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Dalton, Georgia, Thursday, November 29, isss.
Established i860.
^Ko man of brains is all right
gets it ijato his head that he
with more than ordinary in-
1, and then the disease is more
rj)le to terminate to his discredit than
jins. Andeehon. of Portland, Oregon,
the right hind of a woman. She
jeat out shopping the other day, and
mticed that a young man was dogging
v ,b. Finally he made an attempt
her purse. Mrs. Anderson laid
Awn her bundle, rolled up her sleeves,
itbled her fist, and gave the feliow a
auling that he will remember for
aie time- | t
i correspondent from Atlanta says
jj g t Governor Gordon stated to a per-
al friend, a few days -ago, that he
mid be a candidate before the next
eral assembly for the United States
a te. It is understood, we believe,
Senator Brown will not be a can-
ite to succeed himself, but that he
jj] s tep aside at the end of his term
1( j ]et some one else go in. .
j is a cost of $3,000,000 or more .a
jep-water ship canal has been com
bed in the St. Lawrence river to
ontreal- The work on it has been in
Te ss for several years. The river
gttom and the character of the stream
Bench that the channel can be kept
Icar at moderate expense. Its impor-
ace to the commerce of Montreal and
6 Northwest is very great.
IGmvek Cleveland is a Presbyterian,
Ieo, also, is President-elect Harri-
a; bnt the latter is a communicant
j elder of the church, while the for-
1 merely attends the servicesi The
it. Dr. Talmage says that Gen. Har
snhas daily family pfayers at his
me, and that few laymen can deliver
tie devout or impressive prayers in
UM. worship than he does.
|i woman’s hair may grow to the
1 of six feet. Mme. Hess, of Par-
leased 5,000 franks for her “cranial
ling,” which was about that meas-
ment. Four hundred hairs of aver-
jt thickness would cover an inch of
The blonde belle has about 140,-
N filaments to c^mb and brush, while
r Meaae^bBHTrtyilssfo*be satis-
i with 88,000; the brown haired dam
flmay have 109,000; the black haired
4102,000.
| Notwithstanding the enormpus pop-
|stion of India, there are yet vast
sets of uninhabited territory. Accor-
pg to official returns, of the total
a of 864,000,000 acres under the di-
t administration of England, only
b)0,000 acres are under cultivation.
|very large portion of the remainder
(returned unfit for cultivation and the
ests are credited with 40,000,000
, but there still remains no less
a 80,000,000 cultivable acres as yet
touched by the plow.
The cause of ho«e rule for Ireland
Bmet with several defeats, but it is
ring ip ravor Mr. Gladstone says:
[ima^ee set down as a certainty that
> rule will come in due season,
day may be postponed, but there
>a no doubt that the reform will
ally be accomplished.” In this re
set there is a similarity between the
pt for home rule and the fight for
pal taxation, which the Democratic
% has made. Both are right, and
P oust triumph.
lr good solid advice from a good
,er: “If the farmers of Georgia
laid make themselves independent
1 beyond the reach of wheat trusts
d year, they will sow down plenty
(wheat. There is ro excuse for a
Fgia farmer paying $8 and $10 a
p e l for flour when he can make it
Re tor $2 or less. Sow wheat,
1 Rut the best land you have for it,
"ize it well, and the crop is reason-
Jsare.” That’s it!—less cotton and
10 wheat will make the farmers and
f?! 0 of this State independent of
trusts.
p Sparta Ishmaelite asks the fol-
H? pertinent question: “Can’t the
|5lstare of this year discharge its
duty this season, and adjourn
! die. without having recourse to
J ^constitutional fraud known as
pjourned session?’ ” Yes, certain-
r°l it won’t. The precedent of ly-
[fround Atlanta for three or four
1 in a ueeless, unconstitutional
P l0a has been made by preceding
Futures and the present one is very
r° lake advnatage of this precedent
°ot reference to the cost it may be
1 tax-payers.
Legislative Topics
A bill will be introduced daring the
present session to extend the corporate
limitB of Tunnel Hill, and authorize
the levying of a tax for school pur
poses.
Also one authorizing the Governor
to lease for manufacturing purposes
any lauds belonging to the State in this
county.
And another authorizing the grand
juries to recommend the levying of a
tax in addition to the present fund for
common schools in Whitfield county.
Representative Glenn informs us that
tbe disposal of the State road will soon
come up in the Legislature. It will be
one of the most important questions
before the present Assembly, and will
form a subject for hot and continuous
argument. The division of opinion as
to a sale or re-lease is pretty evenly
balanced, but Col. GleuD is of the opin
ion that a re-lease will be the final out
come of the matter.
Work in the Fall Garden.
Experience teaches that nothing is
lost and generally much gained by
manuring the ground in the Fall If
it cannot be plowed in the spring, it
should still be manured; but if possi
ble, always plow in the fall, replowing
in.the spring, if necessary. All the
rnbbisb and remains of previous crops
should be removed and either placed in
a compost heap or burned. The fall-
plowed ground will be drier, work
much easier and also be in mach bet
ter shape for early work. In all gar-
denning operations the ground cannot
be in too good condition, and in most
years fall plowing will open operations
several weeks earlier than otherwise.
The main point is to have the ground
in the right condition, and by applying
the mannre in the fall it comes in con
tact with every particle of earth, and
frosts disintegrate the particles of earth
and bring them into best possible con-
dition-for culture.—Ex.
^zek of Roselle, N. J., is owner
fearful Tabby cat. He has de-
1 a great deal of time to the edu-
1 °f the animal, and pussy shows
1 °i intelligence that astonishes
?ea. The cat will wink with its
left eye, as commanded by her
r r > taat time with one of her paws
sings selections from the Ger-
e.and pick out the queen in a
f Ao«s. He is now trying to teach
fir-iew “Home, Sweet Home,”
[ plays the accompaniment on
, but he fears his efforts in this
V will not be successful.
Resources of the South.
The New York Day Book furnishes
some custom house figures to prove the
streð ofthe South in her prolific
natural resources ouA. wonderful vital
ity. With less than one-third or
population of the Union, and amid all
her trials and. abject poverty, the South
furnished, in 1869, exclusive of specie
and bullion, one half the entire exports
of the country, $571,038,649, exclusive
of $42,915,968 specie. Of these results
of agriculture, tl^^rfouth furnished
$191,012,639; or nearly ten millions
more than the industrial products of
the'balance of the- Union. The total
imports of the country for 1869 were
$413,954,615. If we allow one-third of
this for the South, and that is really
too liberal, she would show a balance
of trade in her favor of $54,027,768,
while the balance against the other
stand at $96,948,034.
“Gath,” known otherwise as George
Alfred Townsend, continues to tell the
public what he thinks he knows. In bis
opinion, it would require a very large
volume to contain his varied knowledge.
Perhaps the alleged dream of a Midd/e
Georgia postmaster, who is some^at
of a wit, would give a good ^ ea
“Gath’s” opinion of his knowledge.
This postmaster dreamt fkat an enor
mous book found its way, somehow or
other, in front of bis house, and it was
so heavy that no means could be de
vised to remove it. Finally some one
suggested that if everything that a
certain gentleman knew was taken
out of the book, it might be removed.
The suggestion was accepted, and the
book became as light as a feather, so
to speak. Probably “Gath” was the
person referred to. It seems highly
probable.
Circumstances often favor even elop
ers, and such proved the case lately in
England, when the mother of the girl
telegraphed the police authorities at
Bolton to. arrest her child, who was a
passenger on a train that would pass
there. She mentioned the girl’s lame
ness, that the police might easily iden
tify her. Curiously enough there
turned ont to be two lame girl passen
gers, and the wrong one was arrested.
The other passed on and got married.
A voting lady of Indiana, Pa., who
was the possessor of an unusually fine
head of hair, sold it recently for a
handsome sum. She used the proceeds
for the purchase of a handsome winter
hat and other articles of ornamenta
tion. Such instances are not as rare
as one wonld suppose. A lady from
the East visits this section of the coun
try regularly and usually goes away
with a fine supply of natural hair.
The New York Herald is advocating
an extension of the presidential term
to eight years, and in a page of inter
views and statistics shows that the pres
idential campaign loses to the business
of the country $500,000,000 now every
fonr years. It would be much better
were the term eight or even ten years,
and it should be changed even on eco
nomic principles.
“Thebe ain’t any blemishes about
thiB animal?” asked the would-be pur
chaser^! a cow. v- “No, she is all right,
but I must tell you candidly that some
times she kicks when she is being milk
ed,” replied the owner of the cow.
“That’s of no consequence. My wife
does the milkin'.”
Taffy.
If there is friction, out jvith yonr oil
can. If there is a quarrel, pour on oil.
Blessed are the peace-makers.
Bnt the oil-can is for rarer emergen
cies. It i^not everybody that has the
gift of putting oil on jnst the spot that
grates; and it is not every day that
quarrels occur which call for the oil
can.
But blessed be taffy! It is wanted
every day and from everybody. It is
the universal sweetness of social and
domestic life.
Husband, have yon come home and
do yon find your wife tired and hot
with the day’s work in chamber and
kitchen? Give her a little taffy. Say
a sweet thing to her. Praise her for
something. Tell her how mce the
bread is; so mnch better than the ba
ker’s; that the ketchup is the best she
ever made; that the honse looked so
sweet and restful when you came in;
that she has the dearest children that
overlived; and at your leisure, before
she goes to bed, tell her she is yonr own
heart’s treasure. It will do her good:
it will make the smiles come. She may
box your ears when you say sweet, pet
ting things, and tell you that you are
talking as you would to the cat, but
she will like it just the same.
Wife, does your good man come
home weary and burdened, exhausted
and—no, not cross, but undemonstra
tive and silent? Go up to him with a
sweet welcome. Say something sweet
to him Men love to be appreciated
and flattered. Give him the sugar-
stick. Tell him some pretty thing
somebody said about him. Tell him
how mnch you admire what he has
done; and when you can sit down alone
with him, take his hand and pet him,
and tell him yon love him more than
tongue can tell; don’t be afraid of
overdoing it, and using comical little
exaggerations. He may know, and
you may know there is taffy in it; but
it is very nice taffy. We all like it;
we all like to be told we are loved, and
the saying it makes it all the truer. It
is a great deal better to cultivate one’s
love with warm expressions than to
blight it with frost. Pretty nothings?
Why, they are big realities, the stuff
ppihess-tooG»—on Give us more
taffy.
Did you ever see doves rub each
other’s bills? What is a kiss? Taffy.
What is compliment? Taffy. What
is politeness? Taffy. The good Lord
himself praised his loved ones with a
well-done far beyond their deserts.
For quarrels give us oil; but give us
taffy every day, all we deserve, mnch
more than we deserve. Don’t be over-
conscientious about it: let it be full
and abnndant, and very sweet; sweet
with smiles and love and laughter.
Give it to yonr fatner, your mother,
yonr husband, your wife, your brother,
your sister, your child, your friend.
How your child loves it! So do 'you.
More, more taffy.—Independent.
ON CALVARY.
The Mockeries and Farces Enacted There
In the Name of Religion
From an illustrated article by Rev.
Dr. Charles S. Robinson, in the No*
vember Century, we quote the follow
ing: “The only representative site for
Calvary now offered pilgrims in Jeru
salem is found in a couple of rooms
inside the old edifice; one is owned and
exhibited by the Greeks, another by
the Latins. These share the same dis
ability; both—since the church is so
full of traditions on the gronnd floor—
had to go up a flight of stairs into free
space nearest the roof. And there it
is, amid tawdry cortains and gilt be-
dizenmentsof candles and altar shrines
that this ancient spot upon which .the
cross of Jesus Christ rested ii
tariff Reform a Growing Sentiment.
Says the Columbus Enqurirer-Sun:
William Walter Phelps, alarmed by the
result in New Jersey, says that a “fail
ure to revise the tariff would mean Re
publican defeat in 1892.”
Mr. Phelps is one of the shrewdest
politicians in the Republican party
and he is not alarmed without cause.
Iu the industrial districts, where the
Republican party was most confident
of increasing their vote on account of
their protection policy the Democrats
made great gains v showing conclusive
ly the popularity of the tariff reform
principles among the voters of those
sections.
Instead of being a dead issue, the
sentiment in favor of tariff reform to
day is stronger than it has ever been.
The growth of this sentiment will be
steady and rapid. Shrewd Republi
cans like William Walter Phelps know
this as well as anybody. It is a neces
sity that has been too long deferred
already. Realizing this, the Republi
can party is likely to make a desperate,
scramble to place itself upon a tariff
reform platform in time for the great
political straggle of 1892.
Protection newspapers of the Demo
cratic as well as the Republican per
suasion will gradually tone down their
high tariff sentiments to meet the de
mand of the age for tariff reform, which
is snre to sweep this country in 1892.
A Pobtland groom got a decidedly
novel reception on returning from his
wedding trip. He was received with
outstretched hands by a vast army of
creditors, including the clergyman who
tied the knot The young man gave a
check to a chum to pay all the expenses
of the marriage, but the chnm, instead
of putting the money to its intended
use, went off and had a “good time’.’
with it.
The census of 1890, preparations for
which are now being made by the gov
ernment, will probably give the United
States a population of 70,000,000. In
1885 onr population was 50,155,783 per
sons, of whom 43,475,840 were native
born and 6,679,943 were foreign born.
President Cleveland,^it is said, will
reiterate his tariff views in a message
to Congress when that body reassem
bles. The result of the. election has
not caused him to alter his faith in the
ultimate triumph of tariff reform.
ont, and the veritable hole is shown<111
which it was planted. And the thieves’
crosses—a decorous, but rather inade -
quate distance of -five feet between
them on the right and left of the mid
dle one—are ranged alongside. And
down underneath, far below, across
some intervening space left by grading
away the actual soil of the hill, so we
are Bagely told, is the grave of Adam.
Tradition has related that at the cru-
cifiction of Jesus some drops of blood
fell through upon Adams skull and
raised him suddenly to life, and there
are commentators who declare that so
the prophecy quoted by the Apostle
Paul (Ephesins, v. 14) was well fulfilled:
‘Awake, thou Adam that sleepest (for
thus the former version read in the
text), and arise from the dead, for
Christ shall touch thee ’ The art peo
ple say that this is the origin of the
fact that iu those early rude represen
tations of the death of onr Lord
skull is introduced.
‘Can any man of sensibility be blam
ed if he makes an imperious demand
that something more—something else,
at least—shall greet him in answer to
his question, Where was our Lord cru
cified? If there should be no-other
advantage gained by the acceptance of
a new site as now proposed, this would
be enough; it would put an end to the
awkward and offensive impostures daily
exhibited under the roof of that olfl
filthy church. They are a standing
mockery of the claims of the Chris
tianity they profess to uphold.
‘Those ceremonies of Easter at the'
tomb where our Lord is declared to
have beeen hurried are a caricature of
an event so glad and holy. The strug
gle around the flames that "are chemi
cally forced out of the smoky hole in
the sepulcher, so that devotes in frantic
zeal may light their lamps, brings
death from the trampliDg of thousands,
fills the house with howls that put
heathenism to shame, and sends true
believers away with an infinite disgust
and horror deep in their hearts. How
long mnst. such a scandal be patiently
endured?”
WISE SAYINGS.
It isn’t so bad to be disappointed in
love as in marriage.
Simplicity of character is the natur
al result of profound thoughts.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing so gentle as real strength.
Though familiarity may not breed
contempt, it takes off the edge of ad
miration.
A man who does not know anything
is pretty sure to tell it the first chance
he gets.
Leisure for men of business, and bu
siness for men of leisure, would cure
many complaints.
Some people care a great deal more
for keeping up appearances than for
keeping up realities.
The man who sells what he does not
own cannot cheat the man who never-
pays him for it. A great deal of busi
ness is done on that basis.
Belief is an edifice never completed,
because we do not comprehend its plan,
and every day some workman brings
a new stone from the quarry.
People who are ashamed of honest
poverty generally become self-conceited
and self-important when prosperity
gives them any encouragement.
Look well to your health. The pow
er of endurance is the inheritance of
the perfect mind or body, and endur
ance tires out something to its benefit.
Those who would convert the world
should not forget to so live that others
may know they are happier and better
than those who consider religion but a
side-issue.
Men will work harder for a day’s
pleasure than they will for a week’s
wages—at least those fellows do who
go duck and snipe hunting on a drizzly
day in winter.
Nurse your sorrows, if you must, in
private; don’t attempt to wear them in
public. At home the Creator will com
fort you, but the public don’t do busi
ness in that way.
Unless a manhas trained himself for
his chance, the chance- will only make
him ridiculous. A great occasion is
worth to a man exactly what his ante
cedents have enabled him to make of it.
Prayer is the preface to the book of
Christian living; the text of the life
sermon; the girding on the armour for
battle; the pilgrim’s preparation for
his journey. It must be supplemented
by action, or it amounts to nothing,
A COUNTRY -COUSIN.
“Girls, what do you think?”
The young lady who spoke had just
come into the elegant parlor, in a pret
ty heliotrope street-costume, with her
dainty bonnet still on her head. She
sunk into a luxurious lounging-chair,
and looked up with such an air of vex
ation that the little group of three la
dies and a gentleman who had dropped
in for a morning call, knew at once
that something was wrong.
“YVhy, what should we think?” cried
Harriet, the oldest of the Dinsmore sis
ters. “Don’t keep us in suspense, Ln!”
“No, for pity’s sake, what is it?”
chimed in Bell, who sat nearest to Carl
Seymour, and was carefal to strike a
becoming attitude as she leaned back
hfiy chair to look lip at her sister.
“Have you heard bad news, Lu ?”
“Well, I don’t call it particularly de
lightful!” said Lucy, pettishly. She
opened her pretty hand-bag and took
from it a letter which she tossed over
to Bell, saying, “There, read that?”
Bell snatched open the letter and
glanced down the page.
“Oh, my goodness!” she exclaimed.
‘Was anything ever so provoking!”
“Bat what is it, Bell?” cried Harriet.
“It is from Cousin Kitty Carroll,”
said Bell, still reading, “she is coming
on Friday to make us a month’s visit.”
“Oh! my!” groaned the two other
girls in concert, and then Harriet took
up the theme:
“Wasn’t there any place else she
could go, I wonder? No, Mr. Sey
mour, don’t go. This isn’t any family
matter, for, of course, if she comes you
will have to meet her.”
I thought I might be intruding,”
said ; Mr. Seymour, politely. But he al
lowed Miss Harriet to take his hat, and
resumed his seat, while Aunt Maria,who
sat by the table knitting a silk stock
ing, asked:
What’s wrong with your Uncle Ja
red’s daughter, that she shouldn’t visit
you? If I remember rightly, you have
spent several summers at their farm,
girls.”
“Well, yes, we have,” answered Har
riot, reluctantly, “but that’s different.
We knew something, and how to dress
and all that; besides out there iu the
country, it didn’t matter. But deliver
me from awkward, ignorant rustics in
the city!”
“And it’s just abont time for our par
ty, too!” said Lucy.
She needn’t expect me to go about
with her!” put in Bell. “I dare say
she’ll wear a sunbonnet and calfskin
shoes!”
Carl Seymoar laughed heartily and
said:
“Really, I do pity you, ladies! But
let her come, she will be quite a cari
osity in the city.”
“Oh, mercy, don’t!” cried Bell. “Let’s
write that we’ve got the scarlet-fover!”
No, say we’ye gone to the shore for
the summer!” said Lucy.
Just then the door opened, and
Mrs. Dinsinore, majestic, portly and
well-dressed as usual, sailed into the
room. “What’s this all about?” she
asked, seating heiself and beginning
*to sway her large fan. Then of course
the letter had to be read and the girls
appealed to mamma to know what to
do.
“Why, of course we can’t help her
coming,” said Mrs. Dinsmore. “Though
it’s very unfortunate just now. Bnt
I’m sure Mr. Seymour knows that even
the oldest families” (oh, with what an
air Mrs. Dinsmore got thst off!) “have
these country cousins whom they are
obliged to be civil to, and will make all
allowances.”
‘Oh, certainly!” said Seymour. “But
really, I anticipate considerable pleas
ure from the visit of this country cous
in, if you will kindly allow me to call
as usual.”
Oh, yes, como!” cried Bell, who re
garded the rich Carl as her especial
property, and already, in fancy, saw
herself the mistress of bis elegant man
sion over on Walnut Hill. “Perhaps
we can get some fuu out of her, if noth
ing more,” she’added.
# When will she be here?” asked Mrs.
DinBmere.
“To-morrow, by the three o’clock
train,” answered Lucy.
“Mamma,” said Bell, “you needn’t
send me to the depot to meet her.”
Nor me,” spoke np Lucy. “Let her
take a hack.
“But it won’t look jnst polite, will
it?” asked Mrs. Dinsmore, faintly.
“Well, no matter. If we are not too
civil, maybe she won’t stay so long,”
said Bell.
Here Carl rose, and remarked thSt he
mnst really go, hot accepted Bell’s in
vitation to return in the evening.
As he was passing through the ball,
he felt a hand tauch his arm, and Aunt
Maria’s voice said:
“Look here, young man, wait till you
see my brother’s daughter, and then
make up your mind for yourself.”
“Good advice, Miss Lenox. I’ll take
it,” said Carl, laughingly.
After he was gone a family council
was held, which would have made pret
ty Kitty Carroll’s ears burn, and most
surely have prevented her intended vis
it to the city could she by any means
have heard it. -;
“I wouldn’t care so much,” sobbed
Bell, “but Carl Seymour is so elegant!
And I know he won’t want anything to
do with us when such a rustic comes
into the bouse!”
“Oh, never mind, Belli” said Mrs.
Dinsmore, soothingly. “He will be
civil to her for yonr sake, and you’ll
show off the better by the contrast.”
.This was some comfort to Bell, and she
began to tnrn her mind to the prepar
ation of bewitching toilets which should
complete Carl’s subjugation. Her sis
ters were willing enough to help her,
for if Bell brought a millionaire into
the family, there was no tellipg what
she might not do for the rest.
Carl walked home thinking oddly of
the expected visitor at the Dinsmores.
“Poor thing, I pity her!” he said,
smiling. “Women don’t treat each oth
er as well as men do, that is a fact.
They won’t give her the least bit of a
chance, and yet I dare say they were
willing enough to drink her father’s
milk and eat his strawberries. Its too
bad to let her come to this babel of a
city and not even meet her. I don’t
respect them quite as much as I did,
for that.”
He thought so much about it that
the next day, when the hour for her
arrival drew near, he concluded to go
to the station and see what the coun
try cousin really was like, and if she
needed any assistance. Miss Bell ha a
mnch better have gone herself, if she
had only known it!
It was not Carl’s intention to make
himBelf known, only to be on hand in
case the young stranger required as
sistance. He thought he would be
able to recognize her from Bell’s de
scription.
‘I hope she won’t wear the calfskin
shoes!” he said, laughingly to himself.
‘I don’t believe I could stand that!
Bat I suppose she will be big and em
barrassed, and sport last year’s fash
ions. I dare say I can pick her out,
though it will depend on circumstances
whether I speak or not.”
When the train came in he was on
the platform. A number of men got
off, but he only saw two Sisters of
Charity, a fat woman with a baby, a
lean woman with a bundle, and a
young girl dressed in very stylish
mourning. The country cousin could
be none of these, and Carl was about
to turn away, concluding that she had
failed to come, when a sweet voice ad
dressed him, and turning round be
HQ w the young lady in black at his
elbow. * • r r
Heavens! what a lovely face! A
in what sweet, refined tones she said:
Excuse me, sir, but I am a stranger
in the city. Will you kindly tell me
how best to reach Elm Street?”
“Certainly, miss,” answered Carl,
raising his hat “Just take the car that
—dr, stay!—what • number on Elm
Street did yon wish?”,
“Three hundred and fourteen, sir.”
Carl started. -Three hundred and
fourteen was the Dinsmore residence.
Could this be the dreaded country
cousin? If it was—well! there was
fun ahead! To test it, he asked:
“Is it the Dinsmore’s house you
want to go to?”
Yes, sir. She is my aunt.”
Surely, then, they di<^ not expect
you?”
‘Yes, I wrote that I would be here.
My name is Kate Carroll. The Dins
more girls are my cousins. I wonder
why they are not here to meet me?”
So do I,” said Carl, fervently. “But,
luckily, Miss Carroll, I chance to know
where the Dinsmores live. If you will
allow me to call a cab, I will give the
driver the necessary directions.”
“Thank yon.” She gave him a pleas
ant smile, and as he helped her into
the carriage a few moments later, she
said, “I am very grateful to you, for I
have never been here before, and had
not the least idea where 1 wished to
go.”
“Oh, it is nothing at all!” replied
Carl, “I am glad to have been of ser
vice.” He lifted his hat again, and
with a bow, walked back to‘his own
home, laughing and yet provoked.
“I wonder how they’ll look when tliey
see her ?” he thought “There isn’t one
of them can hold a candle to her!
Calfskin shoes, indeed! I noticed her
foot when she got into the carriage,
and it is much daintier than Miss Bell’s
own. If sh8 only has cnitivation to
match her beauty, she’s a perfect gem.
I’ve a curious fancy to get acquainted
with her and see.”
Accordingly, the very next evening
he presented himself in the Dinsmore
parlor. Only Bell and Lucy were in the
parlor when he entered, and he could
not rerist the temptation to ask them
if their cousin had oome.
“Yes, she came yesterday afternoon,”
said BelL
“Did you fiad her as bad as you ex
pected?” asked Carl, demarely.
“No, not quite. She seems pretty
well fixed up, bat no doabt she is igno
rant of everything. Here she comes,
you can see for yourself.”
Harriet entered the room followed
by the slender girl iu black, who had
been in Carl’s mind since he saw her
the day before.
But when they were introduced,
something in her swift glance seemed
to-entreat him not to mention that he
had already seen her, and he did not
allnde to the meeting.
She did not talk a great deal, but
whfit she did say was sensible. Though
I indeed Bell and Lucy chattered so in
cessantly that there was hardiy time
for anyone else to get in a word. Carl
thought there could be no trace of rus
ticity fonud in Miss Kitty’s manner,
and her mourning dress, which Mrs.
Dinsmore told him she wore for her
mother, was quite as becoming as the
gay robes and ribbons of the other
girls.
After awhile Carl thought" he would
test her knowledge a little. He bad
already tried Bell and Lucy with Ras
kin and Carlyle, but found them much
better acquainted with cheap novels.
He gave Kitty-a quotation in answer
to a remark of hers, and sho replied
with a flash of the eye that told him
she quite understood him. That in
clined him to pursue the conversation,
and he soon discovered that she had
both taste and knowledge in literature.
“That scores another victory for
her!” he thought. Bat as Bell was just
goingto the piano, they stopped talking
to listen. Bell was considered quite
a performer, and she dashed off several
pieces with great force, at least. Then
Lucy was called for, and sang in a shrill,
piping soprano, which it always made
Carl nervous to hear.
“I suppose you do not play,” Baid
Lncy to Kitty, as she left the piano.
“Not very much,” answered Kitty,
hesitating.-
You haven’t a piano, have you?”
asked Bell.
‘Yes, papa got us' one two years
ago!” said Kitty.
Oh, is that so?” cried Bell, in her
merry way. “Do play for us! We’d
lika so much to hear you!”
She insisted, when Kitty said she
would prefer not to play until she had
recovered from the fatigne of her jour
ney, and finally led her to the piano,
with a droll look at the rest, as mnch
as to say, ‘ Now see her make a dunce of
herself!”
_ But if anyone was the dunce, it was
not Kitty. She struck a few chords
and then played a piece which Bell
could not have touched, in a true, ex
pressive style, which astonished all,
and vexed a part of her hearers. She
rose at the conclusion, and would not
play again that night, promising to
sing the next day for them.
“And I am sare we- shall have a
treat,” thought Carl, bnt he was too
wise to say so, for he saw already, that
to praise her wonld only be to excite
envy^of her cousins, and make
rvT-flr mipiuasauu -
Bnt as he went home that night, he
said to himself: “If I can win that
sweet girl, she shall be mine.” A re
mark which wonld have made Bell fu
rious.
However, Uarl kept up his usual at
tentions to all the girls, and did not
once show Kitty any special favor, un
til the day before she was going home.
Then he happened to find her alone in
the parlor, and in a manly, straight
forward way, asked her to be his wife.
“What! would yon really marry the
‘country cousin,’ Mr. Seymour?” she
asked with a smile.
“I certainly will, • if she will have
me,” answered Carl, gravely. “Will
she?”
Then Kitty blashed, and said: “Ask
me that question in my own heme, and
I will tell you.”
“I will be there in two weeks from
to-day,” said Carl, fervently.
He went, and Kitty gave him yes for
an answer. So after ail, it was the
country girl who won not only the mil
lionaire, but the true love of a noble
heart.
One hundred years ago the world
wa» rated at 731,000,000, of whom 174,-
000,000 were Christians; now the popu 1
lation has doubled and the Christians
trebled. One hundred years ago the
Church was asleep on mission work,
ami the governments and nations op
posed missions; now, with little excep
tion, all welcome them. Ooe huudred
years ago English-speaking people had
not one mission society; now they have
150 reported. One hunored years ago
educated men could not be induced to
become missionaries—the work was too
forbidding; now we have 7,000 mission
aries, nearly one-third of whom are
women; also 35,000 native agents, 3,000
of whom are ordained ministers. One
hundred years ago there were 300 Bible
converts among the heathen; now there
are 3,000,000. One hundred years ago
it was thought vain to hope for con
versions from Mohammedanism; now,
in many parts, as in Lahorde, India,
most of the leading Christian pastors
are converted Mohammedans. Within
tbe past two years more than 2,000
young men have gone from the United
States and Canada, and are laboring
with success.—The Christian at Work.
Keely, the mysterious motor man,
will not be able to perfect his gre3t in
vention within the next few weeks, as
he now languishes in durance vile—
sent to jail for contempt of coart, be
cause he would not give a more intel
ligible description of his machine. The
judge deemed a better description of
the motor necessary to a proper dispo
sition of suits pending against him,
and Kelly refused to comply. It looks
very mnch like the motor was dragging
its inventor dowD, and perhaps
will be the only power it will
exhibit
If you spit up phlegm, anc
troubled with a hacking cough, use
Dr. J. H. McLean’s Tar Wine Lung
Balm. 3n)
