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THE TMRIJ' SISTERS.
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"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
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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?
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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
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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,
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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
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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$, yes; I know it is meant kindly towi
ard me," Gubriellc said, gently, "but you
r forget that I puffer from being in ignorance.
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i i cannot iorgct tnnt you aro concerning
r soflactldng f'roui me."
) "Wnich I would to God I could conceal
, from you forever," Miss Vaux said. "Ga1
briclle, foolish child, do not seek for sorrow
; it will couie quickly enough of itself;"
, and she turned from her with souio inut
tered words that her sister could not hoar.
! Gubricllc tried to speak again ; but lleri
that raised her hand wnrningly, and they
r were all silent; Gnbrielle with her face
ii bowed down upon her hands in the thick
r twilight.
c "We will close the window and have
s lights," Bertha said, after some time had
0 p.wsctj; "the night air is getting cold."
With a deep sigh Gnbrielle rose, and
t drew down the open window, standing there
s for some minutes alone, and looking out up1
on the dark evergreen grave.
?- [continued next week.]
I, Evenings at Home.?The long cvowhich
follow the short da$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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Manufacturers of Book, News and
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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 ^
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