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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY II 
“Liberty EnlighteningtheWorld” 
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by the artist. 
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33 Mercer Street, INcw York. 
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GRATEFUL COMFORTING. 
COCOA 
E have had to stand 
aside for the crop re¬ 
ports, and our depart¬ 
ment was left out en¬ 
tirely last week; this 
week we have our 
usual columns again. 
Let us have letters now 
to fill them from our 
(3"'<J,r%9 wide-awake family 
. (J of Cousins. 
The crop reports give 
V me a glimpse at the 
QJ crops and fruits the 
Cousins are helping to raise and harvest. The 
Canada Cousins and those of Dakota or Texas 
are surrounded by very different crops and 
interested in different methods of growing 
them, but we are all interested iu each other, 
and bv being scattered over so much of North 
America each can enrich the others with facts 
about their respective parts of the country. 
LTFE LIKENED TO A WARFARE. 
Almost the victory gained, 
Almost tho bat tie wan. 
When panic seized a fighting host 
And all was then undone. 
Success was Just nt hand, 
Although they saw it not, 
Aud losing faith this thoughtless band 
Ignobly left the spot. 
So it Is oft In life. 
The good we eeot lies near; 
We strive, but steady to the end 
Wo fall to persevere. 
Fear, lest we sclltsh seem, 
Fear, lest wo some offend. 
We trifle precious time away 
Until life’s years all end. 
Ah! what a foolish way. 
Mere pinna will never do. 
’Tls said the road to woe Is paved 
With good Intentions, too. 
Decisive acts atone, 
Work well uml promptly done, 
Insures success, for in this way 
Is victory only won. 
SorniA C. Gaukktt. 
other letter I did not see printed; but I am not 
discouraged. The package of beaus you so 
kindly sent, I planted on the fourth day of 
May, but in a week, or 10 days, after they 
were plauted, it got cold and rained very bard, 
and they nearly all rotted before they had 
time to come up; but I have been watching 
them all the time. The flower seeds you sent 
Ma gave to me. I planted them and they 
have come up nicely, but we do not know the 
names of half of them. I have no pets, hut 
we have 11 little pigs; one of them is blind 
and we have to feed it. Yours truly, 
Preble Co. Ohio. EVA J. baker. 
[I am glad you did not get discouraged be¬ 
cause your first letter was not printed. Write 
agaiU. UNCLE MARK. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —Will you please be ho 
kiud as to give mo just a little space iu your 
nice paper, and a little corner in the letter 
box. I do not live on a large farm like some 
of the Cousins, but I live in the beautiful 
National Cemetery of Marietta, (la. My 
father is superintendent of it, aud has been 
for 17 years. The cemetery is just beautiful 
now; it has on its new spring dress. As this 
is my first appearance, I will have to make 
my letter short for fear of that awful waste 
basket. 
Uncle Mark, we thiuk your garden seed 
just splendid. I do not know whether I can 
be auy help to you all or not, because most all 
of you are farmers, but I will try my best to 
help you all I can. I do not know anything 
about farming, hut I kuow how to raise chick¬ 
ens and how to cook. I will close now, and I 
fear I have made my letter too long and tire¬ 
some, but I hope not. Wishing Uncle Mark 
every success, I am your niece, 
Cobb Co., (la. dor A nuGHES. 
[Write us a letter, Dora, about your chick¬ 
ens, and tell us about your cooking, too. The 
cemetery must be beautiful indeed. Are 
there many birds among its trees? 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: Jt has been a long 
time since l wrote my last letter, but as I sup¬ 
pose that my name is yet on the list of Cousins, 
1 will report my successes aud failures in the 
line of gardening, horticulture etc. Many 
thanks for the beans which you sent to me. A 
heavy rain fell a short time after they were 
plauted, and all but eight rotted in the ground. 
Of these, one has since been destroyed, so 
there are only seven now. but they are looking 
line. Last Fall, I plauted about 70 seeds of 
Concord Grape, and about SO seeds of a large 
grape, which I suppose to be a fox grape. 1 
planted them about an inch upart and an inch 
deep, covered the ground with straw and 
aud placed boards on it, to keep tho wind from 
blowing it away. I took the straw off about 
the first of May, and now have 15 Concord 
seedlings and throe of the other kind. More 
came up, hut a few were destroyed by ants. 
What further care should l give them? 
We have about 60 plant* of a strawberry 
known here as the Monarch. It is a vigor¬ 
ous grower, but is not a very desirable 
berry. The fruit is irregular in outline, not 
uniform in size, ripens imperfectly, generally 
leaviug a green poiut to the berry, lies too 
close to the ground, and in wet weather rots 
badly. 11 possesses a good flavor, aud will do 
well for home use, but I think that it would 
not be profitable for market. Is Monarch tho 
correct name? If not, what is it? 
Montgomery Co,, (). URSA major 
[Your strawberries are Monarchs. The 
seedling grapes should bo transplanted to give 
them more room,— uncle mark.) 
Dear Uncle Mark: —As this is my first 
letter to you and the Cousius I shall not he 
surprised if it goes to tho waste basket, but I 
won’t be discouraged If It does. 1 live in a 
little town of about (K)0 inhabitants. We are 
having extremely warm weather at present; 
the thermometer stands at 92 in the shade 
this afternoon. The Lima beans you so 
kindly sent me are growing very nicely. I 
received ID beans, and every one grew, but a 
naughty little cut-worm came along one day 
and borrowed two of them without even 
asking leave to take them, and I don't think 
he intends to bring them back, for it has been 
about three weeks since he took them. Nearly 
all of the beans have commenced climbing 
the poles. Some of them are up two feet and 
a-half Irorn the ground. They are about a 
month old. 1 think that is quite a growth,— 
don’t you, Uncle Mark? 1 had the measles this 
Spring, aud when I got well it was too late to 
plant a tree, so I had to let it go this time. 
Mamina and I have a little flower garden, aud 
we planted the Garden Treasures in it. They 
are all growing quite Dicely. 1 think we shall 
have some nice fl >wers this summer. I inclose 
a plan of our flower garden. 
I am, your neiee, 
Marshall Co., Iowa. Clara CBirrs. 
[I would like very much to see your garden. 
It is well pilanned; the bed of geraniums 
in the center must he handsome. Keep it in 
mind, that you want to plant a tree until Fall, 
and set it out then. uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins;—M y 
years old; I have a brother eight years old. 
We both go to school in town. We live a 
mile-and-a-half from town, iu sight of Lake 
Erie. 
Our school is graded; there are six rooms. 
It is a nice building; we have lots of pretty 
flowers there. One day a few of us girls 
asked our school teacher if she would permit 
us to have a Vegetable Club. She said she 
thought it would be nice, so we got a box, 
some good soil and filled it, and each one of us 
sowed some seed iu it. I sowed lettuce, car¬ 
rot, onion aud vegetable oyster seeds, and the 
other girls sowed vegetables, too. I wall not 
stop to name them. We call our Club V. C. 
for Vegetable Club. We have badges with 
V. C. on them. We sowed the seeds last 
week and maybe when they are up we will 
have to set them in a larger box. I have some 
Garden Treasures: I have not sown them yet, 
hut I expect to this week or uext, and then 
I'll let you kuow how they grow. 1 think 
they will be nice. 
I went to Warren, Fa , last October, with 
my aunty, and stayed until the middle of 
March, and would like to go again, perhaps 
I will. 1 attended school there. I correspond 
with five girls of Warren now, aud it keeps 
me busy writing. They are all friends I got 
acquainted with while there. I must not 
tire you with so long a letter the first time. 
Yours truly, ednab. vvilcox. 
Erie Co., Pa. 
[Do not let this be your last letter, Edna. 
We all wish the V; C, every success.— uncle 
mask —] 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins: 
—Father has taken the Rural for about (4) 
four years. I read all the letters with inter¬ 
est. Am 13 years old. I study reading, 
writing, geography, arithmetic, grammar, 
and spelling. I have been in the Fifth Reader 
since I was 11, We have 12 cows and two 
horses. I feed three calves and milk four 
cows every day since I waa nine years old. I 
take great pride in toy chickens. I haye 45 
hens. Duriug the month of April, 1885, they 
laid 700 eggs, an average of 20 eggs for 
each. The Blush Potatoes we got from you 
did very well. We like them. Some of the 
flowers also did real well. I have about one- 
fourth of a mile to go to school. I go to Free¬ 
dom Academy. 1 have two sisters and one 
brother going to school. I also have two sis¬ 
ters and two brothers older than I. My little 
sister, Captola (the baby), could speak every¬ 
thing before she was two years old. I have 
been trying to catch red-birds for over one 
month, but cannot catch any. 
I am, very respectfully, 
Beaver Co., Pa. geo. f. mengel. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Rural Cousins: 
—1 have never corresponded with you, but 
would like to join the Club. I live with my 
grandpa. He has taken the Rural for 15 
years aud likes it very much indeed. I am 11 
What food the birds prefer, and which 
birds are harmful, which helpful, is a question 
that is not fully settled by those who are 
studying about ic. Even the English sparrow, 
which flies fearlessly about dwellings and busy 
streets, is still counted a friend by some aud 
an enemy by others. You can learn something 
about this question, by watching the birds. 
Some, like tho robin, destroy thousands of in¬ 
sects, while the little birds are in the nest, 
and also help themselves liberally to cherries 
and other fruits. Watch the birds aud learn 
all yon cau of tbeir habits of feeding. 
A beautiful sight in the country at this sea¬ 
son, is the fields of grain sparkling with fire¬ 
flies. It is a common sight iu the summer 
evenings, hut no less wonderful. In South 
America larger species are found giving a 
more powerful light aud said to be worn as 
ornaments, being confined in thin gauze-like 
material of some sort, and worn as we wear 
flowers. 
Have you noticed how the clover leaves 
go to sleep at night? The opposite leaflets of 
the three shut together like leaves of a book, 
aud the upper leaflet folds along its mid-rib 
and droops over tho two lower leaflets. The 
leaves ot the Black Locust too sleep at night 
Look at them early in the morning and see for 
yourselves how nature puts her children to 
rest. 
Bovs and girls sometimes fall into the habit 
of grumbling: and, without realizing it, make 
everybody about them uncomfortable. At 
the table everything before them is wrong. 
When the meal is over the boys grumble be¬ 
cause they cannot find their hats, aud the girls 
because they must wash the dishes; and be¬ 
fore they know it, these hoys and girls have 
fixed on their faces a discontented expression, 
aud everyone about them has learned to dread 
tbeir approach. If auy of the Cousins find 
this habit trying to get possetsion of them, let 
them fight it vigorously; it is an ugly fault. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
NOTES BY UNCLE MARK. 
fl Ol rt month easllymndn by olthor ^ M 
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DYSPEPSIA Its Nature, Onuses, Prevention, ami 
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years Tax Collector. Sent free to any address. 
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