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WHEN WE WERE BOYS. 
SOPHIA C. GARR1.TT. 
(Concluded.) 
S WALLACE drove along, the 
wish to hit upon a nice ‘ finish 
off ’ for the dialogue was upper¬ 
most in his mind. He reached 
the village, bought the barrel of 
salt, and, while returning, a 
capital array of sentences suita- 
able for the close of the dialogue popped into 
his head. ‘ How would it be about getting 
home in season, if 1 should stop and jot dowu 
all thosef In- queried. He took a book from 
his pocket, in which was paper, and wrote rap¬ 
idly with a pencil. The sun shone directly in 
his face, so he sprang out of the wagon and 
sat down on a log in the shade of a tree by the 
fence. The horse started at this move and 
walked quickly onward. The reins were se¬ 
cured to the front of the wagon and as no 
teams were seen approaching there would be 
no trouble about its keeping the road. He 
would run along in a few minutes and jump 
into the wagon, 
‘•The dialogue was finished in a satisfactory 
manner; but, ou looking up the road, he was 
surprised at not seeing anything of the old gray 
horse and the wagon. Hastily thrusting the 
book and pencil into his pocket, he ran after 
the truant. On reaching home, he was de¬ 
lighted to see the faithful creature standing 
near the barn, with the barrel of salt safe in 
tlie wagon. The barnyard gate was open and 
it had gone in. ntid stood waiting tor its master. 
He drove around to t he tool-house, when the 
noise of the wagon brought his uncle out. 
‘ What kept you so long, boy?’ he said. Wal¬ 
lace reluctantly told the story of his loitering 
under the maple tree, leaving the tr usty horse 
to rest, while he wrote. * Well, well, my boy! 
be careful in future and not leave a loaded 
team to itself while you finish dialogues. 
Things might, get broken. In tliis case al! has 
ended well. Eat your breakfast and run to 
school.’ Wallace was tired running after the 
horse, but he felt so thankful to Uncle for his 
forbearance that fatigue was forgotten. On 
getting to school his mates read the dialogue, 
and said it was * just the thing.’ 
“ Brother Jason went to the Academy when 
Wallace had been there a year. The debati¬ 
ng society had charms for him. and he be¬ 
came the best speaker in the school. On grad¬ 
uating he studied with a lawyer in one of the 
towns near us. He was a persevering student, 
but legal studies are dry. One presidential 
campaign he was induced by political friends 
to take the field as a stump-speaker. The local 
papers praised his speeches, but he was not 
satisfied with such harangues. Late hours 
were followed by languid, idle days, which did 
not suit him. He withdrew from his engage¬ 
ment and gladly returned to his legal studies. 
‘ • Wallace became a printer, and for a long¬ 
time did night, work in a city printing office. 
C 'iitrilmtions from his pen sometimes filled a 
corner of the paper published there. Now he is 
an editor in a Western town. Jason’s sign of 
‘Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law is on an of¬ 
fice in the same place. I went to the Academy 
also. After graduating 1 continued to be u 
farmer. Once I left the track to dabble in pe¬ 
troleum stock and was bitten, so bo speak and 
had a debt on my hands which took the bulk 
of my wheat money for the next four years to 
settle. I have had rny ups and downs in the 
business, but 1 am contented to be a fanner, as 
it is my vocation. I now own the old 
homestead, and when m 3 - brothers visit me we 
like to talk of the time when we were boys, 
thinniug turnips and grubbing out stumps." 
TOMATO CULTURE. 
Several varieties ol' tomatoes were known 
in England in Gferarde’s time (1579) and 
Parkinson in 1(556 speaks of them as gurdeu 
curiosities under the name of love apples, 
amorous apples, and golden apples; they were 
planted more for their beauty than any other 
purpose. Last Spring (18-S2) 1 thought 1 
would try and see which was the earliest of the 
f< blowing kinds, I set out one dozen of each k iud. 
Paragon, Keye’s Early Prolific, Livingston’s 
Perfection and the Acme. 1 transplanted them 
from my hot bed May 21 . I watered them with 
manure water for t wo weeks. The manure 
water is made of hen manure and water. 
They claim that. Keye’s Prolific is one of 
the earliest kinds; they all were set out in 
a light, rich soil, on the south side of a 
small hill, they grew very rapidly and looked 
healthy. Keye’s Prolific was a failure with 
me, it was the first one that blossomed 
but was the second one that had ripe fruit. The 
Acme was the first kind that had a ripe toma¬ 
to. Keye’s Early Prolific was next, the rest 
ripened about the same. I took one peek of 
the Acme to the Fair and took first premium 
for the best. I kept them nine days and there 
were only four out of the peck that were de¬ 
cayed. 1 advise those who have not tried the 
Acme and Living-ton's Perfection, to try them 
this year. Some kinds do totter in one place 
than in another. I can say that the Acme was 
a good keeper with me. For tomatoes have a 
light, rich soil; they should be set about four 
feet apart, each way. O. F. Fuller. 
Worcester Co., Mass. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark — 1 wrote a letter to 
you some time ago. but T suppose it found its 
way to the waste basket, for I did not see it 
in the Rural, so 1 will try again to see if it 
will go there this time. I wonder how many 
of the Cousins raise strawberries? I do for one; 
my pa gave ray sister and me oue-fourth of an 
acre to plant in strawberries and we dug the 
plants anil planted them all in one day. Pa 
has three acres of strawberries and will plant 
some more. I think all young folks should 
plant a patch if it is not very large, as they 
could improve their leisure houi-s, aud it gives 
them exercise aud teaches them something t hat 
will be Useful to them, lam going to plant 
another jattch next Spring as they are profit¬ 
able to grow. My pa lias more than 20 varie¬ 
ties, among the most profitable is tin* Black 
Defiance; he made si 10 from one-eighth of 
an acre planted in this variety. My pa gave 
me the wheat the Rural gave as a premium 
and it is growing nicely. 
Your nephew. C. L. Fisher. 
Miami Co., 1ml. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I thought 1 would 
write to you and tell you about the things 
that. 1 raised this season. Pa gave me a piece 
of land. .1 raised some carrots and 100 k them 
to our county fair and got the premium. I 
raised corn and tomatoes, beans, unions, rad¬ 
ishes, beets, turnips and squashes, cucumbers 
both kinds of melons aud I sold nine dollars’ 
worth of things. The mips that, turned me 
the most were radishes and beans; aud now 1 
will tell you about raising seedling geraniums. 
I planted the seeds in a box of hot bed man¬ 
ure in August, and when they were large 
enough 1 transplanted them aud they did 
finely. Your nephew. 
Union Co,, N. J. John R. Johnson. 
Uncle Mark: —1 feel that I have greatly 
neglected the Horticultural Club the last year, 
but if you will be kind enough to place my 
name on the list again 1 will try and take a 
more active part. I wish more of the cousins 
would experiment with fruit aud vegetables; 
perhaps they do. but they do not report, i 
read with much interest the article in the 
Rural on raising strawberry seedlings, I 
tried it last Summer, but not knowing how to 
manage them I failed. I could not find any 
potato-balls this Fall. 1 am trying to raise 
some seething grapes this year. Your nephew, 
Yates Co., N. Y. John B. Jones. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—W ill you please add 
my name to your list of Cousins? 1 thought, I 
would tell the boys how I made some pocket- 
money. My sister and 1 broke a yoke of steers 
for papa, and when he sold them he gave each 
of us s -10 for our share of the money. I took 
S25 of mine aud went to one of the neighbors, 
and bought another yoke of steers with it; 
they were scrubby-lookiug things. My aunt 
called them elephants, because they were so 
small! We sold them for $75. Papa had $25 
for keeping them, so I had $5f> for my share. 
Erie Co., Pa. Will M. Rohrkr. 
Uncle Mark: —Please enter my name on 
the Horticultural Club list. We had alxmt 600 
barrels of Ben Davis apples last Bummer. Our 
little town has three apple packing establish¬ 
ments; they average about two cars per day, 
there is one further up, three or four miles 
from here, that employs HI men. On good 
days they often pack over two hundred barrels 
at each place. I think we are the only 
subscribcj-s to the Rural at this office, but I 
will try and get some more. 
Your nephew, John E. Dukkis, 
Platte Co., Mo. 
Dear Uncle Mark :—1 write to tell 3-011 
what success 1 had with iny watermelon seeds. 
I received five ai 1 made one hill out of them; 
one came up and it looked well but one day 
the chickens scratched it out,. 1 was road 
enough to kill them but that did not help the 
matter. We have u good many house-plants, 
but we have so much trouble to keep oil’ the 
lice. 1 have written three times before this 
and every letter found the waste basket, but 
1 hope tliis will not. Yum- nephew, 
Dupage Co., Ill W. C. Baumgarten. 
NEW MEMBERS OF THE CLUB. 
Aclnal Crawford, Ray Crawford, Hugh M. 
Sherwood, E. S. Hugh, Walter Libby, Kinney 
Hoxie, C. W. Fettcrhoof, Geo. Sexton, Har¬ 
vey Sexton, Estella Sexton, Mabel Fisher- 
Ethel Fisher, (send address) G. A. Veldhuis, 
Bessie V, Tewaon. 
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STAKTLING STATISTICS. 
Tlie Shadow Hanning Over New York 
City and the Entire Country— 
A Tribune Opinion. 
The nation has been horrified at the burning 
of a Milwaukee hotel, whereby over seventy 
lives were lost. This event carried terror be¬ 
cause it was sudden and appalling-; but had 
the same disastrous results to life and limb 
come silently they would have been unnoticed, 
not only by the people of the land but also by 
the very community in which they occurred. 
Fatal events of a tar worse nature have taken 
in this very city, but they have attracted no at¬ 
tention, nor would they now did not the Bu¬ 
reau of Vital Statistics bring-them to our no¬ 
tice. “ Figures do not lie." whatever else may- 
lie uncertain aud the report on the deaths of 
this city is a startling comment on its life. 
During the past year the enormous increase of 
eertaiu maladies is simply- appalling. While the 
total number of deaths has diminished aud the 
death rate on most diseases has decreased, still 
it is far greater in one or two serious disorders 
than was ever known before. More people | 
died in the City of New York in 1.883 from 
Bright's disease of t he kidneys than from diph¬ 
theria, small-pox and typhoid fever all com¬ 
bined! This scarcely seems possible but it is 
true aud when it is remembered that less than 
one-third the actual deaths from Bright’s dis¬ 
ease are really reported ms such, the ravages of 
the malady can lie partially understood. 
The immediate query which every render 
will make Upon such a revelation of facts, is: 
What causes tliis increase? Tills is a difficult 
question to answer. The nature of the climate, 
the habits of life, the adulteration of foods 
and liquors, all undoubtedly contribute: hut 
no immediate cause can be certainly assigned. 
Often before the victim knows it the disease 
has begun. Its approaches are so stealthy and 
its symptoms so obscure that they cannot be 
definitely foreseeu and are only known by their 
effects. Any kidney disorder, however slight, ; 
is t he first stage of Bright’s disease. But it is 
seldom that kidney disorders can he detected. 
They do not have any certain symptoms. Mys¬ 
terious weariness; an unusual appetite; periodi¬ 
cal headaches; occasional nausea; uncertain 
pains; loss of vigor; lack of nerve power; ir¬ 
regularity of the heart; disordered daily- halt its; 
imperfect digestion—all these and many Other 
symptoms are t he indicate ms of kidney disorder 
even though there may bo uo pain in the regions 
of the kidneys or in that portion of the body. 
The serious nature of these troubles may be 
understood from t he fact that Bright's disease 
is as certain to follow diseased kidneys as de¬ 
composition follows death. 
It is high time the Doctors in this land who 
have been unable to control kidney troubles, 
should be aroused and compelled to find some 
remedy, or acknowledge one already found. 
The suffering public needs help and cannot 
await the tardy action of any hair-splitting 
code or iucorrectlv formulated theories. If 
the medical world has uo certain remedy for 
this terrible disease let them acknowledge it 
aud seek for one outside the pale of their pro¬ 
fession, For the discovery of this remedy- aud 
for its application to this disease, the people of 
this city: the people of the whole land: uot 
only those who arc suffering, but those who 
have friends in danger are earnestly and long¬ 
ingly looking. 
Tlie above quotation from the New York 
Tribune is causing considerable commotion, as 
it seems to lilt the cover from a subject that 
has become of National imxiortauce. The 
alarming increase of kidney diseases; their in¬ 
sidious beginnings and frightful endings and 
the acknowledged inability of physicians to 
successfully cope with them may well awaken 
the greatest dread of every one who has the 
slightest symptoms. It is fortunate, however, 
that the surest relief is often found where, pos¬ 
sibly, least expected, aud that there is a specific 
for the evils above described we have come to 
fully believe. Within the past, two years we 1 
have frequently seen statements of parties | 
claiming to have been cured of serious kidney- 
troubles even after hope had boon abandoned; 
but in common with most people we have dis¬ 
credited them. Quite recently-, however, a 
number of prominent and well-known men 
have come out voluntarily and stated over 
tlioir signatures that they were completely 
cured by the use of Warner’s Safe Kidney and 
Liver Cure. Most people have been aware 
that this medicine has an tut usual standing and 
one entitling it to be classed above proprietary 
articles generally; but that it had accomplished 
so ranch in checking the ra vages ol’ kidney dis¬ 
ease is not so generally- known. Its groat 
worth has been shown uot only- by the cures 
it has effected, but also because a number of 
base imitations have appeared in the market, 
fraudulently claiming tlie valuable qualities of 
the original Safe Cure. If it were not valua¬ 
ble, it would uot. Is- imitated. 
lire above may seem like an ultra endorse¬ 
ment of a popular remedy but it is not one 
whit stronger than the facts admit.. What¬ 
ever assists the world toward health aud con¬ 
sequent happiness, should receive tho hearty 
endorsement of the press and all friends of 
humanity. It is on precisely this principle 
that the foregoing statement is made audit 
merits the careful consideration of every think¬ 
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