3STE-W YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OP NEW YORK, STJtlCTL Y M UT UA L ! Ahso(, jo,o."o,sioi.-tr : I8STJK8 all the new forms of Policies, and pre. sents as favorable terms asany company lu tUe United Htutes. Thirty days' (trace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture. No extra charges are madefor traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice iu the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. W. FROST, PreMmt, M. I). Wynkoop, VlcePres't. J. P.Rooeps, Scc'y. J. F. EATON. General Agent, No. 6 North Third fitreet, College Mock, Harrlsburg, Ta. TH03. II. MII.MOAN, 6 12Ily (Special Agent for Newport. Perry County Bank ! &lon.ler, .In 11 kin fe Co. THE undersign 'd, having formed a Hanking As sociation under the above name and style, are now ready to do a General Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE, 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. On time Deposits, Ave 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; and knowing, and for some years, feeling the great inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored lorthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supply the want ;and this being the first Bank ever established In Perry eounty, we hope we will be sustained in our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. Rponslik, Bloomtleld, Ferry eounty, Pa. B. F. Junkin, " " Wm. U. Miller, Carlisle, officers: W. A. 8PONHLER, President. William Willis, Cashier New Bloomtleld, 3 8 ly 1 I'll It Y COUNTY Meal Estate, Insurance, CLAIM AGENCY. LEWIS POTTEa Si CO., ' Seal Ettatt Broktrt, Iniurance, it Claim Agen Now liloomficld, Pa. WE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell ers to the advantages we offer them iu pur chasing or disposing of real estate through our of fice. We have a very large list of deslrab property, consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tion which we are prepared to otter at great bar. fialns. We advertise oilr property very extensive y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to effect a sale. We make no charges uuless the property Is sold while registered with us. We also draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa pers at moderate rates. Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable fire, life, and cattle insurance companies in the United States are represented at this agency. Property insured either oil the dash or mutual plan, and perpetually at U and U per thousand. Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims collected. There are. thousands of soldiers and heirs of soldiers who are entitled to neusloua and bounty, who have never made application. 8ul filers, If you were wounded, ruptured, orooutrant. ed a disease In the service from which you are dls abled, yon are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldtersdie or marry .the minor children are entitled to the pension. Parties having any business to transact la our line, are resiwctfully invited to give us a call, as we confident wecan reuder satisfaction iu any brah of our business. - No charge for Information. 20 ly LEWIS POTTEtt A CO. LOOK OUT! I would respectively Inform my friends that I in tend calliug upou them with a supply of goods of my OWN ' MANUFACTURE. 4 : Consisting of CASSIMERS, OASSINBT8. FLANNELS, (Plain and bai'd) CAHPET8, &:., to exchange for wool or sell for easlL ' 1 J. M. ItlXI.EK. CjEXTHB WOOLIN FACTOKT. 6,17,4lU, PERKY HOUSE, New Bloomtleld, Pa, THE subscriber having purchased the property on the aorner of Maine and Carlisle streets, opposite the Court House, Invites all his Irleuds and former customers to give him a call as he Is determlued to I uruisb first class accommodation ltf Proprietor. ' " ' ( AM, KINDS of Prlntine neatlv rfCINTINQI Jexwiuted at the " Mikih , LOlia A30. . , When beucath yon aged pine, Lone I (it at even-time, , y Thero by contemplation led, There to dream of pleasures fled, Come the voices soft and low, Of the loved of long ago. When tha-vernal breezes sing And the song birds tell of spring j 'Mong the summer's gentle flowers, In tbo autumn's pensive hours, Come tho vespers sweet and low, Of the loved of long ago. When alone from mosses gray, Fancy takes lior airy way, Backward through the mists of tlmo, Circling round yon trysting pine, Come the spirits sad and slow, Of the loved of long ago. Mr. Bollair's Widow. ""TOU know," said the widow, in a JL voice smothered with sobs, "the misfortune" here she applied a dolicato cambric handkerchief to her eyes "tho loss" she could not get no further. Her visitor bowed, with an air of rcspoct ful condolence. "I wish," continued the widow "I wish. to erct a monument to tho memory of my poor husband. I have chosen you to execute the order." She had become somewhat calmer. v The sculptor bowed again. "I wish the monument to be a superb worthy to tho doar companion whom I have lost ; proportioned to my " she was getting bystorical. Her visitor handod bor a bottle of salts which stood convenient on the little work-tablo. The widow resumed, " Spare no ex pense. I would willingly consecrate my whole fortune to honor his memory." A pause, which tho sculptor hesitated to break. " I should like," said tho widow again, coming to the point, "a temple with marblo columns, and in the middle, upon a pedestal, his statue." Iloro she swallowed a sob. " I shall do my best to fulfil your wishes, ma'am," replied the man of art. "I bad not, however, the honor of personally knowing tho lato Mr. Bollair, and his like ness is indispensible to the completion of the design. Doubtless you have a portrait of him." Tho widow raised her round arm, and pointed to a magnificent portrait, by one of our first artists. " An admirable painting !" said tho visi tor. " I need not ask you if tho resem blance be striking". "It is himself 1 Life is all that is need ed. Ah I if I could have given mine for his !" The haudkerchicf was again in requisition. " I will send for the portrait, ma'am, and I guarantee that the likeness shall bo ex act." " Sond for the portrait I" cried the wid ow, with a stifled shriek ; "take from me my only consolation, my only happiness. Never." ::.-. "But, ma'am, it will only be for a little while." " A little while 1 Au age 1 How could I live without tbo doar image? It quits me neither day nor night ; I contemplate it without ceasing, through my tears. It will never be removed out of this room, whore I shall pass the remainder of a mis erable existence !" . The widow had worked herself up to such a pitch of feeling, that the sculptor rose to ring the bell for assistance. But she laid a white hand upou his coat sleeve, aud he sat down again. "Then you will allow me, ma'am, to come here and take a copy of it. Be not alarmed ; I shall not long invade your sol itude. A single sitting will suffice." The widow agreed to this arrangement, and requested the sculptor to commonce the next day. But he had a previous order to execute. She would have leveled the difficulty with gold, but he stood firm. "My word is pledged," he said: "do not, however, be troubled about the dolay, 1 will work so diligently that the monu ment shall be finished within the time that anothor artist would have requested for consideration." "You have been a witness of my sor row," were the widow's parting words, " you may imagine my impatience to see the work completed. Make your best baste ; spare no expense, and lot mo have a master-pioce." ' He had aftowards several letters respect ing these injunctions. " At the end of throe months the sculptor returned. ' lie found tho widow still In the deepest mourning ; but her cheek was less pale, and there was a slight tinge of co quetry In the arrangement of her weeds. , " Now, ma'am," said the visitor, " I am at your disposal." "Ah! well, I am glad to hear-It," re plied the widow, with a gracious smile. " I have sketched the statue, and shall only need one sitting to transfer the re semblance. Permit me to enter your boudoir." ' " And, wherefore ?" Inquired tho widow, with an air of surprise. 1 "To sea the portrait." " Oh I will you walk into tbo drawing- room? It is there you will find it now." "Indeodl" . . . " Yes ; there is a much bettor light than in the boudoir, whore you first saw it. " " Would you like to look at the sketch of the monument, ma'am ?" "Willingly. How grand I What ex- quisite ornaments I Why, it is a palaoe, this tomb?" oxolaimcd the widow. " You told mo, ma'am, that it could not bo too magnificent. I have spared no ex pense ; and here is an estimate of what the monument will cost you." "Doar me 1" cried tho widow, aftor having glanced at tho total. "It is enor. mous I" " You begged me to sparo nothing " " Certainly ; I wish to do tho tiling hand somely. Still we ought to be rational." " Well, this is only the first sketch ; there is yet timo to alter your iutontions." "Very good. Suppose then, we suppress the temple,the columns all the architect ure, in short, and content ourselves with the statue? I was too ambitious ; it will be quite sufficient." " You shall bo obeyed." "It is decided, thon. Nothing but tho statue." A short timo aftor this second visit, the sculptor foil dangerously ill. lie was obliged to suspend bis labors ; and, having followed the recommendation of his phy sician, and made a tour on tho Continent, he presented himsolf anew before the widow, who was now in tho tenth month of her bereavement. This time, thore were some roses among tho cypross. The artist brought with him a littlo plaster model of his statuo, which promised to be a master piece. "What do you think of tho resem blance 1" be said to the widow. She gazed upon it for a moment, and then carelessly rcpliod : " It is not a littlo flattcrod ? My poor husband was tolerably good-looking, but you mako him actually handsome I" " Indeed ! Well, I will roctify my work by tho portrait." " It is scarcely worth your while," ob served tho widow. "A littlo more, or a little less resemblance, what does it sig nify?" "Pardon me, ma'am, but I plumo myself upon exactness." "If you really wish to take tho trouble." " The portrait is in the drawing-room, is it not ? I will go thore." "It is not thore now," replied the widow, ringing tho boll. " Robert," con tinued sho, addressing tho servant who an swered her summons, "bring down the portrait of your late master." - " The ono that was taken up into the garret last week, ma'am ?" "Yes, tho same." Just then the door opened, and an el egant young gontleman prescntod himself with a jaunty air, kissed tho lady's hand, and inquired after her health, with the most gallant solicitude. "What is this little plastor man?" asked he, pointing to tho statuette, which the artist bad placed upon the chimnoy piece. " It is the model of the statue of the tomb of my late husband." " You intend to erect a statuo to his memory? Upon my honor, that is very magnificent !" "You think so? " Great men are sculptured at full length in marble ; but it appears to me pardon my frankness that the late Mr. Bollair was a very ordinary man. In fact, his bust would suffice." "As you please, ma'am," said the sculp tor, turning to the lady. " Then we will decide upon the bust," said she, bowing him out. Two months later the bust arrived, just as a gay procession descended the hall steps, and got into a carriage that awaited their approach. The widow was on her way to tho altar, with the elegant dandy who had caused tho suppression of her husband's statue, there to take upon her self a second vow of conjugal fidelity. Scandal adds that the bust would will ingly have been returnod ; and the newly married couple considered the sculptor's demand enormous ; and that it was only with considerable difficulty, and with a threat of further proceedings, that he was at length reimbursed for the time and trouble spent upon tbo " widow's whim." Art of Swimming. Men are drowned by raising their arms above water, the unbuoyed weight of which depresses the head. Other animals bavo neither motion or ability to aot in a similar manner, and therefore swim natu rally. When a man falls into deep water' he will rise to the surface and will continue therefore if ho does not elevate his hands. If lie moves his hands under water, in any way ho pleases, his head will rise so high as to give him free liberty to breathe ; and if be will use his legs as in tho art of walk ing (or rather walking up stairs), his shoul ders will rise above the water, so that he may lose the less exertion with his hands, or apply tbem to other purposes. These plain directions are recommended to the reoollection of those who bavo not learned to swim in their youth, as they may bo found highly advantageous in many cases. , A Good Dog Story. TT does not mako any difference whother L your name is Keyser or not ; if you want to buy a dog, thero is ono for sale cheap on a canal boat now braving the billows somewhere East of Frankfort. Tho Captain of the boat is an Oswego man, and it is but one short week' since ho spliced bis maiubrnce and, lot out the roofs in his driver, aud got three shcots in tho wind, and made oil necessary preparations for a prosperous voyage. ' His wife sang, "Write me a Letter, Lovo," in the cabin ; his children played on the deck ; his steeds aired their frames on tho tow-path, his hand was on tho rudder, and his mate was just recovering from his farewell attack of delirium tremens in the forward cabin. The Captain gazed proudly around him, and could think of nothing necessary to com plote his happiness ; but his wifo, wiser than he, thought they needed a dog a nice Newfoundland to play with the children fish them out whon they fall in the canal, and watch the deck hands when the Cap tain was off after groceries. Coming through West Utica Saturday, the Captain bought a nice Newfoundland dog. He got him at a bargain ; in fact ho got him for nothing, so to speak, because the man who owned tho dog was not around at tho time tho bargain was made, Tho captain had the dog, but still ho was not happy. The dog had a habit of bark ing at passing crafts, and so drew upon the Captain's boat frequents showers of coal and wood, and ho would dive down the stoop stops into tho cabin and suddenly upset tho captain's wife. Once he lit right on the table and spoiled a pound of butter, and he was altogether too playful. One day tho Captain, who is a pious man, tied up, and put out his plank just east of the city, and started with his chil dren to go to the park and to observe the day aftor the manner of the viciuity. Tho dog started, too, and as soon as he got on shore he began to caper and wag his tail, and so wagged ono of tho children flat on its blessed back. The baby yelled, and the captain made some tender remarks as ho shook his fist at tho dog. Tho dog misunderstood the man, and came running back, full of fun, and made a jump to lick his face. He missed the man, but he knocked the other child into the canal, and the father, without waiting to mako any remarks, jumped after it. Tho dog, boing to the water born, know just what to do, and he went cavorting off to get a good hondway.baikine to himself at everv iumn. and as the man got to the top of the water with his darling child, the dog took a run ning jump of twonty feot and struck on top of the man. Well the water that man spurted aroud was boiling hot with the oaths he sputtered with it, and his wife pranoed around on tho dock of the boat, and flung a pole to the old man, which the dog promptly dragged and pulled to the shore, and that captain was nearly drowned before he trod the sod again. New Application of Paper. Singularly enough the Iron Ag argues that paper is to become tbo general, if not universal, substitute for wood, leather and India-rubber, as also, to some extent, for copper, tin and zlno, and that even iron is not adapted to uses so widely various it being practicable, Cudeed, to bring paper pulp to such a state of toughness and solid ity, by pressure, as to be almost as fire proof and indestructible as iron, and thus our railroad cars may be made of paper, instead of iron, thereby preventing the dangers how incurred in case of accidents. It is claimed that, in proportion to the weight,' paper is probably the strougost ma terial of construction known, combining more perfectly than any other substance the qualities of strength, lightness, flex!-' bility, durability, and cheapness. '" So many and various, too, are the arti cles of which it can be made that it can be manufactured in quantities practically un- ' limited in every civilized country, and, so long as plants continue to grow, paper manufacture can be sustained. It is also, under all circumstances, ah easy material to work and handle. ' The fact is ' probably well known that the caper Wheels which have been used with success on some of the palace cars are formed of compressed paper fitted into a steel tire iron plates are thon adapted to each sido of the carter and bolt ed together to prevent any displacement of trie lining. . . . 'A Dutch Mormon. ' An inoident of crossing the Plains in tho early days was told by a clever lady at the' breakfast table one morning at Frisco. ' A Dutchman aud his wife traveled West and arrived at Salt Lake, where they halted for a few weeks. The Mormons got around the old Dutchman and coaxed him to join their ranks. After retiring one night in their canvas-covered wagon bed, the good Dutchman broke the matter to his better, half, hinting to her that tho Mormons told him he bad better " stay, settle among dom, and take some more wives."' "How many vives youtinksyou vanta?" asked Katrina. The Dutchman thought "fifo more vould make a half dozen si- ready ;" whereupon the old wife got down her bodice, and slipped from it what the Dutchman called the " prestboard, victj vos made vrom Visoonsin hickory, vas very tough," and she laid tho hickory fierce and fast on the old man, who shuffled out of the wagon and fell in a ditch. The old man got up, and said his "stomach it vas very cold, but his pack vas. very warm.", His wife cried out, "How many vives you tinks you vants.now ould fool? But tho Dutch man felt that one was enough. JHJNDAY READING. Mr. Greeley's Noiioii 'of Practical ' Ro-' ligion. His thought about the ceremonialism of roligion is well illustrated by his comments on tho publications of the American Tract Society. Thero was an advertiuement pub lished, offering $50 for " tho best tract on the impropriety of dancing by members of churches," the tract to bo published by the Amorican Tracv Society. , Mr. Greeley printed it aud commented as follows: '' "The notice copied above suggosts to us some other subjects Ony. whioh tracts aro needed subjects which are beginning to attract the thoughts of not a fow, and which arc, liko dancing, of practical mo mont. Wo could suggost premiums to be offered as follows: Twonty dollars for tho best tract on tho rightfulness and consis tency of a Christian spending $5,000 to $10,000 a year on tho appetites of himself aud family, when there aro a thousand familcs wilhiu a milo of homo who aro compelled to live on less than $200 a year. Ton dollars for the best tract on tho right fulness nud Christianity of a Christian building a residence for himsolf ond family at aJ, cost of $50,000 or $100,000, within sigtltTof hundred families living in hovels worth loss than a hundred dollars. Five dollars for tho best tract on the Christi anity of building churches which cost $100,000 each, lu which poor sinners can only worship on sufl'orauco and in the inost-out-of-the-way cornors. Wo would not intimate that these topics ftro so im portant as that of dancing far from it. Tho sums wo suggost will shield us from that imputation. Yet we think that those subjects may also be discussed with profit; ond that there may bo no pecuniary hin tlorance, wo will pay tho premiums if tho American Tract Society will publish tho tract." , Witnesses Three. " , Shortly before ho died, Patrick Hoary, laying his hand on tho Bible, said: " Hero is tho book worth more thnn all others, yet it is my misfortune never to have read it, until lately, with proper at tention." ' v . .. ........ With voice and gesture, pertinent, and , all his own, John Kandolph said : "A terrible proof of our dopravity.is that we can relish and remember anything bet ter than i Book." .).'.. Whon tho shades of earth were gather-. ing around Sir Walter Scott, he said to tho Watcher, " Bring tho Book." "What book?" asked Lockbeart his son-in-law. "There is but one book," said the dy ing man." . . .. With such testimony as this to the value of the Sacred Scriptures, reiterated by the great and good, in all ages, it is a sealed book to many ; it is voted to be excluded from our public schools, and multitudes of children are growing up ignorant of its histories, ignorant of its immortal truths, ! aud profoundly unconscious that, to it aud to its teachings, they owe all that is of solid worth in social life, in civil liberty, iu . numan elevation, and In the hope of an immortal existauce. ' '"" . ' "' Spasmodic Piety. ' A quaint writer compares a certain rUsh' of professors of religion to "sheot-iroh stoves heated by shavings." When thero is a littlo reviving in the ohuroli : they all at onoe name up and become exceedingly : warm and zealous. Tkev am mnrlv k chide the pastor and the brethren for their . coldness and want of activity. But alas I the shavings aro soon burned out, and the , ueac goes down as it went up. They aro , never seen in the prayer-room or more spiritual meetings of the ohuroh again, until there is anothor excitement. If such had not . souls of their own to be saved, t they would not be worth taking into the church. If they are saved, it must be "as I n. Dy lire.'' . . tfi'Iue story Is told of a woman who freoly UBed her toucue to the scandal of ' others, and made confession to the priest ! oi what she bad done. He gave her a ripe thistle top.and told her to ao out in various ' directions and scatter the seeds one by one. ' Wondering at the penaoe, she obeyed,' and then returned, and told her confniwnr. ' To her amazement he bade her go bock and gather the scattered seeds ; and wheu she objected that It would be Imnonsihln. ' be replied that it would still be more dill-' cult to gather up and dostroy all evil re- ; ports which she had circulated about others. ' Any thoughtless, careless child can scatter a nanaiuu oruiistle seed before the wind, in a moment, but tho strongest and wisest ' man cannot gather them again. tW Christians mleht avoid much trouble and inconvenience if they would ouly be lieve what they profess, that God is able to mane uiem happy without anything else. Thev imagine that if such a dear ' friend were to die, or such and such bles sings were removed, they should be mis erable whereas, God can make thorn a thousaud times happier without thorn,. j tW When Christ is with the Christian, ' the means of grace are like flowers in the sunshine, smelling fragrantly and smiling ' beautoously ; but without Christ they are like flowers by night, their fountains of ' fragrance are sealed by darkness.
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