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Show Practical Woman's! Rights. About twenty miles I'rnm the Healing , spring, in the Alleghany mountains, there lives a most romarkable woman. , Her name is Morrison, but she is known ail throuch this country by tho name of "Miss Jennie Kucker." She is about sixty years of age, has her hair b 'hbed like a man's, wears a man's but and rides a hursd astride. Hunting j is her means of livelihood, and she Hlisdecr, bear and other game with the skill of forty years' experience. I Not long since site wounded a deer, but j be tore coming up with it, another hunter a man had gotten to it and commenced carving it up. The old lady expostulated with no avail, and finally drew a brad on him with her r ile to enforce her "rights." The fellow jumped behind a tree, but left bis heel exposed, at which vulnerable spot the old lady fired and hit. She got her deer. She has nine or ten children, and is said to treat ail travelers travel-ers hospitably who stop t her calio, bhe uses tobacco, but never getsfunher iu swearing than "by zounds," vh ch is her lavorite expression. If .ny , woman wants her "rights," let her See to the Alleghany nif untaina. Litter 1 from Balk county, Krfl-tNK, |