THE RURAL 
YORKER. 
SEPT 48 
£nt t\)t 
THE MISSING RINGS. 
SOPHIA C. OARRET. 
(Concluded.) 
NATCHING it from her, I 
quickly untied the kuol ted cor¬ 
ner and in it found tile lost rings! 
I hastened to Mrs. Carltuond 
with the handkerchief and its 
precious contents. She cried out 
“So she gave them up at last! I 
knew she had them, but how did you manage 
to get them from her?” “There was no man¬ 
agement about it, Mi's. Carlmoud. The wash¬ 
erwoman found this handkerchief in your 
clothes-bag, and told me that something was 
tied in one of the corners. But how came 
they to be tied up in your handkerchief?” 
“What a great simpleton I have been!” she 
said. “Now I remember all about it! When 
we were down in the meadow by the woods 
last week, I pulled some moss from a log as 
you may recollect. Fearing I might lose my 
rings, l took them off, and tied them in one 
corner of my handkerchief. Yes, in this 
very handkerchief! How strange that I for¬ 
got about it so completely! "When dressing 
to go with you yesterday, of course my rings 
were missing. Now it has all dawned on my 
mind as plain as day! Well what a ninny! 
What a-” “I hastened away to Hetty’s 
bedside, calling out “good news, Hetty! The 
rings have been found!” “Have they? Oh, 
where? Where? Oh, thank God! Thank 
God!” Teal's came to her relief, and on 
trying to turn them to smiles, she said “Let 
me cry awhile ma’am; it will do me good;I 
have been bumiDg up ever since she said I 
stole her ring's. Are you sure they have been 
found? I had such a terrible dream about 
it—about myself in the night. I thought a 
man came and put iron things around my 
wristp—and took me away to a great dark 
prison. He locked me up in a room, and I 
was so tired, I fell down on the floor, and 
could not get up, for my wrists were—” 
“No matter about your dream, Hetty, I 
must go and tell the good news to Mi'. May- 
sop.” He ivas working in the garden. I 
called to him and dropping bis hoe, became 
to the garden-gate where 1 was standing. 
“What’s the matter, wife?” “Why, Mrs 
C'arlmond has found her rings! When we were 
out botanizing that day, she was afraid of 
losing them, and took them off and tied them 
in the corner of her handkerchief, and put it 
into her pocket. Taking a clean one when we 
came home, she put the other into the soiled 
clothes-bag in her closet, and forgot all about 
it The washerwoman noticed something tied 
in a handkerchief as she w r as putting it into 
the tub, aud banded it to me to examine. Un¬ 
tying the knot, lo! and behold, there were the 
l ings! 1 carried the handkerchief and rings 
aud showed them to her. In a moment she 
remembered how they came there, and all 
about it.” 
“It's just as I expected” he said, and added 
“were this poor girl a peg or two higher in 
the social scale, she would bring suit against 
her accuser and recover damages. A hint to 
our guest might not lie amiss.” 
From this time, Mrs. Carlmond’s interest in 
lier visit began to wane. We were apparently 
as assiduous in our attentions to her as before 
this painful occurrence, but could not induce 
bor to prolong her stay. She announced her 
intention of leaving on the afternoon train 
the following day. Next morning while pack- 
i ng her trunk she called me to her room and 
said, “I suppose I ought to do something to 
pay Hetty for the trouble I made for her, but 
1 cannot think what to give her. What shall 
I do about it," “Simply imagine yourself in 
her place,” flew from my tongue before I had 
time to think of the boldness of the sugges¬ 
tion. "Oh, I never can do that. But I can 
give her some money. For instance, this $10 
bill. Ah! Your face seems to say' that is not 
enough, so 1 will add another of the same 
amount. Please give them to her with my 
regrets, for I dare not look her in the face. 
It was shameful for me to have been such a 
goosey. Well, well, my memory has always 
been tricky, but it never led me into such a 
miserable scrape as this, never, never!” 
Mr. Mayson drove her to the station, and 
on his return, brought Hetty’s mother with 
him to spend the night. After listening to her 
child’s pitiful story, she weptsoftly for awhile, 
then turning to me, said “Ah ma’am, that 
was far worse thau falling down stairs! But, 
thank God, she was innocent. She was all 
right this time, all right!” 
A query arose in my mind as to the use they 
would make of this reluctantly received 
money. It was sol ved a few weeks later when, 
riding past the rural cemetery near their 
house, I saw that a plain marble slab 
had recently been erected by them to mark the 
last resting-place of the father and little 
brothers. Truly it is “An ill wind that blows 
no man good.” 
NOTES BY UNCLE MARK. 
If “ Hortulus” and H. M. L. wish to join 
the Club, they must send me their full ad¬ 
dresses. 
Those Cousins wishing to grow sweet pota¬ 
toes had better read Alida Brewer’s article, 
as it is a very good and careful description 
of, how to grow sweet potatoes. 
If any of the Cousins are acquainted with 
the poem, of which Ellnina gives a quota¬ 
tion in her letter last week, will they please 
send a copy of it to me. 
I would say to the Cousins, that this is an ex¬ 
cellent season of the year to make the ac¬ 
quaintance of the various fruits and vegeta¬ 
bles to be seen at the many fail's. Members 
of the Club especially, should embrace the 
opportunity aud learu as much as possible. 
It gives me great pleasure to state that the 
members of the Club have sent a very fine 
lot of articles for the discussion, all ol’which 
show much care and thought. So many wish 
to take part in the discussion, it will bo neces¬ 
sary' to continue it for several numbers, in 
order to allow each person to express his or 
her opinion. The discussion will open with 
the next issue. 
YOUNG QUERIST. 
II. R., The Dalles, Oregon. —1, What is the 
cause of “ wolves” in cattle, and wlmt is a 
remedy? 2. Is the Waterbury w atch a good 
reliable time-keeper? 8. Name the enclosed 
flower? 
A ns. —1. These are small additional teeth, 
called from their position pre-molars; they are 
very common, Imt in a majority of cases drop 
out when the first pair of milk molars are re¬ 
placed by permanent teeth or soon after. 
They ere generally seen in young horses. As 
horses are subject to inflammation of the 
eyes while teething, from the increased flow of 
blood to the head at this time, these teeth have 
Ijecoiue associated with such inflammation 
and are considered its cause. In the South 
and West these teeth are often charged with 
originating the bony enlargements which 
constitute this disease. The removal of these 
teeth with forceps, do away with the trouble. 
2. The Waterbury Watch Co., make several 
kinds of watches. Which do you mean ? A $2 
watch cannot be expected to always keep re¬ 
liable time. 3. You have sent so little of it, . 
1 am unable to make it out. It will be neces¬ 
sary to know the bight of the plant, and to 
have specimens of leaves. 
Dark Eyes, Vinita, I. T., I wish to know 
what ails my house plants. They grew very 
fast until about a month ago when the leaves 
of the Fuchsias began to wilt, so I set them 
out of the window entirely, but it did not 
help them. The leaves are all off aud the 
buds partly open, then fall off. The leaves of 
my Geraniums also turn black aud drop off. 
I ueverhave had any trouble in raising flow- 
el's before. Could il be that the soil is too 
rich? 1 got it from a place where a wood pile 
used to be, and it is very loose and dries out 
very Boon. I have kept them in saucers of 
water constantly until two weeks ago when I 
removed the saucers aud only watered them 
when I thought they needed it—about every 
other day. 
Ans.—T he trouble probably is, they have 
been watered too heavily. Fuchias need care¬ 
ful handling, and good drainage. Geraniums 
will flourish almost anywhere, but must not be 
watered too much. The soil is undoubtedly 
all right. 
*4. R. Bayport, New York, A worm eats 
into the stalks of my hollyhocks aud they 
break ofl’; what is it? 
Ans.—I t will be impossible for me to tell, 
without seeing the worm. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: — I was very much 
pleased with your answer to J. C. P. I sup¬ 
pose there are a good mauy of us who would 
like to know your real name, and would be 
glad to own your picture or have your auto¬ 
graph. 1 am not so sure but that 1 have your 
autograph. I have if you answer to E. S. 
Carman. It would be a consolation to know 
that only one answered to the name of Uncle 
Mark. 
When I sit down to write to Uncle Mark I 
cannot think of one-half I intend to write 
about. So this week I am going to try a new 
plan. And when ever anything occurs to my 
mind that I think will interest the Horticul¬ 
tural Club, I will write it down at once. We 
had a root of the Calliopsis live through the 
Wiuter, (is not this unusual?) and it grow 
to be three feet high and had Over two hun¬ 
dred blossoms on it at one time. The violet 
root th it wo took from the woods aud plauted 
iu our flower garden, was the handsomest 
plant in our yard this Spring. It was one 
foot high and five inches round, aud rose in the 
form of a pyramid aud had over one hun¬ 
dred flowers on it. I think it a good sugges¬ 
tion about improving our native wild flowers 
as some of them are prettier thau many kinds 
sold by seedsmen. I think it a good plan for 
the Cousins to correspond with each other, 
and exchange seeds, as they can theu obtain 
kiuds that will be new and interesting to 
them. HELEN LEXKEN. 
[The Cousins seem to think I have more than 
one name. How many' have you? It is a 
good plan; jot down all the good practical 
ideas that may enter your bead aud send them 
to me. Yes, the Calliopsis is an annual, and 
rarely lives out through the Winter.— u. m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: — I have been intend¬ 
ing to write to you for a long time, but have 
neglected doing so until now. I read the let¬ 
ters from the Cousins with a great deal of in¬ 
terest Father and mother received the seeds 
from the RURAL. The Shoe-peg Corn has not 
done very well, as it was plauted late. In fact 
we were late in planting everything, as the 
land had to be cleared off. This being my 
first year on a farm, every thing isnewto mo. 
I was born on the mountains aud had never 
been out of them until last Summer, when 1 
came down to this valley. We have beeu 
living for two years where the snow was 
sometimes six feet deep in June. Here it is 
very warm, the t hermometer sometimes being 
over IK) degrees in the shade. 
Our garden has not done well, not as well 
1 suppose as gardens in the East. We have 
plenty of game here—bears, elks, deem, lynxes, 
mountain lions, wolves, rabbits, ducks, and 
geese. I often go hunting, and if any of the 
Cousins will come out to the north fork of the 
Gunnison River, I promise them a good deer 
hunt. There are u few doors in the bottoms, 
but they are very shy; we have to go 
back in the mountains for them, some eight or 
ten miles. In Wiuter they are more plenty 
here in the valley'. At the present time those 
on the bottoms, are mostly females with young 
fawns. About a month ago I saw a doe with 
two young fawns. 
In the north fork ot the river, are fish of 
various kiuds—salmon, trout, mountain-trout, 
white fish, sun fish, mullets, and suckers. The 
river is getting down so we can catch them. 
It has beeu so high that we could uot cross it 
without going some thi'ee miles to a bridge, 
and as part of oar farm lies ou the other side 
of the river, we have not been on it for three 
months. I went to school last Wiuter; had to 
go three and one-half miles. We have had no 
school this Bummer. 1 hope we will have this 
Fall, as I wish to go very much. 
This valley is on what was the Ute Reserva¬ 
tion, and has only been settled two year's this 
Full. The valley is about II miles long, and 
from one to five miles wide. This Full I will 
tell you what we raised this season. Until 
theu, good by. Yours truly, e. i. b. 
Hotchkiss, Col. 
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