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ntire satisfaction. My friend. Mr. E. W. 
Edwards, of this city, is notably one of these. 
He was badly ruu down by Bright’s Disease 
and other infirmities, but was brought into 
good shape by the Compound Oxygen, and is 
now attending to business with ease and com¬ 
fort. As a complete vitalizer of the system, 
the Oxygen is all that can be desired. It 
drives out disease by restoring vital action 
and putting the system in such a state of 
strength that disease has no chance to stay.” 
The reader will naturally seek more infor¬ 
mation on this interesting subject. It can be 
had in a pamphlet which is published by Doc¬ 
tors Starkey & Palen, 1J09 & U11 Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, and will be mailed to any 
address on application. 
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A TALK WITH THE BOYS. 
f» e find rough places 
^ Ap\ in most of the roads 
uGv we travel; there is 
hard and disagree- 
~ able w.ork in every 
■HUnfl v t >ranc ' 1 industry. 
*'ji 7\P ' ^ since 1 met 
ri> (w yiM * l^p^K ja. man who had been 
^ tMTV'' a clerk in a grocery 
\ / store and is uow 
working at the 
9 r nJ} ^2. blacksmith trade. I 
asked him which 
business he pre- 
-SP fared; hesaidblack- 
*r smithing; that he 
was only required to work ten hours at the 
trade, while in the store he was expected to 
be there at six in the morning, sweep out the 
store, set out samples, and stay until nine or 
ten in the evening. He said he had known 
boys to work in the stores at $6 per week pay¬ 
ing from $2 50 to 83.50 a week for board, when 
they could have got 830 per month on a farm 
with board. When I was a boy I often passed 
a grist mill and thought how easy the miller’s 
life must be; six years later circumstances 
threw me in the way of working in the same 
mill. I had learned the carpenter and joiner’s 
trade, and hired out to repair the mill and do 
anything they wanted, so was frequently 
called on to tend the mill; and I found that it 
was hard, dirty and disagreeable work, besides 
being unhealthy for me. If you intend to be a 
farmer cultivate a taste for it, get yonrfather 
to let you have a small piece of land and plant 
it to some crop or to garden vegetables. Get a 
few papers of flower seeds, Phlox Drummoudii, 
etc., and earing for them will be a pleasant di¬ 
version ; 15 minutes each day given to their cul¬ 
ture will keep a large bed in good order. 
Calhoun Co., Mich. j. m’lean. 
amount of hard work. It is not work that 
kills people; it is worry. The work that is 
followed by restful sleep brings good health 
and strength; for the daily waste of the body 
is repaired during the night. But the worry 
that oppresses the victim of insomnia during 
a sleepless night is what racks the system, 
wears out the muscles, torments the nerves, 
and bewilders the brain, so that life seems 
hardly worth living. 
“Insomnia” is a growing evil. In this busy 
age. when active men are all the time over¬ 
working themselves, there are five times as 
many people tormented with inability to sleep 
as there were a generation ago. We are liv 
ing under higher pressure. “Insomnia’’ is of 
different kinds, and proceeds from different 
mental and physical causes. But most of it 
may be summed up as to character in the 
words “can’t sleep,” and as to cause, in indi¬ 
gestion or overworked^ brain aud nerves. 
A most marked case of insomnia and re¬ 
covery from it, is that of Arthur Hagau, Esq., 
the well known wholesale tobacconist, of Phil¬ 
adelphia. Mr. Hagau is one of the largest 
dealers in tobacco, and is the Philadelphia 
representative of the great Baltimore house of 
G. W. Gail & Ax. In the interest of those 
who are inquiring the best way to secure 
sound sleep, and to triumph over the torments 
of insomnia, one of our editors called on Mr, 
Hagan at his store, on North Front street 
If he had been looking among a party of 
gentlemen for one who had been badly run 
down by dyspepsia and insomnia, Mr. Hagau 
would not have been the one selected. That 
gentleman now looks in such excellent physi¬ 
cal condition that nobody would suppose 
him ever to have suffered from a day’s illness 
or a night’s loss of rest. Iu response to ques¬ 
tions as to his past and present experience, 
Mr Hagan said to our editor : 
“My case was one of severe and long con¬ 
tinued insomnia, proceeding largely from dys¬ 
pepsia, the result of too great application to 
business. My system was very badly run 
down. Bleep became almost an impossibility. 
My physical distress during the night from 
being unable to secure refreshingslumbor was 
dreadful. It weakened and distracted me 
during the day, aud made attention to busi¬ 
ness a slow martyrdom. For five or six years 
I was from time to time under the care of 
different physicians, receiving occasionally 
some measure of benefit, yet on the whole 
gaining no material advantage. I was put on 
very low and simple diet, consisting princi¬ 
pally of skimmed milk. 
After passing through a long variety of ex¬ 
periences as to physic and diet, 1 one day hap 
pened to pass the office of Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, and I noticed the sign of “Compound 
Oxygen.” As other modes of treatment had 
failed, I thought this one could do no worse, 
and it might do better. So 1 went iu at a 
venture and made trial of it. For some time 
I bad been enduring the agony of dyspepsia, 
and for weeks I bad not been able to sleep 
without the aid of chloral or other drugs. The 
Oxygen did not work an immediate miracle 
in me. But I soon saw that it was doing me 
good, and so I resolved to persist in its use 
and to give it a thorough trial, Before long 1 
began to know the pleasure of real sleep. It 
was by degrees that my dyspepsia left me, 
and the power to sleep returned. I was great¬ 
ly encouraged by my partial improvement, 
aud this stimulated me to go on with great 
regularity and persistence. If my recovery 
was slow it was real. I had the best of home 
nursing and attention, aud that was, of 
course, a material aid to me. For several 
months I regularly took the Compound Oxy¬ 
gen Treatment, carefully obeying the direc¬ 
tions, and constantly gaining strength and 
freedom from disease. My system received 
the vitalizing which it so badly needed. 
About two years ago this took place and I 
have enjoyed a prime condition of health 
since. 1 have been able to attend with pleas¬ 
ure and satisfaction to my business. 1 have 
no need uow to resort to the Compound Oxy 
gen Treatment, except occasionally for a cold 
or for some other temporary disorder. I take 
an abundance of exercise, and I eat and 
sle ep as well as a man can wish to. 
I have recommended Compound Oxygen to 
a number of friends, who have tried it with 
A"»* 7 W A YKAlt and expenses to Agents. 
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■ ■ ■ P.o. VICKE RY, Augusta, Maine. 
For Agricultural Implements or Machines call or 
address The New York Plow Co., 55 Beekman Street. 
broom com; it was very fine, some straws 
were three feet long. They are going to learn 
to make brooms. This week they are strip¬ 
ping tobacco. I am knitting gloves with 
short fingers to wear next Summer when I 
gather vegetables and berries. 
Last Spring a potato seed came up with our 
flower seed. It made a few small tubers, 
which we will plant again. If it proves a 
new and desirable variety we will ask you to 
name it for us. Auut Beth's letters were very 
interesting and instructive, I hope she will 
write again. I have found out that if I wipe 
the lamp chimneys on a warm linen cloth it 
polishes them beautifully. 
Your affectionate niece, anna s. daxiel. 
Pr. Edwards Co., Va. 
[I hope your potato will prove something 
extra good, but you must name it before send¬ 
ing it to us; as stated in the Rural for Jan. 
24, 1885, page 55. uncle mark. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— The seeds matuma 
received from you last year did not come up 
very good, because the next day after we 
planted them a heavy rain came and beat the 
seeds into the ground so deep, not many grew. 
The Snow on the Mountain and Snapdragons 
were beauti ful. There were some kinds that we 
did not know, as they did not bloom last year. 
Mamma thinks one is a Columbine. We 
have not bad a very r cold Winter, but it has 
been very wet and disagreeable. We live on 
a little creek called Lightuiug Creek. The 
30th of last month we had a thaw, and the 
creek came out of its banks, and then the 
weather turned cold and the creek froze over; 
then the water went down and left the ice on 
the bottoms and in the bushes. There are a 
good many walnut, hickory and pecan trees 
in the timber, but of late years the worms 
have been so bad that we do not get many 
that are good. I don’t see why nuts are not 
raised more than they are. I planted some 
hazel nuts a year ago last Fall, aud they came 
up in the Spring; some of them died—I sup¬ 
pose it was because the ground was too rich. 
There is a persimmon grove in the timber, but 
the trees are young and have never borne 
enough to amount to anything. There are 
some phwpaw and mulberry trees also. 
Your niece, mary l. Barnard. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I have been wanting 
to join the Youths’ Horticultural Club. We 
are now Iiviug at Yardville, N. J., but expect 
to move to Marlboro, N. Y., on April 1. Now 
I must tell you a little about our dog; his 
name is Perchance. There has been a half- 
grown chicken around the door for a few days 
very sick. A couple of days ago Perchance 
began to care for it; yesterday he flushed it 
around wherever it could get corn or feed; at 
night he put it to bed in a nast in the hen¬ 
house. To day he seemed more careful than 
ever; he took it carefully in his mouth and 
carried it from place to place, and at night he 
carried it to bed behind the mowing machine. 
If that chicken dies it won’t be for want of 
care. We expect to have a garden next year 
and try some of your seeds. I hope you will 
consi ier mv brother Bert and myself members 
of the Y. H C. Good bye! neal. 
Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins.— 
I am a little girl nine years old. My papa 
takes the Rural and I like it very much. I 
like to read the letters from the Cousins. Hive 
onatarminthenorthern portionofYork State, 
where it is cold and there is plentyof “the beau¬ 
tiful snow” and some to spare. In the Summer I 
like to take care of the chickens and tend my 
flowers. I took a prize on my flowers at the 
County Fair last year. Out of the Garden 
Treasures I had some uice flowers; some did 
not grow. I have a little sister and she is 
very mischievous. She is fond of flowers and 
likes to pick them better than I like to have 
her. She is three years old; she knows her let¬ 
ters and can spell some. Last August, papa, 
mamma, uncle, my little sister, and I went 
over to the Great Forest we saw a bear, and 
we rode on the water. In September, papa, 
mamma, my little sister and I, went out to 
Massachusetts, and attended the Pittsfield 
Fair; we were gone three or four weeks. 
Two years ag®mamma and I went down tbe 
Hudson River to New York City. The scenery 
was delightful. We went in the Park and in 
the Zoological Gardens. We sa w a great many 
animals and a great many parrots. We rode 
on tbe Elevated Railroad, aud returned by 
the Hudson on the “St. John.” We enjoyed 
tbe trip very much. 
I made & rug when I was seven years old, 
and a pin cushion when I was eight years old. 
I can make cake and cookies. I am not well 
enough to go to school, but mamma teaches 
me. I study reading, writiug, spelling, arith¬ 
metic, geography, Civil Government, and 
music. From your niece and Cousin, 
Lewis Co., N. Y. mamie boss. 
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Dear Uncle Mark:—W e have lived out 
here in Missouri for nearly two years. We 
have a large house and a lawn with nearly an 
acre in it, Pa says. I wish the RuRALCousins 
