JAN 21 
for ll )t l)oMit 0 . 
1 GUESS 1 shall have to stop “ The Story of A 
District School” for a time, at least. I 
have so many letters on hand that 1 feel that 
I ought to publish more of them. Our page 
is pretty small and won’t hold much. When 
people write such good letters to me, I like to 
make what return I Can. People who won’t 
answer letters, or make some return for the 
kindness of others,arc pretty poor citizens, in 
myopiuion. Home time perhaps I will take 
up the diary again and tell about, the spelling 
match and other things that happened to the 
teacher. 
Wk have good coasting at our place. Some 
of the long hills are just icy enough to make 
a sled fly down them. Some of the boys go so 
fast that I don't see how they manage to 
breathe. Coasting is good fun, but it is dan¬ 
gerous unless one is very careful. I have seen 
boys badly hurt by running into trees or 
fences. When I was a boy we used to coast 
with what we called “ knee haokett.” That 
meant one knee on the sled nud one foot out 
behind—like a rudder—to steer with. In that 
way we could steer very well; but it wore 
out our boots too fast to please the people who 
had to pay to 1 them. Sometimes we would 
fix up a “ <1 tuOle runner.” To do this we 
took two sleds, one about 10 feet in frout of 
the other, fastened thick blocks to each and 
put a long board between them. Then half- 
a-dozen or more boys would sit on the board 
and down the bill we would go like a flash. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Make: As most of the Cous¬ 
ins are probably attending school, perhaps 
they will be interested in hearing about our 
school. It is a very informal one, consist ing 
of nay brother and myself, with mother as 
honorary member. The sessions last from one 
to two hours of three or four evenings in a 
week. The studies are those embraced in the 
C, L, S. C. course of reading. The subjects 
wo have taken up so far are geology, English 
history and English literature. Later will be 
astronomy, French literature and religious 
readings. We find many articles in news¬ 
papers and magazines, which bear on these 
subjects and add greatly to our interest and 
give much additional information. A Read¬ 
ing Circle, formed this fall in an adjoining 
iown, has, partly through our influence, taken 
geology as their subject, of study. Some 
thought it would he a very dry study, but it 
is remarkable how interested all have become 
m it. We are learning a great deal about 
things around us that we hardly thought 
worthy of notice before. A stone is a very 
common thing here; hut Wuichot’s “Walks 
and Talks in the Ideological Field,” makes it a 
very interesting thing to think and talk 
about. Right here I want to speak of the 
Chautauqua Town and Country Club, (C. T. 
C. C\), experiment with plants and the soil, 
observations of the temperature and weather, 
etc. These have luught. me many things l 
had never thought about before I joined the 
C. T. C. C. 1 think very few of the Cousins 
would be too busy to perform the required 
work, and it is very interesting and instruc¬ 
tive. 
1 am always sorry when 1 read articles tell¬ 
ing of the hardships of a life on a farm, and 
drawing comparisons between country boys 
and girls, and those who live in cities or 
villages. They are but half truths, and a 
half truth makes the best lie. The compari¬ 
sons are not usually drawn from equal classes. 
It is not fair to compare the worst specimens 
of country boys and girls with the best of vil¬ 
lage children, and then say country children 
are rude and unmannerly, and village ehjl 
drt-n are always polite and mannerly. I know 
the reverse is often true. I have been 
pleased with the polite, easy ami agreeable 
manners of some boys and girls whom I have 
met in large villages. 1 have been equally 
displeased, and disgusted as well, at the rude 
and uncivil manners of others. 1 have met 
in the country, boys and girls who were just 
as polite and agreeable as any in the village. I 
have also met those who did not soem lo think 
there was such a thing ns good manners. If 
all our children would cultivate more social 
bility at borne and if parents would encour¬ 
age them by enteriug into the subjects that 
interest them, wu would have fewer boys arid 
girls who can think of nothing to say when 
called upon to entertain company. A little 
(or perhaps considerable) struggle will over¬ 
come much of the awkwardness which many 
experience, lint a mere grace of maimer is 
not the true staudard for our hoys and girls 
to strive for. There must bn true worth un¬ 
derneath all outward appearances to make 
the men and women we love and honor. 
H nil, old and young, In the city and the 
country, rich and poor, of whatever station, 
would look at the bright side instead of per¬ 
sistently looking on the dark side; if all would 
make the best possible use of their time, we 
would not hear so much grumbling, and 
we would find life more pleasant. 
GLENNIE HOPE. 
I Uncle Mark feels like saying “amen” to all 
you have said.l 
A POI*l!LAR ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY 
AND ITS EDITOR. 
[From the Note York Journalist. Dec, 11, 1884*,] 
The calm, thoughtful, intelligent and deci¬ 
sive face of one of the most successful of 
America’s woman Journalists is mirrored on 
this page of our holiday offering. Mrs. 
Louisa Knapp is editor of the Lames’ Home 
Journal and Practical Housekeeper. 
The story of her endeavor and its fruition can¬ 
not fail to interest all workers in a field where 
the harvests are unequal, while the labor is 
proverbially fascinating. Her salary of live 
thousand per year, is one of (if not the) larg¬ 
est paid to any woman in this country for 
similar work, and that she earns her money 
and is worth more than its amount to the pro¬ 
prietor of that, capitally written and elegant¬ 
ly illustrated periodical which has become a 
national pride, is apparent from the fact that 
her executive ability, skill nud judgment 
have been chief factors in securing for the 
Ladies’ Home .Journal, (and within three 
years) over four hundred thousand subscrib¬ 
ers! We hear and read a great deal about 
phenominal successes in the publishing line, 
but this is undeniably the largest circulation 
and most extraordinary boom of any periodi¬ 
cal in the United States, 
Mrs. Knapp was born in Boston, Mass., 
thirty live years ago. At the age of twenty- 
four she married a newspaper publisher, and 
in 1870 removed to Philadelphia. Her first 
editorial work was to take charge of the house¬ 
hold department of an Agricultural paper the 
Tribune anti Farmer. From a singlecolumn 
of space, she was soon given a whole page, 
and so thoroughly was her work done that 
over forty thousand women subscribers were 
added to that publication’s list of regular pa¬ 
trons. 
lu December, 1883, the first- number of The 
Ladies’ Home Journal was issued. How 
rapidly It won public, we might more properly 
say household favor, is evident from this tale 
of figures: At the end of the first year its cir¬ 
culation was about, 34,800, six months luler it 
numbered 48,00fi t and ut Christmas, 18S5, it 
was 106,000, It doubled again the first- half of 
the third year, aud now, at its close, is by ac¬ 
tual count 413,000. with divers and remote 
counties to hear from. 
Mrs. Knapp has a rare intuition. She knows 
to a nicety what interests and moves women, 
ami appreciating their needs, anticipates their 
reasonable demands. From the outset her 
work has been conscientious. Not a line is al¬ 
lowed to go into the Ladies’ Home Journal 
until it has been carefully scrutinized and 
edited. 
For the coming year (1887) Mrs. Knapp has 
contracted for the pen-labor of such well- 
known writers as Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 
Rose Terry Cooke, Marion llurlaud, Harriet 
Prescott Spofford, Josiah Allen’s Wife, Mary 
Abbott Rand, Christine Terhttue Herrick, 
Will Carieton and Jennie June. Many others 
equully popular have also been secured. Con¬ 
stantly on the ah-rt for now ideas and practi¬ 
cal expressions, Mrs. Knapp maintains cease- 
loss correspondence with prominent authors. 
For her own writing (always u pleasant,conge¬ 
nial occupation) she has very little time, but 
her natural tact as an editor is advertised on 
every page of her completed labor. Her edi¬ 
torial work is done at home, where she has a 
fine library, replete with every convenience, 
her reference books the best authorities on 
every topic, and selected with great care. 
From two to three hours each morning is de¬ 
voted to her work, Her heart is in it, and 
brain and hand are nat urally active. She sol 
dom visits the publication offices of the favor¬ 
ite monthly which she so admirably controls, 
but is in direct communication with ithy tele¬ 
phone from her snug and comfortable sanc¬ 
tum. 
Thoroughly domestic in her habits, she does 
not neglect her own household for business 
matters. Hln* has in fact a strong aversion to 
being regarded as a business woman, ami 
thinks that every woman’s first duty isto her 
household and family. This belief is with her 
a religion. Although strongly in love with 
her professional work, and eminently success¬ 
ful in it, as we have already shown, her duties 
as a housekeeper, a wife and mother, claim 
her first attention.— Adv. 
Pirelianceuo’ !2Uvcrti.sinjb 
ANIMAL MLA L. 
We* manufacture Meal consisting of Itone nud 
Mem Ground together, to mix wltli soft feed. 
Poultrymen mix up shorts, or middlings with meal 
and hoi water. Our Animal meal 18 Just the thing to 
go with it, being finely ground and Is dry and 
swept. In Bags of SO aud lilt) llw. at two cents per lb. 
0. A. BARTLETT, Wouckstek, Mass. 
JKItSKV UEO, eol.A MM'II i \ t 
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Seoteli Colt*? Hhnfihrrd hog, «nd 
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AND 
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The leading machines of the world for Artificial 
Hatching and raising all klndsof Poultry. 11. D.Grln 
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the Perfect Ilatehcr the average was Si per cent." 
This beats all records of liens or machines. Don’t buv 
an Incubator until you see our circular. 
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Relinble Incubator* ami 
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your own Bone, 
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The only Practical Swing Stanchion Invented. Thou¬ 
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by K. G. PARSONS & Co., Addison, Steuben Co. N. Y. 
Why Pay Retail Piices When You 
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It LATCH FOR D’H 
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it contains a larger percentage Of OU and Albumen 
than ordinary oil meal, and lu a more easily digested 
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No stockholder should be without this cake to nil\ 
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BLATCHFORD’S CALF-REARING MEAL, 
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best sppcltlc substitute for new milk tn rearing calves 
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n perfectly fit¬ 
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Extra strain- 
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Send for special circular. Agents wanted. 
MILKING TUBES. 
FOR MILKING COWS WITH SOKE TEATS. 
This Is the best Tube in the market. Sent, post 
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Please mention this paper. 
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HOLSTEIN FREISIAN CATTLE 
IMPORTED AM) HOME BRED. 
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