YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICT L Y M VI' UAL t ISSUES all the new forma of Policies, mid pre. eents as favorable terms as any 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-forfeiture. No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice lu the elections aud management of the Company. No policy or medical feecharged. L. W. FROST, President. ' ' ' M. B. Wtnkoop, Vloe Pres't. J. P.Eogkhs, Seo'y. J. V. EATON. General Agent. No. 6 North Third Street, -. . ColleKa Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. TUOS. n. MILMOAN, 0 42 ly Special Agent fur Newport. Perry County Bank! Spoiisler, .finikin & Co. THE underslKn A, 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 110 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, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. , ... On time Deposits, five per cent forany 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 i 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 -.and this being the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the business men, farmers aud mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: ' , , W. A. Hponbleh, Bloomtleld, Perry eounty, Pa. B. F. Junkin, " : . " Wm. H. Millkb, Carlisle, omenta : W. A. SPONSLEB, Present. Wiixluc Willis, duliier New Bloomtleld, 3 5 ly I'EItltY COUNTY Meal Estate. Insurance, ' AMD CLAIM AGENCY. . LEWIS POTTER & CO., Real Estate Brokers, Insurance, fc Claim Agen Now Hloomlleltl, In. WETNVITK the attention of buyers and sell ers to the advantages we oiler theut la pur chasing or disposing of real estate through our of fice. Wehaveavery large llstof deslrab 1 property, consisting of farms, town properly, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tion which we are prepared to oiler at great bar- fjalns. We advertise our properly very extensive y, and use all our efforts, skill, and diligence to effect a sale. We muke no charges unless tht property Is sold while registered with us. We alsc draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa pers at moderate rates. Home of the hest. hnnMt. unit mnal Are, life, and cattle Insurance companies in the United States are represented at this agency. Property insured either on the cash or mutual plan, and perpetually at 14 and 5 per thousand. Pensions, bounties, and all kln.U of wur oialms collected. There are thousands of soldiers and heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and bounty, who have never made application. Sol dlers. If you were wounded, ruptured, oreontract. ed a disease in the service from which you are dls. 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 onr line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as we are win nueiK we can render satisfaction to any branch of our business. No charge for Information. ' , 42"ly . LEWia l'OTTEK CO. LOOK OUT I I would respectively Inform my friends that I In tend calling upon them with supply of goods of my OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of OAS8IMER8. , OASHINBTS, FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) o exchange for wool or sell for cash. . J. M. BIXI.EB. Centbk Wooi.m Factort. 6,17,4m, ?EEKY HOUSE, New Bloomfleld, Fa. rTlH E subscriber having pnrehased the property IL on tlieoorner of Maine and Carlisle streets, Sliposue the Court House, luvltee ail hit friends nd former customers to give him a call as he It etermiued t o furnish first class accommodations. . . THOMAS HUTCH, lit. ... Proprietor. 1fi 4- 4Ofl per day. Asents wanted every. ! 7 r" vvhere. Particular! free. A. If. duaia lu, m. wait, Mo. 17 OZ' ! i ENIGMA UKPAItTMJENX. mr All contributions to this department must De accompanied uy me correct answer Hf Answer to Square word enigma In last week's Times i : REBUS' ' ": : ' ' K A II T II BRUTE UTTER 8 ii mi i) Answer to Enigma composed of 13 letters l " Bherniansdale." 3 YO SELOTE VALLEY. The above cut represents as well ac so small u picture can, tlie Chromo " Yo Semite," given as a premium to subscribers for tbe Timet and Woo&'t Magazine, ' The Tables Turned. 6fc TTOW do you like it, Paul?" Georgia Alden stood before her middle-aged finaneee, all smiles, blushes and dimples, in the white silk dress and wreath of orange buds, from which depend ed a mist of tulle in the shape of a vail her wedding dress in short. , " My darling," said Paul Forrars, "you look like an angel." Well, it was an excusable liberty 6f speech. Georgia was very pretty, with her wax-doll complexion, great blue eyes, and long, sunshiny curls, and the snowy dress and vapory folds of the vail gave just the illusion that was needed to set off her in fantine style of beauty. And Gertrude, her sister, who stood by, sighed almost in audibly, as she saw the rapturous devotiou on Paul Ferrar's face. " lie loves you so, Georgia," she said, afterward, as she undid the pearl clasp that fastened the orange wreath among her young sister's golden tresses. " For Heav en's sake, prove yourself worth of his . do votiou 1" . ' Georgia gave her curls an impatient toss. " Don't preach, Gerty," said she. "Of course I shall do my best to be a good wife to him, only I do wish he wasu't three times my age." "A man forty-eight is in his prime, Geor gia." .... " What nonsense I But I say, Gerty, I am to select ray carriage this afternoon my own special little pony phaeton and Paul has brought the sweetest pair of jet black ponies for me you ever saw. Won't it be fine?" Gertrude looked almost wonderingly at the little sixteen-year-old elf, who was walt z ing about tho floor in her white skirts aud satin slippers. " Heedless child !" she thought ; " to think so much of bis wealth so little of his noble manly heart I If I were but in Georgia's place but, oh, Heaven I am I getting base enough to envy my sister's hap piness?" "The funniest of it all, though," care lessly went on Georgia, " is that I am to be step-mamma to a son older than myself. I wonder what sort of a person Ferdinand Forrars is ! I say, Gerty, wouldn't it be a joke for , you to marry him ? l Then, you see,you would be my stop-daughter-in-law!' Georgia burst ipto a peal of merry laugh ter. . Tbe two orphen sisters Georgia and Ger trude Alden, were singuarly unlike. Ger trude, the elder by teu years, was quiet, thoughtful and earnest, with a face more intellectual than beautiful ; while Georgia was one of life's sparkling butterflies, friv olous, enchanting, and spoiled. And yet they loved each other tenderly aud well. , "Georgia," said Gertrude, earnestly, "tell me, do you love this man to whom you are so soon to be wedded ?" " Love bim I 1 like him ever so much." " But do you love him ?" "No," confessed Georgia, half reluctant- "Then you should not many him. Dear Georgia, reflect." ', But Georgia turned Impatiently on her sister. " Why do you interfere?" the cried out. "Gertrude, I believe you love the man yourself. ,. I believe you would marry bim, if you oould." ., " Georgia, I want you to be happy." " Well, who says I am not ? You are too tiresome for anything, with your lec tures, and I won't listau to 'em any longer." Georgia was looking out of the window, next day, when suddenly she called out ! " Gerty, come here, Quick t Bee what a handsome young fellow is coming here With Paul !" But Gertrude was too late. ' ' " How i revoking!" pouUd Georgia. "But ri imports, we shall both see bim presently. He has a face like a hero of romance dark, glittering, melancholy. I am sure he has been crossed in love." . . ; ' And Georgia, staying ' back' only to fasten a bunch of blue Neapolitan violets in her hair, flew down stairs to kiss Paul Ferrars, and courtesy low to the handsome stranger whom hor bridegroom elect intro duced as "My son Ferdinand, who has just ar rived from Europe." ' And Ferdinand Ferrars, standing in the presence of tho lovely child who was about to become his father's wife, contracted his eyelids, as one docs when dazzled by sud den sunshine. " Well, Ferdinand, my boy," said Mr. Forrars, senior, as they walked away from the doorstop some two hours subsequently, " what do you think of my choice ?" "I think she is the most beautiful girl I ever saw in my life," said Ferdinand Fer rars, enthusiastically. " You think tho old man has had luck in his wooing, eh ?" "Nobody could dream of calling you old, sir," said the sou, dutifully. " Her sister is a very lovely girl," said Mr. Ferrars. " Indeed I think if I hadn't seen Georgia, I might have lost my heart to Gertrude." " 8he is well enough, I dare sny," ob served Ferdinand, indifferently. " But the younger is a perfect little sunbeam." The wedding morning dawned brilliantly all clear and sunshine and soft September breezes ; and Paul Ferrars, in bis bridal costume, walked up and down tho floor of bis stately mansion on Madison Avenue, wondering why Ferdinand did not make his appearance, according to previous agreement. " I'll not wait any longer," he cried im patiently. " The boy must have misunder stood me, and I shall undoubtedly find him at the -Aldens." ' , ' Ho sprang into bis carriage. " Drive to No. , Lessing street," be cried ; " and drive as if for your life." Ferdinand Ferrars was there, in the un pretending little drawing-room, with Geor gia leaning on his arm her wedding-dreBs of white, and a necklace of pearls on her bosom. While Gertrude stood looking at them, with clasp hands and a deadly pale face. " ' "What Is the matter?" exclaimed Mr. Ferrars. " Why is this delay ? Georgia, my darling the clergyman is waiting at the church ; will you allow me to lead you to the carriage?" ' But Georgia drew back, half laughing, half crying ; Paul Ferrars thought she was hysterical. " I can't !" she fluttered. , ," Oh, Paul- papa, I mean forgive me I I was mar ried this morning. , Tell him about it, Fer dinand." The older gentleman looked the two young people steadily and calmly in the face. " Ferdinand, is this true?" be asked. "It is true, sir," asknowledged the son. " We couldn't live without each other, and Georgia hoped you would forgive her if you knew how little she could fulfill the bridal vows to you, even were they taken. Will you forgive us, sir ?" ' Mr. Ferrars rubbed his nose. " I don't see that there's anything else left for me to do," said bo. "Yes, I for give you, and I dare say I've had a lucky escape of it. Gertrude, my dear," to the pale, lovely girl in the brides-maid's dress, don't cry so. After all, there's no great barm done." . "Believe me, sir," gasped Gertrude, "I knew nothing of all this.? Paul Ferrars looked at her. . :., " Gerty," said he, " I'm going to say something which you will think exceeding ly odd and eccentric, but you must remem ber that I never was exactly like the rest of the world. The house is ready ; tbe pas sage tickets to Europe are purchased. 1 don't quite like the idea of giving up wed ding, after all that has transpired. Will you be my wife?" "Do you' really wish it?" Gertrude asked, crimsoning and tlstn growing pale. "I do." ! , "Then I say, Yes," she murmured. : . So the tables were turned all around. Gertrude became the rich man's bride, and ' Ferdinand and Georgia - tried the experi ment of "love in a cottage." And when ever Georgia got Angry, and sobbed : ' " I wish I'd married your father," Fer dinand coolly answered : ' " So do I." While Gertude and the elder Mr. Ferrars were the happiest couple in existence. A Libel. It is a shame to call a drunken man a drunken dog. It is also improper to libel the bog by saying that an intemperate man makes a hog of himself. Now, the hog is not a very polite animal, for be is not given to intemperance. Mr. Bergh ought to complain of the man who says that a bum mer is a drunken brute. The brutes never use Intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Tbey are water drinkers, and they prefer cold water at all seasons of tbe year. IW Don Antonia Lopez De Santa Anna the old Moxican General, now an exile, is passing a miserable life, having sunk from opulence to the moit oomple poverty. ' He in no longer feared as a poliCeal agitator, The Patrons or Husbandry. rpiIE order, as it at present exists, has JL three distinct and prominent features, namely, the social, the intellectual and the business. ,, Of the social feature, Mr. Saunders, late Master of the National Grange, at the annual session of that body In 1870, said, in an address recapitulating the objects of the society : " To make country homes and country society attract ive, refined and enjoyable j to balance ex haustive labor by instructive social amuse ments and accomplishments is part of our mission and our aim." Of the admission of women he said in the samo address : " Their assistance in the workings of the Order is proving of incalculable value ; it is indeed doubtful whether the objects of the institution, especially in regard to tho re finements of education, and nil that tends to brighten hearths and enliven homes could have been accomplished without her presence and aid." In one of the circulars sent out by the National Grange it is furth er said in defence of the female feature : " Every husband and brother knows that where ho can be accompanied by his wife or Bister, no losson will be loarned but those of purity and truth.", Oue of the pleasant social features of the Granges is tho feasts provided by the ladies once a month. In some parts of the West these banquets take the form of pic-nics in the woods. They are quito popular and have doubtless done much toward swelling the member ship of the order. . , The Grange room is a kind of moral club room for the enjoyment of both sexes. There is much music in the ritual to enliven the coremonios, and many of the Granges possess libraries for the amusement and instructions of its members. This, it is calculated, naturally has a tendency to pre vent young men from leaving a rural life where they possess comfortable competence for precarious competition in the large cities. The order proposes to abolish tho com missions of .the middlemen as far as it is practicable to do so, and deal directly with the manufacturers and consumers. It also proposes, in localities where it may be deem ed necessary, to reduce fares and freights on railroads by a system of co-operation, and to promote the interests of agricultural classes in every legitimate aud honorable way that may suggest itself. One of the cardinal principles of the Order is to buy for cash. If a worthy mom. ber of the order desires to make a purchase, but is not possessed of the means, the Grange to which he belongs advances the money. It is common for deputes of tbe Order to make arrangements for the pur chase of certain articles by members of tbe Grange, at wholesale rates, and they are always to instruct tlie manufacturer or producer not to fill any single order for goods unless it is signed by the Master and Secretary of the Grange, bears tbe seal of the same, and is invariably accompanied by the cash. Some four hundred deputies whose expenses have been paid, but evlio have received no compensation for their services, have been sent out by the State and National Granges within the past five years, to act in the capacity of intermed iaries be wee u the farmers and manufact urers, tradesmen, transpoitatiou compan ies, &o. Drew as a Speller. A good story is told by a friend of Daniel Drew, which the news of his illness calls up. Remaining one evening late in the oflice, and having occasion to use the safe, be pormitted the cashier to go home, remark ing that he would close the safe and fix the combination on the word , "door." But when the cashier undertook to open the safe in the morning he found the lock re fused to yield to the magio "door." He tried and tried again, but without success. Finally, happening to remember that Dan iel's early education bad been neglected, he attributed his luck to poor orthography. He therefore tried tlie lock upon "dore." Still no success, and then upon " doar," with no better fortune. Finally becoming disgusted, he proceeded to the St Nicholas, routed " Daniel" out of bis choicest morn ing nap, aud as be stuck bis nightcap out of the door this colloquy ensued : " Mr. Drew, I cannot open the safe on I door." You must have concluded to change the word. " Chago the word ! Nothln' o' the kind. I shut it on door." "Are you sure, sir?" "Sure, sir, your tarnal ape : of course I'm sure I Go back to your work, and don't come fool in, rouh' here this time of morn in'." " Well, perhaps, Mr. Drew, I don't spell the word right?" How did you spell it?" Spell it t Any fool can spell door. D-o-a-r-e, doare, of coarse, sir. If you cau't spell door, sir, you're no cashier for me. Pack up your duds and go out of the door." And shutting the "door" in tbe cashier's faoj, Daniel returned to his bed in a pas sion, and the clerk to bis safe. Armed with the sesame of " doare," however, tbe sife flew opon without any further trouble and when Daniel arrived mollified by a good breakfast and his morning prayer, he a llsed hit cashier that be might keep hit place provided he would improve hit time and " go tu spolliu' skool in the venin'." A Chat with Fat People. TJERIIAPS you fancy your shape. You 1 do look comfortable and jolly ; but as a physiologist, I must find fault with you. Obesity, like emaciation, is a sort of disease unfavorable to health and long life. The warm weather makes you pant and' perspire. ' I met one of your number down on tbe beach the other day. It was a warm after noon. Ho was very uncomfortable. We stopped tA chat a moment, when he ex claimed : ' " I would give ten thousand dollars to be reduced to one hundred and fifty pounds. I pant, wheeze and sweat, every time I stir ;" and looking earnestly in my face, he said, "Doctor, what can you do forme? What can I take ? My family doctor tolls me he can give me something that will whittlo me down ; do you think it can be done ?" "O, yes," I replied, " nothiug is easier ; but it is quite unnecessary to take any med icine. Suppose, sir, you have a very fat hoi so much in the condition of yourself, and some doctor were to propose to reduce his weight wilh medicine, what would you say?" " I should tell him that I could reduce his weight by reducing the amount of hit food." "Just so, and you would be quite right. Allow me to commend the same practice to yourself. Reduco the quantity of your food one quarter, and I venture to say that in a mouth you will weigh from five to ten pounds lets than now. At the end of tho first month reduce the amount of your food another quarter. Within three or six months you will Hud yourself lighter by twenty to fifty pounds. Y'our digestion will be much more healthier, your respira tion freer, and your activity and endurance greatly increased." "But," said he, " I don't eat half as much as some thin men whom I know." " This is not improbable, and I presume their excessive eating keeps them thin. If they wore to reduce tho quantity of their food, they would, like yourself, tend to ward the normal standard they would gain in weight while you lose." He promised to try it, and started on. In a horse-car the other day I met six corpulent, uncomfortable men, all quite sure to die prematurely. Each one of them might in six or twelve . months, be reduced to the normal standard, and enjoy a degree of health and activity to which he is now a stranger. Is any physiological statement more self-evident than that every fat person eats more than he needs? . , "But exolaims some fat young woman, who would "give the world" to be in good shape, " I cannot go hungry and faint for ever." ., This remark shows you have never tried what I have suggested. It is only the great eater who is troubled with hunger and "goneness." If you would reduce the quantity of your food even one half at once aftor three days you will not suffer from faintness or hunger. In tho light of the undeniable statements how silly the practice, common among girls, of swallowing acids, and other kill ing things and among men of steeping in tobacco, to reduce ther flesh. I have personally known scores of young women whose health hat been ruined by drinking vinegar, or eating chalk and other indigestible things, all to take away their fat. And I have known a still greater number to ruin themselves with corsets, in the hope of keeping themselves comely and in shape. . . , I have met hundreds of fat men who were besmeared and saturated with tobac co iuice. obiceta nf riiunnut. t nil huhnUm terrors to decent housukeoiiers, peregrina- ing Btenchpots, and all to keep their flesh down. My poor dear, fat simpletons, allow me to prescribe for you : Kise early : exercise much, nurtieulnriv in the open air j bathe frequently, rubbing the skiu very hard ; but most important of all eat plain, coarse food, and reduoe the quantity until you find yourself growing thinner two or three pounds per week. y. our sluggishness, short breath and other discomforts will leave you, and you wil ueuuiu urijjut, ciear-neauea ana nappy. Anecdote of Burns. Burns, the Seotob pott, was onoe chal lenged by a man named Andrew Horner, to have each compose, in a given time, a piece of poetry, both of which pieces were to oe submitted to judges, who wore to award the palm of superioiity to the one they should deem deserving it. Horner, in a boasting manner, said that he himself was born in 1740, and that he would make that event the theme of his composition, lie then extemporized the following line : In seventeen hundred and forty-nine Here he was nonplussed until the appoint ed time had expired. Burns was then call ed on for his production, when bo gave the following, on tlie same theme as that taken by his rival : In seventeen hundred and ferty-nlue, Tho de'el got stuff to make a swine, And threw it In a corner. Shortly after, he changed his plan, And made it something like a man, And called it Andrew Horner. It it neediest to say that the aim of Superiority was awarded to Burnt' oom potUon. Aud it deserved it, especially a it was not all original.
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