companies are failing every year, or how many worthless stock companies are represented in l'erry County to-day. It Is a well-known tact that a Mutual Company cannot break. JAMES H. CRIER, 25tf Scc'y of I'enn'a Central Insurance Co. it x; 3i o v -a. l : 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. Shatter, Dentist, where may be found at all times, a varied assortment of Cloths, Cassimers and Testings, With a complete line of Ta.iloi TrimminjjH, V)f the best quality. Those desiring to purchase OOOl) GOODS, at Reasonable prices, and have them made In the LATEST STYLE, will please Blve us a call. H. H. DECK. Also, a good assortment of SUIHTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS, NECK-TIES, HOSIERY, &e.,&c. 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'aer. Carpet Chain, Cotton. Yarn, hatting, Wadding, Twines. Wicks Clocks, Looking Classes, Fancy Baskets, Brooms, Baskets, Buckets, Brushes, Chillies Wringers, Wooden and Willow Ware, IN TUB UMXED STATES. Our large Increase in business enables us to sell at low prices, and furnish the best quality of tiuods. SOt.H AGENTS foutub Celebrated American Washer, Price $5.50. THE MOST fF.ltFKCT AND SUCCESSFUL WASHER EVER MADE. W AGENTS WANTED FOR THE AMERI CAN WASHER In all parts of the Stale. 7 lilt Perry County Bank! Npoii ler, .Imikfii fc Co. THE undersign id hnvlng formed a BanklngAs soeiatlon under the above name and style, are now ready to do a Uenerat Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE TUB COURT II0U8K, NEW BLOOMPIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes tor a period of not over 60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. thi time Deposits, five per cent forany time over four months; and for four months four per eent. We are well provided with all and every facility for doing a Banking Business; and knowing, and for some years, feeling the great inconvenience un dor which the people of this County labored forthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have hare determined to supply thewant ;and this being the ttrst Bank ever established In Ferry county, we hope we will be sustained in our efforts, by all the business men. farmers and mechanics. Tliis Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. Hmnsi.Eil, Bloomlleld, Ferry county, Pa, B. F. JljNKlN. " " " Wm. 11. Miller, Carlisle, orrioBHS: ' ' W. A. SI'ONSLKR, Prttiiient William Wiijjs, Oathter ' New Bloomfield, 1 1 M SUNDAY READING WOSS AMD THINK. Hammer, tongs and anvils ringing. Waking echoes all day long, In a deep-toned voice are singing Thrifty labor's Iron song. From a thousand fly-wheels bounding. From a thousand humming looms, Night and day the notes are sounding Through the misty fact'ry rooms. Lltsenl workmen, to their play There's advice In every clink; Still they're singing still they're saying " Whilst you labor, learn to think!" Think what power lies within you, For what triumphs ye are formed, If, In aid of bone and sinew, Hearts by emulation warmed, Mighty though ye woo and cherish ; What shall hold your spirits down? What shall make your high hopes perish? Why shall ye mind Fortune's frown? Do you wish for profit, pleasure? Thirstat Learning's fount for drink? Crave ye honor, fame or treasure? Ye the germs have work and think. Think! but not alone of living, Like the horse, from day to-day ; Think I but not alone of giving, Health for pelf, or soul for pay! Think! Oh, be machines no longer Think I 'twill make you fresher, stronger ; Link you to the great and good I Thought exalts and lightens labor, . Thought forbids the soul to sink I , Self resect and love for neighbor, Mark the men who work and think! Think! and let the thought new nerve you- Tiiink of men who've gone before ; Leaving 'lustrous names to serve you; Yours the path they've plotted o'er! Freedom lights and wins the charter With the sword of thought the pen! Tyranny can llnd no quarter a In the ranks of thinking men. Think I for thought's a wand of power Power to make oppression shrink; Grasp ye, then the precious dower ! Folse it wield it work and think! Hold your hands up, toiling brothers; 'Mongst us be It no'er forgot. Labor for ourselves and others, Is for man a noble lot ; Nobler far, and holier, higher, Than vain luxury can claim, If but zeal and worth inspire, And true greatness bo our aim. rower to compass this is given Tower that forms the strongest link 'Twixt an upright man and Heaven, His noblest power the power to think! A Boy at the Palnco Gate. A little boy in England visited vory much to see the queen ; so he determined to go at once to her palace, and ask to see her. But the sentinel on guard at the, gato only laughed at the hoy, and pushed him aside with his musket. Still tlio lad could not give up his purpose, now he had come so far. Not till tho soldier threatend to shoot him did he turn and run away. One of tho young princes saw him crying, and, on learning the cause said, with a smile, " I'll take you to the queen ;" and past the guards ho walked, into tho very presence of his royal mother. With surprise, she asked her son about the lad ; and when she heard his story, she laughed, as any kind-hearted mother would, with some kindly words, sent the delighted boy away with a bright piece of money in his hand. It is a hard matter for the poor to gain admittance into the presence of an earthly sovereign. But the way into tho presence of tho great King is always open, and even tho begger in his rags is welcome. Just as this prince brought the child who longed to see her into his mother's presence, so Christ takes us by the hand and leads us into the presence of His Heavenly Father. For the dear sons sake we are made welcome. Without llim we can never be admitted. Never forgot, when yDU pray to God, to ask all blessings for tho sake of Jesus, for in no other way will prayer ever be heard and answered. No one who longs to see the King in His beauty but will find tho Prince of life ever ready to load him up to His very throne. Homo the Centre of the World. We all agree that home is the centre of the world. We all say fine things about the hearth-stone and the altar-tires and the household graces, and most of us dearly love to go a visiting, becauso we find home a little duller than any other place. Yet marriage is not more sacred, birth is not more joyous, death is not more serene than the place they sanctify. From home go out the forces of Hie world. Through home they exist. When a man has established a dwelling-place, he has attained anewdigui- ty. But it is the woman who makes the homo. Sho is not more the mother of the race than the keeper of its highest trusts. If the home be tedious, the soul of it has missed its best aim. While" the education and the home-life of girls continues the flimsy and aimless thing that it is to-day, two things are certain. First, that they cannot become wlRewives and mothers, and while the majority of them will not find it out, a majority of the minority, tormented by an ignorantlonging for somothing other and, to them, better, will do much to bring the noble cause of womanly advancement into disrepute. Sec ond, that it is men, the governing class, who insist on higher standard and, a nobler life for woman. For, until tlioy do, tho tyr anny of the cook and of the dress-maker will continue, and, on many a New Year' day to come, sober men will have to be seech careless women Dot to put dire temp tation in thoir way, nor to insult them with the supposition that permission to guzzle costly liquor and to gorge costly viands, is the hospitality they enjoy and prefer. The Story or a Lost Will. Two or three months ago J. Rowoll, the furniture dealer on Michigan aveuue, set about overhauling a desk filled with old papers papers which had been accumu lating on his hands for several years, until he could scarcely say where or how he got the most of them. After throwing away a bushel or moro of the documents, he came upon a paper sealed and tied with red tape. He could not remembor having seen it before, and was amazed when be broke the seal and read, Last will and testament of Israel Whitworth." Getting further down, be found that the paper was nine years old, and that the will gave to " Margaret Davis, my sister, or her children, the Gordon farm, situa ted two ond one-half miles from St. Jos eph, Mo., togothor with all live stock and farming utensils; further; tho sum of $!), 000 in bank in St. Joseph (unless I shall have withdrawn it), my gold watch, my household furniture, and the one-half of what my house it St. Joseph may bring at private sale." So read the will as far as tho sister and her kin were concerned, and then Whit worth mado bequests to several oth er rel atives. Tho will was dated "Detroit, August 10, 1863." It occurred to Mr. Rowell that tho will might be of some ac count to some ono, and ho wrote to Mrs. Davis, directing the latter to St. Sosoph, Mo. In about two weeks ho received a reply from her, dated at Weston, same State, his letter having been forwarded to that point. She stated that her brother had been dead nearly eight years, and that Bhe had never known of a will. Tho prop erty had been divided among four near rel atives of the deceased, or should have been but three of them had cheated her out of most of what fell to her in dividing up. Sho further stated that her brother had a cousin in Detroit years ago, and that he was in this city on a visit about the date of tho will. The cousin's name was signed as one of the witnesses, and a Mr. John son, now iu Cincinnati was tho other wit- RH. Rowell sent on the will, and Friday last he received a grateful letter from the wo man, who said that the will had been ad mitted to probate there, the witnesses call ed on, and that she had been put in pos session of nearly $20,000 through his find ing tho will. She cautioned him to look out for an express package, and will prob ably send something handsome. Tho puzzling thing or the whole is that Rowell can't tell where or when he got the will, nor imagine how the deceased came to leave it where it would fall into tho hands of a stranger. Detroit Paper. Abrupt Proposals. ' SPEAKING of abrupt proposals of mar riage, we will cite the case of a gentle man who had retired from business at the ago of forty, and built himself a beautiful house, determined to enjoy ljfo to tho ut most. Ono day a friend was dining with him, and said, jokingly : " You have everything here that earth can desire but a wife." " That's true. I'll think of it;" and then relapsed into silence for a few minutes, at the end of which time he roso, begged to be excused for a short time, and loft the room. He seized his hat and went to a neigh bor's, and was shown to the parlor, with the information that neitlior master nor mistress wore at home. He told tho ser vant that ho wanted neither, and requested that the house-kocper be sent to him. She came, and tho gentleman thus addressed her: " Sarah, 1 nave known you for many years, and 1 have just been told that I want a wife. You are tho only woman I know, that I would bo willing to trust my hap piness with, and if you ncroo, we will be instantly married. What is your answer?" Sarah knew tho man that addressed her, and knew that his offer was serious, and as well weighed as though considered for a year, and she answered him in the snmo spirit : " I agree." " Will you bo ready in an hour?" "I will." " I shall roturn for you at that time." Which he did, the gentleman who had suggested the idea accompanying him to the clergyman's. Many years have passed since then, and neither party has scon any cause to regret the abrupt proposal. Here is another caso, which will bear roluting. A merchant who, one day din ing at a friend's houso, sat next a ludy who possessed rare charms of conversation. The merchant did not possess this faculty iu a vory great degreo, but he could do that which was next best, he could appreciate which he endeavored to show by the fol lowing mode of action : , " Do you like1 toast, Miss 11 -?" ' "Yes," responded the lady, slightly sur- prised at the question. "Butterod toast?'.' " Yes." " That is strange ; so do I. Let ub got married." "There cannot bo much doubt that the lady was taking slightly uback a fact that did not prevent the marriage coming off in a month aftorwards, and the accession of the lady to one of the finest establish ments in the city. Lost Occupations. Half a century ago bellows-making was a thriving trade. Every house hod its pair of bellows, and in every well-furnished man sion there was a pair hung by the sld of every fire-place. Ipswlob, in Massachus etts, acquired quite a notoriety all over New England for the elegant and subtan- tial articles of the kind it produced. But as stoves and grates took the place of open fire-places, and us coal was substituted for wood, the demand for bellows diminished, until the business as a soparato trade died out. The same is true in flint-cutting. Flints were once necessary, not only for fire arms but tinder-boxes, and a tinder-box was as necessary for every bouse as a grid iron or a skillet. Every one who looks back to childhood of forty odd years ago must remember cold witer mornings when tho persistent crack, crack of the flint against tho steel sent up from the kitchen an odor of igniting tinder and sulphur which pervaded the house. I have no moro idea what became of the flint-producers than the man of sorrowful memories who, three or four times a week, called at our door with brimstone matches for sale at a cent tho half-dozen bunches. Both have completely vanished from England and New England as have tho red Indians and tho Druids. Then, again, are gone tho pin-makers, who, though they have been in thoir graves this quarter of a century, still figure in lectures and essays to illustrate tho advan tages of division of labor. In stead of a pin taking a dozen men or more to cut, grind, point, head, polish, and what not, as it used to do, pins aro now made by neat little machines at the rate of three hundred a minute, of which machines a single child attends to half a dozen. Nail making at the forge is another lost industry. Time was, and that in this nine teenth century, when every nail was mado on the anvil. Now, from ono hundred to one thousand nails per minute are made by machines. The nailer who works at the forge has but a bad chance in competing with antagonists ; and he would have no chance at all were it not that his nails are ton-fold tougher than tho formor. As it in, the poor meu follow an all but hopeless vocation, and are condemned to live iu con tinual hand grips with poverty. In the days of President Madison and Monroe, and even later, straw-bonnet mak ing was practiced in every middle-class house whore there were grown families, and straw plaiting formed the staple of do mestic lcisuie work. At my grand-father's, around the huge kitchen fire-place, Ctesar, born a slave, who sat on an oak bench directly under the gaping chimney, and we boys, who crowded upon tho settle, used to poss Winters' evenings splitting' straws, while tho lassies wete plaiting them. Then, bonnest were bonnets, covering the head with a margin of a foot or two to sparo, and presenting a sort of conical, shell-shaped recess, ia which dimpling smiles and witching curls nestled in comfort. The work has banished, and will never reap pear, unless the whirligig of fashion should glide again into the forsaken track. t27A certain doctor, who sometimes drank a good deal at dinner, was .summon ed one evening to see a lady patient when he was moro than "half seas over," and coubcIous that he was so. On feeling hor pulse aud finding himself unablo to count its beats, he muttered, "Drunk by Jove 1". Next morning, rcccollecting the circumstances, he was groatly vexed, and, just as ho was thinking what explanation ho should offer to the lady, a letter was put in his hand. "She too well knew," said the letter, " that he had discovered the unfortunate condition in which she was when he had visited her-," and sho entreat ed him to keep the matter secret, in con sideration of the inclosed a hundred dol lar bill. Joke Iu Earnest. A Scotchman was in tho habit of saying his prayers in a field behind a turf-dyke. Oue day this individual was followed to his retirement by some evil-disposed persons, who, secreting themselves on tho opposite side, prepared to listen to what he should say. Jack commenced his devotion, and, among other things, expressed his convic tion that he was a very great sinner, and that were the turf-dyke to full upon him, it would be no moro than ho deserved. No sooner had ho said this, than the per sons on tho opposite side pushed tho dyke upon him. Scrambling out, he exclaimed, "Hech, sirs 1 i's an awfu' world this; a body canna say a thing in joke, .. but it's ta'en in earnest." , tW " What aro you digging there for?" said an idling fellow to a sturdy laborer who was at work on a piece of waste laud, " I am digging for money." The news flew the idlors collected. "We are told you are digging for money?" " Well, I ain't digging for any thing else,". "Have you had any luck?" " First rate luck- pays well, you had better take hold," All dolled thoir coats and laid on most vigor ously for a while. After throwing out some cartloads' tho qtiestiou arose; " When did you get any money lust?" Saturday night," " Why, how much did you get?" " Eighteen shillings." " Why that's rath er small. ""It's pretty well; three shillings a-day ia the regular price for digging all over this 'ere district" , On Fire For a Century. " 1 AT Parkgate, noar Sheffield, a most ex traordinary phenomenon can be seen by all interested in colliery wonders. About one hundred years ago, several Parkgate gentlemon sank a shaft known as the Old Basset Pit. They at once found a rich seam of coal the Barnsloy bed, nine feet in thickness. This coal ' was worked in a very careful fashion fur several years great blocks and pillars of coal, containing many tons, being left to support the roof in place of the modern wooden props. For several seasons everything proceeded smoothly ; , but one day the pit caught fire. Nobody can tell how it was ignited; and the ancient miners appeared to have been utterly dis mayed by the unexpected disaster, as they; left the pit to burn at will, instead of clos ing up the shaft and commencing anew, as they might have done. Many years after wards "the burning pit" was again ap proached by the lord of manor, Earl Fitz william, who began to work out coal in the locality. A shaft was sunk at some dis tance from tho Old Basset Pit, and the coal in the direction of Rawmarsh was got at the new workings being kept at what was considered a safe distance from the fiery pit. Everything proceeded satisfactorily till 1808, when a miner named Parkin descend ed the Bank Pit shaft the name by which the now shaft was known and was greatly alarmed to find fire only ten feet from the pit botttom. Ho at once gave the alarm tho principal officials were upon the spot, and efforts wero mado to extinguish the fire. " Parkin's flames" were soon put out ; but it was found that the whole pit was on fire, and as tho Earl's colleries ex tend for miles, it was feared that the fire would spread over the entire workings. The Old Basset shaft was at once filled up; the Old Bank shaft was also closed ; and a third shaft, Top Stubbin Pit, was also filled up. A long and thick wall was built to separate the Old Basset workings from the newly oponed portion of the pit. Explorations had to be conducted by crawl ing on hands and knees in the midst of suf focating smoke ; but the wall was at length completed at tremendous expense and great labor it being 1,000 yards in length, and from one foot to Ave feet thick. Cross walls were also built to cut off air-ways, and so help in choking the fire. Thick iron, pipes, with iron plugs, wero inserted in the wall at intervals of fifty yards, so that views could be obtained of tho Old Basset workings looking through theso pipes. The great wall occupied the timo of a large body of workmen for a whole year. Anew "futtrell" the entrance of a coal mine had to be constructed. It had to bo brick-arched abovo and below with strong brick walls. Entering by this place, the wall is inspected daily, to get in formation if the old fire has reached it in anyway. 1 lie last lire was seen in 1873, and on being examined lately, nothing but " black damp" camo through the orifices ; but tho most dangerous place whero tho workmen labored at the great wall at tho peril of their lives is believed to be the liory stronghold. Here the flames are Btill believed to be raging, although securely imprisoned by the underground heroes who built its prisou walls. Until a year or two ago, the farmers found that their crops over this pic were materially accelerated in growth by the heat ; and the fact that tho acceleration is not so apparent now is tlio strongest proof to professional minds that the burning pit has about spent its strength after a " long fire" of one hundred years. English Paper. , A School Incident. ' , . If any one ever wanted to laugh when it would have been the height of impropriety to even have smilod, they may be reminded of their feelings on such occasions by the following good story: In an Episcopal boarding-school, a few years since, the scholars and teachers were assembled for morning prayer. The reading and singing were over, and all were resuming their seats, when one of the young ladies, of a very short and thick stature, missing her chair, seated herself with a thud on the floor. Nobody smiled. All wero too de corous for that. The fallen one, embar rassed into the momentary loss of common sense, retained her lowly seat, opened her prayer book, and appeared to be earnestly engaged in examining its contents. This was almost too much for her companions, and a smile began to struggle on many a fair countenance, when the rector roso and commenced reading the first moruing les son. He read from the fifth chapter of -Amos, as follows: " The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise; she is forsaken upon her laud; there is none to raise her up." This was too much; the voice of the rector trembled as he looked up and saw the fallen virgin; tho scholars turned rod in their faces, and the exercises were brought to a hasty close. t-The "Sun Francisco Chronicle" says: "A young man entered a restaur ant last night, boing attracted by the sign, ."Fresh boiled crabs, fifteen cents." Ho sat down, had a crab dished up, ute It and threw down fifteen cents on tho counter. Tho keeper demanded a quarter. "I thought that slgu read fifteen cents," sug gested the young niah. " go it does. It's tweuty-tlve cents whou you take 'em here and fiftoon cents when you take 'em home.' " Well," was the reply, " I am taking this home," and he coolly walked out.
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