Ijc t times, , New Bloomfiellr, : 3a. 1STEW "OIIC CONTINENTAL Lifo Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICTLY MUTUAL I A-HHOtH, IS(,030,G01.85 I ISSUES all the now forms of Policies, and pre sents as favorable terms as any compauy lu the United Btates. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, snd 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 In the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. L. W. FROIT, Preniiimt. M. B. Winkoop, Vice Pres't. J. P.Rooehs, Beo'y. I , J. K. EATON. General Agent, No . 8 North Third Street, College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. TH08. H. MII.MOAN, 6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport. Perry County Bank! Spongier, Juiikin V 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 HOUSE, NEW TJLOOMFIELD, 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 ou Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, Ove per oent for any time over (our months ; and for four months tour per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility for doing a Banking Business) and knowing, and for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored forthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supply the want ;and this being the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all tbe business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. Hponsler, Bloomrteld, Perry county. Pa. B. .P. Jonkin, " " " WM. H. Miller, Carlisle, officers : W. A. SPONSLBR, Pretdtnt. William Willis. CtuAier NewBloomneld.SSly riiltltY COUNTY Ileal Estate, Insurance, CLAIM AGENCY. ' LEWIS P0TTZB & CO., Real Etlatt Broken, Inntranc, & Claim Attn Now IJloomlleltl, Pa. WE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell ers to the advantages we offer them In pur chasing or disposing of real estate through our of fice. We have a very large list of deslrab property, consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tion which we are prepared to oiler at great bar gains. We advertise our property very extenstve- .effect a sale. We make no charges unless tht propeny is soia wnue registered wun us. we sisc -draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa pers at moderate rates. 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I would respectively Inform my friends that I In tend calling upon them with a supply of goods of my OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CA8SIMER8, CA681NET8, FLANNELS. (Plain and bar'd) OAltPISXN, Ato., o exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. EIXI.Ell. Cbmtrk Woojjem Factohy. 8,17,4m, NewBleonflcld, Pa. ' IF HE subscriber having purchased the property on the corner of Maine and Carlisle streets. liltnalLA Dim f!it-t IJ..iiti. i.tvllM. !! hi. frtmul. iud former customers to give him a cull as he Is eteuuiuvu 4J lUluiHIi HI si ci.BB acr.imiiTnxiauuuB, . . MiOMAo HUT It, Itf. Proprietor. COURTING THE HEIRESS. TTfELL, I declare!" said Miss T Y Chirrup, in a shrill whisper. " Did you ever ?" replied Miss Chirk, In another. It was Rollin West's will that the two were discussing. It was very brief and ex plioit. " I boqucath my entire estate real and personal, to my niece, Ruth Morgan." This with date, signature, and attesta tion, was all there was of it. The Misses Chirrup and Chirk wore too distantly related to the testators to have entertained any considerable hope on their own account. A trifling reminder, In de ference to family etiquetto, was as much as either had a right to expect. But that Rollin West should have left his whole fortune to one of his nieces, to the exclu sion of the other, whom everybody had sup posed to be his favorite, took more than the Misses Chirrup and Chirk by surprise. Mr. West had been for many years a widower. His children had all died in in fancy, and a couple of orphaned nieces cousins to each other, and reared under his roof, constituted his household. That his large fortune would be left to them equally, was a point people took for granted ; but should any discrimination be made with them, nobody would have hesitated to say it would be in favor of Millie Granger, her uncle's pot, whose blithesome smiles he bad been wont to call the sunlight of his life. Millie's loving heart was too full of sor row at her uncle's death, and of gratitude for his kindness in bygone years, to leave room for any feeling of reproach at his last unaccountable act, which the Misses Chir rup and Chirk so earnestly protested against. An elderly maiden aunt came to live with the two young ladies, aud the house hold remained unbroken. Except the changes caused by tbe vacancy in their home, the lives of Ruth and Millie con tinued as before. It was not until the cousins had resumed thoir places in society that Millio began to notice tbe differenco made by her altered prospects. It was Ruth now, and not her self, that was the centra of attraction. To be rid of the common herd of fops, and to be no longer pestered by their silly flatter, Millie felt it was a thing to be thankful for. But when Orvilla Ryors turned his back upon her, and joined tbe ranks of her cousin'a admirers, she must have been other than a woman not to feel it. Mr. Ryors was tbe pet beau of Billing- dale. Handsome in. person, accomplished in manners, and of fascinating address, be was not one whose attentions were likely to prove distasteful in any quarter, and when they were directed toward Millie Granger in a manner sufficiently marked to excite no small degree of envy, we need not be surprised if instead repelling, she just a little encouraged them. It would have required a closer analysis than Millie had ever made of her feelings to show her how little she really cared for Mr. Royers, and how much she cared for Arthur Warren, whom she had known and liked since they had played and, sometimes quarreled together in childhood. But Arthur's self-examination had gone doeper. Ho devoutedly loved Millie, and knew It. If be had never said so outright, it was from motives of delicacy, prompted by tbe difference of their positions. She was a prospective heiress ; he was without for tune, and void of expectations, save those whose realization depended on himself. Having never spoken out, it may be that Arthur Warren bad no right to feel ag grieved by the attentions paid by Mr. Ryors to Millie. He should have remembered that tbe young gentlemen who have noth ing to say for themselves are not privileged to stand in the way of others who have, But Arthur was not reasonable. He was not even candid. He quarrelled with Millie on the score of Orville Ryors, without a word of explanation as to what concern it was of bis if she married that gentleman the next day. Now Millie was a girl of spirit. Bhe not only refused to decline Mr. Ryors' atten tions at tbe unwarrantable dictation of Arthur, but received thera with rather more encouragement than before. . People began to say it would be a match soon, and it might have been, bad . not Millie's uncle died. For Mr, Ryors, as we have said, was a very attractive person, and Millie bad not sufficiently scrutinized her heart to be aware that her chief interest in bim sprang from the pleasure of having triumphed where so many others bud failed, and a disposition to assert bar own will. When Arthur Warren left his native village without so much as calling to bid ber good-by, Millie cried a little, without well knowing why, and that evening went to a ball with Orville Ryors, and was the gaysst of the gay. It is very likely she would then have accepted Mr. Ryors, bad be said the word, Just to show bow little she cared for Arthur Warren. The grief that Millie fuit at her uncle' death for a season overshadowed all other thoughts. But when time at length had so tempered her sorrow tbat ber life began again to flow in its accustomed channel. It was not with a little chagrin tbat she be held tbe man whose attentions bad been lately so devoted to ber that people began to couple their names significant, turn, and follow her fortune instead of herself. Millie knew now bow little she had ever cared for Orville Ryors ; but would others understand it? Tbe thought stung ber past enduranco. And the meanness of him who thus humiliated ber scarce exceeded in har eyes that of her couisln Ruth, who permitted, instead of spurning his advance. In the bitterness of her heart, Millie re Bolvcd to quit her cousin's abode, and make her way to the great city, trusting tbat whore so many live there must be many ways of getting a living, some of which would be open to her. Sue had benn liberally supplied with mouey during her uncle's lifetime, aud had husbanded enough to meet the exponses of her journey, and, for a time, her living. So one day, without a word to any oue, she secretly packed her trunk, caused it to be conveyed to the railroad station, aud took the flint train for Now York. Tbe day and night her journey lasted was one of alternate hopes and misgivings. At times she would have fain turned back, but when she thought of the jeering tongues behiud hor, her eyes would flash through her tears, and though her lips quivered, ber heart would again become firm and resolute. Millie had never seen the city before. Its din and bustle confused ber. Bur rounded by importunate hackmon and hotel runners quick to perceive hor in exporionce, he found herself at last, with out her own volition, seated in a carriage whose driver undertook to convey her to the Kickshaw, the best house in the city, he assured ber, though it bad not a very inviting look, Millie thought, as the car riage stopped in front of it. "Your fare, Miss," said the driver, jumping down" Ave dollars you know." It was not the extortionate demand that brought a troubled look over the girl's face. Putting her hand into her pocket, she found her money had disappeared. Bhe searched everywhere, but in vain. She bod doubtless been robbed in the crowd after leaving tbe train. A feeling of hopeless terror overcame her at the thought of being there, a total stranger, without a cent in the world. In a trembling voice Millie explained her situation. "That dodge won't do," said the driver. " No, it won't do," added a frowsy-looking clerk, who made his appearance just then. "We can't take people at the Kickshaw that have no money, you know." " It's a rank swindle, an' I'll call a po liceman I" exclaimed the driver, A crowd began to collect. The frighten ed girl sobbed and glanced appealingly from one coarse face to another without encountering a single look of pity. At this instant the driver and the clerk, who stood close to the carriage door, found themselves simultaneously collared and thrust a considerable distance asunder by a right-and-left shove from a pair of vigor ous arms. "Millie Grauger 1" exclaimed a voice that brought the blood back to the maid en's blanched cheeks. "Arthur Warner I" was all she could answer. "Well, I declarel" uttered a shrill answer none other than Miss Chirrup's, who, without Millie's knowledge, had coma to live in the city, aud who chanced to be passing at the time. Matters were soon explained, and Miss Chirrup, who had tbe kindest of hearts, invited ber relative borne with ber j and Arthur, having paid the driver bis Just due, called another carriage, and escorted the ladies to their destination. He called around tbat evening and spoke bis mind to Millie. And Millie found out tbat she bad alwuys loved blm. And Arthur ex plained that it was only the difference in their former prospects that bad kept him silent. And Millie said she wouldn't care to be rich if it wasn't for bis sake. And Arthur said be was glad she wasn't rich, and add ed tbat he was earning a salary that two could live on comfortably. And, in short the two lovers were as happy as heart could desire. ' Ruth Morgan's anxiety at Millie's sud den disappearance had been relieved by in telligence of her safety, and Ruth was in high spirits when Mr. Ryors called, deter mined this time, to bring matters to a crisis. He bad mora than once tried tbe plan of gradual approaches. On this oc casion be resolved to come directly to the point, and bad aotually gotten half way on his knees whea Ruth said, quietly : " Don't be too hasty, Mr. Ryors j you may regret it." "There is but oue thiug I can regret your refusal," ' My uncle's will" Ruth began. "1 know; it left yon all be had," in terrupted the gentleman : " but that 4s nothing to me." - " And quite as little, I aasure you, to me," said Ruth. " When M$ will took efftot my uncle had nothing to Itate," . The kneeling process was suspended midway, and Mr. Ryors remained in a very uneasy and not altogether graceful pos ture, while Ruth continued : "My uncle bad some time before made a deed, you see, conveying bis entire estat In trust for tbe benefit of my cousin Millie, reserving only a life Interest to himself." The binges of Mr. Ryors' knees sudden ly uncrooked. . , " Good good-morning, Miss Morgan," he stammered. " Good-momlng, sir, said Ruth, bursting into a laugh when the discomfited suitor's back was turned. "It shall nover stand 1" said Millie, when she and Ruth met, a few days later. " Your claims on your uncle were as good as mine, and the property shall be equally dividod." "Don't trouble yourself, little one," said Ruth. " Beforo Undo Rollin provid ed for you, our aunt, by an understanding between them, settled hor fortune on me. Won't It console Mr. Ryors to hear It ?" "But that will of uncle's " " Was made to save you from a fortune hunting husband," replitd Ruth. His Lucky Number. '1VERY one has a lucky numbor," JLi said tbe old gentleman. " Mine is twenty-one. Twenty-nine might have boon, would have been, au unlucky num bor for me. Yet I didn't know it ; both were painted in black letters on a white oval. Twenty-one twenty-nine. Not much difference, you see 21, 29 veiy like indeed, and yet because I chose the number without a flourish and a long leg, I am hero to-day, and have had a long and happy lifo. I should have been the occu pant of a suicido's grave ever bo many years ago bad I chosen twenty-nine." " I rdtlly can't understand," said I. "Was it a lottery or a draft, a conscription or what ? Was it a game was it ?" " It was the number on a door," said the old gentleman. "Wait a minute; I'll tell you all about It." " I was very much In love ; everybody is at some time in his life. At twenty-five I was desperate. Talk about Romeo 1 He was nothing compared with me. " I'm not ashamed of it. She was a worthy object. Not only because she was beautiful, but she was good and amiable, and such a singer. She sang soprano in the church choir. And I've beard stran gers whisper to each other, " is there really an angel up there ? When Bhe sang ber part alone, clear and sweet and flute-like ber voice was. I've never hoard its equal. " Well, I loved her, and, thought she liked me ; but I wasn't sure. I courted ber a good while, but she was as shy as any bird, and 1 couldn't satisfy myself as to ber feelings. So I made up my mind to ask and know for certain.. , Some old poet says : 'He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small ; Who fears to put it to the touch, . And win or lose it all. " I agreed with him ; and one evening as I walked home from a little party where we had met, with ber on my arm, I stopped under a great willow tree, and took bet band in mine, and said : " Jessie, I love you better than my life will you marry me ?" . " I waited for an answer."- " She gave none. " Jessie,' I said, " won't you speak to me?" , " Then she did speak : . "No oh, dear, no 1" . " I offered ber my arm again, and took ber home without a word. She did not speak cither. . She had told me before that she should start with the dawn to visit an aunt in New York ; but I did not even say good-bye at the door. I bowed ; that was all. Then when she was out of sight, and I stood alone In the village street, I felt desperate enough to kill myself. " What had I done to bave so cold a re fusal ? Why should she scorn me so ? Oh, dear, no 1 1 grew furious a I repeated tbe words. . " Yet it stung me all tbe same. I tossed from side to side of my bed all night, and thought I could endure it no longer. But I would not pain and disgrace my respecta ble relatives by committing suioide in the place wherein they dwelt and were well known aud thought of. I would go to New York even then a very large city, and, seeking some hotel, register an as sumed name, and, retiring at night with ft bottle of laudanum and a brace of pistols, awake no more, and so be rid of my mis ery. I arranged my affairs to the best of my ability, and received an imaginary let ter from a friend In New York, requesting my presence on a matter of business. I burdened myself with no unnecessary lug gage. What did an ' uuknown suicide' want of another coat and a change of linen? "I kissed my mother and sister, and startled my grandmother by an embrace, and started upon what I mentally called my last journey, with a determined spirit. " There was a certain hotel to which many of the people of our village were in the habit of going. This 1 avoided. Another, chosen at a hazard, seemed to be better. Thither I walked; determined to leave no trace of my destination to those who knew me no clew to my identify to those who shall find m dead. " I had no mark upon my clothing, no card, paper or letter with me. I bad torn the hatter's mark from my beaver. As I asoendid the hotel steps I fult, so tospeak, like one going to bis own funeral. "A grinning waiter bowed beforo me. A pert clerk lifted up his head and stared. I was an ordinary travolor to thorn that was evident. , " It was late in tbe evening. The place wore an air of repose. Laughter and a faint chink of glasses in an l nor apart ment, told of some conviviality. One old man read his newspaper before the flic Nothing else was astir., " I asked for a room. Tbo olerk nod ded. " 'Do you care what floor?" he asked. i " I Bhook my bead. - ' "'Number tweiity-ulue. is empty,' he said, and tossed a key to the waiter, whom I followed at once. " We reached the room by two flights of stairs. At the door the waiter paused. "'Thought he said twenty-nine," he muttered. ' The key is twenty-ono.' "'Then open twenty-one with it,' I said. " I don't care for the number of the room." "No sir to be sure, Bir," said the waiter, and passed along a few steps further. "Twenty-one," lie said, and, unlocking a door, pushed it open. " Shall I bring you anything, sir?" he said. " I answered ' No,' and he loft me, hav ing put the eandle on my bureau. "The hour had come. As I shut the door, a heavy sigh escaped me. Alas '. that life had become so woeful a thing to me that I should desire to be rid of it. " In the dim light of my one candle, I paced the floor, and thought bitterly of the girl I loved so dearly. " It was in the days of curtained beds. The bed in this room was hung with dark chintz ; so were the windows. Over the bureau was a looking-glass, with a por trait of a lady in puffed sleeves and high comb, at the top, by way of ornament. There were four stuffed chairs, and a brass shovel and tongs stood guard beside tbe grate. I fancied myself lying dead on the bed amidst all these belongings, and felt sorry for myself. Then I took my pistols from my portmanteau, and leaving the door unlocked, for why should I put the landlord to the trouble of breaking it open, I lay down on the bed, drew the curtains, took a pistol in each band, and, as true as I now speak to you, had the muzzle of each to a temple, when some one opened the door, apd 'There now, 'Jessie," said a voice, 'I told you you didn't lock it." "I did," said auother voice, " and sent the key to the office by the chamber maid." "I laid tbe pistols down and peeped through the curtains. There were two ladies in the room. One an old lady in a brown front of false curls, the other my cruel lady-love, Jessie Grey. For a mo ment I fancied I roust be dreaming. "'Sure it's the right number?" asked Jessie. " 'Twenty-one yes," said the otber. " And here's my band-box. Oh, dear '. I'm sleepy." , "I am not," said Jessie, "I wish I was, aunt." "You didn't sleep a wink last night," said tbe auut. " Nor you haven't eaten your meals to-day. . You'll go into a de cline if you go on that way. I'll see Dr. Black about you to-morrow." "I don't want Dr. Black to be called," sighed Jessie, i I'd rather die." " What's the matter ?" cried the old lady. " You aro not yourself. You don't eat or sleep, and cry perpetually. What alls you?" ,., . "I'm miserable," said Jessie. , " Why ?" cried ber aunt. "Ob, aunt," said Jessie, "it's all your fault. You told me over and over again that a girl must never jump at an offer ; that a man must be refused at least once, or be'd not value a girl. And I liked him so 1 And, oh ; he liked me I And when he asked me I felt So glad I But I remem bered what you said, and oh, bow oould I do It? I said, 'Oh, dear, no I" and he left me without a word. And I'm so sorry 1 oh, so sorry I because I loved him, aunt." " You little goose 1" criod tbe old lady. As for me, you can fancy how I folt. I bad no thought of suicide now. My desire was to live and ask that question of mine over again. I pocketed my pistols aud orept down on the other side of the bed I stepped toward the bureau and blew out . the candle. Tbe faint red light of the fire was still in the room. As I dashed out at tbe door, I beard two female screams, but I escaped in safety. . , " I met the waiter on the stairs. "Found out the mistake, sir," be said. "Just coming to rectify it." . "Don't mention it," I said. "I'm very- glad tbat is it, don't matter. Here is something for your trouble," and I gave blm a five dollar bill. "He said, 'I thank ye, sir," but I saw that he thought me crazy, lis was con firmed in his opinion when, as I passed o the door of ray own room, I cried : " Heaven bless twenty-one ! It's ft lucky number!" " But I never was saner than I was then, and never half so happy, . ,,. . , " Of course, I proposed to Jessie tbe very next day, and I need not tell you tbat her answer was not Ob, dear, no;' and that's why I call twenty-one my lucky number."
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