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Aldertisers will please state the nffm ber of squares they wish their adverti8ements to make. $&- Business men who advertise to be benefitted, . will. 'bear in mind that the SENTINEL has alarge and iucreasing cir culation, and is taken by the very olass of persons whose trade they desire. A WIFE'S PRAYER. For three days a terrible gale drove before it the ship Pembroke, bound to Liverpool fromnthe Sand wich Islands. Under bare poles, with every timber groaning and creaking, witi the tall masts bending like reeds, with heavy seas and blind ing spray sweeping her decks fore an1d aft, the vessel boomed on, rolling ilunging and quiver'ng iii her des crate si*trggle with the temipest. At midnight. justt before the eild inig , f ilil thiid d;y, a -orfui cry, no4 lud, but hourse and deep, went through tihe shi: 'Ve have sprung a leak!' Then the light from tihe tw() lant erIs hung up in Ilie iiail and iniz zen shrouds. fell up-n the stuirldy Jol mns of seamen, hurryi g to rig tlio Son the diLmal clang was hear-d as the stout fellows tuilcd and toi!ed, but all to no purpose. 'Oht, I1enry,wh1g shall we do? The leak is gaining upJonl nel" cried dis pa~irin)gly' the yong wife of Mr. Ro gers, th.e first mate. She was a fine, noble looking wo man, and was,liked andl respected by every man aboard ship. A true daughter.of Eve, her .love for her blndiaereo deep and absorbing iRthe'*ots inbve fol lowed himi thron ghany hardship or peril sooner than" eparate from him for a long psriod%,. ' otas the st nrdy, good-looking y'migsagate heard his wife's cry of alarm, he fliag en, armn around her waist and bade her be of good cheer. 'If it shbould comle to the wvorst,' said he, 'we will probably fall in, ere loig'*ih'6ine other craft." .Meanwhile the leak steadily gain,~ ed. The captaiu sent his carpenter into the hold. *C'aptain!' cried the lat ter, wvben he returned, 'its all up with us! Ther must be a big hold in the ship, as the water in her is already seven feet deep.' A look of dismnay settled on every face. 'Get the boats ready,' said the gipper. >While theomen were obeying the order, the ship's L ull, settling lower' and lower, was soon nearl,y engulfed inl ,be-rushing, roaring seas. he~'b sailors had barely time to pnt a ig6tf Boa bison it, a couple of cans of prepared meat and a breaker of frebb Water in each of the boats, when with a sidelong sheer, the vessel r'ol led-halt way over to, leeward, as a log, preparatory to going down. Thedie and his wife, with eight ren took to the long boat; the rest ofthe~ ship's occupants, amounting to 1ten BallQrB, entered the quarter boat. Jost as the two light vessels put away f rom:tEie doomed craft, the lat., ter laUIiging~ ler' bows Uinder, a dull report was heard, as the hatchets were burst open by the rising water in the hold. 4 minute later, elevating her sterni the ship sank out of sight in the Stormy ocean. In the darkness and amongst the heavy seas, the mate's boat soon bes came separated from the other. At dawn no sign of the latter could be discovered by those who looked for it. Keeping the boat dead all day againlst the wind, the mate with his companions vainly watched for a sail. Thus, day after day passed, until iarly a week had elapsed, by which time the scanty allowance of sea bis cuits havi)g given out, there was nothing Lit to eat in the boat, while in the breaker (a small cask) there remained hardly two quarts of wa terl. Three days later, neither land nor a sail having yet been fallen in with, the sufferings o'f the peoplu in the boat, reduced almost to -a state of starvation, were terrible. 'Oh, Harrie-l' gasped the mate on the morning of the tenth day after the ship had been abandoned, 'if I could only obtain food for yon-even provided t he rest of us bal. none-it would be great comfort to me." 'INay,' amswered ihe young woman, in a faint voice, while tears streamed dowi her hollow, flushed cheeks, 'you shoul-I have my share, Ienry I could maage to wit for a sail, which I I'ust we shall soon behold.' Later in the day, a wild,fierce ex prest3in gleamed in tC eyes of the 111CII. They exchanged sigiificnnt glances % 0 t3 but at the :ane ti te said not a word. Ech, bwwevcr, vluezscd the horri ble thought that had entered the mind of every sail0r, a "hougl they biesitatedI, -s yet, to express it. At last a mnan muned Michael 3runo-a blAt bveed betweeu an Englishiman aid a PortuguesO-let loose Ihe direadful idea. 'It muist be (done,' "e fairly scream ed. 'Two hours miore without food will put the dJeatlh seal upon us. One of us mn"st die.' 'Oh. no, nio,' cried Unri:t. 'We cani wait still. We shall see a sail before long. I feel sure we will.' But all her plea dinigs were in vain. Some paperCI was cut into stripsrand these being- held by Bruno, the drawing of lots to see who should die was commenced, it having been ar raanged that lhe wvho drew the shortest slipi was~to yield up ruis life for the benefit of the rest. As p)ale as death IIarriet sat wvat ching' the drwig A oment later shei beheld her husband looking at a smalhl bit of paper in his hand, while the hoarse voice of lUruno grated on her ear: 'Mr. Rogers hmas drawn the short slip!lieo must die!' 'Ay, ay, men,' said Rogers; 'I will so'on be readv'! I1 is wife flung herself uplonl his bosom. '.Never! never' shall they tear yon fro~m mel' she cried, twvi:ing her arms about his neck. 'But, IIarr'iet,' lbesaid, ':t is nec essary. It is only fair that I should die.' 'You mnust not; you shall not,' ex c'aimed the young woman. 'We can all go without food some honrs long.. er, dtuing which we may see a sail.' 'No, no, no,'~ cried Rogers' ship mates simnultaneously, 'we must have food now.' Hunger had driven them to des perat ion. Tiheir. teethI were clenched their eyes wild and bloodshot, their faces more like those of wolves than of human beings. '"Let me go, dear IIarriet,' said the young man to his wife. 'Let me bid you goodsbye, and may Heaven bless you.' Some of' the men advanced towatrd HArriett, wbo stillleld her husband in an embrace from which she coula not disengage himself. Turning to wards the sailors, she said: 'Back, back, never shall you tear me from hin. But if you must have a huma life, take mine instead of my husband's. - At this the'mon drew back. Even at that dreadful momelit tI'oy could not end.6re'the thought of killing. a woman. The first officer, who had watched his chance, now by a sudden move ment taking advantage of his wife's head being suddenly turned, and: nerved to additional strength by the harrowing thought that h1is shipmateS might at length come to the conclu% sion of accepting larrie's proposis tion to sacrifice her life, broke from her entwining arms and ran towards the bow of the buat. There lie was quickly joined by Iho other men, one of whom now placed himself as a barrier between the young woman and her husband, whom she was 6haking frantic efforts to reach. Perceiving that she could not pass the inan, she fell upon her knees, and in the most hearl rending agony, again begged the others to take her own instead of her itusband's lifo. But lier suplications were in vain. She sa w her Iusband leaninz back propared to die, whIJ. 3runo 1procecd edto sharpeni his knife or the dreadful work on one of the hoops of the bieaker. 1aving at length prepared the weipon, lie stoo.ed over the 30oung man to cut his throat, while a com panion stood by with a tin Cu) to catch the blood. 'For mercy's Sakc wait, ' sie cried, 'Look first and see il there is not a sail in sight-'.. The men oboyed her request. They scanned the ocean far nod near, but no sign of a sail was to bo seen. 'How do yoV know there is not one hidden by that mist?' Fhe inquired, pointing toward a small fog banik a leaguo to wind ward. '1 hero is none,' one of the men an swoLod. 'I feel sure; I looked at that very sp)ot before the fog settled there, about fifteen minutes since.' 'No, no; you may be mistaken. I conjure you, I implore you to wvait till the fog clears up, wvheni you may see a Bail,' The men exchange glances. 'It's no use,' cried Bruno; 'but to satisfy you, we will wait a fewv min utes before we take your husband's life.' At this Harriet started up, With her hands clasped and hier hair stream ing down her back, she s tood, her eyes turned toward the sky. in this position there came upon her face an expression that had never boon seen there before. It was almost divine, filling the countenance with an unearthly beau ty, lighting the eyes with such a ra, diant gleam-a lookc of such strong, concentrated will, blended with heav, only supplication, that the rough men drew back with mingled respect and awe, trembling under a sort of super natural influence. A moment the young woman stood thus, and then from lher parted lips came her voice, full of strange, wvier'd power, making the blood leap in ev ery vein: 'Oh, Heaven, a sail ! a sail !' The words.were simple enough, but the manner in which they were utter ed thrilled her listeners to the heart. Instinctively they all glanced around upon the ocean, as if expecting that the prayer would be answered. North, south, east and west they looked, but they saw no sign of a yes sel. When about five minutes had pass, ed, however, Bruno wals soon pointing toward the Ptrip of fog, which, slowly rising like a curtaiti, revealed a sail. Yes, there it wasL su're enough, and with a cry of dJI joy. on seeing it, .Harriet, no longer kept from hor hue. band. fng hnrsalf upon: hi b..t while the othci gave ex-piession to tfleir.f.olings by hoarse shouts. sobs and frontic laughter. Signals wero made, t,ho vossel bord do%vn for the boat, and the occuparts wore soon on deck, to be kindly:WoatV ed by the captain of the bark Java, bound to London. The half starved mon 0ore- agreo ably surprised to find aboard this vessel their shipmates -of tho .quarter boat, which, it scomns, had been pick ed up four days proviously. In duo time the vessel arrived at her home port, Whoro tho sailors re lated to their friends how - Harriet Rogors had save the lifo of her hus, band. Some of tho men insisted that ten or fifteen minutes before sho uttered her prayer, thero had been no vossel at the point where it was' discoveied. Of course they wore mistaken, having doubtless looked in some other direc, tion; but this they firmly denied with the common superstition of ecafaWing men, declaring that the sail appeared just when and where it did, in answer to the "Wife's Prayor." A 6REAT SCIENTIFIC PROBLM SOLVED.-Ilarlem was much excited last winter over a young colored 'vo. nian who declared that she had snakes in her stomach. To the many re. porters and physicians who visited her, she gave garrulous explanations of her suffelrings; she felt the stilriigs of a reptile within her, and at times heard terriblo ruinbling and hissing sounds. The nmysterious tenant was fastidious inl its tabtes and protested strongly agains ||'eert,iin articles of food. Several physicians mado an ex, amination of the woman dbut n1QLhingU, could be learned save that sho was the victiim of great inte-al ^Strife. ConstInit anxiety at last wore (lit her health, and 6!he died at her' home, No. 433 One 1tuidired and T%wentietl 4trCet, -yesterday mornin. . At ivo p. im., Coroncr W ohltima.n anl a d DCplty Coroner Cashiman held a pos.t mi. -1 ten examination. As the mediaiI men wei -o grouped about the corpse, said )I. Denm-est solemnly: <-On of thme .greatest sciontific problemns, is about to -be solved." Thme moment was big~ with expectation. The 'siep tics, however, triu imphied. No trace of snake or aninal 'was found in- th'e stomach. Thme woman's suffer-i ngs had been caused by imagination and in, digestion!--New YorkI Tribune. THE MYsTERY OF THlE lUnY.-lt is. n'ot a little remarkable, and we might philosophize for some time aboutL it, that while the diamond is- mae ump ol puro carbon, or simply blank opaque chiarcoal, the ruby, the next in value and beauty, is nearly. mado *up of alumina or common clay--8. per cent, the colpring n\att,er iron, .nnus ing Up) the rest of it; the mere trac of lime found in it being unapprci;a, blo0. Nothing, we may venture to say, in nature's chemistrmy is mor'e wonderful than this fact of the dull, colorless, and lifeless clay becoming mfetamuorp)hosed by comoe hidden and almost miraculous way in to thme tranis parently clear, red-coloi-ed, and abnost liv'ng gem. 1magination itself Iails to find a theory to accoun t for all this, and nd progress in chemistry can in vent a theory to account for all 'thin, and no proCgreCss in chiemistr'y can ions vent a theory to fit it. it is a some, what curious coincidence that thme ruby, as well as the diamond and other precious stonecs, is so of ten found associated wi th gold; w hero they arne, there is gold almest sure to 1be pres ent. Nature pr'oduices these, lher riches, together; and it aftcerward is the province of art to keep) them to gether and to exl;ibit them as oneO object. A Chiongo inventor made a fan wheel, to be placed in the~ hat, to keep the head cool ini warmi weather,4 iIe set it going in his hat, and the first thing ho knew his hair g bein'g wound up) in the machinery. The spring was very stiff, find l boioro be could release himself' a largo part of his hair was pulled out n)o t hn root A 8cond Lydia $heinan. Th' Kaneas' City (Mo.) Tihne6 tnys: t eoning the Fort Snott train brought iai o a r w6nn wlo, if guilty, %vllran!k niftn w'i ank an.o.ig thio'greatest ofrmod ei prisoners. She was im charge 6t ShqrifVfkhedeli, of l1 inockc county, N. ., and waf on 16r way to that State to stand .her trial for inurder. Sl q:is ajoung 'woian of rather pre. p)OQesiig appealra)ne, [an J con veraed veLy. frely with. th.ose who chose to talk with her. IIer name is Qatha rine M. Marbw, and sho is Obarged with poisening ier husband and two childien. She is a native ofl aitford CotnI., and was employed inl the Goverimicnt service in Washington for abol t o s, soon after. the closu-of the w.ar. She hia'ied George larlow, a dizcharged soldier of the United States, and weunt will hiim to North Carolina. She E s her hus band and eLredlI did not agree to, gethur very well, and that in 1873 she weit hui to her people, near Hart ford, Collnni., and rmacnined ithere nntil the follwiig year, wlenl her husband indied her to return to him in North Carolina. She claims that. the sory of her crimic is purely a fabrication, gottenl up by' her de Ceased h usb,ind's brotlher, with whoim she went to Malarshall, Texas. Alter a residence there of* nearly two years lie left her an!d returned to North Carohna, and has preuired indiet mnewts agintler f)lr pois;4-ning her tusband and( chlildreni. When she wa arrested in slartshall, Texas Lsle Was41 livill" w\i1h a sa'loonl keeper. S.hoI says she i. iinnee nt of the horrible chargs made n;tahist hi er and, vhile slo is pwei less to resist the demands of the law, s!.e feels confident that She will be A dis(-ha.(d whell brought to trial. bh eri 1Uedell says he has had lnl' trouii ile with. hlis prisoner. Ie wcfit wi.h his reguisition.all pr er parod, .mdfn,d.-his prisonerl with otit rnr,uhe. It is alleged that dhere is in'o doubt (Af her gui, anld tiat the evidenoce fu rn ished b1y her hu isbahid's biol (aer is conclusive. She went E ist last 'night ode the Miissonri l'neii e Railroad1, raid seemed to be as hiappy arany of the. other pa~ssen,% gera on lie trainu. Sum.Rr SnIOwrI IN FRANel.-Inl undr senitenice of dbeath never kinow abe timo fixedl far' t heir execut-ion unitil the3 mo:nenCit arrive's; indeed0, as ally npi.eals a:~ a miutur of conrse to th e CJour d.e CassatIion againIst his senOtenice, thbey mu ist of ten bte uncer ain~ to the lad wh~ether the senteonce will i. ea cai ou t. T.he ordecr for the exetion is onily Seint to lhe pris, on1 thle ovenling before it is to take p;lacel, and t he ei i'ninal is not ini foroied of it till the fatal morning arrives. At the t imeo of ouri visit to this parisonl, a 'orre;sp)ondent wiit es, there happened to b., two uunfortuin ate inm))ates. of the (i cnimed ells; The ex t even ing bu11t one0 an order bam1Ie (do)wi from- the mninistry of the Ster ior rein: ) g the 0one and( direet ing the exOCention, of the othier. At daybreahu on the followitig inornmirg thle wvret ched loan wa'j roused froni sleep) andc iformedC( that his [appleal h ad been21 r ejected , [nd hIle must prme parIe for deaflth, and1 ini eighiteeni min utes, as we were inlformied, froml the mfomienct lie awoke biis head had fal hen benea2th t he giillotine. Johnnie host his knife. After (eCreinilg ini one pocket ad anotheri unlt:l he had beeun thronigh all with. ouit sun 'cess, lhe e'xehIimedC. "Oh, dent ! I w~ ibih I land aniot her pocket, it mighlt be in that." Old Simon Ca.uieron says he told the boys alt Washington the extra session1 would bie a "'hell of a time." Grant evidently fealthered( his~ nest when 1fresident. Reunited at a Child's Graye.) Many years ago a' young getitle* man of' Mancbester, of good eharac ter and honorable eon0ne0tiens, lad, the nitfortuno to fall out w1h, his wife-a beautiftql girl of only elghP teen summers. ' e speedily ar.., ranged his business affairs,'abd with. out fomiality took an abrupt leave of his wife and" a' sweet litle babo. le traveled far and lingered long in many strange lands, without com-o mnunicating intelligence of his where. abouts, and without knowing, or caring to know, the ft9e of. his dear ones at home. In the aneutiue the, little oie had passed away,' and the wife, brokenhearted and ditconso. late, kept the faith she had pledged. at the altar. Many years had blap. sed ince her tr antAhuaband had lett her, and in all that time' it *as he- habit to visit the littie grave of h6r dead infant, with the samie deep mourning dress she had donned the (lay of its burial. A few evenings ago it so chanced that fate brought her husband back to this city, Who immediately u pon his arrival, sought out the little grave, where in the dim twilighf, he encouuntered a strange figure in black. A heavy veil bid the face; but hi3 was open and clcar, and seemningly unaltered. The die. cOvery of either's identity was but a momeit's time-a groan-a shriek -and husband and wife firmly cla"ped in loving emibrace.-Rich mnund State. Patents dated Nov. 27, 1877, issued to residents of Southern States named below. Re ported - by C. E. Fostori Patent Attorney, 509 7th St., Wash., ington, D. C. W. Wmtikless, Newport, Ky., fire escape; -A. G. Perry, Hickory Flat, Miss., plows; J. G. Munroo, Wythe vile; Va., traco fastener, J. M. O'Neal, Ft. Warth, Tex., thrashing machine; W. M. Towers, Rome, Ga., plows; J. Redrman, S..Carrollton, Ky., plow at tachments: . C. MtheI- rr, Louisville, Ky., mosquit,o -nets; 3. L. Shipeb Ulin toA Tenn., churns; J. Mari, Goliad, Tex.,-tire igh tener; J. Drhake, Dei. son1 Ciy Tex., baling' press; E. H. Augamar', Nuw Orleans, La., steam street cars; J. T. Donovali, Waco, lox., cotton cleaner'.. h ow IIi was SUITED-Says the Lewiston Mo. Jouamna:A youg manai of'- mteek jappearance ealled at a clothing store on Lisbon street, and said: 'I would like a pair of panta 10oons.' The trousers were prod ucod, and' the meek customner pullled off his b(ots and got into the biturcated would like to try on a vest.' 'Like wike a well-'fitting vest jpleased the meek youth. 'IIad the. firm a good coat?' A nico coat was fitted to him. 'And an overcoat?' Ule was clothed ini a very natty overgarment. Ae'it did not punrport to fit very.well, the gentleman in waiting was ask,ed to go and find a garment a httl larger. T2he garnmentZ a little larger was brought forward, but when itL came there was no meek customer there. lie had slid ont of the door very noiselessly and slipped into anl alley way, clad in the snit and overcoat of the clothing firm. lie left his old c>thes in exchange. To CURme SMALL P'OX.--"I amn w illing to risk mny reputation as a public man," wrote Edward fines to the Liverpool hiercury, if the worst case of 'small pox cannot be cured in three days simply by the use of cami of tartar'. One ounce of cream of tartar, dissolved in aI pint of watcr, drink at intervals, whleni cold, ia a certain, never failing remedy. It has cured thousands, never leaves a mark, never causes b)linIdness and avoids tedious ing. erimg. 'atterson's 4lay of inn"ocence were spent in a newspaper office.