' for i\)t Dcrnttg. 
A cousin who neglects to sign any name 
sends a bow of crape, with the hope that Uncle 
Mark will wear it out of respect for the mem¬ 
ory of Mollie, the old cat. Uncle Mark is 
much obliged. He will give it to the little 
girl who owned the cat. 
I notice that dogs make good soldiers in 
the German army. Large Shepherd dogs are 
used. They can do almost everything but 
talk. They carry messages from the army 
out to the sentinels, or from a scouting {tarty 
back to the mam lines. They go faster than a 
horse can ruu, aud they seem to know just 
who to carry the letter to. An enemy might 
perhaps bribe one of the soldiers, but it would 
be hard work to bribe one of these faithful 
dogs. 
It has always seemed strange to me that the 
horse was not given a more musical voice. 
He is such a noble animal and such a good 
friend to his master that it seems as though 
he ought to be able to talk. But when he 
opens his mouth what a ridiculous noise he 
makes. There is no sense to It. If he kept 
quiet aud never tried to make a noise ho would 
have more dignity. I find that something of 
this idea will apply to human beings too. 
Many of us talk too much, Ic is always bet¬ 
ter to wait until we have something to say, 
than to talk about nothing for the sake of 
making a noise. 
When Uncle Mark was a young man, he 
tried to make a political speech. It was dur¬ 
ing a pretty exciting campaign. Of course, 
it does not make any difference which side 
Uncle Mark was on: they called on him to 
represent the young men, and so he did his 
best. Young men, you know, always think 
they know about all there is worth knowing. 
It is only when they grow older that they see 
how little they knew, aud how ridiculous they 
must have seemed. Uncle Mark started in 
great style, and laid down the law with so 
much noise that he surprised himself. A fat 
German sat on a front seat. He listened for a 
while, aud then seemed to be a trifle disgust¬ 
ed. He got up at last aud shouted, “I vas 
here pefore dat man vas born. How vas he 
dell me dem d nks unless it vas sheek and not 
praius?” _ 
I guess that German was just about right. 
Uncle Mark had failed to learn one thing that 
every successful man has got to learn at one 
time or another. We all have to learn to dis¬ 
tinguish between a fact aud an opinion. That 
is what Uncle Mark failed to do in his speech. 
He had his own opinion about certain things, 
but be forgot that others might not think just 
as he did. This is a free country, and every 
persoD can think just as he likes, but when we 
come to try aud make other people accept our 
opinions as facts, whether they want to or 
not, there will generally be trouble. We may 
be pretty sure a certain thing is true, aud that 
there cannot be any other side to it. We may 
waut others to think as we do about it. The 
best way l have found in such a case is to say: 
‘In my experience I have found this thing to 
be tiue, aud I believe you will find it so too, if 
you will think it over.’ It is bad busiuess to 
say: ‘Here, 1 know this thing is so, and if you 
don’t think so you don’t show common sense.’ 
That is the way some people talk, ami I notice 
such people generally have more enemies than 
friends. 
I saw a goat the other day that preached a 
good sermon. Most preachers use the tongue 
in delivering a sermon, but this goat used a 
rope. He was fastened to a tree by means of 
a long rope, lie had ample rauge, aud could 
have enjoyed himself if he had made use of 
his chauces. About half the length of the 
rope somebody had driven a stout stake into 
the ground. That foolish goat, had twisted 
the rope about the stake so that the circle in 
which he could move was only half what it 
was before. Thus you see he had thrown 
away three-fourths of his possibilities, aud 
must try to make his living on a very small 
space. Now then, some boys and men work 
just like ikat goat. They start out with the 
whole world before them. Soule bad habit 
gets in their way, aud they fasteu themselves 
to it just as the goat tied his rope around the 
stake. Then they are prisoners. Their possi 
bilities for doing good to themselves and 
others are cut down. They must live, as it 
were, iu a peck measure. Now then, we are 
all fastened to ropes that limit our powers for 
usefulness. We can make these ropes long or 
short, as we like. VVlieu you come to study’ 
geometry you will liud that a circle one foot 
through covers only oue-fourth as much space 
as one two feet through aud only one-ninth as 
much as one three feet through. It is about 
so with our ropes. The more we lengthen 
them out the more rapidly do we increase our 
chances for good. 
I can remember when most of the clothes 
were made at home. All shirts and stockings 
at least were of home manufacture. There 
would be a woman in every neighborhood 
who went about from one house to another 
doing ‘‘tailoring.” She would cut out gar¬ 
ments and get them all ready for sewing. 
Things have changed now. Ready-made 
clothing is so cheap that it hardly pays to 
have clothes made at home. I saw some shirts 
the other day which were offered at (59 cents 
each. They were well made and of first-rate 
material. I don’t think any woman could 
buy the cloth and make shirts up for much 
less than (59 cents, if she counts her time worth 
auy thing at all. If she has nothing else to do 
she might make it pay. 
W r E all like to take advantage of cheap 
prices, but we are apt to forget that this cheap¬ 
ness causes dreadful suffering. The poor wo¬ 
men who make these shirts have to fight hard 
with starvation iu order that we may get 
cheap goods. No one can tell how the poor 
seamstresses are ground down. It is pretty 
easy to save in wages when there are dozens 
of people glad to work for a few cents. In 
these times when dealers are trying so hard to 
undersell one another, the women, who can¬ 
not defend themselves, are driven into suffer¬ 
ing. Whenever I see these "great bargains” I 
always think of the poor people who have to 
slave and starve that we may save our 
money’. It is hard, isn’t it? 
Most lean people seem to think it would be 
a fine thing to be fat. Some people take med¬ 
icines to try and fatten themselves. It may r 
be a good thing to be "flesby,” but there is 
such a thing as being too fat. I w’ent to a 
circus once and saw the “fat woman” and the 
“lean man.” I know that I made up my miud 
that I would rather be like the man. Daniel 
Lambert, an Englishman, was probably the 
largest man that ever lived. He weighed 
739 pounds. Fat people are generally good- 
natured and I must say’ that I sometimes think 
the world would be better if we had some way 
of making all the thin people fatter. If I was 
thin and wanted to become heavier I would 
eat plenty of eggs aud white' bread, coni meal 
mush, potatoes and everything that can be 
made out of milk. I would drink a great 
deal of pure water, take lots of sleep aud 
keep just as contented and happy as possible. 
I think worry causes many people to grow 
thin. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I was going to write 
to you quite a while ago but I never got 
around until now. For pets 1 have oue dog, 
one eat and two sheep. We had a little pup¬ 
py aud he ate a chicken before we knew it. 
Mamma aud I have 200 chickens this year. 
I had seven ducks and they ate so many 
poppys that it killed all of them but two. 
The Gardeu Treasures didn’t do very well on 
account of dry w’eather. I have a tame crow 
aud his name is Jim. I have one sister. She 
is younger than I am. Your Nephew, 
Steuben Co., N. Y. makion puffer. 
[Too bad about the ducks. Ducks are pret¬ 
ty greedy any way.—u. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: I w’ould like to join 
the Y. H. C. My papa has taken the Rural 
New 7 -Yorker for three years. I am 10 years 
old aud like to read the letters from the 
Cousins very much. I have three sisters but 
no brother. Your Niece, 
Morris Co., Kuu. mary ann pederson. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am afraid I shall be 
classed among the silent Cousins, for I have 
not written for a long time. We are stacking 
hay. We have a good deal of hay. I raked 
it all again this year. We have five little 
colts; we had seven, but the two best ones 
died. Your Niece, ethel noon. 
Dear Uncle Mark: It has been a long 
time since I wrote to you last; now’ I ask for 
admission. The Garden Treasures did not all 
come up, on account of dry weather, but 
w'hat did come up were pretty. There are 
some we don’t know the names of. Perhaps, 
may be, U. M. can give us the names of 
some of them. The crops of all kinds look 
promising. Oats, corn, hay and peaches are 
a good crop. Small fruits are in abundance, 
but would have been better if it had not been 
for the dry weather. It has beeu very warm 
here for about a month. We had no rain to 
amount to anything for about six weeks. I 
have only one pet; it is a Red Bird. It sings 
about all the time. Uncle Mark, please don’t 
stop the Story of a District School. 
Lamartine, O. ELLA emery. 
[[ wish yon could have some of our rain. 
We have had enough, aud some to spare 
too.— U. M.] 
J. M. THORBURN & CO 
15 JOHN ST., 
NEW YORK. 
BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR DESCIUiTIV PKICEr 
CATALOCUE OF 
Dear Uncle. Mark: I thought I would 
write a few lines to you and the Cousins, so 
that. I would not be forgotten. Some of the 
flower seeds you sent came up and some did 
not, it was so dry. It has been dry all this 
season. The fair will soon be here again. It 
will last from the 6th to 9th. 1 will corre¬ 
spond with any of the Cousins that will w rite 
me first. Your Niece, 
York, York Co., Neb. lillie m. smith. 
for autumn planting Is ready for mailing to applicants. 
LILY OF THE YALLEY PIPS 
and BERMUDA EASTER LILIES 
FOR FLORISTS, A SPEC ALTY. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have not written 
to you this year. We have been very busy 
siuce school was out. It closed the 10th of 
June. We had a hard rain last night. We 
needed it very badly. Wo bad a good many 
early peaches. Our Wild Goose Plum trees 
were all full. We sell them at 50 cents a gal¬ 
lon. We have about an acre of raspberries, 
red and black. We did not sell auy black rasp¬ 
berries this year. We sold 84 gallons of the 
red. We sell vegetables and fruits. "We have 
plenty of tomatoes; have bad them ever since 
the 4th of J uly. Oar flowers did not do as 
well as usual. We have a good many slips; 
they are growing uicely. Our bees are doiug 
very w'ell now’. The first of the year they did 
not do very well. They made most of their 
honey off the chestnut. We have had six 
swarms. I want to toll you about an adver¬ 
tisement that I saw in your paper. It was 
about some ribbons. It was iu your paper so 
long that 1 thought it was reliable. So sent 
for it, and not long afterw ards they sent me a 
card saying that they would soou have a new 
lot of ribbons from Paris, and that they would 
send mine iu regular turu. But 1 have never 
gotten them. I would like to join the Club 
again, if my name has not been takeu off. We 
have taken the Rural for a long time, aud we 
lil?e it very much. Your friend, 
GRACE B. KELLY. 
[It’s too bad about the ribbons. That compa¬ 
ny sent good lots of ribbons to all that we could 
find, so we put in the advertisement. Soou 
complaints began to come in and we stopped 
the advertisement at once. They promised to 
to do just right, but they deceived us.—u. M.] 
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Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to be¬ 
come one of the Cousins very much. I like to 
read the letters very well. My Grandpa takes 
the Rural I ant just from Montana and I 
came to Kansas a week ago. This is the first 
letter I^er wrote you. I am 10 years old. I 
like floors, and I have a flower garden of my 
own. My Grandpa has takeu the Rural for 
about 10 years, 1 have a brother; we are 
twins We haven’t had very much rain. 
Your Nieeo, estell dearborn. 
Irving, Kansas. 
1220 Niagara St., Buffalo, IV. Y. 
Devon feci generally miserable or suffer with a 
thousand and oue Indescribable bad feelings, both 
mental and physical 1 Among them low spirits, ner¬ 
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feelings of fullness or bloating after eelllng. or sense 
of " goneness " or emptiness of stomach in morning, 
llesb soft and lacking firmness, headache.blurring of 
eyesight, specks floating before the eyes, nervous 
Irritability. poor memory, chilliness, alternating 
with hot flushes, lassitude, throbbing, gurgling or 
rumhltlig sensations In bowels, with heal and tupping 
paioa occasionally, palpitation of heart,.short breath 
on exertion, slow circulation of blood, cold feet,pain 
anti oppression in idlest and buck, pain around the 
loins, aching anil weariness of the lower limbs, 
drowsiness after meals hut nervous wakefulness at 
night, languor f» the morning and a constant feeling 
of dread as If something awful was about to happen. 
If you have any or all of these symptoms send lO 
cents to GKO, K. STODDARD, druggist. l&H Niagara 
street, iiiillaln, N V., who w ill send you. postpaid, 
some simple and harmless powders, pleasant to take 
and easy directions, which IT you follow, will post 
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time, no matter how bail you may he. Few have suf¬ 
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now. The same means w ill ettiv you—either sex. 
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