AUG S 
THE RUBAI. HEW-TORKER. 
for tijf JJmmg. 
Our old cat, Mollie, died last week. It was 
a pretty sad day for tis all, for she was just 
like one of the family. Nobody knew just 
how old she was. She cnmo to the family 
four years ago. She drank some fly-poison, 
we think. We did what we could for her, but 
could not save her life. Mollie was a eat that 
always minded her own business, Shescemed 
to have a great deal of common sense. She 
was never in the way and seemed to know 
just what was expected of her. So we all 
missed her very much. 
We dug a grave and buried her with all re¬ 
spect.. Even that cross old dog I have told 
you about walked out with us. We covered 
the gra ve with flowers and we mean to put a 
neat board to mark the spot. Some people 
might have called it nonsense to thus pay rc- 
spect to the memory of on old cat. I don't 
think it is nonsense at all. The old cat did 
her best, always. She showed more affocfciou, 
more faithfulness ami more patience than a 
great many human beings do. These quali¬ 
ties, even though it be only a eat that shows 
them, are worthy of respect, and they w ill al¬ 
ways win respect, too. 
The heat has been something terrible for the 
past few weeks. The air is thick and close 
and “ muggy.” This is just the air for 
cases of sunstroke. There are many cases 
every day. Every day I see the ambulance 
dashing through the streets. Whenever an 
accident of any kind occurs in the city a tele¬ 
gram is at once scut to the city hospital. An 
ambulance Containing two doctors it directly 
sent to I lie scene of the accident and the in¬ 
jured person will be well eared for. There 
are fewer cases of sunstroke in the country 
than in the city. Yet when people are affect¬ 
ed in the country they are sometimes so far 
away from help that the results are pretty 
serious. When a person working in the sun 
feels u dull, heavy ache in the back and sides 
of the bead and when the perspiration stops 
and the skin becomes dry and hot, look out. 
While you euu perspire freely you ure pretty 
stile. Sometimes people drop in the field. 
They are completely exhausted. The skin is 
flushed and the veins on the face stand out 
like cords. The body is so hot that it seems 
to be burning up. Always get such a person 
into file shade at once. Loosen the clothing 
and rub the hands and feat, if there is any 
ice near pound it up and put it on the head. 
Four cold wuler over the wrists If there is 
no iee to be hud get the coldest water you can 
and bathe the head continually. The best 
way is to avoid sunstrokes. Don’t eat too 
much this hot weather, and eat, fruits and 
vegetables rather than meat. Don’t drink 
too much cold water. Wear a straw hat and 
put green leaves in it while you are in the 
sun. Change your under clothing frequently, 
and bathe the body frequently. 
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We are getting the first of our tomatoes 
now. No doubt many of you are far ahead 
of us as to earliness. 1 would like tomatoes at 
every meal. It does one good to eat Diem. 
People would be better otf if they would eat 
more tomatoes. Almost everybody likes 
tomatoes. In some parts of the country 
tomato rni ing is a great business. We gen¬ 
erally have about au aero of them. They are 
sold in New York at grocery stores or mar¬ 
kets. Sometimes the market is so crowded 
with tomatoes that, there is but little sale for 
them. Then they are sold to the canning 
factories. I n some parts of Europe tomatoes 
are dried like sweet corn or pumpkins. There 
can’t be much left of them after they are 
dried. 
1 have been reading an account of a dog- 
farm m England. The dogs are Collies. No 
doubt some of you have seen dogs of this 
breed. They are wonderfully intelligent and 
kind. In Scotland they are used to take cure 
of sheep, and they do the work so well that 
the shepherd can goaway and leave the flock 
in the dog’s care. On flic farm that I spoke 
of, these dogs are raised for sale, just as a 
breeder might raise poultry or cattle. There 
are over 100 dogs on hand. They are kept in 
kennels and each one bus a little yurd to ex¬ 
ercise in. it looks like queer business, doesn't 
it—this raising dogs for sale i 1 Home of us 
have hard work to give dogs away, yet many 
of these Collies will sell for more than a horse 
would bring. 1 think the collie is the best 
farm dog that can bo found. At the New 
York Statu Fair this year, prizes will lx; given 
for trained Collies. I hope to see some good 
ones there. I am glad these prizes are to he 
given. We need more good dogs and fewer 
poor ones. 
A great stable in this city caught fire a few 
days ago. There were 40 horses tied in the 
stalls. It was impossible to get them out. It 
was sad euough to hear them stamping and 
crying on the inside. Two horses broke their 
halters and ran up-stairs into an upper room. 
They came to the front of the building and 
put, their heads through a broken window. 
They seemed to know what was expected of 
them. A fireman went up on a ladder aud 
carried water in a bucket for them to drink. 
They stayed there until the fire was put out, 
and then they were led down into the street. 
All the other horses were killed. 
I read an article last week by a man who 
said he was thankful that lie never went to 
college. He said if his father had been rich, 
no doubt he would have been forced through 
college and acquired expensive habits, and 
learned very little. He was poor and had to 
work his own way. He has made n better 
showing than many college graduates, so he 
thinks a college education is useless. Now 
my experience hardly carries this idea out. 
When he says that the fact of his being 
obliged to work was a good thing for him, he 
tells the truth. When he infers that a college 
education is a poor thing, he talks nonsense. 
If after he became of age. he lmd worked his 
way t hrough college, he would now tell a very 
different story. The few things you can learn 
at a college are not, so very important, Jf you 
stop studying and thinking the day you grad¬ 
uate, the college course will be worth but little 
to you. In the few years you spend there 
you can only hope to make a good beginning. 
The point, is to keep on studying aud thinking 
and adding to what you have learned. I al¬ 
ways have to smile when 1 hear a boy, just 
home from school or college, telling what he 
knows. Men who are really intelligent never 
make a parade of their knowledge. The more 
they know the more clearly they understand 
what a vast, amount of information they 
never can cover. 
1 believe in a college education every time. 
I spent, four years at an agricultural college, 
and 1 am certain that 1 never made a better 
investment, of time or money. It paid me 
well. I do not know that all could get their 
money back. I did not enter college until 1 
was nearly 211 yearn old. I think that was a 
good thing for mo Too many boys go to col¬ 
lege before they can understand what they go 
there for. A man of 555, or even 35, has no 
business to say he is too old to gn to school. 
Tie can go to an agricultural college and 
double his capacity f >r usefulness and en joy¬ 
ment,. I think a hoy will learn more at such 
a place if he can feel easy about bis expenses 
and not feel compelled to pinch and economize 
all the time, still I would start with very little 
money if 1 felt strong and well. 1 would ad¬ 
vise every fanner’s boy who wishes to make 
the most, of himself, to put an agricultural 
college education into his plans tor life. If 
you have to wait until you are of age before 
you can go, wait, but don’t lot your plan be 
changed if you cun help it. 
Thirty years from now the Lioys of to-day 
will be the men of the country. Farmers of 
that day will be culled upon to assume great re- 
sponsi In I i ties. Changes are taking place every 
year. Many of us think that farmers have too 
little to say In onr government, that they have 
to work too hard and get too small a propor¬ 
tion of the profits of the country. Thirty 
years hence these questions will be more im¬ 
portant than they are now, and the boys of 
to-day will have to settle them. So if we 
stand back and let lawyers aud business men 
do all the thinking and studying, we shall al¬ 
ways find ourselves behind the others. Our 
only hope is to inform ourselves, to see what 
we need aud then work earnestly for it. 
MIND YOUlt MOTHER. 
Once upon a time there was a little hoy 
named Tommy who would not do what he 
was told. One day his mother said he must 
not go on the water because he might catch 
cold. Tommy sobbed and cried when lie 
could not get a boat; and he hunted ull over 
the yard to find something in which he could 
Uoat. At last he found a hat, a monster with 
a wide brim. At id he set, it afloat on the 
pond, and laughed when he saw that it would 
swim. And then when no one was looking, 
he started out for a sail. But he had not gone 
far when a very big bird came flopping his 
wings and his tali. Aud the bird came and 
sat on one side of the hat. while Tommy 
Bcrouged up on the other. The bird looked 
solemn, and winked and blinked, while Tom 
wished he’d obeyed his mother. They sat iu 
silence a very long time; and Tommy trem¬ 
bled with fear; and the bird ruffled his 
feathers, and looked at him with a cunning 
leer, till Tommy plucked up courage, and 
timidly asked, “Who are youf” Then the 
bird turned his head oil one side and said, 
“I’m a cockalorum. Wbirroo. And I go for 
little boys who don’t do as they are told. And 
when they think they’re very clever, they 
often find themselves sold.” And the bird sat 
and winked in a most peculiar way, till at last 
the hat ran ashore; and then how fast Tom 
ran away! Ho scampered off to the house 
with all his might and main; and promised 
his mother solemnly he’d never be naughty 
again .—1 Tnknown Exchange. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: After keeping “mum” 
for a long time I concluded I would venture 
to write to you. Wo have taken your paper 
for u lew years, and when wo haven't, sub¬ 
scribed for it, have purchased it at the news¬ 
dealers. We pronounce it a very good paper. 
My father is a market gardener. He does not 
own a very extensive farm, as this town is 
not very well adapted to farming purposes. 
We received t he Harden Treasures with the 
others and ha ve planted them. I enjoy read¬ 
ing the Cousins’letters very much, hut 1 have 
never seen a letter printed from this place, so 
1 thought I would write one, aud I hope it 
will not be so unfortunate as to find Its way to 
that most unlucky place—the waste basket— 
as it is my first attempt, at, writing a letter to 
appear in print. Several of the Cousins have 
pets, but 1 have a eat only. He eats green 
corn, peas, beans, squash, turnip and toma¬ 
toes. I omitted to tell you he cats them raw. 
Is he not a queer eat, Unde Mark? 
Rockland, Mass. ETHEL l. whiting. 
LI have known eats to eat cutuip, grass and 
other green things, but I think your cat is a 
little ahead of all.—u, m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have neyer written 
to you before. I am 12 years old and go to 
school in Dundos. We have a horse named 
George and n cow and three eats. Pa takes 
the Rural New-Yorker and we like it. 1 
like to lead the Cousins’ letters and would 
like to be one very much. The seeds we got 
are growing splendidly; not one died. I like 
to go fishing with my brother. I have three 
sisters older than myself. 1 arn the youngest 
iu the family. Pa is a market -gardener. 
Du tolas, Ontario. Your little friend, 
IDA MAY MITCHELL. 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 would like to join 
the Y. H.C., and be .one of your lit tle nieces, 
too. I am 11 years old, and live out in the 
country, 21.j miles from Snowville. I have 
four brothers and three sisters. I have two 
little nieces and one nephew. We call our 
little nephew Willie Winfield. Does Uncle 
Mark think that a pretty mime? I want, to 
tell you what bud luck we had with our Gar¬ 
den Treasures, Mamma planted them in a 
nice, rich bed, hut thocbickens got, iu one day 
and scratched them all up, except two sweet 
peas, and then something broke one of them 
down last night. Your Niece, 
Snowville, Va. eva showalter. 
[That is a pretty name. When he gets to be 
a large boy I hope you will call him William. 
I should not like to see a man called Willie. 
—u. m ] 
Dear Uncle Mark: May I call you that 
and be a Cousin ? I am eight years old and I 
ha ve a sister that is eight years old too, and 
unother that is seven. Her name is Ivy, my 
name is Nora and my twin sister’s name is 
Cora. I sowed the flower seeds you sent, and 
now 1 have some nice flowers.. 1 have a little 
white kitten and his name is Toby. I have 
never been to school, but I am going this win¬ 
ter. Papa has 100 swarms of bees. 
Genesee Co., Mich. nora hutchinson, 
Dear Uncle Mark: I was going to write 
to you quite a while ago, but never gotarouud 
to it until now. I would like to join the Y. 
II. C. For pets I have a pony, a cat, a bird 
anil a calf that, 1 raised by hand. Its mother 
died when it was about three days Old. My 
Papa has taken the Rural New Yorker for 
a good while. Would any of the Cousins 
about 10 or II years old write to me? It has 
been pretty dry here this season. Are any of 
the Cousins that are writing to you from 
Montana ? Yours truly, Gertie Higgins. 
Etehetah, Montana. 
[ You have lots of pets. Some of t he Cousins 
ought to write. We have quite a number of 
Cousins in Montana.— u. m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: You did not put my 
last two letters iu your paper, hut I thought 
1 would try aguin. The sheep that had three 
lambs raised them all, and they are fine lambs 
now. I have 15 youug Pekin ducks; not one 
has died, but they don’t grow very fast. 
What is the best thing to food them on ? Do 
you think they oro a good kind of duck ? 
Thank you for thore seeds you sent me; they 
come up well. The Garden Treasures did 
well this year. Your Nephew, 
Kirkdale, Out. .iamkh htevkns. 
[That sheep did well. Meal is good for 
ducks. They should be fed pretty often. See 
that they get plenty of water and lots of 
green stuff. Pekin ducks aro good birds. 
Try them with potato bugs.—u. m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 wrote to you once 
before, but it, was not printed. I am nine 
years old. I would like to be one of the Cou¬ 
sins. I have a bird and a cat for pets. My 
cat. will catch birds, i go to school now; our 
school closes in three weeks more. We have 
two cows and one horse. I live on a small 
farm of 10 acres. The seeds that wo got from 
the Rural did not come up very well last 
summer for want of rain. We have a pet dog 
named Nero that will shake hands with any 
one. Your Niece, 
KATIE M. TRAVIS. 
[Shake hands with Nero for me.—U. m,] 
pisircllattcows 
Scrotuu. 
Probably no fonn of disease Is te generally di» 
tributed among our whole population an scrofula. 
Almost, every individual Inis tli » iton» pots- £ 
coursing bis veins Tlie tervibk vulTcnngs en¬ 
dured by those afflicted with 8i -ofulotta sores 
cannot bo understood by others, and Hieir grati- 
tudo on finding a remedy that cures them SHtoa* 
talma a well parson. The wonderful power of 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
tn eradicating every form of Scrofula Ii.ls been so 
clearly and fully demonstrated that it loaves no 
doubt that It is the greatest medical discovery of 
this generation. It is made by C. I. HOOD & CO* 
Lowell, Mass., and is sold by all druggists. 
’ IOO Doses One Dollar 
PURE MILK. 
warren- 
MILK BOTTLES 
Patented March i!3d, 1880. 
Adapted for tllC Delivery 
of Milk In nil Cities 
and Town*. 
A LONG-NEEDED WANT 
, AT LAST SUPPLIED, 
A. V. WHITEMAN, 
Murrey St . NEW v'” - 
Gone where the Woodbine Twineth. 
Rats arc smart, but “Rouen on Rats" bents 
them. Clears out Rats. Mice, K<inches, Water 
Rugs, Flies, beetles, Moths, Anta Mosquitoes, 
bed bugs. Insects, Potato bugs, Sparrows, 
Elam Us. Weasel, Gophers, Chipmunks, Moles, 
Musk Rats, Jock Rabbits, Squirrels, i.v. A 25c. 
HEN LICE. 
“Rotton on Rats” is a complete preventive 
and destroyer of Hen Lice, Mix a &5o. box of 
“UorOB on Rath ” to u pail or whitewash, 
keen it well stirred up while applying. White¬ 
wash the whole Interior of the Hennery; inside 
anil outside of the nests. The cure is radical 
■mdemptota. POTATO BUGS 
For Potato Hum, insects on 
Vines, Shrubs, Trees, 1 pound 
or hair the contents of a Si.00 
box of “Rotttiti on Rats” (Agri¬ 
cultural Size) to be thoroughly 
mixed with one to two barrels 
of planter, orwhttt is better air 
slacked lime. Much depends 
upon thorough mixing, so ns 
to completely distribute iho poison. Sprinkle 
it on plants, trees or shrubs when damp or 
wet, and is quite effective when mixed with 
bme, dusted on without moisture While in 
its concentrated stale it is I In- most active 
and strongest of till bug Poisons; when mixed 
as above is comparatively harmless to ani¬ 
mals or persons, in any quantity they would 
take. If preferred to use in liquid form.ntahle- 
gpoonful i -f t lie full t.i rength “Rocqh on Rats’’ 
Powder, well shaken, in a keg or water and 
applied with a sprinkling pot. spray syringe 
or whisk broom, will be found very effective. 
Keep if well stirred Up while using. Sold by 
all Druggists and Storekeepers. 15e.,25c.&$l. 
K. S. Wells. Chemist, Jersey City. N. J. 
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