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THE T(!&?E SISTERS. CI I VV'i ?ft I. * V "Oadrielle, you should not stay out . so late alone." ' [t isu't late, sister dear, for a summer's evening. The church clock struck eight just as I turned into the little path across the field." The first speaker, who was the eldest, raised her head froui her work, and, looking at Gabricllc, said : "For you it is too late. You arc not well, Gabrielle. You are quite flushed and tired. Where have you been ?" "Nowliero but in the village," Gabricllc said. She paused a moment, then added, rather hurriedly : ' 1 was detained by a poor sick woman I went to see. You don't know her, Joauna, lie has just coma here." "And who is slit ?" Joanna asked. "iSho is a widow wouian, not young, and very poor. She spoke to uio iu the road tho other day, and 1 have socu her ouce or twice since. She had hoard our name in the village, aud to night 1 promised her that you or llcrtha would go and call on her. She has been very unhappy, poor tiling. You will go, sister?" "Certaiuly. You should have told mo before. Go, now. and take off your bonnet You have walked too quickly houie on this ho' night." Another lady entered tho room just as Gabriello was leaving it, and addressed her almost as the first had done : "You are late Gabrielle. What has kept you out so long ?" "Jaan.ua will tell you," Gabrielle answered. "I have only been finding some work tor you, sister," and with a smile she went away. They were two stern, cold women?Jo uniiu aud Hertha Vuux. Tlicy lived together?they two and Gabrielle?in a dark old-fusli ioued house, close to a little village, in one of the southern counties of England It was a pretty picturesque village, as most English villages are, with little clusters 01 white-washed, rose twined coltng s sprinkled through it, and a little rough-stun, country church, covered to the very top r-t the spire so thickly with ivy, that it looked like a green bower. Here and there wore scattered a few pleasant houses of tho better sort, standing apart iu sunny gardens, and scenting the air around with the smell of their sweet flowers. Hut tho house iu which Joanna and Her tha and Gubriollo lived was always glooim and dark and cold. It was a square brie'h house, with damp, unhealthy evergreens planted iu front, upon which tho sun nevci shone?summer or winter; the Hags which paved tho front of the door and the step-of the door, were greened over with cheer less moss; and fungi grew up in the seam.of the pavement. The windows, with their thick, black, clumsy frames, almost all laced the north, so that the cold, dark rooms were never lighted up with sunshine ; but looked even uiore dreary in the .summer time, with the empty iireless grates, than on winter days. Vet tho house seemed to suit well the tastes of the two elder of lite Mis>es Yaux. It had stood empty for some years before they look it; for it* last occupier had com mitted suicide in one of the rooms?it was ju.-t the house for such a thing to havhappened iu?and the superstitious horror which the event created in tho neighbor hood, coupled with the dark and cheerless appearance of the house, were the causes why it remained so long unlet and so much neglected. About six years ago, the Misses Yaux 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 than three and lour aud twenty ; hut already grave, severe, an 1 stern. They dressed always in mourning, and rarely was a smile seen on their cold lips; but they spent their tune almost en tirely in performing acts of charity, in vis itithe sick, aiul in making clothes fir the poor. For miles round they were known and looked up to with mingled reverence and awe. But theirs was a strange, soulless chariiy?more like the pcrfbrmanr of a heavy penance than of acts of love There was a mystery about their antecedents. No one knew wheucc they came, or who they wore ; they had neither relations nor friends; they lived alone in their gloomy house, and only at long intervals ? sometimes ol many months?did tliey re ceive even a single letter. They were tw sad, weary women, to whom life seemed t ? bring no pleasure, but to be only a bin den which it was their stern duty to bear un Cooiplainingly for a certain number of years. (iabrielle?the beautiful, suiiny-naiured (lahrit lle?was not with them when they first came totlic village; hut three years ago she had joined them,and the three had lived tog' i her since. She was then about fifteen; a bright, joyous, beautiful creature, without, a thought o! sadness in her, or the faintest shadow of the gloom that rested upon her sister*. Kven now, although she had lived for three years in the chilling atmosphere that surrounded theui. she was still mi changed, almost even as much a child?as gay. thoughtless, ami full of joy, as when she first came. It reminded one of tin; ?ui >wdrop blooming in the winter, forcing itself through the very midst of the sur round in" snow, to see how she h ml ?' rmvn up with thin cold, wintry environment.? Hut the glooujy houso lookeil less gloomy j now that Gabriclle lived in it. There was j one little room with a window looking to the South (out: 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 window, singin, joyously, with the sunlight streaming ov> i h *r. and the breath of the sweet flowers t'n .t she had planted in a garden as elost under her window as the sun would com". stealing dcliciously into the room. It was quite a jdc^ain little nook, with a view far over green uiidola tlGg hill*. and 'yellow "waving corn fields, which sparkled nnd glittered like plaius of moving gold in the deep bright rays of the settiug suu. And (jiabriclle, sitting here and gazing ou tbeni, or roaming alone amongst tiicm, was quite happy and light-hearted. Even her stem sisters were thawed and softened by her presence j and, 1 think, felt as much love for licr as it was in their nature to (ic^fer any one j for, indeed, it was impossible'to resist altogether her cheering influence. i.:_i. i :?_ 11* it .i which t*{ireau iiocii over cvcrjr uuug uruuuu her with the warmth of sunshine. On this evening on which our tale begins, and for some days previous to it, Gabri* elle had been graver and quieter than she often was. She joined her sisters now in the common sittiug-rooui; and, with licr work in her hand, sat down beside them near the window, but she answered their few questions about her evening ramble with only feigned gaiety, as though she was occupied with other thoughts, or was too weary to talk ; and, presently, as the twilight gathered round them, they all sank into silence. The one window looked across the road in which the house stood, to a dark plantation of stunted trees that grew oppo site ; a very gloomy place, which, even in the hottest summer day, had always a chill wintry feeling, and from which even now a damp air was rising; and, entering tin open window, was spreading itself througli the room. ' How unlike a summer evening it is ii this room !" Gabritllc suddenly broke the silence by exclaiming almost impatiently 1 wish I could, eveu for once, see a raj of sunshine in it. I have often wondcrci how any oue could build a house in this sit nation." ' And do you never imagine that titer* arc people who care less for sunshiue thai you do, Gabriclle ?" Horlha asked, rnthci sadly. ' Yes, certainly, sister; but still it seem: to me almost like a sin to shut out the beau tiful heaven's sunlight as it has been shit out in this house. Winter and summer, i is always alike. If it was not for my owi bright little room up stairs, 1 think 1 neve diould he gay here at nil." ' Well, Gabriellc, you need not complnii of the gloominess of this room just now." Miss Vaux said. "At nine o'clock on ai August evening I suppose all rooms lool pretty much alike." "Oh, sister, no!" Gabriellc cried.? Have you never notic d the dilferent kind ol twilight? Here, in this house, it is ni ways winter twilight, quite colorless, am cold and cheerless, but in other places where the sun has shorn*, it is warm a u u suit, mill ocautiiui ; even lor an ii.nu or lunger, after the sun has quite set. a fain rosy tinge, like a warm breath, seeuis to res 11 pi111 the air, ami to shed such peace am almost holiness over every thing. That xva the kind of twilight, L think of it so often that there used to he at home. T rcsnembe so very very long ago, how I used to sit 01 the ground at my mother's I'cet in the sum mer evenings, looking out through the opei window at the dear old garden, where ever thing was so very sliii and quiet that i seemed to me the very trees must have fal en asleep, and how she used to tell us fair, stories in the twilight. Sisters, do you re member it?" Gabrielle nsked, her voie tremulous, but not altogether, so it seemed with emotion that the recollection had callei ?P"I do." Miss \ atix said, in a voice idea and cold, and hard as ice. From iierlli there eauic no answer. ' It is one of the few tilings I recollec about her," (labriellc said again, very soft ly, "the rest is almost all indistinct, like ; half-forgotten dream. I was only i'ou years old, you say, Joanna, when she died?" Vou know it; why do you ask Mis Vaux said, harshly and quickly. There was a pause. It was ? dark tha none of their faces could be seen, but om night have told, from the quick neitTJu way in which, unconsciously, CJaiirlclle w:r ekisping and unclasping h;r hand, tha there was some struggle going on withii her. At last, very timidly, her voice treni IklllKf t1l< illwlui I ri/i/1 1\ ?? /! #a I* C?I\- U.tu Utliu IV mi'MUJi M >hc spoke again. ' Sisters, do not he angry with me. Of ten. lately, 1 have wished so very much t< a-L you some things about my mother.? Oh, let me ask them now. Dear sisters, tel me why it is that you never speak to me or almost allow me to speak, of her '( Is i because it grieves you so muc'i to think o her death, or is thero any other cause"? her voice sank so low that it was almost : whisper?''why her name is never mention eil amongst us '{ I have kept silence aboul this for so long, for I knew you ''id not wish to speak of it ; hut, oh sisters, tell me now ! Ought 1 not to know about my out mother "llush !" Miss Yattx said, in a voici stern and harsh, "(iabriolle, you do no! know what you are asking. Hot it b? enough for you to learn that any tiling 1 could tell you* of your mother could give you nothing hut pain to hear?pain which we would gladly spare you yet, knowing, a> we so well do, the great bitterness of it.? i ask you for all our sakes, yours as much as ours, never again ho the first to mention your mother's name !" She had risen from her seat, and stood upright before (Jnhrielle, the outline of her tall dark figure showing clearly against the window. In her voice there was not one trace of emotion ; her whole manner was html, and cold, and unimpafshmed ; like that of one who had, long ago, subdued all gentle feelings. (labrielle's tears were falling fast, hut she made no answer to Miss Vaux's words. S i stood much wi awe of both h r Meters, e-peeially of the oldest, and knew wel*. how hopeless all remonstrant* with h r Would After a lew moments JJertha laid her hand on Gnhricl'c's .shoulder, saying with something oK gentleness in her voice : "Y^u di.-tress yourself too uiuch, my child. Trust more in us, Gabrieile. Wo. would tiy.to keep sorrow from you ; do not make it impossible." "Yce, yes; I know it is meant kindly toward me," Gabricllc said, gently, "but you forget that 1 sutler from being in ignorance. I cannot forget that you are concealing something from inc." "iYuich 1 would to God I could conceal from you forever," Miss Vaux said. "Gabricllc, foolish child, Jo not seek for sorrow ; it will come quickly enough of itself;" and she turned from her with some muttered words that her sister could not hear. Unbridle tried t? speak again ; but IIt-rthat raised her hand warningly, and they were all silent; (rabrielle with her face bowed down upon her hands in the thick twilight. "We will close the window and have lights," liertha said, after sonic time had i p.-wsccj; "the night air is getting cold." With a deep sigh Unbridle rose, and drew down the open window, standingthcre > for sonic minutes alone, and looking out up ; on the dark evergreen grave. [continued next week.] Evkninos at Home.?The long eveBirr^ wlueh follow the short da*s arc made, : in some families, the happiest of all happy 1 times. The cares of the day arc ended; ( the mother's resting time is come ; the fa. ther has dropped all sorts of business worries and perplexities; and the whole family throw themselves with zest into the innocent pleasures of the home circle. Solomon tells us that there is a time for all things; a time to weep, a time to laugh to dance and to play. Surely the. time to 1 laugh, play and dance comes most appropriately in the long, pleasant evening hours. It is well for the women of the houset hold to remember that the pleasant evening? ' at home are strong antidotes to the practice 1 of looking for enjoyment abroad, and seek ing for pleasure in forbidden places ; foi , relaxation ind recreation will be inJulged in somehow by most men, and happy arc those 1 who find in the homo circle the diversion they need. A lively "ante, a 11 interesting book roaii j, aloud, nr in musical families, a new song tc bo practiced wiil furnish pastime thai wil ' make an evening pass pleasantly. A litt!< ' pulling of wires that m od not appear, wil make the whole thing appear easy, and dit t He rent ways and means may he provide 1 lot t making the hours pas.- pleasantly, and : I time to In looked forward to with pleasaul s anticipations. i We rioted once in a large family, when ii il was the duty of each sister in turn U provide the evening occupation : and then 1 was a pleasant rivalry between them :.s te ^ whose evening should be the most enjoya ble. The brothers entered fully into tlx v spirit of the home entertainments, ami wen ! j as loath to be obliged to spend an eveninj. r away from hoaie as their sisters ami parent; i were sorry to have them absent, livery om spoke of this family as an uncommonly uui r ted olio, for every member showed such : strong attachment for the home to whiel each contributed .so much pleasure. Tut; Ckaih.f. and tiik bitwi:.? It win 1 a smart saving of Cicucral i rant, toward 1* > the close of the war. that the plentiful Inch s. of warlike material in the Southern Con federacy has compelled the recruiting offi ' cer "to rob the cradle and the grave." It was a meinoralde expression, and has beet: perpetuated The editor of the I'dersbuig I /*>. ', with a lively acknowledgment of the 1 fitness of things, and with delicate irony, " turns it against the people who are looking toward (Irant to save them from themselves, Out esteemed brother says : We arc glad i to observe that since the close of the wai - all the robbing of cradf s of iivigg cbildreu ' and graves of dead men's bones lias been ' conlined exclusively to the North and West t . . . j- The kidnapping of poor Charlie J loss and - other infants, and the daring robbery of the i graves of Colonel Harrison, of Ohio, and . A. 'J'. Stewart, of New York, present the t horrifying pictures in its true colors. No L such atrocious crimes as either of those have been heard of in any portions of the ! South." We are sorry to apply this phrase to the inaimficlui' rs it'it, hut it is a chick > e!i that has conic h one to roost, with the t traditional curse upon it. . o ?? Sam (Jaines pays: ''Talk about your dreading epidemics, did you ever know the , habit of paying jtroinplly Ibr a country paper to leeoiiie epidemic? W e. are livin" in hope that the disease will break out here, j and tliat every mother's son in this t'luic ii:tii county will bo token ilowu with it. ' O '"Cmi a inaii belong to a brass band ami boa Christian?" asks an exchange. Wo see no impediment in the way. 1 >ui if ho is a member of a brass band and is given to practicing on his cornet or trombone at homo it is an utter impossibility for the man living next door to bo a Christian Kight. t Jo up head. Parsnips contain almost tv. ice as much dry matter or real food as turnips, and this of r, .superior nudity. Carrots, again, eontain yboul as much dry substance as mangolds, but are richer i sugar, and of better /'ceding quality. ,5^ The Swine Disease and Clue.?One at' the Government Commissitfi^ii sccuis ( i has come to the conclusion that the disease "js of a typhoid type. recommends The %l(lowing remedy: Hyposulphite soda ten pou ids, eopperas one pound, biearbouate soda live pounds; mix. ' ^ This is sufficient l'or thirty hoys. Give one pout a of the mixture two or three times a day if the hogs urc sick. A"?" a preventive one pound o:icc a day to hogs not sick. If tiio hogs are costive add to each dose half an ounce of glaybcr salts, until the costiveucss is removed. Administer the above dose of one pound in a slop of milk and ground feed (which must be sweety into wiiicii put, two teaspoouiuis 01 carbolic acid, just before giving it. Keep the hogs on dry ground and lewd on raw coru. This remedy has operated successfully where it has b;en tried, and entirely stopped the disease in herds near Dexter, Iowa, the worst infected of any in the State, and where hogs were dying by the scores per day.? Grange Bulletin. New I Desirable Fall and Winter StocI Jl'ST RECKIVED BY J. T. HILL & CO. \TJ"K respectfully inform our patrons ami the i tV public generally that our large ami well selected Stock of FALL AND WINTER GOO S j is in Store, aii'l vv;;.< purchased at a time when \ p??otl bargains \v<-re to he Irul. ami with the view ! of pleasing the people of the County, both in !q! AM V A X I> I'UK I fi. i OUR STOCK CONSISTS I IX I'AllT or I 1 Ladi s' Cloaks, 1 Fancy Articles, Notions, ' BOOTS L SHOKS. r ' | WK CAM. PAKiKTLAU ATL | TKNTION TO : OUR $2,000 STOCK ,! -OPMEN'S AND BOYS' ;jCLOTK i XG, . 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"> "> a m Leave CwkosLury 11.055 ? m Leave Newberry 51.-10 i> n? Leave Alston *1.510 p ir. i.rrivo at (.ViUUihin ?".*" "> p in ANDKKSON BUAM 11 AND llLl'E UIDGK DIVISION, now x. i p. I Leave Wulhall?....0.1?> a m Arrive 7.1"> p m ] Leave Terryville...7.00 a ni Arrive ti.*IO p rr? Leave Tetnl!elon...7.f?0 a m Arrive 0.110 p tn Leave Anderson...H.ho a r.t Arrive 0.00 p tn Arrive at Helton...'*'. SO a nt Leave 1.00 p in THOMAS DODAMKAD, General Sn peri n tend en f. .1 tttt:/. Norms. Jr.., General Ticket Agent. June 1 STti. 5155 ?f I innerr Taper Maimtncinriug Com pain.v. ; 't J"ANTI'At Tt'llKltS of Hook, News ami ] ill wrapping TAI'Elt. .9 oil u IV X ieliolsoti, Agent, Athens, G.v For sample of News, see this sheet. Nov 51'J -1") ff 3C-HQRSE POWER i?; TV a i iv ir < >i2 s a x. it 111 A V 15 a good ihirty-liorse. sen ml hand. s;e, tionary Lnginc whieh 1 will sell low. For particulars address inc at Alston, S. M. (MlATI\. April IS7S 10 if H?t OHiS. | LiNSF.KD. K F.HOSKXH, JIAKNLSS. MAC! 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