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THE TMRIJ' SISTERS. ' cn.vr% ?a 11 ' V V "Gaurieli.k, you should not stay ut < so late nlone." "It iau't late, sister dear, for a summer's evening. The church clock struck oight just as I turned into the little path across the field." lire first speaker, who was the eldest, raised her hend from her work, and, looking at Gabrielle, said : "For you it is too late. You are not well, Gnbriclle. You are quite flushed and tired. Where have you been ?" "Nowbero but in the village," Gabrielle said. She paused a moment, then added, rather Hurriedly : "I was detained by n poor sick woman I went to see. You don't kuow her, Joanna, he has just come hero." "And who is she ?" Joanna asked. "Sho is n widow woman, not young, and very poor. She spoke to uio in tho road the other day, and I hare seen her ouce or twico since. Sho had hoard our name in the village, and to-night I promised her that you or Bertha would go and call on her. She has been very unhappy, poor thing. You will go, sister ?" "Certainly. You should have told mo before. Go, now, and take off your bonnet You have walked too quickly homo on this ho' night." Another lady entered the room just us Gahriellc was leaving it, and addressed her almost as the first had done : "You are late Gabriellc. What has kept you out so long ?" "Jaanua will tell you," Gabrielle answered. "I have only bccu finding some work for you, sister," and with a smile alio went awny. They were two stern, cold women?Ju otina and Bertha Vaux. They lived together?they two and Gabrielle?in a dark old fashioued house, close to * little village, in one of the southern counties of England. It was a protty picturesque village, as most English villages are, with little clusters oi white-washed, rose-twined cottag.s sprinkled through it, and a little rough-stone pnnnlrv nhiiroK Irt tho vi>r? Inn r.t .j , J f " tbc spire so thickly with ivy, that it looked liko a green bower. Here and there were scattered a few pleasant houses of tho better sort, standing apart in sunny gardens, and scenting the air arouud with the smell of their sweet flowers. But the house in which Joanna and Ber tha and Gabriollc lived was always glooun and dark and cold. It was a square brick house, with damp, unhealthy evergreens planted in front, upon which the sun never shone?summer or winter; the flags which paved the front of the door and the step-of the door, were greened over with cheer less uio6s ; and fungi crew up in the seams of the pavement. The windows, with their thick, black, clumsy frames, almost all faced the north, so that the cold, dark rooms were never lighted up with sunshine ; but looked even more dreary in the summer time, witli the empty firclcss grates, than on winter day*. Yet the house seemed to suit well the tastes of the two elder of the Misses Vaux. It had stood empty for some years before they look it; for its last occupier had-c.mtmitted suicide in oue of the rooms?it was I just the house for such a thing to have happened iu?and the superstitious horror which the event created in the neighbor Krwtr) rt.titnlni] witli tlin r):irlr mill nltMirlow appearance of the bouse, were the causes why it remained so long unlet and so much neglected. About six years ago, the Misses Ynux had come quite strangers to the village; and, in a short time, were settled as tenants of the lonely house. They were young wo men then?not more thau throe and louraud-tweoty ; but already gruvo, severe, and stern. They dressed always in mourning, and rnroly was a suiile seen on their cold lips; but they spent their time almost en tirely in performing acts of charity, in visitiug the sick, and in making clothes for the poor. For miles round they were kuowu and looked up to with miugicd reverence and awe. Hut theirs was a strange, soulless charity?more like tho performance of a.heavy penance than of acts of hive. There was a mystery about their antecedents. No one knew whence they came, or who they were ; they had neither relations m?r friends; they lived alone in their gloomy house, aud only at long intervals? 4*i *I d 'uiuviuius ui uiiiiijf unjutiia?? uiu iucj rc ceive even a single letter. They were two Bid, weary women, to whom life seemed to bring no pleasure, but to be only u but den which it was their Stern duty to bear un eouiplainingly for a certain number of years. Gabriclle?the beautiful, sunny-nntured Gahriclle?was not flrith them when they first cutne to the village ; but three years ago she had joined them, and the three had lived together since. She was then about fifteen; a bright, joyous, beautiful creature, without a thought of sadness in her, or the faintest shadow of the gloom that rested upon her sistor*. Even now, although she hud lived fur three years in the chilling atmosphere that surrounded them, she was still un changed, almost even as much a child?as gay, thoughtless, and full of joy, as wheu she first came. It reminded one of the. snowdrop blooming iu the winter, forcing :* ip ii L -L . J i - ' iisuii uiruugu me very imust. ot (tie .surrounding Know, to soe how .she had grown op with tbia cold, wintry environment.? Jiut the gloomy houso lookod leas gloomy now that Oabrielle lived in it. There was one little room with a window looking to the South (one of the three that had a (sunny aspect.,) which she took to be her own, and there she would sit for many hours, working by the open wiudow, singing joyoufcly, with the sunlight streaming over her. and the breath of the sweet flowen* ihat she had pluntcd iu a garden an close under her Window as the sun would cotfie, 'A< \ ( l ^ L i ; ^ stealing deliciouslv into tho room. It Wui quite a yjeiipant little nook, with u view fai over* grceu uiiuuta tftog hill*. and "yellov \vnviog corn fields, which sparkled flue glittered like plains of moving gold in tin deep bright rays of the scttiug sue, Anc Gabriclle, sitting here aud gazing on them or roaming nloue amongst thorn, was quit< happy aud light-licartod. Even her stert sisters wero thawed aud softened by bei presence; and, 1 think, felt as much'1 lov< for her as it was in their nature ?o Cdfcl foi any one; for, indeed, it was impossinW'U resist altogether her cheeriug influence which spread itself over every thiug arouuc her with the warmth of sunshine. Ou this evening on which our tale begins and for some days previous to it, Gabri elle had been graver and quieter than shi often was. She joined her sisters now ii the couiuion sitting-room; and, with he work in her band, sat down beside then near the window, but she answered thci a . I r LI tew questions aoout ner evening rauioi with only feigned gaiety, as though she wa occupied with other thoughts, or was to< weary to talk ; and, presently, as the twi light gathered round them, they all saul into sileucc. The one window looked acros the road in which the house stood, toadarl plantation of stuuted trees that grew oppo site ; a very gloomy place, which, even ii the hottest summer day, had always a chill wintry feeling, and from which e,vcn not a dauip air was rising; and, entering ih open window, was spreading itself througl the room. "How unlike a summer evening it is ii this room !" Gabrivlle suddenly broko th silence by exclaiming almost impatiently "I wish I could, even for once, see a rn( of sunshine in it. I have often wondcrci how any one could build a house in this sit uation." ''And do you never imagine that thcr are people who carc less for sunshiuo thai you do, (labriellc ?" Bertha asked, rathe sadly. ' Yes, certainly, sister; but still it seem *~ ..I * 121 _ _L x .... . I . 1 _ Hf iiiv; iiiuium iiku a ?lii lO Slllll OUl (lie DSHD tilul heaven's sunlight as it has been shu out in this house. Wiuter and summer, i is always alike. If it was not for my owi bright little room up stairs, 1 think I neve should be gay here at oil." ' Well, Gabrielle, you need not coutpluii of the glooniiuess of this room just now, Miss Van* said. "At nine o'clock on a August evening 1 suppose all rooms loo! pretty much alike." "Oh, sister, no!" Gabrielle cried.? "Have you never noticed the different kind of twilight t Here, in this house, it is al ways winter twilight, quite colorless, am cold and cheerless, but in other places where the sun has shorn?, it is warm and soft, and beautiful ; even for an hout or loiiger, after the sun has mjite set. a fain rosy tinge, like a warm breath, sccuis to res upon the uir, and to shed such peace am almost holiness over every thing. That wa the kind of twilight, I think of it eo often that tW?ro used to be at home. I rctnembc so very yry long ago. how I used to sit 01 t he ground at my mother's feet in the sum mftr cvmings, looking out through the ope window at the dear old garden, where ever tiling wan so very still and quiet that i seemed to me the very trees must hare fa cii.ipfetedp, and'how six* used to tell us fair stories in the twilight. Sisters, do you n mcuioer it.'.' tiabneHe asked, he* voic tremulous, but not altogether, so it secmct with emotion that the recollection had calle UP"I do." Miss Vaux said, in a voice cle? and cold, and hard as ice. From Berth there cautc no answer. ' It is one of the few things I recollet about her," Gabrielle said again, very sof ly, '-the rest is almost nil indistinct, like half-forgotten dreaui. I was only fot years old, you say, Joanna, when site died? You know it; why do you ask ?" Mil Vaux said, harshly and quickly. There was a pause. It was so dark th: none of their faces could be seen, but or might have told, from the quick neifTh way in which, unconsciously, Gabrielle w: clasping and unclasping her hand, th: there was some struggle going on withi Iter. At last, very timidly, her voico tren bling, though she tried hard to steady i she spoke again. ' Sisters, do not be angry with me. O ten, lately, I have wished so very much I ask you some things about my uiothcr.()h, let tne ask theut now. Dear sisters, te me why it is that you never speak to ur I or almost allow me to speak, of her 1 Is because it grieves you so much to think < her death, or is there any other cause''her voice sank so low that it was almost whisper?"why her namo is never mcptioi ed amongst us '( I have kept silence abot this for so long, for I knew you ^id n< wish to spenk of it ; but, oh sisters, tell in now I Ought I not to know about iny ow | mother ?" "Iiush !" Miss Vnux said, iu a voi< stern and harsh. "Gabrielle, you do u< know what you are asking. Lot it t enough for you to learn that any thing could tell yoi* of your mother could giv you nothing but pain to hear?pain whio we would gladly spare you yet, knowing, t we so well do, the great bitterness of it.I ask you lor all our sakes, yours as muc ns ours, never again be the first to uioutio your mother's name!" She hud risen from her scat, and stoo uprigltf before (iabrielle, the outline of he tull durk figure showing clearly against th window. In her voice there was not ou truce of cuiotiou ; her whole manner w? hard, and cold, nnd unintpuesioned; lit that of one who had, long ago, subdued nl gentle feelings. Uubrielle's tears were falling fust, bu she made no answer to Miss Vaux's wordf She stood much ?n awe of both her sister? especially of the oldest, and knew wott hot hopeless aH remonstrance with her wo<l< be. a?eg_..! n! -_'j _ i =aq J After n few pigments Bertha laid her j r handJpn Gnbriello's shoulder, saying with r srtfteoiing o^*gontl6bess in her voice r j. 1 "Y?u 'distress yourself too much, my 3 child., Trust more iu ys, Gnbriolle. W<x 1 wouldlliy.to keep sorrow from you ; do not , make it impossible." 3 "Yc$, yes; I know it is meant kindly towi ard me," Gubriellc said, gently, "but you r forget that I puffer from being in ignorance. T V n . .i . * % i i cannot iorgct tnnt you aro concerning r soflactldng f'roui me." ) "Wnich I would to God I could conceal , from you forever," Miss Vaux said. "Ga1 briclle, foolish child, do not seek for sorrow ; it will couie quickly enough of itself;" , and she turned from her with souio inut tered words that her sister could not hoar. ! Gubricllc tried to speak again ; but lleri that raised her hand wnrningly, and they r were all silent; Gnbrielle with her face ii bowed down upon her hands in the thick r twilight. c "We will close the window and have s lights," Bertha said, after some time had 0 p.wsctj; "the night air is getting cold." With a deep sigh Gnbrielle rose, and t drew down the open window, standing there s for some minutes alone, and looking out up1 on the dark evergreen grave. ?- [continued next week.] I, Evenings at Home.?The long cvowhich follow the short da$s arc uiade, ? in sonic families, the happiest of all happy times. The cares of tlie day are coded; n tlie mother's resting time is eouic ; the fa0 thcr has dropped nil sorts of business worr. rie.3 "tid perplexiti(S; and the whole family y throw themselves with zest into the innocent pleasures of the home circle. Solomon tolls us that there is a time for e all things; a time to weep, a time to laugh n to dance and to play. Surely the time to ' laugh, play and dance comes most nppropri^ ately in the long, pleasant evening hours. t. It is well for the women of the houseit hold to remember that the pleasant evenings t at home are strong antidotes to the practice 11 of looking for enjoyment abroad, and sedtft ing for pleasure in forbidden places ; for ? relaxation ind recreation will bo indulged in " somehow by most men, and happy are those " who find in the home circle the diversion ^ they need. A lively game, an interesting book read s aloud, or iu musical families, a ntw song to 1 be practiced will furnish pastime that will make an evening pass pleasantly. A little ' pulling of wires that need not appear, will make the whole tliiug appear easy, and dift fie re lit ways and means may be provided for t making the hours pass pleasantly, and a ^ time to bj looked forward to with pleasant s anticipations. We vi.-.itod once in a large family, where ii it wjs the duty of each sister in turn to i- provide the evening occupation ; and there 11 was a pleasant rivalry between theui as to ^ whose evening should be the most enjoyaI hie. The brothers entered fully into the v spirit of the home entertainments, and were J- as loath to be obliged to spend an evening |* away from home as their.sisters and parents were sorry to have them absent. Every one spoke of this family as an uncommonly uuiir ted one. for every member showed such a a strong attachment for the home to which each contributed so much pleasure. :t t* Tim Cradle and the Grave.?It was a a smart saving of General Grant, toward ir ?> the close of the war. that the plentiful lack ss" of warlike material in the Southern Confederacy has compelled the recruiting ofliccr "to rob the cradle and thojgrave." It was a memorable expression, and has been ls perpetuated The editor of the Petersburg it Pod, with a lively acknowledgment of the n fitness of things, and with delicate irony, ** turns it against the people who are looking toward (.5 rant to save them from themselves. p Oui esteemed brother says : We ure glad o to observe that since the close of the war ? all the robbing of cradles of living children " and graves of dead men's bones has been ?' confined exclusively to the North and West, it . J jf The kidnapping of poor Charlie lioss and _ other iufants, and the during robbery of the n graves of Colonel Harrison, of Ohio, and i- X, 3': Stewart, of New York, present tho it liorrifying pictures in its true colors. No )l such atrocious crimes ns ei'hcr of those e hare been heard of in any portions of the u South." We arc sorry to apply this phrase to the manufacturers of it, but it is a chick:e cu that has come home to roost, with the )t traditional curse upon it. >c 7 * j Sam Gaines says: "Talk about your c dreading epidemics, did you ever know the habit of paying promptly for a country pa,8 per to jecouie epidemic? We arc living _ iu hope that the disease will break out here, |t and tiiat every mother's sou iu this Chrisn tiau county will be takon down with it." ? "Can a man belong to a braes baud and " boa Christian?" asks an exchange. We >r sco no impediment in the way. Hut if ho ? is a member of a brass band and is given 0 to practicing ou bis cornet or trombone at ^i-homc it is-an utter iuinossibilitv for ih* man living next door to be ? Christian Right. Go up head. t Parsnips contain almost twico as much i. dry matter or real food as turnips, and this i, of a superior quality. Carrots, again, conv tain-about as much dry substanco as manJ golds, but are richer in sugar, and of better feeding quality. / i. . . I I. II Mill I J^Tiie Swine Disease and Cure.?Ouo of the Government CouitnissietggQ.il scpms ( has come to the conclusion that the disease is of a typhoid type, recommends flio %! lowiug remedy: Hyposulphite soda ten pouads, copperas oue pound, bicarbonate soda live pounds; mix. ; ,' ? This is suffioicut lor thirty hogs. G^w. 0110 pouru of tho mixture two or three times a day if tho hoge arc sick. A'& a preventive ono pound once a day to hogs not sick. 11' tho hogs are costive add to each dose halt' uu ouuee of glnyber salts, uutil tho costivencss is removed. Administer the above dose of one pound in a slop of milk and ground feed (which must be sweet) iuto which put two tcaspooufuls of carbolic acid, just before giving it. Keep the hogs ou dry ground aud lewd on raw corn. This remedy has operated successfully where it has b;en tried, and entirely stopped the disease in herds near Dexter, Iowa, the worst inlccted of any in the State, and where hogs were dying by the scores per day.? Grange. Bulletin. New I Desirable Fall wi Winter Steel JUST RECEIVED BY J.T. HILL & CO. WE respectfully inform our patrons and tlic public generally that our large and well selected Stock of FALL AND WINTER GOO S is in Store, and was purchased ut a time when good bargains were to he had, and withlheview of pleasing the people of the County, both in (tll.iLl Y A TV I> PRICLK. OUR STOCK CONSISTS IN PAltT OF DRY GOODS, Ladi s' Cloaks, Fancy Articles, Notions, BOOTS J- SHOES. WE WOULD ('ALL PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO OUR $2,000 STOCK -01MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING, i 7 Which we were induced to buy because of the extremely low prices such goods were soiling at, and we propose to give our customers the benefit of our bargains. ?ALSO TO OUR? 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(Limited), 1000 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Nov 8 45 If NOTICE." P Kit SONS indebted to us by note or account^ will please settle nt once, ns longer induU . gcncc cannot be extended. - GKF. k II CM I'll Hi KH4 Pec 0 40 4t LU i?u ii-?- ui_i .u?' ji i .-'jat UN N EEB W W W ^ *w ^ VK N N N K W WW W N N N KB W WW W * ItNN K WWWW ,_^t V KK KSE W W ^ - ^ *l? *> ." ' J^ ooo ooo <$><) * m>D? ?&% W o u o o o odd 2 4 G ? O O O D 1> *58- ? ? ? O O O O O D D B a*,-i U(l(i OOO OOO ODD tS88 ' ?AT? - w. ~ * "* Lowest Prices I' H0NE8T WEIGHTS AHD MEASURES! - Highest Prices FOR COTTON! CAI^l, ON FOSTER & WI1KIIS. Sept.i:7 39 tf TIME tabu: of the ~~ Spartanburg & Aslieville R. R. AND S. F. A c. 1UILKOAD. - BfltfaEMiMBB To go into Effect, Moudnj, July 1, 1S78. ^ DOWN TUAIN. | UT TKA1N. Arlve. I Leave. J STATIONS, j Arive. ! Leave. ! . I ..... I . I ft 00 pin Saluda *S 00 a in 5 1ft Melrose 7 41 ft 5ft pm 5 AS Tryon Oily 7 01 7 Oil C 18 G '20 l.andrum* (i 41 6 43 G US G 40 Caiupwlx'lla G '21 fi '2:1 7 00 7 111 Inniuu ft iftain G CO 7 1'2 l am pi on 1 ft 54 7 U7 7 40 Air-Lino Junc'n I S '20 ft 00 | 7 30 a in Spartanburz i 3 UOmn 5 00 am x 03 ami 8 II iPacnl.-t j A -iCyin 8 r.:t * 8 :W Jommillo ! A 20 4 28 'J 12 I y 22 jUnioa ! 2 40 3 .-,0 J 4.5 0 47 pnilltlC I 3 10 10 08 Fish I?am '2 46 10 30 110 31 IShclton I 2 22 >2 25 10 45 ! J.jl.-s Ford ! 2 10 11 05 .St rot hers 1 I I 50 12 00 in 1 'Alston !+l 00pm * 15 teak last. f Dinner JAS. ANDERSON, Superintendent. July 5 27 tf ? Greenville and Columbia R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. lS?BlSMB?3l3ggSgiil Passenger Trains run daily, Sundaj-s excepte<l, connecting with Night Trains on South Carolina Railroad up and down. On and after MONDAY, May 29lh, the following will bo tho schedule: VP. I.eavo Columbia at 7.-1 "> n m Leave Alston 9 30 a m Leave Newberry 10.50 a ni Leave Cokcahury 2.17 p m l.eave llclton 4.00 p m Arrivo at Greenville 6.85 p m now.v. Leave Greenville al B.0-" a m I.eavo Helton 9.55 a m Leave Cokoshury 11.03 a at Leave Newberry 2.40 p m l.eave Alston 4.20 p nr. m riTQ nb t^uiuinum l>.Ot> p m ANDERSON BRANCH AND BLUE RIDGK DIVISION. DOWN'. CP. Leave Walhulln....t>.l? a m Arrive 7.1 p ro Leave I>errjville...7.00 a m Arrive 0.40 p m Leave Pendleton...7.60 a m Arrive 0.00 p m Leave Anderson...8.f>0 n m Arrive 6.00 p m Arrive al Belton...9.-10 a m Leave 4.00 p m THOMAS DODAMEAD, General Superintendent. J ad ex Nortox, Jr., General Ticket Agent. Juno 9. 1870. _5M_ tf Fioneer Taper Manufacturing: Company. Manufacturers of Book, News and wrapping TAPER. Joliil W Aicliolson, Agent, Athens, Ga For sample of News, bco this sheet. Nov '2'2 4"> tf 30-HORSE POWER , ENGINE FOR 8ALE I HAVE a good thirty-horse, second hand, stq tionary Engine which I will sell low. i For paniqatars address me at Alston, S. C. M. CHAPIN. April 1878 10 if 19, LJNSEBD, KEROSENE, HARNESS, machine; > SWEET, CASTOR, AND TURPENTINE, i Sold Che?p by II, F. IIAWIJS. Nov. 16 40 - tf FANCY GROCERIES. HA IS IN8, ALMONDS, CUHHA NTS, CJTHONS, CHEESE, SI S3 J IyIliTl/ACAiJ| \ FANCY CANDIES, SALMONS, SARDINES, OYSTERS, . . MINCED MEAT, IN HULK, DOTTED MEATS, CANNED FRUIT, VEGETABLES, Sold below Spartanburg price*, by ( B. F. liAlVliS, s ni No, 1, East Union. Not 15 40 ?f ^ yffl