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X. C. Senator Stanford believes that ma? .netism can be developed in men and ! horses by intelligent effort, and in breed -'ins thoroughbreds on his California 'sleek farm be has made experiments to ."that end. The Civil Service record3 of the pas three years show that out of the numbei of men applicants examined for Govern, ment offices only a little over one-hal! passed, while four-fifth? of the womei i applicants passed. Tne larger part ol the coast of France that is suitable for the growing of oyster is divided into spaces thirty varus 6quarc. These parks are sold to the fish ermen for 00 apiece, and the beds un der proper cultivation are made to yield enormous returns. In addition to the usual advantages conferred by leap year on energetic young ladies, 1892 will give tham fifty -vhreeySundays in which to c nploy those advantages.' The year is going t bv? a crucial orie for bachelors, prelicts the Brooklyn Citizen. A volume recently published' oa tht i industries of women in Paris states that the imitation of autographs is a reuj.mera tive employment, albeit' somewhat dan gcrous. Women clerks are to be seen more frequently in France than in any other continental country, and another Important fact to be noted is they re ceive, as a rule, quite as good salaiies as a man in the same position would have. Simon Wolf, of Washington, is prepar. lug for the publication of a list of the .llebretv soldiers and sailors who have done service ia the wars of the United Rates, including the war of the revolu tion. At the last annual reunion ol the Eleventh Corps of the Army of the Poto mac, General Stahl said that half of I his old reiriment "was composed cf Israelitss with the courstgc of the Maccabees." The necessity for saving up money for a rainy day is demonstrate ! by the statis tics furnished by Charles Booth, the Eng lish social economist. He finds ih at out of the entire number of people in Eng land under sixty years old four and a half per cent, arc paupers. Between sixty and sixty-five the percentage reaches ten. Above sixty-Hve it sweeps up to forty. That is to say, of every ten per sons in England over sixty-five, four are more or less dependent on the poor rates. A building of steel and glass twelve stories high will be erected in New York City lor manufacturing purpose?. It will probably not rank high architecturally, predicts the San Francisco Chronicle, but it will be strong, and the workers m it will have plenty of light, as the aper tures for windows, owing to the pei liar construction, will be very large. It will be a very large concern, a fact which brings to the attention of many some thing usually overlooked, that Xei lork, in addition to being a great c;ai mercial city, also the center of au cuor inous manufacturing industry. To illustrate the strength of the prej udice against corn in Great Britain, mention may be made of an instance in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it was proposed by a Member of the Poor House Board to substitute maize for costher food in that institution. The mere suggestion brought a storm about i nis ears, because of his inhumanity in thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food which was only fit for pigs. American canned goods of all kinds are larel" sold in Europe, but canned corn is al. most never seen there. If a demand for it could be created it would mean hundreds of thousands of dollars veirlv . . . , - iuup.ieior ana workers ol our canneries. Agents of the Department of 4 . ..... Agncu..uro nave been exhibiting the cereal in this form also abroad with the hope of teaching the people to like it. Wherever corn dishes of various sorts have been prepared and distributed bv them they have been receive I so favora bly as to give good grounds for confi dent expectation in this regard. The ose of the potato, the tomato and the tobacco plant, all of American origin, has spread through Europe and added to ihe comfort and happiness of millions. There seems to be more hqpe for corn now than there was for any of thos commodities at the beinnin JOXESBORO, AT DAWN. Each leaf, another wakening, s"a '"Sweet sister, it is day ! The last night-bloomin ; jjlorj- die An-1 wberesoe'er a petal lie?, The east grows warta an4 rar. 'The b;r is are stiil asleep; and yet. Amid the silent thro'nr. Like dusky vapors that beget The de w, dream-wmei shades have set The germs of heavenly son?." John B. Tabb, ia Lippincott. A HILL COUNTRY IDYL, BY THOMAS DCXX ENGLISH. ITTY M'KTPSEM' J looked at her broth TV er and sighed, and the sigh was ac companied . by a glance of admira tion. Hugh M'Kissen was certumly a fine specimen of young Iff ' fclTal mountain manhood. Tal.l and muscular, 1 half-sack, called, "a I h u n t i n c-s h i i t. " could not disguise; a frank andplea;ant expression, and a voice that, in spite of a rather nasal tone when its owner vas excited, wa-s full and musical Hugh -vas worthy of feminine admiration. lie n-a3 singularly ignorant of iiis- attractions, am -though bold in peril, fearin:: eit?n. be nor catamount in I ..single fight, was timid in the presence j of women, his mother and his sister ex cepted. The owner, subject to his mother's life-right, of a thousand acres of mountain land, of which one-third was rich "bottom," or level land, with horses in stall, cattle in meadow and steers on,the hill-range, he was at seven-and-twenty a bachelor, while his fellows were heads of families by the time they had come to manhood. He loved hi3 mother aud -sister, who worshiped him, and he was content. Kitty M'Kissen was not his sister, how ever, nor was she his kinswoman. Eigh teen years before, John Markham came there from the East, and bought a little "bottom-patch" of sixty acres, and set tled on it with his wife. He built a log cabin, set to work awkwardly to culti vate a few. girdled acres, and tried to ac commodate himself to an unusual posi tion. Folk around, naturally suspicious of strangers, thought he must have done something wrong to make him leave home. He brouirht books, not over a ( hundred in number, which the neighbors ! deemed to be a great library. His house . was neat, owing to his young-wife's taste.' j The neighbors said: "It's stuck roun' j with thing-a-majiirs till it's a plom ! stent!" Markham worked hard, and so did his wife, and, soon after tkeir coming Kitty! wa3 born. She was christened Cath arine liurnett. Three months after her! I birth her mother died, and Mrs.' j' M'Kissen, who had just lost a child of nearly the same age, offered to nurse Kitty an offer thankfully accepted. But John .Markham caught cold by ex posure, it settled upon has lungs, and in less than a year he died, leaving his little, possessions to his child. Kitty thrived and soon became known as a M'Kissen,' the circuit-rider's baptismal certificate to the contrary notwithstanding. She and Hugh, who was a nine-year-old boy wdien she came, had been brought up together. When she was half-grown, Peter M'Kissen was killed by the fall of a' girdled tree, and Kitty became the main stay of the house, for old Mrs. M'Kissen, who was ten years senior to tier nus baud, had be en 'haif paralytic for years, aud passed her time m hobbliug between her bed, the kitchen-table and the fire tide. Frank and good-natured, as well as athletic, Hugh was a popular young man his fellows accenting Lis lead and young women receiving his attentions courteously. But he never threw the handkerchief at any particular fair one, treating all with a shy deference. They did not come up to the ttandimr of : Kitty, who had inherited some of the re- ; rmement i t her niotner; and who, hav ing read l:cv lather s books overall nvpr again, was credited with a vast amount j in itaiiuL,. mui oi xaowieige j did not interfere with her housewifely qualities, for she was known to be the 1 best ceotc aud baker as well as the best j buttermaker and neatest housekeeper in the county. Huge measured ail other j girls by her Procrustean standard. e- side, Hugh was not matrimonially in S clined. His home Yas ten) comfortable, j aut.i lit ab ju no uurry to urintT a and nc was m no hurrv to brin.T : strange -woman there o , But 3lrs. 31 Kisscn thought it hi"h ' . n ; time for htr son to marrv. and snoke to him about n. "What's the need, mother?" he re sponded. "I'm comfortable, an 1 so are you. Why should I bring a strange girl i:crt one that aint use i to us and our ways, upsetting things.'" "You; needn't do that neither," said his mother. But Hugh was too obtuse to take the hint asd went on: to sal: the caf:Ie. But be communed with himself as he went." "I might spark Lucy Campbell," he thought. "She's been East to "school and she's a sort of h:g:i-drer, but she's pretty. Old Ji:n Campbell's well oil, and he has only young Jim and Lucy. I ducno. I'll speak to Kitty about it. And there she is at the cows, "now' i r LA a 1 Kitty was there withhermilk pails,and Hugh broached the subject at once. She looked up, blushed a little and thex looked down, and listened. "Lucy Campbell!" she cried. "So, Boss! Why don't the cre'tur keep still? Lucy Campbell's a nice girl; a little sharp-tempered, but you're not; and she never turns a hand to anything around the house; but you're not look ing for a housekeeper. Give down, Boss!" "Well, there's Nancy Stallins. Nancy's people are not sc well off as Lucy Camp bell's; but they do say that Nancy is the most industrious girl in the neghb'r'd." "Yes,M said Kitty; "yes, she's a worker. She never cleans up her dirt. though; and she she chews snun. don't like tobacco in tbxt wav, do Hush?" ... . You you, "M-mph !" ejaculated Hugh. "Well, I dunno what to do. Mother, she's at me to marry, and I declare, except the two, I can't think of a girl IM inte r? have, unless well, there ain't one." "You stupid I" said Kitty, pettishlv. "Eh?" "This Boss is the most stupid cow I ever saw. Now, Bull face 1" And Kitty stooped at her pail, and began a fresh milking. i "See here," said Hugh: "Did you i ever see such an uncertain chap as that Si Doss? He's bea here four times j this week about buyin' a cow, stays around hours at a time, and ain'c made ! up his mind yet. 'Pears to me he don't ! snow a good thing when he sees it." ! "There are a good many young men in the same fix, I allow," said Kitty. "Si Doss appears to me not to be one of that kind. He knows what he wants, I fancy." And then, with her filled pail, Kitty moid off to the spring-hoase. Hugh' stood a minute, salt-ba" in hand, forgetful of his cattle, when he saw Si Doss riding up and then dis mounting. Si tethered hi3 horse to the pendant limb of a beech tree, and then strode forward. He had the reputation of being the most forward young man in the country; but he had a very em barrassed air now. "Howdy, Hugh." "Howdy, Si." "Folks all well?" "Yes. Your'n?" "Fus'-rate, thank y. Our best brood sow's sort o limpish. I allow she's been eat in' brought her outeu "Likely." so ethin afore we he .voods." And then the hausced receivers. two At stood like ex last Doss broke out: '"I've been allowin' to git mirricd." VYes?" "I'd like you to put in a word for me." "Me? Who's the girl?" "Kitty M'Kissen." "Not our Kitty!" "Yes. I'm not quite sure whether she favors me or not. I've been aroua' some, but someho .v I ain't got the nerve to speak out. Couldn't you soun' her an' fintl out?" "Our Kitty! Why, Si, she's a little girl. She's too young." "She's eighteen year old. I hearn Miss M'Kissen say so. You know, though, I'm tol'rable' well-to-do, an' don't owe no man a dollar. I love the very ground she walks oh." "Well," said Hugh, after a pause, "we'll see about it. Anything new?" "There just is. There's a fellow down to the town . furriner from the East got up in store clothes an' mighty sassy lookin'. an' he's been inquirin' about John Markham's folks. Sez he's a kin to ?em an' s gwinc to come and hunt up Kitty." "No! What's his name?" "Calvin Burnett. He's a lawyer where he lives." "Burnett? Must be kin to Kitty's mother. You told him whar she is?" "Yes; and thar he cones now, on Sol DIngess's claybind mar'." It was a sprucely dressed stringer who rode up, and, leading his mare, came to ward them. It was not necessary to tell his kinship, for he "favored" Kitty, as they say m the hills. The same' eyes and forehead, but he hal a square chin. He explained his business. "Come into the house, Mr. Burnett," said Hugh. "Kitty will be back from the spring hoase, presently." Doss was anxious to learn everything, but a no one asked him to remain, went oic reluct mtlv. Presently Kittv cam? in, and the newcomer introduced himself as uer nrst cousin, tue son oi her mother s brother. "Of course," ' said Burnett, "I am very glad to know a near relative, espec- ially when she's a pretty girl, but I di I not come for that. I a n here on bui- ness. Do vou knov anvthiag of your father's historvi" "W -r" "Oh, don't 'sir' me, Kitty; we are own cousins. Cill :n 'Cousin Cal.' Your father r.m o:I with :nv aunt, hiving married her against grundfither's com maud. Uraudfather disowned her, and was very bitter. But when he died, he left one-half of his property to father absolutely, and the other half ia trust. The nature of the truit was exp'.ainel in a sealed paper, no: to be open?. I until after father's death, and to be carried out by his executor. I believe father knew its nature. The trust money in creased under tny father's prudent man agement, and t'ait share of the estate amounts to more than what I inherit. It is nearly twice as mu:h. I opened the paper, and the instructions are thit I am to pay it over to the heir or hcin of Catherine Markham. Iam satisfied froa inquiry, that you arc the heir, Kitty, and I am xeiJy to transfer tt you, under the proper legal form, nearly ninety thousand dollars. I con rratulat rou. j Kitty. You will be able to live East, as corniortaoiy as possible, on aa mcorac sulHcient, 1 suppose, for a single gentle woman." Ninety thousand dolhn! The amount dazed Kittyj and struck the M'Kissem dumb. It was a fairy tale, and the young lawyer looked like an enchanter. Hugh was coaside;cd rich there, -with less than a fifth of the sum; but ninety thousand dollars! At last Kitty askei: "Mr. Burnett Cousin Calvin cu?t I live there to get the money!" "No. You can live where you like; but if you want to enjoy life, the Eat is the place for you. Yoa are your own mistress, or, at lea?!, will be at twenty -one. In tht meanwhile, the court here will probably let you name your own guardian and "trustee." j "Thank you, cousin. I am glad to j know you; glad to have this unexpected j lortuae, and would be glad to sec a plac2 that I have hear I so much of. But the only kin I ever knew, though not of ray blood, are dear to me. Tnis is my only home. I may visit the East, but I could net stay there." The news of Kitty's wonderful inherit ance soon snre'iil K'imnf fn.M.m.i : by an additional cipher. It was heard ol with a thrill of awe .and nnrr u i said that the dashin 'furritn.r'' - V b ? marry Kitty, and take her away immedi ately; and Josiah Doss was in tne gulf of despair. Hu-h knew better, so far a? Kitty's views went, but he felt a sinking at the heart. Kitty would stay, but with such a fortune ia possession she seemed out of the common sphere. Burnett,while the legal forms going on, amused himself by studying this cousin, who was so readily accommodating her self to circumstances and the M'Kissens, especially Hugh. It required no pene tration to see that the latter was in love with Kitty, but seemed not to quite re alize his own feelings; and that Kittv loved Hugh and knew it. " "That young man is bright enough in some things, but very stupid in thi3," said the lawyer to himself. "I'll play the good genius, for the fun of the thing." The court at Kitty's instance.appointed Hugh M'Kissen her guardian and trus tee, to the scandal of the young folk, who thought siic should have chosen some older man. Hugh and Burnett had divers conferences, before atlairs were over. At one of these the lawyer said: "What a very pretty girl Cousin Kitty is! Don't you think so Mr. M'Kissen?" "Ye-es." "She'll make a figure when she "its into society, too. "She is one ofhc rough gems mat take to polish kindly. "M-m." "Ihelactis, T admire her the more the more I know her. I must try and persuade her to leave the mountains." - "Kitty M'Kissen isn't one of thai kind," Laid Hugh. "You heard her say that she would stav here, and she is the one to keep hsr word." "I beg your pardon, Mr. M'Kissen," said Burnett. "Her pro per name it Catherine Markham, and she is not like ly to change it in this place. Nc offense to you; but the name is a good one, and sounds well; but it would sound better if it were changed to Bur nett, in my iudirmcnt." And then Burnett walked o!T, to a stroll thro irh the hills, leaving confused and indiguant. take Hug "Confound his imp rdenc!'' cried nugh. "Mrs. Burnett! He's after Kitty's money. Kitty marry him'." Huirh walked out to cool Lim-if and met Kitty coming from the spriug houe: for Xitty was born to love cows and chickens, and her nvmev had not dianue 1 her ways Sir: nodded. H :h j'i Uk ULl ai il, ilii.l s jhe reached the pore h he said "I I want to nave talk with you, Kitty." "All riht. Sit do.va on t.ie iorca, then, zz'll'll listen." Kittv I the lact is" "Yes?" "The fact is You don't care for Burn:t, do voui" j "Care for him? Ofcvjr-eldo. II-j I cousin, you know, and he a 'cry nice j aa, ioo. . "Arc vou goinz to rnirrv with I !.-. . . T ! hV a 1 supp-.se you ! c,an.k ltt Joa re, ?uirdiar.. I ion 1 ho v rCo iM; n- s not a Mor- ' mou,a:j;! 1 " ha5 a V1,V a!r'J.v-" 4u-, Iu!t k'in'x l ' 1 "Will, I don't knj-.v, till I k.v wi.at it is 4 Kitty, I love yo i.' "Of cour you do; we were brought up together."' "It not that, Ki! we mirm"' ty; but whv can' You never .she 1 me. II :?h." llu'i ashe 1 then with vencaac?. He purc I o jt hi f --liu.; m a :1 t of words. KV.v .'uln't interrupt hirn. She like 1 it. sheer want of Ku: when lie puel for breath, she quietly :ut her hand in his, an i i 1 : 'You curat to have kn .va that I loved you, llu.'h." . When Burnett cime back he divinel the state of atlair at onc2. "ilr. M'Kissen,' he siid, dryly, I i presume Miss 3-araett will hare th . proval of her irairdLn in tvt. ' Kittv .lid r .v.V: . . -'Tr the wond.rofth- nrigaoh ,o b -s of itself and famishing. "Such doin-: said Xtncr ;-x-' . to a goip. -You knox t;;-V,"H budtoater brkki and rj:k croiiatwix4 a co t-hous-au' a tn.-" house; an' eoough rooi in i; f ". Uvera. But I wA4 iai le;.x loads o' thia-i w pu: ia; tn? dr,-t kircred all over. Ycil" coa:.-! wha thj bitte.-it cu "kircrclwith kircrli h! Th; LJ- ninety woxxmg women uv0 lorj ft labor union in Antwerp, Bidgiux. One of the left tele graph ?rito:i ; Uostoc, Mas., is totally bhuJ. TkrOalyOae Eirr Trl.trA. cax roc nso rut woar.? this ir.r. tLU Nk.I,Kb La. cto t; wc-'a .aexrfitoneiri,rd. Tu t.- i, lrj; . each nw on. rrr.n? rh fr, j' ' rtl an l they win return yoi b hk itrfi The trouble on th Mexlcia border tinues era. if att reron. r Lrclen down from or. wortnrlon-f ift'..Jtarr. I:mtr: Ira L;:. trr rel uia the rlrm. ai l. lt - tl-s, te. Hiov i-K cf bilr. r l c'ir- n.:xU i f in2itl toi.ic for mc uira an i cLlMfea. .UA ufp, 5:oanufr-. a va.ua t. t ci cxU Las bet-n found iut Unenta thm rrwt " TOUR b'ood to or? Tae neeeLr- Pill. I T-ur liver oat f orJtr? L' Bitchaui's IIV.. Zt cents U.x. The manufacture of l-y t u?ar Is attila, liiS Jarg proportions ia Nebraska. For Con:h an.l Throat trmiMr nv naow'a BnoxcniALTHOCHEs. -TLey slogan atucc IVjrffthmA cwuh Ttrry I rumptly.,-C. FuIc, MUimitilU, CV.t.. 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Svrup of Figs ia tfc only remedy of lU kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in it action and truly beneficial t.nita effect, prepared onlv from the most healthy and agreeable euhstance. its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and Lave made it the mot popular remedy known. Syrup of Fiss is for sale in tOc and $1 bottle by nil Icadincdru gista. Any reliable dru-pt who may not have it on hand wiU pro cure it promptly for any one who "wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. amr rSAMCJSCO. dL LP DO 50T CniTK 0S fir RICTIi ACT! C. i- c yUjt,HT4 2-r la. . , t . - ' V asr; onl'n. r: .9. TSaritifr eomfUilro ty fr:r'.ttt tU-t. J iariT i.rTLs. r I i n f V I i -4 ' 'n ,,- - f.'k't I t.IftI fit: :;iitr nr-"" c t t jr 1a nr I - - . ' "T- 0I HASTES aCCIC: CO.. It. Uzit. nf1 jl. Cousaaspt! vr at 1 l-f : sotnmi-if a.-.s.- CcBia;ti'a. It tat r4 (UllMdl. tt tt T.' t itjf- c cr. It i t t 5 to t. ir3 K After tatir return tae:. wm vJU oV'
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