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The Jesm Sentinel OCh in the Jesnp House, fronting on Cherry •treet, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHES EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rate*. (Postage Prepaid.) One year f 1 50 Six months 75 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICRRS. Mayor—W. H. Whaley. Councilnien—T. P. Littlefield, H. W. Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCRRS. Ordinary—P.iehard B. Hopps. Sheriff— John N. Goodbrtad. Clerk Superior Court—Ben). O. Middleton Tax Receiver —J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner —D. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, Q. W. Haines, James Knox, .1. G. Rioh, Isham Reddish. , COURTS. Superior Court, Wayne County—Juo. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solioitar- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern Soim. Negroes in Montgomery, Ala., are making “ contracts” this early, for next year. Nashville American: Alltheallan thus trees on Vanderbilt university grounds are being “belted.” Major Mason sends to the Tennesse Historical society a round wooden snuff box, which was presented to David Crockett by Henry Clay, while the former was a member of congress. Raleigh (N. C.) Observer: The corn tree on the banks of the Neuse, in New Light tswnship, Wake county N. C., that is eleven feet to the first silk, twenty eight and one-half feet in length, and the same that a two hundred and twenty-five pound man climbed five feet without its yielding, has been purchased by Messrs. Williamson and Upchurch, and will be exhibited by them at the state fair. The Norfolk (Va.) Ledger says the speculation of the United States in in vesting $200,000 in the Dismal Swamp ©anal has resulted is obtaining $130,000 in cash dividends, in an increase of its interest in an enlarged and improved work from two-fifths of $486,000 to two fifths of $1,500,000 ; in otner words, from nearly $200,000 to nearly $600,000, be sides the incidental savings for its naval supplies. A correspondent of the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier writes from Georges: I was accosted by a colored man, who desired me to tell him some thing about Liberia. Said he, “ I [have been informed that potatoes grow there to such an enomous size that a single one will more than supply the want of a large family for a whole day. And all you have t* do,” he continued, speaking very earnestly,‘‘when you are in need of sugar, or syrup, is simply to bore a gimlet hole in a tree and apply your vessel, and in a short time it will be brimming full.” I was about to reply but he interrupted me by adding “that he had also been told that certain trees produce bacon, and fires were almost un known, the heat of the sun being suffi cient for cooking purposes.” Commercial Notes. One manufactory ®f silverware in this country has the credit of working up more silver than all similar manufac tories in the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The British trade returns, just pub lished, shows that the total value of im ports into the United Kingdofn during the last year was £375,150,000, being an increase of £1,200,000 over 1875. T*re total exports were £250,700,000, being a decrease of £24,800,000 compared with the previous year. One of the signs of the times is the eagerness with which American boot and shoe makers are 1 scouring all regions of the earth to build up a foreign trade in their goods. They are succeeding fairly. American styles are popular, and there is a prospect of America shoe ing the Chinese empire and all South America. The carrying trade between New York and the West Indies is at last in the hands of Americans exclusively, as far as steamers are concerned. This is not only a triumph of American enterprise in trade, but an out-and-out victory for American art in the building of steam ships and in the navigation of them. The city of Paterson, N. J., is notable only for its immense silk factories. The capital invested is about $6,000,000, and the number of persons employed is nearly 7,000. The manufacturing capacity of the mills is over $12,000,000 annually. The wages of the employes last year amounted to more than $2,000,000. This business is now at a standstill, owing to a strike. The importations of sugar this sum mer are immense, and the exportations small. In eleven months the importa tions have been 1,329,544,035 pounds, against 1,233,060,717 pounds in the cor responding period last year, and they have been made at five cents a pound, sv against four cents last year. The exports has been about 36,000,000 pounds. Last year in the same period it was 56,000,000 pounds. A slight advance in the stocks of the railways the most heavily afflicted by the strikes, and ia the midst of the worst Cl \)c Jcmiii Sentinel. VOL. 11. of the strike, shows a money-confidence in the roads which must have seriously disappointed the financial sympathizers with the strikers. General Notes. In the list of states to which patents have been issued during the year, New York leads. To individuals in the state 8,914 patents were issued. Pennsylvania is next,1,895. The lowest is New Mexi ico, 1. A Servant of Dubuque, lowa, has confessed to her mistress that there exists in the town a “ring” of domestics, each one of whom is pledged to bring from her employer a certain amount of provisions each week for the support of the girls who may be out of employment. Mother Nature, says the Boston Herald has this season done her perfect work. The soil has brought forth its fruits in abundance, and every branch of industry is likely soon to feel the be gining influence of the remarkable in crease of our production of cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco and meat. Women are coming to the front in Illinois. Three counties have women for suoerintendantsof public instruction. Miss Raymond is superintendent of the Bloomington public schools, and Mias Georgiana Trotter is a member of a pros perous lumber dealing firm and a mem ber of the board of education, in Bloom ington. Now that the Russians and the Turks are fighting each other, it may be inter esting to know what kind of a creature a Turkish sotdior is. Asa rule he is tall and squarely built. Physicialiy, many of them are very handsome ; hardly any are brutal in lok or disposition. They can both read and write, and there are no better soldiers. It beaten in war it will not be their fault. They eat no meat and drink no whisky. In fact, they are an army ofteetotalers and vege tarians, and can be maintained at small, expense. A statement was recently published in England giving the cost of the famous Tichborne trial, lrom which it appears that it took $300,374 83 to defeat the claimant and settle him in jail. The lawyers received $118,372 25; the wit nesses, $71,561 52, and the jurors $16,- 900, while $51,34 1 25 was paid out fcr printing documents, and $16,187 50 went to the stenographers employed. It would be interesting to know just how the es tate stand/, and how long it will be before the revenues from it will make good the expenses incurred in defending the title. A Dr. C. W. Siemens in England es timates that the Falls of Niagara do as much work in a year as 266,000,000 tons of coal, at the rate of four pounds per horse power consumption in an hour. He considers that the Falls might drive an electrical machine, the currency of which might traverse a copper rod. He asserts that a rod three inches in diameter would transmit 1,000 horse power as far as thirty miles, and that at the end the electricity could be used to create motion or light. For the latter there would be sufficient to equal 250,000 candles. Religious. There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holiday occasions, for tear it should get chipped or flawed in workingday wear. Some of the Presbyterian delegates to the Pan-Presbyterian council are said to have refused to meet their brethern at the communion table in Edinburgh, on account of differences growing out of ec clesiastical relations. The oldest Jewish congregation in America is the Sherith Israel, of New York, which was organized in 1684 ; the next in age is in Lancaster, Pa., organ ized in 1775; the third is in Philadelphia, organized in 1780. The Reformed Episcopalians have elected Bishop Cheney chancellor of their new University of the West, with Rev. Messrs. William H. Cooper, J. Howard Smith, Mason Gallagher, Joseph D. Wil son, and W. J. Hnnter as professors. A bronze statue of Robert Raikes, the founder of Sunday-schaols, will soon be placed in his native town in England Gloucester. The money has been raised by a general subscription under the auspices of the English Hunday school union. An English Methodist preacher re cently caused a sensation by pausing after he announced his text and then say ing that he had thought of it all the week without finding any interpretation, and that, his last resort, the inspiration of the pulpit, having also failed him, he could not preach. The catalogue of the Pennsylvania State college, near Bellefonte, gives a faculty of twelve members, with four superintendents of the collage, central, eastern and western farms. There is an infantry battalion and there are one hun dred and fifty-seven students of whom ninety are in the preparatory department, and one hundred ana thirty-seven belong to Pennsylvania. Kentucky preachers certainly will not find their money a bar to their en trance into heaven. A minister at West Liberty recently said that he had been trying to get his wife a pair of shoes for a month, but his salary for that time had amounted to only nineteen cents, and he was afraid it would be winter before he could -buy them. She would not let him go in debt, and when he tried to work in the harvest-field he was offered as pay a broken washing machine or a jug of whisky. And yet he has been a devoted, faithful laborer for two years with the same people, who say simply that they “ are too poor to pay for preaching,” and he and his wife consider it their duty to remain. JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1877. TAKING Til 1C ENl> OF THE SEAT. ’ Pwas a morning clear In the new-born year, When the frost was holding revel; The church bell’s call, from ttie belfries tall, Pealed forth o’er ihe town so level. Then the people dreat in their extra best Went to church on this Sabbath morning With thoughts fully bent on pious content, And the spirit’s meek adorning. The church doors coming tide, tsiaid plainly as words could say, “You’re welcome all, wh > hear this call, Como worship in here to-day.” The coming throng, as they press along, Feel the joy of the sacrtd place, Till down the aisle they walk orewhile And search with wistful face— And search again ’mid the selfish train Who have taken the end of each seat; “Just one in a pew, no room for you, Unless you vault over our feet.” Will you leave the church, be left In the lurch, >r try the gantlet of thorns; Tread over the feet t get in the seat And crush their numberless corus? If you are slim, yeur sails in trim, Your success may be complete; But, if you are large, ’tin a desperate charge, The attempt to get into the seat. ’Tisa terrible plight, to be fastened tight, Your sleeveß in some one’s bonnet; But one more lunge, one vaulting pluugo, At last, you’ve surely done it. One good you get of this needless fret— And you know revenge is sweet— You’ve batrered the nose and crushed tho toes Of the one in the end of the seat. But should there come a more timid one Who shrinks such notice te meet, Or a stranger attend, then Iloaven defend From the one in the end of the seat. O what is the reason that every season These folks with stupor replete Will compel such search for a seat in church While they sit in the end of the seat ? MU. SHAH'S NOZZLE. A Great and Hcneflcont Invention. Without presuming to depreciate other people’s nozzels, it is safe to say that Mr. Shaw's nozzle is one of remarkable value. That it satisfactorily fulfills itß chief purpose is among the least of its merits, and it is only when we perceive the varied and numerous uses to which it can be put that its true worth can be appreciated. Among the glaring faults of steam may be mentioned its refusal to escape in a quiet and orderly way. When a locomotive or a steamboat boiler begins to liberate or “ blow off” its steam the noise thereby produced is deafening. Moreover, it is in the highest degree adapted to produce a thirst for blood, accompanied by foods of pro fanity, among i. 086 who .e tormented by its shriek and roar. Many a Connec ticut deacon of previously unsullied character has been known, while disem barking from a Sound steamboat, and trying to ask a policeman the way to the Bible-llouse, to fiercely “goldarn” the escaping steam, which rendered his questions inaudible. Many a meek matron who, while occupying a rear room at the Delavan House, has been awakened at 4 a. m. by the roar of a brace of locomotives in the act wf “blowing off,” has burst into maddened tears, and boxed the children's ears as one who wish and that mankind had but a single ear that she might box it with a coal-shovel. Every profound thinker has noticed that the dicline of morality iu this country has kept pace with the increase of the steam-boilers. That the strain upon the mind and body caused by the noise of escaping steam has weakened both the nerves and the morals of the public no reasonable man can doubt. Mr. Shaw has invented what he calls a noz zle . which, when attached to an escape-pipe will enable steam to escape without any noise whatever. Of the precise nature of the nozzle we are not informed. Mr. Shaw says that it con tains a helix—which perhaps it doss— and also a quantity of wires, and leaves us to infer that the escaping steam is so much disheartened bybecoming entangled with the wires and the helix that it has not strength enough left to roar with. The details of the invention are, how ever, of no consequence to the public. So long as Mr. Shaw’s nozzle will put a stop to the nuisance of noisy escape pipes we can accept it gladly without further investigation. It may not hare occurred to Mr. Shaw, but it will promptly occur to every per son who is in the habit of traveling in sleeping cars, that if Mr. Hhaw’s nozzle <jin be applied to escape-pipes, it can also be applied to the human nose. It was undoubtedly the intention of the inven tor of sleeping-cars to construct a car in which a traveler could lie awake all night with comparative comfort. This invention has, however, been hitherto made a failure by the infamous conduct of shameless snorers, who deliberately go to sleep in sleeping cars and snore as if there was no future world. It is difficult to disbelieve that the snorers constitute an organized gang of miscreant. Upon what other hypothesis than that of con certed action can we explain that the fac that they always travel in bands } three or more, including a tenor, a bari tone, and a bass snorer ? Their snoring also bears the mark of careful rehearsal. They do not *snore in the rude, artless way of the simple American boot-black, but they execute concerted chamber music evidently written by musicians of the Wagerniau school. A gang of these unspeakable villains has beeu known to snore, without the slightest intermission, from New York to Buffalo ; and although the unhappy listeners have hoped and prayed that the snorers would perish of strangulation, they have wickedly lived on while honest travelers have died of rage and exhaustion. Were Mr. Shaw’s nozze to be firmly at tached to the nose of every man who is sus pected of snoring, the aleeping-car would become what its inventor designed it to be. If steam at a pressure of one hun dred and sixty pounds can have its roar baffled and silenced by Mr. Shaw’s nozzel, no snore would ever find its way past the wires and the helix of the same instru ment when applied to the nose. No matter how earnestly the snorer might strive to sound his denomiacal nose, he could produce nothing more sonorous than a gentle sigh. As for the pretonse that the forcible application of the nozzle to a suspected nose would be an invasion of the snorer’s rights, it scarcely de serves consideration. The man who snores in public has no rights which hon est men are bound to respect. We muz zle dogs and place yokes about the necks of too enterprising pigs. Is the snorer of more value than the dog or is he better than the pig ? If not it is a hollow mock ery to pretend that we caunot, in our defense, neutralize his nefarious nose with Mr. .Shaw’s nozzle. The nozzel may also be used to render certain domestic animals endurable. With its aid the ill-judged attempts of the hen to rival the nightingale in sing ing can be baffled, and the obnoxious re marks of the mule can be silenced. At present, when the small boy undertakes to play base ball, he fills the neighbor hood for miles in every direction with yells and blasphemy. If all small boys found playing base ball without nozzles were to be instantly arrested and com mitted to the pound, life during the ball season would become bright end beauti ful. It would, perhaps, be impractica ble to apply the nozzle to Mr. Talmage, and perhaps it would be scarcely worth while, since he preaches more with his arms and legs than his voice. Htill, if Talmage’s vocal rant could be filtered through Mr. Shaw’s wires, we could more easily bear his gvmanaatic antics. At any rata, the experiment might bo tried, and the Brdoklin common council ought to pass an ordinance requiring Talmage to be nozzled, at least during the hot weather. —Aew York limes. HTAOK HKCUICTH. It may not be generally known that the real name of John T. Raymond (Colonel Sellers) is John O’firine: Lawrence Barrett was originally Larry Brannigan; Barney Williams was Barney Flaherty ; George Clark is Peter O’Niel; Harry Montague is Henry J. Mann; and W. J. Florence origninally possessed an unmistakably Hiberian though hardly musical name. 'Among actresses this change of names is yet oommon. Hav ing selected one that suits, it is generally retained by the bearer until the close of her stage career even though marriage may give her the right to use another and a better one. Most of the prominent ladies upon the stage are married. Charolotte Thomi>- son is Mrs. Lorraine Rogers; Adelaide Neilson is Mrs. Leigh, Marie Gordon is Mrs. John T. Raymond ; Maria Hrabrook is Mrs. George Rignold; Clara Morris is Mrs. Harriott; Kate Claxton is Mrs. Dore Lyon ; Rose Eytinge is Mr. George H. Butler, and Effie Germon is Mrs. Nelse Seymour. The list might be in definitely prolonged. There is a certain policy in j thus pre serving the name under which success was first achieved. Every business man understands the worth of an old firm name, and, besides, an actress would lose something of .the romance which hangs about her if it were generally known that she was the mother of a family, for whose support she was working. Actors and managers both understand this, and the latter are as averse to any change of names as the former can be. —Boston Commercial Bulletin. The St Louis’Globe-Democrat says What seems to be wanted in the game of base ball is on improvement in the umpire argument. Every club can win every game on its home grounds, but they all seem to let down as soon as they get into the clutches of a strange umpire, with a stem-winder and a time lock, would be an improvement. INDIA. Dreadful Mortality Among tho Starving Millions. The editor of the Madison Times, a member of the relief committee, writes, under date of August Ist, as follows ; “ The population in southern India more or less afflicted by famine number twenty-four million. In the most favor able circumstances at least one-sixtb will die. Twenty-three people in all have died ot starvation in Bengal. In Madras one camp of three thousand rises morn-- ing after morning, leaving thirty corpses. In the interior the distress is most fearful Ono gentleman, in passing down the val ley in the Wynaad district, counted twenty-three dead bodies on the road. A coffee planter seeking shelter from the rain in a hut found six decomposed corpses in it. Every day mothers may be seen in the streets of Madras offering their children for sale, while the found ling portion of tli poorhouse is full of> intauts found by the psiice in the roads deserted by their parents. Since the famine begun five hundred thousand people have died of want and distress. The first big tragedy may be expected in Mysore, in that province ; indeed, infor mation has reached here from Bangalorb of two cases of cannibalism already.” VELOCITY or rsKItVE- l M VVLHKH. The earliest experiments were made with reference to the rapidity of move ment through the nerves. The first attempt to measure the velocity of nervous impulses proceeding from the brain under action of the will was made long ago by Haller. He ascer tained, by reading aloud with great ra pidity extracts from the “ 2Kneid,” the average number of letters which he could pronounce in one minute. Then ho calculated the length of the nerve from the brain to the muscle of the tongue and mouth. Each letter ho regarded as requiring a nervous impulse. He was obliged then only to multiply the num ber of letters spoken in each minute by the length of the nerve. This gave as a result that the rate of nervous transmis sion from the brain was about one hun dred and fißyfcet a second. Thisexper imont was defective in failing to lake into accouut the facts that both the act of willing and that of musular contrac tion require time. Had these been con sidered, the solution would have been farther from the truth than it really was. Recent investigations of more precr i have not, howevor, given r 'lts that differ widely from that obtai by Hal ler. The rate as given by Helmholtz, after many experiments, is about one hundred and eleven feot per second. This is now generally accepted as the most accurate statement. Hlight differ ences in results for movements from the brain, and for those proceeding to it, have been obtained in the investigations, but the rate is regarded by the best authorities as essentially the same for both movements, if there boa differ ence, it arises because the rate of volun tary impulses moving from the brain outward is the more rapid of the two.— T. F. lirovmtll, in Popular Scienct Monthly TA I. WVf <IK ON LA IfUIIINO. Brother Talmage spoke as follows in his sermon last Sunday: God says that the bible is true; it is all true. Bishop Coleman laughs and Herbert Spencer laughs, Stuart Mill laughs, all the Ger man universities laugh, Harvard laughs softly, a great many of the learned in stitutions of this country, with long rows of professors sitting on tho fence between Christianity and infidelity, laugh softly. Now, with this perfect bible In my hand, let me tear out what modern scepticism demands to be tern out. “ Well,” says a man in the audience, “ take out all that nonsenseabout the erection of the world.” Away goes Genesis. “ Now take out all that miraculous stuff about the wander ing of the Jews in the wilderness,” says another. Away goes Exodus. “Deute ronomy and Kings contain thingsnotfitto beread.” A wav Deuteronomy and Kings. “ The hook of Job is a fable,” says one man. Away goes the book of Job. “All that implies the divinity of Christ ought to go out,” says [another. Away go the Evangelists. “ The book of Revelations is preposterous,” says another. Away gees the book of Revelations. Now, there are still a few pieces left. “Oh!” says some man, “ I don’t believe a word of the bible.” Away goes the whole bibl9. Now you have put out the last light of tho nations; now it is the pitch darkness of eternal midnight. How do you like it ? When the bible comes to be preserved as a curiosity in our city libraries, the koran on one side and the writings of Confucius on the other, let us keep a copy of it for our own use to console us when afflicted. GRAVE AND GAT. Indian Summer. Dear Maud, I hoar across the morn The bluejcv calling in the corn. Oh, in in heart I tr. ad, to-rfay, Along our old, cool, woodland war , And hoar within the shadows still Tho acorns dropping on the hill. A hawk sails by on silent winga ; The far, low whirr of partridge wings Comes a faint ripple on the air ; ’Tia restful silence everywhere; Ho still, that fA“m the maple’s crown I hear the red leaves eddying down. A gleam of silver far awav The river lies asleep to-day; The single shallop loitering by Beeins poised bet ween the wave and aky; AH haste is rounded Into (Aim, And earth and sky is swathed in balm, NO. 2. .. A publisher announces “ A treatise on the nose with fifty cuts.” We should think a nose with fifty cuts had had about all the treating it could stand. .. A Cincinnati widow advertised for “every Christian in the city ” to send her ten cents. She realized twenty cents, in dicating an unexpectedly large number of Christians in that city. .. A four-year-old miss adds another to the list of remarkable juvenile speeches. She was asked where she expected to go when her mamma died, and replied: “ To the funeral, I s’posfc.” . M Ernest lieyner, the music critic of Leu Debate, says: “I am always pleased when I see a young lady devote herself to .the [study of the harp or the violoncello. It is one less to play the piano.” . .Customer (to a vender of watermel ons)—“ Isn’t a dollar rather a large price for a waterlemon?” Vender—“You wouldn’t think so, mister, if you’d sot on top of a fence with a shot-gun every night for three weeks a-watchlng the patch.” ..“ When,” asks an exchange, “does a boy really begin to realize the stern realities of life?” Why, when he finds himself up in a tree in a melon patch, with the farmer’s faithful bulldog mounting guard at its base, and the farmer just heaving in sight with a shot aim. That’s when. . . More than sixty thousand pounds of butter made from beef fat are weekly consigned from Philadelphia to one Lon don firm of provision merchants, and it is only a short time since an order for no less than 4,500,000 pounds was equally divided between a New York and Philadelphia firm. . .Builington Hawkeye: If any cit izen in the United States has been over looked this year in the conferring of de. green by the several collages, he can have the omission made good by sending his address to this office, and stating what (legrse he would like. ..“ We have got to practice the most rigid economy at such a time as this, 1 ' remarked a man the other day to a crowed on the sidewalk. “ I have stop' ped all the papers for which I formerly subscribed, and don’t buy candy, toys, and such trumpery for the children ; times are bard. Gome in, boys, and take a drink ! ” . The common relation among men is mutual indifference ; that among women, enmity. Even on meeting on the street they look at each other like Ouelbellines: and on being [introduced to each other, two women always .behave with mere visible stiffness and insincerity than two men, for which reason conpliments be tween women sound much more ridicu lous than between men. — Schopenhauer . Recently, a Han Francisco hotel pro prietor announced that no bills would be presented to army officers stopping at his house, until congress should make an appropriation fer their pay. Before night, some twenty “ generals,” ninety odd “ colonels,” three hundred “ majors,” and no end of “ captains” and “lieuten ants” had registered and applied for rooms for the season. ..“ If you ever think of marrying a widow,” said £n anxious parent to his Ireir, “select one whose first husband was hung; for tlrat is the only way to prevent her from throwing his memory into your face, and making annoying comparison*.’ “Even that won’t prevent it,” exclaimed a crusty old batchelor, “she’ll praise him by saying that hanging would be too good for you.” The latest delusion and snare in Han Francisco is a piece of glass cunningly cut into a vdriterrtbiance of ice, which is put into an intoxicated mans cooling draught. This is much in vouge among corner groceries, being drunk, of course does not detect the cheat, but luxuriates in fancied frigidity. At the Philadelphia academy of science meeting, the other day, there was received from New Orleans a spider that bad been killed by magnetism. One of the lobes of the poor creature’s left lung was affected, its entire left row of ribs was gone, it had sustained a com pound fracture of the ccrebal frontis piece, and had three front teeth knocked out. Bully for magnetitm ! Young lady, who is taking a course of English history, anxious to air her knowledge, imparts to the first-grade grammar school girl by her side the his tories of the various queens whose por traits embellish the volumn. Coming to Lady Jane Grey, shs Bays: “ This poor queen only reigned twelve days, and then they cut her head off.” Intelligent sweet sixteen, who is a favorite with th* gentlemen, with dreadful earnestness re plies: “My gracious! Why didn’t i they discharge her?”