NEW. YOBK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICTL Y 31 VTUA L t A-Hssiotrsi, 9(l,O."l,U01.Nn : ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre. Rents as favorable terms as any company in the United status. Thirty days grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture. No extra charges are made fur traveling permits. Policy-holders share in the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice in the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fcechargrd. L. W. FROST, FresMcnt. M. b. Wtnkoop, Vice Pres't. J. P.Kogehs, Scc'y. J. K. EATON, General Agent, No. 6 North Third Strwt, College Mock, Harrlsburg, Pa. TIIOS. K. MILMOAN, 0 12 ly Special Ageut for Newport. . i . ' Perry County Bank! KpoiiNler, Juukiii & Vo.' THE undersign d, having formed a Hanking As sociatiou 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 CO UJl T ITO UP T, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes for a period of not over60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, Ave per cent, for any time over tour 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 forthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supply the want ;andthls being the first Bank ever established in Terry county, 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. 8poNBLEit,Bloomlle!d, Perry county, Pa. B. K. Junkin, " " Wm. II. Mu.leh, Carlisle, orncEits: W.A. SPONSLER, President. William Whxis, Cantier New Bloomlleld, 3 6 ly I'KKBY COUNTY Heal Estate, Insurance, AN1 CLAIM AGENCY. - LEWIS POTTES & CO., , Meal Estate Broken, Insurance, Claim Agen New I31oomlIclcl, WE IN VITE the attention of buyers and sell ers to the advantages we olter them In pur chasing or disposing of real estate through our of lice. 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 gains. We advertise our property very extensive ly, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllligence to effect a sale. We make no charges unless tht liroperty Is sold while registered with us. We alsc -draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa Vers at moderate rates. Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable V,re,'. . nd cattle Insurance companies In the United States are represented at tills agency. froperly Insured either on the cash or mutual plan, and perpetually at U and 5 per thousand. Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims collected. There am thousands of soldiers and heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and bounty .who have never made application. Sol dlers, if you wer wounded, ruptured, orcontract d a disease In tlie service from which you are ills abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of solders die or marry.the minor children are entitled to the pension. Parties having any business to transact In our line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as weareooiilldent wecau render satisfaction in any "brunch of our business. No charge for information. 201y LKW1B POTTElt & CO. LOOK OUT! I would respectively Inform my friends that I In" tend calling upon them with a supply of goods of my OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting uf CA88IMEHB. CASSINETS, FLANNELS, ((Plain and bar'd) OAItPKTH, to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. BIXLEH. CejiihbWooi.kmFactobt. ,17,4m, PERRY HOUSE, Sew Itloonifleld, Pa. subscriber baying purchased the property . on the corner of Maine and Carlisle streets, opposite the Court House, invites ail his friends andforiiinreuntomerstoglvehlma call as he is determined to furnish Brut class accommodations. ,,, ... TUOMAU HU'l'OH. Proprietor, $72 F.aP.Tl WfifiV Agents wantvd every . . VVBBJt. where, .llusliiessslrlet VkWri'i"!? l:Voulr AddeHS,-J. WUlU 11 & UO ., bt. Louts, Mo. J7 M SUNDAY BEADINQ. God Counts. A little boy and girl, brother and lister, were playing in the dining room where their mother had set a basket of cakes on the tea table, and then had gone out, " How nice they look ?" said Charlie, reaching out bis band to take one of the cakes. "Oh don't do that, Charlie," said his Bister Jano, " you know mother told us not totake any of them." "But mother didn't count them; and she won't know it if I take just one," said Charlie, " But rembor, Charlie, that God counts," said his sister, "and IIo will know." Charlie put back the cake and turned away from temptation, looking very se rious. Presently he said, " You are right, sister ; God doe count ; for the Bible says, 'He tcllcth the number of the stars ; and the hairs of your head are all numbered.' " Ono day a lady came home from shop ping. Her little boy didn't scorn to moot her and throw his arms around her neck, as he was in the habit of doing to show how glad ho was to havo her como homo again. Instead of atliis, he seemed to be afraid to look bis mother in the face, and kept out of her way as much as he could all day. His mother thought it very strange and wondered what was tho matter. At the close of the day she found out tho reason. When she was undressing him to go to bed, ho said j "Mother can God see through the crack in the closet door ?". " Yes, said his mother. " And can he see when it is nil dark there?" "Yes, bho said, "IIo can see us at all times, and in all places." "Then God saw mo," said tho littlo fol low, " and I may as well tell you all about it. When you wore gono out, I got into the closet and ato up flie cake. I am sorry, very sorry. Please forgive mo," and ho laid his head ou his mother's lap, and cried bitterly. If this littlo fellow had remem bered to fear, it would have saved him from this sin and the sorrow which it brought upon him. Building for Etcrully. You think that one hour buries another; but that is not so. You think that you havo parted forever from the things that havo gone by you. No, you have not. There is much in your life that you think has1 gono which you never shall part from. It has stepped behind you, and thero it waits. That which you havo done is with you to-day ; ond that which you are doing will be with you to-morrow. When the mason carries up the wall, the course of brick which he laid yesterday is the foun dation on which ho is laying another course to-day. And all that you do to-dny ou tho structure which you are building will re main a basis for that which you do to morrow. The work proceeds without inter mission ; and all that has been dono is the under structure for that which is to bo done. Young man and maidon, take heed how you build. That which you are doing, the work which you are performing, you do not leave behind you because you forgot it. It passes away from you, apparently, but it does not pass away from you iu reality. Every stroke, every singlo element, abides. And there is nothing men think so little of as character, although there is nothing that so belongs to their immortality, and that is so incomparable in importance as character. - J Keep a List. 1. Keep a list of your friends, and let God be the first iu tho list, however long it may be. 2. Keep a list of the gifts you get and let Christ, who is tho unspeakable gift, be first. 8. Keep a list of your mercies ; and lot pardon and life stand at the head. 4. Keep a list of your joys ) and lot tho joy unspeakable and full of glory be first, 6. Keep a list of your hopes ; and lot the hope of glory be foremost. 0. Keep a list of your sorrows ; and let sorrow for sin bo first. 7. Keep a list of your enemies ; and bow ever many there may be, put down the "old man" and the "old serpent" first. 8. Keep a list of your sins ; and let the sin of unbelief bo set down as tho first and worst of all. True Worship. IIo who believes that the worship of the Lord consists solely in frequenting tho temple, listening to preaching there, and praying, and that is sufficient, is greatly deceived. The real worship of the Lord consists in performing uses during a man's life in tlie world ; consists in his faithfully discharging the duties of his station, that is, in serving his country, the community, and his neighbor, from his heart, and jn acting , in sincerity in all his relations. These uses are the chief exercises of char ity, and those whereby the Lord is prin cipally worshipped, Frequeuting the tem ple and saying prayers, are also needful ; but without the above uses they avail nothing. Uses, therefore, are the things according to which happiness in Heaven is given by the Lord, and the things where, by he is principally worshipped, i , ENIGMA DIP AltTHSNTi -All contributions to this department must be accompanied by the correct answer. i-" Answer tnKnltrmn lo.t " m, Timks i " Colloldon." How Old Iirollicr I). Did It. HE had completed his fifty years in the itineracy. I had just commenced to "travel," consequently his experience and advice wore very Important to me, as he thought, and as I ought to have thought. I must confess, however, I made a liberal discount on his words in view of the progress of the times, mentally maintaining that the Methodist preacher of to-day was of a dif ferent species from the men similarly la beled fifty years ago. The kindly but somewhat forgetful old worthy,after tangling up my name and per sonality with four or five other pin feather domiuies, at last succoedod in placing mo, and thon said he : " Well, Bro. N., let me see, are you mar ried yet?" Of course I promptly responded in tho negative, without saying a word about my prospects in futuro. Perhaps there was something mournful iu my tono which led him to continue-: " Well, brother, timo enough ; don't be discouraged. Trust in the Lord ; ho will bring it about all right. You know Sol omon says 'a good wifo is from the Lord,' and I know that's the truth. Matilda and I have lived together man and wife fifty years come October, and sho's been a good wifo. Why, once I wanted to locate, and sayssho, " No, Samuel, I married you for a traveling Methodist preacher, and I don't want you to stop now." Wo've moved thirty-five times think of that and not a word of complaint has she ever uttered." And the good old man's eyes filled with tears and his voice grew husky as ho thought of the long and toilsome years of his pilgrimage, brightenned by tho presence of his noble, uncomplainnig wife. Then he chuckled as old men do wheu some fa vorite, woll-tried form of thought or ex pression strikes them. " Why, I know she's a good wife, for I tell the store-keepers that anything they can Bell to her, I'll pay fo r she's so eco nomical and careful you see. And she al ways was. I noticed that more than fifty years ago when I first met her. I had been Bene to Norwalk circuit, and put up the first yoar at the house of a proud sort of a womau who was dreadfully down on the Methodists, as people often were in those days. You seo she had two or three daughters, and was wondrous 'fraid tho young dominio might take a notion to one of her girls. So she kept talking, and in sinuating, and disparaging, and at last one day she said, says she, 'I'd as lief one of my girls would marry a dog whipper as a Methodist preacher." I couldn't keep still any longer, and so I spoke right out: " Thoy'd make better wives for a dog whipper than for a minister. I would not marry ono of your daughters unless you would give me a thousand a year to keep her," and thon I went out. . Wo both folt relieved. " Well, uoxt year, after I was ordained deacon, I stopped at the house of Matilda's father. He had several daughters, Matil da was the fifth one. I never talked much to any of them, for I was very strict in keeping the rules of a young preacher in the discipline especially about 'talking sparingly and conducting prudently with woman' but I noticed that her father set great store by Matilda. Sho seemed kind of responsible like, always working around and looking after the children and such like ; and when I saw how much confidence her father placed in her, tho thought came to me that a husband might trust her too. Btill, mind you, I hud no thought of mar rying, you know, only theso ideas would come into my head. " Well, one evouing I came home from visiting and found all the young folks had gone out for a sleigh-ride. Caleb Benedict, a nice smart young fellow, had taken Ma tilda, her mother said. So we had prayers, and then I went np to bed. There was a window at the foot of the bed, and through it I could see out into the road. It was bright moonlight, and somehow every timo I heard sleigh-bells I would sit np in bed and look out to see who it was. Don't you see, I wanted to see Matilda when she came back. The truth was, I was undor concern of miud about Matilda, don't you see?" and his mouth pursed up as he thought of that night when ho first found out he was under concern of mind about Matilda. "Well," he went 'on, "I thought I'd speak to her. So the next day, as I was reading and she was tidying about tho room, I said, says I : " Matilda, I would like a few moments' conversation with you alone. Can I have them?" She said ' Yes." And do you believe it, to this day she says she thought I wanted to talk to her about tho state of her soul. Well, when we were alone, I said, thinking about Caleb Benedict all the time : " Matilda, are you keeping company with any young man?" You see, I wanted to make that sure before I went any further. So she said, " No she wasn't keepiug company with any young man." Then I felt better, and proceeded ; " Did you ever say you never would marry a Methodist minister t" She was all taken aback, and said " No, sue never had said so." . ' " "Then," interposed I, "you did some very special pleading, I imagine ?" think ing he might go into interesting details ; out lie was too wary. " Well," continued he, " wo talked mat tors over, Matilda and I, and at last I pro posed. Then she 'said I must ask father. I wont to her father and told him all about it, and he said : " Well Brother D., your prospects in life are not very encouraging, Mothodist preachers have a pretty hard time of it.' "Yes," said I, "but we must trust in the Lord for all that." Then ho said ho was willing if I could get the consent of Matilda's grand-parents. So I did, and then it was all settled. And do you bo liove, I was so bashful that I never kissed Matilda till after we were married 1 And now after fifty years, she's as good a wo man as sho was whon I first knew her, and I lovo her as I did then. I tell von. mv young brother, a good wife is from tlie Lord 1 Go right on and do your duty, and He will bring a helpmeet for you." ZINC. "" rpittS motal is plentiful In both Europe JL and this country, but until recently us productions were very limited. At the beginning of tho present canturv hardlv two hundred tons of zinc were mined in all Europe ; but nt present the total produc tion reaches something like one hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty thousand tons, and its use is ranidlv increasing. Tim o- chief cause of its limited consumption here- tolore lias arison from the difficulty expe rienced in separating it from the lead, as well as its brittleness. ' Zino is of a brilliant white color, with a shade of blue. It is well adanted to the manufacture of a great varity of articles, such as candlesticks, gas brackets, statues, &c. It is leas malleable than copper, load, or tin, but when submitted to the action of heat it may readily be drawn out or rolled into plates. In the year 1017 zinc, iu a metalio form. , was noticed forming in small nuantitaa n an accidental product of furnaces used for smelting the ores of other metals. It is claimed that Ilenkol was the first man who intentionally obtained zino from the oro ; but on the other hand, wo have the state ment that its production was known lonir prior to this by tho inhabitants of the East Indies. The Dutch claim to have import ed it from the East into Europe at an early day.and that a cargo of zino had been taken by them from tho Portuguese nrevious totheyearlC40. In the year 1803 some experiments were undertaken at Sheffield, and the discovery was mado that zinc. when submitted to a heat of 213 degrees jjanreniicit, lost its brittleness, and subse quently was used in tho manufacture of wire, household utensils, and more espe cially lor roofing. Tho latter use, however, was soou abandoned, ou account of tho dif ficulty of fastouini; the sheets, and its em ployment for this use was not again resum ed to any considerable extent until quite recently. Zino is found in large nuantites iu Silesia. and with a view of utilizing it, the Society lor tne Advancement or Industry in Prussia in the year 1820, offered a nrizo for the dis covery of any means through which should result an essential and generally useful in crease its consumption. The prize was carried off by Berlin. Krieger, its chief metallurgist, first ascertained that it was possible to cast hollow pieces as well as plates and solid masses, and he had a num ber of utensils made for his household. This led to its. construction In other shapes. Tho United States have mines of zino iu great abundance and variety, but until the year 1838 there was but littlo effort mado to dovclop this industry. In that year, undor authority of an act of Congress to establish a standard of weights and meas ures, experiments were mado for utilizing the zinc ores of New Jersey ; but so expen sive were the processes employed, that tho attempt to manufacture it was abandoned, and this material remained In comparative disuse for many years ; more recently, how ever, the manufacture has been revived, and at present thero is a steady' develop ment in this direction. The properties of the metal are now well understood, and the process of reducing the ore is much simplified, thus greatly lessening tlie cost of production. JSP The following colloquy actually took place at an eastorn post office: Pat." I say Mr Postmaster, is there a lither for roe?" P. M. "Who are you, my good sir?" Pat " I'm medelf, that's who I am." P. M. " Well, what's your name?" Pat "An' what do ye want wid the name? Isn't it on tho lither?'' . P. M " So I can find the letter if there is one for you." Pat." Well, Mary Bums, . thin, If you must havo it." P. M. " No sir, thore is none for Mary Burns." Pat." Is there no way to got in there but thro' this pane of glass ?" P. M "No, sir." Pat "It's well for ye there isn't I'd teach ye bitter manners than to insist on a gintlemin's name; but ye didn't git it after all so I'm nven wid ye, divil the bit is my name Burns." The Toscmite Valley. OF all the gret sights in the natural scenery of the world, there are none which surpass in grandeur and beauty the attractions which the Yosemite Valley affords, and which only the lost few years have disclosed to the appreciation of an admiring people. No one can furnish any accurate idea to another of tlie wonderful sights that nature has stowed away in this far-famed region. Even the traveler, who, face to face, looks upon all, needs days and days to fully comprehend and lealize, 'tho marvelous scenes upon which his eyes rest. For comparison allow mo to remark thh the great fall of Niagara is but 103 foot high : what think Von. then, of tho "RrlHul Veil" as it falls all clitterinir and fnaminir. ' - - r-t O all swaying In the wind from a distance of odu ioet above you ! Then there is El Cap iton, "a solid, seamless, orcamwhlte mas of rocks shining as though cut out of ivory," which towers 3,300" feet into the air can you imagine at all how mand and impressivo it must be ? The Valley is full of mountains and cascades, tlie highest of the former extending skywards over a milo. ond among the latter tho Sentinel Fulls plunging eastward from an altitude of 8, 000 feet. The Yosemite was given up by the United States to California, for a grand National Park and is eight miles Innir hv two wide. Through it roars the Merced itiver, wuicb, as it reaches El Capitan, grows all bushod and quiet as if from very awe; and then, as if powerless to do other wise, shows the Great Chief how beautiful be is by reflecting his imaire from her truthful eyes. We might proceed and de vote column alter column to a description of this beautiful valley, and yet never repeat ourselves save in adjectivos, but the ac count would be at least feeble, the ideas given but very faint for words seem to us inadequate to at all express what we feel tho Bubject demands. The nearest an- proach to a visit thero is the pictures af- torded to us "stay at homes" of this region aud such pictures are cxcccdinclv limltrri. and one of the best is the chromo offered in another column to the subscribers of Tub Times. Economy. Again and ogain we urge upon all young men, who are just starting in life to make It an invariable rule to lay aside a certain proportion of their income, whatever that income may be. Extravagant expendi tures occasion a very large part of tho suf ferings of a great majority of people. And extravagance is wholly a relative term. What is not at all extravagant for one per son may be very extravagant for another. Expenditures no matter how small in themselves thoy may be are always ex travagant whon they come fully up to the entire amount of a peison's whole Income. The mode of living is almost entirely a matter of habit. It is as easy to get on with throe-fourths of your income what ever the amount of it my be as on the whole of it, if you only think so, and re strict your expenses accordingly. The thousand inconveniences of debt, embar rassment and dependence may all be avoid ed by a firm and undoviating adherence to this rule. One great aid in pursuing tho course which wo have recommended, will be found in keepiug accurate aocouut of all rooeints ane expenditures. By frequent reference to this you will Bee just what you can afford to expend, without encroaching on your rulo ; and you will also see what of your expenditures you can most conveniently curtail, or cutoff entirely. Thore is a greot deal, too, iu reflection and foresight, in tho expenditure of your money. It is a very common remark that one person will moke the same amount go twice as far as another. This is owing to the employment of greater prudence and judg ment iu buying. Almost any amount of money can be thrown away, and scarcely anything obtained for it, by a thoughtless, careless spendthrift. We despise skinflints. But economy and meanness are by no means identical. On the contrary, as it is easy for any one to see, an unselfish, judicious economy a wise saving furnishes the means not only of independence, but of benovolenco and generosity also. Wulklug with both Legs Off. On Cindor street, Millville Borouph. re. sides a boy of about sixteen years of oge who was so unfortunate some time ago as to have both feet badly crushed by being run over by a coal car near the minos of the C. I. Co., and to necessitate amputation. Dr. Webster B. Lowman cut off both limha just below the knee Joints, and friendly hands employed at the Iron Works raised him about $500. With a portion of this money, under the advice of his physician, no wont to I'uiladelplua and procured two artificial limbs. After a little Dractica he was able to walk almost as well as before his natural limbs were taken off, aud whou Dr. Gross, of the Medical College of Phila delphia brought him into tho room where a number or students were gathered, and after ' directing him in molt room sevoral times be asked them in turn wmonor ins limbs bad been amputated. Some students declared it was the right leg, while others were just as positive that it was the left. Their astonishment may ue imagined wnen tlie venerable professor drew Un tlm MTtiwinlfinsnf t)m vmitifv mi'u pantaloons and showed them that both ana JV r. I, , W...L
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