planted a good many shade and fruit trees last 
Spring. Locust trees live better than any 
other kind. A good many of tho others died 
during the dry weather last month. 
We are gettiug land ready to sow a large 
crop of turnips for the cows. Papa killed an 
animal not long ago, which we thought was a 
weasel, though it was larger and somewhat 
different from any weasel we ever saw before. 
The next day Mamma read in the Chicago 
Times the description of a stoat, which 
answered to the appearance of the animal 
Papa bad shot. It had a black tail, white 
breast and feet. 
I wish George and James McClure would 
tell me the name of their new variety of 
buckwheat. We have sowed the “Silver¬ 
hulled.” I will say to Miss Ethel Wysor that 
we have a large trunkful of Rurals too, and 
often look over them to find help in our work. 
Your respectful nephew, 
GEORGE WATKINS DANIELS. 
Pr. Ed. Co., Va. 
[A very good letter, George. I am very 
glad you do not use tobacco. The use of it 
spoils a great many boys who might make 
good and useful men.— uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I received the beans 
you sent me. I planted them; all came up 
but oue, and uo w they are all to the top of 
the poles. Grandpa let me plant them in his 
garden. He keeps one horse and cow and 
four pigs. He has 150 hens and chickens. I 
have a guinea pig; his name is Piukey. I am 
11 years old. I read the letters of the Cousin >. 
1 live very near to the woods, and have fine 
times gathering chestnuts in the Pall. I like 
to live here in the Summer. I have fioe 
times in our woods hunting with the boys. 
My Grandmother broke her leg; she was going 
over a door-step, and stepped off. I will 
close. Your nephew, RALPH sawyer. 
West Medway. 
[Be careful when you go out hunting, boys. 
For my part, I woulJ much rather let the 
birds and rabbits live .—uncle mark.] 
it for you” awkwardness,” but my text only 
laughed a d ’ly little laugh and said: 
“ I guess y. u will have some company," 
thus turning oft in a pleasant jest what might 
have made an unc omfortable little scene, I 
don’t need to draw any moral, for I am sure 
you euu all see for yourselves the lesson I 
learned from my restaurant text. I have a 
very wicked small brother who would go a 
mile out of his way to avoid a moral any day, 
and to look at him you wouldn’t think him 
such a dreadful sinner either. If we are truly 
kind hearted we will in all probability be 
polite, but I want to say just a word or two 
about outside politeness or etiquette which 
helps people over a great many rough places, 
provided always that the heart is all right 
first. Do be careful aoout these little “Thank 
you V’ and “ I beg pardon,” and “ If you 
please.” It will be worth so much to you, if 
while still young you can acquire ease and 
natural politeness. I read to day something 
like this which seems just to the poiut. “Po¬ 
liteness is like an air pillow, though filled 
with nothing it saves us many jolts.” These 
little formalities are nothing in themselves,but 
go a long way toward making people com¬ 
fortable. bertha knowlton. 
Oxford Co., Ohio. 
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N front of a restaurant the 
other daj , I saw a big pump¬ 
kin. It was a graud fellow, 
bright, yellow and shining. 
It filled a big basket complete¬ 
ly. It made me think of the 
times I used to have when 1 
We used to have 
was a boy. 
our pumpkins growing in the 
cornfield. In the Fall, when the corn was cut, 
we would have great fun making a Jack 
O’Lantern. I wonder if the boys make them 
now. We would t ake a pumpkin a little larger 
than a man’s head, cut out all the inside, and 
carve places in the shell to look like mouth, 
nose and eyes. Sometimes we would make 
the teeth an inch or more long. Then we 
would put a candle Inside, and I tell you it 
would make a funuy looking face. We must 
always be careful though what we do witb 
these faces. I made oue once that frightened 
a little girl dreadfully, and I have always been 
sorry about it, because it spoils all the fun to 
think that we made people feel badly. The 
best way is to show the people what it is be¬ 
fore the light is put in. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Over that, great pumpkin that I spoke of 
was a sigu which read “Home-Made Pumpkin 
Pte.” 1 went io to get a piece. It was very 
good pie, hut not equal to that I used to get at 
home by any meaus My opinion is that the 
food we get at home is the best food in the 
world. 1 always feel sorry for a person who 
warns to go away from home to get something 
to eat. I believe in goodcookiog you see, and 
that is why I want all the Ru u al girls to learn. 
It might lie a good thiug for the boys to learn 
too, for then they might understand how bard 
and monotonous tho work sometimes is, and 
how patient they ought to be. 
The votes are coming in quite rapidly. The 
great contest is between the horse and the cow. 
It is pretty hard to decide between them isn’t 
it? As the Rural goes to quite a number of 
new people wuo did not see the first statement 
of the election l am going to repeat it. We 
want to vote on these questions: 1. The most 
serviceable animal to the farmer. 2 The 
most valuable grain. 3. The best pet. 4 The 
most valuable fruit. 5. The most beautiful 
flower, 6. The most valuable vegetable. Now 
let all those who have not voted, send in their 
votes at once. 
How many of our boys like to busk corn? 
The work is not done as it used to be. Years 
ago a “husking” was the great event of the 
neighborhood. All the boys and girls in the 
neighborhood, and the men and women too, 
for that matter, would meet at some farm 
house and husk the whole crop. In clear 
moonlight nights, they would husk out in the 
field. Sometimes there would be a race. 
Two good huskers would choose sides aud di¬ 
vide the shocks into two equal parts. The 
corn would fly then I can tell you. It was a 
greut thing in those days to win at a husking 
match. After the husking was over, there 
would be a great supper, and a great many of 
us used to call that the best part of it all. 1 
wish we could more of these huskings in these 
times. There is a great deal more fuu iu them 
than iu many of the things that people do now. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I will write you a few 
lines. 1 like to go to school. Our school will 
commence the first of October. I have four 
sisters auil three brothers. I would like to 
join the Y. H. C. I wash the dishes for Ma. 
I like to read the Cousin’s letters. We have 
no chickens this year. We milk five cows. 
We have a moss rose; when it blooms it is so 
pretty. The first of October 1 will be 10 yeurs 
old. Bister Gertie helps me wash dishes—when 
she has to, but she will slip out as still as a 
mouse and oil to play if I don’t watch her, 
which I do. We moved to Kansas from Illi¬ 
nois last March. We like here real well. We 
have lots of uncles, auuts and cousius here, 
and had a little picnic of our own the Fourth 
of July, and there were just 30 of us relatives. 
We had a gay time, aud if we didn’t make the 
eagle scream, we did some tall screaming our¬ 
selves, so Pa says. We have a grove of forest 
trees on our farm, and a great many kinds of 
birds make their nests there in the Spring. 
We do not molest them, for we are taught 
that it is wrong to rob bird’s nests. 
Your niece, oracie m. marshall. 
Fairmount, Leaveuworth Co., Kan. 
[1 am glad you don’t disturb the birds. They 
like to enjoy life just as well as anybody does. 
W hen Gertie gets a little older she will not 
run away I am sure.— uncle mark ] 
...M, PARRY, 
Putty P* Oil N. J» 
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-pri>nt»l>l(* LATE, WHITE 
^ PFACHi clioKolotorPeiWlI trees In- 
FORD. 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 would like to join 
the Youths’ Horticultural Club. We had 
good luck with the seels you sent in; we have 
some very pretty flowers. 1 have a hen with 
nine chickens. We have about 20 ducks aud 
six milch cows. Mary nioholson. 
Dubuque Co., Iowa. 
[You belong to the Club now, Mary. We 
want to hear from you again.— uncle mark ] 
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^ A. V. WHITEMAN, 
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72 Murray St., 
NEW Y ORK. 
Uncle Mark: 1 iveived the beaus you 
sent, many thanks. O, y three of them came 
up and two of them did not do any good. I 
thought to try for the prize with oue, but a 
hailstorm the 3d of August spoiled my calcu¬ 
lations. The pods the hail struck dried up 
without any beans forming iu them. And 
now the grasshoppers have begun on them. 
So if I get seed l will be very glad. Where 
the hail stones hit the apples they rot and fall 
off the trees. It caused damage in general to 
everything, nearly destroying our house 
plants that were out-doors. Grasshoppers 
are doing great damage to ihe corn. On the 
10th of August they were so thick in the air 
they looked like clouds betweeu us and the 
sun. We have nothing to boast of this year, 
neither crops nor flowers, though everything 
looked promising ia the Spring. But we will 
try again. I would like to correspond witb 
some girl ten or eleven years old. 
Washington Co., Iowa, ada l. shaffner. 
[It is too bad you had such bad luck, Ada. 
It eanuot be helped, however, and you can try 
again next year. Any of the Cousins wish¬ 
ing to correspond can send their names to me. 
— UNCLE MARK.] 
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POLITENESS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I will, witb your per¬ 
mission, deliver a lecture before my Rural 
Cousins on the subject of politeness. Let me 
see, do people choose texts, too, when they 
lecture? If so, mine shall be one of the pleas¬ 
antest faced ladies I have seen iu a long time. 
It was in a restaurant that I made the ac¬ 
quaintance of my text, aud her pleasant face 
attracted me right away. She was not digni¬ 
fied, not elegant, not stylish; pretty she would 
have been, if she had thought of herself 
enough to touch up her dress a little here and 
there. But she did not do that; she was the 
restaurant keeper, and too busy flying here 
and there to attend to her customers, and I 
don’t believed she imagiued, as she delivered 
her orders to her children in toneB which one 
knew iu a moment to be German, tbat she 
was exerting any influence at all. or making 
any impression. But 1 know very well that 
the good hot rolls aud coffee, or tho full meals 
ordered in that, restaurant digested better for 
the kind “Have you a plenty?” and the real 
interest with which each customer was treat¬ 
ed. There is ho much difference betweeu the 
real and the “put on” that though it was 
really for the lady’s owu good that she should 
be polite, I am sure it was no mean motive 
that all her actions were so kind. The little 
girl, who seemed her best help, became too 
energetic in waiting on a new comer, aud 
crash went all the silver knives and forks to 
the floor! “Now," thought I, “you will catch 
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Dear Uncle Mark: I have been so busy I 
could uot write. It is ruining to-day, so I 
have to stay in the house, aud I will tell you 
about our work. Corn will make a good crop. 
Tobacco is growing fast too. My brother aud 
I have a little crop of our own of 7UU hills that 
is very fine. We planted SOU hills of water¬ 
melons and canteloupes, 800 of tomatoes, 300 of 
strawberry tomatoes and 2,000 sweet potatoes. 
We have worked them well and they look well. 
Tomatoes ripeniug aud have hud a few 
water-melons. The crows pecked Home of 
the earliest and we bung scraps of new tin 
about the patch and it scared them off. I 
have eight Lima beau vines. I have kept the 
weeds away from them, and manured them. 
They are full of blooms aud pods now. We 
are busy makiug cider for vinegar. I uever 
drink a drop of it and I do uot smoke or chew 
tobacco either. My brother aud I caught an 
opossum with seven young ones last Spring. 
We thought we would keep them until they 
were grown, but mamma was afraid they 
would eat the chickens and we sold them. I 
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