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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER 
DEC 20 
gtnv publications, 
have grown well ami ripened tlieir wood; but 
few were killed by the frost in May. 
My father is a subscriber to the Rural. 
Could I ge{ subscribers for a club and get on? 
of the presents that is offered, if Pa does not 
get any of them. I planted some grape and 
plum seeds this Pall to prow seedlings. The 
(lower seeds that yoa sent did not do very 
well; still 1 had some fine flowers, especially 
the poppies. Not knowing that I shall write 
again before Christmas, I shall wish you a 
Thankful Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas, 
and a Happy New Year. 
From your nephew, 
ALFRED B. BIRD. 
Washtenaw Co., Mich. 
[Thank you for your kind wishes. Yes, in¬ 
deed, you will be entitled to one of the pre¬ 
sents if you send subscribers enough; the 
members of the Youth’s Club may all work 
for them if they wish to. uncle mark ] 
The New-York Times 
FOR 1885. 
CHRISTMAS GREETING PROM UNCLE 
MARK. 
«5fV\ Merry Christmas and a 
Happy New Year to all my boys 
and girls! I wish you, one and 
I all, a deligtbful holiday, and if 
•'wmAV* by any magical wishing cap or 
' other wonderful good fortune I 
1/-Cr'’\V<L could send each one the very 
thing he or she wants most, how 
fhis&r busy I would be getting all the 
a|sjp bundles ready and shipping them 
||• off all over the country to be put 
into your stocking* Christmas 
Ilf Eve! As 1 think of it, I really 
envy good old Santa Claus ! 
That you may all enjoy the 
Christmas and begin the New 
Year well, is my earnest wish 
for you. Good resolves at New Year’s time 
are often made and forgotten before they are 
put into practice, yet I would like to know 
that you each made some good resolve-and 
that you kept it. There are times for every¬ 
thing, your mothers have a time for house 
cleaning, for fruit, canning, etc., aud I think 
it is a good plan to have a day in the 
year tomake plans to be better boys and girls 
and then do not fail to try hard the rest of the 
days in the year to become better. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS, 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins:-I would 
like to joiL the Y. H. C. if you will accept a 
little girl only 12 years of age. I have never 
seen any letters from our town published, so I 
will venture to write, We live in Bradford 
County, Pa., only oiglit miles from the Barclay 
coal mines and there is quite a large village 
there, composed of miners and other employes 
of the company. It makes a good market for 
farmer's produce' There is an oil well being 
sunk about three miles from here and they 
feel sure of finding oil; they have bored over 
900 feet already. 
My brother takes your paper aud he likes it 
very much. My mamma planted the Garden 
Treasures you sent'us last. Winter: and we 
had some verv handsome flowers; our sunfiow- 
PteceUanfoujs 
& Dill DU I CT on die- home treat men t of I) It l!NK- 
rflUirnLLI knm>s am! the Tobacco Hnl.it 
will he sent on receipt of stamp. Address’ Sec. ok 
Temperance Rkkohm association, New Haven, Conn. 
Idle ill Sinin. 
In 1841 a young man. named John H. 
Chandler, felt it to be his duty to go to Bur- 
muil aud join iu the work of Baptist missions 
in t hat country The name of Chandler is an 
honored one iti the literature and labor of the 
Baptist Church; and on this gentleman and 
Ids accomplished wife has fallen a just share 
of the honor which follow* devoted toil. Mr. 
Chandler at first went only as a luy mission¬ 
ary, but subsequently entered the ministry as 
a regular ordained clergyman. He brought 
to the work the skill of a mechanical engineer, 
and a thorough mastery of the arts of print¬ 
ing aud type-founding. He was soon trans¬ 
ferred to Siam, mid made his home at Bang¬ 
kok, the capital of the kingdom. Here his 
ready facility for acquiring the language 
made him both useful and bu\v. He wrote 
several religious aud scientific works in Siam- 
ese, ami rendered himself valuable to the king 
aud his court as translator of important docu¬ 
ments. His wife, formerly Miss Crossman. of 
Utica, N. Y., made herself eminently useful 
in connection with the work of the mission. 
Both in Burundi and Siam she wasat the head 
of schools tor the natives, and in later years 
she had at Bmgkok a school for the children 
of the nobles and princes. 
One of the most inevitable results of mission 
work is the breaking down of the health of 
those engaged in it And this is especially the 
case in such o debilitating climate as that of 
isiam. This breaking down generally comes 
after a short term of service. The l!ev. Mr. 
umIT IS V Thorough ami practical In¬ 
ca I till. At ruction given by n ail in 
Book-keeping, Buaincs* Form*. Arithme¬ 
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GEO. W.H 1NG, Box mi-Marlon,O. 
TRY 
IT. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins: 
—I think that it is about time for mo to report. 
I am a member of the Baptist Church and 
Sunday-school. We have a nice church edifice 
and a very fine organ. The church is built of 
hewu stone, and has large stained-glass win¬ 
dows. It cost over $27,000. The younger 
children begin to look forward to Thanks¬ 
giving, and we have many things to be thank¬ 
ful for. God has blessed us with abundant, 
crops, and many minor blessings. 
I raised about four-and one-balf bushels of 
pop-corn on a small patch. It sold for 15 cents 
a peck, or 50 cents a bushel. My tomatoes 
were large, but ill shaped, because I wutered 
them with manure water. The potatoes were 
rather poor. I raised some very line musk 
and water melons. My fathers crops did 
well, excepting the potatoes, peaches, and 
plums. We had nearly all of the common 
garden vegetables, excepting carrots. I am 
not going to school this Winter. I shall haul 
manure and ashes from town for our farm. 
1 also cut wood, do choi-es, and other farm 
work. 
My strawberries did very well. From 40 
plants of the Bidwell, set one year ago last 
Spring. I sold quarts, receiving for them 
£ 1 1 kept the plants free from weeds and 
runners, and watered them some with manure 
and well water. The raspberries did well this 
Summer. The canes are now well ripened. 
The farmers are getting their fall work about 
Newton'S improved PAW TIP h P' <ls 
them llrmlv, driiwx UvlFI I It them 
forward when lying down, pushes back 
when standing, gives f ins, tom of head, 
i. C. NF.nTllN, Batavia, 111. 
%/j keeps clean, 
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