£ox iljt J)mm0. 
MAMMA! 
“ It’s 'Mamma!’ hero aud ‘Mamma!’ there, 
Till I’m like to drop; 
It’s ‘Mamma! Mamma!' all the time, 
O. will it never stop? 
“ It’s ‘Mamma! Mamma! Mamma!' till 
It would wear out a saint!” 
Ah, poor, tired mother! Thus I hear 
You oft-times make complaint. 
But when the quiet night descends, 
And every voice is still; 
• O, does no vague hut haunting fear 
Your gentle bosom Oil? 
O, does no sudden heart throb make 
You seek the children's beds, 
And call Heaven's blessings down upon 
Their precious, curly heads? 
Their little hatlds make mischief, and 
Tbelr little feet make noise. 
But, O, what could you do without 
These naughty girls and boys? 
Ah, think of lonely mothers who 
All day In silence sit: 
Across those hearthstones nothing now 
But ghostly shadows flit! 
Ah, think of those who never hear 
The sweet child voices call; 
Whose empty anus reach out to find 
No little ones at all! 
—Boston Globe. 
A CITY BOY'S EXPERIENCE IN THE 
COUNTRY. 
M. H. C. 
S it advisable for young 
men to leave the city and seek 
work in the country? My 
own, and the experience of 
others with whom I am ac¬ 
quainted has been a very em¬ 
phatic answer in the negative. 
Young men out of employ¬ 
ment in the cities are often 
advised, to get work in the 
country. I f they have no am * 
hition let them come; they will 
get enough to eat, good warm 
clothes, and no idle time or 
money to lead them into the 
whirl of fashion or dissipation so prevalent in 
the cities. If they are energetic aud ambitious 
they had better think twice before abandoning 
the unlimited chances afforded for promotion 
aud advancement in the cities. They will cer¬ 
tainly he disappointed and their hopes blasted 
by a life, the continued and unremitting toil of 
which, precludes all idea of intellectual pur¬ 
suits, or worldly advancement. 1 speak of 
the ordinary farm laborer; he should not be 
confounded with those whose family connec¬ 
tions, influence, or wealth, may, and as a rule 
generally do, procure them a farm and a fair 
start iu life. 
Aside from all this, a farmer would uqt 
care to hire a greeuborn from the city, if be 
could get country laborers. A blacksmith, 
carpenter, painter, machinist, or veterinary 
surgeon would get $3.50 and $3.00 per day in 
the cities; yet a farm hand must master a por¬ 
tion of all of these professions for $13.00 per 
month. Yet I do not find fault so much with 
the work aud wages as 1 do with the lack of 
advancement. It is not consoling for one to 
know that lie has reached the end of his string; 
that no matter how honest, industrious or 
trustworthy he may be, his only’ reward will 
be “well done,” If large farmers would di¬ 
vide up their farms and rent them to the 
worthy young men in their neighborhood, 
there would be a goal for the farm laborer to 
reach, au iuceutive for bis ambition, an awak¬ 
ening of the smouldering fires of his intellect 
and energy that would soon carry him to the 
van m the estimation of his counti’ymen, as a 
factor in the wealth aud future stability of the 
Republic. But I am digressing somewhat. 
My object iu writing this was to show the dif¬ 
ficulties a youth, from the city has in master¬ 
ing farming—learning would be the better 
word, he never thoroughly masters it. Be¬ 
lieving that I was no more green about farm- 
work before I came to the country than some 
others, I do not hesitate to give my experi¬ 
ence. The first day’s work 1 did was to help 
a colored man to stack wheat. 1 was to stand 
in the center of the stack aud throw the 
sheaves to him as he needed them. The wag¬ 
oners gave me the wheat much faster than the 
colored man could stack it, so 1 piled the 
wheat around my legs aud body until I was 
almost suffocated from heat and exhaustion. 
That night, returning from the fields, tired, 
dirty and wringing wet with perspiration, I 
vowed to find a t>etter way than that to stack 
wheat.—aud did, 
I next uudertook to plow; was all day plow¬ 
ing about an acre, the plow slipping in and 
out, sometimes both horses on the land, and 
at others on the plowed ground,often the plow 
would bury to the beam, and again barely 
scratch the ground as it meandered its uncer¬ 
tain way around the acre of land. If I under¬ 
took to guide the horses I lost sight of the 
plow, if I attempted to steer the plow I lost 
command of the horses. I do uot know 
whether the horses were interested iu causing 
me trouble or not, but they could uot have 
acted worse if they had arranged the matter 
beforehand. No man ever worked ha'der; 
mentally aud physically, than I did plowing 
that acre of ground. I next undertook to 
yoke a pair of oxen, one of them quite young. 
I fastened the bow on the young ox first, he 
got frightened at something, and pulling away 
from the old ox the other end of the yoke was 
thrown to the ground. Whether he had a 
rooted objection to being yoked first or not, I 
cannot say, but from his actions 1 supposed he 
bad au idea that I intended to murder him; 
not after the orthodox mode, but by some dia¬ 
bolical means known only to myself; for he 
cavorted around with such rapidity that he 
nearly brained me with the yoke, bellowing 
all tho while as if belzebub had taken posses¬ 
sion of him. He was quieted after a while, 
and properly yoked. 1 then attempted to put 
them to the cart, walking in front of them I 
endeavored to put the pin iu the tongue, as I 
advanced they backed and kept backing until 
they knocked down a pauel of fence. I was 
then told to go between them, reach over 
the yoke and drop the pin in its proper 
place. This advice would have been all right 
if I had properly understood or appreciated 
the inborn cussedness or natural depravity of 
oxen. 
(To be continued.) 
I read a few weeks ago of a bootblack in 
this city who is worth $80,000. He made it all 
at blacking boots—that is, he made his first 
money that way and then watched and invest¬ 
ed it until it grew. He is quite an old man 
man now. He can afford to take bis ease. 
This shows what a person con do with a very 
poor chance if he will only stick right to that 
chance. Lots of people think blaekiug boots 
is worse than bogging. I don’t. I would do 
it before I would beg or starve. There are 
plenty of things I like to do better than that, 
but, as I said, I would do it before I would 
beg or starve. As I don’t expect to do either 
one, for some time at least, perhaps I am not 
very brave after all. But the thing I want to 
say is that all honest work is honorable. Any 
chance in the world qau be improved and 
made much of by sticking to it. 
When I was a boy, I had to black all the 
boots every Sunday morning. They thought 
that was good work for the boy. I didu’t 
think so. Every old boot and shoe that, had 
done service through the week would be left in 
a pile for me to tackle just after breakfast, 
Sunday. I got so that 1 could give as good a 
“shine” as anybody. Once the old man that I 
lived with thought he would make a little 
money by manufacturing his own blacking. 
He used some stuff that nearly ruined the 
leather. I wonder if auy of my boys have 
this Sunday blacking to do. I hope not, for I 
know that tho way I felt when I had to do it 
was no way to feel on Sunday. 
There are plenty of little boot blacks in 
the park who never will be worth $30,000 or 
80,000 cents either. They are little gamblers. 
I see them every day pitching pennies. They 
will earn a little mouey at their work and 
then go and gamble it away. Such boys never 
can poss ibly succeed. They will gamble away 
tbeir chances just us they gamble away their 
money. Taking great risks of any kind is a 
losing business in the end. 
Many' boys think that the days for “self- 
made men” have gone by. They thiuk a poor 
boy has no chance iu those times. That is all 
nonsense, and 1 know it. Any boy with good 
health and pluck can make his mark if he will 
only thiuk so. He can’t do it iu a week, 
iu a year, or in 10 years, but if he will 
stick to his work and not permit himself to be 
led away from w hut he means to make of him¬ 
self, he will get along. I know a blind man 
who earns a good living. There are plenty of 
men with only one arm or one leg who sup¬ 
port themselves well aud make mouey. Meu 
who cannot hear a sound of any kind, no mat¬ 
ter how loud, have worked themselves up into 
good positions. Now, with these things iu 
mind, whenever 1 see a stout boy or young 
man with all his faculties acute and perfect, 
growling about bad luck and whut the world 
owes him, I don’t feel much sympathy for 
him. I always waut to see him turned out 
into some place whore he will have to work his 
own way. I am inclined to think it would 
help iiiuny boj s to liuvo them run away from 
home and see how nice it is to earn their own 
living iu a strange couutry. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Uncle Mark: I see letters from all parts 
of the country from the cousins, and as I am 
, away out here in this new country I thought 
I must write and tell them about it. I have 
'always lived in Stark County, Illinois, until 
in November last we came out here to make a 
new home. It was so different from IIIliuois 
that at first we were homesick, but the coun¬ 
try seems nice now. We live upon a very 
high elevated plain and cau see a great many 
miles. 
We live four miles south of Wa Keeny, 
the county seat of Trego county. We cau see 
tho town plainly, cau see the smoke from the 
care for 80 miles. There is not a tree to break 
the view. I used to think it was hard to be¬ 
lieve that people could see -:o far in the West. 
My brother aud sister and I are going to try 
to raise a market garden on a small scale this 
summer, as we have a good market. There 
is not much fanning done hero yet. We did 
not succeed well with the Rural seed last year 
on account of the drought. I am glad to see 
another package of the bird cantaloupe. As 
Kausas is said to be a good place to raise mel- 
ous, I hope to be able to bring them to their 
best. Yours truly, MINNIE Me cormick. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Do you remember 
that nice sunflower that I told you about; 
Papa measured it and found it wasll feet high 
and bad 45 blossoms all at oue time. From 
your niece. mabel r. davison. 
Joliet, Ill. 
Dear Uncle Mark: We had quite good 
success with the seeds you sent us last year. 
Papa raised enough of the Angel of Midnight 
corn to plant quite a field this year and the 
other seeds did equally well. I have no cats 
at all; they arc all dead. We have four cows 
aud ft little calf. Wo have two colts; one is 
black and the other red. Wc have a largo 
pond where we catch fish in summer. One 
day we caught fish and how many do you sup¬ 
pose we caught? It was a large bushel bas¬ 
ketful. I wish you could have been here to 
he)p us eat them. Wo t akc* lots of other papers 
but Papa says the Rural is the best. Papa 
was helpless all winter with rheumatism, but 
he is better now. 
GERTRUDE VAN BUSKIRK. 
Rockland Co., N. Y. 
[I wish I could have some of the fish.—U.M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: Four years ago I 
joined the Y H. C., when I was 10 years old. 
Within that time I have given you my exper¬ 
ience with the plum and strawberry. I will 
now give my experience with the pear. 
Eleven years ago we set out Bartlett, Clapp’s 
Favorite, Swan’s Orange, Seckel, Sheldon, 
BcurraDie],Belle Lucrative,Osband’s Summer, 
Lawrence, Beurre Bose, Dnchesse d’Angou- 
leme, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Beurre d'Au- 
jou, Souvcncr du Congres and Mount Vernon. 
They have borne handsome fruit to look at, 
but worthless to eat except the Swan’s 
Orange and Osbaud's Summer. There is a 
Seckle pear tree standing in grass ground that 
bears Splendid fruit. It stands side of an old 
pasture the ground is rich and tho trees hold 
their leaves till the frost kills them. Two 
years ago one Lawrence tree bore two pounds 
of fruit, this year it bore one pound. The 
pears are good for nothing to eat but cook 
very well. J. c. jackson. 
Fairfield Co., Conn. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am a boy 13 years 
old living with my father on the farm. My 
business is tending to the chickens. Wc have 
50 chickens. They lay from 30 to 30 eggs a 
day. 1 get 80 cents a dozen. I feed them 
wheat, oats and wheat bran wet and gravel. 
I have two pets, a calf and pig. My grand¬ 
pa says if l write to the Rural New-York¬ 
er perhaps they w r ould publish my letter in 
it and send it to me. It has been a very cold 
winter. I have three sisters and one brother, 
and one of ray sisters is 10 years old. 
Frazee City, Minn, timothy wellman. 
[You see that your Grandpa knew what he 
talked about when he told you your letter 
would be published. I am glad you are in 
such good business, and that you make it pay. 
—u. M.] 
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Children feel the debility of tho changing soa* 
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“ Last spring my two children wero vaccinated. 
Soon after, they broke all out with running sores, 
so dreadful 1 thought 1 should lose them. Hood's 
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have been h ml thy ever since. I do feel that 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla saved my children to mo.” 
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