l)c Iimc0, New Bloomftcft, $a. NEW YORK COFTINEXTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, S TRICTL Y M IT UAL I ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre. sents as favorable terms asany company In the United States. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during Unit time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit-ure. . 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 feecharged. h. W. FROST, Prentrlrnt . M. B. Wynkoof, Vice Vres't. J.P.ROGEu8. Sec'y. j K kat()N General Agent, No . 6 North Third Street, College Block, Harrlsburjt. Pa. T1IOH. II. MILLWAN, 0 42 lyl Special Agent Jar Newport. Perry County Sank! Spongier, Juiikin A Co. THE undersign id, having formed a Hanking 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 TUB 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 Now York. On time Deposits, five per cent forany time over f our months : and for four months four 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 inoonvenlence un. dor which the people of this County labored f orthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to f upply the want jand 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 and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the to! lowing named partners: W. A. 8ponM.KU,Bloomfleld, Perry county. Pa. B. K. Junkin, " , Wm. 11. Miller, Carlisle, orricxus: W. A. BPON8LKR, Pretldent. William Willis, cashier NewBloomiteld.SSly BALL SCALES! B. MARYANERTH, D. W. DERR , JAMbS 11. GK1KU. known as ' Tbe Ball Scale Company," and have now on hand a lari (II) IT N T K R H C A rge supply of Buoy's Patent I, K , the Simplest, Cheap- est and best Connter Scale in the market. a- For Scales, or Agencies In Pennsylvania Ohio. Nhw .Inrsev. Delaware and Maryland, ad dress "The Halt Scale Company," Fottsvllle, Schuylkill county, Pa. For Scales or Agencies In this County, ap ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen and examined any time. 3 LEIBY & BRO., Newport, Perry co., Pa. FRANK MORTIMER. 29tt NewBloomlleld,Ferryoo.,l,a, LEBANON Mutual Fire Insurance Company, or Jonuwtowu, l?ciiii.u. -rOMCIES PERPETUAL at Low Rates. No X Steam risks taken. This Ik one of the best conducted and most reliable Companies In the Stale. Country property Insured Perpetually at (4 00 per thousand, and Town property at Id 00 per inousunu. LEWIS POTTER, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., 4 16 Agent for Perry County. LOOK OUT! I would respectlvelwinform my friends that I in tend calling upon them with a supply ol good ofmy OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CABSIMERS. CA88INET8, FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) CAltrKTH, Ate., to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. BIXLF.lt. CKNTIiE WOOI.KM FiCTOllY. 6,17,4111 . M. 01BV1N. X M. OIUV1N to BOX, i, II. OII'VIM OoimniMHloii HfrfhiuitH, No. 8, SPEAR'S WJIAP.F, It u 1 1 1 hi o r c 31 (1 . Ve will tin v strict attention to the sale of kinds of country produce, sad remit theumnuu promptly. Smythe's Mystery. A MORE honest fellow tlinn Penning ton Smythe never lived. lie was young say twenty-two or tbree full of a large assortment of varied enthusiasms, ossessod of an unlimited belief In tbe good ness of human nature, and absolutely In capable of falsehood. And yet, curiously enough, he had a pas sion for mysteries. Although practically a common-place Presbyterian, he neverthe less a fleeted to believe in the mysteries of Rosicruclanism. lie was perpetually striv ing, with conspicuous want of success, to magnetize his friends, and although he was too orthodox to believe in Spiritualism, he lived in constant hopes of Inducing his wash-stand to move and his writing-table to rap, by the patient contact of his tireless hands. As for secret societies they were his delight. He belonged to nearly every ancient and venerable of very modorn me chanics and grocerymen in existence, and kept locked up in his trunk more llaring gilt badges and fantastically trimmed aprons, and horso-collars titan would have sufficed to purchase the sovereignty of a dozen African kingdoms. And there never1 was a more honest and straightforward littlo girl than Mary Mor ris, to whom Smytho was engaged to be married. She was just out of boarding Bcliool, and her respectable father in the wholesalo bird business and her equally espoctablu mother in the wholesalo fami ly business and all hor thirteen brothers and sisters of assorted sexes, wore ready to nflirti), as the case might mc that Mary was as good as gold, and many times as valuable. The engagement of these two young poi sons was with the full approbation of tuo elder Stnythcs and Morrises. Young Penn ington was expected to spend thrco eve nings overy week with his betrothed, and they wero always accommodated with a convenient back-parlor in which to con verse after the manner of their kind. In these circumstances Pennington Smythe ought to have been happy, but he was not. Thoro was no mystery about his love affair, and the fact weighed upon bis spirits. He did what he could to convince him self that the respectable old Mr. Morris, who used to say when Pennington made his appearance, " Now, you children, keep out of that back parlor, and give Mary and her young man a show" was bitterly opposed to the match, and must be kept from per- ceiving that his daughter was beloved by her " young man." But the only possible way which he could devise to throw an air of secrecy over the . affair, was to write notes to his beloved in a very cramped hand, and to deliver them himself. Usual ly he had to read them, too, since his hand writing was too mystical to be readily de ciphered, and when they were read they usually contained nothing but an amplill cation of the Innocuous idea that he, Penn ington Smythe, proposed to love her, Mary Morris, in spite of every obstacles this statement was not one of tremendous mo ment ; but still it ' gave young Smythe no little comfort to make it in wilting and de liver it with an air of immense secrecy. One day a happy thought struck him. How delightful it would be to correspond with his darling In cipher. This idea filled him with a calm, mystical joy that was really a first-class sensation. So bo devis ed a cipher of the kind so much In vogue among school-girls, and which consisted in substituting one letter for another, and in stantly wrote a brief note to Mary. This he carried to her the same evening, togeth er with a key, and attained the seventh heaven of mystical delight in transmitting it to her. Poor Mary suffered much from this cipher. It was very hard work for her to write an intelligible letter with the new alphabet. She continually mado mis takes in it, and so kept Pennington out of bed for hours, while with locked doors and shadod windows he tried to decipher some such sentence as, " I do so long to see you." It was only when mistakes wore made in tbe use of this cipher that it be came at all difficult of comprehension to an ordinary reader. Poor Pennington had not devoted much attention to tho subject of cryptography, or be would have known that there is nothing more transparent than a cipher which merely consists of the sub stitutlon of one letter for another. lie was, However, soon to learn tuis fact In a very unpleasant way. One evening Mary dropped a noto which she had received by mail, and ft was pick' ed up by ber father. Tho old gontleman was wild with horror. There was his trust ed daughter actually coriespouding with some unknown villain in cipher. Obvious ly the cipher must have some shameful secret. He sat in his arm-chair with th open note in his hand, and serious thoughts of Immediate apoplexy in his mind, when his sou 'lorn, a young follow just home from college, entered, aud, frightened at his father's expression of face, asked and received nn explanation. Tom was a bright young fellow, and ho at once remarked that it was hardly worth while to take to apoplexy until it was, reully apparent that the mysterious noto contained something wrong. He suspect ed that it was written by the roystcry-lov- ing Smythe, and did Hot doubt bis ability to road it. Tbe note ran as follows . CBSM PSMX t If TIlDfl XnC SYC STFSXN FHTT. OSTVIITDUBY NPXULB. In less than ten minutes Tom had trans lated this innocent mystery into the words, 1 Dear Mary, I love you and always will. 'ennington Smythe," and thus banished his father's doubt and ' wretchedness. However, the old man was angry enough to desire to give the unfortunate Penning ton a lesson which he might remember. So when the young man made his usual evening call, he was awaited in the parlor by the inconsed father and his greatly amused son, and addressed him in the fol lowing stern and cruel words : " Mr. Smythe, what do you mean by writing to my innocent daughter in such infamous style as this, sir?" and he shook Pennington's letter before his astonished eyes. "Sir," replied the youth, "it is not infa mous. It Is an entirely proper note. All tho world might see it." " Then why the dovil did you write it in this outlandish lingo?" returned the fa ther. " She is not to blame," hastily urged Pennington, judiciously shirking the main question. I assure you she never can read them without my help.nnd when she writes them she makes so many mistakes that often 1 can't make head or tail of them." "By ' them' I suppose you mean tho let- tors written in cipher," replied Mr. Morris. " Well, I won't add to your trouble. Otily let me advise you not to write any more cipher notes, my boy. Tom, here, read your noto almost as easy as if it had been written in print. There, go along now, and don't be silly again at least, any more than you can help, you know." And the old man, quite recovered from his anger, went laughingly away. Pennington lingered. "Is it really true, Tom, that you could rend it without a key?" ho doubtfully asked. Of course I could. Why, Pen, thero is nothing easier to read than that sort ef ci pher. If you will write in cipher and I don't Bee why you shouldn't if you want to, though you'll find it beastly tiresome I can tell you of a cipher that no ouo can possibly translate." " If you would be so very kind," mur mured Pennington. "Why," continued Tom, "you select some book. Then out of the words in this book you make your cipher. For instance, you want to write 'dour,' as I presume you do, " and you find it, say, on the twelfth page of the book, in the second line from the top, and the third word in the line. You then represent it by the numbers 12, 2, 8. And so with the rest of your note. You see, no human being could possibly read it unless they happened to guess what book you used." i .; : . Pennington was overjoyed at this delight ful plan, and, thanking Tom warmly, hast ened to unfold the new cipher to Mary. He felt at perfect liberty to disregard Mr. Morris advice not to write in cipher, for he now decided that Mary's father would be justifiably regarded as a hoary-headed tyrant, bent upon separating two loving hearts, and only fit to be oircumvented by careful strategy. So he selected a novel of which he knew that both Mary and himself possessed copies ; explained tbe cipher with the utmost care, and after he reached home put it iri immediate practice by writing a brief note and Bonding it by post, as he would be unable to see her next evening. This is what he wrote : 85.0.588.2.845.4.400.5. 905. 4. 5 51.15.6 15.1.4 77.1.1 85.19. 983. 4. 2 88.8.0-80.5.2 80.2.0 117.B.0 71.17.8. Now the book upon which this cipher was based was printed in double columns. Unfortunately Pennington forgot to ex plain whiah of these oolurunt be intended to UB6 However, he decided to use the outer column trusting that the other heart, which, as he frequently remarked, was one of two " which beat as one," would divine his selection. Two nights afterwards he reached the Morris' door, full of delightful anticipa tions. Ho was met by old Morris, who, thrusting a noto into his hand, explained, with much unnecessary emphasis, and a total disregard of the commonest rules of politeness, that if he ever ventured to pre sent himself at that house again he would be kicked down tho front steps, mixed up in complicated relations with the family bull-dog, and committed to the final care of the police. lie went home maddened with tins very undosirahlo mystery, and confident that old Morris had been attacked with delirium tremens, and was an exceedingly unsafe acquaintance Once in his room, he sat down to read tho crumpled letter that had been forced upon him. It was his own let tor to Mary. Below the cipher was written Mary's translation of it. The poor girl had tried to translate it by using the inner columns of the book, and with the follow, ing unsatisfactory result : " You liar when almost hate her and farewell you deceitful nover again and base infamy." And still further down on tho page was written iu Mary's hand, " I can make out euough of your letter to see it is a cruel, wicked insult, aud I shall tell papa." It flashed across Ponuington't reinuuut of a mind that perhaps Mary had made a mistake in the columns of the book. He seized the volume and verified his sus picion. The innocent note that he had writ ten was actually transformed, by the simple process of reading it with the wrong col umn as a key, into the incoheient, but ob viously impolite letter, which had wrought such unhappy consequences. Pennington sank into his chair utterly overwhelmed. He called himself all the choice names that old Morris had applied to him, together with a largto selection of other epithets. He spent, an hour in this profitable occupation. At the eud of that timo he had formed a resolution which he proceodod to put into Immediate execution. He rose up, and going to his trunk, took out his Secret society emblems and solemn ly threw them Into the grate. Ho uoxt sat dowu and wrote twelve separata resigna tions for twelve different lodges. Then he wrote a solemn pledge never, In the day of his death, to medille with cipher or any other mystery, and, finally, writing out a full history of the cipher letter, sent it, to gether with a book which he had used as a key, his pledge to soliuenly abstain from mysteries, iinrl an hum bio opology to old Morris. Of course his explanation was accepted, and Mary forgave him. Several years have passed since that event, but if you want to make Pennington Smythe blushed with wretchedness, all that is necessary is to ask him if he knows of auy good, trust worthy cipher. That Nose. At one of tho domi-French reunions, not long siuce, a little scene occurred which amused a few who witnessed it. About ten o'clock a monsieur entered very cor rect in hiB "getting up, unexception able in his demeanor, of fine figure altogether an accomplished gontleman gifted with a very considerable nasal organ. 1 ho old proverb says, " A large nose never spoiled a handsome face," aud tbe stranger justiiicd the proverb. Advancing to the mistress of the house, he mado the formal reverence which cere mony requires on a first visit, then taking a more familiar tone he said, " It has been very happy to accept your invitation, mad am ; an honor of which it is quite unwor thy." This was said in a low voice, but so dis tinctly articulated that it could be under stood by those who stood near. , The lady, who, though a very distin guished porson, is somewhat timid, be. cause still young, was somewhat embar rassed at this address, and, thinking she had misunderstood him, replied " Excuse me, sir ; you were saying " " I said, madam, that it was very grate ful for the invitation to your soiree." . The bystanders exchanged looks and be. gan to whisper ; the lady became more and more out of countenance. 'I do not understand you, "'she said, at length; "of what arej you speaking?" - The gontleman did not speak again, but pointed in reply to the prominent feature in his face. " What, do you know? Oh, imprudont !' exclaimed the lady ; and blushed from her chin to her eyes, she concealed in her hand' kerchief a face half laughing and half em barrassed. The explanation of this little mystery soon came out. The hostess had met this gentleman the evening before at the house of her sister, where he had made himself very agreeable, as was his custom. On her return, recollecting her own soiree of the next day, she wrote hastily the following concise note to her sister : " I have taken a liking to the big nose.' Oive it an invitation for mo." Her madcap relative amused herself by sending the invitation as it was, and tbe gentleman responded to the joke in a man ner which brought the laughter on her side. Tbe Secret of Dress. The great mistake made by many ladies is that of spending a large sum of money on one or two very handsome toilettes, intended for dressy occasions, and by this means not only rendering these dresses so expensive that they are rarely worn, aud thou in "fear and trombling," thus becom ing old-fashioned before half worn out, but at the same timo so curtailing tho sum set aside for toilette purposes that all the other articles of dress have to suffer. This is a mis take never made by the true Parisionuo; sho, on the contrary, pays particular attention to the dresses for every day wear, and seen by every one, and thus, vhile spending far less, appears always well dressed, to the utter eclipse of those who do not happen to have on their best dresses. This is exera. plificd even iu so small an article as a fan, 1 lie foreigner or provincial will nave one very handsome fan for grand occasions ; the Parisionue will buy soveral for less monoy, aud of course, not so handsome but of dif ferent colors assorted to her toilette, aud giving bora far more elegantly finished ap pearance than the lady who Is forced to use the same fan, whatever color hor dress may be. t3?" A little boy, who was worrying over a piece of shad at dinner lately, demoralized his mother by asking, "Mamma, wher did Ood find all the bones to make the first shad of?" SUNDAY HEADING. Tho K'nd or Religion Wanted. The annexed, from the Christian (Boston) is well worth reading and consideration, too : We want a religion that bears heavily, not only on the " exceeding sinfulness of in," but on the exceeding rascality of ly ing and stealing a religion that banishes small measures from the counter, small baskets from the stall, pebbles from the . cotton bags, clay from the paper, sand from sugar, . chicory from coffee, allum from bread, and water from the milk cans. The eligion that is to save the world will not put all the big straw-berries at the top and all the little ones at the bottom, It will not make one half pair of shoes of good leather and the other half of poor leather, so that the first shall redound to the mak er's credit and the second to his cash. It will not put Jouviu's stamp on Jenkin's kid gloves nor make Paris bonnets in the back room of a Boston milliner's shop ; nor lot a piece of velvet that professes to meas ure twelve yards comes to an untimely end at tho tenth, or a spool of Bcwing silk that vouches for twenty yards to be nipped in the bud at fourteen and a half ; nor all- woolen delaines nor all-wool bandkorchiefs be amalgamated with clandestine cotton ; nor coats made of old rags pressed together to be sold to the unsuspecting publio for legal broadcloth. It does not put bricks at live dollars per thousand into chimneys it contracts to build of seventeen dollar ma terial ; nor smuggle white pine into floors that have paid for hard pine ; nor daub tbe ceilings that ought to be smoothly plaster ed ; nor mako window-blinds with sluts that cannot stand the wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun, and fastenings that may be looked at, but are on no account to be touched. The religion that is going to sanctify the world pays its debts. It does not consider that fifty cents returned for ono hundred cents given in according to tho Gospel, though it may be according to law. It looks on a man who has failed in trade, and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief. Selfishness Rebuked. A clergyman who lived in a New Jersey village which was not supplied with water works, was the fortunate possessor of a well of good water. Some of the wells in the neighborhood were not as good its his ; and by common' consent and long custom, many neighbors came into his lot and drew water from bis well. It cost him nothing, except the tramping down of a little grass over which the people trod. But he got tired of accommodating the public, and nailed up his back gate, affix ing to it a sign warning all people against drawing water from his well. He had a right to do so ; no reasonable person could dispute the legal correctness of bis posi tion. But Boon afterwards when the neigh bors (members of his congregation) began to say that he had done a small thing, he was startled to find on his gate a notice, erected by some critical unbeliever, and reading thus : " COME TO JESUS," BUT . DON'T DRAW WATER AT MY WELL. The good man saw his mistake. He had not meant to be mean ; but he had done an illiberal thing. If he was calling his neigh bors to drink of the water of life was it the right thing to forbid them tbe filling their buckets at his well ? He threw' down the ban and threw open his gate, aud let the people come and take of his well water freely. And he felt that the good-will of hiB neighbors was more than a compensa tion for annoyance. Stern Reality. It may seem strange, but it is neverthe- ness true, that alcohol, regularly applied to a thrifty farmer's stomach, will remove the boards from the fences, let cattle into tho crops, kill the fruit trees, mortgage his farm, aud sow his field with . wild oats and thistles. It will take the paint off his buildings, break the gloss out of the win dows, and fill them with rags. It will take tbe gloss from bis clothes and polish from his manners, subdue his reason, arouse his passions, br ing sorrow and dis grace upon his family, and topple him in? to a drunkard's grave. ' It will do this to the artisan and the capitalist, the matron ( and the maiden, as well as to the farmer, for, iu its deadly enmity to the human race, alcohol is no respecter of persons. A Brief Temperance Lecture. It has boon well said, that "Drunken ness expels reason, distempers the body, Inflames the blood, Impairs the memory, is a witch to the senses, a devil to the soul, a thief to the purso, a beggar's companion, a wifo's woe, aud children's sorrow ; and that a drunkard is a picture of a beast, a solf-murdorer, one who drinks to the good health of others, and destroys his own, as well as the happiness of those whom he ought to protect, love and cheorish." tW Thero are people Independent in pol itics, and independent In religion ; why can't a man be Independent in his morals just as well? The good old times are gone. C5P" Show may be easily purchased, but roal happiness is a home-made article. f
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