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OF NEW YORK,
STRICTLY MUTUAL
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United Watts.
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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 slmre In the annual profits of the
Company, and have a voice ill the elections and
management of the Company.
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,. W. FROST, President.
M. B. Wtnkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.Roukks, Sec'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent,
No . 6 North Third Street,
College Miock, Rarrlsburg, Pa.
TUO.H. II. MILUOAN,
6 42 ly Bpoclal Agent (or Newport.
Perry County Sank!
SponsCer, .limit in A Co.
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We receive money on deposit and pay back on
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. over 60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
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for some years, feeling the great inconvenience un
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business men, farmers and mechanics.
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B. F. JUNKIN, " . " "
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collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
diers, If you were wounded, ruptured, orcontract
ed a disease in tlx service from which you are dis
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When widows of soldiers die or marry, the minor
Children are entitled to the pension.
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of my
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Consisting ot
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OAHFI3TH, &o.,
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opposite the Court House, Invito all his friends
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lti. Proprietor.
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Ihe Trencher's Rooster.
REV. MR. PlNkNET, of Slawson,
bought a game rooster from a Dan
bury dealer, Saturday. Mr. Fiukney in
forms us that he was not nwaro tho fowl
was of Uio gamo species ; ho bought it be
cause of its Mwpely appearance. We be
lievo this statement, and are confident
that the Rood people of Slawson will acquit'
him of all blame in the unfortunate affairof
latt Sunday morning, the particulars of
which aro as follows : At the time when
the trouble commenced, Mr. Pinkney was
engagcd.in arranging his necktie- preparato-
ry to putting on bis vest and ooal. Hap
pening to look out of the window he saw
his new rooster and a rooster belonging to
the Widow Iiulhbui n, squaring off in the
street for a light. Surprised and pained
by this display, he immediately started out
to repel the distui banco, but was too late.
Whcu he got there, a half dozen youug
ruffians with cigars in their mouths and
evil in their eyes, had surrounded tho
birds, which were already in the affray.
They would thrust their heads out at each
other, and rufilo thoir necks, and then
dauco around and strike out with their
spurs, and jump back and tbiust out their
heads again.
And when tho boys saw him they
shouted out : "Hurry up, baldy, (Mr.
Pinkney is a little bald,) or you'll miss the
fun." Mr. Pinkney, was inexpressibly
shocked. It was Sunday morning ; the
homes of two of his deacons and several
of bis most prominent members were in
sight, and here were those roosters carry
ing on like mad, and a parcel of wicked
aud profane boys standing around, shout
ing their approval and noisily hotting on
the result. He made an effort to secure
his fowl, but it eluded him. The perspira
tion bt reamed down his face, which burned
like lire, his knees trembled, and he folt,
as he saw the neighbors gathering, that if
the earth would only dpen aud swallow him
he could never be sufficiently grateful. Just
as he attempted to catch his rooster, a
rough-looking individual, with his pants in
his boots, and a cap 'with a draw down
fore-piece, came up, and taking in the
scene at a glance, sided in with the roos
ters : "Fair play," shouted the newcom
er for tho benefit of the crowd, and " don't
step on the birds, old codger," for the par
ticular berelitof Mr. Pinkney, who, crazed
beyond reason, was jumping about, swing
ing his arm, aud muttering incoherent
things, to the great danger of stepping on
the combatants. "Good for Pinkney's roos
ter," screamed the boys, in great dolight,
as that fowl knocked a handful of feathers
from his opponent's neck. " The parson
knows how to do it," said one man- gloe
fully. Mr. Pinkney could have swooned.
I'll go you five dollars on the Wldder,"
said the rough man earnestly winking at
the clergyman, " Take him, Pinkney ;
take him Piukney," chorused the crowd of
ragamuffins. "My friends." protested the
unfortunate minister in a voice of agony.
" I cannot, 1 cannot " " I'll back you,
sir," said an enthusiastio man with a fishing-polo,
I'll put up for you, and you can
lot me have it from your donation." The
clergyman groaned. " Catch the Widder,"
shouted the rough man to Mr. Pinkney, in
dicating that lady's bird by a motion of his
finger. . Mr. Pinkney, clutched it, drop
ping on his knees as he did so. At the
same time the rough man by a dexterous
move, caught the clergyman's bird, and
dropped on Ids knees opposite.
Just then Mr. Pinkney looked up and
there saw two of his deacons and several of
the members staring down upon the scene,
with an expression that brought the blood
to Ids face, and with a groan of 'intense
pain, the unhappy man dropped Mrs. Rath
burn's fowl and darted into the house. As
soon as he recovered from his mishap, be
sent in his resignation, but a critical exam
ination had been made in the meantime,
and it transpired that as far as the worthy
man was concerned there was not the least
blame. The resignation was not accepted.
KIT A young man deoidedly inebriated,
walked into tho Executive Chamber in N.
Y., recently, and asked for the Governor.
" What do you want with him?" Inquired
the Secretary, "Oh, I want an office with
a good salary a sinecure." "Well," re
plied the Secretary, "I can tell you some
thing better than a sinecure ; you bad bet
ter go and try a water cure."
A Leper's Home.
rriHE lepers of the Sandwich Islands oo.
X cupy what is known as the Plain of
Kolanao. The plain oontains about 16,
000 acres, and looks like an absolute flat,
bounded on three sides by the blue Pacific,
It is believed to have been once the bottom
of a vast crater, of which the Pali formed
one of the hills, the other having sunk be
neath the ocean, leaving a few traces on
one side.
' The whole great plain is composed of
lava stones, aud to one unfamiliar with the
habitB of the Sandwich Islanders, would
seem to be an absolute sterile desert. Yot
here lived, not many years ago, a consider
able population, who have left the marks
of an almost incredible industry in numer
ous fields inclosed between, walls of lava
rock, well laid up ; and i what is yet
Btranger, long rows of stones, like the
wiurows of the hay in a green field at
home, evidently piled there in order to se
cure room in the long, narrow beds partly
cleared of lava which lay between, to plant
sweet potatoes. As I rode over the trails
worn in tho lava by the horses of the old
inhabitants, says a correspondent, I
thought this plain realized what Verraont
er's say about a piece of particularly stony
ground, that th6re was not room in the
field to pile up the rocks it contained. Yet
on this apparently desert space, within a
century, more than a thousand people lived
contentedly and prosperously after thoir
fashion ; aud this, though fresh water is so
scarce that many of them must have car
ried their drinking water at least two or
three miles. And here now live, among
the lepers, or rather a little apart from
them at one side of the 'plain, about a
hundred people, the remnant of the former
population, who were too much attached to
thoir houses to leave them, and accepted
sentence of perpetual seclusion hero, in
common with the leper, rather than exile
to another part of the island. When we
bad discovered this cliff, a short ride brought
us to the house of a luua, or local overseer,
a native who is not a leper ; and of this
houso, being uucontamiuatod, we took
possession.
By a law of the Kingdom, it is mado the
duty of the Minister of the Interior, and
under him of the Board of Health, to ar
rest every one suspected of leprosy ; and if
a medical examination shows that ho has
the disoaBO, to seclude the loper upon this
part of Molokai. The disease, when it is
beyond its very earliest stage, is held to be
incurable. He who is sent to Molokai is,
therefore, adjudged civilly dead. His wife,
upon application to the proper court, is
granted a decree of absolute divorce, and
can marry again; his estate is administered
upou as though he were dead. He is in
capable of suing tr being sued ; and his
dealings with the world, therefore, aro
through and with the Board of Health
alone. In order that no doubtful cases
may be sent to Molokai, there is a hospital
at Kabul, near Honolulu, where the pre
liminary examinations are made,and where
Dr. Trousseau, the physician of the Board
of Health, retains people about whom he is
uncertain.
Absent Minded Hen.
A FRIEND tolls the following amusing
instance of absence of mind : My
grandfather was returning home one even
ing from the hay-fluid, driving his oxen
before a load of hay. He tied an old mare
which he bad been using to the cart behind
but happeuning to think of one of her fa
vorite tricks of pulling.be untied her again,
and mounting, rode astride, still driving
the oxen. He fell into a deep reverie, as
was his wont, in which balky mares and all
other vexations sublunary matters were
banished from bis mind. But this serene
state was suddenly broken up by his hap
pening to think, when near borne, that he
had, when starting from the field, tied that
unruly beast to the cart bohind. Entirely
forgettiug the precaution he had afterward
taken, he whirled' about only to discover
that she was missing from the place ; and,
supposing that she had pulled loose, he rode
back at full gallop in search of the vixen.
In the course of half a mile ho met one of
his neighbors, a stuttering follow, to whom
he called out to know if he had seen any
thing of ber. Before the man bad half
surmounted his t-t-t-s (perhaps from a com
ical expression on hiB face) the whole truth
flashed into my grandfather's mind, and he
turned back at full speod, without waiting
for a reply to his inquiry, only exclaiming
" let her go, I'll not look her up." But it
was too lata for him to save himself, aud
his neighbors in the old Yermont village
never suffered the story to be forgotten as
long as he lived there.
An absent minded man, Mr. A , of
Troy, receives a letter ; he knows the hand
writing he wants to read it in haste it is
already dark ; he strikes a light, tears a
paper and lights a lamp, but the letter is
gone he has used It to light the lamp. '
There is a late striking instauoe given of
Pore Gratry,who has just been nominated
as director of the academy in Paris. One
day, when going to the Borboune, where he
lectured on theology, he imagined be had
forgotten his watch, and took it out of his
pocket to see if be had time to go home
and fetch it.
It is said of Neander, the learned lectur
er and ecclesiastical historian of Germany,
that his sister bad to watch him daily to
see that he did not start to the univers
ity with his night cap on, or with his study
gown and slippers and it was not uncom
mon for him when moving aside to step
into the gutter, where he walked on and on,
seemingly unconscious where he was step
ping. . .
How he Scared his Wire.
Merriweather lives in one of a row of
houses which, as is generally the case in
Philadelphia, are uniform. He thought
the other night he would scare Mrs. Morrl
woathor, whilo she was in bed, so ho rose,
and dressed in his night shirt, went upon
the roof while she slept, ne tied a nail to
a piece of string, lay down on the cornice,
leaned over and tapped the bed room win
dow with the nail. Mrs. Merriweather,
meanwhile was not asleop, but she follow
ed him up, fchut the trap door in the loft,
and went hack to bed.
Merriweather concluded to give It upand
turn in, but, to his dismay, the .trap
wouldn't open. To make matters worse,
a policeman, who had been watching him
felt certain he was a burglar, aud began
to practice at him with his revolver. The
manner in which that old man dodged
about those chimneys, clad in that simple
robe of white, would have done credit to a
performer on a flying trapczo. At last, he
came to his trap-door, and finding that it
had been opened ho went down. On en
tering his bed-room, he saw a man turning
down the gas. As soon as he shouted
"thieves !" the man also shouted, and the
woman iii the room gave a wild and awful
yell.
Then the man turned up the gas, and
seized a pistol, and as Merriweather dashed
down stairs, he perceived that he had got
into the wrong house. As ho flew into the
parlor and hid under the sofa the other
woke the whole neighborhood with a rat
tle, and in ten minutes six policemen came
in, and, after a search, dragged Merri
weather out and marched him to the station-house.
When he came out in tho
morning, he walkeoVhome in a pair of the
turnkey's pants, and began to eat his
breakfast without asking the blessing, and
when Mrs. Merriweather inquired if his
muttered ejaculations, "fool!" and "idiot?"
referred to br, he said she might wear
thorn if they fitted her. He will not prob
ably play any fresh practical jokes on
Mrs. Merriweather soon again.
Singular Accident to a Cable.
Details of a most extraordinary break
down to the Persian Gulf cable came to
us from Mr. Izaak Walton, the superin
tendent of the Persian Gulf telegraph.
He relates that " the cable botweon Kur
rachee and Gwadur (a'distance of about
300 miles) suddocly failed on the evening
of the 4th inst. The telegraph steamer
Amber Witch, under the command of Cap
tain Bishop, with the electrical and engin
eering staff under Mr. Henry Mance, pro
ceeded on the following day to repair the
damage, which, by tests taken at either
end, appeared, to bo 118 miles from Kor
rachoe, The Amber Wileh arrived on the
ground at 2 p. m. on the 0th, a heavy sea"
and thick fog prevailing at the time-, but
the cable was successfully grappled within
a quarter of a mile of the fault.
"The soundings at the fault were very
irregular, which overfalls from thirty to
seventy fathoms. On winding in the cable
unusual resistance was experienced, as if
it were foul of rocks, but after persevering
for some timo, the body of an immense
whnlo, entangled in the cable, was brought
to tho surface, where it was found to - be
firmly secured by two and a half turns of
the cable immediately above the tail.
Sharks and other fish had partially eaten
the body, which was rapidly decomposing,
the jaws falling away on reaching the sur
face. The tail, which measured fully
twelve feet across, was perfect, and cover
ed with barnacles at the extremities.
"Apparently the whale was, at the time
of tho entanglement, using the cable to
free itself from parasites, such as barnacles
which annoy this fish very much, and the
cable hanging in a deep loop over a sub
marine precipice, he probably, with a fillip
of his tail, twisted it round him, and then
came to an untimely end."
Boughlug It.
A few evenings since a Detroit cbap was
sparking a West-sido girl who wore an
Elizabethian ruff. Expecting Jris coming,
she bad dressed for the occasion, and her
ruff, stiff as an unrestricted use of satrn
starohed gloss could make it, was one of
the most stunning character. The lover
came at the orthodox time, and waa usher
ed into the parlor, where the enchanting
maiden and her father and mother were
seated. lie was cordially- received, and
the evening passed pleasantly, although
the old folks sat up a good deal longer than
the youngsters thought necessary. Finally
they went to bed and the twain were left
alone. After a certain amouut of prelim
inary bashfulness, the maiden assented to
her lover's request for a kiss. He essayed
to take it, but was met at every point by a
bristling wall of tarletan and starch. He
come up to ber in front, and was gouged in
each eye. He sidled up to ber and the
right-hand prong out one of bit ears half
off. He attempted to reach the prize over
her shoulder, and a cheveaux, de freise of
lace tickled his nose till he was obliged to
take a seat and sneeze. Then the maiden
came to the rescue, and held down one
Hide of the provoking ruff, and again the
lover advanced. Just as he had but reach
her blooming cheek, the damsel lost her
grip, aud the razor-like decoration flew up
with a force that took an " under bit out
of his right ear." Thea he got mad.
Theu she got mad. Then they, both got
mad, and an anticipated weddiug bus come
to a premature end.
SUNDAY BEADING.
LICEN3dT0I!0 WHAT!
Licensed to make the strong man weak j
Licensed to lay a wise man low
Licensed a wife's fond heart to break, .
And make her children's tears to flow.
Licensed to do a neighbor harm i
Licensed to kindle hate and strife i '
Licensed to nerve the robber's arm i
Licensed to abet the murderer's knife.
Licensed, where peace and quint dwell,.
To bring disease, and want, and woe ;
Licensed to make this world a bell,
And fit men for a hell below."
The Small Worries.
The Christian world has long been
guessing what Paul's thorn in the flesh
was. Mauy of the theological doctors
have folt Paul's pulse to see what was the
matter with him. We suppose the reason
he did not tell us what may have been be
cause lie did not want us to know. He
knew that if he stated what it was there
would have been a groat many people from
Coiinth bothering him with prescriptions
as to how he might cure it.
Some say it was diseased eyes, some that
it was a humped back. It may have been
neuralgia. Perhaps it was gout, although
his active habits and a sparse diet throw
doubt on the supposition. Suffice is to say
it was a thorn that is, it stuck him. It
was sharp.
It was probably of not much accouut in
the eyes of the world. It was not a trouble
that could be compared to a lion or a
boist'orous sea. It was like a thorn that
you may have in your hand or foot and no
one know it. Thus we see that it- becomes
a type of those little nettle-some worries of
life that exasperate the spirit.
Every one has a thorn sticking him. The
housekeeper finds it in unfaithful domes
tics; or an inmate who keeps things dis
ordered ; or a house too small for conven
ience, or too large to be kept cleanly. The
professional man finds it in perpetual in
terruptions or calls for " more copy." The
Sabbath school teacher finds it in inatten
tive scholars or neighboring teachers that
talk loudly and make a great noise in giv
ing a little instruction. One man has a
rheumatic joint which, when the wind is
northeast, lifts the storm signal. Another,
a business partner who takes full half the
profits but does not help earn them. These
trials are the more nettlosome because like
Paul's thorn they are not to be mentionod.
Mon got sympathy for broken -bones and
smashed feet, but not for the end of sharp
thorns that have been broken off in the
fingers. 4
Let ' us start out with the idea that we
must have annoyances. It seems to take
a certain number of them to keep us hum
ble, wakeful, and prayei;ful. To Paul the
thorn was disciplinary as the shipwreck.
If it is not one thing it is another. If the
stove does not smoke, the boiler must leak.
If the pen is good, the ink must be poor.
If the, thorn does not pierce the knee, it
must take you in the back. Life must
have you in the back. Life must have
Sharp things in it. We cannot make up
our robe of Christian character without
pins and needles. .
The Door Unlocked.
. Some time since I wished to enter a
strange church with a minister a little
bofore the time for service. We procured
a key, but tried in vain to unlock the out
side door with it. We concluded we had
tho wrong key, and sent to the janitor for
the right one. But he came and told us
that the door was already unlocked. All
we had to do was to push and the door
would open. We thought ourselves locked
out, when there wag nothing to hinder us
from entering.
In the same way we fail to enter into
love and fellowship with God. The door,
we think, is locked against us. We try
to fit some key of extraordinary faith to
open it. Wo try to get our minds wrought
up to some high pitch of feeling. , We say,
" I have the wrong key ; I must feel more
sorry ; I must weep more." And all the
time the door is ready to open if we but
come boldly, with humble earnestness, to
the throne of grace, We may enter freely
at once, without having to unlock the
door. Christ is the tloor, and bis heart is
not shut against us. We must enter with
out stopping to fit our key of studied
faith, for His mercy la not locked up. We
must enter boldly, trustingly, not doubting
His readiness to receive us "just as we
are." He is willing already, aud we must
not stop to make Him willing by our pray
ers or tears.
t3T A pious old lady at New Bedford
boasted in prayer-meeting that she was
not afraid of the devil. A young chap
present, with a view to toBtiug ber faith
and courage, followed her home, and in a
lonely, secluded spot, crept up behind bor,
aud whispered, " I am the devil." But
the good woman never heeded .him, and
again and again be Introduced himself in
the same style. Finally, finding the thing
waa getting monotonous, she turned to
him with the ejaculation, " Well, nobody
denies it" That young man don't follow
the frightening business any more.
t3f Money is a bottomless sea, in which
honor, oousciunoe and truth may be
drowned.