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Tie Jesnp Sentinel Office in the Jesnp House, fronting on Cnerry >ftvt’i, two floors Loin Broad St. PUBLISHED EVE It Y WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $2 00 Six months 1 qq Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion , ,„$i oo Per square, each subsequent, insertion. 75 Special rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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. r ~'." " ’:** ' - *>d * L t 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. JESUP BOUSE, K Corner Broad and Cherrv Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. !’• LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts 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.