Ije Sinus, tm .Blomixfulir, )a.
CON TIN ENT AL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
SritlCTL V MUTUAL I
AssotH, jtO,OuO,01.H5 !
ISSUES all the new form of Policies, and pre.
dents as favorable terms asany company In the
United States.
Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and
the policy held good during that time.
Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit-ure.
No extra oharges are madefor 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'pollcy or medical fcecharRed.
I,. W. FRONT, Prenident.
M. B. W'ywsoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.Rookbs, Bec'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College Block, Ilarrisburg, Pa.
THUS. H. MIM.IOAN,
6 Illy Special Agent for Nowport.
Perry County Bank!
Spongier, .luuklii & Co.
THE undersign d, having formed a Banking 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 HO USE,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.
We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes for a period of not
over 60 days, aud sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
New York.
On time Deposits, five per cent, for any time over
(our months i and for four months (our per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
fordoing 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 sandthls 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 Banking Association is composed of the fol
lowing mamed partners:
W. A. SpoNSi.EB,Bloomtleld, Perry county. Pa.
B. F. JUNKIN, " " "
Wm. II. Miu.br, Carlisle,
OFFICERS:
W. A. SPON8LK11, President.
William Willis, Cashier
NewBloomtJeld.S 5 ly
1111111 Y COUNTY
Meal Estate Insurance,
AND
CLAIM AGKNCY.
LEWIS POTTEB CO.,
Meal Estate Broken, Insurance, & Claim Aaen
, IV ow lJloom flolcl, Xti.
WEINVITE the attention of buyers and tell,
ers to the advantage we offer them In pur
chasing or disposing of real estate through our of.
nee.
We have a very large list of deslrab property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estute of any descrlp.
tlou which we are prepared to offer at great bar-
fialns. We advertise our property very extenstve
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgeuce to
effect a sale. We nmke no charges unless th
property is sold while registered with us. We alsc
' draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa
pers at moderate rates.
Some of the best, cheapest, and most reliable
fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the
United States are represented at this agency.
Property lusiwed either on the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at 14 and 15 per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims
collected. There are thousands ol soldiers and
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
dlers, If you were wounded, ruptured, orcontraet
ed a disease in the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a pension.
When widows of soldiers 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
we are confident we can render satisfaction In any
branch of our business.
No charge for Information.
4Mly . LEWIS POTTER 4k CO.
' LOOK OUT!
I would respectively Inform my friends that t In
tend calling upou them with a supply of goods
ofmy
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of
OASSIMERsi
OABSINETS,
FLANNELS, (Plain aud bar'd)
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M. BIXLElt.
Centre Woolen Pactoht. 4,lT,4m,
rjsitRY uousij
New Bloomllelil, To.
THE subscriber having purchased the property
on the corner of Maine and Carlisle street.
opposite the Court House, Invites all Ills friends
and former customers to give hun a call as he is
, aeieruuueacoiuruisn nrsi ciass accommouuiiuus.
TJOMAH Hl'JVH,
lit. Proprietor.
79. V.aoh Won V Agent !"
vuu. where.
llUMlnesshtrict
Iv legitimate.
Willi J it 4k CO., lit. Louis, Mo.
particulars tree. AOUross, j
J7M i
A Hasty Marriage.
' TF I could only fly a,wny, Lilly I Some
X times I foel as If my reason will, if
my feet do not."
Maybelle Carlisle's face was scarcely loss
white than the lace dress that lay across
her lap, and her brown eyes, as they looked
at Lilly Wall, bad in their deeps a weary
woe. Lilly looked up in surprise.
" May I and you to be married to-morrow
morning 1 What can you mean ?"
"What can I mean? Only this, Lilly :
that if it wasn't for mamma, I'd never
marry Mr. Claiborno not to save my life.
Oh, Lilly, if you only know how unuttera
bly miserable I am 1"
The pretty brown head bowed over her
hands, and tears, that wore as bricbt aud
glistening as the diamonds on her fingers,
trickled through.
" Well," and Lilly Wall shook her head
decidedly, " it would not be me, you know
to marry Wallace Claiborno, or any other
man, if I didn't love him. I am only sur
prised that you'vo ever allowed such a
thing."
There was such a cheerful decisiveness
in Lilly's tones that May looked up in sur
prise. " You wouldn't marry Mr. Claiborne ?"
she repeated the words in a half-dazed
way.
" Exactly," returned Lilly, and the
roguish eyes twinkled as she spoko.
" Oh, Lilly, what do you mean ? You
mystify we so. You Boom to be speaking
in fun, and yet intend earnest."
" Precisely, Maybelle. I repeat, not for
ten thousand worlds would 1 marry Mr.
Claiborne old, ugly, false teetli ugh I
But I would marry Leslie Wallingford,for
instance."
Then, of a sudden, a hot, red stain went
surging over May's face only to leave it
pale and wan again, with tell-tule witness
in her eyes.
" Lilly, you must not talk of of Mr.
Wallingford any more. Since our engage
ment was broken by mamma, and I prom
ised Mr. Claiborne, I have no right to con
sider him eveu a friend, or he mo."
But her wistful eyes searched Lilly
Wall's face so eagerly that it belied ther
cold words she had just spoken.
"See hero," said Lilly, very deliberately,
and very decisively turned around in the
swinging-chair, "once for all, my dear
May, you are going to do the wickedest
thing of your life when you marry this
suitor of yours, whom you detest so thor
oughly, and whom you only consent to wed
because of business matters. But you do
love ; you can't deny It, Maybelle. You
are this moment worshipping Loslio Wal
lingford, as he does you ; and yet you dare
crush the hearts of both of you, simply be
cause your mother wants a rich son-in-law.
May, 1 mean no disrespect whatever to
Mrs. Carlisle, but It seems to mo that you,
a woman of twenty-three, are capable of
judging for yourself."
Lilly's bright eyes were fairly danoing,
and one little foot was impatiently tapping
against the matting on the floor.
"I agree with you, Lilly. 1 will confess
it. I do love your cousin Leslie ; but of
what avail is it?"
' Lilly laughed one of those delicious
outbursts of merriment which invariably
prove contagious ; and May caught herself
smiling.
"Now, Maybelle, I am going to make an
honest confession, and tell you that Leslie
sent me here, llo and I have laid our
hoads together, and we propose to emanci
pate you if you will be emancipated.
Listen, now.
And, with scarlet cheeks, May listened.
Iu Mrs. Carlisle's pleasant parlors the
guests were assembling, and up the stair
way soft murmurs of voices and occasional
bursts of joyous laughter came to Mrs.
Carlisle's ears, as, in her elegant gala dress
of ' pearl moire, she awaited some one in
her boudoir, she called it, really her sew
ing and sitting-room.
Across the hall, through the door of
Maybello's room, she oould see occasional
glimpses of white drapery, and hear low,
confidential voices, and now and then Lilly
Wall's joyous laugh.
And then, . when she had consulted her
watch at least half a dozen times, and as
often re-read a note she held iu her hand,
footsteps approached hor door, and a rap
followed ; then Mr. Wallace Claiborne en
tered. " Really, you have appointed a most
awkward time for a private Interview the
guests assembled, the minister momentarily
expectod. What is it you want of me, Mr.
Claiborne!"
The lady was irritable ; what lady would
be otherwise under the ciicumstances ?
Mr. Claiborne adjusted his eye-glasses,
cautiously shut tho door, and then peered
suspiciously around the room.
" Madam dear madam, I may say, con
sidering tlio very near relation we so closely
escaped,"
"What's that? What is it?" Mrs.
Carlisle turned savagely on lilru.
" Keep cool, I beg, my dear madam. I
will explain. To be brief, I never knew,
until this morning, that my charming
fiancee was troubled with was in danger
of was a"
" What on earth do you mean, Mr. Clai
borne? What is the matter ?" Are you
sick or orazy ?"
" A h I that is it exactly. Crazy Is the
word my modesty would not permit me to
mention. Poor, dear child t And to think
I came so near marrying her 1" , -
"Mercy onus! whatever shall I do?
At the very last minute te And out he is
crazy ! Lilly ! May ! poor Mr. Claiborne has
gone crazy. What shall we do?"
A little cry of surprise greeted the an
nouncement, as Mrs. Carlisle burst into
her daughter's room.
"Mamma! O, what shall I do? What
will thoy say down stairs ? I am mortified
to death."
Mrs. Carlisle's face was a Bight to behold.
Naturally large and high-colored, it was
fairly apopletio now, as she stood in mo
mentary meditation, and then suddonly
sailed out of the room to meet Mr. Leslie
Wallingford in the hall, dressed in full
bridal attire.
"O, Mr. Wallingford!" she gasped,
" my poor, dear child has just' escaped the
most awful fate ! He's gone crazy." She
pointed to the perturbed gentleman in hor
boudoir " and my darling May is a des a
de a left at the eleventh minute, I mean
the eleventh hour ! I am fairly distracted I
How shall I aoconut for it to them all ?
And there's all the money I've spent on
it. O, Mr. Wallingford, what shall I
do?"
A twinkle was -in Leslie's handsome
eyes.
" It is, indcod terrible, Mrs. Carlisle.
Poor Miss Maybelle will be very awkward
ly placed, indeed. I know of but one
way "
" What what? Anything you can sug
gest, Mr. Wallingford." The widow grasp
ed his arm in her excitement.
"Let the wedding go on ; and let me
marry your daughter."
Ho spoke very quietly ; and bis deliber
ate coolness had a good effect upon the
boiling lady.
" Marry you !" she gasped out. Then,
with a shuddering glance toward the room
where Mr. Claiborne still paced to and fro,
she diagged him by the shoulder into the
room where May and Lilly were.
"Here's your bridegroom, May! Be
quick, and tell her, Mr. Wallingford !
Thank God it is fixed so easy I"
Then, safely pulling to the door of her
boudoir, she locked Mr. Claiborne in, while
May aud Leslie went down stairs and were
married.
A half hour later, when Mr. and Mrs.
Wallingford were driving to the Twenty
third street depot, Mrs. Carlisle went up
stairs and unlocked the door, to find Mr.
Claiborne angrily confronting her.
" What does this mean, madam ! Why
am I secured in this room 1"
"Now, Mr. Claiborne, don't get excited,
I beg. I thought it best, you know, whilo
the ceremony was going on for you to re
main quietly here ; and now that May and
her husband have gone "
"Who?"
" Don't get excited, please. Since you
were so kind as to tell me you wero cra
zy "
" Madam ! I tell you I am crazy ? I ? I
orazy?"
" Well, what did you say thon?"
" Hear the woman ! What did I say ? I
only know I intended to say that I this
morning received a note, tolling me that
Miss May's past lownoss of spirit, of which
I have repeatedly spoken, was a forerunner
of the insanity that caused her family "
"O-h-h-h ! My May going crazy 1 Did I
ever listen to such an insult ? No, sir, it's
only one of your crazy idoas ! My Maybelle
indeed I What a blessing it is that we are
so well rid of you I Good-bye, Mr. Clai
borne I"
She held the door open, and he walked
out, firmly believing that the terriblo mis
fortune was breaking out in the widow
herself.
Lilly and Leslie and May talk it over
sometimes, and laugh over the unexpected
turn affairs took, but Mrs. Carlisle- never
knew. , , .
Irish Wit.
The Gold Hill (Nev.) Nw says : "An
Irishman, a resident of this city, noted for
his wit upon all occasions and also for his
successful attacks on the tiger, was pro
ceeding home the other evening and when
he had reached the Divide was stopped by
some footpads and told to ' hold up his
bands.' The robbers knew he had made a
large winning and got off with it, and pro
ceeded him for the purpose of waylaying
him. Pat did not scare worth a cent, and
when stopped quietly asked the robbers
what they wanted. They answored, We
want your money !' Pat quietly lighting
bis dudesn, said : " O, rnurther, murtherl
but ye fellers are awful thick to-night.'
Awful thick I' said one of the robbers,
what do you moan ?' 'I mane,' said Pat,
'that this is the fourth time I was stopped
inoe I left Vlrglnny.' One of the men,
disgusted with himself to think that others
of the profession had got in ahead of . him,
struck Pat on the neck and then kicked
blm, saying t 'Oetout here, or I'll blow
the top of your head off.' Pat did ' got'
willingly, and arrived safely at home with
$700 in coin In bis peokst.','
tlT Loudon consumes 100,000,000 gal
lons of water daily, and Paris 70,000,000
gallons, .
SUNDAY HEADING.
In the Horning Sow Thy Seed.
Sow, though the rock repel thee
In Its cold and sterile pride
Some cleft then may be riven
Whore the little seed may hide.
Fear net for some will flourish i
And though the tares abound
Like the willows by the waters
Will the scattered grains be found.
Work while the daylight lasteth,
Ere the shades of night come on,
Ere the Lord of the vineyard cometh,
And the laborer's work is done.
The House of God Shut.
The Chritlian Obterver says, in regard to
extravagance in church dress : " The
house of God shut. Against whom ?
Against multitudes of the working class,
and of tho poor, whose purses won't admit
of dressing themselves, their wives and
children, in the style of the average church
goers. Nonsense, says Esquire Well-to-do,
as he looks at the now gaiters and hats of
his daughters; the elegant dress of Madame
that only costs three times ns much as a
lady's dress used to do in the good old
times ; and as he puts on his French calf
skin and fine broadcloth and cashmere
Nonsense people have no business to feel
or reason that way ! Well, it may be non
sense, and all wrong ; but there stands the
huge granite fact, call it what you will, that
multitudes do not go to church because
they cannot dress well enough."
tlT The heart is like a plant in the
tropics, which all the year round is bearing
flowers, and ripening seeds, and lotting
thorn fly. It is shaking off memories and
dropping associations. The joys of last
year are ripe seeds that will come up in joy
again next year. Thus the heart is plant
ing seeds in every nook and corner ; and
as a wind which serves to prostiate a plant
is only a sower coming forth to sow its
seeds, planting some of them In rocky
crevices, some by river courses, some
among mossy stones, some by warm
hedges, and some in garden and open field,
so it is with our experiences of life that
sway and bow us either with joy or sorrow.
They plant everything round about us with
heart seeds. Thus the house becomes
sacred. Every room hath a memory, and
a thousand of them; every door and window
is clustored with associations.
EST Every sin meets with its due fate
inexorable expulsion from the paradise of
God's Humanity. lie loves the sinner so
much that he cannot forgive him in any
other way than by banishing from his bo
som the demon that possesses him, by lift
ing out of that mire of his iniquity.
No one, however, supposes for a moment
that a man who has once refused to forgive
his brother, shall therefore be condemned
to unforgiveuess and unforgivingness.
What is meant Is, that while a man contin
ues in such a mood, God cannot be with
him as friend ; not that he will not be his
friend, but the friendship being all on one
side that of God must take forms such
as man will not be able 'to recognize as
friendship. Forgiveness, as I have said,
is not love merely, but love conveyed as
love to the erring, so establishing peace
towards God, and forgiveness towards our
neighbor.
VW Whenever I seo a knot of religions
disputauts together, it puts mo in mind of
a story or fable, whichever you will, of a
company of apes that had gotten a glow
worm among them, upon which they heap
ed sticks and other combustible matter ;
and laying their heads together, blew with
all their might, hoping to make some im
provement of that little shining particle ;
but, when they have done all they can, are
neither able to increase the light, much
less to warm themselves by it. So these
busy disputing wits after all their bluster,
ing, neither bring any useful truth to
light, nor warm their own or othor men's
breasts with any spaik of true piety or
charity, but, contrariwise, frequently ob
scure the one and extinguish the other.
t& It is reported of Godfrey of Bouil
liou, iu his expedition of the Holy Laud,
that wheu his army came within sight of
Jerusalem, beholding the high turrets and
fair fronts which were skeletons of far
more glorious bodies, they were so trans
ported with joy that they gave such a
shout, that the very earth was said to ring
again. How might thine hoart leap with
joy, wheu thou upon thy death-bed
should'st with the eyes of death behold the
stately turrets, and pearly gates of the new
and eternal Jerusalem ! Thou mightest
contentedly leave thine earthly habitation
for thy Father's house, and joyfully bid
adieu to thy corruptible silver, and airy
honors, for an enduring subitance and an
eternal weight of glory.
tW Hast thou now a sweet temper,
whereas thou once wast passionate 1 Boast
not of it ; thou wilt be angry agaiu yet if
He loaves thee. Art thou now pure, where
as thou wast once unclean ? Boast not of
thy purity ; it is a plant, the seed of which
was brought from heaven ; it never was
within tby heart by nature ; it is of God's
gift and God's alone.
Interesting Traveling Companion.
A LITERARY gentloman recently took
charge of a kidr on a railroad car,
and gives the following aoconut of the
pleasures of his journey : '
Many men think a railroad journey ren
dered really pleasant by the companionship
of an unprotected female She imist
ed on counting her bandbox and traveling
bag as we got seated. She counted. There
was just two. I counted, and made no
more or less.' Then she wanted hor parasol
put into a rack, her shawl folded up and
her bandbox counted again. 1 counted it.
There was just exaotly one bandbox of it.
As we got soatcd she wanted to know if
I was sure we were on the right road to
Detroit. I was sure. Then she wanted
her traveling bag counted. I counted it
once more. By this time she wanted the
window up, and asked me if It was not a
very hot day. I said it was. Then she
felt for her money and found It was safe,
though she was sure she had lost it. While
counting it she related how Mrs. Graff, in
going east five years ago, lost her purse and
three dollars. She wound up by asking me
If it wasn't a hot day. I said it was. Then
she wanted that bandbox counted, and I
counted bim. He was still one bahdbox.
There was a pause of five minutes, and
then she wanted a drink. I got it for her. '
Then she wanted to know if I were on the
right road to Detroit. I assured her that
I was positive of the fact.
The brakeman here called out the name
of a station in such an indistinct manner
that the lady wanted me to go and see
what the name really was. I went. It
was Calumet, aud I put my hand on my
sacred heart and assured her that I would
perish sooner than deceive ber. By this
time she wanted the traveling bag counted,
and I counted her. She figured up as be- .
fore. I had just finished counting when
she wanted to know if I didn't think it was
a hot day. I told her I did. We got along
very well for the next half hour, as I got
her to narrating a story about how she got
lost in the woods eighteen years before, but
as soon as she finished she wanted to know
if I was sure that we were on the right
road to Detroit. I told her that I hoped to
perish with the liar if we wero not, and she
was satisfied.
Then the parasol fell down ; she wanted
me to change a ten cent piece, and then the
window had to go down . When we got
down to Marshall she wanted to know if
the place wasn't named after court martial,
and whether it wasn't barely possible that
the station was Niles instead of Marshall.
The bandbox was counted, and he was just
one. Then the window was put up, and
she asked me if, in my opinion, it wasn't
a hot day. I replied that it was. Thon she
related a story about her uncle, and another
about a young lady who had been deaf
several years.
During that day counted that bandbox
three hundred times, raised the window
thirty times, said it was a hot day until my
tongue was blistered, arranged that parasol
twenty-one times, got her sixteen drinks of
water, and Inquired the names of thirteen
stations.
She said it was so nice to have a man in
whom a stranger can place confidence, and
I dared not reply, for fear of bringing out
another story. When we reached Detroit,
I counted the things three times over, and
helped her off tho cars, got her a back, di
rected her to a hotel, told her the street,
price, name of landlord, bead waiter,porter
and cook ; assured her she would not be
robbed or muidered ; that it had been a hot
day ; that Detroit back drivers were honest
and obliging. Poor woman, I hope the
landlord did not get out of patience with
her artless ways.
Light Carts.
What a pity it is that young married
folks will not emulate the example of Ja
panese housekeepers t They are troubled
every little by household cares. A few
mats, a chest of drawers for clothing, two
or three quilts for a bed on the floor, some
simple kitchen utensils, and their houses!
are furnished. They never have known
the use of a bedstoad, a chair, or a table,
as we understand these articles ; and yet,
these people have all the virtues of civiliza
tion, and perhaps not quite all its vices,'
They are polite, generous, hospitable, per
form their religious duties with exemplary
piety, and, if cleanliness is next to godliness,
they are much more godly than we are,
for they are the cleauest people on the
earth, according to the general testimony
of travelers. . We have certainly much to
learn before our houses can be imraacutoly
neat as theirs are. The habit of dolling
street boots and assuming slippers before
entering a room does much towards keep
ing houses cleaner than our own. A poor
Japanese housewife really enjoys mora
ease, after her simple duties aro done, than
many of our wealthiest dames who are
weighed down with the cares of an extrav
agant establishment. As for young people
just entering life compare their lot with
that of the people under discussion, and, if
an easo-loving person, you will soon render
a verdict iu favor of Japanese housekeep
ing. tW Another Iow a woman has been giv
ing herself heirs in the matter of four pair
of twins in seven years.