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TOWN IiIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—'W. 11. Whaley.
CouQcilmeQ —T. P. Littlefield, 11. W.
Whaley, Brvant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopns,
Sheriff-Ajohn X. Goodbre&cL
Elcrk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
'County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner —D. McDitha.
Ounty Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, Janies Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board,
3d Wednesday in January, April, July and
October, .las. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—.Tuo. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor*
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Uttar, Pierce Coiiiij Georjia
TOWH GIHECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—K. G. Biggins,
t ouueilmen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs,
J. At. Lee, 1-i. D. Brantiy.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantiy.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Sune o Court —Andrew At. Moore.
Sheriff— E. /. Byrd.
County T wMi.er—D. P. Patterson.
County tServeyor— J. >l. Johnson.
Tax Receiver" and Co'lcctor—J. M. Ptu
dotn.
Chairman of Road ComoM*none**?—l’sl
J>iiriot f (is M., Lewis O. Wyliv: 12 0 Dis
trict,'L M.. George T. Moocy ; r;st District,
O. M., Oha/les s', Youniamii; 590 District,
<j. M;, D. B. McKinnon.
Notary INujlics and Jusf ccs o* f*>e Peace,
—Bfecksnea Pucci ac- 584d s. c .G M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S Justice
ti>e Pe*ee ft. R. James; IL-ofticio Con
**V>le E. Z. By and.
Oickson?B Mill Precinct, 1 250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Bwev.; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
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Kf'lil.t.terville PrecijSit, s9O District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon ; Justice o !
-the Peace, K. T. Jam.es; Constable,John AV
JDoth. ■ ,
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mdn
<try in March and September.
Corporation Court,‘Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police,
court sessions every Monday Morning at 0
o’cleck.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Aimthern News.
West Virginia lias received $107,710
from the Peabody fund in ten years.
The Pallas ana jfincointon, N. 0.,
narrow gauge railroad is completed, and
the road is being extended to Newton.
The horse ridden by General John A.
Wharton in the battle of Murfreeslmro,
died a lew days ago at Houston, Texas.
A rich silver mine has been discovered
in (riles county, Va., and the denizens
ot the bailiwick are strong remonetiza
tionists.
Nine hundred and seventy thousand
dollars of ihe old Memphis city bonds
have been funded into the new at fifty
cents on the dollar.
Clifton Carson, of Sumner county.
Term., was thrown Irom a horse Sunday,
hv which several of his ribs were broken
and one of them, driven through his
lungs, which caused his death.
“ Tell .Mrs. Cleaves I die with a burn
ing heart for Mamie’s love,” were the
words found on a note left by Joshua
Carney, of Dry Creek, Cheatham county,
Penn., who shot himself the other day.
Industrial.
Mr. Kama, of Titusville, Pa., started
recently for China, where the govern
ment has employed him to prospect for
oil. He is to get a salary of $3,000 and
expenses for the first year.
There are more than a thousand co
operative societies in Great Britain, hav
ing 262,188 members, holding co opera
tive capital amounting to $6,000,000,
and drawing’s net profit on their shares
in one recent year ot $670,721.
An enterprising firm in Cincinnati has
asked the city authorities for the priv
ilege of excavating the streets to lay lines
of shafting for the purpose of supplying
power to persons neediag it for machinery
and willing to rent it.
The telephone has been successfully in
troduced in the police department in
Albany in place of the telegraph. Xo
battery is used. The current is gener
ated by an electro-magnet revolving
across the poles of a permanent magnet
A I! Sorts.
The tramp is more softly called a “turn
pike sailor.”
Bureau trunks, containing three draw
ers. are the latest.
.Some California farmer? are actually
raising figs to fatten hog- on.
VOL. 11.
A Cincinnati restaurant announces
“eighteen-carrot vegetable soup.”
Salt river is not a mere political myth:
it traverses Maricopi, Arizona.
Each steel pen passes through twenty
to twenty-iiYe processes in being made.
A San Francisco firm offer to supply
Chicago with strawberries next month if
the demand justifies shipment by the car
load.
The municipal council of Paris pro
poses to name a street in that city Rue
Washburue, after our into minister to
France.
The Chinese language is spoken by
about 350,009,000. The English lan
guage is spoken by from ISO,01)0,000 to
85,000,000.
Grapes are healthy. 'Taken inwardly
they quicken the digestive organs; step
ped oil with the bare foot in the early
dawn they quicken the mental powers.
Alcott says that the first sign of age is
loneliness. That is what makes a young
man go round the street at midnight
singing: “Dear mother, lam growing
•Id.”
The Conductors’ Brotherhood of the
United States, in annual session, resolved
that any member who may engage in a
strike of railway employes shalt be ex
pelled.
The name of the potato-bug, in Ger
many, is Mi sell tend iriwetbhtenlaw beden
achtosshooptenschafllichtheit. This is
what makes it so hard to kill them. —
Hawkeye.
When a clergyman remarked there
would be a nave in the new church the
society was building, an old lady whis
pered that she “ knew the party to whom
ic referred.”
Crop reports are so far completed that
the yield of Wheat for the current year
is considered certain not to fall below
325,000,000 bushels, and that of corn
1,280,000,000.
A case of curious relationship comes
from New England. A young girl went
to visit her brother, fell in love with her
brother’s wife’s father and married him.
She thus becomes her brother’s step
mother.
The Titusville (Pa.) Herald reports
that a gentleman in that city, highly ed
ucated and a master of seven languages,
has lately been compelled, in order to
support his family, to work at unloading
cars lor $1.60 per day.
RelKiou*.
Warren-Street chapel, Boston, has
maintained a free evening school for for
ty years.
The Southern Baptist convention has
in China three stations—Canton, Shang
hai and Tungchau.
The £<n;ral aefonfuiy of the Welsh
Calvinistie Methodist church reports six
‘synods, 126 ministers, 161 churches, and
11,000 members.
The Anglican church in Australia
and New Zaaland'elaims 919,000 of the
total population (2,322,503) of these col
onies. The church has sixteen dioceses.
A lady lias just been appointed prin
cipal of a high-school in Deleware.
From which it is fair to assume that the
motto of the trustees is, “ Principals,
not men.”
The Methodist Episcopal larch, en
tering Utah seven years ago, has now
church edifices at Salt Lake, Ogden,
Bingham, Provo, Neplii and Beaver, and
fifteen Sunday schools.
The Roman Catholics of Ireland arc
holding meetings in favor of the estab
lishment of a 1 toman Catholic university
in that island. They complain that the
government system of education allows
no facilities for the teaching of science
and religion in harmony with the doc
trines ot the Roman Catholic church. A
petition is to bo forwarded to parliament
for the passage of Mr. Butt's hill in refer
ence to university education.
The celebrated Dr. John Brown, of
Haddington, England, was in his day,
which was belore the growth of theologi
cal seminaries, a great educator of young
men for the ministry. It was his custom,
on receiving anew lot, thus to address
them: “ Gentlemen, ye need three
things to make ye good ministers; ye
need learning, and grace, and common
sense. As lor the learning, I’ll try to
set ye in the way of it; as for the grace,
ye must always pray for it; but if ye
have no common sense with ye, ye may
go about your business.”
A Miss Mcßeth is running a mission
ail alone among the Nez Percestet Indians
in Colorado, teaching the bible and doing
service to philology. In the secluded
valley where she has dwelt some four
years, there exists, says a writer in the
Presbyterian Banner, a “ theological
seminary manned with a faculty of one,
and that one a woman. Moreover, the
students are married men, independent
of any educational society, supporting
themselves and families by their Jdaily
labor, while zealously pursuing their
biblical studies—men who, a few years
ago. were untutored savages!” Miss
Mcßeth has not only acquired their
language, but has in preparation for the
press aNezPercetet gram mar and a lexicon
containing more than 10,000 words of a
language that will probably, before many
years, become like that into which Eliot
first translated the bible for the Indians,
an extinct dialect.
Pmonitlitifi
William C. Bryant possessed a mar
velous vitality. Seemingly he is as vig
orous as he was 25 years ago. He has
been taking a very prominent part in the
public celebrations of the hour. An ex
ceedingly interesting scene took place
not long sinoe. He was in a ’arge com
pany and it was proposed that he should
read his Thanatopolis. A small edition
of his poems lay on the table. The type
was small and the print blurred. He
took the book and turned to the poem,
and—with fifty years lying between the
writing and the reading, and without
glasses, with only the ordinary light of
the gas chandelier—he read the poems
distinctly and impressively to the end.
Foreign A'oie*.
A million and fifty-five thousand men
are reported to be on the military regis
ter of the German government. Of this
number 398.000 are upon the so-called
black list, for not having server], includ
ing 190,'nji) who have left th l country to
-IESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1877.
avoid serving. It is estimated that one
German in every eight expatriates him
self to avoid military service.
“Simplicity” is the sweet title of an
association ot ladies just formed at Leip
sic. Its object is to promote simplicity
in dress, and to make war upon luxury.
Members must pledge themselves not to
wear trains, or false hair, or other frivol
ities. The dresses must be plain, with
only a simple embroidery or trimming at
the end of the costume.
FORTY-11FTII CONOR ESS.
THE SENATE.
In the senate, on the :19th, the follow
ing bills were introduced and referred:
To fix the date of meeting of the regu
lar session of the forty-fifth congress upon
November Ist. Providing for the coin
age of silver dollars and for making same
a legal tender. To establish the territory
of Lincoln and provide a temporary gov
ernment. To authorize the secretary of
the interior to declare forfeitures of rail
road grants in certain cases. The s mate
then went into executive session and
after sitting three-quarters of an hour
adjourned till to-morrow.
HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVE6.
In the house, on the 29th, bills intro
duced and referred : Providing a per
manent form of government for the Dis
trict of Columbia. Repealing the act
establishing a uniform system of bank
ruptcy. Also, providing lor the appoint
ment ot a commission on the subject of
alcoholic traffic. Repealing the sections
of revised statutes embodying the tenure
of civil office act. Providing for uni
form certificates of election of members
of congress. Reducing postage on letters.
To repeal the law taxing deposits in sav
ings institutions. To simplify existing
laws imposing and collecting duties on
imports and to remove all ambiguities
therefrom. Also, to reduce rates on im
ported merchandise, and to restore duties
on tea and coffee and to enlarge the free
list. Also, a hill to restore national
credit by funding the non-interest bear
ing debt into bonds bearing a four per
cent, interest, payable at the expiration
of forty years. Also, to regulate and
facilitate the payment of duties on im
ported merchandise. Also, providing lor
the classification of fabrics and other
articles composed of mixed materials.
Also, to provide for the construction of
an act entitled an act to amend the cus
toms revenue laws and to repeal moieties.
Also, to repeal the duties on packages
and coverings of goods. Also, providing
a repeal of all taxes on capital and de
posits of state and national banking in
stitutions. Also, to abolish the tax on
bank checks. Also to provide for the
abolition y* oill- for chltj.es on .im
ported merchandise a bile the latter re
mains in custody of the government.
Also, to provide for the prompt payment
ot all judgments obtained against the
government for refunding oroverpayment.
of duties. Also, providing for the re
ducti-nof duty on all laces manufactured
by hand. Also, to provide for the re
sponsibility of the government for all
merchandise while in its costody. Also,
providing for refunding of redemption
agency expenses. Also, to provide for
the abolition of all naval officers at ports
where United States, appraisers’ depart
ments are established. In relation to the
Paris exhibition of ’7B. It provides for
acceptance of the invitation, for the ap
pointment of a general commissioner, at
a salary not to exceed $3,000, and of
fifteen additional commissioners, eight of
whom are to he skilled artisans and
seven scientific experts, whose pay and
expenses shall not exceed SI,OOO, and
authorizes the assignment of one or more
public vessels to transport to and
from France, free of cost, articles for ex
hibition. It appropriates $150,000 to
cover all expenses. By Mr. Cox—For
the removal of all political disabilities.
Also for the issue of silver coin not to
exceed $25,000,000 on deposit of bullion.
Also, to repeal the act authorizing the
coinage of twenty cent silver piece-. By
Mr. Butler—Declaring the department
of agriculture one of the executive de
partments. By Mr. Peddie—For the
establishment of a department of com
merce. By Mr. Kelley—To repeal an
act for the resumption of specie payment.
By Mr. White (Pa.) —For the stamping
of unstamped documents and papers.
By Mr. Errett—To regulate commerce
and prevent discrimination by common
carriers. By Mr. Marsh—Proposing an
amendment to the constitution in regard
to the election of president. By Mr.
Harris—To give circuit courts supervi
sory jurisdiction over district courts in
certain criminal eases. Also, to abolish
the ironclad oath of office. By Mr. Ca
hill (Va.) —To remove the duty from the
ingredients used In the manufacture of
tobacco and snuff. By Mr. Goode—For
the restoration of wages in the govern
ment printing office. By Mr. Walker—
To make United states, notes receivable
for import duties. Also, to consolidate
the bonded debt, and to reduce the in
terest. By Mr. Davis—To refund money
to the state of North Carolina. Also, to
repeal the laws forbidding the payment of
claims to persons who were not loyal.
By Mr. Yates—To abolish the tax on
liquors distilled from fruits. By Mr.
Beales —To refund the direct taxes col
lected on the insurrectionary states.
Also to refund all special taxes
paid by distillers ot fruit. By Mr.
Robbins —To prevent interference with
the administration of justice in criminal
cases. Also, to reduce the tax on dis
tilled spirits to 45c per gallon ; on tobacco
to 12c per pound, and cigars to $8 per
1000, allowing producers of leaf tobacco !
to sell SIOO worth to consumers without |
a tax. By Mr. Vance— Abolishing the
10 per cent, tsx on the circulation of!
national banks and to reinforce a uniform
rate of interest By Mr. Herbert—To
abolish the ironclad oath. By Mr. Ellis
—Fora mail steamship service to Brazil.
By Mr. Gibson —To improve the naviga
tion of the Mississippi. Also, for the
appointment of commissioners to ascer
tain on what terms treaties of commerce
may lx? arranged with Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, and Central American states. By
Mr. Banning—Repealing the law for
bidding the appointment in the army and
navy of persons who have served in the
army or navy fit the confederate states.
Also, to transfer the conduct of the
Indian affair- to the war department. By
Mr. Rice —To reform the civil -<rvice.
-Also, to provide for pension to commence
from date of death or disability.
THAT NKW WORLD.
Bow gracious we are lo grant to the dead
'I hose wide, vague lauds in the foreign sky,
Rt*erving The world for ourselves Instead ;
Fer we must live, though others must die!
And what is the world that wo keep l pray ?
lino, it lisa glimpses of dews and llowtrs;
Then youth and love nro here and away,
Like mated birds—but nothing ia outs.
Ah, nothing indeed but we cling to it nil.
It is nothing to hear tine’s own heart beat,
It is i othing to ace one's own team fall;
Yot surely the breath of one’s life is sweet.
Yes. the breath of odr life is so sweet, 1 tear
Vve were loath to give it for all wo know
Of that charmed country wo hold so dear,
Far into whoso beauty tho breathless go.
Yet cm tain we are, when we •*■*- them fade
Out of the pleasant light of the un,
Ot the sands ef gold in the palm-leaf's shado,
And the strange, high j wels all these have won
You dare not doubt it, O soul of mine!
And yet, if those vacant eyas could F69
One, only one, from that voyage divine.
With something, unything, sure for Hie !
Sibyl’s Aversion.
Sibyl Kenmerc was a pelted, pampered
darling of wealth—a young lady fond of
all the luxuries ami enjoyments of life—
a leader in society, though, to give Sibyl
her due, she never set herself up as a
leader ; she simply did what she pleased,
not caring what anybody thought about
it; but what Miss Sibyl pleased to do
always seemed to he just the thing—at
least so society must have thought, for it
would rise and do likewise.
Now, for old devotees of fashion to
follow the footsteps of a debutante, and
imitate her every caprice, was enough to
turn the head of a young lady of nine
teen, to make her vain, arrogant, and
unwilling to submit to dictation.
Wc are not prepared to say that Sibyl
Remnerc was vain, arrogant, and he
lieved herself infallible, neither do we
know that a streak of strong-mindedness
ran through her composition and made
her alike invulnerable to the honors and
flatteries lavished upon her.
We have her word for it that she did
not mind being dictated to, but she
would not submit to being dictated to by
him, for, oil, how she detested him !
Now the gentleman Miss Bibyl desig
nated as “ him ” was the only one of her
intimate friends or relatives who had her
interest at heart, that attempted to dic
tate to her since the day she took it upon
herself to “ come out” as a young lady,
and- to his first end only dictation she
refused to submit, so we must leave
Sibyl to the tender mercy of our reader
to pass judgment upon her.
“ (Mother, i will not put up with it
any longer! ”
Sibyl’s cheeks were aflame, and her
dark eyes dilated as she gave vent to the
above.
“ Well, well, the course of true love
never runs smooth. Herbert has been
doing something awful again, 1 sup
pose, ’ said Mrs. Renmere, in a soothing
voice.
“ Mother, I know you are ouly talking
lightly, but it does provoke me when you
speak of love between Herbert Talfourd
and me. If you only knew how I detest
him ! and I will not submit to his inter
ference aiiy longer.
“ My dear Bibyl, I understand how you
deteHt him better than you do yourself,”
and Mrs. Renmere smiled quietly. “ But
what has happened now ? ”
“ Why, I was driving alone in the
park, yesterday, when he came to me,
said it looked anything but lady-like to
see a young lady out alone driving a
pair of fast ponies; and he stepped into the
phaeton, took the reins deliberately out
of my hands, and drove me home. ”
“ And, my dear, he said what was per
fectly true. I never drove out in such a
style ; and you are setting a had exam
ple, Bibyl. Already I hear complaints
of Julia Blome, Elsie Harrington, and
several others having a fast pair, and all
because they have seen you doing it.”
“ Why, mother, I never asked any one
to follow my example. Idoas I please,
and i have a perfect right to, so long as
I know in my heart I do nothing wrong,
and this day puts an end to it; if Her
bert Talfourd interferes with me again
I shall certainly offend him. ”
“ My dear, you must remember he is
an old friend of the family, and at prer
ent our guest. It he were not very
much interested in your welfare he
would not speak at all to you, for I’m
sure your conduct and speech have often
given him offense.”
“ Well, I will not be dictated to by
him, and he can hereafter take an interest
in someone that will appreciate it—l
don’t. There! ”
Sibyl’s “ there ” must have settled it,
for Mr. Renmere said no more, hut suc
cumbed, as she had done all her life, to
her willful child.
“ I do detest him. and I won’t put up
with it,” murmured Bibyl, as she made
her way to her own room, with an angry
flush upon her beautiful face.
As she opened her room door she saw
her maid sitting weeping, and instantly
the anger died out of her face, and a
look of sympathy was in its stead.
“Is your little nephew any worse,
Marie?” asked Bibyl.
“ Oh, no, Miss Bibyl, he’s not worse,
hut I could not keep back my tears when
f came home lam crying out of pure,
gratitude. Your kindness, has saved his
life, Miss Bibyl. Can I ever do enough
to repay you ? ”
“ The little fellow is much better,
then ?”
And the society belle turned away,
and with a quick movement, touched
her eyes with her handkerchief.
“He will be no time in recovering
now, the doctor says, and he owes his
life to you, Miss Sibyl. Oh, how can I
ever repay you ? ”
“ You can repay ine in one way,
Marie, —by never saying anything more
about it. Have you been to the
Atwoods ? ”
“ Yes, Miss .Sibyl ; I took the wine
and the fruit as you told me.”
“ And how is Mr. Atwood ?”
Mr. Atwood was the husband of Sibyl’s
seamstress, a man who had been very
prosperous at one time, but who had
failed in business, and also in health,
until his wife had to take in sewing for
the support of him and their two chil
dren.
Every one knows what support the
needle of one frail woman can give a
family.
They were on the direct road to star
vation when Sibyl Itenmere’s maid found
out their condition, and reported the
same to her mistress.
“ Very low, indeed, Miss Sibyl ; he
cannot last many days," answered Marie.
“Is there anything else we can do for
them, Marie?”
“ Bless your tender heart, my mistress,
you have already supplied all their
wants. The doctor says nothing more
can be done for his patient.”
“ Ordei the carriage early to morrow
morning, Marie, and we will call there.”
“ Oh, you are so good, Miss Hilbyl!”
Bibyl suppressed a sigh as she said:
“If those who have enough to spare
of this world’s treasure do not give to
God’s destitute, who should ?”
Sibyl returned from her drive next
morning, cast aside her bonnet and man
tle when she entered the sitting-room,
and, seeing Herbert Talfourd seated
there readidg, she flung herself into a
chair, exclaiming;
“ Oh, dear! Ido not know what to do
with myself.”
Herbert Talfourd half-closed his book,
and looked over at her half curiously,
half pityingly.
“ A victim of the demon ennui, I sup
pose, ” said Herbert.
“ 1 suppose so. ”
And Bibyl smothered a lit lie ynwn.
“ You see I have attended to all my
dressmaking and shoping for this week,
and here it is only Wednesdnydeaving mo
all the rest of the week with nothing to
do. There is no new novel out, and I
feel too tired—or In/v, if you like—to
drive, visit or gossip. ”
Bibyl attend thisspeeclr defiantly,and
hall closing her eyes leaned hack in her
chair.
“And you have never anything to
think about hut shopping, visiting, etc.,
Bibyl?” said Herbert, with air of re
proach.
“ Why, of course not. ”
And Bihvl opened wide her eyes, and
flashed defiance at Mr. Talfourd.
“ What else should a leader of society
have to think about ? I beg pardon. I
forgot what a contempt Mr, Talfourd
entertained for leaders of society. ”
"Ami yet,” said Herbert, without
attempting to contradict Sibyl’s remark,
“what glorious opportunities for doing
good have leaders of society! Think of
what an example you might set you r
ladies, and elderly ladies, Bibyl, who
follow in your footsteps. You call your
self a leader, Bibyl, while you sit here
with folded hands, and the beggar crying
at your gate —”
“ Well, let one of the servants give
him something to eat. Do you wish me
to go down and answer the knock ? ”
And Bybyl’s defiant laugh filled the
room.
“ Oh, Bibyl! ”
And Herbert Talfourd’s handsome face
looked graver than cvershe saw it.
“ It is not the cry of one, hut of thou
sands that rend the air around you. The
starving, the homeless, the dying are
reaching out their hands to such as you
for succor, and you sit here and say you
have nothing to do.”
" 1 said f was tired, Mr. Talfourd,”
and Sibyl rose ; “ too tired even to sit
and listen to you talking this morning. If
you will excuse me—”
“Sibyl!”
He was beside her and had her hand j
clasped in his.
“ f know how you detest me, for 1 have
often heard you spying it, but J speak
out, and you must listen to me this time,
for I will never lecture you again. Sibyl, !
for the sake of those who are influenced
by you, you must ris.e to a better life, re
member that
—No life
Can h* pur*t iri its and irtrong in it*, utrif#,
And all i if*? not i e purnr and str*ngc?r tberebr ! "
“And if Mr. Talfourd has finished his
say, I’ll have the pleasure of bidding you
good morning,” and quickly withdrawing
her hand from hi* clasp, Sibyl swept from
the room.
Herbert Talfourd stood motionless
where t-ibyl left him, his heart torn by
conflicting emotions.
Sibyl Renmere was the only woman he
had ever loved, and his love was in vain.
He could not tell her that he loved her
v/hile she felt as she did toward him,
neither did he wish her to know that he
was her slave while she led her present
life; for Herbert bated the so-called
leaders of society ; gay butterflies of
Lthion. But before to-day he could not
believe that Sibyl was given up body
and soul to frivolous gayety. She was a
spoiled, petted child, hut lie thought that
the heart in her Ixisom beat warm and
true.
One, two, three weeks paused away,
and if Herbert Taltourd had turned to
ice, Sibyl thought he could not l>o colder.
He never interfered with, never advised
Her now. Perhaps it was this letting her
severely alone made Sibyl fo-get she
detested him.
Now tliis non-interference might ac
count for Sibyl no longer detesting Ac,-.
Talfourd, but why it should keep him'
continually in the young lady’s mind we
cannot say. Sibyl was not a moment
alone with her thoughts, and very often
when she was not alone with them, they
were on Herbert Talfourd.
“ What can have come over me. iam
not myself,” Sibyl would say in her own
mind, as she wandered through the house
like a restless spirit. But one day while
sitting thinking of Herbert Talfourd Hhe
burst into tears,7and 4 with a woman’s
inconsistency, wondered if lie was nevfr
going to take any interest in her, and m
her tears she muttered—
“ 1 do swine little good secretly that he
knows nothing of; hut ho spoke the
truth—openly 1 set a had example. Oh,
shall I ever meet another man as good as
he?”
And after this flood ot tears Sibyllas
very confident that she no longer de
tested Herbert Talfourd. *
“ He iH dying, Miss, dying fast,” said
Mrs. Atwood, as Sibyl stood beside the
bedside of tire sick man. “ But God
has been very good to him, Miss. He
has sent him another friend to-day. Mr.
Herbert Talfourd, whom we knew in our
better days, and, oh, Miss Ren me re, he
has already promised my hiiHbuml to
provide for me anil my children. I told
Mr. Talfourd that, you had promised to
do that; but you have always done so
much for us, Miss Rfnmere, that I am
glad somebody lias come to your relief.’
Sibyl’s heart gave a great bound.
Bho never could humble herself to
Herbert to D II him that she had always
gone among the poor and needy an’
hel|ied them ; hut now he knew that sh
was not given, heart, and soul, to dress,
fashion and gayety, and—she was glad.
“Miss Renmere, my best friend,” said
the dying man, opening his eyes, “ you
may never see me alive. Will you say a
prayer for me, for He will surely hear
an angel’s voice.”
Bibyl, with tears in her eyes, knelt be
side the bed and prayed aloud.
While Sibyl’s voice filled the room the
door opened and a man entered. In an
instant he took in the scene lieforo him ;
then, going over to the bedside, ho
dropped on his knees beside Bibyl, bent
his face to the coverlet, and wept from
the fullness of his heart.
When Bibyl finished her beautiful
prayer, she simply turned and laid her
hand on the man’s head saying—
“ Herbert, Ood bless you !”
Auil kneeling there, with Sibyl’s hand
upon his head, Herbert knew that his
love was not in vain—that lie would
never again hear how she detested him.
About, •Inpun.
Japan, on its 4,000 islands, islets and
rocks, with an aggaegate area of alxiut
155,000 square miles, lias a population of
.'13,625,678, which is greater than the
population of the United States was, ac
cording to the census of 1860. 'lhe pop
ulation in the principle islands, is much
more crowded than these returns would
indicate, as many of the islands are only
sparsely settled. New York, Pennsyl
vania, Deleware, Maryland and Ohio
represent a territory equal in area to that
of Japan, hut the aggregate population
of these states in 1870 was only 11,475,-
879—not much more than one-third that
of Japan to-day, and yet these slates are
among the most thickly populated in the
union. In Japan there are two hundred
and sixteen inhabitants (o the square
mile of territory; in the states men
tioned above, taken as a whole, there are
only seventy-four inhabitants Ut the
square mile. The Japanese are an in
dustrious and enterprising people, and
they are making rapid strides in the in
troduction of their country of the better
features of European ami American civi
lization. They are preparing now forthe
first of a series of annual industral exhi
bitions, of which advantage should tie
taken by American manufacturers. Ja
pan is a distant market, hut the United
1 Btales is nearer to it than any other great
manufacturing country.
Good Advice to Girls.
Speaking of the anxiety of girls to get
through girlhood hurriedly and get into
womanhood, or rather into young lady
hood, without awaiting to enjoy the
beautiful season of girlhood, Bishop Mor
ris said: “ Wait patiently, iny children.
Cos not after your womanhood ; let it
come to you. Keep out the public view.
Cultivate refinement and modesty. The
cares and responsibilities of life will come
soon enough. When they come you will
meet them, I trust, as true women should.
Bui, oh ! be not so unwise as to throw
away your girlhood. Rob not yourself
of this l-eautiful season, which, wisely
spent, will brighten all your future life.”
GRAVE AND GAY.
..A woman's thought: Row men
would ba loved if, they were only lovable;
how lovable women would be, if they
were only loved.
..“Nobody likes to be nobody; but
everybody is pleased to think himself
somebody. And everybody ißsomebody;
but when anybody thinks himself every
body he generally thinks everybody else
is nobody.
..A purchaser on being served with
ground coffee at a store, asked : “Are
there beans in this coffee ?” “ No, sir,”
answered the clerk. “ How do you
know?” answered the purchaser. “ Be
cause we ran out of beans Thursday and
had to put peas in instead.
NO. 12.
. The following is supposed to bean
imitation of a barrel organ;
*• Quar, quar, quar, quar, quar, quar, quar,
guar, quar, quar, quar, quar-r-r, quar,
guar, quar, quar, quar, quar. quar, quar,
gu r-r-r-r, quar, quar, quar. quar.”
It is supposed to be playing the air of
“ Pop Goes the Weasel.” Run it over in
your head ands e how it goes. It isn’t
bad it you do it artistically.
toM( LI r *' t eUngu)an chanced to ropinto
store a day or two after the
recent fire. He remarked to an old man
sitting near by, “ 1 suupose everybody
thinks the fire was the work of an incen
diary.” “ Wall,” said the old man,
“some do think so, hut 1 think it was
tot,'' — Wat. Times.
1 aiueson*
We sre borne into life—it is sweet, it strange !
We lie still on tho kaee of a mid mystery, which
■miles with a change 1
But we doubt not of changes, we know not ol
■paces;
The Heavens aeeui as near as our own mother's
face Is,
And wc think we could touch all the stars that wo
Ab<l with* email, childish hands, we are turning
around
The apple of Life, which another has found,
It Is warm with our touch~not. with sun of tho
South.
And we count as we turn if the rod side for fen#.
O Life, <> Beyond,
Thou art sweet, thou art strange evermore.
. .Mniiddev, in his recent work on the
11 Physiology of Mind,” says ho has seen
an imbecile in the Earlswood [asylum for
idiots who can repeat accurately a page
or more of any book which he has read
before, even though it was a book
which lie did not understand in the least,
and lie adds : “ I once saw an epileptic
youth, morally imbecile, who would,
shutting his eyes, repeat a leading article)
in a newspaper, word for word, after read
ing it once, anil I have lieen informed of
a similar case iu which the person could
repeal backwards what he had just, read.”
Tliis kind of memory : Maudsley goes
on to say, in which tho person seems to
read a photographic copy of former im
pressions on his mind’s eye, is not com
monly associated with great intellectual
power.— Huston Globe.
..At Auburn, Indiana, the other day a
young man named Squires picked tip a
loaded gun and playfully pointed at Mr.
and Mrs. Ault, playfully saying. “ your
money o(. your life.” The gun went off,
playfully of course, killed the lady and
badly wounded the husband. The jury
acquitted Squires as he did the whole
thing in play. If such idiots were play
fully sent to the state prison for life the
whorld would he better off. Until thiscau
be done any man who points a gun or re
volver at another should lie immediately
knocked down with chair, club, poker or
other weapon that may bo handiest. It
is no excuse to say that the gun is not
loaded, that only aggravates the case ;
the more unloaded the pistol is, the surer
docs death follow its index finger.
A MUSICAL MOUNTAIN.
A riirloNll.v Tin* Tinkling of
MhkhHlc Iron <lil|>.
A gentleman of this city who ha* been
taking a look among the old abandoned
mines of the Truckee district made a
critical examination of the musical
mountain, of which a good deal was
heard some years ago, when the mines
were first discovered. Borne of the early
miners pitched their tents at the toot of
the mountain, and were not a little sur
prised and puzzled at hearing, during the
quiet hours of the night, tinkling sounds
that seemed to (lervado the whole atmos
phere, coming from they could not tell
where. The sounds were not unlike
those of a music box. At times they
supposed that the sounds were caused liy
the wind playing among the twigs on the
mountain, hut they found that this solu
tion would not answer, as the same
hushes were found everywhere, while the
musical sounds were heard nowhere else
than on the side of the mountain at the
fixit of which they were camped. They
spent much time in scouting about and
listening of nights and quiet hours during
the day, and at last tracked the strange
sounds to a great lied of small pieces of
rock that covered the slope of the moun
tain. These bits of rock were found to
be quite sonorous, and the miners con
cluded that the sounds they emitted were
caused by the action of the wind among
them. The gentleman who recently
visited the mountain says he went to it
expecting to find it a good deal of a
humbug, but found it much more ol a
curiosity than he had anticipated, the
mingled tinklings much sesemhling the
sounds of an .Folian harp,and frequently
attaining a startling degree of loudness
, and distinctness. The sounds seem Wi
' rise and fall, approach or recede, as
j though caused or governed by the wiml.
I On a close examination, it was found that
the small flakes of rocks covering the face
of the mountain contain a large per cent.
;of iron. The iron is supposed to be
magnetic, and there appears U, be con
j stant motion among the chips of it,
which appear to cover the ground to the
depth of several feet in many places.
; The whole drift of broken rock seems to
i i, e moving down the slope of the moun
tain with the slow, creeping motion of
the glazier, and the slippiug over each
other of the fragments composing the
mass is thought to cause the tinkling
sounds, which are so numerous as to
mingle and rise into a single strong,
•"•t-ical murmur.— Virginia(Nev.)Chrrm
ide.