, NEW ,,YORK
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
' OF NEW YORK,
STRICTLY M UTUAL I
Amsi-ih, issn.or.M'oi.H.-; :
ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre
sent at favorable terms ssttiiy company in the
United States.
Thirty days' (trace allowed on each pay ment, and
the policy held good during that time. . ,
Policies issued by tills Company are non-forfeiture.
No extra charges are madefor traveling permits.
Policy-holders share In the annual prolltsof the
Company, and have a voice in the elections and
management of the Company.
. No policy or medical feocharRed.
L. W. fllOST, Prenlilrnt.
M. B. Wynkoop, Vice I'res't.
J. P.Koqkki, Beo'y. .7 "J '",'"7
. .. j , - X;F. EATON,
General Agent, '
No . 6 North Third Street,
. College Mock, Harrisburg, Pa.
THOS. II. MIM.TOAN,
0 42 ly) Special Agent for Newport.
Perry County Bank I
Hponslcr, .limit in V' Co.
THE undersign d, having formed a HanklngAs
soclatlon 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, BLOOMPIELD, 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, five percent forany tlmeover
four months; and for four months four per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
(or doing a Banking Business; and knowing, and
for tome years, feeling the great Inoonvenlence un
der which the people of this County labored for the
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supply the want landthls 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 thefol
Uowlng named partners i
W. A. Spohslkb, Bloomtleld, Perry county, Pa.
H. F. Junkin, " " "
Wti. 11. Miller, Carlisle, ...
officers:
W. A. 8PONSLEB, PrejMen.
Whxusc Willis, Cashier
NewBlooinlleld,3 5 ly , '
IKIlKYr COUNTY
Ileal JEstche, Insurance,
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OIAJT3X, AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTEB & CO.,
Jieal Estate Brokers, insurance, & Claim Alien
Now Uloomiield, I?(t,
YTTEINVITE the attention of buyers and sell.
TV ers to the advantages we offer them In pur
chasing or disposing of real estate through our of.
Uce.
We have a very large list of de4rab property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip
tion which we are prepared to offer at great bar-
f:alns. We advertise our property very extensive
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dilllgence to
eifeeta sale. We make no charges unless tu
proerty is sold while registered with us. We also
draw ap detxis, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa
pers at moderate rates.
Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable
Are. life, and cattle insurance companies In the
I! nlted States are represented at this agency.
Property Insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and periietually at U and (5 per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims
collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
tflers.lf you were wounded, ruptured, orcontraet
d a disease in the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a pension. "
When widows of soldiers die ormarry.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.
2Uly LUW18 POTTKK ft 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 of
CAB8IMEES,
, I CAS8INETS, : .
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
OAltl'KTH, Ate,
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
i J. M. BIXI.KK.
Ckmtue Woolen Factory. f,17,4m,
PERRY HOUSE,
..i New Blooniflcld, Fa.
THE subscriber having purchased the property
on the corner of Maine and Carlisle streets,
-opposite the Court House, Invites all his friends
and former customers to give him a call as he is
-determined to furulsb ttrst class accommodations.
TUOMAH HUTVIl,
ltf. . i , , ,. Proprietor,.
1ft n t9rt per day. Agents wanted every.
LJ LU where. Particulars free. A. fl.
LAIU & CO., St. Louis, Mo. , , . 17 M
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" Enigma.
I am composed of 13 lettors :
My 1, 8, 4, 8 and 9 Is a fragment. 1
My 6. 6, 9, 10 and 5 Is a title.
My 6, 5, 10, 7, 9 and 10 is a girl's name.
My 5, 6, 4 and 11 li a fertilizer.
, My 1, 8, e and 9 Is a fish.
My 11, 13, 10 and 9 Is a metal.
My 8, 8, 11, 5 and 10 Is a town In Alabama.
My whole Is a town In Pennsylvania.
Square Word Enigma.
A kind of Rlddlo
The source of all wealth.
A Beast.
To speak.
A fragment of Pottery.
Answer next week.
ff Answers to Geographical Queries In
Inst week's Times:
No. 1, Davis N. 2, Brcnst ; No. 8, Race
No. 4, Fox ; No. 5, Lisle ; No. 0, Tweed No.
7, Hague ; No. 8, Sable.
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The above cut represents as well at so
small a picture can, tlio Chromo " Yo
Bemitk," given as a premium to subscribers
for tbe Timet find Wood't Magazine.
The "Wrong way of Doinp It.
IT not unfrcquently happens that the
children of two families living near
each other and brought up under the same
social and educational Influence turn out
very differently on arriving at maturity.
The family that seems to havo had the
most careful training does less credit to
itself than the families whose childish fioo
dom of action shocked the critical observer.
We say "seems to have hod the most
careful training," for it is often only in
seeming after all that the difference has
consisted. As a rule it may be predicted
of wise family government that will be
known, as a tree is, by its fiuiL All gov
ernment that is only from the outside, and
therefore despotic, fails necessarily of
reaching its end; and all government whose
aim from first to last is to teach its sub
jects self-control must give them consider
able latitude. Tlio latter sort, however,
takes very much more , time and thought
than the former, and Is incompatible with
certain things which have come to be by
many people accepted as cardinal points in
family policy. For instance, if father and
mother set out primarily with the Idea that
they must save for their children, and so
feeling, if they bend eaoh year the strength
of their natures in a united effort to add
acres to the farm or increase the money in
the savings bank, they will spend all their
force there. The, father will work hard,
late and early, saving here, economizing
there, growing stoop-shouldered and gray,
but gaining his point and thinking, com
placently, of the amount of his worth. The
inotber will pinch, and contrive, and patch
and darn, practicing a thousand small
economies that nobody ever suspects, and
losing oven the memory of the day when
she was a bonny, blithe-hearted girl whom
her tired husband used to come miles to
see in courting days. The children who
are the Qrst in the loyal, honest hoarts that
love them, though they never have time to
show it in any swoet way, meanwhile grow
up. Maria wants to take music lessons,
John wants to go to college, but father and
mother think of the expenses, count up the
dollars it will cost, and decide that ft com
mon school eduction is good enough for
their children as it was for them. This
only sometimes,' and seldom where the
parents are American, born to the idea
that the son may be President one day, and
that as we wrote in our copy-books, " Edu
cation is tho life of liberty." Oftener the
music lessons and the college course are
allowed, however, and the home economies
doubled, while it is in countless little ways
that the love of the beautiful is stunted
and crushed, and the children made to feel
that of all unlovely, hard, prison-like places,
home is the most so. There is a parlor, to
be sure, grim and fuuerial as a hearse, and
it is only used on solemn occasions, as at a
christening, a wedding, or a funeral. For
Mary or Lucy to sit there o'f an afternoon
with their sewing, or for Charlie and Bum
so take a lamp there iu the evening to play
checkers, would be an unheard-of treason
against the housohold economy. ,
If there be a piano, and if U stands iu the
parlor, there Is sure to bo a strip of still r
carpet between it and the door, and anoth
er strip of stuir carpet ' In front of it, lest
the necessary going to and fro of the girls
practice should wear out the splondors of
the best threo-ply or tapestry. The chil
dren desire lb take a paper or magazine as
their neighbors do, but it costs f 3 or f 4 a
year, and father shakes his bead. There
Ftf'lrr4ltr:irVlii?k-iswi .MshVsffrSii
is to be a course of lectures in the neigh
boring church by distinguished men and
women, and it would be pleasant to go, but
winter is coming and there Is . coal to get,
and flour will be wanted, and mother says,
"Bettor not mentienthe lecture to your
father."
Now, when the choice is between coal
and flour and musio and lecture tickets,
and there is honestly not enough money to
afford all, why the latter must go. Cut
your coat by your cloth, of course' But
we are talking of cases where there is
enough money to afford aisthetio and in
tellectual enjoyment as well as food and
fire j to afford books and papers other than
school-books, and to put now and thou a
picture on the wall and a flower in tlio
window, as well as tobuy when needed a
chair and a tablo.
Save for the children if you can, and so
much p.s you can, but remember it is spend
thrift economy that does it by saving from
them. The time when they need a home
full of graco and beauty is in the forming
period of life. There are very few men, if
they knew it, who can afford not to have
the visits iu their family every week of a
fresh, breezy, bright, instructive paper ;
and there is very few who can afford not to
let their children have good times iu the
housohold while childhood lasts. ' When
the final interest is apportioned it will be
those who have spent most wisely who will
have the lnrgost dividends.
Fancy Woods.
T
IIE fancy woods of commerce aro very
numerous. The best known varietios
used in this country far cabinet and inlaid
work nnd interior decoration of buildings
being Black Walnut,nosewood, Mahogany,
Satin and Tulip Wood, Bird's Eye Maple,
Ebony, Box-wood, eto. In India and va
rious Eastern countries are several other
varieties of fancy and perfumed woods but
they very seldom find their way to this
market in their raw statu, mid some of them
seldom, if ever, even in manufactured ar
ticles. - The Teak is a species of Oak, of which
there are several varieties, known as black,
yollow and white ; tbe first two being gen
erally preferred. Tho forests of Siam grow
immense quantitcs of these trees, and tho
important trade in tbe timber was long a
monopoly in tho hands of the Chinese,!
though of late years a considerable share of
the traffic has been diverted, and is now
controlled by Europeans. It is extensively
used iu Eastern lands for every kind of
woodwork requiring a firm, bright, lasting
material ; and also to a considerable extent
for shipbuilding purposes., The trees,
when out, are usually found to be from
thirty to thirty-five feet in length, and
twelve to eighteen inches iu diameter. In
cutting the timber the effort has been made
as much as possible to supersede the use of
the axe by the introduction of the cross cut
saw and other suitable instruments. By
the introduction of improved timbercaits,
too, many other large logs have been se
cured which would otherwise have been
lost. Trained elephants are employed to
draw the timber. There are saw mills in
Burraah, Bombay, Assam, and also at
Madrepore, in tho Punjaub.
Sandalwood is another very valuable pro
duct of the Oi iont. The name is said to be
corrupted from tianlal Wood (genus Santa
turn). ' There are three kinds, white, yel
low and red. The wood ia fragrant and
very costly. It is chiefly used in a great
variety of small fancy articles. The chips
and sawdust aro also used for distilling
Sandalwood oil, the timber being sold by
weight. The tree, which is small, reaches
maturity in about twenty years. The de
mand has led to the almost total extirpation
of tho tree in some localities where it form
erly grew in' abundance. Sntinwood, Cedar
and the Camphor tree are also highly
prized, and especially the two latter, on ac
count of their perfume. Satin wood at
tains about fifteen inches in diameter ; it is
generally used for picture frames, and is
inlaid with other woods.' In some respects
it resembles the American Maple. Myall,
or Mayall wood, is gtown in Australia, and
bos a perfume resembling that of violets,
and is principally made into glove boxes.
Central Asia produces the Blackwood,
which stands next in importance to the
Teak, being used for ordinance purposes,
for the inside finish of buildings, and for
oarvod and ornamental cabinet work.
A very useful kind of Cedar grows in
China, called Southern wood, whiun resists
time and insects, and, being considered
particularly valuable, is reserved for im
perial use alone in building, etc.
The Toqua and Deodara grow at the foot
of the Himalay Mountains., The former is
a dark wood, and when properly polished,
makes exceedingly beautiful cabinet fur
niture. The latter wood is fragrant and
almost imperishable. Dr. Hook is of the
opinion that it Is identical with tbe Cedar
of Lebanon. The wood is yollow, is easily
worked, and pillars of it In the Hindoo
temples are said to be more than eight
hundred years old. Besides these fancy
woods there are many others, the best of
which are Hoonsay, with red and black
strouked noartwood, close and knotty j
Biti, opon-grained and resembling Kose
wood ; Nullec, of a dark flesh color j and
Kovaladdi, greenish' brown, close-grained
timber, which takes a good polish. Nee
York Mercantile Jvurnal, ' ' ' .
A Strange "Story.
A Falmouth, N. Y., paper says : In a
certain part of our county there lives a
family iu which there are two brothers just
entering Into the prime of youthful man
hood. A short distance from them in
fact, in the same neighborhood there lives
a family in which there are two sisters,also
in tho prime of maidenhood, beautiful,
fascinating and attractive. These young
people being near neighbors and coming
in contact with each other often, almost,
naturally it would seem, fell in lore with
each other, the eldost brother with one of
the sisters and the younger with the other.
All went smoothly for a time, and those
young people enjoyed themselves and
dreamed bright dreams of the future, and
no doubt, In imagination constructed fairy
palaces of love and gardens that like Para
dise, should be only filled with the beauti
ful flowers nnd fruits of happiness and un
nlloyed enjoyment. Then as a matter of
couiRo, tho question of marrying aroBo,
which must bo referred to the parents of
the young ladies for npproval. The oldest
brother had no difficulty in obtaining their
consent to his marrying the young lady, and
the woddlng dny was fixed upon. Then
the younger brother wont to the paronts
and made known his attachment for the
other sister and their mutual desire to
"Rplico" nnd travel the road of life to
gether." 1 But the old' folks were decidedly
opposed to having more than one of their
girls married to "that family," and plainly
informed him Hint if he wanted a wife ho
must go elsewhere to get her, intimating
that he should desist from . paying further
attention to the young lady in question.
But the young man was resolved that if
his brother married one of tlio girls he
would marry the othor. So he wont to the
"young lndy of his love," aud told her the
circumstances of the situation, and desired
hor, if sho loved him, to prove her love by
running away with him. To this she
agreed, and tho night was fixed upon when
they should carry out their mutual agree
ment. But now comes the strangest part
of the story. The two young ladies re
semblod each other very much in looks,
voice, &c., and by somo strange freak when
the night of elopement came, and the young
man went to the appointed place of meet
ing, ho found a woman there whom he
thought was the right one, but she was
not. Uunconscious of this, however, he
took her to the place where the marriage
ceremony was to be performed before he
found out that he was with the wrong girl.
Most wonderful to relate, he thought that
after he had gone to all that trouble he
would get married anyway, so he asked her
if sho would have him, and she in order to
carry out the joke, said she would, aud
they were married thon and there. It ap
pears that sho had heard him making ar
rangements to elope with her sister, and
knowing the place of meeting, determined
to go there ahead of her and fool the young
man for whom she entertained a secret lik
ing, although she was engaged to bo mar
ried to his brother. Our informant also
stales that after they had lived together
some little time, the elder brother deter
mining to make the most of tho situation,
took unto himself the other Bister.
Dangerous Experiment.
YOUNG Archibald Singorly, of Ger
mantown, has been unfortunate. He
read in tho paper that, " when the boys in
Virginia City wish to raise their kites, they
tie the string to a dog's tail and make him
run." It occurred to young Mr. Singerly
that as this proceeding was conducted upon
a sound rational basis,he would experiment
in the same direction. The difficulty en
countered by Mr. Singerly at the outset
was that ho had an extremely large kite
and a mournfully small dog, and the con
clusion may therefore be anticipated, es
pecially when we intimate that the wind
was high. The residents of tbe neighbor
hood wore surprised to see a dog rushing
backwards down the streets, with consider
able velocity, clawing and scratching at the
earth for a hold, aud emitting ejaculatory
howls, as if he cherished a secret preference
for going in the other direction. And they
were more surprised to perceive tha t be
appeared to be anchored to something
in the heavens. , But there was no time for
investigation. In a moment a cyclone
struck tbe kite, aud before Archibald Sin
gorly could utter a scream, his dog had
performed about one-third of the journey
to tbe milky way. It is supposed that the
bird's eye view enjoyed by tho animal must
have been magnificent, embracing, as it
did, Mount Airy, Conshokocken, Savannah,
St. Petersburg and Pukiu, with numerous
smaller towns and villages. But the pre
cise amount of felicity pbtaiued by Siuger
ly's dog while dangling amid the planetary
system will perhaps never be ascertained,
unless Singerly moots his victim iu a better
world. For, as the kite came sailing down,
tbe string caught iu the vane of a church
steeple, became eutanglod, aud held Sin
gerly ' dog in permanent suspense. They
tried to blow bim loose with a shot gun,
aud they succeeded iu producing a shower
of sausage meat After each discharge ; but
when the dog had been all shot away, his
tail remained, pointing due north, and re
fusing to come down; Any one having a
good dog can hear something to his advan
tage by applying at Singerly's. Old Mr.
Bingerly would prefer a bob-tall. '
SUNDAY BEADING.
Forgive and Forget.
"I can forgive him, but I can't forget."
Suoh is the language one frequently meets
in urging upon others the duty of brother
ly love. I it according to Christ? If so,
there is justice in it. If not, it is a
spirit born of the devil and should be an
nihilated. The Pharisees, before Christ
came, taught that it was enough to love
those who loved them. Our Saviour laid
the axe of His divine authority to the root
of this tree i "But I say unto you, love
your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray
for them Hint despitefully use you and
pcrsecuto you." This sounds like a note
from a sweeter songster. There is the
music of divine love in it.
But somo tell us they cannot forget ; ' It
is impossible," they say. Are such right
or wrong 1 Cannot an injury bo forgiven
and forgotten also? Most surely. For
giving is forgetting. Tho two mentally
imply one another. What is it that keeps
an old grudge in mind ? It is because it is
cherished as a grudgo.
. Cease to think yourself injured and you
will have no difficulty about forgetting.
It is that old feeling, " How can I be
avenged ?" that keeps an insult or injury
iu mind.
Freely aud fully forgive aud you cannot
help forgetting.
If professing Christians had, as a rule,
more charity, for which Paul entreats, how
much evil now in the world would be driv
en out of it. It is so difficult not to cher
ish resentment where one's honor or au
thority is called in question. Is it' the
spirit of Christ, not to forgive ? Is it, for
instance, according to either his precept or
example, for a church member, because he
thinks himself injured by the inadvertent
remark of a brother in the church, to at
tempt to rosont the injury by withdrawing
from tho fellowship of his church and lend
ing his influence to build up anothor so
ciety ? If so, we fail to read the 18th
chapter of Matthew aright.
Let us forgive as we would be forgiven.
Number 7 in the Bible.
On the 7th day God ended his work.
On tho 7th month Noah's ark touched
the ground.
In 7 days a dove was sent.
Abraham pleaded 7 times for Sodom.
Jacob mourned 7 days for Joseph.
Jacob served 7 years for Rachel.
And yet another 7 years more.
Jacob was pursued a 7 days journey by
Laban.
A plenty of 7 years and a famine of 7
years were foretold iu Pharaoh's dream by
7 fat and 7 lean boosts, and 7 ears of full
and 7 ears of blasted corn.
On the 7th day of the 7th month the
children of Israel fasted 7 days and re
maincd 7 days in their tents.
Every 7 days the land rested.
Every 7th year the law was read to the
people.
In the destruction of Jericho ; 7 persons
bore 7 trumpets 7 days : on the 7th day
they surrounded tho walls 7 times, and at
the end of the 7th round the walls fell.
Solomon was 7 years building the temple,
and feasted 7 days at its dedication.
In the tabernacle were 7 lamps.
The golden caud lesticks bad 7 branches.
Naaman was washed 7 times in the river
Jordan.
Job's friends sat with him 7 days and 7
nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7 rams
for an atonement.
Our Saviour spoke 7 times from the
oross, on which he hung 7 hours, and after
his resurrection appeared 7 times.
Iu the Lord's Prayer are 7 petitions,
containing 7 times 7 words.
Iu tbe Revelations we read of 7 churches,
7 candlesticks, 7 stars, 7 trumpets, 7 plagues,
7 vails, 7 angels, and a 7-headed monster.
t3T If any one should ask me for an ep
itome of the Christian religion, I should
say, it is in that one word " prayer." If
I should be asked, " What will take the
whole of Christian experience ?" I should
answer, "prayer." A man must have
been convinced of Bin before he could pray;
he must have had some hope that thore
was mercy for him before he could pray.
In fact, all the Christian virtues are locked
up in that one word prayer. Do but toll
me, you are a man of prayer, and I will
reply at once. , "Sir, I have no doubt of
the reality, as well as the sincerity, of your
religion."
IW Meditation is the tongue of the soul
and the language of our spirit ; ' and our
wandering thoughts in prayer are but the
neglect of meditation aud recessions from
that duty ; and according as we neglect
meditation, so are our prayers imperfect,
meditation being the soul of prayer and
the Intentions of our spirit.
1ST A papyrus manuscript found in an
Egyptian tomb has lately been translated
by a scholar of Heidelberg, who pronounces
it to be an address of Rameses III. to all
the nations of the earth, detailing minutely
all the causes which led to the exodus of
the Jews from the land of the Pharaohs.
VW Theology it rather a divine life than
a divine knowledgo.