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"NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP." wDwly bending, Little feet bo white and bare, Dewy eyes, half shut, half opened, Lisping ont her evening prayer. Well she knows when she is saying ."Now I lay me down to sleep," 'Tis to God that she is praying Praying Him her son! to keep. Half-asleep, and murmuring faintly "If I should die before I wake," Tiny fingers cawped so saintly, "I pray the Lorctmy soul to take. Oh 1 the rapture, sweet, unbroken, Of the soul who wrote that pray er 1 Children's myriad voices floating Up to Heaven, record it there. If of all that has been written, , - I could choose what might be mine, It should be that child's petition, Rising to the Throne Divine I While the muffled bells were ringing, .4'Earth to earth and dust to dust," My free soul, on Faith depending, . Faith and Lovei and perfect trust Would approach Him humbly pray big, (All the little ones around) Jesus, Saviour, take thy servant 1 Give to her Thy children's crown." MOLLIE BROWN. A1 Story of Two Star-Crossed Lovers L Two girls, in a large, pleasant, cham? ber, quaint and old-fashioned as to furni? ture, but .cheerful with sunbeams that Sierce through every loop-hole- in the euse maple boughs before the windows, and dance in fantastic, shifting shapes all over the floor. One. is before'the looking-glass, wrapt in the mysterious, the solemn rites of the toilet. The other, on the bed, in dressing-Sack undress, jet dark hau flowing loosely over the pillow in charming disarray, is reading a news? paper. Presently she says, "What do yon think of this, Mollie ? " 'If we knew-the woe and heartache Waiting for.us down the road, If our lips could taste the wormwood, If our back could feel the load, Would we waste the day in wishing For a time that ne'er can be; Wonld we wait in such impatience For our ships to come from sea ? . If we knew?T" "Now, Elinor, please. don't inflict any more oftbat doleful strain on me!. It's enough to give one the bines, if they be? lieve in it,out I dont" "Believe in-what?" "Why, the heartache and all that," said this wise young. person. "I think it's all sentimental nonsense. And I can't endure being.forever twitted, as it were, about the future. Some people are always putting a damper on your spirits, like aunt Olive, with her, 'Well, enjoy yourself while you can, M?llie; you're eating your best gingerbread uow I'* And then she shakeslier head and sighs, as if she wondered how I could be cheerful, with fearful calamities impending over my unlucky head, as she plainly foresees. For my part, I fully expect to be always just as happy as lam now." "Bat every one has trouble sometime," said Elinor, who wa3 twenty-two, and had bad experiences. ''Oifsmna people do, I know, but I don't feel aa^itl,ever should, that is, any thing'wnfotS.1 Fm not afraid of the fu? ture. I believe it will be vastly more splendid and delightful than this hum? drum, every-day kind of life I'm living now. But don't let us prose any more now. I want to give my whole mind to my hack hair, which I will admit is a trial." So silence reigned, broken only by an occasional rustlo of Elinor's paper, or a sigh of impatience from Mollie at the obduracy of the back hair, which would be one-aided, and contrary. Finally, this great undertaking was brought to a satis? factory close. An intent scrutiny of the head-mirror revealed no fault. "Now: Elinor, which wonld you wear, pink or bine ribbons ?" "Blue, .by all means. Bine is your color. Dick will like the bine best, I know." "Dick!" said Miss Mollie, tossing her head expressively, "as if his opinion made any difference I" "It will, when yon are Mrs. Dick." "It's very vexations in yon, Elinor, to talk to me about Dick in that way." "Bat it is so obvious, Mollie." "No, it isn't. Dick and I have always been good friends, ever since he used to draw me to school on his sled, years ago. Yon know. I have no brother,1 and his we live scrnear each other, we naturally go. together everywhere. I think every* thing of Dick?as a brother. I always j feel so comfortable and at home, with him, and he wonld do any thing for me, I know. Bot he is the last person I should ever think of marrying.' He is not my ideal at all." ""Oh, the wisdom of eighteen 1" laughed Elinor, from the heights.of superior age and experience. "Pray, what is your idealr "He must be tall"? "So is Dick," interrupted Elinor. "With black, waving hair," continued Mollie, sublimely unconscious of Elinor's suggestion, "and splendid flashing Mack: eyes, and a moustache, and a haughty, scornful air." Poor Dick, with his red hair, honest freckled face,and big hands; this was evidently not hel "Wealthy, I pre* sume ?" . "Why, yes, though that is not as essen? tial as that he should be very talented, and popular, and eminent. I should like him to go to Congress, and do something great and glorious. But, dear me, it's half-past ten, the time Dick promised to be here. Now, how do I look, Elinor? Take a critical survey." Elinor looked smilingly at the slender figure in the white dress and blue rib? bons, on the bright eager face, the eyes full of "restless, yet confident longing," the round young cheeks as yet uhiur* rowed by a single- bitter tear, the brown hair in which a chance sunbeam flickered as if it loved to linger there. Something brought the tears to Elinor's eyes. It was hardly a conscious thought, only a sudden rush of tenderness, she hardly knew why, for this ignorant young thing. Bat being reticent, and indisposed to speak her deeper feelings, she only said, after s moment's pause, "You'll do very well. Handsome isthat handsome does. That was' the compliment, grandma Barnes brought me up on. I'm not given to flattery, you know." "How queer and contrary you are te* day, Elinor," said Mollie. "But I sup? pose it's because von feel sodj&ppointed at losing the picnic. How unlucky yon, should sprain your ankle yesterday, of all days !r' "I expect to enjoy myself exceedingly, in a quiet way, after you are gone. I am just in the most exciting part of Jane Eyre." "And then there's John's last letter, you've only read it six times yet," sug? gested Mollie. ^^ttere^ickl I should know Dandy's step anywh. ire," and with a bright nod ont of the vindow to the up* gazing Pick, one last peep in the glass, ?31* hasty "gc^-byeVEUnor," Mo?Te was off. The carriage rolled lightly out of the yard; the summer bw eze rustled the ma* Ele's boughs; a faint fragrance floated ito the window from the hayheld below. "Jane Eyre"- dropped from Elinor's hand; there was a more interesting ro? mance for her?her own; Prom under1 tbe pillow she drew a letter?read once more tbo well-known words. Then, she lay looking out of the window, with a smiling, far off, dreamy look in her i and I suspect the sage, nor was building air-castles, in which one John figured prominently. Mollie need have waited no sympathy on her cousin. Picnics are sometimes failures; air-castles never. U Meantime Mollie, with blue ribbons fluttering in th a breeze,- - war dash i ng along to the picnic, chattering the veriest nonsense to the admiring Dick, little dreaming that this same picnic was to be one of the turning points of her life, a day to be looked oack upon with tears, and pangs of that same heartache to which she had so recklessly thrown down tbe gauntlet of defiance. So lightly go we to meet the fates. To ssy that Dick was in "love with Mollie," would but feebly express his condition. He regarded her as his own private property. They belonged to each other. It was as natural that they should be together as that May flowers and pine trees should grow in the same soil. By just as much as he was big, and strong, and rather homely and awkward withal, did he admire Mollie's daintiness, and beauty, and careless grace. She supplied what was deficient in his own nature? evidently his other Half. He looked upon her with adoration, as being al? most "Too good For human nature's daily food." But Mollie was young. There waa.no hnrry. She Was evidently fond of him, and this unconscious half-lover-like, half-friendly confidence between them was too pleasant to be risked on the least uncertainty. Ah, Dick, why did no good genius ' 'hisper to yon, "Gather ye rosebuds While you mayI" But. unfortunately, good genii are not so officious now-a-days as of old. So Dick foolishly squandered his a am m er and sunshine, with no thoughts of mak? ing hay, as the proverb advises. The latter part of the way to Wam panoose pond was through a grass-grown Wood road, so narrow that the trees met over it, and sumac and blackberry bushes brushed against the carriage, peering in as if curious to see these oddities called human beings, who had thus rudely- in? vaded their solitude. Each side opened long, cool, green vistas into the heart of the forest Once they stopped to listen to the far-off, plaintive song of a wood thrush, without a pang of remembrance for the time when he. and lore were young, and Mollie was beside him, and it was summer. ! Mollie pickedgreen leaves and trimmed Dick's hat Dick leaned lazily back in the carriage, watching Mollie. The reins hung loosely in his baud. He felt in no special hurry to reach the picnic ground. Dandy, taking advantage of bis master's mood, made an object of himself by trot? ting along with great bunches of leaves hanging ont of his mouth, leaves snatched each side from the too inquisitive bushes. Presently they caught glimpse of water through the trees on the left.. Then came a turn in the road, an abrupt pitch, and they were on the banks of Warn pa noose pond, with two or three picnicera advancing out of the woods to meet them.' : "I wonder who that is with Kitty Cook," said Mollie. "Isn't he band some?" "Ye-es," said Dick, with an instinctive feeling of dislike for the too good-looking stranger, who was gazing at Mollie with obvious admiration. Kitty performed the ceremony of i ntroduction. "My cou- i sin, Mr. Dawless, Miss Brown. Mr. Be? rnau, Mr. Dawless," and Mr. Dawless having bowed profoundly to Miss Brown, carelessly to Mr. Bernau, proceeded to -appropriate the young lady and walk off with her, leaving Dick to follow with Kitty Cook, as best he might. He im? proved the opportunity to ascertain that this Mr. Dawless was a member of tbe junior class at Harvard, come to spend such part of his summer vacation as he found agreeable with his Uncle Cook in Graggville. ' "He has studied so hard," explained Kitty, "that he has injured his health, so 6e thought instead of going home to the city, be would try our country air, and fishing, etc. Fm delighted to have him here, ne is such good company. I am sure you will like him." Dick thought just the contrary, but politely refrained from saying so. What a world this would be, by-1 he-bye, if we all said exactly what we thought 1 / If Wampanoose pond had only been Lake Anything in Switzerland, plenty of Americans would have been miserable | until they could have crossed the sea to visit it, and write homo super-adiectived j letters to all the newspapers about its exquisite scenery. As it was, it reposed the year round in primitive loneliness, save when an occasional picnic party came, as now, to wake, with laugh and song, the echoes of its woodland solitude. t lay at the foot of a broken, rocky range of mountains whose pine-crested crags were vividly imaged in its clear waters. Of course it haa no bottom, and Was popularly supposed to be haunted by the spirit of old Warn pa noose, the Indian from whom its name was derived. Then there w&s a tradition of bears and rattle? snakes, just remote enough to give the zest of possible adventures to ramblings in its vicinity. In short, it was roman? tic, beautiful, cool; the place ef places to spend a summer's day. But, as far as Dick was concerned it might as well have been the desert of Sahara. When the whole company went to see the cave of old Wampanoose, it was Dawless who gallantly helped Mol? lie over the fallen trees and up the rocks. Dawless who quieted her alarms at sup? posititious bears. Dawless's button-hole that was adorned: with a little bouquet of harebells and hemlock twigs, picked by Mollie's bands. When, seated around their tablecloth spread on the ground, a deficiency in plates was. discovered, so Mollie and Dawless shared one very cosi? ly. You get so well acquainted at pic? nics ; and then Dawless was so jolly, sang such roaring college songs, tola such comic stories, every one was delighted with him. He was voted a great acqui? sition, and more than one girl secretly envied Mollie his attentions. As for Dick, who had only a heart "tender and true" to oppose to his all conquering hero's numerous fascinations, he grew glummer and glummer. When the sun shot its sunset rays down through the western trees, and the recesses of the woods already began to grow dim and mysterious with darkness, and the air. j damp and fragrant, Mollie came to Dick and said, "Shall you care, Dick, if I go home in the big wagon? It's so much jollier, and Kitty Cook says she will change with me." ' "Certainly not," voraciously replied Dick, who had been "lotting^ for days on this twilight drive home with Mollie.'] Then, as Mollie was rushing off in her usual impulsive way, "Here's your shawl, Mollie. I Don't forget to nut it on going home. Where's your basket ?" "Dear me, I don't know, I am sure; I had entirely forgotten it" '? "Well, never mindV Fll find it." j "Ab, what good care yon always take of fi^, Dick !" said Mollie, half remorse? fully. \ Dawless was too much engrossed in acting his role of bright, particular star, to think of such little attentions. Besides, he had not been in the habit of taking care of Mollie and her various be longings.for years, as Dick had. i ; Kitty found Dick rather a silent com? panion on the homeward drive. Perhaps be was listening to catch the snatches of "It's a way they-have at old Harvard," floating back on the evening breeze from the big wagon. Fm not. sure but his sobor face loomed up before Mollie now sind then, even in the' midst of the big wagon's wildest jollities. J When fate had kindly provided a pret? ty young lady to beguile the "long, long weary days" of Mr. Dawless's summer ' vacation, should he fail to do his part? Certainly not Thai was not his style. Accordingly, be soon discovered that, by a singular coincidence, the best trout fishing in x^aggville was on 'Squire Brown's farm. Good-hearted, hospitable 'Squire Brown, who liked the young fel? low and his college stories, whenever he encountered him, insisted on bringing him home to tea or dinner, as the case might be. So Dick often bad the pleas? ure of seeing Dawless domiciled on Brown's piazza of a summer evening with a perfec tly at-home air, peculiarly aggravating. Other people also noticed his frequent presence there. Craggville was one of those small, quiet places, where anything in the way of news is a boon, to be made the most of. Flirtation was as yet one of the undiscovered arts there. - When a young man in Craggville began "paying attentions" to a young woman it meant business. His first Snnday evening visit was the beginning of the end?a sure symptom of matrimony. So it happened quite naturally that Mrs. Smith should tell Mrs. Jones that. Orestns Cook's nephew was paying his attentions to Mollie Brown, and she pre? sumed it would be an engagement Mrs. Jones told Mrs. Robinson, j Boxy Bernau taking tea with Mra. Bobinson next day, that lady imparted the great intelligence to her, only by this time it had become a fact Boxy went home, bursting with the tidings, to Dick. When Dick came I in with the milk pails, Boxy met him in the kitchen with, "Richard, what do you suppose I heard this afternoon ?" "I don't know," said Dick with a strong appearance of not caring as well. Not that he was one of those men habitually cross and snappish at bometo his mother and sisters. But of late the lines had fallen for hin in hard, dreary places. His heart was sore and heavy within him, and he felt weary and disgusted with everything, with life itself. Boxy proceeded with all the enjoyment natu? ral to the first imparting such an item of news. "Mm. Bobinson says that Mrs. Jones says that Mrs. Smith told her that Mollie Brown is engaged to that Mr. Dawless. I've been expecting it. You know he is there half his time. Wbat do you think about it, Bicbard ?" The twilight was favorable to Dick. Possibly that was the reason one of hia milk pails hit the pantry door, deluging the kitcden floor. "How careless you are, Bichard," said Boxy, ruefully contemplating the snowy, froth-crested stream, meandering across her clean floor. "Now I shall have to change my dress and mop up. I do wish you would be a little more careful." If Dick had been dying, Boxy would not have scalded him, nor would she now, when the beat part of him, his heart and hope and courage weredyingin him, had she only known. But Dick made no sign. He went out to the barn, har? nessed Dandy, and drove away in the darkness, he cared not where, so he could be alone, and keep his troubles to him? self. One morning, not long after, Mollie, with a sunboanet tipped down over her nose, and a tin pan in her hand, was go? ing out to pick the Lima beans for din? ner. She was bumming "There's music in the air," thinking what a pleasant morning this was, and what a fine place this earth was generally, when, at the door, she met her father coming in, look? ing much humbled at something. "I never saw anything like the young men now-a-days," burst forth the 'squire, sitting down heavily, and wiping his fore? head with his red bandanna. "I dun'no what we're all comin' to. When I was young, a boy that had a good farm com? ing to him, was contented to settle down on it, and let well enough alone. But now the young men are all unsettled and uneasy, their heads full of speculating g)io' to do some great thing, and oston h everybody, git rich without workin' for it." "Why, what's the matter, father?" said Mrs. Brown, busy mixing bread at the table by the open window, where the breeze came in freshly through the morn* ing-giory vines. . . "Dick Beman's going West. Hia fath? er's just been over to see me, full of trouble about it. He says be dun'no what ails .the boy.; He's always been contented enocgh until lately. But now his head is set on this Western crochet, and nothin'll turn him. I thought Dick had more sense. Here he's sure of one of the best farms in the county, free from mortgage, and Mr. Beman's pretty fore? handed besides; always baa money to lend. I've ahrays sot by Dick as if he was my own son, and I can't bear to have him leave." "Well, I never I" said Mrs. Brown, suit? ably astonished. "Where's be going? When does be go?" questions Mollie wanted to ask, only an odd, fluttering, sensation in her throat wouldn't let her, as ehe lingered in the doorway glad of the sunbonneta protection. "Out among the Bocky Mountains somewhere, Montana, or Idaho, or Col? orado, I don't know certain which," said the 'squire, who had found it difficult to keep pace with Western geography. It was all Louisiana in his school days. "He's goin' vdth a company from New York, and struts to-morrow mornin'." "My, how sudden !" said Mrs. Brown. "Won't he call and see us before he leaves?" "I asked him. He said he'd try to." Mollie lingered no longer, but rushed into the garden, ail in a maze, feeling very much as if the world had turned a summersault, and come down bottom up? ward. Craggville without Dick was a combination that had never before dawned on hex mind. She had been drifting along where the days had carried, with no special tht ught bow it was all to end. DawlessV, attentions had been far from disagreeable. What girl of eighteen can be wholly indifferent to a dashiDg, black eyed young fellow, better dressed and more striking in appearance than any one, bhe bad ever seen before, and, more? over, devoted to her? Mollie, being a Btauuch little democrat in her way, and wont to maintain that a "man's a man for 'a that," would have despised herself had she realred it, yet she was not en? tirely unaffected by Dawless's lavender neckties, wonderful hats, and gorgeous array generally. And it was flattering to be selected by him, out of all the Cragg? ville girls. Dawless had captivated her fancy, for the time..being. She knew Serfectly well that Dick was worth a ozen of him for real manliness. One was show, the other was substance. She had felt Dick's growing coolness, missed him, and yet was secretly, balf-uncon sciously, so secure of him, that it bad hardly troubled her. She would make it right with Dick one of these days. And how ahe woke out of the whirl of gaiety and gratified vanity that bad been her life lately, to find the solid ground giving way under her feet She had lost Dick; What would life be without Dick ? But perhaps it would all come right yet. It must It should. Dick would call, and then?who 1 lew what might happen then, thought Mollie, with bright eyes and fast-beating heart, as she picked her beans. It is so easy in this world of ours j to let the love, the friendship, drop care? lessly from our band?so bard to gather up the ravelled stitches, to make whole again the gap. But Mollie was fortu? nately two young to know this. All the afternoon Mollie sat, ostensi? bly sewing, by the sitting-room window that commanded a view of the front gate, with a nervous flush on her face, and little starts at every wagon wheel. All the imagine Dicks Bhe heard driving up that s .ternoon, would have made 2uite a regiment if mustered in the flesh, ince, when she went up stairs for her spool of "50," there actually came a knock at tho front door. "Dick's knock," ?aid Mollie's heart, all in a flutter, and down she rushed to find a peddler I Af? ter tea another false alarm proved to be ^Dawless, dropping in with easy, conde? scending grace, quite in the "Monarch-of all-he-survoyed" style, far from imagin? ing his company undesirable. He did discover Mollie to be rather cool and ab? sent in manner, however, and took his departure earlier than usual. Then Mollie sat on the doorsteps in the moonlight till 10 o'clock, in spite of her mothers remonstrances, (that she) would "certainly take cold out there Ja the damp." Mollie felt as if she had" "taker cold" already, a cold whose shud? dering chill had benumbed forever the whole warmth and hope of her life. Not' till long after it was manifestly,absurdjto expect Dick, did she go reluctantly hp Stairs, to toss and turn for the first timer? not tfie last, alas?in fevered wakeful neea through the watches of the night?to en? tertain grim spectres of doubt and sorrow, in place of the airy vis ion a wont to glori fy her imaginings. j> Five years have passed. Mrs. Brown? ing makes her Aurora Leigh say: Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Must somewhat fossilize her girlish mirth, And make her wiser; and that, perforce, ' means sadder. What have five done for Mollie ? She is sitting by a window, a book dropped in her lap, her head leaning on her hand, looking out with wide open, unseeing eyes; that betoken their owner is far away- from present scenes. The room where she site Is evidently not in the old farm-house. It is very nigh, very nar? row, the unpapered walls very white and hard, with much the air of a neat prison cell, but for two or three pictures, and a few knick-knacks scattered about, that take off something of the rigid, convent? like look, and impart a touch of individ? uality to the surroundings. Through the window, which is high up in the fourth story, are seen, first, a few brick houses with square little back yards, then a wide expanse of green meadow. In the distance, a broad beautiful river, up and -down which white-sailed ships are always gliding. It is that noble stream, the Delaware. The view is lovely, but, to the New Englander, not perfect. His eyes turn involuntarily to the low hori? zon where the sky stoops down to meet the level land, and he yearns, not with? out a slight pang of home-sickness, for. the irregular, picturesque line of moun? tain tops, behind which, "at home," the sun goes down. Thid is Wilmington, and Mollie is es? tablished here as Miss Mary S. Brown,, assistant teacher in the "Minerva Insti? tute for Young ? Ladies." These five years have brought many changes to her, as years are wont to do. So many things she never thought possible have entered into her life. Sorrow and she are no longer strangers. Two years after Dick went West she lost her mother. Mollie had never realized that her mother could die. She knew death comes to all, but she always regarded it as a far-off calami? ty. She was wholly unprepared for the time when the willing feet, the helping hands, should lie weak and helpless, waited on by others, at last, for the darkened room, the softened footsteps, the hoping when the heart knows too well all hope is in vain; the listening, J with no power to. help, to the feeble Ssping breath, and the awful silence? e solemn, rigid whiteness of the dear face that had never refused to smile on her before. Then there was a funeral. People said Rev. Mr. Thomas excelled himself? that it was a powerful discourse. Per? haps it was. Mollie was .only conscious of a throng of people crowding into the privacy of her home, staring at the face which was alike indifferent to friend or strangsr; of a dreary pomp and parade, of a long flow of words that did not pene? trate her. grief-bewildered senses, of the going out for the last time over the famil? iar threshold. Life never looks quite the same again after such experiences as this. Then came the unwonted burden of household responsibility,'the trying to make the darkened home, cheerful for father's sake. But, as is often th e case with a couple who have "climbed the hill together," when one is taken, the other soon follows, and they "sleep to Sether at tbe foot." At twenty-three, lollie found herself alone in the world, With very little money in a world where one might almost think it the one thing - needful. 'Squire Brown was too easy and good natu red, too willing to sign a friend's note, to leave much property. After sojourning with various relative? until tired of dependence, she had ob? tained this situation in the "Minerva In? stitute." . She has known the various ex? periences expressed by the poet: "What households, though not alien, yet not mine, What bowers of rest divine: To what temptations in lone wildernesses What famine of the heart, what pain and loss, The bearing of what cross!" This little room in the fourth story of "Minerva Institute" is the truest "bower of rest?' she has found, because it is her own. Here she escapes the miseries of dependence; here, for a little while each day, at least, she is her own mistress, free - to think her own thoughts, to live her' own life. These hard years nave marked one or two faint lines across her forehead, have .sunken slightly the rounded con? tour of her cheek, have given rather a a sad droop to her mouth, when at rest, as now. _ And yet it is an attractive face, a face with character in iL Her express? ion now is not confident, eager,-expect? ant; it is peaceful, and yet bright and strong. It is the face one would like in their friend, their wife. I As she sits here, she is thinking of a talk she and Elinor had, only last vaca? tion. Her vacations are generally spent in Chicago, with Elinor.' One night, when John, Senior, was safely down at the store (for even the best of husbands may be dispensed with sometimes,) and John, Junior, was snugly tucked away in his crib, sitting in that twilight so con? ducive to confidences, they had been dis? coursing a variety of topics, and finally, matrimony. In fact, this was a topic pretty sure to come up between Elinor and any unmarried friend. She was so happy with her John, that she could not rest easy until all her friends were equal? ly blessed. She had been saying to Mollie, "I do not understand you, at all. It is a sin and a shame for you, of all people, to be vowed to single blessedness. Such a good wife as you would make some for? tunate man! and then you are so alone in the world. Why couldn't you be a trifle more civil to Mr. King, for in? stance? He is a splendid -man?great friend of John's, and it would have been such a suitable match every way." "I did not love him. You see I am very old-fashioned in my ideas." Then, in a softened voice that trembled a little in the darkness, "The truth is, Elinor, I never cared enough for any man to marry him, but one. Once I might have had the love of a true and good heart, and I trifled it away. I did not know, until it was too late. But I daresay I shall con? trive to get through the world, somehow. People generally do, I notice. Its only a little while, at the longest, and then?! why then it doesn't matter much whether we have been happy here or not." Mollie had not Been Dick all these five years. She heard of him occasionally through Craggville correspondents. At first, as having a hard struggle, a hand-, to-hand encounter; with destiny that would have defeated any one less reso? lute than Dick; lately, as prospering in every way, as becoming one of the lead? ing men in the territory. How strangely it had all turned out I 'Once it seemed certain that she and Dick would marry and settle down in Craggville, to walk in the peaceful, unad venturous steps of all their ancestors. Now he was out in the fiocky Mountains, and she here in Dela? ware, their lives drifted hopelessly apart. A verse she had come across in "Hymns of the Ages" had turned her thoughts back to the old day: <'How,few who Horn their youthful day, Look on what their life may be; Fainting the visions of the way In colors soft, and bright, and free. How few who to such paths have brought The hopes and dreams of early thought I For God, through ways they hare' not known, Will lead his own." ! A knock at the door interrupts her Syerie, To Moljie!s "Come jn," enters, inab's: comely black' visage with,' '?Pleaae, Miss, there's a gentleman in the parlor to see you." 'That Mr. Boody, I suppose," says Mol lie to herself with a sigh. To Dinah, "Very well, Dinah, I will be down ^ Mr. ftoody was a missionary recently arrived from India, in pursuit of a suc? cessor to the second Mrs. Boody. To facilita'-e such praiseworthy designs, he had been introduced to the whole senior class, had become, in a measure, domes? ticated at the Institute. From the first moment of seeing Miss Brown, however, he bad felt a strong leading of the spirit in her direction. This leading had man? ifested itself in desires for frequent con? versations with Sister Brown on her spiritual condition, in prolonged deten? tion of Sister Brown's hand on all occa? sions Of arrival and departure, and in various other ways equally disagreeable to the recipient. This offering of a love that waa not love, seemed to MpUie a cruel mockery in the fates. At least, she might have had peace, when that was all she asked now. so her descent to the parlor was marked by anything but fiery impatience. She opened the door with an air of weary indifference, lifted her eyes lan? guidly to meet the oyster-like orbs of Mr. Boody, gave a great start, flushed crim? son, turned pale, gasped, Why, Dick I" For this tall, manly man, with the big tawny beard and brown face, holding her two hands in his as if he wonld never let them go again, and gazing down at her with the old glow in his eyes was really Dick, the veritable Dick. Coming on to Washington on territorial business, he had stepped at Elinor's, in Chicago. Elinor, after some judicious sounding of Dick's feelings, had given him a suffi? cient hint as to the probable state of Mollie's mind, to encourage his calling at Wilmington. But Mollie, of course, knew nothing of this. Besides, after the first surprise was over, all the possibility of change in those five years of separation loomed up be? tween them, casting a certain constraint over both. And, uj the perversity of the. fates, Miss Smith, another of the teachers, waa also receiving a visitor in the parlor. So Mollie fell to calling him Mr. Be man, ana talking about the weather. A listener might have supposed the one ab? sorbing interest in the life of each had been the state of the thermometer, and that Dick had traveled two thousand miles principally to startle Miss Brown with this striking observation. "Al? though the summer bad been cool, I think we shall have a mild, open win? ter.1' ' j To which Miss Brown sparklingly re? sponded: "We are certainly having a delightful September." * I Then a dead pause. ! Finally Dick, feeling that although Miss Smith might be the worthiest of yonng women, yet his was one of the oc? casions, when he could bear to deprive himself of her society for a while, was suddenly seized with a desire to see the beauties of Wilmington, and proposed a walk. ' The walk of walks in Wilmington is np the Brandy wine. A broad, level path, raised up between the red waters of the Brandy wine, on; one aide, and on the other a deep,, dark;, fern-fringed moat that prosaic people would call a canal, I suppose, follows the river's windings a mile or two. Over it meet large, old trees, whose interlaced branches make it one continucd alcove. It looks like pic? tures of walks in Oxford, England, only wider and more retired. This mellow afternoon, when the sky looked all the bluer, perhaps, because the trees were beginning to be slightly tinged'with yellow, and when the z-zirig crickets were singing tbo" dirge of sum? mer gone, down thi?/path slowly strolled a couple, deep in tedder converse, utterly oblivious of all the beauties around them. For Dick had managed to blunder out something about his long love"for Mollie, and how he thought she was r ngaged to Dawless, and how he tried to get over it, and couldn't, and could she care for a rough eld fellow like him ? And Mollie had cried a little. After one has made up their mind to a bleak life of self denial and single blessedness, to stumble right into bliss, is bewildering to say the least. But then she had cried on Dick's shoulder, with his arm, the strong arm that would shelter her forever more, around her, which made it rather comfortable distress, after ail. So the misunderstandings and perplexities were all over, and two hearts formed for each other had found their own at last, jj ' About Thanksgiving time, there was a quiet wedding at Elinor's, and then Dick and Mollie went out to add one more to the New England homes in the far West. Perhaps they were all the happier that time and hard experience had matured and developed their characters, that ab? sence had tried and strengthened their love, had taught them how to value each other. Perhaps things always are "for the best," after all;' ? A surgeon bad occasion, lately, to prescribe a couple of pills for an Irish? man, which were sent home in a small box, bearing the direction, "The whole to be taken immediately." On visiting his patient afterward, the doctor ex Sressed his surprise on learning that the esired effect had not been produced, and asked Pat's better-half if she had really Siven him the medicine. "Faith, that I id aur," she replied; ''but may be, yer Honor,- the* lid hasn' come off yet 1" The poor sick man had been made to swallow not only the pills'but the box as well. !?Last month the Intercolonial Ex? hibition opened at Australia. It seems that the United States are well repre? sented at the show, and have a special building set apart to them. The exhibi? tion is exciting great interest in Austra? lia, and doubtless those manufacturers and others in this country who, contrib? uted to it will gain handsomely by their enterprise. It will be remembered that one of the most surprising and interesting departments of our International Exhi? bition at Philadelphia was filled with the products of Australia._ columblTregister, PUBLISHED Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly, at Co? lumbia, S, C, by HOYT, EMLYN & McBAHIEL. JAMES A. HOYT, Editor. -' Tai Daily B bo ism contains the latest news of the day, all commercial, political and other mat? ters sent by telegraph, fall local reports, editorials npon all cc/ront 'oploe, and Granga and Agricultu? ral Departmttxis. .. Thb TSt-WkmrxY Bbqutes Is Issued every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mom leg, and contains ?11 the news of two days .in one tnue. Tmt.WxnxT RrorsTHR la an eight page paper, containing forty-eight columns, embracing the cream of the news of each week. This paper la within the reach of every family, and we are pleased to state the fact that Its Urge circulation is rapLdly extending. Tkx Bbqibtzb is now the organ of the State Grange, and all matters of Interest to the Patrons. Of Husbandry will bo treated in their appropriate department The Agricultural and Grange arti? cles will appear In each of our publications?Dally, Trf-Weefcfy and Weekly. ? . n. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DilLT Eeqisteb?One year, 57.00 ; six months, 43*0 r three, months, 81.75. ' Tbi-Wekxly?One year, 86.00; six months, f2j50( three montluvJl.ZV . W?k*xy?One yearl *3.00; six months, $1.00; three months, 00c. i james A. HOYT, h. N. emlyn, W. B. McDaniel, Proprio tort and Publish ere. ? Apropos of Zach Chandler's late visit to Harrisburg, on the Susquehanna, some one writes: If the river 3usquehanna were only filled with rye, Twould go hard with Zachariah, bat he'd drink that river dry. ? A promise should be given with caution and observed with care. A promise should be made with the heart, and remembered by the head. A promise is the offspring of the intention, and Should be nurtured by recollection. ? An Irishman, who had been sick a long time, was one day met by the parish priest, when the following conversation took place: "Well, Patrick, lam glad you have recovered; but were you not afraid to meet your God ?" "Oh, no, yer Biverance, it was meecin' the other chap that I was afeard uv 1" replied Pat. VEGETINE ?WILL CUBE? SCROFULA, Scrofulous Humor. Veoetixe will eradicate from the system ev? ery taint of Scrofula and Scrofulous Humor. It has permanently cured thousands in Boston and i icinity who had been long and painful sufferers. Cancer. Cancerous Humor. The marvellous effect of Veoetdte in case of Cancer and Cancerous Humor challenges the most profound attention of the medical faculty, many of whom are prescribing Veqetxke to their patients. Canker. Ykckti.ve bos never failed to euro the most indexible case of Canker. Mercurial Diseases. The Vegf.ti.te meets with wonderful success iu the cure of this class of diseases. Pain in the Bones. . In this complaint the Vegetine 1b the great remedy, as it removes from the system the pro? ducing cause. Salt Rheum. Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head. &c, will cer? tainly yield to the great alterative effects of Veoetise. Erysipelas. Veqetcte has' never failed to cure the most Inveterate case of Erysipelas. Pimples and Humors on the Face. Reason should teach us that a blotchy, rough or pimpled skin depends entirely upon an inter? nal cause, and no outward application can ever cure the defoct. VzosxnTB fa the great blood purifier. . Tumors, Uleers or Old Sores Are caused by an Impure state of the blood. Cleanso the blood thoroughly with Vsoetue, and theso complaints will disappear. Catarrh. , For t*il3 complaint the only substantial benefit I can be obtained through the blood. Veoetzkz i the great blood purifier. Constipation. Ykuxtjxc does not act as a cathartic to de~ MHt.no the bowels, but cleanses all the organs, enabling each to perform the functions devolv? ing upon them. Piles. Vegetixk has restored thousands to health who have boon long and painful sufferers. Dyspepsia. If Vboktixe is uiken regularly, according to directions, ft certain and speedy cure will follow its use. Faintness at the Stomach. Vsoktjms is not a stimulating bitters which creates a fictitious appetite, but a gentle tonic, which assists nature to restore the stomach to a boalihy action. Female Weakness. V eg et ink acts directly upon the causes of th we complaints. It Invigorates and strength ;9M the whole system, acts upon the Becretive organs and allays inflammation. General Debility. complaint the good effects of tl realized immediately after eon ? i as debility denotes deficieni id V'eoetike acts directly t Yegotine is Sold by all Druggists. In this complaint the good effects of the Veob> . tin i: a re realized immediately after commencing to take it; as deblUty denotes deficiency of the blood, aud Veoetine acts directly npon the plood. fgg HilEB THE; ffij iilfWords of Advice, fin TUTT'8 PILLS TOTTER E 8^ ECTFULLY offered byfLLLS tdtt's MV. n. Tl'TT. M.D., for many prrLS THTT-q Ten" Demon ?tri tor of Anatomy In , c TOTtIMedical Ooll.-jrc of Geo-^n. - ?ILLS Thirty years'experlenc- i the"''? J0jrSpr3cUce..f medicine, topet -1th PILLS TDTT'Sflrteeu years' test of Tutv :11s, PILLS tutt's and the thousands of testimonials PILLS tutt'8 K^'*"" of their efflcacv. warrant me PILLS tutt's *" sa> in(rtUat they will |<osltlvcly prLLS t'iittm cure SU diseases tl.at resttlt .from a nIT t q i^'-jfllJcnwd liver. Thev arc not rec-E^s i?ii.l omracndod for all the ills that atnict tit tt .1 humanity, butrorDvsjir|>sla..Jaun- PILLB TUTT'.-vdlce, Constipation. Piles, Skin l)ls- PILL8 tdtt's ease*. Billons Colic Kheumatlsm. PILLS tdtt's Palpitation of the Heart. Kidney PILLS tdtt's Affections, Female. Complaints,,tc? pills tvtt-v *R of which result from a derange- T o SSLSi ment of the Liver, no medicine has 'J-J;'.Sever proven so successful as DR. KrrS tutt's TUTT'S VEGETABLE LIVElt pills tdtt's PILLS. i PILLS tdtt's ?.-.: pills tdtt's : tott's pills i PILLS tdtt's : CUItK SICK HEADACHE. : PILLS tdtt's :-.-._??._: PILLS tdtt's :-.-.-? pills tdtt's : tutt's pills : PILLS tdtt's : REQUIRE No CHANGE OF ? PILLS tutt's : a PICT. : PILT? TUTT's |?Z-.._?_.? pills tdtt'S :-"~.PILLS tutt'b ? TVTVS pills ? ? PILLS tdtt's -ABE PURELY VEGETABLE.? PILLS tdtt'S :-_? PILLS tdtt's :-?-.-.-: PILLS tott's 3 Tirrrs pills : pills TUTT'3 ? NEVER GRIPE OR NA?SE- j PILLS TUTT'S : ATE. : PILLS TUTT's :-._._| PILLS TUTT'S ?---~: PILLS tott'S : THE DEMAND FOB tutt'8: PILLS TDTT'S ? PILLS is not confined to this- PILLS tdtt'S : country, but extends to all parts; PILLS tutt's :of the world. : PILLS tutt's :-._-.I PILLS tutt's j?--: PILLS ' tdtt's : A CLEAR HEAD,elsatic limb*,: PILLS tdtt's {coed digestion, sound sleep,; PILLS tutt's ibnoyant spirits, fine appetite,: PILLS tdtt'S :?r? some of the result, of the- FILLS tdtt's -use or tdtt's PILLS. ? PILLS tutt's ._?_.: pills tutt's ~v?-......;.....t; pills tutt's : as a FAMILY MEDICINE : PILLS tutt's ! tutt's PILLS ARE THE ? PILLS tutt'8 ? BEST?PERFECTLY HARM- j PILLS tutt'S : LK83. : PILL8 TDTT's :.~~_.-..: PILL8 tutt's ?-.? PILLS TUTT'? ? SOLD EVEBYWHEBE. ? PILLS TUTfS i PRICE, TWENTY-FIVE 0T8.: PILLS TUTT'S i_.~_? PILLS tutt'8 :---;~: PILLS tutt's l PBINCIPAL 0FFI0 E : PILLS tutt'S i 18 3J?RKAY street, | PILLS tutt's ? new york. ? PILLS tdtt'S ?._I_.-? PILLS DR. TUTT'S EXPECTORANT. This unrivaled preparation has per? formed some of the most astonishing cures that are recorded in the annals of history. Patients suffering for years from the various diseases of the Lungs, aftei trying different remedies, spending thou? sand* of dollars in traveling and doctor ing, have, by the use of a few bottles, tniirtly recovered their health. " WON'T GO TO FLORIDA." Kotp York. August 30,1372. O R. TUTTt Pur Sir t?When In Alken, last winter. Z use d your Expectorant for zny cough, and realised more benefit .from it than anything I ever took. I am ao wen that Z wtu not go to Tlerlda next winter aa I Intended. Send mo one doeen bottles, by express, for somo frteada. Alfred CUSHTNO, 133 West Thirty-first Street. Boeton, January 11,1874. ' Tbia oerUSee that I have recommended t bo use ol Dr. Tutt's Expectorant for dlseaaes or the lungs for tho poat two year., and to my knowledge many bottle, have been used by. my patients with the hap? piest results. In two oaaw where i t was thought con? firmed oonaamptlon had taken place the Expectorant effected ? eure. B. H. 8FBAOVB, ED. " We oaa not apeak too highly of Dr. Tutt'a Ek" pectorant, and far the sake or suffering human! t] hope it may become more generally known."?Cms tiax ADVOCATI. _ ' _ _ ? Sold by Prtfartlate. Price ?1.00 TO THE PUBLIC. CARPENTERING. IHAVE opened my Shop on Main Street, and am prepared with new and com? plete tools and machinery to do contract'and custom Carpenter Work at reasonable pri? ces, and guarantee satisfaction. Having a good Lathe, I will make wood-turning a specialty. A. W. TODD. March 22,1877 3? \ 3m THE BEST PUMP IN m&W?ffi} ^^OTHI^^cor^uces more to GOOD HEALTH than rUK?LT^TEfi,? Such is for DOUBLE ACTING STONE FOECE PJjJIP, Manufactured by J. C. Nichols & Bro., Atlanta, Ga., which'brings the water pure?nd fresh from the bottom of the well. No slime or filth collects on the pmnp or'In the Well. No snails, worms or green moss gets about the water. It is free from rust or other impurities, and can be operated by a small child with ease, and brings the water fresher than any oth? er Pump. It is of stone, glazed inside and outside, and never will decay. It improves the water beyond a doubt by ventilating the well, and keeping it like a moving erream of water. With a hose attached, it becomes a yood fire-engine, ever ready, at your door to extinguish the flames in case of fire. It is belter and cheaper than msurdhce.'^t?^OT-' ine gfyei complete satisfaction, as those acquainted with it will testify...- . ? , . It is a home enterprise, permanently established, and ,relies on its own merits, upon which it asks your patronage. This Pump is represented' ln ' Andersd^::?iScrflffiomm^ Counties, together with the Counties of Hart, Elbert, Wilkes and Oglethorpe in Georgia, by * * ? ALONZO L. WELCH,''AWerg'on;'JSrcr.'' Send in orders at once for Pumps, and they will be delivered and put wimxuedi?telj. He means business. ' ,? April5,1877_ . 88 ? , ?' -jv, BUSINESS IS BUS AN?? those who carry on business are compelled to have money. . That is oursitaation present. Therefore, we earnestly call upon all parties indebted;,to us to pay. at once and SAVE COST. Prompt payment is a great sourceI of.fn&fa)^ desire to remain friendly with our customers, if they come forward* promptW'?nHnay 'tis what t hey owe. Money we are obliged to have. We offer an inducement -often*) cWfrper; pound for Cotton over market value to those indebted to us, and wish.to settje- their Ac? counts. We have on hand a large stock of . * '?'"?7 ? rA lfc;' (BKbux?&*j GBOOEE/IES! Flour, Bacon, Shoulders, Hams, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses. ALSO, Boots, Shoes, Leather; Baddies,': * Hats, Caps, Dry! Goods, Tobacco, Cigars^'V Wines. Liquors, Iron. Steel,: And all Farming Implements.- . Any person or persons purchasing Goods will benefit themselves by callingand exam? ining our stock before purchasing elsewhere. We buy for Cash and sell for cash only: therefore, we are enabled to sell cheaper. Call and judge for yourselves, and be convinced of this fact. ? : , ? i .... ... .... i GALLEKY. HAVING ENGAGED CAPT. J. A. WREN, An Artist of Great Talent, Experience and Advantages, ' ' ' - ^1 pT now offer to the public an opportunity of JL having FIRST CLASS PICTURES Taken in all the latest styles. ' h Satisfaction guaranteed. Old Pictures copied and enlarged. Pictures taken in cloudy as well as in clear weather. met I Gallery hours from 8 till 4.: ?"<?' J. D. MA?WELL, No. 4 Brick Range. March 1, 1877 33 3m : ?.?*?f5'.. :' *': :'r .-. ? ? ? \i ? ? ?? u : -". " Id WILHITE & WILLIAMS. Anderson, S. C, DEALERS IN DRUGS. MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, <tc, LAMP, and LAMP GOODS. ' ? PAINTS. OILS. VARNISHES, BRUSHES, DTE STUFFS, tie. IA Full Line of PERFUMER T And TOILET ARTICLES, CIGARS and TOBACCO, And all other Articles usually kept in our I line. NEW CROP GARDEN SEEDS, at' Wholesale and Retail. Jan 25,1877 2_r : SIMPSON & SADLEB, BENSON HOUSE CORNER, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines,- for Are just receiving a large variety of FRESH GARDEN SEEDS, From those most reliable Seed Gardens-of Rob't Buist, jr., D. M. Ferry & Co., and ' Johnson, Robbins & Co., at wholesale or retail. ALSO, CHEMICALS FOR Home Made Fertilizer, At lowest prices for Cash. Feb 1,1877_29_? ? WM. ETTENGER. H. P. EDSIOND. ETTENGER & EDMOND, Richmond, Va., MAJf?FACT?BEBS PORTABLE and STATIONARY ENGINES, Boilers, of all kinds, Circular Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Mill Gearing, ?. Shafting, Pulleys, &c., American Turbine Water Wheel, Cameron's Special Steam Pumps. ??f- Send for Catalogue. Nov 2, 1876_16_ly i*1TT"D faTVTAC The largest and finest \j 1*1 JtlAJ I'lAlO. etock in tho world, em bracing over 3.000,000 Chromos, Painting* and Choice Prints, at our enlarged Art Booms. All the new and popular subjects at rock-bottom prices. The Falls of the Rhine, size 20x28?romantic and. grand; Scene on the Susquehanna, one of the hits of the sea.ion, 19x27; T.nke Lucerne, Switzerland, the most beautiful lake in the world; Isola Bella, a charming ?jene in Northern Italy, companion to the preceding; Off Boston Light, a beautiful m> rine, size 14x20, in great demand i Old Oaken Bucket, White Mountains, Niagara Falls. Newport, Saratoga, Gathering Primroses, At the Sea Shore, Paddy in Difficulty. Also Virgin Vesta, Snow Storm, American Fruit, and other 24x80 subjects. Floral Business Cards, Sunday School Cards. Statua? ry Mottoes, Black ground Panels, etc Also the finest and most complete assortment of 9X11 Chro- I mos, both on white mounts, bine Uns, and black mounts, gold line. Our stock embraces everything desirable for Dealers, Agents or Premium purposes, and all should test our prices and quality of work. -1 The right parties can realize an independence in every locality by Uking an agency for enr stretched and framed Chromos. Particulars free. Illustrated Catalogue on receipt of ataitm.; ?ad Ibt? ??5. outfit. Address W 3. LA?HAM.4 C?< . 419 Washington St., Boston,Mass. May 8, 1877_42 - ' _8m. Boots and Shoes. IF you want to buy a good shoe or boot'at ?low price lbrcaA,^a^wra& March 29,1877 THE HEALTHIEST Ofc^cfel obstructions in the bowels. Don't i_ It Is not necessary to- outrage the pi? seous drags in such cases. The moat i tire known la Tab?aSt's "Etl/mvM Apeeict, and it is also the most, i operation is soothing, cooling, " all druggists. (tj??aweekln your, own town. $00 outfit free. - land, Maine. latent l'ortablctdkJUatlwftai P?fen? 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" X"i ^wT^1 _ Dr. OEOE^ aFXTIIKfr. Hi TTiPBBCJtiiiaiyja xfTRkornmr" 1**7 . V :? - - :.iTTO^a^Uio*]^^ i n Lonisiana State 'Lottery Company. This Institution was regularly lncor the Legislature of the State for ~ Charitable purposes In 1S68, w_ SL000.00O, to which it has since added a reserve fand 8 o?835O.000, .It. Grand Single Number TJtrawlnfs . will take place monthly, it nerer icalwwpost pdncs. Look at the following scheme: ;-''.rw3J GRAND PROMENADE CONCEET. during which will Uke place the EXTRAORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING. At New Orleans, TnesdSy, June" " Under the personal.roperrisloai' of Gen. G.'T. BEAUREGARD, i Gen. JTJBAL A. EARLY,'Of-V ?3- Nc^c^^rckeUTare T?nDolSS Only'. Halves, ?5. Quarters, |Wtt?V;- Bgn^lEB; ' 1 Capital Prized$10^0^:.:.!'..^hOOfln ' ': I Grand.Prise oil 5D,ooo- 50,000 ? i 2 Large Prizes of 10,060..,..?.,......?.. 20,000 ? ; * Large Prises of.. -v Q\0?Z^...s....^*fi?? ?7 ! 20 Prizes of L/JOO-^..,-.^-. .20,008a 50 100 200: 600 10000 ^?????nijj.,,.^;,;, ?,? ........ 100...-.-: 60,000 ' ? ' " io..;......?.....?. loo.ooo , approximation.rente. "'ir 100 Appro^onP^oA'j^^.^JMI^., 100 ? ' " ' 11279 Prfees, ?mbi^gto~LLZZ^zz? Gen. G. T. BEAUREGAEJ3, OX ia,) fc^Si^J&L^' Gen. Jubal A. EARLY ofva. J CoimnlMlcn.,r* Write for Circulars or send orbVrs to ' ' H. A. DAUPHIN, P, 0. Box 692, NewiOdeaas, La. .-.0/BU ? ?! THIRD GRAND DOLLAR DRAWTKTO, , . ? Tuesday Juljra.-Sit. AMERICA AHEAP : ' . ., ? - fit Ulf \ J?Il on ? ? ?:? ? :?? spool ooqPTcwr. : CENT ElTN'rA' L EXPOSITION, ' "im. .'" ^:.?lfJjl;iJUtoiii_iii. ..ici?iW'' '?! ". T7IXTEACT from, the Official Report'of ': JEi thaJudges on^ , ?;? \ j ,,v... .WIsLLIMAJPTIC fi Mew Six Cord Soft Finish Spool .-i Cotton, ?? Who awarded the Wifflnia^ Co. a M?M of Merit and Diploma of Honor: ? - "Snperiority of Prod action; Economy o? { Production; Excellence of Material; Varie- . ty. of Colors of Threads; Excellence of Ma- _ chinery and Appliances^' Oi^Hfaliiy ?bd'-1 Completeness off System/V ?- -?.<?<: is For sale, wholesale and; retail* by-,J. .JB,. Read <t Co., Sh?w & Johnston, Jager Broth. ,, er?, A. HHngi W1. ITHeAard^Taniley'Brflr Shirt-Manufttctoiy, Wh?deroTW?J0ir8ewi!' I ing Machine .Co.. Charleston, 8. p. :?..,-. i ? At wholesale,.by Jolinston, Crews .& Co^. Crane, Bdylaion & Cp., Edwin Bates & Co, April I^;i8f7.. ? - w0.> , ,.Sm H. J. #E^(^w&&s :to infpnn M8? rinhlic?nertlly ' and Children's _ her friends and the that she is still doing Ladfi. . Work in the very latest style, cheaper than any one else in town,' tad all orders prompt- ? Iy executed; Giv?,lr^arcal2' befhr^'gofeg elsewhere. Location on west side Main Street, next tO-raiTrdad^dge. Jan 18.1877'"-' -'27*' " : 6m ?:-!?I??? ?? ? '-'''?rs>\ r . : .1. n.?r. PIEDMONT MANUFACTUBINe CO. SHmiJLNGrS andtM^$j& MILLS AT PIEDMONT, S,;,C. i ; H. P. HAUum^.^i?^^i^k^^:-' Post Office adtiress^reffl'YiUe^^ Ha jiLTN BEATTta.;..\?:V...::..!iiecretary "' ... Post Office^drt^^^Si^eiiyiii^fl.? ^ O. H P. PANT: Airerit:: 'Arider^-' ff ^ ?? " Jan 18,18r7. ? 27: ?