I 
E UqQLIY CABiKLT tnEAMCR 
for i\)t l)omtg. 
I take the cars out of the cityevefy night. 
There are half a dozen tracks. A man is hired 
to staud at the entrance and shout out the 
places at which the train will stop. He shouts 
so that one can hear him ha)!' across the river. 
This is what he says: “Tbissideforthenorth- 
enitrains! Hereyarontherightforthesouthern 
branch i” He shouts this over and over again 
just about as plain as 1 have written it. We 
know what he says, because we know where 
the trains stand. Strangers can’t understand 
him. They have to ask him what must appear 
to him very foolish questions, because he 
thinks he has just been telling them in tones 
so loud that he has nearly split Ills lungs. It 
occurs to me that a great many people do 
work in just that way. They make a groat: 
noise and a great show and think they accom¬ 
plish wonderful things. One half the effort 
spent quietly aud carefully would produce 
twice as much work. 
May 1 is “moving day” iu New York. Hun¬ 
dreds of families change their houses. Some 
streets are pretty well filled up with wagons 
carrying goods lrom one house to another. I 
suppose people take May 1 because many 
year's contracts expire on that day. I call 
moving very poor business iudeed. I like to 
get into the right place and stay there. The 
only way to do this is to think thiugs all out 
before a move is made Then you won’t have 
to regret having made it. Some people seem 
to want to keep moving all the time. They 
don’t like to settle down to one place or to 
one thing. I atn always Sony to see a boy 
who wants to change about and try half a 
dozen things at ouce. 1 know he never will 
amount to much. Great men, great fortunes, 
aud what are worth far more, great lives, are 
made by “sticking to” a thing and going way 
down to the bottom of it. 
I told my boys last year what I thought of 
a man or boy who would laugh at the sight of 
a woman or a girl crying. I want to repeat it 
now with interest. I saw a boy last week who 
had teased his sister until she felt so that she 
had to cry. He was standing up against the 
fence laughing at her. Uncle Mark tries to 
be a well disposed man. but lie had hard work 
to walk On without giving that boy what he 
deserved. How many think I should have 
given it to him anyway? 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle M ark: I am a boy 13 years 
old. I have been reading the letters from the 
Cousins, and I thought I would write a few 
lines My auut has taken the paper for 31 
years and she likes it very much. I was in 
Florida during the winter of 1885. The. oranges 
aud lemons were frozen before we got tliere, 
but it was real warm aud pleasant after we 
arrived. The temperature averaged about S5 
degrees in the sun. I want to tell you about 
a book we have, it was printed in 1(392, aud is 
106 years old. It has been iu the family since 
1895. The name of it is “The Faith and Prac¬ 
tice of the Church of England.” 
Your nephew, volnhy cheney. 
-Mt. Eaton, Ohio. 
[That is an old book. When I was a boy I 
bad to read a book called “The Proceedings 
of the Assembly of Massachusetts for the year 
1703.” The folks I lived with thought such 
reading was good for boys. I didn’t think so 
then aud 1 don’t think so now. I was in Florida 
during the rainy season. It was wet enough. 
—U. M,] _ 
Dear Uncle Mark: lam glad spring has 
come. 1 do not go to school this summer, I 
have to stay at home and work. Our Jersey 
cow had twin calves and we think they are 
■very nice; their names are Pet and Pansy. 
We feed them three times a day and give them 
oil-meal at noons. We think Flossie is the 
nicest yearling in Schuyler County. When 
you come out here you must come and see her. 
I have set one hen this Bpring. We had six 
turkeys aud the foxes caught two of them, 
aud we set a trap for them and caught a tur¬ 
key. I like to read the Cousins’ letters very 
much aud would like to road mine. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. LENA bennett. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I urn a little girl 11 
years old. We live on a farm of 120 acres. 
We millc24cows (I milk three). We raised 
22 little calves this year. I fed them milk 
and oats. 1 only feed 12 now. We have six 
horses. We have lots of young stock besides 
the calves. Papa has no hired man, and so I 
help him. I enjoy reading the Cousins’ let¬ 
ters, aud The Story of the District School very 
much. Yours truly, 
EMMA MARSHALL. 
Mills Co., Iowil_ 
A Chicken Account.—I n regard to the 
fowls we kept last year I will say that at the 
beginning of the laying season, last spring, we 
had 31 Plymouth Rock hens and pullets, three 
Brown Leghorn pullets and four Wyandotte 
pullets. The pullets were hatched about July 
10, 1885 The Plymouth Rock hens commenc¬ 
ed laying early in January: the Brown Lcg- 
tiorns the last of the month, and the Wynn- 
dottes early in February. The Plymouth 
Rocks did all the hatching. Twenty-five of 
them were set and 20 of them were allowed 
to run with the chickens until they weaned 
them. Cue of the Brown Leghorns got hung 
about the first of June. I could not keep a 
record of the Wyandottes’ eggs after the first 
of July, for the three breeds were let out of 
the breeding pens then. Consequently they 
were counted in us Plymouth Rocks after that 
date. The Plymouth Rocks laid 2,193 eggs, 
iueluding the Wyandottes after July 1st. The 
Brown Leghorns laid 305, of which 201 were 
laid by July 1st, and the Wyandottes laid 253. 
We did not get all the eggs, for the hens ate a 
good many early in the spring. We sold 255 
eggs for setting £5,55, aud sent to market 1,333 
aud received £13.49. We have sold 204pounds 
live chickens, $18.20, and 34 to neighbors for 
breeders, £11.05. We also Lave 50 of the young 
stock ou hand, besides the old ones worth at 
the market price, at least £12.50: making a 
total of $55 49. We used all the eggs and 
chickens we needed in a family of seven. 
Your Niece, minnie craig. 
North Branch. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to be 
one of the Cousins if you will put my name 
ou the list. The Rural has been a welcome 
visitor in our home for many years; that is 
proof enough that we are glad to see it come. 
We live near the foot of the grand, historic 
old Lookout Mountain, iu one of the busiest 
cities of the South, can hear the whir and buzz 
of machinery day and night. The seeds we 
receive from the Rural Grounds are planted 
in our yard and garden and tended carefully. 
If you have never been South, come down 
next May or Juno and I will take you to all 
places of interest and make your visit pleasant. 
Your Little Nephew, VJRQLL mcclasky. 
Chattanooga, Tenu. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y. H. C. We have taken the Rural for 
a number of years: think we cannot get along 
without it. We came to Newport, Brown 
Co., Nebraska, from the western part of New 
York last October. We live in a sod house on 
a homestead, one mile south of the F. E. & 
Mo. Valley R. R. I have two brothers. We 
have lots of fun liuutiug jack rabbits. There 
is lots of wild game here. This country is set¬ 
tling up very fast; meu are coining in ou the 
train almost every day, looking for land. As 
far as we have seen this is a good farming 
country. Crops were good last year consid¬ 
ering the dry season. We are anxious to 
grow the seeds here aud see if they will give 
us great satisfaction. We are all foud of 
flowers and always try to have a good gar¬ 
den. edson weaver. 
Brown Co., Neb. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Papa has a right 
large farm and has made me a little garden iu 
one part of the yard for flowers; about 30 by 
(50 feet. I have a vegetable garden in one 
part of the orchard. 1 have more roses than 
anything else iu my flower garden. Under 
oue of the bushes I found a strawberry plant 
which 1 intend to keep. Papa also found seven 
plants iu another part of the farm, from his 
plants, that he is taking care of for he says 
some of the fluest plants have been originated 
in that way. I am iu favor for you to put 
your picture iu the Rural like Mrs. M. W. 
Fisher. Please go on with the District School 
story. I am II years old. Your Nephew, 
Somerset County, Md, mkuvin sudlek. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Mamma had about 
115 young chickens hatched out, but the rats 
took about 25, aud a hawk comes about every 
day, and 1 suppose he takes some. There was 
au opossum around here which destroyed 
two heu-nests of eggs with 15 iu each. Papa 
set a steel rat trap and caught him. I will 
close for this time. Your Friend, 
Easton, Md. ralph e. swarts. 
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FOR SALE, 
11 ol st ei n - Freislan Bull, 
TIIOK ft JE CKE , 
468 F.H.B.: 3513 TT.IT.B. Sire REMBRANDT. 173 F.HB; 
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