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THE HUtiAL NEW-YORKER 
fox t\}C ljouna,. 
ILLIAM JACKSON 
Jr. sends a box of 
splendid hicborynuts. 
Many thanks William; 
they are fine indeed. 
I have not been able 
to find any in the mar¬ 
ket that are better. 
William suggests that 
we take Nats and Nut¬ 
bearing Trees for our 
next discussion. I 
think this will make 
an excellent subject. 
We all know that some 
nuts are larger and better flavored than others. 
We want to preserve the best and let the 
poorer ones go. Now let us all begin to study 
at this question. I shall have more to say 
about it soon. 
I wish the Cousins could have attended the 
Horse Show recen tly held in this city. It was 
a grand sight. There were horses of all Bizes, 
from the great Clydesdales down to the little 
pony. I think the horse is about the most in¬ 
telligent animal we have. It seems as if some 
of them just wanted to talk and tell us what 
they think about things. When I was a boy, 
I lived away from home for some years. 
There was an old horse on the place that really 
seemed to feel that I needed sympathy. He 
would come and rub his head against my 
shoulder, and do his best to show that he was 
my friend. When I went after the cows at 
night, he would come hobbling after me as 
fast as his lame leg would permit. The only 
time I ever knew him to kick was onee when 
a man who had given me a whipping came 
near him. What a j>oor, old creature he was; 
too old and feeble to work, driven out to pick 
up his own living along the roadside, with 
nothing but blows and abuse to pay for 
the work he had done. There was not much 
sentiment in those days. When a horse got 
too stiff for farm work, they sold him to go on 
the stage. When he failed there, he was just 
turned out to die. I have seen a great many 
beautifal horses since then, but none of them 
seemed equal to old Jack. I call him still the 
best horse I ever knew, and when they billed 
him, it seemed to me that I had lost a good 
friend. A great many years after that, I had 
a little red mustang named Sam. He was a 
very bright little fellow, and carried me many 
a mile over the plains. Some day I will tell 
you how he found the way for us, when we 
were lost ou the Rocky Mountains. 
I suppose many of the cousins have heard of 
Mr. Henry Bergh. He is the man who has 
done so much to prevent cruelty to animals. A 
short time ago he found some chickens crowd¬ 
ed into a small coop, on one of our streets. 
These poor chickens had not been fed or water¬ 
ed for a long time and were suffering dread¬ 
fully. Mr. Bergh had the owner arrested and 
fined, and l am glad of it. We have no right 
to abose our dumb creatures, and those who 
will do so ought to be punished. I hope all the 
cousins have made warm places for their 
poultry this Winter. Iamgurenone of us will 
ever be fined for cruelty to animals. I have 
a certain boy in mind, however, who forgets 
to feed the chickens at times, and even leaves 
them out-doors some of these cold nights. I 
hope he will try to brighten up his memory. 
THE MAIL BAG. 
We have lots of letters this morning. 
What good children we have. Uncle Mark 
would like nothing better than a year spent 
in visiting the Cousins. The trouble would 
be to know where to begin. 
Nklla Boyd lives in Wisconsin. 8he has 
a dog named Rover. He came to them two 
years ago. It is strange how dogs will some¬ 
times come and make friends with a family. 
Nella planted the beans, but the frost killed 
them. Too bad. 
Lucy Mays has joined the Club. She lives 
on a farm of 80 acres. The hens took the 
prizes by scratching up the beans. 
Nancv E. Woodford writes from West 
Virginia. Her lettor is very well written. 
She sayB the farmers out there have plenty of 
everything but money. She thinks we ought 
to send some from this country. I am afraid 
she would not find as much here as she 
thinks. _ 
Gracie Rigby is a new Cousin. She lives 
in Iowa. 
Freddie Bagart joins us this week. His 
father has some fine Jersey cattle. He 
raises berries of all kinds. 
Horace Soule saved about a pint of the 
peas for seed. He lives in Nebraska on a 
farm of 60 acres. They have two horses and 
five head of cattle. 
Rush F. Lewis thinks the Lima Beans are 
the best he ever saw. He had a garden 
16x40 feet, where be raised onions and other 
vegetables. One leaf from the Rural corn 
was six inches wide. The Rural Blush was 
the only potato that did not rot. 
Geo. Greethurst has well earned a place 
in the Club. He is 12 years old, and with his 
younger brother drove the self-binder and 
cut 95 acres of griau. He plowed GO acres 
with a sulky plow this fall. That is good 
work. George lives in Minnesota. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Bertha Knowlton’s 
iittle lecture on Politeness awakened a long 
train of pleasant memories in my mind. I re¬ 
called a certain ticket agent in Syracuse, 
whose pleasant answers to my questions, I 
shall never forget. I was tired out with trav¬ 
eling and visiting all Summer and nearly 
sick. We had jast missed getting into Syra¬ 
cuse in time to take the traiu for home the 
night before, and were obliged to stay all 
night; which fact, of 0001 * 86 , did not tend to 
make me feel any better. In the morning we 
went down to the depot and when the ticket 
office was opened. I asked the agent some 
questions about the starting of the train. Hi3 
reply was so pleasant and he took so much 
pains to tell me where our car would stand, 
that it did me more good than any medicine 
would have done, I often think of that little 
incident and thinking of that, when I read 
Bertha’s letter, led me to think of others with 
whom I came in contact wbil6 I was travel¬ 
ing. Some were cros9 and crabbed, and others 
were pleasant and good natured. There is a 
certain store at which I usually trade, when I 
want anything in their line of goods, in pre¬ 
ference to any other store, because proprietors 
and clerks are always so pleasant and oblig¬ 
ing. There is another store at which I do not 
like to trade because they are always so very 
glad to see people that I know it is all put on 
for effect. I do not care to have mere busi¬ 
ness acquaintances act as if I was their best 
friend. Uncle Mark, we had Borne pumpkins 
that I think must have been nearly as large as 
the one you saw. 1 have made some good 
pies from them too; at least, grandmother 
said the one I gave her was good. But I 
think if you bad to cook all you have to eat, 
as some of us women do, you would like some¬ 
times to get away from home and eat some¬ 
thing that you did not cook yourself. My 
beans did not amount to anything. A few 
pods set but they did not ripen. I wonder 
what has become of Ursa Major and Quill. I 
would like to hear from them, glennik hope. 
[it pays much better than we ever kuow to 
be polite and kind. People may for get us, 
but they never will forget the things we do. 
I have no doubt there are people who carry 
about pleasant memories of Glennie’s cooking. 
—uncle mark ] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I want to join your 
club if you will take one in from away up here 
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We live 
16 miles south from Marquette, on a 160 acre 
homestead. We have 13 acres cleared in the 
woods. Nearly all the trees are big maple and 
birch. Papa is going to prove up In Novem¬ 
ber, as he callsgetting a deed from Uncle Bam. 
The Rural seeds grew well except the Johns, 
ton Grass, it did not grow. The com grew 
very large but did not get ripe. The Strata¬ 
gem Peas were very nice and large. Papa 
says the Flageolet beaus are the stung as W. 
A. Burpee’s Green Gem. We huve two calves, 
86 chickens, and four ducks. Papa bought the 
ducks to-day; I call one of them Snowflake, 
for my old hen that died. Mamma has a 
Chrysanthemum with about one dozen very 
large flowers on it. From your niece, 
SADIE MCCOMBIE. 
[Glad to hear from your part of the world, 
Sadie. It must be cold there now. 
— UNCLE mark.] 
Pi0ttUat)*ou.$ gttUTrtisiug. 
A BANKER AND HIS FRIENDS. 
Alvarado Howard, Esq , is treasurer of 
the savings bank of Stafford Springs, Conn. 
Like many other bank men he bad suffered 
from overwork. There is a sort of headache 
which is peculiarly the lot of the bank man 
closely applying bimself to business. With it 
ccmes a weary and broken-down sensation of 
inability to give full attention to business. 
All this Mr. Howard suffered, with lack of 
appetite, loss of flesh, and the other symptoms 
which with unpleasant plainness tell the story 
of dyspepsia: 
“I was very low spirited,” said Mr. Howard 
to one of our correspondents who visited him 
at his ccsy cottage at Stafford Springs. “My 
wife was greatly concerned about me. I had 
taken advice and medicine from the regular 
physicians, but with very little advantage. 
Some friends of ray wife had taken Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, and had sent her circulars 
and pamphlets about it. She was much in¬ 
terested in what she read of it, and said she 
thought this was what I needed. While she 
was away from homo for two or three weeks 
I seDt for a 'Treatment.’ You may judge 
of the effect of the Oxygen on me when I tell 
you that, although l had not told my wife 1 
had got it, she noticed from the character of 
the letters I wrote her that I was in better 
spirits, and consequently in improved health.” 
“Had the Compound Oxygen then so soon 
begun its good work on you?” 
“Yes; it did its work much more quickly 
than I had any reason to expect. 1 was sur¬ 
prised. For although I anticipated good re¬ 
sults, I had not supposed they would lie felt 
so quickly. Within a week I was so much 
better that I was going to put the Oxygen 
away and take no more of it. But I con¬ 
cluded that it would be better to keep on with 
it for ft while. 1 did so for a few weeks and 
was so completely restored to health that I 
had no further need for any remedy. That 
was three years ago. Since that I have never 
been without Compound Oxygen in the 
house, and I do not intend to be without it at 
any time.” 
“ Then you have had to resort to it pretty 
much all the time?” 
“ By no means; only occasionally, when I 
have had a cold or something of that kind. 
But my wife has used it and derived great 
benefit from it, and so have the children.” 
“ I believe my wife would have been dead 
but for Compound Oxygen. Her lungs 
troubled her. The pain was verv severe, par¬ 
ticularly in the left lung. The symptoms 
were those of incipient consumption. Both 
last winter and winter before she took Com¬ 
pound Oxygen through nearly all the cold 
weather and with the most remarkable effect. 
It strengthened her, removed her lung-pain, 
and generally and particularly built up her 
health. » 
“ As for the children; my boy is eight years 
old. He has grown up quickly and is half a 
head taller than most othpr boys of his age. 
He has taken Compound Oxygen for colds 
and as a tonic and strengtheuer. Nothing 
has over served him better. We have the ut¬ 
most confidence in it for him. Baby is six 
mouths old, and has learned to inhale like a 
grown person. She had a cold with catarrhal 
symptoms, and was entirely relieved and 
cured with Compound Oxygen. I may add 
that 1 myself am naturally disposed to 
catarrh. Since 1 have used this Oxygen, 
which is now about three years, the catarrhal 
troubles have not annoyed me. 
“Three or four weeks ago 1 was suddenly 
taken down with quinsy. Compound Oxygen 
had done so much lor me in other respects 
that I tried it for this. I took it pretty hot, 
putting the tube well down my throat so as to 
reach the sore and swollen parts. Almost at 
once it brought down the swelling and took 
away the pain. Do you wonder that I so 
thoroughly believe in such a remedy ?” 
“I think you said you had friends who had 
used it, Mr. Howard? Has their success with 
it been as great as yours?” 
“Yes; so completely satisfactory that I rec¬ 
ommend it to every friend that I have. 
“A lady who was with us but who now lives 
in Boston was troubled with severe colds. My 
wife urged her to use Compound Oxygen. ‘It 
is all folly,’ she replied. ‘When one of my 
hard colds takes hold of me, I must let it run 
and take its course.’ But the Oxygen broke 
up in three days a a severe a cold as she had 
ever been taken with. 
“My sister v\ ho lives in New Haven, u mar¬ 
ried lady, Borne twenty-four years ago strained 
her voice and injured her lungs and throat, 
he injury resulting in chronic bronchitis. 
For about three yesrs she has used Compound 
Oxygen, which has kept her alive, for she was 
very near dying. That she should be entirely 
cured of such a deep-seated and protracted 
maiaday would be too much to expect. 
But she has been greatly relieved and lier fife 
made incomparably more comfortable than 
jt otherwise could have been. 
“A young lady, a friend of ours, living a 
few miles out of town, has for a long time 
been troubled with lung disease. The doctor 
said her left lung was badly diseased, and it 
was only a question of time when she must 
die. Her digestive and other functions were 
much deranged. Both she and her sister were 
prejudiced against the use of Compound 
Oxygen, and the only way 1 could induce 
them to consent to t he use of it was to send for 
a “Treatment,” and assure them that if it did 
no good in three or four weeks, I would stand 
the expense of it. A week after she began to 
use it, she said that she never had tried any¬ 
thing which had done her so much good. 
She has now improved wonderfully, though 
of course not yet entirely cured, but oh, how 
different from what she was!” 
“Mr. M. C. Kennedy, our Town Clerk of 
Stafford, had two or three attacks of asthma. 
The old school pbysiciau, who had treated 
him, of course con emned Compound Oxygen, 
and said it was no better than so much warm 
water. Mi*. Kinney took the Oxgyen, how¬ 
ever, and was greatly relieved.” 
“Well, Mr. Howard, you really seem to have 
become a sort of an apostle of Compound 
Oxygen to all your friends and neighbors. 
Is it not so?” 
“Call it what you choose. I believe in this 
thing with all my heart. Whatever it is made 
of I don’t pretend to know. I know only 
what it has accomplished for me and my 
friends, and therefore I freely advise those 
who are sick to use it. Asd I have seen its 
benefit in relieving those who were too far 
gone for entire recovery. It cannot be ex¬ 
pected to work miracles; but even to relieve 
those who must die is a great achievement for 
it. Here, for instance, is the case of a young 
lady iv ho was taken with a severe throat dif¬ 
ficulty, which settled on her luugsand ran into 
consumption. I had some Compound Oxygen 
in the house and I placed it at her disposal. 
This was too late to save her, for 6he was by 
this time very far gone. She lived fora few 
weeks, but during those weeks she experienced 
great relief. The family wished that they 
had known of the Compound Oxygen, and 
had used it, long before. 
“Another—a gentleman and his wife who 
are now in California. The lady had a can¬ 
kered sore throat and a bad cough. The 
doctors said she was drifting into consumption. 
Her husband disliked to displease the medical 
roan by trying a remedy contrary to his ad¬ 
vice, but I asked him which he would rather 
do, please the doctor and bury his wife, or 
save his wife and confound the doctor. He 
finally sent for a ‘Treatment.’ His wife tried 
it and her sore throat soon got well. She be- 
gati to gain in her general strength and 
health. They bad made their arrangements 
to go to California and soon after went there. 
1 have since heard from them. The lady is 
now strong and hearty, with her health en¬ 
tirely restored. 
“A young lady who is a neighbor of ours 
was for years in such a low state of health 
that she could not half enjoy her life. She 
had been under medical attendance in a chronic 
sort of a way, which gave her little or no 
benefit. We gave her circulars about Com¬ 
pound Oxygen. She received them courteous¬ 
ly, but said sbe was already under medical 
treatment and did not wanttomake achange. 
One day she came to our bouse with such evi¬ 
dently improved health that we at once asked 
her what she had been doing. ‘You needn’t 
say any thiug about it,' said she, ‘but I have 
been taking Compound Oxygen.’ 1 could tell 
you a long story about her improvement, but 
suffico it to say that we are all surprised to see 
how she bus gained. She had been able to 
take but little exercise. If she was going a 
quarter of a mile she would order the car¬ 
riage. 8he now takes exercise like other peo¬ 
ple, and although slender and by no means 
robust in appearance, is in the enjoyment of 
such good health that she no longer has oc¬ 
casion for the services of a doctor.” 
Mr. Howard added that he could give in¬ 
stances of other friends for whom Compound 
Oxygen bad performed similar benefits. It 
wifi be seen from the record of those he has 
given that the benefits of Compound Oxygen 
covered a very wide range of suffering, and 
are applicable under the moetdiverse circum¬ 
stances. Whatever the difficulty, nobody 
need despair of finding relief by means of 
Compound Oxygon. To learn more about it 
Bend for the pamphlet treaties on the subject 
which will freely he mailed to ull who address 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch Street, 
Philadelphia. 
